I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week.
>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runs
nearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas
what I could check/do?
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA
I helped me with forcing xterm to send other keycodes, but the problem
is here. Feel free to report this as a bug. As far as I know all
X-Terminal programs are in sync with current termcap database, all but
xterm, which send broken key sequences to programs inside the terminal.
I'm using eterm
Depending on who you talk to there and how reasonable they
are, tell them you use a firewall and don't want to leave your
machine "vulnerable" like this. It's possible that they will
use the same machine or machines when they want to ping or
traceroute to you. If so, you can allow just those mach
What do you think is dangeous about allowing ping/traceroute?
Neither are be used to establish a service which could be exploited, so
why so you care about denying ping / traceroute?
Exactly, I'm going about the firewall as deny everything, then just let
through what I know I want to come thr
I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been,
up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However,
I've recently started having some signifiant issues with my cable modem
provider and they routinely want to ping and traceroute to my machine.
This requires
I want to try upgrading to testing (woody). First I went to the debian
site and plucked the following sources directly from them:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free
Then I did the following:
Greetings,
When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message
saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all
the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done
as root?
Thanks,
Bill
I assume you mean you want to know how large the directory and everything
in it is? If so du -hs /usr will show you what your looking for.
Bill
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?
Greetings,
When I use NN6 or Mozilla and view a page that has a list of hrefs I
see what appears to be the lower line cutting off 1/2 of the line
above it. Obviously this makes it impossible to read the page. If
I use netscape 4.76 this does not happen. I'm running a stable
potato with kernel 2
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:12:42PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created
> > in windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that
&
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:56:20PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:53PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> >
> > > If the problem is they were created withi
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:53PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:12:58PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > Greetings,
>
> > If the problem is they were created within windows then what is it
> > I need to strip out of the files? Use perl to do it?
&g
Greetings,
Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created in
windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that are indented
across the screen. However when I create a file in linux and then highlight
and paste into another file it works fine. I think the file
I've got a web site that has some protected data. On some of the pages
I have javascript that does some calculations. Right now I have it so
if they click on the link to that page it auto asks for username/password,
however, what I would like to do is let them "see" the page and only
ask for user
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:29:34PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:22:31PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file
> > in a directory except one named one.
Greetings,
I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file
in a directory except one named one. For example if I had a file
called index.html and then hundreds of other .html files in the same
directory, how can I do a reg expression to say "all the .html files"
except index
Greetings,
I tarred up my /home directory in preparation for burning it for safe
keeping. When tar was done running it exited then reported that the file
I just made was literally too big to do anything with. rm, mv, cp, nothing
will affect it. Here is what I see:
rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.
I've just installed ftpd from the stable potato packages. Anonymous ftp
cannot log in because ftp user does not exist. I've setup a chroot jail
in /home/ftp. What's the best way to add user ftp in a security conscious
way. I tried useradd ftp, then in /etc/passwd I changed it's shell to
/bin/fa
Greetings folks,
As a newcomer to Debian I, like many since I've joined this list, ask typical
newbie questions about the some basic things. If we take a step back and look
at the big picture there is a basic group of things new users want to get
accomplished. For example most users want to send
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:46:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > I'm sure I used to have a program called calculator (or xcalc?) in
> > Slink, but it doesn't seem to be there in Potato. Is it in Woody?
>
> xcalc is in the xcontr
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:32:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to
> > use the -what was it called?
> > "vesa-complia
s.debian.org
Subject: Re: http port open?? how can that be?
User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:50:40AM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open,
> however, if I go to a friends machine and
Greetings,
I do not have apache installed, nmap localhost does not show http being open,
however, if I go to a friends machine and nmap my ip it shows http being
open. Also grc.com's port probe shows http being open. Thing is I just don't
see how this is possible considering I'm running iptables
I'd like to stick mainly with potato, but I also am running 2.4 series
kernel. The iptables deb pkg is only in woody so I dl that manually.
When I try to install it it tells me that my libc is too old. I would
prefer not to go into woody at this time because when I did yesterday
it broke c++ or m
Joel,
I use VIM for everything, not just mutt, so I added:
export VISUAL=vim
export EDITOR=vim
to my .bash_profile...tho nate's solution works equally well.
bill
- Forwarded message from Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:28:33 -0500
From: Nate Bargmann <[EM
Inside your ~/.BitchX directory is a file called BitchX.sav. Find the line
listed below and set the value to off not on.
SET DCC_AUTOGET OFF
Regards,
Bill
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
> By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man
>
Greetings everyone,
I dropped an intel etherexpress pro/100 into the system this morning, redid
the kernel to support. First time I booted up I saw the following as fast
as it could draw to the screen:
Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers.
Oct 12 09:37:21 stimpy kernel
If no one has any ideas I guess I'll have to reinstall debian because I need
a functioning devel platform :(
I guess I learned a lesson today eh.
Wm
- Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:36:13 -0500
To: debian-user@lists
I waited for the hub-ub of the last couple weeks woody situation to cool down
and dependencies to be fixed before I upgraded. I did the dist-upgrade tonight
with the --download-only option. Then I used dpkg -i *.deb. There were a
couple problems that I fixed and it seems everything is OK. Howev
Hey guys,
I'm trying to find the fastest mirror site. I am using a package called
netselect. Works like this netselect -vv host1 host2 ... hostx. Wonderful
little utility. Anyway, I have a list of mirrors in a text file like this:
host1
host2
host3
How can I pump that file into netselect? I
As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone
tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how
we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem.
Apt-cache search produces the same problem. For reference, I'm on a
every few days i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to keep my 'potato'
system up to date. today I see the following:
stimpy:~# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages [14.4kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.d
As a followup, it's not that going to www.mydomain.com doesn't work, it
just shows up completly blank.
If it matters I'm running potato and version 1.3.9.
Bill
- Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:54:29
I have a forwarder setup with my domain to go from www.mydomain to mydomain
so anyone using http://www.mydomain.com will just get routed to mydomain.com.
I tried it out at work today to find it isn't working, but going straight to
mydomain.com does. When I tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log I see
Chris,
Try gftp. The homepage is: http://gftp.seul.org/
The deb package is: gftp
Regards,
Bill
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:19:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program
> is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best.
>
> Chris
I'll confess right from the start I'm ignorant about this topic. Some of the
words I read about are:
OpenGL
Direct3d
Mesa
Glide
Direct3d I pretty much get...it's MS's 3d implementation. Can someone compare
and contrast what OpenGL, Mesa and Glide mean? This is in specific regards
to Linux and
Potato has it and the name is screen. apt-get install screen
stimpy:~$ dpkg -l screen
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name
dpkg -l
Wm
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> OK, I give up. On a "rpm" flavor of Linux I can do
> a "rpm -qa" to get a list of ALL installed packages on
> my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL
> installed packages on Debian 2.2??
>
> --
> -
My iptable rule:
$IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 -j
ACCEPT
I read this as any packed that is not a --syn type from source 20 on the ftp
server i'm hooking up to, destined to my pc port 1024:65535 jumps to ACCEPT
here's a snip of my log files:
Oct 3
When I exit E, I notice this:
libmikmod.so.2 <-- no found
libGL.so.1 <-- not found
I have a stock potato install except I added iptables, a 2.4-test7 kernel, and
sftp from unstable. Does anyone know what might be calling to those files
listed above? Or if/why I need them?
Wm
click middle button
go into desktop menu
go into backgrounds menu
there you go, select one..that is assuming you have put some background images
in the directory :)
wm
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:55:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I change my desktop wallpaper in Enlightenment?
>
>
Forget it, the answer is set sort=threads
I asked before I did a full investigation. mybad
Wm
- Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:11:21 -0500
From: William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subjec
When I change into debian-user folder I have to always use o t for sort by
thread. There has to be a way that I can tell mutt to always use threaded
mode?
Wm
Call me goofy because my firewall decided it was going to stop working. I have
the following line in for allowing ftp info back and forth...
$IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024:65535 -j
ACCEPT
I also tried..port 21
$IPT -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 21
Hey guys,
I know this isn't the right list, but how would I even find the 'right list'
for a c++ question? I know about ceil and floor but those aren't what I'm
after. I'm looking for a function that will take 1.4 and make it 1, but 1.5
or higher is 2. Know what I mean? Any built-in c++ funct
Here's an example:
Oct 1 18:30:09 stimpy kernel: Firewall:IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:80:5a:e6:33:00:08:00 SRC=24.216.244.211
DST=24.216.244.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=17211 PROTO=UDP SPT=137
DPT=137 LEN=58
I'm reading that as:
-coming IN to my eth0
-going OUT my MAC
-unreachable -j ACCEPT
Again, the same question goes out to those of you more familiar with iptables,
did I mistakenly leave myself open here?
Bill
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:04:36PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> An update to myself...in case others are having this problem:
>
> I
er pc on the net and tried to ping
my own box and it still just drops the packets. (which I want) Can anyone see
anything wrong with what I've done?
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:47:48PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> I think it's my firewall blocking them going _out_ because when I take
I think it's my firewall blocking them going _out_ because when I take the
firewall offline both ping and traceroute work fine. Ping works on localhost,
though traceroute does not when the firewall is up. Unfortunetly I am too new
at both debian and firewalling to know where I went wrong. I'm tr
How do you determine what the proper dpi should be? How do you calculate it?
Wm
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:38:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: How to set Xserver resolution
> Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:53:46PM +0200
>
> In reply to:Philipp Lehman
>
> Quoting Philipp L
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 03:50:04PM +0200, mario wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone found making a debian machine with firewall support useful?
>
> Yes, very much so
>
> > What are firewalls useful for? Do they simply prevent packets from passing
> > through the firewall into th
I'm still working on trying to get the list to be delivered to home. Sending
a test here.
Wm
Warning: Ignorant question coming...
I've registered a domain, setup deb to be 'on' the net and have exim directly
handling the mail sent directly to the domain. What happens to mail that is
sent to the domain when I'm rebooted into windows and playing games?
Wm
I haven't seen anything my way since about midnight on 9/26. Is down? Or
is this perhaps a side effect of the problems with apt-get upgrade recently?
Wm
After a apt-get upgrade I see:
Syntax error on line 221 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so into server: symbol dbm_close,
version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libdb.so.3 with link time reference
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
Is this
Read this over and it will answer most every question you have:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html
Bill
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:34:27PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote:
> Allright, got X up and running so now I want to get my ethernet card
> working. Where do I set up ip address,
Gecco,
This isn't directly addressing your question, however, what I do when I have
screen and bitchx running is I manage screen like this:
ctrl-a c<-- new screen
ctrl-a a<-- swap back and forth between the last screen and this one
ctrl-a x<-- x is the number of the screen you want to
As root you could:
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
Alternatively, you could redo xf86config and instead of accepting the default
of /dev/mouse put in /dev/psaux. This is assuming you have a ps2 mouse, which
you did not specify.
Regards,
Wm
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:49:25PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrot
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 04:39:21PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I am still getting mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This is what I have in my ~/.procmail/rc.spam :
>
> :0
> * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /dev/null
>
> :0
> * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED
the addition of a group.
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:59:13PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Another followup on my own dealings:
>
> As root, cdparanoia now runs after I setup the /dev/sg's. Great, but my local
> useraccount still cannot use it.
>
> So...I chmod
up is the right
group to have /dev/sg's set to? It's currently at root.
For example cdrom, audio? Would this break anything else?
Wm
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:45:42PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> Followup:
>
> This is information about the cdparanoia issue. I poked around
Followup:
This is information about the cdparanoia issue. I poked around on the
cdparanoia site and it said I needed the corret /dev/sg device. Well low and
behold I do not have one. I'm guessing this is the problem. So I:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV -v sg
This output:
create sg0 c 21 0 root:roo
As some of you know, I've recently converted to a full scsi system. I compiled
a 2.4.0-test8 kernel with the following options:
SCSI support
SCSI disk support
SCSI CD-ROM support
SCSI generic support
SCSI low-level-drivers --->Adaptec AIC7xxx support
SCSI low-level-drivers --->Enable Tagged Comma
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:10:48AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote:
>
> On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote:
> > Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed?
> > I cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden.
> > When I
Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed? I
cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden. When
I had deb installed on another system I somehow picked up identd and I was
not listed as ~ in name so that got me thinking. Anyway, what is the std
What is SUID? RipperX complains it wants to be run as SUID?
Wm
Debs,
Is there a reason behind debian commenting out the following in a users initial
default .bash_profile:
#if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
#source ~/.bashrc
# fi
I always have to uncomment it so that my personal changes show up.
Wm
Perfect. Thanks. Any ideas why the package manager wouldn't include that
in the regular download?
Wm
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 04:59:44PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:49:19 -0500, William Jensen said:
>
> : Greetings,
> :
> : I've done a potat
vim version is 5.7.2
- Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:49:19 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: apt-get & vim problem
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
From: William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greetings,
I&
Greetings,
I've done a potato install on a new system. Changed my sources and then did
an dist-upgrade which took quite a while. Problem is, the version of vim
that is installed doesn't have any help with it, nor does it recognize any
cmds like syntax on. Any ideas?
Wm
Hey scsi fans,
I picked up a 18 gig drive. I was planning on doing 3 6 gig partitions and
raid'n two of the partitions for linux. Question is what about the swap? Would
I really need to do two 6 gig, 2 128 meg, then what's left for windows?
This will be my first time for raid & scsi under linu
I like my tabs to insert 3 spaces so I use:
set softtabstop=3
Luck,
Bill
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:36:12AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed vim on my potato box. It seems to be a great vi
> replacement. But, is there any way to make vim to insert spaces when
> the tab but
Hi guys,
I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it
is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will
change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool,
however, when I ssh into my debian box it just puts up domain.c
Update, I deleted the cache version, redid man dd and it worked fine. Is this
just a case of something being corrupted?
- Forwarded message from William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:26:46 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: man dd <-- b
Hey guys,
I just did a man dd and received:
gzip: /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz: not in gzip format
Manual page dd(1) line ?/? (END)
I haven't done anything to the system. info dd works though. Any ideas what
might cause this 'sudden' change?
Wm
pgpQ3rxtWbTQR.pgp
Description: PGP signature
xset b off &
I have that in my .xinitc and it works like a charm.
- Forwarded message from Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:06:29 +0200
From: Peter Malewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: QBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: this beepi
Greetings,
As some of you know I'm converting to a SCSI system this week when my hardware
arrives. I've started giving a thought to what I need to backup, save, or
generally have available to me offline so I can get my system back up and
running in quick order. Then it occured to me it might be
I assume you chmod +x ? so that it's executable?
Bill
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Moses Backman III wrote:
> i downloaded the staroffice_5.2-xxx.bin file and i when i try to install
> it using the ./so-5.2-en.. command i get a permission denied
> warning. this happens if i su
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
> hi
> I use Debian for my first time, i was an redhat user.
> and my question is how can I make that gnome
> starts automaticly when I start with startx?
> And what windowmanager musst i use?
>
> thanks for help
>
> --
> Sent through
Greetings Debians,
It's time I do scsi. I've wanted to for as long as I can remember but I've
always been a little chicken to dive into it. Well no more. I'd like some
recommendations from those of you on this list that use scsi. Here is what
I am thinking about so far...
Card:
Adaptec 294
I did some experimenting with my .muttrc since a couple of people have reported
they could not read my posts. My work (windows) outlook was the destination
for my emails. When I had set pgp_create_traditional in my .muttrc and signed
a message (no encrypt just sign) it came into the outlook as an
msg.pgp
Description: PGP message
msg.pgp
Description: PGP message
all this ssh and scp and firewalling work I've been doing has really gotten
me the security bug so.
is there any sort of wrapper/ssh/etc construt for IRC? For example if I'm
typing away on my favorate channel can a sniffer pick that up and read it
into a file unimpeded?
Bill
pgp0x8RAo2cAP
data. PuTTY on the other
hand looks like it's supposed to. So anyone that might read this try PuTTY.
- Forwarded message from John Ackermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
To: William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: freeware windoze c
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:45:23PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:17:17PM +0200, QBA wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I totally green to irc client for console (I use BitchX) and need
> > a little piece of advice. The problem is that I can't se
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:17:17PM +0200, QBA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I totally green to irc client for console (I use BitchX) and need
> a little piece of advice. The problem is that I can't see list of
> all channels I can join. When I type in BitchX "/list" I get list
> of all channels but it is runni
My bad, I meant to say freeware windoze client that will do FTP with ssh
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:41:22PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 14:35:58 -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> > Any ideas?
>
> Putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/
Any ideas? I've got ssh working from work to home, now just need to
get ftp set also.
Wm
pgp16662qQJOn.pgp
Description: PGP signature
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
> overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and
> restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to
> multiboot into it using LI
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you have been using FreeBSD I would just get Debian and for the
> > same money you would spend on Storm get a good Debian book. Storm
> > hides to much to really learn from IMO.
>
>
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:43:30AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:43 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat
> >
> > [...] It just see
Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using
proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets
up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's
great, but how secure is this against hackers? Any different than proft
If your very new, perhaps you do not know this is a list for debian gnu/linux.
It sounds like your asking for windoze driver help. If that is the case I
would recommend going to gateway's www site and downloading the cd-rom drivers
from them. Alternatively you should have a rescue/windows install
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote:
> I did a reinstall. The first time I installed potato, the mouse was
> all fd up, it sticks to the bottom of the screen and refuses to
> com up. I can see the tip of the pointer on the bottom edge of the
> screen. When that happened,
Is the following a product of how debian sets up the system or is it a kernel
deal or what...
If I telnet to my home box remotely, then just kill the session instead of
logging out it often leaves that connection up in my ps even though I know
it's gone. Who cleans those types of things up? Is t
Greetings,
I've been looking into gpg and mutt. I read on the mutt faq to "include"
gpg.rc "with" my muttrc. Thing is I don't know what they mean "include"?
Does mutt accept #include like c++?
As a previous note listed I added the set pgp_autosign in the .muttrc already.
Bill
pgpqM4SHids1S.
Have a perl script to automatically do the "vote" button say a thousand time?
heh
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote:
> on 9/7/00 11:45 AM, Brooks R. Robinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> > There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.co
I assume the list maintaniers will c this and put them on the spam list? That
is most annoying.
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:41:09PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' instead. The "kept-back" message probably
> relates to a new dependency.
>
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:48:39PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> > Greetin
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