Test - Can't post to list fron Linux (n2vwz account test)

1996-10-08 Thread Jim Worthington
Test - Please Ignore -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't do setuid

1996-10-08 Thread Jim Worthington
I need the ability to run my dialing script as root since the script makes hostname, domainname, and /etc/resolv changes. It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a feature that I can turn on through a configuration file? Do all Linux distributions (Slackware,

Re: Getty ports - dumb question

1996-09-10 Thread Jim Worthington
Bill Roman wrote: They're running on your virtual consoles. Try holding down the left Alt key and pressing function keys. Log in on each virtual console. Pretty slick, eh? I used this feature a lot when I had only 4 MB of RAM, as that's not enough to run X in (unless you like watching

Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection

1996-09-10 Thread Jim Worthington
My ISP is worldnet.att.net. They use a PPP connection protocol developed by Shiva. I'm not sure whether it uses PAP or CHAP. I normally access using the windows 95 dialer by filling in the Username and Password fields. There is no logon / dialing script. Is anybody successfully connecting to

Getty ports - dumb question

1996-09-09 Thread Jim Worthington
I did a ps and found these getty ports running: 186 2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty2 187 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty3 188 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty4 189 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty5 190 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty6 I only have 2 serial ports ttyS0 and

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-08 Thread Jim Worthington
Vadik Vygonets wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. After several hours of floundering, I got xdm working. xdm was not running, I believe because some of the xdm startup files including /etc/X11/Xsession were

A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Jim Worthington
I'm having the following problems, any suggestions woulg be greatly appreciated. Jim (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? I'm using TCSH shell (2) xdm - Debian 1.1.0 release The Debian login window appears, After a correct login

Re: A couple of Problems

1996-09-07 Thread Jim Worthington
Vadik Vygonets wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace Vad. I tried adding the line to /etc/X11

I got fvwm-95 but can't get it to compile under Debian 1.1

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
I got fvwm-95 but I can't get it to compile under Debian 1.1: It's complaining about a missing file: xpm.h and a missing library: Xpm Is there a debian package for this xpm stuff? Where do I Look? Where do I install it? (if not Debian) Has anybody got fvwm-95 to compile? What did

WABI

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
What is the present status of WABI for Linux? How well does it perform? Thanks, Jim

fvwm-95 - Making progress, but not there yet

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
I got rid of the xpm errors by installing xpm4.7-dev-3.4g-5.deb. fvwm95 compiled producing only one error: It's complaining about a missing rplay library Where can this package be found? I do not have operational sound under Linux. (I don't really care right now -- thats a lower priority

Re: WABI

1996-09-04 Thread Jim Worthington
borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: WABI | | What is the present status of WABI for Linux? | |I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally. i am sorry just interested , where can i get

What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found

1996-09-03 Thread Jim Worthington
What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format. Is this the case? Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status. I prefer the windows 95 window format over most of the X manager formats that I

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-25 Thread Jim Worthington
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote: As Jim Worthington said: Has anybody successfully been able to run crack on Debian Linux 1.1? Randy Gobbel and I are looking at Crack right now on Linux (kernel 2.0.12). If you make FCRYPT equal to null in Sources/Makefile, and possibly remove references

/etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Jim Worthington
I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux machine in order to create common user accounts. Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun passwords when correctly entered. Thei technique works fine between Solaris and Sun Unix. Does Linux use a different encryption

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-24 Thread Jim Worthington
Bruce Perens wrote: This must be a bug. Bruce Can anybody verify this? Also I get the following message when trying to run crack ver 4.1: Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992 Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard.

Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug? + a note for the list maintainers

1996-08-22 Thread Jim Worthington
Martin Str|mberg wrote: Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown

Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?

1996-08-14 Thread Jim Worthington
Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for these HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17

Re: Soundblaster 32 pnp kills ethernet card

1996-08-14 Thread Jim Worthington
Alastair Gregory wrote: A while back I attempted to install a SB AWE32 PnP sound card, with absolutely no success. It didn't appear to affect any of my other cards, but it didn't work. It didn't work under Win95 either, and Creative Labs' support was worse than useless. I exchanged it - the

Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?

1996-08-14 Thread Jim Worthington
Daniel Lynes wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:42:13 -0400, Jim Worthington wrote: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during the installation process. It is also a primary partition. I haven't

OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?

1996-08-13 Thread Jim Worthington
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for these HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during the

Soundblaster 32 pnp kills ethernet card

1996-08-12 Thread Jim Worthington
I have a SoundBlaster 32 pnp audio card. When this card is installed, my 3Com 3C509B ethernet card is not recognized by Linux at boot time. The 3C509B is also a pnp device, but pnp is turned off and the card is manually configured. There aren't any interrupt or I/O conflicts that I can

Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work or The Case of The Missing Modules)

1996-08-10 Thread Jim Worthington
Mike Taylor wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mark Edward Johnston wrote: I have installed Linux (Debian 1.1) on a friend's computer, but can't get X to work as it complains about not being able to find the mouse. The system is a Gateway 2000 DX2/66 with Cirrus Logic 5434 and what

Re: help getting X and openwin to work?

1996-08-01 Thread Jim Worthington
I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the As a Sun workstation user, I also prefer running openwin. I was under the impression that this