Re: Mouse configuration

Ron Stordahl wrote: > > I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks: > > Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond) > y > Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond) > /dev/psaux (since I have a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.2A P

Re: Hardware Compatibility

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > The modem will probably work as long as its not a winmodem. > > > Are there any onboard ones that aren't? Look to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html - -- finger for PGP publ

Re: #!/Perl question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 2 Sep, Jonathan Markevich wrote about "Re: #!/Perl question" > > On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:04:49AM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > >> I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix > >>

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

Is there really no-one who can help me? I've asked this question in a number of fora now and I am getting sort of desperate. It is not so much the fact that it dowsn't work, but more that there is stuff going on on my computer that no-one seems to understand... Even if you can't help me, just a

New X for stable

Hey Branden, Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and 3.3.5? TIA -- Greg.

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Kent West wrote: > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > > > The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are > happening. If you post what it tells you keys are, someone (maybe me, > more likely not :) probably knows what they m

Re: ipchains firewalling question

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:55:56AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > if you use dhcp for anything, you must enable source/destination for > > 255.255.255.255 as well as the routes for this. This caught me some time > > ago :( > I don't think I use dhcp, but I'm not really sure about PPP. When usin

Re: New X for stable

*- On 2 Sep, Greg & Heather Vence wrote about "New X for stable" > Hey Branden, > > Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the > plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and > 3.3.5? For apt: deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

*- On 2 Sep, Kent West wrote about "Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X" > Brian Servis wrote: >> >> *- On 23 Mar, Kent West wrote about "Another try - help to fix arrow keys in >> X" >> > Another try >> > >> > Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down key

Re: New X for stable

ok, two questions... I lost the original sites for apt. How can I get those back? How do I add that to the list along w/ netgod? TIA -- Greg. - Original Message - From: Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:56 PM Subject: Re

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:21:36AM +0100, Patrick Kirk was heard to state: > I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it leaves > you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier > installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving

Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

Hi gang, I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when I log off. My script in ip-up.d looks like this: #!/bin/sh /bin/su -c

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to state: > I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I > modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like > "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoying banner-site? > I've been told to use something call

RE: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote: > Hi gang, > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when > I log off. I put 'killall

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On 02-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to > state: >> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I >> modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like >> "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoying banne

Re: ipchains firewalling question

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:53:49AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Make sure you're allowing ident connections. Even if you don't answer > > them, you want to refuse connections rather than dropping the packets. > > Some systems will timeout the connection attempt. > I'm a little confused here,

Re: Mouse configuration

Ron: I am looking at "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" fifth edition from QUE. BUS A bus mouse is typically used in systems that do not have motherboard mouse port or any available serialports. The name bus mouse is derived from the fact that the mouse requires a special bus interface board that oc

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites oops!

XFMail reverted to a reply address that was wrong; I had tested spam filters with that address and when I changed it back, the change did not "take". I think I fixed it now. Sorry about that. Had a spammer using a bigfoot.com address and I was testing filters. -- Andrew

Re: New X for stable

*- On 2 Sep, Greg & Heather Vence wrote about "Re: New X for stable" > ok, two questions... > I lost the original sites for apt. How can I get those back? How do I add > that to the list along w/ netgod? > Not sure what you mean by lost the orginal sites. To add lists just edit /etc/apt/sour

Re: New X for stable

There were some sites when I first installed slink last weekend... They were lost when I first added netgod's site by answering Y to the question of apt's site list... Didn't read all the way and it was overwrite NOT edit... Doh! So where were those original sites? I live in Atlanta area so I'm

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson was heard to state: > > I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I > > modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like > > "ad.doubleclick.net" or any other annoyi

more net install

howdy guys I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other day and got it to ping my isp, but running apt-get update produces (somthing close to) the following results: get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contri

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On 03-Sep-99 Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > > Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: > ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY > ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY > You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. > This will block *any*

X server 3.3.4 is slow!

Hi! I'm running potato and just upgraded to the SVGA X server (3.3.4). I discovered that it was *extremely* slow -- the screen repaints are very noticeable and every time it repaints, it takes so much CPU that my background MP3 player (or is it the sound driver) jitters horribly. I'm using a SiS

2 cards and a dilemma

Hello everybody. After several months of work, I've persuaded the IT support people at work here to let me have a box on which I could install Debian myself for office use. Until now, it's been a question of `Which do you want: Mac or PC?' So this is something of a departure and an experiment. I'

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

*- On 2 Sep, Kent West wrote about "Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X" > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: >> >> kent kalled, >> >Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down >> keys, >> > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is >> > pre

DHCP - solved!

Many thanks to everyone who helped me getting this to work - amongst others, Seth, Mark, Phil, Jens, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. Turns out that if I tried configuring the LAN NIC first, for some strange reason dhclient would fail and would take the LAN down with it. In addition to that, i

Re: more net install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Could you please try to keep your lines less than 76 characters long? More than that and it causes annoyances with the MUAs some of us use. On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full > system going from the

Re: Mouse configuration

From: J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ron: : : I am looking at "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" fifth edition from QUE. : : BUS : A bus mouse is typically used in systems that do not have motherboard mouse port or any : available serialports. The name bus mouse is derived from the fact that the mouse : requi

Re: #!/Perl question

Hans van den Boogert wrote: > I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix > biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes > sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my > Debian system Perl was of course put in /usr/bin/p

Re: Hardware Compatibility

Colin Marquardt wrote: > > * Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > linux sound architecture). ALSA is not free, but it may support the > > sound card. > > ALSA *is* most definitely free -- in fact, it will be the Linux sound > architecture of the future. See http://www.alsa-project.o

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

> Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: > ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY > ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY > You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. > This will block *any* kind of connection to/from that site, a

Re: 2 cards and a dilemma

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The box they're offering me is a Gateway E-4200. > > Which seemed great, until I searched the debian-user archive, to head > off any hardware issues that might arise, and found (from a > conversation involving Kent West and others) that this box contains a > network

Re: New X for stable

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:37:33PM -0700, Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the > plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and > 3.3.5? Please see for the latest info

Adduser and Perl dependancy

Just trying to help out a user who was having probs with adduser, and noticed that adduser doesn't depend on anything but passwd, which only depends on libc6, which predepends on ldso, which doesn't list any type of dependancy. Nowhere is perl listed as a depends. But adduser (AFAICT) is a perl s

Re: New X for stable

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:56:50PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > For apt: > > deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ > It is not available yet! .deb there still has some bug during installation. They all depend on version 3.3.4-1 whille they are 3.3.4-0slink1. Branden will

Re: more net install

- Original Message - From: tf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:46 PM Subject: more net install : howdy guys : : I'll try to be a bit more specific. I'm attempting to get a full system going from the base slink. I just got a modem the other : day and got it to

Re: Mouse configuration

Ron Stordahl wrote: > So the prompt "ps2 - For most busmice connected to a ps/2 port" is > confusing. I did choose that and clearly I do not have a busmouse. But I > chose the "Standard" profile, which does not incorporate X. Is there a non > X application which will use the mouse? If

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On 03-Sep-99 Patrick Olson wrote: > >> Read the IPCHAINS HOWTO. I think you can do something like: >> ipchains -A input -s ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY >> ipchains -A output -d ad.doubleclick.net -j DENY >> You probably want to tailor the above to meet your needs. >> This will block *any*

Re: more net install

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I had exactly the same problem, yet I knew my network connection was > working, and I could go to another machine (MS Explorer/Win98) and get to > those http addresses just fine. I asked our network guy and he said the > problem was that our proxy server

Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has left an unknown number of packages possibly not upgraded. Slink-->potato, BTW. The long story: (the bi

Re: blink the Numlock

* Oliver Larisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how to blink the "numlock-LED" in every Linux-boot. (not only blinking, I > want > to type numbers direkt after boot ; )Windoze does !! Type man XF86Config While looking at the manpage, type /Num (case matters), and you´ll find |

Re: #!/Perl question

* Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to learn some Perl. I found an on-line book which is Unix > biased, but the scripts all start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl (which makes > sense if you have compiled and installed it yourself). However, on my > Debian system Perl was of

Re: SB PCI 128 & Volume

* Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > probably not important anyway) and the volume coming out of the card is > terribly low. Is there something I can use for software amplification? You mean a mixer? ashwork:~$ dpkg -S mix |grep bin tkmixer: /usr/bin/tkmixer xmix: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmix aumix:

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

>> What about using REJECT instead of DENY? That way the browser should >> immediately be told that the destination (in this case >> ad.doubleclick.net) >> could not be reached. > > I believe DENY would cause the browser to time out, but not right away. I > only use DENY for spam hosts/nets so t

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? If you had noted the error messages you would have known that something had failed. In that instance the best t

Re: more net install

- Original Message - From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Stordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:21 AM Subject: Re: more net install : : On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: : : > I had exactly the same problem, yet I kn

Re: more net install

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: > Jason: I was running 'apt' from dselect where it asks you for network > addresses to get the downloads from. Arn't you trying to install Debian > using the 2 binary CD's? If you do that I don't see where the opportunity > to enter what you suggest will

Executing programs with a keypress under X/wmaker

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm using the SVGA X server and WindowMaker from potato. i don't want to change window managers, so don't suggest that. I'm looking for a way to execute a command under X when certain key combinations are pressed. Specifically, i want to make something like wind

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:51:02PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 2) And why didn't the dist-upgrade not configure things initially? Would > > "dpkg --configure -a" be a better choice if it happened again? > > If you had noted the error messa

Re: Help--potato upgrade flakey with apt-get/dselect

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize up front for the length of this post, but am trying to max > the info for brave souls who may be able to help me... > > An upgrade initially using apt-get then finished with deselect has > left an unknow

Re: smbumount doesn't

aOn Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:18:35PM -, Ari Sigur?sson wrote: > if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then > perhaps a restart of samba is enough? > try > > /etc/init.d/samba > Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart} > No, this is wrong. smbmount don't need samba install

Process Limits

is there anyway of setting process limits to the users, like in +BSD's?

Re: Apache modules etc

I added the PerlHandler line, I should have thoguht of that before, but it did not fix the problem. Same error. Thanks for pointing that out though Andreas. Any other ideas? Steve At 05:08 PM 9/3/99 +0200, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >on Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Stephen Kelly wrote:

python-pygresql - files missing?

I recently compiled postgresql 6.5.1 from potato source for slink. One of the packages generated is python-pygresql_6.5.1-6_i386.deb which I installed to replace my previous version of pygresql in /usr/local. According to the README of python-pygresql the following files should be part of the dis

apology: long signature

I apologize for the long signature on my previous message about python-pygresql. I did not realize that it was that long. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbumount doesn't

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:18:35 -, you wrote: >if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then >perhaps a restart of samba is enough? Smbmount and samba are totally different things. Does umount /mountpoint work in that case? Greetings Marc -- --

RE: Video For Linux

>Does any one have any experence with video4linux, or really what I am>looking for is bttv.  I have a ADS Tech Channel surfer (w/o the radio), it>has a BT848 chip set.  I tried the drivers in the 2.2.12 kernel with out>any luck (I am using xawtv out of potato), I then grabed the latest sourc

CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

I have CVS server and client, both Debian 2.1 machines except that CVS is version 1.10 from potato. I can do cvs checkout from client vendredi, but on the server winkiller I can do all cvs stuff without problems (then CVSROOT=/var/repository). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Tasks$ echo $CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL

IMAP problems

Hello, At my work we have an slink box running imap 4.4-4, and some WinNT machines with Outlook clients. The Outlook clients connect every minute to the IMAP server to check for new mail. inetd starts an imapd process for that. For some reason, the processes never terminate; when I got to work thi

Star Office 5.1 permission problem

I've just installed star office 5.1 from the Sun site. I installed using the setup -net as root, then setup as a user. root can print (to a HP jetdirect printer which I refer to in my /etc/printcap using a rm=machine name:rp=raw: line) OK, but as a user, I can get the banner page that the printer

Apple LaserWriter IINT

Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with linux? Please CC me, Regards, Andrew Clark

HELP: need driver for epson LX 1050 matrix printer...

Hello, i just got a grip on an old matrix printer (epson LX 1050) put it at the back of my computer. Printing ascii only works fine, but when trying to print postscript or anything else, horror appears i tryed the different epson printerdrivers from the magicfilter package, but none does the

Re: Apache-SSL problem....

What else would you want to listen on port 80? apache-ssl typically listens on port 80 for normal http requests, and port 443 for https requests (though these can be changed). If you don't want it listening on port 80, change the line in httpd.conf that says "Listen ...". You can set it up only t

Re: blink the Numlock

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:00:19AM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: | > how to start staroffice 5.0 after a crash of it, without booting. I wasn't able | > as yet. | | Hmm. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? If *that* doesn´t help, read | /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.x/Documentation/sysrq.txt | (you need to hav

GID und groups ?

Hello list ! If a user was given GID 42 in /etc/passwd, does the appending of his UID to the specific group in /etc/group make ANY sense ? read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen

Re: Problem with open_1.40-10_i386.deb

My guess is, you have gotten much response because few people are familiar with that package. Out of curiousity, why would you want such a thing? -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___\__, |_|_|_/___| |___/

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

I'll assume that /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail is executable. You might try adding some paths in the script. I saw this in an example, but I'm not sure why they would be necessary. PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin export $PATH su -c 'fetchmail --quit' I recently wrote a couple tiny scripts in my ho

hardware configuration questions

I'm trying to get my new hardware completely running under Debian. So far I have encountered two problems. 1) I have no idea how to configure a PCI Soundblaster card. While this is not a major problem I'd like to eventually play music on it. Since I have no access to any recent HOWTO while playing

Debian CD in South Africa?

Where can one obtain a Debian install CD in South Africa? Dial-up download is not viable... Milo

Error in loading shared libraries

Hello Debian-users, I have the following problem when trying to run the "man" command... error in loading shared libraries: libdb2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied I have re-run ldconfig, and have re-installed libdb2 using apt-get. Can anyone shed some light on this m

Dselect problems

Hi! Dselect seems to think that there is a conflict in my package selection, something that neither apt-get or console-apt thinks. Upon trying to exit the package selection, this package conflict display appears, and I can't get away from it, because changing anything brings it back: EIOM Pri Sec

Re: Debian CD in South Africa?

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:59:30AM +0200, Milo Simonic wrote: | Where can one obtain a Debian install CD in South Africa? Dial-up download | is not viable... | | Milo If you have Credit Card I believe cheapbytes can ship you the latest Slink r2 CD set. Contact them for more info:

Re: Dselect problems

The perl to perl-5.005 transition can be problematic. However, it looks like something is wrong with your Packages.gz file(s) since the perl packages don't have section info. You might try updating the package listings again. -- ___ ___ __ _ _ __ |_ ) / -_) _` | ' \ / / \___

Re: ipchains firewalling question

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > > > Unfortunately, ipchains does not like --dport: > > The option is --destination-port. > accordingly to the man page (ipchains(8)): --destination-port [!] [port[:port]] This allows separate specifiction of the ports. S

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:53:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >> What about using REJECT instead of DENY? That way the browser should > there is something there that they are not allowed to access. They can simply > adjust their activity from a different location to see if they can gain access

NetBIOS over IPX

Hi there, we are trying to migrate our network here from the &*%$@ NT to Linux (our firts tests were enough to convince the Senior SysOp), but we have to route NetBIOS over IPX for some subnets, and we couldn't find a way to do so (nowadays we're only able to route NetBIOS over IP)... We're us

slow transmission speed

I have a strange problem on my home lan... My linux box is acting as an IP-Masquerading gateway to my cable-modem connection. I have a couple 100Mbit NICs in my machine, and a 100Mbit NIC in each of the other pcs (a win95 and win98 box). The problem is that transfers FROM my machine to either of th

Re: Netscape (wishlist/ buglist & such)

Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:46:51PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > > > - Both in the browser & in the mail subsystems, images should be loaded > > AFTER the whole text/HTML code has been loaded (and displayed) > > > > Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

See correction below! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) writes: > Hi gang, > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again w

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

Damon dabbled, > Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it > would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or > two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had > a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

On 3 Sep 1999, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm > > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as > > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when > > I log off. > > > > My script

[C|E]Tags recursively

Hi all, I want to transverse /usr/src/linux with Ctags or Etags and there isnt an option to do this. My question is: how to do this thing? Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

I have never had a problem running fetchmail from ip-up/ip-down. > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:12:56 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Francois GELIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You may also want to have a look at the file > /usr/doc/fetchmail/contrib/ip-up, which discusses some intricacies related > to runnin

securityhole in php scripts

Hi all, i played a bit with php3 and mysql to generate dynamic web-sites but i think there's a security hole, because these scripts must have read permission for others, and so every user on my system can read the source, and the user/password for the mysql database is there a way to protect these

Re: NetBIOS over IPX

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Hi there, Hi Zahn, > > we are trying to migrate our network here from the &*%$@ NT to Linux > (our firts tests were enough to convince the Senior SysOp), but we have > to route NetBIOS over IPX for some subnets, and we couldn't find a wa

Re: [C|E]Tags recursively

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: > Hi all, > I want to transverse /usr/src/linux with Ctags or Etags and there isnt >an option to do this. > My question is: how to do this thing? Something along these lines: find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | etags - should do the tr

Re: Obscure ethernet/IDE trouble

rick wrote: > "In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:" > > Greetings, > > > > I'm having bizarre troubles with the base 2.1 system (2.0.36-scsimod) on > > an Abit BP6 dual-celeron system with Triton IDE DMA chipset and twin > > 3C905 ethernet cards. After my first net access (via eth0), be it

Re: #!/Perl question

Brad writes: > One solution would be to write a makefile that detects the location > of the perl binary and then prepends the proper shebang line to the > beginning of your perl programs. Another trick is this: #! /usr/bin/env perl print "Hello, world\n"; This depends on env being in /u

Re: [C|E]Tags recursively

Hi, I tried this and it gives me a lot of warnings like this: Duplicate entry in file ./ntfs/ntfsendian.h, line 46: LE32_TO_CPU Second entry ignored Duplicate entry in file ./ntfs/ntfsendian.h, line 47: LE64_TO_CPU Second entry ignored Thanks, Paulo Henrique > Paulo

Re: CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

I'm shooting in the dark here, but when I had this type of problem, it was from doing the initial checkout as root, and later as a user who had rwx access to the source directory, but lacked read access to the root directory where the cvs key was stored (/root/.cvsignore). rick --

Re: New X for stable

Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:37:33PM -0700, Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > > Thanx for the work on X. I've got a Viper 770 and was wondering what the > > plan was for stable? I know netgod is hosting 3.3.3.x What about 3.3.4 and > > 3.3.5? > > Please see

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On 03-Sep-99 George Bonser wrote: > There is an additional difference. If someone runs a port scan against a > machine, anything that is denied will get no response. It will be as if > there > is nothing there. If you are rejecting traffic, they will be able to tell > that > there is something the

apt get breaks diald

I ran apt-get last night on Potato, and Diald now apppears broken. I installed wvdial and that is how I got online now. Since I was able to do that, I suspect pppd is not the problem, it is diald. Anyone else have this problem? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

On 03-Sep-99 Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > Isn't it the other way round? > I can remember that "DENY" means "drop packet on the floor", while > "REJECT" > means to send back an ICMP packet saying: "connection refused" > And when someone wants to connect to a port, on which nothing is > listenning, >

Re: Apple LaserWriter IINT

> Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with > linux? Was that one of the non-postscript printers? If so, ignore this :) If not, just use it as a garden variety printer. Now If only i could figure out the pins to swap on the cable to use my original DeskWriter as a

DHCPD fails after kernel configure & compile

After configuring and installing a new kernel, dhcpcd isn't obtaining an IP address anymore; it fails silently, exiting instantly after creating its process ID file. Manually setting an address with ifconfig works. Have I left out a necessary kernel option? _

RE: DHCPD fails after kernel configure & compile

What kernel are you upgrading from and to? You may need to use dhcpcd-sv instead of the stock dhcpcd. An strace might be instructive. Avi Shevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brian McGroarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 10:34 AM To: debian-user@l

Netatalk question

Can netatalk be used over a serial link? It appears to only support Ethernet connections. I have a Mac LCII that I'd love to hook up to a Linux box for Linux Demo Day, but I don't have any kind of Ethernet for a Mac. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] "C mak

Re: securityhole in php scripts

On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:31:27PM +, Robert Pintarelli wrote: > Hi all, > i played a bit with php3 and mysql to generate dynamic web-sites > but i think there's a security hole, because these scripts must > have read permission for others, and so every user on my system Make them owned by gro

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