On 26-Jan-00 Ethan Benson wrote:
ln -s /sbin/shutdown /usr/bin/shutdown
chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown
this will allow ANYONE on your system to shutdown or reboot your
system, whether they are logged into gnome or logged in via ssh from
anywhere..
if security is not a big deal
THat is what I had problems with last night (and this morning) trying to
upgrade my system.
mike
I have setup NIS to distribute the /etc/printcap file on my NIS server, and I
can see the printcap on the clients with 'ypcat printcap'.
Now how do I tell lpd and lpr to use the NIS printcap file instead of
/etc/printcap? BTW, I am using the lprng package in Slink.
Thanx in advance,
--
Paul
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bill Wilson wrote:
I agree 100%. I was just describing what I had done for single user
home setup. Shortly after I posted that message I was regretting not
having suggested a /usr/bin/shutdown script using sudo as a better idea
for many who read the list. Sorry.
how
Michael Jessop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly
on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM)
but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget
which). How? Why?
I install Debian version 2.1.r4 on a Dell Optiplex GX1. But I am having
trouble locating the drivers for the ‘3com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100MB TX”
and ‘ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x’. Can anyone help locate these drivers and
help me with installing them. Thank you.
On 25 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:
gnomeicu was working up to about two weeks ago then this started.
Actually now that I think about it, gnomeicu didn't work a few months
back and then all of a sudden it started working (for about one month)
then to where it is now...
I know. It's twisted.
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which
first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter:
/dev/cdrom
...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD.
No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard
I recently installed Gnome (1.0.5x) on my Debian (Potato) system and am
managing to get everything configured as I like it.
Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me
that Gnome cannot find the internet address for scgf (my system
hostname).
My /etc/hosts contains:
I'm running Corel/Debian v1.0 on a AMD 486-100. 24mb ram, 1G hd,
networked with three other PCs. This workstation is 5X slower then a
486-33 running RH 5.0 acting as a gateway, Samba server, mail, etc. I
welcome any suggestions towards finding what must be a gross
misconfiguration.
I've
how do i make a deb file after having used the apt-get source filename
and the dpkg-source -x file.dsc?
Thanks for replying.
.oesse.
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Hutchinson, Floyd wrote:
I install Debian version 2.1.r4 on a Dell Optiplex GX1. But I am having
trouble locating the drivers for the 3com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100MB TX
and ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x. Can anyone help locate these drivers and
help me with installing
I never could get the permissions configured correctly on the Debian
package of majordomo and installed from the source tarball instead.
Bob
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote:
Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new
user to a list, majordomo
Hello:
I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether
the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI,
VA linux, et al. included support for the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra chipset.
Does anyone know?
Thanks,
James
How about changing your address to 127.0.0.1 too?
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:
I recently installed Gnome (1.0.5x) on my Debian (Potato) system and am
managing to get everything configured as I like it.
Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me
Thank you for this suggestion. I tried it last night and the upgrade went
very well, except for one problem. X no longer starts. I get a specific
socket-related error message, but I left the text of it at home and won't
have be able to quote it for a while. However, I can say that even
XF86Setup
add more ram.. in cases with 64MB and below, swapping to disk more then
you have available memory really causes severe performance problems esp in
a GUI enviornment regaurdless of OS. and/or get another physical hdd to
swap to. or, run it off of NFS and run the swap from local disk. with a
decent
--- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Each time I log on using GDM or KDM I get a Gnome message telling me
that Gnome cannot find the internet address for scgf (my system
hostname).
My /etc/hosts contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 scgf.gmx.net scgf
If I do
I got the xwindows to work but the mouse is not working. I use the
Microsoft mouse driver when I setup the mouse but it seems like that does
not work. Can anyone help me with this problem.
--- W. Keegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've since recompiled the kernel and while it's much smaller and I
think its faster then before it's not at par with the 486-33.
I told you :)
The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about the 486-
100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of
Netscape has some odd behaviors which I was wondering if anyone here could
shed some light upon.
1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child
process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal
behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the
James Taylor wrote:
Hello:
I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether
the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI,
VA linux, et al. included support for the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra chipset.
Does anyone know?
Thanks,
James
It comes
As far as I know, they shipped slink r3 so if your video card is not supported
in the standard slink distro, you might consider visiting
http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ for info on how to get a more up to date
version of X.
R.
James Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/00 10:37AM
Hello:
I just
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:16:07PM -0500, paul wrote:
Netscape has some odd behaviors which I was wondering if anyone here could
shed some light upon.
1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child
process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is
These symptoms are typical Netscape behavior. almost everyone coplains of this
sort of thing, yet no one I know has a definitive answer on how to fix them.
I've heard alternately that both upgrading and installing older versions of
glibc helps also trying differnt versions of netscape is not a
I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought
I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options
dialog with the command echo -e '\a' so my machine would beep when I get
a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start
licq
unless VA/ORA updated it since last i bought it no it does not
nate
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James Taylor wrote:
jtaylo Hello:
jtaylo
jtaylo I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether
jtaylo the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI,
jtaylo
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, paul wrote:
paul 1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as
child
paul process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal
paul behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the number of child
Netscapes not
paul always the
The 486-33 (Carol) has 42mb ram and I was wrong about
the 486-
100 (Alice) machine it's only got 20mb of ram. Alice
has a Cirrus
Logic GD54xx series PCI card with 1mb ram. Both
systems use
the svga xserver. As far as swap space Carol has a
swap partition
but Alice has a swap file on the single
I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find
any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering
if there are any more mature libraries out there.
Thanks,
--
Matthew Roberts
Structural
There's lots of debian packages. Octave(matlab clone), R(S clone), python,
scilab for examples. Look in the math section and look at R. Cheers.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find
any Debian packages, but did find
I got the xwindows to work but the mouse is not working. I use the
Microsoft mouse driver when I setup the mouse but it seems like that does
not work. Can anyone help me with this problem.
I don't have enough information to really help you, but if your mouse
plugs into your PS/2 port, 95% of
Hi,
I have been using Netscape 4.7 on my Debian (unstable) box for quite a
while.
Lately I feel Netscape has gone back to having the problems I felt was
solved in 4.7: Memory leaks, crashing and slow rendering.
Since it is still Netscape 4.7 something else in Debian must have
changed to
I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find
any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering
if there are any more mature libraries out there.
There's lots of debian packages. Octave(matlab clone), R(S clone), python,
scilab for examples. Look
Hello!
I was planning to buy a new computer, and include some tv-tuner/grabber card; I
saw that Matrox makes an edition of the G400 (called Marvel or something like
that) with a TV-tuner and video acquisition/output; it seems quite a nice
thing to buy, and the price is not that bad. I didn't
My ppp connection quits working when I start X. It doesn't happen all
the time, just about 60%. Stopping X does not make it better. The
problem seems to be with the modem (or the serial port), since even if
I kill pppd, I cannot communicate with the modem. I can't even send it
ATZ. I have
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:00:18 PST, aphro writes:
netscape uses a child called dns-helper and it tries to resolve some of
the netscape domains to see if DNS is working and because(i believe) of
the single threaded tcp portion of netscape this locks the browser until
the resolution is complete. this
We're running into a problem with the version of glibc that's on our
news server, which is running slink. I've dist-upgraded a firewall
machine at home a few weeks ago without a hitch but the machine at the
office is a news server that handles over 4 gig of alt.binaries
newsgroups a day (we handle
My system crashes from time to time but I cannot reproduce the crashes.
It may run 2 month without any problems and suddenly a daily cronjob or a
simple shell command seems to cause the crash. Here is what I could write
today from the system console:
Code: 39 73 70 75 22 c7 43 4c 11 00 a1
You can wrap up routines from scalapack and blas into C or C++. Moreover,
you can do it with octave libs (I know you can do it but I have never done
it so you may want to ask directions from elsewhere). I wouldn't be
suprised that you could also do it from R. Cheers.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:21:03AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and
nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names,
could these two be currupted?
I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I don't know if I
Hi all!
I've installed Flash plugin for netscape. Neither of the sites can
autodetect that the plugin is installed. Even at www.flash.com I had
to click on If you know that you have Flash installed link.
Is there some trick to properly configure it?
I'm using Navigator 4.7, and all I have done
fire up gpm (console mouse driver/server) start using it to copy/paste and
see if that does the same, if it does then it is for sure a
conflict(doesnt have to be an IRQ conflict it can be an I/O conflict)
if not..not sure what to reccomend, it is a hardware modem right and not a
winmodem ..while
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On 01/26/00, Matthew W. Roberts addressed Statistics Package Recommendations?:
I'm looking for a statistics package for programming. Couldn't find
any Debian packages, but did find Goose (v 0.0.11). Just wondering
if there are any more mature libraries out there.
Is this what you're looking
I had remote printing from my laptop to my workstation with printer
working, when both ran slink. It also worked with my mailserver, and the
mailserver and laptop have the same printcap file:
lp|hp690|hp690:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\
:rm=daria.sloterdijk.nl:\
:rp=lp:\
This is on a current woody system; but I think the problem was introduced
in an upgrade that was part of potato. See below:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps eax | fgrep more | cut -c1-80
23483 pts/4S 0:00 more /etc/passwd
23488 pts/9S 0:00 fgrep more
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# killall -HUP
I installed frozen on a Micron Transport
Xpe
After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display
goes blank?
Has anyone seen this before?
Could it be the terminal setting?
If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor
- but never the laptop display
On 26/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an
alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping
ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of
more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less
dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which
first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter:
/dev/cdrom
...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD.
No matter what I enter, it says
Hi
When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one
machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode
thanx
Hello to the list,
I am trying to get sound to work on my IBM Thinkpad 390E running
Debian 2.1. I have been unable to get sound to work until very recently.
I was told that I could type the following, as root, upon bootup, to make
sound work:
insmod soundcore
insmod esssolo1
mixctrl 7 0
Hey,
I downloaded GNOME last night with apt, and it seems like it installed the
programs that come with GNOME, but when I boot up, the GNOME bar-type thing
isn't there. Do I need to configure something to do this?
One more problem. A little while ago, I mailed about using 'pon' as a
normal
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:21:03AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and
nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names,
could these two be currupted?
I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I don't know
Hi,
I have a small problem with Samba in Debian 2.1 (Slink), kernel 2.0.36
and samba 2.0.5. I have a NT Server and a Linux client.
I want to get some files from NT Server to the Linux client.
They are in the same network and the IP's are:
NT Server -
Thanks for the info, I am eagerly awaiting a full featured Memnonic or Amaya
release. Until then... I guess its Netscape whenever the need for features
outweighs reliability.
thanks again,
-ptw-
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:55:13 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When copying passwd files (ie smbpasswd, passwd, group, shadow) from one
machine to another via ftp... should it be via ascii or binary mode
When in doubt always use binary mode, so your files get transported byte per
byte, no
I installed frozen on a Micron Transport Xpe
After the kernel boot messages finish displaying my display goes blank?
Has anyone seen this before?
Could it be the terminal setting?
If I hook a monitor to the back port I can view on the monitor - but
never
the laptop display
I have a micron
# smbmount file://sideraco/c /mnt -U Linux -I 222.222.222.2 -D
sideraco -P
AriaLinux
Your first arg is incorrect it should look like the string you pass when
using net use * \\suckieNT\sharepnt
not the URL style
David, is the CD mounted?
If not, have a look at mount command.
dselect says it's mounted. (after I enter: dev/cdrom in response to its
query)
What sort of input is it looking for? Could you give me at least an
example? Maybe that would help to clear the fog.
David Kachel
Hi,
it's my fault but the sharepont is /c or an alias that is in NT?
Quoting Alex McCool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
# smbmount file://sideraco/c /mnt -U Linux -I 222.222.222.2 -D
sideraco -P
AriaLinux
Your first arg is incorrect it should look like the string you pass
I've tried using the //servername/c$like in NT but I dont think
samba likes that.
Instead create a sharepoint with a real name on the NT box.
+= -Original Message-
+= From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
+= [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+= Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:55 PM
+=
Ed Cogburn wrote:
Michel Dänzer wrote:
--- Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before.
The last lines of the text console after starting X now include:
SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk:
Has anyone noticed the disappearance of toolbars in Netscape? I'm
using potato updated almost daily, so the Netscape version is the
most recent one: 4.71. For example, the main Mail/Newsgroup screen
has the usual icons, but if I select Reply the Compose message
dialog is missing its
Has anyone successfully upgraded their version of perl from 5.004 to
5.005. No matter what I try, I simply cannot get it to remove
perl-5.004-base so that I can install perl-5.005. I would greatly
appreciate any help anyone may provide.
Can someone give me a pointer to some on-line info on group management
(preferably in laymen's terms). I understand file permissions and their
use, but I'd like to secure my data by only giving access to me, a user,
and root to certain partitions on a server. I have me, the user and root
set up,
On 26 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote:
dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which
first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter:
/dev/cdrom
...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the
how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?)
here's how i do it:
# mount /dev/hdc /bt
(where /bt is a directory i created.)
i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a
music cd).
hth.
I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it?
Alex McCool wrote:
I've tried using the //servername/c$like in NT but I dont think
samba likes that.
Instead create a sharepoint with a real name on the NT box.
I can mount a C$ share if I use the following syntax:
smbmount-2.2.x //servername/c\$
Note the \ before the $.
+=
doh!!! I forgot about that extra slash mark - Thanks
+= -Original Message-
+= From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+= Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:46 PM
+= To: Alex McCool
+= Cc: 'Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira'; Debian User list
+= Subject: Re: Samba error when getting
Jonathan Markevich wrote:
I got one of the above printers and reinstalled apsfilter with the
Ghostscript escp2 driver but can't print... I get an error in filter f or
something like that...
Let me cut to the chase... I need a printcap! Has anyone else here got one
of these working? I
I was learning (a little) about tty devices, and learned, from
`potato' MAKEDEV and the kernel sources, that in 2.0 kernels,
/dev/console - /dev/tty0, but in 2.2, /dev/console should be node
5,1.
I've been running 2.2 for some time... but until yesterday, my
/dev/console was still a
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