/etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread Dave Cook
Hello All I've recently added tty9 and tty10 to my /etc/inittab, and then added them to my /etc/securetty. I can log in as root on tty9, but when trying to login on tty10, I get Login incorrect, as if I have typed the password incorrectly (I havent :) ). I can login as a normal user on

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread Sean . Seaman
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Re: aspfilter

1997-06-22 Thread Felix Almeida
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Nathan wrote: The error message from the log: /usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet2p-letter-auto-mono: file: command not found Jess Stryker Did you install the package that contains the file command (its name is file too)? Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread Paul Wade
Sean, Try following the instructions, like spelling 'unsubscribe' correctly and sending it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure you and everybody on the list will be pleased with the results. Have a nice day. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unsubsribe. take me off all these

How does Debian sound?

1997-06-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
While I was thinking of a logo for Debian, I started brainstorming about what debian is... I know, it's Debbie and Ian, but was thinking of something else. You know, Red Hat is just that, a red hat, and Slackware is, oh, well, slack. Then it occured to me that I don't know how do native English

radius

1997-06-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Is anyone actually using the debian radius package? It doesn't appear to work in any fashion. It seems like all the binaries are looking for /usr/private/etc/raddb/ as in: dict_init: Couldn't open dictionary: /usr/private/etc/raddb/dictionary Did I just miss some config parameter? Tim --

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread ghughes
On Jun 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote unsubsribe. take me off all these lists. please, fuckas? thanks. This has *got* to qualify as the stupidest such request I've ever seen. Note the helpful text. Obey the helpful text. Then go away. v TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread Sean . Seaman
I've done that a hundred times you fuck. It doesn't work I'm still on the damned list. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Dear Mr. Sean.Seaman

1997-06-22 Thread Paul Wade
The copy of my previous message to you bounced because your From: address is invalid. If you want to send an unsubscribe message you need to have the right address set up in your 'Pegasus for Windows' mailer. I have tried to make a good guess as to what address to send this to as you can see

Leafnode and Killfiles?

1997-06-22 Thread Johannes Martinez
Any one know if there is a way to set up killfiles for leafnode? I know you can do it with suck/inews/cnews, but one config file is less of a hassle than twenty. Or how does one delete messages? johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Smail and .forward file or pipe to procmail?

1997-06-22 Thread Johannes Martinez
How can i set up smail so that it pipes messages to procmail? I have a small userbase and would like to set up fetchmail to pull everybodys mail and deliver it filtered through procmail. However doing this as root it uses roots .procmailrc to filter it. Where in smails config could i

Changing my From header in outgoing mail...

1997-06-22 Thread Johannes Martinez
I know how to change my domain name but how do i change my username? My e-mail address is not [EMAIL PROTECTED] but rather [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any one got an easy solution? johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: KERNEL: Swapping Kernel Pages

1997-06-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 19:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Randal Koene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been going over the _old_ documentation to the Kernel's memory management and the related sources, as well as the exception handlers. And still it isn't clear to me what the actual reason is why Kernel pages

Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?

1997-06-22 Thread Butch Kemper
At 12:21 -0500 on 6/21/97, Vebj¯rn Forsmo wrote: John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip If so, how do I stop it? There is a set of patches for Sendmail that allow it to do this, you can use BlackMail as a spam-filter, or install qmail (http://www.qmail.org/) which has a reasonable

Re: Smail and .forward file or pipe to procmail?

1997-06-22 Thread Erv Walter
Johannes Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i set up smail so that it pipes messages to procmail? I have a small userbase and would like to set up fetchmail to pull everybodys mail and deliver it filtered through procmail. However doing this as root it uses roots .procmailrc to

pppd leaves lock file after quitting

1997-06-22 Thread BG Lim
Hi, I used pppd to connect to my university, which has a 2 hour limit on connections. Problem is, when pppd stops, it leaves the lock file in /var/lock. Do I have to remove the file itself? Also is there a better way to stop pppd than just killing it? BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Where is the PPP chatscript

1997-06-22 Thread Adam Klein
I've installed pppd, but I can't find any of the example files that are spoken of in the documentation. Where are these files? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

guid and uid of users..

1997-06-22 Thread A. M. Varon
i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have yet to learn it...) to do it en masse? regards,

Re: 'e2fsck -c' vs scandisk

1997-06-22 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I found a defective sectors on my /dev/hda2 using e2fsck -c and I try to fix the problem, how can I know the names of the damaged fixed files as I can do using dos scandisk? The debugfs program would tell you this. However, e2fsck does not scan your

Re: pppd leaves lock file after quitting

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
BG Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem is, when pppd stops, it leaves the lock file in /var/lock. Do I have to remove the file itself? Also is there a better way to stop pppd than just killing it? How are you killing it? You want to be sending it a sighup, not a kill (if you are). I

Re: guid and uid of users..

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
A. M. Varon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have yet to learn it...) to do it en

Re: guid and uid of users..

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can scan your entire filesystem for all the files they own with find / -uid Oops, that should be find / -uid their-uid -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

16 bpp in XDM

1997-06-22 Thread Tim
I know this has been on here before, but I just can't remember... How do I make XDM come up in 16 bit color? Thanks, Tim -- Linux 2.0.6 Because reboots are for upgrades!

Re: 16 bpp in XDM

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I make XDM come up in 16 bit color? Add a -bpp 16 option to your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers line, or edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to include a DefaultColorDepth 16 option for the relevant Screen section. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: /etc/securetty problem

1997-06-22 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've done that a hundred times you fuck. It doesn't work I'm still on the damned list. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: guid and uid of users..

1997-06-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On 22 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have yet to learn it...) to do it en

GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
G'day, Last night I compiled GCC as a crosscompiler for the Motorola 6811 microcontroller. It occurred to me that since most of the Debian packages are also available for m68k and also Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably using cross-compilation, rather than actually owning all these

Re: guid and uid of users..

1997-06-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A. M. Varon wrote: i'm planning to convert a couple of users to a specific uid and guid. I have specified it in my passwd file. Since i have to chown the the users subdirectory by hand... could anybody suggest an awk or perl script(have yet to learn it...) to do it en

CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi out there, sure, not very Debian specific, but this is the list I expect the fastest answer from I'd like to copy (for private use, of course) a CDROM. This CDROM is usable under DOS/Windows and contains files with the DOSish hidden/system attribute. Mounting this CDROM on Linux works,

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
CTRL-ALT-F1 should get you to a character terminal even with X installed. There you will be able to sign on. The problem has to do with shadow passwords. Something to do with needing to with needing to use xdm-shadow instead of xdm. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Richard Harran. wrote: I have just

Problem with ddd

1997-06-22 Thread Holger Rusch
Hi, first: [$] dpkg -l lesstif ddd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, if you have a windows station on your network and samba installed on your linux box, put your cd-rom in cd-rom drive of the windows station, share the drive on the network and mount the drive on your linux box. To mount the drive you can used smbmount (provided by the debian package ksmbfs),

available file

1997-06-22 Thread Gandolph . gandolph
Hello: Fellow Debian users I seem to have a slight problem. I was upgrading the available list. When I my computer, locked up and I had reset. Anyway the problem is now that I can't do anything with the available file, its only about half there I tried to rename the available-old and it was

job delay problem

1997-06-22 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I have a strange problem. After installing a new Debian system on my friend's system, there is something unusal happenes to his computer. When he types emacs in xterm or one of the six virtual consoles, it just stops and nothing happenes. He cannot kill this job by typing Ctrl-C. But

Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local domain? I am running Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) on my Debian 1.2 box, which is on a network behind a (SOCKS 4) firewall. After I set Options/Network Preferences/Proxies to Manual Proxy Configuration and

Bad Pixmap

1997-06-22 Thread Nikolaus Neumaier
Hi Whenever I start xkeycaps and select a keyboard / layout the program quits with the following message : X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed

Re: NFS mounting /usr, Debian over NFS

1997-06-22 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Hi! Some time ago you posted a question on debian-user list regarding Debian NFS setup. There seems to be no useful follow-ups on the problem. I am in similar situation. I'm trying to set up a server with seven clients. Home directories are NFS mounted - that's easy part. I also want clients to

trouble mounting LMS 206 CD-ROM to complete debian load from CD-ROM

1997-06-22 Thread Al Z
I got debian-1.2 from cheapbytes. I am trying to install it on an old Quantex 486DX, vintage 1992/1994 with a LMS206 CD-ROM connected to a JAZZ sound board appropriated from a Gateway. Windows was upgraded to Windows95. --- first problem: The initial load from floppies went fine,

Re: pppd leaves lock file after quitting

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
From the pppd man page: NOTES The following signals have the specified effect when sent to the pppd process. SIGINT, SIGTERM These signals cause pppd to terminate the link (by closing LCP), restore the serial device settings,

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
A policy against using ping once every 8 minutes and 20 seconds. I have never heard of such a thing. I have never had one complain. However it is not to nice to tie up your providers dialup lines for extended periods when you are not using it. The only time I have done this is when using

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:07:07 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have a slight problem. I was upgrading the available list. When I my computer, locked up and I had reset. Anyway the problem is now that I can't do anything with the available file, its only about half there I tried to

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: smbclient or rumba (not available in debian package yet but rumba is the better choice). rumba //host_name/drive_name_on_the_network ex //young/c-young /young /young must be a empty directory on the linux box Where can I find out more about rumba? I

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status. Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect. Phil. Hi Phil, thanx for the tip. But I recieved the following error(s) When I did as you suggested. I really need a solution as at the present time I can't add any

Re: available file

1997-06-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:59:10 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status. Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect. thanx for the tip. But I recieved the following error(s) When I did as you suggested. I really need a

recent duplicate messages -- My Fault

1997-06-22 Thread Erv Walter
The recent duplicate messages that appeared on debian-user and debian-devel were my fault. An error in my procmail script was resending things out, and I didnt catch it until several messages slipped out. I guess I should have tested it better before I unlocked the mail queue. Please forgive

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Dany Dionne
You can found rumba on: ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/NeXT/tools/rumba/ Personnally, i never used smbmount. If a problem occur during the connection our linux box (kernel 2.0.27) crash few hours or few days after. With Win95, a connection problem occur often. So, if i used smbmount, i reboot our

Re: Problem getting German Umlaute

1997-06-22 Thread Bjoern Starke
On Sun, 08 Jun 1997 22:31:14 +0200, you wrote: Hi, i have also problems getting German Umlaute (:-). I get the following in bash: ß or sz = \ ö or o = [ ä or a = ] ü or u = @ My /etc/profile: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).

Re: CDROM with DOSish hidden files?

1997-06-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: Personnally, i never used smbmount. If a problem occur during the connection our linux box (kernel 2.0.27) crash few hours or few days I'll try rumba. Thanks. I see the following comment in the ksmbfs package README. Since you have kernel 2.0.27, maybe

Do we have a debugger for Threads

1997-06-22 Thread Shaya Potter
IS there a debugger, like gdb, that support threads. This can either be in patches to gdb, a totally different one, (but still fuctionall like gdb) or a commercial one. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: gs-aladdin pdf files

1997-06-22 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I'm trying to print/view a pdf encrypted file without any success. The US Government imposes export restrictions on crypto-related stuff, so you will have to get the files from: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/ .. to make