FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-07 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the Linux Operating System, have a look at ... http://rute.sourceforge.net LINUX Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition.url LINUX Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition.url Description: Binary data

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-07 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:59AM +0200, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the Linux Operating System, have a look at ... http://rute.sourceforge.net LINUX Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition.url okay, what the heck does RUTE stand

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-07 Thread Cameron Matheson
Sadistic license tho, why can't I make a hard copy? Cameron Matheson On 06 Jun 2001 15:34:19 -0500, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:17:59AM +0200, Lambrecht, Joris wrote: To those who are looking for some tutorial-reference-resource on the Linux Operating System, have a

FYI: KDE printing through CUPS

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay, A little while ago I asked how you go about getting KDE to print through CUPS. I got no replies, so I guessed that no one knew. Well I've now discovered how. KDE (like other things such as samba) reads the printer configurations out of /etc/printcap If you initially had lpr or lprng or

SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to hostname,hostname.domain ... Otherwise ssh will happily put in duplicate lines for short and FQDN hostnames. Dima -- E

Re: SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to hostname,hostname.domain ... Otherwise ssh will happily put in duplicate lines for short

Re: SSH (testing) FYI

2001-05-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:53:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to hostname,hostname.domain

Re: FYI: webmin is back in Debian

2001-04-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, albi wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: hello webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload For potato users, I've made packages available at the following apt source deb

Re: FYI: webmin is back in Debian

2001-04-03 Thread albi
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: hello webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload For potato users, I've made packages available at the following apt source deb http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local potato/ deb-src

FYI: webmin is back in Debian

2001-04-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload was made this evening, it should show up in the archive tomorrow. Of course my mail server took that moment to crash which is why I'm sending this note now. To use it you will need to install the following packages: 1.

Re: How to get addressbook working with tk8.2 and tk8.3 installed -fyi

2001-03-30 Thread Jimmy Richards
days ago someone was getting an error message trying to run addressbook. I just wanted to let anyone who wanted to get it running how to do so. Just run this command and it should work update-alternatives --config wish then pick wish8.2 FYI, Jimmy Richards But keep in mind

How to get addressbook working with tk8.2 and tk8.3 installed -fyi

2001-03-29 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello, Several days ago someone was getting an error message trying to run addressbook. I just wanted to let anyone who wanted to get it running how to do so. Just run this command and it should work update-alternatives --config wish then pick wish8.2 FYI, Jimmy Richards

Re: How to get addressbook working with tk8.2 and tk8.3 installed -fyi

2001-03-29 Thread shaulka
--config wish then pick wish8.2 FYI, Jimmy Richards But keep in mind that this might break other apps that need wish8.3 and will not run with wish8.2. Therefore, having the first line of /usr/bin/addressbook specifically look for wish8.2 and waiting for a new version of addressbook

FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

2001-01-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hi, Maybe this is interesting for people with a Logitech Itouch or Cordless keyboard that is equipped with a dozen extra keys for controlling audio and internet related things. I'm using a cordless keyboard, XFree86 4.01 and the sawfish window manager (debian unstable). First step is to

Re: FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4

2001-01-04 Thread David B . Harris
# I left the mute key out, as I haven't found a way yet to actually toggle # it on and off (I know you can mute it with amixer set Master mute and # unmute with amixer set Master unmute, but you'd need an extra script to # have it toggling between those values). Here's a quick script to make

FYI: Apt move /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom solved

2000-10-14 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, Thanks for all those who put in their 2 cents worth on moving the default /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and getting apt-get to work. I read the three msgs (response was controlled but quality and not quantity is what matters), and the man pages, and it finally came down to typing assorted commands and

fyi: ftp.at.debian.org down

2000-10-09 Thread Robert Waldner
since yesterday 0100 (UTC+2) (see http://de.stats.san.ka.schas.net/ftp.at.debian.org.html) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SOA of at.debian.org): danke, ist bereits bekannt, an der Behebung wird gearbeitet (transl.: thanks, already known, we´re working on it) jfyi, rw

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: This intrigued me: Recently, IBM announced: Linux running on a wrist watch. Never could find a link for it... The link is: http://lwn.net/daily/linuxwatch_big.php3 Greetings, Holger

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Foster wrote: Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on the wagon all the way :-) http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml This intrigued me: Recently, IBM announced: Linux running on a wrist watch. Never could find a link for it... I noticed a couple

fyi: Winux??

2000-08-17 Thread Andrew McRobert
looks like the 'blue screen of death' is coming to a computer near you ... ... from today's AustralianIT (http://australianit.com.au) WINUX RUMOUR WinInfo says Microsoft has been working for the past year with a company called Mainsoft to port Windows to Linux and, possibly, other versions of

News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread John Foster
Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on the wagon all the way :-) http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-16 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on the wagon all the way :-) http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml Something tells me they're only getting warmed up... --

fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew McRobert
fyi guys from: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/08/biztech/articles/14linux.html SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 -- A group of key Linux software developers and major computer manufacturers are planning to announce on Tuesday at a Silicon Valley computer conference the first effort to compete

Re: Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following

Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-12 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following the loss of this sym-link all upgrade attempts failed with the

Re: Small observation [FYI]

1999-11-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello all: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following the loss of this sym-link all

FYI - PCMCIA-CDROM timeout problem solved, details

1999-10-08 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, After more reading and experimenting, I was able to get the CDROM to be seen by adding the following command to the cdrom.opts file in /etc/pcmcia CORE_OPTS=unreset_delay=1000 My next task is to get my ppa zip drive to work, so I can start backing up my system! John

FYI - Clinton Executive Order on Internet

1999-08-11 Thread Alan Snider
Received this date from qsl.net, may have implications(?) regarding internet use in future Text of Clinton Executive Order Establishing Working Group to Examine Unlawful Conduct on the Internet To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100

Re: Micro Channel Ethernet...FYI

1999-07-19 Thread Matthew Mueller
Hi all, Installing the module as you described below looks like it is going to work. I am having a problem with matching up the correct kernel version. I am running version 2.0.39 and the only linux box my friend has is version 2.2.1. Once I can match up versions a insmod should do the trick.

FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime

1999-05-04 Thread Dpk
For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU

FYI: ftp.us.debian.org

1999-04-09 Thread Dpk
The mirror ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu) now offers both contrib and non-free once again, due to the addition of an 18 GB disk for the Debian project. The distribution is now also available via http, as well as ftp, from our site. Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network

FYI Re: ICQ and Other Apps over IP Masquerading

1998-12-09 Thread Guoqiang Dai
FYI http://dijon.nais.com/~nevo/masq/ The site above lists all the applications that have proven to work with ipmasq. Details have been gaven on how to make these apps work. ICQ is in Chat Program section. It seems that ipautofw is heavily used. What a sweet thing! I used to spend a lot

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-23 Thread Philip Thiem
George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Philip Thiem wrote: You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are similar, though

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-19 Thread Philip Thiem
You'd be surprises how often that can happen. I purchase from a wholesaler, and they don't check to see if the drives are good, though they have allways been good about replacing them. Many resalers are similar, though some do do some testing. Philip Thiem Michael Stone wrote: Quoting

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread bernie
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two different systems with two different hard drives of different manufacture with

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-18 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:11:25PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: In my case, no, it is definately a problem with the linux ide driver and how it handles UDMA drives. I have seen exactly the same problem on two different systems with two different

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
BTW, I have configured it down to one single error message that I can't seem to shake: hdc: write_intr: status=0xff { Busy } ide: reset: success This is what is leading me to believe that the driver is either attempting a transaction before an earlier one completed ( is the drive

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
just a few ideas. is your hd the slave or master, and if the master is there a slave connected to the same cable? Is the ide interface connected to the ISA or PCI bus? Belive it or not some pci motherboards still have the ide interface connected to the ISA side! (some have only the secondary

RE: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-14 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: just a few ideas. is your hd the slave or master, and if the master is there a slave connected to the same cable? It doesn't matter. I have tried it as master, slave, master with a slave and master alone ... no change. Hi Kenneth,

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-13 Thread Mark Panzer
Sean Johnson wrote: I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions before on newsgroups and such as to what could be

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no problems. -- I get the same exact results

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-12 Thread Sean Johnson
I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or

FYI

1998-08-25 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Picked up some reading material for a flight to New Brunswick. Found a great article on Linux. This really demonstrates the power of knowledge sharing. Should have been a case study at the big knowledge management summit in San Diego earlier this year.

FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
(Not Debian, but it's still Linux coverage) http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/flooks/1998/09/redhat51.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

RE: FYI: PC Mag takes a look at RedHat 5.1

1998-08-05 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
This is an extract from the PC magazine article on RH 5.1: For most situations a fast Pentium with 32MB or more of RAM is advisable to run Linux 5.1. My God... A fast Pentium with 32MB... Hmmm I don't need that... But the worst is Linux 5.1, I afraid that there *is* people that can make

FYI: Netscape 3.01 archive

1998-05-21 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
I installed Netscape 3.01 last night, and it seems to be working fine. I did have a hard time finding the correct version to download from the Netscape servers. Netscape has moved the old versions of their software to: archive.netscape.com It also appears that this site will not accept anonymous

Re: FYI (Infomagic's debian outdated.)

1997-10-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Infomagic did not recieve _any_ master disk from Debian. They made one on their own. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER:

Re: FYI (Infomagic's debian outdated.)

1997-10-30 Thread Bao C. Ha
I got the Official CD from the ftp site in August. It has an 1.3.1 directory in it. I took great pain to install from that directory. Then I found out that it is symlinked to 1.3. Anyway, I put hamm on one of my machine. And it still shows 1.3 at bootup. Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: FYI (Infomagic's debian outdated.)

1997-10-30 Thread TJM
I have this 6 cd set also. The set, in fact, does have the 2.0.30 kernel present. You need to find the directory with the 2.0.30 rescue disk and driver disk images and use these two along with the 5 base disks to make the initial installation. You can then continue with dselect to install the

FYI (Infomagic's debian outdated.)

1997-10-29 Thread Ali Hamisheh-Bahar
. This is purely FYI and is *my* observation alone -- so take it with as many grains of salt as you see fit. I am informing people in order to save some folks the hassels which i went thru -- i needed the very _latest_ Mach64 X server! regards, ali -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

FYI: new default behavior with XFree86 3.3 (was: Problem with X after upgrading to 1.3.1)

1997-07-21 Thread Martin Weinberg
After much hair pulling, I discovered that XFree86 *now* will look in the user's directory if the user is root for an XF86Config file. From XF86Config(5): When an X server is started by a `root' user, it will first search for an XF86Config file in that user's home

Re: WEB SECURITY: fyi!!

1997-04-23 Thread Jason Costomiris
With respect to the dreadfully OLD phf problem, I've implemented a unique solution. Here's what I use in place of the old phf... It gives fun replies to id, uname and passwd (as in /bin/cat%20/etc/passwd). For example, it generates a unique passwd file each time at random. Interesting

WEB SECURITY: fyi!!

1997-04-22 Thread dpk
I just want leave a note to all people running web servers on thier debian machines. Check your cgi-bin dir for the following files: test-cgi nph-test-cgi phf php.cgi? I have looked up information on these cgi's and they are old software code that people can use to grap passwd files and such.

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