Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-06-09 Thread Rob Browning
a good one as a reference. First I need to look in to ldap and see what the tools are for editing the database from the command line (if that's possible). Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
N, OU=PEOPLE, DC=LOCALNET slapd[24001]: => regex_matches: string: CN=ADMIN,OU=PEOPLE,DC=LOCALNET slapd[24001]: => regex_matches: rc: 1 no matches slapd[24001]: <= acl_access_allowed: denied by default (no matching by) slapd[24001]: => access_allowed: exit (ou=People, dc=localnet) attr (children) slapd[24001]: no access to parent slapd[24001]: send_ldap_result 50:: slapd[24001]: > cache_return_entry_w slapd[24001]: entry_rdwr_wunlock: ID: 2 slapd[24002]: do_unbind Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
here that could be generalized and useful to others, or if it's just going to be too domain specific to be useful to anyone else. (Oh, and I guess you didn't have any idea why my script was failing with authentication problems?) Thanks for the help. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You use the same technique as ethernet basically, both add and check > if their was only one added (using a search on the ID they added) > then remove and retry a new id after a delay. Oh, right, of course. -- Rob Browning <[EMA

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
y the time I would probably have figured this out myself... > I'll go ahead and report this to the openldap maintainer. Great, thanks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Further work on LDAP passwords (working on an ldap-adduser).

1999-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
ow if that was the final goal. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
t;cust" or "dialup" or > "dynamic" Yep. I haven't really had a problem (that I know of) with this, but it's a choice between two evils. If I do this, I risk being shut out by people that block dynamic ip's, but if I use the RR smtp relay, then I'm re

ldap/pam problem

1999-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
d=stray cn=stray objectclass=top objectclass=account objectclass=posixAccount loginshell=/bin/bash uidnumber=1008 gidnumber=1008 homedirectory=/home/stray gecos=,,, 1 matches Any help would be appreciated. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: ldap/pam problem

1999-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
y be better off cobbling up something here that's more tailored to our needs and quit spending so much time dealing with fairly bleeding edge stuff. I may give it one more go tomorrow... Thanks again. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: How to remove a user

1999-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
nge their password with passwd and use who or w to make sure they're not currently logged in). Hope this helps. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Partition hosed. Is there a way to find the superblock?

1998-08-25 Thread Rob Browning
some "magic number" or unique header I can search for that will tell me where one of the (backup) super blocks is stored? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: New ae uploaded to Incoming

1998-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
ct that I know exactly none of the restrictions on the choices.. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New ae uploaded to Incoming

1998-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
control bindings for everything, in addition to the function keys, I believe for terminals where the function keys don't work right. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: HP DAT drives

1998-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
job. I also recommend turning off the drive's hardware compression and letting amanda handle it with gzip (unless CPU time is a big deal). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-06-29 Thread Rob Browning
ht discover a workaround in the bug log that helps them out. This might be the best way to "sell" the idea :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
yone else, and the maintainers are fairly well versed > in the Bug system; merging bugs is not all that hard. Yeah, I just got finished merging several duplicate bugs for emacsen-common. > Yes. It is a good idea. It just should not be mandatory. OK, I'll buy that. We should just *sugges

Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
Is there an easy way to do that? I've hunted around the HOWTOs and linux/Documentation/* and I can't find anything relevant. Any help or RTFMs would be appreciated. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: script command question

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
and from a brief inspection, I recall that it may do what you want. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
and logs the serial port output, and that you could connect to whenever you wanted (access would be exclusive) to communicate with the other machines console and to page back through the log. That daemon would "own" the port. Sort of a virtual virtual terminal... For now I get 90%

Re: sb live card under debian

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
cards that are supported for about $20 now, so it's not that big a deal. See www.alsa-project.org for one list of supported cards. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
, I don't think it's for everyone, and yes, I have used vi (minimally), and can understand the appeal.) FWIW -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
up, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support > compiled in, the kernel will detect that you don't have a VGA console > and automatically use /dev/ttyS0 as console. And for the final touch, you can tell lilo about the serial port and have it use that

Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...

1999-09-16 Thread Rob Browning
rt's output? Also, I wonder if minicom can be configured to log all the I/O during a run... I'll go see when I get a chance. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
and I couldn't see a good way to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser... Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-13 Thread Rob Browning
y seen the ldap pacakges, but I wasn't quite sure where to start. I was hoping for a HOWTO or something, but I can always just jump in and figure it out as I poke around. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: mailers

1999-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
message on a search of the header or body > > Let's here your favorite that can handle most of the above if not all. I'd recommend Gnus if you like emacs, and mutt if you don't. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: What to do with a tape drive?

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
h investigating is amanda (www.amanda.org). It's probably more complex than most single machine users need, but it's certainly a solution you're unlikely to outgrow. I use it both at home and at work. However, it does require that you be willing to accomodate its model... -- Rob Browning

Re: ssh @ pseudo ttys

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
be nice if the preinst warned about this, especially if it can check in /proc to see if ssh is likely to be hosed after the install. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Emacs and suidunregister

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
en purging it. If that doesn't fix the problem, let me know. If you pay for downloads by the byte, then let me know and I'll investigate it here first. Thanks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz > It answered all of my questions. See also "info exim-filter". -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Browning
uld it interact with other package upgrades? (I can see how accounts work via glibc2 and libpam-ldap/libnss-ldap.) Also, I'm wondering what, if any, the security concerns are relating to ldap access to passwd etc. Can someone give me a brief overview or point me at an appropriate doc? I hav

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-31 Thread Rob Browning
is clears some things up. It helps a lot. Thanks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

ATTN: stalin users (slightly OT)

1999-10-11 Thread Rob Browning
ch in widgets. I find that for my task, code compiled by Stalin runs x% faster than code produce by Foo-C, the previous Scheme compiler that I was using. Without Stalin, I would not be able to conduct my research.' Jeff (http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/qobi) -- Rob Browni

Re: mail and mailer questions

1998-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
I used to use mh (and exmh) before I switched to Gnus. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smail help required [urgentish]

1998-03-25 Thread Rob Browning
s able to handle it. If none can, the address is failed. Directors can be targeted at particular local domains, so several local domains can be processed entirely independently of each other. Is that what you meant? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0

Re: Linix

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
se advise... > Thanks, Matt ftp ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/frozen/main/disks-i386/install.txt or ftp ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/install.txt I think those pointers are correct. Alternately you can check out the web pages at www.debian.org. -- Rob Browning

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
exim over sendmail unless you're already really comfortable with sendmail. There's even been some noise recently about Debian switching from smail to exim as the default mailer. With respect to your fetchmail problems, holler again if exim doesn't fix the problem, and I'll se

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
ource for docs on exim is to install the exim-doc package, and then run "info exim". There's also a great mailing list where you can nearly always get all the help you need. It should be listed in the docs. Also check out /usr/doc/exim/* -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP

Re: FTP installing (Hamm)

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
require-chap, etc. The old options are still accepted for compatibility but may be removed in future. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using SUN's monitor in PC ?

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
g an NCD Xterminal's monitor on a PC or a PC's monitor on an NCD Xterminal? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple smail questions

1998-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
;m > not spam-asking which one you use! :-) I have no idea if smail is "dead", but there has been some discussion about making exim the default mailer. Personally, I use exim. I started with sendmail, switched to qmail, realized that qmail was likely to stay non-free, and then sw

Re: Deity looks AWESOME

1998-03-29 Thread Rob Browning
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought it was an additional method and dselect was going to remain for > the graphically-impaired (IIRC deity runs under X). It has a text mode as well. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94

Any command to spin down a *scsi* drive?

1998-02-09 Thread Rob Browning
I know you can use hdparm to set the spin-down period on an IDE drive, but is there a similar command for SCSI drives? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Rob Browning
I discovered the chown problem with the 2.1.8(early) kernels, it took me one command: $ sudo dpkg -i /usr/local/src/kernel-images/ kernel-image-2.1.79_1.0_i386.deb and a reboot to fix it. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-19 Thread Rob Browning
be root to compile a kernel, only when installing > it. That's what the fakeroot package is for. $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision foo.1.0 kernel_image will do what you want. No root required. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0

Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-19 Thread Rob Browning
Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is fakeroot building the norm in hamm? It is for me. Except that when you're working on a normal package, I tend to do: $ fakeroot debian/rules binary during development, and then $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot when I'm fin

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

1997-03-06 Thread Rob Browning
Shawn Asmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > H... Well, that's news to me. I wasn't aware that pppd would > redial. FWIW see the persist option in the pppd man page. That will make it redial on failure. -- Rob

Re: pppd keep-alive cron script (was Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!)

1997-03-06 Thread Rob Browning
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why don't you let init do this job? Or see the pppd "persist" option in the pppd man page. The lcp options Nils mentioned are probably a good idea too. -- Rob

Re: turning off computer

1997-03-06 Thread Rob Browning
I Brake for Moths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly unmount the > root file system and shutdown the computer? > > I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but I > don't want to have to give out the root password to m

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread Rob Browning
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pain to configure it to install one package... The problem isn't with a > lack of dselect documentation, IMHO, but due to the way dselect is setup. > However, one can argue that dselect is for initial installations, and the > dpkg utilities under dselect

Re: Locate

1997-03-09 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type > like locate . Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: > /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me > why? And is there a command to see how much disk spa

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1997-03-11 Thread Rob Browning
"Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > interaction of these things (along with imperfections in the kernel) has > caused the system to hang in the past, but I didn't do enough testing > to tell you which part was at fault. FWIW, I use a 2940UW as well, and all the troubles that I have

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

1997-03-11 Thread Rob Browning
Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The hardware works fine with 1.3.88 up to 2.0.0. It does not work > with 2.0.25 and 2.0.27 under my current installation, and with > the Debian Base rescue disk. "0 SCSI hosts detected". I do not have > a clue, but my hunch is that Adaptec sells boards

Re: Video Cards

1997-03-15 Thread Rob Browning
"Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but > it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman > doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as > options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO

Re: problem

1997-03-15 Thread Rob Browning
Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am going to download the newest version of Debian Linux with Windows > 95. How can I convert them to Linux format so that Linux will recognise > the boot disk, root disk, ect. I've heard that their is a utility to do > that, but I can't find it. If yo

Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail with the following message: Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock '/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA225raven' open failed - Permission denied The only way I've found to fix this is /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check the permissions on /dev/null -- here something has changed them > to crw--- twice already and I haven't found the offender yet. Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and that's not the problem. -- Rob

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /tmp okay? Has been known to lose normal-user write permissions, > although not for quite a long time for me. Should be > drwxrwxrwxt. Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it either. -- Rob

Re: Problem with lprng after reboot.

1997-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just noticed this problem. The ownership of /var/spool/lpd has > changed to root.root, wheras it should be root.lp. I changed the > permission manually and it then worked. Hmm. I don't know what caused > this to happen. Wow, you win the prize. I had the

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be > possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a > variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly? > > Any idea where I could get a list

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which > is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of > which redial correctly. I may be mistaken, but I think that this can cause problems in some cases, esp

Re: ppp redial problem

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't let me start another editor snowball here. What is the > difference between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0? I think this is (or should be) a FAQ somewhere, but the short story is that the cua* devices are only kept around in the kernel for historic

Re: X-Windows

1997-04-12 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > What I'm trying to do is get to where I can use X to get some actual work > done. Right now, as much as I hate to say so, all I can get X to do is nifty > parlor tricks. What were you interested in learning? Programming X, or user configuration details?

Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-12 Thread Rob Browning
I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If the clo

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
Perry Piplani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man 8 clock > > to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run > it in your shutdown script. > > I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my > system clock is 45 sec fast per day. > > Also, you ca

Re: X-Windows

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > Both actually. First, user config details, then more about > programming. I'm at a point where I understand a good deal about > windowing systems in general, and programming as well. I've not had > much exposure to X, and though it seems quite powerful in

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > Now what might have happened is that you have your CMOS clock running on GMT. > Some BIOSes try to be smart and update the CMOS clock when you boot if they > see DST has come into effect since the latest reboot.. You should be able to > turn tha

Re: vi

1997-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow, you guys sure think fast :) But I know where you are coming from. I > am a pretty speedy typist and have often been annoyed by odd keys. Now I > am wondering: is there an easy way with emacs or some other editor to > assign a short string to a 'wierd

Re: portmapper problems

1997-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
I bet your problem is that one of that package that you installed killed your /etc/inetd.conf file. At least that's what happened to me last week. I never did figure out who did it. Check to see if it's there. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Is there a ncftp package?

1997-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there a package of the FTP client ncftp? The one that comes standard > with Debian isn't as nice as ncftp. Check in non-free. It's there. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

Re: vi

1997-04-18 Thread Rob Browning
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm sure there are even better ways to do this... > > You mean something like (global-set-key [f5] "(")? Exactly :> -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-04-19 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My solution was to configure the system to always do a _cold_ boot. > This is done by the following line in lilo.conf: > > append = "reboot=c" And I believe that the latest development kernels now do this by default. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-22 Thread Rob Browning
Comet Mercantile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the > files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are > all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd.. Could this be the problem caused by a recent r

Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
Comet Mercantile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hope this helps! its very annoying and I haven't really done any changes > for this to have happenned! I am using BO btw maybe thats it. Hmm, it looks OK to me too. Did you check the /etc/shells problem that others mentioned... -- Rob -- TO UNS

Re: 2.1.35 works [was: kernel 2.1.3x?]

1997-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
Petri Wessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, life on the bleeding edge is always interesting :-) I'd be a little careful with 2.1.25. At least on my system, clock() always returned 0. Not good. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print. > If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"), > the device seems to receive data, because its display says > so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY"). > But it still does not print

Re: xautolock

1997-04-24 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started. > Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having > trouble even finding that file. any ideas? Well, if you're talking about it launching whenever you log in, yes, t

Re: lp-device trouble again

1997-04-24 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If it's a "line-termination character problem", how can solve it? Well, with HP printers, there's a control character that you can send the character to set the convention. I don't know what you'd do for other printers, or even if it's actually relevant, but I'd say y

Re: Partition Sizes

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
Sorry, that was the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Partition Sizes

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I wish I have a good partition map. I believe that the Multiple-Disks-Layout HOWTO covers this very issue (even if you don't have multiple disks). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: what umask?

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
Edward McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > chmod uses these values to confir privelege so giving read-write to > owner but total lockout to group & world is > > % chmod 600 file.foo I also find it easier sometimes to use (recall) the symbolic options. So you could also say: % chmod u=rw,g=

Re: wireless connection; cheapest solution?

1997-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless > connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and > it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his > experience about this topic? Expected

Debian and SBC's or PC-104's

1997-04-26 Thread Rob Browning
Has anyone here had any experience running Debian on one of the Single Board Computers (like the Ampro LittleBoards), or on PC-104(Plus) boards? Just wanted to know what might be involved, and if it was possible. The boards look like they have more or less compatible hardware, but I figured there

Re: /sbin/clock not ticking

1997-04-27 Thread Rob Browning
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what /dev/rtc is, but it seems that on my brother's computer > it can't be opened. It seems that this in turn allows clock to work. Most likely it can't be opened because that device was not compiled into his kernel, but it was into yours.

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > good). Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but I'd be surprised. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I couldn't find any include files... where are they? > > (I know nothing about stl). > > They're in /usr/include/g++ > > For container classes, you'll need to use /usr/bin/genclass > > See the Info documentation for libg++. I don't know what genclas

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > #include > > #include > > etc. > > Isn't this HP's STL rather than GNU's? Well, I can't recall where I learned to use the names without the .h's. Perhaps it was the HP web docs. I probably should include the .h's, but GNU makes it more or les

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but the copyright at the top of vector.h is HP's. Well, the version in Debian is the only g++ STL I know of. It's quite possible that GNU based it on the HP code. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Copying a system (Was Re: Directory permissions.)

1997-04-30 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I opted for mc in the first place was for the ability to tag or > untag directories to avoid copying /proc and the /mnt directories. Since > it had the option to retain UID's and GID's I thought it was a safe > option. I backfired on me which I

Re: rsh with .rhosts problems

1997-04-30 Thread Rob Browning
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you send the .rhosts in both hosts to the list? > > As I remember it, the rshd is very picky about the way you specify > the hpost name in .rhosts. I think is has to be the same string > the gethostbyaddr() (the resolver) returns. Also, check /et

Re: Daylight savings time?

1997-04-30 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harmon Sequoya Nine) writes: > I was wondering if there is a way to get my clock to automatically adjust > for daylight savings time in the spring and fall. Is there an environment > variable or something? I've tried "TZ=EST5EDT" as on some other UNIX systems, > but it doesn't

Re: Playing WAV and other format

1997-04-30 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes: > is there any program that will be able to play WAV and possbly other formats? bplay and xanim for starters. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: emacs giving fatal error on new installation

1997-05-03 Thread Rob Browning
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've just switch from Slackware to Debian 1.2 on a AST Premmia > SE/66 and we are getting a fatal error (11) segmentation fault when > we run emacs. This is our third system the put Debian on and the first > time this has happen. Any suggestions on where we've could

Re: ideas about moving Debian to another hard drive

1997-05-07 Thread Rob Browning
"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in > something like. > cp -ax / /mnt :( So just do (cd / && cp -ax `ls | grep -v mnt` mnt) or something similar. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Rob Browning
James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Colin" == Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> I am beginning a review of a literature on the relations > Colin> between the governments of Canada and will be writing small > Colin> summary reports on each article/book/etc. I

Re: latex/databases

1997-05-09 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: > You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want, > and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing > list use it already. Thanks, but I wanted to stick to free software, if possible, and my impression was that MySQL is not

Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?

1997-05-10 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux.. > messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at > least 15 minutes before giving up. I had this same trouble a couple of months ago when trying to install Debian on a friends ThinkPa

Re: New to Debian

1997-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
"W.D.McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's more but I am wondering what is the biggest draw > to Debian vs. Slasckware, Red Hat, etc., ? The biggest advantage to Debian that I've heard of [1] is the way that Debian handles config files. Debian knows which files in a package are config

Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?

1997-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, when you rebuilt the kernel image, did you copy it to a floppy > with a cat or something, or did you make a lilo boot floppy? If you > went the cat route, I'm willing to bet that you're passing of the > floppy=thinkpad option on the rescue flopp

Re: SGML ??

1997-05-13 Thread Rob Browning
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for the linuxdoc-sgml package. It's not in the directory it > was reported in. There are some packages called sgml-tool and docs. Has > the one linuxdoc-sgml.deb been replaced by the sgml packages? If so what > packages would I need to have

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