Re: Virus incident

2001-11-23 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:36:21PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > But no one wants to read newbie questions. So why are they > appropriate if no one wants to read them? Why wouldn't you want to read newbie question? How are the newbies going to learn to if they can't ask someone with more knowledge

Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-23 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:12:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There are a number of skills which help in tackling this stuff. Basic > intelligence and a willingness to learn help a lot. I try not to be > unintentionally rude, or intentionally rude without a reason. But an > ability to take

Re: Way Confused about Version Numbers

2001-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:22:42AM +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > A bit off topic: > Sid is unstable and will always be. > But will Woody always be testing? Or will Woody become stable and will some > new name be assigned to the next testing? The way I understand it is that Sid is the boy ne

Re: snmpd eating memory

2001-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:06:23PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Try putting a 2.2.19 kernel on this misbehaving box. If it still eats > the memory it's probably a config file problem for the system. Are the > other two machines both running mrtg? Kernel 2.2.19 didn't fix it. Everything bu

Re: snmpd eating memory

2001-11-11 Thread Quietman
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:06:23PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Try putting a 2.2.19 kernel on this misbehaving box. If it still eats Will do, as soon as I get the opportunity. Got one sitting ready to go. > the memory it's probably a config file problem for the system. Are the An snmpd

snmpd eating memory

2001-11-10 Thread Quietman
I have a strange problem with one of my potato boxes, snmpd sits and slowly eats up all the memory. The box in question has hand-built 2.2.17 kernel, snmpd 4.1.1-2. Since being started on 27th October it is now using 90596k according to memstat, this on a 96meg box. I cannot work out what is goin

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-05 Thread Quietman
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Raphael Deimel wrote: > btw. woody is unstable, so 2.4.0 will probably be the standard-kernel very > soon How do you come to that conclusion? Cheers, Tom -- Houdini escaping from New Jersey! Film at eleven.

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:23:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > He means that he sees the following: > > ii ksirc 2.0-final-0.po IRC Client based on QT and KDE > ii ksirtet2.0-final-0.po Tetris and Puyo-Puyo games for KDE > > ... instead of versions 2.0-final-0.potato.3 and 2.

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-15 Thread Quietman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which > ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) Well, due to limited resources I still dual-boot this machine, though I

Re: Trouble with pseudo-image-kit

2000-08-22 Thread Quietman
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:48:44AM +0100, Quietman wrote: > Now that Potato is stable, I decided to create my own CD-set using the > pseudo-image kit. It all seemed to go well with no errors, md5sum checks > out okay. The CD can be mounted on my Debian box, but the Windows box

Trouble with pseudo-image-kit

2000-08-22 Thread Quietman
Hi all, Now that Potato is stable, I decided to create my own CD-set using the pseudo-image kit. It all seemed to go well with no errors, md5sum checks out okay. The CD can be mounted on my Debian box, but the Windows box doesn't recognise it and the CD doesn't boot either. Is this normal, or is

Re: gw ppp0 ?

1999-11-30 Thread Quietman
luis wrote: > hello > how can i specify the gateway address to the ppp0 conexion? > thanks a lot Normally what I do is leave the remote IP address blank, or sometimes use the gateway address of the network I am dialling in to. Cheers, Tom

Re: setting up isdn. sorry but redhat is easier

1999-11-30 Thread Quietman
Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > I got my isdn line a few days ago, and using the isdn4net package in > addition to isdn4linux is was quite ease to get redhat 6.1 online. But > debian was my first distribution and I really would like to use it for > my day to day use. > > Setting up debian is unfortunat

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-30 Thread Quietman
Marek Habersack wrote: > that has to access them. If you really insist on hiding the contents of the > /etc directory from an average user and still allowing the programs to > access their config files set the /etc permissions to 711. I don't think that is likely to work since bit one is the exec

Re: Intellimouse configuration in XF86Setup

1999-11-30 Thread Quietman
dan sampsel wrote: > Am doing a new install & can't get mouse to work. It is an Intellimouse > Trackball (PS/2), BUT, I have it connected through an adaptor to the > serial port. I've tried tried ps/aux with "Intellimouse" > highlightednothing. I've tried it with "PS/2" > highlightednothin