ssh authentication woes

Hola~ I'm really trying to be a good debian citizen. I need to do the equivalent: % rsh remotehost % setenv DISPLAY myhost:0 % some-x-program I can rsh no problem. However, I can't get ssh to let me access remotehost. I've got a null passwd on remotehost, same acount name. I've tried

group descriptors corrupted

Hola~ My disk drive is not in a happy place. When I try to boot I get: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block for group 0 not in group (block 41471)! EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Is there an easy way to un-corrupt group descriptors? What exactly is

Re: mutt and IMAP folders

Hola~ I use the tab complete for saving off to an imap folder: s You can also type in the {imap.server}Mailbox line if you'd prefer. All of this info is in the manuals: http://www.mutt.org MO >-- On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:15:37PM +0100, % wrote: > Hi, > > how do I move my mai

open source alternative to glimpse

Hola~ I've been using glimpse (4.0) to index and search large source trees. I was curious if there is an open source alternative to glimpse? MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar [EMAIL PR

global undefines in kernel modules 2.2.15

Hola~ I downloaded the src for 2.2.15. Ran make menuconfig, dep, bzImage, modules, modules_install. The installed modules have undefined symbols for __global_cli, __global_save_flags, and __global_restore_flags. All of these symbols are defined in "arch/i386/kernel/irq.c". Anyone else seen this?

Re: removed libc6, how to recover

Hola~ >-- On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 05:14:45PM +0100, % wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 16:00:06 -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > > I'm not saying removing libc6 was a smart idea. I want to know what to do > > to get my machine back? I've got a boot floppy t

laptop in a bad place - won't boot

Hola~ I have a laptop that seems to be beyond help. When I try to boot it, I get: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. What exactly does this mean? When I boot the rescue floppy, then type rescue root=/dev/hda1 I get: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) reado

removed libc6, how to recover

Hola~ Okay, I used apt-get to get a new version of libc6. The version has a script that is installed as a user file, so I get a "Do you want to accept the package maintainer's version" where "No" is the default. I blindly say no, libc6 then fails to configure. So, I force the removal of it and tr

using cxref or fweb on c++ code

Hola~ I was curious if anyone has used either cxref or fweb on c++ code to generate html docs and cross refs. I'm looking for a web version of cscope + ctags. MO -- Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias|Wavefront 206.287.5634

yepp player and linux

Hola~ I've got a Samsung Yepp player. Is there a way to download/upload files to and from a Linux box??? MO -- Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias|Wavefront 206.287.5634Polygonist At Micr

Re: 404 not found using apt-get

Hola~ >-- On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 05:57:47AM +0200, % wrote: > > Hola~ > > > > With a sources.list of: > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > deb http://security.debi

su authentication failure

Hola~ I finally took the plunge and pointed apt-get on to the unstable packages. So far, no major problems, wahoo. I am getting some weirdness, tho. When I run su, now, I get: % su Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry. Which I wouldn't expect with a root definition

updating the dpkg versions

Hola~ I build some debian packages instead of trying to build the dpkg and install that, I've just been running the normal make, make install. This way, I can keep some things up to the latest versions. For example, I build vim and gcc as soon as they are available. For vim it's not really an is

deb packages for 3d labs x-server (slink)

Hola~ Anyone know of a debian distribution for the 3dlabs x server??? MO -- Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias|Wavefront 206.287.5634Polygonist At Microsoft, we always feel we can improve

bug 34449 workaround

Hola~ I'm running into the same problems as reported in bug 34449. Man fails when I'm not root with "man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted". Is there a workaround??? Does anyone know if there is a scheduled or already known fix??? MO -- Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]