On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:17:58PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Currently, a last on my firewall box shows the "date" user logged in from
> yesterday at 06:28. Now, since that's when my crons run, I suspect this box
> has not been cracked, but can someone confirm this for me?
I don't
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to
> /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but
> there's a loud hissing or static sound on top of it.
I'd guess it's either that the .au i
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:38:48PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
> apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
> informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
> just use the re
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> then you can do whatever you think is pertinent in in your
> ~/.signature-debian script. for example:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo -n "Note that I use Debian version "
> cat /etc/debian_version
Because /etc/debian_versio
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:26:38PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> I have two Debian PC's. Both unstable, both with the basically the same
> packages installed. I want to share the packages I've downloaded with
> the other one.
> So I want to export /var/cache/apt and /var/lib/apt. And then have the
>
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:18:23AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
> What happens to testing when woody becomes stable?
Some time before woody becomes stable, it will be frozen and a new
name will be assigned to testing. testing will go on receiving
packages from unstable just like it does today. So we
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:10:08PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote:
> One last question ... how can use the swap partitions
> on both /dev/hda8 and /dev/hdc8? I did _not_ put the
> swap partitions in a RAID setup. Should I simply list
> both swap partitions in /etc/fstab? Thanks.
Yep. You'll probably a
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard Weil wrote:
> Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up
> questions:
>
> 1. How do I get to single user mode without rebooting?
> (I know I should already know this.)
init 1
> 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the
> partitions from /
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0800, Richard Weil wrote:
> I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody
> install. The software is newer than the docs,
> particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with
> experience would be most appreicated.
The Software-RAID-HOWTO got me through th
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:38:23PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:50:52AM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> > How do I accomplosh this in Debian? Please tell me I can do it with the
> > interfaces file ... I can find a reference to it in the man page but there
> > is
> > no desc
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:51:53AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> So my question is this:
> Are the W3C standards insufficient to allow the web
> designers to do what they need to do, or is my
> co-worker missing a technique that he needs to know?
I'll try not to start ranting here, b
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
> * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > http://localhost:631 or man lpadmin.
> In my case, it doesn't. I get "Unable to connect to server: Connection
> refused" messages to lpinfo, the web access tool, etc. And yes, I'm su'd to
> root
I've got an IP masquing firewall with an amanda backup server on the
inside and a mail server on the outside. I want to add the mail
server to my backups, but masquing moves the connection to a high
port number, which the amanda client doesn't like:
FAILED [mailserver: [host firewall: port 62265
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:17:15PM -, Chris Evans wrote:
> What I see in auth.log is (consecutive lines):
> Feb 14 23:19:29 www sshd[438]: Did not receive ident string from
>xxx.yy.zzz.uu (actual number removed in case!)
>I think that's an usuccessful attempt to log in, am I right?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Does anyone have a down and dirty, current and quick HOWTO on setting up
> BIND for a few domain names?
Check out the DNS-HOWTO. It goes into a lot if theory up front, and
you really should read that part, but you'd probably
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Short answer: no.
Ah, well. I've already rebooted them anyhow, though, so it doesn't
really matter.
> Next time unmount on the clients before doing something
> like that.
I just realized... The stale handles are because of the n
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:02:14AM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> It prints line 1 and only line 1 of any document. I can't understand why.
Try printing a file with very short lines.
Say,
something
like
this.
Does it print out as
Say,
something
like
this.
? If
I took the NFS server down to replace a couple hard drives on
Saturday and now the clients are all complaining that the NFS handle
for /home is stale. mounting and umounting the same export elsewhere
doesn't work, despite some claims on lkml that this might do some
magic. The other things I've tr
I'm trying to replace a pair of 30G drives in a RAID0 configuration
with a pair of 60s so I'll be able to do RAID1 instead. However, I
keep getting "file size limit exceeded" errors whenever I:
- Try to write a configuration with more than 2 logical partitions
using cfdisk or fdisk (although the
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:29:49AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> I would like to use the plain text menu, as suggest in the window maker
> preferences program. I have read the /usr/share/doc/wmaker/README.preferences
> and the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu files without success. According t
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:23:56PM -0500, dman wrote:
> What is your "raw" data? Do people always spool only Postscript,
> plain text, and PCL?
Well, actually, yes...
> What will happen on your current setup if I try
> lp -d foo.dvi
> or
> lp -d foo.pdf
> ?
There are really only two p
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:50:08PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and
> | it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in
> | print
I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and
it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in
printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters
into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent
hook in CUPS.
Where can I
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:44:46AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> >Yow, not only does the legal team have no clue about technology, but no
> >clue about the McQuary Limit, to boot.
>
> The _what???_ limit? Is that the `no more than 4 lines in your si
Like the subject says, horde from potato is hanging on me:
# apt-get install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:26:02PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton wrote:
> What is X?
The X Window System. The most common GUI for unix-type systems.
> How do you run it in case I have it?
If you have a GUI (which is pretty much a given if you're running
Netscape or Mozilla), X is already running.
--
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote:
> Is there anyway around this?
Check out expect.
> I basically want to remote shell into my server,
> run a scp command that may take serveral hours, but
> be able to let the scp take place while I exit the shell
> and go for lunch.
Also c
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:48:28PM -0600, Rob Rati wrote:
> When I try to create a file with vi and save it in this dir,
> I get the same kind of error.
Sounds like a permission problem. What does `ls -ld /usr/share/doc`
say?
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorist
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:14:03PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> I used to be able to ctrl-click a hyperlink to launch my browser & go
> to the link, but this no longer works. I've looked in the FAQ & the list
> archives. Can anyone tell me how (or where to RTFM)?
In what program?
> Also, is the
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:04:45AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> On every standard Debian install, anybody can gain the root password
> within minutes (given the attacker has phyiscal access to the box):
As others have said, if an attacker has unrestricted physical access
to the machine, he has
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run
>
> rnews -U
>
> every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has
> failed to find rnews.
>
> How can I remove this cron job?
> I have looked for cront
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:41:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to
> hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in
> comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there!
- The people. This mailing list
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
> to be specific:
>
> portmap
> lockd
> mountd
> rquotad
> statd
Yes, and all of them are in the packages I mentioned earlier, with
the exception of rquotad, which is in the quota package.
I'm not terribly familiar with the packag
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:08:33PM -0200, Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf wrote:
> 1) Editing /etc/security/limits.conf, addind the line:
>
> rbw softstack unlimited
Had you tried also increasing the hard limit to unlimited?
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terro
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote:
> and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs,
> the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an
> option during the installation? i understand
> that some people may not want these daemons
> running, but it should be offered during th
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:57:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In TeX you should write
>
> lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string
I don't think that would work properly in cases where the left and
right sections are of different lengths. My understanding of how
\hfil works
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0500, dman wrote:
> I may just have to learn screen :-).
Now that you mention it, screen probably would be the easiest way to
accomplis what you want to do...
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
I
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here is a somewhat off-topic question :
>
> You know all those nice CD vendors that have a donation checkbox for
> Debian. How do I know they are really donating the money ? And if
> they sell Debian CD's why aren't they _requi
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote:
> I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...like so
> ``wtf wtf`` on a cl ;-)
wtf's vocabulary seems a little limited:
$ wtf ot
Gee... I don't know what ot means...
$ wtf hand
Gee... I don't know what hand means...
(This is fr
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:09:23PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote:
> | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know
> | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies
> | go away?
>
> If that is the reason
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:31:04AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> dd if=/tmp/tmpimage.png of=/dev/md0
Heh... I did something very similar the first time I tried to create
a tarball.
> Not smart, this was to write to my raid system.
> Now when I do an ls I get something like:
>
> ls: lib: Input/outpu
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:50:04PM -0700, darrell wrote:
> this does irritate me somewhat too! when i was trying to figure
> out how to fix gdm, i tried to pass runlevel to lilo - this was
> nice when 1-3-5 where the runlevels singleuser-network-gui, guess
> that is old hat now?
Not, that's not ol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Matt Yanchyshyn wrote:
> Say I write some origianl code (that does not use any external
> libraries, programs or otherwise) and license it under the GPL or BSD
> license. As the original author of that code, can I change its license
> later on or it it leg
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right
> Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a
> bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.
For those who don't grok this, look at th
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:35:39PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I manage a small groups of Debian stable boxes that manage the internet
> side of a local business. I'm wondering if there is a kosher way to only
> download security patches once. Our link isn't so hot, and
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:05:34AM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote:
> What's the deal? Every email I get has the same header and
> subjust line which doesn't match with the actual messages.
> I usually just browse the subjects to see if there is
> anything I'm interested in.
Because you're subscribe
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap
> file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is
> syncing it.
>
> I don't remember exactly though.
I suppose that could lead to some nasty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote:
> this is what i put in there
> (these are the default values on my laptop
> without any data in /etc/security/limits.conf !!)
>
> * hardcoreunlimited
> * softcore0
> * harddataunlimited
> *
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:14:00 -0600, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any ideas on what might be preventing swap from getting started
> > automatically at boot?
>
> Well, /etc/init.d/mountall.
I have a quad-cpu machine running a 2.2.19 kernel with the following
lines in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0
/dev/sdb7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0
but it doesn't start either swap partition until explicitly told to
do
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Did you read the original post? The guy wants to test a site that uses
> some Microsoft specific tags in an HTML-like document. Sending MSIE's
> user agent string won't allow Opera to suddenly understand these tags.
I almost sent
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:54:00AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> telnet ntp_sever ntp
I wouldn't expect that to work (and a quick test looks like it
doesn't). NTP is UDP-based, not TCP.
> or check the log files... it should tell you which ip# is
> refusing the connections
> /var/log/{messages,
I logged in this morning to discover syslog full of
ntpd[179]: recvfrom() fd=6: Connection refused
entries. This server is configured to reference four time sources.
Is there any way to determine which one is refusing connections?
(Other than remove one from ntp.conf, wait to see if the errors s
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:58:09PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> The bug affects only a tiny minority of users: I've seen three
> reports on d-u counting mine so far.
Make me number 4, unless you've already counted my comments from two
months ago.
And I still say that this isn't needed. If an
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:53:36PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1709 +0100]:
> > Although I think that ALSA sounds like the most likely source of trouble,
> > based on previous responses, I'll also point out th
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:36:26AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only
> of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing
> it.
> What am I missing here?
Although it's not the most common configuration, ISTR th
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:52:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
> 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70
> 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3% sy
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:23:42PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> | ...unless your boot process concludes with something very verbose
> | (such as the md subsystem) spewing >8kB of useless messages which
> | drive everyth
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote:
> "dmesg" will show you the last kernel messages.
More specifically, the last 8192 bytes of them.
> Use it after boot to see
> what the kernel spits out when it boots.
...unless your boot process concludes with something very verbose
(
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Thomas Deselaers wrote:
> I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea
> to be able to switch it of as user without being root.
> I had two ideas of making this possible. The one is to make it sudo-able and
> the other is to p
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:28:05AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> That is exactly the thing I do not understand. Since those lines are only
> comments, why does modprobe tries to locate module char-major-14 in the first
> place? (I do not want any sound.)
$ ls -l /dev | grep 14,
crw-rw1 root
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> exim -Mrm will remove from the queue.
> all from man exim.
...but the thing I've never been able to find is something that lets
you do the equivalent of
exim -Mrm *
or even
exim -Mrm msgid1 msgid2 msgid3...
instead of having to d
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:06:07AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> $ apt-get install wipe shred
> $ man wipe shred
$ dpkg -S shred
fileutils: /usr/share/man/man1/shred.1.gz
fileutils: /usr/bin/shred
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. -
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin wrote:
> So essentially I can write a user mode file
> shredder/secure deletion program in C using just the standard C library on
> Debian?
Sure, if you really wanted to. Or you could just `man shred`.
--
When we reduce our own liberties to st
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:22:44PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Is the kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid package good for 2.2.19 also or do I
> > need to download the patch from elsewhere?
>
> Get the 2.2.19 or 2.2.20 ones.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:51:26PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a
> > 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with
>
> Did you app
I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a
2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y
which should be the appropriate settings. It's currently installed
on a single disk and I'm trying to use the t
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:53AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Let procmail do it. I use the following recipe for debian lists:
>
> # Debian lists ...
> :0
> * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[<] *\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mail/$MATCH/
Or, if you're runni
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:23PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of
> that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir
> will have 755 as it's default mode.
>
> How to force the files and subdirectori
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:32:18PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put
> spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your
> computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the
> whitespace's supposed to be input separa
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:24:53AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> IT? Artsy? Young? Old? Bitter? Socialist or CrewCut? Utopian or realist?
Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P+++$ L+++$>$ E- W--(++) N
o+ !K w--$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r% y+
--
When we reduce
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:00:23AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> > I was wondering about an ssh session not closing until all the programs
> > started in it are closed. How can I change this behaviour? Or maybe
> > better, how c
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote:
> After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no
> keyboard access.
> This is what the ps ax | grep wdm shows
> [08:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps ax | grep wdm
> 901 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/wdm
> 905 ?
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:01:53PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
> If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine:
> -rwsr-xr-x
>^
> I'm assuming this has something to do with it. From my limited
> knowledge, I believe this is called the sticky bit?
Close, but not quite:
-
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:57:16AM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote:
> /dev/sda5 (/var) = 1.8G total
> Used (from df) = 1.7G
>
> du reports /var = 88M (approx. 0.1G)
>
> Hence Used space not reported = 1.7G -0.1 G = 1.69G (but I rounded
> inaccurately down to 1.6G).
>
> is my maths not correct?
Your
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:40:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> A stub WMRootMenu might look as follows:
Alternately, you can edit ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain
"/etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook"
instead of just
menu.hook
and then use wmakerconf (or, I assume, WPrefs) to suck the D
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:53:03AM -0800, ben wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 December 2001 07:46 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> [snip]
> > (And, as a side note, Debian's default MTA is exim, not postfix.)
>
> are you sure about this? i would expect that any default application
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:56:41PM +0100, Josef Oswald wrote:
> I used # perl logwatch.pl but prints a error:
> sh /bin/mail file not found, could it be this because Debian uses
> postfix to fetch and send mail
No, it's because Debian policy states that only binaries which are
essential to t
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:52PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Dima (see headers for relevant tags)
It takes all the sport out of it when you specifically tell people
where to look...
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
Innocence
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:03:19PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It is an optical trackerball and as
> such it is very easy to keep clean. The large ball just pushes out and
> accumulated fluff etc. can be blown away.
I swear by the standard Trackman Marble
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
> To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
> place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people
> want it on anyway?
That's not Debian-specific. The Linux kernel ignores most BIOS
settings and
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:44:20PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian
> > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does
> > debian do any patc
How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian
kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does
debian do any patching or just distribute the official source
unmodified?
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:42:10PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Also, I still never got an answer to my question of weeks ago about how
> to change the window manager by editing a configuration file. Doesn't
> anybody know this? Is it really that complex just to switch window
> managers?
I did
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:33:50PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> xset -dpms
OK, so how do you make that the default? I've commented out the
Option "DPMS"
line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but it still defaults to turning the
monitor off after however many minutes.
--
When we reduce our
I've got an HP 2100TN and need to allow the users to select which paper
tray it prints from. It's got a JetDirect card, but the printer's
internal queue is being fed by an lprng queue. What do I need to do to
get this working properly? (Or, in the likely case that this is a case
to RTFM, which F
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote:
> Q: is there some way in Deb to cause new
> files to inherit ownership and permissions?
>
> In particular, I want files created by certain
> users in a certain directory to be owned by
> a group that each belongs to but that is not
> the
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:02:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is
> everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is
> doing to me since I fiddled with its main.cf?
The list looks normal to me. I'd guess it'
Heard a rumor on the local LUG mailing list this morning about a
remote root exploit in sshd. Nothing resembling details was
presented, just a link to the openssh-unix-dev mailing list archive:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=100696253318793&w=2
Anybody know anything of substa
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> * filtering (it would be cruel to liken it to procmail filtering, but it's in
> the same general ballpark in that you can reject/drop/delete/forward based on
> header information)
That's something I've wondered about for a while...
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I'm trying to remove some annoying fetchmail lines from the logcheck.sh
> reporting as they are not error messages and they overflow my report.
>
> I tried to add different things to stop the problem even:
>
> fetchmail\[.*\].*
>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:15:27PM -0800, L. Vogtmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:53 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Is that still the recommended procedure for installing onto a RAID
> > which is handled by this board's HPT370 controller or has something
> >
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:09:53AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.28 10:44:02-0600]:
> > Bull. Give me one reason why it sucks. It's the way of giving them
> > anonymous cvs access without too much hassle. Or do you believe
> >
I've just built a new system based on a KT7A-RAID, which I know can
be made to work, but my potato install CD says that it can't find any
hard drives and offers to load any required modules from floppy.
Poking around on google, I found a message quoting a debian-boot post
from last December (which
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:37:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I don't know if there is a way to revert back to the old behavior, but
> this change is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz:
>
> c. The completion code no longer appends a `/' or ` ' to a match when
> completing a symbo
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:25:47AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> So, I'm assuming this is expected behavior, but can anyone explain how the
> determination is made to hold back certain packages? If it's not the hold
> flag, what else does it look for?
apt-get upgrade will refuse to add any new p
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:39:33AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> .Apr 1 2001 mail -> ../mail
>
> My question:
> I'm guessing that the file "mail" is linked to here: /var/mail
> but the above output doesn't tell me that.
Yes it does. It tells you that, if you're in /var/spool, 'mail' and
'.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:09:50PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote:
> NB I've tried the 'cruft' program to i.d. whatever might be taking up the
> sudden 24% of this 15G partition. 'cruft' spits out a 500MB file when I run
> it with no options.
Well, at least then you know what's eating all the disk sp
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:28:20PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> I am not getting anything in syslog :(
>
> How can I record ssh login / logout / bad passwd
Look in /var/log/auth.log .
> How can I record all scp ops and bad passwds
scp uses a normal ssh connection, so sshd can't readily distin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:57:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Is there a way to have CAPS Lock turned on in all VCs and perhaps telnet
> > sessions by default?
>
> I believe this is a BIOS setting.
I've often seen
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