On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:04:21 PDT Robert DeLine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 1.3 on a Gateway 2000 with 2 2 Gig SCSI Hard
> drives, a Toshiba SCSI CD hooked up to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adaptor.
FYI, I use an Adaptec 2940UW with 3 devices connected to it (Wide
disk,
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:42:21 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Does anyone know of any software that reads/writes Multisession CDs?
The cdrecord package supposedly does that. It's currently in unstable, but last
time I checked it installed on a bo system. I haven't tested it thou
On 09 Jul 1997 23:00:27 +0200 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
e.de) wrote:
> Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the
> > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (l
On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:55:00 PDT "Eliezer Figueroa"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Someone can explain me what is POP3 mail and what I can do with it.
It's a protocol which allows someone to fetch mailbox contents remotely
(without logging in and soing `mail' or 'elm').
Phil.
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On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:22:35 PDT "Eliezer Figueroa"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 1. What is IP Masquerading?
It's having a machine doing forwarding while pretending all the
connections it forwards comes from itself. It serves hinding subnets
or machines from the ouside (for example because yo
On 09 Jul 1997 22:18:10 +0200 Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
onn.de) wrote:
> No, definitively not ("file /usr/sbin/wn" shows "/usr/sbin/wn: ELF 32-bit LSB
> executable, Intel 386, version 1, stripped") -- BTW, it's a web server.
>
> I got another tip to look after a missing library and tr
I know this is not related to debian, but...
1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the
console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like
root) should be always accessible.
2) I have amd which download its maps from a NIS server. If the NIS
server i
On Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:55:28 +0200 "Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A
FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Probably a stupid question: Where could I find XV. Even if I
> install xview from the package, I can't call xv.
Xv never meant xview. Xv is xv. Xv belongs to the xv package.
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 23:56:01 EDT "Kevin M. Bealer" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Speaking of xload, where did it go? I'm sure I saw it is still
> available somewhere, but why doesn't it come standard with the rest of
> X anymore?
It used to be in xcontrib and now is in xproc.
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On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 21:38:22 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Does anyone know of a program that makes disk images from CDs, and can write
> them to another disk? Preferably a byte-for-byte copy.
Err, I not sure to understand what you mean but:
1) mkisofs allows you to build
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 17:23:04 CDT Kevin J Poorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage?
The build will complain at the end.
Then you just have to type 'make bzImage'.
> Reason for asking
>
> I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try
On 07 Jul 1997 13:23:32 PDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I was trying to set up bind for a small (half class C) subnet, and
> bind seemed to refuse to do the reverse lookups for the subnet unless
> I set it up to handle the entire C subnet. Is there some kind of
> masking trick I'm
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:19:36 PDT Stephen Witt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to set diald up at home. I'm using Debian 1.3. My
> network connection is a modem using PPP to my ISP. My ISP
> dynamically assigns both local and remote IP addresses for this
> link. I've been usi
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On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:43:55 +0200 Alexander Kjeldaas
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Would something like SWIG be what you're looking for?
>
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/
>
> Don't know if there's a debian-package for SWIG.
There is one in hamm/contrib.
And it should work in a bo syst
On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 19:48:11 EDT "Robert D. Hilliard"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> During the base installation, as part of configuring the network,
> the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the
> network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored
On Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:13:06 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Are there any examples available of making debian packages? I figured
> there would/has been a lot of questions about it, and was hoping someone
> has provided a brief example of a debian package being made.
Look at the hello p
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 16:49:14 CDT m* ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Dave Cinege wrote:
> >
> > I call upon you Kernel gods. You see, it will not end by itself. Please put
> > the words "and 3c90x" on the vortex driver line in the configs. (Or someone
> > submit a patch. I don't know how)
>
> are t
On Thu, 03 Jul 1997 03:27:15 MDT Anthony Fok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> which describes the EPSON Stylus COLOR printers support in Ghostscript
> 4.03. The Stylus COLOR printer driver was written for older models, but
> they work with newer models including COLOR 500, 600 and 800, up to
> 720x
Well I still get:
ERROR: File not found
Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored.
ERROR: File not found
Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored.
But the files are there...
Whatever, it seems to be working ok...
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[stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg]
What version of the bootdisks do you have ?
You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have
something very wrong.
I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch.
Phil.
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On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:44:00 EDT "Lalovic, Drazen"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have recompiled 2.0.29 Kernel to enable IP forwarding and firewalling.
> When I try to configure ipfwadd it tells me:
> ipfwadm: setsockopt failed: Protocol not available.
> Does somebody have a solution for this p
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:27:30 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[stuff about SIGSEGV w/compiling kernel]
> I have gotten this once before. I just did a 'make clean; make dep; make
> zImage' and it compiled okay... as to why this happens I don't know.
These kinds of unreproducible errors when c
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:11:32 CDT Zachary DeAquila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.org) wrote:
> I thought I'd build a nice slim 'n trim kernel for one of my
> machines... so I went and did a make config, then did 'make zImage'
> and got:
[snip]
And you probably forgot to make clean and make dep in the ac
> $>route
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> localnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 02
You probably want to add a route to your machine like
route add -net 192.168.1.0
Phil.
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:25:05 PDT Adam Klein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm running a Debian 1.3 system on a fairly small hard drive, so I don't want
> to install X. However, many console-based programs require that xlib6 be
> installed. What should I do?
You'll have to install xlib6.
You can
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:35:59 BST Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
[snip]
> I compiled the 'module' and did an insmod. Lo and Behold my CDROM drive
> worked. I'm impressed. It took some digging, but I got it to work.
>
> Now. The only problem I have is that when I insmod the 'module' I get a
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:18:09 EDT jim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
> day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
> Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
> I've ever seen.
>
> Is anyone out there r
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:38:38 PDT "Udjat." ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have been getting general protection: for a long time an I really
> want to get to the bottom of this. It seems to allways be kswapd. This log
> came from a less than 24 hour clean install of debian. version 1.2.10. Now
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:12:00 EDT "Lalovic, Drazen"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have recompiled the kernel to support IP forwarding. One of two 3C509
> Cards that I have on my machine works. What is required to get my second
> Ethernet Card working?
> I have tried to add the append="ether=11,0
On 26 Jun 1997 21:25:39 +0200 Emilio Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
nchen.DE) wrote:
> BM> Maybe the X people could work on better interaction between
> BM> programs and the X server to add this later.
>
> >From what I've heard, this is something non-trivial. Only SGIs have a
> X-server that can suppo
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:31:39 BST "G. Kapetanios" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I accidentally sent a job to the print queue while the lpd daemon was
> running . I have no printer and no printer support in my kernel . Now I
> get a message from modprobe about the module char-major-6 not being
>
On 23 Jun 1997 21:35:18 +0200 Emilio Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
nchen.DE) wrote:
> Not everybody want a X server running on the display by default. For
> example, I may want my Debian box to serve X to *other* machines. Or
> if I setup the Debian box as an Xterm, I may want to have xdm
> startin
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:59:10 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> you don't need the available file. The status of your system is in status.
> >Just remove the available file, and fire up dselect.
> thanx for the tip.
> But I recieved the following error(s)
> When I did as you suggested.
> I really n
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:07:07 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I seem to have a "slight" problem.
> I was upgrading the available list.
> When I my computer, locked up and I had reset.
> Anyway the problem is now that I can't do anything with the available file,
> its only about half there
> I t
Anyone got this thing to play an audio cd ?
I can read and write cd-roms, but as far as playing audio cds, I've
got SCSI errors and SCSI bus resets...
Is this thing SCSI-II compliant ?
Phil.
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:41:48 EDT Richard Morin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ave.ca) wrote:
> I was wondering if someone might tell me the best place to put ipfwadm
> commands into my boot procedure.
I found /etc/init.d/network the most appropriate place.
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:55:41 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> One wants a firewall to
> 1. not require logging into the firewall computer itself (TIS requires
> this)
> 2. not require putting new (1 line changed then recompiled) ftp,
> telnet, ... on the computers behind
Please don't send binaries on the list ! Especially big ones !
Next time someone asks for XFree3.3, I'll send all the debs ! :-)
Thank you.
Phil.
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On 15 Jun 1997 17:09:46 CDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > cd /usr/local/lib/netscape
> > ln -s /path/to/nescape/files/*.jar .
> >
> > That fixed the error messages. Hope this works for you,
> > Dennis
>
> Nope, still get the encryption error, but thanks for the effort.
Yep. Nets
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:25:31 MDT "Marcelo E. Magallon"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope
> somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux
> program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a ref
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:46:07 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.net) wrote:
> I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'.
> Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ?
> I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in
> /usr/src
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:59:43 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then the message appeared: message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] EXT2-fs panic
> (device
> 02:00): ext2_writeinode: unable to read i-node block - inode=2, block=
> 858796085.
Just a corrupted floppy.
Major block device 2 is floppy.
Just ign
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:53:32 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'. I am
> hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
> solve the problem. My recent confrontation was when I installed
> mpeg_play. The
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:57:38 -0300 Mario Olimpio de Menezes
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> After upgrade to 1.3.0, I can't get modules loaded at boot time.
> Strangely, depmod -a didn't create modules.dep but a empty file.
> The /etc/conf.modules seems ok, as well as, /etc/module
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:58:28 +0800 Lu Jimmy Chenji
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I just upgraded my Debian packages from 1.2 to 1.3. It went
> quite smoothly but diald won't function any more. I used my
> previous "connect" script and diald.conf file. I just added
> "include /etc/diald/standar
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:48:52 CDT "Dave Cinege" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I was playing in fdisk, and like an idiot deleted an extended partition.
>
> This is a brand new set-up that I just finished, and I didn't save a map of
> the partitioning yet, so I need o layout to build rebuild.
If
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:48:11 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
com) wrote:
> >On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >wrote:
> >
> >> So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources
> >> & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd
> >> /usr
On 10 Jun 1997 21:37:03 CDT stephen farrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> So I've got kernel 2.0.30 running[1]. And I've got the kernel sources
> & headers for 2.0.30 installed[2]. Now I cd
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound. I run make config, and then I run
> make. I copy the resulting sound.o
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:12:52 PDT Brad Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
[snip]
> So, I decided to try out slocal. I created a .forward file that looks like:
> "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr"
> as well as
> "| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr || exit 75"
>
> One definite problem that I noti
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:26:39 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:37:02 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> >> How do I get diald to hang up after a period of idle connection? I've
> >> had no trouble getting it to dial on demand, but then it just stays
> >> connect
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:37:02 PDT Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How do I get diald to hang up after a period of idle connection? I've
> had no trouble getting it to dial on demand, but then it just stays
> connected, even when I leave the connection idle for long periods.
>
> Would pppd's lcp
On 10 Jun 1997 09:59:35 +0200 hogendoorn r.a. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am trying to rebuild python, using libc6.
> During the build of the python-misc package, I get an error from
> dpkg-shlibdeps
>
> "unknown output from ldd on dlmodule.so: --list (0x)"
This is a change in the d
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 22:49:22 CDT "Tim O'Brien" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> Ok, I finally have to break down and ask a potential dumb question: What
> the heck is a 'broken pipe'? I get these from time to time on my Debian box.
Err, first what is a pipe ?
A pipe a channel between two processes:
On 09 Jun 1997 14:59:17 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have a machine that is set up with an NFS and I was able to
> mount it's drive one time on my ethernet at home but not after that.
> The host.allow and host.deny are set up and the exports file has an
> entry somethin
On 09 Jun 1997 14:43:36 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to
> monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to
> run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any
> applications on X via
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:43:14 +0200 "Miguel A. Arranz"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my
> system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to
> 1.3. I have two questions about it.
>
> 1. From the announce
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 09:40:38 CDT Timothy Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press
> a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse
> if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the whole
> system because t
On Sun, 01 Jun 1997 12:32:14 PDT Robert de Forest ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> By default most linux distributions request and almost require that the
> user setup a swap partition. What is the advantage of swapping to a
> partition rather than swapping to a file? In my machine I have a /swap
>
On Thu, 01 May 1997 11:58:53 PDT Michael J Devine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have
> access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given
> these helpful hints:
[snip]
> I did all this, and when I executed the nf
On Thu, 01 May 1997 01:32:53 CDT Jesse Goldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ov) wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of ldd before. Unfortunately,
> when I tried "ldd linuxxdoom", it resulted in:
>
> ldd: Cannot execute linuxxdoom (Binary format error)
Recompile the kernel with support for
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 05:13:55 EDT "Peter Iannarelli" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I installed 2.1.36 yesterday and got the same message at
> boot time. ( changing owner of /dev/tty1, 2 ) I could however
> still log in.
There's a bug in 2.1.36 in fs/inode.c. There's one line patch
somewhere on
Is Linux with SMP more stable in 2.1 than in 2.0 ?
I have random lockups under heavy load. I've tried the shed.c patches
from Leonard Zubkoff on the linux-smp mailing-list without any
success...
If yes, which 2.1 version is ok ?
Does debian (hamm) works ok with 2.1 ?
Thanks for any info !
Phil
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:04:48 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status.
> So now I can't manipulate anything? Is this a feature?
> (What can I do?) This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford
> to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right.
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:53:16 +1000 "RL Deppeler" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
u) wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to grant a user ftp access using a
> password/username while not permitting telnet/login access?
Add the user in /etc/passwd with a shell /usr/local/bin/nologin.
Create a shell scri
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:17:02 - "Martin Bialasinski"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have build a custom kernel.deb package and successfully installed
> it. The package also installed a System.map file. Obviously this file
> has some symbol to memaddress infos and is different in a kernel wi
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:35:15 MDT Jason Ish ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> This may be possible but I'm still getting a grasp on all the unix =
> utils. I would like dpkg to make a master list of everyfile that it has =
> installed, then have linux make a list of every file on the system =
> (excl
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:44:41 EDT "Christian Hudon"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Apr 18, Philippe Troin wrote
> >
> > Yes, of course. Pick a GID, replace /dev/fd0 by /dev/cdrom (or
> > whatever the cdrom device is), and replace the gid=25 by something
> &g
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:23:08 -1000 David & Melody Bohn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Why do I keep getting a "Fatal Error: Cannot seek on disk
> drive" message during the "Partition The Hard Drive" portion of the
> installation of Debian version 1.2. When I "View the Partition Table"
> this is t
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:11:04 PDT Michael J Devine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Through the diligent efforts of this support list, I have nearly conquered
> the nis problem... almost.
> I have the two machines (server and client) talking, but only insofar as
> sharing a password file. The user c
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:31:56 EDT "Christian Hudon"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Here it is: man mount.
> > Explained a little further:
> > add a line like this in /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,uid=0,gid=25,noauto,user,umask=007
> >
> > Now everyone can mount and umount the flopp
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:34:16 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ishkill.ibm.com) wrote:
> What would be the best way to mount a floppy drive and have it
> readable and/or writable by ONLY 2 users ?
> I notice that after I mount the floppy I can't change the mode to
> have it readable by a gro
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:00:00 +0200 Wichert Akkerman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > This thread is being issued to provide all individuals and
> > organizations an opportunity to voice their requirements
> > and concerns. So fire away. Keep it short and terse.
>
> Here's a simple one: the abilit
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:34:53 +0300 Vadim Vygonets ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> Well, in vi you can do:
> 1GGo to the beginning
> :%s/129.168.1/129.168.200/(if I remember it right)
> Still better...
To be a purist, the 1G isn't necessary.
But your regexp will also
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:30:24 EDT "Eloy A. Paris" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ll.com) wrote:
> I would like to know which program Debian users recommend me to use.
>
> I am a little bit concerned about using dump since I read this in the
> changelog file in /usr/doc/dump:
>
> I remind you that du
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What I missed most, and missed on years of word processors, is the
> trivially easy manner of making compound, repeated, commands. I
> know it's possible in emacs, but i've found no-one whom I could ask
> who could tell me.
For emacs, C-x ( starts recording, C-x )
On Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:47:54 PDT Ken Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> During a dump I noticed these messages in /var/messages:
>
> Apr 9 13:17:18 keng-ppp kernel: [046]ftape-write.c (write_segment)
> - warning: 1 hard error(s) in written segment.
>^^^
On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:54:48 +0200 Peter Bodnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> i have a problem vith diald daemon..it start correctly, set up
> slip line ant others, but..if i try connect to site out of my
> internal network, nothing happend...diald NOT START ppp daemon
Which v
On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:35:43 PDT "Kingsley G. Morse Jr."
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.
>
> I think this may be caused by a bug in the 2.0 version of the bash shell. I
> seem to remember gettin
On Thu, 03 Apr 1997 22:44:59 EST Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What's the best X based program to use to view mpeg/avi etc... and where
> can I find it?
There is xanim in non-free, and mpeg_play in graphics.
Beware that mpeg_play is a little bit out-of-sync (still a.out !).
Xanim cannot play
On Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:11:49 EST James W. Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I've seen this question before, but didn't memorize the answer, 'cause I
> though it would be obvious. Now that I want to go from 1.1 to 1.2,
> I looked at the faq and a number of other files and can't find anything.
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:20:19 EST Ralph Winslow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I find my self guilty of the charge above, in that I've blown away
> /usr/lib and have therby left myself with a nearly unusable system.
> I'd thought that I was in usr/lib/sound when I did a rm *, but I was in
> /usr/lib
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:39:39 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist
> sort < searchlist > files.search
> comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search
Which can be abbreviated with zsh to:
comm -1 -3 <(sort searchlist)
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:04:38 CST Ramasubramanian Ramesh
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have the following problem which makes diald difficult to use. I have a
> straight forward installation of debian with options (diald,ppp) file adjusted
> to reflect my setup. Whenever I fire a network needy
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the
> Debian 1.2.4 release?
Add:
*customization: -color
to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources, or to your .Xresources
Phil.
On 21 Mar 1997 18:31:00 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wrote:
> > But why is it undocumented?
>
> Philippe Troin writes:
> > This file is in /usr/lib, it's an internal command. It's most likely
> > you'll never have to use it by hand. It's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I recently installed the basic development files - gcc, cpp,
> binutils, libs, and libs-dev. When I tried to compile a program with
> just a cout line it says iostream.h: no such file...
Did you invoke the compiler with g++ or gcc ?
For compiling C++ programs, you s
On 21 Mar 1997 14:48:27 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Phil. writes:
> > This command is used by updatedb to compress the locate database.
> > Don't worry about it :-)
>
> > You could have done:
> > $ dpkg -S frcode
> > findutils: /usr/lib/locate/frcode
>
> But why is it undocumented?
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:52:51 EST Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> If anyone wants to be a saint and send me copies of any of the
> following I would appreciate it. I don't want to download the whole
> packages over my modem just for a few files.
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fvwm2.conffile
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:04:05 EST "St. Johns Computer Center"
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've been getting this message mailed to me everyday for the past month or
> so, does anybody know how to fix this?
>
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> /usr/sbin/dwww-doc-inde
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 06:46:22 PST Ken Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Walked up to my machine to find the disks crunching merrily along,
> so did a ps and found that updatedb was running; no problem. But
> I also saw this entry:
>
> 398 ? S 0:00 frcode
This command is used by upd
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:40:01 EST Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> I was running the checksecurity program by hand after adding the types
> vfat and supermount(not really needed) to the list of types to skip in the
> checksecurity.conf file and I got a kernel-panic.
You probably have
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:36:13 MST Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.ca) wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> > It sounds great... but what about those of us without a gus? :)
>
> Well, porting over the digital mixer would be interesting, doable very
> quickly -- just don't cry whe
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:23:23 MST Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.ca) wrote:
> I noticed that there are several mod player packages in the debian
> distribution and I was wondering how populare something like that is with
> the linux crowd?
It is. Unfortunately, most of them are console-based
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm new to Linux, how can I be sure there is no way for others to get
> in to my machine when I am in a PPP session?
Disable inetd and rpc.portmap.
You might also want to disable sendmail, sshd, etc... depending on your
configuration.
To check if there are any proces
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:27:01 EST Matt Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> At 11:11 PM 3/19/97 -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> >Either:
> > find -type d | xargs chmod a+rx
>
> I'd use "find -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;"
This will spa
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 23:00:18 PST Thought ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
> I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
> directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
message doesn't arrive...
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:48:54 EST "Brian S. Julin" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > Congratulations, you've found a big *nix security flaw !
>
> Hardly. It's only a flaw to people who hav
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:00:27 EST Rob MacWilliams ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob
> and then su, I can't
> get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
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