On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
:
:In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
:> Both qmail (which proved insecure ) and Exim are not capable
:> of UUCP or even bang paths! So a lot of those guys in countries where phone
:> costs are terrible (like
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
:On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
:
:> The problem with SHA-1 is that it is a U.S. Federal Information Processing
:> Standard, and I don't trust that the U.S. government will not place export
:> restrictions on it. I'm also wary of U.S. FIPS for th
On 25 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
:
:> IBM developed a cypher called "lucifer". The NSA examined it,
:> recommended some changes to the algorithm, and the result was DES.
:
:Changes which, we now know, *strengthened* it against differential
:cryptanalysis (which they new about in the 70's, and
On 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
: Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > > Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
: > > anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
: > > bzip when searching :-(
: > The last time it was seen in non-u
Now that we're using rcS.d rather than /etc/init.d/boot, I've noticed
some different behavior from 'sulogin'. I have "SULOGIN=yes", so I have
a chance to go single-user on reboot. However, the timeout does not
work! If I reboot the machine, I must physically hit "^D" to continue
the boot, no mat
On 23 Dec 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Now that we're using rcS.d rather than /etc/init.d/boot, I've noticed
: >some different behavior from 'sulogin'. I have &quo
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 09:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: > > However, there's no suitable user for this and it needs
: > > to run as root anyway to reset the accounting stats.
:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, David Frey wrote:
: Hello collegues,
:
: I don't understand dpkg's version compare algorithm: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg --compare-versions 1.15 lt
: 1.2-1; echo $? 1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg --com
If I attempt to do a dselect install via ftp from a local mirror which
has both the main debian distribution as well as the "non-US" stuff, it
doesn't work. Not without jumping through some serious hoops, at any
rate.
The problem is that the Packages file on the non-US site do not follow
the same
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
: Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :)
:
: Thanks,
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980408.atc.14.ram
--
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MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104
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Hello,
We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI
disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are
supported by the current rescue disks.
So, in a not quite right state of mind, I decided I would make some boot
floppies so that my coworkers, and any
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Vincent Renardias wrote:
:
: On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI
: > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are
: > supported by the current rescue disks.
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > Hello,
: >
[ snip ]
: If all you need to do is put a different kernel on the rescue floppy
: (which is what it sounds like) simply take the delivered image, mount it,
: and copy the kernel image fro
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
[ snip ]
: > Furthermore, it might become necessary to change the available modules
: > (I honestly don't know whether this is the case), and I don't believe
: > the rescue disk has device files for ESDI disks. They are /dev/ed[ab],
: > correct? Vincent R
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
: Dear Security Staff:
:I received 2086 connection attempts at several ports on September 22.
: The attempts were made from IP address pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13]
: The machine whose ports
On 26 Sep 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
: In addition to apologies to Mr. Norman, perhaps there's some value in
: either (1) making tcplogd etc. require enough configuration to force
: people to read the documentation, or (2) enhance those packages to
: interpret things a little more, so they sc
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:26:12PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:13:36PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Michael Stone wrote:
> > > Not very backward-compatible, is it? In some environments it's desirable
> > > to have the software behave the same on every platform; even if i
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:05:43PM +0400, Konstantin Kivi wrote:
> > I also had to add
> > Set_LCDClk 40
> > to the Device section. Be aware that parse-xf86config
> > used in /etc/init.d/xdm doesn't unserstand it
>
> Be awar
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:31:50PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Larry Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Why is murphy.debian.org not adding a "Received:" header to show where
> > messages are originating? This information is useful when trying to
> > track down actual spammers. Is
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:48:32PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Joey Hess schrieb:
> > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under
> > > "http://.../doc/apache";, while `debconf-doc' puts it under
> > > "http://.../debconf-doc/";.
> >
> > Eh? (Deb
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Brian May wrote:
> >
> > - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
>
> I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
> annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
> reall necessary?
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:35:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > > > > "http://.../doc/apache";, while `debconf-doc' puts it under
> > > > > "http://.../debconf-doc/";.
> >
> > I beleive the original
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:05:50AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Martin. Yes. I tried. Do you think I'm a newbie or something? Why
> do you think the file is owned by root? It's on windows partition...
Hold on ... this is an msdos partition mounted? If so, check out man
8 mount; specificall
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:10:41AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Why are packages kept back like follows?
>
>$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
[ snip ]
>The following packages have been
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:11:21PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
> [ Miles Bader writes ]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes:
> > > As opposed to the current scheme, which also requires "annoying manual
> > > editing of addresses" to reply to the list, if your mailreader does the
> > > reason
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:29:03AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:55:32PM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > Hate to state the obvious, but on a DEFAULT Debian install, if nothing is
> > changed, root's default path with be dictated by /root/.profile ... Maybe
> > the machine be
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:38:10AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Hi Matt!!
>
> I don't report a bug due to misconfiguration. Let's see if what you
> see applies, though.
[ snip rude and silly reply ]
[ time passes ]
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:29:03AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:42:57PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:57:11AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:14:40AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > > I apologize for prolonging this thread - it's quite annoying.
>
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:59:42PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:09:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> > > Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use
> > > different packages for each C
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:23:04PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > in that case, a far better solution is a package containing a bunch
> > of pre-generated kernel .config files, plus a menu script to copy
> > your choice to the right subdirectory (e.g. /us
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:44:06PM -0400, James Michael Greenhalgh wrote:
>
> > > > 100 million users
> > > > 1000 installations
> > >
> > > I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installations
> > > than users?
> >
> > actually they are million users :)
> >
>
> Is it
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:21:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:56:57PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > Could you run X 4.2 in, say, s390 that date?
>
> Never ask a Gentoo user that question. The answer is always one of the
> following:
>
> 1) "I don't
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:19:14PM -0800, Jon Kent wrote:
>
> > Never ask a Gentoo user that question. The answer
> > is always one of the
> > following:
> >
> > 1) "I don't care"
> > 2) "What's S/390?"
>
> I really don't care ;-), when I am or 99.999% of
> Debian users ever gonna get near a S/
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0500, Sean Proctor wrote:
[ snip ]
> ... Anyway, Gentoo has a much
> different niche than Debian, so I don't understand why people are arguing
> about changing Debian because of it. If Gentoo serves their needs better,
> good. Perhaps Debian can then focus less
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using
> >pigeons. See
> >
> >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
> >
> >Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protoc
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:13:08PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> from the secret journal of John H. Robinson, IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''SO this means: on
> > (say) a Debian 2.1 system, if a user were to get the tarbal, and compile
> > it against
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote:
> > > If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and
> > > there won't be any reverse current
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> > I use cvs in Debian for lots of things but I'm still a newcomer in
> > this field, I think I am not being able to get new created directories
> > and files from the cvs repository with an cvs update, are there
> > arguments or opt
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol'
> > pong.
>
> Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show
> different charsets. 8^) (A rather dec
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:47:05PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Alex Pennace wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Why should the default configuration be changed to a
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:56:23PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it
> > because of a lack of alternatives.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org
OT: galeon does not like this website muc
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:12:46PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
> > Therefore, without emotion and with a pragmatic hand to guide me, I
> > feel that English should be an alias for en_US.
>
> s/without emotion/with typical American patriotism/
> s/pragmatic/dogmatic/
Patriotism != jingoism.
--
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:49:11PM -0600, Brian Wolfe wrote:
> Instead of many new packages, why not make people pick up the orphaned
> stuff, and find replacements or adopt packages that have been DOA upstream?
In a volunteer organization, you can't _make_ people do anything. You
can enco
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:52:39PM -0600, Brian Wolfe wrote:
[ a bunch of stuff I didn't read, because ... ]
If you're going to participate on the debian mailing lists, consider
doing so with a mailer that understands and honors the
Mail-Followup-To: header (yes, I know it's not an "official" sta
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:22:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> dear list,
>
> look, i am really not here to start a flame war and heck no, i don't
> want one. please excuse if my behaviour has been leading you onto this
> belief (or maybe not). i am simply failing to grasp the arguments laid
>
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:51:23AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:30:21PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 18:59, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > The keyword here is "prominent".
> >
> > Yes, it is.
> >
> > > The
> > > Debian servers don't run non-free soft
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:11:27PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 13:16, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > > A large mirror in Australia does provide an rsync server to access debian
> > > packages. When redhat 7.0 came out so many people tried to rsync it at the
> > > same time, the machine
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:13:49PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> Thank you Joey for being so obliging to a constructive proposal, and
> thank you for your polite way of replying to my proposal.
>
> Do you think you could put your 6 year old attitude aside for a few
> moments and take this
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hallo?
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, [...]
^^ ^
|| |
Year -+|
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
: Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
: > ae already does this, and provides a reasonably vi ish interface, just to
: > satisfy those whose fingers are only programmed for vi.
:
: Personally, I find ae's vi-compatibility even worse then normal ae: it
: tric
Where can I find a good reference to LICENSES?
We are looking at EW-too (the talker code) - here is the license:
The EW-too code and concept are copyright Simon Marsh, August 1994.
Permission is hereby granted for the code to be copied, changed, and
used for any non-profit making purpose in
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
:
: >
: > Hi,
: >
: > I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off.
: >
: > Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said
: > US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
:
: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
: >
: > > Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said
: > > US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to
: > > SystemV/CST6CDT fixed t
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy...
:
: Bottom line...tzconfig is broken.
That may be :)
: If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of
: Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to their
:
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: >
: > : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy...
: > :
: > : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken.
: >
: > That may be :)
:
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Troy Hanson wrote:
: I am having problems on 2 machines (both upgraded from bo). with the
: utmp/wtmp.
:
: The output below is from a machine that never has had an Xterm running
: (telnet access only):
:
: $ last
: ;* *.*5 192.168.5.51 Wed Dec 31 21:26
On 19 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with
: > DST? If you mean "US/Central" I will have to disagree with you. :) It
: > works fine here.
:
: It did
On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
: Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London
: over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be
: back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :)
Wildly off topic ... isn't
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
:
: > > Wildly off topic ... isn't "The Wave" cable modem access?
: >
: > Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL,
: > but I'm not sure... Anyone?
:
:
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
[ snip ]
: While I'm typing, what mailing list is the WNPP on? It doesn't seem to be
: any of the ones I'm on...
I believe it's on debian-devel-announce - that's where I see it anyway
:)
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls,
On 24 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
[ snip ]
: IP whenever you initially fire up your computer and click their "start
: button", but that's the extent of my knowledge. Mainly I don't know
: if they've got some proprietary way to configure the connection.
I believe RoadRunner uses a proprietary
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
[ snip ]
: That's from the credits, but there are some more :
: r.c. (mentioned previously)
: molly
: snake
: robot
: etch
: mike
: mr. spell
: lenny
: claw
:
: There were a few others, but I couldn't pick out the names from the
: soundtrack.
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote:
: On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:45:36PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote:
: >
: > ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!).
: > rc! the radio control car!
: >
: > i say "rc" should be 2.2, as i have before.
:
: Debian 2.2, on the FTP sit
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
: On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
: > > Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice
addition
: > > for those short in disk space.
: >
: > Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd mainta
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
: Hi,
:
: > I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't
: > work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe
that
: > the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
[ intent to package snipped ]
Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural
revelation?
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net
finger [EMAIL PROTECTE
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
:
: On 01-Feb-99 Nathan E Norman wrote:
: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
: >
: > [ intent to package snipped ]
: >
: > Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural
: > revelation?
:
: Only the truly
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
: Will someone please notify me when Steve Lamb becomes a reasonable person.
: As of 2 minutes ago, all mail from him is being sent to /dev/null by
: procmail.
Notification will be on the 11:00 news right after "Hell Freezes Over"
and "Monkeys Fly O
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