Re: Newer LICQ?

1999-09-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Talking about icq, has anyone had luck with the latest gnomeicu? This is what I get with the latest gnomeicu: shao:/home/shao$ gnomeicu gnomeicu: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache

tar

1999-09-27 Thread zdrysdal
Hi what is needed in order to tell tar not to include specific files/directories? i am intending to copy the /home directory off of one server and onto another but i do not want to copy everything in /home. thanx

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-27 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You can modify your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and add a line > > persist. Then pppd should automatically reconnect for you. > > That's just automatic _re_-connection right? > > Fully automatic connection (like when a queued cron or at job > wak

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, You will need tar -X. You can also try something like this: find /home -type d ! -name shao -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | xargs tar cvf home.tar which will tar all the dirs in /home except the dir /home/shao. Hope this helps. Shao. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: beeps playing through pc speaker

1999-09-27 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Jim Ruby wrote: > Hi, > I would like to have all sounds play through my sound card. > > example, a very basic one, when you hit the backspace key at a shell prompt > and the system beeps through the pc speaker, how can I get that to go to > the sound card instead of the pc spe

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Miles writes: > I'm pretty sure that pppd does automatic (on-demand) _connection_ too, > but you have to have a fixed IP address (which is why I don't do it, and > thus don't really know the details). The current version does 'demand' without a fixed IP. Just give it a pair of dummy addresses and

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-99 John Hasler wrote: > Miles writes: >> I'm pretty sure that pppd does automatic (on-demand) _connection_ too, >> but you have to have a fixed IP address (which is why I don't do it, and >> thus don't really know the details). > > The current version does 'demand' without a fixed IP.

StarOffice 5.1 Limits in StarBase??

1999-09-27 Thread John Foster
I am trying to use StarBase to manage a very large database. From what I have read on their web site it should handle pretty much any size db. It seems to cease loading the db at 32000 lines. The db is about 3 times that size. I am able to manage the db with Lotus Approach, so I figured StarBase wo

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > Should I be using pppd for on-demand connections rather than diald? That's up to you. Diald has the advantage of filtering: you can control what types of packets bring up the link and set different for different sorst of packets. 'pppd demand' will bring up the link for any outg

Re: beeps playing through pc speaker

1999-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Jim Ruby wrote: > example, a very basic one, when you hit the backspace key at a shell prompt > and the system beeps through the pc speaker, how can I get that to go to > the sound card instead of the pc speaker? > > I have wavp installed and am able to play wav files and other sound files > such

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
And, the non-debian option -- /usr/src/linux/.config has all the options too, if you ran make [menu|x]config. :) On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was > used to create an installable debfile, you

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
>From man tar: --exclude FILE exclude file FILE -X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE those helpful people at gnu! ;) On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:37:59PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > what is needed in order to tell tar not t

Re: Ip Accounting ...

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Alexandre, look into the HOWTOs, they are fairly extensive. Everything you will need to know is in those. :) To get you started, you need the ipchains command. man ipchains might be enough documentation for you. Have fun :) On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:58:46PM +0200, Alexandre ARNOUD wrote: > Hi,

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread George Bonser
On 27-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: >>From man tar: > > --exclude FILE > exclude file FILE > > -X, --exclude-from FILE > exclude files listed in FILE > Can you verify that this actually works? I tried it a couple of weeks ago and it seemed to include the f

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well. it worked FUNNY. $ tar --exclude Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3 -cf - . | (cd ../temp/ && tar xvfp -) ./ ./Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3 ./Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3 ./Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3 ./Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3 ./--exclude $ ls --exclude Kraftwerk-Spac

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Jonas, what happens if you leave off the root= bit? I am getting at, boot using nothing but the rescue disk. It ought to be enough to get you to a prompt, from there you can mount /mnt /dev/hda7 and play around with things in there good luck On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:32:06AM +0200, Jonas St

Quick DNS question..

1999-09-27 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Hi guys, I know this isn't strictly debian related but i'm sure someone can help me quickly. If i've got BIND 8.1.2 running (debian 2.0) i've noticed that all zone transfers to anywhere are blocked. With the "xfernets" command I know I can allow certain hosts to do zone tranfers, but all over th

Staroffice crashing again

1999-09-27 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i just upgraded my potato today and now my staroffice is suffering from "unrecoverable errors". my question is: how do i narrow down which library is causing the problem? can i install some of slink's old libraries somewhere (like its libc6), and force soffice to use those libraries? thanks,

Problems compiling xfree 3.3.5 under slink...

1999-09-27 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, I'm currently trying to compile xfree 3.3.5 under slink. The compilation goes fine for over 1 1/2 hour, but then I get the following result. Does anyboddy know, why the compilation fails and/or how to fix this? Martin rm -f main.o gcc -c -O2 -g -ansi -pedantic-I../.. -I../../exports/inc

What did I wrong : problem with Xlib

1999-09-27 Thread franck routier
> Hi to all, > > I recently upgraded from xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-11 to xlib6g 3.3.4-2 on my > debian slink system. > > Before that, everything worked fine, especially the gdm graphical login. > Now I only get the grey screen of the X server, nothing more. > > gdm generates this log file in /var/state/g

Re: How to recover a file from a backup...

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:00:08AM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Can anyone give me a hint on how to recover the damn file. I wish I could help you, but I haven't any experience with this... But, I thought I would take the time to suggest the 'supertar' products, such as lonetar, or cta

Re: How to recover a file from a backup...

1999-09-27 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Just a quick guess, have you tried this: tar xvf /dev/st0 var/spool/mail/xxx i.e. withour the leading slash '/' Shao. Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the > following command: >

How to recover a file from a backup...

1999-09-27 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the following command: tar cvMf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail The whole thing went into 3 tapes. One of our users destroyed (a.k.a. deleted) all of his messages and now he want's them back. I know that his mai

ssh won't forward x11 connections

1999-09-27 Thread Martyn Pearce
Lukas Eppler writes: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | Hi, | | when typing | | ~$ ssh localhost kvt | | I get | | _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 101 | kvt: cannot connect to X server spy:10.0 | | This happens also when I try to connect to my machine from the outsi

Re: beeps playing through pc speaker - oplbeep

1999-09-27 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi Joey, On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 10:52:16PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > You can install the oplbeep kernel module, which replaces the normal beep > with a chime played through your sound card. wow, nice thingy, but where do i find it ? Ingo Reimann

Another quick DNS question :)

1999-09-27 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
Another one. If a name server is open to the public (in terms of zone transfers). Is it possible to do something like... nslookup server nameserver.in.question ls -t any *.com ? I know you can pick a specific domain and get the db information for it, but is there anyway to query a DNS server t

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-27 Thread Andrew Hately
tf wrote: > > hey guys, > > I might put in a 6 gig drive in place of the 1.6 gig drive I'm using > now. My current installation works fine (its me thats "broken"!). is > there a way that I can copy this hd to the new one? I only have a swap > and a root partition on this drive, and will probabl

bootup messages

1999-09-27 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
Hi, is there a way to hide the bootup messages at the screen, to direct them (the important ones like warnings and errors) to a file and to show something else on the screen meanwhile the machine starts up? I didn't find anything in the Boot-Promt HowTo nor in the init or inittab manpages (which re

libforms and xpm? Problems upgrading LyX

1999-09-27 Thread Davide Anchisi
I have LyX_0.12.0 working on my pc, installed with dpkg on a debian-slink distribution. Now I'm trying to upgrade LyX to 1.0.3 starting from sources. The problem is that when configure ends running it gives the following error message: The following problems have been detected by configure. *

ipchains patch to kernel?

1999-09-27 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
Hi i have debian 2.1, but i like to apply the ipchains patch to my system... is it advisable and is there a "debian" way to do it? or should i wait for debian 2.2 and do everything with ipfwadm now? (but that sounds like doing the same thing twice) B

Re: Fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed

1999-09-27 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
The fully qualified name of my linux box is evolution.bilten.metu.edu.tr Here is what I have in /etc/exim.conf local_domains = localhost:evolution:evolution.bilten.metu.edu.tr sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_host_reject_relay_except = localhost

libgnome32 1.0.16 where ?

1999-09-27 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi gurus :-) what happened with gnome? since friday, some packages require ( for instance gdm ): gdm depends on libgnome32 (>= 1.0.16-0.1) gdm depends on libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.0.16-0.1) gdm depends on libart2 (>= 1.0.16-0.1) gdm depends on libgnomeui32 (>= 1.0.16-0.1) but available is only ve

HP 890C printing

1999-09-27 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I got hold of an HP 890C colour deskjet printer. However, I can't print to it. I'm using the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin 5.50, and according to the man page, it should print flawlessly. I am aware that other drivers are available for this printer, but this would need a re-compilation of g

Re: Problems compiling xfree 3.3.5 under slink...

1999-09-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:41:13 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > I'm currently trying to compile xfree 3.3.5 under slink. Branden has made package of at least 3.3.4 for slink; see http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ (I haven't checked if the 3.3.5 tree is for slink as well). > gcc -o xterm -O2 -g -an

Re: Dialin question

1999-09-27 Thread John Hasler
Douglas Eck writes: > On demand > 1) dial *72 - xxx- to forward calls. Wait 2 sec on answer. Hangup > 2) dial *72 - xxx- again to complete the forward. (Calling only once > doesn't work with US West's call forwarding unless the forwarded phone > answers) > 3) dial my isp and log in > On

Re: libforms and xpm? Problems upgrading LyX

1999-09-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:08:49 +0200, Davide Anchisi wrote: > I have LyX_0.12.0 working on my pc, installed with dpkg on a > debian-slink distribution. > Now I'm trying to upgrade LyX to 1.0.3 starting from sources. Have you tried using the debianised sources from unstable? > I checked with dpk

Re: libgnome32 1.0.16 where ?

1999-09-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:32:01 +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > what happened with gnome? since friday, some packages require ( for > instance gdm ): > > gdm depends on libgnome32 (>= 1.0.16-0.1) These library packages are currently stuck in Incoming; get them from an Incoming mirror: ftp:/

HP 890C printing

1999-09-27 Thread Martyn Pearce
Jose L Gomez Dans writes: | Hi! | I got hold of an HP 890C colour deskjet printer. However, I can't | print to it. I'm using the hpdj driver in gs-aladdin 5.50, and according to | the man page, it should print flawlessly. I am aware that other drivers are | available for this printer, but th

Re: xinetd problems

1999-09-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:32:27AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using xinetd because it can bind services to certain network interfaces. > BUT, I'm not able to get it to bind *one* service to *two* interfaces (out > of three). How do I do that? > > I can't specify the service twice

ncftp in potato?

1999-09-27 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! Why is there no ncftp 3.0.0 (beta) in potato/unstable? In slink there was a 3.0.0 beta14, and as far as I know there is a beta18 out. Sigh, please dont say ncftp gone commercial? /Marcus

Re: libgnome32 1.0.16 where ?

1999-09-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:02:34PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:32:01 +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > what happened with gnome? since friday, some packages require ( for > These library packages are currently stuck in Incoming; get them from an I just want to ask:

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-27 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Not answering but asking :-| How could I get a list of needed packages for a dist-upgrade without downloading it over dial-up? I'll explain: suppose I want to upgrade my slink system. My connection is a 56k (old fashioned too). It's impossible to do this over dial-up.

Mixing binary installation with installation from source code

1999-09-27 Thread Thomas Epperly
I am relatively new to Linux, so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question. I am wondering how Debian's installation system (apt) handles situations where you go back and forth from installation from a binary .deb distribution and installing from a tarball source distribution. I have a p

Re: libgnome32 1.0.16 where ?

1999-09-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 12:38:58 +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > I just want to ask: what is the whole Incoming thing? Incoming is an FTP area on an internal Debian server. > why does it take for the packages to go from Incoming to usual archive? > Aren't they moved automatically? Existing packag

Re: ssh won't forward x11 connections [solved]

1999-09-27 Thread Lukas Eppler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there! Thank you very much for your help. I had to do something which I would consider a quick fix: placing my own hostname in /etc/hosts as localhost, i.e. added 'spy' in 127.0.0.1 localhost spy This is not a nice method, I suppose? But who else than me w

Re: tar

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
George Bonser wrote: > On 27-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: > >>From man tar: > > > > --exclude FILE > > exclude file FILE > > > > -X, --exclude-from FILE > > exclude files listed in FILE > > > > Can you verify that this actually works? I tried it a coupl

Re: How to recover a file from a backup...

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Good advice. When you can't find a file on a tape, try _listing_ the files on the tape and then list the path exactly as it reported it. Omitting the leading slash is the right thing to try. Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Just a quick guess, have you tried this: > > tar xvf /dev/st0 va

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andrew Hately wrote: > Then from /mnt try something like > # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - Use the -p option on tar, or be prepared for lots of directories and files with improper permissions (mail problems, etc).

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

1999-09-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Sep, Jonas Steverud wrote about "Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely" > Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Jonas, what happens if you leave off the root= bit? >> >> I am getting at, boot using nothing but the rescue disk. It ought to be >> enough to get you

Re: Problems compiling xfree 3.3.5 under slink...

1999-09-27 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:41:13 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > I'm currently trying to compile xfree 3.3.5 under slink. > > Branden has made package of at least 3.3.4 for slink; see > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ (I haven't checked if the 3.3.5 tree is > for slink as well). > ... I

RE: help getting LILO unstuck

1999-09-27 Thread Daniels, Craig
Thanks for your help and pointing me in the right direction. It was a kernel problem. Replacing the 2.2.12 kernel I built with the official 2.2.10 package seems to have fixed the problem. Craig > -- > From: Martin Fluch > Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:06 PM > To: D

Netscape Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
Dear List, Netscape is driving me crazy! Images don't show up if auto-loading of images is on. If it is off, I have to press the image load button repeatedly to load the images one by one -- where it's supposed to load all images at once. Also, Netscape frequently gives an internal error "Can't

bind

1999-09-27 Thread Jeff Beley
Do the bind an dhcp servers in potato support dynamic dns? -- we embrace technology, we learn from it, we use it, and we exploit it. technology is a very powerful tool, as is knowledge, but some people go beyond these boundaries, testing limits, finding new ways and ideas... we call these people

suidregister problem with apt-get upgrade

1999-09-27 Thread Tomislav Renic
Here's a problem for you guys... I tried apt-get update; upgrade this morning on a potato system, and when it came time to install the libc6 package, it exited with an error, telling me that the error came from the postinst script. Apparently suidregister returned "permission denied". Here's

Re: suidregister problem with apt-get upgrade

1999-09-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:42:03AM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: > > Here's a problem for you guys... > > I tried apt-get update; upgrade this morning on a potato system, and when it > came time to install the libc6 package, it exited with an error, telling me > that the error came from the post

Re: bind

1999-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Do the bind an dhcp servers in potato support dynamic dns? Bind does - it has since (I think) the beginning of the 8.x.y series. The ISC DHCP server in potato (2.0 I think) doesn't. However, I do have a perl script I found that reads i

Smail/runq problem after installing Netscape

1999-09-27 Thread David Kanter
After installing Netscape 4.61, via dselect using Slink, a message came up during the configuration of the packages that smail might have to be restarted . So I let smail restart. However, now when I run fetchmail I must runq in order for smail to pick up the mail fetchmail received and get it

Re: suidregister problem with apt-get upgrade

1999-09-27 Thread umrenic2
> You got bit by a bug in dpkg. Simply chmod 755 /usr/bin/perl* and then > start apt-get again. This bug is fixed in the latest dpkg, so it shouldn't > happen again. > > Ben Thanks alot Ben. It worked like a charm. I guess I should have looked at the bug reports a bit closer...Lazy me... Th

Re: apt-get and http proxy failure

1999-09-27 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > If I use an environment variable http_proxy, apt does use the specified > > proxy. > > Include the whole config file - betcha have a no proxy setting. [badlands:/u/download 0]$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

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

1999-09-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright writes: > > BUT as a "server", i.e. an internet-connected box that I dial into, the > > ARP won't work properly (it won't publish the fact that its interface is > > accepting packets for the machines dialling in). > > Has this bug been report

Re: ncftp in potato?

1999-09-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
The license for libncftp (part of the newer versions of ncftp) prevents it from being included in Debian. You can still get the source and self-compile. Bob On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:29:49PM +0200, Marcus Johansson wrote: > > Hi! > > Why is there no ncftp 3.0.0 (beta) in potato/unstable? >

KDE don't run

1999-09-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I just remember to change the theme this night before leaving KDE 1.1.2 (slink). Today, it refuse to run: the msgs begin to scroll, it switch to graphic mode, the gray screen's here, the icons are printed, the hi & lo bars are drawned, but when it begins to draw the first window (the one

Tripp Lite UPS

1999-09-27 Thread markzimm
Greetings: I have a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 UPS and I want to set up a power monitoring daemon. Tripp Lite has an rpm package (no source) for this but it requires a tweak to the kernel to get it working. Before I do this, I wanted to find out if anyone has tried setting up power monitoring

Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

1999-09-27 Thread Sami Dalouche
hey, On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:37:19PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > I ended up creating a good (I think) sources.list file for apt-get ftp, > so I wanted to share it with the group in case it could benefit anyone > else, especially those to whom non-us.debian.org seems to have > dropped off the map

dhcpcd error "sendto (init): Operation not permitted"

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Ruvolo
Hello all.. I have a slink box up and running pretty well with the exception of dhcp. The purpose of this box is to act as a masquerader / gateway between our lan and our cable modem. I originally thought it might be a hardware problem, but I was able to switch which NIC was configured for

Re: Tripp Lite UPS

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 UPS and I want to set up a power > monitoring daemon. Tripp Lite has an rpm package (no source) [cut] > In partucular, I'd like to know if anyone has tried their software Sorry, I have not. >

Re: dhcpcd error "sendto (init): Operation not permitted"

1999-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello all.. > > I have a slink box up and running pretty well with the exception of > dhcp. The purpose of this box is to act as a masquerader / gateway between > our lan and our cable modem. > > I originally thought it might be a h

Gnome

1999-09-27 Thread Mats Johansson
Hi How has the GNOME mainter think in potato when the packages gnome-session depends on dont exit? //Mats

Re: Gnome

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mats Johansson wrote: > Hi How has the GNOME mainter think in potato when the packages > gnome-session depends on dont exit? If I can parse your non-sentence... It's not completely his fault. The packages are probably sitting in incoming: $ cd /home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming/

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-27 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Seth R Arnold wrote: > > When i had my S3 Virge/vx, I never once got the SVGA server to work. Try the > s3v server. And, I think the fb server requires kernel 2.2.x or so. I already tried s3v server and it didn't work. I'm using an S3 Trio instead of an S3 Virge. I'm using the kernel 2.2.12 - I

Re: hd to hd copy?

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote: > # ( cd / ; tar cf - bin boot dev lib sbin usr var ) | tar xf - xfp - -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/

null password

1999-09-27 Thread Bob C. Ruddy
I am setting up an old SparIPC to run debian linux. The main function of this machine to provide ppp login service. I have a user 'ppp' that I need to be able to login without a password. The authentication is then done with pap. The default shell for 'ppp' is then /usr/sbin/pppd. '/usr/sbin/pppd'

Re: null password

1999-09-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:17:13PM -0400, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: > I am setting up an old SparIPC to run debian linux. The main function of > this machine to provide ppp login service. I have a user 'ppp' that I need > to be able to login without a password. The authentication is then done > with pap.

Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-27 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I'd like to connect my slink box to my W95 machine over a serial cable. If anyone knows a more or less comfortable way to do this, please let me know. Best solution was of course some network emulation, but I think this isn't possible. Kind Regards, and thanks for any reply, Stephan Hac

Netscape problem writting data

1999-09-27 Thread Smith, Brian N.
All I seem to have developed a problem with Netscape writing to the hard drive (it was working at one time) I have tried various combinations of 4.5 and 4.61 with lib 5 etc but cannot get rid of the inability to save data. Help appreciated. Brian Smith

After running X, no console

1999-09-27 Thread debian
Dear All: When i boot my system, the text console and all the virtual ttys work just fine. When i start X, and then try to switch to a virtual tty, the virtual tty just has a flashing underscore as a cursor, but text (the logon prompt and anything i write) is not visible. From watching the cursor

Boot/Installation problem i386 slink

1999-09-27 Thread Richard Turner
I'm trying to install Debian on a PC-based system.  The mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-586HX rev. 1.56 with a Cyrix 6x86 PR150+ cpu.  A Novell/Anthem NE2000 network card, a p'n'p V90/k56 flex modem (Not a win modem as far as I can tell) based on PCI Rockwell chips, an S3 Trio 64V+ PCI video card

Re: Serial connection to windoze box

1999-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hello! > > I'd like to connect my slink box to my W95 machine over a serial cable. If > anyone knows a more or less comfortable way to do this, please let me know. > > Best solution was of course some network emulation, but I think thi

slrn and newsgroup descriptions

1999-09-27 Thread peter karlsson
How do I get slrn to show the newsgroup descriptions? I have set % if non-zero, show description of newsgroup if available set show_descriptions 1 % column where group descriptions start set group_dsc_start_column 40 in my .slrnrc, but they won't show up when I run slrn. I have descriptions i

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

1999-09-27 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks for all the replies. This mailing list is the best place to learn linux! Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzbu

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' > Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the > examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect > to adjust the original installation (for some

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

1999-09-27 Thread peter karlsson
Jonas Steverud: > (none) login: root > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred My guess is that y

netmask question

1999-09-27 Thread Pollywog
If this is the wrong place to ask this question, just let me know. I installed a script that configures ipchains for me, and it gives me some error messages about an incorrect netmask, but the author of the script told me the error messages are in error because his script "groks" the netmask from

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-27 Thread peter karlsson
B. Szyszka: > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on

rsh - permission denied

1999-09-27 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I have added the machines name into .rhosts file but i still get a "permission denied" mesage when trying to rsh -l It's just strange that this particular PC is having problems whereas rsh works fine on the rest. Is there any other validation file that i need to change apart from .rhosts

Re: xinetd problems

1999-09-27 Thread peter karlsson
> > I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), > Use `id' tag - different in any service definition Well, the problem is that the id number is the port from /etc/services, and there is only one id per port. > This is socket interface limitation (not only xinetd) you can bi

CVS setup and administration

1999-09-27 Thread Salman Ahmed
I am trying to determine what the best way is to manage and setup CVS on a slink box. I want to be able to put into CVS: (1) system configuration files found in /etc (2) files found in user A's home dir (/home/A). (3) entire directories with files say /home/B/src/ Currently, I have created a

RE: netmask question

1999-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > If this is the wrong place to ask this question, just let me know. > > I installed a script that configures ipchains for me, and it gives me > some > error messages about an incorrect netmask, but the author of the script > told me the error messages are in error be

Segitseg !

1999-09-27 Thread Soos Zoltan
Udvozlok Mindenkit ! Segitseget kerek mindazoktol akik szabad energiaval rendelkeznek ahhoz, hogy egy kezdo Linuxos egyent hasznos tanacsokkal lassanak el. Szerettem volna telepiteni a Debian GNU Linux 2.1 verziojat ( Chip-tar 1999. ) de mivel nem tudok angolul es Linuxot sem hasznaltam soha v

Re: Mixing binary installation with installation from source code

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Tom, if you throw things in /usr/local, apt (as well as dpkg, dselect, etc..) promise to leave those things alone. The gnome configure script probably supports --prefix=/usr/local -- that doesn't mean it will be seamless, but it shouldn't be too bad. :) On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Th

Re: Staroffice crashing again

1999-09-27 Thread leckert
Paul Harris wrote: > > hi, > > i just upgraded my potato today and now my staroffice is suffering from > "unrecoverable errors". my question is: how do i narrow down which library > is causing the problem? can i install some of slink's old libraries > somewhere (like its libc6), and force soffice

Re: dhcpcd error "sendto (init): Operation not permitted"

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Chris -- try giving eth0 an IP address. I *think* that *may* have helped me. Also, replace dhcpcd with dhcp-client-beta. See what that does. :) Try that one first. :) On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 12:33:06PM -0400, Chris Ruvolo wrote: > Hello all.. > > I have a slink box up and running pretty well wit

Re: S3 AGP Trio3D2x and X servers (SVGA vs FBDev)

1999-09-27 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > I've tried XFree 3.3.5 but it dosn't work for me too. Try Xserver 3.3.4 > from www.xfree86.org or packaged for Debian from: > > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ > > (but server from xfree website works for me better than from deb package). None o

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:09:13PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Jonas Steverud: > > > (none) login: root > > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred > > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate >

Re: Problems compiling xfree 3.3.5 under slink...

1999-09-27 Thread Martin Fluch
I've got the tip to change the LIBC6MINORVERSION_default in debian/rules from 1 to 0, since I want to link xfree against the glibc 2.0 instead 2.1 ... this works now fine now. And after the second compilation aported after 6 1/2 hours (on a Pentium MMX 233) I had a look at debian/README.source-dep

Installing on lap top

1999-09-27 Thread lib
I am trying to install Debian 2.1 using a rescue disk on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 laptop. I made the rescue disk with RAWRITE2.EXE. After the boot messages with all the dots (...), the system shuts down. The system previously ran Windows 95 with some boot loader that let me specify a

Re: Problems compiling xfree 3.3.5 under slink...

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:19:11AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > MMX 233) I had a look at debian/README.source-depends (can anybody tell > me, why README files are called README? :-), installed the missing Well, the name "readme" is a command, telling you to read whatever 'me' is. That part isn't s

Re: Installing on lap top

1999-09-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Sep, lib wrote about "Installing on lap top" > I am trying to install Debian 2.1 using a rescue disk on a Toshiba Satellite > Pro 440 laptop. I made the rescue disk with RAWRITE2.EXE. After the boot > messages with all the dots (...), the system shuts down. The system > previous

Re: Installing on lap top

1999-09-27 Thread Pollywog
On 27-Sep-99 Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 27 Sep, lib wrote about "Installing on lap top" >> I am trying to install Debian 2.1 using a rescue disk on a Toshiba >> Satellite >> Pro 440 laptop. I made the rescue disk with RAWRITE2.EXE. After the >> boot >> messages with all the dots (...), th

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-27 Thread Stephen R. Gore
peter karlsson wrote: > B. Szyszka: > > > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > > running into some error messages: > > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > > That's *usually*¹ a sign

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