Re: Why not SSH? [was: Easy Guide Mass Update!]

2000-05-02 Thread Ian Main
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:08:52AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > Matthew Vernon writes: > > MV> a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users > > All SSH protocol version 1 implementations (including OpenSSH) use > RSA, which is patented in the US. The only way to get ar

Re: Installation & boot problems

1999-06-11 Thread Ian Main
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:22:52AM -0400, Brian Gregor wrote: > > I just tried installing on my Redhat 5.2 system, and I am > having troubles... > > While trying to use the cross-install script, I got the > following error: > dpkg-hurd: [ too many arguments > or something similar - this wa

Re: Open ports...

1999-06-08 Thread Ian Main
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:23:59PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > >I portscanned my system a few minutes ago and it listed > >ports 21, 23, and 79 open. ftp, telnet, and finger are NOT > >running and niether is anything like inetd. > > > > But inetd had probably been started when yo

Re: New Packages Uploaded

1999-05-04 Thread Ian Main
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 05:00:28PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello, > > I uploaded a bunch of packages to erlangen (soon in master). And these are the ones we've been waiting for I take it ? :) Should I take another stab at compiling screen with the new libc ? Once I get screen and pp

Re: an important task

1999-04-29 Thread Ian Main
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:04:11PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > I don't know whether anyone is working on this yet or not but... > > > > > > It is pretty important

Trying to compile screen on HURD

1999-03-16 Thread Ian Main
Hi all, I hope this isn't off topic, but I've been trying to get gnu screen to work on HURD. I'm getting tired of having only one vt (unless there is something I'm missing..) I can actually compile it with little trouble - just have to do a bit of pruning here and there. One thing odd is that o

Re: System requirements

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Main
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:37:37PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Luck. It should in theory work to have no default pager (though that means > > you cannot use `swapon' at run time either), but there are likely some > > quirky assumptions bei

Re: cross-install problem (/boot/servers.boot got moved)

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Main
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:19:25PM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > I just ran cross-install on a Red Hat 5.2 system (getting dpkg was a > mess.. I used alien) > > and I was unable to boot Hurd. > > I rebooted to linux and found dpkg had moved /boot/servers.boot to > /boot/servers.boot.dpkg-new >

Re: System requirements

1999-03-12 Thread Ian Main
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 01:27:08PM -0800, Ian Main wrote: > > > > > > and the easy guide has something, too, I think. > > > > The easy guide (at http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/hurd.html) says:

Re: System requirements

1999-03-11 Thread Ian Main
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:08:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:33:05PM -0800, Ian Main wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:29:36PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0500, Allover Stripes wrote: > > >

Re: System requirements

1999-03-11 Thread Ian Main
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 03:36:51PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:29:36PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0500, Allover Stripes wrote: > > > > * Will it run in 8 megs of RAM? > > > > > > Make sure you have a swap partition if yo

Re: System requirements

1999-03-11 Thread Ian Main
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 07:29:36PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0500, Allover Stripes wrote: > > * Will it run in 8 megs of RAM? > > Make sure you have a swap partition if you want to do something useful > (beside looking at the prompt and whispering *ah, it