> "s" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s> I tried to install XFree86 Version 4.0.2 on a Potato system.
s> Unfortunately apt/dselect does not upgrade xbase-client, so I'm
s> not able to run X. When I run 'apt-get update' the status line
s> begins with an 'Ign'. There seems to be a
I thought it may be useful to have the below information archived for
anyone thinking about the Lexmark E312 in the future.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:48:43 -0500
From: S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmar
I think you should promptly type where exactly are the two versions of the browsers
I had the same problem but when I put two shortcuts with the exact path to th browsers I had no problems
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:18:15PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote:
Hello,I've installed th
Many thanks to all who replied; both to the reflector and directly. I would
like to comment on all the replies in one message. To those of you who took
the time to answer, you will see my reply to your particular comments in one
of the points.
(1) My only config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. And
Anyhow - Dear Wizzards,
How do I get to play music on my debian2.2?
It does not recognize "sndconfig"!
Why was I born intellectually challenged?
Hearthstone.
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Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
http://perso
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You need Windows in order to run win apps under Wine.
this is not true - wine is getting better at emulating windows without
windows installed - it comes with its own versions of all the main
windows dlls
>
> > Now the problem seems to be that whe
Hi all,
I've been using Linux for a long time (7ish years) and for the past year
have been using RedHat 6.2. Anywho, my biggest complaint with RH is
regarding RPM. The case in point is that I've wanted to install some new
Gnome related RPM's that require the x-devel RPMs. The problem is th
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> binfmt_misc isn't his problem, it's trying to execute random other files
> for some reason, at which point the kernel constructs a module name
> based on the first two bytes of the file and tries to modprobe it; it
> only goes near binfmt_misc if that module has specificall
PS.
Attached log:
Feb 13 01:24:23 palatine init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Feb 13 01:24:29 palatine apmd[488]: Exiting
Feb 13 07:25:23 palatine apmd[146]: Version 3.0final (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux
driver 1.13)
Feb 13 07:25:23 palatine apmd[146]: Charge: * * * (-1% unknown)
Feb 13 10:27:32 palatine mo
To quote "Rainer Mager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# So, to make a long story short, how is the Debian package manager in
this
# regards? Do the same problems exist?
Well, understand that there are two parts to the Debian packaging
system. 'apt', and 'dpkg'. 'dpkg' is roughly equivalent to functio
Hello,
I am new to debian. I just installed Potato 2.2r2 with 2.2.18_pre21 kernel
on a dell Celerion 3500 laptop. Everything worked fine but i had to
recompile the kernel (I took the same kernel source version) to get apm
working.
I did it on the debian way (make-kpkg...) and found it very useful
If i were you i'd upgrade to kernel 2.4.x since it has muuuch better laptop
support. Compiling the kernel with 'make menuconfig' seems to be the most
reliable way to compile any required packages you might need.
Give it a go, it' reliable/modern and feature rich.
Joris
-Original Message-
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> If i were you i'd upgrade to kernel 2.4.x since it has muuuch better laptop
> support. Compiling the kernel with 'make menuconfig' seems to be the most
> reliable way to compile any required packages you might need.
>
> Give it a go, it' reliable/mode
Sorry,
you'll have to do a 'make install' i guess, could be 'make modules' too but
darned my memory is not very up to speed t'day.
In the root of your kernel source is a document wich states all of the
necessary steps to install kernel AND modules. This information can also be
found in your howto
> I have a debian install running the 2.4.2 kernel. I want to allow external
> telnet/ssh access, but am not sure how. I apt-get'ed ssh and telnetd, but
> don't really know where to go from here. If anyone could help me out, I"d
> appreciate it.
you don't actually need anything else! check if y
Hi,
to do it not the debian way:
make menuconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
If you have only selected new modules, you possibly can leave out 'make
bzImage', but with some kind modules, you need a little kernel support, so
it is safe to recompile everything, unless yo
> [2001/02/26 22:26:28, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(566)
> Can't create or use semaphore [1]. Error was Function not implemented
> [2001/02/26 22:26:28, 0] locking/locking.c:locking_init(174)
> ERROR: Failed to initialise share modes
looks like you compiled your kernel without System V I
Laurent VANCAILLIE wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
>
> > If i were you i'd upgrade to kernel 2.4.x since it has muuuch better laptop
> > support. Compiling the kernel with 'make menuconfig' seems to be the most
> > reliable way to compile any required packages you might nee
I'd like to add my praise for Lexmark and the printer. I got the E310
a few months ago, and have been quite pleased with it. With the base
memory (2Mg, I think) it does postscript printing. It's worked well
under windows and Linux.
I have had a few anomalies, but the tech support has been pret
David (and all),
Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with
pacages
in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is
encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to
build/install by hand X, glibc, postgres, the kerne
>>> > > THIS IS GOOD...
>>> > >
>>> > > just send it along to someone
>>> > > else...A really good example of Power To The People!!! and, I
>>> > > think, a positive use of technology
>>> > > I love some of the small, creative and persistent ways people find to
>>> > > protest injustice in th
Hi,
I have an riva tnt graphics card with a nec multi-sync monitor capable of
resolutions of up to 1024x768 @ 87hz interlaced but I can't seem to make
XFree work above the color depth of 8??? I'd like to be able to run at least
at 16 bpp or possibly 24 but I can't get past 8!!! whenever I try
If the software exists in the Debian repository, you can always do an apt-get
source which will dowload the source, to which you can make
minor alterations as need be (like including debugging symbols), and then
build the package using the existing rules setup by the package maintainer.
Just a
I am setting up some machines with libnss-ldap to replace /etc/passwd with
LDAP access for centralised account administration.
I am concerned at what will happen if the LDAP server goes down or
experiences a network failure. I have a secondary LDAP configured but I need
a way to use it if the p
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting the msg every two or three days now and know that
> it's origin is a program accessing an empty file. The questions are:
>
> 1. Does this happen on most systems? 2. Is it something particular
> to this system, and if so, h
> David (and all),
>
> Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with
> pacages
> in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is
> encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions will arise. I've had to
> build/install by hand X, glibc, postg
> "js" == john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
js> Hi,
js> I have an riva tnt graphics card with a nec multi-sync monitor capable
js> of resolutions of up to 1024x768 @ 87hz interlaced but I can't seem to
js> make XFree work above the color depth of 8??? I'd like to be able t
Hi,
I'm running a Potato (2.2r2) system and want to upgrade it to Xfree86 4.0.2
using the updated packages from the debian server.
My question: Will the binary packages run on my system without problems or do I
have to take the source package ?
TIA,
Jonas
hi ya jonathan...
use an automoutner cause...
- it automatically mounts the directories/parititions you need
- it automatically unmounts it when you no longer need it
- minimize corrupting it/erasing it accidentally
due to wierd/whacy errors likepower failures, hw resets
use au
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>also sprach Xucaen (on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:06:48PM -0800):
>> when I type man clear(3NCURSES) i get
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ man clear(3NCURSES)
>> bash: syntax error near unexpected token
>> `clear(3'
>
>man 3 clear
>
>i know it's weird, but that's how it g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm looking for a .deb package that provides
>libgnomeui/gnome-window-icon.h and status-docklet.h
>
>There's an RPM package (gnome-core-devel) but I don't see a debian
>equivalent. When will that be? Or what am I missing?
libgnome-dev and libpanel-applet-dev respectively.
Hi,
I found it in unstable and wondered why it wasn't included in potato.
Any particular licensing reason?
Thanks,
Jonathan
--
/* Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] */
I've found magicfilterconfig to be quite reliable. Primitive but reliable.
And, I can't seem to get printtool to work either. At least it fails at setting
up my local Canon BJ30 printer. It works fine with the BJ600 driver in
magicfilter.
Harald
> last time i tried to apt-get upgrade my potato/sid system to unstable, it
> completely broke perl, debconf and apt. i was really displeased.
I ran into this problem a while ago and had to install perl 5.6 from unstable.
I installed the whole shebang as i tend to use perl rather extesively :) :
* Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010227 03:23]:
> During the installation of ssh you were asked if you want to run the
> ssh-deamon. If you chose to do so you can just go ahead and ssh into
> your system.
And if you did not choose yes and later changed your mind, enter
"dpkg-reconfigure ssh
Hello,
Am Dienstag, den 27. Februar 2001 11:57:41 schrieb Jonas Wolz:
> I'm running a Potato (2.2r2) system and want to upgrade it to
> Xfree86 4.0.2 using the updated packages from the debian server. My
> question: Will the binary packages run on my system without problems
> or do I have to tak
Setting up Win4Lin on Debian (tested 2.2)
* get the Win4Lin rpm package
* use alien to convert to a deb --> alien -d Win4lin*.rpm (don't use the -c
switch)
* install the deb
* change directories to /opt/win4lin/ and run the script postinst-rpm.sh
* if suidmanager is running on your system then ope
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:32:10PM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote:
> David (and all),
>
> Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with
> pacages
> in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is
> encouraging but, nonetheless, I know occasions wil
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:29:46PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found it in unstable and wondered why it wasn't included in potato.
> Any particular licensing reason?
its in sid (and probably testing too) so it probably simply was not
yet packaged when potato froze, or it was too buggy
is it possible to do NAT/MASQ in single NIC with two ip address? if yes,
then how?
my comp has no dialup PPP
IPs : 203.170.2.x and 192.168.1.1
and I want to masq 192.168.1.1/24
Hi Rick,
> (1) My only config file is /etc/X11/XF86Config. And there is a link to it
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
Could you post this file, please? Together with the ouput of X you
provided, it should enable us all to fix your problem.
Best regards,
Manuel
Hi,
to solve the problem of the error message
X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
create a link to XFree86 in /etc/X11.
$ cd /etc/X11
"Forrest English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>last time i tried to apt-get upgrade my potato/sid system to unstable, it
>completely broke perl, debconf and apt. i was really displeased.
>
>i thought i'd give a shout and see if that's been fixed before i gave it
>another try. late nights of reinst
> regarding RPM. The case in point is that I've wanted to install
> some new Gnome related RPM's that require the x-devel
> RPMs. The problem is that I've, by hand, upgraded X to 4.0x
> and the needed x-devel RPMs are 3.3.6. Of course I can tell
> it to ignore the dependancies but then what is the
Quoting Rick Commo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> (3) In XF86Free I have tried each and every given monitor as well as
> entering in the hsync and vsync as 30-58 and 50-90 respectively.
It looks from the output as if you may have modelines that are far
too ambitious. I don't know XF86Free or where it get
Hi all,
I'm having problems booting from a USB floppy.
My BIOS supports USB floppy boot (thinkpad X20), so I can boot a kernel
from floppy no problem.
Since the USB storage devices work using some sort of SCSI emulation,
I have replaced the original kernel image on my boot disk with one
that
I wanted to update to the final version of kde, but it got hold back
because most of the packages have one dependency, that is not
fullfilled.
libqt2 can not be resolved - package does not seem to be available.
I am using unstable and use the austrian mirror and the official server.
Thank you fo
Yes it's possible. I can't recall the URI now but check www.linuxdoc.org and
the IP_MASQ FAQ.
Regards,
M.
-Original Message-
From: Ker Ruben Ramos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:11 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: NAT/MASQ in single NIC
is it
Hi all,
When I attempt to boot, I get the following
message come up several times:
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
eventually followed by:
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
unable to read
I've got a big problem, I hope someone can ppoint me in a direction on.
I have a machine that lives behinf a corporate firewall. Historicaly, I
have been able to get dslect to work using "runsocks dselct". I needed
laregfile support on this machien, so yesterday, I canged
/etc/apt/sources-list to
If I do "mail -s foo user" and send a test message, it never shows up. I
don't see anythign in /var/log/mail either (it's zero length).
How should I start troubleshooting this?
--
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154
Charleston SC.
--
Windows 98: n.
Quoting Sven Gaerner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> to solve the problem of the error message
>
> X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
> giving up.
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
>
Hello,
I want to compile ltx2rtf on a debian machine, but the make fails. However, it
works on a redhat 6.2, but the binary file Segm-Faults on debian 2.2. Did
someone have an idea on the way to get it work on debian ? Is it a problem of
gcc version ?
thank you,
--Nabil
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:34:05PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to compile ltx2rtf on a debian machine, but the make fails. However, it
> works on a redhat 6.2, but the binary file Segm-Faults on debian 2.2. Did
> someone have an idea on the way to get it work on debian ? Is it
I have been getting the following message when trying use dselect:
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
/sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Some errors oc
On 27 Feb 2001, Jonas Wolz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a Potato (2.2r2) system and want to upgrade it to Xfree86 4.0.2
> using the updated packages from the debian server.
> My question: Will the binary packages run on my system without problems or do
> I
> have to take the source package ?
>
Yesterday I had a happy machine...
I upggaded to testing, and built the 2.4.2 kernel using kernel-package.
Now apt-get update is broken :-(
I have to run it using runsocks, but I am begining to think that has nothig
to do with the problem I am having. I can use runsocks with ftp and lynx
and get
Once i had a similar problem. i did two things:
1) modify the file /etc/ld.conf and added the path for ldconfig( i`m not
sure about the name :-( i`m writing from a Windows machine so i can`t check
it )see man for ldconfig it name the file there
2) Related to the problem was that i change glibc f
I've RTFM, but I'm still not sure what the best place to put stuff I want to
happen at login is.
Is it safe to append stuff like 'alias ls='ls --color'' to the .bash_profile?
Will that even work? .bashrc has that in it, uncommented, but it doesn't kick
in.
I'd appreciate any help.
Can somebody comment on usability of current i2o drivers in kernel
2.4.2 with Promise SuperTrak100 RAID controller? I did manage to mount
the array as i2o disk, but I'm not entirely sure about stability.
There seems to be some interrupt issue I'm trying to investigate.
I would greatly appreciate co
Hello Sven,
I had the same problem after upgrade from Debian 2.2r0->r2.
In my case, I'm using a Matrox MGA Ultima/Impression 2MB-Grafic-Card
with a commercial Xaccel-Server under /usr/bin/X11/bin.
X-file in this directory doesn't have a symbolic link after this upgrade
an this is still wondering t
Don't use XF86Setup to setup X 4. Use xf86config instead. The
graphical tools have never worked very well with X 4. You might
want to take a look at
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/RELNOTES1.html#1. While they no
longer say that the graphical tools won't work you will notice
that XF86setup is *not* l
You have to uncomment the inclusion of ~/.bashrc in ~/.bash_profile for
~/.bashrc's settings to be evaluated. After this log out of your shell &
log
back in for settings to take effect.
-George
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, Februar
How does it fail? What's the error message?
--
Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED
Keep getting the exact error (when running cvs co -r woody boot-floppies)
...
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special/tecra
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special/v30
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/utilities
U boot-floppies/utilities/.cvsign
Hi
If you don't have a dial up ppp0, I assume you have things like DSL
or cable. And if that is the case, you better off with 2 NICs since the
collisions between the network and the internet is so high that it makes it
not worth it to have only sigle NIC.
Edwin Lau
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001
Is there a "dock" program like "xbiff" that will visually
notify me when my fetchmail daemon gets email delivered
to me?
--
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
:
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On m
Hello,
This morning I attempted to apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I
am told that the new KDE packages are being held back. Does anyone
know why they should be held back? So I attempted to upgrade the KDE
packages through dselect. The dependencies show that kscd depends on
libasound whic
Hi,
yes it does.
Take a look at "The Dock App Warehouse"
http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/
--
Pascal
> -Message d'origine-
> De: Christopher W. Aiken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: mardi 27 février 2001 15:52
> À: Debian Users
> Objet: WindowMaker Question
>
>
>
> Is there a "d
Stan Brown wrote:
> How does Debian handle mail local to the machien?
>
> And where can I find out how the mail system is configured? There does
> not seem
> to be an /etc/mail directory.
Who gets mail for whom is in /etc/aliases and is generated by
exim. I use
Would this be the correct line to add for upgrading to testing:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ main contrib non-free ?
Then I would just do an apt-get update followed by a apt-get dist
upgrade? Thanks for your help in advance
I still have a problem establishing a connection to
my ISP. I would like to establish email and connect my Netscape/StarOffice
to the net. I have run pppconfig and ran "pon ridgenet" but nothing
happens. I noted that I didn't have a "/dev/modem" so I created the
following: ln -sf /dev/
>From John Hammack, I misstated the part about pppconfig. It is a screen
from pppconfig that specifies "Reviewing and changing entries. I still
don't have ppp configured. I am revising my previous posting. Thank for
you response. John
- Original Message -
From: "John Hasler" <[EMA
The make log is below :
hathout:~/ltx2rtf/src-gcc>make -f makefile.lnx
rm -f main.o
gcc -g -funsigned-char -c fonts.c -o fonts.o
gcc -g -funsigned-char -c cdirect.c -o cdirect.o
gcc -g -funsigned-char -c commands.c -o commands.o
gcc -g -funsigned-char -c stack.c -o stack.o
gcc
I cannot figure out why it crashes.
The following packages have been kept
back netbase 102 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 1 not upgraded.17 packages not fully installed or removed.Need
to get 0B/56.0MB of archives. After unpacking 479kB will be used.Do you want
to
Hi
I am having trouble trying to mount a cd image with the command
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cd_image /cdrom
I insert the loop module beforehand, but then the mount command just
freezed at the prompt. (not the system) and I tried to umount it. again the
command freezed. I tr
ok .. i am a little new are retriving passwords
with debian or anyh flavor of linux
My boss decided to play sysop while i was home sick
..
so how he changes the root password ..
I have the machine here .. ( it doesn't have a
cd-rom drive )
my question how can i change the root
pas
Doh! That would probably explain it, then. I didn't think I needed System V
IPC - guess I was wrong. :( I'll recompile tonight and see what happens...
Thanks for the help. :)
Jason
>
> > [2001/02/26 22:26:28, 0] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(566)
> > Can't create or use semaphore [1]
Hmm, I don´t know if this will be actually helpful, but I usually just
`modprobe loop; mount -o loop -t iso9660 blafasel.iso`, eg without any
mention of /dev/loopX...
hth,
&rw
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:43:01 EST, Chun Kit Edwin Lau writes:
> I am having trouble trying to mount a cd image w
I'm assuming the "ask the boss for the new password" part hasn't worked?
Daniel Ray wrote:
> ok .. i am a little new are retriving passwords with debian or anyh
> flavor of linux My boss decided to play sysop while i was home sick
> .. so how he changes the root password .. I have the machine he
Hi Kevin , this is Shirley Dweck, Hank Dwecks daughter. When you fixed our
computer (on east fourth street in Brooklyn) do you know if anyone saved the
documents on a disc? If so, do you know where it is? Please write back as
soon as you get a chance. Thank you very much for your help.
Shirley
I guess it did not... ;)
-Original Message-
From: Mike Dresser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:04 PM
To: Daniel Ray
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Root Password problem
I'm assuming the "ask the boss for the new password" part hasn't worked?
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:00:45AM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote:
> Would this be the correct line to add for upgrading to testing:
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ main contrib non-free ?
> Then I would just do an apt-get update followed by a apt-get dist
> upgrade? Thanks for your help
I was trying to install alien in order to convert some
rpm's to deb's, so I downloaded the latest version of
alien in deb format. I tried to dpkg --install it,
but it balked at my not having the package "perl"
installed on my system. I have perl-5.005,
perl-5.005-base, perl-5.005-doc, perl-5.005-
This is actually a touch off-topic, but figured I'd throw it out, anyway. I
have a website hosted on a RH box with a shell account. I'm trying to get ELM
setup properly to read my mail from the shell. ELM was already installed, but
nothing was configured. I am able to access my mail by using
"Dale Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Would this be the correct line to add for upgrading to testing:
>http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ main contrib non-free ?
Nearly:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>Then I would just do an apt-get update foll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was trying to install alien in order to convert some
>rpm's to deb's, so I downloaded the latest version of
>alien in deb format.
That would be the one from unstable, then? That requires unstable's perl
packages, which have been reorganized. Just use the one in your cur
John Kerr Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been getting the following message when trying use dselect:
>
>dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
>/sbin.
So, if you type 'e
I have Debian 2.2_2 set up on my office PC. I have
wu-fptd installed and running.
I can "rlogin", "ssh", "telnet", etc. into my desktop PC
from any other PC's on our LAN. What I can't to is FTP into
my system. I get the following:
>ftp n4cwaiken9
Connected to n4cwaiken9.
220 n4cwaiken9.ansys.
Why the hell am I getting forbidden errors all of a
sudden?
All files have the correct permissions, but I still
get forbidden errors.
he doesn't know what he did .. the system is on a
video/mouse/keybroard switch box
see it was my fault leaving the system login as root in the frist place ..
since i am the only person that knows the system .. I didn't think there
would have been a problem.
hind sight is 20/20
sorry for the
Quoting Ken Sandell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Why the hell am I getting forbidden errors all of a sudden?
>
> All files have the correct permissions, but I still get forbidden errors.
Because you shouldn't do that. (Whatever *that* is.)
Cheers,
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Quoting Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> M David Tilson wrote:
> > > You didn't do 'cp foo /dev/hda1', did you?
> > >
> > Probably yes. Is there any way to recover?
>
> Have you tried running fsck.msdos under Linux?
Not yet. First, I had to reinstall linux. Got potato up, but having
xwo
If you install the unstable version of magicfilter (1.2-42), it
contains a filter for the E312 (which is a patch to the ps600-filter to
handle PCL and PJL).
Bob
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:29:02AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> I thought it may be useful to have the below information archived for
> an
reboot the machine. When lilo comes up, tap shift. your prompt should change
to LILO boot:
type linux init=/bin/sh
mount -o remount -o rw /dev/hda1 /(assuming your partition is hda1, of
course)
passwd
change your password now, it'll tell you it was changed successfully.
and reboot
you'l
also sprach Martin Marconcini (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 02:49:25PM -0300):
> > ok .. i am a little new are retriving passwords with debian or anyh
> > flavor of linux My boss decided to play sysop while i was home sick
> > .. so how he changes the root password .. I have the machine here .. (
> > it do
1. boot the system with a rescue floppy.
2. mount the root hard drive partition (assuming /etc doesn't have its own
partition).
3. edit /etc/shadow so that the first line has no text between the first and
second colons.
4. reboot. root now has no password.
pete
On Tue 27 Feb
Hi,
I am trying to make an initrd (without much succes yet). It is supposed to
do the following:
- mount an hfs filesystem on /mnt
- mount a loopback ext2 filesystem from /mnt/linux.img on /new-root
- set /new-root as the new root device
- boot from it
The doc about initrd in /usr/src/Docs tells
"Ken Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why the hell am I getting forbidden errors all of a sudden?
>
>All files have the correct permissions, but I still get forbidden errors.
Permissions on the chain of parent directories up to the root? .htaccess
files? Access rules in your web server configu
If you use lilo (or grub) :
if you normally boot by typing "linux"
type instead "linux init=/bin/bash" (or /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh the shell you
use/like)
it will do a minimal boot ( you don't have anything ) and a shell root.
Now do "passwd" and you should be able to type a new password without
supp
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