[Q] Virtual domains with postfix...

2000-02-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to go about using postfix for virtual domains? I already have something working decently. But have problems when I have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both these need to point to two entries in /etc/aliases. Thanks. S. -- "A

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" proclaimed: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > >[Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] > >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 > >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 &

Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" proclaimed: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:50:30 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > >I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when > >I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an > >

[Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

1999-11-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] Hi, I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box. I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box. I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the whois record) for my dom

[Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]

1999-11-16 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Please respond directly to Nagarjuna Thanks. S. Original Message Subject: Debian specific Partition problme Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:18:06 +0530 (IST) From: "Nagarjuna G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

1999-11-05 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
aphro proclaimed: > use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 Does it support booting off a ata/66 drive? The patches for 2.2.13 say that booting off of ata/66 drive is not supported. Thaths -- "Now, what is a wedding? Well, Webster's Dictionary describes a wedding as, 'The process of removing weeds f

Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?

1999-11-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
How do I compile ATA/66 support into the kernel? And what version of the kernel should I use? The slink boot floppies have 2.0.36 and this kernel is not currently recogonizing my ide2 and ide3 interfaces. Here is my setup: Abit BP6 MoBo. 128M PC100 SDRAM 2 * 466MHz Celeron PPGA ide0 (ATA/33)

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:57:09PM -0500, did Brad write: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is > > bouncing. > > > > www:~ $ echo "testing. Please ignore" | sendmail

Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0700, did George Bonser write: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > LOG: 0 MAIN > > <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 > > www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 > > probably Berkele

[MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...

1999-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Note: I am sending this email from home. Please Cc me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in your replies. I run a couple of mailing lists that get pretty decent traffic. I used to use Exim as my MTA. I came across a pretty strage problem using Exim a couple of weeks ago. Mails to cyberspace.org started bounc

Re: printout being chopped off...

1999-05-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Wayne Topa proclaimed: > I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally > fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg > ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got > everything printing on the paper, correctly. Could you give me more i

Re: printout being chopped off...

1999-05-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Mario Olimpio de Menezes proclaimed: > I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led > me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: > > http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Thanks. I took a look at the page. But the things suggested in that page did not fi

printout being chopped off...

1999-05-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfiltercon

Re: How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Benoit Joly wrote: > you dont need to create the device. > > the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is > probably not what you did. > > so compile your kernel to support the ethernet card and everything should be > fine. Thanks. I will try it out later today wh

How to create /dev/eth*?

1999-03-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I recently got a DSL connection at home. When I first installed Linux in this machine at home it did not have an ethernet card. I used to use ppp to connect to the net. This machine is running slink from the mid-feb time-frame. I copied over /etc/init.d/network from another Debian box and edite

[Howto?] sucking all posts to newsgroup foo.bar.baz

1999-03-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I just installed suck on my machine. I want to archive all unexpired and uncancelled posts that are available in a newsgroup (say, alt.foo.bar.baz). How do I go about doing this? suck(1) says that it is possible for me to download ALL the newsgroups in my news server. It does not tell me h

[Off Topic] SW Radio software for Linux?

1999-02-19 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any sort of short radio software for Linux. Since Debian has roots connected to HAM radio, I though someone here might have an answer. Thaths PS: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me in your reply. -- "Oh my God, Space Aliens!! Don't eat me, I have a wife and

[HOWTO?] Configure ircd and get it running...

1999-01-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I just finished installing the ircd package. I want to run an irc server for my intranet (my machine is inside the firewall). I poked around /usr/doc/ircd and was unable to find out how exactly to configure ircd. I made some cursory changes in /etc/ircd/ircd.* 1. From the little that I hav

Installing hamm on a HP Vectra VL 8

1999-01-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Folks, Has anyone sucessfully install hamm on a HP Vectra VL8? I am having problems with my built in ethernet card. NT says that the card is 3C905B I compiled the kernel with support for 3C59X and bootup is fine. But I am not even able to ping my gateway. S. -- "Now, sweetie, don't worry abo

[Off Topic] Ideas on providing low cost email access to schools

1998-12-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[I would appreciate it if you Cc-ed your replies to this thread to me] #include Folks, I am planning on writing an article for a computer magazine in India [1]. This magazine is big supporter of Linux in India. I thought of writing an article on how high schools and colleges with non-dedicate

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. > I am using tcsh. Also make sure that the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME is set to point to /usr/local/netscape > The $HOME is already set. > here is the ldd output: > ldd: version 1.9.9 > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6

Re: Communicator Installation

1998-12-21 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I > downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was > saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz # cd /root # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz this wil

Re: printing from netscape

1998-12-16 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click > on the "print" button, I get a screen with the print command > defaulting to "lpd." Are you sure that the print command says lpd? It should say lpr. lpr is the "client" that sends a page to the printer. lpd is the daemon.

/var/log/utmp missing

1998-10-30 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
After a previous upgrade to slink, I notice that /var/log/utmp is now missing. Can I just touch it to create it? What should be its file permissions? who and w are showing strage results probably because utmp is missing. S. -- "I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically,

xemacs-mule-canna-wnn doesn't support korean-hangul input method?

1998-10-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I am extremely new to this whole concept of input systems and double byte characters. I am trying to set up my machine and an eXceed client so that a user of my machine can use xemacs to edit Korean documents (encoded in EUC-KR). Here is what I did - 1. Installed xfnt* 2. Installed xemacs20

Re: Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?

1998-10-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
AlexY wrote - > > Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? > Most probably not. Netscape always used Motif 1.2 for linking. > May be glibc2 version uses Morif 2.1 - but unlikely. You are right. Navigator / Communicator 4.5 glibc dynmotif is linked against 1.2. $ ldd /usr

[Q] backspace problems connecting to XDM via eXceed

1998-10-15 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I am running xdm on my machine. When I log into the machine on the console, my xterm's backspace is working fine. But when another user logs into my machine using eXceed on NT (using XDMCP-broadcast), backspace does not work. What resources / files should I modify to map backspace to ^H? H

Re: Can't load library

1998-10-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Ken Archer wrote: > Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and running on Debian 2.0, I get > the error message that: > > Netscape: cannot load library "libXpm.so.4" > I have the same Netscape running fine on a Suse 5.2 partition with libXpm.so.4 > installed in the same default directory (/usr/X11R6/lib)

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
John Hasler wrote - > Martin Bialasinski writes: > > What I mean is that you shouldn't send the \d. > He isn't sending \d. To chat '\d' means pause one second. Some ISP's get > confused if chat exits and lets pppd start sending packets before they > finish authenticating. The pause gives them ti

PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have fianlly managed to get a proper chatscript to dial into my ISP (I think). Now I find that when pppd comes on it always fails at the LCP ConfReq phase. Here is a snippet from my ppp.log Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: CONNECT Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3 09:25:0

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> >> /etc/chatscripts/isp > >> > >> ABORT BUSY > >> ABORT "NO CARRIER" > >> ABORT VOICE > >> ABORT "NO DIALTONE" > >> ABORT "NO ANSWER" > >> "" ATZ > >> OK ATDT2230101 > >> CONNECT '' > >> ogin: \d\q'us,ppp,thaths' > >> ssword: \qpassword > >> > >> "" \d\c > OK, terminal logi

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-25 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This usually means that the chat script is exiting without having provided > > the other end with everything it needs. Dial in with minicom and work > > through the login until you get the garbage

[pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I installed Hamm on a machine at home. The installation went perfectly. I next tried configuring a dial up connection to get into my ISP (Netcom - http://www.netcom.com/). Here is the story of my experiments with pppd and associated applications - 1. I first tried dunc to create a new connection

Making XDM use *my* window manager

1998-08-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, This is most probably a frequently asked question. I poked around the Debian documentation and am unable to find the information (probably because I looked at the wrong place). How do I make xdm start a preferred window manager on a per-user basis? I want to leave the system-wide default pr

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Mike wrote: > > You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). > That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I > notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent > xterms. I have scre

Re: No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Mike wrote: > You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first xterm and later xterms at - http://w

No color in second xterm

1998-07-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
After I installed hamm on a new machine I have noticed that the first xterm I start (xterm -ls -sb) has proper colors. All xterms started after the first xterm do not display colors properly. Even when I quit all xterms and start a new xterm, the new xterm does not have color. Here is my setup

Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?

1998-07-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? My Official CDs have not reached me yet. So I would have to do the basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via FTP. There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that people have reported (h

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux

1998-07-01 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS > Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has > to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of > it (and a private practice invoicing prog) I have to keep a Windows 95

[Q] Steps in migrating to qmail from smail

1998-05-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have a pretty simple smail instalaltion. I have heard nice things about qmail. I installed qmail-src. Could somebody give me the steps on compiling qmail and migrating to qmail from smail.Do I uninstall smail first (with --force-depends) and then install qmail? Thanks. S. -- "Why is it

Re: dictionaries?

1998-05-16 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> Are there any dictionary programs (console and/or X)? -- a dictionary, > not just a list of correctly spelled words! You could look at http://www.dict.org/ I use their client, dict (command line) and daemon, dictd on my machine. Somebody (forgot their name) is already in the process of packag

[tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-15 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set and tcsh running under xterm keeps logging me out after a period of inactivity. S. -- "Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BA

Re: [X Problem] Windows lacking "chrome" after recent upgrade

1998-04-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > look into ~/.xsession-errors if you use xdm, or, if you use > startx, look for errors in the log file (assuming you start startx > like startx >& //tmp/startx.log). > > Sounds like your window manager is dying. I got that when I > messed up the configu

Re: [X Problem] Windows lacking "chrome" after recent upgrade

1998-04-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Joey Hess wrote: > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under > > frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their "chrome". I tried > > kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the ca

[X Problem] Windows lacking "chrome" after recent upgrade

1998-04-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their "chrome". I tried kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this happening? Hoe can I get around it? S. -- "The human race never solves an

[Majordomo] Howto setup?

1998-03-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
So I've installed majordomo on my machine after fixing my problems with smail. What should I be reading to configure majordomo and get it up and running? S. -- "If a gun can protect something as important as a bar, it is good enough to protect my family." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar

Re: Debian(hamm) system compiles Netscape 5.0!!

1998-03-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
It is true. Dynamically linked against glibc. Thaths -- The truth is not out there The truth is not out there The truth us not -- Bart Simpson, "The Sprintfield Files" Sudhakar C13n International Websites Enginee

[Motif] RH Motif 2.1 versus lesstif

1998-03-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I've used alien to convert the RPM for RH Motif 2.1 to .deb Looking at the listing for files for lesstif and RH Motif 2.1 I see that if I install RH over lesstif it will overwrite some of the files that lesstif provides. Should I just remove lesstif and go with RH Motif? Would apps like xscreens

[Panic] dpkg-ftp upgrade removed required packages

1998-03-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed' section - timezone7.55-2 libg++27-dev2.7.2.1-8 libgdbm1-dev1.7.3-19 Under 'Avail. ver' nothing is listed. Is this the result of

Re: [Q] socks-client rftp & rtelnet fails

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
be working fine now. The problem with using Navigator / Communicator for ftp is that it is usually overkill for simple ftp. Also, Navigator FTP does not support cool stuff like 'prompt off' 'mget *.html' etc. [I speak only for myself. I do not speak for my employer. ;-] >

[Q] socks-client rftp & rtelnet fails

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
$ cat /etc/socks.conf sockd @=socks.domain.com * 0.0.0.0 $ rftp ftp.debian.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> bye $ which rftp /usr/bin/rftp I have had this problem for over a year now. I have tried all socks4.2 and socks 5 clients (both .deb packages and custom versions compiled from

[hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm

1998-03-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[This mail had bounced back once. Hopefully, it should work this time.] I am running a hamm system with the latest updates. For the past few weeks ncurses-bin and ncurses-base upgrades were failing because /usr/share/terminfo already existed. I mv-ed /usr/shre/terminfo to /usr/share/terminfo.b

Re: [Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6

1998-03-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
> I asked the same question a short time ago and got no answe. But here are > a couple of ideas: > > a) compile it yourself. The package maintainer gave me a bit of a hint > that, if one wants to go this route, then it would be helpful to install a > package that can be found under > 'ftp.debs.f

[LILO]

1998-03-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I upgraded from 64M to 96M of RAM. beetle % cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/sdb3 root=/dev/sdb3 # Generated by liloconfig compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append = "mem=96M" read-only beetle # dmesg | grep Memory Memory: 63084k/65536k availabl

Motif and lesstif coexistance?

1998-02-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Can RedHat motif (I used alien to convert a .rpm to .deb) co-exist with lesstif? xscreensaver installation complains that it needs lesstif. S. -- "When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They are on TV." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n

[fvwmconf] HowTo?

1998-02-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have installed this package. /usr/doc/fvwmconf does not have much info on how to run it. Neither does it have a man page. How do I get started with thjs? S. -- "When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They are on TV." -- Homer J. Simpson

Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?

1998-02-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths -- "Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character." -- Homer J. Simpson S

Install Applixware on Debian?

1998-02-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? S. -- "Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer

[autofs] Need a auto.hosts map for different machines with different exports

1998-02-25 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
$ showmount -e foo /logs (everyone) / (everyone) $ showmount -e bar /var/spool/pcnfs (everyone) /d (everyone) $ cat /etc/auto.master /h /etc/auto.hosts /tools /etc/auto.tools /mnt/etc/auto.mnt --timeout 10 $ cat /e

[General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail

1998-02-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sorry for this non Debian question. I usually find that my questions to this mailing list get answered very fast. My mail is stored on a remote IMAP server. How do I use procmail to filter my mail? The documentation on procmail that I have read applies to mail on the local system (ie. /var/spoo

[Q] Editing kanji in X

1998-02-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I am looking for a easy to use kanji editor for X. Is there one that is already packaged with Debian (hamm)? S. -- "Besides, it is a victimless crime. The only victim is Moe." -- Home J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (

Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of this. 1. What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make the browser better? 2. What features would you add to the browser? 3. Would a UN*X developer add a feature that is unix specific. Or would he / she a

[xscreensaver] How to add custom hack...

1998-01-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have xscreensaver 2.14-1 (hamm) installed on my machine. I have created a custom hack after grabbing the soucres for 2.15 How do I make the xscreensaver binary aware of my hack? Do I have to create a new Debian package for 2.15? I see a file called /driver/XScreenSaver.ad Where does the Debi

[off topic?] NBSD - Not-So-Bad Distribution

1998-01-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
The Not-So-Bad Distribution page is at http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nsbd/ I don't know if this has been discussed before. Are there problems with rolling something like this into dselect? S. -- "Singing is the lowest form of communication." -- Homer J. Sim

[hamm] dpkg-ftp problems from behind the firewall

1998-01-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my hamm installation through dselect's FTP method of retrieving packages. Here are some comments. * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages (among the ones selected for i

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
>I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it >seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, >(Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull >reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. >

Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I tried to be clear but... anyway, my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this: > > #---cut here to damage your monitor-- > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. > # > > passwd: c

Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in > > YP. > > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > > passwd: db files > > group:

libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS

1998-01-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
$ ypcat passwd|grep thaths thaths::8022:690:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:/u/thaths:/bin/bash When I am able to ypcat and grep my password entry, why am I unable to login with this username? I have also been unable to su to this username. Sudhakar -- "Programming in X Windows is like trying to fin

libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?

1998-01-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable being "stable enough". My machine is kind of a production server. The world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is important to have it up and running ASAP. I am planning on upgrading to hamm later tod

[fvwm2] Desktops, Pagers and Backgrounds etc.

1998-01-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I use fvwm2 as my window manager. I want to do a very simple thing but am confused by the terminology in the man pages. I launch FvwmPager on startup. Snippets from my /etc/X11/fvwm2/post.hook - # I want 9 seperate desks to work on DeskTopSize 3x3 # FvwmPager Customization * FvwmPagerDeskColor

make-kpkg - minor irritant compiling custom kernel

1997-12-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I'm trying to compile a custom kernel (2.0.31) for my machine using make-kpkg (3.01). I came across a minor irritant. Here is what I do - 1. make 2. Edit drivers/sound/local.h and add #define DESKPROXL (my machine. drivers/sound/Readme.cards asks me to add this line after make config. 3

Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

1997-12-04 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib - $ cd /lib $ ls -l *nsl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17448 Jun 5 1997 libnsl-2.0.4.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

[Q] problems with TimeZone, Clock & xntp

1997-11-15 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I have xntp installed. My system should get the correct time when it boots up. But I see that my xclock shows is ahead by an hour. I suspect this has something to do with the fact that I had problems running tzconfig. I run tzconfig and choose 'US time zones' in the first screen. Now I tr

autofs and 2.0.31

1997-11-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote - > I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to > use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for > autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he > package. However the package does not find autofs

[Q] talk - Couldn't bind to control socket...

1997-11-05 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I recently switched to kernel 2.0.31. 'talk' seems to have broken after this switch. When I try 'talk' I get the following message - $ talk thaths Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99) Does this have something to do with the new kernel? BTW, which package

Re: [Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31

1997-10-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Olivier THARAN wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:56:28AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > How should I proceed with kernel 2.0.31 and autofs? Would the autofs > > deamon 0.3.14 wouk with the autofs support in kernel 2.0.31? > I'd say, if the patches for autofs

[Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31

1997-10-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, Thanks, first of all, to all the folks who answered my questions on getting Sound and CD to work on my Compaq DeskPro XL. I have been fooling around with kernel 2.0.31 that I downloaded from funet.fi I see that autofs support is included with this release of the kernel. Are there docs on au

[Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.

1997-10-27 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
When I boot up - kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 kernel: scsi0 : AM53/79C974 PCscsi driver rev. 0.5; host I/O address: 0x7100; irq: 11 kernel: kernel: scsi : 1 host. kernel: Vendor: COMPAQPC Model: ST32430N Rev: 0554 kernel: Type: Direct-Access

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

1997-06-30 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
he builds have been great. The builds have not reached Win32 quality (and I use this term very loosely). But I do expect Mozilla 4.01 to become quite stable by the time it is released. Sudhakar -- "An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System." -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan

[General Q] What is inetd?

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
ystem." -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

[Q] How to create a FTP only account...

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
hieve the same there? Help would be greatly appreciated. Sudhakar -- "An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System." -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H)

Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account...

1997-06-28 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
one's account a .login file with "logout" line in there :) > Everyone just smart enough to ftp a "better" .login gained easy > shell access... ROTFL! Sudhakar -- "An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System." -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekhar

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-25 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jun 23, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote > > Sudhakar > > PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list. > > Mutt doesn't know about this content-type, so I don't see it. I shall not use these huge d

Re: Books on Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
7;Installation and Getting Started' to deal with Debian instead of (shudder) Slackware. ;-) Sudhakar -- "I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to." -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Ed Down wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up th

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the > > hard-disk and start from scratch. > Yo

[Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

1997-06-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
ogress. It is change that I object to." -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
the SOCKS 4 host). One solution I can think of is using the 'Automatic Proxy Config' feature. For more info on this, read - http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html Sudhakar -- "If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English.&q

Re: Dear Mr. Sean.Seaman

1997-06-23 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
e damned list. Why did this guy (Sean) subscribe to this list in the first place!? Sad! Sudhakar -- "If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English." -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-21 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
nd cookie) alerts on. By doing this the risks are, IMHO, far lesser. Sudhakar PS: These are my opinions and my opinions alone. -- "If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English." -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-19 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > > Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to > > > sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem &g

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
waiting for me to visit their pages. * 10,000 "fresh" email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) If people are going to spam me, why don't they ever sell books, s/w, h/w for cheap? Sudhakar -- Sudhakar Chandrasekharan

Re: X server via network.

1997-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Us site. But you could go to the source - http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ It runs pretty smoothly on my machine. Sudhakar -- "When all else fails, read the instructions." Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of

Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

1997-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
the following scheme - [net] problem with communicator install [x11] problem setting up fvwm2 menus etc. J/ my 2 cents. Sudhakar -- "When all else fails, read the instructions." Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) Inte

Re: Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. > > > > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian > > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Joey Hess wrote: > Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: > > I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 > > setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes > > with Debian. I tried the following - > > > > * Moved /usr/lib/menu/def

[Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
ut if update-menu was broken). Ran the update scripts and restarted X. Still to no avail. What am I missing? Sudhakar -- "Jesus saves! But wouldn't it be better if he has invested?" Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web