user list

Hi, Is there an easy way to get a list of all regular user ( UID > 1000 ) accounts on the system? I can't find the userls command I used to use on SCO. Mike -- Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --> NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --> Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.deb

RE: Re[2]: The vexed 2-CD problem...

Steve, In my opinion, multi_cd is quite unintuitive and difficult for someone new to debian to understand. There is no clear explanantion of when to change the disks, what to enter at each prompt and how to do the update. I should know too, I had great trouble with it. Ended up mounting the disk

Re: diald

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Mateusz Lapsa wrote: > Hello. > I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. > Unfortunatelly there some problems. > After instaling and configuring it it isn't responding for any traffic, > which is beeing sent to sl0 device. Strange. However when I start

Squid hogging memory with children

I just upgraded Squid (to 2.1.2-1, the newest in stable). It's started to spawn a bunch of (16) child processes that consume a lot of my memory. Despite my best efforts with the config file, I can't change the number of children. Can anybody give my a pointer on this? I just want to use squ

Re: Can not setup up mouse for xfree86 (new user)

Use Xf86config first...that may do the trick. Colin Winters

Re: file transfers and the PIII - solved!

> Are there any known concerns with the PIII chip and Linux? > Thanks Thanks to everyone for the responses. A new kernel (2.2.9) has done the trick, as far as the networking issues go. Anyone know if a kernel version can have any sort of effect on applications running on a machine? O

diald

Hello. I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. Unfortunatelly there some problems. After instaling and configuring it it isn't responding for any traffic, which is beeing sent to sl0 device. Strange. However when I start it manualy by sending up command to fifo it works fi

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 22:22:54 +0200 (CEST), Rolf Edlund wrote: >On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote: > >Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > > 250 SIZE 2097152 > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > 250 2.5.0 Address and options OK. > >>> RCPT To

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

> Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > 250 SIZE 2097152 > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > 250 2.5.0 Address and options OK. > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. > >>> DATA > 354 Enter mail, end with a si

Re: sloooooow apache

don't know whether it is good or bad idea, but did you try mod_rewrite to rewrite url requests from non friendly IPs? Bernard On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 13:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any Apache geniuses have an idea about this; I want to create a strictly > limited access web server, avai

Re: Linux Hierarchy

*- On 8 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Linux Hierarchy" > > FHS does not have these requirements. Debian has a long history of [Replace with] FHS also has these requirements. However, Debian has a long history of -- Brian ---

LyX not exporting PS

Hi, I'm trying to generate a Postscript file in LyX. From within LyX I can view .dvi but view PS only shows the embedded graphic (not the text!). I can export a PS file, but it turns out missing the text as well. I know that this is a new release prone to be buggy, but it seems like I must be

Re: upgrading perl - apache-ssl prob

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bernard wrote: > Got the same trouble and have also put the pakages that require 5.005 on > hold, dselect doesn't complain anymore but... I have the following problem: > > c/ apache-ssl (non-US) > [Thu Jul 8 21:34:02 1999] [error] Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC > contai

RE: Segmentation fault

How can I tell? There is no man LANG or man variable. > > Have you set your LANG et.al. Variables? If yes, try to unset them... > > HTH, > > Jens > > P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At > http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ > (Sorry Europeans only) > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: Linux Hierarchy

*- On 8 Jul, Sami Dalouche wrote about "Linux Hierarchy" > In the FSSTND, section 4.5, it's said : Actually Debian is moving towards FSH and not FSSTND. > > It is not recommended for /usr/etc to contain symbolic links that point > to files in /etc. This is unnecessary and interferes with local

Re: SSL problems

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Alexander Koch wrote: > I have apache-common and libapache-mod-ssl and apache-ssl, > all the latest packages from potato. If you're using libapache-mod-ssl, you don't need apache-ssl, IIRC. Can't help with the apache-ssl error since i use mod-ssl only ;)

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote: Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. 250 SIZE 2097152 >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 250 2.5.0 Address and options OK. >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. >>> DATA 354

Can not setup up mouse for xfree86 (new user)

Hello, I have been trying to figure ouyt what protocol and device name to use for my microsoft serial mouse that ius connected to com1. I' have tried /dev/ttyS0, /dev/mouse and every other device name, but my mouse still wouldn't move. Could it be the XF86Setup program or are my settin

Humerous juxtaposition

Attributions elided to protect the innocent: >> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v): >> 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".". >> >>> . >> And it just sits there, doing nothing ? > After trying to send the mail for several days, the problem is now over. > Do

Re: lp stopped working--"connection refused"

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > problems stroke... > > To start with, submitting jobs to the server would put a couple of > files in the spool directory (of dfA/hfA pattern), but these wouldn't be > printed. Lpd was running, so it looked as if lpd couldn't see the files in >

Re: Re[2]: The vexed 2-CD problem...

Bob Bernstein writes: > >Now as to the abovementioned 'vexed problem,' since I'm the resident Debian >advocate where I hang out, has any progress been made on the two-cd thing? Do >they work now? I presume you're talking about getting the multi-cd install method working? Exactly what problems have

Re: Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.

On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > >OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do > >this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg > >database would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for > >example, ro

Linux Hierarchy

In the FSSTND, section 4.5, it's said : It is not recommended for /usr/etc to contain symbolic links that point to files in /etc. This is unnecessary and interferes with local control on machines that share a /usr directory. And on my machine, /usr/etc/mc.global is a symlink to /etc/mc/mc.global

Installing potato off the net

Hi, until about a week ago I had a small box (amd 386dx40 w/ 16mb, 1.2gb) serving my network, providing internet connectivity and so on, but due to my fault (nothing to do with the dist, which is really great) the installation (hamm+slink mixed) is hosed in a way I think reinstalling is the less

Re: sloooooow apache

Well, I don't know apache, but you might want to see about placing these restrictions in tcp wrappers rather than in apache - if you have tcp wrappers installed, read the man for hosts.deny and set up an http deny for all but those 30 clients. You're only moving the overhead around rather than eli

SSL problems

Hallo. I have apache-common and libapache-mod-ssl and apache-ssl, all the latest packages from potato. I have a config where I get asked for the pass phrase of key generated long ago. The key is ok and then I always get the following error in /var/log/apache-ssl/error_log: [Thu Jul 8 15:30:04 1

Re: XBanner on remote display - solved!

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 04:39:39PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > Moving 'exit 0' to the end of the script solves the problem. Is this a bug > in the xbanner package? Not really - there's no telling where a remote X session might come from, or what sort of machine's on the other end. If it's relati

Re: upgrading perl - apache-ssl prob

Got the same trouble and have also put the pakages that require 5.005 on hold, dselect doesn't complain anymore but... I have the following problem: a/ perl -V Compiled at Jul 1 1999 02:04:21 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.004 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-

Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote: > Hi! > > Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v): > > 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".". > >>> . > > And it just sits there, doing nothing ? After trying to send the mail for several days, the problem is now over. D

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Backup via rdump linux->solaris slow

My worksite has a backup system where a central solaris 2.5.1 server rsh-es into various other UNIX boxes (Solaris, HPUX and AIX) and does an rdump similar to this: /sbin/rdump -0 -u -b 32 -s 100 -f ale:/dev/rmt/1hn /scm I recently added a linux box to the network (debian 2.1, kernel 2.0.36

Re: Howto to retrieve potato recursively?

Stefan Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I want to download the whole debian/dist/potato-tree via ftp. > How can I do that? E.g., if a wanted to do the same thing from our > ftp-server, I would simply type ``get debian/dist/potato.tar.gz''. > Our ftp-Server is configurated with this ni

Re: Segmentation fault

Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I get this message whenever I try using apt-get. What is a segmentation > fault and should I be concerned? Please do let me know! > > Patrick > > rhino:/home/patrick# apt-get update [...] > Segmentation fault > rhino:/home/patrick# Have

can't get XF86 to work

i ran xf86config and xf86setup and had the same result, after i selected all the options and ran startx i get an error sayinf all of the selected devices were not found and fatal error: no screens found. i tried every combination in xf86and still nothing works.help!

RE: ATI card accelerators

I have an 8MB AGP ATI too, and is it quite good, goes up to 1600x1200 @ 32bit, but of course my poor little 17" shudders at that :( I find that the mach64 x server is BIG. From top: 2855 root 14 0 28140 27M 1396 S 0 2.7 21.9 265:45 XF86_Mach64 ^^^

Re: automagic ftp sessions?

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:34:45PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm running slink and would like to automate an ftp session > to upload a file to a remote server. > Anyone care to shed some light? OK, ask yourself these questions: 1. How bad would it be if, on one particular occasion,

Re: debian-user split

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:14:04AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Newsgroups seem to get overwhelmed by off-topic posters, probably > because it's easier to subscribe to a group than sign up for and deal > with a mailing list. OTOH, with a lot of mailing lists you don't even need to subscribe :-

Re: automagic ftp sessions?

As usual, there is more than one way to do things in Unix/Linux... Have you looked at cron? (man cron) crontab -l lists any current cron job schedules and crontab -e allows you to edit the crontab (cron table). Basically, you would write a script to do the ftp operation, mark the script as exec

Re: Slink Installation problems

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 02:02:00PM +0100, Jorge.H.Sousa wrote: > I'm want to install Slink over Hamm without doing an upgrade, But I'm facing > a major problem, the rescue disk hangs when detects the SCSI adapter. The > same disk works perfectely on my other system with no SCSI. It's a known prob

Re: compiling GNATS

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > GNATS-3.110 (from unstable) is not compile-able on my (unstable) Debian > maching. It contain code similar to this: > FILE *outfile=stdout; > gen-index.c:38: initializer element is not constant > On a debian 1.3 machine it wor

Re: Segmentation fault

Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Hi all, > > I get this message whenever I try using apt-get. What is a segmentation > fault and should I be concerned? Please do let me know! > > Patrick > > rhino:/home/patrick# apt-get update > Get http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages > Get http://www.uk.d

lp stopped working--"connection refused"

Hi! I have a debian box running as a samba printer server. I finally got round to properly configure the last win 95 machine last night, and then... problems stroke... To start with, submitting jobs to the server would put a couple of files in the spool directory (of dfA/hfA patter

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem

You have a very in depth message, which is good. Your problem is simple. The rec1400.bin and other files are disk images. You have to extract them to a floppy disk using rawrite or rawrite2. You'll just have to install with those floppies because all disks but the rescue disk are in ext2 format,

Re: debian-user split

Jonathan Sharp wrote: > [cut] > I'd prefer to see more people use the news groups instead. Since I'm new > to these lists, is there a big feeling for mail groups instead of news > group? > Newsgroups seem to get overwhelmed by off-topic posters, probably because it's easier to subscribe to a gro

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for x86 Installation Problem

Hello Debian-User, I'm a new subscriber to this list and really new to Linux so forgive me regarding my stupid question and this long-enough e-mail. I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on my P133. But the installation couldn't be completed because I'm experiencing the problem I described b

Re: V.35 interface card for 64 Link needed

senthil kumar wrote: > > Thanks for your info. > DO the RAD tiny bridge have the V.35 interface?? Yes. > Note: > I'm using the 64k line for internet connection. > The other end of the line is having a CISCO router, > so in my end i have to configure PPP/HDLC protocols. This changes everything.

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

I need to chime in on this. I, with my untrained eye, can't tell the difference in video performance b/w my Linux box at home and my Win95 box at work. However, when my Win95 box which has 64 MB RAM starts to swap under load, which it inevitably does, everything slows down, including the popups, di

Re: V.35 interface card for 64 Link needed

senthil kumar wrote: > I have a RAD ASM-20 Modem that we are using for > a 64k leased line with a conventional router(with V.35 interface). > > I need a v.35 interface Card(ISA/PCI) that > can be connected to the V.35 interface of the > ASM Modem. I had the same problem some time ago and solved i

Re: Exim & SMTP

Look at the "local_domains =" line in /etc/exim.conf - you need to explicitly add "localhost". On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:38:10PM +0300, Ali Onur Uyar wrote: > I am using Debian Slink with Exim, configured for an Internet Site, > to receive and send mail using SMTP. > Everthing is configured using

E-mail for dummies - 3

-- E-Mail: Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08-Jul-99 Time: 21:01:58 This message was sent by XFMail -- I have XFMail setup now, so I can finally mail under Linux. Thanks for all the help. The next step will be to setu

Slink Installation problems

Hi, I'm want to install Slink over Hamm without doing an upgrade, But I'm facing a major problem, the rescue disk hangs when detects the SCSI adapter. The same disk works perfectely on my other system with no SCSI. Here's what happens when hamm is booting (Kernel 2.0.36) -

Re: Exim & SMTP

Ali, Try removing the specification of the smtp server in your Communicator preferences - leave it blank. If this works, good. For an explanation of this phenomenon, see the reply I received just yesterday on this list for my message with the subject "Exim, Pine, and smtp-server". Regards

ATI card accelerators

I have an ATI card in my debian system and use the ATI accelerator (mach64 i think) and to be honest you have to try really hard to see any preformance drop in linux versus windows NT (and even then it maybe a case of if you believe there for it is). cheers matt

Re: Exim & SMTP

>> "Ali" == Ali Onur Uyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ali> Now the question is wether Exim rejects smtp requests from Ali> localhost. Does the error message contain the smtp error exim gave? Does hostname --domain match the value for local_domains in the exim configuration? To which address do

V.35 interface card for 64 Link needed

Dear Sir/Madam, I have a RAD ASM-20 Modem that we are using for a 64k leased line with a conventional router(with V.35 interface). I need a v.35 interface Card(ISA/PCI) that can be connected to the V.35 interface of the ASM Modem. I like to know the specification and the pricing. Do you help

Re: automagic ftp sessions?

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:34:45PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > I'm running slink and would like to automate an ftp session > to upload a file to a remote server. > > I've been reading a Unix book which says that the "<<" > redirector is usful for this, but no details or example are > given. S

Re: BUG ??

Sami Dalouche wrote: > see http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/www/lexique.html and http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/ > to have more infos (sorry, french links) > > the UTC time IS THE reference but the GMT acronym is used in 99% of the > cases to say UTC. > > So, wouldn't it be better to use UTC in the install and in t

Re: where do i find crypt ?

Subject: where do i find crypt ? Date: Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:23:54AM +0800 In reply to:Chad A. Adlawan Quoting Chad A. Adlawan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hello all, > ive been trying to compile cops and crack but i keep on getting this error : > > /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try'

RE: Alternastive to using squid

Many thanks to all who pointed out that there is an IP Masquarading mini-howto. It took less than an hour to read through and seems to work perfectly from the point of view of giving the Windows boxes internet access. All I did was enter these commands: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.

Segmentation fault

Hi all, I get this message whenever I try using apt-get. What is a segmentation fault and should I be concerned? Please do let me know! Patrick rhino:/home/patrick# apt-get update Get http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages Get http://www.uk.debian.org stable/contrib Packages 0% [Pack

Re: Bind (fwd)

I wrote previously > Try removing the root servers hint from it. Or if it does not > help, then set up /etc/hosts on the sendmail site. It might help. However if this does help, then do consider that if you don't use forwarders, and don't use root servers then your machine is on its own, so it

achieving secure web services for the masses

Hello everyone! I would greatly like to hear as much feedback as possible about a project that I am proposing will be licensed under the GPL. It is a project that will bring about web mail that handles encryption and decryption. The web based email will live on an https server. This is the core o

compiling GNATS

Hello GNATS-3.110 (from unstable) is not compile-able on my (unstable) Debian maching. It contain code similar to this: #include FILE *outfile=stdout; int main() { fprintf(outfile,"hjhh"); return 0; } and comlains about gen-index.c:38: initializer element is not constant On a

Re: sound - debian performs well but one prob, no sndstat

Hi, Shell script exists in /dev/MAKEDEV. cd /dev ./MAKEDEV audio That's OK. On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:37:45 +1000 "Carley, Jason \(Australia\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have just compiled a 2.2.10 kernel and run isapnp under debian slink and > it has all worked perfectly unlik

Exim & SMTP

I am using Debian Slink with Exim, configured for an Internet Site, to receive and send mail using SMTP. Everthing is configured using default configuration paraemeters. That is relaying mail through smtp for nonlocal domains is disabled. Now the question is wether Exim rejects smtp requests from

Re: PGP5, mutt, and signed messages

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >However Wichert Akkerman closed the bug report. I believe he was >confused and thought that the files were supplied with PGP, and >as such had the same license restrictions. This is wrong. The files >do not come with PGP - they are supplied with the freely

Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:06:15PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based > distribution? > Star Office 5.1 was released to fix problems with SO5.01 and glibc2.1, > but is it still compatible with glibc2.0? Yes, I use it now with pl

Howto to retrieve potato recursively?

Hi, I want to download the whole debian/dist/potato-tree via ftp. How can I do that? E.g., if a wanted to do the same thing from our ftp-server, I would simply type ``get debian/dist/potato.tar.gz''. Our ftp-Server is configurated with this nice feature. Are there any other possibilities? Than

Re: PGP5, mutt, and signed messages

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >One other thing, I saw references to 'language.txt' and >'language50.txt' (for PGP2 and PGP5, respectively) in the Mutt >docs. However, it appears that the Debian package doesn't come with >these files. Would this be considered a bug, and if so, should I f

Re: Bind

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a network but I want > bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I am doing this so I can use the > sendmail genericstable and virtualtable and convert my addresses to the ones I > want to have eve

sound - debian performs well but one prob, no sndstat

Hi guys, I have just compiled a 2.2.10 kernel and run isapnp under debian slink and it has all worked perfectly unlike my previous attempts under other dists. The cards initialise and the modules will load manually (have to learn how to have that happen auto). However, For some reason /dev/sndstat

install can't read from cd

Hi there, Can anybody help with the following, I'd like to be able to try debian... Disappointed with rh6 I thought I'd give debian a go. I ran the cd through dos (d:\install\boot) and successfully mounted the root directory, init swap. When it came to selecting media to install from I chose

menu

O.k. what needs to be in the tag "section" of a menu entry if I want it to be in the root menu but not under any section? For example I installed xexec and I wan it to be in the root menu like the wmaker default menu has the "Run" entry, I tried to leave that section out to no avail. All I can fine

Re: Just my opinion

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:47:50PM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > > Now I am going home to figure out why IP forwarding has stopped > working with 2.2. The "Changes" file distributed with the kernel source tells about this and the new parallel port stuff. -- Ray

XBanner on remote display - solved!

Finally I found it. This is the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup: #!/bin/sh # # /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup # # This script is run whenever xdm is asked to manage a display other than :0 exit 0 <-- !!! # XBanner - begin /usr/X11R6/bin/freetemp /usr/X11R6/bin/xbanner -file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad # XBanner

Re: where do i find crypt ?

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 03:08:58AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 08-Jul-99 Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > hello all, > > ive been trying to compile cops and crack but i keep on getting this error > >: > > > > /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try': > > /tmp/ccc00945(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `

Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Yes, but potato uses glibc2.1, which is what Star Office 5.1 is meant to > run with. I want to know whether Star Office 5.1 is backward compatible > with glibc2.0 (ie Slink, RH5.2 etc...). I have StarOffice 5.1 installed in Debian 2.1 (slink). I don't

automagic ftp sessions?

Hello, I'm running slink and would like to automate an ftp session to upload a file to a remote server. I've been reading a Unix book which says that the "<<" redirector is usful for this, but no details or example are given. I've also experimented with the macro function within ftp, but have

Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

Ben Lutgens wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:56:07PM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > > Matthew Dalton writes: > > > Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based > > > distribution? > > > > So, I'd also like to know if anyone has downloaded it and successfully > > i

Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:56:07PM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > Matthew Dalton writes: > > Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based > > distribution? > > So, I'd also like to know if anyone has downloaded it and successfully > installed it. > StarOffice 5.1 ins

Staroffice mail

OK. I have Staroffice mail working to my local machine. My problem is intermetently I am having problem connecting to my machine. Everything is set to localhost for a server name. Bind is set up with localhost in it's table (acording to the deb install). And it works 90% of the time. Since th

Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

Matthew Dalton writes: > Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based > distribution? > > Star Office 5.1 was released to fix problems with SO5.01 and glibc2.1, > but is it still compatible with glibc2.0? I downloaded it, but the install program apparently has a fa

Re: where do i find crypt ?

>Isn't that [crypt(3)] in libc6, folks? WRT the message from yesterday, and this, and others: crypt lives, for most applications, in /lib/libcrypt.*. Some programs, like crack, provide their own, faster, version. You specify crypt to gcc as follows: Function prototype for C: char *crypt(const

Re: where do i find crypt ?

crack ues its own version of crypt, you have to cd to the correct source directory of teh crack distribution and make the crypt library. They discuss this in the crack documentation. Carl

Re: where do i find crypt ?

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 03:08:58AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try': > > /tmp/ccc00945(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `crypt' > > > > can anyone tell me please where/what package do i get the crypt function > > from ? > > Isn't that in libc6, folks? Yes. Be su

Re: accessing the dos partition

I used to download the packages to local dos partition and install them from there. I can recall that dos only allows 8 digits of packages names, which caused the trouble for dselect to find right packages. You can try that. But, I would like to buy a distribution cd if I were you. It saves a lot o

Re: Managing a hybrid slink/potato Debian installation

Sami Dalouche wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:19:02PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > Is there a way to say apt that the system should be slink except for some > > packages (eg. wmaker, x11amp, gnome, wine) that should come from potato, so > > that I can safely issue an apt-get upgrade without

RE: where do i find crypt ?

On 08-Jul-99 Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > hello all, > ive been trying to compile cops and crack but i keep on getting this error >: > > /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try': > /tmp/ccc00945(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `crypt' > > can anyone tell me please where/what package do i get the cr

where do i find crypt ?

hello all, ive been trying to compile cops and crack but i keep on getting this error : /tmp/ccc00945: In function `try': /tmp/ccc00945(.text+0xb83): undefined reference to `crypt' can anyone tell me please where/what package do i get the crypt function from ? TIA, Chad

Re: Bind

>> "Brian" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Brian> I thought forwaders where for a local network. That is why I Brian> did not put any in. No, if you have a LAN and want to resolve the IPs you use therein, you set up a primary f

Star Office 5.1 with Slink?

Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based distribution? Star Office 5.1 was released to fix problems with SO5.01 and glibc2.1, but is it still compatible with glibc2.0?

Re: ethernet card probs

First I would believe you need to provide more information to get serious help, unless someone else happend to have this exact problem... First, you either got the latest 3c59X.c (compiled it how 3com or HOWTO's tell you) then compile it so it becomes 3c59X.o and put it in the /lib/modules/(wha

Re: XBanner on remote display?

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > How did you get his windows computer to connect to xdm? I was always > wondering how to do this... Xappeal is a DOS, not Windows program. You can get it from any SimTel mirror, directory: msdos/xwindow. Installation is easy (assuming that the net

PGP5, mutt, and signed messages

Greetings everyone. After seeing quite a few postings about Mutt and PGP in the past few days, I decided I'd finally get around to setting it up myself. I've got it working fine with GnuPG and PGP2, but I have a question about PGP5... I don't know if this is really specific to Mutt, though. I sen