X lock file

1996-05-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > > > Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45: > > >> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6 > > >Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X > > >server for each VC, which will take a lot of m

Problems with color-ls

1996-05-18 Thread Dale Miller
I am working on a package of Lclint which is the free lint for Linux. Unfortunately I am having problems with color-ls. When I try to do make test to compile the test cases I get the following error. dircolors: Unknown shell `csh '. This causes the build to mess up. Does anyone have any ideas why

Re: Problems with color-ls

1996-05-18 Thread Dale Miller
> You have to add the switch to your call of dircolors. I do the following in > my /usr/local/etc/profile (which is sourced by /etc/profile): > > eval `dircolors -b /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc` > What is in your /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc file? I have the eval `dircolors -b` i

Installation

1996-05-18 Thread Steven Boothe
Hello the list, Using Beta release 1.3 When I attempt to create a partition during installation I get "unable to find any hard drives". I have two scsi II hard drives running off a BusLogic BT-445c host adaptor for a VLB. I've looked through as much documentation as I could find, but some of

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-18 Thread Scott Barker
Scott Barker said: > Well, I guess I have no explanation, then. But it's working for me. Perhaps I > ran it as root once, and the other machines on the network all remember the > address that was being arp'ed for? Just noticed why it was working -- I had a wrapper program to handle users changing

1.1 /etc/termcap and /lib/libtermcap*

1996-05-18 Thread Jan Wender
Hi, after I installed 1.1 I noticed that /etc/termcap and the termcap libs are missing. Is this on purpose or an oversight? Should all programs now use ncurses/terminfo? -- Cheerio, Jan Jan Wender - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Universitaet Trier, Germany The man who letterspaces lowercase letters also stea

Re: X lock file

1996-05-18 Thread eckes
Hello, > I have one server, with several diskless clients (except for one boot > floppy). The diskless clients often get rebooted while running X, > leaving the lock file on the server. > Some times, the PID in the lock file is the next reboot taken by > a getty. This will cause X to refuse to

Re: X lock file

1996-05-18 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hello, > > > I have one server, with several diskless clients (except for one boot > > floppy). The diskless clients often get rebooted while running X, > > leaving the lock file on the server. > > Some times, the PID in the lock file is the next reboot taken by > > a getty. This will caus

Re: Problems with color-ls

1996-05-18 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dale Miller writes: Dale> I am working on a package of Lclint which is the free lint for Dale> Linux. Unfortunately I am having problems with color-ls. When I try Dale> to do make test to compile the test cases I get the following error. Dale> dircolors: Unknown shell `csh '. This caus

Re: 1.1 /etc/termcap and /lib/libtermcap*

1996-05-18 Thread Guy Maor
On Sat, 18 May 1996, Jan Wender wrote: > after I installed 1.1 I noticed that /etc/termcap and the termcap libs are > missing. Is this on purpose or an oversight? On purpose. > Should all programs now use ncurses/terminfo? Yes. In case you have nondebian binaries, termcap compatibility lib wil

Re: X Windows

1996-05-18 Thread Buddha Buck
> OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I > get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server. > > A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hiding? I don't think it should be... On my system, it shows up as /usr/bin/X11/xdm. Try "ps -a

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > > How are routing and/or arp table entries for the dial-in ppp user > > handled? > > I use the 'proxyarp' option, and it seems to work just fine. No need > to set up routes if the PPP address is on the same subnet as the rest > of your equipment. I thou

Re: which..

1996-05-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
I'm from the whence side of things, but I would be surprised if which doesn't return something. Rob Ransbottom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > Craig Sanders said: > > On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and > > > used by (at least) dip and efax. > > > > I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to >

Re: unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?

1996-05-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Olaf Erb wrote: > Ok, recompiling isn't a big job, but I'd like to know which other > packages are still a.out. Is there a quick way to recognise them? file /bin/* /usr/bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* | grep MAGIC Will list all of the binaries which are still a.out. Then us

Re: Must pppd be run by root?

1996-05-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > I think `net' would be a good group name for this. I don't like that. 'net' is far too general. A group name like 'net' would be used by a sysadmin for something like making all net clients (telnet, ftp, irc, etc) group net, and executable only

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
> > This bug was in the passwd file from the base package. > > It can be fixed by replacing the nobody line in /etc/passwd with this entry: > > nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null: > > Hope that helps. > Susan Kleinmann > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have already bug-reported this and it's bein

Re: which..

1996-05-18 Thread karafoti
Can I suggest we change it to the slightly more friendly... --Michael #!/bin/sh com=$* type -path $c if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "$0: ${c} not found" fi "Rob Browning says:" > > > "R" == Richard Dansereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > R> Is the command "which" available in an