Re: why does debian undo boot text size

2003-07-13 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:16:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using a boot time text setting (using the vga= setting in lilo) > which sets up a 80x50 screen size. Some time during the boot process > this gets undone and I'm back to 80x25. > > This start happening a while back. i guess

Re: How safe is Linux system

2003-07-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:10:39PM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi there, hi, > Cyber security organizations warned network administrators on Wednesday > about a Web site hacking contest that appeared to be scheduled to begin > on Sunday, July 6. > > Any thought on this as far as Linux systems a

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Mathias Gygax wrote: > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > > Debian, slowly but surely. > > > > Anyway: What

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:23:06PM -0400, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Hey folks, hi dan, > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > Debian, slowly but surely. > > Anyway: What would be the mos

Re: kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

2003-06-09 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:26:46PM +, Matthias Leopold wrote: > hi hi, > i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have > successfully done > before) incorporating the xfs and ck patches. this time the process stopped > with the > following error message: > > net/network.o

Re: server side ftp

2003-02-24 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:22:33PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box > > > > any ideas > > apt-cache search ftpd a slightly better solution for this would be apt-cache search ftp-server "ftp-server" is the default in the Provides: section for ftp daemons and

Re: FHS, Policy, /var/local, places to put multiple CVS repositories

2002-11-13 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:34:14PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Hi all, hi there, > By default the cvs package places a repository in /var/lib/cvs. Great, > I'm using it. Now I want to provide a completely different CVS > repository to a workgroup here. Where should I put it? my guess for comp

Re: SELL Domain name "www.HitFuck.com"

2002-06-29 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 02:31:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 02:57:57AM -0400, DU wrote: > > Now www.stopnfuck.com might have been a good choice. > > Or fuckstop.com... fuckofffuck.com SCNR :) -- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewh

Re: XF86Config-4 (sid)

2002-06-18 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:50:12PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I tested /root/XF86Config.new with XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > successully, well done. > I think, but startx still tries to start with the wrong config > file. Should I rename this to XF86Config-4, and if so where do

Re: Debian is not GNU (at least current GNU)

2002-06-11 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:01:47AM -0300, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > Looks fine to me. As basic user I don't even know what GNU is so I am > not too concerned about it. if you ever used ls, find or grep, you are already a user of GNU. the chances are big, that you use such basic tools. debian embrace

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-11 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:46:41AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Thank's for the information Mathias! np. > Yes, and modprobe ide-scsi. > I also wonder which init file I can put the line: > /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi > would /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh be the right place? nope. the modutils package have a

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-10 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:46:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Now I just have these left to config: > Sound: Creative Audigy Platinum eX apt-get -f install alsa-modules-2.4.18-686 alsaconf and alsaconf it. > CD-burner: HP cd-writer 9500 "hdX=ide-scsi" into append line of lilo.conf cdrecord -sca

Re: SSH stopped working

2002-06-04 Thread Mathias Gygax
> ssh_exchange-identifiaction: Connection closed by remote host > It appears to die just when the SSH protocol negotiation is starting > (1.0/1.5/2.0). do you have an old ssh version? just protocol v1? try to specify the protocol with -1 or -2. some server don't allow access to v1.x anymore. -

Re: insmod in /etc/module file?

2002-06-04 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Die, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:22:23 +0200, prover wrote: > CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? ohh my dear, you hopelessness ;) http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ and follow instructions there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: changing servers' UID/GIDs

2002-06-04 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:43:02PM +0300, Imre Oolberg wrote: > I try to keep two machines running Debian v 3.0 the same, essentially > mirrors of one another. But stupid me, i probably messed up the order and > installed Heartbeat, Postfix and MySQL with different sequence on each > computer. Now

Re: insmod in /etc/module file?

2002-06-04 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > >> Hey i'm trying to add : "insmod ide-scsi" during start-up do i put ^^ > >> this in the "/etc/modules file"? > OK thanks, i just wasnt sure if running insmod "ide-scsi" was the same > as running "

Re: mpg123 playing to both file and speakers (stdout)

2002-05-16 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:09:33PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > mpg123 file.mpg --cdr /dev/stdout | tee file.cdr | programm-to-handle-cdr > > > > OK, changing things up a bit: > > mpg123 --wav - file.mpg | tee file.wav | wavp /dev/stdin > > appears to record a wav file but it will not pla

Re: mpg123 playing to both file and speakers (stdout)

2002-05-15 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:40:01PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Is there a way to have mpg123 play a file and record it to a file at once? > > One can play mpg123 file.mpg or > mpg123 file.mpg --cdr file.cdr > > but can I do both at once? well, doing two functions to the same ti

Re: Assembly Compiler

2002-04-30 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:10:54AM +0100, Marlon Viado wrote: > Mom, hi, > I'm ICE of the Philippines and i really need the assembly language > compiler,can you help me regarding to my problem. Thanks. this depnds, in what style what you are used to code in asm. if you want a cross-plattform

Re: SCSI Transfer rate

2002-04-22 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:54:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > Hi all, hiho, > sym53c876-0-<3,*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15) > SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8380080 [4091 MB] [4.1 GB] > > which states that it is only 10 MB/s. Is there something I need to

Re: syslog

2002-04-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mit, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:18:31 +0200, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hello hiho, > Apr 2 15:01:51 kurdtje kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:e0:0c:c6:13:f4:08:00 SRC=10.95.3.82 ^^

Re: testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Son, Mär 31, 2002 at 12:38:28 -0800, Alan Su wrote: > in order to do this, i'm manually using dpkg to install packages that > i download from the unstable distribution. however, for this to work, > i need to upgrade a bunch of other packages on which these few > packages depend. is there a way

Re: Using Unix with NT mounting NT

2002-02-19 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:29:47 -0800, Rodney Agha wrote: > I am having troubles mounting a NT work station > It can ping this station perfectly, > but is not mounted for backups, how would be the correct way to mount an > NT workstation on a unix box?? smbclient -L //boxname , to check if there

Re: open source snmp manager ???

2002-02-08 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:40:48 -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Is there an open source snmp manager -- something like netview or > openview? http://www.opennms.org could be probably the one that your're looking for.

Re: Quake III

2002-01-26 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:21:29PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > what about the FSF? > > Can I get Tribes 2 from them? :) sorry, i was dreaming. some of these games have of course contracts to not releasing the source code for it. but the idea would be nice, if the FSF could provide free and qual

Re: Quake III

2002-01-25 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:12:15 -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Where does it say that? And if that's true, are the any other > distributers of games for Linux? what about the FSF?

Re: 3c59x.c compile

2002-01-08 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Die, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:08:35 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > the switch your suggested didn't work. I think this is because in the > /usr/src/linux/include doesn't exist any modversions.h file. How can I > generate the modversions.h file? the headers for your current kernel should be in

Re: 3c59x.c compile

2002-01-08 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Die, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:12:46 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototype -O6 -c 3c59x.c -I/usr/src/linux/include

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-05 Thread Mathias Gygax
> no, not yet. it's on my todo list, but since i am pretty comfortable > as root and my users are trusted users, it is not prime importance. if you have remote daemons, you don't have anything like "trusted users". every daemon has it's associated UID.

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-05 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mit, Dez 05, 2001 at 08:43:01 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am just a little confused now on the libsafe / openwall / dietlibc > stuff. Is it recommended to do all 3? don't install stuff you don't understand what it does. go step by step and understand what these do. libsafe is a prel

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-03 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Son, Dez 02, 2001 at 08:47:41 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You have really inspired me to give this a go. It sounds as though I > have nothing to lose except time. And in my opinion this may be time > well spent as at least I will learn much about the root daemons. Yes, you will. Defini

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-01 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sam, Dez 01, 2001 at 03:32:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds as though I may need a little more knowledge than I currently > have. But on the other hand, if I do go down this path of installing > and configuring LIDS and manage to get it to work then I will have > learnt LOTS about a

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-30 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:38:00 +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > LIDS really makes use of the capabilities stuff that is in the kernel > anyway. Capability support is in since 2.2.11 i guess. http://pw1.netcom.com/~spoon/lcap/ > Well it complements it with file access control lists (and > ma

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-30 Thread Mathias Gygax
> Then David Spreen contacted me. He creates the inofficial debian LIDS > packages at http://netzwurm.cc/computer/lids.html One thing, i forgot: I plan to do deb packages for daemons with preconfigured LIDS setup. So you get automatic a configuration, when LIDS is installed and running e.g. for s

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-30 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:31:08 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and what they think of > it. I think it's a good protection that bring's a linux system a step further in the direction of having a finer tuneable system that doesn't depend too much o

Re: ulimit -n problem

2001-11-15 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Don, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:31:00 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, lilo, > I'd like to test an overloaded apache with 2000 httpd processes running > as nobody on it. However, I can't ulimit the maximum number of open > file descriptors for "nobody" as well as common users. Is there any way >