Re: Quake Segfaults

1998-06-09 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Torsten wrote: > >For a directory the set t-flag means that only the owner of a file may >delete it. Or the owner of the directory (but not the group of the directory). -- #include Lorens Kockum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Weird problem: normal user can't run bash in login

1998-06-09 Thread Lorens Kockum
ed. If it was somewhere else than in /bin. I'd also say to check "noexec" mount option to the filesystem, but I think you'd have had problems before that :-) If this fails, try su-ing to ed, maybe that will bring up additional data. -- #includeLor

Re: linux shutdown

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
trlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t20 -h now -h is not the default, of course, -r is the default. -- #include Lorens Kockum Seriously considering putting a blatant company plug in my .sig. Just so I don't get tempted to put MS-related things in here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
et a nifty program working? Then this post might be just > for you :-) It's about 33% into http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/linux_history_1.html> I never knew his second name was Benedict... -- #includeLorens Kockum Seriously considering putting a blatant company

Re: bouncing mail with procmail

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
:0 EXITCODE=100 :0c |~/reject-spam :0 !spam -- Yes, spam is a user-name on my machine. It might be better to make it a file, that way I'd keep the MAIL FROM:. I'm looking (but not very hard) for a way to keep the RCPT TO: ... -- #include

Re: super-strange linux behavior

1998-04-23 Thread Lorens Kockum
, too. It's called holes in the files. Do an 'ls -ls'. Often seen on core dumps. -- #includeLorens Kockum You'll notice that this scanner, Bill - Whoa... Moving Right Along. (Presentation of MS-Windows 98 (Comdex, CNN)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Lorens Kockum
One major advantage of proxying+firewall is being able to stop users from telnetting out and doing mischief around the world, while still letting them do such mundane things like http. Think SMTP, for example. A central mail-server is sort of a proxy... -- #include Lorens

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Lorens Kockum
ts of a commercial program, and, except for the price, none of the disadvantages AFAIK. Again, sorry for recommending a product from my own company... -- #include Lorens Kockum You'll notice that this scanner build Whoa... Moving Right Along. (Presentation of

Looking for info on XKB

1998-04-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
tion? Thank you! -- #include Lorens Kockum You'll notice that this scanner build Whoa... Moving Right Along. (Presentation of MS-Windows 98 (Comdex, CNN)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
my very fast Fujitsu 4.3 Go SCSI-2 7200 rpm drive will attain 8 MB/s, and I don't think drives with better interfaces (U, W, UW) will go very much better). The advantage, of course, is that if you have many drives, you are limited by the bus speed and not by the drive speeds. Hmm. Was this a tr

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, Lorens Kockum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I think I'll be forwarding this to markn, less author. Should be rather >>> simple, and ... is there anyone else that thinks it might be useful ? > >The discussion has been forwarded, I am awaiting

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 11 Mar 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote: >> In effect, I want to put an egrep filter in less, with a regexp that could >> be modified without restarting less or re-reading file. >> >> I think I'll be

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-11 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of macro, > opening shell output, but it gets much more interesting when I am > looking at > > program | less > > and I do not want to execute program again, and I also

[OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-06 Thread Lorens Kockum
ple, I saw that there is an xless .deb; is this possible with xless (though I prefer staying in my xterm, of course), or is there something I missed in the less man ? TIA -- #include Lorens Kockum -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian install source (Was Re: Yikes, sorry.)

1998-03-03 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 07:51:19PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +0000, Lorens Kockum wrote: > > Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in > > /etc/passwd ? > > NIS is notorious for not working with shadowed

Yikes, sorry. (Was Re: make-kpkg)

1998-03-02 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user, I wrote an inane test message, not even setting the subject to "test" ;-/. Just because I was completely certain it wouldn't get out. So much for certainty. To make up, debian success story. Except for fighting with deselect a bit, like everyone, especially the first time round, in

Re: make-kpkg

1998-03-02 Thread Lorens Kockum
In bigears.lists.debian.user, Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TEST >When, having brought in kernel-source for 2.0.32 on my bo system, I: > >cd /usr/src/linux;make-kpkg > >a lot of compiling happens (after I answer the config questions) >and the command > >ld -m elf_i386 ... -o vmlinux

Re: divide the list - in what ?

1998-01-14 Thread Lorens Kockum
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[OFF-TOPIC] Re: Simple Unix utility?

1997-12-08 Thread Lorens Kockum
y to get around > this. If that's the problem, then do tail -f file | cut -b whatever | grep whatever and presto, you're outputting to a terminal. Won't work, of course, if cut has the same problem. -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --

Re: Commands Manual

1997-11-25 Thread Lorens Kockum
ng at the man page for man, you'd have found it :-) (Actually, I had forgotten the existence of apropos, I don't tell my students about it, I tell them about man -k) -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-24 Thread Lorens Kockum
#x27;? That's just to begin with ... use cpio. -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: video cards

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? It's a bit cheaper, but the reviews I have seen say it does _better_ than the Matrox. Unfortunately, the reviews don't mention Linux ... Can I do XFree in a decent resolution (1024*768, 1280*1024) with an ATI Xpert@ ? Sorry, this has _zilch_ to do on the debian li

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-21 Thread Lorens Kockum
ounts from different machines, not different systems on one machine. Forget what I said about sharing, and refer to the articles by Bill Leach (the one I am answering) and the one by Ray Ingles. [tssk, it'll teach me to read things through before posting] -- include Lorens KO

Re: Best partition distibution for new install.

1997-11-20 Thread Lorens Kockum
careful about it, that could lead to lots of > problems. Exactly. If you seek to have the _same_ things on on a network (installing one copy of an executable), it is a good idea. If you seek to have _different_ things (stable and unstable), it is a bad idea. I have no further experience

Re: Kernel Panic !!!!!

1997-10-18 Thread Lorens Kockum
isn't too old, but is running hot, that's certainly the problem. Make sure your new hard-disk is well ventilated. -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver

1997-10-16 Thread Lorens Kockum
if Samba lets the normal Unix processes write to the Samba-exported directories as if there were normal ext2fs Linux partitions. Hope this opened up an avenue of choice :-) [1] that's an oxymore, ie. a contradiction in terms :-) -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-10 Thread Lorens Kockum
> and mirror them. Hear, hear. Not to neglect backups, of course. -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Security Issue

1997-03-19 Thread Lorens Kockum
its sysop and wheel users to delete any and all files in /tmp. For further discussion, any Unix basic administration book... this isn't really the place. -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Rescue kernel hangs after probing sjcd

1997-02-26 Thread Lorens Kockum
t) groups= ... I can't (under Debian, at least). Don't make me go back to RedHat, or to my October '94 Slackware, please ! -- include Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rescue kernel hangs after probing sjcd

1997-02-25 Thread Lorens Kockum
RQ7 which I haven't bothered to configure just yet. Everything worked out of the box with the RedHat AIC7xxx diskettes. :-( I suppose I have to protect some I/O adresses, but which? (Oh... look at the doc for the md cd-rom driver... too late, here goes...) Thank you for your help! -- includ