RE: Wanted a free library for computational geometry

My calculus instructor showed me a simply fabulous program that I think may be linux driven, called Net Math, I think. I think it originated out of a Texas university. I don't know how much computational geometry it has, but it looked like fun (assuming you think math is fun, I'm with

Q: about networking

Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to setup network on the Potato System? -- The free Corel® LINUX® OS Download is NOW available! Check it out at http://linux.corel.com -- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to

Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

Hello, I am using Debian Potato and I use Apache, PHP3 and every modules containing php3 and mysql and MySQL server and client. I am going through a tutorial on DevShed (http://www.devshed.com) on creating a web database. I have checked that PHP3 has been installed and runs properly. No problems

Re: man -- info?

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why are man pages abandoned for info? Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all. Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least has xman viewer. ever tryed man -X page ?? if it's

Re: Rename Workgroup,etc.

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Where do I change my computer Name, Workgroup and how do I rename the Samba Server? Samba gets its computer name from /etc/hostname, which is also your computer name. Workgroup is changed in /etc/smb.conf (or /etc/samba/smb.conf).

Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:14:17AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote: Ethan: to the original poster, reply change subject != new message ... the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste the list address in

Re: Q: about networking

Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to setup network on the Potato System? yes - everybody who tracked this list for two days relalized the keyword: HOW-TOs they are located in /usr/doc/HOWTO/ (package doc-linux-text). start at Networking-Overview-HOWTO, further look at

XF86, maxima, gnome binaries

Hello to everybody, I have some small question. First 1) I have a Trident card with a mono monitor. If I run XF86_VGA16 I can use 640x480 but with the XF86_SVGA I can run only 640x400, 640x480 gives an image out of the monitor area, no xvidtune worked to solve the problem. Can someone help

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

I highly recommend you check out the Ecra VXA-1. Check out www.ecrix.com. I've got one on order right now. It's also Linux certified (I forget who does that Linux hardware certification thingy but they did it). The specs were more than enough to get me. They have a special offer right now for

Socket Error

After looking at the smb.log I noticed a error: [2000/05/17 07:37:48, 1] smbd/sever.c:main(628) smbd version 2.0.5a started. [2000/05/17 07:37:48, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available. [2000/05/17 07:37:49, 0]

Re: bashrc

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this sentance. Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled. the error could be, that there are only four (orthographical) errors.

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

| Welcome, | my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) | daily. | And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network. I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH

Re: man -- info?

At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why are man pages abandoned for info? Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all. -- but many man pages say not maintained, use info. so it is not just formatting

Re: man -- info?

At 09:27 PM 05/16/2000 +0200, Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi Gregory, ALL! Gregory Why are man pages abandoned for info? Info requires emacs Gregory knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal based info-browser and it has a very intuitive

russell's antimony, was RE: bashrc

From: Justin Megawarne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this sentance. Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled. the error

Re: Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

You are probably missing the php3-mysql package. I had similar problems with getting imap to work until I installed the php3-imap package. Give that a shot Dustin --- Oliver Hingst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using Debian Potato and I use Apache, PHP3 and every modules containing

Re: GRACIAS SI ES POSIBLE!!! (translation)

Here is a translation for you anglophones: Estimados Amiggoos Esteemed friends Soy un usuario fiel de Linux y me gustria Recibir una I am a faithful user of Linux, and it would please me to receive a camiseta de Regalo si es posible. yo vivo en T-shirt as a gift if it possible. I live in

Re: Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:16:20PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote Hello, I am using Debian Potato and I use Apache, PHP3 and every modules containing php3 and mysql and MySQL server and client. I am going through a tutorial on DevShed (http://www.devshed.com) on creating a web database. I have

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

How far are the machines apart? If not to far, what about a dedicated connection between them? Matth On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: I highly recommend you check out the Ecra VXA-1. Check out www.ecrix.com. I've got one on order right now. It's also Linux certified (I forget

Re: grep with actual date ?

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:41:00PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hi there, I am planning to do a daily system check with refused connects by placing them in a cron job. So far, so good. But - and that's the problem - does anyone know how to tell the grep-command to filter just the

Re: xntp

Hoi John! John I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's John timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using John a modem. John After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs John far too complex to fully understand, and the program aims for

Re: PCI 128...

Hi David, you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only

Hmm... what gives with that mail??

Hi *, Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact that the person who posted it (apparently from the wcom.com domain as seen in the full logs) appears to have an address [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that is

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

Holy Canarsie, Miquel! You are absolutely right, 'du /var/log/lastlog' does show the file to be miniscule. Whew! Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else encountered this situation? Yes, almost everyone. I wonder how come no one in #linux knew

Re: man -- info?

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: At 09:27 PM 05/16/2000 +0200, Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi Gregory, ALL! Gregory Why are man pages abandoned for info? Info requires emacs Gregory knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal

Program for both win98/dos and Linux

Since I'm going to use both win98 and Linux for a while, it would be nice to have programs working in both OS's, that is, they share the same data, on perhaps a FAT16 partition. I have a program for fidonet - mypoint works under Linux' DOS-emulator. Word 97 and Staroffice/Linux seems to work

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:55PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2000 11:56:07 PDT, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see it from

My Debian box is unstable- Why?

Now that I've got your attention, here's the problem I'm having. Whenever I attempt to run x11amp more than once in a single session, it refuses to reopen a second instance of the application. I have also seen it die when opening another application concurrently. When I try to restart then run

Re: PCI 128...

you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only If that goes for midi too, why isn't the midi working? The documentation says (about midi) 'no ioctls supported'. What does that mean? (That alsa is the only option?) / David

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

Whenever I attempt to run x11amp more than once in a single session, it refuses to reopen a second instance of the application. many devices (including the audio devices) can be opened only once at a time. so the second x11amp hangs waiting for the audio device to free up. I have also seen

Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

First of all I would like to say your kernel is qoute ols, my suggestion: compile a new one! Second (more towards your problem) is why you can't open more than 1 x11amp application, my guess is that when you open one, it takes your soundcard (simply because it needs it to function...), when you

Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: Hi *, Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact that the person who posted it (apparently from the wcom.com domain as seen

Looking for a backup tool...

Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... I suppose I could write something like this in Perl, but if anyone knows of

Re: Looking for a backup tool...

Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... find should do the job. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into

Re: xntp

Hi , How do I find out a good/valid server to rdate the time? Thanks! Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi John! John I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's John timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using John a modem. John After installing xntp3 and

Re: Looking for a backup tool...

Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... find should do the

Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

** On May 17, brian moore scribbled: On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: Hi *, Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact that the person who posted it

x-server for ATI Rage Fury?

Dear Debian, I just purchased and installed Debian and there are no x-servers listed that are compatible with my Rage Fury 32Mb AGP video card. Is it possible to install the compatible x-server from another distribution into debian? If so, how would I go about doing this? Sincerely, Ned --

mailagent configuration problems

Hi, I've been fighting with mailagent to get it configured. I follow the clear instructions in the man-page, and get on to testing. Having set up my .forward as told, I get this sort of entry in the file which takes error output from the filter (~/.bak in the setup) 00/05/17 17:22:49

Re: Looking for a backup tool...

At 01:33 PM 05/17/2000 -0400, David Grill Watson wrote: Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... -- find place

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On Wed, 17 May 2000, w trillich wrote: to hide the args of your command, there are several tricks aside from the 'overhaul the kernel' approach-- 1) write a script to do the deed supply the args, and call it as your command; then your command-line will only be the script name. set

dpkg status history...how much is too much?

In the spirit of Ignorance is the path to wisdom please bear with me. Discovering the ambiguities in certain file size accountings under Unix/Linux (re: earlier post where du and ls gave vastly different results for both /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/faillog) led me to inspect /var more closely.

Finding a package name?

How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? {0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers. The package name is too long, and gets truncated, so I can't purge it. Robert :wq!

Re: Lost E-mail

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:25:57PM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote: Usually I pick up my e-mail by a cron job (Slink, sendmail) but I happend to be on-line doing something and I noticed 3 e-mails coming in. There are notes in the log files but the messages have gone missing. I do export

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

| my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) | daily. | And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network. I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) daily. And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. It's a lot of data to be shifting back and

Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A. Scott White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting. The In-Reply-To: header field has the message-id of the article you're

KDE2 in tree or not?

Hello, I'm very confused about KDE2's stance within the Debian tree? One set of people say that it'll definitely be included in there (if so, when?), while another set insist that it won't because of the licensing issues. Can anyone provide a definite answer (with proof? A link to a web site with

Re: mailagent configuration problems

Tony writes: Another possible symptom - If I run mailagent with -f and point it to my unix mail directory, I get insecure configuration and what looks like a hang. I assume that what you mean is that you point it at one of the files in your mail directory. What are the permissions on that

Maxima on debian

Date: 17 May 2000 16:35:04 - From: Alberto Meroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Has someone got maxima (gnu maxima) compiled ? I could not have it compiled with gcl source package ? Phreaphs someone has a slink binary out there ? I did. It is a little bit tricky, but doable. I compiled it for

Mirroring

Is there any tool, which could mirror ftp and local directories in both direction? Thanks, Tamas

Motif now Open source (fwd)

This seems appropriate to the KDE in Debain question, and the OpenMotif license thing is bound to come up... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:21:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Motif

Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] canonicalised to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use postfix and I suppose it does the same. In the situation where the It does. lookup fails I suppose postfix appended my domain name even though the host with such

Re: Finding a package name?

Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? {0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers. There might be a more elegant solution but I've

Re: Finding a package name?

Works well enough for me. Thanks, now I just wish I could do a dpkg -P -a but that doesn't work. Thus spake Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? {0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r

RE: Wanted a free library for computational geometry

-Original Message- From: Daniele Cruciani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 11:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wanted a free library for computational geometry Really I don't think i can find it on freshmeat or as a python library, but in a

sendmail/aliases.db error

Hey, everytime I try run sendmail, I get this error - May 17 15:39:22 skynet sendmail[8272]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument If tried removing aliases.db, aliases, putting in new ones, simpler ones, leaving them blank. I tried running

Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

** On May 17, Mark Brown scribbled: On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] canonicalised to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use postfix and I suppose it does the same. In the situation where the It does. lookup fails I suppose postfix appended my domain

Re: Finding a package name?

Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? {0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75

Re: Finding a package name?

Thus spake Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Works well enough for me. Thanks, now I just wish I could do a dpkg -P -a but that doesn't work. Er, if you want to purge all your packages, why not just put /home somewhere safe and reformat? :) I was refering to something cleaner than:

Typical System or Normal System Configuration

Hello Some distributions of Linux such as Red Hat, have a script file called sysreport. This file when executed collects info about the current version installed, the CPU(s) present on the system, how memory is partitioned, etc. One may run this utility and learn a lot about how the system is

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

I agree, rpm is not a piece of crap. deb packages are a lot harder to create for the novice users. There is not much documentation to help in this area either. Also, when updates are released .debs are usually the last to be released (because someone usually has to hack an .rpm or something

RE: sendmail/aliases.db error

I use the command: makemap hash /etc/mail/access /etc/mail/access to generate the access.db file. This might work for aliases as well. -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-215-3232 Dayton,

Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

Hello I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size increases by some K every second leading to a 15M memory loss per hour. I'm currently running a PII with 256M RAM and kernel 2.2.15 (latest). I've stopped

Re: Finding a package name?

Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? {0}:iggy:/rootdpkg -l | grep ^r rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers. grep on the Packages file. On my

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else encountered this situation? Yes, almost everyone. I wonder how come no one in #linux knew about it? Too bad no one in #debian ever speaks (at

[Fwd: Debian list, viewed from Windows machine]

Found this question in my inbox, and had no clue where bashrc.ems comes from. Maybe you can help. MfG Viktor Original Message Subject: Debian list, viewed from Windows machine Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:53:32 -0400 From: George S Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Viktor Rosenfeld

XFree86 4.0 deb

Hola~ Anyone know of the location of an xfree86 4.0 deb file? MO

Re: [Fwd: Debian list, viewed from Windows machine]

Viktor Rosenfeld said: Found this question in my inbox, and had no clue where bashrc.ems comes from. Maybe you can help. MfG Viktor Original Message Subject: Debian list, viewed from Windows machine Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:53:32 -0400 From: George S Campbell [EMAIL

GDM and 16bpp in X

I can get 16 bit color working with xdm as listed in the HowTo, but after switching to GDM, I can't figure out how to do it. I wan't it to be a centralized fix, not user specific. If anyone has an idea, please let me know. Thanks Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.0 deb

They don't exist yet. Michael O'Brien wrote: Hola~ Anyone know of the location of an xfree86 4.0 deb file? MO -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Viewport size in X

After much searching, I can't find anywhere how to set the viewport in X to the current screen resolution. Either it is set manually, or it is the highest resolution possible. I have consulted my gurus to no avail. Also it is annoying to some people I am attempting to convert to linux as well.

Re: Viewport size in X

Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After much searching, I can't find anywhere how to set the viewport in X to the current screen resolution. Either it is set manually, or it is the highest resolution possible. I have consulted my gurus to no avail. Also it is annoying to some people I

Re: sendmail/aliases.db error

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Gary D wrote: newaliases gives this error Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases Why can't it open /etc/aliases - do actually have a file there? if not, cp

Re: Configuration

Jay Kelly wrote: Hello All, Im working on getting Samba to run and I came across: To ensure that the server is run as a daemon whenever the machine is started, and to ensure that it runs as root so that it can serve multiple clients, you will need to modify the system startup files.

Re: Looking for a backup tool...

Gary Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better yet, there are quite a few backup utilities that do this type of thing for you automatically. I use afbackup and like it very much, although it's a client/server system so a bit tough to set up. GNU Tar can do this automatically as well using

Intel 810e ChipSet - On board Video.

Anyone successfully using frozen potato with the Intel 810e on board video chipset? Does potato detect it and do the install with ease or will I have to dig out needed modules myself from xfree86.org etc. The 810e looks like a nice way to go for a low cost system...but if it doesn't work with

Re: Viewport size in X

Did that, and same problem still. Thanks Kelly Nate wrote: remove the 'viewport' lines of the file (back the file up first) XF86Config does not need 'em. lemme know how it goes nate root wrote: Actually the problem is how at 640x480, the viewing window is 640x480, but the

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

I have to disagree there. I've found Debian packs to be extremely up to date, atleast on the security end. And even on routine maintanance, the lag is not that bad. At 08:44 PM 5/16/00 -0700, David Lynn wrote: I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's. However, that's all assuming

RE: Intel 810e ChipSet - On board Video.

On 17-May-2000 Ron Stordahl wrote: Anyone successfully using frozen potato with the Intel 810e on board video chipset? Does potato detect it and do the install with ease or will I have to dig out needed modules myself from xfree86.org etc. The 810e looks like a nice way to go for a low

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

Sorry, but I was so underwhelmed by rpm's capabilities and my reaction was so one sidedly negative that I can't describe it any other way. It is what I typed. At 02:55 PM 5/17/00 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Chris Wagner wrote: RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we

Re: KDE2 in tree or not?

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:53:39PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote: I'm very confused about KDE2's stance within the Debian tree? One set of people say that it'll definitely be included in there (if so, when?), while another set insist that it won't because of the licensing issues. Can anyone

Re: KDE2 in tree or not?

Simple, neither KDE 1.2. nor 2.0 are integrated in Debian 2.2 aka potato. The distribution is in a frozen state for some time. Nothing thats not there now won't be added in the future. Well no, of course not. KDE2 is just on its first beta. I was more concerned about whatever Debian version

Re: x-server for ATI Rage Fury?

Ned Harkey wrote: I just purchased and installed Debian and there are no x-servers listed that are compatible with my Rage Fury 32Mb AGP video card. Is it possible to install the compatible x-server from another distribution into debian? If so, how would I go about doing this? I have an ATI

transfer files

I'm used to transferring whole directory trees with ws-ftp under windows. When using Linux fom the shell, what's the easiest way to do the same thing? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of

Re: dpkg status history...how much is too much?

montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I did du -k /var/lib/dpkg and got: total 10762 [...] -rw-r--r--1 root root 870741 May 17 03:04 status -rw-r--r--1 root root 870740 May 17 03:03 status-old -rw-r--r--1 root root 870741 May 17 03:04 status.yesterday.0

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:55PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2000 11:56:07 PDT, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry writes: On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How

Re: transfer files

Chris Mason wrote: I'm used to transferring whole directory trees with ws-ftp under windows. When using Linux fom the shell, what's the easiest way to do the same thing? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561)

Re: transfer files

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:35:27PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote I'm used to transferring whole directory trees with ws-ftp under windows. When using Linux fom the shell, what's the easiest way to do the same thing? lftp is a simple, scriptable command-line ftp client that has a 'mirror' command

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc... Couldn't you put the password in a variable? Would the real value show up, or just the

The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

Hi all, After 6 weeks and a Slink-Potato upgrade, I've got to say I like Debian a whole lot and am definitely going to move it on up to the big box as soon as Potato goes stable and CD's are available... But*, one tiny, core question remains. Which is it: /usr/src, /usr/local/source,

Re: dpkg status history...how much is too much?

Colin, A perfect answer. Clear. To the point. Actionable. Thank you, montefin Colin Watson wrote: montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does dpkg need all that status history? And if not, must I monitor it myself, or does dpkg have a self-cleansing method that is somehow not being invoked

Network question

Hello Group, Im running Samba and was wondering how I set up a Windows98 machine to login into the debian server and to be auth. ?

laptop booting potato

debs, i'm just upgrading my slink lapbox to potato (on the 2.0.36 kernel). my boot hangs at scsi. i copied a scsi-free kernel into /boot. but it still tries to boot the scsi kernel and then hangs. i renamed /boot/linux to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.36, the name of the kernel that i had been using.

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

Folks, I have used dpkg, and been forced to use rpm, and rpm is just as good, more or less. The problem is that there is nothing equivalent to dselect or apt in RedHat. I rarely call dpkg directly, unless libc6 is stuck again ;-), but the nearest that RedHat has to a mid-level tool is GnoRPM,

Re: Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

I'm sure this is a FAQ somewhere, but I can't find it on my system right off hand. So... Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CH I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to CH have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size CH increases by some K

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

Dariush, Assuming you are worried by people with promiscuous ethernet cards, packet-sniffing. Put in a second NIC, run a crossover UTP? I assume the machine's are close by. Hotswapping a hard disk seems risky, if you do it daily. On the other hand, if you are not CPU constrained, run PPTP or

Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes: EGM On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc... EGM EGM Couldn't you put the password in a variable?

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