Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:31:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > staff: > > Allows users to add local modifications to the system (/usr/local, > /home) without needing root priveledges. Compare with group "adm", > which is more related to monitoring/security. since the default .p

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
#x27;s primary groups. that is quite annoying when you run audits on the filesystem looking for unusal ownership. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgplNQRxoAcdI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
d, unless they are small and unimportant, apache is neither. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpdAimq1NL73.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
ser/group that > owns web content. no, apache should run as www-data (as it does) but no files should be owned by this user. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpJh8V0Mn4Qu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:56:45AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Any idea when Mozilla-0.9.2 or fixes to Mozilla-0.9.1 will be available > in testing or unstable ??? the way its looking not until Takuo threatens an NMU again... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:28:01PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 03-Jul-01, 17:50 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do so

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Ethan Benson
did so; for example, structured comments > define boot facilities such as $named or $remote_fs, instead of > "S46foo.d". so this runlevel business is soley about X. fine, i can think of NO daemon that relies on xdm being running off hand. certianly not enough for you to dictate to

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Ethan Benson
urse we aren't > going to mess with existing setups, but I personally would rather the > defaults were what was in the LSB: the benefit of having 4 identical > runlevels has so far escaped me. the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do solely up to YOU not some so called

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:30:21AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > [...] > > i think debian will support the lsb to the point where it does not > > require compromising our quility and policy. > > In what re

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Ethan Benson
duce a quality, stable dist > base. That will help Free Software and Linux in general. That's reason alone > for me to hope Debian doesn't undermine the LSB. i am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the LSB is a lost cause. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpO

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-03 Thread Ethan Benson
d rather debian ignore part or all of the lsb then turn itself into one of those other distributions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpirWgIOMEf3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:22:35AM +0300, Matti Airas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:57:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > dpkg -s > > > > you really should rtfm... > > Well, thank you for suggesting so kindly. The '-s' switch does exactly > w

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-01 Thread Ethan Benson
l > rpm packages with 'alien' and 'dpkg' on a dpkg based distribution. that is a reasonable thing to do, but we should not go further then that. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpGLTjqoNJS6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
lus > SuSE and its bastard rpms). and none of this is any reason for us to abandon our packaging system, we should provide alien as always and ignore this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp9CzoUjfsL6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
ndard package format should be something that does not require special tools to deal with, tar.gz and .deb meet that criteria, rpm does not. you can for example extract a .deb on a stock slackware system, not true of rpm. (unless slackware started including rpm in the base since i last looked..)

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-06-30 Thread Ethan Benson
kage management tools, and transition tools for the > database contents, etc. i think you can expect the developer base and user base to drop like a rock if this happened, since thats the case it never will. nor should it. i would almost say that you are trolling here... -- Ethan Benson htt

Re: Getting hyped about a possible of Debian PPC on an iMac DV Special Edition.

2001-06-28 Thread Ethan Benson
WONDERFUL things about debian...get a cd and apt-get for life! :-) > > Long live Debian, the chice of a GNU Generation. > > Patrick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp3g96gAgL1I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New kernel pre21?

2001-06-26 Thread Ethan Benson
the new kernel. you mean downgrade pre == prerelease, beta etc, that is 2.2.19pre21 < 2.2.19 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp09jhkXYJOw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: potato on imac

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
maxlinux, linuxppc, etc. penguinppc.org -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpb0ENJkD7xs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
ed with owners like joeuser instead of root. debian uses tar to store file permissions, tar preserves whatever permissions it finds on the filesystem at build time, thus we must chown -R root.root which of course requires the appearance of root privileges. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska

Re: Why use fakeroot when compiling kernel?

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
. Think about > it, if anyone could "fakeroot ~user/script/replace_passwd".. > > Just a few general pointers: > > 1. You do not need to put the kernel source in /usr/src/linux. In fact, > it can only cause you unforeseen confusion and hassle. Just put the only on distros that

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
ou in the group disk? he better not be. users should NEVER be in group disk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp8OFqCPFmmV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
username cdrom logout login > (which makes me think I might switch off the 'w' but doubt that that is my > problem here?) no -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpGpLcVoVQIU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?

2001-06-23 Thread Ethan Benson
plain if > it cannot. No weird ICMP messages. biff = no in main.cf for postfix will stop it from doing these connections, but procmail is another matter. btw: i use postfix with a ~/.forward that pipes my mail to procmail. i don't have masqmail. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpaCKTJJaXow.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /tmp coming up read only

2001-06-21 Thread Ethan Benson
sions. > What did I do?? when a new filesystem is created the permissions on its root directory are set to 0755 by default. normally thats correct, but /tmp and /var/tmp are special so you have to chmod 1777 (not 777) them to set correct permissions. the root directory of a filesystem is no diffe

Re: Strange logs - General Protection Fault

2001-06-19 Thread Ethan Benson
emory: 001d95ec, next= > , order=0 > Jun 19 20:10:30 melb kernel: idle task may not sleep > Jun 19 20:10:30 melb last message repeated 4 times > your kernel is in VERY bad shape -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp5FFQkzRHGe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XMMS: root can / user can not listen Audio CDs

2001-06-18 Thread Ethan Benson
on't know of a "friendly" tool like addgroup for it, but you can > always take the manual approach and use "vigr". Look for the group name > and remove the user from the list of names that follows. gpasswd -d user group -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpNdBwpzoeCZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

2001-06-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:48:05AM +0800, csj wrote: > Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found > at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpQZmlAs45yR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
t have this option. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp1fOrtr1FST.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
rs _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person > explicitly makes it readable. wrong, debian creates home directories mode 755, world readable by default like all other *nixes that have come before it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpphsEzi3kID.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tftp server

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:25:43PM +0200, Minervini Luigi wrote: > Does anyone know the meaning of the parameters -p -s /tftpboot (coloured in > green) in the following line: > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/in.tftpd in.tftpd -p -s /tftpboot man in.tftp -- Ethan Benson http://www.a

Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
d make your (and everyone elses) life alot easier. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpxsc9OgZKLc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't get Mozilla 0.9.1 to run -- Missing library?

2001-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:17:53AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Ethan Benson said: > > > > > > the woody mozilla package is rediculously out of date, i recommend > > installing my 0.9 packages and wait a few days for them to get updated > >

Re: Can't get Mozilla 0.9.1 to run -- Missing library?

2001-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
d be appreciated! see above deb http://penguinppc.org/~eb/mozilla ./ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpA8tKUqphju.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
hrase is only known to the client, and the client program is what takes care of asking it and decrypting the private key. there is no way for the server to know much less enforce passphrase rules on RSA/DSA keys. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpLgzRFjWCpD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: getting ps to not display all processes for normal users

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
s are not). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpaNPZuPHviQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Some sugestions of cheanges

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
but for now I don't remember witch one) file wishlist bug against pine-src. but again use mutt, pine is full of security holes, is non-free and just generally sucks. (flames to /dev/null) > 9. When new editor is instaled the '/bin/editor' > symlink doesn't

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:57:55PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > You may need to have "Non-free" in your /etc/apt/source.list as in you don't, ssh is not non-free. non-US yes, non-free no -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpf1ZXcROb52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: permisions in /home

2001-05-28 Thread Ethan Benson
has a option for home directory creation mode (maybe only in woody's adduser..). just because redhat does something doesn't make it standard or correct. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpfcn22CsxKk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-26 Thread Ethan Benson
cd galeon-0.10.6 ./configure make su -c 'make install' easy. (you might have to install a -dev package or two, this isn't hard either) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpS6KomHU7p5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Ethan Benson
t; > Eddy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpfd297GRyUy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-21 Thread Ethan Benson
other clues? try boot-floppies CVS. unfortunatly last time i tried to do an anonymous checkout i still got the `server aborted, cannot allocate 60 bytes' or such at some point, i don't remember if there is a workaround for that, check the archives. (you can still get most everythin

Re: galeon compile

2001-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:59:43AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and at the bottom there > > is a file search form, this allows you to find what package owns any > > give

Re: galeon compile

2001-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
amp;case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386&directories=yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpqKungTdB02.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla M18-3 SSL support? (was Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites)

2001-05-19 Thread Ethan Benson
unstable-i386 so if you use potato (or arch != i386) you must apt-get source and build the packages locally. this is not hard to do so long as you install everything listed in it's build-depends. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpF0ZQHMW8kT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Is Redhat *that* bad?

2001-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
kg-buildpackage' to install packages into debian's archive. and thier strict policy REQUIRING such things as FHS compliance and to never overwrite config files without permission. (among many other things). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpT64ovch1qn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: galeon - skipstone?

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
s quite wrong... or am i the only one who gets that? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpt5TL4Ka0UB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Filesystem flag toggle ???

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:24:19PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > If I have mounted /usr as ro, and I want to change it to rw while > running, how do I do it? mount -o remount,rw /usr -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpa7yqyNdnSw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
ch as blizzard to for RH packages. i tried applying blizzards patch as i found it in bugzilla but mozilla then failed to compile. apparently the one in bugzilla is broken, and im not downloading 30MB of src.rpm crap to see whats in there... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Re: galeon crashes when running as user

2001-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
fast*) combo yet. (i use kitame's mozilla packages recompiled on potato). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgplssKditOIt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Compiling Galeon

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
to get the configure script to see my > lignome-vfs? you need libgnome-vfs-dev when a configure script says your missing some library, you always need to install the -dev package as well as the binary one (the -dev will depend on the binary one and thus brings both in) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpoduCUlAHyd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
imagine galeon will not get packaged for debian until mozilla is packaged for debian (mozilla m18 does not count). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp3qKTOFe7I2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: manual install

2001-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
be greatly > appreciated. one idea... ungzip the root.bin image, and loopback mount it, and nfs export it using it for nfs root. that might work... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpK2dSpMJtFx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installation

2001-05-15 Thread Ethan Benson
ler value for initrd-size, i think 4096 should be sufficient, for some reason we have needed more space on powermacs to get ramdisks to work reliably. > Ramdisk image not found. > ramdisk load failed ! this is a result of not being able to download the initrd. > Any ideas? its

Re: installation

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
tory for those however. i am not very familier with those. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpQMjtkrH2On.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
> with the Gimp? this is how i do it: let gimp print to a file, say /tmp/gimp.ps lpr /tmp/gimp.ps annoying but it works. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpKBs5REsMdM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Password Recovery

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
process. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp9ViByIgJzt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody release date

2001-05-12 Thread Ethan Benson
if more people help with boot floppies that would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many times freezes have to be restarted because RC bugs were not fixed. thats why potato's freeze took so long. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpjULHuyB6AV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FW: debian newbie questions -- security

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
default anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpKxP8xZJChp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:12:57PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > My dad started a new project at work, which they will be using Linux for. He > came to me and asked me if Linux had a program to convert a binary stream to > ASCII characters. A co-worker of his told him that UNIX had a

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-07 Thread Ethan Benson
a mozilla bug is still a galeon bug, and a mozilla segfault is a galeon segfault. so if mozilla destablizes (because they have much damn cruft to try and maintain) so does galeon. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpEgO7OAh3Zp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-07 Thread Ethan Benson
ail, whatever-other-useless-cruft and concentrate on the rendering engine, let galeon and the other frontend projects deal with the rest. then maybe we could have a decent browser before the next millennium. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpM7grYth2xH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-07 Thread Ethan Benson
.debian.or.jp/~kitame/mozilla/ ./ (sources.list) mozilla newer then M18 may never get into debian unless the maintainer just puts it in non-US or someone volunteers a lawyer to comment on US export law. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp57bbociKTl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
etly missed the point. Free Software has nothing whatsoever to do with cost. it is about Freedom. please read: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpy23Qbmatf2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Ethan Benson
ot; ? It is already > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". in fact the Free Software Foundation recommends that the native terms be used in different locales, so when dealing with the french one should use `libre software'. englis

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
ls which are most likely to be aquired at this time, eg: stylus color 8xx, 9xx, etc. [1] i don't have any interest in becoming my own debian maintainer for the gs packages, and that is essentially whats involved. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpoqPPqXzYIu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
set" fi but i suspect this is probably less safe. > In contrast, csh and derivatives have: > >$?MYVAR > > ...which allows testing of presence of a variable. > > ...but I'm not aware of a similar bash/korn/bourne feature. Anyone? see above. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0BW29p9yC9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
; then echo true fi the quotes of course are removed, but they show here that an actual null is being tested for equality with `bar'. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpml9wGaPDUq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
stscript printers are very easy to get working, and provide good quality. non-postscript printers are a complete and total pain in the ass to get working, if they can be made to work at all. many models cannot be made to work. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpDWDP4kr97k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: User permissions for an ext2 partition

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
> equivalent for ext2? ext2 supports file permissions and ownership like any decent *nix filesystem. man chown man chgrp man chmod -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpLiS4kIijTC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
E.pid --exec $DAEMON echo "$NAME." ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpE0hUdNtdfK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
t the same as thier unix uid. beware that files owned by root will be owned by `' on macos since uid=0 is on macos. im pretty sure that afpd is smart enough to not let normal users run around chmoding and chowning and scribbling files owned by root, but i would double check... -- Ethan Benson

Re: netatalk setup gaflooey

2001-05-01 Thread Ethan Benson
kes it tcp/ip only. since macos 8 and later it can handle tcp/ip appleshare servers fine. no need for crufty appletalk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp65DxFITwpv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Ethan Benson
le. After that is done and you HAVE VERIFIED that > all the data coppied correctly, rm -fr /usr/*. after that, umount /dev/hda5, > then mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 /usr. cp -R is a horribly wrong thing to use for this task, it will destroy symlinks and hardlinks. turning them into duplicat

Re: Why is the default umask 022?

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
w what they are doing enough to change the umask if thier needs require it. just because you use the private-groups does not necessarily mean that group writability is what is desired. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpMK5ZfRhfx9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting the "mail" command to work

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
postfix installed. if it doesn't work then something is wrong with your postfix setup. check your mail logs for hints as to whats going wrong. postfix is generally pretty easy to get going. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp46Q5G0jfAt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:23:07PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you > > WILL need to fsck it, > > There is no fsck for reiserfs; or, it's not recommended, to be exact. there is o

Re: reiserfs installation

2001-04-30 Thread Ethan Benson
when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you WILL need to fsck it, and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpSP5XrKrrSZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
in installed for netscape at /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins. (using debian netscape packages). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpWw3h0K0Pfs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: samba + netatalk

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
ons of netatalk which apparently started getting some maintainence again recently. check sourceforge for more info on the current status of netatalk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpaq0E7yQ5Ca.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
; to work by now. shutdown.allow restricts ctrl-alt-del. users listed in shutdown.allow *MUST* be logged into the console (not X). or else ctrl-alt-delete will just produce a `no authorized users logged in' message. it does not allow you to shutdown non-root. for that use sudo. --

Re: SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

2001-04-25 Thread Ethan Benson
on NT, i didn't pay much attention since NT holes are rather boring (though sometimes funny). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp5qvXTwJsr5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Ethan Benson
a convention for signatures: -- \n -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpiJIPalStPU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libc6 and kernel 2.2.18pre21????

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
rl is worse then libc) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpWvBx07vOT1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libc6 and kernel 2.2.18pre21????

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
rade to r3 and 2.2.19, you have many open security holes right now. add security.debian.org to your sources.list too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp69K8SuXBei.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
onthes. i think option 2 is your best bet. you will have to read the docs on that yourself though, i don't know anything about the pcmcia module building. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpCVP2HiQ4H5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
often archetecture specific patches that are not merged mainline. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpKrdJPNdNdq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:05:25PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact > > package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia. > > The only version in stable is pcmcia-module

Re: GNOME problems

2001-04-21 Thread Ethan Benson
session file should just say > #!/bin/bash --login > gnome session actually in ~/.xsession #!/bin/bash --login exec gnome-session -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp1n2huNQlyc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Correct permissions for lpd spool dir?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
gt; /var/spool/lpd/lp is > drwx--2 daemon lp 1024 Apr 20 16:28 lp > > I suspect that these are not the correct permissions. Can anyone verify > or deny my suspicions, and if I'm right, can anyone provide me with the > correct permissions? checkpc -f will chec

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
s to your help. install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp1cQWexJWC1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
as root, using a dialup connection. if your firewalling you need to open udp port 123 to incoming connections. even for ntpdate in my experience. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpmP6MYFz23f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ximian Gnome on Potato

2001-04-20 Thread Ethan Benson
ed sid upgrades (about a dozen or so packages) and things are working much MUCH better now. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp12DscYKDcE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
enter linux for the current kernel and linux.old for the previous one. make sure the /vmlinux symlinks are correct. for grub you can boot any kernel you want without a config file so there isn't much to worry about there. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpI5jHq0xsmU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to set correct time?

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
ll fledged ntpd but its sufficient for most purposes. if you don't have network connectivity you need to run as root: date 041902002001 that would set the date to 4/19/2001 at 2:00. (time is in 24hr format). date --help shows the syntax. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpB2o2vhHpLp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
e., what is? > your machine is OldWorld. your choices in bootloaders are quik (openfirmware based) and bootx (macos based). NewWorld machines have colored cases, oldworlds are beige. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpIrojdedrMz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/lock ?

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
rwise abnormally died leaving the lock in place. (im not sure if fcntl() ever expires). also do you have any of this nfs exported? run ps aufxww and look for apt-get or dpkg processes. BTW: your Mail-Followup-To is broken, there is no user `barry' on my system. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpJs6H7omtCu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: applying _only_ security updates

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
al e-mail. > could you please turn off the lawyer before posting to the list? you might teach it to put a \n in every once in a while too. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpyCB9G8ERbr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: applying _only_ security updates

2001-04-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:25:57PM -0500, DvB wrote: > So, in other words, it's better to just update from stable every now and > then...? yup, once a week is a good idea unless you subscribe to debian-security-annouce (which is better). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.ne

Re: applying _only_ security updates

2001-04-18 Thread Ethan Benson
e removed from security.debian.org and merged into the mainline dist when a point release (such as the recent r3) are made. right now security.debian.org has only two security updates. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpE3CZuQAivt.pgp Description: PGP signature

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