Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-05 Thread Dragos Delcea
hey, I saw this once on my progeny 1.0 when I tried to boot the experimental 2.4.(2)? (the one that came on the second cd) and it stopped right at the fdc message sometimes, or just at the next message, which was eth0... (it's an rtl 8029) I think the problem is around here... dragos Bostjan Mu

Re: disk quota

2001-07-05 Thread Dragos Delcea
hey, I'm not quota expert, but I played with it and, to my understanding, you can do that as long /var/www/user_data is on a separate (ext2) partition; it works for reiserfs too, but you must pay attention to the kernel version to apply some patches. or, if you have your /var/ ,for example, mounte

Re: /bin/sh for all users?

2001-06-14 Thread Dragos Delcea
Paul Rae wrote: > > the /bin/flase shell is there, when you add a user you decide what shell > they have, if you dont want them to have a shell edit the passwd file and > make any changes you feel are needed > I know that, but I'm courious: why /etc/passwd didn't came with /bin/false as default s

Re: /bin/sh for all users?

2001-06-14 Thread Dragos Delcea
Dragos Delcea wrote: > > hello list, > > why in debian (I have 2.2r3) all the system users have > a sh shell? > I have various other linuxes, a freebsd, and none has > this settings in /etc/passwd...; I want to know the > reason behind this, 'couse I've hear

/bin/sh for all users?

2001-06-14 Thread Dragos Delcea
hello list, why in debian (I have 2.2r3) all the system users have a sh shell? I have various other linuxes, a freebsd, and none has this settings in /etc/passwd...; I want to know the reason behind this, 'couse I've heard and it seems resonable that it offers more security to have the shell bin

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-13 Thread Dragos Delcea
Leen Besselink wrote: > You know, I don't think you can swap something like netfilter > rules/information/counters/whatever... > > I'm not sure how much kernel-'memory' can actually be swapped at all. > > so this might be the problem. that's the problem: the kernel is not swapable (only NT trie

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-11 Thread Dragos Delcea
Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch > >> kernel > >> 2.4 installed. > >> > >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. > > In a router, h

Re: Debian and FreeBSD

2001-06-04 Thread Dragos Delcea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago. > > Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux. > There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but: > > I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30

Re: swap vs. RAM

2001-05-31 Thread Dragos Delcea
George Dancheff wrote: > > Hi, I just compiled some kernels 2.4.x series , and it > seems to me that all these builds prefer to use my > swap space instead of my free memory , so the > performance dropped :((( . I noticed when the mashine > is not overloaded , free outputs the following : > debia

Re: permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Dragos Delcea
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:24:16AM +0300, Dragos Delcea wrote: > > hello, > > I'm trying to get used to debian (I'm new to it) > > Here is a simple question: > > why the user's home have those strange permisions?...in redhda

permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Dragos Delcea
hello, I'm trying to get used to debian (I'm new to it) Here is a simple question: why the user's home have those strange permisions?...in redhdat I used to have 0700 for each user's directory...now (debian 2.2rev3) I have something like 2755 (I cannot remember exactly). why is that? it means that

Re: making sound work?

2001-05-24 Thread Dragos Delcea
me like I have to read some newbie debian help :-) I thought I passed this stage :-( ] Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > just making sure you didn't forget to add yourself to the audio group... > > Cameron Matheson > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:03:04PM +0

making sound work?

2001-05-24 Thread Dragos Delcea
hello all, this is going to be a long one I guess: Problem: instaling sound OS: Debian 2.2r3 (all 3 binary CD's) Hardware: yamaha opl sax What I've accomplished: pnpdump >>/etc/isapnp.conf uncommented the appropriate entries in isapnp.conf (dmesg now show the card detected) added the (again) appr