Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: >I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up Fetch yourself the source of one of the Exim 4.x packages from here: >http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? keywords=exim&searchon=names&subword=1&vers

psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: CONFIG_MOUSE=m CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEVER used to be a problem... Does anyone know what could be going w

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On 17 Nov 2002 19:58:01 +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: >> all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-rc2 >> with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: >> >> CONFIG_MOUSE=m >> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y >> >> However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NEV

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:04:54 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> all of a sudden I've got a strange problem. I'm trying to compile 2.4.20- rc2 >> with XFS, where psaux should be compiled as a module: >> >> CONFIG_MOUSE=m >> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y >> >> However the psaux.o module is not created?! This NE

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:40:43 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: >On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:28:49PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> This file simply isn't there. The only "char" files I have are >> "serial.o" and "softdog.o." Apart from these module

Re: psaux.o not compiled as a module?!

2002-11-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:55:59 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: >It shows up here as >/lib/modules/2.4.19-686/kernel/drivers/input/mousedev.o This is a different file, namely to support mice driven via the input device (read "USB mice.") -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ of a GNU

(Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany

2003-01-03 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, this might be interesting for Debian developers and users in and around Aachen, Germany. There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the mailing list that will be used to coordinate the party and to announc

Re: (Somewhat) [OT]: PGP/GPG keysigning party in Aachen, Germany

2003-01-03 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:52:20 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >There will be a PGP/GPG keysigning party some time in February. If you are I forgot to add the URL where you can get more info about PGP/GPG and the "party" itself (in German only, sorry): http://www.ccac.r

Where did "rexec" go???

2003-01-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, it seems that there's still rexecd (note the trailing "d") available, but rexec has gone?! Where is it, why was it removed?! I need it for an old script of mine (please, no comments about the insecurity of rexec, I'm well aware of this fact.) Thanks, Ralf -- L I N U X .~

Re: unexplained shutdown/restart: 2.2.9 kernel

1999-06-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
First, no reason to worry! On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:17:10 -0400 (EDT), James D. Freels wrote: >I am getting unexplained system shutdowns at arbitrary times. Also No shutdowns! Or have you actually observed them yourself? I mean have you been sitting at the console watching the machine go down?

Re: port redirection

1999-07-01 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote: >> I use statements like >> >> ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3 > >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy. I'm still doing slink. Do you know how Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?

Re: port redir progress (more questions)

1999-07-02 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:53:11 -0700, Nate wrote: >Is there anything wrong with the following rule? > >ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.1.4 http -R 192.168.1.1 http You should invoke it as "-L www -R www" It probably doesn't matter whether you use "www" or "http," both are in /etc/services

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:12:59 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >Rolf Edlund: >> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v): >> >> 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".". >> >>> . >> >> And it just sits there, doing nothing ? [...] >3) you do know that this is a server,

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-07 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:47:06 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >> I think you don't get the point. >> >> He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the >> receiver-MTA. > >So he is. My mistake. > >Why is the sending MTA attempting to send a blank message, then? (If that's >

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

1999-07-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 22:22:54 +0200 (CEST), Rolf Edlund wrote: >On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote: > >Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > > 250 SIZE 2097152 > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > 250 2.5.0 Address and options OK. > >>> RCPT To

Re: ssl-certificate --force problems

1999-07-14 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:04:11 -0700, Nate wrote: >Still trying to get apache-ssl working properly. > >I'm trying to see if creating a new certificate will help. > >When I type ssl-certificate --force I get the error: >/usr/sbin/ssl-certificate: ssleay: command not found > >I have /usr/doc/ssleay an

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
[...] > > What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to > >a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer > >from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the > system > >will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
100:nobody:/dev/null: I'm not sure about the user-id. Either it's 65535 ("-1") or 65534 ("-2"), I don't know. The incorrect choice can be a security risk (concerning NFS(?)) but I don't remember the details.) Be VERY cautious when editing your /etc/passwd

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
installed Debian, and I'm really considering dropping it in favor of something that actually works. Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be idiot proof it's the installation system. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
d /lib/modules/...", i.e. use the complete path to the module. I don't know what's wrong with your setup, usually you don't need the complete path. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:21:12 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >Debian is harder to install then other distribution. Hear, hear. And I thought it's only "idiots" who fail installing it.... :-} -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-2

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:26:00 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >>> "RGRB" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >RGRB> Sorry for these harsh words, but if there is something that must be >idiot proof >RGRB> it's the installation system.

Re: SB16 PnP

1998-09-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:55:01 +1000 (EST), Shao Ying Zhang wrote: >Could anyone tell me where I did wrong? Well, you DID do a "make modules", did you? A "make zImage" or "make zlilo" JUST gets you a new kernel!! -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102

Re: permissions of hosts.*

1998-09-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
this the case? No. The perms are perfectly alright. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: Debian Installation Problem

1998-09-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
wanted to try Debian. I think once I'm thru with this hell I'll be a happy Debian user. :-) Thanks, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: Kernel 2.2.1: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ?

1999-02-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
kernel automatically sets the route to the interface. Remove the above line, and all will be well again. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

ipportfw under kernel 2.2: Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw

1999-02-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
manually telnet into the SMTP server and deliver my message this way, it DOES work. What's going on??? Hope someone can help me Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs, Welkenrather Str. 100, 52074 Aachen, Germany | Team +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax), e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OS/2 Earth is flat, pigs can fly, and nuclear tests are safe. --- Greenpeace.

Re: trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
, but you have a problem with THAT particular kernel. Try a different kernel. I *think* there is a special kernel for laptops (it might be on the source code CD, which is also bootable.) Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-2

Re: loadlin...

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
that doesn't work look into loadlin's docs. I'm not sure anymore whether you can pass the "cleartext" root filesystem name, or whether you have to specify major/minor 0306 for /dev/hda6.) Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
went wrong. It was YOU yourself who told make-kpkg to use the Debian(!) version no. "custom.1.0". The part after "kernel-image-" in the filename should contain the Linux kernel version no. And what's wrong about /lib/modules? This is the place where the modules belong, af

Re: make-kpkg funny

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > Read the mail again. Instead of 2.2.2 for the kernel-version, he gets > `..'. This is no good. Sorry, I misunderstood him. I thought he used ".." as an ellipsis to indicate that he left something out.

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
t. According to the HP US web site the two only differ in that the 712C doesn't come with a CD-ROM. One interesting note: The German website says the 710C is a "HP PCL 3 Enhanced" printer! See http://www.hewlett-packard.de/printer/ink/dj710p.html Strange, eh? -- Ralf G. R.

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
wasn't under NT right now writing a CD. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: fetchmail doesn't put email...

1999-02-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
t;No, you can use it with procmail. I have mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d $USER" >in my .fetchmailrc Really? I thought that the respective feature (i.e. to use a MDA) has been removed? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
fetched the "unstable" version of the program. I'm not sure whether it's a "stand- alone" package, or whether it's included in some net* package. In case you can't find it ask me again and I will look it up (I'm under NT right now.) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * We

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
bian system I have the binary installed under since this would involve removing my IDE hard drive and replacing it against the other drive, and I need to get work done at the moment. Could you check the above URL, and if it turns out that this is NOT ipmasqadm get back to me? Ralf --

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-05 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:24:38 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I believe ipfwadm only works with kernels < 2.1.90 or so. The reading >I get from the kernel source with 2.2.1 is that ipmasqadm is required. You're right. ipfwadm is obsolete for 2.2.x kernels. Ralf -- Ra

Re: ipmasqadm question

1999-03-05 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Basic TCP/IP networking binaries As you see it's the "unstable" version of netbase. Don't worry you can install it without having to fear that it breaks your system (at least it didn't on my system ;-) >Danke, (sp?) You're welcome. (The spelling of

/etc/modutils/ not used? (was Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
invoke "update-modules" in order to convert the stuff under /etc/modutils/ to a file /etc/conf.modules. HTH, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against

Re: portforwarding question

1999-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
me external port as the web server on the external machine, so let's assume that you use port 8080 to access the internal server. Therefore you would forward :8080 to :80. I don't see anything else you would have to do to make this work. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str.

Re: portforwarding question

1999-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
lso use 4711 or 6969. Just be sure that you don't use ports that are used by other services running on your external machine. Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok! Sign the EU petition against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/

Re: Segmentation fault - help please -

1999-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
...that lead to corruption of program code. Sorry, but the diagnosis seems quite clear. Maybe your IDE cable is too long? Or it's simply bad? Or (holding breath) your hard drive is dying? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-8777

Re: debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
images >for slink. I don't understand this. Why don't you just download the ready-made CD images? I did it the day before yesterday, and it worked fine. What is the advantage of downloading the packages and then building an image of yourself? -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str

Re: German NFS-Server

1999-03-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:54:11 +0100 (CET), Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck wrote: >Does anybody know a debian-mirror in Germany that I can access via NFS? >I already tried the ftp-mirrors but always got a time-out message. >Could it be that I just tried the wrong Paths? Or do those servers >(ftp.de.debia

Re: debian-cd for slink ?

1999-03-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:46:02 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] >>I don't understand this. Why don't you just download the ready-made CD >>images? I did it the day before yesterday, and it worked fine. >> >>What is the advantage of downloading the packages and then building an image >>of yourse

"shutdown -r" instead of "reboot"? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Besides, it is good practice to use "shutdown -r now" instead >of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls >the command "shutdown -r now" for you. Could you please explain

Re: Problems with make menuconfig

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:50:33 +0200, Michael Kirchner wrote: >dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory You need to install the ncurses-devel package. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file >append="mem=128Mo" No French spoken here. :-) Make that append="mem=128M" Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/10

Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice, terminal Apache, broken partitions...

1998-12-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
eter described sounds VERY much like hardware problems, most likely (as you already mentioned) bad memory. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re:Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
thing must be broken. I'm currently no. 2, so *I* win. :-) -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: WP Question

1998-12-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
un when I linked xwp to /usr/local/bin/xwp, but I had to change into the wpbin directory and execute it from there. Strangely enough when I today tried to demonstrate it to some friends it produced the exact same error message as above. What gives?! -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/

Case of WP8 installation file (was RE: WP 8 Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
tallation files. Then, invoke ./Runme and it will properly install WP8. It's really that simple, no need to mess around with the case of the name of the file you downloaded. Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-8

Re: print in WP8

1998-12-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
ostringval -- [...] >This is a postscript error message. You're right, but since the 5L is a NON-PostScript printer... >I don't know whether this is from the HP5L or wether ghostscript >produces this message... ... it CAN only be GhostScript who is responsible for the error

Re: compiling mc: glib.h sought for at the wrong place

1999-01-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
esponsible for its include files to be found without user intervention. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format

1999-01-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
to. or wether there is someone German >speaking who could translate? He would like to know whether he can also extract DEB files under Windoze, possibly from within a graphical (GUI) program. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-8

Re: Moving the filesystem

1999-01-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
nclude a LILO line to tell LILO the correct sequence of your hard drive (as the bios sees it), like follows: disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 Bios device code "0x80" means first hard drive (i.e. the one you boot from,) 0x81 means second one, 82 means third one, etc. Good luck. -

Re: Is SupraExpress 288i PnP Modem a WinModem?

1999-01-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
u disable PNP. Then it should be pretty easy to get the thingy running... -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast

1999-01-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
, before I upgraded I did NOT have this error message in my logs Thanks, Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-30 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
s lockup with the same symptom you describe, but with 2.2.0 (the release version.). I'm running a 5X86-133 (this is a 486 from AMD) on an ASUS PCI/I-SP3. I'm currently running 2.2.1-ac1 (Alan Cox' patch #1 applied,) and all is well again. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrathe

Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?

1999-08-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi, I have a very bizarre problem with Apache-SSL 1.3.3+1.29-2. Maybe one of you by chance can help me? Ok, here we go: I have a webpage that consists of static html pages, frames, inline images, and several Perl cgi scripts that dynamically create html pages. The server machine has two IP ad

Re: Apache-SSL "suppresses" inlime images?

1999-08-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:03:50 -0700 (PDT), Ernest Johanson wrote: >Well, I'm not sure but again I have a question. What about things like >MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and KeepAlive? If there aren't enough >spare children running, then some requests may drop. Subsequent requests >find some grap

Re: SNMP

1999-08-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:00:31 -0500, David Engel wrote: >On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:27:04PM -0400, Ken Long wrote: >> Well, since reading your message, I've been trying.pretty >> unsuccessfully, however. I notice with the default configuration, I can't >> even connect from the localhost! I

Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone ser

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >>[...] >> RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone >> services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) >>[...] >Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five >minutes. I have heard tha

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:21:28 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson wrote: >On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap >> usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they > >

Re: whois server?

1999-09-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:37:10 +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >I just found that whois isn't working because nic.ddn.mil, the default >reverse server doesn't exist, do you know which server I could use? I use the following script to query the different whois servers which are in charge depending

FSSTND question: Where to mount NFS FS?

1999-09-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, is there a "standard" directory in which to mount NFS filesystems, like /net or /nfs? For local filesystems you usually use /mnt, but where do you mount remote FS? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/

Re: FSSTND question: Where to mount NFS FS?

1999-09-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:21:08 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis wrote: >> is there a "standard" directory in which to mount NFS filesystems, like /net [...] >FSSTND is obsolete and is now called FHS, see >http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ for more info. For temporary mounts the FHS Right, I remember that I h

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-22 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:04:20 +0100, Joop van Son wrote: >Maybe you can test on your machine if the services are dying at the moment >you are starting to use your swap space (start some big programs). >I think your memory (-chips) is OK but you have probably bad blocks on your >swap space. This is

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-22 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:37:06 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] >> I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is >> too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM >> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap >

Re: Alan Cox's patches

1999-04-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:28:52 -0400, Sean wrote: >Are the ac-kernel patches applied in order? > >For instance, if I wanted to apply patch #6, would I first have to apply >patch 1->5? No. You ONLY apply the latest patch. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://w

Re: What is x11amp?

1999-04-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:29:32 +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: >What is the program x11amp good for? It's most probably an MP3 player for X. MP3 is a format for storing music on your PC. It uses lossy compression to reduce the size of the file by a factor of about 8-12 compared to the "raw" dump (unc

Re: Burn the Official Debian CD

1999-04-21 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:06:17 +, Shao Zhang wrote: >I have got the official debian 2.1 and would like to make a copy of >it. I am wondering if I need any special >software in order to make them still bootable. Since the machine where >the burner connected has got Windoze, I have got no idea

Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. However I had only partial success. There IS "some" output on the screen, but it's not nearly as much as appears on the VGA console, nor can I login

/dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

1999-04-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi, I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1). Can anyone pls. check whether this is the case with "native" 2.1 syste

(mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:17:00 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- >>console.txt in order to control a Debian box f

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: >Is this possible? Yes. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt. I've just done it (after having some trouble due to an incorrect /dev/console device). You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically

Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

1999-04-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:42:49 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >I discovered that on ALL my systems that originally were Debian 2.0 and have > > > >been upgraded to Debian 2.1 /dev/console is wrong. It's a link to /dev/tty0 > >instead of a device special file (mknod -m 622 /dev/console c

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:41:44 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: >> You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically >> you use a kernel command-line parameter of "console=ttyS0" to make a serial >> terminal (box A in your setup) hooked to /dev/ttyS0 on machine B the display

Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:36:42 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [...] >Yes. The _kernel_ logs to both consoles, but whatever opens /dev/console >connects to just _one_ console. I see. Well, that makes it perfectly clear. Thanks for filling me in! >> The problem seems to be related to kernel lo

Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

1999-04-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:30:51 +, Lazarus Long wrote: [...] >If I add 2.2.x to lilo at some point, choosing between 2.0.36 and 2.2.x >at boot will not be adequate? (This is what I've suspected, but been >told otherwise.) I *think* 2.0.36 is a kernel version that also/already understands the ne

Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'

1999-04-27 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Tony Crawford wrote: > > I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting > in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new > processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install > the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and

Re: LILO - System.map conflict

1999-04-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > [...] > Now I moved the new kernel to /boot as bzImage.x.y.z and I also > moved the new System.map to /boot/map.x.y.z. I edited my > /etc/lilo.conf file so that it has the entries such as > > ... > boot=/boot/map.x.y.z > ... > linux=/boot/bzImagex.y.z > ... > > but what h

Re: What is SCI UNIX?

1999-05-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 19 May 1999 23:17:43 +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >I have some old ethernet cards (EZ-3200P+ series, which are supposed to be >NE2000 compatible) and the disk with it has a Unix driver, but specifically >an SCO one. What does SCO stand for and might the driver be compatible with >Lin

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 25 May 1999 19:32:46 +0100 (BST), richard newton wrote: >Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? Yup. I do it using OS/2's Boot Manager, but it should be possible using LILO, too. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does Huh??? Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. -- Sign the EU petitio

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 26 May 1999 13:45:23 -0500 (CDT), Kent West wrote: >On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >> >> >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. >> >> Hu

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 27 May 1999 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oh the other hand.. Is the matrox card supported for 3D acceleration? I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 server.

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:25:45 +1000 (EST), Tadeusz Bak wrote: >Sorry, its not Debian specific but I am a Debian user :-). I have found >that Matrox Millenium G200 is supported by latest XFree86 but I am not >sure what version -- AGP or PCI? Or maybe both? Any experience? Both versions are supporte

Re: Mattrox Millenium card

1999-05-28 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 28 May 1999 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I fear it isn't. The G200 is driven by the SVGA X server, and to the best of >> my knowledge this one doesn't use any "acceleration," like e.g. the S3 >> server. >> >According to xfree86.org Matrox cards are the best-acceler

Re: NTFS support

1999-06-02 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:58:25 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: >I am trying to findout how I can enable NTFS support on my Debian 2.1 >system. I am to access some files on my Windows NT partition but I am unable >to mount the partition. Any suggestions??? You need to mount it using filesystem type

netfilter package? Alternatively: How to create custom debian packages?

1999-11-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I'd like to create myself a Debian package for the new netfilter tools (since there isn't yet one available to the best of my knowledge.) Which tools do I need and where to look for instructions? I thought that dpkg- dev was the right package, but the docs for dpkg-dev say to look in

Which UID to run ProFTPD under for anon access?

1999-11-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, ProFTPD comes with a default setting of ftp.nogroup for anonymous ftp. Unfortunately there isn't a user "ftp" on my system. Because I was too lazy to create the user (and didn't know either which uid to give it) I tried to use "nobody.nogroup," but to no avail. ProFTP doesn't accept "

pppd: How to setup call-back server?

1999-11-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I need to setup a system to be a call-back server for incoming ppp calls. Unfortunately I don't find any info on this topic in the docs that come with ppp, only for client-side callback. Can you point me to some website where I can find a howto document that describes how to set thin

NIS question: ypserver=localhost in yp.conf on slave NIS?

1999-11-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I've a question regarding the use of NIS under Debian. In my LAN I have two NIS servers, a master and a slave. I followed the small NIS HOWTO that comes with the NIS package very closely. However I have a little problem that I seem to have solved by executing a step that is NOT conta

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-17 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:50:30 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [...] >I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when >I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an >nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the ser

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-22 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:52:03 -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: >I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my mails >to debian-user. You should probably not invoke procmail via .forward, but directly as a local transport. Grep for procmail in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz and modify

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-22 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >[Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) >req: nlookup(a

Re: Lost root passwd

1998-10-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
you boot straight into sh, and you can then change the root password. This is how I usually do it under Slackware, and even tho Debian uses shadow passwords it should work the same way. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax)

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

1998-10-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
an define your proxy. NCFTP can be configured interactively by invoking a command (props? config?). -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!

  1   2   3   >