HOLA NECESITO INFORMACION

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debian security y Potato

2000-07-09 Thread yashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD Hola gente como andan? espero que bien, hace un ratio que acabo de hacer upgade a potato con el apt, todo una odisea con teniendo una dialup como tengo, estube 3 o 4 dias bajando paquetes :-) El mail es por que cuando yo tenia slink en mi

Re: Database program

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Thompson
The spreadsheet tsiag the console version of siag spreadsheet from the Siag Office Suite might fit your needs, I use it for my bookkeeping applications. It will save your data in a variety of formats and has minimal memory needs. A simple but fast database I use is NoSql, a flat file

Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-09 Thread Corey Popelier
When its done just run make bzlilo, and then if you want to be really careful run lilo. But make bzlilo should be enough to reboot with your new kernel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello

Re: HW for UPS

2000-07-09 Thread Bill
Slightly OT. I recently bought a MGE Pulsar Ellipse, the software it is certified to work with Debian 2.0, I have it working with Slink (though the cfg app segfaults, manually edited the config files). The software requires libc5 and ncurses3. I haven't put it completely through its paces though

(solved) Re: simple dhcp questions...

2000-07-09 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Thanks for the help! For the record, to get it to work I had to do 2 things... 1. Add an entry in my ipchains rules to allow broadcast input over eth0 to pass through. (I had been previously dumping them since they seemed suspect). 2. Move all references in the dhcp.conf from freindly names to

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now i am uncertain

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-09 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jul 08 2000, Charlie Kroeger wrote: Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? If this limit does exist, nobody told my kernel about it. :-) Seriously, though, I have a 12GB partition in this system where I'm composing

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i like to remap ctrl-alt-del to go to runlevel 1, i set: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/init 1 i find it quite useful if something in startup hangs i can just go straight to runlevel 1 or if something crashes i can go there easily too, much faster then a reboot for me(it takes my machine a full 2

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
The following is advice for anyone who runs into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't boot, computer screen displays boot failed) when trying to install a Debian installation from floppies (maybe some other distributions, as well). The machine here is a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486,

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point

dhcp network

2000-07-09 Thread kirby
I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running Storm2000 to my existing network. There already is a router (Linksys BEFSR41) used to connect my DSL modem to the network and act as a fire wall. Could you please tell me how to set theDebian Linux to get the IP address dynamicallyfrom my

Swat too slow

2000-07-09 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote: If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one of those partitions empty, Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh.. The 8 GB limit applies only to

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.

Re: networking questions

2000-07-09 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Am Sam, 08 Jul 2000 schrieb Franco Cone: Howdy! I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 networked machines (win98 debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: 1.how do I let win98 see the debian box

Solution: Re: apropos won't stop

2000-07-09 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: if I start apropos [some command] apropos just won't stop writing what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate it. whatis works fine. What might be the problem here? I found some old posting in Deja.

Re: older packages

2000-07-09 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 10:20 PM Subject:

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Neuro
Hi, actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to change but I don't remember which one. They were at the wrong place in the worng time.

Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jay Kelly hat gesagt: // Jay Kelly wrote: I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. I looked in the

file permissions in /var/log

2000-07-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. This is what I have currently: # ls

Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Gray
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:39:57PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello all, I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to the internet. There are security risks with 2.2.15. option I want, I type

Re: Cant find bzImage

2000-07-09 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to the internet. There are security risks with 2.2.15. http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/11/960780464.html

email to fax

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Mason
Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264

Floppy/NFS Install Problem

2000-07-09 Thread Michael Boyd
Hello, I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely

RE: Debian Printing Again

2000-07-09 Thread R. D. Loga
I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig to do it. I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working. If this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf

Xfree Mode Switching?

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Pierce
I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Werner
Ethan Pierce wrote: I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan Make sure that you are using the correct + key. The one at the right end of the

Re: Debian Printing Again

2000-07-09 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello, This will be the first time I have installed a printer on the machine. I ran Modconf and didnt see anything for a printer. All I see is Ipv4 and net drivers. What am I doing wrong ? I am running potato but I dont think that should make a difference. Thanks On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

2000-07-09 Thread ktb
Mike Werner wrote: Ethan Pierce wrote: I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan Make sure that you are using the correct + key. The one

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:45:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is the least of your worries, they could simply enter shutdown -r now. Or rm -rf /. Or echo 'toor::0:0::/: /etc/passwd. Or I guess I had in the

Re: email to fax

2000-07-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. Intercept

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) Simply don't use the -a switch then. I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's

Re: older packages

2000-07-09 Thread Bruce Sass
have a look at: http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/ - Bruce -- On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. - Original Message - From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL

ssh and extended keys

2000-07-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got two machines here and frequently hop between them with ssh. When I open a terminal window (Eterm or xterm) on one and ssh to the other, home, end, and the numeric keypad don't work. If I open another term window from within the ssh connection, they work just fine. How can I get ssh to

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-09 Thread kmself
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: Rogerio Brito wrote: On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the SVGA server. ::sigh:: Is there

Using modconf

2000-07-09 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, I wanted to use modconf to add printer support to my potato box, but when I run it all that is in there is net options. How do I add more module options ? Is this down though the kernel ? And if so what do I need add to the kernel for printer support ? Thanks Guys -- It feels so

Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall

2000-07-09 Thread Jay Kelly
Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open if this is the case ? Thanks Guys -- It

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) you could put one of the system account names in /etc/shutdown.allow say bin who

Re: file permissions in /var/log

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:20PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown has -rwxr-xr-x perms? Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't do anything useful.. Ummm...yup. And with that I have met my quota for dumb

reboots while backing up

2000-07-09 Thread zdrysdal
Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi! On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: I suppose the moral of the story is, Don't leave root logins unattended. (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) May I quote the man page[1]? [...] If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Werner
Bob Bernstein wrote: snip I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm not sure if this would work, but perhaps

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: (if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot /sbin/shutdown -r now) The hard drive spun, a beep was emitted, and the process ground to a stunning halt. I am deciphering the error messages now. g All kidding

Re: reboots while backing up

2000-07-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a new server which

Re: Floppy/NFS Install Problem

2000-07-09 Thread Michael Boyd
I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and 1MB

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
I changed my line to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo Won't work (The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's dutch..) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Bob Bernstein wrote: snip I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Re: email to fax

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Hellberg
Chris Mason wrote: Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. You could set up an alias on the email

Re: reboots while backing up

2000-07-09 Thread zdrysdal
It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 12:49:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboots while backing up I

Re: reboots while backing up

2000-07-09 Thread zdrysdal
you can get it from http://www.mrbean.dk/sitback; i can backup the local /usr directory fine which is about 660MB but it reboots when it tries to backup an AIX samba shared directory of about 2Gig worth. Weird. Pperhaps i should try nfs sharing the AIX directory instead of samba sharing it.

Emacs ps-print-buffer omits a line

2000-07-09 Thread Nick Willson
Just a minor problem I've experienced with printing from Emacs. Perhaps I've misconfigured, please let me know if so. Details below. Thanks. Nick Packages: emacs20 20.5a-1.99, emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99, emacsen-common 1.4.8, lprng 3.5.2-2, gs 5.10-9.1. Kernel is 2.2.14. Printer is an Epson

ethernet card

2000-07-09 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I find out? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier,

checksecurity script

2000-07-09 Thread Mathew Johnston
The script checksecurity which creates the setuid.* log file and is distributed with cron doesnt have a whole lot of documentation. How does it log? Can it be made to log through syslog? Also, I'd love to see this distrubuted in it's own package, so that it may be build upon further to do md5

laplink for dos

2000-07-09 Thread pca
do you have the laplink for dos ? you can send me ? i am from Brasil and my inglish is no good sorry an tank you very much Paulo Brasil

RE: samba Passwords

2000-07-09 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
I have always found SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) to be very handy when it comes to managing your smb.conf and smbpasswd. Give it a try Cheers. Patrick My apologies to the person who coined this but I LIKE IT... Where do you want to go today?

RE: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-09 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \(Patrick\)
Run df -h. Sorry but I have not used mutt before -Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:32 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: What drive is the dir on ? Hey Guys, I have two ide drives install and I