On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > To cut to the chase, here's what I need:
: >
: > Mail arriving at the Linux box destined for "ourdomain.net" should be
: > forwarded to a specific host (IP address or
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: >
: > ourdomain:
: >domains=ourdomain.com,
: >transport=smtp,
Exim doesn't like this line. Do I need "transport=remote_smtp" instead?
/var/log/exim/paniclog says
1998-08-28 17:05:29 Exim configuration error
smtp transport, referred to
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: >
: > : >
: > : > ourdomain:
: > : > domains=ourdomain.com,
: > : > transport=smtp,
: >
: >
On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Eric Jacoboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
: >capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
: >have a Inn server with P
On 1 Sep 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I am very happy with tulip based cards. There is an actively
: developed set of drivers and other information at
: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html.
For the most part I agree - the tulip based cards are excellent.
Hi,
I'm setting up a Linux box to act as a BOOTP server - a Win95 box was
trying to do the job before.
I have one question: the bootpd man-page says
When bootpd is started it reads a configuration file,
(normally /etc/bootptab) that initializes the internal
databas
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote:
: > Hi,
: >
: > On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su"
: > then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
: >
: > When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
: >
: > I much prefer to see the curren
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Bedwyr wrote:
: Everytime I try and Install Debian 2.0 It will stop at the same point. Which
: is during loading under the following line...
: Ncr53c875J-0 copying script fragments into the onboard RAM
: ..
: I have a Fireport 40 SCSI card with a 4.3 gig IBM SCSI HD an
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
[ snip ]
: -> Non-authoritative answer:
: -> Name:irc.openprojects.net
: -> Addresses: 204.140.166.40, 199.184.169.71, 207.203.100.150,
199.183.24.237
: -> 204.209.161.5, 208.136.203.8, 195.198.116.4, 164.11.100.9,
203.24.100.18
Hi,
Lately I've seen a disturbing trend with qpopper - it freaks out and
causes inetd to disable it:
Sep 3 11:42:41 brahe inetd[151]: pop-3/tcp server failing (looping),
service terminated
I have to kill -HUP inetd to get POP mail restarted.
I only see these messages during the day, sometimes
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Lennox Reid wrote:
: I am a first time user of Linux, and decided it would be nice to use the
: OS to try to save my old 386/33 (to some extent). I downloaded the system
: from the web, made the installation floppies, and seemed to have gotten
: Linux installed okay. How
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too
: often with debian 2.0
:
: Is debian 2.0 stable or should I stick with 1.3? The machine serves
: e-mail and web services for about 300 people...
10+ systems he
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
[ snip ]
: I have upgraded about two weeks ago and I lost a lot of time trying to
: figure out new configurations and recompiling older /usr/local programs -
: some of them unsuccesfully so far. My system does not seem to be as
: stable as it was under
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: >
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader)
: > |
: > | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied
into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group?
: >
[ snip ]
: Don't know if anyone m
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Michael Stenner wrote:
: Couple of easy ones in case you guys have been thinkin' too hard...
:
: #1) Does Comm 4.06 ONLY exist as a libc6 version, or did I accidentally
: get the libc5 version. It installed rather smoothly (well, I didn't
: need to get any extra librari
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote:
:
: www.linuxpress.com
:
: The new manual covering 2.0 should be out by the end of Sept. according to
: the publisher.
I've found that any decent UNIX book is useful, especially if it has an
animal on the cover (O'Reilly & Associates). Personally,
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, bmorgan wrote:
: This is a reposting of a previous message. I'm starting to get
: desperate. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[ snip ]
You could give the Samba list a try. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a body of "subscribe samba Your Name"
You could try the w
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
: Where can i get .deb of pgp? My dselect said it is unavailable.
ftp://non-us.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net
finger [EMA
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote:
[ snip ]
: Hey,
Hey! Your lines are too long :)
: I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video
: card. When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards
: the same IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Robert Ramiega wrote:
: Hi!
:
: I've been trying to find info on this on www.debian.org but i failed.
: I have installed qmail-1.03 from "upstream" sources. Now i would like to
: install ezmlm package but it depends on qmail and refuses to configure.
: I *know* tha
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
:
: while we're talking about non-standard packages, I'll toss out another
: one:
:
: There are some utilities (ftp at the top of the list) for which I
: prefer the Free/Net-BSD equivalents. I've downloaded the source tree,
: but what
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
[ snip ]
: Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive?
: The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously)
Did you try the "linear" option in lilo.conf? Also, try commenting out
"compact" if it isn't already
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: Use more blocks per inode when you format the filesystem. The inode table
: is probably what is using up the 2 GB. I know I run out more quickly of
: space than I do of inodes:
:
: $ df -i
: Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUs
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi All,
:
: I want to locally mirror the debian dist. Which is the better way..
: rsync, wget or mirror ? I am planning to just do the base install, install
one of these and then start the mirroring.
rsync is the easiest on your system - you mu
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Has anybody got any idea why I can get a serial mouse to work, in X, but not
a
: PS/2 mouse?
:
: I am using /dev/ttyS0 for the serial mouse, but when I use /dev/mouse for the
: PS/2 mouse it doesn't work.
/dev/psaux for PS/2 mice, eh.
--
Natha
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
[ snip ]
: > Umm... They are usually in standard .zip format, as used by the old dos
: > program PKZip. Install the unzip & zip packages, then `unzip filename'.
: I guess my question was what are the packages names.
unzip and zip, in section no
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
: Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
First, install the doc-iana package.
I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book)
but if you are referring to the Type Of Service field, 0xc0 is not a
valid choice.
[ fr
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
[ snip ]
: > : Anyone tell me what tos 0xc0 is in ip headers?
: >
: > First, install the doc-iana package.
: >
: > I'm no IP expert (I'm currently reading Stevens's IP Illustrated book)
: That book was copyright 1994, i imagine it was pri
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'de some questions about /tmp directory:
:
: My /tmp directory permissions are:
:
: rwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Sep 13 14:17 tmp
:
: ... meanwhile chmod manual says that "t" permission is to: save program
: tex
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: Is there any way I can take a dselect archive (where is it) from one
: machine and feed it to another in order to install exactly the same
: packages?
dselect is a front end to dpkg.
box1:~ $ dpkg --get-selections > pkglist
box2:~ # dpkg --set-sel
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Cameron Taggart wrote:
: Where can I find help on installing Debian?
: I thought this was the list but no one has replied.
:
: When installing Debian I get this error part way though the instation:
:
: "No ... msdos ... partitions that had not already been mounted were
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
: What I'd really like is a "Debian for NetBSD People" guide, but, failing
: that, maybe a couple kind souls out there can answer some questions I've
: got.
:
: Note: I'm not running Debian yet - I'm running NetBSD-current - but I
: think I'm g
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
: On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > : 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and
: > : install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Cameron Taggart wrote:
: >I'm totally unclear as to whether you've already made it through the
: >base install, or if you've completed that step, rebooted, and are now
: >staring at dselect.
:
: I am trying to get the base install to work. I am running Win95 OSR B and I
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I am having trouble getting my cable-modem working and I am wondering
: if somebody out there knows the right way. Here is the info:
:
: - works in win98
: - looks like a subnet of a class A network (this could be my problem)
: - ip
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote:
:
:
:
: I just downloaded debian 2.0 linux and I want to install it
: on a SMP Wyse7000i machine. This machine has 2 486 processor.
: After reading the documentation, I have a question.
: After downloading, do I install debian 2.0 first, and
: then r
On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Shane S. wrote:
:
: Thanks for the response.
:
: So do you think I should forget about recompiling the kernel
: and just install it as if there is 1 processor?
I don't know anything about Wyse hardware, but you could always try it.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Remo Badii wrote:
: Dear Debs,
: this is my second list of questions about kernel compilation and modules
: mysteries. I apologize for repeating part of the content of the previous
: message, but I prefer to leave it for clarity.
:
: I have just succeeded in compiling a
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Default Debian Reader wrote:
: I am used to Solaris boxes that log things like failed su attempts to
: /var/adm/messages and other console things like that...What is the
: equivalent file in debian? Also i use icewm for a window manager, is
: there a console that i can se
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Brian Schramm wrote:
: I have a debian machine that is a firewall for my network. I would
: like to remove the monitor and keyboard on the machine so I need a way
: to control it by a secure shell from my internal network. Is there
: any way to do this? I looked for ssh
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote:
[ snip ]
: hd: controller still busy
: hda: reset timed out: status=0xff { Busy DriveReady WriteFault
: SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
: hda: reset timed out: error=0xff { BadSector UncorrectableError
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
:Could someone tell me exactly what the dists/proposed-updates
: subdirectory is for?
:
:Yes, I know it's for "proposed updates" ;-), but what for what dist?
: Hamm? Slink? Does this subdir function as sort of a new "incoming"
: type of su
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Tom Malloy wrote:
: Following up on my question about hardware, if I can't get the specs for
: the hp lan card how will I know which module to compile into the
: kernel? Yes, I did try the ones marked hp, but they were rejected
: Once again the card is HP ethertwist pc l
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
: > Install the kernel-package package then:
: >
: > man make-kpkg
:
: OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do
:
: make xconfig
: make
: make-kpkg binary
:
: in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?
Yo
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote:
: Hi folks,
:
: I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day.
: The hard disk is spinning at the full speed.
: Is there a program to slow down the spinning
: when my system is not in use? Please let me
: know. Thanks in advance.
You could enable APM su
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[ snip ]
: Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior.
: I'm considering trying a different network card.
I have an irrational fear of NE2000 clones - I've never seen one work
right :) I'd replace it and see what happens.
--
Natha
I _had_ pgpverify working with INN 1.7.2. Now, suddenly, it doesn't
work anymore :) I'm not at all sure this is Debian's fault (I don't
recall a new INN package being installed), but I wondered if anyone else
was having luck (good or bad) with Debian INN and pgpverify ...
Back to my attempts to
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Robert Rati wrote:
: I have noticed special options when creating a kernel for ISDN support. I
: am considering getting an ADSL line since it is being tested in my area.
: Does Debian support ADSL and if so, what is needed?
Unless you're getting an internal ADSL card, mos
For those who saw my original post and cared ..
I discovered why pgpverify quit working. Seems David Lawrence has begun
sending his control messages from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", instead of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Solution? Add these lines to /etc/news/control.ctl:
--
newgroup:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:comp.*
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
[ snip ]
: I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as
`password`..
I really hope this machine isn't connected to the Internet :)
Log in as root. Type:
echo 'filsin:password' | chpasswd
All done.
--
Nathan Norm
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Noel Yap wrote:
: Dave White wrote:
: > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following:
: >
: > Loading root.bin
: > Loading linux .
: > < here is where it locks up
: >
: > -I've formatted three different floppies
: > -downloaded resc1440.b
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
: I have been getting streams of messages as follows:
:
: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14
: Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times
Add the following line to /etc/conf.modules or the newer
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
: I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I
: can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/graphics/xv_3.10a-16.deb
: (undefined references to cr
Hi,
I was fortunate enough to receive an IBM Thinkpad 380Z this week. The
machine will dual boot NT and Debian.
However, I had little luck with the boot disks. resc1440.bin would do
the looping reboot. resc1440-fast.bin would freeze after decompressing
the kernel. resc1440tecra.bin and resc14
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
: On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 08:16:22PM +, Kent West wrote:
: > I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any
: > messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to
: > this message (to me) if this message
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
[ snip ]
: If you're using a pentium-class machine in 2038, you deserve what you
: get. I can't believe it would be operative after that long.
I know people still sing PDP-11s -today- ! Who would have thought
they'd still be around? Their cost of own
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
[ snip ]
: Well i cannot find it. you can see at imagmakiks debian page:
They're wrong. Use the debian packages instead :)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/graphics/imagemagick_4.0.4-3.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ham
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Kendall P. Bullen wrote:
: On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote:
:
: > Could someone please tell how can I insert under
: > Linux (debian2.0) EOF (end of file) sign (in C lang.) from keyboard?
: > I mean what sequence of keys ?
:
: Er, insert it where?! In EMACS, you w
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote:
: greetings,
:
: I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT >;0)
: ), what are the steps necessary.
login as root
mke2fs /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd /
find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt
umount /mnt
vi /etc/fstab
reboot
--
Nath
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: I have a problem getting a 3com905B cyclone ethernet card to work under
: linux on a fresh debian 2.0 system. The card functions OK under
: win95. I think the problem is that the card thinks the network is
: 100MBit ethernet, whe
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > To cut to the chase, here's what I need:
: >
: > Mail arriving at the Linux box destined for "ourdomain.net" should be
: > forwarded to a specific host (IP address or
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John B. Fink wrote:
[ snip ]
: Now -- my question is, can I get into any trouble by "exporting" CD-R of
: Debian Linux? I'm just sending burns of the "binary-i386.raw" images that
: I get via rsync. My primary worry (all of a sudden -- I guess I should've
: thought of th
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 09:26:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
: > The unit itself is usually ~500$ cdn, but the providers around here lease
: > it for a few dollars a month more.
:
: That sounds nice. Here in the land of .AU, where any decent sized
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Nick Gilliam wrote:
: I have several PS/2`s:
:
: 3-55sx
: 6-56sx
: 1-57sx
: 1-80
:
: Unfortunately, all have 4Mb of RAM except the Model 57sx which has 12.
: Any suggestion? Is 8Mb of RAM enough for running X.
Hmm, I can't answer that. I don't run X on any of our PS/2s -
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
: Hi there...
[ snip ]
: Now, on the Pentium, everything runs nicely. On the 486, it can take
: 10-15 *minutes* to complete an ssl-telnet connection. It gets as far as
:
: njm25# telnet blueberry.jellybean.co.uk
: Trying 194.88.75.31...
: Connected to b
Hello,
Recently I acquired an HP LaserJet III for use with our UNIX servers
(most of which run Linux). I also snagged a 486 to act as a print
server. I'm guessing if I RTFM magicfilter docs and HOWTOs I'll get
this going (though any tips are appreciated)
However, this printer came with a "Pacif
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Keith wrote:
: Cable modem down here in SotuhWest Florida cost about $35 per month.
: They put an ethernet card in your computer, but it is not bidirectional
: yet. You still have to dial in with a modem. So uploading is slow, the
: speed of the modem.
I want to write a shame
Someone was asking how to determine where the superblocks were ... I
deleted the original message.
At any rate, I use `dumpe2fs'. It'll tell you that, and more. The
first block of each group is a superblock, so you can either take the
"Blocks per group", multiply by an integer, and add one, or j
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: Am I the only one who feels that dselect should not update packages
: unless explicitly told to?
Could you be more specific? I've never had dselect update a package if
I didn't want it to ... I place those packages on hold.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Fri, 15 May 1998 10:56:44 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: >: Am I the only one who feels that dselect should not update packages
: >: unless explicitly told to?
:
: >Could you be more specific? I've never had dselect updat
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Fri, 15 May 1998 11:04:55 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: >But isn't that the point of a packaging system? This way, bug-fixes,
: >security fixes, etc. are integrated into the system simply by running
: >dselect every now and t
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Sun, 17 May 1998 00:32:29 -0400, Bill Leach wrote:
:
: >Although I admit to now being in the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
: >mode myself (while hamm is in frozen), I do not personally subscribe to
: >that philosophy. The 'pain' of delaying upgrad
On Sun, 17 May 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On 18 May 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: >
: > It is your ISP's problem. Nothing you can do about it. Complain about it
: > and ask them to fix it.
: >
:
: It is PARTLY the ISP's problem. If they are unwilling to change the PTR
: record for the
On Mon, 18 May 1998, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I am using Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a 486-DX40 (Cyrix). The FTP Linux
: installation is about two weeks old.
:
: Originally I could print to lp using the generic printer in printcap,
: but got the classic stair step effect on my HP LaserJet 5
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
:
: I've had this problem sporadicly, and it's started again. After a few days,
: the print que starts piling up without printing. lpq reports that no daemon
: is present. I've tried restartign, and stop/starting /etc/init.d/lpd, to no
: a
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Matt Thompson wrote:
: > > OK, multi-part question.
: > >
: > > 1.) Just upgraded my hamm dist., got this:
: > >
: > > Errors were encountered while processing:
: > > tetex-base
: > > tetex-nonfree
: > > tetex-bin
: > > tetex-extra
: > >
: > > ???
: > First install tet
On 21 May 1998, Paul Mackinney wrote:
: Booting for the first time from recovery disk, I get the following
: error just after it resets the SCSI bus:
:
: aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt.
: scsi0: BRKADRINT error(0x1):
: Illegal Host Access
: Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote:
:
: Friends, a question:
:
: I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on my old IBM PS/1 Consultant
: machine. During the installation procedure, when the time comes
: to partition my hard drive, the operating system cannot find my
: hard drive. I know the
On Sat, 30 May 1998, John Plate wrote:
: Hi
:
: I've noticed that the SAME password on two different Linux systems are
: encoded differently so that if user "" uses password "" on two
: Linux systems, the encoding is different in each /etc/shadow file.
:
: This implies that in case of a
On Sat, 30 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi,
: I have been using Debian 2.0 (from install disks) along with kernel
: 2.0.33 for the past month or two. My Debian box serves httpd, ftpd, telnetd
for
^^
I saw a lot of weirdness with 2.0.33, especially when the load got over
1.0.
We are in the process of moving users from a BSDi box to a Linux box.
BSDi has an adduser script which accepts encrypted passwords. The
Debian adduser script does not. From reading through the code for each,
it seems that BSDi's adduser script manipulates the password file
directly. ( I'm not a
On Sun, 31 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
:
: On Sun, 31 May 1998, Matthew D. Myers wrote:
:
: > What is the maximum partition size for an ext2 filesystem that linux can
: > handle? Is it limited to 2.1 GB like dos?
:
: Nope, it'll scale beyond 18G at least
:
: Jason
We've got a 44G news s
On Sun, 31 May 1998, R. Chris Ross wrote:
: I recently had a large portion of my hard disk got trashed.
: Somehow a directory in my home director got mutated into a device file.
: Even logged in as root I can't seam to get rid of it. Any ideas. I'm
: trying to clean up to do a final backup
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Damon Muller wrote:
: Hi Folks,
:
: Just got around to installing Bo on my old Pentium 150, and it's pretty
: much working (give or take a few minor issues...)
:
: One thing has got me a little cofused, and maybe it's me doing something
: wrong (prolly is)... I have a 1.2G dr
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
: The problem is not the server being up or down. When it is up, I am not
: able to connect because the server cannot reverse-resolve my hostname.
:
: Connected to ike.egr.msu.edu.
: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
:
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
: But it would be nice for Debian to be more `open' considering what it's
: used for...
Except ftp.debian.org is administered by Georgia Tech, not Debian.
Feel free to give our mirror at "linux.midco.net" a try. I think I've
got it so anyone can acce
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote:
: > -Original Message-
: > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 10:11 AM
: > To: Debian User List
: > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > Subject: adding users via script
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
: On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote:
: >
: > : How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt?
: >
: > Because I don't know what the user's password is.
Is anyone using virtuald, as described in the Virtual Services HOWTO?
Has anyone even tried it? Looking for success stories, horror stories,
etc.
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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:
:
: Hi all!
:
: I am having a problem with setting my network up.
: I basically want to run the following commands at bootup:
: ifconfig eth0:0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 1.255.255.255
: route add -net 1.0.0.0 dev eth0:0
I'm not sure what you're tr
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Michael Acklin wrote:
[ snip ]
:
: You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this
: list, I found out that you can do a "ps ax" and find out which process
: inetd is. Then do a "kill -1 (PS#)". That's the numeral one.
As usual, there's an even e
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > > I like "cp -ax" for this task, because of its shortness.
: >
: > I told a friend to use "cp -a". I forgot about "-x", but he only has one
: > filesystem.
: >
: > However, the copy hung on the file /proc/km
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote:
: Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
:
: > : When you copy an entire file system with cp -ax it skips any
: > : separate file systems, and doesn't even copy the mount points. So
: > : after copying, you have to check the directories that
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote:
[ snip ]
: SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid Argument
^^^
: SIOCADDRT: Network un-avalbel
: SIOCADDRT: Network un-avalbel
[ snip ]
: #! /bin/sh
: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
: route add -net 127.0.0.0
: IPADDR=146.115.107.117
: NETM
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote:
: welp, Norm made a belive r out of me, but murphy factor lives on. (I
: hate doing this - asking for help for a ll the little things) but we
: still get :
:
: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
: SIOCADDRT: Network unavalibel
:
: On the other hand Debian did
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, The Darkling wrote:
: well here we go (bitch wine cry moan.. I gotta write this all out)
:
:
: ifconfig:
:
: Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet blah blah blah (hardware address stuff)
: inet addr:146.115.107.117 Bcast: 146.115.107.127 Mask: 255.255.255.240
: UP BROADCAST RUNNING MU
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: One last question! :).
: If I want to keep a particular directory, and all files and
: subdirectories completly private to my user, how do I do apply the
: suggested filters to this? (If I do chmod 600 * -R or something, it will set
all
: the
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:50:21 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
:
: >So your advice to avoid qpopper is not necessarily relevant to Debian?
:
: It is as relevant to Debian as a message containing advice to avoid
: cucipop is. Or advice to use qpopper is.
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:15:42 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: >: None at all. It is a general Linux question which really isn't
: >: specific to Debian at all.
:
: >Not to hack on you for "not reading the thread",
The `quota' command isn't quite doing what I think it should. I've
added the appropriate lines to /etc/fstab, run `quotacheck -av', run
`quotaon -av' and `edquota' for the users who need them, but typing
`quota ' (as root) always results in the message "Disk quotas for
user (uid UID): none". I g
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