Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. This should perhaps You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, just in case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some reason. > Change your BIOS settings to only boot from

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. > > > > You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > things like "Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10 > and up so Debian isn't secure". As you can say it's also real life example. > Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but > many people t

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > All the user runlevel directories, /etc/rc1.d/ through to /etc/rc5.d/, > have exactly the same contents and they're all start scripts, no kill > scripts. If I telinit from (for example) runlevel 2 to 4, nothing > happens except for the "sending a term

Re: SysVinit problem?

2000-09-03 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:12:33AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I thought that might be the case but I'm still concerned about the > freezing ttys. I can't believe that it's intended behaviour. It is not, but it may b

Re: SysVinit prob... now runlevel question

2000-09-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:25:57AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > > As I understand it, X86 hardware hardly ever uses anything but two levels. > > I know sun > > hardware actually makes significant use of the runlevels, but I am made to > > understand > > th

Re: Best place for setserial

2000-09-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Bellows wrote: > time I boot up I have to run the setserial command by hand. My question > is where is the best Debian place to insert this command to have it > execute on boot up? err... have you installed the setserial package? it DOES run at every boot up. Place you

General anser to "where I place the configuration of"

2000-09-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, David Bellows wrote: > Sorry I wasn't clear on what I wanted -- I did just want to know where > the configuration file was. The other distribution I was using had a > more round-about manner of getting this accomplished. Anyway, thanks > for your reply -- it worked! As a rul

Re: Why should I use Debian?

2000-09-04 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Helgi Örn wrote: > Hi all Debians! Yo, > I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home > (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always Never tried Caldera or SuSE, only RedHat... and I'm not going back to that crap of a mess u

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: > Could somebody more familiar with vim than me please tell me > (us) wheter this writes anything unencrypted onto disk? If not, > shall I file a wishlist bug against vim-rt to include this? Is your swap file (not VIM's, the OS') in an encripted partition? O

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Christoph Groth wrote: > > If they don't have root, are there things that I should make > > off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system? > > I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume > that your sister is not a cracker and your father

Re: what is a Machine Check Exception ?

2000-09-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004<0>Bank 1: > f2000115general protection fault: Erk. Read bluesmoke.c in the kernel source. > Never seen this before, so I'd be interested in a (technical) > explanatation of exactly what ne

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. > > I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system > might be annoyed by such a questi

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote: > I've successfully built a new kernel package with make-kpkg, but only if I > use: > > fakeroot -- make-kpkg --revision=custom.X.XX. kernel_image I'll usually run fakeroot make-kpkg ... I've never needed that -- > Am I misreading the docs?

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Am I misreading the docs? > I don't know. What I could suggest you to do is this: Well, now I know. The make-kpkg man page makes it very clear that the only target which knows how to deal with rootcmd is buildpackage. I never use

Re: Kernel build with kpkg (was Install of VMware)

2000-09-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Tom Hoover wrote: > Is there any advantage to building the kernel outside of fakeroot? The fakeroot man page says quite clearly that "Thou shall never configure a anything under fakeroot", so I try to only do the install targets under fakeroot to avoid hard-to-track problems.

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > oh did you check to make sure you have lockd running on both machines? > > i just remembered something else i had to do to get locking working, > it seems that sometimes you have to compi

Re: debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

2000-10-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/ > when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.) Yes, gpg is funny like that :-) No concept of cleaning up lockfiles to avoid stupid deadlocks, no concept of timing out sockets (thus deadl

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Didn't 2.2.16 appear to solve some security bugs of 2.2.15? If this is the > case, even if the patches applied to 2.2.15 actually close those security > bugs, wouldn't 2.2.15 give an impression of lack of security? The real problem with 2.2.1

Re: The ALSA driver in potato is very outdated :-(

2000-06-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > So now I have two questions. > 1) How can I upgrade the ALSA drivers in potato so that I wouldn't break >the debian packaging system (Is there something like kernel-package >available for them)? Add the apt source.conf lines for woody, run

Re: Does kernel-source 2.2.15-3 include latest ac patches?

2000-06-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for Debian, we're in the second test cicle. Maybe if there is a third > > cycle for some reason, a kernel update to 2.2.17-pre1 might be considered... > > Now it

Re: q ad removing /var/cache/apt/archives/*

2000-06-17 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > this takes up pretty much space, my question is: can I safely remove the > contents of the archives-directory? I couldn´t find anything regarding > this in the docs, but some pointer to the proper FM would do fine ;-) Yup. Go ahead. But have a look at a

Re: uncompressing kernel

2000-06-17 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jacob Stowell wrote: > is compressed in a .bz2 format. i am new to this and my last kernel was > gzipped which i know how to handle. also right now i only have Install package bzip2. Now, use bzip2 instead of gzip, as in "bzip2 -d" instead of "gzip -d". Also, tar -I instead

Re: majordomo gone?

2000-06-19 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > It seems that the majordomo-package is no more on the mirrors, neither in > the stable/unstable/frozen hierarchies...it gets listed if you do a search > via www.debian.org, though. > > Any hints? You should probably subscribe to debian-security-announc

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-20 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > postfix was designed from the beginning with security in mind. And it's > > easier to configure than sendmail or qmail. > > Periodically I begin to believe in such statements only to after the > installation each time find myself desperately searc

Re: PL doesnt working

2000-06-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Paulo! On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > When the ISP tries to ping my modem, its RX lights on. > I try to use pon and I receive and a local and remote IP. Does pinging the remote IP works? Do those local and remote IPs look right (valid)? A

Re: PL doesnt working

2000-06-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Quoting Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does pinging the remote IP works? > Hi Henrique. I cant ping the remote IP. Then you should activate debugging for ppp0, and verify if it is really conne

Re: Xupgrade hoses it?

2000-06-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Robert! On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: > X: server socket directory has suspiciou ownership, aborting. Stop the x server. remove /tmp/.X* start the x server. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In

Re: is there a midi/wav plugin for Netscape?

2000-07-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Christophe! On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Christophe Broult wrote: > A friend send me the URL of a greeting card which included some > sound. I was unable to hear the sound because Netscape complained that > there was no plugin for midi/wav sound. > > How can I configure Netscape to play some sound? I

Re: xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato

2000-08-19 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues > before i make the changes. xfs-xtt is better for very big, unicode fonts (hint: most far east ones). If you like configuring fonts, it allows you to do some font transforms as well. -- "One disk to rule them all, O

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Andrej Marjan wrote: > You shouldn't need an external font server. I'm attaching my configuration Unless this has changed in XFree86 4.0.x, there is a very good reason to have a font server. If it freezes for a long time trying to render that monstruous unicode font or somethi

Re: [Howto?]invoking fetchmail upon ppp connection...

2001-02-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > On 2001-02-24 02:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should write a similar script for fetchmail and place it in > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > So I wrote this script, but it doesn't work. FYI, the fetchmail packages currently in sid (

Re: [ot] grub with 2 hard disks (was [OT] Grub)

2001-02-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Joey Kool wrote: > (For purpose of clarity, the previous problem of os not found was due to > the fact that I did not change the bios bootup sequence. I had to specify the > 2nd harddisk as the bootup disk instead of the first in bios. Most BIOS I know are braindamaged enoug

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > I am using testing with fetchmail talking to sendmail. The problem > that I am having is that if the host from which mail is sent does > not exist, sendmail rejects it, which causes fetchmail to segfault. Which version of fetchmail? Segfaults are *alwa

Re: fetchmail bad

2001-02-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Rick Rezinas wrote: > This is fetchmail release 5.5.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS That version has way too many segfaults. I suggest you try one of the versions in unstable (but wait until tomorrow if any of your servers is M$ Exchange, the current one will timeout and not get your mail).

Re: SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK

2001-03-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Friedrich Dumont wrote: > SETTING SYSTEM CLOCK USING THE HARDWARE CLOCK AS REFERENCE... That should not be in caps, unless your terminal is seriously screwed up. But it's a good thing to notice that patch to better document the hwclock script paid back... You want to muck aro

Re: fetchmail-ssle clarification

2001-03-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Purton wrote: > What is the difference between fetchmail-ssl and fetchmail with the ssl > flag set? (Both are separate packages in woody) Both are also separate packages in sid (unstable), but only because of Debian policy for non-US software. I don't believe fetchmail-

Re: Japanese fonts

2001-03-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: > i would also like to know how to do this, my girlfriend is learning > japanese, and has not been able to get it to work in windows (which Install japanese font packages, the X-TT truetype font server (built-in in X 4.0.x, but make sure to enable the ri

Re: Japanese fonts

2001-03-22 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: > how would i switch the locales for one user? because i'm not to keen on It is session-based. Just set the environment variable LANG to the locale you want. I do hope you remembered to activate the locales you might need when installing libc6 (/etc/l

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Matthias Mann wrote: > I´m very sorry! > > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. It is also legal in Brazil, which doesn't mean that you would not: 1. Be

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-23 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see Well, if you define a videomode closer to the resolution of the video you're playing, SDL fullscreen mode should switch th

Re: fullscreen video playback

2000-10-24 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:42:03PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > without proper video acceleration in X this is not > > > possible/reccomended. try using the double opti

Re: Newbie (to Debian)

2000-10-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > If you use mingetty instead of getty, the screen will be cleared by > default (I prefer this too). Change the lines for the various virtual > consoles to look like: Or you could use fbgetty instead of mingetty. Both have annoying features: mingetty is br

Re: Getting new keys (was Re: signing gpg key with old key ...)

2000-11-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > There are two general problems with a public key infrastructure: > > - Key distribution (the 'keyserver' line handles this). > - Key modification updates. See attached script. Modify it for your needs, or write a new one that isn't such an

Re: 2 3com nics, 1 box :)

2000-11-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Sebastiaan wrote: > Unpack it (might work with upzip, else you should load msdos) and copy the > file 3c5X9CFG.EXE to a floppy. Start with a bootable floppy and run this You could also apt-get install 3c5x9utils instead, and run 3c5x9setup --help. You'll notice you can assign

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > year now. Can a hardware problem on the mouse or the ps/2 port cause > this? How can I determine the cause? Yes, a short-circuit in the mouse (or in any other peripherical, Keyboards a

Re: Sudden instability: can a faulty mouse cause this?

2000-11-15 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:11AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have a ps/2 mouse which I have used without problems for about a > > > year now. Can a hardware probl

Re: mount count

2000-11-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Every time the system mounts a volume (disk), it increases a counter. When this counter reaches a predefined value (the "maximum mount count"), fsck is forced to check the disk. This is normal behaviour, there is nothing wrong with your system or disks. You can change the 'maximum mount count' usi

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-11-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Johann Spies wrote: > Who is this "nobody"? 'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files in the filesystem (if it does, that's probably a security hole), and should be used by daemons and the like that need only read access to files that are read

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-11-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:37:47PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files > > in the filesystem (i

Re: tunneling ftp through ssh

2000-12-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > from what I've read in ssh docs/faq it is not possible because ftp > uses two connections... (control and data). Just use passive mode. This will easily secure the control connection (port 21) which carries passwords and other stuff (such as filenames).

Re: 2.2 -> 2.2.2r

2000-12-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > I am unclear and may be totally off base, but it is my impression that > proposed updates are proposed until a new release level is generated i.e., > all the proposed updates after 2.2r0 would be in 2.2r2 and that stable would > link to 2.2r2. Am I

Re: This list is rudderless, damn it, damn it, damn it

2000-12-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Jim Kroger wrote: > Unsubscribe me already! I've sent the right mail to the right place > multiple times, sent mail to the guy at the bottom who says send me > mail if you have a problem, and now several days later > > I'M STILL NOT UNSUBSCRIBED TO THIS STINKING LIST ! >

Re: cron vs anacron

2000-12-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs > everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was > down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete. fcron, but it doesn't do ALL that Debian's cron

Re: ntpd flails on machine with large clock error...

2000-04-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: > However, in this case, I'm more in need of a *smooth* transition to the > proper time than I am in need of a *prompt* one. I don't mind if ntpd needs > a day or two to bring things into line... > Does anybody have any ideas? ntpdate -B should do it (stop

Re: NTP

2000-05-24 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 22 May 2000, A. Scott White wrote: > Now that my ntp is working, is there a particular ntp server I should use? Yes, you should use a stratum 2 or higher (3, 4...) server unless you're providing NTP services for a huge set of machines (100+). > I'm using clock.via.net because it is liste

Re: What happen if two host forward email to each other?

2000-06-05 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Brad wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:42:58AM +0800, hingwah wrote: > > For example,a user have a username of foo in 2 host,host1 and > > host2. > > in host1 .content of .forward : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > in host2 ...content of .forward : [EMAIL PRO

Re: MTA and popper question

2000-06-05 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > >Which MTA is easiest to install? I need to setup a machine as a IMHO both Postfix and Exim are very easy to install. Exim is more powerful, while Postfix is (probably) more secure, and faster. Don't worry about Postfix being beta, it's production-qualit

Re: A BIOS that wants to know the OS I'm using?

2000-06-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, I. Tura wrote: > My fancy new computer has a extra-cool-nice Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Rev 6, and > when you enter into it you have a quite interesting dialogue that says: > > OS: W98/2000 > W95 > Other > Is there any explanation about the sense of

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Lee! On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello list, > > I need to compile my own kernels to enable SMP and get SCSI support for > my card so, after consulting the HOWTO and reading some recent postings > about kernel compiling, what I've been doing is: Install "fakeroot", "kernel-pack

Re: Compiling kernels

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > This seems to work ok - SMP is enabled and the SCSI controller works - > > but during the load process, immediately after "Calculating module > > dependencies" I get a lot of "insmod *** unresolved symbols in

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim"

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? Secure design, using chroot jails (even in Debian's default installation), only the postfix 'master' daemon runs a

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have > installed myself, so that won't do. You should try to fix that problem. But do run dselect update first, to make sure apt and dselect agree in the package available file... (also, mak

Re: Must /tmp be on boot partition?

2000-01-31 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: > Does /tmp have to be physically located on the boot > partition, or can it be a symlink to /var/tmp on another > partition? I've seen conflicting statements in different I've been using /tmp -> /var/tmp for some time now, and never noticed any problems.

Re: What is the name of the Debian text-based logon with swirl logo?

2000-02-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:05:00AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I used to have a Debian test-based logon screen with a red swirl logo on > > the left composed of ASCII characters. I can't for the life of me > > As far as I can tell, it was include

Re: /usr/src/.linux-versions.

1999-12-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > 1) how did I get /usr/src/.linux-versions? > 2) who/what is using it? > 3) whose responsible to fill in its contents? Well, this may or may not answer your three questions, but is quite the clue: -- quoted from: /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/changelog.gz

Re: (was blank subject, actually gz question)

1999-12-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> >What do I use to open a gz file? > > Files suffixed with gz are a GNU Zip compressed file. They > are uncompressed with the "gunzip" program. So if you have > a README.gz file you would use the command "gunzip README.gz" > and that would result in the file README being created. > > Many thin

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > "Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). > > I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to > > date. Doh!!! > I d

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login > > accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. > > > > What should I start with? > > Either exim or postfix, definitely - they're very easy to configure. I've > not h

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Postfix is very easy to setup, very light on the cpu and is engineered for > security and speed (runs in a chroot jail in debian's default configuration, Hmm... my bad here. Debian's postfix can be very easily set to run chroote

Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users

1999-12-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 05:07:53PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I've seen setups like these being mentioned in the Postfix ML (more than one > > person there claimed more than 10 users under Cyrus IMAPD+Postfix). > &

Re: xntpd not functioning anymore...

1999-12-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: > $ntptrace tock.cs.unlv.edu > tock.CS.UNLV.EDU: stratum 2, offset 0.853196, synch distance 0.04726 > usno.pa-x.dec.com: stratum 1, offset 0.842812, synch distance 0.02371, > refid 'USNO' Those offset lines are worrisome. NTP does not deal well with large offse

Re: debian install and multiple partitions

1999-12-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Howard Mann wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: > > Now I want to split up Linux into many partitions, i.e. put /usr/ on one > > partition, /home/ on another, etc. I want to do this for ease of > > backups and some security benefits. > > I did this successfully. I used cfdisk and spe

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:31:04Martin Fluch wrote: > >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' > >Usualy e2fsck should automaticaly be run on demand at boottime. Do you use > I use this config for more than 3 months, and there w

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: > Q. How can I set 'e2fsck' to run, whenever I want ? umount the partition, and fsck it. If it's your root partition, or /var (which has this nagging tendency to not be unmountable due to being busy) then the safest way I know requires a reboot, and requir

Re: make-kpkg and /vmlinuz

2000-01-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000, matt garman wrote: > my /etc/lilo.conf, but /vmlinuz is a symlink into /boot, which hadn't > been updated to point to the new kernel. > > I thought when I built a kernel with make-kpkg and installed the > resulting .deb with dpkg, that either /etc/lilo.conf was updated to see

Re: Sync sys clock and hc every 11 min: logging and controling?

2000-01-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi aphro! On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > as far as i know hwclock is not updated unless the system restarts, or you > update it manually, and ntpdate does not update the hwclock, i have ntp The kernel does sync the RTC to the system clock every 11 minutes if you tell it to (ntpd does), at l

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, joost witteveen wrote: > After several (about 10) unsucessful tries (engaged), chat consistantly > refuses to rediail my ISP. In syslog, I get: I may be wrong, but to me it looks like your modem refuses to redial your ISP, not chat. It's probably because of your country's pub

Re: Please tell me this is curable...

2000-01-24 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote: > Thanks. The big q is what's the recovery procedure? Fixing by hand or writing a tool do to so. But hunt the net first, someone might have done it already. Let's supose your file got corrupted by a ASCII upload from UNIX -> NT. First, you must guarantee that

Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt

2000-01-27 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Shao! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? > Thanks. xfs-xtt is better for dealing with CJK fonts, and can also do some transformations (such as bold, slant...) For western fonts, xfstt is probably enough. I personall

Re: Netscape removed, why?

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > communicator-base-47 communicator-nethelp-47 communicator-smotif-47 > communicator-spellchk-47 gconv-modules libc6-bin netscape-base-4 > netscape-base-47 netscape-java-47 This is caused by the removal of libc6

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used to discipline your clock and

Re: apt-get wants to remove netscape?

2000-01-28 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Why does it want to remove netscape? Am I suppose to let it continue and > afterwards install 4.61? No. There are threads about this bug both in debian-user and debian-devel. It should be fixed tomorrow, I think. Just place libc6 on hold for now, or wait f

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used to > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash > > updating it every 11 minutes. > &

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:46:07AM -0200, > Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate and add the server(s) you selected. Remove > > hwcloch --adjust calls in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Debian-Users! On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Also, hwclock --systohc disables the 11 minute update mode in the kernel, > and ntp may stop updating the kernel clock because of that. Ops. That should've been 'stop updating the RTC because of that'. --

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Actually, an end-user should have no business contacting public stratum 2 > > servers either, they should use their ISP's timeservers. But not many ISPs The operative word there is "should". &

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock. ntp is used > > > to > > > discipline your clock and will in fact keep the RTC in a short leash > > > upd

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Also, hwclock --systohc disables the 11 minute update mode in the kernel, > > and ntp may stop updating the kernel clock because of that. > > Are you sure? I believe that updating the hw clock every 11min is not done > with newer kernels. Yes, I just t

Re: incorrect time on boot by 6 years???

2000-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> Anyway, the problem: After rebooting the computer, the year resets > from 2000 to 1994. The rest of the date and time looks OK. I don't Looks like Y2K bug in the BIOS or the RTC. Try forcing the year to 2000 in the BIOS, do a reboot before the OS enters (in the LILO: prompt, for example), enter

Re: ntp and 0.0.0.0 address

2000-01-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote: > snoopy# ntptrace > localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000160, synch distance 0.69316 > 0.0.0.0:*Timeout* Please send all the relevant configuration files attached when you report bugs like this one... ntpd binds to 0.0.0.0 to receive packets from any i

Re: 2.4.0 and 3com 905c

2001-01-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
> > > i've been using stock kernel 2.2.17 that came with potato. it > > > recognized my 3com nic (as 3com 3c905c) and works wonderfully. 3c905cx are broken in 2.4.0, but earlier models (such as my 3c905b PCI card) work just fine. A patch to fix the issue with the 3c905cx was sent to the linux-ke

Re: Packaging Policy.

2001-01-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Corey Popelier wrote: > Correct, I'm sure as hell not about to do that :) But I was thinking along > the lines of saying "look, here's an unofficial .deb of fetchmail since it > appears to be a tad outdated, and I've had considerable problems with > the existing one which appea

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: Odd CRC errors and md5 mis-matches - any ideas?

2001-01-29 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Your problem sounds like hardware on crack. Check if you don't have faulty memory modules, or disk corruption (caused e.g.: by running kernel 2.4.0 in certain VIA-based boards, by bad cabling or a bitrotten HD). And I don't have to say anything about undoing any possible overclocking of either th

Re: is there a "man .inputrc"?

2001-02-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
dlocate inputrc answers: /etc/inputrc $ head -2 /etc/inputrc # /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline # See readline(3readline) and info readline' for more information. These manpages are in the package: libreadline4-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/readline.3readline.gz -- "One disk to rule

Re: AT&T Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > On Wed Feb 7 12:15:42 2001 Moritz Schulte wrote... > > > >There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. > > It's not very close to the most curretn version ksh93. I'm on it. I've just asked in debian-legal about the AT&T lic

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi jh! On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, jh wrote: > Hi. Does anyone know how or have a link to building your own grounding > device that could attach to your wrist for hardware upgrades? I live in a > very small town with no way to get one quickly. I know there are places > online that sell them. Hoping to

Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

2001-03-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > I would like to make fetchmail run as a user rather than root when run > via my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script You should consider the possibility of trying that using the fetchmail from unstable. It is safer... (speaking as the maintainer for fetchma

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