merlin.debian.net <-- php4 for potato?

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
thanks to the unofficial sources.list page at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ i remembered how i got a potato-happy apache up to version 1.3.14 (standard apache is still 1.3.9 for potato): # sources.list deb http://www.debian.org/~kitame/ipv6 ipv6

Re: Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread JD Kitch
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:57:06PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:41:57PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:47:00PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > iface eth1 inet static > > > address 192.168.1.1 > > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > network 192.168.0.0

Re: Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread JD Kitch
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:30:54PM -0600, ktb wrote: > > > > # The loopback interface > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf > > iface eth0 inet static > > address 24.14.246.95 > > netmask 255.255.255.128 > > gateway 24.14.246.1 > > > > i

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread hammack
Andrea, Thanks for the response. I think I tried your suggestins. Below is my setup for the mouse in gpm.config and XF86Config: gpm.config: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=psw append="" XF86Config Pointer section: Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device

Re: apt-get

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:34:54AM -0600, Shel Johnson wrote: > What are the server's URL I could put in my source.list??.. It appears Stormix > Technologies is about to go belly up and I need to add the Debian's > addresses.. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc/files/apt-get-intro.html try

Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:32:41AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I found that with http: lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list I pointed to > woody, but apt-get would not install known things there. I changed it to > ftp: and it worked fine. > > Should these be the same? If different, is this docu

Sound

2001-01-29 Thread T. Green
newbie to debian I have ensoniq audio PCI model (ES1371) sound card, An I can't get it to make a sound. Anyone know what is needed to get the card to produce sound. Tkank you

apache configuration, ssi don't work in users public_html dirs

2001-01-29 Thread Forrest English
includes are enabled there, and this configuration file works in apache 1.3.14 from unstable, but for some reason not in 1.3.9 from stable (what i'd LIKE to use on my server...). i know includes have to work in apache. so, what am i doing wrong? below is my httpd.conf file. ## ## httpd.conf --

Dist-upgrading to Woody (Testing)

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Late last week I installed potato from a CD onto my test box. I dist-upgraded all the packages in stable, built a 2.4 kernel, and installed modutils from unstable so I could load modules from 2.4.0. At this point everything was still going fine, not a problem in site. Next I add sources for

apt-get install php4 -- broken packages?

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
# apt-get -u install php4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been mo

Re: apache/php + apxs?

2001-01-29 Thread Andrei Ivanov
To get apxs you need to install apache-dev Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. ---

apache/php + apxs?

2001-01-29 Thread will trillich
i've done apt-get install apache-perl which works like a champ... but how can i tell if apxs support is included? [and (OT) anybody know of a mirror site for www.freetype.org? it's been "busy" or under DoS for hours now...] -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:54:08PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... > >> I have magicfilter installed, and I suspect that if I could feed my > >> printjobs through it these issues would be fixed; however, I don't

Re: Romanian translation

2001-01-29 Thread Mircea Luca
Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > > > Why is no list debian-user-romanian, I am de only Romanian using > Debian? > Nope,you're not,but I guess most of us learned everything computer_related in English so we don't need a romanian translation.:-) I've tried to install RedHat(5.2 at the time) in Ro

Re: mailservers

2001-01-29 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:39:58PM +0100, ebirn wrote: > Because of being quite new to server administration, I'd like to get some > advise/personal opinions of mailservers (pop, imap and smtp). I don't want > to use sendmail because its so unsecure and difficult to configure! I've got things don

RE: XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish

2001-01-29 Thread Marc Wilson
Whearas I have the reverse problem using it under Blackbox... I can't get it to stay on top, no matter WHAT I do. ANY part of it... the player, the eq, or the playlist. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From:

Colours in MCEDIT

2001-01-29 Thread Russ Pitman
Can anyone tell me specifically how to change the colour of comments lines in mcedit (Midnight Commander). The default is illegible to my old eyes and I got bushed in the various docs. TIA, -- russ

RE: PPTP with ppp 2.4.0f-1 and pptp-linux 1.0.2-3

2001-01-29 Thread Ross Smith
Jord, These links that may help: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/linux_pptp.html http://lists2.schulte.org/pipermail/pptp-server/2000-September/003342.html ftp://ftp.paranoid.nl/linux/pptpd We have it working with kernel 2.2.17. I'm interested in hearing if this patch will work with

Re: NFS hangups.

2001-01-29 Thread iehrenwald
> This box is fairly important, being our main server (NFS, DNS, NIS, > etc...)... > > Any suggestions? I know this is going to sound rather crass, but.. Don't use Linux for NFS. Linux NFS really is awful. I'd throw that task to a BSD. Ian

Re: NFS hangups.

2001-01-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:34:05PM -0800, Alex Swavely wrote: > Have a problem with NFS. I have a nice running machine for a while here, > and today it starts getting boggy, so I figure I'll reboot, have it clear > out swap, dump the process tables, etc... > > Well, I can't get it to boot up now.

Re: PPTP with ppp 2.4.0f-1 and pptp-linux 1.0.2-3

2001-01-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have tried to sert up pptp but was not succesfull, not sure why, most of the time the other side (win nt) did not even answer (but it worked fine when I tried to coonnect with win95), when it did answer the connection was trminated after short time, similar to your output below. I'd appreciate

Re: Odd CRC errors and md5 mis-matches - any ideas?

2001-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Your problem sounds like hardware on crack. Check if you don't have faulty memory modules, or disk corruption (caused e.g.: by running kernel 2.4.0 in certain VIA-based boards, by bad cabling or a bitrotten HD). And I don't have to say anything about undoing any possible overclocking of either th

NFS hangups.

2001-01-29 Thread Alex Swavely
Have a problem with NFS. I have a nice running machine for a while here, and today it starts getting boggy, so I figure I'll reboot, have it clear out swap, dump the process tables, etc... Well, I can't get it to boot up now. It gets as far as running exportfs (init.d script nfs-kernel-server) an

RE: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christopher! > > On 29-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > > --- Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Christopher! > >> > >> On 28-Jan-2001 Christopher R. Barry wrote: > >> > >> >> > I try to print with the command > >> >> >

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:20:12PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # I would add /var to this list. The reason being is if you run > something > # like squid and don't manage it right it will bring your system down if > # it grows too large. Maybe with todays l

XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish

2001-01-29 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
I've been having problems for ages with XMMS, and I just thought I'd put a little flag up to see if anyone else has has similar experiences. In particular, XMMS seems to have a really hard time playing nicely with respect to it's Always-On-Top-ness. As far as I can tell, there's litterally no wa

Re: USB printing under kernel 2.4: how?

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher R. Barry
--- David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Christopher R. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Are you sure your usb-printer > > > ist recognized by your system? > > > Try "cat >/dev/lp0. Does it work? > > > > No, the command just hangs. > > What did you actually type? > I assume you

xhost changes in X4

2001-01-29 Thread RAccess
I usually run applications remotely and view them on with my xserver. Since I upgraded to X4, xhost doesnt seem to make any difference. Secondly, I have noticed that root (through su) can now use the xserver without 'localhost' being in xhost list. All signs say that xhost is dead. So, who is the

Re: testing distribution security updates?

2001-01-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:23:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Ruvolo wrote: > > If a package is in the testing distribution and a security update is issued > > that effects stable, testing and unstable, how long before the testing > > package is updated? Does it have to go through the full pr

Re: mailservers

2001-01-29 Thread Nate Amsden
ebirn wrote: > Because of being quite new to server administration, I'd like to get some > advise/personal opinions of mailservers (pop, imap and smtp). I don't want > to use sendmail because its so unsecure and difficult to configure! i use sendmail on all my mail servers, usually use exim or po

PPTP with ppp 2.4.0f-1 and pptp-linux 1.0.2-3

2001-01-29 Thread Jordan
Sorry if this is an FAQ but I am losing hair on this one. Is ppp 2.4.0f-1 from the testing distribution compiled with the mppe patches? I am running Debian potato with 2.2.16 kernel that has been compiled with the various modules for tunneling. I have installed pptp-linux and ppp-2.4.0f-1 from th

Re: testing distribution security updates?

2001-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Ruvolo wrote: > If a package is in the testing distribution and a security update is issued > that effects stable, testing and unstable, how long before the testing > package is updated? Does it have to go through the full process of > maturation to make it to testing from unstable? Package

Re: Lots of problems: libc6, RAM not recognised etc.

2001-01-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Kyle Parfrey wrote: > 1) RAM not recognised. > I have 256mb of ram, but only 64mb are being recognised. I have a MEM=256M > line in lilo.conf (this worked in mandrake) but it isn't working here. How > can I get it all to be seen?? what is the exact line in lilo.conf ? should read: append="mem=256M

Re: postgresSQL: howto start the machinery

2001-01-29 Thread Olivier Billet
Thanks a lot Britton. Olivier.

Re: Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?

2001-01-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Terry Boon wrote: > === Extract from db.172.16.0 === > > ; BIND master database file > ; 172.16.0 > ; Created by Terry Boon on 7 January 2001 > > 172.16.0.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org. > terry.counterfactual.org ( first line of that file should be $TTL 86400 (or wha

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I would add /var to this list. The reason being is if you run something # like squid and don't manage it right it will bring your system down if # it grows too large. Maybe with todays large HD's it doesn't matter as # much but I've had it happen. Log files ca

Re: postgresSQL: howto start the machinery

2001-01-29 Thread Britton
You have to be user postgres to create postgreSQL users. As root, you can become any username you want like this: su username Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > i'd like to use postgreSQL but runnin

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:29:57PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... > > > > I did a "normal" installation of potato some months > > > > ago...fro

Odd CRC errors and md5 mis-matches - any ideas?

2001-01-29 Thread Pete Foley
Hey! I am having a very odd problem that I am unable to solve. I have a box setup at home which is a file-print server, running woody. When I try to copy large files to it, the files tend to get CRC errors. So at first I thought it was my network, so I did some testing. I made a CD image, a

Re: apt-get segfaulting

2001-01-29 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:17:53PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey All, > > many thanks to those who gave advice on installing kernel 2.4 on my > laptop. Turned out the problem was that I hadn't set the processor > type in the kernel configuration... > > Now a new diffi

Re: cursor disappears

2001-01-29 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:05:28PM -0500, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey, > i am using vim-5.6.70 as comes with potato and i am experiencing some > peculiarities when starting vim (or vi, but not mutt or other curses > programs) on the console. namely, my cursor disappears during the > v

postgresSQL: howto start the machinery

2001-01-29 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi everyone, i'd like to use postgreSQL but running createuser as root throw me this error message : | $ createuser | Connection to database 'template1' failed. | FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'root' is not in 'pg_shadow' | | createuser: database access failed. how to set up the postgresql machi

Re: French local under X

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Albert
On Son, 28 Jan 2001, Yvon VODOUNON wrote: > I need help to set French local under X. Yesterday i added 'export LC_ALL=de_DE" to my .profile Most programs honour it. Have a look for the french code, could be fr HTH, greetings, martin

Re: Start up?

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Albert
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Andrew Clark wrote: > The easiest way I have found to do SMB mounts at boot time is to put > entries in /etc/fstab for them. IIRC: > > mount -t smbfs //winpc/share /mnt/winpc/ -o > username=Administrator,password=blahblah > > translates to: > > //winpc/share /mnt/winpc smbf

compiling lame - glib error

2001-01-29 Thread joeytsai
Hi, I just downloaded the newest version of lame (3.87) and I'm having problems compiling. The error message I'm getting is: gcc -DNDEBUG -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -ffast-math -finline-functions -Wall -pedantic -DBRHIST -DHAVEGTK -DUSE_LAYER_2 -DUSE_LAYER_1 -DHAVEMPGLIB -DLAMESNDF

Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?

2001-01-29 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run a network of two machines on Debian 2.2 (potato). apt-get upgraded bind this evening, and since then, reverse name lookup on the master name server for my domain has been broken. The machines are as follows: poulenc (172.16.0.1) prokofie

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:58:57PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Hello Everyone, > # > # I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and > maybe some other network applications. I was wondering what your > suggestions woul

[Solution] Re: Gnome not starting.. (after a crash)

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Schulz
Grettings (again), Found it! The problem was with 'yiff', a sound server which is suggested by the 'xshipwars' package. I hardly switch off the machine that I installed it on, but when it was rebooted (I'll have to talk to my SO about that one), 'yiff' opened /dev/dsp. This caused everything el

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:12:44AM -0800, Terry Carney > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > > Error:

Re: Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:41:57PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:47:00PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > iface eth1 inet static > > address 192.168.1.1 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > network 192.168.0.0 > > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > This is wrong. Well,

Re:X troubles (serious) with testing/woody

2001-01-29 Thread Malcolm Gray
Hi I had the same problem with my upgrade to 4.0.2. By default it expects /etc/X11/X to be your server. I set up a symlink from there to the actual xserver which is xfree86 (sorry don't remember the path and am away from my Linux box - a "find" should locate it). Malcolm Gray

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hello Everyone, # # I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe some other network applications. I was wondering what your suggestions would be for Partitions. I have already ready the Partition HOWTO, but still are

Re: Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:47:00PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.1.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.0.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 This is wrong. Well, I don't have experience that indicates that it doesn't *work*, but it's sti

Re: xterm

2001-01-29 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:38:11PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > Hi all, > > Someone knows where I can get the default behaviour of characters > from 128 to 255, if they are separators or not. > > In man xterm it sais about class CharClass, but it refer only to > 0-127: > >The de

Re: Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:47:00PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > Trying again No response on first attempt, which is odd for > this list, so I'm sending again. Any help is HUGELY appreciated. > > - Forwarded message from JD Kitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > After considerable mucking around a

Re: Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:06:25PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hello, > > ktb wrote: > > > > Can I have one Linux box working as my name server, web server, proxy > > > server, mail server, and ftp? > > > > > > > Yes you can do that. Where I work the policy is one main service per > > ser

Lots of problems: libc6, RAM not recognised etc.

2001-01-29 Thread Kyle Parfrey
Hello all:: I have just installed debian on a nice 'n fast i686 computer but have had lots of problems getting the system working. If anyone knows a solution to any of these I would very much appreciate the mailing of said solution to me. 1) RAM not recognised. I have 256mb of ram, but only 64mb

Re: Debian Testing distro problems

2001-01-29 Thread William Shui
yes, they're all correct. I could get my system back up and running and login working after pressing the "reset" button. it just takes ages for fsck to go through my 20GB harddisk. On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:02:36PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:47:49AM +1100, Will

Re: Magic cookies and running programs under X as root

2001-01-29 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:12:44AM -0800, Terry Carney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > > > I gues

Re: unofficial pine 4.32 .debs available

2001-01-29 Thread Coronya
Wow thanks!!! On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Coronya wrote: > > > BTW, do you know any other unofficial deb sites? ;) > > > Debian developer, Stephane Bortzmeyer has a list of unoffical apt-gettable > sites at: > > http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/ap

Re: Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, ktb wrote: > > Can I have one Linux box working as my name server, web server, proxy > > server, mail server, and ftp? > > > > Yes you can do that. Where I work the policy is one main service per > server for security and performance reasons. If this box is for home A related question

Fwd: File updates req'd for network(2nd try)

2001-01-29 Thread JD Kitch
Trying again No response on first attempt, which is odd for this list, so I'm sending again. Any help is HUGELY appreciated. - Forwarded message from JD Kitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - After considerable mucking around and a great deal of help from this group some time back, I had connec

Re: Need help/advise w/sound setup. LONG post!

2001-01-29 Thread David A. Rogers
John, Take a look at debian university. It will point you in the right direction. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt cheers, dar On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Foster wrote: > I have been using OSS commercial grade for several years on our Debian > systems. This requires a licens

mailservers

2001-01-29 Thread ebirn
I know that exim is the default mailserver on Debian. Because of being quite new to server administration, I'd like to get some advise/personal opinions of mailservers (pop, imap and smtp). I don't want to use sendmail because its so unsecure and difficult to configure! I already messed around wi

Jed

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
would anyone care to comment on this (just for the sake of my own curiosity)? -- > > > > Incidently, I finally installed debian this > weekend. The way it is > > installed appears to me to be quite > convoluted and, in particular, > > breaks my .jedrc script. > > Do I ever a

Re: About apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-01-29 Thread kmself
on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:46:45PM -0600, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro,,, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I use Debian since some months ago (potato). > I did upgrade my box with apt-get dist-upgrade some times. > But the last three or for seems like is nothing to upgrade exception > from spide

Re: Linux - DNS/WWW/POP

2001-01-29 Thread Jim
Hi, It is perfectly possible, it is the configuration that I have now. It is worth looking at the documents from LDP. You can get them via ftp from: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project The Linux Network Administators Guide there would be worth a read at least. Jim Leona

building package with debug options?

2001-01-29 Thread debuser
Is there an easy way to compile a Debian source package with debugging options turned on (removing the -O2 and adding -g to all the make files) or is that something that has to be done manually? Something like dpkg-buildpackage --debug??? Thanks, Gerry

Hughes satellite modem?

2001-01-29 Thread DSC Lithuania
I'm way out here in the boondocks (spelled Lithuania), and it's rather nice, but internet is awfully expensive.  I've been thinking for the future 2-3 years, and it occurred to me that Hughes offers a satellite modem setup (DirectWeb) for super-fast downloads.  It is essentially similar t

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:46:48PM +0200, Timo wrote: > The main problem is, why does cron not understand network parameters while > using > specific . > I have tried ifconfig eth0 down, /etc/init.d/networking stop, etc... > simulating > Madrakes usernet command, Just to hit on the obvious: Wh

Re: Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:42:12PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe > some other network applications. I was wondering what your suggestions would > be for Partitions. I have already ready the Partiti

Re: need to add 255.255.255.255 to route table

2001-01-29 Thread Morgan Terry
> Nick Barron wrote: > > hello, > > I recently installed a fresh potato box from 2.2r > I need to add: > route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth1 to my route table to make > windozs boxes happy w/ dhcp allocation > > where can I add this line to execute at boot? > > using 2.1 w/ 2..0.X I was ab

Re: help... please!

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:13:07PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Could somebody send me the correct owmnership for each file/directory in > > /var/log under debian potato please.. > > Just if somebody has a fresh installation and if you were so kind to send > me the results of ls -l /var and ls -

Re: help... please!

2001-01-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Roberto Diaz wrote: >> Could somebody send me the correct owmnership for each file/directory in >> /var/log under debian potato please.. done -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:52:47PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I'm not sure exactly what "apt-get dist-upgrade" does... > > > as far as what packages is will install. I do know that > > > "apt-get upgrade" only updates packages that you > > > *currently* have installed. > > > > > > I've done

Re: Still No Cursor in X

2001-01-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
hammack wrote: > Problem: I cannot get a cursor in X with my PS/2 generic mouse. I do > get a cursor in the Text mode and can cut and paste between VC's. In > X I can click in the window and get menus to pop up and occasionally I > will lite up a button all in the blind.Below are the two >

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... > > > I did a "normal" installation of potato some months > > > ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages > > > that I did

Re: How to clone a system easily?

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:15:52 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >My preference is to do a minimal base system installation, then run: > >$ dpgk --get-selections > file > >..on the old system followed by > >$ dpkg --set-selections < file >$ apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > >..on the new

help...

2001-01-29 Thread Roberto Diaz
I did a very stupid thing.. chowm root.daemon /var/log/* yes stupid I know it was an accident.. Could somebody send me the correct owmnership for each file/directory in /var/log under debian potato please.. Regards Roberto --

Re: help... please!

2001-01-29 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Could somebody send me the correct owmnership for each file/directory in > /var/log under debian potato please.. Just if somebody has a fresh installation and if you were so kind to send me the results of ls -l /var and ls -l /var/log Just to see the correct ownership of /var/log and /var/log/*

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... > > I did a "normal" installation of potato some months > > ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages > > that I didn't installl at first installation...so I don't know if > > when I do an apt

Re: pppoe running as user?

2001-01-29 Thread reiner
A+B Frank wrote: > > Hi, > I've got a question: which release of pppoe are you running? > In my box runs 1.7.1 from woody and its started and stopped > via /etc/init.d/pppoe by root. It's actually running as root. > > greetings > Albrecht pppoe -V shows this: Roaring Penguin PPPoE Version 1.7 H

Re: /dev/ttyS* permissions

2001-01-29 Thread Xucaen
--- David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used kill -9 on it. I use wvdial > and exit with ^C. me too! > Your problem is wvdial. That's probably why > you're worrying about > the permissions in the first place (wvdial > seems to need g+w to my $.02: I just su to root and run w

Partitions Correction

2001-01-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Sorry I just realized that I didn't give any information in the previous post.   My system is a 400mhz with 128 megs of RAM and a 15 gig HD   I will be running a firewall, dns, www, ftp, ssh, proxy, pop and maybe something else. What partitions would be useful?   Leonard Leblanc

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > I'm not sure exactly what "apt-get dist-upgrade" does... > > as far as what packages is will install. I do know that > > "apt-get upgrade" only updates packages that you > > *currently* have installed. > > > > I've done an installation and hopefully have the > > packages that I need and use oft

Linux Partitions

2001-01-29 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hello Everyone,   I am going to be running a Linux box as Firewall/DNS/WWW/FTP/POP and maybe some other network applications.  I was wondering what your suggestions would be for Partitions.  I have already ready the Partition HOWTO, but still aren't quite sure what partitions would be best f

missing modversions.h for net module

2001-01-29 Thread Stephen Uhlhorn
Hello, I am trying to complie a module for my Intel PRO/100 VE NIC. When I run make on the module sources, it complains that "linux/modversions.h: file or directory does not exist." Is there a separate .deb package that contains the kernel header files? If so, is it located on the Official CD (

/cron.daily/modutils, ksymoops, "No such file"

2001-01-29 Thread S Taylor
modutils tries to cleanup /var/log/ksymoops with the /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean script, copying /proc files then rm'ing with find /var/log/ksymoops -type f -atime +2 -exec rm {} \; but it just returns error messages like /etc/cron.daily/modutils: rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ksymoops/200

Re: IP masq

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gabor Gludovatz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, A+B Frank wrote: > > > > I connect to the Internet from a masqueraded LAN through a masquerading > > > gateway/proxy server. My problem is that, if I am logged in to somewhere > > > outside our network with ssh or telnet, after a

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You should also have "#!/bin/bash" as the first line in your script. "#! >/bin/bash", with the space, is generally not how it's done. It probably >won't case any problems, but it's best to do things the way they're >expected to be done. I always use '#!

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:39:40PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When you run your script, do you need to preface the command with > > ./ > > > > eg ./myscript > > > > took me ages to find out that one! > > Or else add '.' to your PATH, but I think there are security reasons > for not

Verification/install

2001-01-29 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, I put a box together for a friend to enjoy and tinker with. I gave him some brief instructions, a book, and some typed notes. I later learned that he had been awake for at least 30 hours and probably didn't hear much of the basic instructions like how to shutdown his box. A call yester

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:25:42PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... > > I did a "normal" installation of potato some months > > ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages > > that I didn't installl at first installation...so I don't know if

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread ocorrain
> When you run your script, do you need to preface the command with > ./ > > eg ./myscript > > took me ages to find out that one! Or else add '.' to your PATH, but I think there are security reasons for not doing this. Cheers T >

Re: Romanian translation

2001-01-29 Thread Tudor Oprea
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > > Why is no list debian-user-romanian, I am de only Romanian using > Debian? No, I know of at least 3 others :) Tudor

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:03:01AM -0800, thus > spake Tom Schuetz: > > Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get > > a functional shell script? > > > > I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, > > and the CHMOD shows up correctly as executable > > in ls -l, but still wil

Re: use of apt-get upgrade...

2001-01-29 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I've some doubts about apt-get behaivor... > I did a "normal" installation of potato some months > ago...from time to time I'll was install another packages > that I didn't installl at first installation...so I don't know if > when I do an apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade it > review only

Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems

2001-01-29 Thread Glyn Millington
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:03:01AM -0800, thus spake Tom Schuetz: > Could someone please give me a hint re. how to get a functional shell > script? > > I've done the #! /bin/bash, and I've chmod'd to +x, and the CHMOD shows up > correctly as executable in ls -l, but still will not "go". > > Wha

Re: Taper

2001-01-29 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > I'd like to set up an auto-backup from cron. I run taper with the > following command line, but it always gives me its help without any error > message. > > taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g `date` -t "Aryo > ($(LANG=de_DE date

Re: IP masq

2001-01-29 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:45:12PM +0100, A+B Frank wrote: > Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I connect to the Internet from a masqueraded LAN through a masquerading > > gateway/proxy server. My problem is that, if I am logged in to somewhere > > outside our network with ssh or telnet,

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