NIS - shadow configuration on potato not working.

Greetings, Does anyone have shadow passwords working under NIS? on a default potato install? I have two freshly squeezed potato boxes, on which I am trying to set up NIS (server, client). I have followed the setup documentation (which is good) '/usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz' except that sh

[Solution] Re: Gnome not starting.. (after a crash)

Grettings (again), Found it! The problem was with 'yiff', a sound server which is suggested by the 'xshipwars' package. I hardly switch off the machine that I installed it on, but when it was rebooted (I'll have to talk to my SO about that one), 'yiff' opened /dev/dsp. This caused everything el

/etc/netgroups format.

Quick questions regarding /etc/netgroups and nis. In a previous life (using solaris) it was possible to have a netgroup file like.. 8<- hostgroup1 (host1,,) (host2,,) hostgroup2 (host3,,) (host4,,) allhosts @hostgroup1 @hostgroup2 8<---

Gnome not starting.. (after a crash)

Greetings, 'Gnome' is not starting up anymore, and I'm not able to run gnome applications: It opens a connection on the localhost to port 16001, and waits, but doesn't get anything.. and seems to just be hanging. What is this port? I don't know how the gnome system works, so any pointers (to d

Can exim redirect all mail?

Greetings, I have registered an account with NameSecure, and they offered a service where any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was redirected to another email address rather than bouncing. I'm arranging a permanent IP address, and would like to have the same functionality with email sent to [EMAIL PRO

PS/2 Keyboard via a serial port.

uld like to do is change the PS/2 keyboard to the serial port (if it's possible) and run the mouse on the PS/2. [The best solution would be to get USB working under potato.] Paul -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Systems Pty Ltd, http://www.foursticks.com.au 2/259 Glen Osmond Ro

mh-rmail in emacs falls over at 10k messages.

~/Mail/inbox0 and everything started working again. 'nmh' from the command line, seems to be able to cope with this. Paul Schulz -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Systems Pty Ltd, http://www.foursticks.com.au 2/259 Glen Osmond Road, FREWVILLE South Australia 5063 Phone +61 8

Mgetty-fax: Receiving multiple pages.

ugh, which is a problem.) This only gives me the first page. I would like to know what other people are using, and if they're happy with their system. I just know my boss will be asking for a web based front end to this. Paul -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Systems Pty L

Re: kernel 2.4, modutils requires libc6 2.1.97

I would like to hear some more details from the maintainer(s)... I've needed to install 'locales' and 'i18n' during this process. I have several machines which are in this state, and I've broken the equivelent number, trying this. I just waiting for woody to become 'stable'. Paul >>> Jameson

Exim questions..

.) 2. eximstats, exiqsumm seem to hang indefinitely. Why would this be? Other than these things, I'm quite happy with exim, particularly from somone who has read the Bat book, but still needed to have it open when configuring sendmail. Paul -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Syste

Re: Xircom PCMCIA Etherent/Modem Card

2.2? Does it give any problems to notebooks > like Dell or Sony? > > Could anyone please recommend to me any links got the latest information > on PC/Laptop hardware compatibility with Debain Linux? > -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Systems Pty Ltd, http://

Printing problem... (solution, sort of)

from the server with the following error.. lpd[18218]: lp: job could not be sent to remote host (cfA000hostname) Anyone know why this is? Paul Schulz

lprng and magicfilter problem

to have to install (not that it's overly difficult) magicfilter on all the workstations. Any help appriciated. Paul Schulz

Printing under Debian..

Greetings, A question about printing under Debian.. How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get this to work. Thanks in advance.. PaulS