On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:55:42 +, Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What happens is when I connect to the net for the first time using wvdial, it
> gets connected but my dns is not working. nslookup just gives the names of
> /etc/resolv.conf dns servers along with the error that no serv
Rajesh Fowkar saw fit to inform me that:
>Hi,
>
>Since I installed debian 2.2 r.3 I am facing this problem. Earlier on 2.2 it
>was
>working fine.
>
>Problem is. I am using wvdial to connect to the net.
>When I first time connect to the net using wvdial DNS is not working. However
>if
>I disconne
Hi,
I'm precising what I have done - may be you say me if I'm
doing wright and what I have to modify in my installation.
-I use a couple of CDs that I have burned (note that I have
not the option multi-CD),
-I make a partition and
-I continue to install the services suggested by the CD-ROM
(at that
Hi,
I succeeded in installing debian 2.2 on a compaq e500 - including getting
the X server, mouse, internal modem, etc etc all going.
I don't recall many of the details because everything just worked out of the
box pretty much (except for the modem, which is an mwave winmodem, with
GPLed kernel m
Arian Novruzi wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian
> in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general.
Many people use laptops like me. There is a site that has info on your
book. Luckily I remembered that this is a Compaq -- give details as per
the other p
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:48:40PM -0700, Arian Novruzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian
> in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general.
>
> Personally, I found installation of Debian quite frustrating, although
> I like this Linux
I already am a debian 2.2 user, while I wait debian 2.3 (I think this
will be quite soon). I was Mandrake, RedHat and SuSE user, but debian is
just a step over. If you are looking for a office package, you can anyway
install StarOffice from the Net (it is not a debian package) or
siag-office (a
on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:26:54PM -0700, Len Cheatham ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no
> avail:
>
> ATTEMPT #1:
> After downloading the CD from the Debian site, I burned a CD for Disk #1
> and placed that in the CD driv
> I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no
> avail:
>
> ATTEMPT #1:
>
> _
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Well, that could be your problem. Grin.
PM> I am very new to Linux (my Debian box is one week old) and I'm
PM> having trouble getting X to work with my i810 graphics card. I
PM> haved surfed the web, which offers a lot of advice on getting the
PM> card running under XF86 3.3.5 (with the install of the agpgart.o
PM> kernel module) to fo
Peter Millard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all
>
> I am thinking of changing to debian 2.2 I wonder does it come with something
> like StarOffice or something similar
most 2.2-distributions do not include staroffice, but there is one
(from linuxland, I believe), which includes staroffic
Is hdd yor boot drive? That means you may have ultra66. Then you need
kernel with that patch. umda66 is the one, maybe.
24 MB is not enough to keep / /boot /bin /sbin all in one partition.
You may want to get 50MB and make it as /. That may be simpler than
doing /boot for this one. YMMV.
Inst
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:12:21AM +0100, Peter Millard wrote:
>
>
> Hello all
>
> I am thinking of changing to debian 2.2 I wonder does it come with something
> like StarOffice or something similar
just download the .bin thing from sun.com/staroffice, install it,
works ok
--
,--
mel kravitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed 2.2 on a DEC 600au -second scsi disk, first has NetBSD1.5 ,
>i have a fully operational system, however i don't seem to have lpd in
>/sbin or /usr/sbin? Something i did? I assume the print daemon is
>installed as part of the 'base.tgz' binary?
No
Jason Price wrote:
>
> I am installing Debian 2.2 for the first time (on a dual cpu box) and
> have run into a problem with my NIC. I have a Linksys LNE100TX, which
> I understand uses the Tulip module. During setup, I tried to select
> the Tulip module to install, but I got an error saying that
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:49:47PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
| On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jason Price wrote:
|
| >I will be compiling a new kernel to add SMP support - when I do, is
| >there anything special I will need to do to make sure the NIC works?
|
| Get the newest source possible. Tulip (to wit
ay, February 23, 2001 4:06 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 and Linksys LNE100TX - problems
I have the same card. It needs the newer tulip.
Install w/o network cards
install the kernal src and c/c++
take the tar off the driver disk tha
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:49:47PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jason Price wrote:
>
> Until you get a new kernel, you're SOL.
That is not true. I am using 2 of those cards in my firewall running
2.2.12. You just need the updated tulip driver and pci-scan module.
Mike
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jason Price wrote:
>I am installing Debian 2.2 for the first time (on a dual cpu box) and
>have run into a problem with my NIC. I have a Linksys LNE100TX, which
>I understand uses the Tulip module. During setup, I tried to select
>the Tulip module to install, but I got an er
I have the same card. It needs the newer tulip.
Install w/o network cards
install the kernal src and c/c++
take the tar off the driver disk that came with the card
build according to instructions from vendor
copy tulip.o and pciscan.o (scan-pci?) over those in
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net
manualy
Are there any disadvantages to the 2.4.0+ kernel? Is it stable?
Oh, and how big is the kernel? I don't have any way of getting things
there except by floppy...
Jason
>
>
> I had this same problem. If you can, go to a 2.4.0+ kernel and the
> driver works just great.
>
>
> Thus spake Jason
I had this same problem. If you can, go to a 2.4.0+ kernel and the
driver works just great.
Thus spake Jason Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am installing Debian 2.2 for the first time (on a dual cpu box) and
> have run into a problem with my NIC. I have a Linksys LNE100TX, which
> I unders
> Hi
>
> I have loaded Hisax module, but can't dialing my ISP with my S0-PCI ISDN
> card,
> I don't understand this error message:
> Dialing isdn0 is triggered.
As far as I can tell this is not an error message, although I might be wrong.
In case you have a problem with ISDN, the first thing I w
2001 1:49 PM
To: Joris Lambrecht
Subject: Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?
Joris Lambrecht wrote:
>
> to be honest, i think a 486 cannot catch up with that type of CDRW, unless
> you add a local bus controller to it that supports some ATA interface at
> 33/66/100 Mbps, otherwise burning
: Thursday, February 08, 2001 6:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux.
> Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it.
> I re
On Thursday 08 February 2001 12:41, Ales Jerman wrote:
> I have some old 386 30Mhz, 486 100Mhz machines with 4 MB of RAM and
> 50 - 100 MB of HDD with ethernet card, on which I would like to run
> Linux with X server (for X terminals). I know that that is
> difficult, but I have fast ethernet, so
- Original Message -
From: "Damon Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: debian 2.2 with 8 meg ?
> I've installed, and happily run, potato on a 486 with 8M of RAM (an old
> notebook, for which a ram upgrade is
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux.
> Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it.
> I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB.
As someone else already pointed out, that you can install potato on a
machine with 8MB RAM, bu
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> I have an old, lonely 486 with 8 MB and want to use it for Linux.
> Is there any chance to use debian 2.2 on it.
> I read in the installation manual, that it needs 12 MB.
I've installed, and happily run, potato on a 486 with 8M of RAM (an old
notebook, for which a ram u
"Gary Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 23 Dec 2000, Michael Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Felix Natter wrote:
> > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> > > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> > > isdnconfi
On 23 Dec 2000, Michael Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Felix Natter wrote:
> > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> > isdnconfig and edit them).
>
> If you are in Germany you have
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote:
> > >
> > > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> > > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create co
Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote:
> >
> > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> > isdnconfig and edit them).
> >
>
Michael Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Felix Natter wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> > mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> > isdnconfig and edit them).
>
> If you are in Germany you ha
Sorry, my e-mail software did not copy previous message, but how do
you increase debugging operations to "verbose level". Thanks, dave
Felix Natter wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> isdnconfig and edit them).
If you are in Germany you have to use the 1TR6 protocol and not DSS1 as
in rest of europe.
Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then I tried to dial using
> $isdnctrl dial ippp0
> which does not create a connection and only results in these messages:
> Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0
> Dec 16 20:29:10 couchpotato kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0
Perh
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [...] ipppd: info: no CHAP secret entry for this user!
>
> I think the error is the above. Have you edited your
> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and added your username and password?
Perhaps, the system is set up to use PAP, not CHAP? ipppd doesn't
mention mis
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:58:57PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote:
>
> I just tried to set up isdn exactly the way Marcus Jodorf described in his
> mail a few months ago (configure modules, create config files with
> isdnconfig and edit them).
>
If you turn on 'debug' in the ipppd config file what
ou
> Dec 16 20:07:53 couchpotato kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Dec 16 20:07:54 couchpotato kernel: isdn: Verbose-Level is 2
> Dec 16 20:07:55 couchpotato ipppd: info: no CHAP secret entry for this user!
I think the error is the above. Have you edited your
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets and
> What happens if you do a flood ping? (assuming this is between 2 local
> machines). Normally, you should see a dot flashing on lhs of screen,
> with a dot drawn for each error. Perhaps you get no errors for a while
> and then the card falls over giving you lines and lines of dots?
This isn't bet
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:56:35PM -0700, Jeff Kelm wrote:
> I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion
> was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain
> the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything
> works fine. Booting
You might also want to check out Iomega.com. They actually have a small linux
utility that offers *some* of the functions of IomegaTools. I haven't used it
in awhile, so I don't remember if it was particularly useful, but the download
is just a few KB, so it's worth looking at.
-Rob
On Mon, Dec
> Davi and others:
>
> I'm interested in the 250 MB ZIP USB that I acquired and use under
> Windows, but want to access it under Linux. I know about
> adding USB support to the kernel, but else must I do?
>
> Would someone point me to the right place to find how make this
> device work with Potato.
I still haven't been able to get 2.2 to network properly. A suggestion
was a possible hardware problem. I don't see how this would explain
the problem. If I boot off the harddrive with Debian 1.3, everything
works fine. Booting off the harddrive with Debian 2.2 and the problem
shows up. No har
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Davi Leal wrote:
> I have debian 2.2 installed on my host. I have downloaded the
> kernel.2.2.18.tar.gz and I have compiled it with USB support so as to use my
> USB modem on Linux. But the '/sbin/hotplug' does not appear. Maybe, is there
> a .deb file which I could download
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes:
> I originally sent this to debian-user, but got no response. Perhaps this is
> the more appropriate list.
Well, no, not really, but I'll give it a shot.
> I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My
> workstation was running 2.0 and m
Hi Folken,
The do_try_to_free_pages failures are symptoms of a bug in the
2.2.17pre6 kernel that ships with 2.2.
I have a K6/2 233 machine with 64M RAM which displays these
errors occasionally. They don't appear to be fatal but could
be leaking memory?
I also have a 486SLC 33 machine with 8M RAM
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:22:06PM +, Tom Huckstep wrote:
> I think this is your problem. Adding 128 M of swap to 64 M of
> physical memory solved it for me.
>
> Unfortunately, unless you have some free space on your hard disk(s)
> you are going to have to delete a partition and recreate _it_
Folken Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ...
Known problem in Linux 2.2.16 and also 2.2.17pre's. Upgrading to Linux
2.2.17 or even Linux 2.2.18pre should solve the problem.
moritz
--
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de
paolo massei wrote:
Hmm, problem solved thanks.
I finally found some decent floppies (I must have tried about two sets
before), and made images of root.bin and rescue.bin. I then booted, and
waited past the messages "VM: do_try_to_free_ages failed for modprobe...
(and kswapd), and eventual
paolo massei wrote:
>> to edit the file, even if I specify
>>
>> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> ^^
>
> Perhaps here is the error: try with
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> ^^
Thanks. 'msdos' turned out, *surprisingly* to be the correct option. It
still hasn't helped me g
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at
09:55:25AM +:
> I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to
> try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive
> capable of booting.
>
> Therefore I must make a boot fl
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +, Chris Howells wrote:
...snip
> I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the
> file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this
> (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the
> CD-ROM?). T
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown.
[...]
> Get more memory, get a better box,
[...]
and get a Linux kernel, which doesn't have these VM problems/isn't
that unstable like the 2.2.17pre in Debian Potato. (I think, there's a
real 2.2.17 in the proposed-up
on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:27:57PM -0800, Francesco Bochicchio ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:18:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown.
>
> The 'VM' messages seem to hint to Virtual Memory problems, however.
> I've r
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:18:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown.
The 'VM' messages seem to hint to Virtual Memory problems, however.
I've read that the latest 2.2.x kernels have some VM problems.
> Almost certainly resulting
> from insuffici
Hi there.
Before spending money on a new system you should
really think about switching to a more Unix like way
of handling mail.
There are several programs which are very powerful
when dealing with mail, and because they are used
at the shell or out of a script they don't consume
nearly a
on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:02:24PM -0800, Jatin Golani ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi ppl,
>
> let me first thank everyone that's been helping me.
>
> I have a Debian 2.2 system..with GNOME and Window Maker...on a pentium
^
> 133 Mhz..32 MB RAM...and 64 MB
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Yves POCCHIOLA wrote:
> Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with
> apsfilter and LPRng packages.
>
> Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation
> by the Debian tool: dselect.
>
> I tried first to use the
> I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to
> activate
> properly the configuration and I was not given a second chance to run the
> configuration even after removing and installing again the package.
I'm glad I could help. Probably you want to know that dpkg l
Thanks for the advices, I can print now ASCII and Postscript with apsfilter
and LPRng
packages.
Apsfilter configuration setting was proposed during the installation by the
Debian
tool: dselect.
I tried first to use the magicfilter package but I missed the first time to
activate
properly the c
> Yves POCCHIOLA wrote:
> >I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I
> >managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local
> >printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question
> >during the installation process concerning
Yves POCCHIOLA wrote:
>I have replaced today my Suse2.3 version of Linux by a Debian 2.2 . I
>managed to get a working installalion at the exception of the local
>printer (HP Desk Jet 510 on parallel port). I didn't notice any question
>during the installation process concerning the print
"Jonathan Gift" wrote:
> I thought the new Debian 2.2 came on 3CD but someone or other is selling one
> version with a 4th; calling it non-free. That the case?
The three CDs are the Debian distribution proper (the section
called `main'), plus whatever from the `contrib' section that has
no depen
Hello:
Go to http://cdimage.debian.org
for more information.
Umum Wijoyo wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs?
> Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server,
> and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or
> will the CDs be bo
Subject: debian 2.2 on Ultra160? (fwd)
Date: Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:07:11PM -0700
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> just in a reply to myself i tried going with mandrake7 with no luck it
> crashed pretty hard within 30 seconds of insta
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From: "Chang Y.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 ¥i¤£¥i¥H¤ä´©TN
That setup sounds nice.
You know, Nate, that if you -like- you can ship it over to the Olympic city
and I can use it for a while and see if I get the same errors
It is all supported so -in theory- it should work.
But then again as Homer pointed out to us all "communism works in
theory"
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 08:30:39PM -0400, Robert Tilley wrote:
>
> I am running on an Intel Celeron 300A system with a RIVA TNT2 Ultra, a
> SoundBlaster Live card, an HP 7200 CD-burner and a Memorex CD-202E. I'm
> having trouble configuring X-windows and sound.
I don't know about your video
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster.
I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I
have
a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster.
I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters. Now I have
a CD shaped stain on my table. It's easier just to throw them out.
Though I have heard that microwaving
Solfa,
Magazine CDs are usually cheapest quality due to its free bee status.
Most CD press houses do not inspect CD for that category. (No Quality control)
Professionals inspect CD by looking under / through strong light.
I bet there are pin holes on Al sputter coating or silver streak on the
CD
On 17 Sep 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where
> to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a
> CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their
> own cds(non commercial) quality can be q
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:58:58AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
-|looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where
-|to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a
-|CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their
-|own cds(non co
looks like bad cds to me, i'd get new ones from somewhere(not sure where
to reccomend) see the debian homepage for who has them, or if you have a
CD-R you can make your own. it seems since debian does not make their
own cds(non commercial) quality can be questionable from vendor to
vendor. ive had
Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to install a new debian system at home (as I commented in
> some other messages)... but I'm now wondering if installing the 2.2 or
> woody version...
>
> Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the
> unstable distribution. I would use 2.
Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/09/2000 (14:37) :
> Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the
> unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are
> not the "latest" versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome,
> etc. And the problem of
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to install a new debian system at home (as I commented in
> some other messages)... but I'm now wondering if installing the 2.2 or
> woody version...
I can't give you a definitive answer since I've only been using D
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Since I discovered apt :-) in slink, I've been always using the
> unstable distribution. I would use 2.2, but in that version there are
> not the "latest" versions of some programs, for example, emacs, gnome,
> etc. And the problem o
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:58:48PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> "Jürgen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The default homedir perms are ok the way they are. Everyone (on the
> > system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition.
>
> Then maybe you have to think over good old
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> things like "Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10
> and up so Debian isn't secure". As you can say it's also real life example.
> Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but
> many people t
"Jürgen A. Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The default homedir perms are ok the way they are. Everyone (on the
> system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition.
Then maybe you have to think over good old traditions *nowadays*, with
masses of UNIX (and generally computer) unaware pe
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > Change your BIOS settings to only boot from the internal disk and
> > password protect it. On my system I have such a setup and require a
>
> BIOSes are very easy to erase, you know. Some are even s
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:37:46AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> That is *not* why we backport security holes.
>
> Let's look at apache. A security hole is discovered in apache. Debian has a
> current version (1.3.9) in it already. The apache team releases 1.3.10, with
> a fix for the security hol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But this guy talks about security holes just by checking package version
> numbers! He dosn't look what has been done with package (debian specific
> changes including backported fixes for security holes). I often wrote
> maintainers that Debian should implement right
So
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
on a daily routine should keep your release as secure as possible.
Yes?
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:48:01PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> > Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that w
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot.
> >
> > You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well,
> > just in case. ALL: ALL d
Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot.
>
> You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well,
> just in case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some
> reason.
In an
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> > On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security:
> >
> > http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html
> >
> > Just read it and tel
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. This should perhaps
You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, just in
case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some reason.
> Change your BIOS settings to only boot from
Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> > On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security:
> >
> > http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html
>
> The Author (Kurt Seifried) makes the newbie
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that were available
> up until potato was released. Be sure to check out the slashdot story
> going on about this.
I need to correct myself:
Security upgrades are released after th
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Complain about old Apache, ProFTP: If you always want the latest
> fixes, you need to get the stuff from the sources (Eg www.apache.org)
Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that were available
up until potato was rel
> "William" == William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
William> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
>> Just read it and tell me what you think about it.
William> I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues
William> that make sense and should of been ta
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> Just read it and tell me what you think about it.
I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues that make sense and
should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic
services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms, etc
> > Just read it and tell me what you think about it.
>
> I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues that make sense
and
> should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic
> services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms, etc). Maybe Debian
> maintainers should
> --
> From: Thomas Guettler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply To: Thomas Guettler
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:47 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPorta
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> On SecurityPortal there is an article about Debian 2.2 security:
>
> http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet2830.html
>
> Just read it and tell me what you think about it.
The Author (Kurt Seifried) makes the newbie be
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> Just read it and tell me what you think about it.
I think it has some valid points. He brings up issues that make sense and
should of been taken care of a long time ago (eg: commenting out archaic
services in inetd.conf, default homedir perms, etc
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