On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:
1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as
I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address
e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I get a message saying there was a
host lookup failure. This is not a ppp specific
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:
Hi
I need a utility that will automatically dectect my modem.
How can I do it manually. I am totally at a loss about what to do.
take a look at the wvdial package. included is 'wvdialconf' which does a
pretty good job of probing serial devices and does
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
Hi!
$ ps ax | grep S1
11680 S1 S0:00 /sbin/getty -L -f /etc/issue.ttyS1 ttyS1 9600 vt100
$ finger
castor25 Jose Castor pbOct 1 17:40 (minxo.upc.es)
ceo Cercle d'Estudis Orien S1 2 Oct 1 13:57
david25 David Moya Rubio
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
The simplest approach: Get the encrypted password from
/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. (If you use shadow you shan't be
able to read it without being root - a good thing).
Then you just start generating all combinations of legal
passwords, crypt'ing them and
On 30 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
*-Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I read some email in the Debian list a few minutes ago that said you can
| switch to a text mode virtual console from X by using Control-Alt-Fn and
| thought cool, I always wondered if there was a way to do that... I
|
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore.
In redhat, my ppp connection is normally around 3K/sec.
But in
On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$
applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world?
I was pretty sure that the new libc6
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Hello,
Dont be so innocent ;-), of course i have not put my password as ``password''
, it was just
an example...
as far as an intruder is concerned, any dictionary word or close
companion is as easy to guess as password. Any dictionary word
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Hi,
Im wondering why is linux, after 10 min, turning my monitor black. I
have only i
nstall the base of the system. Is this couse by a software ? Which one ?
Does this something to do woth enegry star?
this can be configured with the 'setterm'
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Hi,
When telneting to my computer, i get this `boaried' message:
computron login: user
password: x
How can i change it to for example
`Welcome to the computron universe. Please enter your name so i can know
whoy yo
u are: username
Are you
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
Quoting Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
the permissions on /dev/dsp may not be right. try
[snip]
should be
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 18 19:11 /dev/dsp
Umm, no, they should be 660 root.audio. On a single user
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote:
I have attached some of some related files. Also, this computer is on
a LAN (in case that makes any difference).
as a non modem related issue, since the linux host is already on a LAN it
quite possibly has a default route established. it could be that
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
Hallo,
I do not understand how wwwofle works. When online I try to go to a
specific site on the web (using lynx), I get the message wwwofle will
get. That is nice for reading ofline, but how do I go the site directly?
It appears you have your
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
I've been trying to compile pine 4.05 (with the sl5 option, for shadowed
pw) and it barfs on undefined references to crypt and can't find
ltermcap...any ideas? P.S. What is it about the license that doesn't allow
Debian to make a package out of it? They have
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote:
from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have
installed)
[snip]
But this explains it:
Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey
the right to redistribute derivative
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote:
Hi,
I have to add some database support so I get the source tar ball from
apache and re-compile it. With some minor problems, I got it worked. I
found the that the size of the binary file was much larger that the
original one in the distribution. I suspect
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote:
Horacio writes:
This maybe a stupid question, but i want to change my password. When
putting `passwd' linux askme for the new password. I put it in, and
linux said it is too simple what can i do for linux dont say me
that? Currently i have
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Saisanthosh B wrote:
I am trying to setup my home LAN with a Win98 machine and a Linux machine
with ethernet. I have successfully setup the ethernet NIC but I am not
sure what to do next. I want to be able to copy files from the Win98
machine to the Linux hard drive
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Familien Bolding wrote:
I have problems mounting my CD.
Here is a snip of the boot process:
[... snip ...]
When I the try: mount /cdrom with proper settings in /etc/fstab after a
while I get
[... snip ...]
And after 10-15 minutes the mount process core-dumps.
Karsten
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
Then I got a little clever, and installed a second 1 gig hard drive (now
the machine has two 1 gigs). I soldered some wires and DPDT switch to the
SCSI ID lines on both drives, and in the up position, the original drive
becomes SCSI 0, and the new
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, David Karlin wrote:
Hello,
I have done a hamm diskette installation and now a have a base (but
incomplete) system. My hamm box is built from recycled parts (collected for
free), and the modem is slow. I'd like to complete the installation via ftp
using a proxy-server so I
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Collin Rose wrote:
I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine
to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this?
I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98
system.
can you give a brief description
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
There seems to be a general consensus that if you have a dual NT/Linux
machine you have to use the NT loader. However, I have a 95/NT/Linux
machine and haven't had any problems booting any of them from lilo. Was I
just lucky or what?
In case this matters, the
I
certainly wish
to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to
completely
seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss
the Fat16
format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2.
Unless my memory fails me, I've formatted a zip disk in
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Marco Frattola wrote:
Hi Marco
On my system, I have a 2840 which I understand to be close to the same
firmware as 2940. The lowest scsi id is the boot drive.
my disks have the following ids:
disk on 2940UW - id 0
disk on 2940AU - id 0
- id 1
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote:
Hi,
I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used
Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you
booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos,
or whatever to boot the desired
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote:
Why dont you just edit /etc/motd?
Selim
Sean Johnson wrote:
This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
software not being responsible for your machine
On 18 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a problem when I installed debian-linux according to the installation
guide.
Hardware: 32 RAM/2 GB disk/IBM compatable 586
1. Installation with disk
I copied files:resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base2_0.tgz,linux,install.bat and
loadin.exe into
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, EGRET Lures wrote:
Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the
Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb)
With the bios set to boot from D all that appears is LI and the
systems hangs.
from the lilo documentation (actually taken from
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Even better, we could bring our list technology into the '80s and do a
multipart/alternative message format with an HTML alternative which provided a
sophisticated mailto: tag and include the subject, body, and the whole thing
in the
link.
Please
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Shaleh wrote:
3) click the communicator menu and chose mailbox
Thanks for your prompt replies, Shaleh. Unfortunately, I don't seem
to have any icons at all in the lower right hand corner nor any
communicator menu. I guess I chose the wrong package to
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
Hi!
I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail.
Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me:
[Sending mail | 100% |]
But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes
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