i was fully prepared to whine about being in the dark on how the hell
can you find the package to download when you just know about one
missing file?
well, i solved it myself, so thought i'd share the process...
(i'll get to whine later about something else, i'm sure.)
i'd changed some stuff
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote:
Greetings to the list,
I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
What are your firewall and/or /etc/hosts.allow | /etc/hosts.deny
settings?
Telnet is an insecure protocol and should generally not be used. SSH is
the preferred alternative these days. The Security HOWTO also mentions
a secure telnet replacement using SSL.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:33:12AM
w == w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
w after getting apt-get upgrade all clean (not that there isn't
w a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got lots of stuff
w in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just like the stuff
w i've already got under /usr/doc.
w is
Hello
Thanks for your reply (this goes to Oswald, too)
It seems that I know so little, that my question was beside the point. :)
Please, let me have another go:
1) I want only root to be able to mount anything but floppies.
I removed user from the list of mount options for the cd
On the console, everything is fine - when I log in as root, I start in the
/root directory. When I log in as a user I start in ~username/.
However, any gnome-terminals I open under X drop me to /root regardless of
login. Of course, since I mostly use a standard user, the first command always
is
Hello,
I have a slink box which has been running great. It was up for over
45 days without a hitch.
The box does ipmasq-ing (among other tasks) for my lan, but when it
is booted, it won't respond to a ping, telnet, ftp, or http request
until I make a network connection _from_ that box (eg. ping
I posted a question here a while ago asking how to
configure the system to use only one of three LP ports
that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and
it's not what anyone else mentioned.
I had to give parport_pc the following module
argument:
io=0x378
I had to then give lp the following
Has anybody tried this from a Linux box? What do you think? Any ideas,
any forseen catch?
http://www.freexdsl.com
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Peter Solinsky wrote:
I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't
detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ
for it to be recognized?
Try http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and
What is the easiest way to create a VPN between two Linux machines,
one that will work even when my system is using shadow passwords.
thanks
--
Andrew
Try again in a little while. This sometimes happens. Make sure to run
apt-get update again first.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade,
I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with
atp-get update
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when
inside an xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile
etc don't seem like the answer to me? Both for root and users.
change the global
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:34:01PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
The upgrade to postgresql 7 is broken rather horribly in several places
-- postinstall does not work, this has been noted as a bug on the
tracking system, though the posted fix (changed flags to dbinst) only
addresses part
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:23:07PM -0700, Sunil Pandey wrote:
I am trying to install libpng2 1.0.5-1 on my machine.
However when I do:
dpkg --install libpng2_1.0.5-1.deb
it tells me that libpng2 depends on libz1 and that
libz1 is not installed. However, according to the
debian site, libpng2
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I posted a question here a while ago asking how to
configure the system to use only one of three LP ports
that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and
it's not what anyone else mentioned.
I had to give parport_pc the
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 03:43:37PM +0200, admar wrote:
Hello.
I'm using Debian potato on my laptop at school where I have a fast and
free internet connection. At another computer at home, I'm using Debian
slink. I would like to put potato on that computer to, but that one has no
fast free
I'm installing corel linux on yet another machine, this time for a web server,
and from the start the mouse did not work. It's a standard two button mouse,
com1 interface, works under windows, so why would corel not initialize this
mouse?
How do I install the mouse?
Thanks
Chris Mason
Box 340,
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:09:32PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
I'm installing corel linux on yet another machine, this time for a web
server, and from the start the mouse did not work. It's a standard two
button mouse, com1 interface, works under windows, so why would corel
not initialize this
I am attempting to install Debian on my machine, only during the normal
boot, it hangs up. The last line is NCR53c406: no available ports found
I am not new to Linux, but am to Debian, and I have several friends who
run Debian, and they are stumped.
My machine is an AMD Athlon 600 with
I tried to do a slink-potato
upgrade,
I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with
atp-get update -- works
fine...
apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems...
Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to
have almost everything;
almost..
But it
atp-get update-- works fine...
apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems...
Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to
have almost everything;
almost..
Run update again if that fails find out if you are behind one of those
defective HTTP proxies :|
Jason
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Dan Myers wrote:
Hiya,
Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when inside an
xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile etc don't seem like
the
answer to me? Both for root and users.
basically your using
Wasn't there some statistics in the last few days about isp downtime in Germany?
I think it was a link on Linuxtoday
Andrew
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote:
Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there
was an experiment comparing the
ummm... does it say something like no pci bios found in the
bootup messages? I had a compaq 486 that had scsi and net built
in and never could get linux to run on it. Compaq had done something
funny with the pci bios. It was located above normal accessable
memory. There was a tool to
We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what they
meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that trying
to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to
configure it.
--
Andrew
On 15-Apr-2000 03:05:35 George Bonser wrote:
Well, then, tell
When I do dpkg -l 'perl*' I get the following (abbreviated):
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name VersionDescription
Hey,
I wasn't ever able to change resolutions during my x session (unless I
was in root), so I just gave up after a while. I downloaded snes9x
recently, though, and it gives me warns me that: /dev/mem: permission
denied. I've already added myself to the kmem group, so I don't know
what else to
Dear sir,
Good morning. I'm a Debian Linux new user and
currently I'm facing some problem with my network
connection. I followed the instruction from Linux
installation help,
(resc1440.bin,root.bin,base2_1.tgz,loadlin.exe,install).i'd
use the files (above) to install in my PC (Pentium II)
and
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:06:01AM +, Jim Breton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 06:31:02PM -0600, David Karlin wrote:
Hello,
I have a slink box which has been running great. It was up for over
45 days without a hitch.
The box does ipmasq-ing (among other tasks) for my lan, but
On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote:
Why would you go with an NT ISP in the first place? I sure hope
they don't
have your credit card number :-o
Using NT doesn't make them crooks (just stupid?), but if they have
credit card numbers on one of the machines that runs a program that
has
On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what
they
meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that
trying
to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:41:05PM -0700, Chen WC wrote:
Dear sir,
They are a few madams on this mailing list as well (your mail got
forwared to debian-user@lists.debian.org, if you couldn't tell.).
Good morning. I'm a Debian Linux new user and currently I'm facing
some problem with
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