> Does someone know of a good set of utilities for doing this? The format
> is simple, just like the 1st 2 fields in /etc/passwd. I am actually
> using it for a squid proxy authentication file.
There is a program called htpasswd that is part of the Apache package
that allows you to add users to th
Hello all,
I am using Diald for Dial on demand, with PPP... it works fine, as I send
mail, telnet or try and connect to an adress outside my local environment. My
ISP get called up, connects... and after I've been idle for a moment, it hangs
up.
Yet, there are some hang-overs... diald seems
Does anyone know of the top of their head what the escape character is for
a tcsh script?
for instance, i have a line which has something like...
printf "bla bla "bla" bla" >> test.file
but it gives me the error unmatche ". I tried changing it to ...
printf "bla bla \"bla\" bla" >> test.file
Gregory Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org.
The things that are on the 1.44MB resque disk don't fit in 1.2MB, so
such a disk cannot be built. I don't know whether there are plans to
solve this.
Sven
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Ok Mr Newbie here again. I have been trying to get Debian to connect to my
local ISP threw an external modem. When I issue the PON command it dials
the connection fine, the modems connect, but then the line drops. The PLOG
stated that I was dropped by the peer.
I know I have to make a config change
Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> Does anyone know of the top of their head what the
Fundamental> escape character is for a tcsh script?
Fundamental>
Fundamental> for instance, i have a line which has something like...
Fundamental>
Fundamental> printf "bla bla "bla" bla" >
> Try:
>
> # printf 'bla bla "bla" bla'
>
> Cheers
> borik
>
Thanks borik, would you believe, i figured thsi out 5 minutes after i sent
the message .. doh!
:)
Can i ask if you use pine or elm for mail? thanks
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car
could
Hi Rudolph, You wrote:
Rudolph>
Rudolph> Gregory Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rudolph>
Rudolph> > Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org.
Rudolph>
Rudolph> The things that are on the 1.44MB resque disk don't fit in
Rudolph> 1.2MB, so such a disk cannot be built. I don
How do people who are ISPs and use debian handle the radius updates when
you add/delete a user?
Ive added a simple script to our adduser program which will add a user to
the radius client file, but deleteing them is another problem i havnt
solved yet
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour
I've been trying to get ppp working on my system and had a clue from
Lindsay Allen (thanks Lindsay) to read on the *mod* suite of commands
(i.e. depmod, insmod, modprobe, lsmod, and rmmod) but during my latest
O/S build, man has developed a problem. When I enter "man depmod", for
example, I get "ma
On 00:22:43 Knight wrote:
>>Ok Mr Newbie here again. I have been trying to get Debian to connect to my
>local ISP threw an external modem. When I issue the PON command it dials
>the connection fine, the modems connect, but then the line drops. The PLOG
>stated that I was dropped by the peer.
Eddie
Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> > Try:
Fundamental> >
Fundamental> > # printf 'bla bla "bla" bla'
Fundamental> >
Fundamental> > Cheers borik
Fundamental>
Fundamental> Thanks borik, would you believe, i figured thsi out 5
Fundamental> minutes after i sent the message ..
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
if its pine, how did you do this
> Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
> Fundamental>
[snip]
?
i know how to do it in elm, but not pine:)
>
> Pine, why?
>
> borik
>
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how do you edit a quota in debian, when i try i get a blank editor screen
with the words
Quota for user default:
what number am i supposed to put here? how do you define the hard/soft
limit?
thanks
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Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> if its pine, how did you do this
Fundamental>
Fundamental> > Hi Fundamental, You wrote: Fundamental>
Fundamental>
Fundamental> [snip]
Fundamental>
Fundamental> ?
It
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
ahhh, ok, thanks. I didnt think pine could do it by default.
> It's just script i wrote, it's running as an "alternative-editor",
> and when it finishes formating the text, it launches jed, thats all.
>
> borik
>
> --
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Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a
month or so ago & I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my
finger on it at the moment.
Thanks.
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The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for
rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary, however I checked a few
sites (including ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org), and this directory
was either non-existant, empty or inaccessable. Whats up? Are these
updates pl
On 1 Jan 1997, James LewisMoss wrote:
> What version are you using? With the newest 0.15 I have the same
> problem, but with 0.14 everything worked fine.
I'm running version .14-8
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In your email to me, Fundamental, you wrote:
>
>
> how do you edit a quota in debian, when i try i get a blank editor screen
> with the words
>
> Quota for user default:
>
> what number am i supposed to put here? how do you define the hard/soft
> limit?
You have to have quota enabled in the
Hi (again). I'm having trouble getting diald to start PPP (pppd)
successfully.
I got PPP set up fine for manual use (using /usr/bin/pon to start it,
and having my extra options in /etc/ppp.options_out, etc.).
However, I'm having trouble figuring out what's going wrong when diald
starts pppd.
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for
> rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary
It will show up on mirrors in the next day or two. I made the
directory unreadable by mirrors until I was finished preparing it.
> ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running.
Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request
the network card has to have an assigned IP address...
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> Should I just create resolv.conf my hand, or should I get the one from the
> bind package for whatever useful defaults (including explanatory comments)
> it contains?
According to my /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.list file (Debian 1.1), the bind
package does not include /etc/resolv.conf. I think thi
> I installed "qmail", an alternative to sendmail, on my system by hand,
> because there is no Debian package yet. So I created a script 'qmail'
> that starts qmail, if you give it the argument 'start' and stops it if
> you give the argument 'stop'. I placed the script in /etc/init.d. I
> want q
what program do people use to put a limit on users email sizes? i thought
smail could do it, but it seems it cant
any help appreciated
You can't have everything, Where would you put it?
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On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
thanks, i know this:) i just wanted to know how you actually edit them,
for instance, in solaris you type edquta user, then this screens appears
fs /home (soft = 0 hard = 0)
then you type in the bytes you want to set the limit to. But debian gives
you what
> This is the current list of known problems with the 1.2 installation.
>
>.
>.
>.
Hey, thanks for maintaining this. I am waiting for my I-Connect Debian 1.2
CD ROM. When I put my hands on it this list will be very helpful when I
upgrade from 1.1.
By the way, I saw in one message from the list t
Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> what program do people use to put a limit on users email
Fundamental> sizes? i thought smail could do it, but it seems it cant
Fundamental>
Fundamental>
Fundamental> any help appreciated
Well I use Qmail and quotas on $HOME dir. If yo
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
> Well I use Qmail and quotas on $HOME dir. If you mean permail size,
> then smail can do it:
>
> /etc/smail/config:max_message_size=10M
>
>
hmmm, but i read this in smail and noticed that it was not implemented yet
(man smailconfig)
thanks
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Hi Fundamental, You wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
Fundamental>
Fundamental> > Well I use Qmail and quotas on $HOME dir. If you mean
Fundamental> > permail size, then smail can do it:
Fundamental> >
Fundamental> > /etc/smail/config:max_message_s
Stan Brown wrote:
>
> Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a
> month or so ago & I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my
> finger on it at the moment.
>
yes, go to debian/project/experiment.
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Hello there! :)
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
> Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a
> month or so ago & I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my
> finger on it at the moment.
>
> Thanks.
I think WINE is currently in the
Hi there! :)
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
kaneda> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
kaneda>
kaneda> ahhh, ok, thanks. I didnt think pine could do it by default.
kaneda>
kaneda> > It's just script i wrote, it's running as an "alternative-editor",
kaneda> > and when it fini
Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir.
Does it moved to a new place.
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Rob Browning writes:
> Is there any reason that msquerading wouldn't work right using the
> current (unstable) debian packages?
No! I've set up a firewall with it and it works fine.
> I set up the host (the one actually connected to the internet via ppp)
> with the following network related comma
Martin Konold:
I read my reply this morning and see harshness in a message. I would like to
apologize about that. Please look at the situation like this: I never said
that Debian 1.1 was the pits. Rather, I see that the development team did a
good job with 1.1; however, when 1.2 came out, it was
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> example, I get "man" can't open cache '/etc/ld.so.cache'" and "man:
> can't load library 'libgdbm.so.1'". Both files exist and seem to have
> appropriate modes; where am I going wrong?
Directory permission problem on /etc? Mine is mode 755.
--Pete
Hi.
Today I tried to put running pppd in Linux to dial to my
ISP. I've read the documentation in /usr/doc/ppp, and
the pon, poff, plog and pppd manpages, and setup the
files in /etc/ppp and the files /etc/ppp.*, plus /etc/hosts
and /etc/resolv.conf.
The result is: as root, all works well. The pon
Hi everyone,
I downloaded debian 1.2 just before Xmas with the expectation of having
some fun during the holidays (whenever kids would let dad on the computer
:) that is!). Anyway, I have both home and work computers running
Slackware 3.1 and am very happy with Linux. Debian seems to have a more
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
> Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir.
> Does it moved to a new place.
>
The base package has been replaced by base-files and base-passwd.
Luck,
Dwarf
Alexander Gieg wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Some time ago, I sent a message asking someone what
> are the PEX and XIE extensions for X Windows, but don't
> received any reply. I don't found the answer in X
> documentation, and loading or not these modules doesn't
> seem to make difference in X jobs. What's
Stephen Darragh wrote:
>
> I'm calling for help because I really don't have time to solve
> this one myself. :)
>
> I need to compile an a.out version of the (modified) login program,
> dynamically link against libc4 (obviously.)
>
> To this end, I installed all the gizmos - aout-binutils and a
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> 3. OK now, request help for this: My preference in using Linux is doing
> most of my editing work on a console and only when I need graphics go to
> X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that
> comes with slackware works
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
> 3. OK now, request help for this: My preference in using Linux is doing
> most of my editing work on a console and only when I need graphics go to
> X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that
> comes with slackware works f
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am using Diald for Dial on demand, with PPP... it works fine, as I send
> mail, telnet or try and connect to an adress outside my local environment. My
> ISP get called up, connects... and after I've been idle for a moment, it hangs
> up.
>
I initiall
Hi all!
After reinstalling Debian Linux 1.1 I can't get my computer to speak
with my modem (standard USR Sportser 33.6). When running Minicom or
pppd nothing happens. Because I'm really a beginner at Linux I don't
know where to look. It seems that my installation l
In your email to me, Tasos Drosopoulos, you wrote:
> 3. OK now, request help for this: My preference in using Linux is doing
> most of my editing work on a console and only when I need graphics go to
> X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that
> comes with slackware wor
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Richard Heestand wrote:
> I am trying to create a working chat script so I can
> proceed with my installation of debian 1.2. However,
> after a day of trying variations of chat scripts, I am stumped.
In addition to the other comments I've seen, I have one suggestion:
> My
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit story about bad drives.]
> I have the installation disks made and they appear to work. I have not
> been able to access the cfdisk manual doc on any of the mirror sites and I
> am afraid to proceed without it. Any suggestions on where to locate it?
I don't think you hav
> 3. OK now, request help for this: My preference in using Linux is doing
> most of my editing work on a console and only when I need graphics go to
> X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that
> comes with slackware works fine. However, with debian, the screen flashes
>
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Mikael Bendtsen wrote:
> And by which device should I call my modem which is connected to the
> second serial port? /dev/cua1 or /dev/ttyS1? Where can I find out more
> about this?
Install the Linux docs (doc-lnx.deb?) and you will have the HOWTO's in
/usr/doc
>
> OK, I'm a super newbie at Linux. I have it installed, and tried to set up a
> PPP dial up threw an external modem. I think I am correct in using
> /dev/ttys2 as my modem on port 3.
No, It's "/dev/ttyS2".
^
> When I go to establish a connection it says "System lacks PPP kern
I have a problem with I-searching in GNU Emacs, in X. When I try to
remove characters I have typed (with either backspace or delete), the
keypress ends up in the buffer from which I'm searching, and this is
obviously not the way it's intended to work. I don't have this problem
with XEmacs, or even
Hello,
I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-).
Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried
to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem seemed
to be the following:
I have a partition mounted on /var of about 80MB. To download
the packages temporaryly they w
Nathan L. Cutler writes:
> By accident, I rebooted my box with an msdog partition mounted
> manually (i.e. it is not in /etc/fstab). Now, msdog can't access the
> partition, and linux says the superblock is corrupt when I try to
> mount it with mount -t msdos.
I don't know what happened, but I do
In your email to me, Chad Zimmerman, you wrote:
>
> Changed out my access log for my apache server this morning (once a
> month). Moved the current one to .0 and put an empty file in and set all
^^^
apache is still looking at the .0. The filedescriptor is looki
In your email to me, John Kintree, you wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Tim Sailer replied to Tasos Drosopoulos:
> > > X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that
> > > comes with slackware works fine. However, with debian, the screen flashes
> > > once, X-windows seem
> > I need to compile an a.out version of the (modified) login program,
> > dynamically link against libc4 (obviously.)
> >
> > To this end, I installed all the gizmos - aout-binutils and aout-gcc.
> > These programs (gcc and ld) run ok, but produce this warning :
> >
> > /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Mikael Bendtsen wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> After reinstalling Debian Linux 1.1 I can't get my computer to speak
> with my modem (standard USR Sportser 33.6). When running Minicom or
> pppd nothing happens. Because I'm really a beginner at Linux I don't
>
> I have been maintaining the list, and will continue to add problem reports
> as they surface. So far (I'm still recovering from the holiday) I have
> seen no reports that indicate any new problems.
> Should I just post the list to debian-user about once a week?
Once a week sounds good to me.
Th
- install MBR on /dev/hda
- how do I uninstall it so I can load DOS again?
- how do I allow DOS to be booted from a LILO prompt?
- dselect
- can only search for package names, not sections.
- suggestion: allow search for sections
- vicious circle
- libc5-dev, libnet
Mikael Bendtsen wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> After reinstalling Debian Linux 1.1 I can't get my computer to speak
> with my modem (standard USR Sportser 33.6). When running Minicom or
> pppd nothing happens. Because I'm really a beginner at Linux I don't
> know where to look. I
After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
Christopher E. Stefan[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hiya,
I've just put debian 1.2 on my system and, while downloading and
installing software, I've noticed that there are no devices for
scsi cdroms in the /dev directory. In addition, the /proc fs
doesn't contain any information about my devices, scsi or otherwise.
Have I done the installation inc
On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
>
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: st0: Error with sense data: extra data not
> > valid Current error st09:00: sns = 70 3
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: ASC= 3 ASCQ= 2
> > Dec 27 09:17:00 irvine kernel: Ra
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
> What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left Control keys under
> X windows?
It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
One of the more irritating differences between keyboards
is the location of the Control and Shift Lo
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
> - install MBR on /dev/hda
> - how do I uninstall it so I can load DOS again?
> - how do I allow DOS to be booted from a LILO prompt?
man lilo.conf
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Jesse Goldman wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> I've just put debian 1.2 on my system and, while downloading and
> installing software, I've noticed that there are no devices for
> scsi cdroms in the /dev directory. In addition, the /proc fs
> doesn't contain any information about my devices, scsi or otherwis
Thanks to all who responded to my problem to a mountable but
non-bootable root partition.
The answer is that dselect's aborted install (upgrade) apparently
deleted files in /lib before replacements were made. Restoring the
/lib directory from tape allowed the system to boot hda3 properly.
Best
I am brand new to the Linux operating system, and have been trying to install
XFree86 on my system. My first question is, should I get 3.2 from
Xfree86.org, or is there a specific Debian package that I can use? Next, do
I download the aout files, or the elf files? I have tried both with no
succe
Well, I compiled the raw XFree-3.2 source without the Debian diff, and
installed it, and I no longer have the problem I was experiencing. So,
although I could be missing something, it seems likely to me that the
problem is with the Debian package and not with my setup ...
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Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
>
> - install MBR on /dev/hda
> - how do I uninstall it so I can load DOS again?
Don't do this. Just use lilo so you can boot dos or Linux.
> - how do I allow DOS to be booted from a LILO prompt?
If your dos partition is the first partition of your first HD (I
When I boot my machine, I get LI and a blinking cursor, and it locks up.
The machine boots fine from floppy, though. My system is set up with
/dev/hdb1 as the / slice, booting from there. It gave me a warning when I
did that, but I just ignored it, thinking it was nothing. Does it HAVE to
boot f
> > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
> > Control keys under X windows?
>
> It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2
you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and
use the old xmodmap method.
The XKBD has only one problem
> Also /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/ should be a symbolic link to /usr/bin/.
> I can't access my development machine right now, but I think this is a bug.
> Will have a look at this tomorrow, and upload a corrected version.
I installed jdk and jdk-static 1.0.2-3, which is supposed to fix this, but
I stil
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:
thanks carl:) I was wondering, if i do set it to 10 megs lets say, and
then somone send a 11meg file will it bonce and give a reason why?
karl >At 03:42 PM 1/2/97 +1100, Fundamental wrote:
karl >>
karl >>what program do people use to put a limit on users
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Anthony Fok wrote:
Hi:) Thanks for that info, i cant believe i missed it:) now all we have
to do is figure a way to modify the "On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Anthony Fok
wrote:" above
;-)
foka >Hi there! :)
foka >
foka >On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
foka >
foka >kaneda> On
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks, this is exactly the info i was after:)
winspace >In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said:
winspace >
winspace >>
winspace >> how do you edit a quota in debian, when i try i get a blank editor
screen
winspace >
winspace >1. com
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