Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this
account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created.
I know about /etc/skel but I am not sure if it's possible to use
Brad Sims wrote:
On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
pointers.
Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Doesn't work. It's not just the owner of a file, it's
Nunya wrote:
FWIW this approach works perfectly for me.
I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them.
When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner.
I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that.
I do it for these files:
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
The users will most likely either use KDE
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:13:18PM +0100, Florian Steurer wrote:
I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the scp-command. It
asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt - I mean
that the password is direct read from the shell script, without
prompting. I tried
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes next.
They are correct and typing c brings me to them. Any other idea?
Phil
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:15:44AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes next.
They are correct and typing
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr?
$du -sh /usr
Phil
Hello,
I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
in them by an N.
I have added %N to my folder-format-string and it looks like mutt
reserves space for it but it never shows up.
I have read that tools that check for new mails like biff can spoil
this setting but I
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:58:13PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
Philipp Schulte wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
in them by an N.
I have added %N to my folder-format-string and it looks like mutt
reserves space for it but it never
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:19:01PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote:
I compiled 2.4.2 and after booting it I realize I forgot to include the
NIC driver (Intel Express 100/PRO). Is there any way to create that module
without having to recompile the entire kernel??
Just do a $make modules
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
Quick and stupid question: Is there any way to disable the console system
beeps short of yanking out the damn speaker?
Put this in your .inputrc:
set bell-style none
Phil
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:41:54PM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote:
I have a debian install running the 2.4.2 kernel. I want to allow external
telnet/ssh access, but am not sure how. I apt-get'ed ssh and telnetd, but
don't really know where to go from here. If anyone could help me out, Id
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:51:27PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
I think I wasn't too harsh or something.
But rebooting in order to see if the sound card was detected at
boot-time is about the most dumb reason to reboot I can think of.
Phil
Yes, it is, when you know where to get the information
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is handled by
the SVGA server. I have configured the whole thing using XF86Setup and
Xconfigurator and after that manually tweaking the setup file.
I get the X
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0500, Richard Black wrote:
can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection
speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over
my cable DSL...
$apt-get install bing
Phil
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
Ok, I will try to compile it as module, I just thought it would be better to
have it permanent embeded into the kernel.
No, it's not. You can't unload and load it again if it is not a
module.
Phil
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
Sorry, that my knowledge does have a big gap so far what linux
matters. But I think you wasn't born with your momentary
knowledge, too. So please try to treat somebody with a little bit of
the respect he gives to you, even although he
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:20:02AM +0100, c-3 wrote:
^^^
How about putting your name there?
I can't get my sound card to work under linux (SB16).
So far I've recompiled my kernel with sound drivers, what else do I
have to do?
Which module did you
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:23PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote:
I was wondering if I could change the bindings of
ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`,
instead of `shutdown -r now`
It sure is!
As root, edit /etc/inittab. If
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote:
Reboot your linux system and just check the boot message to see if the sound
card is recognized
What do you think logfiles are for?
BTW: http://learn.to/qoute
Phil
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:21:11PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
I didn't compile it as a module, because one told me it would be
better to compile it direcect into the kernel. And so I did.
Where does it say so? I have heard from many people that they were told
not to use modules.
I've compiled the
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:03:09PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
This isn't the problem. I have now got emu10k1 loaded [by putting a
Excuse me, but then I don't understand your problem. If emu10k1 is
loaded sound should work.
and perhaps I should put one of the alsa modules instead, like
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:00:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
Before the kernel-module I used alsa too
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:40:23PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote:
I've a ~ (1 char) named directory in my home directory :)
How could I delete it?
$rmdir ~
Phil
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to
work.
Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
Before the kernel-module
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Chris Parker wrote:
Stats: running 2.2.12 on p133 w/48ram
Kingston pci model kne100tx using tulip module
on cablemodem surfboard4100
I can ping self but when i ping anywhere else it says that the network is
unreachable. Get siocaddr invalid.
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:01:21PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
i think your /etc/hosts.deny (or allow/both) may be too strict. i would
reccomend installing an identd server on 192.168.0.50 and setup reverse
dns for that zone 192.168.0.50 for optimal results. the system is just
paranoid to let
Hello,
I have problems to login on my ssh-server from one particular
machine. I have to try several times, but after one successful login
it works smooth.
Can somebody please explain, what these messages mean and how to fix it?
Feb 7 01:23:52 nepomuk sshd[14394]: Did not receive ident string
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:54:41PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote:
But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of
the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED
on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the
following:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:30:13AM +, N Cohen wrote:
I have successfully installed debian v 2.2 on my powerpc 8600 in
the past and found that XF86Config worked fine when I used it to
configure the mouse. Now when I install XF86Config comes up with
permission denied when I attempt
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:41:17AM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote:
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 with a Debian stable system but
with 2.2.18 kernel (for USB). Everything works OK (even usb), but when
I tried to to insert an PCMCIA Xircom Ethernet card (CBE2-100) the
system hang up. The
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:20:15AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
If money is a little bit of a concern ...
what is the best type of hardware to use?
Even if many experts regard the PC-architecture as inferior compared
to some others you probably still get the most value for little money.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:53:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
is there a debian standard way to stop the pcmcia subsystem when
the apm system goes into suspend mode, and to start it up again when
apm resumes?
I don't know of it is debian-specific but there is a way. If you have
installed
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules
included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get PCMCIA
sources? There is the obvious pcmcia-source -- 'dat the beast?
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:46:57AM -, Henry Gomersall wrote:
I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to
the internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installed
the base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However,
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:12:47PM -0800, Nick wrote:
I am currently using a compaq 1220,
I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter
I got it because it can w/ linux(turbo) so I had to assume it was compatible
I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel
What driver can I use for this
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote:
Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can
put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i
would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an
easy way to do
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
I can't get the talk program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to
talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is
which with the tty command, and then from one terminal (say
/dev/pts/0) I type talk westk
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:59:36AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:26:05PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to
promote a petition
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to
promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement
and ask thm for open drivers.
Of course they are aware of Open Source, but a friendly
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
Debian User wrote:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in
/etc/hosts.deny,
Adding a line to
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:47:31PM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
I am looking for input on performance, installation, drivers, x servers,
anything, related to 3d cards out there today. Direct experience would
help.
I am very satisfied with my Geforce256. Last time I checked it offered
great
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:12:28AM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote:
I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux
distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian
rather than something else.
1. It's not commercial (more consistent with the whole Linux
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:28:13PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote:
Anyways, I've always felt that there were two main areas in the ease
of a system - how easy it is to learn, and how easy it is to use.
That's a very interesting approach. Never thought of it that way.
Debian is like that.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure
about which are supported.
I am using a HP-Colorado which is an IDE-device connected to the
parport (there are also internal ones).
It works great.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:20:18PM -0700, Bryan Carpenter wrote:
I would like a 10/100 10BaseT card that uses
an efficient architecture so it doesn't load
the processor unduly, and I also want it to have
good WinME and Win2K drivers.
I am satisfied with my Realtek 8139 cards. They are very
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:30:33PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
They are very cheap but reliable for me and according to several
benchmarks they are faster than much more expensive 3Coms.
Well, I've never seen NIC benchmarks, but I'm actually quite
interested (especially if
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote:
fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i
think my system shut off at 200.
1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all
the mail?
Are you looking for this one (from /etc/exim.conf):
# This sets the maximum
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Sean Rhea wrote:
I have a new Sony Vaio Z505LS, which I have gotten Debian installed on.
Everything works, except one thing: when I boot, the system loads the sound
card modules before the Ethernet card modules, and the sound card steals
the
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
why, when i have the following:
machine:/etc# ls -la shadow
-rw-r-1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow
and then i run passwd to change my pasword are the permissions changed as
such:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example
/home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it?
I think you need to change the MAIL_DIR or MAIL_FILE in /etc/logins.defs
Phil
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
KB = Kelvin Byte
IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost
anything else) means
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and
MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them?
Somewhere I have read that it is common to use Bits when talking about
data that has to be transmitted and
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:22:20PM -0600, Kay Nettle wrote:
One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he
wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but
he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true?
The german magazine c't
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:07:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This
machine
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte.
Phil
You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte.
Same for kB = kiloByte.
Please do not use silly shorts, like
mb = milibit, or
KB
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This
machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the
box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do
I tune the
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I
applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but
they're not as good as they were on Mandrake. I still get brief clicks in
my
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I
wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that
html files are viewed
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make
much difference.
You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode
$hdparm /dev/hda
Hi Phil
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:50PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
and often go without notifying root or the message log. You should not
be able to use -X68 without the patch, since the Viper was never meant
to do ATA66 in the first place, and Andre's ATA66 patch is a hack that
just /happens/
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2
CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the
new CD's? What would the steps be to do this?
Sure you can do a dist-upgrade with these CDs. You can add those CDs
to
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:16:12PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
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.
1. AFAIK there is no difference in upgrading
Hello,
I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I
wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that
html files are viewed with Mozilla by default.
But changing the MIME type for html to /home/phil/mozilla/mozilla %f
didn't work. If I try to open a html
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:44:17AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
Most of the time I'm the only user at this dial-up machine (progeny,
2.2.18). I suspect a relation with my habit of short dial-up intervals
and short PPP connections.
Try this:
1. empty your queue
2. connect
3. send exactly one
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote:
I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket
mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out for what kind of card the
module will work. Does anyone use this kernel-module ?
I know for sure that
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more
than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Does this happen only for local users or for everybody? There is just
one message from you in this list ;)
Do the
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:37:39AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
I'm getting spammed by people offering me degress and whatnot. Is this
proverbial kill file another filter listed at te end of my .procmailrc,
or something sourced from somewhere else? Any pointers in how to set one
up
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:25:44PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Arthur Denisov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am
addressed(paid) to you as
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:22:17PM +, uland wrote:
Hi,
I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the new format
such as:
m h dom mon dow user command
0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
Dec 14 12:00:00 omega
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0600, ktb wrote:
I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I
would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I
searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program
I'm looking for. I'm
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:46AM +, Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can
configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt?
The usual way to use mutt is to use it together with fetchmail. That
means you get your
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:34:04PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
1) Is possible to control what interfaces the services in inetd bind to?
I don't thik I understand what you want. Are you talking about a
server which has several interfaces and you want i.e. smtp to be
reached through eth0?
2)
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:59:17PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
2) is possible to specify either
a) what interfaces a particular user can log in through or
b) what ip addresses a particular user can log in from?
Sure. ssh and telnet (bad!) logins can be restricted through
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:49:56PM +, Max Lock wrote:
I've got a weird ssh problem. I'm running 2.2r0 and when I ssh as root
to another 2.2r0 system, I get as far as debug: Allocated local port 607
with the -v option, and it then hangs and timesout?
But the kicker is if I ssh as a
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote:
I started Debian 2.2 a few weeks ago. Recently I've been able to configure
my YAMAHA sound chip with the opl3sa2 driver, but I'm baffled by a problem:
I can drive the CD and gmix (Gnome mixer) only if I log in as root.
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Chris wrote:
I have just installed Debian 2.2 onto my Dell computer.
During the module installation portion I could not get it to recognize my
network card, which is on the motherboard (I believe that it is a
3Com Etherlink XL 3C905B-TX).
What does
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:31:00PM +0100, John Travis wrote:
I am not allowed to su to root and launch anything. I get a connection
refuesed by server error. I am sure this is probably a one word edit in a
config but I am just not sure _which_ config. Any hints? GDM doesn't have
this
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:12:32AM -, Robert Feri wrote:
Now I want to know, how to install my network card (3Com Etherlink III
10Mbit ISA). Under win98 I have 3c509b drivers.
It is very well described in the Ethernet-HOWTO. Basically you load
the module for your card, add the correct
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:48:16PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote:
Hey Guys,
Somehow I have a messed up system.map file.
Could someone tell me what this file is/does, and how I can fix mine?
The System.map is created during compiling your kernel. I guess you
recently compiled a kernel and did not
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:01:39PM +0200, Esko Lehtonen wrote:
I have a problem configuring my debian potato to use dhcp. I'm
connected to the Internet via cable modem. The network card is
configured to irq=10 and io=0x300. The module is smc-ultra. The card
should be ok.
When I start
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:03:45AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help
of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable
setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no
problems and a great increase in
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -, william Elling wrote:
Fatal server error:
no Config file found!
ive done the step by step instructions i have found with no luck at all So
if u can give me another way to do it without downloading all the files
again that would be greatly
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:56:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Philipp Schulte wrote:
But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner
from $evil_provider
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:01:31AM -0500, mikpolniak wrote:
Last week after i installed potato on a new system i ran
hdparm to test the new ibm ata66 drive and it showed reads of
32mb/sec. Since then the only changes i've made have been
apt-get installs which have increased my disk
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:09:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
I put in the exim .forward recommended in man pages notes and no go.
same for the other suggestions and the Tips help. Anyone have any ideas
on getting my mail from my /varspool/mail/user to /home/mail/inbox?
What about this
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:58PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
I'm currently waiting for my new box, which will have an Asus A7V
motherboard, Duron CPU, Maxtor DiamondMax HD, and Matrox videocard.
On my current system, I installed potato, after which I upgraded to
Woody. As I've
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
i have a 3com NIC (3CSOHO100-TX). i managed to find a driver here:
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x-2.3-changelog.txt
Fine, but why don't you use the driver in the kernel?
3c59x.c seems to support your card.
thing is, i
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:11:33PM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
What about procmail?
:0
*
/home/user/mail
I take that the above line is from your exim.conf? Are you absolutely wedded
to the idea of a .forward file? Procmail is a much more useful tool. Try
this:-
Shove
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:49:48AM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
What makes you sure about that? Did you try to load 3c59x? What
happened?
well, somebody told me ;-).
Do I need to comment this?
how do i try to load 3c59x? modconf? keep in mind i'm new at this (but i
do follow
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes:
One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned
recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine
the running OS (something
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:35:14PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
You can load modules by the command modprobe or insmod. The
man-pages should tell you more. A simple modprobe 3c59x should work
if the module has been compiled. Just try it.
modprobe 3c59x doesn't do anything - or not that i can
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:59:04PM +, Pollywog wrote:
If someone scans several ports, I usually do report it to their ISP,
sending them log excerpts that include the time they occurred and also my
time zone as reported by my computer. The ISP would probably warn the
customer and even
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:31:30PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote:
I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not
as root.
No, there is not and it would be dangerous if such a way would
exist. Imagine some user on your system could replace some libs...
But there is a way
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
Shouldn't this be [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken
seriously by $attackers_provider (and it can save you from a lot of
embarassment if you´d misjudge something).
In other
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:22:35PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
What do the logs report? Did you try the magic-sysrq?
which log should i look at? and what is magic-sysrq?
/var/log/syslog
less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:40PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
one more thing that may be of interest:
% modprobe -c
found this:
alias eth0 off
If your card is working you can place an alias for the modul, not
needed by now.
and also
# Options
options 3c59x 3c59x options=4
options
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from
$evil_provider?
Phil
Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS
Show me the ISP that is willing to take these steps because of a
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
/var/log/syslog
nothing in there that i can decipher - sorry.
What about posting the relevant parts?
less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
don't have the file - /usr/src exists, but is 100% empty.
Install the
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