Nunya wrote:
> FWIW this approach works perfectly for me.
> I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them.
> When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner.
> I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that.
>
> I do it for these files:
>
> desk:/mnt/ap
Brad Sims wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> > pointers.
>
> Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc.
Doesn't work. It'
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
> > I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this
> > account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created.
> > I know about /etc/skel but I am not sur
Hello,
lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux
experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts.
By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues,
MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
The users will most likely either use KDE or
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:13:18PM +0100, Florian Steurer wrote:
> I try to write a backup (shell-)script and use the "scp"-command. It
> asks for a password, how can I automize the passwort prompt -> I mean
> that the password is direct read from the shell script, without
> prompting. I tried so
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
> How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr?
$du -sh /usr
Phil
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:15:44AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> >
> > > Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:20:37PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> Then i would have to check the paths to the mailboxes next.
They are correct and typing "c" brings me to them. Any other idea?
Phil
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:19:01PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote:
> I compiled 2.4.2 and after booting it I realize I forgot to include the
> NIC driver (Intel Express 100/PRO). Is there any way to create that module
> without having to recompile the entire kernel??
Just do a $make module
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:58:13PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
> > in them by an "N".
> > I have added "%N" to my folder-format-string a
Hello,
I am trying to highlight those folders in mutt which have unread mails
in them by an "N".
I have added "%N" to my folder-format-string and it looks like mutt
reserves space for it but it never shows up.
I have read that tools that check for new mails like biff can spoil
this setting but I r
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:41:54PM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote:
> I have a debian install running the 2.4.2 kernel. I want to allow external
> telnet/ssh access, but am not sure how. I apt-get'ed ssh and telnetd, but
> don't really know where to go from here. If anyone could help me out, I"d
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Quick and stupid question: Is there any way to disable the console system
> beeps short of yanking out the damn speaker?
Put this in your .inputrc:
set bell-style none
Phil
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0500, Richard Black wrote:
> can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection
> speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over
> my cable DSL...
$apt-get install bing
Phil
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is handled by
> the SVGA server. I have configured the whole thing using XF86Setup and
> Xconfigurator and after that manually tweaking the setup file.
> I get th
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:51:27PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> > I think I wasn't too harsh or something.
> > But rebooting in order to see if the sound card was detected at
> > boot-time is about the most dumb reason to reboot I can think of.
> > Phil
>
> Yes, it is, when you know where to get the info
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> Sorry, that my knowledge does have a big gap so far what linux
> matters. But I think you wasn't born with your momentary
> knowledge, too. So please try to treat somebody with a little bit of
> the respect he gives to you, even although h
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:41:50PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> Ok, I will try to compile it as module, I just thought it would be better to
> have it permanent embeded into the kernel.
No, it's not. You can't unload and load it again if it is not a
module.
Phil
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:21:11PM +0100, c-3 wrote:
> I didn't compile it as a module, because one told me it would be
> better to compile it direcect into the kernel. And so I did.
Where does it say so? I have heard from many people that they were told
not to use modules.
> I've compiled the
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote:
> Reboot your linux system and just check the boot message to see if the sound
> card is recognized
What do you think logfiles are for?
BTW: http://learn.to/qoute
Phil
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:23PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Matheson Cameron wrote:
> > I was wondering if I could change the bindings of
> > ctrl+alt+del, so that it did `shutdown -h now`,
> > instead of `shutdown -r now`
>
> It sure is!
>
> As root, edit /etc/initt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:20:02AM +0100, c-3 wrote:
^^^
How about putting your name there?
> I can't get my sound card to work under linux (SB16).
> So far I've recompiled my kernel with sound drivers, what else do I
> have to do?
Which module did you c
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:03:09PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> This isn't the problem. I have now got emu10k1 loaded [by putting a
Excuse me, but then I don't understand your problem. If emu10k1 is
loaded sound should work.
> and perhaps I should put one of the alsa modules instead, like
>
>
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:40:23PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote:
> I've a ~ (1 char) named directory in my home directory :)
> How could I delete it?
$rmdir "~"
Phil
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:00:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> >Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
> >module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
> >Befor
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:56:58AM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have an sb-live sound card and I am having trouble getting sound to
> work.
Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
Before the kernel-module
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Chris Parker wrote:
> Stats: running 2.2.12 on p133 w/48ram
> Kingston pci model kne100tx using tulip module
> on cablemodem surfboard4100
>
> I can ping self but when i ping anywhere else it says that the network is
> unreachable. Get siocaddr invalid
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:01:21PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> i think your /etc/hosts.deny (or allow/both) may be too strict. i would
> reccomend installing an identd server on 192.168.0.50 and setup reverse
> dns for that zone 192.168.0.50 for optimal results. the system is just
> paranoid to l
Hello,
I have problems to login on my ssh-server from one particular
machine. I have to try several times, but after one successful login
it works smooth.
Can somebody please explain, what these messages mean and how to fix it?
Feb 7 01:23:52 nepomuk sshd[14394]: Did not receive ident string from
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:30:13AM +, N Cohen wrote:
> I have successfully installed debian v 2.2 on my powerpc 8600 in
> the past and found that XF86Config worked fine when I used it to
> configure the mouse. Now when I install XF86Config comes up with
> permission denied when I attem
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:54:41PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote:
> But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of
> the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED
> on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the
> following:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:20:15AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> If money is a little bit of a concern ...
> what is the best type of hardware to use?
Even if many experts regard the PC-architecture as inferior compared
to some others you probably still get the most value for little money.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:41:17AM +0200, Dan Pomohaci wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 with a Debian stable system but
> with 2.2.18 kernel (for USB). Everything works OK (even usb), but when
> I tried to to insert an PCMCIA Xircom Ethernet card (CBE2-100) the
> system hang up. The k
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:53:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> is there a debian standard way to stop the pcmcia subsystem when
> the apm system goes into suspend mode, and to start it up again when
> apm resumes?
I don't know of it is debian-specific but there is a way. If you have
installed pcmci
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 10:46:57AM -, Henry Gomersall wrote:
> I have a D-Link DFE-520TX ethernet card connecting me, via a cable modem to
> the internet. I wish to install debian over the internet. I have installed
> the base system fine, and it all works (i assume) as it should. However,
>
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA modules
> included with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel package. Where do I get PCMCIA
> sources? There is the obvious pcmcia-source -- 'dat the beast?
http://pcmcia-cs.sour
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:12:47PM -0800, Nick wrote:
> I am currently using a compaq 1220,
> I have the linksys pcmcia 10/100 adapter
> I got it because it can w/ linux(turbo) so I had to assume it was compatible
>
> I have a base installation of 2.1 w/ 2.0.38 kernel
> What driver can I use for
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to
> talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is
> which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say
> /dev/pts/0) I type "talk
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote:
> Is there come kind of script that run when the machine boots that i can
> put commands into? I want to run sound on when the machine boots, i
> would also like to mount some samba commands. Can someone point me to an
> easy way to do
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:59:36AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:26:05PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> >
> > > P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initi
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Debian User wrote:
>
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in
> /etc/hosts.deny,
Adding a
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:48:44AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> P.S.: On the other hand, people could make an organized initiative to
> promote a petition to make NVidia aware of the Open Source movement
> and ask thm for open drivers.
>
> Of course they are aware of Open Source, but a friendly
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:47:31PM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> I am looking for input on performance, installation, drivers, x servers,
> anything, related to 3d cards out there today. Direct experience would
> help.
I am very satisfied with my Geforce256. Last time I checked it offered
gre
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:28:13PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote:
> Anyways, I've always felt that there were two main areas in the "ease"
> of a system - how easy it is to learn, and how easy it is to use.
That's a very interesting approach. Never thought of it that way.
> Debian is like that.
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:12:28AM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote:
> > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux
> > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian
> > rather than something else.
>
> 1. It's not commercial (more consistent with the whole Lin
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:30:33PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > They are very cheap but reliable for me and according to several
> > benchmarks they are faster than much more expensive 3Coms.
>
> Well, I've never seen NIC benchmarks, but I'm actually quite
> interested (especially
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:20:18PM -0700, Bryan Carpenter wrote:
> I would like a 10/100 10BaseT card that uses
> an efficient architecture so it doesn't load
> the processor unduly, and I also want it to have
> good WinME and Win2K drivers.
I am satisfied with my Realtek 8139 cards. They are ve
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> I am planning to add a tape drive to my Linux box but I am not very sure
> about which are supported.
I am using a HP-Colorado which is an IDE-device connected to the
parport (there are also internal ones).
It works great.
P
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example
> /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it?
I think you need to change the MAIL_DIR or MAIL_FILE in /etc/logins.defs
Phil
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:24:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> why, when i have the following:
>
> machine:/etc# ls -la shadow
> -rw-r-1 root root 1761 Jan 9 10:34 shadow
>
> and then i run "passwd" to change my pasword are the permissions changed as
> such:
>
> ma
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:39:25AM -0800, Sean Rhea wrote:
> I have a new Sony Vaio Z505LS, which I have gotten Debian installed on.
> Everything works, except one thing: when I boot, the system loads the sound
> card modules before the Ethernet card modules, and the sound card "steals"
> the Eth
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote:
> fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i
> think my system shut off at 200.
>
> 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all
> the mail?
Are you looking for this one (from /etc/exim.conf):
# This sets the maximum n
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:22:20PM -0600, Kay Nettle wrote:
> One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he
> wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but
> he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true?
The german magazine "c't
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and
> MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them?
Somewhere I have read that it is common to use Bits when talking about
data that has to be transmitted and B
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > > > KB = Kelvin Byte
> > >
> IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k&#
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte.
> > Phil
> You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte.
> Same for kB = kiloByte.
>
> Please do not
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:07:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, runn
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This
> machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the
> box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do
> I tune t
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:16:12PM -0800, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to
> the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato
> current. apt-get upgrade is what you want.
1. AFAIK there is no difference in upgrading sev
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2
> CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the
> new CD's? What would the steps be to do this?
Sure you can do a dist-upgrade with these CDs. You can add those CDs
t
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:50PM -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
> and often go without notifying root or the message log. You should not
> be able to use -X68 without the patch, since the Viper was never meant
> to do ATA66 in the first place, and Andre's ATA66 patch is a hack that
> just /happe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:42:09AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote:
>
> > From all I have heard the missing pentium optimizations shouldn't make
> > much difference.
> > You should check if your HD is working in UDMA-mode
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I
> > wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that
>
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:52AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> A few days ago, I installed potato, and things were again not so good. I
> applied the IDE patch and compiled a kernel, and things improved, but
> they're not as good as they were on Mandrake. I still get brief clicks in
> my au
Hello,
I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I
wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that
html files are viewed with Mozilla by default.
But changing the MIME type for html to "/home/phil/mozilla/mozilla %f"
didn't work. If I try to open a html
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote:
> I would like to buy a Voodoo 3000 graphics card and found the debian-paket
> mentioned in the subject. But I could not figure out for what kind of card the
> module will work. Does anyone use this kernel-module ?
I know for sure that
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:44:17AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> Most of the time I'm the only user at this dial-up machine (progeny,
> 2.2.18). I suspect a relation with my habit of short dial-up intervals
> and short PPP connections.
Try this:
1. empty your queue
2. connect
3. send exactly one
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> I have a strange problem with Postfix, my messages are sent more
> than once. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Does this happen only for local users or for everybody? There is just
one message from you in this list ;)
Do the mes
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:37:39AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> I'm getting spammed by people offering me degress and whatnot. Is this
> proverbial kill file another filter listed at te end of my .procmailrc,
> or something sourced from somewhere else? Any pointers in how to set one
> up aprecia
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:25:44PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:07:36PM +0100, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > "Arthur Denisov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The author of this letter the student, citizen of Russia. I am
> > > addressed(
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:22:17PM +, uland wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to submit a job to crontab, and follow the "new" format
> such as:
> m h dom mon dow user command
> 0 12 * * * someone /bin/somecommand
> But it does not work for me. I find some message in syslog:
> Dec 14 12:00:00 omega /U
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0600, ktb wrote:
> I need to check user passwords on a server here at work. I
> would like to test it from my Debian box if this is possible. I
> searched the archives and packages but didn't find the program
> I'm looking for. I'm ru
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:46AM +, Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
> I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can
> configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt?
The usual way to use mutt is to use it together with fetchmail. That
means you get you
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:49:56PM +, Max Lock wrote:
> I've got a weird ssh problem. I'm running 2.2r0 and when I ssh as root
> to another 2.2r0 system, I get as far as debug: Allocated local port 607
> with the -v option, and it then hangs and timesout?
>
> But the kicker is if I ssh as
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:59:17PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> > > 2) is possible to specify either
> > > a) what interfaces a particular user can log in through or
> > > b) what ip addresses a particular user can log in from?
> >
> > Sure. ssh and telnet (bad!) logins can be restricted t
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:34:04PM +1030, David Purton wrote:
> 1) Is possible to control what interfaces the services in inetd bind to?
I don't thik I understand what you want. Are you talking about a
server which has several interfaces and you want i.e. smtp to be
reached through eth0?
> 2)
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:31:00PM +0100, John Travis wrote:
> I am not allowed to su to root and launch anything. I get a connection
> refuesed by server error. I am sure this is probably a one word edit in a
> config but I am just not sure _which_ config. Any hints? GDM doesn't have
> th
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> I have just installed Debian 2.2 onto my Dell computer.
> During the module installation portion I could not get it to recognize my
> network card, which is on the motherboard (I believe that it is a
> 3Com Etherlink XL 3C905B-TX).
What d
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote:
>I started Debian 2.2 a few weeks ago. Recently I've been able to configure
> my YAMAHA sound chip with the opl3sa2 driver, but I'm baffled by a problem:
> I can drive the CD and gmix (Gnome mixer) only if I log in as root. W
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:12:32AM -, Robert Feri wrote:
> Now I want to know, how to install my network card (3Com Etherlink III
> 10Mbit ISA). Under win98 I have 3c509b drivers.
It is very well described in the Ethernet-HOWTO. Basically you load
the module for your card, add the correct p
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:01:39PM +0200, Esko Lehtonen wrote:
> I have a problem configuring my debian potato to use dhcp. I'm
> connected to the Internet via cable modem. The network card is
> configured to irq=10 and io=0x300. The module is smc-ultra. The card
> should be ok.
>
> When I start
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:48:16PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> Somehow I have a messed up system.map file.
> Could someone tell me what this file is/does, and how I can fix mine?
The System.map is created during compiling your kernel. I guess you
recently compiled a kernel and did n
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -, william Elling wrote:
> Fatal server error:
> no Config file found!
>
>
> ive done the step by step instructions i have found with no luck at all So
> if u can give me another way to do it without downloading all the files
> again that would be greatl
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:03:45AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
> Ok all I have hdparm installed and working and with the help
> of a couple of online articles I have what I think is a stable
> setup for it (It's been running for about 2 weeks now with no
> problems and a great increase in performa
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:01:31AM -0500, mikpolniak wrote:
> Last week after i installed potato on a new system i ran
> hdparm to test the new ibm ata66 drive and it showed reads of
> 32mb/sec. Since then the only changes i've made have been
> apt-get installs which have increased my dis
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:56:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> >>>On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >>>>Philipp Schulte wrote:
> >>>>>But what
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote:
> I have no manpage for fakeroot on this system. In fact I just need a
> way to compile, say for example the eterm package and use it just for
> me (that is because the root dont want to take the time to do it or
> dont want it wide
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:02:52PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:03:08 +0100, Philipp Schulte writes:
> >On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> >> > But what kind of pressure can $your_provide
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:24:15PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:08PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > > But what kind of p
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:38:43PM +, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:18:34 +0100, Philipp Schulte said:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> >
> > > >Shouldn't this be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
&g
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:14:46PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
>
> > See, I really don't know this card and don't know what options should
> > be given.
> > Is it a PCI-card or ISA?
>
> PCI
>
> > If PCI, what does "lspci -v" say?
>
> command not found
apt-get install pciutils
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:13:54PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> > /var/log/syslog
>
> nothing in there that i can decipher - sorry.
What about posting the relevant parts?
> > less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
>
> don't have the file - /usr/src exists, but is 100% empty.
Install the ke
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:35:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > But what kind of pressure can $your_provider put on a portscanner from
> > $evil_provider?
> > Phil
>
> Domain-level blocking of...mail, news, DNS
Show me the ISP that is willing to take these steps because of a
port
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:40PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> one more thing that may be of interest:
>
> % modprobe -c
>
> found this:
>
> alias eth0 off
If your card is working you can place an alias for the modul, not
needed by now.
> and also
>
> # Options
> options 3c59x 3c59x options=4
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:22:35PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
>
> > What do the logs report? Did you try the magic-sysrq?
>
> which log should i look at? and what is "magic-sysrq"?
/var/log/syslog
less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:04:20PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> >Shouldn't this be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
>
> No, $yourproviders complaint is _much_ more likely to be taken
> seriously by $attackers_provider (and it can save you from a lot of
> embarassment if you´d misjudge something).
>
> I
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:31:30PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote:
> I wonder if there is a way to install .deb packages as a user and not
> as root.
No, there is not and it would be dangerous if such a way would
exist. Imagine some user on your system could replace some libs...
But there is a way
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:59:04PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> If someone scans several ports, I usually do report it to their ISP,
> sending them log excerpts that include the time they occurred and also my
> time zone as reported by my computer. The ISP would probably warn the
> customer and even
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:35:14PM -0500, urbanyon wrote:
> > You can load modules by the command "modprobe" or "insmod". The
> > man-pages should tell you more. A simple "modprobe 3c59x" should work
> > if the module has been compiled. Just try it.
>
> "modprobe 3c59x" doesn't do anything - or
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes:
> > One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned
> >recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to determine
> >the running OS (somet
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