Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

1996-10-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, |The way we have handled this at a customer installation is that |we created a user shutdown who was privileded to run shutdown. You are not the only one to suggest this... the problem with this is that it is highly insecure (well, you might say so is C-A-Del from the keyboard, but

Re: manipulating the From header with smail + elm

1996-10-10 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Marcel Burggraeve writes: - My systemname is debian but my provider has another ( offcourse ;-) - When I post mail to someone via my provider I want my From header - looking like : [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of graeve or [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I've read all about smail and elm ( I think ) but cannot

sendmail log summary?

1996-10-10 Thread Craig Sanders
anyone know of any good sendmail log analysis scripts? a friend wants to generate daily and weekly summaries of mail traffic on his system. Craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The X story so far...

1996-10-10 Thread John Labovitz
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. the problem is probably that xdm is running, but waiting for a connection from an X server (or is it client? argh!). this seems to be the default for xdm; you have to specially configure it to

TCP/IP SMB Connections

1996-10-10 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I'm about to setup a Debian Linux box on an existing TCP/IP network. The network has 1 SCO OpenServer 5 system running as a database system, that has about 40 incoming dedicated connections, all capable of accessing the TCP/IP network..(Ranging from 19.2k to T1 w/frame) What we want to is have

where to put clock -s?

1996-10-10 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, I would like to run clock -s every time I start the machine. What I need to know is where do I put this? Thanks for any information, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The X story so far...

1996-10-10 Thread Chris R. Martin
Thanks, Jon!! This fixed it!! MY question now goes to the Debian maintainers.. WHY is this not WELL documented?? This should certainly be in a info file somewhere!! Thanks to all who replied. Chris. On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote: Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can

Re: netscape

1996-10-10 Thread Nick Busigin
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, besnard wrote: I selected netscape package in dselect and put netscape-v30tar.gz. But it still doesn't work!! I decompressed manually but when i type netscape in the directory, it does not find the application whereas it is in. Any suggestion? It worked for

msql doesn't start when I boot

1996-10-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
I installed the msql package and it tries to start itself from a script called run-msqld in /usr/sbin. The script runs msqld, waits for it to exit, mails a crash report to msql and then waits 15 seconds before trying to spawn it again. Well, ever since I installed it, it's been filling my

Re: color for minicom?

1996-10-10 Thread Ezio Manini
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I installed the minicom package, but I cannot get any colors to work on it. The screens always come up in plain grey on black. I have all the ncurses stuff installed. Is there an env variable I need to set or something? 'minicom -c on' = command

Re: TCP/IP SMB Connections

1996-10-10 Thread Adam Shand
Which brings me to question number 1: Where do I get TCP/IP protocol for Windoze for Workgroupies? Microsoft's techs were no help. Whats TCP/IP? one said.. snicker Get MS's TCP/IP Stack, for Ethernet it's better then Trumpet. From the Samba Homepage (http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/)

Re: msql doesn't start when I boot

1996-10-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote: I installed the msql package and it tries to start itself from a script called run-msqld in /usr/sbin. The script runs msqld, waits for it to exit, mails a crash report to msql and then waits 15 seconds before trying to spawn it again. Well, ever since I

Re: TCP/IP SMB Connections

1996-10-10 Thread Philip Hands
Which brings me to question number 1: Where do I get TCP/IP protocol for Windoze for Workgroupies? Microsoft's techs were no help. Whats TCP/IP? one said.. snicker ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/WFW/TCP32B.EXE You need two things: The 32 bit TCP stack (TCP32B.EXE); and the 32 bit

Re: sendmail log summary?

1996-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
anyone know of any good sendmail log analysis scripts? a friend wants to generate daily and weekly summaries of mail traffic on his system. Well, this is a pretty wacky way to do it, but I produce useable logs by running my sendmail logfiles through a filter that converts them to the common

Re: The X story so far...

1996-10-10 Thread Joey Hess
:0 my-x-server local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 `my-x-server' in the above line can be anything you want; i suppose in a single-user environment it doesn't matter. according to the comments in that file, installing xbase should set up this file correctly, but it didn't for me; perhaps i didn't

Re: msql doesn't start when I boot

1996-10-10 Thread Brian C. White
I installed the msql package and it tries to start itself from a script called run-msqld in /usr/sbin. The script runs msqld, waits for it to exit, mails a crash report to msql and then waits 15 seconds before trying to spawn it again. Well, ever since I installed it, it's been filling my

looking for a sparc distribution

1996-10-10 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, I'm currently looking for a Debian-Sparc distribution but I can't find anything on ftp site. Files under rex/binary-sparc are just symlinks to their counterparts in binary-all :-( Debian-sparc mailing list archive is also a bit out of date (last file from April 96). I would test Linux

Re: looking for a sparc distribution

1996-10-10 Thread Dominik Kubla
Hello Eric, There is currently no complete SPARC distribution. Seems to me that there is a need for developers. If you want to contribute, please contact the mailing list: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org and ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be put on the developers lists. Since there is no

Re: TCP/IP SMB Connections

1996-10-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Philip Hands wrote: Which brings me to question number 1: Where do I get TCP/IP protocol for Windoze for Workgroupies? Microsoft's techs were no help. Whats TCP/IP? one said.. snicker ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/WFW/TCP32B.EXE You need two things: The 32 bit TCP stack

Re: smail does virtual domains?

1996-10-10 Thread Gerry Jensen
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: of the security leaks that appear every day; hopefully qmail/smail are better or, at least, less popular among hackers. From what I know of mailers in general, qmail or smail is still susceptable

Re: bash profile question

1996-10-10 Thread Erik B Andersen
Here you go, my /etc/profile file. Not the cool thing I do with xterms. I put the current directory in the Xterm title bar. Anyway, I hope this helps. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 2485 South State St. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Springville,

NCR 825 ctrler

1996-10-10 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, I saw a price list which had the NCR 825 controller, and it said it's a Fast Wide controller. Is that true? Why is it so much cheaper than the Adaptec, for example? Is it a poor performer? The price was about $100 cheaper than the adaptec. Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy it?

Re: where to put clock -s?

1996-10-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
David Puryear: I would like to run clock -s every time I start the machine. What I need to know is where do I put this? It should already be run automatically by /etc/init.d/boot. -- Please read http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my

Re: [Linux-ISP] NCR 825 ctrler

1996-10-10 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: I saw a price list which had the NCR 825 controller, and it said it's a Fast Wide controller. Is that true? Why is it so much cheaper than the Adaptec, for example? Is it a poor performer? The price was about $100 cheaper than the adaptec. The

Re: where to put clock -s?

1996-10-10 Thread David Puryear
Hi, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I would like to run clock -s every time I start the machine. What I need to know is where do I put this? It should already be run automatically by /etc/init.d/boot. Here is what is on /etc/init.d/boot: # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. clock -s $GMT if [ !

Re: The X story so far...

1996-10-10 Thread edwalter
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, John Labovitz wrote: Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. finally found the magic incantation: simply add the following line to `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers' (without the leading spaces): :0 my-x-server local