Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
and on the color prompt, hit to get a command line. Then, "fdisk -l" from there (that's an L, not a one). My only thought is that you may have overlapped a partition. Brandon Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

Re: did windows kill my linux?

1999-05-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Send in the output of "fdisk -l" Brandon ---- Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

BUG: /dev/null 0600 was: Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

1999-05-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jon Marler wrote: > I figured it out ... > > The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set > them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. Whatever did this is a bug. /dev/null should be 0666 by default. If you have an idea on what the offending prog

Re: duplicate posts?

1999-05-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Is everyone else getting duplicate posts? If you are refering to the NDN messages, then yes. Seems someone didn't setup their server correctly (bounces should go to sender, not to list). I just sent a message to the debian list master and the post master at

Re: cfs???

1999-04-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Enjoy, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | |-- UNIX Syste

Re: parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?

1999-04-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
a few months (summer and winter break). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, cor

Re: Raid issues

1999-04-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
kernel. I claim no more knowledge on the subject, so you may want to send a polite request to Martin. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX s

Re: tn3270

1999-03-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
terested in it. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, c

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Brandon Mitchell
etely implement the hayes standard. So it depends on who you ask as to if it's defective, the modem is working as it was designed by the manufacturer, but the manufacturer may have been better to pick a different design. Brandon +---

Re: Backups

1999-03-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I'd also add the result of dpkg --get-selections to a backup (redir the output to a file). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX sy

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
his thread, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | |

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
a class 5 for 100 base T. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrup

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
em to agree that it's the first step. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | | brutaliz

Re: slink install messed up hamm partition

1999-02-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
you have this line in your /etc/modules. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, cor

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
o post the output of ifconfig. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, cor

Re: wu-ftpd-academ

1999-02-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
There is a list of incoming mirrors in the developers corner (on the web site). My personal favorite is llug.sep.bnl.gov. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throug

Re: Graphical dselect-like tool?

1999-02-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
debian hasn't packaged (at least it wasn't avail when gnome-apt was released). See Debian Weekly News (from debian's web site) for more info. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.r

Re: 2.0 install problems

1999-02-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
. I don't know how to activate this change without a reboot. +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | | actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: hdparm

1999-02-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote: > Ship's Log, Lt. Brandon Mitchell, Stardate 310199.2331: > > > > /etc/rc.boot/hwtools > > I thought /etc/rc.boot is obsolete ... In slink? If so, someone should do some checking: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p3):/root# dpkg

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
. My part of the file is: #!/bin/sh # Hdparm optimization # Switches on interrupts during transfers and does multi sector transfers hdparm -u0 -m0 -S120 /dev/hd[ab] #hdparm -u1 -m16 -S120 /dev/hd[ab] HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ |

Re: hdparm

1999-02-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
l timeout to get set at boot time? /etc/rc.boot/hwtools Note: I took out -u and -m on my system because they caused some corruption. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhm

Re: Problem installing minicom

1999-01-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
nt; dpkg -i minicom*.deb; cd /; umount /mnt Mtools needs to be installed for the first one. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a complete

Re: No Password for Root

1999-01-24 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ust a guess, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: printing problems

1999-01-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
t seems directly > pertinent. does anyone have any suggestions? /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz Section 11.5 HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
me" and use the editor again. If it still doesn't let you change the file, send the new output of "mount". Finally, to check a filesystem, run "e2fsck /dev/hd??" replacing the ?? appropriately. Good luck, Brandon +---

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
nd get to the color/mono screen? Anyway, in answer to your current question, try: mount -o remount,rw / HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Thanks Joey, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ently it should do the trick. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I > > > think > > > it was just a single C file. > > > > That

Re: start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
hvt didn't show up in any packages. TIA, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

start svgalib progs from X

1999-01-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
+--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Dynamic IP addressing

1999-01-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ame. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

1999-01-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
show up in your normal bios unless the scsi controller is built into the motherboard. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: slink does not have lib6

1999-01-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
+--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > I was trying to slink, but it seems that lib6 is miss

Re: manually running cron

1999-01-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
hange the default runlevel in /etc/inittab, and you can change the timeout and other things for the lilo prompt in /etc/lilo.conf. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: removing ^M from a text file

1999-01-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
sed 's/^M//g' goodfile Replace badfile and goodfile appropriately. Generate the ^M in bash with HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to releas

Re: want help with sound card...

1999-01-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
't move data to swap or free up cache to allocate a DMA buffer. It seems that you must have MemFree at a reasonable level. Try starting netscape (or another memory hog) and then exiting to push some stuff out to swap, then try the cat. Good luck, Brandon +---

Re: libc6_2.0.7v

1999-01-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
and I think he'll relize that it applies to his other packages as well. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter

Re: Apt and packages on hold

1999-01-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Package: locales Version: 2.0.7-19981211-1 [ sent to the bug system, watch the cc's ] On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > > > > > The foll

Re: Apt and packages on hold

1999-01-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
bvious. libc6 and friends don't need to be updated / don't have a newer version, so apt isn't holding them back. It will be holding them back when a new version is available. At least that's my guess, Brandon +---

Re: Xfree86 3.3.3 for next Debian release or sooner?

1999-01-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
zen(slink), he will start working on 3.3.3 for unstable(potato). HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | |

kernel 2.2.0-pre3 and ppp

1999-01-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
age version is 2.3.5-2. Are others having this problem? What should I upgrade (potato or the kernel)? TIA, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random seque

Re: Keyboard and KDM

1999-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
#x27;s a work, not a real fix. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution

1999-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:44:36 -0500 (EST), Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > >128.239.214.7 hobbes.resnet.wm.eduhobbes > > >The loopback address may be better for you (127.0.0.1). > > Isn't loopback always supposed

Re: Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution

1999-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
e? Make sure your own host name (both short and long form) are in the /etc/hosts file. E.g.: 128.239.214.7 hobbes.resnet.wm.eduhobbes The loopback address may be better for you (127.0.0.1). I hope I'm right (for your sake), Brandon +---

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
out of the windows config. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, CUNO wrote: >

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, CUNO wrote: > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > What are the symptoms? Does the modem dial and connect to the isp? Run > > "plog -f" from another window or virtual terminal, run pon, and post what > > comes out of plog. > > > &g

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, CUNO wrote: > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > Multi part answer: > > 1) ttyS2 == COM 3 in dos/win > > 2) edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial, disable autoprobing and set it manually > > 3) add "serial" to /etc/modules.conf so the modules and

Re: Upgrading

1999-01-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Libc5 should still be installed (or can easily be reinstalled) after the upgrade. It should coexist with libc6 without any problems. Good luck, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
g installs lately to test slink and this is one of my regular steps. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | On T

Re: xterm-debian info

1999-01-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
The reasoning is at the bottom of http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS

Re: The Status Of Slink

1999-01-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
;ve also heard the upgrade is going well, it just means downloading twice. Good luck, let me know if you have any problems, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to re

Re: Can't get full capacity of my disk!

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
dev/hdc" should work). It's not as pretty, but seems to work where cfdisk falls short. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
driving in today. Rome would be a nice change. Happy holidays, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Images so laptops should be easier. Let me know how it goes as they are hot out of the oven (released yesterday) and I haven't heard any reports back from the other testers yet. (grab the 2.1.4 images) HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brand

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
l or none. Finally save the changes (will dpkg --set-selections remove things?), maybe even offer to run apt-get. Just my 5 cents (inflation) :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | S

Re: installing on cdrom-less box

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ Your cd will probably have a similar directory. Instructions are in the directory. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1

Re: xdm (slink)

1998-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
rd (another bug, but this may be limited to Branden's beta build). HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: to mirror or not to mirror

1998-12-27 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Marco Frattola wrote: > hi to all the list, > merry xmas and happy new year. Same to you. > one of the two server (call it the master) periodically receive new > files, scattered in many dirs. the second server (call it the slave) > has to catch up. they're connected via an

Re: Advansys SCSI & Iomega Jaz drives

1998-12-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I believe the previous solution was something like: mkdir jaz; mount /dev/sd? jaz With ? being where linux finds your drive. See the output of "dmesg" for more help. Brandon On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am trying to

Re: Custom kernel build question. Help !!

1998-12-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > My question is: > 1) How can I cleanly build a new kernel image (zImage) without affecting > the Debian installation on my PC ? Use the regular make commands (I think: make mrproper; make menuconfig; make depend; make zImage; But look at the docs t

Re: 2.1.125 and lilo

1998-12-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I'll take a wild guess at this, although I've never seen the error message before, so be warned... On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Marten Berggren - LUB NetLab wrote: > I have been trying to install kernel 2.1.125 straight from the source into > my Debian 2.0-based system. Everything went fine when I first

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Kirk Hogenson wrote: > Can't think of anything else that could be wrong. If you can't > get it to work, maybe it would help to post the results of > "ls -l /root" so we can see what you've got. > > KTB wrote: > > > > such file or directory." I have used cd /tmp and verifie

Re: Linux Newbie Questions.

1998-12-21 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Holdsworth, Ed wrote: > 1. What is the difference between X11 and Xfree86? Will either of these > be installed as part of the Debian Linux installation? Do I need to go > to the Xfree86 site and install it? I am assuming that the windowing > software typically reqires use o

Re: Memory Problem

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to > find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions > on how to find it? First, try "free" to see how much you have, and especially, how much is being used

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > files, viewed with xv. 24 color JPEG's or 24 _bit_ color JPEG's? You can get 2^24 colors with 24 bit color. > Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would >

Re: rotating log files

1998-12-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: > Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes > (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has > both cron and anacron running. Isn't this kind of pointless? Not at all. Anacron runs when you boot up to see if

Re: Why sudo does it ?

1998-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
er shaul is not allowed to execute "/sbin/reboot" as root on rakefet. I'm guessing that reboot != shutdown -r "now". Try running: sudo shutdown -r "now" HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAI

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation

1998-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ve a link (from me :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
was. You can always check the mailing list archives available on www.debian.org. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: install hamm from Inet

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ow what is going wrong. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
like that too. But I went ahead and repartitioned/reformated the disks for e2fs. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
squake. Ignore my previous post. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

RE: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
end - Ack, looks like the standard dos/mac formatting trick. Try sdc4: mount /dev/sdc4 /jaz Or if it doesn't detect it: mount -t vfat /dev/sdc4 /jaz mount -t msdos /dev/sdc4 /jaz You may also want to try sdc1 and sdc3 if 4 doesn't work. HTH, Brandon +---

Re: install hamm from Inet (was: Re: install slink from Inet)

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
2_0.tgz" from tty2. Maybe you can get a better error message than "File Error". I.e. this won't fix your problem, but let us know what the problem is. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ht

Re: install slink from Inet

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
pgrade your kernel unless there is a feature that you need/want. If you want the stock debian kernel, download the kernel-image package (I think). I tend to grab the raw kernel tarball and compile my own so I have just what I need (and bootup is much quicker). Which ever way you want to go is fin

Re: Mouse Question

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he trial and error approach to going through the autodetect procedure. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Jaz 1Gb on hamm dist

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ices mounted. Can you send me (and the list too) the output of "dmesg" and "fdisk -l" with the cartridge in the drive? This will help verify you are using the correct device. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [

Re: install slink from Inet

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
it's already been done. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: suid script

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
a problem. I guess this just adds to the list of things that would be nice to have changed in the kernel, the unix way seems better to me. Thanks for the bonk with the clue stick :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTE

Re: suid script

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ery interesting, thanks for all the info. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

RE: Subjects not so comfortable

1998-12-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ter set to > work on debian-user string in the message. Of course the proper way is with the X-Mailing-List header :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to re

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
not after bash has been made. Although, as Joey pointed out, the kernel also does this which was news to me. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
s to the real user id. So, at least is some aspects, bash is worse than others. Any idea why the kernel does this (if it really does, I'm still not sure of it)? Thanks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ell example in C: int main() { setuid(0); seteuid(0); execl("/bin/sh", "-sh", 0); } > Either that or install the sudo package and learn how to use it. Probably the better solution. Brandon +---

Re: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1998-11-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
of the thread so far). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: Points to Ponder

1998-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
v if you don't have an account on master. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: upgrading slink cripples dselect/apt (and X) !!!

1998-11-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
randon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

RE: Help with automatic logins with telnet

1998-11-27 Thread Brandon Mitchell
gt; > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: dhcpcd wierdness

1998-11-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
+--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: X broken?

1998-11-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he hamm version. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
average: 1.06, 1.10, 1.04 +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: how do you recompile the kernel?

1998-11-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
es. Brandon (who looks forward to the 2.2 days when sound is a module and kernel compiles don't need to be done by the users, only the speed demons, like me :-) +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
to find a def for CROSS_COMPILE. I ran "find / *as86" > and there were no files found. You're cut and paste verifies that CROSS_COMPILE is undefined, otherwise, there would have been something before as86. HTH, Brandon +---

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
roblem is that not everyone uses the same version of the talk daemon. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: HP 5L still giving problems!!

1998-10-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
's wrong with this? I've got gs (v3.33), and I've got my > > magicfilter for ljet4l (among others :D). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) |

Re: have anyone got dhcpcd working ?

1998-10-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
y logs. Closest I come is a non-fatal netscape caused message: Sep 20 14:18:20 cnhobbes modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 > So I wonder - did I miss something, or it is indeed broken? I can't really verify either. I can say that it works for me under my specific setup. HTH

Re: Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

1998-09-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
needed. (This is from experience a long time ago with another WD harddrive.) Good luck, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijk

Re: I can,t seem to get out to the internet.

1998-09-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
: route add default gw Best of luck, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c)

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