Hello,
for the sake of knowing how to do such thigns, I'd like to turn off some
services that I feel comprimise my server security, and aren't being used.
with portscan, this is what I get from a non-local host.
9 -> discard
13 -> daytime
*21 -> ftp
*22 -> ssh
*23 -> telnet
*25 -> smtp
37 -> t
On 11/12/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I compiled a new kernel (2.3.31) with Potato(current) kpkg and the
resulting .deb package says it installed fine but did not redirect the
vmlinuz link. Just changing this symlink won't boot system. Not sure
where to hunt "bug".
yes I noticed this too, kerne
Enlightenment, for the most part, is fun for me. But its slowness compared
to something like Sawmill drives me a little nuts.
What is it about E that slows it down? Certain themes are "faster" than
others, which leads me to think that the theme has something to do with it.
But is there anything el
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:22:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The visiting Americans nodded appreciatively, but then did a
> double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and
> launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter.
A friend of mine proposes this be m
I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a
Slashdot clone.
Other than Squishdot, does anyone have any feedback on which Slashdot
clones to look at? I've been through Freshmeat and found several, but
toying around with them is increasingly time consuming. I'd love to
Ciao Colin Marquardt,
> > I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle.
>
> Do you mean junkbuster? That certainly can do the job.
hem... yes, right. :-)
(too junk even in my mind ... eh!eh!eh!)
Ciao
--
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paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it
Kent West wrote:
> So basically I just live without sound (which only hurts when I'm showing
> someone the
> neat aspects of Linux, and then can't play a sound file).
What happens if you 'cat' a wav file to /dev/dsp ?
I've run out of ideas now. I used to run Maelstrom
on a 75 MHz Redhat 4.1 sy
Hi !
You might compile the emu10k1 drivers with newer kernels
than 2.2.13, but you have to replace some includes in
/usr/include/linux with the header files in ./include/linux
of your kernel-source-package. (I don'T know, if the debian
kernel tools do this automatically, because I've not used
kpkg
I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom
kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried
the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts,
(>> 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or
better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a
k
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote:
> How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really
> exist? (I can't allocate 10 uids on a single machine, right?)
> I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix
> Shall I play with the "mailbox transport" option for
> l
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:34:33AM -0800, George Bonser was heard to state:
> > Is Debian 2.2 (Potato) stable enough to use it?
>
> I have been using it for almost a year. The thing is that a package might
> cause problems from one day to the next. For what I have, everything is
> working fine exc
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:35:03 -0500
Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A friend of mine proposes this be marketed as a game. Call it
> Kanga-Doom.
"Urk!" he says without noticing the domain he is emailing from.
--
J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "mheyes" == mheyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mheyes> The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it
mheyes> seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator
mheyes> 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a
mheyes> -0 appended to it. I thi
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
>
> > qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of
> > domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out:
>
> So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smt
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:48:49AM +, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a
> Slashdot clone.
Any particular reason you don't want to use slash?
( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml )
Speaking of weblogs, does anyone know what happened to meme
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 02:02:52PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> I think one issue is that, if you need to do a long, manual download, it
> might be worth waiting. I have potato running on my machine at work, and
> do an apt-get ugrade about once a week, and it's always a large
> download.
>
> I th
ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp
servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I
just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
(1st relavant hit on "ntp" on www.google.com). Out of all of those 99
serve
Damon wrote:
> I have a slink system, which various potato modules (like gnome, glibc,
> and a few other bits and pieces not available in slink) . . .
I was under the impression that slink couldn't be reliably upgraded to
glibc 2.1. Has that changed?
I've been using potato for months with very
I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his
machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just
get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads
regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned about whether they
actually work,
i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but
will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs to be
changed or where to look?
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university
http://w
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see
> their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any
> other user except me and the mail delivery program.
That is why you integrate the proper security meas
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem
> is accessing it via IMAP. If you have >64K users, how do you set
> permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's
> directory and pote
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
> > You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to
> > access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to
> > the user does not mean it maps dir
thanks.. but turned out i forgot to compile the kernel w/ ip_filter..
oops.. thanks though..
-jason
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you
sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
-Einstein
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999
Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module?
Marshal
From: Mark Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alsa and 2.2.13
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:15:13 -0600 (CST)
> I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom
> kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and
Install dhcpcd. I think that should be enough.
Marshal
From: Dave Wiard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dhcp
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:19:23 -0800 (PST)
> i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but
> will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what need
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 03:08:33AM -0500, Kerne Fahey wrote
> I have two very vague & general questions:
>
> 1) On my linux box (no other flesh&blood users besides me; it's a laptop),
> I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making
> a symbolic link to my home directory
Marshal Wong wrote:
>
> Right click in the icon box and choose this iconbox settings.
>
> Marshal
-
Ah-Hah! Thanks!
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We specialize in multiprocessor units.
We install Debian Linux at
On 12/08/99 01:47PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it seems, except for
> the
> time stamp Netscape (Commnicator 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows
> the
> time with a -0 appended to it. I think it should be -5. Any help appreciate
On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote:
>
> Try something like this:
>
> ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a
> /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a
spawn command on my machine. I have a sp
I cannot get a virtual terminal on a slink machine
following an X crash. Without a terminal I can only
start X remotely now, and ctl-alt-F1 (etc.) crashes
it again.
slink: fairly stock installation (except for below)
kernel-2.3.21
xserver: XF86_SVGA for 3dfx (recent version, downloaded
from devel
Something has happened to my console keyboard. The keys are all screwed up.
When I press 'q' I get 'a', I have to hold down the 'shif' key to get nubmers
The keyboard is only screwed up in the console. It is fine in Xwindows.
Anyone know how I can get my keyboard back?
Lance
On 11/12/99 Nagilum wrote:
I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his
machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just
get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads
regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned abo
Anyone using Linux ISDN in Italy? Which TA do you have?
Any known problems ?
Pf
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On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:47:16PM -0500, Darxus wrote:
>
> ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp
> servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I
> just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
> (1st relav
I have /etc/init.d/boot.OLD and /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15.
Can I safely remove them?
Are files that dpkg -S reports that they are not found can be safely removed?
[11:12:47 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/boot.OLD
dpkg: /etc/init.d/boot.OLD not found.
[11:14:42 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/rc.boot/0setse
I tried to adjust the system clock by
[10:24:52 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys
[09:15:21 /tmp]#
[09:15:27 /tmp]# hwclock --show
Sun Dec 12 09:15:39 1999 -0.396524 seconds
Which is no good because I have the hardware clock set to UTC while I want to
use my local TZ. There for I issued
[09:15:38 /tmp
Hi,
I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned
about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the
cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the
images to Windows.
Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down th
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote:
> I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for
> a large number of users... more than 65536.
> Using Debian of course. :)
> It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have
> login accounts.
> Probably I will be using Potato.
>
> What should
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote:
> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned
> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the
> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the
> images to Windows.
>
> Does anyone know if
Hi,
You are correct in that every image used for a background or shape takes up
memory that slows down E. The extras like the animations also take up memory
so can slow it down. The default theme is quite large, or there are certainly
smaller ones, so check out e.themes.org for lots of choice
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux & M$ WinNT that
>support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user
>accounts.
>It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$
Hi,
There are two ways to turn off services in inetd.conf and in the /etc/rc.d/*.
As you've discovered you can turn off any service which is controlled by the
super-server inetd by commenting it out and then restarting inetd e.g kill -HUP
`cat /var/run/inetd.pid`.
Servers which are not control
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> I ahve all of these xpm packages installed and my wp8 works just fine, so
> for simplicity, do what I do, grab everything with xpm in the name
>
> ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated
> binaries
> ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X
Hello.
I've been looking around for Debian packages of a recent version of
INND, but I could only find the old 1.7 version. Even Potato has
INND 1.7. :(
Is it possible to find an INND 2.x package for Debian?
> Any particular reason you don't want to use slash?
> ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml )
Actually, yes. It was the line of text on that page, something about
"you *will* have problems" (or something to that effect) that sort of scared
me. :-)
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I've had 2. First a Kodak DC25 that worked well. I ended up using
a combination of tools with a C proggy a gentleman wrote along time
ago. It worked, but it wasn't pretty.
I now have an Olympus. It's the second one. The first one died
mysteriously (I think my son dropped it in the toilet).
On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote:
>>
>> Try something like this:
>>
>> ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a
>> /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>
>
> I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't
>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:33:23 -0800 (PST)
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, dyer wrote:
>
>> >
>> > >>
>> > >> I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software)
>> > >> that it is a "Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem" and it is on
>> > >> COM4.
>> > >
>>
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote:
>
>> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned
>> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the
>> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the
>> im
I have recently installed a 8X IDE CDROM drive from Samsung in my old 486.
However, when I mount or sccess it, everything will typically work fine
for a few minutes, and then the CDROM craps out, making loud and
mysterious noises, starting and stopping the engine every few seconds etc.
Sometimes,
"Big Gaute" wrote:
> . . . the CDROM craps out, making loud and
> mysterious noises, starting and stopping the engine every few seconds etc.
That could be various things, but I'm inclined to think "hardware".
Try it in another box if you want, but since new CD-ROMs cost $20 for
a 36x (my actual C
trying to initial load slink stable version sparc2 via floppies results in
these messages.
fatal error: cannot read file system
error: bad or malformed address
fatal error: cannot read file system
fatal error: cannot read file system
2g disk set to address 1. Any ideas?
Is there any place in Dall
Big Gaute wrote:
>
> I have recently installed a 8X IDE CDROM drive from Samsung in my old 486.
> However, when I mount or sccess it, everything will typically work fine
> for a few minutes, and then the CDROM craps out, making loud and
> mysterious noises, starting and stopping the engine every f
I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in
the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and
that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory.
I was hoping to find a similar functionality in Debian, so I tried the *
in the 7th fie
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote:
> I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in
> the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and
> that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory.
>
> I was hoping to find
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote:
> Jason,
>
> You can change the permissions on the device
> ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by
> the dialout group, and put the users who can use
> the modem in the dialout group.
Some of us use the "dip" group instead of
Mark Blunier hat gesagt: // Mark Blunier wrote:
> I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom
> kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried
> the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts,
> (>> 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or
>
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Marshal Wong wrote:
> Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module?
I did this and couldn't get the modules to initialise, though the
precompiled modules worked on the custom kernel. The build scripts in the
alsa-source package for kernel-package also see
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Darxus wrote:
>
> ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp
> servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I
> just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
> (1st relavant hit on "ntp" o
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems I've to bridge at home:(
> Still hoping someone else would do it for the world to grab
I've setup a mail2news on news.ctrlaltdel.ch
To access this server you need a login and a password avaiable at
http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch/newsp
How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much,
and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there
a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a
package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt
to ignore dependen
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote:
> > You can change the permissions on the device
> > ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by
> > the dialout group, and put the users who can use
> > the modem in th
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much,
> and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there
> a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a
> package? I'm
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> I used your short list as above:
>
> # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst`
> 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999
> (1)
> 12 Dec 10:55:47 ntpdate[1174]: adjust time server 129.132.98.11 offset
> -0.000396 sec
>
> M
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much,
> and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there
> a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a
> package? I'm n
Trying to boot the rescue floppy (2.0) the kernel tries to load the
Symbios 810A scsi driver and just "loops" with endless
scsi host 0 abort (pid 7) timed out- resetting
scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
followed by a timed out message.
Had to get a rescue floppy with only adaptec suppo
Thanks, PH
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Joe Bouchard writes:
> Some of us use the "dip" group instead of "dialout". What's the
> difference?
dip is the group that pppd and the ppp files belong to. dialout is the
group that the serial ports belong to. Membership in the dip group is
sufficient to allow users to use ppp as long as the p
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote:
>> On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote:
>>> ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a
>>> /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't ha
Floyd Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> trying to initial load slink stable version sparc2 via floppies results in
> these messages.
> fatal error: cannot read file system
> error: bad or malformed address
> fatal error: cannot read file system
> fatal error: cannot read file system
Please as
Hi,
I am having trouble getting X to forward across ssh from my debian box.
I have the following settings in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
I have xauth installed (did that after getting an error about X
forwarding upon connection).
Right now, if
Hi,
I am looking for a program to send all users on a linux network an
x-windows message. Preferrably an utility that can be used to broadcast
a messages to all systems at once.
There is of course xmessage, but this is not really suited for the
situation. Another possibility is linpopup, but I ha
Hi,
Im running win95 on harddisk 1 (primary ide
master). it has 2 partitions, but used by windows. On harddisk 2
(secondary ide master), I have just installed linux. I can boot using the
boot disk - however for some reason it takes about 10 minutes when it says
"Loading linux..". I ha
Hi!
How come that "apt-get dist-upgrade" "upgrades" packages that I have
compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian
archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself?
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*- On 12 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about "apt-get dist-upgrade replacing
self-built archives"
> Hi!
>
> How come that "apt-get dist-upgrade" "upgrades" packages that I have
> compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian
> archive is the same as the one I have compiled my
> On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote:
> >
> >> I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned
> >> about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the
> >> cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloadin
"(Ted Harding)" wrote:
> It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly
> to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the
> earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you
> (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -
Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato
cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for
setting up a debain mirror is?
I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over
christmas, where I will have a slow connection. I need to install on a
Hello,
I was curious if anyone had a pointer to JAVA 2 deb packages
for slink. As I suspect this will be a very big download, and
I'm using a modem, I want to make sure I get the "right stuff".
I also heard there is an emacs-based JDE, which I also would like
to get, if this is separate from th
Hello,
I am at present using the Microsoft Windows 98 OS. I have two hard
discs. If I transfer everything to one hard disc and then format the
"empty" disc, can I install the Debian System: i386 to this formatted
hard disc without causing any problems to the Windows 98 OS? In other
words can I u
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