Pervasive Permission Problem

1999-09-13 Thread Julian S. Taylor
, I get dilthey:~ ls -l notion -rw--- 1 julian users 16384 Jan 5 1997 notion dilthey:~ ypmatch julian passwd julian:x:501:100:Julian S. Taylor:/home/julian:/usr/bin/tcsh Any ideas? Julian

Re: debian installation

1999-08-21 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Evan, To put this in context, my profession involves developing improved software distribution methodologies and so I compare most software installations against my own research and I'm working as hard as I am because I find most approaches disappointing (not just Debian). I'll try to illuminate

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-15 Thread Julian S. Taylor
| When I use cu on Debian I get the messagepppd permission denied. I can | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to | Debian. What am I doing wrong? It may be you need to add the group dialout. By default regular users don't have permission to

Getting lprng to /dev/lp1

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I can shut doen lprng and cat /dev/motd to /dev/lp1 but when I turn on lprng, it refuses to print and lpq shows: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'indianpeaks' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 515 active Status: sleeping 10 secs before retry, starting sleep at 08:06:19 Rank

Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I log in to Sun using a prompt-response method. The server sends down a random number, I make an entry into a calculator and it gives me the password for that session. For this reason, I can't hook up using expect or chat. Using slackware and Caldera, I just log in using cu. Debian's

What's this about E-Mail support

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an E-Mail address for the promised 30 days of E-Mail support - never happened.

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Pollywog wrote: On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: Salutations, I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an E-Mail