Re: 'menu' package : question : console support ? ; mailing-lists

2000-08-31 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:26:15AM -0700, Sean Champ wrote: > > if the debian 'menu' package [ > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ ] does offer > console-support , this email can probably be disregarded. Well, i don't believe menu has a non-command-line interface at all. It j

Re: apt-get question

2000-08-31 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:41:53PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > the debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > from time to time you get asked, wether you want to delete these > files. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, these are packages containing binaries, not source. If you want to down

Re: telling apt to ignore and continue

2000-08-31 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:50:20PM -0500, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > > Majordomo was removed from the official distributions, but I needed it. Have you looked into other mailing list programs that are included in the Debian distribution? > It was automatically removed when I used apt-get dist-upgra

Re: q ad refusing smtp-conns with sendmail

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:19:44PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > > > > > I´m looking for a solution which will let me refuse smtp-connections > > from some hosts with specific 5xx-error-messages. > > > > Any hint in the right direction? (Other tha

Text apps that are using an xterm and are being run from the menu system.

2000-08-31 Thread Shaul Karl
A few weeks ago I reported a problem that I have with all the text apps (gnuplot, ftp, top, etc) that use an xtrem and are being run from the menu system (like in Apps->System->Top). More specifically, the problem is that in these cases the xterm that was just opened does not use my ~/.Xresource

Re: what's wrong with Debian's ftp sites?

2000-08-31 Thread Brad
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:52:47PM +, Pollywog wrote: > The ftp sites shown below have not worked for me for several weeks. > Are they just very busy? Yes, try logging into them with an ftp client and you'll get a message about too many users. Can you use http://http.us.debian.org instead?

Re: LI after install

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Here's what a get from "Linux Kernel Insternals" : Startup Messages : LI : the first step of the loaderhas been able ro load the second step whose processing then failed. This can be caused by an incorrect geometry or by repositionning the file boot.b without reinstalling the loader. Also, is you

Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hi all Does anyone know where I could get the config files of the pre-compiled kernels found in Potato ? thx.

Re: Apache mod_rewrite

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:18:14PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > I need to do the following in order to access stats for each based > virtual host > > when typing url www.virtualhost1.com/stats or > www.virtualhost99.com/stats > server page located under /var/reports/virtualhost1 or > /var/rep

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:35:55AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > I haven't read everything Debian yet, but wouldn't you want to save the > above scripts as something more like /etc/init.d/setleds, then: > > #chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/setleds > #ln -s /etc/init.d/setleds /etc/rc2.d/S20setleds

Re: Dream Machine (sort of...)

2000-08-31 Thread Leningrad Cowboy
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:39:31 +0200, you wrote: > In Catalonia he have a saying: to pay expensive is to pay cheap. In Italy too :))) That's why perhaps he'd better buy a complete workstation or server already tested with linux. I saw a list somewhere but now I can't remember the url. Len

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:51PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > If we don't look at the ads the advertisers won't pay anyone to put them > > there and the sites will all go away. > > It will no doubt come as a shock to you to learn that there are Web sites > that do not depend on banner ads for s

Re: Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > Does anyone know where I could get the config files of the pre-compiled > kernels found in Potato ? The config files for installed kernels are in /boot/. The config of the kernel in the base tarball is in dists/stable/mai

Re: Odp: Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But this guy talks about security holes just by checking package version > numbers! He dosn't look what has been done with package (debian specific > changes including backported fixes for security holes). I often wrote > maintainers that Debian should implement right

Re: [OT] Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Vitux
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > sorry about the OT message. > While on the topic of realtek8029, I have got a pcmcia 8029 > ethernet card and it works perfectly under linux. > > But I can never get this card working under w2k :( > Anyone have any ideas? > > Sh

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:37:46AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > That is *not* why we backport security holes. > > Let's look at apache. A security hole is discovered in apache. Debian has a > current version (1.3.9) in it already. The apache team releases 1.3.10, with > a fix for the security hol

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:52:22PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:51PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > If your advertisers want me to look at their ads all they need to do is > > come up with content that interests me. So far none have. > > and present them in a reasona

potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Egbert Bouwman
During my slink-life I have developped the habit to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. The real files are in /local/etc . This system has advantages and drawbacks. The big question now is what happens to this structure wh

Re: Apt-get doesn'f find propose-updates

2000-08-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Aug 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > > On 30-Aug-2000 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > In ftp.uk.debian.org the README file for proposed-updates in potato > > says > > > > "You can access this directory with apt by adding deb > > http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists

potato update question

2000-08-31 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello everybody i've burn cdrom's potato distribution ( unofficial version - 4 CD ) from ftp.kando.hu site. after updating my system last night with a method describe in a cd like: apt-cdrom add ( for adding a deb lines fr each cd in source.list) apt-get update ( update packages database ) apt

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds > > i did notice that the rest of the entries i

expect upgrade has broken my scripts

2000-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
#!/usr/bin/expect set timeout 40 spawn ssh [lrange $argv 0 0] expect "$" send "exec su -\n" expect "Password: " send "$env(ROOTPW)\n" expect "#" send "exec bash\n" expect "#" interact The above is one of my scripts. When it reaches "interact" I want all IO to be sent through directly with no de

Re: proftpd won't allow me to connect -- SOLVED

2000-08-31 Thread Nico De Ranter
Got it: the proftpd deb was compiled for use without a shadow file :-( I reinstalled the machine without a shadow file and now it works. Nico On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:56:06PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > ServerType is standalone and the deamon is running > > ps -ef > ... > ftpd 288

Sed replace and add a line

2000-08-31 Thread Jaume Teixi
I'm trying to use sed to search pattern 228 and add a line as follows: 288 229 I type: sed /s/228/'\n 229`/ and \n doesn't works =( how to add a line when replacing ? bests, jaume.

Can't mount '/' after kernel recompilation

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Yau
Basic Info of my system: ABIT BP6 w/ two 500MHz Celeron chips, a 52X ATAPI Creative CD-ROM drive as /dev/hda and a 18GB IBM UDMA-66 HDDs as /dev/hde. Working kernels: Debian Potato 2.2.15-ide and 2.2.17-Pre6 installed on /dev/hde. Problem: I was trying to recompile the 2.2.17-Pre6 kernel in ord

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Change your BIOS settings to only boot from the internal disk and > > password protect it. On my system I have such a setup and require a > > BIOSes are very easy to erase, you know. Some are even s

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however i would argue that numlock status is a USER preference and > thus should be left to individual users to place in thier > ~/.bash_profile if they desire this. As an aside in this thread: I noticed that at least acroread worked not as expected (A

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article]

2000-08-31 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Jürgen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The default homedir perms are ok the way they are. Everyone (on the > system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition. Then maybe you have to think over good old traditions *nowadays*, with masses of UNIX (and generally computer) unaware pe

Re: Can't mount '/' after kernel recompilation

2000-08-31 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:18:17PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > I was trying to recompile the 2.2.17-Pre6 kernel in order to enable SMP > and optimise the performance of my Linux system. However, got an error > message of 'Kernel Panic: VFS can't mount '/' on 21:09'. do you have the filesystem of

dialin, quick question

2000-08-31 Thread Geir Erik Nielsen
Hi, I need to set up dialin via modem on a debian box. Never done this, just wonder very quickly if ppp is the easies / best to use or if there is something else? And is there any good docs out there apart from PPP-HOWTO? Dialin will be from Windows boxes. -Geir

Re: Sed replace and add a line

2000-08-31 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:13:33PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: -|I'm trying to use sed to search pattern 228 and add a line as follows: -| -|288 -|229 -| -|I type: -|sed /s/228/'\n 229`/ -| -|and \n doesn't works =( -| -|how to add a line when replacing ? -| -|bests, -|jaume. -| Try changing the "\n

"Unknown host" on outgoing emails since upgrade

2000-08-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
I upgraded Slink to Potato but still use smail because I can't get exim to work with fetchmail. I also use mutt. Only one of my 3 ISPs works properly. I can send mail out from Freeserve but from the others the mail is rejected with "Unknown host". There must be something wrong with my configurat

ipv6

2000-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
What's the best way to get started in IPv6 in Debian? I've installed the iputils-ping package and am running kernel 2.4.0-test7 on one machine and 2.4.0-test4 on another. Have the following in /etc/hosts on both machines: ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastpr

Re: NIC driver for Intel D815EEAAL

2000-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nate et.al i got a patch from bob dunlop on the eepro mailing list his patch seems to work for linux-2.2.16 recognizing the onboard NIC of the Intel D815EEAAL motherboards thanx alvin bob's patch This patch is against the driver I had with kernel 2.2.16

Re: Can't mount '/' after kernel recompilation

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Yau
> > do you have the filesystem of your '/' build statically into the > kernel? Yes. > do you have the support for your hd build statically into the kernel? Yes. Any clue?

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-31 Thread USM Bish
Getting a prompt like "LI" or "LIL" is a situation from where the system just cannot boot from the hard disk because the LILO code placed in the MBR is broken. The solution to this problem lies in fixing the Master Boot Record. You have no option but to boot from the back-up disks that you c

Frozen message

2000-08-31 Thread Frederik
I received a notification of my mailing system saying a message was frozen, cause it could not be delivered. It was send to @maui.kotnet.org instead of @maui.iverlek.kotnet.org. Any ideas where I can recover that message? (Most important) Any idea how I can receive mail on these 2 addresses? Thank

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
> Yes I read the update. I'd be happy to review your articles for you, but I > don't think you should stop at one reviewer. Debian is a very big project and I'm > still finding my way around parts of it. You may have been in contact with Ben > Collins. If so I suggest you ask him too. Yeah, he did

Re: LI after install

2000-08-31 Thread Jack Morgan
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: >This limitation has only recently been left off, and could arise if you >use your disk in normal mode. This was it. Changed HDD to LBA from normal and all was fine! Cheers Jack Morgan Debian GNU/Linux Enthusia

PPP not going

2000-08-31 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I mounted a PPP server with mgetty (Debian potato) and tried to conect with another Linux machine (Slack) and received the following log with an error at end. What is wrong? Thanks, Paulo Henrique artemis:~# ppp-go artemis:~# Serial connection established.

Re: PPP not going

2000-08-31 Thread Christoph Simon
> > Hi all, > I mounted a PPP server with mgetty (Debian potato) and tried to conect > with another Linux machine (Slack) and received the following log with an > error at end. What is wrong? > Thanks, Paulo Henrique > > rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 ] > sent [IPCP ConfRej i

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > things like "Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10 > and up so Debian isn't secure". As you can say it's also real life example. > Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but > many people t

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Kurt Seifried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ks> One question: where is it explicitly stated that Debian backports ks> fixes and that one needs to read /usr/doc/*/changelog? I'll answer this on two levels: First, if you're writing an article on a subject for publication it behooves you to fi

Re: PPP not going

2000-08-31 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Cristoph, At slack (that my friend tested) there isnt pppconfig (pppsetup I think). I think that the error is that I dont allocate an IP here (at the server). How I do this? Much thanks,Paulo Henrique Quoting Christoph Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Tech Support Guy
Hi, I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble figuring out which packages to download. I noticed that I won't be using many of the packages that come with the distribution, and don't want to waste time downloading them or, worse, downloading and burning a CD image. I'd prefer to insta

Re: Frozen message

2000-08-31 Thread davidturetsky
If your MTA was exim, you would find it in /var/spool/exim/input. Check /var/spool and see if you recognize your mail transport and look further in that directory path. It should be readily readable with any editor David www.richsob.com - Original Message - From: "Fre

RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Preben Randhol
How does a user get access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ? The default setup is : crw-rw1 root audio ... should one do chmod o+rw or is there a better way? -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost some

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Paul D. Smith writes: > IMHO, FAQ-O-Matic is a _very cool_ tool... But a real PITA to administer. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread Paul T.McNally
Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? I thought it would be cool to have my time set to GMT, but there are lots of little things I need to reflect the time I know.

Re: ipv6

2000-08-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > So I have an inet6 address on eth0 as soon as I do "modprobe ipv6". What is > the way to ping it? I don't think you can ping link addresses very easially. You should install the radvd package and give your site some real IPs, possibly following the 6t

RE: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> no, this utility only works on the current VT which is probably tty1 > for the boot process. if you really insist on pushing this on all Works just fine on my potato! Got all 6 terminals with numlock set! > your users the place to put the mentions shell commands is > /etc/profile. > > however

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
> give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both > frame/table nicely. I've heard this a few times, and just tried it. So far, I prefer lynx: easier to navigate, I can spawn extra instances of lynx on a link, and better frame handling: lynx uses the entire screeen, and lets

Re: GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread michael d. ivey
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:51:31AM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: > Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? I > thought it would be cool to have my time set to GMT, but there are lots > of little things I need to reflect the time I know. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Thursday A

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:18:18AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > > Yes I read the update. I'd be happy to review your articles for you, but I > > don't think you should stop at one reviewer. Debian is a very big project > and I'm > > still finding my way around parts of it. You may have been in con

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pr> How does a user get access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ? pr> The default setup is : pr> crw-rw1 root audio ... pr> should one do chmod o+rw or is there a better way? Add yourself (and any other users you want to have acc

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread USM Bish
"w3m" ! Is this a text base browser like lynx which you can work on console? How does it manage frames? I have w3mir installed, but that's not a browser. USM Bish On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:50:40AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both >

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Paul D. Smith writes: >> IMHO, FAQ-O-Matic is a _very cool_ tool... jh> But a real PITA to administer. Hmm. Well, we use a pretty large FOM internally at work here, and I haven't noticed that it's a _huge_ PITA :). Mostly seems pretty self-

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Preben Randhol
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > Add yourself (and any other users you want to have access) to the > "audio" group. Note that anyone in the "audio" group has rw access to > these devices. This goes for other device access as well. > > You can either edit /et

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > > > Add yourself (and any other users you want to have access) to the > > "audio" group. Note that anyone in the "audio" group has rw access to > > these devices. This goes for oth

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Kurt Seifried said: > Debian ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 revision 3 has the root hack mentioned above > however fixed in 1.2.0pre10revision 4, revision 5 also fixes some of the > problems that were possible in rc1 Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as the original/base 1.

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread Kovacs Istvan
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:35:34 +051800, USM Bish wrote: >"w3m" ! Is this a text base browser like lynx which >you can work on console? How does it manage frames? Try 'links' (not lynx :-) It has perfect frame support, just like a graphical browser. Has some minor codepage issues, though... http://

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
> Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as the > original/base 1.2.0pre10." Depending on how the numbering is implemented, it > has been updated 3 or 4 times since the original 1.2.0pre10. So I would not > expect it to have the same bugs. So did you fix the root h

IRC proxying

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello everybody, I have found the bounce IRC proxy in 2.3 debian. Does anyone of you knows of security issues with this proxy ? May I recommend it safely to my school (that has cut our irc access lately for security reasons) ? Thx in advance

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > > Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as > the > > original/base 1.2.0pre10." Depending on how the numbering is implemented, > it > > has been updated 3 or 4 times since the original 1.2.0pre10. So

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
> Thanks to both for my banner-free browsing. > GAT - Gif Animation Toggle - is another great browsing plus. Is there one of these for linux, or do you mean as a browser feature? so far, the only way I've encountered on linux is to edit the executable to change the name of the string that cau

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
BTW Idon't know if anyone actually "got it" but the point of my article was more that Debian is trying to improve security, but seems to be missing major things. I suppose I should have stated this more obviously (like in H1 at the top). Sigh, anyways for next time I will be less subtle. Bruce Schn

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread jpenny
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:26:20AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > BTW Idon't know if anyone actually "got it" but the point of my article was > more that Debian is trying to improve security, but seems to be missing > major things. I suppose I should have stated this more obviously (like in H1 > at

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
> OK, 2 to 5 minutes downtime to disable. Big Whoop. Maybe should be > done. But, have you ever tried to administer 200 computers? How many > people know the BIOS password? Do the primary users know it? Can they > reboot their own machine? Does an administrator have to visit every > machine

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:27:55AM -0700, Tech Support Guy wrote: > I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble > figuring out which packages to download. Safe route for you is to use a basic workstation configuration and go from there. Let Debian pick packages for you first few times

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Paul D. Smith writes: > What kinds of problems are you seeing? I find the Web interface (the only one available to me as a section adminstrator) just about completely unusable for editing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

repartitioning hard disk

2000-08-31 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I want to install linux on my PC at home. Now, I run Win98 2nd Ed. on a FAT32 filesystem. I only have one big partion (i.e. the C drive). I want to create more partitions in a "safe" manner and I am not sure how to do this. I also don't want to buy Partition Magic so I was thinking of u

repartitioning hard disk

2000-08-31 Thread Florian Blaser
Le jeu, 31 aoû 2000 21:05:39 stefan goemana écrit : > Hello, Hi ! > 2) I plan to cut the drive in 2 parts with fips. The filesystem on the > second partition is also FAT32 or will > it be FAT16? You will create unused disk space with fips, then you'll have to use fdisk or similar to create a

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:24:37PM -0400, hawk wrote: > > > Thanks to both for my banner-free browsing. > > > GAT - Gif Animation Toggle - is another great browsing plus. > > Is there one of these for linux, or do you mean as a browser feature? > so far, the only way I've encountered on linux

Tape backup tool ?

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hello everyone, just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE / Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also searching for a graphical frontend like Backup Exec and ArcServe on Win$... Any ideas ?

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > So did you fix the root hack in pre10, the DOS in rc1, or the typo in the > install script? Oh yeah, I gotta read the changelog to find out, > wheep. Well, you're going to have to read it somewhere, yes? And now you know where! > A

Re: GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
"michael d. ivey" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:51:31AM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: >> Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? > >use the TZ environment variable to specify the time zone for the apps that >need to know local time. Use tzconfig to set the

Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I got a new NIC for my system! It's a 3Com Etherlink XL PCI 3C900B-TPO. Apparently, dmesg reports nothing about it when rebooting: pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... Found PCnet/PCI at 0xffe0, irq 10. eth0: PCnet/PCI 79C970 at 0xffe0, 08 00 09 9e 73 2e assigned IRQ 10.

RE: potato update question

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
apt-cdrom add does all the work for you. And you must add each cd rom.

RE: potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Aug-2000 Egbert Bouwman wrote: > During my slink-life I have developped the habit > to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc > and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. > The real files are in /local/etc . > This system has advantages and drawbacks. > The big

RE: Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> What exactly do I need to put into /etc/network/interfaces for this NIC > to have it go up at boot-time? > (Will be using DHCP for a cable modem connection on the NIC :) if you look in /etc/network/interfaces, it points you to related man pages with examples.

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Kurt Seifried" wrote: ... >Problem: user can enter Lilo commands at the Lilo prompt ... >Additional solution: remove/replace password in lilo.conf after setting it >(i.e. set password, run lilo, remove password). You may not have noticed mbr: bash-2.04$ dpkg --status mbr Package: mbr Status

Re: Sed replace and add a line

2000-08-31 Thread Bob McGowan
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:13:33PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > -|I'm trying to use sed to search pattern 228 and add a line as follows: > -| > -|288 > -|229 > -| > -|I type: > -|sed /s/228/'\n 229`/ My copy of sed complains when I type in the pattern you have sup

Re: Tape backup tool ?

2000-08-31 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hello everyone, > > just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE / > Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of > taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also > search

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yeah, apparently some of the modems memorize the hardware address of the ethernet card, so if you change the card, you have to turn off the modem for a few minutes. -chris On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the "modem" needs > t

Is monitor flicker a function of video card or monitor?

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor? I copied the modelines from my old machine to my new machine and they work fine, but I'm wondering if I can do better. My new machine has an agp ATI Xpert98 (mach64)

OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK now this is _really_ off-topic: my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker than my old mach32 card. It's also a different X server. It's not a big deal really, but I'm curious if this is normal. -chris

RE: potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Max . Hyre
Dear Mr. Bouwman: You wrote: > During my slink-life I have developed the habit > to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc > and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. > The real files are in /local/etc . > This system has advantages and drawbacks. > The big q

Re: Can't mount '/' after kernel recompilation

2000-08-31 Thread Nate Amsden
only thing i can think of is you installed the incorrect driver for that controller, on boot you should see the drive being detected by the HPT366 controller.(i used to have a bp6) can you confirm that the drive is indeed being detected. Should show something similar to: May 6 09:12:38 aphro ker

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #586

2000-08-31 Thread Scott_Patterson
I use "adduser user group" to add users to a particular group. Then, I use "groups" to lists which users are in which groups. Just another way to do it! Scott Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > > > Add yourself (a

Re: OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread cls-colo spgs
...same here. (i just thought it was something funny about netscape, which is where i noticed it.) i wonder what gives? now getting ready to perch, bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // Krzys Majewski wrote: > [snip] > my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker > than ... [snip] > -chris

finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
*sigh* I've found more ways to lose data . . . This time, I needed to switch a system from FreeBSD to Debian. I wrote down the cylinder information for my two fat partitions in the extended partition, deleted the extended partition, and created a new fat partition as partition 4 after them.

Re: OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
13:28:47<~>$ apt-cache search perch 13:28:56<~>$ -chris > now getting ready to perch, > > bentley taylor > (potato on 2.2.16)

problems with NIS/netgroups in potato

2000-08-31 Thread Dafydd Tomos
Today I upgraded a server from slink to potato - it's an internal testing/intranet server. The upgrade went fairly well, but even though I had done extensive tests on other servers first, I still came up against problems. The immediate problem on completing the upgrade of most packages was that us

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-31 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:47:25AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I installed debian on a new HDD and after installing the base I get LI at > boot time? Any suggestions as to what I did wrong? I guess your kernel is below the 1024 limit... The easiest way to avoid these problems is to created a smal

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread staf wagemakers
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, > it ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:2

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:27:55AM -0700, Tech Support Guy wrote: > > > I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble > > figuring out which packages to download. > > Safe route for you is to use a basic workstation configuration and go from > there. Let Debian pic

samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-08-31 Thread Deim Agoston
Hello ! I have a friend who wants to get rid of NT and change to linux+Samba but we have "minor" problems. The first is : the stupid Access programers coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E:

Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > *sigh* I've found more ways to lose data . . . > > This time, I needed to switch a system from FreeBSD to Debian. I wrote > down the cylinder information for my two fat partitions in the extended > partition, deleted the extended partition, and creat

Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
- - David Wroght, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): The original partition table was: Primary1 Primary2 Primary3 Extended EXT2 FAT0 UFS FAT1 FAT2 Spare That is, there was plenty of unused space in the extended partition. However, FreeBSD can't handle thes

Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-08-31 Thread Christoph Simon
> I have a friend who wants to get rid of NT and change to linux+Samba but > we have "minor" problems. The first is : the stupid Access programers > coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files > at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E: >

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