Re: compilation problems

2003-03-12 Thread Satish Iyer
I guess it would be the binutils package... Search for the package when you run base-config, to find out.    Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Christian Fuchs wrote:> Dear Debian Community,> > I just installed Debian 3.0.0r0 from the set of 7 cd's and I a

Optimizing X

2003-03-09 Thread Satish Iyer
Hi, Whenever I start gnome (by typing gdm on the command line) it takes a log of time to start up. I understand that that it reads the configuration file and then performs various test based on the given configuration. I have noticed (from the log) that the number of tests it performs for the mo

Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password

2003-03-09 Thread Satish Iyer
Hi, I am new user of Debian Gnu/Linux. I have successfully setup and started using the system (my understanding and knowledge grows day by day). To my current understanding security seems to be a major drawback of gnu/linux systems.(How else can you explain such gaping holes?). I am also inheren

About user nobody

2003-03-03 Thread Satish Iyer
Hi, I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop system. At times I notice a process with high disk activity running under user name "nobody". How can I figure out which program is responsible for this and what exactly is it upto? The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf interface. Regards, Sat

Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread Satish Iyer
Hi, I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After following the directions (from the howto's and faq's) I am still unable to get it functioning. I tried with PAP as well as CHAP. An error is returned from the [chat] section as Incorrect Input/Output parameters : I/O Error.