Debian crashes: sw, hw or malicious hacker/virus problems?

2000-10-23 Thread Jean Orloff
Hello, dear debian fellows! Please forgive my paranoid anonymity, in view of the last section of this message. 1) My problem: I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But since I installed 2.1 on my new PC at work, about a year ago, that machine undergoes about a crash per mo

Re: Exim: frustrations configuring a satellite system (Solution)

2000-02-22 Thread Jean Orloff
e eximconfig dialog for a satellite system. Amities, Jean Orloff

Re: Exim: frustrations configuring a satellite system

2000-02-15 Thread Jean Orloff
pleted and I never get any error message, despite the correct From and Sender header ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks for caring! Jean Orloff Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)473.40.72.2

Re: Exim: frustrations configuring a satellite system

2000-02-15 Thread Jean Orloff
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to which you blindly Cc'ed. Did you receive a notice that your Cc never arrived? >>>>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:28:46 -0200, Henrique M Holschuh >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Henrique> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jean Orloff wr

Exim: frustrations configuring a satellite system

2000-02-15 Thread Jean Orloff
s sent to that same address (instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which is not reachable) The previous sendmail configuration script apparently did this fine, but the new frozen one doesn't seem to. Amities,

Re: Undo in dselect

1999-12-08 Thread Jean Orloff
27;s what happened to me). X doesn't help, AFAIK. And if you simply go back to the selection menu, you won't see the difference between the new packages and the ones you decided long ago to be uninteresting. -- Amities, Jean Orloff + +

Undo in dselect

1999-12-06 Thread Jean Orloff
at are lost forever after a couple of screens...). -- Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)473.40.72.27

xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-11 Thread Jean Orloff
little black dot in it, there are permutations (eg "e" becomes "%"), but numbers are all OK. X is working fine, but I feel insecure to live with such garbage in the virtual terminals. Jean Orloff + + + + + + +

BIG syslogd problem with debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.27

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
wer... Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)474.40.72.86 Fax:(33)473.26.45.98 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/ + + + + + + + + + ++ Outside a Paris dress shop:

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1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
mpile with the -DMS_CHAP flag? Rebuild the kernel? Or would you guys know where to tune an NT server to accept simple PAP? Thanks for any info! Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)474.40.72.86 Fax:(33)473.26.

ftpd(netstd2.09-2): File permission defaults for ftp uploads?

1997-07-28 Thread Jean Orloff
ve to issue a "chmod" which many windows client a reluctant to do. This is very inconvenient for many things, like uplodaing web files. The bestial solution might be to upgrade to wu-ftpd, but I would rather not. Any workaround known? Amities,

dselect: an urgent suggestion, common upgrade problems

1997-01-21 Thread Jean Orloff
is type of info as loudly as possible is what really worries me with commercial software, more than asking 2$ from CD makers... Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)450.09.16.75 Fax:(33)450.27.94.95 http:/

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Jean Orloff
he OSF Motif price list on Metrolink. My first experience with $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 entries... Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)450.09.1

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Jean Orloff
believe it! Any hint welcome! Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ + Tel:(33)450.09.16.75 Fax:(33)450.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3

Printing on different paper trays with Linux?

1996-11-26 Thread Jean Orloff
. As the Windox drivers have a paper-tray selection button, they have a way of conveying the info, but it ends up with erratic error messages like "No paper in tray 4". Since there is no such tray, it would all be normal, except that the user selected tray 1... Amities, J

Re: Floppy management?

1996-11-20 Thread Jean Orloff
l key a few times: this is the only thing that responds when you start wondering what this bloody machine is doing to your disk after half an hour... Amities, Jean Orloff + + +

Floppy management?

1996-11-19 Thread Jean Orloff
nt point from some users point of view. I was also surpised that Linux was not that much better than DO$ for the multitasking of floppy formatting: the system stops responding, and if you then eject the disk... Any input welcome. Amities, Jean Orloff + +

XF86 3.1.2 Memory hunger

1996-11-12 Thread Jean Orloff
memory from X, in order to stay small itself? 3) Maybe this all is not unrelated with certain anomalies I noticed lately: I for instance found out that my cron process died, but have no clues how this happened. Maybe it was just out of memory? Any clues appreciated! Amities,

Multi-processor boards: Linux/Debian support?

1996-10-23 Thread Jean Orloff
-processor systems with linux. Questions: 1) Does this need specially compiled software? 2) How would Linux vs NT vs Alpha station compare for numerical computations? 3) Where can I find more info about this. The linux-smp list seems to be sleepy. Many thanks! Amities, Jean Orloff

Re: IOmega Jaz drive

1996-10-22 Thread Jean Orloff
I just installed Debian ON a 1Gb IOmega Jaz driver: it gets recognized at the bios level, just when you insert the root/boot disks! The resulting system is of course not too fast, but enough to get a feeling, without any worry for other installed systems. Amities, Jean Orloff

STB Powegraph graphics card problem (was:HELP: Probs configuring X)

1996-09-17 Thread Jean Orloff
n the left, so that's where I put Goodstuff buttons and Icons, and put Emacs safely on the right. Not the solution, just a way to survive (the alternative was to switch back to Windblows, can you imagine?) Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + +

Protections against a mad maintainer?

1996-09-11 Thread Jean Orloff
:/usr/local/man:/usr/local.old/man:/lapphp0_2/local/X11R5/man:/lapphp1_1/usr/man:/lapphp1_1/usr/local/man:/usr/contrib/man Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0

Latex: where to install new styles? Mf: how to muzzle?

1996-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
ilently? I don't mind keeping a single line each time a font is built... Again, no /etc config file in sight... Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.i

Re: using procmail with emacs RMAIL

1996-08-26 Thread Jean Orloff
is all should work, now you only got to debug! ;-) Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/+ + + + + + + +

Contents of a package? (was deb-view.el)

1996-08-26 Thread Jean Orloff
must occur with other packages too (eg: what is the version number of chat in a given ppp.deb package?) Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~o

Re: Digested version of this list? (Stopped archives)

1996-08-23 Thread Jean Orloff
top on June 24. Any follow-up out there? Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/+ + + + + + + +

Re: Netscape Library Error (netscape without .deb)

1996-08-21 Thread Jean Orloff
> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:43:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Liu) said: Eric> Hi! This new user has another unsolved problem. *grin* Background: Got Eric> and installed motifnls_2.1-1.deb and netscape_3.0-beta6-1.deb. Got the Eric> right tar.gz file off of Netscape's site and put it in

Re: PPP Manual Dial?

1996-08-20 Thread Jean Orloff
t winsock on this one, and this is a huge selling argument! Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/+ + + + + + +

Re: vfat/msdos depend on fat

1996-08-19 Thread Jean Orloff
Michael> Hamish Moffatt writes: >> I compiled a custom kernel last night, and made fat, msdos and vfat all >> modules. msdos and vfat depend on fat to operate, and it seems that >> /etc/modules gets processed later than mounting all file systems; Michael> That's what the auto option is for.

Re: chat bugs: mine are finally solved with a delay (\d)

1996-08-14 Thread Jean Orloff
>>>>> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 19:40:00 +0200, Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: >> I'm still unsuccessfully fighting my chat problems reported over 2 weeks >> ago. [snip] >> After CONNECT, chat sends a character over the l

Re: chat bugs

1996-08-12 Thread Jean Orloff
mistic. If I had courage, I would rewrite a chat clone in Perl... But this problem has cost me about 15h playing around during the last weeks, and my faith in myself and debian is declining... Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + +

help with ppp

1996-05-11 Thread Jean Orloff
t get written anywhere...) IOCADDR error no such device Any idea? Thanks! Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel:(33)50.09.16.75 Fax:(33)50.09.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~o

Re: disabling daemons from init.d

1996-05-06 Thread Jean Orloff
| ] update-rc.d start|stop. ... I guess you wish to use the remove option, which kills the links while leaving the scripts intact. Was my voice deep enough ?-; Amities, Jean Orloff + + + + + + + + ++ +Tel: