When it comes to having a root shell for emergency use, you may look
into sash, which is intended to be used even when libc is broken:
Package: sash
Priority: optional
Section: shells
Installed-Size: 299
Maintainer: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.1-5
Size: 131400
D
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
> Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't
>exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'.
>
> Am I doing the right thing?
It sounds right. That's what I do, and it wor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan P Tomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is
>there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to
>termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email.
>GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you
>_MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news
>with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:03:36AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote:
> Where is the Exim cookbook? It didn't come with a recent stock
> exim installation.
Look on http://www.exim.org/, under either the "FAQ" or the
"Documentation" section (can't remember which atm I'm afraid).
I don't seem to rememb
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route?
>The documentation wasn't very clear on this. It seems that aaron would
>want it to only rewrite the sender header going through the smarthost
>route.
Mmm... point...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I have mutt set up to include ~/.muttrc-local for each user. My
>.muttrc-local has (among other things) the following commands:
>
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know where the font package that contains Adobe Helvetica is?
>I used APT for getting blackbox's package from the frozen section. I also
>grabbed the xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages, along with the basic
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In /var/log/exim/mainlog.01
>
>SMTP error from remote mailer after Mail From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2522:
>host smtp-gw01.ibm.net Unresolvable domain name
>
>What is this error telling me?
I think it's saying that smt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is
>wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, you're receving mail addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or
possibly "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Or do
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my
>TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do
>a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s
>/dos_c/windows/fonts /usr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically,
>which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3).
>
>Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider
>t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and
>/etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup
>gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type
>definition for every package.
That
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt
>wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I
>can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a
>few of the files. See the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. Over the weekend, I wrote a script that converts WindowMaker themes to
>Debian packages automatically. (the themes have to follow wm.t.o's packaging
>policy). I think it would be useful for other Debian users but I
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to get apt to work installing .deb files from a local directory.
>I have no packages list and I cannot seem to figure out how to make the
>FILE: uri stem work. I guess the problem is that they are just sitti
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> > $ find /cdrom -iname wx*
>> > $ find /cdrom -iname wxx*
>> > /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb
>> >
>> > Why does the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sawitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote:
>
>> I guess my question is: what is the difference between the two? and which
>> one should I use? I need a program to run every 5 minutes to do some
>> polling. and I want it to ha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg
>just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This
>does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg
>is displaying?
I believe the kernel keeps a cir
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenneth F. Ryder III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[exim in inetd.conf]
>smtp stream tcpnowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs
I've got:
smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs
i.e. I run exim as user "mail" rather than
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What I'd love to have is some advice on a no-hassle sound card. The card
>doesn't have to put out great sound -- most any noise will do. By far the
>highest priority is for the card to mesh seamlessly with Linux. Anyone h
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenneth F. Ryder III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be
>running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since
>Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed
Errr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat
>contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on
>a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any
>work arounds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>test -f System.map && chmod 644 \
>debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.2.1
>dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.2.1-i586 -Pdebian/tmp-image/
>parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file
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