Re: IP

quot;deny" rules on the telnet port. Post your results to the list. Good luck. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a f

Re: connecting to internet

ne returned for www.debian.org. If you can connect, then your problem is almost certainly DNS. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

at an institute for higher learning and enlightened thinking... what a shame. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a

Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?

tightly bound in the Windows OS. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David

Re: Why

do that. Instead, try the installation again, and use this list as a resource to answer specific problems you're having. Hang in there, it's worth it. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington

Re: Static routes

Denis: Static routes are configured by /etc/init.d/network. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between c

OT: Network map solutions

ind something even better. Has anybody found a utility that fits this description? I played around a little bit with a drawing program called "dia," but its object lib- rary was minimal. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Help on modules please

ne2 In either case, after modifying conf.modules, try 'modprobe'-ing ne (or ne0, then ne1, then ne2), instead of just re-booting. If it doesn't work, inspect /var/log/kern.log or /var/log/syslog for any relevant error messages. Post these to the list. Good luck. Marc ----

Re: A gateway solution ?

really doesn't care. For more information, read the Networking HOWTO at http://www.linux.doc.org/. The Kernel HOWTO at that site might also help. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-

Re: Clock problems

I think this is caused by the file /etc/adjtime, which is supposed to adjust for clock drift, but gets skewed when you first set the hard- ware clock. Remove the file, then re-set the clock. It will be re- created as needed. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Speciali

Re: remote power on

Machines with advanced power management features can be configured to "go to sleep", and "wake up" on certain kinds of activity on the serial port, maybe the DCD signal or something. This is a function of the machine's BIOS. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PRO

Re: sorting and naming files

The following should do approximately what you want: $ i=1 $ for f in `ls | sort` > do > mv $f text${i}.txt > i=`expr $i + 1` > done 'man bash', 'man sort', and 'man expr' should give you some more insight into what these commands do. Marc --

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

Look in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.weekly/ for the invocation of syslogd-listfiles, and the rotation frequency. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)88

Re: little www svr

4/7, just use a cron job to stop it at 10:00pm and start it again at 6:00am, or whatever. Good luck with your web server, and keep me posted on your success. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (

Re: Missing mail folder...

;s in it. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of &q

Re: Route Table, more info

Robert: Thanks for the correction, and the RFC pointer. I've got it clearly bookmarked now, so I won't make the same mistake again. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123,

Re: Route Table, more info

0/0 gw 10.0.0.1 (I used a kind of short-hand there, but I hope it's obvious what I was trying to say.) For every machine on the 131.107.2.0 network, you can now use the debian machine as the gateway. Does that work for you? Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: LILO

See the "Multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO" at www.linux.doc, or some other LDP mirror. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "

Re: little www svr

ng your own Web server, then your ISP's disk space quotas don't concern you-- the page content resides on your machine, not your ISP's. Maybe there's something here that I don't understand. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe System

Re: bootdisk problem

dir /floppy/dev $ cp -R /dev/fd0 /floppy/dev $ cp -R /dev/null /floppy/dev $ cp /boot/boot.b /floppy/boot $ cp bdlilo.conf /mnt/linux /floppy/ $ lilo -v -C bdlilo.conf -r /floppy $ rdev -r /floppy/linux 17134 $ umount /floppy $ dd if=/mnt/root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=750 -- Marc Mon

Re: Linux as a router

-- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal

Re: fetchmail and email

st have fallen out of favor. 4. Modify /etc/hostname. That's it. Good luck. I hope this helped. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344

Debian Linux on AST Ascentia 910N

.csb.ki.se/pub/ where I found an alternate image called "resc1440.bin-non-eata-dma," but no explanation as to its use. Does anybody know anything about this? Has anybody successfully installed Debian Linux on this model? Thanks for your help. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMA

Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls

Colin: My first guess is that pppd is not executing the script with the correct $HOME environment variable set. I suggest explicitly specifying the rc file on the fetchmail command line. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomingt

Re: notifying

op of my head, so I welcome other comments. I guess if you are using fetchmail and a POP account, you could just filter on a subject line instead of an address suffix. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 554

pcd, modprobe, and kerneld

trying to load the module but failing for the reasons outlined above. I'll have to look into this more when I get home. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)8

Re: IP--->Domainname--->OtherDomainname

ings could be made a little simpler-- basically skip steps 2 and 4, and change the A record in step three to a CNAME records that points to mymachine.ispdomain.net. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 554

Re: Re: Calling in on my server

Ron: Add a line with just the word "debug" (no quotes) to /etc/ppp/options. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It'

Re: Calling in on my server

Ron: Turn on the "debug" option (in /etc/ppp/options) on the server so you can examine /var/log/ppp.log to see exactly what's happening. Post the results to the list. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy

Re: debian install [OOPS!]

Raymond: In item (2), don't press Alt-F1 to get to the second screen, type Alt-F2. Sorry, that minor typo could cause you all sorts of headaches. I think the rest of the post is factually correct. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Sys

Re: debian install

t password, so you should be able to login as root after you re-boot. Now type "shutdown -h now". Wait for a message that says "System halted". Put in the Custom Boot Floppy and re-boot the computer. Can you login as root with no password now? I hope all that made sense.

Re: debian install

t the install from scratch-- sucks, I know, but things always go more smoothly the second time around :). Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "

Re: install, I'm in over my head

If you can find the documentation for the CD-ROM, check to see whether it is an ATAPI drive. If so, you don't need any special drivers for it-- you just use the (E)IDE driver. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloo

Re: disk image

Vincent: Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/ Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid.

Re: PPP Host Configuration

luck. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel

dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?

adn't done something wrong. Thank you, Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid.&quo

Re: Modem speed

t most modems accept "at&f" as a command to return everything to the factory default. Let us know what you find. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)8

Re: Modem speed

links? I would think that observing the turn-around times on pings to the gate- ways of each ISP should give a pretty good indicator of the line speed. Perceived differences in throughput beyond that are more likely the result of the ISP's internal network and Internet connection. Marc -

Re: ppp and proxy ARP?

Proxy ARPing makes the peer look like it's on the local LAN, which you don't want, so either remove "proxyarp" from your list of pppd options, or add "noproxyarp". -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington

Re: awk or sed?

hen you see a blank line (this prevents sed from printing the address from other interfaces, like ppp0 or lo). Hope it helps, Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)8

Re: brand spanken new user

e "miniterm" or some other terminal emulator. Point it at the serial device attached to your modem (/dev/ttyS?). Send AT commands as desired. -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x41

Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

ions file will cause authentication information to be logged to /var/log/ppp.log, which can help in troubleshooting. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---

allowing simpler passwords

inds me of the Windows design philosophy: "I know better than you do what you're trying to do." Thanks in advance for your help. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-

Re: [ make install CD of debian ]

Start at http://cdimage.debian.org Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."

Re: script command question

e="s/.\\{$n\\}$bs\\{$n\\}\\(.\\{$n\\}\\)/\\1/" line=`echo "$line" | sed $replace` done echo $line done -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0

Re: Why lynx asking for a password?!?

Look for an "AuthType" configuration directive in one of the /etc/apache config files (probably access.conf). Read the Apache documentation in /usr/doc/apache for a description of this directive. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 91

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

going mail server to your ISP's server. This is essentially the Windows way of doing things-- if you have any problems, talk to your ISP. When you've set up some more computers at home and want to deliver mail locally, you can look into exim and fetchmail. HTH Marc ------ Marc

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

at came with the card. My memory on this is a little fuzzy, so I hope I'm not full of crap. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It

Re: No network?

As root, type 'ifconfig' and post the output to the list. Knowledgeable people on the list (not necessarily myself) are pretty good at trouble- shooting NIC problems using this output. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W

Re: Apache: unable to use authentification

You need to specify the "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive for that directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf). Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (61

Re: Dial in server

Dave: mgetty, pppd, and a kernel compiled with IP forwarding turned on. mgetty with pppd configured for PAP authentication will handle the Windows PPP peer. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-220

Re: (newbie) Need help on Static IP

I used the "<...>" notation, you should of course substitute real parameters. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It

Re: PPP Connection Problems

See my comments below. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David

Re: Setup Issues

Comments below. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbin

Re: 'Inverse' chmod?

stat(\"$1\"))[2] & 0x1ff)'" In general, just escape anything (with \) that the shell might try to interpret, like quotation marks, backslashes, dollar signs, semi-colons, etc. (except those that you really *do* want the shell to interpret). Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

rminal emulator would make any difference, but it worked for me. If you're running the command from a console, then I can't help you, because I never had any problems with that. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy

Re: Setup Issues

See comments below. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hub

Re: getty vs minicom

Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Unless I misunderstand something... Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist B

Re: PPP problems

then your problem is routing. 'man pppd' and look at the defaultroute option. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such

Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet

tiation of terminal type. You might want to find a telnet program that performs this negotiation. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

f use. I'd be happy to provide more specific information, if you decide to go this way. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It'

RE: Segmentation fault

$ env Look for a line with "LANG=". $ unset LANG ... to unset the variable, at least in the bash shell. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344

Re: NFS Installation

that you will have to configure the server that provides the NFS filesystem, right? In other words, there is not some debian.org site that provides this service. I hope this helps. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloom

Re: What's the best way to organize "small" drives

, and /tmp separately as well. You should mount all of the available partitions when you're given the chance during the installation. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417

Re: Networking help

ome- times been some help to me in hunting down problems. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever a

Re: Debian not talking to network

the NET-3-HOWTO (http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.html). It contains everything you ever wanted to know about Linux networking. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x41

Re: Configuring ppp

ally do all of things that you want your chat script to do, to see whether you can connect. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It

Re: Have we been cracked?

k. I'm no security expert, and only responded with my 2 cents worth to keep the topic from dying. Any input from more knowledgeable people out there? Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-220

Re: UIDs missing, "I have no name!", etc

Kent: Check file permissions on /etc/passwd. It should be world-readable. $ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363 Apr 28 15:44 /etc/passwd "chmod 644 /etc/passwd" (as root) to set permissions like above. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

stalled, then tells apt-get to get every package in the distribution without installing it (-d means download only). The .deb files should end up somewhere in /var/cache/apt, I think. I didn't actually try this myself, but it looks believable. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTEC

Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

ference is between the "available" file (which does exist) and the "Contents" file. The former gave me the information I needed when I put it to the test, looking for software that produces thumbnail images, in response to another post on this list. Marc -- Marc Mo

Re: apt-get segfaults while creating dependency tree

This used to happen to me all the time, until I changed the terminal emulator I use to access the machine. I changed from Windows telnet (I think) to TeraTerm Pro. I have no idea why this would fix the problem, but it did. I'm still using apt 0.1.9. Marc -- Marc Mongeon &l

Re: can bind keep best routes ?

ot;things to be wary of" caveat emptor = "Let the buyer beware." Some caveats about /etc/hosts: you may need to make some changes to /etc/resolv.conf; it could cause problems if names or addresses change; etc. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Speciali

Re: Exim config problems

user, and the mail will be routed locally. You will send mail to non-local users by addressing it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the recipient will see [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "From:" field. Does that sound like what you wanted? Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Un

Re: can bind keep best routes ?

using the hosts file, which I won't get into until I figure out whether I've correctly divined your intentions. Can you be a little more specific about what you are trying to do? Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloo

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

> # that's where we've just called. > > case "$4" in > 131.170.*) > route add -net 131.170.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 $1 > ;; > > esac try: case "$PPP_LOCAL" in Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specia

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

ch kind of defeats the pur- pose of the user account protections. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever a

man problems

tray cats under /usr/X11R6/man... o> Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/X11R6... o> 0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. o> 0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. i> man gettyps o> No manual entry for gettyps I can see the man page sitting there, why can&#

Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

"su - userx" will cause userx's profile to be executed, as in a login. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such

Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :

r specific printer, but my experience has been that most printers provide some level of HP emulation. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "

Newbie Story (was) Re: Boot probblem with xdm

Do you use your WinModem with Linux, or did you download under Windows/Wine? I am hoping to install Linux on a friend's laptop, which has a WinModem, and I haven't found any information on Linux support for WinModems. -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

I'll bet it has something to do with your reverse-lookup setup. nslookup -d2 yahoo.com to get some exhaustive debug information. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417

RE: Setup a network without network

ot; the answer is "SIOCADDRT > Operation not > > supported by device" > > Try "route add -net 127.0.0.1" or "route add 127.0.0.0" > > You should get a routing table with an entry like this (type > "route" with no > arguments): > &g

RE: Setup a network without network

-- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel

Re: Environment variables and X

PROXY=your.proxy Sorry, I don't have wdm installed and I couldn't find an on-line man page for it, so I can't give you the name of the wdm profile. Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200

Re: Location of single file (zip) install file for Debian...

Does it give you the option to open the file in the browser? That's what you want to do. Otherwise, save it as a file and then choose "File | Open Page | Choose File...". Marc ------ Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomingto

Re: Booting over the Network

I think this would be the same as setting up a diskless Linux box. See the Diskless Linux Mini Howto: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Diskless.html Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (6

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel

Re: root password?

. The password field is the second field on this line. If the password is not some long string of characters, con- sider something wrong. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | F

Re: Newbie & X (no @ on kbd)

ostly as a hobbyist, so I still learn new things every day. I learn a lot from reading this mailing list. I guess what I'm saying is that there are many people on this list who are imminently more qualified to help you with this than I am. However, I enjoy the challenge of problem-solving

Re: Newbie & X (no @ on kbd)

ibe they key sequence you want to use to type the "@"? (I type Shift-2 on my keyboard). Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "I

Re: filtering of text files

I suggest: cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:][a*]' | sed 's/a//g' > filename2 Since the lower-to-upper translation has been performed, 'a' (or any other lower-case letter) will safely match all punctuation (i.e., sed won't be deleting

network printer problems

erent HP *jet device types, etc. Do I need to pass gs some additional switches to get the PCL output right? Is the Postscript input somehow flawed? I have spent a couple of days on this now, and am at my wit's end. Your help is appreciated. Marc Mongeon P.S. Here's some pertinent packa

ftpd wants pwd_mkdb + apologies

ode 511). The files pwd.db (see pwd_mkdb(8)) and group(5) must be present [...] pwd_mkdb is not installed on my machine. Any idea which package contains it? Is there another common utility for creating the .db file that ftpd wants? Thank you. Marc Mongeon

man-to-text filter

Is there a quick and painless way to translate the output from man into plain text? e.g: $ man man | magic-filter $ magic-bin /usr/man/man8/man.8 $ man --magic-switch man Thank you. Marc Mongeon

Keeping my distribution current

ead? 3. Has anybody implemented a similar update scheme that works well for them? Should I just subscribe to debian-changes and do manual updates when appropriate? I apologize for my verbose posting (brevity is not one of my strong points :). Thank you for any help you can provide. Marc Mongeon