Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > > Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error - > > not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard > > backup method for debian that: > >

Re: trying to find source code

1998-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
I can't find these files: Xlib.h Xproto.h Xatom.h Xutil.h Intrinsic.h StringDefs.h Shell.h Where might these be on your website/ftpsite? They are in this package: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/bo/binary-i386/x11/xlib6-dev_3.3-4.deb. The Infomagic disk, Debian source Aug 9

trying to find source code

1998-02-13 Thread Leo & Angie
I can't find these files: Xlib.h Xproto.h Xatom.h Xutil.h Intrinsic.h StringDefs.h Shell.h Where might these be on your website/ftpsite? The Infomagic disk, Debian source Aug 97, seems to be missing x11/xlib-dev. I am trying to recompile gs to include capabilities for a HP DeskJet 870Cxi printer

inews & /var/lib/news/active

1998-02-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I am trying to use the university newserver. It retrieves file, newsgroups, newgroups, and anythign else just fine. However, it cannot post. Any attempt to post returns a message that inews: No valid newsgroups in [filelist] going through the inews and relaynews manpages, i find that /var/

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On 13 Feb 1998 14:04:59 +0100 you wrote: > >I inserted GMT="" near the top of > >/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, and it works, but that probably isn't the > >correct place. Where should it be? > > /etc/default/rcS. It even has a manpage rcS(5) ! Thanks, Mike. I was familiar with the /etc/rcS.d

Re: Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Roberto Magana
On 13 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >Can anyone tell me how to properly create >a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory >to another directory located on the same or >on a different file system. > > You can't create symbolic links out of the anonftp directory, at least > not worki

Re: Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anyone tell me how to properly create a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory to another directory located on the same or on a different file system. You can't create symbolic links out of the anonftp directory, at least not working ones. This is because the daemon runs "chroo

Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Can anyone tell me how to properly create a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory to another directory located on the same or on a different file system. thanks in advance. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61 0xa> ] > Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 ] > I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the server is sending Config > Requests, and his co

Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: > > > Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 > > > > > > Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble > > > with thi

llug.sep.bnl.gov mirror

1998-02-13 Thread Tim Sailer
NOTICE: Starting Monday, 16-Feb, there will be no source for debian packages included in the mirror. I have completely ran out of disk space between the incoming stuff and the 2 full distributions. I am working on getting another drive for this system, but, since it serves no real purpose besides

Re: On the fly compression with ext2

1998-02-13 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and > > an update chattr. > > But for some reason, the patch isn't included. I just recheck it and you are true. The patch is part of the source package and I thought it would be part of

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing. The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword - in it, just like mine. The PPP.log says: Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect: pp

Re: BASH question

1998-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I suggest that you uuencode one of the non-working scripts and mail it to the list. It could be that some funny characters slipped in and they're confusing bash. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Shand
> > Am I missing something? Is it present, but not listed? How am I > > supposed to know about the packages that do not exist in the US > > mirror? You can use on of the Debian Package Finders. My favorite (because I helped write it) is: http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/ Adam. ---

Re: ppp again, help please (hamm)

1998-02-13 Thread Shaleh
In Hamm, the scripts are in /etc/ppp/provider and /etc/chatscripts. Once in there they are just like the old bo scripts. The update should have taken your old info and used it. BTW there is a howto for debian in the works on www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom. There is a ppp section. -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: wanted packages

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 02:22:27PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Oliver Elphick writes: > > > "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote: > >> > >> Is there any address where we can send our "wishes" to debian packages > >> we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for > >> pro

Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:58:45AM +, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three > warnings. This situation has been inherited by my hamm system. The > ldconfig message is: > > bob:vc-2:bob>ldconfig > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-l

ppp again, help please (hamm)

1998-02-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ok, i'm bravely going to try ppp again. I got it working with help under bo. I have to initiate the session without a prompt from the machine, so i believe that my script simply waited for CONNECT, and terminated. But I've tried upgrading to the newer version, hoping to use pppd. However, t

Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes: > Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error - > not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard > backup method for debian that: > 1) backs up across multiple volumes > 2) provides checksums for each file,

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail > relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit > and I need to get something like exim or sendmail. > > Is smail that insecure? And how can I know I am se

Re: Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? >> I >> ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I >> had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the >> sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excess

Re: fetchmail & smail

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote: > [Please CC replies] > > Hi, > > I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and > deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well. When > I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following hap

Re: zip drive

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive > to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing > parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells > me device/resource

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > thanks for everything.., short and clear explanation. > > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > They're not equal. > > > > . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system

Re: device /dev/eth0 is missing

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Bj?rn Hillebrand wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello! > > I have a problem with Debian 1.3.1. > I want to use Debian in a network but I don_t find any devices for my > Winbond PCI 32 Bit Ethernet card. In a magazine

Re: How do I use slrn? (fwd)

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John, > I think this must be a file permissions problem. Everything you have done > seems to be correct so compare the permissions of your directories with > these settings from my setup. You are correct. I discovered that I can run slrn as root and it works, but not as a user. That must b

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
thanks for everything.., short and clear explanation. Martin Schulze wrote: > They're not equal. > > . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts >such mail. It is delivered to senders outside of the local area >(including MX hosting &c). Modern MTA's doesn't a

BASH question

1998-02-13 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts? For example, I want to create a short script called "print" so that I can do some formatted printing: #!/bin/sh # Print -- formatted printer tool to get a 5-space margin and a header/footer pr -o 5 $1 | lpr When I try to run this scri

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Behan Webster
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > > PPS: Since neither RH nor Debian actually have anything built-in for this > task, Debian is still a better choice: several times ppl in the > developer's list have expressed interest in further developing Deity into > this direction. I know this doesn't buy you anyth

device /dev/eth0 is missing

1998-02-13 Thread Björn Hillebrand
Hello! I have a problem with Debian 1.3.1. I want to use Debian in a network but I don´t find any devices for my Winbond PCI 32 Bit Ethernet card. In a magazine I found an article which explains how to configure the network ( Chip Extra - Linux ) and they use the device eth0 via ifconfig. The pro

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Kevin cave wrote: > Roy, I can't seem to locate "ncpfs-2.1.1.tar.gz" anywhere... Try 'ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs' Maybe the confusion is that the file end in .tgz instead of .tar.gz ... --- Roy Bixler The University of Chicago Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSU

Fw: Plse stop your mail server process!

1998-02-13 Thread Russ Cook
I have been trying to upgrade from Bo to Hamm via ftp, as many of you are now aware from my previous post "Hamm upgrade woes". Thanks for all the replies and advice. Still working on it. Apparently one of the packages I downloaded is not properly installed or configured, or maybe isn't even pres

Re: problems trying to compile qt example from tutorial

1998-02-13 Thread Scott Ellis
You're missing -lqt so that the library actually gets linked. On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > I installed qt1g-dev (and qt1g) in my system, but when I try to compile > the first example from the tutorial, I get the message: > > g++ hello.C -o hello > hello.C:9: qapp.h

Re: can't access /dev/fd0

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory > > With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some > modules not being used at the moment and got the floppy accessible again. > Today the problem was back, and there isn't

Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread tko
How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of th

Re: eth0: error

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"K.Y.Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installing module SMC-Ultra. > > Loading device 'eth0' > > smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card (i/o=0x280). > /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/smc-ultra.0: init_module: Device or resource > busy. Did you set the card to io 280 using it's dos setupdisk? (Also check, that

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > > Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail > > relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent > > them?, or may be you can point me to the r

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail > relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent > them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can > find more info about it

A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: > Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 > > > > Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble > > with this. > > Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!) > > --Bill.

spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can find more info about it... thanks in advance kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Roy C Bixler wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Kevin Cave wrote: > > I've now tried 2.1.86, and it still has the same problem. I can use > > "slist" to see the > > various Netware servers, but I can't mount the volumes, or send print > > files to 'em. > > Yes, this is a problem. The only fix I know o

Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread servis
On 12 Feb, Alex Yukhimets wrote: >> I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a >> couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it >> is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have >> different user names. Not my choic

Re: Fatal server error

1998-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
"K.Y.Lo" wrote: >Hi > >I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 with X-windows package. > >install xbase,xlib6,xfntbase, xserver-svga into harddisc. done >and set up xf86config. it went bummer. > >Fatal server error: >No valid modes found. > >what does that mean? it is something miss

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Put /var/tmp on a different partition than /var (and /tmp on a > different partition than /). This also stops them from keeping huge > files in /var/tmp where the news spool, mail spool and logs are. Of course, if you're being this paranoid, you should p

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, >timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1. It removed the setting GMT="" >from wherever it belongs in hamm. That wasn't timezones, that was sysvinit. >(It w

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 09:06:27PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) can print pdf > > files natively. Skip the acroread step, and just ghostscript it directly. > > (I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!) > > How does one

cc:Mail - any equivalents???

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Does anybody know if there is some bit of magic out there that allows me to read my cc:Mail account from my Debian hamm system at work? I've tried using WINE to run Lotus cc:Mail, and it almost works, but just doesn't open the inbox window - obviously WINE needs a bit more code crunching done to i

can't access /dev/fd0

1998-02-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Yesterday I was surprised with a new problem. When trying to access the floppy (I always did it), with mdir as well as with mount, I got the following message from dmesg: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some

Re: pine/spell checking

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > Is there a good spell checker for pine? - One that works all the time and > gives possible choices? > ispell does. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

xscreensaver 2.15-3: couldn't get password...

1998-02-13 Thread Christophe Broult
Hi, I'm running hamm and I'm using dselect with the ftp method to update my system regularly. A couple of days or so, there was an update of xscreensaver and since then I get the following errors: xscreensaver: couldn't get password of "broult" xscreensaver: couldn't get password of "root" xscr

Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three > warnings. This situation has been inherited by my hamm system. The > ldconfig message is: > > bob:vc-2:bob>ldconfig > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No > such file > or

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Jerzy Kakol
Hi all, Except cfengine there is another hopefully better because debian specific solution I discovered recently installing hamm. I mean # dpkg --root=/another_machine_root_dir Think about the great possibilities it gives! Let's assume # mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/DebianFarm # for i in $FarmMachine

afterstep config file in /tmp

1998-02-13 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Recently we have started having a problem with temporary files created by afterstep and then not deleted. What happens is that a user starts afterstep and it creates a /tmp/steprc file, containing their current setup. The permissions are set according to the user's umask. Sometimes, when the

eth0: error

1998-02-13 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi, I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 completely. Setting up the network as I know about DNS, IP number etc.. i find it was hard to setup eth0 but it has an error. Installing module SMC-Ultra. Loading device 'eth0' smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card (i/o=0x280). /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/smc-ultra.0:

Fatal server error

1998-02-13 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 with X-windows package. install xbase,xlib6,xfntbase, xserver-svga into harddisc. done and set up xf86config. it went bummer. Fatal server error: No valid modes found. what does that mean? it is something missing the X package? mine is 486DX4 with 16mb and

Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three > warnings. This situation has been inherited by my hamm system. The > ldconfig message is: > > bob:vc-2:bob>ldconfig > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No > such file > or

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same > ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine. > It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect), > so I added +chap to the options file to make sure i

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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Timothy M. Hospedales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase, > but it still does the same stuff. pppd is paranoid about its secret files. They have to have 600 permissions. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say, > keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it > every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect... This is already done that way. Chec

Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files > are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk -- > try a "du lastlog" to see how many bytes it is really taking. You can also use the "-s" option to ls, w

Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say, > keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it > every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect... This should be done automatically e

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
(Back to just debian-user; no discussions of policy in my message.) Anthony Towns writes: > But what about /var? /var/tmp should be world writable (albeit sticky) > according to the FSSTND, but at least a couple of packages use /var > for executable files, notably dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*), an

problems trying to compile qt example from tutorial

1998-02-13 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I installed qt1g-dev (and qt1g) in my system, but when I try to compile the first example from the tutorial, I get the message: g++ hello.C -o hello hello.C:9: qapp.h: No such file or directory hello.C:10: qpushbt.h: No such file or directory make: *** [hello] Error 1 Wasn't the insta

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > according to the FSSTND, but at least a couple of packages use /var > for executable files, notably dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*), and the > distributed-net client (/var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net). > > BTW, if /var was noexec, it remains possible to have something li

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin Cave
Roy C Bixler wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Kevin Cave wrote: > > I've now tried 2.1.86, and it still has the same problem. I can use > > "slist" to see the > > various Netware servers, but I can't mount the volumes, or send print > > files to 'em. > > Yes, this is a problem. The only fix I know o

a few problems following a crash

1998-02-13 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, My hamm system crashed the other day when the processor fan died. I didn't observe any unusual output during the fsck on the subsequent reboot--just a few inodes that were fixed and a few insignificant files (all mail messages) were placed in /lost+found. But now xdm doesn't come up, and

Broken Mail

1998-02-13 Thread John Boggon
Hi all, I have a rather urgent problem I need some help with. Yesterday I had to move my /var directory from it's own partition to the same partition as /. No Problem, I'll use tar to preserve file permissions and links I thought. It all went ok except for the mail. My local mail is now broken. I

Re: How do I use slrn?

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John, On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, you wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:31:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > When I run slrn --spool, I get a screen with one row: > > > > --> U 20 comp.os.linux.announce > > OK. Try pressing S for subscribe with the comp.os.linux.announce line > highli

Now FHS, Was RE: FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Art Lemasters
I ran "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.0" "as a phrase," on the Metacrawler and received one hit to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ by Daniel Quinlan, of course. From noting certain aspects of some of the other questions to this user list, I thought it mi

Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread john
R. Chris Ross writes: > I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a couple > of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it is run > using my account? Is there a better way? I run it as "postman", and put mailagent in postman's .forward to distribute the m

Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Steve Hsieh
Try rerunning /usr/sbin/tzconfig ; when I run that the /etc/localtime gets fixed. (Seems to occur if you remove the timezone package from bo after installing timezones in hamm) On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, > t

RE: FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
To answer one question the FSSTND is now outdated. The current standard doc is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.0" Dated Oct. 26 , 1997 also known as the FHS I don't know where to get it... I found it somewhere a coupla months back goto altavista and do asearch on the filename "f

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 08:28:18PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > > One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world > > readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you > > set up a user and group for your web server (

EXIM, failure to load as daemon

1998-02-13 Thread Ian Perry
Firstly, thanks for all the help in setting up fetchmail. It appears to at least try to work, except... I have installed EXIM, and when it is invoked as a daemon, I get the error message in /var/log/exim/paniclog "Failed to get user name for uid 0" The configuration appeared to run OK. Is there

Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 10:56:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > export https_proxy="http://localhost:8000/"; > > to, iirc, get some support for https:// urls, if your proxy supports > them, even if Lynx doesn't. Interesting idea; loses some of the security though. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EM

Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a > couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it > is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have > different user names. Not my choice. Hi. If my memory doesn't fail me

Counting....

1998-02-13 Thread Chris
I appologise if this is off the topic, but I am trying to put together a method for printer accounting on our debian linux server. What I need at the moment is to find a way to count the number of pages in a postscript document. Does anyone know an easy way to do this (or better yet a program th

Re: Hamm upgrade woes

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, you wrote: > Many packages didn't install, and some could not be removed > (timezone, wg15-locale, etc). I manually > removed the packages the script didn't, then ran autoup.sh again, What version of autoup.sh did you use? The most recent is v0.19. The problems you

Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three warnings. This situation has been inherited by my hamm system. The ldconfig message is: bob:vc-2:bob>ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: ca

timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror, timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1. It removed the setting GMT="" from wherever it belongs in hamm. (It was in /etc/init.d/boot pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot is no longer used. I inserted G

Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine. It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect), so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. Now whe

Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread R. Chris Ross
I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a couple of different places. Would it be best to run it via su so that it is run using my account? Is there a better way? All of the accounts have different user names. Not my choice. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: msql 2.0.3-1 (source i386 all) uploaded into experimental

1998-02-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > I have just uploaded this package to our main server. It'll be moved > into experimental as I'd like to give you a chance to test it first. > Please give it a try. > > There will be some more msql2 packages uploaded within the next days. > gorgo will g

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: >> One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world >> readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you >> set up a user and group for your web

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote: > > > I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript > > doesn't like. This may be a bug in either package, I don't know. > > I've seen this also. > > > In a

FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Art Lemasters
Where on the Web can we find an example of the latest FSSTND (if this is still the standard) with permissions shown? As you may see from the header on this message, each time my LINUX system is up, more damage is possible. Some of my previous posts on this have not even made it to the list.

Re: less clears screen after exiting

1998-02-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Tomihisa Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> complained that: > Ever since I installed debian 1.3.1, less will unwantingly clear > the screen when after viewing a document (within an xterm). I can get rid > of this problem with the "-X" option (disables termcap before and after > calling less) however

NIS & popassd

1998-02-13 Thread Gabriel Millerd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get NIS to work with /etc/shadow? I got it working just find out of the box for /etc/passwd... ypinit doesn't make that map. Also does anyone have pwauth.h? poppassd wont work with shadow. I cannot find this header (pw_encrypt) anywhere (redh

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86 > for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to > convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to > configure 1 machine and mirror the setup t

Help w/ telnet[d]

1998-02-13 Thread rir
This is with several Debian 1.3.x machines. I'm trying to make telnet transparent. That is: I want to pass local environment variables to the remote machine, I want to login automatically, and I want to launch a process on remote. Telnet is giving me difficulties, I thought the man page was clea

HELP! w/ dump & restore

1998-02-13 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [EMAIL PROT

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Carl Fink
> On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote: > I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript > doesn't like. This may be a bug in either package, I don't know. I've seen this also. > In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) c

trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Scott McDermott
How do I delete older sections of wtmp? I wouldn't mind leaving it there to gather size but it's getting very large and eating up alot of space. If it were a text file it would be easy to keep it at a certain size but it seems to have some sort of binary format with which I'm not familiar. Does an

msql 2.0.3-1 (source i386 all) uploaded into experimental

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Good night folks, some of you were waiting for a mSQL 2.x package for a long time. I'm sorry that it took so long for me to package it. This beast of software is not easy to maintain. As you can see by looking at the diff.gz file I've spent a lot of time packaging, improving and correcting it.

Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: > >I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a > >disk. > > Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: > > % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * > > and at the other e

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600 Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The current boot disks won't allow you to install over > > PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this > > seems t

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world > readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you > set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you > can get by with just having the files be group-

Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Luke Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Try something like: : : export http_proxy="http://localhost:8000"; Or you can put that in lynx's global configuration file (/etc/lynx.cfg). Edit that file and search for " proxy" . E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automatio

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