Q: SVGA X Server Fails w/16bpp

1997-11-27 Thread Dean C. Sullinger
I just installed debian on my home PC. I mirrored almost everything from debian on my Laptop. I couldn't mirror the X Server Config because of diff graphic cards. The SVGA X Server works for 8bpp, but fails for 16bpp. My cirrus logic card will support 16bpp colors. Here's the scoop. The PC is

Re: Pentium II supported?

1997-11-27 Thread Behan Webster
Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > This may be a dumb question, but here goes: > > Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build > procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro > machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to > put

Linux filesystem from DOS?

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\) writes: > Hi Team- > > I was wondering if anyone has a method of writing Linux / Un*x filenames > from DOS apps. You know- where we have more than 1 "period" in the > filename like x.yyy.zz? I have to move some files back & forth, but > DOS changes the nam

Pentium II supported?

1997-11-27 Thread Richard L Shepherd
This may be a dumb question, but here goes: Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to putting the options in yet, or is there a bi

Re: Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Luis Francisco Gonzalez writes: > What's the lilo.conf? Which is the root partition? > > The way I see it, you should have something like: > My lilo.conf file looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdc1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmli

Re: mtools

1997-11-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > You can pipe the file through "tr -d '\r'". Ignore the other message > > about mcopy. This is restrictive since it *assumes* that the file > > is on a floppy disk (or other FAT volume). > > A much bigger problem of mtools is that when copying *to* an MS-DOS > file system, it writes long f

Re: FileSystem Sizes

1997-11-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on > filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable > filesystem size was 2GB. > > Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size? It changed a long time ago. I used a 9 Gb partition w

Mustek Paragon 1200SP scanner

1997-11-27 Thread Mike Neuhaus
I search a driver (and additional software) for the Scanner Mustek Paragon 1200SP with use of the shipped SCSI-card. Where i find it? Mike Neuhaus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Help: Install packages

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Huygen
H.He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [a specific] CD put "*.deb" at /bo/binary-a. >It seems hard for "dselect" to accept other file structure. My version of dselect asks, after I pointed it to my CDROM: Distribution top level ? [none] If I answer "none", then it asks where the distribution top l

Re: limiting user %cpu

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
OK, so I suck.. Here's my postulate.. CPU time could be what you need. I would imagine that CPU time would refer to the percentage of time that the user's processes will be actively payed attention to by the system's kernel. Sort of like an old time-slicing multi-tasking method of limiting user

Re: simple questions

1997-11-27 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi >[my own whining snipped] > >> Perhaps you should boot into W95/DOS and leave it to loadlin to boot >> Linux. That way you can safely leave your MBR in the hands of W95. >Of >> course you should always have a bootdisk ready, just in case W95 for >> some reason becomes unbootable. >> >> -

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-11-27 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All > >>No, elf-x11r6lib doesn't exist, any package that depends on it should >have >>a bug reported against it. > >OK, where do i look for ino on this, and check to see that it's not >already >done? I know that there's bugtracking, but i haven't paid much >attention. > >It's xforms.86, by th

Re: jazz drive

1997-11-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Perhaps this will lead you in the right direction, Bruce recently posted: I run /dev on a ram disk, and disable cron when undocked. That seems to be enough to get the disk to spin down, regardless of the time period of update. I think the system spent a lot of time updating the dates of tty f

compiling libc.so.x

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
I tried to compile libc.so.5.4.38 and libc-2.0.5.so (c) and the file size is more than double that of Debian's distribution... How is this possible? 579300 Aug 22 08:09 libc.so.5.4.33 (Debian's) 1819811 Nov 23 21:14 libc.so.5.4.38 (mine) 628060 Oct 5 05:15 libc-2.0.5.so (Debian's) 3015988 Nov

Re: 10/100Base-T Question

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
As I remember from some chats with people who work with ethernet hardware.. the card itself should automatically switch between 10 and 100 when it needs to (or when it can) and it is not up to the driver to take care of this. (Of course I could be wrong and talking out my a** again.) Kevin Traas

Re: (off topic)Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>Of course anyone can also just delete the whole partition and destory >everything.. but usually isn't as useful. When deciding to encrypt the filesystem, the above is the *very* least of your worries.The whole point of encrypting it is to keep it's contents "secret". Nuking the partition is

Re: jazz drive

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
I would imagine that this could be solved by specifying some particular mount options on the command line or in the fstab file. Unless of course if this is a driver problem, in which case I don't even have a Jazz to experiment with :). Michael Keith wrote: > I have debian loaded on a jazz disk a

Re: Help: Install packages

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
This should be capable of being solved by just telling Debian where to find the base package info files on the correct line for which package directories to install (IE: Under the Access Method menu option). However, if it still does not work, it is possible that who ever created your dist made

10/100Base-T Question

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm in the process of putting together a system for demo purposes and I would like to include a 10/100Base-T PCI network card that will automatically sense and switch to 10 or 100 Mbps at boot time. (Depending on the network at a client's location.) Will cards based on the DEC 21140 chipset do th

Re: set up network correctly ?

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
You wouldn't happen to have dhcpcd installed would you? (Check your package listing for it. dpkg -l | grep dhcp) Marc Fleureck wrote: > Hi, > > System: Debian 1.3/kernel2.0.30/3c562-3d Lan+Modem adapter > > I have just set up my PCMCIA card without any erros. That is i don't > get any errors at

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not perfectly flat (on a nano scale). On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote: >

Re: Hamm distribution

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
The Debian libc6 HOWTO list a known fix for this.. you need to get an older version of the libc5 library that will not conflict with the libc6 you are trying to install. Johan Harvyl wrote: > As far as I can see there are only one set of base disks; the bo dist base > disks. > After having insta

Re: compile error (kernel)

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
When I saw this I just changed into the drivers/sound directory and ran ./configure which runs the command line based version of the OSS kernel sound setup. This worked for me. Benoit Joly wrote: > hi > > i configured the kernel with make xconfig > put sb16 ... enable, awe32 sync too > > and mak

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
Donald Becker wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: > > If I could have found something like > > this in the FAQ, or even on the driver page it would have saved me so much > > time spent thinking > > Done. > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html > I'm open to suggesti

Re: Help! Xload has gone missing...

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Adrian Monk wrote: > For some strange reason I am suddenly unable to load any window managers. > Error messages tell me that the system cannot find Xload. Nor can I, > either on my box, or on the distribution disk, or at the Debian ftp site. > Any one know what Xload is and wh

Re: How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Adalberto da Silva wrote: > I'm using xisp to dial and set my internet connection under Linux. The > internet provider from my university uses dinamic IP assignment and I > can easily get a 'socket' for my W95 applications: I run a script that > dials, I put my username

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 27 Nov 1997, Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: > Thanks again for your help. I did notice one small problem. When I tried to > telnet, I could reach one network at school, but not any others. I could > reach > just about anywhere in the country except the servers at school that I am not > dialing

problems with w command

1997-11-27 Thread Colin R. Telmer
The w command on a few of our servers is not working properly. I'll use two machines, verdi and frisch, to explain this although it is not isolated to these machines. Both machines have kernel 2.0.29 and procps 1.12.2 and the kernel configuration is pretty much identical (except for a coupld of thi

xfree help

1997-11-27 Thread joppe/c51
I guess what i really need help with is first: finding the problem then correcting it:-) Im using a ATI Mach 64 3D RAGE II card, a GoldStar 65ie monitor(its a Standard VGA), my os is Debian 1.3. This is the result i get when i run SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: ATI

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Mika Marjamaki
> : We are getting a new Linux-server really soon - I heard it might come > : tomorrow or maybe next monday or so. Anyway, it will have some kind of > : Hardware-RAID - don't know yet what kind of, but it is checked to work > : with Linux. If it is Ultra-SCSI, I can tell you the model etc... > Can

Help! Xload has gone missing...

1997-11-27 Thread Adrian Monk
For some strange reason I am suddenly unable to load any window managers. Error messages tell me that the system cannot find Xload. Nor can I, either on my box, or on the distribution disk, or at the Debian ftp site. Any one know what Xload is and where to find it? Many thanks i.a. Adrian Monk

System pauses with AHA 1522 running a Pentuim II 266MMX system

1997-11-27 Thread Michael Brown
When play and watching avi's and multimedia, the system pauses every 3 seconds. One time I opend up the case and looked at the SCSI card while watching an avi file, the LED located on the SCSI card flashed every 3 seconds. So I came to the conclusion that that was causing the pausing motion within

Re: xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread dpk
Actually libXm.so.0 is also supplied by lesstif, the GNU motif libs, which can be downloaded from a debian ftp site. It is under the 'libs' dir... and a hell of a lot cheaper than the price listed below. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division

jazz drive

1997-11-27 Thread Michael Keith
I have debian loaded on a jazz disk and everything seems to work fine except that it will not let the jazz go to sleep,and iomega says that it is imperative that the jazz goes to sleep. Does anybody have a clue on how to make this happen? It seems that debian is always hitting on it about every two

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Frank Sergeant
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 > quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this > speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan, > I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at > 166/66). How is the

compiling kernel error

1997-11-27 Thread Benoit Joly
hi i configured the kernel with make xconfig put sb16 ... enable, awe32 sync too and make dep, make clean but when i did make zImage i saw: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Mika Marjamaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : We are getting a new Linux-server really soon - I heard it might come : tomorrow or maybe next monday or so. Anyway, it will have some kind of : Hardware-RAID - don't know yet what kind of, but it is checked to work : with Linux. If it is Ultra-SCSI, I c

Linux filesystem from DOS?

1997-11-27 Thread Jones, David A \(CAP, ITS, US\)
Hi Team- I was wondering if anyone has a method of writing Linux / Un*x filenames from DOS apps. You know- where we have more than 1 "period" in the filename like x.yyy.zz? I have to move some files back & forth, but DOS changes the name to x-yyy.zz so when I try to use gunzip, etc, I get

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Udjat the BitMeister... writes: > > On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > > > > > > try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. > > > > There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the > partition information, it

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wr ite: |Udate: | |on the pop3 problem - I got a log file going. It does check |/var/spool/mail as it should, but reports 0k for the user when checking. |If you go to the directory, there is a mail file for the user. One of our customers had this problem. Unle

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Adam Shand, on Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 01:07:53AM -0900: > Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the > exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and > netinet/protocols.h. > > I've searched my hard drive and I don't have these fil

smail locking

1997-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
I keep getting the following messages: 11/27/1997 10:03:00: open_spool: /var/spool/smail/input/0xb7IX-001Lt6C: lock_fd() failed: Try again Is there some lockfile which I need to rm? It seems to happen most if I try to send some mail when not connected to my ISP causing diald to bring up a connec

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Mika Marjamaki
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other > Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Hi! We are getting a new Linux-server really soon - I heard it might come tomorrow or maybe next monday or so. Anyway, it will have some

SCSI disk drive setup question

1997-11-27 Thread Ken Gaugler
I have a couple of SCSI drives I am trying to get up and running - one is a Seagate ST32107WC. It has a SCA connector on it, so I bought a little adapter thingie to convert it to 50-pin. On boot up (under Linux) the PC self test sees it, in the early stages of boot the Adaptec identifies it correc

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Pere Camps
On 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? > Yes, and it works fine. Ok. Thanks. Also, thanks to everyone else who has answered this same question. You're too many to reply one by one! Salutacions, Pere

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Dale Scheetz writes: |> Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but |> compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that "less is more", is more |> than a cute word play, it is true for every context of "more". | |less is better, but DOS users know a

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Markus Schneider wrote: > >> linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly > >> to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a > >> boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like > >> shadowed passwor

Re: (off topic)Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
> It can be done much easier, just put the linux boot disk (from any > distribution) into the floppy, reboot the system, then mount > the hard disk from the root's shell and the whole HD is yours without > using any other OS !!! > Unless your server is "physically secured" (closed in the safe, all

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. look in /var/log/messages -Paul On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; > > How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg > but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_

Help: Install packages

1997-11-27 Thread wdh
Hello Everyone, We have a very simple question, which we think most of you may not even notice. We are using "dselect" to install packages from ordered CD. The CD has different file structure from what "dselect" expected. For example, "dselect " wanted to locate "*.deb" at /main/binary. The

Re: Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of > Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I > recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there > including the master boot record. > > This was ok,

Making Debian bootable from hard disk

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, Recently I upgraded my system with a new hard disk, and moved all of Debian over to the new harddisk. After having moved it, I recalibrated the old disk, scratching everything that was there including the master boot record. This was ok, and all my files got themselves safely on their n

Kernel crash after floppy problems

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I have a problem with my system. Unfortunately the PC floppy drives allow to remove floppy even if it is mounted. If later someone tries to use the directory where the floppy was mounted, the system crashes. I had also similar problems when during the mount the file system wasn't

Serial Mouse

1997-11-27 Thread Simon Cooper
The mouse pointer "jumps" across the screen rather than a smooth movement, I notice the problem most when the pointer crosses window boundaries, the cursor changes and the mouse pointer pauses at this point. I am using the fvwm95 window manager, the problem is less evident when using the openlook m

Re: xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 12:44:36AM +1100, Lawrence wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable to unstable. The > > programs shows: > > > > xmcd: error in loading shared libraries > > libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direc

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > Short of encrypting the filesystem itself, I have yet to find a way to > secure things under Linux But if anyone has any ideas, I'd be *more* > than glad to hear them > > Later, > Kevin Traas > What about mounting only some directories (/ho

Re: Filling in the dialog boxes with Taper 6.8.2

1997-11-27 Thread Frere Roy
> On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 04:17:47PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: > > I've just installed the Taper 6.8.2 backup to tape programme. > > I have encountered a curious phenomena namely that I cannot type any > > characters in the message boxes, i.e. name of backup etc. > > Bug report already filed. Joey

Re: xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable > to unstable. The programs shows: > > xmcd: error in loading shared libraries > libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > So, what's the problem? It seems I have all libX* lib fil

xmcd question

1997-11-27 Thread ctang
I can not run xmcd after my recent upgrade from stable to unstable. The programs shows: xmcd: error in loading shared libraries libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So, what's the problem? It seems I have all libX* lib file except this one. Thanks for

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>> > I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) ... >> Why you need to compile this program? >BTW, linux is NOT vulnerable to this attack. Even version 1.2.13. Kudos to Linux!!! Makes me proud to be a Linux user/supporter Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>> > I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) ... >> Why you need to compile this program? >BTW, linux is NOT vulnerable to this attack. Even version 1.2.13. Kudos to Linux!!! Makes me proud! Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
Thanks Marco, that was right! Anyway I tried to recompile XFig withouth the Xaw3d extensions but it didn't worked correctly. Now it is fine! Gerardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Shand wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the > > exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and > > netinet/protocols.h. > > Why you need to compile this program? >

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know : better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and : consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go : exploring other venues, and besides, I'd ra

Re: Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Marco Pistore
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: > I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the > T icon (for text writing), xfig hangs and also the xterm shell blocks > forever! I need to kill xfig and the shell!! Hi, are you using xaw95? I had the same problem when i u

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:15:49PM +0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 quite happilly. > However, it needs some cooling at this speed; until i get something more than > this cheesy $2 fan, I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at > 16

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Kevin Traas wrote: > > >Have you looked at the software RAID? Is it more flexible because you > >can run it with hard disks with different geometry. > > !!! ??? I've never heard of this under Linux? > > Can anyone provide more info? go to http://linas.org/linux/raid.html Lawrence -- TO UNS

Re: Filling in the dialog boxes with Taper 6.8.2

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 04:17:47PM +0200, Frere Roy wrote: > I've just installed the Taper 6.8.2 backup to tape programme. > I have encountered a curious phenomena namely that I cannot type any > characters in the message boxes, i.e. name of backup etc. Bug report already filed. Joey reports that

Re: cu connects to PnP modem ok, but no response for AT

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:31:48PM +0500, Igor Grobman wrote: > > # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 > > Connected > > [here I type "at&f", which is not echoed] > > cu: write: I/O error > > Disconnected > > # > > Looks like your modem is not really detected by linux. The "connected" > messag

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-27 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Nov-97 Richard Ayres wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: >> In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. >> >> You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr >> partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packag

Dpkg-FTP problem

1997-11-27 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all! I have a little problem with dpgk-ftp and my dselect... It core-dumps whenever dkpg-ftp tries to connect to the ftp server. I have not changed anything drastic since it last worked (I now run 2.1.65, but it did the same with 2.0.32) I have upgraded to hamm, but I did it kinda manually...

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>>> linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly >>> to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a >>> boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like >>> shadowed password file, or any other only root-readable files. >>

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Markus Schneider
>> linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly >> to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a >> boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files they want, like >> shadowed password file, or any other only root-readable files. > > It

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>Have you looked at the software RAID? Is it more flexible because you >can run it with hard disks with different geometry. !!! ??? I've never heard of this under Linux? Can anyone provide more info? Regards, Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread butch
Hi, i was wondering if any of you could please list the better places to buy scsi disks and controllers in the usa? allan -Original Message- From: Michael Neuffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Linux-Net Mailing List ; Debian User List Date: Thursday, Novembe

Problem installing Debian 1.3

1997-11-27 Thread Gianluca \"Ryo\" Trimarchi
First of all, sorry my bad English :-) Please help me with these problem: Few days ago I've installed my "new" hd (conner 1080mb) in my computer. It's splitted in three partions: 1 primary (dos fat 16) e 2 logical for linux (1 native e 1 for the swap). Both the hds are on the primary Eide channe

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Michael Neuffer wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > > > I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other > > Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? > > Yes, all the controllers from DPT. > Check out http://www.dpt.com Have you looked at the softwar

Problems with the Xfig Package (fwd)

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:37:13 +0100 (CET) From: Gerardo Lamastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Problems with the Xfig Package I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T icon (for text writing), xfig

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Michael Neuffer
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other > Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? Yes, all the controllers from DPT. Check out http://www.dpt.com Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Netscape Comm. 4.03

1997-11-27 Thread Larry Gene Gariepy Jr.
Hi, Now that I have gotten ppp to work, (thanks to several members of this list), I am free to play with my new version of Netscape. However, Netscape and Debian are not playing well together these days. I was just wondering if anyone else has had problems with Netscape 4.03 (or any 4.0x).

Re: Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Adam Shand wrote: > > Hey, > > Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the > exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and > netinet/protocols.h. Why you need to compile this program? If you want to find out whether your linux is vulnerable,

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Lawrence
Kevin Traas wrote: > > Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? > > I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives > off of one... > > I'm currently looking at the BusLogic Flashpoint BT-950. > > Is anyone using this card? Any comments

Re: Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
I should also ask about the Mylex DAC960PD. Or, are there any other Ultra-SCSI RAID controllers supported in Linux? >Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? > >I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives >off of one... > >I'm currentl

set up network correctly ?

1997-11-27 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, System: Debian 1.3/kernel2.0.30/3c562-3d Lan+Modem adapter I have just set up my PCMCIA card without any erros. That is i don't get any errors at boot time. Card Services 2.9.6 & co recognize the card. During installation of Debian 1.2/kernel 2.0.27 i have setup the network (ip-addresses,

(off topic)Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: > > > Luka Pravica wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > linux (unix) is a quite secure system. But if somebody can get directly > > to the server-computer, then it is easy to reboot computer to dos with a > > boot disk, and use 2e-filesystem tools to get all files t

Ultra SCSI

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
Can anyone recommend an Ultra SCSI controller that works under Linux? I'm looking to hang several of the new 18GB Barracuda/Cheetah Seagate drives off of one... I'm currently looking at the BusLogic Flashpoint BT-950. Is anyone using this card? Any comments? TIA, Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Compiling land.c

1997-11-27 Thread Adam Shand
Hey, Hopefully a quick question. I'm trying to compile land.c (as in the exploit) and it bombs out on me because it can't find netinet/ip_tcp.h and netinet/protocols.h. I've searched my hard drive and I don't have these files anywhere (and I have kernel sources installed and most of the -dev pa

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 12:09:00AM -0500, Wintermute wrote: > Yes there is. Whether or not Debian has a package for this yet I do not > know, however here is an address that should answer some questions: > > http://www.aoy.com/Linux/Security/Linux-Security-FAQ/CFS-Doc.html There is a Debian pack

Hamm distribution

1997-11-27 Thread Johan Harvyl
As far as I can see there are only one set of base disks; the bo dist base disks. After having installed them, dselect starts and if you try install, the first file it tries is libc6, which can't be installed since it conflicts with the libc5 that comes with the bo distribution. It can be installed

compile error (kernel)

1997-11-27 Thread Benoit Joly
hi i configured the kernel with make xconfig put sb16 ... enable, awe32 sync too and make dep, make clean but when i did make zImage i saw: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.30/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops

Problems with the Xfig Package

1997-11-27 Thread Gerardo Lamastra
I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T icon (for text writing), xfig hangs and also the xterm shell blocks forever! I need to kill xfig and the shell!! I have the Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 0 (Protocol 3.2); i have tried to use the previous version Xfig 3.1 patchleve

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-27 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: f you wish to use your ppp interface for most packets and your ethernet card for only a few, put something like the following in /etc/ppp/ip-up: /sbin/route del default /sbin/route add default ppp0 /sbin/route add 137.22.96.0 netmask 255.255.240 eth0 (The number after netmask shoul

Re: crypting a whole filesystem or directory?

1997-11-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>> Is there a way to crypt a whole e2-filesystem or at least a whole >> directories? Or is there any other way to overcome this? > >Yes there is. Whether or not Debian has a package for this yet I do not >know, however here is an address that should answer some questions: > >http://www.aoy.com/Lin

Re: Switching keyboards under X

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Louis-David Mitterrand writes: > > Oh, I don't type the lines litteraly, they are bound to and > respectively in my shell. It is xmodmap itself that I find slow (2 full > seconds ;-) > You mean you are looking for an MS-DOS function like, where you can press CTRL-F1 to switch between ke

Re: Terminal setting: linux

1997-11-27 Thread ioannis
I remember a bug report saying that gnuplot was not compiled with svga . That was true true few weeks ago. Gnuplot now runs on lib6 and the latest release was uploaded yesterday, perhaps this bug has been fixed; though I do not recall reading anything about it in the changelog. On Wed

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Wintermute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; > > How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg > but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg > stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they

Re: Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-27 Thread W Paul Mills
You probably have files in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.boot that you modified. When you upgraded these files were not updated. Look for files in these directories that end with dpkg-dist. Those are the new files, but are not being used. Some things need to happen different at boot-up now. You will nee

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; > > How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg > but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg > stops. I've seen various debug

Re: dselect and debian on walnut creek

1997-11-27 Thread tko
Chris Camacho writes: > > has anyone tried installing debian from > linux toolkit june 1997 > when dselect asks where the dist is > I have tried every sub-dir I can and it can't > find the dist > > anyone else had this prob? > how did you cure it? > thanx CC > Are you installing for the first t

screen snapshot

1997-11-27 Thread tko
This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they scroll off the screen before the logi

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