Please note: the following is in no way intended as flame
to Bruce, Debian, or the FSF...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
From: William Burrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over
TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
Thanks Lars and Craig for your great inputs on the subject.
This will be my last follow up to this subject on the mailing lists.
I do think that the discussion should not continue on these ml's.
If you want to continue you are welcome to join the kde ml,
Everything (at this point) under X is working. But...
I'm getting a message saying:
PEX extension module not loaded
XIE extension module not loaded
It starting saying that since I upgraded to 3.2 of X.
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Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everything (at this point) under X is working. But...
I'm getting a message saying:
PEX extension module not loaded
XIE extension module not loaded
It starting saying that since I upgraded to 3.2 of X.
Add this to your XF86Config file:
I'm in need of a TCP/IP expert here to tell me if someone is
trying to spoof/ping flood me... I know someone has tried to 'big ping' me
several times due to the couldn't get a free page message on my console.
I've been running icmpinfo -vvv /tmp/icmplog, and I'm getting alot of
I recently intsalled the shadow password packages to my system, everything
seems to be going well accept for one minor hassle, my normal account cant
become super-user. When i try i get the message that i do not have
permission to do so. How do i get the permission?
thanks:)
Sahua,
- mIcHaEl
Hello,
looks like you are sending UDP:53 (nameserver queries) to 127.0.0.1 and
there is no process to answer those, therefore you get Port Unreachable
errors.
look in /etc/resolv.conf for an invalid 127.0.0.1, or start a nameserver.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
I recently intsalled the shadow password packages to my system, everything
seems to be going well accept for one minor hassle, my normal account cant
become super-user. When i try i get the message that i do not have
permission to do so. How do i get
One of my default system users (www-data to be exact) can't log in.
My other users can.
I'm using the wu-ftpd from rex.
I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP.
What must I do to allow that user to login via ftp? I want to be able to
give someone access to the web
Hey all. Im running Debian Linux 1.1 and apache 1.1.1. Ive added this to
the bottom of my httpd.conf
VirtualHost 203.17.176.245
ServerName www.b2.com.au
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot/web/docs/b2/
ErrorLoglogs/b2.com.au-error.log
Thanks to the people who sent me mail regarding Gnus... but I guess I'm
such a dunce that it'll take more than that to get me reading my
mail with Gnus...
I read deeper into the info pages, followed the cookie cutter recipe,
and still have no luck, so I made nnml the main select method...
Here
Subject: Apparent floppy disk problem
Hi
The problem exhibits itself when I attempt to create a boot floppy while
attempting to install Debian 1.1.8. The script attempts to format the
floppy disk and fails on verify - with any disk floppy I use, and I have
used about a dozen different disks,
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Tom Julien wrote:
IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine
commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it
provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards
like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for
not allowing
One of my default system users (www-data to be exact) can't log in.
My other users can.
Make sure that the shell specified for that user in /etc/passwd is
listed in the file /etc/shells.
I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP.
What must I do to allow that user
At 00:41 22-11-96 -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
|I current connect to the Internet with PPPD, and all works well. I
have
|compiled my kernel (2.0.24) with IP_MASQ enabled, and have verified
that
|this works. Here is my question.
|
|Can it be setup, so that when someone telnets into the
Recently one of our machines was hacked. Im not sure how many people know
about this hack, but, any machine that does not have a shadow password
facility and has a common CGI program called phf is susceptable to attack.
You can use phf to more/grep the etc/passwd file. The way you can check if
The Debian FAQ, answer to question 2.1:
Debian GNU/Linux is the result of a volunteer effort to
create a free, high-quality Unix-compatible operating
system, complete with a suite of applications.
The free here has to do with freedom, not price.
While I know that, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far, I've only been able to manually get a second X session going for
root (doesn't seem to work for a normal user :( ) by using the following
command line: startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 :1
How about something like 'X :1 -query machinename' where
Well, even though you're all stumped as to why that .gnus file doesn't
work, I think i've tracked the problem down to something other than
Gnus.
When I inc my mail for mh, i get this message:
inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/lars
And when Gnus calls movemail to get my mail from the
Im runing apache 1.1.1 and it always generates two identical access logs one
is access.log the other is access_log ? anyone else had this problem?
:)
Sahua,
- mIcHaEl
///\ The Australian Internet Company
c-00 ISP par Excellence
\http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine)
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I can't seem to get xdm to work on my debian box. X starts and runs
: fine if invoked with startx. The only strabge thing that I havefound is
: that I had to habd configure the /etc/11/xdm/Xservers file. I'm pretty sure
: that I got that right.
(snip)
[At the risk of being flamed for having a non-Debian discussion here...]
Shaya Potter writes:
What I remember reading was that WABI actually was able to run more
windows apps if you installed windows and ran the apps through it, then
if you would run the apps directly from WABI.
No,
I have a version of pgp... I've been trying to get working... it was originaly
a .tar.gz and I figured I'd try to get a .deb version... to see if I have any
more luck... (if it makes a difference)
BUT I can't find the .deb version anywhere...
not even at tsx-11...
there is a pgp-us.deb but this
'Tom Julien wrote:'
IMHO, a license like Qt's is long overdue. It makes a fine
commercial product available to both X11 and Win32, yet it
provides a great mechanism to promote freeware/open standards
like Unix/X11 *over* propriety ones. Troll's reasoning for
not allowing modified versions may
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:55:00 PST Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Base-passwd could indeed be improved to merge entries in to an existing
password file. I think the maintainer (Philippe Troin) could use some
script help on this - he has his hands full just allocating UIDs and
GIDs.
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:36:14 +0800 Tan Wee Yeh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
g) wrote:
At least I understand how the prior case has only local
effect and that the user is limited by the hard limts.
Now... is there anyway to raise the hard limit globally.
Normally, limits are not set (ie they're set
Normally, limits are not set (ie they're set as the maximum available). If
the limits are lower than normal:
1) either you have lshell installed, and there's a configuration file in etc
which tells you which are the limits,
yep.. got it.. Thanks a lot.
That's my first encounter with lshell
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
I recently intsalled the shadow password packages to my system, everything
seems to be going well accept for one minor hassle, my normal account
cant
become super-user. When i try i get the message that i do not have
permission to do
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Add this to your XF86Config file:
Section Modules
Load pex5.so
Load xie.so
EndSection
Sorry, that first line should
Section Module
Guy
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It's difficult enough to promote freeware in industry with
the common lack of support misperception. Combine this
I'd suggest that rather than fixing that with wierd licenses, you
just do better marketing. Works for us :-)
_Mark_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
Now, what else do i have to do to get this virtual host to work on my
machine? IF anyone has some advice or can point me in the right direction
for a HowTO, id much apprecaiate it:)
hmm... u have a lot of questions do
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
r u in the wheel group?
/ayn
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
I recently intsalled the shadow password packages to my system, everything
seems to be going well accept for one minor hassle, my normal account cant
become super-user. When i try i get
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Roger Endo wrote:
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
I recently intsalled the shadow password packages to my system, everything
seems to be going well accept for one minor hassle, my normal account
cant
become super-user. When i try i get the message
Hi all,
I'd like to summarize my experience for future newbies like me.
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Alberto Brizio wrote:
Hi all,
I have an old 386DX40 with 8MB and a CyCDROM 520ie. I've looked at
the CDROM-Howto and it appears that I've to
Hi,
If I have a printer with 2 paper trays, say one containing envelopes, and the
other containing paper, how can I send a print job to one or the other? I
suppose I would have to set up 2 different print queues. But is there support
for such hardware in Linux? At which level? Is it just a matter
tcpdump always dump this message to screen. It seems that it is a kind
of error messages.
the ppp channel seems *hang* for a while because of this error.
Anyone know how to fix it?
10:59:08.535381 x.xx..xxx.xx yy.yy..yyy.yy: icmp:
x.xx..xxx.xx udp port route
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote:
Im runing apache 1.1.1 and it always generates two identical access logs one
is access.log the other is access_log ? anyone else had this problem?
You probably have two modules loaded for logging, something like this:
LoadModule common_log_module
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Here's mine:
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 -bpp 16 :1.0
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7
This starts up 2 xdms, one at 16bpp and the other at 256 colors. The vt7
and vt8 are important -- without them, the 2 xdm's fight
Hi there!
I've heard of a magic package makedeb which can turn e.g. rpm packages
into deb packages. Does such thing exist? If so, where can I find it?
Please reply to me directly, I am not subscribed to the list! Thanks a
lot!
Martynas
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I notice that in the contrib/Packages file there is information
on the installed-size of the packages. Is there a way of finding
out that piece of information about the mainstream packages
before downloading/installing them?
Tony Ware.
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Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I have a printer with 2 paper trays [...]
You've already figured out how to do it - multiple queues. Each uses
some small program to send the proper escape codes. It's straight-
forward to set up.
Guy
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Hi
I have appended the original message.
Apparently I was not subscribed when I sent this the first time,
so did not see any responses. Please mail me directly if
you have a fix, there no need to post a second time.
I really am in a quandrary - that floppy drive looks ok, but fdformat
doesn't
Hello,
I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full
cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste
into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the
pine screen ignores the cut/paste events even though they work fine
Hi all,
When I initially installed the Debian Linux system, I did not have a network
card installed. I now have a 3COM network card installed and connected
to our Novell network. Is there any utility which will automatically do this
(i.e. prompt for the IP address, Hostname, DNS server, etc.?
If you use dselect with the ftp option, then you get the installed
size of packages during the install phase. You also have an option to
turn down a download on any particular file. Do you also want that
informtion in the select phase of dselect?
Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
Hello,
I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full
cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste
into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the
pine screen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my
finger info in Debian Linux?
And XFace?
BTW, I do not mean the .plan file, I think there is actually files
that the fingerd would look into for the info... because I got
I have sound (3.5.5-beta1) compiled as a module, this works
and is auto-loaded when required to play midi files with
midi player progs (or insmod sound) but gives an error -
Sequencer Error: Unable to open Midi #0
write /dev/sequencer: Device or resource busy
when trying to play another file
Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What file do I put my PGP public key in to have it displayed in my
finger info in Debian Linux?
.pgpkey
This is in cfingerd(8), which you've obviously installed.
Guy
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Thank you,
Cut and paste functions work well with the shift key.
Pedro Ivan
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full
cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
lawrence,
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Hi,
10:59:08.535381 x.xx..xxx.xx yy.yy..yyy.yy: icmp:
x.xx..xxx.xx udp port route unreachable (frag 22923:[EMAIL
PROTECTED])
[tos 0xc0]
same problem, you are using an non-functionalnameserver.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
Hello,
...
In a separate issue, I liked the little virtual (sticky) desktop that used
to show up in my screen allowing me to navigate from one virtual desktop
to another by just clicking the appropriate rectangle.
Andrew == Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- What file do I put my
Andrew PGP public key in to have it displayed in my finger info
Andrew in Debian Linux?
Any plain text file in .pgpkey should be displayed be cfingerd when a
remote finger
The Debian boot disk (from 7/14/96) does not recognize my NCR53c7,8xxx
SCSI controller. It seems to think it's a 53c406a with no ports
available.
I don't think it's a hardware problem because the RedHat 3.0.3 boot
disks seem to work fine. But I don't really want to use RedHat ;-)
Are alternate
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Hi,
10:59:08.535381 x.xx..xxx.xx yy.yy..yyy.yy: icmp:
x.xx..xxx.xx udp port route unreachable (frag 22923:[EMAIL
PROTECTED])
[tos 0xc0]
same problem, you are using an non-functionalnameserver.
Greetings
Bernd
How to fix
Hello,
How to fix it? I checked the resolv.conf and there is already
a line nameserver 127.0.0.1
for every nameserver line in resolv.conf you have to check if there is a
nameserver running on that host (dig soa . @127.0.0.1). Remove all lines
which don't have an nameserver running.
Hmm.. if
On 26 Nov 1996, Norman Walsh wrote:
Are alternate boot disks available anywhere? (I seem to recall a
selection of them back in the Debian 0.9x days.)
Bruce will make some for the upcoming new public Debian[TM] Release.
YOu can easily make your own boot disks if you have a running linux
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
lawrence,
I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat
filesystem so it was too difficult to add support. vfat32, on the
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
Hello,
How to fix it? I checked the resolv.conf and there is already
a line nameserver 127.0.0.1
for every nameserver line in resolv.conf you have to check if there is a
nameserver running on that host (dig soa . @127.0.0.1). Remove all lines
which don't have
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat
filesystem so it was too difficult to add support. vfat32, on the
otherhand, is a big jump considering the fact
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat
filesystem so it was too
I had installed the cpp package in lieu of installing gcc. I find myself
getting more into programming and will require gcc.
I have tried to avoid using deseled, opting to choose dpkg -i instead.
How can I remove cpp without breaking any dependencies and replace it with
gcc, since the two cannot
Rob Browning wrote:
Just for comparison (user names changed to protect the innocent :)
501$ ls -al /var/spool/mail
total 59
drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Nov 26 06:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 20 02:34 ..
-rw--- 1 user1mail0 Nov 28
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the
microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release?
I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat
filesystem so it was too difficult to add support. vfat32, on the
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