This list is definitely being used to harvest e-mail addresses.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are two of the addresses from which I supposedly received mail on this
address, which obviously I only used for subscription to this list.
I'm not on the list at the moment, if anyone needs to
I just grabbed the OpenSSH 1.2.1pre27 sources from the openssh web site.
I already had a working installation of OpenSSL (also built from source).
For the most part OpenSSH works fine, but I have 3 problems with it -- one
of which may be a bug in the Makefile/configure script, but anyway
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if
> they're both provided in the same commandline.
Aha! I thought it was odd to have been dumped into such a quandary. :)
Thanks, I'm sure that will prevent much future fr
I just downloaded the source to licq 0.75.1 and compiled it fine, no
problems. However, I'm trying to build the qt-gui that it comes with and
am getting an error and I might need some help figuring out just what is
wrong with my setup. I am pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do
with qt, b
cd /dev/
./MAKEDEV audio
should make those devices for you.
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrote:
> Hi all!
> I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after
> installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling
> the emu10k1 driver code from creative I
The correct way to install a new window manager is to use
register-window-manager.
register-window-manager --add /usr/local/bin/blah
or
register-window-manager --default /usr/local/bin/blah
to make "blah" your default WM.
Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in th
You will need to use ifconfig to set up your network adapter. For
example:
ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4
You also will also need to add routes depending on what kind of network
environment you are in (is this machine a gateway, or does it use another
machine as its gateway, etc.). Respond to the list
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> It seems to be still in the netbase package. I can't find a separate
> portmap package. Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood you. Yeah, there are
> different scripts that separate the networking stuff, but the
> portmap binary still comes packaged in the netbase de
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they
> range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in
> /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there
> a way to keep it from starting in the first place?
OK. As a continuation of my previous ramblings on resource limits, I'm
running into two more similar issues on my slink machine.
According to /etc/login.defs, I should be able to employ resource limits
by editing users' passwd entries. I have "QUOTAS_ENAB" in login.defs:
# Enable setting of uli
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> So I've bought a new hard disk (Maxtor DiamondMax VL20 10.2Gb UDMA66),
> but have discovered that my Award BIOS will only address a maximum of
> 8.4Mb.
> Can someone tell if it's safe to dive in right now and I can get the
> extra 1.8Gb at a later da
Actually, shouldn't it be:
append="mem=96M"
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> > Yes, but it doesn't work!!! I added "append mem=96M", and the kernel
> > still sees only 64. 8-/
>
> It should be 'append "mem=96M" ' (without the '). See man lilo.conf
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
> And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters?
> They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory.
OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a
time) and none of them alone was suf
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:
> He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of
> setting
> limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or
> whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose
> all the limi
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since
> they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where
> pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be
> ulimited past that.
Hmmm. How would a user "
LILO will do just fine.
See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html
On 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Alright so i'm cheap.
>
> I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one.
>
> I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5
>
> I also need s
I've also heard about those problems. I can't remember the details
off-hand, but they can be found on the BUGTRAQ mailing list
(www.securityfocus.com has an archive).
I've done a bit of searching myself for the "ultimate ip logger" and I
really prefer iplog.
http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/
It has
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a
local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with
512 MB of RAM:
core file size (blocks) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes) 22528
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes)
You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right?
Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1
was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted
off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong "lilo.conf" was read to write your
boot sec
You can put:
ifconfig eth0 netmask
into /etc/init.d/network .
You will probably also have to add your "route" line in there as well.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked
> fine in Red Hat and appears to wor
Should be in your limits man page.
If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and
/etc/security/limits.conf instead.
Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote:
> &
FWIW, I think I would rather have "toor" (or a username of your choosing)
*not* have UID 0, and instead just be permitted to su to root if it
becomes necessary, while having a statically linked shell such as sash.
You can force a shell different from root's usual with the -s (or
--shell=) argument
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote:
> As for why we're using group "root" and not "wheel," there's a little note
> from RMS in the su man page... check it out. (Personally I disagree with
> that thinking on this, but that's where the explanation is.)
A
OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I
restrict a user's max virtual memory usage? Not sure if anyone else has
seen it, but there's a DoS exploit around (which will actually eat up just
about any *nix box AFAICT, if there are no resource limits in
effect) which eats u
OK thanks for the info... I seem to have /etc/login.access working
now. The problem was as you had indicated... the user I was trying to
restrict was a member of my "root" group so unless I restrict him
explicitly with his own entry in login.access, he can also log in on
tty1. Other users are suc
Apologies if this has already been answered. I just subscribed so I may
have missed it if so.
Anyways, you can create a file in / named "forcefsck" if you really want
to do this:
touch /forcefsck
See /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh to see why. :)
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I made a little mistake... I don't
have "ROOT" but rather "root" :P
So it shouldn't be a case-sensitivity issue... that was just a typo in my
e-mail to the list. :-\
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote:
> # Restrict tty to
Hi, I have a question pertaining to /etc/login.access. I seem to be a
little confused about exactly how this file is read by login.
The format is straightforward and makes sense but I am trying to restrict
tty1 to root logins and I can't seem to get it just right.
Here's what I have so far. Mos
I just burned some CDs from their ISO images. I have the m5dsums of the
images, and now I'd like to compare a hash of the completed CD against the
original image... basically I want to make sure the CD was burned ok.
I'm concerned because the hard drive I downloaded the ISOs to was bad, and I
had
; concept
in .deb format, where the package is all laid out and just needs to be
re-compiled and re-packaged.
Thanks for all the help. (I love this list.) :)
- Original Message -
From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian-user
Sent: Sunday,
Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f.
For example:
tail -f /var/log/messages
However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file
when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last
lines from the old messages file
This one's a quickie.
I had a 1.2 gb which was split with a 64 MB swap and the rest was the
primary partition (ext2).
Now I have a new disk as hda, a 17 gb, and everything's fine. I set up my
old disk as hdb. blah blah blah... However I'd like to reclaim that old 64
MB swap partition and use i
What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can
specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I
think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out.
There must be some program that will tell me this... no?
TIA.
I'm looking for a way to force my pppd to cycle through the several dial-up
numbers I use for my ISP if any of them fails. If one of their lines is
down or doesn't answer, I'd like to automatically dial one of their other
numbers.
I could probably write up a script to do this but I'm wondering wh
Hi all, please see this excerpt from the man page for /etc/limits:
LIMITS(5) LIMITS(5)
NAME
limits - Resource limits definition
DESCRIPTION
The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE
defined config.h) describes th
This isn't Debian-specific, but I tried another list I'm on and didn't hear
anything back
Anyone else running xinetd (the inetd replacement)? I'm wondering if
there's a way to use wildcards in the access control ("no_access").
For example, with inetd you could deny:
.aol.com
and that line
al Message -
From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian-user
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: "S" file permissions
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote:
>
> > (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
> >
(Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.)
Can someone explain what this execute bit means?
IOW, what is the difference between "s" (suid) and "S" (?)?
I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV
standard. Someone else said it's "super-suid" or suid without eXecut
Hi, I'm currently running slink on kernel 2.0.37 and am looking into
upgrading my kernel to the 2.2.x series. I remember having seen a page on
the debian.org site which told of the pitfalls and considerations (i.e.,
what other software needs to be upgraded to remain compatible) of doing so;
howeve
I've found this site to be particularly helpful:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/
- Original Message -
From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian-user
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:09 AM
Subject: shell programing
> Is there any good online document for shell programing u
1999 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
> Jim B wrote:
> >
> > That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape.
I
> > heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well,
the
> > free space kept getting l
That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I
heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the
free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped
and I got a Kernel Panic.
After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sector
Perhaps you have a "left-over" .pid file in /var/run/ .
- Original Message -
From: Johann Spies at Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian-poslys
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: Removing a pid
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow w
My machine (Debian 2.1 slink, stock kernel (2.0.36)) has been locking up on
me unpredictably.
This occurs every several (3-4 on average) days and has been happening ever
since I installed Linux on this machine. (There is no other OS on there.)
My hardware is an Intel 200 MMX CPU on an Asus PI-P5
Note that you also could get dupes as a result of the client PC, i.e. the
one FROM which you are pinging your Linux machine.
I saw this happen a couple times at my old job... a kid was pinging a host
from a Win95 PC and was getting dupes... it turned out that he had Client
for Microsoft Networks i
> Windows is not Linux. Linux is not Windows.
This is not about "what OS is for whom," "who is what kind of user," or
anything like that. The question is: "Does a client with these features
exist for the Linux platform?"
If one does not, it would be nice if somebody made one. It doesn't have to
Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't
matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them...
and that can filter based on the "account" concept rather than just on
headers?
If I'm not making sense, I'm looking for something for Linux that c
The version of lsof that I see in the slink and potato dists is only usable
on kernels up to 2.0.35. Yet slink is a 2.0.36 kernel, and potato is a
2.2.x kernel... which means the lsof included with the distro is unusable.
Is this a distro bug or am I just missing something?
"ifconfig -a" will show aliased interfaces, though.
- Original Message -
From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 6:14 PM
Subject: slink ifconfig broken
>
> Just a note that ifconfig on slink will not show aliased interfaces.
>
> The source for potato back
My Linux box locked up on me this morning. Running the stock Debian
2.1/Linux 2.0.36 kernel... and only two services, telnet (from xinetd) and
SSHD1 (current version).
It runs all the time over a dial-up PPP connection... but I couldn't log
into it when I got to work this morning; I figured maybe
You could run /usr/sbin/switchdm to change your default display manager.
Regarding the xdm start-up scripts: you will find them in your /etc/rc#.d/
directories. The easiest way to disable it from boot-up is to run:
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
Check the man pages on update-rc.d though, before you
You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run
ifconfig.
If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode.
ifconfig -a
or
ifconfig
- Original Message -
From: Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:44 PM
Subject: che
>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong "real" device.
What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd?
hda = primary master
hdb = primary slave
hdc = secondary master
hdd = secondary slave
Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt
Once you get it w
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