Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-13 Thread Aaron Denney
n a high numbered port. Login accounting will (probably) not work correctly, but... The non-debianized source might be easier to deal with if the target machines are not debian. The latest source can be had from ftp.cs.hut.fi:/pub/ssh -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

1997-12-15 Thread Aaron Denney
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Denney) writes: > > > Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't > > believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly > > on its ow

PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

1997-12-15 Thread Aaron Denney
, etc.) -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ssh and shosts file

1997-12-09 Thread Aaron Denney
ser groups, > and world execute for public_html access). Is this an ssh bug? Not as such. Ssh is perfectly reasonable in being paranoid about permissions as it has no way of knowing that only you are in your personal group. There is really no need for group write permission on your directory

Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Aaron Denney
Stephen Zander wrote: > Aaron Denney wrote: > > This isn't quite the appropriate venue for such questions, as it is > > a general unix/sed question and not very specific to Debian. In the > > future try the newsgroup comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.questions. >

I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Aaron Denney
^^ are the quoted parts. The \t is not quoted, but is interpreted by your shell, which replaces the \t with an actual t. If you take out the inner quotes, it should work: sed -e 's/\t/ /g' outfile This will pass an actual \t to sed, which will interpret it as

PAM

1997-11-26 Thread Aaron Denney
I was wondering if there is any plan to move Debian over to using PAM for logins and other authentication. I see that it has been made a debian package and some packages do use it, just not stuff like login. -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-24 Thread Aaron Denney
if [[ -f $i ]]; then echo $i mv $i ~/.rm else echo "$i cannot be removed." fi done } -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xdm trouble

1997-11-14 Thread Aaron Denney
x the problem from there (try hitting control-alt-F1). That might not work, though, if xdm keeps on switching to X on restart. If this doesn't work you can try booting with the option 'single' to lilo, or 'init=/bin/sh' if that fails. They should let you login without xdm (or

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-13 Thread Aaron Denney
the dpkg system does work okay. I just suppose my view of how the software installation should go is not quite the same as the dpkg one, although both ``work''. Thanks to all who tried to answer my questions. -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Aaron Denney
l it. Certainly just going ahead and having it build the binary package and then installing that is feasible, and even fairly easily automatable, but it looks like an unnecessary step. Thank you for your replies. -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[Q] source package building

1997-11-12 Thread Aaron Denney
think doing an installation after the build would be possible without having to take the extra step of creating a binary package. If this isn't the only way, could someone please explain how to go about installing a binary package? -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e