Re: Can not get a floppy only install to work

Hi Tom, On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:28:56PM -0500, Tom wrote: > Hi, > > I have an IBM PS/2 Model 8535 386sx with 4 meg RAM and a 75meg IDE hard > drive and a 1.44 meg floppy drive. I am trying to do a base Debian > install but can not get past the second disk. I have tried 2.1 and 2.2 > now with

elvis buffers

seems every time (not quite, just seems that way) i leave ELVIS with ":q" i add another buffer to recover via "-r"... man elvis: -r This is used for recovering an edit session after a crash. Each elvis process uses a single "session file" to store the contents of all

Installation and startup of SB sound card driver, alsa etc.

I have installed a minimal Hamm on a Compaq Prolinea 486 with 120M disk and an SB compatible sound card (yes I know that they are not always as compatible as all that but I haven't got far enough to worry about that, I think). I used dselect to install alsu-utils and eveything else named alsa

Re: Maikl Server

If You need a "one package" solution ( SMTP + POP3 + FINGER ) You can try : http://www.maticad.it/davide/xmail.asp Otherwise You can try : http://www.qmail.org or http://www.sendmail.org But if You use the latest two You must also install something like : http://www.eudora.com/freeware/qpop.

apropos pam

i thought this was funny-- $ apropos pam [snip] pam-undocumented (7) - No manpage for this PAM-related program, utility or function. [snip] isn't that redundant? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this sentance.

Re: How do I run multiple X sessions?

Bruce Sass wrote: > > On 15 May 2000, Richard Klinda wrote: > > You can start a second X with this command: startx -- :1 > > > > So if you have 2 running Xs, one'll be at 'alt-f7' and the other at > > 'alt-f8'. from within xwindows, you need to use CONTROL-ALT-F7 or CONTROL-ALT-LEFT/RIGHT. from

Re: bashrc

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:40:32PM -0700, montefin wrote: > > 2.) Attach a signature.txt file to his/her outgoing mail, such as I have > attached to mine below. Write one in your home directory > (~/signature.txt) and point your mail app to it, _but_ only 4 lines, > Avinash, or you're gonna get ba

Re: Samba Setup

Odd.. I don't have netscape 4.x installed, but the newest mozilla. I installed swat to test it out ( I am on woody ), hmm.. do you have nmap installed? sending the output of `nmap localhost` might help, just to ensure that SWAT is running on port 901. Hmm, the "Broken Pipe" error does seem to in

ipportfw

    Hi!   I'v downloaded patch for kernel 2.0.37 for ipportfw (subs-patch-1.37.gz), but I've got kernel 2.0.38... Is there some possible conflicts?   Because when I tried to compile the kernel there was no option for ipportfw, as It should have been... I checked the "Prompt for development and

udf kernel patch

list, this question isn't exactly one specifically Debian, but since I use Debian, i figured why not :) Running a dual boot system with win98, I prefer to use Debian yet there's one problem; every now and then I transfer files fom distance computers to my own one using cd-rw discs. Now I've fou

Re: udf kernel patch

Hmm.. I have one for 2.2.14, one of the reasons I don't just go up to .15 ... also a reiserfs patch.. Let me know if you are interested and I'll dig up a link or just attach it.. Rob On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:59:37AM +0200, Gijs van der Brugge wrote: > list, > > this question isn't exactly o

Re: udf kernel patch

Once upon a time, I heard Rob say > Hmm.. I have one for 2.2.14, one of the reasons I don't just > go up to .15 ... also a reiserfs patch.. > I have been using 2.2.14 reiser patch on 2.2.15 since pre10, for about 2-3 months now, the patch applied cleanly and I haven't found a problem yet. -- Cha

Is Storm based on potato or slink ?

I installed stormix which is based on 2.2.13 kernel. I assumed this storm release was based on potato due to the kernel version. When I tried to install logrotate (which is part of the potato release) I get the following message: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: logro

Re: udf kernel patch

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Once upon a time, I heard Rob say > > > Hmm.. I have one for 2.2.14, one of the reasons I don't just > > go up to .15 ... also a reiserfs patch.. > > > I have been using 2.2.14 reiser patch on 2.2.15 since pre10, for about 2-3 > months now, the pat

Re: Upgrading to "potato"

On 16-May-2000 Brad wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: >> >> No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get >> only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of >> dependency problems, and screw up your ex

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:40:13PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS > > partition? > > Well, can't say that I hav

Re: Installation and startup of SB sound card driver, alsa etc.

"Kevin Whitefoot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used dselect to install alsu-utils and eveything else named alsa except > the source. Ran also-config (or some similar name) and it created a startup > script. I ran the script and tried to run aplayer and the other utils but > all of them say

Re: Is Storm based on potato or slink ?

> When I do apt-get dist-upgrade, it shows I am up to date. Does anyone have > experience with Storm? Is it potato or slink? I really like Storm Linux. To me, they've got things pretty near right. They stick to Debian standards, unlike Corel, and have a nice, easy install (both text/graphic

grep with actual date ?

Hi there, I am planning to do a daily system check with refused connects by placing them in a cron job. So far, so good. But - and that's the problem - does anyone know how to tell the "grep"-command to filter just the refused connects of today and not all those which are two weeks old ? This

Re: Installation and startup of SB sound card driver, alsa etc.

I was trying to avoid recompiling because at the moment my only Linux box is this 120 mega byte disk machine so I don't want to install any more than absolutely necessary. I'm not sure I have room for the sources and gcc. I finally found a how-to for alsa. A cursory glance at it suggests that

Re: grep with actual date ?

How about having some perl-program sitting on your syslog-file doing something about refused connects in near-real-time? I have such running, so if anybody wants the (ugly!) code, just yell ;-) Or you could quick&dirty just rotate your syslog-file daily... hth, &rw On Tue, 16 May 2000 13:41:00

tar to remote system... security?

I want to do a remote backup: tar Zvcf localfriend:/tmp/mybackup.tar but I keep getting file cannot be accessed, broken pipe. What is the proper security setup for this to allow me to create the remote file? Thanks! Dr

man --> info?

Why are man pages abandoned for info? Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least has xman viewer. Is there any option? Have man pages been html'ed for Debian? I have seen some INternet sites with man pages online.. Thanks. --

Installation CDs

Hi. Does anyone know precisely what I have to do to make up a set of installation CDs from the 2.2 ftp archive? I've got an official set of 2.1 disks, and as far as I can see, I need to make a CD with the disks-i386 and part of the binary-i386 directory on, and another with the remainder of

Re: Can not get a floppy only install to work

This may not be related to you immediate problem but I would suspect your PS/2 has a mca microbus, if I remember correctly. If that is the case you can't use a stock Slink. There are people who have put together a kernel and installation disks for machines with mca. It has been so long I don't r

Re: Can not get a floppy only install to work

I just found this link which looks like it might get you somewhere -- http://linux.miningco.com/compute/linux/library/weekly/aa040698.htm good luck, kent ktb wrote: > > This may not be related to you immediate problem but I would suspect > your PS/2 has a mca microbus, if I remember correctly.

Re: man --> info?

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Why are man pages abandoned for info? They aren't for everything... > Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least > has xman viewer. Well, there's the standalone info program, tkinfo, the gnome-hel

oracle and debian

Hi; Sorry for my english Is some one know the possibility to install Oracle(8.1.5, or 8i) en a debian box(slink or potato) ? Cordialement(Best) Kazem Bakhshesh E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01.41.79.56.47 Fax: 01.41.79.56.10 Charenton Conflans

Re: oracle and debian

On Tue, 16 May 2000 BAKHSHESH Kazem (SoftCompagny) wrote: > Hi; > > Sorry for my english > > Is some one know the possibility to install Oracle(8.1.5, or 8i) en a > debian box(slink or potato) ? I would strongly recommend using 8.1.6 (= 8iR2). This release installs without serious problems, and

cdrecord problem

I have problems with my "HP-CD Writer+ 9100". My system is a potato with a 2.2.14 kernel emulating ide-scsi (no ide-cd module loaded). cdrecord is version 1.8 My CD writer is at hdc and the hard drive is at hda. The problem is that at the end of the burn out, when fixating, cdrecord says there

IP forwarding

I have a box that I want to do IP forwarding. But, I can't ping outside hosts through it. The firewall sends packets from me, but it doesn't re-forward the ICMP echo replies (although you can see them with iptraf in promiscuous mode) back. # ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): Chain forward

ipchains error

TO get around my problems with my rtl8139.o module not being recognized by moprobe, I recompiled the kernel 2.0.38 version with the driver rolled into it. This solved the problem beautifully (thanks, Peter). However, I get a load of ipchains errors on boot and now ipchains -L give me the error "inc

Re: man --> info?

At 05:53 AM 05/16/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: . Perhaps you'd enjoy the dhelp package. It's not perfect, but it works through your browser and will render info and man pages as html on the fly using (info2www and man2html). -- Where can I get info on this? Thanks. --

Jserv segfault on Debian

Hi! Has anyone got Jserv running on Debian? I installed all the required packages for Jserv, but when I run it it immediately segfaults. Any ideas? feri.

novell print client problem (nprint)

I am trying to print from my newly installed potato to an HP4000N over a Novell network. I have installed the ncpfs package and can mount a Novell drive (directory). The pqlist command works (i.e., it lists the print que I wish to print to). As root, if I issue the command: nprint -S OACS_MAI

Where can I download Potato?

Does anyone have the exactly URL of it? Thanks, Menno Slaats

Re: oracle and debian

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered BAKHSHESH Kazem (SoftCompagny)'s letter: > Is some one know the possibility to install Oracle(8.1.5, or 8i) en a > debian box(slink or potato) ? yes. we use it on a potato box as devel machine. the production stuff goes an a sun 450, *grin*. ciao, federico --

Re: grep with actual date ?

Oliver Schoenknecht said: > I am planning to do a daily system check with refused connects by > placing them in a cron job. So far, so good. But - and that's the > problem - does anyone know how to tell the "grep"-command to > filter just the refused connects of today and not all those which are

Re: IP forwarding

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I have a box that I want to do IP forwarding. But, I can't ping outside > hosts through it. The firewall sends packets from me, but it doesn't > re-forward the ICMP echo replies (although you can see them with iptraf in > promiscuous mode)

Re: IP forwarding

> I have a box that I want to do IP forwarding. But, I can't ping outside > hosts through it. The firewall sends packets from me, but it doesn't > re-forward the ICMP echo replies (although you can see them with iptraf in > promiscuous mode) back. just an idea to make it easier to spot the error

Re: Where can I download Potato?

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Menno Slaats wrote: > Does anyone have the exactly URL of it? > "ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/";.

Making my vt320 useful

actually, it's not a vt320, it's a wyse which emulates a vt320. my question is this: how do i get special keystrokes like control-X to go through as if i was typing on a local tty? The arrows and any control-key combination that isn't ^C (or a few others which are recognized by stty i think) jus

g++

I think there is something wrong with my g++ (using the latest version of frozen). If I make a file only containing #include main(){} or $include then: ~$ g++ test.cpp test.cpp:1: iostream: No such file or directory But: ~$ g++ -I /usr/include/g++-3 test.cpp ~$ I think it should wor

Re: amd home map

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... It seems, after looking at the init.d script, there's no > default way to automount something locally AND by NIS also.. Take a look at the patch in my previous posting. That

Re: Couple questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? Nothing at all. Just that instead of typing 'su root', you can also do 'su otheruser'. > Are their any noticable differences between the 2

Re: Quick Question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt with root privileges. Or if you find the mai/news/composer stuff to be excess crap which you'll not use, you can do 'apt-get install navigat

Re: amd home map

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Barak Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For autofs ... > > I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home> > > Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a s

Re: Going from DHCP -> Static IP network config

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, "S. Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What config files do I need to modify to change this box's networking > setup from DHCP-based to one using a static IP address ? Or is there > some to rerun the networking scripts that were part of

Re: bashrc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1.) Edit his/her MOTD file to print to screen a set text message at > login. (Edit your /etc/motd file, Avinash, to make it say what you want > it to say.) But, as I said before, leave the first line blank.

Re: Maikl Server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to run a mail server similar to Microsoft Exchange. Is there > something for debian out there I can use? If so what's the url? I've never come across one that buggy for Debian. :) There are do

ReiserFS and USB (was Re: udf kernel patch)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody have an idea what to do to get both USB *and* > rfs in the same kernel? Is there an USB patch for 2.3.99? 2.3.99pre-n has USB already in it. Also, the bunch that are producing ReiserFS a

Re: amd home map

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:54:29PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > > I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home> > Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single > server? The reason we are considering amd (or autofs if it is > capable) is to be able to h

Tape Backup Problem

Hi All, I've been trying to get tape backup working on a server and almost everytime I attempt to backup files to the tape drive the machine goes crazy. The load goes sky high (way over 100.00) and it stops responding to everything. Maybe someone out there has some insight on the problem. Specs:

Re: installing a printer

Hello Pollywog, On Sat, 13 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian. Is there a > tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian? Of course you can configure a printer without reinstalling. The Debian way of doing things lets you do

Re: installing a printer

On 16-May-2000 17:28:03 Daniel Reuter wrote: > Get the Printing-HOWTO at > http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html > There, all the steps are described. In short: > 1. install printer spooling software (usually lpr or lprng) > 2. install filter software (magicfilter or apsfilter, woul

Re: Tape Backup Problem

I had the same problem, but I had a scsi HP and I only tried taper. I was using 2.2.12 with slink. Kevin - Original Message - From: "JoeCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Tape Backup Problem Hi All, I've been trying t

Wanted a free library for computational geometry

Hi, I'm going to write some programs of computational geometry, so i need a library (probably a set of libs) for data type and algorithms. AFAIK there are 2 library that could hit my need: LEDA (http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA/) for data type and CGAL (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/CGAL/) for algorithms. But

RE: Making my vt320 useful

Is your TERM variable set to vt320? There are also a bunch of wyse types. See /usr/lib/terminfo/v/* and /usr/lib/terminfo/w/*. (or /usr/share/terminfo/...) On other systems there is a file in /etc/ that specifies what kind of terminal is on which serial line (gettydefs or ttytype or something li

RE: Wanted a free library for computational geometry

On 16-May-2000 Daniele Cruciani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to write some programs of computational geometry, so i > need a library (probably a set of libs) for data type and > algorithms. AFAIK there are 2 library that could hit my need: > LEDA (http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA/) for data type and C

hide the commabd executed from ps,who

How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u myname -p passsword ..people can see my password...So it would be good if I can hide what i am doing from other user...espcially for some program which I can specify m

Re: Epson 740

Thanks again for the reply. :) I tried the command you suggested for a text file and for a .ps file: # lpr -Plp4 test.ps # lpr -Pascii ftp://mattyt.net/pub/printcap Thanks for your help and patience... :) -Cheers > If you used apsfilter, your printcap probably has several printers > defined.

hypenation in tetex

How does one change hypenation in potato tetex ?? I've run texconfig and changed the /etc/texmf/language.dat - no effect. When I run Latex I still get the original hypenation: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (avt.tex LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1 Babel and hyphenation patterns fo

Re: Tape Backup Problem

>Debian 2.0 with Kernel 2.2.2 running on a Dell with >a Quantum DLT4000 tape drive. > >Details: >I attempted to do a test backup a 150meg directory to tape >using the tape >backup program "Taper" After about 10min of it running (46% I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when

RE: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see > it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u myname -p > passsword ..people can see my password...So it would be good if I can > hide what i am doing from other user...

xntp

I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using a modem. After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs far too complex to fully understand, and the program aims for far greater accuracy than I need. /etc/ntp.conf

Re: Making my vt320 useful

TERM was set to vt320. I have switched my inittab to say: T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -Lhwi ttyS1 38400 wy185 now though, so not TERM is wy185 (which is the model of my terminal). i don't think the /etc/gettydefs is necessary anyways since i specify my terminal type as an argument to getty. having

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On Tue, 16 May 2000 11:56:07 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes: >On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see >> it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u myname -p >> passsword ..people can see my password...So

Re: xntp

On Tue, 16 May 2000 20:18:08 BST, john writes: >I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's timeserver. This box >is a stand-alone one, and I connect using a modem. > >After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs far too >complex to fully understand, and the program aims fo

Alpha Server Supported

Title: Alpha Server Supported Hi Debian Users, I need to know what are the Compaq Alphas Servers supported by Debian Linux, and if Compaq Fortran for Linux Compiler run over Debian/Alpha. Thanks in advanced. Saludos, Ricardo Romero Software Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

RE: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On 16 May 00, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see >>it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u >>myname -p passsword ..people can see my password...So it would be >>good if I ca

testing... please ignore

-- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to the poster using your mailer's "reply" feature. CC's of mail to mailing lists are OK. Problem reports to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The poster's email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".

RE: Samba Setup

Ok, When I run lynx localhost:901 I get errorAlert! Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. Alert! Unable to access document. And if I try nmap I get command not found. So what do you think I need to do? -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May

RE: Mail Server

Is there a How-To I can look at to help me set this up -Original Message- From: Davide Libenzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 11:42 PM To: Jay Kelly; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Maikl Server If You need a "one package" solution ( SMTP + POP3 + FING

Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work

My problem with lyx and the Options/Reconfigure selection seems to have been caused by a bad environment variable. I had set TEXINPUTS in my .bashrc file to a set of paths I needed for a document at work over a year ago. When I commented out the TEXINPUTS= statement, Options/Reconfigure started wor

Re: Mail Server

Sorry no howto yet, but if read well this : http://www.maticad.it/davide/xmaildoc.htm You can easily setup a working server. I suggest You to read well this document to fine setup Your server especially for a security and relay point of view. I've planned anyway to setup an howto asap. Davide

ipchains error

I have downloaded the 2.2.15 kernal sources to compile my own kernel soo I can roll in the drivers for my trl8139.o card, but there is no option for that card in the config script (using make menuconfig). There was under 2.0.36. Am I missing somehting or has support for that card been discontinued

RE: Samba Setup

I notice when I go into /etc there isnt a file named smb.conf. Does that mean that samba is not installed or do I need to create the file myself? -Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:27 AM To: Jay Kelly Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subje

ip traffic control

Hi ! Is there a tool which can handle the maximum limit of kilobites what a user can use ? I want to restrict the usage of bandwith for every people. Example the online editor could use the bandwith upto 20kb-s but the secretary only could use 3 kbits maximum. So she could start to download th

Re: Tape Backup Problem

On 05/16/00, Robert Waldner addressed "Re: Tape Backup Problem": > I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when > using taper and/or kbackup. Settled down for plain tar. Plain tar is nice in some ways, but unless there's hardware compression, using compression is risky. I've b

Re: Alpha Server Supported

Romero Orellana, Ricardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to know what are the Compaq Alphas Servers supported by Debian Linux, > and if Compaq Fortran for Linux Compiler run over Debian/Alpha. Thanks in > advanced. For slink (stable):

Where is gcc in unstable?

Title: Where is gcc in unstable? This will probably qualify me as a newbie, but here it goes anyway... I have been keeping my system updated to unstable, and for a few weeks dselect is showing several suspicious obsolete packages: Section  Package    Version ===  =  ===

Re: IP forwarding

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:05:42PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I have a box that I want to do IP forwarding. But, I can't ping outside > > hosts through it. The firewall sends packets from me, but it doesn't > > re-forward the ICMP echo replies (although you can see them with iptraf in >

Re: IP forwarding

So to sum it all up: "RTFM" is your answer. I did. What I have seems very odd (almost flaky). Read my original post for the problem. -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. "Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that be

Re: Samba Setup

Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice when I go into /etc there isnt a file named smb.conf. Does that > mean that samba is not installed or do I need to create the file myself? On Debian it's in /etc/samba. "locate", "find" and "dpkg -S" are your friends! Gary

Shareable library errors

Hi all, I'm having a particular problem in attempting to run a particular commercial software package (I know, I know...) [1]. I keep getting a error that looks like this: error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol _xstat. (I've also seen an error about something called __setfpucw if

Re: IP forwarding

Some more information about my problem: As soon as I do an "ipchains -P MASQ" (yes, I know that's evil), the pings work. So, I can do masquerading. It seems the routing code isn't telling my 3c509 (or tulip card, I swapped them) card to recognize IP addresses of other nodes in the network. Am I

RE: IP forwarding

> I know. But I'm saying it doesn't even work with that. oh... O.K. > I know. If you noticed, after the cat command was listed "1" > -- it was > already enabled. Duh...I was looking at a followup message that didn't display that. Sorry. Maybe not enough coffee. :) Could you please state kernel

Re: Where is gcc in unstable?

"Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been keeping my system updated to unstable, >and for a few weeks dselect is showing several >suspicious obsolete packages: > >Section PackageVersion >=== = >develg++2.95.2-9 >devel

Re: Alpha Server Supported

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > For slink (stable): > > > I'm not sure for potato (frozen).. anyone know where the pre-release > copies are? Good question. Basically, any Alpha supported by Linu

RE: IP forwarding

> As soon as I do an "ipchains -P MASQ" (yes, I know that's > evil), the pings > work. So, I can do masquerading. (lightning bolt to head) As stated in the IPMasq Howto, "Ja, you do have to state masq'ing packets. Forwarding chain doesn't mean outside all the time." Besides all the other chains

svgatextmode

I have checked the man page and email the maintainer of this program all without being able to understand how to get the program to work. I have set X up several times, but this console display program causes me no end of concern. I don't want to have to try to reinstall everything because I scre

Rename Workgroup,etc.

Where do I change my computer Name, Workgroup and how do I rename the Samba Server?

Re: IP forwarding

> In english: > append to forward chain that on interface ppp0 from our internal network to > any destination jump to Masq'ing. > > Here's the problem: I don't *want* to do masq'ing. The ethernet card/network subsystem is not picking up that it's supposed to forward packets from the cable modem

Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is currently using Red Hat but for some reason they're considering switching to Debian. I personally don't have any experience with Debian abd honestly I'm open to anything but I was hoping for some positive feedback from people

Re: IP forwarding

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:44:53PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > Here's the problem: I don't *want* to do masq'ing. The ethernet card/network > subsystem is not picking up that it's supposed to forward packets from the > cable modem (that's what it is) to the computers on my home netw

Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is currently using Red Hat but for some reason they're considering switching to Debian. I personally don't have any experience with Debian abd honestly I'm open to anything but I was hoping for some positive feedback from people

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> Dpkg vs RPM JH> Both managability and build packages. I have heard a lot JH> of "good things" about dpkg. My experience has been that it can be extremely hard to upgrade a system from one RH release to another, and that RH is very bad about pr

Re: svgatextmode

In the program there is a configuration file /etc/TextConfig where you specify your video card and so forth. To improve your resolution type SVGATextMode 80x40x9 or whatever desired resolution you have. I use the program in that mode. You can check with the file for all the possibilities you ca

mmap- what is it?

While attempting to compile Archimedes, I got this: *** configure has detected some severe problems. Before running *** "make" you should check the following messages: ** Must have working mmap. Which package contains this? I never had this problem with this ma

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

David Z Maze wrote: > JH> Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) > JH> This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a > JH> lot of mass installs. > > This isn't quite there. IANADD, but my guess is that this > functionality will probably appear (via APT and debconf) in a few

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