netatalk nits

2000-08-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hi, I installed netatalk on a potato system (which is also a Samba server). When I try to copy a folder from a share to a Mac, the folder itself is created OK but for every file foo in the folder the Mac displays the following message: The file "foo" couldn't be read, because it is in use. Do yo

2.2.12 potato and extern controller Promise ATA 66 ultra

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Walter
It's about the ext controller from Promise ( ATA 66 ultra ). My Kernel doesn't seem to recognize it. As I'am trying to change my Server from SuSE to Debian and therefore the $HOME-Directory is needed. Is there a patch available or do I need to download a new kernel ? cu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proxy servers in Linux

2000-08-14 Thread Kelly Corbin
Any one know how to set up a proxy server for a particular port in Debian? Couldn't find any info in the archives. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Kelly Corbin -- -- Kelly Corbin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- On the web @ http://www.theiqgrou

Re: 2.2.12 potato and extern controller Promise ATA 66 ultra

2000-08-14 Thread Kelly Corbin
Patches can be obtained from the IDE Linux project at: http://www.linux-ide.org/ or http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ I have use the patches here and everything works flawlessly. Kelly Mark Walter wrote: > > It's about the ext controller from Promise ( ATA 66 ultra ). >

Re: Proxy servers in Linux

2000-08-14 Thread Tom Marshall
The question is a bit vague, but I would suggest looking at rinetd. On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote: > Any one know how to set up a proxy server for a particular port in > Debian? Couldn't find any info in the archives. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > Kelly Corbin

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

2000-08-14 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > for i in `ls`; do > > > echo -n "$i: "; > > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > > echo "done."; > > > done > > > > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one i

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> make-kpkg

2000-08-14 Thread John Reinke
I've successfully accomplished what I needed, but I ended up doing everything as root. I use xconfig, and that wouldn't work unless I logged into X as root. So: a) How "bad" is it doing everything as root? b) How/where is this done that files can be created and xconfig run without being root? I'v

Re: stymied by Deb, went FreeBSD instead

2000-08-14 Thread mike
i have 13gb hd and have installed FreeBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE...but the best for me is Debian/Stormix. I use Partion Magig to create the linux ext2 and swap. Then go to Stormix.com and d/l the newest iso named hail. Its really Debian potato with 2.16 kernel and helix-gnome for re

Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian

2000-08-14 Thread Ethan Pierce
Its my experience that you cannot use lilo per se with the win2k and debian combo. What I do is have the triple boot of debian, windows ME and windows 2000. I use the dd utility to get an image of the bootsector. I then add the entry of the linux sector to the boot.ini file for nt5. Windo

Re: Proxy servers in Linux

2000-08-14 Thread Kelly Corbin
Specifically, I need to access Oracle on a machine that is only accessible through a web server. The web server has two network cards, one is for the net, the other connects to the Oracle server through a switch. The Oracle server and the second NIC are on a private local network (through 198.162

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-14 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:42:20AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > No it's not, it's a defect in the way gpm hands the mouse to svgalib. ie, > it doesn't unless svgalib goes into graphics mode. Mercury oughtta fix > that with another hack.. =p Put svgalib into some pathetic VGA mode and > it wil

need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I have just turned off telnet, wu-ftpd, and apache. I now lose my router rapidly--loading some pages does it, apt-getupdate does it, some webpages do it. My connection was stable for weeks before this. I've tried to go to the search at www.debian.org, but it is one of the pages that seems to kill

apt-get help

2000-08-14 Thread Ted Roden
this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me crazy... I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm getting errors for packages I didn't try to install. Not the dependancies of the package i want, but a totally unrelated package... ie: $ apt-get install lynx Reading Page lists... Don

Re: Arghh! Can't compile the kernel!

2000-08-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Arghh! Can't compile the kernel! Date: Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:43:30AM -0700 In reply to:Karl Matheson Quoting Karl Matheson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Alright, > > I finally got Slink installed and running on my new computer, but I need > more help. When I try to compile

Re: apt-get help

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says?? It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this is giving trouble... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software wi

using outgoing smtp server with mh (where's the fm? :)

2000-08-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
There's probably an easy, stock answer for this, but I'm not finding it. To keep the network folks happy, this machine needs to be incapable of sending mail on its own. I've reconfigured exim to deliver locally only, but I can't find what I need to do to have mail from mh sent to my outgoing smtp

Re: Routing Problem

2000-08-14 Thread Sian Leitch
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:27:47AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > I'd check your ipchains/ipfwadm rules. > > If you're running kernel 2.0.x, what does the output of > # ipfwadm -I -l -e > # ipfwadm -O -l -e > # ipfwadm -F -l -e > > look like? > > If you're running kernel 2.2.x, what does the ou

can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-14 Thread John Reinke
I am not able to ftp from my private network, through IP Masqerading. I now have Debian 2.2, and I had Debian 2.1 before. As far as I can tell, I have set up IP Masq the same way as I did before. Before, I could use ftp clients on any machine in my local network to access anything outside my netwo

apologies if this is rtfm

2000-08-14 Thread John Griffiths
apologies if this is rtfm if it is can someone please tell me *which* FM i should be RT'ing is there an easy way to bring a stormix box over to full debian? i know there is a howto on doing this with corel... last time i tried simply changing the sources.list and things got ugly but that might

Re: still unable to get kernel source

2000-08-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:21:43PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > > > > Dumb question: should all the documentation within > > /usr/share/doc/kernel-package be .gz files? Is there an easier way to view > > all the documenation here w

Problem with upgrade and xterm

2000-08-14 Thread Brian Schramm
OK, I had a working Debian slink system that allowed 2 Sun Xterminals to work off of it. I had a problem with my hd so I rebuilt the system from scratch not knowing what has been damaged (yes I am running with no backups). Since the Potato reliese is close to done, I desided to take this time and

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Scriven
At 19:28 2000/08/14 -0500, you wrote: I am not able to ftp from my private network, through IP Masqerading. I now have Debian 2.2, and I had Debian 2.1 before. As far as I can tell, I have set up IP Masq the same way as I did before. You need the ip_masq_ftp.o module installed, OR you need to

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-14 Thread John Reinke
I've got IP Masq compiled into the kernel, but I don't remember a selection for that in the kernel config. What was that? Also, I've tried both passive and non-passive in the clients (both mac and windows). >At 19:28 2000/08/14 -0500, you wrote: >>I am not able to ftp from my private network, thr

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like "can't find boot image" off the HDD? Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wilson Yau Sent: M

printing with SLRN

2000-08-14 Thread Dale L . Morris
I configured printing in my 2.2 potato version using redhat's printtool. Everything prints fine, messages print from mutt without error, but when I try to print using slrn, I get an error: Printing article...sh: lp: command not found Printer process returned error code 127 I've looked through the

I need driver Relisys Avec easy 3

2000-08-14 Thread Tadeco A.C.
  Do I have a scanner Relisys Avec easy 3, but did I lose the controller (driver) and cannot I install it, How could it get it?  Thanks

I need driver Relisys Avec easy 3

2000-08-14 Thread Tadeco A.C.
Do I have a scanner Relisys Avec easy 3, but did I lose the controller (driver) and cannot I install it, How could it get it?

ran out of input data

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Martin
I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows.  I haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a conventional IDE drive.  It attaches to its own sound card.  Anyhow   1: I have defrag'ed the drive 2: I turned off the virtual memory in win 95 3: I fips to sp

Re: Routing Problem

2000-08-14 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:04:27AM +0100, Sian Leitch wrote > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 02:27:47AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > > > > I'd check your ipchains/ipfwadm rules. > > > > If you're running kernel 2.0.x, what does the output of > > # ipfwadm -I -l -e > > # ipfwadm -O -l -e > > # ipfwadm -F

Re: ran out of input data

2000-08-14 Thread Kent West
> Andrew Martin wrote: > > I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows. I > haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a > conventional IDE drive. It attaches to its own sound card. > Anyhow > > 1: I have defrag'ed the drive > 2: I turned off the virtual m

Console display - font & line sizes

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi all Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of lines per screen for the console?? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph

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