Re: debian 2.0 stable?

1998-09-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too often with debian 2.0 I think they have a library problem, or a ld.so problem. Don't know what causes this though. Is debian 2.0 stable or

Re: Local News Server

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Hank Fay: Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use (with clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no usenets groups, sucking, feeding, etc? You could. Or is there something else I should look at? Very possible, but I have no

Re: -ltermcap option...

1998-09-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luis Sismeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote: change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap anymore. And why is that? Because otherwise we'd have to keep /etc/termcap and /etc/terminfo in sync, now we just

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so .. Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I haven't been bold enough to try 2.1 I'm

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Jacoboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure deb system so i'd

Re: how to compile against libc5?

1998-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: Vim leaves ~ files

1998-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny ter Haar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hint for the maintainer: please set a default of NO backups ! Has already been done in the version in slink IIRC Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually

Re: boot: unable to open initial console

1998-08-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Bonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They should with tar. e.g.: tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -) Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand Or use the p option with tar when you unpack i.e. tar xpvf - Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
extensions you'd end up with a messed-up display. So you set TERM=xterm-debian to hint that you have an extended xterm. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev

Re: Can less read its input from the stderr ? How ?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
while you yourself are not even sure what it does!] Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: qpoper?

1998-07-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
version, 1.3, nicknamed bo. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian 1.3 libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on packages I *know* I'm beta testing. Debian 2.0 _is_ stable (and it will be officially so in just a few hours). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating

Re: init file structures; changed in hamm?

1998-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
uses sysvinit - it has always done so .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Getting Squid to work

1998-07-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
60 $ ls -l core -rw--- 1 miquels staff 262144 Jul 17 00:42 core Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 /dos/c vfat defaults,uid=2101,gid=10,umask=027,conv=binary,dots,showexec,noauto,user 0 0 Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

Re: can't set quotas bigger than about 3.8GB

1998-07-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
system limited at 4GB?? What am I doing wrong? I think so. Remember, 4GB == the maximum of what fits into 32 bits. It would probably work fine on an Alpha (64 bits). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating

Re: serial troubles

1998-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
fails (can't initialize the modem). Smells like a modem problem. Maybe the modem is set to non-echo? Try using the init string from minicom in the ppp script. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- Unsubscribe

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Not the patch that I wrote and used! I know there still is a small bug in it, but that is NOT exploitable. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: NFS/Network locking available?

1998-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
in hamm? No, hamm use the standard Linux 2.0.3x kernel and those kernels have no support for NFS locking. The 2.1.x kernel does have support for NFS locking but is still under development. I expect a 2.2 Linux kernel release in 6 months or so .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision

Re: How to enable pop3?

1998-06-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to install the qpopper package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unstable networking

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/ -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install Debian?

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to remove as much non-essential stuff beforehand. Good luck! Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
): \\debian\hda# (where # = appropriate drive partition) \\debian\usr (or \root, \var, or \usr) Ofcourse, you need to define your shares (ugh) first in /etc/smb.conf Samba, like most other programs, need to be configured first. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time

Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

1998-06-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
is my_hdr Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tutorial for the php3 program? See http://www.php.net/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to a pseudo terminal while booting, and printing it to the real terminal + a logfile by a bootlogd. It can also keep the output in memory until / is mounted read-write etc (catching root f/s fsck output etc). I'm still not sure if this is _too_ compicated or elegant .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
at this after booting? No, that's not possible at the moment. It isn't stored anywhere. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
an ifconfig from my computer at works which is more recent (3.09-1): # ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 203.14.18.127 # No errors .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating

Re: Which pop3: qpopper or cucipop?

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[4]: pop3 mail problem

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
qpopper_2.3 package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: php?

1998-06-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/init.d

1998-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the responsible entry from /etc/inittab. Which one? The problem I encounter now is, that the root login does no longer require a password, even though it is set. What do you mean with the root login ? - su still requires it. What causes this behaviour? Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our

Re: /etc/init.d (2)

1998-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
your problem. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
newsgroups and back). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

1998-05-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
was still at the University.. even the root password. (Not very exiting, I already had it officially, but still..) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: single user question / problem ?

1998-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
all running services, and will _then_ switch to level 's'. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
applications are accessing files in or have a working directory in /cdrom Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: fopen keeps producing seg faults under hamm - known bug ??

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
with the Electric Fence library (-lefence) to get a better idea of the error: it catches a lot of memory errors the moment they occur instead of at a later (random) point. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating

Re: Forcing a process to have a new controlling terminal

1998-04-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
... this will work better: close(0); close(1); close(2); setsid(); ... open new tty here ... Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: /etc/exports config question

1998-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. This is strange, it should find the NIS master after a reboot and just continue. Have you considered setting up a NIS slave server to see if it solves the problems? Besides, it's always a good idea to run a slave server just in case. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL

Re: modem again

1998-03-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: squid

1998-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ that version is pretty recent and should work better. I think the old 1.1.1 doesn't work properly with the libc5 from debian 1.3.1. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NIS slows down login?

1998-03-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
are rather large (about 5000 users). ypbind is bound to the local NIS slave server. Are you using libc6_2.0.7pre1-4 and nis_3.2.1-3.deb ? If not, upgrade. On my system here with 3000 NIS users everything flies .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Portmap

1998-03-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet and FTP? Run rpcinfo -p to find out what uses the portmapper. If nothing does, you probably do not need to run it. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision

Re: portslave and cistron radiusd packaged for debian

1998-03-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. But if anyone would like to package those up as .debs and maintain them- fine with me. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????

1998-03-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/spool/mail drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Mar 17 18:15 /var/spool/mail/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
it.. no way around it. The correct way to solve this is to not use CNAMEs but to just set up an extra A + MX record. Or perhaps just an MX record if all you're using it for is mail. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- E-mail

Re: sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `False') .. then re-run `sendmailconfig' Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
that it doesn't buy us much to move to fnctl() based locking with the kernel lockd, since as I said the most difficult part is to get all programs to just do locking in the same (safe) way, whether that is dotlocking or fnctl() locking. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
*) echo DIALING: $line /dev/console ;; esac done ) - Well, you get the idea .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck is when preparation meets opportunity -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: minicom...

1998-02-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rafael Castillo Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i do to configurate the minicom for conecting to interntet wiht a pulse telephone line??? Use the 2nd dial option, ATDP instead of ATDT Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Luck

Re: Sendmail...

1998-02-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
(`LUSER_RELAY', `internalhost.company.com') Then re-run sendmailconfig. That will relay mail for all users not on the local machine to an internal gateway. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering

Re: Strangeness at boot

1998-02-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the (posix) signal names (as opposed to numbers). This should have been fixed AFAIK. Try to update whatever your /bin/sh is to the latest version .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG

Re: BGP

1998-02-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
, see http://www.zebra.org/ Both are not as mature as gated but look promising. I am still waiting for both of them to get OSPF support, but that will probably take a lot longer .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake

Re: nis shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to ypserv from machines you do not trust. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: nis shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
head and get a root prompt. So no system is secure. Why not mail me your root password right away. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: nis shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Jens B. Jorgensen: Yes, it is getting quite silly. By the way my root password is root. Part of my point was indeed that no system is secure. Glad to see you're not taking this _too_ seriously either :) I wasn't .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic

Re: INN NEWS Server.

1998-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/nnrp.access Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: What package sets up /etc/init.d/network?

1998-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
left without even a loopback configured. I could hack it in myself, but... That's what you're supposed to do. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: nis shadow

1998-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
upgrade to hamm (and all utilities that use shadow passwords to libc6), install the latest nis package and it should work. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
in this thread. What is a struct lastlog? See man lastlog Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
is that if there is a maximum offset a user can have, then after this offset is logged, the file will always be that size. Well the highest user id in Unix is 65534 (usually nobody) so if that user logs in, it sets the file to the maximum size it'll ever get .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/binary where xxx is 2.0, 2.1 or 2.2 (.. or 3.0, etc). Note the Posix ${kver%.*} expression to strip the minor revision number. That's supposing the names and basic functionality of the 2.0 and 2.1 series are the same, ofcourse. HTH Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: file system copying nightmare

1998-02-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/ /mnt or ( cd /; tar clf - . ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
configurator, and then there is linuxconf, and GnoME probably wants to write one, etc etc. Hopefully everybody will realize that it's silly, and help out with COAS. See http://www.caldera.com/coas/ and ftp://ftp.coas.org/pub/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
-u -w (the -u is for UTC) is the only way to do that. Or, ofcourse, hwclock --utc -w (hamm). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
possible, but pretty unlikely.. Wait.. do you have shadow passwords and a different root password in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ? Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/proc is mounted .. No, this is not insecure. You can put a pasword on the LILO boot: prompt. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: books and debian distribs

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Technical Support. You can find more info, and an online-version of the book (in HTML - you can even download it if you wish) at http://www.linuxpress.com/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering

Re: More on boot/mount

1998-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
wasn't mounted anymore. You have to be careful and use the right syntax in these files. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Q: How stable is hamm ?

1998-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: Nis refusing logins

1998-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: uucico invoked by uudaemon.hr

1998-01-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
that's setup OK. Are you doing that as root? When uucico is invoked by the uudaemon.hr (I've mentioned an entry in /etc/uucp/Poll) I get a No login defined message. Check the permissions in /etc/uucp on all files, they should be readable by uucp. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Ehm, did you add the -r flag to the syslogd invocation? Read the manpage .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: sysvinit in hamm uses updatercd -- where is it?

1998-01-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
that updatercd is a shell function, defined just a few lines before it's used. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: curses.h: No such file or directory

1998-01-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
appears ../hdrs/screen.h:11: curses.h: No such file or directory You don't have ncurses-dev (the development package) installed. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
be the problem. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that? FILE *fp; fp = popen(lpr, w); fprintf(fp, Hello world\n); pclose(fp); See the manual page for popen() Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
of set and/or printenv to find out which variable. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: My man is lost!

1998-01-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Gutliph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just installed Debian last night. bash insists that the man command can not be found. I don't see it either. What gives? You need to install the `man-db' package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else? Create a /usr/opt and make /opt a symlink to it (ln -s /usr/opt /opt) Mike. -- Miquel van

Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!

1998-01-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
package) I used to use it back in my school days when reading news during breaks .. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: last

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
, and that it doesn't keep the arguments, only the commands. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: last,w,who not working !

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: Sendmail patch?

1998-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
(useful for blocking unauthorised relaying, eh). At any rate, now I can't find it. http://miquels.www.cistron.nl/nospam/ Hasn't been updated for 8.8.8 yet though (don't know if that is nessecary). Hopefully sendmail 8.9.x will have something like this built in. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: Install debian with serial port as console?

1998-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
is not detected, the kernel will automatically use the first serial port as console.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Mail!

1998-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
folders in your folder dir Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: modem problems

1998-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
? When I checked /proc/interrupts , there is no assignment for IRQ 3 . I have no idea what to do next . That's right, the IRQ is only allocated when the port is in use. Multiple ports can use the same IRQ, only not at the same time (with ISA that is). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: netmask

1997-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a netmask of 255.255.255.128 (ie half a class C) 25 bits of address, ie a /28 designator for tools that use that form of netmask? Yes, it's 25 bits, but it's not a /28, it's a /25 ofcourse .. Mike. -- Miquel van

Re: ifconfig alias option

1997-12-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
be adding this to my ISP page, along with ip_accounting for the virtual interfaces. I read that it's just a little bit faster and cleaner to do /sbin/route add -host yourdomain.com dev lo ^^ You might want to look into that. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: Where is rpc.portmaper?

1997-12-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
it? It should be in `netbase', but its name is just portmap, not rpc.portmap. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May you live in interesting times -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
mentioned, you can use init 1 or telinit 1 to go single user. However you can also just use shutdown now. The absence of the -r (reboot) and -h (halt) flag will cause shutdown to go to single user mode. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May you

Re: Minicom problem for Debian Newbie

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
termcap entry perse. Just use minicom -c on. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May you live in interesting times -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

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