I tried (again) upgrading my 2.1r4 to 2.2r3 today. When I ran
apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade
I was told that These packages have been kept back, and a list of
about 12 packages, including: login, netstd, passwd, ppp. Most of the
list I didn't really care about too much,
Okay, I'm now nearly ready to make the switch - a full, functional
backup has been taken.
What I haven't seen anywhere is what happens if one has packages
which are later than what apt-get knows about. For example, I
installed X from 2.1r4 but found it didn't support my video card, so
On 22 Jul 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote:
2.0.x kernels do not use ipchains, but use ipfwadm instead.
Aha! Wonderful, thanks. Yes, I just read the Firewall HOWTO which says:
The bilt in Linux firewall have changed several times. If you are
using an old Linux kernel (1.0.x or older) geta new copy.
Joost Kooij wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall
bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory
[snip]
What's going on? The script file is definitely there
In the script, you are using a command with a tpyo
Okay, now I'm /really/ confused! Who nicked my firewall script?!
Have a read of this (some snipped for brevity):
ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ls -la
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 21 19:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 3072 Jul 21 19:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
On 23 Jun 2001, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
On 23-Jun 12:31, Gary Jones wrote:
[cdparanoia]
(== PROGRESS == [ | .. 00 ] == :-P . ==)
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0
hdb: ATAPI reset complete
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0
hdb: ATAPI reset complete
hdb: irq timeout: status
On the Debian User list, many people including Chris Smith wrote:
Thanks for the info everyone. I'm having a few problems, however...
Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs
[snip]
cdparanoia to extract the audio from the cd.
Okay, I've tried that, but I don't seem to get
On 23 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:31:12PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
I have:
/dev# ls -la | more
snip
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 2 2000 cdrom - /dev/hdb
snip
brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 Dec 9 1999 hdb
chgrp cdrom /dev/hdb (if thats
On 3 Apr 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
Roberto Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not
send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend
upon a third-party mail relay to send mail
[..]
Your ISP gives you a mailserver
Okay, exim has confused me again. I've just set up procmail, per that
app's documentation. Now exim says
2001-04-02 22:13:59 14kAi7-5E-01 ** |exec /usr/bin/procmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] D=userforward T=address_pipe: exec command not
found for address_pipe transport
in the log. Iassume the D=
I'm just setting up inn on my Deb box (from the inn_1.7.2-4.1.deb).
It is overkill for what I want, but since it is fun to try these
things...
Everything so far seems to be okay except when I try to post, at
which point I get this error:
Apr 1 13:28:42 localhost innd: SERVER starting
Apr 1
On 1 Apr 2001, I wrote:
I'm just setting up inn on my Deb box (from the inn_1.7.2-4.1.deb).
[snip]
when I try to post [...] I get this error:
[snip]
Apr 1 13:30:06 localhost nnrpd[211]: localhost post failed Can't
generate Message-ID, No such file or directory
(from the log).
[...]
On 23 Feb 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
i find myself
usually using configurations that are very specific to my sites.
You're right, I think. There are so many possible permutations (just
thing, for example, about the different ways to connect to the 'net -
modem ppp, isdn, cable, *DSL (did I miss
On 16 Feb 2001, another spammer wrote:
P.S.: This is not spam mail.
It is Unsolicited.
It is Commercial (and Bulk)
It is Email.
It is spam, QED.
Send complaints as normal, folks.
--
Gary
Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
Ghastly .sigs, have they no ending?
On 11 Feb 2001, unix,inc. wrote:
Nothing of interest, how unusual. Did anyone hear anything back from
the domain, or are we to take this to MAPS and get the sewer plugged?
Note cc.
--
Gary
Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
On 2 Feb 2001, Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following works well for spam (thanks craig sanders)(season to
taste):
## Spam filters
:0
* ^TO([EMAIL PROTECTED])|(free4u2.com)
Mail/SPAM/
I don't use procmail[1], so I don't know, but if it does rule
processing in order, and
On 30 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have this worry about all those bits I marked as Modules,
though. I guess I have to copy those too, hmm? From where
to where? Is there anything else I should worry about?
I think most people will suggest you use the make-kpkg
I'm about to try setting up sound on my laptop in which there's one
of the above cards. Does anyone have any experience setting one up?
Even compiling the kernel to support sound looks confusing!
--
Gary
Debian 2.1r4 (kernel v2.0.39); XFree86 3.3.6
Quiet people aren't the only ones who don't
On 26 Jan 2001, Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Timothy H. Keitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Or those who need XFree86 4.x :-(
I'm curious, what has changed between 3.3.6, and
4.x? I'm using 3.3.6 now, and it seems ok to
me..
is 3.3.6 incompatible with any new software?
I
I've just installed X and am getting this error on typing startx:
fvwm95: error in loading shared libraries
libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
What I've done is to install X 3.3.3.2 + fvwm95 from my CD-ROM and
then installed the X 3.3.6 binaries
On 14 Jan 2001, David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Gary Jones wrote:
Who stole libXpm.so.4?!?
on my machine this file is contained in the package xpm4g
Yes, on mine too. I had the package installed but the file was
nowhere to be seen. I've removed
On 10 Jan 2001, you wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:03:18 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I definitely need /something/ to do backups to
(alternative suggestions, anyone?). Anyway, I found
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html quite interesting,
particularly
On 5 Jan 2001, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a
Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and
Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lots of errors,
graphics look horrible, and
On 5 Jan 2001, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having trouble understanding exactly what your setup is
I have one account with my ISP but have set up two users.
Two users at the ISP, right?
Now my SO can
send me mail from MS Outlook,
Is this on a LAN, or what? Does the email
On 23 Dec 2000, Michael Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Felix Natter wrote:
I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
isdnconfig and edit them).
If you are in Germany you have to use the
On 1 Jan 2001, Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was pleased to see that there is a file in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that
does the dynamic nameserver-assignment (option usepeerdns) for pppd
(probably created by pppconfig).
Now I would like to know if there is anything similar for ipppd
Okay, stupid question time.
What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the
mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but
rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to
connect as root, but some things (e.g. collecting mail or news) might
I have just installed and configured exim on my box. Both incoming
(via fetchmail) and outgoing mail work, but at the moment exim
initiates a connection to my ISP as soon as it gets outgoing mail. I
know there is a way to stop this but I couldn't see the details in
the man page. Could someone
What's the best way of rewriting addresses when you have multiple
email accounts all pointed at the same local login? I've got exim
setup to rewrite the 'From' on outgoing mail so that [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes one of my real email addresses, which is fine as far as it
goes. The problem is
So far I have the following setup:
hosts.deny:
ALL:ALL
hosts.allow:
ALL: my_work.domain
My intention is to prevent everyone from the 'outside' from reaching my
box. I do realize that anyone in my_work.domain would also be able to get
at it.
Is this secure?
No!
If this is indeed
I'm sorry, make that three attempts. The fuckwits can FOAD - all such
attempts are logged and sent to the appropriate abuse / postmaster
addresses.
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Pollywog wrote:
On 27-Aug-2000 Gary Jones wrote:
I'm sorry, make that three attempts. The fuckwits can FOAD - all such
attempts are logged and sent to the appropriate abuse / postmaster
addresses.
I have been on a DSL connection for a few weeks, and my IP address will
change
about once
I just received my Debian 2.2 CDs from Cheapbytes
I decided to run `md5sum' on each file on the CD-ROM, and compare its
output with the file /cdrom/md5sum.txt. I was surprised to find that
they differed.
(there are many other such files):
I'm really not surprised. I had CheapBytes RH
I'm confused.
I have just switched from modem to isdn (a PCI AVM Fritz! card -
the 'active' one, but I can't find a model number anywhere, sorry). I
just want to be able to (manually) establish a connection to my ISP
(any ISP, actually!) and then manually disconnect, but I can't find
anything
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from
newsgroups in slrn?
Have you tried asking in news.software.readers ng? For info on slrn
configuration this should really be your first stop - lots of knowledgable
people including JED
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