> Pardon me for asking such a simple question, but did you
> remember to switch to xdm-shadow?
Yep... until I did that I couldn't even log in!
> 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm-shadow
>
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
>
> I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or
> ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic.
>
Check out the dd command.
> I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found
> any routines. Aix
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, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem
> > exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you
> > try and use C++. The problem is
I installed Netscape 3.01 (not via dpkg) on a mostly Debian 1.1 system,
with a few libraries and fonts from 1.2. When I bring up popups, like
the "open" button, it appears as a thin line on the screen. I have to
resize it to see what it says. Popup error messages appear as a very
small box tha
There's always dd.
--emk
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> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:54:03 -0500
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At the moment remote users who finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
told that I have no plan. However if I finger telmerco while logged onto
terrapin, I get to see my .plan (pgp key). I recall fiddling with cfingerd
and noticing that you could restrict remote users but c
On Apr 1, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote
> I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or
> ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic.
>
> I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found
> any routines. Aix has a function calle
>From: Douglas L Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 1997 2:27 AM
[chop]
>
>What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward
>the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to
>be an option to do this when the smail package is
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > "Gertjan" == Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Gertjan> "Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Open up your info reader;
>
> Gertjan> Don't get me started on info!
>
> Why not? Elucidate.
I think inf
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem
> exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you
> try and use C++. The problem is quite simply that C++ has no standards for
> binary class layout and no
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The big problem for me is that if the packaging systems converge then so
> will the filesystem layout and the way many services are implemented. This
> reduces the freedom of two distributions. I don't see this as
> strengthening anyone.
It depends... t
> Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is?
I think the major problem was that it was not close to release when we made
the decision for 1.3 - the shadow module was well-tested, but some of the
other modules were not working.
Bruce
--
Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PR
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I have just finished recompiling the kernel (2.0.29, Debian 1.3) to
include the awe-drv. This worked quite well and the kernel booted
properly. My AWE32 sound card works as it did before (ie. cat foo.au
>/dev/audio plays foo.au). However, the AWE synth device see
There's an upgrade for the BIOS of the Promise 4020-1 VESA controller that
allows LBS devices. Has anyone gotten this upgrade, and can they confirm
that it works in Linux? (The information on their web page hints that it
would only be usable in an MS OS)
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Hi,
>>"Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it
Adam> comes up with "Login incorrect" as it should but if I put in the
Adam> right passwd it all but logs in and then goes back to the xdm
Adam> login window... I can login vi
I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or
ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic.
I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found
any routines. Aix has a function called iconv.
I could build my own conversion tables,
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wrote a week or so ago about getting the screen to suspend/turn off.
> Many replies (correctly) said to use 'Option "power_saver"' in XF86Config.
> Within 5 minutes, I had it working. The problem is, I haven't been
> able to get it to work since! The
I wrote a week or so ago about getting the screen to suspend/turn off.
Many replies (correctly) said to use 'Option "power_saver"' in XF86Config.
Within 5 minutes, I had it working. The problem is, I haven't been
able to get it to work since! The one thing different from many that
posted is that wi
unsbuscribe
On Mar 31, Gertjan Klein wrote
> > If you type, say, "g" then M-p repeatedly you get
> > all command lines that begin with "g". I use this *all* the time, as
> > an alternative to "!g" because it lets me see if I got the right
> > command line before I hit Enter.
>
> Still, none of this eve
Hi Harmon
One of my students has a powerpc Apple that runs Linux. The port was
done by Apple and is sold by Apple. He says it does very well indeed.
I can't answer the question about Debian distribution availablity.
--David
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Hi
==
I am using Xplaycd and Xmixer (from multimedia package) to
listen to my CDs and all works fine.
But when I try to use the cd database (right mouse button)
the message.
cddb resource is not set.
Using current directory.
appears.
I have already put the line
xplaycd*cddb:
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Frank Swasey wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
>
> > What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward
> > the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to
> > be an option to do this when the smail package
hi all. I'm a newbie in Linux. Now I bought the infomagic company's 6 CD set.
But I found there are too less help about how to install the Linux in CDs.
I have some question. I found the diskimg of base system, but I don't
know how to install other's packages( I can not found the disk img file
of
Hi,
I've got a BIG problem with my linux (DEBIAN 1.2 + Accelerated X).
When I run the X system (with startx), my system stop to work a few
minutes later, especially if I try to run emacs or xemacs.
What I mean by stopped system is:
- The mouse doesn't move anym
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.
There appears to be quite a bit of info on upgrading from 0.93 to 1.1, b
but I can'
On 30 Mar 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>debian-user-digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 56
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>Today's Topics:
>tset?
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>Lilo and CDROM
>
Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> The kernel image package won't fit
> on a single floppy, so I used the 'M' option for tar. When
> trying to read the floppy, tar dumps core.
I haven't been able to get tar working with multiple disks. Try using
cpio instead.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Starke) writes:
> 1.) i can`t find a file called 'man.config' on my debian 1.2.6. So
> what should i do? (i need it for configuration stuff)
There doesn't seem to be one. But dpkg -L man suggests
/etc/manpath.config.
> 2.) Normal users (members of the group 'ppp') shou
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward
> the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to
> be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured.
I don't know if you can do it wi
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote:
> 2.) And there is a second question. I have a 'ppp-on' file in /bin
> (it's my ppp-chatscript). Owner is root, group is ppp. Permissions are
> -rwxr-x---. When trying to start it as root i get the following:
>
> bash: /bin/ppp-on: No such file or directo
Hi,
has anybody used dbview ? There is no manual entry, no info entry and the
dpkg --status output give no real information to use the command.
JP L
Jean-Paul LACHARME. GREQAM UMR 9990 au CNRS, Centre de la Vieille Charite,
2,rue de la Charite,F13002 MARSEILLE FRANCE. Tel:0491140731/Fax:049190
>when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal login is
>about to occur, the server flashes, and then the console login reloads?
>
>i've seen that and yes its a permission issue.
Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it comes up with
"Login incorrect" as it should
> [..]
> Is new to me.
>
> I assume you are makeing netscape print postscript, and then have
> gs-aladdin turn that into hp500c language for your hp550c?
>
Yes, netscape print postscript troght lpr with magic-filter for my HPIII
> If that is so, (or otherwise), maybe the postscript file itself (
On Mar 28, Kai Grossjohann wrote
: > Eloy A Paris writes:
:
: Eloy> I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path
: Eloy> name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire
: Eloy> filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT
: Eloy> present.
:
: upd
I have a pretty unreliable internet connection to the SMTP server I have
pine configured to use (and to anywhere else on the internet, because I
use uu.net). Anyway, ISP ranting aside, I get really frustrated when I'm
zooming through my mail and I send a quick reply but I have to wait 5
minutes wh
> I'd say the more immediate problem has to do with ease of initial
> installation and security issues. I'm still undecided as to which
ease of use is probably what debian has to strive. If not for my patience,
i would have given up a very good distribution
> Debian 1.3 has shadow support built in, last I heard. It's just gone into
> testing. I agree you have to install a few packages to make it work in 1.2,
> but this is not a big deal.
Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is? It's
already pretty well tested... I don't see
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote:
> Still, while the list does exist, it doesn't appear on the list of lists
> that comes with the subscription failure notification. Which raises the
> question: what happened to debian-admintool (for rantings and whinings
> about dselect)? It was mentio
Hi.
Just recently I upgraded my home machine to shadow (with the debian
packages in experimental) to see what would be involved in swapping over
our servers, it went remarkably painlessly. :)
I have two main questions:
1. I was under the impression that daemons needed to be recompiled in order
t
Hi
I wrote a while ago about having a problem with debian ac missing days.
There were two suggestions. One that our Cyclades ports with six character
names (ie. ttyC21) where munging things or two that the method that we were
using to rotate our log files was messing up the wtmp.
I have just ins
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Apr 1, Joseph Skinner wrote
> > Hi
> >
> > I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found
> > after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there.
> >
> > The missing packages include
> >
> > libc6*
> >
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Are there any plans to package KDE (www.kde.org) or any of it's
components?
I am particularly impressed with kdm -- a _dropin_ replacement for xdm
that looks *very* nice and includes support for nice logos (like the
debian logos) and for a optional shutdown butt
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> Have you read the Key-Setup mini howto? It explains how to do just this, and
> it works with X and Motif programs.
>
Thanks! I guess I missed that one. One thing though for everyone in
general (
> "Joe" == Joe Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> I am having a hard time getting xdm to work the way I want.
Joe> I want to start one 8bpp and one 16bpp display. My Xservers
Joe> file has lines like this:
Mine looks like this:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -defergly
(this bounced the first time)
I am having a hard time getting xdm to work the way I want.
I want to start one 8bpp and one 16bpp display. My Xservers file
has lines like this:
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08 -verbose -bpp 8
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -verbose -bpp 16
(I have tried ma
This is a follow up to my previous problem since i have not given up.
I tried to download file to /dosa mounted on /dev/fd0. The result
was as good as downloading to /dev/hdc1 ( so floppy can do better than
my /dev/hda ?? of course i do not believe it).
After a few days, I started to think about
Check out www.mklinux.apple.com
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> Hello all. I am stuggleing to get my keyboard set up to work in X and
> on the console consistantly. Basically, I would like the Backspace
> key (above enter) to cause the previous character to be erased and the
> delete key (to the rig
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Hello all. I am stuggleing to get my keyboard set up to work in X and
on the console consistantly. Basically, I would like the Backspace
key (above enter) to cause the previous character to be erased and the
delete key (to the right of enter) to erase the chara
Has Linux been ported to the Apple Power PC (i.e. not the 68000 but the 601?).
If so, is it in the Debian distribution?
Thanks in advance for the info :).
-- Harmon
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, smorrill wrote:
> I have a base Debian system installed from floppies on my 586 133mhz.
> My hd is partitioned for Windoze95 and for Debian. I ran fips, am using
> a boot mgr, everything going fairly well until I get to the point of
> trying to get my cdrom running under lin
I have a base Debian system installed from floppies on my 586 133mhz.
My hd is partitioned for Windoze95 and for Debian. I ran fips, am using
a boot mgr, everything going fairly well until I get to the point of
trying to get my cdrom running under linux.
Please help, 'cause I'm rippin' my hair o
Debian 1.3 has shadow support built in, last I heard. It's just gone into
testing. I agree you have to install a few packages to make it work in 1.2,
but this is not a big deal.
One thing you should consider is how much "systems" work you do on Linux.
For example, if you are building a lot of free
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
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