RE: Bad Samba filesharing problem

2000-08-18 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Bad Samba filesharing problem Could it be that stuff? Samba FAQ : http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#49 Please tell us your samba version, could be more useful. Otherwise, I think you have a super-optimized server (altough I don't know if kernel 2.4 has perf problems or not.)

RE: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: What is stormix Can somebody explain why Stormix only includes 1 CD for download whereas potato is a 3 CDs set? Isn't there something useful in the last 2 CDs that I would like to install? Just wondering before trying... Thanks Thierry Michalowski -Original Message-

RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-02 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions? I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative names. Many users are afraid of frozen or unstable or radioactive software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are

RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

2000-08-02 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X? Last thing you could use is a nice program called xbiff. Displays a US-like mailbox and raises the flag when a new mail arrives. Pretty nice, even if the default xbiff alone is a bit ugly. There are nicer displays out there, I know of one

RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-28 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen shouldn't it be startx -- -dpi 100 ? (Note the -- which says following options are for X, not startx itself) HTH Thierry -Original Message- From: Kai Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:20 PM To:

RE: reread inetd.conf

2000-07-25 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: reread inetd.conf kill -HUP pid_of_inetd HTH Thierry -Message d'origine- De : Richard Krutisch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi, 25. juillet 2000 10:41 À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet : reread inetd.conf What can I do to reread the changes I made to

RE: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-20 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: stop X autobooting gnome file manager trick? Issue 1: I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux. I simply want to start from a shell and then enter startx when I want to get into a GUI. I've

RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ?

2000-07-20 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ? Just try there: ftp.debian.org/debian-cd As a sidenote: I did not find them on any mirror so I assume it is not really a nice practice to download them at once since it could harm the server. HTH Thierry -Original Message- From:

RE: unable to unmount

2000-07-17 Thread Michalowski Thierry
sometime I can unmount it. Then also nfsd should be accessing it as /cdrom is there in my exports list and preventing me from umounting? I am confused... Could you clarify, Suresh On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:55:49PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: Your problem is that you exported

RE: unable to unmount

2000-07-14 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: unable to unmount Your problem is that you exported the CDROM with nfsd, and thus nfsd is still accessing it, even if nobody accesses your machine through nfs. Just comment the line which exports your CDROM in /etc/exports, then issue exportfs -ua, then exportfs -a . This should

RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

2000-07-14 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please: One-liner example: for file in * ; do lcfile=`echo $file|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; echo $file will be $lcfile;done Of course, use $file and $lcfile as you would like to, with mv $file $lcfile if you dare to HTH Thierry -Message

RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze

2000-07-13 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: annoying C-s terminal freeze Hi, if you have a terminal without (enough) scrolling capabilities and a lot of messages you do want to read when they appear, then freezing is just handy. I think you can bind the freezing of the terminal to other keycodes than Ctrl-s, but I did not

RE: Swat too slow

2000-07-13 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Swat too slow This sounds like a DNS lookup problem. Check your (Windows) network configuration. My 0.02 ... -Original Message- From: Willi Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:14 PM To: debian-user-list Subject: Swat too slow Hi List, it is

Re: find question

2000-07-05 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Andrew Kae wrote: One last thing, does anyone know of a command to tell me last access date of a file? Just try ls -ul (man ls will provide you much more options) HTH ( .02 euro) -- Thierry Michalowski / Edipresse Publications S.A \\\' ,

Re: X-Server configuration

2000-07-04 Thread Michalowski Thierry
the problem is? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Michalowski Thierry [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Marcel Karras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gesendet: Montag, 3. Juli 2000 14:37 Betreff: Re: X-Server configuration Try using the SVGA server, not the VGA one. HTH

Re: Securing telnet

2000-07-04 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Why not try adding: telnet: 10. in your hosts.allow ? HTH Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, I've just installed a Debian server for a chap who insists on using telnet from Windows boxes within the LAN if he wants to login. I want to restrict this so that telnet can be done from the 10.0.0.0

Re: X-Server configuration

2000-07-03 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Try using the SVGA server, not the VGA one. HTH Marcel Karras wrote: I've a problem configuring the XF86-System or better the X-Desktop. All works well except the graphic. If I configure the standart VGA-Server for my Voodoo3-Graphic-Card then I'll only see the desktop in the resolution

Re: free Internet access

2000-06-30 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Well, did you ever notice that you don't give us at least a clue of where you live? Even your mail address is a .net, which doensn't help either. So, I might say there is one cool ISP in Australia or in Switzerland and that probably won't help you if you live in Argentina... Jaye Inabnit ke6sls

Re: Changing SU's password ?

2000-06-30 Thread Michalowski Thierry
fast answer: passwd root longer answer: su passwd even longer answer: su is the name of the program that stands for Swap User . You can use it to swap your current user to whatever other user that is defined on your system (check man su). The SuperUser on a Unix system is named root . Yeah,

Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Hi, your find is taking long time because find is recursive. Add -prune to the list of its arguments and you will probably get what you want :-) HTH Andrew Kae wrote: Hello again A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution. I noticed find can take some time.

Re: Procmail problems

2000-06-27 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Excerpt from 'man procmail' : Suspicious rcfile x The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or root, the file was world writable, or the directory that contained it was world writable, or this was the default rcfile

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Nope. You will have to understand the signals mechanism underlying all that. kill is just a program that sends a signal to a running process. Really, it doesn't kill anything, it just sends a signal. There are a bunch of signals defined on your system, that you can list with a 'kill -l' . When

How to make my own potato (2.2) installation CDs ?

2000-06-26 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Hello, I went to the http://cdimages.debian.org site, and found out there exists a pseudo-image kit for building my own CDs to install Debian. How wonderful! I would like to be able to build my own potato (or woody) CD set to install cleanly on a fresh computer without any OS on top of it. The