Strange /dev/pts/ problem -- solved (sort of)

Reminder -- The problem was the following: If no terminal is already opened and an ordinary user tries to open a wterm, it will fail with the message: "wterm: can't open slave tty /dev/pts/0". It would work if root tries to open it. Likewise, an ordinary user cannot open /dev/pts/1, but root can

Strange /dev/pts/ problem

Hi, I have been experiencing a strange problem lately on my debian laptop. I am not sure whether it is debian related or kernel related, but I could not find any mention of such a problem on the kernel archives, so I am trying to ask here. Here is the problem: If no terminal is already opened

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

executable, and it works > > if I call it manually from root...) > > Works because it is in your path when you run manually! You may also want to have a look at the file /usr/doc/fetchmail/contrib/ip-up, which discusses some intricacies related to running fetchmail from ip-{up,down} scripts called by pppd. Francois -- Francois Gelis / LAPTH / [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:(+33) 4 50 09 16 80 / fax:(+33) 4 50 27 94 95

Re: /etc/hosts problem

- > order hosts,bind > multi on > With glibc2.x, isn't that configured in something like /etc/nsswitch.conf instead of /etc/host.conf ? -- Francois Gelis / LAPTH / [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:(+33) 4 50 09 16 80 / fax:(+33) 4 50 27 94 95

Re: XEmacs has slow startup

macs startup will be faster, because it won't hang looking for a file that doesn't exist. I tried that trick, and it improved noticeably the startup time. Francois -- Francois Gelis / LAPTH / [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:(+33) 4 50 09 16 80 / fax:(+33) 4 50 27 94 95

Re: More fetchmail woes

ll assign an (unique) identifier to each email, store in a file the identifiers of mails already downloaded, and check against this list to prevent multiple downloads of the same emails. I hope it helps. Francois -- Francois Gelis / LAPTH / [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:(+33) 4 50 09 16 80 / fax:(+33) 4 50 27 94 95

Re: PCMCIA cards fail under 2.2.1

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I just rebooted my new 2.2.1 drive on my laptop. > > Where my bios is set to defaults (i.e., PnPOS), it locks up > at boot. When I change my bios settings to enable serial port, and > enable parallel port it boots up, but gives the following warn