What packages are you referring to that are outdated? XF86 is, so compile
your own(i have been for ages), kde,gnome ..so compile yer own..again ive
done this too..makes my slink system quite happy.
ive already decided im NOT going to upgrade any debian systems from slink
to potato that are not
can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl
? :)
saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho
i have virtually no programming experience, although i have managed to
hack some perl scripts up at times.
thanks!
nate
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
bart try www.winimage.com it can open isos
bart Too bad it crashes a minute after I get it to start doing something.
bart It looks like I'll just need to burn Corel on a CD, although I wish
bart there would be some way for me to open ISOs in case I might
i never got DNS to masq right under 2.2 my solution was to run a DNS on
the box doing the masq and point the clients to it
nate
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fairfa I have ipchains working, but my workstations cannot get out to the
internet because of a DNS problem. (When I
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jon Hughes wrote:
jonrhu ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d (No
jonrhu such file or directory), skipping
jonrhu ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a
jonrhu symlink
jonrhu is this serious, or something i shouldn't bother with?
don't worry
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Rick Knebel wrote:
rknebe Hi,
rknebe I am trying out debian for the first time and have a couple of
questions.
rknebe In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at
bootime.
rknebe Where in debian can I put these.
i put them in /etc/init.d/network
rknebe
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
mailmi The web page says Corel LINUX OS - based on Debian 2.2 Kernel. Huh?
mailmi http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm
ouch, i can see where that would throw debian users off..non linux people
would automatically assume 2.2 kernel i bet
you need the new kernel, 2.2.13 to run linux on athlon
may have to make your own bootdisk to do it..dunno
nate
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, luis wrote:
luis hello everybody:
luis
luis i am installing debian in a new box (athlon 550 MHz, 13.6 gb hd, 128
luis mb ram), but when i give enter to the
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
baptis Hi all,
baptis I'm having a hard time to configure mgetty on a 56 Kbs modem
that can
baptis only connect at 38.400 bps.
you may not know that you cannot connect to a 56k modem on an analog
line. it must be a
i dont know how to explain it fully it its a mode where the network card
tries to listen to everything it can.. network analysis tools turn this on
when they are running, turning this on may not have much effect if your on
switched ethernet(if any)
some network admins get mad if they see a
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
mario How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh?
mario I read the man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a
mario secure conection via ssh.
mario How do I implement the server?
didnt know this was possible till i got my
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Marcin Inkielman wrote:
marn even for more than 500 process in total for all users?
2.2 can do 1024 processes..ive never gotten near that high (my highest
limit has been about 320 processes and that was with runaway processes)
from the looks of the code you posted
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jeff Sciortino wrote:
jjs281 the mouse and the modem. The jumper setting on the sportster are for
jjs281 com2, IRQ3. The BIOS setting for serial A is com1, IRQ4.
what about the i/o ports? there still could be an i/o port conflict
on my box:
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port:
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Sven Esbjerg wrote:
joker Well all the GNU/Linux stuff will have to be GPL and it is. The rest is
under
joker a Mozilla-like license that Corel made up. It's pretty much free. I think
joker Debian developers should take a look at it, notice the good parts and
try to
joker
On 19 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
bam ext2? removable?
ext2 non removable
bam Why do you want the sosuid and nodev options?
i saw a tip on linux.com about running users in chroot'd home, and to
prevent devices from being made so they can access tehm i mounted the
filesystem (/users in this
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
bart a different installer and KDE. Can anyone tell me what those
bart things that were taken out might be? And if a new version of
from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink. i bet
it had less then 150 packages(that were
On 19 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote:
miles I'm currently using 2.2.13, but I had the same problems with 2.2.10.
miles I don't *have* any firewall rules, that I'm aware of -- at least, I
miles didn't set anything up; however, I'll read the documentation for
miles `ipmasq' and see if that tells me
Thanks to those who helped me with getting started with a vpn. i ended up
going with vpnd 1.0.0 (compiled from source) on slink with a 2.2.10 kernel
..it was quite a headache trying to sort out 6 different ips and 8
different routes but a friend and i finally got it fully functional
today(thankss
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
bart from what i saw in beta 2 it was a VERY stripped version of slink.
bart Well apparently Corel made some major changes in the final because
bart according to this page:
bart http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/inside.htm
something i found
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
russel Is there a Debianised program to capture the contents of a window to a
BMP or
russel jpg file? If so what package should I install?
xview can do this
nate
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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
bart Any idea if there might be a program for Windows for me to
bart be able to open up the ISO without needing to burn it to a CD?
bart I'm just about ready to give up on my problems with getting
bart Debian to work and Corel sounds like the next best
On 17 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote:
john The information is correct at boot, however, the serial ports can be
john rearranged in the init scripts.
i read somewhere that the kernel just assumes what is what, i know for a
fact that the kernel incorrectly identifies my modem which i hardcode to
IRQ9
On 18 Nov 1999, Miles Bader wrote:
miles Hi, I have a problem which is driving me crazy: If I use a 2.2.x kernel
miles (as opposed to 2.0.36), I can't make any network connections (over my
miles ppp link) that require tcp. In other works, non-tcp net stuff, like
miles ping or dns lookup, work
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
alex Hi all
alex when I try ldd xwp it shows among rest lines:
alex libXpm.so.4 = not found
wp6 needs libc5 ver of libXpm .. the libc6 ver wont do. install the libc5
packages xpm4.7 and libc5 and it should work
nate
Cobalt is moving away from MIPS and to a K6-2 350 i believe? so it should
be just like any other PC just a small physical size.
nate
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, virtanen wrote:
hvirta
hvirta Hi,
hvirta
hvirta is out there anybody, who has got experience on using Cobalt Qube 2?
hvirta (Internet
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:
j.l.go Hi!
j.l.go I finally managed to get access to a CDR writer connected to the
j.l.go Internet. I read the FAQ, but I think it is rather meagre in the
information
j.l.go it provides. I'd like to know what is the latest version of debian
do these files need to be setuid ? i have my homedirectories on a new
server mounted on a filesystem with nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota and it
doesnt appear to like teh quotas..it spits out an error when trying to set
the quotas.
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL
I have a slight issue. I think it can be done, but am not 100% sure,
since im 2000 miles away from the machines if the slightest thing goes
wrong the nearest g uy is about an hour drive ..so i need to ask before i
do :)
In the comming weeks(hopefully this week) we have to change
over to a new
stable and fast connection)
AT +MS=12,1,4,56000 E0 V1 D2 C1 W1 S0=0 S95=47 S202=32
(S202 is an undocumented feature)
as for the AT commands, i got a PDF file here you can download and
read.. http://www.firetrail.com/~aphro/atmodem.pdf it explains everything
rpretty much. the admin at my
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote:
andrew Get:1 ftp://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages
andrew 45625% [1 stable/main 7300] 713B/s 69d
andrew 16h28m3s
andrew
andrew How do I fix this or should I just ignore it?
try another mirror? try to download the
I just installed 2 new machines today, and yesterday via apt. When
prompted for the 'profile' setup, i told it yes, and checked everything in
the profiles cept for Chinese support i believe.
in both instances when i went to [I]nstall it said samba depended on
samba-common and i had to go
During the process of closing non important ports on my new server i
noticed it has port 1025(UDP) and the service is Blackjack according to
nmap. Anyone know what this is? i dont see anything in the dpkg list for
blackjack and its not on my machine at home, and its not on my main
server.
tia
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
bam Still, I thought PPP was meant to be able to handle errors internally?
bam I think the statistics above mention the number of packet errors
bam that need to be fixed by TCP retransmitting it, but please correct
bam me if I am wrong.
those are packet
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lists Then you likely know enough to avoid buying a winmodem. Some people
lists don't even realize there is a difference, and instead of letting them
lists risk wasting time and money trying to get a winmodem working i point
lists them to that
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Jeff Sciortino wrote:
jjs281 Nov 12 16:00:17 debian kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
jjs281 options enabled
jjs281 Nov 12 16:00:17 debian kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
jjs281 Nov 12 16:00:17 debian kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
gnana into 2.3.x kernels. I have a HP USB scanner which I would like to use
gnana with 2.3.x
gnana kernel, if you all suggest.
don't get your hopes up.. last i heard USB support didnt support much more
then mice and keyboards. a scanner is a very
kickass, glad it works now :)
nate
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote:
boonst Hi Everybody
boonst
boonst First off, a very big thank you to nate, Brian, and Bryan for
all
boonst your help. Just 3 more pillars of the Debian community.
boonst
boonst
boonst The Problem
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Noella Pierlet wrote:
Noella Hi,
Noella
Noella Maybe a stupid question, but how do I boot my debian-linux (slink)
Noella in single-user-mode?
I think you can type single and the LILOprompt and it will do it. i used
to use a boot disk, but have since remapped CTRL+ALT+DEL
It's been really hard for me to get whats needed in terms of liceses(if
any) for encryption.
What i'd like to know, if anyone can enlighten me is whats teh deal with
using encryption in a commercial enviornment? I downgraded my SSH 2
servers to SSH1 a while back when i heard that the license
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, cain wrote:
cain I know that my hardware is capable of 16bpp and 1024x768, because i've
had it running at that with TurboLinux 4.0. When using TurboLinux' x
configuration tool, my chipset (SiS 5598) was listed, however using xf86config
under Debian it wasn't, so I had to
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel Mashao wrote:
daniel I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could
not
daniel find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used
to
daniel mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard.
i install it on every slink
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Marcin Inkielman wrote:
marn does anybody know how may I force linux to run more than ~300-500
marn processes
i thought ~100 was a lot :)
marn fork fails in ~300 iteration
check ulimits (ulimit -a). what kernel are you running?
marn i would like it fails in for example
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Glen S Mehn wrote:
glen At first I realised that I had set it to point to /dev/ttyS0, changed it
glen to /dev/psaux, but X still crashes right when it loads.
is psaux support compiled into the kernel? hit dmesg | more on my machine
(i use /dev/psaux too) i get this during
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
servis Wouldn't it be better to use the pine*-src and pine*-diff Debian
servis packages? I believe that these create the necessary patches to fit it in
servis a Debian system and then builds a local pine*.deb. I haven't done this,
servis but this is what
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote:
lewisc Anyone know what kind of effect corel is having on debian? Is their
distro
lewisc debian or not? What are the major differences? Corel apparently touts a
3
lewisc step, user friendly installation. Does this mean that debian itself will
lewisc
For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of
being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a
stable(appears) program available.
XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14)
http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html
i just recorded my first .avi clip with full sound and
This is what you should see..something along these lines:
XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: August 23 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
than the above date, look for a
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote:
pollyw Don't you mean /etc/host.conf?
doh..i guess i do :) on irix its stored in /etc/resolv.conf ..didnt know
debian stored it in host.conf .. is host.conf a standard thing ? i seem to
remember(incorrectly maybe) that my slackware 3.2/3.4 also stored it in
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, tf wrote:
hmf Hey guys,
hmf
hmf can someone please send me a copy of his or her wine.conf? my wine is
hmf pretty mangled, and I'd like to try to track down the problem.
sure see below
hmf
hmf I just want to run one program (and I believe people have done so with
hmf
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote:
litban I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin?
uhoh!!
litban -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root20720 Dec 24 1998 [
dont know what that is ..but i have it too, i cant get dpkg to identify it
..
litban -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
Bryan. I would like to setup IPChains on my machine. I can't seem to find
Bryan. any file under /etc/init.d/ for ipchains (networking only handles
Bryan. spoof protection). Where do you folks start your ipchains or ipfwadm
Bryan. rules?
on my home box
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, tf wrote:
hmf Hey guys,
hmf
hmf trying to run an app under wine, I get a load of errors. Have any idea
hmf what I can do about this? I get a few screens full of lines similiar
hmf to:
hmf
hmf err:ole:GetLocaleInfo32A 'SMONTHNAME9' not supported for your language.
hmf
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
bam Anyone got any suggestions how to fix this problem? I have tcpdumped my
bam side of the connection, and the problem seems to be my computer waiting
bam ages for remote data.
bam
bam This problem is driving me up the wall - as I have 14.4kbps, I feel
bam
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
alex But suddenly it stop works. When I try to start messenger it shows error
alex window
alex saing that memory is low and hangs. (The hole communicator with browser
and
alex etc)
when that happens are you out of swap? addd more swap .. should have
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
jybarb Sorry to disturb you again Nate,
no prob :)
jybarb I'm under slink, kernel 2.2.13, donwloaded xawtv-3.0.1, bttv-0.7.3
jybarb and lm-sensor-2.4.3, as the html page said.
jybarb I successfully made and aplyied the lm-sensorpatch to the kernel
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
schark
schark Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has
schark named their Linux
schark systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've
schark shortened it to Debby.
schark
schark The linux box in my office is named 'Penguin', there
schark
keys are here
(**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting.
(**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting.
(**) GLINT: Cannot support interlaced modes, deleting.
so, 3 modeliens that you have defined are invalid. which 3 is another
thing. im not sure if the modelines listed
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brad wrote:
lists Make sure to check the Linux Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base before
you
lists buy, so you don't end up with a modem that won't work with Linux.
lists http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
i have yet to find a standard modem that does not work with
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote:
boonst So I reckon these are the 3 lines being thrown away. I do
wonder,
boonst though, if I have a bitdepth problem. I reckoned the server would
default to
boonst depth 24 since that is the first Display listed, but if it is
defaulting
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote:
debian I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free
debian software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is
debian going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not
debian distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave
debian the gimp package
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Onno wrote:
ebbin2 Wouldn't: named -u named -g named
ebbin2 be sufficient ???
thats what i do, named -u named -g named -t /var/named
Although i eagerly await a BIND update, i was much more fearful of
exploits to my proftp daemon when the new security flaws were
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote:
jpb In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license
jpb the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who
jpb are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the
jpb s-vision folks into releasing a
What is the full output of X when you start it ? use startx X.log and
print the X.log to the list ..What version of X ?
nate
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Firetrail Internet Services
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, pplaw wrote:
pplaw debs,
pplaw
pplaw how do tell twm not to be my window manager when i type startx?
edit ~/.xinitrc and change it, or if that file does not exist add a line:
exec /path/to/your/favorite/wm
or edit /etc/X11/window-managers and comment some out, change the
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
homega 2) if you need to load something else (i.e. isapnp) before the driver
homega loads
homega
homega should PPP be compiled as a loadable module then?
nah, PPP is a network(software) thing not a hardware thing.
homega well, I recently made some
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote:
boonst X starts automatically for me on boot -- I end up in kdm (used
to be
boonst xdm). How do I get the logfile you mention?
kill kdm/xdm, and load X from console. kill -9 will get rid of kdm/xdm
then CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACe to kill the X
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
servis xdm automatically creates a log /var/log/xdm.log. I would assume kdm
servis does something similar. If you really want to stop xdm/kdm us the
servis init.d scripts to do it properly, i.e. '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'.
i see no such log(s) either kdm
On 15 Nov 1999, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
itz Hmm, doesn't that defeat the purpose of running named in the first
itz place? I'd add a new zone file and reference it from /etc/named.conf.
i run named mainly on my dialup for ipmasq. for some reason DNS does not
get masq'd for me under kernel 2.2 ..it
thanks for the massive response i got from my find -exec question i ended
up going with martin's suggestion of find . -type t | xargs chmod ug+wx
..it executed a full 2 minutes quicker then using find -exec.
thanks again!! woohoo.
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote:
amwalk Hello,
greetings.
amwalk to send it a SIGHUP, but I don't know the exact command. Could someone
amwalk please help me out?
kill -HUP pid or you can try killall -HUP inetd
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Aaron Walker wrote:
amwalk Any ideas why this is not working?
amwalk
to test, hit
mv /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.deny-DISABLED
and try to telnet/ftp in ..it should let u in, by default i think debian
sets ALL : PARANOID in hosts.deny so it wont let u in unless u have an
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Daniel Roesen wrote:
droese The published NXT exploit breaks chroot for at least Linux/Intel,
droese Solaris/SPARC, FreeBSD 3.2 and OpenBSD 2.5.
from what i saw from the post on bugtraq it still wont do much if the
server is not being run as root ? mine is run as user/group
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
homega would this imply the performance would be any different than if compiled
homega it in the kernel? Or, ppp, or other services which can be used oftenly.
the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is:
1) if you think you may need
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Sean McIlwain wrote:
mcilwa
mcilwa How do make a symbolic link to a device, say if I want to make a
mcilwa symbolic link between /dev/stylewriter and /dev/ttyS1, how would I do
it?
same way.. ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/stylewriter
nate
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme so I don't think the modeline you mention was being used at all. I think
ssahme that the modeline that was being used at all times under Debian was:
ssahme
ssahme # 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync
ssahme Modeline 1280x1024 1101280 1328 1512
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Serge Gavrilov wrote:
serge Hello!
serge
serge Does anybody use pcsnd driver (for pcspeaker) with 2.2 kernel?
GOD NO!! i hate that thing its more annoying then the speakers on
macs. first thing i do when i get a new PC is take that out unplug it and
if possible throw it
What i wanna do ..is 2 things
find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644
find all directories in a directory tree and chmod them 775
and i'm trying to do it with the find -exec command. For the directory
part i did get this working:
chmod 7755 `find . -type d`
but for the file part
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
djkant And is the potential error with the system.map easily fixable if I were
to
djkant use the tar.gz file? (Just look for where the symlink points to the new
djkant system.map, right?)
i've enver had a problem upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1/2.2 in terms
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
claw
claw Does anybody have a copy of the original netscape 4.05 tarball?
ftp3.netscape.com
/pub/communicator/4.05
nate
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marco Giardini wrote:
marco nobody has compiled and released the new named for slink bug free?
marco If yes, where is it available?
marco thanks
setup a chroot'd enviornment for bind (named -t i believe) and you won't
have to worry too much about the NXT bug .. i also run
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme I am just wondering if this happened because of me misconfiguring
ssahme XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. The ADI's hsync is
ssahme 30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the XF86config program, I
ssahme selected the monitor
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme
ssahme [oops! I forgot to attach the XF86Config file in question.]
from your config ..
# 1280x1024 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 51 kHz hsync
Modeline 1280x1024 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165
Interlaced
appears to be the only modeline
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Damon Muller wrote:
dm-deb Has *anyone* managed to get IP aliasing working on Slink? Surely someone
dm-deb has.
i have, no problem on both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, make sure the route is
added for the aliased ips. I got about 50 aliased ips on this machine for
web hosting.
On 12 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jorge. hi
jorge.
jorge. I need your help, because I can`t copy the game KINGPIN LIFE OF CRIME,
it says
jorge. that i need a cd longer than 74 minutes, and I don`t have this cd`s
here???
there are many companies that sell 80minute cds. www.americal.com
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brian Schramm wrote:
bschra I have a small network at home that I am running named on. I am also
bschra using yi.org's free dynamic dns for my internet name. I have had some
bschra trouble with my two machines on the prifate network. If I type
nslookup I
bschra get the
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
rabe Hi there,
hello!
rabe Should I create a user ftp, or what else should I do to make things as
safe
rabe as possible?
rabe
1) don't use proftpd. 2) use the stock ftpd taht comes with debian. if
you must use proftpd(again, strong urges NOT to
under
debian Potato, what has replaced it?
wpp-22:/home/aphro# dpkg -S hwclock
sysvinit: /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/hwclock.sh
util-linux: /sbin/hwclock
util-linux: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz
util-linux: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
looks to me like it is part of the package util-linux, this is from
a few weeks back i asked the list if they could produce a couple
compadible modelines for me in XF86 so i could use real low res for full
screen MPEGs. most of the response of what i got was that the information
i had was not right, or something ..anything but XF86's fault.
ANYWAYS. i got this
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
jmarke OK, you got my attention. What's R3? Is there a revision? As in,
hopes of
jmarke getting a Slink that's more up-to-date than some others??
2.1r3 is the latest slink and it is a revision.
nate
On 11 Nov 1999, Eberhard Burr wrote:
Eberha
Eberha If you have more than 16MB of main memory, you cannot use modules as
Eberha driver for ISA sound cards. Try compiling it into the kernel and say
Eberha yes to persistent DMA buffers in the config.
you can still compile persistant DMA buffers
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
rabe Can you point me to some website where I can find a howto document that
rabe describes how to set things up on the server?
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html
check that out ..wish i had it when i was settin up a PPP server!
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Randy M.Kaplan wrote:
rkapla Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato?
slink = debian v2.1
potato = debian 2.2
is that what u wanted ??
nate
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On 11 Nov 1999, Ron Farrer wrote:
rbf I have a file that was tar'ed and bzip2'ed. It is about 200MB in size.
rbf When I when to uncompress it with unbzip2 it claims it is damaged. I
rbf played with the recovery program but I don't seem to get anywhere. It
rbf appears only the first part of the
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Chris Mayes wrote:
cmayes So, do you all think these will take Debian? I still need to get a
NIC, a
cmayes monitor and my Debian CD from home before I can even try to do anything
with
cmayes 'em anyway, so there's no big rush.
There is nothing different between a
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
alemas Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
alemas I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf but did
alemas not find any icmp port.
I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though, the
'ping' command uses ICMP type 8.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
alisda Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation
alisda
alisda Oh, right.
8GB barrier is a not a limitation in at least 2.0.36 ..doubt it is in
earlier ones too, i believe it is a LILO issue, it is not detecting the
parameters of the drive correctly. Upgrade
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David J. Kanter wrote:
djkant I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem.
I'm
djkant not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get
to get
djkant a relatively solid Potato build?
Wait till its final, and get a CD ;)
nate
easiest way is to copy the data over, delete the partition and re make
it. or you can grab powerquest partition magic 4 or above.
nate
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
alisda I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
alisda and it only recognised about 8GB
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BC895 I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are NOT CD-Rs.
BC895 CheapBytes seems popular, but they sell R2...where can i get R3 while
not
BC895 being ripped off?
cheapbytes sent me a curropted CD(I ordered a pack that had a book
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
gnana how do i mount a mac format floppy?
what format/filesystem is it ? FAT ? HFS ?
nate
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