On Sun, 06 May 2001, mdevin wrote:
> up. However, I had trouble getting it to work because it complained
> that port 25 was already taken:
That is your fault (or some other package's). Not postfix's.
> I think this was due to inetd binding this port for some reason. I had
> upgraded from Exim a
On Sat, 05 May 2001, Andrew Hagen wrote:
> Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer
> language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available?
Yes, package ucblogo.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the dar
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> I don't know what's happening.. but it seems like my esd can no
> long startup after I compile and install the new module 0.9+0beta3-1. also
> some of the option for module ens1371 are no long support, isn't it? it
> gave me the follow when I s
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > I use Postfix as maildaemon.
> >
> > I don't believe you want to be messing around in hosts.allow
> > for this.
Correct. Postfix does not use tcpwrappers AFAIK. Therefore, it will not
check against hosts.{allow,deny}.
> I would hope that postfix's
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> All that has been done when I shut down to install a tape drive. (And a
> new kernel, of course.) Some time back I had three daemons writing to the
> screen, but now it is just ipchains. I would have submitted a bug, but it
> could be syslogd, klogd or
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Keith Johnson wrote:
> > As per subject. Quite annoying when I am trying to do important
> > things. (Like play nethack).
>
> You are not alone. This has been happening here for 6 weeks or so. It
> has one advantage - I can see the
Hi Kent!
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Kent West wrote:
> This is a HOOT! Send it to Slashdot or Linux.com; it needs to be published.
/. ? Better send it to debianplanet.org...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the La
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Damon Muller wrote:
> >
> > Although a real man would have been running qmail and courier-imap...
> >
Bleh, qmail? Try postfix for something with a sane license and a sane
upstream, no obnoxious install paths, and easily as secur
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Anybody know how I can recreate the required files?
>
> `-- archives
> `-- partial
>
> WAG: I think you might just be able to run 'apt-get update' to update
> your package lists. If that doesn't work, try creating the directories,
> perm
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Barbara and Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> How do I set up the general loopback network address 127.0.0.0?
You should not need to do this in any 2.2.x or newer Linux kernel... (I
don't know about The Hurd, though). The Linux kernel will automatically
route packets using the inte
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, John Bacalle wrote:
> RE: fetchmail 5.3.3 ; InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 ; AT&T Worldnet
>
> I have an odd problem fetching mail on the _first try_, and fetchmail
> hanging at the sign-off stage of the process.
Try disabling all sort of "auto" detection and telling fetchmail exac
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Tony Crawford wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48):
>
> > Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90%
> > chance of causing headaches, since the new
> > initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:50:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote:
> > > I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my
> > [...]
> > > Fetchmail dies
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote:
> I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my
[...]
> Fetchmail dies with something like the following:
Speaking as the fetchmail maintainer, get a new version. The fetchmail in
slink is full of segfaults. Same goes to the one in potato. The
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, William Leese wrote:
> the subject says it all really. I recently did a clean install of sid, and
> found myself without a blackbox menu what so ever (well, 'cept the Exit,
> Restart and xterm options). Anyone know how i can getg my debian menu back?
Make sure the menu packa
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote:
> root would have to update this file whenever needed. Users can change
> their ~/.fetchmailrc on their own.
True. But I cannot add such setup as the default. It would activate dormant
.fetchmailrc's in the user directories. I can always add it as yet one m
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> Is there some problem with what I have done?
Does user mail have 'x' permissions to the /etc/ppp directory?
I'd suggest you use /var/spool/mail to place .fetchids and /etc/fetchmail as
the place for the config though (notice that /etc/fetchmailrc will trig
Hi Jie!
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote:
> Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where to get
> the 2.2.18?
2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable.
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote:
> Though running as user mail, as Henrique suggested, is way more elegant.
> It would be a great idea to have a solution for ppp users "out of the
> box"...
There is one: /etc/fetchmailrc, and let it run as root. It is described in
the README.Debian, and a
Hi Mark!
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> What is wrong with this? Nb. I do not have a home directory for "mail" -
> just the
Run fetchmail -v and that might help you find the problem. And you do have a
home directory for mail, but it is /var/spool/mail.
You probably need a '-' somewhe
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Marcus Geiger wrote:
> Ok, this is what I did before the new fetchmail policy (starting at boot
> time) came up. I think I will insert
> fetchmail -q
> anywhere in my ip-up.d script. I thought I will give it at try but it
> seems that there is no easy solution. Maybe the
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> However, I didn't realise that doing this would cause potential problems with
> delivering mail. Is this only if the mail needs to be delivered to another
> user?
Yes. BTW, if your user 'mail' has 'mail' as it default group, AND since
Debian uses a sgid m
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote:
> I would like to make fetchmail run as a user rather than root when run
> via my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script
You should consider the possibility of trying that using the fetchmail from
unstable. It is safer... (speaking as the maintainer for fetchma
Hi jh!
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, jh wrote:
> Hi. Does anyone know how or have a link to building your own grounding
> device that could attach to your wrist for hardware upgrades? I live in a
> very small town with no way to get one quickly. I know there are places
> online that sell them. Hoping to
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote:
> how would i switch the locales for one user? because i'm not to keen on
It is session-based. Just set the environment variable LANG to the locale
you want. I do hope you remembered to activate the locales you might need
when installing libc6 (/etc/l
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote:
> i would also like to know how to do this, my girlfriend is learning
> japanese, and has not been able to get it to work in windows (which
Install japanese font packages, the X-TT truetype font server (built-in in X
4.0.x, but make sure to enable the ri
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Purton wrote:
> What is the difference between fetchmail-ssl and fetchmail with the ssl
> flag set? (Both are separate packages in woody)
Both are also separate packages in sid (unstable), but only because of
Debian policy for non-US software. I don't believe fetchmail-
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Friedrich Dumont wrote:
> SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK USING THE HARDWARE CLOCK AS REFERENCE...
That should not be in caps, unless your terminal is seriously screwed up.
But it's a good thing to notice that patch to better document the hwclock
script paid back...
You want to muck aro
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote:
> This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS
That version has way too many segfaults. I suggest you try one of the
versions in unstable (but wait until tomorrow if any of your servers is
M$ Exchange, the current one will timeout and not get your mail).
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote:
> I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem
> that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does
> not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault.
Which version of fetchmail?
Segfaults are *alwa
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Joey Kool wrote:
> (For purpose of clarity, the previous problem of os not found was due to
> the fact that I did not change the bios bootup sequence. I had to specify the
> 2nd harddisk as the bootup disk instead of the first in bios.
Most BIOS I know are braindamaged enoug
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Andre Berger wrote:
> On 2001-02-24 02:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I should write a similar script for fetchmail and place it in
> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
> > So I wrote this script, but it doesn't work.
FYI, the fetchmail packages currently in sid (
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> You shouldn't need an external font server. I'm attaching my configuration
Unless this has changed in XFree86 4.0.x, there is a very good reason to
have a font server. If it freezes for a long time trying to render that
monstruous unicode font or somethi
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Wed Feb 7 12:15:42 2001 Moritz Schulte wrote...
> >
> >There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'.
>
> It's not very close to the most curretn version ksh93.
I'm on it. I've just asked in debian-legal about the AT&T lic
dlocate inputrc answers:
/etc/inputrc
$ head -2 /etc/inputrc
# /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
# See readline(3readline) and info readline' for more information.
These manpages are in the package:
libreadline4-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/readline.3readline.gz
--
"One disk to rule
Your problem sounds like hardware on crack.
Check if you don't have faulty memory modules, or disk corruption (caused
e.g.: by running kernel 2.4.0 in certain VIA-based boards, by bad cabling or
a bitrotten HD).
And I don't have to say anything about undoing any possible overclocking of
either th
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> > While logging into my Debian box using ssh I noticed that it is setup to
> > use SSH version 1 by default. This protocol is widely known to have
> > security problems. Does anyone know why Debian is still using it? Below I
> > h
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Corey Popelier wrote:
> Correct, I'm sure as hell not about to do that :) But I was thinking along
> the lines of saying "look, here's an unofficial .deb of fetchmail since it
> appears to be a tad outdated, and I've had considerable problems with
> the existing one which appea
> > > i've been using stock kernel 2.2.17 that came with potato. it
> > > recognized my 3com nic (as 3com 3c905c) and works wonderfully.
3c905cx are broken in 2.4.0, but earlier models (such as my 3c905b PCI card)
work just fine.
A patch to fix the issue with the 3c905cx was sent to the linux-ke
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
> there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs
> everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was
> down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete.
fcron, but it doesn't do ALL that Debian's cron
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Jim Kroger wrote:
> Unsubscribe me already! I've sent the right mail to the right place
> multiple times, sent mail to the guy at the bottom who says send me
> mail if you have a problem, and now several days later
>
> I'M STILL NOT UNSUBSCRIBED TO THIS STINKING LIST !
>
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> I am unclear and may be totally off base, but it is my impression that
> proposed updates are proposed until a new release level is generated i.e.,
> all the proposed updates after 2.2r0 would be in 2.2r2 and that stable would
> link to 2.2r2. Am I
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
> from what I've read in ssh docs/faq it is not possible because ftp
> uses two connections... (control and data).
Just use passive mode. This will easily secure the control connection (port
21) which carries passwords and other stuff (such as filenames).
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:37:47PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files
> > in the filesystem (i
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> Who is this "nobody"?
'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files
in the filesystem (if it does, that's probably a security hole), and should
be used by daemons and the like that need only read access to files that are
read
Every time the system mounts a volume (disk), it increases a counter. When
this counter reaches a predefined value (the "maximum mount count"), fsck is
forced to check the disk. This is normal behaviour, there is nothing wrong
with your system or disks.
You can change the 'maximum mount count' usi
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a
> > > year now. Can a hardware probl
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote:
> I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a
> year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 port cause
> this? How can I determine the cause?
Yes, a short-circuit in the mouse (or in any other peripherical, Keyboards
a
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Unpack it (might work with upzip, else you should load msdos) and copy the
> file 3c5X9CFG.EXE to a floppy. Start with a bootable floppy and run this
You could also apt-get install 3c5x9utils instead, and run 3c5x9setup
--help. You'll notice you can assign
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> There are two general problems with a public key infrastructure:
>
> - Key distribution (the 'keyserver' line handles this).
> - Key modification updates.
See attached script. Modify it for your needs, or write a new one that isn't
such an
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> If you use mingetty instead of getty, the screen will be cleared by
> default (I prefer this too). Change the lines for the various virtual
> consoles to look like:
Or you could use fbgetty instead of mingetty. Both have annoying features:
mingetty is br
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not
> > > possible/reccomended. try using the double opti
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> without proper video acceleration in X this is not
> possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see
Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're
playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch th
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote:
> I´m very sorry!
>
> In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters
> with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for
> emails.
It is also legal in Brazil, which doesn't mean that you would not:
1. Be
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/
> when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.)
Yes, gpg is funny like that :-) No concept of cleaning up lockfiles to avoid
stupid deadlocks, no concept of timing out sockets (thus deadl
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > oh did you check to make sure you have lockd running on both machines?
>
> i just remembered something else i had to do to get locking working,
> it seems that sometimes you have to compi
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote:
> Is there any advantage to building the kernel outside of fakeroot?
The fakeroot man page says quite clearly that "Thou shall never configure a
anything under fakeroot", so I try to only do the install targets under
fakeroot to avoid hard-to-track problems.
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > Am I misreading the docs?
> I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this:
Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only
target which knows how to deal with rootcmd is buildpackage. I never use
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote:
> I've successfully built a new kernel package with make-kpkg, but only if I
> use:
>
> fakeroot -- make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.XX. kernel_image
I'll usually run fakeroot make-kpkg ... I've never needed that --
> Am I misreading the docs?
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know ..
>
> I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system
> might be annoyed by such a questi
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004<0>Bank 1:
> f2000115general protection fault:
Erk. Read bluesmoke.c in the kernel source.
> Never seen this before, so I'd be interested in a (technical)
> explanatation of exactly what ne
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Christoph Groth wrote:
> > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make
> > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system?
>
> I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume
> that your sister is not a cracker and your father
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Could somebody more familiar with vim than me please tell me
> (us) wheter this writes anything unencrypted onto disk? If not,
> shall I file a wishlist bug against vim-rt to include this?
Is your swap file (not VIM's, the OS') in an encripted partition? O
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Helgi Örn wrote:
> Hi all Debians!
Yo,
> I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home
> (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always
Never tried Caldera or SuSE, only RedHat... and I'm not going back to that
crap of a mess u
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Bellows wrote:
> Sorry I wasn't clear on what I wanted -- I did just want to know where
> the configuration file was. The other distribution I was using had a
> more round-about manner of getting this accomplished. Anyway, thanks
> for your reply -- it worked!
As a rul
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Bellows wrote:
> time I boot up I have to run the setserial command by hand. My question
> is where is the best Debian place to insert this command to have it
> execute on boot up?
err... have you installed the setserial package? it DOES run at every boot
up. Place you
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, brian moore wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:25:57AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote:
> > As I understand it, X86 hardware hardly ever uses anything but two levels.
> > I know sun
> > hardware actually makes significant use of the runlevels, but I am made to
> > understand
> > th
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> I thought that might be the case but I'm still concerned about the
> freezing ttys. I can't believe that it's intended behaviour.
It is not, but it may b
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> All the user runlevel directories, /etc/rc1.d/ through to /etc/rc5.d/,
> have exactly the same contents and they're all start scripts, no kill
> scripts. If I telinit from (for example) runlevel 2 to 4, nothing
> happens except for the "sending a term
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> things like "Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10
> and up so Debian isn't secure". As you can say it's also real life example.
> Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but
> many people t
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot.
> >
> > You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. This should perhaps
You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, just in
case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some reason.
> Change your BIOS settings to only boot from
> Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues
> before i make the changes.
xfs-xtt is better for very big, unicode fonts (hint: most far east ones).
If you like configuring fonts, it allows you to do some font transforms as
well.
--
"One disk to rule them all, O
Hi Christophe!
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Christophe Broult wrote:
> A friend send me the URL of a greeting card which included some
> sound. I was unable to hear the sound because Netscape complained that
> there was no plugin for midi/wav sound.
>
> How can I configure Netscape to play some sound?
I
Hi Robert!
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> X: server socket directory has suspiciou ownership, aborting.
Stop the x server.
remove /tmp/.X*
start the x server.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Quoting Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Does pinging the remote IP works?
> Hi Henrique. I cant ping the remote IP.
Then you should activate debugging for ppp0, and verify if it is really
conne
Hi Paulo!
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> When the ISP tries to ping my modem, its RX lights on.
> I try to use pon and I receive and a local and remote IP.
Does pinging the remote IP works?
Do those local and remote IPs look right (valid)?
A
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> > postfix was designed from the beginning with security in mind. And it's
> > easier to configure than sendmail or qmail.
>
> Periodically I begin to believe in such statements only to after the
> installation each time find myself desperately searc
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> It seems that the majordomo-package is no more on the mirrors, neither in
> the stable/unstable/frozen hierarchies...it gets listed if you do a search
> via www.debian.org, though.
>
> Any hints?
You should probably subscribe to debian-security-announc
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jacob Stowell wrote:
> is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was
> gzipped which i know how to handle. also right now i only have
Install package bzip2. Now, use bzip2 instead of gzip, as in "bzip2 -d"
instead of "gzip -d".
Also, tar -I instead
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> this takes up pretty much space, my question is: can I safely remove the
> contents of the archives-directory? I couldn´t find anything regarding
> this in the docs, but some pointer to the proper FM would do fine ;-)
Yup. Go ahead. But have a look at a
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for Debian, we're in the second test cicle. Maybe if there is a third
> > cycle for some reason, a kernel update to 2.2.17-pre1 might be considered...
>
> Now it
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> So now I have two questions.
> 1) How can I upgrade the ALSA drivers in potato so that I wouldn't break
>the debian packaging system (Is there something like kernel-package
>available for them)?
Add the apt source.conf lines for woody, run
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
> Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the
> case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security
> bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security?
The real problem with 2.2.1
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have
> installed myself, so that won't do.
You should try to fix that problem. But do run dselect update first, to make
sure apt and dselect agree in the package available file... (also, mak
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months
> ago.
>
> What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim?
Secure design, using chroot jails (even in Debian's default installation),
only the postfix 'master' daemon runs a
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because
> "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't
> care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even
> "apt-get -f remove exim"
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works -
> > but during the load process, immediately after "Calculating module
> > dependencies" I get a lot of "insmod *** unresolved symbols in
Hi Lee!
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I need to compile my own kernels to enable SMP and get SCSI support for
> my card so, after consulting the HOWTO and reading some recent postings
> about kernel compiling, what I've been doing is:
Install "fakeroot", "kernel-pack
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, I. Tura wrote:
> My fancy new computer has a extra-cool-nice Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Rev 6, and
> when you enter into it you have a quite interesting dialogue that says:
>
> OS: W98/2000
> W95
> Other
> Is there any explanation about the sense of
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> >Which MTA is easiest to install? I need to setup a machine as a
IMHO both Postfix and Exim are very easy to install. Exim is more powerful,
while Postfix is (probably) more secure, and faster. Don't worry about
Postfix being beta, it's production-qualit
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Brad wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:42:58AM +0800, hingwah wrote:
> > For example,a user have a username of foo in 2 host,host1 and
> > host2.
> > in host1 .content of .forward : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > in host2 ...content of .forward : [EMAIL PRO
On Mon, 22 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote:
> Now that my ntp is working, is there a particular ntp server I should use?
Yes, you should use a stratum 2 or higher (3, 4...) server unless you're
providing NTP services for a huge set of machines (100+).
> I'm using clock.via.net because it is liste
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> However, in this case, I'm more in need of a *smooth* transition to the
> proper time than I am in need of a *prompt* one. I don't mind if ntpd needs
> a day or two to bring things into line...
> Does anybody have any ideas?
ntpdate -B should do it (stop
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05:00AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> > I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on
> > the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me
>
> As far as I can tell, it was include
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote:
> Does /tmp have to be physically located on the boot
> partition, or can it be a symlink to /var/tmp on another
> partition? I've seen conflicting statements in different
I've been using /tmp -> /var/tmp for some time now, and never noticed any
problems.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote:
> snoopy# ntptrace
> localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000160, synch distance 0.69316
> 0.0.0.0:*Timeout*
Please send all the relevant configuration files attached when you report
bugs like this one...
ntpd binds to 0.0.0.0 to receive packets from any i
> Anyway, the problem: After rebooting the computer, the year resets
> from 2000 to 1994. The rest of the date and time looks OK. I don't
Looks like Y2K bug in the BIOS or the RTC. Try forcing the year to 2000 in
the BIOS, do a reboot before the OS enters (in the LILO: prompt, for
example), enter
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Also, hwclock --systohc disables the 11 minute update mode in the kernel,
> > and ntp may stop updating the kernel clock because of that.
>
> Are you sure? I believe that updating the hw clock every 11min is not done
> with newer kernels.
Yes, I just t
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used
> > > to
> > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash
> > > upd
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