Hi.. I'm currently using XFree86 3.3.6 in stable
version in my Debian Potato box.. If I want to install
unstable version, would it be mess up my whole box?
Thank you..
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Actually those 2 lines are my full set of firewall rules. Just waiting
for someone to show how they can be breached before I go for a more
complex setup ;-)
It appears that it is lilo which is having the problem in booting
from the Array.
I have tried copying everything from a currently bootable SCSI
drive "sda" to the Raid Array "sdb".
I then remove sda which made sdb becomce sda.
The problem comes after all devices have been found. Normally a
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:52:04AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan uttered:
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat
> ld: unrecognized option '--oformat'
> ld: use the --help option for usage information
E?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep oformat ./linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile
$(LD) -Ttext 0x0
on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:32:33AM +, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Code Reds Mark II and III have already been identified, doing much
> more maicious things and spreading with better randomisation
>
> Hopefully a "cheese worm" equivalent will be relased to stomp on this
> befo
This is appallingly primitive but it works for all services like Napster
ICQ and so on.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/init.d/firewall
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
/sbin/ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -j MASQ
ipchains is in effect a fr
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:43:07PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I guess I was under the impression that ntpdate snagged it's info from
> ntp servers generally running on port 123. I just assumed it would
> return on the same port. Guess that is a wrong assumption.
Generally. A lis
Two (hopefully) simple questions about using kdm:
First, is there any simple way of specifying a program (or programs) to be
run, regardless of what sort of session is started? I want xscreensaver
started, whether I'm running a Gnome session, a KDE session, or whatever,
and it seems easier to spe
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:16:08AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It was pleasant afternoon when I realised that maybe, today would be
> a good day to move the /var partition just to / so I can use the
> extra space elsewhere and / had a couple of hundred megs n
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Ian Perry wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Alan Shutko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:18 PM
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: code red goes on
>>
>>
>> "Karsten M. Self" writes:
>>
>> > Anyone noting trends betw
At 05:51 PM 8/5/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:32:33AM +, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>wrote:
>
>> Code Reds Mark II and III have already been identified, doing much
>> more maicious things and spreading with better randomisation
>>
>> Hopefully a "cheese
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:36:37PM +0100, root wrote:
> That is a useful tip which in the year since I last logged into a box as
> root I had forgotten.
>
> But dpkg-reconfigure is not available. Maybe its a slink thing?
>
> debian:~# dpkg-
> dpkg-architecture dpkg-gencontrol dpkg-
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:36:51PM -0700, Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi. I'm converting a commercial rpm using alien so I can install it in
> Debian (kernel 2.4.7). During the conversion alien reports warnings
> but does make a deb. When I go to load the installed program it loads
> th
I am attempting to install Debian and I am needing
to know how to configure the command line arguments for a printer.I am also
wanting to know if there is a list of various command line arguments that is a
printable version.
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> >
> > I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib.
> >
> > Later while doing an apt upgrade I got a message saying something like
> > "l
XF86Setup is one, another is xf86config
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:04 PM
Subject: Script to generate XF86Config-4
> Greetings:
>
> There is a script or command somewhere that generates an XF86Config-4
> file from entries in the d
> in only one night, there have been 355 such packets logged, 133
> distinct source IP addresses total, most of them going for port 80
> do you have any idea why this could be?
Code Red is still in the wild:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html
At least that's how I explain away the mas
Trandahl, Steve wrote:
I am having trouble with some of my modules at during boot-up. I can see
the error messages fly by, but when I use dmesg, I don't see the errors.
How can I find out what these errors and/or warning messages are once Debian
has booted?
Thanks in advance!
Steve Trandahl
C
Hi,
I am an experienced programmer who still has a lot to learn/remember
about *nix.
I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato 2.2.19pre17 #1 I
have downloaded what seem to be the files I need. Running the install
script appropriate for Debian I get this which I believe is the
Quoting P Kirk on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100:
> It all works. Many thanks dman.
>
>
> What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like
> interface?
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C
Heloo, all...
I'm looking around for a new case to replace my current one, and in looking
at the power supplies that come with them, I've noticed that a number of them
say that they are "AMD approved". I was wondering if this means that they
cannot be used with a P3. (I'm wondering the same about
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> It all works. Many thanks dman.
>
>
> What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like
> interface?
mutt: http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/nntp/nntp.readme
Unofficial debs are available.
How do I remove software that I compiled on my system rather than using
the .deb packages? Removing .deb packages is easy, but how to get rid
of other stuff I installed from source?
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(817) 289-2800 x1142 - voicemail/fax
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Can you then have procmail to put all the mail that does not go into the
mailing list folders into a default mailbox?
# Put mail for pkirk in its own mailbox
:0:
* ^(From|Cc|To).*
$HOME/mail/patrick
Or would that break all the rule processing?
Speaking of rule processing, I found a dynamic way o
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:53:52PM -0700, Reza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi.. I'm currently using XFree86 3.3.6 in stable version in my Debian
> Potato box.. If I want to install unstable version, would it be mess
> up my whole box?
I recommend against it.
If you want to track unstable, do it
> -Original Message-
> From: Alan Shutko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:18 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: code red goes on
>
>
> "Karsten M. Self" writes:
>
> > Anyone noting trends between 7/20 and 8/2? I've got 30 v. 49,
> > respecti
I'm not going to tell you to RTFM because I hate when people say that. :) I'd
say, first off, install the linux kernel sources into /usr/src (it should
make a /linux dir and dump all the stuff in there when you un-tar/gz it.)
Then try running it. Note that if the driver won't work, try an older
[Please disable HTML in email. It is annoying, wastes bandwidth, and is a
violation of netiquette]
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 16:29:15 -0300, Estêvão Becker wrote:
> Yesterday, I sent you this message:
Why are you starting a new thread, rather than replying to your earlier
message? Starting a n
Hi all,
After being away from all this for a year or so, learning to make make
mutt work again is proving a bit of a battle.
One of the big changes in the last 12 months is that the top half of
every other mail reads:
[-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun Aug 5 22:04:05 2001) --]
sh: gpg: c
I'm going to try another (my fifth) install tomorrow, following the
steps you've posted below, and taking careful notes. The previous four
installation attempts have not gone well and I've managed to end up in
package dependency hell each time. Right now I have some bastardized
version between p
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:02:57AM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> Actually those 2 lines are my full set of firewall rules. Just waiting
> for someone to show how they can be breached before I go for a more
> complex setup ;-)
Depends on what you're running I suppose. Some windows boxes might be more
Hello all,
trying to set up X on my new box (AMD Thunderbird 1,4 GHz on a
Elitegroup K7VZA-100 Rev. 3) for my no-name GeForce2 MX 200
(64 MB RAM), I am confronted with those two problems:
1) I have installed xfree86-common 4.1.0-2, xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-2,
wmaker 0.65.1.-1 and set up my XF86Confi
hi all,
recently, i installed a new server in a server farm, but since it
isn't ready for production yet, it's only running ssh, everything else
is turned off and blocked with iptables en plus. the ip address is new
and unknown [1] since i haven't published it yet.
i get connection attempts every
At 997033978s since epoch (08/05/01 15:52:58 -0400 UTC), Herbert Pirke wrote:
>
> > You can try running xine with the "-s" flag, which
> > uses shared memory.
> > It's slower, but it will work (worked for me).
>
> Have you managed to run movies in full-screen? I
> cannot find an option that would
I have the / directory stored in /dev/hda2 and the /usr directory stored in
/dev/hda3. My question, how would I move /usr to /dev/hda2 and vice-versa?
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:21:10PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> I hate to say this but I have no idea why it works but if you leave the
> PC turned on all night, come the morning, lots of files have been
> uploaded. So it works but I don't know why.
Well, I have forwarding enabled in much the same
> You can try running xine with the "-s" flag, which
> uses shared memory.
> It's slower, but it will work (worked for me).
Have you managed to run movies in full-screen? I
cannot find an option that would toggle to full screen
mode when I use th -s option...
> Also, you can upgrade to XF 4.1, w
on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:37:49PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > ktb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:25:02PM
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:14:55PM +1000, Debian User wrote:
> For some reason the initial dist-upgrade worked, but afetr I started to
> get packages to be useful (XFree4, gnome etc) apt started to only get
> the 1st file it wants. From then on it just times out.
I once got similar behavior tryin
If memory serves, 3DLabs support was incorporated into xserver-svga.
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:21:11PM +0400, Soren Renner wrote:
> Pardon me. I just started using Debian yesterday.It is truly
> wonderful. I have updated to the unstable Xfree package. It has no
> video driver for my card. The old
Hi. I'm converting a commercial rpm using alien so I can install it in
Debian (kernel 2.4.7). During the conversion alien reports warnings but does
make a deb. When I go to load the installed program it loads the splash
screen but eventually croaks, apparently because not all the shared libs
were i
P Kirk wrote on Sun Aug 05, 2001 at 10:11:31PM:
> After being away from all this for a year or so, learning to make make
> mutt work again is proving a bit of a battle.
[...]
> My first response was to wonder why bother PGP signing stuff for this
> list but I suppose its a generic setting.
Hm, the
Hi,
I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver.
Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD.
Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ?
Do I need to create special boot floppies or is it not possible ?
Thanks
Ian
Shriram Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it seems to find the deleted inodes and then tries to dump them in a
> specified folder which leaves me with a lot of dump files -
> anybody with any clues as to what I can do with these files to put
> them back where they belong ? or maybe even
hi,
When I try to launch ymessenger it gives this error message.
Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 220 (gdk_font_ref): assertion `font !=
NULL' failed.
Segmentation fault
I think I am missing a required package but I don't know which. I
would really appreciate if somebody tell me this.
On Sunday 05 August 2001 17:00, Paul Scott wrote:
> Brett Parker wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > have you got the kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 package installed? if
> > not, that's what you are missing.
> How do I determine whether that package is installed?
Hi Erik,
I found that the 4.0.99g-3 versions of ntpdate and ntp doesn't
work on SPARC. I submitted a bug report but nothing happened
on the maintainers side.
My workaround is to use the 4.0.99g-2 versions and set it into
hold state. Works fine for me.
Regards, Guenter
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Erik
after reading that "apparently" the latest code red attacks are coming from
unsuspecting users of that utimate computer virus, i decided to scan the
access log file and send messages to the "best guess" person at the owner of
the ip address (usually a dial-up provider).
i modified the script by
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:01:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:37:49PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > > wro
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am an experienced programmer who still has a lot to learn/remember
> about *nix.
>
> I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato 2.2.19pre17 #1 I
> have downloaded what seem to be the files I need. Running the
On 01-Aug-01 James Preston wrote:
> This is almost certainly not a specific Debian problem, but my
> potato installation always exhibits a strange pause in updating
> routing information after dial-up.
>
> After successful handshake and allocation of an IP and and nameserver
> entries
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> ktb wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:25:02PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > > I have the ntp running and see no error messages while it's running
> > > but ntptime returnes error, the time is few minutes o
I have set up netatalk on my stable machine so that I can print from a Mac
IIsi. "Deskjet" is a HP Deskjet 694C that resides on my debian machine at
lp0.
Here is the papd.conf file:
Deskjet:\
:pr=lp0:\
:op=susan:\
:pd=/etc/netatalk/ppds/HPDJ1200C.ppd
I can choose "Deskjet
>
>There has definately been a change in the original form of the attacks from
># GET /default.ida?N -snip- NN%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a HTTP/1.0
>to
># GET /default.ida?X -snip- XX%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a HTTP/1.0
>The second packet is also much shorter (with less X's), although the tail is
>t
Greetings:
There is a script or command somewhere that generates an XF86Config-4
file from entries in the debconf data base. I know this because I've
used it before but now I can't recall what it is. Would someone out
there please jog my memory?
-- Mark
Lance Peterson writes:
> What's the proper way to get pump working with [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable
> modems.
> They require the hostname to be seen. I have been able to get my debian
> system up using Dhcpcd, but never with pump.
Not an answer, but I've never been able to get pump working on e
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
san
On 04 Aug 2001 21:04:17 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> There is a script or command somewhere that generates an XF86Config-4
> file from entries in the debconf data base. I know this because I've
> used it before but now I can't recall what i
I have many problems when I try to connect to the
internet by the Debian Linux. They are these:
Wvdial:
It configures my modem detects it,
but...when I try to connect...
--> Wvdial: Internet dialer session
1.41
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
--> Modem not responding
I don
On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:12:58 +0200, Martin Puaschitz writes:
>Thanks for all the help about my apt-get problem. Now there is somthing new.
>I would like to run an imapserver on my debian-system 2.2 unstable. I have
>an static-ip-adress with permanent connection and the server should relay
>mails f
Thank you very much for the reply.
Your suggestion fixed my problem.
I guess I misunderstood the option
'noipdefault'.
Again, thanks for the help.
--- Original Message ---
From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: PPP configuration and
routing problem
>
If anyone would like to look at the attached log and config file
and offer suggestions, I would appreciate it. Mail me at this address - I have
not yet successfully subscribed to the list.
sr
I downloaded the tars from www.nvidia.com and compiled. Now,
with XFree86 -verbose 5 I get:
I am getting the following messages now:
(WW) Cannot open APM
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.4
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.2
High,
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Neil Gibbs wrote:
> Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed
> some things were not installed by default using the
> "simple" package install. On debian.org, some mention
> is made of this fact, but no detailed list of what is
> and isn't. For instance, teln
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:29:13PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> I need ftp. update-rc.d -f proftpd remove takes it out of the live config.
> ssh in, /etc/init.d/proftpd start and I can do my backips/restores, etc then
> close it again. scp would be much neater.. But dselect scp gets nothing
>
A related question
When I try to run an application and I get errors about missing
libraries, how do I know which package a given library is in?
> "Neil" == Neil Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Neil> Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed some
Neil> things were
msg.pgp
Description: PGP message
> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no
Wayne> var/run/atd.pid file. So forget 'at' on Woody presently.
There must be something wrong with your installation: it works fine on
my system.
The .deb is still the same as in p
> I am having problems setting up XFree86 v4 with my NVidia GeForce2 MX.
> I am using kernel 2.4.5 on Woody.
>
> Has anyone gotten this card to work? Any tips on what I can try?
>
> If I type XFree86 -configure
>
> I get an -Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices
>
No, you may not panic. It's an IIS exploit. Code Red to be precise.
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, will trillich wrote:
>i get this http request a couple of times every hour via my own
>home-grown DBIlog.pm (mod-perl/apache) httpd logger:
>
>at | 2001-07-19 10:19:18-05
>client | 216.82.8.136
>met
Puzzled. Are you asking us how to set up an open relay?
Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> I've been using testing for a while now on my Apple G4 laptop. I also
> use some unstable packages but the apt defaults are set to testing. I
> am using GNOME and Sawmill and I do an apt update/upgrade everyday. In
> the last month or so I have noticed that GNOME is *
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:42:38 Andrew Plata wrote:
> I live in Toronto, Canada and I use Rogers Cable as my
> ISP.
>
> I am currently running Progeny Debian 1.0 and trying to configure
> dhclient.conf as my dhcp client for my IP address to be assigned to me
> dynamically.
>
> I have added my host
Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> into there. Still unable to cp from my home dir (D: in dosemu) to
> the tmp dir (C:\tmp\ in dosemu).
> What am I missing?
It's a bug. Please file it against dosemu and I'll fix it. Basically
the dosemu scripts should handle the tmp directory for you.
Hi, I have tried to install Woody via internet.
When up
to "Install the Base System" part, it asked
an address
so that it can get a "basedebs.tgz" or a "Release"
file.
So, I typed it as below:
http://ftp.dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
in fact, I have tried different sites but it does
not
Hi everyone,
When I tried to use xdvi the other day, it gives me this warning
Mercury:~/school/rsty/proposal$ xdvi proposal.dvi
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
/usr/
The console-apt package seems to be in potato but not woody. Has capt been
deprecated already in favor of something else?
If not, what's the best way to get capt on my freshly-woodied system?
(I tried to simply 'apt-get source --compile console-apt', after adding a
deb-src line for potato to
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
>
> A related question
>
> When I try to run an application and I get errors about missing
> libraries, how do I know which package a given library is in?
$ apt-cache search lib_name
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
kent
--
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:28:07PM +0200, Jens-D. Neppe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there anyone who tried to control the mouse pointer(for X) via keyboard??
> Does a sotuion for this exist?
Ctrl-Shift-Num_Lock
Experiment with the keys on the number pad to see how it works.
--
Eric G. Miller
hi ya soren
you need to fix your X11 config file..
( /etc/X11/XF86Config )
either...verify that xfs is running ( X font server )
or remove unix:-1 in your X11 config file
and uncomment the explicitly defined font paths
in the X11 config file
c ya
alvin
-
- http;//www.Linux10.org Linux'
Hi All,
It was pleasant afternoon when I realised that maybe, today would be
a good day to move the /var partition just to / so I can use the
extra space elsewhere and / had a couple of hundred megs not being
used. I went into singe user mode and then,
cd /
mkdir var2
cd /var
mv * /var2
after c
> ITYM the server should /receive/ mails for your domain from both the
> in- and outside and you want to be able to /get/ those mails via IMAP.
> Of course you also want to be able to /send/ mails to the big bad
> internet from inside via the server.
yep. yep. yep.
> First of all you should kn
Hi,
I'm running Debian testing/unstable with an 2.4.7
kernel and xfree 4.0.3. I have a Voodoo3 running in my
dual celeron 400, so I guess that Xv should be running
fine.
But when I start the xine dvd player, I get the
following message:
XvShmCreateImage returned a zero size - probably best
to tr
I am having problems setting up XFree86 v4 with my NVidia GeForce2 MX.
I am using kernel 2.4.5 on Woody.
Has anyone gotten this card to work? Any tips on what I can try?
If I type XFree86 -configure
I get an -Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices
Any suggestions?
Running balsa, in the Message pull down menu there is an "Adress Book" item.
One of the buttons in the Adress Book window says "run GnomeCard". When I try
it nothing happens. Seems to me this is some kind of external application which
is not installed.
Where can I find it ?
--
Harald Iwe
on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:37:06PM +0400, Soren Renner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> If anyone would like to look at the attached log and config file and
> offer suggestions, I would appreciate it. Mail me at this address - I
> have not yet successfully subscribed to the list.
Well, if you'll att
Hi. I have a hard drive with ext2 (primary), swap (logical), and NTFS
(primary) partitions. It's a large drive with a lot of unused space. I want
to carve up the remaining space into several partititions, but cfdisk only
offers to make one last primary partition, then there are no more partitions
a
X will not start. "Fatal server error: could not open default font
"fixed". I realize this is not a complete bug report: however, I
have encountered this error before, with another distribution, and I
remember that there is a simple way to fix it. But it was years ago,
and the friend who helped me
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:27:59PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
>
> I'm still new to debian, but I'm here because these things do get fixed :)
Agreed.
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good ide
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My question is what should be included on a computer that is
> being donated to give a new user experience and use of an old 386
> or more? Dean
>
Short answer: Debian GNU/Linux.
I'm involved in a similar project (http://ww
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote:
> How do I remove software that I compiled on my system rather than using
> the .deb packages? Removing .deb packages is easy, but how to get rid
> of other stuff I installed from source?
find out exactly where and what it installed
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:35:58PM -0400, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:46:32AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > >
> > > I had this problem too. I copied libdb.so.3 from another box to /lib.
> > >
> > > Lat
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver.
| Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD.
| Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ?
| Do I need to create special boot floppies o
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old 486Sx dog which I want to use as a printserver.
> Potato recomments at least 12MBytes of memory to do an install from CD.
> Is it possible to install Potato on 8MBytes ?
> Do I need to create special boot floppies o
actually I just deinstalled portsentry because of this. There are a
huge number of Linux boxes out there that are desperately scanning port
111 looking for a nfs type server.
Its worth setting the trip wire level a little higher to avoid being
swamped with spurious info.
| > dpkg-distaddfiledpkg-preconfigure dpkg-source
| > dpkg-divert dpkg-reconfiguredpkg-split
|
| ???
Argh!
Sometimes I wonder if I should give it all up and take up knitting
instead.
Many thanks for pointing that out
> These guys are great, but if you *must* use a GUI broswer, and also only
> want webmin bound to 127.0.0.1 (Good Idea) you can use ssh to tunnel
> connections there from a client with an X browser on it.
That's true, but be careful with ssh tunnels; without firewall rules,
they'll tunnel any othe
On Sun, 05 Aug 2001, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> Hi, I have tried to install Woody via internet. When up
> to "Install the Base System" part, it asked an address
> so that it can get a "basedebs.tgz" or a "Release" file.
>
> So, I typed it as below:
> http://ftp.dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
> in fac
Subject: Re: timer command?
Date: Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 07:51:53PM +0200
In reply to:Guy Geens
Quoting Guy Geens([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no
> Wayne> var/run/atd.pid
Subject: Re: capt in woody
Date: Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:18:58PM +0530
In reply to:Raghavendra Bhat
Quoting Raghavendra Bhat([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:40:33PM -0700] Aaron :
>
> > Has capt been deprecated already in favor of
> > something else?
>
> Deity i
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:40PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:33:53AM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > ktb wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:25:02PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > > > I have the ntp running and see no error messages
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