user X session at boot

1999-10-11 Thread Mike Wood
Currently I'm using a modified Login.app to provide a login screen for 7 public netscape terminals. I'm wondering if there is a way to have X start as the guest user at boot time. I've tried using 'su -c' in init but unfortunately that doesn't seem to quite work. Mike Wood

read-only filesystems

1999-08-10 Thread Mike Wood
I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be helpful.

Re: LI\nLI

1999-03-06 Thread Mike Wood
when your boot partition is =1024 cylinders. I know this is a throwback to the old dos days, and has something to do with compatability (or lackof in a BIOS). Use LBA mode for your hardrive and make sure the boot partition is =1023 cylinders. Mike Wood

Re: LILO and two disks...

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Wood
solution I would love to hear about it. Mike Wood

Re: jdk1.2 as .deb package?

1999-01-14 Thread Mike Wood
On 13 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Thomas Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a jdk1.2 .deb package available somewhere? Or is somebody working on it? Do you know that it's available for Linux? Last time I looked, the official release was only available for Windows - not

Re: USB Mouse

1998-11-10 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I believe it's at http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB/ On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:20:22AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find the development tree for USB under Linux? I also house a mirror of the USB project which

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Mike Wood
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote: I attempted to manually install the DHCPCD client daemon, to update my cable modem IP as my ISP changes it. Is it a @home cable modem? It seems to have installed, and setup itself to run at boot time. However, it does nothing. If I run it manually

Re: DHCPCD?

1998-11-04 Thread Mike Wood
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Try a newer version of dhcpcd at isc.org. I had tried that... For some reason it would take the wrong address from the wrong server. This is Rogers @Home internet service I always though dhcp was dhcp but until I downloaded the version from

Re: PPP Headaches

1998-11-04 Thread Mike Wood
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Ladd Joseph Epp wrote: Hello, I'm a relatively new user to linux, but a very proficient computer user. Here's the scoop: I just installed Debian 2.0 on my system and I need to get PPP up and running. I've been able to connect to my ISP and begin a PPP session

wmaker 0.20.2

1998-10-28 Thread Mike Wood
Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I can provide more info upon request. mike...

idea's?

1998-10-22 Thread Mike Wood
I have two debian 2.0 boxes that have Spellcaster ISDN cards installed. These machines are using CIPE to provide a encrypted link to each-other across the internet. Currently the boxes are both online 24/7 and I've just been informed that if the remote box remains online full time they

pppsetup

1996-11-08 Thread Mike Wood
I've noticed alot of questions on this list have been about setting up PPP links. Here's a script I found that will (hopefully) make things a little easier for people. I myself have never used it (I'm on ethernet) but I hear it works quite nice. PS. I am NOT the author of

Re: DNS, Sendmail, or Smail

1996-09-20 Thread Mike Wood
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I'm very new to Linux, and there is quite a bit I haven't caught on to yet. But, I have a problem that just isn't getting any better. I have Debian 1.1 loaded, running kernel 2.0.6. The machine I'm working in is not directly connected

Is smail MIME compliant

1996-09-03 Thread Mike Wood
I just had somebody tell me that *NIX mailers (They didn't specify which one) don't support MIME. This person claims that the MIME messages he's been sending through my mail server aren't working because it's a *NIX host. This I find hard to swallow. Could somebody clear this up for

Transfering system.

1996-08-28 Thread Mike Wood
Hello, I am running a mailserver for our network on a Debain 1.1 system. I now need to upgrade the hard drive. Is there a way I can do this quick and painless? Perhaps down the server and intsall the new drive. Bring the server back up and fdisk and format the new drive, bring the