Re: X stability issue

2000-03-21 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:51:39PM +0100, Vitux wrote: > Sounds like a heat-related problem to me. Make > sure the m'b is properly cooled, and fastened > properly in the box. The temperature in the case is around 35°C and the CPU's are at 39°C - 40°C. I don't find that to be to much. To be honest

Star Office

2000-03-21 Thread Brendan O'Brien
    Hey Y'all--   I was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem I have with StarCalc.  In my work I routinely do data analysis on hundreds of thousands of data points.  Normally, I use Excel on Win98 to do this but recently I grew frustrated with Windows with all its bugs and c

2.1 install CD panic

2000-03-21 Thread Alex
Trying to boot from CD 1 of the 4-CD "official" 2.1r2, I get a panic: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00 System is an ASUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] motherboard with two 333MHz PIIs, 12Gb Quantum Bigfoot UDMA HD as master and generic ATAPI CD as slave on the first IDE channel, nothing on

Workstation in multiple NIS domains

2000-03-21 Thread Peter Paluch
Hi everybody, =-=-=-=-=-=-= I need to set up a few workstations so that users from multiple NIS domains could log to these workstations. (Or more precisely: I have two servers with different users. I need to set up some workstations so that any user from any of the two servers could log in and wor

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:57:14PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > with whitespaces. How can I do that? Given that spaces can interfere with shell parsing, particularly for loops of the "for foo in $bar; do somethi

Re: undoing `apt-get upgrade`?

2000-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Gaddis) wrote: >A week or so ago, I was gonna update my server. I ran > >$ apt-get update >$ apt-get upgrade > >and was informed there was about 20 megabytes of packages >to update. When I asked to continue, I promptly told it >"no". Now if I use dselect, and select a p

Re: Can't install tetex on slink

2000-03-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
quick answer: 1) dpkg --purge 2) make sure you have a pointer in /etc/apt/sources.list to a current mirror 3) apt-get update 4) apt-get install I notice in the text below that you're trying to install/configure some -1 packages, and there came a problem with those packages once they were mor

Status of RIVA TNT2 3D Support in XFree86 4.0...?

2000-03-21 Thread Steve
Hello All, I have not been able to find a definate answer as to the existence of 3D Support in XFree86 4.0 for an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Card. Some stuff that I have read seems to indicate that there is not a 3D driver yet...? Is this true? Is there 3d support in X4, and if so, is it usable at a

splitting kde .debs?

2000-03-21 Thread john
I've downloaded kde packages and would like to transfer them to another box to try installing them there. I can use only 1.44 floppies. So far I've not been able to copy the smaller files successfully - the problem shows itself when trying to mount the floppy after apparently copying the files ther

dpkg-scanpackages uses older debs?

2000-03-21 Thread Mark M
Hi, Doe anyone else have this problem with dpkg-scanpackages? If you have different versions of the same package, sometimes it uses the latest version, but usually it uses the earlier version [think incremental potato upgrades]. I used to have a sed regex so that I could move the earlier pacakag

Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-21 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, I am running the lastest potato version and since sometime ago my key E (yeah, E upcase) stopped working. But only in bash. If I run csh or ksh, it works. What happens is the following, I type and I dont get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other key. When

Re: exim wildcard mailbox

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
Many thanks. Particularly for the smartuser chapter...I could never have made it to chapter 23! Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

Re: undoing `apt-get upgrade`?

2000-03-21 Thread Hecubus
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Is there any way to "undo" my `apt-get upgrade` so that it will remove > these packages from the list of packages to be updated? You should be able to get away with: apt-get --no-upgrade install Theoretically, it should signal that installed packages

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:57:14PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > with whitespaces. How can I do that? rename 's/_/ /g' *.mp3 (or whatever). -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: > Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed should refer

undoing `apt-get upgrade`?

2000-03-21 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
A week or so ago, I was gonna update my server. I ran $ apt-get update $ apt-get upgrade and was informed there was about 20 megabytes of packages to update. When I asked to continue, I promptly told it "no". Now if I use dselect, and select a package to be added, when I choose "Install", it s

Re: apt-get and http authentication

2000-03-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Anton Gyllenberg wrote: > I can't get apt-get to do http authentication. It seems sources.list > doesn't support http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ type URI:s. The manuals do > mention Heh this got missed, it doesn't support it. You could add it really easially though. Jason

Re: KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

2000-03-21 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 15:10:49 -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > Unless I'm mistaken, KDE2 will be included in Debian's site because of > > all the licensing changes > > You are probably mistaken. While there is a license change in that KDE2 uses >

Re: bash: Some: command not found

2000-03-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:54:42AM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > What 've I to fix to my profile in order to avoid that message ? > > bash: Some: command not found Check the files in your home directory named .bash* (not the .bash_history), also check /etc/profile Ben -- ---===-=-==

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-21 Thread Bart Friederichs
> Debian does indeed rock but the x windows really need more than 4MB > of RAM. I have 8M, but the upper 4 are bad. I am just busy installing it now. I *know* it is the ram that does it ; ). Maybe I will get me more RAM, hope it is easy to get some 30pins SIMMs. > I notice you posted using O

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:39:33AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote: > > > > On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is > > owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using > > cdcd, can

dbootstrap requiring unexisting file resc1440-2.0.38.bin

2000-03-21 Thread Paolo Benvenuto
Hi all! I'm installing debian linux from HD (I don't have floppies). version 2.1.11, 28 august 1999 I'm using a laptop, ACER Extensa 390, with W98 on the first partition. I downloaded the necessary files, as described in the installation manual, and I started install.bat without the configuratio

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Jason Christensen
There is actually a great little program to create all the sym links Ron talks about. Read the man page for update-rc.d. It's in the dpkg package. It makes the management of the sym links much easier! BTW, if you had (or have) installed the ssh debian package, it would (should) have installed the

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #475

2000-03-21 Thread Bob Billson
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and why depmod makes such weird things ... > > run "rm /lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep" - possibly it's write-protected > > or such thing. > > I did that and it puts back the weird one. Correction: it IS stamped 5 > hours older than whenever it i

RE: MS Frontpage

2000-03-21 Thread sgaerner
What system are you using? I installed FP Ext and the tools on a Debian slink 2.1 and did not have problems get this tools running. Try www.rtr.com. There you'll normally find the latest release including the tools and the source code for the Apache module. Sven On 19-Mar-2000 Werner Reisberger

Re: LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory

2000-03-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:31:00 +0100, |{.f|. wrote: > checking LIBRARY_PATH variable... contains current directory > configure: error: > *** LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory when > *** building gcc. Please change the environment variable > *** and run configure again. > how

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 18:32:46 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Of course it's difficult to tell without any technical details, but my > educated guess would be that the non-free binary-only software they tried > to use was linked with -rpath, I second that guess. I've seen this before, once with the C

Password authentication for Exim?

2000-03-21 Thread Marc Sherman
Is there any way to set up Exim to do password authentication for host-auth-accept-relay using PAM? I've read chapter 33 (authentication) of the Exim manual, but it only describes how to add a single user name - I'd like to allow any user with a valid account on my machine to use their regular ema

Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?

2000-03-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Mar-2000 George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, David Karlin wrote: > >> >> Obviously, finger could be disabled, but I'd like to keep it >> running on the internal network. >> >> Is there a way to get finger to not show .forward? >> > > Try using a different finger daemon. There ar

Can't install tetex on slink

2000-03-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I'm running slink (the one which comes with "Debian GNU/Linux Unleashed") on a Pentium II. Ok. I've been trying to install tetex since yesterday without success... I've tried to install from the cd-rom, from the debian site (with apt-get), and I got the same problem (with the tetex-bin

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Mognet
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:57:14PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > with whitespaces. How can I do that? You might use mmv. If your files are: foo_bars then use mmv "*_*" '#1\ #2' (quotes required) ht

apt-get and http authentication

2000-03-21 Thread Anton Gyllenberg
I can't get apt-get to do http authentication. It seems sources.list doesn't support http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ type URI:s. The manuals do mention authentication to http-proxies, but not authentication to the site. Am I doing something wrong or is this something apt-get can't do (I hope not).

RE: Apache initial webpage

2000-03-21 Thread debian
I noticed that I needed to set the permissions to global execute in order for pages, graphics to load correctly. oddly owners and groups didnt matter much. Caveat - this was on redhat6.1 +=> -Original Message- +=> From: David Wiard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +=> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 20

Re: Apache initial webpage

2000-03-21 Thread David Wiard
On a similar note, I've tried several times to configure Apache to open a different page other than the docs without success. What should be changed in the config files to redirect Apache to look for /www/index.html rather than /var/www/? -- Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting a in9100 /UW and drives recgonized by install

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew M Carroll
I can not figure out how to get my hard drive and cdrom both of which are on my in9100 SCSI card recognized by the install process. When looking through the documentation I can not find any boot parameters to pass to the card? Any info would be great. ___ __ __ /

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oswald Buddenhagen) wrote: >> I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines >> with whitespaces. How can I do that? >> >possibly not the easiest way, but it works: > >for i in *; do mv "$i" "${i//_/ }"; done > >works only with bash 2.x (probably y

Re: Apache initial webpage

2000-03-21 Thread nakor
> > I've tried creating symlinks to the documentation from /var/www to > > /usr/doc/apache, but no matter what I do, I always get the 403. I tried > > creating a directory under /var/www/ and copying the initial index.html > > there, and I still get 403. Permissions look okay, though. > > > are

Re: exim wildcard mailbox

2000-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick) wrote: >I want to add a default mailbox that gets all mail not meant for >specific users. For example, sales@ or info@ and anything@ > >With fetchmail and a .forward file, this is easy. But how can it be >done with exim? Put something like [1] the following at the end

Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?

2000-03-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:49:34PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > simply "chmod 600 .forward" - at least on solaris this works ... > > I don't think that works on Linux; it did not work for me, anyway. its not a linux issue its a MTA issue, finger is not a privileged program (or shouldn't be!) so if

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > > > with whitespaces. How can I do that? > > you could try mmv > for example, if files are: foo_bar > just do > mmv "foo*bar" foo\ bar (the quotes are required) > this gives you nothing: normal mv would do t

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Mognet
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:09:59PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > > with whitespaces. How can I do that? you could try mmv for example, if files are: foo_bar just do mmv "foo*bar" foo\ bar (the quotes are r

Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?

2000-03-21 Thread Pollywog
On 21-Mar-2000 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> Hello, >> I finally got around to trying out exim's built-in sorting, and >> it seems to be working great so far. >> >> [...] >> >> Is there a way to get finger to not show .forward? >> > > simply "chmod 600 .forward" - at least on solaris this works

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom

2000-03-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote: > > On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is > owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using > cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some > security thr

Re: Sending esc sequences to a printer.

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a Panasonic (Epson emulation) Dot-Matrix printer, and the only > way to change the default pitch (i.e. 10 cpi, 12 cpi..) is through DOS > software. The owner's manual lists all the escape sequences, but how do I > send them to the printer? > echo -e "\e\e" >/dev/lp0 could work.

Sending esc sequences to a printer.

2000-03-21 Thread John Anderson
Hi, I have a Panasonic (Epson emulation) Dot-Matrix printer, and the only way to change the default pitch (i.e. 10 cpi, 12 cpi..) is through DOS software. The owner's manual lists all the escape sequences, but how do I send them to the printer?

Re: Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines > with whitespaces. How can I do that? > possibly not the easiest way, but it works: for i in *; do mv "$i" "${i//_/ }"; done works only with bash 2.x (probably you have one ...). you also could try mmv, but i don't

Rename files

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi! I'm trying to rename a lot of files. I just want to substitute underlines with whitespaces. How can I do that? TIA Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Hello, > I finally got around to trying out exim's built-in sorting, and > it seems to be working great so far. > > [...] > > Is there a way to get finger to not show .forward? > simply "chmod 600 .forward" - at least on solaris this works ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into you

Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?

2000-03-21 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I finally got around to trying out exim's built-in sorting, and it seems to be working great so far. However, when I run finger against my username, it shows my .forward file: Mail forwarded to # Exim filter if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains "ebian-" then save $home/M

Re: How to set up printing in Netscape

2000-03-21 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:31:00AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > However, I have the newest magicfilter installed (according to apt, pointed > at potato), and > ghostscript appears to not be available in potato: I get a message about it > not having an > available version although it is in the databa

Initial console

2000-03-21 Thread Ulf Svanstrom
Hi Di Ho, all linux lovers :) i stumble over a very wierd error, had My lovely debian 2214 up and running, started to ftp som files down to my HD. switched over to a new console (alt F2) tried to login, but no luck. I came to the login: entered root asked for password, i enetered password then i

Re: kde Window Manager

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager > > > > > > i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following > > > > > > exec currently set to wmaker > > > > > > what do i specify for KDE? > > > > > kwm > > > That's a wrong answer. that's NOT a wrong answer! the questi

Re: kde Window Manager

2000-03-21 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager > > > > i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following > > > > exec currently set to wmaker > > > > what do i specify for KDE? > > > kwm > That's a wrong answer. You should d

Re: printer

2000-03-21 Thread Dave Heistand
I use printtool, it comes with RedHat, is simple to use, and there is a deb package available. Run 'dselect' as root and press '/' (no quotes:-) and type 'printtool' as your searching criteria. You also should install a package 'mpage', you can search for and install it the same way you searched

Re: How to add a virtual interface

2000-03-21 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:08:15PM +0100, Jaume Teixi wrote: > How to add a virtual interface with /etc/network/interface > in order to add a secondary IP from another network to the ethernet > > tanx! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Hi, use

Flytning

2000-03-21 Thread Wichmann, Viggo
--- Let's get back from la-la-land here, 'cause this ain't gonna happen

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom

2000-03-21 Thread Jacob Jovelou
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Radim Gelner wrote: > > On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is > owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using > cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some > security threat? No. I can't thi

How to add a virtual interface

2000-03-21 Thread Jaume Teixi
How to add a virtual interface with /etc/network/interface in order to add a secondary IP from another network to the ethernet tanx!

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is > owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using > cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some > security threat? > i think, it is secure. i do it that way, too. -- Hi! I'

Group for /dev/cdrom

2000-03-21 Thread Radim Gelner
On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some security threat? Thanks Radim

Re: Making the "Windows" key work

2000-03-21 Thread Arnout gmx
> Can someone explain (or point me to the correct > documentation for) the procedure for making the > Windows key pop up the start menu for the kde, fvwm or > icewm desktops? I succeeded in making the 'windows'-keys useful for accents (like é,ê,ï) with some simple xmodmap lines (I can mail them if

Apps that depend on glibc2.0 ? (potato/woody)

2000-03-21 Thread Jose Marin
Hi all, I'm sure this must have been discussed before but I haven't been able to dig it up from the mailing list archives or dejanews. I'm using several machines, some with potato, some with woody. I need to install a free (as in gratis) f90 compiler, which needs glibc2.0 and won't work with gl

Re: SSH SSH2 and XTERM

2000-03-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Thanks a lot to everyone in the chat! ^^SORRY I WAS THINKING TO ANOTHER THING : Fabio

needed please: root's .bashrc and .bash_profile

2000-03-21 Thread Jaume Teixi
Can you send me an standard copy of that 2 files from /root tanx! begin:vcard n:Teixi;Jaume tel;fax:972 46 31 14 tel;work:972 46 30 50 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.6tems.com org:6TEMS;Ducform, SA adr:;;Pla de l'Estany, s/n;CASSÀ DE LA SELVA;Girona;17244;Spain version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAI

Ghostscript 6.01 in debian?

2000-03-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I hoped that the new potato will include the newest ghostscript 6.xx . However even in the non-free section there is still only old 5.50 available. AFAIK the newest ghostscript fixes a lot of problems with PDF generation (eg. The conversion of Xfig generation EPS into PDF's ready for inlud

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
The symlinks are links to your script that decide when the script should be started (/etc/init.d/

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
Try chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh Ron On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote: > trying to get ssh to load at boot > > i have created a script in /etc/init.d called ssh > i have also created a symbolic link to it from > /etc/rc2.d called S20ssh > > but upon bootup the log says > /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2

Re: XF86Config per user?

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm having a related problem: I can change my resolution, but my desktop > doesn't adjust. > that's intended. the virtual resolution is always set to the largest physical resolution (or higher, when specified with the "virtual" keyword in the xf86config. there is no way (i know) to disable that

Re: kde Window Manager

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager > > i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following > > exec currently set to wmaker > > what do i specify for KDE? > kwm -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pa

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > and why depmod makes such weird things ... > > run "rm /lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep" - possibly it's write-protected > > or such thing. > > I did that and it puts back the weird one. Correction: it IS stamped 5 > hours older than whenever it is created (boot). I am at GMT -500 but this >

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
It has to be said that running one distro is easier to manage. At work we have Win NT Server, Red Hat, FreeBSD and a solitary mail server running Debian as a result of my evangelising. The diversity is a pain when for example we want to work on the FreeBSD box and no-one knows where any files are

Re: HPT366 and installing linux.

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> After a long time without using Linux, I decided to try Debian on my > computer. However, when I tried to install Debian the setup program > couldn't find any drives connected... And I tried to install manually > the disk drives with the I/O adresses and irq numbers. No way! I can't use > my UDMA

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:18:09PM -0800, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > Debian rocks! Yeah, only installing it on a 486 with just 4MB of RAM, will > cost you (until now, he still isn't ready) 3 days That is, for the > standard workstation. Ahh, what the heck, as long as it runs, I will be

Re: How many accounts does Linux have?

2000-03-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:51:49PM +0900, ^°"cZ"ü wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem that my Linux server has to manage about 1 users. > I was looking for information about maximum user for Linux,but I could't. > Are there anyone who have experiment of managing huge accounts? > > Katsumi. li

Re: How many accounts does Linux have?

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a problem that my Linux server has to manage about 1 users. > I was looking for information about maximum user for Linux,but I could't. > Are there anyone who have experiment of managing huge accounts? > i have no practical experience, but ... the uid and gid are 32 bit numbers, afaik

Re: How many accounts does Linux have?

2000-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
^°"cZ"ü wrote: > I have a problem that my Linux server has to manage about 1 users. > I was looking for information about maximum user for Linux,but I could't. > Are there anyone who have experiment of managing huge accounts? You're limited to 65534 accounts. -- see shy jo

exim wildcard mailbox

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
Hi all, I want to add a default mailbox that gets all mail not meant for specific users. For example, sales@ or info@ and anything@ With fetchmail and a .forward file, this is easy. But how can it be done with exim? -- Patrick Kirk Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can fin

Re: Apache "initial" webpage

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I've tried creating symlinks to the documentation from /var/www to > /usr/doc/apache, but no matter what I do, I always get the 403. I tried > creating a directory under /var/www/ and copying the initial index.html > there, and I still get 403. Permissions look okay, though. > are you sure, t

Re: XF86Config per user?

2000-03-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm having a related problem: I can change my resolution, but my desktop doesn't adjust. The setup: Running potato with latests debs, SVGA server (Matrox G200) I originally configured X with 1152x? as the default resolution. I am running GNOME and have tried various window managers (enlightenment

HPT366 and installing linux.

2000-03-21 Thread Tolga KIlicli
After a long time without using Linux, I decided to try Debian on my computer. However, when I tried to install Debian the setup program couldn't find any drives connected... And I tried to install manually the disk drives with the I/O adresses and irq numbers. No way! I can't use my UDMA66 drive.

SSH SSH2 and XTERM

2000-03-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all guys, a really strange problem is afecting my debian boxes. when i try to open ssh/ssh2 connection in xterm after the logon section i'm not able to see something more in the xterm. i'm sure the connection is established and if i do it from a text console it works fine. All my boxes ar

Re: Best way to start eth0 without address

2000-03-21 Thread ktb
In Slink you can look at /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/network what it shows is how the /etc/init.d/network file is set up when configuring the network during the Slink installation process. I don't know if it is the same in unstable or not. hth, kent - Original Message - From: Marshal Kar-

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Hecubus
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Installing the ssh package SHOULD do that for you. Oh, that's the easy answer for so many questions posted here. I'm still trying to figure out the resistance to using Debian's package management system, when that's my favorite thing about the distributio

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Matthew Dalton
Joey Hess wrote: > > Of course it's difficult to tell without any technical details, but my > educated guess would be that the non-free binary-only software they tried > to use was linked with -rpath, so it will only work if some library is in a > specific place. Which is of course, its own fault,

Re: printer

2000-03-21 Thread Michael Bonetsmueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Shapiro) writes: > I have a HP LaserJet 1100. What are the steps for installing it or > getting it to work? 1) install package doc-linux-text. 2) read /usr/share/doc/Printing-HOWTO.gz. 3) ask again if you have more questions. I recommend apsfilter as a filtering package

kde Window Manager

2000-03-21 Thread Beavis
hello Linux list   i am wanting to start kde as my default x-windows manager   i am going to edit my ~/.xinitrc with the following   exec   currently set to wmaker   what do i specify for KDE?

booting error

2000-03-21 Thread pplaw
debs, i have a new lapbox that hangs at "starting pcmcia services: modules." i'm going to need pcmcia support, but is there a way to configure or disable it so that i can fininsh the install? ia, t. -- >> Bentley Taylor << __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory

2000-03-21 Thread |{ . f| .
While configuring new gcc compiler I got such an errors: creating util/Makefile creating config.h config.h is unchanged Configuring gcc... loading cache ../config.cache checking LIBRARY_PATH variable... contains current directory configure: error: *** LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current d

How many accounts does Linux have?

2000-03-21 Thread cZ
Hi, I have a problem that my Linux server has to manage about 1 users. I was looking for information about maximum user for Linux,but I could't. Are there anyone who have experiment of managing huge accounts? Katsumi.

Re: Unresolved symbols potato and kernel 2.0.36

2000-03-21 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:12:33PM +0100, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: > I don't know nearly anything about this, but... did you activate module > support in your kernel? It sounds like there has to be such a silly little > thing that breaks it all. No kidding, that's what I'm hoping for. And yes,

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

2000-03-21 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:00:52PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I recompiled a 2.0.36 kernel, of course I had to use gcc 2.72. I copied > > System.map all over known creation, made modules_install did depmod and ... > > just an idea: did you a "make dep clean" before "make install etc." w

/etc/network/interfaces

2000-03-21 Thread John Dalbec
For those converting existing potato systems: Make sure you uncomment the loopback interface in this file! Both inetd and KDE hung for a long time when I didn't uncomment it. Also ifconfig did not show the interface when it was commented out. John

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread dyer
Beavis wrote: > trying to get ssh to load at boot > > i have created a script in /etc/init.d called ssh > i have also created a symbolic link to it from > /etc/rc2.d called S20ssh > > but upon bootup the log says > /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rc2.d/S20ssh: Permission denied > > anyone know why, or maybe

Re: Best way to start eth0 without address

2000-03-21 Thread Robb Aley Allan
Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong writes: > > "Robb" == Robb Aley Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For what it's worth, I sometimes use ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > > and it seems to work. > > I guess the questions is in what file did you put it. I

Re: I need XFree86 3.3.6 in .deb format

2000-03-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main This location has XFree 3.3.6 for slink. On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:49:09AM +0100, ponghy wrote: > I have a S3 Trio3D/2X graphics card, and my release of X is 3.3.2 (enclosed > with Debian 2.1 CD #1

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-03-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
Installing the ssh package SHOULD do that for you. On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:38:29AM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > /etc/init.d/ is where you have to put the script > /etc/rc[RUNLEVEL].d is where you have to put symlinks to this script > > Ron > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote: > > > everyt

Re: A little bad press about Debian

2000-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Wohler wrote: > And yet, such an optimistic outcome is not a sure thing. Minor > examples of Linux forks already exist. When Tom Stoddard, database > administrator at BFGoodrich's Avionics Division, loaded backup > software on company servers in Grand Rapids, Mich., he found an

Apache "initial" webpage

2000-03-21 Thread Chris R. Martin
I've installed Apache 1.3.9-12 and apache-doc 1.3.9-12. The initial web page that Apache installs has a link to the documentation, but I get "403 Forbidden" when I click on it. I've tried creating symlinks to the documentation from /var/www to /usr/doc/apache, but no matter what I do, I always

Re: Unresolved symbols potato and kernel 2.0.36

2000-03-21 Thread markm
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:25:58AM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Well I have to use 2.0.36. 2.2 doesn't work for me, remember? And I use > stock kernels because it avoids another level of confusion and Huh? you should have no trouble with 2.2. Not sure if you know this but you can't compil

Re: Last chance: unresolved symbols and depmod weirdness

2000-03-21 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > Please tell me I'm a moron and I'm clearly not running *command x*. Please > tell me something... It's getting so blowing the thing away and > reinstalling takes less time and frustration. Hi, Here is my cheat sheet of steps

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