On Apr 12, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote
: Not a complete answer but ...
:
: I wouldn't recommend using /dev/modem link. This makes it
: more difficult to gurantee the uucp locking protocol. Use
: the actual device name instead.
No, if all your call out programms use /dev/modem, it's ok.
And then
i am replying to my own message but i finally found out what the
problem is. /etc/inetd.conf got wiped out, probably because of the
upgrade to either netbase 2.11 or 2.12. i'll check to see which one is
the culprit and i will file it as a bug against it (2.12 that is, 2.11
seems to have been
Is there a tool to set up ppp links or should I be doing things like
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
pppd connect chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript /dev/ttyS0 38400 modem crtscts
etc...
I dont have this working yet but, this should be enough to get the idea
across...
-Jeff
I've installed bo today from scratch.
I found several bugs :
( a=annoying, B=bad, F=fatal)
I boot with the rescue disk,
install the base from msdos drive,
install the packages whith ftp (dselect/ftp). from 'frozen non-free contrib'
Here is the list of the bugs + what I did to solve them
B :
The reason I put this copy up was for testing. For the first round of
testing, people were picking them up from sites that only had modem
bandwidth. Yes, ftp.debian.org is the authoritative source. If you want to
play with the new toys before the store opens, you can pick them up at my
site.
On
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
The reason I put this copy up was for testing. For the first round of
testing, people were picking them up from sites that only had modem
bandwidth. Yes, ftp.debian.org is the authoritative source. If you want to
play with the new toys before the store
I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
that I'm basically lost.
--
Jason Killen
They don't seem to be changing the license. It's free software only when
used with X. That was the story before.
Thanks
Bruce
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Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key.
PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A
is nntpcache a debian package? thanks
SaHua,
michl
electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation
to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
- Anonymous ('Hacker's Law')
i need a ps/2 mouse driver please send it to me please i need it for my
computer. please send it to me.
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
that I'm basically lost.
The next
On Apr 13, Bruce Perens wrote
: They don't seem to be changing the license. It's free software only when
: used with X. That was the story before.
:
Nevertheless I filed it to non-free. (qt-1.2 is out and will be
uploaded today.)
Heiko
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Hi All.
Due to my frustrations getting the Frontpage Server Extensions working
under Linux I have put up a page which goes through the steps I went
through to get it to work. It does *not* detail the security implications
of installing the extensions but M$'s document is not bad on this subject
On Apr 13, Jason Killen wrote
I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
that I'm basically lost.
Start FTP and fetch
I decided to set up my printer on my Linux box so I installed lprng
(3.2.1-1) and apsfilter (4.9.1-10) and installation seemed to go without a
hitch. But I can't print. Looking at the log in
/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-color reveals entries like the following:
tail:
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Why does your page still have this comment:
(There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but
it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.)
We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've quoted this page:
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, P.A.M. van Dam wrote:
It would be really nice to have some highlever package order, like
some commercial UNIX vendors have. For example one might have the choice
to install everything as it suits himself or choose some highlevel packages
like a KDE environment using Dutch
Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
http://www.debian.org/vendors.html says:
There is no official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM. The core distribution
is freely redistributable (for commercial purposes too), which makes
it very easy to make Debian CD-ROMs.
Karl M. Hegbloom
On Apr 14, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
What do you expect from such an image?
Regards,
Joey
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/ Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
/ http://www.debian.org/
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Apr 14, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
What do you expect from such an image?
I remember seeing an announcement from (?) Bruce Perens saying that
there would be an official
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
hi
Ok I have heard from one source that the cua* devices are being kept
up... and from this list that the cua* devices are not being kept up...
and that we should use the ttyS* devices ... and comments ...
-kevin
I think this matter is
When I run addftpuser as part of installing the current Debian wu-ftpd
package wu-ftpd_2_4-27.deb
I get the eror
Addftpuser: broken symbolic link. Invalid argument st /usr/sbin/addftpuser
line 232.
It turns out this means 'ls' is not set up for anonymous ftp. As a result,
users cannot see
Jason Costomiris writes:
Jason I get calls from users all the time asking How do I search
Jason and replace in my file? 9 times out of 10, they are using
Jason pico, which has to be the most brain dead editor ever
Jason created. I always tell them, use vi, [...]
Well, vi is not the
Hi!
I found that I can't delete special (i.e. hidden/system/readonly)
files on a mounted msdos partition, even as root. I tried to
change the permissions with chmod, but that didn't help either.
Am I overlooking something obvious?
Thanks a lot,
Andy.
PS: It's Debian-Linux 1.2.4 on a PC-based
Craig Sanders writes:
vi:
Craig 1G # move to start of file
Craig /192.168.1 # search for 192.168.1
Craig 5cw192.168.200ESC # change 5 'words' to 192.168.2
Craig n # find next
Craig . # repeat change
Craig n
A warning to everyone trying to run new kernels: the current modutils
implementation does not work with the latest kernel recent. For the
stable kernels everything up to and including 2.0.29 seems to work
fine. 2.0.30 however does not work. For the 2.1 series there is a new
modutils snapshot
Hi,
My kernel keeps giving errors when mount point exceeds 64.
Is it limitation?
Or is there any method to allow mounting more than 64 file systems
(including nfs)?
Thanks for any assistance.
--
Eko Fajar N.
Kyushu Univ. Japan
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
Why does your page still have this comment:
(There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but
it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.)
We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've quoted this
Is the sendmail 8.8.5 package from rex-fixed compiled with -DTCPWRAPPERS?
I've been toying with augmenting my rules with some tcp_wrappers
action I was hoping to be able to leave the packages intact, that is,
not recompiling and replacing stuff not in /usr/local.
Jason Costomiris
On 13 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
...
...
Is this at all the kind of info you wanted? Feel free to ask more
questions, but we should probably continue in private email.
--
Rob
Well, I would be glad to hear those info too. So maybe you
Hi,
I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style
authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* *
password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now the modem does not
hang up if SIGINT is sent to
greetings.
on comp.os.linux.misc i heard mention of a project underway to replace
deselect with a program called `diety' in the upcoming debian 2.0
release.
the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't
On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
any mention of the new list.
could someone point me in the right direction and/or perhaps validate
the claims made by
I'm new to Debian, so please tell me if newbie opinions are not welcome.
I think that after spending possibly half an hour or an hour selecting
packages it would be very nice to have the chance to _save_ the desired state
(installed/not installed/...?) of each package to a file, which
There is a define that you need to increase to allow more than 64 mount
points. We have run into this problem as well.
Change NR_SUPER in include/linux/fs.h to increase this. I use 128...
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Eko Fajar Nurprasetyo wrote:
Hi,
My kernel keeps giving errors when mount
Hello,
I'd like to suggest that the deity team take into consideration the
open problem of installing and maintaining packages accross NFS-mounted
volumes (see the recent thread debian in the lab in this list).
I believe that making deity NFS-aware will take the debian packaging
system one
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, P.A.M. van Dam wrote:
This is the real issue. If you could select the 'high level' groups
and only deal with the components if you want the option it would
be fine. But if I select a group I want it to mean 'install what
it takes to make this work', not 'tell me
On Apr 14, Alexander Koch wrote
6. File dependencies, some need tcl 42, some only tcl40 but not tcl42 ...
Could you check this out for every individual package and file a bugreport
against it?
11. I have a CDROM on which is non-free and non-us so there IS pgp in,
though I was not getting
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
--
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
You tell me and we'll both know.
Herve == Herve FLOCH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
Is your DNS working correctly, is it as long if you ask for an
address with nslookup ???
Netscape takes time to start because of its size but lynx should
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hi,
I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style
authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* *
password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now the modem
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
any mention of the new list.
could someone point me in the right
-
Hi all,
I'va an annoying problem with exmh: it won't sign my messages.
After I change path to .signature in Preferences it [usually,
but not always] complains about bogus execute permission on
.signature once, and then just silently refuses to sign
Something I've wondered about for a long time (ever since I first installed
Debian 1.1), and thought I'd finally ask...
When I run less in an xterm, it seems to save the image of whatever is in
the window, display whatever it's displaying, and then restore the image. On
the Linux console, when I
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
single test condition they encounter.
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally
When I run less in an xterm, it seems to save the image of whatever is
in the window, display whatever it's displaying, and then restore the
image. On the Linux console, when I exit less, I get just the shell
prompt on the bottom of the screen, and not whatever was on the screen
when I ran
Hello,
i am searching for an new mainboard. I thought of an Asus TX97
(Baby-AT). It has an Intel 430TX Chipset and there should be 32 MB
S-DRAM (DIMM) on it.
Are there any problems to expect with Linux (Debian)? (Kernel is
2.0.27)
Kind regardsbjs
Hi:
The specific 'editor freeze' problem that you have can be bypassed by
turning off 'version control' in the jws preferences.
The above was gleaned from http://httwww.blackdown.org.
ml
Benedikt wrote:
does anyone out there have any experience running the Sun jws on a
Debian GNU/Linux
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
any mention of the new list.
could someone point me in the right
Hi there,
I've got a problem setting up routing for two linux boxes connected to
the Internet.
The setup used to be like this:
ISP My systems
lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
ppp0193.135.252.75 193.135.252.47
eth0
I'm sorry to be dogmatic, but I'm going to say one more time that I like
things the way they are. If something depends on seperately maintained
library xyz it is not good but *GREAT* to know about it from the start.
The dependency structure sends this message to users load and clear, in a
I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
machine, the client does not recognize them as valid users. Is there
something I
May be this sounds stupid, but how can I run/install ELF-files. Or should I
better ask: What should I do with ELF-files?
I have downloaded some version of kermit, with the filename ending in _ELF. I
didn't think about the meaning of this until I tried to run/install the
program. Now I have
Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
Hi there,
I've got a problem setting up routing for two linux boxes connected to
the Internet.
The setup used to be like this:
ISP My systems
lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
ppp0193.135.252.75
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Craig Sanders writes:
vi looks to be about 1/2 the keystrokes (and no double strikes) and you
still haven't exited emacs. I think I'll stick with vi. I also like
:!cp % %.970415
vi:
Craig 1G # move to start of file
Craig /192.168.1
Michael J Devine wrote:
I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
machine, the client does not recognize them as valid
Michael J Devine wrote:
I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
machine, the client does not recognize them as valid
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