Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
If I do this: On 5 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: set_titlebar () { echo -n ]2;$*; } export -f set_titlebar And then someplace call set_titlebar, I just get ^[]2;$*^G echoed to my terminal. It doesn't ever set the titlebar. I'm using rxvt. Suggestions?

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I do this: On 5 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: set_titlebar () { echo -n ]2;$*; } export -f set_titlebar And then someplace call set_titlebar, I just get ^[]2;$*^G echoed to my terminal. It doesn't ever set the titlebar. I'm

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Michael Harnois
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance... Well, you

Re: 440LX chipset

1997-09-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am considering buying a new computer and would like to get a Pentium II with the new 440LX chipset. My concern is over the AGP graphics. Would I be able to use debian with AGP? Are there any compatibility issues with 440LX? The 440LX chipset works fine with Linux, according to benchmark

IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Mike Patterson
Well, thanks for the info on eth0 I'm curious why the change, and feel a little silly, but oh, well. Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called ipfwadm. I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system)

Re: IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called ipfwadm. I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system) It's in the netbase package. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: IP Masquerading

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I'm working on IP Masquerading (finally!) and in the HOWTO, there is a command called ipfwadm. I can't figure out what package it is under (and it curently doesn't exist on my system) Oh, and you may want netstd, too. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Apache PUT script

1997-09-06 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Does anyone have a good Apache PUT program/script ?? Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Michael Harnois
Since you're providing enlightenment ... I ran into a problem when I tried to modify your script for my own preferences. Specifically, when I tried to change the value of PS1 to give a colorized prompt. The string I began with was

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On 5 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: set_titlebar () { echo -n ]2;$*; } Here ^[ and ^G actually have to be real control characters not a ^ Ok, now I get a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ is what should end up in the

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you're providing enlightenment ... Don't know if I'd go that far : This string works find in a straight .bashrc. However, when I use it in your file, it works fine on a login shell. When I start a subshell, though, I get I'd have to see the

Re: libc6 upgrade

1997-09-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to upgrade to libc6 and following the howto, the problem Im getting is this: Shadow:~# dpkg -B --install libc6_2.0.4-1.deb dpkg: considering removing libc5 in favour of libc6 ... dpkg: no,

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, now I get a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ is what should end up in the titlebar, but it's instead somehow being evaluated. Any other clues? Email me a snippet that causes the problem, and I'll check it out. If a

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, though: if [ ${PS1:-UNSET} = UNSET ] then INTERACTIVE_SHELL=F else INTERACTIVE_SHELL=T if [ $TERM = xterm -o $TERM = rxvt ] then set_titlebar () { echo -n ]2;$*; } export -f

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis writes : ... 4.2. /sbin/e2fsck The e2fsck program in e2fsprogs_1.10-4 has a bug in it which will cause it to destroy data on partitions above 2GB in size. The version in e2fsprogs_1.10-5 has fixed this bug. IMPORTANT: If you run

3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Paul Ryan Kuykendall
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. Paul Kuykendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Prompt in Bash

1997-09-06 Thread Rob Browning
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, though: Not surprised : export PS1='\n\!\$ ' export PROMPT_COMMAND='eval set_titlebar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`my_dirname`' When I did this, the title bar showed the

Does MAE work on Linux?

1997-09-06 Thread Alistair Phillips
Hi there. I was just wondering if MAE worked on Linux? Please can you e-mail me if you wanna reply, as I am not subscribed to the list. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, can somone maybe help me in getting the Linux CD? I live in South Africa, so the airmail postage is rather

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Carey Evans
Paul Ryan Kuykendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. % ifconfig eth0 -promisc But your card shouldn't

Can't get talk to work

1997-09-06 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, Ik tried to enable my tcpd to allow 'talk' to my system from ALL, but can't get it to work. These are my /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow: # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See hosts_access(5) and /usr/doc/net/portmapper.txt

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1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi, I cannot get ppp version 2.2.0f-19 to establish a link with an NT server. In the verbose ppp log included below, it seems the NT server only wants to do one of the following auth's: auth chap msoft auth 0xc027 01 00 00 01 auth 0xc123 01 00 00 01 while linux only wants pap... or auth chap

BIG syslogd problem with debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.27

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Orloff
Dear debian fellows, I suddenly bumped into a very severe problem, for which I have not the slightest clue. Several things depending on syslogd (some ppp logging scripts I have cooked) stopped working. After a while, I realised my /var/log/messages file was growing too fast with: Aug 27

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 6 Sep 1997, Carey Evans wrote: Paul Ryan Kuykendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my machine, but for some strange reason I can't get my net card out of promiscuous mode. Would anyone know where I might configure promisc mode off? Thank you. %

Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Heiko Heijenga
Howdy, I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with another computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to telnet from 1 to 2, I get the message: Connection refused. The other way (2 to 1) works fine. What have I done wrong? btw. 2 is gateway

Re: 3c905 Ethernet card in promiscuous mode

1997-09-06 Thread Paul Ryan Kuykendall
On Sep 6, Carey Evans wrote % ifconfig eth0 -promisc But your card shouldn't come up in promiscuous mode, so you should still try to find out what put it in promiscous mode in the first place. (Something like netacct, tcpdump, statnet, etc.) Thank you for the assistance. I am now

Re: Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Heiko Heijenga wrote: I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with another computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to telnet from 1 to 2, I get the message: Connection refused. The other way (2 to 1) works fine.

Problems with X-programs

1997-09-06 Thread Karsten Bolding
Hi Got my new machine (orca) and started to migrate programs from the old (dolphin). So far I've run into two problems - maybe unrelated - but both has to du with X. 1: ncview is a very nice utility to browse netcdf-files (cirrus.ucsd.edu:/pub/ncview). I'm able to compile, although I've to do

locales, msgfmt, and compiling KDE from source

1997-09-06 Thread Synergistic Effect
I have a mixed libc5/libc6 system that is fairly up-to-date with unstable. I'm having trouble compiling KDE from source which I think relates to the fact that I don't have a locales package. If I try selecting locales, I get the following: _* Std adminlocales Locale data files and

Re: Connection refused. Damn.

1997-09-06 Thread Scott Hanson
local.debian-user Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heiko Heijenga) writes: Howdy, I've recently installed debian on my computer (1) and connected it with another computer (2) (also debian) in the house with ethernet. But when I try to telnet

Backing up entire machine.

1997-09-06 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have been looking at the simplest way to back up a couple of small machines. For example this machine has primary DNS server and backup mail relay for my domain. There are a few other things but that's really the important part. Complete off site backups and such would be basically a

Re: Prompt in Bash [fixed]

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On 6 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob, thanks a lot for your script. I think there is a small glitch, though: export PROMPT_COMMAND='eval set_titlebar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:`my_dirname`' Yup, kill the eval and life is good. Thanks, Mr.

Backing up entire machine.

1997-09-06 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Sep 6, 1997, at 12:04, R. Chris Ross wrote: What I was looking at was simply to NFS mount a large server and use something like cpio to transfer the whole thing over there. If each file could be gzipped in the process of transfering them it would be helpfull. Does this sound

Samba package

1997-09-06 Thread kestrel
I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I get the following: Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) Removing samba ... dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script

Re: Samba package

1997-09-06 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the samba package installed but want to remove it, everytime i try I get the following: Shadow:~# dpkg --remove samba (Reading database ... 14226 files and directories currently installed.) Removing samba ... dpkg: error processing

MH problems with .maildelivery

1997-09-06 Thread Paul J. Thompson
hi. here's a qustion for all you mh users out there. i am having trouble getting my .maildelivery to work right. (it is listed at the bottom for reference. i am using sendmail, have a .forward file with the appropriate information in it, and a .maildelivery with several lines. i got the first

xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
Do we have support for xrsh? I'm trying to automate xclient/xauth stuff amongst my 4 accounts, some of which are on Sparc machines, and one of which is on my linux box. A search for xauth from the package search page didn't turn up anything.

Re: xrsh? oops!

1997-09-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Doh. Do we have support for xrsh? I'm trying to automate xclient/xauth stuff A search for xauth from the package search page didn't turn up anything. That last sentence should have xrsh in place of xauth.

Re: xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to do those 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore. Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets DISPLAY and xauth authorization records during the login process. Ssh is

Re: xrsh?

1997-09-06 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to do those 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore. Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets DISPLAY and xauth

fetchmail and smail

1997-09-06 Thread kestrel
I've run into a problem, I upgraded fetchmail and smail and my whole system actually, now using libc6, fetchmail is grabbing my mail and putting it somewhere but not in my local mail acocunt so I cna't read it once its fetched, any help would be appreciated G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL