Re: bash-passwd-PAM scripting

1999-11-03 Thread Deryk Barker
way I'm leaning towards unencrypted passwords in the passwd file. Then it would be stupid simple to use sed, but I'm very uncomfortable with the idea. Try the chpasswd command, it takes a file of user names and new passwords. These can be either encrypted or plaintext. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer

Re: ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
is cool I've had no luck with my ATI All-in-wonder .. I hope you have more. And please report any succeses you get ;). Ah. In that case I don't think I'll be buying it. S3 Virge is presumably a good, safe bet... -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood

GIMP 1.0, gtk rpm

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
. However, there is a gtk-config.txt in the gtk doc directory, which seems to give directions for building your own. Q: are gtk and gtk+ different? Do I therefore need to find gtk? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada

ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-06-30 Thread Deryk Barker
Has anyone used this w X? I have the opportunity to pick one up at a very good price -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: No Shadow?

1998-06-30 Thread Deryk Barker
that my password would expire in -12 days (-13 the day after etc.) I'd had shadowing enabled in 4.2. So, worth a try I thought: so I pwunconv'ed and then pwconv'ed back and - hey presto! - everything seems fine. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood

Re: hardlink vs. symlink

1998-06-29 Thread Deryk Barker
ut removing the data too. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Deryk Barker
desigend and wrote "X" or "the X windowing system". You are at liberty to ignore their wishes, but IMHO if you use their software and still refuse to use their name then you are being both rude and hypocritical. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-16 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Kenyon Ralph wrote: Deryk Barker wrote: [...] As far as I'mn concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its comprehensibililty. That's because you're not supposed to read the raw HTML source, you're supposed

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-15 Thread Deryk Barker
ws this is total and utter nonsense. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |ph

Re: Star Office Wrapper for RH5.0

1998-06-11 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Deryk Barker wrote: I'm unsuccessfully trying to install Star Office 4.0 (sp3) onto my RH5.0. I pulled off the latest glibc and the staroffice_wrapper rpm and stuff. Installed those no problem, wrapper installs star office no problem. Then: I have to run the user

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Deryk Barker
not worried. Just glad to have KDE on *my* desktop. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250

Re: Changing case of filenames

1998-05-22 Thread Deryk Barker
which does more than you want, but it *does* do what you want - and it will recurse, which I don't think any other solution posted so far does... -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened

Re: partitioning strategy

1998-05-22 Thread Deryk Barker
speed with cpu clock speed. The PCI spec only goes up to 66MHz AFAIK, but 83 and above is already fairly common in the marketplace. I believe the original message was concerned with overclocking the cpu chip. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun

PAM configuration

1998-05-19 Thread Deryk Barker
configure PAM? I have no man page (even, as alleged, in section 8) and the web site where the manual is supposed to be is down. Anyone point me in the right direction? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has

Re: Newcomer

1998-05-19 Thread Deryk Barker
and running the program in a virtual 8086 -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452

Re: L I N U X D O W N L O A D

1998-04-28 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Greg Fall wrote: Now all caps is considered rude? In all the years I've been using the 'net it has been considered rude. Not a recent thing. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has

Re: L I N U X D O W N L O A D

1998-04-28 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Steve Glines wrote: Leung Yau Wai wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Deryk Barker wrote: Once upon a time Michael wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, )GhF#k.? wrote: COULD SOMEONE PLEASE SEND ME A LINK SO THAT WHEN I CLICK ON IT, IT AUTOMATICALLY START DOWNLOAD LINUX

Re: L I N U X D O W N L O A D

1998-04-27 Thread Deryk Barker
, afterall, it's very inexpencive If this person does indeed have that much difficulty navigating an ftp site, we'd better get ready for the flood of questions when (s)he starts attempting to install. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun

Re: Linux / JOS

1998-04-27 Thread Deryk Barker
y it shouldn't boot a language interpreter/system which then load the OS on top. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Pushd, Popd, Where to be used?

1998-04-27 Thread Deryk Barker
(~) construct when enclosed in backquotes. For example, if you're in your home directory and you: pushd fred the result of dirs +0 is simply: ~ Unfortunatley if you try, say: ls `dirs +0` you get ~ not found. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music

Re: Linux history help...

1998-04-26 Thread Deryk Barker
write his single-user version, which he punningly called Unics (sic), on a PDP-7 IIRC which was lying unused in a basement. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL

Re: Linux history help...

1998-04-26 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Dave Ihnat wrote: Deryk Barker wrote: (MIT wrote the OS itself) Urh--I thought it was a co-operative effort between GE and MIT? It was grounded in a _lot_ of custom hardware to support the OS features; that was GE's job, nie? Yes, GE provided the GE-645 a modified

Re: USAF C2 shifting from UNIX to NT

1998-04-22 Thread Deryk Barker
of the International Algorithmic Language? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |ph

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-15 Thread Deryk Barker
. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen

Re: Linux in general

1998-04-14 Thread Deryk Barker
. When you start X it occupies "console" 7. And you can get back to the others from X by Control-Alt-Fn...(So if your X locks up you can always get to a console and kill it). -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria

Re: XFree86-3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm

1998-03-17 Thread Deryk Barker
to upgrade it produced first the "is not" and then the "is" response). -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: SIMMs?

1998-03-15 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Rita Meng wrote: You probably have to pull them out and replace with 4 or 8 meg simms. Very cheap. Well, cheap*ish*, as they'll doubtless be 30 pin, which are per-byte significantly more expensive than the current 72 pins. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time David Fisher wrote: enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference between "its" and "it's"? No there are a few of us. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer S