Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But*, one tiny, core question remains. Which is it: /usr/src, /usr/local/source, /usr/local/src? /disk/src, with /usr/src and /usr/local/src symlinked into it. :) At least that's what I do. Of course,

Re: The /source of the problem...or is that the /src?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: make also gets pissed off if the clocks on both machines are not EXACTLY the same. That's what time synchronisation is for. And if you've not got root on the boxen in question, got shout at the luser

Re: log file full of -- MARK --

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /var/messages has a -- MARK -- every 20 minutes; why? to show, that the system lives. :) if you don't like it, then supply -m 1 to syslogd pedant ... which will produce a -- MARK -- every

I'm an idiot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A number of you will have received strange messages (purporting to be Usenet test or cancel messages) from my machine between 1700 and 1830 GMT today. I messsed up my news server configuration which managed to spam several people with these.

Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs) daily. And it can't be done via network due to 'secret' nature of that data. It's a lot of data to be shifting back and

Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A. Scott White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting. The In-Reply-To: header field has the message-id of the article you're

Re: amd home map

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... It seems, after looking at the init.d script, there's no default way to automount something locally AND by NIS also.. Take a look at the patch in my previous posting. That

Re: Couple questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the difference between typing 'su', and 'su root'? Nothing at all. Just that instead of typing 'su root', you can also do 'su otheruser'. Are their any noticable differences between the

Re: Quick Question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'apt-get install communicator' at the command prompt with root privileges. Or if you find the mai/news/composer stuff to be excess crap which you'll not use, you can do 'apt-get install navigator'

Re: amd home map

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Barak Pearlmutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Graeme Mathieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] For autofs ... I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single

Re: Going from DHCP - Static IP network config

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, S. Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What config files do I need to modify to change this box's networking setup from DHCP-based to one using a static IP address ? Or is there some to rerun the networking scripts that were part of the

Re: bashrc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1.) Edit his/her MOTD file to print to screen a set text message at login. (Edit your /etc/motd file, Avinash, to make it say what you want it to say.) But, as I said before, leave the first line blank.

Re: Maikl Server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jay Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking to run a mail server similar to Microsoft Exchange. Is there something for debian out there I can use? If so what's the url? I've never come across one that buggy for Debian. :) There are

ReiserFS and USB (was Re: udf kernel patch)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody have an idea what to do to get both USB *and* rfs in the same kernel? Is there an USB patch for 2.3.99? 2.3.99pre-n has USB already in it. Also, the bunch that are producing ReiserFS are

Re: LLP Modem problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone experienced the problem where uucp system produces Low Level Protocol (LLP) errors? I've never had any problems with UUCP. I must admit to being fairly new to it though. What protocol are you using? Is

Re: alternate pop auth scheme, not APOP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Markus Stausberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I dont want to use APOP auth, because not all of the clients can say that word (e.g. kmail, as of slink), but is it true that the only alternative is to store a worthy login passwd at every

Re: Debian on UMSDOS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject says all. Has anyone successfully installed Debian on a UMSDOS partition? Well, can't say that I have. Another solution which (I've heard) is workable. Installing on a loopback filesystem.

Re: How to forward by default in exim

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Matthew W. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On May 09, 2000 at 08:01:03AM, Paul McHale wrote: I recently received the domain desinc.com from another company. Occasionally, exim reports that I have mail bound for someone at desinc.com for

Re: helix-gnome for debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For anyone who might be wondering, it looks like the initial plan was to have binaries for debian at release time, but they ran out of time and decided to release without debian support. I guess we can

Re: exmh question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, john smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Run the inc command to get your MH environment initialized right. If you run /usr/bin/mh/inc, it should ask you a question (or two) about where you want to store your incoming mail. Once you've done that,

Re: Cannot mail out of debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Russ Pitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May 13 15:31:58 arjay kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 203.31.178.49:1038 203.31.178.14:110 L=60 S=0x00 I=99 F=0x T=64 SYN (#2) Your firewall is the problem here. Basically you seem to

Re: bashrc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, OK, I'm not quite sure what you're asking here, but there are a number of possibilities... Avinash m Gowda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to knw how to print a file which is in text on screen whenever i log in If you want to print a

Re: Setting up X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A Linux guru/friend is a great source of help. I managed to parse that as A Linux girlfriend Yes, that would be a great source of help. :-) - -- Graeme. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life's not fair, I reply.

Re: What is the diff. b/w libstdc++ and libg++ ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, S. Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please highlight the difference between libg++ and libstdc++ ? IIRC, libstdc++ has now been split into two packages: libg++ and libstdc++. libg++ contains the runtime files required for

Re: Limiting Access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I dunno, I'll look into NIS, but originally I thought Pam would handle it. There is a PAM module that implements what you're looking for. I played around with it for a while, back when I was using

Re: NIC Cards...is there any difference between them?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, KULISHdotCOM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree, avoid the $10 types. I bought 5 realtek 8139 type cards for 6 bucks a piece. I've also got 6 of them floating around, plus two in another location. It semi-regularly fails in an Alpha, but we

Re: Framebuffer settings for the Matrox MGA Milenium

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I couldn't use the framebuffer with my ATI Rage IIc I switched to an old Matrox MGA Milenium card. It does work perfectly but I don't know the lilo.conf values (vga=...; append=...) to get a

Re: amd home map

is on the local filesystem, it'll just symlink it instead. The appropriate line in /etc/exports is: /disk/home 192.168.54.0/255.255.254.0(rw,async,no_subtree_check) The lines in /etc/passwd are standard: graeme:*:10001:10001:Graeme Mathieson:/home/graeme:/bin/bash The interesting bit

Re: Newsgroups

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to start subscribing to newsgroups and wondered if anyone could recommend a really good news group application, one with a good GUI if possible. Ooh, news reader war. :) I use Gnus. In fact

Re: Limiting Access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may sound like a newbie question but, how do i stop a certian group from accessing my system via telnet? I've played with PAM to no avail, spent the last 3 hours on it in fact. System is 2.2, just

Re: Free MP3 players?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Dylan Paul Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any free, graphical MP3 players out there? The only one I've found so far is mp3blaster, which runs in text mode. Most MP3 players seem to use the very non-free mpg123; why? xmms is

Re: Howto search and replace...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jaume Teixi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howto search and replace for a pattern over all system files ? It's faster with vi, ed ? sed. And a bit of shell script. For instance (off the top of my head, so no guarantees): for i in $file_list;

Re: How to rsh but keep original user's environment?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to rsh into a different account on another local host, but keep my original environment. The user should NOT be prompted for a password (this is easy, using .rhost). The problem I'm facing

Re: unknown file appeared in home directory

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ file jzip39143D5C0850D1C jzip39143D5C0850D1C: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract Okay, now I know what _type_ of file it is. What would have put this here? Been playing around with Hava

Re: mailsystem configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Moritz Jodeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * free-mail account with SMTP and POP server and only one address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * local mail should be delivered normally. * all mail, by any user of my system should get the source address

Re: man pages!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems as though the man page of both dpkg and apt-get are not installed anymore. In dselect I couldn't find anything related to either of these that isn't installed?! Please help, I need them truly!

Re: man pages!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it need to view the man page by man apt-ge -M /usr/share/man it's so troublesome for that...do I need to manually moe all the man pages from /usr/man to /usr/share/man and update the man path suit the new directory

Re: ppp error

Hi, Kreaped Ripping Reaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May 3 22:31:54 kreaper pppd[770]: Unsupported protocol 'Appletalk Control Protocol' (0x8029) received My guess would be that during LCP negotiation, the remote end is offering Appletalk piped of PPP. Why you'd want Appletalk piped over

Re: Re[2]: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

Hi, Richard Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graeme Mathieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Re[2]: Emacs Has anybody ever tried to graft emacs directly on top of oskit? _Then_ you would have your operating system. :) It would be a great OS period. Perfect for laptops

Re: hacked my Linux Box

Hi, Dzuy M. Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone hacked into my linux web server and caused some problems. I'm still trying to figure it out. Anybody have a good link for linux security? www.securityfocus.com has some decent information, though the Javascript they use is a PITA. Also,

Re: Re[2]: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

Hi, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ snipped ... ] Simply stated, anything which requires Emacs to run is instantly lower than something that requires Windows to run because at least it /IS/ an OS and not an editor that is a wannabe script interpreter and OS rolled into one. Has