Re: group 'root' does not exist?!

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Christian Pernegger wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want > to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root' > by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su. you dont need to play with pam to do this. if you want just chmod o-rx /bin/su nate -- ::: IC

Re: graphic login failure

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello List: > > Just did a dist-upgrade from woody, helixcode and kde2. > > login as root fails, but can 'su', 'su - root' from terminal. Check the startup procedure for startx. Look for a $HOME/.xsession file in the home directo

X configuration

2000-09-16 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, I've got xdm running. Using XF86Setup, I thought I could change my mouse and screen setting but this isn't working... I've got an Intellimouse but it doesn't see the middle button or wheel events in enlightenment. The screen resolution seems to stay the same no matter what size I request

Re: Apache-Perl: missing handler "server-parsed"

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Philipp Letschert wrote: > > I tried to include a perl counter in my webpage with the line: > > > > invoking the counter with http://foo.bar/cgi-bin/counter.pl works fine. But I > didnt got it to work from within the document. After spending a lot of time > with the Apache documentation I hav

Re: preparing to install debian

2000-09-16 Thread Shaul Karl
> Good morning! > > I ordered a three CD set of debian cds and am preparing to install > debian. I have some specific questions: > > (1) how do i configure debian for dsl ? > You might follow this list and read the DSL stuff on the Linux Documentation Project. I do not have DSL, which is why

CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread voy1d
Hey. Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount my cdrom drive like so. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get an error message : error mounting device: device not found. Anyone got any ideas? voy1d Faith No More summed up life well, "You Can't Always Get What You Wan

elvis is alive, but buggy...

2000-09-16 Thread will trillich
this happened to me back on slink, and now that i've just updated to a clean potato with a new set of apt-get this and that, it's happened again. elvis (elvisnox) works reasonably well, except for `crontab -e`, which detects a nonzero status on exit, which interferes with the saving of the crontab

Re: CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:34:15PM +1200, voy1d wrote: > Hey. > > Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount > my cdrom drive like so. > > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom > > I get an error message : > error mounting device: device not found. > > Anyone got any ideas?

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Soulier wrote: > > My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them > was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the > filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted > up again, because inevitably, I'd be prompted to l

Re: rsync trouble

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Swoop wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using rsync to make a mirror of Debian - for a long time > it had worked very well, but suddenly this error appears: > > Resource temporarily unavailable check ulimits. run ulimit -a and adjust accordingly if anything does not say 'unlimited'(see the manpage for u

Re: OFFTOPIC: Reading data from a parallel port

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I posted this question to the gphoto mailing list with no response so I'm > trying > you guys...since I know there are many knowledgable people here. So without > any > delay... > > I'm going to try and write a program/library to read data from a portab

Re: CD rom drives.

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, voy1d wrote: > Hey. > > Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount > my cdrom drive like so. > > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom > > I get an error message : > error mounting device: device not found. > > Anyone got any ideas? could be a few thin

Dual booting Win2k/deb2.2

2000-09-16 Thread Rob
Hello guys, this is my first time using this mail-user list. I am almost finished building my new PC(waiting on a couple parts), and once its done I will be dual booting win2000/deb. I want to install these OS's on three partitions (win2000, / , /swap) on my RAID0 Array (Highpoint onboard control

Re: X configuration

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Gregory Vence wrote: > Hello, > > I've got xdm running. > > Using XF86Setup, I thought I could change my mouse and screen setting > but this isn't working... hmmm... it should. > I've got an Intellimouse but it doesn't see the middle button or wheel > events in enlightenme

X,Netscape,Mozilla - x locking hard

2000-09-16 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Looking for solutions to X locking hard. While using Netscape 4.75, usually when scrolling, X lock and I can only reset the computer. I occasionally happens when selecting a link. Mozilla M17 also will lock X hard while scrolling, however lately it has been more likely to just crash leaving X ru

Re: laptop

2000-09-16 Thread Nate Amsden
Rino Mardo wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:38:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bruce Richardson > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:01:30AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > > > > debian is the most laptop-friendly distro i've encountered. > > > > I'd have to question that, even in my recent-Deb

Re: Dual booting Win2k/deb2.2

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rob wrote: > Hello guys, this is my first time using this mail-user list. I am almost > finished building my new PC(waiting on a couple parts), and once its done I > will be dual booting win2000/deb. ick. heresy. > A) How can I install these OS's so that I can have a bootl

Starting KDE2

2000-09-16 Thread Mike
Hi everyone,   I managed to get kde2 install but it wont start. I used apt-get to get it so it hould be fine, I'm using gdm so i added a menu to that which executed startkde but when it starts it sais that it failed interprocess networking and that dcopserver isnt running. Konqueror works fin

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