OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the netscape web

pvm package strangeness

1999-09-10 Thread Nick Cabatoff
This one's really got me stumped. Here's the scenario: Under slink/i386: - user runs binaries linked to libpvm3 - suddently (as of this week), any calls made to that library result in a segfault - even the example program provided with pvm do this - this occurs on several different machines,

Re: IMAP Interface

1999-09-14 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Sep 14, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Does anyone know of an imap interface written in c or perl that can be > incorporated into another application. eg opensource. I am working on a web > based email client, but I want to use imap instead of pop3. This will > initially run on a one of my debian server

Re: imap

1999-09-24 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Sep 24, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > The problem I have is performance. Sine we get not many but large > mails (around 3 megabyte each), a single file mailbox seems not to be > a good idea. > > I managed to setup procmail to deliver to mail directories (the ones > with cur/ new/ and tmp/

closed bugs

1999-05-28 Thread Nick Cabatoff
Is there any way of getting complete bug reports (including those that have been closed) for a particular packages? I think I've found a bug in librx1g/regexec(), and was hoping to verify that.

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use the command du -x to get a repo

Re: One for you Fetchmail experts out there

1999-11-17 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Nov 16, Kent West wrote: > Configuration #2 > -- > I can further configure Eudora to delete read mail off the server > after X days. After X days has transpired, the next time Eudora > check the mail it deletes any messages older than X days off of > the server (I assume this is based on

Re: Libré Software universities? (USA or Canada)

2000-06-06 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Jun 05, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Are there any good inexpensive community or state colleges out there > that will allow us to use our freed toolset for the coursework? McGill's pretty cheap compared to American universities, and its CS department is very open to free software. In fact, we'v

intermittent mountd problems

2000-02-15 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'm going crazy here. There are two 2.0.38 slink machines serving NFS at our site, and every few weeks they stop allowing new mounts. I've searched exhaustively on the net without finding anything, and I was hoping maybe someone here had encountered a similar problem. Incidently, we had the same

/etc/adjtime does what?

2000-02-17 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I can't find a reference to it anywhere, and since it comes with base-files it's unclear what program uses it. I'm just curious.

reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'd like to do the equivalent of dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 without having to read through the 1439 blocks in question; that is, to not treat the floppy as a sequential device. This is running out of a floppy boot image (not Debian's, my own) so I don't have perl available, though I do hav

Re: reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Feb 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff generated a > stream of 1s and 0s: > > I'd like to do the equivalent of > > > > dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 > > > > Maybe you can compile a perl code snip

logged boot sequence a la HP-UX

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit capable of logging the output of the rc scripts? HP-UX does this very nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout you get a curses-style table of scripts and their results, e.g. Starting NIS server ..

Re: Debian on the i-opener?

2000-03-17 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 16, Wayne Topa wrote: > Has anyone got Debian running on the $99 i-opener yet? I will be > trying to as soon as the 2.5" HD gets here. Should make a nice system > when USB is stable. Check out linux-hacker.net/i-opener. It's i386-based and Linux runs on it, so there shouldn't be any re

Re: USB Mouse under debian Linux

2000-03-29 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 29, Emilio Tejedor wrote: > Try the 2.3 or 2.4-pre kernel which has USB support. > I guess that the mouse will work but haven't tried it. I'm pretty sure 2.2.14 supports it, and I think some earlier ones. I haven't tried it myself, but my colleague discovered it by accident, and I know he

dpkg --set-selections failing silently

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Cabatoff
This is with slink's dpkg. For reasons I don't understand, some packages don't get set by --set-selections and no explanation is given. Currently I've only noticed this with libpng2-dev, librx1g-dev and zlib1g-dev. Example: flanders:/usr/local# dpkg --get-selections |grep png libpng0g

Re: dpkg --set-selections failing silently

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 30, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > This is with slink's dpkg. For reasons I don't understand, some > packages don't get set by --set-selections and no explanation is > given. Currently I've only noticed this with libpng2-dev, librx1g-dev > and zlib1g-dev. I see

NIS issues

2000-04-02 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I keep getting mail on some slink machines from cron jobs, e.g. the "test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a" one. They contain the single line: yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Anyone know what this signifies, how NIS gets involved in such a simple c

Re: NIS issues

2000-04-05 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Apr 04, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nick Cabatoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >and what I can do about it? > > Usually it is a very good idea to list the NIS servers directly > in /etc/yp.conf instead of relying on

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-03 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Dec 03, Enrico Zini wrote: > I'm root, I'm on a Debian Slink or on a Debian Potato, and I would > like to present my intranet users a web page to change their > passwords. It would be easy to do, if I just had to work with the > good old /etc/passwd database: read the old password, verify it, >