Moving and Repartitioning

1997-10-03 Thread Ronald van Loon
g (drawback: needs reconfiguring too, things may accidentally be left out) c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then repartitioning, then restoring. Any ideas ? BTW, does Debian incorporate the FAT32 (are there any ?) and NTFS filesystems yet, as a package ?

Re: Nobody user doing a find / ( -fstype ?????

1997-08-13 Thread Ronald van Loon
> I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing > a scan of / with and -fstype argument...? I am not sure what it is but > can someone kindly explain me? > > Maybe I should start looking for security patches for Linux (Debian) huh? ;) Actually, that process is part

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Ronald van Loon
lue: EnablePlainTextPassword, with as type "DWORD", with value 1. >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> <<< I hold your hand in mine, dear / I press it to my lips. I take a healthy bite from your dainty finger

Re: One last thing before I pass out`

1997-07-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
Dan |"> |" |"You need to set the DISPLAY env variable to :0.0 once you are root. Nope. In this case, he should have done a "xhost +", not a "xhost -". - denies access, + allows it. The XAUTH* solution mailed earlier is a better one, though. -- >>>

Re: OLH@kms.min.dk

1997-07-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
ssages also seem to have stopped for now. I don't know if there's a correlation, though. -- >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> <<< I hold your hand in mine, dear / I press it to my lips. I take a healthy bite from

Re: perl script

1997-07-21 Thread Ronald van Loon
can `:set notextmode' to remove them. The philosophy is to leave the textfiles as they were, as much as possible. >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> <<< I hold your hand in mine, dear / I press it to my lips. I take a health

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"Well, in my case I have one more line: |" |"libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 |" |"and don't have libXext one. What Motif distribution are you using? This is the Red-Hat Motif 2.0 distribution. -- >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: compiling with libc5

1997-07-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
development_. |" |"(Actually, I'm not aware of Motif packages needing libg++, but never |"mind). Depends on what's in libg++, I suppose - iostream etal ? Ronald -- >>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>> <<

Re: DEBIAN NEWS

1997-06-30 Thread Ronald van Loon
donation |"to SPI, and a $22 donation to whatever courier company |"or shipping agent it is they use. I would be happy to pay |"$9.95 for the disc and $7 odd for postage, which is what |"Walnut Creek/Pacific HiTech charge me on their monthly Linux discs. Shipping to Europe is

Re: Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux

1997-03-27 Thread Ronald van Loon
h I think has been released for windows I |"haven't even looked at, so I will make no comments. I still think the Linux community would benefit greatly from an application suite such as VisualAge - having a major company like IBM committing themselves to Linux would be a great incentive for other companies to follow suit. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux

1997-03-26 Thread Ronald van Loon
ndors, such as Digital, have an active interest in Linux. IBM would not be the only major player in the industry. === -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!"

Re: example script want

1997-03-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"exact match for the whole line does this. Yes, a small oversight; it should have read: /^section\[xyz\]$/ { print "new line of text"; }' instead. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
he cache-settings on the NFS partition: hp:/partition /var/bla nfs rw,soft,bg,rsize=8192,wsize=4096 0 0 -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Re: example script want

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
e the line blahblahblahblah. |" |"awk ' { |" print $0 ; |" if ( $0 == "section[xyz]" ) { print "new line of text" ; } |"} ' |" |"Ted. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) awk '{ print } /section\[xyz\]/ { print "new l

Re: color xterm

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
for other programs too. If you have a program of class 'Foo', putting the following in your ~/.Xdefaults (or more globally) will allow you to put color-specific information in Foo-color: #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif - Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting

Re: dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Ronald van Loon
ds/ftp/install: line 230: my $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; line 236: $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Re: Documentation - I see squares

1997-03-03 Thread Ronald van Loon
is my PAGER, and I know about zcat. |"Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd |"expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are for |"example. It looks like a bit of hex. You probably have not set your 'LESSCHARSET' environmen

Re: Lilo query

1997-02-28 Thread Ronald van Loon
won't install on the boot disk. Nope. /dev/hda1 is the first partition (1) on the first IDE harddisk (a). This has nothing to do with it being the first disk. The MBR of the first harddisk is on /dev/hda. -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Re: Filesystemsize

1997-02-25 Thread Ronald van Loon
|" - Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit. This only says that a *file* can't be over 2 GB in size. A bit further down in the same file: - Support for big file systems: the copy of the FS descriptor is now dynamically allocated (previous versions us

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"Personally, I hate the Penguins, except the ones that are the outline. I |"it looks more "professional" but still gives the hint of the |"penguin/linux'ness Maybe we should call ourselves DepenGNUian Linux from now on. -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) &qu

Re: How do they burn CD's?

1997-02-18 Thread Ronald van Loon
use. A welcome change from programs like 'Gear'. Just two command lines and go! -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst -- TO UNSU

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
u get in all kinds of precedence problems if things are stored in multiple places. Unexpected behaviour due to resource settings is very hard to track down. -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!"

Re: How to copy Debian?

1997-01-09 Thread Ronald van Loon
|"Sorry, Darren, it isn't something I've ever needed to look into. |"Does anyone on the list have a list of reliable NFS-mountable sites? I only know of one, in the Netherlands: ftp.leidenuniv.nl, /var/spool/ftp/pub/linux, /debian -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) &quo

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Ronald van Loon
ioning scheme (or so I thought) of 250 Mb /, and 250 Mb /usr. I ended up by making additional directories in / to hold spillover stuff from /usr. This wreaks havocs on quite a number of symbolic links. - Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, an

Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Ronald van Loon
ns for the partitioning of this disk ? I am leaning towards a partitioning scheme with different partitions for /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /user, and /var. -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and

Apache config error

1996-11-08 Thread Ronald van Loon
hat apache cannot access any cgi-bin scripts or icons in that directory. I hope this is useful information. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Q: Can someone please explain to me the difference between Java and C? A: Java is an island north of Australia, whereas C is the Roman numer

Bug in UUCP package ?

1996-10-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
is doesn't seem the way to go. I expect a similar problem for 'rnews' - but this is untested. Bug ? Feature? Oversight ? -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which option gets ide-cd into my kernel?

1996-09-27 Thread Ronald van Loon
All advice will be |"appreciated - am tearing my hair out at the moment. It might be /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. Try making a symbolic link /dev/cdrom, or check with dmesg whether it actually gets detected. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: sound blaster or GUS

1996-09-23 Thread Ronald van Loon
- speakers and a microphone also. Under Linux, definitely use the Gravis; it's much better supported than the SB ones (especially in the MIDI department). It's a better quality card for simultaneous recording and playback. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt

1996-09-16 Thread Ronald van Loon
em persists. I think it is of the utmost importance to keep the bootdisks in sync. After all, it's just a matter of a 6-fold compile. This can even be automated... Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: DANGER: installing ld.so & libc5 with dftp

1996-09-13 Thread Ronald van Loon
figured then perl breaks. After which nothing will |">install. |"> |"> I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. |" |"It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would |"be extremely bad. Hmmm, I installed my entire system with the 5 disks and dpkg-ftp (1.1.4) and had no problems whatsoever. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: bleh...

1996-09-13 Thread Ronald van Loon
for me too. |" |"An `strace' looked like it was cribbing on a strange ioctl call, or |"something like that. This problem goes away when you recompile your kernel *without* extended Real Time Clock support. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)

1996-09-10 Thread Ronald van Loon
nformation on |"the current draft version of the HTML specification (HTML 3.2), check |"out |" |"http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Wilbur/ This URL gives an "Access forbidden" error. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: files without package

1996-09-06 Thread Ronald van Loon
be a hardlink to 'test' (necessary for constructs like if [ $1 = $2 ] then echo equal fi ) |" /dev/initctl| |" /dev/printer= |" /dev/xconsole| |" Are there really these symbols on the end? I guess it's output from ls -F. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

PGP pP

1996-09-06 Thread Ronald van Loon
signature |" |"-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- |"Version: 2.6.2i |" |"iQCVAwUBMjAIp4QRll5MupLRAQElbgQAzS0dlnHL68pTZHW2c6SfSPDc/vyqIHMv |"RG/9mvikh9mJ5ILpJqb71ReDJVy3ARrPcVf7WAtJUltlY0HRLn9jgEkpP0I3M39P |"cLk9yI+a5q7ZjjtgSmiRq7KxCW2cltPbbTg2dJK7pSyNqSvgDl9UPv0GxuDhXOnh |"3a3fkQ27rK0= |"=MbV3 |"-END PGP MESSAGE- |" |"--==_Exmh_-1614421896P-- |" |" -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

ELM and PGP

1996-09-06 Thread Ronald van Loon
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Re: Runq missing from cron package ?

1996-08-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
ot-system didn't fill up as quickly as /usr). Packages that use this relative form of indexing instead of the full path thus silently fail. Thanks for the pointer. Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Runq missing from cron package ?

1996-08-22 Thread Ronald van Loon
Hello Debian-world, a small question: after a successful install of Debian by FTP, the cron process generates a lot of output along the lines of "runq: command not found". I could not find it either. Is this a bug or a feature ? :-) -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])