Re: Crontab et permissions

plait tout le monde, pour que je puisse le parler mieux.] -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: outil graphique pour relations d'1 db

après les avoir créés, parce que postgresql-autodoc dispose tous les tables à la même position. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0

Re: Installation automatisée : partitionnement

de dynamisme ? Peut-on mettre deux fois la même valeur afin que les tailles soient fixes ? Toute aide sera la bienvenue :) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA

Comment utiliser compose pour produire l'accent circonflexe ?

. (Maintenant j'ai trouvé les minuscules, mais pas les majuscules.) Est-ce que quelq'un peut me donner une liste de toutes les combinaisons, s'il vous plaît ? Au clavier azerty il y a le caractère ù ; est-ce qu'on jamais utilise ça en français ? -- Oliver Elphick

Cours de français [ Re: Comment utiliser compose ]

Anglais, parce que nous avons seulement you. ) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: Cours de français [ Re: Comment utiliser compose ]

pas faire des différences entre ça et l'anglais ( c'est une faute de gnome-keyboard-properties ). Aussi, je ne sais pas quel spécification je devrais choisir pour le français si je pouvais les faire. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: shorewall

exactement. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: shorewall

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:04 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Le routeur est le coupe-feu qui reçoit tous les paquets de l'internet. | Sur le coupe-feu on peut dévier certains paquets à autres machines. On | peut dévier les paquets https à une machine derrière

Re: Configuration DNS avec Bind 9

as the zone default TTL (and which was also standarized in RFC 2308). You may find older documentation or zone file configurations which reflect the old usage (there there are still a lot of BIND 4 sites operational). -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL

Re: Commande sync

on aurait fait sync ; sync ; sync ; reboot il ne faudrait pas assez de temps. De nos jours, ce n'est plus necessaire. Un seul sync est bien assez. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: plusieurs serveurs Postgres : accès par libpq ?

(). Enveloppe tout dans un script : #!/bin/bash VERSION=$1 CLUSTER=$2 mon_programme -p $( pg_lsclusters | grep ^$VERSION *$CLUSTER | awk '{print $3}' ) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: plusieurs serveurs Postgres : accès par libpq ?

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:10 +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: Le mer 17 oct 2007 23:07:37 CEST, Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Enveloppe tout dans un script : Ok, j'hésitais à faire ainsi, mais puisqu'il n'y a pas (pour l'instant ?) d'alternative, je vais suivre le conseil

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

and run `xauth merge Mac_Xauthority'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: permission denied

in the script is failing. If you can't do it that way, check the permissions of every command the script tries to run. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Several Q's

... Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all... It should be even better: you shouldn't have to hold that button down. Use ClearDTR and ClearRTS in the Pointer section of XF86Config. (See `man 5 XF86Config' for full details.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: clueless people on debian-user

worlds. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I think you want the newsgroups to be moderated? (Presumably the clueless can still post direct to the mailing list.) Someone would have to filter the clueless postings out before sending the rest on to the mailing list. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Image Sound

installed some special package? rebuild your kernel to incorporate sound support. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: dtterm

to transfer the termcap settings. If you want it to go into future Debian releases, send the results to the maintainer of the appropriate package; no doubt he will be grateful. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: dtterm

George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: I don't know what dtterm is, but from context it sounds like a terminfo or termcap setting. It is, I suppose, the destop terminal. In its default configuration, when you right-click on a blank area of the destop

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

. debian is a Linux system and has nothing to do with any Micro$oft products. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: dtterm

entry. You probably need to make a termcap entry as well, which should be added into /etc/termcap. `infocmp -C' should produce a termcap listing from the terminfo entry. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: Disk partioning error any idea what this means?

a Microsoft utility on a MSDOS partition. Surely the best place to ask is a Microsoft list? If there's any way that Debian is involved, please give more detail. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Re: error when starting X

this error in the past. Is that indeed the case? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: A ( simple ? ) question about configuration

for xbase is /usr/sbin/xbase-configure -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Unidentified subject!

. Can you boot from your CD or rescue floppy? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: 3FA ???

with the default partition. == -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements

Re: Problems with Cron

crontab file, destroying what was there before. If you use this method to update your crontab, do it like this to preserve your existing set of cron commands: crontab -l /tmp/crontab.me vi /tmp/crontab.me crontab /tmp/crontab.me -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Xsetup_0 does not run when xdm starts on local display

doesn't know that this machine is called linda. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

able to boot from a Debian 1.3.1 CD. I can't tell you the Adaptec BIOS version without shutting down, but I bought this card about the beginning of 1997. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Re: Full Root

that this does not ignore other partitions; the man page leaves me uncertain about its intended effect.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

the original source with Debian changes applied. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

Re: gimp and libXm.so.2

that there is a package gimp-dmotif (which conflicts with gimp). If that is what you installed, it requires Motif. Install gimp instead. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Beginner Question

startx when you are already logged on, to see what messages appear on the (non-X) console. Have you installed xbase? (Sorry - I hope that's a silly question.) Which X server have you installed? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: laser printers and linux

over paper feeding nor has it failed to print anything. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any

Re: [postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

symbol: PQconnectdb == There was a problem in the build of libpgperl. Try loading release libpgperl_6.2.1-7 which will be on master shortly (currently being uploaded to chiark). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem

was deleted and recreated, rather than that its permissions were changed; that would explain the change in ownership and permissions; the directory has the ownership of its creator and the permissions dictated by the owner's standard umask. I can't identify the culprit, though... -- Oliver Elphick

Re: exmh questions

Lee Bradshaw wrote: I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be welcome. I use procmail to write -- Oliver Elphick

Re: IDE CD-ROM-Driver

a booting option for specifying the CD-ROM.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending

mt setblk fails

Is there anything I can do? Is it likely that this drive doesn't support changing the block size? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: command set

at http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html another section is at http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/debian/files.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers

Re: partitioning

. Perhaps instead you could buy a new hard disk to put Linux on? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Login-Warning

, but only if that file already exists. If it doesn't exist, create it (as superuser) with the command `touch /var/log/btmp'. See `man last' for full details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

to the backend? Can you run a debugger to check what is happening? Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. I also do not know how to do this. I will have to study some more documentation to do

Re: debian keeps mail where?

these permissions/ownership: drwxrwsrwt 2 mail mail 1024 Jan 28 18:06 /var/spool/mail or the mail delivery program may not be able to create the file when it has mail to deliver. If none of this helps, you should review all the logs to look for mail handling errors. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Need help

? Basically, you must give more information or we can't help you. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: a MANPATH problem

it. For example: $ su # xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: a MANPATH problem

Oliver Elphick wrote: Check out xauth. You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the X server, so that it can share it. For example: $ su # xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this command

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

is [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I can't remember the subscription request address, but it's in the documentation somewhere. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Installproblem Xfree86.

format libc, which is out of date as far as the bo (stable) distribution is concerned. You appear to be running bo (??) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: xlib6g

. Especially, don't force anything or you may end up with an unuasable system. Look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html and http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: wanted packages

that they fix. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: xlib6g

Britton wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: Upgrading to glibc (libc6) is not that simple. It is a fundamental change which affects a lot of other things. Especially, don't force anything or you may end up with an unuasable system. But is this the correct thing

Re: PS/2 Mouse problem

the = manpages, the FAQ's and many of the HOWTOS and I'm at a loss. Any help = on this would be most appreciated. The correct device name is /dev/psaux -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from

Re: Fatal server error

properly configured for you. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

SGML - can one create new DTDs using Debian tools?

a particular DTD? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Questions...

. (It's also very satisfying to be able to contribute to the distribution I use.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: good morning

and merely need to be configured in when you build your own. The standard Debian kernel contains support for IDE CD-ROM. Even if you have something different, you will probably find a driver for it in the kernel source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: kcore

process.) Originally it was just devices like printers, disks, tapes and memory. With the /proc filesystem, you also have things like lists of interrupts and network parameters. All these things are presented as files, so that you can use routines like open() on them. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Missing Mouse Drivers

, but the fact that you plugged a different mouse in and it worked seems to contradict that. Have you confirmed that the trackball itself is not faulty? Please tell us what the trackball interface is (PS/2, serial, etc.) and whether it has worked before under Linux or not. -- Oliver Elphick

Gimp non-free - gif doesn't work

0.99.18-2 GIF and TIFF support for the GNU Image Manip hi libgimp10.99.18-2 Libraries necessary to run the GIMP -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key

Re: Motif

. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: AOL IM

used and might help you understand what's happening. You are on hamm, so the problem might be to do with mixed libraries: use ldd to find out what shared libraries the executable is wanting. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Binary Directorys

in /bin and /sbin are needed in single user mode when /usr is not mounted. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

. I wouldn't want to do telephone support, considering the time difference... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Commercial support (was Server Questions (fwd))

had to pass on to VMark, but all too often these got ignored. When I finally finished doing support for it, there was still at least one problem that I had reported five years before! It will be very satisfying doing support for a product that we can get changed when it needs it! -- Oliver

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

tried #rdev -R/vmlinuz 1 which Sobell's book says should force Linux to boot with root file system mounted readonly, and got 1: no such file or directory. I am now at a standstill. Any help on what to do next would be much appreciated. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

] !hannah # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

the older libc6-based e2fsck on a 2 GB or greater partition, YOU WILL LOSE DATA. I had problems with that version of e2fsck, EVEN THOUGH (by my calculations) my partition was less than 2Gb (= 2 * 1024^3) by 67Mb. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: K Desktop Environment

. It is a pleasant environment, but not yet very stable. I'm not sure what it has got that should make me change permanently from fvwm. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key

Re: mouse

, which is a PS2 device (it has a small round plug on the end of its cable). If yours is similar, the device should be /dev/psaux and the protocol is PS2. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key

Re: Where can I find pftp?

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], the Date: header is one year slow! Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 02:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Viorel, please check your system clock! I sort messages, and yours end up in the wrong place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: floppy

corresponding to each set. Use `ls /dev/fd*' to list them. Man pages to check: mount(8), mkfs(8), mtools(1), fd(4). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: problem compiling kernel with sound

' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed

Re: Where is routed/gated?

netstd I seem to recall reading recent messages saying that gated has some kind of licensing problem and is not in the distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

adding `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line, so that gcc knows where to look for libXpm. I think that, by default, it only looks in /lib and in /usr/lib. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Compiling TWIN

a library. You don't need the library to create the library - thus no catch-22. You're right. I took a closer look at the output. It is trying to create the libtwin.so file and fails. Please post the relevant section of error output so that we can help further. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Lilo on dual boot system with reformatting

, though rather difficult to grasp at first. binoa1DWLrWET.bin Description: lilo.conf Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof

Re: Mouse Troubles....

contain these lines: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux EndSection -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make

Re: dpkg and dselect

do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes lilo is in /sbin/lilo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot

Re: ... other questions

. Any documentation should be in /usr/doc/visual-tcl. (I haven't installed this package myself, though.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

, that the licence applies to the moc as well as to all the rest of the Qt distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot

Re: Problems w/xboard

problem sounds like a problem with your search path. gnuchessx is in /usr/games, which is probably not in your path, seeing that you are typing the full path name for xboard. Try: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games; xboard -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: RARP on MAC address?

*, use `/usr/sbin/arp -a -n' (the -n returns the IP address rather than the name). I don't think that there is any way to find the IP address of an arbitrary MAC device which isn't on the current network. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [LINUX] Urgent: How to talk to serial device

through the serial port; it requires the site details (such as modem telephone number) to have been set up in configuration files beforehand. 3. To terminate cu once you're connected, type `CR ~.' (return, tilde, dot). For further information, see the info files for uucp. -- Oliver

Re: svgalib won't work

. If not, then I've no idea! (Note to you as system administrator: don't have suid root programs in a user's home directory. Move it to /usr/local/bin and check that the directory permissions are safe. If you aren't the administrator, be prepared to justify your request to create a suid program.) -- Oliver

Re: Summer Time Time Zone

the environment variable, TZ, by a shell command (Bourne-shell syntax): export TZ=Brazil/area The available timezones are files under /usr/share/zoneinfo. Full information in the libc info files, under Calendar Time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: msdos file system

' or whatever. Use `man mount' to see further information. You can also access a DOS floppy disk directly with the commands from the mtools package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

. If you want to run DOS utilities on (unmounted) DOS disks, look at the package mtools, which contains programs such as mformat, mdir, mcopy and so on. To access a DOS disk which you have mounted, use normal Unix commands. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

Joey Hess wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: ... If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why would anyone create such a monster? But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ls debian/ dl/ doc/ gnustep

Re: Compiling the Kernel

not found bootsec.s is assembly code, but you don't have the assembler (as86) available. as86 is in the package bin86. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Postgres

up going horribly wrong. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: sql database

mailing lists. These are archived somewhere at www.postgresql.org. With regard to PostgreSQL at least, you should try to ensure that you are comparing like with like. PostgreSQL has many capabilities that other free databases don't. However, it has to sacrifice some speed to get them. -- Oliver

Re: exim / mh problems

] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompile it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: exim / mh problems

to exim, and exim behaves the same way, I don't see why MH should care. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: trusted hosts in a network

~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) You don't want to use `-h' if your network has any exposure to the outside world! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: root access over nfs

'. Add the option `no_root_squash' to the appropriate line in /etc/exports. `man exports' for details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: problems w/ Lilo

, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

/sr0 Block device 22,0 is the second IDE interface, i.e. /dev/hdc. The /dev/sr0 device should be 11,0. Delete this device and recreate it with the correct major number as posted by someone else. Then it will work. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

`dump' command

The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct multi-volume backups. However, the man page is dated 1993. Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

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