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
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
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 :-)
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
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
.
But if anyone would like to package those up as .debs and maintain them-
fine with me.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Is it necessary to run the portmap daemon if all I need is telnet
and FTP?
Run rpcinfo -p to find out what uses the portmapper. If nothing
does, you probably do not need to run it.
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are rather large (about 5000
users). ypbind is bound to the local NIS slave server.
Are you using libc6_2.0.7pre1-4 and nis_3.2.1-3.deb ? If not,
upgrade.
On my system here with 3000 NIS users everything flies ..
Mike.
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ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/
that version is pretty recent and should work better. I think the old 1.1.1
doesn't work properly with the libc5 from debian 1.3.1.
Mike.
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This is strange, it should find the NIS master after a reboot and
just continue. Have you considered setting up a NIS slave server to
see if it solves the problems? Besides, it's always a good idea to
run a slave server just in case.
Mike.
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... this will work better:
close(0);
close(1);
close(2);
setsid();
... open new tty here ...
Mike.
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applications
are accessing files in or have a working directory in /cdrom
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with the Electric Fence
library (-lefence) to get a better idea of the error: it catches a lot
of memory errors the moment they occur instead of at a later (random) point.
Mike.
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was still at the University.. even the root password.
(Not very exiting, I already had it officially, but still..)
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newsgroups and back).
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the responsible entry from /etc/inittab.
Which one?
The problem I encounter now is, that the root login does no longer require a
password, even though it is set.
What do you mean with the root login ?
- su still requires it.
What causes this behaviour?
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny ter Haar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hint for the maintainer: please set a default of NO backups !
Has already been done in the version in slink IIRC
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Eric Jacoboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter
capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to
have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure
deb system so i'd
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
: Well actually I am waiting with a new release for inn 2.2 or so ..
Great! I'm glad to hear this. 2.0 was frighteningly buggy, and I
haven't been bold enough to try 2.1
I'm
According to Hank Fay:
Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use
(with
clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no usenets groups,
sucking, feeding, etc?
You could.
Or is there something else I should look at?
Very possible, but I have no
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Luis Sismeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote:
change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap
anymore.
And why is that?
Because otherwise we'd have to keep /etc/termcap and /etc/terminfo
in sync, now we just
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too
often with debian 2.0
I think they have a library problem, or a ld.so problem. Don't know what
causes this though.
Is debian 2.0 stable or
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but
one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an
SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all
Win95/98/NT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I saw Linus make a comment to someone that That feature is
going to have to wait for 3.1, this kernel is frozen with regard to new
features or something along those lines. If the next devel kernel is 3.1
then I assumed
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
whenever I try to use nfs or yp on my debian 2.0 machines they complain
about the program not being registered.
here's what happens when I try to mount nfs:
mount: RPC: Program not registered
Either the portmapper is not running, or your
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK I got nfs mounting to work, but the yp stuff still doesn't work. I just
make hosts.allow = all and hosts.deny = blank.
What do I have to do to add NIS to portmapper?
Read /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz
It might have to do with the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tim Sailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone actually gotten the serial console stuff to work with the
newer kernels?
Yes, I have ;) You mean the 2.1.x kernels I presume? I'll talk about that.
BTW, there is a backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x
at
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steve Tremblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just installed Debian 2.0 for the first time (in fact it is the first
time I've installed Debian). I'm well experienced with Linux and UNIX in
general, but I've hit something that I've never had to do before. Debian
2.0
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Brian Sheehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I decided to re-install Debian 2.0 today from scratch, because I wanted
to re-partition my hardisk. I have the official Debian CD and using that
I repartitioned my disk so that it now has 4 linux partitions - 1 large
root
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to take a screenshot of a window running under X and eventually
to convert it to a .gif file.
I assume the Gimp can handle the conversion. But how does one get a
screenshot under [Debian] Linux? Is there anything
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The hamm machine is the NIS server. If I put
netgroups: nis
on /etc/nsswitch.conf on both machines and
mygroup (,host-a,) (,host-b,) (,host-c,)
in hamm's /etc/netgroups
That's wrong. The syntax is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Samuel Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear mister, that's the orginal doc from de kernel source, not the
Debianized one.
well, with Debian there are some more files that are necessary for the
kernel to work
(e.g. : /boot/SystemMap)
That's nonsense. I have never used
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VFS: Can't open root device 03:01
Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01
Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You
did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support
for the ext2
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Horacio M.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how can I make a key combo work?
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-END is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltend:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now
which was just a guess, and obviously didn't work. I suppose I
should first of all configure
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$
applications, but what about the Y2K+38 disaster in the POSIX world?
I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t,
It's a kernel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote:
Does anyone know of a way (or a utility) to view ansi graphics under
Linux?
cat will do this after changing the console font to a font that will
properly display all of the extended ASCII
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains:
#!/bin/sh
ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0
ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0
and then in /etc/rcS.d/ I made a symlink to that script called:
S60wmnetstartup
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.floor-kramer.nl
Only for SERIOUS Dating.
Sorry for this, as a service to our customers (and a convienience to
the debian developers at cistron) we have local *only* newsgroups
for several mailing lists.
Unfortunately one of our
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andy Spiegl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've got a webserver which is running constantly. A few days ago
we had to reboot it, because of a SCSI problem with the JAZ drive.
(side note: can you imagine the load went up to 115 still growing!?)
Well, after the reboot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am after a way to generate a pause of 300ns in a C program I am working
on.
In general, you cannot guarantee pauses in a multitasking system
like Unix or Linux. Pauses can be set in microseconds using usleep(),
but not in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would I clean up the boot process of these old first
install modules..that arnt needed anymore and my present
kernel handles fine ?
edit /etc/modules
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Norbert Nemec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a
client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing
that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great
thing, not to have to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mike Touloumtzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If
this file exists,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nis specific problems:
When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info,
but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to
change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn't
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they
rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or
switched off, either due to ignorance or not caring.
Wire the reset button through the keylock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe the local drive is read-only and the writable stuff is on a server.
They must have a haul-ass network since netscape uses the cache
extensively. With lots of people browsing
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone using NIS with hamm? I'm trying to set it to work against a
Solaris NIS server and it doesn't work. I've got everything up to the
point that ypcat passwd indeed cats all the passwd file from the NIS
server (with the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can turn off the portmapper vi /etc/init.d/xinetd stop or
/etc/init.d/inetd stop. This however is not recommend because
any requests comming in on ports will not be serviced. Note.
portmaps are used to save system
According to Peter Iannarelli:
I am sure you are right. I'm running xinetd for the added security.
When I read my /etc/init.d/xinetd -- stop) It shuts down the
portmapper. start) starts up the portmapper. It is true that
it does not have to be run however, and correct me if I'm wrong
it
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Hannu Koivisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I replaced smail with exim (2.04-3) last Saturday or so I
have had to boot the machine two or three times because no new
processes can't have been started. vfork: resource temporarily
unavailable is what my shell (zsh)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting errors with MH mail. Mail is sent, but bounces back with
DNS errors likes:
Oct 29 11:14:43 mixing sendmail[1752]: LAA01744:
to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(1000/1000), delay=00:00:04,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Wilson Tuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send a bulletin to all members of
my network with just a single posting.
Read the docs in /usr/doc/qpopper/
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Danie Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it.
Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y
after a power failure or such.
If I read S10checkroot.sh correctly, if I specify an environment
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So: presumably NFS is known to use 32 bit file sizes, but ls understands
a 64 bit file size? I also note that the fstat, stat etc system calls
return the file size as an off_t, which in the i86 header files for
2.4.22 is a long -
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Emil Hägerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
someone please guide me in setup of NFS server.
What is the difference between packages
'nfs-kernel-server' and 'nfs-user-server'
reagarding performance and config?
The config is the same, and the user-server is slow,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Ol=EDmpio_de_Menezes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Debian box as a pop3 server for some users at the Dept.
The server has one scsi disk, with three main partitions (/ /home /other).
This is a poor design, but was done some years
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
3. Is there some other pop server that behaves different?
No, unless you move to maildir format, which isn't supported
by most of the debian mailers and none of the pop servers.
None
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to find references to examples of Debian GNU/Linux
systems handling heavy Internet or other network traffic. Can any of
you give me any URLs or anecdotes? How many simultaneous accesses
have your servers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michelle Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use
minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I
supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method
in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Diego Delgado Lages [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cat file-name | wc -l
I always wonder why people insist on doing
cat file | otherprogram
instead of just
otherprogram file
Which is exactly the same, but saves processing time. Even DOS people
do
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
trio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else run into this related problem? Basically i want to run
server machines. That means i have them on a UPS. But there are times
when the power is off even longer than the UPS
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, when I execute this program after su nobody the copy
reports it doesn't have the permissions to do the create side of the
copy built in. Here's the listing:
1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp
Here's the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[about CRLF at the end of a line]
vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't.
vim -b file
:%!col -b
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under
slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :
Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd...
You don't need a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last thing /etc/init.d/rcS does is look for a file called
/sbin/setup.sh and if it exists, it runs it. I put all my local stuff
here.
Ugh .. that's quite wrong.
That hook is there only for the initial installation
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its me quoting myself.
I've had a look at sulogin.c and discovered that the max. pass-string-length
is about 15 characters.
Is there anyone to patch that ? (I guess MD5 allows max. 127 characters) so
the only thing to do
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
: As root, I typed the following:
:
: chsh /bin/usr/tcsh when I meant chsh /usr/bin/tcsh.
:
: I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not
:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*- On 9 Mar, ragOO wrote about Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent
Person, Roderick wrote:
I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot.
The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot
As George said
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tommy Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release,
and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel
2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is
between debian
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 20 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
If you follow the kernel mailing list you'll see that even the current
2.2.3 kernel still has quirks. On some machines here I can't even run
it, the NFS server keeps dying
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot
or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local???
NO
/etc/rc.boot and rc.local are totally different things.
If you do not know what you
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. What RH package there is which has no Debian equivalent?
2. Why should Debian be RH-compatible? If someone switches to Debian from RH
s/he should be prepared that some (re)adaptation will be necessary.
The guys from the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the
absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two
startup file layout standards haven't been designed to be intermixed,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with
Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It
will probably be abstracted and have
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
The guys from the LSB (Linux Base Standard) are currently talking with
Debian and RedHat to agree on one standard /etc/init.d structure. It
will probably be abstracted and have
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote:
Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear.
How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be
loaded before any disks are mounted)?
/etc/rc.boot and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After my initial posting in this thread I must say that Debian, and maybe Linux
in general, has a complicated, not very user friendly, way of handling loading
of drivers and programs at boot. Both DOS/Windows and OS/2 handles
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Mar 1999, Shaun Lipscombe wrote:
Well, Linux is not BSD or SvsV but the GNU commands (ps, df, and the like)
take, for the most part, Berkeleyesque command options.
POSIX mostly.
$ ps -ef
UIDPID PPID C STIME
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it may be a bad idea (and most likely unnecessary) to update
the CMOS clock every 11 minutes. These things have a finite write life
(or used to, anyway).
The slink /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script will copy the system
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when I attempt to run 'login' from the prompt, I see:
'No utmp entry. You must exec login from the lowest level sh '
Use exec /bin/login instead.
This is strange because I vividly remember running login before.
What have I done to cause
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was testing a program and to see how it handled an invalid group I did:
gr = getgrnam(bob);
Now obviously this failed. However the string from perror() states:
Could not find file or directory
The manual page for getgrnam(2)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_
reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions.
Try KR
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, I have managed to get procmail to use _only_ the hashed mailspool,
but haven't been able to get qpopper to compile (missing a mailock.h file
as referenced in pop_dropcopy.c).
To compile qpopper you need to install
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Prashanth Mundkur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I upgraded my lab machine today to slink. The NIS docu
suggests
---[/usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz]
2. HOW TO SPECIFY WHAT RESOURCES TO USE FOR NIS:
2.4.2 For libc6 applications:
Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to
generate the NIS maps.
Ah yes, a possibility is to include the password in /etc/password, and
then filter that out again for shadow-capable hosts
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marlon Urias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be sure you've installed the 'ncurses3.4-dev' package, which will give
you the appropriate headers and (static, I think) libraries.
No, for Debian 2.1 that's libncurses4-dev
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-
console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal.
That should work. The guy who wrote the serial console kernel stuff,
also wrote
According to Ralf G. R. Bergs:
Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my
setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include
append=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600
in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Gopal Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I upgraded one of our machines to slink from hamm. The upgrade went
well. But after the upgrade I keep getting segmentation violations when
I run minicom. We use minicom to talk to another local machine through
the serial
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nidge Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When running fetchmail from CRON, how can I write the output to /dev/null to
save the CRON job spamming me with mail.
I have tried adding /dev/null to the end of the cron line, all to no
avail.
Try
command /dev/null
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ying shang wrote:
When I boot the Debian, I find that it tells me Apache starting. But I
can
not find out where is the home directory of the apache.
The command 'which' will show the path to the program, for example used
with the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can apache serve VB asp pages?
Sure, apache can serve them, but there is no VB interpreter for Linux
so the output will look not quite the way you intended it.
Mike.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Fethi A. Okyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1.
DO I need a separate System.map file for each
kernel that I compile, cause each time it also
spits out a new System.map file.
Well, things like klogd and ps like to look at the System.map of the
running kernel to be able to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jeremy C.Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running hamm but I don't have the cd; I do have the slink cds.
Where can I download hamm's apt-get so I can upgrade to slink?
The 2 things that the apt from slink depends on that are not in
hamm are libc6 (= 2.0.7u) and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running Slink and am in need of a version of Apache that has the proxy
module compiled-in (the supplied version hasn't). Is there a fully enabled
version available somewhere, or do I need to compile it from sources myself?
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