Re: Help: need to fix ownership of /var/...

1996-08-23 Thread Sherwood Botsford
mail you the results. You can then construct a script that reads this file, and executes chmod/chown as appropriate. Alternately, start over with a clean root file system. Sherwood Botsford |Unsolicited email that advertises commercial Physics Dept |activities will consitute a request for

Re: Debian quirks?

1996-08-22 Thread Sherwood Botsford
ounted > 100MB on /tmp to avoid the problem.) > I've got several machines that install with an absurdly small root or /tmp partition. What I usually to is blow away /tmp, and replace it with a link to /usr/tmp or /var/tmp depending on the machine. Sherwood Botsford |Unsolicited email

Re: telnet acces for root ?

1996-08-15 Thread Sherwood Botsford
le method unless you are aslo using some form of secure telnet, or one time keys, or kerberos. Sherwood Botsford |Unsolicited email that advertises commercial Physics Dept |activities will consitute a request for U of Alberta |spellchecking of all words of less than three Edmonton,

Re: kernel size (was: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work?)

1996-08-15 Thread Sherwood Botsford
minimalist, but basic unix machine. 5'th tier. Normal dselect, where you can pick out what you want. One of the recommended packages would be kernel builder, which would guide you through the steps to either select one of a standard set, or help you to roll your own. Sherwood Botsford

SCSI and EIDE

1996-08-13 Thread Sherwood Botsford
significant, often > adding up to 10ms to the simplest command. > > > I would expect that if you only have one disk per EIDE controller, you > will significantly outperform a single SCSI bus with two disks on it. > > > -wayne > > Sherwood Botsford |Unsolici

Cornerstone Monitor?

1996-08-10 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Cornerstone makes a pair of high resolution grey scale monitors. (highest one is 2500+ x 1500 pixels) Has anyone used one on a linux box? Sherwood Botsford |Unsolicited email that advertises commercial Physics Dept |activities will consitute a request for U of Alberta

Re: Recommendations on mother boards?

1996-08-09 Thread Sherwood Botsford
se e-mail me and I will summarize to the list. > > -- > Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Statistics Department608/262-2598 > University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ > > Sherwood Botsford |Unso

Serial ports...

1996-08-09 Thread Sherwood Botsford
void locking problems with tip and uucp, all reference to the "cu" device for a particular serial port must be of the same flow control type. E.g. tip should not refer to /dev/cua while uucp refers to /dev/cu