Re: 440LX chipset

1997-09-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
> I am considering buying a new computer and would like to get a > Pentium II with the new 440LX chipset. My concern is over the AGP > graphics. Would I be able to use debian with AGP? Are there any > compatibility issues with 440LX? The 440LX chipset works fine with Linux, according to benchma

IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Mike Patterson
Well, thanks for the info on eth0 I'm curious why the change, and feel a little silly, but oh, well. Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called "ipfwadm". I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system

Re: IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a > command called "ipfwadm". I can't figure out what package it is under (and > it curently doesn't exist on my system) It's in the netbase package. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a > command called "ipfwadm". I can't figure out what package it is under (and > it curently doesn't exist on my system) Oh, and you may want netstd, too. -- Rob -- TO UNSUB

Apache PUT script

1997-09-06 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Does anyone have a good Apache PUT program/script ?? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Michael Harnois
Since you're providing enlightenment ... I ran into a problem when I tried to modify your script for my own preferences. Specifically, when I tried to change the value of PS1 to give a colorized prompt. The string I began with was PS1="\\[\\e[1;31m\\]\h:\\[\\e[0m\\]\\[\\e[1;34m\\]

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On 5 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > set_titlebar () { echo -n "]2;$*"; } > Here ^[ and ^G actually have to be real control characters not a ^ Ok, now I get a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ is what should end up

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Harnois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since you're providing enlightenment ... Don't know if I'd go that far :> > This string works find in a "straight" .bashrc. However, when I use it > in your file, it works fine on a login shell. When I start a subshell, > though, I get I'd have to

Re: libc6 upgrade

1997-09-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Im trying to upgrade to libc6 and following the howto, the problem Im > getting is this: > > Shadow:~# dpkg -B --install libc6_2.0.4-1.deb > dpkg: considering removing libc5 in favour of libc6 ... > dpkg: no, deb

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, now I get a > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~: command not found > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ is what should end up in the titlebar, but it's instead > somehow being evaluated. Any other clues? Email me a snippet that causes the problem, and I'll check it out. If

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, though: > if [ ${PS1:-UNSET} = UNSET ] > then > INTERACTIVE_SHELL=F > else > INTERACTIVE_SHELL=T > > if [ "$TERM" = xterm -o "$TERM" = rxvt ] > then > set_titlebar () { echo -n "]2;$*"; } > expor

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Ellis writes : >... > 4.2. /sbin/e2fsck > The e2fsck program in e2fsprogs_1.10-4 has a bug in it which will > cause it to destroy data on partitions above 2GB in size. The version > in e2fsprogs_1.10-5 has fixed this bug. IMPORTANT: If you

3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Paul Ryan Kuykendall
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. Paul Kuykendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, > though: Not surprised :> > > export PS1='\n\!\$ ' > > export PROMPT_COMMAND='eval set_titlebar [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:`my_dirname`' > > When I did this, the title ba

Does MAE work on Linux?

1997-09-06 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi there. I was just wondering if MAE worked on Linux? Please can you e-mail me if you wanna reply, as I am not subscribed to the list. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, can somone maybe help me in getting the Linux CD? I live in South Africa, so the airmail postage is rather heft

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Carey Evans
Paul Ryan Kuykendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I > can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where > I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. % ifconfig eth0 -promisc But your card shouldn

Can't get talk to work

1997-09-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Ik tried to enable my tcpd to allow 'talk' to my system from ALL, but can't get it to work. These are my /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow: # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See hosts_access(5) and /usr/doc/net/portmapper.txt #

[no subject]

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi, I cannot get ppp version 2.2.0f-19 to establish a link with an NT server. In the verbose ppp log included below, it seems the NT server only wants to do one of the following auth's: while linux only wants or , so obviously they dont'converge. Does that mean I have to recompile with the

BIG syslogd problem with debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.27

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
Dear debian fellows, I suddenly bumped into a very severe problem, for which I have not the slightest clue. Several things depending on syslogd (some ppp logging scripts I have cooked) stopped working. After a while, I realised my /var/log/messages file was growing too fast with: Aug 27 12:40:21

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 6 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > Paul Ryan Kuykendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I > > can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where > > I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. >

Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Heiko Heijenga
Howdy, I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with another computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to telnet from 1 to 2, I get the message: Connection refused. The other way (2 to 1) works fine. What have I done wrong? btw. 2 is gateway

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Paul Ryan Kuykendall
On Sep 6, Carey Evans wrote > > % ifconfig eth0 -promisc > > But your card shouldn't come up in promiscuous mode, so you should > still try to find out what put it in promiscous mode in the first > place. (Something like netacct, tcpdump, statnet, etc.) > Thank you for the assistance. I am now

Re: Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Heiko Heijenga wrote: > I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with > another > computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to > telnet > from 1 to 2, I get the message: Connection refused. The other way (2 to 1) > works f

Problems with X-programs

1997-09-06 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi Got my new machine (orca) and started to migrate programs from the old (dolphin). So far I've run into two problems - maybe unrelated - but both has to du with X. 1: ncview is a very nice utility to browse netcdf-files (cirrus.ucsd.edu:/pub/ncview). I'm able to compile, although I've to do

locales, msgfmt, and compiling KDE from source

1997-09-06 Thread Synergistic Effect
I have a mixed libc5/libc6 system that is fairly up-to-date with unstable. I'm having trouble compiling KDE from source which I think relates to the fact that I don't have a locales package. If I try selecting locales, I get the following: _* Std adminlocales Locale data files and ut

Re: Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Scott Hanson
local.debian-user Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heiko Heijenga) writes: > Howdy, > > I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it > with another computer (2) (also debian) in the house with > ethernet. But when I try to tel

Backing up entire machine.

1997-09-06 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have been looking at the simplest way to back up a couple of small machines. For example this machine has primary DNS server and backup mail relay for my domain. There are a few other things but that's really the important part. Complete off site backups and such would be basically a w

Re: Prompt in Bash [fixed]

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On 6 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > "Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, > > though: > export PROMPT_COMMAND='eval set_titlebar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`my_dirname`' Yup, kill the "eval" and life is good. Thanks

Backing up entire machine.

1997-09-06 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Sep 6, 1997, at 12:04, R. Chris Ross wrote: > What I was looking at was simply to NFS mount a large server and > use something like cpio to transfer the whole thing over there. If each > file could be gzipped in the process of transfering them it would be > helpfull. Does this sound

Samba package

1997-09-06 Thread kestrel
I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I get the following: Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) Removing samba ... dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script retur

Re: Samba package

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I > get the following: > > Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba > (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing samba ... > dpkg: error process

MH problems with .maildelivery

1997-09-06 Thread Paul J. Thompson
hi. here's a qustion for all you mh users out there. i am having trouble getting my .maildelivery to work right. (it is listed at the bottom for reference. i am using sendmail, have a .forward file with the appropriate information in it, and a .maildelivery with several lines. i got the first

xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
Do we have support for xrsh? I'm trying to automate xclient/xauth stuff amongst my 4 accounts, some of which are on Sparc machines, and one of which is on my linux box. A search for "xauth" from the "package search" page didn't turn up anything.

Re: xrsh? oops!

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Doh. > Do we have support for xrsh? I'm trying to automate xclient/xauth stuff > > A search for "xauth" from the "package search" page didn't turn up > anything. That last sentence should have "xrsh" in place of "xauth".

Re: xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to do those 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore. Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets DISPLAY and xauth authorization records during the login process. Ssh is i

Re: xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to > do those > 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore. > > Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets > DISPLAY and xauth

fetchmail and smail

1997-09-06 Thread kestrel
I've run into a problem, I upgraded fetchmail and smail and my whole system actually, now using libc6, fetchmail is grabbing my mail and putting it somewhere but not in my local mail acocunt so I cna't read it once its fetched, any help would be appreciated G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL PROTECT

Status of wide character support in Linux

1997-09-06 Thread David B. Teague
I'm curious if anyone knows the status of wide character support under Linux, and under gcc/g++ in particular. I know its coming, but I hope for a 2, 5, or 10 year availbility estimate, and a remark on 'whatz happening.' David --