exports(5) manpage

None of my systems (all running unstable) have a man page for /etc/exports - am I missing a package somewhere, or is this a bug? I expected it to be in nfs-server or nfs-common, both of which I have installed, and there's no sign of it in either. bfn, Joseph -- Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK

dependency questions

Hello!, I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it said that it depended on libglib1.2.6 but libglib1.2.6 is not in

segmentation fault

just installed linuxconf, but then i try to start it reports: Segmentation fault. How could I reinstall it correctly? |{.f|.

Re: Computer won't start

however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced any problems. have you done anything od

Re: restricting logins on tty1

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote: > As for why we're using group "root" and not "wheel," there's a little note > from RMS in the su man page... check it out. (Personally I disagree with > that thinking on this, but that's where the explanation is.) Actually it's in the su info page. I thought it

/etc/limits

OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I restrict a user's max virtual memory usage? Not sure if anyone else has seen it, but there's a DoS exploit around (which will actually eat up just about any *nix box AFAICT, if there are no resource limits in effect) which eats u

Re: restricting logins on tty1

OK thanks for the info... I seem to have /etc/login.access working now. The problem was as you had indicated... the user I was trying to restrict was a member of my "root" group so unless I restrict him explicitly with his own entry in login.access, he can also log in on tty1. Other users are suc

Re: Soft ejects

> "Fish" == Fish Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, and >> remove a floppy disk that is currently mounted... Fish> I was taught in kindergarten /never/ to remove a disk when Fish> the light was on, and I never do it. Rem

Re: Computer won't start

It sounds like a strange ATX problem to me. I had similar things happen before. For whatever reason the switch on my computer doesn't work to power it up. The switch DOES work, I have check that via multimeter, but I need to manually short the jumpers to get the computer to start. So, try th

Computer won't start

Hi, I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer is

Adding a superuser

I need to add a second superuser. useradd -G root name fails as does every permutation I can think of. Would someone mind just dropping me a line with the correct useradd or adduser or usermod syntax? Thanks! Patrick

Re: procps held back

Kenward writes: > Are there problems with these? It may be that you have something installed that depends on the slink versions. You should not have ended up without /bin/kill, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

aphro wrote: > i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any > for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful > on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap > it could do some stuff in linux im sure(never tried) Su

q ad removing packages

Hi! recently, I did a bit of cleaning up unnecessary packages, but there´s one I haven´t been able to get completely rid of, anyone has a hint for me? the various --force et al parameters didn´t work, I also tried simply touching /etc/init.d/genpower so dpkg can remove it, but that didn´t work ou

Re: NFS-mounting /var/spool/mail

Dave Sherohman wrote: > Adam C Powell IV said: > > Is there any way to set an NFS timeout so it only tries for, say, five > > seconds? Or anything else I can do to allow root logins to the clients > > when the server is down? Otherwise, I have to power cycle and wait for > > fsck... > > From man

Re: Cannot mount cdrom

make sure the cdrom is on /dev/hdc type 'mount' to see existing mounts, something may be mounted on /cdrom use dmesg | more to see where the cdrom is. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: photiu >Hi All. Can anyone help with this? I get the message photiu >/devhdc already mounted

Re: Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)

On 10 Jan 2000, Stan Brown wrote: stanb > options ne io=0x0280 irq=5 is that what is in the file? note the extra "0" in there .. if all else fails you can try a manual insmod ne.o io=0x280 irq=5 and set that up to load in /etc/init.d/network (i never really touched the /etc/modules file until r

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap it could do some stuff in linux im sure(never tried) minix was probably 386

Re: Problem searching list archives

Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Baker wrote: > > > > I can't seem to search the list archives at > > > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/#search > > [...] > Stipulate "something" in " List Filter" and " Date Filter," and it > should work for you. Works great, thanks. I

Re: Two SCSI

Christopher Clark wrote: > I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards, > probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different > makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am > not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas? This seems like more of a kernel issue than a distro

Re: Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????

from what i read potato's disks are still needing improvement, i suggest installing slink and doing an apt-get dist upgrade nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Stan Brown wrote: stanb > First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying stanb > to install unstable on a newly upgraded c

Re: Cannot mount cdrom

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All. Can anyone help with this? I get the message > /devhdc already mounted or /cdrom busy > when I try to mount the cdrom. Tried top, fuser and ps l to try and find out > the pid to kill whatever process is using cdrom but nothing. > Is the only way to reboot or is

Re: Sound in Debian

Jeff Flowers wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not > yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for > Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. What kernel are you using? If potato with one of the

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

*- On 9 Jan, hypnos wrote about "Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box" > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jeff Flowers wrote: > >> Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? > > Yep, put that stuff (that I snipped) into .fetchmailrc > in your home directory, and add someth

Re: ssh won't compile on fresh potato - what's missing?

scode@scode.webprovider.com (Peter Schuller) wrote: >I just made a fresh potato install a few days ago (thankfully, after that >big security problem had been fixed) and because of a broken TP cable I >ended up having to install packages manually (the last part of the >installation procedure failed)

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jeff Flowers wrote: > Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? Yep, put that stuff (that I snipped) into .fetchmailrc in your home directory, and add something like this to your /etc/ppp/ip-up fetchmail -f /home/jeff/.fetchmailrc That will run fetchm

[potato] GnomeICU stopped working

Hello all, GnomeICU stoped working this morning when I upgraded to the latest version of potato (from an older copy.) It dies with this: bash-2.03$ gnomeicu -a Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) serial 9 error_code 9 request_code 134 minor_code 1 Any ideas? TIA,

Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?

*- On 8 Jan, Joseph de los Santos wrote about "where is the command line options for the X server located?" > Hello!, > > I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I > may change the display resolution in dots per inch. > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers Brian Servis --

Re: Problem searching list archives

Chris Baker wrote: > > I can't seem to search the list archives at > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/#search > > No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' > and `error' which have to be in archive somewhere, I get > > > Debian GNU/Linux: Archive Search Results

line length with exmh (Re: MP3 <--> Audio tools)

On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:00:51 CST, Brad writes: >Yuck... Robert, please try to keep lines to 72 or 76 chatacters in >length. mea culpa. anyone knows how to set that with exmh (2.3.3 3/22/99)? &rw -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k, Ebene02/Stand08 +++ - ___

Cannot mount cdrom

Hi All. Can anyone help with this? I get the message /devhdc already mounted or /cdrom busy when I try to mount the cdrom. Tried top, fuser and ps l to try and find out the pid to kill whatever process is using cdrom but nothing. Is the only way to reboot or is there another way? Any and all help a

Re: BitchX irc server list

the way i do it is i create a file $HOME/.ircservers and list all my fav irc servers there. then, when i invoke bitchx i use $ bitchx -r $HOME/.ircservers and it starts wif my own list of default servers. note: this only needs to be done once. invoking bitchx after this 1st time will continue to u

Re: ps/2

"|{.f|." wrote: > > Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2 > mouse for X windows. > > In XF96Config file pointer > is set to PS/2. > Tried with XF86Setup, but > mouse doesn't react to > clicking at all. > Cursor exists. > Do you have a symlink between /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux ? /dev$symlinks -v /d

Problem searching list archives

I can't seem to search the list archives at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/#search No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' and `error' which have to be in archive somewhere, I get Debian GNU/Linux: Archive Search Results mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> http://www.d

Re: bind: how to *not bind* to interfaces?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hypnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Bind running on my one of my machines here, > and when it starts, it binds to port 53 of each > interface (lo, eth0, ppp0). How can I change this > so that the interface it listens on is eth0? > > lemnos:/var/nam

Re: Please Help me!!!

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:26PM +, VEVE ROUDY wrote: > > Hello! > > > > There's longtime I'm looking for > > a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet > > on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-

bind: how to *not bind* to interfaces?

I have Bind running on my one of my machines here, and when it starts, it binds to port 53 of each interface (lo, eth0, ppp0). How can I change this so that the interface it listens on is eth0? lemnos:/var/named/pz# named -v named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW Fri Nov 19 12:28:17 CST 1999 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: MP3 <--> Audio tools

Yuck... Robert, please try to keep lines to 72 or 76 chatacters in length. On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:24:46PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > for ripping from audio-cds I can suggest cdparanoia There is a deb available (at least for unstable). Check your favorite mirror. > to encode the wavs you

ps/2

Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2 mouse for X windows. In XF96Config file pointer is set to PS/2. Tried with XF86Setup, but mouse doesn't react to clicking at all. Cursor exists. |{.f|.

BitchX irc server list

I'm struggling to get BitchX to recognise my server list. I've put an ircII.servers file in /etc/irc/, copied it to just /etc/irc/servers/, and even /usr/lib/bitchx/. I still can't get it to use my [shorter] list of servers. The only way so far I've managed to do it is by downloading the source pa

Re: Please Help me!!!

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:26PM +, VEVE ROUDY wrote: > Hello! > > There's longtime I'm looking for > a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet > on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone > on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet. > I know

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:28PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore precee

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:25PM +, Fish Smith wrote: > I know that the intel version of Linux is written for > 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an > 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? I'd rather suggest to use such machines as terminals (running NCSA-telnet

Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl

I had a similar problem (or as near as I can tell without the error message). For some reason, perl-5.005 was not installed completely, so I went into /etc/alternatives and changed the link `perl' to point to `perl-5.004' instead of `perl-5.005', everything worked fine after that. In other wor

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: > > > Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem > > > last night but do not know when the problem crept in. > > > > > > I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but > > > ^C

Re: Poor networking performance

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a : 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the : bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case. While I'm sure that in your case the IDE subsystem is your

Re: diald

Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to configure diald but without success. > I have my ppp link working (pon ... poff) but now I whant to try > diald. > I have installed the package with "apt-get install diald", I looked at > the manuals (man diald) and I have cre

Re: Inspiron 7500 network setup

Harley, > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking > station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition > running that was built from floppies. > > Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station > recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and r

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Peter Schuller wrote: > Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get > install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg -S /bin/su login: /bin/su ciao, der.hans > Thanks! -- # +++==

Re: Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????

= Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20000109 1818]: > Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here? be advised that AFAIK there is a lot of development work being done on base-floppies to make them ready for potato's move to stable. they are chang

Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?

On 08 Jan 2000, matt garman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I have a SR9 Number 9 video card. I am trying to setup SVGATextMode for > > this > > new card. Anyone have this card and know what Chipset I should uncomment > > in TextConfig to get the car

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: > > > Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem > > > last night but do not know when the problem crept in. > > > > > > I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but > > > ^C

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding > > the paranthesis around the string definition? > > Is it a GCC ext

Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13: workaround

Thanks - I took Robert Vargas' suggestion and installed the ibm version. Works OK, but had to fool with the CLASSPATH to get to the debian java repository and still had to keep jdk1.1 to satisfy the improper dependencies of cup and jflex... Anyway - I am running the 2.2.14 kernel and everything wo

Re: procps held back

regarding my query about packages held back in the upgrade, they were flwm kbd kdelibs2g moonlight procps Are there problems with these? Kenward

procps held back.. was Re: poff does not work

People have suggested the installation of procps to bring /bin/kill back into my system. Sounds good. I ran dpkg -l procps to see what its status was, and found "hi" returned, so it has been installed (2.0.3-3) but was apparently held back when I upgraded last week. ?? Why was it held back (some

ssh won't compile on fresh potato - what's missing?

Hello, I just made a fresh potato install a few days ago (thankfully, after that big security problem had been fixed) and because of a broken TP cable I ended up having to install packages manually (the last part of the installation procedure failed). As a result, there seems to be a few packages

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

> > Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem > > last night but do not know when the problem crept in. > > > > I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but > > ^C does not seem to work anymore. > > It is su, and it will be fixed in tom

Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2

Ron Rademaker wrote: > I've found another error, that has to do with my previous question, > perhaps > this will help someone to supply me with an answer. When the script is > finished another error occurs: > > Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. > Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' enca

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no! Is this some bug? All this stuff was working > before I did an update in the server. I do not think this is a bug -- Debian PHP3 package has always been modular. All "extra" stuff on top of regular PHP is in separate packages like php3

UNIX variant for old PC

I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai

Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????

First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying to install unstable on a newly upgraded computer :-( In any case, I seem to be having serious problesm with the lates unstable disks. I could not get the base system installed using the

Re: Soft ejects

>It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, >and remove a >floppy disk that is currently mounted... I was taught in kindergarten /never/ to remove a disk when the light was on, and I never do it. Removing while it is mounted but not currently being read or written isn't very damaging--

Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)

I am trying to install the latest potato I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at 0x280, and it's IRQ is 5. Howeer this module fails to install when booting from

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: > I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. > ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run > as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try > upgrading to the potato nis pa

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:46:34AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: > > > I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. > > ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run > > as a normal user. Fo

rspfd behaves very badly

Hi all, I tried the latest rspfd in potato and crashed triggering a kernel panic too. I had also big troubles removing the package because for some reason it tried to start the daemon before removing it (very stupid thing, I think). Kernel version here is 2.3.35 (yes I know it's a developer's re

Re: MP3 <--> Audio tools

for ripping from audio-cds I can suggest cdparanoia , to encode the wavs you may want to use something like gogo , if you also want to have a nice interface, cddb-integration et al you should have a look at grip

Re: poff not working... ???

Subject: Re: poff not working... ??? Date: Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:09:19AM -0800 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... >| >| There is no function "kill" on my system AFAICT. I presume

MP3 <--> Audio tools

Can anyone give me a suggestion for utilities to convert audio CD songs to/from MP3s; I haven't really played with MP3s seriously and want to create a couple of "greatest hits"-type CDs. TIA. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any* distri

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andrei Popov wrote: > --- Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined > > function mysql_pconnect() in > > db_mysql.inc on line 73 > > Is there dl("mysql.so") in db_mysql.inc? Looks like > PHP was unable to loca

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? Jeff > ~/.fetchmailrc: > > poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 >user a there is john here password secret; > poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 >user b there is bert here password blah;

Re: Sound in Debian

you'll need to recompile your kernel and enable sound support. Read the kernel HOWTO document and the Sound HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO by default i believe). then u'll want to go get some sound software. they'll be in the sound section of your debian installation disk (this will probably b

Re: poff not working... ???

Kenward writes: > I replaced the line in poff > KILL="/bin/kill" > with > KILL="kill" > and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? It should work fine, but your system is broken if you are missing /bin/kill. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse H

Re: poff doesn't work... ???

Kenward writes: > /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory You are missing the kill binary, which is in the procps package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Sound in Debian

Greetings, I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. Thanks Jeff Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please Help me!!!

Hello! There's longtime I'm looking for a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet.

Two SCSI

I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards, probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas? -- Regards from Chris

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Fam. Engelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following > appears on boot: > > --- > /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. > /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). > > UNEXPECTED INCONS

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

On 9/1/2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: ** what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (but I am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system

Re: poff not working... ???

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... > > There is no function "kill" on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin > for the shell?? > > I replaced the line in poff > KILL="/bin/kill" > with > KILL="kill"

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

do a telinit 1, umount /dev/hda5, e2fsck -c -C 0 -f -v /dev/hda5, reboot if you run e2fsck several times and there are errors again and again, maybe even each time on different blocks, I would suggest backing up and buying a new disk... that should do the trick (at least for the good blocks on

cron not running?

Today, man informed me that its database was over 8 days old. Investigating, I find that after the Y2K rollover, syslog is full of messages like this: Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Anacron 2.1 started on 2000-01-02 Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Job `cron.daily' locked by a

How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot:   --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s).   UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.         (i.e., without -a or -p options)   fsck failed. Please r

bash does not export variables (was Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato)

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 05:34:52PM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > ... when i am logged in as root using bash > as my shell things start to break. also, bash doesn't seem to export > environment variables. this breaks a lot of scripts. we better get > this fixed soon. I suppose you did a `set -a',

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

Steve George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I currently have mail for a domain which is sent to my ISP's POP3 > server. > I'd like to have multiple users on the domain be delivered to > different users > on my system but the documentation on fetchmail seems to be saying > that this > is a ba

More on my problems with debconf and perl

I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but my problem is much different. When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and 5.005. This completed properly, bu

Re: poff not working... ???

Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... There is no function "kill" on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin for the shell?? I replaced the line in poff KILL="/bin/kill" with KILL="kill" and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? If kill IS somewher

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Steve George wrote: > Basically I need fetchmail to look at the username in front of the @ symbol > and then deliver the mail tothe correct user, for example: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is john here > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bert here ~/.fetchmailrc: poll pop3.domain.com us

Re: poff doesn't work... ???

The exact lines are as follows: kaynjay:~# poff /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped. kaynjay:~# plog Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0x7cdd927f] Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=

problem(s) w/ sound card

Good morning Dave, or anyone, really, that might like an easy problem to resolve. I'm having a couple problems I'd like to sort out. I've got a 400mhx celery chip, w/64 meg ram, a Sound Blaster Live! card, a modem, hard drive, and other assorted paraphanalia (even a generic Jensen microphone!),

OT: Re: Soft ejects

On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:09:43 -0900, Ethan Benson writes: >On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: >>as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I >>call "machine is smarter"!!! which reminds me of a user crying: "you dumb computer, do what I want, not what I say!" *g* &rw -- -- +++

Re: Poor networking performance

On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:19:15 PST, George Bonser writes: >From Solaris box to Linux box on 10MB ethernet with other people also >using the net: >14850578 bytes received in 17.35 secs (835.9 kB/s) > >From Linux box to Solaris > >ftp> get linux-2.2.12.tar.gz >14850578 bytes received in 15 seconds (9

Access diretories in proftpd

Hi Debian users, I installed proftpd and want to deny access to anyone logging in the server at the /var and /etc and dont find anything in the configuration file about it. Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptist

Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?

the file you probably want is /etc/X11/XF86Config nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: jh0u >Hello!, jh0u > jh0u > I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I jh0u >may change the display resolution in dots per inch. jh0u > jh0u >Thank you. jh0u

Re: Soft ejects

On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism broken? For starters: som

Re: mysql_pconnect() function

--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > having this problem while connecting (trying:-( ) my > IMP/HORDE webmail server: > > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined > function mysql_pconnect() in > db_mysql.inc on line 73 Is there dl("mysql.so") in db_mysql.inc? Looks lik

Re: restricting logins on tty1

On 8/1/2000 Jim B wrote: One other quickie: what's the functional difference between /etc/login.access and /etc/security/access.conf? When I place restrictions in the latter, nothing seems to happen, though the files are in exactly the same format. What then is the purpose of the one in /etc/s

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? > > Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the > archives, i've posted about this before. Thanks a lot, Brad! Problem solved by modifying the Index file. -- Arcady Genkin

where is the command line options for the X server located?

Hello!, I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I may change the display resolution in dots per inch. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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