Re: scan large files

1999-12-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > > Hi, > > How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the > > directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Shao. > > The only other shell tool you

Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about "RE: Quake1 included now that GPLed?" > >> There have been several quake packages on there. xquake, squake, >> quake2. xquake works very well for me. > > they dont include the maps do they? I was under the > impression that the maps were GPLed as well. >

Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

1999-12-23 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > > hi debian-freaks, > > > > currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a > > few tiny things like less, with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with > > linux, b

RE: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

1999-12-23 Thread Harlan Crystal
> There have been several quake packages on there. xquake, squake, > quake2. xquake works very well for me. they dont include the maps do they? I was under the impression that the maps were GPLed as well. - harlan

Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 Nov, Ulrich Hansmair wrote about "libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev" > hi debian-freaks, > > currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a > few tiny things like less, with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with > linux, but it worked fine. > > Now I wa

Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

1999-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > hi debian-freaks, > > currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a > few tiny things like less, with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with > linux, but it worked fine. > > Now I wanna compile

libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

1999-12-23 Thread Ulrich Hansmair
hi debian-freaks, currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a few tiny things like less, with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with linux, but it worked fine. Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages (gcc,...). As I wanna use "mak

Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Harlan Crystal wrote about "Quake1 included now that GPLed?" > Hello. > > > Quake1 was recently GPLed. > > Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package > for the games section? It would be a great addition to the > "games" section. > First, it will have to be in the

Re: Cloning machine

1999-12-23 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I have a Debian based machine I need to clone; actually I have 32 so I don't > want go through the install that many times for identical configurations. > I figured it should be pretty easy using dd but I'm running into some > problems I need help with. > > Any ideas on: > 1) how to make the copy

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:22:59PM -0600, Richard Dansereau wrote: > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically > compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have > it in all of the time.. even if your machine does not have APM. There are some motherboards

Re: Quake1 included now that GPLed?

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Quake1 was recently GPLed. > Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package > for the games section? It would be a great addition to the > "games" section. There have been several quake packages on there. xquake, squake, quake2. xquake works very well for me. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL

Re: UK Freeserve Connection

1999-12-23 Thread Mike Norris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, thomas lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Norris wrote: > > Can someone HELP me with a simple IDIOT-PROOF guide on connecting up! O.K. still no joy obviously I'm doing something wrong still ... please comment on the following the

Quake1 included now that GPLed?

1999-12-23 Thread Harlan Crystal
Hello. Quake1 was recently GPLed. Does that make it a candidate to become a debian package for the games section? It would be a great addition to the "games" section. - Harlan -- Harlan Crystal E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: 'Harlan Crystal' www: http://sdf.lonestar.org/~harlan

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks John, Here they are: /etc/ppp/peers/provider # This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 1.9.3beta2.0. # # hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" debug /dev/ttyS0 115200 defaultroute noipdefault user Pxx remotename provider ipparam provider /et

Re: Java 1.2 fails to run.

1999-12-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi David, I am running slink also. I wouldn't say "straight slink" as I have done MANY apt-get(s) for packages that put other packages on etc., too many for me to keep track of, so I don't... I got the 1.2 JDK running a few weeks ago, but after some reading I got the impression the pre-release

clearing SO's browser cache

1999-12-23 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know how I can clear my StarOffice browser cache? I can't even find it and I believe it might be somewhere in /tmp I clear my Netscape cache from ~/.bash_logout and I would like to do the same for StarOffice. Doing this lowers my "df" value :) thanks -- Andrew

Java 1.2 fails to run.

1999-12-23 Thread David Teague
Hi I have a stock Slink system running on a K6 350 100 MHZ MB 128 MB RAM, 8G ide drive, SiS 6326 8MB video. I have jdk1.1 deb package installed. I need jdk1.2 I downloaded jdk1.2.2 r3 from blackdown, untarred it in /usr/local. I set the path per install instructions from blackdown: export PAT

Re: Do Linux full-time... Hiring Linux specialists

1999-12-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Can you write the exact URL? Thank you. --- Begin Message --- Previously Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I have no objections to job postings here. > I think the web page idea is a good one. That webpage is supposed to be there already, I talked with the webtea

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
"not 8-bit clean" usually means that the chatscript is not succeeding in convincing the ISP to start ppp. Post your /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider files. Munge any passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: > I looked at minivend/minimate a few months back, and downloaded it again > last night to see if i can get it working..i need to get a small ecommerce > site up(only 4 products changing on a weekly basis) i hope i can figure it > out and get it going :) > > thanks for the info..didn

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 14:00:56 -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > The KDE folks had/have no exception and thus were/are violating the GPL. Only if they're reusing other people's GPLed code, which reportedly they don't. Remember, an author isn't bound by the copyright license she puts on her own work

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread John Carline
Richard Dansereau wrote: > > > > Richard Dansereau said: > > > Does the kernel > > > have to be compiled differently? > > > > Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. > > > > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically > compiled in? You would think it could b

Achieve file-locks over NFS??

1999-12-23 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I'm a brazilian sysadm with a big trouble: I need some way to allow user-level programs to achieve file-locks (exclusive access file locks, more specifically) over my NFS. I need to transfer my qmail MTA from a machine to a

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Richard Dansereau said: > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically > compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have > it in all of the time.. even if your machine does not have APM. If it's compiled with APM support, it will always be there... (It's n

Re: pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Todd Suess
I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I cured it by using AT&F as my init string in pppconfig. Once I did that I never got the error again. Regards, Todd At 11:38 AM 12/23/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec 2

pon problems with Potato

1999-12-23 Thread Clyde Wilson
I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon I get: Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: CONNECT Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: -- got it Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: send (\d) Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Serial connection established. Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]:

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Richard Dansereau
> > Richard Dansereau said: > > Does the kernel > > have to be compiled differently? > > Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. > Any reason why the kernel does not have APM support automatically compiled in? You would think it could be made smart enough to have it in all of t

Re: poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Richard Dansereau said: > Does the kernel > have to be compiled differently? Yep. You need to compile your kernel with APM support. -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+

poweroff

1999-12-23 Thread Richard Dansereau
Hello! Why is it that when I use the poweroff command that my machine only halts and does not turn off. I know that I can poweroff my machine when shutting down from Windows. Is there something I have to set? Do I need some power management daemon running? Does the kernel have to be compiled di

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about "Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?" >> QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is >> supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT >> which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
> QT v1 is included in the non-free section. The problem is that KDE is > supposed to be under the GPL but is violating the GPL by linking to QT > which is non-free. So Debian and others decided not to include KDE > until they either fixed the licensing issues or QT became free. QT v2 > is under

Re: dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
David S. Jackson writes: > I guess I could just use sudo. After trying that, it seems to be easier > than getting all the permissions correct for the dialout group. The dialout group has little to do with ppp. When the device name comes from a privileged source (as it should) pppd opens it as ro

Re: aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] > My hardware is: > > - Dell NetPlex 486SX/25 > - 32MB RAM > - AHA1542C SCSI Controller > - 3COM 509B Ethernet Controller > - 2-port 16550A Serial Card > - 3 x SCSI Hard Drives External > - 1 x SCSI Jaz Drive External > - 1 x SCSI S

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread carlf
Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't > included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues > with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? > If QT is OK to put in there then

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:43PM -0500, Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't > included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues > with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download t

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Bart Szyszka wrote about "I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?" > Hi, > > I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't > included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues > with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included i

I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I just thought of something. I thought the whole reason why KDE wasn't included in the Debian download trees because of the licensing issues with QT. If that's the case, then why is QT included in the download tree?!? If QT is OK to put in there then what's the point of saying KDE can't be the

Re: Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Many of the KDE apps rely on a library called qt1g, which dselect claims > "To not appear available". Checking my system, I find a library called > libqt1g which claims in the package description to "replace and provide" > qt1g. > Is there a way to convince dpkg that it should install these pro

dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
I guess I could just use sudo. After trying that, it seems to be easier than getting all the permissions correct for the dialout group. For example, the /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/* files are gid dip. That doesn't seem to jive very well with the "dialout" group. Anyway, TkDesk seems

Re: shutdown

1999-12-23 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Have a look at using sudo, to execute any commands you want as root. Speaking of sudo, is there a menu/X/KDE driven way of managing the sudoers file? I'm not having much luck with adding things in there manually and I'd rather have something slightly more automated anyway. -- Bart Szyszka [EMA

Date's and info...

1999-12-23 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, I was just wondering if a date had been set for the release of potato being stable yet? If so, what is it? Also, I was wondering what kernel version it would be shipping with. If 2.4 is out by then, is it gonna be that? Thanks for your time, Bye!

aha1542 kernel panics

1999-12-23 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
I have been trying to solve this problem without success for about a year now. My hardware is: - Dell NetPlex 486SX/25 - 32MB RAM - AHA1542C SCSI Controller - 3COM 509B Ethernet Controller - 2-port 16550A Serial Card - 3 x SCSI Hard Drives External - 1 x SCSI Jaz Drive External - 1 x SCSI Sony D

Re: Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a "permission > denied" when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm > root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as > a user. > > Also, could someone explain why /us

Re: Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread Jonathan Heaney
"David S. Jackson" wrote: > Hi, > > I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a "permission > denied" when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm > root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as > a user. > > Also, could someone explain why /usr/sb

Re: logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? > I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable > # apt-get --compile source logrotate > but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) > > przemol > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/23/99, Egbert Bouwman addressed "Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)": > In the dselect man page (dd 29th november 1995) in slink you can read: >The dselect package selection interface is confusing or even >alarming to the new user. > The debian group tries to remedy this by

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: : On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: : : paul.k >I accept that sendmail is not used for reading mail, but I'm fairly sure : paul.k >my sendmail receives mail as well as sends it. From /var/log/mail.log : : paul.k > : paul.k >Dec 22 01:25:45 funki

Dialout group

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I've added myself to the dialout group, but I still get a "permission denied" when I try to run /usr/bin/pon (which works fine when I'm root, btw). What am I forgetting? I want to be able to run this as a user. Also, could someone explain why /usr/sbin/pppd is in the dip group and not the d

Re: questions about "generic" Ethernet drivers, DHCP

1999-12-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Salman Ahmed wrote: > I finally got a second box to install Linux on today. Unfortunately its > not the Compaq Deskpro EN I had hoped for. Its an older Digital 5000 PC > with the following specs: > > PII 233 > Adaptec AHA-2940 UW SCSI Adapter > 2 Seagate 2Gb SCSI HDs > Matrox Mystique vide

Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD

1999-12-23 Thread Bob Elliott, RCS
Don't forget to refrigerate it in case it is a thermal issue... -Bob - Original Message - From: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Guilherme Soares Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users Mailing List ; Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:42 AM Subject: Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD Let the

Re: MUD Sever.(How do I compile?)

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jack Sonnie said: > I have the source > code for the program, but it just says to type "make" and cross your > fingers... I hate (lack of) documentation like that... > From what I can tell, "make" must be either a Unix compiler or > was in the original Linux... Uh... No. Make coordinates the

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Ookhoi wrote: > > I will try to reproduce it at home It seems to be quite useful for ISP > > setups... In the meantime, did you try giving > > > > chroot /usr/remote /bin/bash > > > > as your login shell? Of course enter it into /etc/shells as well. I did > > not

Re: Kernel Panics

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
Does it always happen when you run iptraf? it could be a network driver problem or a network card hardware problem. a good way to test the board/cpu/hdd and i/o subsystems that i have found is running 10x copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the same time for 24-48 hours, if the machine lasts 24 hours

Re: Packages.gz

1999-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:50:54AM -0500, Jonathan D . Proulx wrote: > How do I generate a Packages.gz file for a local distribution directory? dpkg-scanpackages which is from the dpkg-dev package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins --

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: paul.k >I accept that sendmail is not used for reading mail, but I'm fairly sure paul.k >my sendmail receives mail as well as sends it. From /var/log/mail.log : paul.k > paul.k >Dec 22 01:25:45 funkiest sendmail[4378]: BAA04378: from= [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
do you have a soundcard? many soundcards (esp soundblaster) use irq5, are you sure there are no conflicts with anything on that serial port? nate On 23 Dec 1999, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Bostja >Acctualy if using default kernel for Debian 2.1 (I think 2.0.36) everything works fine. Bostja >I didn'

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread aphro
jfoste >++ jfoste >MiniVend and Minimate may be exactly what you are looking for; if you jfoste >have some skills in database managemant including SQL, perl programming, jfoste >html scripting, and a lot of cgi knowledge and PHP3 are also VE

Packages.gz

1999-12-23 Thread Jonathan D . Proulx
How do I generate a Packages.gz file for a local distribution directory? TIA, Jon

apt-move

1999-12-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
I can't get apt-move to co-operate. elm:# apt-move move Creating Lists... Error: makelist: No master ls file exists! It seems to want ls-lR and I think it looks in the /debian/.apt-move directory, but I can't get it right. My debian mirror is in /debian. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: netdate in potato??

1999-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: netdate in potato?? Date: Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:28:45AM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| > >| > dpkg -S netdate >| > >| > netstd: /usr/man/man8/netdate.8.gz >| > netstd: /usr/sbin/netdate >| > >| >| Um, in *potato* nets

/dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Bostjan JERKO
When using new (compiled) kernel (e.g. 2.2.15) I receive message for port /dev/ttyS2 - port busy (0 and 1 working properlly). Any ideas what might be the problem ? B.

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Robert, > > > > And this works: > > > > expanse:~# chroot /usr/remote/ su - ookhoi > > > > ookhoi $ > > > > > > > > Of course bash is there: > > > > ookhoi $ /bin/bash > > > > ookhoi $ > > > > > > And is it in the chrooted /etc/shells? > > > > Thanx you for your response! Yes, it is: > >

Kernel Panics

1999-12-23 Thread Peter Ludwig
Just a quick note, I'm starting to wonder about my hardware. For the last few months (since I reloaded the system back to running slink in fact), I have been receiving errors similar to the following message :- Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Oops: Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: CPU:0

Re: dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread John Hasler
David S. Jackson writes: > I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, > as I look in /etc/group, there is no "dip" group listed, only a "dialout" > group. Is this an oversight? That or a bug. What are you running? > Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the "d

Re: Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Robert Rati
I'm pretty sure the packages would have to me modified. To get around it, you'll have to manually install the packages uses dpkg --force-depends. Unfortunately, anytime you upgrade packages, dselect will want to remove those packages because they have unmet dependencies (atleast apt will). This is

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Ian Stuart
Egbert Bouwman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: > > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after > > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything > > Remember that the dependencies will kick in (though jd

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: > > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after > > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything > > > The debian g

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Robert, > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: > > > > I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * > > > > in > > > > the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and > > > > that user's login will then be chroot()ed to

logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable # apt-get --compile source logrotate but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) przemol

logrotate

1999-12-23 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Where I can find logrotate deb package for slink ? I try to dowload logrotate sources from unstable # apt-get --compile source logrotate but it doesn't compile (some errors in sources *.c) przemol

I can't apt-get.. help me.

1999-12-23 Thread generoso
I installed debian packages using apt-get over the network. I'm running debian 2.0 on i386 machine. A few weeks ago I upgraded kernel upto 2.2.13 and upgraded some packages in potato. After that apt-get causes segmentation-fault. I always get message "Electric Fence 2.0.5..", maybe I installed ke

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Acctualy if using default kernel for Debian 2.1 (I think 2.0.36) everything works fine. I didn't even start using the port since I need to change it's IRQ to 5 I used setserial and received the message about busy port. Let me add that I don't have any additional serial cards. This port is used fo

Re: netdate in potato??

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Dec, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: netdate in potato??" > > Subject: netdate in potato?? > Date: Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:04:22PM +1300 > > In reply to:Tim Nicholas > > Quoting Tim Nicholas([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>| Hello all, >>| >>| Can anyone tell me which package in potato

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Ookhoi wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: > > > I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in > > > the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and > > > that user's login will

Re: Next codename

1999-12-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Oki DZ wrote about "Next codename" > Hi, > > What would be the name of the next Debian version after potato? Wheezy? > Woody Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody unt

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-23 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Ben, > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: > > I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in > > the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and > > that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory. > > > >

Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

1999-12-23 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything > You are one of many, myself included, who asked similar questions about resetting dsel

Re: Can't install on ThinkPad 385XD

1999-12-23 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:12:49PM +, Alex Bell wrote: > I have made the resc1440, drv1440, and root floppies. When I boot with Have you tried the tecra boot and driver floppies? I had succes on my thinkpad 760 ELD with resc1440tecra.bin & drv1440tecra.bin and similar problems with the norma

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread Onno
aphro wrote: > > You cannot read mail with a SMTP server. that is for sending mail > ONLY. This is true for every SMTP server there is(many mail packages Hmmm, mine has a feature that allows me to receive mail ;-) > include both POP3 and SMTP so it may seem as if the smtp is allowing use

Re: Help me POP 3

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
aphro wrote: > > You cannot read mail with a SMTP server. that is for sending mail > ONLY. This is true for every SMTP server there is(many mail packages > include both POP3 and SMTP so it may seem as if the smtp is allowing users > to read mail) the daemons listen on different ports(smtp 25 pop

Re: scan large files

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the > directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. > > Thanks. > > Shao. The only other shell tool you need is man :) >From find(1) -size n[bckw]

Re: dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread Paul J. Keenan
"David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. > But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no "dip" group listed, only a > "dialout" group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the > /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the "dialout" group? You should

IMAP and disable plain passwds / APOP ?

1999-12-23 Thread Onno
When I use imap with CRAM-MD5 authentication do I have to recompile the source to disable plain passwords? Has anyone experiance with APOP in imap? Regards, Onno

scan large files

1999-12-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Acctualy if using default kernel for Debian 2.1 (I think 2.0.36) everything works fine. I didn't even start using the port since I need to change it's IRQ to 5 I used setserial and received the message about busy port. Let me add that I don't have any additional serial cards. This port is used fo

Re: Debian Slink/Potato w/SMP

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
Steve Lamb wrote: > > Does anyone have an experience with Debian on an SMP machine? Is it > stable? How well does it perform? --- As you can see we have no probs with them :-)) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and wo

Re: E commerce stuff for linux?

1999-12-23 Thread John Foster
aphro wrote: > > i want to know what people reccomend for an e commerce package for > linux(free or not) something thats stable, secure, and runs on debian 2.1 > :) > > nate ++ MiniVend and Minimate may be exactly what you are looking for;

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? " >It is easier to write an incorrect program than >understand a correct >one. "-Wayne Topa = Jolan Tru, Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4784/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? >It is easier to write an incorrect program than >understand a correct >one. -Wayne Topa __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

Re: /dev/ttyS2 port not accessible

1999-12-23 Thread Fish Smith
Can I quote you? >It is easier to write an incorrect program than >understand a correct >one. -Wayne Topa __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

dip group/dialout group?

1999-12-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I was just noticing that the groupname for /usr/sbin/pppd is dip. But, as I look in /etc/group, there is no "dip" group listed, only a "dialout" group. Is this an oversight? Should I chgrp the /usr/sbin/pppd* stuff to the "dialout" group? -- David S. Jackson http:/

MUD Sever.(How do I compile?)

1999-12-23 Thread Jack Sonnie
Hi... I have been using Debian for about 5-6 months, and have a fair knowledge about the system. I will have a small peer-to-peer network set up in a day or so, and want to run the Debian box as a DikuMUD Server. I have the source code for the program, but it just says to type "make" and cro

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
Well, that looks okay, maybe a problem with your PAM setup? On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:23:27AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:22:57PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > What's /etc/hosts.allow > > in.ftpd: localhost > > >and /etc/hosts.deny, > > ALL: PARANOID > > >/etc/ftpu

Can someone answer this? (qt1g problem)

1999-12-23 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings, I have asked this before, but either nobody saw it, or nobody knew, so I am posting this again in the hopes someone will know the answer. Many of the KDE apps rely on a library called qt1g, which dselect claims "To not appear available". Checking my system, I find a library called

Re: How do I install Netscape with Debian? (fwd)

1999-12-23 Thread Cory Snavely
> >I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. > >From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the > >tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp > >directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should

cross compile

1999-12-23 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to have pine on my SunClassic; but since the machine doesn't have space that much (and since I have gcc on my Intel machine), I don't think that it is wise to download gcc and all the dev. libs on it. Would make-cross package sufficient for this? Or should I donwload cross-dev*.deb or

Re: shutdown

1999-12-23 Thread Peter Ross
On 23-Dec-1999, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problem in creating a script for executing shutdown from a > normal username: > okidz:~$ /sbin/shutdown -h now > shutdown: must be root. > > I have tried to put a username in /etc/shutdown.allow and > executing "shutdown -a -h

Re: What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?

1999-12-23 Thread Peter Ross
The libc development forked early on in the linux development, as GNU libc wasn't useable on linux systems. This was rectified in glibc 2.0, however the linux libc was up to v5, so glibc is sometimes called libc6. You will find that a lot of programs are compiled against libc5 since it should exi

Unidentified subject!

1999-12-23 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:22:57PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > What's /etc/hosts.allow in.ftpd: localhost >and /etc/hosts.deny, ALL: PARANOID >/etc/ftpusers say? root ftp I think I only added the entry in /etc/hosts.allow. Oki

Re: netdate in potato??

1999-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: netdate in potato?? Date: Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 01:04:22PM +1300 In reply to:Tim Nicholas Quoting Tim Nicholas([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Hello all, >| >| Can anyone tell me which package in potato contains >| 'netdate' or some other equivalent program?? >| dpkg -S netd

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