Re: exploring debian's users and groups

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > sudo: > > HELP: Nothing uses it here, and I have sudo installed.. Maybe > there's a way to only let users in this group use sudo? sudo uses this group internally. Members of this group do not need to type their passwor

autmagically install -dev and -doc packages

Hi! Does anybody know an easy way to install -doc and -dev packages automatically when installing a certain package? Say I select libgtk1.2 in dselect and it suggests libgtk1.2-dev, libgtk1.2 and libgtk1.2-dbg, too. Adding "Suggests: *-dev, *-dbg" to each Package is a) much work b) annoying if yo

ftp.de.debian: Archive_in_progress - still?

Hi! Hmm, according to /debian/Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress ftp.de.debian.org update is "starting at 13:52 US Central time, and ending at about 15:30." That's 19:52-21:30 CET, isn't it? Currently it's 0:50 CET and this file still exists. Is Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress incorrect, is the up

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

Hi! Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.": > There is a program called Tardis that has client and server time services. > Seems pretty powerfull: Yes, I know, but Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) already mentioned it. > Does NT's "net time /set" use ntp's port

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

Hi! Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "nfs and 2.2.x": > I am prepping to setup NFS on a 2.2.x machine. I would like to use the kernel > based one as the docs point to it being faster/better. Is there support in > Debian for this? The package is in project/experimental. (I never had the time to actu

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

Hi! Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.": > There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to > be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT > box to be a client, I like Tardis a lot. I have it on NT workstatio

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

Hi! Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!": > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what up! > > scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i > > just > > installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop > >

Re: aic7xxx kernel

Hi! Richard Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "aic7xxx kernel": > Can anyone tell me which parameters to choose during 'make config' to fix > this? There are three questions that come up when I choose the AIC7xxx > driver. I've answered yes and no to overriding driver defaults, yes and > no to verbose

Re: Can't access RAID - why?

Hi! Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), "Can't access RAID - why?": > After that I added this MD device to the system: > > # mdadd /dev/md2 > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [2 raid0] > read_ahead 8 sectors > md0 : active raid0 hda2 hdb2 819312 blocks 4k chunks

micro-HOWTO (was Serial consoles)

Hi! I've seen FreeBSD being installed over a serial console and thought "Hmm, how can I do this with debian?". I was aware of the sercons stuff in recent 2.1 kernels. Initiated by a question from Shane Wegner on debian-user I tried it out (up to "partition a harddisk" - I had no spare disk to con

Re: Diald

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been able to configure diald to restrict dialing out at certain > times (like after I go to bed). However, if I have the connection up > when the restriction time comes, it will kill the connection. I'm > wondering if it would be possible for dia

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Rainer Clasen (bj): > Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > > vt100 terminal. > You need to modify root.bin! gunzip i

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > vt100 terminal. ... > in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file > as a developemen

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

Hi! Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >are there any other tools that can do it? > > The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use > nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the > machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machine

Re: strange non-trivial routing problem

Hallo erstmal! Jeff Katcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Rainer Clasen wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to > > ask at all (linux-net is announced as "development" lis

restore(8) barfs on tape 5/5

Hi! I'm currently trying to restore my stripe from tape with restore -rf /dev/st0. I am stuck at the prompt for the last tape. It refuses to continue. Yes I made a mistake while dump(8)ing to tape: The drive was still busy when I told dump to continue. dump got EOF imediately, wrote nothing, but

Re: Frame Buffer

Hi! Jeff Beley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've just upgraded to 2.1.130 and am expirementing the frame buffer that's > built into the kernel. I've been able to use the fbset utility to set the > resolution and suchhowever X is very fuzzy(for lack of a better > term)...I read in the documentation

Re: XFCom_Matrox and Backspace

Hi! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I got Matrox Millenium G200 Card and installed XFCom_Matrox from SUSE. For > some reason Backspace is not working (there is a little beeping sound). If I > Any suggestions how to fix that? I use XKEYBOARD extensions SUSE's server use a diffe

strange non-trivial routing problem

Hi! This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to ask at all (linux-net is announced as "development" list ...). I appreciate pointers to the correct forum. Ok, first some ASCII-art to confuse the reader ;-) 10base2 |

Re: Optical Jukebox support in Linux

Hi! Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an > optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to ... > Anybody have any experience with this or could point me in a direction to > get some help? there is a dr

Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux

Hi! David McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: > > > I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and > > re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) > Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't > recal

Re: Can't remote X

Hi! Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from > Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on > my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, > I'm getting an error to the effect th

Re: diald time restriction

Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? It's easy to say "diald is allowed to bring up the line from 3:00 till 4:00" either by "restrict" options in the configuration file or by sending block/unblock commands to the control

Re: libc and staroffice 5

Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > after upgrading libc on my hamm-box to slink´s 2.0.7u-4 my apt won´t install > anything further! IIRC you are currently running apt_0.1.6, aren't you? > i´ve installed the new libc´s for staroffice 5. > would installing slink´s apt (0.1.7 iirc) fix such

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Rainer Clasen wrote: > > Do you mean reinstalling xbase_3.3.2.3a-7? apt and IIRC the other access > > methods to dselect won't install a package if the same or newer version is > > already installed. > > > > >

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ben Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Ok, lets see. I assume you've installed 3.3.2.3a-7, haven't you? Either > > > update to 3.3.2.3a-8 or reinstall xbase. According to debian-user this > > > fixes > > > the local problem. Have you installed those new packages: xmodmap, > > > xfonts-*, >

Re: cd-rom problems

Hi! Mike Fetherston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been having troubles installing debian on my system. If I run > boot.bat from \boot it starts the installation just fine, but then when > it reboots for the first time to install the packages using dselect it > can't find my cdrom. My cdrom is an L

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Rainer Clasen wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 > > > with a kernel version 2.0.

Re: Debian2.0/XFree86 3.3.2.3 on TOSHIBA 4400: X does not start

Hi! Marc Fleureck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Installed all relevant packages (xbase, xbase-clients, xlib6, libc6, > and xserver-vga) without errors. When we do: > > startx > > It complains: > >"X: exec of /usr/bin/X11 failed." put your desired Xserver in the first line of /etc/X1

Re: Problem starting X for first time

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > did you run xf86config? maybe he has ;-) IIRC there are situations where some parameters aren't set as chosen. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (it has a manpage :-) and go to Section "monitor". set HorizSync and VertRefresh according to your monitors manual.

Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

Hi! Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I do smbmounts via /etc/fstab? I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct link, but you might take a look at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/smbfs.html . IIRC there are at least some links to patches against mount to do this. I can't verify the lin

Re: where'd my cd go?

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? > > Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? > > All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't > cooperate under d

Re: How do you use su under X?

Hi! Sorry, for hiding this to you - my direct reply to Chip Grandits should have gone to the list ... Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I want the cookie security so other users can't do anything wrong. > I also want "root" to be able to use the X display no matter > who is running x. What is

Re: Problem!

Hi! Andreas Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ...some people still use modems, I do! :-( ie. you can't install directly from ftp/http? > A friend of mine downloaded and created the 3 Debian ISO-CD-IMAGES from > you're mirrors... > > Everything works fine untill I come to the "dSelect" program..

Re: Weird behavior with Tcsh

Hi! Ossama Othman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The prompt in my "xterm-1" still shows "~/test/me." When I do an "ls" in > xterm-1 I get no error. Shouldn't I get an error since the directory > isn't supposed to exist anymore. Is this some behavior in tcsh that I > wasn't aware of? In the past I used

Re: where'd my cd go?

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Unless my memory has faded even more, a possibility I won't rule out, I > used to be able to mount cd's with > >mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660 > > I now get, > > mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only > mou

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ehren Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello I just recently started running slink and I have run into a a > problem with X or Windowmaker. XDM starts up fine, but when I log in, > the screen goes black and then returns me to the login screen. I have > included my .xsession-error file to see if

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

Hi! John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 > partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. I use this in my fstab: /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 gid 110 is called dosfs, but you may use dos's gid. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901

Re: IPFW works a little to well...

Hi! Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > below. The problem, when I execute the script nothing comes in, nothing > goes out, the perfect firewall. The bad news is I need some traffic to > pass. The network behind the firewall is a subnet of a class B network with Uhhm, it seems you mixed som

Re: startkde cannot connect to X server

Hi! Stephan Böni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i have installed kde on debian linux 2.0. > commands like startx or startkde return the error "cannot connect to x > server". > what's wrong? If running startx says "cannot connect to xserver" this usually indicates that your Xserver isn't configured proper

Re: pt_BR or br_BR locales in Xlib

Hi! Mário Olímpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have my locale set to pt_BR in profile. > After upgrading to the new xlib6g, netscape is giving me this > message: > netscape: locale `pt_BR' not supported by Xlib; trying `C' according to another post, you are running 3.3.2.3a-7,

Re: Moving computer without losing things

Hi! Jose L. Gomez Dans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi! > I have been using a debian system for a couple of months now, > and I am extremely happy with it. However, since this isn't my > computer, I have been told that I'll have to leave this computer, and > take a newer one. I was wondering if th

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 > with a kernel version 2.0.36 or greater? I have 2.0.34 and I am having > trouble with booting... it freaks out when it detects my SCSI card. It's > an Adaptec AIC-7xxx; I was told t

Re: Xconsole

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After I upgraded to slink, my xconsole doesn't start automatically any > more (and doesn't appear on the xdm login either) > > The only "trace" I found is the line "run-xconsole" in /etc/X11/config /etc/X11/config ist split into several files. you ne

Re: Problem with X

Hi! Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Since yesterday, I can't run X anymore : > the graphical screen and mouse appear for one second, then X stops with > the message : > > waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

Hi! Eric House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? > > My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode > it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even > though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. try addi

Re: lsof problem

Hi! Groumph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > lsof does not work on my system: > > groumph:~# lsof /dev/audio > lsof: WARNING: compiled for Linux release 2.0.35; this is 2.1.125. ^^^ Of course it doesnt't! Take a look at /usr/doc/lsof*/00FAQ.

Re: keyboard switchers

Hi! Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone know if Linux/Debian (Hamm) gets irritated if it finds no > keyboard where one was a few minutes/hours before? Uhhm, I don't think so. I'm playing the dangerous game of hot-plugging keyboards for some years. I use one keyboard with 7 boxes. One of th

Re: problems after upgrading libc6

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Checking system integrity...dependency error > You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet > dependencies: > apt: Depends:libc6 get apt 0.1.9 from slink and h

Re: SMP

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. > Here's what I know: > Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri > Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 > oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Hmm,

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

Hallo erstmal! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a > good card? A friend ran it with hamm's SVGA server. I switched his setup to nvidia's peliminary server, because there was noise on moving windows. Now it works

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

Hi! Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > | Any more ideas ? :) > > > > Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine, > > decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and > > then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into > > sub-2GB chunks befo

Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity

Hi! Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > >Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data > >goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on > >_number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing.

Re: two things

Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) When I installed slackware, I did it over a null-modem serial > connection to an ms-dos machine running a program called telix. I do this > because I use screen reading software to read the screen and as of yet, > there is nothing available under Linux

Re: mountd/nfsd

Hi! David Boisvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok, first, my mountd server always says that I can't mount the server > from the client. > cat /etc/exports: > > / 192.168.1.1(rw) #client side this is server's /etc/export, isn't it? > Here is the error in syslog: > > Oct 18 09:37:32 server mountd[14

Re: permission denied in root.

Hi! Brent McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I > try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the > file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and > non-root alike. The directory is

Re: Hiding a linux computer

Hi! Jeremy Blonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work > with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this > also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: > > ipaddress hostname mac addre

Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?

Hi! Lee Bradshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >nis specific problems: > > > > > >When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns i

Re: DebianNet.pm

Hi! Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I upgrade some packages yesterday and found a problem with the > above module. Some *.postint script tried to include it from > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 but it's installed at /usr/lib/perl5. This > broke my upgrade and was solved onl

Re: chmod help

Hi! E.L. Meijer Eric" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) > > | > > | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied > > into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? > Don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but

Re: using debian passwords in NT.

Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the > passwords of a debian machine? Maybe you can try NISGINA. It appears to turn your NT box into a NIS client. Can't tell more - I've never got to use it. Try this URL, I don't know if its

Re: Reading CD image from CD: slow!

Hi! Zini Enrico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > When I try to read the ISO image from a CD, either with cat or dd, the reading > speed (I read with a SCSI 4x/2x Philips CDD2600 cd-writer) seems to be around > 70Kb per second (half 1x !). If I mount the CD I can read at full 4x, no > problem: what could it

Re: apt - priorities?

Hi! B. Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if > a) the user requests to have the package upgraded > b) another package depends on the new version I use this workaround: Usually I have unstable commented out in sources.list. If I want

Re: Hard drive sriping

Hi! john mcpeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about > drive striping and I installed the leaner drive module. I need to know > how I should format the drives and how to make it think two drives are > really one. It's explained in the Software

Re: passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question

Hi! Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > the password file but not update the nis map. I seem > to recall long ago that the nis installation made passwd > call yppasswd? I am confused as to how it should be set > up. currently /bin/passwd isn't linked to yppasswd on installation and I think t

Re: Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

Hi! Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. > Now, none of the rescue disks in > .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 > work with my Adaptec 2940UW. > I am not concerned about this problem; I do not seek a solution since I have >

Re: Several questions before I run Debian

Hi! Matthew A. Reklau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do the X servers include support for the Diamond Viper V330? yes, they do. Some month ago I installed debian pre-hamm on a box with one. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- Unsubscribe? ma

Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.

Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > You probably burned it as a Joliet filesystem... not supported under 2.0.x > kernels yes, but at least the current debian 2.0.33 kernel is already patched for joliet. > To burn it for use under Linux, you have to burn it as iso9660 with > RockRidge Extensio

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "RC" == Rainer Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RC> Just out of curiosity: What speaks against using rdist? IIRC somebody > RC> suggested this in a previose discussion on this topic. > The idea behind dpkg-rec

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here, i have 85 PC to install. And the method i will try will be > slighty different (note: it will only work in a network, with a > local mirror): > 3) Write a shell script, dpkg-record, something like : Just out of curiosity: What speaks against us

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian > boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. > Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) I don't know sun at all, but how about modifying the bootdisks to spawn a get

lilo on serial line (was: Re: how to set up headless machine?)

Hi! Jack Kern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm not sure I understand what is required but the lilo doc, > Manual.txt.gz, in the "Global" options section > (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) seems to have a relevant passage: > > SERIAL= enables control from a serial line. The specified > serial port is

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

Hi! Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian > boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. > Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) AFAIK there is enhanced serial console support in 2.1.*. But don't forge

hamm's last soaks up 9MB RAM

Hi! I recently updated an 386 with 8MB to hamm and after fixing utmp/wtmp I ran last too check if everything is ok. It seemed to do nothing, neither ^C nor ^Z worked. I opened another ssh-connection and ps showed me root 210 6.9 49.5 9952 3400 p0 D13:39 0:02 last After a while la

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

Hallo erstmal! Stephen Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir > and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my some time ago I tried the same, and somebody told me loop support doesn't work with any remote FS. Accor

Re: supressing return mail with "at"

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every > minute: > echo -n "bbb" > /dev/ttyp8 > at -f testfile now + 1 minutes avoid output to stdout/err! "at" only sends mail if there is anything to send. see at(1) at -f test

Re: Mirror

Hi! John Boggon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free > directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | > slink/non-free directories ? exclude_patt+|^contrib/ exclude_patt+|^non-free/ and when you dont't want mirror to create

how do I compile with libc6?

Hi! ok, I tried to compile the little hello.cc example from libgtkmm-dev. I ran g++ hello.cc -lgtkmm -o hello -I/usr/lib/glib/include and got: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXi.so.6, may conflict with libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.5: the getwd' function is dangero

patch for 2-step mirror-ing

Hi! Phone fees prevent me to mirror over my modem. But since I have access to a fast connection at my university, I practice a 2-step method: Make a list of files to get on my local machine runing "mirror -n | sed -n 's/^get file \(.*\) as .*/\1/' and use the fast connection to put them on a

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi! Uhmm, I need to correct myself: I think removing xbase is only recommended if you exactly know what you are doing. It contains all manpages, documentation, the "X" wrapper, all config-files ... And since xbase depends on xlib6 you cannot remove it, too. Maybe someone else has a step-by-step i

Re: embarassing X questions

Hi! Christopher J. McNicholas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows > managers? http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ > 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my > mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I sw

Re: Multi-Boot

Hi! Dale Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: > > >So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use > >the > >NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your > >linux partition and have it write the

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi, Ian! > So I skip the export, startx and xhost steps replacing them with X -q... > on the desktop. correct! > Packages installed as above, uses window manager on the > laptop? yes, this way all X-applications (including WMs) run on the laptop. > Does XDM require you to log in? If so, can

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi! Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Try this, which is slightly different: > > * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. > * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. > * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. > * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the

Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)

Hi! Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am thinking of more places to add runlevels. Currently, I am trying to > eliminate the connect option from pppd's option files. Ppp-functions would be > called like this: "/etc/ppp/ppp-functions dialparms>," with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to

Re: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

Hi! Richardson,Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If the NT partition is NTFS you have quite a bit more work to do. NTFS > read-only > support for Linux is available, but requires kernel patches and a kernel > rebuild. You need't rebuild your kernel! There is a debian package with an n

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

Hi! > > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header > > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header > > > > This is possible by > > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpen

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

Hi! > mfrattola> localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header > mfrattola> LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header > mfrattola> internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header > > This is possible by > a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive >

kernel 2.0.33 smbfs bug

Hi! there is a bug in kernel 2.0.33 which woes files' timestamp on mounted NT4 shares. There is already a bugfix patch, which seems to slip into 2.0.34. kernel-source-2.0.33-2 didn't include this patch. My questions: -shall I report this as bug or wait till kernel-*-2.0.34? -against what shall

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

Hi! You wrote: > Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address > Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? I don´t know Cisco´s PIX, but there is domething called NAT at http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html Regards Ra