From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:21:27 -0600
I assume the reason why US-based people have it easy when they make
donations is because the treasurer is in the US. For whateve
I'm having trouble installing debian on an Ultra E1. I have (several times
over the last couple of weeks) downloaded fresh copies of the rescue and
driver-1 disk from the sun4u directory, and the root disk as well. I've
written them to several different new disks.
I get through to the part whe
I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the
mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out:
Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message, but what is wrong with
mail/mailx?
the permission's on /var/mail/myuse
tzconfig will let you specify the timezone if you want to try to adjust it,
but you might have set up the system so that it expects GMT from the
hardware. Also, depending if it is some applet or xprogram that's displaying
the time for you, you need to check and specify the timezone for that
pro
Hi,
I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I
did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the
new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried a
few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were
From: Adam Majer To: Roderick Cummings CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:19:15 -0600
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: > > Hi,
> > I had a system running testing for a while, and I de
From: "Jason M. Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Testing to unstable
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:55:51 -0500
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:15AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
| On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings
From: "David S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian enquiries"
Subject: problem installing debian
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:31:41 -
Hi, I recently got a copy of debian 2.2r4 through one of the official
vendors on the debian website and i'm having trouble accessing the x window
system
thi
From: Stuart Krivis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Subject: Re: Debian Vs RedHat
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:21:13 -0500
--On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]:
Does the RPM build
From: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian on Lindows ?
Date: Fri 11 Jan 2002 04:05:07 MET
Hello Debianites,
Personally i've grown attached to the Debian way of doing things (cfr.
prev. mail) yet am still stuck with a windows-only scanner.
I was wonderin
> Is there a safe and stable way to build/install woody packages onto a
> potato system other than to dist-upgrade to woody?
what's from with dist-upgrade?
Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition:
request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open r
From: Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: dd to /dev/tape Advantages ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:23:57 -0500
For backups,
I understand the disadvantages and simplicity of using tar.
I also like using dump now that I understand it.
I was wondering if a
From: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roderick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:28:46 -0500
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:3
You have to start somewhere... And Mandrake has been pretty
good to me. It's only flaw that I see is that it is based on
RH/RPM. If it was based on .deb, apt* & dpkg, it would be
perfect...
No it would be progeny. (er ... would have been)
_
From: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:32:12 -0500
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:26:44PM +0800, [EMAIL
From: "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: problem removing a file
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:11 +1000
Hi,
I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no
quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our
sysadmins was testing a burt b
I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in
debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages
else where?
_
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.co
From: Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Martin Würtele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: nis +
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:59:20 +0200
Martin Würtele wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:29:48AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
> &
From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:30:28 -0700
Problem 1: the cursor won't respond
I installed the Potato release as the default OS in a dual-boot
setup on an Apple PowerBook "Pismo" (Fire
From: "Eric N. Valor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Debian-User Mailing List
,debian-firewall@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: turning off exim on port 25
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:22:12 -0700
I'm pretty sure that you can either start it in inetd mode
From: Brian Dunnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: LILO error: "ran out of input data"?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:52:57 -0500
Hey all...
Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after
wading
through LOTS of stuff (the installer crash
From: Brian Dunnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LILO error: "ran out of input data"?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:33:30 -0500
> Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem.
Funny thing is, I've tried using different memory (a newer
From: "Andreas Mueller (EED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: lynx depends on libz1
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:34:21 +0200
Hallo Debian's
I've tried to install lynx out of the potato 2.2 r_0_ CD-Roms using dpkg
Lynx claims to depend on libz1. I couldn't find thes
From: Manuel Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:24:36 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,
I recently thought I'd take advantage of the low RAM prices and got some
memory for my home machine (Athlon 900, Asus A7V). I bough
From: "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Subject: Installation Problems
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:24 -0400
I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was
in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this
time.
I tried installing Debian Potat
I have set up a debian system to act as an intrusion detection system with
portsentry. Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making
the scan. Is there a way to get this information propogated to nearby
routers, etc. It would be interesting to have all traffic to or from the
o
From: "Rajkumar S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Roderick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian
Subject: Re: Port Sentry
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:51:46 +0530 (IST)
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Roderick Cummings wrote:
> Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip
From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Port Sentry
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:50:39 -0400
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote:
> > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the
> > scan.
>
> Is it wise to bl
I was using vnc on a small box to run a gui program, but I have managed to
mangle it rather badly. Anyway, I got the idea to remove the menu's,
toolbars, etc in icewm so you can't open any programs while logged in via
xvncviewer. I did this my removing the menu package, and then going into
/usr
From: "Roderick Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: vnc icewm and no permissions
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 22:30:55 -0400
I was using vnc on a small box to run a gui program, but I have managed to
mangle it rather badly. Anyway, I got the id
From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: do you know any free proxy server?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:44:07 -0500
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:21:30AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm assuming www -
squid
You could easily search
From: "Margarete Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Subject: gnome/KDE
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400
What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically,
which one should I install?
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From: Jerry Sternesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: NFS
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:58:58 -0400
Where can I get information on setting up an NFS share for Potato? The nfs
how-to isn't helping me and in The Debian GNU/Linux Network adminstrator's
manual, the nfs
From: Vector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:30:48 -0600 (MDT)
The fact that your provider is using an etire class B address space fo
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