Re: Trouble

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/01/08 17:37, Amarantita Mieltostada wrote:
> Hi, my name is Amaranta, and i'm from Chile. In the page says that I 
> have to write you in english, so i'm trying, but i'm not that handy 
> though, so please be patience.
>
> I have 2 problems:
>
> 1.- I sort of need the login.cc file of the Debian sources and I can't 
> find it in anywere, if you please could send it to me. I need to see an 
> example of how to capture the password of the user of the keyboard 
> before it apears in the screen (like when someone make su).

You need us to help you capture passwords?

> 2.- A friend and me are building sockets, and we did it on his Ubuntu 
> machine, and we use a function call "gethostbyname" and it work. But 
> when we try to prove it on my Debian "Lenny" machine, it didn't work. I 
> search and for what I understood, "gethostbyname" seems to be 
> "unavailable" in new distributions of Debbian. So, which function does 
> the new libraries support that work as "gethostbyname"?, or which 
> library has  this function?

See if package libc6-dev is installed?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?