Re: Love, Life and Lilo

1998-05-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
> /dev/hda6). > > sorry about that but i've only been at this 24hrs... > > Rick > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

Re: xdm and shutdown

1998-05-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
-session-argument() finish-field() > >From the text console, you can do a shutdown as normal. > > A while ago (within the last two weeks, I think) someone posted some > nice tcl/tk code that one could add to some of xdm's startup scripts > to get a little "shutdown" bu

Re: QPopper "warning"

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
to do this one to map from foo.bar.com to 1.2.3.4 and another to do the "reverse" mapping. If /etc/hosts is used though, only a single entry suffices for forward and reverse mapping. The only weird thing is that the error indicates that the *client's* canonical name couldn't be

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
7;re trying to administer a number of Unix machines. The upshot of this is that if you're not running a bunch of Unix machines, you don't need it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: installing on a new disk from a running system

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
stallation. I'm sure it could be done, but it wouldn't be easy. If you don't want the system down you could put the disk into another system and install it there, then do the swap. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &qu

Re: backup

1997-12-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ion, ala 'newfs /dev/hdb1' c) mount the drive in some place, eg. 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt' d) now move it all over: 'dump 0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)' Note that if you have separate partitions for /usr or whatever these will have to be done separately sin

Re: Where is font "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
nts which is very flexible (more flexible than a simple find/grep command can locate exactly the same). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
which commands > will set up the environment for the session, and what window manager it > should start. The .xmodmap file will contain keymapping for that > particular session. > > Hope this helps. As Gilbert Laycock also noticed, debian's (XFree in general?) setup uses .X

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
his to your ~/.Xresources file (and make sure that you have 'allow-user-resources' in /etc/X11/config). Rxvt.keysym.0x: \b If that doesn't work let me know, but it solved the problem for me and many others. This is better than switch your whole X keymap. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
e is working on this for IPv6. I believe a standard is also being worked on for encrpyted IP tunneling, which I would imagine will be here sooner. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ble ASCII characters (as well as a few unprintable ones). This should generally suggest to you that the system on the other end is still sending you some kind of prompt. Check it out, this is most likely the solution. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ati tv tuner

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
sn't much linux info there per se there should be some useful links and other information. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Sound.o module / Dependancies

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ound module dependancies aren`t set. > I`ve managed to get the sound.o into /lib/modules/ but it won`t > install. "no dependancy information" error. Add the following steps to the above: make modules make modules_install -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUB

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ge name plus 'single' > I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run > (for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. Are you sure you need to run defrag? From accidents I've heard of I get the feeling it isn't the most stable thing in the world. -- Jens B. Jorg

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
with their full names, > and save certain ones to a file of your choice for later inclusion into > your .Xdefaults/.Xresources file. No, not ANY X program. Only any X program which is based upon the X Toolkit. Check out the man page. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: StarOffice,printing and deskjets, again

1997-12-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
don't forget the setfont! /Helvetica-Bold findfont 18 scalefont setfont % must set the current point first 300 300 moveto (Hello, Debian User) show showpage restore (Also, the save/restore are unnecessary. In fact this will most likely work without the showpage too since gs should by default at

Re: reply:StarOffice,printing and dj, again!

1997-12-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
a script, call it /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter-2-hp870-real and make it like so: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter $* | lpr -Php870-real -U$5 You also need to do this: mkdir /var/spool/lpd/hp870-real chown lp.lp /var/spool/lpd/hp870-real chmod 775 /var/spool/lpd/hp870-real Then restart lpd and you s

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ng your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just running a program? This would cause the X server to immediately exit. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: AMD 5x86 and reboot

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
s not pentium-compatible. It is instruction-set compatible with the *486*. They're just telling you it will run *as fast* as a Pentium 75. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sten Anderson wrote: > > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't > > installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, > > are you sure that the

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Alan Su wrote: > > Sten Anderson wrote (10 Dec 1997 16:32:12 +0100 ): > |>"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> > |>> These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't > |>> installed these X extensions. I

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
makes it a standard. Since there are only 15 IRQs on the Intel (AT) platform and closer to half of them are actually usable by add-on boards, there can't ever be a standard on a given board (or board-type, eg. "sound card") using a certain IRQ. Granted there are "tendencies&qu

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
| | Program code | || || || 0x1FE | Magic number (0xAA55) | +----+ -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NFS & Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
access to root files > on the server via NFS, same with other user ids) This is just how NFS works. The exception is the root user. NFS exports don't allow root access unless you add a the option no_root_squash. All this information is found in the exports man page. Need I say it?

Re: off-topic

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
dor which sells them. I guess I didn't save the link. However, as I mentioned above, due to different sync requirements of many workstation monitors, the cable is more than just a cable also take a look at this page: http://www.devo.com/video/misc.html -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Socket question? Network unreachable

1997-12-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
advance for any advice. When you set up your sockaddr_in do you make sure to use htonl() to convert the IP address to network byte order? I bet you don't! Your program would work on a Sun because Sparc uses big-endian numbers (which are therefore *already* in network byte order) while

Re: Error & Talk

1997-12-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else. Ports in the range 1-1024 can only be bound by root. This is a security feature. I'm not sure why talk would try to use port 99. Perhaps the exe was really supposed to be set-user-id root. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FastSCSI Card recommendations

1997-12-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
e measurements). Be aware that your motherboard *must have* BIOS support for this card in order to use it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ering what alternatives Debian might support that > would provide a more secure solution than NIS. The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). Sun calls it NIS Plus. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMA

Re: TFTP booting

1997-12-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ncluded in the netstd package. If you need bootp also, you can install the dhcp daemon, which supports both dhcp and bootp clients. Take a look at the tftpd man page. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: changing domain name

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
f the DNS zone you wish to have yourself added to. This is generally your ISP. They may or may not charge you a one-time or on-going fee for this service. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Offline news access (was: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?)

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
s > than PNF is meant for. You can run a multiuser news spool with NewsX. > You probably couldn't with PNF.) The only drawback is that pnf isn't a debian package. I had no trouble getting it to work. Check comp.os.linux.announce archive for more details. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - ; xon otherhost (taken from xauth man page, with 'xon' addition) Personally, I prefer to use ssh which provides secure (though there has been debate about the insecurity of the x-forwarding which essentially goes back to the insecure way in

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
his is very odd. I'm really wondering how it can work only for a few seconds. There would have to be something else disabling the perms after you allowed them. kerberos is orthogonal (in this case, sinc we're using MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization) to X security and should have no effect unless you're bringing other programs into the equation--for example to get your key across the network--which use kerberos. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ior system administrators would make a suggestion I'd appreciate > it. I the series called something like 'TCP/IP ...' written by Douglas Comer. I can give you ISBN if you want. Let me know today and I'll write it down when I go home. It's a three-volume set but

Re: problem logging on

1997-12-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
haracters were getting echoed back as they do in a normal terminal connection. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

NT vs. Linux: is zero-administration a reality? (was: Question.)

1997-12-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
, they are just fooling themselves. I can't blame them for wanting a magic bullet but in this case as in most where a decision is made by someone without the knowledge and experience required, they're just shooting themselves in the foot. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
;t believe that particular incarnation any longer exists. Take heart though, in the case of Linux this is not necessarily a bad thing. If you're printing stuff from ghostscript (and not using pass-through fonts) everything is essentially being rasterized anyway. Now, this doesn't mean

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
> And you are best staying away from it unless you want to spend long hours > > getting it to work correctly ... and it is fragile ;) > > What's for an alternative between debian machines for central password > management? > > (Encryption _is_ essential.) Perhaps RAD

Re: Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-31 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
grin wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > > The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't > > > > > know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun). > > > > > Sun

Re: dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1998-01-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
'll have to download the socks5 source from NEC and compile it. Then just set up your config files and everything should work. If you need any help getting this set up you can ask me. Once everything is compiled, installed and configured you should be able to use 'runsocks dselect'.

Re: dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1998-01-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
may not have been a "runsocks" script with socks4 but doing LD_PRELOAD is effectively the same thing. It never worked for me. If it works for you, I'd love to hear the success story. I'd say go to the socks5 package. I've found the server (at least under Linux) to be more sta

Re: Setting IRQ

1998-01-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ember where I read about this. Maybe a web search would net you the answer. Good luck. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: No incomming mail

1998-01-08 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ion refused by > r40h17.res.gatech.edu. > > When I installed Linux, I made sure my hostname was greyghost and my > domain name was gt.ed.net. Nowhere did I program my box to be > r40h17.res.gatech.edu. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

1998-01-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
all we can do is switch ISPs in this case. I hope someone can > prove me wrong on this and tell us how can it be done! -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: install image too large for floppy

1998-01-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
tes available. > > Any help? > > Thanks > > --- > Eric White[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
IT on to > > > > xauth add $DISPLAY > > > > is there a way to pass this information automatically? > > particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like to pass it to > > telnet when connecting to remote machines > > Dunno 'bout su

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
EpgrNj+y4 > BDIUgcf3n7DubM5usOtxIElSu+TFy8QNbn7H6Zc+dT5zifykCUWBLALMtuXFBfGC > Onj28m+iyX9nZ59v7pyYrEAiMO7nu1e7a3+fPK8tqt4J6Em/Fv/ardixM7PIM/OW > IGjV/LgHl7Vgkz11dqzkHDt/gWiI61DPrKKfWsbkOJy8xR432RuOCyn0KcvuUAww > hJ4S4hpAZBHLWbl6md4mDyqCL66x8di9Ogf/UnirnU6+XeDD4S/c8g== > =nbw7 >

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
en't > found yet. WIll this be a problem? > > rick > > -- > These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail t

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: loging into NT

1998-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
uses the > login names and passwords of a linux machine in order to log into it. > > I can't use linux on that machine because word and excel are a > must and the people who will be using it don't know anything about unix. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
t; Speaking of ssh, is deity supposed to make it easier to use multiple > ftp sites? Currently pgp-us is listed as obsolete/local by dselect. > Or am I running the update incorrectly? I've been clearing the list of > available packages when dselect suggested I do so. dunno. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hmm NT domains ans sharee access

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
image and burn Linux CDs to my hearts content > is there any software to let me do that? > if not..is there any way I can take a directory tree and make it into an > ISO image > such that th eoriginal tree is destroyed (thus I don't need 2 times the > hard drive space) > is t

Re: loging into NT

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
obably will be using W95 if we can't get the advantage of > the passwords. > > Thanks a lot for the info! > > Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ > PGP key

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
y workstation as the user "myself". Now I need to do a few administration things so I have to su to root. After I 'su' I just do: export XAUTHORITY=~myself/.Xauthority And off I go. Note that this works because although the perms on an Xauthority file are always set to 0600, root can read *any* file. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I've chased this one for a while. Marti

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > > > The solution is, of course: > > > > > > XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority" > > > (AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profi

Re: statically linked ls ???

1998-01-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: loging into NT

1998-01-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ng to ease up > things that way. > > Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ > PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es el concepto" -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: linux client dialing into WinNT RAS server

1998-01-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
the registry. This should work. Note that there is an article in the M$ Knowledge Base. You should look it up on their web page for more in depth info on the problem. > > > I'm using ppp-2.2.0f-23, and kernel v2.0.27. > > Thanks, > > -- > Mark Mabry > [EMAIL PRO

Re: problem with nis and shadow

1998-01-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
rpc.bynumber > group.byname netgroup.byuser passwd.byuid > services.byname > hosts.byaddr netid.byname protocols.bynameshadow.byname > hosts.byname networks.byaddr protocols.bynumber ypservers > netgroup networks.byname rpc.byname > music# > > --

Re: greenbush

1998-01-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out the cdrom I'd ordered immediately, explaining that the person who'd handled shipping had been "let go" (to put it mildly) and that a lot of records h

Re: EhterLink XL PCI TPO 3C900-TPO Ethernet Card

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
t. > > Thanks in advance for your help, > Rob > > -- > Save the Whales -- Collect the whole set > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: ip-up script called multiple times

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ly a couple of minutes apart from > the same IP address. I have pppd setup to idle disconnect after 2 > mins. > > Does anyone know why this is working like it is? Does anyone have a > recommendation to how to fix it? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
setting up my serial ports. My pppd is 2.3 patch level two. > > What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K. And may be I am > connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem > is US Robatics external). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: perl module to read config files?

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ocalhost" { > type master; > file "named.local"; > }; > > zone "127.in-addr.arpa" { > type master; > file "named.rev-local"; > }; > > craig >

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
m trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to > use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the > manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages > though. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: sending a message to the active console

1998-01-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
terminal. If that's the functionality you want you can use that program, otherwise just write to the terminal device yourself. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ?:Linux on Omnibook 4000: CDROM does not work

1998-01-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
is too hard > > to install all of Linux via floppys :-( > > Please reply directly to me because I am not on this maillist. > > Thank you very much in advance for any helpful response. > > Ralf Durben > > Germany > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TO UN

Re: VIRUS-WARNING (MEGAWICHTIG!!!) (he-he!)

1998-01-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
>WARNING! If you receive an e-mail titled, "JOIN THE CREW", do not > >> > open > >> > > >it! > >> > > >>> > >> > > >>>> It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive. Send this letter out > >> > to > >> > > as [ paranoid raving deleted ] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-27 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
is, which I can learn from. > > Thanking you very much in advance > > Jonathan > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PR

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Carey Evans wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's some code you can build on: > > > > struct termios ti; > > int modem; > > > > modem = open("/dev/ttyS1",

Re: debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
me advice here... Any help appreciated ... Thanx in advance... Send a Page Employee: (Select an Employee Name) Last_name1, First_name1 Last_name2, First_name2 Last_name3, First_name3 Last_name4, First_name4    Text Message  (maximum of 240 alpha-numeric characters for most paging services)      -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Dial-up script programs

1998-01-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I highly reccommend the program 'expect' which is sort of an extension to TCL. I've used it with great success. expect is available as a debian package. Adam Klein wrote: > I need a more flexible program than 'chat' to use for > dial up PPP scripts. Any suggest

Re: Help serial port communication

1998-01-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Carey Evans wrote: > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Carey Evans wrote: > > [...] > > > > I think it's generally necessary to do O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK to open a > > > disconnected serial port, then set CLOCAL with te

Re: Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
SCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Help (my first crash)

1998-02-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
IST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hdd problems

1998-02-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ys, "DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc.. > > I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk > and a boot disk but both will die with error, "Unable to open Initial > Console." -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PPTP for remote connection

1998-02-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
posed to be a secure version of PPP (used on WinNT servers). > > My employer just started using it, and my old PAP setup to dial-in from > home stopped working. > > Do I need a new program instead of pppd? > > I also think (based on a sparse usenet search) that it won't run o

Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)

1998-02-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
get scripts to work with > > /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Library for cgi progamming in C

1998-02-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ry, prepares for later readings, needs >to work with both POST and GET queries. > > . cgiGetParam(const char *name) >Returns some read cgi variables. This routine needs to >decode the %xx values. > > It would be nice if the library would read from stdin just like >

Re: PAP authentication server names

1998-02-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
* in the second field. I've tried > appropriate hostnames and usernames in > that position, and I've also tried putting foo there and adding > remotename foo to the pppd command line but if it's not * then no PAP is > sent from this end. > > What do other people hav

Re: Smail pop3

1998-02-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
IS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Monitoring ppp0 Packets

1998-02-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: SNMP agent w/Multible Interfaces?

1998-02-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
p, suggestions or comments are welcome in this matter. > > Anthony Landreneau > Network Engineer > Infinity Data System > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Login string FUBAR; what package does this?

1998-02-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
pc47 login: kooij > Password: > Login incorrect > Debian GNU/\s 2.0 (unstable) \n \l > > pc47 login: > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (unstable) pc47 tty2 > > pc47 login: > --end-- > > When I get a second login prompt, it is messed up. > > What? When? How? Why

Re: Login string FUBAR; what package does this?

1998-02-18 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first > > login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your > > login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs

Re: dhcpcd problems...

1998-02-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
so that it can use the same IP on the next boot (until the > lease really expires). Can I (and should I?) stop it doing this? > > I would appreciate any information. Thanks all, > > Chris > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Serial Direct Connect

1998-02-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
saw was a SERIAL-PROGRAMMING HOW-TO. I > think what I need is the SERIAL-HOW-TO. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Greg Green > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
a doG > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
tell you I'm any user I want. This is not security. Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Note there is little use to combining shadow passwords and NIS. Any machine > > on > > the net can get NIS maps. Now, if you're u

Re: X Windows scroll bars

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
to look > exactly like those of Netscape's? I absolutely hate using a different > mouse button to move the scroll bar in each direction... -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ot; in a tone and manner which suggest they are authoritative on the matter. You obviously are very confident with your expertise and technical knowledge. Just remember it's when you think you've got every angle that your going to make the mistake. Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Thu,

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
ed up tight. Gabriel Millerd wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > This is true. However note how you said "if the request for the map > > comes from a non-root user". How do you supposed th

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Serial Direct Connect

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, and perhaps using 'init q' or 'telinit q' would be more "standard". I just have bad habits (not that PID 1 will ever be anything other than init). Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Just run a getty on th

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gabriel Millerd wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > As I said before it's moot anyway because I can sniff the packets off > > the ethernet. Don't be so sure that someone who plugs

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
eing "a privileged port". Fine, that doesn't invalidate my original point. Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Oh, pardon me. That really is safe then. NOT! If I can plug into your

Re: nis & shadow

1998-02-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
sign > that the cable had been cut and re-spliced? I guess I'm just way > too trusting. > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Oh, pardon me. That really is safe then. NOT! If I can plug into you

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