Linux-Misc Digest #777, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: IMAP mail GUI client (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: mounting a cd in linux (Andreas Schyman)
Re: message in /var/log/messages (Steve Snyder)
Re: Problem: Adding a new user (Mark Hahn)
Re: RPM -a and Redhat5.2 (Iain A F Fleming)
Re: Emacs; is there a third way? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Question: total on ls-command (NF Stevens)
Re: Kernel 2.2.5 hangs after some hours ! (jason)
Re: netscape is ugly ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Johan Kullstam)
loginrestriction, pam and access.conf (peter)
Re: Banyan client for linux (Andre Kostur)
rm * disaster (A J Fenlon)
Slackware Versus Red Hat (Lian PL)
Does Linux has Viruses? (Dan)
free computer9 (webmaster)
ERP for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
free computer12 (webmaster)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (David Dineen)
Re: Does Linux has Viruses? (KuruptSol)
Re: problems on gtk ("Spud")
Re: How to see a Dos directory through LINUX (KuruptSol)
Why can't they all just get along?--libs (Mladen Gavrilovic)
How to see a Dos directory through LINUX (Srinivas Madiraju)
Looken fur a game ("Jason Duncan")
Re: HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem: Adding a new user (Tina)
Re: Access other than root???? (Jim Roberts)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: IMAP mail GUI client
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:13:44 GMT
Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|Can anyone recommend a good IMAP mail GUI client? Netscape is a
|resource hog, and I hate the Motif widgets. StarMail looked promising,
|but keeps crashing the entire StarOffice suite on me whenever I try to
|use it. The two beasts (StarOffice and Netscape) consume too many
|resources to run simultaneously. Looking for alternatives with no luck
|so far.
How about xfmail?
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting a cd in linux
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 04:20:14 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How do you mount a CD in linux ?
>
> Eric Headley
>
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
make sure that the directory /mnt/cdrom exists. otherwise create it.
(mkdir /mnt/cdrom)
Also check that /dev/cdrom is pointing at your cd. (ls -al /dev/cdrom)
Otherwise, link it (ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom) where /dev/hdc is where
your cd is installed.
You could also try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" to mount your
cd without the link.
If you don't know where your cd is, you could try putting the cd in the
slot an then issuing the above command to see if your cd is installed at
/dev/hdc. If it is y'it will get mounted, otherwise you will get an
errormessage. Then try replacing /dev/hdc with /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd.
See "man mount" and "mount --help" for more help.
Andreas.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: message in /var/log/messages
Date: 7 Apr 1999 22:21:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
In <7eei43$rpl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
>Thanks to Andrew Wood , I now know that it is related to my recent
>upgrade of sysklogd, and represents a "harmless" writing of a timestamp
>to the log files.
You can specify the frequency at which the timestamp is written to the
file. The parameters "-m 0" (no quotes, of course) on the syslogd
command line disables the writing altogether.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: Adding a new user
Date: 7 Apr 1999 16:58:59 GMT
ioj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope that I haven't posted this into the wrong list, but here goes....
no, you've just posted very rudely, with a bogus email address.
> I'm new to LINUX. I have been given the task of running the mail server
> here and as such need to add user mail accounts. When I try to adduser, the
> system comes back and says:
> Sorry, it seems that you are using some form of shadow password utilities
> instead of a normal password file which contains the actual unencrypted
> password. You should use 'useradd' or equivalent user addition utility to
> make sure the new user is added correctly.
> Could anyone out there help me?
you haven't provided any relevant information. for instance,
what distribution are you using? is it true that you're using
shadow passwords (which are GOOD, indeed, non-shadow is incompetent).
(you can tell by seeing if the encrypted password is in /etc/password.)
finally, find out whether you have other programs for adding users
(such as the useradd suggested by the message!)
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From: Iain A F Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM -a and Redhat5.2
Date: 07 Apr 1999 18:03:53 +0100
The entity calling itself [...M...] wrote:
>
> If i type "rpm -a", it just gives me an error of "unexpected query source".
rpm -q -a
--
Iain A F Fleming http://www.spider.com/
Spider Software Ltd Leith Scotland +44.131.475.7045
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Emacs; is there a third way?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:04:09 GMT
> > Have any of you managed to install both versions side by side?
> > Hans Pelleboer
Hi,
I use Suse Linux 6.0, and both programs can be installed and used. I
currently have both on my computer now, just to check out the differences...
- Robb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Question: total on ls-command
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:03:12 GMT
"Kim Krarup Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm new to Linux. When I do a "ls / -al" I see 19 lines of files or
>directories. How come the total in the first line says "total 61" ? Can
>anyone tell me why?
Its the number of file system blocks (usually 1kb) that the files use.
Norman
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5 hangs after some hours !
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 13:10:45 -0400
Have you tried the 2.2.5-ac* kernels? I've been running 2.2.5-ac2 for
about a week with no problems. Don't know whether the stock 2.2.5 would
have failed me, too.
-jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> After I upgraded fro 2.2.3 to 2.2.5, I got problems. After some hours of
> working, the server just hangs and does not respond anymore ! Only a cold
> restart made it run again. In one case, a kernel panic was reported. Scanning
> through the newsgroups, it seems a lot of people have problems with 2.2.5. I
> will go back to 2.2.3.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Answers please in this newsgroup!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape is ugly
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:15:27 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i had the same problem. i solved it by setting the colordepth down to 16 ;)
> does anyone know a better soulution?
No, but yours is good enough.
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
--
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:54:24 -0400
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jon-o Addleman wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:43:13 +0200, "Jan Johansson"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >Correct. Not a bug, that was the way MS wanted it.. and it makes sense to me
> > >atleast.
> >
> > Really? Why would they want it to be impossible to save your password
> > unless a particular protocol was in place? It makes llittle sense to
> > me... the dial up networking has nothing to do with the network
> > protocol that it uses. Please explain this to me!
>
> Perhaps to encourage you to use their proprietary protocol
> instead of other, more open protocols?
microsoft wants you to run linux. really!
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: loginrestriction, pam and access.conf
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:37:30 GMT
a user should only be allowed to logon from the local console and from
nowhere else.
on my redhat52 I found /etc/security/access.conf (which belongs to the
pam-package) which could do the job.
I added the following line:
-:gast:ALL EXCEPT console
but this didnt work. and even if I say:
-:gast:ALL
which should disable any login, the user still can logon via ssh and
console.
how do I activate the access.conf-file ?
are there better ways to do what I want to do ?
thanks a lot,
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Kostur)
Subject: Re: Banyan client for linux
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:33:49 GMT
In article <7efqsd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is there anyway to access banyan vines networks
>from linux.
Depends on what you're trying to do... and whether you are willing to
purchase commercial software. E-mail me for details ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A J Fenlon)
Subject: rm * disaster
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:06:50 +0100 (BST)
I inadvertently deleted a whole afternoon writing on my linux box at
home ....
As I have just reinstalled LINUX .... I had not aliased the rm
command.
So my usual 'rm *' in my $cwd did not return with any prompts and hence
removed all my afternoons hard graft ......
I have not touched the box since I removed it ... I was running vi
but had closed the file ... is there anyway of retrieving
the file .... or is it lost forever !!! I am running kernel 2.03, GNOME
and Englightment !!!
hoping
the very very dim one
aNdY
--
Andy Fenlon
Computational Bio-Fluid Mechanics Group (CBFM)
Rm 339/339a,
Bio-Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Leeds.
LS2 9JT.
phone : (0113) 233-2179/2129
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL : http://LEVA.LEEDS.AC.UK/~menajf/index.html
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Subject: Slackware Versus Red Hat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lian PL)
Date: 26 Mar 1999 08:03:51 GMT
I have installed succcessfully on laptop Slackware Linux ver 2 but I have
tried for many days successfully to install Red Hat ver 5.2 in the same
laptop.
Will fellow Linuxes help by telling what are the "problems, difference,
etc" between the two Linuxes, especially when you are installing on Laptops
plse email to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux has Viruses?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:07:26 +0200
Hello all
Does Linux has Viruses?
10x
Dan.
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Subject: free computer9
Date: 7 Apr 1999 17:34:18 GMT
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Subject: ERP for Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:26:27 GMT
There was an announcement for development of ERP software for Open
Source/Linux several months ago. Does anyone know the status of that
project?
Thanks,
John
--
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VOX 408.370.2688, FAX 408.379.9602
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www2.inow.com/~conover/john.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webmaster)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.vms,comp.periphs.printers,comp.software.year-2000,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: free computer12
Date: 7 Apr 1999 17:34:39 GMT
Free Computer at http://giveaways.arecool.net
DELL IS GIVING AWAY 500 FREE PENTIUM 500 Computers to celebrate their 5th
anniversary.
Hurry and if you are one of the first 500 people you win a new computer!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Dineen)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:24:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 03:01:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias
Warkus) muttered:
>> As an aside: look at Perl. I am not a programmer, but I have written
>> several programs in Perl that are very useful to me under Win95. Of course
>> I did study the documentation a lot, but it takes under a minute to write
>> your first 'hello world' in Perl even if you've never written a .bat file
>> in DOS. You can make progress at a comfortable pace, and there's plenty of
>> stuff you can figure out even without the docs - that's because Perl *is*
>> intuitive, in the way that "Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C" somehow ain't.
>
>Well, lots of people would disagree with you here, including me (I
>don't think Perl is intuitive, and it's full of warts - f.ex. file
>handles haven't got a unique type prefix, all the other types do.
>Geez!).
I'm not sure about Perl being intuitive. Powerful, useful, omnipotent,
certainly, but intuitive? I wrote a Perl script a while ago to
automate a website (produce HTML from text file with meta data). To
get rid of the newline character from the variable $m I had to do
this:
$m =~ s/\n$//;
Obvious, isn't it?
=========================================================
David Dineen Fruity Bits
www.cs.tcd.ie/spinaweb/98_finalists/02_fruitybits/
=========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KuruptSol)
Subject: Re: Does Linux has Viruses?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 23:41:21 GMT
>Does Linux has Viruses?
>
The Short Answer: No.
The Long Answer: No, with a few buts. First, your Linux installation can be
afftected by DOS viruses (assuming you're running on a PC) if you dual boot.
For example, if the particular virus writes to the MBR, it'll cause problems.
Linux itself can not be affected by viruses as we know them in the DOS/Mac
world. However, "Trojan Horse" programs can be a problem. If you were to
download a script or program and run them with root privaledges you're just
asking for trouble (assuming they weren't from a reliable, trustworthy source).
I hope that was a sufficient answer!
Bryan Woody
World War III could easily be avoided if we all adhered to a strict dress code.
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From: "Spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems on gtk
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:10:01 GMT
Run ldconfig after you install.
>hi everyone,
>I downloaded the gtk-1.2.0. It has no problem when I compile and install
>it. But when I tried to configure other programs like imlib, gtkicq and
>other programs require gtk, it says something like can't find the
>verison of gtk version>=1.0.1,but I did install it already. does anyone
>has any idea ?
>thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KuruptSol)
Subject: Re: How to see a Dos directory through LINUX
Date: 7 Apr 1999 23:45:47 GMT
>I have XFREE86 3.3.2 with my LINUX and wanted to upgrade to 3.3.3
>I have downloaded the reqd files to one dos direcotry ftp` ing from
>windows. Now how can I access this directory from LINUX.
>
>
You can't just access the directory, however you can access the device it's
stored on. In short, the command goes:
mount -t msdos /dev/hdxx /dos/
What this does is mount your dos partition (assuming you're using FAT16,
subsitute your device for hdxx) to the directory "/dos" (make sure it exists).
For more info, try "man mount".
Bryan Woody
World War III could easily be avoided if we all adhered to a strict dress code.
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Why can't they all just get along?--libs
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:02:32 +0000
I've had some problems installing libraries of all kinds. I'm pretty
sure
I'm missing something simple but essential. Here's the story:
On a dark and windy night, I had to install gtk 1.1. BUT, to install
gtk, I also had to *drumroll*--install the appropriate glib. So I
download the source of gtk 1.1.16 and the same glib, and I try
compiling.
The glib went fine. I put my /usr/local/lib into my ld.so.conf (I
didn't run ldconfig, because I didn't know about it, and I still don't
know whether I was supposed to). When I tried installing gtk+ 1.1.16,
it complained saying that the appropriate glib can't be found (it didn't
find a glib higher than 1.1.15). It said also, if you have RedHat 5.0,
delete the gtk and gtk-devel packages. I did so I did. Note that I
was installing the 1.1.16 stuff from source, not from rpms. So I tried
again. Nothing. So then I installed the gtk and gtk-devel rpms back.
After that, gtk 1.1.16 would compile fine (I'm guessing that rpm ran
ldconfig and that way detected the glib 1.1.16). I then tried running
gftp, the program that required gtk 1.1 or above--nothing. Some error
about
shared libraries. By now my caffeine supplies are depleting and I'm
getting a little nervous, so I remove the gtk and gtk-devel packages
again. And lo, gftp now worked. I then noticed that my control panel
app wasn't loading when I was root. I then spake unto my computer,
saying "I bid thee commence the execution of the one known as
control-panel." Nothing. Control-panel wouldn't work with the new
gtk. I then searched for info, and I understood that for compatibility
issues I needed the glib10 and gtk10 packages. I got them in rpm form,
and I also downloaded the newest glib and gtk in rpm form (1.2.1).
However, while gtk10 and glib10 installed, the gtk 1.2.1 and glib
1.2.1 complained. I posted this on some newsgroups, and got an
answer that 1.2.1 required glibc 2.1. So I installed that, but
again I may have forgotten to run ldconfig (I don't remember).
After I did that, glib and gtk installed fine, but now programs
that required 2.0 (such as tar) wouldn't run. Darn it all to
heck says I. Somewhere during this whole episode I lost some
files in /usr/include (such as stdio.h), so to get anything
to run I had to copy the contents of my include on the redhat
cd (/mnt/cdrom/live/usr/include) and I had to do the same for
/usr/lib. On top of this, my control-panel STILL wouldn't run
even with the gtk10 and glib10 packages installed (complained
of some undefined object or something gtk_something_somethingelse).
I then ran into some vague info about library linking with ld,
but I have no idea what this means.
So in retrospect, when I upgrade glib/gtk, old apps which ran
with old glib/gtk fail to function. When I upgrade glibc,
old apps which ran on the old glibc refuse to run (a little
alliteration in those two sentences--a-ha, a-ha, a-ha).
Can any wise souls out there whose power in the ways of the
Force is greater than mine own enlighten me with their divine
insight into the stuff of Linux?
Keep it real,
Mladen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Srinivas Madiraju)
Subject: How to see a Dos directory through LINUX
Date: 7 Apr 1999 18:28:41 GMT
Hi,
I have XFREE86 3.3.2 with my LINUX and wanted to upgrade to 3.3.3
I have downloaded the reqd files to one dos direcotry ftp` ing from
windows. Now how can I access this directory from LINUX.
I appreciate any help with this.
Thanks,
-Srini
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From: "Jason Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looken fur a game
Date: 7 Apr 1999 18:50:49 -0500
A long time ago at UNR I used to play a game I really liked, I think it was
called moon lander. When I got Linux up running I thought that Xlander
might
be it but its not. This game ran on a terminal and was made out of ASCII
characters, you tried to land the lunar module on the moon. If anyone
knows where to get it could you please mail me. Thanks
,\\// Live Long and Gnu
''''''
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:29:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Thanks for your reply, the problem is already solved.
It was a stupid IRQ-conflict with a forgotten SCSI-card in my box, which
was -off course- at IRQ-12.
And the driver was compiled as a module, so the IRQ didn't show up
in /proc/interrupts...
Al is well now, even scrolling with the wheel works now.
On 07-Apr-99 Niall Gaffney wrote:
> Ivo,
>
> Have you run the XF86Setup program and selected the Intellimouse as the
> mouse you are using. Note this is not a regular PS2 mouse. On my
> machine (a dell with the same mouse you describe) any motion of the
> mouse under X using the PS2 driver would do exactly what you describe:
> sending the cursor to the upper right hand corner of the screen and
> locking everything else up.
>
> The way out is to run the XF86Setup program from the console as root.
> Then *do not touch the mouse* as the program will probably come up
> assuming its a regular PS2 mouse. Use the keyboard to get to the mouse
> selection screen and then select the IntelliMouse driver and apply the
> changes. The mouse should then work fine and you can use it to finish
> setting everything up.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Niall Gaffney
>
> Ivo Naninck wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Today I bought a MicroSoft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible mouse.
>> However, after changing everything I think needs to be changed,
>> my desktop locks. Let me explain 'locks': the X-server (XFree-3.3.3.1)
>> starts, but the mouse-pointer doesn't react and my keyboard is
>> completeley locked. The only way to get access to the box again is
>> through a telnet-session from another machine and kill the
>> Window-manager,
>> which is 'kwm', as in KDE-1.1
>
> Snip.
>
>>
>> Thanks for your time!
>> --
>> Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
>> Ivo Naninck.
>> ~
>> ~
>> :wq!
---
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own
importance.
Best regards, don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck
~
~
wq!
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From: Tina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: Adding a new user
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:18:35 +0200
ioj wrote:
>
> I hope that I haven't posted this into the wrong list, but here goes....
>
> I'm new to LINUX. I have been given the task of running the mail server
> here and as such need to add user mail accounts. When I try to adduser, the
> system comes back and says:
> Sorry, it seems that you are using some form of shadow password utilities
> instead of a normal password file which contains the actual unencrypted
> password. You should use 'useradd' or equivalent user addition utility to
> make sure the new user is added correctly.
>
> Could anyone out there help me?
Possibly, if you could be more scecific. What dist are u running?
And PLEASE do NOT use fake e-mails. NOT VERY POLITE.
Tina
--
Linux - The choice of a GNU generation
Homepage: [http://www8.tripnet.se/~chjo/]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Roberts)
Subject: Re: Access other than root????
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:33:08 GMT
> I have read all entries having to do with this to no avail....I've also
> read the pppd man pages.
> I use X-ISP to dial in and when I am not the root user I get the error
>
> pppd returned 1;
>
> then it stops. HELP PLEASE! I know I shouldn't be using root to dial
> into my ISP but I can't seem to use any other accounts.
>
> -JazzyRick
>
Richard,
While you didn't provide quite enough infomation to be exact about
an answer, it would seem that permission's are the problem.
I would probably try putting the X-ISP binary, the PPP Damon in the same group,
say UUCP and adding your normal user to that group as well. This should
allow normal users, but only thoese added to the UUCP group to access
the dial-up.
--
Jim Roberts Never enough time!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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