On Sunday 15 February 2004 08:41 pm, Kent Tenney wrote:
I just installed Skolelinux, standalone profile
Since this list is for Debian GNU/Linux, not Skolelinux, I suggest you
check the support page for Skolelinux
http://www.skolelinux.no/index.php?menyID=10
and see what help you can find
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:58 am, Abdul Latip wrote:
Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of
Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like
Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al.
Actually, many Windows app CDs come with multiple installers for the
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:56 am, Marty Landman wrote:
now I want to have an ftp server running.
woody:~# which ftpd
woody:~# whereis ftpd
ftpd:
Is this telling me that there is no ftp daemon currently installed?
Probably. A better check would be:
dpkg -l | grep ftpd
What do I do
On Saturday 14 February 2004 03:11 pm, Marty Landman wrote:
Ok, I got it from apt. Now what?
I've uncommented the following line from my /etc/inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/vsftpd
and discovered that there is no vsftpd in my /etc/init.d
On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:36 am, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Adam Aube]
2. How can I get into a command line interface from the graphical
login window without the mouse?
Alt+F1
Errr, from inside X that's Ctrl-Alt-F1
Oops! Thanks for the correction.
Adam
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On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you install Windows, you don't have to know
anything about fonts, really. Text just looks good in
all applications. You become aware that different
fonts exist by choosing different fonts in apps like
Office. They all look
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:20 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
I'm tracking Sarge now, and for the past couple of days, when I tried
dist-upgrade, it has wanted to remove pretty much every KDE package on
my system...
KDE is currently broken in Sarge. The 3.1.5 packages coming from Sid
should
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On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:00 pm, saravanan wrote:
I 've installed debian3.0 on my rackable systems
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:17 pm, saravanan wrote:
I 've updated my lilo.
my lilo config file as
boot=/dev/hda1
root=/dev/hda1
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label = Linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img
where /vmlinuz --
On Thursday 12 February 2004 03:43 pm, saravanan wrote:
I didn't manually edit the file. While installing
kernel-image-2.4*..-smp.deb, it gives two options
1) use existing lilo conf
2) Create new lilo conf
I selected second option it automatically creates the file.
The new file was
Please send your replies to the list, not to me personally.
On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:18 pm, saravanan wrote:
no, after changing the option, I got kernel panic error.
What to do?
Having the exact panic message would be helpful.
Adam
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On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:17 pm, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
I received this msg mount: wrong fs, bad option etc on tmpfs while
start up. There's nothing about tmpfs on my /etc/fstab, what can cause
this error ? Thanks ...
Have you checked this (from the archives):
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:20 am, Bruce wrote:
I have a rather strange problem that I can't figure out. I have two
ext3 partitions on my Sid system, with the following lines in
/etc/fstab:
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:04 pm, Corey Hickey wrote:
this affects any Debian installation that uses Linux 2.6
And has smbfs installed - that is the package with smbmnt setUID root.
Following the instructions on the original report to gain root on a
vulnerable system (the client) is
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 03:01 pm, Frank A. Uepping wrote:
After the corrupted package is identified, how can I reinstall the
package? Of course, I can uninstall/install the package but this will
force me to uninstall/install all dependents?
apt-get install --reinstall [package name]
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 05:26 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
Whoa, wait a minute, how can Lou provide FTP hosting when earlier he
said he and 90% of the world doesn't know how to FTP? Go figure.
Another go figure - a Linux server running Apache hosts his site:
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:49 pm, Keith Nasman wrote:
When my cronjob is run, it reports that it could not access
/var/lib/aide.db.
Here are what I think the relative lines are in /etc/cron.daily/aide
CONFFILE=/floppy/aide/aide.conf
DATABASE=`grep ^database=file:/ $CONFFILE | head -1
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 04:45 pm, Bob Mills wrote:
1.How can I get either the serial mouse or PS2 mouse configured?
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
This will take you back through the configuration of X, including mouse
support.
2. How can I get into a command line interface from
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:02 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the =... formulas of the
spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what
it looked like on the face of it.
Ok. I have another idea, then.
You could save it in the native
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 07:11 pm, Nano Nano wrote:
You know you can set Security Level = {Medium,High} in Office right?
Yes, but I was trying to give the OP a solution he could implement on his
end. He probably can't control the macro settings the recipients of the
file have.
I think it
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:10 am, Krikket wrote:
LibraNet looks good, but I don't want to pony up some cash until I know
which branch it's based on. Similar difficulties with Mepis and
Xandros.
You can download a classic (older) version of LibraNet for free, and
MEPIS can be downloaded
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:50 am, Katipo wrote:
Yes, I read that article. I'm afraid that I don't place much credence
in the reviewers' assessment ability.
To quote the author from the final article in the series:
Another thing for certain: just looking at the score doesn't begin to do
On Monday 09 February 2004 07:35 am, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote:
I just downloaded the 7 ISO images. The MD5 check of the images is fine
but when I mount it -o loop and do a second check using /md5sum.txt
hundreds files fail or are zero size.
So the MD5 on the images themselves is fine, but when you
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:20 am, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote:
This happens with at least two ISO images (1-NONUS and 2) downloaded
from the .es mirror (ftp.es.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r2/i386/). If this
is abnormal (and I believe it is) then there's something *very* wrong
at that mirror.
Have you
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:37 am, Mike M wrote:
Does this mean that the only way to get a system that just works is to
mix and match software from all branches?
That depends on how you define just works. All branches except stable
have a chance of broken packages, so based on that stable is
On Monday 09 February 2004 07:43 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
So, how do I set up my box to run two different Apache instances...?
Install your demo system from Apache source in /usr/local/apache, and make
sure it uses a different port, log pid files, etc.
The other question is related: I have
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:53 am, Gregory Machin wrote:
Could someone please advise mo on how to setup the automount for MSDOS
in fstab. I need Open Office to write to msdos floppy disks. Using
Mandrake 9.0 + KDE ..
This is a Debian list, not a Mandrake list.
And that functionality is
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:41 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
Oh, OK... Isn't it a viable alternative to run apache with -f config,
with another config file...?
I'd forgotten about that.
I thought that would be the most elegant path to take
Definitely.
but I have no clue on how to implement
On Monday 09 February 2004 03:49 pm, Mike M wrote:
What I want is an up-to-date hardware configurator and all the
blessings of stable. This will most likely never be available. It
seems impossible.
You could try MEPIS. It can be freely downloaded, and can be installed or
run as a Live CD.
On Saturday 07 February 2004 03:10 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
I would like to set up a mail server in a DMZ that would accept mail
only from those clients who have authenticated using SSL.
Do you mean authenticate using username/password over SSL, or authenticate
using an SSL certificate?
If
On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:19 pm, Sneferu wrote:
I'd say that the solutions to all this problems is mepis.org ;-)
Agreed - MEPIS is the Linux distro I would recommend to a newbie.
In a Spawn of Debian faceoff, it beat Lindows, Xandros, and Libranet.
On Sunday 08 February 2004 04:13 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file?
Safest way: Convert it to CSV before sending it along.
However, if the XLS file has no macros, then it is probably safe.
Adam
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On Saturday 07 February 2004 04:54 pm, Jacob S. wrote:
This will not work in Woody. Apache2 is in Unstable and/or Testing, for
Debian.
But the OP could check www.backports.org - it probably has a backport of
Apache 2 for Woody.
Adam
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On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:20 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote:
Through a lot of trial and error, I did manage to get back into a
running state. Actually, more like a limping state.
However, if now I go back into httpd.conf, and add the following line
to a virtual host directive:
SetEnv
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:28 pm, Paladin wrote:
I think there should be a way for us to select the command line
options of the used dhcp client. Or at least the package maintainers
of the dhcp client should create a script for reading command line
options from the /etc/default directory.
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:42 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote:
Em Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:08:55 -0500
Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
What does the output of ldd libflashplayer.so show?
[snipped]
It seems to resolve all of the flash plugin's symbols. You said it still
doesn't work - does
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:09 am, Steve Hargreaves wrote:
OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've
got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules
are used.
Good.
Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required
modules
On Friday 06 February 2004 04:23 am, David Baron wrote:
The new kernel image would not boot up because of missing modules.dep
references. Does one need to build the whole thing or is there a way to
simply use the newer kernel with the modules that are already on the
system?
Try running depmod
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:34 pm, Rus Foster wrote:
I've got a dd of 1/2 of a RAID-1 set which was definded on disk as a
Linux raid autodetect. Can anyone give me some idea of how I can mount
it.
mkdir test
mount -o loop dd.img test
Adam
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:37 am, Michael W. Cole wrote:
I am reading the Print HOWTO. If lpd is listening to port 515, does
this mean that I can send a file to be printed over this port and it
will be seen by lpd as something that needs to be printed?
Normally you send the file to a
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:24 pm, Adam wrote:
Aha. I thought I was supposed to edit only the /etc/modutils/* but it's
OK to edit /etc/modules too; just not /etc/modules.conf because that
one is generated by update-modules. Right?
Right.
Adam
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:44 pm, Matt Richardson wrote:
Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer
for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian
system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the
bf24 install, but it
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:03 pm, Thomas wrote:
I am about to upgrade the kernel of a distant server remotely. There
are massive changes and i am scared that it won't boot anymore.
I was wondering if there is a way to reboot just for once on the new
kernel and if it doesn't work then it
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:16 pm, j smith wrote:
i have Debian 3.0 and CD-Writer, so i have to use scsi
emulation. i compile the kernel and cdrecord works,
but with scsi emulation i can't use CD-Writer to read
CD. i enter the command:
mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
it complains that /dev/scd0
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:44 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote:
Em Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:31:18 -0500
Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
If you do have it, you could try running ldconfig as root to see if
that makes Mozilla Firebird find it. If not, you could just create
it as a symbolic
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:56 am, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
I strongly recomend Hacking Linux Exposed, a book whose website is at
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com
Another good book is Real World Linux Security, by Bob Toxen.
Adam
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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:30 pm, Adam wrote:
What I want to know is how to force a single module to load at boot.
This should do the trick:
echo usb-storage /etc/modules
Adam
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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:23 pm, Rick Weinbender wrote:
Can I use SUDO within a bash script?
Absolutely, though be aware that if sudo is set to require a password, you
won't be able to run it in the background.
By putting NOPASSWD before the command in /etc/sudoers, sudo will not
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:09 pm, Rick Weinbender wrote:
Can I avoid typing sudo before myprogram at the commandline?
Yes - it works just like the article you quoted describes it.
Adam
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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:11 pm, Brian wrote:
I have searched around the web and the little I found contradicted each
other. I at least these have sr_mod, scsi_mod, sg_mod, usb-storage,
ide-scsi, loop, ide-cd, cdrom. Which are important for a usb cd-rw?
I've never used a USB CD-RW, so
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Joseph Jones wrote:
Could someone just check over this for me please? I'm having no end of
trouble trying to get my nforce's onboard interface working.
If this isn't the problem, could someone suggest what is? The forcedeth
patch installed cleanly, and
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Ian Lipsky wrote:
Yesterday i posted the same message and didnt get any replies.
I can't find your original post in the archives. Odd.
Adam
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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:15 pm, Ian L wrote:
I posted it yesterday i think around 6pm pacific time.
I just sorted the postings by date (which also sorts by time), and I
looked at posts from 2 PM PST to 9 PM PST, and your post isn't there.
Adam
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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03:43 am, Tim Connors wrote:
Of course, that DWN issue could have been forged :)
The truly paranoid wouldn't use it, but the rest of us can.
The truly paraniod can check the signatures.
Adam
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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:28 am, Hans Steinraht wrote:
The only waht not is working is that I cannot connect to postgresql
through TCP/IP.
In /etc/postgresql.conf I have: tcpip_socket = true, but its not
working.
You specified that you restarted postgresql - I assume that you did it
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:42 am, Chris Eisley wrote:
The problem is that when I put the mapping entry in, ifup gives the
error Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
Have you tried manually running ifup -v eth0? If so, what was the
output?
The script I designate in the script line of the
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:37 am, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've noticed a worrying message at boot. It comes just after
Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock
and reads:
mount: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs, or
too many mounted filesystems
In spite of
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:04 am, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 03 Feb 2004, Adam Aube wrote:
Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab?
[/etc/fstab snipped]
I have only two suggestions, and likely neither one will make a
difference, but they might be worth checking out anyway
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:07 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote:
I'm trying to install the flash plugin (6.0.79.0) but it isn't
working. When I try to acces some webpage which contains some flash,
the browser is closed. I'm using mozilla-firebird 0.6.1 but the same
problem happens when I'm using
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 12:37 pm, Chris Eisley wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:46, Adam Aube wrote:
Have you tried manually running ifup -v eth0? If so, what was the
output?
Did just now; What I get is:
Running mapping script /etc/network/show-role.sh -q -l on eth0
Ignoring unknown
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:31 pm, Stephen wrote:
As the subject says, it won't start.
This is the error message:
Starting web server: apacheSyntax error on line 313 of
/etc/apache/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org'
Could you post the full line
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:41 am, Ian Goodall wrote:
I am looking to purchase a msi motherboard (k7n2 ISLR) with a promise
sata raid 20376chipset on it. I have searched the internet to see if it
is supported on debian testing (any kernel-image).
I've never uses SATA, so I can't help you
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 01:52 pm, Daniel Ferreira wrote:
Sorry, I had some problems with my mail.
That certainly would explain it. No need to apologize - I just wanted to
make sure you had tried the suggestions that had been already given.
I've already have the following packages
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 02:17 pm, Stephen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:37:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Adam Aube
wrote:
Could you post the full line in question from httpd.conf?
Sure, does this help?
#ServerName new.host.name
barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org
Absolutely. You have
On Sunday 01 February 2004 07:34 pm, @(none) wrote:
Any other packages recommended for battening down the hatches?
- AIDE or Tripwire will maintain a list of checksums of binary files and
libraries - so you can tell if anything's changed
- Snort can detect some attempts to hack your box over
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:30 pm, Wm.G.McGrath wrote:
I've got two boxes (AB) behind a third (C) acting as a firewall.
All three boxes are working normally.
All three boxes can access each other on the local lan no problem.
I can use A normally and access the net through C no problem.
But
On Monday 02 February 2004 09:55 am, David Thurman wrote:
We are trying to get an apt-get update and it seems to stall here
38% [Connecting to non-us.debian.org (194.109.137.218)] [Connecting to
security.debian.org (194.109.137.218)]
Any ideas??
On Monday 02 February 2004 07:23 am, Uwe Dippel wrote:
How about creating sub-topics ? Newbies, X, Kernel (2.6), Applications,
Advocating, General Discussion, Printing, you-name-it.
I think a separate General Discussion list would be a good idea - it would
keep debian-user focused on user
On Monday 02 February 2004 11:26 am, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or
unstable.
That's part of the problem. I had to try several versions to try to get
e.g. kde and gnome (which failed). I whish there was some *really*
stable network
On Monday 02 February 2004 11:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I remove aol art files from my PC ?
find ~/ -name *.art | xargs -n 20 rm
Adam
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On Monday 02 February 2004 12:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a problem with security.debian.org?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg00145.html
Am I missing something obvious?
The list archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ - where this
question
On Monday 02 February 2004 01:15 pm, Brent Miller wrote:
I've seen the previous posts about klecker being down
and all, but is there no mirror of security?
There was a post sent out to debian-news which listed one as:
http://ftp.rfc822.org/debian-security/
There was also a mirror given for
On Monday 02 February 2004 02:26 pm, Bernd Prager wrote:
I just replaced bind with bind9:
apt-get install bind9 and it told me that bind was removed and bind9
was installed. But bind is still listed in my package list.
dpkg -l now reports:
rc bind 8.3.3-2.0woody Internet Domain
On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:04 pm, Soumyadip Modak wrote:
cdrecord --version shows 2.01a16. Kernel is the stock Debian
2.4.21-5-k7. For some reason, i've not been able to setup SCSI
emulation for my ASUS CRW-5224A cd writer (hdd). I did append
hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel boot parameters in
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:56 am, Russ Schneider wrote:
How do I actually uninstall apache, postgresql, etc? Removing through
dselect doesn't seem to actually uninstall them. I need them wiped.
Every trace of them gone, so I can try to reinstall them fresh.
This should do the trick:
On Sunday 01 February 2004 12:53 am, B. L. Jilek wrote:
I've come across a strange problem. I upgraded from 2.4.21 to 2.4.24
and now my ide hard drives are not recognized. It gives me an error
that /dev/hda and /dev/hdc are not valid block devices.
Are you using the Debian kernel images?
On Sunday 01 February 2004 05:37 pm, Simon Buchanan wrote:
Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am
only just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'?
You guessed correctly - production servers definitely should use stable.
If you need a
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:44 pm, Marius Amado Alves wrote:
But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of
source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially
failed (gnome, kde, cups-client...) Do I suspect right or can I trust
apt-get to have done the
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote:
I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art.
I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years
now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can.
And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer is,
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:10 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote:
Gnome 2.2 I get from the evilgeniuses backport
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992
There probably is something similar for KDE too
KDE for Woody is available from download.kde.org. Add this to your
sources.list:
deb
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote:
My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an
important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing
what you might be up against.
Agreed. The best solution for the OP would be to just configure
On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:01 pm, G. Crimp wrote:
Secondary question. In more than one place I have read that in v4 of
X, font serving is integrated, so a font server is not necessary unless
one wishes to make fonts available off thte workstation.
Correct.
Anyone know why
On Friday 30 January 2004 02:59 am, Steve Lamb wrote:
Queue maintenance? Correct me if I'm wrong but is this FUD.
Removing a message from Exim's queue:
exim -Mrm message-ID
Removing a message from qmail's queue:
Issue command to shut down qmail.
Sometimes wait up to 20m for it to
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:38 am, Gregory Machin wrote:
Please could you advise me as to how i can go about setting up Open
Office to print to a windows machine with an HP printer. The Os is
Mandrake, And the Gui is KDE.
(Please note that this is a Debian list, not a Mandrake list.)
I would
On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:24 pm, Matthew Joyce wrote:
Can anyone comment on www.instantssl.com certs ?
any problems with them ?
In fact can anyone recommend cheap ssl certs ?
I've looked at using Thawte - I don't know what your definition of cheap
is, but they are cheaper than VeriSign.
On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service from
certain runlevels?
For adding, use the update-rc.d script. To remove, just manually delete
the symlink. You can use update-rc.d to remove, but you would need to
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:36 pm, Ben Yau wrote:
I don't know if there is a preferred way. There are many ways and
choose the one you like. The convention I use is to rename the
file/link with a no in front.
That reminds me of another way - rename the capital S or K to a lower
case. Same
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:59 pm, James Horvath wrote:
Not new to linux per say, but have done almost no shell scripting or
programming with it, so consider me a complete rookie.
There are probably some good shell scripting HOWTOs you could find using
Google.
Using lpd, is there a simple
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:09 pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't
very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also
perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-based solution
(with primitives for MIME decoding)
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:47 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:50:38PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
Migrating them to a new OS won't help - only education will.
No, but it'll likely go a long way in limiting damage if they're not
root.
It may limit the damage
On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:57 am, SEAN KIM wrote:
Someone asked me a really challenging question regarding a hard drive
size. Why there are 2 different sizes showing on a same hard drive when
someone looks for its hard drive size through its BIOS and through its
Window Operating System?
On Thursday 29 January 2004 01:47 pm, Christopher Blough wrote:
I have recently made my first foray into Debian.
Welcome.
I am able to ping the other three Windows-based boxes on my LAN (same
subnet as this box). However, any attempt to resolve an internet
address or to go outside of
On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:59 pm, Christopher Blough wrote:
Here is an updated capture of route -n
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Kernel IP routing table
DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
209.112.193.120 *255.255.255.248 U 0 0
On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:45 pm, Damian wrote:
I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However
after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound
card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read
that I needed to use the 2.4
On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:50 pm, Ian Perry wrote:
I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is
there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of
setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those
who have used both.
Is there
On Friday 30 January 2004 12:40 am, Steve Lamb wrote:
qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very
easy to install and setup.
o.O I've had to work with QMail and I have to say that it is one
big giant headache.
I disagree, but we are each entitled to our
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:17 am, Chavdar Videff wrote:
What I did so far was use the rescue and root floppies from Debian
Woody in order to boot and setup base system.
Right now I got stuck in configuring apt-get to use unstable.
What should I do to tell apt-get to use the Unstable from
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:44 pm, s. keeling wrote:
Does Windows get cracked more often because there's more Windows? No,
it's because Windows is more crackable
I also think the Windows is hacked more because it's more popular
argument is bogus. The point I like to use is this: IIS flaws
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10 pm, Ian Perry wrote:
After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ?
IIRC, it is the same as in SMTP:
quit
Adam
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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:57 am, Horacio Lértora wrote:
My problem is when i try to install Sybase ASE 12.5.1 (downloaded from
sybase.com) in my Debian Unstable (SID).
But i'm not so sure about the glibc library version. The glibc required
version, i think, is 2.2.4-13+.
I started
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