FYE: PPP over X on potato (was: package pppoed?)
Hi, recently, I posted an informal Pre-ITP about pppoed to -devel. I have decided NOT to package it for debian proper. Rather, to use PPP over X, people can: 1. For potato + linux 2.2.18|9 (and maybe later 2.2 kernels as they appear): Interested users can try the already existing backports and new support packages available from oLurdiX Datenbehandlung: deb[-src] ftp://olurdix.dnsalias.com/pub/debian-olurdix-updates/ potato group-pppox There also is a relevant HOWTO on the server. Note that the server is not necessarily available fulltime. 2. For woody + linux 2.4.x: pppox|e support is in already the kernel (experimental, under PPP), and the debian package ppp newly is patched to supports kernel pppoe directly. Thank you, Stephan -- Stephan A Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New drive
Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt it supports the ext2 filesystem. With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via cp -a, so tar is not needed (if one can mount both partitions simultaneously). There is also a mini HOWTO to this subject called /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.* Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running Exim from inetd- question
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim from inetd now. I have a question. When I change exim.conf now, I don't need to restart inetd, correct? Yes. inetd starts exim, which then runs with the new exim conf. If you manually change /etc/inetd.conf, you need to restart inetd, but you'd better change it via 'update-inetd', which will take care about this. Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help
Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an Ok, but I hope you don't misunderstand that you can't upgrade your SuSE system directly with Debian, but have to install it from scratch, renewing or manually updating the configuration. Secondly, the recommended way for staying in touch with the latest stable version is rather like (exchange with your next debian mirror) ---/etc/apt/sources.list # Next online mirror deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US # Proposed updates deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ --- Using other sources means not having a stable debian version. Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
isdnutils: vboxgetty to mail?
Hi, obviously, isdnutil's vboxgetty isn't supporting direct mailing of the incoming messages to user(s). However, that is what I'd like to have (skipping vbox) -- is there any nice solution for this around? Thanks, Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Autolocking of virtual consoles
Hi, I would like to have an autolock mechanism for all virtual consoles (and all users), i.e., similar to autologout, but running something like vlock on the user rather than logging him out. Though this seems to be a rather reasonable feature, there does not seem to be an easy way to implement it. If I am mistaken or someone has some good solution, I'd be glad to hear about it... Thx, Stephan -- s-Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] s-Voice (+49) (6241) 92566-2 -- WWW http://www.fh-worms.de/~suerken s-Debian-related mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
