Re: Error using apt-get install

1999-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or > directory > dpkg: error processing ntpdate (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit stat

Re: Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

1999-10-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I got binary distribution of Netscape Communicator 4.61 version for Linux 2.0, > export encription standard from ftp.netscape.com. Please note that there are several differnet versions of Netscape for Linux. In particular, there's a libc5-based versi

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Oki DZ
Ben Collins wrote: > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap and > they > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them > anything truly worthwhile in return. Hi, what about a free office suite? It's somekind of a return, isn't it?

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Dave Baker
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > and they > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > Hi, what about a free off

Re: Error using apt-get install

1999-10-26 Thread David J. Kanter
I tried this, but I still get the same error. Any other ideas? Thanks. On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:00:31PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpd

potato boot hung at "Starting printer spooler:"

1999-10-26 Thread Art Lemasters
My potato system is stopping for a very long time at Starting printer spooler: then, after 15 minutes or so, "1999-10-25-18:05:08.036 Get_local_host: hostname 'heart' bad" it spits out a few more lines, then hangs for half an hour or so at: Starting Samba daemons: nmbd then indefinitely at smb

Re: Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark M wrote: > > Hi, > > Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the > unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. > > However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable > even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. > > Perhaps this is the reason for the conflic

best way of backing up to tape?

1999-10-26 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I have a DEC TZ87 SCSI tape drive and I want to use it for backing up. What would be the best way of backing files up to it? Each tape can hold 10GB/20GB (normal/compressed) and I will be backing up about 4GB worth of files. Something else I would like is something that is fairly easy to

Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 question

1999-10-26 Thread Cliff Rice
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:55:44AM +, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > > Just a thought, but is it an Awe64 Value? If so, the ram is only 512k. I > seem to > remember somewhere in the distant past something about the Awe driver > sometimes not > getting the ram size right. > > This part you uncom

installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread Pollywog
Will I have any problems installing StarOffice 5.1a on a glibc2 system? Any special instructions? I followed the instructions that come with the tarball once and messed up my system, and I ignored part of the instructions the next time and all went well. -- Andrew - G

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Ron Farrer
John Carline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C program I wrote some 6 > years > ago in microsoft C into linux. I just have to echo this question. > > Is there no linux specific/best book that covers gcc and g++. One that > includes all > the st

Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE64 question

1999-10-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Cliff Rice wrote: [ snip ] : Thanks for the help. I went and looked at the potato dist. It has : the raplayer and such as well. I need those as well. So. I'm : downloading the dist at present and will install it where I used : to have Redhat. (Being new, don't wa

Re: FTP and telnet SOLVED

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Burkitt
At 02:34 99.10.23 -0700, aphro wrote: check to see if there is anything in /etc/hosts.deny At 01:18 99.10.23 -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. At 00:24 99.10.23 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

Re: Netscape 4.5 has black icons...

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Andrew Clark wrote: > I run X in 24bit colour and netscape has black icons, if I run in 16bit > colour, netscape has nice colourful icons, is there anyway to get the > coloured icons running in 24bit or is netscape 4.5 broken? > > Regards, > Andrew Clark. > > pls CC me Andrew, Netscape just

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

1999-10-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
What you'all don't count from zero? Okay, add one then... -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++

/var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread clread
I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> Debian 2.1, and reconfigured ppp.  It works, but now /var/log/ppp.log does not at all reflect what is happening during the ppp exchange.   Where's the new log file for ppp?   Thanks, Charlie  

hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my machine is rebooted in an init script or something?? thanx

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. Andrew > Hi all > > i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however do not > know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 does not > seem to work. Should i jus

Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got this from the win95 previous installation). I had been able to install and read before from the cdrom, by just not entering any command line, after which

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:02:20PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have set a few hdparm settings to tune up my ide drive.. i however > do not know how to make those settings permanent as setting switch -k1 > does not seem to work. Should i just set the settings everytime my > machine is rebo

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> Debian 2.1, and reconfigured ppp. How? > It works, but now /var/log/ppp.log does not at all reflect what is > happening during the ppp exchange. Do you have 'debug' on? > Where's the new log file for ppp? No change. -- John Hasler

when will potato become stable?

1999-10-26 Thread jack
hi, there: I am now using redhat. Recently, I upgraded it to rh6.1 and found it really sucks. I think redhat is heading to a wrong direction -- maybe too much commercial. So, I am considering to switch to debian. When will potato be finally released? That day will be the day I say goodbye t

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Will I have any problems installing StarOffice 5.1a on a glibc2 system? None what-so-ever. It installed very cleanly on a stock slink install+security updates. > Any special instructions? I followed the instructions that come with th

fetchmail and pine, for a RHL user!

1999-10-26 Thread Mohammad S Sharawi
Hi, I've got a RHL 6.0 OS, with fetchmail on it.(i'm new to linux) Well i'm having problems configuring pine to access my pop3 account. so i was thinking if i can solve this problem by using fetchmail to get my masseges, and store them in the inbox of my pine. is that possible? and if yes, How?

fetchmail and pine, for a RHL user!

1999-10-26 Thread Mohammad S Sharawi
Hi, I've got a RHL 6.0 OS, with fetchmail on it.(i'm new to linux) Well i'm having problems configuring pine to access my pop3 account. so i was thinking if i can solve this problem by using fetchmail to get my masseges, and store them in the inbox of my pine. is that possible? and if yes, How?

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread John Foster
Oki DZ wrote: > > Ben Collins wrote: > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > and they > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > Hi, what about a free office suite? It's som

Re: when will potato become stable?

1999-10-26 Thread John Foster
jack wrote: > > hi, there: > > I am now using redhat. Recently, I upgraded it to rh6.1 and found it > really sucks. I think redhat is heading to a wrong direction -- maybe too > much commercial. So, I am considering to switch to debian. > > When will potato be finally released? That day will

Re: kernel causing mild panic

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
make modules ; make modules_install from the kernel source tree .. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operationshttp://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett,

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
i just installed star office 5.1 (5.1a?? just d/l it a few days ago) on debian 2.1 (slink) with no trouble. it was a clean install of slink. wish i could figure out what to install to give java support though(or what the java support would do if i had it) installing the jdk didnt seem to work. na

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
most of my PPP activity shows up in messages and syslog. i setup my ppp with pppconfig. (running slink) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operationshttp://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http:

Re: when will potato become stable?

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
you have to use redhat to use 2.2 ? i've been using slink since around kernel 2.1.90 (used slackware before that). i heard redhat was crap, the closest i've ever gotten to a 'redhat' system was linuxppc (which i couldnt get installed). nothin stoppin you from running 2.2 on slink. although i dem

Re: fetchmail and pine, for a RHL user!

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
fetchmail resends the mail through the local MTA. if your local SMTP server is broken(try mailing yourself) then the mail won't get delievered. if it helps this is a sample of the fetchmailrc i use for my users: -- set daemon 300 defaults user MYUSERID is MYUSERID fetchmail-friends magi

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: > [cut again ...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C program I > wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I just have to > echo this question. Is there no linux specific/best book that > covers gcc an

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Stephan Engelke
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: > Stephan Engelke wrote: > > > How 'bout "Kerninghan, Ritchie: The C Programming Language". Sorry, > > forgot the publisher. > > There's a score of other good, allright, and bad books around. Check > > your local bookstore. > After s

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-26 Thread Brian May
Thanks for all the responses. So far it seems that slrn and Gnus are the most popular, and Gnus is the most feature rich (which comes at a disadvantage - how do you remember which feature you need to use and when to use it?). On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:55:03AM +, George Bonser wrote: > I use t

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > > and they > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > them > > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > >

Re: when will potato become stable?

1999-10-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, jack wrote: > When will potato be finally released? That day will be the day I say > goodbye to redhat. So far, I have to stay with it, cause I need 2.2 > kernel. Its no problem to use the latest kernels as soon as they appare on ftp.kernel.org ... there are also packages

Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Nixdorf
hallo, I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)? Thanks Best Regards Lars -- Lars NixdorfPl

paste appears to be disabled

1999-10-26 Thread Brett Shand
Hi I have gpm running and at the console it is functioning perfectly. In wmaker (in any of the xshells) it appears to be functioning properly in everything except it wont paste I have tried killing gpm (sudo gpm -k), and I have tried it with various options all to no avail. It wont paste. My /

Re: Mutt and /var/spool/mail

1999-10-26 Thread Paul
> > Try changing the ownership of /var/spool/mail/paul from mail to paul. > > E.g. (as root): > > chgrp paul /var/spool/mail/paul Thanks again. ls -ld /var/spool/mail/paul now says: -rw-rw 1 paul paul 422603 Oct 23 12:16 /var/spool/mail/paul But mutt still says the mai

Re: I messed up my resolution.

1999-10-26 Thread Onno
>> Boot from your rescue flop, edit your /etc/inittab file and >> change the line: >> id:5:initdefault: >> to: >> id:3:initdefault: > I don't believe this will work on a Debian system by default, since Debian > by default doesn't make any differences between runlevels 2-5. Are you by > any chan

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o "exim -qf")

1999-10-26 Thread David Karlin
Hi, I've been reconfiguring my mail server (Exim/slink). Now, when I send email to the internet, it seems to sit in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by "exim -qf" but it used to just go out right away, which was more convenient to me. I'm pretty sure that something got change

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from > > runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. > > Andrew > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in sc

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: > hallo, > > I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? > Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file > to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)?

Re: Sendmail 8.10.0.Beta6 (slated for experimental)

1999-10-26 Thread Adam Shand
> * SASL isn't compiled in, my notes/temp package are at work ;-{ > I hope to get this (SMTP auth) going ASAP. have you found any docs on doing this and making it work? i downloaded the tar ball from sendmail.org the other day and any mention of smtp auth seemed quite missing. am i just

Re: ATI Mach64 mouse woes!

1999-10-26 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:00:31PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > [...] > > Does any one know what might be happening? I'd be more than happy to > > provide you with further information (file listings and stuff like that). > > The m

Re: getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o "exim -qf")

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:42:15AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by > "exim -qf" but it used to just go out right away, which was > more convenient to me. > > Can anyone tell me what I need to change so mail will clear > out from the queue r

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > > Yummi, > > could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I > didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a

Eterm 0.9

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Lutgens
Hey all, word to the wise, should you upgrade to Eterm0.9 from the cvs deb site, it doesn't seem to read the cfg files properly. i.e. telling you that shade is not valid in context color. and the like. Linkwise menubars don't work either.

Urgent Problem regarding Database Connectivity with Oracle

1999-10-26 Thread cilnet
Dear SirDated : 26/10/1999 We have Oracle 7.3 installed at our place. I want to connect java version jdk1.2 to this Oracle database. Can you kindly reply me how to connect java with Oracle 7.3 in this case ? I will be extremely grateful to

Rescue floppy

1999-10-26 Thread Louis Poncet
My floppy doesn't support the new 2930 Adaptec scsi adapter. Is there someone who can help me. -- - Louis Poncet Administrateur sytème [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread Godric
Hi. I received the following error while using fetchmail on a new slink 2.1 install with exim: realloc failed:cannot allocate memory. Can anyone please tell me what this means and what should be done? I used the fetchmail -vv option to find the message, and have run fetchmail both as root and using

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Pollywog wrote: > > Will I have any problems installing StarOffice 5.1a on a glibc2 system? > Any special instructions? I followed the instructions that come with the > tarball once and messed up my system, and I ignored part of the instructions > the next time and all went well. The ot

Re: Warning: Q < 10.66666667

1999-10-26 Thread peter karlsson
Sebastian Stark: > what means Q in the last lines ?? I use debian 2.1 I get the same thing, but it works anyway. Some kind of incompatibility. I filed a bug report about it some time ago (#43685), but haven't got any response as of yet. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Effortless is one word I wouldn't use to describe the move to the 2.2 kernel. Can anyone suggest why lsmod shows nothing, why I can't load the tulip module or what I need to do to add a route for 10. Thanks in advance. enterprise:~# cat /proc/modules enterprise:~# route add -net 10.0.0.

Re: kernel causing mild panic

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks - that worked!

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
The problems come from the modutils package and the PATH. When I installed the 'buggy' package, I saw a message about the line PATH in the conf.modules file. The syntaxe of the line has changed from PATH[fs]=/lib/module/2.2.12 to PATH[fs]=/lib/module/2.2.12/fs (I'm not sure of the correct syntaxe,

Re: Something wrong with potato modutils

1999-10-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Danjean wrote: > What was wrong is that the default paths have not been changed. To solve > the problem, we just have to add the correct default paths in > /etc/modutils/path, do update-modules, depmod -a, and all is good. In that case you didn't read what modutils tells you whe

isdnutil causes kernel panic

1999-10-26 Thread Timo Kabsch
Hello around, i have just installed Debian Slink an my system and wanna try an online update via isdn. So i installed isdnutils and the newest kernel (2.2.12). Now, the system gets a kernel panic (killing interrupt handler, it sais, and a lot of digits). Whats wrong? Thanx. Timo Kabsch

Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am running 2.0.38 on slink. I downloaded the kernel tarball and unpacked it in my /usr/src directory. I then renamed the resulting 'linux' directory to 'kernel-source-2.0.38' and created a symlink 'linux->kernel-source-2.0.38'. I ran 'make menuconfig' (but you might prefer make config or make

[no subject]

1999-10-26 Thread daphne ledwaba
Hi   My name is daphne,I am working in the IT department where i am doing network support,My problem is Part of our clients are running Unix.Let me make a short scenario   A pc tha is running windows 95,There is also telnet running from this machine so that users can work on unix environmen

Fw: help for pointers

1999-10-26 Thread venu
hi all heres a nice query from a friend >where can i find an utility which can account for bandwidth usage of each of >the sites hosted on one web server with only one ip address can we help him ? http logs ?? and then he is bound to ask about "controlling" so ip route ? tc ? solutions ???

gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Richard Clarke
Hi, I have my debbox, set up so that exim delivers local mail, and I can run fetchmail to retrieve pop3 mail to a local mailbox. I now wish to be able to download this mail to my winbox on the internal network. I installed gnu-pop3d and added it to inetd.conf, and I can telnet to port 110 just

Looking for a good and simple FTP Server

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Hi I want to set up a simple but good FTP Server. Can you tell me which one is good? Having problems with ProFTPd. Thx Alexander P. Barkey

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > most of my PPP activity shows up in messages and syslog. Pppd is compiled to log through syslog with facility daemon and level debug. It's up to syslog to decide what to do with the messages. They show up in 'messages' and 'syslog' as well as 'ppp.log'. > i setup my ppp with p

HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 24 de oct de 1999, a las 07:28:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge dijo: > J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libcrypt.so (No such file or > > direc

changing install path of .debs

1999-10-26 Thread shadgun
So here's a good one... How does one go about changing the install path of .debs? The intention is to: -install gcc & friends on a partition that I can mount/umount when needed -do a chroot for ftp/sendmail/http/dns If I mangle the install path with dpkg, will I have to manually update these pa

RE: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: [...] > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > just have to echo this question. This sort of question pops up on the C newsgroups and mailing lists a

connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I would like something more full-featured. Any recomm

Re: question about this mailing list

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 03:31:07PM -0600, jh wrote: > I am going on vacation. In order to stop mail while I am away do I need to > completely unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when I return? Yes. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardi

Incomplete CD included with Debian GNU/Linux - Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Butler
Hi, A friend of mine recently got hold of above book. Very nice, step-by-step installation instructions. Unfortunatly, the CD is incomplete. It doesn't include half the base system. More importantly, it doesn't include the installation disks! Perhaps someone involved with the project should get

RE: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Oct-99 Philip Lehman wrote: > I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs > (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the > day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. > > At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I would

Re: HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: >I updated libncurses4, libncurses4-dev, libreadlineg2_2.1-13.6 >(bash_2.02.1-1.8) as well now, but I'm having trouble since libc6-dev >conflicts with libstdc++2.9-dev: [...] >Fine, so I try to deinstall libstdc++2.9-dev but: > >h0rus:/tmp# dpkg --purge lib

shell account

1999-10-26 Thread tf
hey guys, I just got a free shell account at sdf.lonestar.org. I've never messed with anything like this before, and could use some zmodem advice. I just installed the lrzsz package. Um, should I upload files from my box, or from the remote computer? sorry, I'm clueless. Is there a ultility I

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
not a problem if you do that. i've done htat the whole time i've used debian, never used the .deb's for kernels always grabbed the .tar.bz2's offa kernel's mirrors. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.fir

Re: paste appears to be disabled

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
you using a 3 button mouse? X uses the middle button for paste. at least it does on my slink system and these IRIX boxes i got here. i used X without being able to paste for 2 years, man when i foundout that the middle button pasted..WOAH I WAS HAPPY! (and that it worked too) :)) nate

Re: fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
check your ulimits (ulimit -a) i get that error because my ulimits are quite strict and when i exceed the limits it prevents me from doing so and pukes with that error. currently i have ulimit's for memory set at 24,000kB for virtual memory and 12,000kB for memory. you also could be out of memory

RE: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: >> I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs >> (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the >> day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. >> At the moment I'm running pppcosts. It does the job, but I wo

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
did u try to compile the NIC driver static into the kernel, i got 2 machines that use tulip(although on 2.0.36) and i try to avoid modules at all costs. the only thing that get modularized for me are stuff thats 3rd party and not included w/the kernel. if its a server, there are modules out there

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Moore
I have been reading the Linux Programming published by WROX press. It is a great set of books from Beginner to MasterClass. On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, John Carline wrote: > Stephan Engelke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:30:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > > > Someone tell me how

Stealth Firewall...

1999-10-26 Thread Onno
How can I equip my firewall with -STEALTH- capabilities? I know that TCP and UDP connections are done by specific network demons or that inetd will startup the necessary network demon. I'm also familiar with tcpd within inetd. But how can I get my Firewall (potato) too act like there is no compu

Re: Fw: help for pointers

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
you can use weblogs.. in apache i use this: CustomLog /path/to/www-access.log combined so a virtual host directive (for me) looks like: ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /users/virtual/aphroland.org ServerName www.aphroland.org ErrorLog /users/virtual/aphroland.org/www-error.log Custom

Re: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
i saw this recently on freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/03/16/921605259.html pppcosts is a small utility that calculates and displays the time (and phone costs) you have been online using a modem or ISDN ppp connection. The time and costs are saved, so that you can use pppcosts t

Re: shell account

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
last time i used a dialup shell(or any shell that supported zmodem) i had to use rz to recieve a file(on the rmote shell) and then upload the file, and use sz to send a file from the shell to my modem. hope this helps! nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: Incomplete CD included with Debian GNU/Linux - Guide to Installation and Usage

1999-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:06:49 +0100, Chris Butler wrote: > Unfortunatly, the CD is incomplete. Known problem. See http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=585 for the CD replacement offer. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd b

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's > > > > crap and they > > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > > them > > > > anything

Re: Stealth Firewall...

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
connection refused means there is no firewall there on that port/protocol. a properly firewalled port will time out when a connection is attampted. as for IGMP i dont think that is even enabled in the kernel is it ?? thought only tcp/udp and icmp by default. firewalling icmp was for me, kidna com

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: > > i just installed star office 5.1 (5.1a?? just d/l it a few days ago) on > debian 2.1 (slink) with no trouble. it was a clean install of slink. wish > i could figure out what to install to give java support though(or what the > java support would do if i had it) installing the jdk

Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. I use the command du -x to get a report on only the root partition and it says that

Unix98 ptys don't seem to be working

1999-10-26 Thread Jeff Hildebrand
So I'm testing out various pppoe clients for linux for the local telco, but they all seem to require Unix98 ptys. I believe that I have done everything necessary to get them working: - kernel in use is 2.2.12, compiled with Unix98 ptys and pty filesystem - glibc 2.1.2 (and ldso upgraded to the nec

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > Charlie writes: > > I upgraded Debian 1.3.1 --> Debian 2.1, and reconfigured ppp. > > How? > > > It works, but now /var/log/ppp.log does not at all reflect what is > > happening during the ppp exchange. > > Do you have 'debug' on? > > > Where's the new log file for ppp?

Re: X-WINDOW FREEZE

1999-10-26 Thread David Teague
Camiel Coenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I sometimes run into the problem of an X-Window freeze [..] > annoying because I have to reboot my system by using the reset > button Is there a solution to prevent or avoid such a freeze ? Camiel: I have a K6 350 in a ASUS P5 MB with 128MB RAM and a

cvs

1999-10-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. The man page is a bit dificult to follow, and I don't have the time to read every sub option now. The main thing that I am looking to do is to implement password on importing and exporting of code (its to be used to centrelise develop

pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Richard Clarke
Ok I have installed qpopper, so that I can retrieve mail from my debbox using pop3. However when I try and login, it wont accept my password. Looking at syslog shows me this, Oct 26 16:26:40 clarke-r in.qpopper[19796]: connect from 10.1.1.2 Oct 26 16:26:40 clarke-r in.qpopper[19796]: (v2.53) Unabl

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use the command du -x to get a repo

Compiling proftpd from potato in a slink box

1999-10-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I cant compile proftp from unstable in a slink server because it gives me the following error: gcc -Wall -g3 -I/usr/include/mysql -g -O2 -DUSESHADOW -DAUTOSHADOW -DCONFIG_FILE_PATH=\"/etc/proftpd.conf\" -DRUN_DIR=\"/var/run/proftpd\" -DLINUX -I.. -I../include -c mod_pgsql.c In file inclu

Re: Unix98 ptys don't seem to be working

1999-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:56:01 -0500, Jeff Hildebrand wrote: > I believe that I have done everything necessary to get them working: > > - kernel in use is 2.2.12, compiled with Unix98 ptys and pty filesystem > - glibc 2.1.2 (and ldso upgraded to the necessary level) Your system can now use Unix

Re: pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
did u install the source version ? (dont know if debian has a binary for it??) if you compiled from source make sure to enable shadow support(the right kind of shadow there are 3-4-5 different ways to retrieve encrypted passwords) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Compiling proftpd from potato in a slink box

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
sorta off subject but proftpd had some pretty serious security flaws in it, and i dont think it would be advisable to use on a unprotected system(non firewalled). those flaws were fixed but there are many more potential problems as the base code has some severe security problems. wu-ftpd has simi

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