On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 02:03:32PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> I completely removed system-resolved as when it is installed it changes the
> DNS configuration to be non-standard
The issues described in this thread are related to libnss-resolve, which
is no longer installed in the Debian 12 cloud
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:23:11AM +0200, Slavko wrote:
> By this, i see, that the secure boot is good for corporate environment,
> don't affect average home users. For others there is more simple to
> disable it, than always sign any experiment ;)
In practice, I'm sure most non-corporate users wi
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:53:22PM +0200, B wrote:
> BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could
> be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my
> laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read).
There was a good talk at this year's LinuxFest Northwest on this topic.
It
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...]
> > > Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed.
> >
> > > Now, I can go in and to this manually,
> > > Why can't cron do it without my intervention?
> >
> >
> > What
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:45:36PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Is there a twitter client that will give me recent tweets containing a
> certain hashtag? The twitter site itself has become unusable because of
> that scrolling marquee.
I maintain choqok for debian. It's a good, featureful client f
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:47:37AM -0700, Pier wrote:
> I'm having some problems with ipsec.
> The connections are running, but when the line goes down the vpn is not
> coming back again.
> If i see the logs, i see these errors:
>
> 2010-07-06 13:23:22: ERROR: fatal INVALID-SPI notify messsage, p
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:13:12PM -0430, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote:
>
> Well I use LVM but in Redhat maybe you need to reaload extends on nodes:|
>
> clvmd -R
> |
> Look at this:
>
> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3786
Thanks, this is the most promising lead yet. Alas, etch's clvmd i
Hi all. I've got a small cluster of machines, still running etch, using
the redhat-cluster tools and cluster-LVM to share access to a
fibre-channel disk array. I'm preparing to replace the disk array with
a new/better/shinier one, but am running in to trouble with the
migration of data from the o
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 05:51:00PM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> Thanks for the extra info, Noah. I use the password library from the
> openwall project to enforce strong passwords/passphrases on the system,
> make sure daemons can't log in, etc. I'm not going to worry about these
> automated scans t
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:57:25PM -0700, Jared Hall wrote:
> It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off
> of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131
>
> Please get back to me fast. I took the compilers off of the system,
> and it's only running dns... so th
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> Users can still connect to the server and type in their passwords on the
> screen without any trouble. Public keys work fine as well. Am I right in
> assuming that the password based scripted login attempts will fail even
> if they some
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:54:45PM +, David Blundell wrote:
> I have seen a wishlist bug (#221894) for 2.2 but was not able to find
> more than that. Does anyone know if experimental debs are available
> anywhere? Even though it will not yet be production ready it would be
> very good to get
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:36:20PM -0800, Quenten Griffith wrote:
> Hello all I am looking for suggestions on how to best
> implement a Exim4 with Cyrus IMAP mail boxes (virtual
> users) with spamassassian where users prefs. are
> stored in mysql. Currently I have tried amavisd-new
> but it does n
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote:
> Having that zone, it seems to override anything that?s between
> 193.158.67.0 and 193.158.67.255. This is what one would expect --- but
> it?s not what I need.
>
> What I need is a way to restrict the above zone to *only* the IPs
> lis
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:32PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
> What is this all about?! Is there any way I can fix it? Is it not an
> ext3 problem?
It is almost definitely not an ext3 problem, and you'd likely see the
same behavior with whatever fs you use. More likely, the problem is
that you don't ha
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at
> > what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the
> > packages and installing them?
>
> There certainly is. It's called apt-listchanges. It d
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:10:08PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> What is the reason that people (like you) do not underestand that Debian
> supports way more hardware architectures than RedHat does, and that
> detecting hardware on all these architects, and developing an installer
> wich runs on a
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:19:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:08:23AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > There's no good reason why Debian doesn't.
>
> You mean other than the fact you only have to run the installer once?
Maybe *you* only have one computer. Not everyb
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:27:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Someday some bright cracker is going to figure out how to wrap a
> > remote root exploit in an e-mail. Might as well be ready.
>
> It already happened 15 years ago. I was six and I remember hearing
> about it.
Well, you should pr
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:48:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I am in the works of trying to plan for a handful of new servers, and
> have had enough with towers... Does anyone have any suggestions for rack
> (1 or 2 U) servers that I can install Debian on?
I like Sun Netra's. They're SP
[ insane crossposting removed ]
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:06:02PM -0400, TR wrote:
> Line from /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config:
>
> DisplayManager*wdmWm:
> afterstep:amiwm:asclassic:blackbox:default:enlightenment:fluxbox:flwm:fvwm2:fvwm95:gnome-session:gwm:icewm:icewm-lite:ion:kde2:larswm:lwm:metacity:o
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:26:27AM +0100, David selby wrote:
> I have wmmon running, the CPU & memory screens work AOK but the I/O
> screen showes zip no matter how much disk I/O I do. I checked out there
> web site at http://windowmaker.mezaway.org, it no longer exists. I
> scanned google but n
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:27:52AM +0800, Rolf Schatzmann wrote:
> One of my debian servers (stable) has been locking up over the last
> few prior to this it has been rock solid for over a year. I
> had suspected that there might be a hardware failure somever
> however the last error in
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:48:29AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
> I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same way to play mp3 files
> on xmms. Is it possible? Is there any plugin? In case the answer is not,
> which player do you recommend me to play mp3 files?
I do believe that xmms plays
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:28:00PM -0700, Piero wrote:
> I had to install X 4.3 because former version didn't support my video
> card. I istalled it from a tarball downloaded from the Xfre86 site. Is
> it possible to "tell" the packages databae managed by dpkg or apt-get
> that this operation ha
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:20:35PM -0400, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> first of all, I'm not definetely willing to start a war here (although I
> think I have already). :-) I'm a very satisfied and enthusiastic Debian
> user, but I would like to hear from you guys the essential pros and cons
> of
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Stefan Wuerthner wrote:
> Unfortunately if I boot cmd=single (e.g. single user), nothing happens
> (no output in my terminal session).
>
> How can I resolve this?
pass console=ttyS0 to the kernel (or ttyS1, or whatever serial port you
want to use)
noah
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote:
> ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter
> what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily
> basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any
> resolve, ive used splack,
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
> I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the
> 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts
> on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If
> there's
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell
> or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still
> able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection
> refuse
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:48:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't get my kernel to load anything, it just stops, with a cursor
> in the bottom hand corner, like it does when you use the halt command.
> I know this isnt the best place to ask, but im gonna turn it into a
> .deb
Creating .
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:28:44AM -0800, ow wrote:
> IMHO, "I will probably continue to support" does not really sound like
> a policy. I think Debian users, including potential ones, would benefit
> from clear and precise security/support policy (whatever it may be)
> that can be found in an obvi
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:47:24PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> > Will anything break if I dont have /dev/pts support compiled into my
> > kernel?
>
> If you have devfs enabled? No, I think devfs subsumes devpts
> filesystem support. But if you don't use devfs, you probably do want
> /dev/pts s
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:10:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> This is a really basic question. Why does only part of the console
> output on boot go into the /var/log/dmesg file?
/var/log/dmesg is a dump of the kernel's message buffer taken shortly
after boot. It allows you to easily get y
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> > I have done this on a whole mess of machines. For example, I wanted
> > bind9, so I installed it from woody. apt-get installed its dependencies
> > as well, but that is no problem. The machine has run fine since I did
> > this s
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:30:19AM +0200, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> > Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"...
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get install packagename
> > edit sources.list back to "stable"...
> > apt-get update
>
> No, you wouldn't. The only thing you would get is a seri
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:52:58PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> : RSA /etc/ipsec.d/private/ns2.zionlth.org.key
That certainly looks right. Try removing the absolute part of the path.
Change it to:
: RSA ns2.zionlth.org.key
> Jun 29 01:11:10 Oneil Pluto[2874]: loading secrets from "/etc/ips
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Also, i think its strange that someone with a debian.org address (by
> extension) discourages the use of debconf, which is normal part of a
> default debian install.
What's strange about that? debconf is used during installation of
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:18:39PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> I finally got my networking by setting up the
> /etc/init.d/network file, and the interfaces file only
> has an entry for the loopback.
$ man 5 interfaces
It's fairly well documented.
--
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:14:17PM -0600, Romel Sandoval wrote:
> I want to change the IP address of two woody machines to 192.168.1.x and
> I changed the /etc/hosts file but I notice that the machines still
> respond to their old IP adresses. Well I know this by using the ping
> command.
It's ama
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:56:40AM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote:
> I got more than 27000 of these last night between 8:00 and 9:00, coming
> from 1371 different source IP's, all to destination port 28001. Â What's
> so interesting about that port?
>
> Jun 27 20:02:02 twocups kernel: Shorewall:net2all
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:46:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > I was wondering if there are any debian users on this list who control
> > their X10 stuff with their debian machine? Is it possible ?
>
> Probably, but I recommend against it. Take a stand against spam. X10
> advertises primarily
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:41:39PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> It was not my intention to lead users astray, my intention was to enlighten
> people to the fact that testing is, for the most part, not going to change.
> The security fixes are flowing into sid. It's not a big trick to get not
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:59:41PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I'm using 2.4.18 myself, but that isn't relevant to the original
> poster's request for a stable distribution using (meaning something
> like "coming with") a 2.4.x kernel.
But woody does come with kernel 2.4.x. Just because it's not i
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:47:59PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Indeed, the security team indicated that potato support would
> have to be dropped summarily when woody was released _unless_ changes
> were made (or a decision would have to be made to only support some
> arches, but not
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:30:12AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Well, this is only partially true. All architectuures for
> Woody are ready. They are not delaying the release. What is not ready
> is the ability to support security for woody and potato for even the
> architectures that
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:25:22AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> My conclusion is that Woody is effectively released already. A large number
> of people have been running on Woody for quite some time. It's as stable as
> it's going to get. Just do an apt-get dist upgrade and get it over wit
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> and the From <> is a nuisance from some spammers is a
> good thing to reject ( ie ... <> and "is spammer" )
> - havent figured it out yet ..
My point was that if you configure your mail server to reject ma
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:44:43PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> sometimes ... ( lots )... more often than not...
> i get tons of "spams" from <> ... which i too would like to bounce/reject
OK, but if you reject mail from <> you're likely to be blacklisted. I
certainly won't accept mail from doma
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:34:01PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de
Oliveira wrote:
> How to reject mail with from like this: "<>" at a Debian
> GNU/Linux box and Exim? With procmail?
Don't do that! It's in violation of an RFC. See
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.html for mo
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:40:39PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Can someone point me to a good mailing list for asking the following
> question?
Nope. Sorry. This one is as good as any.
> Can procmail modify a message header field (e.g., prepend "spam:" to
> the subject field value)? Can it
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:17:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> I am surprised - I was under the impression that XP was hostile to
> Linux and you had to be sneaky to get it to work. So, am I right then;
>
> 1: install XP to hda1
> 2: install Debian to hdb1-7
> 3: install lilo
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:47:17AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> Using Debian for Sparc, I've been having problems with XScreenSaver, it
> seems to crash periodically.
> Is there any other app out there I can use to lock my screen (password it
> for when I leave my desk) ?
I had that problem a
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM +, Peter Corlett wrote:
> It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically linked. I
> find it to be a horrible shell otherwise, and I'd rather not have that as
> the default root shell on my boxes.
>
> I'm not sure you gain much by being able t
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have to
> make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled.
But we make the decision to include a dynamically linked shell as root's
login shell, whic
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:34:32AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote:
> Does anybody know how to configure wdm so that it doesn't open
> TCP port 1030 when started? I guess this is not a big security
> threat, but I've tried to keep open ports in minimum, and I
> can't see why this one would be necessa
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> I suspect that the very last NMUs are going up, the images are being
> readied and press-statements released: I would expect within the next 3
> days.
What makes you say all this? On 5/1 or so, AJT announced that woody was
all set
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:36:50PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> Our network admin tells me that there is a known problem with 3com
> network cards. Tthe machine in question is a three year old gateway
> pc with a 3c905B card in it (built in, although not on the mother
> board). Sometimes I g
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:26:00AM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> I have a firewall running ipchain/ipfwadm. I cannot seem to connect
> 'out' thru this firewall with a masqueraded connection using IPSEC - I
> have a laptop (win) that need to run a nortel vpn client - supposedly
> NAT is no problem for
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 12:43:37AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> 2.4.18, devfs, ext3.
> How do I get it so only people sitting at the console can use audio?
Look for CONSOLE_GROUPS in /etc/pam.d/login. Add users to the 'audio'
group is they're logged in on the console.
noah
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On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:18:53AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> But it's nevertheless strange that logcheck decided to flag it as a
> "possible security violation". Possibly frightened by the the BAD in the
> msgid string?
Yes, logcheck is known for doing stuff like that. If you get mail from
som
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 01:49:51PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> > Have a look at
> > /etc/lprng/lpd.perms
> >
> > Du you have a line in it like:
> > REJECT NOT SERVER
>
> Yes I do!
> Is this good or bad?
> Are we making progress here?
Well, it's a good default, but it prevents you from doing
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:17:04PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote:
> I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install
> netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please
> help. Is netscape 4 not available?
The netscape package contains netscape 4. You installe
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:51:51AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> That probably works on a small network. Try it with several thousand
> servers and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it
> with an ISP, where you can't control the configuration on ANY of the
> users' computers.
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:11:05AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> A DMZ is still behind the firewall. A DMZ is it's own little isolated
> corner where all traffic to the Internet goes through the firewall, and
> all traffic to the LAN goes through the firewall. That way, if the
> server is cracked
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:06PM -0700, David Smead wrote:
> That's why you run those services in a DMZ.
>
So what are you suggesting, then? This was Will's mail server we're
talking about. First you say it needs to be behind the firewall or else
it's doomed to be cracked, then you say it nee
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:00:15PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > Noah (and I) didn't say a firewall was useless, just that discussing
> > firewalls when the problem is a (potential) mail relay is wholly
> > pointless.
>
> Noah did say that. You, to the best of my knowledge, didn't.
Yes, I cert
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
> > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
> > the packages.
>
> I think you're looking for popularity-contest
No, p
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:42:06PM -0700, David Smead wrote:
> That's why you run those services in a DMZ.
>
And what do you do when a security vulnerability arises in your firewall
implementation? Or when an attacker is able to hijack a web browsing
session by one of your internal users?
The i
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone's
> reported "dontUthink.com" as a spammer. i'm running debian
> potato/exim--
You really need to find out the nature of the complaint. Did the person
claim that spam was del
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0700, David Smead wrote:
> Are you operating behind a firewall. There are only two kinds of systems
> operating without firewalls - those that are hacked and those that will be
> soon.
HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. The
only
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:58:59PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote:
> I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It
> would be easier on all if there was a graphical login.
> I'm wondering which of these display managers to
> choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be
> using WindowMaker an
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:47PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote:
> I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. I
> can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am
> connected to a LAN. My username is "jmak" and i will use a friends win2k
> m
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > I have tried for 2 weeks to ge off this list. As you can see, from
>
> I continue to see people having this problem. Why?
Part of the problem seems to be that the listmanager software does not
behave correctly all the time. I've s
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:06:37PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I tried 'type=transport' in the connection section and it had no effect :(
> I tried both with the *subnet options commented out and not commented
> out. No difference.
I will look in to this further. I use enpoint-to-endpoint t
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Rather than a verbose answer, just look at my sources.list and
> apt.conf
>
> To install Galeon from unstable the command is:
>
> apt-get install galeon/unstable.
The one thing that I find particularly annoying with this setup is th
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:49:39PM -0400, Wayne Ringling wrote:
> #1 Will Debian (current) create a xfs partition of 1.1TB on a 3ware 7850
> controller?
It will have no problem with the size of the filesystem. I don't know
anything about the 3ware controller, but if it's supported by Linux at
al
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:40:22PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> The two mahcines have an IP address of 192.168.51 and 192.168.0.52. My
> /etc/ipsec.conf looks like this (see end of message). I've tried with
> and without the leftsubnet and rightsubnet settings but I can't seem to
> get a ne
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Tom Playford wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple encrypted VPN. It's just a
> matter of linking two networks both with Internet visible Linux routers.
Freeswan (www.freeswan.org) is the way to go. It is industrial
strength, standards co
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:10:33PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
>
> Please note you'll have to upgrade many packages in order to keep using
> them with a 2.4 kernel, I recall now of pppd but there are others.
> Check the docs in the kernel tarball.
No, he's already running woody, which support
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:35:58PM +0100, Paul Sargent wrote:
> I'm getting quite a lot of messages dropping through my procmail rules for
> debian lists. I was wondering if anyone here had a good setup.
From the procmailrc(5) man page:
If the regular expression contains `^TO_' it will be
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:41:43PM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote:
>
> Hmm. Where can I read something how to do it ? (I found no howto...)
>
Subscribe to debian-ipv6@lists.debian.org
and see http://people.debian.org/~csmall/ipv6/
noah
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:42:45PM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote:
> Is there an alternative to using tarballs? Something like make-kpkg
> for the kernel. Im having some trobles installing some of my tarball
> since it doenst update the dpkg database. Im having some
> difficulties looking
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> I'd like to ask if is it good idea to buy a multimedia keyboard?
> Can the extra keys be used in X as they are in windoze? (eg. slide
> volume in xmms ... etc.)
I've got a Microsoft Natural Pro with "internet keys" (back, foward,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:33:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a rather old computer. During
> installation I'm getting "neighbour table overflow" messages.
> What do these mean and are they serious? The installatiion seems to
> continue regardless.
It usually
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> I have about 60 mb on /usr. A software installing session could use
> that in nothing flat. I have plenty of room on /mnt, but I have to
> install by hand to get anything there. Then X doesn't know
Symlinks are your friend.
noah
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:46:30PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> Is there a list somewhere of vendors that sell computers with Debian
> preinstalled?
My new favorite x86 vendor is ASA Computers in California, USA.
http://www.asacomputers.com/
Looking at their site's front page, you'll see right off t
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:34:32AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote:
> Well debian comes with builtin exim mailer deamon
> which is good but i want to replace it with sendmail
> mainly cause i have bought its book
> but i cant remove the package as it keeps giving me
> dependicies problem .. so how can
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>
> > Have you moved you mozilla directory out of the way and tried with a
> > freshly created one?
>
> Only when upgrading, but I've upgra
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:51:14PM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote:
> I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine,
> but a package search for it cam up with nothing.
It was recently removed from woody due to an outstanding release
critical bug. The bug turned out to not be freeswan's f
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:27:31AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> The only stability problem with recent Mozilla I've detected is that opening
> a second instance (not a second window) makes both instances unable to load
> new web pages. (Cached stuff continues to work.)
That happens predicably? On a
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:40:10PM +0200, Juhan Kundla wrote:
> So my question is: what should i do? Should i report
> this to my ISP? Should i block the IP address of the scanner? (This is
> probably bad idea, since we have here dynamic IP-addresses) I don't want to
> overreact in any way. I am ve
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:15:01PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
> I downloaded Mozilla via apt-get. It crashes
> often. I would like a stable open source
> alternative to Mozilla.
Which version of mozilla are you using?
I have never used the packaged version of mozilla, but the version I
instal
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:53:50AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Sure Solaris sucks. When dexconf wipes out XF86Config, alsaconf tries
> to run sound driver with options it doesn't understand, or KDE won't
> install because the same file is included in 4 different packages,
> so does Debian. CDE
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:24:09PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
> my /usr is currently in xfs.. now, i want to turn it
> back to ext2/ext3... how should i do this?
>
> is cp -a enough? or is there a debian/xfs way to do
> this? tnx
Yes, cp -a will work. There are plenty of ways to do it.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:57:38PM -0600, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Last week I did an 'apt-get update' of a debain unstable and now I've
> noticed that my /proc fs is broke.
>
> It appears to be mounted correctly and all the entries show up if you
> do a 'ls' but if you actually try to look at
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:46:32PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote:
> This works for interactive use. But it doesn't fit the needs of cron
> jobs. OK, you *can* use ssh-agent withing cron jobs, but you give up
> more security than you gain using such a hack.
>
> So if you need an ssh connection within a cr
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> This is what I've done:
>
> I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh"
> On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase.
> I then copied the identity.pub to the RedHat machine and renamed it to
> ~/.ssh/au
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> Also, I'd recommend a 40GB or so IBM ATAPI hard drive instead of the SCSI
> option. It'll cost you less and provide about the same access speed. Maybe
> even faster access, if you get a 60 or 80 GB drive. Just make sure it's a
> 7200RP
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:13:01PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> All I can say about that price is OUCH! You can build this system from
> parts for ~ $1000. Unless this is going to be used as a server of some
> sort, I really don't think that setting up Potato for you is worth
> $1500. But th
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