On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, aphro wrote:
: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
:
: paul.k I accept that sendmail is not used for reading mail, but I'm fairly
sure
: paul.k my sendmail receives mail as well as sends it. From
/var/log/mail.log :
: paul.k
: paul.k Dec 22 01:25:45 funkiest
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
[ snip intersting HTTP proxy discussion ]
: Well, since all the web traffic is going through a single machine and not
: a high speed router you will see that machine saturate if their usage is
: too great - note it only effect HTTP on port 80.
So
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Fethi Okyar wrote:
[ snip ]
: BUT...
:
: when I save and exit , in my XF86Config file there is only one
: modeline
:Modeline 1024x768 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777
: 806 -hsync
: -vsync
: nothing in regard to 1280x1024...
:
: So, the question is,
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, koyote wrote:
:
: Scuse the newbie q:
:
:I've got some filesystems I'd like to move:
:
:/on/dev/hda2 -- /dev/hdb2
mke2fs /dev/hdb2
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt
find / -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
umount /mnt
: swap on /dev/hda1 -- /dev/hdb1
mkswap
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Graham Woodruff wrote:
[ snip ]
: Could I just ask if anyone out there has any 'post install cleanup' advice,
: particularly to remove some of the spurious pci warnings, I am not in front
: of the screen now, but the boot gave several warnings about 'ea-???' stuff,
:
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
: On 14/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: they should be. I did a clean install onto this disk. The old disk
: ran for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the
: network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive.
:
: you
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, ktb wrote:
: I've read through the Networking-HOWTO several times and much of it
: still baffles me. What I'm trying to do is connect two computers, using
: one as a print server for my windows only printer. One thing I'm
: confused about is the assignment of 127.0.0.0
Hi,
For some reason I decided I needed to compose a document with an `n'
with a tilde over it - reading through the kbd package docs it seems I
can do this using the compose key. So, what is the compose key?
Hints, angry suggestions to RTFM all appreciated :)
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On 8 Dec 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote:
: * Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is a
: href=http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/; GOGO /a,
: that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times
: faster than LAME
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
[ snip ]
: c) What is the preferred method of taking my 2.1r2 through an unstable
: upgrade? Specifically, how do I do it?
:
: edit /etc/apt/apt.sources and change all instances of `stable' with
`unstable'
:
: then run apt-get update ; apt-get
On 8 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
[ snip ]
: So, which way should I go:
:
: - save a few bucks and get a 2940U (which will be sufficient
: speed-wise)
Given this choice in your situation I'd get the 2940U
: I'm being a bit paranoid, because I can't use my current SCSI card
: with a
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Blackman wrote:
[ snip uninformed ranting ]
: I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to
: think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is
: superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start
: with Debian, if
On 2 Dec 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
[ snip ]
: Reportedly, *BSD's have the fastest TCI/IP stack in the industry. They
: are also pretty secure, out of the box. For example, while Linux
: mounts disk partitions asynchronously, my FreeBSD installation mounts
: syncronously by default.
...
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Enrico Zini wrote:
:
: Hello!
:
: I'm trying to install Debian slink on a double pentium 2 server with a
: Mylex DAC960 RAID controller with 3 IBM UW2 9Gb disks.
:
: After compiling a custom kernel for the boot floppy and making it boot and
: see the DAC960, I
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, julie wright wrote:
: Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink?
: Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not
: work. Returned error - command not found.
Try `superformat' instead. If that doesn't work
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote:
: Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: The jernel sources have the kernel headers. Debian used to have (and
: still has, I presume) a kernel-headers package for those who don't wish
: to download 16MB of source.
:
: OK Nathan. I altered the 'Makefile
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
:
: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
:
: Hi,
: I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but
: I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs.
: What can be wrong?
:
On 20 Nov 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
: Hi all:
:
: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care
: about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable
: to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux?
:
: I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Ribamar FS wrote:
: Hello!
:
: Menuconfig require ncurses!
More to the point, it requires libncurses4-dev
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finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key:
/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the
way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't
recall where ...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
: [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread]
:
:
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
:
: Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which
: makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package
: suggests gimp-nonfree, which
Has anyone got this on-board sound to work with alsa 2.2.x kernel?
I've got an IBM PC300PL but the soundchip is a common onboard one (so
I'm told) ...
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finger [EMAIL
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Noella Pierlet wrote:
: Hi,
:
: Maybe a stupid question, but how do I boot my debian-linux (slink)
: in single-user-mode?
From the lilo prompt: `linux single'
From a root prompt in runlevels 2 through 5: 'shutdown now'
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Has anyone managed to make a deb package out of the Xi Graphics X
server? We bought it cos it has multiheaded support, and before I beat
my head against the wall for too long I thought perhaps someone else had
luck with this software ...
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
[ snip ]
: In my GECOS field it has no quotes or backslashes; I still haven't figured
: out what is adding them (probably my MTA).
The MTA is adding quotes to protect the parentheses; the wuotes are then
escpaed by backslashes.
Lose the
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
: does anyone know what is broken? is it apt-get or is it the non-US
: site, it looks to me like the non-US site is in order...
non-us.debian.org was unreachable (at least from here) yesterday -
apparently there was a routing loop in the Netherlands.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote:
[ snip ]
: michf If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to
regular
: michf users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows
partition
: michf as the home directory for a user?
:
: you can, but i dont reccomend it.
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm
: stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network
: card is a Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0. Can anyone tell
: me which driver goes with
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
: 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
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: Just put Debian on a second PC and having problems telnetting in from work.
:
: Trying 10.0.0.2...
: Connected to 10.0.0.2.
: Escape character is '^]'.
: Connection closed by foreign host.
:
: Anyone know why I'm not getting a
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Davis wrote:
: Hmm.
:
: I think its because 10.x.x.x domains are not routable.
Sure they are. They're just not supposed to be routed across the
Internet.
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After upgrade to mrtg in potato, I get
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar during global destruction.
Seems to be working ... haven't had time to dig through the code and see
what the deal is. Anyone else running mrtg?
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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
: I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems
: to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd
: like to stay at a low-level without starting X automatically. I tried to
: edit the inittab(like in
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
: Thanks a lot.
:
: Hongyu
:
: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
:
: : I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems
: : to like starting with a very high run-level
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Onno wrote:
: The same problems here
:
: I use rsync for the moment now but -I think-
: that there is some timeout setting on ftp.debian.org
: that is set wrong
You should always mirror from a local mirror; ftp.debian.org is
plenty busy.
rsync is far superior
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
: Hi guys,
:
: You may remember I lost my second NIC when I upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.13.
: I asked for urls and set off to rtfm.
:
: Perhaps the problem is that I need to pass ether arguments via lilo along
: these lines:
:
: boot=/dev/hda1
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Cliff Rice wrote:
[ snip ]
: Thanks for the help. I went and looked at the potato dist. It has
: the raplayer and such as well. I need those as well. So. I'm
: downloading the dist at present and will install it where I used
: to have Redhat. (Being new, don't
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Daniel Lesage wrote:
: Hi all.
:
: I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while
: now. Here's what happens:
:
: Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only
: one) of
: my users is also unable to FTP there,
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, aphro wrote:
: curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and
: it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12
: currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the
: rtl8139.c file is there(it failed
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
:
: Hi,
:
:I had my router sending syslog messages to my NT workstation with a
: syslogd running there. I changed the router to send messages to my debian
: server and added the following line to the /etc/syslog.conf file:
:
: local7.*
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote:
: On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
:
: : how do i run a program every 10 minutes?
: : -gnana
:
: Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details.
:
: Since most people hate being told
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an
: CGI executed by apache?
:
: I want apache to be able to run the following...
:
: void main(void)
: {
: while (1) {
: fork()
: }
: }
:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote:
: Hello and nice afternoon.
:
: OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running
: but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-((
:
: If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter
:
: linux aha152x=0x340,11
:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating:
: sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy.
:
: All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run,
: a new error msg is generated.
:
: How can I
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote:
: Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1
: Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due
: to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :)
:
: Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable,
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
: how do i run a program every 10 minutes?
: -gnana
Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details.
Since most people hate being told to RTFM (why?), here's the easy way
out:
# edit a here document and make it the crontab
# probably wise to
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
: This is confusing the hell out of me:
:
: I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys.
: We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom.
: adduser bob floppy
: adduser bob cdrom
:
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
[ snip ]
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0:7
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 26251
eth0:11
: 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2233
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were
: supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken.
[ snip more of the same ]
: I don't want a long, indepth, very indirect discussion of how to manage
: a network or ethernet
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote:
[ snip [
: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US main contrib
: non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
Weird, eh?
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joe Block wrote:
: Hi.
:
: Where do I find the source deb files for packages in potato? I'd like to
install
: postfix on a slink system, but it wants me to upgrade glibc which I'd rather
not
: do. I'm sure that this is only because the postfix deb file was built on a
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
: *- On 4 Oct, Mirek Kwasniak wrote about Re: Getting source deb files
: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:59:43AM -0400, Joe Block wrote:
: Hi.
:
: Where do I find the source deb files for packages in potato? I'd like to
install
:
:
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:
: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
:
: you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the
package
: and prevent accidental upgrading.
:
: Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to
: remember to
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
: So who *knows* what I'm running now, and whether it corresponds to
: anything remotely resembling Official Debian 2.0. Somebody remind me
: again how .deb is the perfect packaging format, sublime in all the
: details of its creation, without flaw
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
:
: (1)
: Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of
: environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2).
:
: First of all :
:
: HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
:
: I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new
: 2.2.12
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
[ snip ]
: Nathan It's faster to use a UNIX domain socket when all traffic is
: Nathan local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why
: Nathan waste those milliseconds?
:
: Would you be willing to explain the technicalities
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
: Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to
: update some files from the unstable tree?
Depends on what bad means to you:
o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of
dependencies for you, so there should be no
Uh, sorry ...
Today someone posted an /etc/apt/sources.list file that was quite
complete. I printed it and deleted it. My printer is cursed. The
email isn't in the archives yet. Could someone repost it to me?
TIA :)
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote:
: Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially
since
: the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to
: run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the
harddrive
: itself is the
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
: Still not working for me.
:
:
: On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:58:53AM -, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 24-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 24-Sep-99 Marcin Kurc wrote:
: Since yesterday apt-get cannot connect to non-us.debian.org, however I
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote:
[ snip ]
: Its a slink system, running 2.210
Try a different kernel. We experienced problems with 2.2.10 on heavily
loaded servers.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
[ snip ]
: I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays
: on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on
: to the hard drive.
Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the drive, and/or at
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chrisopher D. Judd wrote:
: On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
:
: [ snip ]
:
: : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays
: : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on
: : to the hard drive.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Installing a 2.2.9 kernel in place of 2.0.36 kills my network card and
: connections, since the card is a token ring (Olicom). This card is ID'd as
: eth0 under the old kernel, but the 2.2.x kernels use tr0. So the problem
: doesn't surprise
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
: I don't think so
:
: On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 10:14:20PM -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote:
: Thats a chance, but i was thinking in adding the new one to the same mount
: point is that posible.??
You could use software RAID and combine your old
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
: justin jabbered,
:
: I also get no daemon present with this command but printing
: nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you
: start printing.
:
: There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Adrian Thompson wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which
: requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to
: put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws
: up because of
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
: Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
: cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.
: What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
: HEllo,
:
: can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and postinstall
: scripts when installing packages ?
/var/lib/dpkg/info iirc
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
: On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
:
: That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
: which executes scripts from within /var.
:
: It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
:
I'm attempting to build the UCD snmp lib for slink since I'm reluctant
to upgrade our prodution servers to potato (and libc 2.1). In the
potato pkg list libucdsnmp3.6 depends on libc6 =2.1; am I screwed? (I
admit to not investigating fully whether libucdsnmp3.6 needs libc 2.1
...)
When I
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:
[ snip ]
: If you want to install potato, make your /etc/apt/sources.list look like
this:
:
: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
: deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable non-US/main
:
: or use any of the debian
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, James D. Freels wrote:
: I would like to take advantage of the apparent better performance of
: NFS-server capability of the new kernel. I have built my kernel
: 2.2.12 with nfs-server capability. I cannot find any documentation on
: this capability (howto, etc.) The
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote:
: Richard said:
:
: That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy,
: which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And
: the floppy costs a lot less :)
:
: True, but incredibly slow, unless you
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
: From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
:
: : How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing
: : to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
: Hi
:
: Does anyone know where i can download the debian package ssh (secure shell)
:
: thanx
:
: Its not availible from debian or any other distro. You needto do a quick
: search on the net.it's somewhere in Finland :)
Absolutely
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote:
: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote:
: While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or
resc1440-safe.bin
: disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the
SCSI
: initialization. It gets this far:
: ...
:
Just got an invoice from ARIN ... it's in Excel 97 format. Does it
bother anyone else that an Internet Standards body uses a non-standard
file format in their email? It sure bothers me.
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
: How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing
: to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw
: out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain where else to
: look-- is this the doings of PAM?
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm setting up to upgrade my system to potato (while I sleep :) and know
: that there's not enough room in /var/cache/apt/archives/. I've got another
: partition to work with and could either symlink that dir to the new
: partition, or
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, rick wrote:
: I'm helping a friend set up Debian as a firewall/router for his
: LAN. Troubles with the partition table or BIOS or something.
:
: fdisk sez:
:
:/root# fdisk /dev/hda
:
:Command (m for help): p
:
:Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
: At 06:25 PM 8/26/99 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
: make (menu)config
: make-kpkg clean
: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
: dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.12_custom.1.0_arch.deb
:
: These four steps work fine for me (though I'm
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Brad wrote:
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
:
: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
:
: Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ?
:
: After comp. starts I see (at tty1) login promt at screen bottom and last
: output
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
: Dave McFadden said:
: I can sucessfully create hda4 out of the empty space, but trying to mount
it as /usr /etc /temp etc. only replaces my existing directory rather than
extend that space... entirely reasonable, but it's not what I need right
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
[ your line wrap doesn't ]
: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940
SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the
machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jinghua Liu wrote:
: I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the
: SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this.
:
: Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything
: about it?
They're all playing Unreal?
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Howdy,
:
: I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago
: but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know
: what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC
: running Linux. Unfortunately there aren't
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[ snip ]
: I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads
: with no messages (de4x5 gave me messages about requiring irq11), and I
: still get this message from the netwrok start.
:
: Ok, well if that's helping you not
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
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: hawkins:~# cat /etc/init.d/network
: #! /bin/sh
: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
: route add -net 127.0.0.0
: IPADDR=134.161.248.148
: NETMASK=255.255.255.0
Try NETMASK=255.255.0.0
: NETWORK=134.161.248.0
: BROADCAST=134.161.248.255
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
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: No, I labeled them Debian 1.0 when I created them. I might have
: mislabeled
: them, though.
:
: If they are really Debian 1.0, I would really suggest getting a newer
: Debian! The first Debian I saw was 1.3, so I don't even know
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: Hi there,
:
: I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the
: machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run
: e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do
: the
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
: Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root
: read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition?
:
: The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have
entered
: single mode BEFORE trying
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Taylor wrote:
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: Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux
: installations I've ever used. Among the problems are
: the fact that no matter what you tell it during
: installation about your intended configuration, it
: sets everything up not
Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :)
I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the health of the
next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials
a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke
pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote:
: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl)
:
: Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using
: cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually
: works pretty
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I've got a mountain of Prac V.34
modems and I need an AT command reference (cable modems have spoiled me
:)
Anyone have an on-line favorite?
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
: On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote:
:
: The 2.2 kernels no longer need the route add -net statements. They set
: this up automagically... (:
:
: this works for all routes or just for 127.0.0.0?
:
: I'm process of upgrading
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
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: Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large communicator file. Any
: chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max
:
:
:
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I have setup sshd on my Debina system, genrated keys for root and user1
: with ssh-keygen and put the public key in the file .ssh/authorized_keys.
: I have moved the private keys to my Mac where I run a ssh client
:
On 31 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: It turns out that ProFTPd would not log me in because my login shell was
: not listed in /etc/shells . It didn't do anything to _tell_ me that. I'd
: suggest it prompt for the login and password and then dump you with a message
: as soon as you
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