Re: telnet to my machine

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:50:44PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > I have installed Debian on my computer. Surprinsingly, sometimes when I > try to stablish a telnet conection to my machine I obtain the following > message: Does reverse DNS work for your host (ie, if you look up your IP addre

Re: Debian to be too late released

1999-09-20 Thread rir
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, andreas palsson wrote: > There are two reasons, NFS and RAID. > NFS under Linux 2.2 is painfully slow, and the improved driver will not > show up until 2.4. Are there many interface changes brewing up in the changes between 2.2 to 2.4? I'd call the changes between 2.0 and

Box-box file transfer

1999-09-20 Thread j way
Is there a way to transfer files between a Slink & Win95 machine using a serial null-modem cable? I don't want to tie up two phone lines with modems. Something similar to the (msft) "Interlnk" perhaps. Tnx.

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-20 Thread John
on 19 Sep 99, Oliver Elphick wrote... >My normal approach to this is to run fsck with the -y option, to let it >answer yes to all questions; alternatively, you can answer its questions >one at a time yourself: just say yes every time, because the alternative >is correcting the disk with a binary

GID conflict, local vs. NIS

1999-09-20 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I feed off a solaris NIS server for users/groups, except root. There's a GID=100 conflict, where NIS server says it's 'devel' and (linux):/etc/group says it's 'users'. Can I safely groupdel users? I'm running current potato x86 debian. TIA! morgan -- VVV

Re: Box-box file transfer

1999-09-20 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 11:53:44AM -0700, j way wrote: > Is there a way to transfer files between a Slink & Win95 machine using a > serial null-modem cable? > I don't want to tie up two phone lines with modems. Something similar > to the (msft) "Interlnk" perhaps. Tnx. > > > -- > Unsubscribe?

apt-get: Error reading from server

1999-09-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, I just got apt 0.3.11 for i386 compiled on Aug 12 1999 00:53:49 for slink, and tried to use the cool new "build from source" capability. The relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list is deb-src http://www.debian.org/debian unstable main But I just get | # apt-get update | Get:1 http:/

Re: manual use of e2fsck to repair dev/hdbx

1999-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:27:33PM +, John wrote: > My /usr filesystem was also file-checked (I think in the normal routine > manner). I haven't seen any reference yet to, the basis on which this is > done, the 'maximal' referred to, and how and where is it set. This can be done using the t

Re: Compilation prob

1999-09-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:53:36PM +0200, Menno Scholten wrote: > Hi there, > > I don't know if this te right place to ask this question, but I'll try > anyway :) > > I am having a little trouble compiling the new Kernel. I did everything > according to the manual ( HOWTO ) and after "make config

Re: plip problems ahoy

1999-09-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:04:00PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Hi there, > I've been trying to install Debian 2.1 on my > laptop, which has no cdrom or network card. Debian's base system was > easy to install (using floppies). I've been trying to set up a PLIP > link, so I can ftp the rest of th

Re: brand spanken new user

1999-09-20 Thread John Foster
> Soul Existance wrote: > > Ok, few questions that i cant seem to find answers for > > 1) how do i access my fd0? i fdmount fd0 /floppy and it shows me the > dir one time, then i have to relog in and do it again to change > disks... _ This

Re: Sound Apps only work as root??

1999-09-20 Thread John Foster
Andrew Hately wrote: > > John Foster wrote: > > > > Sorry folks I mean the apps do not work. Sound is fine. The applications > > do not work either from xterm or from Ice-wm running Gnome. They are on > > the menus but nothing happens when I click on them. > > Did you make /dev/dsp* /dev/sequence

efax (won't dial modem)

1999-09-20 Thread NatePuri
Hi everyone! I just started to try and get efax to work. My modem is a 3Com Megahertz 56k Cellular modem (pcmcia) on /dev/ttyS2. When I try to run a test fax, efax gives me the following error host:/home/me# efax -d /dev/ttyS2 xxx testfax efax: Mon Sep 20 14:00:19 1999 efax v 0.8a (Debian

changing the modem irq

1999-09-20 Thread pplaw
debs, my modem irq is assumed to be irq=4; however, the real irq is irq=9. what's the full command line to make the change? (i typed "setserial /dev/ttyS2"; the response was, "/dev/ttyS2, uart: unknown, port: 0x03e8, irq: 4".) ia, t. bentley taylor. //

Re: Box-box file transfer

1999-09-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, j way wrote: > Is there a way to transfer files between a Slink & Win95 machine using a > serial null-modem cable? > I don't want to tie up two phone lines with modems. Something similar > to the (msft) "Interlnk" perhaps. Tnx. One way to do it would be to configure the Linu

Re: changing the modem irq

1999-09-20 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> debs, > > my modem irq is assumed to be irq=4; however, the real irq is irq=9. > what's the full command line to make the change? (i typed "setserial > /dev/ttyS2"; the response was, "/dev/ttyS2, uart: unknown, port: 0x03e8, > irq: 4".) > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq

pppd 2.3.x for slink

1999-09-20 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Do you know if there is .deb of pppd 2.3.x for slink? If yes, where? Thanks, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21

Re: Compilation prob

1999-09-20 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: > Also, teh HOWTO is too old to tell you about make menuconfig(menu based) > or make xconfig(x windows based) try them, you'lll like them. And for Debian, look into the kernel-package package. You don't have to worry

Re: efax (won't dial modem)

1999-09-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, NatePuri wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:08:28 -0700 > From: NatePuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: efax (won't dial modem) > Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:04:03 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient

Re: Sound Apps only work as root??

1999-09-20 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: > I think so. I did "chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/miver* > /dev/midi* " This opens a personal-security hole, in that anyone who can telnet/ssh into your machine can hear what the mic is picking up, and can play

Very serious problem with apt-get

1999-09-20 Thread Salman Ahmed
I posted a similar message yesterday and am posting again because I can't use "apt-get install" to install packages over the internet at all. Very serious problem. Here is an example of what is happening (after apt-get update has completed successfully) : @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] apt-get install

RE: Very serious problem with apt-get

1999-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Sep-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I posted a similar message yesterday and am posting > again because I can't use "apt-get install" to install > packages over the internet at all. Very serious > problem. When I have this problem, I just run 'apt-get check' followed by 'apt-get update' and tha

I broke apt-get

1999-09-20 Thread Salman Ahmed
Now I've done it. I deleted some files from /var/state/apt/lists/ in the hopes of solving my earlier problem and now apt-get is totally hosed : @phoenix:[/root] apt-get update Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages

Re: pppd (slink version) with kernel 2.2.X

1999-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Mario writes: > Can I run pppd (slink version) with kernel 2.2.X? You should be able to, yes. I have not been able to get any version of pppd to work with 2.2 kernels, but others have. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it wha

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