KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Tommy
I have unstable on a laptop and desktop. Laptop unstable compiles the kernel without a problem On the desktop make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image fails with the following make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/arch/i386/lib' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.

RE: KernelCompileFailure

2003-05-30 Thread Tommy
eed to make clean and make dep again. I > like to make /usr/include/linux a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux, > then make /usr/src/linux a symlink to whichever directory the kernel I'm > trying to compile is in. > > Kevin > > > > -Original Message- >

SoundBlasterAWE64_alsa

2003-06-18 Thread Tommy
I don't believe the kernel PnP is configuring the card properly. How do I pass arguments to the kernel PnP? Running unstable, gcc 2.95 for kernel and module compiles Alsa and this card worked find in the 9.0-9.2 alsa versions using the defaults Somewhere in 9.3 and now in 9.4 the modules fail

Dump on a zip drive

1999-02-23 Thread Tommy
Does anyone know how use a parallel zip drive on /dev/sda4 for backups using dump/restore. Dump defaults to thinking I have another kind of tape, and I am not sure what command syntax to use to change it. Thanks.

Re: Debian and Redhat-are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Tommy
I don't think Debian has to be the number one distribution in order to be successful. Any growth in Linux use, no matter what the distribution, is good for the whole community. It is important to understand the developer/user relationship is, or should, be different in a volunteer structure than th

Netscape 4.08 questions

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I while ago I installed netscape communicator 4.08 in /usr/local. I works fine except that it is extremely slow. Specificly, If I am at the browser page and try to open the mail window it takes about 2 minutes. That is not the time to get the mail, but simply to open the window. Does anyone know

forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd are on it, so that everything works correctly. And I can move forward from there if I choose

Cheap pnp ne2000 Lan cards

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
I bought some cheap PNP ide ne2000 compatible crds to setup a small net work. My bios does not seeem to recognise the cards, but it does see my pnp sound card. Is there anything I can do via debian to use these cards? The cards are made by LanStar. They were only $12 each so it won't break me if

Re: Netscape 4.08 questions

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > What type of system are you running it on? How much RAM and Swap? Netscape > uses lots of RAM. > Right now, on my system, navigator 4.08 is using 35 MB of ram. My system is an AMD 586 133 with 64 mg Ram and a 128mg swap. Kernel 2.1.125 I did not have this problem with pr

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would > be to > tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them > -- Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system as broken. And there are a lot of them. I tried switching

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Tommy
Marshall Savage wrote: > > I have been following your thread & you have my > sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or > suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a > bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg & > dselect are so great but in my experience they are

Bus error

1999-03-07 Thread Tommy
If programs crash with a " bus error" is that entirely a hardware issue? I believe it is, but I just want to be sure. Thanks

Digests

1997-07-04 Thread Tommy
Are the various debian lists available in digest formant? If so what is the procedure for setting delivery for digest. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Mounting encrypted / partition

2003-09-11 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm wondering if there's a way I can encrypt my / partition as a loopback encrypted filesystem and somehow use a ramdisk iamge to ask me for the password. What would I need to do this? Thanks. Tommy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Configuring Debian

2003-09-14 Thread Tommy McCabe
Even with Windows, installing Debian is a snap- boot from the CD/floppy, answer a few questions about which partitions to divide up and your keyboard and stuff, and the program takes care of it. When I reboot it, it asks me about a hundred different qusetions about Debian "configuartion" half of

Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Tommy McCabe
I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't access anything. Everything points to an Ethernet "card" (which I do

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-12 Thread Tommy Malloy
In regard to debian's install being difficult for newbies, there seems a simple solution. At the beginning of the install process have a menu that asks what competency level the user is. (beginner, intermediate, advanced) Then have an install procedure suitable for that level. Some menus could a

VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread Tommy Malloy
Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a Linux box? Are LInux users going to be cut off from web based application written

fvwm2 module configuration

1999-03-19 Thread Tommy Malloy
I am trying to get out of the habit of modifying my system as root and am attempting to modify fvwm2 as a user. I am having some problems. This is what I have done. copied /etc/x11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc to ~/fvwm2rcchown to user created ~/.fvwm2 directory copied /etc/

Debian and Kernel Releases

1999-03-20 Thread Tommy Malloy
I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release, and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel 2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is between debian development and kernel development? Would it be better to develop debian

The real world .. (was RedHat=MS...)

1999-03-28 Thread Tommy Malloy
Although I do not agree that RedHat and ms are in many way the same. There are important things, for Debian, or any distribution, to learn from the comparison. The simple fact is that there is a direct correlation between name recognition and market share. Achieving substantial increased

Solaris 7 dual boot

1999-04-01 Thread Tommy Malloy
Has anyone here looked at Solaris 7 for Intel? Is there any problem setting up a dual boot? Can you make any comparisons to Debian Gnu/Linux? Thanks

netscape plugins

1999-04-15 Thread Tommy Malloy
I notice that on my system Netscape 4.51 lists certain common applications as unavailable. I can't imagine that I need a plugin for perl or tcl when these are available on my system already. Can I direct Netscape to /bin/sh for all applications or do I have to specify each one? Since I call perl o

Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Tommy Malloy
What is the best information source to learn about the use of fonts in Linux and X? To be perfectly honest I have no idea how to use the many fonts that are available to me under X. I have xfontsel installed and have looked at it, but I am not sure how to use it to change default screen fonts and

Re: Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Tommy Malloy
"Person, Roderick" wrote: > > What window manager are you using? Most have a configuration util that > allows you to set different fonts. I use WindowMaker and I can set fonts > either with WMPrefs or wmakerconf. > I switch my window mangers every now and then but mostly use fvwm2 (olvm olvwm)

Basic networking info

1999-04-28 Thread Tommy Malloy
After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions. There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2 Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards 1. Can I live with 8 mg in the 486s?

finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread Tommy Malloy
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #802

1999-05-04 Thread Tommy Malloy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan > I'm a little confused about what you're (Tommy) asking > here. I will try to be explain. I am sitting in my imaginary system administrators office. One by one users come in and ask the same basic question; "What application can I use

icewm-gnome config files

1999-05-14 Thread Tommy Malloy
I added Staroffice to the Gnome menu, but it does not appear when I use icewm-gnome as my window mangager. It does appear if I run gnome with other window managers including icewm. icewm-gnome must be reading a different config file or something. Can anyone tell me how to get it to do what I wa

Re: icewm-gnome config files

1999-05-15 Thread Tommy Malloy
Hi Tim Thanks for the help. Perhaps I was not clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well what you want to look at, is the menu of the gnome panel :-) That > will contain StarOffice. This is correct. Staroffice does appear in the menu of the gnome panel. I added it using the gnome menuing utility.

Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Tommy Malloy
Doesn't the fact that I can go to any Linux box with an install disk or cd and gain root access mean that the all Linux systems are fundamentally insecure? Perhaps the install process could be changed so that root password, or some other verification system is required, before a reinstall is perm

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-20 Thread Tommy Malloy
Thanks to everyone for such informative responses. This list is like a school for System Administration. I hope that one day I able to pass on the knowledge I have gained here. Thanks again

Key board and mouse lockup

1999-05-24 Thread Tommy Malloy
Every once in a blue moon, when I am in X my keyboard and mouse lockup. I am forced to turn the computer off. This is bad. Is there a log file that I could look at that might help me to figure out what the problem is? Also is there a particular grep syntax that I should us on the log file. Tha

Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Tommy Malloy
I do not understand the debian menu system. Based on what I read in the manual /usr/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and other sources I took the following steps as a user (not as root) 1. Created ~/.menudirectory 2. in ~/.menu created the following file ?package(local.staroffice):

Re: Debian menus I am lost

1999-06-02 Thread Tommy Malloy
Thanks for the help. The backslash plus fixing a few loose quotation marks did the trick. I am punishing myself by writing on a blackboard 100 times " Syntax is my friend" I am now one big step closer to actually understanding the menu system, but I think I will delay my plans to teach myself C.

network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I was wondering if there was a debian package that'd let me do the following: I need to get information of bandwidth used over time on our leased ISDN link... I could stare at 'netwatch' all day and write down the data (where it says ROUTER), but then I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Does

Re: network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Three people gave me the answer I was looking for. This list is a godsend. Thanks everyone... Thomas. On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: > From: dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian User List > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:36:32 -

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
whoops, this should have gone to the list too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In > > >fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that > > >is the last

MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread tommy knocker
I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal Mwave modem. I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the modem. Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I can look at? __ Get Your Priv

biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using latest unstable sendmail as MTA. Many thanks for any assistance. TL

Re: biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Bruce, Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open and

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office had 4 other identical models die with dead spindles and data errors); a micropolis 1GB ages ago die after 18 months (another dead spindle), and I've know

Re: cdrom

1997-09-10 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: > I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use > dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully > during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: > > Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: >

biff

1997-10-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these cases? thanks, TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

Re: idled package

1997-10-05 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Mine works. Where are they logging in from? I think by default it's set to exclude logins from the console. Check /etc/idled.cf. Watch out for drastically growing logfiles too... I don't think this program has been maintained for awhile; I symlinked /var/log/idled.log to /dev/null (or else it fills

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > i'm starting to get message during boot time: > > "command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found" > > i don't remember removing any essential > packages from my system You didn't. 'clock' got renamed to 'hwclock'. > > Any ideas how to fix it? > ln

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed > slightly. Oops. I thought it said it was switch-compatible. Thanks. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-ma

RE: Packet Sniffing (fwd)

1997-10-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: > There is no way to know if your traffic is being snooped once it leaves your > property. > If you're suspicious you could transmit bogus information and see if someone tries to use it... If security is a real concern of yours, get ssh and create a VPN

Re: netcat

1997-10-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
the binary is /usr/bin/nc On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Chi Wong wrote: > From: Chi Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:13:05 -0400 > Subject: netcat > > Could someone help me with netcat. I use the debian package installation > method. Grab the package

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You asshole. You made me add '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my killfile, right next to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. You are an A-1 whacko. Go create your own distribution, manage it yourself, and watch the hordes of developers follow you -- not. Kindly cease to pollute my channels of communication with your worth

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
>From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;) -TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > From: butch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I installed debian on my brother's K6 with TX motherboard with UDMA. Worked, have no idea if it was working at 33MB/s though. Shame his Millenium II didn't work with X... TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, butc

WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug (fwd)

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Some of you have probably already seen this. The rest of you should. TL -- Forwarded message -- From: ZombieMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:10:29 + Subject: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug This Program was distributed in the newsgroups

Re: BIND help

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
OK, asides from the separate need for delegation from your upstream provider of the relevant in-addr.arpa zone, you'll need to do the following: - in /var/named/boot.zones: primary 162.109.198.in-addr.arpa 162.109.198.rev.zone - in /var/named/162.109.198.rev.zone (or whatever you call t

Re: BIND help

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
mailIN CNAME 3dillusion.com. oops, this should also be an A record. -TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

1997-11-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
The BugTraq post I read suggested that the P6 (Pro, II) does not have this bug. Of course, there may be others... On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote: > Are Pentium Pro and/or Pentium II also effected by this bug? -TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

removing some persistent files

1997-11-10 Thread Tommy Lakofski
after a horrendous crash on my hamm box (cause of which I've yet to ascertain), I'm left with some files like this on my disk: 07/8F: total 396246198 br-sr-S--x 1 2691225646111, 99 Mar 12 1995 18F7 07/99: total 817377432 br-sr-S--x 1 2776027695124, 124 Mar 22 1987 1

Re: HELP! smail won't deliver!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > Received FROM: ... HOST: 3dillusion.3dillusion.com [198.109.162.43] ... > Deferred TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ERROR:(ERR164) router > inet_hosts: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out > > before, all my mail was coming to '3dillusion.com' ... and not >

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: > Nor mine, though I didn't look that carefully. There was some hoopla from > the guy who ran the client that found the key saying he wished it had been > a Mac (it was found by an NT machine), but I don't recall anything about > Linux. I have been meaning to

2.0.32pre5 kernel

1997-11-18 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I downloaded this as a pre-patched tarfile from ftp.kernel.org, then put it in my /usr/src/, then did a make menuconfig and tried to make-kpkg kernel_image. In various attempts, I got sig-11's, kernel panics and oops's -- generally some bad things happened. However, when trying to compile my 2.0.29

Re: Debian <-> NT interaction

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Try looking at samba and/or ksmbfs. samba lets you appear to be a SMB server, and ksmbfs lets you mount SMB volumes (if the appropriate option is in your kernel or available as a module). TL On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

XFree86 insecurity (fwd)

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Anyone know if debian is vulnerable to this, given that the setuid /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for the XFree86 server? I'd like to know before I chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X... TIA, Thomas. -- Forwarded message -- From: shegget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri

Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You might like to try using procmail to filter your messages. TL On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Marcus Lam wrote: > From: Marcus Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'debian-user@lists.debian.org'" > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:51:43 +0800 > Subject: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list > > May

Re: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:30:52 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Kernel 30 to 32 patching. > > I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is > there anything I need to

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > Basically, you wanna run: > cd /usr/src/linux > make mrproper (the first time after you install a new kernel version) > make menuconfig OK up to this point -- but really, if you're running a Debian system it's stupid not to use the tools available (ie ke

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not perfectly flat (on a nano scale). On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote: >

Re: Pentium II supported?

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build > procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro > machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to > putting the options in yet, or is

Re: Pentium II supported?

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 07:41:25PM -0500, Tommy Lakofski wrote: > > The Pentium II is just a Pro with a different (anticompetitive ;) mounting > > and different (cheaper) L2 caching (AFAIK). Choose 'Pentium Pro' in the > &g

Re: damn identity crisis

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
This might be your problem: Script started on Fri Nov 28 10:43:03 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 3dillusion.com 3dillusion.com A 198.109.162.43 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 198.109.162.43 198.109.162.43 does not exist (Authoritative answer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit exit Script done o

xfs question

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Hi, If I put `start-xfs' in /etc/X11/config, the font server runs (can see it with ps). I can't tell, though, if X is using the server... Are there any additional steps apart from the one change in /etc/X11/config? TIA, TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: daft mail questions

1997-11-30 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote: > I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i > threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency > information said that I needed "deliver". I had already installed > procmail and thought that procmail was the

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > This is the logo of "Debian GNU/Linux". Any future Debian system we do with > the Hurd would obviously have a different logo. We could still use a logo > for Software in the Public Interest. On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Lin

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with 86open > before that happens. Thought it would be awhile... Hurd looks like it has some neat technology, though. Thomas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: proxy server question

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You did compile firewalling into your kernel, didn't you? On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mark Stone wrote: > From: Mark Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:58:33 -0800 (PST) > Subject: proxy server question > > I'm attempting to use one of my computers at

Re: Anti-relaying rules for smail?

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
In addition to the steps already mentioned to stop relaying (I use sendmail, so I don't have a clue here...), you might want to do a couple things: -use ipfwadm to stop his host even touching your port 25. -here's the fun part: invoice him for the cost of bandwidth, processor cycles, diskspace an

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: > As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking > "WHY?".. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well > come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits? > (Just a few simple lines please.. no dissertat

Re: Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Isn't some division of the FBI interested in this kind of crapola? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: > Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail > client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just > delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. That's a bit of a broad sweeping statement. I gues

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > It's fine with me if you carry on with the "war", but I'd appreciate being > left out of it even though I started it.. OK, no war. Just seems a little shortsighted to throw out the message because of the medium. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Dat vs. Travan

1997-06-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I use an old 2/4 GB DAT... apparently, this oldest of DAT incarnations is about the same speed as a Travan 4/8 (about 500kb/s for a SCSI travan). However... the newest DATs are pretty incredible. I recently used a DDS-3 Sony SDT-9000 that has 12/24 capacity (and it really did compress 2x, even whe

Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm currently? It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. usrquota is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with quota befo

dselect ftp method problem

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Can't locate Time/Local.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup line 7. query/setup script returned error exit status 2. This is what I see whe

dselect ftp method problem (solved)

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Sledgehammer approach: I downgraded perl and perl-suid to the stable versions. It works now. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dselect ftp method problem

[OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Hi, I'd like to encourage all readers on the list with a reasonably regular connection to the internet to download and run the rc5v2 client from http://rc5.distributed.net/ (download the client at ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/rc5/v2.004/rc5v2b4-linux-x86.tar.gz) The client runs with a nicelevel

Re: ftp: how to continue downloading?

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Try 'reget' in regular ftp. ncftp does it automatically, as far as I remember... On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, dada wrote: > From: dada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:55:11 +0200 > Subject: ftp: how to continue downloading? > > hi... > > how can continue downloading an fil

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Debian mail-lists receiver wrote: > From: Debian mail-lists receiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:36:47 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux > > >I'd like to encourage all

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > What is reasonably? > > Marcus The client can buffer any number of blocks of keys between network connections -- thus your machine only has to be on the net when it wants to get the next set of blocks. If there's no connection when it tries, it'll k

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > Wasn't there a method to register as a Linux group box or Debian? How > do I do this if its still available? > > Thanx -- Greg. yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes t

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > > > yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the > > quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes to Linux > > International (www.li.org). > > > Sorry, I RTFM and it seems that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' seems to be the > place

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-31 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > From: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:12:23 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux > > I

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-08-31 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Britton wrote: > From: Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:12:30 -0800 (AKDT) > Subject: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: > Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's > rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: > http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc > I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Looks like we probably can'

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Is there a client that one can use outside the US? There's no ITAR export restriction, since the client decrypts rather than encrypts. Clients are available at rc5.distributed.net. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > I know about > setterm blank n > which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen > rather than using the more advanced power saving features. Some monitors are smart enough to switch off when they've got no signal (I used to have a C

Re: SCREEN SAVERS

1997-09-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
PLEASE DESIST FROM SHOUTING. CLUE-FREE QUERIES. ON OUR MAILING LIST. On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:59:36 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: SCREEN SAVERS > > PLEASE SEND ME SOME INFO. ON YOUR SCREEN SAVERS.

mkinitrd ? kernel image problem !!

2000-08-30 Thread Tommy Wu
odules/2.2.17.old back to /lib/modules/2.2.17 to let old kernel image work. Is there any suggest for testing new kernel and modules easy like I do it in a RedHat box ? -- Tommy Wu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.teatime.com.tw/~tommy ICQ: 22766091 Mobile Phone: +8

ESS1868

2000-09-20 Thread Tommy Wu
ecified at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,3 sb: ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive detected sb: Failed to initialize ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found. YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 at 0x388 === cut end === How can I do f

file large than 2 GB ?

2000-11-21 Thread Tommy Wu
Does anybody how to maintain a file large than 2 GB ? -- Tommy Wu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.teatime.com.tw/~tommy ICQ: 22766091 Mobile Phone: +886 936 909490 TeaTime BBS +886 2 31515964 24Hrs V.Everything

Debian problem on UltraSparc

2000-12-15 Thread Tommy Wu
my console like: bug: kernel timer added twice at 0110052c. And the NAT, Filter function for iptables won't work. The script I've used in my i386 box, it's ok and work fine. How to solve it ? -- Tommy Wu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

FrameBuffer and XF86

2001-01-06 Thread Tommy Wu
Modes "default" Virtual 1024 768 EndSubSection EndSection ; I;ve tried to change the Modes to "1024x768", but it is not work. Any suggestion for this ? -- Tommy Wu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.teatime.com.tw/~tommy ICQ: 22766091 Mobile Phone: +886 936 909490 TeaTime BBS +886 2 3151964 24Hrs V.Everything

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