Re: exploring debian's users and groups

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: sudo: HELP: Nothing uses it here, and I have sudo installed.. Maybe there's a way to only let users in this group use sudo? sudo uses this group internally. Members of this group do not need to type their password.

autmagically install -dev and -doc packages

Hi! Does anybody know an easy way to install -doc and -dev packages automatically when installing a certain package? Say I select libgtk1.2 in dselect and it suggests libgtk1.2-dev, libgtk1.2 and libgtk1.2-dbg, too. Adding Suggests: *-dev, *-dbg to each Package is a) much work b) annoying if you

ftp.de.debian: Archive_in_progress - still?

Hi! Hmm, according to /debian/Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress ftp.de.debian.org update is starting at 13:52 US Central time, and ending at about 15:30. That's 19:52-21:30 CET, isn't it? Currently it's 0:50 CET and this file still exists. Is Archive_Maintenance_In_Progress incorrect, is the

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

Hi! Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.: There is a program called Tardis that has client and server time services. Seems pretty powerfull: Yes, I know, but Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) already mentioned it. Does NT's net time /set use ntp's port 123?

Re: nfs and 2.2.x

Hi! Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), nfs and 2.2.x: I am prepping to setup NFS on a 2.2.x machine. I would like to use the kernel based one as the docs point to it being faster/better. Is there support in Debian for this? The package is in project/experimental. (I never had the time to actually

Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.

Hi! Greg Frye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: Synchronizing Windows NT to Debian.: There is a precompiled binary of xntp3 for NT if you want the NT box to be a time server that sync's to the Debian box. It you just want the NT box to be a client, I like Tardis a lot. I have it on NT workstations

Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!

Hi! Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Re: NT and Debian...O.S. loader 4.01 sux!: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what up! scenario: i had Linux on my laptop running efficiently well...however, i just installed NT4.0 without preparing LiLo for the image of NT...now, my laptop will only

Re: aic7xxx kernel

Hi! Richard Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), aic7xxx kernel: Can anyone tell me which parameters to choose during 'make config' to fix this? There are three questions that come up when I choose the AIC7xxx driver. I've answered yes and no to overriding driver defaults, yes and no to verbose error

Re: Can't access RAID - why?

Hi! Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Can't access RAID - why?: After that I added this MD device to the system: # mdadd /dev/md2 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [2 raid0] read_ahead 8 sectors md0 : active raid0 hda2 hdb2 819312 blocks 4k chunks

micro-HOWTO (was Serial consoles)

Hi! I've seen FreeBSD being installed over a serial console and thought Hmm, how can I do this with debian?. I was aware of the sercons stuff in recent 2.1 kernels. Initiated by a question from Shane Wegner on debian-user I tried it out (up to partition a harddisk - I had no spare disk to

Re: Diald

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been able to configure diald to restrict dialing out at certain times (like after I go to bed). However, if I have the connection up when the restriction time comes, it will kill the connection. I'm wondering if it would be possible for diald

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Rainer Clasen (bj): Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a vt100 terminal. You need to modify root.bin! gunzip it, mount it via loop and replace /dev

Re: Serial consoles

Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a vt100 terminal. ... in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file as a developement

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

Hi! Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): are there any other tools that can do it? The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in

restore(8) barfs on tape 5/5

Hi! I'm currently trying to restore my stripe from tape with restore -rf /dev/st0. I am stuck at the prompt for the last tape. It refuses to continue. Yes I made a mistake while dump(8)ing to tape: The drive was still busy when I told dump to continue. dump got EOF imediately, wrote nothing,

Re: strange non-trivial routing problem

Hallo erstmal! Jeff Katcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to ask at all (linux-net is announced as development list ...). I appreciate pointers to the correct forum. Ok, first some ASCII

strange non-trivial routing problem

Hi! This may be offtopic - its not debian-specific. But I'm not sure where to ask at all (linux-net is announced as development list ...). I appreciate pointers to the correct forum. Ok, first some ASCII-art to confuse the reader ;-) 10base2 |

Re: XFCom_Matrox and Backspace

Hi! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I got Matrox Millenium G200 Card and installed XFCom_Matrox from SUSE. For some reason Backspace is not working (there is a little beeping sound). If I Any suggestions how to fix that? I use XKEYBOARD extensions SUSE's server use a

Re: Frame Buffer

Hi! Jeff Beley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've just upgraded to 2.1.130 and am expirementing the frame buffer that's built into the kernel. I've been able to use the fbset utility to set the resolution and suchhowever X is very fuzzy(for lack of a better term)...I read in the documentation

Re: Optical Jukebox support in Linux

Hi! Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to ... Anybody have any experience with this or could point me in a direction to get some help? there is a

Re: Getting Rid of Debian/Linux

Hi! David McDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: I have a requirement to remove Debian from one of our workstations and re-install DOS/Windows (Horror!) Just boot from your DOS installation disks, run the FDISK program (I can't recall if it

Re: Can't remote X

Hi! Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that

Re: diald time restriction

Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day? It's easy to say diald is allowed to bring up the line from 3:00 till 4:00 either by restrict options in the configuration file or by sending block/unblock commands to the control

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rainer Clasen wrote: Do you mean reinstalling xbase_3.3.2.3a-7? apt and IIRC the other access methods to dselect won't install a package if the same or newer version is already installed. a) If we are talking about the missing 'C locale

Re: libc and staroffice 5

Hi! Peter Bartosch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): after upgrading libc on my hamm-box to slink´s 2.0.7u-4 my apt won´t install anything further! IIRC you are currently running apt_0.1.6, aren't you? i´ve installed the new libc´s for staroffice 5. would installing slink´s apt (0.1.7 iirc) fix such

Re: smbmount via /etc/fstab?

Hi! Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I do smbmounts via /etc/fstab? I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct link, but you might take a look at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/smbfs.html . IIRC there are at least some links to patches against mount to do this. I can't verify the

Re: Problem starting X for first time

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): did you run xf86config? maybe he has ;-) IIRC there are situations where some parameters aren't set as chosen. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (it has a manpage :-) and go to Section monitor. set HorizSync and VertRefresh according to your monitors manual.

Re: Debian2.0/XFree86 3.3.2.3 on TOSHIBA 4400: X does not start

Hi! Marc Fleureck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Installed all relevant packages (xbase, xbase-clients, xlib6, libc6, and xserver-vga) without errors. When we do: startx It complains: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11 failed. put your desired Xserver in the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Rainer Clasen wrote: Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 with a kernel version 2.0.36 or greater? I have 2.0.34 and I am having trouble

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ben Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok, lets see. I assume you've installed 3.3.2.3a-7, haven't you? Either update to 3.3.2.3a-8 or reinstall xbase. According to debian-user this fixes the local problem. Have you installed those new packages: xmodmap, xfonts-*, xterm? Is

Re: cd-rom problems

Hi! Mike Fetherston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've been having troubles installing debian on my system. If I run boot.bat from \boot it starts the installation just fine, but then when it reboots for the first time to install the packages using dselect it can't find my cdrom. My cdrom is an LG

Re: where'd my cd go?

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't cooperate under drdos,

Re: Problem with X

Hi! Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Since yesterday, I can't run X anymore : the graphical screen and mouse appear for one second, then X stops with the message : waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1;

Re: Xconsole

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After I upgraded to slink, my xconsole doesn't start automatically any more (and doesn't appear on the xdm login either) The only trace I found is the line run-xconsole in /etc/X11/config /etc/X11/config ist split into several files. you need to

Re: Updated installation disks/images?

Hi! Amanda Shuler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there anyone out ther who has the installation images for Debian 2.0 with a kernel version 2.0.36 or greater? I have 2.0.34 and I am having trouble with booting... it freaks out when it detects my SCSI card. It's an Adaptec AIC-7xxx; I was told that

Re: Moving computer without losing things

Hi! Jose L. Gomez Dans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I have been using a debian system for a couple of months now, and I am extremely happy with it. However, since this isn't my computer, I have been told that I'll have to leave this computer, and take a newer one. I was wondering if there

Re: pt_BR or br_BR locales in Xlib

Hi! Mário Olímpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have my locale set to pt_BR in profile. After upgrading to the new xlib6g, netscape is giving me this message: netscape: locale `pt_BR' not supported by Xlib; trying `C' according to another post, you are running 3.3.2.3a-7,

Re: startkde cannot connect to X server

Hi! Stephan Böni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i have installed kde on debian linux 2.0. commands like startx or startkde return the error cannot connect to x server. what's wrong? If running startx says cannot connect to xserver this usually indicates that your Xserver isn't configured properly.

Re: Permissions for vfat mounted drive

Hi! John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any ideas how I can get no root access to my win98 partion, or is it a Fat32 problem. I use this in my fstab: /dev/sda1 /dos/c vfat umask=0002,gid=110,uid=0,showexec 0 2 gid 110 is called dosfs, but you may use dos's gid. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901

Re: IPFW works a little to well...

Hi! Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): below. The problem, when I execute the script nothing comes in, nothing goes out, the perfect firewall. The bad news is I need some traffic to pass. The network behind the firewall is a subnet of a class B network with Uhhm, it seems you mixed some

Re: Problem with X...Windowmaker...locale?

Hi! Ehren Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello I just recently started running slink and I have run into a a problem with X or Windowmaker. XDM starts up fine, but when I log in, the screen goes black and then returns me to the login screen. I have included my .xsession-error file to see if

Re: where'd my cd go?

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Unless my memory has faded even more, a possibility I won't rule out, I used to be able to mount cd's with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660 I now get, mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount:

Re: Weird behavior with Tcsh

Hi! Ossama Othman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The prompt in my xterm-1 still shows ~/test/me. When I do an ls in xterm-1 I get no error. Shouldn't I get an error since the directory isn't supposed to exist anymore. Is this some behavior in tcsh that I wasn't aware of? In the past I used to get

Re: Problem!

Hi! Andreas Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ...some people still use modems, I do! :-( ie. you can't install directly from ftp/http? A friend of mine downloaded and created the 3 Debian ISO-CD-IMAGES from you're mirrors... Everything works fine untill I come to the dSelect program.. Some

Re: How do you use su under X?

Hi! Sorry, for hiding this to you - my direct reply to Chip Grandits should have gone to the list ... Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I want the cookie security so other users can't do anything wrong. I also want root to be able to use the X display no matter who is running x. What is the

Re: Console mode with 80x24 possible?

Hi! Eric House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. try adding

Re: keyboard switchers

Hi! Chris Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyone know if Linux/Debian (Hamm) gets irritated if it finds no keyboard where one was a few minutes/hours before? Uhhm, I don't think so. I'm playing the dangerous game of hot-plugging keyboards for some years. I use one keyboard with 7 boxes. One of

Re: lsof problem

Hi! Groumph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): lsof does not work on my system: groumph:~# lsof /dev/audio lsof: WARNING: compiled for Linux release 2.0.35; this is 2.1.125. ^^^ Of course it doesnt't! Take a look at /usr/doc/lsof*/00FAQ.gz

Re: problems after upgrading libc6

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: apt: Depends:libc6 get apt 0.1.9 from slink and hope

Re: SMP

Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. Here's what I know: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Hmm, IIRC

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

Hallo erstmal! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a good card? A friend ran it with hamm's SVGA server. I switched his setup to nvidia's peliminary server, because there was noise on moving windows. Now it works

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

Hi! Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Any more ideas ? :) Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine, decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into sub-2GB chunks before taking

Re: SNMPD - MRTG- PPP stats iregularity

Hi! Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:48:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Linux doesn't ordinarily have any facility for saying _how much_ data goes through an if. The snmpd's base their throughput figures on _number of packets_, which isn't exactly the same thing. IIRC,

Re: two things

Hi! Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2) When I installed slackware, I did it over a null-modem serial connection to an ms-dos machine running a program called telix. I do this because I use screen reading software to read the screen and as of yet, there is nothing available under Linux.

Re: permission denied in root.

Hi! Brent McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to get the wordPerfect demo up and running, but when I try to run the setup executable (./Runme) I get a permission denied. the file is executable, I own it, I own the directory, I tried as root and non-root alike. The directory is

Re: mountd/nfsd

Hi! David Boisvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok, first, my mountd server always says that I can't mount the server from the client. cat /etc/exports: / 192.168.1.1(rw) #client side this is server's /etc/export, isn't it? Here is the error in syslog: Oct 18 09:37:32 server mountd[148]:

Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?

Hi! Lee Bradshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nis specific problems: When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, but

Re: Hiding a linux computer

Hi! Jeremy Blonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: ipaddress hostname mac address

Re: DebianNet.pm

Hi! Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I upgrade some packages yesterday and found a problem with the above module. Some *.postint script tried to include it from /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 but it's installed at /usr/lib/perl5. This broke my upgrade and was solved only

Re: chmod help

Hi! E.L. Meijer Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) | | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? Don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but you can

Re: using debian passwords in NT.

Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the passwords of a debian machine? Maybe you can try NISGINA. It appears to turn your NT box into a NIS client. Can't tell more - I've never got to use it. Try this URL, I don't know if its

Re: Reading CD image from CD: slow!

Hi! Zini Enrico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When I try to read the ISO image from a CD, either with cat or dd, the reading speed (I read with a SCSI 4x/2x Philips CDD2600 cd-writer) seems to be around 70Kb per second (half 1x !). If I mount the CD I can read at full 4x, no problem: what could it be?

Re: Hard drive sriping

Hi! john mcpeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about drive striping and I installed the leaner drive module. I need to know how I should format the drives and how to make it think two drives are really one. It's explained in the

Re: apt - priorities?

Hi! B. Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if a) the user requests to have the package upgraded b) another package depends on the new version I use this workaround: Usually I have unstable commented out in sources.list. If I want to

Re: Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

Hi! Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. Now, none of the rescue disks in .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 work with my Adaptec 2940UW. I am not concerned about this problem; I do not seek a solution since I have a

Re: passwd vs. yppasswd under nis setup question

Hi! Stuart Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the password file but not update the nis map. I seem to recall long ago that the nis installation made passwd call yppasswd? I am confused as to how it should be set up. currently /bin/passwd isn't linked to yppasswd on installation and I think this

Re: Several questions before I run Debian

Hi! Matthew A. Reklau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do the X servers include support for the Diamond Viper V330? yes, they do. Some month ago I installed debian pre-hamm on a box with one. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- Unsubscribe?

Re: I burned hamm on NT and now all the files end with ~1.

Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You probably burned it as a Joliet filesystem... not supported under 2.0.x kernels yes, but at least the current debian 2.0.33 kernel is already patched for joliet. To burn it for use under Linux, you have to burn it as iso9660 with RockRidge

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) I don't know sun at all, but how about modifying the bootdisks to spawn a getty

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Here, i have 85 PC to install. And the method i will try will be slighty different (note: it will only work in a network, with a local mirror): 3) Write a shell script, dpkg-record, something like : Just out of curiosity: What speaks against using

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

Pierre Blanchet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): RC == Rainer Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RC Just out of curiosity: What speaks against using rdist? IIRC somebody RC suggested this in a previose discussion on this topic. The idea behind dpkg-record/dpkg-replay is flexibility

lilo on serial line (was: Re: how to set up headless machine?)

Hi! Jack Kern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm not sure I understand what is required but the lilo doc, Manual.txt.gz, in the Global options section (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) seems to have a relevant passage: SERIAL=parameters enables control from a serial line. The specified serial port

Re: Convert RedHat install to Debian ..

Hi! Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. Now I've got this Netra Linux box :) AFAIK there is enhanced serial console support in 2.1.*. But don't forget,

hamm's last soaks up 9MB RAM

Hi! I recently updated an 386 with 8MB to hamm and after fixing utmp/wtmp I ran last too check if everything is ok. It seemed to do nothing, neither ^C nor ^Z worked. I opened another ssh-connection and ps showed me root 210 6.9 49.5 9952 3400 p0 D13:39 0:02 last After a while

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

Hallo erstmal! Stephen Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): create a second extended filesystem in a file on the NT home dir and then mount that filesystem (I need a filesystem that will hole my some time ago I tried the same, and somebody told me loop support doesn't work with any remote FS.

Re: supressing return mail with at

Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every minute: echo -n bbb /dev/ttyp8 at -f testfile now + 1 minutes avoid output to stdout/err! at only sends mail if there is anything to send. see at(1) at -f testfile now

Re: Mirror

Hi! John Boggon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | slink/non-free directories ? exclude_patt+|^contrib/ exclude_patt+|^non-free/ and when you dont't want mirror to create

how do I compile with libc6?

Hi! ok, I tried to compile the little hello.cc example from libgtkmm-dev. I ran g++ hello.cc -lgtkmm -o hello -I/usr/lib/glib/include and got: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libc.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXi.so.6, may conflict with libc.so.6 /lib/libc.so.5: the getwd' function is

patch for 2-step mirror-ing

Hi! Phone fees prevent me to mirror over my modem. But since I have access to a fast connection at my university, I practice a 2-step method: Make a list of files to get on my local machine runing mirror -n other options | sed -n 's/^get file \(.*\) as .*/\1/' and use the fast connection to

Re: embarassing X questions

Hi! Christopher J. McNicholas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi! Uhmm, I need to correct myself: I think removing xbase is only recommended if you exactly know what you are doing. It contains all manpages, documentation, the X wrapper, all config-files ... And since xbase depends on xlib6 you cannot remove it, too. Maybe someone else has a step-by-step

Re: Multi-Boot

Hi! Dale Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use the NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your linux partition and have it write the boot

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi, Ian! So I skip the export, startx and xhost steps replacing them with X -q... on the desktop. correct! Packages installed as above, uses window manager on the laptop? yes, this way all X-applications (including WMs) run on the laptop. Does XDM require you to log in? If so, can I

Re: Running X11 over a network

Hi! Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the

Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)

Hi! Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am thinking of more places to add runlevels. Currently, I am trying to eliminate the connect option from pppd's option files. Ppp-functions would be called like this: /etc/ppp/ppp-functions dial hostname username ip-up parms, with stdin, stdout, and

Re: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

Hi! Richardson,Anthony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If the NT partition is NTFS you have quite a bit more work to do. NTFS read-only support for Linux is available, but requires kernel patches and a kernel rebuild. You need't rebuild your kernel! There is a debian package with an

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive smtp

kernel 2.0.33 smbfs bug

Hi! there is a bug in kernel 2.0.33 which woes files' timestamp on mounted NT4 shares. There is already a bugfix patch, which seems to slip into 2.0.34. kernel-source-2.0.33-2 didn't include this patch. My questions: -shall I report this as bug or wait till kernel-*-2.0.34? -against what shall

Re: NAT solution for Linux?

Hi! You wrote: Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)? I don´t know Cisco´s PIX, but there is domething called NAT at http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html Regards