RE: SCWM/GNOME

2000-07-06 Thread Larry Elmore
> From: Patrick Dahiroc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i'm switching window managers from enlightenment to scwm (it's about > time i learn lisp). i'm using gdm as my display manager, which - > correct me if i'm wrong - simply runs gdmchooser, gdmlogin, and > gnome-session or Xsession depending on w

Re: scp alternative

2000-07-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to > prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a > pas

Re: woody man segfaults when run as root

2000-07-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:21:16AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Tuesday, 04 July 2000 at 20:21, Brendan Cully wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I noticed that my up-to-date woody system (plus helixcode) has a man > > which segfaults when run as root, but works perfectly as an ordinary > > user. Anyon

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as > compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. > > Try recompiling the kernel and select "Western Digital/SMC cards" > in 'make menuconfig', either 'y' or 'm'. > > > > That doesn't

Re: Helix's gimp1.1 deb's and aalib1 out of date

2000-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Trying to install gimp1.1 from the helix'es DEBs, I've run in a > problem that it depends on aalib1 >=1.2-29, but the aalib1 which is > available is version 1.2-25. > > Any ideas where this package is available from for potato? It's not, it's in unstable. You can grab it fr

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

2000-07-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
One problem I had with that card is as follows: Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, possible IRQ loss. I swapped card out of computer, p

Re: Pb with dselect/dpkg

2000-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
This was posted to the wrong list, redirecting. Benoit NOSS wrote: > In the installation process of the Debian 2.1 distribution, I missed an > important step : I did something wrong and I could not choose an > installation profile. I have a base system working. Can I use dselect > with an option o

Re: how can my program interact with dpkg

2000-07-06 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 06, 1992 at 04:54:48AM -0700, a wrote: Fix your system clock. > my C program starts dpkg by exec. How can my program know when dpkg prompts > user for input (e.g. dpkg execute a installation script) and how to send > user input to dpkg? -- Karsten M. Self ht

Re: /etc/mtab wiped clean after mke2fs is run

2000-07-06 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > This is weird. > > On potato, running mke2fs wipes out the existing /etc/mtab file > (it's zero size) such that `df' and `mount' have no record of any > mounted filesystems. > > Anyone else seen this? No. You can copy /proc/mo

Re: Securing telnet

2000-07-06 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just PuTTY can be a good one too, check: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ At 22.32 4/7/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: >On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I'd also look into ssh clients for

Re: Supported Hardware.

2000-07-06 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
Check: http://lhd.datapower.com/ u'll have a complete list of supported hardware (with a search-robot). At 08.48 5/7/00 +1000, Carl Burton wrote: I'm about to quote on a number of servers with Intel's ISP1100 1RU rack mount servers.  I need compatiblity for debian linux for: Adaptec 29160LP L

Re: TkDesk problem

2000-07-06 Thread Andre Berger
"Larry Elmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been a fan of TkDesk for 3-4 years now, but since switching to Debian, > I've had a very annoying problem with it, and I was wondering if anyone > could help me solve them? > > I'm using 'woody' and the TkDesk .deb. The problem is that TkDesk keep

Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-06 Thread pseelig
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > But is not enough yet, since it is not clear how I put the contents of > the boot floppy into "file". > Try to understand this here: --- snip #!/bin/sh # diskcopy echo "diskcopy - physical copy of floppy disks" echo -n "Insert

Re: Network (internet) problems

2000-07-06 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are u sure that is a "local" problem? I was working on a ISP which havent any control over the modem-pool (just sub-renting this ones) and sometimes we detected some problems just with that. The problem was on the asscend in that case (poll of mode

Re: Kernel upgrade

2000-07-06 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10.06 5/7/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >Hello Group, >I decided to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and ran into a >problem. This is what Im doing. >I extract the kernel while im in the /usr/src/ directory. Then I >made a directory /usr/src/li

Re: sawmill is a herring bone screen

2000-07-06 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Not sure of Sawmill's default behavior, but the herringbone is the > > default X Windows background (there's a reason for it, lost in the mists > > of time). > > Not particularly lost. Such a display makes

Re: X is "out of resources"

2000-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i recompiled 2.2.16 without the openwall patch and hope it fixes it! i think it will.. thanks for the response :) nate On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: reznae >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reznae >> Anyone know what might cause this: reznae >> reznae >> X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (

Re: Upgrade advice

2000-07-06 Thread John Gould
You don't need woody, potato is fine. The upgrade from the existing archive or CD's is sweet, see Anne's doc's on the upgrade. Works really well... Regards JohnG John Gould - Systems Support Engineer Power Innovations Limited Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Windows here, 's very

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP)

2000-07-06 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > One problem I had with that card is as follows: > Ethernet-HOWTO suggests and you turn off the PnP mode, and set it to a > specific IRQ/base. Until I did that, it would not work absolutely, and in > syslog I would get a message about Tx/Rx timing out, pos

Re: Image copy of a floppy, how?

2000-07-06 Thread Gianluca Montecchi
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: => I created a boot floppy during my kernel upgrade, but I would like to => create another copy-backup in case a problem occurs with my only boot => floppy. I am not sure how to do it, I read that: A quick method can be: # cat /de

Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard

2000-07-06 Thread Christophe Jasiak
Hi! Thanks for your answer, i think that it will help but i'm trying to fix the kana key to directly use the hiragana keys ( ta, te, i, su, ka, n...). So if anybody know how to do this (if it's possible)... Thanks a lot for your help! Christophe "Mettez un pingouin dans votre PC" Jasiak -

old libraries

2000-07-06 Thread tom
howdy guys, in launching an application, I get the following error: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I installed the termcap-compat package, and the app simply crashed. What am I missing? (the "app" is REBOL, btw) --

gdm-Screensaver

2000-07-06 Thread Hans Gubitz
How can I install a sreensaver for gdm? Hans Gubitz -- Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Can i run solaris binaries under Debian Linux/SPARC ?

2000-07-06 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Sorry, if this is a FAQ, but can i run Solaris binaries under Debian Linux/SPARC, provided that i got the needed Solaris libraries and licenses ? TIA Heinrich Rebehn "Have disk - will travel" University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Departm

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:39:20AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > It's a kernel problem, not a distribution problem. Your kernel, as > > compiled, probably does not have the wd.o module. > > > > Try recompiling the kernel and select "Western Digital/SMC car

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013EP); Slink, Potato, Corel

2000-07-06 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > The wd module was there on the list, but install failed. > > The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is > loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon. Meanwhile, what could I do? What kind of packet to install to

apache & php

2000-07-06 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi, I'm trying to install apache and php - all of it seems to be installed correct and works ok. But when I try to load the site it would like to download the page instead of viewing it. Any ideas ? Best Regards Allan Get Y

Re: apache & php

2000-07-06 Thread Robert Waldner
the following did it for me: --- ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/mime.types application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php application/x-httpd-php3php3 application/x-httpd-php3-source phps application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed p

Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install

2000-07-06 Thread A. Scott White
I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on the rescue floppy): rdev -R linux 1 rdev -r linux 0 rdev -v linux -1 rdev linux /dev/ram0 I then copied the kernel onto the rescue floppy. The i

RE: apache & php

2000-07-06 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I've seen this a couple of times now. If you are using potato, and install apache and php3, check to make sure that apache has loaded the php module. For php3, In your /etc/apache/httpd.conf you need a line similar to: LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3

Re: [NEWBIE] Japanese keyboard

2000-07-06 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: I am trying to setup a keyboard for a phonetic language (an Indian language) but have been unsucessful in getting the keyboard programmed. The issue is that the the current output keycode will not only depend on the current key pressed, but also on the previous key pressed. Do you know how I c

Re: apache & php

2000-07-06 Thread Allan Andersen
From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the following did it for me: ka:/home/waldner# grep php /etc/mime.types application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php application/x-httpd-php3php3 application/x-httpd-php3-source phps application/x-

Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I can get this controller from buy.com for CDN$79 so it's very cheap. I intent to use it mostly for external devices (CDRW, Zip, and an Ultra-SCSI ORB 2.2 GB removable-media drive). Anyone have comments or better suggestions? Thanks! BTW, I already have an Adaptec 2940U Ultra-SCSI controller,

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2000-07-06 Thread Petró Zoltán
Hello azt szeretném megtudni, hogy a Debian linuxos CD -je mennyibe kerül és, hogy, hogy kell fizetni. Előre is köszönöm.   Tistelettel Smirnof

Yamaha 4416SX! Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote regarding the Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller: > I can get this controller from buy.com for CDN$79 so it's very > cheap. I intent to use it mostly for external devices (CDRW, > Zip, and an Ultra-SCSI ORB 2.2 GB removable-media drive). > Anyone have comments or better suggestions?

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

2000-07-06 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 Sven Richter wrote > Hy, > I try to configure my MUSTEK 1200SP and > > "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" > > shows this > > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0f > Type: CD-ROM A

Re: Ethercard Plus Elite 16: (WD/8013

2000-07-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
You should have the disk with drivers for your card. On that disk could be something called ezstart (or of the kind), thats a program to setup the card. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Walter Williams
Greetings I have subscribed to this list server to find out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. Is the Debian distribution of the type that I can, when I want to update the kernel, download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch file from what ever web site I choose, install it, and have things

Re: Samba Setup

2000-07-06 Thread Kent West
Jay Kelly wrote: > > Hello All, > I thought I would take a crack at Samba so I installed Samba. Now > what do I need to do for my window98 clients to log in to samba? What > change to my network setting will I need to make? Will my Primary Network > Login be Microsoft Family or Client for Microsof

Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi again, I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as the Advansys 3940UA. It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver. Should I go for that instead? Thanks! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Walter Williams wrote: > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever we

Debian Printing

2000-07-06 Thread rickloga
I've been installing Debian for a month now and at the point where I want to print. I have the Debian shrink wrap distribution put out by VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI. It includes a book published by O'Reilly. There is nothing in the book about installing printers. I've read the 50 page HOWTO o

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Walter Williams wrote: > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever web site

Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Hiya folks. Got a bit of a question - not exactly sure how to phrase this so please try and bear with me. At the university I attend, the CS department has a central server named naur. There are CS labs scattered around the university, including some across town. Now, from any of those labs whe

Re: Debian Printing

2000-07-06 Thread Taupter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been installing Debian for a month now and at the point > where I want to print. I have the Debian shrink wrap distribution > put out by VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI. It includes a book published > by O'Reilly. There is nothing in the book about installing print

apt-move, merge ??

2000-07-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs downloaded by apt-get is right on. But here's the deal. I have multiple debian (potato) machines on my network, and only one with the disk space for a mirror. It's a server and doesn't have X installed. However, pretty much all

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread James Green
Walter Williams wrote: > > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever web sit

Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-06 Thread Markus Fischer
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : > Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get > connected automatically to naur. All of the account info is (I presume) > stored on naur as well. This basically sounds like NIS (Network Information System).

RE: RE: Samba Setup

2000-07-06 Thread Walter Williams
Hello I setup and got Samba working with a Win95 machine. Under the "My Computer" you right click on the item you want to share and select "Sharing" from that menu and set up the item for sharing. It's pretty easy to understand. In the Control Panel, Network, setup your you'r Windows system to ha

Re: Mounting AFFS R/W?

2000-07-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Michael Fedrowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:28:57 -0500, Alan wrote: > > Hi, > > > The mount for the removable, even R/O, always fails with this message: > > > > mount -t affs -o ro /dev/sdc /mnt > ^ > > the partition number is missing (probably 1, tho

Re: Compaq ProLiant ML350

2000-07-06 Thread Lee Elliott
"A. Scott White" wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. I'm getting closer. > > I compiled a 2.2.15 kernel with Compaq Smart Array2, placed it onto the > Rescue floppy and ran the following rdev commands on the kernel image: The > install can now see the controller and the 1 l

Re: Helix Gnome vs Debian Gnome -- worth the upgrade?

2000-07-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Kent West wrote: > > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:15:34PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > I tried to install HelixGNOME via the instructions for Debian on > > > the helixcore website (lynx -source blah blah blah), and chose > > > option 3 (full install), and it looked li

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

2000-07-06 Thread Lee Elliott
Lee Elliott wrote: > > Sven Richter wrote: > > > > Hy, > > I try to configure my MUSTEK 1200SP and > > > > "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" > > > > shows this > > > > Attached devices: > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > > Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0f > > Type: CD-ROM

Re: Kernel Source Code [New User]

2000-07-06 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 05 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > Umm, yes and no. Kernel 2.2.15-3 is patched against those > vulnerabilities. 2.2.15-2 and previous are not. Humm... Sorry... I wasn't refering to kernels from Debian (and, to be honest, I don't use them), so I really don't know (I onl

RE: Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install

2000-07-06 Thread A. Scott White
I hate to be a pain in the @ss, but if anyone could possibly help me with this I would really appreciate it. ORIGINAL MESSAGE: I compiled a new kernel that included Compaq Smart Array support. I ran the following rdev files on it (I got these from looking at the rdev.sh file on the rescue floppy):

Re: RE: Samba Setup

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Walter Williams wrote: > The thing I never did figure out how to do was to > access the windows shares from Linux. This was > because my wife started whining about how since > I setup a network that it was slowing down her > computer. If the Windoze box is called winbox and the shared drive is C

Re: exim question

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote > How can I use multiple domains with exim, eg both the domains domain.com > and otherdomain.com run on a machine and I want this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user bar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to user hello > [EM

RE: apache & php

2000-07-06 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher
You need to specify a mime type for your php docs. on our server I have: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps in the srm.conf Wes Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [

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2000-07-06 Thread Todd Suess
Howdy Folks, I tried to do a dist-upgrade about 3 or 4 days ago, and I got the following messages, which are still happening today. The following NEW packages will be installed:   alsa-base libasound1 The following packages have been kept back   kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork k

Quake2 debs?

2000-07-06 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
Where can i find quake2 debs for unstable? I remember using debs once before, but i can't find any now (except for 2.0, which don't work). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have the metabolism of a dead turtle." --David Austin pgpMMsL2rWl0C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Problems with Apt-get dist-upgrade.

2000-07-06 Thread Todd Suess
Howdy Folks, I tried to do a dist-upgrade about 3 or 4 days ago, and I got the following messages, which are still happening today. The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-base libasound1 The following packages have been kept back kdeadmin kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdenetwork k

Upgrade to woody

2000-07-06 Thread Jay Kelly
Hi Guys, What should the /etc/apt/sources.list point so I can upgrade from slink to woody? thanks -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org

Re: Securing telnet

2000-07-06 Thread John Galt
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I'd also look into ssh clients for Windows. I know there are Java > > clients available. > > I can recommend TeraTerm with the SSH exte

Control of relaying on local domains

2000-07-06 Thread andreas palsson
Hello. I'm using Listar as mailinglistsmanager on a Slink system, and I had to modify 'exim.conf' a little to allow relaying from Listar: --- #sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_net_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1/32 --- This works fine now, but I'm little concerned about security. Have I opened a ho

bad package install help!!

2000-07-06 Thread Nick
hello list: recently i tried to install ipmasqadm from a tar i ran into some dependency issues and decided to look for a deb i couldn't so i turned a rpm into a deb w/ alien the problem i have now is that the ipmasqadm.deb package will not install properly because of my previous attempt of ins

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:56:11AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > Suppose for example you want to allow exteral rlogins to your > > computer. I presume you modify the inetd.conf file to include the line: > > > > login stream tcp nowait root /usr

help on telnetd problem

2000-07-06 Thread zhaoway
I cannot telnet to my system, neither remotely or locally, see below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: getpty: Permission denied . Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ cat hosts.all

Re: help on telnetd problem

2000-07-06 Thread YeMa
I have met same problem, 555 zhaoway wrote: > I cannot telnet to my system, neither > remotely or locally, see below: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1 ~ $ telnet localhost > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > telnetd: getpty: Permission denied > .

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Aaarrgh! Not the dreaded r-services! Don't allow them. Shut them > > off. They are evil, and a great source of amusement to all > > crackers. Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as >

dropping support for cvsweb in debian

2000-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the cvsweb package for Debian. Since I took on maintaining cvsweb, I have fixed about 10 very stupid bugs. Several of these could be security holes. Cvsweb is great in concept, but the implementation is quite lacking. The design is such that I expect security holes and st

Re: scp alternative

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:09:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my > > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to > > prevent it co

menuconfig won't start

2000-07-06 Thread Philipp Schulte
Hello, I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded 2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this message: nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering direct

Re: menuconfig won't start

2000-07-06 Thread ktb
Philipp Schulte wrote: > > Hello, > I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded > 2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this > message: > > nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C s

Re: Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-06 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:15:10PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote > > Hi again, > > I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the > Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as > the Advansys 3940UA. It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver. > > Should I go for that inst

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:22:06 +0300, Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In my experience, it is. The laptop I'm using has a 2.4.0-test3 > kernel and the machine at home, Where did you get a "2.4.0-test3" kernel? The last one I saw was test2.. There was also a "test2-ac22", in Alan's

anyone know ipmasqadm

2000-07-06 Thread Nick
anyone know how to setup ipmasqadm? so far i got a hold of a rpm package and aliened it installed it and i have problems using it. no man no ipmasqadm utiliy what gives? anyone know of a deb that works???

RE: RE: Samba Setup

2000-07-06 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
That's easy..i.e. viewing and accessing a Windows 95/98/NT share from a Linux box. Use smbclient or smbmount. For example, say you have a shared directory on the M$ Windows box ("c:\My Documents" on the computer "Windoze"), on your Linux box, execute the following to make sure the share is availabl

Kernel bugs in 2.2.x

2000-07-06 Thread Dragon
I've just read from http://geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/150/3977992 Alan Cox admitted that there are faults in 2.2.x VM, that would affect transaction at high load. I'm developing a database server on Debian which is presently upgraded to woody, and the kernel is 2.2.x. The result of this devel

Re: Kernel bugs in 2.2.x

2000-07-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:32:51AM +0800, Dragon wrote: > I've just read from http://geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/150/3977992 > Alan Cox admitted that there are faults in 2.2.x VM, that would affect > transaction at high load. > > I'm developing a database server on Debian which is presently up

Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Markus Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : > > Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get > > connected automatically to naur. All of the account info is (I presume) > > stored on naur as well. > > This basically sounds like NIS

IPMasq problems

2000-07-06 Thread Daniel Free
ipmasq: In my flat my k6 200 running debian 2.2 is the firewall/gateway box. dialing up with a 33k modem etc. I have installed the package ipmasq and it worked sweetly. the only problem i have is on the client machines (1 or 2 windows depending on the day and 1 or 2 linux also depnding) napster

Apach mod_include

2000-07-06 Thread Daniel Free
One of the web servers here (Debian 2.2 apache 1.3 (i think) ) has a perl script/cgi that is a basic text counter. we have had it running on previous servers but i cant seem to get it running on this one. the script requires mod_include which i have uncommented in /etc/apache/httpd.conf and then

XFS

2000-07-06 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, SGI says that XFS is a 64-bit journaling filesystem. So basically XFS can't be used on Pentiums. I'm missing something, right...? Oki

Re: anyone know ipmasqadm

2000-07-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
ipmasqadm is contained in the Debian netbase package (for potato, at least). On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:58:50PM -0700, Nick wrote: > anyone know how to setup ipmasqadm? > so far i got a hold of a rpm package and aliened it > > installed it and i have problems using it. > > no man > no ipmasqadm

Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

2000-07-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't. So I want to set up my own. But I'm a bit unsure about what links I should put where. Can anyone tell me? Thanks, Mark. P.S. Please cc replies to me as I rea

Re: Apach mod_include

2000-07-06 Thread Daniel Free
What doesn't output? If just the counter doesn't output it would be because your path to the cgi-bin had the leading slash so it is an absolute path. Have you made sure that the script executable and the log file or whatever it is that the script uses is writable? is the part that should give s

Apache default configuration?

2000-07-06 Thread Chris R. Martin
I've installed Apache 1.3.9-13.1 (from frozen) I can access the default page from my windoze box, but any other page (including the links on the default page) gives 403 Forbidden. I've check and all the directories and files should be world accessible. Why is the debian package configured lik

Setting up network

2000-07-06 Thread maynord
Dear Debian Friends: I am working on converting several machines running W95 to a Debian system running Helix-Gnome. My plan is to use Samba to talk to the existing NT server. However, I am unsure as to what the best tool is for network configuration. Some Linux distributions use linuxconf or

Re: Broken mime handling in netscape

2000-07-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:05:21AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Has anybody worked out a way to get netscape's mime handling to work > reliably and consistently? I'm getting sick of the following problem, > and I'm sure I can't be alone. > > Currently, every time I click on a link to a plain te

laptop & dhcp

2000-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
we got a few dell laptops with pcmcia ethernet and are trying to get it to work with dhcp the one with potato on it seems to launch dhcp every *other* time. apparently the pcmcia tools are calling the dhcp client by itself but its curious that it only does it every other time.. anyone else had th

Re: Setting up network

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
maynord wrote: > Also, I often find it necessary to use ctrl-alt-f1 to open a virtual > terminal and do some work. I can never get back to the Gnome desktop. > Any way to do that without shutting down X? You should be able to switch back to X by hitting alt-f7 (presuming you've not enabled mo

Re: Making my own /etc/init.d/local and setting up links

2000-07-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:27:10AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > Debian really should automatically set up for you, a /etc/init.d/local > file with all the appropriate links to /etc/rc*, but it doesn't. > > So I want to set up my own. But I'm a bit unsure about what links I > should put where. C