Re: win95files names

1999-11-11 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

 How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
 without the funny ~1 thing?
 I have tried   mount -t msdos  , but this truncates the name to  *~1.

Try mount -t vfat instead of msdos.


Passwordless ssh?

1999-10-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

Can someone tell me how to enable passwordless ssh under potato?  (ssh
1.2.26)

This is for the purpose of backups.  I have public key of the machine
which is doing the connecting in the backup user's authorized keys file,
and the user that is doing the connecting is in the backup user's .shosts
file.  However, the machine always insists on asking for a password.

There are similarly configured machines around here already, so this
should work...am I missing some PAM settings or something?


gcc in potato

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I am not sure where to complain about this...it probably isn't Debian's
problem, it is probably the new gcc.  The newest gcc in potato:

gcc version 2.95.2 19990906 (prerelease)

Seems to be pretty damn buggy.  There is a great store of code I have that
compiled under the last one I used:

gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

That won't compile under the new one.  For instance, this assembly
function won't compile under 2.95.2, but is fine under 2.91.66:

/*  Read the pentium Time Stamp Counter register  */
unsigned long long read_TSC()
{
static union {
unsigned long dw[2];
unsigned long long counter;
} tc;

__asm__ __volatile__ (
.byte 0x0f, 0x31\n
:d= (tc.dw[1]), a= (tc.dw[0]):
:%eax, %edx
);

return tc.counter;
}

And I get this error:

arch.c: In function `read_TSC':
arch.c:30: warning: output constraint `=' for operand 0 is not at the
beginning
arch.c:30: warning: output constraint `=' for operand 1 is not at the
beginning
arch.c:30: Invalid `asm' statement:
arch.c:30: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.
make: *** [arch.o] Error 1

Should I just give up and use the gcc272 package?


Re: Admin group?

1999-10-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote:

 On 19-Oct-99 Phil Brutsche wrote:
  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
  
  Ultimately, I want to have 2 accounts for myself (1 being root,
  the other being a normal user.)  I also would like to create
  a few accounts for friends.  My normal user account will
  be added to the member of the adm group.
  
  Questions:
  
  1) What is the best way to prevent other users (except for my
 normal user) from running programs like dmesg?  I suppose
 I could always chgrp the programs to adm, and change 
 permissions to -rwxr-x---.  Is this the recommended way?

dmesg is not suid root...so the users can get that information themselves
without dmesg, or compile their own copy of dmesg.  There isn't much point
in changing the permissions on dmesg.

It is only on binaries that are suid and provide some special priveledges
that this is useful.


bash problem

1999-08-24 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

Well, my mirror appears to have stopped updating about a week ago, so when
I told a few machines to do an apt-get dist-upgrade they all barfed on the
broken bash package.  (The mirror had not upgraded my local copy to the
fixed bash package...)

Is there any easy way to recover these things without rebooting?  dpkg
does not seem to work...I guess I just have to go the rescue disk route,
huh?


Re: Tools to generate X interface for programs

1999-07-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, David Teague wrote:

 Carl, Others:
 
 What tools does Debian have to generate X windows interface
 for programs?

More than I can count.  Then again, I only have ten fingers...:)

There are many toolkits for making X apps.  A while ago I learned Tcl/Tk,
and really liked Tk, but I didn't like Tcl that much.  Just recently I
realized that Tk is available for Perl!  Perl/Tk is great, I'm hooked.

Of course, the tool you use depends heavily on the job at hand.  Could you
give us more info on what you would like to do?


pthreads man pages?

1999-06-29 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

Where are the pthreads man pages for potato?  The pthread libraries and
such seem to be in libc6 and libc6-dev.  Is this a package bug?



Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-11 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:

  
  Debian installation manual is not at all the worst one. It is quite good
  actually. But it definetely isn't easy to find on the website instructions
  how to get started...
 
 This is getting on my nerves...
 
 * go to www.debian.org
 * note the section `Getting Started', which is the second below
   `What is Debian'
 * actually _read_ this section (all of both sentences), and discover you
   need to click on the link Release information in this section.
 * click
 * Note the header `New Installations', and the links
 
 Install Manual for SPARC 
 Install Manual for Intel x86 
 Install Manual for Alpha 
 Install Manual for Motorola 680x0 
 
   below it.
 * click on, say `Install Manual for Intel x86' (if that is what you
   want)
 * you now find yourself reading the installation manual
 
 All this involves *two* clicks from the main debian pages, and reading
 maybe 30 lines of text.  If this `definitely not easy' for someone, I
 figure this person needs to acquire some more basic computer skills
 before attempting to install anything at all on their computer.

You don't see the problem here?  These links are more or less embedded in
the pages and less than obvious.  I count at least three clicks to even
begin to find info on how to get Debian.

Not to mention, once you find the Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 For
Intel x86 page, you have to read 20 pages before you even find out what
to download!  Its section 5 where it even begins to say how to get Debian!

At this point, I'd just like to mention that I am very well experienced
with Linux, and I have absolutely no problem installing Debian.  But
around here they call me the local Linux expert.  I just helped a friend
where in the research lab where I work install Debian on his computer.
This is a guy who uses Solaris every day, and know Xemacs inside and out.
He's an intelligent, and very computer literate person.  Yet it took him
quite a while to just find out what the hell he needed to download!

If it weren't for him having someone like me there, he would have just
gotten fed up and gone with Red Hat.

Without a doubt, the installation instructions on the web need
reorganization.  On the top bar or the page, one of the buttons should be
Install Debian or Get Debian.  It should very plainly give the exact
steps to get started with installing Debian.  The Intro under the
Distribution link is a good start, but the rest of that page leaves the
newbie confused.

After the Intro should be sections describing where to get the floppies,
and how to make them.  This should be a SHORT simple page.  After telling
them how to make the floppies and telling them the next step is to insert
the rescue floppy into the drive, it could THEN refer them to the longer
and more detailed Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 For whatever arch
document.

I think my point is that the meat of the info is buried way to far in
the site.  Even intelligent people find it difficult to find, its only us
experienced Debian users that don't have a problem with it.

Besides, the web pages have to be revised to use the official logo anyway.
:)


Re: I am impressed with Debian!

1999-06-08 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

It is probably just the updatedb running, to update the database for the
locate command.  It walks through the entire filesystem, so thats why
the disk runs for so long. :)

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Martin Waller wrote:

 It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find 
 running.
 
 I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass.
 
 I haven't had the problem for a while.
 
 May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default 
 loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it.
 
 I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been 
 unfounded.
 
 caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have!
 
 Martin
 
 
 
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 CC: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500
 
 Patrick Colbeck wrote:
 
   Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its
   never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was
   doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a
   kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4
   minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat
   or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M
   series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about
   1300MB free and a 92MB swap file.
  
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Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Thu, 27 May 1999, The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote:

 I have a Sony 928 CD Burner.  I'm being told by my computer that it has
 384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number?

128kb X 3

Not too weird, I've seen it before.  Not a power of 2, so its not one of
my favorite numbers, but it'll do. :)

 One of my friends has a different burner, but his says he has 512kb
 buffer cache.
 
 
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Re: CD Burner

1999-05-27 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On 27 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:

 The FreeStuff Web Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I have a Sony 928 CD Burner.  I'm being told by my computer that it has
  384kb of buffer cache, anyone know why it's saying such a weird number?
  One of my friends has a different burner, but his says he has 512kb
  buffer cache.
 
 Just to add to everybody's whining, I should say that I haven't been
 able to get my CDR (Panasonic 7502 SCSI) working for about 6 weeks
 now. Yes, Me Too (tm), I have to boot into Windows to burn CDs and
 scan. Lucky I don't play games. ;^)

Whats the problem?  You know the device name is /dev/scd* for a SCSI CDROM
drive, and not /dev/sd*, right?

 
 Hoping for a better day, when I'll be able to get rid of those FatXX
 partitions,
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Re: Ethernet identification

1999-05-25 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

 Hello, all,
 
 the people here at the department have bought a software (proprietary) 
 usually available for Unix platforms. We've got their Solaris and
 Linux version. For the Solaris they asked us the hostid to put somewhere in
 the code and avoid piracy. But the Debian GNU/Linux
 machines doesn't respond to this command. So they asked us the following:
 
 I will only need the ethernet card number in the following format:
 
 00:00:00 . (10 characters)
 
 Have somebody there anu idea on how I get this number by a simple promptline
 command?

Sure, just use ifconfig.  Its not in a normal user's path by default, you
can run it like:

/sbin/ifconfig

Under the ethernet device you want, there will be a HWaddr.  Thats the
number you want.


Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:

 On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote:
 
  what I get:
  bash-2.01$ netscape
  Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user 
  mailcap file.
  Warning: 
  Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
  
  Warning: 
  Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
  
  Bus error
  bash-2.01$ 
  
  Anyone has any suggestions???
 
 Try starting it as root with:
 
 netscape --allow-root
 
 And see if it works.

Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write
into kernel space memory?  If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it
to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system?


Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:

 On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
 
  
  Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write
  into kernel space memory?  If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it
  to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system?
  
 
 Not dangerous at all. It will still not be allowed to write to kernel
 protected space (root is still a user). I have had this problem with the
 Netscape 4.6 on one of my systems, it will not run as a regular users
 (gets a bus error) but works fine as root. 
 
 This is the communicator-smotif. If I simply run the navigator portion, it
 works fine as a user. Communicator will only run as root for me on that
 system with is pretty much potato.

Mmm...I still don't like running a misbehaving program as root. :)


Re: sshd

1999-05-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote:

 On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:54AM +0200, scratch wrote:
  On Thu, 13 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
 
   Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely.  And I don't want to
   remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5
   minutes when there is no network. :)  Why exactly does sshd freeze on
   startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something?
 
  If I'm right, it's probably generating an RSA key. This is not only done
  on startup though. OTOH, one would think this would be a background
  process, and you shouldn't wait for it at bootup.
 
  I never noticed such a freeze personally.
 
 Generating the RSA is a background process. I just thought about
 something though, what address do you have it binding to in
 /etc/ssh/sshd_config? It should be 0.0.0.0.

Yeah, I don't think that is the cause.  The best suggestion so far has
been that its actually the daemon after ssh that is causing the pause.
(Which might be xntpd...)

And actually, it does seem to be the ntpdate entry in /etc/init.d/xntp3
that is casuing the pause now.  (Although I could have sworn it was
stopping after it printed Starting Secure Shell server:  before..)


sshd

1999-05-13 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh
installed.  However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to
the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot
sequence for 5 minutes if there is no network?



Re: sshd

1999-05-13 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Collins M.  Ben  wrote:

 On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
  
  I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh
  installed.  However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to
  the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot
  sequence for 5 minutes if there is no network?
 
 If you don't want sshd running at all you can just do:
 
 update-rc.d -f ssh remove
 
 This will remove the links in /etc/rc?.d but leaves the /etc/init.d/ssh
 script. You will need to run `/etc/init.d/ssh start` to start sshd
 manually, but you wont need that unless you plan on logging _into_ the
 laptop.

Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely.  And I don't want to
remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5
minutes when there is no network. :)  Why exactly does sshd freeze on
startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something?


Re: Linux experts

1999-04-30 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Brian Schramm wrote:

 OK, now I have your attention.
 
 I want to set up an ocational private connection between work and home acrosed
 the net.  I have ssh on both computers but I do not know if that is all I 
 need.
 
 I will be using it to transfer files and do manual configuration mostly.  
 Since
 I will be working with root privlages I do not want anyone to see what I am
 typeing.  
 
 Is ssh all I need or is there an easier way to do this?  Remember, I have no

I couldn't possibly get much easier than that!  Just install the debian
ssh package and you are good to go.  For file transer you can use the scp
command from the ssh package.  ssh even encrypts the X connections that
are piped through it.  You can pipe all kinds of connections through ssh
if you really want to get in to it...

So yeah, just install ssh.



Re: /etc/export

1999-04-24 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:

 Hi!
 
 how do you update /etc/export, whitout restart the computer ?

Use a text editor. :)

After you make a change, just run (as root of course):

/etc/init.d/nfs-server restart



Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On 14 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

 Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 | There already has been feedback on the web (and this list) about this. 
 | It does appear that a great effort was made to pull all the stops out
 | in configuring NT, and little care was given to setting up Linux.  IE:
 | use of a kerenl with know network bugs, none of apache's optimizations
 | turned on...
 | 
 | --- Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 |  On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
 |  
 |   Well it finally happened.  Microsoft has paid
 |  someone off to fix a
 |   benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually
 |  better than linux.
 |   
 |  
 |  http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
 |  
 |  This doesn't look good. Are the results cooked or
 |  flawed, or the
 |  configuration not optimal? Or is it true?
 
 You guys need to read your Slashdot (http://slashdot.org). I've heard
 that this particular benchmark was commissioned by Microsoft. Anyone
 who pays attention to a benchmark commissioned by one of the
 interested parties deserves what they get.

Well, while I agree with that, this is already being read and believed by
managers and suits.  What we need are numbers to the contrary, not it was
commisioned by Microsoft.

Of course, its not likely that anyone in the free software movement will
be able to verify the results, because they used pretty expensive
machinery.  A four processor Xeon as the server, and 144 pentium test
nodes with ethernet switches.


new apt

1999-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I installed the newest apt, and now the ftp method appears to be missing.
I'd rather not have to set up a web server just to use apt on the local
machines...was that an oversight?



Re: new apt

1999-03-19 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 *- On 19 Mar, Christopher J. Morrone wrote about new apt
  
  I installed the newest apt, and now the ftp method appears to be missing.
  I'd rather not have to set up a web server just to use apt on the local
  machines...was that an oversight?
  
  
  
 
 No. Apt 0.3.0 did NOT have ftp just because the ftp method hadn't been
 migrated to the new apt from the 0.1.9 versions. The new apt 0.3.2 has
 ftp support, it is in incoming mirrors and will be moved to
 unstable/admin. 

Cool.


Re: Screen Capture Program

1999-03-16 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, eric Farris wrote:

 How can i capture a (fullscreen/window/rectangle) of my X desktop and
 save it as a file? it's time for me to show off WindowMaker to those
 less fortunate than i.
 
 I have xwpick, but it doesn't work with TrueColor. i'm running
 1280x1024x32bits.
 
 Anyone have/know of a program that can accomplish this? is it built into
 the X server somehow?

I know that gimp has a screen capture option.  Xtns-Screen Shot.

xv can also do it with the Grab button.


Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote:

 
 Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the
 distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that

Where's the GNOME staging area?  For those of us who like to live
dangerously...


Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-10 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In a message dated 3/10/99 6:44:38 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
 
  Are there Gnome 1.0 debs yet?
   
   I haven't tried Gnome yet. 1.0 seems like the place to start.
   
 
 Ya know, I don't want to offend any of the developers or anything, but I'm
 curious about something... Why is it that Debian is always the last to get
 packages for any given product?  When KDE came out, rpms were right around the
 corner.  This seems to be an ongoing trend...  Is it just because the Debian
 group is so quality concious?

I don't really think that KDE is the best example.  For quite a while, KDE
wasn't packaged because of the licensing issues.

Keep in mind that there is a whole staff of full time people working on
Red Hat, while Debian developers are volunteering their scarce free time.


Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-10 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:56:00 -0800, Nuno Donato wrote:
 
 Yes that's it! A message board it's much easier to use and 
 you don't have hundred of e-mails in you Inbox every day. So 
 I will wait you all there. See ya!
 
 Uhm, no web based message board is as easy to use as email, period,
 end of discussion.

Agreed.  I think that he just needs an introduction into the wonderful
world of maill filtering.  procmail is our friend.


Re: modem user

1999-03-01 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:

[cut]
 I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
 which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By 
 the way does anybody think it would be easier to use the 
 PnP mode, rather than hardwiring to COM3,IRQ4 ?
 
 The problem I'm having right now, is I can only run programs
 such as minicom or seyon, when I have root privilages ! 
 I tried creating a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS3, called it
 /dev/modem, and even when I used this ordinary users still
 cannot access the modem. 
 Help will greatly be appreciated !
[cut]

Sounds like you just aren't in the group that can access the /dev/ttyS*
files.  Try running, as root, adduser USERNAME dialout (subsitute the
user's actual username in for USERNAME, of course).  That should give that
user access to the serial ports.

If you want the user to be able to start ppp, also do
adduser USERNAME dip.


RE: PGP question

1999-02-23 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:

 
 On 23-Feb-99 Stephen Pitts wrote:
  Reply-To: 
  This is just out of curiosity..not meant to be flamebait :-)
  Those of you who PGP sign your messages, why do you do it?
  I've looked into getting PGP several times, and I have a PGP-
  compliant mail-reader, but is there any advantage in signing
  your messages?
 
 On many lists, people will get annoyed by the sigs, almost as though one had
 used HTML.
 
 That is why I quit doing it :)

I don't really think PGP signatures are that bad.  Some people get annoyed
when they can't figure out how to read the signature...

The reason that PGP signatures are used is so that you can verify that the
email REALLY came from the person that signed it.  An email is
rediculously easy to fake, while a PGP signature is virtually impossible
to falsify.


includes?

1998-11-30 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I am pretty sure that I have seen this discussed in the past, but I can't
seem to find it in the mailing list archives.

What is the deal with the include directories?  My specific problem is
that I am trying to install the 2.0.36 kernel, with a Pentium performance
counter patch from the Beowulf project.  Now I made the patch, and used
make-kpkg to build the kernel-headers and installed that.

The perf patches have an additional header file, which did appear in the
/usr/src/linux sym linked directory which was installed from the header
package that I just created.

But when I try to build the perf patch library, it can't find that header
file!  And then I realized that /usr/include has no links to
/usr/src/linux.  So what is the point in installing header packages?

What am I missing?  How are these header files supposed to be accessed by
users at compile time?

(Please CC to me directly, I'm not on the list any more; mail server
problems.)

---
Christopher J. Morrone(302)831-1257
Computer Architecture and Parallel   Fax: (302)831-0752
Systems Laboratory, University of Delaware   [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: enlightenment

1998-10-15 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Chris Fury wrote:

 Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
  
  How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian?  I have tried
  all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting
  it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up...
 
 chmod 754 ~/.xsession 
 
 if you're using xdm,
 
 chmod 754 ~/.xinitrc 
 
 if you're using startx.
 
 This ensures that the eXecutable file permission is set, otherwise
 it won't be run as a script[1].  I just figured this one out myself.
 I just kept staring and staring at it.  Why wouldn't it work!  Aggh!
 :)

Oh, they have to be executable...geez.  I must be working too hard...

 
 [1] for those interested, it's run by a start up script:
 /etc/X11/Xsession
 
 -- 
 balderdash.
 



enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian?  I have tried
all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting
it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up...



Re: masqdialer

1998-10-11 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

 On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
 
  
  Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist?  I currently have
  a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and
  poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection.
  
  First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by
  everyone?  (Or maybe only certain people?)
  
  And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon
  and poff?
  
 
 I don't know what masqdialer is but an alternative way to do what I think
 you want is with diald.  This is described in a couple of mini howto's and
 is, if I dare make this claim, sort of the standard way to asynchronously
 access a dialup line without having to manually establish the connection
 (with pon, for example).  I have a small network at home with a Debian box

Unfortunately, we only have a single phone line in my apartment, so
manually establishing the connection is exactly what I want.  I don't want
random packets causing my modem to dial out. :)


masqdialer

1998-09-28 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

Has anyone gotten masqdialer to work with a Debian dist?  I currently have
a debian box set up to do IP masquerading, and I use the Debian pon and
poff to start and stop the PPP dial-up connection.

First of all, is there an easy way to make pon and poff executable by
everyone?  (Or maybe only certain people?)

And is there then an easy way to just have masqdialer use the Debian pon
and poff?


rsh with root?

1998-08-15 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I have a linux cluster (a beowulf), and I want to be able to use rsh with
root to the nodes.  I found the CONSOLE line in /etc/login.defs and
commented it out.  Now root is allowed to rsh in to the machines, but I
can't, for the life of me, figure out how to allow root to rsh in without
a passwd.  I added the machines in the cluster into the /etc/hosts.equiv
file, and now everyonw but root can rsh between nodes without a password.

What am I missing for root?

(I need this esp. for rdist and such.)


Re: Stupid IP Configuration Question

1998-08-15 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:

 My apologies for asking probably the dumbest question, but staring at the
 monitor isn't helping :)

No apology necessary.

 When I re-installed 2.0 (hamm) from scratch, I enabled a PPP connection,
 dialed, downloaded everything, configured, and all is swell (not bad for a
 Compaq 4/50 Prolinea).  Anyway, now im trying to enable my eth0 card.  The
 3c509 driver is loaded, I can see it with lsmod.  But, I looked at the
 /etc/networks file and I wasn't sure where to add the ip address/netmask
 for the eth0 card.

You want the /etc/init.d/network file.  Should be pretty easy to figure
out that file.  If not, just ask.


Second ethernet card

1998-08-12 Thread Christopher J. Morrone

I was wondering where I should set up the configuration for my second
ethernet card.  I have two ethernet cards, both PCI and Tulip chipset,
which are currently detected just fine during bootup.

I set up the ethernet networking like normal during the Debian
installation, and it works fine.  What I want to do now is enable the
second ethernet card.  (This computer is essentially node 0 for a beowulf,
and the other nodes do not need to access the outside world, so I don't
believe that I need any type of ip forwarding.)

So I basically just want to know where I should put my custom
configuration for the second ethernet card.  Should I just add it to the
/etc/init.d/network file?  Or is there a better place to put the
configuration?

Thanks!  (Please Cc the response to me, I was knocked off the debian-user
list because our server was bouncing too many messages.)