On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:42, Hall Stevenson wrote:
IRQ3. I guess that's one benefit of an external. They
can't be PnP, can they ??
Yup. My USR 56K external is recognized as P'n'P by Windoze if it's on
when I boot into that OS (sic).
Cheers,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice
I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It
boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this
worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now
with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced
the .config I
-only driver on primary interface
[*]Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
(no intervening options selected)
--- Additional Block Devices
But why, he asks?
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:33, Pann McCuaig wrote:
I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It
boots the same
Feel free to point me at a FM to R.
I have an iso image of 2.2r2 binary 1, built using the pseudo-image kit.
Q: Can I loop mount this puppy and use rsync to convert it to 2.2r3
binary 1?
Seems like it should be do-able, and minimize bandwidth hogging.
Cheers,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:36, Ethan Benson wrote:
in short i think sharing /boot across distributions is a bad idea, too
many distributions are too broken in fscking things up in /boot for it
to work very well.
That may be a little too harsh. I agree that sharing /boot directly is a
Bad
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 13:16, Brandon High wrote:
Joseph Dane wrote:
* netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either
get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to
offer them
Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and use
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i know sendmail a lot but not postfix very well. on a few machines
i am running postfix because it seems easy to get it to bind to
only 1 or 2 of the interfaces on the system, i don't want a smtp
running on all interfaces.
but i cant
are from /home/pann/.slrnrc (potato)
hostname ourmanpann.com
set username pann
set realname Pann McCuaig
set replyto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You might want to look at
/etc/news/slrn.rc
and
/usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz
Luck,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U
Hello all,
Owing to personal and family considerations I will be relocating to the
East coast in the near future. As a result my current position will be
open. The announcement is at
http://www.defender.org/geekjob.html
Linux geek required, anti-Microsoft bigots need not apply.
FWIW, I've
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:30, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:41:14AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
I'm using Netscape 4.7 but the spelling feature is turned off. This is
a real problem for me because I spell like an eight year old. I've got
ispell installed and I
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:17, will trillich wrote:
at the risk of exposing another 'religious' issue--
let's say you have a static IP 12.34.56.78 and a public domain
name 'mydomain.org' attached to it.
now you add a private internal lan using 192.168.*.* so your
spouse and kids can surf
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 22:18, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
hello list,
I recently setup a dual boot system w/
debian unstable/woody w/ 2.2.18 and windozs w/ a fat32 partition
all goes well when mounting it as a vfat type. I can read from the
partition,
but I can't seem to write to it.
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 19:01, Jacques Bourdouxhe wrote:
Hi,
I'M a newbie and I almost competely managed to install the 2.2 Distro.
The problem is with the lp device driver module installation.
The printer is a HP Deskjet 692C
Parallel port parameters as displayed by ( vomit ) Win98:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 19:10, Charles Radding wrote:
Print spoolers (I have tried CUPS and now lprng) cannot find my parallel
port. It's there; Windows knows about it; the kernel detects it, whether the
parallel port is built in or a module, whether the kernel is 2.2.18 or 2.4.2;
e.g. from
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 17:22, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
I have win and lin insalled on my computer
unfortunally windows must be on the first partition wich is 20 GB's big. the
next 20 GB's are for debian. Is there any chance to get LILO working under
this circumstances (perhaps a new
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 14:08, David B. Harris wrote:
To quote Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED],
# Reaches everywhere on my 30G disk partitioned like so:
# snip
# That is, all 4 partitions are bootable via lilo.
Hmm... Try putting a kernel on the last partition, and then get LILO to
boot
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am doing a new install of Debian 2.2 onto a older box of mine. I am
trying to get past the network modules installation. I started with 2
Linksys ISA cards and had no luck so pulled them out and put in a PCI
Linksys Etherfast
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:24, Mark Phillips wrote:
A long time ago, back in the days when I used slackware, I used a
backup program called tbackup. I have been looking for the Debian
package of it and can't find it! Is it not packaged? From memory it
was quite a good program. I can't
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 14:39, Martin Marconcini wrote:
last question (i hope). How big is it? aprox? (imagine a custom system with
networking utilities and developing utilidies (plus internet apps)) no X.
~100MB
Luck,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 14:31, hanasaki wrote:
I have a HD with
/boot
/ = a complete install of debian
I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s).
How do i do this so that lilo.conf refects both debians? Wont the 2nd
install make its own /etc/lilo.conf and thus make a
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 13:21, Todd V . Rovito wrote:
I have just installed Debian for the first time, and
am very impressed with it. The ispell program seems to
be missing the hash tables. I did apt-get install ispell
to install ispell. Does anyone know where I can find the
hash tables so
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 23:52, Neil Walsh wrote:
Hey all,
I have this P75 with 500MB HD and 16Mb RAM just sitting there
doing nothing (unwanted present from friend) so I'm going to install
Debian on it.
I was wondering has anyone managed to install debian on such a spec
machine with an X
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 22:47, Frank Preut wrote:
hello everyone,
could someone please tell me where i can find portmap, that is,
which package contains it (i can't find a package named portmap)?? as much
as i can see i don't need it, and i would like to get rid of it (if that
is
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 16:30, Bart Szyszka wrote:
Is there any program that'll allow me to open QuarkXpress
files (layout doesn't need to be exact, I just need to be able
to select and copy the text) in Linux or convert them to a
format that Linux can read?
I believe SSC, Inc., the
You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to
the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato
current. apt-get upgrade is what you want.
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 00:23, Philipp Schulte wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 13:11, Seung-woo Nam wrote:
I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf
file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything
and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript.
Where can I get this program? 'apt-get
Search the list archives. I suggested a (relatively clean) method no
more than a couple of weeks ago.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 14:59, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot?
i looked in /etc/init.d. can't even find a startup script for this thing!
I think the cleanest way to do this is
# cp -p /etc/init.d/portmap /root/
# update-rc.d portmap remove
and then keep track of the links (which update-rc.d will tell you about)
in case you need to put it back.
# ls portmap*
portmap portmap.links
# cat portmap.links
/etc/rc0.d/S10portmap
I've been very happy with Hurricane Electric
http://www.he.net/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh silver.he.net
Last login: Tue Oct 10 15:27:37 2000 from sense-sea-megasu
Hurricane Electric
No mail.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux silver.he.net 2.2.16 #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 04:39:21 PDT 2000
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
:: Andre Berger writes:
I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a
problem to load http://localhost.
However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: Host not
found
and w3m's: Can't
I was running 2.0.5a on a slink box with kernel 2.0.36 and upgraded to
potato. Had similar problems. Something in the deep dark recesses of
my mind (probably saw a posting on this list in the past) told me to
upgrade to kernel 2.2.17 before I started trying to truly diagnose the
problem. Worked
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 13:45, Helgi Örn wrote:
I need to configure my printer (Epson Stylus Color 640) in Potato but I
can't figure out howto do that, there's no doc's on that and not one
word in 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux either, neither do I find the program
'xconfig' to get the right
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 23:11, Burkhard Zombronner wrote:
Does anybody can give me an advise if the box standard kernel 2.2 from potato
supports already ipchains+masquerading and how can I find out?
Alas, there are several box stock kernels in potato, depending on how
you installed. But, all
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:50, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters,
preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats?
man formail
Luck,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~.
The problem is UPS (at least in B.C.). They _will_ act as customs broker
for their Canadian shippers and they _will_ charge the recipient a fee
unless the shipper is big enough to make other arrangements. I doubt
Stormix qualifies.
You might suggest to Stormix that they use Canada Post unless the
Dwight,
apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
My /etc/apt/sources.list is attached. Note particularly the pointer to
security.debian.org.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:06, Dwight Johnson wrote:
I have my 2.2 box installed from CDs and all applications are working. Now
do I need to update packages for
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 23:56, will trillich wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Jeff Howie wrote:
I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
emacs fans, please turn the other cheek--
how
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59, will trillich wrote:
emacs fans, please turn the other cheek--
how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog?
which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth
whiter?
FWIW, I was an early (early 90's) user of elvis. I switched to vim
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:18, Gregg C wrote:
I have an old AST 486DX (23Meg RAM/170MegHD) that I have been using as a
router for a few months. I installed 2.2 back when it was frozen, or maybe
even a month or so before. I had no problems with it, until I compiled a new
kernel for it, and
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 20:53, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote:
I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time
between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to
switch to the most updated
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:56, Jim Gale wrote:
I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure
it's come up before...
I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in
CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop
is
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:19, virtanen wrote:
I'm thinking that it might be nice to upgrade for potato now when I've got
slink working more or less well.
My problem with installing directly potato did not work, because the wd
module needed for my old ethernet card did not work with the
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08, virtanen wrote:
The wd module was there on the list, but install failed.
The latest set of boot disks is missing the 8390 module which is
loaded before the wd module. That should be fixed soon.
I installed debian 'slink' and got it working. I did not
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 18:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I recently upgraded my slink box to potato with apt. Everything works
well but the new ssh:
neptun:/home/papt# dpkg --configure ssh
Setting up ssh (1.2.3-5) ...
^
I think this was fixed around -7, and I
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:20, Rogerio Brito wrote:
On Jul 06 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote:
apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using
debs downloaded by apt-get is right on.
Indeed it does. It's a great idea to manage debs downloaded.
That means
Forget about the sound card until you get your ne2000 working.
I had a similar problem with a wd80x3 card. Used a different rescue
floppy to solve it. At least for the latest pre-release boot floppies,
available from
http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/bf/
there are several versions. Try -ide or
apt-move rocks! The idea of building a partial local mirror using debs
downloaded by apt-get is right on.
But here's the deal. I have multiple debian (potato) machines on my
network, and only one with the disk space for a mirror. It's a server
and doesn't have X installed. However, pretty much
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 22:07, Sven Burgener wrote:
What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I
created when installing debian initially.
Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux.
Delete it and replace it with a copy of /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17.
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 00:12, Sven Burgener wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I
created when installing debian initially.
Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 14:37, Moore, Paul wrote:
Unrelated question - how do you find what packages are on hold, and/or
unhold them? I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to potato (finally got a
CD!!!) and found that the kbd package was held, for no reason that I could
discern. I tried to find
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:03, Sven Burgener wrote:
Apropos 486 and firewall: what requirements are there for a firewall /
masq. gateway to serve a LAN of approx. 20 - 50 clients?
I mean, I have seen a 486 25sx w/z a cable modem serve up to 5 clients
completely fine. It has IIRC 48 mbs of
Whenever I've built a kernel I've used the following syntax:
# make-kpkg --rev tux.1.0 kernel_image
where tux identifies the machine to me and 1.0 identifies which of
my revisions of the kernel I'm dealing with.
I install the resulting kernel-image-...-.deb with dpkg -i.
I recently upgraded a
This should be a FAQ by now. Make sure your slink TeTeX packages are up
to date (check your local mirror). If you use older packages (off a CD
for example) you'll run into this problem. Something 'expired' after a
year. You can search this list for gory details, but the fix is: install
the latest
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:09, Brad Reid wrote:
hello i've got a LAN setup and would like a linux box on it to be a
gateway. the LAN works fine but it is a class C network and i would
like to enable ip masquerading on the linux box (debian slink).
i'm having two problems:
1. debian
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 17:57, A. Scott White wrote:
I am trying to set my Debian box to print to an HP LJ-8000 with a Jet Direct
card. has anyone ever done this?
Yup, doing exactly this. See below.
I want the name of the printer to be surgery. Assuming 111.222.333.444 is
the IP of the Jet
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 22:35, Cameron Matheson wrote:
Hey,
I'm trying to get my ethernet NE2000 clone to work in linux. The HOWTO
said to read up about isapnptools, so I started looking at the
README.debian, and it has someone's config file here. Anyways, I can't
make any sense of it.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
[How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package?
I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see
what files were installed? If so, how?
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dork.list
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:54, Maury Merkin wrote:
I saw, just a few days ago, a post with a command to get the current
time and reset the system clock.
I didn't pay much attention then 'cause I thought the script I used to
use with RH would work. They don't. (No 'rdate' and no 'clock').
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:34, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote:
Hello:
I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look.
Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I
looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it.
You might want to try the
I recently went to look something up and found my dpkg man pages had
gone missing. A brief search found them under /usr/share/man/.
I have dpkg 1.4.1.18.99.slink.0 which I got from
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main
There are other packages I've obtained from unofficial sites
I recently went to look something up and found my dpkg man pages had
gone missing. A brief search found them under /usr/share/man/.
I have dpkg 1.4.1.18.99.slink.0 which I got from
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main
There are other packages I've obtained from unofficial sites
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:31, Sandy Shapiro wrote:
I have Debian 2.1 (Slink).
I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz).
During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking
for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't
run.
Will
quick answer:
1) dpkg --purge all your tetex packages
2) make sure you have a pointer in /etc/apt/sources.list to a current
mirror
3) apt-get update
4) apt-get install all the tetex packages you want
I notice in the text below that you're trying to install/configure some
-1 packages, and
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:15, Kent West wrote:
I'm just now getting around to playing with my
PalmPilot III on Linux. I seem to be able to do
everything if I do it as root, but if I try as a
normal user I get permission errors. Does anyone
know what permissions need to be changed where to
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote:
If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the
dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the
/etc/group file and add westk to the end of the
# adduser westk dialout
is much easier. :-
dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and
shut
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote:
But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition
below 1024 cyl.
I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never
came close to using that space, so I've recently started making them
8MB. Of course,
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote:
How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the
installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only
because I see some syslinux related files.
The easiest way to do this is to boot your
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 20:40, Mike Werner wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:46:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this to be a dial-up router? If so, I'd say to look at:
http://mpsdr.unx.nu/MINI/
This thing runs off of a single 3.5 floppy - doesn't even use the
hard drive.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05, Phillip Deackes wrote:
I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on
the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me
remember the name of the package to re-install it. I have searched
www.debian.org with all manner of
, Pann McCuaig wrote
At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops
and a couple of Linux boxen running samba.
I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The
goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95
machine
At the lilo prompt, try
append aha152x=iobase[,irq[,scsi-id,[,reconnect[,parity
To make my SB16-SCSI card with CD-ROM drive visible, I use
append aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
YMMV.
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 19:58, Todd Suess wrote:
Greetings folks,
I have an Adaptec 152x SCSI card attached to a
At work I administer an ethernet network of several dozen Win95 desktops
and a couple of Linux boxen running samba.
I'm trying to set up incoming PPP on an up-to-date Debian slink box. The
goal is for an employee to be able to dialup this box from her Win95
machine at home and be a full citizen
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pann proposed,
Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the
newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates.
We have a winner :) Wow.
Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I wasn't
Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the
newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying
hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink.
There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the
same place.
$ dpkg -l | grep slrn
ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links)
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:18, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote:
To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the
xbase-clients package).
To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he command
xfontsel(in the xcontrib package).
Wow. Thanks for the pointers.
Had no
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:
I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You
can get it temporarily at ...
Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb
Pann, Jim please download that and let me
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 22:09, Colin Watson wrote:
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time:
NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT
Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be.
See:
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811
Thanks. Looking
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 19:16, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
Does anybody know if yahoo messenger (java version) works fine in UNIX?
Is there any other instant messenger such as ICQ, or ATT I am here for
Linux?
The Java version of Yahoo Messenger works for me. Debian slink, Kernel
2.0.36, Netscape
Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time:
NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT
Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be.
Cheers,
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~.
The Choice /V\
# ping time.nist.gov
PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=92.2 ms
--- time.nist.gov ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 11:51, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 08:35:10AM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
# ping time.nist.gov
PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=85.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.43.244.18: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:59, Paul Huygen wrote:
Brian Lavender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is the error I get:
[..]
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
Is there supposed to be a latex.fmt somewhere on my system?
Yes, there is. You can generate one using either a program
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 22:17, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Then buy a CyberPower instead. Much cheaper. I picked up a 1500 VA
CyberPower for US$99. It runs my computer for an hour!
Vendor, anyone?
Thanks.
Pann
--
geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~.
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:28, Ron Farrer wrote:
What is wrong with '# rdate tock.usno.navy.mil'?? It always
gives an error: rdate: Could not read data: No such file or directory
or rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection timed out.
Any ideas?
Use a host that supports rdate?
$
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 13:08, Ron Farrer wrote:
Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Use a host that supports rdate?
$ /usr/sbin/rdate -p time.nist.gov
Wed Dec 22 12:19:23 1999
I'd love to:
# /usr/sbin/rdate -p time.nist.gov
rdate: Could not read data: No such file
On my slink system if I (as root) _remove_ the 13-character encrypted
password for a user from /etc/shadow (/etc/passwd if shadow passwords
aren't enabled) then that user can log in with _no_ password (not even
asked).
BTW, this is the standard way to recover, with a rescue floppy, from the
Oh,
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:31, Wacek Gocki wrote:
I want to update my server running with hamm to slink ...
What's the safest way to do this ?
I'd prefer not to use dselect, just update necessary
libraries and installed software.
I've got a fairly sketchy but also fairly complete (if that
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 16:35, Shao Zhang wrote:
I would like to know if it is possible:
to run two different web servers on the same physical
machine binded to two different ip addresses, both of
them using port 80
We have a
I recently upgraded MySQL from www.netgod.net/x/ and now my DBI stuff
doesn't work. Here are the relevant (I think) packages:
ii libmysqlclient6 3.22.25-1 mysql database client library
ii libmysqlclient6 3.22.25-1 mysql database development files
ii mysql-client3.22.22-2
Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in
the telnet package?
I'm running
ii telnet 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet client.
ii telnetd 0.12-4slink.1 The telnet server.
and according to the telnet man page
BUGS
The source code is
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 09:39, Mark Wagnon wrote:
I'm learning to use slrn to read newsgroups, but everytime I start
it, I have to download all the message headers/bodies again. I'm not
looking to become a news server for other sites, I just want my local
users (basically just me) to be able
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
Well, yes, but . . .
What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created
for
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What do you call discovering a weak password using the tools created
for that purpose?
It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it cracking,
or more specifically, brute-force
What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr
package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI),
but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files
installed.
-
desktop#
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:23, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr
package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI),
but I might well want to install lpr
I'll give you credit for chasing this thing!
I've got only one further contribution:
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 23:40, Daniel Barclay wrote:
[snip!]
Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit,
but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU.
I didn't seem to be
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote:
You might not be using Netscape extensively enough to trigger the bugs.
Maybe usage pattern differences are something to explore.
Do you (and others):
- - have Java enabled?
Yup.
- - have Javascript enabled?
Yup.
- - typically open
Happens if a couple days pass without printing anything. Running a slink
system with kernel 2.0.36.
The only other untoward thing that happens with this system is that
occasionally X dies right after I switch from a VC. Apparently has to do
with the mouse, perhaps an interaction with gpm? I
I found it lying around.
ftp://ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb
Luck,
Pann
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