Re: LILO cylinder problem

1997-04-27 Thread Perry Piplani
e other LILO stuff resides. Mine is 4 mb but 2 mb is more than sufficient. Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: problem ftpd

1997-04-27 Thread Perry Piplani
> is mostly empty. > Nope it looks pretty normal to me here is what it looks like >[inetd.conf snipped] Could it be that your users' shells are not listed in /etc/shells?? ftpd doesn't like that and denies access, at least on my systems. Perry -- If red tape were nu

Re: Trouble installing PCMCIA.

1997-04-17 Thread Perry Piplani
T: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian FTP Problems

1997-04-13 Thread Perry Piplani
tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Perry Piplani
n run it in your shutdown script. I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my system clock is 45 sec fast per day. Also, you can can configure your system to use GMT on your hardware clock. See /etc/init.d/boot Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we coul

Re: Support for internal IDE Zip drive?

1997-03-30 Thread Perry Piplani
internal IDE drives any different, since it's already running off the IDE controller in your box. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com

Re: RPM

1997-03-30 Thread Perry Piplani
various Unixes in RPM format. It's all in tarballs as usual. Most commercial Unixes have their own packing systems anyways. Dpkg can swallow redhat RPM's via the alien feature. So even in the unlikely event that the entire planet were to convert to RPM, we can still use dpkg! Time flies

Re: errors installing with dselect/ftp

1997-03-22 Thread Perry Piplani
g > I don't know if this will work but try cd'ing to / before starting dselect. I've had trouble with dselect finding files in the past and that seemed to fix it. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.net

Re: g++ file doesn't run

1997-03-22 Thread Perry Piplani
Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com

Re: does debian 1.2.x support umsdos

1997-03-22 Thread Perry Piplani
ess your dos partions. In fact if you have win95 it can access your long filenames. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com

Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian

1997-03-22 Thread Perry Piplani
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Dima wrote: > Also, it's (Slackware's) a great "first Linux" for those who like to learn swimming in > the deep end of the pool. > Back in the pioneer days, that's all there was...a deep pool. Time flies like arrows, but fruit

Re: Running lilo from recue disk. (was NT and Microsoft can go to ...)

1997-02-25 Thread Perry Piplani
c. etc. What you can do is dd your /target/vmlinuz onto a floppy, make sure your root is set on it correctly with rdev and then boot your system on it. Then all your directories have their real paths and running lilo will be as usual. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Per

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR (PART III)

1997-02-23 Thread Perry Piplani
x27;t be able to read it, because the boot sector contains essential FAT info. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas. Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perrypip.com -- T

Documentation for install/rescue kernel????

1997-02-23 Thread Perry Piplani
Hello Is there copy of the .config file used to build the kernel for the install/rescue disk available?? I've looked all over for it and can't find it. Thanx Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: no NFS mounts from other hosts (!)

1997-02-21 Thread Perry Piplani
out with these results in the same exact error. Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Perry Piplani
At 10:47 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Pete Templin wrote: > >On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote: > >> I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a >> problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to >> [EMAIL PROTECTE

Sendmail redirects all *local* mail to domain MX ?????

1997-01-14 Thread Perry Piplani
I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for may domain. I want mail specifically addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be del

Re: Installing Debian over existing Slackware--pointers?

1996-12-21 Thread Perry Piplani
At 05:22 PM 12/21/96 -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > >Let me first say that I have the requisite rescue and base floppies at >home on my hardrive running Slackware---I placed them in a subdirector >under / > >--- I don't want to repartition my hardrive for obvious reason---I have files >I want pre

Re: Q: re: dpkg-ftp

1996-12-19 Thread Perry Piplani
Anthony Thompson wrote: > > Im a recent convert from slackware to Debian1.2 (well in the process of > install it). I too am a slackware veteran. I just installed debian one one of my machines yesterday. This is my first mail via netscape mail. > > Away im having a problem getting the ppp link