On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Ervin D. Walter wrote:
David J. Evans writes:
As a general rule, root should only be used for the actual
administrating commands and not for things like reading email, news,
etc... So, most people (that I know of) that administer from afar do
something like the
I've installed tin and suck as way to read newsgroups locally.
The problem is, i haven't figured out how to use tin to read the
newly downloaded articles. If someone is using the suck+tin
combination for news, could you post here or e-mail me directly
on how to do it..
Thanks.
As Joshua Stockwell wrote:
On Aug 14, 2:35pm, Bruce Perens wrote:
: Ahem. Let's not use the word hacker to mean
: computer criminal on this list. cracker is more
: appropriate.
-- End of excerpt from Bruce Perens
Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
Seconded. The term hacker originally
Actually, cracking a unix passwd file is quite easy, even for those
with minimal computer knowledge. With widely available programs like Crack
(UNIX), Crakerjack (DOS), and root_crack(DOS) anybody with a CPU 386 can
crack the DES encryption with a bit of time.
My understanding of
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(Sorry to those who see this twice: it looks like our local news
server has all the linux.* groups marked as unmoderated.)
As near as I can tell from examining various FAQs, there is no support
for maintaining clients with a read-only, NFS-mounted /usr
Hi,
I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string
of
BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored.
I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating
the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh complains. But I
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0?
Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?
It also currently handles RAID1, and linear; higher levels have been
temporarily disabled because they are still too buggy.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
THE QUESTION - How big can a Debian ( and/or slakware) filesystem be??
The ext2 filesystem can be at least 2 terabytes, with files up to at least 2
gigabytes. Other filesystems Linux support have lower limits.
- AND is that size limitation consistent
I don't know how many people noticed the post from Mark Balzern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] of WorkGroup Solutions to c.o.l.a, regarding the letter
he received claiming that Linux is trademarked, and inviting him to
contact the owner of the trademark to discuss payment.
If you're like me, you more or less
I have been seeing something strange on my system. The autoloading of
the sound module works most of the time. The problem is with the CD
playing programs (cdplay from cdtool 1.0 or workman). They do not send
a request the sound module to kerneld. But they work if the module has
been loaded at
Hello!
Thanks to Susan Kleinmann for her response:
Problem: sound module insists on looking at IRQ 7 (sb: Interrupt
test on IRQ 7 failed - device disabled or something like that).
Need it to look at IRQ 5.
No, you didn't miss anything. I, too, wonder why the default IRQ for
sound
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:53:39 +0200 Giuseppe Vacanti
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string
of
BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored.
I think I understand what is happening: my X
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using
one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to
install using dpkg?
This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then
grabbed the 3.0b6
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:22:38 +0200 (MET DST), Heiko R. Selber wrote:
Hi Net,
Hello!
gcc-2.7.2-8 could not be installed (depends on binutils-2.6-2 which is
not installed)
This is because binutils is not installed. It needs to be installed
first, as there
are utilities in there that are
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
Dpkg specifically asks for the beta 4 binary; can I get away with using
one of the newer binaries? Do I need to tweak anything to get it to
install using dpkg?
This is what I've done. I got the 3.0b7 binary from their site; then
grabbed the 3.0b6
I've written a few scripts to automatically connect to my ISP, which has
several incoming lines. What I'd like to do is make these scripts so that
the user running them does not have to be root. I've tried changing the
permissions to rwx__x__x, still owned by root, but it doesn't do the job.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I tried reading the man pages, but
su (which I think is what I would need to use) is not exactly what I'd
call well documented.
su will only work if you want to give the users the root password (not
a good
I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
in the standard distributions. Specifically, when I try to use gs
with *any* device be it the console, X, or a printer, I get errors
like the following with the standard distribs and compiled versions:
Error: /limitcheck in
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote:
[ Problems with dselect ]
I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a
general protection violation(TM) from Debian.
I consider this a bad sign.
Sorry, I forgot to label this as 'funny'.
Dale Scheetz wrote:
Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library
dosemu is looking for.
Luck,
Dwarf
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aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257
Flexible Software
If the max passwd
length is 8 bytes, then at a quick estimate it seems that there are
256^8 * 4096 different possible passwords...?
Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
characters and
Hi there's some information I got from CERT this morning !
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__
The U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
Thus, I propose a new word be adopted to describe the clever
and benign inventor of quick technical fixes. Rasher, from
Shockwave Rider usage, is a possible candidate, except
Brunner's rashers seemed to operate too much outside the
boundaries of ethics, delving into industrial espionage and
Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection?
I'm missing hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)
thanks,
hamish
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
I think that you missed the original poster's point. Users shouldn't
have to recompile their kernels to get their PS/2 mice to work. Such a
I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I
think that any person
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Ervin D. Walter wrote:
I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
in the standard distributions. Specifically, when I try to use gs
with *any* device be it the console, X, or a printer, I get errors
like the following with the standard distribs
Hello,
a few days ago I described some problems I had when I installed Debain-1.1.4...
The problem I had was indeed that lilo booted my old 1.2.13-Kernel.
I just learned that lilo's image-field specifies the Kernel-Image relative to
the current root-Directory and not (as I thought) relative to
[...]
3.53 *compiled with
optimizations turned off* works perfectly. This evidence leads me to
believe that there is nothing wrong with my postscript source (not
that I wrote it by hand. I came straight from dvips.). I have solved
the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection?
I'm missing hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)
Some of them (e.g. fortune) are available as extra packages. But a
package for all the small BSD games would be
Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
file?
This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
be present. It would also suggest your problem lies in the card's
Hamish Moffatt writes:
Has anyone done a package of the bsd games collection? I'm missing
hangman since upgrading from slackware ;-)
I did consider it, but the linux-ports are way to old and use
/etc/termcap instead of /usr/lib/terminfo (yes, i know that ncurses
has an emulation).
Hi, everyone.
I recently installed a Debian 1.1 system with the 2.0.6 kernel. I
couldn't have asked for a smoother install from a Windoze package, so
kudos to the development team! Had one glitch with Majordomo 1.93,
but that's another e-mail sometime :) Now, onto the real problem
What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:
chmod +s filename
Then when you run ls filename you should see something like:
rws--s--x 1 root root 4304 Aug 16 13:51 filename
Now when a normal user runs the command, it executes as root. Be careful
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself.
However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and
can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me:
ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0.
My floppy drive usually
Hi World,
I wrote earlier about the system crashes I was experiencing.
These often happen when using X and several times when pushing
the same button in mailtool.
However, it seems the above is unrelated, for I've been
keeping an eye on top recently and it shows the system
runs out of memory
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:04:04 +0100 Casper BodenCummins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snipped stuff about PS/2 support not being present by
default ]
The real question is whether the default kernel should be bloated with
features, or pared down.
As a brand new Debian user who didn't even
As Ben McKeegan said:
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I
think that any person wanting to run Unix on their own computer should be
able to 1) download files, 2) uncompress and untar files, 3) type 'make
Hi again,
In addition to previous mail, would like to add that
I've started receiving messages like this too:
(hope someone knows what it means and that its relevant ...)
Regards,
jay
Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: NSTATS 840208291 840075082 A=102 PTR=2 MX=3
ANY=3
Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]:
Hi Ervin --
You said:
I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
in the standard distributions.
...
I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and
compiling it with no gcc optimizations. However, I have to install
it in /usr/local/ because I
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
characters and punctuation marks. Then, many people don't use the full 8
characters, so we have to reduce the
I can now print to my HP LaserJet 4M Plus over ethertalk, but will print
out an infinite amount of copies until either I delete the files in the
spool directory or I turn off the printer. When I print just using pap,
it prints only one copy just like it should. However with my lpr - psf
-
As Casper BodenCummins said:
Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
file?
This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
be present. It would also suggest
I have tried
make xconfig
to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
wish not found
Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
thanks
Hubert Fauque
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last night I tried to manually ifconfig my eth0 interface
(3Com 509 combo card), then tried to ping it, and got this:
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 166.117.11.123 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 166.117.11.123 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:
Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library
dosemu is looking for.
Luck,
Dwarf
--
aka Dale Scheetz
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 16 08:03:29 1996
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From: Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:
chmod +s filename
Not to be nasty, but this is generally a *REALLY BAD IDEA* unless you
know *exactly* what you are doing. If filename was not designed with
extremely
Hello:
I recently received the following email that is of interest to the
debian community and others.
L. S. Colby
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Subject: Virus Alert
Quotes from Heiko R. Selber and Dale Scheetz.
[ Problems with dselect ]
I am slowly approaching the point where I expect a
general protection violation(TM) from Debian.
I consider this a bad sign.
Debian, compared to the install I have done with Redhat 3.0.3 (Picasso)
and 3.0.4 (Rembrandt
Jay In addition to previous mail, would like to add that I've started
Jay receiving messages like this too:
[...]
Jay Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: NSTATS 840208291 840075082 A=102 PTR=2
Jay MX=3 ANY=3 Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: XSTATS 840208291 840075082
Jay RQ=110 RR=44 RIQ=0 RNXD=1
Dale Scheetz wrote:
I remember seeing this discussed on the list, but I don't remember the
specifics. It has to do with making a copy of your boot disk on the hard
disk and then booting from that. You might check out the HOWTO for
details.
Luck,
Dwarf
On 16 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
It's too bad we can't support longer passwords. Not only are longer
ones easier to remember sometimes, but they are harder to break.
Something along the lines of the PGP passphrase.
I've noticed something curious on various Unices: I can have a
Hi Hubert --
You asked:
I have tried
make xconfig
to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
wish not found
Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
To find which package contains a file, try something like this:
# zgrep wish
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's wonderful!
Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0?
It does. Raid1 is in development. It does partial mirroring using about 1/3rd
of the disk space for 'backup' data.
Would you say your performance is significantly
Am I just missing some package, or is there really no xtetris in Debian?
(Yeah, I know about xtet42, but prefer xtetris)
--
#!/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj -RSA-3-lines-PERL-
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1# Joey Hess
Gith writes:
I've installed tin and suck as way to read newsgroups locally.
The problem is, i haven't figured out how to use tin to read the
newly downloaded articles. If someone is using the suck+tin
I might be wrong on this, but isn't this a feature in tin that has yet to be
implemented?
I once ftp'ed the pcmcia package from virginia, but then uninstalled it.
Where can I find it once more? I really need it. It works really well
with my pc card and laptop.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any help is greatly appreciated.
Eddie Urenda
UCLA
Help!!
I've got a funny :(( little problem with Debian 1.1.2 (July 96).
My system consists of
Motherboard Chaintech 5IFM
64 MB RAM (non-EDO)
Graphics Board ELSA WINNER Trio 1000V
SCSI Adaptor Asus SC200 with NCR 53c810
IBM DORS 32160 Harddisk
Mitsumi CD-ROM FX400 (IDE)
First I tried to
I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
if it is anything other than a joke?
Terry
_
Terry Eck [EMAIL
Hubert FAUQUE writes:
I have tried
make xconfig
to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
wish not found
Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
Wish is the base-level Tk interpreter. Install either the tk40 or
tk41 packages. if you
No no no !
Not again.
Please read http://www.singnet.com.sg/public/Virus/good-times.html;.;
This is a scam !
Phil.
You need to install Tcl7.4 (or Tcl7.5) and Tk4.0 (or Tk4.1).
BTW, if you just need the make 'xconfig' feature, I suggest not installing
all this and using 'make menuconfig'.
Phil.
could someone tell me where I can ftp debian pcmcia package from?
sorry if the question is dumb
eddie urenda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
166.117.11.125 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
Your routing table is incorrect. If you have a class C network
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, L. S. Colby wrote:
Hello:
I recently received the following email that is of interest to the
debian community and others.
L. S. Colby
I always try to pay attention to this kind o fstuff, because
I'm paranoid. But this is a hoax. I recieved a warning
exactly
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Hubert FAUQUE wrote:
I have tried
make xconfig
to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
wish not found
Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
You need tcl/tk packages. In plain english its tk41 and that file
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
Thanx again for the help, I managed to boot from a floppy image and
got it up and running. However, it seems that as I solve one problem,
another arises: I cab't seem to get the graphics support working.
When I run vgaon, it says that the BIOS is
- Received message begins Here -
(urban legend hoax deleted)
Oh, god, it's back!
Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL
Hi guys,
starting a new thread about the subject... ;-)
I'm still trying to get a grip on this...
Few questions:
1. can raid0/raid1 be done on either scsi or ide or both?
2. what's the difference between raid0 and raid1?
3. what exactly does it do? Does it mirror data accross multiple devices,
I'm trying to figure out why my incoming mail (coming in via uucp) is being
queued up instead of being delivered straight to my mailbox.
I'm using debian sendmail, Version: 8.7.5-4
I've got the following in my .mc file:
VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96')
OSTYPE(debian)dnl
wish is part of the Tk package. You'll need tk_7.[3|5].deb and
tcl_4.?.deb I can't remember which verison they at. Tk needs tcl. Wish
is part of Tk. They should both be in the devel subtree.
-Josh Stockwell
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:46:42 -0700, you wrote:
You need to install Tcl7.4 (or Tcl7.5) and Tk4.0 (or Tk4.1).
BTW, if you just need the make 'xconfig' feature, I suggest not installing
all this and using 'make menuconfig'.
Phil.
Thanks for your answer, I had just tried make xconfig instead of
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Gentlefolk:
The ``Good Times'' virus is a hoax, an urban legend. To quote from
the CERT Coordination Center memo on the subject:
The Good Times virus warnings are a hoax. People are circulating
the warnings without verifying the information contained
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