Re: Network options

2002-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:08:17AM -0500, Greg Sidelinger wrote: > I was wondering if there are any nice debian packages that allow a user to > easily change their network settings. I use different networks with my > system and dhcp is not the way to go with some of them. I use dhcp > sometimes,

Re: USB MagicOk

2002-12-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:07:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 10:52, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I've noticed the same problem on a Mandrake system I have. I had times when I > > had a SanDisk Cruzer (ramdrive) and a USB floppy plugged into the USB ports > > and there was no wa

Re: adding ssl to apache1.3?

2003-01-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:21:58PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I've got an apache1.3 server up and running. I've been thinking for a > while of adding ssl for the heck of it (nothing important on it, just > something I've wanted to to do). I added libapache-mod-ssl to my > debian uns

Re: Re: Chat servers

2003-01-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:30:35AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > if liz has soggy trousers did she pee herself? > > > > Dean McEwan, If the drugs don't work, [sarcasm] take more...[/sarcasm]. > > Amazing, I'd told procmail to send all his linux-kernel garbage to

Re: changing IPs

2003-01-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:00:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has > recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a > server. What files need to be modified for this IP change? I have > modified the file

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Happy new year.. and > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. > without success. > MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. >

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:52:14PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am making plans for developing a turnkey system that will be installed in > retail stores, that will have a DSL connection. > > Unfortunately, I live out in the Maine woods, far from available DSL > service. I connect to t

Re: Help with Sparc

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:46:57PM -0800, Curt Howland wrote: > Good evening. Please reply directly, as I cannot keep up with the > traffic on debian-user. So subscribe to debian-sparc :-) > I'm trying to install Debian Woody on a Sparc. I have successfully > gotten the cdrom to boot, but the bo

Re: Two IP, one NIC

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:26:10PM -0300, ignacio wrote: > Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >I have two Ip and one NIC. > >I'm trying to configure so that some applications reports that its > >coming from my other Ip, but the rest should come from the first Ip. > >How do I do this? > >I ha

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:28AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > You'r lucky :-) > I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' This sounds like a LILO error. > The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. > I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. > I forgot,

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:52:37PM +, eb wrote: > * Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > > Happy new year.. and > > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > >

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:35:22PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st > > ... > > > > Grub expects that to be menu.lst, n

Re: Mail server and iptables/exim

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:48:41PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, David P James said: > > >As you have noted, there are quite a few variables. Rule out iptables > > >and tcpwrappers first - from an address outside the LAN, telnet > > >your.host.ip 25 - if the connection

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of > | what DNS software you which to use). > > Technically this isn't true. A DNS server isn't required to store the > zones in the same format as bind. d

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:30:05PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much > trouble. > > typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive > than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the i

Re: Recursively changes rights for directories only?

1999-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: : : As root I moved a directory structure. So that any user could read/write files I recursively changed modes for : all files and directories to rw (i.e. chmod 666 *). Dumb me, eh? I now need to recursively change all directories only : to x

Re: Networking problems!

1999-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Pablo Longhi Lorenzzoni wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : : Hello Debianners!!! : : This time I am writing to get a solution to my problem. Here is : it: : Since I have upgraded Debian (hamm to slink through : APT-GET), a boot message both

Re: cdrom read/mounting problem

1999-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Brode wrote: : I'm still still trying to get Debian 2.1 to recognize my cdrom so I can : install some apps. I've installed Debian 2.1 and upon startup the kernal : loads my cdrom device driver fine & returns this message: : : mcd=0x320,9: Mitsumi status, type and

Re: Re[2]: cdrom read/mounting problem

1999-06-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Brode wrote: : Thanks for the help in blowing away the old file; and the kernal reports : that mcd.o is loaded fine. We're getting close Now when I try to : mount or when I do the "dd" command below, I get a page-long error message. : The last line before I ge

Re: Akkerman's idea of nonfree.debian.org

1999-06-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Wyn Snow wrote: [ snip ] : I suspect that putting contrib and non-free on a different server : will make it harder for newbies like myself to get packages with : apt and harder in general to find things. If that's correct, I : think a different approach to making a clear

debian.midco.net mirror in trouble ...

1999-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hey everyone, I just returned from a week vacation and after being assured that everything worked fine in my absence, I find that's not the case regarding debian.midco.net. I don't know how out of shape the mirror is, but it's probably not up-to-date. I'll try to get it there ASAP. The machine

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a : good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that : prints a message explaining that

Re: ProFTPd feature kept me from logging in

1999-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 31 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : It turns out that ProFTPd would not log me in because my login shell was : not listed in /etc/shells . It didn't do anything to _tell_ me that. I'd : suggest it prompt for the login and password and then dump you with a message : as soon as you succeed

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Brian Servis wrote: [ snip ] : > Anyway, I went to /pub and found a large "communicator" file. Any : > chance this may be the holy grail? -- Max : > : : /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/communicator-v461-export.x86-un

Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem

1999-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Fredrik Jonsson wrote: : Hi, : : I have setup sshd on my Debina system, genrated keys for root and user1 : with ssh-keygen and put the public key in the file .ssh/authorized_keys. : I have moved the private keys to my Mac where I run a ssh client : (niftytelnet-1.1-ss

Re: kernel compile errors

1998-07-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Chris Ulrich wrote: : : I just recently abandoned my own linux setup and installed debian (hamm). : This is a pretty much stock setup -- the only thing un-debian I've done so : far is change /bin/sh to point to pdksh, but that *shouldn't* be the problem : because I've com

Re: .bz2???

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Adam Greene wrote: : What exactly is a bz2 file?? Is it bzip (the block sorting file : compressor)?? pavlov:~ $ file linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2 linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k ^ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet -

Re: Hamm and 3com's 905 PCI.

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : : > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : > : > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Taren wrote: : > > > What you need to select is the 3c59x driver. It works equally well for : > > > 3c59x and 3c905 NICs. : > > I tr

Re: Bo-Packages - ftp?

1998-07-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: : : On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : : > > I have still a bo-box somewhere at home, and I do not have time : > > to upgrade it now, but I would need auctex. : > > : > > Is there still an ftp-server offering the bo-packages? : > : > ftp://

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called : syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity : with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to rotat

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ): : |>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : |> : |>: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in : |>: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a fac

Re: log file rotation in hamm...

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote: : OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only : conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot: No, you're no idiot. I may be, however, for not understanding the question completely. : these are the output of 'syslogd-listfile

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: : On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Timothy C. Phan wrote: : : > Hi, : > : > Didn't Adaptec bought out BusLogic? I thought I heard some news like : > that a while back! : > : : No, Mylex (whoever they are) bought BusLogic. Yup, and Adaptec bought Future D

Re: How to clone debian system to another hard drive

1998-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Scott Hill wrote: [ moving partitions snipped ] : Anyway, I take off the A and use my floppy boot diskette and B and i : can logon : and seems ok. I want to boot off the hard drive so I did a /sbin/lilo. : But can't boot : off hard drive, just after the fsck check of partit

SPI maintains Debian?

1998-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
Seen on COLA Message ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Our work is supported in part by SPI, who maintain the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. ... I thought SPI "maintained" copyrights and the like for Debian - I was not aware they were involved to the extent implied by this sentence. Is there informatio

Re: Need help connecting to network in new 2.0 installation

1998-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Ben Turner wrote: : During a new Debian 2.0 installation, the ne2000-compatible ethernet adapter : driver installed without complaint, and the TCP/IP numbers were correct. : Yet, when linux boots, it gives the message "SIOCADDRT:Network is : unreachable." What can I do to trou

Re: Installation Assistance (was Re: never mind the recue disk was bad.)

1998-08-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: [ snip ] : master disks/CD-Rom's for. I have one such program called FIPS, which I : have from a Slackware Linux CD I have here at the house. If you can't find : it, e-mail me and I'll send it to you in one way or another, it's a small : freeware pr

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote: : George Bonser wrote: : > No, LSB would not dictate Debian's version but Debian could say that : > Debian-2.0 is LSB-1.2 compliant and someone looking at Red Hat 5.2 might : > see that it, too, is LSB-1.2 compliant and get the idea that both are : > roughly eq

Re: Stuck In Limbo

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Cristov Russell wrote: : already posted that question and got no response. If someone could : show me where to look for bo that would be more than acceptable right : now since I would have something instead of nothing and I can figure : out hamm later. ftp://ftp.infodrom.nor

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : Ok... : I am using a 33.6 kbps modem and it works pretty good...the main problem : is now I am running a masquerading firewall for my girlfriend and me...and : it can get bogged downa bit by us... : I want to alleviate this abit by getting a 56k

Re: hardware purchase advice: modems

1998-08-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : > : I would like a 56k but am not sure what to get. I do NOT want to be : > : stuck in a winmodem hell. Have the problems with 56k modems been : > : resolved (ie is there a standard yet?). What is good to get : > : (ie it must not need a

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, George R wrote: : : > I'm neither a sysadmin nor a kernel programmer, I'm not even a unix : > user, I'm just a guy that wanted something stable that was still : > progressing (deciding to leaving OS/2 took a long time). Funny thing,

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Hello all, : : I am working from the Master CD binary-i386 Debian 2.0 CD. I am starting to : up grade my first system via the cd_autoup.sh. : : After mounting the cd to /cdrom and going to /cdrom/upgrade I notice that : cd_autoup.sh is not an executable

Re: cd_autoup.sh broken... or is it me?

1998-08-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: [ snip ] : The solution is simple, however ... simply type : : `sh/cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh' Blah, how about `sh /cdrom/upgrade/cd_autoup.sh' Sorry :/ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57

Re: Strange thing ...

1998-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: : On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: : : > : > On 05-Aug-98 Daniel Mashao wrote: : > > I had the same problem until I was told I needed to upgrade the perl : > > library to the newer one in bo/unstable. That solved my problem. : > : > Yes! B

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : No problem. Have fun! :) : : By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a : password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad : thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were talking : about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy booting. Could : you please elaborate? Sure. If you hold down the shift key very soon in the boot cycle, you'll get a pr

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, : I may have mentioned: : : [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] : : > i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue : > disk...perhaps this was the cau

Re: Where's bo?

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Tres Hofmeister wrote: : Where can I find the bo distribution? It seems to have : been removed from ftp.debian.org and its mirrors. I'm definitely : heading toward hamm; I've been running it on my desktop for a couple : of months. But I've got 75 or so Debian 1.3.1 sys

Re: Where's bo?

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, David B. Teague wrote: : : Tres, and all: : : I find myself in the boat with Tres as well. We are trying to find a CD : of snapshot of what 1.3.1r-most recent was. There are sites who still : have bo, but for how long? For what it's worth, I'm planning to keep bo for quite

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : > Stupid question, but did you run all the appropriate rdev commands that : > the bootdisk kernel needs? (You can find them in the rdev.sh file on : > the rescue disk) : : not a stupid question at all! i've never successfully made a rescue

Re: Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: : Hello, : : What is the command that a user can use to change their default shells? I did : it once long ago and have purged that part of my memory... chsh kepler:~ $ man chsh NAME chsh - change login shell SYNOPSIS chsh [-s login

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: People that reply to themselves are the bane of civilisation. having said that ... [ snip ] : If you have a Linux box handy (and you must if you're creating images) : you must mount the rescue floppy on /mnt and run `/mnt/rdev/sh' after

Re: minimal files essential for booting ?

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Brian May wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: : > I went nuts partitioning the new disk. I was mostly just : >experimenting. Many will think I have gone needlessly overboard. I won't : >disagree. The old disk has two partitions, one being swap. The new d

Re: Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: : > Hello, : > : > What is the command that a user can use to change their default shells? I did : > it once long ago and have purged that part of my memory... : > : : You can edit the file /etc/passwd, t

Re: Changing shell

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: : > : > : You can edit the file /etc/passwd, the defauld shell for the user is the : > : last thing in the line. : > : I'm sure that there is a

Re: debian site ftp

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: : I have been unable to download individual debian packages from www.debian.org : and get an ftp error when I try - even at 'off' hours. Is the site that busy : or is something broken? : Regards, Richard www.debian.org doesn't serve up packages to the p

Re: ftp problem thickens

1998-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: : : I cannot ftp from my home machine to ftp.debian.org - the target site closes : the connection. : : I can telnet to my work machine and then ftp from there to ftp.debian.org : successfully. : : Perhaps not all ftp sites are as picky. Maybe the debi

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: : Hi, : : Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual : console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a : little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it : corrupts the console e

Re: FIXED -- SMC Ethernet Problem

1998-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : > : > When it resets, I can see the link light die on the hub and come back. I : > have replaced cables, and tried a different port on the hub. : > : > Has anyone else had this problem with this card? : : I do not know why, the card just wanted

Re: Copying only root directory

1998-08-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: : Until I get to the root partition, that is. I've been through a : half-dozen books reading up on cp and dd and various commands and I : can't come up with a way to copy only the subdirectories on my 64 meg / : partition to the new / partition. I kn

Re: Burning Debian CDs with Windows/NT software

1998-08-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Arifi Koseoglu wrote: : Hello again, : : This is the second time I am posting this message, since I find it : really hard to believe that no one in this list was able to suggest a : solution. I will be really thankful if someone can help me with this : question: : :

Re: hd parameters at boot up

1998-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: : : When I boot my system I have to tell the kernel : the hard drive parameters. : : LILO: linux hda=1010,12,55 hdb=683,16,38 add a line like this: append="hda=1010,12,55 hdb=683,16,38" The append line ought to appear in the global section, s

Re: 8013wc card

1998-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Kennedy Mutio wrote: : I am trying to find out the driver that the SMC card known as EtherCard : Plus Elite 16T (8013wc) uses.. I'm using Debian and I thought that it : would use the NE2000 driver because I've used this before with another but : different SMC card. : Can

Re: mbr package

1998-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote: : I was wondering how hard it is to remove/replace the mbr package. We have : a single system running hamm, for which we want to disable the capability : of booting from a diskette. Currently we've disabled floppy-boot in the : BIOS, and configur

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : : Quota only displays user quotas. Edquota edits quotas, but only with a : editor. It doesn't not accept command line arguments for soft/hard/etc. : limits. Wrong. RTFM `man edquota' and carefully examine the "-p" option. HINT: Create a "prototy

Re: ssh problem

1998-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : : I have two systems that are fresh installs of Debian. I have installed ssh : on both. I can use ssh to get from one to the other without a password. I : can not go the other way. Both the /etc/ssh and the ~/.ssh directories and : the home directo

Re: NCR53C700 SCSI adapter driver module

1998-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ken wrote: : I'm hoping if I can locate a copy of ncr53c7xx.o I'll be able to insmod it : from the shell option of the rescue disk and finish the installation. : : Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. If you told us where you got the driver source, perhaps someo

Re: dual boot hardware problem

1998-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: [ snip ] : But Debian sees the BusLogic card first and the Adaptec second and so : reverses the "boot order". I have searched under the general topic of : dual boot in the mail list archives but have not seen anything : referencing this type of problem

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses : Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated that : since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. He : mentioned something about attaining

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:43:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > However, let's assume someone grabs a copy of your /etc/passwd file, and : > you aren't using shadow passwords. All is not lost (yet). See, you : > can't

Re: Passwd Encryption (Re: Linux security)

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Chris wrote: : On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : : > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > >No. The first two characters of the "Encrypted password" field are the : > >"salt"; the plain

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:54:52AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 08:46:20AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: : > > currently xfstt bombs out if it gets a connection of a differnt : > > "endianess" than the system

Re: modprobe

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Tony Crawford wrote: : On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote: : : > hi to all, : > when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message : > : > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 : : Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get : th

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: [ snip network vs. host order discussion ] [ I wrote ] : > I'm coming into this late, and perhaps under-armed ... but no, I don't : > understand. Network order == big-endian ... so on little-endian : > machines htons(), htonl() et. do actually perf

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : Allen Hoffman wrote: : > Hi: : > Where are the old debian 1.3 installation directories now? : :[13]ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ :[14]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/bo/ :[15]http://debian.midco.net/

Re: Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote: : Hello: : : I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. : Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees : 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and : how I can fix this ? Compaqs are notoriously stupid when it comes to proprietary BIO

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *- Nathan E Norman wrote about "Re: old 1.3 directories" : | On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: : | : [snip] : | :[15]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ : | : | Minor nitpick - I think this should read: : |

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: : >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then : >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve : >the problem and help you w/ resources. : : Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll d

Re: sendmail bug?

1998-08-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, David Stern wrote: : $ man aliases : : [..] : Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person : more than once. : [..] : : "Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn, : and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I sen

Re: hamm wu-ftp package?

1998-08-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : : Hey all. I just realized that the wu-ftp package was not upgraded when I : moved from bo to hamm. I have not been able to find a hamm version of : this package. It's relatively important that I do, as t

X problems

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
First off, I know jack about X. Having said that, I have an STB Velocity 3D with 4 MB of RAM ... I installed xbase and xserver-svga, as well as fvwm2, olvwm, wmaker, and afterstep. I chose Virge/VX as my "board" type when I ran XF86Setup. Here's the problem. If I try to run afterstep or wmaker,

X problems (fwd)

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
:05:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: X problems First off, I know jack about X. Having said that, I have an STB Velocity 3D with 4 MB of RAM ... I installed xbase and xserver-svga, as well as fvwm2, olvwm, wmaker, and afterstep. I chose Virge

X weirdness

1998-08-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've found a work-around solution to my problems with startx that I posted last night. For those who didn't see it, if I executed startx more than once, my machine would lock up solid. The solution? I enabled xdm at boot, and now that I'm learning how to use .xsession I can do what I want. Than

Re:[fixed]New installation problem

1998-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: : I have connected the cdrom to the secondary channel as a slave drive and : everything works. I have hard disk on primary ( master) and no other : devices are connected to the controller. This is not a valid configuration - you cannot have an IDE cha

Re: dependencies in dselect...

1998-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Alan Su wrote: : is there anyway to permanently override the "suggests" form of : dependency in dselect? i have a system on which i want xbase : installed, but not an xserver. every time i run dselect, it insists : on changing the status of xserver-vga16, xfntbase75, and

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : : >telnet : >ftp : >login : >exec : >finger : >shell : >...you get the idea... : : And dont forget the r services ... rlogin, rsh, rexec, etc. With the availability of

Re: Hamm installation kinks

1998-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Martin Wheeler wrote: : : Is it just me, or has anyone else got problems with an eighteen-and-a-half : Mb lastlog file appearing on a hamm system within minutes of completing : installation? [see: /var/log/lastlog wiz:~ $ ls -lAF /va

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: : On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : : > On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > > : And dont forget the r services ... rlogin, rsh, rexec, etc. : > > : > > With the availability of ssh you're ins

Re: Netscape xpm-problems solved.. next problem :-)

1998-08-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Kris Van Hulle wrote: : Is this because I have enabled 24bit color and not 32 ? Yes. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *- Thomas Malloy wrote about "Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?) " : |ALPHA SPARC i386HURD : |Which one of these things is not like the other? : | : | Since hurd is an operating system and not an architecture why does debian

Re: New SMB Timeout...

1998-08-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: : Another package that I could not get my Bo configuration to work with the Hamm : setup is SAMBA. Shares seem to be fine, but when I use SMBCLIENT I get an : error such as: : : startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such f

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 10:51:56PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: : > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > : > > Imagine "Debian GNU/FreeBSD" ... that would send some people straight : > > over

Re: How to receive mail under WIN95 from another Debian PC ?

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: : On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote: : > If not, what package do you recommend ? qpopper ? : : I would recommend IMAP. That way a user on PC1, if (s)he uses both Linux : and '95, could have the same mail in both. There

Re: Copy entire filesystem

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : My questions are, again, how to copy a filesystem but not it's linked : directories from other drives, and, second, how to do this whole job : successfully. Here's how I do it. mke2fs /dev/[newdevice] mount /dev/[newdevice] /mnt cd [

Re: Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet card

1998-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Joao Paulo Figueiredo wrote: : : Hi, : : Is there any driver for my Compaq Netellingent 10/100 TX Ethernet : card? Or, do you known if it is compatible with some other driver supported by : debian? : I'm planning to install hamm... 2.0.35 kernel, Thunderlan (TLAN) d

Re: Diald dials all the time

1998-08-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Will Lowe wrote: : On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: : : > Do you have any Windows stations on your LAN? What happens when you click : > "network neighborhood?". It is probably Win95 doing it. Block the netbios : > traffic from the outside world with ipfwadm rul

Re: Filenames with spaces in them

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Tomt wrote: : Hi everyone, : : I have some files I've transfered from my Windows NT machine and they have : several spaces in them like : This is a Test.txt : : How does linux treat spaces I'm tried the filename listed above and a : couple of other variants?

Re: 3com 3c905b support in Hamm

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, David Warnock wrote: [ snip ] : EtherExpress Pro 100/B and a 3Com 3c905b-tx Fast Etherlink XL : PCI 10/100base-tx. Debian 2.0 works with the 905b just fine. Install the 3C59x module. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PRO

MTA config (exim preferred?)

1998-08-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
For all you Exim gurus out there ... (this should go to an exim specific list: I'm hunting them down). (Other MTA suggestions won't be ignored - I get a headache thinking about mail routing these days). I'm helping the cc:mail admins here implement a virus scanner for incoming and outgoing mail.

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