Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my
machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections
and the files that I've added (e.g. in /home/) and modified (e.g. in
/etc/) that wouldn't be recovered in a simple package reinstallation.
I see that d
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote:
(snip)
> I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard
> not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may
> not be 100%.
(snip)
Thanks very much, Nate - that's perfect. (-: I can now generate a good
exclude list with a simpl
On Wed 09 Oct 2002 10:07:22 -0700 Derek Gladding wrote:
> I'm running dual MP1800s on a Tyan Tiger MP S2460.
Me too, but MP2000s. Works like a dream, and kernel config was easy too.
The Tiger MP even came with a nice manual, though on the board itself some
of the capacitors got in my way when I
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Levi Waldron wrote:
> What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? Any user
> can place these files in their home directory and their commands will be run
> at login/logout, without having to do anything as root?
It's a shell issue - look at your shell's
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> how can one create an ip alias on an interface that has already
> another ip address?
There's a kernel option in recent kernels to enable IP aliasing. Once
you've done that, IIRC you can set the network settings with ifconfig for
eth0:0, eth0:1, etc.
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
(snip)
> Just move all your data to encripted partitions and get done with it.
I figured if I waited, it would be easy to just mkfs a strange fs, alter
fstab, and then some of my partitions (incl. my swap) could be encrypted
well. Did I wait
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box?
> and then set your resolv.conf to
> nameserver 127.0.0.1 ???
I do exactly that, then all my nameserver config is done in /etc/bind/
Seems to work okay.
-- Mark
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 the mental interface of
> Mark Carroll told:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> >
> > > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box?
> > > and then set your re
On 14 Oct 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
(snip)
> Two common reasons for going with modules:
>
> 1) Devices that need particular parameters to be configured wrt the
> handler module.
(snip)
You can normally also use things like LILO's "append=..." to pass
parameters to such modules when they've been
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.2200 +0200]:
> > I must admit, I quite like dselect. I can browse very quickly through
So do I.
(snip)
> you should try aptitude.
TBH, part of the problem for me was with apt. It would try
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, David wrote:
(snip)
> Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that
> you cannot, but this is what I'm doing. You will find this info in the
> file "filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share
On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
>
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
(snip)
> > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> > Internet (unless you really know what you're
On 15 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm looking for some software to keep track of open projects, and the time
> I've spent working on each. I need to be able to track multiple clients and
> multiple projects per client, and easily search for projects that are not
(snip)
Me too. I especially
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a
> > matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs t
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, john gennard wrote:
> I'd like to try using IRC. There seems a wide variety of programs
> available and I wonder what is the one most commonly chosen
> by list members. I'm running Woody.
I'm using ircii, which is fairly basic, but will be quite familiar if
you've used any s
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote:
(snip)
> Sorry for assuming. Those lines are there in the fresh install Woody
No problem.
> system at one of my jobs, and my Potato-upgraded-to-Woody systems at home
> and at my other job. It seems odd that whatever upgrade put the Alias
It may be that
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote:
(snip)
> Note that in /etc/apache/httpd.conf just after the /doc/ alias line is:
>
> order deny,allow
> deny from all
> allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>
(snip)
Not in
I've installed the Debian NIS stuff and it all works wonderfully for
regular users. However, /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz says that,
"Root" can - using the root password - change other people's
passwords, finger info and shell.
However, as root on my NIS master, I can't
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote:
> Does anybody khow, how can I configure the subj?
xbase-clients has xf86cfg and xf86config
xserver-common-v3 has xf86config-v3
They might be a good starting place.
Also, be aware of http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XFree86-HOWTO/
-- Mark
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I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157, but does anyone have
Debian working on it, including the optional internal 802.11b?
Or, are incompatibility problems probably not Debian specific, anyway,
because maybe it's all kernel support issues and Debian doesn't much
custom-patch the kern
Help! (-:
I've installed versions of netbase and pppd from the unstable/ hierarchy
on ftp.debian.org. Originally, I also had diald, though I never used it or even
really looked at it. I got PPP working, even managing to finger myself from
another
machine, so I decided to finish off by using dselec
> > # pon
> > Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support (from pppd, I think)
>
> AFAIK is this a 2.0.24 Kernel problem, since others reported that, too.
Ack! I wonder why purging diald started it off not working - how
intriguing. Do you know of any work-arounds? Will a different version
> > # 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 giving it t
Just wondering - can anyone recommend a POP mail client for Linux (not X),
and suggest where I can get it from?
Many thanks,
Mark
...in case anyone's wondering, after reinstalling diald and purging it
again, pppd is now fine... (-:
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> Just curious: Are there still advantages to the Debian package
> management system over the RPM system?
>
> I originally went with Debian because of the better package system
> (and because I like the idea of Debian). I know someone that is
> thinking of getting Redhat 4.0. I told him my reason
> I would prefer a much improved dselect.
> Todays dselect is not convinient to be used.
> It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny
> keyboard accel keys, no menues...)
Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any
documentation about it,
Since upgrading to the latest stable release, at boot-time I get:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135
The upgrade has put in my /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
Where do I look in my 2.2.15's kernel's "make menuconfig" to find the
thing that i
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
(snip)
> Just put a comment '#' in front of the alias and run "update-modules".
> It's for the "Real Time Clock" which is mostly not used, except in
> applications that need microsecond real-time stuff (most likely control
> systems, etc.).
Thanks! (-: I
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Knotek Vlastimil wrote:
(snip)
> It's a standart serial mouse. I've tried run both gmpconfig and XF86Setup,
> and I've tried to
> switch between all options, but my mouse still doesn't work. :o(
> Any ideas ? Thanks.
I wasted hours with gpmconfig at one time - because it start
I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand
a chance of getting it working with my system (currently upgraded to
'frozen')? If so, which SCSI driver (kernel module, whatever) should I be
using? I haven't managed to get it to do anything so far; it'd be nice to
know th
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering
> at the daemon.
>
> I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use
> in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some
> wa
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Hoover wrote:
(snip)
> Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab the
> cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp?
(snip)
You tell the DHCP client to grab an address from the ethernet card which
is plugged into the cable
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
(snip)
> Also a heads up: some cable-modem providers require you to use a particular
> hostname as part of the least request; I can't recall if RR is like this or
> not.
FWIW, RR in Columbus, OH isn't.
-- Mark
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
(snip)
> 2 - If your other DHCP server is *not* the linux box that is going to be
> talking to the cable-modem, then just hard-code 1-to-1 mappings in your
> dhcpd.conf file so that it only gives out certain IP's to hardware addresses
> that it recognizes.
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> What is the way to decode an email obtain with attachments which say
> they need to be decoded with BinHEx4.0? This originated from a Mac
>
> I am using metamail with elm which does not seem to be able to
> do it. mimencode -u was also unsuccess
I've been having some trouble with kernel 2.2.19-6. Since upgrading,
I can't get any dhcp clients to work. For example, when dhclient tries to
do a socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 768), it gets a EAFNOSUPPORT - address
family not supported by protocol. (Admittedly, socket's manpage seems to
tell you
I'm currently tracking 'testing', and run dselect's 'update', etc. fairly
frequently. I prefer 'stable' but it's just so far behind some things.
My mouse has stopped working. I use gpm as a repeater to X.
I'm reasonably certain that it stopped working since I did my update
yesterday, gpm was upgr
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> >
> > gpm-mouse-test mostly hangs, but once it did seem to find my PS/2 mouse on
> > /dev/psaux and got it running again. A reboot, and it died again.
> Can you get it working with gpmconfig?
No.
> Any particular reason you use it to repeat for X? I h
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
(snip)
> Try commenting out the repeat type and restarting gpm. I have an imps2
> mouse that works great on /dev/psaux with gpm and x simultaneously.
Okay, that's scary. I just killed xdm, started gpm with my old gpm.conf to
make sure it still didn't work
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
(snip)
> Try commenting out the repeat type and restarting gpm. I have an imps2
> mouse that works great on /dev/psaux with gpm and x simultaneously.
Hmmm - I was premature. With gpm (uselessly) repeating and X looking
directly at psaux, gpm works but X's
On 13 Aug 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
(snip)
> Have you tried repeating ps2 instead of ms3 with gpmdata?
ps2 repeating doesn't seem to be implemented. I tried 'raw' instead,
though; gpm doesn't work at all then.
-- Mark
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> Eh, last time I peeked at them I seem to recall putty saving config
> into the system's registry, instead of an INI file as tera term does.
(snip)
You can get around that with
http://www.tartarus.org/~owen/putty-docs/Section3.13.html
-- Mark
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
(snip)
> If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which
> means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All
> fully up to date.
(snip)
Well, to an extent. Sometimes when you report a problem with a package,
the
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, dman wrote:
(snip)
> So you have some choices :
> a) live with the way stable is, even if there is a bug
> b) fix your own system
> c) update your system to the "current" version (ie testing)
We don't disagree. (-: Basically, I'm saying that although my preference
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Michael Hambe wrote:
> Can any body actually tell me how to get off this list.
At the bottom of every message from this list it says:
(snip)
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you try this?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
> type: locate stdio.h
>
> is it there? Mine is in /usr/include
>
> If you don't have one, you'll need to install some more packages. I
> installed the C++ development stuff when I first installed Debian.
niagara:mark$ dpkg --search /usr/include/stdio.h
lib
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote:
(sn ip)
> "for firewall duties"... there should NOT be ppp config setup...
> as ppp is insecure ( login/passwd in clear text ) and anybody
> can login from anywhere... ??
(snip)
PAP and CHAP are okay, aren't they?
-- Mark
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Should I upgrade to woody or sid from potato?
>
> Please give me your opinion.
That completely depends on your needs. Are you suffering because you're
missing the bleeding edge features or software? Do you have the time to
work on the problems there
I have the vanilla kernel 2.2.18pre21 image running fine on a WinBook XL
laptop.
I tried compiling kernel 2.4.9 from source but seem to have screwed
something up - the system appears to boot okay and ends up at the login
prompt, but the keyboard is completely unresponsive. gpm starts up but
there'
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
(snip)
> What kind of keyboard and mouse?
I'd assumed PS/2 - the mouse definitely is, and an external PS/2 keyboard
can be plugged in - I have CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y and the mouse isn't working.
(snip)
> kernel. Another thing to try is to install the pre-packaged 2.4
>
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Scott Henson wrote:
(snip)
> well Im not looking for someone to hold my hand through the process. Im
> just looking for some advice on what is a good sceme. I will then look at
> whatever adivce I get and then determine what I need. Thank you.
Lots of people have their own
You shouldn't need the source packages in particular - you can download
the binaries packages for your architecture - just follow what it depends
on, and upgrade/install them with dpkg. Of course, you often end up
upgrading libc, etc. by going down that route: in the end, I gave up and
just went wi
Just a random idea: could an outgoing connection (e.g. to a DNS
server) being stalled because the server is doing an ident lookup, and the
incoming packets to port 113 are being silently dropped?
-- Mark
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ingo Hohmann wrote:
> don't know ... how can I find out?
Is it even possible given your network setup?
-- Mark
The kernel 2.4.9 built from source on my laptop appears to boot okay but
the mouse and keyboard don't work, despite USB and PS/2 support being
included.
The 2.2.18pre21 image I'm using works fine. So, the idea was to get the
2.4.9 image to see if that works too - if it does, maybe I screwed up the
Just wondering, is there a way to get a list of all the files on the
system that:
(a) Aren't "owned" by any installed packages
(b) Differ from any default provided by a package
...?
I guess that (b) would be impossible without consulting the original
.deb's, unless the system stores md5sums or
Since a recent upgrade (sync'd with "testing"), just about the last thing
my machine says when powering down is that modprobe can't locate module
ide-cd, hdc: drive not present. (kernel 2.2.19)
This is odd. I can modprobe ide-cd and other modules without problems
normally. The problem, I think, is
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, George Karaolides wrote:
(snip)
> Is there a way to stop Debian potato from adding the output of `uname -r`
> to the beginning of /etc/motd?
(snip)
I'm not aware of anything outside the installation process that puts it
there, so I just edit it as I like after my system is ins
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Tommi Jensen wrote:
(snip)
> I'd say squid would be your friend in this matter
(snip)
Absolutely. In fact, if your users' browser caches are mounted over NFS or
something, then sometimes you can save network bandwidth by using squid
and disabling all their caches, making squid
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote:
> anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it
My guess would be SIGSTOP.
> gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the
^Q usually works for me.
(snip)
> it's really frustrating because i o
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Doug Fields wrote:
(snip)
> How do I turn off the automatic screen blanking features?
setterm for text consoles, xset for X, might be what you need?
-- Mark
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, john smith wrote:
> what steps do I need to take in order to port a small linux app to win98?
That very much depends on what language the app is written in, what it
does, what libraries it uses, etc.
-- Mark
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aurelio Turco wrote:
> If I install Debian on a single partition,
That's the usual case on my personal system, although I don't generally
recommend the practice.
> what is the worst that can happen,
> in the following two cases (the two most
> cited justifications for having
Killing gpm lets my keyboard start working! (-:
Seeing all the stuff about gpm over the past few days
made me think to try it...
-- Mark
How do I get dpkg-ftp to look at the source distribution as well as
binary-i386?
-- Mark
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Gert-Jan wrote:
> Hello, I'm Gert-Jan Schouten from The Netherlands and I'm a beginning
Hi. (-:
> Debian user. I'm wondering where I can find a list of hardware that is
> compatibel with the latest Debian 2.2.r3. I don't see it anywhere on
> the site And if I put a brand
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Lately in my log file for exim I see a bunch of messages that certain mail
> messages are being frozen.
> Where should I look to see the reason for this nd how do I unfreeze them?
I would guess that looking at exim's mainlog from around the time the
messa
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> I believe I need to have the aha1542 module to enable me to use my SCSI
> CDRW.
>
> I am using
>
> Linux debian 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown
>
> Would someone please explain where I can find this module and
> how to in
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
(snip)
> I do not understand your response. I am not seeking to recompile a new
> kernel, but I want to make a module available to the kernel.
Where are you going to get the module from. The normal way I get modules
is to compile and install them in the
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
(snip)
> I have an AMD K6-II. "uname -a" identifies it as i586.
(snip)
That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than
what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right?
-- Mark
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:32PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
> > The normal way I get modules
> > is to compile and install them in the kernel building process.
>
> I don't need to build a new kernel. I'm l
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
>
> ROTFLMAO!!
TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using its apt access method
for a while, but s
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily
> update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that
(snip)
Absolutely - I've been far from convinced by a lot of the requirements. I
normally like to stick with "st
Hmmm - strangely, although my laptop works fine normally, if I start gpm
or xdm then the keyboard becomes inoperative. If I log in remotely and
kill them, it works again.
Any clues as to what's going wrong?
-- Mark
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kai Sterker wrote:
(snip)
> Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure
> that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually
> selecting every single package.
(snip)
"dpkg --get-selections" and "dpkg --set-selections" are p
On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote:
(snip)
> dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt.
Damn, that's annoying. ): I suppose that eventually I'll have to switch
back to apt, then. Hopefully it'll work better for me by then.
> Mark Carroll <[EMAIL P
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Michael Fontenot wrote:
(snip)
> I suspect that during installation I failed to specify that I
> wanted java support, so that binfmt_java isn't included
> in my kernel. If so, is there any way to add it now, or
(snip)
Try 'modconf' as root. Good luck!
-- Mark
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
(snip)
> /proc/cpuinfo identifies AMD K6(tm) 3D processor. The kernel I'm using
> is 2.4.9 compiled for i386. When I tried the stock 2.4.9-k6 kernel-image
> package or compiled the kernel for k6 myself, I was never able to get
> the kernels to boot. I'm ru
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> I experienced the same problem with gpm on several boxes.
> disable it. that's all i could do.
It wouldn't be so bad if the same problem didn't occur with X! (-:
-- Mark
Do you have a /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start with
exec "$REALSTARTUP" in it? If so, remove the "
-- Mark
I have a laptop where if I started gpm or xdm under kernel 2.4.9, the
keyboard and mouse would stop working.
Thanks to Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I found out that the kernel
yenta stuff grabs IRQ 12 for the pcmcia cardbus controller where my mouse
is. Adding append="pci=irqmask=0xafff" to
What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a
bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources,
in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"?
-- Mark
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote:
> Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one
> ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't
> remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference?
> I did it before on a Re
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
(snip)
> I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is
> anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by
> essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk.
> I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and c
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote:
> Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I
> have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a
good start. Maybe you can talk your l
I'd like to share how I got my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard
going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. I couldn't find specific and helpful
enough documentation online, so hopefully this message might help the next
guy.
I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and
CONFIG_SOUND_OP
Of course, Jeremiah Mahler's idea worked. I made the script,
#!/bin/bash
set -e
mkfs -c /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0
/floppy/vmlinuz
lilo -C ~/lilo-bootdisc.conf
umount /dev/fd0
And lilo-bootdisc.conf was,
compact
boot=/dev/fd0
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Richardson, Martin wrote:
> I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security
> reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to
> disable telnetd? in inetd.conf?
You could get rid of telnetd completely with something like
dpkg --purge
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> There is something weird happening with my RealPlayer. Everthing worked
> fine in the past but when I started RealPlayer 7 today there are no
> letters or numbers anymore. There are dotted rectangulars instead of
> letters and numbers.
(snip)
This ha
Bizarre! I'm glad you got things working in the end, anyway, Darren. (-: I
went for years without ever compiling a kernel, but now I've discovered
it's not so bad after all I wouldn't do anything else, although it helps
to first find out all the details of the hardware you have in your system.
That
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Justin R. Miller wrote:
> What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps
> while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried xhost
> +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick.
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works for me. Avoid xhost like the plagu
On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Justin R. Miller wrote:
> > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps
> > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user?
>
> Not at all. Such applications are not secure enough to be run as root.
Security isn't always such an issue.
On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > Security isn't always such an issue.
>
> Stability is. Think of the damage a crashing Gnome application could do
> running as root. More important, though, is the bad habit this sort of
Sure, but I don't use Gnome, and I don't touch fancy wi
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Gary Turner wrote:
> I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored?
> I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not
> there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't
(snip)
>From the bash manpage,
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
(snip)
> right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt.
(snip)
Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too?
Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the
person connecting
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
(snip)
> What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the
> firewall?
I think so, yes. Alternatively, can you have your firewall at least send
an ICMP reply to say that the packet was dropped? (like the difference
between DENY and REJECT with ipch
I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button
mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right
button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for
anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this?
Thanks.
-- Mark
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button
> > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking th
I am running wheezy and having curious trouble getting a DVB-T USB stick
working well.
The kernel log has encouraging messages, like,
usb 4-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
usb 4-4: Product: DVB-T 2
usb 4-4: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'MSI DIGIVOX Duo' in cold state
usb 4-4: firmware
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