auth.log: su(to root) fails 1000 times /min?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
>From my /var/adm/log.auth: Jun 12 20:53:57 rulcmc su: (to root) joost on /dev/ttyp6 Jun 12 21:00:20 rulcmc su: (to root) joost on /dev/ttyp6 Jun 12 23:05:57 rulcmc su: FAILED SU (to root) joost on none Jun 12 23:06:28 rulcmc last message repeated 552 times Jun 12 23:07:29 rulcmc last message rep

Upgrading 1.2 -> 1.3

1997-06-14 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I followed the instructions for upgrading from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and got the following errors: # dpkg --clear-avail # dpkg -i ldso_*.deb (Reading database ... 31923 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ldso 1.8.5-1 (using ldso_1.8.10-2.deb) ... Unpacking replaceme

UK source for 1.3 cd?

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there any source in the UK that will sell the 1.3 cd in the near future? My phone bill can't stand downloading everything that's changed! Or are there any foreign companies that will post to the UK? Prices, please... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

leafnode problem

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
Hi, Recently I installed leafnode and from then on there is no way to connect with the news. Netscape complains about a TCP/IP connection error and something like `no route to host'. (pings succeed). I tried to uninstall but no change. My relations to th ISP are somewhat dense, but I don't believe

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet > to see a dupe. It's probably based off the MAC address, and therefore probably is unique. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

file system tools for dos

1997-06-14 Thread BG Lim
I'm running a dos/linux system. I remember reading that there was a tool for accessing the ext2fs from dos. Can anyone tell me where to get it? BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the > compressed image for that, though. Surprise! We don't need psdatabase any longer. From the "ps" man page: WCHAN Name (if a valid kernel symbol table can be foun

Unidentified subject!

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but at the execution I have : visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ? JT Lapreste'

Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Alejandro Acosta A.
I have been trying my linux reconize my ethernet card and it has been imposible, I did it at my house and evething is O.K, but at my job it has been imposible. I have compiled my kernel many times with support for compatible NE2000 and my linux doesn't get it. In addition I tried

where I can find uploaded packages?

1997-06-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I get the message uploaded libc 5.4.33-3 (i386 source) from debian-chages. Where libc_5.4.33-3 is located? How can I download it? Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU __

Re: Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > I have been trying my linux reconize my ethernet card and it has been i >mposible, I did it at my house and evething is O.K, but at my job it has > been imposible. > I have compiled my kernel many times with support for compatible NE

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the "Official CD" at very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you get the book separately from the CD. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP f

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-06-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Stephan Tassart wrote: >> dpkg -l latex babel >ii latex 2e-7 >ii babel3.6-4 Please remove the old TeX packages and go with the debianized tetex, now in debian-1.3 However you do not need to do this. The real fix

Re: Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
I am using an iomega "jaz" removable disk cartridge for backup. I got the scsi internal version for $299 with one disk. The disks aren't cheap: $100 for 1GB, but they are fast and much more convenient than tape and useful for much more than backup. Compare them to $40 for a travan cartrige and ther

Re: dnload using telnet ?

1997-06-14 Thread gvl
I saw several "no" answers. But it really depends on your telnet CLIENT. When at work I use a telnet client under windows 95 that supports file RECEIVE with XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, ZMODEM, and KERMIT. It won't transmit files back though. What's nice, is that it supports auto zmodem. I ju

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
By the time the major book publishers come out with a book/CD combination, Debian will be up to 1.4 or later, lead time On 13 Jun 1997, Michael Shaw wrote: > Anyone know if there is a "Linux Unleashed" book/CD available for Debian 1.3? > > I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent pri

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tim Sailer wrote: > > In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > > > Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > > > > > > These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know > > > where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ... > > > > > >

Mail broken :(

1997-06-14 Thread Tim O'Brien
My email system on my Linux box at work has broken. It just stopped a few days ago. I've also noticed several runq zombies. When ps is used repeatedly, I can see that there's one copy of runq going with the same process number, and another that keeps restarting and incrementing the process number.

SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm trying again. My ISP says "we do not offer support for linux mail". I hope someone can give me a clue. I'm getting tired of going into Windoze to send mail. I am running debian 1.2.4, and use smail ver 3.2-3. I have con

Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread dgolpira
Can anyone recommend an affordible, external tape drive supported by Linux / Debian? Any word on Iomega or Sony's portable tape drives (using parallel port)? Performance is an issue but price is more important. Thanks. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Updatedb with Cron Daemon

1997-06-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, this is my /etc/updatedb.conf : # This file sets environment variables which are used by updatedb # filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database PRUNEFS="afs proc" export PRUNEFS # paths which are pruned from updatedb database PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /m /home/e2od5/[NOQ]

3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Bell
Hi, I've got a brand new Pentium II from Gateway 2000, and the 3Com 905 ethernet card is not behaving. I first tried to install Debian 1.3 with the floppies I'd made on a net-connected machine. That went okay, but then it couldn't see the network, so I couldn't do the rest of the install. So I u

Re: Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Benjamin T. White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : the linux box with POP3 clients on macs networked to the linux box. I seem to : get every thing setup correctly but the remote POP clients give the error: : : I said PASS : : and the POP server said: : : -ERR cannot open mailbox /var/spool/mail/be

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > (sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.) > > > > Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, > > but > > at the execution I have : > > > > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' > > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' > > > > Aren't s

Kernel Question...

1997-06-14 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'. Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ? I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in /usr/src/linux/.config that would suggest it was an option. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Location of "sc" spreadsheet

1997-06-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Brian White wrote: >Does anybody know if the "sc" spreadsheet is available for Debian? I >cannot find it anywhere. > > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > >-

More good humor

1997-06-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Just got a new humor item tonight. This one is for all the programmers out there. Well , actually, it is for anyone that just plain wonders about Microsoft products. http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/links-humor.html Click on the TOP SECRET link. You will then need to give me all your personal

Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Benjamin T. White
Hello all, I have a site running Debian 1.2. I need to be able to access mailboxes on the linux box with POP3 clients on macs networked to the linux box. I seem to get every thing setup correctly but the remote POP clients give the error: I said PASS and the POP server said: -ERR cannot op

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I had a similar problem with tcpdump. After I saw it referenced in a > message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out. The > info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I > couldn't connect to any other machi

Re: 10BT cables and lightning

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Walter L. Preuninger II writes: > Is there any method of protecting the cables & cards from lightning > damage? Several pc's and a 16 port concentrator died recently due to a > very close lightning strike. Unplug everything and disconnect all long cables during thunderstorms. John Hasler [EMAIL P

How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Terrence Brannon
Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. I have another Debian 1.2 machine Ethernetted/Internetted to this one that I can ftp things from. Or of course I could ftp something from a debian ftp site. But the question is, what should I get and if I have to use dpkg instead of dselect,

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Jim Pick wrote: > > > > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > > > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > > > ~> su rover > > > su: user rover does not exist > > > 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does. > > Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works, > but the 'su' from shellutil

xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
Hello, I was using xemacs in conjunction with Latex in debian 1.2. I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs became 19.14.1. I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on

status of the new version of procps

1997-06-14 Thread Joseph Skinner
Hi I noticed a number of days ago that the new version of procps (1.12-1) had been uploaded to the master site. Having checked ftp.debian.org today and finding that it is not there yet I was wondering if there was some hold up. Joe. ps. I have been waiting for this update for a while as I am us

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Dima
>>Anthony Campbell wrote: ... >I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) ... then cancel your posting ... but I'd like to know why >people would want to do this... Because they want to. People are free to switch from RH to Debian whenever they want (errm, not sure about the other way ro

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > > ~> su rover > > su: user rover does not exist > 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does. Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works, but the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-4 doesn't (from unstable).

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread Victor Torrico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 12 Jun, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us > > when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice. What am I > > overlooking? > > For a quick test (I assume you use bash), do > > export LANG

Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten? Hmm. Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out of luck. When you clobbered the old file, you wrote a

Re: Kernel Question...

1997-06-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:46:07 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .net) wrote: > I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'. > Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ? > I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in > /usr/src

Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, On Jun 13, Christian Hudon wrote > Maybe check the permissions on your /etc/shadow file. It should be: > > -rw-r- 1 root shadow897 Apr 6 03:40 /etc/shadow Well... mine was only readable for root and group was root, so... But now it works - thanks! Ciao, Hanno -- | Han

Help configuring rlogin

1997-06-14 Thread Scott Smith
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:06:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help configuring rlogind I am trying to remote login between two linux boxes - but I don't think that the server is set up properly (there is n

Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I have yet to see any books on the market that do more than mention Debian. That is why I am working on the Debian Book Project. I am still in the begining stages now but I am hoping early next year .. or arround the Debian 2.0 release to have the book published. I have had offers from at least

Re: parallel port zip drive?

1997-06-14 Thread gvl
Dave campbell's page is gone. I've sent mail to one of the other developers asking how to get the latest driver. On 10 Jun 97, Albatross wrote regarding: __ Re: parallel port zip drive? __ > Hi, > > >> Could anyone point me to information about using an Iomega parallel port > >(Not > >> SC

routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Pete Templin
Hi there, I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router (with one modem and one network card). Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up. The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with

Re: routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Pete Templin, you wrote: > > > Hi there, > > I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router > (with one modem and one network card). Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem > to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up. > >

Re: How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 13 Jun 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. Yah, whassup wit' dat? I had problems with dselect's 'install' option, and with chat2.pl. I copied a missing module from elsewhere, re-ran dselect, tried to install something new, and ran into ano

Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices > on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card > instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel > because the rescue disk is bui

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> (sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.) > > Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but > at the execution I have : > > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' > visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' > > Aren't standard? Do you see wha

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
> I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to > link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the > following kind of messages : > > > > cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ > make -fmkvisu -k > checkergcc -Wall -g -I/us

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Bell
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: > > > So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I > > did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. > > I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card. > It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't poi

can qmail be run from inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
I have a small system that has qmail installed, and doesn't get much mail, so it's really a waste of memory to have the various qmail daemons running all the time. Is there a way to set up qmail so it gets run from inetd? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and > libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on > the client machine: > > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > ~> su rover > su: user rover does not ex

Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, following the recent thread about dwww, I decided to try it out. I installed boa as a web server but was trying as someone suggested in that thread, to run it through inetd. The idea is that I want to disallow all non-local connections to the http server. Unfortunately I have deleted those mess

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 12 Jun, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > > I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us > > > when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice. What am I > > > overlooking? > > > >

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
There is no real easy way. However, if you have enough disk space, you can make a new partition, or use an old one, install debian on it, and migrate all your config date to the debian side. YOu can then wipe redhat, and install all the packages you need from debian. Shaya On 12 Jun 1997, Mich

FWD: Debian Linux prob

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Perhaps some other developer is better-suited to deal with this than I, who don't even have a CD drive. :-) -Forwarded message from Myopsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:07:55 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Myopsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debian Linux prob Mime-Ve

XPilot-package and sound

1997-06-14 Thread Marc Saric
Hi, I don´t know if the maintainer of the Xpilot-package is reading this mailing-list, but if so, he/she might be able to answer my little question: After trying to get the sound-thingy running with XPilot, I failes to do so, and I´m asking myself if there is sound-support at all compiled into th

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread David Pfitzner
> ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your > mail reader? Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig The digest separator is 28 dashes. Anything over that seems to cause a problem. It probably has to start at the start of a line, too. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser
Better take this SERIOUSLY folks, it is a VERY big bug ... major security hole. It allows a server to see EVERYTHING on the client filesystem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:06:45 -0500 From: Francisco Benavi

Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser
> (So can everyone stop using rows of dashes!! :-) > > -- David Pfitzner > > ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your mail reader? Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 12 June 97, at 22 h 40, the keyboard of "Benjamin T. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what > gives? The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is > delivered Anyway, I seriously suggest you

[Off-Topic] Making FLI's

1997-06-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a reference to a DOS program (DTA was it?) but I'd like to stick to Linux. TIA, and apologies a

Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a > > way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten? > > Hmm. Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out > of luck. When you clobbered the old fil

Re: Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, master is down at the moment. Mike will bring it back as soon as he can. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mgetty. The only bad thing > which I noticed so far are the short pauses (~1-5 sec) during the > sessions. Unfortunatly, to say the least of it, the quality of telephone > lines is not very good. However I wo

why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
If I use "make-kpkg -r=box.1.0 kernel_image" to make a custom kernel package, I see it includes: -rw-r--r-- root/root327834 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30 -rw-r--r-- root/root816421 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinux-2.0.30 Why include both files? Is there any way to turn that off and ju

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote: > > > > llug:~> uname -a > > Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown > > llug:~> hostid > > 0xc782f032 > > llug:~> > > > > So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware > in linux and isn't guara

Is there a Debian 1.3 "Unleashed" available?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Shaw
Anyone know if there is a "Linux Unleashed" book/CD available for Debian 1.3? I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent price, but so far the really cheap places(CheapBytes, Tri-Linux) seem to have problems with their cut. I am now considering PHT or InfoMagic, but if I can get a book

Re: Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > So the question is, how do I get this to work. Boa complains that there is > some other process listening to the port and exits with an error. > Alternatively > is there some other way of having a small server that can only be accesed > from t

checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
(sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.) Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but at the execution I have : visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_' visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_' Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?

Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to > link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the > following kind of messages : > > > > cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ > make -fmkvisu -k > checkergcc -Wall -g -I/us

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is still needed. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote > Hi, > I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It > works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me > following: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock > xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. > Contact your administrator. > -

netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error: Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ... /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > In article <"tW1_d.0.lw2.Vy5ep"@debian>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Michael Shaw") writes: > > > > I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was > > wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before? > >

Firewalls

1997-06-14 Thread dgolpira
Anyone running a debian-based firewall out there? Does anyone have any experience with the TIS firewall toolkit package for Debian? How about setting up firewalling in the kernel? What are the pros and cons of each method for building a Linux firewall? Thanks. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UN

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is > still needed. The installation process deletes the uncompressed image. It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the compressed image for that, though. Mike.

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Alan Dorman: > > The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is > > still needed. > > The installation process deletes the uncompressed image. > > It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the > compressed image for that, though. Would it so

Unresolved symbols with ibmtr_cs PCMCIA module

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Further in my attempts to setup up a Thinkpad 760CD... When attempting to load the ibmtr_cs.o mdules under the standard 2.0.30 kernel, I get the folliowing unresolved symbols. netif_rx_R9117ffb8 dev_alloc_skb_R24e337ab dev_kfree_skb_R7a61ae71 dev_tint_Rcc72f6b2 unregister_netdev_Re5a9d51a regist

ack, never mind

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
Sorry, I figured it out. Just needed to upgrade dpkg. joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Sailer: > I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet > to see a dupe. Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Mail broken :(

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim O'Brien: > My email system on my Linux box at work has broken. It just stopped a few > days ago. I've also noticed several runq zombies. > > When ps is used repeatedly, I can see that there's one copy of runq going > with the same process number, and another that keeps restarting and > increme

xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Norris Preyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I was using xemacs in conjunction with Latex in debian 1.2. > > I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs > became 19.14.1. > > I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, > and do no

Re: kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Niels wrote: > BootPart: > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm > > More instructions: > http://ledoux.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/~agoon/windows/dualboot.html > > to save AltaVista the hits :-) Thanks for the info... NT's boot manager now handles linux Now I just

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Joey Hess writes: >> Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. > >And this is supposed to make it unique? Somehow I suspect that mine is not >the only machine with IP 192.168.1. RTFM?! The man page says that hostid is _normally_ set t

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Joey Hess writes: > Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address. And this is supposed to make it unique? Somehow I suspect that mine is not the only machine with IP 192.168.1. /home/john hostid -v Hostid is 8323328 (0x7f0100) John HaslerThis posting is in the public doma

Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
> > There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while > > ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... > [...] > > I have it working now... There is the tn3270-510.tar.gz package > at sunsite with an a.out tn3270 binary that works when > termcap-compat is installed

Re: xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello! :) On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and > xemacs became 19.14.1. > I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years, > and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on th

Re: read news on/off line

1997-06-14 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: ... > Secondly, would some one please point me to the doc./pointers to > setup the Debian system to download the news onto my local drive > for later use? Thanks! > Try leafnode, there is a debian package in section news. Alexandre > -- >

Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Al Youngwerth
Just something to try... post.metrolink.net does not have a dns MX record. I don't think smail should give you an error if your smarthost doesn't have an MX record but it might. Try changing you smarthost to metrolink.net (it resolves to post.metrolink.net) and see if it helps. I assume your name

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
What package is it in? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. Contact your administrator. Well... I asked the package maintainer (i

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread Victor Torrico
W Paul Mills wrote: > > This all seems to have something to do with libc and a wg15-locale > package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to > start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you > set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than > al

Re: netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error: > > Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ... > /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file > dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors wer

Help NT4.0 -> Linux Printing fails

1997-06-14 Thread Oz Dror
I have linux (debian 1.2.8 Kernel 2.0.30) machine as server (192.168.0.1) and NT4.0 workstation as client (192.168.0.3) I setup the NT machine to print using lpd (port 192.168.0.1:lp4) lp4 is my linux printer (HP660c). The NT machine uses its own driver for the printer. When I tried to print a

Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote: > So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I > did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card. It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't pointed at the partition that I thought it

checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the following kind of messages : cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/ make -fmkvisu -k checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X

Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) but I'd like to know why > people would want to do this [switch from Red Hat to Debian] I've looked > briefly at Debian and it seems quite attractive, but I'm using RH at the > moment and it works pretty well,

Re: libXt.so.6

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
It's still an aout file, therefore you need the xcompat package for the aout libs. HTH, Shaya On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'. I am > hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually > solve the problem

Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
master.debian.org down?? I can't even ping it! -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

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