Re: AGP video card (fwd)

Hi, > page. One thing they don't tell you though that you have to do under > Debian is delete the 'X' bin that should be in /usr/X11R6/bin and then > just link the Elsa_GLoria bin (XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria I believe) to 'X'. I really don't think that is a good idea. Debian created that "X" as an suid w

Re: resolv.conf

You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have something like the following for the "hosts" entry: hosts: files dns -Ossama -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

Hi, I remember that this question was asked before but I can't seem to find it in the list archives. My question is how can I tell what processes are running on a given processor using ps or top, or some other utility. SMP support has been enabled in my kernel (2.0.35). Will I need SMP profilin

Re: Password to single user boot.

Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and "restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for "lilo.conf" says: password=password Protect the image by a password. restricted A password is only required to boot the ima

Re: Password to single user boot.

No problem. Have fun! :) By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since I wanted to do the same thing but never actually tri

Re: Password to single user boot.

> As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master > boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or > another partition. > > I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they > only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry a

Re: 2 CPUs and ps/top -- question

I found an answer to my question from one of my colleagues. This seems like a good thing to know so I'll post it in case anyone is interested. Here is he how checks to see how well his SMPing is working: (incidentally, these are benchmarks for a Debian 2.0 system running kernel 2.0.35 on a dual

Re: Password to single user boot.

> The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot > from, before selecting a default. On my system (with only /dev/hda2 > marked bootable), I see a "2FA:" prompt. If I press any keys here, I > can press "2" (boot from hda2), "F" (boot from floppy), or "A", which > changes th

Re: Automatic X startup

Hi, > Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to > write 'startx' every time. Try configuring xdm to start at boot. You can probably use xbase-configure to configure it. If that doesn't work check /etc/init.d for a script called xdm. If you don't have xdm but have s

[OFF TOPIC] cvsweb and CVSROOT

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Re: xterm-debian

Hi, Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian on your systems. That file has explanations and solutions for your problems with xterm-debian. -Ossama

Re: Big-endian/little-endian

Hi, > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you > do the swapps... You could just cast the address of the variable to a "char *" and swap things around using pointer arithmetic or arrays. Here is

I forgot... Re: Big-endian/little-endian

Hi again, > // "number" is the size of the array being byte swapped > swap4(void *dest, void *src, int number) { I forgot to mention that the code excerpt I posted was meant for swapping variables that are 4 bytes in size, e.g. floats and such. -Ossama

Re: PDF file generation

> How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > find any way to create one. The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use "ps2pdf," found in the ghostscript package or by using u

Re: threads package for libc6

Hi, > Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through > the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6. Some lib

Re: threads package for libc6

Hi, > Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? > Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is > found It seems that I didn't have the libc6 man pages either. :) Anyway, I found the docs package. Not surprisingly, it is:

XF86 thread safe?

Hi, Does anyone know if Debian's XF86 package is thread safe (i.e. patches in /usr/doc/libc6-doc/README.linuxthreads.gz have been applied)? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Pu

Re: Motif

Hi, > What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0? Can't help you with Motif. Have you considered the LessTif package? I believe that it aims for Motif 1.2 "compliance." It may still be a little buggy, however. -Ossama

Re: telnet break-in

You might want to consider disabling all incoming connections if you are never going to login to your machine via remote. As George suggested, you can edit your host.{allow,deny} files or edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out things like: telnet ftp login exec

Re: telnet break-in

Hi, > > telnet > > ftp > > login > > exec > > finger > > shell > > ...you get the idea... > > And dont forget the r services ... rlogin, rsh, rexec, etc. Yep, the "r" services are covered by login, exec and shell. Here is what inetd.conf has to say: shell s

Hardware monitoring software?

Hi, Is there such a thing as software that will check environmental conditions on a motherboard, CPU fan, etc? My motherboard has a hardware monitor on it but I don't always want to go to the BIOS to check the conditions. Thanks, -Ossama

Re: not all memory is recognized

> i have a debian system with 128 megs of memory. > i have the following line in lilo.conf: > > append="mem=128" It should be: append="mem=128M" It works fine for me. -Ossama

Re: telnet break-in

Hi, > Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out > my /var/log files and found a whole suite of "in.telnetd[XXX]: connect" > statements. Bummer! It appears that it is time for you disable all of those incoming services we mentioned. Have you considered using Secure

Re: telnet break-in

> > can't use Secure Shell, you might want to try One-Time Password packages, > > such as OPIE. I believe that even WU-FTP is starting to support one time > > passwords, too. > > Uhm, secure shell is not the answer to all problems. It WILL revert to an > unsecure protocol if the other end can not

CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

Hi, Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? -Ossama

Re: CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

Hi, > > Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm? > > No. Hamm is released. It will be available in slink, it's successor. Doh! I didn't realize that "released" distributions (e.g. hamm) don't get periodic updates to packages. Does this mean that only big fixes go into releases? -Ossama

Re: telnet break-in

> > > Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use > > > SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}. > > > > I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over > > clear connections unless it is an emergency. > > Hmm - why is it that emergencies al

Re: Logitech TrackMan & CD Changer

Hi, > Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX > with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will > be based on it's compatability. I have a TrackMan Marble and it works just fine. Assuming that there isn't anything different with the connector

Re: Beowulf cluster

> from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged. > They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing "add ons" which > make PVM more powerfull >From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a Debian packaged implementation of MPI called "mpi

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

Hi, > using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian > 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen > black, machine locked ? > When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this > 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2..

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

Hi, > > I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using > > the new compilers. I am not suggesting that you use the development > > kernels, however. > > Why not? :) > I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :) > My first development kernel :) I didn't want to be re

Re: driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

> I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is driver for > 3com fast etherlink XL. You want the driver for 3Com 3c90x cards which is supported in the 3c59x driver/module. -Ossama

EGCS 1.1 is out!

Hi all, Any idea when EGCS 1.1 will be packaged? I'd really like to have it. Otherwise, I'll just stick it in /usr/local myself. :) -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Unrecognized binary format?

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Re: Unrecognized binary format?

Hi, > What does 'file

Re: Unrecognized binary format?

> file is a great tool. And I hate libtool. Slow, clunky, and odd. Not > to mention fun things like your problem (-: True, but it is nice not to have to figure out how to generate a shared library on different platforms. :) -Ossama

Re: EGCS 1.1 is out!

Hi, > Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers > and non-EGCS ones? The little info given in dselect is not very > informative. EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is on a slightly faster development track then GCC 2.8.1, for example. The EGCS project

[off-topic] gethostbyname_r prototype

ct hostent **__result to get struct hostent *__result, which would then be analogous to the return value of the Solaris version "struct hostent *?" TIA, -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: desktop calendar for linux

Try "ical." It is fairly useful. -Ossama

[off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

ng the beginning and ending quotes to beginning and ending brackets. TIA, -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [off-topic] Best way to replace quotes with angle brackets

;m not a Perl guru either so this is all very new to me. Sorry. Thanks again, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Voodoo Rush

Hi, > I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian, > the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme > as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply > wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian. All Voodoo Rush ca

Savage3D X server?

Hi, Does anyone know if there is an X server that will support the Savage3D or if an X server/driver is in the works? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ACE packages available for testing

ren't "official" Debian packages yet since I haven't received my developer approval yet. Thanks, -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: SCSI time out error

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Re: Driver Module for 3C905

card installed on two machines and they work fine. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/s

Re: NFS and /etc/exports

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Re: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade!

Liloconfig is fairly interactive and it helps to make sure that your lilo.conf file is configured properly. -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff

Re: FTP site

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > I am still not able to log into the debian ftp server, seems it cannot > resolve my hostname. My machine has two dns entries, could that be a > problem? I think the Debian ftp server (ftp.debian.org) is down since I was able to connect to it

Man errors?

Hi, What does all of the following mean and how can I correct the problem? # man afclient Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: c

Re: X11 & AGP Card

Hi, > Thank for the information. Does the AGP card improve the > graphics significantly and noticeable? Thanks! AGP is meant to significantly improve 3D performance, not 2D. There may be improvement in 2D performance but I don't think that it would be significant. I've got a Millenium II

afbackup problems

eciated. Thanks, -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: KHOROS on Debian Problems

Hi, > So my question is: what is and where or how do I get libfl.a? libfl.a is a fast lexical analyzer library meaning that it should be part of the flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) package. The function yywrap is in libfl.a I can't help you witht the other two problems you mentioned, sorry. -Os

Tape drive "sense" errors

probably occurred during my overnight backup. I am running kernel 2.0.34 with an onboard AIC7880 SCSI chipset. My tape drive is Conner 4mm DDS-2. TIA for any help or suggestions. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tape drive "sense" errors

Great! Thanks! I was afraid something might be wrong. Although I can't get information from "mt" any more. I'll probably have to reboot. Thanks again. -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: XWindows

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GnuHoo a major BooHoo

Hopefully all of us who support Open Source can do something about this. -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xterm-debian?

g dumb terminal settings. It's easy enough to do a "set term=xterm" but I really don't want to keep doing that. Why did Debian create their own terminfo/cap entry and why was such a change necessary? Thanks, -Ossama _____

Re: Re[2]: Two 'gcc's? Yea or Nay?

Hi, > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/gcc > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root60320 Jun 17 03:04 /usr/bin/egcc* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root49460 Jun 15 00:48 /usr/bin/gcc* > > Ok, I haven't posted a BIG DUMMY question in quite some time; I'm overdue! > > SO: what's the si

Re: Once burned...

Hi, I can vouch for the Trackman Marble since I have the exact same thing. :) It works fine for me. All three buttons work in X Windows. If you are using the PS/2 mouse port, make sure you have PS/2 mouse support enabled in your kernel or installed as a module. The module for this psaux. Fro

Re: nvidia riva 128 - xf86config

Hi, > I`m useing a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128) card but this card > isn`t listed... Try the SVGA driver. I believe support for the Riva 128 is in it. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Page counting / Print quota

Hi Have you tried pac, the printer accounting utility? Do a "man pac" do get some additional information. As far as I know, pac is part of the default Debian installation. Here is an excerpt from the pac man page: --- NAME pac - printer/

Re: Did I do something wrong ?

e where someone has setup a filter to send all of my posts to /dev/null. just kidding.. :) I wish I could answer your fvwm95 question but I deleted it before I read it. :) -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECT

NFS/Network locking available?

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Re: CAP and linux

Hi, Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module. -Ossama ______ Ossama Othm

Re: xcdroast and scsi

Hi, > Does I really need scsi support since my burner is IDE ? > Why this support is not detected by xcdroast (I have got no scsi card) ? I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried enabling SCSI emulation in the kernel? Note that the SCSI drivers need to be enabled for the emulation to

Re: Browser search

Hi, > I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've > have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and > higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you > could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated. Is this a

Re: Debian & Std C++?

still being used in hamm since there are kernel compile issues with gcc 2.8.x and egcs 1.x. By the way, this is not local to Debian. Any distribution that uses g++ will have these problems. -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL

Re: cd rom drives

Hi, > now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug > and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new > modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i > get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up? Y

xterm-debian and pine problem

Hi, I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6 location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm displayed on hamm system

imlib against gtk1.2?

kages are in a consistent state and are ready for release. Please bear with us. The new packages should be ready in a few days, and I believe that the wait will be worth it. I'm anxious to get them, too. :) Thanks, -Ossama ___

cron.daily e-mails for exim and suidmanager

424880 Mar 15 06:39 /usr/bin/elm* -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root14768 Mar 21 02:00 /bin/ping* I am not subscribed to the debian-user mailing list so please CC me a copy of any reponse. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EM

Re: TIOCSER?WILD Boot Error!

ck out the Documentation directory in your kernel source directory. It may contain files that explain the error/warning. -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

how? m68k cross compile

f the header files are, nor can I find the m68k headers. What am I doing wrong. TIA, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Checksums for compromise checks

checksums. Does Debian have any such verification mechanism for individual files (i.e. not the entire deb)? It seems like it would be a useful feature to have available. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

Hi, There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your Linux source directory and do "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig." Have fun! -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 6

Re: Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

Hi > automatically runs e2fsck on the root partition. However, I mount > several other partitions automatically via fstab, and on those I will > after foo number of mounts get a warning that the drive should be > checked. However, it's a pain to switch to runlevel 1 and manually > check all thos

Re: non-free/libs package gets installed into libs

nt into libs instead of non-free/libs. -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

Hi Frederick, > It does not work, I still get the message "no target". I also cannot > locate any files with patterns "xconfig" or "menuconfig". > > I did install the kernel-package. > > I don't understand, what I'm doing wrong. "kernel-package" and "kernel-source" are two different things.

weird vi exit behavior

stions? I am using the unstable distribution. Thanks, -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

Hi, > An interesting question. The first step is (obviously) to convince enough > people. Especially the developers' we've been talking about. Surely they > have opinions? I'd be interested in such an entity. Count me in. -Ossama

Debian on Dell PowerEdge 6300 problems

RedHat, too. Any ideas? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

Hi again, > 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM. > > Thus, you'll wanna use "mem=960M". > > You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel > memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB). Can the 2.1/2.2 kernel

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

Hi Robert, I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working! I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being unable to find the root filesystem? Thanks, -Ossama > # dd if=resc1440

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

Hi Robert, > > > Make sure your rescue disk contains ext2, msdos, ramdisk, initrd, and ELF > > > support. > > Oh, I forgot, you need minix fs support too. See if that helps. Indeed it did. :) I had to use the rescue disk on master in Incoming but with my custom kernel instead. It boots but it

boot floppies -- thanks!!

emory running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (potato). Now if I could just get the rest of my colleagues to switch to Debian. :p The system is _smooth_ and stable! Thanks again for the help and for a great OS! -Ossama __ Ossama Othman &l

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

w.debian.org/~ossama/DELL6300 HTH, -Ossama (Sorry Adam. I haven't finished putting the instructions in a form suitable for inclusion in the Debian documentation. I'm working on it.) __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

Indeed. Debian rules! :-) Thanks, -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

at it looks in the system dir if the user's `.imrc' is broken. If only I had the time. :( -Ossama -- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

like that is going to happen any time soon so I guess I'll do an upload. :-) -Ossama -- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: threads package for libc6

Hi, > pages, the functions may not be thread safe. However I think that if libc6 > in hamm supports POSIX threads, then the library functions in there must be > thread safe. Any ideas on this from you guys? I don't think it is safe to make this assumption on any system. All I can suggest is

Re: mail failed, returning to sender

Somebody want to get rid of these failed mail messages? Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Locale "C" in X missing?

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When will X be working properly?

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stupid mistake: /usr/info/dir wiped out!

s, -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Where is makeinfo?

Hi, Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it in? I couldn't find one. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A

Re: linux operating system

y also run an operating system comprised mainly of GNU utilities, just like most Linux distributions. In fact, Debian is developing its own Hurd distribution. -Ossama ______ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Weird behavior with Tcsh

in tcsh that I wasn't aware of? In the past I used to get errors from "ls" of a non-existent directory if the directory was removed when I was in that directory, at least from what I recall. Am I missing something here? Thanks, -Ossama _________

Re: linux operating system

ted Linux. Looking back at your message it seems that I may have misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies. -Ossama __________ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

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