Re: passwords, shadows, and other business

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
and then try logging in from another virtual terminal. If it works, you can delete the unwanted versions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Oliver Elphick answered: `man 7

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
SIGIOT 6 CG IOT trap. A synonym for SIGABRT SIGEMT 7,-,7 G SIGBUS 10,7,10 AG Bus error -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Re: shell cmd: group name from gid?

1997-10-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Paul Miller wrote: Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid? Like this: $ grep :27: /etc/group sudo:x:27: and to refine it: $ grep :27: /etc/group | awk -F: '{print $1}' sudo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

`dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
to do so? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
support into the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian 1.2 installation - how to mount scsi cdrom????

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:500 Rev: 2.5 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ^^^ | Here it is: /dev/sr0 -- Oliver Elphick

`dump' command

1997-10-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct multi-volume backups. However, the man page is dated 1993. Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
/sr0 Block device 22,0 is the second IDE interface, i.e. /dev/hdc. The /dev/sr0 device should be 11,0. Delete this device and recreate it with the correct major number as posted by someone else. Then it will work. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: problems w/ Lilo

1997-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: trusted hosts in a network

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) You don't want to use `-h' if your network has any exposure to the outside world! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: root access over nfs

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
'. Add the option `no_root_squash' to the appropriate line in /etc/exports. `man exports' for details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompile it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
to exim, and exim behaves the same way, I don't see why MH should care. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Postgres

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
up going horribly wrong. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: sql database

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
mailing lists. These are archived somewhere at www.postgresql.org. With regard to PostgreSQL at least, you should try to ensure that you are comparing like with like. PostgreSQL has many capabilities that other free databases don't. However, it has to sacrifice some speed to get them. -- Oliver

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
not found bootsec.s is assembly code, but you don't have the assembler (as86) available. as86 is in the package bin86. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
. If you want to run DOS utilities on (unmounted) DOS disks, look at the package mtools, which contains programs such as mformat, mdir, mcopy and so on. To access a DOS disk which you have mounted, use normal Unix commands. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Joey Hess wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: ... If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why would anyone create such a monster? But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ls debian/ dl/ doc/ gnustep

Re: Summer Time Time Zone

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
the environment variable, TZ, by a shell command (Bourne-shell syntax): export TZ=Brazil/area The available timezones are files under /usr/share/zoneinfo. Full information in the libc info files, under Calendar Time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: msdos file system

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
' or whatever. Use `man mount' to see further information. You can also access a DOS floppy disk directly with the commands from the mtools package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key

Re: [LINUX] Urgent: How to talk to serial device

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
through the serial port; it requires the site details (such as modem telephone number) to have been set up in configuration files beforehand. 3. To terminate cu once you're connected, type `CR ~.' (return, tilde, dot). For further information, see the info files for uucp. -- Oliver

Re: svgalib won't work

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
. If not, then I've no idea! (Note to you as system administrator: don't have suid root programs in a user's home directory. Move it to /usr/local/bin and check that the directory permissions are safe. If you aren't the administrator, be prepared to justify your request to create a suid program.) -- Oliver

Re: RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
*, use `/usr/sbin/arp -a -n' (the -n returns the IP address rather than the name). I don't think that there is any way to find the IP address of an arbitrary MAC device which isn't on the current network. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Problems w/xboard

1997-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
problem sounds like a problem with your search path. gnuchessx is in /usr/games, which is probably not in your path, seeing that you are typing the full path name for xboard. Try: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games; xboard -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
, that the licence applies to the moc as well as to all the rest of the Qt distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot

Re: ... other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
. Any documentation should be in /usr/doc/visual-tcl. (I haven't installed this package myself, though.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make

Re: Mouse Troubles....

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
contain these lines: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux EndSection -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes lilo is in /sbin/lilo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot

Re: Lilo on dual boot system with reformatting

1997-09-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
, though rather difficult to grasp at first. binoa1DWLrWET.bin Description: lilo.conf Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
a library. You don't need the library to create the library - thus no catch-22. You're right. I took a closer look at the output. It is trying to create the libtwin.so file and fails. Please post the relevant section of error output so that we can help further. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
adding `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line, so that gcc knows where to look for libXpm. I think that, by default, it only looks in /lib and in /usr/lib. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
netstd I seem to recall reading recent messages saying that gated has some kind of licensing problem and is not in the distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: floppy

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
corresponding to each set. Use `ls /dev/fd*' to list them. Man pages to check: mount(8), mkfs(8), mtools(1), fd(4). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: problem compiling kernel with sound

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed

Re: mouse

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
, which is a PS2 device (it has a small round plug on the end of its cable). If yours is similar, the device should be /dev/psaux and the protocol is PS2. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], the Date: header is one year slow! Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 02:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Viorel, please check your system clock! I sort messages, and yours end up in the wrong place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
. It is a pleasant environment, but not yet very stable. I'm not sure what it has got that should make me change permanently from fvwm. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
the older libc6-based e2fsck on a 2 GB or greater partition, YOU WILL LOSE DATA. I had problems with that version of e2fsck, EVEN THOUGH (by my calculations) my partition was less than 2Gb (= 2 * 1024^3) by 67Mb. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

How can I check package integrity?

1997-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
every package to see whether all its files are present. Is there any tool to do this? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot

Re: Devices?

1997-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
is wrong and will be causing problems. The correct device is /dev/psaux. You have gpm looking at your first serial port for a mouse, which it won't find. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
to run from cron. I can't help you on the other problem (strange error messages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot

Re: Knews

1997-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
into two windows: $knews -nntpServer localhost +separate -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
? (I flipped through the three information choices, but none showed files contained) Not with dselect. From a command line, use dpkg -S, thus: $ dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd netstd: /usr/man/man8/rpc.bootparamd.8.gz netstd: /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd -- Oliver Elphick

Re: ppp-script problem,

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
atdt5813960 CONNECT rname:--rname: MY_LOGIN word: MY_PASSWRD ppp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: Please help...

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
of your path (run `export PATH=$PATH:directory'). For example: $ type netscape netscape is hashed (/usr/local/bin/netscape) $ su Password: # type netscape bash: type: netscape: not found # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin # type netscape netscape is /usr/local/bin/netscape -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
take the job for a week at a time each, so we don't get too wearied by it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot

Re: [problem][tetex][locate]

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
to wake up to be killed. I don't know whether any such call exists, but altering the kill() system call is probably a change with fairly major implications for the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk

Re: compilation problems

1997-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
errors: f77 -I./inc -cpp -g -C -c routine.F -o ./routine.o ./routine.F routine: mv: routine.c: I/O error `I/O error' is a hardware problem. It sounds as if there's something wrong with the hard disk. That's why the file involved keeps changing. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: PPP ?

1997-08-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
* - what's the difference? I have already configured the kernel of TCP/IP and PPP - what's the next step? /dev/cua* is obsolete and should not be used. Use /dev/ttyS*. (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2 and so on.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
is that MANPATH is not set correctly. You should do this in your .xsession file or else in the global file. You want something like: MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/pgsql/man export MANPATH editing as necessary for any other manpage directories you may have. -- Oliver

Apache/Perl segfaults

1997-08-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
in init_modules () #3 0x8061c35 in standalone_main () #4 0x80621b4 in main () Can anyone offer any suggestions, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone

Re: sound card as a module and audio CDs

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
. I experience the same problem running with a GUS Extreme and the commercial OSS software. Following Colin Telmer's hint, I found that the card would play CD's if I played a midi file first (with playmidi -g). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: apropos broken in 1.3?

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hello-- It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an apropos -d a and got Perhaps you need to run mandb to create the manual page index. -- Oliver Elphick

SPAM

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Today there was a SPAM message on debian-changes. Can the list server not be configured to refuse postings from addresses that aren't subscribed to the list the posting is intended for? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: How can I output tabs with sed? I need something like: `s/insert tab here/\t' In theory, sed -e 's/insert tab here

Re: sed/grep script help

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
:10 GMT by key: 1024 bits, Key ID 8C111B46, Created 1997-08-06 Paul A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]'| awk -F\ '/^Good/{printf(Good signature by )} /^ */{print $2}' Good signature by Paul A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
char should work, but it doesn't. I think that bash gets in the way when you do it from the command line. However, it works if you put the sed instruction in a file and use sed -f sedfile -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

diald and netscape - unwanted connections

1997-08-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
is somehow responsible, but it is not running! I cannot find out what process is doing this. Can anyone suggest what it is or how to find out? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot

Re: netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008b000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40096000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40134000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40137000) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

xemacs20 won't start

1997-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
(debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left) command-line() # (unwind-protect ...) normal-top-level() # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) === Can anyone tell me how to cure this? -- Oliver Elphick

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
and see if I can reproduce the problem by tweaking this file. Yes. When first installed, /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers contains nothing but comments. You need a line like this linda:0.0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 to enable xdm to manage your local display. -- Oliver Elphick

metafont/dvips problem

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
: overstrike characters may be incorrect. Can anyone tell me what is causing this error and how to cure it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
/...). exmh has an inc button; it also runs inc automatically when it is started. If you want your mail split into different directories before you read it, you need to use something like procmail. There's a lot to read about, but do persist; exmh is a nice piece of software. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
no-xdm-start-server run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

1997-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
overcome this redirection to /dev/null? In your script, simply say echo message /dev/console or echo message /dev/tty as appropriate. Redirection at execution time does not prevent you from opening new files in the script itself; it merely determines the defaults. -- Oliver Elphick

g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, please let me know! --- Repeated Message Date:Fri, 04 Jul 1997 22:21:39 +0100 From:Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem linking with publib library and g++ I have

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writ es: On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, please let me know! Don't know what this publib stuff is (just running dpkg -S /usr/include/publib [ah see, high-level functions

Re: PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
-9? This is really the last resort. You should just kill (the default is -15) to give processes the chance to clean themselves up; or does kill -15 not work? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
) to /vmlinuz; runs lilo to set up /vmlinuz as the new kernel to be booted - this is particularly important, since, without it, the machine will no longer be bootable. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk

Problem linking with publib library and g++

1997-07-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
-lpub linda:~/cprogs$ I can't work out what has changed and why this no longer works. System: Pentium Pro Kernel: 2.0.30 Debian: 1.3 from unstable gcc:2.7.2.2-4 binutils: 2.8.1-1 publib-dev: 0.26-1 libc6: 2.0.3-4 -- Oliver Elphick

Re: message problems...

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
If the device does not exist at all, mknod -m 444 /dev/sr0 b 11 0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly pgpFS2NQYs9Ha.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Distributer in UK?

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
of 91DM (about £35) including postage, and they arrived within 3 days. Furthermore, he cuts a new set each time, so you are as up to date as you can be! See http://www.schwarz-online.com/cs-software/debian-cdrom/index.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
\FDISK /MBR to install the default DOS master boot record. You will then need to have LOADLIN on the DOS partition in order to be able to start Linux. Alternatively, you may choose to use lilo as the boot loader; look at the user documentation in /usr/doc/lilo. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
reboot your old version without resorting to a rescue disk by interrupting the lilo boot sequence with the control key before the 20 second delay (delay=20) expires and entering 'old' as the kernel to boot. ... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
that lilo is put in the MBR. It does not explain why. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: answer to xdm automatically starting

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
#no-start-xdm start-xfs start-xdm xdm-start-server Also check the Xservers file in /etc/X11/xdm. The line describing the local machine's display must be uncommented before xdm will try to manage it: :0 Local local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: XTerm-color

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
-resources If users have a file called .Xresources in their home directory, these resources will be merged with the default resources when they log in. So ensure that this line exists in the file, if you want to use a private .Xresources file. -- Oliver Elphick

Starting xdm (was Re: setting switching screen densities)

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
, let me know :) ... Have you got the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. pgp0EWwL5BX07.pgp

innd problem stopping news reading

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
closed by foreign host. bash$ Does anyone know what might be causing this? and why does it not allow connections as a result? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
or its path. Read /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README for more information. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. pgpa8LjwYvnzt.pgp

UK source for 1.3 cd?

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there any source in the UK that will sell the 1.3 cd in the near future? My phone bill can't stand downloading everything that's changed! Or are there any foreign companies that will post to the UK? Prices, please... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
, are the correct modules loaded? (ne also needs 8390). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. pgp71UulJx9vl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
to resemble the host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value. From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence, it's not much good! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
. I did strings on every mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get the source and reconfigure it to use smail??? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
or awk would also offer entertaining solutions! If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you avoid the problem in the first place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly

Return code from system()

1997-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
*) s); dpkg -s libc5: Version: 5.4.20-1 Is this a fault in documentation, or in the libc package? Is it unique to me? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Unidentified subject!

1997-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
: * #any host can get a login window * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly pgp60PiusVWfV.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Network Configuration

1997-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
1997 13:30:08 + From: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, try the command ifconfig You should see something like:# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1

Linking problems boundary===_Exmh_13452812500 boundary===_Exmh_13601327980

1997-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
of files which demonstrate the bug. I don't know if this is in fact a bug in the GNU compiler or in QT. Version levels: Debian Linux 1.2 GCC 2.7.2.1 libg++ 2.7.2 QT 1.0 Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http

/dev/ttyS? v. /dev/cua?

1997-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
: Can't disable hardware flow control: I/O error cu: write: I/O error Does anyone know the reason for this? Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly

Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support

1997-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver?

Re: What Can I do?

1997-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
to be compiled. What can i do? Use the reget command in ftp to continue a download from where it stopped. Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly

postgres95 - missing library - Repeat message

1997-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
the message: postgres: can't load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0' libbsd.a is present, but I can find no reference anywhere to the shared library. Where can I get this library, please? Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
that runs shutdown with predetermined parameters or else prompts for how long to wait, messages to send to other users and so on. If this script were to disappear, the log-in would fail rather than giving a root-access shell. Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

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