Blocking ICMP requests from certain hosts?

Hi ppl, I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they seem to think it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a 56k dialup. Is there any way to block ICMP packets just from that host? I do like to be able to ping my machine from various places to check latency, e

How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

Hi, The logfile rotation stuff makes use of syslogd-listfiles, which claims in its man page to be controlled by /etc/syslog.conf Unfortunately, I can't find anything in man syslog.conf, or the file itself that mentions what it is about an entry in /etc/syslog.conf that flags it as requiring a c

Re: scsi cards

> or solutions from other manufacturers? Also check out AdvanSys cards at . They're inexpensive, great performing cards with no brainer driver support (one driver supports all of their cards) in the Linux kernel; plus the few times I've dealt with their tech support I'

Re: Blocking ICMP requests from certain hosts?

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they > seem to think it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a It's not. > 56k dialup. Is there any way to block ICMP packets just from that > host? I do like to be able to ping

Re: Subscribing trouble.

Eric G . Miller : > No I just resubscribed after being away for a week. Make sure when you > reply that the subject line doesn't have a "Re: " preceding the CONFIRM > part, otherwise it fails. I was bitten by that a couple times until I > realized the listserver didn't like that. What? I've n

Re: /var/spool/mail/user missing

On 11/23/99 03:55PM, David S. Jackson wrote: > > First, are you sure you can send mail? What tests have you run? Is this a > first-time configuration, or have you gotten mail to work before? > Yes, I can send without problems. I've just been retrieving with Netscape (and leaving the mail on the

Re: 2nd Linux installation

"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: ... > Performance-wise, you should keep two /swaps, but when you're booting the > distro on hda, use the swap on hdb, and vice-versa. Why is that...? Original poster's swapfiles are not to be used concurently. Do swapfiles need to "remember" something between eac

Re: Help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please send me anything you can send. > -On any and everything. I can only send some words: Hi, what's up..? Oki

Re: netscape4.7 messages

I've used 4.5 and 4.7 and both do the same thing. kent Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Is there any way of fixing this?: I can not read any already inbox > message while netscape is downloading other messages. Now, I remember > that in the windows version of nescape this is possible. May be some

Re: Debian SPARC

Steve Stancliff wrote: > I just installed Linux on our Ultra-30. It has no floppy, > and besides the boot floppies for Sparc don't seem to work, > (tried them on another Sparc and also read a lot about problems > with them), so I had to boot it by tftp. That took a while > to figure out, but on

Re: Newbie question floppy format

julie wright wrote: > > Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 I don't know why it should be "u", usually it is "h". >Returned error - command not

Re: pppconfig and multiple AT commands for modem initialization

I have in /etc/chatscript/provider "" ATZ OK ATLO OK ATDTxxx CONNECT \d\c ATMO, is supposed to turn it off completely I believe. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.

Re: looking for prog to synchronize files via ftp

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:44:41PM +0100, Tomas Cernaj wrote > Hi all, > > I'm desperately looking for a program that synchronizes files on > different computers via ftp (or possibly other methods?), whenever you > call it by hand. > It should work like omirr (but not online...), that is, without

Re: LPRng

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote > Hello. > > I've recently upgraded to the latest version of lprng, and I have the > following problem. > > I have a network printer, and I declared its address in /etc/printcap. > > When I print a file, everything seems allright,

Re: Mail Q

You could put a .forward file at your telnet/ftp account to send all mail on to the pop server, then just use fetchmail to get it all off the pop server. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.

Re: Subscribing trouble.

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:38:40PM -0600, Brian Butler wrote: > Eric G . Miller : > > No I just resubscribed after being away for a week. Make sure when you > > reply that the subject line doesn't have a "Re: " preceding the CONFIRM > > part, otherwise it fails. I was bitten by that a couple tim

Re: deleting files

E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: >On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of >> a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" >> >> will rm -r be as quick? > >It will actually be much quicker

Re: netscape4.7 messages

ktb wrote: > I've used 4.5 and 4.7 and both do the same thing. > kent > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > Is there any way of fixing this?: I can not read any already inbox > > message while netscape is downloading other messages. Now, I remember > > that in the windows version of nescape this is

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate down to 112 kbps a

Re: VPN without CisCO or Red CreeK

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:02:10 +0200 Denis J Cirulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there ! I have to make VPN like : > [ LAN-A ] ---> Linux router/VPN gateway -> leased line <- Linux > router/VPN gateway <- [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a > VPN using only Linux without special VPN

Re: potato and 2 processors

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:43:18 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x>= 13), in SMP? I means: how > stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. I have 3 MP machines running potato as servers currently, down from a previous h

Re: pppconfig and multiple AT commands for modem initialization

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:09:01PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I have in /etc/chatscript/provider > > > "" ATZ > OK ATLO > OK ATDTxxx > CONNECT \d\c Thanks, this is exactly what I need. -- David Karlin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1

kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X environment is acting like Windows does sometimes:( I hate this. Anyway I was wondering if anyone knew what is going on here and how I can fix this? I just

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the error please let me know. Thanks, kent ktb wrote: > > I'm getting these errors l

.bin files

Hi, Is there any way to merge (cat) all the .bin files of the floppy distribution to a file? Well, cat can be used, but is it the way how to do it? If it isn't, can each .bin be mounted using -loop option? What is the filesystem on the image file? Oki

Questions about using mrtg

Does anyone know if mrtg can be used as a traffice analyser for a web site that is hosted via an ADSL connection. I want to have info regarding the usage of my site and want more detail than is provided by webalizer. I am particularly interested in monitoring connection speeds. Any thoughts?? -- A

Re: Questions about using mrtg

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, John Foster wrote: > Does anyone know if mrtg can be used as a traffice analyser for a web > site that is hosted via an ADSL connection. I want to have info > regarding the usage of my site and want more detail than is provided by > webalizer. I am particularly interested in

3dfx banshee with slink + 1/2

I have the 'slink and a half' distribution, and I'm wondering if there is any way to wedge a driver for the 3dfx banshee card that I have in. I tried downloading one from 3dfxgamers.com (only rpm's... lame), but there were some missing symbols in the binary, so it didn't work. Any other ideas? T

strange /etc/menu-methods errors, how to fix?

Hello, Ever since I installed enlightment (really cool), I get these errors whenever I install anything... Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) debian:/home/miskinis# In file "/etc/menu-methods//enlightenment" at line 12: onlyrunasroot=true ^ Unknown identifier /etc/menu-met

Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

Hello. I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No problems or shutdowns at all. Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kernel on a Slink system. And second, which steps do I have to take to

Re: looking for prog to synchronize files via ftp

Tomas Cernaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm desperately looking for a program that synchronizes files on > different computers via ftp (or possibly other methods?), whenever you > call it by hand. > It should work like omirr (but not online...), that is, without > something like a master direct

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

andreas pЕlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kernel on a Slink system. >

Can not bind to /dev/ttyS2 with Kernel 2.2.13

I'm getting the above message when I try to use my Palm Pilot on the new kernel. It works fine with 2.0.36, but doesn't like the higher ones. It DOES recognize them at boot, however, which confuses me. The permissions are identical, and the devices look fine. I have three serial ports, in ttySx

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

Hello. Nice see that it is possible and thanks for the tip. Looking at the URL you gave me and the installed versions of my packages I only saw that "Util-linux" was 2.9g but 2.9t was required. Seems like no big deal. I have no problem in compiling and installing programs, but I would like to st

Re: quickie.

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:16:26AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > sure someone will know the answer to this. whoever does, could you please > reply to me off the list. > i'm planning on building a new server. i want to raid 5 the hard drives for > security, reliability etc. > can i mount a scs

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

> "andreas" == andreas pålsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: andreas> The other option is to run Potato, since I just need the andreas> base and enough tools to compile the 2.2 kernel. But andreas> this system _must_ be stable and I fear Potato ain't andreas> really there yet.

Kernel

Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? -- * Neil David John Roberts - Lander World Communications Server S.L. Calle Rufino Gonzalez, N°15 - 4° Planta - Madrid, Spain - 28037 Telf : 91 789 77 10 ; Fax :

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for >xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console. >On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /d

ppp problem

Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My prob

RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. To my chagrin, I spent several hours figuring out that I have to download from nVidia a special XF86_SVGA and do some setups. Now this card is working, and to my surprise, the video qu

presentation graphics

I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I can run

Re: Newbie question floppy format

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:47:16PM +, julie wright wrote: > Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. Returned error - command not found. > Thanks for any help in advance. >

ppp problem 2

Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My prob

presentation graphics

> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

presentation graphics

> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

Re: char-major-5

I checked to make sure, and I did have "standard/generic (dump) serial support" compiled into the kernel, but it was compiled in and not a module. I tried compiling it as a module, which generated the serial.o file you mentioned below in /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc, and the message/problem went away

Re: 3dfx banshee with slink + 1/2

--- "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the 'slink and a half' distribution, and I'm > wondering if there > is any way to wedge a driver for the 3dfx banshee > card that I have in. > I tried downloading one from 3dfxgamers.com (only > rpm's... lame), but > there were some mis

Re: char-major-5

Michael Heyes wrote: >I checked to make sure, and I did have "standard/generic (dump) serial support" >compiled into the kernel, but it was compiled in and not a module. I tried >compiling it as a module, which generated the serial.o file you mentioned below >in /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc, and the me

Re: good book to learn perl

Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 08:36:49AM -0600 In reply to:Dave Sherohman Quoting Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Wayne Topa said: >| > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from >| > bookpool. >| >| I've had Very Bad

Re: Kernel

"Neil D. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? Get started with /usr/src/linux/README, and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ (They come with kernel sources) -- Tavasti

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

Look in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.weekly/ for the invocation of syslogd-listfiles, and the rotation frequency. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -

kdm hanging on return from console screen

Hi, I'm seeing a strange behavior on my computer. If I ctrl-alt-fX to any of the console screens while in kdm I can move around among console screens all I like, but if I try to go back to kdm it just sits there on a login prompt and won't go back to any other screens... it will respond to a ct

RE: presentation graphics

On 24-Nov-99 joost witteveen wrote: >> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference >> between different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do >> what I want (just nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and >> descriptions at the bottom). > >> Is there a good progra

MPX EN5038, dual nic cards

I found a source for 10/100 baset enet cards that use either realtek 8139 or mpx en5038 chipsets. I know that the 8139 IS supported under linux, but I am not sure about the mpx en5038 (a grep on the net sources in 2.0.38 turned up nothing). Does anyone know if this chipset is supported? Maybe I

eterm 0810 and backgrounds

I notice that there is a new eterm in the unstable tree but when I run apt-get install against it it wants to remove the eterm-backgrounds. I dont see a new eterm-backgrounds in the tree to upgrade to and the size of the replacement eterm does not seem large enough to hold the several mbs of image

RE: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

> From: Jinsong Zhao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > I mail-ordered a XFree86-supported video card, yet I received a Jaton > Video-68AGP card that uses RIVA128ZX chip. [...] Now this card is > working, [...] Except, to my surprise, that the emacs cursor does not > show up! Yeah, I've run into

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have a Slink system which runs very fine with the 2.0.38 kernel. No > problems or shutdowns at all. Ok. > > Now I want to use the 2.2.x kernel because of some features, but I want > to know first if it is possible to run v2.2.x kern

Controlling access to PPP - server

Hi all I'm trying to organize "private" ppp - server on debian mashine. I've installed 3 modems on ttyS0 - ttyS2, mgetty with AutoPPP configured and pppd (ver 2.3.5-2). I've created 3 option files (/etc/ppp/options.ttyS0, ...,S2) with lines like xxx.xxx.xxx.8:xxx.xxx.xxx.9 in options.ttyS0 xxx.x

Re: MPX EN5038, dual nic cards

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:53:29AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I configure a machine with dual nic's do they have to be the same type, > or can I just load two drivers into the kernel for say one ne2000 card, > and one 3-com card? Both will work. Different cards and as modules is nicer actual

Re: presentation graphics

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Russell Coker wrote: > I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > > Is there a good progra

Re: kernel

|> Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz' book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think. Jim

two questions (about X and PGp)

> > > > Hello! > > > > I want to ask a question. > > > > I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to conect to > > a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients running on that host > > to the X server on my debian host. > > > > Who can I make that ? (I have read the

A student

HELLO I wanted to ask if there was an adress where i could find the man pages as tekst and other info about how to use the commands like sort,cut,etc.

Re: presentation graphics

Russell Coker wrote: > I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). Ok, here's my shoot at it using `gri' http:

Base slink without pcmcia-cs

Hello, I just noticed that the place I probably downloaded the base install disks for Debian slink have the pcmcia-cs package which appears to be the one causing my problems instead of the modutils package. Are there any Debian images without that package included or is there a way for me to prev

Re: kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |> Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? > > For good clear Debian-specific information, you can read Dale Scheetz' > book `The Debian Linux User's Guide' on-line at > www.linuxpress.com. Around p.170, I think. Also packaged for Debian:

Re: presentation graphics

I put the resulting PostScript file from my gri example on http://www.debian.org/~psg/bar.ps Peter

ppp work autheticate with mschap anymore

After slightly breaking my home system attempting to downgrade from glibc2.1 back to full slink, I lost the use of bash and _fixed_ my system by manually unpacking base again and fugding with the status file. But now ppp won't work anymore, I originally got it to work by simply replying to pppco

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, ktb wrote: xyf >Sorry for the post I see there are a million messages about this in the xyf >archives. I just panicked. I am using a brand new IDE Western Digital xyf >HD (6.4 gig one) if anyone has any specific info about this HD and the i had that on ibm and maxtor drives

Re: Kernel 2.2 on Slink == possible && safe?

make sure your running 2.1r3 of slink and you should have -no- trouble, anything earlier *might* be missing a package. some things like lsof i had to recompile for myself. nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] p?lsson wrote: andrea >Hello. andrea > andrea >I have a Slink system which

Re: Kernel

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote: koala >Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? The README file that comes with the kernel was sufficient guide to teach me how to compile the first time around. the hardest part is deciding what you need and what you dont..just

Re: kdm hanging on return from console screen

i had that problem to, and i attributed it to the hardware not liking switching in and out of video modes when the driver is still active. (on the other hand EXITING out of X and restarting it always worked fine) my solution was to just not change consoles anymore :) or change vga cards that bett

[Re: ICMP error]

Colin Watson wrote: > > Vicente Torres wrote: > >I receive hundreds of times pro day > >the following message on my text screens: > > > >193.152.56.57 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > > > >¿Can I do anything to avoid receiving this message? > > I had the same problem, due to an appare

Re: console keyboard remaped (newbie)

On Tue, 23 Nov, 1999 à 10:35:52AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > Yesterday I just installed potato. Today I was adding programs using dselect > and apt. After finishing dselect, my console keyboard was remaped (e.g., ";" > is now "m", "q" and "a" are switched). The keyboard is fine under X (even

Re: Kernel

In addition to the other fine suggestions made here, you should also see the Kernel-HOWTO, which is in the doc-linux-text package or available from metalab.unc.edu. Bob On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:49:51AM +0100, Neil D. Roberts wrote: > Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel'

xterminal out of old 386?

Hello all; I have an old 386 running slink and want to install X. The system only has a 100MB drive and I've got slink + xserver-common and xserver-svga installed. Right now there is about 38MB free space. I would like to get X running and run apps on my much faster Alpha running potato over the

Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs fine except for three things. 1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont ping anything else. 2. I have no sound. sndconfig cannot detect a sound card. I think these laptops use some Neomagic soun

Re: RIVA128 (nVidia) card works, but loses cursor in emacs ...

I tried XF86 3.3.5 deb. The XF86_SVGA does not support Riva128 yet. So I was still using the one downloaded from nVidia, which is 3.3.3. No clue ... Jinsong > Yeah, I've run into that, too. I don't use emacs at home all that > often, so I'm using the simple workaround of running emacs in "no >

Re: two questions (about X and PGp)

Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PDN> I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to PDN> conect to a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients PDN> running on that host to the X server on my debian host. Right. Various techniques for doing this are in the Rem

ppp _won't_ _authenticate_ with mschap anymore

Man, don't you hate it when you misspell the Subject line! I wrote: Subject: ppp work autheticate with mschap anymore

Re: xterminal out of old 386?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I have an old 386 running slink and want to install X. The system only > has a 100MB drive and I've got slink + xserver-common and xserver-svga > installed. Right now there is about 38MB free space. I would like to > get X running and ru

Re: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

Chris Larson wrote: > > I have installed corel linux onto my laptop. Everything looks great and runs > fine except for three things. > > 1. My ethernet card is not working. I can ping myself but I cannont ping > anything else. Coincidentally enough, I installed Corel on a friend's Latitude this

X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config, it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to run mkfontdir, w

too many files open

Hi is there any way to increase the allowed amount of open files in Debian? Yesterday i tried to telnet to my samba server and it disallowed it returning with an error "too many files open". thanx

Graphics Support for I752

I have a computer with onboard AGP video. Motherboard is a AOpen MX3W-L. The graphics processor is an Intel I752. There is 2 MB video RAM which appears to be borrowed from system RAM ... although the option to modify the amount of video RAM doesn't appear in the BIOS??? The motherboard is an AO

Mail problems and procmail

Okay, I checked my /var/log/exim/mainlog file and it turns out that exim (?) doesn't like my .forward file. Here's the log entry: 1999-11-24 11:19:43 11qhx9-FY-00 ** |"IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #mwagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=addr ess_pipe: "IFS=' ' && exe

Re: ICMP error

I recently had this problem with a misconfigured printer on our network. Turned out that the subnet mask was improperly set. Once that was fixed, the messages stopped. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Colin Watson wrote: > Date: Tue, 23

Pentium III and Slink

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi All, Does Slink/kernel 2.0.36 support the Pentium III processor? Is any special "tuning"/configuration required ? Thanks. Howard Mann. Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive

VPN setup

Hi we are planning to establish a VPN using cisco routers to do PPTP (GRE). There is a debian firewall at our end which has 3 network cards.. one connects to our isp via isdn, the second is for our DMZ quarantine zone, and the third is for our local network. Where would be the best place to setup

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212.210.122.9 ???

NEC versa install

I am about to install debian on my boss's NEC Versa LX notebook, are there any issues that I should be aware of before I kill the machine and he kills me? thanks evan

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

Dumb question - could anyone give me an "idiots walk-through" of installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about "LAME won't even compile by itself" on the web page put me off. And of course there's no package for it... Thanks very much in advance, Stuart. Sean Johnson wr

Re: Mail problems and procmail

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:29:58 -0800 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions? The total contents of your .forward under Exim should be: "| /usr/bin/procmail -f-" Even better is to get rid of the .forward and have Exim recognise that you are using procmail as

Re: errors

Late reply, but I had the same problem. Seems like you have unsolved links up there. On my machine, it came through some software, upgrading the libaries, but not the links. All works fine, but I fixed it for a better look.

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

* Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console -> tty0 > Then there is a bug in Eterm. Or you are trying to let multiple > programs catch the output of /dev/console - TIOCCONS (the mechanism > that provides "console output cloning to

Squid or DNS

Hi all, I installed DNS and Squid in my server and when a client is browsing the web, sometimes the following error occurs and the client has to reload the page two or three times to load the page. What is wrong? The requested URL could not be retrieved ---

email forwarding

hi i'm looking for a way to forward the email i receive on my linux server to my real email adress...   is there any way?   i hate it to log on everyday to see that there is no mail :)   peace Alexander P. Barkey

Re: too many files open

i believe this is a hard coded limit in the kernel, edit /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h and recompile nate On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zdrysd >Hi zdrysd > zdrysd >is there any way to increase the allowed amount of open files in Debian? zdrysd >Yesterday i tried to telnet

Re: Pentium III and Slink

yep, and nope. it supports it fine no tuning is needed. if you want to run an optimized version you should look into stampede or turbolinux.. debian is optimzied for i486 and above i think ? p3 will still fly but it wont go as fast as it can go... nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Howard Mann wrote:

Re: too many files open

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:17:43PM -0800, aphro wrote: > i believe this is a hard coded limit in the kernel, edit > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h and recompile > > nate This is true for 2.0 kernels, but can be adjusted without rebooting or recompiling on 2.2 kernels by adjusting the value

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