Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > update-rc.d remove it? > > If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are

unable to connect to the internet for installation

2001-06-02 Thread bxb 3
hello everybody, I am trying to install Debian (Potato), via floppy and the internet. My problem is that the connection process normally involves a terminal window popping up after my ISP has been dialled up. Then I manually type in the username and then the password... And THEN it says:

Re: lilo & fstab

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:16:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, [snip] > When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following > error: [snip] > WARNING! > Your /etc/fstab configuration file gives device /dev/hda3 as the root > filesystem device. This doesn't look to me

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:24:00PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:45:35PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > because obviously, if only micro$oft can look at the code, then noone > > else can find bugs *and* micro$oft has complete control over security. > > M$ is always good for a j

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:00:29AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:11:25PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > > What is the portmap process meant for? Shall I safely > > >update-rc.d remove it? > > > >

[OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
I've been searching though freshmeat, the net and debian packages and am not coming up with what I want. I doubt it even exists but I have to ask. I love working in console but I find myself in X mostly because my browser of choice is there and I can copy paste between that and other programs. A

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote: > What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > and run that on one or more workspaces. Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook file to make the borders black and one or two pixels wide, and get rid of the

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:51:37PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:00:29AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > is there a DEBIAN-happy way to permanently remove an > > /etc/init.d/* service? this wholesale 'rm' stuff sounds hacky > > for such a streamlined apt-friendly distrib

Re: [users] Re: perl locale

2001-06-02 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:46:17PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400): > > >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US? > > Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost! > > check /etc/environment > > cool. i didn't know

Re: ORBS?

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:44:11 EDT, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: >On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:21:37PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:04:27 EDT, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: >> >Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply >> >shows "Due to circumstances b

Re: PCMCIA advice needed!

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Voigt
On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:46, vester wrote: > hello, > > just a basic question about pcmcia...should i get the pcmcia source > package and compile them myself or does the pcmcia-modules package > basically provide for this? > > i compiled my kernel with pcmcia support The pcmcia support in the

potato and Vim 5.8

2001-06-02 Thread Andre Berger
I've dl'd the Vim 5.8 sources, unpacked them, and compiled via "deb-make && dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot". All went well, except that I can't install the .deb because my potato Gtk is too old. How can I upgrade painlessly, or compile for my potato Gtk version? I assume the problem is libgtk1.2-d

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Lance Simmons wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > > and run that on one or more workspaces. > > Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook file to make > the borders black and one o

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:59:40AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i spoze i should've been more clear-- > > is there a debian-friendly way to permanently disable > a startup (/etc/init.d/*) service so's some future > "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't resurrect it from the grave? > >

Re: exim config

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:56:22PM +, Nic Strong wrote: > I have just installed exim on my box and it seems to be causing problems > when using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP. > > I configured exim using smarthost to deliver outgoing mail (suitable for > dialup option). But when using f

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: k> I've been searching though freshmeat, the net and debian packages and am k> not coming up with what I want. I doubt it even exists but I have to k> ask. I love working in console but I find myself in X mostly because my k> browser of choice is there and I can co

exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread General Alcazar
Hello to everybody, pleased to meet you. I'm using Debian 2.2 'potato' whit exim as MTA. The question is that when I try to fetch the mail from the server with -say- fetchmail, it is unable to perform such operation because it cannot send the message to the local mail account. I believe that this

Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Roderick Cummings
I have set up a debian system to act as an intrusion detection system with portsentry. Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the scan. Is there a way to get this information propogated to nearby routers, etc. It would be interesting to have all traffic to or from the o

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:15:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > will trillich wrote: > > > > > > BYCMUYJTCP > > > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.) > > > > And you can alaways make up words too :0) >

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot', Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your tinkering will be backgrounded and get interrupted by the reboot process. Rob -- The goys

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:05PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > it took me a while to figure out that "ssh" contains "sshd" > whereas, say, "telnet" is the client and "telnetd" is the > server. with "ssh" the package wonk put all pieces into the one > package, so you get both client and server in

problems to shutdown /w Kernel 2.4.3 and X 4.0.3

2001-06-02 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hello debians! I have problems to shutdown. Kernel 2.4.3 with apm X 4.0.3 xdm System runs woody Yesterday after exiting wmaker I switched to console logged in as root and said shutdown -h now Three lines of shutdown messages appeared and then nothing more happens. I had to switch it off. Natur

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roderick - portsentry is a hostbased detector... - try using snort for port scan detection - if you have a client site and your own facilities... i assume you/they both have firewalls on both ends - you prevent them from playing around in your lan - they prevent you fro

Re: firewall log message question

2001-06-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 29 May 2001 19:37:47 -0500, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May 23 12:51:01 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30114 F=0x T=248 (#5) > May 23 12:51:05 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-02 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:14:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin uttered: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > > where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot', > > Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your > tinkering will be

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:30:13AM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, ktb wrote: > > k> > k> What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > k> and run that on one or more workspaces. > > Why settle for 'fake' when you can still have the real thing :)

Re: fakeroot problem

2001-06-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:55:35AM +0800, csj wrote: > With fakeroot 0.4.4-9.2, a build exits with > > [stderr abridged and graciously spaced for clarity] > > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: > libfakeroot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > dire

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, June 1, D-Man did write: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:49:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > | Type M-x tutorial (Escape-x tutorial) for a 15 minute intro that will > > That is press and release Escape, press and release x, type > 'tutorial'. > > (this little explanation of Me

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sidney, Sorry this has been such a pain for you. I think, though, that you need to systematize your attempts to get it working. Going back to square one was a reasonable idea. But it would help to have the actual output of the commands and logs you refer to, rather than just your memory of them. F

Re: which gnutella-client to use

2001-06-02 Thread aziem_chawdhary
Gtk-Gnutella is a good client. http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net On (01/06/01 03:16), Thomas Hess wrote: > hi, > > do you have any suggestions for a graphical gnutella-client? I'm looking > for one with many configuration-options, multiple searches. A gtk/gnome > program would be nice, but not

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included in the "local_domains" entry. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:28:57PM +0200, General Alcazar wrote: > Hello to everybody, pleased to meet you. > > I'm using Debian 2.2 'potato' whit exim as MTA. The question > is that when I try to f

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Roderick Cummings wrote: > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the > scan. I am not an expert in security, but some doubts. Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? r

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: More information. I have tried minicom, kppp, gnome -ppp, wvdial, and pppconfig. They all dial and get connected to my ISP. None get me on to the internet. So, when you use minicom, you can dial-out (assuming you have volume up, you hear dialtone, and then dialing tones

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:27:45AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > > What would be ideal is to be able to emulate the look of console in X > > and run that on one or more workspaces. > > Use uwm as your window manager, edit the uwmrc.hook fil

Re: Customizing the console key map?

2001-06-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote: > >> console-tools (or kbd, I don't care much which one) my customizations > >> are kept automatically without my having to go back in and fix them up. > > There must be some reason why upgrading these packages keeps installing > new versions of the ke

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Here are answers to some of the questions that helpful people have posed. About two hours ago, I installed Debian anew. It was during this installation that I added the modules parport, etc. . The message at the time of installation was "installation successful". So doe

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
Margarete Hans wrote: I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wic

Xmame

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Spencer
I'm running Debian unstable and just downloaded all of the Xmame .debs. Unfortunately I can't get Xmame to run. It seems as though the executables were not included in the packages. Am I losing my mind or has anyone else experienced this problem? -Chris

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Kent West writes: > What does plog report when you use pppconfig/pon/poff? Or even when you don't. Plog is just #!/bin/sh if [ -s /var/log/ppp.log ]; then exec tail "$@" /var/log/ppp.log else exec tail "$@" /var/log/syslog | grep ' \(pppd\|chat\)\[' fi -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan

OT: exam.cls?

2001-06-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! this is a bit OT, sorry. I will give a math exam and I would like to write it in LaTex. Does exist a latex class for doing this? (like article.cls for write articles) Thanks in advance! Marcelo

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the > > scan. > > Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? > What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? This is the real problem,

Re: OT: exam.cls?

2001-06-02 Thread Rajkumar S.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I will give a math exam and I would like to write it in LaTex. Does > exist a latex class for doing this? (like article.cls for write > articles) One good place to ask such questions is the Indian TeX users group list, see http://gnu.org.in/mailma

Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I need to monitor the bandwidth that is being used between certain ports of several machines. (Traffic in port P of machine A comming from machine B) What tools can use to measure this? -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but documents that tell me about setting it up. Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in Germany ) that has this package?! Thanks! Eamon Roque.

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
Answer to questions by Kent West. The printer does not work. The echo test failed. Printer does work with Redhat, therefore is not win-printer. Possibility of damage by lightning strike. Modem works with Windows and Beos. My ISP administrator used his own modem. Minicom says" Connect

Re: http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but > documents that tell me about setting it up. > Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in Germany ) that has this package?! Would apache-ssl work for you?

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
> It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to > cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients > or other important sites. While certainly no panacea, portsentry isn't that stupid. The authors thought about this and provided for it. -- John

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > The printer does not work. The echo test failed. What messages do you get when you insmod parport, parport_pc, and lp?

X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Yea Right
How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 with 2 17" monitors. Thanks

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Sidney Brooks writes: > After configuring PPP,... What do you mean by "configuring PPP"? _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what were the results? Don't hesitate to be verbose. > I get message "This system lacks kernel support for ppp. In response to what command? This message does not a

Re: X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Yea Right wrote: > How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 > with 2 17" monitors. Today there was this article on Slashdot. It might be what you're looking for. "Matrix Releases G series Config tool" Check out this URL: http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_cente

Re: what is portmap?

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are >> the 2 main services that need it. >> >> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system

Re: http-ssl

2001-06-02 Thread Eamon Roque
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:07:16PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm looking for the http-ssl package. I can't seem to find anything but > > documents that tell me about setting it up. > > Is there a Debian Server ( preferably in

Re: Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm beginning to think you've got some weird kernel running, what with your reporting of 2.0.38 under debian 2.2r3, and with this ppp issue. When you configured the system, did you include ppp (in the net section) as a module? Is it in /etc/modules? If not, try including it. Also, just to verify

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
More answers. when I ran ismod parport, the response was "ismod command not found". I ran pppconfig in the standard way, ending with the write and finish command.I then ran pon and got (it is verbose): ioctl(TIOCSETUP):Invalid argument (22) /usr/bin/ppp: This system lacks kernel support for PP

oh crikey, it's ALSA all over again

2001-06-02 Thread Blue Rat
Hey ho, Well, you'll never guess. The transition from Mandrake 7.2 to Debian didn't exactly go without a glitch, but I have configured almost everything I need. Almost. Except for ALSA modules, that is. Oh, I have unpacked the kernel source into /usr/src/linux all right; ALSA modules have bee

compiling gtk under woody

2001-06-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, today i would like to teach myself how to use gtk. i'm running woody. which packages should i apt-get install? pete -- "The following addresses had permanent fatal errors..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailer Daemon www.dirac.org/p

Re: lilo & fstab

2001-06-02 Thread burningclown
In re: my continued lilo problems ... > What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say? This: Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System And when I run fdisk on /dev/hda, I get the following: C

Re: Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: DdlR> I need to monitor the bandwidth that is being used between certain ports DdlR> of several machines. (Traffic in port P of machine A comming from DdlR> machine B) What tools can use to measure this? There is lots of tools that can do that, but i

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Lance Simmons
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > More answers. > > when I ran ismod parport, the response was "ismod command not found". Yikes! Did I say "ismod"? I meant "insmod" (to INsert a MODule). lp depends on parport_pc which depends on parport, so they have to be loaded i

Re: lilo & fstab: SOLVED

2001-06-02 Thread burningclown
Hola, I ran the suggested /etc/lilo.conf file, ran /sbin/lilo and now all is well. Moving on. Thanks!! Am just not gonna worry about what I must've been doing wrong. :S Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" ++

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #783

2001-06-02 Thread Jim McCloskey
General Alcazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> So, can somebody tell me what I have to do so that exim begins |> to wait for incoming SMTP connections? This is normally set up by including a line of the following form in the file /etc/inetd.conf: smtpstream tcp nowait mail

Re: lilo & fstab

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:34:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In re: my continued lilo problems ... > > > What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say? > > This: > > > Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device BootStart

How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-02 Thread John Hughes
I have a lexmark 3200 connected on LP0. how can i get it to print? John Hughes

Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread John Hughes
I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies /dev/hda When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot win2k?

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread shock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: > > > It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to > > cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients > > or other important sites. > > While certainly no panacea,

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
This is a response to Lance Simmons. When I reinstalled Debian yesterday, I installed the modules in the order that you give: parport, parport_pc, and lp. After each I got the message "installation succeeded". Is there any point in going through the insmod sequence?

Re: Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:15:02PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: :I know that I am connected because the log says so. Please post the log out put as others have suggested. At one point it will say connected when the modems start talking to each other, later it will give the local and remote IP add

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Kent West
John Hughes wrote: I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies /dev/hda When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot win2k? I'm

Re: oh crikey, it's ALSA all over again

2001-06-02 Thread David Z Maze
Blue Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> Oh, I have unpacked the kernel source into /usr/src/linux all BR> right; ALSA modules have been untarred into the modules BR> subdirectory where they belong, run configure and I'm fine. (The kernel source doesn't actually *need* to go into /usr/src/linux, a

Re: compiling gtk under woody

2001-06-02 Thread David Z Maze
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJS> today i would like to teach myself how to use gtk. PJS> PJS> i'm running woody. which packages should i apt-get install? Use a front-end like dselect or aptitude. Start it up, and search for 'gtk' within it. This will find lots of things, amo

Re. Total Confusion

2001-06-02 Thread Sidney Brooks
To: Eamon Roque The logs that you want are in my 11:06 AM 6/2/01 posting. I cannot echo anything. To: Jonathan D. Pro(rest not printed in my email) Redhat problems with dialing, e.g. kppp, gnome-ppp ,are the same as with Debian. As far as I know, Redhat does not have the ppp module. The printer

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread General Alcazar
I'm so stupid... I don't know why, but just commenting this line in exim.conf "host_lookup = *" everything work fine. General Alcazar On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 at 09:47:10 -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included > in the "local_domains" en

Re: exim is making me crazy

2001-06-02 Thread General Alcazar
I'm so stupid... I don't know why, but just commenting this line in exim.conf "host_lookup = *" everything work fine. General Alcazar On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 at 09:47:10 -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > Take a look at exim.conf, and make sure that "localhost" is included > in the "local_domains" en

Re: X windows dual monitors

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:19:58PM -0400, Yea Right wrote: : :How do I setup a dual head Matrox G400 :with 2 17" monitors. You'll need XFree4.0 (but you know this). Then "man 5x XF86Config" Essentialy you make multiple "Device" sections for each SVGA port (one card or many, doesn't matter), you g

ANSWER: how to add extra chat options in pppconfig

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I accidently deleted the post this answers (oops). Someone needed to add some more chattiness after connectig to their ISP to select PPP rather than SLIP or some other things... After going through the regular set up, it shows what you've selected for connection settings and allows you to ch

Help: squid on a dial-up machine

2001-06-02 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hello, I have a problem with squid (2.4.1-5) seemingly ignoring the '-D' during the startup. When booting, squid dies because it cannot find nameservers (of course! I'm on a dial-up!), despite being told (per man page) to "disable initial DNS tests" with the '-D' option. Any suggestions? --ET.

[OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I've decided to start using vim for small coding projects, because emacs (although excellent) uses a lot of RAM, and is slow to load. Anyway I have a few very basic questions about vim: 1. How do I enable c/c++ mode? My friend's computer automatically puts parenthesis where they're suppose

Getting modules.conf to load sound at startup

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Kenrick
I've managed to get sound working on an SB16 sound card (manually modprobing from the command line works), but I'm having trouble trying to get it to load at bootup. Yes, I did run update-modules after each change... but after reboot no sound drivers are present according to lsmod, and dmesg show

Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi everyone, i'm a dsl user whom subscribed to this service (duh!), and am having trouble with the pppoe package suplied by debian in sid, currently i'm using the one suplied by my ISP (pppoe is from Network Telesystems), but i'd prefer 2 use the debian one ;) Well so far it fairly works for almo

Re: Port Sentry - good idea

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya raj > Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? > What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? thats exactly what the next level of "script kiddies" does to get you to block all incoming legit connections - in this case..block connections from yo

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can > boot linux, which occupies > /dev/hda > > When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it ca

Re: Port Sentry - users

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi john i think its more the issue of what "users" do after they see the portscan log messsages... changing fw rules due to portscan loggs is like shooting yourself in the foot if one does not know why you're updating the fw rules ( "i heard someone say update the fw to stop port scans" is not g

Re: Lilo and Win2k - switch

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya - either reinstall so that win2k is on hda1 or - get a new disk and make linux hdb probably faster to get windows to reinstall than to copy/move stuff around... c ya alvin On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long tim

Re: Network traffic monitor

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi daniel lots of apps... for network connections... iptraf, showtraf, netwatch, tcpview, statnet, etc.. even "tcpdump | grep 'what you want to see' " for network statistics... mrtg, http://www.Linux-Sec.net -- see the ethernet section c ya alvin On Sat, 2

Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Despite the recent question about traffic monitoring on multiple machines, does anyone know of a good COMMAND-LINE tool to give accurate counts of packet transfers AND errors? I'm working on a hardware stats / performance program for nearly 50 machines. -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Compute

I want to make a Debian friendly box.

2001-06-02 Thread DrkMessiah
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. I have an old IBM Aptiva M71 with a NEC XV15 monitor that I am going to upgrade for use with linux, preferably the Debian Distribution. This means maxing out the RAM to 128 and getting rid of the mwave sound/modem card and installing a new vid

Re: Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jonathan... donno if you already checked... but.. i just tried searching google too ... think you'd end up with snmp and/or perf tools - a nice link i found ... nothing that helps you ?? Viewing your Network in RealTime http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-09-1999/swol-09-realtim

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 15:02:41 -0500 (CDT) John Hughes writes: JH> I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies JH> /dev/hda JH> JH> When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something abou

Re: Lilo and Win2k

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
I believe that Win9x or ME will boot on any partition... but from my experience... I had to put windows NT 4.0 workstation on the hda or I could't boot from itI assuming that would be the same for win2k Mike - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Hughes" <

xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hey, simple question. I want to invoke the xscreensaver(daemon) automatically after I logged in. I added this line to my .xinitrc file # Start xscreensaver daemon xscreensaver & However it doesn't work. What's wrong. Adding to the .xinitrc file is correct isn't? Xscreensaver works

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:27:08AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hey, > > simple question. I want to invoke the xscreensaver(daemon) automatically > after I logged in. > I added this line to my .xinitrc file > # Start xscreensaver daemon > xscreensaver & > However it doesn't work. What

Re: Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:55:05PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: :Well so far it fairly works for almost everything except for http :( I had a similar problem when I put in my DSL. Not the same, it only affected boxes behind my Debian box that was runing NAT to share the connection, the machin

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: :Try - :exec xscreensaver & :kent NO DON"T DO IT! This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last thing that executes (ie no window manager) and if you close the screensaver you Xwindows session will exit. Only "exec" a wi

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: > Try - > exec xscreensaver & Thanks for your very quick respons but this doesn't seem to work. xscreensaver doesn't get started automatically when I log in? Does this work for you? Regards -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com I

Re: Packet Traffic

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:06:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: :think you'd end up with snmp and/or perf tools : :- a nice link i found ... nothing that helps you ?? I liked the link :) I agree snmp to get the info. There's plenty of tools command line and otherwise to view it. We use snmp with cr

Re: [OT] True console in X?

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an > x-window session? That would be cool. Having recently got round to using screen I know that cutting and pasting between a virtual console and X can be done with it. A c

Re: xscreensaver

2001-06-02 Thread ktb
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:53:12PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:28:58PM -0500, ktb wrote: > :Try - > :exec xscreensaver & > :kent > > NO DON"T DO IT! > > This will stop processing the file and make the screensaver the last > thing that executes (ie no window manag

Re: Wireless Conection

2001-06-02 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
ok i've fixed it, it works, great, change the MTU from 1500 to 1492 and it's running smoothly :) thanks * Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:55:05PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > :Well so far it fairly works for almost everything except for http :( >

Re: Installation Problems

2001-06-02 Thread Margarete Hans
> Hi, > > Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make. Hard Drive Type 65 (813MB) (?). It is IDE. > But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy > disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite > > or check the badblock fisrt. How do I check that? > > TO make sure your comp

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