Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

http://www.linuxpress.com/001001.htm Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I think it's what you are looking for. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221

Re: mail delivery error message

It's Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's been having problems with fetchmail/exim/procmail. He's aware of the problem and I think he's going to go to sendmail soon. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does

Re: mke2fs capacity (where did it go!?)

size to a large number will also reduce the formatting info written to the disk, increasing the avail space, but also increasing the wasted space by small files. (winblows will probably use a much larger block size.) Does that help? Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know

Re: couldn't match host name or address

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: The problem was: When I dial into my ISP, I get a prompt that says: host: here I type ppp then my username and password. How would I get it to type ppp? Would I just change my ppp.chatscript to say? ABORTNO DIALTONE

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

I believe you can do this by something like the following: if [ `tty | grep -v ttyp` != ]; then startx fi but I would test it first by replacing startx with echo hello world. Note, try echo $TERM to see why your other solution didn't work (should be linux). This eliminates the problem

Re: couldn't match host name or address

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: I got it working. Thanks to all that helped. But now another, sorta related question... Now that I can connect to my ISP under Linux, is it possible to connect under Linux then get access from netscape under my Win95 box (their both connected via

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

Do fg at the prompt where you ^Z'd it. Brandon On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Err, I just ^Z a dpkg -i and killed the process and now of course it tells me that: dpkg: status database area is locked - another dpkg/dselect is running What do I do to fix this? I was in the

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone

Re: Problem installing perl

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Alexander LIST wrote: On 30 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Is perl-base installed and configured? Yes, of course. Looking at the messages posted earlier, I was pretty sure of this myself. Then I'd suggest putting a bunch of echo statements in

ps to gif

Hi everyone, Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line programs only. TIA, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Setting IRQ

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Many of these cards require a setup dos-program to change the IRQ. I believe there's a group at NASA working on a parallel computing project (which uses these cards) which has developed a linux program which can do this though. That's all I know

Re: Creative ide cdrom

The cable should be cheap. Here's how I would do it with your current setup (assuming sb is acting like your secondary ide slot): 1) altf2 to get a prompt 2) dmesg | more # find the cd 3) mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom # From memory, possible typo # the hdc is what you are looking for,

Re: Internet access with Debian

Also modify /etc/resolv.conf (ask your isp for nameserver ip address) so dns works. Then use pon to start a connection, and poff to bring it down. Test with ping www.debian.org. On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote: Hi guys, I have expected just a problem, I want to conect on the

Re: [Q] How to install everything libc6

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: When I installed the base installation it put binaries compiled with libc5. Bruce is still working on the libc6 boot/base disks. I'm hoping they will be out sometime next week. The ones in hamm are probably copies of the current stable

Re: About incoming packages

Public mirrors exist: ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov:/pub/debian/Incoming/ Brandon On 13 Jan 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: Ther has been some dicussion about psmisc being stuck in incoming in the master server. Is there way for a non-developer (especially for one who wants to be on the bleeding

Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Martin Jackson wrote: Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am curious because Red Hat decided not to support this... Yes, the altgcc and altdev's will permit this out of the box. Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: divide the list - in what ?

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote: Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced? Wouldn't it be possible to divide it into something like configuration (problems with install and

Re: more from the ppp battlefield

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm. /etc/rc*.d/*gpm Serial connection established. Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 then... it

Re: Clean hamm installation

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then

Re: cp -a

Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo? Say . is /tmp. When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into /tmp including the directory /tmp/tmp which will

Re: Home dir Permissions

permissions on directories so anyone can get to the file, but only if they know the name. Note, this isn't a high level of security, just another thing to do. I don't see any reason to add users to more groups. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP

Re: dhcpcd problems...

address. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Xspim

myself, no problems that I can recall. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Xspim

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Chi Wong wrote: Hi, just wondering if there is an Xspim package for Debian. XSpim is the MIPS assembly emulator. I don't see one, but recall someone saying they were working on it a while back (probably beginning of fall

Re: hamm installation disks (1998-02-21)

failure' message. Thanks for the report, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

periodically causes problems. But all in all, I think it's pretty stable. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds

Re: Support for Debian GNU/Linux

The official list of people willing to give paid support, mostly by hour. Brandon P.S. please avoid cross posting - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847

Filtering out Resent-cc

- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Filtering out Resent-cc

Thanks Bruce, Old rule: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deb-user New rule: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |formail -I Resent-cc Deb-user Works without a problem. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL

Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

reported as a bug (18083): http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/18/18083.html Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds

Re: Thanks :)

. It will put all the debian realated mail in a mail/Deb-user file. BTW, the following should be at the top of your .procmailrc: # the following the the .procmailrc for Brandon Mitchell # first some variables are initialized PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/bhmit1/bin HOME=/home/bhmit1 MAILDIR

Re: wierd ppp/pon bug?

\n OK \d\d\d+++\n \d\nATZ\n OK and I don't care if it aborts (actually, I want it to). The +++ is a signal to the modem to pay attention to you and stop sending data. Brandon P.S. if you are interested, I'll send you all my configs (minus passwords). - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL

Re: XFree86 3.3.2 package?

a libc6 linked version. Compiling it myself is an option, but I'd rather install it as a Debian package. This is one of the things that may make it in before the hamm freeze. If there are no complications, this should happen by the end of next week. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

lpr: ii lpr 5.9-23 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system TIA, Brandon P.S. Scripts appended for the interested few. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

this through dselect is sure to leave an unbootable system. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- E-mail the word

Deb Testing Group needs test dummies

Group - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Wish To try Debian using DiD

documentation regarding the same. I've only seen this on Dale's CD's. I don't think it's available on a ftp site (one of those value added things that encourages you to order cd's from him). If you want to order one, try [EMAIL PROTECTED]. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pine From: address

allowed to change my from during the initial config. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- E-mail the word

Re: Backup question

the result of dpkg --get-selections and /var/spool/mail (especially if these are frequent backups and you don't place mail in the user's home directory). Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877

Re: root and .rhosts file

/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877

Re: root access via telnet?

page says). Not commenting it out allows root logins from all devices. You have to specify individual devices in /etc/securetty (probably not very fun in your situation). HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com

Re: /tmp changing its permission

that in a while. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: quota bug ?

in /etc/fstab? 3) did you make the quota.user file in the root of the appropriate mounted partition? 4) remount the filesystems? mount -o remount /dir 5) then run the quota start? Good luck, keep meaning to do it myself, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Xdm serving network from my machine!

I configure xdm so that it will -only- serve local servers? - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great

Re: mo money, mo problems

in stable. You can either use the bash in unstable (follow the howto recently posted to do this), or apparently using ash will also work (e.g. install ash and link /bin/sh to ash). Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http

Re: formatted floppy type??

volume tar archive. See the tar man page about these. It's A Magical World, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy... ...Let's Go Exploring ! Like the sig. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html

Re: xbase 3.3-6 problem

(--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xbase dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http

Re: Linux for sale

impressed me. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds

Re: wu-ftpd and Shadow Passwords

was. The group is shadow with read access only. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

the requested conversions. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5

RE: Multiple PPP Configurations

. - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds [EMAIL

Re: mounting a cd-rom

as a normal user. Brandon P.S. Word wrap at every 75 characters if possible. - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know

Re: check web links

- Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds

Re: biff

generally go to debian-devel. Couple choices: a) submit a bug report (prefered) b) send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hopefully this won't bounce) HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: check web links

On 3 Oct 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brandon On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Does anyone know a script or pgrogram for linux to check all the links at a web site? I found an ancient and seemingly buggy script

Re: Re.: Re: umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.

something is going on that is not seen by me. - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops

procmail emulate mail error

(e.g. sendmail may change some of the headers indicating a success). I'm thinking that maybe a few of these spammers remove bounces from their address pool. Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley

Re: savelog with immediate compress

) and open it up in an editor. Where it says it's compressing the files, remove the .0 extensions from the variables and change the .1 to .0. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds

Re: master.debian.org/debian/Incoming mirror

, but I couldn't get it to work) Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: msdos file system

Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat, available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not sure). I personally prefer superformat which is on the rescue image, but not part of the base installation (and no where else that I know of, so I stole

Re: SUID shells...aaarrgghh

with some other shell that doesn't have this protection, it will probably work as you would expect. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus

Re: ppp

, but going to single user mode does it. What is wrong and why can't I kill the process? Going back into mode 2, I can go online flawlessly. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone

Re: Kernel Panic !!!!!

it is. And if they keep increasing, get a new harddrive, it's not worth the trouble. Either way, you need to use a rescue disk, and if you can, backup anything you want to keep. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL

Re: new debian user questions

the list, and aviod conflicts with non-debian programs (LISA for example). Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus

Re: Help! Any presentation graphics program in Debian Linux?

' at the prompt to step through everything. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

page web document would do. Any volunteers (this shouldn't be something an experienced user should do). Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847

Re: Pine and fvwm under hamm

subscribe to debian-devel and debian-user so we can try to answer your questions, and b) someone will let you know. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847

Re: Fixing Bad Blocks

- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Stable/Unstable Frustration ...

- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using DHCP

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Jason Washburn wrote: Has anyone has any luck connecting with DHCP, my campus uses is and I was wondering how I can hook up to the network that way... Working without any problems here. package dhcpcd. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all

Re: thinkpad install

disk for them. However, the tester lost access to the thinkpad shortly after posting about the problems. If the tecra patch works, we should probably modify the install instructions. Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL

Re: Debian installation made D: unreadable.

BIOS calls to try to read the tracks that correspond to drive D: to try to recover a few files (if the filesystem happens to be intact)? I suppose that would be Interrupt 13h, service 02h. Woo, over my head here. Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux

Re: Removing a mailbox lock on pine

are: drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 1024 Nov 6 12:21 . Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: printer trouble

is printed. I'm trying to think of what other packages could be involved, but I'm at a loss. I'd welcome any other ideas. Eventually I'm booting back to win95 to run the diagnostic software, but if I can avoid that I'd be happy. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux

Re: printer trouble

is a complete purge and reinstall of the lpr, aps, etc. But before that, I'll verify that it's not the printer from win95 (I don't think I've had to use that for several months). Brandon P.S. the postscript stuff seems to work, I can view with ghostview, create with a2ps, etc. - Brandon Mitchell

Re: Public Incoming (was: gimp 0.99.14 - where are its dependencies???)

://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/. Enjoy, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: `su to root' entry in syslog

for a minute so you can catch him/her in the act if you are around. For some more fun, add a kill $PPID after the sleep. It should kill their shell that they executed the command from. Then you can see who logged out around the appropriate time. Enjoy, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: backup deselections?

-selections selections # on current dkpg --set-selections selections # on new Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus

Re: [DEBIAN] Financial software?

don't know if it stell exist (or is up to date). Enjoy, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: log rotation package?

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think. It should be broken out into its own package. Is there an advantage of the rotatelogs program over the savelog script? I like the script so much, I use it on a sun that I admin and

Database advice?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could get some advice on what database I should use. I'm predicting I'll need to use a database for 3 things. First, personal use on my linux box. I'd just like to get familiar with SQL, setting up a db, etc. I'm thinking of using this to help out the

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

Hi Butch, The installation disk uses cfdisk. You are free to use the alt-f2 combo to start a shell and use fdisk instead. I have to agree with you in prefering fdisk, but that's just because that's what I'm used to. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux

Re: Configuring Pine

? .pinerc? Good luck, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Linux as a career path

questions, and a few days latter I was sent a letter of acceptance. When talking to my mentor (the interviewer) later, he said linux was the major deciding factor between me and another candidate. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l

Re: ls for anonymous ftp

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, M. W. Blunier wrote: Is there a package that provides an ls with statically linked libs, or a package that will set up the ~ftp heirarchy so that anonymous ftps can use ls? Wu-ftp has a script to set up the libraries. I think it's called makeftpuser or something (look in

Re: Bash 2.01 Upgrade/Libc6

to anonymous access and is usually up to date. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: CGI Error

/tmp/cgi-error.$$ Then call your script and look at the cgi-error. ( will be the pid) to see what went wrong. Also, look at your apache log messages. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does

Debian needs guinea pigs

an idea of how this works. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds DEBIAN TESTING GROUP PROCESS The following

Re: Junk being written to wtmp by X

/xsf.html Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

spooling system Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the /etc/init.d/lpd restart section. HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

on a heavily-loaded system. However, it's enough to get the bug out of the release critical list, and to take a deap breath before working on the correct solution. OK? Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger

Re: new install: bo or hamm?

can hold out until another set of base disks make it into incoming (llug.sep.bnl.gov), I would. Also, be sure to grab apt from project/experimental, it provides one heck of a method for dselect. Let me know if you have any problems, Brandon --+-- Brandon

Re: Mysterious frequent crashes at the same interval on three ma

)? Run a ps ax and see if there is a sleep running, perhaps anacron is going nuts? Is it a graceful shutdown? (Keep the replies to the list as I will be of little help.) Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key

Re: utmp/wtmp problems

, happens when you logout. http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus

Re: public mirrors of Incoming?

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Re: using dhcpcd's -c option

-daemon --stop --verbose --exec $DAEMON ;; [...] I use the rude stop because dhcp will send out an ip release message, which means my ip will change, when killed normally. I also need the -r for my setup. HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

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Re: getting pgp

* file. HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

of the upgrade on your system (i.e. give dselect a run) and have you installed g++ (it split from gcc)? HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

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