Ah that might be it . I used wvdial and don't recall it
asking about
DNS stuff although ifconfig worked like it should and I could ping some
known
IP addresses. I am impressed with the user friendliness of wvdial though,
its a
really pleasant change after all the weird stuff appare
Subject: Re: why so much hate?
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:39:08PM -0500
In reply to:John Foster
Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Wayne Topa wrote:
I didn't write that! I answered it but damm well didn't say that!
Wayne
> >
> > Subject: why so much hate?
>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:08:38PM +0100
In reply to:Patrick Kirk
Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I like the idea of less time being wasted on repeating the same answers
> again and again. The problem wi
>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Even though I've configured exim, it doesn't by itself arouse pppd,...
>> ...and so it doesn't actually send the messages.
John> You have to run it while connected to the Net. Type 'runq' as
John> root, or put runq in a script in /etc/ppp/
>> "Doug" == Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doug> One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the
Doug> distribution does not have all of the tools that are described
Doug> on the samba site.
Because the package has been broken up.
Doug> There is a file that describes a se
>> "Kent" == Kent Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kent> During installation, you're given an option to install by
Kent> tasks/profiles instead of dselect. Is there any way to access
Kent> this again later?
Unfortunately no. I am currently looking at some way to make this
possible for the next
>> "Michael" == Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael> I really have to step in here. The 'intuitive' argument is
Michael> habitually used to argue against *any* software that doesn't
Michael> conform in every way to the expectation of whoever is trying
Michael> to use it.
Yes, and
>> "Gary" == Gary L Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gary> Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories?
Use package cruft.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "Klaus" == Klaus Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Klaus> one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is
Klaus> there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep
Klaus> the dependent packages or can I build a deb package from the
Klaus> tar file?
The equivs package f
>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..exim as daemon..]
Stephen> Uncomment the "exit 0" line in /etc/init.d/exim.
Also disable it in inetd.conf and reload the inetd config with
/etc/init.d/inetd reload
Ciao,
Martin
Does anybody have any insight (i.e. how to set up and use) on the waveLAN
IEEE ad-hoc mode?
*- On 19 Jul, Gary L. Hennigan wrote about "Finding orphans?"
> Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? For instance I
> just ran an install script for a non-Debian piece of software and it
> put some stuff in /sbin. It had a remove option that seemed to get rid
> of everything but it
I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a Q&A
of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself
this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may also need
some help from the more experienced users to come up with the One True
*- On 19 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Re: Adding users - two quick questions"
> Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
> than useradd?
>
adduser is just a perl script that was written by Debian developers. It
ends up calling adduser as well as taking care of
[03:44:27 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | head -4
Linux NET-3-HOWTO, Linux Networking.
Terry Dawson, VK2KTJ, Alessandro Rubini (maintainer),
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
v1.3, 1 April 1998
Broken pipe
[03:44:56 shaul]$
[03:46:24 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | grep -A27 "Mai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hey all. I'm in the process of constructing a new workstation for myself,
and I would like advice on SCSI hardware. I was looking at the Adaptec
2940UW controller, but I don't really know enough about SCSI to know if
this is the right one for me. What really c
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:32:04PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote:
> Why not have a novice mode in dselect? That way any expert user can plug away
> with
> the current format. new users could have more handholding?
What would you add? The only idea I could think of was allowing the
bottom half of th
Is it possible to use dselect & friends via SOCKS? My machines are on
an intranet and installing the base system (via floppies) is fine, but
the ability to add other packages is eluding me.
If this isn't possible w/ Debian, do you know if any other distros
support it?
--
Dan
Kressin _
Hi,
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> I exported one directory at my Linux to one Solaris 2.5.1 machine. On
> Solaris, I ran 'ln -s /tmp tmp', then ran 'file tmp', it says:
> "readlink error: Invalid argument". However, when I 'ls -l' on the
> Linux, it is fine.
>
> Another problem is
On 19-Jul-99 Klaus Pieper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would
> like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with
> dselect and all the web packages were gone.
> So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep
I've just done this over the weekend, although a little awkwardly. Here's
what I did:
On the machine I want to duplicate:
dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1;}' > installed-packages.txt
Then, for each line in installed-packages.txt, do a 'dpkg-repack '. This will re-create all of the .de
hallo
does anybody knows why the debian instalation process (configuration of pcmcia
support) does NOT find the /sbin/cardmgr for a i82365 controller?
thanks
Hi Wayne,
I like the idea of less time being wasted on repeating the same answers
again and again. The problem with the suggested guidelines is that they are
rational and assume a calm user carefully going through an installation. No
doubt there have been newbies to Linux like that but far more
John Foster wrote:
> . But my system has not CRASHED in 3 years while running Linux, but
> about every other week when running Windows.
> Best Wishes!
Every other week? You're lucky, try every other day, when I uesed it. Although
thats 98, NT might be every other week.
-Aaron Solochek
[EMA
>How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would
>like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with
>dselect and all the web packages were gone.
>So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the
>dependent packages or can I build a deb
>
> I was looking in my mail dir today and noticed my debian-user folder
>exceeds 4 Meg for this month. In reviewing the question and answers
>for the last few days, it seems like there is a lot of wasted
>bandwidth.
How about the once-a-week FAQ that gets posted to high-use newsgroups?
These
> Hi all,
> I have a problem when printing in my printer. All the times after I
> print
> in my printer, there is a page with the following names:
> User:
> Host:
> Class:
> Job:
> How
Subject: How to know latest way of doing things?
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 01:37:14PM -0400
In reply to:Ben Cranston
Quoting Ben Cranston([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Re: the recent exchange on how to add a new userid to a Linux system:
>
> Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I didn't
iOn Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Samuel R. Scarano wrote:
> I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if
> anyone had any advice to give me.
> - Linux-friendliness of manufacturer (e.g., releasing specs on time,
> even helping develop drivers)
As mentioned below, nVidia released ful
Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: why so much hate?
> Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:09:40AM -0400
>
> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > hi.
> > from Altag.
> > I can't figure out why Dselect package
> > ,loving debian so strong, is s
Hi,
How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would
like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with
dselect and all the web packages were gone.
So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the
dependent packages or can I build a deb p
Debian-user
I was looking in my mail dir today and noticed my debian-user folder
exceeds 4 Meg for this month. In reviewing the question and answers
for the last few days, it seems like there is a lot of wasted
bandwidth.
I wondered if there were Guide Lines set up for asking for answers
t
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:32:04PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote:
> Michael Merten wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Carley, Jason (Australia) wrote:
> > > I think that is a little harsh. I totally agree that everyone should read
> > > the docs. However, that does not create an ex
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:56:26AM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't
> find
> anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me
>
> (1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ??
Ctrl-C wil
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Decklin Foster wrote:
>
> Looks a little tricky, but doable. What you'll need to do is copy
> files from a Debian FTP mirror on to your Zip disk or other media, and
Or you could read the 'offline usage guide' included in the later APTs
(http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt)
Jaso
Hi all,
I have a problem when printing in my printer. All the times after I
print
in my printer, there is a page with the following names:
User:
Host:
Class:
Job:
How do I elim
On 19-Jul-99 Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess this is an easy question, but can anyone tell me what device it
> should be to mount a PCMCIA CD-ROM? Thanks!
>
On most laptops it is /dev/hdc. (First ide device, second controller).
Otherwise, place the pcmcia card into the laptop during b
Not sure bout Lynx but ctrl-c out of ping.
|cheshire|newbieyetenthusedlinuxadvocate
-Original Message-
From: Doug Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Setup Issues
>Would someone please tell me where to find info on
Min Xu wrote:
> Hi, there:
>
> A very nice GUI for faxing in linux is Xfax by Kees Lemmens and J.-P.
> Demailly.
> The latest version can be found at ftp://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/pub/dv/lemmens/
> with version 2.08.
>
> I prefer Xfax to other GUIs for efax.
>
> --
> Min Xu
> City College of NY, CUNY
>
Comments below.
Marc
--
Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unix Specialist
Ban-Koe Systems
9100 W Bloomington Fwy
Bloomington, MN 55431-2200
(612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344
--
"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."
-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Sp
I exported one directory at my Linux to one Solaris 2.5.1 machine. On
Solaris, I ran 'ln -s /tmp tmp', then ran 'file tmp', it says:
"readlink error: Invalid argument". However, when I 'ls -l' on the
Linux, it is fine.
Another problem is when I create a directory on Solaris and then want
to cd in
Hello,
asked in the cvs newsgroup but nobody answers. and i am really stuck...
due to a bug, i checked out an old version and modifyed it to match the
regular version without the bug, but now i am stuck
i would like to have this new version in place of the old one, but even when i
try to
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:40:54AM -0500, Jeff Beley wrote:
> Does anyone know of a place to get pgcc debs? I've heard pgcc greatly boosts
> system performance.
There are no debs, but it's pretty trivial to build from source - I'd
recommend using a CVS snapshot rather than a release, though. Ju
Doug Young writes:
> Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't
> find
> anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me
>
> (1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ??
ctrl-C will stop the output and return you to
evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10
minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type
'shutdown now' is this right? i tried all the number combinations in
fstab and nothing works, what should i do?
Fine, I see you both (and others in various posts) advice on using
adduser instead of useradd ... ???
But adduser is for adding an "existing" user to a group ... !!! or is
it?
Uh, well, I'll try it, but I guess I'll have to userdel before and make
sure it deletes all traces of the newly created
Re: the recent exchange on how to add a new userid to a Linux system:
Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
> than useradd?
As a newby myself, this hit a nerve. How are we to know that adduser is
a later (therefore better) version of us
Hi all,
Installing the module as you described below looks like it is going to
work. I am having a problem with matching up the correct kernel version.
I am running version 2.0.39 and the only linux box my friend has is version
2.2.1. Once I can match up versions a insmod should do the trick.
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> Can someone tell my how to convert a DocBook document to HTML ?
Something like this should do the trick:
jade -t sgml -d \
/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl \
your-source-file-here.sgml
HTH,
-Remco
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Joel Gautschi wrote:
>
> > I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update
> > some packages or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian
> > dist. the problem is that I don't have a static connection to the
> > internet (or sth like that) at home. My co
Package: distributed-net-pproxy
Version: 280-2
Severity: normal
startup script seems to be more confued than i am about it. it starts proxy
as user nobody, with running start-stop-daemon. but, "nobody" hasn't got
access rights to /var/run/* or /var/log/*. does that make sense? once
startet, it wa
Thanks!
Patrick
Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? For instance I
just ran an install script for a non-Debian piece of software and it
put some stuff in /sbin. It had a remove option that seemed to get rid
of everything but it'd be nice to have something that would tell me
that /sbin/junk doesn'
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] p?lsson wrote:
> My logfiles are filled by the line "/USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD
> (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a)".
> And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules
> since I have no modules and no module-support in my
Does anyone know of a place to get pgcc debs? I've heard pgcc greatly boosts
system performance.
--Jeff
--
---
Jeff Beley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Network Administrator
PGP Key ID 0x0B2F82FD
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote:
> I have an SB64 Pnp PCI Sound Card. I have problems with configuring it.
> My kernel is 2.2.4. I tried to use pnpdump, but it didn't find my card.
> Maybe because it'a PCI and not ISA ?
That's exactly it: isapnptools only work for PnP cards on the ISA
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:06:59PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> >
> >
> > About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
> user's
> > homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
> > that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user,
Hi,
I guess this is an easy question, but can anyone tell me what device it
should be to mount a PCMCIA CD-ROM? Thanks!
Best wishes,
Chip
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone had any insight as to what might cause
"unresolved symbols". I am getting a large amount of these errors when
running "depmod -a". Thanks.
Mike Christman
p.s. I am using "zlilo".
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ian Stuart wrote:
> There's a package "kernel-package" (warning, dependent on Perl, so you
> won't be able to do apt-based install under Potato).
It's been updated, so it should install correctly no matter if you have
perl-5.004 or perl-5.005 installed.
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> >
> > About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
> user's
> > homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
> > that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
> > you may hav
Subject: Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:19:16PM -0700
In reply to:Doug Thistlethwaite
Quoting Doug Thistlethwaite([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the distribution does not
> have all
> of the
Subject: RE: Bootup logo
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:16:45AM +1000
In reply to:Carley, Jason (Australia)
Quoting Carley, Jason (Australia)([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Wayne. Can I just say that this is a very good way to answer this (or indeed
> many) question(s). It both gives the p
Subject: why so much hate?
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:09:40AM -0400
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> hi.
> from Altag.
> I can't figure out why Dselect package
> ,loving debian so strong, is so antiquate and
> really unfriendly.
>
Subject: Re: problem with .xsession
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:56:52AM -0400
In reply to:Buddha Buck
Quoting Buddha Buck([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I recently made the switch from fvwm to enlightenment as my default window
> > manager.
> >
> > Currently,
Subject: Remove cronjob is safe?
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:30:32PM +0200
In reply to:andreas pålsson
Quoting andreas pålsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello.
>
> My logfiles are filled by the line "/USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD
> (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a)".
>
Samuel R. Scarano wrote:
>
> I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if
> anyone had any advice to give me.
[...]
> Are there better sources of information than the XFree READMEs and the
> Linux Hardware Database (lhd.datapower.com)?
At
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comec
Can someone tell my how to convert a DocBook document to HTML ?
Please send me a recipe because i've already looked at jade, sp and
friends.
Thanks.
--
__
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware.
Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EM
I have a problem with adding a virtual interface to the ethernet card.
I have put an IFCONFIG command in /etc/init.d/network for the virtual
interface:
ifconfig eth0:1 inet 208.21.250.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 208.21.250.255
These are the messages that
Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first
> time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably
> elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere...
>
> I used the build sequence from
> /usr/doc/kernel-sou
Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't
find
anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me
(1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ??
(2)When I try to get Lynx working, it initially seems like its looking
for t
maxalbert writes:
> Since receiving your message, I tried "ping debian.org." It
> responded...
> Once again, however, I'm only able to do this from within pon-poff.
Yes, of course. You are only connected to the Net after running pon and
before running poff.
> I haven't tried adding a default ro
I had the same problem when I upgraded to potato with samba 2.04. There's
probably a better way to do this, but I fixed it using smbpasswd with the
username for each of my users and entered a default password. After that,
it seems to work fine.
Craig
> --
> From: Doug Thistlethw
use adduser.
it gives nice prompts and always works
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's
> home directory was created, and so was the line in
Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
than useradd?
Patrick
ok, get hte package strace.
send that to the debian list .
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I recently installed Slink on a 5-year old laptop that had remained
> unused for some time. This was
I want to remove lg-issue20, but dpkg gives me this perl error message:
Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
/usr/lib/lg/fixlinks line 25.
...
J.H.M. Dassen said In-
Hm. usually the home directory is set up and
created in the adduser sequence.
You usually get something like:
home directory: (/home/$logname)
what you can do by hand is check your
"/etc/passwd" file and make sure the home directory
field
(ie the field before the shell path)
points to an existing
>> I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer
up a bit, and install
>> enlightenment. I don't have much experience with
X... I've installed the X
>> base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and
all it depended on), now
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and install
> enlightenment. I don't have much experience with X... I've installed the X
> base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and all it depended on), now
> what? I did a locate for xf, but didn't find an
I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if
anyone had any advice to give me. (This isn't really Debian-specific,
but I think it's something most of us Debian users care about, so I
figured it would be worth a discussion on debian-user.) I think I'm in
about the same positio
Hi,
all since I installed the netscape 4.50 packages I have had the problem that I
can not close one of several instances without having all of them close on me.
The problem is still there in the latest 4.61 I recently installed.
I have posted about this earlier, and I think somone thought it co
Hey everyone...
I installed apache-ssl via apt-get (potato, etc) the other day, and it
worked fine out of the box, but once I added a name-based virtual host to
the httpd.conf file, it would die as soon as I restart the server... the
vhost section of my httpd.conf is as follows:
--
NameVirtu
>
>
> About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the
user's
> homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
> that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
> you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in /etc/
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi all,
>
> When I add users, they get this when they login:
>
> enterprise login: newuser
> Password:
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> No mail.
>
> Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to
> create default dir
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's
> home directory was created, and so was the line in /etc/passwd:
>
> usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash
>
> But if I try to log in as such user:
>
> login: usermaria
> Ok, I upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel but my Samba still does not recognise my
> passwords
> from my win 95 system.
>
> My old samba configuration used plain text passwords if my memory serves
> me right. I
> think there was a problem with encription of passwords when I first
> installed it. If
> t
*- On 19 Jul, Gareth wrote about "Bootup logo"
> G'day all,
> I have heard its possible to display the linux logo on the
> screen at startup, does anyone know where I can find out HOWTO do
> this?
>
Besides the other linuxlogo packages that have already been mentioned
the 2.2.x kernels can
Michael Merten wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Carley, Jason (Australia) wrote:
> > I think that is a little harsh. I totally agree that everyone should read
> > the docs. However, that does not create an excuse for unintuitive interface
> > design. An app that is designed to co
> Oh, forgot one thing... I don't know what gfx card is in this box, has XF
> evolved since I tried it last, or do I still have to know what card it is?
You should know what video card you have. If it's PCI, then running
'scanpci' will give you the identifier string it responds with -- that
should
I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first
time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably
elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere...
I used the build sequence from
/usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.10/debian.README.gz, which essentially was
"make
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's
homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means
that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but
you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in /etc/passwd
for
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> Hello,
Hi!
>
> after happily setting up exim/fetchmail under slink (may be you remember
> the problems I had last week) I updated to potato today.
>
> Unfortunately I do now not get my mail on the local machine.
> After calling fet
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount
>> > script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount
>> > all the partitions).
>>
>> This should already be in
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:29:03PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Debian Hamm in my computer three months ago. Recently, I
> wanted to install a more recent version of the xscreensaver package, and
> downloaded xscreensaver_3.10-1.deb from freshmeat.net. Before trying to
> inst
I have used this article to set up my home network and it is excellent.
Clear, concise and to the point.
One slight problem...I need to add and remove remote users a lot. Having
all mail flushed into my account and then using a .forward entry for each
user is a little clumsy.
Anyone know if exim
Hi all,
When I add users, they get this when they login:
enterprise login: newuser
Password:
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
No mail.
Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to
create default directories by appending the username to /home?
I need to be able
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 08:33:11PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found
> the following article in the Linux Gazette
> (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for
> me at least), because of the re
There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found
the following article in the Linux Gazette
(http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for
me at least), because of the real world example given. Sofar I have been
less than enthralled with the HOWTOs
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