Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen from the following list: Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:53:54PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > OK, this is pretty complicated to me, so the chance of me misspeaking is > large. I'm no expert, so the same goes for me. > What I want is the server to do the fetchmail durring ip-up and ip-down. > That mail getting delivere

Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance considerations). I thought that (using perl) continually

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Whoops, should have said local_domains = localhost:*.mynetwork in server's exim.conf Cheers, Mark.

Re: ethernet configuration

1999-09-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Monroe wrote: > Hello, > I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room > at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm > dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and > unsuccessfully tr

How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Fredrick Schmitt
Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on?

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
Text-based. The extra features are multiple -- the package management is by far the best I have ever seen in any product. (I haven't tried FreeBSD yet, though.. I hear it is nice too. :) The updates are far more often. (Security patches are released within hours of finding the problems..) There

Re: [OT] How to make a "critical section" in user program?

1999-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Wojciech writes: > I agree, but what about the root's processes? Root's special status extends only to file access. > Well, but in the kernel I can't use the "write(ComFd,&c,1)". Am I wrong? > (I hope I've missed something) Write a device driver and put your critical section in it. Run the res

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread NatePuri
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this > opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the > cheeziest I could run it on? Oh boy, you have hit a nerve. You will get quite a lot of resp

IPX woes-want old module and new kernel-possible?

1999-09-18 Thread kaynjay
Thanks to earlier suggestions about pinpointing the source of my kernel slowing down... it is the ipx service causing problems. While others have noted in earlier posts ipx issues with the 2.2.x kernels, I found none which involved a slowdown/lockup of the machine itself. Don't know if this is a

login failed --> critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hello I'm running the latest potato. I rebooted my box this morning and I got the error after logging in (as root & as user): critical error - immediate abort I noticed a bug report filed about this, and so I downgraded login from stable, and now I'm able to login. Before I run another apt-get

Free version of maildir2mbox?

1999-09-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support Maildir format. (...or please correct me if pine and/or nmh do support Maildir!

Re: login failed --> critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded earlier today. Out of curiousity though, how on earth did you downgrade login when you couldn't log in?? :) On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:45:50PM -07

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..

1999-09-18 Thread rich
> > I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux > > partition that stores my entire system is now over 80% full... I was > > thinking of using another empty 1GB partition (/dev/hdb1 - currently > > mounted as /linux2a) for /usr. My thinking is: > > > > 1. as root, cp -

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-18 Thread Nitebirz
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Simon Martin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok, so this is my 2 cents worth. > > GUI utilities are ok, command line utilities are ok, simple dialogs > are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to fall into the > Microsoft or RedHat

Unidentified subject!

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Phillips
unsubscribe

::ahem:: sorry, newbie mistake

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Phillips
(see subject line :o) - From: Michael Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User > unsubscribe

Re: login failed --> critical error - immediate abort

1999-09-18 Thread John Bagdanoff
Hi Seth, Sorry, didn't mean to send to you directly, twice no less :{ Seth R Arnold wrote: > > I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and > logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded > earlier today. I did try the other VCs but stil

Re: Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:01:20AM +1000, Mark M wrote: > Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would > know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), > and then when further lines are written read these without reloading > the whole file (performance

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
>Style DateDatetime >--- >ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01 >SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST >POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST >GERMAN 17.07.

berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Messinger
I am trying to get the mailing-list server "berolist" working. Setting it up includes adding aliases such as: listname : "|/usr/sbin/list listname" So you see that mail sent to "listname" gets piped to the program /usr/sbin/list , or at least that is what is suppose to happen. When I do send mail

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carey Evans wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > >> If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in >> /usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if >> it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone >> and offset (date '+%Z

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of cheese. Work on a cheese port is in progress, but is not even ready yet for the alpha release. Until then, you must run Deb

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments > so far. I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this information

ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread Robert . King
Hi, I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my ISP's login manually, then start pppd in another window, then quitting from cu. This worked fine whne this machine was a 486 and now works with a new mothe

Re: Free version of maildir2mbox?

1999-09-18 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? > > This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use > of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support > Maildir format. > > (...or

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Andreas Kurth
Ben Collins wrote: > Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put "root" (who > they are > allowed to su to). and the add this line: > > ### > auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow \ > file=/etc/security/su.allow item=user apply=you > ### > >

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:40:09PM -0500, rich wrote: > > That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to > compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've > heard of one, but can't remember... $ apropos checksum cksum (1)- checksum and

Re: berolist mail-list server

1999-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:45:31PM -0700, Ben Messinger wrote: > V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases > director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of > |/usr/sbin/list news Is list a trusted user in /etc/exim.conf? trusted_users = mail:li

Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone ser

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons are always running, I have forgotten the name of course. Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:17:13AM

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-18 Thread peter karlsson
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): > Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should > look like this: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to reset them, because some were owned by my own user accound, and had

latex

1999-09-18 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? Thanks. -- --- -> Powered by Debian/GNU Linux <- --> Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 <-- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

xemacs &

1999-09-18 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've a problem with the key in xemacs. If I press it does the same as , so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that works fine). What I have to do to make work both keys ? So, deleting the current character and t

Re: latex

1999-09-18 Thread Seth R Arnold
The canonical reference is a silly-looking book with a wierd cat on the cover and such. It is written by a Leslie Lamport. (A quick google finds this webpage: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Leslie_Lamport/home.html Nice book. :) On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:59:06AM +0200, Juli-Manel

Re: Job in queue on hold, but not job in queue. Huh?!

1999-09-18 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> I'm trying to set up printing on a Debian box to a remote Kent> printer. My printcap looks like: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ Kent> :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=:rp=hplj4l:\ Kent> :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ Kent

dselect error

1999-09-18 Thread Andrew Hately
Kenneth Litko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect > and it is driving me nuts. Here's > the error: > > > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13 > > > > installation script returned error status 1. > > Press RETURN to continue. Me too, except

silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread add|ct|on
Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendm

netscape: booksmarks have changed

1999-09-18 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi, Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my previous upgrade?), ignored it and it went away.. but curiosity remains.. Does anybody know what

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >>[...] >> RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone >> services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) >>[...] >Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five >minutes. I have heard tha

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread John Hasler
> I'm fairly sure that the serial conifg is OK, as I can get out with cu -l > /dev/ttyS1, but when I try to start pppd, it complains about cu having > the serial line and won't let it at it. Odd. I just tried cu on this system and it complains that the line is in use. Pon works fine. Is there a

Configurare la schda video

1999-09-18 Thread r.mattei
Ho una scheda video s3virge agp con chipset non supportato e non riesco a configurare xwindow. C'è un upgrade, o qualcosa che possa fare?? Grazie

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:44:58AM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put "root" (who > > they are > > allowed to su to). and the add this line: > > > > ### > > auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=a

labels

1999-09-18 Thread eric k. wolven
Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under a windows program but want to use debian to pri

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:50:06AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): > > > Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should > > look like this: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 > > Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Allan K. Neal
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > Greetings... > > I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the how-to" > or "check the archives" but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done > both and I'm still clueless. > > My question is this: I do

Re: labels

1999-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 1999, eric k. wolven wrote: > Greetings: > > I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. > > I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. > > I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. > Last year I printed my labels

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 20:26:35 -0700, NatePuri wrote: > 4. Menu integration. When ever you install an X app dpkg will update > your menus in all you window managers. Whether you use KDE, GNOME, > icewm or fvwm your menus will always reflect the packages you have > installed. No hand

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 09/18/99 at 17:06:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote concerning "ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)": > Hi, >I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this > installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my > ISP's login ma

KDEDIR and KDE 1.1.2

1999-09-18 Thread Pollywog
I have KDEDIR set to /usr/bin/X11 I installed KDE 1.1.2 in this order (source, not Debian packages): kdesupport kdelibs kdebase all the other packages The problems is that my menus do not work; only my desktop icons bring up the apps they should bring up. Should I have KDEDIR set to /usr/bin/X1

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Scott Henry wrote: > Medium answer: > > WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: > cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. > And unless you have a pretty fast system, you take a big performance hit too. What a rip-off.

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Fredrick Schmitt
You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on (weakest processor)? Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > > What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? > > Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Instead of me trying to cover every possible detail now (which is > impossible anyway), I suggest you try following my procedure and try to > account for the differences in your situation as you do it. If you have > specific questions or problems, feel fre

Re: silly sendmail question

1999-09-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: > Greetings... > > I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the > how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question > anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. > > My question is this: I do not

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-18 Thread Pollywog
> > >> Medium answer: >> >> WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: >> cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. >> > Maybe stupid today, but when modems were expensive, it made it possible for people to have a high-speed modem at low cost.

Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > Lo?c Prylli posted a C programm on the newsgroup fr.comp.os.linux some 2 > years ago to detect an ext2 partition that can help to solve Jaldhar's > problem. > This programm can be found on but I don't know > the exact U

Re: PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith "Z*Star EX", a 486/50MHz > laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. Sorry I don't have any technical help to offer you on this. But I would like to tell you this; The very first time I installed Linux, in '95, was on one of those

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-18 Thread Simon Martin
Ok, ok, I sit corrected in several respects, but I am still adamant that any attempt to paint Linux as an out of the box solution with no prior knowledge is a real danger to the on-going comercial success of Linux. I worked in tech-support for Xerox for about 7 years (Xerox used to sell Apple Mac

xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY

Re: Question of Firewall & Mail Servers

1999-09-18 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 14:11, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my > existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router > connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate network card > connecting the interna

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread dyer
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Any URL? > > Thanx in advance. > > JY > I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Erik Hovland
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Any URL? http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ Found from: http://www.debian.org/~branden/

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

1999-09-18 Thread Craig B
Gary Young wrote: > > Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0 > and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my > hardware. I'll look at what hardware is > in the box next. > Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble I

guest accounts with wu-ftp

1999-09-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am trying to enable the guestgroup feature with wu-ftp (2.5.0). The login and the chrooted environment is flawlessly but the ls command doesn't work. The ls used within the anonymous account works. I used the same binary and the libs within the guestgroup account without success. The ls command

Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?

1999-09-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to all of you! JY

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. > They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB > RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone > services (like syslo

Re: latex

1999-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > where can I found a latex tutorial ? There are books available as has already been mentioned, but if you have tetex installed, look in the /usr/doc/tetex-doc/texmf/latex/general/ directory. The file lshort2e will give you some qu

Re: xemacs &

1999-09-18 Thread Matthew Guenther
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I've a problem with the key in xemacs. If I press it does > the same as , so deleting the character before the cursor > position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, > that works fine).

Re: netscape: booksmarks have changed

1999-09-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Sep, Remco van 't Veer wrote about "netscape: booksmarks have changed" > Hi, > > Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). > Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are > changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my > previou

removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since dpk

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems > to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers > an option. When I am issuing the command > > dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base > > only a he

.xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
I am running Debian 2.1 with all updates (nothing as yet from the unstable area) and am having this bizarre problem with my .xsession file. I am using Wdm 1.0-7 and WindowMaker 0.20.3-5. WindowMaker has been specified as the default window manager by moving its entry to the top of the /etc/X11/wi

Re: removal of essential packages

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems > to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers > an option. When I am issuing the command > > dpkg --force-remo

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:32:52AM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on > (weakest processor)? I'd guess either a 386SX/16 or an old m68k box. Probably the 386 is the better option - many old m68k machines are too underspeced t

PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com

Re: .xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > Do I have to start up WindowMaker from my .xsession file (as > I do for RedHat) or is it enough to rely on > /etc/X11/window-managers ? Yes, you do have to run the window manager explicitly if you use an .xsession file

Re: PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? With the normal Debian setup, you only have to add those non-root users to group dip. As root, this command should do it: adduser username dip - -- fing

Re: PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:26:17PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: > How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Add them to the dip group (eg, put their name in the list at the end of the dip entry in /etc/group). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)

Re: PPP for non-root users

1999-09-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Add the user to the group dip. Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For

Re: sound under 2.2.x

1999-09-18 Thread Levi
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Would someone please confirm or deny that the latest 2.2.x plays sounds > quite nicely? And, would someone please confirm or deny that the latest > 2.2.x no longer munges up filesystems? I would like to upgrade to 2.2.x (no > real reason, it just seems

anyone using sblive under kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-18 Thread Jim Ruby
Hi, If anyone is using the sblive under kernel 2.2.12, would you be willing to email me the sblive .o module? I don't have a way to edit the file with a hexed as the speach output I'm using makes this hard. Thanks.

Re: sb16

1999-09-18 Thread Levi
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:54:28AM -0700, Craig B wrote: > >during kerenel initialization, then you have not compiled support into > >your kernel. Do a make mrproper then make config from withing your > >kernel source directory. You will need to ma

Re: .xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
On Sat September 18, Brad wrote : > > Yes, you do have to run the window manager explicitly if you use an > .xsession file. > > You can have your .xsession use /etc/X11/window-managers, though. Just > place this at the bottom of your .xsession (code shamelessly ripped from > /etc/X11/Xsess

What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

1999-09-18 Thread Salman Ahmed
As you all might have guessed, I am in the process of customizing and configuring my Debian 2.1 so that I can dump RH. Next step is to move up to the 2.2.x kernel. I wish to run 2.2.12. Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some p

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

1999-09-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
I simply go to ftp.kernel.org and download the latest kernel and compiling it. i.e. put the tarball in /usr/src/ and tar-zvzf it. Then go into /usr/src/linux/ and make menuconfig. the make dep; make clean; make bzlilo. There are many veriations on this, but I don't ever recall needing new pa

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap > usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they Then you are not running out of memory. The kernel likes to leave all the memory allocated. It us

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

1999-09-18 Thread dyer
Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to > run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages > from unstable but that's ok. the minimum requirements are included in the kernel source. Look in the Documentation/Changes file. Very straight forward. I

Re: silly sendmail question - solved

1999-09-18 Thread Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear
Thanks to all who offered advice, but I did finally find a way to trick sendmail into using the address I wanted it to (as you can see by my address on this post, hopefully). The FAQs and so forth were never a help to me. I just kept changing my configuration files around until it worked. (Took a

Re: sendmail again -argh!

1999-09-18 Thread add|ct|on
Please ignore my idiocy on my last post. I was logged in as the wrong user and so, despite my efforts to show off my success, I screwed up. Hopefully this time it worked properly. Cheers, addi

Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?

1999-09-18 Thread Erik Hovland
> Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > As you all might have guessed, I am in the process of > > customizing and configuring my Debian 2.1 so that I can > > dump RH. > > > > Next step is to move up to the 2.2.x kernel. I wish to > > run 2.2.12. > > > > Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to

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RE: anyone using sblive under kernel 2.2.12

1999-09-18 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Just get the emu10k1 package from developer.soundblaster.com/linux. Unpack it, and edit the 2.2.10 module with a text editor, changing 2.2.10 to 2.2.12. I got it to work under 2.2.11 by forcing it with insmod -f, that may work as well. On 18-Sep-99 Jim Ruby wrote: > Hi, > If anyone is using th

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-18 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Again some criticism about your opinions... >Ok, ok, I sit corrected in several respects, but I am still adamant that any attempt to paint Linux as an out of the box solution >with no prior knowledge is a real danger to the on-going comercial success of Linux. I worked in tech-support for

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this > opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the > cheeziest I could run it on? there has been a LARGE discussion on it about a week ago. The S

Re: dselect broke when updating to potato

1999-09-18 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:32:48PM -0400, Edward Di Geronimo Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > The other day I updated my system from slink to potato, and now dselect > and apt are broken. First off, if I go into dselect and choose Access, > Update, or Install, it exits out to the shell with the error: > > ds

Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)

1999-09-18 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 05:06:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this > installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my > ISP's login manually, then start pppd in another window, then quitting > from cu.

Re: Dying services due to low memory?

1999-09-18 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > Hi there, > > can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? > > I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. > They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Andreas Kurth
Ben Collins wrote: > > The only way to manage this, is to set up a group wheel, use the > > "auth required pam_wheel.so" line, add user "you" to group > > wheel and do it the above way leaving out the "apply=you" option. > > It shouldn't according to the docs (yes I read that particular ca

Re: dselect broke when updating to potato

1999-09-18 Thread Edward Di Geronimo Jr.
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > The other day I updated my system from slink to potato, and now dselect > > and apt are broken. First off, if I go into dselect and choose Access, > > Update, or Install, it exits out to the shell with the error: > > > > dselect: unable to access meth

Re: How does it...

1999-09-18 Thread Jonathan Hall
386SX/16, 4mb RAM, ~40mb HD. That's the requirement for any Linux distro. To install Debian > 1.3, you must have at least 6 (or is it 8) mb of RAM, but once it's installed, you can take out the extra 2-4mb, and run it just on 4mb. On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: > You knew what I

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