also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:47:20PM +0200):
> 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell
> that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false
> for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right?
> sftp does not work e
also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200):
> Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script?
#!/bin/bash
cnt=0
while read i; do
var[cnt]=$i
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
done
echo "there are $i object(s) in array var[]."
martin; (greetings from the heart of the su
which kernel are you using, and does it have VJ compression enabled?
the option should be around the configuration item for PPP.
martin
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:11:26PM +0200):
> > at first, it was only /home, and i thought it had anything to do with
> > the quotae i enabled on that partition, but /usr/doc is (a) not a
> > partition of its own, and (b) /usr doesn't have quotae.
>
> /home could be explained
folks,
this one leaves me puzzled, so i was wondering if you could help
me out. every day, tripwire reports to me that on one of my
systems (only), the directories /home and /usr/doc have changed:
changed: drwxr-xr-x root 8192 Aug 6 16:18:56 2001 /usr/doc
changed: drwxr-xr-x root
also sprach John Griffiths (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:49:28PM +):
> I've got an IBM xseries 200 i'm trying to get deb running on
> the onvoard NIC is confounding me
> does anyone know which driver module should i be using?
i don't know, but it will most likely be one of the following:
tulip, rt
also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:17:19AM +0100):
> > install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off
> > people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel.
>
> Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package
> (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs
hi guys,
i have one machine - "seamus" - an AMD K6-2 500/160 Mb which is acting
up. sometimes when i ssh into it (like 1/5 times), it gives me the
following:
fishbowl:~> ssh seamus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Fri Jun 29 01:47:06 2001 from fishbowl.madduck.net on pts/1
Linux seamus 2
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:18:40PM -0700):
> kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file.
>
> i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd like to know if exim has
> an IP reject file.
the way i have done it is via my bind installation, just
adding to the recent discussion on the 40Gb drive with IBM - i did
what someone suggested, to not tell the BIOS anything about the drive,
but to let linux take care of it. i run 2.4.5, and i know have 41Gb
available :-> (without the 32Gb clip jumper).
martin; (greetings from the heart
also sprach thomas anderson (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:59:03PM +0200):
> I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I
> don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work.
> is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo?
no. user scri
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:30:54AM -0500):
> Therefore, I need to reconfigure my system for a regular old dialup
> connection. I stupidly neglected to do this while I still had DSL, and now
> am wondering what packages I will need to enable this. At worst I can put
> them
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:37:29PM +0200):
> When I sat down with it and took a minute or two to get acquiainted,
> it turned out to be quite a likeable and most of all very helpful
> critter, in fact.
try apt-console, i like it much better since i can't stand the awkward
ha
also sprach nico de haer (on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:06:13PM +0200):
> I've tried this '32 Gb clip' and it does allow me to boot using my 40 Gb,
> but i've been unable to get access to the last 8 Gb. I've been experimenting
> with the 'hdx=c,h,s' parameter but all i can get are screens filled with all
also sprach John Hasler (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:49AM -0500):
> > ...or you should write something for /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d.
>
> Pppconfig already installs a something there. Run pppconfig and look at
> Advanced->Nameservers.
i know. but in his case, pppconfig doesn't seem to work.
martin;
also sprach Greg Rowe (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:06AM -0400):
> Would installing bind on your system work for you? You could add all of
> your ISPs DNS servers as forwarders in named.conf and then simply point
> resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1.
0.0.0.0
it's just a little undocumented trick to make loc
also sprach virtanen (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:28:04PM +0300):
> I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk.
try setting the jumper called "32Gb clip"
even the LBA enabled BIOSs still can't handle >32Gb, so you'll lose
8Gb, but in my case, the BIOS did detect the drive.
martin; (greetings fro
also sprach thomas (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:44:01AM +0200):
> make a new kernel with VJ compression compiled in and/or enable VJ in
> your ipppd.ippp0. i am pretty sure this is a configuration problem.
thanks for the replies! i ended up figuring this out... i was a little
confused that one had to e
i just wanted to add my two pfennige.
see, the reason that debian rocks is that it does not impose
configuration tools on you like suse and redhat. it does provide a
very cool package system, but everything is under the control of the
user and vi. that's the beauty.
now looking at how i frequently
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:42:19PM +0200):
> Debian/GNU Bob
>
> "Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU!"
hehe,
and when you mistype your password three times, it'll prompt you to
change it. believe it or not, Micro$oft Bob did that.
martin;
folks,
just now i figured out that the pppd debug option is also present in
ipppd, and i turned it on to see the following in the logs (after a
bunch of packet dumps):
Jun 25 01:13:31 embryo ipppd[3918]: Unsupported protocol 'Van Jacobson
Uncompressed TCP/IP' (0x2f) received
well, that would ex
hi,
i am in the process of setting up an ISDN router for a network of
three computers, using a 486 and running kernel 2.4.5 (because of the
iptables functionalities). the system has one of the very old AVM A1
(Fritz!Classic) cards, which I can load and talk to with the hisax.o
driver. it's at 0x200
also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:40AM -0500):
> Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to
> show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it?
what does it show? many NICs work atop one of the following chipsets,
so two different NICs may we
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:44:51PM +0200):
> now do a `make clean` (just to get rid of the modules, mostly) and
> re-do steps 1-3 for the second machine and the third and...
>
> when you want to re-do for the first machine, just move the appropriate
> .config back, and
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:20:41PM +0200):
> you don´t need to maintain seperate trees of the whole source. just
> `make (menu|x|)config`, then backup the .config-file. that´s where the
> information you entered/chose is kept.
i understand... but when i change the .conf
also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700):
> True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each
> destination architecture, optimizing appropriately.
so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird actually) will
outperform the others still holds. but i'd need
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:42:37PM -0500):
> I fail to see why you think compiling a kernel on an Athlon, but
> optimising for a 486 cos you're installing on a 486 is a problem.
that's what i am doing btw. and sorry, i wasn't possibly thinking
about multiple .debs, just th
also sprach Sean Morgan (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:19PM -0400):
> zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale
exaclty what i wanted. thanks!
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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your fly might be open
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500):
> Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon
> instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it
> can be installed anywhere.
but i usually choose the appropriate kernel architecture duri
i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire
system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a
fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one
machine that's cutting edge, i do a whole lot of kernel compiles.
in the past, i have always us
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:40:36AM +0800):
> 1. What if multiple users on my network have set up multiple POP3 accounts in
> the past (before the server was up) and wish to go this way, leaving their
> mail
> OFF their POP3 accounts, but ON the home server? Can this stil
also sprach nico de haer (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:54AM +0200):
> Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting
> "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do.
> Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem
>
i have done this in two different ways. the first is straight forward,
but depending on how many users you have, it might be a pain (and a
security risk). the second works on the assumption that your ISP is
running a sensible MTA (postfix, qmail) and that you will not be down
for longer than 3 days
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:53:49PM -0700):
> Are you potato or woody?
potato.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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than are dream
also sprach Hoeteck Wee (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:03:30PM -0400):
> Here are the network related modules that are provided with driver-1.bin
> in the compact images. The 3c509 might work with your 3c59x card, but I'm
> not too sure about that.
i have looked at, and unpacked the drivers.tgz archive,
i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't
arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images
are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to
be used.
but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla,
compact, idepci,
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500):
> Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram.
> A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was
> happier with 32 (my router is a 486/25 old timer with 2 3c509b :) I'm
> running 2.2.
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:38:10AM -0700):
> dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed
> like boot/root disks. Good luck :-)
well, i understood that, and i have my disks. but in the
installationprogram, there are two options:
- preload modules
so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the
debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating
system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via
network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using
the "compact" kernel.
i am deal
so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb
RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only,
but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible
to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but
i want to try anyway
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:50:14PM -0700):
> One more thing. There's a 2.4.0 pppd compiled for potato w/kernel
> 2.4.x at:
>
> http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
kevin, you rock!!! fixed it...
and thanks to adrian as well!!!
martin; (greetings from the he
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:46:06PM -0700):
> I browsed through the source code for pppd, and it looks like the
> only way that error can be generated is if you're using kernel
> 2.4.x. So the fact that you're using pppd version 2.3.11 tells me
> you're using potato, but with a
also sprach Jeremy (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:42:32PM -0500):
> My knowledge on this is limited, but have you made sure that you
> have the domain and nameserver entries in the /etc/resolv.conf
> file? I got this same sort of message when I was trying to dial
> in with wvdial and I didn't have those
hey all,
we are still failing to establish a connection with wvdial and pppd
(on a potato system). wvdial looks all good, until we get to the
login:
--> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
login:
--> Looks like a login prompt.
--> Sending: heikkin
heikkin
Password:
--> Looks like
also sprach Harry Henry Gebel (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:17:51PM -0400):
> What are the contents of /etc/timezone on each machine?
i think you really want to make sure that /etc/localtime point to the
same file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. but then again, i don't know what's
*right* with timezones...
do
: 2002-06-17 trust: f/u
sub 2048g/E93FAECE created: 2001-05-07 expires: 2002-06-17
(1) Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(2). MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(3) [revoked] Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
correct me if i am wrong, but these are all user IDs, rig
also sprach Alexis Roda (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:02:06PM +0200):
> pstops (IIRC) can put some pages on a single page
you would not happen to have an example, would you?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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hey,
does anyone know how i can take an eps file and print it onto a page
2x5, so that the initial eps file is on the page 10 times, preferably
without any margins in between?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Sebastiaan (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:40:54PM +0200):
> Which package contains that command?
net-tools on woody.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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laugh alone and the world thinks you're an i
also sprach Sebastiaan (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:22:49PM +0200):
> if you have a MAC address, how can you find ou tit's ip address?
a tool like arpwatch or iptraf can help you, but these obviously
require watching some traffic going to that mac address first.
mac addresses are data link layer addre
[this email is pretty long, so please take my apologies
for eating your bandwidth]
debianers,
a friend of mine is experiencing severe problems connecting to her ISP
in madison, wisconsin (inxpress.net). she has an internal 33.6 modem
that seems to work (i have done the basic minicom AT tests), but
Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sorry if i don't understand and have to ask trivial questions...
but while we're at it, could you tell me how to revoke a whole key on
the keys
hey,
i have my GPG key uploaded to the keyservers. unfortunately, i somehow
messed up, and now i have three UIDs associated with it:
fishbowl:~> gpg --list-keys A8FA196E
pub 1024D/A8FA196E 2001-05-07 MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
uidMartin F. Krafft <[EMA
also sprach rich (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:00:49AM -0500):
> I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find
> out which .deb package provides these?
fishbowl:~# dpkg -S libXt.so.6 libX11.so.6
xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
xlibs: /us
also sprach Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:08:14AM +):
> Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200
> files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have
> 300 files ?
ls -1 | head -200 | xargs echo rm
when you made sure that the command lin
also sprach Alex Suzuki (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:42:37AM +0200):
> Do I just have to add this at the end of the line?
> options keep uidl
precisely.
did you 'man fetchmailrc' ?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Rafael Sasaki (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:59:39PM -0300):
> poll server1 with proto POP3 user "user1" there with password
> "***" is asuzuki here options keep
>
> (if this is the account you just want to read the messages, not
> delete them from server)
and you might want to consider
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:58:22AM -0400):
> Simply edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have
>
> alias eth0
>
> where is the kernel modules for your ethernet card. One of
> mine is 'tulip' and another is 'ne'.
even better. although modconf is important too. but understanding the
i have an xntp3 server (redhat, sorry) running on 192.168.1.1
configured as follows:
//
server 130.149.17.21 prefer # ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de
fudge 130.149.17.21 stratum 1
server 129.132.98.11 # bernina.ethz.ch
fudge 129.132.98.11 stratum 1
restrict default
also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200):
> Any similar utility under Debian?
nope, and that's why debian is so good. if you need those utilities,
get redhat or suse or progeny! those gui utils have inherent problems
on systems like linux where config files may be edited by hand too
hey,
i am using snort straight out of the potato distribution on a server
that i administer remotely. as i have to find out every now and then,
snort - started through /etc/init.d/snort - dies and i have to
manually restart it.
have you guys experienced similar problems?
martin; (gre
also sprach D-Man (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:47:35PM -0400):
> Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner
> read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on
> my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755
> (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in t
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200):
> I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good
> idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I
> don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need
> to be able to retreive
also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:48:29AM -0400):
> chmod o-rwx /
> chmod o-rwx /home
> chgrp root /
> chgrp root /home
at which point you won't be able to access even your homedirectory
anymore. na, you need the x right on directories higher up the
hierarchy from where you want to
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:31:18AM -0500):
> I did not sprach this.
i am sorry, my bad. should pay more attention to quoting.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:09AM -0500):
> > To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your
> > local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not.
that should be 0.0.0.0.
i found that once somewhere and never again, but from the source code,
also sprach Leonard Leblanc (on Fri, 25 May 2001 10:32:36AM -0500):
> heh, you pretty much summed up my reaction.
so what does 114 days of uptime buy you?
does it matter that much???
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Wed, 23 May 2001 09:01:13AM +0200):
> I want to use a maildir as a sort of queue for processing incoming
> emails with structered data which needs to be processed and written
> to a db. Now, once I've decided to read a message, I move it to
> ./cur, but how do I let a
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700):
> Which platform of hardware would be best?
> G4 from apple
> Pentium something from somewhere
is that a serious question???
the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
is just pittyful compared to RISC.
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 23 May 2001 11:56:04PM -0500):
> You need root.bin, rescue.bin and 1 or more driver disks. If the disks
> aren't being read the most likely two problems are a bad or dirty floppy
> drive and or bad floppy disks. I assume your following the installation
> instructions at t
hey all,
so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom,
just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP.
i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the
only bootable one, and i get to a lilo prompt with options "linux",
"floppy0", "re
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 23 May 2001 07:51:04PM -0700):
> Thank you; it worked. But why is it necessary to do this?
well, Xresources isn't read every single time you start an xterm (a
watch stat on the file will confirm this), so it's buffered. xrdb (x
read database) updates the cache.
dudes,
i set some domain names up such that host.aaa.com points to
host.dyn.bbb.com (CNAME). furthermore, host.dyn.bbb.com's MX is set to
mail.bbb.com.
on mail.bbb.com, there is a postfix running with an entry in the
virtual map for host.aaa.com to point to a local user.
mail.bbb.com allows relay
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700):
> No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be
> scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server.
one of the reasons why i wouldn't run mysql for any reason in the
world! unless you don't need a true data
also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500):
> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead
process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way yo
also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Tue, 22 May 2001 12:50:47PM +0200):
> Where can I get a document describing the maildir format? The short
> page on Dan Bernstein's site is informative but I doubt complete, I
> can figure out how to read and mark messages to ./cur from ./new but
> nought is said abou
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Mon, 21 May 2001 08:26:32PM -0700):
> Or perhaps it stems from the fact that I su to root? I'm running
> under gdm. For example, my USER variable is still set to my original
> name after the su.
well, i assume that you figure out how to use xterm su'd to root -
right
also sprach Kurt Stege (on Sat, 19 May 2001 06:20:13AM +0200):
> Nach der ganzen Diskussion, ob man würfeln soll oder auf jeden Fall
> antworten: Ich würde den Brief ohne Überlegung wegwerfen, wie jede
> andere uninteressante Werbung oder Spam auch. Und per E-Mail
> flattert mir jeden Tag sowas ins
what's going on???
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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de gustibus non est disputandum.
also sprach Brian Nelson (on Fri, 18 May 2001 09:12:57PM -0400):
> Can't say I'm all that impressed with it though. The damn toolbar/ad
> crap takes up half the damn screen. Maybe you're not missing out on
> much...
i have a registered version and i wouldn't want to substitute it for
any of skip
also sprach Stephen E. Hargrove (on Fri, 18 May 2001 07:03:42PM -0500):
> i'm running woody and have it installed:
that's probably the problem - since i am running woody on one machine
where it works, and potato on the one where it doesn't.
but i should be able to install all these dependencies w
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:58:29PM -0400):
> Nobody can find convincing arguments for linuxconf... but nobody
> forces you to use it. Many RHL users remove it on sight... I did,
> when I was using it.
so did i. nevertheless, i don't know about redhat 7.x anymore, but
redhat 6
trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get
-f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and
one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded:
Package liblcms has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means th
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:44:31PM -0400):
> > ever used it? it hurts!
> Most distributions hurt if you don't know how to use them.
alright then, i'll expand: redhat hurts especially if you know linux
very well. or can you find convincing arguments for linuxconf??? or
rpm???
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:01:36PM -0400):
> Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that
> it should be considered "ideal for the ex"???
read the page the link points to... it's ideal for the "experience
user", not your ex... :->
but hey, i
also sprach Michael Soulier (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:18:32PM -0400):
> And there they are.
run 'apt-get -f install'
then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry.
anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++
won't install, you can always force it to...
also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400):
> >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US?
> Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost!
> check /etc/environment
cool. i didn't know this file existed. how does it tie in? when is it
sourced?
martin;
also sprach Patrick Colbeck (on Fri, 18 May 2001 09:48:43AM +0100):
> I just installed 2.2r3 on a Libretto and it works fine except that on
> boot it starts the networking before it starts PCMCIA so the ethernet
> card is not initialised. I can do a /etc/init.d/network resart and it
> all bursts in
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Thu, 17 May 2001 04:42:19PM -0600):
> I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web-
> hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone
> elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it alway
also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400):
> """
> Limited Developer Tools
>
> There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are
> available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio.
> Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop
also sprach Frank Zimmermann (on Thu, 17 May 2001 05:53:40PM +0100):
> not really the lastest news. Suse already respondet at the 11.05.
> (sorry only fond a german version:
> http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html ) and the OpenSource
> Community responded recently to this:
> http://perens.co
also sprach Willi Dyck (on Thu, 17 May 2001 06:37:42PM +0200):
> Linux is less secure
>
> "Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code.
> Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same
> is not true with Microsoft Windows.
>
> Damn! How can I protect
"Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux"
it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out
of the redmond circus.
the original is at
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/
retail/Linux%20report.doc
but because that's about 600% the size of the actu
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 16 May 2001 09:30:37PM -0700):
> > Anybody know how to do kernel rebuilds in such a way that existing 3rd-party
> > kernel modules (ie those not included in the kernel src tree) aren't
> > removed from /lib/modules/... ?
>
> Copy them off to the side, the co
also sprach DvB (on Wed, 16 May 2001 08:30:15PM -0500):
> I was going to burn myself a copy of potato to see how much the
> install's improved since I last ran it and noticed there are not one,
> not two, but _three_ freaking iso images (binary-i386-1 thru 3.iso) out
> there. Are they all really
also sprach omicron (on Wed, 16 May 2001 03:57:53PM +0530):
> what does it mean ? I *did* compile (and recompile ) my kernel a
> dozen times..is it because of that ?
yes. copy the file /usr/src/linux/System.map to
/boot/System.map-`uname -r` and you are set.
System.map maps kernel address s
also sprach Dimitri Maziuk (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:56:47PM -0500):
> In that case I don't see any other option but to go and _carefully_
> open the fscker. With a flashlight and good eyesight you will find
> whatever info the manufacturer printed on the board. Hopefully there
> will be enough to go
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:23:07PM -0500):
> give the executable an enviornment to work. Finding the board number
> would take the time of two boots and a minute or less more. From there
> finding the jumpers could take 10 minutes to never.
yeah well, you have a point. but then, if
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 16 May 2001 05:24:46PM -0500):
> Maybe this isn't a lot of help but there is a couple of programs out
> there that fit on a windows floppy that tells you the board number. That
> can be used to find the manufacture and hopefully the documentation from
> there. I used it on
also sprach Brandon High (on Wed, 16 May 2001 03:13:02PM -0700):
> You'll need to know the board manufacturer and BIOS version before upgrading
> the processor. You may need to flash the BIOS to make sure that it supports
> the new CPU.
yes, i am aware of that. it's a standard award bios and i am
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