Auto-mounting and unattended boot

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
x27;s not there it shouldn't wait for a root password like it does now, but just fail and continue booting. Is it possible somehow? Thanks in advance! Please, CC me on your replies, since I'm not on this list. Thanks. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-06 Thread Alex Shnitman
mv linux linux.old ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux . mv asm asm.old ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm . -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--- http://alexsh.hectic.netUIN 188956PGP key on web

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Alex Shnitman
's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--- http://alexsh.hectic.netUIN 188956

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-22 Thread Alex Shnitman
filter also count as the link being idle. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

alien or rpm?

1998-10-22 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hey. I was wondering, what would be a better idea, to install an RPM package by converting it first to .deb with alien, or just by using RPM directly since it's there? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- an

Re: smail problems (dial-up)

1998-10-22 Thread Alex Shnitman
the closing bracket which needs to be a separate parameter. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

Kernels from the 2.1 series

1998-10-19 Thread Alex Shnitman
and not an external program like kerneld. So you don't need anything to use it - just the Linux kernel itself. The init scripts in hamm automatically find out the existanse of kmod and don't start kerneld in that case. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

Re: Juliet image.

1998-10-19 Thread Alex Shnitman
he latest version of cdrecord (from the author's site), build it and you'll have the newest mkisofs which you can copy over /usr/bin/mkisofs. For some reason hamm comes with a pretty old mkisofs, and there's no newer one in slink. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

Re: NIS

1998-10-15 Thread Alex Shnitman
st nis distribution from slink (and it > >took the libc along with it) but it did not help. > > Can you do "ypcat passwd.adjunct" (as root!) ? Perhaps you need to > fiddle with /etc/nsswitch.conf No. (No such map...) But I also can't do it from any other box t

Re: NIS

1998-10-15 Thread Alex Shnitman
> On the other hand, if the server is running NIS (or NIS+ in NIS > emulation mode) then it should work fine (except for netgroups). I use > it all the time, and your setup sounds OK to me. Yep, it should - I agree. I try to explain it to the machine but it's ruthless. :-) -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

NIS

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
it) but it did not help. I'm totally out of ideas. :-( -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
it would be a shame to waste them. Besides, we don't want to buy a new server for the NFS-root. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

Re: More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
imize the damage in the case of a "reset" when the machine was busy. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

More robust filesystem?

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
more frequently, even in expense of performance? Or what else can I do to keep the filesystems on the workstations more stable, in addition to user educating on which we're of course working? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alexsh.home.ml.org

Running a libc5 binary - weird problem

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Shnitman
x.so.2 (0x40312000) Why does it try to link the libraries from /usr/X11R6/lib? When I try to run it it naturally segfaults. Are the paths hard-coded into the binary? How can I get around that? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

1998-10-13 Thread Alex Shnitman
e proxy asking it to re-request the document and not retrieve from the cache. How is it possible to do such a thing when Netscape doesn't think it uses a proxy but actually it does? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

Re: Thanks for mail

1998-10-10 Thread Alex Shnitman
not Emacs. Or do you refer to the size on disk rather than memory? -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here

Re: Thanks for mail

1998-10-10 Thread Alex Shnitman
toolbars and inline image attachment viewing and all the other stuff you see in graphical clients), and when you're at the console you get a regular textual client a la pine. -- Alex Shnitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 188956 http://alexsh.home.ml.org -- PGP key here http://www.debian.org -- and the OS here