init runs away with glibc2.1

Operation not permitted"). Would a reboot fix things up, or would it just make matters worse? (Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?) Please Cc: me on replies because I'm not subscribed to this list. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NE

Re: init runs away with glibc2.1

Greg Wooledge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shortly after installing the new glibc 2.1 packages, I noticed that > init had started to run away: > (Is it safe to reboot at this point, or should I drop back to glibc 2.0?) Well, my computer decided the matter for me. About half an h

Re: ipchains/ip_masq problems

This is in response to a very old message on debian-user which I saw while browsing the mailing list archives. I've got IP masq working on a Debian system with kernel 2.1.132 at home. I think you're missing the obligatory "echo" for the 2.1.x kernels to turn on IP forwarding. I'm not at home rig

Re: qmail on dial-up ppp

This is in response to a fairly old message on debian-user. I run qmail at home on a Debian system which is connected via dialup PPP (using diald) with a dynamic IP address. I'm not at home right now, so if you need to see exact copies of config files, let me know and I can look them up. First o

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs". I don't know whether the hamm version will work right or not... several months back, during either hamm or slink upgrading, my equivs suddenly stopped working; I filed a "bug" repor

NFS lockd problems

d": SYS_169(0x1, 0xb23c, 0, 0x2fe, 0x699) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) (or, after upgrading strace:) nfsservctl(0x1, 0xb25c, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) I'm going to try knfs next -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http

Re: NFS lockd problems

es and rebuilding the kernel, and installing the Debian knfs package (replacing nfs-server), it finally worked! :-) The NFS-HOWTO document is dated 1997. It doesn't cover *any* of this. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: potato: why does new slang1 preclude modconf, whiptail, gimp, ae,...?

quot;slang1 (<< 1.3.0)". The new slang1 package has a version number of 1.3.8-2 or so. As far as I know, you should *not* upgrade slang1 at this time. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a t

Re: Slink to Potato

rk? I'd recommend against this, due to a few broken packages that are in the current potato. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |

Re: Copying to a floppy; www connection

opy a file to a floppy? With mtools, you can use "mcopy file a:". -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpkNyWYPJFTC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gdm locks me out!!!

s wrong? Does the backspace not work? Does it not recognize your $TERM type? I can probably help with either of these if I have enough details. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thi

Re: Slink to Potato

c6, ld.so and bash at once with one dpkg command. (Add more packages, like libc6-dev, if necessary. I don't know the whole dependency tree by heart.) -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a ter

Re: find | egrep

ep -- so egrep will always print out the name of the file which matches). Passing multiple files at a time to egrep is also more efficient -- the -exec version may be significantly slower. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getdate

should use the ntp package from potato instead. Either that, or comment out any calls to ntpdate in /etc/init.d/xntp3. The (x)ntpd daemon itself won't cause any problems -- it will run patiently in the background, even if the time servers are not reachable. -- Greg Wooledge

Re: getdate

system down. Oh, YUCK! That's really, really counterintuitive. >In the future, the /etc/rc6.d/SXX scripts MIGHT be moved to > /etc/rc6.d/K1XX for clearity. I hope so. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Smail rewrite From address

Steve George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any pointers to info along these lines would be great - atm I've had to giveup > mutt for Netscape mailer :-( Mutt can rewrite the From: header for you. In my ~/.muttrc (sort of) I have this: my_hdr From: Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: getdate

s with the links in /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d. You should put that one back to S50hwclock.sh. (Also note that, as someone else pointed out, the others are correctly named as well, even though they don't appear to be.) -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.dist

Re: OT - How to save real audio files?

layer to use your squid HTTP proxy. With any luck, squid will save the offending files on disk (check the cache logs). I can't give any detailed help here, though -- I only use realplayer on rare occasions. Good luck. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distr

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

yer all work). I do get one warning message: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel But I'm definitely getting 16-bit stereo output. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed

Re: Anyone using Sound Blaster PCI64?

tunately, I have no insight into this issue. I've never attempted to use speak-freely. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpM7PzJ2RwNw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: no /dev/dsp Continued

number of 14 and a minor number of 4.) These numbers are used internally by the kernel. The 'c' in the first column means that this is a character device file (as opposed to a 'b'lock device file). -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.n

Re: qmail: where does it keep its log?

g is done as specified in /etc/syslog.conf. (You will see several lines beginning with "mail" which specifies what to do with log messages received from programs which use the "mail" facility for their output.) -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http:

Re: http://www.debian.org/contact

org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/slang1_1.3.8-2.1.deb' slang1_1.3.8-2.1_i386.deb 164854 2e1bc6e0c30ed211024cd197f9c8b242 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/ae_962-25.1.deb' ae_962-25.1_i386.deb 35360 59df7b78823f8304e7da3e3915ef6f7b (Ugly,

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

Bounces will be sent to this address. I cannot emphasize this strongly enough. If you have to set your From: header for any reason, you should make the envelope sender match. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: dwnld .deb files with Netsc

g the Win95 partition locally onto a running Linux system, this shouldn't be an issue. If you're transferring the files with FTP, make sure you're doing it in binary (image) mode. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

data From: Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: test test . quit Then see what the message looks like. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a

Re: Forcing a core dump?

run arg1 arg2 ... ... seg fault ... (gdb) bt -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpfgrER5boM2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

s this an HP Pavilion? If so, go into the BIOS (I think it's F1 when the HP logo comes up...), and find the part that shows your installed operating system. It may have choices like "Win95", "Win98", "Other". Select "Other". -- Greg Wooledge

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

with it. Haven't seriously attempted to get sound to work on it But the parts of it I *do* use work just fine -- the serial port (external modem), the hard drive, the CPU, and the network card I put in it -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.n

Re: dselect can not allocate memory

g the whole thing againg from > zero. Please help. If you have no unallocated drive space, then you'll have to create a swap file instead of a swap partition. man mkswap man swapon man fstab -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: nfs + setgid problem

xr-xr-x 84 greg greg 8192 Oct 17 17:06 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 greg greg4 Oct 17 16:54 foo That's over knfs, with a patched 2.2.12 kernel on the server. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Compiling and using c librarys (.a and .so)

e LINUX-ELF HOWTO is great, but it's kind of obsolete (*nobody's* using a.out any more), so it's hard to find these days. I used google and managed to turn up a copy at <http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/ELF-HOWTO.html>. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET ht

Re: mktemp segfaults

ot; with trailing NUL character). With the "char *" you're only allocating a pointer and telling it to point to a string constant (which is in read-only memory). -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |

Re: ?complex args pass to other app w/o changing?

ake CXXFLAGS="-O2 -do-strength-reduce" LD=-s' (Put this in ~/.bashrc if it works; and make sure you have "source ~/.bashrc" or ". ~/.bashrc" in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile. I will *never* understand why login bash shells do not read ~/.bash

Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?

ay not be able to get the slink ipmasq package to work; I found it much better to configure IP masquerading by hand. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |

Re: terminfo for solaris

i If you want it to be system-wide, you can omit the first three lines and run the tic as root. You may want to read /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian as well, even if you aren't using xterm. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PRO

Re: How to find the ethernet add of NIC

ding a custom kernel. Also see the Ethernet HOWTO. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpt9NIU3g69H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cron error message

7;t look exactly like that (possibly a different date), something is wrong. A quick glance at /dev/MAKEDEV makes me think that you can recreate this with '/dev/MAKEDEV std' if necessary. But you may want to double-check that before running it. -- Greg Wooledge

Re: system parameters

2.x kernel, you have to run this command: echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Unfortunately, I don't have any references for additional reading. :-( -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

automatically adds the routes for you when you configure your network interfaces. Linux 2.0.x does not, so you have to add the routes manually. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, ht

Re: Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?

s Netware altogether, and use BSD remote printing to talk to the printers directly. But this will only work if the printers have IP addresses... which may not be the case (depending on how Netware-centric your printer administrators are). -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs t

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. E.g., with mutt you'd want something like this in ~/.muttrc: set sendmail='/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpPbCmIAhpjA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SED question

le to use it -- so make sure you understand the backquotes too. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp6N3Q9rn0we.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

Set the "alternates" variable to contain all of your e-mail addresses. Mine, for instance, is: set alternates="^([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])$" (Those 4 addresses are all the possible addresses which end up in my mai

Re: date and time lost after reboot

reload) [ "$GMT" = "-u" ] && GMT="--utc" hwclock --systohc $GMT if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "CMOS clock updated to `date`." fi

Re: howto mail attach in command line?

zhaoway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > how could i mail people attach file using a single command? > like mail -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] --attach $HOME/some.tar.gz Install mutt. mutt -s "some" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a $HOME/some.tar.gz http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpIkwcP8xvv7.pgp Descrip

Re: Handling raw files

you should *only* do this in an emergency! -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpAvFpnPEAbt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Virtual terminal

e just device files -- /dev/tty1, /dev/tty2, etc. As root, try something like this: echo hello, world >/dev/tty6 -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |

Re: Is it possible to get libc6 >= 2.1 to run on slink? How/Where?

27;. (Potato is the codename for the current unstable release. Potato has some packages that don't work quite right yet, but libc6 is not one of them.) -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Ch

Re: Looking for fetchmail program

eeded with the diald package, or in a couple of other ways. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpo8BqCdOSiU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

hared libraries but not the development packages. Update libc6-dev, libncurses4-dev, etc. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpK2aelEEQZK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP

Art Lemasters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > /etc/resolve.conf Should be `/etc/resolv.conf'. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp52KUvPIhOT.pg

Re: 2 problems -- building the 2.0.36 kernel; login error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 2. When I login as any user other than root, the system rejects > me with the error msg: > > "System bootup in progress -- please wait" rm /etc/nologin Then try to find out why the nologin file was left lyin

Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

Olaf Conradi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at ./dialog.pl line 34. > $message_len = split(/^/, $message);# <-- line 34 Split normally returns an array, not a scalar... unless I'm missing something. (I'm no perl guru.)

Re: Error using apt-get install

rned error exit status 127 touch /etc/init.d/ntpdate Then retry your installation. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpL7YVXmqyjQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Netscape Installation Problem "segmentation fault

tscape homepage and downloaded the glibc Version. > That worked! Right, glibc2 is libc6. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpgXOmWvVgzI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Error using apt-get install

stinst and take out the part that tries to run update-rc.d. But I'd only do that as a very last resort. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpHzF6m0Cxdu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: potato boot hung at "Starting printer spooler:"

g something that needs to talk to the Internet. E.g., if you start ntpdate to synchronize with a time server on the Internet, make sure you can actually reach the Internet when ntpdate starts up Finally, make sure you consult local files first during name resolution. In /etc/nsswitch.conf, you sh

Re: when will potato become stable?

f you use DHCP (either client or server), make sure you upgrade to the potato version of the DHCP packages before rebooting with the 2.2 kernel, and you should be fine. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot

Re: fetchmail and pine, for a RHL user!

local" which is what I have in /etc/hosts. But there's more than one way to do it(TM).) -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgplRGpeAkDWC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: paste appears to be disabled

need to make sure you have Emulate3Buttons turned on in your XF86Config file, and then use both buttons together to simulate the middle mouse button you're lacking. If you have a three-button mouse, just use the middle button to paste whatever is highlighted. -- Greg Wooledge| "

Re: Utilities for keeping time sync for a machine behind a firewall ?

mon.math.tcd.ie and > sundial.columbia.edu Which is great if you can *talk to* salmon.math.tcd.ie or -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp7HbCQgXJlK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unidentified subject!

n-free (in the free speech, DFSG sense); you'd be better off buying a better graphics card if that's at all possible -- you'd not only save money, but you'd get better performance. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get, slink & ipchains

r /etc/profile. It's used by apt-get, lynx, wget, and possibly many other programs. You might have something misconfigured which is preventing the IP masquerading from working properly... but I can't help with that. ;-) -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody

Re: fvwm: Am I missing something or is it a bug ?

Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 6 elif [ ! -d "$HOME/.fvwm" -a ! -e '$HOME/.fvwm.nowarn" ] Notice the quotes on this line. There's a single-quote before the second $HOME which should be a double quote. -- Greg Wooledge| "Tr

Re: ld problem

TH for libraries which it uses during linking. More likely, the problem was one of the 2+ typos on the linker line in the original post -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kelln

Re: need HELP /* upgrading */

dpkg --remove mozilla > 4. how to make a bootable cdrom for potato (unstable release)? Can't help with that. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpA0isJCwGTV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: make-dpkg error

#x27;t seen any weird problems with either of these. The 2.2.1[23] kernel makefiles automatically include the -fno-strict-aliasing option to gcc, which is the only Linux/gcc problem that I'm aware of. (And gcc 2.95.2(?) now uses no-strict-aliasing by default anyway.) -- Greg Wooledge

Re: FvwmTaskBar

an use a shell script to kill processes which exceed a certain amount of CPU time, but either of these carries severe drawbacks in many situations. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kell

Re: mouse

config file option to look for is CONFIG_PSMOUSE. I can't remember what it's called in menuconfig. Then use /dev/psaux for your mouse device. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers,

Re: Gpm in notebook (psaux)

> configure to use the gpm in it console him? After editing /etc/gpm.conf, run this: /etc/init.d/gpm restart -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpicW

Re: ld problem

, i had typed correctly in the Makefile. > Is it the linker problem or the shared library problem You need to have libX11.so as a symbolic link to the appropriate shared library. Normally you do this by installing the xlib6g-dev package. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth be

Re: cron.d

cide how often to run them. > - Debian 2.1 Linux / 2.2.9 / qmail - I had some trouble with 2.2.9. You should probably upgrade to 2.2.10 (which has a good reputation) or 2.2.13 (the latest stable kernel). -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PPP to ISP

ets have been received. > Could this be another inadvertant firewall problem? That's possible. Are you using ipfwadm or ipchains or ipmasq? If so, include relevant configuration scripts. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP to ISP

ing problem. Your routing table looks completely sound. If you have any ipfwadm or ipchains commands, or if you have installed the ipmasq package, try getting rid of them. (I had nothing but problems with the slink ipmasq package) Otherwise, you may have to talk with your ISP and see if t

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

and ntp can maintain synchronization. aphro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] telnet galactica 123 > Trying 208.222.179.31... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That's because ntp uses UDP, not TCP. Telnet is a TCP/IP application. If you wan

Re: Modem driver

ux-kernel archives, or asking there. -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpfYeS8JPDIn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl termcap error during apt-get?

27;t help with that error, but just in case you didn't make an error in your transcription, "/user" should probably be "/usr". -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpeuaBjdadlA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libslang problem after upgrade to potato

Neil Booth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file or > directory), skipping > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so (No such file or > directory), skipping Update the slang1-dev packa

Re: problem in creating java executable

you can use 'ar xv guavac_1.2.2.deb', which will give you a data.tar.gz file. You can extract that with gzip and tar (check their man pages). -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.

Re: Password encryption

Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created > for that purpose? It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it "cracking", or more specifically, "brute-force cracking". -- Greg

Re: download

trib/vendors> (to buy a CD set) -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpGul7o42Vs1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ipmasq_3.2.5 breaks nameserver lookups

switch to ipchains isn't cleanly "2.1.*", but this worked for the set of kernels I was using at the time) -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpIjzRH1EYh9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sources of linux documentation

> sintax of > this type of entry? It's the same as a normal "deb" entry, replacing "deb" with "deb-src". deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free T

Re: Problems with rlogin!!!

.local phoenix 192.168.2.3 fishy.local fishy -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpeJx9sH7WKK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Potato Hostname Vs NIS conflict

n dselect, but the install script for it > complains that it wants to remove a file used by the hostname package. After downloading the new nis package, install it with this command: dpkg -i --force-overwrite nis_*.deb After that, you should be fine. -- Greg Wooledge

Re: setting the date with date

tf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > can someone put me out of my misery and tell me the format for date? date --help | head -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet

Re: Password encryption

Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created > > > for that purpose? > > It is most

Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)

7;w' (or is it 'W'?) class, either in /etc/sendmail.cf or in some auxiliary file such as /etc/sendmail.cw (if sendmail.cf points to that). (I normally use qmail, so I can't remember whether it's 'Cw' or 'CW') -- Greg Wooledge

Re: gtk+ 1.2?

tk1.2-dev (and probably libglib1.2-dev as well). -- Greg Wooledge| "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpSJNratadsE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SMTP with password on Pine?

exim, sendmail or whatever should be capable of delivering mail to its final destination. (The drawback is that if a message can't be delivered immediately, it will sit in a queue on your local system. If you're not permanently connected to the Internet, you would have to account for th

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:27:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Charlie Gibbs writes: > > Some people will respond by switching to a different e-mail address in > > order to work around the killfiles they know they're now in. > > Fortunately Gnus can filter on things such as substrings of message

Re: Intel nuc 11 i5 kit 安裝debian後，首次開機就失敗，黑化面左上角遊標一直閃

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 01:50:29PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 15-08-2021 06:39, lou wrote: > > more complete translation of subject: > > > > after debian installation, first boot fails, cursor in upper-left corner > > blinks > > >From that, it sounds as if the installation has been successful, bu

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:26:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I had enough trouble with this at the last Debian release, ... but not this time, right? > For anyone who uses 'apt-get update' - and, I suspect, any other tool > than 'apt' itself - to update the list of available packages from the

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:26:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > E: Repository 'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' changed > > its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye' > > N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can > > be applied. See apt-se

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:12:30PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Maybe somehow I'm running an older apt-get version than what has the > fix(es)? But as far as I know that's shipped in the 'apt' package, and I > have that at version 2.2.4, which is what's currently in both stable and > testing (unsur

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:26:44PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > See bug #879786, and the various bugs that have been merged into it > (listed near the very bottom, IIRC). Man, some people have the most *bizarre* setups. And then when someone points it out, they act all confused. :-/ Most of the

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 08:52:19PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I got a series of line saying N and one saying E: > > N: Repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease' > changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable' > N: Repository 'http://security.de

Re: how to to start X Window in debian-live-11.0.0-i386-standard.iso

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:03:37PM -0400, lou wrote: > i've copied debian-live-11.0.0-i386-standard.iso  to USB stick and run it > > X app are included, but how to start X Window? The "-standard" in the image name means that this is a "Standard" Debian installation, with no Desktop Environment.

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 04:40:31PM +0300, ellanios82 wrote: > >  - bewildered , am getting stuff like this : > > >    GPG error: http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bullseye InRelease: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY F942E0D4E1C726CD >

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