Re: Problems installing

2000-08-22 Thread Ray Percival
I was finally able to overcome the problem the floppy images suck. I just ended up doing a ftp install. Now my problem is with x. when it tries to detect my card it can't see my agp tnt2. I choose to install x. I tell it yes. downloads. Starts to install asks if I want to set up the config file.

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Seth Cohn
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > > So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. > > Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first one > /is/. The first one is acmemail (and

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:21:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:21:15PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > > Note that the "filtering" is done by fetchmail. If you don't want > > filters, then don't specify that portion of the command line. > > Which proves my point that you

Re: color in Emacs

2000-08-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
This is from my .Xdefaults (you can make it if you want to..it makes no difference): XEmacs*Background: White XEmacs*Foreground: Black After you make the file, usexrdb -merge .Xdefaults to put it into the X. Then start emacs. Andrei

Re: Kernel compile error

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
there is more to this error then just the below, please include the full output, include the previous, 35 lines if possible. chances are it is something you enabled but is broken, to find out what it is i need the full output. also what version of gcc are you using ? to output make to a logfile:

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Aug-00, 23:12 (CDT), Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some packages don't have a documentation directory at all. Then they are in violation of the Debian policy. Current policy requires that /usr/doc/ exist (possibly as a symlink to /usr/share/doc/). > Some others do but their f

Re: re-compilation Trouble

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
please include _full output_ from make. from the prompt where you typed make modules_install to when you get a new prompt. or is that it? usually there is at least 3-4-5 lines of output. also make sure you are root when doing make modules_install as it writes to /lib/modules nate Carlos Stephen

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:12:47AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Why? Because of all the times I've needed such information and it > wasn't there or was hard to find. What's insufficient about dpkg -L ? (Or, if you've forgotten why you wanted to install the package, dpkg -s to look at the descr

Re: Problems installing

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
I had a very bad experience with cheapbytes(cheapshit) cdroms of debian 2.1 they were full of curropted packages. On the other hand i would suggest getting cds from www.linuxmall.com *I* havent had any bad experiences with them (yet). Another option is to download the rescue disk and base install

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
I'm sure they could, maybe they just don't know about it(if it weren't for sendmail.org i wouldnt know about it either) nate John Griffiths wrote: > > so debian.org coudn't build that string into a search form? > > At 08:47 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > >you can still search the mail

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Troy Telford
Actually, I have no problems with a realtek 8029 card; however, I always re-compile the kernel after I get the thing on; that usually gets rid of the unresolved symbols problem... In fact, with all the kernel module(s) I've used, re-compiling the kernel from scratch (including the modules) typic

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Aug 19 2000, John Ackermann wrote: > > I heartily agree with Daniel's plea. Eveb a simple listing of what > > configuration files the package uses (and where they are), and where it > > stores data (i.e., does it use space in /var) would be a bi

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
I worked with one of these recently it was a pain in the ass :) I believe the proper way to load the module was to first load the 8390 module first. the mandrake box i was working with did not have the proper dependency information for this module so modprobe wouldn't auto-load 8390. so..try in

color in Emacs

2000-08-22 Thread Dale L . Morris
I would like to get some color in emacs, from checking the emacs ng it looks like .Xdefaults entries are the way to go, but I don't have an .Xdefaults file, just .xsession. Could someone post the 'color' portion of their .emacs file or point me in the right direction? thanks -- "Make voyages, at

Re: FTP trought firewall (inverse)

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
ftp is a horrible protocol to try to firewall because of all the ports it uses, i suggest using the package 'iptraf' to see what ports are being used when you connect to it. there are 2 modes of ftp, passive and active. Switch your ftp client to PASSIVE mode and it should work(i just tried it) usin

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:39:43PM -0500, patrick john mahoney wrote: > > > The postfix uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] while the spruce does not. > > Is this the problem? How do I fix it, or what is the real problem? > > You'd need to find

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
Nate, Perhaps I am being too user-oriented. montefin Nate Amsden wrote: > > you can still search the mail archives and packages, i never knew you > could search the www site in the first place :) never needed to. > > if you want to search, you can go to altavista and for a search string: > >

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
Rick, Er...one small departure. After upgrading from potato to woody, I found I avoided some problems by doing: apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade Then identifying the packages I really wanted and doing: apt-get upgrade then apt-get install . As opposed to doing: apt-get dist-upgrade. But then

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
so debian.org coudn't build that string into a search form? At 08:47 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: >you can still search the mail archives and packages, i never knew you >could search the www site in the first place :) never needed to. > >if you want to search, you can go to altavista and

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-22 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:39:43PM -0500, patrick john mahoney wrote: > I am having problems connecting to my college's smtp server > (students.uiuc.edu) with postfix. The smtp server says "not an open > relay". I can, however, use spruce (gtk+ email client) to connect to the > smtp server. > >

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
you can still search the mail archives and packages, i never knew you could search the www site in the first place :) never needed to. if you want to search, you can go to altavista and for a search string: +host:www.debian.org search_string_here that will restrict searches to debian's website .

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
1. Edit sources.list pointing to woody|unstable instead of potato|stable. 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get dist-upgrade On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:19:55PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not > find a concise enough answer. If

Re: Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: > O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not > find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or > to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what > are the steps

Upgrade from potato to woody?

2000-08-22 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could not find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody from potato (or to do a general distribution ugrade in Debian from whatever to whatever) what are the steps that I would take, would it be: 1) change sources.li

Re: I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don't think exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-22 Thread iehrenwald
> nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to apt-get install xmms-crossfade

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:21:15PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > Note that the "filtering" is done by fetchmail. If you don't want > filters, then don't specify that portion of the command line. Which proves my point that you need to filter from a single source. Completely stupid. > > > 3) P

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first one /is/. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Frontpage2000 Extensions and Potato

2000-08-22 Thread Nate Amsden
I have configued from source apache 1.3.12+fp2000 extensions on 1 machine and it works fine on potato. using the patches/software from www.rtr.com also check your server logs chances are very valuable information about the error is in them. nate Paul Miller wrote: > > Greetings, > > At about

Re: SendMail Problem

2000-08-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
Personally, I find smail to be hard to configure. I never could get it to work right. Sendmail works fine for me. Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:54:07PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: : Why are you using sendmail and not something else? It is generally : regarded

I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don't think exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-22 Thread Brent Harding
I don't think there's much of anything for linux to do streaming audio, (I mean broadcast it, plenty to play it, freeamp, mpg123, etc). There's nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to another like winamp in windows could. I've heard of icec

We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
Hi all, Back in April, 2000, I decided to adopt Debian for my firewall. Over SuSE. Over FreeBSD. Over OpenBSD. And, my God yes, over Red Hat! This list has proven to be The_Only_Source_Of_Good_Debian_Input. But, it has an enormously high volume, which it needn't have. Why? When every other sit

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:56 PM 8/22/2000 -0600, montefin wrote: >ATTN: John Griffiths, > >You must report to Penn State immediately. > >By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. >We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. > >There, you must immediately identify yourself as an auto-inc

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread montefin
ATTN: John Griffiths, You must report to Penn State immediately. By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. There, you must immediately identify yourself as an auto-incarcerant, guilty of Copyright Obfuscation, and serve

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:25:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > are gnu tar, gzip and friends available for windows wastelands^Wenvironments? > Yep, well I don't know about tar, but cpio, gzip and several others are available. For NT there's the NT Resources Kit (free) which has this stuff. I

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Seth Cohn
Steve Lamb continues to complain: > I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! > Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. As someone who uses many email addresses, belongs to d

Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-22 Thread s. keeling
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:39:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > In that spirit, I'd like to suggest that this list needs a FAQ list. > > You have a faq. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ This one is useful. I've seen it before, but lost it long ago, thanks. > And also: > >

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
Brent Harding wrote: > How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, > make > the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's > empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail, but > it's limited to one line. What I

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:08:26PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > (List added to distribution -- I assume it was dropped inadvertantly) > > In general I try to avoid these problems by: > > o Not using MS Windows. by far the best option ;-) > o Using networked file transfer (shared dri

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:10:54PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:33:48PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > > OK, you want mail from separate accounts to be collected into separate > > locations in one account, each with their own set of subfolders, and a > > mail client which can u

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-22 Thread Brad
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:07:04PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > If you can wait a day or two: the deb packages for 4.75 are in > incoming just now. Do they have strong encryption yet? -- finger for GPG public key. pgp8so9QkgqLA.pgp Description: PGP signature

tetex slink -> potato

2000-08-22 Thread paul tanner
After the upgrade I can't use the extra stuff that I had in /usr/local/lib/texmf. After examining a copy of my old slink installation I found the ``local'' link in texmf/ and in /usr/share/texmf I added: ln -s /usr/local/share/texmf local and moved my local stuff to: /usr/local/share/texmf and did

Re: Potato keeps waking up?!

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Vitux wrote: > I disabled the "MARK" in the logs (and some other redundant > logging), and set cron to only run exim hourly (by which I learned a > whole lot and cut the spin-ups by 50%), but I'm still not satisfied; > I would like to have the box sleep completely and maybe only spin > the drive on

Re: Baking my own bootable potato using mkisofs

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would like to know how to make my own bootable Debian installation CD, > WITHOUT the use of those humongous *.iso files. For some reason my ISP > frequently turns in abysmal ftp transfer rates. I plan to use a web > grabber, pavuk, to snarf the packages off the net. >

Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-22 Thread Brent Harding
How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, make the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail, but it's limited to one line. Supposing every hour I want it to email me all

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:33:48PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: > OK, you want mail from separate accounts to be collected into separate > locations in one account, each with their own set of subfolders, and a > mail client which can understand this, and send outgoing mail > appropriately for the accou

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:44:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > ;-) . Having used Outlook, which seems to be the example people are > quoting of something that supports this I actually prefer the separate > instances method. Seamlessness is all very well, but things like > deciding which account ne

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread I. Tura
>a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a better way? Try xf86config And you can edit by hand the /etc/XF86Config using info from /usr/doc/x* (very useful info in /usr/doc/xserver-common) hth Ignasi _ \___

isdn_tx_timeout message is bugging me constantly

2000-08-22 Thread Matthias Jordan
Hi, folks! I freshly installed Debian 2.2 with HiSax-Support for my Teles S0- 16 card. Something (I can´t tell you whether it´s a userspace daemon or the kernel itself) sometimes dumps a message like "isdn_tx_timeout dev ippp0 dialstate 0". If anyone could tell me what issues this string and why (

Kernel parameter (hisax) lets kernel hang

2000-08-22 Thread Matthias Jordan
Hi, folks. I have a self-compiled kernel (2.2.15 or 2.2.16 doesn´t matter) with HiSax support for Teles-S0-16 ISDN cards enabled. When I call the kernel from LILO with the parameter "hisax=1,2,11,0xd,0xf80" the kernel hangs immediately after uncompressing the kernel image. The only chance to b

Re: Trouble with pseudo-image-kit

2000-08-22 Thread Quietman
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:48:44AM +0100, Quietman wrote: > Now that Potato is stable, I decided to create my own CD-set using the > pseudo-image kit. It all seemed to go well with no errors, md5sum checks > out okay. The CD can be mounted on my Debian box, but the Windows box > doesn't recognise

Re: ld.so.conf: use nfs mounted libs if not locally available

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > I want to configure "thin" clients with only a few packages > installed locally and a nfs-mounted software repository. > > I put the libs-directories of the nfs repository in > /etc/ld.so.conf on the clients to make the shared libs > available to the clients. But this has

Trouble with pseudo-image-kit

2000-08-22 Thread Quietman
Hi all, Now that Potato is stable, I decided to create my own CD-set using the pseudo-image kit. It all seemed to go well with no errors, md5sum checks out okay. The CD can be mounted on my Debian box, but the Windows box doesn't recognise it and the CD doesn't boot either. Is this normal, or is

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
bish wrote: > Just to find out what all packages are installed, there are no easy > solutions. dpkg -l -- see shy jo

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
John Griffiths wrote: > WARNING - > This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. > If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, > please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and > accept our apologies for any inconvenience c

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:19 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a >> better way? > >$ startx -- -bpp > >...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (generally deprecated), 32. > >Or in /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the value of "Depth"

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:40:17AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a > better way? $ startx -- -bpp ...where color depth is 1, 8, 16, 24 (generally deprecated), 32. Or in /etc/X11/XF86Config, change the value of "Depth"

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
(List added to distribution -- I assume it was dropped inadvertantly) In general I try to avoid these problems by: o Not using MS Windows. o Using networked file transfer (shared drive, scp, ftp, email). o Using shared-drive transfer between multiple boot OSs (however, see first commen

Frontpage2000 Extensions and Potato

2000-08-22 Thread Paul Miller
Greetings, At about the time we upgraded our Web server to Potato, users started having trouble accessing their Frontpage accounts. I can connect to the root web and other subwebs located in the WWW root directory. But attempting to connect to a subweb in a users account, Frontpage receives a 500

WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
Bright was my heart and high my hopes when first i places a "slink" disk into my cdrom in the year of our lord 1999. Those first early skirmishes resulted in crushing defeats. I will bear the scars to my grave. In recent months the battle has intensified... a long grim week with an installed s

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > > But you probably don't care about that. What I've learned from this > > long and silly thread is there are plenty of ways to receive mail from > > several accounts and keep them separated, but none that you

Re: crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread David Bellows
Hello Mike thanks for you responce, Mike Werner wrote: > > One thing that you must be carefull of is to make absolutely sure that there > is a line feed at the end of that line. As an example: > This might have been it. I did add some line feeds in the entry (always using crontab -e) but that d

Re: We really need a FAQ!

2000-08-22 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:51:45PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Here's my first cut of questions that ought to be in a debian-users FAQ: if only someone had this started up when i was getting up to speed, i'd be four months ahead of where i am now-- great idea! i'd also love to see a sub-faq? meta-

Re: crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
David Bellows wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having problems getting cron to work as a user. I'm trying to get > the progam jac (a command line CD player that does work, btw) to run at > specific times to act as an alarm clock. As a user here is my crontab: > > 38 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/jac -P1 >

Baking my own bootable potato using mkisofs

2000-08-22 Thread csj
Hi, I'm a long time user of RPM-based distributions (Redhat, Suse, Demo Linux and especially Mandrake). My only experience with Debian is with Linuxcare's Bootable Business Card. I would like to know how to make my own bootable Debian installation CD, WITHOUT the use of those humongous *.iso files

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:02:00PM -0500, Mark Schiltz wrote: > > An email client that has a folder for [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > etc. (but dosn't call it a folder) with sub-folders for inbox,outbox,etc. > > (its > > ok to call these folde

Re: Laserjet IIP (not postscript) and ghostscript?

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found ghostscriptt and magicilter information starting at about > the laserjet III. Does anyone know how to get a IIP to talk to > ghostsrcript? Will Bad Things (tm) happen if I try to use the drivers > for a III? The newest magicfilter has ljet2p-fi

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried installing several versions of Netscape with no luck. The > most recent was version 4.75 Stand alone browser for Linux 2.2. I was > given the message that I needed the shared library > . > I've checked in the internet, but all I find is rp

Re: [Debian]:Einbrecher?

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Uwe Malzahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: wie stelle ich am elegantesten ftpd und telnetd ab? Weiss nicht, ob dir das elegant genug ist, aber ich habe es mit # dpkg --purge ftpd telnetd gemacht. Gruss, joachim

Re: Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?

2000-08-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Mirek Kwasniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I converted Brad recipe (only for communicator) to a script (attached at end). Not needed any more. Netscape 4.75 is in incoming just now, and it *has* 128-bit encryption. Greetings, joachim

crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I'm having problems getting cron to work as a user. I'm trying to get the progam jac (a command line CD player that does work, btw) to run at specific times to act as an alarm clock. As a user here is my crontab: 38 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/jac -P1 Which should mean that it will pla

Re: restrict root access to physical console

2000-08-22 Thread David Z Maze
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Is there some way to restrict root access to the physical terminal Mike> connected to my machine? I recently had a server rooted and I'm Mike> starting from scratch with serious security in mind. If I did Mike> restrict root access as above, would that succ

Re: restrict root access to physical console

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:05:14PM -0700, Mike wrote: > Hello: > > Is there some way to restrict root access to the physical terminal > connected to my machine? I recently had a server rooted and I'm starting > from scratch with serious security in mind. If I did restrict root access > as abo

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:43:12PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote: > >Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include > >localhost?), and the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf: > > > > order hosts,bind > > Host.conf isn

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Buggy install.bat

2000-08-22 Thread Geordie Birch
I recently did a floppyless install of 2.2 from msdos. I had to modify install.bat from "dosutils\loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=images-1.44/root.bin disksize=1.44" to "loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44". Not too tricky, but some people won't be able

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, update: ok, i figured out that "ifconfig eth0 down" no longer makes eht0 an active interface . so now my active interfaces are "lo" and "ppp0." here's my script "ifconfig": Script started on Tue Aug 22 14:59:26 2000 1NET:/home/bt# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback UP LOOPBACK RUN

restrict root access to physical console

2000-08-22 Thread Mike
Hello: Is there some way to restrict root access to the physical terminal connected to my machine? I recently had a server rooted and I'm starting from scratch with serious security in mind. If I did restrict root access as above, would that successfully thwart root exploits? Also, is ther

Re: Xcdroast & hair loss - resolved :(

2000-08-22 Thread Vagn Scott
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I have learned that many CDRW will not read in cdroms. from a philips FAQ: http://www.km.philips.com/laseroptics/ne_012.htm The CD-R media can be read by the existing 100 million CD-ROM drives as well as all other CD systems. The CD-RW media, on the other hand, will b

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread David Z Maze
bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DZM> bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> I have now run out of ideas. I'm mystified why sound should work BS> whether or not the sound/emu modules are loaded. DZM> DZM> Have you tried actual "sound" (as

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > update: > > i tried to shutdown "eth0" (ifconfig eth0 down), but it still shows up with > "ifconfig > -a.." > > how do i stop this interface? >From the ifconfig man page: If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the currently

exim configuration (Authenticators)

2000-08-22 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I have problems in configuring exim using a remote server as smarthost, because I don't know how to tell exim my username and password on the smarthost. I have posed the question to the exim-users mailing list, and they have replied that I need to use exim AUTHENTICATORS. As my exim has been buil

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote: >Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include >localhost?), and the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf: > > order hosts,bind Host.conf isn't used with libc6 anymore (i.e. for the last 2 years). It's now /etc/nsswitch.conf M

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, update: i tried to shutdown "eth0" (ifconfig eth0 down), but it still shows up with "ifconfig -a.." how do i stop this interface? ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > update: > > ifconfig -a gives me not only "lp" and "ppp0," but it also giv

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-22 Thread hawk
Paul Pondered > Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > You could try finding and running the IBM "Drive Fitness Test". It's > on their web site somewhere and creates a bootable DOS floppy. You might > need Windows to do that bit. I found the like; it's at www.ibm.com/harddrives, then off to http://www.

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:35:38PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > If you want to compress the file, you could use rar. > If you just want to split, you could use file managers like Windows Commander, > Norton C., or the djgpp port of GNU split. > On the debian side you just cat the pieces back in o

Re: Exim question concerning spam

2000-08-22 Thread Pollywog
On 22-Aug-2000 Mike Werner wrote: > It'll go something like this: > > if $header_: contains "" > deliver "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > seen finish > endif Thanks, I was not sure if it would work. I will do that, since I am being inundated with bounced spams from that digital.net user's dialup. -- And

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Mike wrote: > > >Try disabling IDENT in the FTP daemon and see what happens ... the -I > >option does this for wu-ftpd. > > Assuming this works, what are the ramifications of disabling IDENT? If > something's wrong with my resolving setup, I'd like to f

Re: Installation

2000-08-22 Thread Ray Percival
I have ran into the same problem with Debian 2.2 when trying to install. One thing you might try is to go into the other term and make sure the CD is mounted if not try to mount it by hand. -- Original Message -- From: "Cliff Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread bsamuels
Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BS> I have also noticed the follow errors in the log when I play a CD: > > BS> > > BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 >

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, update: ifconfig -a gives me not only "lp" and "ppp0," but it also give me "eth0." for now i'd like to not have "eth0." how do i not have it in the picture? ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // cls-colo spgs wrote: > debs, > > i lost the "lo" part of ifconfig, i.e., all i

Re: Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
For what it's worth, I am running one of these cards with the driver compiled into 2.2.16, rather than as a module. Here's a snippet from dmesg: ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8

1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread cls-colo spgs
debs, i lost the "lo" part of ifconfig, i.e., all i get is the "ppp0" part. (linux-wise, i'm trying to figure out what to do with a nic.) i suspect the prob is causing the obsfucation of my print jobs, seeking a network environment when probably i have nothing even close. please un-dense me.

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread bsamuels
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BS> I have also noticed the follow errors in the log when I play a CD: > BS> > BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 > BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module s

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:14:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Generally, you should just be able to tell your mail client to use a > > different configuration. > Hack. The mail client should be able to do that internally. It se

Re: postfix problem

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:39:43PM -0500, patrick john mahoney wrote: > The postfix uses [EMAIL PROTECTED] while the spruce does not. > Is this the problem? How do I fix it, or what is the real problem? You'd need to find out what criteria the mail server is using to restrict sent mail. Gener

Re: Xcdroast & hair loss

2000-08-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Brian, Thank your for the fine link. I pulled down the software and installed it, tried reading the disk to no avial. Finally, smirfed the site: http://www.adaptec.com/tools/compatibility/udfreaderwin.html and guess what - my cdrom is listed as a device that won't work with this software. BUT

Potato vs Realtek8029PCI NIC

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
Trying to build a tiny lan here... Recompile fresh 2.2.16 with the ne2k-pci driver as module. No signs of nic when booting, insmod ne2k-pci.o gives me "unresolved symbols"-error, and ifconfig -yadayada gives me error to the effect that there's no hardware to configure. So the question is: to nic o

RE: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into any number of > desired sma

Re: Why does debian (potato) start in the runlevel 2?

2000-08-22 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dzm> Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NC> My question is: im new with debian, and other distributions start in NC> the runlevel 3. Why does this one run in the rinlevel 2 by default? In Debian, runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5 all start iden

Re: Utility for multiple floppies

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:47:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a utiltiy or group of utilities that can help me do > the following: > > Take a large file (larger than 1.4 megs, the regular holding space of a > normal floppy disk) from the windows os and split it into an

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