hi all,
i have recently been reading about the zero install
system as a result of my interest in the rox desktop.
i personally would prefer to use rox with apt.
however, it seems the rox devs are primarily packaging
for zero install.
anyhow, is there any reason i wouldn't want to use
zero
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0100, Joris Huizer
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you may see this as some problem:
Isn't running stuff off the net a security risk?
Isn't that where you get your software from anyway? Zero Install
automatically performs a number of checks for you (such as checking MD5
hi all,
just sub'd to this mailing list.
i would like to be able to post and i would like to
have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list
from gmane.
is this possible? if so, is there a smartlist command
i can issue to effect this change or do i need to
contact the list admin?
On 12 Jan 2006 at 19:39, Jacob S wrote:
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hi all,
i have a winmodem driver compiled, installed, and working.
weirdness: when i load the daemon at boot-time via init.d, the daemon
loads, but the modem only responds to a query when console window is
opened. modem commands and output are then echoed to the console
window.
everything
hi all,
i posted about this problem late last night but here's a clearer
daytime description:
compiled and installed
ftp://ftp.smlink.com/linux/unsupported/slmodem-2.9.6.tar.gz without a
problem. modem works fine when i (as root) use the debian script
included with slmodem-2.9.6.tar.gz or when
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problem. modem works fine when i (as root) use the debian script
included with slmodem-2.9.6.tar.gz or when i start the daemon manually
here's that script for easy reference:
#!/bin/sh
#
# slmodemd:Starts the
hi all,
i rewrote my post more clearly and reposted.
please post all follow-ups to the daemons, init.d, and console output
experts thread.
thanks,
david
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El jue, 07-11-2002 a las 16:36, CANDIDO MANUEL ALVAREZ DIEGUEZ escribió:
estoy recomilando el kernel 2.4.18 en un Pentium I 100, con 16 de RAM.
Cuando ha acabado la compilacion e instalado lilo o en diskette y hecho
el reinicio no se carga, simp`lemente vuelve a reiniciarse y asi
: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner
...
;
Para fijarla, 'man ifconfig', sección media type.
Es de gran utilidad añadirlo al archivo /etc/network/interfaces
Un saludo.
David M.
poff, claro está) (chmod 4755
/ruta/del/pon)
Un saludo,
David M.
El mar, 05-11-2002 a las 21:12, Alexis Venturino escribió:
Alguien sabe como redireccionar los LOGs del SQUID a otra PC
1) 'compartes' un directorio con otro ordenador,utilizando samba, nfs,
ftp, lo q te de la gana
2) ln -s /localizacion/del/log/del/squid.log /lugar/compartido/
Al iniciar OpenSSH, ya en modo debug por no funcionar en modo 'normal',
me dice que falla al leer los archivos de claves. Están creados
correctamente, puesto que los he creado en Gentoo de la misma manera y
funciona. Puede ser algún tipo de fallo en la configuración? algun
archivo .lock?
Gracias,
Hola.
Al iniciar 'sendmail', o intentar lanzarlo, recibo el siguiente mensaje
de error:
~$ sendmail
sendmail: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
sendmail)
(parece que necesita GLIBC 2.3)
Al hacer un dpkg -l ..
un glibc-2.2.5-14 ninguna (no hay ninguna
There are two very good books available to help you: Robert L. Ziegler,
Linux Firewalls (New Riders), and Wes Sonnenreich Tom Yates,
Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls (Wiley). The first covers the
protocols in detail and provides comprehensive scripts. The second
obviously also covers
I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled
the 2.4.1 kernel.
MAKEDEV chokes, with the output:
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found
I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the
fact that in /proc/devices, under Character
Dear friends,
before anything else, let me thank you all for your support!
I think Laptop vendors should start looking at supportintg Linux as you
can see people wanting to purchase a laptop (such as myself) will prefer a
brand (or generic) laptop that does support Linux!!! :)
Now regardng
Dear friends:
I just installed qmail1.01.deb and I still got the same 'hard error'
report. Also to install qmail I had to remove libpthread0 and splay and
then install libso and libc6 before qmail could be installed.
Now qmail might be installed but it will probably not work cause
control/me
Hi there again!
more surprises! ;) Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there
is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run
./dnsfq hostname. It reports hard error!
Have any of you qmail installed on Debian? Did you encounter this
problem? If
Hello guys!
If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is
widely supported by Linux (Debian)?
Thank you.
Dave
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Hello guys!
Is there a qmail 1.01 package? I couldn't find one in any of the
contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories.
I found one in project/experimental and it works great.
I'd love to try qmail! I have a large mailing list running and the
ability to send many (200,000+) messages
Hello guys,
I am about to install qmail when, voila! Qmail has already the user ids
and groups created in /etc/passwd and /etc/group???
I never installed qmail before and it is not a package in dselect... so I
assume smartlist or some other package added this in for me???
Also the sh in my
Hello guys,
more surprises! ;) Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there
is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run
./dnsfq hostname. It reports hard error!
Have any of you qmail installed on Debian? Did you encounter this
problem? If so how to go
Dear friends,
I have Debin Linux (1.3.1) and when I installed I setup a 128MB swap
partition. Unfortunately, mirror.pl requires heaps of memory when
mirroring large ftp sites and as I was initializing time stamps it ran
out of memory.
I would like to add a swap file so that I can initiate
Hello ppl!
I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing
a scan of / with and -fstype argument...? I am not sure what it is but
can someone kindly explain me?
Maybe I should start looking for security patches for Linux (Debian) huh? ;)
Thanks,
Dave
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Oh I see :)
It is just that nobody kinna got my attention... ;) Thanks guys for
clearing this to me (I did kill the process just in case! ooops! Anyways
if it is running of cron it will start again some other time)
I have another quick question for you if you don't mind... :)
I am running the
Hi there people,
I need to find a good MLM (mailing list manager) for Linux. I wonder if
any of you have some pointers to comparison charts for MLMs (features
supported, etc.).
I have searched the web but did not find anything relevant.
I am particularly interested in comparing Listserv,
Hello there!
I am looking for a good IDE for C/C++ development for Linux (Debian).
Something like Turbo C++ or better, either for X or not (if it could run
from both would be nice :) )
If there are other IDE for JAVA I would too like to know which one is
best :)
Thank you for your time.
Dave
Dear Carl,
I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a Linux or Unix expert, but
as an experienced software trainer and former network manager and
customer support person, I hope I'd be able to contribute some
experience with the thought processes of the non-expert.
Yes, please do. We need
Hello ppl,
I have been (quitely) reading the Debian project thread and I was
wondering whether the following is possible.
Why do we have to limit ourselves to debian-lite or any such subset of
Debian?
Is it not possible to have some sort of pre-packaged configuration files,
that you load
Mmmm wouldn't this have to do with the following (old) postings...??? ;)
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0057.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0096.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0089.html
Hello again,
Mmm I would think the installation would have prompt me for that... (it
did ask whether to use the lilo.conf configuration file).
Anyways I have booted from diskette and ran `lilo`.
I still get the 01 01 01 01 01 01 How can I revert back to my old
kernel image? Just change
Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do?
yup, i do just the same on my setup - i pretend to the bios that i dont
have any ide disk, so that i can boot on my scsi drive.
of course, this does not work for people who use a so-called operating
system that depends on
Well since this seems to be such a hot topic ;) I felt I should give my
opinion.
Well here it goes
I think the current naming convention is fine. :-)
Of course the symlinks *have* to be there to make things clear to everyone.
And despite not being a developer I still love to know
Dear friends,
I finally got my NIC card and Linux happily married! ;) Well at least
during the honeymoon (well I only tested pinging thus far! I hope I am
not celebrating too soon... :-o Anyways it *is* a step forward!)
I would like to thank everyone out there for their support. Without you
Plug and Play SCAM support
--
The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if
enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices
that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are not affected (except
some older SCSI 1
Hello Lindsay,
have you read my latest good news! :-] BTW thanks alot for all the help
on the NIC problem. I really appreciate it :-)
I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway.
Yep I did it and it worked! :)
Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slave
Hi again,
Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages
including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to
compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted!
Now just as I get to the lilo prompt all I get is
01 01 01 01
Dear friends,
It'd be interesting to know how many active Debian systems there are out
there!
Me too. There was some discussion on debian-private a few months ago
about writing a package that would collect stats about the systems
it was installed on - and send them via e-mail to a
Hello folks,
I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup. Now
it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux
is). Can I change this? I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a
master) and eventhough BIOS did not detected it, Linux did.
Hi again
Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do?
If I only have one IDE drive should I set it to slave or master (I know
normally is master) in Linux? If I set it to slave BIOS doesn't even
detect it :-)
Any consequences of changing these settings?
Regards,
Hiya Travis,
I just switched from Red Hat 4.2 to Debian 1.3.1 and I am now realizing how
much
Red Hat really hides you from things.
I was trying to decide what distribution to install (RedHat versus Debian)
just b4 I shifted to Linux. I must say in the beginning I was very much
inclined at
Dear list members,
I was looking at the documentation my adaptec PCI SCSI and notice a
couple of configuration parameters that could be changed when running
under Linux (rather than DOS or Windows). These are:
Plug and Play SCAM support
--
The default setting is
Dear listmembers,
I have just installed Linux (debian) and I was very happy with the
installation wizard. It sure made it easy to install.
I would like to suggest something though. Is it possible that in future
realease 'man' be included in the base system? I'll explain why...
I have
Hello Bruce,
You can move that man package over on a floppy and install it.
dpkg -i package-name should do, unless it depends on another package,
in which case it will tell you about that.
I have tried this but there are dependencies. I keep getting the
required packages down only to find
Hi again,
Well I got most of the things I require down. BTW I got an error when I
did the 'dpkg -i man-db*'. It installed but complained at the end and the
script aborted at line 87... it still works though...
Now the question is I need to get a 2.3MB package onto floppies and then
to the
Hi there Luis,
I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
preferred procedure for doing this?
(I have some clues: use a
Dear listmembers,
Thanks alot for your help. The split command worked like a beauty! :-)
I installed gcc (+ the required package cpp and a few other suggests nad
reccomends).
Now the problem is the following:
In the source code of the patched/updated driver it says at the end what
command
Thank you Andrea! :-)
put a blank between the option '-c' and the input file argument
'3c59x.c'.
It did work with the space. :-) You see the source code has a carriage
return just at that point. I assumed as all of the other arguments were
glued together this one would be too. I did notice
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Dear friends,
I have just installed Debian Linux. Congratulations for the installation
wizard. I found it pretty easy and straightforward with lots of useful
information.
Unfortunately the only part I haven't
Dear Jim,
Thanks alot for your help. I just have another question... when I was
installing Debian (latest version 1.3) I did noticed that they do have a
module (NET) that supports 3C59x. Since this is a recent release of
Debian why isn't there a more recent copy of the driver made available in
Hello again,
I am still somewhat confused on how I actually go about installing the
3c90x.c driver... I would appreciate some help/tips or alternatively,
pointers to FAQs etc where I can find more info regarding this.
I have just installed Debian 1.3. I got the Rescue and Device driver's
Dear Thomas,
Well, get the kernel-source package aswell as the kernel-package. Install
both, then go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and replace the file 3c59x.c
with the patched version you obtained from Donald Becker's page. In
/usr/src/linux, do a make menuconfig to run the kernel
Hello Jonh,
I did it by getting the 3c59x.c file and just compiling it
using the compile line shown at the bottom of the file.
Then I copied the 3c59x.o file to /lib/modules/version/net/3c59x.o
(copying original out of way)
and rebooting.
thanks for your prompt reply. As I mentioned to
Hi again!
nearly there... :-)
ok # cd /
ok # tar -zxvf /tmp/3com_tar.gz
ok # depmod -va
A listing of the modules is displayed.
ok # modprobe -v 3c59x.o
Nothing happens. I assume this is a good sign...
The last step should initialize your card. If it works, do a
ko # rmmod 3c59x.o
The
Hello Allen,
I guess will be in interactive mode :-)
After rebboting once again I do get some output from modprobe -v 3c59x.o:
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o: unresolved symbol register_netd
ev_R24876de2
Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:
This version of Netscape which I have installed recently works very
bad. I am getting this error very often.
Will be thankfull for any advice.
One of my users complained that Netscape would bus error
whenever he tried to use it to send email. I found this
very
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I'm having trouble nfs mounting a Debian box from other machines... 'ps
-aux' indicates rpc.portmap, update, nfsiod (4 instances), kerneld,
inetd, bootpd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.mount, rpc.ugidd. Other processes seem to
be working well (apache, netscape, in.telnetd,
Daniel Karlsson wrote:
Hi
It's been a while since I wrote about this but it's been a tough week. I
repeat my problem.
I'm trying to install debian linux on my computer. It works fine until I'm
supposed to partition my hard drive. Then fdisk complaints that it can't
seek on it. This is
Tim Sailer wrote:
I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the
new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no
executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong?
I'm too tired to think anymore tonight..
Tim
I just installed 'frozen-rex'
proceeding with the install.
But this is just cosmetic. The options you suggest would make me very
happy.
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Mark Edward Johnston wrote:
I have installed Linux (Debian 1.1) on a friend's computer,
but can't get X to work as it complains about not being able to
find the mouse.
The system is a Gateway 2000 DX2/66 with Cirrus Logic 5434
and what seems to be a PS/2 mouse.
I have linked
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mice and in some cases it seems to be needed even for serial mice. I
don't know what the common denominator is for these cases but since I've
seen a couple, I'd sure like to know.
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David M Cooke writes:
David Will the officially release Debian 1.1 include emacs-19.31?
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19.31.1
Where is the .deb file? I checked unstable/binary/editors and found:
-r--r--r-- 1 daemon ftp-linu 5071046 Mar 7 03:40
package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely
as Mark suggests!)
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copied /bin/ls to ~ftp/bin; I thought the
problem may have been that ls couldn't find its libraries after the
chroot, but copying libc.so to ~ftp/lib didn't help either.
Any ideas on how to enable DIR for anonymous ftp users?
Thanks,
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