Return code from system()

1997-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
tem((const char *) s); dpkg -s libc5: Version: 5.4.20-1 Is this a fault in documentation, or in the libc package? Is it unique to me? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly -- TO UNSUBS

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
er than installing a special utility. I expect perl or awk would also offer entertaining solutions! If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you avoid the problem in the first place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tion. Any suggestions? I think that mh is compiled to use sendmail. I did strings on every mh executable and got sendmail but not smail. Perhaps you need to get the source and reconfigure it to use smail??? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

UK source for 1.3 cd?

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there any source in the UK that will sell the 1.3 cd in the near future? My phone bill can't stand downloading everything that's changed! Or are there any foreign companies that will post to the UK? Prices, please... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
recognised by the kernel, are the correct modules loaded? (ne also needs 8390). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. pgp71

Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
that hostid is _normally_ set to resemble the host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value. >From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence, it's not much good! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Xwindows problem: window managers confusion HELP!

1997-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
own scripts, the first window manager listed in /etc/X11/window-managers is run. If this is not working, there may be some problem with its set up or its path. Read /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README for more information. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

Starting xdm (was Re: setting & switching screen densities)

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
> If you get answer for this one, please, let me know :) ... Have you got the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of co

innd problem stopping news reading

1997-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Connection closed by foreign host. bash$ Does anyone know what might be causing this? and why does it not allow connections as a result? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connectio

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
bt such things will be improved in due course. It is a pleasant environment, but not yet very stable. I'm not sure what it has got that should make me change permanently from fvwm. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: mouse

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
l? I use a Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball, which is a PS2 device (it has a small round plug on the end of its cable). If yours is similar, the device should be /dev/psaux and the protocol is PS2. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Date: header is one year slow! Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 02:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Viorel, please check your system clock! I sort messages, and yours end up in the wrong place. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: floppy

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
rresponding to each set. Use `ls /dev/fd*' to list them. Man pages to check: mount(8), mkfs(8), mtools(1), fd(4). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: problem compiling kernel with sound

1997-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
ld leave the configuration in a consistent state. After `make xconfig' do `make depend' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix

Re: Where is routed/gated?

1997-09-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
ne >of them? > routed is in the package netstd I seem to recall reading recent messages saying that gated has some kind of licensing problem and is not in the distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
1 > >However libXpm is on the system. Try adding `-L /usr/X11R6/lib' to the command line, so that gcc knows where to look for libXpm. I think that, by default, it only looks in /lib and in /usr/lib. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: Compiling TWIN

1997-09-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
in.so file and fails. Please post the relevant section of error output so that we can help further. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Ma

Re: Lilo on dual boot system with reformatting

1997-09-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ntation in /usr/doc/lilo is informative, though rather difficult to grasp at first. binoa1DWLrWET.bin Description: lilo.conf Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA

Re: Mouse Troubles....

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
he XF86Config file should contain these lines: Section "Pointer" Protocol"PS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" EndSection -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliv

Re: dpkg and dselect

1997-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
run from > the shell) in the >base installation setup. dpkg is at /usr/bin/dpkg; it is part of the base system, and essential, but I do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes lilo is in /sbin/lilo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: ... other questions

1997-09-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ere is it? dpkg -L visual-tcl | less This will tell you all the files that have been installed. Any documentation should be in /usr/doc/visual-tcl. (I haven't installed this package myself, though.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?

1997-09-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
x27;. I conclude, therefore, that the licence applies to the moc as well as to all the rest of the Qt distribution. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Problems w/xboard

1997-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
t: gnuchessx: No such fil >e or directory Your problem sounds like a problem with your search path. gnuchessx is in /usr/games, which is probably not in your path, seeing that you are typing the full path name for xboard. Try: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games; xboard & -- Oliver Elphick

Re: RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ss of a MAC interface *which*your*machine*has*seen*, use `/usr/sbin/arp -a -n' (the -n returns the IP address rather than the name). I don't think that there is any way to find the IP address of an arbitrary MAC device which isn't on the current network. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [LINUX] Urgent: How to talk to serial device

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
' (return, tilde, dot). For further information, see the info files for uucp. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: svgalib won't work

1997-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
home directory. Move it to /usr/local/bin and check that the directory permissions are safe. If you aren't the administrator, be prepared to justify your request to create a suid program.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Summer Time & Time Zone

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
cular session, redefine the environment variable, TZ, by a shell command (Bourne-shell syntax): export TZ=Brazil/ The available timezones are files under /usr/share/zoneinfo. Full information in the libc info files, under Calendar Time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMA

Re: msdos file system

1997-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
type `ls /dosc/windows' or whatever. Use `man mount' to see further information. You can also access a DOS floppy disk directly with the commands from the mtools package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
ch a monster? Any Unix shell has greater capabilities. If you want to run DOS utilities on (unmounted) DOS disks, look at the package mtools, which contains programs such as mformat, mdir, mcopy and so on. To access a DOS disk which you have mounted, use normal Unix commands. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Mounting File systems and shells

1997-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Joey Hess wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: ... >> If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why >> would anyone create such a monster? > >But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling the Kernel

1997-10-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
-0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s > >Make[1]: as86: Command not found bootsec.s is assembly code, but you don't have the assembler (as86) available. as86 is in the package bin86. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Postgres

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
ou try to automate this, it is likely to give someone a false sense of security and end up going horribly wrong. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- T

Re: sql database

1997-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
on the PostgreSQL mailing lists. These are archived somewhere at www.postgresql.org. With regard to PostgreSQL at least, you should try to ensure that you are comparing like with like. PostgreSQL has many capabilities that other free databases don't. However, it has to sacrifice some speed t

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
e/ken/Mail/drafts/2"? y >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available >send: message not delivered to anyone > mh has probably been compiled to use sendmail. Get the source and recompile it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: exim / mh problems

1997-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
r/lib/sendmail sendmail but if sendmail is linked to exim, and exim behaves the same way, I don't see why MH should care. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers

Re: trusted hosts in a network

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
e of /etc/hosts.equiv or ~/.rhosts with the option `-L'. 3. If you are logged in as root, you can't use /etc/hosts.equiv. You can't use ~/.rhosts either unless rlogind is also invoked with `-h'. (That is how I interpret the man page for rlogind.) You don't want to use `-h'

Re: root access over nfs

1997-10-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
e capability. This is set up in the file /etc/exports on the remote machine; it is called `root squashing'. Add the option `no_root_squash' to the appropriate line in /etc/exports. `man exports' for details. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle o

Re: problems w/ Lilo

1997-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
a 3COM 905 >Boomerang net card. > Any help/ More info, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: [Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
rt compiled in. > ># ls -l /dev/sr0 >brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 0 Jul 24 17:46 /dev/sr0 Block device 22,0 is the second IDE interface, i.e. /dev/hdc. The /dev/sr0 device should be 11,0. Delete this device and recreate it with the correct major number as posted by some

`dump' command

1997-10-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct multi-volume backups. However, the man page is dated 1993. Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

`dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
do so? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: PS/2 mouse question on Debian-i386

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
or with the computer case. If you do this, you will need to compile PS/2 support into the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: Debian 1.2 installation - how to mount scsi cdrom????

1997-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
>scsi0 : setting target 4 to asynchronous SCSI > Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:500 Rev: 2.5 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 ^^^

Re: shell cmd: group name from gid?

1997-10-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Paul Miller wrote: >Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid? Like this: $ grep :27: /etc/group sudo:x:27: and to refine it: $ grep :27: /etc/group | awk -F: '{print $1}' sudo -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
5 CG Trace/breakpoint trap SIGIOT 6 CG IOT trap. A synonym for SIGABRT SIGEMT 7,-,7 G SIGBUS 10,7,10 AG Bus error -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? >> I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. > >On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Ol

Re: Update: immovable mouse cursor under XFree86 (Debian 1.3)

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
t. All three of my buttons work very well. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
x27;. On the other hand, this does not properly handle invalid day/month combinations, such as 31 February. Do you handle that somewhere else? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from pub

Re: Book for writing shell scripts.

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
t a brief mention. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: passwords, shadows, and other business

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
this? I have done this before with no problems. For safety, copy the current versions somewhere, put the old ones back and then try logging in from another virtual terminal. If it works, you can delete the unwanted versions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is

Re: starting xdm

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
in. In /etc/X11/config, you need the line start-xdm as explained somewhere in the Debian documentation for X. You also need to start up xdm in the boot scripts. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix

Re: 2.0.31 kernel - SCSI problems

1997-11-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
kernel to use with the new isdnutils package, which requires it. Can anyone suggest how to get the SCSI code working right? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID

Re: Can't login anymore

1997-11-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
so.2 (0x4000) Try booting from a floppy/CD and putting /bin/ash (or whatever other shell you have that doesn't depend on an unmounted file-system) in the shell field of the password entry (make sure you edit the one on your hard disk, rather than on the ramdi

Re: Can't login anymore

1997-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
tly I sent you a message a few days before I got into this jam. >To olly@lfix.co.uk and pointed out to you that the URL in your signature is >broken. Fixed, thanks. (I never got the mail, but I had a whole lot of trouble with mail a couple of days back and lost a whole chunk down a

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
his? I got it from Incoming at master.debian.org; it has been stuck there for a long time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Can I use Samba with dial-up?

1997-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
MS Dial-up Adapter use ppp? If so, what kind of negotiation does it do? (I'm sure the customer won't know.) Is it possible to telnet through such a connection to the network beyond? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Having Trouble Printing From Netscape

1997-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
1. What command is run by the print dialog in Netscape? 2. If it is lpr, does the job arrive on the spool queue? 3. Does anything print? is it garbled? or what? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co

Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
led |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii imagemagick 3.9.0-1Image manipulation programs. linda:~/.netscap

Re: Memory and Compaq

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
ount of memory you actually have. I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf: # Linux - new kernel image=/vmlinuz label=Linux2031-pre32 append="mem=32m aic7xxx=ultra" ^ read-only # -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: problems with libproc.so

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
e called *.so is likely to be a symbolic link somewhere else. Do `ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libproc.so' and see what it tells you. Does the file it points to exist? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.u

Re: ATAPI NEC CDROM Changer

1997-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
and the hard disk configured as a master? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
able from cached data. If it is not cached it will send a query to external nameservers, and that will cause diald to start the link. Equally, diald will start the link if it receives any other kind of packet for a remote site, provided that you have your routing correct. (Don't forget that it

Re: Low speed response w/ Logitech Trackball

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
that will trigger the acceleration of times the normal movement. Your post stimulated me to look into this. I found that `xset m 6 3' made life quite a lot easier. On the other hand, `xset m 10' was a bit wild. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

Re: diald vs ipmasquerade

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >That _may_ involve a nameserver lookup across the network or it may be >relovable from cached data. ^ Sorry. That isn't an English word; I meant to say `recoverable'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAI

Re: Diald

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chuma Agbodike wrote: >Can someone please send me a working copy of their diald-options file. I have done so. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key

Introduction for new users

1997-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
rm -rf \&* What he actually asked for was to delete his entire file system, as a background job. It did too. 12. Finding more information Look in /usr/doc for the various HOWTO files. Read the man pages. Get a book on Unix. If these don't answer your questions, subscribe to debian-user@

Re: YANQ (Yet another newbie question...)

1997-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
running X, you cannot start interactive programs, because they will occupy your session and stop you doing anything. You can start background programs by adding & after the command. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: Crash! (help)

1997-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
25 01:56:35 bitgate kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.0.32. > >Thanks! > >-Eric Yocom > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . &

Re: Q: How does one generate diffs for use with patch

1997-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
en does one generate patch files to change one file into a modified >version of the same file (i.e. source and target filename the same)? Have the original version in one directory tree (.../tree.orig) and the new version in another (.../tree). Then: diff -crN .../tree.orig .../tr

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
er the >second or third time I tried it either.) > According to `man sed', only a few characters can be backslash-escaped, and t is not one of them. On the other hand it is used for _output_ by the l command within sed. Enclose an actual tab in the quo

Re: problem with bash -- probably

1997-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
s. I read the configuration >files, but didn't see how to do this. In many cases, the system, by default, protects itself from actions which could endanger it. A remote root login means that you have no means of tracing back who is responsible, whereas all su attempts are logged with th

Re: dev for SCSI tape

1997-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
t time. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephon

Re: libproc.so problems

1997-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
ven though I'm not doing 'ldconfig' on >'libproc.so'. libproc.so is a symbolic link to the current version of libproc.so; however that other file is not present. That is why you see libproc.so but ldconfig can't open it. The libproc shared library is in the

Re: dev for SCSI tape

1997-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Lawrence wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> >> Lawrence wrote: >> >What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape >> >drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup? >> >> SCSI tape drives a

Re: problem using gv

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
issing file is in the package xaw3d or xaw3dg (the latter is for libc6). Install or reinstall that package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FA

Re: Postgres What do you think

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
e. > > so where can i get this? http://php.iquest.net/ You can get the php2 or php3 (alpha). It is now called ´Professional Home Pages´. The FI in the name has been dropped. Egon ========== I'll think about packaging this once I'm happy tha

Re: Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
hell, use tcsh; if you know Bourne or Korn shell, use bash. I never learnt C shell, so I don't like it and I use bash. For writing scripts, use bash. Debian installation always assumes bash is present; you would probably do well to learn it, even if you decide to use tcsh as your normal shel

Re: inetd vs. inetutils-inetd

2003-11-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
part of a package, so this seems kind of weird. Anyone have any > familiarity with this? Should I just delete the related files and move > on with life? /etc/init.d/inetd and /usr/sbin/inetd come from package netkit-inetd -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

Re: How to use ssh tunnel to reach a machine on a private network?

2003-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:30, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: ... > > What I am trying to do is to use ssh tunnelling to go direct to one of > > the machines on the remote private network, because I need to be able to > > run X programs from that machine on my

Re: printer icon

2003-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
If you really are on Debian, you need to provide _much_ more information! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:14:45PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Debian packages of 7.4 have been uploaded to Debian's experimental > > archive. Because of certain issues with interlocking dependencies, I > > will

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:36, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:14:45PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Debian users wishing to install the new PostgreSQL packages should add > > experimental to their apt/sources.list and use the -t option to apt-get. > &g

Re: configuring dial on demand ppp

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
p://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/linux.ppp.html For automatic gatewaying for other machines you need NAT (Network Address Translation) included in your gateway's kernel, either built in or as modules. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
o many > > config file for modules on Debian? > Either in /etc/modules.conf or in a file in /etc/modutils/ > (it depends on your setup). > > About runlevels, what the meaning of 2,3,4,5 runlevels > > on Debian. On RedHat 3 is equivalent to 2 on Debian? > > All four are id

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
stinst) copies in the appropriate inittab for the architecture. Because /etc/inittab itself is not in the supplied package, "dpkg -S /etc/inittab" will not reveal it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http:

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:41:57 -0600 > > at least message-id implies it came thru yahoo.ca: > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > i don't think i've been hacked (my server is port-forwarded from > behind a clarkconnect.org firewall) -- but how ca

Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
SQL source tree is now independent. Another maintainer will take those on. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5-->7.2

2003-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
here the mass of data is large so that the editing task is burdensome. If you upgrade <=7.2 to >=7.3 it is a good thing to run the contrib adddepends script, which will build the dependencies that are nowadays created automatically for such things as triggers. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Setting up debian package server for installation over ethernet

2003-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 07:33, Vikas B N wrote: > Hello All, > > A couple of colleagues and I are planning > to set up an ftp/http server which hosts > the debian packages, so that people can > install Debian on their machines over the > office intranet. > > What is the best way to go about t

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
se there will be lots of people who haven't yet had the chance to upgrade. They won't thank us for making an exploit available to every would-be cracker. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.u

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
for your particular Ethernet card. So this isn't a question that can easily be answered without knowing your circumstances in detail. The kernel source contains a lot of documentation, including help-text relating to each of the possible modules or kernel facilities. --

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 07:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:41:15PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Because there will be lots of people who haven't yet had the chance to > > upgrade. They won

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

2003-12-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ould also be a protection against nosy girlfriends... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ===

Re: No need for 2.4.23 - How to do it?

2003-12-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; frequently compile kernels from the already patched kernel-source's so > kernel-source-2.4.22 is on hand. Are there instructions somewhere which > show step-by-step how and where to insert the above instructions? If patch fails, the reason is probably that the code being patched does

Re: start program at login

2003-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
but then I have to start a terminal each > time after login) It should go in ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc (depending on how X is started). Generally those files are linked. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
ed by cosmic rays). That is clearly a simpler hypothesis, since it leaves out a multiplicity of unnecessary elements (the Debian maintainers)! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG:

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:22, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2003 21:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:12, s. keeling wrote: > > [...] > > eternal power and deity; demonstrated, > > among other things, by the immense and beautiful compl

Re: Irrating cron-messages on console

2003-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
r user root > cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session closed for user root > > What is causing this? You've got syslogd configured to send certain messages to the console. Look in /etc/syslog.conf -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: File system error (power outage)

2003-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
y help you can give me. Thanx! You go ahead any way. You're in single user mode and no other processes are going to be changing the partition. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024

Re: newbie: more startup problems

2003-12-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
of your ppp0 interface. If that is your problem, someone else should be able to tell you how to automate setting it up. Since my ISP assigns static IP addresses and yours probably assigns dynamic ones, I can't help there. -- Oliver Elphick

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