Timing out idle ppp links ("who" is wrong)

Is there some canonical way to detect and time out an idle ppp link? It seems that you can't just use the standard login tools (timeoutd, idled, or autolog) because wtmp doesn't have correct idle data for a ppp link (seems that only LCP packets count as activity). Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: X and xcalc

On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > It's apparently a message from your window-manager. Which one do you > use? fvwm. Thanks, maybe I have something strange in .fvwmrc? John * John Maheu phone:

dpkg errors

I've been getting this message everytime I install something with dpkg: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "us" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the stan

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

Brandon Mitchell writes: >There is no happy medium. IMO, 7 is too early. I was around 4 am, but >the users who lonly turned their computers on during the day never got >their logs rotated and wondered why their /var/log got so large. >Changing the crontab is easy as you have said, so making s

Re: Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:39:24 +1300, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > >It's available now (and has been for over a week) in experimental. > > Is hamm considered experimental? 1.1.3-6 is still the newest in hamm. > no hamms->unstable. Experimental is in projec

Re: bash won't see existing binaries

> "JT" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JT> After installing the 'unstable' package wn_1.17.11-1.deb the JT> installation failed with a (for me) mysterious error: bash says JT> "/usr/sbin/wn: No such file or directory", and the same thing with JT> all other executables which be

Re: Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 00:39:24 +1300, Adam Shand wrote: > >It's available now (and has been for over a week) in experimental. Is hamm considered experimental? 1.1.3-6 is still the newest in hamm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: Kernel Question

> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: >> > "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like thi

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

> There is no happy medium. IMO, 7 is too early. I was around 4 am, but > the users who lonly turned their computers on during the day never got > their logs rotated and wondered why their /var/log got so large. > Changing the crontab is easy as you have said, so making sure it is run > see

Re: Debian Installation experience

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > * (Re)mounting is disabled. > > > * immutable-append-only are enforced by the kernel (i.e. you can't chmod > > > them away). > > Does this mean that you have to boot to a different kernel to do

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thouroughly hacked apcd for private use adding the following features: > - - Close and reopen logfiles on HUP signal. > - - Make shutdown dependent on the remaining battery load. > - - Slave uses init for shutdown. > - - Master uses shutdown code fro

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

On 8 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough > : to be scheduling this sort of thing. > > I agree, it's not early enough. At 7 PM we have users already using the

Re: Kernel Panic

At 09:36 PM 7/8/97 +0200, you wrote: >Did you included the driver for your root filesystem (probable ext2) >in the kernel (*not* as a module)? Seems to be the problem here. > >-- > Emilio C. Lopes Yeh, But I think that I figuared out the problem. I compiled some control

bash won't see existing binaries

After installing the 'unstable' package wn_1.17.11-1.deb the installation failed with a (for me) mysterious error: bash says "/usr/sbin/wn: No such file or directory", and the same thing with all other executables which belongs to WN, but all files _are_ correctly installed (in my opinion). The bi

Re: Kernel Question

On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when > JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this > JHV> in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the cons

Re: Kernel Panic

> "SA" == Syd Alsobrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SA> I just recently compiled a new kernel on my linux box, this isn't SA> the first time that I have done this, but this the first one that SA> had a problem. After recompiling the kernel servel times with SA> different options and decided to

Re: german distributors of Debian 1.3 CD-ROM?

On 8 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore > called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got > the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing? > Check out the following URL's for complete inf

Re: Kernel Question

> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this JHV> in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the console, everything JHV> was fine. Don't ask me w

Re: X and xcalc

> "JM" == John Maheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> I was able to solve my rxvt colour problem, by rewiting .Xdefaults. JM> However, now I notice that xcalc gives: JM> Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap JM> Warning: Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s JM> xcalc

german distributors of Debian 1.3 CD-ROM?

Hi! Are there any? I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing? -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~he

Kernel Panic

Hello! I just recently compiled a new kernel on my linux box, this isn't the first time that I have done this, but this the first one that had a problem. After recompiling the kernel servel times with different options and decided to check here. The compile runs fine with no proble

X & modprobe gone wild

help! I upgraded some packages to the latest from unstable (replacing about 2 week old stuff) yesterday, including xbase & the fonts. Now I have X & a modprobe out of countrol. X is using 33-50% of cpu time when doing nothing, and I have recurring message of Jul 8 14:45:09 eyry modprobe: Can

Problem with mouse and X on TI Extensa 575CD laptop

I have tried to install Debian 1.2.4 on a laptop computer. Everything seems to be okay except that I cannot get X and the mouse to work. I have read about similar configurations on Extensa models but none of them uses Debian and non of them uses the exact laptop models. Does anyone know where can

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

>>m* wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> jim writes: >> >> > I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at >> > 7AM in the morning,... >> > ... > >sounds like your system/cmos clock might be off an hour or so. > >anyone working at 7am needs a vacation...

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > jim writes: > > > I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at > > 7AM in the morning,... > > ... sounds like your system/cmos clock might be off an hour or so. anyone working at 7am needs a vacation... -- "The Shining One" -- -- TO U

PPP dial-up script

Not that I don't love starting my PPP connection manually with minicom, but I was hoping to configure the automated scripts. I read the PPP HOW-TO, and think I have them set up ok, but I can't figure out how to activate them. What command do I use to get the script to fire up my modem and do its

Re: Mailers

> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking into? HM> Obscure keystrokes. Not at all if you have the reference card around. :-) I read my mail and my news with Gnus (comes with Emacs), both with the same interface. With

staroffice.deb

Dear friends, today I have packaged a staroffice installer. Last week some people have asked for a .deb of it. It works for me so far. It tries to install some menu entries and has a wrapper around the executables because otherwise you would run into problems because of missing variables. Could

Re: Kernel Question

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > Hi. > > questions, questions > > How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage? > > Reason for asking > > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing > "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 m

Re: How to compile kernel with debian?

> "MS" == Max Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I used to have a slackware system and thus got used to the old MS> rigamorole involved in compiling a new kernel. However, with MS> debian, there seems to be more steps involved (at least, there are MS> debian readmes distributed with the

X and xcalc

I was able to solve my rxvt colour problem, by rewiting .Xdefaults. However, now I notice that xcalc gives: Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap Warning: Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s xcalc looks and works fine. I'm curious why I'm getting this. Does anyone kno

Re: Problem with shell path in passwd

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Robert Steward wrote: > Help! > > I have installed debian 1.3 Linux on my pentium PC however, upon > changing the default root and user shells in the > /etc/passwd to /bin/tcsh I can no longer login as root. The computer logs > in but /bin/tsch is not found and logs strai

Re: Debian over NFS

> > > * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of > > >Debian. > > > * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg > > > or > > >less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. > > >/usr should be mounted ov

Upgrade Troubles on Thinkpad 365XD

I am having a lot of trouble upgrading my Thinkpad 365XD from 1.2 to 1.3 (cleanly). Most of the packages installed nicely, but now I cannot remove the kernel-source-2.0.27 package or install any of the newer kernel source packages. I am also having trouble getting a couple of other packages insta

compiling with libc5

I know we've gone to libc6, but I'm not quite clear on how to compile with libc5 instead. I know I need libc5-altdev. Do I need to remove libc6-dev, which also requires removal of libg++272-dev? And do I need to install anything else? I'm getting some strange errors compiling development versi

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough : to be scheduling this sort of thing. I agree, it's not early enough. At 7 PM we have users already using the system. Developers will say this can be changed with "vi /etc/crontab" but my point

Re: Log of secondary DNS updating from primary.

Uhhmmm... what about retrieving the SOA resource record? Use nslookup: nslookup > server > set type=SOA > seitz.com Look at the origin = xxx line. I am not sure but I think the xxx is the primary DNS server. E.- Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I need to determine weather my ISP

Re: Log of secondary DNS updating from primary.

On 8 Jul 1997, Chris Brown wrote: : : I need to determine weather my ISP is actually being secondary :to my primary DNS. After looking at my log files I found entries :like this. : :Jul 7 23:24:06 oak named[451]: approved AXFR from [204.176.14.4].4231 for "seitz.com" : :I gather that this

Re: Debian Installation experience

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * All filesystems are read-only. > Even /home? How are these people going to create any data if all filesystems > are read-only. Certainly, they have to have write access to some portion of > the system. Yes? If they do have write access anyw

Re: Network Configuration

Robert D. Hilliard is rumoured to of said: > During the base installation, as part of configuring the network, > the configure script asks for the netmask and the IP address for the > network and/or the default gateway. Where is this information stored? You will find this information at the

Log of secondary DNS updating from primary.

I need to determine weather my ISP is actually being secondary to my primary DNS. After looking at my log files I found entries like this. Jul 7 23:24:06 oak named[451]: approved AXFR from [204.176.14.4].4231 for "seitz.com" I gather that this says that 204.176.14.4 retrieved the recor

Re: Mailers

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mutt can handle message status (read or unread) in folders > other than your inbox where elm does not. It is very elm-like > but seems faster and smaller yet just as functional to me. > For the same reason, it may be too elm-like to meet your requiremen

Suck's sucknewsrc disappearing

Has anyone who is using suck noticed that suck's sucknewsrc file sometimes gets deleted? I've noticed this happening several times and of course suck 'breaks' when it finds the file not there. I've "fixed" (kludge alert!) this by adding a couple of script lines to make and restore a backup

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >performance fo the 3c905 (100MBit cards) leaves a lot to be desired. The >0.41 driver available from Donald Becker's site is reasonably stable >with a few provisos (has problems with 16 collision retries and cable

Re: Debian Installation experience

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > > > You are just plain wrong. Perl has syscall which makes it possible to do > > _anything_. You can't to _anything_ with sed. As for awk - I don't use > > it. > > I said "sh + sed + awk + cut + (all th

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

jim writes: > I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at > 7AM in the morning,... > ... > I would suggest that any jobs which are rebuilding databases as nobody > should be automatically niced to something that will allow X-windows to > work concurrently. I guess the

Re: Certification

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Greg Vence wrote: > Most of the time, certification is a great way for the vendor to make an > extra buck. I've found in the M$ world that scores on a multiple-guess > test that has been heavly coached is a _poor_ indicator real-world > results. It seems that the portfolio of

Re: Mailers

Hamish Moffatt hat gesagt: // Hamish Moffatt wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > mutt can handle message status (read or unread) in folders > other than your inbox where elm does not. It is very elm-like > but seems faster and smaller yet just as functional to me. > For the same reason, it may be too el

Re: Problem with shell path in passwd

Hi again, stupid me! I forgot to say how to do it: o boot from rescue disk o login as root without password o mount your root-partition (e.g. 'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt') o call ae to edit passwd file on root partition (e.g. 'ae /etc/passwd' Regards, Andree Note: Do not normally use a nor

Re: Problem with shell path in passwd

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Robert Steward wrote: > Help! > > I have installed debian 1.3 Linux on my pentium PC however, upon > changing the default root and user shells in the > /etc/passwd to /bin/tcsh I can no longer login as root. The computer logs > in but /bin/tsch is not found and logs str

Re: Debian Installation experience

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > > > > > Is it a goal for debian not to require perl? I don't think so - and > > > that is one of the things I don't like with debian. It seems that > > >

Re: Debian Installation experience

> > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > > > > It's not possible to do that with ANY unix. If you give someone a login > > shell and a text editor, or even just an ftp-only login then they can > > create executables. > > Please tell me h

Re: Problem with shell path in passwd

Hi Robert, tcsh really is /usr/bin/tcsh not /bin/tcsh. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Building Debian's source for Sendmail

Hi, joost witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Are you sure the file is called "sendmail_8.8.5-1.tar.gz" instead : of "sendmail_8.8.5.orig.tar.gz"? The latter is the name in the "new : source format", that has been in use for about a year now. I'd be : rather surprised to learn sendmail is stil

Re: Certification

Uhhmmm... I personally do not like the idea. When talking about certifications we are always talking about big bucks. I guess certifications would take away the spirit of free software on which Linux and Debian are based on... Any way, my mind is open and my thoughts regarding this topic could cha

Re: Certification

Aldrin L. M. Leal wrote: > > I was looking around, haven't found, but i think it's a good > idea to promote some effort to create a Linux sort of certified > professional. Like, "Certified Linux Admin", "Programmer", "User", > "Manager", and so forth... the first great advantage occurs when bi

Problem with shell path in passwd

Help! I have installed debian 1.3 Linux on my pentium PC however, upon changing the default root and user shells in the /etc/passwd to /bin/tcsh I can no longer login as root. The computer logs in but /bin/tsch is not found and logs straight out again! I have tried ftp to this computer but i

Re: How to compile kernel with debian?

Hi, *MY* approach is (I think) slightly different. I do not use the kernel-pkg because I think it is a little complicated to create a kernel package and then reinstall it. What I did was to grab the kernel source (linux-2.0.xx.tar.gz) and untared it under /usr/src. I created a symlink from linux-2

Certification

I was looking around, haven't found, but i think it's a good idea to promote some effort to create a Linux sort of certified professional. Like, "Certified Linux Admin", "Programmer", "User", "Manager", and so forth... the first great advantage occurs when big business (the usual IBM client)

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

jim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running : find at 7AM in the morning, but, I suspect it is rebuilding the : locate database. The problem is that it is being run at normal : priority which REALLY puts a dent in performance. I would suggest

Re: 1.3.1 release date.

Tim Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I haven't seen any announcement yet, but I'm keen to install 1.3.1 on : a couple of computers. Is it safe to assume that since a Debian-1.3.1 : directory has appeared on my local mirror that everything is ready to : go? As far as I know, official announcement

Re: Xv

XV is in the non-free section of the distribution. You have to ftp the package over. Shaya On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote: > Probably a stupid question: Where could I find XV. Even if I > install xview from the package, I can't call xv. > >

Re: Debian Installation experience

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > > > > Is it a goal for debian not to require perl? I don't think so - and > > that is one of the things I don't like with debian. It seems that > > debian is infested with perlism. There are "smart" perl

Re: audio files

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Jason Westervelt wrote: > There is a program that comes in RedHat called showaudio. Does anyone > know where to snag this for Debian? I can't figure out how to install a > RedHat package through Debian, and would prefer not to. If I could just > find the source, that would b

libc5 weirdness on ftp.debian.org

I heard that there was a recommended libc5 upgrade so I checked out the files: Under Unstable: libc5_5.4.23-4.deb 253 KbTue May 13 11:54:00 1997 Under Stable: libc5_5.4.33-3.deb 257 KbMon Jun 30 18:37:00 1997 This seems a little odd to me. Adam. -- TO

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Alex Romosan wrote: > >> I don't know about other Unices but at least IRIX has it's /bin/true and > >> /bin/false set to shell scripts as well. It seems that Debian's no worse > >> off than SGIs and other Linux distributions at least. > > > >If there exists at least ONE reall

Re: Mirror Site Size

> I have been mirroring the FTP site for some time, to provide for quick > local installs, and re configures. > I've recently ran into a capacity problem. the drive that mirrors the > FTP site is 690751 blocks, with used blocks at 667032, and 0 available. > Is the 'stable, contrib, non-free' now th

Re: Building Debian's source for Sendmail

> Hi, > > I am trying to build the Debian source for the sendmail package > but when applying the Debian specific patches to the original > distribution I get errors. I looks like the .diff file was generated > against another version of the original distribution. > > I am doing this: > > cd /us

Re: Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

It's available now (and has been for over a week) in experimental. Apache 1.2.1 is not out yet but I'm sure it's coming. You can find it on your mirror site at: http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/finder.cgi Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited

Re: Question about bind configuration.

Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 07 Jul 1997 13:23:32 PDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I was trying to set up bind for a small (half class C) subnet, and > > bind seemed to refuse to do the reverse lookups for the subnet unless > > I set it up to handle the entire

Apache 1.2 deb package? Any time table?

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nobody is running find at too high a priority

I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at 7AM in the morning, but, I suspect it is rebuilding the locate database. The problem is that it is being run at normal priority which REALLY puts a dent in performance. I would suggest that any jobs which are rebuilding dat

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > > _should_ be accepted b

Re: PPP (fwd)

"Matthew C. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > [pseelig]/home/pseelig > v /usr/sbin/pppd > > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip76072 Mar 2 03:29 /usr/sbin/pppd > > ^^^ ! !!! > >So the entry in "/etc/group" has t

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > _should_ be accepted by the shell. [snip] > What do pdksh and zsh do with thi

Re: PPP (fwd)

Matthew C. Thompson wrote: >> [pseelig]/home/pseelig > v /usr/sbin/pppd >> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip76072 Mar 2 03:29 /usr/sbin/pppd >> ^^^ >> >>So the entry in "/etc/group" has to be: >> >> dip:*:30:yourson,hisfather >> >i had already chowned /us

Re: Kernel Question

On Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 05:23:04PM -0600, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing > "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: > > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > > cpp: output pip

Re: Mailers

On Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 06:04:13PM +0800, David R. Kohel wrote: > I've been using elm for years. But as far as I can tell, it > does not handle multiple active folders. Before investing in > converting all of my mail archives to a new system, I'd like > to know what I'm getting into. > > I wo

audio files

There is a program that comes in RedHat called showaudio. Does anyone know where to snag this for Debian? I can't figure out how to install a RedHat package through Debian, and would prefer not to. If I could just find the source, that would be good enough. Also, I still haven't gotten the AWE3

Re: Xv

On Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:55:28 +0200 "Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Probably a stupid question: Where could I find XV. Even if I > install xview from the package, I can't call xv. Xv never meant xview. Xv is xv. Xv belongs to the xv package.

Xv

Probably a stupid question: Where could I find XV. Even if I install xview from the package, I can't call xv. Thanks Franck -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

You should have a look at 'Kernel HOWTO'. There is there all the answers to your questions. This is some of the information you could find in : -> Just so I know and have my ducks in order. -> -> Is this the correct method for re-compiling my Kernel?? -> -> cd /usr/src/

How to compile kernel with debian?

Hello everyone, I used to have a slackware system and thus got used to the old rigamorole involved in compiling a new kernel. However, with debian, there seems to be more steps involved (at least, there are debian readmes distributed with the kernel source, and supposedly some sort of debian make

Xload (was Re: Afterstep problem solved)

On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 23:56:01 EDT "Kevin M. Bealer" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Speaking of xload, where did it go? I'm sure I saw it is still > available somewhere, but why doesn't it come standard with the rest of > X anymore? It used to be in xcontrib and now is in xproc. Phil. -- TO UN

Re: HP 4020i and Linux

On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 21:38:22 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of a program that makes disk images from CDs, and can write > them to another disk? Preferably a byte-for-byte copy. Err, I not sure to understand what you mean but: 1) mkisofs allows you to build

Re: 1.3.1 release date.

Bruce Perens wrote a week ago: > > We have all of the files ready, but (as usual) the FTP archive got messed > up and it'll take a day (maybe two days) to get it straightened out. > Then it will be available for FTP. It'll take another week or so before > I am satisfied with the official CD, and t

Re: a question about SAMBA!!!

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > I don't know, all it took here is changing a couple of options in the > kernel config and a recompile. About 5 lines in rc.local (could heve been > reduced to three) and a reboot. Not any trouble. Probably easier than > setting up Apache as a proxy and t

Re: a question about SAMBA!!!

I don't know, all it took here is changing a couple of options in the kernel config and a recompile. About 5 lines in rc.local (could heve been reduced to three) and a reboot. Not any trouble. Probably easier than setting up Apache as a proxy and the users can query a remote POP3 server for their

Re: app pause

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote: > hi, y'all, > > occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15 > seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this? > this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like > compil

Re: a question about SAMBA!!!

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > > > 1/ IP Masquerading compiled into the kernel > > > > It can get to be quite a pain ITA. If you allow realaudio, etc. people > > will use more of the limited (modem) bandwidth. > > > You can leave out the r

Re: Segmentation fault with mh

(about mh segfaulting) (sorry, but note these are mostly all general tips, some I have learned recently to help with diagnosing these kinds of problems.) What do you get for: dpkg -l | grep mh and ldd `which inc` I have been using mh for some time, and it seems to work fine here, granted,

app pause

hi, y'all, occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15 seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this? this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like compiling or printing. btw, i have a mmx166 with 32mb edo, so syste

Re: PPP (fwd)

>> As root I have no problems connecting to my ISP using PPP. >> However when trying to connect as a normal user the connection >> drops after the serial connection is established. I've checkde and >> rechecked file permissions and they seem correct. Couldn't under- >> stand the ioctl manual pag

Re: Afterstep problem solved

"Christian Hudon" wrote: > >On Jul 7, Jason Westervelt wrote > >> nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but >> the TOP button (the one that has the lock buttons, shutdown, etc) will >> ** NOT ** have an icon until you install procps and xproc.. very >> weird.. > >Even

Re: Kernel Question

Hi, Kevin J Poorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing : "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: : : *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* : : cpp: output pipe has been close

Re: a question about SAMBA!!!

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > 1/ IP Masquerading compiled into the kernel > > It can get to be quite a pain ITA. If you allow realaudio, etc. people > will use more of the limited (modem) bandwidth. You can leave out the realaudio module or deny packets (RealAudio uses UDP but I am

Re: Well tested mode lines fail with 1.3.1

Brandon Mitchell wrote: >Can anyone verify that well tested mode lines, used with older X servers, >fail with the latest X servers in 1.3.1? Sorry for making this so long, >but I didn't want to leave anything out. > >Here's the info: >--- dpkg --list xserver-s3: >||/ NameVersion

Building Debian's source for Sendmail

Hi, I am trying to build the Debian source for the sendmail package but when applying the Debian specific patches to the original distribution I get errors. I looks like the .diff file was generated against another version of the original distribution. I am doing this: cd /usr/src tar xzf sendma

Re: a question about SAMBA!!!

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > > > 1/ IP Masquerading compiled into the kernel It can get to be quite a pain ITA. If you allow realaudio, etc. people will use more of the limited (modem) bandwidth. > > 2/ IP Forwarding installed into the kernel and a valid subnet routed > > throug

HP 4020i and Linux

Does anyone know of a program that makes disk images from CDs, and can write them to another disk? Preferably a byte-for-byte copy. Thanks! --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do

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