Re: bash login for root

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:23:30PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a > > security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use > > sudo or fakeroot. > > Aha. I only s

Re: Dialpad through IPchains

There were some pretty good instructions in their help section for linux firewalls: http://www.dialpad.com/support/index.html I had to recompile the kernel to include autofw John On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:59:51PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Has anyone gotten Dialpad to work through ipchains a

Re: bash login for root

Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a > security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use > sudo or fakeroot. Aha. I only started using sudo seriously about an hour ago. > Funny, but 'sudo echo $PATH

pgp vs. mutt

after i got tired of seeing /usr/bin/pgp: Command not found in mutt for months on end, i did apt-get install pgp-us and went back into mutt to read my email. now i see [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Sep 13 22:56:26 2000) --] ^GUnsupported packet format -

Dialpad through IPchains

Has anyone gotten Dialpad to work through ipchains and if so do you happen to have any recipes? Thanks very much. Ray

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

> "Rino" == Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rino> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:01:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Kai Rino> Weber wrote: Kai> has anyone the same experience with (all packages up-to-date) Kai> HelixGnome and Sawfish: Kai> Kai> The middle mouse button, which brings up sawfish'

Re: bash login for root

I use sudo, logged in as a regular user. It's generally considered a security risk to be logged in as root, and a bit less of a risk to use sudo or fakeroot. Funny, but 'sudo echo $PATH' gives the $PATH of the user, but 'sudo whoami' says root. sudo does access the binaries in /usr/sbin, which

Re: bash login for root

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:27:55PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I want to put one in to > > extend root's path. Putting my own .bash_profile means putting in the > > path in full,

Re: bash login for root

My /root/ is a symlink to /home/krzys. Since it's been this way for about a hundred years, I figure it's about time to ask the question: is it a really bad idea? -chris Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > Debian do

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:42:45PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > Yes loads but without you specifing some sort of geographical location > how would I know which one to recommend? > Jeff > > Dan Pomohaci wrote: > > > > Are any free Internet providers for Linux? loads? cool! is there a directory out

Re: apm/hdparm/power-supply saga, latest installment

Quick Summary: I can now stop the hdd, blank the screen, and put the system in apm --standby mode. AFAI'mCed there's no difference between --standby and --suspend. I'm not running apmd, though I guess I could if I really wanted to. Tip: do a /etc/init.d/networking stop if apm --standby fails

Re: masq settings with /etc/init.d/networking script

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:23:13PM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > Greetings, > > I just setup my Linux box to use the new /etc/init.d/networking startup > script. I was using the old /etc/init.d/network script from the > sysvinit examples. Can someone tell me where I'm supposed to put calls > to i

Re: bash login for root

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:07:46PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't log in as root very often, but never had any problems having a > > .bash_profile in /root. > > OK sounds like you're telling us something here. You're on the list, > so obviou

Re: bash login for root

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I want to put one in to > extend root's path. Putting my own .bash_profile means putting in the > path in full, since bash doesn't do roots path if there's a > bash_profile. Is there

Re: bash login for root

Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't log in as root very often, but never had any problems having a > .bash_profile in /root. OK sounds like you're telling us something here. You're on the list, so obviously you tweak your debian box from time to time. But you don't log in as

Install of Applixware 5.0

I'm new to Debian and Linux. I'm trying to install applix from CD, brought at a store. The instructions assume rpm. There is an install.bsh script but it doesn't work. Support sent me a different script and that doesn't work either. Has anyone else installed applix 5.0 from CD ?? It is frustra

nfsd shutdown problems

When I reboot my system (typing reboot), it hangs right when NFS starts to shutdown. The message where it hangs is below. "Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon" My kern.log file has: Sep 13 17:20:28 viper kernel: nfsd: terminating on signal 2 Sep 13 17:20:28 viper last message repeated 7

Re: Debugging /bin/sh scripts?

'sh -n' will syntax-check a script without actually executing any of the commands. On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:55:49PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's a good way to debug /bin/sh scripts? I thought there > was an interpreter option which would run the code line by > line, prompting after each

Re: Can Navigator spawn other mail proggy?

On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:51:12PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:01:56PM -0700, > Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Was wonder if anyone knows if Navigator can be configured to spawn > > another program when following a mailto: hyperlink? I suspect no. But I > > Yes, i

Re: Debugging /bin/sh scripts?

try using set -x in your script file, ie: #!/bin/bash set -x On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:55:49PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > What's a good way to debug /bin/sh scripts? I thought there > was an interpreter option which would run the code line by > line, prompting after each line, but I looked t

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

I have been using courier-imap 0.31-1 on potato and you are right, it is peachy. I have also been having reliability problems with cucipop too... How is the almighty spud running on the G4? I have a friend who I am trying to convince giving it a try on his mac... -Original Message- From

Re: bash login for root

I don't log in as root very often, but never had any problems having a .bash_profile in /root. On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I want to put one in to > extend root's path. Putting my own .bash_profile means puttin

Re: [OT] bash/awk question

> I understand the correct way to do this is probably awk, or perl or sed or ... but i would use awk, too :-) > but not sure how to make it work in this case. For example, I > could put the code in a bash function, but then how do I > access the function from inside the awk command? you could onl

Re: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:04:10AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via > Netscape/Outlook on other machines. I have exim as my mail server. I'm > running Debian Potato on a PowerMac G4. > > The choice (according to "apt-get -s i

Debugging /bin/sh scripts?

What's a good way to debug /bin/sh scripts? I thought there was an interpreter option which would run the code line by line, prompting after each line, but I looked through the man/info pages and found nothing, or am I blind? I already know about sh -x and sh -v, but these by themselves are still a

[OT] bash/awk question

I just ran into this shell scripting problem again where I have some lines of text and would like to perform an action on each line. For example, I have a do...while loop (a few lines of /bin/sh), and I would like to have the body executed for each line of a given file / stream. I understand the

Re: Where can I find info on all those /dev files?

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:29:03AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Question: Is there a more scientific way to go about finding the proper /dev > for my devices? Is there a HOWTO, or rather a WHATIS (as in, What is > this little red button supposed to do?) doc that can tell

bash login for root

Debian doesn't put .bash_profile in for root. I want to put one in to extend root's path. Putting my own .bash_profile means putting in the path in full, since bash doesn't do roots path if there's a bash_profile. Is there anything else that would be missed out if I were to put in a .bash_profil

Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via Netscape/Outlook on other machines. I have exim as my mail server. I'm running Debian Potato on a PowerMac G4. The choice (according to "apt-get -s install imap-server") of available imap servers is: imap 4.7c-1 courier-

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > but it still

Re: Another Poll (Update)

> "Will" == Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:40:28PM +, Pollywog wrote: Will> you may be innocent, but the term you're probably looking Will> for is 'naive', as in 'call him "an innocent" because he's Will> naive'. I'd call that s

Re: complex shell scripts

And there are a great many good examples on any Linux Box, the start-up scripts for example, I have a copy of Linux in a Nutshell by all of my machines. Jeff kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Mark Simos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I am looking to unde

Re: complex shell scripts

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Mark Simos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put > together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. > > does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import >

RE: Where can I find info on all those /dev files?

> Question: Is there a more scientific way to go about finding the proper /dev > for my devices? Is there a HOWTO, or rather a WHATIS (as in, What is this > little > red button supposed to do?) doc that can tell me which device each of the > /dev > files in my system works with? > in the kernel s

Re: kde2 window manager

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:58:09 -0300 (BRT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Hello, Mario> I've installed kde2packages for potato (before Qt went Mario> GPL). Almost everything is working fine, except I'm not being able Mario> to start kwm either from kdm

Where can I find info on all those /dev files?

Thru trial-and-error I (partially) solved my problem with my unmountable LS-120 drive. I had been trying to mount it as /dev/hdd, which is how the bootup messages recognize it. I poked around /dev and tried every /dev I knew (or thought or read somewhere) to work with a disk or disk-like device, i

Re: masq settings with /etc/init.d/networking script

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:23:13PM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > I just setup my Linux box to use the new /etc/init.d/networking startup > script. I was using the old /etc/init.d/network script from the > sysvinit examples. Can someone tell me where I'm supposed to put calls > to ipchains to setup

Re: 2.2.17 and ReiserFS

> On 05 Sep 2000 09:19:48 EDT, Anonymous Luser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hello, Anonymous> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I am going Anonymous> to give it a shot anyway... I've been trying to compile all the Anonymous> pre-releases of the 2.2.17 kernel on ReiserFS, and n

RE: pump replacing dhcpcd?

> -Original Message- > From: Bryan K. Walton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 6:23 PM > To: Debian-User Mailing List > Subject: pump replacing dhcpcd? > > > When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump > package, one of the things that the

Re: Internet Cafe

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, ChrisHellberg wrote: > I want to set up an internet cafe at a hostel and am investigating > various ways of going about things. I think windows 2000 would be the > down the linux path, what would be the best way to log a workstation out > when credit expires? I rekon it's a m

Re: fsplit

"Jeff Woodford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > Would anyone happen to know in which package I can find the fsplit > (Fortran split) utility? I doubt you'll find that oldie-but-goodie in any Debian package. You can find a C source file for it though. Just go to http://ftpsearch.lycos.com

masq settings with /etc/init.d/networking script

Greetings, I just setup my Linux box to use the new /etc/init.d/networking startup script. I was using the old /etc/init.d/network script from the sysvinit examples. Can someone tell me where I'm supposed to put calls to ipchains to setup my firewalling and masquerading? --cro

Re: fsplit

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jeff Woodford wrote: > Hi all, > Would anyone happen to know in which package I can find the fsplit > (Fortran split) utility? > > Thanks, > -Jeff Woodford > if you already have it installed, you can find it this way: dpkg -S /usr/bin/filename or you can try looking it up

Internet Cafe

I want to set up an internet cafe at a hostel and am investigating various ways of going about things. I think windows 2000 would be the best os to have the clients on, but the biggest problem is logging the pc's out when their credit expires. I'm a strong advocate of Debian GNU/Linux and open sou

RE: (mutt gpg thread)

I did some experimenting with my .muttrc since a couple of people have reported they could not read my posts. My work (windows) outlook was the destination for my emails. When I had set pgp_create_traditional in my .muttrc and signed a message (no encrypt just sign) it came into the outlook as an

Re: X, GNOME, and Debian

Hello, Did you try using just ONE processor? Maybe the older X you use doesn't like it. You can try two things. XFree86 4.0.1, but I seem to recall that your S3 card won't be supported. Or you can try Linux 2.2.4-test8 or whatever is more recent kernel. It will behave totally different towar

fsplit

Hi all, Would anyone happen to know in which package I can find the fsplit (Fortran split) utility?   Thanks, -Jeff Woodford

Re: Package configuration at installtime (was Re: Debian VS. Red Hat)

Fraser Campbell wrote: > It would be extremely useful if dpkg had a --default-config option or > something like that ... some way to ensure that packages install with > absolutely no prompting. Is there any way to do this now? If there were > it would be very easy to script a Debian install simil

Re: X, GNOME, and Debian

> use GNOME on top of X, the screen disappears into a bunch of little > stripes, and the keyboard locks up (even alt-ctrl-backspace doesn't > work). This was with the GNOME 1.0.53 from Debian. I installed Helix > (GNOME 1.2), same problem. I've done XF86Setup, both putting the > Happens regardl

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

Stuart Ballard wrote: > > I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't > have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following > messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: [snip] > I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies > (the thir

proposed-updates

Hi, I found the proposed updates to debian 2.2 scattered across three sites: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/ ftp://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates/ ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/updates/ What are the differences, if any,

Re: Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)

Try scilab, or octave. Both should do it. Scilab is probably easier Conrado Badenas wrote: > Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor > series expansion of simple functions? > > I've tested Derive 3.0 (february 1995) for MSDOS, but it finishes the > whole memory when tr

X, GNOME, and Debian

I installed Debian 2.2 on my home system (a dual PPro with 128MB of memory, S3 Trio3D video card w/4MB of memory, IBM POWERDisplay/20 monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 77 Hz, multifrequency], Logitech trackball). X works fine (using the recommended SVGA server, X version 3.3.6). However, when I try to

RE: pump replacing dhcpcd?

On 13-Sep-2000 Bryan K. Walton wrote: > When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of > the things that the page tells me is: > > "This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd > package." > > I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client

Congratulations

Hi all, I've finished downloading the 2.2 base system and I'm really happy about the installation method! Congratulations to all the developers. I liked how it let me to setup the ppp connection from it, and how it is automated to setup apt! Just to say this ;-) Bye! -- Do you really think wi

Re: Boot Problem - Pls Help

On Wed, Jan 03, 1996 at 01:17:56AM +0530, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a novice to Linux and Unix in general. I've installed Debian on my system - a 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM and 2 Hard Disks with the Linux Swap partition being 8 MB and the core Linux Partition being 484MB.I dont have an

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

Yes loads but without you specifing some sort of geographical location how would I know which one to recommend? Jeff Dan Pomohaci wrote: > > Hi, > > Are any free Internet providers for Linux? > > Thanks, > Dan Pomohaci > > _ > Do You Yaho

fsplit

Hello, Would any of you know which Debian package would have the fsplit (Fortran split) utility? I am trying to compile some Fortran programs and the compliation requires fsplit.   Thanks, -Jeff Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

Julio Merino wrote: > > Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could > happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. > > If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the > laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the > pro

ddt-server... Should I?

Greetings, I don't know about anyone else, but I have come to rely on dyndns.org. Since they were hit with a lighting storm recently, and there seems to be no hope of getting them back until Monday, I went exploring my options. I came across the ddt-server/client packages! The only

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' -> system doesn't boot

Ooops. I mistaked of list posting this message. Sorry. On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > I'm getting the same errors (not identically) to you, but with the > difference that my system doesn't hungs. I think this has happened > since when I upgraded gnumach

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux? INFO

Not sure how my post made it onto debian-devel, but cross-posting anyway. Here's the important stuff from the thing worldshare.net sent me. Apparently the site now says they don't do Linux, but I use it all the time, it's just a normal ppp connection. Tim Anderson -Original Message-

Re: DNS -- caching server inside firewall?

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:51:32PM -0400, Jason Lunz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 3:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > I would like to configure my home OpenBSD firewall to reference my > > workstation for DNS queries. The workstation is a Debian GNU/Linux box, >

Re: (More on) Printing Problem on a Network

Okay, I have some more diagnostic information about this problem. I've run lpr to try a print job and get the following error message: lpr; connect: Connection refused jobs queried, but cannot start daemon ps aux shows lpd running (two processes). lpd restart and lpd stop/start don't make any d

[OT] RE: fishing hooks

Hahaha. I missed the att, can you re-post it? (minus the company info, for obvious political reasons) -chris On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: > Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre > and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I though

Package configuration at installtime (was Re: Debian VS. Red Hat)

Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Debian allows for configuration during package installation, so you > don't have to poke around so much to figure outwhat needs tweeking to > make your nifty ne app working. This is a great feature and (besides automated upgrades) one of the main reasons I started usin

Boot Problem - Pls Help

Hi,   I'm a novice to Linux and Unix in general. I've installed Debian on my system - a 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM and 2 Hard Disks with the Linux Swap partition being 8 MB and the core Linux Partition being 484MB.I dont have an idea as to the Debian version however at boot up the Linux

RE: fishing hooks

Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I thought the att must have been a virus but it was a nice picture of chinese fishing hooks. Tim (still viciously anti-spam) On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:39

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

question 2: Here's "NT-Bootloading How-To" I was talking about. You won't need a fat partition: NT-Bootloading-Linux-HOWTO You have Windows NT installed on one partition using NTFS, one partition with DOS as C:\, and Linux on a third. You wish to use NT's bootloader to load all three OSes. He

Re: Permissions error

That fixed it...thanks! Julio Merino wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > > > I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, > > none of my native > > Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD > > Player) it doesn

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' -> system doesn't boot

I'm getting the same errors (not identically) to you, but with the difference that my system doesn't hungs. I think this has happened since when I upgraded gnumach and hurd packages (but installing everything from scratch)... I still have to recompile gnumach for myself and try it. Hurd also gives

Re: Permissions error

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, > none of my native > Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD > Player) it doesn't run. > so I opened an xterm and tried to run it from the

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the problem, I could say yo to buy a new o

Re: cable modem: does my hostname matter?

"Krzys Majewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put > cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks > like this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 24.115.135.172cr275960-a cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com > > A

pump replacing dhcpcd?

When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of the things that the page tells me is: "This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package." I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client is no longer be worked on? The reason I ask is th

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

I found a good one, www.worldshare.net , they want $15/year charity donation but I think most of us can afford that (and they will take less should you not be able to). I've been using them for a couple of months now on linux/windoze9x/2K and I've been very happy with t

Re: complex shell scripts

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put > together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. > > does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import > users form a text f

Re: OT: One .emacs file for both Emacses

Hi, Here is a snippet from my startup files, and also the emacs-vers.el file. manoj === ~/.emacs === (load-file "~/lib/emacs/functions/emacs-vers.el") (if (string-match "xemacs" (emacs-version)) (load-file "~/.xemacs")

Re: fishing hooks

HI USM Bish! Have you verified that the ad wasn't paid for? Debian allow it for a fee. I suppose it wasn't paid for, but before implementing policies such as yours, we should at least check with the list owners first. It may also be a good idea to put this url in your message: http://www.debia

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

Hello! Hmm, I actually have never upgraded using apt, but manually from 2.1 to 2.2. No problems (almost). But I can tell you debian is very well-known for that a install is only needed "one time in a computer life" and then you can always upgrade without problems. At least since apt came out. Kin

Re: Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:18:47PM +0200, wrote: > Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor > series expansion of simple functions? I don't know of a free package which works as well as comercial Computer Algebra packages, namely Maple or Mathematica. Both are availabl

Permissions error

I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, none of my native Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD Player) it doesn't run. so I opened an xterm and tried to run it from the shell and I got this error Gnome-ERROR **: Could not set mode 0700 on p

Re: Firewall Box

Check out the debian firewall list. It will tell all. Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part > a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between > the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router

Re: Printing Problem on a Network

Hello there, On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network > printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, > all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:40:18PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: > > > > > > 2. LINUX: > > > >a) Do a dmesg. Check which device your printer is polled > > IF polled THEN > > No kernel problems > > Move to b) > > ELSE > > lp suppo

Potato install fails to load ROOT image

I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 invalid c

Package configuration at installtime (was Re: Debian VS. Red Hat)

Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Debian allows for configuration during package installation, so you > don't have to poke around so much to figure outwhat needs tweeking to > make your nifty ne app working. This is a great feature and (besides automated upgrades) one of the main reasons I started usin

PPD ( client can't ping the server)

I suceffull have a remote access to my linux box, the server have a internet conection with ip 200.200.200.200 and I set my mgetty to set local ip 10.0.0.1 e remote 10.0.0.2. In the server I ping 10.0.0.1 ( this ip local with pppd get) but don't ping 10.0.0.2 In the client I ping 10.0.0.2 ( this ip

PPPD

I suceffull have a remote access to my linux box, the server have a internet conection with ip 200.200.200.200 and I set my mgetty to set local ip 10.0.0.1 e remote 10.0.0.2. In the server I ping 10.0.0.1 ( this ip local with pppd get) but don't ping 10.0.0.2 In the client I ping 10.0.0.2 ( this ip

Re: Problem with Firewall and FTP

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:40:06AM +0200, Sebastian Heckrodt wrote: > Thiss seems to tell me, that the problem is the firewall, but why does it > work with manual ftp, but doesent with dselect? Add the following to your apt.conf file: Acquire { ftp {

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

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remote backspace/delete problems

i have debian 2.2 installed to my computer (a very recent install via ftp). when i make a remote connection via ssh or telnet to a solaris box or a redhat box, my backspace/delete keys don't work in nvi/vim. this is ONLY in X...everything works fine at the console. attempting to backspace this wor

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

question 1: install a scsi-enabled kernel package. configure it add the new drives to /etc/fstab question 2: to get this working, you need a primary partition, where you can install lilo on. 1) boot linux from the floppy. 2) install lilo to your root partition (hda6 - this is a problem. it mus

Re: fishing hooks

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0800, Pang Li wrote: > Dear sir or madame: > we are a fishing goods trading company located in China mainland, our > products > include > Banksticks, Rodrests, Boxes, Baskets, Seats, Floats & Float > accessories,etc,if > your want to import these products fro

Printing Problem on a Network

I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but to no avail. Incidentally, the Linux box has not been rebooted.

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

>thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to No, you don't need a small fat partition. There is a How-to called "NT-Bootloading How-To" somewhere in the net that show you how to Boot-load with NT > but the lilo.conf file doesnt exist now does it! NT overwrote

RE: Stuck with NT and Lilo

FYI, there is a little program called Bootpart, that will allow you to add linux to the nt boot manager menu. having done that, you would no longer need the floppy. floppies are slow, and die often! you will, of course, need lilo installed, but pointing to the root partition of your linux instal

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

lilo.conf is where you describe what bootable partitions are available. To enter information about your cdrom, etc., you need to edit the file /etc/fstab. See man fstab and man MAKEDEV for more information. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 14:28 +0100 Ziad Afra <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Firewall Box

Try looking at the section on firewalling at the link pretty good info on testing and rule design. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html -- Original Message -- From: Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:07:22 -0500 (E

complex shell scripts

I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import users form a text file or some such thing) the example might be way off, I really just w

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