ssh2 (open ssh) compiled for stable?

2001-05-30 Thread Bryan Walton
I have a firewall running Debian stable that I don't want to upgrade to testing. I see that Open SSH version 2.5.2 is in testing and unstable and that 1.2.3 is the version in stable. Am I correct in thinking that the version for stable available at security.debian.org has the bug fixes backportte

Re: turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-23 Thread Bryan Walton
k to the loopback device internally. > > For more info consult the manpage. I don't run exim or I'd try to provide > further info on the config file. > > At 07:24 PM 5/23/2001 -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: > >This may be a better question for another list. I am buildi

turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-23 Thread Bryan Walton
This may be a better question for another list. I am building a firewall for my home LAN. I have exim configured for local delivery only (the only thing I want it to do is move email from root to another userid). Even though I have configured exim for only local delivery, the exim daemon is still

user config files for xterm?

2001-04-17 Thread Bryan Walton
Can the xterm package utilize user config files that override universal setttings on the box? If so, does anyone know what the file should be called? Dug through the man page but didn't find anything on this. Thanks, Bran -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analy

kmod errors on boot (kernel 2.4.3)

2001-04-12 Thread Bryan Walton
I just compiled a 2.4.3 kernel on my Debian testing laptop. During the boot process, I get the following error: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -464c, errno = 8 This message keeps going and doesn't stop until I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and reboot using a different kernel. Does anyone k

Re: kernel-compiling, when should components be compiled as modules?

2001-04-02 Thread Bryan Walton
l memory > footprint if you will, is the advantage. Some kernel modules/drivers may take > up some resources other than just memory too. > > Hope that helps explain it a little, > > Jimmy Richards > > > On Monday 02 April 2001 14:12, Bryan Walton wrote: > > I am

kernel-compiling, when should components be compiled as modules?

2001-04-02 Thread Bryan Walton
gs as modules? Should I stay away from that? Should I always compile as a module if the option is available? Ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in businesshttp://www.berbee.com/ GPG finger

off topic? ftp server supporting ldap and ssl?

2001-03-30 Thread Bryan Walton
Hi, This may be slightly off topic, but does anyone know of an ftp daemon that can do ssl AND can be configured to authenticate against an LDAP database? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in business

Setting time to 24 hour format

2001-03-19 Thread Bryan Walton
Does anybody know how I can set my clock so that when I type "uptime" the time will be shown in 24 hour time rather than as below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uptime 10:25am up 4 days, 1:32, 6 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.08 Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork O

Re: testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

2001-03-19 Thread Bryan Walton
just pushed off some problems until later, but I will cross that road when I get there. Thanks! Bryan On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:48:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Bryan Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or t

testing dist-upgrade (upgrade apt ... remove vital packages!?)

2001-03-19 Thread Bryan Walton
This morning I went in to work and started to perform the usual apt-get -f dist-upgrade on my testing box. Luckily I always throw in a -s into the equation first so that I can see what is about to happen: 1) I upgraded to the unstable apt (0.5.0) about a week or two ago. 2) Now, testing wants to

problems with pgpewrap in mutt testing

2001-03-13 Thread Bryan Walton
this isn't major, I can copy it manually. Just wondering if anyone know what is suddenly causing this? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in businesshttp://www.berbee.com/ GPG fingerprint: BF68

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-10-18 Thread Bryan Walton
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out > skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse panes are v. cool IMHO > > http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ I would have to second the idea of Skipstone. I discovered

Trying to get .menu directory to work

2000-10-02 Thread Bryan Walton
user). I can't get it to work though. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bryan Walton

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
The gods must be looking out for me, at least temporarily. Here is what "dpkg --status libc6 libc6-dev" shows: Both packages: 2.1.94-1 HALLELUJAH (Knock on wood(y)) -Bryan WaltoN On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:51:06PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I don't know why your system wa

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
> On 27-Sep-2000 Bryan Walton wrote: > > Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my > > question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morning > > (as well as yesterday). So, I am sure that I am running this libc6 package > &

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Bryan Walton
d any problems (so far). Exim is still working fine. What does this mean? Should I count my blessings? Or will this libc6 package start breaking things only if I reboot? Just trying to be pre-emptive here. Thanks, Bryan Walton

Trying to run one process as root, how?

2000-04-13 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings to the list, I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the follow

locate warning . . . ?

2000-03-27 Thread Bryan Walton
share/alien/patches/xf86config-glibc_1.0.0.i386-3.diff.gz /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xf86config.1x.gz --cut-- Any ideas about what this means? Thanks, Bryan Walton

Realplayer on Thinkpad 390E

2000-03-20 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings all, I have a Thinkpad 390E running frozen and am having a problem with my RealPlayer. Sound works fine on my laptop. I can play CDs, .wav files, mp3s, etc. However, I can't get sound to work correctly on my RealPlayer. Basically, the sound plays about three times faster than

Debian Install Question

1999-10-13 Thread Bryan Walton
rd drive and start again, essentially wiping out Windows and everything running off of Windows. Is this correct? Is there anyway to fix this problem without erasing everything? Or am I wrong in what I think is happening here? Thanks very much! Bryan Walton