Re: a problem

1997-09-04 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 02:32:27PM +, Martin Bees wrote: Hi Martin, > > I would be very grateful if anyone could help me with a > small problem concerning the boot disk of Debian/Linux > (+all other Linux versions). > Simply, version 2.0.29 boot disks crash on my Laptop > shortly after it p

RE: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

1996-09-04 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote: Hello Boris, > i am telling ya - i moved all my root dir exept /usr from one part to > another... > it worked > i didn't do it with cp -a > there are alot more options that i used , i just don't remmeber them now , > if u realy want - i can

RE: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

1996-09-04 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote: Hello Guy, > > u can also do it with `cp` - i did that (even moved my /dev) > > cp -a is the easiest way to duplicate something. > > >-a, --archive > Preserve as much as possible of the structure and > attributes of the

Re: MajorDomo Problem with "wrapper"

1996-08-29 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Brian C. White wrote: G'morning everybody, > > This symptom with majordomo usually indicates a problem with access rights. > > Yup. All the directories were owned by admin.qmail or something similar. > Removing and re-installing majordomo fixed all that. Is qmail already d

Re: problem with the mailing list

1996-08-26 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Hi Susan, > Does anyone else get repeated messages from > "Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > regarding "Undeliverable Mail"? Yupp, reiceived 6 of them. Greetings, Steffen PGP Key is available under : http://www.xlink.net/~steffen

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-25 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: Hi Jim, > Does Linux use a different encryption algorithm than Sun? (obviously it > is different) Is there any Sun compatability login software for Linux > that would allow me to use a common password database between the two > systems? When both mach

Re: Security holes in bash

1996-08-23 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Hello Bruce, > This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference. Will do so, Thanks Steffen PGP Key is available under : http://www.xlink.net/~steffen/steffen.asc - Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _ _ email: [EMAIL PR

Security holes in bash

1996-08-22 Thread Steffen Mueller
Please excuse the german prologe. Here's a warning concerning the actual bash shell. -- Forwarded message -- Nachfolgend an Sie weitergereichte Informationen bezueglich eines Problems mit der "bash"-Shell erreichte uns von IBM ERS (ein Team, das kommerziell Emergency Response Servi

Re: dosemu

1996-08-19 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Dave Holland wrote: Hi Dave, > I'd suggest not getting a Matrox card -- I believe they're not supported > by XFree86 because Matrox won't release technical details of their > cards. Go for something S3-based instead... True that it isn't supportet by the generic XF86 package

Linux Security Hole in in mount/umount (fwd)

1996-08-16 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hi there's some information I got from CERT this morning ! - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- __ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-15 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, David J. Evans wrote: Hi Davis, > I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to > administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection > as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give > root privs. to a named user or can I enable telnet > connections

Re: Installing Linux over a LAN

1996-08-12 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Hi everybody, > For Debian, you can do the installation using the 5 floppies, and then all > other software can be auto-loaded by "dselect" via FTP. We can do better > than that, and will in 1.2 if I get time (or a volunteer to work on the > installation s

Sicherheitsluecke bei rlogin auf Linux [LSF Update#11: Vulnerability of rlogin] (fwd)

1996-08-01 Thread Steffen Mueller
FYI : Here's what we got from CERT a few minutes ago. - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Linux Security FAQ Update rlogin Vulnerability Tue Jul 30 17:51:57 EDT 1996 Copyright (C) 1995 Alexander O. Yuriev ([EMAI

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-17 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the level of > support in the Description, so that people see it in dselect. Easiest and obviously most reasonable suggestion ! 8-) Greetings, Steffen - Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-15 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: Morning Craig and all the others here ! 8-) > Yep, that's why any 'unsupported' directory would have to be clearly marked > > Something like: > > WARNING * WARNING * WARNING ** WARNING > *

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-08 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: Hi Kevin, > How about a debian-hacker@ or debian-guru@ mailing list where programmers > debian can all take a crack at problems as they arise for unsupported > packages? I think a lot of people would contribute who otherwise don't have > the flexibility/

Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)

1996-05-07 Thread Steffen Mueller
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: Hi Craig, > As an added bonus, you also get the satisfying feeling of putting > something worthwhile back into debian! 8-) At least some preservation of config files should be done additionally to the simple control file setup. > Maybe there should be