Re: 3 questions about pre-compiled kernels in woody

2003-07-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul E Condon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a set of CDs for 30r1 (woody) on i386. > I see in dselect that there are several packages that > use the 2.4.18 kernel. I have a classic pentium, which > seems to referred to as i586. There seem to be two > packages that provide kernel-ima

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, > > since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? > > Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag > it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have > to do some more w

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
1. [snip] > 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem, > /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI > 64, > and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I > workaround this? Those devices, some of htem, are just sym

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread John Hasler
José María Pongilioni López writes: > I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I > workaround this? Don't. You should use /dev/ttyS1 directly: /dev/modem is a bad idea (and it isn't a device file: it's just a link to /dev/ttyS1). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions: > >1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot >time, my screen shows the following message: >SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument > >

RE: 3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Dennis Dai
Thanks a lot Scott. Now it's much clearer. Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Scott Ellis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 1:36 PM > To: Dennis Dai > Cc: Debian User list > Subject: Re: 3 questions > > On Wed, 10 Jun 199

Re: 3 questions

1998-06-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dennis Dai wrote: > 1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink? Slink will eventually become Debian 2.1. It contains those packages which either aren't ready for prime time yet, or which contain additional features past the freeze date of Debian 2.0. > 2. Wher

Re: 3 Questions...

1997-04-01 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Starke) writes: > 1.) i can`t find a file called 'man.config' on my debian 1.2.6. So > what should i do? (i need it for configuration stuff) There doesn't seem to be one. But dpkg -L man suggests /etc/manpath.config. > 2.) Normal users (members of the group 'ppp') shou

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-18 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > It really is empty!! I'll paste in what I did: > > # pwd > /proc/3 > # ls > /usr/bin/color-ls: exe: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/color-ls: root: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/color-ls: cwd: No such file or directory > cmdline environ f

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-17 Thread Mark Phillips
>On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx: >> > >> >cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM=' >> > >> >to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the >> >actual shell. >> >> I did this - the environ file is

Re: pppd and setuidness (was Re: 3 Questions)

1996-06-17 Thread Richard Kettlewell
>>One could make the uid of the account zero to achieve this without >>making pppd setuid, though I can imagine this making people jump up >>and down about security - can anyone think of an attack on this? > >If the user figures a way to change their shell, you're dead. Quite so. Similarly if th

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-17 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx: > > > >cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM=' > > > >to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the > >actual shell. > > I did this - the environ file is empty!!!

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-17 Thread Mark Phillips
>On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained. >> The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for >> linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh? > >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx: > >cat

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-16 Thread Guy Maor
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained. > The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for > linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh? Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx: cat /proc/xxx

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-16 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for your help. >> When bash is the login shell for a user, it >> seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console. >> But when I changed my shell to tcsh, TERM no longer gets set to linux >> as it should. Why? > >Perhaps your .tcshrc or .cshrc is messing with it. No - I

Re: pppd and setuidness (was Re: 3 Questions)

1996-06-16 Thread Jeffery S. Coy Jr.
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > >>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue, > >>a ppp group would be in order. > > > > Personally I find that the diald package is an excellent way of > avoiding this whole issue. However: > i've been using kerne

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-16 Thread Guy Maor
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > 1. How does TERM get set? TERM is set from the kernel in init/main.c to linux. init, login, et al, propagaate it. > When bash is the login shell for a user, it > seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console. > But when I changed

pppd and setuidness (was Re: 3 Questions)

1996-06-16 Thread Richard Kettlewell
>>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue, >>a ppp group would be in order. > >I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification. > >If you need to have non-root users execute ppp as root, take a look >at the 'sudo' or 'super' packages. They allow yo

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-16 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > > good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue, > a ppp group would be in order. I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification. If you need to have non-ro

Re: 3 Questions

1996-06-16 Thread Jeffery S. Coy Jr.
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > 1. How does TERM get set? > it is set by login(1). > P.S. Is there any advantage to using bash instead of tcsh? Does bash > have all the features that tcsh has? > well, being a LONG time tcsh user, no, bash can't do everything tcsh does. tcsh can do