Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

> Gee, what's wrong with a suggestion to "Read The Fine Manuals"??? Oh, it's read the _fine_ manual, is it? Everything I know is wrong! One would hope that we could answer questions on this list in a polite and respectful manner, especially since there's absolutely no way that we could ever expec

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Please note that this doesn't help those of us who already *have* to > > use socks to get to the 'net. > > I guess you'd have to get at your SOCKS server in order to tell it to call > our SOCKS server for

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > 2. useful URLS > > > More info about the contest is at http://zero.genx.net/ > > Email statistics are at http://zero.genx.net/bill/email.html > > RC5 clients are at ftp://portal.stwing.upen

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please note that this doesn't help those of us who already *have* to > use socks to get to the 'net. I guess you'd have to get at your SOCKS server in order to tell it to call our SOCKS server for this particular service. Bruce -- Bruce Pere

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

Bruce Perens wrote: > > From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If we could create a proxy and route all key requests through our > > www.debian.org, then that machine would appear, given our current > > participation, SECOND on the machine list and THIRD on the domain > > list. > > So ask

Re: Big Problem!

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Starke) > Setting up aout-xpm (3.4f1) > ldconfig: Warning: Can*t open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout > (no such file or directory), skipping. > ldconfig: Warning: Can*t open usr/X11R6/lib/usr/X11R5/lib (no such > file or directory),, skipping. Some editing of

java for linux

Is ther a compiler for java for linux? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanx and may God Bless you Seth R -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

From: William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Time to RTFM, there, Corey. That's RTM on this list, please. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSU

Big Problem!

Hello, 1)very often when i install/configure new packages the following line appears: Setting up aout-xpm (3.4f1) ldconfig: Warning: Can*t open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout (no such file or directory), skipping. ldconfig: Warning: Can*t open usr/X11R6/lib/usr/X11R5/lib (no such file or d

wu-ftpd to do virtuals

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is required to do virtual ftp sites with the standard wu-ftpd distributed on debian ? Thanks much Lennard . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

[Me:] > > I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win. > > Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the > > FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win, > > because they serve a similar market with a similar produc

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: Mike Neuffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So far the only thing that Bruce accomplished with his uncoordinated > action is that numerous hosts dropped entirely out of the key-search. Big deal. They have years to go. We might ask ourselves some questions about this kind of publicity. 1. Do we want

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: > >It was OK for us to participate as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the RSA Data > >Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating > >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It wou

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Corey Allert wrote: > also Xfree86 doesn't run properly .. . it will as root but as any other > user X starts as if no window manager is set . . and typing startx -exec > fvwm2 will bring up the correct gui but there is no command prompt in the > xterm . . . freaky eh?? T

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

From: "Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If we could create a proxy and route all key requests through our > www.debian.org, then that machine would appear, given our current > participation, SECOND on the machine list and THIRD on the domain > list. So ask Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Neuffer wrote: > > > > Personally, I would go for seperate i386 and m68k CD's, both with source. > > > > It doesn't fit (i386 + source) on one CD. However we had a number > > of orders for 68k CDs and i386+68k binaries fit on o

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: "John T. Larkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Harvey Mudd should be producing somewhere between 3 and 4 M kps by > tomarrow. Right now, most of us are running under [EMAIL PROTECTED], > but we can change that if Bruce still disagrees with our possition. I asked the people at Zero to lump our poin

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

Philippe Troin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 26 February 1997 09:34: >> lprm can't regonize that the user "spiegl" is a local user because of >> a problem with your hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. >> >> If /etc/hostname looks like >> your_hostname >> >> then your /etc/hosts fi

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Today, RC5. Tomorrow, DES. Next > week, Phil Zimmerman's a free man. (Oh well, we can dream...) Bruce: > The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. > Branden: > I guess the government figures it can leave you alone after it bankrupt

Re: Extremely rare Apache configuration

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have the following situation: my company has a HTTP proxy server to > access Internet WWW sites. All browsers are required to use this proxy > because we all are behind a firewall. > > I am overseas and connected to our corporate

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we could create a proxy and route all key requests through our > www.debian.org, OK, does someone want to do this? I don't know how, and probably don't have the required access anyway, but it sounds like the most reasonable solution, and satisfie

SkyJet?

Has anybody tried a SkyJet yet? (SCSI) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian and ISDN?

>> From: Alexander Lazarevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Can somebody give me a hint how to connect my debian-linux box via >> ISDN?! On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Al Youngwerth wrote: >The easiest way to do this is with an external ISDN TA. This is somewhat expensive >The isdn4linux stuff is very sophisticate

Re: xemacs is ignoring my tab key

On 26 Feb 1997, James LewisMoss wrote: > > "Harmon" == Harmon Sequoya Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Harmon> Just ran xemacs and was using it to edit a C++ program. > Harmon> Unfortunately, when I try to indent using my "tab" key, > Harmon> xemacs totally ignores it. I've looked t

Re: HD prob - bad inodes

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, dr. banzai wrote: > > I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what > happens. > > The installation goes smoothly until I get to the part > where it decompresses the selected packages from dselect. > halfway through, it crashes with some kind of kernel memory error

first installation, network problem

I hope that someone can help me to fix such problems: After my first installation of Debian Linux I can run clients of ftp, rlogin, telnet but it is imposible to do the same from outside to communicate with my system. Only ping is OK in all directions. Though there are some problems with DNS but

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:13:58 +0100 Andreas Nowack ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > achen.de) wrote: > > > lprm can't regonize that the user "spiegl" is a local user because of > > a problem with your hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. > > > > If /etc/ho

RE: Package configuration philosophy

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote: > Yoav wrote: > > #ifdef QUOTE > > It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on > pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I > > > > It seems as if Debian

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

subtle, but correct. I've switched (my not terribly significant) machines over... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

> I think it would score a lot of PR points for Debian to place, or win. > Debian is a Linux distribution. Our win is Linux's win. Our win is the > FSF's win. Our win is even, to some degree, RedHat's and Slackware's win, > because they serve a similar market with a similar product. Microsoft >

Re: Package configuration philosophy

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > > > > Debian comes up in a much "rawer" form after install - for instance, > > no prompt beyond the basic "#" for root and "$" for the user (RedHat > > gives you the n

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

On Feb 26, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote > Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: > > >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real > > >embarassing to beat them. So please, if you are participating, change your > > >reporting address to "[EMAIL

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah. If the folks at gzero.net will add the numbers from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then why would we want to > change?! I think that is all the more reason *not* to change because > we can help the greater cause while at the same ti

kerneld activity

Hi, I a new to this list and to Debian. I have a 2.0.0 kernel and debian 1.2 Some days ago I updated some packages from the unstable tree. The packages were base-passwd bsdutils debianutils dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils and findutils. I have noticed by runing pstree that kerneld spawns new kernelds

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

> From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Today, RC5. Tomorrow, DES. Next > > week, Phil Zimmerman's a free man. (Oh well, we can dream...) > > The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. I guess the government figures it can leave you alone after it bankrupts you...but

Re: Package configuration philosophy

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > >> X is pretty bare in Debian after install, too - if you just "startx" >> you get a simple xterm with no default menus, no menued way of running >> another xterm, heck not even a FvwmModule running on scree

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Today, RC5. Tomorrow, DES. Next > week, Phil Zimmerman's a free man. (Oh well, we can dream...) The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:13:58 +0100 Andreas Nowack ([EMAIL PROTECTED] achen.de) wrote: > lprm can't regonize that the user "spiegl" is a local user because of > a problem with your hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. > > If /etc/hostname looks like > your_hostname > > then your /etc/

segmentation faults & other goodies

< Hi all: here is my problem, a machine at my school is running Debian 1.2 (upgraded from 1.1) the current kernel is 2.0.6, libc is 5.4.20, the problem is any attempts to send mail from pine results in a segmentation fault. I've noticed this since I've attempted to install Majordomo(ugh!) ok I'm

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:25:22 CST John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) > Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? > Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be

Re: SB16 PnP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Yup. kernel versions 2.0.x can't do PNP. I haven't seen the > isapnptools but if you check a searchable LSM on the web you should > be able to find the latest version. I couldn't get this tool to work. > I have an Ensoniq SoundScape Vivo. I've been able to get around t

Re: Extremely rare Apache configuration

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: >Another way of putting it would be: can one proxy server be configured to >go through the another proxy server for certain addresses??? Use squid. It's a great work and can do this easily. Nils -- \ /| Nils Renn

Re: debian and ISDN?

The easiest way to do this is with an external ISDN TA. There is somewhat of a limitation in that the serial port is only 115.2Kb/sec and ISDN (MLPP) is 128. However, I find that my PPP negotiates compression so I've seen throughputs over 200Kb/sec. Check out the ISDN over PPP mini-HOWTO at your fa

Re: Extremely rare Apache configuration

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > What about this: set up Apache locally as a proxy server for my local users > and, at the same time, to have Apache contacting the corporate proxy server > to access Internet hosts. I know it sounds confusing and do not know if I > am understood... I do

Re: SB16 PnP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a sb16 PnP card installed in my micron pc. > I've compiled sound support into the kernal, but > I have had not had success. > > I get the following results: > $ cat /dev/sndstat > cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device > > I'm assuming the difficulties result from

Extremely rare Apache configuration

Hello everyone, I have the following situation: my company has a HTTP proxy server to access Internet WWW sites. All browsers are required to use this proxy because we all are behind a firewall. I am overseas and connected to our corporate headquarters through a very slow satellite link. I can n

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: > >It was OK for us to participate as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the RSA Data > >Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating > >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real > >embar

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, David Puryear wrote: >Where can I find old version of Xpm? I looked and can't find it. Sorry, I forgot. sunsite probably. Nils -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 /

Re: cygnus win32 cross-compiler

A propos, has somebody successfully compiled any networking code with win32gcc? I tried it using mywinsock.h, but the compiler choked on parse errors in this file. Should I use the include files provided by win32gcc or should I use those from Micro$oft, e.g. from their Visual (or was that Virtual)

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have > a chance to beat linuxnet. > > Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running > at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals > from debian users asking

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > >Hi! > > > >something must be wrong with my lpd-setup. When a user starts > >a print job, s/he can't cancel it anymore. Example: (user 'spiegl') > > > > $ lpr abc.txt > > $ lpq > > lp is ready and printing > > Rank Owner Job Files

Re: Netscape 4.0b2 out, any success?

Hi, On 25-Feb-97 Nils Rennebarth wrote: >On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, David Puryear wrote: >>If anyone finds way to make java work without causing bus error, please let me >>know. >Did you try out using old version of the pixmap library? > >I have libXpm.so.4.6 in /usr/lib/netscape/lib, and a symbolic lin

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ

Ioannis Tambouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RC5 clients are at ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 (US > only) > > There are non-us sites with clients at (?? please let me know) At least ftp://ftp.tecnet.de/pub/rc5/>. > 4. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE $10,000 PRIZE ? > ---

Re: Procmail recipe.

There's already been a couple of examples here on the list but I thought I'll mail my version too. Here it goes: :0 : $MAILDIR/debian-user.lock * ^X-Mailing-List: .*debian-user.* | $RCVSTORE +$HOME/Mail/IN.debian I use mh and exmh to read my mail so that's why the first and third line look like

debian and ISDN?

Hi! Can somebody give me a hint how to connect my debian-linux box via ISDN?! I know of some isdn4linux package, but the readme expects me to do a kernel patch. Isn't there a isdn kernel-module anywhere to do the job? Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

> >Hi! > >something must be wrong with my lpd-setup. When a user starts >a print job, s/he can't cancel it anymore. Example: (user 'spiegl') > > $ lpr abc.txt > $ lpq > lp is ready and printing > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > active spiegl 27 abc.

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Neuffer wrote: > > Personally, I would go for seperate i386 and m68k CD's, both with source. > > It doesn't fit (i386 + source) on one CD. However we had a number > of orders for 68k CDs and i386+68k binaries fit on one CD at the moment. Hmm, just an observation here.

Re: cygnus win32 cross-compiler

Hmm, worked for me. I think I found the DLL sitting around in /usr/lib/win32 or something. (Poke in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/win32*list files to find it.) On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I'm trying to get a hello world program running on a Win95 box. I have > the following package

Re: Rescue kernel hangs after probing sjcd

Jim Smith very kindly remarked > At 14:54 2/25/97 +0100, you wrote: > > > >I have a Slackware distribution running, and a RedHat distribution running. > >The RedHat and the Debian come from the December 96 Infomagic 6-CD set. > >I have an sbpcd=0x300,LaserMate cd-rom. > > > I had to give the argume

/dev/cua2 - modem problems! help!

Hi. i'm new to debian. i recently installed debian 1.2 from the InfoMagic CD set. problem: modem on /dev/cua2 is slow. when you type, it takes 5-7 seconds to get an echo back from the AT commands on modem. symptoms: modem works fine when i boot into windows 95, also modem worked great under S

Re: xemacs is ignoring my tab key

> "Harmon" == Harmon Sequoya Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harmon> Just ran xemacs and was using it to edit a C++ program. Harmon> Unfortunately, when I try to indent using my "tab" key, Harmon> xemacs totally ignores it. I've looked through "Learning GNU Harmon> emacs" but to no avail

Re: The Future of Debian's TeX system: tetex

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > The new tetex packages will be included in Debian 1.3. There are now part > of the unstable distribution and will replace the old packages in about a > week. If you want to help you could download these new packages and test > them. In my opinion that

xmodmap does not seem to work. More info!!

I found out that the problem is not really with th xmodmap. Not using the special .Xmodmap file in the Red Hat, but pressing the Scroll Lock key, the Sroll Lock LED does not come on. This seem to indicate that the entries: # LeftAlt Meta RightAlt ModeShift # RightCtl Compose ScrollLock M

xemacs is ignoring my tab key

Just ran xemacs and was using it to edit a C++ program. Unfortunately, when I try to indent using my "tab" key, xemacs totally ignores it. I've looked through "Learning GNU emacs" but to no avail. Also, I tried to change the tab settings using the ESC-x edit-tab-stops so that my tabs are every

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Do you win by exploring a larger fraction > > of the keyspace than anyone else, or by finding the key? > > By finding the key. We were approaching a 1 in 10 probability of > finding the key. If we won against the Linux group, it would have > created the perception tha

Re: Package configuration philosophy

> Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people > take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > like best. The flag of Texas should be a good prompt. DOS can do that, you know! Sorry, it's been a long day. This .sig is multi-threaded. ===

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

> After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have > a chance to beat linuxnet. > > Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running > at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals > from debian users asking about the ftp site, or wi

Re: IP Masquerading?

Joe Piche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does one get a system set up for this? I can't find much info on the > subject. (Yes, the kernel is compiled with that function). Install the doc-linux package and check out /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.gz -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: Debian 1.2 -> 1.2.4: whence libpthreads?

Michael Diers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whatever happended to the Pthreads libs that used to be part of > libc5? There are now libpthreads and libpthreads-dev packages containing all the LinuxThreads headers/libraries. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Do you win by exploring a larger fraction > of the keyspace than anyone else, or by finding the key? By finding the key. We were approaching a 1 in 10 probability of finding the key. If we won against the Linux group, it would have created the perception that Debian would

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Why is it such a bad thing to beat the Linux group? The whole idea is to > increase the awareness of Debian Linux - when people see we're in the > number 2 slot or even number 1, we'll have good publicity. I'd prefer to avoid the perception that we would

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

also Xfree86 doesn't run properly .. . it will as root but as any other user X starts as if no window manager is set . . and typing startx -exec fvwm2 will bring up the correct gui but there is no command prompt in the xterm . . . freaky eh?? Corey A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Netscape Com.... Pre 2

Anybody know if where' suppose to use the Debian wrapper with the Netscape Communicator release? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: >It was OK for us to participate as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the RSA Data >Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real >embarassing to beat them. So please, if

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

How is this thing being scored? Do you win by exploring a larger fraction of the keyspace than anyone else, or by finding the key? While the probability of any given group finding the key is proportional to the fraction of the keyspace explored by that group, it could be found by anybody. The od

Re: what unix?

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: > Lets say I was messing around with a windoze machine and I found this > thing called unix. > If I were to run it how would I find out what version it is? > is it linux bsd etc? > uname is the command you want. Look at the man page for all its options.

what unix?

Lets say I was messing around with a windoze machine and I found this thing called unix. If I were to run it how would I find out what version it is? is it linux bsd etc? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanx and may God Bless you Seth R -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: Package configuration philosophy

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > > He's right Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many > > people take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > > like best. > If someone is going to evaluate an entire distribution on a prompt (even > if ther

IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

It was OK for us to participate as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the RSA Data Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real embarassing to beat them. So please, if you are participating, change your reporting addr

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

> Is the rc5-race package out yet? Four people have requested it since >yesterday! It is already a popular item, and ideally (and if it is possible) >it should come with a crontab job to upload the result and get a new keyspace. >I tell you, we could *easily* compete with linuxnet in two weeks. If

Re: Package configuration philosophy

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > # and $ are standard/expected prompts. if you want something different, > > customise it yourself. > He's right Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many > people tak

Re: Package configuration philosophy

Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people > take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > like best. My mind is reeling. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Package configuration philosophy

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Debian comes up in a much "rawer" form after install - for instance, > > no prompt beyond the basic "#" for root and "$" for the user (RedHat > > gives you the now famous "username /home/username$" prompt). > # and $ are standard/expected prompts. if y

Re: libvga?

"jl" == jlillibr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jl> I've been trying to run several svga games and keep getting this jl> error: jl> I have svgalib1 version 1.210-3 installed. For doom, you need to have aout-svgalib, since doom is an a.out binary. You may also have to add /usr/lib/i486-linux

Re: Package configuration philosophy

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on > pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What > I mean is that after installation of RedHat you have a more or less > pre-tailored system setup. You can start

Re: RSA Datasecurity Challenge

> > Check out http://zero.genz.net/ for info > Check out ftp://ftp.genz.net:/pub/rc5 for the client > The client will be something like rc5-client-linux-{aout, i586, i486} > etc.. > > Once you have the client run this: > nohup ./rc5-client-linux-"whatever" -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] & > > I k

new Debian setup - whats needed?

I have just set up a new Debian system. I am relatively new to the Linux world. What are some good programs to get (for X mostly)? Also is there any pressing configuration that should be done before I proceed with anything else? thanks, -Paul H. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ

Ioannis Tambouras writes: > > 2. useful URLS > > > More info about the contest is at http://zero.genx.net/ > > Email statistics are at http://zero.genx.net/bill/email.html > > RC5 clients are at ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 (US on

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have a chance to beat linuxnet. Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals from debian users asking about the ftp site, or with other rc

IP Masquerading?

How does one get a system set up for this? I can't find much info on the subject. (Yes, the kernel is compiled with that function). Thank you -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]