Here's what I'd do - install the ash from hamm, then do:
ln -sf ash /bin/sh
Then, edit your /etc/passwd file (with vi, probably) and change the
top line so that it contains '/bin/ash' instead of '/bin/bash' - root
should now be able to log in, at least.
Damir Naden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, I had to do it. Radio shack had $15 joysticks with a $15 rebate, and I
> took one for the kids machine at home, which runs the darkside
>...
> So now I want to connect it to my machine. But looking through the kernel
> build, i see no
gunfried geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Linux Experts,
>
> what might be the reason for the following behaviour of FTP when trying to
> log into my Linux device: the client shows 'connected to 134.2.4.8'
> but after specifying the user and the CORRECT password, it shows:
> '530 Login i
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Now that I know that I should type and not name.calss ( I
> couldn't have thought about it myself) I can start working.
> Does anyone of you has an addition to .emacs or another emacs file that
> colors java sources (Like there is for C\C++
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You comment is very precise, but isolating the names of the packages,
> and running dpkg to see if they both (or at least one of them, because
> of some weird upgrade cases) conflict with the other would not take
> more than 5 lines of perl,
Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing
> it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for
> 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?).
It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more
tha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes:
> the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to
> mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told
> it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it
> appeared to delete the mess
"Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me
> saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st
> October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them
> but they said that I have
"M.C. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail
> on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender.
Well, all the spam that came from aol.
I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial
spam (even
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before).
>
> Any idea on how to fix this, or any other way to get it to syntax
> highlighting?
Well, I don't know why registerring the file with version control
would give you syntax highlighting, but you problem may come
shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably
> obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ?
Well, first off, there is no .deb package of netscape itself, period.
What there are are .deb installer packages - these are
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm
> > using root. Like this one:
> > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768
> >
> > I thought I could at least run it and get an
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Can I telnet and ftp to my own computer? I tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (which
> is this computer) but a ftp will not log me in, and a telnet either ?
>
> Do I have to start a special demon ? And how should I do that ?
No, you just need to al
Julien Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to include in a debian distrib some programs, configs etc..
> If i can do that i would like to make an CD to install this version on
> my computers.
> Do you have HOWTOs, URLs or other that can explain me how to do ?
Well, I suggest you look at w
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*" doesn't exist
> >>
> >> So there is a font missing, where should it be and how should I install
> it.
> >
> >You should install either the xfnt75 or xfnt100 package. I'll try to
> >remember to have the
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should
> > qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why
> > th
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Yes... Tell me, what does
> >
> >xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*"
> >
>
> It says font unmatched
>
> >say? If it says nothing, do as root
> >
> >/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst
> >
> >and then do "xset fp rehash" (as your re
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes:
> I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now
> run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I
> can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I
> can send my mail. I po
"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
>I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried
> running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica
> ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as
> well. I used xinit to
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers:
> Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom /
> Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486
> using Win95. Unf
Ionut Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>
> > (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you
> > mine)
>
> Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to
> set up my e-ma
Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command,
> my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything
> seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo
> command, and got the following error:
>
Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:41:34PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote:
> >
> > I want a script to execute as the Super User. I have tried several things
> > with the "s" attribute but have not been successful.
>
> Linux won't let you create suid shell scripts --
Michael Thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, what has happened to tkdesk? It has been my filebrowser and of
> choice and more for over a year now, and I cannot find it either.
tkdesk was orphaned by its maintainer - I've taken it, but since it
was orphaned at the time of the hamm freeze
"Scott D. Killen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I run a server with Debian 1.3.1 installed. This machine is set up as an
> internet gateway to a 3 bit subnet. Diald is installed for automatic
> dialup internet connections. My machine runs a caching name server that
> the machines on the subn
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't believe that is true
> I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work
> well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP
> I can't seem to get mail working but...
> I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm
> I sa
shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running fvwm2.
> I want that xclock will stick to the screen while I am moving to a different
> part of the screen (My screen is divided into 3x3 parts). How can I
> accomplish
> it with xclock command line ? How could I learn it without someone telling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes:
> On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive.
>
> The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom
> as their current directory. You ca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi!
> I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults.
> Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new
> bash isn´t possible :-( .
> I am currently logged in as root with an old (bo) bash, so the system is quite
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote:
>
> > What exactly is the hamm release?
>
> hamm is the nickname for the next version of Debian, 2.0. It has been
> frozen for testing since April 1st and most of the problems seem to have
> dissapeared now. It i
(I've replied to debian-user instead of debian-devel because this
really belongs on -user)
Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yo-
>
> I would like suggestions and input on how to "sell" Debian in the sense of
> Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attemp
ve
alias net-pf-3 off
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
in my /etc/conf.modules.
Hmmm... this may be a bug against modutils, as I'm almost certain that
bo gave you a clue in the logs.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi!
> I guess this it not a debian related problem, but:
> I am setting up a small Network with a linux server and some linux, win95 and
> nt-workstation clients. The clients shall be able to access the cd-rom and
> zip-drive on the server using autofs. The problem is t
Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug
> in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content
> of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my
> root partition),but the
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in
> inetd.conf.
>
> /etc/inetd.conf
> telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L/usr/sbin/ttysnoops
>
> /etc/snooptab
> * socket
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To:
> header?
Your question could be asking one of two different things:
1) Why would the list accept mail with an "obviously bogus" To:
header?
2) Why would the
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic :
> >
> > :0
> > * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > debian
>
> I would not trust the From line.
> Why don't you just use the Resent
"Jorge Daniel Ruckj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all.
>
> How I do a shutdown if I use xdm?
>
> Thanks
Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users
unaware of this fact.
>From the text console, you c
Thomas Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm going to set up a server for some network-experiments. The machine
> shall run a mail and database-server and perhaps a web-server.
>
> For the possible hardware I'm offered a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB RAM, 120 MB
> HDD. Now the question is: Are
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last
> command should not end in &, but it's most useful if that's the window
> manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd
> have to kill the clock somehow to logout.
D
"Alan Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ):
> |>
> |>Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X
> |>clients when they exit that causes them to shut down.
> |>
>
>
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are a lot of things about mail delivery that I'm unsure of right
> now. Having put more time into thinking about exactly what I want, I've
> become less certain about my configuration needs.
Well, you've certainly confused me. :)
> What I mean is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Denney) writes:
> Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't
> believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly
> on its own. As I understand it this file is meant for setting up routes,
> or doing various random hacks a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes:
>
> fetchmail (on my machine) check regularly. This is all completely
> transparent to the MTA; as far as it's concerned, I might as well have
> my own domain name. (that is, I don't have to set any variables in my
&g
In Pine's configuration, look for custom-hdrs or something like that
and add the value:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
> say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything.
> Paul
>
>
> --
"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All i need now is some guidence on what files to get next!, i am leaving
> x-win until the cd arrives, but if anybody has any farorite packages that
> will be good for a newbie, just some general thinks to help get to grips
> with linux, fun stuff etc!
less an
Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to
> be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says:
>
> chkexploit: can't find 'strings'
>
> Any ideas?
As I have no idea what this (chkexploit) is, I can only
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes:
> I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ...
> Kinks.
>
> Heres the latest ...
>
> I upgrades the ncurses packages to :
> ncurses3.0
> ncurses3.4
>
> which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when
"Albert Hurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home
> did not have
> a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in
> passwd file.
> I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got "cannot make directory ahurd: rea
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the
> > number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. "
>
> It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and
> as
> we all know, 1601 is an important da
"Jan Francsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux.
> When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My
> drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right
> Directory. Evrytime I do so
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> > Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to
> > get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no
> > .deb binary, so I think simp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 23:35:55 GMT, "Rick" wrote:
> > Matrox Mystique II, 4mb
>
> Getting vga mode to work should be pretty simple. The only reason svga
> might not be as easy is that I dunno if your vid card is supported and
> it'd be advisable to find o
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages
> file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released
> ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze)..
> Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / a
Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all.
>
> A brief question, which I suspect may require a verbose answer... Is there
> a way to install debain using ftp on a dial-up connection?
>
> I suspect one may have to install ppp support from an alternate console
> before dselect will work, but is t
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote:
>
> > essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for
> > debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from
> > being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? .
Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on
> CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the
> pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors?
>
I ordered from linux sys
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a .forward file with the following line:
>
> "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
> #mario"
>
> This used to work under sendmail. Now, I just replaced sendmail
> with smail and I can't
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable
(why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password.
Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs,
> is root.
>
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Aaron Walker wrote:
> >
> > When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my
> > /var/log/ppp.log
> >
> > Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
> > Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE)
> > Dec 29 18:59:1
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system
> onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of
> the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now.
> I use my system to recieve mail using
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Doing this reminded me of a problem I had trying to defrag the drive. I
> unmounted it and booted off a floppy, typed edefrag and :
> stalin# edefrag -d -r /dev/hda1
> edefrag 0.61
> DEBUG: read_tables()
> edefrag: bad magic number in super-block
>
> What
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
>
> This isn't strictly debian related but...
>
> Does anybody know how to change the default bookmarks.html file
> w/ Communicator 4.04?
In my installation (Netscape 4.03 done with the Debian installer), the
file is located in /usr/lib/
"Hogland, Thomas E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently discovered why the company had no problems when I asked for a
> PC to use to install Debian and learn about it - they are planning (or
> hoping) to use it as a dial-in server. They have a Megaport 24cs dial-in
> board from Equinox; I ch
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a
> gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line
> programs only.
>
> TIA,
> Brandon
I saw a script to do this a while back - the ma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> http://www.math.jhu.edu/~mertind/mybox.html
Dear God, I've become standard advice. Heaven preserve me!
In any case, the URL as written above won't work - it's really:
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I recently installed Debian Linux and I am now trying to get the modem
> working.
>
> The modem is installed and works under Win95 using Com 2, irq 3, 2F8, it is
> a pnp capable modem but I have configured it using the jumpers provided.
>
> I followed the ppp instruct
Mario Fabiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have found some log files in /var/log that are readable by anybody.
> Maybe they are not particularly critical. I want anyway to change their
> permissions, for instance to 640, for the owners root.adm. Will be the
> permissions kept by the logrotate p
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer.
>
> When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like:
> netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor'
>
> The messages are all something
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote:
>
> > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
>
> Either you:
>
> 1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration
> process; or
>
> 2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo t
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am new to debian,
Congratulations.
> and have a few questions.
>
> 1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card).
>
> -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules.
> -- Why does it try to find one? is thi
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields
> in /etc/ppp.options_out?
Look at what the command pon does:
cush:~$ which pon
/usr/bin/pon
cush:~$ cat /usr/bin/pon
#!/bin/sh
if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]
Well, much as I prefer the smail configuration I have (on
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html) on my machine, (although
really your setup seems to be fine) here's how to do what you want:
Put the following at the _end_ of your /etc/smail/directors file (it
must be at the end; otherwise you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes:
> On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message:
>
> bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail
> fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null)
> failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction
smorrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry all, if this is too far off topic...
>
> I've got debian 1.3 up and running on my amd 586, can get thru to my isp
> via minicom and on the 'net with lynx. I just got netscape ver 3.04
> installed, but I've missed something.. I startx, connect to my i
Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
>
> I also have problems understanding smail. My guess is that the debian
> package dont contain all documentation.
Or that documentation for what you need doesn't exist.
> I have the almost the same problem as didier belot wrote about.
> I cal
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:03:39AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > > Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections
> > > as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server
> > > to set up extra routes when I dial
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail
> into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in
> them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be
> welcome.
>
> However I'm cur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing
> obvious in either the man page or the online help.
Open up /etc/lynx.cfg (the system-wide configuration file) and search
for "proxy".
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OSWALD jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have set the ppp debian package
> My modem is responding when I use minicom
> I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
> And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
> "Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel"
>
> Or when I type "dmesh | gr
Mark Montague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > I've established that Communicator always fires off helper apps using
> > similar syntax by invoking /bin/sh. My question is, if I were to
> > replace /bin/sh (which is a symlink to /bin/bash) with something els
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and
> made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On
> both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as
> expected. I made also a c code wrapper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi there.
> I've installed Netscape 4.04 by hand and i'm getting trouble running
> helper applications. The command that Netscape issue is something like
> sh ((foo /tmp/bar); rm /tmp/bar)& and if i run that command directly from
> the BASH command prompt it fails but i
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Howdy,
>
> quick question:
>
> my supplier offers me the following boards:
>
> S3 TRIO PCI
> S3 VIRGE PCI
> Mystique
> Millenium 2MB
> Millenium 4MB
>
> no further information is given. If I don't care about
>
Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have Debian Linux 1.3, and I have set up ppp to the best of my
> abilities, however when I logon Earthlink Networks accepts my username
> and password and the debug says that the connection is beginning:
>
> ppp0 ---> ttyS1
>
> However, I get the LCP p
Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of
> my log file in hopes someone can help. I asked about this earlier and
> I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...
>
> I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still c
Catalin Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear folks,
>
> I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really
> appreciate this list.
>
> I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation
> of which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I foun
Robert Eckard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box. When attempted, it says
> something like connection refused from server.
> Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem?
Well, this also explains your mail problem. I assume that you ha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with
> the
> line
>
> /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0
>
> in /etc/fstab
>
> I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no dice. Is there a change so that
> it
>
Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello PC users!
>
> What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those "Window 95"
> keys on all new keyboards ?
>
> They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch
> virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative
> f
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is
> well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and
> End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively
> easy. strings like {ES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>
> > /dev/fd0/floppy/msdos msdos user,rw 0 0
> > /dev/fd0/floppy/ext2 ext2 user,rw 0 0
> > /dev/fd0/floppy/vfat
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine.
>
> I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep.
> My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta'
> by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After the last round of questions & posts on the topic, I've found
> that I can stably export xauthority by
>
> xauth list $DISPLAY
>
> and pasting from MIT on to
>
> xauth add $DISPLAY
>
> is there a way to pass this information automati
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to set up xmailbox to play a .wav when I get new mail, and
> I've got this in .Xresources
>
> xmailbox*mailSndFile: ~/music/samples/1308.wav
> xmailbox*mailSndComm: /usr/bin/bplay %s
xmailbox may not understand about "~" - try specifying th
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> heres the story...
> I need sambathe samba package I got said it needed libc6...so I
> tried
> to install libc6
> it said libc5 was the problem and it couldn't oinstall...
> so rather than thinking...I found the dpkg options to tell it to remove
Chris Keathley Keathley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read the how to's on how to install my sound card but when I type
> "make config" it is giving me a msg that says something about missing
> target, I can't remember exactly what it said. What am I doing wrong
> if any thing. Is there a diff
If you still have the partion magic software, can you try to move the
fat32 partition to a primary partition and then make all your extended
partitions linux partitions. I find that separating linux and fat32
as much as possible is generally a good thing.
ic382 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <
Chris Keathley Keathley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple
> reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked
> for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my
> kernal? I even installed one fro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
> Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a
> "rm -r /usr" by mistake. He did stop it after a while,
> though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
> on his system.
>
> Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
> to a stab
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