Is there a reason why we haven't seen ALSA modules for kernel 2.4.20,
yet?
I've got my laptop set to boot to either 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 because 2.4.19
has ALSA modules for my soundcard but no support for my USB midi
interface. Conversely, 2.4.20 now has the usb-midi.o driver built-in,
but I can't ge
From: "Ed Cogburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Are you also compiling your own kernel?
No. In the past, I've been able to just compile (and use) many modules
simply by providing them with the kernel-headers (or, in rare cases, the
kernel-source).
Compiling the kernel myself has always seemed to yiel
Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid
computing, so they got themselves about 7 old PC's and they wanted to set them
up.
I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be
able to keep them up-to-date without having all 7 hit the package servers. Since
they are all configured the same,
Okay, I'm stumped.
I used to go directly to ftp.debian.org for my packages. However, I
started feeling guilty about hammering the central servers, so I started using
mirrors.
The problem with that was that many of the mirrors
would either be a few days out-of-sync with the central servers
I've got a built-in ethernet jack on my laptop. Being a laptop... this jack
is often not plugged into anything (aka: I don't want it coming up
automatically on boot). However, being a laptop, when it *is* plugged in, it
gets plugged in at a variety of places (aka: I need DHCP).
The problem is that
I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at
school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some
software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing
restrictions, they don't exist on the normal Debian mirrors. Two examples of
this are the J
> dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null > Packages
> gzip Packages
>
> you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night
>
> is that what you were asking?
Um... Yeah! It even generates the "Size" and "MD5sum" fields. Snazzy. Thanks
Jason and Stephen.
Oh, and you can save a step with:
I've been having a problem with my Debian system
automatically bringing up my eth0 interface even though I don't have it marked
as "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces. Until now, I had figured that it was due
to a bug in ifup that brought up all auto *and* all dhcp'd interfaces, but now
I've d
> Most likely it is not ifup, but some DHCP client that is being
> started. When debian boots, it runs 'ifup -a' (see
> /etc/init.d/networking) to bring up things listed as auto.
Actually, this is happening before /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown gets run. In
fact, I've pretty much traced it down to /etc/r
Okay... I *had* horde2/imp3 working about a few
weeks ago.
Now, it doesn't work. This probably happened after
one of my apt-get update/upgrade runs. Normally, when stuff breaks after an
upgrade, I can fix it myself, but this has me stumped.
When I go to http://myservername/horde2, I get t
Alan Connor wrote:
First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then
why did you respond to it?
Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy
"Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you pulled me over, then you
must have been speeding, too. So YOU'RE under arre
Simple situation
At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP
with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key.
They all have different SSID's.
What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian
laptop so that, when I boot the
Simple situation
At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP
with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key.
They all have different SSID's.
What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian
laptop so that, when I boot the
Craig Tinson wrote:
Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a
number"?
Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been
done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch on all
of the possible things I can think of:
First, either you
So, I had an idea of *something* I could do to try to help fix this
"Sobig" virus problem.
Since the sender address is certainly spoofed, I figure the only way to
track down the source is from the "Received" lines in the mail header.
I figured that, if their machine is poorly-managed enough for
I started getting this from several binaries (mysqld, for one) immediately
after upgrading to the latest packages in 'unstable' (it had been about a
month since my last update).
Anybody know:
1) what's causing this.
2) what I can do in the short-term to fix it
3) when it will be fixed in the p
Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and
a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had
just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I
decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable'
bad idea.
It
Okay, here's the deal: I've got perl, mysql, perl-dbi, and mysql-dbd all
loaded. The perl-dbi stuff is very dependent upon the build of perl (to the
point where I suspect that a rebuild of perl will break DBI unless it, too,
is rebuilt in the context of the new perl binary). The same seems to hold
I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and
smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy,
were the clients pissed...).
So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say,
/usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package maintainers
I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT
and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the
first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second drive,
hdb.
My lilo.conf looks like:
root=/dev/hda
image=/dev/vmlinuz
It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of
ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us
select one.
I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good
knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org).
Howe
Not sure what the original post is, but you might want to check the MB
compatibility HOWTO. I had a SuperMicro P5MMA98 board and I found out that
it had a BIOS glitch that pissed Linux off. I was able to download a flash
upgrade and then Linux installed perfectly.
- Joe
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>What I need is a lists of reasons, logical supportable reasons, that I
could
>use to convice a change of standardization. Quite literally, this will
decide
>what the next 50-100 systems will look like. DO they run Redhat or
Debian...
How's this one: We recently had a rash of intrusions on seve
From: Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?
>To be somewhat dispassionate, you might send a similar query to a RedHat
list.
Well, now THAT's a silly ide
>Joe (and anyone else interested),
>
>Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's
>a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly:
Cute. However, I'd be heasitant to make dselect depend upon yet another
package. Keep in mind that dselect has to fit on the instal
>I haven't looked at a recent version of the Best supplied software, but
>bpowerd is better in that it is a proper daemon and uses the syslog
>correctly. Also, it communicates with sysvinit thru a direct pipe
>(/dev/initctl) rather than using messy (and standards non-compliant)
>status files in
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you
> want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source.
> However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit
> most user's needs. I've had momentar
>> I'm guessing that reboot != shutdown -r "now". Try running:
>> sudo shutdown -r "now"
Uh. no. Last time I checked, it wasn't even close.
The story I've always heard is that you shouldn't run halt or reboot
yourself. Those are run by "shutdown" as the last thing it does. "shutdown"
unmoun
>are there any other tools that can do it?
The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use
nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the
machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in a domain...
but I couldn't figure out how to
>Hello All,
> I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home
>directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from
>/var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin.
>I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals and tried
> when I tried to remove KDE via dselect,
> it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they "weren't empty"
> or something)
I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the "orphan"
directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we can
go in later and cle
>Autoppp works and I get a
>succesful PAP login. After that though, the home-client machine and
>the work-server don't seem to communicate the local and remote
>addresses properly - resulting in the home machine giving up saying
>that it "Could not determine local IP address" and hangs up ppp with
>On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
>> Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is
>> 192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I
>> have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local
>> network.
I'm assuming
>I finally worked out how to pon to specific providers using
> pon
>
>How do I find out what my connection speed is?
Well, for *starters*, you need to make sure that your modem is reporting the
DCE speed (the speed it's talking to the other modem at) and not the DTE
speed (the speed it's talking
>Questions:
>1. How should I redirect user's mails:
>For example I want mail to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname
Put:
smartuser:
driver=smartuser;
new_user="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
in your /etc/smail
>> One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that
>> you may have other packages that also use the same support package.
Seeing how this problem is almost identical to the problem of memory
allocation in a language like C or C++ (ie, memory-leaks vs.
dangling-pointers), perhaps
>i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now
>getting the following error message:
>
>Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r+"): Too many
>open files
>
>any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed.
The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and lo
I was wondering if there is a more friendly utility than dselect out there.
I realize that, since it has to fit on the install floppies, dselect has to
remain pretty lean. I also know that there's been a lot of talk about
graphical config tools... but they seem to have been just that: *config*
tool
For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and*
unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more
importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without
having to wait for the next official release of Debian.
Well, it seems that bug f
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes
I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with
the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make
this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the
/etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's what
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes
I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with
the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make
this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the
/etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's what
Sorry about the duplicate... I'm still trying to figure out why Outlook
Express does that sometimes
I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential
model of drive on /dev/hdb.
The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a "pretty
good" mirror of /dev/hda. (By "pretty good", I mean... it's okay if I lose
some log entries, etc I just want to b
It seemed to happen when I upgraded the smail package... probably to
.101
smail no longer delivers mail immediately. It queues it up in
/var/spool/smail/input until runq is run.
I've tried setting "delivery_mode=foreground" and "delivery_mode=background"
in /etc/smail/config and I've also
I've got a little linux box configured as a dial-on-demand masquerading
router for the other machines in my house. It works great. when using a
normal modem.
I got ISDN, and I've been able to use it without any problems when I use it
directly from my Windows98 machine.
However, when I try usi
>I call my net localnet and if I fill in that as the domain in win98 it
>tries to look up LOCALNET.localnet ?? if I dont have any domain it only
>lloks for LOCALNET go figure :(
It sounds like you might have "localnet" defined in two places, as your
domain, and also in your "domain suffix search
One of the faculty at our university runs RedHat (blech!). He hasn't kept
the packages up to date and, subsequently, has suffered an intrusion. I was
called in as the recovery team.
I discovered that RedHat's rpm package manager has a really cute feature. If
you run "rpm --verify -a", it will che
Well, Mitch did a darn good job of explaining all of this, but I'll still
throw in my two cents...
>Question 1. Is the calculation: = speed> div correct ? (ie. 512K / 33.6K = 15.238...
>users)
Like Mitch said, this assumes that everyone's going to be downloading at the
same time. Since you sa
>How can I re-configure my network after installing linux?
Well, assuming you're talking about changing the IP address... you need to
change a couple of files:
/etc/init.d/network - Shell script that sets up your ethernet interface.
/etc/hosts - file that holds the IP's of "well-known" hosts..
>Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's
>already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are
>removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be
deleted.
>Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero.
T
>> ... I suggest
>> that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call
>> this "broken".
[ snip ]
>Witness a post of mine on Monday: "Upgraded to unstable, now unstable" ;-)
Well, it has always caused a little confusion (for me and the others that I
have introduced to Deb
>Maybe they could get a question like "do you want to get rid of YYY
>too? It was installed only for supporting XXX but may be useful
>on its own."
Uh... I think I mentioned this a few days ago. So... I guess my vote would
be... yes. I'm all for it.
I guess the thing I was mostly suggesting was
>I got it to work successfully using ipautofw. I follow the instructions
>on winroute site (www.winroute.com). Here is what I did:
[ snip ]
>"If you wish to run several ICQ clients in your LAN (and these clients
>need to accept calls from other ICQ users), you have to create an entry
>in the map
Here's something someone posted a few days ago
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Folks,
If you are getting the error
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
after upgrading to slink, please go through the mail below. Mitch's
solution worked for me.
I had a hard drive go wiggy on me
yesterday.
It didn't crash completely... it merely started
giving read errors and causing all kinds of filesystem wierdness (like things in
/usr/bin that you can't run because they're "not found", but you can't install a
replacement because "file exists").
Okay folks today is "cleanin' out my closet"
day as far as Debian problems goes, so you'll probably see a handfull of
questions from me today. Try to be patient and gentle.
First off, I've been using Debian for quite some
time 4 or 5 years now, I guess. Back then, you had to set
Okay... next question:
I keep my machines current with the "unstable" store. About a week or two
ago, after upgrading several packages, dselect has started acting really
strange when I run it from Van Dyke's SecureCRT (and probably normal CRT, I
figure). When I exit from the "(S)elect" mode and g
I run about 7 Debian boxes... and I keep them all
up with "unstable". I use dselect to maintain my list of packages to
install/remove, and I used to use ftp as the fetch method, but I've recently
converted all over to apt.
Anyway, some time ago (about a year, it seems),
many if not all of
>
> > It's really not so damn difficult to be honest, but the first time or two
> > it might seem daunting.
>
> Why not try to make it less daunting? Is it supposed to be some sort of a
> rite of passage?
Exactly! I keep seeing posts from people who say "All I did was
'cat /usr/bin/pon' and we
>
> Furthermore, saying its NOT is the documentation is just totatlly
> wrong! If you chose NOT to install the HOWTO'S or INFO,
And how would I go about doing that? I've got 5 install disks and a machine
with a modem that can only get to the net via PPP. I'd install the HOWTO's
with dselect but,
I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able
to use "make menuconfig". The problem is:
kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig)
kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc
ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev
gcc conflicts with libc5-dev
Now, I suppose
I just tried to updrade my system from the stable and unstable
directories. It downloaded a whole mess of things (about half of them
seemed to be libraries). Anyway, it began installing them and, starting
with about the third or fourth package, it starts seg-faulting in all of
the pre-inst scripts
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> [snip]
> > when it tries to run a shell script. At this point, I'd like to motion
> > that the Debian policy be changed so that the shell pointed to by /bin/sh
> > be compiled with *static* libraries?). If I go to the (S)elect screen, I
> [snip]
Wel
I'm interested in getting a book on adminstering Linux systems, but just
about *every* book I look at focuses on Slackware. *Blech!*.
Are there any books that focus on Debian?
- Joe
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I installed the msql package and it tries to start itself from a script
called "run-msqld" in /usr/sbin. The script runs msqld, waits for
it to exit, mails a crash report to "msql" and then waits 15 seconds
before trying to spawn it again.
Well, ever since I installed it, it's been filling my /va
I installed the Apache package. The only problem it's giving me is
that, when I specify a URL of a directory (like "http://www.blah.com/snot";),
it says that it's not found. If I add the slash, it does find it.
Ideas?
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I'm trying to get mgetty to answer an incoming call on a data line.
I'm running "mgetty -x 4 -D /dev/ttyS0" and it waits on the line until I
call in (I'm running it explicitly from the cmdline as root until I can
figure the problem out). On the first ring, it dumps me back to the
command prompt.
> ...When I call from a normal phone, I hear a ring, a click,
> another click, and then that's it.
>
> A peek at /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS0.log shows:
[snip]
> >10/22 16:42:03 yS0 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> >10/22 16:42:03 yS0 cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not
permitted
[
> From: Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ snip ]
> Look at the compilation options for both of them and make
> sure that they're each using, e.g., "/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0" for the
> lockfile, and that they write their pid in the file in ASCII format
> (not binary). (This is from the Linux FSSTND.)
> From: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl
problem))
>
[snip]
>
> > However, this has *not* fixed the bizzare problem with pppd thinking I
> > don't have PPP support compiled in, even though I do.
>
> is ppp compiled into the kerne
> From: Johannes Plass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
> too tight.
> Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
[ snip ]
> The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
> any dependencies specified by pack
> From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?
Yes and no.
Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called "efix" and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.
No, because I
I'm trying to send faxes via either efax or mgetty's sendfax with no
success.
I started by using efax's "efix" to generate some group-3 files. Once upon
a time efax would try to send them... now it isn't even able to dial.
So, I went with sendfax. Sendfax dials, connects, and then starts sending
> From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?
Yes and no.
Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called "efix" and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.
No, because I
> From: Johannes Plass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
> too tight.
> Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
[ snip ]
> The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
> any dependencies specified by packa
I've noticed that all of the upgrades to packages usually go into
"unstable".
What, exactly, does "unstable" mean? Does it mean that the packages haven't
been 'frozen' into a new release of Debian? Does it mean that the package
itself is flaky? or does it mean that the version number of the packag
> From: Johannes Plass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Annoying package dependence concept
>
> Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes it does. You can hit "Q" to force dselect to accept things as you
> > have chosen.
>
> Pre
> From: Daniel Miin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: dial up networking
>
> how do I configure the system so that it can do dial up networking? When
> I installed debian linux onto my 486, it did not recognize my modem
Do you want to dial-up *from* your Linux box to an ISP, or do you want to
all
Now that I've got dial-in PPP working, I was wondering if anyone has
implemented any ways of limiting how clients can connect with it. In
particular, I'd like to:
- Limit how many simultaneous PPP sessions a user is running (to keep them
from buying one account and letting 12 friends browse the web
> From: David Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I was doing some house cleaning and found a file named "[" in /usr/bin.
> Does any one have any idea what this is? Is there way to find out which
> package it came from? Here is ls -al:
>
> LeBox:/usr/bin :-> ls -al [
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root
Does smail support virtual hosts for its aliases? For example, would it
work to have an aliases file like so:
postmaster: root
webmaster: jdoe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: client1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: client2
If this isn't supported, does anyone know of any mail trasnports that
*do* support thi
>
> Is installation possible over a modem via an ISP?
Yes! I've done it. Basically, all you need are the five installation disks
*and* the ppp package which is only about 90k (which, in my opinion, should
be given careful consideration about inclusion into the base disks, since it
makes it easier
I was trying to upgrade Apache to the latest version in /unstable the
other day. It ended up dumping core every time I tried to get anything
from it. I eventualy reverted back to the old one by "installing" a
previous version. However, this had a bad side effect:
The new version moved a lot of t
>
> Is there a simple way to access a linux filesystem over a serial cable?
The simplest way I can think of is to use SLIP or PPP. It would be just
like setting up a PPP server and a PPP dial-up, only no modem init strings
and such.
- Joe
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>
> I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, without
> having and links destroyed, and without entering the neverending loop with
> regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All attempts that I have done have
> resulted in files that links pointed being copies, instead of just making a
>
> I think I may have found why people are so unhappy with the new release of
> the Apache httpd: when it moves the directories,
I ran into this problem when I tried to upgrade, too. The upgrade moved the
log files from /var/log/apache-httpd to /var/log/apache. This caused my
custom /etc/cron.we
>
> Help! (-:
[snip]
> # pon
> Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think)
Okay, first off... this message is VERY misleading. What this really means
is that the pppd was denied, and it's assuming that the kernel lacks support
for it.
In my case, it was that I was g
>
> if you have separate ip# for each virtual host ... read the documentation
> in the smail-3.2 source ...
>
> if you only have different names for one ip#.. hmmm ...
I don't see any reason why smail can't just look at the "To:" field in
the header and look for any matching aliases that contai
>
> Thank you all for your help, but the command I ended up using was this:
>
> cd /mnt
> find ./ | grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc | cpio -p
Well, we're well off the topic of "Debian", not to mention Linux-specific
problems, but
you could have replaced the "grep -v ./mnt | grep -v ./proc" w
I wanted to start employing mgetty's fax spooling features. Unfortunately,
it want to convert my text files to g3 files via ghostscript. This wouldn't
bother me if it werent for the fact that gs seems to want to bring just
about *every* library in the debian catalog along with it. Seems pretty
was
I was tinkering around with mgetty's fax scripts and came across something
wierd.
When I use "faxspool" to spool up a fax, it generates a file called "JOB"
in the /var/spool/fax/outgoing tree which describes the job (who spooled
it, what the original file is, what g3 files to send, recent status
>
> > I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
> > still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
>
> This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated
> from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware)
Well, you have to und
>
> > I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
> > still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
>
> This is a true problem which last from the fact that X11 is seperated
> from the stadart toolkit Motif (which is payware)
Well, you have to und
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> I had the same problem and the md5sum checks so it must be something
> else. Here is the result of my attempt:
>
> bash# dpkg -i kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb
> (Reading database ... 27768 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Unpacking kernel-source-2.0.23 (from kernel-source-2.0.23_
I didn't notice crack or cops listed in the Debian 1.1 package listing.
I ftp'd crack and had trouble compiling it, discovered many others did, too;
found the glitch and fixed it.
So, it brings me to an interesting question: Is there a reason why cops
and crack aren't in a package yet, other tha
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> > Pardon my ignorance but what exactly are "crak" and "cops"?
>
> Cops: security checker.
Cops does some cute things. First off, it checks for some obvious things
like, say, your /var/spool/cron/crontabs dir being world-writable or your
hosts.equiv file being world writable, etc
It's go
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> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting mgetty to work in the inittab file,
> if i do mgetty 38400 ttyS1 & it works fine but i have to manually
> reset it everytime a user calls. What line do i need to add to my
> inittab for it to automatically do it for me as i keep getting it
> wrong.
Is anyone aware of permission/ownership problems with /usr/bin/filter?
I was trying to use the "filter" command that comes with the elm package
and I ran across a problem.
When instructing filter to save to a file or to do anything other than
placing a copy in my mailbox, it does fine. When it
I'm trying to get an e-mail->alpha-pager thing working. Everything is
working except the fact that I don't have permissions to use /dev/ttyS1
When I send a page as root, the page goes out fine.
When I send mail to, say, jdoe, I have /usr/bin/filter pick it up and
execute the pager script, and i
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> The problem is that user 'jdoe' is not who runs the pager process. My bet
> is that it's user 'mail' that is trying to send the page, who does not
> have the proper permissions.
Well, the pager process is spawned by "filter", which was spawned from
the user's .forward. So it would be a "bad
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