Re: Can't "make xconfig" for kernel-2.3.99-pre8

I was able to use 'make xconfig' on this kernel, but this kernel version has been a disappointment for me. I could not get iptables to work, I cannot get KDE to start under this kernel (kde 1.90 beta) and I can't even connect to the Internet while using kernel 2.3.99-pre8. -- Andrew

Re: Can't "make xconfig" for kernel-2.3.99-pre8

:: On Sat, 20 May 2000 23:29:45 -0400, "S. Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Yes... I remember there was such a problem, and a patch was posted to the linux-kernel list... I don't have it, though. J. > I decided to try out kernel 2.3.99-pre8 but "make xconfig" is breaking > for some reaso

Re: Stuck...

* "w" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: w> if it were clear on how to exit mc, i'd be more in favor w> of recommending it to the new folk... w> (i tried it from a telnet session where the Fkeys don't w> exactly work as they should... Well, this is a problem of this particular telnet imple

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:07:00PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I must say, my subjective experience has been that rpm's are much faster > > to install something. Of course, it's also faster to throw my clothes > > on the floor, rather than put them in the

Re: power saving - A good idea

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > How do you run this stuff at boot? (yes, newbie here...) > I get the same kind of errors :(( i wrote an initscript (/etc/init.d/hdparm): #! /bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin NAME=hdparm set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Configuring /d

potato install w/ aic7880

I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc - and the install begins, but 1

Re: TZ / time zones

Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > > "will" == w trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > will> is that a new standard for specifying timezones, or is it > will> just for newbies? > > I think it is. In any case, the important thing is to have > /etc/timezone correct. Mine contains the string `P

RE: boards for Video Capture in Linux

Dobriy Den', Andrew, I just bought a Matrox G400-TV that does a good job of capturing video on the Windows platform. And the Matrox site (www.matrox.com) states that they are working on Linux utilities to support their video cards. Don't know what the timeframe is for release tho. Styopa -Or

Configure muttzilla

[Please CC me in all replies, as I don't manage to read -user] Hi. I've setup muttzilla to call mutt from inside netscape, but it seems to have a problem, as I can't setup the From: field. I've setup the email address in netscape and in ~/.mutt/muttrc but this isn't passed to the new instance of

Re: Please help - network incredibly slow...

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 03:48:54PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote > Hi! > > I've been chewing on this for three days - now it goes before the experts... > :) > > My LAN looks like so: > [snip] It would be handy if you provided the output of /sbin/ifconfig and cat /proc/interrupts for one of

Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))

> "Richard" == Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom >> Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 4:00 PM >> To: Robert Waldner >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Mic

Re: Stuck...

Alain Reinhardt wrote: > I always also suggest to try 'mc' (assuming MidNight Commander is installed) > because it is always a good feeling for a new user to go as far as a file > manager of some sort -in this case a very good one. Nothing means more when > you begin than knowing you have somethin

Re: debian logo

russell simmons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where > the debian > logo comes from?... > many thanks > russell Near as I can tell, it came about this way One day "Captain blue eye" was happily travel

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Re: Gnus 5.8.6 not sending attachments?

Hoi Jeronimo! J> since a couple of weeks ago Gnus seems not to be including MIME J> attachemnts sometimes. I'm unsing emacs 20.6.2 and Gnus 5.8.6. [...] J> So, did anyone else have such a problem? Any ideas of what's J> going on? I'll try downgrading Gnus next, then I'll come back to J

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

Armin Wegner wrote: > > It's not boring, it's functional. And that's what matters. boring might not have been the right word: maybe "tepid"? how about "obscure" as in 'is there a link on there that'll show me how to upgrade from an older debian to a more current one'? i still think his point is

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

seems like an uphill battle, eh? Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Try: pt-get install pine > > It'll give youenough information to get a bit further > > Ron Rademaker > > PS. Damn when is someone going to read apt-ge's FM!!, perhaps we'll just > have to put a few pages with apt-get info during ins

Re: Missing header file conio.h

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Oliver Hingst wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to compile a C++ program, which will be at some point a > Reverse Polish Notation program. I am trying to use a function called > getche() . Therefore, from what I have read, I need to > > #include > > The problem is on my Potat

Re: debian logo

Engelen said: >> >I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where >> >the debian >> >logo comes from?... > >> There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check >> www.debian.org and find it. > >This _will_ be hard. There is a page 'www.debian.org/logos' bu

Re: [q] koffice-cvs doesn't run -- any idea?

"Ivan" == Ivan E Moore, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ivan> it's because of some changes in kdelibs/kdebase and I hadn't gotten Ivan> around to rebuilding koffice so that it would work again. :) Ivan> Ivan> This evening there will be a clean set of .deb's for all packages Ivan> based o

Re: [q] koffice-cvs doesn't run -- any idea?

it's because of some changes in kdelibs/kdebase and I hadn't gotten around to rebuilding koffice so that it would work again. :) This evening there will be a clean set of .deb's for all packages based on current (as of a few hours ago) upstream source. Ivan On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:24:04PM -04

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

I have seen previous statements that the entire area under /usr is under the control of the debian package management system *EXCEPT* /usr/local. This means, for example, that the package system can delete anything under /usr except that which is under /usr/local. I can't immediately verify this

Fw: installing gphoto

- Original Message - From: Nick To: debian Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:06 PM Subject: installing gphoto i am installing the free version of gphoto similair to photoshop but have encountered the following problem. i need to upgrade my libc6 libs but am prompted to replace ldso, i need th

Fw: installing gphoto

  - Original Message - From: Nick To: debian Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:06 PM Subject: installing gphoto i am installing the free version of gphoto similair to photoshop but have encountered the following problem. i need to upgrade my libc6 libs but am prompted to replace ldso, i

Re: How do I allow empty passwords?

Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I later tried to change it to be empty, like this: > ># passwd >Enter new UNIX password:(here I just hit the Enter key) >Retype new UNIX password: (again, I just hit Enter) >No password supplied

Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > equiv is helpful! ^ <--- this should be equivs > > Is it best that Debian packages are parallel to all of these various > outside universes? Or is there a way that a Debian package can just grab > the lastest from SUn, and

Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?

On Sat, 20 May 2000, john smith wrote: > I do not understand why all of a sudden some commands for root are not > found (like adduser,ldconfig etc) looking at my path I found out that > /usr/sbin,/sbin are not there anymore!!! strange? anyway, when I added them > again to my path everythings back t

how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?

I do not understand why all of a sudden some commands for root are not found (like adduser,ldconfig etc) looking at my path I found out that /usr/sbin,/sbin are not there anymore!!! strange? anyway, when I added them again to my path everythings back to normal now. I wonder what could have caus

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

Previously Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I must say, my subjective experience has been that rpm's are much faster > to install something. Of course, it's also faster to throw my clothes > on the floor, rather than put them in the hamper... That is a result of the fact that rpm uses a binary database f

RE: Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

My guess is you have to remount the partition and then it should work fine for u, at least you can fix ur problem. mount /dev/... / -o remount,rw (like that I think should make ur root partition writeable again) Ciao, matthias -- __ _ __ * /\ /\ \ \

win95 postscript printing via samba problem...

I've had this problem for a long time and I'm tired of it. ;-) I've found this bug report: which describes my problem. Basically printing from win95 to my Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 system via samba, using AdobePS 4 software "AdobePSDefaultPostScriptPrint"

Gnus 5.8.6 not sending attachments?

Hello, since a couple of weeks ago Gnus seems not to be including MIME attachemnts sometimes. I'm unsing emacs 20.6.2 and Gnus 5.8.6. The attachments are simply not included in the message... It seems to happen with application/octet-strem. I tried to attach a text file (a LaTeX sty

Re: Telnet security

Hi Miguel! On Sat, 20 May 2000, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote: > When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install > update), I get an error message saying that there is no available > version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? > my /etc/sour

Re: Telnet security

You need an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list for a "non-US" distribution site. Remember: those nasty US crypto-as-munitions export rules haven't actually ended yet! At 09:44 AM 5/20/00 -0700, Miguel Wooding wrote [in part]: >When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install >up

Re: Telnet security

When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install update), I get an error message saying that there is no available version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that? # apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Pack

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

Vitux writes: > Just a pitiful newbie wondering: I thought all *nix'es were supposed to > use basically the same filesystem-structure. The various Linux distributions are far more standardized in this then the various Unices ever were. > How come then, that Debian has proprietary placement of fil

sslftp for Slink?

Hi. Can anyone please tell me where (if?) I can find sslftp or something similar for a box running Slink? Thanks in advance.

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hi with regard to this     Hi,could anyone help me on this one?I'm trying to install Corel Linux on my PC(pentium II 350, 64 ram, 2 IDE HD Drives one of them 6.5G completely free to install linux)I can launch the CD ok, I create the disk, reboot (with disk and cdrom inserted)LILO

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

At 05:44 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Vitux wrote [in part]: >Just a pitiful newbie wondering: I thought all *nix'es were >supposed to use basically the same filesystem-structure. How >come then, that Debian has proprietary placement of files? >(maybe I've missed a point here, but isn't that part of the >ide

Easy to do Full backup /restore to dead system?

We have a small server, with no bulk backup device, but has network and CDrom reader. What is the easiest way to be able to recover everything in case of a crash? E.g. make big tar, ftp to remote site, and then restore? But I presume that one cannot overlay a running system. Thus boot to flopp

Re: Successful upgrade to potato, with work...

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:32:21PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> Most likely this close to release, I'll just add your (paraphrased) > notes > Ben> to the Release Notes for sparc. This should ease other users upgrades >

Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]

Will Lowe wrote: > > > Can I ask why debian doesn't include pine? Just curious. I know Debian > > The license for pine doesn't allow you to redistribute "modified binaries" > (e.g., fix a bug in the source, compile it, and redistribute the > executable you get from this). Therefore, it can't b

Re: power saving - A good idea

Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > > the right parameter yet)-- > > > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

> PS: > On the wish list for the distribution I would like to add an smp > kernel. Other distributions have. Today this has to be made manually, > even if excellent tools are available for this. > > Best regards, > Svante Signell > You would definitely want to build yourself a new kernel ASAP a

Re: Outside subsystem installed, packages unaware, dselect trying to help...

At 11:33 PM 05/19/2000 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > > Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? > > Greg > -- ... YOW! I bet you rolled your own apache rather than installing one from a deb package and this is apt's way of telling you that it wants something that

koffice-cvs unresolved libs

(Please CC me on replies as I am not debian-user.) Just had a first look at the koffice work-in-progress using Ivan's fine kde archive, but there is something wrong with the dependencies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> kword kword: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.1: undefine

Re: libfltk-dev: which "config.h"

Johann Spies hat gesagt: // Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to compile the programs in /usr/share/doc/libfltk1/examples/. > > After copying the files to /tmp and gunzipping the .gz files I get the > following error when I run "make": > > c++ -I.. -g -fPIC -Wall -Wno-return-type -I/usr/X11R

Re: Screen Saver

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:58:00PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > If my monitor goes black,(i.e. screen saver I think) how do I turn that off. > The monitor doesnt shut off just goes blank. Sounds like the screen saver > but I have no idea where to check.. What you'll want to do is `setterm -blank 0` .

Re: permssions

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:22:56AM -0400, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > Hello, > > I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > to li

Re: permssions

> I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > to listen as user, I get a message that says I cannot access the cdrom > because pe

permssions

Hello, I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try to listen as user, I get a message that says I cannot access the cdrom because perm

Re: Telnet security

>>for the client >># apt-get update; apt-get install ssh >> >>and the daemon >># apt-get update; apt-get install sshd > >Did you check this? According to "apt-cache search ssh" (running on potato), >there is no "sshd" package. My memory says that "ssh" installs both the >server (daemon) and the cli

Re: Telnet security

At 02:31 PM 5/20/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote [in part]: >>How do you set-up ssh to work? > >Assuming you have debian, run: > >for the client ># apt-get update; apt-get install ssh > >and the daemon ># apt-get update; apt-get install sshd Did you check this? According to "apt-cache search ssh" (r

Re: Telnet security

At 06:14 PM 5/20/00 +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote: >The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. >I would thus like to ask: >How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? You don't. ssh is a different service from telnet, more or less a drop-in replacement for r

Please help - network incredibly slow...

Hi! I've been chewing on this for three days - now it goes before the experts... :) My LAN looks like so: Machine 1 Dual P2/400/256 somewhere between potato and woody | Win NT 4sp6a eth0: D-Link DFE-530TX (10/100) - via-rhine.o from http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html -

Re: init - autostarts

> Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc > Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? > Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather > Dominic> not be running? > > if you're wondering about things like scsi-initialization > and isdn setup, the

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

> >Because Univ of Washington doesn't allow modified tarballs to be > >distributed, and you have to modify the tarball's paths to be Debian > >compliant. > It's not too hard to find pine*.deb. Use Fast FTP Search. Pine _is_ semi-officially available as a (contrib/non-free) part of debian. The pa

Re: debian logo

> >I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where > >the debian > >logo comes from?... > There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check > www.debian.org and find it. This _will_ be hard. There is a page 'www.debian.org/logos' but it's very poorly main

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

No, I don't. I re-installed frtom the slink cd again, so all was lost. I have another problem now: After choosing the scientific workstation in slink 2.1, I did, pointing sources.list to frozen, 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get dist-upgrade Here all went smooth, but then, after I did 3. apt-get insta

Re: [Debian]:deb21r5 (slink) distributions-CD - Hilfe ....

Hallo Michelle, > was ist mit dpkg-scanpackages ??? Hm, habe mit debian keinerlei Erfahrungen ... Was sind dpkg-scanpackages ? > Habe erst die CD von Heiko auf die Platte kopiert, das ein update gemacht > und dann eben dpkg-scanpackages verwendet. Meine r5 funzt einwandfrei. Ist Heiko ein FTP-Ser

Re: Clone of hard drive

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:26:43PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. Partition and format the new drive using the standard > tools, then use a `cpio' archive or `cpio' in copythrough mode to > clone the filesystem.

Re: ISDN question

Sorry for the shouting, at the time I wrote it I was pretty drunk. When I was using ISDN I used the following script for both ip-up as ip-down, perhaps it can help you... #!/bin/sh /sbin/route del default >/dev/null 2>&1 /sbin/route add default netmask 0 Ron Rademaker On Sat, 20 May 2000, Mic

RE: DSL and DEBIAN

Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2000, Alec Smith wrote: > Be careful though, not all providers use an external "modem". I know that > here in Ohio, Ameritech uses an internal PCI adapter. As far as I know, > Linux doesn't support these internal adapters. And here in Germany, you have to fiddle around to mak

Re: log file full of "-- MARK --"

Hi, On Fri, 19 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > /var/messages has a "-- MARK --" every 20 minutes; why? If a problem arises, you can see what time it showed up. E. g. I once was running an analysis on my Atari TT with Debian 2.0. The analysis presumably would have taken 9 days, but never got

Re: Debian-CD Image and Kernel versions puzzle

Could you indicate theURL wher you got the iso image from? Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am experimenting with installs of frozen potato and this is a puzzle (to > me): > > Using a CD ISO image I downloaded of potato about a month ago I do a CD Boot > to install the base system, then I select http for

Re: ISDN question

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:25:07AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > A little more information would be nice... Wath ent (is going) wrong??? Sorry, if I wasn't precise. On my modem connection I do not have to worry about DNS setup. My /etc/resolv.conf is empty and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up creates one

Re: Telnet security

Hi >How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? Not totally sure, but whilst you're in, running "ps" should show a process named sshd. >How do you set-up ssh to work? Assuming you have debian, run: for the client # apt-get update; apt-get install ssh and the daem

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi Marek > > >Full info comes right your way :)): > > Cheers a lot! But how come I don't have that? :*! > There's sort of an empty man page describing that other infos can be > found locally under /usr/doc/nmap/... > > *My* nmap doesn't recognise the "-O"

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

Hi Marek >Full info comes right your way :)): Cheers a lot! But how come I don't have that? :*! There's sort of an empty man page describing that other infos can be found locally under /usr/doc/nmap/... *My* nmap doesn't recognise the "-O" flag. I am unsure about its version, but I'm running sli

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: >> Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, >> packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the >.. encrypting would solve that problem. or private network between two >ccomps. >And - if I could connec

Re: Missing header file conio.h

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to compile a C++ program, which will be at some point a > Reverse Polish Notation program. I am trying to use a function called > getche() . Therefore, from what I have read, I need to > > #include That's a D

RE: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom > Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 4:00 PM > To: Robert Waldner > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper > Subject: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad > install

re: ISDN and Sprint

Brian Schramm asked: >I live in a Sprint controlled area. And Ray Olszewski >How does Sprint "control" an area for ISDN? Good question! I am not sure I really understand how ISDN is provided. I live in an area where Sprint is the "telephone company" like Bell Atlantic or Bell South are in othe

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

It's not boring, it's functional. And that's what matters.

Telnet security

The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. I would thus like to ask: How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? How do you set-up ssh to work? I'm afraid I've been thinking that ssh was already working on my Linux box, but actually it wasn't...??? :-p

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > >There are at least three easy ways to check what operating system runs > on > >the remote machine (let's assume it's got the HTTP port open): > > > >1. nmap -O -p 80 host.name.com > > You don't want to scan them :), that's why the -p > > What's the -O op

Missing header file conio.h

Hello, I am trying to compile a C++ program, which will be at some point a Reverse Polish Notation program. I am trying to use a function called getche() . Therefore, from what I have read, I need to #include The problem is on my Potato system, this file is missing even though, I have installe

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

>There are at least three easy ways to check what operating system runs on >the remote machine (let's assume it's got the HTTP port open): > >1. nmap -O -p 80 host.name.com > You don't want to scan them :), that's why the -p What's the -O option? For some reason, I can't find any info for it; I

Re: Telnet Security

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:17:23AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: > John Bagdanoff said: > If you use the authentication type "RSA" in conjunction with SSH instead of > authentication type "password", you'll need to exchange keys with the host > for it to be able to authenticate you. If I understand

Re: Exim .forward file - how do I pipe a message?

Hi {Philip,list} >"Set up your mail system (.forward, .qmail, /etc/aliases or > whatever) to pipe each incoming message to snmail, with the > command line similar to: > BINDIR/snmail -s mailing-list local. What you should do then is (if you run sendmail, that is), put the following in your ~/.for

Exim .forward file - how do I pipe a message?

I have installed sn - a news system like Leafnode but better for me in lots of ways. Anyway, it has the ability to process mailing lists and display them in a newsreader. In the sn docs it gives the following info: "Set up your mail system (.forward, .qmail, /etc/aliases or whatever) to pipe eac

Re: Netscape and MS Intellimouse

> Netscape used to have support for the Intellimouse in my Debian 2.1 box. > Now I have a fresh Potato install (new hard drive), only a few days old, > and the old ¨tricks¨ don´t work anymore. So far I have the line > >ZAxisMapping4 5 > the whole section: Section "Pointer" Protoc

Re: Package Log

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: > When I turn on setterm -msg on, i see: > Package log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 172.19.32.10:1026 172.255.255.255:111 > L=13 s=0x00 I=742 F=0x T=64 (#4) > > So what am I looking at and why does it continue to do this? > 111 is the rpc port. as this ...2

Re: Stuck...

Le sam, 20 mai 2000, w trillich a écrit : > > Hazelwood wrote: > I have typed in numerous characters and numbers to no avail. > > Trillich answered : > if you say 'to no avail' to mean 'nothing happens' > then maybe your keyboard isn't configured correctly...? > try 'help' or 'man ls' or 'startx'

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi > > I realised shortly after that I tried the wrong TLD. My fault. I > immediately posted a cancel message to the list thereafter. I don't have it in my inbox yet... Nevermind :)) > But whilst we're on that subject, how would such an "OS & Port 80 scan

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

Hi I realised shortly after that I tried the wrong TLD. My fault. I immediately posted a cancel message to the list thereafter. But whilst we're on that subject, how would such an "OS & Port 80 scan" be done not using this web-front-end?! TIA Sven

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: > Hi debians > > According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on > windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Yup, it is for real. http://www.freshmeat.org is running WinNT, but http://www.freshmeat.NET is running Linux,

Re: debian logo

>I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where >the debian >logo comes from?... There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check www.debian.org and find it. Sven

Re: Clone of hard drive

On 19 May 2000 18:26:43 PDT, Karl M. Hegbloom writes: > Don't use `dd' - it won't work well if the two drives are not the > same size. It works. The second disk has to be >= the first and be able to do with the same translation (so don´t have your disks on AUTO in the BIOS and specify the translat

Re: Clone of hard drive

On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:45:03 PDT, Jay Kelly writes: >Hello All, >Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive? >This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right >back up. If it is, how would I go about it? The best way is to have identical d

Re: Telnet Security

John Bagdanoff said: >On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:03:04AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >> Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to >> download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc >> that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking

Re: Telnet Security

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:03:04AM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to > download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc > that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking about? > All I know, is th

Re: Telnet Security

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? > sure, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config change: Port 22 to Port 23 ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpiQaynuNaSe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hosts.allow config

2) When I try to edit my hosts.allow file with ae, it will not allow me to make any changes. Im logged in as root I make the changes then use ctrl x, ctrl s to save but it doesnt take the command. All I get it a x and s on the screen. Any thoughts???

Re: power saving - A good idea

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote: > > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into > the right parameter yet)-- > > kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > kernel: ide1

Re: man --> info?

On Thu, 18 May 2000 09:29:11 -0500, you wrote: >I want to try it, but apt-get wants to re-install an entire server and >tools for me, I have a stable apache+jserv, and don't want to install >another http server. > >Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? Have a look at the equivs pa

Re: Kernel revision info command?

uname -a On Fri, 19 May 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I am in bash. What do I type to determine the current revision of the > kernel? Or if you can't do it there, how? > > Ron > > > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John G

debian logo

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RE: Telnet Security

Someone told me about security key but I cant remeber the web page where to download them. I guess you need to have a key installed on the remote pc that matches the server key. Anybody know what Im talking about? -Original Message- From: John Bagdanoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Frid

Re: Telnet Security

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:05:32PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to keep my Telnet port open but still have security? > I just went through this. I installed ssh on my linux box & removed telnet. If you're connecting from a windows box to your linux box, get puTTY for windows. fred

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