On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:29:52PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:46:18PM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus wrote:
To me, the most annoying thing about this thread is that if the
original poster could READ he'd haver quickly found out how to run
netscape as root, and
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:35:41PM -0500, spin wrote:
Hi Folks,
I hope you can help me on this one.
Got my hands on a IBM PCServer 500.
Has a Pentium 90 Processor (1)
Micro Channel Bus
IBM SCSI RAID Adapter w/CDROM Drive
Here's my question/problem,Am trying to install Debian 2.2 on it.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:25:07AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
I recently installed Netscape Communicator,
which works great, except that I can't run it
as root due to security reasons. Does anyone
know how I can get around this?
Don't run it as root.
hmmm, not the
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X
lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session
from the same machine when it happens?
Well, X runs as root so it's able to cause rather
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:22:10PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether
they've replied to one copy of the message when they've encountered the
other one). If there's a Mail-Followup-To: header or a 'Mail-Copies-To:
nobody', it's a
the quoted material ]
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:25:07AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
I recently installed Netscape Communicator,
which works great, except that I can't run it
as root due to security reasons. Does anyone
know how
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:43:34PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
I don't think this is really true, at least not in GNU/Linux land.
mutt and gnus support Mail-Followup-To: ... what else is there? :)
Simply put, a whole world of MUAs (look at my headers for example,
Note the smiley :)
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:14:17PM -0700, petong wrote:
This machine is set up as a dual boot. If I boot back into windoze, the card
works fine, which is what is really confusing...
Does your BIOS have a PnP OS? setting? If yes, change it.
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:05:47PM +0700, Angus D Madden wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:21:47AM -0500, T.Phan wrote:
Is there a way to soft reset the cable modem and the NIC on
a Debian/Linux box?
The ATT Cable Modem some time loses connection, sometime it
resets itself.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:30:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
oop! -- I corrected a few incorrect details in my prior message
regarding the results of 2.4.7 boot partitions check and contents of my
lilo.conf file.
I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a 2.4.7 kernel to boot. My PC
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:54:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27:54PM -0700):
Have you looked at bitkeeper (http://www.bitkeeper.com/)? This is an
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:04:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
[1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK.
Please post anything you know about this. The Filesystem Hierarechy
Standard doesn't mention this.
He simply means that you aren't [0] supposed to compile kernels
there.
/usr/src is
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:42:37PM -0400, dman wrote:
| Apologies for the mis-information. Anyone know why runlevels are set up like
| this in Debian?
So that you, the admin, can organize the runlevels in whatever way you
feel like without any (initial) interference from the installer.
You
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
but
unlike GNU/Linux support, Fujitsu Support doesn't function on Sundays.
It's wait and see...
Amazing, isn't it? So much for superior commercial support.
(Yeah yeah, I know it's not fair to compare hardware support to OS
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:11:25PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
took me two tries (forgot to include vfat the first time), but the
apt-get and make-kpkg utilities sure make this a lot easier than it
used to be in RedHat!
Sir, your language!!!
:-)
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:26:05AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
On Aug 12 2001, Guy Geens wrote:
[1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK.
What is the best current practice nowadays?
Since I read a post by Linus on the lkml some time ago, I've
been compiling my
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:11:43AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:04:24PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
[1] /usr/src has even been deprecated AFAIK.
Please post anything you know about this. The Filesystem Hierarechy
Standard doesn't mention
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:35:18PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
All my DGA using apps have broken as of late giving:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86dga.so: undefined symbol: atexit
A 'dpkg -S libXxf86dga.so' gives no results, but I assume it used to be in
xlibs. So were the DGA libs moved or
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:07:58PM -0500, Michael Buice wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed this ripping tale of intrigue,
adventure, and romance, but would you mind explaining
to a debian-newbie exactly who or what the culprit
was? I've been having trouble connecting to various
sites
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:49:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I'm building a Linux box that will serve as a server and gateway to split
internet access from a cable modem to numerous machines (some Linux, some
Winblows.) I'm putting in 2 network cards and a dual-processor motherboard
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:50:06AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I compiled again the kernel with all possible network devices as M or Y,
except for a group of ARCnet cards. Any way the module dmfe.c does not
appear available. So I have no clue. Could that be a lacking feature in
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:06:57PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
It's better this way. It hardly makes sense to try to $EDITOR these
files anyway; just use echo and cat. (You're usually just reading or
writing one byte anyway).
Better yet, use sysctl.
$ /sbin/sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:36:53AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
How about this? [ white worm ]
You're missing the point.
No one here is saying you would be a bad person if you {shut
off/nuked/notified} a remote site that is already affected with the
worm du jour.
What I'm trying to say (and John
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:26:02PM -0500, Jeremy wrote:
I recently enabled the ide-scsi option in my kernel (and set it up so that
lilo started it for the right devices) for my cd burner. I also have the
generic scsi driver in there. My burner BURNS just fine, but I was wondering
what the
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:25:07PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was trying to install java plugin in Galeon. I went to d/l the java
plugin from ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/6.0/unix/linux22/jre.xpi. But
what shall I do next? it is xpi extension which I don't know
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:29:39PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp
daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other
official looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn.
You might want to backup your data
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 11:25:42PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
Can you then have procmail to put all the mail that does not go into the
mailing list folders into a default mailbox?
# Put mail for pkirk in its own mailbox
:0:
* ^(From|Cc|To).*
$HOME/mail/patrick
Or would that break all the rule
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:55:29AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:43:45PM +0200, Eugene van Zyl wrote:
Hi,
Any body know if the above is to be found nicely packaged for Debian 2.2 ?
Doesn't look like it, but don't let that stop you. Perl modules are
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:19:05PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
Interesting. My lilo.conf has no line about initrd and dmesg reports
nothing on ramdisks for my 2.4.7 system. What type of systems need a
ramdisk to boot
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
In this case, the difference is whether you're installing a debian
kernel-image or compiling your own. The kernel images require an
initrd. When you compile
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:24:04PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Ian Perry writes:
You could, but wouldn't be better to alert then than shutting them
down... there could be legal ramifications in lost income etc etc for a
public server.
Making any use at all of the backdoor, even just to
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:36:37PM +0100, root wrote:
That is a useful tip which in the year since I last logged into a box as
root I had forgotten.
But dpkg-reconfigure is not available. Maybe its a slink thing?
debian:~# dpkg-
dpkg-architecture dpkg-gencontrol
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 09:34:29PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
| dpkg-distaddfiledpkg-preconfigure dpkg-source
| dpkg-divert dpkg-reconfiguredpkg-split
|
| ???
Argh!
Sometimes I wonder if I should give it all up
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Debian User wrote:
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
No mail.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
^^
Bzzt. This gives you a root shell with your user's environment.
(think: are /sbin and
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:12:18AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote:
LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I
have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use
to uncompress? When I
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:34:08PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote:
Does someone know how to get the kernel patch
for compiling kernel 2.4 with gcc3.0?
Er, until gcc 3.0 is more proven, why would you want to do this?
--
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Ltd.
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option.
how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package? the only
way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it.
dpkg-reconfigure
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:34:08PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote:
Does someone know how to get the kernel patch
for compiling kernel 2.4 with gcc3.0?
Er, until gcc 3.0 is more proven, why
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:20:20PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hmmm! Isn't the whole point of working for someone else to get them to buy
these essential books for you before you set off as a fabulously well-paid
contractor?
IME you
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Ok, is recommends requires now? I can't seem to resolve dependencies
in dselect unless I agree to recommends when they are supposed to be
optional.
I think I'll stick with apt-get. Unless I'm doing something wrong?
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:05:10PM -0500, Lute Mullenix wrote:
I recently did a Woody upgrade on an old IBM. I have been running Woody
for a couple of months now with no problems, however since doing the
update/upgrade thing a couple of days ago, my X is all messed up.
To start with X would
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:54:05PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
* Aaron Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
tried to download the pcmcia-source package (although it looks like
these directions were meant exclusively for the 2.2 series kernels),
and the make-kpkg modules_image failed. What
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote:
So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from
floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting
for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/
I see in another post
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:24:46PM -0600, Michael Blood wrote:
[ try responding after the quoted material so we know what you're
talking about ... jeopardy style quoting sucks ]
So most of the patch was applied except for Hunk #2 which failed at 735.
the file Makefile.rej looks like the
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:11:44PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
If you're running potato look at the debian-user list archive. I seem
to recall a post on how to run a 2.4.x kernel on potato.
That post would be from Adrian Bunk who is maintaining package sets to
allow 2.4.x kernels to work with
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:51:24AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Gnome: Is it nome or guh-nome?
The latter (http://www.gnome.org/faqs/users-faq/index.html#AEN38)
GNU: Is it new or guh-new?
The latter (says so on the opening blurb at http://www.gnu.org)
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:14:07PM -0400, dman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
| CVS is pretty much exactly what i am looking for. i would love to
| create a CVS repository each for every one of the remote machines.
| then everyone could checkout and
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:54:27AM -0700, David Grant wrote:
Hi,
I have an ASUS A7V133 with PDC20265 on-board IDE as well as the standard
on-board VIA controller. I am trying to install Debian potato 2.2r3. I
need to get it to install from the on-board Promise IDE controller. I tried
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hi,
How about trying the 'x86info' program. You should be able to get it
apt-get. Then run the command 'x86info -mhz'. Here's
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:46:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
[ I wrote ]
Looks like it's available in unstable.
Hmmm...I'm not finding it under either testing or unstable. My
sources.list:
# apt package archives
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
also sprach John Bacalle (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 06:05:36AM -0400):
Sorry, I vapor locked, I meant the rbldns program:
RE: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/rbldns.html
rbldns is an IP-address-listing DNS server. It accepts
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:56:34PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote:
Steve,
I guess I'm wondering if there's a good reason for a default of
root.root. I prefer to work as root as little as possible so hate to
become root in order to write any pages.
Do you think www-data.www-data makes more
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Isn't that like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer?
In a way it's either that or use non-free (in the GPL sense) software that
has gratuitous (and sometimes
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:44:21AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Nathan E Norman uttered:
In my opinion this boils down to a religious issue: some hate Dan
Bernstein (and by extension his software), and I hate BIND because
it's a massive bloated
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:29:21PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
I'd have appreciated it if you'd included the text below *before* your
comment ... I in no way said the choice was between BIND9 or djbdns.
You said that.
Yes I
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:33:48AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
also sprach Lambrecht Joris (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:40:06PM +):
Once more felt strongly urged to drop in my personal note. Wouldn't
it be great if their was some kind of P2P service that would provide
such a service ?
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:08:06AM -0400, Wayne wrote:
Infoltel is offering a Soyo motherboard with a Athlon 900 MHz processor and
and a PCI sound card for $169. plus shipping.
WTF is Infoltel? If you're going to quote prices a URL is handy so
the rest of us can check it out ...
--
Nathan
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:53:18AM +0800, LiuTao wrote:
My CPU is celeron433
when I type dmesg, I can see
...
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting
...
Does that mean there is something wrong with my CPU?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
Hi,
The kernel image that my system uses appears to be from the
package kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide . One would expect that the source
code to this .deb would be found in the corresponding source package - i.e
in
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb
irq :05
dma :01
io : 220
linux give me :sound card sb
irq: 07
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
This would also (theoretically) lead to less power consumption and a
lower electric bill. Pretty nice! Say, does that HLT instruction
work on a i486 or only on newer CPUs? I also seem to recall, back
when I was learning m68k assembly,
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 03:49:40AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
And let's not forget, How to get your ass fired
real quick when the suits *DO* notice.
Please cite an actual occurrence of this.
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Micromuse Ltd. | than
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:07:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a big delay when i use man... when i type man i've got to wait
even 10 sec. before anyhing shows up? Any ideas why this happening?
If you are updating man files, reindexing can occur when the
1st man
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:40:34AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote:
Thanks to all who've helped me in recompiling my kernel. I used
kernel-package on one debian box and it worked fine. But now I'm about
to do it on another more important box and I'd like to know why I should
not do this as root, as
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:34PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire
system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a
fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one
machine that's cutting edge, i do
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500):
Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon
instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it
can be installed anywhere
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:01:59PM +0100, Wasim Ahmed wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
Wasim Ahmed writes:
Probably the only useful thing that currently cannot be replicated on
a Linux server on Windows NT Small Business Server appears to be
shared
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:23:28PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb
RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only,
but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible
to make it be a
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| By make my machine download things do you mean that he logs in and
| uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:15:36PM -0400, Trig Asderik, Account Executive wrote:
looking to get NIC drivers to make my compaq 1850R proliant work with debian
currently debian is installed but NIC cards arent working
would you know of any nic drivers that can be installed into a proliant to
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:34:19PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
This is correct. You don't need to recompile your kernel to get APM
support -- simply add apm=on to the command line. With grub it
looks like :
##
# Entry 0:
title Debian Potato (Linux 2.2.19)
root(hd0,0)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
Hi,
I have this problem where my box cannot talk through a pix firewall which
allows everything through, but can talk to any box on the local network. On
closer investigation with tcpdump it appears that it initiates tcp
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:37:46PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
i810. You got yourself a TOUGH row to hoe, but it's possible to work.
It looks as if you need to use xserver-svga... Look in the archives,
there's some people who've asked about it before IIRC.
If you're willing to live a bit on
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote:
Hello again..
After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to X 4.x I've finally reached
my patience limit. Despite a fair bit of help and advice from a number of
list members (thanks everyone!) I've been unable to successfully achieve
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:34:24AM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
On Sunday 10 June 2001 04:41, Nathan E Norman wrote:
There is a kernel driver for the Lucent winmodems ... it's a binary
only module and CPU really gets whacked when you're dialed in.
Not any more. There is now a driver
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:15:02PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
vester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
one possibility would be to edit your /etc/init.d/windowmanager-script
(that is, xdm gdm kdm or whatever you are using)...just put in exit into
the first line then they won't start and you'll
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his
necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the
[...]
Both the kernel and grub don't care about each other, in fact, both
don't no a thing
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:13:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:54:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hey guys,
|
| recently, i helped a friend put together a debian box, but i am
| having some trouble with the NIC.
|
| First, I told him to get a netgear FA-310TX,
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:30:59PM -0400, dude wrote:
I have noticed that NETHACK SEEMS to lock when i hit crtl-S
I dont see this listed anywhere. Anyone know.
That makes sense as c-s is the stop key. Hit c-q to continue.
This is how it works at most terminals :)
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On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:36:02PM -0400, alex wrote:
Would it be feasible to create a software bidirectional Linux to
Windows translator dedicated for one purpose, to permit use of any
Winmodem on Linux?
WinModems _are_ usable in Linux ... it's just that the terms of use
are usually onerous.
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:38:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network
setup incomplete:
$ ping www.debian.org
PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote www.debian.org 64
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
Karl == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time (cd /usr/local/src/ tar pcf -
Karl cvs.gnome.org) | (cd /mnt/tmp/src/ tar pxf -)
Just for your reference, there is a tar option that makes
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:29:57PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps.
Life is too short to futz with modmap.
Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it?
Sure it does
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
Weird... seems like hard drive performance is
very important too:)
In fact, disk is often more important than the processor!
When building a box, I go for RAM, disk, and processor in that order.
If you don't have enough RAM,
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:28:45PM -0700, Scott Frankel wrote:
I'm setting up a dual-boot Debian Linux | MacOS PowerBook. It's connected
to a LinkSys Cable/DSL Router, supporting DHCP. After configuring the
router,
the MacOS side works flawlessly. But there's no joy yet on the linux
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:23:40PM +0100, mr matsui wrote:
I've got a problem where I cannot browse the web. I use a number of ISPs and
this problem occurs only for 1 of the ISP ( my main account). Using this
problem ISP I can still ping and resolve domain names, ftp and even telnet
to port 80
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do
about:
9 opentcpdiscard
discard is /dev/null for networks. Generally not needed expecially if
you are worried about attcks.
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
Again, I recommend that you install minicom, or some similar tool, so
you can interactively see what your ISP does when you dial in. Once
you know what prompts your ISP sends, then you can make a simple chat
script that will work.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:12:18PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the
3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm
not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest
disk images you're ok.
I
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is
done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of how to
copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1?
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
cd mountpoint
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
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
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote:
Afternoon folks,
I am in the process of configuring a new Debian server, and have been
informed that I have to use a SMC (Western Digital 8013 ISA) NIC. We do
have these NICs running under Red-Hat Linux in-house, but I have
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:04:23PM -0500, ktb wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:01:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote:
potato = stable
woody = testing
sid= unstable
I believe woody will soon(?) become stable.
When was a debian release ever soon;)
kent
In geological terms
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:55:38PM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote:
Hello, I'd like some help with a problem I'm having.
I've tried to install two varients of Debian: 2.2r2 and Progeny 1.0. In
both of those cases I have failed to get my ethernet card working.
I have two cards laying around, a
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:00:51PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
yo,
before installing debian on some 35 clients here, i would like to
mirror it locally so as to, you know, spare our backbone... the
clients don't have cdrom's, so bootdisk/ftp is the installation medium
of choice (anyway).
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:26:42PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
You are on the right track. In half-duplex, the card basicly listens on
its receive line while it's talking on the transmit line. Normally, in
a non-switched, half-duplex, environment, only one card may transmit at
any one time. If
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:38:33PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
- seems silly to disallow ssh into a pop3 server in my book
especially to those that would like to do so to clean
up emails first
Well, I wouldn't give the average POP user a shell account at all, but
use a DB for POP
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
Rob Mahurin wrote:
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material.
Why?
Makes it read
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:03:32AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
aha. BUT the key is, how to get VIM to know when you're editing a
MUTT file... and set configs accordingly?
i'm sure there are several ways --
#~/.muttrc
set editor=vim -c tw=64
or
#~/.vimrc
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