On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
: This is confusing the hell out of me:
:
: I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys.
: We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom.
: adduser bob floppy
: adduser bob cdrom
:
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote:
: > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1
: > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due
: > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :)
: >
: > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unsta
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
: how do i run a program every 10 minutes?
: -gnana
Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details.
Since most people hate being told to RTFM (why?), here's the easy way
out:
# edit a "here" document and make it the crontab
# probably wise to
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:
:
: On 18-Oct-99 Nathan E Norman wrote:
: > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:
: >
: > : how do i run a program every 10 minutes?
: > : -gnana
: >
: > Use cron. RTFM `man crontab' to get the details.
: >
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an
: CGI executed by apache?
:
: I want apache to be able to run the following...
:
: void main(void)
: {
: while (1) {
: fork()
: }
: }
:
:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
: Nathan,
[ snip ]
: > For further ideas I'd have to grab my APUE by Stevens (an excellent
: > book!)
:
: Apache United Enterprise? ;)
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment.
I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some de
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote:
: Hello and nice afternoon.
:
: OK, now I was able to get my 'stupid' SCSI-Controller running
: but only from my Rescue-Disk. :-((
:
: If I start with my Rescue-Disk and I use the following parameter
:
: linux aha152x=0x340,11
:
:
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating:
: "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy."
:
: All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run,
: a new error msg is generated.
:
: How can
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
:
: Hi,
:
:I had my router sending syslog messages to my NT workstation with a
: syslogd running there. I changed the router to send messages to my debian
: server and added the following line to the /etc/syslog.conf file:
:
: local7.*
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, aphro wrote:
: curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and
: it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12
: currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the
: rtl8139.c file is there(it failed t
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Daniel Lesage wrote:
: Hi all.
:
: I've been having trouble FTPing to my Debian box over my LAN for a while
: now. Here's what happens:
:
: Problem 1) I can't FTP as root, and I understand why. But one (and only
: one) of
: my users is also unable to FTP there, getti
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Cliff Rice wrote:
[ snip ]
: Thanks for the help. I went and looked at the potato dist. It has
: the raplayer and such as well. I need those as well. So. I'm
: downloading the dist at present and will install it where I used
: to have Redhat. (Being new, don't wa
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
: Hi guys,
:
: You may remember I lost my second NIC when I upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.13.
: I asked for urls and set off to rtfm.
:
: Perhaps the problem is that I need to pass ether arguments via lilo along
: these lines:
:
: boot=/dev/hda1
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Onno wrote:
: The same problems here
:
: I use rsync for the moment now but -I think-
: that there is some timeout setting on ftp.debian.org
: that is set wrong
You should always mirror from a "local" mirror; ftp.debian.org is
plenty busy.
rsync is far superior
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
: I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems
: to like starting with a very high run-level with X Window support. But I'd
: like to stay at a low-level without starting X automatically. I tried to
: edit the inittab(like in Redh
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
: Thanks a lot.
:
: Hongyu
:
: On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Hongyu Lu wrote:
: >
: > : I am a new user to Debian. After configuring the X Window, Debian seems
: > : to like starting with a v
After upgrade to mrtg in potato, I get
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar during global destruction.
Seems to be working ... haven't had time to dig through the code and see
what the deal is. Anyone else running mrtg?
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Onno wrote:
: Doesn't VMware make wine obsolete?
No.
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: Just put Debian on a second PC and having problems telnetting in from work.
:
: Trying 10.0.0.2...
: Connected to 10.0.0.2.
: Escape character is '^]'.
: Connection closed by foreign host.
:
: Anyone know why I'm not getting a logi
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Davis wrote:
: Hmm.
:
: I think its because 10.x.x.x domains are not routable.
Sure they are. They're just not supposed to be routed across the
Internet.
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 00:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
:
: > Strictly, password encryption is authentication, rather than encryption,
: > because password encryption is one-way: you cannot decrypt a password.
:
: Well, yes, but . . .
:
: What do y
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm
: stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network
: card is a "Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0." Can anyone tell
: me which driver goes with th
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pann McCuaig wrote:
: On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
: > Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >
: > > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
: > > for that purpose?
: >
: > It is most certainly not decryption.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote:
[ snip ]
: michf >If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to
regular
: michf >users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows
partition
: michf >as the home directory for a user?
:
: you can, but i dont reccomend it.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
: does anyone know what is broken? is it apt-get or is it the non-US
: site, it looks to me like the non-US site is in order...
non-us.debian.org was unreachable (at least from here) yesterday -
apparently there was a routing loop in the Netherlands.
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
[ snip ]
: In my GECOS field it has no quotes or backslashes; I still haven't figured
: out what is adding them (probably my MTA).
The MTA is adding quotes to protect the parentheses; the wuotes are then
escpaed by backslashes.
Lose the parenthe
Has anyone managed to make a deb package out of the Xi Graphics X
server? We bought it cos it has multiheaded support, and before I beat
my head against the wall for too long I thought perhaps someone else had
luck with this software ...
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Noella Pierlet wrote:
: Hi,
:
: Maybe a stupid question, but how do I boot my debian-linux (slink)
: in single-user-mode?
>From the lilo prompt: `linux single'
>From a root prompt in runlevels 2 through 5: 'shutdown now'
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/usr/doc/bind/dns-setup.txt.gz looks like it more or less describes the
way Paul Vixie says to set it up in some document I once read and can't
recall where ...
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
: [Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread]
:
: H
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
: On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
: >
: > Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which
: > makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package
: > suggests gimp-nonfree, wh
Has anyone got this on-board sound to work with alsa & 2.2.x kernel?
I've got an IBM PC300PL but the soundchip is a common onboard one (so
I'm told) ...
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote:
: Joey Hess wrote:
: >
: > Ian Stirling wrote:
: > > I just compiled the emu10k1-11161999 from Creative
: > > and have a working Soundblaster Live. I installed
: > > 'mixviews' using dselect successfully but what and
: > > where is the programme?
:
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote:
: Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > The jernel sources have the kernel headers. Debian used to have (and
: > still has, I presume) a kernel-headers package for those who don't wish
: > to download 16MB of source.
:
: OK Nathan.
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
:
: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
:
: >Hi,
: >I'm building an ISP and I have 56 Kbs modem's and configured mgetty but
: > I cant connect with my clients above 31200 kbs.
: >What can be wrong?
:
On 20 Nov 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
: Hi all:
:
: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care
: about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable
: to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux?
:
: I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Ribamar FS wrote:
: Hello!
:
: Menuconfig require ncurses!
More to the point, it requires libncurses4-dev
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On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Enrico Zini wrote:
:
: Hello!
:
: I'm trying to install Debian slink on a double pentium 2 server with a
: Mylex DAC960 RAID controller with 3 IBM UW2 9Gb disks.
:
: After compiling a custom kernel for the boot floppy and making it boot and
: see the DAC960, I found
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, julie wright wrote:
: Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink?
: Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not
: work. Returned error - command not found.
Try `superformat' instead. If that doesn't work yo
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Albert Hurd wrote:
: I am having trouble printing in WP8 under Linux 2.0 but have no problem
: under any other program, eg Netscape. I have a Lexmark
Doesn't WP8 write to the priner directly? WP has always done that
AFAIK.
Of course, I don't know how to fix the problem but
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Greg Vence wrote:
: Hello,
:
: It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does?
: I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm
: missing?
rawrite2 works with NT Workstation 4, SP3 here. It also works fine on
Win95.
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Hi,
I've got a Samba server here that runs great! I've got an NT machine on
my laptop and I can interface with the Samba server directly in any way
I want, except for one thing:
When I try to install a program (Visio) as a network shared app, the
installation always tells me "I've determined tha
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
:
: Hi again Matthew
:
: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: >
: >
: > Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules:
: >
: > ne io=0x300
: >
: > Is this OK (it seems to have worked), o
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Howdy,
:
: I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 490XCDT. unfortunately
: the machine keeps rebooting after "Linux..". I tried creating
: a Tecra rescue disk (resc1440tecra.bin) but that doesn't help.
:
: Any other ideas?
Hi,
I
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Sherow wrote:
[ snip ]
: P.S. I will never buy another IBM
That's too bad - the PC Server 325 and Netfinity platforms make some
kick-ass Linux servers ...
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
: On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote:
:
:
: Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile)
: includes "."?
Yuck.
Thanks for pointing that out - looks like I've some editing to do.
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:
: Win modems are almost always made by US Robotics. You should only need to
type
: "pon". You also need to ensure that you have told ppp to use the right com
: port. If the modem is a plug and play modem, you need to install the isapnp
: tools and follow
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
:
: Why am I getting this stuff ?
[ snip retarded mail system complaining ]
Someone has severely hosed their MTA config. The listmasters will
remove the offending subscriber, i imagine :)
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Anyone have a source for dselect/apt http option other than the
: bnl.gov source for a USA user? Bnl.gov has been start/stopping
: frequently and the thruput often is very slow. I use the slink
: distribution. Thanks!
http://debian.midco.net/debi
Anyone know why there's a "control" file in the root of the debian site?
There's one present on my mirror, at any rate.
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
: There seems to be a growing proliferation of "cheap" Win-only stuff. Do
: any of you think that this would negatively impact Linux new user base? I
: imagine most people start out dual-booting their existent machines, and I
: would guess that finding out
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote:
: Ok. It work but now I receive in that user a lot of messages like that:
: Cron<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/sbin/exim -q && false with the next contnBet
: 1998-10-16 12:09:01 queue run: process 23976 crashed with signal 11 while
: deliverin
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Andrew Ivanov wrote:
: I have been trying to get my modem to work in debian, and unfortunately,
: unsuccessfully.
: I have 486DX4, it's got SupraExpress 336i Sp modem installed in it. My
: primary boot right now is Win95, until I can get debian setup. Modem works
: perfec
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: Dear all,
:
: I've been reading Manoj's instructions for kernel configurations,
: and it says that your kernel source shouldn't be in /usr/src/linux
:
: where does the kernel-source package put it (and are there some
: step-by-step instru
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
: Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at
: bootup:
: PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
: PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
:
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, jrivas wrote:
: Anybody knows some network adapter (speed 100MB) which supports linux
: drivers?
Netgear FA-310TX does, and does it transparently - plug the card into a
10Base hub, it runs 10 Mbps ... plug it into a 10/100 switch and it
switches to 100 Mbps full-duplex ...
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
: Greetings,
: Trying to automate work done by some WIN95/NT people who don't
understand
: upper/lower case. I have a directory of files that are upper case and need
: to be brought to lower case. Does anyones have a program or script that
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote:
[ snip ]
: *.*.*.*.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com
: ^^
: should this be my new domainname?
I have a sneaky suspicion that Shaw's forward and reverse lookups don't
jive.
Do an nslookup on the IP address you are assigned. Now do a fo
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: "Helge Hafting" wrote:
:
: > You don't have "." in your path, so files are *not* considered executable
: > just because they are in the *current* directory.
: >
: > This is a security feature. (Some user could make a nasty script called
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, King Lee wrote:
: Hello,
:
: At our school our system administrator (who is very good) was
: running Red Hat 5.1 and someone broke in and got root privileges.
: Since he had written a Lan watch, we think we know how it happened.
:
: The Lan Watch showed someone form I
Hi,
I'll be performing some work on the debian.midco.net mirror site tonight
(like , I already started :). This means that there will be periods of
time when the archive will NOT be available. Sorry for any
inconvenience.
On the bright side, if all goes as planned we'll go from an 18 G spool
to
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jim wrote:
: Hi,
:
: On boot I get the message eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This
: driver release still depends on it. I get the same from eata_pio: Can
: someone suggest an extension package, or an upgrade driver release?
: Computer is a NEC Versa 486sl.
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I tried to install debian on a computer with an adaptec 2840 scsi
: controller. (gateway 2000 486dx2-66, 16m dram) At first I had the 2840
: bios disabled and the controller with 3 drives attached was not
: detected. Then I enabled the bios on the
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
: I thought that might be the answer. If I build a custom kernel (no
: modules, everthing built in) for the gateway machine on another
: computer how can I replace the kernel on the boot/rescue disk that I
: tried to use? Will the install then proced
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Lukas Eppler wrote:
: No replies to my last post. Probably it was too long. Compressed:
:
: What does a kernel to be used with rescue disks need other than
: initrd/ramdisk?
From
http://debian.midco.net/debian/dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/install.txt
(or any other
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
: Hay all:
:
: I think md is for the ramdisk.
No, md is "Multiple Device Driver". Usually it's the NEXT driver that's
hanging, and that's almost always a SCSI driver.
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
:
: > 2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
: > installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail. I had a
: > problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my
: > own. Now I want to instal procmai
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
: At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote:
: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
: >
: >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is
: >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
: Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me
: into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that
: is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the
: maintainer of the bootdi
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote:
[ snip ]
: I'd like to find a nice "essential things to download after doing a bare
: floppy install" FAQ or some such.
There is a reason the install throws you into dselect after the initial
reboot :) dselect has a minimum set of packages ready for y
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:
:
: Hi
:
: How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of
: my network with just a single posting.
RTFM the qpopper man page and keep a weather eye for "Bulletins".
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mrpeabody wrote:
: I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it
: dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to
: work now after I installed the scsi drive. The network card says its
: IRQ is blocked or used by another d
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote:
:
:
: Greg Vence wrote:
: >
: > Hello,
: >
: > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does?
: > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm
: > missing?
:
: No, I had the same results - EXCEPT
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Person, Rod wrote:
: Please again,
:
: What happened to the xadmin package? I can't find it anywhere.
: I even did a search on debian.org and nothing.
The maintainer who also happens to be the author removed it.
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:
[ snip ]
: You have three choices:
:
: 1. Live with it
: 2. Compile a non-SMB kernel
: 3. move to a 2.1.x kernel.
FWIW, we have a server that gets the crap kicked out of it
(debian.midco.net) which is running 2.1.125 - it's an IBM Server 325
with du
On 6 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: >> "A" == AJT60 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: A> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: >> M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$ memo. See slashdot for
: >> the pointer.
:
: A> Also, it's unlikely that this was deliber
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
[ snip ]
: Of course, 970Kb sounds just a tad large for a normal kernel. You might
: be able to cut it down considerably (and free up some of that memory for
: your applications) by compiling more of the features as modules, and
: letting kerneld
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
: Hi!
:
: Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x?
No.
: I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything.
It's not fully backwards compatible, it's non-free as you can get, and
there's controversy as to whether it's legal at all (i
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured
: out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the
: /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things.
: I now have 2 questions,
I think you ar
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeff Miller wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but...
:
: When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do
I have to do to see the whole name?
mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt (use the appropriate device
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, joseph evan porter wrote:
: >
: > I keep on seeing the following error message appear over and over in
: > /var/log/syslog:
: >
: > Nov 10 13:21:46 chinook kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=112 w=0)
: >
: > Does anyone have any idea what this might be about?
: >
[ snip ]
: > Hmm, there isn't even a lib or bin directory! I'm using ProFTP (just
: > noticed that the subject makes it look like I'm running anonftp). I can
: > copy these over from an old install, but what's a better way to fix this?
ProFTP doesn't need a lib or bin directory, which is trul
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip ]
: The permissions are whacked! And the file README is a symlink to something,
: yet it appears to be an executable. All symlinks had this "feature", making
: upgrading a potential disaster.
:
: The source CD had the same problem, but the
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote:
: After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a
: verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain
: because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap
: partition, it immediately chokes, saying "FATA
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
: Hi,
:
: My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
: message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
: but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
:
: # free
: total
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote:
: I'm currently deciding which Adaptec SCSI controller to get:
:
: AHA-2940UW (Ultra Wide, 40MB/s)
: AHA-2940U2W (Ultra 2 80MB/s)
:
: Will Debian Linux 2.0 take full advantage of the U2W? Will I get the full
: transfer rate (ie, as fast as 98/NT would
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
[ snip ]
: connect/reconnect and ncr53c8xx driver). If that is not an option, does
: anyone have any experience with having AHA152x driver and the zipzoom adaptor
: (if those two are going to work together at all?), and the impact on that
: driver o
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, ivan wrote:
: Hello,
:
: The reason I ask is because Linux reports:
: Quantam Fireball SE2.1A, 2014MB w/80kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63
linux is almost always right. But to check, just head over to the
Quantum web site and look up the part number.
: DOS & BIOS on the other
On 18 Nov 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > On the other hand, Linux doesn't need the BIOS information at all (I
: > have a few machines where the BIOS has no idea I've even got IDE drives,
: > but Linux knows). If you
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
: A friend of mine have a problem installing Debian 2.0 on an IBM ThinkPad
: 380xd:
: every time I boot from CD, lilo loads 'root.bin' and 'linux' and then
: reboot my machine.
:
: Some suggestions?
Yes. You need a disk with a zImage kernel rathe
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote:
: Hi,
: Has anyone gotten a EISA adaptec 2740 (2 cards) system installed using
: the boot floppies?
: I get the lovely Aiee, killing interrupt driver.
: I havent tried the slink dist, should I?
Compile your own kernel using ONLY aic7xxx SCSI suppo
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Wilson's Lan Connection wrote:
: Hi
: I can't find my own domain name on my dns server using nslookup and
: traceroute.
:
: Here is what happens
: ++
: > douala1.com
: server: ns1.douala1.com
: Address : 207.8.232.130
:
: ns1.douala1.com can't find douala
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote:
: i was wondering whether there's debian package for tcpwrapper ... can someone
: please tell me where do i find it ?
: sib
wiz:~ $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/tcpd
netbase: /usr/sbin/tcpd
It's already part of netbase, which is priority Standard so it's
probab
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +, Gossamer wrote:
: > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as
: > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir. Debian uses is as a
: > user-agent.
:
: Bad assumption as Exim d
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Ryan King wrote:
: I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and was having
: trouble with the floppy drive during the installation. (It does fine until
: time to install the drivers, and then all I get "/dev/fd0: Device not
: configured").
At the boot: promp
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
: I have a question about ifconfig.
: I have a machine that I am trying to configure to put onto a local
: network.
: I'm an assigning it IP address 192.168.76.76
: I type:
: ifconfig eth0 192.168.76.76
:
: then I check it with ifconfig and e
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
[ snip ]
: Instead you can get real, official addresses from the local ISP, or
: even use the reserved numbers for internal, disconnected networks (do
: not remember them, should be at any HowTo), so that any IPmasq will b
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote:
: On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
:
: > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >
: > Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian
: > package? If so, which package? Thank you,
: > Pedro I. San
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, BOHICA wrote:
: If the author of the utility loadlin.exe (Hans Lerman) has stated on his web
: page (http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen) that all versions greater than
: 2.1.22 should be installed with the updated version of loadlin (v1.6a) due
: to memory detection problem
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 10:22:24AM +0100, Egon Schmid wrote:
: > Oh sorry, I have never tried to build a kernel the Debian way. So I have
: > to symlink the header files according the README. Could it be that there
: > is something wrong?
:
: We'
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:43:32PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
: > : We'll find out shortly. I'm FTPing the sources from sunsite.
Never did
: > : like the Debian way of doing the Kernel.
:
: > Why not?
:
: Becaus
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