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1999-07-01 Thread Christian Dysthe
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running Exim from inetd- question

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
I am running Exim from inetd now. I have a question. When I change exim.conf now, I don't need to restart inetd, correct? thanks -- Andrew

Re: Kernel-2.2.1 and Routing

1999-07-01 Thread Steffen Evers
If you get the error message 'SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument' at boot time: That comes from the command 'route add -net 127.0.0.0' or something similar normally placed in /etc/init.d/network. You can just remove this line as routing to interfaces are done automatically by the 2.2.x kernels. For more d

Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to go through to update things like my XFree installation to 3.3.3 as I hav

Re: StarOffice help

1999-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:03:53 GMT Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am 29.06.1999, 20:04:28, schrieb Brian Schramm: > >> I have tried the real host name and localhost name both >> connected to the internet and not. It just cannot log into >> the ser

redirecting ports

1999-07-01 Thread Nate
Hi folks I don't want to have to run any services on my firewall. I have on IP address and I receive dns from the tzo services (like dhis except you get your own domain and it's $$). I want to be able to run all my servers on an internal private IP. Thus, I want to redirect ports 25, 443, an

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:07:32PM -0300, The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > Hello, > > A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto > a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom. Can you tell me > how to make a boot floppy please? > Much appreciated! Hello Nova

-xrm option to X apps

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps that run in X. man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear. I've tried a couple of experiments like: xterm -xrm title=foobar but it doesn't seem to work. The is no discussion in man X about the syntax of

Re: -xrm option to X apps

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Jun, G. Crimp wrote about "-xrm option to X apps" > Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps > that run in X. man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear. I've > tried a couple of experiments like: > > xterm -xrm title=foobar > > but it doe

Need help installing Pine

1999-07-01 Thread Larry Huffman
After two years of using Red Hat, I've turned my attention to Debian (Slink), and am learning my way around the packaging system, apt, and dpkg. I'm now trying to install Pine. (This message, BTW, is coming from my shell account at my ISP, hence it being from Pine.) I've tried to install both of t

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:24:17PM +0200 In reply to:Sami Dalouche Quoting Sami Dalouche([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I just recompiled my kernel

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an > average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing > things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will ne

Re: New drive

1999-07-01 Thread Didi Damian
"Ghost" is a drive imaging software. What it does, it copies your disk or partition byte for byte, formatting it on-the-fly. It works with ext2 filesystem, the only limitation is that, compared to the other filesystems, it won't resize the image, meaning that you can't take a partition created

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-07-01 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > *SNIP* > > However, I expect I'm the only one who thinks that's the proper > > approach so, how's this for a solution: Give the /usr/include/asm and > > /usr/include/linux directories up as lost causes. Instead, define new > > directories. Say /usr/incl

Re: HELP: /dev/mixer and SB PCI64V

1999-07-01 Thread Didi Damian
I have a 1371 with potato/kernel 2.2.10 and it worked fine from the beginning. i have a /dev/mixer and a /dev/mixer1. Unfortunately, about the only thing I can help you with is my dmesg which shows the codec to be present. I don't know much about sound in linux but I know that in Windoze no co

postgresql errors after upgrade

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
Every time Postgresql gets upgraded, I get these errors: On 01-Jul-99 Cron Daemon wrote: > Connection to database 'template1' failed. > connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused > Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix > socket '5432'? Ouch!! What ca

Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

1999-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pollywog wrote: >Every time Postgresql gets upgraded, I get these errors: > >On 01-Jul-99 Cron Daemon wrote: >> Connection to database 'template1' failed. >> connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused >> Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix

Re: I/O error on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

1999-07-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Does cat /dev/sndstat work? Check if sound is compiled in or loaded when a sound request happens (check logs). Jens "G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I can't write to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, even as root. The > permissions on both are crw-rw. I discovered wh

Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jul-99 Oliver Elphick wrote: > You may have to start up the postmaster yourself (there are problems with > su from pam-apps): > > /etc/init.d/postgresql start > > If that doesn't work, you will need to give more information. I forgot to mention: /etc#/etc/init.d/postgresql start /usr/l

X modeline conversions

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
Hi everyone. I'm trying to work out a good modeline for X for 1152x864. The reason I'm doing this is because I was installing some new drivers for my video card under Windows and discovered that my monitor can do 1152x864 at an acceptable refresh rate... I've got the figures from Windows, but

Solaris binaries

1999-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is there any support for running Solaris/x86 binaries on linux i386? I haven't had any luck searching the web. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread Nate
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 04:23:15 +0200 (CEST), Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > > >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Nate wrote: > > > > > I would like to redirect some ports to an internal machine on > > > a private IP. What is the best way to do this? >

Problems changing colour depth.

1999-07-01 Thread Revenant
I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't use a colour depth of greater than 8. I've tried running startx with the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode. Any thoughts? Thanx. --

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-07-01 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:29:28PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > > It may be worth checking in /var/log/xdm.log to verify that you *really do* > > have more than one video mode available. I have a NEC Multisync 2A upstairs > > that claims to do 31.5 & 35

Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-07-01 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:42:29AM -0500, John Foster wrote > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now > > he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT). > > > > It boots the whole kernel from the floppy. > > > > I thought t

Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

1999-07-01 Thread Jim Foltz
Check line 64 of /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup. echo link it to /bin/true and run '/etc/init.d/postgresql start' ^ Here There is a mis-matched quote mark. Change the first ` to a ' and the postmaster should start.

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-07-01 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Karen Hanson wrote: > > Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes > too. Sometimes the crash is severe enough to kill the X server, and > sometimes the system hangs completely. > > Of every 10 crashes, 7 are just Netscape

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-07-01 Thread Ray
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 11:09:51AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > When you replace something like motherboard in the system, you have to > recompile th ekernel for it. Why would you have to do that? I could see if maybe you already had a customized kernel with, for example, pentium optimizatio

"Unable to load interpreter"

1999-07-01 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations does this happens. Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: "Unable to load interpreter"

1999-07-01 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means > but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations > does this happens. Isn't that the message you get when trying to execute an

Samba and mount

1999-07-01 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message: SMBFS: need mount version 6 mount error: Invalid argument. I am using the same command in another linux box with slink and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem. mount -V for bot

Re: X modeline conversions

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Jul, Matthew Gregan wrote about "X modeline conversions" > Hi everyone. > > I'm trying to work out a good modeline for X for 1152x864. The reason I'm > doing this is because I was installing some new drivers for my video card > under Windows and discovered that my monitor can do 1152x86

Re: Samba and mount

1999-07-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount > a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message: > SMBFS: need mount version 6 > mount error: Invalid argument. > > I am using the same command in another

Re: Samba and mount

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Jul, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote about "Samba and mount" > I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount > a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message: > SMBFS: need mount version 6 > mount error: Invalid argument. > > I am using the same command in another linux

Re: Samba and mount

1999-07-01 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount > a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message: > SMBFS: need mount version 6 > mount error: Invalid argument. > > I am using the same command in another

Cron spawns...

1999-07-01 Thread Ares
When I got to work this morning, unlocking my X screen took an enormous amount of time, and the rest of the system was incredibly sluggish. Top revealed several copies of cron and a couple of copies of smbd running, and they pretty much had 100% of the CPU time split between them. Has anyone seen t

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote: >> I use statements like >> >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3 > >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still doing slink. Do you know how Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread thomas lakofski
i'm missing the original message, but 'rinetd' might help in what you're looking for. works for me. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > >> I use statements like > >> > >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3 > > > >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread Dan Everton
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote: > > >> I use statements like > >> > >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3 > > > >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still doing slink. Do you know how > > Ooops. Sorry. Can

Re: StarOffice help

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, how do I make sure that my bind is installed as caching-only name server? Thanks Brian On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > [This message has also been posted.] > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:03:53 GMT Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Am 29.06.1999, 20:04:28, schrieb Brian

Unmapped keystrokes?

1999-07-01 Thread Chris
I've just noticed this problem recently... It seems that a number of keystrokes fail to do anything. In emacs or Jed, ^W, ^K, ^F, and probably a number of others do nothing, or at least don't do what they're supposed to do. ^X, ^S and ^C all seem to work, though. Does anyone have any idea what

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'

Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I've inherited a i486 DX4 from a friend, that's supposed to run at 100MHz. However the computer seems very slow. There's no documentation to the motherboard, and I'm afraid I'm running it with "Turbo" turned off, and I don't know which pins are responsible for "Turbo" (they are only mark

firewalls for dummies?

1999-07-01 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I am planning to setup a firewall for a public network containing two class C subnets. The machine is a potato box running 2.1.10 compiled with the appropriate firewall stuff turned on. I have studied the various HOWTO's (ipchains, firewall, ...) but I think I am missing something. My pre

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. ^^^ > > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it'

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Matthias Murra
>It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate >any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to >know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too, >because I've never had a 486 before... You might want to try this site http://p

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-07-01 Thread Andy Spiegl
> > I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem. > > It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the > > motherboard and CPU chip. I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an > > AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM. I've got a similar machi

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Arcady Genkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all: > > I've inherited a i486 DX4 from a friend, that's supposed to run at > 100MHz. However the computer seems very slow. There's no documentation > to the motherboard, and I'm afraid I'm running it with "Turbo" turned > off, and I don't know whic

XF86Setup problem

1999-07-01 Thread IN
Hi, I've recently totally reinstalled potato, installing first slink development environment and then upgrading to potato, Since then I can't use XF86Setup to change the settings, if I try to change keyboard layout or apply changes, the screen goes black with green stripes for a second and then j

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread ferret
There is a patch I've used to 2.0.36, and you want to use the ipportfw package in slink. The patch is included with the documentation, and I think the 2.0.35 patch worked for me. I'm completely running 2.2.10/2.3.x now, and haven't had a chance (or a need anymore) to run port forwarding. On Thu,

Help with Knews and EX/VI Terminal

1999-07-01 Thread Ray Schultz
Hello all, I'm running 2.1 and KNews in ICEWM When I go to post a new article or post a follow-up I get: Ex/VI: Vi's stand input and output must be a terminal. How do I set knews to use VI as a terminal? TIA, -=Ray --- <=- Fortune of the Day -=> There is no security on this earth. Th

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread charles kaufman
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is). > very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's > disk geometry settings. It

RE: Help with Knews and EX/VI Terminal

1999-07-01 Thread Ray Schultz
Never Mind, I found the answer on www.deja.com You have to edit the Knews file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/appdefaults thanks anyway, On 01-Jul-99 Ray Schultz wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running 2.1 and KNews in ICEWM > > When I go to post a new article or post a follow-up I get: > > Ex/VI: Vi's

ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
I've done what I suspect many have, which is to build a 2.2.x kernel on top of slink, making the minimal changes outlined below. I have no problems except with the one machine at work that is connected to the ethernet and has a modem. If this machine runs 2.0.36 (all my others run 2.2.10), PPP betw

RerightCond

1999-07-01 Thread Patrick Billings
Linux slakware 2.0.35   When I used this in the httpd.conf it worked fine for something.host.com but when I change the directory from /www to /home/www/ and the domain from .com to .net the reright stopped working, I changed com to net and /www/ to /home/www/ but still did not work.   Rew

RE: Problems changing colour depth.

1999-07-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jul-99 Revenant wrote: > I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've > now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't > use a colour depth of greater than 8. I've tried running startx with > the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Matthias Murra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate > >any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to > >know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too, > >because I've never had a 486 be

Wine x slink

1999-07-01 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
Is there a more recent (>981018) wine slink package? If so, where I could find it? Thanks in advance. Valdemir

Re: HELP: /dev/mixer and SB PCI64V

1999-07-01 Thread Steffen Evers
Steffen Evers wrote: > > Hello ! > I've tried to get my SB PCI64V (es1371) running under Debian 2.1 and > Kernel 2.2.10 and it won't work ! > It looks like that the kernel finds the card and everything seems to be > ok, but it doesn't make any sound. > At boot time I get the following: > > I was

screen saver control

1999-07-01 Thread Jianming YOU
Hi, experts, I was trying to find the configuration file which control the screen saver under X. For example, I'd like to change the timeout from ~8sec to 5 sec, remove certain screen saver pattern. I understand that "xset s ..." gives some control on the timeout. However I want to know where the

security leak in ppp.log file

1999-07-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup never make it to the list and many posting of others seam to miss too:(, so please reply by email too. thanks ---

FW: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

1999-07-01 Thread J Horacio MG
Cron sent me this error, what does it mean? ... all I can think of is that the machine has spent a few days being switched off before cron started running, so that may have caused havoc since in /etc/cron.monthly/acct there's the line: echo "Login accounting for the month ended `date`:" > /var/log

Connection to localhost:25 refused

1999-07-01 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I can't connect to port 25 on localhost: [root:~] # telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail via SMTP either. I'v

Tcp Wrappers

1999-07-01 Thread TEJAL V DESAI
I'm trying to install Tcp Wrappers on Sun Netra 1125 running on Solaris 2.6. I downloaded the file tcp_wrappers_7.6.tar.gz file from the web. I gzipped and untared this file. I want to use ftp services. So, I tried to edit Makefile. I uncommented the following 2 lines SysV.4 Solaris 2.x OSF

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Revenant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know it's obvious, but I have to ask: Does the BIOS tell you on > bootup? It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, it also prints: "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the system info. If my CPU is DX4,

isdnutils: vboxgetty to mail?

1999-07-01 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Hi, obviously, isdnutil's vboxgetty isn't supporting direct mailing of the incoming messages to user(s). However, that is what I'd like to have (skipping "vbox") -- is there any nice solution for this around? Thanks, Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566

Autolocking of virtual consoles

1999-07-01 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Hi, I would like to have an autolock mechanism for all virtual consoles (and all users), i.e., similar to autologout, but running something like vlock on the user rather than logging him out. Though this seems to be a rather reasonable feature, there does not seem to be an easy way to implement

RE: Connection to localhost:25 refused

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I > can't connect to port 25 on localhost: > > [root:~] # telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > Obviously, fetchmail now doe

CD Changer setup

1999-07-01 Thread Rick Salvador
Hi, I have a NEC CDR-4300a 4disk cd changer drive, and I would like to have a way that I could access the 4 disks remotely through the FTPD. Is this possible? How Do I mount disks 2-4? and how can I have the FTP server change disks? Thanks Rick ~~

Re: security leak in ppp.log file

1999-07-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
These log messages show up because somewhere you've specified the 'debug' option. Just get rid of this option. Carel Fellinger wrote: > > Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup > never make

TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). Now I want to try to extract it. I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!! HTH Cuno Sonnemans

RE: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this possible and what is the way

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Bradley Bell
On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, > it also prints: > > "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the > system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz > by 4? no. DX4 means it is ca

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote about "TAR.GZ" > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this possible and w

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > > Now I want to try to extract it. > > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip

klogd uses excessive cycles

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: I running potato with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel. I boot my system klogd used 99% of the CPU as reported by top. What could I be doing wrong ? ( thats loaded ) Peter begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+ 416 929 1056 tel;work:1+ 416 929 1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.GenXl.com o

Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-07-01 Thread Sami Dalouche
lilo -b /dev/fd0 installs lilo on a floppy. On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now > he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT). > > It boots the whole kernel from the floppy. > >

Re: security leak in ppp.log file

1999-07-01 Thread John Hasler
> and there they are, so what did I do wrong? Nothing. A bug in pppd causes it to put the password in the log when using PAP even if you put a '\q' in front of it. Later versions of pppd fix this by adding the 'hide-password' option. Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and delete the 'debug' option. -

proftpd ?

1999-07-01 Thread tjm
Hi. I installed proftpd and used one of the default configuration scripts for anonymous login access. I can login to the ftp server on the lan, but from the outside (work), the only message I get is "Connected to (server ip)". No prompts appear for username or password and the session attempt is

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread Brad
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) > > I did almost that. Instead of res

hanging when using linload

1999-07-01 Thread Sander Balkenende
Hi, When starting (or trying to start) linux with linload from my dos partition, it hangs after some mesages about scsi (no scsi devices present on my computer). I coppied vmlinuz.36blahblah to my dos partition. below is the dos-batch file shown I use to start linload with parameters. linux.bat:

Problem with installer - please help

1999-07-01 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Hi again. Well I have decided to take the "debian challenge" and install 2.1 The only problem is when I boot up and select my media, modules etc from the bootable CDROM: I go to install lilo and am told that there is a problem with my hard disk size. This is not true as there are less than 1027

Re: Connection to localhost:25 refused

1999-07-01 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:00:23PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I > > can't connect to port 25 on localhost: > > > > [root:~] # telnet localhost 25 > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > telnet: Unable to co

Re: I/O error on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:20:01AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Does cat /dev/sndstat work? > > Check if sound is compiled in or loaded when a sound request happens > (check logs). > > Jens Ah ha. The kernel log reports the following: kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ

Networking help

1999-07-01 Thread Robert Rati
I have been having problems getting my Debian box to talk to my internal network at all, and I'm stumped as to why. None of the how-to's have helped at all. The configuration should be working and I know the ether card works because I've used it before. I can ping my box from itself, but I can't

Re: Problems changing colour depth.

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 07:50:58PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've > now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't > use a colour depth of greater than 8. I've tried running startx with > the -bpp option and it

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

1999-07-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen, > > it also prints: > > > > "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the > > system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean tha

dpkg hosed after crash

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Schmitz
A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled system that I can limp along with. I lost mostly just data, and what programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them. One that is becoming a sore spot, though, is dpkg. Whie it is able, mostly, to install ot

Re: Digest off-line?

1999-07-01 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, Raghavendra Bhat schrieb am 30. Juni 1999: > The digest is not being mailed. The digest admin's attention is drawn to > this. What is up ?? *sigh* due to an overflow from murphy, the headerfile wasn't written correctly - I just fixed it. Sorry for the problems :-( Ciao, Hanno -- | Hann

Re: New drive

1999-07-01 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt > it supports the ext2 filesystem. With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via "cp -a", so tar is not needed (if one can mount both partitions simultaneously). There i

Re: running Exim from inetd- question

1999-07-01 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running Exim from inetd now. > > I have a question. When I change exim.conf now, I don't need to restart > inetd, correct? Yes. inetd starts exim, which then runs with the new exim conf. If you manually change /etc/inetd.conf, you need to restart i

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Stephan A Suerken
Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an Ok, but I hope you don

Re: redirecting ports

1999-07-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 06:47:59PM -0700, Nate wrote: > I don't want to have to run any services on my firewall. I have on IP > address and I receive dns from the tzo services (like dhis except you > get your own domain and it's $$). > > I want to be able to run all my servers on an internal priva