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 checkin
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 i
On 12 Jan 2006 at 19:39, Jacob S wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:54 -0800
> "David M. Besonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > i would like to be able to post and i would like to
> > have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list
> &
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?
thanks
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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,
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:08:18 -0700, David M.Besonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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 S
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 i
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 work
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 Device
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
> >pro
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
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 qma
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 about
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 cu
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+) mess
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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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 t
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,
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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 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, Majo
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
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 with
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 ne
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
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archi
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 t
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
f
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 slav
> > 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 olde
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
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 w
> > 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 depen
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,
Dave
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. Any
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 t
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 disable
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 a
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
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 to
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
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 Lin
Hello Bruce,
> You can move that "man" package over on a floppy and install it.
> dpkg -i 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 out that
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 inst
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
/lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x
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
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//net/3c59x.o
> (copying original out of way)
> and rebooting.
thanks for your prompt reply. As I mentioned to Thoma
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 config
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
disket
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
t
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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 been
Eugene H. Sevinian wrote:
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> 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
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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.te
Daniel Karlsson wrote:
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> 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.
Tim Sailer wrote:
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> 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->
this method
of selection. Then if minor tweaks need to be made to what's selected
they can be done in the normal manor before 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:
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> 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
h.
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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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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> emacs --version
> 19.31.1
Where is the .deb file? I checked unstable/binary/editors and found:
-r--r--r-- 1 daemon
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Definitely agree with this. It would be nice to have an anon-ftp
package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely
as Mark suggests!)
# Dave
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rks fine for
regular users. I simply 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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