Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
whoops, this should have gone to the list too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that is the last command

network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I was wondering if there was a debian package that'd let me do the following: I need to get information of bandwidth used over time on our leased ISDN link... I could stare at 'netwatch' all day and write down the data (where it says ROUTER), but then I wouldn't be able to get any work done.

Re: network analysis tool?

1997-12-04 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Three people gave me the answer I was looking for. This list is a godsend. Thanks everyone... Thomas. On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: From: dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:36:32 -0500 (EST

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: As I read more and more about Hurd.. I still can't stop thinking WHY?.. in a couple hundred more revisions.. the Linux kernel may well come close to being a microkernel. What are the clear cut benefits? (Just a few simple lines please.. no

Re: Get Your Mailbox Stuffed with CASH for the Holidays!

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Isn't some division of the FBI interested in this kind of crapola? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. That's a bit of a broad sweeping statement. I guess

Re: DNS Problem

1997-12-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: It's fine with me if you carry on with the war, but I'd appreciate being left out of it even though I started it.. grin OK, no war. Just seems a little shortsighted to throw out the message because of the medium. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: This is the logo of Debian GNU/Linux. Any future Debian system we do with the Hurd would obviously have a different logo. We could still use a logo for Software in the Public Interest. On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with 86open before that happens. Thought it would be awhile... Hurd looks like it has some neat technology, though. Thomas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: proxy server question

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You did compile firewalling into your kernel, didn't you? On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mark Stone wrote: From: Mark Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:58:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: proxy server question I'm attempting to use one of my computers at home

Re: Anti-relaying rules for smail?

1997-12-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
In addition to the steps already mentioned to stop relaying (I use sendmail, so I don't have a clue here...), you might want to do a couple things: -use ipfwadm to stop his host even touching your port 25. -here's the fun part: invoice him for the cost of bandwidth, processor cycles, diskspace

Re: daft mail questions

1997-11-30 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote: I'm using fetchmail and sendmail and they seem to work. However when i threw Smail away and ran deselect to install Sendmail, the dependency information said that I needed deliver. I had already installed procmail and thought that procmail was the

Re: Pentium II supported?

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to putting the options in yet, or is

Re: Pentium II supported?

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 07:41:25PM -0500, Tommy Lakofski wrote: The Pentium II is just a Pro with a different (anticompetitive ;) mounting and different (cheaper) L2 caching (AFAIK). Choose 'Pentium Pro' in the kernel compile configuration

Re: damn identity crisis

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
This might be your problem: Script started on Fri Nov 28 10:43:03 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 3dillusion.com 3dillusion.com A 198.109.162.43 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 198.109.162.43 198.109.162.43 does not exist (Authoritative answer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit exit Script done

xfs question

1997-11-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Hi, If I put `start-xfs' in /etc/X11/config, the font server runs (can see it with ps). I can't tell, though, if X is using the server... Are there any additional steps apart from the one change in /etc/X11/config? TIA, TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not perfectly flat (on a nano scale). On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Basically, you wanna run: cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper (the first time after you install a new kernel version) make menuconfig OK up to this point -- but really, if you're running a Debian system it's stupid not to use the tools available (ie

Re: Kernel 30 to 32 patching.

1997-11-24 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:30:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: Kernel 30 to 32 patching. I downloaded the .30 version of the kernel and wanted to patch it to .32. Is there anything I need to know

Re: Debian - NT interaction

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Try looking at samba and/or ksmbfs. samba lets you appear to be a SMB server, and ksmbfs lets you mount SMB volumes (if the appropriate option is in your kernel or available as a module). TL On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

XFree86 insecurity (fwd)

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Anyone know if debian is vulnerable to this, given that the setuid /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for the XFree86 server? I'd like to know before I chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/X... TIA, Thomas. -- Forwarded message -- From: shegget [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri,

Re: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages from the list

1997-11-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You might like to try using procmail to filter your messages. TL On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Marcus Lam wrote: From: Marcus Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:51:43 +0800 Subject: [DEBIAN] Problem on filtering messages

2.0.32pre5 kernel

1997-11-18 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I downloaded this as a pre-patched tarfile from ftp.kernel.org, then put it in my /usr/src/, then did a make menuconfig and tried to make-kpkg kernel_image. In various attempts, I got sig-11's, kernel panics and oops's -- generally some bad things happened. However, when trying to compile my

Re: HELP! smail won't deliver!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Received FROM: ... HOST: 3dillusion.3dillusion.com [198.109.162.43] ... Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR164) router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out before, all my mail was coming to '3dillusion.com' ... and not

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-12 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: Nor mine, though I didn't look that carefully. There was some hoopla from the guy who ran the client that found the key saying he wished it had been a Mac (it was found by an NT machine), but I don't recall anything about Linux. I have been meaning to

removing some persistent files

1997-11-10 Thread Tommy Lakofski
after a horrendous crash on my hamm box (cause of which I've yet to ascertain), I'm left with some files like this on my disk: 07/8F: total 396246198 br-sr-S--x 1 2691225646111, 99 Mar 12 1995 18F7 07/99: total 817377432 br-sr-S--x 1 2776027695124, 124 Mar 22 1987

Re: lock a pentium for fun!

1997-11-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
The BugTraq post I read suggested that the P6 (Pro, II) does not have this bug. Of course, there may be others... On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Dan Hugo wrote: Are Pentium Pro and/or Pentium II also effected by this bug? -TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug (fwd)

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Some of you have probably already seen this. The rest of you should. TL -- Forwarded message -- From: ZombieMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:10:29 + Subject: WARNING: Linux Intel Pentium Bug This Program was distributed in the newsgroups

Re: BIND help

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
OK, asides from the separate need for delegation from your upstream provider of the relevant in-addr.arpa zone, you'll need to do the following: - in /var/named/boot.zones: primary 162.109.198.in-addr.arpa 162.109.198.rev.zone - in /var/named/162.109.198.rev.zone (or whatever you call

Re: BIND help

1997-11-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
mailIN CNAME 3dillusion.com. oops, this should also be an A record. -TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I installed debian on my brother's K6 with TX motherboard with UDMA. Worked, have no idea if it was working at 33MB/s though. Shame his Millenium II didn't work with X... TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, butch

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;) -TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote: From: butch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-25 Thread Tommy Lakofski
You asshole. You made me add '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to my killfile, right next to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. You are an A-1 whacko. Go create your own distribution, manage it yourself, and watch the hordes of developers follow you -- not. Kindly cease to pollute my channels of communication with your

RE: Packet Sniffing (fwd)

1997-10-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote: There is no way to know if your traffic is being snooped once it leaves your property. If you're suspicious you could transmit bogus information and see if someone tries to use it... If security is a real concern of yours, get ssh and create a VPN to

Re: netcat

1997-10-09 Thread Tommy Lakofski
the binary is /usr/bin/nc On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Chi Wong wrote: From: Chi Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:13:05 -0400 Subject: netcat Could someone help me with netcat. I use the debian package installation method. Grab the package off the

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-08 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed slightly. Oops. I thought it said it was switch-compatible. Thanks. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: i'm starting to get message during boot time: command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found i don't remember removing any essential packages from my system You didn't. 'clock' got renamed to 'hwclock'. Any ideas how to fix it? ln -s

Re: idled package

1997-10-05 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Mine works. Where are they logging in from? I think by default it's set to exclude logins from the console. Check /etc/idled.cf. Watch out for drastically growing logfiles too... I don't think this program has been maintained for awhile; I symlinked /var/log/idled.log to /dev/null (or else it

biff

1997-10-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these cases? thanks, TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-10 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Unfortunately, my experience is somewhat different -- I've had a Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB die on me (dead spindle) after 10 months (and my office had 4 other identical models die with dead spindles and data errors); a micropolis 1GB ages ago die after 18 months (another dead spindle), and I've

Re: cdrom

1997-09-10 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Tao Lu wrote: I first time try Linux. After install base system and boot up, I use dselect to set package. Although the cdrom is installed succefully during driver disk, the dselect ask me following: Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: What

Re: SCREEN SAVERS

1997-09-03 Thread Tommy Lakofski
PLEASE DESIST FROM SHOUTING. CLUE-FREE QUERIES. ON OUR MAILING LIST. On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 12:59:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SCREEN SAVERS PLEASE SEND ME SOME INFO. ON YOUR SCREEN SAVERS.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Looks like we probably can't

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Is there a client that one can use outside the US? There's no ITAR export restriction, since the client decrypts rather than encrypts. Clients are available at rc5.distributed.net. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On 1 Sep 1997, Gilbert Laycock wrote: I know about setterm blank n which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen rather than using the more advanced power saving features. Some monitors are smart enough to switch off when they've got no signal (I used to have a CTX

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-31 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 12:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux I just installed rc5 on my machine (Cyrix 6x86 166

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance

1997-08-31 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Britton wrote: From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:12:30 -0800 (AKDT) Subject: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance Two things here

[OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Hi, I'd like to encourage all readers on the list with a reasonably regular connection to the internet to download and run the rc5v2 client from http://rc5.distributed.net/ (download the client at ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/rc5/v2.004/rc5v2b4-linux-x86.tar.gz) The client runs with a nicelevel

Re: ftp: how to continue downloading?

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Try 'reget' in regular ftp. ncftp does it automatically, as far as I remember... On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, dada wrote: From: dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 01:55:11 +0200 Subject: ftp: how to continue downloading? hi... how can continue

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Debian mail-lists receiver wrote: From: Debian mail-lists receiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux I'd like to encourage all readers

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: What is reasonably? Marcus The client can buffer any number of blocks of keys between network connections -- thus your machine only has to be on the net when it wants to get the next set of blocks. If there's no connection when it tries, it'll

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote: Wasn't there a method to register as a Linux group box or Debian? How do I do this if its still available? Thanx -- Greg. yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes to

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

1997-08-29 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Greg Vence wrote: yup -- set your id in the client to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (without the quotes). If the linux effort finishes first $1000 goes to Linux International (www.li.org). Sorry, I RTFM and it seems that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' seems to be the place to go as

dselect ftp method problem

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Can't locate Time/Local.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 379. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/ftp/setup line 7. query/setup script returned error exit status 2. This is what I see

dselect ftp method problem (solved)

1997-07-22 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Sledgehammer approach: I downgraded perl and perl-suid to the stable versions. It works now. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Tommy Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dselect ftp method problem Can't

Quota problem with hamm

1997-07-19 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Is anyone aware of a problem with the version of Quota in hamm currently? It installs with no problems from quota_1.55-8.deb, but when starting quota, the quotacheck command segfaults before it gets anywhere. usrquota is enabled for the partition in /etc/fstab, and I had no problems with quota

Re: Dat vs. Travan

1997-06-28 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I use an old 2/4 GB DAT... apparently, this oldest of DAT incarnations is about the same speed as a Travan 4/8 (about 500kb/s for a SCSI travan). However... the newest DATs are pretty incredible. I recently used a DDS-3 Sony SDT-9000 that has 12/24 capacity (and it really did compress 2x, even

biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat got messages from (something to do with procmail? shudder). FYI, using latest unstable sendmail as MTA. Many thanks for any assistance. TL

Re: biff(1)

1997-04-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Bruce, Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open