Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch > > >> kernel > > >> 2.4 installed. > > >> > > >

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-09 Thread Leen Besselink
> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch kernel > 2.4 installed. > try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also.

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Leen Besselink wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives? > > > > In bootfloppies

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-20 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know where the source for dbootstrap lives. I wanted to > take a look at it and find out what it actually does but I haven't been > able to find it. > > thanks, > Andy > In bootfloppies maybe ??? Dunno > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: woody and stability (Just 1 thing !)

2001-01-12 Thread Leen Besselink
Maybe it's a bad idea to update to 2.4 kernel if your using certain videocards (which perform best with binary-drivers) and XFree 4 ! But trying doesn't harm you ofcourse. :)

Re: woody and stability

2001-01-12 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jerrud wrote: > Hey all, > > I do lots of 3D animations w/ blender (all hail NaN ;-), and while i`m > satisfied w/ using potato (solid as a rock for me), there are a few apps > that I could use that would make my life a lot more simple. But they > are in the unstable t

Re: sockets

2001-01-11 Thread Leen Besselink
> well the problem is with an igmp c program i have, the strace shows: > > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_IGMP) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) > fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 7), ...}) = 0 > old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0

Re: [2.4.0] migration to devfs

2001-01-06 Thread Leen Besselink
> lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 1 1970 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 -> > ../ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Jan 1 1970 /dev/discs/disc0 -> > ../ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 30 Jan 1 1970 /dev/discs/

Re: GCC and EGCS

2001-01-06 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi all > > I am really confused over the different compilers wich seems to be > together. > > Does EGCS exist today? or is it included in GCC. Many software recomments > to be compiled with egcs (???). I have GCC 2.95.2 installed on my machine I

Re: kernel 2.4, modutils requires libc6 2.1.97

2001-01-06 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Jameson C. Burt wrote: [..] > This flashes a WARNING to me, since libc is very foundational; > indeed, a few Debian distributions back, most distribution upgrades failed > because of libc changes. > Does an upgrade of libc6 from version 2.1.3 to 2.1.97 largely work? [..] > > P

Re: archive.debian.org

2001-01-03 Thread Leen Besselink
> Everybody a happy new year! Thanx. > I have a question.. ahhh, guestions..., my speciallity, but I'll try to answer one for a change. > I hope I am false but it seems to me that archive.debian.org is > down. Are there mirrorsite of this site? Seems it crached: nslookup archive.debian.org > 2

Re: adduser automation

2000-12-30 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, :yegon wrote: > Is there an easy way to automate the adduser script > > I'd like to run a script which creates several users listed in a text file > (or db) and sets their passwords Specify as many options as needed to: useradd, it's non-interactive if I remember ok. (maybe

Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux

2000-12-23 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:17:27 EST, "Michael P. Soulier" writes: > >> I=B4m looking for an app which can normalize my mp3s under linux. > >> > >> All I was able to dig up on myself was "normalize"[0], but this only can= > > > >> do with .wav=B4s, and as I

Re: need feedback on PostgreSQL clients

2000-12-20 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Ian Setford wrote: > I am looking for a good GUI client to complement > psql. What are good ones to use? I have seen > pgAccess, ksql, and kpsql but I would like to know > what the Debian community thinks about them. What are > their good points and bad points. What would

Re: 3c509 is being annoying

2000-12-19 Thread Leen Besselink
> I have disabled pnp and the card insmods well. I can also give it an > address with ifconfig and ping to the card, but I am unable to ping > another host (and vice versa). As far as I know I have no firewall running Sounds like routing to me... dunno what though, if you use a 2.2 kernel it shoul

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Leen Besselink
> Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need > is > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are > there Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to the Lilo prompt, after all Linux manages it's own serial ports and it hasn't

Re: Network Monitoring recommendation

2000-12-15 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, sena wrote: > On 14/12/2000 at 17:26 +, Craig Coles wrote: > > I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to the > > internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my users just > > have slow connections to the internet. Is there a

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Should have given you an example of what I am doing. Here it is > > # at 23:17 > warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh > >/usr/local/bin/radio 104 Maybe this command runs sub commands and that's why radio doesn't show up ? Looks like it's something you made, so probably a shell s

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an > order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the > user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various > email packages? Currently using exim, but may switch to postfix or > sendmail

RE: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Fine, so where can I find it? If I run radio straight from the command > prompt ps and ps aux will list a pid for radio. If I run radio via cron/at > there is no pid when I do ps or ps aux. In fact, there is no pid for > anything at the time cron/at executes radio. You'd expect at least > somethi

Re: cron/at question.

2000-12-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> Three questions: > > 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there > is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running? Well, they don't get run immediatly ofcourse, only when it's time, you can try to kill them then, but best is to make changed to yo

Re: Logging FTP

2000-12-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> Does anyone know if FTP-transfers/connections are logged? I'll try to answer this. > > I tried to find any logging info in the syslog/daemon.log but it seems > like it doesn't log anything. sure it does (kinda) the only it logs in the file /var/log/syslog: Dec 12 22:45:00 debian in.ftpd[4509]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-12-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> What ever I put in It say it can't find 'images-1.44/something/rescue.bin. I think there was also an option for it to 'list' possible files that it can use, I think also that's what the manual means. The proper path should be something like: /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/images-1.44/something

RE: Going Debian: advice request

2000-12-12 Thread Leen Besselink
> The way I do it if I want an unstable package is to add unstable to my > sources.list, > apt-get update > apt-get install -s > If all looks OK then I go ahead and do it. Sometimes it will want to > upgrade a whole lot of stuff, in which case I don't do it. What I do is download the source of t

Re: SIOCADDRT: File exists

2000-12-11 Thread Leen Besselink
> I use my Debian 2.2r2 as a router, but it always shows the message > "SIOCADDRT: File exists" at boot every time. > I use the kernel 2.2.17 that come with the debian 2.2. That's because your using the old /etc/init.d/network file, what you can do is edit that file and comment: #route a

Re: What's Helixcode?

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Keep hearing peolpe talk about helix or helixcode or something. > I've never heard of this, what on earth is it?? A commercial company trying to help create a better GNOME, it's an upstart of Migual de Incaza (he's the lead developer and fouder of GNOME).

Re: Moved /home now lost xmessage use? Solved!

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Here's the weird thing. It works from root X on another partition. But I > > created a test user and tried xmessage from there and got the same > > error. That points to the partition? To fstab? What else? Fstab looks > > ok, same settings on my new /h

Re: IP masquerading

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > you can make a script and put it in /etc/init.d and make a link to one of > the /etc/rcX.d. With the number (like S40firewall) you can set the > priority. > As an alternative, in Debian you have a /etc/rc.boot where you can put > files which must be

Re: port 756/tcp and port 754/udp

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
> > netstat -tul showes me that something's listening one port 756/tcp and on > > port 754/udp - what could that be? even when stopping networking, inetd and > > all other daemons i'm running i still have these 2 ports open? what is ist? > > sounds like one of the rpc services, those damn things se

Re: Need help: Moved /home now lost xmessage use?

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
> > Now I did the same from X in root and there's no problem, so it has to > be with permissions or my not telling someting I had moved??? > Well, did you give your /usr/local and /home the same permissions that they had originally ? You didn't copy anything right ? Just remounted it ??? If you did

Re: Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote: > For some reason, the gnome control center doesn't want me to configure any > sawfish aspects. When I click on any of the sawfish configuration options, > the > left pane displays nothing, and eventually, the entire app freezes and has to > be killed. > >

Re: Automated CPU-optimised-/cross-building of Debian-packages.

2000-12-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does anyone know how to do cross and/or CPU-optimised building of Debian > >packages, preferable with the Debian 'standardtools' ? > > For cross-compiling, try the dpkg-cros

Automated CPU-optimised-/cross-building of Debian-packages.

2000-12-09 Thread Leen Besselink
Hello, Does anyone know how to do cross and/or CPU-optimised building of Debian packages, preferable with the Debian 'standardtools' ? Normally when I build a debian package I do this: dpkg-source -x package-name-version.dsc cd package-name-version dpkg-buildpackage cd .. dpkg -i package-name-ve

Re: Peculiar DENY from ipchains?

2000-11-30 Thread Leen Besselink
> > Anyone ever seen a DENY from IP chains like: > > > > Nov 29 19:44:14 john kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 > > PROTO=1 10.12.1.15:65535 63.81.184.67:65535 > > L=21 S=0xD0 I=46379 F=0x0042 T=255 (#82) > > > > where 10.12.1.15 is my ppp interface address? > > > > What's

Re: CRASHED MACHINE = FB.overflow:1

2000-11-30 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Gordon Dykes wrote: > > > > After a few minutes on the net my Debian box crashes and I can not > > work in ANY terminal. I can change between them but they all have > > the message > > > > "FB.overflow:1"

Re: nameservers in bind

2000-11-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to configure my dns so that a www query to my domain will be > handled by another nameserver. Yet, I have the following line in > /etc/bind/db.domain: > > www IN NS 202.67.129.130 > > but when I do a nslookup with q=any, i

Re: hosts for rdate?

2000-11-26 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts > where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? > i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine... > Just install or unpack the ntpdata pa

Re: dump package list to file?

2000-11-25 Thread Leen Besselink
> I want to dump a list of the packages I have installed on a current > potatoe installto a file, so I can later build a machine with the same > packages? How do I do this? dpkg --get-selections > file

Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-25 Thread Leen Besselink
> > The card is a Netgear with a Tulip Digital 21040 chip which is what we have > in the Redhat and SuSe servers and they do not behave this way. Do they all have the same kernel (read: driver) version ? Maybe Suse/RH use a newer driver ? Because I can remember tulip drivers having problems with

re: setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-24 Thread Leen Besselink
> ###network modules > alias eth0 tulip > alias eth1 tulip What if you added the right IO, to the lines above ? Did you try that ? Although I'm not sure, as far as I could tell that module didn't have options. > #options tulip io=0x400,0x800 This was for both cards right ? > > The options line

Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-23 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Sean Norris,,, wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a > gateway and my wife's win98 laptop. > > I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org. > Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a

Re: pentium-builder question

2000-11-22 Thread Leen Besselink
> Well, thanks to this suggestion, I'm now more or less sure pentium-builder > is not doing what it is supposed to do. > Now if I only could figure out why not... I just build something with -m486 but I don't see it back in readelf -h or file either. So this wasn't the right way to do it, sorry. :

Re: pentium-builder question

2000-11-22 Thread Leen Besselink
> So my question is: how to make sure I'm building celeron optimised > packages? I've not tested this (as I don't have any such files at hand), but I think one way is to look at the result (in one of two ways): file /usr/src/myprog/myprog or readelf /usr/src/myprog/myprog This will give informat

Re: virtual ips

2000-11-14 Thread Leen Besselink
> Hi, > > I changed from SuSe Linux to debian. How and where do I enter virtual ip as > like eth0:1, eth0:1... Dunno what the official place would be to set that up, if there is one, it would probably be /etc/network/interfaces or something. what used to be the way was putting it in: /etc/init.

Re: Debian installation from NT

2000-11-13 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > At 10:44 AM 11/13/00 -0200, you wrote: > > I've installed and configured Debian a lot of times in my local > >network, always from our linux local debian mirror. But I've never installed > >it from a NT mirror and now I'm having some troubles installin

Re: SysAdmin list and question ..

2000-11-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Alberto Brealey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote: > > > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off > > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined > > filesystems, even though they are listed correc

Re: Supported hardware for debian

2000-11-08 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jostein ?gedal wrote: > I am preparing to buy a new machine to run debian linux 2.2. As Im > buying it solely for linux, I would like any good advices on what sort > of hardware would be recommended for debian Linux. > Maybe any of you have some good links or perso

Re: how to load modules at boot time

2000-11-06 Thread Leen Besselink
> > but if i wanted to be more sophisticated about it, would i add them to > /etc/modules? > Yes, I think this is the official place (the file also won't be changed, when you (or apt-get upgrade gets) run).

Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

2000-11-04 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > when i try to run mozilla as root it says: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > - > what does that mean?? and yes, i did start it in X. > when i do the same as a regular user, i get no error message at all. Sounds like you log

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On 31 Oct 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Perhaps it was unintentional, but the "sound" of this sentence rubs me Everything I saw should be taken lightly first off, I have a Very bad memory and secondly my english 'looks quiet' good, but a lot of the times I don't get the details right. So I'll s

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
> Hmm - I see the front page of http://kde.tdyc.com/, but on balance the > discussion on http://dot.kde.org/971680096/ seems to suggest that he's > going to keep doing work on potato for a while longer. I have a message > on debian-devel from Ivan Moore less than three hours ago which talks > about

Re: KDE2 -aria

2000-10-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, guran remberg wrote: > What a fantastic program this apt-get is, I am now writing this in KDE2. > I just added deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato.kde2 to my > /etc/apt/sources.list and wow. > > Who ever you are, tdyc, many thanks. That WindowManager I was having was > clearly stu

Re: Make Menuconfig + curses.h

2000-10-25 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Hanno [iso-8859-1] B?ttcher wrote: > /usr/src/linux. Then I tried to run "make menuconfig" but I got an error > similar to "dialog.h:29: curses.h: no such file or directory". I tried I think this is solved by installing the ncurses header files: apt-get install libncurses5-de

Re: I have apt on RH, now i want dselect (or capt or sth. like that)

2000-10-16 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > I thought it's clear. There are two computers - one in my home (debian, > slow modem connection) and one where i study (RH, fast connection). > Now, i can take my /var/lib/dpkg/status file, compress it (~100KB) and > send it to RH. There i could choo

Re: DHCP renumbering and NAT

2000-09-30 Thread Leen Besselink
On 30 Sep 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > I can take it as a fact of life that I'll occasionally be renumbered; > I can deal with this. I guess my question is this: is the ipmasq > package clueful enough to recognize when this happens, and tweak the > firewall rules appropriately? (Experience this m

Re: Looking for a good Red Hat list also.

2000-09-28 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Steve Hastings wrote: > > Hi All, > Sorry, dunno about that all your other questions. > > Finally, are there any versions of Linux that runs on the RS6000, in > particular the 42T/41T? > What you should do is take a look at IBM's pages on this topic: http://oss.software

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: Debian/gnu Linux Install

2000-09-26 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jeremy S. Warn wrote: > Having tremendous difficulty installing onto harddrive. I completely > cleaned my system off, and I'm now stuck with a pc that won't boot off the > partitions that the software setup, and, due to loss of drivers, I can't > read the CD I bought. I'm

Re: OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread Leen Besselink
> As some of you know, I've recently converted to a full scsi system. I > compiled a 2.4.0-test8 kernel with the following options: > > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843671 [17501 MB] [17.5 GB] > sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 > > Excuse me? sdb? I only have one HD in the system w

Re: Problem with dpkg

2000-09-24 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Boris Boutillier wrote: > Does anyone know what to do when dpkg give such an output when > installing a package : > > dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/paperconfig.libc5' > with > different file `/usr/sbin/paperconfig', not allowed > > I don't know how

why traceroute in sbin ?

2000-09-23 Thread Leen Besselink
Hello, Just a quick question, but why is traceroute stationed in a sbin directory ? As normal user I can use it too, so why ? or is this just because of some arcane old tradition ? And some old scripts depend on it ? I think it's so strange. tia for an answer, Lennie.

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-22 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Satyajit Das wrote: > My problem is now I'm not able to boot Red Hat linux. > > please help me how can I solve this problem, waiting reply urgently > because I have so many important files and email. Until we figure out what happend, maybe someone has had the same probl

mtu/mru ISDN dialup.

2000-09-20 Thread Leen Besselink
Hi folks, When I run tcpdump on my ippp0 connection to my ISP, I get a lot of packets like this: tcpdump: listening on ippp0 truncated-ip - 46 bytes missing!0.40.224.225 > 64.0.127.6: (frag 26486:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [tos 0x17] [ttl 0] truncated-ip - 28 bytes missing!0.58.208.128 > 0.0.64.17: (fra

Re: Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login

2000-09-19 Thread Leen Besselink
> is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will > change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool, > however, when I ssh into my debian box it just puts up domain.com - PuTTY. > Does > anyone know why/how this is happening for the RH box or h

[OT?] Linux Volume Manager (was: Re: Disk Partitioning for Newbies (everything you always wanted to know))

2000-09-19 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote: > Backup everything. (You do backups, don't you?) Re-partition > your hard drive. Have more fun :-) With kernel 2.4 soon, you won't have to really repartition anymore... you can just resize them and create new ones... and so on (on the fly, no reboot, no

Re: Starting KDE2

2000-09-17 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > Don't know if this has got anything to do with your problems, but on my > machine, everything runs fine. I've got a potato distro; kde 1.93 and qt > 2.2.0beta2 are compiled from source, I've compiled qt with the > ./configure-switches mentio

Re: Starting KDE2

2000-09-17 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Mike wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi. > > I managed to get kde2 install but it wont start. I used apt-get to get it so > it hould be fine, I'm using gdm so i added a menu to that which executed > startkde but when it starts it sais that it failed interprocess > networking and that

Re: Problems with the modules

2000-09-16 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote: > My machine developed the same problem after a kernel recompilation. I > was never able to figure it out, and eventually *gasp* re-installed the > entire system, which fixed everything. At least these days it's > reinstall rather than reformat, reinstal

Re: Off Topic: SCSI Recommendations?

2000-09-15 Thread Leen Besselink
> I haven't run into any problems with my onboard U2W 7xxx chip, so... > So have I, or haven't if you like. :) > > Anyhow what you want to look for is AHA/AIC 7xxx devices. Linux supports > most (all?) of them. > If you look at the 2.4 TODO list it says non-PCI cards are not yet supported o

Re: [OT] Switching kernels without reboot (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jason Quigley wrote: > This may be of interest: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html > Thank you but I already knew of it's existance, personally I think a little like Linus Torvalds, monolitic kernels are always gonna be faster then Microkernels. Although a mix of thi

[OT] Switching kernels without reboot (continued) (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
ore like 1-2 weeks, after getting the hairy struff done." This seems pretty fast to me, anyway. I hope he'll get around to do it soon. ;) See ya, Leen Besselink.

[OT] Switching kernels without reboot (was: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat)

2000-09-14 Thread Leen Besselink
> btw: Is it possible to switch kernels without rebooting. > I cannot believe that's possible Actually, I think someone was working on that. Well, first he wants to make it so you can build an other kernel in userspace or something (this is already possible with special kernels). I think Solaris

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-13 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, ChrisHellberg wrote: > I want to set up an internet cafe at a hostel and am investigating > various ways of going about things. I think windows 2000 would be the > down the linux path, what would be the best way to log a workstation out > when credit expires? I rekon it's a m

Re: fsplit

2000-09-13 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jeff Woodford wrote: > Hi all, > Would anyone happen to know in which package I can find the fsplit > (Fortran split) utility? > > Thanks, > -Jeff Woodford > if you already have it installed, you can find it this way: dpkg -S /usr/bin/filename or you can try looking it up

Re: X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> use GNOME on top of X, the screen disappears into a bunch of little > stripes, and the keyboard locks up (even alt-ctrl-backspace doesn't > work). This was with the GNOME 1.0.53 from Debian. I installed Helix > (GNOME 1.2), same problem. I've done XF86Setup, both putting the > Happens regardl

Re: Sparc IPX mouse issue

1999-07-21 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mike Lieberman wrote: > We are having problems getting Debian to see/find/use the Sun mouse > connected to our type 5 keyboard. > > gpmcongif wants to find /dev/mouse which doesn't exist. > > Xwindows won't run for the same reason. > > We know the mouse is working as we h

Re: debian

1999-07-18 Thread Leen Besselink
http://www.toms.net/rb/ is what you are looking for. it's the best in town. IMHO. On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, tyler spivey wrote: > as most of you know from irc, > i am a blind user using a terminal. > thats why i need a linux boot disk with module support 2.0.36 > so i can test a driver on my old 38

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Artur Correia wrote: > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell > mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that > file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and,

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-16 Thread Leen Besselink
yeah... maybe something like half dublex - full duplex... but then again... mostly this causes no connection at all... I dunno... maybe it's a bad cable. It very much sounds like hardware to me. Although a bad driver could be the cause. What kind of card is it ? On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jens B. Jorge

Re: redirect logs to tty?

1999-07-14 Thread Leen Besselink
try this, you will need to have syslogd reload it's config, after changing this (kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`). In /etc/syslogd: # send all logging information to /dev/tty8: *.* /dev/tty8 it's too bad apache has it's own logging mechanism, other wise, the logging

RE: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
> > Is it possible to have Linux split up the bandwidth automatically on > aliased > > IPs? > hmm... I think the question is, do you really want to ? > I think it would be better to have the networkcard do as much as > possible, > and not leave bandwidth unused. > > > > The HOWTO only covered stat

RE: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
7;t be done, though. Because a lot of people are working on all sorts of things. > > Thanks > -Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Leen Besselink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 9:41 AM > To: Paul Miller > Cc: Debian User > Subject:

Re: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > > Is it possible to a network card configured to use multiple IP address > (ie, 4 static + 4 dynamic = 8 IPs) at once? All of the IPs are on the > same network and netmask. If this is possible, where can I find more > information on how to do this? >

Re:

1999-07-06 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Jack Wilkinson wrote: > I'm having the same problem... just figured it was a limitation of the > standard IP masquerading setup... I can recieve dcc's, but can't send... is > anyone actually able to dcc send from behind a masq? > > - Original Message - > From:

Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10

1999-06-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ralf Comtesse wrote: > Hello, > > I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The > only problem is when booting. > In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > wich gives me > > SIOCADDRT: Invalid

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-27 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > > > 1) Is there a way to run programs as root from X, respecting such things > > as the current GTK theme; OR > > > > No, the theme is a per-user setting, so it won't apply to you while you're > ro

Re: How to set default resolution in XF86?

1999-06-26 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote: > Whenever I start X, it comes up with a default resolution of (I think) > 640x480. I normally run at 1280x1024, which means I have to hit > two or three times to select the correct resolution. Is > there any way I can specify that as the default re

Fw: Re: Hope you don't mind this (friends!) (fwd)

1999-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:59:03 +0200 From: Maik Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tim Stahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheri Hudacin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mette Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Melinda Fetcko <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: where can i get the source for debian in a format i can read

1999-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > On 10-Jun-99 matthew lamb wrote: > > where can i get debian source code for the kernal so i can port it to > > another platform?? > > > > There is no "debian source code". Debian is based on the Linux kernel. > try ftp.us.kernel.org, look in /pub/linux

Re: Debian Router???

1999-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 19:22:33 +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > > it's probably easier to use the Linux Router Project > > http://www.linuxrouter.org/ . It's Debian-based if I'm not mistaken. > Actually... I'm sure.

Re: Debian Router???

1999-06-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > I am building a debian router, however I prefer to use a FLASH ROM card > instead of a hard drive. The largest I can afford is a 60 meg card. Can I > set up a debian router with all the drivers (three cards two DS3 and one > Gi

Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...

1999-06-08 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: > > > I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to > > a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was > > wondering if anyone knew what the problem mig

Re: getting around a firewall?

1999-06-04 Thread Leen Besselink
> others  -- ssh is most certainly blocked.   I want to be able to > securely connect to a remote server (Debian based) in shell.  I'm told > one way to do this is to tunnel ssh proxy through other port like http.  > What are other ways to achieve the end result?  I think I heard tell > that there

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a > > computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? > > Nope. Although there should be still some of this older stuff around. try: www.pricewatch.com hope this helps.

Re: [s2192888@cse.unsw.edu.au: Re: Can you help me with scsi in debian please]

1999-05-09 Thread Leen Besselink
I think the module name is general scsi support. Hope this helps you. Lennie. On Sun, 9 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > My anwser to this question is to compile the scanner driver as the > module. > But I am not sure. Any other suggestions?? > > Thanks. > > ---

Re: X over network

1999-04-29 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > What client software do I need to run X over the network? What are the > hardware requirements? > > Is there a good HOWTO on running X over networks? yes, there is a mini-howto, it's called: Remote-X-Apps > > Thanks. > > NatePuri > Certified L

Re: samba/network neighborhood question

1999-04-24 Thread Leen Besselink
I think I know... I think you havd samba running from inetd, so when win95/98 issues a request... the samba server doesn't answer right away (it needs to be started first). That would be like starting apache from inetd, it takes a little time to get the first response... so what you need to do is.

Re: Is ssh 2 incompatible with ssh 1?

1999-04-23 Thread Leen Besselink
Well, let me say what I did to get it working: I installed ssh1 first... with deamons and all... then I installed ssh2... over that. then edited /etc/ssh2/ssh2_config set this to yes, when I found it in the manpages: Ssh1AgentCompatibility yes so, now when a ssh1 client tries to connect

Re: W95 defrag

1999-04-22 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, H C Pumphrey wrote: > > Greetings, fellow Debian fans, > > This is only a proto-debian question, I'm afraid, but I have tried to > RTFM, honest. I'm trying to defrag the disc on a W95 laptop prior to using > FIPS to re-partition it so I can put Debian on it as well[1]. W9

Re: Whoops

1999-04-18 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > I did something really stupid: > #mv /usr/bash > (don't ask). Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root > to fix it. I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a > script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work.

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