Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
y wtmp _stoped_ getting corrupted. And I have one dpkg request: An option that tells which packages were intalled since a certain date, i.g., % dpkg -older 2/28/97 . -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server.

Re: Security Packages

1997-03-19 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
), to fixperms, and scanning regularly the log files. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar, > that did a fairly aut

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-17 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
does not seem to produce negative affects. My uptime today is 19 days and have no wtmp corruption. Since last month, I have probably installed less than 15 packages from bo. It looks like this problem is somehow corrected and will disappears as new packages get installed. Ioannis

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-07 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
the data before gzip sees them, maybe that will help. I don't think Debian has buffer(1), but you can get it from a sunsite mirror. It would be nice to know if Debian has a program that only buffers, anyone knows? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Sig

Re: kerneld activity

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
happening by using the command kdstat debug, and kdstat nodebug to turn it off. Then I suggested YOU file a bug report using bug(1). It is not true you have been ignored. According to my logs, I responded within 24 hours: >>>>>>>>> From: Ioannis Tambouras <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
The more(1) pager produces correct results when 8-bit characters are send to the screen. The less(1) pager fails to do so with its default configuration: I used "setenv LESSCHARSET latin1" to get around this problem. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Flor

make config, [486] or [586]

1997-03-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
I have a AMD586-133 chip whose architecture more resembles an enchanced 486 cpu rather than a pentium. In terms of performence, is it better to compile with the [486] or the [586] parameter during make config? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp

Re: Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-03 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
arrives. Also, you may want to try different fonts, who knows. Or, try different options to /usr/bin/setterm, it might be. And if you find out, please, post the solution. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John

Debian Logo (joke)

1997-03-02 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
... Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server.

Re: can't install TeX (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
Take a look at the bug archieves for textbin at <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/>. One of your errors must be that texbin actually depends on mfbasfnt. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Eu

Re: shared library tutorial?

1997-03-01 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
look at <ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/src/tools-2.17.tar.gz> for details)." I think that is what you want. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > Hello, &g

Re: my zipper is stuck

1997-02-27 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
To view the containts do: $ tar -zvtf guavac-0.2.5-linuxelf-bin.tar.gz To untar it do: $ tar -zxpvf guavac-0.2.5-linuxelf-bin.tar.gz Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote: > > ho

Re: Free Publicity via the RC5 Challenge

1997-02-27 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
motivated enough to masquerade three other computers. Users like me, are very important. We may not control 40 computers, but for sure, we will be searching for keys every day. Lots of "would", and "would", yes I know the song. I my opinion, linuxnet was in

Re: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
688c 688e 689c 689e 690c 690e 1107c 1107e 1108c 1108e c e 1112c 1112e 1113c 1113e 1114c 1114e 1494c 1494e 1834c Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. t -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-26 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
) it should come with a crontab job to upload the result and get a new keyspace. I tell you, we could *easily* compete with linuxnet in two weeks. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hi. >

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ

1997-02-25 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
refuse connections #O RefuseLA=12 Needs to be: O RefuseLA=30 Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
ytes of traffic per keyspace block. It all depends on how fast you finish the keyspace block, a pentium 133Mz pentium will traffic about 1k bytes every half an hour. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

RC5: update

1997-02-25 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
days ago before we got started. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFFTOPIC] RC5 Challenge

1997-02-24 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
While spreading the news about the RC5 contest, I was asked the following question about the 56bit key and I wonder how to answer: What is the complication of this exhaustive search? I suppose it is exponential, but to what number? Thanks is advance Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-23 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
irst try, start with one keyspace and you will see the results in 30 minutes. I heard of a $10,000 award for the domain that comes firsts. That is why it is important to supply the "-i [EMAIL PROTECTED]" option. Thanks Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida

Re: Sorry, again... for the RC5 stuff

1997-02-23 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
I got mine from ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 If only I had masquerade for the other 4 computers, damn.. Now, only one computer eats on the tacos. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: debian-newbie list

1997-02-21 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
ckage manuals. We already have faqs, howtos, min-howtos, /usr/doc, nag, uag. You don't want to read anything, by all means, POST! ( in the-fastest-urls-are-my-D-and-ENTER-keys mode. ) Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
o some additional checks on the rpc calls with tcpdump to find why mountd failed to register with portmapper, then I will file a bug report. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: clock

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
erboard, manipulated with clock(1). Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clock

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
set to GMT In other words, if c:> time , and % date show you the right time and your are happy with that, then you are all set. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
ds the "-o mountport" option. Host uses netbase_2.06-1 (stable), whose corresponding netstd package provides only one version of mountd. I will wait 12 hours for any comments, then I will report a bug on the portmapper of the unstable netbase package. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROT

no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-19 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd 1068 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian review in Linux Journal

1997-01-22 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
but not the Debian review article. There is also a distribution comparison, dated Jan 15 1997, but it contains ancient information, http://www.ssc.com/lj/distable.html. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: How come no Aladdin ghostscript?

1997-01-21 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
The gs-aladdin_4.03-6.deb package (or a newer version) is in non-free. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Isn't it regarded that the Aladdin ghostscript offers better > fonts/features? >

Re: bash question ...

1997-01-18 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
; xmixer & Do not know about trap differences. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365, West Palm Beach, Florida On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > Are there any bash gurus out there? I have a couple of Q's. > > I have some scripts that run fine u

Modprobe. Two of a kind ?

1997-01-08 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
it with lilo when the code is an intergral part of /vmlinuz, but does not work when everyting is modularized. That is not covered in Becker's mini-HOWTO. I played with the modprobe(8) options and aliases, but nothing looks promissing. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 768/429EE365,

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
ess on the isp side. >From the /etc/ppp/ip-up comments: #Arg Name Example #$1 Interface name ppp0 #$2 The ttyttyS1 #$3 The link speed 38400 #$4 Local IP number12.34.56.78 # $5 Peer IP number12.34.56.99 Ioann

Re: ping reply without OS

1997-01-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
with the ip layer of the halted machine, when in fact it should be dead.) My real complain is when I read "System halted", my assumption has always been that the cpu has executed the x86 HALT instruction . Why not, it consumes a lot less enery in this state. Ioannis Tambou

Unidentified subject!

1997-01-01 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
GOOD YEAR everyone, After host plato is halted, I ping it from another host on the same ethernet. Plato responds with echo replies! Both hosts are on debian 1.2 . Maybe something is wrong with shutdown, but except for ethernet collisions I cannot think of any other consequences. Ioannis

Re: icmpinfo (old thread)

1996-12-18 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
; 127.0.0.1 > [localhost] sp=33285 dp=53 seq=0x0034380d sz=80(+20) > > There was no data in the last entry to the file. The data of the > ping almost always seems to have an IP address in it. What can I do, or > am I being paranoid? > > TIA,

Re: moving directories to new partition

1996-12-16 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
ry && tar xvfp -) (2) I saw a program in sunsite called "reflect". I think it is in /pub/Linux/utils/files Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: Why does "stable" point to "rex"?

1996-12-15 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
The symbolic links tell what is stable or unstable, not the dir names. When debian_1.2 was released few days ago, it was time to change the links to point at the right direction. So, the faq is now incorrect. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO

package creation, basics

1996-12-14 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
-1.2_1.deb (my unofficial debian package) is not recognized by dpkg as a valid .deb package. What should I have done instead? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-13 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
color-ls.gz): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto '; alias ll 'ls -l'; alias dir 'ls --color=auto --format=vertical'; alias v'ls --color=auto --format=long'; alias ols '/bin/ls'; Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

ncftp. Current boot disks

1996-12-08 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
? Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: internet-time

1996-12-02 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
e to get the list of stratum servers, please post! Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Duplicating Debian Installations?

1996-08-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
some /dev devices (or was it just some named pipes). I always ignore those errors, and everything works just fine. Of course... Once you transfer, remember about: rdev, /etc/fstab, etc.. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida On Mon, 19 Aug 1996

Re: lost lib

1996-08-07 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
size: 112098 md5sum: 46972d5000aa7785bad36eed1d4505e7 > When I try to use ftp I get a message "ftp: can't find library 'librl.so.2'" > I also am not able to find this library any of the places I looked. > > Thanks in advance for any help finding this l

dosemu, libX11.so.6 problem

1996-08-07 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
library 'libX11.so.6' ======== Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida