On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
Is it possible to restrict user access so users can not execute any
programs? (programs which they copied on to my system). - FreeBSD can do
this sort of thing
Mount the user writable areas with the noexec option. Probably want to
put it in the
Is it possible to restrict user access so users can not execute any
programs? (programs which they copied on to my system). - FreeBSD can do
this sort of thing
Mount the user writable areas with the noexec option. Probably want to
put it in the /etc/fstab.
Is there any way to do
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
Stephen Carpenter wrote:
hmmm just a slightly evil thought
anyone tried
cat /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types
Tried it... doesnt work.
The correct answer is dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hdb1 bs=1024.
[ setup hp lj 6l question ]
Save yourself a lot of time, install magic filter. Then:
magicfilterconfig --force
and answer hplj4l when it asks.
Brandon
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For many laptops, especially the toshibas, try the tecra patched disks in
the special directory.
Brandon
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Timothy Bostrom wrote:
I just bought a Toshiba 440CDX and tried to install Debian 1.3.1. Every
time I put the boot disk in the floppy, the laptop would reboot right
Here's a good one that wired did because of netscape, but went into the
benefits of free software. It talked about redhat a fair bit, but
included debian when refering to popular linux distributions.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/9966.html
Brandon
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Brandon
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
This is because printers designed for PCs expect the MS-DOS crlf at
the end of a line instead of lf. There information about this in either
the Printing-HOWTO or the Printing-Usage-HOWTO (I forget which). The
easiest way is to install either apsfilter
On 30 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Jarkko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
chmod 666 /dev/fd0
that maked the trick
This is a BAD THING(tm). Especially if you are somehow connected to other
computers.
Agreed, the correct solution is to add yourself to the floppy group. This
way
, will be 2 or more, meaning that 2 or more
filenames are hardlinked to the same file...
They should be hard linked, but as the original poster pointed out, they
aren't:
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ ls -li /usr/bin/perl*
4267 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492172 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perl
)
ii dhcpcd 0.70-2 a DHCP client
ii netbase 3.03-1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
ii netstd 3.02-1 Networking binaries and daemons for
Linux
No problems here (yet):
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -l dhcp* net
man console (goes along with tty0)
Brandon
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Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds
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I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.
Happens here too, especially while I started into hamm, but seemed to get
better as I installed more hamm packages
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I would recommend doing the upgrade. If you strictly follow the HOWTO
in http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html there
should be no grave problems. There even exists an automatic upgrade
script that was discussed on this list some
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Dale Smith wrote:
The install is basically untaring the server and xf86config binaries from /.
This is a perfect job for alien, it should make a deb for you. Note, I
have no first hand experience.
Brandon
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
* Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are
selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages
(among the ones selected for installation) that are not already
installed?
I've never had a
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bostjan Jerko wrote:
Connection refused
job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1
attempts
I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian
and localhost) and hosts (localhost, debian).
/etc/printcap
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
On two occasions, I've tried to install the debian package for apfilter.
When picking an option for further descriptions of the printers, the
script has terminated with a Out of memory, zless.
Is there a way around this ?
Say no when it prompts you, or
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Tom Ed White wrote:
One hole in Linux distributions, needed by clueless desktop users, is an
easy to use database. PostgresSQL is fine for running a hospital, but is
not so apropriate for many of us.
Have you tried pgaccess from the libpgtcl package? It's a very nice
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Steve Morrill wrote:
How do I turn off shadow passwords? I'm still trying to get ppp
working. Ive got shadow passwords enabled, and would like to try
disabling that to see if it makes a difference
shadowconfig off
Brandon
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Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does: strace screen report? ... aw shucks, strace doesn't work
suid. Wait a minute, does ls -al /usr/bin/screen report:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 177788 Oct 10 20:18 /usr/bin/screen
Brandon
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the variables (as suggested) :
ssh uses crypto, so it's on a non-us mirror (there's a readme.nonus on
the ftp sites I think).
XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):checklist$ ls ~$USER/.ssh
ls: ~bhmit1/.ssh: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):checklist$ ls `expr ~$USER/.ssh`
ls
fetchmail and procmail
and use a .fetchmailrc like the following:
poll mail.wm.edu
protocol pop3
user bhmit1
pass secret
mda /usr/bin/procmail -f-
fetchall
In my /etc/ip-up I have:
if [ -x /home/bhmit1/.ppp-up ]; then
su bhmit1 -c /home/bhmit1/.ppp-up
fi
and something similar
[ please hit the enter key every 75 char's or so. You're email program
doesn't seem to do this for you. ]
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Adam Greene wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to run Linux on my computer at work, what we are running
normally is Windows 95 OSR on a Ethernet Star configured LAN.
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Moved from procps to psutils by the upstream source. psutils is stuck in
incoming.
I thought that was psmisc (retrieved from incomming last night):
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -c deb/psmisc_16-1_i386.deb
...
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 8956
lstar zip
/home/ftp/etc:
grouppasswd pathmsg
/home/ftp/lib:
ld-linux.so.1 libc.so.5 libc.so.5.4.23
/home/ftp/pub:
bhmit1incoming
But, like Ben, I'm going to suggest something other than ftpd. However,
my suggestion is wu-ftpd. It's very popular for most ftp sites I have
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
I'm having the same problem he has. ls doesn't report anything. However
its only with anonymous logins. And it happens with all of the ftp server
packages I've tried. ftpd, wu-ftp, and the wu-ftp-academ. (all from
hamm). I've got a
Oh dear, a second person that thinks I'm an expert :-)
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:57:44 -0500 (EST)
hand, and see what happens when you get past the login. Also, make sure
/etc/resolv.conf is set up correctly. You should see something like:
Jan 9 20:19:53
have
changed since I upgraded fvwm to hamm). Results vary from seg faults to
zombie netstat processes. It relies on quite a few libs:
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p1):bhmit1$ ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape
libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000b000)
libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib
Bug #16939
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/16/16939.html
Hope this one is resolved soon,
Brandon
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
Yeah I noticed that too. :)
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Matt Thompson wrote:
OK, so what happened to xload now? I just upgraded my hamm system
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote:
Does anyone have netscape the acroread plugin working together? On my
setup, when you try to open a pdf file on the web, acroread will die as
soon as the splash screen comes up, leaving netscape with the message an
error occured or something not too
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, smorrill wrote:
Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: port50 login -- got it
Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: send (smorrill^M)
Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: expect (word)
Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: : smorrill^M
Jan 9 14:37:18 ariel chat [289]: Password -- got it
Jan
Quick lesson in LILO from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:
LILO start message
- - - - - - - - -
When LILO loads itself, it displays the word LILO. Each letter is
printed
before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some
point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, David Stern wrote:
Hi,
I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
1.) How do I insert a newline character in a
, cron.weekly, and
cron.monthly?
My entries are commented out because I use anacron:
[EMAIL PROTECTED](p1):bhmit1$ more /etc/crontab
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
If the thinkpad problem persist, try the tecra bootdisk (in the special
directory I think).
Brandon
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Phone: (757) 221-4847
On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough.
Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this
by opening the case, unplugging
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to
my
ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt
comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER?
\r
Brandon
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Simple question:
Can the results of the menu program be used in plain fvwm? If so, what
are the lines to add to my .fvwmrc?
Thanks,
Brandon
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:
Would anything brake if I changed the ID of group 'disk' to 8
and the ID of group 'mail' to 6. Of course, I would make sure
all the files get their ID's changed as well.
I wouldn't. GID's of mail programs are probably hard coded into the tar
file (in
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
Hi Gertjan
One thing still puzzles me that I hope you can clear up for me.
Supposing I buy a brand new hard disk. IDE, SCSI or whatever.
To use it, I have to partition it, using a utility like FDISK .
FDISK writes the MBR and Partition Table.
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, dA' Phucilage Phactory wrote:
Krist, i've been trying to get real player working from netscape
for some time now, I correctly had rvplayer %s before, but i noticed a
mailcap error causing netscape to bitch about incorrect syntax when trying
to execute rvplayer, my
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