Re: start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Thanks Joey, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
nd get to the color/mono screen? Anyway, in answer to your current question, try: mount -o remount,rw / HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
me" and use the editor again. If it still doesn't let you change the file, send the new output of "mount". Finally, to check a filesystem, run "e2fsck /dev/hd??" replacing the ?? appropriately. Good luck, Brandon +---

Re: printing problems

1999-01-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
t seems directly > pertinent. does anyone have any suggestions? /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz Section 11.5 HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-24 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ust a guess, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Problem installing minicom

1999-01-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
nt; dpkg -i minicom*.deb; cd /; umount /mnt Mtools needs to be installed for the first one. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a complete

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
l timeout to get set at boot time? /etc/rc.boot/hwtools Note: I took out -u and -m on my system because they caused some corruption. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhm

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
. My part of the file is: #!/bin/sh # Hdparm optimization # Switches on interrupts during transfers and does multi sector transfers hdparm -u0 -m0 -S120 /dev/hd[ab] #hdparm -u1 -m16 -S120 /dev/hd[ab] HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ |

Re: hdparm

1999-02-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote: > Ship's Log, Lt. Brandon Mitchell, Stardate 310199.2331: > > > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > I thought /etc/rc.boot is obsolete ... In slink? If so, someone should do some checking: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p3):/root# dpkg

Re: 2.0 install problems

1999-02-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
. I don't know how to activate this change without a reboot. +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | | actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Graphical dselect-like tool?

1999-02-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
debian hasn't packaged (at least it wasn't avail when gnome-apt was released). See Debian Weekly News (from debian's web site) for more info. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.r

Re: parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?

1999-04-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
a few months (summer and winter break). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, cor

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Enjoy, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | |-- UNIX Syste

Re: duplicate posts?

1999-05-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Is everyone else getting duplicate posts? If you are refering to the NDN messages, then yes. Seems someone didn't setup their server correctly (bounces should go to sender, not to list). I just sent a message to the debian list master and the post master at

BUG: /dev/null 0600 was: Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

1999-05-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jon Marler wrote: > I figured it out ... > > The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set > them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. Whatever did this is a bug. /dev/null should be 0666 by default. If you have an idea on what the offending prog

Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Send in the output of "fdisk -l" Brandon ---- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
and on the color prompt, hit to get a command line. Then, "fdisk -l" from there (that's an L, not a one). My only thought is that you may have overlapped a partition. Brandon Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!

1998-10-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my > > magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
roblem is that not everyone uses the same version of the talk daemon. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
to find a def for CROSS_COMPILE. I ran "find / *as86" > and there were no files found. You're cut and paste verifies that CROSS_COMPILE is undefined, otherwise, there would have been something before as86. HTH, Brandon +---

Re: how do you recompile the kernel?

1998-11-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
es. Brandon (who looks forward to the 2.2 days when sound is a module and kernel compiles don't need to be done by the users, only the speed demons, like me :-) +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
average: 1.06, 1.10, 1.04 +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: X broken?

1998-11-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he hamm version. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: dhcpcd wierdness

1998-11-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
+--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

RE: Help with automatic logins with telnet

1998-11-27 Thread Brandon Mitchell
gt; > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: upgrading slink cripples dselect/apt (and X) !!!

1998-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
randon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Points to Ponder

1998-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
v if you don't have an account on master. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
of the thread so far). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ell example in C: int main() { setuid(0); seteuid(0); execl("/bin/sh", "-sh", 0); } > Either that or install the sudo package and learn how to use it. Probably the better solution. Brandon +---

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
s to the real user id. So, at least is some aspects, bash is worse than others. Any idea why the kernel does this (if it really does, I'm still not sure of it)? Thanks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
not after bash has been made. Although, as Joey pointed out, the kernel also does this which was news to me. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ter set to > work on debian-user string in the message. Of course the proper way is with the X-Mailing-List header :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to re

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ery interesting, thanks for all the info. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: suid script

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
a problem. I guess this just adds to the list of things that would be nice to have changed in the kernel, the unix way seems better to me. Thanks for the bonk with the clue stick :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTE

Re: install slink from Inet

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
it's already been done. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ices mounted. Can you send me (and the list too) the output of "dmesg" and "fdisk -l" with the cartridge in the drive? This will help verify you are using the correct device. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [

Re: Mouse Question

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he trial and error approach to going through the autodetect procedure. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: install slink from Inet

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
pgrade your kernel unless there is a feature that you need/want. If you want the stock debian kernel, download the kernel-image package (I think). I tend to grab the raw kernel tarball and compile my own so I have just what I need (and bootup is much quicker). Which ever way you want to go is fin

Re: install hamm from Inet (was: Re: install slink from Inet)

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
2_0.tgz" from tty2. Maybe you can get a better error message than "File Error". I.e. this won't fix your problem, but let us know what the problem is. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ht

RE: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
end - Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: mount /dev/sdc4 /jaz Or if it doesn't detect it: mount -t vfat /dev/sdc4 /jaz mount -t msdos /dev/sdc4 /jaz You may also want to try sdc1 and sdc3 if 4 doesn't work. HTH, Brandon +---

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
squake. Ignore my previous post. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
like that too. But I went ahead and repartitioned/reformated the disks for e2fs. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: install hamm from Inet

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ow what is going wrong. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
was. You can always check the mailing list archives available on www.debian.org. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-02-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ys bugs), which 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) 2

Re: Support for Debian GNU/Linux

1998-02-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
debian.org/consultants.html 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

Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
g.) Thanks, 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-mai

Re: Filtering out Resent-cc

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

Re: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

1998-03-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ber in output stream: 309731 > > [1]+ Exit 1 xlock Already 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

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
oes it need to be removed? Put it in your "~/.procmailrc". 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

Re: wierd ppp/pon bug?

1998-03-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ot;NO CARRIER" TIMEOUT 5 "" "\nATZ\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 d

Re: XFree86 3.3.2 package?

1998-03-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
oping to get 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 ----- Bran

Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
hamm system. dpkg -l 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] doe

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ed with 1.3). Doing 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

Deb Testing Group needs test dummies

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ant Director of Debian Testing 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 "un

Re: Wish To try Debian using DiD

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
uld appreciate any relevant > 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 PROT

Re: Pine "From: address"

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
tell pine I'm 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

Re: Oddity in /var/adm/messages

1998-03-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
f got trashed somehow. Followed by recreating the files that syslogd uses (rm and touch). Finally, do a fsck on your harddrives using a rescue disk if necessary. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.0 boot/install disk set

1998-03-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the boot disk maintainer. 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

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
r=/boot/chain.b And run lilo. Note, change /dev/hda2 to your win95 partition and label to win95 if you want. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Ph

Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files

1998-03-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
x27;s ^O (letter o). If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the only problem I've ever had after reading a binary. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all

Re: Serial line appears to be looped back.

1998-03-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he ppp connection. (If you can't figure it out from log files and the chatscript, dial in with minicom and remember what the isp sends and what you respond with to get the ppp garbage to start arriving.) My termonology may be wrong, but you get the idea, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL P

Re: Debian-2.0-Install-Disks

1998-03-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1 is pretty good proof of what version it is. However, the disk are very buggy (with old versions of perl-base), so you may want to hold off until some new disk are uploaded. HTH, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1998-03-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
be able to get > 600x600 dpi with that? I just used the 4L with default setings (e.g. didn't touch resolution). Works fine. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infini

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-03-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> now? --force-overwrite is no longer on by default. I don't know why. 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: how to implement multiple child "accept" within one socket..

1998-03-27 Thread Brandon Mitchell
transfers. You'll also want something like a wait3 at the end or a "signal based reaper" as my teacher calls it: void reaper() { while(wait3(NULL< WNOHANG, 0) > 0); } signal (SIGCHILD, reaper); - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux

Suggestion: Re: Hi I want to meet you im a model!

1998-03-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
How about putting aol in digest mode with a "aol digest" as the subject. They can read from the list, but have to get a different isp to get faster and better responses. Brandon P.S. Can we use the $5,000 to cover the mailing list spamming fee :-) ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EM

Re: Suggestion: Re: Hi I want to meet you im a model!

1998-03-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > How about putting aol in digest mode with a "aol digest" as the subject. > > They can read from the list, but have to get a different isp to get faster > > and better responses. &g

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ompiled your kernel with audio support? It's not enabled by default IIRC. 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

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
look at the install and loadlin docs. 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

Re: HP LaserJet 6Lse and Linux???

1998-04-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
magicfilter, set it up as an hp 4 or 4L. Apparently the 4 is better with resolution, but I haven't gotten around to changing mine. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite l

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ith the -d flag confirms it, but when the user tries the command he > gets > > [name of script invoking 'super (cmd)']: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: > Permission denied Have you tried escaping the shell characters: echo \"1\" \> /proc/sys/net/ipv

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > I still get > > bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied I don't use super, but it's interesting that bash is the one complaining and not

Clear screen on logout (Re: Terminal Corruption)

1998-05-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
;t have this clear effect, only the virtual terminals. clear >/tmp/clear-chars cat /tmp/clear-chars /etc/issue >/tmp/new-issue rm /etc/issue.net cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.net mv /tmp/new-issue /etc/issue Note, be sure that your boot scripts don't overwrite your /etc/issue. Brandon

Re: ftp-server without having installed one?

1998-05-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
.conf and restart inetd (killall -HUP inetd). 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 UNSUBSC

Re: Bash 2.01 Upgrade/Libc6

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
check incomming, bnl's is open 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

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
/bin/sh /path-to-cgi/script.pl 2>/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...

Debian needs guinea pigs

1997-12-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
process below to give you 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 DE

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

Re: mail delivery error message

1997-12-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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.

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

1997-12-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
to inflate numbers). Changing the block 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

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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? > > ABORT"NO DIALTONE" > ""

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 pr

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

Re: Moment of stupidity... heh.

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

1997-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 someo

Re: Problem installing perl

1997-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 /var/lib

ps to gif

1998-01-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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? e-

Re: Setting IRQ

1998-01-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

1998-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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) 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, could be

Re: Internet access with Debian

1998-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

1998-01-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 dis

Re: About incoming packages

1998-01-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 ?

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 confi

Re: more from the ppp battlefield

1998-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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 > > th

Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
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

1998-01-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> 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 be

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ries remove the read 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 PROTECTE

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