Re: My modem..and logs..!!

don't disable uart "thingies" those are your true serial ports...uart 16550A is the standard serial port. what you may want to do is compile isapnp support in your kernel if your modem is plug & pray. that way, you won't need to use isapnptools. now for the next step, read the kernel-HOWTO to lea

ppp script

hi guys do u happen to have a ppp script that can dial out to a telephone line outside just using a script, etc.. (console) louie miranda (axishift.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :)

Re: this list is like hotel california

Rino Mardo wrote: > > "...you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave..." > > i sent an unsubscribe to the listbot three days ago and up to now it > hasn't acted on it. failing that i sent a request to the list > maintainer and that too hasn't acted on it. > > is this hotel calif

Toshiba T3100e/40 - Debain

Dear folks, is there any way I can put Debian (or if Debian not possible - any Linux) on Toshiba T3100e/40? The BIOS says there is 20MB on the HD, and is asking for a "system disk" that I know nothing of. I want to use the Toshiba for writing papers only, - no Internet, or anything complicat

Re: Toshiba T3100e/40 - Debain

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:17:05AM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: >Dear folks, > is there any way I can put Debian (or if Debian not > possible - any Linux) on Toshiba T3100e/40? The BIOS > says there is 20MB on the HD, and is asking for a > "system disk" that I know nothing of. > I want

Re: this list is like hotel california

Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is this hotel california? Can't solve the problem, but thanks for the best subject line in ages!! Glyn -- ** * Here we are then... *

Re: My modem..and logs..!!

I've done it before,thx for the ideea.This nite i'll try again.check you later after :-) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 07:45 Acasica Subject: Re: My modem..and logs..!! > don't disable uart "thingies" those are your true serial ports..

Re: Boot Process..

might wanna take a look at the manual page of "update-rc.d" - Original Message - From: Michael Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 01:26 Acasica Subject: Boot Process > Can Some tell me if there is a link on the debian web site that gives > detailed info

Re: Resierfs on Potato?

Stan Brown wrote: >Can I set up some filesystem to be resierfs on a stable machine? I have >installed the 2.4 kernel on it. Sure! However, if you have to upgrade your lilo if you'll be using reiserfs as root partition with potato's lilo. I downloaded adrian bunk's packages for 2.4 kernels. It

ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for our university. Setup: Compaq Proliant 3700 Redhat 7.1 (currently with 2.4.9 kernel) Three other machines each with 4x40g IDE hard disks. They are Enbd servers with the Compaq as client. The Compaq as ftp-server then use the n

DNS lookup failure

Hello, I did a dist-upgrade from potato to sid with the images from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/. I can't configure the DNS server. I used pppconfig to do so and the configuration files in /etc/ppp look like the ones I saved from my potato system. Is there anything else I have to config

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >| Even if you use a switch and put MAC address filters on the >| switch an attacker can simply unplug an existing PC / laptop >| and take over its MAC address.

Re: Pon

Michael Grover wrote: I have configured ppp on my machine to dial out and have setup a fire wall script using ipChains. All my home computers access the internet fine. (soon to have DSL setup, waiting on phone company) All is working good except, I use pon to connect, after I have connetced,

Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for > our university. > > Setup: > > Compaq Proliant 3700 > Redhat 7.1 (currently with 2.4.9 kernel) > Three other machines each with 4x40g IDE hard disks. They are En

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:26:58PM +0200, Toomas Vananurm wrote: > > Yepp, same framerates as under Win. Btw.: tried Return To Castle > > Wolfenstein already? Sqeeze... > Is there a Wolf.. release for Linux too? This would be fun:) > Yes, and it is fun indeed. -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PR

My modem..argggg

Ok.I can't recompile the kernel,seems like some package are missing,asm,.. I got some little ppp tutorials from the net and read them quickly and set up the /etc/ppp main files. Btw,pppconfig still can't find anything on the ttyS*,and wvdial says i/o error.. Well,i started pppd after i config

egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation

Has anybody packaged egcs 1.1.2 for kernel compilation? It's still the official compiler for the Linux kernel, and there are definitely problems when using GCC 2.95.x instead. -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ R

Re: Kde

Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Hello Eileen. > What windows manager do poeple on the list recommend using? I have > just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) and was trying to > find KDE. Could someone point me to this or maybe recomment something > else I used t

Re: Resierfs on Potato?

Stan Brown wrote: Can I set up some filesystem to be resierfs on a stable machine? I have installed the 2.4 kernel on it. It is very difficult if not impossible to change the filesystem from ext2 to reiser. You can get bootdisks for potato with reisersupport, sorry can't find the link right n

setting time via network at boot

Hi all, I've got an otherwise OK motherboard that has a dead realtime clock. What I'd like to do is set the time from another machine at boot time. What confuses me is that the kernel seems to have some idea of the time before the hwclock stuff happens from the boot scripts. I guess this is wher

Re: installing kde from rpms

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 04:48:41PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > yup, i did see the same advice in another KDE email. but i don't want to > spend bundles of dollars downloading over the net. in my country, we have to > pay telecoms for every minute of use. > i already have redhat install cds, so this is

Re: this list is like hotel california

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:13:31AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > might be, > > did you receive confirmation? or error message saying that you address > is not subscribed? > didn't received anything. no receive confirmation, no error messages. i'm sending another one now maybe the listbot or w

Re: package sig checking ?

le ven 05-10-2001 at 20:37 Colin Watson a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:00PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > > Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature > > before installing it ? > > You can install debsig-verify and change /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to say > 'debsig'.

My modem..news!

ok.i tried to mess a little with setserial,since wvdialconf tells me that "perhaps i didn't set it with setserial"   here are my attempts: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0x0170 autoconfig nothing.wvdialconf finds only ttys0 and ttys1 setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0x0110 uart 16450 baud_base

mingw32 cross compiler produces large exe files

I've noticed that using the mingw32 cross compiler under debian seems to generate exe files much larger than if I compile under windows. in the order of 11K to 250K which is fairly significant for a very simple program with 800B of source code! Does anyone know why this might be, or if there are

Re: mingw32 cross compiler produces large exe files

DP> I've noticed that using the mingw32 cross compiler under debian seems to DP> generate exe files much larger than if I compile under windows. DP> in the order of 11K to 250K which is fairly significant for a very DP> simple program with 800B of source code! DP> Does anyone know why this might

Very strange network issue

Hi, I have a debian/woody + some sid packages which includes a very strange issue. Whenever I connect to certain site with opera, netscape, konqueror, lynx or links, I never get an ackgowledge packet. Therefore, the http connection always fail with a "no answer" kind of message. The sites which

Re: Very strange network issue

On Monday 08 October 2001 07:22 am, Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian/woody + some sid packages which includes a very strange > issue. Whenever I connect to certain site with opera, netscape, konqueror, > lynx or links, I never get an ackgowledge packet. Therefore, the http > connect

Re: Any HOWTOs for firewalling?

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I need to setup a firewall box for my ethernet cable modem. Is there a > checklist or HOWTO I can use to set up the Debian based firewall? > > E.g. > 1. What is the minimal number of packages I need? > 2. How should I setup dhcp ( external to ISP ) and internal to NATe

setting up network

Hello, I've just installed debian, and my question is very simple: just, what I have to configure my network card. This is, set my computer private ip, the gateway, the router ip address and the dns my provider gave me. Thank you! Marcel

Re: Very strange network issue

Thank you so much for your help. I could finnd one article on this issue in DP http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=374 Now I understand what is this issue. JPS. -- Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 40FF FA78 75AA 680D 8BB4 EEF9 539A 79

Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for JS> our university. JS> Kernel unstability with 2.4.9-ac3, ac16 and ac18 and some of JS> unstability using reiserfs on the nbd-devices. We did not determine JS> whether the problem wa

Re: setting up network

Le Lundi 8 Octobre 2001 14:08, Marcel Figuerola Estrada a écrit : > Hello, > > I've just installed debian, and my question is very simple: just, what I > have to configure my network card. This is, set my computer private ip, the > gateway, the router ip address and the dns my provider gave me. > >

Re: Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

Alson van der Meulen wrote: >On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for >> our university. >> >> Setup: >> >> Compaq Proliant 3700 >> Redhat 7.1 (currently with 2.4.9 kernel) >> Three other machines each

Re: installing kde from rpms

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 04:48:41PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: >> yup, i did see the same advice in another KDE email. but i don't want to >> spend bundles of dollars downloading over the net. in my country, we have to >> pay telecoms for every minute of use. >> i already have redhat install cds, so thi

Re: Any HOWTOs for firewalling? - gazzillion

hi ya there is a gazillion various "howto" too much ..that gets confusing... and just as many different fw config tools and more log analysis stuff http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Firewall simplified rules ... - let your cable modem just transfer info to/from cable modem

Re: Very strange network issue

You probably have the ECN bit set in your networking. I ran into a similar problem when I switched to 2.4 kernel. See http://urchin.earth.li/ecn/ for more information. Randy On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 04:22, Jean-Paul Smets wrote: > Hi, > > I have a debian/woody + some sid packages which includes

Dudas sobre Hardware

Les mando este mensaje para hacer una pregunta sobre la mejor versión de Debian que podría instalar en mi ordenador sin que se ralentize o tenga problemas. El ordenador que poseo tiene las siguientes características: -Pentium 100 -24 Mb RAM EDO -400 Mb libres de Disco Duro Espero que alguien me r

magicfilter direct print

Does any body know if there is a way to print directly to a port from magicfilter? I had to user printtool to do so. Thanks -- --- Oscar Andres Riveros M. Gerente General Nimonic LTDA Bogota, Colombia ---

My modem news!!

Ok,i played a little more and look where i am:   setserial /dev/ttyS2 shows irq 2,port 0x0110 and uart 16450..till now it was uart unknown.This is set with: setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 9 port 0x0110 uart 16450   if i start minicom it says initializing modem,then stays like this 3,4 seconds then

how to stop dhcp-client echo on console ?

Hello: I am using dhcp-client on my 'sid' machine and everything is working fine except for the below given echo. The same is echoed onto the currently logged/shifted console every minute or so. Can this echoing be stopped or piped off ? Is this a dhcp-client issue or am I doing s

Re: Re: ext3 on woody safe for a production machine?

Has XFS gone read-write? Last I heard it was still very experimental and read only in the kernel. Thus spake Paolo Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > >> I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to bu

Compiling 2.4.9 with PCMCIA support

I've compiled my 2.4.9 kernel to support PCMCIA and it works for one of my PCMCIA network cards (3COM 575), but not for my other (DFE-660). When I try the other card, it beeps but never goes online. Everything else works fine, though. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Infobahn Offramp

serious problem, plz help

hi ! I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports Fatal Server Error, mouse driver not found but during installation driver was /dev/mo

serious problem, plz help

hi ! I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports Fatal Server Error, mouse driver not found but during installation driver was /dev/mo

Re: Blackbox stopped working after upgrade...

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blackbox should give some form of message on the screen stating why > it failed. This sounds vaguely familiar. When I start X with rxvt as an window manager, and run blackbox from the terminal, I get this message and X just freezes; mouse moves

Re: My modem..argggg

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Ok.I can't recompile the kernel,seems like some package are missing,asm,.. > I got some little ppp tutorials from the net and read them quickly and set up > the /etc/ppp main files. > Btw,pppconfig still can't find anything on the tty

Re: serious problem, plz help

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:14:48PM +1000, chetan mittal wrote: > hi ! > > I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL > having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at > Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports > Fatal Serv

Re: this list is like hotel california

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:39:18PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:13:31AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > did you receive confirmation? or error message saying that you address > > is not subscribed? > > didn't received anything. no receive confirmation, no error messages.

PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

For as long as I've been using Debian, I've had DSL and never the need to use dial-up... Last Thursday though, my DSL modem died and I tried connecting with dial-up. Running 'pppconfig' worked fine and I'm able to connect. Tail'ing /var/log/messages shows everything good, up to assigning an IP ad

Re: My modem..argggg

Hi, OK after my last response, I saw your other postings. I didn't realize we had about 5 threads going here . . . it might be simpler to keep this all on one thread. Anyway . . . If it is a 14400 ISA modem, then you probably have jumpers you can set. It is quite common for com3 to go with IRQ

Re: serious problem, plz help

chetan mittal wrote: hi ! I have a serious problem ... i installed Debian Linux on IBM PC 300PL having Intel PII 350 Mhz. Whole installation went Ok and i reached at Login without any problem. But when i started X-server , it reports Fatal Server Error, mouse driver not found but during install

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:04:17PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Greetings, all. Hello! > * I've heard a couple of things that suggest that it's possible to run > testing, with the exception of a few packages from unstable. Is this > true? If so, how? Obviously, I could do this by manually

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:34:17AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > For as long as I've been using Debian, I've had DSL and never > the need to use dial-up... Last Thursday though, my DSL modem > died and I tried connecting with dial-up. > > Running 'pppconfig' worked fine and I'm able to connect

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:17:20PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble. I know you needed a solution by Monday, so this is a bit late, but I haven't seen anyone else post an explanation of what the error actually means, so... > Now, I hav

Re: can you give me some support?

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:34:20PM +0200, Robert de Gier wrote: > Hi, I'm new with Linux so I have some questions will you help me? This list is for those writing documentation for Debian; I've redirected this to our general user help/discussion list. > Iv got a IBM Risc 6000 power PC. They told

Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

I brought a machine home from work, and did some updates on it ths weekend. During these I was offered the option of letting debconf configure the network. I alowed this to happen. Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. Where can I turn this off? The machine stared life as stable

network number

I upgraded a Debian machien this weeknd, and now it wants a bit more information in the /etc/network files. It wants "network number" I'm confused by this. Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

Hi, On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:38:34AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > You can have both unstable and testing in your sources.list, and then set > up apt preferences as so: > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unsta

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

Hall Stevenson wrote: > > For as long as I've been using Debian, I've had DSL and never > the need to use dial-up... Last Thursday though, my DSL modem > died and I tried connecting with dial-up. > > Running 'pppconfig' worked fine and I'm able to connect. > Tail'ing /var/log/messages shows every

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

> Running 'pppconfig' worked fine and I'm able to connect. Tail'ing > /var/log/messages shows everything good, up to assigning an IP address > (and depending on how I have DNS set, receiving DNS entries). Problem is, > I can't do anything...This includes pinging a website by IP address. That > rul

Re: setting time via network at boot

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:54:55PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > I want to avoid having steps in my logs at boot time. Don't know that you can do that... Logging starts before the network does, so you're not going to be able to get time from the network without the activity being logged. > The

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

> I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently > helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop, > and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring > down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you > shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still > have your eth0 up. I'll certain

Re: network number

Hmmm, Your network number should be correct, and you're right about what the netmask *should* be. Apparantly an installation script got horribly confused about netblocks. Try hand-editing your network file with the correct information. --Rich Stan Brown wrote: > > I upgraded a Debian machien t

RE: Man

> is there any on-line version of the man pages? > > like for "man 5 interfaces" > > I tried "man 5 interfaces > mike.txt" but there was so many control > chars that the text file was too hard to read. > > mike If you've got apache going, you can 'apt-get install man2html'! It's a cgi pro

Re: network number

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:44:45AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in > 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what > the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should be 170.85.109.127, > but instead i

Re: Dudas sobre Hardware

Barreto Barreto Jose Luis wrote: > > Les mando este mensaje para hacer una pregunta sobre la mejor versión de > Debian que podría instalar en mi ordenador sin que se ralentize o tenga > problemas. El ordenador que poseo tiene las siguientes características: > > -Pentium 100 > -24 Mb RAM EDO > -40

Re: setting time via network at boot

[D'oh - it's bad enough replying to the user instead of the list under normal circumstances, but when replying to yourself ... :-) ] Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got an otherwise OK motherboard that has a dead realtime clock. > > What I'd like to do is set the time from another ma

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:58:03AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:38:34AM -0700, David Roundy wrote: > > You can have both unstable and testing in your sources.list, and then set > > up apt preferences as so: > > > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > > Pin: r

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

> Do you have a gateway defined in /etc/network/interfaces? Sure do. It points to my Linksys router/switch, 192.168.1.1. With dial-up, that device is no longer valid. > If so, # (comment) it out as long as you are using ppp. > PPP will set its own default gateway. I have a similar > problem when

Re: network number

Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:44:45AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > > Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in > > 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what > > the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should b

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently | > helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop, | > and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring | > down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you | > shouldn't have t

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

[Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400] Stan Brown : > Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. > > Where can I turn this off? Either do a 'dpkg --purge dhcp/dhcp-client/dhcpcd' or better still remove instances of the dhcp symlink from all run-levels by doing an 'update-rc

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: | I brought a machine home from work, and did some updates on it ths weekend. | During these I was offered the option of letting debconf configure the | network. I alowed this to happen. | | Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

> ... I can verify, though, that using a machine as an > ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite > well... I don't doubt that it does, but this machine probably *always* uses ppp, right ?? That's not my case. I defined an actual gateway, which I wouldn't do with a normal ppp config. Hall

Re: Getting gnome file manager to use acroread instead of xpdf

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:36:20PM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I am having a bear of a time getting the file manager to launch acroread > instead of xpdf when I double click on a .pdf file. It insists on > running xpdf. I went to the Control Center->File Types and selected the > application/pdf m

need help! dpkg corrupted!

I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha system. In the process of updating my system today via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are corrupt. For example, if I issue "dpkg -l", I get an empty response. If I issue a manual d

Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:57:15AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > ... I can verify, though, that using a machine as an | > ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite | > well... | | I don't doubt that it does, but this machine probably *always* | uses ppp, right ?? That's not my case. I defined

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applying font size and family to QT apps.

short and simply; how is this done? I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox is so much better.. ahem.. :) .. surely there's a way to make the by default large fonts of QT apps a little smaller.. kind regards, William Leese

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 21:04

> > During the install of the 2.4 kernel package. I goot a message about > > needing to add a initrd line to lilo.conf. This is probably the cause of your problem. I had the same problem the first time I installed a 2.4 kernel package with apt-get. Just follow the instructions and edit your lilo.c

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.07 19:14:21-0400]: > | Even if you use a switch and put MAC address filters on the > | switch an attacker can simply unplug an existing PC / laptop > | and take over its MAC address. > > No, the MAC adress is in the ethernet card, not the outlet in the > wall.

Re: Which POP3 server to use?

please don't steal threads... don't reply to a message in order to write about a new topic, okay? * Doug Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.07 01:04:00-0400]: > Also, solid POP3, but that is only 0.15, which doesn't necessarily > "sound" good. i use it productively without any problems. -- mar

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

* Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.06 20:51:04-0700]: > if one has a class-C ip# ..and only using 20 ip# out of the range.. > it is easy for someone to plug in an unauthorise machine into > your network... and sniff anything they like.. > > - so to prevent that... i disable dhcp ... and use

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

* Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.07 17:29:22-0700]: > The default MAC is on the card in PCs. It can be set in software. > (Decnet actually depended on being able to do so.) well, except that when you change the 48bit MAC addy, you are actually overriding it as any customized MAC addr

Re: server temporary config

* Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 01:01:42+1300]: > Does anybody have any suggestions for a general approach to configuring > a server outside of its final environment? in general, just make a note of all the places where you specify the IP. when you bring it online, you need to edi

Re: mounting /tmp and setting permissions

* Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 03:31:33+0200]: > You mean it sticks across boots? Like a filesystem _really_ is > similar to a file:) Once every reboot I presummed in error, > strengthened in this misbelieve by probably false memories of my Atari > MiNT days where it supposidly

Re: this list is like hotel california

* Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 09:50:38+0800]: > is this hotel california? yes. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt

Re: this list is like hotel california

* Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 16:39:18+0800]: > i'm sending another one now maybe the listbot or whatever it's called > was on leave or was dreaming of weekend partying. i hope it won't > have the monday sickness though. have you tried [1]? 1. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

On Mon Oct 8 11:46:37 2001 Raghavendra Bhat wrote... > >[Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400] Stan Brown : > >> Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. >> >> Where can I turn this off? > >Either do a 'dpkg --purge dhcp/dhcp-client/dhcpcd' or better still >remove instances o

Re: how to stop dhcp-client echo on console ?

* Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 19:11:06+0530]: > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:20:40:34:ee:b3:08:00 > SRC=192.168.100.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 PROTO=2 this is a note from iptables, not from dhclient. moreover, something is tryinig to multicas

Re: network number

* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.08 10:44:45-0400]: > Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in > 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what > the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should be 170.85.109.127, > but instead

Re: international characters in mutt

On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: > {{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e > 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt'}} I never used Tkdesk, but you could try ... -e /usr/bin/env 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt' ... -e /bin/bash -c 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt' & t

Re: kylix open edition and Debian 2.2

Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I installed it on Potato last week. I had to comment out the test for a > > good libc, and it segfaults on exit. But it does work. Come on Woody! on my debian 2.2r0 it freezes on startup, when the spl

my dpkg problem fixed!

Well, I fixed the problem. I don't know why, but it is fixed. I found v1.6.15 of dpkg for the alpha. I manually extracted this file using "dpkg-deb -X". I then used the executable from this package to fix the corrupted system using "./dpkg -i" for the remaining packages from my update. I also u

XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

Hi, I am one of those (poor) using the vesa-framebuffer on a Gericom Webshox Laptop (SiS 630) for making X (4.1.0-6 and 7) run at all. I'm running kernel 2.4.10, but the problem also exists in 2.4.9. Further, I am using KDE 2.2.1 - but that doesn't seem of importance either. Not enough that this

Re: IPTables questions

* Julio Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.06 21:46:46+0200]: > Do iptables allow me to redirect incoming connections to the computer to > another computer directly? So, beeing able to setup a FTP server on an > internal computer. use DNAT: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport ftp -j DNA

Re: applying font size and family to QT apps.

At 18:20 08/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: short and simply; how is this done? I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox is so much better.. ahem.. :) .. surely there's a way to make the by default large fonts of QT apps a little smaller.. Yep: Run kcontrol from the cons

devfsd changes

If you don't want to read all the gorey details skip down to "* * * * *". Following bug report #111946 and a number of issues with devfs I have decided that some serious changes are necessary to the way permissions for devices are managed. Here is the way it currently works: When I (or an auto

Re: applying font size and family to QT apps.

On Monday 08 October 2001 19:00, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > At 18:20 08/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: > >short and simply; how is this done? > > > >I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox is so > >much better.. ahem.. :) .. surely there's a way to make the by default > > large

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