copy to NT via smbfs problems

2000-07-17 Thread zdrysdal
Hiya i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs drive on my NT box. look at what happens : lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not permitted cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652593a.tif: Operatio

Re: tekram dc-390u2w

2000-07-17 Thread ferret
No idea if their driver has anything over the stock kernel driver. Only thing I notice with my u2w was the lack of activity light after kernel boot. Of course my new case doesn't even have a second HDD light. :/ On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, tjm wrote: > Hi. I'm about to install a tekram dc390u2w scsi >

RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

2000-07-17 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Sarcasm? Hardly. I came to perl via Sanskrit. The way perl compresses > such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied, > say, the Vyakarana sutras. > > -- > Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting. I've studi

Re: how to enable multi line ISDN?

2000-07-17 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello. On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:40:51PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > I've connect with ISDN to the internet. I've 128K capable line(s) but I've > only 64K connection. In my case, I had to choose an adequate init string for my ISDN modem, and then dial like this: ATD557&557 Dial my ISP

Re: shell script at boottime

2000-07-17 Thread Manoj Victor Mathew
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 10:00:09PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > It'd be better if you put your script in /etc/init.d/myscript.sh and > > made a /etc/rcS.d/S60myscript.sh symlink pointing to it. > > I can't seem to remember the name I saw, but isn't there a tool in > Debian for managing

from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

2000-07-17 Thread virtanen
Hi, I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got slink working more or less well. My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the kernel. It was pointed out by 'Nathan' on this l

RE: unable to unmount

2000-07-17 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: unable to unmount Hi, I'm just a bit confused about that stuff, too... I suppose your nfsd daemon is not considering access to your cdrom device until there is a nfs request to mount it. You could issue an "lsof" command on your nfs daemon before and after a nfs mount request on it,

RE: tekram dc-390u2w

2000-07-17 Thread Wagener, Michael
Hi, the driver supplied by Tekram does not compile with newer kernels. It seems to be unsupported and discontinued by Tekram. So there's no real option, is there? Mike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:07 AM > To: tjm

Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device

2000-07-17 Thread Johann Spies
> > >I have a small but recuring, and annoying problem. Every now and then, > > >my little xconsole starts spewing out the messages below, after which X, > > >and sometimes the whole system, usually crashes. It's somewhat > > >disconcerting. > > > > > >Jul 16 23:00:32 rei kernel: attempt to access

Re: e2fsck+raid+linux 2.2.16 = crash?

2000-07-17 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got just - jyst the same problem. Anyway i'm lost becouse i have several raid-soft working on other systems but i havent got to get working a new one with a 2.2.16 kernel. any help? At 15.40 14/7/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Today... > >

Re: Domain names in spain

2000-07-17 Thread Alberto Rodríguez Ortega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just use www.nominalia.es/com For getting a .es u'll need send some information wbout company etc. It's a bit hard to get a .es Seeya At 15.51 15/7/00 +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: >Sorry for the off topic question, but I know there are people here

Re: driver

2000-07-17 Thread Tolga KILICLI
As I could remember mine is the same as yours... And in my etc/modules, I added these; sound ad1848 uart401 cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 Also these are written in somewhere near kernel source... tk. On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hein Barlag wrote: > I have a Crystal Soundcard cs 4236 > but a

Re: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

2000-07-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
(entering this thread rather late... but still responding to the original message!) virtanen wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Try: > > > > $ for file in *.doc; do mswordview $file > ${file%.doc}.html; done I certainly did... You've got some good answers already, so I wo

anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Joseph de los Santos
I'm going out of my mind when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen: -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's password. Can a script be used for this? and anyone kind enough

Re: Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

2000-07-17 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
> alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 > pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi not also that when emulating SCSI, instead of hd?, you'll have scd? so my burner is no

Re: PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO THE VP-CUSTOMER SERVICE

2000-07-17 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
Why are these lists suddenly getting a lot of crap mail? just curious... On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:33:40PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Please forward this e-mail to the person responsible for overseeing >customer service, technical support or your call center. Please >consid

Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent for binary file? Regards, Pavel M. Penev

Installing.

2000-07-17 Thread Martin Svensson
Hello, I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it also got two type III PCMCIA for network/radio cards. Now I have

Re: Installing.

2000-07-17 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote: > Hello, > All I need > to know if is there is or will be available a complete install package for > ms-dos. I can install the rest from a network, with a network card running > ne2000 compatible drivers from the type III slot. > > I hope you understan

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Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Andre Berger
"Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm going out of my mind > > when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be > disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's >

Re: Can't mount cd when using SCSI emulation

2000-07-17 Thread Esko Lehtonen
"Brian E. Ermovick" wrote: > > > > alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 > > pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi > > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi > > > not also that when emulating SCSI, instead

XTERM settings?

2000-07-17 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I have hamm on my machine. When starting xterm, I can not use backspace to delete a character on the command line. The term is set to 'xtern-debian'. What did I miss? I am not on the list, send me back to freemail.hu Gabor

Re: executing a command within mutt

2000-07-17 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:36:24PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > When I try to issue an alias (set in ~/.bash_profile) inside mutt, > (with '!') it won't recognize the alias. > > On the shell prompt OTOH, this works as always. Is it that alias'd > commands don't get exported to mutt or what? >

telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login prompt. Wh

About Kernel

2000-07-17 Thread Marco Presi
Hello. I'm Marco and I would like to join the Debian world :), and in the while I'm collecting some informations. I have a question (much more a curiosity) about the kernel provided by Debian. I know taht many distributions (as RedHat for example) use to patch the kernel in their distribution, in

telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on my LAN, I can ping it, and it can ping out. The trouble is however, when I try to telnet into the computer it connects but no login prompt appears. The same applies with ftp, it says connected, but again no login prompt. Wh

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
About telnet: It COULD be a misconfigured firewall (see what ipchains -L gives you) About ftp: firewall could also be the problem, but maybe you're not running a ftpd. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > Hi, I just installed potato and set up the computer correctly for use on

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in the users home-dir. The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that for more info), the closing part, here the idea I got on th

Re: telnet and ftp in potato

2000-07-17 Thread Triggs; Ian
This could be it, as I have a cable modem connected straight into my hub, and another computer on the network being the firewall, however it only has one card so it is using the one ethernet card for both the cable modem and the LAN. On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > About telnet: It CO

apt-get problem

2000-07-17 Thread Michal F. Hanula
When I try to run apt-get upgrade, it stops with mount: can't find /usr in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr' E: Sub-process returned an error code I don't have a separate /usr partition (The machine has a 200MB HDD). Any sugestions?

im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread LêíGh
Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research on the different Linux distributors including Debian GNU/Linux. And I am hoping that you could help me out. I just want to ask somethings: 1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean that you don't have

Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread FIOL BONNIN Antonio
I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the answer: I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin, netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only solution I have found is removing the plugin. I have tried with the Java plugi

Re: from slink to potato -> 'wd' ethernet card?

2000-07-17 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote: > I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got > slink working more or less well. > > My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd > module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with th

changing imp DB

2000-07-17 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've a working setup of imp+mysql and I would like to change it to imp+postgresql. What files should I change/run to accomplish this? I found /usr/share/horde/buildlib.php3 but I don't know which script should I run to update the whole installation. Thanks, []s

Re: copy to NT via smbfs problems

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > i am trying to copy lots of image files from my Debian box to a shared ntfs > drive on my NT box. look at what happens : > > lelouvre /home/cdcut/CDWed# cp -af 00 /win2k/images > cp: /win2k/images/00/16/52/59/1652592a.tif: Operation not

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > I'm going out of my mind > > when a user logs in a terminal this is what will happen: > -automatically starts x-window, all keybindings and or hotkeys will be > disabled, run netscape and it can't be closed without asking for the user's >

Re: Installing.

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote: > Hello, > > I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts > for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where > we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it > also g

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Riku Saikkonen
"Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent >for binary file? There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first differing byte (if any). As for why not: * diff is helped a lot by the fact that the input is li

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Lee Willis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > >for binary file? > > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first > differing byte (if any). "cmp -l" will rep

Re: Our Information We offer PE-AL composite pipe from China

2000-07-17 Thread Jason Wong
Dear Sir, We are glad to have learned your e-mail address from the http://www.untpdc.org BBS and we are writing to you with the hope of establishing a long-term relations. We, Foshan Rifeng Enterprise Co., Ltd. are a new & Hi-tech enterprise in Guangdong Province, China. With production te

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:23:05AM -0700, Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms? The keycodes map between keys on the keyboard and numbers. The function doesn't change if someone changes their key mapping with something like xmodmap. Keysyms,

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say > > I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the > answer: > > I have Netscape installed, and whenever I try to install a plugin, > netscape stops working (Bus error when trying to start it). The only > solution I hav

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Antonio Fiol Bonnín
How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one? Thanks! Antonio On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Once upon a time, I heard FIOL BONNIN Antonio say > > > > > I imagine that this question is a FAQ, but I don't know where to find the > > answer: > > > > I have Netscape inst

Re: Netscape & plugins

2000-07-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Antonio Fiol Bonnํn say > How do I check if my Netscape is a libc6 one? [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search communicator-smotif communicator-smotif-473-libc5 - Netscape Communicator 4.73 (static Motif) (libc5 version) communicator-smotif-408 - Netscape Communicator 4.08 (

Re: display export??

2000-07-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. the use of xhost to do this is grequentlyh considered a security risk by folks who understand such things (But I'm not one of them, so don't ask me to explain why :) There's (at least) two secure ways to do things. One is to, as the logge

software development $1200 specialist/month

2000-07-17 Thread Alexander Deribo
You can save on your software development if you outsource a software development project to Russia www.semantica.ch We offer high quality at reasonable prices ($1200 per specialist per month). We specialize in system analysis, information system design and software development: - Business sof

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > For the starting of x-windows, I guess you could but startx in .login in > the users home-dir. > The netscape part it quite a bit more difficult ( I guess you can start it > using .Xsession or something, but you'll have to check the docs of that > for

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On 17 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote: > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > >for binary file? > > There is "cmp", but it reports only the position of the first > differing byte (if any). > > As for why not:

Installing the packages

2000-07-17 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Debianers, I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to install the packages but don't select one by one, select the tasks and profiles. How can I do this? And I want to install the res

Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I am trying to compile a simple X application but I keep getting the folloeing error: gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called under Linux. Thanks. -D

Re: Installing the packages

2000-07-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:18:38PM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > Debianers, > >I installed Debian 2.2 base system and when the computer asked me which > packages I want to install I canceled dselect to do it after. Now I want to > install the packages but don't select one by one, s

Re: im doing a research

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
LêíGh wrote: > > Hi! Im a student here in the Philippines and Im currently doing a research > on the different Linux distributors... > I just want to ask somethings: > 1. Since Debian is a non-profit organization, does that mean > that you don't have any stocks information? Yep. (no stocks)

Re: tekram dc-390u2w

2000-07-17 Thread tjm
Thanks for the reply. Out of curiosity, what are you considering as "newer" kernels. I was able to compile the tekram dc390x_ncr driver for the dc390u2w both in a 2.2.16 kernel and as a module in that kernel with no errors, but I haven't tried to run them yet. This still leaves the original p

BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

2000-07-17 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi, all! Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my system. Now I cannot compile linux kernel because of signal 11 raises (Segmentation fault). I've read the Signal 11 FAQ (http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/)

Re: Firewalling a single machine

2000-07-17 Thread bsamuels
** Reply to note from Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:14:30 -0500 (CDT) > PMFirewall is a set of perl scripts that will give you a good beginning on > what is generally believed to be a secure firewall. It should do what you > want. > > The homepage is http://www.poin

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jonathan Heaney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright wrote: > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which > > only exists

Re: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries

Re: BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX Gigabyte mainboard

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Conrado Badenas in "BIOS and hardware configuration for GA-5AX * Gigabyte mainboard" dated 2000/07/17 19:02 wrote: > Hi, all! > > Is anyone out there who owns a GA-5AX (rev 5.x) gigabyte mainboard? I > would like to know the best BIOS and hardware configuration for my > system. Now I cannot com

AfterStep and using Themes

2000-07-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I was hoping matbe someone on the list might be able to help me. I am trying to install a new theme into AfterStep. I have downloaded the theme and placed it into: ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes. I had to make the directory themes, does it need a specific premission ? Then I start X

where to find info on ptty programming?

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network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread James Polson
Hi, I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users (so I hope!). I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer. The symptoms

telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network sniffer on my ip to catch the data? I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH from ISP shell to home machineis this just a

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Mike Werner
Ethan Pierce wrote: > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network > sniffer on my ip to catch the data? Yup. And there's plenty of different apps out there to do just that. > I telnet to my ISP

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in > > lib.inc.php on line 90 > > Did you install the PostgreSQL package for PHP? And did y

Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Brian Schramm
Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone stuck a disk in a drive that has the potencial of booting off it so I know if a reboot will do what

How do I get mail archives?

2000-07-17 Thread Pavel M. Penev
(I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... ) Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in section "Commonly Requested Addresses": Mailing List Archives

Re: kerneld message / Workaround

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do > > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe w

Re: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
I tried all sorts of combinations but don't seem to be able to get it going. What is the name of the Xlib library files? Here are the things I tried. Any other advice? Thanks. gcc test1.c -lX11 test1.c: In function `main': test1.c:18: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' /usr/bin/ld: can

RE: Help compiling Xlib

2000-07-17 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 17-Jul-2000 Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I am trying to compile a simple X application but I > keep getting the folloeing error: > > gcc -g -o testapp test1.c -lX11 > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Any suggestions? What are the Xlib libraries called >

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why don't you try to mount the floppy or the cd, if it succeeds, there's a disk / cdrom, if it fails, there not... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there is a > disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Brian Schramm
That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But they will still boot from them. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: >

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread Esko Lehtonen
James Polson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethern

Re: How do I get mail archives?

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
"Pavel M. Penev" wrote: > > (I know you like to help, so here is something to make you feel good... ) Well, thank you for the opportunity! > Can you, please, inform me on what is the procedure of getting a mail > archive? What I have found is at "http://www.debian.org/contact"; in > section "Com

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
How about cat /dev/fd0 will that work? Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Schramm wrote: > That only works on normal floppies. If I have a boot floppy in there that > was created a special way most systems will not mount them directly. But > they will still boot from them. > > > Bria

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Bob McGowan
You could try mounting, if that fails then use dd to try and read the device. If it succeeds, then there is a disk there but without a normal filesystem. You might then assume it is a special boot image floppy, or if you know what sort of magic information to look for, you could try checking for

Re: network/ethernet card configuration problem?

2000-07-17 Thread Bolan Meek
James Polson wrote: > > ...problems connecting with the ethernet card in my computer. > > The symptoms are: > > (1) ..."network is unreachable" ... > > (2) ..."ifconfig -a", ..."eth0", ...not there. > > ... > > Information about my system: > > (1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card. > > (2) I have

Re: Monitoring program

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Brian Schramm in "Monitoring program" dated 2000/07/17 14:25 wrote: > Is there a program that I can run in Linux that will tell me if there > is a disk in a floppy or a cd in a cdrom drive on a machine? I > control machines remotly and it would be nice to know if someone > stuck a disk in a dri

Remote Apps

2000-07-17 Thread Ethan Pierce
Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from work...normally this works fine. Today I thought I would just boot up my home machine to the login and leave it there to save some processor...theoretically this is supposed to work? I called another friend (this is b4 I left for

Logging printer usage

2000-07-17 Thread Cory Rudder
Hello, Has anyone had to log printer usage? I am trying to locate a package that would be capable of such. All it needs to do is simply pass PS traffic from one nic to another, after asking the user to enter a job number or such. I have considered using a proxy package for this, but it seems to be

Re: Why not diff binaries?

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Majewski
Hm? I use diff on binaries all the time.. -chris On 17 Jul 2000, Lee Willis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: > > > "Pavel M. Penev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Can someone tell me a sensible reason for not having a 'diff' equivalent > > >for binary file? > > > > There i

Re: Remote Apps

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Majewski
Definitely shouldn't work this way. Look in /etc{rcS.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d} and so on to see if they have a symbolic link to /etc/inetd (I think this is the one you want) called Sinetd, where , are digits. Then look in /etc/inittab to find out what runlevel you're at before anyone logs in. (Runle

Sending hard reset signals to hardware under Linux (fwd)

2000-07-17 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
Hi folks. The forwarded question below is from my friend. I don't know the answer. Can anyone help me out? He's running slink. Thanks. Syrus. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Rex Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROT

Re: What is SIOCSIFFLAGS, and when will he be back?

2000-07-17 Thread Raymond L. Zarling
Yes, I have booted linux both from a cold start and after running windows, with no difference. But I guess that indicates some kind of Plug and Play problem. I don't think that's what's going on in my case, since the dmesg output (recorded below) says to me that the kernal is talking to the card

Re: dhcp network

2000-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
If your DSL router is in fact a DHCP server you can just install the pump package and run it on eth0. If your router isn't a DHCP server (or doesn't proxy DHCP) then I couldn't begin to guess how you'd get the IP address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-17 Thread Alberto Brealey
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:21:05PM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:15:01AM +0200, Remco Rijnders wrote: > > > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in > > > lib.inc.php

Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Pascal Martin
I have the following problem: I have one fully installed computer, and I want to install a second one the exact same way.   I would like to avoid selecting all the packages manually.   Is any automated way exists ? Something like listing all packages from the existing system and generating a

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian Schramm wrote: > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it? I > am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist

Re: AfterStep and using Themes

2000-07-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
1.7-1.8 Afterstep has a builtin theme support. You can use that engine, or do it by hand, just untar the tarball, and put files into appropriate directories (manually). If you will use the theme engine, go to GNUstep/Library/Afterstep/themes directory, and put your tarball there. Next update all, a

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Pascal Martin
Considering the answers I got, I feel my question was not adequat.   I want to clone the same list of installed software, but the base installation may differ slightly because the two computers do not have the same hardware: different disk capacity and video card. They also will have differe

Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

2000-07-17 Thread Louis F. Melahn
I have solved the problem; I forgot to set up the "dummy" network module. L.M. Timothy Ritchey wrote: > > > > > Unable to bind port 16001 > > > > > > > > and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I > > > > > > I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on > > my system when

strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
When I'm running vmware I get these strange log messages, should I worry about them, are they deadly? My machine has 160 meg and vmware is setup to allocate 64M for vmware clients. Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for squid... Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_t

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it? I >

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a > network sniffer on my ip to catch the data? Yep. Telnet was written back when worrying about pe

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Actually, I think there are a whole LOT of issues with file > sizes > 2GB on ext2 and 32-bit machines. Best place to look for an > explanation would be a searchable archive of the Linux kernel mailing > list, like: > > http://www.uwsg.

Re: 2gig file

2000-07-17 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:04:53PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Brian Schramm wrote: > > > OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been > > reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If > > I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade wil

Re: Cloning an installation

2000-07-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections To get the same packages installed on the other do: dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine) copy the file from thatmachine to the new one dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one) Ron Rademaker On Mon, 1

Re: strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > squid... which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in them. upgrading to the last 2.2.17pre should solve the problem. moritz -- /* Moritz S

Re: strange log messages

2000-07-17 Thread Ashley Clark
* Moritz Schulte in "Re: strange log messages" dated 2000/07/18 01:33 * wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: > > > Jul 17 16:04:31 ghoti kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for > > squid... > > which kernel? 2.2.16 or early 2.2.17pre's? it's a known bug in t

Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern

2000-07-17 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Building Debian Packages by Example: Packaging dlkern When: Wednesday 19 July 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Facilit

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