On 8 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> These packages have been stuck in the upload queue on master for quite
> a while now. I believe that there is a public mirror of the upload
> queue somewhere, but don't remember where, unfortunately; and master
> is not open for public ftp.
I use ftp://llug.sep.
On 08-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Barring malicious users, could these op codes have happened in
>> production code?
>
> At least according to the gas 2.8.1 sources, the instruction code
> 0x0f0f is not assigned to any instruction, so they should never appear
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The only problem is: none of these packages are anywhere to be found on
> ftp.debian.org. Can anybody tell me when they expect them to be
> uploaded?
These packages have been stuck in the upload queue on master for quite
a while now. I believe that there is a public m
Hi... I decided to upgrade my version of gimp 0.99 in order to fix the
problem with the file selection boxes... when I ran dpkg on it I got
these messages:
Selecting previously deselected package gimp.
(Reading database ... 19748 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gimp (from gim
Robert Zeches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I have a really stupid issue that I'm sure I will be flamed for but
> I'm going to ask anyway. My server crashed upon rebooting. I can not
> log in locally - get an error like "666:unable to change tty" /dev/tty1
> for user root bad file number or s
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Barring malicious users, could these op codes have happened in
> production code?
At least according to the gas 2.8.1 sources, the instruction code
0x0f0f is not assigned to any instruction, so they should never appear
in actual code.
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Hi. I have a really stupid issue that I'm sure I will be flamed for but
I'm going to ask anyway. My server crashed upon rebooting. I can not
log in locally - get an error like "666:unable to change tty" /dev/tty1
for user root bad file number or something like that. Now here's the
stupid part -
Barring malicious users, could these op codes have happened in
production code?
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And there is probably such a bug with Pentium II that will be "leaked" as soon
as ITS replacement is widely available to spur upgrades.
Sorry if I seem so cynical. (Four systems 1-AMD, 1-Cyrix, 1-486, 1-Intel
Pentium.) The only Intel Pentium is an old P60 that is due for replacement
anyhow.
On 08
A slightly edited version of what a friend sent me:
Did you hear the latest buzz on the internet? A four
byte instruction will lock any true Pentium solid.
Try this c program:
char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 };
main () { void (*f)() = x; f(); }
So much for using Pentia for robust mu
On 08-Nov-97 Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 12:30:22AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> It doesn't make good sense to do this.
>
> exim runs out of inetd. For mailers, this is bad, unless you're a very
> low volume site.
I only run exim out of inetd on one system, all the othe
clif smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was downloading some files from Debian's FTP site and when I looked in
> the packages file I saw pgp-us.deb listed but I can't find it on the site.
> I realize that there is a securtity issue about distributeing PGP but is
> there a way to get the .deb pac
I was downloading some files from Debian's FTP site and when I looked in
the packages file I saw pgp-us.deb listed but I can't find it on the site.
I realize that there is a securtity issue about distributeing PGP but is
there a way to get the .deb package of PGP?
The package I saw was from /stable
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Jason Wright wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade to unstable, following the howto, but I can't seem
> to find the package ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2. The latest rev I can find is
> ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-1, which is what's already installed on my system.
> Where can I find -2? Thanks!
It, alon
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> Does anyone know when the kernel-source-2.0.31 package will be ready ?
> Or is it exactly the same as the tar.gz source files available from, say,
> www.kernel.org in which case getting that would do the job ?
Fetching the source from www.kernel.org will
"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> a quick sanity check: I have noticed that after using X-windows as a
> user and getting back out of the X and logging off completely, my next
> login message reads that the last login as a user xxx was "from ttyp1
> from :0". This doesn't happen if I'
Hi, everyone --
a quick sanity check: I have noticed that after using X-windows as a
user and getting back out of the X and logging off completely, my next
login message reads that the last login as a user xxx was "from ttyp1
from :0". This doesn't happen if I'm only using console mode and log in
same as me. i am using et6000 and the icon is 1-bit if i set my svga
xserver to 24-bit. no problem if i set it to 16-bit or 8-bit though.
Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 07, 1997 at 12:09:16PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> : My display is running in 24 or 32-bit mode. My XF86Config
> : i
I have a laptop , AWARD 486 dx33 , 4MB ram ,IDE HDD ,ISA bus
and I obtained Debian 1.3.1 (or just 1.3). When I boot (i boot from floppys) it
does the normal procedure until it reaches line
RAMDISK:compressed image found at block 0
and it stops here and doesn't move anywhere.
I've been asking arou
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> exim runs out of inetd. For mailers, this is bad, unless you're a very
> low volume site.
>
Exim is very easy to configure to run standalone if you want. In fact if
you look in the /etc/init.d there is a file
Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> exim runs out of inetd.
>
This information is wrong. Exim can run out of inetd, but it most
definitely runs as a standalone daemon too. We use exim as a daemon
here just fine.
We have an entire site using exim here, and it's very easy to use, fast,
configurable, sol
I'd like to upgrade to unstable, following the howto, but I can't seem
to find the package ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2. The latest rev I can find is
ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-1, which is what's already installed on my system.
Where can I find -2? Thanks!
Jason
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On Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 12:30:22AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
: I would like to request that exim replace smail as the default MTA for Debian.
It doesn't make good sense to do this.
exim runs out of inetd. For mailers, this is bad, unless you're a very
low volume site.
I nominate qmail + tcps
> Yes! Try BRU (Backup and Restore Utility) from est. It's not free,
> but I've been burnt more than once by free backup/restore software.
> My time, energy and certainly my data are worth the (fair) price for
> this product. I've been using it on several different machines for
> some time now a
On Fri, Nov 07, 1997 at 12:09:16PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
: My display is running in 24 or 32-bit mode. My XF86Config
: is attached. Netscape 4's Icons are 1-bit deep. Everything else
: is fine. Is there something I can tell X to fix this?
Not in my experience. My solution was to switch to 16
Does anyone know when the kernel-source-2.0.31 package will be ready ?
Or is it exactly the same as the tar.gz source files available from, say,
www.kernel.org in which case getting that would do the job ?
Thanks
George
> George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > I would like to request that exim replace smail as the default MTA for
> > Debian.
>
> Good idea! Exim is easy as they come.
>
Hi.
Not that simple. Exim doesn't work with fetchmail somehow.
*IF* we fix fetchmail or exim to work with each other, *then*
we may thi
do you know their the www site?
m* wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hallo,
> > >
> > Howdy!
> >
> > > I would like to hear whether there is a successful backup program for
> > > Linux which can compare in efficiency with
>
> > Yes! Try BRU (Backup and Restore Utility) from e
I wrote:
> pppd looks in /var/run to find out how many ppp's are running.
That should read: poff looks in ...
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> > Aren't these marks simply "file marks"? (just asking, I know that
> > there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively
> > different from the MTFSF/BSF/WEOF operations?)
>
> Yeah, it's a different beast. Trust, me, I can tell mt to find a mark
> and it'll
> skip over all kin
George Bonser wrote:
>
> I would like to request that exim replace smail as the default MTA for Debian.
Good idea! Exim is easy as they come.
Later,
David
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oops, this should also be an A record.
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I would like to request that exim replace smail as the default MTA for Debian.
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I have linux in my Pc and I started to study ADA for an informatical cours
of Algorithmics and Programmation.
I have Adaed.tar.z in a cdrom I bought with Le Grand Livre Linux by Micro
Application (Data Becker GMBH & Co KG) 1997 and I began to learn step by step.
When I go to README in /cdrom/devel/
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> here is my db.3dillusion.com domain configuration file.. I need a matching
> reverse lookup file for this and I don't know how to make one. Can
> someone help me out here?
I think you need to fix this first. I'm not an expert on DNS, but
I've experiment
I must admit that I've been disappointed several times when I discovered
that I couldn't find packages in the stable ftp directories. This has
happened with the mutt, xmcd and probably other packages as well. A
specific example at the moment is xmcd at ftp.debian.org in
dists/unstable/main/binary-i
Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> the file "/usr/var/dpkg/status" is absent (not found) on my system.
That should be in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
> Where can I get it ?
If you don't actually have any packages installed, I suppose you could
`touch' it and see what happens.
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> PON will have already stopped because of the carrier detect
> falure, but will come back in little while with a different PID.
Try removing the "persist" flag, if it's enabled anywhere. You won't
get automatic redials, though.
[snip]
> Solution B: Edit the PON sc
Syd Alsobrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to have one computer connected to two networks, one public
> (internet) and one private no valid numbers, but I don't want traffic
> to be routed between the two. so I just build a kernel with the
> appropreate drivers and set both ethern
This is from the man page in the section that describes the config file
after the part that describes the x resources. You really need to read through
the manual carefully ... all of it.
Here is an example of some settings that will improve
things over a slow network connec
df
On 08-Nov-97 Collin Rose wrote:
>
> What command you use to find out how much free space you have on your hard
> drive?
>
>
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My ISP recently had some problems with their dialtone provider which meant
I often had to make several attempts before connecting. Like you, I
didn't want to wait for PON to start over. You have two choices:
1.) You can remove the 'persist' option from /etc/ppp.options_out (bo) or
from /et
The file below is totally hosed. How many systems do you have and how many IP
addresses do you have? I see only one A record so assuming that you only have
one system on your net (but that reference to paul.3dillusion.com throws me)
You can START with something like this:
@ IN S
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
On Nov 06, Alberto Ruiz wrote
> Is possible to configure smail as a virtual mail server handling more than
> one domain? I know you can do it with sendmail.
I think I have what you need at http://www.buoy.com/isp
Tim
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"Collin Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What command you use to find out how much free space you have on your =
> hard drive?
Try "df". Also, try "du" to find out where all of that space is being
taken up.
Later,
Dale
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I'm having trouble configuring BIND...
here is my db.3dillusion.com domain configuration file.. I need a matching
reverse lookup file for this and I don't know how to make one. Can
someone help me out here?
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@ IN SOA ns.3dillusion.com hostmaster.3dillusion.com (
Hi,
[ Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. ]
I would like to have a setup like this:
harddisk 1: win95 and solaris 2.5.1 (x86)
harddisk 2: debian linux
now, could it be possible to boot all three using lilo? or is there a
better way?
TIA,
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Collin Rose wrote:
>
> What command you use to find out how much free space you have on your hard
> drive?
>
it's 'df' (disk free??)
[bitgate]udjat ~ $> df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1
What command you use to find out how much free
space you have on your hard drive?
I've managed to set my machine up to do the following, all of which I find
useful in the context of a machine that is dialed in only part of the
time.
Anyway, my machine is now doing the following:
- rewrites the From: header on outgoing mail by looking up the sender's
username in a configuratio
My display is running in 24 or 32-bit mode. My XF86Config
is attached. Netscape 4's Icons are 1-bit deep. Everything else
is fine. Is there something I can tell X to fix this?
Thanks
Bruce# XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup
#
# Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
> While from what I have seen by following this list for quite a few months
> now, the list members are rather tolerent of
> 'off-topic' posting when such postings are still Linux related.
>
Don't worry ! I'm on the list since 15th-Aug .. and that the 2nd time
I'm posting.. I'm __interested__
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Brandhorst) writes:
> Brian Mays wrote:
>
> > ...
> > type `debian/rules build-modules'. This should build a new
> > pcmcia-modules-2.0.30 package in the parent directory
>
> this have built no new *.deb file - but the created modules (after
> copying them to the right
Max;
While from what I have seen by following this list for quite a few months now,
the list members are rather tolerent of
'off-topic' posting when such postings are still Linux related.
However, your problems are not even Linux specific much less debian specific.
With a non-debian distributi
You probably should rebuild the kernel using the debian kernel build package
and make kpgk. I am not sure if you would 'get into trouble' just deleting the
kernel image, boot and map files by hand or not (the system should boot ok but
I am not sure how dpkg would 'feel' about their not being pre
Hello all!
dpkg-1.4.0.19 compiled fine on my unknow gnu/linu box
with 971031-egcs (except a few compiler warnings). I
then installed the binaries but was no able to use dpkg
cause the file "/usr/var/dpkg/status" is absent (not found)
on my system. Where can I get it ?
Thanx in advance
The pgp package is one of those software items to comes under the U.S. Govt's
Defense Export Restrictions as thus is not available on any U.S. debian or
debina mirror site.
Two files in debian/ README.non-US and README.pgp both tell where and how to
get the pgp package.
Note that the main site
For the use of people who may be interested. After my question here is
what I have found you need to do in order to allow a passwordless RSA
authenticated ssh or scp session between hosts.
Hope it's useful to some one out there...
Adam.
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Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
>
> > Now all you need is a good script which will do a full dump and then put
> > incrementals after it on the same tape, right? Of course! I'm sending you
> > my perl backup script (which backs up *multiple* machines) via direct email
> > anyone else who's interested ca
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