Re: apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's Paul> dirs and still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)? Not trivially. The http server process runs as user www-data (for apache, boa runs as user nobo

/etc/rc[0-6].d directories missing in Debian 1.3.1

1997-07-23 Thread Sam Ockman
I just installed Debian 1.3.1, and spent several harrowing hours getting exactly the packages I want (working out dependancies, etc.) I was just about to celebrate, when bam, I realized there were no /etc/rc[0-6] directories I'm assuming they haven't been renamed (they are on my Debian 1.3 sy

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There was some brief discussion of calling Debian 2.0 "woody", >> after the main character of the movie, but we quickly realized the >> possible unwanted confusion that would result. >> An american, heh? It has some rather, ... umm..

Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-23 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Once in a while I need a file or two from the /debian/Incoming directory at master.debian.org. Since they only have a five user anonymous ftp limit it's very hard to access the site. Most of the time you can't get in. It would be great if several mirror sites additionally mirrored on

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Kevin Traas wrote: > > I ran into this exact same problem Extremely frustrating!!! > Unfortunately, this was about 6 months ago, and, of course, I didn't > document the solution (I'm always meaning to get around to > that...) However, I seem to remember that my problem was > with

apache, public_html, and security

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's dirs and still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> >> There was some brief discussion of calling Debian 2.0 "woody", > >> after the main character of the movie, but we quickly realized the > >> possible unwanted confusion that would result. > > jghasler> Doesn't seem any more or less confusing than "bo", "rex", > jghasler> etc. > > An a

mc.ext/deb files

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
anyone have the setup to view deb files with mc (Midnight Commander) as it can with tar.gz, rpm, etc..? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

mc

1997-07-23 Thread tyc
Hi. My Midnigth Commander don't work well. F1,F2,F3, and F4 don't make their functions. Why? What can i do to solve this problem in my spanish keyboard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
> > Did you try to configure manually the properties of these directories? > > For > > example, if you have a directory /pub and want an anonymous either > > *read* > > it, type "chmod 5 /pub" or *read n'write* it, type "chmod 7 /pub". > > Regards > > Bruno > > I already check that.. the ftp (anon

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
Just to pitch in :) The web server/ftp server at CFNi has 128 MB RAM. I put a 240 MB Quantum in the box for the sole purpose of serving as a swap device. The server sees a good load now and then, but I've never seen it swap unless I'm running vi. At least, that seems to make it swap ... it's onl

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Behan Webster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wrote: > > But why is it good to choose names that don't reflect *anything*? > > Scott K. Ellis writes: > > They do, they are the codename for the version,... > > What secrets are being protected by this code? And since when does a name have to reflect anything?

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"jghasler" == jghasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jghasler> What secrets are being protected by this code? If I told you that, I would have to kill you ;-) >> ...similar to the codenames that Microsoft... jghasler> Oh. Well, if *Microsoft* does it, it *must* be a good idea.

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"jghasler" == jghasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jghasler> Buddha Buck writes: >> Thus there are two good reasons why the distribution _name_ (be it >> rex or bo or unreleased-1.3) shouldn't change. >> Because of that, it is good to choose names that don't reflect the >> release status of

Re: Problems with Liloconfig

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, You don't say what the compilation warnings were, which make it difficult to comment, since the warning could be critical. Secondly, see if you can find a vmlinuz (note the z) file, which should have been produced if you said make zlilo. This should be smaller, and if compi

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Peter is right. You can watch your memory utilization using someting like xsysinfo or xmem or free, and see how close you get. I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM. I have yet to see swap touched (I usually have an emacs and an Xemacs process up all the time)

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
> I wrote: > > But why is it good to choose names that don't reflect *anything*? > > Scott K. Ellis writes: > > They do, they are the codename for the version,... > > What secrets are being protected by this code? None. Codes don't exist just to make things secret. Code names can and do exist

Re: Problems with Liloconfig

1997-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hi > I already compiled the kernel but couldn't make it bootable from HD for > lilo. > I followed 2 diferent steps: > 1. Making zlilo : It didn't work. An compilation error occured. > 2. Using "make", I moved the new vmlinux

Debian is getting free publicity!

1997-07-23 Thread Brian K Servis
Hi all, Just thought I would let ya knowDebian is getting some free publicity among Metamail users these days. A few months ago a CERT advisory(ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.14.metamail) was issued about Metamail and problems with the CSH code used in which security could be

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
> > Actually mine *is* a 3c905. Like I say, it works great and I haven't > > patched the kernel. I just use the 2.0.30 kernel-source package. > > You didn't, but Debian did. The kernel-source package replaces the > 3c59x.c file with a slightly more recent one from the author that works > under re

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Kevin Traas
Thanks very much for the timely tip I just got a new notebook PC at work on Monday and went with WinNT over Win95 - it's unfortunate that I must use Win at all :-( Anyway, I ran into this exact problem yesterday, but haven't had a chance to begin troubleshooting it yet. Now, fortunatel

Problems with Liloconfig

1997-07-23 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi I already compiled the kernel but couldn't make it bootable from HD for lilo. I followed 2 diferent steps: 1. Making zlilo : It didn't work. An compilation error occured. 2. Using "make", I moved the new vmlinux to /boot/vmlinuz , started "liloconfig" and it comp

Re: anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > > Hi Paul > > Did you try to configure manually the properties of these directories? > For > example, if you have a directory /pub and want an anonymous either > *read* > it, type "chmod 5 /pub" or *read n'write* it, type "chmod 7 /pub". > Regards > Bruno I already ch

Installing package in alternative site

1997-07-23 Thread Doug Federman
I wonder if it is possible to install a single package in an alternative path. I have limited disk space, but would like to install some larger packages for trial purposes in temporarily mounted areas then decide whether to make room for them. Is this possible using dpkg? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Version numbers go where Was: xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > On another topic entirely, why is the version number in the package name? > > I thought that version numbers were supposed to be in the debian filename. > > No, it's there so you can install xemacs19 and xe

Re: Version numbers go where Was: xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Anand Kumria wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Has anyone had success running the new debian xemacs20 package in hamm? > > > > Mine installs OK but dumps core when run and wont come up on the screen. > > On ano

Re: non-US on sunsite.uk?

1997-07-23 Thread James Troup
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't see the non-US directory on sunsite - do they mirrror it? I don't think they do, but ftp.mcc.ac.uk do :- ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/Debian-non-US/> -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

Version numbers go where Was: xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Has anyone had success running the new debian xemacs20 package in hamm? > > Mine installs OK but dumps core when run and wont come up on the screen. On another topic entirely, why is the version number in the packag

non-US on sunsite.uk?

1997-07-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I can't see the non-US directory on sunsite - do they mirrror it? TIA Adrian -- .signature in post -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

1997-07-23 Thread Olaf Weber
tmiller writes: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for >> Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are >> broken. > Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me > problems when I

Re: PD: VERY BIZARRE Xperience...

1997-07-23 Thread Olaf Weber
Jim Pick writes: > "J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I just ran dselect and tried to install xserver-vga1. I downloaded >> the current version of Linux (Debian 1.3) about a week ago. During >> the first installation of xserver-vga1 the system asked me for >> configuration i

dpkg problem

1997-07-23 Thread Ching-Chuan Chiang\(¦¿²M¬u\)
Hi: My disk space is full while I was installing packages by using "dpkg -i package.deb". Then, I cannot access my original status, that is, "dpkg -l" shows nothing. It seems some data files in /var/lib/dpkg are lost. How can I restore my original setting..? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Shaleh wrote: > I have 64 mb of RAM, what is a good size for my swap partition?? How about whatever you need? My old computer had 24 MB of RAM and I used to swap about 15 MB (typically). I now have 64 MB on a new computer and have not enebled a swap partition (or file) yet. I'm waiting to put

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread jghasler
I wrote: > But why is it good to choose names that don't reflect *anything*? Scott K. Ellis writes: > They do, they are the codename for the version,... What secrets are being protected by this code? > ...similar to the codenames that Microsoft... Oh. Well, if *Microsoft* does it, it *must* be

xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Victor Torrico
Has anyone had success running the new debian xemacs20 package in hamm? Mine installs OK but dumps core when run and wont come up on the screen. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Serial problems

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, I recently upgraded two Debian machines and installed it afrsh on two others. They are all running 1.3.1 I found that when I installed it freshly the machines hang just after they load the serial module. Both the machines this is happening too are fairly standard. Machine 1, medusa,

anonymous ftp/wu-ftp/addftpuser

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
anonymous ftp users can't see any directories.. they can change to them, but can see anything...??? I used the package defaults.. what could be wrong? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sendfax problem - revisited

1997-07-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Mabry wrote: > > Last month Sylvain Briole wrote about this problem that I am now also > experiencing: > > bash# sendfax -x 5 -v 5551212 fax.g3 > Trying fax device '/dev/ttyS0'... OK. > sendfax: cannot set fax station ID > > Changing the sendfax.config value for the fax id does not se

Re: vim

1997-07-23 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, tyc wrote: > hi. > > Whow can I make "vim" my default editor? > Add export EDITOR=vim to your .bash_profile and .bashrc Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

vim

1997-07-23 Thread tyc
hi. Whow can I make "vim" my default editor? thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Cheapbytes CD's being mailed today.

1997-07-23 Thread Victor Torrico
Shaya Potter wrote: > Just wanted everyone to know, cheapbytes is starting to mail the 2 CD > debian set today. > > Shaya Got mine from cheapbytes last Friday. 1.3.1 installed with no problems. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PD: VERY BIZARRE Xperience...

1997-07-23 Thread Jim Pick
> Dear reader > > I just ran dselect and tried to install xserver-vga1. I downloaded the > current version of Linux (Debian 1.3) about a week ago. During the first > installation of xserver-vga1 the system asked me for configuration > information. I replied yes. This is the error printou

Re: Apache + CGI

1997-07-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 11:41 AM 23/07/97 +0001, Jakob Borg wrote: >I want to enable the users of my webserver to use certain CGI-scripts >(provided by me) by using mod_include. >To do that, one would use the tag , >but one could also use the . >That last possiblity is what I want to eliminate. One way would be to >rem

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Shaleh
I have a 1.3 gb Maxtor on a 6x86 150+. I will be using this machine as a single user Un*x/Linux learning tool. I will be using various programs and generally experimenting. Sorry I did not realize that I left off some info. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe

Burning a debian CD

1997-07-23 Thread Rik Huygen
Hi, is there somebody who can explain me how to burn a CD with Debian/Linux 1.3? I installed the debian-cd package, but it doesn't contain any documentation and besides that, it only writes a isofs to a file. So how do I get this file on my CD? I previously used xcdroast to write a Debian distrib

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi, there are a couple of things to consider ie 1) is a single user system or a multi-user 2) how much space do you have to allocate to a swap partition 3) What type of processes are you running ( are they memory hogs) Now that I have probably made you really mad. here is what i think single us

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Tim wrote: > I recently was able to download StarOffice and get it untarred, etc.. > Now, I need to upgrade libc5 to libc5.4.4 or greater. In the Debian > packages, I noticed there was no > 5.4.4. So here's the question: If > anyone else has installed StarOffice, how did you

Swap Space

1997-07-23 Thread Shaleh
I have 64 mb of RAM, what is a good size for my swap partition?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Kudo's and Question

1997-07-23 Thread mike
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Currently I'm running kernel 2.0.6, and haven't noticed any major > > problems with it. I normally stick to the "If it 'ain't broke, don't fix > > it" rule, but I'm wondering if there are any re

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 11:57 AM 7/23/97 -0400, you wrote: >The numbers increment after each dot sequencially, therefore 5.4.10 would >be after 5.4.9, and 5.4.33 is the latest release version of libc5. Uh.. ok.. :) I can't believe I missed that.. Thanks, Tim ---

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: > At 09:19 AM 7/23/97 +0200, you wrote: > >I have a Debian 1.3.1 system with libc5.4.33 installed: > > > >Package : > > libc5 > > >Why do you think there is no package with libc5.4. > 5.4.4 ? > > Well... I thought

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > W Paul Mills wrote: > Actually mine *is* a 3c905. Like I say, it works great and I haven't > patched the kernel. I just use the 2.0.30 kernel-source package. You didn't, but Debian did. The kernel-source package

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Buddha Buck writes: > > Thus there are two good reasons why the distribution _name_ (be it rex or > > bo or unreleased-1.3) shouldn't change. > > Nor did I suggest that it should. > > > Because of that, it is good to c

Re: sound under Debian

1997-07-23 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I have trouble getting sound out of my PC under Debian. > I tried consulting some of the doc's and Linux HOWTO's in vain. > (a bit too complex for a Linux newbie I'm afraid) > > I (seem to) have a "Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play" >

dselect ftp error in an odd way

1997-07-23 Thread Cent Klark
>Hello, I have two debian systems behind an ip masqed box. >One of the systems has no problem accessing the packages file at >ftp.debian.org >while the other system cannot find the packages file no matter what ftp >server I use. >These two machines were set up from the same base and are identical

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

1997-07-23 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for > Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are > broken. > > I got it working a few weeks ago with some difficulties. The way to solve > it is to install a kerne

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

1997-07-23 Thread Richard . Dansereau
> > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for > > Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are > > broken. > > Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me > problems when I i

PD: VERY BIZARRE Xperience...

1997-07-23 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
Dear reader I just ran dselect and tried to install xserver-vga1. I downloaded the current version of Linux (Debian 1.3) about a week ago. During the first installation of xserver-vga1 the system asked me for configuration information. I replied yes. This is the error printout: Not al

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread Mike Miller
> "rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I'm familiar with Fortran, C, C++, etc., and the coding for > fortran is far more efficient for what i'm doing: it comes > down to applying functions to arrays. I also may have the > world's only project that really c

Re: ppp server

1997-07-23 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, tyc, you wrote: > > Hi... > > I want setup my linux boox as ppp server to permit users access to it > whith an login and an password from windows systemts.? > > Please, where can I find information about this? > > I read PPP howto, but is here any more specific? > > Could

PD: "1FA:" prompt at boot

1997-07-23 Thread J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz
-- Od: J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wys³ano:23 lipca 1997 02:02 Do: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' DW: 'Karl Ferguson' Temat: PD: "1FA:" prompt at boot Hello >At 11:31 AM 17/07/97 -0400, Chris Smith wrote: >>Ran the installation program from the

Re: Kudo's and Question

1997-07-23 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Currently I'm running kernel 2.0.6, and haven't noticed any major > problems with it. I normally stick to the "If it 'ain't broke, don't fix > it" rule, but I'm wondering if there are any reasons to go to say a 2.0.30 > kernel. Occasionally so

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: > Your right, f77 is much more performant in intensive numerical > computations than c or c++, at least on SGI (IRIX). For example, on a > Indigo 2, a version of a code in f77 have a peak performance of 270 > MFLOPS. The same code in c/c++ peak at 100

tetex install

1997-07-23 Thread R. Wayne McCorkle
I realized that I had not installed tetex one of my machines when I upgraded to 1.3. Now that I am trying to do that, I get an error when purging babel and latex. Could anyone help, here are the errors ... lager#dpkg --purge --force-depends babel (Reading database ... 17754 files and

Re: How do I make modules?

1997-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hello; > Is there some way to make modules? I have all fonts, and made the > kernel, > but it turn too big. So I want to make modules to load by "insmod". How can > I make "files.o" with these fonts? > Thank you > Bruno It's unlikely that y

ppp server

1997-07-23 Thread tyc
Hi... I want setup my linux boox as ppp server to permit users access to it whith an login and an password from windows systemts.? Please, where can I find information about this? I read PPP howto, but is here any more specific? Could someone, that have an ppp server running, gime some advices

sendfax problem - revisited

1997-07-23 Thread Mark Mabry
Last month Sylvain Briole wrote about this problem that I am now also experiencing: bash# sendfax -x 5 -v 5551212 fax.g3 Trying fax device '/dev/ttyS0'... OK. sendfax: cannot set fax station ID Changing the sendfax.config value for the fax id does not seem to matter. I did not find an

Re: sound under Debian

1997-07-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I (seem to) have a "Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play" > soundcard which works when I run under W95. > I was able to get some parameters out of my Window$ setup : I have the same thing. Works fine for me. >IRQ=05 >I/O : 0220h-022Fh

Cheapbytes CD's being mailed today.

1997-07-23 Thread Shaya Potter
Just wanted everyone to know, cheapbytes is starting to mail the 2 CD debian set today. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread M BAILEY
If you can use Pascal the GNU pascal suite is great --Matt On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > As i prepare to launch back into coding, is anyone familiar with just > how bad the Fortran support is? or is that all a myth? > > I really need as much performance as I can get, and

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, there > > Sorry, I can't resist ;-) > > Me either. ;-) who can ;) > > fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But > > we > > are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing > > students to use it!) > > > > You will be much better wri

How do I make modules?

1997-07-23 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hello; Is there some way to make modules? I have all fonts, and made the kernel, but it turn too big. So I want to make modules to load by "insmod". How can I make "files.o" with these fonts? Thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

SNAFU system

1997-07-23 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I had an interesting problem develop .. would almost say overnight, but I don't think so. I hadn't used my system for 3 days and the other night we had the worst thunderstorm (and the first of them) this summer. I did a shutdown -h now before the storm took out power. It was down a day and last

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Tim O'Brien
At 09:19 AM 7/23/97 +0200, you wrote: >I have a Debian 1.3.1 system with libc5.4.33 installed: > >Package : > libc5 >Why do you think there is no package with libc5.4. > 5.4.4 ? Well... I thought a version 5.4.33 would be less than 5.4.4... Is this not correct? If not, could someone set me

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Dean Carpenter
> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > > I have a colleague here who can no longer mount, via samba, his home > directory since he applied service-pack 3 to his NT 4.0 machine. It's a > big problem here because suddenly lots of people can no longer access > their samba volumes on our main

Re: xdm path

1997-07-23 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Daniel Laffin wrote: > > Although I have losts of idas on this, I cant find the answer. When > logging in locally through xdm where is the path set? For instance, I am > unable to run netscape because its not in the default path. I can just > open an xterm and run it from

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
W Paul Mills wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > > > > > Hi again, > > > > > > you're welcome ;-) > > > > > > However, thinking of it, why would you want to patch the kernel for a > > > 3c590 card? The one in the machine which I use to writ

Re: PCMCIA problems with Debian 1.3

1997-07-23 Thread tmiller
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There have been a few people asking about problems with PCMCIA for > Debian 1.3. The pcmcia-modules packages provided by Debian 1.3 are > broken. Odd; PCMCIA was the only major component that *didn't* give me problems when I installed on my la

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread Dany Dionne
Your right, f77 is much more performant in intensive numerical computations than c or c++, at least on SGI (IRIX). For example, on a Indigo 2, a version of a code in f77 have a peak performance of 270 MFLOPS. The same code in c/c++ peak at 100 MFLOPS. Ok, maybe the c/c++ version could be more optim

Diskless WS with Debian/nfsroot 0.5

1997-07-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Hi, I'm trying to setup a diskless workstation using Debian. In the not so near future this can grow to a lab with 10 or more diskless WS's, and I'm just exploring right now. I installed nfsroot (it's the one in hamm as of 07/22, 0.5-1 I think), read use.doc, and also NFSroot and NFSroot-Client

start-stop demon problems

1997-07-23 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem with the start-stop demon at bootup. Most demons start ok except the following: at cron sysklog xinet I know they haven't started as the message at boot up complains: No such file or Directory but neglects to tell me which file or directory it is looking for. All the

taper/can't type

1997-07-23 Thread Paul Miller
I installed taper 6.8.0a10.deb from the master the other day and everything works except I can't type in any of the prompts - anything in the configuration, archive tilte, etc.. what is wrong? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Dale Martin
Someone else answered this with a summary of the solution. I just wanted to add that I found the Samba Home Page with about 5 seconds of looking on Yahoo. On the Samba homepage, they give VERY detailed instructions on how to fix this problem. My machine running NT 4.0 plus service pack 3 can see

Apache + CGI

1997-07-23 Thread Jakob Borg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I want to enable the users of my webserver to use certain CGI-scripts (provided by me) by using mod_include. To do that, one would use the tag , but one could also use the . That last possiblity is what I want to eliminate. One way would be to remove /bin/sh

Re: Boot order (2)

1997-07-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David M wrote: > Hi again > > Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway. > If I only have one IDE drive should I set it to slave or master (I know > normally is master) in L

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread jghasler
Buddha Buck writes: > Thus there are two good reasons why the distribution _name_ (be it rex or > bo or unreleased-1.3) shouldn't change. Nor did I suggest that it should. > Because of that, it is good to choose names that don't reflect the > release status of the distribution. But why is it goo

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-23 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > you're welcome ;-) > > > > However, thinking of it, why would you want to patch the kernel for a > > 3c590 card? The one in the machine which I use to write this mail works > > perfectly with rig

sound under Debian

1997-07-23 Thread simons
Hello, I have trouble getting sound out of my PC under Debian. I tried consulting some of the doc's and Linux HOWTO's in vain. (a bit too complex for a Linux newbie I'm afraid) I (seem to) have a "Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play" soundcard which works when I run under W95. I was able t

Re: Unable to get virtual fonts to work

1997-07-23 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Murray Gross wrote: >My configuration is strictly default, except for addition of a >TEXFONTS=/usr/lib/texmf/fonts// environment variable. Psfonts.map looks This means you override the default. Replace this by TEXFONTS=/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/

Re: Help read PDF files

1997-07-23 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> After downloading a PDF file tonight I realized I needed something to view it > with. I tried xpdf but kept getting a xref table error. Then I tried gv and > was getting a whole slew of errors from gs. Make sure you have gs-alladin (from non-free) installed. Plain gs does no have pdf support

Help read PDF files

1997-07-23 Thread Jason Ish
After downloading a PDF file tonight I realized I needed something to view it with. I tried xpdf but kept getting a xref table error. Then I tried gv and was getting a whole slew of errors from gs. Is there a simple way to view a PDF file. I'd rather not download the reader from Adobe. Than

Boot order (2)

1997-07-23 Thread David M
Hi again Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? If I only have one IDE drive should I set it to slave or master (I know normally is master) in Linux? If I set it to slave BIOS doesn't even detect it :-) Any consequences of changing these settings? Regards, Dave

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-23 Thread joost witteveen
> Hi Joost, > > Success! > > This is what I had to start with:- > elm# cd /lib ; ll ld* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161677 Jun 5 21:35 ld-2.0.4.so* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root22305 Jul 19 03:13 ld-linux.so.1.8.10* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 3 18:19 ld

Boot order

1997-07-23 Thread David M
Hello folks, I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup. Now it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux is). Can I change this? I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a master) and eventhough BIOS did not detected it, Linux did. Any

Re: Enlightenment WM

1997-07-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Who uses this WM and how well does it work? I just read the owner's > page and buzz sheet but I want to hear it from the users. Does it work > as fast/well/smoothly as fvwm, twm or some other WM manager? I guess I > am asking for a gene

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"I've heard there's a switch somewhere wich says "Allow clear passwords" or something of the like, and that "Service Pack 3" switches off. I have no clue of where this button hides in NT's widget forest. |" |"If you can find where this switch is, could you please get back to me and tell me ? I

Re: StarOffice3.1 and libc5

1997-07-23 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > I recently was able to download StarOffice and get it untarred, etc.. > Now, I need to upgrade libc5 to libc5.4.4 or greater. In the Debian > packages, I noticed there was no > 5.4.4. So here's the question: If I have a Debian 1.3.1 system with libc5.4.33 installed: Package : libc5

Re: mail.log

1997-07-23 Thread Pure Energy
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Mikko Väkiparta wrote: > I'm trying to send file /var/log/mail.log every friday to myself via > e-mail. I think this is crons job, but how I can configure it to do > this on every friday? And what kind of script I must to make for > sending the file (subject=date, message=f

mail.log

1997-07-23 Thread Mikko Väkiparta
I'm trying to send file /var/log/mail.log every friday to myself via e-mail. I think this is crons job, but how I can configure it to do this on every friday? And what kind of script I must to make for sending the file (subject=date, message=file)? --

Re: How to fix ldso? Urgent.

1997-07-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hi Joost, Success! This is what I had to start with:- elm# cd /lib ; ll ld* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161677 Jun 5 21:35 ld-2.0.4.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root22305 Jul 19 03:13 ld-linux.so.1.8.10* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 3 18:19 ld-linux.so.2 -> ld

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