DebainNet.pm location

1998-10-14 Thread wb4mle
Can someone please point me to the package in the unstable distribution that contains the DebianNet.pm perl module. It must have been on the system at one time as the manpage is here and netstd has updated before. Not now! Thanks.. -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Then people will use the power off switch. And I can't cut that off |> because it's used to switch the workstations off when the lab closes! I happened to be in the public library of the Beaubourg in Paris this summer, looking for some free net access. They provide a roomfull of machines from

slink package upgrades fail

1998-10-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
After yesterdays package updates, I get the following error messages: Preparing to replace netstd 3.07-4 (using netstd_3.07-5.deb) ... Can't locate DebianNet.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.005 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl

Re: Internet pon help

1998-10-14 Thread Kent West
At 03:40 PM 10/14/1998 -0500, Chesshome wrote: > > I ran "/usr/doc/pppconfig" but came into a nother problem when I tried to run > "pon" it gave me a errer "/usr/sbin/pppd: infile /etc/ppp/peers/provider: > unrecognized option '/dev/modem' " Agian can someone help me? > > thank's > chesshome /

video-cam/conference hardware recommendation?

1998-10-14 Thread Fred Yankowski
I want to use my workstation to do videoconferencing over the internet. When booted as Win-NT I can use the M$ NetMeeting software; is there something comparable for Debian? And what videocam hardware/interfaces does Debian support for that? Can I use a PCI card such as the InVideo product by Fo

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-14 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: 13 Oct 1998 18:27:30 GMT Rene Hojbjerg Larsen writes: >> >> Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly >> when this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to >> slink the other day. >> >> To give an example: >> >> $ time /sbin/i

Re: Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a > > security risk. > > Why ? How it can be exploited ? Simple - I put a program called ls in my home directory of a machine I want to wreck. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/ls cd / rm -r -f and make it executable. Root cds to my director

Re: [Debian] support for Adaptec 2940UW2 ?

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Hsieh
> There are boot disks for SuSe and Redhat at that site but I haven't > seen anyone do the equivalent for Debian. I have a rescue image that has support for the 2940UW2 controller built into it. I've seen someone else post one as well. It's not the latest version, but it's good enough to get yo

laserjet 4l + lpd + magicconfig = problem

1998-10-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've installed lpd+magicconfig and I've installed my lj4l using magicfilterconfig using the correct options for my ljet4l. I have no problems printing text, but I can not print anything else whatsover. If I try to print a ps file (I've installed gs and so on), the printer (lpd

Re: Internet pon help

1998-10-14 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, /dev/modem does not exist unless you create it. You have a couple of options. First, in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, you can change /dev/modem to your real modem device: try /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 ... Second option, make a symbolic link from /dev/modem to your real modem device. # l

NIS

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hey again. Is anyone using NIS with hamm? I'm trying to set it to work against a Solaris NIS server and it doesn't work. I've got everything up to the point that "ypcat passwd" indeed cats all the passwd file from the NIS server (with the passwords replaced with "##username"). My /etc/passwd has a

Re: Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Pete Harlan
Torsten writes: > Probably the dselect database are not updated by apt-get. Try the apt > select method in dselect and do an update (using the apt method). Are > the packages still shown as obsolete? Yes, they're still obsolete. The update succeeded, to all appearances. --Pete

Re: Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread Keith Beattie
shaul wrote: > > There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a > > security risk. > > Why ? How it can be exploited ? > A somewhat related story: When I was taking CS classes in college there was this one student who many of us suspected of not being entirely honest about the

Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.

1998-10-14 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) writes: > 3) Resizing disks partitions when someone needs more swap is a problmatic > process, and using swap files are not recommended. why do you say that swap files are not recommended ? I know the're slower than swap partitions, but I can't see what other problems c

let's have emacs load .shtml files correctly

1998-10-14 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
If you use the psgml package you'll have noticed that it doesn't recognize the .shtml extension as .html; .shtml is used by apache to recognize server-parsed html code. If you add the following lines to /etc/emacs20/site-start.d/50psgml-init.el it recognizes them: (or (assoc "\\.shtml$" auto-mo

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Immanuel Yap
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Noel

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread servis
*- Robert Dominguez wrote about "Y2K Compliant?" | Hello, | | I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 | running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question | is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's | directly affected but I had

Midnight Commander

1998-10-14 Thread Christian Lavoie
Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? Christian Lavoie UIN: 947212 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Robert Dominguez wrote: > I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 > running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question > is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's > directly affected but I had to ask. If you

Re: GDB and ADA.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:30:28PM +0300, shaul wrote: > It seems to me that hamm's version of gdb doesn't support debugging of ADA > programs. > Will that be changed in slink? >From the changelog in slink's gdb: * re-integrated gnat support. (Was repported as a bug against 4.16, patch had

Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Robert Dominguez
Hello, I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's directly affected but I had to ask. If you have a white paper in it, please let me know

Re: Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:28:55 +0300 shaul writes: > >> There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a >> security risk. > > Why ? How it can be exploited ? Think of a bad guy who places a program sl (rm -rf / &) in all of its dir, User root working in this dir, and typing sl in

Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.

1998-10-14 Thread shaul
Debian's recommends (in its FAQ and the installation guide) to have about 50MB of swap file. I am using 50MB only as a representative number. I know it is also saying that (1) Linux accept up to 128MB for a single swap partition (2) There is (was) a rule of thumb to have a swap size as twice as

Internet pon help

1998-10-14 Thread Chesshome
I ran "/usr/doc/pppconfig" but came into a nother problem when I tried to run "pon" it gave me a errer "/usr/sbin/pppd: infile /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unrecognized option '/dev/modem' " Agian can someone help me?   thank's chesshome

Re: Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:28:55 +0300, shaul wrote: >> There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a >> security risk. >Why ? How it can be exploited ? By someone putting an executable in a directory you normally visit (/home/username anyone?) that does something unexpected.

GDB and ADA.

1998-10-14 Thread shaul
It seems to me that hamm's version of gdb doesn't support debugging of ADA programs. Will that be changed in slink? cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/gdb has gdb-4.16.gnat.1.12.diff.gz and gdb-4.16.gnat.1.13.diff.gz. Are they usable for hamm's gdb (4.17) ? Since the latest gnat version is 3.10, what does the 1

Why having the . at the end of someone's PATH is a security ?

1998-10-14 Thread shaul
> There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a > security risk. Why ? How it can be exploited ?

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
Stephen J. Carpenter writes: > 1) Stop it from happening... > cut the wires that goto the reset button...replace it with a key > switch other bits of wiring... Then people will use the power off switch. And I can't cut that off because it's used to switch the workstations off when the lab

Re: Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:11:49PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM That depends on your definition of that term. The Debian project does not produce CDs. We produce Official CD images which several vendors use; some other vendors choose to use t

Re: Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:28:38 -0500 (CDT) Pete Harlan writes: > > Hi, > I upgraded from bo to hamm (via cheapbytes's fixed cd_autoup.sh) and > then to slink, installed 'apt', selected it as my dselect method, > and now almost all of my regular packages are in the > "Obsolete/local" category. > >

Re: apt-get

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 14 Oct 1998 18:53:26 GMT Ruud de Bruin writes: > > Can I use apt-get also for retrieving files via ftp from binary-all > directories? I would like to pick up the latest gsfonts and > gsfonts-other. But because Packages.gz is missing from binary-all I > guess, I am a littlebit lost. There are

Re: Internet help

1998-10-14 Thread Kent West
At 02:29 PM 10/14/1998 -0500, you wrote: >I'm using debian,I have linux installed ,I'm use a modem and I don't have a >winmodem. >-Original Message- >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Chesshome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian >Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 2:13 PM >Subject: Re: Inte

Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, I upgraded from bo to hamm (via cheapbytes's fixed cd_autoup.sh) and then to slink, installed 'apt', selected it as my dselect method, and now almost all of my regular packages are in the "Obsolete/local" category. I've seen this other times I've done this, and switching back to the "ftp" met

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:56:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen J. Carpenter said > > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 > > > based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has

Re: cxterm?

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:11:51 -0500 (CDT) Richard Kaszeta writes: > > I have a number of Chinese users in my department here, and they > requested that I install 'cxterm' so they can look at chinese-encoded > email and files, etc. > > However, I downloaded the latest version of cxterm, > ftp://ft

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: 13 Oct 1998 18:27:30 GMT Rene Hojbjerg Larsen writes: > > Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly > when this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to > slink the other day. > > To give an example: > > $ time /sbin/ifconfig >/dev/null > > real0m

How to specify app to use in KDE?

1998-10-14 Thread Kent West
Related to previous post of "KDE lost ability to open HOWTO.gz's": When clicking on a file (README, etc) in a KDE window, it automatically associates a program to use for opening that file. How do I change that association? Thanks. Kent West, Tech

Re: Internet help

1998-10-14 Thread Kent West
At 01:29 PM 10/14/1998 -0500, Chesshome wrote: > > I'm very new to linux I've used dos, win3.11,win95,winnt4,win98(i got it a > month ago) and now I whan't to learn linux. Can some one tell me how to logon > the internet with linux. > thank's > chesshome At what stage are you? Have you got

xdm problems

1998-10-14 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
I have just installed a Debian Linux system which directy boots xdm. What appens is that the first login goes ok, but as soon as the user logouts and a second one tryes to login (from the console) the window manager appears, but then the machine hangs. any suggestion? Thanks in advance, ric

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread stick
Stephen J. Carpenter said > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 > > based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and > > only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a ne

apt-get

1998-10-14 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Can I use apt-get also for retrieving files via ftp from binary-all directories? I would like to pick up the latest gsfonts and gsfonts-other. But because Packages.gz is missing from binary-all I guess, I am a littlebit lost. Regards, Ruud.

mountd exploit info ( from [linux-security] The poisoned NUL byte] )

1998-10-14 Thread m*
some of you may have seen this already. this post is for those of you that haven't and have concerns regarding the exploit. thx, m* -- Horseman of the Digital Apocolypse --- Begin Message --- Summary: you can exploit a single-byte buffer overrun to gain root privs. When, half a day after r

Internet help

1998-10-14 Thread Chesshome
I'm very new to linux I've used dos, win3.11,win95,winnt4,win98(i got it a month ago) and now I whan't to learn linux. Can some one tell me how to logon the internet with linux. thank's  chesshome

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:57:51 +0200 Stephan Engelke writes: > > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running > Debian 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard > layout on the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The > problem is:

Re: chage / shadow settings

1998-10-14 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Pere! On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I've been reading the man page for chage but I haven't got > anything clear. [...] > > Is this the right command (the dates are approx)? > > chage -E 20/10/98 -W 10 -M 10 `cat use

XMCD in debug mode, here what I get

1998-10-14 Thread Toby Bouzane
XMCD v2.2 PL1 DEBUG MODE Setting uid to 1000, gid to 1000 Loading common parameters: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmcd/config/common.cfg Setting uid to 1000, gid to 1000 Loading common parameters: /home/toby/.xmcdcfg/common.cfg libcddb: ASYNCHRONOUS REMOTE What is wrong? How do I fix it? Toby P.S.

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Stenner
I got hooked an asWedit. I don't think it's available in a debian package, but the install is so clean that it doesn't matter to me. (I think you just put the executable in your path somewhere, maybe one other file. It is not WYSIWYG, but has a very convenient "preview" feature that you can use

Re: SCSI controller and drive?

1998-10-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
As a public service announcement I should mention that Computer Geeks (on-line retail) is (or at was on monday) offering the BusLogic BT-930 (Ultra SCSI-2 on PCI) for $40. I, of course, ordered one myself. Their web page is www.compgeeks.com. Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mrpe

Re: Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread David Sherow
http://www.linuxpress.com/ http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors That should get you going G. Kapetanios wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM and if > there is where it is available from ? > As I have lost my ethernet connection, getting slink by modem is > prohi

Re: keyboard question

1998-10-14 Thread clkrogh
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:45:39PM +0100, tracheotomy_bob wrote: > Anybody know where I can purchase a 'normal' 102 key English (British) > keyboard, not some goddamn > windows 9x keyboard job. I've got a windows one at the mo. 'cos you can't > get anything else. > I picked up one of the older (1

Dselect upgrades/downgrades

1998-10-14 Thread Juergen Fornoff
Hi, i am new to the list, an new to the Debian Linux On the Debian 2.0 CD, the X11-section has two versions of Xservers, Xbooks etc. Now during installation, the newer package will be installed, followed by replacing with the older one. This happens every time, also when another package is select

Re: Laptop Installation problem

1998-10-14 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
It worked well for me by: 1. Made sure there was spare disk space for a linux ext2 partition (though experts can install debian through umsdos). 2.Copying all the installation disks to my FAT16 partition. 3. Since I was using Win95, rebooted, holding down F8 and then selected the boot option (para

Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?

1998-10-14 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >nis specific problems: > > > >When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, > >but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I gu

Re: debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 > based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and > only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a networked > station tied to my k6-23

Re: Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread servis
*- G. Kapetanios wrote about "Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?" | | Hi, | | I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM and if | there is where it is available from ? | As I have lost my ethernet connection, getting slink by modem is | prohibitive. | George | See http://www.de

Re: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-14 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote: > > : I ran gunzip on all the files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, then > : ran compress on all the files. Now the are all *.Z files. > : > : Vncserver still barfed looking for fixed (

Is there an official debian CD-ROM ?

1998-10-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering if there is an official debian CD-ROM and if there is where it is available from ? As I have lost my ethernet connection, getting slink by modem is prohibitive. George --- George Kapetanios Church

cxterm?

1998-10-14 Thread Richard Kaszeta
I have a number of Chinese users in my department here, and they requested that I install 'cxterm' so they can look at chinese-encoded email and files, etc. However, I downloaded the latest version of cxterm, ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/ygz/cxterm-5.0.tar.gz, and attempted to build it... It fails

Re: Need help ppp

1998-10-14 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Mans Joling wrote: > My dad threw away my pppconf when he was in the program dselect and he installed some programs but he dselected ppp so my ppp conetcion doenst work anymore and i hav eto work under windows cause i can't connect to the internet under l

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-14 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:27:30PM +, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: >> Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when >> this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other >> day. >> >> To give an example: >> >> $ time /

Re: LaTeX book

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Dear all, | | Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for | scientific writing... For introduction and normal use: (the lion book) Lamport: "LaTeX - A document preparation system", 2. edition, Addison Wesley For advanced use and cust

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Dale E. Martin
Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they > rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or > switched off, either due to ignorance or not caring. The question is > whether there is a way to configure the

debian network workstation

1998-10-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have an old 386-25 computer with 8m of memory, a 100mb hd, et4000 based video card with 1m of display memory. The mb has no cache, and only ISA slots. I would like to use this machine as a networked station tied to my k6-233 acting as a server. I have an acton ne2000 clone I can put in the 386

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:27:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PS. anyone knows how to type the "eszet" with a none German keyboard? Using the "compose" feature of the Linux console driver, e.g. put include "/usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/vim-compose-latin1.inc" in /etc/kbd/default.map.gz

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > > ...but that makes it the default for all users on the system, right? If you want to make a lighter window manager for the regular folks (er, root? :) and have a more sophisticated set up fo

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
> How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting > it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up... 1) check you have all the required packages in their slink versions 2) check your .xsession

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread zhaoway
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:24:06AM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > vi /etc/X11/window-managers add "/usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment" at the very beginning. zhaoway

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they >rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or >switched off, either due to ignorance or not caring. Wire the reset button through the key

Re: Latex Book

1998-10-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Dear Matthew, My first reply does not appear to have had my message! A good book is: A Giode to Latex2e, 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly. There is also another book published by McGraw-Hill I believe it is LAtex for Scientists an

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Fury
Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried > all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting > it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up... chmod 754 ~/.xsession if you're using xdm, chmod 754 ~/.x

enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
How do I start the enlightment window manager under Debian? I have tried all kinds of .xinitrc, .xsession files but I just don't seem to be getting it right, my old fvwm2 manager still starts up...

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:50:20PM +0200, Alex Shnitman wrote: > Peter Iannarelli writes: > > > You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync > > every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. > > That's not quite the issue - Linux syncronizes its buffers whenever it > has a chance any

chage / shadow settings

1998-10-14 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've been reading the man page for chage but I haven't got anything clear. Let's see. I want my users to be warned to be changed their passwords in ten days time. In ten days, I want 'login' (or whatever program is responsible) to make the users change their passwords inmediat

RE: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Andrew Chittenden
Is anybody working on a journalling/resilient file system for Linux? Rgds, Andy Chittenden Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:+44 1753 661011 Multimedia Development, Madge Networks Ltd Wexham Springs, Framewood Road, Wexham, Slough SL3 6PJ, England

Re: LaTeX book

1998-10-14 Thread Nick Busigin
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for > scientific writing... > > Thanks, > > Matthew You may want to check out: "LaTeX User's Guide & Reference Manual" by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison Wesley. and "

root partition deleted (resolved, hopefully)

1998-10-14 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following my numerous emails in my efforts to restore my machine I would like to thank everybody who respondd to my questions . I have managed to salvage my data but not my system since I did a total reinstallation. Anything less that that would not work. However compared to my experience with D

test

1998-10-14 Thread Default Debian Reader
test

Re: LaTeX book

1998-10-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
> Dear all, > > Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for > scientific writing... > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > -- > Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo > > Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society > Selwyn College Computer Support > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/884

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
Peter Iannarelli writes: > You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync > every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. That's not quite the issue - Linux syncronizes its buffers whenever it has a chance anyway. What I'd like to know is whether there is a way to minimize the damage i

Re: [Debian] support for Adaptec 2940UW2 ?

1998-10-14 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to install Linux on a machine with an ADAPTEC | 2940UW-2 SCSI board but it keeps on saying scsi: 0 hosts | ore something like that. I know there is support for the | 2940UW but I'm not sure whether this is the same board. It's not. | Does

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Alex: You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. Peter Alex Shnitman wrote: > Hi. > > We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they > rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or > switched

More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi. We're using Debian workstations in our labs, and as expected they rarely get shut down properly, many times they are just reset or switched off, either due to ignorance or not caring. The question is whether there is a way to configure the kernel to issue updates to the meta-data more frequent

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread homega
Joachim Trinkwitz dixit: > "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've no problems with german characters here without .inputrc and all > such stuff, only with this in /etc/bashrc: >| set meta-flag on >| set convert-meta off >| set output-meta on > In /etc/profile there is: >

Re: motif & debian

1998-10-14 Thread aqy6633
> i have motif2.01, and i used alien --deb , and installed the .deb > result. After i tried to lounch mwm and get a segmantation fault!!! > i tried again with an other file from the motif package and got the same > thing!! > the motif package was first in rpm format, after converting it, > i unins

Re: motif & debian

1998-10-14 Thread HAMDOUNI
i have motif2.01, and i used alien --deb , and installed the .deb result. After i tried to lounch mwm and get a segmantation fault!!! i tried again with an other file from the motif package and got the same thing!! the motif package was first in rpm format, after converting it, i uninstalled lesst

Re: xdm starting at the begining

1998-10-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
> How can I start xdm at the logon? I am using Debian 2.0 and the PC is stand > alone. > Another thing is how to set up different keyboard and font before xdm starts ? Change the line in /etc/X11/config from no-start-xdm to start xdm Keyboard setup is in /etc/XF11/XF86Config Font depends on wi

LaTeX book

1998-10-14 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for scientific writing... Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/Camb

Re: xdm starting at the begining

1998-10-14 Thread Frank Barknecht
Bostjan JERKO hat gesagt: // Bostjan JERKO wrote: > How can I start xdm at the logon? I am using Debian 2.0 and the PC is > stand alone. Edit /etc/X11/config and change the line with: no-start-xdm to read: start-xdm -- ____ Frank Bark

Re: xdm starting at the begining

1998-10-14 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi Bostjan : > How can I start xdm at the logon? I am using Debian 2.0 and the PC is stand alone. > Another thing is how to set up different keyboard and font before xdm starts ? > > Bostjan > Assuming that xdm is running at startup (the file /etc/init.d/xdm exist), you must add the line :

Need help ppp

1998-10-14 Thread Mans Joling
My dad threw away my pppconf when he was in the program dselect and he installed some programs but he dselected ppp so my ppp conetcion doenst work anymore and i hav eto work under windows cause i can't connect to the internet under linux can sombody help me what to do?

login time limits in slink???

1998-10-14 Thread Craig Sanders
anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? i've hunted all over (even to the point of grepping every file in /etc, /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin) for it and can't find it anywhere. how do i turn it off? i don't want time limits. c

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-14 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > >> the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > > .inputrc is also necessary. Take a look at the Danish-HOWTO, it explains > this and a lot of o

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq machine I have at work does this all the time under windows NT. What is needed is a program to do this under linux! ---"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > >

RE: [Debian] getting only LI from LILO

1998-10-14 Thread Richardson,Anthony
It's covered in the LILO User's Guide. It says it's either due to a geometry mismatch (between LILO and the BIOS) or a moved /boot/boot.b file. I'd bet on the geometry mismatch. You can usually get around the mismatch problem by adding the "linear" option to lilo.conf and rerunning lilo. Alter

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-14 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:23:55PM -0700, Cliff W. Draper wrote: > I have a LAN off of the net and I want to run my own NTP server. Is there > a special NTP server program available? I haven't been able to figure out > how to make xntp3 be a server when it doesn't have another NTP server to > syn

Re: keyboard question

1998-10-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:45:39PM +0100, tracheotomy_bob wrote: > Anybody know where I can purchase a 'normal' 102 key English (British) > keyboard, not some goddamn > windows 9x keyboard job. I've got a windows one at the mo. 'cos you can't > get anything else. > I tried to do this and failed,

Best way to mount and umount Novell servers automatically in XWindow user login

1998-10-14 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I setup some computers with Debian Hamm and installed ncpfs and ipx papackages. I already mount user directories with .nwclient file and ncpmount at .bash_profile and umount at .bash_logout at console. But in XWindow I didn't figure how I can mount user di

Re: exim:frozen messages

1998-10-14 Thread ing.Bubulac Angela Tatiana
hello, here you have the new mainlog file and the rest of log files. now I can send message but I could not receive them. TIA \\\___/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) -oOOo-(_)-oOOo--

Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?

1998-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >nis specific problems: > >When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, >but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to >change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn'

[Debian] support for Adaptec 2940UW2 ?

1998-10-14 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I'm trying to install Linux on a machine with an ADAPTEC 2940UW-2 SCSI board but it keeps on saying scsi: 0 hosts ore something like that. I know there is support for the 2940UW but I'm not sure whether this is the same board. Does anybody have any experience with this scsi board? Nico

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