Re: IP Masquerade

hi ya richard... is your ipmasq gateway to the outside world the same as your firewall ?? - if you know ipchains better than iptables, you can run ipchains on 2.4 kernels by installing "ipchains" modules in the 2.4 kernels insmod ipchains ipchains -L - several dozen config t

Reading data from /dev/ttyS0

I'm trying to get a program that reads serial data working. I'm looking for some debugging tips. I've got an X10 mouse-remote (JR20 RF remote,and JR21A receiver). I was using it on a Windows machine to run winamp. Now I'm trying to get it to work with linux. It's a remote control for controlli

help on make

help trying to compile something and I get stuck on this error [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/test$ make c++ -I. -O -Ilinux-include -c Func.cc Func.cc: In function `void do_fmt(const char *&, Val *, ODesc *)': Func.cc:247: implicit declaration of function `int localtime(...)' Func.cc:247: implicit declaration

Need Sparc CDs ASAP

Where is a reputable place to get Debian Sparc CDs? I've have had enough of downloading. Can someone recommend a place online to plunk down some cold hard cash and get the goods? I've tried the the jigdo-easy method. It seems to get everything in the list and it still says "Oops". I tried q

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:15:10PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:58:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > ... > > | Yes. I thought it was just a glitch with yahoo groups, though. > | Here's a sample: > | > | List-Unsubscribe: > | Date: 26 Apr 2002 10:58:41

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:56:03PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > [ Question about the Assu A7M266 ] > > > Does anyone have any comments on this? If you use this motherboard on > > Debian without problems, particularly with a recent 2.4 kernel, I

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Greg Norris wrote: > > Anyway, I returned it to my vendor and I am now looking for another > > motherboard. I thought it best to be conservative and go with a > > motherboard based on the AMD 761 chipset, like the Abit KG7, since > > these generally seem to be most stable an

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri Apr 26, 2002 at 05:00:45PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: >> > Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install >> > script for the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. >> >

Re: ImageMagic on potato

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > I installed imagemagic on my potato system, but > I can't find documentation anywhere that tells me > how to use it...no "man" or "info" pages. I did > find a directory at /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick > that has some html's in it...

Re: Memory strange behaviour

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:44:07AM +0800, Willy Sutrisno wrote: | hi, | | I installed potato last week. For the past 1 week, I observed that potato very | seldom use my swap. Previously when I was using RedHat, my comp use alot of | swap. Sometime even reach 100%, left my ram 80% utilize. | | Eve

Re: how to keep packages in synch across the lab?

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:45:33 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >I have a problem that has been vexing me for some months now ... > >I administer a smallish lab of machines all running debian. I'd like >to know how others handle the chore of keeping the same revision of >packages installed on each ma

Re: IP Masquerade

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:41:41PM -0400, Richard Beri wrote: | I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another | machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the | past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade setup utility called PM Firewall, but | it

Re: IP Masquerade

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:41:41PM -0400, Richard Beri wrote: > I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another > machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the > past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade setup utility called PM Firewall, but > it

Re: Java problem

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:59:05PM -0400, sda wrote: | Hello: | | Just installed java blackdown, How? Did you apt-get or did you use a tarball? If you apt-get it from one of their mirros you'll have no problems whatsoever. (well, if you did it a few months ago you won't have problems, I presum

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:56:03PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: [ Question about the Assu A7M266 ] > Does anyone have any comments on this? If you use this motherboard on > Debian without problems, particularly with a recent 2.4 kernel, I'd like > to hear about it. I plan to put Woody on it with 2.

Re: IP Masquerade

apt-get install ipmasq -Justin www.atomichamster.com On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 21:41, Richard Beri wrote: > I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another > machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the > past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade s

Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Unable to open "/usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs" > - Permission denied > E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] No pages found! > > Why is permission denied? You don't have read permission on /usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs most li

Re: leafnode & kupdated

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > Thanks fell silly now thinking it was a kde process. I agree both of > > those Window Managers suck, I'm partial to wmaker, icewm and xfce. > > GNOME isn't a window manager. On one of my boxes, I use icewm with > GNOME. Yes, it's a desktop environmen

Re: leafnode & kupdated

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, sda wrote: > That's what I generally do, but for some reason due to the fact that the > package installer insists on setting it up for me, Woody refuses to run > the real leafnode config file. It keeps seeing the values entered when I > apt installed. Copy the configs in and

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

> Anyway, I returned it to my vendor and I am now looking for another > motherboard. I thought it best to be conservative and go with a > motherboard based on the AMD 761 chipset, like the Abit KG7, since > these generally seem to be most stable and trouble-free under Linux, > even it they are now

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

On Fri Apr 26, 2002 at 05:00:45PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > > Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install script for > > the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. no biggie BUT > > I've always used

Fwd: shit happens

--- "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:30:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: shit happens > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >1. In the beginning was the Plan. > >2. And then came the Assumptions, > >3. And

Re: IP Masquerade

www.shorewall.net -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Richard Beri wrote: > I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another > machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the > past I used a nifty firewall/m

[OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

Dear People, Sorry, another off-topic hardware message, but hopefully the last one. I recently ordered an all SCSI system from a hardware vendor. Unfortunately (in retrospect) I chose the Abit KG7 (non-raid). When it arrived I had persistent and mysterious problems booting from the SCSI CD-ROM.

IP Masquerade

I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade setup utility called PM Firewall, but it only works on 2.2 kernels. Is there any simple setup program for fi

Memory strange behaviour

hi, I installed potato last week. For the past 1 week, I observed that potato very seldom use my swap. Previously when I was using RedHat, my comp use alot of swap. Sometime even reach 100%, left my ram 80% utilize. Eventhough there is a different in the size of the swap potato - Memory: 96MB Sw

Re: debconf configuring XF86Config-4 with two mice

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:04:39PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:09 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Although I have a working XF86Config-4, I put it together without using > > debconf so it does not have any DEBCONF SECTION. Anyway I decided to > > give debconf a try at managing th

Re: Java problem

I think in the readme for Java that you d/l you will see something that suggests you don't link the plugin rather you copy it to the ../netscape/plugin directory, instead of linking it. Usually its installed under /usr/local/netscape/plugins. Look for the readme file in the Java directory. sda w

slow delivery to the list

has anybody else noticed a huge time-lag between sending and seeing their posts on the list, today? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:09:59PM -0700, ben wrote: > > On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d > > except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at > > /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log, > > and other stuff are clearly being rotated. >

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Friday 26 April 2002 03:58 pm, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm seeing malformed mail headers today. Just ran an apt-get > > dist-upgrade on unstable, not sure if that relates. > > > > I'm seeing the 'Date' header appended with whatev

nvrec config-installed package not found

When I try to compile NVRec I get: creating NVrec.spec configure: warning: *** configure: warning: libquicktime is not installed... If you want to record configure: warning: quicktime movies you need to install this package. It configure: warnin

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:58:05PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: ... | Yes. I thought it was just a glitch with yahoo groups, though. | Here's a sample: | | List-Unsubscribe: | Date: 26 Apr 2002 10:58:41 -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [zope

Re: xv on potato?

On Fri Apr 26, 2002 at 01:42:49PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > I recently saw an old posting on this group that asked > what happened to xv on woody. Someone answered that it > had been removed because of licensing issues, but recommended > that he get it from potato. I can't find it on potat

Re: Home brew

On Friday 26 April 2002 09:08 am, - wrote: > I'd appreciate some advice on home-building a computer that will have Linux > and (cough) WindowsXP installed with an emphasis on Debian . > > I have just a vague idea of things that should be considered, --- case > style, power supply, cooling, choice o

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

On Friday 26 April 2002 12:55 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got two questions (that may be related): > > 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system > that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few > times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16 >

Re: Q: Relation exim, sylpheed, and other email things

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:18:48 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and have an exim .forward > file to sort my mail into different mbox format files. > > As I've looked at other email clients, the handling of incoming mail > has seemed problemat

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install script for > the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. no biggie BUT > I've always used deb packages and haven't mix n matched before. Will I > have a pro

Re: selbstgesaugte deb und sources.list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. April 2002 21:37 schrieb Jochen Georges: > ich habe ein einzeln gesaugtes deb-paket, > wie erfaehrt dselect von seiner existenz? IMHO kannst du dir nicht ohne weiteres ein lokales archiv anlegen. Falls du das Paket aber per dpkg bereit

Re: simple dpkg & compile from source question

* justin cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 15:13]: > Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install script for > the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. no biggie BUT > I've always used deb packages and haven't mix n matched before. Will I > have a problem with d

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Friday 26 April 2002 10:15 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm seeing malformed mail headers today. Just ran an apt-get > dist-upgrade on unstable, not sure if that relates. > > I'm seeing the 'Date' header appended with whatever header follows it > immediately. In this case it's the 'From' heade

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:28:12 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > 3/15 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null ^^^ > ...which should restart fetchmail every fifteen minutes. Should it? man 5 crontab says: Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Fol-

Re: Diald configure problems

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > Hi All > > I am having trouble setting up Diald, once in dselect I try to configure it, > ie: > > running dpkg --pending --configure ... > Setting up diald (0.99.4-5) ... > Starting diald: fifo-created dpkg: error processing diald

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then, my mail filters filter the spam based on the color. I have yet to > > find any false positives at yellow and above, so my comfort level is > > getting close to bit-bucketing orange and red, and rejecting yellow with > > a message that it's flagg

Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

On Friday 26 April 2002 09:13 am, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Yes, here is the error I am receiving from the /var/log/cups/error.log > > I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Job 5 queued on 'DeskJet' by 'root'. > I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops > (PID 12944) for j

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm seeing malformed mail headers today. Just ran an apt-get > dist-upgrade on unstable, not sure if that relates. > > I'm seeing the 'Date' header appended with whatever header follows it > immediately. In this case it's the 'Fr

Re: Rock solid no GUI pim?

"m2" == m2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m2> A couple of months ago I ditched GUI mail programs for m2> ever. I'm now a happy mutt user. Now I'm looking for A) a m2> calendar program B) an address book, that are as non m2> graphical, stable and as versatile as mutt. Anything tha

Re: Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Andrew Pollock quotation: > > > > I work for a managed security provider, and one of the reasons that they > > are using Mandrake over the likes of Red Hat is because of the control > > Mandrake allows over what gets installed. (i.e. when you sa

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client

I recently wanted to do such a thing under MS Windows, and ended up using exim under Linux because no obvious, easy solution presented itself. I put this in exim.conf: mail_list: local_parts = dsa-sf driver = forwardfile file = /etc/exim/dsa-sf no_check_local_user

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

ln -s the_existing_path your_alias_for_it -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > > i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory .. as i > dont want to type huge command to reach there .. > > i do know how to creat

Re: Rock solid no GUI pim?

On Friday 26 April 2002 06:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > happy mutt user. Now I'm looking for A) a calendar program B) an > address book, that are as non graphical, stable and as versatile as > mutt. Anything that works with emacs gets a plus. There is a pretty decent calendar in Xemacs. I i

NVrec compile dep's

I am trying to compile NVrec and during the config stage I am being told that I don't have all of the requirements. I installed these from deb's so I know they are present. What can I do so that these are recognized by the NVrec script? configure: warning:

Re: ssh port mapping and HTTP

Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can get into my company's intranet with this: > > > > ssh -n -L 4281:www.secure.com:80 ssh.secure.com sleep 43200 > > > > Then, to access http://www.secure.com/page.html, I use > > http://localh

Re: gpg keyservers

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:01:57PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | On 0, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > What keysevers do people recommend using? I've got the two mentioned | > in the readme in my config (keyring.debian.org and wwwkeys.pgp.net) | > and so far (one day!) that has sufficed. Do

Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:59:33PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I keep getting the error | | lpstat -p | printer Deskjet disabled since Jan 01 00:00 - | No pages found! | | | and can't print? | Any ideas? Point a web browser (not 'links') at localhost:631 and enable the printer.

Re: pgp

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:48:28PM -0400, Oi Yan wrote: | Hi all | | I installed pgp but don't know how to exchange the | public key and use in email Do you mean gpg (aka 'gnupg')? I just learned how to do this 2 days ago. It really is simple! To publish your key just run gpg --keyserver

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [020426 00:28]: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > > > 3/15 * * * * root

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I'm seeing malformed mail headers today. Just ran an apt-get | dist-upgrade on unstable, not sure if that relates. | | I'm seeing the 'Date' header appended with whatever header follows it | immediately. In this case it's the 'Fr

Re: logrotate and wtmp confusion...

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system > that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few > times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16 > days. > > On the RH7.2 system on

ImageMagic on potato

I installed imagemagic on my potato system, but I can't find documentation anywhere that tells me how to use it...no "man" or "info" pages. I did find a directory at /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick that has some html's in it...is that the same package, even though the package I installed doesn't end i

Re: pgp

* Oi Yan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 13:17]: > Hi all > > I installed pgp but don't know how to exchange the > public key and use in email I don't think it will be very straightforward using a web-based email client like Yahoo unless the client webapp includes specific support for it. I do recom

Re: Does Debian handle kernel threads?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:59:45PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well one more thing, whats the default threads that a default debian | can handle or shall i say linux can handle? i know how to increase | it on 2.4.x kernels on other distro it supports adjusting on sysctl, | but how about on 2.

xv on potato?

I recently saw an old posting on this group that asked what happened to xv on woody. Someone answered that it had been removed because of licensing issues, but recommended that he get it from potato. I can't find it on potato either. Has it been removed from potato also? Is there any way to get

Re: What happens if run out of HD space during apt-get update?

* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 13:09]: > 'apt-get clean' just removes all the packages you've downloaded (in > /var/cache/apt/archives/), so you'll have to re-download all those > updated packages. Well, you'll only have to re-download them if you need the .debs again, like if you need

Re: printing problems

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:13:15PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | I'm running Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. I can print using xpdq and pdq, | but when Iset up with lprngtool, the lpr command works in some cases and | not in others. | | Do these two packages interfere? I'd prefer to use lprng so tha

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

* Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 04:56]: > Hi, > > I'm trying to speed up failfetching via my modem. I've got four accounts > to fetch mail from, i'm running spamassassin and sanitizer. My problem > is: Every mail is fetched, scanned, delivered into my mailbox and > afterwards deleted

Re: networking under 2.4.18

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:54:55PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Now I can get back to the printing problem - xpdq works, but lprngtool | doesn't. CUPS. :-). -D -- He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. Proverbs 13:20 GnuPG key : http://dman.dd

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:00:12PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: [snipped reason for question] | That said, could anyone give me a recommendation for the following | task to be completed /under windows/: [snip requirements list that describe a mailing list manager] How about MailMan? I like

Re: Handling lots of mail

* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 05:54]: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:19:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > >* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]: > > > > set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date '+%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`" > > set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`" >

Re: ov511 video cam

On 26 Apr 2002 12:38:16 -0400 "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:25, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > On 26 Apr 2002 02:39:29 -0400 > > "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to get my Ezonics webcam to work under linux. I have > > > figured o

Re: ssh port mapping and HTTP

Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can get into my company's intranet with this: > > ssh -n -L 4281:www.secure.com:80 ssh.secure.com sleep 43200 > > Then, to access http://www.secure.com/page.html, I use > http://localhost:4281/page.html. And this works, so long as all of > li

Re: netscape3 installation

* Johan van der Walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020426 03:17]: > I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install > netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please > help. Is netscape 4 not available? Yes it is. Select the 'netscape' package from the dselect list, or

RE: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

Is this a kind of promotional email for something so obvious? Looking at the way this email got posted to debian group in BCC and Sun group, I get my own doubts. Who knows how many more lists were copied in Bcc? > i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory .. > as i dont wa

Re: Malformed mail headers -- missing linefeeds?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm seeing malformed mail headers today. Just ran an apt-get > dist-upgrade on unstable, not sure if that relates. > > I'm seeing the 'Date' header appended with whatever header follows it > immediately. In this case it's the 'Fr

how to keep packages in synch across the lab?

I have a problem that has been vexing me for some months now ... I administer a smallish lab of machines all running debian. I'd like to know how others handle the chore of keeping the same revision of packages installed on each machine. I'm using one machine as the "master installer" --- I use

logrotate and wtmp confusion...

I've got two questions (that may be related): 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16 days. On the RH7.2 system on which I do most of my work,

Re: leafnode & kupdated

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:11:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:47:53AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > Update: > Anyways - after some rest I approached the problem with a little more > clarity. =) I grep'd for leafnode and surprise surprise, Debian moves > t

Q: Relation exim, sylpheed, and other email things

I currently use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and have an exim .forward file to sort my mail into different mbox format files. As I've looked at other email clients, the handling of incoming mail has seemed problematic. Sylpheed, for example, uses mh format mailboxes, and apparently exim can't deliv

simple dpkg & compile from source question

Hi, I have to compile a program from source since the install script for the deb package is installing in the wrong directory. no biggie BUT I've always used deb packages and haven't mix n matched before. Will I have a problem with dpkg at some latter point? Please advise if applicable. Thanks,

Re: Newbie and scan attack

DSC Siltec wrote: > [cut] > > One scan attack attacked my proxy server's proxy port, from 1031,1032, > 1033,1034, 1035... and expired about 8 minutes later. > [cut] > > I also have a windows system -- and, sometimes using the same network > connection [manual plug-over] a macintosh, and it is

Re: Handling lots of mail

As a stop gap, I ran a script I have to trim down my mailboxes. Here it is for anyone who's interested. GPL license. This takes mbox files greater than sizeLeft and splits them so only about sizeLeft bytes remain (it finds message boundaries). It then names the old part by the date of the last

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stumped on xfonts-terminus

uh, how can I make use of xfonts-terminus? I've installed it but there was no readme or man page to help out... I'd like to use it for my reading xterm text.. thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://game

Re: Command Line Listing?

Hello Newbies :-) > Travis King wrote: > > Hey there, my uncle and I have just installed your latest Debian Linux > on an older > Solaris system. We formated and installed Debian. > > Everything is working fine that we can see, just we dont have the GUI > (Graphic User Interface)? > Or cant exec

Re: netscape3 installation

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:17:04PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: > I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install > netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please > help. Is netscape 4 not available? The netscape package contains netscape 4. You installe

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 01:33, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello list, > > Since all the official Debian security announcements are for Potato only, > how can I keep my Woody up to date? Shoud I grab the patch myself and > rebuild my patched .deb? > deb http://mirror/debian/ woody main non-free contrib

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable is changed from > potato to woody. I guess that that process will be relatively slower since > it has to delete/ replace the old packages first before installing the

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

begin Karsten Heymann quotation: > > I hoped for a simpler solution (not that yours would be really hard to > implement). Why isn't there a 'fetch parallely=yes' feature for > fetchmail? Never mind. 'cause Eric Raymond doesn't feel that itch as severely as you. I recommend sending him either a

Re: OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > That said, could anyone give me a recommendation for the following > task to be completed /under windows/: > > He'd like to send out a weekly mailshot to a list of subscribers. > He doesn't want to expose subscribers' addresses to the rest of

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to speed up failfetching via my modem. I've got four accounts > to fetch mail from, i'm running spamassassin and sanitizer. My problem > is: Every mail is fetched, scanned, delivered into my mailbox and > afterwards deleted from the

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote on 26/04/2002 (16:57) : > Hello Again: > > Apology for my poor english. Let me try again to express my > concerns: > > I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable > is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process > will be relatively slowe

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > > > Checking just now, the daemon's still running. > > Change that /dev/null to /tmp/

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable > is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process > will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace > the old packages first before installing th

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Re: What happens if run out of HD space during apt-get update?

"Paul F. Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Paul Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 16:10]: > > > space. However, how can I tell the tools to reconfigure what was just > > > installed? I don't know which packages were updated (there were about

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:23:14PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > - what is better: to use "potato" or "stable" in the production > > systems' sources.list? > > isn't potato = stable? Sure it is. Today. Next month, though, if all goes as planned, stable will point to woody. potato will, of

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:51:23AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I just wrote my own processor. All mine does is add a X-Spam-Color > header. I use green, blue, yellow, orange and red, just like Tom Ridge's > terrorist alert system :-). > > Then, my mail filters filter the spam based on the color.

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list, > > Since all the official Debian security announcements are for Potato only, > how can I keep my Woody up to date? Shoud I grab the patch myself and > rebuild my patched .deb? Normally security updates appear in sid/unstable at approximate

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