RE: starting named

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Oct-99 Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > where is the script to start tha named?(if exists one) > > It should be /etc/init.d/bind if you installed a Debian package of BIND. -- Andrew

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-29 Thread Oki DZ
Ed Cogburn wrote: > They won't release SO source under GPL, they have their own "version" > called the Sun Community License. From a few comments I've heard > elsewhere, its not free in the freedom sense. SO now is basically Sun's product; so the company needs to make sure that any de

Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hello > > I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have > 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is > debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's > dos/win on this pc too so I'm wonderi

RE: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Sounds about right. If you have 32Mb of ram, and your apps are only using, say 10Mb, Linux is smart enough to use the free memory as disk-cache, rather than have it going to waste. As soon as this disk-cache memory is needed by some other application, Linux will free it. Bryan On 28-Oct-99 Ja

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread Art Lemasters
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:25:54PM -0500, David Punsalan wrote: > The installation program that comes with the debian base disks shows that > 3c59X is for the 3c509 ...so I guess it's okay to use the driver for > 3c59x. Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they? ;-) I'm running t

Re: Utilities for keeping time sync for a machine behind a firewall ?

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am behind a firewall. > What utilities are there that will let me keep the time synchronized with > another machine on the Internet ? Ouch. Your best bet would be to ask your firewall administrator to synchronize the firewall with NTP, and then to synch

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I own a Compaq Qvision videocard That's unfortunate. > and I would like to know which accelerated server I can use, so I can get a > bet colordepth than 8 bit and a better resolution than 640x480 (my monitor > can handle that). You actually got t

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am > having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf. Ok. > Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP > (Interlog). > > Shoul

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: > Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this > /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved > since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of > them are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/fro

Firewall hinders access for IRC

1999-10-29 Thread zdrysdal
Hi What needs to be done to allow my windows MIRC software to connect to the internet. I can access the Web via our debian proxy server via port 3128...but i am not too sure how to set up Mirc. I take it i have to have a connection straight to the firewall as apposed to the proxy server? Will t

YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Yang
I just set up my apache web server. I am thinking if I could register my own domain name and connect my web server to Internet, that would be nice. What do I need to  do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one told me that I need at least two to be qualified for domain name

RE: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-Oct-99 Daniel Yang wrote: > I just set up my apache web server. I am thinking if I could register my own > domain name and connect my web server to Internet, that would be nice. What > do I need to do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one > told me that I need at least tw

RE: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Paul McHale
You don't need more than one computer for domain name registration.  As cyber-#$#$# have shown, you don't need any computer to register a domain.  If you are going to run your own DNS server, you may want to have a backup server or secondary server.  When I registered mine, I went to http://

Re: installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

1999-10-29 Thread Dean
Hi David, One quick question, If hda1 was win98 & you where planning to boot to win98, why did you initialize this partition? On the install I think you should only initialize the various linux partitions & leave your win & other os's alone. Dean David Punsalan wrote: > > Dear Debian Group, >

apt-get not updating

1999-10-29 Thread Paul McHale
Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade to fix a security problem. This was in august. When I run "apt-get update" it appears to run correctly. When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing happens. Here is the /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://http.us.de

how to make Packages file and set sources.list for misc. downloaded .deb files

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
I want to do something that should be simple, but apparently isn't. I have a local collection of miscellaneous .deb files. I want to be able to use apt-get on then. It is quite unclear how the various pieces of the system (the directory name, the sources.list entry, the dpkg-scanpackages comman

Re: Netscape memory hoarding

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Daniel Barclay wrote: ... > > Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, > > but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. > > I didn't seem to be only temporary (e.g., to update the history > > or bookmarks files or somet

Re: Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter
Just use the program bootpart for NT; you'll be up and running in about 5 minutes. On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:26:08PM +1000, Wallentin, Henrik wrote: > Hi all! > > I know this has been brought up a couple of times, but I would really be > happy if any of you could help me with this. > > Last wee

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 28 Oct, 1999 à 02:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I own a Compaq Qvision videocard and I would like to know which accelerated > server I can use, so I can get a bet colordepth than 8 bit and a better > resolution than 640x480 (my monitor can handle that). > > I always boot my k

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Salman Ahmed writes: > /usr/bin/pon: line 2: 1890 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/pppd call > ${1:-provider} > Exit 139 You should file a bug against ppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

RE: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
i would suggest the ami megaraid controller, it works good, is cheap, supports onboard cache and has decent drivers in both 2.0 and 2.2 i hear that mylex makes some damn good drivers for linux too ..but from what i've read their stuff is real high end and prob $$$ nate --

Re: installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
to be able to boot win98 as 'default' again try running the command fdisk /mbr you should install a boot record on the partition where linux installed if you wish to boot off of it(either directly or indirectly via some boot manager like lilo, system commander nt boot manager etc) you don't need

Re: ipchains

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you can't compile ip forwarding into the kernel in 2.2.x, you gotta enable it manually by echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward that should allow you to add forwarding rules, you may not be able to to ipmasq unless you got all the right kernel configs set. nate -

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
try the 3c509 driver nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowe

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
doh! i read that wrong sorry :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://

Re: Quake2 and Banshee

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
read the README from quake2. you prob want something like this: quake2 +set vid_ref gl or quake2 +set vid_ref gl +gl_driver nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Ser

Re: telnetd timeout setting

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
what do you mean time out ? is it a tcp time out where the client loses connection to the host? is it a timeout during user authentication? is a timeout for auto logout due to idling ? be more specific!! nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice Presiden

Re: 270Mb xdm.log file and keeps growing :(

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
i know this isnt a real fix but you could make xdm.log a pointer to /dev/null (link it) so the log messages go to hell and never come back .. saves space..at least right? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http:

Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
pay attention to what the memory is being used for. take this for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/games/quake2] free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:253224 250956 2268 79044 72144 77588 -/+ buffers/cache: 10

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you can add the other ips, i think you can have a max of 4. but unless the isps are controlling access to their DNS (most don't for normal queries) there's no need to add the other ips if your just using as a temp measure. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-

Re: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you need someone to host the domain, you can host it, even on a dialup, although i wouldn't reccomend it. then you can have the domain point to your ip..and off you go ..don't need 2 computers..i run an isp and for almost a year we had about 40 domains with only 1 machine :) nate ---

fvwm: Am I missing something or is it a bug ?

1999-10-29 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: fvwm Version: 2.2.2-3 Severity: wishlist [06:48:47 shaul]$ cat .xsession-errors [FVWM][Read]: <> file '.fvwm2rc' not found in $HOME or /etc/X11/fvwm [FVWM][Read]: trying to read system rc file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/update.warn: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' /u

Just a Question

1999-10-29 Thread Mason
Hello, I have recently installed the Super Disk onto my computer.  Recently, I have gone to download items onto it and it hasn't been and option in the files that I can download into.  So I wnt to the "My Computer" icon on my screen and it isn't in there anymore.  It is still in my Windows E

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:21:49 MDT, Art Lemasters writes: > Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they? ;-) >I'm running the same driver for my 3c905tx, though. The config >for the 2.2.12 kernel said it was good for both the 3c59x series >and the 3c90x series ethernet cards, IIRC. t

Re: Just a Question

1999-10-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Well, now I've seen it all... never mind newbie questions about Debian, but newbie questions about Windows? On a Linux mailing list? Not to mention the liberal use of the word 'download' :/ Where do these people even get the debian-user mailing list email address from? > Mason wrote: > > Hello,

Smaller icons for Gnome?

1999-10-29 Thread Dylan Thurston
I just recently got a new Twinhead Powerslim laptop and installed Debian on it. Works great so far--I haven't bothered to get the sound working yet, but there was no problem with anything else. I'm especially happy that I got it without Windows installed. But the laptop only has a 12" 800x600 sc

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:38:11PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Salman Ahmed writes: > > /usr/bin/pon: line 2: 1890 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/pppd call > > ${1:-provider} > > Exit 139 > > You should file a bug against ppp. Before filing a bug, make sure one of the two ISP configurations is

RE: Debian Linux vs BSD

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
You have a healthy attitude in trying other OS's. Linux is good but there are OS's that suit some people better in a particular setup. I never tried BSD because I don't have the time to fully test such an install. But hey, let us all know what your findings are, maybe its an eye opener, maybe its

Re: Firewall hinders access for IRC

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
At 01:56 PM 10/29/99 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi What needs to be done to allow my windows MIRC software to connect to the internet. I can access the Web via our debian proxy server via port 3128...but i am not too sure how to set up Mirc. I take it i have to have a connection straight

Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread David Punsalan
A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal win98 life: 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command 2. com

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
Michael Hammonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card Download the latest version of 3c59xx - works better than the 3c90x ones, for me. Cheers, Derk

ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is : gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan Scan.c However, there is some error : /usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Scan] Error 1 I have checked that

Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote: > I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is : > gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan > Scan.c > > However, there is some error : > /usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:25:52PM +0800, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear All, > > I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is : > gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan > Scan.c > Hmm, is this only a misspelling for that mail? what do you think abo

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread David Punsalan
By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there? symptom: lilo won't go away. it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge) off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up! Where is it coming from?!?! > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mai

samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. I'd like to know if its possible to: * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) and use them remotely from W$, without special trick to switch from one to the other * Use them also from a Linux station, without ch

Upgrading perl problem

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter
I would like to install/upgrade the fvwmconf package but cannot because of an apt-get error regarding the perl package. What should I do? When downloading fvwmconf, several perl packages are also downloaded. During the configuration state, the error I get is this: E: This installation run will re

Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
I can't find one on the net... Can somebody help me? Regards, Onno

Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter
Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set up for use by non-root users. When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access the wvdial.conf file. david has been added

Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann
ok, things changed the machine ran stable over night, doing nothing but setiathome. Getting back to the office, i started apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and suffenly the system stopped: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page kern.log says: Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_pa

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Aaron Solochek
Rerun the win98 installation program. That will overwrite the mbr, and kill lilo. It won't mess with your "normal life" win98 setttings either, except for maybe a few very small things. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Punsalan wrote: > By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viru

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
Yes... At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: I can't find one on the net... Can somebody help me? do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Nico De Ranter
If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run "lilo -u" before removing the linux partition. That should uninstall lilo from the mbr. Nico On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote: > > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > that's it)

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set > up for use by non-root users. was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? > When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have > access to /dev/ttyS1. That's bette

Re: apt-get not updating

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade > to fix a security problem. This was in august. When I run "apt-get update" > it appears to run correctly. When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing > happens. > > Here is t

windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-29 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hello, I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as windowmanager instead of enlightenment. -gnana

Re: Calling in on my server

1999-10-29 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:55:49AM -0700, aphro wrote > read this > > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html > > i didn't use it to make my PPP server (i wish i knew about it and i > wouldof) the only way i can get mgetty/auto_ppp to work is > > 1) without authentication([EMAIL P

Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

1999-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote: > Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he conseguido > configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo funciona mejor y es mas > estable (era de suponer). He decidido navegar desde Linux pero hecho en falta > una utilida

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: Yes... At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: I can't find one on the net... Can somebody help me? do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? I asked about this earlier too, the answer was `mv' :-) redhat has 2 console runle

Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

1999-10-29 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:51:20AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote: > > Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he > > conseguido configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo > > funciona mejor y es mas estable (era de

Bash Aliases problem

1999-10-29 Thread prabhakar chaganti
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "prabhakar chaganti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi everyone: I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc,but have not had any luck

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Martyn Pearce
| > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal | > win98 life: | > | > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and

boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. What URL's have such a list? If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?

RE: Bash Aliases problem

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-Oct-99 prabhakar chaganti wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "prabhakar chaganti" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi everyone: > > I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have > tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: > > >Yes... > > > >At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > >>On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: > >> > >>>I can't find one on the net... > >>> > >>>Can somebody help me? > >> > >>do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? >

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Nico De Ranter
On 29 Oct 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > > | > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's > | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal > | > win98 life

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On 29/10/99 Martin Fluch wrote: Ther is a script called update-rc.d ... no this is not what we are looking for, update-rc.d only works if there is no symlinks at all for a given script, so to use it to change a runlevel you must first rm all the symlinks then use update-rc.d to recreate the

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page > > kern.log says: > > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page > cache! > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page >

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler
Eric G . Miller writes: > Before filing a bug, make sure one of the two ISP configurations is named > "provider". That would not cause a segfault. If it did it would still be a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. > > What URL's have such a list? file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/index.html especially file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq-12.html#ss12.5 > If I had gotten my machine to boot and

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:03:55AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page > > > > kern.log says: > > > > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in pa

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann
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RE: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Noah L. Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: [...] > > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page [...] > Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and > that it could never possibly make a difference... Destroy and re-create >

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Martyn Pearce
Nico De Ranter writes: | Nope, I've had the same problem. Can it be that lilo changes | something in the bootable partition and not only in the mbr? In that | case fdisk /mbr won't be able to help. lilo certainly can be installed at the beginnng of an ext2 partition. However, I've discounted t

Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread John Forest
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. > > I'd like to know if its possible to: > > * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) > and use them remotely from W$, without special trick > to switch from one to the other > > *

Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. > > What URL's have such a list? > > If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I > look to study (and perhaps modify) the b

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-29 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Speakfreely is a free internet telephony program. http://www.speakfreely.org/ On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:12:59PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: > Hi Dwayne C . Litzenberger, > > > would take CPU time, but I'd like to be able to play a RealAudio stream, > > while hearing the superfluous sounds of KDE, whil

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
try bootin form a boot disk and hittin sys a: c: and fdisk /mbr again (from boot disk) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.o

Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
the program may not know where to look try this: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for bash^^) setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for everything else? ^^) and make again. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vi

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? nh. you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :) (saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is hardly for beginners) nate --

Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
samba is not a print server. once you set the proper entries in printcap and get lpd to work with them, you just add links to the printer's spool path in samba's config. its real easy, getting printing working on the other hand is not, took me a while to get mine working(i never printed for 3 year

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
you run out of memory ?? how much swap you have? should have 256MB for 128MB ram. looks like you ran outta memory could be wrong though nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail In

Re: Calling in on my server

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
this is the only relavent line in pap-secrets (the rest are commented out) * wpp-22 "" * (nothing is sensored in that^^^) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Inter

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-10-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo > > > >+m)w0j;Z > > HANG CHEONG INTERNATIONAL > > > > 7s&(%\%+3u&f>P,9q

Netscape vs. ie

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
there was a few mails passed, i dont remember who all sent em but one of the guys said that MS was well known to "fix" bugs and the same bugs come back to haunt em (security bugs i.e. serious bugs, no pun intended) heres an example, a new ie5 security problem! (oct 28 1999) http://www.securityfoc

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo Seems to be korean. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice

portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread rizan
hi, I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP wrappers and i have checked it's runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on run level 2 please help. thankz rizan

how do i stop vrfy for Cubic Circle POP

1999-10-29 Thread rizan
hi I would like to stop vrfy option on my POP for security reasons. Could somone advice me how? thankz

startx

1999-10-29 Thread raymond ferrari
o.k. I finally got my XF86Config file built and want to startx. During the xf86config setup...I used S3V for my chipset...I was told to use the XF86_S3Vserver which would be in /usr/X11R6/bin...I tried to use startx after my config setup and the following message comes up: x: execution of /usr/bin

bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... Does anyone have a debian rescue disk with a kernel supporting the ata66 controller of the bp6 bi celeron motherboard ? or know of another way to install debian on an empty ata66 harddisk attached on said controller ? Appart from putting the harddisk on the ATA33 controller naturally.

Re: Smaller icons for Gnome?

1999-10-29 Thread Herbert Ho
hehe. try the quicklaunch applet. there's a deb for it, so do your apt-get: apt-get install quicklaunch-applet hope that helps. Herbert On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Dylan Thurston wrote: > I just recently got a new Twinhead Powerslim laptop and installed Debian > on it. Works great so far--I haven'

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread Charles Lewis
I asked a similar question a while back without a response. I think it is part of netbase, and I didn't want to remove netbase because I need telnetd,ftpd,etc. I can tell you how we solved the problem, but I don't know if it is the best way. We just added the line 'exit 0' to the beginning of /etc

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either that or firewall port 111. or both you can never be too paranoid. nate [m

Re: startx

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
run startx >& X.log and post the full output of the log (cat X.log) what you gave isn't enough information (for me at least) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Se

Re: bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
the ata66 controller is only supported by a 3rd party kernel patch. some people say it works, others say it doesn't .. i have a BP6 myself, the thing is unstable as hell in SMP (fine in UP), but i use SCSI only no IDE. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
Strange, why not the normal way??? mv /etc/rc2.d/S18portmap /etc/rc2.d/K35portmap Is this wrong or something ??? Regards, Onno At 08:34 AM 10/29/99 -0700, aphro wrote: its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are

Re: Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Onno
At 04:44 PM 10/29/99 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward

Re: Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. > One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to > /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

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