Re: truncating files

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
, the null command. If you find this unreadable you can also use : filename Since I couldn't find one, I wrote a little C program to do it, but I am still interested in whether there is already one on the system. Multiple filenames? for i in *; do : $i; done Mike. -- Miquel van

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
versions... (why this is I haven't a clue).. Well I have run the older nis (2.20) on several libc6 systems, and all of them are now running the 3.0-2 version. No problems.. what exactly doesn't work? Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May

Re: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
packages by hand in another console and restart dselect until things start working.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May you live in interesting times -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: squid

1997-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Neither can I, that's why I'd like you to try the latest version so that _if_ something is wrong I can base the fix also on that latest version.. Drat. Same problem using squid version 1.1.17-1. This is what I found

Re: squid

1997-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
fine if restarted by root from the commandline once the coputer is up) Depends, but it doesn't seem probable. You could try moving the symlink around in /etc/rc2.d though, so that squid gets started after amd Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | May you live in interesting times -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 I was running the libc5 version from bo

Re: squid

1997-11-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: Really strange, I cannot reproduce this. Hmm. I just compiled squid_1.1.17 for libc5 and put it on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ I'll give it a shot. Just a thought, I'm wondering whether it has to do with the order in which

Re: squid

1997-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Behan Webster: I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime the computer boots I get the following error messages: (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the these error messages, but I cut them out for brevity as they all say

Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?

1997-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is is just me, or is it really the case that no Unix has decent tools for administering user accounts :-), I've pretty much had to do this on every Unix system I've touched over the years ... but now I'm straying :-)

Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?

1997-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is is just me, or is it really the case that no Unix has decent tools for administering user

Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?

1997-05-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:28 AM 5/1/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote: :At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : :Oh but they are: : [ see thread ] : :ii passwd 961025-2

Re: /dev/ttyS3-permission for efax-user

1997-04-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael J. Maravillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Johann Spies wrote: When I tried fax send -m foo as user, I received the following error message. efax: removed stale lock /var/lock/LCK..ttyS3 from pid 373 efax: Error: tty device open

Re: NIS problem, please Help

1997-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Richard Zoni: Hello, here at the CS students lab of the University of Bologna we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. We are having some problems with the NIS: 1. Our ypserv is

Re: problem: getting nfs up and running

1997-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael J Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given these helpful hints: Add this line to your server's export: /home *.your

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:30 AM 25/04/97 +0300, Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh wrote: Hi! I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject is running around for some time. I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:12 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I don't think so. I've seen this behaviour before. The wtmp code didn't change between 2.69 and 2.70 - the utmp code did (but very slightly, and I still can't find

Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. What does your

Re: QPOPPER Will Not Work

1997-04-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I spent most of the evening trying to get qpopper to work. (The current package). First it complains that it cannot write to /var/spool/pop. So I make var/spool/pop writeable by all (hardly seems desirable). Then it

Re: more nis problems

1997-04-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dean B. Cookson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it my imagination, or does the NIS included with Debian not pay any attention to the services map? I've got an application (DQS from FSU) that won't run on a Debian box running NIS because it can't find the services entry

Re: init level

1997-04-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linh Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some diskcorruptions on my root partition. After some dpkg --install, my system is now running fine. But I can't change run-level anymore... $ telinit 1 No more processes in this runlevel Which version of

Re: more nis problems

1997-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --==_Exmh_1602868732P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain my_domain How do I bind a server to my_domain? However, it seems that ypbind can't find a server in your case. I

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? No, nothing touches the hardware clock until you tell it to (with clock(8)). The reason I ask is because we

Re: bi

1997-04-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: Really. I've been on unix boxes for about 7 years and only used vi when I had no other choice. That's it, exactly. When you have no other choice. Some people seem to force themselves to

Re: Innd problems

1997-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| I know one million ways, to always pick | | [EMAIL PROTECTED],}cistron.nl | the wrong fantasy - the Black Crowes. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting bandwidth on ftp server

1997-02-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
; it restricts the *total* bandwidth of all anonymous ftp sessions together to 3 kb/sec at the moment :) Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| I know one million ways, to always pick | | [EMAIL PROTECTED],}cistron.nl | the wrong fantasy - the Black Crowes. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: nfsiods?

1997-01-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
-linux boxes be sure to mount them with the options rsize=8192,wsize=8192 (in /etc/fstab). Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe

Re: get-news.inn script in suck-3.3.2-1 package...

1997-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
package would help. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Where did ctlinnd go?

1997-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
of the package? No. Why? Which version of INN? In 1.4unoff4, ctlinnd was in /usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd and /usr/sbin/ctlinnd was a symlink to it. In 1.5, ctlinnd lives in /usr/sbin/ctlinnd. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dayly maintenance time (was Re: Innd problem)

1997-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Eloy A. Paris: It means exactly what it says. Every day (by default at 3:00 AM) the maintenance script news.daily has to run. This probably hasn't happened for some reason or the other since a couple of days. If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail about it..

Re: Dayly maintenance time (was Re: Innd problem)

1997-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Pete Templin: On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Eloy A. Paris: Was the time of the maintenance script changed from 6:42 AM in 1.1 to 3 AM in 1.2? Yes, it has been changed to 03:08. However that is the setting in the default crontab

Re: Innd problem

1997-01-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail about it.. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig

Re: 2nd debian 1.2 upgrade problem: console hung

1996-12-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the kernel tries to use as the root file system. So it will boot the kernel and then before starting /sbin/init the kernel will try to open /dev/tty0 as the console.. which fails. And then the kernel will print the message Unable to open an initial console. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....

1996-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
messages and stuff them into sendmail instead. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
files or you will have errors about not being able to bind to the NIS server all over the place. Including cron mailing you every _5_ minutes about it (though that might be fixed in a recent libc5 package). Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL

Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....

1996-12-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
maintenance - there hasn't been a new upstream version for over a year so I consider it mature. So I don't think it really needs a new maintainer. But please check it out and let me know what you think. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL

Re: cron

1996-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
!) So that would become: update-rc.d cron defaults 89 Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig

Re: untic?

1996-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find an untic program? untic is supposed to decompile terminfo files. It's called infocmp now. Don't ask me why. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: trn vs. inn

1996-12-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Windows '97, codename Verstappen | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] || -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init problems (fwd)

1996-11-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am still having problems with init. My computer is up to date with unstable. sysvinit was one of the many things that got upgraded in a flurry last week. Now, programs that don't put themselves in the background get killed before the gettys are started. For

Re: ypxfr and hosts.{byaddr,byname}

1996-10-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
.. On the slave, do a rm -rf /var/yp/your.domain, then run ypinit again to re-initialize the database. That might help. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Linuxconf or something like?

1996-10-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
like Sun Netra: I think it stores part of the configuration info in its own files, so if you edit the config files in /etc by hand and you then restart linuxconf it will happily restore the old config over your changes. Ugh. Basically it was designed for Slackware. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: news server

1996-10-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does debian have a news server software i could use? Yes, install the inn or cnews packages from the news/ section. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NFS locking

1996-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does 2.0.x have NFS file locking working yet? Mainly for the purpose of exporting /var/spool/mail... AFAIK file locking over NFS is still an issue in Linux... true? Alas, yes. All Debian mail programs follow (or have to

Re: mailbox locking in debian

1996-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. And the main reason we use the dotlock convention is so that it works over NFS.. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: inews package conflicts with domestic convention

1996-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
package) I could fix it. inn_1.4unoff4-2 is on its way. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?

1996-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the standard xdm first. All this results in Ctrl-R at the xdm prompt rebooting the machine! Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: color for minicom?

1996-10-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the minicom manual page. It's all in there. Look for the -c option. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Oops! Shouldn't have deleted that file...

1996-10-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
system (dpkg --purge) and reinstall 2. Unpack the .deb file and copy the /etc/init.d/apache from it (dpkg -X apache_1.1.1-5.deb /tmp/apache) Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir

Re: Unsubscribe from this list...

1996-09-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
yet I think. We have the most stable NIS environment of all Linux distributions at the moment ! :) Disadvantage is that ypbind is a bit less flexible. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-09-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
: Can't bind to server which serves this domain Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not work. Check /etc/init.d/network. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living

Re: Suck and innxmit

1996-09-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
a ctlinnd reload hosts.nntp just_because command Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: apache package

1996-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stoyan Kenderov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may want to know, that the package version 1.0.5-1 gives me on an ordinary machine, ordinary setup a lot of oops A user level program can _never_ result in a kernel oops. If it does, it's bad hardware (RAM!) or yes, a

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I think we should do the following. : : 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists

Re: Debian Installation Boot Program missing something

1996-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
and your system might even get unbootable (which isn't too strange when your harddisk's dead). Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http

Re: NIS vs. NYS question?

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
.* is really a gateway to a mailing list. BTW, do you have your moderators file set up right? When I post something in linux.*, it shows up on our news server within a matter of _minutes_. You do have linux.*:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in your moderators file, right? Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i'm a bit snowed under at work and am finding it difficult to keep up with my mail. when we last spoke on this subject you were going to release your interim version of the squid package. Yeah, though I waited for an

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Dale Scheetz) wrote: On 28 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins) and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to linux its terminfo

Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal

1996-08-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Data General dumb terminal hooked up to my linux box through a hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx behave as though there were one more

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
maintainer (Craig Sanders) about it. It has been my intent for quite some time to make the Interim release but I didn't hear anything anymore from Craig. Oh well. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP

Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu

1996-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: For all those who run the beta version of squid in unstable: There is the release 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian. I tried to contact the author but no response meanwhile our Webcahce was crashing every other day. If you are in the same

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
problem you are seeing with Crack, but I compiled it myself a couple of months ago with no trouble what so ever. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /dev/console and headless computers

1996-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
if my serial console patches get integrated into the kernel (needs a rewrite first). Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl

Re: inewsinn?

1996-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Install strace from the devel/ tree, and when your inews has started find out its process id with ps ax | grep inews and then strace it with strace -fp process_id_here. You can then see exactly what it is doing.. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
place to hide stuff, though :)) Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: how to put ifconfig in startup script?

1996-08-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
and they will be executed at boot time. I appreciate any suggestions here; the NET-2 HOWTO seems to be geared toward the Slackware kind of system. Alas, yes. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup (Re: printing and .profile problems)

1996-08-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, linux.debian.user exists, but it appears to be a gateway from the mailing list to USENET - it doesn't seem to work the other way around. :-( I can read from it, but it doesn't seem to reach the mailing list if I post

Re: linux v2.0: networking sendmail changes?

1996-06-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One site I installed debian on uses sendmail. There are several dial in users, mostly using pop3d to retrieve their mail. Under some circumstances (*see below), pop3d hangs - leaving a large temporary file in /tmp and also

Re: gzip and dpkg problem

1996-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
indication, and can't tell whether it's really an error). Can't you just set signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL) first thing in the main() function of dpkg? And if not, could you tell me why not (sounds interesting ;)) Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL

Re: Help. Can't boot all of a sudden.

1996-06-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
/mnt and execute MAKEDEV in /mnt/dev. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: Cron

1996-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
is that all normal output from a script will be sent to /dev/null, and the stderr output (probably real errors) will be mailed. Hmm. Not so bad. That's probably just what you want. But I think the 21 is superfluous. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living

Re: which..

1996-05-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
-to-date and so doesn't have which yet. This means I cannot file a bug report since I don't know which package it is part of.. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL

Re: minicom..

1996-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: Pb. with 1.1's telinit (sysvinit 2.60)

1996-05-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. Unless I have been programming in my sleep again.. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: problems with nis

1996-05-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Re: configure sendmail in Debian

1996-05-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article Pine.BSD/[EMAIL PROTECTED], gli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Debian 1.1 beta. When I do dpkg --configure sendmail, I get a error message saying that /etc/sendmail.cf is not avaiable. Then I do There is a bug in sendmail-8.7.5-3.deb. Please use sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb as soon

Re: 1.1 fresh installation report

1996-05-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
- that will take care of it. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+

Re: 1.1 upg libc - long

1996-05-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
be on the FTP sites. If it is not, your mirror lags behind. What is also possible is that more than one version is present - dpkg tries to install them in the order it finds them, I think. Delete all but the newest versions of any .deb file you have. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet

Re: How to start NIS?

1996-05-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
to make searching practical. (NOT Linux) 1.1 is much better... and ELF! Good luck - Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
. The only way out is to type ^U and retype everything. It is a bug in the terminfo files. The latest versions of ncurses is supposed to cure this (don't know which version that is exactly). Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

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