Quoting Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> I can use an old kernel which was installed.
> So everything is pretty good now! :-)
>
> I can't use the newest kernel and I probably should reinstall the whole system
> anyway to get rid of some bugs, but now it works again, so I have the opti
Quoting Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If /dev is empty in a cloned root filesystem (since udev is its
> own filesystem and /dev files are not copied) it does not boot up
> but hangs with an error message similar to "can't open initial
> console." I've not narrowed down which console device the kern
Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> ifup wlan0 reports this:
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not suppor
Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote:
> > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an
> > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the
> > Prism2.5 chipset. You probably want the linux-wlan-ng drivers.
> >
Quoting David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 16:49, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > apt-get install libsasl-modules-plain
> >
> > Did the trick. Or at least got rid or the error message and normal,
> > incoming mail goes thru. I am still getti
Quoting David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 18:13, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > I am trying to get SASL running with Postfix on Debian. I would like
> > > to authenticate against /
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am trying to get SASL running with Postfix on Debian. I would like
> to authenticate against /etc/passwd, but I only have a few users and
> they don't change often so any mechanism would be okay. I have the
> followi
I am trying to get SASL running with Postfix on Debian. I would like
to authenticate against /etc/passwd, but I only have a few users and
they don't change often so any mechanism would be okay. I have the
following in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf and
/usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf:
pwcheck_method: pas
Quoting Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Am Montag, 8. M?rz 2004 13:25 schrieb Nejc Novak:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Does anyone of you have any experiences using amavisd-new (for spam and
> > antivirus) on debian stable? Have you installed from tarballs or from
> > debian packages from bac
Quoting S.D.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> While I'm the knuckle-head that had the kernel panic yesterday.
>
> I kept my original Home directory, including the config files, however
> when doing sa-learn with Spamassassin, I'm given an error -- works fine
> when run via root though. The error is couldn
Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
>
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
> > Debian box.
>
> Your basic method listed in the rest of the email is the way to do it.
>
>
Quoting Phillip Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> All,
>
> I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
> Debian box.
>
> My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in
> order to get such a drive working?
>
> My first thought w
Quoting Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I like those last two. They tell me a fair amount. However, I had a
> package installed once that even told me I had a Coppermine CPU but
> I cannot remember what the package was nor the command now.
>
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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My 133MHz 5x86 with VLB video was just barely adequate to run X11.
The bottleneck is the video card, not the CPU. Same problems with a
50MHz 486DX2.
Jeffrey
Quoting Mark Gillingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm a newbie, but have some experience with rdesktop and Terminal
> Services on W2K. That i
Quoting Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> VMWare is the only game in town. win4lin is windows only. Bochs has
> potential, but is nowhere near there.
>
IIRC, Win4Lin is only Win9x (ie. Win95 & Win98).
Jeffrey
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Quoting Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I assume comand "df" is the one to know free disk space. It gives me
> this information:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1-429168968127 1 0 49% /
>
> according to which
Quoting Christopher Blough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> route add -net default gw 209.xxx.xxx.xxx also returned a 'network is unreachable'
> error. Essentially, I am seeing my LAN boxes fine, but am completely unable to go
> past my firewall. Before anyone asks, yes, it's properly punched. All e
Quoting Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Bummer. I guess for now then, at least until I can decipher the
> technique for configuring WINE-X, I'll just maintain a minimal Win-98SE
> setup for when I want to play games that require 3D stuff. Hopefully, I
> can manage to shrink my curren
Quoting Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:22:42 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Anyone know how to safely convert an ext3 FS to ext2?
>
> A quick google (hint, hint) turns up this:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user
Quoting Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If you want to know what the running OS is using, look to /proc :
>
>cat /proc/self/mounts
>
> If that still tells you `ext3/ext2', then I suspect that the kernel and
> the filesystem have some kind of (code) agreement to dynamically
> negotiat
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> You're sharing bandwidth, as in, the same spectrum on the cable line.
> If you sit on your cable modem with a packet sniffer, you'll see
> broadcasts for the IP subnet you're on and packets destined for you
> only. Watch the light on the modem fli
Quoting alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It would seem ridiculous to sell a computer that has a modem that can't
> be used with the operating system that came preinstalled.
The winmodem may be built into the motherboard. The seller is taking
an OEM's whitebox, installing an OS on it and (optionally)
Quoting Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Jacob S. wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I
> > suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that
> > periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive?
> >
> > If the server were running t
Quoting alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an
> installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding
> and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard
> drive is properly partitioned?
If it
Quoting Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:00:23 +0100, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
>
> > During the boot, I get the following warning:
> >
> > Partition check:
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [1021/255/63] p1 p2 p3
&
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> During the boot, I get the following warning:
>
> Partition check:
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [1021/255/63] p1 p2 p3
> ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
>
> Is this /dev/hda3 it is talking ab
Quoting David Palmer. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You could also put a couple of Athlon 2000s on that board. It was
> actually made with AMD in mind, specifically MP processors, but in
> actual fact there is very little difference between the Athlon and the
> MP. The Athlon has a config turned off, but
Quoting Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:36 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 December 2003 02:28 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > > I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have
> >
I have a box with a Tyan Thunder dual CPU MB. The two CPUs I have are
both 300MHz Pentium IIs. But one is a Deschutes step 2 and the other
a Klamath step 4. Both work when they are the only CPU, but booting
with both installed hangs just after the NRG is initialized and
"Recovering nvi editor se
During the boot, I get the following warning:
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [1021/255/63] p1 p2 p3
ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
Is this /dev/hda3 it is talking about? And why does it think it is an
ext3 filesystem? /etc/fstab and the superblock both t
Quoting George kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I just purchased a Thinkpad R40, with a 1.4 ghz m processor, and an
> ultra-bay, which allows multiple devices to be swaped out, my first
> question is: is debian 3.0 r2 compatible with this device? One of the
> drives for it is a multi-burner, which
Quoting Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Hi Micha,
> I guess that's were PenguinComputing comes in... :-) They support cetain
> win/linux models and handle support I would assume better on both OS's.
> K
They don't do laptops.
Jeffrey
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Quoting Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I want to define a group of addresses as a set to which I can refer with
> a single name call, to send mail to. What's the best way to do it?
> Setting a forward rule in .procmailrc would probably work, but since I
> use smarthost it seems to me a somewh
Quoting Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi D-U list folks,
> there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS.
> Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with
> debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net)
> http://lwn.net/Articles/63933/
>
Has anyone
If it has been overnight, "locate mrtg". If you don't have the
findutils, install them.
The config file is in /etc, the results are in /var/www/htdocs/mrtg,
the docs are in /usr/share/doc/mrtg. Plus log files in /var/log/mrtg.
Jeffrey
Quoting BruceG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hey all,
>
>I wo
Quoting Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have exim set in my sid machine, with mutt as MUA. Some isps are
> rejecting my emails. I have looked at the reason provided, it seems that
> some have blocked the ips in my block, or that they are blocking all
> dinamic ips. Some isps are accepting my
What is the origin or label of the www.backports.org archives? I want
to add them to my /etc/apt/preferences but do not know how to tag them.
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Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the
> > lm-sensors package.
>
> The packages in Debian claim to support kernel 2.4 and
Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the lm-sensors
package.
TIA,
Jeffrey
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Quoting BruceG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hey all,
>
>I am using a Linksys BEFSX41 router, and want to start logging inbound
> and outbound access. I can set which IP address I want it to log to, and
> wanted to know how to set things up on a Debian server to accept logging
> from other devices.
>
Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hopefully there are some amanda users out there. I sent this to the
> amanda users list, but haven't gotten any replies, so, here is the
> result of an amcheck. What is the possible problem with the system?
> Why is expecting a new tape? Is there
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> You can look into clamAV.
> But if SpamAssassin is too resource intensive I think you will find
> antivirus scanners to be even more so.
>
I ran Postfix+amavisd-new+clamav on a 133MHz 486 just fine. Adding
SpamAssassin killed it.
Jeffrey
Quoting Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a new LTO-2 drive here, a 400 Gb capacity, and the challenge
> to design a backup algorithm for a mission-critical groupware
> server. This is a single system, so no network backup...
>
> I have 10 tapes and was thinking of doing weekly full b
QUOTING JEFFREY L. TAYLOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> QUOTING JEFFREY L. TAYLOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > QUOTING RON JOHNSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > ON TUE, 2003-11-11 AT 19:44, JEFFREY L. TAYLOR WROTE:
> > > > QUOTING RON JOHNSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone know where I can download a .deb package for the madwifi
drivers? I don't really have room on this laptop (540MB HDD) to keep
the kernel sources that it wants around.
TIA,
Jeffrey
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Quoting Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> >
> >>Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games li
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Ta
Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > > > I am getting the following result on m
Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct
> > it?
> >
> > # df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used
Quoting Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct
> > it?
> >
> > # df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used
I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct
it?
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1-1006130973579 1 0 24% /
/dev/hda2-1006139352819 1 0 8% /home
TIA,
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey
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Quoting Paul Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I've been working on this project for about 2 months now (non-work related)
> and I'm pretty fed up with googling and RTFM'ing. Basically what I'm doing
> is setting up an IMAP server (Courier) with virtual users (MySQL) using
> Postfix as my MTA. S
Quoting Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Dear Debian-Users,
>
> Could someone direct me to a step by step guide to setting up a mail sever.
> SMTP,IMAP is required, SSL for both would be preferable but not essential.
>
See
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7460/uni1032893910897/ur02
Quoting P. Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> >>i am not able to connect to a vnc-server thats running behind the
> >>firewall. i know that the vncserver is running because i can open
> >>vncviewers from other clients behind the firewall. but when i
> >>ssh to the
> >>gate
Quoting Marcus Schopen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> on my DSL-router (masqurading) at home I'd like to install snort to see
> who attacks me from the internet side. I know that one should install
> snort on a seperate hosts before and behind the firewall to get the best
> results, but this is
Quoting Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hmmm... I've read (& shamelessly borrowed) your configs and
> commented/uncommented
> everything in favour of Maildir in .procmailrc & .muttrc and when, as
> user, I try mutt I get
>
> >"---Mutt: (no mailbox)
> >[Msgs:0]---(threads/date)--
Quoting Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running
> NOTHING!
>
> Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel
>
>
> 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05
> 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie
Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:08, Daniel Teichert wrote:
> > And I heard Pigeon exclaim:
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:23:25PM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be loaded
> > > > via modprobe? And - this is pro
Quoting Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am trying to configure amavis with postfix. Apparently you have to create an
> alias named virusalert. I read the man page for alias, but it sounds like
> chinese to me.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
>
Add following to /etc/postfix/alias
Quoting Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:39:24PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
>
> > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you
> > can. Try each, working backwards and forwards from the one in Debian.
> &g
Quoting Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:39:24 -0500
> "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you
> > can. Try each, working backwards and forwar
Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Be wary of the Onstream units, at least the 30 gig unit, I had one years
> ago, and Onstream was not interested in fixing the lockups. As well,
> some google searching will show you just what people think of their
> stuff.
>
The early 30GB Onstr
Quoting Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x
> server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up.
>
Go to the NVidia site and grab all the versions of the drivers you
can. Try each, working backwards and
Quoting M. Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Regarding virus protection under GNU/Linux in general, how essential is it? I'm
> a recent convert from the Microsoft world, where virus protection is essential.
> I've also heard reports that virus protection under GNU/Linux isn't as
> necessary, as th
Quoting Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi guys,
>
> Any recommendation for email anti-virus software ??
>
> Thanks a bunch for your help..
>
amavisd-new and ClamAV (free in both senses) and H+BEDV's AntiVir and
F-Prot (both zero cost for personal, non-commercial use). All three
have progra
Quoting Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've been messing around with my kernel, and compiled without ISA support,
> since I'm on a PCI machine. On rebooting, PCMCIA gave a ResourceIRQ
> conflict. When I recompiled the kernel with ISA support, PCMCIA
> recognised my card as always.
>
> It
Quoting Miernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I just run apt-get update on the latest unstable, and then run
> aptitude.
>
In my experience, it is a Very Bad Idea (TM) to mix apt-get and
aptitude. They apparently calculate dependencies and/or priorities
differently.
Just my $0.02USD,
Jeffrey
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Quoting Benjamin Swatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry, but nether googeling nor the wlan-howto enlighted me completely
> and I know that this is not so debian specific, but:
> For a home-wlan, do I realy need an accesspoint?
> I mean one of these nice little boxes which aren't more than this or can
I need to downgrade from testing to stable on my laptop. THis seems
about impossible because of packages that were split, e.g. debianutils
split off coreutils. Trying to downgrade debianutils fails because it
tries to overwrite /bin/readline which is now in coreutils. If anyone
knows how to do t
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm not an expert with pinning rules, but there are two obvious
> problems:
>
> 1. There are a lot of related packages that don't start with 'gcc'. For
> example, g++. So you might need more rules.
>
I don't have g++ installed so this is not a prob
Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send
> the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But
> does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel
> halt? If not
Quoting Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> However, I *cannot* start snort! It is not running and I do not know
> how to debug this one.
>
> What do you think?
>
First check the syslogs for any errors. Some will get logged, some
will just quietly kill Snort. If that doesn't help
I have a laptop with a small hard drive (540MB) running mostly testing
(Postfix and emacs21-nox from unstable). The only thing I compile on
it is the kernel. I would like to have just gcc-2.95 installed. No
gcc-3.2. No gcc-3.3. The disk is a 94% capacity. Not good. I
cannot figure out how to
Quoting stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Looks like the maintainer of the Spambouncer rules is falling a bit
> behind the stae of the art of spammers, as I'm getting a fair number
> of spam emails into my primary mailbox each day.
>
> I'm thinking that prehaps spamassain will do better. Any opin
Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 08:45, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > So here's the question -- how many different ways do I need to tell the
> > > system to keepen its
Quoting Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So here's the question -- how many different ways do I need to tell the
> system to keepen its little mittens offen those packages? Can you suggest
> another/better way to accomplish this?
>
Don't mix dselect/apt-get and aptitude. Stick to one or the
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> For months now, while I'm at work, I've been running a couple programs
> in SSH, displaying on my computer at work. Now I'm curious if I can
> do something similar to get a KDM login on my home box.
>
> Using knoppix at work, sid at home
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Setting up DNS takes a couple of hours in one go. Getting around it
> > will take about the same amount of time in smaller chunks. You have
> > thr
Quoting Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, all. I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp
> server. The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns.
>
> I'd like to have dns lookups work correctly for my internal network.
> So is there a simple means of having my dhcp clients being a
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> An MX is only needed if some other system is going to be handling the
> mail bound for that one.
>
You can get away with this most of the time. However, the RFCs do
require that you have an MX record and some mail servers are setup to
not accept
Quoting Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> G'day all,
> This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my
> mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby
> thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking.
> I'd like (have to) to take over
Quoting Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On March 27, 2003 09:02 pm, Terry Milnes wrote:
> > Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I
> > have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to
> > add the other software that I want?
> >
> > NeoFax
>
> yes. H
It is a fact that MS hired the VMS architect to design Windows NT.
However, IMHO, it doesn't show. There are so many things that VMS did
right that either don't appear at all in WinNT, or are done wrong.
Just my $0.02USD,
Jeffrey
Quoting Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12
Quoting Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hi,
> anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid become stable.
> AFAIK when sarge becomes stable, only then will Sid become sarge. Am
> i right ?
>
Partly. Eventually sarge will become the stable release. Sid will
always be unstable. Packages mo
Quoting Van Wyk Leroux, Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If I run XF86config as root, will the file that it creates be used
> by all other users as well?
Yes
> I have just finished configuring the XF86Config. X Windows now
> starts up as root.As soon as I change to another user and
Quoting Justin Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem creating a disk image larger than 2gig's with dd. I'm
> using sid(up-to-date), my kernel is debian's 2.4.20-k7, and my filesystem
> that the file needs to be on is reiserfs. I've looked around (googling) to
> see about the
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking to update my home computer system. Does anyone have a
> recommendation for a good motherboard (I'm thinking Athlon 2200 - 2400)?
> More importantly, are there any mobos/chipsets to avoid? Anyone have
> experience with an
Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:41:38AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Are the Debian 2.2.20 images absolutely vanilla kernels? So what I'd
> > get from a Debian mi
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:47:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20
> >
Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20
> > kernel?
>
> kernel-source-2.2.20 if it's still
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > isn't apt a good alternative to find that out?
> >
>
> Sound very reasonable, but:
>
> ~# apt-cache policy kernel-source-2.2.20
> kern
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> isn't apt a good alternative to find that out?
>
Sound very reasonable, but:
~# apt-cache policy kernel-source-2.2.20
kernel-source-2.2.20:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version Table:
What mirror(s) are you using?
Jeffrey
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I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20
kernel? That's what comes as the default in woody and I want to tweak
it. I can find headers, patches (what good are patches w/out source
to patch?), ReiserFS and PCMCIA modules, but no source. What gives?
Jeffrey
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Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:42:18PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote:
> > > If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and
> > > I don't need to press the power bottom after all?
> >
> >
> > You can configure your kernel to use power man
Quoting Ivan Kolenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Q. Can I install compact Debian i386 only with rescue.bin root.bin and
> driver-1.bin?
> Or base-#.bin are needed?
>
If you have a supported NIC, just the floppies listed plus driver-2
thru driver-4. You use these six floppies to install a minimal
syste
Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:11:45PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing.
>
> Are you very sure that you don't mean "from stable to unstable"?
>
Using "apt-cac
I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. I am running into
problems with files shared between packages. Examples are
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg, shared by dpkg and dselect, and /bin/readlink
shared by debianutils and coreutils. The error message is"
trying to overwrite '/bin/readlink', which
Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi All,
>
> I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line
>
> Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire
>
> What does this mean - I can confirm that there is no actual fire as of
> yet but it does have me worried - any thoughts ?
>
Ahh
Quoting matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> thanks, that helps. one more question:
>
> if /etc/modutils/arch/i386 describes the mappings, where is the module
> (char-major-10-135) being told to load at boot time?
>
>
Somewhere in the /lib/modules/2.X.X directories.
Jeffrey
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