Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
be right off the point for the original poster: In shell script, use trap to catch a signal and do something before exit (or just ignore it completely). You can't catch signal 9 (SIGKILL) and one or two others. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: mail and mailer questions

1998-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
-mail commands. For example, if someone has mailed a patch: `patch -p1 ~/Mail/postgresql/hackers/28' If you would like to see any configuration files, just ask... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Problems with apache and postgres (already solved)

1998-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
. Alternatively, make it a no-login account so that only root can get to it (by `su - postgres'). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Libc5 vs Libc6: help me, please!

1998-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
--- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] g -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: Unable to login

1998-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
it even if it exists. That would be down to the permissions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
is the way the image is stored. All three packages support a number of image formats. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
] !hannah # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
tried #rdev -R/vmlinuz 1 which Sobell's book says should force Linux to boot with root file system mounted readonly, and got 1: no such file or directory. I am now at a standstill. Any help on what to do next would be much appreciated. -- Oliver Elphick

Commercial support (was Server Questions (fwd))

1998-02-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
had to pass on to VMark, but all too often these got ignored. When I finally finished doing support for it, there was still at least one problem that I had reported five years before! It will be very satisfying doing support for a product that we can get changed when it needs it! -- Oliver

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
. I wouldn't want to do telephone support, considering the time difference... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Binary Directorys

1998-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
in /bin and /sbin are needed in single user mode when /usr is not mounted. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: AOL IM

1998-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
used and might help you understand what's happening. You are on hamm, so the problem might be to do with mixed libraries: use ldd to find out what shared libraries the executable is wanting. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Motif

1998-02-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Missing Mouse Drivers

1998-02-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
, but the fact that you plugged a different mouse in and it worked seems to contradict that. Have you confirmed that the trackball itself is not faulty? Please tell us what the trackball interface is (PS/2, serial, etc.) and whether it has worked before under Linux or not. -- Oliver Elphick

Gimp non-free - gif doesn't work

1998-02-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
0.99.18-2 GIF and TIFF support for the GNU Image Manip hi libgimp10.99.18-2 Libraries necessary to run the GIMP -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key

Re: kcore

1998-02-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
process.) Originally it was just devices like printers, disks, tapes and memory. With the /proc filesystem, you also have things like lists of interrupts and network parameters. All these things are presented as files, so that you can use routines like open() on them. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Questions...

1998-02-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
. (It's also very satisfying to be able to contribute to the distribution I use.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: good morning

1998-02-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
and merely need to be configured in when you build your own. The standard Debian kernel contains support for IDE CD-ROM. Even if you have something different, you will probably find a driver for it in the kernel source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

SGML - can one create new DTDs using Debian tools?

1998-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
a particular DTD? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fatal server error

1998-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
properly configured for you. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
. Especially, don't force anything or you may end up with an unuasable system. Look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html and http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
that they fix. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: xlib6g

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
Britton wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Upgrading to glibc (libc6) is not that simple. It is a fundamental change which affects a lot of other things. Especially, don't force anything or you may end up with an unuasable system. But is this the correct thing

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

1998-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
the = manpages, the FAQ's and many of the HOWTOS and I'm at a loss. Any help = on this would be most appreciated. The correct device name is /dev/psaux -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from

Re: Installproblem Xfree86.

1998-02-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
format libc, which is out of date as far as the bo (stable) distribution is concerned. You appear to be running bo (??) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
it. For example: $ su # xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Oliver Elphick wrote: Check out xauth. You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the X server, so that it can share it. For example: $ su # xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this command

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
is [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I can't remember the subscription request address, but it's in the documentation somewhere. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Need help

1998-02-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
? Basically, you must give more information or we can't help you. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: debian keeps mail where?

1998-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
these permissions/ownership: drwxrwsrwt 2 mail mail 1024 Jan 28 18:06 /var/spool/mail or the mail delivery program may not be able to create the file when it has mail to deliver. If none of this helps, you should review all the logs to look for mail handling errors. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. I also do not know how to do this. I will have to study some more documentation to do

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
to the backend? Can you run a debugger to check what is happening? Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Login-Warning

1998-01-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
, but only if that file already exists. If it doesn't exist, create it (as superuser) with the command `touch /var/log/btmp'. See `man last' for full details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: partitioning

1998-01-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
. Perhaps instead you could buy a new hard disk to put Linux on? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

mt setblk fails

1998-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there anything I can do? Is it likely that this drive doesn't support changing the block size? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: command set

1998-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
at http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html another section is at http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/debian/files.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
was deleted and recreated, rather than that its permissions were changed; that would explain the change in ownership and permissions; the directory has the ownership of its creator and the permissions dictated by the owner's standard umask. I can't identify the culprit, though... -- Oliver Elphick

Re: exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lee Bradshaw wrote: I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be welcome. I use procmail to write -- Oliver Elphick

Re: IDE CD-ROM-Driver

1998-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
a booting option for specifying the CD-ROM.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: [postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

1998-01-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
symbol: PQconnectdb == There was a problem in the build of libpgperl. Try loading release libpgperl_6.2.1-7 which will be on master shortly (currently being uploaded to chiark). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
over paper feeding nor has it failed to print anything. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any

Re: Beginner Question

1998-01-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
startx when you are already logged on, to see what messages appear on the (non-X) console. Have you installed xbase? (Sorry - I hope that's a silly question.) Which X server have you installed? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: gimp and libXm.so.2

1997-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
that there is a package gimp-dmotif (which conflicts with gimp). If that is what you installed, it requires Motif. Install gimp instead. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
the original source with Debian changes applied. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: Full Root

1997-12-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
that this does not ignore other partitions; the man page leaves me uncertain about its intended effect.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

1997-12-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
able to boot from a Debian 1.3.1 CD. I can't tell you the Adaptec BIOS version without shutting down, but I bought this card about the beginning of 1997. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Unidentified subject!

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
. Can you boot from your CD or rescue floppy? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: 3FA ???

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
with the default partition. == -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
crontab file, destroying what was there before. If you use this method to update your crontab, do it like this to preserve your existing set of cron commands: crontab -l /tmp/crontab.me vi /tmp/crontab.me crontab /tmp/crontab.me -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Xsetup_0 does not run when xdm starts on local display

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
doesn't know that this machine is called linda. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person

Re: A ( simple ? ) question about configuration

1997-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
for xbase is /usr/sbin/xbase-configure -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

1997-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
a Microsoft utility on a MSDOS partition. Surely the best place to ask is a Microsoft list? If there's any way that Debian is involved, please give more detail. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Re: error when starting X

1997-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
this error in the past. Is that indeed the case? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: I don't know what dtterm is, but from context it sounds like a terminfo or termcap setting. It is, I suppose, the destop terminal. In its default configuration, when you right-click on a blank area of the destop

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
. debian is a Linux system and has nothing to do with any Micro$oft products. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: dtterm

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
entry. You probably need to make a termcap entry as well, which should be added into /etc/termcap. `infocmp -C' should produce a termcap listing from the terminfo entry. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: clueless people on debian-user

1997-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
worlds. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I think you want the newsgroups to be moderated? (Presumably the clueless can still post direct to the mailing list.) Someone would have to filter the clueless postings out before sending the rest on to the mailing list. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Image Sound

1997-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
installed some special package? rebuild your kernel to incorporate sound support. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: dtterm

1997-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
to transfer the termcap settings. If you want it to go into future Debian releases, send the results to the maintainer of the appropriate package; no doubt he will be grateful. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: permission denied

1997-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
in the script is failing. If you can't do it that way, check the permissions of every command the script tries to run. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Several Q's

1997-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
... Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all... It should be even better: you shouldn't have to hold that button down. Use ClearDTR and ClearRTS in the Pointer section of XF86Config. (See `man 5 XF86Config' for full details.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
and run `xauth merge Mac_Xauthority'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: Several Q's

1997-12-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
(serial or ps/2). The middle button on my current mouse doesn't work. The problem is probably with your configuration rather than with the mouse. What have you got in the Pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Debian Problem after Compiling Kernel

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
, are you either running kerneld to load them automatically when required, or else running modprobe at boot time to load them once and for all? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from

postgresql update

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
version (6.2.1-4) from: http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome

Re: fetch/mail and xconsole

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
This doesn`t work with xconsole. Use `logger' to write things to the logs (including the console, which displays some of them.) Full details in `man logger'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
a Micro$oft product... Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email

Re: 'make config' issues.

1997-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
. These are in the Standard devel section in dselect. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: Removing libc4

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
: find / -type f -perm +111 -print | xargs file | grep '[QZ]MAGIC' -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
job. -Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. You will need to define input and dump routines for both systems (unless the traffic is one-way only). Do the update via tape. [for tape read floppy if appropriate] -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: problem using gv

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
xaw3d or xaw3dg (the latter is for libc6). Install or reinstall that package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
in the name has been dropped. Egon == I'll think about packaging this once I'm happy that the basic package is OK. Oliver -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
installation always assumes bash is present; you would probably do well to learn it, even if you decide to use tcsh as your normal shell. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: libproc.so problems

1997-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
of libproc.so; however that other file is not present. That is why you see libproc.so but ldconfig can't open it. The libproc shared library is in the package procps. Either install that or delete /usr/lib/libproc.so. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: dev for SCSI tape

1997-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lawrence wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: Lawrence wrote: What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? SCSI tape drives are: crw-rw-rw- 2 root root 9, 0 Feb 19 1997

Re: problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
su attempts are logged with the user name responsible. If you want to get the root login environment, do `su -' instead of `su'. If you really want to override this security, edit /etc/securetty. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: dev for SCSI tape

1997-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used

Re: Q: How does one generate diffs for use with patch

1997-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
one file into a modified version of the same file (i.e. source and target filename the same)? Have the original version in one directory tree (.../tree.orig) and the new version in another (.../tree). Then: diff -crN .../tree.orig .../tree tree.patch -- Oliver Elphick

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
hand it is used for _output_ by the l command within sed. Enclose an actual tab in the quotes; if you are typing it in and the shell interferes, use `ctrl-v tab'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Crash! (help)

1997-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: YANQ (Yet another newbie question...)

1997-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
background programs by adding after the command. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
will start the link if it receives any other kind of packet for a remote site, provided that you have your routing correct. (Don't forget that it has to call the nameserver itself in that manner.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
in a short time that will trigger the acceleration of acceleration times the normal movement. Your post stimulated me to look into this. I found that `xset m 6 3' made life quite a lot easier. On the other hand, `xset m 10' was a bit wild. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Oliver Elphick wrote: That _may_ involve a nameserver lookup across the network or it may be relovable from cached data. ^ Sorry. That isn't an English word; I meant to say `recoverable'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Diald

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chuma Agbodike wrote: Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. I have done so. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Introduction for new users

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
@lists.debian.org and ask there. (To subscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word subscribe in the body of your message.) Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii imagemagick 3.9.0-1Image manipulation programs. linda:~/.netscape/cache$ -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
have. I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf: # Linux - new kernel image=/vmlinuz label=Linux2031-pre32 append=mem=32m aic7xxx=ultra ^ read-only # -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: problems with libproc.so

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
somewhere else. Do `ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libproc.so' and see what it tells you. Does the file it points to exist? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
file system. --- This is the error I get if there is no CD in the drive. I assume that this is too obvious an answer! Is your CD physically configured as a slave and the hard disk configured as a master? -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Having Trouble Printing From Netscape

1997-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
is run by the print dialog in Netscape? 2. If it is lpr, does the job arrive on the spool queue? 3. Does anything print? is it garbled? or what? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from

Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Adapter use ppp? If so, what kind of negotiation does it do? (I'm sure the customer won't know.) Is it possible to telnet through such a connection to the network beyond? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
; it has been stuck there for a long time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Can't login anymore

1997-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
that the URL in your signature is broken. Fixed, thanks. (I never got the mail, but I had a whole lot of trouble with mail a couple of days back and lost a whole chunk down a black hole.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Can't login anymore

1997-11-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
depend on an unmounted file-system) in the shell field of the password entry (make sure you edit the one on your hard disk, rather than on the ramdisk.) Incidentally, I have installed postgresql a number of times with no problem. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: starting xdm

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
start-xdm as explained somewhere in the Debian documentation for X. You also need to start up xdm in the boot scripts. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: 2.0.31 kernel - SCSI problems

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
this kernel to use with the new isdnutils package, which requires it. Can anyone suggest how to get the SCSI code working right? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
is set as /dev/psaux, which can be a link from /dev/mouse. The kernel has the psaux module loaded. The mouse type under XF86Setup is set as PS/2. All that is correct... With this setup the third button will not work. but that isn't. All three of my buttons work very well. -- Oliver

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
, this does not properly handle invalid day/month combinations, such as 31 February. Do you handle that somewhere else? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Book for writing shell scripts.

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: I am looking for suggestions on a good book for writing shell scripts. ... I learnt from `SUNIX Shell Programming' by Kochan and Wood, Hayden Books 1990, ISBN 0-672-48448-X It mostly covered Bourne shell; Korn shell got a brief mention. -- Oliver

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