Hello,
I'm writing a script to enable non-UNIX types at my work to be able to
administrate customer accounts. I'm fairly pleased with what I've got,
but I've got a question.
The passwd command runs a complexity check on what is entered, and tells
you if you're picking a password that's too easy.
On 14 Jun 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote:
: Hi,
:
: To use kernel`s raid0 support for swap partitions, I added
: these two lines to /etc/fstab
:
: /dev/hdc2 noneswapsw 0 0
: /dev/hda1 noneswapsw 0 0
:
: But boot messages say
On 14 Jun 1998, Deniz Dogan wrote:
: Hi,
:
: >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: [...]
:
: Nathan> Yes. Using RAID0 on swap partitions is more or less a
: Nathan> waste of time, since the kernel supports round robin
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
[ snip ]
: > Sounds like that disk 5 was bad. Use another disk and rebuild (rawrite2)
: > disk 5 and try the install from the beginning. As the docs say, most
: > install problems stem from bad disks.
:
: Hmm - I found this as well - a friend made the v
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote:
: I just upgraded to hamm from 1.3r8, everything seemed to go smoothly, but
: now I have a bit of a problem with utmp/wtmp. [see below]. I remember
: seeing something about this in the past, however I cannot find the message.
:
: The rest of the system is f
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote:
: > "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:28:16 -0700
:
: Daryl> mark, thanks for your reply. i am have a 3com 3c905B-TX card
: Daryl> as well as a Kingston 10/100 card that is an NB2000
:
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Jorge Kinoshita wrote:
: Hello,
: I would like to add many users and build a script to it. I have one
: problem with passwords. I would like that the users could alter their
: passwords by the web interface, so I have to write a script for it. My
: problem is: how can I se
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, James D. Lowenthal wrote:
: Sorry in advance for a probably naive question:
:
: I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 by floppy on my Toshiba Tecra 520CDT
: (Pentium 166, 4GB, 32MB). I've tried several different sources for the
: floppy, including "InfoMagic" CD's, which produc
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Mark H. Mabry wrote:
[ snip ]
: Only thing I can think of is to manually tell fdisk what my settings
: are. Any comments?
This may very well be necessary - I had to do it when I set up a 45G
RAID0 array. No big deal, grab a calculator and fire up fdisk, go into
expert mode,
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
[ snip ]
: something to hold the mail - if the sites sending the mail can't get
: through to your mail server, they'll just hold it until they can get
: through. Typically, what will happen is that people trying to send
: mail to your site will o
http://www.redhat.com/news/news-details.phtml?id=97
A few excerpts ...
Research Triangle Park, NC--June 23, 1998--Red Hat® Software, Inc.,
publisher of the Red Hat Linux Operating System, announced today that
Adaptec, Inc., providers of bandwidth management technologies
including SCSI con
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Philippe BARBELET wrote:
: Hi Debian friends,
:
: I have 2 ISA 3C509 ethernet cards in my PC.
:
: At boot time, the system says :
:
: 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA
: and MCA bus!!
: loading device 'eth0'...
: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Ok, so the gov't thinks strong encryption is munitions so you can't export it.
: Why have non-us.debian.org: You can't import it either? Or you just can't use
: it at all in the US?
Uh, you can import and use the software, but you can't _export_ it f
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I wonder if anyone experiences the following.
:
: The system reboots ok. ifconfig and route are runand network set up. If you
put
: a line in the boot up file with the command 'ifconfig' and 'route' it shows
that
: eth0 is up and the routing is se
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
: Steve wrote,
:
: > That's it.
:
: hmm, still doesn't seem to do it. My Makefile now reads,
[ snip ]
: and top still shows no signs of a second processor :(
:
: Am I still missing something? It's dual P-II's (gateway ns7000)
We have a
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
: Hi folks,
:
: I asked some days ago here how to make another machine hold the mail
: while the main mail server is down. People told me to put another MX
: record in the dns to point to the temporary machine.
:
: Sure this is necessary, but I don't t
Hi there, I've got an odd problem ...
I'll ask the questions first:
What can I do about a binary that is linked against libc5 and libc6? It
(of course) segfaults every time I try to run it.
Now, the explanation:
We recently purchased a Bay Networks 8000 Remote Access Concentrator.
This box ne
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:
: Nathan E Norman wrote:
: >kepler:/usr/annex $ ldd erpcd
: > libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4000a000)
: > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40018000)
: > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400d6000)
: >
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Hi,
:
: I need to advise on a PC for a new product we will make.
: The PC will be running Debian (ofcourse :-). I got a quote
: from a company for a PC featuring an Intel Nightlight motherboard
: with
:
:Symbios Logic 53C875JBE UW SCSI contro
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi
:
: Currently I have a 386 running Debian 1.3.1 (BO) and it is running the
: 2.0.29 kernel. I was wanting to use a EtherLink III from 3 com, it is a
: 3c509b.k It has both BNC and AUI on it. It also has no jumpers. It is an
: ISA card. I was just
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: Very unpredictably(so far) my machine will lock-up hard. I can't
: ctl-alt-del, no mouse or keyboard response, not even any jsr daemon
: response(uses joystick port to signal reboot). The only indication in
: the logs are strings of bina
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Somnolent wrote:
: Mark Panzer wrote:
: >
: > > As a matter of fact, I too have received a few... one from some
: > > jerk on AOL advertising 'beanie-baby grab-bags' and one from...
: > > heck, can't remember which major news net, ZDNET maybe? (didn't save
: > > it) :(... ex
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, matthew tebbens wrote:
:
: Does anyone know why the "table=" config statement
: is required in the subsections of "other" operating systems
: for the lilo.conf file ? ...why does windows or msdos have
: to know where the partition information is ?
:
: Thanks,
: Matthew
:
:
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Geoff Brimhall wrote:
: I recently got a rather brilliant pc notebook, and have been able to
: utilize just about everthing it has through debian and recompiling the
: kernel.
:
: Except for one thing - the internal modem.
:
: setserial does not detect the modem's COM port,
On 7 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Dennis writes:
: > Upgrades do not affect the configurations, either. I'm not sure if they
: > do, but if chat/pppd packages prompt you during installs/upgrade, you
: > should keep the existing configuration files instead of installing the
: > maintainers
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
: I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new
: of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive.
: The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is spelled wrong) and is not
: providing any tech support
:
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
:
: > echo ATX0 > com3 (or wherever Windows thinks the modem is)
: > echo ATDT0123456789
:
: You mean: echo ATDT0123456789
Actually I mean
I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no
longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining
bo box and it works.
I'm using telnet and/or ssh to get to the boxes from an NT box (gotta
have Notes and all that crap on the desktop at work :/ ) We
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: *-Nathan E Norman ( 8 Jul)
: | I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no
: | longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining
: | bo box and it works.
: |
: | I'm using telnet and/or
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote:
: Will Debian 2.0 solve the problem of not being about to have a parallel
: removable drive and lp drivers loaded at the same time?
I was under the impression that this was a kernel limitation; I believe
it's being addressed in the 2.1 kernels.
--
Nat
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:
: > 4. Can I get Apache and sshd to run from inetd instead of on their own?
:
: apache is not recommended to be run from inetd on a machine thats gets
: any decent number of hits. All you do for the inetd entry is ad a line
: for the port the server runs on. J
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Daniel Baldoni wrote:
: G'day folks,
:
: I am trying to install hamm on a new Pentium-II/233 with a Compex NIC and am
: having no luck getting the card to work. As mentioned in the Subject: line,
: it's a Compex card but it doesn't appear to be known by the kernel (2.0.34).
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Chris Evans wrote:
[ snip ]
: I think those two drives and the CDROM were seen and used fine
: by my first install. The odd thing is that the install also detected
: the three (I said it was an odd box!) disk drives on the second SCSI
: channel of the Adaptec but wouldn't
On 13 Jul 1998, Edvard Majakari wrote:
[ snip ]
: I think it is not possible to create a file containing so called
: 'virtual provides', which would contain strings like 'mta, httpd,
: news-server' etc. This way, I can install Qmail on my own, put the
: appropriate string somewhere and debian wou
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hello all!
:
: I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller.
:
: Hardware:
: VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios
: AHA2842B controller with bios enabled
: Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB
: Sony CDU 76S
:
: When I'm booting the
On 14 Jul 1998, Michael Harnois wrote:
: I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that
: serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my
: workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get
:
: *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3:
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Taren wrote:
[ snip dpkg-mountable woes ]
: If there is a work-around to installing via either nfs or dpkg-mountable, or
: both (and especially dpkg-mountable), which would allow setting more than one
: main distribution source, I would greatly appreciate it if someone would
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Collins wrote:
[ snip ]
: All the functionallity you describe sounds really good, I (and many
: others by the sounds of things) might be missing the point here, but
: how do we USE this marvelous package? Is there any documentation,
: because the man pages are really,
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
:
:
: Jaakko Niemi wrote:
:
: >
: >
: > This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through
: > a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls...
: >
: > --j
[ long lines fixed ]
: There was a big discusion in one of the
On 16 Jul 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
: Hi,
: >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) writes:
:
: E> What about putting a Readme.debian in the /usr/src/linux dir of the
: E> debian kernel-source package, in which you tell people about compiling
: E> kernels the debian way? I think that would be reall
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote:
: > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable
: > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from
: > the kernal?
:
: Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call
: to force a core dump, I
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote:
: Now I upgrade my PC to a New One which
: has Pentium-II and Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card,
: This System has install any system before,
: Do the floppy resc1440.bin can recognize the
: SCSI Card.
:
: Thanks!
The rescue disk should work fine. We've got a couple
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
: Is there a debain package for Pine? I haven't seen one, but I could be
: looking in the wrong place. I have elm installed ut I prefer to use pine.
: If anyone know where I can get a debian package for Pine I would
: appreciate it.
Finding a Pine p
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:
: Hi...
:
: I'm running a Pine binary package. I think he meant that he couldn't find
: a Pine binary package at all.
Of course that's what he meant, and for good reason - there is no Pine
binary package in hamm. That's why I described how to create one.
-
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
: On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote:
:
: : One thing I have noticed is that I cannot login as root across a telnet
: : connection.
:
: Edit /etc/securetty, which defines the tty's you can login from as root.
:
: : Anyone tell me why? And if its
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Peter Shtinkov wrote:
: Please tell me where I can find mirror of Debian Web site, which is
: accessible using ftp ?
The web site can be mnirrored from debian.crosslink.net, directories
/www/debian.org and /www/debian.org-local
See http://www.debian.org/devel/mirror for furt
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Eric wrote:
: I don't think that using ps would show you if idled is running or not. At
: least, on my hamm system, I can't find a way to use ps to show me _all_
: processes (including daemons). I always found this odd, since a
: home-grown Linux system that I always use doe
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: John Hasler dixit:
: > Horacio writes:
: > > There are some restriction laws on importing and
: > > exporting crypto into/out of the U.S.
: >
: > The US has no laws restricting the importation of crypto.
:
: I believe downloading any of the
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, John Bravacos wrote:
: At 07:30 PM 2/11/99 -, you wrote:
:
:
: >The problem is that when I boot (using defualt settings) with the rescue
: >disk, it can't detect my SCSI hard disk. I haven't tried to load Debian
: >straight from hard disk, and don't I want to. T
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Simon Werner wrote:
[NON-Text Body part not included]
Cool. My mailer hates your email ...
The IBM SCSI card was detected, so that's good. It didn't see any
devices on the chain, so that's bad. The IBM MCA SCSI adaptor isn't the
best HBA ever made, so cabling is VERY i
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:
: Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat
: contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on
: a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any
: work arounds to allow someone other
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
:
: > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:09:32AM -0600, David Webster wrote:
: > > During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for
: > > installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since soun
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
: Mitch Blevins wrote:
: >
: > The newer NetGear cards ship with a floppy that contains their
: > own version of tulip.c which is not necessarily the same tulip.c
: > that is included in your kernel tarball.
: >
: > Replace the tulip.c in the kernel
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
: AAAH!!!
:
:
: Well I made it back from Frye's and bought a Netgear Fast
: Ethernet NIC, a Netgear Fast Ethernet Hub, and I'm still
: using the Linksys pcmcia fast ethernet NIC for my laptop.
Netgear is good stuff. HOWEVER - chances are t
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Which is the earliest kernel that will work with 3-Com
: 3c905B cards? And is there any documentation on the Net that
: tells which kernels support which hardware? ...trying to help
: a schoolteacher get his network going here.
2.0.34, I b
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
: I have been using qmail for quite some time now and have been very pleased
: with it. Haven't had any problems. I noticed that the debian site plans on
: moving to exim. Why? Are there some significant features that exim has?
Yes; it's free accordi
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
[ snip ]
: > > Probably not. Debian is lame.
[ snip ]
: > But in potato there is:
: >
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/x11/wmaker-kde_0.51.0-3.deb
: >
: > I am not sure what else you'll need from unstable.
:
: I'm
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Odin wrote:
[ snip ]
: is this the dd (if there is one) on the rescue floppy? It may be a
: stripped down version. Perhaps someone with more C skills than I could
: compile you a quick binary to do this without linking many (or any)
: dynamic libraries.
dd on the rescu
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 22-Feb-99 Shaleh wrote:
: >> I have a bzImage, not a zImage, btw.
: >>
: >
: > NO, use a zImage kernel. Recompile one if need be. A bzImage will reboot
: > on
: > you.
:
: That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on t
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 22-Feb-99 George Bonser wrote:
: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
: >
: >>
: >> That might explain why I am unable to use my Debian boot disk on that
: >> machine.
: >> I forgot the correct procedure for copying a kernel to a floppy, but
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Matt Campbell wrote:
: My best guess is, boot off the debian rescue floppy, but don't do a
: "rescue", pretend like you're going to install the system again.
[ snip ]
Yes, this is the hard way. You can specify the shell when you use the
`su' command.
--
Nathan Norman
Mi
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
: Hello Friends,
:
: As root, I typed the following:
:
: "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh".
:
: I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not
: exist, the system does not allow me to log in as
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote:
: I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble.
:
: As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940
: Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS
: does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT do
On 23 Feb 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
: >
: > : As root, I typed the following:
: > :
: > : "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh&q
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
: > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have
: > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories?
: > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatic
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
[ snip ]
: personal Web site. http://www.brokersys.com/~jguthrie/rpopen.tar.gz
Your server is sending a MIME type of [text/plain] for this ...
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: writes:
:
: > > The appear to be tools to `defrag' an ext2
: > > partition, but I never saw any convincing reasons for using them. They
: > > may even be a risk
Hi,
Am I incorrect in assuming that you need to pass the "-j 2" option to
make to fully realise the benefits of compiling on an SMP platform? If
so, how do I get make-kpkg to use this option?
If this is a rtfm type thing which fm should I r? I suspect the
solution involves environment variables
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote:
: Hello.
:
: Is it possible to run 2 Adaptec 2940UW simultaneously? Then
: we would consider to change Advansys by Adaptec.
Sure - you can run two 2940UW HBAs at the same time. I've done it here
...
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phill
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Oshman, Ben wrote:
: I haven't found any info on setting up memory for Linux on a thinkpad. I
: keep gettting this damn memory address conflict when Linux boots up that
: stops the earth from spinning. I think that since I deleted DOS before
: installing, there's no memory
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
: I added this line to the /etc/sudoers file:
:
: efigueroa /sbin/shutdown -h now
:
: after that I loged in as efigueroa an tried to run this command:
:
: sudo shutdown -h now
:
: Then I recived this error:
:
: >>> sudoers file: parse er
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Matt Garman wrote:
: It appears to be my system :( Same errors:
:
: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
: 0% [Packages `Waiting for file' 0]http: Bad header line
: Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
: 0% [Packages `Connecting to http
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, John Galt wrote:
: try tsx-11.mit.edu or sunsite.unc.edu--they'll most probably be up and
: running 100% of the time--mit.edu and unc.edu going down probably means
: that the entire backbone is down, since they're two of the original
: backbone nodes.
Sorry; there's no su
Anyone having problems backgrounding apps with ^z after upgrading to
slink? Both vi (nvi) and pine are giving me problems - I can't
background vi at all, and pine sometimes will, sometimes won't. It's
weird.
This problem also cropped up during the bo --> hamm upgrade, iirc.
--
Nathan Norman
Mid
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
: I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin?
The answers to your virtual host questions can be found at
http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html
I deleted your first mail a bit too quickly.
The answer to your cgi-bin question
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Ares wrote:
: No chance. The Imac is a PPC based distro, which won't be available
: from Debian as a stable release until potato is stable, or so say the
: plans @www.debian.org.
More to the point, USB support needs to be fleshed out in the kernel
before it'll run on the I
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Juan Revollo wrote:
: -No, when looking at the partition table, no extended partitions exist
:
: -The original partition was Dos. When the rescue floppy could not
: repartition, I deleted it. The rescue floppy sill cannot partition.
:
: -The rescue floppy runs a men
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Robert W. Mudge Miller wrote:
: Dear Linux folk:
:
: My NIC (a Winbond W89C940 type) is not detected at boot time because its
: PCI ID is unknown (as predicted in the Ethernet-HOWTO, Sec 3.4). I am
: running Caldera OpenLinux Lite V1.1, Linux kernel v2.0.29. I am followi
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: >
: > On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
: >
: > >
: > > Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such
: > > thing.
: >
: > Tell Stallman that,
:
: Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating syste
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
: Evening all.
: I've found this entry in netstat output:
: tcp 57 1 Mizzou-AS7-21.mis:10802 pavlov.midco.net:ftp LAST_ACK
:
: Thing is, I don't remember connecting to pavlov.midco.net
: There are no entries in syslog with name pavlov, or
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Sean wrote:
: And a 20GB hard drive is selling for what? . . . about $350 . . .
:
: Seems that distribution size shouldn't be much of an issue.
Uh, most ftp sites use real hard drives (UW SCSI drives). If you can
find me a 7200 rpm UW SCSI drive for $350 using legal mean
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Daniel Mashao wrote:
: On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: > Hello.
: >
: > Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an
: > IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the
: > point where it asks m
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote:
: Hello guys.
[ snip ]
: by hdax, hdbx, hdcx and hddx. I have a old model LaserMate CD Drive hooked
up
: though the antique Packard Bell Sound Galaxy Sound Card which it is detected
: and found the CD-ROM.
:
: But problem is... I do
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote:
: Hello.
:
: Figures... Unfortunably... I do not have those devs on my dev
: directory. So.. it seems that I need to make those devices. Can you help on
: that so I can get my CD-ROM working? Either a copy of those files or other
: m
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
: On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:46:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. I'd prefer
: > an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a commercial one. I just
: > want to get one that is fas
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
: I will soon be moving into a 32' x 58' 'manufactured' house. It is a 3
: bedroom, with 1 room being 'the computer room'. I have several questions
: concerning the wiring for phone and networking.
:
: Using cat 5 cable, should I run 1 run
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
: Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: >
: > What's the secret to get nethack to work? I have it sgid games, but it
: > says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ...
:
: Could be that nethack is
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
:
:
: Sorry for the off topic question
:
: Pretty much what the topic is.. how can you redirect a /~user and all the
: subdirs to a new URL? It has to be possible but i have not found anything
: other then simple file redirects. Again sorr
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Andreas Rapp wrote:
: We are using a Debian system at our company
: as eMail and Internet Gateway. To make it
: more reliable I would like to add RAID.
:
: Has anyone experience with RAID controllers
: or software solutions ?
The DPT RAID controllers are excellent pe
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Two things:
:
: 1) /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack should be chmod-ed 2755, owned by root
: and belonging to group games. I suspect this is where your problem lies.
: /usr/games/nethack is just a wrapper shell script to execute the nethack
: bin
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote:
: >
: >Just go for an Adaptec. You will have problems that you never dreamt
: >of.
: The topic was about ethernet cards!
http://www.adaptec.com/products/index.html#fastethernet
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
: -> Hi all,
: -> I have got netscape 4.5 libc5 version. In the ftp directory, I
: -> also saw a glibc version.
: ->
: -> Which one is supposed to be better?? What is the difference
: -> between libc & glibc??
:
: I loaded gliobc ver
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
: Hello all.
: I have these messages being repeated over and over and over in my syslog,
: every
: 10 minutes.
: What do they mean?
:
: Dec 15 06:42:26 snafu syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart.
: Dec 15 06:51:27 snafu inetd[8525]: auth/tcp: bind: Address a
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Damon Buckwalter wrote:
[ snip ]
: Why not just install the netscape packages? They're in potato, and
: slink too I belive. The "Export Version" of Netscape contains only
: 40-bit encryption, instead of 128-bit, that's the only difference.
... and Fortify patches most a
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
[ snip ]
: What I did was to select the kernel options good ol' Bruce listed in
: the readme on the rescue disk statically (initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos,
: fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs). Then I added major categories of
: features statically (scs
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote:
: On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: > Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and
: > distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law?
:
: No, I am advocating getting the binary approved.
Go for it. Just
Could someone explain the difference between emacs 19, emacs 20, and
xemacs? I'm emacs illiterate and I'm looking for a place to start.
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Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
: At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
: >We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when
: >Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies
: >that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potenti
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Mike Holliday wrote:
: Hi,
: That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to
: www.intel.com and download the fake Pentium test software. And verify it.
:
: Mike H.
: -Original Message-
: From: Blair Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: To: deb
On 22 Dec 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option
: >under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some
: >maintenance the other day and foun
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