Greetings,
Is anyone on the list using the tac-plus package for TACACS+ services?
If so, can I ask you to send me a copy of your tacacs.conf file? Please
sanitize it before sending to me (passwords, etc.), but I'm looking for
guidance on the format of the file. I'm having a hard time figuring
He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh.
Pete Templin
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To: debian-user
Subject: Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM
I did a live upgrade (production server, company doesn't have funds for a
development or transition server) on a box from Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2,
and reminded myself why I don't like to upgrade boxes. I've got most of
the stuff fixed (finally), but I get these errors in dselect:
When trying to
I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation
fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it. Could somebody
per chance mail me a working bash, and/or tell me some quick fixes to get
it working. I tried reinstalling the .deb, but of course that doesn't
work. I t
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Robert Maynard Rhyu wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
>
> > How do I change the ip address of my machine without rebooting?
> >
> > I did an
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.255
> >
> >
Anyone here know of any software packages which simplify the process of
offering a free email service like Hotmail? It doesn't have to be _free_,
but affordable is important. Operability on Debian Linux is essential.
Thanks,
Pete
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On
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:28:03PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote:
> > A few questions about amanda, for anyone who might be familiar with it:
>
> > ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ERROR:
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ben Frame wrote:
> I just got Samba installed and it seems to be working fine. But it
> doesn't always show up in my Network Neighborhood under Win95. Both the
> Debian machine and Win95 machine are on the same subnet and both are in
> a workgroup called "linux." I've mad
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Max wrote:
> I have a problem in that I'm quickly running out of space in /usr but
> I have tons of space left in /home. Here's what df shows:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 497667 35357436608 7% /
Does anybody have good patches for procmail and qpopper (from the hamm
vintage) that implements a hashed mail spool (aka
/var/spool/mail/u/s/user), preferably such that they use the hashed
version if it exists, and the non-hashed if it doesn't? I'm not a good
enough C programmer to even attempt t
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
> On 15 Apr, Pete Templin wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2
> > LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the
> > AIC-7xxx, of course
I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2
LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the
AIC-7xxx, of course), and I get the following error messages:
(scsi0) found at PCI 11/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloadi
Good evening,
I'm having some stressful difficulties with some routing issues.
I've got a modem server with 16 modems on a Cyclades serial port box. I'm
trying to statically route six Ip addresses
(204.186.230.8/255.255.255.248) "down" one of those modems. I can do so,
but anytime the m
Good morning,
I'm experiencing some difficulties with a samba server I've got,
and frankly I'm perplexed. I'm trying to use user security on a server
that was providing server security, and I'm getting the above message (The
specified device does not exist on the network).
It wo
Folks,
I'm trying to configure a dial-on-demand Linux box to dial into a
Linux dialin server with a Cyclades multiport card and the standard mgetty
"AutoPPP" stuff. Since it's AutoPPP and hence PAP authentication, I need
to disable the script.
I've done so, but I don't seem to
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Pete Templin wrote:
>
> :
> : Hi:
> :
> : In the process of debugging a variety of quota problems visible in
> : procmail-based mail delivery and qpopper-based mail pickup, I believe I've
>
Hi:
In the process of debugging a variety of quota problems visible in
procmail-based mail delivery and qpopper-based mail pickup, I believe I've
identified an interaction problem between chown and quota. Essentially,
if a program running as superuser creates/appends/edits a file which w
Hello there!
Here at JD-WEB I'm using procmail as the local delivery agent within
sendmail 8.8.5 on Debian 1.3.x with quotas enabled and "in effect". I've
found that procmail won't deliver (a.k.a. will bounce) a mail if it would
put the user over soft quota.
Is it me, or is this an odd behavi
(A forwarded message, due to mailer problems...)
--> please forward this to the mailing list for me, thanks Fuz
we have gotten the pppd daemon to start correctly using pon and poff
scripts but we note that now that we ppp support compiled in verses in
modules the ppp.o module always tries to loa
for 99% of the folks who get the message (or at least 99% can't fix it).
Thanks,
Pete
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Me too. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete
> Templin).
>
> By the way, only a broken mail system would bounce the message to you.
> There's stuff in the RFCs about using the "envelope from" for errors
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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, R Chris Ross wrote:
> I have just set up NIS on several of my machines and I am having a
> little trouble adding a user. If I use adduser the group, shadow and
> passwd files in /etc are all updated properly but adduser doesn't
> complete properly properly. It term
ts donated resources.
I thank you for your cooperation with this matter.
Pete
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Hello,
I'm working on a project to handle email-to-pager service. I
found a software tool to do so, but the C program segfaults.
Can anyone suggest a software package, and/or volunteer to help me
debug the problem?
Thanks,
Pete
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> There might be a way to configure Win95 (via the registry) to require a
> valid password when logging in at the "console". But I'm not sure how.
> I would never use a Windows 95 machine as a "public access" terminal.
> I've seen somebody build a super-secu
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Mike wrote:
> Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> >No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your
> >provider) is 56k. From your provider to you it's still 33.6 maximum,
>
> Bullsh*t. Go read something on the subject. Upload is 33, download is 56.
> Otherwise it
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, David Morris wrote:
>
> : >I would take a look at the follwing lines in sendmail.cf:
> : >
> : ># my official domain name
> : ># ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your
> : >domain
> : >#Dj$w.Foo.COM
>
Hi there!!
I'm doing some network consulting for a computer store, and we'd like to
connect the store LAN to the Internet through a 56k or T1 connection. If
possible, we'd like to save the expense of the router and perhaps the
CSU/DSU if possible.
I think I've seen some adds in network magazine
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> How can I disable an /etc/passwd entry. Isn't there something I can place
> in the encrypted-pw section of /etc/passwd to disable the account ?
Inserting an asterisk in front of a user's encoded password will disable
the account without destroying th
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> I'd be interested in knowing if the ping takes a long time or fails. I do
> think that the DNS would be cached from the ping speeding up DNS for the
> telnet, but the ping should then experience all the problems.
>
> If not, why is resolver responce t
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> Linux will use a swap partition of up to 128 meg. You can add swap files
> if you need more. I haven't heard anything about slowdowns. Maybe you're
> thinking about windows swap usage and performance? Somebody correct me if
> I'm wrong.
I know that Linux (o
form of the lists is at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Many, many people seem to
get caught by this loophole, and some can get quite loud with their
frustrations. I can't seem to come up with an easy fix for this
situation, unfortunately.
> PPS: If you have further trouble, you can mail t
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, ninjaz wrote:
> Jul 29 01:52:15 www modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0
> Jul 29 01:52:15 www modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0
> Jul 29 01:52:28 www named[20732]: starting. named 4.9.5-REL Mon Apr 28
> 20:39:58 MET DST 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian/bind/bind-4.9.5/
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
> Good suggestion. I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good
> lookup. Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help. Now howto
> hack sendmail into submission! Does anybody know the simple fix to the
> .cf file to make it run? Thanks
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> I agree that the 3x swap rule makes little sense on high end systems. A
> guru friend of mine explained it as "if the kernel needs to swap out
> your memory it might have to swap the whole thing so you should plan for
> that". He believes you should use 1.5x
Hi there,
I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router
(with one modem and one network card). Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem
to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up.
The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Max HYRE wrote:
>I just got a message returned from an attempt to send to the debian-talk
> list. (Relevant? extracts below) Is the list still operational, or did the
> lack of traffic lead to its demise?
There hasn't been a debian-talk at least since I took over manage
mail transport agents and
the primary is using a tricky hack to handle mail for lists.debian.org.
> If the server is running Majordomo, send "which" as the text
> of an e-mail message to majordomo@.
Unfortunately, the Debian lists are run using Smartlist, which doesn't
offe
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
> Ooops, that should be . Does that work?
> Or file="blah" (not sure if virtual is a 1.2 extension). Otherwise, try
> adding XBitHack Full to .htaccess, and chmod +x the .html files.
>
> > It's still showing the #includes as comments. Any ideas?
> >
> > http
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
> > Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side
> > inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers
> > on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it,
> > having stolen lots of bits and
more.
We'll investigate the cause of the problem as best we can and
attempt to prevent it from reoccuring. Meanwhile, we thank you for your
patience as queued mail is delivered.
Pete
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me and I'll dig through the logs for further information.
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Hello,
Somewhere along the line, my tricks (hacks?) for doing server-side
inclusion of standardized (and separately changeable) headers and footers
on web pages broke. I admit to not knowing the _right_ way to do it,
having stolen lots of bits and pieces along the way and learning
origin
ncorrectly. Here is a list of all of the
valid addresses in the lists.debian.org domain:
listmaster: A human being, not a machine, your last resort.
EOF
cd /var/list
for i in */dist; do
name=${i%%/dist}
echo " "$name": Mailing list."
echo &qu
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> P.S. Just for curiosity ...
> HOw many people are participating in this mailing list?
The list has 854 subscribers currently, and I've seen it slightly above
1000 at times. There are another 191 on the -digest form of the list.
P
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
> > twm &
> [background processes snipped]
> > xterm -title "Measun10" -geometry 80x40+30+200 -ls
>
> Just a little comment (for discussion). Normally, I
> will prefer to put twm (or whatever windows manager)
> as the last process (let the others be backg
Messages to the Debian mailing lists will NOT make it to the list
recipients if they are sent as root. Here's one that was diverted to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for that reason, and should have gone to the
list.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: 14 May 1997 20:27:16 -
From: Victor Torric
Hello!
I'm having some difficulty creating "special" swapfiles to be able to test
swapping to/from an "md" device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints
as indicated below, and think that it's complaining about the individual
file(s). Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
tcsh# df /ser
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> What are some good up-to-date mirrors of ftp.debian.org? I am
> continuously having problems connecting because of the 100 anonymous user
> limit. I have tried some mirrors, like ftp.infomagic.com, but not
> everything is there.
I've got a twice-a-day
As list manager, I often assist people in the process of unsubscribing
from Debian lists. Occasionally, I end up with a person who is receiving
Debian mail from a mailing list that is _on_ a Debian mailing list. Many
of these lists serve excellent purposes (they're based in a locality that
has s
e to take as "Minister of
Information" (aka mailing list manager), please contact me.
Pete
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Some messages get rejected by Smartlist (our list handler) because they
appear to be coming from a daemon (root in this case). Here's a message
from Ralph Winslow.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: 3 May 1997 17:34:55 -
From: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Users
Disk array question: Our computer center here has several NT servers with
RAID5 disk arrays (4x4GB disks, so 12GB useable). I'm curious about some
implementation questions regarding RAID arrays. I'll try to separate my
questions, so that informed people can set me straight on each of the
issues
I'm running into some errors trying to use some of the more advanced
performance tuning features of sendmail 8.8.5. If you're responsible for
a debian system running sendmail and you're using any of these features:
Single Threaded Delivery <- the most important one to me
Host Status Directory
D
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone
> expect to find on a system's boot/rescue disk? That someone
> presumably being a person with enough unix experience to recover
> from the usual problems that can make your machine fail
On 14 Apr 1997, Linh Dang wrote:
> Yesterday, I booted up my buzz (Debian-1.1) box and surprise ! I in root
> account with right away !
>
> An `ls -l' on the root dir showed my that `/sbin/' is now a huge _FILE_
>
> I can't read floppy, cdroms ... because I can't load modules since insmod
members of the deity team. Other debian
users are welcome to post to it, but it is not open for subscription. We
should be hearing about progress on the project from Brian White, who is
leading that project.
Pete
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> Sorry. I was watching these vi msgs go back and forth and had to jump in and
> make it worse. I think everyone should use whatever they want to. I agree
> 100% about emacs. I have better things to do than to memorize all that crap.
> That's why I use the GU
settle.
Thanks,
Pete
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> > Now the obvious solution is to fix up the other machine, but the thing
> > which worried me most was the fact that the attempt to nfs mount didn't
> > timeout. Which means that my system is entirely dependent on the other
> > system in order to boot.
>
I've been having a problem with "dump" hanging at 100% cpu hog during my
nightly backups and when run interactively. I've strace'd the dump
command that I use (strace dump 0udf 325000 /dev/rft0 / >&!
~root/dump.out) and copied it to my public ftp area. Would anyone be
willing to look at it and t
, it
sent mail back to the list address of some of the lists it was on.
Unless otherwise notified, there is no reason to fear that you've
been removed from our mailing lists.
Pete
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Petr Barta wrote:
My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first
"dump":
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Apr 2 00:11:29 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rft0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [d
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Frank Swasey wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
>
> > What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward
> > the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to
> > be an option to do this when the smail package
dselect)? It was mentioned some time ago, but it doesn't appear on
> the list of debian-lists either?
That problem is now fixed. Funny thing is: the only action necessary to
fix it was
chmod o+r /var/list/
Go figure. :)
Pete
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else will provide you with answers.
Thanks,
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Hi there,
I just put the md package to use, and I have some semi-important
questions...
1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if
I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel
has md compiled in (not a module).
2) Can I also a
pass word along as I find out more.
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around the
clock?
If anyone experiences this, please contact me and I will attempt to track
it and/or fix it. I'm new to managing these lists, so please bear with
me.
Thanks,
Pete
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Debianers,
Debian.novare.net (aka lists.debian.org) seems to be unavailable
at the moment. I will check with my contacts to find out more
information, but for the time being we cannot expect normal list mail to
be flowing.
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Finger
debian is about 1.5GB (there's a lot of
other stuff on the site).
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Paul van Berlo wrote:
> to dedicate this machine to Linux now (1,2gb). What would be the ideal
> partition sizes to split up the hdd for Linux? It'll be used for
I have two machines. I dislike extended/logical partitions. I like
performance tuning. My machines have at lea
I'm running into some sort of filesystem corruption when I dump one of the
filesystems on my spare machine. Anyone got any ideas? The machine runs
real well, and came up A-OK after a reboot the other morning.
Thanks in advance,
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Hello,
I'm having trouble with mirror, and I think the problems have
arisen since I upgraded from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8. Here's some example errors:
package=debian ftp.debian.org:/debian/ -> /server/ftp/pub/debian/
main:/usr/bin/mirror:2205 Caught a SIGSEGV shutting down at
/usr/bin/mirror lin
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote:
> Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began
> telling me that every folder I tried accessing was locked. This persisted
> even after I rebooted the machine, so I upgraded to Pine 3.95q out of the
> 3.95L-7 .deb package.
Your best bet is to use the "sudo" program or some such. You can
establish groups of users and allow them to run predefined programs as
root by feeding sudo their OWN password.
For sanity sake, set your EDITOR environment variable to the editor of
your liking and then use the "visudo" command to
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > # and $ are standard/expected prompts. if you want something different,
> > customise it yourself.
> He's right Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many
> people tak
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Giuseppe Vacanti wrote:
> Is anybody using a UPS with debian who would care to email how they
> are faring?
>
> Is APC a good UPS to buy? Do I need a special cable? And how should I
> go about sizing the UPS (I mean, do I need a 200W UPS if the power
> supply of my box is 20
Hi all,
I've got a MS Natural Keyboard on my main system, and I'd like to
have it configured such that Alt serves as the Meta key both in the
virtual consoles and in X. I'd also like to have consistent behavior on
any xterms which I then telnet to another machine, along with
xterms/emacs
Hi there.
I've been learning about PGP, and was in the process of taking a look at a
few public keys, when I ran into a small stumbling block. You see, I was
fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I ran into a small obstacle:
tcsh> finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[master.debian.org]
Debian Linux 1.1 Copyr
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote:
> The other problem I have is in updating cron. I downloaded
> cron_3.0pl1-38.deb from ftp.debian.org and used 'dpkg --install'. Well dpkg
> crashes with the following message.
>
> bash# dpkg --pending --configure
> Setting up cron (3.0pl1-38) ...
> /usr
Hello all.
Saturday night, while I was testing my tape backup procedure, I did a full
restore into an unused partition. I tried an rm -r on that partition, and
got a kernel panic, locking my system. Happened again later that night.
Earlier today, while demonstrating the slowness and cpu usage
On 15 Jan 1997, Steve Dunham wrote:
> The guy at LSL says that he will make a Debian-only CD (with the whole
> thing on it) if we can come up with a single floppy installation
> system (he will include the single floppy too). (He also said
> something about helping to support the project too.)
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
> > > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at
> > > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time
> > > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing
> > > in /var/lo
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> When making a kernel 2.0.27 I do the following:
>
> make mrproper
> make config
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> make install
>
> The "make install" is not documented in the "/usr/src/linux" directory
> as
There have been a few flame wars and other "discussions" going back and
forth. Although many of the topics can certainly offer good criticisms
when taken with a shake of salt, perhaps we need something besides the
norm here. Let's not turn our wonderful list into a jokes-only list, but
I just wa
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > > What about a "Tip of the day" package in place of fortune
> I think it is a great idea. As long as it is an Optional package, I don't
> think anyone will complain. Shall we begin collecting Tips?
Perhaps we
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
> > 2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name.
> > For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup
> > on the IP address of the machine.
&
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote:
> I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a
> problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for
> may domain.
>
> I want ma
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has
> fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but
> I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how?
Install cfinger (a debian package), a configurable finger ser
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior
> to installation. The configure scripts which runs directly after the
> installation should make reading docs unnecessary.
I disagree. You should understand what you are doing
Hello all.
As much as I think that the many suggestions about dselect are beneficial,
I'd like to see the debian-user list return to general usage hints, etc.
As such, I've created a mailing list for dselect suggestions:
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Debian - Leander Berwers wrote:
> There are a number of mail server products like sendmail and smail.
> - What product are you using?
Sendmail as made available from the debian developers. I've grown up as a
sendmail junkie, and keep the O'Reilly book within arm's reach. I
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> :Make the following symlinks:
> :
> :/tmp -> /local/tmp (unless you might share this drive via NFS)
> :/home-> /local/home
> :/usr/local ->/local/usr
> :/var/spool ->/local/spool (again, if using NFS, you should b
Hi all,
I'm getting lambasted by our network administration for "killing a
subnet with NFS traffic". Before he and I discuss the future of my
machines, I'm trying to clean up whatever mess I can, so my machines can
hide away on his network management station. Which brings me to the
ques
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Matt Kracht wrote:
> You might want something like the following:
>
> 50MB /
> 100MB /var
> 250MB /var/spool
> 250MB /tmp
> 500MB /usr
> 750MB /usr/local
> 100MB swap
My $0.02: you're not going to win any _performance_ wars by making more
partitions, particularly if
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Dirk Luetjens wrote:
> I tried to mirror the debian archive with the mirror command. I like
> to keep the local tree although in the debian hirarchie, so I included
> the line delete_excl=(/mnt/debian/local) to the config file. But the
> files in the local tree are still delet
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Martin Konold wrote:
> Yes, a very good point. I am offering a host for a mailing list.
> We should first figure out how it should work and implement it
> afterwards. There is definetelly a need for a improved dselect.
>
> Actually why is the maintainer so silent?
Perhaps yo
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote:
> I would like to keep my PPP connection "busy" even during the time, when
> I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of "idle"
> minutes.
I had a script back when I ran Slackware which tidied up the ppp launching
process. It would
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Mark Blunier wrote:
> I would use hda and hdb. I don't have an eide controller so I don't have
> an hdc or hdd. Some might prefer to use hda and hdc, since both
> drives could be masters, but if you have an ide cdrom, I would use
> hda, and hdb, as I believe the cdrom can sl
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