whoops, this should have gone to the list too.
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > >It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In
> > >fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that
> > >is the last
Three people gave me the answer I was looking for. This list is a
godsend.
Thanks everyone...
Thomas.
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, dpk wrote:
> From: dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Debian User List
> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:36:32 -
I was wondering if there was a debian package that'd let me do the
following:
I need to get information of bandwidth used over time on our leased ISDN
link... I could stare at 'netwatch' all day and write down the data (where
it says ROUTER), but then I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Does
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> It's fine with me if you carry on with the "war", but I'd appreciate being
> left out of it even though I started it..
OK, no war. Just seems a little shortsighted to throw out the message
because of the medium.
TL
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
> Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail
> client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just
> delete any message I see which looks like a webpage.
That's a bit of a broad sweeping statement. I gues
Isn't some division of the FBI interested in this kind of crapola?
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On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote:
> As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking
> "WHY?".. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well
> come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits?
> (Just a few simple lines please.. no dissertat
In addition to the steps already mentioned to stop relaying (I use
sendmail, so I don't have a clue here...), you might want to do a couple
things:
-use ipfwadm to stop his host even touching your port 25.
-here's the fun part: invoice him for the cost of bandwidth, processor
cycles, diskspace an
You did compile firewalling into your kernel, didn't you?
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mark Stone wrote:
> From: Mark Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:58:33 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: proxy server question
>
> I'm attempting to use one of my computers at
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with 86open
> before that happens.
Thought it would be awhile... Hurd looks like it has some neat technology,
though.
Thomas.
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> This is the logo of "Debian GNU/Linux". Any future Debian system we do with
> the Hurd would obviously have a different logo. We could still use a logo
> for Software in the Public Interest.
On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Lin
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote:
> I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i
> threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency
> information said that I needed "deliver". I had already installed
> procmail and thought that procmail was the
Hi,
If I put `start-xfs' in /etc/X11/config, the font server runs (can see it
with ps). I can't tell, though, if X is using the server... Are there
any additional steps apart from the one change in /etc/X11/config?
TIA,
TL
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This might be your problem:
Script started on Fri Nov 28 10:43:03 1997
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 3dillusion.com
3dillusion.com A 198.109.162.43
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 198.109.162.43
198.109.162.43 does not exist (Authoritative answer)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit
exit
Script done o
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 07:41:25PM -0500, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> > The Pentium II is just a Pro with a different (anticompetitive ;) mounting
> > and different (cheaper) L2 caching (AFAIK). Choose 'Pentium Pro' in the
> &g
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
> Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build
> procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro
> machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to
> putting the options in yet, or is
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which
goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something
like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not
perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:
>
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> Basically, you wanna run:
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make mrproper (the first time after you install a new kernel version)
> make menuconfig
OK up to this point -- but really, if you're running a Debian system it's
stupid not to use the tools available (ie ke
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:30:52 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.
>
> I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is
> there anything I need to
You might like to try using procmail to filter your messages.
TL
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Marcus Lam wrote:
> From: Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'"
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:51:43 +0800
> Subject: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list
>
> May
Anyone know if debian is vulnerable to this, given that the setuid
/usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for the XFree86 server?
I'd like to know before I chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X...
TIA,
Thomas.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri
Try looking at samba and/or ksmbfs. samba lets you appear to be a SMB
server, and ksmbfs lets you mount SMB volumes (if the appropriate option
is in your kernel or available as a module).
TL
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I downloaded this as a pre-patched tarfile from ftp.kernel.org, then put
it in my /usr/src/, then did a make menuconfig and tried to make-kpkg
kernel_image. In various attempts, I got sig-11's, kernel panics and
oops's -- generally some bad things happened. However, when trying to
compile my 2.0.29
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote:
> Nor mine, though I didn't look that carefully. There was some hoopla from
> the guy who ran the client that found the key saying he wished it had been
> a Mac (it was found by an NT machine), but I don't recall anything about
> Linux. I have been meaning to
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> Received FROM: ... HOST: 3dillusion.3dillusion.com [198.109.162.43] ...
> Deferred TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ERROR:(ERR164) router
> inet_hosts: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out
>
> before, all my mail was coming to '3dillusion.com' ... and not
>
after a horrendous crash on my hamm box (cause of which I've yet to
ascertain), I'm left with some files like this on my disk:
07/8F:
total 396246198
br-sr-S--x 1 2691225646111, 99 Mar 12 1995 18F7
07/99:
total 817377432
br-sr-S--x 1 2776027695124, 124 Mar 22 1987 1
The BugTraq post I read suggested that the P6 (Pro, II) does not have this
bug. Of course, there may be others...
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote:
> Are Pentium Pro and/or Pentium II also effected by this bug?
-TL
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mailIN CNAME 3dillusion.com.
oops, this should also be an A record.
-TL
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OK, asides from the separate need for delegation from your upstream
provider of the relevant in-addr.arpa zone, you'll need to do the
following:
- in /var/named/boot.zones:
primary 162.109.198.in-addr.arpa 162.109.198.rev.zone
- in /var/named/162.109.198.rev.zone (or whatever you call t
Some of you have probably already seen this. The rest of you should.
TL
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From: ZombieMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:10:29 +
Subject: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug
This Program was distributed in the newsgroups
I installed debian on my brother's K6 with TX motherboard with UDMA.
Worked, have no idea if it was working at 33MB/s though. Shame his
Millenium II didn't work with X...
TL
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, butc
>From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to
offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their
best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;)
-TL
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote:
> From: butch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-
You asshole. You made me add '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my killfile, right
next to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. You are an A-1 whacko. Go create your own
distribution, manage it yourself, and watch the hordes of developers
follow you -- not.
Kindly cease to pollute my channels of communication with your worth
the binary is /usr/bin/nc
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Chi Wong wrote:
> From: Chi Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:13:05 -0400
> Subject: netcat
>
> Could someone help me with netcat. I use the debian package installation
> method. Grab the package
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> There is no way to know if your traffic is being snooped once it leaves your
> property.
>
If you're suspicious you could transmit bogus information and see if
someone tries to use it...
If security is a real concern of yours, get ssh and create a VPN
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed
> slightly.
Oops. I thought it said it was switch-compatible. Thanks.
TL
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> i'm starting to get message during boot time:
>
> "command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found"
>
> i don't remember removing any essential
> packages from my system
You didn't. 'clock' got renamed to 'hwclock'.
>
> Any ideas how to fix it?
>
ln
Mine works. Where are they logging in from? I think by default it's set to
exclude logins from the console. Check /etc/idled.cf. Watch out for
drastically growing logfiles too... I don't think this program has been
maintained for awhile; I symlinked /var/log/idled.log to /dev/null (or
else it fills
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have
been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email
address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these
cases?
thanks,
TL
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote:
> I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use
> dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully
> during driver disk, the dselect ask me following:
>
> Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]:
>
Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum
Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office
had 4 other identical models die with dead spindles and data errors); a
micropolis 1GB ages ago die after 18 months (another dead spindle), and
I've know
PLEASE DESIST FROM SHOUTING. CLUE-FREE QUERIES. ON OUR MAILING LIST.
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:59:36 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: SCREEN SAVERS
>
> PLEASE SEND ME SOME INFO. ON YOUR SCREEN SAVERS.
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
> I know about
> setterm blank n
> which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen
> rather than using the more advanced power saving features.
Some monitors are smart enough to switch off when they've got no signal (I
used to have a C
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Is there a client that one can use outside the US?
There's no ITAR export restriction, since the client decrypts rather than
encrypts. Clients are available at rc5.distributed.net.
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On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
> Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's
> rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to:
> http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc
> I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx.
Looks like we probably can'
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Britton wrote:
> From: Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:12:30 -0800 (AKDT)
> Subject: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux
>
> I
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
>
> > yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the
> > quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes to Linux
> > International (www.li.org).
> >
> Sorry, I RTFM and it seems that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' seems to be the
> place
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
> Wasn't there a method to register as a Linux group box or Debian? How
> do I do this if its still available?
>
> Thanx -- Greg.
yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the
quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes t
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> What is reasonably?
>
> Marcus
The client can buffer any number of blocks of keys between network
connections -- thus your machine only has to be on the net when it wants
to get the next set of blocks. If there's no connection when it tries,
it'll k
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Debian mail-lists receiver wrote:
> From: Debian mail-lists receiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:36:47 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux
>
> >I'd like to encourage all
Try 'reget' in regular ftp. ncftp does it automatically, as far as I
remember...
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, dada wrote:
> From: dada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:55:11 +0200
> Subject: ftp: how to continue downloading?
>
> hi...
>
> how can continue downloading an fil
Hi,
I'd like to encourage all readers on the list with a reasonably regular
connection to the internet to download and run the rc5v2 client from
http://rc5.distributed.net/ (download the client at
ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/rc5/v2.004/rc5v2b4-linux-x86.tar.gz)
The client runs with a nicelevel
Sledgehammer approach: I downgraded perl and perl-suid to the stable
versions. It works now.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: dselect ftp method problem
Can't locate Time/Local.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup line
7.
query/setup script returned error exit status 2.
This is what I see whe
Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm currently?
It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting
quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. usrquota
is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with
quota befo
I use an old 2/4 GB DAT... apparently, this oldest of DAT incarnations is
about the same speed as a Travan 4/8 (about 500kb/s for a SCSI travan).
However... the newest DATs are pretty incredible. I recently used a DDS-3
Sony SDT-9000 that has 12/24 capacity (and it really did compress 2x, even
whe
Bruce,
Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which
would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's
just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i
have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open and
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know
there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat
got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using
latest unstable sendmail as MTA.
Many thanks for any assistance.
TL
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