Hello,
I have a particular list of packages I would like to install saved in
a file and am using a 3 CD-ROM Debian 1.3.1 set I got with Dale Scheetz's
book as my media.
I imagine I need to mount the cdrom and use dpkg --get-selections and
dpkg --set-selections and maybe cd to the cdrom stable
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the
same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going
to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
hi
(i know this was discussed about a month ago, but that was before
my zillions of pine folders were set up for filing sorry...)
some of the fonts displayed are so small that they are illegible.
i have up'ed the sizes in edit/preferences/appearance/fonts
Hi all,
I thought the list might be interested to see that my buddies at Boot
Magazine finally posted my 12-Step article on the Web:
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/12step_installinglinux.html
This article came into existence after I had been bugging my friend
who works at Boot about how
Sorry to jump in the discussion so late: what is the problem of smail and
fetchmail? I switched some times ago from sendmail to smail (hamm) and
I got few problem with fetchmail, but was due to (I believe) my fault and
to the fact that smail seems more strict:
- the invisible flag of
ipfwadm -I -a reject -P udp -S 0.0.0.0/0 -W eth0 -D 209.109.31.9 177
This only works for Linux, and only if IP Firewalling is enabled in the
kernel, right? I need to be able to prevent xdm logins using the
standard xdm stuff on Linux and possibly some non-Linux systems. Based
on the xdm
An odd thing happens when I have been connected for many (many) hours,
generally anywhere from 6 to 12 or so. It is not like the standard
bootings (attack dialing takes care of those :). The modem connects, does
some sqweeking, then starts going bee-bee-bp, high tones to low with
lengths as
I assume you have set the root device for the kernel image on
the floppy correctly? (man rdev). If not, the kernl maybe mounting
the wrong partition aas teh root device and failing ;-( (though I'm
not sure it would fail in the manner you describe; I think it is a
possibility).
I were
I have assumed that mkfs.ext2 and mke2fs were links to the same
file. Apparently they are not:
bob:vc-3:bobls -il /sbin/mkfs.ext2
86256 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17116 Jan 7 21:10 /sbin/mkfs.ext2*
bob:vc-3:bobls -il /sbin/mke2fs
86255 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17116
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've found that it is sufficient to set visible_name to the host part of my
popmail address. That is, my email address at BrightNet is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so I put visible_name=win.bright.net in
smail/config. This gets my mail out past their anti-spam-relay
Hi Keith,
Your article inspired quite a lot of traffic on this list so you do seem
to have made a significant impact and brought in some fresh blood. Well
done.
How did the project work out from the magazine's perspective?
Lindsay
Craig,
I used the following in ip-up
---cut here---
#!/bin/sh
USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}')
case $USER in
fulltest) /sbin/route add 192.168.1.1 eth0;;
esac
--cut here--
Again, Many thanks
Ian
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I confirm possible problems with scsi.
Here's my story
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive.
In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many.
I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my
disk drive
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
---cut here---
#!/bin/sh
USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}')
case $USER in
fulltest) /sbin/route add 192.168.1.1 eth0;;
esac
--cut here--
glad to hear you're figuring it out :-)
Again, Many thanks
what you've got there will
Will Lowe wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Attached is a little perl I wrote tohelp you decide what directories
to move and how much space to assign. You just say, for example:
thanks, that was very useful. One thing (not sure how feasable this is)
-- is there a way
Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link):
bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs
19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs
bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2
19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2
Bob Hilliard wrote:
I have
Britton writes:
An odd thing happens when I have been connected for many (many) hours,
generally anywhere from 6 to 12 or so.
...
This has happened twice now. I suspect a bug somewhere in ppp on the pon
script, or possibly in the kernel.
Possibly related: Back when I was using ppp as a
Bob Hilliard writes:
It should be possible to make any other MUA put a proper From: field in
the mail they send to smail.
That isn't the problem. It is the MAIL FROM address in the smtp
transaction that causes difficulty. BrightNet refuses my mail if this
address is not in their domain (even
Hi --
just wondering: is it me or is there no info on the Net on the changes that
were incorporated into the afterstep version 1.4*? I found the European mirror
that carries the tarball, but no info on what the differences are between the
1.0 and 1.4 . Any pointers would be welcome..
TIA
DamirN
Hi,
I downloaded the base install, and that seemed to work fine after intsalling
it. I also bought a book The Debian Linus User's Guide, and I followed the
install like it said. I can log in as root, and dselect starts properly. Now,
I am supposed to go a second v-console, and configure
Hi there,
I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job
for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP.
I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the
ppp-on and ppp-off files.
I have no idea if I did something wrong, eventhough I didn't
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
[snip]
IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all
headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe.
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
Pine is clearly one of the better documented programs in the world of
computing. If you press the '?' key from almost anywhere other than
when in 'compose' then pine gives you help.
As Remco mentioned the 'h' command is the one that you want to toggle
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
[snip]
IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all
headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe.
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.4 1998/03/03 06:18:57 johnie Exp $
This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It
I think the kernel must reside in a partition below cylinder
1024. The LILO manual (/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz)
provides a detailed description.
--Bob
Javier Leyba wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to install a Linux version 2.0.29 on my PC with
the following configuration:
Motherboard Soyo 430
Hi,
Firstly, dmesg should show a lot of the kernel messages that
scrolled off to fast. Secondly; it is risky installing another
instance of the same kernel version on top of the forst one,
especially the modules part.
My advice: before installing the new kernel (assuming
You're getting close. It appears that you have customized
your kernel and now you need to downlod the pcmcia-source
package and recompile it too. You are probably trying to
load pcmcia modules that were built to be compatible with
the stock kernel image. Follow the directions in
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From peterp Tue Mar 3 08:30:27 1998
Subject: Re: I need help
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Ivan Ines Rojas at Mar 2, 98 09:30:41
pm
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan Ines Rojas)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:30:27 +0100 (CET)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+
ls latest
get latest/12
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Hello,
==
I can't tell you right now what's the problem, but please be so kind as to
send me (to my personal address) your files /var/log/daemon.log and
/var/log/ppp.log and I might figure out what's happening. Note that there
could be your passwords visible, so erase them before you send it
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Did you try to run 'pine' as root? Did it change .pinerc's onwership?
I just tried it. No, it left the ownership alone. I haven't made any
changes to my shell setup (bash-2.01) that would affect this.
Bob
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Hi,
I had the same problem recently with the same motherboard. Changing the
'PCI Latency' in the BIOS from 0 to 32 completly eliminated this
phenomenon. Since then there is no problems with bus mastering or hdparm
from bo (kernel 2.0.33). My HDD is a Quantum 1.6 G.
Yes, that seems to
Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I
have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and
it's configuration.
Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are
peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's
Lorens Kockum said something to the effect of:
Why get asked at all whether to run shadow passwds?
There are multiple buffer overrun bugs in the shadow
passwd suite as used by debian. The bugs seem to take
different forms in hamm than they do in bo; I'm not sure
why. I reported this as a
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote:
Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open
postscripts, sound file, etc:
sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
sh: -c line 1: syntax error near
(The question was: I have slackware; want debian; how reformat?)
Ans: The debian installation process will take care of all that
for you. You can repartition your drives -- if you want a different
mix of OSes than what you had with slack. Remember to back up anything
you created: songs, scripts,
Here, learn to fish :)
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym
Give a man a fish...
he'll have a meal that day...
Teach a man to fish...
he'll sit on the boat drinking beer all day...
:)
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Hi !
I've still not solved the partition problem. :-(
I've set CHS in the BIOS to 14848 - 9 - 63. But this is NORMAL and
therefore DOS is in trouble.
If I set it to LBA and 524 - 255 - 63 I'm having trouble with the MBR
because lilo rewrote it (the Win95 version of the MBR) and I don't have
Ian Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
USER=$( who|grep ttyS1 | awk '{printf $1}')
In the interests of eliminating unneeded commands, did you realise you
can write this more easily as the following?
USER=$(who | awk '$2==ttyS1 { print $1 }')
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From peterp Tue Mar 3 10:59:38 1998
Subject: Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Helmut Leinfellner at Mar 3, 98 10:11:20
am
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Helmut Leinfellner)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:59:38 +0100 (CET)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes:
However, if smail is handed a from address (either by the SMTP MAIL
FROM: command or by the -f or -r option to the senmail command),
smail will use that address. Therefore it may be perfectly possible
to convince your MUA to hand smail a from
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to disable remote xdm logins from terminals and from some
remote xdm login widgets. I tried to modify the Xaccess file according to
the docs and then restarting xdm but I still can't seem to get xdm to stop
broadcasting to the
look like you've got the same problem as me when i choose to ditch win95
and go for Linux,you need 3 files for hooking PPP to a Linux box:
rule no.1-:the PPP HOWTO say that you dont normaly have to touch (read:
edit) the file /etc/ppp/options ,but the one you wrote (King) should not
cause problem
Hello,
==
oh, and I forgot that you need to REPAIR the win95 MBR... thought you've
been having problem installing lilo... Sorry.
I think that is rather simple by doing (in dos) 'fdisk /mbr'. However, I'm
afraid it erases LILO out of the MBR as well.
Everything the best,
Peter
I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block.
I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition.
How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk !
Thanks for your help.
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
I have a particular list of packages I would like to install saved in
a file and am using a 3 CD-ROM Debian 1.3.1 set I got with Dale Scheetz's
book as my media.
I imagine I need to mount the cdrom and use dpkg --get-selections and
dpkg
Ivan Ines Rojas writes:
Hi there,
I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job
for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP.
I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the
ppp-on and ppp-off files.
I have no idea if I did
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes.
But I'm trying to do a custom install with alots of selected packages
for a bastion host/firewall. This would be cumbersome to
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote:
Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open
postscripts, sound file, etc:
sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote:
[snip]
I think that is rather simple by doing (in dos) 'fdisk /mbr'. However, I'm
afraid it erases LILO out of the MBR as well.
[snip]
I guess installing LILO on the boot sector of the linux partition will
have the save result as placing it in the
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times
on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the
expected LILO:
What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall?
/---/
Daniel
Hello,
==
I guess installing LILO on the boot sector of the linux partition will
have the save result as placing it in the MBR. I installed Linux first,
and then win95. It should still be possible to boot Linux, but as I have
to init my soundcard with a DOS util, I use loadlin.
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
Uh huh... that wasnt my question, but I have since installed procmail as a
result of that thread. I guess I have another question, the smail
configuration (transports) that procmail suggests, anybody had problems
with it?? (this one:)
local:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
In the latest (hamm) pine 3.96L-2, I am getting asked (today, March 1)
the question:
To save disk space, delete old SENT mail folder sent-mail-jan-1998 ?
everytime I execute pine.
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes.
Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that.
But I'm trying to do a custom install
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to
hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file
wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people
logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous
ftp account.
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
get it to do what it can for me..as
Hi,
I've a debian/linux box as a server for a LAN with all kinds of windows,
running samba and ksmbfs. Is there any posibility to execute remotely a
non-interactive program from the linux on any of the windows?
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm not currently on this list.
Thanks,
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times
on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the
expected LILO:
What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall?
This is the boot loader providing
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
probably wasn't mentioned in a Packages file. How would dselect know
about your package then?
It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update:
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
probably wasn't mentioned in a Packages file. How would dselect know
about your
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
get it to do what it can for me..as
Pascal MIQUET wrote:
I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block.
I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition.
How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk !
Thanks for your help.
I don't understand what you are asking. Post your
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link):
bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs
19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs
bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2
19716 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17116 Jan 29 12:56
Paul McDermott wrote:
Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to
hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file
wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people
logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes:
Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I
have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and
it's configuration.
Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are
peoples
I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the
same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version!
bob:vc-2:bobls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2
86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56
/sbin/mkfs.ext2*
bob:vc-2:bobls -li /sbin/mke2fs
86036 -rwxr-xr-x
At 14:52 -0500 1998-03-02, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote:
I am also planning to add more than 64 mb to my machine.
However I do not have /etc/lilo.conf. I always boot from
a floppy disk (when creating a kernel I just do make bzdisk).
What should I do in that case?
lilo's append option means append
At 13:39 -0700 1998-03-02, Bob Nielsen wrote:
This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo.
I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo
version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to
be very careful when you do upgrade
At 21:59 +0100 1998-03-02, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation.
Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems
during installation which might be of value to someone:
* The disk partitioning program did not work.
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote:
Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open
postscripts, sound file, etc:
sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
sh: -c line 1: syntax error near
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
probably wasn't mentioned in a
First, thanks to all who offered me the solution to make Linux recognize my
80MB ram. This user list is the best thing I've seen on the net.
Second, my xserver-svga is now working with my Matrox Mystique 220 card. I
was still running the version from Bo. I upgraded to the hamm version, and
all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) wrote:
If anyone read my earlier message, I have resolved my problem of how
to get the PCMCIA stuff onto a laptop without a CD-ROM or anything
like that (just copied them off my windoze machine onto a floppy and
mounted it as vfat on debian).
Now I'm
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie
.wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a
.mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance.
Paul
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On 3 Mar 1998, tibor simko wrote:
hello / szia :-)
Szia! ;)
i am sending this message to you as to the debian php3 maintainer,
since nobody responded to my email on debian-user. php3's cgi
approach works fine for me, but not the apache module approach; here
comes the original message i
I have three machines running hamm. Two of them produce the
error mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.
when I run hwclock. The same version of sysvinit:
bash# dpkg -l sysvinit
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts:
uname -a will report your machine type, the same as in cat /proc/cpuinfo.
Then, when you compile, you can specify an architecture. This can be i386,
i486, i586 for intel. BUT
Michael Beattie writes:
What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own
configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of;
Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,...
I may try that.
... versus having visible_name set to your ISP's
Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have numerous packages installed on my system. In the case of the
xserver-svga package, the version number of the Bo package was higher than
that of the Hamm package, and it was not apparent to me that I needed to
reinstall it. Is there a script similar
This seems to be open season for smail questions, so I'll ask one
that has been puzzling me for a long time.
I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost,
the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my
machine. I have smail configured with my
Can you send the output from ifconfig -a and slist?
E.-
K.Y.Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I had been compiled the kernel with IPX and NCPFS driver which
: is already connecting to the Novell netware. I have configure nwe_mars.conf
: in /etc/ directory. Then I log on my user and testing 'nprint'
Bob Hilliard wrote:
I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the
same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version!
bob:vc-2:bobls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2
86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56
/sbin/mkfs.ext2*
bob:vc-2:bobls -li
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts:
uname -a will report your machine type, the same as in cat
/proc/cpuinfo.
Then, when you compile,
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ivan Ines Rojas writes:
Hi there,
I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job
for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP.
I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the
Hello everyone,
... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script
program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts.
Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about ..
Regards
Jonathan
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On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +, Lorens Kockum wrote:
Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in
/etc/passwd ?
NIS is notorious for not working with shadowed passwords
Of course, forgot that.
You may want to reset your modem between dials (in a chatscript):
\nATZ\n
Actually I have a fairly complicated ppp setup (multiple numbers and login
methods that are tried in order), so I have a seperate reset script that
looks like:
ABORTOK
ABORTNO CARRIER
TIMEOUT 5
The fastest way to remove the master boot record (I assume that is what
you want) is to use a MS_D*S boot disk (sorry, I've carvoted with the
opposition in times past)
Boot the machine with the boot disk and run fdisk /mbr to clear the
record, you will then have to run reinstall lilo (simply by
Hi,
I use bo and needed perl 5.004. I installed perl-base_5.004.04-2bo1.1
without problems, but had problems that when installing
perl_5.004.04-2bo1.1.deb (I lost the output, as far as I can remenber dpkg
seemed to complain about files from perl 5.004 already present belonging
to other packages).
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
[A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!]
As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to
make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course
this is great for maintainers who create a
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete
the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else
that I have tried seems to be).
I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system.
I made the smae mistake when I first installed
Hi Helmut;
I am not really much of an expert in this sort of problem but would like
to see if I can help you to have a little better understanding of what
is going on with your system (as best as I understand anyway)...
The ROM portion of DOS loads and executes the mbr, including accessing
the
I don't remember the specific meaning of lilo stopping at LI either but
as mentioned it is explained in the LILO HOWTO.
Answering (at least partially) the question that I think that you are
asking...
You probably DO NOT need to reinstall. The problem is likely just a
lilo configuration problem
I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and
that you installed close to the latest packages...
ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff.
Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP?
Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account'
Unless I am hopelessly dense (a distinct possibility) the 1024 cylinder
'limit' is a BIOS/ROM specific issue and that there are now motherboards
with BIOS/ROMs that no longer impose that limit (and that this situation
has existed for a long enough period of time that virtually all newer
machines
just wondering: is it me or is there no info on the Net on the changes that
were incorporated into the afterstep version 1.4*? I found the European
mirror
that carries the tarball, but no info on what the differences are between
the
1.0 and 1.4 . Any pointers would be welcome..
I'm running the
If you have successfully run autoup.sh then you need to run dselect
(though do read the upgrade howto's, etc.).
Autoup.sh is designed to get you to the point where deselect CAN do the
upgrade. One of the problems is that with the libc5 -- libc6 upgrade
many of the things that dselect/dpkg rely
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script
program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts.
Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about ..
You may be using all your available pseudo-tty
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