pi is
more like 63). Anybody else have this problem? Anybody know
how to solve it on a system wide basis? I'm at a loss as to
why that suddenly happened. Any help would be appreciated.
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the "Search the Contents of the Latest Release"
search field. libreadline.so.3, as it turns out, doesn't
exist, but you can probably get away with creating a symlink
to libreadline.so.4, like so:
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Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:22:25PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Patton wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> > > I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been,
> > > up
log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 210.178.232.1:4935 216.15.108.184:111
> L=60 S=0x00 I=38311 F=0x4000 T=41 SYN (#10)
> Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 64.65.56.45:1274 216.15.108.184:515 L=60
> S=0x00 I=146 F=0x4000 T=46 SYN (#10)
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apt ?
> also, how can I reinstall all installed packages?
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gain ... however, the other consoles are usable
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> > 2:0.9.3), libxml1 (>= 1.8.14), libpanel-applet0
> > Suggests: gtm
> > Conffiles:
> > /etc/sound/events/galeon.soundlist a28407fd42b9c1ba0b2eec3f9bc339d3
> > /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas newconffile
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e your new one doesn't
work, though. Temporarily setting up an option in lilo to
load your original kernel is easiest. Otherwise you would
need to use your rescue disk or some such thing.
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out $20 and works without a
hitch (indeed, it even comes with a linux driver in case
the one with your kernel doesn't work).
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. It's not
advertised because it's a totally standard feature. Being able to
directly interact with IMAP and/or POP3, OTOH, is a major selling point,
especially for people who are used to windows.
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r you can just turn them off for a bit. One really nice feature
of lids when doing that is that permissions are relaxed for that tty
only... access controls are still enforced for all other users.
I recommend giving it a shot if you are interested in strong security
and are willing to put in a f
your system
is secured properly. attr perms are really only useful in preventing
you (root) from accidently erasing something and so forth: it doesn't
provide any actual security functionality.
Lids is just one part of system security. Tripwire, libsafe, etc all
still have import
afraid of totally hosing my system. Any input on this would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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be the default regardless...
although people should be given the option during install.
Again, I think that this would be A GOOD THING. There are
many corporations and other environments that could really
use the added security. I think that the availability of a
highly secure distro or port would f
Stack guard: http://www.immunix.org/stackguard.html
Format guard: http://www.immunix.org/formatguard.html
Subdomain:http://www.immunix.org/subdomain.html
LIDS: http://www.lids.org
selinux: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
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ty's) are one such process
>
> but what could be killing it like that and causing it to respawn?
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On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:55:02AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote:
> Do I just apt-get install equivs - how do I use that?
> How do I use 'stow'?
Yup. I don't get the stow bit either, but you can apt-get
equivs. Read the README in /usr/share/doc to learn how to
use it... it&#x
It is possible, although not particularly easy, to genuinely
recover deleted files. Check out the following link...
especially the article "Bring out your dead":
http://www.fish.com/forensics/
It's a pretty cool site regarless.
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may
> be what typical users would expect).
>
> How do I install and set up KDE and Gnome to run optionally?
Install them if you have the space... you don't have to run
them if you don't want.
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few games do, but
that's about it AFAIK.
Go to www.debian.org and browse through it's packages...
many packages which use opengl have a -gl extension on their
names.
> Is there any programs to configure Voodoo2 under Linux?
> How can I check it's perfomance?
Don
, or are the permissions on tcpd
wrong? I will say that I do get finger requests which are
run through tcp wrappers via inetd... unless something weird
is happening with that. Oh, and if it's important: I'm
running a potato system, kernel 2.2.19.
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http://www.squidguard.org/
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they're dead." - Leo Rosten
n Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:09:18AM -0600, Russell May wrote:
> How do I disable the automatic blank screensaver that kicks in?
>
> -Russell May
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rm commands listed in the man pages, but my monitor
> still blanks out after 10 minutes of nonuse. I have looked through the init.d
> stuff and haven't found anything. Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks.
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e the log entries
> of it sending the previous email(messages about root sending
> email to me using postfix). any way to get rid of those so only
> emails that contain something useful are generated? being emailed
> by a program about activities it performs isnt ideal for m
iptables, it
will be logging through syslog.) Finally take a look at
/etc/syslog.conf to make sure that everything is being
logged somewhere.
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- Plato (429-347 BC)
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:09:34PM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> > Hmmm... that is rather strange. PROTO=17 is the icmp
> > protocol, but there is definately no icmp type 513.
>
> You must be running a different IP implementation than the rest of the
> world. Look up proto
he packets originated on his
> machine. Had that not been the case then ignoring the packets
> completely would make the most sense.
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in himself than in me." - Ambrose Bierce
ges with a
> "delivered" date older than N days? Is procmail even the right tool, I'm
> not so sure...
I don't know of an appropriate program for that, but I don't
think that procmail is it. Procmail is really only used to
filter incoming mail.
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tells you to), followed by `make modules` and `make
modules_install`. That's it! You won't even need to reboot.
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so because of this.
I'm not sure about what ip_always_defrag is meant to return when
called like that (probably some info that is useful to the
developers), but you can set it in the following way:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag
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ibility to handle any
problems/build issues/etc that arise. But then, I've never had any
problems with the kernel source.
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address-space
Hope that helps.
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cript
> filter).
If you have trouble with this (I do with the nice laser printers
at work), you can manually convert the pdf documents to ps using
acrobat reader. Just type `acroread -toPostScript file.pdf`. If you
know what your doing you could probably get your printer to do that
automatically.
etty well for me. Of course, you need
to be running testing or unstable and have a bunch of dev packages
installed to have any chance of compiling it.
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"I don't know")
which consistently works for me. I have the
following code in /root/.bashrc:
case "`tty`" in
/dev/pts/[0-9])
if [ "X$LOGNAME" != "Xroot" ]; then
xauth -f /root/.Xauthority merge /home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:32:28PM +0100, Debian User wrote:
> Is there a easy way to regain the file? Or does it help if I get a copy
> from another (i386 potato 2.2.19pre9) machine? If so, can somebody post
> it or send it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])?
apt-get --reinstall install lpr
ndards are both high and ambitious, and when the smoke clears
the kernel should be really top notch.
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oking up the specifications for mbox style mail boxes
online to find out what's wrong with your file.
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-Virgil, Eclogues
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:47:33PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Greetings !
>
> After 'startx' is issued by ROOT..
>
> from what file is my window manager started ?
>
> I know for a "normal" user, but not for ROOT.
AFAIK, it should b
grep ^$USER | grep -v grep | grep xmms`; \
if [ "X$pid" != "X" ]; then echo ... | festival --tts; fi
Fill in the ... with the whole echo command above, of course. $USER
should be your user name, if it's not already set.
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:48:57AM +, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> In most cases the user's .xsession file will end with the execution of a
> window manager.
> See if you have a .xsession in the /root directory.
xdm uses .xsession, while startx uses .xinitrc.
-
* ! {
> * ! (^From:.*Reel\.com)
> * ! (^From:.*sonypictures\.com)
> }
>
> But that doesn't work.
>
> And ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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gt;
> I will be playing with this more when I get home from work later.
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rog
I'm not sure if that can be done directly with a shell
script though.
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
> also sprach John Patton (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:33:01PM -0500):
> > I couldn't get a variation of that working either... but if
> > myprog is a perl script and is driven by the while(<>) loop,
> >
e so:
LDFLAGS=-L/location/of/lib ./configure
Run configure just like that, plus whatever other options
you want to give it. The flag is -L which is immediately
followed by the directory your lib file can be found. Again,
slocate is great for figuring that out in a hurry. This flag
must appear
specifically creating a statically compiled
program (which is unlikely), you need the shared (.so) lib
files.
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I have this card, and I use the 8139too.o driver. In
menuconfig I selected 'Realtek rtl-8139' as well as 'support
for older RTL-8129/8130...'. I don't know if that last one
is necissary, but my card does work fine.
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ernel to your own machine does have it's advantages though.
The resulting kernel will be smaller, faster, and more secure. And once you
do it once you can just copy over your .config file each time you do a kernel
upgrade... except perhaps between major releases.
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d go through your procmail script and make sure that it isn't creating
duplicates when it shouldn't be. I would go light on the 'c' flag... it should
only be used when you want a duplicate made.
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in your
kernel configuration, and that the modules (if you're using modules) are getting
loaded. As for thr 4th line, that's a recent bug. You can get around it by using
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l transport program that isn't brain-dead (like exim) will escape that
line before sending it on it's way. This is appropriate. You can avoid this by
changing that word in any way, such as by not capitalizing it. But it's really
not a big deal... it shouldn't be interpreted as quot
past,
> but don't recall ever actually seeing this happen.
Exim does this by default. I can, for example, send a message to myself over the
localhost and the From will get escaped. This is, anyway, standardized behavior.
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hich is not
usually a problem when your not running public internet services.
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ting in /tmp at the
> moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp to sources.list, but still no luck - I
> think it's adding things like stable or main to the path.
Just use `dpkg -i filename.deb`.
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ilters email, and it serves as a simple local
transport. Exim will use procmail automatically if it finds it.
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he filtering/processing part. It can't actually
BE a mail-server all by itself however. In short, you WILL need other
programs such as exim and fetchmail in order to be able to use email.
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d it with the
current time, or with a couple of bytes from /dev/urandom, and so
forth.
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- General John B. Sedgwick Last words, 1864
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:41:32PM -0500, hmike wrote:
> The stuff I'm seeing seems to always be coming through:
>
> X-Envelope-Sender:
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> and seems to have been received from the list server and then resent?
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> Anyone else getting
27;t need any help on that part.
Good luck... and if you need any more help just ask. Oh, make sure
that you can boot with your original kernel in some way before
installing the new one. You most likely won't get it perfectly right
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permissions each time.
> Talking about /tmp and booting, I wonder what happens to lost+found:
> deleted or preserved.
preserved. lost+found is special.
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thing that comes to mind is whether or not you have write
permission in the directory you are running configure from. That
particular test is performed by having gcc compile a small program...
if it can't write the result to a file it will fail with the above
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lease of the
> kernel.(?) Back to 2.2.x for this production box, I suppose? :(
Swap works much, MUCH better on my machine since switching to 2.4.10.
It was noticably bad before, and now it works quite nicely.
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m not currently running any sort of advanced
security software like LIDS. Anybody have ANY idea why this could
be happening? I'm at a loss. Any insight on this would be greatly
appreciated, as I really like the services dhelp provides.
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they are older than what's registered. If I
could at least get it to do that, then I could have dpkg
install them over the newer versions.
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Small
Linux (http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/), which was
specifically designed to work within 4 mb's of ram. You can
even run a tiny version of X with it. I'm not sure what you
could do with such a system, but it may be fun.
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"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to
follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
- Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet access.
When i try to restart networking, i get the following:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to
Okay. I have a regular ethernet card built into my laptop's motherboard.
I use Openbox for my desktop, whilst my wife uses Gnome. I use
powersaved for power management, which in turn uses acpid.
What i have done so far is make changes to the powersaved config
scripts. I have instructed it to resta
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