Re: Need Help on EXIM

2001-08-10 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:30:54PM +0200, Martin Puaschitz wrote: | Hi! | | I'm running Debian 2.2/unstable with imapd and exim. Both are running and I | am able to read my mails. But I am not able to send mails because I am not | allowed to relay... I would appreciate a quick 'n dirty howto from

Re: kernel versions

2001-08-10 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:54:17PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | Some basic questions - either direct answers or what fine manual to read | would be appreciated. I want to learn as much as I can about Linux but | I also want to get this blasted LT WinModem installed so I can do my | learning from

Re: Reading a mac disk

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:32:41PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: | I want to take a Macintosh IDE hard drive (System 8.6), connect it to my | x86 Linux system and read the data off of it. (In a pinch, I could use a | Windows system too, but that looks harder). | | Do I have a prayer? :} Is the

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Would you please inform me, how I can boot Linux and stop it from | starting xdm and X-Windows. You can use Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] to get a Virtual Console (Ctrl-Alt-F7 is where X runs by default). You can use a virtual console

Re: AW: jdk 1.3

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: | > "rio" == rio Brito writes: | | rio> On Aug 12 2001, Bob Koss wrote: | >> I added the above to sources.list, did a apt-get update, but | >> when I apt-cache search, all I see is jdk 1.1.x. I don't see | >> 1.3.x any

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | Hi Karsten, | | Every distro I've used can be forced into runlevel 3 (ie. straight into a | console) by simply typing - | | linux 3 | | - at the LILO prompt when booting. (Substitute "linux" with whatever name | you have assig

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-12 Thread dman
d his xdm problem. Thanks for the | info dman, You're welcome :-). | I thought separate runlevels would be standard on all distros (it | has been on all the others I've used). They were probably RedHat-based. IIRC Mandrake and several others are. | Apologies for the mis-information. A

Re: HELP, caught in a login loop

2001-08-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 11:47:37PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:42:37PM -0400, dman wrote: | > | Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like | > | this in Debian? | > | > So that you, the admin, can organize the runlevels

Re: How to get packages via a Windows box

2001-08-13 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:26:23AM -0500, Gary Setter wrote: [...] | I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I | could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local | mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux | this time the local mirror is | my

Re: Upgrade broke gpm?

2001-08-13 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:23:28PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | On 13 Aug 2001 13:21:33 -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | > On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | > (snip) | > > Try commenting out the repeat type and restarting gpm. I have an imps2 | > > mouse that works great on /dev/psaux

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1003

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:18:56PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Perhaps our astute list manager will grok it and unsubscribe the fellow. | Or perhaps someone will decide that this is an urgent matter and contact | www.eurospace.be and ask them to disable his account. This is the purpose of pr

Re: Wanda the fish

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Kalle Hasselström wrote: | On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:32:50AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:01:13PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: | > > Quoth Kurt Dresner, | > > > Wanda the fish just randomly swam across my screen. | > > > | > >

Re: shutdown permission to users?

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:41:16AM -0700, Mark Kalusha wrote: | How can I give my users or a group permision to | shutdown and halt the machine? Others have already mentioned sudo. Another alternative is to use a display manager (such as gdm) that includes halt as a menu option. For gdm you need

Re: PCI modem. Not related to Debian.

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:45:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to get a PCI modem working on a Redhat 7.1 distribution. | I excuted the following command to see where the system saw the card. | cat /proc/pci > pci.txt | Looking at the file I see that the system see the card on IRQ 5 but

Re: sqrt C function

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:34:26AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: | On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:37:45PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | > * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > > I don't see how. I see it as a legitimate compiler optimization. If you | > > have "double f = 4;", and you co

Re: Cable Modem/NIC cards

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:21:47AM -0500, T.Phan wrote: | Hi All, | | Is there a way to soft reset the cable modem and the NIC on | a Debian/Linux box? 'ifdown eth0' will shutdown the interface eth0 and 'ifup eth0' will bring it back up. | The AT&T Cable Modem some time loses connection, s

Re: need kernel 2.4 to install

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:00:50AM -0700, Jeff wrote: | Hello, | I am currently planing on putting Debian on a small | partition on another machine just for playing with. | This wouldn't be a problem but the network card is a | newer linksys card that I've only been able to get What revision?

Re: jdk 1.3

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've heard that the Sun and Blackdown are identical for jdk1.3, I've | installed both and on the surface they appeared identical. By inspecting | one of the Blackdown mirror sites, I was able to successfully configure | my sources.l

Re: sqrt C function

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:03:32AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: [...] | But this is all quite irrelevant to the original question, the point of | which was, I think, missed by Dimitri Maziuk. Let's back off here and | restate the original problem, which was: [...] | You (dman) seem to be foll

Re: jdk 1.3

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:48:46AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | dman muttered: | > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | > | I use 'javac' to compile .java to .class, 'java' to run .class files. | > | I've heard that gcj

Re: Setting $PATH

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:35:46PM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote: | I might have misunderstood something here, but my bash{profile,rc} files | don't work as I expect. | | In my .bash_profile, I have this: | | PATH="~/bin:${PATH}" | export PATH | | This works as expected after I have logged in, I

Re: Network card

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:40:40PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: | Hi, | | What is the simplest, compatible network card I should purchase for a | new Debian install? Thanks in advance Most cards should work. The key is to find out what chipset the card is based on and from that you can determi

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Todd Combs wrote: | This doesn't totaly apply to Debian, but I figure maybe some nice person | here can help :-) :-). | | I SSH into my Debian box from windows, and I use Tera Term. My | problem is I want to use vim, but it doesn't work quite

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:09PM -0300, Rui wrote: | Hi people, | | I need some help. I've been installed debian "potato" on my computer | but modem isn't working. | | I'd like to connect to the internet. | Does anyone can help me? | My modem is conected in com3 it's a UsRobotics 33600 | I've a

Re: Gigabyte GA-7DXR vs Abit KG7-RAID

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:45:29PM -0700, Max Kamenetsky wrote: | Hi all! | I'll be upgrading my machine fairly soon and I'm torn between | these two motherboards | | Gigabyte GA-7DXR | Abit KG7-RAID I have a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 and am happy with it. I don't have sound or RAID though. HTH, -D

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:45:15AM -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: | Well, | I broke my own promise to be a lurker of this list. | However, I am just wondering on how do others read this mega list. | Is that: "d"(elete), "d", "d", and "" once in awhile? Try also ^d (kill-thread). It's faster than p

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: | On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: | (snip) | > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which | > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All | > fully up to date. | (snip) |

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0400, Bill Lovett wrote: | A couple times now I've edited my .procmailrc file, unwittingly | screwed something up, and only discovered my mistake after a day or | two goes by with not a peep out of otherwise high traffic lists. | | But what happens to a message

Re: Modem isn't working

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:06:37PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote: | OK, I didn't realise that you wrote pppconfig... this will be a bit vague, | as I do not have access to my Linux box (I'm at work!), but here is | basically what happened. | | 1) Ran pppconfig, it appeared to set up everything w

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-14 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the streams)! I haven't tried

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:09:43PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | dman wrote: | > | > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | > | > | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape | > | > Not to fear -- mutt works great

Re: d-link dfe-550tx driver?

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:57:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | | Greetz, | | Does anyone know what driver would support this nic for the 2.2.x kernels? I haven't heard of the 550 yet, so I went to D-Link's support site and tried to download the driver. I specifically picked linux an

Re: Ceating Web interface for Debian?

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: | Does anyone know of some good resources I can read to learn how to create | a simple web interface that will allow me to change settings in configuration | files on my Debian system? If you generalize from a "web" interface to a "re

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session | from the same machine when it happens? It can happen. If X isn't responding, for some

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | | > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | > | > | So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X | > | lockups like this happen and that there is no way t

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:13:50AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: | | When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using | X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to | root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Probably

Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome)

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | | (snip) | | > I use GNOME 1.4 with Sawfish. I like it a lot. I've tried various | > other window managers in various contexts including mwm, fvwm2, | > afterstep, windowmaker, elightenment, and CDE an

Re: galeon on woody?

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:13:37AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | the new Galeon rocks. To the max. | | How can I install galeon on woody? I seem to remember a line for | /etc/apt/sources.list; but I cannot find it on the list archives. I no longer have the apt line from my sources.list because

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:35:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I've found that the listmanager can be slow to respond, and this has | caused problems in the past. Persistence and civility is helpful, as is | directly contacting someone in the Debian hierarchy. Ben Collins is the | current D

Re: Cox cable modem and debian**UPDATE**

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | I just carried over another windoz desktop (wife sure liked seeing this!) and | fired up win98. The NIC on this box is part of my lan so I removed the lan | settings from the nic and set them up as I did on the lap top. With

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing | with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up | in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a | change: When I loo

Re: galeon on woody?

2001-08-16 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:51:26AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote: | Thank you for your reply! | | Will this break woody with up to date versions of woody packages | such as xlibs? If not, then why not try changing sources.list to | unstable long enough to install galeon? It is basically a matter o

X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with X over ssh. I am at a win2k box with XWin32 running (& access control disabled). I use ssh (from cygwin) on that box to login to a FreeBSD box (our webhosting server). The DISPLAY variable is correctly set, but whenever I try to

Re: making unstable the default

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:55:03PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: | Hi! | | I have added the path for Debian/testing to my sources.list to downgrade some | packages, but now there are some problems doing apt-get upgrade. Could someone | please tell me which file contains the configuration, to determ

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with X | > over ssh. I am at a win2k box with XWin32 runnin

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:10:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:47:56PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | | At 2001-08-17T19:13:34Z, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > When I login I get : | > | > $ ssh redoaksw.com | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: | > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found | | That's

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:45:31PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | mails from you (my, aren't we vain? ;-), you'll probably want to set or perhaps you want to quickly identify which messages in the thread you don't need to read because, after all, you wrote it :-). Since it is in the lists's folder

Re: upgrade to testing (woody) sources.list

2001-08-18 Thread dman
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:50:44PM +0200, Roberto Diaz wrote: | I am running potato since a lot of time ago.. I would like to upgrade to | testing.. could you please tell me what must I put in my sources.list? Change "stable" or "potato" to "testing" or "woody" (right now stable=potato and testi

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread dman
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: | My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian | 2.4.x kernel. | | Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. Try running memtest86 to make sure you don't have any bad memory. Compiling the kernel is sure

Re: jdk1.1: cannot find class java/lang/Thread

2001-08-19 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:46:29PM -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: | i am going crazy trying to get to the bottom of things with this. | i see a million postings of ppl getting the same error, but i | can't figure out any solution to my situation. JDK 1.1.x is kinda stupid because it can't fi

Re: newbie questions

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:30:32PM -0700, James A. Hilsenteger wrote: | I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a Debian | box. I installed using the CD's (that is installed multiple times). Welcome to a software world of stability, configurability, and operability :-).

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:38:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I changed the references in my apt/sources.list to point to woody. | | I then did a | apt-get update | apt-get install apt-utils debconf | apt-get dist-upgrade | | When I did the apt-get install apt-utils debconf it told me to type

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:55:29PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | | Hi, I'm a newbie to Debian, and I'm not sure what the proper way to | configure DHCP is. Right now, I simply type 'pump' after the computer is | restarted. I initially thought that I should put this in init.d, but I | am not exactly

Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the | official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel | 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and | I've been unsuccessful in

Re: tar/gzip mistake

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:50:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi | | I made a big mistake, instead of updating my tar and gzip files I | deleted them. Installing them again with apt didn't work because | the tar and gzip packages need to be unpacked themselves. I tried | to find the so

Re: dhcp configuration

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:16:29AM +1000, Serge Rey wrote: | for the benefit of future users who may run into the same issue you did, | could you tell us what did you uninstall and reinstall? # apt-get remove --purge # apt-get install (in his case, was "pump") -D

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 | > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then | >

Re: Potato to woody problem

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:25:49PM -0700, tluxt wrote: | > The correct solution to this is to | > | > apt-get install libdb2 | > | > since that package provides libdb.so.3. | | 1. Are you _sure_ installing the libdb2 package ___that W/testing | currently points to___ will solve this p

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when | > trying to run apt-get update: | > | > Err http://us.debian.org sid/main/contrib

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can | /usr/share be so big? Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the machine is only going to be a samba server and/or gateway/firewall. Also r

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:32PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian | packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get: | | ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX | Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.XX refused. | | (XXX.XX.XX.XX is the IP of my

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and boot into "single" user

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | > | > I take that back.. seems I have ipchains running. | > | | I apologize for the multiple posts. In my haste, I said that ipchains | was runni

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for | Debian? | (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) Which kernel do you have? Take your pick from 'iptables' 'ipchains' and 'ipfwadm' depending on kernel version. (BTW, I've neve

Re: ssh with putty.exe problems, is this normal?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:02:56AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: ... | Everytime I reboot my windoze, everything is normal and fast again. Hehe. This sounds normal to me ;-). Could it be that sshd or the firewall stuff on the linux side has some initial delay? Other than that (or maybe windo

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | > | > ipchains -L | | chronos:~# ipchains -L | ipchains: Incompatib

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | | dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | > | Can someone recommend a decent and easy to use firewall program for | > | Debian? | > | (Something like ZoneAlarm...?) | > | > Which

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:05:27PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | > > I know that this is a solution but I don't have a | > > keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't | > > want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (

Re: Firewall program for Debian?

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:48:11PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: | On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Han Yoo wrote: | > | > Basically, I have the 2.2.19 kernel. | > Is any of the programs that you mentined easy enough to be utilized by a | > Debian novice without going into the heavy-duty conf

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1. | And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have ALL:PARANOID | for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.allow, That means you are denying all incoming access to the sy

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:06:19PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | iptables -L returns: | | Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) | target prot opt

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:28:25PM -0700, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Hi all. | | I want to install Oracle 8i on my woody box. | The Oracle installation requires glibc 2.1.3 version. | I was looking for glibc package, but i didn't found | it. | The only package that names glibc is libstdc++ It's ca

Re: sshd

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:00:07PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Titus Barik wrote: | | > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | > | > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:13:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: | > > | On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | > | > iptabl

Re: glibc version

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:56:58PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: | You might need libc6-dev too for headers and such. Not likely -- I doubt Oracle gave him the source :-). -D

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:57:25AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: | But it is surely preferable that you have a keyboard attached. When | situations like this happens, you need to safely reboot the computer, NOT | just hit reset. Actually I think it depends on the mobo/BIOS. Newer machines (ok, this p

Re: Sound is choppy

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:49:31PM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: | Hello, | | Whenever a sound is played under Linux, it sounds | choppy. Could someone help me out with this? I had this problem before and it was due to choosing the wrong DMA channel. Recheck your settings on it. HTH, -D

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:51:17PM -0400, Oren Gozlan wrote: | any info about kernel 2.4.x ? | any one have tried it ? I've got 2.4.8 on a testing system. It is the "stock" kernel that was in sid a few weeks ago. It works great for me. devfs and USB is cool too. -D

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | Is there a command line switch to tell vim to not try and use the gtk | portions? Emacs does a similar thing (tries to use X) to me if I forget | the -nw switch on it. I'm guessing it's a default to try and be the | most reso

Re: Post Installation of a booter

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:46:32PM -0400, alex wrote: | I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot | loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot | floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the | past. However, LILO or GR

Re: devfsd 'n halt

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:18:03PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: | hello. | | i've experienced a strange behaviour when shutting down my machine, | when the devfsd runs, cause devfsd stop-script is excecuted after the | TERM all KILL all script, so that there's no devfsd anymore which | could be sto

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | shouldn't sshd at least worry about the MAC address too (can it?) just | an IP is too easy to spoof (MAC are too i guess). The MAC address is only known along that particular wire. That is, if the IP packets pass through any rout

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:29:57PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | also sprach dman (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:06:37PM -0400): | > The MAC address is only known along that particular wire. That is, if | > the IP packets pass through any routers or gateways the receiving side | > will se

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a | known reason for this? Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained anymore.

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: | moin, moin, | | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes | get rolled out as appr

Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: | I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv | driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. | | After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to | uninstall all X-related packages

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > terminals have no

Re: Colour coding in vim?

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:58:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all you vim fans. | | Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is | make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be | good to see all the comments coded a different colour.

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > | > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > | > box th

Re: Configuring Network Card

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:37:56PM +, jayson keidel wrote: | Hullo: | I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of | setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network | card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and

Re: Cups after upgrade

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:36:40AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I just upgraded from woody to unstable (yes there is a difference) and now I | cannot print with cupsys-bsd utilities. | | I get the error of lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found | | I can go into the cups admin inter

Re: X: Changing resolution

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:55:11PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Problem: | Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution | setting. X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 | bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it. | | Background: For pr

Re: Gaim

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:23:13PM -0700, Eric Whitestone wrote: | Has anyoby had problems compiling Gaim with potato? | I downloaded all the necessary gtk and glibs when i was getting | those errors, but after I did that I get new errors trying to | compile Gaim. I was wondering if anybody knows o

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:29:17PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: | I have am currently dual booting to debian and would | like to change to rely more on debian and related | applications. | | I currently collect lists of information on many | topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, |

Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | Hi, | | Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many | years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of | questions: | | 1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically

Re: 3com NIC card configuration

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:03:36PM -0700, carlos mena wrote: | Hi, i'm a newbie at Debian and i'm trying to install it now on a dell | computer but i'm running into the following problem: | | i'm in the process of installing debian linux 2.2.12 through the cd For future reference, there is no D

Re: Partitioning after-effects

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:48:50AM +0800, csj wrote: | I'm planning to repartition part of my HD. Previously, I only | partitioned the whole drive as part of a Linux reinstallation. So I'm | somewhat clueless about partitions and partitioning. The tool I'm most | comfortable with is cfdisk. So repl

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:55:33PM -0600, John Galt wrote: | On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | >| I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad | >| document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. I

Re: 3com NIC card configuration

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:21:11PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: | On Monday 27 August 2001 02:56 pm, Frank Preut wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:17:58PM -0400, dman wrote: | > > The "2.2.12" version refers the Linux kernel that is included in that | > > release

Re: devfsd + xconsole

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:45:35PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:58:18AM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: | > Hi! | > | > Is there anything special that one has to do to get xconsole working | > with devfs? I have the newest devfsd from unstable, but xconsole just | > doesn't

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