On Friday 18 June 2004 16.29, Francisco Borges wrote:
[...]
> a Block List [...] that blocks not only blocks huge IP
> > blocks /permanently/ but also whole countries
> (some 25 by default).
ouch.
> We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level,
For a minimal false positive
On Thursday 01 April 2004 02.49, mister linux wrote:
> How many of the CD images must one download from the Debian mirror
> sites
>
> Are all of these required?
>
> debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
As other said, use this.
If you have network connection on the machine you install Debian on,
you'll
On Thursday 01 April 2004 01.39, Clive Menzies wrote:
> There are two reasons I use NFS:
There is one reason I'll never use NFS: authentication.
NFS 'authenticates' clients by numerical userid *only*, and restricts
access by IP address.
So, if you manage to take over the IP address of a client
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 15.40, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >Which Debian version?
>
> stable (woody, currently) - probably no need for the latest and
> greatest packages like you'd likely want on a workstation
You may want to use samba 3, though, as there are quite noticeable
improvements over 2.2
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 13.00, SpamHog wrote:
> So I still wonder if ALL i386 kernels contain such vendor-provided
> modules.
No, not at all.
But if Debian would change the binary API of the kernel, vendor-provided
modules would stop working for the people who use them. This is not
supposed
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20.43, Jason Slaughter wrote:
> I have been running a debian unstable machine for a while but I'd like
> to move it to a "testing" machine (with a few unstable packages
> pinned). I know downgrades like this aren't really encouraged, but I
> don't want to downgrade so much
[Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your
mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support
other threading-aware mailers?]
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01.14, Michael Bellears wrote:
> Steve:
> > I don't have a lot of experience with this b
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10.55, SpamHog wrote:
[...]
> - Is one stuck with vulns for now? If so, till when?
Your best bet is to compile your own kernel. I'm not clear what you
refer to (and you didn't give a link, and I won't go hunting for it),
but I guess what it meant that Debian won't upgrad
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07.04, Michael Bellears wrote:
> Would appreciate anyone's experiences/recommendations on the
> following points:
>
> 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all "real"
> servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one
> server that
On Monday 29 March 2004 21.53, mehdi wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am new to debian but not to UNIX. I `ve been using HPUX unix (only
> as a user) for few years. There are some question for me and I be
> glade If anyone can help me on that.
>
> 1- Where does the third party software (such as GNU softwares) are
On Thursday 25 March 2004 19.52, s. keeling wrote:
> I think (eg.) "Networking For Women" workshops are demeaning and
> insulting to women. "What, you don't think I could handle a real
> networking course?!? Pig!" The women I hang with agree. When I say
> something about it on-line, I'm roundl
On Friday 26 March 2004 04.04, Brad Sims wrote:
> On Thursday 25 March 2004 2:45 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> >
> > Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line
> > length to use in email. Some even argue 72 so that i
On Thursday 25 March 2004 02.08, Brad Sims wrote:
> Signatures are delimited by dash dash space newline ie "-- "
> and should be, properly speaking, no more than four lines of
> not more than eighty characters per line
Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line length to
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18.58, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> I now need to buy some hardware to set up a 2-disk RAID-1 array for a
> server. The server will run debian with kernel 2.6. The cost
> (money-wise) is not really an issue. The disks are ATA/133 (already
> purchased). Which would y
On Monday 22 March 2004 23.20, Carl Fink wrote:
> Anyone care to recommend a PCI 802.11 NIC? G is ideal, but since I'm
> basically sharing a 4 megabit cable modem connection, B is also fine.
Speaking of wireless: I'm looking for 54Mbps adaptors that work with hostap -
I have a dedicated router,
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11.01, Paul Johnson wrote:
> You might want to submit your public key to
> x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ so others may fetch it.
It is there.
Key id is 0x92082481, but pgp.mit.edu is b0rked and
- carries only a corrupted version of my key and
- can't search by subkey (which is
Yo!
On Saturday 20 March 2004 14.45, Cedric Ware wrote:
> > [debian-security CC:ed since people there certainly have experience in
> > the 'Server/network set up' section below. Please don't crosspost when
> > you reply.
>
> Well, what about people subscribed to only one list but interested in bot
Paul, thanks for your answers!
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10.00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you're lucky enough to have nothing but matching units on the
> production floor, you are truly lucky. In
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On Saturday 20 March 2004 05.13, Chris Lowe wrote:
> Hi
> I have been attempting to install Debian for the first time on my pc.
> But I am having a problem getting the installer to recognise my Via
> VT8237 sata raid controller.
To install woody with
Yo!
So far, my experience was with administrating smallish servers and mostly
stand-alone clients. The future shines bright, however, and I may soon be in
a position to do much more than that. But, lacking experience, I now need
some advice.
[debian-security CC:ed since people there certainly
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06.20, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net
> at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome.
>
> I would like to thank all the people who helped me put this
> together.
Yo!
With libc-client2002ddebian 2002ddebian1-4, the debconf question whether to
allow unencrypted plaintex logins is apparently ignored (not even c-client.cf
is created, and when I create that manually and put in the directive
documented in the README.Debian, it has no effect).
So, the questio
On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 14:59, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with
> outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong:
>
> apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package (e.g.
> a security update) from unstab
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:18, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:08:44AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > I'm using uw-imapd, and have some procmail filters set up. While
> > accessing my mailbox (from evolution, btw, but I don't think it
> > matters), it occurs relatively of
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:58, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> --Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
[postfix == open relay??]
> There's one setting that's standard in the "main.cf" file that
> supposedly turns off the open relay:
> relay_domains = *.yourdomain.tld
As I usually don't
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 03:49, David Sanders wrote:
> I am installing Debian 3.0 Woody on a new machine with a 80GB hard drive and
> 512MB of RAM. It will be used as a workstation. I have read the
> installation manual, but still have questions about partitioning the disk.
> Minimum values are usu
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:05, Gene Wheelbarger wrote:
> (hopefully I don't get flamed too hard for this!)
>
> Or you could just download
> ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8019as/rset-8019(330).zip
That's what I found eventually, thanks.
Of course, when I google for 'Linux Realtek 8019' this does
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:48, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I've put together a resource page re "Linux in Universities"
> at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/
Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland
- has several computer labs (generally accessible to students) with
various Linux distribution
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 01:38, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> Go get a couple cheap network cards and a four-port ethernet hub. It's
> easier and cheaper.
No need for a hub, when it's only 2 computers for the foreseeable
future. Get a crossover ethernet cable instead. Leaves off 1 cable and
the
Hi!
I have a cheapo ISA Realtek8019AS card (worst Ethernet card ever built
etc.). Also, I have a cheap 10Mbit hub. The 8019AS sadly thinks that it
should operate at 10Mb Full-Duplex, featuring transfer rates around
100kB per second... (with collision rates going over the top, of
course).
Appare
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 02:51, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> --Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200):
[...]
> > As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll proba
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 06:35, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I have been on this list for about 5 years, and I don't think I have ever
> seen one instance of "Fuck Off." I have heard many people advise others to
> go away, but never actually as blunt or blatant as that.
Wlll, there's certain
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:33, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> I have a few large applications that tend to lay dormant from time to
> time, and as a result Linux memory management shuffles them off to swap.
> For these applications this can mean very sluggish performance when I come
> back to them (after
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 15:14, Colin Watson wrote:
> sid is unstable, and often suits its name. I wouldn't expect it ever to
> settle down if I were you. :)
>
> The current major blockers are the perl 5.8 and python 2.2 transitions.
> Those are being worked on and should be sorted out by a couple
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 16:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[transparency]
> Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11
> protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code,
> and inv
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:58, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a simple way to set up a NTP Server on Debian? I tried the
ntp (and
> the ntp-simple | ntp-reclock) package but it seemed that this was only
a
> client ntp daemon.
ntp does not know a difference between 'server' and 'clien
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 04:23, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or
> about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection?
Classical crypto analysis uses the fact that the cleartext message has
predictable patterns (as natural langua
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:56, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote:
> > > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one
> > > directory?
> >
> > As many as you want... but access
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one
> directory?
Depends on the filesystem. And depends on how you interpret your
question (how many files can you put in a directory and still have
reasonable performance vs. h
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 10:20, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote:
[test results]
Thanks a lot - this is more detailed than what I had hoped for.
> This is only preliminary testing, and I'd suggest you do a backup with
> pilot-xfer then test.
Of course
cheers
-- vbi
--
secure email with gpg
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 00:02, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
[palm]
nobody mentioned kpilot so far.
I'm currently using gnome-pilot and evolution, but am not quite happy
with the latter (palm integration is good. Other issues), so I'm
considering changing to kmail (1.4 with kde3, coming to sid soon, I
hea
Yo!
I get this problem for ages: when upgrading abi packages, I get lots of
warnings like:
W: In abiword_common::truetype('unregister',
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/xfree86-nonfree/luxisri.ttf', ...): Undefined
subroutine &abiword_common::tt_unregister called at
/var/lib/defoma/scripts/abiword-comm
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