/resolv.conf and removed
all but one of the addresses from the nameserver line.
This time, I've just typed in one DNS servername. I can add the
others to resolv.conf myself.
However, what's the correct action in the first place, and might
the dialog box tell one more explicitly?
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unlikely that you're going to have access to that file at this
stage in the proceedings. Is the information contained therein (a list of
insmod parameters accepted by each module) available anywhere that is more
easily browsed? (I was fortunate in that the HOWTO happens to use io=
and irq
nd then moving it
across to the depca one.
I noticed while doing this that the 2.0.27 kernel has PPA built in which
means that you can't (a) connect the zip drive to a running system and (b)
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beginners probably won't have wanted to search in dselect, but just
accepted its initial suggestion.)
Do you think this should be added to the kbd installation script?
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> was there ever an answer to this question? perhaps I missed it.
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> (Is there a shortage of diskspace on ftp.debian.org?)
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facturer specific?). There's a table of numeric codes and their
strings in /usr/doc/mgetty/fhng-codes but the programs already give you
the verbose error.
alt.fax and comp.dcom.fax are no help - I saw an unanswered request for
error codes when I looked. Where ought I to look?
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vel, which contains the most up-do-date
> working release of each package, for use by 'developers'.
This makes Debian even more of a moving target, a bad thing. I already
keep all the packages I install on two zip disks, so I can easily clone
another machine and know it should work (barring
t;Available space in ../../../../../dosc/Debian/1.2: 235632k
> > >Nothing to get.
> > >Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial)
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(I'm the person who
#x27;s not a very good PR exercise for Debian. This IS the first
thing in the distribution that you meet!
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So I think I need a Unix system to unpack/repack the broken archive :-(
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> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, David Wright wrote:
> > a) If you're compiling a kernel module, you need kernel headers.
> > When people write /usr/src/linux, they really mean "the kernel headers
> > for the running kernel"
onf
and rerun lilo. Then see if it boots correctly.
If you have problems understanding this, do post your existing
partioning scheme (/etc/fstab will do nicely) and your intended
one. If you're splitting or merging partitons, you have to do
certain things slightly differently, and I can hardly
a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem
> - ms-dns 10.10.10.1 lock proxyarp 10.10.10.1:10.10.10.5
> -
> - change 10.10.10.1 to the ip of the linux box and 10.10.10.5 to the ip
> - you want to assign the modem, and 10.10.10.1 to your DNS. Also be sure
> - to turn on ip forwarding if you want to access things beyond the linux
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[1879]: expect (ogin:)
Oct 7 23:00:49 home chat[1879]: ^M
Oct 7 23:01:28 home chat[1879]: ATDT65^M^M <---received
ppp expects that reflection to stop happening once you connect.
You might try posting the log (sanitised like the above).
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> > these devices. This goes for other device access as well.
> Odd I must have done something else wrong as it didn't work when I tried
> it the first time, but now it does. Thanks.
You only pick up your groups when you login.
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27;ve been engaged in a four-day conversation on another
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PARTITION TABLES AREN'T CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!
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hardware.
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pppd to put it back before
it quits.
How are you stopping pppd? The correct way (e.g. as used by poff) is
SIGTERM. Perhaps you are SIGKILLing it?
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t's what ln -sf creates).
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d there aren't any crontab entries that might cause this.
In my experience, this happens someone tries the rpc.statd buffer
overflow exploit. I'm surprised you don't see it in syslog and messages
(with the default syslogd.conf).
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Could you translate this into plain English, please? Specifically
ASN.1 or equivalent data format
tools from openssl
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dom on PPP.
But my point is that you can share the information in a text file (by
posting it, for example). What good is a file full of codes? Am I going
to bother to fish out a code book so I can help someone fix a problem?
I can also browse and search any disparate set of configuration files
with
not familiar
with the A/B/C switches in grep. An alternative way of scanning would
also be less with the -j command.
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> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
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> > Quoting Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
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> > > > pppd removes g+w from /
t be
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Bad Thing.
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security of your system as much as you like. Please don't
encourage others to do likewise. Please don't criticise people for
pointing out any security weaknesses in other's advice.
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mmand, to get and install the *.deb files in
> /var/cache/apt/archives?
What, do you mean the debs are on the machine already?
Then just dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb
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in. OTOH you could argue that
superfloppies have pushed their capacity to 120MB: that's a bigger
factor than 0.5 to 13.
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the phone even if I own shares in BT!
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(DOS/Mac) and (5) means that users
of aforesaid OSes recognise the disk as unbroken if they happen to insert
it into their machine.
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nit.d/mountnfs.sh will start it.
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t.d/gpm stop (and start) if you're repeating gpm through to X.
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two, you know
what all the system calls (in any language) are doing.
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ce, Documentation/devices.txt, where
all the device names and special numbers are listed that you might
need for the mknod command.
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Disclaim
to avoid the replacement problem.
If they already have a kernel package without it that they need to
use, they should "hold" it.
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problem with this (but it's been a few years; maybe
> I'm just badly mistaken . . .))
I've had no problem with this (as far back as buzz).
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a DOS
partition which you defragged).
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IOS has to be able to get at these files before linux gets a look-in.
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> looked.
As well as dmesg, have you checked /var/log/kern.log? I think you may
be asking a bit much for /var/log/syslog to contain these errors as
they occur before syslogd starts (entering runlevel 2). The kernel
messages get logged because the kernel maintains a
identical lines
(as the bottom of one page is the top of the next.
Now you can examine it at leisure or archive it.
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to cause zip to unzip.
Yes, you need unzip. Or you may prefer unzip-crypt instead.
Which may be why they're separate.
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and copy the files. (You could even have the
partition contain two directories, one for each OS, with symlinks
pointing to the correct one, I imagine, though I don't think it's
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nt the \
n is enough to print the n
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line in /proc/stat (first number is total).
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> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
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> > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the
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>
> Wow. How do I read that? O
he files (or defrag /dosc) after doing this, of course.
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lling the bay).
The allocation of cabling (primary and secondary) may be worth researching
as you have a recordable CD (I can't remember if it's best to keep the
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"Configure Base System" which only seems to affect /etc/timezone
and the clock line in /etc/default/rcS. What did you get wrong?
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left there)
is explained in the second paragraph of SECURITY in man pppd.
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<http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm>
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7;t remember whether and where
I saw that. Perhaps it can be configured to exceed the expected
uptime of an NT server. :)
I don't think inetd is an issue; that's just how the daemon starts
up, not whether it keeps running.
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The parallel port pinout is in the pc-hardware faq on usenet.
> I don't want to kill my serial ports :)
They're the robust ones. Take good care of your parallel port.
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> > > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to
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> > Apologies if I pick up
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But it's inherently unsafe. Look at /etc/login.defs on slink and,
to complete the exercise left for the reader, see
/etc/security/group.conf on potato.
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for this package:
`*': marked for installation or upgrade;
^^^
Hold (shown as '=') will prevent this.
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isfied if there's no ethernet active.
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Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) :
> > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing
> > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each packag
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> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
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> > > and that's what I did. The problem is that ide-cd only ignores hdb, but
> > > still recognizes hdc. This thing does not happen if I write, directl
the separator, i.e. try hdb,hdc hdb-hdc or even hdbhdc.
strstr() only looks for the first occurrence of a substring,
and has no concept of separators.
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know
the country's dialling code, or hasn't realised that these posts travel
to readers in other countries.
What the h/m and p mean, I have no idea.
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an find
Specifically:
TESTS
Numeric arguments can be specified as
+n for greater than n,
-n for less than n,
n for exactly n.
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/.inputrc contained
"\e[E":beginning-of-line
"\e[H":beginning-of-line
"\eOH":beginning-of-line
"\eOF":end-of-line
"\EOF":end-of-line <-- the offending line
"\e[F":end-of-line
"\e[e":end-of-line
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Also correct, but irrelevant.
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t myself since the 70s) that people
expect it.
> I can't see why some wants its terminal to
> freeze.
So that they can read what's written there, amazing as
that might seem!
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uldn't.)
However, it's very likely that, with multiple personalities having
separate email addresses, filtering is already being done anyway.
>I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature.
> This email was infected under the terms of the GN
ittingly with /
as the current working directory.
> Any idea why and/or fixes? TIA!
Perhaps you have some relative paths in /etc/lilo.config ?
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robe which
only exists under 2.2.
Perhaps you have a problem with your /proc filesystem (unless a bug
has been introduced into these scripts). There should be no need to
move/remove the scripts in /etc/init.d.
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> David Wright wrote:
> > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle
> > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You will see they do
> > this by testing for the presence of /proc/sys/kernel/mo
Quoting brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Jonathan Heaney wrote:
> > David Wright wrote:
> > > The scripts /etc/init.d/{kerneld,modutils} have to be able to handle
> > > both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels with kerneld or kmod. You wil
t it's something to do with other users on the machine.
I don't know why.
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> This disk uses Linux 2.2.17
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sional command line, press Ctrl-Alt-F1
through F6 and log in.
If you really want to get rid of the login screen, then just don't run a
display manager (xdm, kdm etc.). Use startx to start X instead.
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> you going. Basic use has one line for each user, but, as you'll
> read in the man pages, you can create sudoers groups.
Yes, but it's all unnecessary.
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gness
to clean up anachronisms to improve and clarify the system, rather than
trying to never change anything.
> Can I delete my "/etc/conf.modules.old" file without worry?
I would think so. If you're now using modules.conf, there's a one-level
backup produced by update-modu
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rom the second drive.
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refore you can give it parameters like root=/dev/hda1 single
which was not possible before. (Of course, with slink and previous,
one could copy the kernel onto a rescue disk to get the same effect.)
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Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote:
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> > Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the
> > > hardrive.
> > > &qu
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redhat style?
man mc, and look at the -P option and the script given there.
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true will have moved on into other forums...
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Someone told me scsi is "faster" than non-scsi, can I capitalize on this
> somehow?
It all depends. IDE has become very fast, but the latest variants
require good cabling to perform to spec. SCSI has always been a
bit of a pain with cabling and termination, but it's great for ad
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