egcs in woody; HOW DO I GET IT?

2001-01-18 Thread Frank Horowitz
G'Day Folks, A question from some newcomers to Debian (refugees from RPM database problems under RedHat and Mandrake installations ;-) We have some software that requires the g++ class template stuff found in egcs (aka gcc 2.91.66). N.B. the later gcc 2.95.2 and 2.95.3 templates *BREAK* our softw

Re: Security Updates

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
You can only get security upgrades for packages that you have installed. You may not have others installed at all. Check non-upgraded packages' status. You are absolutely right. That was just too obvious for me. Thanks! Ben Pharr

2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Amal Phadke
Hi all, I am using Potato with 2.4.0 right now. I have noticed that 'free' command now reports 0 shared memory and 0 swap usage. With kernel 2.2.18, it used to report few megabytes of shared memory. My box has half a gig of RAM, but when I was using 2.2.18 kernel, the system used at least some

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-18 Thread vijay
When I first started with Linux it was with Slackware with kernel 2.0 which I got of a CD accompanying the magazine(PCQuest in India). I was mainly dependent on the CD's which I got of the magazine since it was not possible to download distros of the web through my 28.8 kbps net connection. The

Re: Setting console keybindings

2001-01-18 Thread MH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> This sounds promising, but I can't find a package that Paul> contains these things, after apt-cache search'ing on Paul> loadkeys, keymap, dumpkeys, etc. etc. Paul> Any hin

Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Calyth
As you bring this up I do notice that it happens on my machine too. I've use 2.4.0 test10 and now 2.4.0, and swap is 0, and shared is 0. My machine has 384M ram. Calyth

Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
What is the easiest way to make a copy of a CD in Linux? Thanks! Ben

Re: Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, for data only cd's (one session, one track) the simplest is: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdfile.iso You can then mount it with: mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 /tmp/cdfile.iso /cdrom For mixed cd's or multisession, I found this module that mounts your cd track by track (shows the tracks): http://

Re: [shellutils on hurd]?

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >another question regarding `apt-get dist-upgrade`. >> > >> >I have modified my sources.list to point to testing and did `apt-get -s >> >dist-upgrade | less`. While looking at the

RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... the thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only redhat systems, according to this article at least ... strange eh ? i only now had the time to read the securityfocus report, and yes indeed all linux's wit

Linux + Asus A7V

2001-01-18 Thread Ville Harju
Hello ! My friend is trying to install debian and got strange problem. Installation tells that he got no hd at all ... Any clues what is wrong. Motherboard: asus a7v, processor: TB 750, HD : Maxtor 40.9 Gb udma5 (ata100) Thanks, Ville Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Ethernet config

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
why not change your network cable ? A broken card ? I've never experienced trouble with any of the 3com cards i've used 3c5xx / 3c9xx and even pcmcia cards Just make sure to turn on/off pnp/os installed in your bios (one setting WILL work) furthermore i've just installed my debian, selected the m

RE: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Jason Holland
incorrect. openssh is NOT licensed at all. it includes ssh v1, ssh v2 and sftp-server. Jason > -Original Message- > From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:11 AM > To: 'Benjamin Pharr'; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: SSH > > > Onl

more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread hawk
ack. I set cc rather than reply-to on that. Please re cc me if you replied to the last message; when my digests break, I get the rest of the message where it broke, but none from after that point . . . Also, I can't successfully run newaliases: fac13:/etc/mail# newaliases Cannot open hash dat

dsl

2001-01-18 Thread Matt Fair
I just got Qwest DSL with a cisco 678. I am confused, what is the best way to set this up? I want to have 3 computers on my lan to share the connection. I installed dhcp-client. The modem also has a serial connection, but I do not know how to access this, is this just for configuring the modem?

Re: PCMCIA modules and kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-18 Thread Michael Epting
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:52:18PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > Is there a problem with the PCMCIA modules in kernel 2.2.18? > I can build the modules for kernel 2.2.16 but not 2.2.18 and I have > tried both several times. I just did this yesterday, on a "new" Tosiba Tecra 550CDT laptop. It's run

Re: re cdrw

2001-01-18 Thread David A. Rogers
No argument there. There can be many good reasons to recompile the kernel. It just isn't required in this case. Also, there are lots of Linux users that are afraid to build the kernel. For those folks, this lets them put it off a little longer. I really like the way potato (and later I assume)

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-18 Thread Robert L. Yelvington
what is the specific message you are getting when you ssh in? when you restarted sshd it probably generated a new host key, right? my guess is that you need to delete the old host key in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file...perhaps...just a guess. robt "John F. Davis" wrote: > > Hello > > I did a

Re: Debian Mysterie Pool archive

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i'd like to what's up with the pool directory's you can find on many debian >mirror's. No mystery; see the Debian Package Pools FAQ (linked off the front page of http://ftp-master.debian.org/). http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/poolfaq -- Colin Watson

can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-18 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I did a apt-get upgrade which restarted ssh and now I can't ssh into my box anymore. I keep getting a invalid password response. I can however login to the box via the console with the same password. What gives? -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.co

Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html Describing holes in lprng, wu.ftpd, and rpc.statd. None of these holes are present in potato with the updates from security.debian.org. cheers, Remco.

SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Pharr
While logging into my Debian box using ssh I noticed that it is setup to use SSH version 1 by default. This protocol is widely known to have security problems. Does anyone know why Debian is still using it? Below I have pasted a link from the official ssh.org FAQ. http://www.employees.org/~

RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
This is no different than running Winderz and using a copy of McAfee's Antivirus that is several years old. If you don't keep up your going to get hit eventually. -=[cwa]=- On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: -|WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... the -

RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
This is no different than running Winderz and using a copy of McAfee's Antivirus that is several years old. If you don't keep up your going to get hit eventually. -=[cwa]=- On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: -|WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... t

gcc: "cannot create executables"

2001-01-18 Thread William Leese
>>when attempting to compile a program i receive the following error message: >> >> >>checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no >>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler >>cannot create executables. >> >> >>when doing a ./configure on licq in /usr/loca

Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:47:55AM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > <> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html No, I don't think Debian is any safer. Admins of publicly accesible machines need to track security updates. -- Eric G. Miller

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. bob On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: > > I have just installed potato on a machine which happily > ran slink before. During the install it refused to

RE: Woody vs 2.4.0 (+framebuffer)

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
well, if i get this right i have to quit X and my consoles be allright ( not :( ) I'm using GNOME/Ximian(helix) with gdm and guess what, killing it, resetting the console's don't work. To bad, recompiling tonight. J.L -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread csj
On Thursday 18 January 2001 18:05, romain lerallut wrote: > Add to this the X frontends for cdrecord, cdparanoia, cdrdao,etc: > > my favourite: xcdroast 0.98 ( doesn't copy on-the-fly audio CDs , > though, just data) gcdmaster (1.1 i think) (can't find a .deb for > this one, check out .rpms or non-

Re: How to run Fetchmail

2001-01-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > I am not sure how I should start fetchmail on my system. > I have read that to start it as a system deamon at boot time, all the local > users account data should be placed in a file under /root , I don't want to > do that. > Isn't there a way to start fetchmail as a

Re: egcs in woody; HOW DO I GET IT?

2001-01-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 14:10:04 +0800, Frank Horowitz wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in getting egcs to co-exist iwth the mainstream gcc > packages in woody? If so, how? The easiest way would be to build egcs for installation into different locations than the regular ones, e.g. mkdir build

Want TrueType fonts for Debian?

2001-01-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
I just spent a few hours wrestling with getting my Windows TrueType fonts working in my Debian 2.2 system (XFree86 3.3.6). I used the xfs-xtt server to do this, not the xfstt server. Not sure which is better, but the results I got were quite nice. Since it involved a good bit more than the typic

Re: Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread mike polniak
Benjamin Pharr wrote: > What is the easiest way to make a copy of a CD in Linux? Thanks! Check out gtoaster. -- ~~~

Woody vs 2.4.0 (+framebuffer)

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi,   First,   Yesterdaynight (like 4am today :) i've started compiling the 2.4.0 once more and this time i took the time for a read (it happens) Apparently, woody comes with a compiler the 2.4.0 readme advices against ... they advice a version prior to 2.95.2 or something and even warn the

Re: Apache, SSL, proxy etc.

2001-01-18 Thread Ola Muan
Hi, Thanks for reply and suggestion. Unfortunately I'm not able to replace our existing Apache, since there are some special configurations concerning an existing web-based customer support system that I can't screw up (I'm sure it is possible to fix it, but I'm no master of this art, and I need t

Problem with loop mount

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Forsberg
I do this: # cd /tmp # dd bs=1M seek=300 count=0 of=bigfile # mke2fs bigfile # mount -o loop bigfile /mnt # cd /mnt Then I start to copy a directory tree, that has around 200 MB of files, from another place into /mnt. Everytime I've tried it just stops after 50 to 100 MB. The hd isn't working and

RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... > the thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only > redhat systems, according to this article at

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-18 Thread John F. Davis
Hello I tried to connect to the box from a machine which I have never used as a client before. It failed also. John On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:05:59PM -0800, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: > what is the specific message you are getting when you ssh in? > > when you restarted sshd it probably gene

rescue floppy

2001-01-18 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have been looking for a rescue floppy image on ftp.uk.debian.org but i can't seams to find one. I there anybody who can point me to it. Knud

Ramen Net Worm alert !

2001-01-18 Thread bish
VIRUS ALERT! > * Ramen Net worm hobbles Linux servers > > An Internet worm cobbled together from generally available > hacking tools has compromised hundreds, perhaps thousands, > of Linux servers. Those interested are welcome to visit the following URL. (There's some general info

Re: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote: > > > As you can see, there isn't any support to patented algorithms, thereby I > > don't know why the debian doesn't upgrade the version of ssh... > > probably because openssh2 came out after potato was frozen. and because >

RE: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
okay, man and woman, point taken :) Hey, do you have a 'cleaner' way to explain in 2 lines of text ? Hence the links to ssh and openssh Possitive critcism won't kill anyone :) J.L. -Original Message- From: Justin B Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:24 PM T

mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-18 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I have new to this mailing list. Subscribed just yesterday. This is my first mail to the list. Planning to install Debian in a short time once I receive the Debian CD's burnt from one of my friends. At present I am using SuSE 7. I have got a small question. Is it possible to split the mail

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-18 Thread mike polniak
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. > > Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. > > The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files > there and `xfstt --sync` will f

Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > >I am using Potato with 2.4.0 right now. I have noticed that 'free' > command now reports 0 shared memory and 0 swap usage. With kernel > 2.2.18, it used to report few megabyte

Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts

2001-01-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
mike polniak wrote: > Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. > Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files there and `xfstt --sync` will find them all: # xfstt --sync

Re: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Josep_Llaurad=F3_Selvas?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As you can see, there isn't any support to patented algorithms, thereby I >don't know why the debian doesn't upgrade the version of ssh... We don't upgrade stable releases except for critical security fixes (and perhaps the odd

2.2r2 and 3c509 network card

2001-01-18 Thread David S. Bach
Title: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.18pre21) is unable to use the 3c509 ISA network card. In modconf, if I attempt to insert 3c905 modules without parameters,installation fails. In modconf I am apparently able to insert the module using "3c509 io=0210 irq=12." These are

fixed: more on: oh, and ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread hawk
hmm. it seems that the aliases work, and the error messages are extraneous. I can live with that :) hawk

Debian Mysterie Pool archive

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi,   i'd like to what's up with the pool directory's you can find on many debian mirror's. What's its use and why does it not contain a packages.gz file ?   Anyone ?   J.L.  

Re: How to run Fetchmail

2001-01-18 Thread Gregory Cascante
I have setup this way. 1) under /etc/init.d/ a put this file "fetchmail-up" #!/bin/sh fetchmail --syslog --invisible 2) under /etc/rc2.d/ "ln -s ../init.d/fetchmail-up K99fetchmailrc 3) make this file /etc/.fetchmailrc 4) chmod 710 .fetchmailrc 5) edit .fetchmailrc poll server.com pro

how do i create /dev/psaux?

2001-01-18 Thread Livia Admin
ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux? I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and also tried './MAKEDEV -d psaux' and still the same problem.. i'm sure psaux mouse support in kernel is enabled. I'm using kernel-2.4.0

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-18 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:35:13 -0700 Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Discussing OSS and Debian > > I'd be interested in knowing _how_ you got it to work on a Debian box? > Did you recompile your kernel? According to the OSS docs, > > "- Debian Linux (most versions) > The kernel image s

Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread RAccess
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Amal Phadke wrote: > Hi all, > >I am using Potato with 2.4.0 right now. I have noticed that 'free' > command now reports 0 shared memory and 0 swap usage. With kernel > 2.2.18, it used to report few megabytes of shared memory. My box has > half a gig of RAM, but when I was

RE: bmp to jpg conversion

2001-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jan-2001 aidanc wrote: > I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp files > to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would convert them all > at once? imagemagick has what you need.

HD & RAM

2001-01-18 Thread Antonio A. Lobato
Do HD memory does change the eficience or the speed of my computer ? Because I`m thinking about to buy a computer with only 2 or 3 gigabytes of HD, for to have more money to buy RAM memory, 128 or 256 megas.

Re: dsl

2001-01-18 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Matt Fair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just got Qwest DSL with a cisco 678. I am confused, what is the best > way to set this up? I want to have 3 computers on my lan to share the > connection. I installed dhcp-client. The modem also has a serial > connection, but I do not know how to acce

Re: Ethernet config

2001-01-18 Thread David Wright
Your questions may not be aimed at me but at Lorint Hendschel; however, here are my experiences: Quoting Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > why not change your network cable ? I did. (Not because anything was broken, but because the institution moved from thin ethernet to cat5.) The problem

disabling satellite user

2001-01-18 Thread Livia Admin
how do i disallow a localnetwork user with a satellite connection? I'm using kernel-2.4.0 and iptables ATM. It's just that I want my network to block all rerouting that's done by the satellite.

ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
argh. This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . . I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases. Particularly, I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list of specified addresses (just 4, typically) at other sites. (This is for communication between teams in

Re: how do i create /dev/psaux?

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Forsberg
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:46:14PM +0800, Livia Admin wrote: > ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux? > I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and > also tried './MAKEDEV -d psaux' and still the same problem.. i'm sure > psaux mouse support in kernel is

Download and create CD image for installation on Pentium 100

2001-01-18 Thread Vernon Buck
I am new to the Linux arena have some experience with SCO OpenServer5. I am trying out different versions of Linux to see which ones suite our needs as a SCO replacement, Debian is one version I want to test. But I can't get the pseudo-image kit v2 to down load the images I need so I can create t

How to run Fetchmail

2001-01-18 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I am not sure how I should start fetchmail on my system. I have read that to start it as a system deamon at boot time, all the local users account data should be placed in a file under /root , I don't want to do that. Isn't there a way to start fetchmail as a system deamon and read each user's .

RE: how do i create /dev/psaux?

2001-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2001 Livia Admin wrote: > ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux? > I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and > also tried './MAKEDEV -d psaux' and still the same problem.. i'm sure > psaux mouse support in kernel is enabled. I'm using kernel

Re: rescue floppy

2001-01-18 Thread Xucaen
here are the disk images for debian 2.2r2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r2/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ --- Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > I have been looking for a rescue floppy image > on ftp.uk.debian.org > but i can't seams to find one. > >

RE: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
great info, but ... how can i see the 'actual' memory use when running 2.4.0 ? -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:04 PM To: Amal Phadke Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: HD & RAM

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Wills
Both can be bought REALLY cheap. HD does effect speed, but memory would effect speed more. -- Mike Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unix + Macintosh = Narvana" - Steve Jobs, Mac Expo 2001 > > Do HD memory does change the eficience or the speed of my computer ? > Because I`m thinking abo

Re: how do i create /dev/psaux?

2001-01-18 Thread Livia Admin
yeah thanks... man MAKEDEV helps On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:11:22AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 21-Jan-2001 Livia Admin wrote: > > ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux? > > I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and > > also tried './MAKE

Re: HD & RAM

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Wills
Both can be bought REALLY cheap. HD does effect speed, but memory would effect speed more. -- Mike Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unix + Macintosh = Narvana" - Steve Jobs, Mac Expo 2001 > > Do HD memory does change the eficience or the speed of my computer ? > Because I`m thinking abo

Re: Making a copy of a CD

2001-01-18 Thread romain lerallut
Add to this the X frontends for cdrecord, cdparanoia, cdrdao,etc: my favourite: xcdroast 0.98 ( doesn't copy on-the-fly audio CDs , though, just data) gcdmaster (1.1 i think) (can't find a .deb for this one, check out .rpms or non-packaged binaries) this one does on-the-fly copies for audio CDs.

RE: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Only SSH 1 is OPEN. From what i recall SSH2 and following are licensed (payware) check out www.ssh.com or www.openssh.org Sorry, but I think you don't read the FAQ from www.openssh.com: --- From faq.html ---

quake 2 server probs

2001-01-18 Thread David Purton
Hi, I've been having problems connecting to your various (but not all) quake 2 servers, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Details are: When I try to connect a server which fails I get the following stuff on the console: ** Conne

Re: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > While logging into my Debian box using ssh I noticed that it is setup to > > use SSH version 1 by default. This protocol is widely known to have > > security problems. Does anyone know why Debian is still using it? Below I > > h

RE: An easy question... maybe?

2001-01-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-Jan-2001 VMS-clstr Sys Mgr wrote: > Hello everyone -- > >I'm writing to the list on the advice of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) > (editor of the Debian Weekly Newsletter) because he says he can't think > off-hand of anyone in particular I should EMail for advice about my sur- > prise Xm

Sid- or Woody- CD-images

2001-01-18 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! Is there a way to create installation-CDs with woody or sid instead of potato? I'm asking because a friend of mine wants to install sid, but he hasn't the possibility of updating via internet. Has someone a hint? Thanks in advance Stephen Rueger -- Gott, - wenn du bist -, errette aus de

RE: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
well, that's why i've pointed him to openssh in the first place To avoid further reply's to this message,i was awake until 4:50 this morning, woke up at 8:15 (just like yesterday) hence my somewhat confusing reply, i'll never do it again. -Original Message- From: Josep Llauradó Selvas [ma

I look for source/tips on "ed" old QNX.2 editor

2001-01-18 Thread Jefsey Morfin
To all. I come from QNX and Dos. I am quite used to the "ed"/"qed"/"ged" editor from QNX 2 ported under Dos. IMHO simple, powerful and very stable with nice features helping organizing smart code presentation. Would anyone know if there is a Debbian Version? Or a source code version (it was por

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > dpkg --get-selections > filename > > dpkg --set-selections < filename > > > > Bob > > Yes, but where would dpkg fetch those files? Can it fetch it, say, > from my local mirror? No. It gets the information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. You should run d

Re: "wall" popping up?

2001-01-18 Thread Andre Berger
Ekkehard Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm running unstable and helix-gnome. Is there a tool out there which > will pop up a dialog box when a "wall" message is coming along? Things > like xconsole or a big panel applet are not what I'm looking for... This is part of one of m

RE: Why Choose Debian?

2001-01-18 Thread Scott Patterson
I started using Linux around 1995 at one of my employers. I had heard about it at college, but could never install any of the distributions from the Infomagic discs successfully. I just didn't have the Unix/Linux skills. Nowadays, installation is MUCH easier. Things have changed quite a bit! So, a

bmp to jpg conversion

2001-01-18 Thread aidanc
I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp files to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would convert them all at once? TIA Aidan

Re: Linux + Asus A7V

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Pennington
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Ville Harju wrote: > Hello ! > > My friend is trying to install debian and got strange problem. Installation > tells that he got no hd at all ... Any clues what is wrong. > Motherboard: asus a7v, processor: TB 750, HD : Maxtor 40.9 Gb udma5 (ata100) >

Re: how do i create /dev/psaux?

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Forsberg
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:12:12PM +0100, zzed wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:46:14PM +0800, Livia Admin wrote: > > ey guys.. can anyone help me in creating my /dev/psaux? > > I tried './MAKEDEV psaux' and says dont know how to make device... and > > also tried './MAKEDEV -d psaux' and still t

Re: re cdrw

2001-01-18 Thread David A. Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > You must re-compile your kernel. You also need to > REMOVE ide cdrom support, because the scsi emulation > will replace the ide cdrom driver. This is needed > because CDRECORD only uses scsi protocol. You will > then access the cdrom as /dev/scd0. I

Re: bmp to jpg conversion

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Gilbert
* aidanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp files > to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would convert them all > at once? > TIA > Aidan apt-get install imagemagick for file in *.bmp; do convert $file `echo $file | sed -e 's

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-18 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hi! Did you try to login as root? This is forbidden by default. You should not change this, but make sure you can su to root after logging in as known user. Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files if there is any restriction for the client you want to log in from. "John F. Davis"

windows

2001-01-18 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am running helix (now ximian) gnome in a potato 2.2r box together with sawfish as window manager. I wonder why there are some windows which I cannot take control over them, as for example the "about" windows, the confirmation windows, the output window from the GNU midnight commander fin

Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:14:34PM -0800, Calyth wrote: > As you bring this up I do notice that it happens on my machine too. Answer is - 2.4.0 has new filesystem (why? I don't know) and whithout mounting it you can use shared memory. Do it: $ mkdir /var/shm and add a line to /etc/fstab: non

Re: ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:33AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > argh. This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . . > > I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases. Particularly, > I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list > of

Re: Sid- or Woody- CD-images

2001-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to create installation-CDs with woody or sid instead of >potato? Have a look at the bottom of http://cdimage.debian.org/>. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. regards, Doug.

Re: bmp to jpg conversion

2001-01-18 Thread Pascal Hos
On Thursday 18 January 2001 12:39 pm, aidanc wrote: > I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp > files to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would > convert them all at once? > TIA > Aidan apt-get install imagemagick then use "convert" to change your image form

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem (*help*, *help*)

2001-01-18 Thread Martin Albert
> Sven - who is desparate to run 2.4.0 # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # CONFIG_MD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y CONFIG_LVM_PROC_FS=y try to leave t

Re: emu10k1 module

2001-01-18 Thread Martin Albert
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Benjamin Black wrote: > > > alias sound-slot-1emu10k1 > > how do you figure this out? i mean where exactly do you look to find > out what the standard aliases are for sound card, network card, video > card, tv card, etc? where exactly did you read about sound-slot-0

Re: Linux + Asus A7V

2001-01-18 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> My friend is trying to install debian and got strange problem. Installation > tells that he got no hd at all ... Any clues what is wrong. > Motherboard: asus a7v, processor: TB 750, HD : Maxtor 40.9 Gb udma5 (ata100) Is it the mpotherboard that uses HPT370 [software RAID] controller? If it is t

Re: Download and create CD image for installation on Pentium 100

2001-01-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:15:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vernon Buck wrote: > I am new to the Linux arena have some experience with SCO OpenServer5. I am > trying out different versions of Linux to see which ones suite our needs as > a SCO replacement, Debian is one version I want to test. But I

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-18 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I like my Ensonique. Its a model 1370 I believe. On Thursday 18 January 2001 11:41, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:22:49PM -0500, Sean wrote: > > Before spending hundreds, I'd look into spending about $50 for a Trident > > 4DWave. The ALSA support is great, and you can

Re: Sid- or Woody- CD-images

2001-01-18 Thread Morgan Terry
Stephen Rueger wrote: > > Hello! > > Is there a way to create installation-CDs with woody or sid instead of > potato? I'm asking because a friend of mine wants to install sid, but > he hasn't the possibility of updating via internet. > Has someone a hint? > > Thanks in advance > > Stephen Ruege

Re: can't ssh into box anymore

2001-01-18 Thread David B . Harris
To quote "John F. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Hello # # I tried to connect to the box from a machine which I have never # used as a client before. It failed also. Please be more specific with your problem. What versions of SSH are on each machine? What operating systems are on each machine? In

RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !

2001-01-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, Well, I just happen to be checking my log files when I came across some unusual access requests. I run portsentry and it didn't report anything, however I do have ftpd listening (my portsentry config does not check that port). I found some odd ftp requests, so just to be evil,

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