Re: hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Carlos: BitchX is an IRC program that put's a directory called .BitchX in the users home directory. Either you have this and have used it or your hacker used it as root. Of course a hacker may have just created it so it might look normal in your directory. What's in the directory?

Re: Cnews would not configure on installation

1998-01-15 Thread john
Johann Spies writes: Cnews installation script exits with an error message informing the user that it could not configure cnews. I don't know how to proceed from there. I had the same problem. I used dpkg --force to install and configure cnews and inews, and then cycled trough dselect until

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Igor Grobman
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Orn E. Hansen wrote: No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, it's an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating system which is called Windows 95. That box contains MSDOS 7.0 and

Re: Moving to libc6 X

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, All what is the best way to move from libc5 based X (3.3-4) to libc6 ? Is there a particular order of upgrades? I already have libc6-2.0.6 and related stuff from hamm installed. The xlib6g package in hamm conflicts with xlib6 (

Re: Libc5 / Libc6

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: I want to upgrade one or two of the packages on my system beyond the stable distribution. The newer packages are all requiring libc6, but that conflicts (in DSELECT) with libc5 which is a dependence to a _very_ large number of programs. =:|

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Iannarelli wrote: In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. * * This kind of entry would allow everybody access to your system without a password. So Joe down the street who knows a username but doesn't have his

xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed

1998-01-15 Thread s-canagaratna
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. When I use xfig, everything works O.K. till I try to use text by pushing the Text button and it freezes. Ocassionally, one or two of the other buttons also give this problem. Have anybody else come across this? How do I proceed to debug this? I am using a 486

hamm screen

1998-01-15 Thread Norbert Veber
I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen it just sits there for ever, not error message, nothing. Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-15 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:27:28PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also

Re: setting up xdm for runlevel 4

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 13 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to setup xdm so that it s started upon entering runlevel 4 and stopped when dropping back down to runlevel 3. How does debian handle xdm?? It is done with symlinks in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I like the list the way it is aswell! :) Yes, I do to. AOL mode me too /AOL mode Although I would dearly love to see a: When is version 2 coming out-list When is version 2 coming out will not be announced in advance, I'm afraid. At one point in

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
[PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:34:01AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * Someone on one of the linux mailing lists

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:46:41PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:34:01AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix *

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: Orn E. Hansen wrote: No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, it's an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating system which is called

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] # magic fix * * * This magic fix doesn't work on 2.3.2; I tried it before and I tried it again. Package: ppp Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net

RE: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-Jan-98 Peter Prohaska wrote: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I like the list the way it is aswell! :) Sometimes I do and sometimes not. I'm sure it is possible to parse the subject line at the list server or the client end for keywords like config or compile etc. and forward them to

NTFS driver as modul

1998-01-15 Thread Ian Watkins
AB MM BTW I've got the same problem, when I've changed kernel... AB MM Even I don't tour on: AB MM Set version information on all symbols for modules AB AB Weird. Is this a bug perchance? AB It's not the ideal fix, but the 2.1.x kernels have much better NTFS AB - even (experimental)

divide the list in beginn

1998-01-15 Thread Ian Watkins
IT Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced Problem is that you couldn't stop mis-posting, so you'd end up with people posting twice, once in the newbies group and once in the experienced group just in case nobody in the newbies group knows the answer, so you'd end

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 03:10:26AM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] #

ncpfs - slist nprint OK no ncpmount

1998-01-15 Thread Robinson, Andrew
Hi - wondering if anyone can help me out I have managed to get the ipx working and can slist and nprint. When I try to ncpmount I get mount failed. logged in as root, file server is 3.12, mounting to mount point /nw, directory /nw exists. Regards Andrew Robinson Linux newbie -- TO

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the

magicfilter, gs, deskjets

1998-01-15 Thread Jess Stryker
I apologize if this is slightly off topic. I can't seem to find an answer elsewhere, having tried the more appropriate newsgroups. When printing color on my HP 692C the color pictures are much to dark. The Printing HOWTO suggests appending a file, gamma.ps, right before the file name in the gs

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: [ snip! ] : : I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. : When I try to ftp there, I get the following: : : Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. : 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7

Re: Lilo howto install it?

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Ivan Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the thing is I tryed creating a small partition in the first HD ( 50Mb ) to install LILO in there. I select the LILO package in dselect but seems that is not being installed. I created a lilo.conf file and didn't work either. All you need to do is to

upgrading libpng for ghostscript

1998-01-15 Thread G. Crimp
I've seen a fair bit of discussion on this list of problems moving between libc5 and libc6 and problems with programs that rely on them. I'm wondering if I can expect similar problems if I upgrade to ghostscript 5.10. This requires, amongst other libraries, libpng v.0.96. The version available

Re: lilo with multiple kernels/partitions

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Tim Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what kind of entry do I need to add to lilo.conf to get lilo to boot a alternate kernel located on a Zip disk? I can use a custom boot floppy and mount the Zip disk (/dev/sda1) as root but it would be simpler if I didn't need the floppy... one less disk

Printer name

1998-01-15 Thread iquest
Hi, I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box. I am able to print files without any problem. I just like to know how printer name was created (if any). Thanks! Timothy C. Phan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

SEUL's choice of sendmail

1998-01-15 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: We will be using Sendmail (which is the only one we can distribute easily) and probably procmail for mail deliver. This is what red hat uses and we won't change it unless we need to. is

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: I use now xdm to login into the system -- however it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins. I symlink

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x

Re: debian 1.2x ldso upgrades

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
John S. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having problems upgrading libc5, xlib6 and ldso using dpkg I get; ** Setting up ldso (1.8.12-1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or

Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-15 Thread Erik Walthinsen
Pity ... this looks like it would have been a good candidate for the POSIX package manager as is used with Unifix Linux. There are plans being worked on that would use Debian as the base distribution, with a POSIX package manager. The decision to use RedHat and RPM was made before these plans

Re: Debian Pgp question...

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Heath
| On Tuesday, 13 January 98, at 12:14:19 PM | Smorrill wrote about Debian Pgp question... I have used Pgp for quite awhile with Win95, and thus have already made my secret key id number, etc. I would like to get pgp set up with Linux as I would like to move to using Debian exclusively.

Re: hamm screen

1998-01-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen it just sits there for ever, not error message,

Re: Lilo howto install it?

1998-01-15 Thread tko
Ivan Rojas writes: Sorry for get back to the same question, I bet that millions of times you have solved this answer but this is the first time I ask it :o) I got Debian 1.3 in CDs and installed in my second hard drive, guess what is in the first one... anybody said windoze95? Well the

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Erik Walthinsen
why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. I think it is a matter of convenience and tradition. Personally, I use /fd0, /fd1, etc. The RedHat method (/mnt/floppy) seems less than useful to me. The reason for this is that I always use /mnt for what it's designed for: temporary mounts.

SEUL packaging, etc.

1998-01-15 Thread Erik Walthinsen
Ok, so what does this have to do with Debian then? The decision to use RedHat was made before we were aware of certain initiatives. The current plan is to base SEUL on Debian, hopefully aiding in the generation of a Debian-based Linux core, which would be standardized, allowing packagers to

Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?

1998-01-15 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote: I know that RedHat rushed quite a bit to get Hurricane out, and it shows in the speed at which the Errata list has grown. I will have to now take a closer look at the Debian distribution's efforts relative to glibc and stability. Stability

Re: Printer name

1998-01-15 Thread Cedric Bapst
iquest wrote: Hi, I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box. I am able to print files without any problem. I just like to know how printer name was created (if any). Thanks! Timothy C. Phan Have a look in

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented. But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The trouble shooting help doesn't get you far beyond is the printer switched on? and check that the cable is plugged in. Very true. I think they might

Debian 1.3.1 on Compaq ProSignia

1998-01-15 Thread Herbert Pöhlmann
Hello, my problem is as follows: I tried to install Debian 1.3.1 with the rescue disk to an old (7/1993) Compaq Server ProSignia 80486/66 MHz. When I try the second step of installation (partition the harddisks), an error occurs with the message: No harddisk to be found! The Server contains an

Re: cdrom problem

1998-01-15 Thread Tim Thomson
I have the same problem with a Mitsumi cdrom on a Mad16 card. I thought it was something to do with the fact that the Mad16 is a software configurable card. Linux seems to leave the hardware in a state DOS can't recognise. I just use halt instead of reboot, and then press the reset button. Tim.

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Philip Hands
I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? If you are using ppp for dial-in, with PAP authentication, I was assuming that people will be using PAM

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think of. are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp too... BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? Craig, I tried reinstalling, the

Re: xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed

1998-01-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. Have anybody else come across this? How do I proceed to debug this? I had exactly this same problem :-( My solution, while not going to hamm (with lib6) to check newer version, was use the mono chromatic

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread grin
Hello Phil, On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Philip Hands wrote: I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? With or without. Tried both. If you are using

Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference

1998-01-15 Thread Irmund Thum
I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant. Shadow

Re: xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed

1998-01-15 Thread joost witteveen
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. When I use xfig, everything works O.K. till I try to use text by pushing the Text button and it freezes. Ocassionally, one or two of the other buttons also give this problem. Have anybody else come across this? Yes, me. For me it was caused by xaw95

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during

Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference

1998-01-15 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: I have adjusted by pap-secrets file as follows: #magic fix * * not # magic fix * * * I have tested with and without shadow passwords and all works fine. I think the trick is in the /etc/mgetty/login.config. I had to specify login in the

Re: Pregunta (reply in spanish)

1998-01-15 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hola Fabio! On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Fabio Daniel Guerra wrote: Como hago para adquirir el Programa LINUX DEBIAN. Lo nesecito urgente y no lo concigo? En el servidor de Debian (www.debian.org) puedes encontrar una lista de ellos, concretamente puedes mirarlo en http://www.debian.org/vendors.html

Re: Pregunta (reply in spanish)

1998-01-15 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:23:40PM +0100, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: PD: en la maling list normalmente se habla en ingles, hay mailing lists sobre linux en castellano como [EMAIL PROTECTED], si quieres mas informacion sobre ello avisame... According to

procps_1.2.5-1.deb install error

1998-01-15 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
This procps fails on install: trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with nondirectory Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

printing

1998-01-15 Thread tko
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about

xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread tko
I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong. # xauth -i generate westgac3/unix:0 . xauth: creating new authority file ~/.Xauthority xauth: unable to open tmp file ~/.Xauthority-n xauth: unable to write

ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users

1998-01-15 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after that either. An mget * request of a large directory (say /usr/share/games/fortunes) errors out

RE: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-15 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Yes, that is what I found yesterday -- besides being named .xsesion, the file needs to be an executable -- it does not need to have #!/bin/bash -- however. Vladislav -- From: Sten Anderson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 11:45 PM To:

Re: procps_1.2.5-1.deb install error

1998-01-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: This procps fails on install: trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with nondirectory Known problem fixed with procps-1.2.5-2 which is stuck in incoming at the moment. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-15 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are to use the exim instead of the smail package? I use the smail version that came

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong. open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(~/.Xauthority, F_OK)

Re: ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users

1998-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after that either. An mget * request of a large directory (say

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then upgrade. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong. open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or

Windows NT Debian

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Greene
This is the output from my Linux box that won't attach to my network: boot.info Description: Binary data ethernet.info Description: Binary data route.info Description: Binary data

Re: hamm screen

1998-01-15 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL

Re: Lilo howto install it?

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try man lilo.conf Did you read /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/LILO.gz ? Or even better: Read the Lilo User Guide. It resides in /usr/doc/lilo. Unfortunately only as latex source. gunzip all files in the directory and type make. That should generate user.dvi and tech.dvi. If

Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Richard Wicks
Hello everybody, I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just filler for your mailbox but I would like to see it as part of the

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:02AM -0700, Richard Wicks wrote: Hello everybody, I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Will Lowe
Xbiff is there. http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/x11/xcontrib.html There are also other alternatives to xbiff that are similar but do niftier things. Hit http://www.debian.org/packages.html and search for xbiff. encountered a bug when trying to install

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-15 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of course, and then

Re: proftpd

1998-01-15 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
I can't seem to do a recursive get on proftpd. Anything I should set in config file? -- *) Aria -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users

1998-01-15 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
Thanks, I've verified the problem on your system as well --- Users behind a firewall see the hang betwixt connect/user prompt and then a hang during a ls (right after passive mode is entered). When I do the same from my ISP (no firewall), I see no delay at all. I've sent a bug report to the

Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.

1998-01-15 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.

odd login prompt

1998-01-15 Thread Shaleh
On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is something like0 Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n. On initial login it is fine. I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit enter at the login prompt. -- TO

RE: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 15-Jan-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer

a hamm question

1998-01-15 Thread Martin Jackson
Hello all, I am wondering about Debian 2.0... WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems. Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out

Re: a hamm question

1998-01-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems. 1.3.1 does support other scsi drivers, including aha152x. But it doesn't autoprobe for many

Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help

1998-01-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:06:55PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only

BIND question

1998-01-15 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I have a problem with BIND. We have a medium-sized network (192.168.0.0) connected to the internet via a dial-on-demand ISDN line. We pay by the minute, so we want to keep connect-time to a minimum. The ISDN router basically masquerades the internal network. I want to run a

Re: BIND question

1998-01-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I want to run a nameserver on my Linux box on the 192.168.0.0 network. I want to set it up with a couple of features: 1. It should cache 'real' addresses from outside. 2. It should forward unknown queries about 'real' addresses to a

Re: odd login prompt

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is something like0 Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n. On initial login it is fine. I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit

Re: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31

1998-01-15 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Herr Detlev Scholz (ODIS) wrote: Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well, when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems that the Xserver crashes and XDM is started

Bo with Wine

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine? I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program, make links, and then install wine. Then you could just wait until Hamm becomes

Re: Bo with Wine

1998-01-15 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:15:49PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine? I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program, make links, and

Re: more from the ppp battlefield

1998-01-15 Thread dave mallery
At 04:18 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm. /etc/rc*.d/*gpm Serial connection established. Using interface ppp0

Mail notification

1998-01-15 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, I have a number of mail boxes, to handle the different lists I am on. I use procmail to filter the mails to the right folders. I have put: MAIL='/var/spool/mail/tim;/home/tim/mail/debian-user;/home/tim/mail/seul- project' MAILCHECK=10 into my .bash_profile. I have tried the same MAIL

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