Re: oops

2000-10-01 Thread Joey Tsai
Firstly, thanks to Ben for his work, the speed at which the libc6 issues were resolved calls for high praise. The only issue that seems to remain for me is with exim - after fetchmail grabs my SMTP mail, exim doesn't deliver it. Exim's logs say Unable to get root to set uid 1000 and gid 8 for lo

Re: Getting CPU load (from /proc/?)

2000-10-01 Thread Nate Amsden
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > How would I get a real-time CPU load information? I found > /proc/loadavg, but that's not what I need, since it only gives average > load values. though i dont know how to interpet it look at /proc/stat. i found it by running top and running lsof to see what top was usin

Re: optimizing the hard drive? (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > "ObeseWhale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > okay here goes... UDMA66 is simply a bandwidth limit on your HD. It allows > > your hard drive to transfer at 66 megs per second instead of UDMA33, which > > iss 33 megs per second. While Debian supports udma33 right out of t

Re: oops

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
But I WAS quick to point out my error. Sorry about that but I also tried to respond as soon as I knew I was in error. Please check the times on the messages. On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring loaded" to blame libc at > > this point fo

Installing driver for Linksys Ether16

2000-10-01 Thread Dwight Johnson
modconf does not recognize my Linksys Ether16 as a NE2000 clone, so I need a manual way to install the module. I am sure the Ether16 is working, because I have been using it for the past three years already under Red Hat and SuSE. I am trying to complete my first Debian install. Thanks in advance

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-01 Thread Willy Lee
"John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Willy Lee writes: >> I installed magicfilter, set up the BJC-600 driver, scratched my >> head for awhile, then installed a2ps and enscript, but now when I >> send off my newly PostScriptized files to be printed, I get >> ... silence. > I had to

Re: Installing driver for Linksys Ether16

2000-10-01 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:47:42PM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > a manual way to install the module. I am sure the Ether16 is working, > because I have been using it for the past three years already under Red Hat > and SuSE. /sbin/insmod? -- John_

Re: ISDN/ipppd problems

2000-10-01 Thread Michael Steiner
in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 in Section AUTHENTICATION is a variable called "name" the name given there has to be equal to the name given in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets Michael -- Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria Wolfram Kruschel wrote: > > Hi! > I'm tryin

Helix GNOME and Debian GNOME incompatible

2000-10-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi folks, hi Peter, I just had sawfish malfunction in a strange way: I've bound M-F10 to Popup Window Menu. But that suddenly stopped working... and worse, even clicking into the window icon for the popup window did nothing. So I investigated... reinstalling a couple things. And, this morning,

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

2000-10-01 Thread Willy Lee
"David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [snip] >> including the root partition, on the 2nd drive. Now, >> unfortunately, LILO won't boot to the slave drive. I have to boot >> from the boot floppy I thankfully didn't skip making during the >> i

Problems with samba / printing

2000-10-01 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Whereabouts do you think the following problem lies? I can print on the system directly using "lpr", but when accessing the printer via its Samba share, there is only a file written to the printer spool directory (with the correct permissions and all), but nothing is actually printed out.

exim can not post email to my /var/spool/mail

2000-10-01 Thread Ben Luo
hello, debian-user, My debian/woody have a big problem. Today i use apt-get update;apt-get upgrade as before. But i got nightmare. When run upgrade, it said that libpam-modules sould be revome templately, i follow this advise, use below, apt-get remove libpam-modules apt-get upgrade but every

Re: ISDN/ipppd problems

2000-10-01 Thread Wolfram Kruschel
Thanks for the hint, he doesn't complain about a missing pap-secrets any more, although he says 'unknown comman in ipppd.ippp0: -> name <-'. But know i have the next problem: i get the message that "isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find a (free) connection to the ipppd daemon" . How could i fix this? Thanks f

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Willy Lee writes: > There was already a line there appearing to do the same thing, but using > enscript instead of a2ps. Then you are using a newer version of magicfilter then I am. > lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. Looks like an unrelated problem. > I won

firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread debian-isp
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:28:47 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: firewall Hello All, Has anyone found making a debian machine with firewall support useful? What are firewalls useful for? Do they simply prevent packets from

How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
I noticed that xdpyinfo reports a resolution of 75x75 dpi for my Xserver. When I calculate the real resolution however, it is about 90 dpi. Can I override this somehow? The reason I'm asking is that some apps (Gimp, LyX) query the Xserver for the resolution and adjust things like zoom factors and

Load balancing on ethernet.

2000-10-01 Thread David Boisvert
Hi folks!       My question is related to load balancing. In other word, I have two DOCSIS cable modems + 2 network card and I need to balance IP packets on these. I've read the EQL howto but it seems to work only with PPP.   May someone can help me to find some information about it?  

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread mario
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone found making a debian machine with firewall support useful? Yes, very much so > What are firewalls useful for? Do they simply prevent packets from passing > through the firewall into the rest of the network? It depends. "Firewall" can mean different thing

Re: Installing driver for Linksys Ether16

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > modconf does not recognize my Linksys Ether16 as a NE2000 clone, so I need > a manual way to install the module. I am sure the Ether16 is working, > because I have been using it for the past

ssh configure error

2000-10-01 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi all, i get an error message when doing a ./configure with ssh. "checking for xauth... no" "configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting" what's wrong here? i have no X installed and also don't want to do it. which file to edit for doing it right? thanx

Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread ObeseWhale
It seems as if I can't install netscape 4.75 on my Potato box because the version of libstdc++ that comes with debian is too high. I get a dependency error when trying to run netscape. Has anyone had a similar problem, or better yet, a solution? Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun Site Director: The Da

Extended descriptions of non-free/non-US packages.

2000-10-01 Thread Matthew Tuck
This message may or may not be pertinent in future given the uncertain status of both non-free and non-US, but here goes anyway ... When I see a package that's in non-free or non-US I often wonder exactly why it's there. It would be really nice if every package explained why it was where it was.

Re: optimizing the hard drive? (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Krzys Majewski
> > Hm, 15% gain is better than nothing.. I looked through the kernel > > config but found no mention of udma66, where is it? -chris > > quite possible u need a 3rd party patch see www.linux-ide.org > Hm, before I do that, how can I be sure I actually have udma66-capable hardware? -chris

Re: Extended descriptions of non-free/non-US packages.

2000-10-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:12:17 +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > In detail, I want this at the bottom of every package description in > non-free/non-US: > > - if it's in non-US, explain what parts of the software use crypto, > since it's not always obvious. > - if it's in non-free for patent reasons,

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:50:04PM +0200, mario wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Has anyone found making a debian machine with firewall support useful? > > Yes, very much so > > > What are firewalls useful for? Do they simply prevent packets from passing > > through the firewall into th

IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Randy Edwards
I ran into some trouble using a Debian box as an IP Masq gateway (also running Squid) to a network which uses a VPN box employing IPsec. The ISP's tech support said that GNU/Linux was incapable of doing NAT properly with IPsec and that I'd have to kill the NAT and proxy to make things work. I hav

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:40:16 -0500 William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OH? Why would my cable modem provider scan my box? What would they be > looking > for? My ISP scanned my box once, and I asked them about it and they told me it was an accident, done by a new Linux box they had j

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Mike Leone
>> OH? Why would my cable modem provider scan my box? What would they be >> looking >> for? > >My ISP scanned my box once, and I asked them about it and they told me it was >an accident, done by a new Linux box they had just set up because they were >considering switching to Linux. They told

about to install Debian - "help me through the dark".. :)

2000-10-01 Thread Aviad
Hi all I'm about to install debian for the first time, and i just fear that i wont be able to load up some of my cards - now, i know this is not a debian-specific question, but i was wondering if anyone here had a clue where i could find information on how to install Asuscom's ISDNLink 128k on li

Re: HELP! xconfig won't give access to modules

2000-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks for the tip (and also thanks to Brad for the more detailed response). That works. There is still a problem. Though the card and the driver are recognised on startup, modprobe complains that it cannot find the driver. It does exist -- it's in /usr/src/.../drivers/net, but it does not appe

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:49:12PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > I ran into some trouble using a Debian box as an IP Masq gateway (also > running Squid) to a network which uses a VPN box employing IPsec. The > ISP's tech support said that GNU/Linux was incapable of doing NAT properly > with IPsec

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread mario
William Jensen wrote: > OH? Why would my cable modem provider scan my box? What would they be > looking > for? > > Even though I didn't ask the question, thanks for the info Mario! My cable provider has a "no servers" policy for their standard accounts (if you want to run servers, you need to

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-10-01 16:47:26, Pollywog wrote: > > OH? Why would my cable modem provider scan my box? What would > > they be looking for? > > My ISP scanned my box once, and I asked them about it and they told > me it was an accident, done by a new Linux box they had just set up > because they were co

Re: optimizing the hard drive? (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Hm, 15% gain is better than nothing.. I looked through the kernel > > > config but found no mention of udma66, where is it? -chris > > > > quite possible u need a 3rd party patch see www.linux-ide.org > > > > Hm, before I do that, how can I be sure I actually ha

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> My cable provider has a "no servers" policy for their standard accounts > (if you want to run servers, you need to pay more). To enforce this, > they seem to scan their new customers. The first few weeks after I > signed up, they scanned me daily. It has stopped now, so I guess I'll be > able to

gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread Dale Amon
Does anyone know why gpm would completely hang console logins on a machine? I can still login remotely, and if I kill gpm I can then get a console. This would seem to be very bad behavior on gpm's part. It first happened after a dselect update on the woody dist back in August. I've been doing upd

Re: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
ObeseWhale wrote: > > It seems as if I can't install netscape 4.75 on my Potato box because the > version of libstdc++ that comes with debian is too high. I get a dependency > error when trying to run netscape. Has anyone had a similar problem, or > better yet, a solution? Worse yet, no problem

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: How to set Xserver resolution Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:53:46PM +0200 In reply to:Philipp Lehman Quoting Philipp Lehman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I noticed that xdpyinfo reports a resolution of 75x75 dpi for my > Xserver. When I calculate the real resolution however, it

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
How do you determine what the proper dpi should be? How do you calculate it? Wm On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: How to set Xserver resolution > Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:53:46PM +0200 > > In reply to:Philipp Lehman > > Quoting Philipp L

more sound difficulties

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the ALSA sound working either in an IBM thinkpad, or on a desktop system with a standard soundblaster. I have installed all of the relevant alsa packages, but the alsaconfig utility doesnt detect the card in either case (very bad sign), nor does it accept a

Masquerading

2000-10-01 Thread Hans-Christian Armingeon
Hi, is there anybody out there who kan help me start building a masquerading and dialin and fax and firewall box with potato? Thanks Johnny

Re: about to install Debian - "help me through the dark".. :)

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Aviad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm about to install debian for the first time, and i just fear that i wont be >able to load up some of my cards - now, i know this is not a debian-specific >question, but i was wondering if anyone here had a clue where i could find >informatio

exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread lbredeso
When I try to load exim, it says: exim: error while loading share libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory If I type "locate libdb.so.3" it says that "/gnu/lib/libdb.so.3" and "/usr/lib/libdb.so.3" exist, but when I check myself, they actually don't. I

Re: exim and libdb.so.3

2000-10-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I type "locate libdb.so.3" it says that "/gnu/lib/libdb.so.3" and > "/usr/lib/libdb.so.3" exist, but when I check myself, they actually > don't. Don't know about exim, but if locate thinks it's there, it probably was until recently. locate maintains a database that

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Mike Leone wrote: > @home, the largest cable ISP in the US, *routinely* scans their > customers, aggressively checking that no one is breaking their service > agreement by running a server OF ANY KIND. This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by region.

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I ran into some trouble using a Debian box as an IP Masq gateway (also > running Squid) to a network which uses a VPN box employing IPsec. The > ISP's tech support said that GNU/Linux was i

Re: Bitchx and screen do NOT cooperate in 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i get the same...never used /window create before though, never needed it looks like it loads a new screen for me i just detach and load a new screen. also have you tried this using bitchx's internal screen code rather then screen itself? use /detach to detach and scr-bx to re attach ..again i don

traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
I think it's my firewall blocking them going _out_ because when I take the firewall offline both ping and traceroute work fine. Ping works on localhost, though traceroute does not when the firewall is up. Unfortunetly I am too new at both debian and firewalling to know where I went wrong. I'm tr

Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I just realised my earlier tries at sending this message were full of almost 300K of control characters. I am trying again. Apologies if it repeats. * Hi all-- I arrived home tonight to see the following message plastered across all my terminal windows on my webserver, ludism.org: Message f

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> This isn't necessarily the case. It certainly appears to vary by > region. They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado). Perhaps this is > because DSL is so easily available :} One interesting thing that many providers are doing is not allowing any VPN traffic. If you want to "telecommute" and wo

exim problems with latest version

2000-10-01 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I just today upgraded my version of exim (I didn't mean to, upgrading kword caused exim and I just let it happen). I did have exim working perfectly, now it does nothing. Here is the error: 2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ /var/spool/exim/input//13fp

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> The problem is, as I said before, kernel 2.2 doesn't like to do NAT on IP > protocols other than TCP and UDP. Almost true. Using the iproute2 tools, you can do a static NAT of an inside box to outside. You can then use standard packet filter firewall rules to block various ports you don't want a

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:25:30AM -0400, Shaji N V wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to configure Lucent Winmodem on my HP Pavillion (6735) box with > Debian 2.2. I have followed the instructions from www.linmodems.org for > installing the binary only driver provided by Lucent, but still have problem

Re: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> So, do you think my machine has been cracked? It looks as though they've > been trying to cover their tracks, but not doing it very well. If it is a > crack, what can I do about it apart from wiping the machine and rebuilding > from the ground up? wiping and rebuilding is the safest thing to do.

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you determine what the proper dpi should be? How do you calculate it? Take a ruler and mesure the visible screen width of you monitor. Convert this value to inches if you're using a cm ruler (multiply by 2.54). Then divide the

Re: exim problems with latest version

2000-10-01 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Bellows wrote: > >2000-10-01 14:46:49 13fp4T-Su-00 Failed to create spool file\ >/var/spool/exim/input//13fp4T-Su-00-D: Permission denied > >Something is very wrong. Even if I change the permissions, the errors >still occur in /var/spool/exim/input//* > One of th

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> >> startx -bpp 16 -dpi 120 >> >> Would be one way. Is there a way to make that permanent as well? Something in XF86Config? -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

last log?

2000-10-01 Thread steve winston
in /var/logs, what is lastlog? -- Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: last log?

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
It shows recent logins; when people last logged in to their accounts. see 'man lastlog' -- Andrew On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:20:16 -0700 steve winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in /var/logs, what is lastlog? > -- > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > The problem is, as I said before, kernel 2.2 doesn't like to do NAT on IP > > protocols other than TCP and UDP. > > Almost true. Using the iproute2 tools, you can do a static NAT of an >

Re: Netscape - libstdc++

2000-10-01 Thread Brad
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:12:04AM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote: > It seems as if I can't install netscape 4.75 on my Potato box because the > version of libstdc++ that comes with debian is too high. I get a dependency > error when trying to run netscape. Has anyone had a similar problem, or > better

Re: last log?

2000-10-01 Thread montefin
Also, it 'appears' enormous, but if you do du -k /var/log/lastlog you will see that it's actually quite small. montefin Pollywog wrote: > > It shows recent logins; when people last logged in to their accounts. > see 'man lastlog' > > -- > Andrew > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:20:16 -0700 > steve

[OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: (d3) Connected to postoffice.myisp.com (d3) Disconnected from postoffice.myisp.com fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 256 fetchmail: Qu

Re: [OFFTOPIC] small fetchmail problem with popsneaker - SOLVED :)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 19:27:56 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no problems retrieving mail with fetchmail, but when I try to do this > in conjunction with popsneaker, fetchmail issues these complaints: > Nevermind folks All of a sudden, it hit me what I had done incorrec

Re: IPsec and IPMasq/Proxy

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > The "ip neigh {add|del|change|replace} ..." sequence? Yeah. Look in /usr/share/doc/iproute and print off one of the cref (command reference) docs (note the .ps file wants A4 paper) > > > Problem is that it burns another external IP address. > > Um... not good. Well, yeah. That is the thin

Re: tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'?

2000-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:49:04PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JS> but what is '\verb|\|000'? And the use of |\|? > > Are you reading this out of the source of a LaTeX document? No. It is a postscript document. Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel/Faks +2

Re: offtopic: OCR on linux

2000-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:45:41PM -0300, Carlos Menezes wrote: > Try this: > http://www.ime.usp.br/~ueda/clara/ > > More informations, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "A. Demarteau (linux rules!)" wrote: > > Does anyone have any good ocr-package for Linux which gives very good > > results on all k

RE: Masquerading

2000-10-01 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Assuming you're using a stock kernel or kernel with support for IP masquerading, these three lines should get you started with masq: /bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/ipchains -P forward REJECT /sbin/ipchains -I forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d ! 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ You may need to

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
At first glance, this appears to be an attempt to exploit rpc.statd. If they *DID* get in, you have no way of knowing what may or may not have been modified. I just dealt with a machine about two weeks ago that had a very extensive rootkit installed. The only way it was noticed that the machine

Re: more sound difficulties

2000-10-01 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:01:30AM -0400, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote: > Unfortunately, I have been unable to get the ALSA sound working either > in an IBM thinkpad, or on a desktop system with a standard > soundblaster. I have installed all of the relevant alsa packages, but There is an emu10k1

ps/2 mouse

2000-10-01 Thread serge delorme
I have a new optical mouse that refuse to work. Its a logitech ps2/usb...ps2 for my setup. For gpm and Xwindows I gave them /dev/psaux for device and ps/2 for protocol...but no cigar. Works OK in windows98, the part I'm not sure is /dev/psaux (I always had serial mices) Xwindow gives me that messa

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Debian Linux User
You could set up an alias. HTH Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> > >> startx -bpp 16 -dpi 120 > >> > >> Woul

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
An update to myself...in case others are having this problem: I added the following rule to my script: $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT My understanding is now the box will accpet 'echo replies' that I would generate by 'ping debian.org'. I then went to another pc on the net and tr

Re: ps/2 mouse

2000-10-01 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, serge delorme wrote: >Xwindow gives me that message: >"Cannot open mouse" (no device of that type)" > >Any ideas ? > It sounds like kernel support is missing. Are you running a custom kernel? Brent

mounting /home?

2000-10-01 Thread Dale Morris
This is probably embarassingly simple, but I'd better ask.. I'm thinking of doing a reinstall of 2.2 and would like to use my existing /home directory. That will allow me to keep lots of existing info. I tried this once before w/ Redhat but it didn't work right after the reinstall. Do I just do a r

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya pollywog if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode that scans everything around it ??? ( a startrek borg-based linux ?? ) wonder which distro they used... ... if they can say that "it would no

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya allan... whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? - only two reasons ??? a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be sent thru it... b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? just more rambling on a sunday afternoon... thanx

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread William Jensen
Another update to myself and others that may want this information: This update concerns traceroute. If I added the following rules I can now traceroute to anywhere, but traceroutes to me fail: $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type port-unrea

Re: List of packages..

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 01.57 27/9/00 -0700, Bob Brown ha escrit: >> p.d.: Where can I obtain a Dselect HOWTO?. If you install few packages in the first times you use dselect, the info it will give you wil be less enormous and it will help you to understand the basics of dselect and dependencies/suggestions/etc.

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 11.25 30/9/00 -0400, Shaji N V ha escrit: >From insmod -f ltmodem >-- >Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o >Warning: kernel-module version mismatch > /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ltmodem.o was compiled for kernel version >2.2.12-20 > while this kernel is version 2.2.17

Re: ssh configure error

2000-10-01 Thread staf wagemakers
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > i get an error message when doing a ./configure with ssh. > > "checking for xauth... no" > "configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting" > > what's wrong here? i have no X installed and also don't want to do it

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya pollywog > > if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... > which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode > that scans everything around it ??? ( a startrek bor

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:26:45 -0700 (PDT) > whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? > > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? Or they are tir

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi y pollywog.. yeah...now that makes sensethat someone added something to the linux box.. good... have fun linuxing alvin On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi ya pollywog > > > > if the ISP di

Re: traceroute & ping fail

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote: > Another update to myself and others that may want this information: > > This update concerns traceroute. If I added the following rules I can now > traceroute to anywhere, but traceroutes to me fail: > > $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-excee

Re: mounting /home?

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dale.. if your partition names /dev/hda1.../dev/hda2...etc is the same as on the old box and the new one... and /dev/floppy and /dev/cdrom and /dev/pts and other things in /etc/fstab is the same...yeah...you can copy it but by the time you find all the differences...you are already done a

Re: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Looks like funny thing might have happened. Next time you install system, make sure to plug all services to the Internet. Edit /etc/inetd Check /etc/init.d/* Also, I set up packet firewall by "ipchains" plugging all ports 1-1023 and allowing only needed ones. This way no buffer over flow a

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
> > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?? One more ... c. intimidated by the brain-dead idiots at ORBS

Re: more sound difficulties

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher Fonnesbeck
Thanks for the help. I will try your configuration. > > First off, why does a production machine *need* sound unless you are > doing sound work? Some users will be doing sound work. >Servers probably shouldn't even have sound cards. Its a laptop, not a server > Secondly, ALSA is still beta

Re: PS/2 Mouse

2000-10-01 Thread I. Tura
At 08.32 1/10/00 +0900, Jack Morgan ha escrit: >I just installed a new motherboard. I'm running woody on the only HDD. When i plug in the PS/2 mouse the system hangs during the boot strap process. If I unplug the PS/2 mouse it boots fine, but hangs when I use X-windows. >Is this an irq issue or s

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How to set Xserver resolution Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:00:07PM +0200 In reply to:Philipp Lehman Quoting Philipp Lehman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wro

RE: Was my system cracked? (retry 2)

2000-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... just re-installing and rebuilding the new box wont help because... the hacker got in before... they probably can still get in again unless something is done differently.. - simple things can prevent it from happening again would - be to implement all the common thi

flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:40:02 PDT, George Bonser writes: > c. intimidated by the brain-dead idiots at ORBS Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, he just hasn´t his scripts under control[1], sometimes... Always remember, you don´t _have_ to use ORBS, although i

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > whats the point for mediaone to scan for open relays ?? > > - only two reasons ??? > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > sent thru it... > b. they wan

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > hi ya pollywog > > if the ISP did accidentally scan your box with their new linux box... > which linux distro is installed that way where it comes up in a mode > that scans everything ar

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:17:08 +0200 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, > he just hasn´t his scripts under control[1], sometimes... > Always remember, you don´t _have_ to use ORBS, although it´s cutting > spam about 6

Re: firewall (fwd)

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > - only two reasons ??? > > a. they want to add that open relay box for more advertising to be > > sent thru it... > > b. they want to tell the customer to close the open relay ?

Re: flamewar ;-? (Re: firewall (fwd))

2000-10-01 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:17:08 +0200 > Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, I don´t think Alan[0] is braindead. He does a quite good job, > > he just hasn´t his scripts

Configure APM wake-up events?

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
Here's another one: Is there a way to configure the events that will break a standby/suspend state? APM works quite well on my machine, but I don't like the fact the moving the mouse will resume it. That happens every time I accidently hit my shaky desk. APM control is disabled in the BIOS, so this

Re: How to set Xserver resolution

2000-10-01 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some kind Guru once posted a script that I tried and after finding it >sooo useful I added that to my .bashrc and replaced the above alias. [snip] ...does even more than I asked for, thanks. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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