Re: More Admin Questions

1999-01-25 Thread Michael Procario
> > I installed the smail package and related files. How can I be sure > this is being used and not sendmail? Also when I su to root from a > user account and try to run an X program I get the following message: > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > Initialization error: X server not res

Re: More Admin Questions

1999-01-25 Thread Björn Elwhagen
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:03:22AM -0600, Dan Furtney wrote this: > > I installed the smail package and related files. How can I be sure > this is being used and not sendmail? Also when I su to root from a > user account and try to run an X program I get the following message: If you didn't force

Re: More Admin Questions

1999-01-25 Thread Kirk Hogenson
> I installed the smail package and related files. How can I be sure > this is being used and not sendmail? Also when I su to root from a > user account and try to run an X program I get the following message: > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > Initialization error: X server not respond

More Admin Questions

1999-01-25 Thread Dan Furtney
I installed the smail package and related files. How can I be sure this is being used and not sendmail? Also when I su to root from a user account and try to run an X program I get the following message: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Initialization error: X server not responding : ":0.0"

Re: Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dan Furtney wrote: > This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the > heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap > areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I > would be able to use my /home/dan dire

Re: Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the > heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap > areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I > would be able to use my /home/dan directory in D

Re: Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:16:25 +, Dan Furtney wrote: >I don't have permissions for the directory from the debian account. The >RedHat end is still fine. How should this be done? TIA The UIG and GID must match on both distributions.

Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread Dan Furtney
This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I would be able to use my /home/dan directory in Debian or RedHat. When I used adduser to