On 12 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
I strongly recommend that you use sudo, super, or only launch pppd as
root rather than making pppd suid root. sudo's easy to use, and much
safer.
You don't even need the wrapper script (at least not with sudo), it'll
take arguments for the command it's
On Mon, 12 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, 9 May 1997, John Maheu wrote:
I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and
eventually a P166. Any suggestions? What about Gigabyte?
I am also in the market for a new
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The whole point of the wrapper script is to prevent users from being able
to give any options to pppd (which is where the potential vulnerability
lies).
Hmm, I wasn't thinking about the fact that the options were a big deal
(but of course they are when
I just installed Frozen on a new system (clean hd).
First, I had a small problem with the rescue disk, but I think that
might be fixed with the 5/13/97 disk set that just came out.
But here is something really weird...I used 'matthew' as the first
account. After installing the base I noticed that
I am attempting to install on a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200. The motherboard
seems to be an Intel product very similar - not quite identical to:
http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/vs/index.htm
The disk controller is built onto the motherboard and identifies itself as:
Intel 82371SB PCI
YES!!! I just noticed that too on the install that I did last night.
This is, in my opinion, a major problem for anything that you put in the
root directory.
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
I just installed Frozen on a new system (clean hd).
First, I had a small problem with the
OK, we'll try this again without HTML tags. Sorry guys, my linux box
isn't working so well, so I'm using windows/netscape which was set up to
embed
HTML. Speaking of my linux box not feeling so healthy, here's why:
Speaking as someone who has spent lots of spare time over the last few
weeks
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
I hate windows.I hate having to fight the machine every step of the
way, and I really hate working in the dark with an alleged OS which is
being so 'user-friendly' that it prevents you from finding out what is
really going on. If CorelDraw ever
This was a known bug in a version of cfdisk. If you open a shell during
the installation process and run fdisk manually instead, you can
partition the drive such that the can't seek problem does not occur.
This problem has only be reported in drives 2GB, AFAIK. Note that the
manual
On May 13, Timothy Phan wrote
Hi,
I'm new user of the Debian distribution and I've purchased a
1.2 CD a while back and had some problem installed some of
the packages onto my system. I'd like to know:
1. How do I upgrade this broken 1.2 system to the 1.2.14.
Well, there are 2
Hi,
Could anybody help me configure pine to print to a remote printer using
samba?
btw, i already could print remotely using smbclient, no problems at all.
so /etc/printcap and samba is okay.
regards,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Andre M.
FWIW, I installed the current 1.3 beta last night and suffered from no
predependancy problems. The transfer did timeout a couple of times and
required me to restart it but otherwise seemed to install OK. The only
major problem noted is the root directory ownership problem.
George Bonser
Try using the ftp.debian.org site. It's the #1 mirror site and I've
always had good luck with it.
--Rick
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Hello,
I am having trouble writing the /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage file for
configuration of dosemu. I have mtools-3.5a-1 installed on my system
and my /etc/mtools.conf file contains the following line:
drive g: file=/var/lib/dosemu/hdimage partition=1 offset=128
When I try to copy a file to
Dave May wrote:
Being a fan of Debian Linux for some time, I wanted to install Debian on
my own computer in my office (to replace Windows 95 especially).
Unfortunately, I have a BusLogic FlashPoint LT PCI SCSI adapter, and it's
not supported currently.
I found the latest version of the
I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and there's
an 8.1 out?
Does naybody know?
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote:
I'd like just to add one thing to it, it'll be confortable (at least for
me) that the mirroring can be done from another computer. I'll explain
better: you che the Packages file on a PC connected to internet, bring
it to a PC not connected to the
Please excuse my lack of understanding.
I am trying to use the deb-make-package and in the documention the
instruction is
3. Make any modifications to get the program to compile. If the makefile
is set up to install in DESTDIR, then you will only
need to make minor changes to debian/rules
When I attempt to add a user account with adduser username it prompts me
for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user
was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and
kicks me back to the prompt for a password and it sticks in this loop.
I
I've had the same thing happen. I normally hit ctrl-C (which kills it)
then change the password either as root using passwd user or by logging
in as that user and changing the password, I forgett which one worked.
I don't add users often on my system since it's private, so it's not a big
deal
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
delgroup and deluser are broken too. deluser looks for a file with the
same name as the user entry in /etc/passwd and, of course, does not find
it, delgroup dies with:
line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
I've had the same thing happen. I
Apologies. I found the variable DESTDIR in rules. But I still do not
know what to do with it.
When I tried to run rules the message
test -f debian/rules
make: *** [build] Error 1
came up.
I do not know what do do next.
Johann.
Johann Spies
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and there's
an 8.1 out?
Does naybody know?
Maybe because the maintainer of the package (Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED])
needs some time to create the new packages... bind is only a few
I fixed a couple of things in /usr/sbin/delgroup (but did not save the
file first so I could make a diff). The changes are minor and at the top
of the file.
was:
if [ -f /etc/gtmp];
changed to:
if [-f /etc/gtmp]; then
Was:
$GID='id -g mail'
changed to
GID=$(id -d mail)
(which really
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and there's
an 8.1 out?
Does naybody know?
Maybe because the maintainer of the package (Robert Leslie [EMAIL
PROTECTED])
needs
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I was wondering about the jump from 4.9.5 to 8.1? A few versions missing
in there.
No those versions were never released.
I also cannot find a reason for this major step at their homepage
(http://www.isc.org/isc/bind.html).
// Remco van de Meent
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
George When I attempt to add a user account with adduser
[...]
You need to get the newer version of `adduser`, which supports shadow
passwords, and works fairly well. Or, you can just use the shadow
suite utilities:
useradd,
Yesterday, I made a testupgrade from 1.2.14 to frozen on my machine at
home and basically, everything went smoothly - big 'THANK YOU!' to the
developers.
The only real flaw was that '/tmp' had the wrong permissions after the
upgrade. Is this ancient bug really still lurking out there? shudder
;-)
RE: this product in general:
What would be expected? The product contains multiple
distributions and is not oriented towards Debian. The vendor has quite a
range of products. Those who want Debian Linux should get it from vendors
who use Debian, like Debian, advocate Debian,
Hey
Anyone know if it's possible to specify the subject of a message on the
commandline, like:
pine root -s 'this subject' this_file_contains_the_message
?
In Elm it's possible:
elm -s 'this subject' root this_file_contains_the_message
thanks!
// Remco van de Meent
// email:
Nathan E Norman writes:
Nathan [...] The biggest difference is the price tag. An unlimited
Nathan BSDI 3.0 license is $2995. An unlimited Linux licenses
Nathan costs about $0. [...]
Of course, BSDI isn't the only BSD out there and there are several
that cost $0, too.
kai
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Hi,
how do I install samba?
It requires libpam0 which requires libpam-util.
Installation of libpam0 will not work until libpam-util is
configured, which will not work until libpam0 is
configured :-)
Help!
Thx
Töns Büker
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Hi,
Is it possible to post the same news to newsgroups automatically
and periodically, say bi-weekly?
It sounds like a cron job to me, but why would you send the same news
periodically ... I smell spam here :(
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At 11:54 AM 14/05/97 +0200, Toens Bueker wrote:
Hi,
how do I install samba?
It requires libpam0 which requires libpam-util.
Installation of libpam0 will not work until libpam-util is
configured, which will not work until libpam0 is
configured :-)
Hmmm, if that's the case, then you can override
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Carlos Marcos Kakihara - bacate wrote:
Hi, my host is saving incomming mails in /usr/mail/username instead
/var/spool/mail/username. Should I change it? Is it ok for pine? If it
doesn't, where can I change this directory (or pine configuration)?
Pine's got no
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Toens Bueker wrote:
how do I install samba?
It requires libpam0 which requires libpam-util.
Installation of libpam0 will not work until libpam-util is
configured, which will not work until libpam0 is
configured :-)
install the libpam stuff with one command line:
I DON'T recommend playing with the --force option at all with these
packages. Wait until it is fixed or a proven workaround is available. I
got an experimental system in such a state that I couldn't login as any
user. I had to mount the drive on another system to get the few files that
I wanted
I have a single PPro 200MHz/256k in my system currently (running 2.0.29
kernel from a bo install about two months ago, no problems).
Should I pick up the spare to fill that empty socket on my Tyan
motherboard, or is the 256k cache small enough to kill off the
performance advantage?
I'd rather
I was just looking at bug report #9131 which suggested this approach for
the libpam0/libpam-util circular dependency.
I would recommend doing this in steps of dependency order and checking
results along the way.
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Toens Bueker
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm having some difficulty creating special swapfiles to be able to test
swapping to/from an md device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints
as indicated below, and think that it's complaining about the individual
file(s). Can anyone guide me in the
Where can I find a list of Debian CDs and sources?
Does someone on this list have Debian CD's including hamm?
I want to order by COD US Mail, but noone wants to believe we have a US post
office here?
Alan Davis
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From: Dan Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: want upgrade opinion, 1-2 PPro 200/256
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 8:19 AM
I have a single PPro 200MHz/256k in my system currently (running 2.0.29
kernel from a bo install about two months ago, no problems).
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I undestand that there is a BIND 8.1 now. Why are we at 4.9.5 and there's
an 8.1 out?
Does naybody know?
According to Vixie, et al., the releases between 4.9.5-P1 and 8.1-REL
weren't public releases. 8.1 intergrates lots of nifty features, like
DHCP
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
pine root -s 'this subject' this_file_contains_the_message
elm -s 'this subject' root this_file_contains_the_message
Don't think so, but you could, of course, read the fine manual. What I
don't get, however, is why you would *want* to use
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
pine root -s 'this subject' this_file_contains_the_message
elm -s 'this subject' root this_file_contains_the_message
Don't think so, but you could, of course, read the fine manual. What
On Tue, 13 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
When I attempt to add a user account with adduser username it prompts me
for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user
was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and
kicks me back to the prompt
Hi folk, I have a bus mouse installed. It does not want to work under
X. In my XF86Config file I have protocal BusMouse and the device
having msmouse my choice are atimouse,jmouse, logimouse, msmouse,
psmouse. I have tried all of these to no avail. I catted each of the
devices the only one
Hello,
I've updated the X-windows stuff two or three times to the latest
versions. After each upgrade I noted that the file /etc/x11/xdm/Xservers
only had comments on it, not the typical call to the X server, so I had
to add it manually (I'm using the SVGA server). Yesterday I installed
version
Hello,
I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the
Xforms package is not installed. However the only package which seems to
be available is xforms0 (which I installed succesfully).
So, what is Xforms0? Is it supposed to replace Xforms? Is Lyx supposed
to depend on
hi xforms forms0 library in a graphical user interface toolkit based on
the xlib for the X window system. It does provide and replace xforms. I
hope this helps you. You can find it in the Contrib directory tree at
debian.
Bye for now.
Paul
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
yes lyx depends on xforms0
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the
Xforms package is not installed. However the only package which seems to
be available is xforms0 (which I installed succesfully).
So, what
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
Hi folk, I have a bus mouse installed. It does not want to work under
X. In my XF86Config file I have protocal BusMouse and the device
having msmouse my choice are atimouse,jmouse, logimouse, msmouse,
psmouse. I have tried all of these to no
In the kernel messages it says that it detected it and installed it.
When I installed debian from the disks I installed the bus module. In
answer to your question no i did not compile the kernel with the bus
mouse stuff init. It is in the kernel messages so I would assume that
means the
Well, it seems that the current Lyx package is still looking for Xforms,
not Xforms0. As I said in my original message, I already installed
Xforms0 but Lyx insists in having Xforms.
Given that Xforms0 is already installed, is there a way to force dpkg to
configure Lyx? (I tried
you can do a dpkg --ignore-depends=package-name. if you need more
information please see the dpkg --help|more for more info.
Hope this helps.
Paul
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
Well, it seems that the current Lyx package is still looking for Xforms,
not Xforms0. As I said in
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I'm kind of new with Xwindows, and I'm trying to setup the standard Xwindow
server so I can have multiple windows and run applications such as Netscape.
Is it
an easy way to do this? I've spent 3 days trying to setup xserver-svga
package. But I do not know waht to do next. I tried installing
I'm having problems trying to install xserver-vga16 and xserver-svga packages.
Everytime I get the following error:
.../etc/X11/xdm/Xserver: No such file or directory
Is it something special that has to be done with the dependecy packages. I
tried installing one package at a time, and still
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
Hi folk, I have a bus mouse installed. It does not want to work under
X. In my XF86Config file I have protocal BusMouse and the device
having msmouse my choice are atimouse,jmouse, logimouse, msmouse,
psmouse. I have tried all of these to no
I tried installing xbase, but it selects xserver-vga16 and xfonts as
dependencies. Do I need to install xbase by itself first and ignore the
dependencies?
I think I need more information. I'm new to linux...
Alberto Ruiz
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Yes there is a specific order.
here is mine not
You just need to select one of the Xservers which are for different video
cards. vga16 is for standard vga and is the default since it works on all
cards. If you have an S3 card you would select the S3 Xserver instead.
Other than that the dependancies should mark the other needed packages.
You
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I'm having problems trying to install xserver-vga16 and xserver-svga packages.
Everytime I get the following error:
.../etc/X11/xdm/Xserver: No such file or directory
Is it something special that has to be done with the dependecy packages. I
tried
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I tried installing xbase, but it selects xserver-vga16 and xfonts as
dependencies. Do I need to install xbase by itself first and ignore the
dependencies?
No! Xbase depends on an xserver and the default xfntbase. You should let
dselect install them
I already tried selecting one of the Xservers (xserver-vga16 xserver-svga).
On xserver-vga16, I get in a loop saying that not all the configuration and
default application files are installed. The file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/Xinitrc is missing This happens when is trying to
create a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
authority for our network. Regarding the SSL itself and secure server I've
succeeded, I've set it up and working. But I'm not able to set up a CA.
I've read documentation for SSL and a lot of WWW pages regarding SSL, but
can't catch the point.
Does any of you have any
Sorry about including all this replies, I just don't want to miss what I
recieved so far. Any way, I really appreciate everyones replies... But I'm
still having problems. Dwarf, I let dselect install xbase and I used the
default dependencies. It didn't work, there is something wrong on how
Just run XF86Config to configure it. I have the latest svga server and
had no problems. You may want to purge xbase, xserver etc. and reinstall
it. Your attempts to fix it may have broken it.
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I already tried selecting one of the Xservers
I'm sorry buddy but I know you are wrong. xbase depends on xlib, cpp, libc5.
It recommands xserver-vga16 | xserver. It provides X11R6. Read the
Packages file if you don't believe me.
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hi, remove all of X and start again (hopefully you have all the packages
on your computer) use dpkg -i package-name to install them. I did this
about 20 different time and it works. I don't use dselect, it is a waste
of time. If you have trouble or don't have the files on your computer
then
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
Sorry about including all this replies, I just don't want to miss what
I recieved so far. Any way, I really appreciate everyones replies...
But I'm still having problems. Dwarf, I let dselect install xbase and I
used the default dependencies. It
Paul McDermott wrote:
Yes I am sure it is not a PS/2 mouse. This is a 486 that is a few years
old. the bus connector is on the video card which is an ati which makes
me think it is an atimouse. Any more information is grealy appreciated.
Paul
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen
I have been experimenting with debian now for about 8 months and have some
experience in programming in a Dos-environment using languages like
Turbopascal, PDC-prolog, DBASE III and Basic earlier on.
I seems to me that to be able to enjoy the power of Linux, I should be
able to do some Linux
On May 14, Johann Spies wrote
Please excuse my lack of understanding.
I am trying to use the deb-make-package and in the documention the
instruction is
3. Make any modifications to get the program to compile. If the makefile
is set up to install in DESTDIR, then you will only
need to
You wrote:
...
Another strange thing I noticed after the upgrade was that, while
booting, syslogd takes pretty long to come up (about 5 - 10 s). (That is
after 'syslogd' has been printed on the screen it takes at least that
amount of time until something happens and 'klogd' is printed. Any idea
You wrote:
Well, it seems that the current Lyx package is still looking for Xforms,
not Xforms0. As I said in my original message, I already installed
Xforms0 but Lyx insists in having Xforms.
Given that Xforms0 is already installed, is there a way to force dpkg to
configure Lyx? (I tried
yes I have tried the ati mouse driver and it didn't work. any other
suggestions.
Paul
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I hate windows.I hate having to fight the machine every step of the
way, and I really hate working in the dark with an alleged OS which is
being so 'user-friendly' that it prevents you from finding out what is
really going on. If CorelDraw ever becomes available for Linux, then
win95 goes
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
I'm sorry buddy but I know you are wrong. xbase depends on xlib, cpp, libc5.
As well as ncurses3.0...and it's xlib6 rather than xlib...
It recommands xserver-vga16 | xserver. It provides X11R6. Read the
Packages file if you don't believe me.
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From: Victor
Hi.
If you are interested in Linux programming (that is, Unix programming in the
end), the first step is, i think, C/gcc/Unix programming. It might be easier
for
you to start with pascal, because you are already familiar with, but i have no
experience on Unix programming with Pascal. Bottomline
Hey,
Since upgrading from Slackware to Debian, we can't get email from a
particular site. I'm wondering if someone who's running a system
configured similarly to ours, and hopefully who could tell what's
wrong, could let a friend of mine send email to them and see if they
get it? (I.e., any
Pete Harlan wrote:
The other oddity I've noticed is that I can't access the web page for
www.boston.com from our LAN; I get a few bytes but then it stops
transmitting. I can read the page fine from my old student account at
Indiana (using Lynx), but not from here. Anyone else running
On May 14, Johann Spies wrote
I have been experimenting with debian now for about 8 months and have some
experience in programming in a Dos-environment using languages like
Turbopascal, PDC-prolog, DBASE III and Basic earlier on.
I seems to me that to be able to enjoy the power of Linux, I
Rick,
I was able to install xserver-svga successfully. What am I suposse to do
next? You mentioned that all I have to do is run XF86Config to configure
my xserver. But I do not see the XF86Config command any where. I don't
think that xserver-svga includes the xf86config command. Something is
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