On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> It's a problem at your server, as I said. The solution is to make sure
> that a line like
>
> IN NS ns.3dillusion.com
> actually reads
> IN NS ns.3dillusion.com.
> as Carey pointed out, or you could do
Hi,
I have xntp installed. My system should get the correct time when it
boots up. But I see that my xclock shows is ahead by an hour. I
suspect this has something to do with the fact that I had problems
running tzconfig.
I run tzconfig and choose 'US time zones' in the first screen. Now I
tr
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, David Gaudine wrote:
> I have a similar problem; when I run pine I get the message
>incomplete maildomain "annette"
>Return address in mail you send may be incorrect
> Like you, my /etc/defaultdomain is correct and I created /etc/domainname,
> and /cat/sys/kernel/domai
Andrew Akins wrote:
> When I switch the server to SVGA, the screen is shifted up about, oh, 20
> pixels. That is, the top 20 or so pixels of the image are off the top of
> the screen, and the bottom of the screen has a blank area about 20
> pixels high.
Try using the "nostretch" option. BTW, on m
"Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can I somehow use this card and assign irq 5 to the new com port and move
> the sound card to say 7? If some could someone be kind enough to state
> how:) If not can I assume that I need this specific Com-5 card
> mentioned above? Cheers.
Yes, if the
I had to stop and start the qmail on "master" about three times. At the
moment it is doing 3-4 deliveries per second. There was a boring but
voluminous debate on debian-devel that might have put an unusual load
on the queue. Qmail had been running uninterrupted for 25 days when it
started having pr
"Peter Iannarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there something wrong with the list servers or is it me ?
I think it must be you. I've noticed no problems at all in the last
few days.
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Hi,
for some reason my TeX package got broken and I decided to reinstall it.
But everytime I get:
Setting up tetex-extra (0.4pl6-4) ...
kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found.
texhash: global Kpathsea configurarion file texmf.cnf not found.
Please set the environment
Another way to solve that blinking problem is to boot up from floppy,
and edit /edc/X11/config to remove the "xdm start" line. Or login from
another machine, if it has a network connection.
rick
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I can't quite get this combination to work.
My ISP uses PAP, and msoft's Internet Exporer connects rightout of the
box (well, if you consider the Dark Side as "working" . . . :).
I can dial up with pon, after:
putting the numbers in /etc/ppp.chatscript
adding "user hawk" to /etc/ppp.opetions_ou
"Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a machine that is connected to the net and want to set up a slip or
> ppp server only so that I can dial into the machine via a connected modem
> with a PDA (palm pilot) that can establish either a slip or ppp
> connection.
The IP-Masquerade
Matthew Majka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just got PPP working a couple days ago at home, so this is
> still fresh in my mind. For some reason, the /dev/cu
> devices didn't exist (using minicom clued me into this), so
> I had to do `cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV serial-cu` to get started.
You shouldn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
> Is the JDK 1.1.4 debian package available yet? Thanks!
Not the "blackdown" port which is being done by Steve Byrne.
There is a Linux JDK 1.1.4 from Sergey Nikitin at ASU:
ftp://lagrange.la.asu.edu/pub/Linux_jdk/
I haven't tried it though.
I'm pre
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to know the path for the tcl.h file and I have been unable to
Not to insult your intelligence, but do you have tcl-dev installed?
Will
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G'day --
I am not sure if my last message has made it to the list (I've gotten
an error message from smtp at aol(?) that debian-user doesn't accept
the mail w. attachments...So, please forgive me if I'm repeating
myself. Now; to the problem at hand:
while browsing the Net, at the one of the GnuPlo
I have just recently upgraded to lesstifg and lesstifg-dev to recompile a
package I maintain using libc6 stuff. After installing the newest
versions,
pn lesstif (no description available)
pn lesstif-altdbg (no description available)
pn lesstif-altdev (no des
On 15-Nov-97 Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
> I can't quite get this combination to work.
> changing /etc/ppp/pap so that the last line is now
>
> hawk * mypassword
Don't you mean pap-secrets?
> This much failed to login as it attempted to respond to the login:
> prompt (which this isp doesn't allo
Dear Debian friends,
in a fit of abysmal stupidity I manage to break my 1.3.1 system.
I wanted to upgrade to netbase-netstd 3.0 and FORCED an un-install of
libreadline2 to install libreadline2g ... now my bash is broken and god
knows what else ... locked out of home ...
Only after I discovered th
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997 08:15:04 +0100 Robert Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> in a fit of abysmal stupidity I manage to break my 1.3.1 system.
> I wanted to upgrade to netbase-netstd 3.0 and FORCED an un-install of
> libreadline2 to install libreadline2g ... now my bash is broken and god
> kn
I have finally flipped a breaker, and spent the day on up "upgrade" to
glibc/libc6. This was forced by my own confusion, as well as that,
apparently, of my machine, as to which libraries were to be linked into
xtide2.0. After the "upgrade" the package compiled ok.
Most of the package updates w
Chuma Agbodike wrote:
>Right after I installed postgres 6.2.1 and played with is a little I
>can't log into my LINUX anymore. Everything goes on as usual until it
>reaches:
>INIT: entering runlevel: 2
>Then it differs from what it used to do, which is start the various
>daemons
>Now i
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Mike Nachlinger wrote:
> Don't know what made this occur but any help would be great.
> The last few days anytime I type a
> z or a
> Z may machine sends the
> z plus a line feed. Any Ideas on how to correct this?
> Is an .inputrc file needed?
>
I don't know but try typing
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
>
> On 14-Nov-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Hi--
> >
> >I need to know the path for the tcl.h file and I have been unable to
> >locate it myself. Any direction is greatly appreciated.
>
> Try this:
>
> find / -type f -name tcl.h -print
Much faste
What news servers are available other than innd and dnews? I do not
need a packeage, source is fine.
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> I commented out the "expect ogin:" and "expect word:" ion
> ppp.chatscript, which instead gives me an alarm and a failure to
> connect.
>
> I assume I'm missing something obvious.
Yep :)
You can't put comments into the chatscript. Remove all extra lines and try
again. If it fails, look at the
Let's say I just created a new kernel-image package using
make-kpkg --revision 1.1 kernel_image ,
accidently removed the ../kernel-image... file and want to recreate
it. If I type the above command I only get a "make: Nothing to be
done for `kernel_image'." message. If I use "make-kpkg
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Hi,
I just found the solution. There seems to be a problem with the
installation of dselect. When I do a dpkg --install, it works fine.
Installation order:
base
bin
extra
doc
dev
Cheerio
Ralf
On 15-Nov-97 Ralf Comtesse wrote:
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Hi,
Anyone knows whether autofs can support novell filesystems ?
(I guess the answer is no but you never know :-) )
Thanks
George
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sudhakar Chandrasekharan) writes:
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> suspect this has something to do with the fact that I had problems
> running tzconfig.
[snip]
Try PST for the time zone.
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On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 09:04:34AM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
: What news servers are available other than innd and dnews? I do not
: need a packeage, source is fine.
:
What's wrong with inn? I've been running it for quite some time, and it's
very straight-forward. inn 1.7 is very stable and nice a
I get a non-fatal oops message when I boot debian. With this same kernel
I don't get the same message with redhat. The version of the kernel was
2.0.30. This problem may go away if I use a 2.1.50 kernel. My graphics
card is not listed in the 2.0.30 kernel with a pci device id, but this
does no
"Donald R. Harter Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am enclosing the list of messages that I received. The oops
> address seems to be outside the kernel. Maybe it is insmod.
I suggest you repost the messages, but this time with newlines, so
that we can actually read them.
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In a message dated 97-11-15 01:46:49 EST, you write:
<< I am not sure if my last message has made it to the list (I've gotten
an error message from smtp at aol(?) that debian-user doesn't accept
the mail w. attachments... >>
That might have been comming from me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've since cha
I think that I completed an install ... but I don't know where to go from
here. I actually think that I may have only installed a minimal package.
No extra stuff.
During the installation process I was asked about the locations of
certain files and didn't have any idea of their locations. (I have
Thanks Oliver. You nailed it.
I had forced install of libreadlineg2, libc6 and a bunch of other stuff
postgresql 6.2.1 was complaining about that it needed. Boy! am I sorry I did
that.
What a mess. My dotmatrix
printer now prints a line a minute. Still can't figure that one out. Fixed
startx.
An
cnews is available as a debian package. if you are a small site, newsx might
halp you. I use cnews + nntpd (recompiled with msgidd support) and nntplink to
maintain the nntp feeds. For my small number of feeds, I find cnews much more
stable and resource friendly than inn. It tends to run for month
Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a
system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for
some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6
dependent.
Matt
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A user on my system caused a number of entries like this in the
syslog:
Nov 15 12:21:07 pfaffben su: (to root) eric on /dev/ttyp0
However, the user says that he just uses `lynx' and `talk' (and I
trust him to tell the truth about this). What could cause a syslog
entry like this?
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As an ISP with a few thousand customers, I guess that qualifies me as
bigger than cnews. I have just been informed that my news server is not
beefy enough at only 96mb of RAM and an 8 gig hard drive. Oh well.
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Ah! Well, with a few thousand customers ... hmmm, separate your news into
feeder and reader machines. Run INN on the feeder(s) which handle your remote
newsfeeds and leafnode feeds to the reader machines. cnews + nntpd + msgidd is
still PLENTY fast enough for the reader machines. As a matter of fa
Either the program he is running is suid root (look for a file owned by root
with the s set in the file permissions when you do an ls -l on the file.) Or
you have sudo or some such that is allowing to execute certain programs as root.
Still, it would not hurt to change the root password. Someone
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Either the program he is running is suid root (look for a file owned by root
> with the s set in the file permissions when you do an ls -l on the file.) Or
> you have sudo or some such that is allowing to execute certain programs as
> root.
Hmmm... But
For some unknown reason I can't print from netscape anymore.. What really
confuses me is that when I look at the spool logs, they say it printed
with no errors. I'm able print regular text files...
I'm using magic filter and samba from Debian/hamm..
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Ok, then, have the user change his OWN password and verify that the user was in
fact logged on (and not someone else using his account) when the message was
logged. Is there anyone else that lives with him that might be using his
account?
On 15-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote:
> George Bonser <[EMAIL PR
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, then, have the user change his OWN password and verify that the user was
> in
> fact logged on (and not someone else using his account) when the message was
> logged. Is there anyone else that lives with him that might be using his
> account?
Verif
Yes, user accounting can do this. I am not sure what package provides this.
On 15-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote:
> George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Ok, then, have the user change his OWN password and verify that the user was
>> in
>> fact logged on (and not someone else using his account)
On 15 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> A user on my system caused a number of entries like this in the
> syslog:
>
> Nov 15 12:21:07 pfaffben su: (to root) eric on /dev/ttyp0
>
> However, the user says that he just uses `lynx' and `talk' (and I
> trust him to tell the truth about this). What
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since these are all from his machine, maybe he's been hacked and doesn't
> know it yet.
Well, it's a Win95 box on the other end of a dialup line. :-)
> sudo and suid programs won't cause this log entry. Another good idea may
> be to move su to anoth
Hi,
I have two boxes running debian 1.3 ( +some stauff from hamm).
If I telnet from one box to the other one, I can't type in äöüß any more.
The German-HOWTO says to use telnet -8 (or do a set binary true entry in
~/.telnetrc).
If I do this, I get the umlauts, but I also get the stepping effect
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