On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
You need to gzip the Packages file (and the Sources file, if you have
one). I filed bug #65839 against dpkg-dev about this almost a year ago
now, but haven't heard anything back. Maybe I should put together a
patch.
Well, that
I'm looking to set up a local debian archive which largely ignores the
offical site. apt-move looked promising, but it's too concerned with
mirroring.
I want to have a directory on a fileserver that I can just throw debs
into and have them (in an apt-move like fashion) turned into a usable
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
On 06/10/01 17:37:44 -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
You don't need to be root, using sudo is fine. If you don't know
what sudo is, install it and read the man page then ask here, it's
*very* useful.
I've never used sudo.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:13:45PM +0200, vester wrote:
can anyone explain to me what exactly the process kapm-idled does and why
it takes up 50-90% of cpu usage?
Kernel APM IDLE Daemon
It's a pseudo process that doesn't actually _do_ anything. It just puts the
CPU to sleep when there's
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:18:36PM +0200, Marceau Dominique wrote:
Here is the message I got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL
Optiplex GX100
Can you help me please.
As others have mentioned, the GX100 uses an Intel i810-based video chipset.
Do some searching with google and
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that this must be a common problem, but the archives for the mailing
list are unavalable. I ran wmakerconf as a normal user to change some of
the look and feel of windowmaker. However, when wmakerconf started up, told
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:08:05PM +0800, Ben Harvey wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:48:35AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote:
in short, it sounds like normalization is exactly what you want.
OK fair enough. so that means I can filter a .WAV through normalize before
compression - with a
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:58:58AM -0400, Jerry Sternesky wrote:
I installed nfs-common and
nfs-kernel-server.
^
rpcinfo -p only showed portmapper running so I executed rpc.mountd and that
seemed ok, but when I run rpc.nfsd I get nfssvc: Function not implemented.
Did
I'm trying to convert a system that's been running since pre-ifup days to use
/etc/network/interfaces and it's behaving oddly. ifupdown is version 0.6.4-3
from testing.
As the log below shows, all three of the interfaces in
/etc/network/interfaces behave properly when addressed by name, but
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:44:16PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
Can someone help me and/or point me to a doc that describes how to setup a
local debian package mirror using rsync? I have looked at the man page for
rsync, but am still clueless as to how to do it.
apt-get install apt-move
Not
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't
see eye-to-eye any more.
I don't know what MTA you use, but if you're on speaking terms with exim,
it's got a pretty good set of filtering capabilities that you can just
put
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:58:50AM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
I have added the following else statement to the script
so there is always a report. I would appreciate it if the utility's owner
would
consider adding this to his/her next revision and giving a small credit if
they do.
I would not
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
query:
does
seen save ...
stop processing as if you'd said finish?
seen save is actually redundant. seen finish stops processing as
if you'd said save, which is to say that exim considers dlivery to
be complete. finish
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:08:23PM +0200, paolo pedaletti wrote:
The problem was in /etc/ypserv.securenets (actualy a link to
/var/yp/securenets)
There wasn't the right line:
host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Thanks for the suggestion, but so such luck. ypserv.securenets already
contained 255.0.0.0
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:52:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remove it if you can (I forget if it's a seperate package):
apt-get --purge remove telnet
That's the telnet client.
Personally, I'd recommend:
apt-get remove --purge telnetd telnet
apt-get install telnet-ssl
telnet-ssl will
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've
followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is
great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked.
After (far too) much mucking
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:16:43PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote:
Not necessarily suprising. I've found the most useful way to get data
from ypserv is to run it from a seperate [aEwx]term with the -d
switch. Word of warning: It can produce a *lot* of data.
Or it might not...
bradley:~# ypserv
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:36:23PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote:
I think I know part of what your problem is. Either do in your yp.conf:
domain mycompany.com server bradley.west.mycompany.com
^^ -- Note server not ypserver
OR
ypserver bradley.west.mycompany.com
Hmph.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:10:48AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
I seem to recall have to add yp entries to /etc/services for NIS to work
correctly. I can't really recall, it 4am, and it's been ages since I did it.
It was easier /etc/services or some portmap file. I can't be certain.
Let me know
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:36:47PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
Run the wmpref program, the 7th icon will be workspace navigation Features
click on this, and there will be two icons down the right hand side of the box
on of these enables/disable the application dock, the other enables/disables
the
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:04:39AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:14:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. In new deb package of apache 1.3.19 every
configuration is made in one file
(/etc/apache/httpd.conf). I segest to make it like
in version 1.3.9
i would
I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've
followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is
great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked.
I started to suspect that things weren't working at step 3.6, starting the
server, when it
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Vlad wrote:
already done. www.openwall.com and download a kernel patch. i would say, it
is the FIRST thing security-wise you have
to do after you install any linux distro.
Why would you say that? Do you really consider knowledge of other users'
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:09:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
So believe it or not, it does work for most of us. If you can get a log of
that with DEBCONF_DEBUG set, I would of course like to see it.
I'll likely be doing at least one fresh install within the next 2-3 weeks.
How would I best
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:18:17PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
(Just a thought: perhaps a better solution would be to store these
passwords on a computer file, but GPG encrypt them?)
If you've got a PalmPilot, etc., there's a wonderful utility called STRIP
(Secure Tool for Remembering Important
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 05:22:12PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
A second stand-alone computer with a Epson Stylus Color 860 connected to
the usb port is still not working. The stcolor.ppd and lpinfo are missing.
stcolor.ppd is included in the woody and sid versions of cupsys, but not
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:15:12AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
Which is kind of my point. If I were made dictator of the Debian
project (not bloody likely) I would declare all distributions to age
out at six months: at that point, unstable becomes testing, testing
becomes frozen, frozen becomes
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote:
A silly theoretical question: in a ssh thread above, one got the answer *not*
to enable root user access to a station, it would be better to use a limited
user account and then gain access via su or that.
What is the
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:59:47AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:20:14AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security
fixes backported), switch over to testing instead.
Bad news: testing *is* year-old
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:16:55PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is going on, and why can't apt-get upgrade the remaining 62 packages?
How do I get it to upgrade them?
It doesn't want to automatically process them for some reason. Explicitly
telling it to upgrade each package with
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:53:05AM -0500, ktb wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:47:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to
download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of
having to view it through the
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
aalib1: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed
Depends: xlibs (= 4.0.1-11) but it is
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
It is supposed to be optional. In fact, I cannot see how it could
possibly be failing as you show. The || true is there so no matter what
status code dpkg-preconfigure returns, apt always sees a return code of
zero.
I thought that was
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
I don't know what you're talking about: apt-utils does not use debconf.
My mistake; s/apt-utils/debconf/g.
Whenever I install a new system, debconf (or rather, the minimal version on
the install disks) throws up a curses-based menu
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:55:40PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I get it to upgrade my libc6?
For some reason, apt doesn't want to upgrade libc6
When did apt-utils become mandatory? I just did an apt-get upgrade (in
testing) and it died immediately after downloading packages with the message
debconf: cannot preconfigure packages -- apt-utils is not installed
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
Installing
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote:
What's the fav sniffer for you Debian gurus? Whether a .deb, source, or
whatever, what is the most versatile and all-round best sniffer that is
available? Thanks!
karpski's got a nice GUI on it which actually makes it more
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:22:02PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
Hi All,
I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root
over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this?
Debian's default setting of not allowing ssh connections as root?
You really, really shouldn't allow
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:37:43AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
Maybe he has confused nis and nfs. Although I'm not sure why nfs should be a
kernel space daemon either. Maybe for performance reasons, or maybe just the
range of things NFS must do calls for it.
While I'm sure that
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:09:43PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
How can I make ps so that it doesn't display all processes for normal users?
ps aux would thus still only show that specific users processes.
Ummm... Use `ps ux` instead?
From man ps:
aSelect all processes on a
The debian installer warns about possible compatibility problems using MD5
passwords in conjuction with NIS. Does NIS itself have difficulty dealing
with MD5 or is this warning just a reference to the possibility that some NIS
clients using the passwd map may not be set up to recognize MD5
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:35:37PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
doesn't take long). IIRC one reason an application is zombie is that its
parent waits for return value (which is sort of held by zombie, waitin
for parent to process the info or something like that).
You've got it backwards. You get
The Software-RAID HOWTO at linuxdoc.org is dated Jan 19, 2000. Is there a
more recent version available anywhere?
If not, how does the current 2.4 implementation of RAID-1 compare to its
RAID-0 on performance? Based on the year-old information in the HOWTO, I
expect it to be worse, but by how
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:42:11PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote:
Before you su to root type xhost +local: (minus the quotes)
and you'll be set.
You'll also be allowing anyone and everyone with access to the machine(s)
specified in your xhost command to run programs and have them display on
your
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:22:56AM -0500, Young, C Bryan wrote:
When I tried to make sdb all one partition, I couldn't write the partion
table to disk (got the message: Not precisely one primary partition is
bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this.). I didn't think that each disk
needed to be
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:57:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 17:13:33 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
unable to open module file:
/usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so:
undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct
Hmm... 0.47 is quite old; I'd recommend
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:43:04PM -0600, Chris Spencer wrote:
How can I change my permissions so that root can run things on the X Display
of my normal user? For example, if I drop to a command prompt, su to root,
and try to configure the kernel by typing in make xconfig I get the error:
After installing gnumeric (with it's obscene list of dependencies, as
discussed here earlier), I'm getting the error
unable to open module file: /usr/lib/gnumeric/plugins/0.47/libgnum_python.so:
undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct
on startup. Installing python-base has not had any noticable
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!)
Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs.
So I configured it and ran a test page. Works. I then printed a
colour graph I had just printed
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:07:58PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
I just installed it today with out doing this. I just ran the installer from
a
directory that I created in my home directory. I've only tried the word
processor out so far but it works great. What's going to be broken because
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:08:41AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:34:21PM -0500):
May 13 15:37:16 server named[16551]: ns_forw:
query(mail2.something.com) NS points to CNAME (rain.something.com:)
learnt (CNAME=11.22.33.44:NS=55.66.77.88)
I've got a dual-CPU system that I'm starting to think only runs off one
processor. The kernel has SMP support built in and /proc/cpuinfo shows
two processors, but top only shows a single set of CPU utilization (although
it could just be that the stock debian top isn't SMP aware, I suppose) and
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:16:46PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote:
If /proc/cpuinfo shows two CPUS then both of them are working. Some
old versions of top supports only one CPU - you need updated top if
you want it to see correct CPU info in it. Also some old versions of
ps also was broken on SMP
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:09PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
For SMP, donot forget to put not just apm=on but also apm=power-off in
lilo.conf/append thing.
I understand how this would help in general, but how does this apply to
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:32:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
select
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:49:23PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
I am buying a computer in my office, and have received a quote
from a vendor, which says that the memory is 128 MB NP SDRAM.
The Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO says that ECC, error correcting
memory, is important for reliability. Could
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:20:16PM -0300, francisco m . neto wrote:
Play directory should be able to do it. Be sure that you
select the mount point of your cdrom drive.
More accurately, you need to select the directory specified in the
Directory: box in the CD audio plugin's
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:44PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
I have just installed magicfilter in my potato 2.2r3 box. I have attached a
Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I have configured magicfilter but when I try
to print anythig I get the message:
I screwed around with magicfilter
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:51:12PM +0800, a wrote:
i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling
tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X
packages. It's built on Debian 2.0.
Please give it a try. It's in the attachment.
Please do
I'm trying to install debian on a 2535cds and not having much luck...
I've used the Windows BIOS management software (AFAICT, there's no keystroke
that will invoke BIOS during the boot sequence) to change the boot device
preveference to CDROM/FDD/HDD. A potato CD in the drive appeared to be
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:23:01AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:29:49AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM
Since my last apt-get upgrade on one of my woody systems, I've been getting
log messages of the form
Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Apr 29 11:18:40 kuno: PAM adding faulty module:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:20:00AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
Does anyone have any clever solutions to the following problem of a
similar nature: I want to run a job at 28 day intervals, i.e. on
every fourth Sunday.
Not terribly clever, but just end your script with
echo '/path/to/script'
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
Another missing specification: does anyone have a good last weekday of
month recipie?
'Last weekday of the month' is equivalent to 'Monday - Thursday where
tomorrow is next month or Friday where 3 days from now is next month'.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
Hence, my crontab recipie to execute a job on the first sunday of the
month is:
1 1 1 * * echo 'command -args' | at 1:35 sunday
snip
For tasks scheduled for other weeks of the month, you'd select:
WeekDay
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:11:54PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote:
What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a debian template, if you
like. We'd like to be able to create other machines from this machine, with a
certain package set, and every time this template machine gets updated with
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:59AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
The following packages have been kept back
communicator navigator netscape
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
upgraded
My Netscape instalation went from 4.76 to 4.77 at the recent change,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line
au
BufNewFile,BufReadsnd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt
set ft=mail
the part that works for new mutt email is
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:10:40AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
On boot up I get messages relating to several modules eg
lp modprobe can't locate module lp.
ppp modprobe can't locate module ppp
But something is finding them because I can prnt and send you this post
without any
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
Great! Many thanks for this - its been puzzling me for some time. Can I
add another question - how _should_ modules.conf be told about it?
Edit the files in /etc/modutils/ and run update-modules to rebuild
modules.conf. If you
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
I'm trying to work out where interface 'lo' is brought up on potato.
I've grepped through /etc, but can't see any references to 'ifconfig'.
/etc/init.d/networking uses `ifup -a` to bring up all interfaces.
They are defined in
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:15:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
how do you manage the migration?
Somewhat painfully... Basically, I've set up the firewall to route between
the three internal IP ranges in use and (once I've got the kinks worked out
of that) my plan is to, as each user machine
Hey, folks... I just installed yesterday's samba update from security
(2.0.7-3.2) and none of my NT4 workstations can connect to it after the
upgrade, complaining of unspecified network errors. I tried rebooting one
of them and it just got worse - that machine is now unable to communicate
with
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Hey, folks... I just installed yesterday's samba update from security
(2.0.7-3.2) and none of my NT4 workstations can connect to it after the
upgrade, complaining of unspecified network errors. I tried rebooting one
of them
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:31:28PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
We *are* amused :)
Extremely so. (I just wish I could forward it to more people without having
to then explain it to them... Guess I need more geek friends.)
blantant troll
Although a real man would have been running qmail and
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:19:40PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
and can you give an example or two on how to use /etc/bind/* to
set that up? (all my attempts give dlint conniptions, though
things seem to work-though-they-wobble, with exceptions.)
(This had better not be a sly attempt to collect
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:51:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:13:22AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most
Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's).
Legacy MS Windows is not necessarially the
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:15:45PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my
computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only
want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab:
papa:/music
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:02:05AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
I prefer to leave raw function keys to low-level functions -- menus,
etc.
Good point. That's why I leave F1-8 free, but the only conflict I've
had with F9/F10 has been with running MS Visual C++ over a VNC session,
which is a
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:04:14AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
Are there any decent SSL telnet clients for non Unix platforms?
None that I'm aware of, but telnet-ssl and telnetd-ssl fall back to plaintext
if the other end doesn't support encryption. If you've gotta have your
telnet, this
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:41:09AM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote:
I don't think it is. How many copies of Redhat, Suse and the others were
sold in the last two years? How many copies of Debian were downloaded by
newbies in the last two years? Total those up and call it N.
Of those N,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:05:28PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message
saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all
the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done
as root?
man
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me
permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a
gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the
/etc/network/interfaces file
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:22:52PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
ooh. that sets my teeth on
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:28:37PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
Dave Sherohman posts:
I'd like to go with exim, but I'm not entirely convinced
that it would be a good choice for functionality and security.
What is the exact reason for not being convinced about exim ?
Primarily lack
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
Those of you running woody, what version of zlibg1 are you running?
1.1.3-12
I'd appreciate any advise that anyone can give me.
Point a browser at debian.org. Click on Debian packages and search
for zlib1g in the testing
From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about
postfix?
It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it
before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network
with several sendmail installations. I wouldn't consider
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:50:34PM +0100, JACKSON, DEAN wrote:
what command do i have to run to make it so all users can run it especially
dean?
Hard to say without knowing what the program does. It may need to run with
elevated privileges (in which case you probably don't want normal users
Has anything strange been happening in testing/woody's logging facilities
lately?
In the last week, one of my machines has two days where the archived syslog
is completely empty (not even a --MARK--) and this morning I found a
warning that auth.log was smaller than it had been the last time it
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:00:58AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
If you don't care about mp3 (what's abcde?)
A Better CD Encoder, the program formerly known as cdgrab. Debian's abcde
package will, incidentally, encode to ogg in preference to mp3 if the vorbis
encoding package (vorbis-tools?) is
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:50:31AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
I'm not familiar with NFS, but believe that an export will not traverse
filesystems. If you think about it, this is a good thing.
You are correct and it is absolutely a Good Thing for reasons other than the
situation you brought
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:10PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Anyone can do that. I can write a C program and send it to you that
emails me /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You still have to be dumb enough
to execute it. That's not a virus, that's social trickery. Now, if it
emails itself (and
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
I guess that kind of makes sense. If the kernel ever needs to access
the swapped pages, it's got them cached so it can do it quickly.
But if it ever needs a whole lot of RAM for something else¸ it can merely
re-allocate that
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which
Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is
the first election RedHat Linux?
I sysadmin for a manufacturing plant running mostly off Linux
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:17:07PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
I do run unstable, but apt-cache show bind reports this (irrelevant
parts snipped):
Package: bind
Version: 1:8.2.3-4
Package: bind
Version: 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1
Right - 1:8.2.3-4 is available from the main stable archive and
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:39:18PM +0100, William Leese wrote:
to me, this doesn't look good. half of these services i know i do not have
installed, neither do they show up on a ps aux. I'm running tcpwrappers and
portsentry, could this have something to do with it?
Yes. portsentry listens
Is there any way to adjust page geometry in the GIMP? I'm using the current
GIMP from testing with CUPS and a remote Epson Stylus Color 880. I've set
GIMP to use the Stylus 800 driver, and it mostly works, but GIMP offsets the
page down by about half an inch. This produces an extra half inch of
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:52:54PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
The NIC is likely a PCI device even when it's integrated into the MB.
So, try cat /proc/pci and look for an ethernet controller line. It
will probably give you the chipset it uses which is usually a pretty
good starting point.
I
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:06:28AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
/proc/bus/pci is there and contains two files (00 and 01), but
they're binary data. The kernel is 2.2.12, which should support
I'm not familiar with devfs at all, but are you using it, by chance ??
Nope. It's a 2.2.12 kernel
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:43:47AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
I concur, and add that if it just *happens* to be an Optiplex GX1, it's
probably a 3Com 3c905B-TX. There is a Linux driver for that, 3c59x by
name.
Optiplex GX100. According to one of the Dell discussion forums, it's
a 3c920,
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