Re: LILO to boot FreeBSD

2000-10-17 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 17, Joel Dinel scribbled: [snip] hdd: timeout waiting for DMA hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdd: DMA disabled [PTBL] [1245/255/63] hdd1 How can I tell Linux to leave hdd completely alone ? try appending

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 06, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it happens when I access remote sites, for

Re: neighbour table overflow

2000-10-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but it is not! Any help would be vvvnice :) Check whether you have the lo network interface up.

Re: Too many messages

2000-09-19 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 19, Rob scribbled: Heh. guys this is sort of off-topic (sorry) but its so typically me that I signed up for like four of the topics on the mailing list and im revieving like 200 messages a day, which I just dont have time to read, how can I cancel all of the lists except for one? Heh

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-29 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 29, Hans scribbled: At 12:03 PM 7/28/00 -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote: Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-29 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 29, Andre Berger scribbled: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes: it as on a marketing/support factor. If any of your customers would come to you and say hm... I would switch to Linux, but I kinda like the M$ Outlook. If Linux had something like that Now you

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-29 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 29, Ethan Pierce scribbled: The main reason I am psyched for evolution is my girlfriend cant grasp pine or mail. She needs something graphical. If I can avoid booting windows2000 so she can read her email in outlook I will be happy as a clam...hence evolution is the perfect

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jul 28, Kent West scribbled: Ethan Pierce wrote: Sorry all, the sources.list line should read: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./ I thought the . in ./ was a typo, so I didn't include it. I got a bunch of dependency errors. So I went

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 24, Mark Phillips scribbled: Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use Mozilla in the meantime :) [snip] And the problem seems to be with a syntax error at the line for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . |

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 24, Mark Phillips scribbled: Peter Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Peter Kovacs wrote: I'm sure that a fix has already been posted, but this works for me (replace the code above with this): for d in /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper.d ; do

Re: True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0

2000-06-11 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jun 11, kmself@ix.netcom.com scribbled: On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that it will supported the True Type Fonts. Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to install the xfs or xtt

Re: Anyone having trouble upgrading Helix-Gnome?

2000-05-26 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 26, Phillip Deackes scribbled: For most of yesterday and today I have been trying to upgrade to the latest version of Helix-Gnome (based on Gnome 1.2). Following instruction exactly (the usual apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to Woody and

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-20 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: Hi debians According to www.netcraft.com/whats , freshmeat.org is running on windoze? Is this really the case!? How come? Is this for real? Yup, it is for real. http://www.freshmeat.org is running WinNT, but http://www.freshmeat.NET is running Linux, as

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-20 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: Hi I realised shortly after that I tried the wrong TLD. My fault. I immediately posted a cancel message to the list thereafter. I don't have it in my inbox yet... Nevermind :)) But whilst we're on that subject, how would such an OS Port 80 scan be

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-20 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: There are at least three easy ways to check what operating system runs on the remote machine (let's assume it's got the HTTP port open): 1. nmap -O -p 80 host.name.com You don't want to scan them :), that's why the -p What's the -O option? For

Re: freshmeat running on windoze?!

2000-05-20 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 20, Sven Burgener scribbled: Hi Marek Full info comes right your way :)): Cheers a lot! But how come I don't have that? :*! There's sort of an empty man page describing that other infos can be found locally under /usr/doc/nmap/... *My* nmap doesn't recognise the -O flag. I am

Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
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: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
** 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

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

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
** 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: socket programming

2000-05-12 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry scribbled: On 12-May-2000 Brett Fowlkes wrote: I am writing a server that accepts telnet connections. I am using basic sockets to do so and do not use inetd. I cannot figure out how to disable the echoing to screen for the password. I have tried

Re: socket programming

2000-05-12 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 12, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry scribbled: a) read the telnetd / telnet source b) look at how programs like login do it it boils down to you setting flags for the device. And for good socket tutorials, info etc. you can visit those two addresses:

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-29 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, Brad scribbled: i merely think i have a screwy setting here or there that's needlessly duplicating log messages. settings are the bane of my linux existence, still... Now, stop right here for a while. syslog isn't Linux - it's a common software, created quite

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, Joey Hess scribbled: Marek Habersack wrote: rwhod = server for 'whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I didn't write that :)) :P useless crap (IMHO) But I still hold on to this point of view - completely useless No, rwhod doesn't have anything to do with whois. How useful it is is ia

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-28 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 28, w trillich scribbled: there's still a AWFUL lot of overlap! No there's not. Please give the people who wrote linux some credit for sense. i saved the output from tail -50 /var/log/syslog tail -50 /var/log/daemon.log and did a 'diff' on them: of fifty

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-27 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 27, w trillich scribbled: ever wonder what all those background processes are for? me too, and i still do. if you have some answers, please post them for us newbies. # ps t\? PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?S 0:06 init [2] parent of all the processes in

Re: daemons -- who needs'em?

2000-04-27 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 27, w trillich scribbled: to paraphrase bob hope's theme--thanks for the summaries! 2206 ?S 0:00 /sbin/portmap Portmapper for the RPC-based services (kinda a dispatch for them) portmap = something to do with Remote-Procedure-Call? precisely can i ditch it?

Re: WordPerfect Office 2000 - Opinions?

2000-04-13 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Apr 13, Carl Fink scribbled: [snip] Or am I better off getting the commercial version of 8? Do you need a spreadsheet? A presentation program? Just a quick question - any luck with using non ISO-8859-1 fonts/keyboards with WP9?? I never succeeded installing ISO-8859-2 or whatever

Re: /dev/mixer hosed by potato upgrade...

2000-01-22 Thread Marek Habersack
* rich said: I have also seen some messages about /dev/dsp being gone, and xwave says: cannot access audio device... Any ideas? Are you using ALSA? pgpqLlyeCNLmq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-15 Thread Marek Habersack
* Sean Johnson said: wow, don't know how I missed that ... thanks. Anytime :))) marek pgpOFpgPBeW6V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-menus problem with potato

2000-01-14 Thread Marek Habersack
* Sean Johnson said: A quick fix is to remove (or move) the /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients file ... as its format is evidently fscked. Even quicker is to edit it and add a backslash after every 'hints=something' line. marek pgpAGDbUCzWKV.pgp Description: PGP signature

console characters display problem

2000-01-13 Thread Marek Habersack
Hi *, I have a problem with console fonts display. The scenario is as follows: I load a font from /usr/share/consolefonts (namely iso02grf.psf which comes with embedded SFM), load the appropriate keyboard map (pl02.map) and expect to see the Polish diacritics on the screen. However, this is

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ethan Benson said: Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone know how to do it? There must be a way. ulimit does

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jim B said: On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be ulimited past that. Hmmm.

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jim B said: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of setting limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jim B said: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters? They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory. OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a time) and none

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Marek Habersack
* Phil Brutsche said: capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward at the sides. This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? There is nothing wrong with what

Re: su no longer working after dist-upgrade

2000-01-05 Thread Marek Habersack
* aphro said: i got that when my ulimits were too strict, try killing processes to free up resources (see ulimit for more info) either that or you may be out of memory.. I reported the problem to the packages' maintainers (su and sudo) but apparently the problem of su and sudo not resetting

su, sudo and resource limits

1999-12-29 Thread Marek Habersack
--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi *, I was just wondering - how one trying to avoid logging as root as much as possible can do his tasks successfully if su and sudo don't reset resource limits when the privileged command is executed? See the below figures:

Re: PVM

1999-12-09 Thread Marek Habersack
* Blazej Sawionek said: I found myself too stupid to execute Python examples, so I decided to turn to PVM (I was told it could also do the task I need), but during installation of pvm and pvm-dev I got the following warnings: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink

Re: Is Corel Off Topic ?

1999-12-07 Thread Marek Habersack
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just to keep it off topic, I also have BeOS 4.5.2 installed (along with Windows Debian) and it is great! Nice blend of *nix and Mac-land. It only suffers from a lack of drivers and software. Just like Linux a few years ago (there, back on topic). Are there

Re: file permisions in /etc

1999-11-29 Thread Marek Habersack
* Evan Moore said: I have been reading about securing my linux box and it mentions making /etc readable only by root. Would this mess up anything by making making all of the /etc file permisions 600? Hmm... Is it Microsoft Security Bulletin you've been reading? :))) Seriously, securing /etc in

Re: suidmanager

1999-11-13 Thread Marek Habersack
* Pollywog said: On 12-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote: Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... I just keep a backup copy of suid.conf and overwrite the new version after I have done a Debian upgrade. That was the easiest way to deal with it without editing the file after every upgrade.

Re: suidmanager

1999-11-12 Thread Marek Habersack
* Martin Fluch said: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote: Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here: xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about suidmanager? The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions, so

Re: Ftp problem.

1999-10-20 Thread Marek Habersack
* Marcin Kurc said: Install wu-ftpd or proftpd, or whatever you like and check your inetd.conf. Current proftpd (mainstream probably) fails to honour the UserAlias directive, so that logging in as anonymous is not possible. That's with anon servers, as to the normal access perhaps you should

Re: Root password

1999-09-28 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jens Ritter said: Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't tried this myself... but, I seem to recall that if you pass linux single on the boot line (at the lilo prompt, etc..) it will boot into a single-user mode; within that you should be able to passwd root. This will ask

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-16 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ben Collins said: (atleast after today it will be, once the new shadow is installed). Hmm... is that mean that we're gonna switch to the same passwd suite as RH, for example? Too bad... the current passwd has many useful switches (-l -u being two of them...) No, RedHat does not use

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-13 Thread Marek Habersack
* Gernot Bauer said: Good morning, I was wondering, why Linux only checks 8 characters of the It's not a Linux invention, it's the limitation of the Unix DES method of encrypting passwords. login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to check everything of it. Is

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-13 Thread Marek Habersack
* William T Wilson said: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gernot Bauer wrote: I was wondering, why Linux only checks 8 characters of the login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole password is verified?

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-13 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ben Collins said: login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole password is verified? Just take a look at the /etc/login.defs and read the description of the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB. Setting this

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

1999-08-02 Thread Marek Habersack
* Bill said: Hello, Actually its http://www.operasoftware.com or http://opera.nta.no and the project for opera for linux is under project magic Opera is an excellent browser, but has one (important IMO) disadvantage - it doesn't fully support HTML 4.0 (or rather it didn't support it the last

Re: Soffice

1999-07-30 Thread Marek Habersack
* Manoj Srivastava said: thomas when opening.. If you please could let me know which package thomas i shall downgrad or upgrade to get it work again i would be thomas very glad since i use soffice everyday.. I am not sure, but quite possibly the issue may be the libc upgrade? I

Re: lost the root password

1999-07-29 Thread Marek Habersack
* Shukuko Yono said: I need to know whether there are any methods of finding the root password There are none. The standard Unix passwords are encrypted using a one-way encryption algorithm using so the only way to test for password correctness is to encrypt the provided password and compare it

Re: telnet access control

1999-07-29 Thread Marek Habersack
* venu said: how is this done ? i have done it once before.. but don't remember how...is it thru inetd.conf ? Nope, see /etc/securetty and man 5 securetty and if i need to restrict number of simultaneous logins (total and for a particular user).. how do i do it ? read /etc/limits and man 5

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread Marek Habersack
* Philip Lehman said: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i haven't gotten it to crash on

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* Tommy Malloy said: Doesn't the fact that I can go to any Linux box with an install disk or cd and gain root access mean that the all Linux systems are fundamentally insecure? Perhaps the install process could be changed so that root password, or some other verification system is required,

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suppose it you used cfs (as another poster suggested), you could keep someone from reading your disk. But you couldn't keep them from wiping it clean with fdisk and being generally destructive. I'm not a security guru, but I think it's still one of the most

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ben Collins said: from this type of access is to use some sort of secure fs (cfs and secure loop devices with encryption come to mind), also check into sfs (sorry, no URL's for these). This has a downfall of the fact that the machine cannot boot without user interaction (some one to

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* David B.Teague said: Doesn't the fact that I can go to any Linux box with an install disk or cd and gain root access mean that the all Linux systems are fundamentally insecure? Absolutely. Any system to which physical access is allowed, then the system is vulnerable to a sufficient

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* Koyote said: so that root password, or some other verification system is required, before a reinstall is permitted. It is true that compromising a system this way requires unfettered access to the box. However as Linux is used more and more in commercial environments this issue will

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ben Collins said: machine cannot boot without user interaction (some one to authenticate or supply the password for the filesystem). Isn't that too much ado? No physical access is the cure - serious approach to security requires NO PHYSICAL ACCESS to the server machine. Tell that

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread Marek Habersack
* Rune Linding Raun said: you can by a REAL server eg Compaq server line which can be locked completely and only unlocked by a license disk or a bootpasswd Yes, that's true, but still the server is incapable of rebootig on it's own - it still requires human attendance at that process. And it's a

Re: LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Marek Habersack
* Person, Roderick said: Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to

Re: mutt Reply to: header???

1999-05-03 Thread Marek Habersack
* Paul Nathan Puri said: How do I set up mutt so that the Reply to: header is in the messages? It's easy. Create a .muttrc file in your home directory, then put the following string somewhere in it: my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a professor tell me he could not respond to my

Re: configuraciĆ³n de redes

1999-04-24 Thread Marek Habersack
* William R Pentney said: On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me gustar?a obtener ayuda sobre: ?C?mo puedo instalar una red con linux? Lo necesito urgentemente Gracias [basically: How do I install a network with Linux?] Sugero balsa. Es un colleccion de programas

Re: Self-extracting compressed binaries in Linux?

1999-04-20 Thread Marek Habersack
* William R Pentney said: Is there any program that can create compressed self-extracting executables a la PKLite in Linux? Anyone know of any? Just curious. One of the best I found on the net is exepak. Here's it's LSM file: Begin3 Title: EXEPAK executable file compressor for Linux

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-31 Thread Marek Habersack
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: The point being, do NOT assume that the person trying to load the orignial Red Hat package even knows what a Makefile is. If he manages to understand how to convert an rpm to a tarball, he will surely understand how to use alien to make a .deb

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-31 Thread Marek Habersack
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hmm... that's right, but it's only a matter of people talking to each other and agreeing upon one policy - the dists that don't follow the chosen standard, can rearrange their layout starting with the next release (yes, I know, it might be quite

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi again, guess what I need to know is how do you start programs at boot on a Debian system. I have tried to put my soundon* script from OSS in rc.boot and I get an error message when booting saying: cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface It

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent? 2. Why should Debian be RH-compatible? If someone switches to Debian from RH s/he should be prepared that some

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: textual form, while the =2.1.x kernels have /proc/bus/pci interface which exports that data in a binary form which is translated into human-readable data using the pciutils package. /proc/pci can be compiled into kernel for compatibility

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 28-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: Well, I did put the OSS startup script in rc.boot, and the drivers load and work fine. The only problem is the message I get about obsolete pci device which, as I was informed here, has nothing to do with

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: 1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent? HP FireHunter for example. You got me there. So it means nobody packages it for Debian? Well, so the solution is to make the whole Debian

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It will probably be abstracted and have symbolic names and

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:00:16AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two startup file layout

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote: Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be loaded before any disks are mounted)? Well, you must have at least / mounted

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at which priority to place a new

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GB Because there are several commercial software packages distributed GB in RPM format for the Red Hat layout that are NOT available in GB tarball format. You can always convert a rpm to a tarball.

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Seems to me adding stuff to rcS.d would jeopardize using single mode booting as a tool when somethiing in your default runlevel won't run right? Still, it might be the replacement of rc.boot. After my initial posting in this thread I must

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: This is the sad truth. If this simple task shall continue to be complicated, vendors will create packages for their distribution of fancy. My problen is that this is already the case with some vendors. I never thought when I switched to Linux a

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two startup file

Re: PHP Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: Marek Habersack wrote: Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work with Apache 1.3.5? I don't think they're available. However, Apache 1.3.6 is in the current distribution, and I think (but I'm not sure

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. Ciao, Martin Yeah and then edit everything to put stuff in different places (and hope something somewhere dosn't have a location hardcoded.). In

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: You can always convert a rpm to a tarball. You don't have to. Just get the src rpm Read what George said, that doesn't work for things like Applixware or other commercial programs that DO NOT HAVE SRC RPM. Those also tend to have hardcoded

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: not configurable and were only designed to be run an a Red Hat system. Hmm... did you read the Debian Policy manual? I'm confused, what does the policy manual have to do with compatibility between Red Hat and Debian init structure and

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: You don't have to. Just get the src rpm marek You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any other commercial software pre-packaged for Red Hat. Well, such software won't make

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote: You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any other commercial software pre-packaged for Red Hat. Well, such software won't make it into Debian then... I guess... Correct. Maybe in non-free if the company will let Debian

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: dist vendor does for you all you need, for the open community needs, it takes a system administrator to manage the machine and such a person should RTFM - ALL OF THEM... And, IMO, the way of loading programs and devices is quite elegant and

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: The problem is that there has been a lot of talk about new standards, putting it in rc.boot, creating a jungle of sym links etc. Take a look at this thread! :) Err... : yeah, :-))) marek

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: you imagine you get all those spiffy packages in Debian from? It's from hundreds of people EDITING EVERYTHING so that you can just type dpkg -i package.deb and enjoy the way it works... marek No, Marek, you reread my original. Joe Blow gets

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: You got me there. So it means nobody packages it for Debian? Well, so the solution is to make the whole Debian distribution compatible with RH just for the sake of one package? Isn't it better to repackage it for Debian? No that I'm willing to

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-28 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:13:03PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: Oh, this would really rock if it would work for xdm; if I could say only start xdm once getty has grabbed all the virtual consoles

PHP Apache 1.3.5

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
Hi, Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work with Apache 1.3.5? thanks in advance marek -- -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3ia Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. mQCNAzao258AAAEEAM7hrSfj5QmbZMJ64b1COVrXNuraF95y8Djln0a37UBlLZQ7

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: I am a newbie and do not undestand the init files in Debian yet. I have tried to read up on it, but I am still confused. Can anyone help me out, please? Debian uses standard System V init files. There is no such thing as rc.d or rc.local

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? Not if you just

Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian?

1999-03-27 Thread Marek Habersack
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? NO /etc/rc.boot and rc.local