[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] I'm back from the dead (and they were far out, man)

2000-09-12 Thread Magni Onsoien
Sunnanvind Briling: >Then you should be able to use ANY ftp-client >that come with your distro, but I'd recommend ncftp or you could try >'apt-cache search ftp' and just install whichever look interesting. > > Thanks for the tip. > I just remembered that the last time I was fiddling

[techtalk] RedHat, glibc and your friend sash.

2000-09-12 Thread Magni Onsoien
Some may remember me complaining about glibc before, more specifically a couple of weeks ago when a glibc-upgrade broke tcsh. A prompt reply and fix from RedHat fixed my problems, so I was quite satisfied with their service. Now I am less satisfied again. Due to more security holes in glibc, I d

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] I'm back from the dead (and they were far out, man)

2000-09-12 Thread eito
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:12:47AM +0200, Magni Onsoien wrote: > If you are behind a firewall you might have to use an ftp-client that > supports passive connections. I wish I could use ncftp for that, but I > have actually never managed to get it to work in passive mode (ncftp > 2.4.3 on Debian 2

Re: [techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

2000-09-12 Thread Eva Fenrich
Hi! On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:56:31PM -0400, Lyric . wrote: > After completely installing Linux (and making a Linux boot disk) you then > install Windows NT4. This will overwrite the existing Linux mbr, no worrie > though, you want this. I think it does not matter which OS you install first

linux rescue toolkit (WAS:Re: [techtalk] RedHat, glibc and your , friend sash.)

2000-09-12 Thread curious
Btw since you mentioned sash I figured I'd mention some other "must haves" in terms of rescue operations: 1.tomsrtbt:http://www.toms.net/rb/ (tom's rescue disk) 2.a dos boot disk with fdisk so you can /mbr when the master boot rec goes foobar 3.http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/index.epl (linux