what does this named error mean?

2001-02-18 Thread Jeff Davis
I have been having problems with named stopping recently and so I set ndc to debug mode. Later when it stopped again mysteriously, I looked in syslog and saw the follwoing error message. Can someone describe it? Feb 17 14:39:57 dynworks1 named[30075]: unapproved AXFR from [209.181.17.143].2368

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-18 Thread aphro
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I am looking to get a DVD-ROM drive for my system. I would like to hear > from people who have their DVD-ROM drives working under Linux: make, > model, good+bad points, etc. > > Also, if you have a region locked DVD-ROM drive, di

Re: dmesg size too small

2001-02-18 Thread aphro
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:25:20AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Is there a way to double the size of dmesg? If so, how - i'm quite willing to > compile a new kernel to try to figure this out. kernel logs on debian are stored in /var/log/kern.log so i'd check there before tryin to change

Re: open ports remaining

2001-02-18 Thread aphro
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 22 opentcpssh > 25 opentcpsmtp > 53 opentcpdomain >

modem connection error (not 7-bit clean)

2001-02-18 Thread alephtnull
Hello. I have configured my modem and when I connect use to connect I get an error (in var/log/syslog) about my modem is not 7-bit clean and then it terminates the connection. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Thanks, -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 upgrade

2001-02-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:41:10PM -0500, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > Recently I installed XFree86 on my Intel box in the hopes of getting the > NVIDIA drivers up and running. I changed the config files for apt to > point to the unstable distro and did the upgrade but it didn't seem to > work. Curr

Re: Where are the iso images for woody?

2001-02-18 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:21:03 -0300 (ART) mgriffa writes: m> I guess the subject is clear enougth, does woody come with XFree4.0 and m> kde2? see, http://cdimage.debian.org > If you are interested, there are some unofficial CD ima > ges of "woody" (the current Debian development vers

Re: RPC call returned error 111

2001-02-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I just read the guide of ltsp, and they said something about this. Do you have tcpwrappers enabled (do not ask me what that is)? If so (or just try) to add in /etc/hosts.allow: portmap:192.168.0. This allows portmapper access to all computers in 192.168.0.0 network. Hope it helps, Se

Re: what does this named error mean?

2001-02-18 Thread Jeff Davis
brian moore wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:15:05PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: I have been having problems with named stopping recently and so I set ndc to debug mode. Later when it stopped again mysteriously, I looked in syslog and saw the follwoing error message. Can someone describe it?

Nameservers

2001-02-18 Thread SamBozo Debian User
I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box has. But it won't resolve ip's. I had to use "ftp://207.XXX.XXX.XXX/debian potato main" as my entry in /etc/apt/sources.list just to get "apt-get update" woul

Re: Kernel compile comments

2001-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
First install required packages other ppl posted. Also applying flavour patch before compiling may be good practice. If you are after fresh install, RH 6.2 installed with Expert mode serves you OK. Debian's strength is continuous security patch and upgrades. (Do not bother RH 7.0) Debian can u

Re: blackbox toolbar

2001-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
Nate Amsden wrote: > > what ver of debian are you using ? im on 2.2r2 ..just curious where that > manpage came from. im runnin blackbox 0.51.3-13 Move to 0.61 as soon as you can. The themes are better, there's autohide toolbar, etc. Jonathan -- __ |FADE OUT|

Re: Simple Questions

2001-02-18 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:05:19PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > yup the script is executable and works > > I went into the /etc/cron.daily directory and ran it from the command line > via "./webalizer" In that script, are you trying to run some program that exists somewhere else than /bin

Re: Nameservers

2001-02-18 Thread Nate Amsden
SamBozo Debian User wrote: > > I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. > It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box be sure its resolv.conf not resolv.config nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL

Re: Nameservers

2001-02-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "SamBozo" == SamBozo Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. > It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box > has. > But it won't resolve ip's. > I had to use "ftp://207.XXX.XXX.XXX/

Help what is binfmt???

2001-02-18 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm posting about a recent error in my daemon log that occurs every other day stating: modprobe can't locate module binfmt-002 (these change) I see no pattern and reading the bingmt info it seems to be a binary compability thing. But to what end? What did I forget in my last kernel build. I

Testing + libglide3?

2001-02-18 Thread David Steinberg
Hi, I'm running testing, and just upgraded XFree86 to 4.0.2 yesterday. I would really like to be able to benefit from libglide3, since I understand that it makes use of DRI. Unfortunately, libglide3 is in unstable, and dependencies would lead to a pretty massive upgrade (25 packages upgraded, 1

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 - Very low resolution - how to increase? -SOLVED

2001-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2001, Brad Hubbard wrote: > > > Xfree 4.x has TWO config filesunlike the old Xfree 3.x > > > > Make sure you are changing both files and not just the old type > XFree86.cfg > > one > > > > Took me a while to figure this one out > > Presumably one is /etc/X11/XF86Config, what's t

Re: what does this named error mean?

2001-02-18 Thread John Foster
I had the same problem. Upgrading to bind 9.1.0 fixed it for me. Bind 9 (although not without it's quirks) seems to have better access control than bind 8. John P Foster Jeff Davis wrote: > brian moore wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:15:05PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > > >> I have been

Re: open ports remaining

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:46:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the best way ive found to disable portmap is to rename /sbin/portmap > to something else. there are so many different things that may call > on it, its just easier for me to rename it then modify a bunch of just make sure you

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:14:51AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "aphro" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > aphro> i refuse to buy a DVD player. i'll stick to VCDs. > aphro> > > That's a very terse statement. What do you have against DVDs and/or DVD > players ? four words: M

PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-18 Thread Mohamed Abdulbaset
greetings,   i have downloaded the 3 binary  CD images for the potato version and write them my self to CD's i went through installation steps till end but my system not rebooting from the harddisk. my computer is Power Mac G3,   Can some body help me.

PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-18 Thread Mohamed Abdulbaset
greetings,   i have downloaded the 3 binary  CD images for the potato version and write them my self to CD's i went through installation steps till end but my system not rebooting from the harddisk. my computer is Power Mac G3,   Can some body help me.

Re: Nameservers

2001-02-18 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Nate Amsden wrote: > > SamBozo Debian User wrote: > > > > I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. > > It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box > > be sure its resolv.conf not resolv.config > > nate my bad resolv.confis the file in question

Re: PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 04:13:54PM +0300, Mohamed Abdulbaset wrote: > greetings, > > i have downloaded the 3 binary CD images for the potato version and write > them my self to CD's i went through installation steps till end but my system > not rebooting from the harddisk. > my computer is Pow

Re: RPC call returned error 111

2001-02-18 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I just read the guide of ltsp, and they said something about this. Do you | have tcpwrappers enabled (do not ask me what that is)? If so (or just | try) to add in /etc/hosts.allow: | portmap: 192.168.0. | | This allows portmapper access to

CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a hint? William

Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...

2001-02-18 Thread John Quirk
- Original Message - From: "hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; "LUV-talk mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:44 AM Subject: Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully... Only problem is, seems one of the UART > chips is mis

Correction: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
>okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats >simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can >someone, give me a hint? though not quite certain i think its master on the secondary channel. (makes sense when using one HD and one CDROM-drive)

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread ktb
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:23:50PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > someone, give me a hint? > > Mines linked to hdc but yours may be different. Check

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:20, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:23:50PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > > simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > > someone, give me a hint? > > Mines

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread SamBozo Debian User
William Leese wrote: > > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > someone, give me a hint? > > William > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Correction: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread Cam Ellison
William Leese wrote: > > >okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > >simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > >someone, give me a hint? > > though not quite certain i think its master on the secondary channel. (makes > sense when usin

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread ktb
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:05:16PM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > William Leese wrote: > > > > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > > simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > > someone, give me a hint? > > > At a terminal >

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Ah Cmd Line Magic ... I am continuly awestruck. Now if I could just remember all this stuff. But I go the next best thing Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux race ya to see who's wares out 1st Sam ktb wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:05:16PM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > > Will

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-18 Thread c-3
Date sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:46:07 + From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Back to Windows?? Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers

Re: how to use gnapster....more generally...where to find cool music/sounds?

2001-02-18 Thread c-3
Send reply to: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User Mail List" Subject:Re: how to use gnapstermore generally...where to find cool music/sounds? Date sent: Sa

port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Glenn Becker
All, Not long after my last message to the list last night re: open ports, I was chatting on IRC and got an email message from logcheck re: a system attack. It appeared from the message that the attack had been repelled; however, now when I run nmap, I get this: Interesting ports on localhost (1

Free libre internet search engine.

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi.. well this is off-topic sorry.. somebody is going to kill me but.. somebody has to make sure about this, Being aware about the new Microsoft "world domination" attempt with its .NET platform and after years watching how the Internet is getting more and more commercial (well this maybe is not t

Kmail Problem

2001-02-18 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Received an e-mail from this list originated by San Segkhoonthod Re:kernel compile comments that when I try to open it my computer locks up. I have to do a "ctrl-alt-backspace" and relogin. There is no way to delete this message while in Kmail. In what location are the e-mails to be found so that t

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, John Galt did write: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > >Greetings, all. > > > >Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my > >right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with > >standard mice and recommended

Re: Kmail Problem

2001-02-18 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 18 February 2001 16:54, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > Received an e-mail from this list originated by San Segkhoonthod > Re:kernel compile comments that when I try to open it my computer > locks up. I have to do a "ctrl-alt-backspace" and relogin. There is > no way to delete this message whi

Novice memory usage question

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB. When I check memory usage on my system (Gnome information Panel or even cat /proc/meminfo), I'm very surprised to see that ~350 MB are used, with X / Gnome started + apache + exim + postgre's postmaster. Well, why not... but what surprises m

ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread studenten wg
hi i just installed lvm and reiserfs ( running debian 2.2 mostly stable with a 2.4.1 kernel ) and pushed some dirs on the new partitions ( usr var tmp ) all is fine so far... now my "ex"-root partition has still a size of 1G, but i think 500M had to fit my needs... now i shrinked the pa

Re: Novice memory usage question

2001-02-18 Thread ktb
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:34:05PM +0100, franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB. > > When I check memory usage on my system (Gnome information Panel or even cat > /proc/meminfo), I'm very surprised to see that ~350 MB are used, with X / > Gnome started

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:32:58AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > What the hell *are* these things and how did they suddenly blast open > after I had shut down all but three? I have changed nothing - and when I > check inetd.conf and the other directories I edited, they are still the > same. Ex: I co

Hair-puller

2001-02-18 Thread Don Berkich
Hi Folks, Anybody had trouble with debconf falling over dead on a woody upgrade? Specifically: Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.80.17 (using debconf_0.5.61_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... Setting up debconf (0.5.61) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "studenten" == studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... > but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is another tool, the name of whic

Re: Hair-puller

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
I'm sure but think there a problem with Perl. You should first install Perl-5.6 (apt-get install perl-5.6), then upgrade to woody. Hope this helps. Franck. Le dim, 18 fév 2001 18:56:14, Don Berkich a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > Anybody had trouble with debconf falling over dead on a woody upgrade?

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
Pierfrancesco Caci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... > > but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... > > you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is > another tool, the name of which escapes my

Re: PowerMac G3 not booting after installation

2001-02-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Mohamed, Your mac is a funny beast in deed. Friend here had same problem, and I will suggest to you also to check with debian-powerpc: Debian port to PowerPC online at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe You can browse the archives at http://lists.debian.org/ Good luck and hope you

Re: Hair-puller

2001-02-18 Thread Don Berkich
Thanks for the quick feedback, Franck! I agree-it does seem to be a problem with Perl. But I get the same problem with perl-5.6. In fact, I installed all the transitional packages from unstable, and still no debconf :( Oh, and just for fun I snagged perl 5.6.0.18 from incoming to see if that mi

Re: Testing + libglide3?

2001-02-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
Rather than go through all of that, just check out http://dri.sourceforge.net/resources/resources.html There, you can get the libs and includes and painlesly drop them into /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib. Just make sure to add /usr/local/lib to you /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. I just

Re: GNOME Mail Client

2001-02-18 Thread Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834
Brad Burns wrote: I use Sylpheed too, and I like it. I find that Pronto is great - it can use MySQL for storing emails which makes it ideal for huge amounts of mail from losts of mailing lists. Searches are VERY fast! At the moment I am using Sylpheed, and it's very nice.. I have not set

Re: how to use gnapster....more generally...where to find cool music/sounds?

2001-02-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Some days ago a friend of mine had the same problem, not being > able to subscribe to napster. I just gave him my username and > password and surprisingly we both could use napster at the same > time, with the same username. But it does make sense, because > the only thing that seems to matte

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Glenn Becker
Dave, Wow. As a matter of fact, I *am* running portsentry. I take it then that running portsentry is not in itself a risk ... Thanks for helping me avert my own coronary. ":-) Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 10:45am on Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Fe

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( > in single user mode i suppose )... No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device files are the interfaces to the device drivers. If you access /dev/hda5, Linux

Re: Novice memory usage question (SOLVED)

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
Thank you for the tips. The relevant info was from http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/x1925.html#AEN2027 : I quote : "7.9. When I Add More Memory, the System Slows to a Crawl. This is a common symptom of a failure to cache the additional memory. The exact problem depends on

Re: ext2resize

2001-02-18 Thread studenten wg
On Sunday 18 February 2001 18:15, Moritz Schulte wrote: > studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( > > in single user mode i suppose )... > > No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device > files are th

Re: how to use gnapster....more generally...where to find cool music/sounds?

2001-02-18 Thread c-3
Date sent: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:32:45 -0500 From: Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: how to use gnapstermore generally...where to find cool music/sounds? Send reply to: Hall

OT:: napster

2001-02-18 Thread Xucaen
I heard napster got shut down. --- c-3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date sent:Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:32:45 > -0500 > From: Hall Stevenson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how to use > gnapstermor

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-18 Thread csj
On Sunday 18 February 2001 19:22, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:14:51AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > "aphro" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > aphro> i refuse to buy a DVD player. i'll stick to VCDs. > > aphro> > > > > That's a very terse statement.

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
What is exactly cadlock at port 770? I know is has something to do with sun rpc's.. what exactly is? Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.dtts.net Powered by ddt dynamic DNS Powered by GNU runni

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> What is exactly cadlock at port 770? I know is has something to do with > sun rpc's.. what exactly is? Ok I see is rpc.statd.. Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vivaldi.dtts.net Powered by ddt dyn

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:51:14PM +0100): > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://vivaldi.dtts.net > Powered by ddt dynamic DNS you really mean to change this to ddts.net. or else your "powered by" clause may cast a shadow upon ddt since "dtts.net" doesn't exist... mar

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi: I am down to this with nmap: Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 22 opentcpssh 111 opentcpsunrpc I K'd out S10portmap in the /etc/rc0.d/ directory, but port 111 is still open. I can

keypad doesn't work in xjed

2001-02-18 Thread Xucaen
Hi all.. when I use xjed, my number keypad doesn't work, but it works in xterm, and it works in netscape, and a few other programs. Is this an xjed feature or maybe I do not have my keyboard set up properly? I use Xfree 3.3.6, debian 2.2r2 thanks! xucaen

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 22 opentcpssh > 111 opentcpsunrpc > > I K'd out S10portmap in the /etc/rc0.d/ directory, but port 111 is still > open. I can remove portmap from /

Re: Leafnode not getting news

2001-02-18 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Glyn Millington wrote: > /var/log/news says things like > > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article > /var/spool/news/message.id/658/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No such file or directory > Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory > /var/s

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > And is it all right to keep 22 open like that? Apologies for the > > rushed questions, I just want a box secure enough to allow me to > > continue to experiment without worry. I can look into better > > solutions later, like ipchains/firewalls. > If you need to access your machine from several

Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source

2001-02-18 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
> So, you didn't clean the sourcetree after the last try with the debian > setup, before doing make World? Then > > make World > cd your_toplevel_that_includes_debian > touch debian/stampdir/build > debian/rules binary I tried this (now with 4.0.2-3), but the error seems to remain the same: What

Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I got a warning message saying the swap partition has insecure permission 0660, which should be changed to 0600. I looked at the man page of swapon, but could not find the info to change the permission. How do I change it? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 14:47:01 -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > I got a warning message saying the swap partition has insecure permission > 0660, which should be changed to 0600. I looked at the man page of > swapon, but could not find the info to change the permission. How do I > change it? Ha

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Use ipchains ASAP. Going after all services are impossible when experimenting unless you use this approach. I block all ports 1-1023 except ones I use for my connection to cable modem by using ipchains on gateway machine. (See atached script for details. This is "ipmasq -l" output. You can get

Using DSL connection.

2001-02-18 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to use Verizon DSL modem from Linux. I have this modem connected to a 3Com ethernet hub, which connects to 3 machines. Verizon DSL has software for PC and Mac, and both work. Each machine would get its own IP address. Not sure if this should be the case, o

Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Thanks a lot! I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well. That takes care of my problem now. Chip J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 14:47:01 -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > > I got a warning message saying the swap partition has insecure permission > > 0660, which should be c

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Glenn Becker
Just a quick note to thank everyone for the input on this matter. It has *all* been very instructive - forced me to learn (or take another look at) how the system starts and *what* it starts, and so on. :-) Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 12:06pm on Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Osamu

Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fu-Dong Chiou) writes: > Thanks a lot! I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well. That > takes care of my problem now. "In Unix, everything is a file." ;) moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://

Re: Leafnode not getting news

2001-02-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Many thanks for advice received. Did a purge and started again - everything is fine now. Glyn M -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux 9:42pm

potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Christoph Simon
Hi! I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of: Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.1.1 Feb 18 14:01:17 kernel: loc

Re: DocBook - db2pdf and db2ps problems

2001-02-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[resending, I had bad mail configuration which killed my outbound mail] Henning Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried the debian-user list, but my question was probably too sgml > specific, so I repost it here: Ok, I'm crossposting reply. > > I'm a newcomer to Debian and Linux in gener

Seed a debian mirror from CD-ROM?

2001-02-18 Thread Tod Hagan
I've got an official CD-ROM set of Debian 2.2r2 i386. I'd like to set up an in-house HTTP mirror to use for installations and upgrades, particularly for machines without CD-ROM drives. I tried copying the contents of the 3 CDs into a directory which I made available via HTTP, but when I hit this m

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:11:23PM +0100, Roberto Diaz wrote: > > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > > PortState Protocol Service > > 22 opentcpssh > > 111 opentcpsunrpc > > > > I K'd out S10portmap in the /etc/r

Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

2001-02-18 Thread Marcus Franke
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > > Thanks a lot! I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well. That takes > care of my problem now. You do not change permission for the partition, just for the device file, which programs use to perform operations upon the device.. If a userlevel program could perform

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Roberto Diaz
> > Well is a corcern since bugs can be possible.. and you need the portmap in > > order to run things like postgresql.. but it is wrapped as you very well > PostgreSQL listens on 5432 (if you have tcp turned on). What would it > need rpc for? I have portmap turned off here and never had a proble

Re: PostgreSQL

2001-02-18 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:07:48PM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: > Do I need postgresql starting up in my default runlevel of 2? I am running > only a workstation that handles ip_masq and port forwarding. No database > stuff that I am aware of. Can I remove this service from the runlevel? pos

ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

2001-02-18 Thread Jerrud
This pretty much goes along side the "CDROM device" question asked by William Leese earlier on the list, but I have troubles too ;-) I recompiled my kernel (2.4.1) last night to include support for my new cd writer, but now that i have done that, the switch to IDE to SCSI emulation has changed

unwilling to netboot

2001-02-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I bought an old NIC, but it seems that it is a bit broken. It is a Racal-Datacom which uses the in52 driver. The problem is, that when I make a floppy with etherboot, etherboot tells me that the card is broken: NI5210 ioaddr 0x318, mem[0x000cc000-0x000ce000], addr 02:07:01:13:21:cf Searching f

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

2001-02-18 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Jerrud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /cdrom # mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, #or too many mounted file systems #(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, #instead of some logical partition inside?) # [EMA

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-18 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I am looking to get a DVD-ROM drive for my system. I would like to hear > from people who have their DVD-ROM drives working under Linux: make, > model, good+bad points, etc. I have a Pioneer 105s, slot-in model, 16x. Plays CDs

Re: DVD-ROM drive recommendations

2001-02-18 Thread hogan
> Checked with the driveinfo.exe -> region free! :) How does this "region free" patch handle R1 RCE (Region Code Enhancement) discs?

cannot forward X11

2001-02-18 Thread Anthony Fox
Hello, I have recently upgraded to XF4.0.2. I cannot forward some remote computers' DISPLAY to my local XServer. For example, I have a FreeBSD firewall for which I cannot forward the DISPLAY variable to the Debian box. I can forward local accounts, such as root, and run X11 apps. I can forward

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom > 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). In > one of the exported directories I need file locking, but get lots of: > > Feb 18

Help needed: screensaver-properties-capplet/gnome-cc crash

2001-02-18 Thread Steve Cooper
I've had this problem on and off for awhile with a sid box. WindowMaker is my window manager, but the same problem occurs when I run any other manager. I first noticed that when I run the Gnome Control Panel X reboots back to kdm. Based on scouring the internet I narrowed it down to screensa

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:11:32 -0900 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 06:25:55PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to set up NFS between two potato boxes running a custom > > 2.4.1 kernel (Can't change easily neither potato nor this kernel). I

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

2001-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Since you are in SCSI emulation, you need to change softlink: /dev/scd0 ->/dev/cdrom (check dmsg to be sure) Actually, you do not need to recompile kernel to get ide-scsi to work. Debian default kernel has module support. Enable them by adding following line in lilo.conf append="hdc=id

Re: potato 2.4.1 and NFS locking

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:25:46PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > statd: 192.168.1.1 > > > > and such to the proper machines. > > Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure if I understood this. If I put > this line to hosts.deny, wouldn't this mean to explicitly deny access > of this compu

apt-get stuck

2001-02-18 Thread David Bellows
Hello everyone, I'm running potato with a smattering of woody packages. I recently tried to install the game "powermanga" from unstable using apt-get. It failed to install, here is the output (sorry, it's long): debian:/home/dave# apt-get install powermanga Reading Package Lists... Done Buildin

KDE setup

2001-02-18 Thread Daniel Jones
Running Debian 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. I've had a lot of trouble getting KDE installed and running. I now have it limping along but everything isn't quite kosher. First, XFree86 was loading into a default configuration rather than starting KDE. startx calls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xin

Re: cannot forward X11

2001-02-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Anthony Fox wrote: > > Hello, > > I have recently upgraded to XF4.0.2. I cannot forward some remote > computers' DISPLAY to my local XServer. For example, I have a FreeBSD > firewall for which I cannot forward the DISPLAY variable to the Debian > box. I can forward local accounts, such as root

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