Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? >> I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. > >On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Ol

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
5 CG Trace/breakpoint trap SIGIOT 6 CG IOT trap. A synonym for SIGABRT SIGEMT 7,-,7 G SIGBUS 10,7,10 AG Bus error -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: shell cmd: group name from gid?

1997-10-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Paul Miller wrote: >Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid? Like this: $ grep :27: /etc/group sudo:x:27: and to refine it: $ grep :27: /etc/group | awk -F: '{print $1}' sudo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 1.2 installation - how to mount scsi cdrom????

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
>scsi0 : setting target 4 to asynchronous SCSI > Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:500 Rev: 2.5 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ^^^

Re: PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
or with the computer case. If you do this, you will need to compile PS/2 support into the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSC

`dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
do so? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://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

`dump' command

1997-10-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct multi-volume backups. However, the man page is dated 1993. Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
rt compiled in. > ># ls -l /dev/sr0 >brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 0 Jul 24 17:46 /dev/sr0 Block device 22,0 is the second IDE interface, i.e. /dev/hdc. The /dev/sr0 device should be 11,0. Delete this device and recreate it with the correct major number as posted by some

Re: problems w/ Lilo

1997-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
a 3COM 905 >Boomerang net card. > Any help/ More info, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: root access over nfs

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
e capability. This is set up in the file /etc/exports on the remote machine; it is called `root squashing'. Add the option `no_root_squash' to the appropriate line in /etc/exports. `man exports' for details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle o

Re: trusted hosts in a network

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
e of /etc/hosts.equiv or ~/.rhosts with the option `-L'. 3. If you are logged in as root, you can't use /etc/hosts.equiv. You can't use ~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) You don't want to use `-h'

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
r/lib/sendmail sendmail but if sendmail is linked to exim, and exim behaves the same way, I don't see why MH should care. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
e/ken/Mail/drafts/2"? y >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available >send: message not delivered to anyone > mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompile it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: sql database

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
on the PostgreSQL mailing lists. These are archived somewhere at www.postgresql.org. With regard to PostgreSQL at least, you should try to ensure that you are comparing like with like. PostgreSQL has many capabilities that other free databases don't. However, it has to sacrifice some speed t

Re: Postgres

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
ou try to automate this, it is likely to give someone a false sense of security and end up going horribly wrong. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- T

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
-0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s > >Make[1]: as86: Command not found bootsec.s is assembly code, but you don't have the assembler (as86) available. as86 is in the package bin86. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Joey Hess wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: ... >> If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why >> would anyone create such a monster? > >But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
ch a monster? Any Unix shell has greater capabilities. If you want to run DOS utilities on (unmounted) DOS disks, look at the package mtools, which contains programs such as mformat, mdir, mcopy and so on. To access a DOS disk which you have mounted, use normal Unix commands. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: msdos file system

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
type `ls /dosc/windows' or whatever. Use `man mount' to see further information. You can also access a DOS floppy disk directly with the commands from the mtools package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:

Re: Summer Time & Time Zone

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
cular session, redefine the environment variable, TZ, by a shell command (Bourne-shell syntax): export TZ=Brazil/ The available timezones are files under /usr/share/zoneinfo. Full information in the libc info files, under Calendar Time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMA

Re: svgalib won't work

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
home directory. Move it to /usr/local/bin and check that the directory permissions are safe. If you aren't the administrator, be prepared to justify your request to create a suid program.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [LINUX] Urgent: How to talk to serial device

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
' (return, tilde, dot). For further information, see the info files for uucp. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ss of a MAC interface *which*your*machine*has*seen*, use `/usr/sbin/arp -a -n' (the -n returns the IP address rather than the name). I don't think that there is any way to find the IP address of an arbitrary MAC device which isn't on the current network. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Problems w/xboard

1997-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
t: gnuchessx: No such fil >e or directory Your problem sounds like a problem with your search path. gnuchessx is in /usr/games, which is probably not in your path, seeing that you are typing the full path name for xboard. Try: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games; xboard & -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
x27;. I conclude, therefore, that the licence applies to the moc as well as to all the rest of the Qt distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: ... other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ere is it? dpkg -L visual-tcl | less This will tell you all the files that have been installed. Any documentation should be in /usr/doc/visual-tcl. (I haven't installed this package myself, though.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
run from > the shell) in the >base installation setup. dpkg is at /usr/bin/dpkg; it is part of the base system, and essential, but I do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes lilo is in /sbin/lilo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: Mouse Troubles....

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
he XF86Config file should contain these lines: Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" EndSection -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliv

Re: Lilo on dual boot system with reformatting

1997-09-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ntation in /usr/doc/lilo is informative, though rather difficult to grasp at first. binoa1DWLrWET.bin Description: lilo.conf Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
in.so file and fails. Please post the relevant section of error output so that we can help further. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Ma

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
1 > >However libXpm is on the system. Try adding `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line, so that gcc knows where to look for libXpm. I think that, by default, it only looks in /lib and in /usr/lib. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
ne >of them? > routed is in the package netstd I seem to recall reading recent messages saying that gated has some kind of licensing problem and is not in the distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: problem compiling kernel with sound

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ld leave the configuration in a consistent state. After `make xconfig' do `make depend' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix

Re: floppy

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
rresponding to each set. Use `ls /dev/fd*' to list them. Man pages to check: mount(8), mkfs(8), mtools(1), fd(4). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Date: header is one year slow! Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 02:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Viorel, please check your system clock! I sort messages, and yours end up in the wrong place. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: mouse

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
l? I use a Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball, which is a PS2 device (it has a small round plug on the end of its cable). If yours is similar, the device should be /dev/psaux and the protocol is PS2. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
bt such things will be improved in due course. It is a pleasant environment, but not yet very stable. I'm not sure what it has got that should make me change permanently from fvwm. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
g. IMPORTANT: If you run the > older libc6-based e2fsck on a 2 GB or greater partition, YOU WILL LOSE > DATA. I had problems with that version of e2fsck, EVEN THOUGH (by my calculations) my partition was less than 2Gb (= 2 * 1024^3) by 67Mb. -- Oliver Elphick

How can I check package integrity?

1997-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
check every package to see whether all its files are present. Is there any tool to do this? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better

Re: Devices?

1997-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
mouse using this device? Can someone >make any sense of these? If you have a PS/2 mouse, this line is wrong and will be causing problems. The correct device is /dev/psaux. You have gpm looking at your first serial port for a mouse, which it won't find. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ecause it should not change the filesystem, it would be a suitable command to run from cron. I can't help you on the other problem (strange error messages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Knews

1997-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
the text and article list into two windows: $knews -nntpServer localhost +separate -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
e to get dselect to show the files that are > contained within a package? (I flipped through the three > information "choices", but none showed files contained) > Not with dselect. From a command line, use dpkg -S, thus: $ dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd netstd: /us

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ough anything useful? Maybe we could take the job for a week at a time each, so we don't get too wearied by it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone

Re: Please help...

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
name to run it, or add the appropriate directory to the end of your path (run `export PATH=$PATH:directory'). For example: $ type netscape netscape is hashed (/usr/local/bin/netscape) $ su Password: # type netscape bash: type: netscape: not found # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin # type n

Re: ppp-script problem,

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
o the console and logfiles. You should then be able to see what's happening. > > > >/root/.dunc/chatfile > >"" atdt5813960 CONNECT "" rname:--rname: MY_LOGIN word: MY_PASSWRD "" ppp > > >--

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
d have to be to develop some system call to force the process to wake up to be killed. I don't know whether any such call exists, but altering the kill() system call is probably a change with fairly major implications for the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROT

Re: [problem][tetex][locate]

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
-- >--- > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- Oliver

Re: compilation problems

1997-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
e, I often get one or more >of the following errors: > >f77 -I./inc -cpp -g -C -c routine.F -o ./routine.o >./routine.F > routine: >mv: routine.c: I/O error `I/O error' is a hardware problem. It sounds as if there's something wrong with the hard disk. T

Re: PPP ?

1997-08-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
my modem is, should it be >at /dev/tty* or /dev/cua* - what's the difference? I have already >configured the kernel of TCP/IP and PPP - what's the next step? > /dev/cua* is obsolete and should not be used. Use /dev/ttyS*. (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2 and so on.) -- Oliver E

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
do this in your .xsession file or else in the global file. You want something like: MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/pgsql/man export MANPATH editing as necessary for any other manpage directories you may have. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PR

Apache/Perl segfaults

1997-08-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
rl_startup () #2 0x8065b03 in init_modules () #3 0x8061c35 in standalone_main () #4 0x80621b4 in main () Can anyone offer any suggestions, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Ma

SPAM

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Today there was a SPAM message on debian-changes. Can the list server not be configured to refuse postings from addresses that aren't subscribed to the list the posting is intended for? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: apropos broken in 1.3?

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Hello-- > >It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to >apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an "apropos -d a" and got Perhaps you need to run mandb to create the

Re: sound card as a module and audio CDs

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
s. Any >ideas? > This is not limited to sb16. I experience the same problem running with a GUS Extreme and the commercial OSS software. Following Colin Telmer's hint, I found that the card would play CD's if I played a midi file first (with playmidi -g). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >> > >> > How can I output tabs with sed? >> > >>

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tab char should work, but it doesn't. I think that bash gets in the way when you do it from the command line. However, it works if you put the sed instruction in a file and use sed -f sedfile -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: sed/grep script help

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
quot; '/^Good/{printf("Good signature by ")} /^ *"/{print $2}' Example: $ echo 'Good signature made 1997-08-06 15:10 GMT by key: > 1024 bits, Key ID 8C111B46, Created 1997-08-06 >"Paul A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"'

diald and netscape - unwanted connections

1997-08-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
somehow responsible, but it is not running! I cannot find out what process is doing this. Can anyone suggest what it is or how to find out? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot

Re: netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4007e000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008b000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40096000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40134000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40137000) -- Oliver

xemacs20 won't start

1997-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
(toolbar-mail-icon . "mail") (toolbar-info-icon . "info-def") (toolbar-compile-icon . "compile") (toolbar-debug-icon . "debug") (toolbar-news-icon . "news"))) init-x-toolbar() init-post-x-win() make-device(x nil) # bind (display) make-x-devic

metafont/dvips problem

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
0.720pk Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. Can anyone tell me what is causing this error and how to cure it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will b

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng a >'debian-not-configured' comment in there before I did the reinstall. >I'm not at my debian system right now, but I'll take a look at this >tonight and see if I can reproduce the problem by tweaking this file. > Yes. When first installed, /etc/X11/xdm/Xs

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
start-xdm start-fs no-xdm-start-server run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot.

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
to inbox; the inc command is used to read mail from the system mailbox (/usr/spool/mail/...). exmh has an inc button; it also runs inc automatically when it is started. If you want your mail split into different directories before you read it, you need to use something like procmail. There's a

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

1997-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
t itself; it merely determines the defaults. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
dial-up again until I reboot the >machine. ppp.log doesn't seem to show any big error messages > Do you really have to use -9? This is really the last resort. You should just kill (the default is -15) to give processes the chance to clean themse

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writ es: >On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, >> please let me know! >> >Don't know what this publib stuff is (just running dpkg -

g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, please let me know! --- Repeated Message Date:Fri, 04 Jul 1997 22:21:39 +0100 From:"Oliver Elphick" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem linking with publib library and g++ I have a linki

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
mlinuz.old; copies zImage (or bzImage) to /vmlinuz; runs lilo to set up /vmlinuz as the new kernel to be booted - this is particularly important, since, without it, the machine will no longer be bootable. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Problem linking with publib library and g++

1997-07-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
s fine: linda:~/cprogs$ gcc main.c -lpub linda:~/cprogs$ I can't work out what has changed and why this no longer works. System: Pentium Pro Kernel: 2.0.30 Debian: 1.3 from unstable gcc:2.7.2.2-4 binutils: 2.8.1-1 publib-dev: 0.26-1 libc6: 2.0.3-4 -- Oliver Elphi

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ve installed DOS, boot from a DOS floppy and run C:\DOS\FDISK /MBR to install the default DOS master boot record. You will then need to have LOADLIN on the DOS partition in order to be able to start Linux. Alternatively, you may choose to use lilo as the boot loader; look at the user docume

Re: Distributer in UK?

1997-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
ristian Schwarz at a cost of 91DM (about £35) including postage, and they arrived within 3 days. Furthermore, he cuts a new set each time, so you are as up to date as you can be! See http://www.schwarz-online.com/cs-software/debian-cdrom/index.html -- Oliver Elphick

Re: message problems...

1997-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
it? Thanks in advance for >> any help. > >/dev/scd0 If the device does not exist at all, mknod -m 444 /dev/sr0 b 11 0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly pgpFS2NQYs9Ha.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
tition on the first hard drive, the boot parameter should be omitted so that lilo is put in the MBR. It does not explain why. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, t

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
kernel image=/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda3 label=old read-only append="mem=32M then you can reboot your old version without resorting to a rescue disk by interrupting the lilo boot sequence with the control key before the 20 second delay (delay=20) expires and entering 

Re: XTerm-color

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
uture. The currently defined options are: ... * allow-user-resources If users have a file called .Xresources in their home directory, these resources will be merged with the default resources when they log in. So ensure that this line exists in the file, if you want to use a pr

Re: answer to xdm automatically starting

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
... > >change /etc/X11/config so that it contains > >#no-start-xdm >start-xfs >start-xdm >xdm-start-server Also check the Xservers file in /etc/X11/xdm. The line describing the local machine's display must be uncommented before xdm will tr

innd problem stopping news reading

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Connection closed by foreign host. bash$ Does anyone know what might be causing this? and why does it not allow connections as a result? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connectio

Starting xdm (was Re: setting & switching screen densities)

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
> If you get answer for this one, please, let me know :) ... Have you got the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of co

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
own scripts, the first window manager listed in /etc/X11/window-managers is run. If this is not working, there may be some problem with its set up or its path. Read /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README for more information. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
that hostid is _normally_ set to resemble the host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value. >From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence, it's not much good! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
recognised by the kernel, are the correct modules loaded? (ne also needs 8390). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. pgp71

UK source for 1.3 cd?

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there any source in the UK that will sell the 1.3 cd in the near future? My phone bill can't stand downloading everything that's changed! Or are there any foreign companies that will post to the UK? Prices, please... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tion. Any suggestions? I think that mh is compiled to use sendmail. I did strings on every mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get the source and reconfigure it to use smail??? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
er than installing a special utility. I expect perl or awk would also offer entertaining solutions! If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you avoid the problem in the first place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Return code from system()

1997-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
tem((const char *) s); dpkg -s libc5: Version: 5.4.20-1 Is this a fault in documentation, or in the libc package? Is it unique to me? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly -- TO UNSUBS

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
omplain:true Xaccess: * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly pgp60Pius

Linking problems boundary="==_Exmh_13452812500" boundary="==_Exmh_13601327980"

1997-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
minimal set of files which demonstrate the bug. I don't know if this is in fact a bug in the GNU compiler or in QT. Version levels: Debian Linux 1.2 GCC 2.7.2.1 libg++ 2.7.2 QT 1.0 Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: Network Configuration

1997-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate >being told what to do step by step. > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:30:08 + From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First, try the command ifconfig You should see something like:# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback

/dev/ttyS? v. /dev/cua?

1997-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
nal cu: Can't disable hardware flow control: I/O error cu: write: I/O error Does anyone know the reason for this? Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with >all its disks connected to a > > Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 > >controller. > >Does anyone have experience with this controller? >Do we have to expect any problems with the dr

Re: What Can I do?

1997-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
s >slirp and it has to be compiled. What can i do? Use the reget command in ftp to continue a download from where it stopped. Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
shutdown /root/shutdown can be a script that runs shutdown with predetermined parameters or else prompts for how long to wait, messages to send to other users and so on. If this script were to disappear, the log-in would fail rather than giving a root-access shell. Oliver Elphick

postgres95 - missing library - Repeat message

1997-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
message: postgres: can't load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0' libbsd.a is present, but I can find no reference anywhere to the shared library. Where can I get this library, please? Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

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