Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread Jim Michael
On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see > files that the user running Netscape has access to, and *only* if it > already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, > which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only

Re: What would you do?

1997-06-20 Thread Jim Michael
Thanks for the tips. Cheers, Jim On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > IP masquerading compiled into the kernel > pppd > diald > > If you'll look under the HOWTO index at the Linux Documentation Project > > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ > > you'll find howto's for all of these progra

What would you do?

1997-06-19 Thread Jim Michael
Before I start loading a lot of packages on my new system I would like to describe my setup and see what my options are WRT internetworking my local network: 1 486-66 Linux box (Debian 1.2) 1 P133 Win95 box These are networked and the modem is currently attached to the Win95 box. I have a she

Re: Long time to login prompt: telnet and ftp

1997-06-19 Thread Jim Michael
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > I'm just wondering, do you use a dec tulip based card. I had similar > problems with the linux machine at my school that I set up, however I > haved had no problems with the 3com and SMC cards that I use at work. The net cards in both machines are NE-20

Re: Long time to login prompt: telnet and ftp

1997-06-19 Thread Jim Michael
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, strtbttn wrote: > Just a thought: Is the IP and host name of the '95 machine in /etc/hosts? No. /etc/hosts contains only the IP and loopback IP of the Linux box. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

Long time to login prompt: telnet and ftp

1997-06-19 Thread Jim Michael
I have a Win95 box networked to my Linux (Debian 1.2) box. The latter was booted while an ftp and telnet session were active (back when I had to rm my XF86Config file to kill the flashing screen). Now, when I telnet or ftp to the Linux box from the Win95 box, I get a connection but there are s

Re: X install under 1.2

1997-06-18 Thread Jim Michael
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > > 'cldg5429' is an invalid chipset." > > This should be clgd not cldg! If this was just a typo in your post, you Typo. I tried many chipsets. SuperProbe says its a 5429. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: X install under 1.2

1997-06-16 Thread Jim Michael
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > There has been some useful info for you on this list, however that was > months ago. Let me guess, you have a Infomagic Linux Developers Resource > 6 cd set? It contains debian 1.2 aka rex, while debian 1.3 has just been Correct, dated April '97. > Uhmm,

Re: mirroring web pages

1997-06-16 Thread Jim Michael
I have had very good success with a Perl script called webcopy. It has many configurable options. It should turn up on a http://www.hotbot.com search. Cheers, Jim On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > You can get wget and try that ... it gets data either via ftp or httpd and > it is

Re: X install under 1.2

1997-06-15 Thread Jim Michael
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > Did I read your post right? Did you rm XF86Config!!! Yep, it was the only thing I could think of (rebooting did not work). I then purged everything and re-dpkg'd in the order suggested. I could only type 2 characters at a time between flashes :-(

X install under 1.2

1997-06-15 Thread Jim Michael
Greetings, This is my first post to this list. I have looked through some of the archives and ran a search against the archives but have not found anything to help me with this problem. I have installed 1.2 on a 486-66 with a Diamond Speedstar Pro. I followed the recent recommendations and in