Re: Login Message

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you mean the message of the day, just edit /etc/motd and you done... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bill wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me where to change the login message > when logging into Debian Box with SSH. > > Thanks in advance > Bill >

Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 18523020 Jun 22 16:08 /var/log/lastlog What do I do with this enormous creature? And how did it get that way? Why isn't this thing rotated? How can I get it rotated? (I know that's a lot of questions but I'm kinda weirded out by

simple dhcp questions...

2000-06-27 Thread Jonathan Lupa
[potato, dhcp.deb, linux 2.2] I am setting up a dhcp server so I can connect my laptop to my home system and always get an expected setup while getting a different setup whenever I plug it in at work. Sounds simple. :) I'm having 2 problems detailed below. I'm trying to get the following: ip: 1

Helvetica

2000-06-27 Thread Fumi Nishiyama
What do you say "Helvetica" in Japanese? I'm a user of MAC G4 in Japan, and planning to buy ATM and PS font. 西山富美 株式会社ランドマーク 東京都渋谷区恵比寿南2-1-9 朝井ビル5F 〒150-0022 ℡:03-5725-7021 fax:03-5725-7027 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Window manager not starting on upgrade to potato

2000-06-27 Thread Daniel Free
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had similar problems, the basic fix is to make a file in you home directory called .xinitrc that contains the command (wmaker) that you want run on startup. At 14:47 26/06/00 +051800, Suresh Kumar. R wrote: >Hi, > >I upgraded my deb 2.1 to potato

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
Patrick Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If /usr and /usr/local are right next to each other, you should be able >to delete both of those, and then recreate a single partition using the >same cylinders that were used for two partitions before. > >I have not tried this though Back up your syst

BACK PAIN

2000-06-27 Thread John Aidiniantz
The Luklinski Back Pain Clinic92 Harley Street, London W1 England.Tel: London 0207- 487- 5492 Emergencies:0410-901140www.back-pain.co.uk Dear Sir/Madam, Some 400,000 back operations are performed in the USA every year although the majority of these o

RE: squid errors

2000-06-27 Thread zdrysdal
Hi but how can i identify who is accessing this site? I have checked in the /var/squid/access.log and all it tells me is that my firewall is accessing that site. Not particularly helpful is it. It is weird... i am sure that, in the past, the access.log revealed the ip address of the requesting

RE: squid errors

2000-06-27 Thread zdrysdal
-- Forwarded by Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 on 27/06/2000 10:30 --- Zane Drysdale 27/06/2000 11:27 Sent by: Zane Drysdale To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: squid errors (Document li

Can NIS go through firewall

2000-06-27 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi We're trying to get NIS to work arround here. When testing locally everything is ok, but we wan't it to work across two different networks and there is a firewall in between. We've tryed to open up the firewall but without results. Has anyone got any comments on this? Thanks -- Mari

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-27 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
And for another thing, I looked at ftp.debian.org and the disks-i386 directory for woody is empty. What then is the upgrade process? Using the "dist-upgrade" method of "apt-get"? If so, I still need to know the answer to my previous question: Will system files, like /etc/{fstab,profile}, be overwri

Re: To strict dependencies when building package

2000-06-27 Thread Kjetil Thuen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >gtk and gnomelibs. How can I make the package reflect this? Manually > >typing the dependencies into the Depends field in the control file seems > >very kludgy. > > Short of building your packages inside a stock potato chroot, you might > try using a de

Re: OpenGL stops X

2000-06-27 Thread Felix Natter
Seiichi Ariga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: try C-M BACKSPACE (Control+Alt+Backspace). (if this does not work, read man XF86Config, look for "zap"-option) if you are not using the nvidia-drivers, consider upgrading to mesa 3.2. -- Felix Natter

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sven> "specification" for this? Or does it simply not matter? :) > >AFAIK there's no written standard for this yet, but soon there will be >(the Linux Standard Base). You can check their drafts. Read /etc/init.d/README and

netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-27 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do - log in as prem - launch netscape - xhost +local: - su - sec - export DISPLAY=:0 - launch netscape The second netscape I got is the one of "prem", not the one of "sec" as expected. If I

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
> > After a system upgrade, my dictd does not work any more. It can connect > > dict.org but it fail with localhost. The only information I got was: > > >Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) Can't connect to localhost.2628 > > I think /etc/dict.conf and dictd.conf are ok. > > Does anybody have some suggest

new pine binaries available.

2000-06-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A message was posted to the Bugtraq list on Friday, June 23 describing a buffer overrun in pine that can be used to gain an sgid mail shell if Pine is sgid mail. Jaldhar Vyas (unofficial unofficial maintainer) has released new Pine packages to address this issue

RE: getting .deb files after removed from incoming

2000-06-27 Thread Per Marker Mortensen
At Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:09:15 -0700 (PDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http.us (or other countries) .debian.org is usually a better way to get debs > than ftp.debian.org. http.(country) is a round robin, so you get a new > machine > each time. There is only one ftp.debian.or

Re: kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade

2000-06-27 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks Noah! That did it! --Bryan On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > > However, the next time I do an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, apt wants > > to mess this all up. I have tried naming my ker

RE: Synchronising many machines.

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>I am maintaining quite a few machines that run Debian._ I presently only >have access to a 56K modem link._ I have some powerpc machines and some >intel machines._ I presently try to keep them in sync by doing an >"apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" on one intel machine and one powerpc >machine

RE: getting .deb files after removed from incoming

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2000 Per Marker Mortensen wrote: > > > Hello > > Newly uploaded files to debian are located at > http://incoming.debian.org/. When the files are accepted they are > moved to the main-archive. > > How often does ftp.debian.org sync with this main-archive? > > I want to install the ne

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
FWIW, I ran gmp and X together under Slackware, Slink and now Potato. The biggest problem I found was that the gpm install set the repeat mode to ms3 (IIRC). The solution here was to simply set the repeat_type parameter in /etc/gpm.conf to an empty string. According to the man page the repeat_typ

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:18:42PM -0400, paul wrote: > [...] > > In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a > > mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but > > the mouse will not auto-switch

apache + tomcat ..?

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I installed apache via apt-get, and trying to use it with mod_jserv.o from tomcat gives an error: Cannot load mod_jserrv.o into server, Error: file's Phentsize is not the expected. Debian Apache seems bto be 1.3. Any way to tell what options it was made with? Any ideas on the incompatibility

RE: Login Message

2000-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jun-2000 Bill wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me where to change the login message > when logging into Debian Box with SSH. > geisha [~] $ ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Sun Jun 25 13:11:48 2000 from silicon.su.valinux.com on pts/5 Linux geisha 2.2.15

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, paul wrote: > In my expirience, this problem is mouse dependant, on one box I have a > mouse that requires a different protocol under gpm than under X-window but > the mouse will not auto-switch when X-window starts, so I don't run gpm on > that box. It is mouse de

ports 1024 and 6000, what are they for?

2000-06-27 Thread paul
Hi all. (I'm here to demonstrate my ignorance) What are port numbers 1024 and 6000 used for? -- ptw miscelaneous endeavors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

g++ ?

2000-06-27 Thread erasmo perez
hi people! where can i download the latest (unstable) g++ compiler package for debian ? i have tried with all the mirrors and no one can offer it why ? thanks erasmo

Oracle 8i and Debian?

2000-06-27 Thread Mike Barton
Subject says it all... anyone got this setup going and if so, was it a bunch of work? Seems like RedHat's 2 grand is a bit much for a "certified" Linux for Oracle. I'd much rather use Debian. Any amd all comments welcome.  

Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank van der Hulst
Help!!! I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is /bin/tcsh Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out

HP Postsript printer

2000-06-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I just upgraded my HP LJIIID to native postscript via a plug in cartridge. How do I configure Magic Filter so I now print natively in Postscript (I was using gs to handle the ps to pcl conversion before)? Thanks! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Li

Re: Window manager not starting on upgrade to potato

2000-06-27 Thread Suresh Kumar.R
Finally I managed with a .xsession in the home directory Suresh - Suresh Kumar.R Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016 INDIA On Tue, 27 Jun

https / SSL question

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello, I'm hoping someone has had experience w/ HTTPS / SSL. There seems to be very little documentation on HTTPS. I just have a few questions: 1) Are all socket connections in HTTPS (specifically version 1.1) done through SSL? 2) In HTTP 1.1 (not 1.0) you can send multiple GETs through

strange eth0 error

2000-06-27 Thread David C Ables
I have a somewhat unpredictable problem with my network card. it's using the tulip driver module with potato and kernel 2.2.15. sometimes, without any noticeable pattern yet, after I do ifconfig eth0 192.168.36.1 it will wait a while and then start spitting this out over and over: eth0: Tx hung

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "John" == John Anthony Kazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> And for another thing, I looked at ftp.debian.org and the John> disks-i386 directory for woody is empty. What then is the John> upgrade process? Using the "dist-upgrade" method of "apt-get"? Yes. John> If so, I still need to kn

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-27 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:36:21PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having some problems with Postfix. I added the following lines to > /etc/postfix/main.cf after reading the Postfix FAQ esp. the Dialup > section: > > relayhost = smtp.pathcom.com > > delay_warning_time = 4

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Is there a way to login as root, and specify the shell to run? Very easy if you have physical access to the machine: Reboot, hold the Shift key while LILO is booting, enter the default booting image name (e.g. Linux) and append init=/bin/bash

Re: ports 1024 and 6000, what are they for?

2000-06-27 Thread Mark Suter
Paul, > (I'm here to demonstrate my ignorance) We all start out ignorant of the world - it is only be asking questions that this can change ;) > What are port numbers 1024 and 6000 used for? Port 1024 might be squid and port 6000 is probably your X server. To find out for sure, use lsof(8), as

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-27 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:04:20PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: [...] > That was how it was configured by default when I installed potato, and when I > would move the mouse it would jump randomly around the screen, usually not > being drawn, and all of the buttons would click randomly, brin

Re: default permissions on new users' home directories

2000-06-27 Thread Rodríguez
check /etc/adduser.conf Seeya At 01.16 27/6/00 +, Jim Breton wrote: Is there a way to configure this? It gets kind of tiring having to chmod the directories of new users. :) I suppose I could make a wrapper script around adduser, but I'd like to avoid the kludge-method if possible. Than

problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread Oreste Salerno
Hi people, I have a quite strange problem with the Debian potato: I want my cdrom reader and writer (hdb and hdc) to be ignored by the ide-cd module driver, in order to activate for them the ide-scsi module and use as normal SCSI devices. In ide-cd.c it's written that I should put in modules.conf:

gpm and new kernel

2000-06-27 Thread Petteri Heinonen
Hello. I compiled new kernel (2.2.15), and gpm doesn't work now. My previous kernel was also 2.2.15, and gpm worked out fine. I included mouse support and ps/2 (my mouse is ps/2 mouse)support in kernel, so I can't figure out what I'm missing. When I start gpm with -D option (which should put it in

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Corey Popelier
I have a sysklogd file in /etc/cron.* directories. I assume this is from the sysklogd package. My logs didn't start rotating until I installed this package. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:

SCSI-controller not detected

2000-06-27 Thread Marcel Karras
I've got a problem installing debian GNU/Linux 2.1. All works well until the point where the system is checked for peripherals. All but the SCSI-Adapter is correctly detected. I've got an AdvancePeripherals-Hostadapter. (2931 U2W HOME) The program tries to detect the adapter-card (pci) but th

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread montefin
Bob, It only looks that big. Do this: du -k /var/log/lastlog and tell us what it says. montefin PS, you can win bets on this one. I have. Bob Bernstein wrote: > > bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog > -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 18523020 Jun 22 16:08 /var/log/lastlog > > What do I do

Re: netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-27 Thread Marc O. Sandlus
Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have > two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do > ... > everything is fine. If somebody know why this happens and a > workaround, I will be glad to hear them. Hi Christophe, Yes, I experience the

Re: strange eth0 error

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've had similar errors, they dissapeared when I recompiled the kernel (and went from not-modules drivers to modules). Ron On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, David C Ables wrote: > > I have a somewhat unpredictable problem with my network card. it's using > the tulip driver module with potato and kernel 2.2.

Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Mário Filipe
Hi A couple of days ago, I sent a message to this list about procmail. Meanwhile i had problems with my mail and never saw the awnsers, if there were any. I did get a glimpse at one of the awnsers (probably the only one) that mentioned permissions. So I tryed with several permissions including 0

Re: Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Excerpt from 'man procmail' : Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile ($HOME/.p

Re: Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Mário Filipe
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:06:11 Michalowski Thierry wrote: > Excerpt from 'man procmail' : > > Suspicious rcfile "x" The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the > file was world > writable, or the directory that contained it was world > writable, or

Re: quick question on annoying netscape

2000-06-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > john smith wrote: > > > > hello. I'd like to know how to get rid of that annonying netscape group > > icons near the bottom right-hand side of communicator. (the > > navigator,inbox,newsgroups,addressbook and composer). well, maybe I can > > leave the navi

Viper V550

2000-06-27 Thread Ton Sonnemans
Debs,   Can anybody help me to find the xserver for the Diamond Viper V550?   thx Ton  

RE: Viper V550

2000-06-27 Thread Jason Holland
According to http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html its the SVGA server. Jason >Debs, > >Can anybody help me to find the xserver for the Diamond Viper V550? > >thx Ton

Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it started not only installing g77, but upgrading 17 other packages. Among the different packa

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of > swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that > after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it > started not only installing g77, but up

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> Check out "parted". I have not used it myself, but it looks as > though that is something that could be used for this. You can find > it at TUCOWS Linux. > Also debianized for woody: [16:34:02 /tmp]$ grep-status -P parted Package: parted Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Sec

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have a quite strange problem with the Debian potato: I want my cdrom > reader and writer (hdb and hdc) to be ignored by the ide-cd module driver, > in order to activate for them the ide-scsi module and use as normal SCSI > devices. In ide-cd.c it's w

Re: Error in syslog

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can anything be done about the following error? > > Jun 24 10:22:55 deb pppd[1058]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy > ARP It's not an error, just a fact. The proxyarp option is best left in the file, but is not satisfied if there's no e

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:13:50AM -0600, montefin wrote: > du -k /var/log/lastlog bash-2.03$ du -k /var/log/lastlog 10 /var/log/lastlog > and tell us what it says. Hmmmthe game's afoot Watson! What a strange animal. So, there is a reason why lastlog is not rotated like all the rest?

mutt and nfs

2000-06-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all. I have the lastest mutt package (from woody) and read my mails with fetchmail in a /home nfs partition mounted. I have .muttrc from Sven Guckes. I'm havinng problems to delete messages from mbox files. It complains about locking errors. So I cant store mbox files fro

Booting from network

2000-06-27 Thread Jim Koontz
I have an old Sparcstation LX that I'd like to install Debian on.  It has no CD-ROM, or floppy drive.  The network card does have a boot PROM, however, I cannot get the sparc to boot over the network.   I have downloaded the boot image, and the Debian base install to my server (6.0 Red Hat).

Re: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread montefin
Bob, Is it possible you have an application like qmail which Debian requires to have exceptionally high numbered UID's? Like say upwards of 65000? /etc/passwd will show you your UID range. In any event, lastlog 'logs' over your entire range of UID's from the lowest to the highest _including_ all_

Xfree 4.0 and Bttv

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Richter
Hy, I've installed XFree 4.0 to get my 2 Monitors with a matrox g400 and a s3 virge dx grafik card bur now I cant get a overlay from my tv card (miro pctv). Grabdiplay still works fine but it's very slow. I've tried every memory adress which I found message of the xserver but nothing works I still

NTFS

2000-06-27 Thread Goeman Stefan
Hello, If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS mounted partition. However if I try this I get an error message in the style of "permission denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/.." (whereby /mnt/winnt) is the place where I have my NT partition mounted. Am

Re[2]: Eumongoid lastlog file

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible you have an application like qmail which Debian requires > to have exceptionally high numbered UID's? Like say upwards of 65000? > /etc/passwd will show you your UID range. You would have won that bet too: alias:x:70:65534:qmail alias:/var/qm

Re: resize - delete partitions ??

2000-06-27 Thread Patrick Draper
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It won't work; the filesystems won't be merged by that kind of dodge, > just the partitions. You're right. I should have added the information that you need to fully backup the /usr and /usr/local partitions before you delete and recreate a single

deleting old mail via at/cron-script

2000-06-27 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi debianers, I want to delete old mail via at/cron, so that my mboxes of mailinglist contain only the last 200 messages. With which debian-package could I do that? -- Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de

Re: NTFS

2000-06-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
Goeman Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I am correct, it should be possible to read and write from/to an NTFS > mounted partition. > > > However if I try this I get an error message in the style of "permission > denied, can not create file /mnt/winnt/.." > (whereby /mnt/winnt) is the p

Re: apache + tomcat ..?

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:31 AM 06/27/2000 +0200, you wrote: just do a httpd -v for getting the version. If u are using 2.0 tomcat will not work there. U need 1.3.X (better 1.3.12) Let me know if u wanna a pre-compiled version. -- yes please. I have 1.3.3 and 1.3.13 (from apache) I wanted to remove the Debian

Re: Oracle 8i and Debian?

2000-06-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
I'm running Oracle 8 w/ Potato on a production server. It was a PITA to get running but it runs very well. You'll find the discussion forums at Oracle.com an invaluable resource. Regards Jeff

Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread adam.edgar
The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose from and Ive chosen pine for my use. Im new to it and have tried to discern how to set up a filter so that the mail from this list goes to a seperate folder if any one know how to do this I would be thankful for their help.

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread Christian Surchi
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:38:29AM -0500, adam.edgar wrote: > The Unix machine I get my mail on has only a few mail clients to choose > from and Ive chosen pine for my use. Im new to it and have tried to > discern how to set up a filter so that the mail from this list goes to a > seperate folder if

Printing of Email attachments??

2000-06-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
This is not Debian specific, but I want to setup an automatic Email and attachment printing system; whereby all email sent to a special address is printed including all attachments. The basic need is to handle incoming applications with several (usually graphic) attachments for transcripts, re

Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

2000-06-27 Thread M. Tavasti
"I. Tura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a > good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to > take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware? Maybe that's not telling you much, but

logrotate depends on mailx - mailx does not appear to be available (woody)

2000-06-27 Thread Lee Revell
Hello, I did apt-get update the other day, which informed me that the mailx package was 'obsolete', so of course I purged it. Logrotate apparently depended on this package, so I got rid of it too. Now when I try to install logrotate again it says logrotate depends on mailx mailx does not appea

Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Bill Barnes
Hello the list: Anybody in this subject category? Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe directories are different??? Specifically: su postgres /etc/rc.d/init.d/post

Re: g++ ?

2000-06-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:31:28 +0200, erasmo perez wrote: > where can i download the latest (unstable) g++ compiler package for debian ? ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/g++*deb HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried t

RE: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Curt Salada
Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following SCSI-related errors in dmesg: NCR 53c406a: no available ports found Failed i

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Most Unix mailers don't do filtering themselves. Instead you should use procmail. It's an incredibly flexible filtering program. Here's the procmail recipe I use for this list: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./mail/archive/debian-user This redirects mail to debian-u

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:07:47AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > I uncommeted the referred line but dict still doesn't work (now > telnet localhost works...). > Would you have another suggestion? Can you post what you get after running 'ifconfig'? Also make sure 'dictd' is running w

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello the list: > > Anybody in this subject category? > > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. > Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe d

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. Debian GNU/Linux works fine, and there's a .deb of PostgreSQL available in Debian. 6.x is in potato, b

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Curt Salada wrote: > > Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: > > My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 > and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following > SCSI-related errors in dmesg: > > NCR 53c406

Re: SCSI-controller not detected

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
> Marcel Karras wrote: > > All but the SCSI-Adapter is correctly detected. I've got an > AdvancePeripherals-Hostadapter. (2931 U2W HOME) The program tries to > > °SYM53C895 (adapter itself) -> UW/U2W, Port number:6300, IRQ level: > 10, Host SCSI-ID: 7 > °Pioneer CD-ROM DR-U11.01 -> U-SCSI, SCSI-

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > (This assumes you haven't set packages to "hold".) I see. Does apt-get install something

gdm without gdm?

2000-06-27 Thread joey tsai
Hi, I'm running the newest Helix Gnome core packages and could really do without gdm. But, I have to say I do like its functionality. So, is there anyway I can achieve what it does without running it? Like, can I continue the session and start up the gnome components, etc. via startx? /

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you haven't set packages

Re: gdm without gdm?

2000-06-27 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:01:11PM -0400, joey tsai wrote: > Hi, I'm running the newest Helix Gnome core packages and could really do > without gdm. But, I have to say I do like its functionality. So, is there > anyway I can achieve what it does without running it? Like, can I continue > the ses

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you

Probs printing PS files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 (parport)

2000-06-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hi out there, I've got Problems to print PostScript files with lprng/magicfilter/gs on a NEC P7 connected to the parallel port. Hardware info: :~ > cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : Pentium Pro stepping

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:07:47AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote: > > I uncommeted the referred line but dict still doesn't work (now > > telnet localhost works...). > > Would you have another suggestion? > > Can you post what you get after

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-27 Thread Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
> Can you post what you get after running 'ifconfig'? Also make sure 'dictd' is > running with something like "ps ax | grep dictd" -- who knows, maybe it just > died... Well, lo seens to work: ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread jpb
Bill Barnes wrote: > Last used 6.5.3 in SuSE, so new to both 7.02 and debian. Debian not in the > list of supported platforms at Postgresql web site. > Installation seemed to be okay, but maybe directories are different??? > Specifically: > su postgres > /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start -i > resp

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Burgener
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:10:25PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Read /etc/init.d/README and /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz Looks good. Cheers. -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

building gimp-print gs driver problems...

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I downloaded the gimp-print driver 3.1.7 from the sourceforge page and ran the "make-deb.sh" (after modifying it to do "make Ghost" instead of "ghost") and it downloads the gs and related source and builds it. I then end up with a file named "gs-stp_5.10-9.1_alpha.deb" which fails to insta

wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes

2000-06-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-( About half a dozen times per hour (sometimes even more often) I see lines in syslog like the following, which indicate crashed instances: wu-ftpd[28359]: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault Before I upgraded from stable to frozen my FTP

which libs to install?

2000-06-27 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi debs When trying to fetch and compile the latest sources of leafnode, the following happens: debian:~# apt-get -b source leafnode [snipped] dh_testroot rm -f build-stampmake -i realclean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/leafnode-1.9.14' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `realclean'. Stop.

Re: which libs to install?

2000-06-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 21:49:39 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > grep: /usr/include/netinet/in.h: No such file or directory > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot > create executables. > Looks like some libs

Re: Java support? (apache + tomcat)

2000-06-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I know jserv is available, because I have it (1.1-3). I installed the jdk myself because I wanted 1.2.2. Are you running potato or slink? (I'm running potato). Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I want to run current java tools, and don't find any in the modules that > dselect shows.. > > I did get apache,

Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-27 Thread Oreste Salerno
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but > > still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directly from > > the command line: > > > > modprobe ide-cd ignore='hdb hdc' > > Perhaps it's

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