Hello,
> I just changed "su nobody" to "su root". I can run it manually now as
> root so I assume cron should run it OK next time around.
Dont do this. The entries in the find.codes database are public, therefore
there should be no informatiuon stored normal users are unable to see (i.e.
filenam
Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> 2. Under X11 as it is configured on my 640 x 480 low end color LCD
> (Toshiba T1910), many applications I would like to use, such as
> xpaint, tgif, xfig, not to mention ghostview, run at a size that is
> large than the screen can show at once. Is there something I can
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
>> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
>> release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
>> which. It's just a bash shell script tha
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> can't get XFree running on an ATI-Mach-64 card. I don't know for sure
> what kind of Mach64 card it is, but it's got 2MB VRAM. When I start
If you can't get the XFree86 mach64 driver working, I'd recommend using the
beta driver for the Mach 64. It has
I've just installed 0.93R6, and it appears that everything is in
a.out format. Is this correct?
I've downloaded some packages from non-free, like ncftp, seyon, and
xv. These, however, are in ELF format. E.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:561]% file xv
xv: ELF 32-bit LSB executabl
Package: lpr
Version: 5.9-11
Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 May 1996 14:24:
>Rick Macdonald writes ("Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"):
>> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>>
>> > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
>> >
>> >
This bug was in the passwd file from the base package.
It can be fixed by replacing the nobody line in /etc/passwd with this entry:
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:
Hope that helps.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What do I have to put in the MemBase line?
Someone with an ATI GX Mach64 2MB - ramdac ati68860 Rev B, and
clock ati18818-1/ICS2595, reported that he used: 8MB Aperature at 0xa000
I think this is supposed to be listed in the XF86Config file as
MemBase 0xa000
This is only an inference,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Rick> Is this a problem with the cron job from the findutils package or the
> Rick> passwd file from the base package?
>
> With the passwd file. There is a : missing at the end of the nobody entry.
> It should be
> nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:
H
Bruce Perens writes:
> > and the system is more sluggish.
>
> I suggest you build a custom kernel as soon as possible. Please tell us
> if that helps. The installation kernel is a bit too generic, I fear.
Uhhm, I never touched the debian bootdisks :) It was 1.3.100, now
pre2.04 ELF compiled with
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
> on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
> changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
> I did find hints that the default mode could be
There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11.
Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine.
1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same
as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to
lock up when I used this command three tim
Billy Chow writes:
> Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
> Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
> Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
> Olaf> down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the
> Olaf>
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason debian does not ship with /dev/random and /dev/urandom
> > mknodded? (mknod /dev/random c 1 8 ; mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 and they work
> > fine however)
>
> No. Report it as a bug against
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> > release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
> > which. It's just a bash shell script
> "Olaf" == Olaf Erb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olaf> the system is more
Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
Olaf> down during ema
/etc/cron.daily/find looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# cron script to update the `find.codes' database.
#
# Written by Ian A. Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
su nobody -c "cd / && updatedb" 2>/dev/null
but the "nobody" entry in /etc/passwd looks like this:
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/tmp:/dev/null
> On 15 May 1996 12:15:39 +0200, Kai Grossjohann
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Kai> Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 (I know that it's
Kai> unstable and maybe I should start with a stable release first,
Kai> but I have already learned a few things and I think I should be
Ka
check out http://web.nmsu.edu/~emacha/debian.html
got the source code for which. Compiles fine under linux, and someone
could put it in debian-utils, or whatever...
(my $.02 worth, ;) )
-Frank
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > I would
Hi there,
can't get XFree running on an ATI-Mach-64 card. I don't know for sure
what kind of Mach64 card it is, but it's got 2MB VRAM. When I start
XF86_Mach64, I get junk on the screen: most of the pixels are white,
but there are thin vertical stripes (a couple of inches high/long) of
black. A
Hi,
I have just installed mgetty for the first time
When I convert received faxes using the package g3topbm.
Then when viewing either with xv or postscript,
the page appears about half the size in length and the characters are
"compressed" to half their sizes
Any one know how to fix this problem
On the subject on which, why not use:
-- which script for bash starts --
/bin/tcsh
# or where-ever tcsh is
which $*
# or what-ever prints all input parameters in tcsh
-- which script for bash ends --
As you all surely understand I'm not well versed in the writing of shell
scripts, but hopefull
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
>
> > > No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
> > > MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
>
> > here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
>
> Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at
Rick Macdonald writes ("Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"):
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>
> > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
> >
> > if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) < 0) {
> >
> > I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the level of
> support in the Description, so that people see it in dselect.
Easiest and obviously most reasonable suggestion ! 8-)
Greetings,
Steffen
-
Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45:
> >> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
> >Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X
> >server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory.
>
> Isn
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> > No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
> > MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
> here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at devices.tex. There's
LOTS and LOTS of stuff that's n
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't
> handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would. For example:
>
> which test
>
> returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian
> system.
ok, the next version of d
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> masca[~]$ xtet42 &
> [1] 769
> masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
Probably it's an a.out program. Type 'file xtet42' to find out. You
could recompile it or install xcompat.
Guy
Stephen Early writes ("Re: X Windows"):
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> > >
> > When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
> > the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
> > when you do it severa
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
> on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
> changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
> I did find hints that the defa
I did another pass on the "modconf" program over the past two days, and
it should work better now (or perhaps I should say it should work). I will
incorporate this into a new root floppy tomorrow - that task may overflow
into part of Saturday.
Until the release is done, I am reading little list ma
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome writes ("Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1
installation notes.)"):
...
[ dselect in Tk/Ctk ]
> I think this would be a very interesting (and useful) project, that
> could be worked in a distributed group fashion, just like the whole
> Debian. Of course, I'm wi
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
> on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
> changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
> I did find hints that the de
Erick Branderhorst writes ("find question (and xargs)"):
> this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
> because it is very debian related too:
>
> I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
> with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remov
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
>
> if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) < 0) {
>
> I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it's not
> documented. Also it has no effect at all, though it returns 0.
It's no
I had also reported this problem with module configuration a week (?) ago, but
have not heard anything about corrections to the installation program. Is
this being worked on?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 16 15:20:55 1996
> Resent-Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:10:25 +0200
> Old-Return-Path: <[
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has
> some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much
> fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the
> trick. I'm still not sure why
Hi,
I am expiriencing a problem that I don't know how to solve.
masca[~]$ xtet42 &
[1] 769
masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
The problem is that the library is there:
masca[~]$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 10 15:43 /usr/X11R6/lib/li
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
> on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
> changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
> I did find hints that the de
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
> which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
> command:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> type -path $*
I'm g
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)"):
> > Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be
> > modified to show up a small "WARNING" message.
>
> Those are Ian Jackson's programs.
Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the le
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X.
The Left-Ctrl, Left-Alt, and the + or - on the numeric keyboard.
> 2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup.
In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config look for the scre
> In general, I think the beta 1.1 installation lacks severely in this
> regard. There is an item on the menu to add the modules. However, it
> does not run correctly and gives a ton of error messages saying it
> cannot find the /etc/modules file (when it is there!), and will not
> allow the inst
Does debian 1.1 observe the arrangement of the Linux kernel with
regards to include files etc? ie should there be symlinks /usr/include
to include and asm subdirectories in /usr/src/linux?
I appear to have a directory /usr/include/linux which is NOT
a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux. It du
Debian will eventually need U.S. 501(c)(3) tax status. If anyone's willing
to work on that for us, it would be a great help.
Thanks
Bruce
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Why don't you just make
> /etc/cron.weekly/wuftpd be empty or not executable, and copy it to the
> cron.daily directory ?
Don't make it nonexecutable, or run-parts will complain. Making it
empty is good though.
Guy
Hi,
I'd really like to have mouse functionality with mc, and especially,
emacs; I think I have the right stuff installed, but the applications
don't hear the mouse at all. I have a mostly 1.1 system, upgraded in
place from a 0.93r6. All base packages are newest versions, except for
those that go
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X.
M-C-- and M-C-+.
> 2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup.
In my graphics drivers section I have:
ACCEL
Virtual 1024 768
Thanks to all who answered my question about 3D cards.
Has anyone managed to operate a system with more than 128MB RAM? I'm
interested in configurations of 1/4 and 1/2 Gigabyte of physical RAM.
Thanks
Bruce
Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45:
>> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
>Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X
>server for each VC, which will take a lot of memory.
Isn't there a problem with the lock file?
Carlos
On one of the computer systems here, I am suddenly unable to use the Debian
installation disks.
Details:
I am using a boot floppy made from a file dated something like May 4.
It boots version 1.3.95.
The boot seems to go OK; i.e., the kernel loads without any obvious problems.
Then I insert the
Craig Sanders said:
> On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and used
> > by (at least) dip and efax.
>
> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to allow users
> to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them
Hi,
I just upgraded my R93 system to unstable-elf with help of the nice perlscript
someone posted here, and mucho struggling with dependencies :-) I didn't
like dselect (I apologise for this:), so upgrading by hand was a little slow,
but without any big problems. Some packages needed to be removed
Package: lpr
Version: 5.9-11
After quite a long dive in the lpr sources I found the reason that we
can't remove jobs in a remote queue. First, our /etc/hosts was like
this:
1.2.3.4 fully.qualified.domain.name hostname
Inverting the columns to be like this
1.2.3.4 hostname fully.qualifie
I think `net' would be a good group name for this.
Rob Browning writes:
>> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
>C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
>C> with minicom or send faxes?
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
> on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
> changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
> I did find hints that the de
> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
C> with minicom or send faxes?
C> I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't want to add users to a
C> dialout
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I
> > get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server.
> >
> > A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hidi
Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Is the command "which" available in any of the debian releases?
>
> Here's a simple shell script I've installed in /usr/local/bin to perform
> the same task (thanks Jon). I'm afraid I don't know if it will be in
> Version
>What can I do about this?
dpkg --list 'ncurses*' | egrep -v '^un'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDes
Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has
some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much
fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the
trick. I'm still not sure why the start/stop script didn't work. Maybe it
will
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