Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-04 Thread Philip Hands
that will help people bumping into the same issue in future. > Thanks for your assistance and interest. Thank you for your future contributuons :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hug

Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation

2018-03-04 Thread Philip Hands
it come up at boot time AFAIK. This seems to have very little to do with the installer. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Netinst with preseed

2015-05-27 Thread Philip Hands
Charles Chambers writes: > On 05/27/2015 07:20 AM, Philip Hands wrote: >> Charles Chambers writes: >> >>> Hi, Phil: >>> >>> And I've looked further. >>> >>> There's a step by step out there that describes the following steps

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-27 Thread Philip Hands
d is capable of moving them about when running if you pop the drive out of the machine and back in again. As also mentioned somewhere in the docs, the output of the command: mdadm --examine --scan can be used to populate the relevant bits of mdadm.conf Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)

Re: [Debian-uk] ftp.uk.debian.org ill?

2009-05-10 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/10/09 12:09, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Is it my imagination, or is ftp.uk.debian.org missing a *lot* of > > binary packages at the moment? I just tried updating my testing >

Re: Using rsync to mirror debian

2000-09-15 Thread Philip Hands
"G.Angely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do not know the "squid cache". I will look for it. If you install squid, and add lines like this to /etc/squid.conf: refresh_patterndebian.org/.*\.deb$ 129600 100% 129600 refresh_patterndebian.org/.*Packages 120 20% 360 Then it

Re: OpenBSD Secure Shell

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Hands
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I did an upgrade against `froozen' today, the post-install script > for OpenBSD Secure Shell hung. PS reports it as a zombie process. The > last message to the console was: > > Unpacking replacement ssh ... > Setting up ssh (1.2.3-2) ... 1.2.3-3 f

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-25 Thread Philip Hands
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you recall the name of any of these Windows utilities? Or has nayone > done this in the past and have the awk script lying about? > > The problem is the lf -> crlf switch. Just reverse it. There > > will be posts saying this won't work but it wil

[off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-09 Thread Philip Hands
Here's a comment I tried to post at slashdot, but slashdot is a bit broken, so I'll mention it here before people get overexcited: I seem to have caused a little confusion here. I needed to create some new CD images, because enough new bug fixes had hit the archive to make it worthwhile, and i

Re: stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-31 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How do I get pppd to block totally when this happens. Ideally this > should stop pppd from dialing at all till someone manually restarts > it. Use diald to maintain the link, and set dial-fail-limit: DIALD(8) DIALD(8)

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Philip Hands
> I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. > This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? If you are using ppp for dial-in, with PAP authentication, I was assuming that people will be using PAM to

Re: pppd

1997-10-24 Thread Philip Hands
> I just upgraded, using dselect, to pppd 2.2.3, and now pon doesn't work. > It overwrote my /etc/ppp.chatscript file and deleted my > /etc/ppp.options_out file. I reinstated them, and that didn't help. You probably want to look at /etc/ppp/peers/provider and co. Could you give me a rundown on y

Re: Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-05 Thread Philip Hands
> ppp Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > netdiag Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm on these --- I've just been putting my effort into testing bo rather than worrying about my packages at present. Now that 1.3's released I'll do someth

Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-23 Thread Philip Hands
> In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an > outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY > running, if I dial out with something like Minicom. Sounds like your pppd is not getting its locks right. Possible causes: 1) it has not been to

Re: support for USRobitics modems under mgetty

1996-10-15 Thread Philip Hands
> What USRobotics modems need special support? We have been running Debian > mgetty on two Linux boxes with both USR Courier and Sportster models > for a very long time without any problems. The USRobotics flag in mgetty/policy.h activates a patch I wrote to get a Courier V.32+Fax (UK version) M

Re: TCP/IP SMB Connections

1996-10-10 Thread Philip Hands
> Which brings me to question number 1: > Where do I get TCP/IP protocol for Windoze for Workgroupies? Microsoft's > "techs" were no help. "Whats TCP/IP?" one said.. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/WFW/TCP32B.EXE You need two things: The 32 bit TCP stack (TCP32B.EXE); and the 32 bit

Re: newsreader problem?

1996-09-30 Thread Philip Hands
> On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, David Puryear wrote: > > > I've problem with Netscape3.0 newsreader in Linux. When I do > > 'Show All Newsgroup', I don't get the complete(which I get when > > I do this in Windoz) list. I tried knews and had same problem. I > > don't use much of Windoz, so I would really

Re: Help with diald?

1996-09-29 Thread Philip Hands
> Hello, > > I'm trying to use diald, but have problems. If I use '/etc/init.d/ppp start' ^ Don't do that, /etc/init.d/ppp starts pppd as a daemon, whereas diald wants to start pppd itself after the connect script exits,