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

1997-12-15 Thread David Wright
matter as I was trashing it anyway. You can add a few sectors by maximising the partition to use the sectors in its first track. (This isn't the default as DOS can't.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908

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

1997-12-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, David Wright wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, matthew tebbens wrote: (victor)[root:~#] mke2fs -c -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 1101824

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread David Wright
as I don't normally cd there, but I can type /ftab and that's it. I'm careful to preserve unique first letters for all the frequently used top level directories. In fact, only /bin, /boot, /lib and /var don't work this way (thanks to lost+found and the kernel link). -- David Wright, Open University

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread David Wright
. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread David Wright
or not. David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

1998-02-06 Thread David Wright
]: there!login: -- got it Feb 6 17:49:04 here chat[937]: send (magic-login-id^M) Feb 6 17:49:04 here chat[937]: expect (RING) Feb 6 17:49:07 here chat[937]: magic-login-id^M Feb 6 17:49:07 here chat[937]: ^M Feb 6 17:49:07 here chat[937]: Dialing continues in the background, -- David

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and \q

1998-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: David Wright wrote: OK ATDT5551212 ogin:\qmagic-login-id\q RING ata ogin: I thought the \q codes would prevent the secret callback username from appearing in syslog, but it looks like this. Why? Take

Re: Viewing bootup message

1998-02-10 Thread David Wright
? Thanks, Chris Although dmesg and /var/log/messages are useful, the best method of seeing *everything* is to use Shift-PageUp/Down. This is always present in VCs just so long as you look before you switch to another VC (which throws away everything above the top of the screen). -- David

Re: PPP problems still

1998-02-11 Thread David Wright
cannot get this working, then I will be stuck searching for another OS, but would really like to use linux, since I like the options it makes available. Thanks for your patience and any help that can be offered. It's worth persevering. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

PAP authentication server names

1998-02-12 Thread David Wright
people have in their pap-secrets? (without revealing any real secrets!) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: network problem

1998-02-17 Thread David Wright
. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Bullshit--Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread David Wright
with dreams of being a real : programmer some day I would avoid it. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Linux on top of win95

1998-02-18 Thread David Wright
like /dev/hda1 /dosc msdos noexec 0 0 in /etc/fstab. Would that be correct? Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: removing user from group; vigr -s errors; group policies

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
/vigr.trace vigr -s in private mail to me. I think this is #12184. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
. If you plan to go back and forth between console and X, you might just kill it before starting X. Why not just add -R to the gpm configuration and use /dev/gpmdata and MouseSystems in XF86Config; then you can have both. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

1998-02-20 Thread David Wright
it in a regular .deb file Any help is greatly appreciated. The kermit protocol is built into minicom (along with *modem). Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

1998-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: The kermit protocol is built into minicom (along with *modem). The kermit protocol on most communications programs should not be confused with the true kermit program from columbia university

Re: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-23 Thread David Wright
, and /dev/gpmdata with MouseSystems in X. Some are pentiums with PS/2 mice, some are 486s with serial mice. BTW, hands off GMT please. We need it here, at least during the wintertime. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-23 Thread David Wright
distributions can include them in there official releases, where as debain can not. Perhaps this is explained by reading their respective release notes carefully. You can't legally publish a piece of software under a less restrictive licence than that under which you obtained it. Cheers, -- David

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread David Wright
something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. This should have a pretty dramatic effect! Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread David Wright
can't help you here. Universities aren't the sort of institutions who want to pay for support of linux. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread David Wright
. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Perhaps you read the man page thinking that move a b means copy a b and then delete a. It doesn't. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

Re: Kernel Install

1998-03-04 Thread David Wright
compiled it for the joystick on a bo system without any problems. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Pine From: address

1998-03-11 Thread David Wright
'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Increasing DOS partition

1997-09-08 Thread David Wright
and backup the partition before you do the dd. I've not had to do this myself as FIPS was good enough to get this right. Good luck. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: 1.2-1.3.1 upgrade and file-rc

1997-09-11 Thread David Wright
as they support yet more new hardware (NCR 53c875 in my case, thank you). Back in 1.1, you had to compile psaux yourself (one of the most FAQs). Thanks for any help and advice, I hope it helps; good luck. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email

Re: dpkg

1997-09-15 Thread David Wright
file name. (Of course, there is always the possibility that you have found a bug) It's also possible that the file has got corrupted. I hope the person who cut the CD remembered to ftp the files in binary mode. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K

RE: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: On 18-Sep-97 David Wright wrote: I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things

X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-18 Thread David Wright
the syntax foo/unix means and can't find any documentation for it (though I've seen it in examples, e.g. page 82 of Mui and Pearce). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)

1997-09-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: David Wright wrote: I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things install

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

1997-09-22 Thread David Wright
has a codename) so I think they've dropped out of the FAQ (they would be in 5.7). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: make-kpkg error....

1997-09-23 Thread David Wright
be legal, the architecture is missing; i.e. .../alpha/..., .../i386/... etc. I have no reasons to offer, however; sorry. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: serial port speed

1997-09-25 Thread David Wright
. Presumably, by now, any software that can't ask for 38400 should have a bug report filed against it. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: X problem after update from REX to BO (detailed error messages now)

1997-09-25 Thread David Wright
running a different Xserver in my private mail - perhaps something I misread in an earlier post.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: IEEE POSIX Standards and Linux

1997-09-26 Thread David Wright
Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Microsoft isn't the answer...it's the QUESTION. Schlieren, Switzerland |``No'' is the answer. 51F35923114FC8647D05FF173C61EFDE|Use Debian GNU/Linux! --8 -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
was that the patch was applied (it's right at the start of the file), but the output was left as /etc/mc.ext and not /etc/mc/mc.ext (this is version 3.5.17-1). So it's enough to copy the former to the latter. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

Re: No Debian updates?

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
with libc6.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X And Video

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
in and type setfont default8x16 whenever I needed a VC, and the same when quitting X. I never found any documentation for memory exclusion, but perhaps it's in the X sources. I now use the machine as a laboratory winlose playground. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
installation floppies will have exactly the same devices. All mine do. Now I feel guilty for complaining that Debian 1.2 only had sdx1 through 8 (which bit me badly). [BTW I think you posted that Because /dev ... didn't you :-) all on one line.] -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

Re: mke2fs

1997-10-01 Thread David Wright
the partition? Do you have (as I do) /dev/sda16 = /dev/sdb /dev/sdb16 = /dev/sdc /dev/sdc16 = /dev/sdd /dev/sdd16 = /dev/sde /dev/sde16 = /dev/sdf /dev/sdf16 = /dev/sdg /dev/sdg16 = /dev/sdh -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

Re: Can't mount root device

1997-10-02 Thread David Wright
off the wall, but there's been a discussion here concerning the fact that /dev/sda16 and /dev/sdb both have the same major and minor numbers. They were having problems with the sixteenth partition (!) on scsi disk one. Perhaps your problem is related? Get rid of /dev/sda16 perhaps? -- David

Re: Time Zone mount points

1997-10-07 Thread David Wright
the correct un*x term is) by being mounted over. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-08 Thread David Wright
nnn.nnn.nnn.xxx for all xxx and it'll appear in your arp table. (If you know vaguely where it is.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Automatic root login after boot

1997-10-09 Thread David Wright
problem (I think it was when perl had problems, maybe a bad link) and edited inittab, the system was fine. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Changing mouse drivers

1997-10-15 Thread David Wright
, you don't need to make any changes to X. It also seems to avoid the problems that some people have reported with their mice when switching between X and VCs. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread David Wright
should find this easy! Just out of interest though, how straightforward is it to reset the CMOS password on laptops that say this is a factory operation? (i.e. is this just a con?) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

Re: hard drive crash

1997-11-04 Thread David Wright
, Idaho Doesn't your college have a library where you can research these things? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Maintaining a Debian mirror via floppy net

1997-11-18 Thread David Wright
to uninstall and reinstall without hitting any snags like updated packages at ftp.debian.org that could cause dependency problems. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

X pointers (was Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball)

1997-11-24 Thread David Wright
effect. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread David Wright
set to a different type. I need to use fdisk to delete the partition and reinstall it. The information written by cfdisk is unusable by DOS. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908

Re: screen snapshot

1997-11-28 Thread David Wright
NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 --8 etc. etc. But I'm glad vga=6 helped you. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Linux, a MicroSoft product? (fwd)

1997-11-28 Thread David Wright
, 22 Nov 1997 03:04:20 GMT X Organization: RainbowHolt X From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-12-03 Thread David Wright
, they will be mounted as 8.3. If you compile out msdos support, you'll be able to mount the floppies as vfat. Shouldn't a bug report be filed against mount? It only makes sense for mount auto to check in the order Specific - Generic, not the other way round. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread David Wright
the commands chattr and lsattr. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread David Wright
people have had cabling problems, others have had to switch off a feature like ultra speed. Perhaps the latter is why upgrading the kernel could make a difference - you get the support for the newer feature in the newer kernel. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton

Documentation of outb() etc.

1997-12-04 Thread David Wright
of the Linux man-pages distribution. stable/Contents... has nothing more than outb(2). Where ought I to look next? Any other references to IO port programming would also be welcomed, thanks. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

Re: Streaming Password: in VC

1997-12-08 Thread David Wright
if you've installed things that modified inittab. That's all it should be. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: pppd disconnects after authenticating

1998-06-05 Thread David Wright
26 19:10:46 sparky pppd[524]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Mar 26 19:10:46 sparky pppd[524]: LCP terminated at peer's request Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: Checking Ports? (fwd)

1998-06-08 Thread David Wright
I don't worry. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: A debian-user question.

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
like something a bit more high-level. Couldn't disagree with another's mention of gnuplot. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only

Re: Multiple IP numbers, one for each Subnet

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 2.0.34

1998-06-10 Thread David Wright
but what does the rest of what would be your /etc/init.d/network say? I only ask because you've played around with newer kernels which do things differently in this file. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-15 Thread David Wright
devices. The point about who can delete files in a directory is of course covered in the FAQ under IIRC I've discovered a HUGE security hole in rm!. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread David Wright
? Simple. Just use shift page up and down. This works at any time, just so long as you don't switch consoles. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: David Wright wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing

Re: Moving from Ethernet to modem

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-29 Thread David Wright
working. Positive confirmation. You're not left wondering whether a lack of error messages means that it all worked, or that the error reporter itself isn't working. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton

RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread David Wright
never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-15 Thread David Wright
as well!). It's refreshing that linux allows one to make such choices. The only thing our administrators know what to do with such hardware is bin it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England

Re: LPRng printer Port

1998-07-22 Thread David Wright
forgot to install the lp module the second time around. I think everything you remembered has a line in /etc/modules; is it there? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: Installing a single package using dselect.

1998-07-22 Thread David Wright
. With a ftp daemon on the debian box I could use the pc as a go between until I get a modem for the beast. (Yea I know I could get a ftpd for win95 but I wold rather go the other way.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

1998-07-23 Thread David Wright
that you've got the right connection setting if it's a combo. I've got several that won't autoselect the BNC, but have to be set to BNC specifically. This might have the same symptoms. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth

Re: starting ppp on host end

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
/ ... in /etc/mgetty/login.config As soon as mgetty receives LCP stuff, it starts PPP. If the nonsense characters contain plenitudinous {{{ characters, LCP stuff is what you're seeing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sda16 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sdb Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread David Wright
raised, except perhaps to say that it isn't in the spirit of unix/linux to prevent you (as root) from trashing the system if you really want to. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-14 Thread David Wright
. Try CTRLvCTRLoENTER -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: DE200 network card

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
to be able to use the ones with DE100 cards at all. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Sendfax errors

1997-02-18 Thread David Wright
of numeric codes and their strings in /usr/doc/mgetty/fhng-codes but the programs already give you the verbose error. alt.fax and comp.dcom.fax are no help - I saw an unanswered request for error codes when I looked. Where ought I to look? David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

Re: Directory structure at Debian

1997-02-20 Thread David Wright
'. This makes Debian even more of a moving target, a bad thing. I already keep all the packages I install on two zip disks, so I can easily clone another machine and know it should work (barring hardware differences). David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7

Re: dselect and lprng...

1997-02-28 Thread David Wright
went to ftp.debian.org and it wasn't there either, except in bo. So it's a mystery to me whence came Opt net lprng none 2.4.2-1, but no surprise that dselect couldn't download it. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Laodable Modules

1997-03-10 Thread David Wright
Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU I hope that's a little help. Good luck. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K

Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.0.27

1997-03-10 Thread David Wright
stage. It certainly did with me. (Or forgetting to clean each time.) I'd be loath to start moving things about in the source tree. Thanks in advance, 73 for now. Dave Loken VE6DJL -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department

Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.0.27

1997-03-10 Thread David Wright
my motherboard, I have little documentation and basically I used the original CONFIG.SYS parameter line to guess what I should respond. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: kernel-config

1997-03-11 Thread David Wright
-dev and then make menuconfig. I certainly managed to configure my mobo soundcard like that. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Module vs Prago

1997-03-18 Thread David Wright
. 4) Don't use auto on things that will make kerneld work hard, e.g. mouse. David. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Network Configuration

1997-03-25 Thread David Wright
, select it as built-in. I hope that helps. Me, I'm replacing my depca cards with 3c509 ones. Depcas worked with pathworks and with netbeui (just about), but they freeze up with PC-NFS after a couple of minutes so I'm calling it a day (as is the Open University). -- David Wright, Open University

NCR53c875 chip in SCSI card won't work

1997-04-04 Thread David Wright
to Viglen and ask for 815 chipped boards to be supplied instead? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: XFree86 Mouse problem on PS2 mouse.

1997-04-07 Thread David Wright
to regain control of the screen once a bazillion inappropriate mouse interrupts are being processed. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Kernel panic

1997-04-07 Thread David Wright
error VFS: cannot open root device 03:03 kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Perhaps you forgot to compile in EIDE support (if you have an EIDE disk, which most modern non-SCSI disks are)? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email

Re: Problem on mounting CD...

1997-04-11 Thread David Wright
this help? Yes, because you've put /dev/hdd in fstab. When you mount, the cdrom link is followed and mount mounts hdd (look at /etc/mtab). When you umount, it finds /dev/hdd in mtab, but /cdrom in fstab, and complains. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7

Re: Install report, finally

1997-04-16 Thread David Wright
partitions. Disks are getting bigger, and some of us need to run multiple OSes. And please don't say you should have more disks, not partitions; that's a decision made by our purchasing dept, not me. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread David Wright
much space is required for the installation may be more difficult than just doing 'df' on each partition and sorting it all out. This calculation seems to me to be just what computers were invented for. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email

Modem documents (was Re: Homer has the ppp blues)

1997-04-18 Thread David Wright
for a start. But what I want is something that does the same for Fax, esp. Class 2.0 (which remarkably is not the same as Class 2!). Does anybody have any addresses? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653

Re: loadlin impacts on W95

1997-04-18 Thread David Wright
config.sys, which I assume is used for the DOS prompt. [LINUX] shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe @C:\loadlin\linux.par [COMMON] rem THERE SHOULD BE NOTHING for COMMON rem move all you have to W95 part -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL

Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-24 Thread David Wright
setup before without any trouble. Anyone have a clue? Perhaps the kernel was nearer the start of the partition. When is lilo going to recognise hard drives larger than 540MB? This is an ignorant limitation. Now that BIOS can read them when is lilo going to be updated? -- David Wright, Open

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-28 Thread David Wright
was squeezing it all into DOS-compatible filenames (and didn't think the instruments concerned would still be running into the next century...). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Directory permissions.

1997-04-29 Thread David Wright
location(!), but only that of its FAQ which is ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/FSSTND-FAQ P.S. I don't see multiple copies of your postings here. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread David Wright
/modules. I can't find anything about them in all the documentation I've read. Does anybody know what they are, or where they are documented? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151

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