NIS trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello everyone, I sent this question to the list Friday when the list was being flooded with multiple copies of each question. Once I started noticing the problem, I know I was much less careful about reading, and figure that I was not alone. To my knowledge there were no replies on Friday, and

NIS - yppasswd not working right

2000-08-25 Thread Nathan Smith
Hi, I'm having trouble with yppasswd in NIS. The setup is this: passwd, shadow, group, etc. files are in the /var/yp/ypfiles directory. Of course there are corresponding files in /etc on the ypserver, but they do not contain all of the users in the /var/yp/ypfiles location. In the makefile

xdm login problems

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all: A strange problem with xdm. The setup is this: a NIS server we'll cleverly call server, and a NIS client we'll cleverly call client. xdm works with no problems on server. Console logins on client work fine. However if I start xdm and then try to log in on client the following happen

NFS and RPC timeouts

1999-12-13 Thread Nathan Smith
hear back from the server. Is there a way that I can get the client to wait longer? The pause is about 15 seconds by the way, and PING averages 0.6 ms between the 2 machines. Thanks in advance for any help, Nathan Smith

Trident 3dImage975 and X

1999-10-13 Thread Nathan Smith
server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I notice that it is detecting the card up top, but then the lines with (--) followed by my card name later. It seems to be eliminating the modes outside my monitor's ranges (30-70H 50-130V), which is good, but I confess to being ignorant about what much of this output means. Any help would be gratefully appreciated, and thanks at least for reading this far. Nathan Smith

Mathematica

1999-09-30 Thread Nathan Smith
Hello all, We're (I'm) setting up a computer lab here at Univ. Texas at Tyler (nevermind the address above), and I'd like to run Debian as the OS in the lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF