Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread nate
ScruLoose said: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of > mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. > I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. > The first thing that comes to mind is FTP, but I'm not sure it's the right

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030314 23:09 PST]: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of > mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. > I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job.

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:00:40PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > BackupCentral.com uses some URLs like > http://www.backupcentral.com/cgi-bin/redirect?url=http://www.stor2b.com/index.php > to go to other places. wget will hit that url (since it's in the

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:48:28AM -0500, stan wrote: > I;ve tried thinhs likke --mirrot and --convert-links, but I wind up having > wget chase loinks all over the web. How can I restrict it to jsut follow > links on this site itseelf? This is the def

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:56:52AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I saw some mention of a new reporting mechanism in SA 2.50. However, > I haven't had time to look into it. That may require some changes to > how the filter detects tagged spam,

Re: user agents

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:49:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am I mistaken, or is smart wrap not as smart as I need? Smart wrap assumes the recipient's MUA knows what smart wrap is, IIRC, so things don't work out as expected sometimes. - --

file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. * I'll only be talking about a very few users. (like 10 to 20 total) * I don't have any particular

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has become > libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0. > > This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my > packages, packages that I'd rather keep. >

wma in linux

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness to ogg format? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: foomatic-compiledb target direct it where? /boot/ppd

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:07:54 -0600 Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does foomatic-compiledb put the compiled files in /boo/ppd ? > > It just doesnt seem right Do you mean /boot/ppd, as in the same /boot where your kernel lives? What was your working directory when you ran foomatic

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-14 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >> > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 >> > kernel? >> >> kernel-source-2.2.20

foomatic-compiledb target direct it where? /boot/ppd

2003-03-14 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Why does foomatic-compiledb put the compiled files in /boo/ppd ? It just doesnt seem right -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:06:23 -0500 "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone encountered this? How was this handled? What was the > outcome? What can I do? Ask them if you can have the old machines. Check out the Linux Terminal Server Project, and figure out how to use the old ma

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 04:20:14 +0200 Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What am I doing wrong? > You're going to the wrong page. dwww is another package for > documentation. you should go to "localhost/cgi-bin/dpkg" of run > "Debian Package Browser" from the Debian help sub-menu. This ju

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The budget is $1000-1200 (max). My solution (I was asked for my opinion, as > I am seen as pretty computer savvy) was for us to go to Walmart and purchase > 4 to 6 Linux boxes for $200-$300 each. My rationale was: Another thing to look at: http://

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Donald Spoon
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I seem to have a small problem that maybe someone on the list can help with. I belong to a small organization on campus. We currently have some very old (circa 1995-1996) PCs running Win95. These machines have Pentium 150-166 CPUs and 32 MB RAM. They are in need of rep

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-14 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:02:52PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > Thanks for answer. > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > > > > > > > I had problem with cups: > > > > Please don't break the text in you message into

Re: Matrox G550 and Dual Head

2003-03-14 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Bill, I have a G550 and dual head works just fine with 4.2.x "out of the box". I've attached my config file for reference. I tried installing the matrox software the other week and decided to remove it the next day. I didn't see any difference in Xinerama mode (still no DRI on the second head

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread sean finney
hey roberto, like the other post said, really, i don't know how much of a chance you have for convincing them. that doesn't mean it isn't worth a shot though. i think your best bet is downloading and burning a knoppix iso, and when they get their new shiny computer, put it in and see what they th

Re: setting up iptables

2003-03-14 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:27:29 +0200 Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there: > > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this mailing > list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a sample iptables > config file, with no success. tldp also gave m

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:16:24 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:58:30 +0200 > Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you mean the base section, there probably is a command-line > > variable, but if you have dpkg-www installed you can search for: > > "section=base"

locales [was: Re: emacs fonts/locale error]

2003-03-14 Thread Andy Hurt
Andy Hurt wrote: Sorry for the solitary reply, Emma . . . . Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: (I'm ruthlessly snipping here) From what I can tell, the default system environment is set in /etc/environment (LANG=C, etc.). yes the default is C, not en_US as was mentioned earlier So I changed the syste

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:54:35 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, when you mentioned including fulltext isn't a good thing, your > single one line wasn't wrapped. > Thank you for pointing that out; I thought it was. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:06 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The "solution" that they decided on (not yet implemented) is to keep the > aging machines and purchase one new Dell machine with WinXP/OfficeXP. > Their rationale: > > 1. Unwillingness to give up familiarity of MS Windows interface > > I e

libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-14 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has become libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0. This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my packages, packages that I'd rather keep. I gather this is to do with splitting libvorbisenc and l

Re: jack: coding failed, error#32512

2003-03-14 Thread vincentl
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:50:38PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I want to try mp3. I used apt-get to install jack. From the > description I expected to work with its standard .jackrc file. It > started smoothly using cdparanoia but, when the first cd track was > extracted the error#32512

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:10:17 -0500 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'grep-available -FPriority required -s Package' and/or > 'grep-available -FPriority standard -s Package'. Standard priority > packages are installed if dselect is run, even if you don't select > anything, required prio

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
> > Boy, that many files I would prefer writing a shell > script > > or two, that is, if there is any consistency at all in > the > > filenames / current orginization. Maybe I'd organize > > really old files by date stamp. There are a number of > > possible options here, but I wouldn't be incline

Re: user agents

2003-03-14 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:49:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you. np. > I had "Smart wrapping" turned on, and thought this would do the job. > Am I mistaken, or is smart wrap not as smart as I need? Bingo. It just shows you the lines wrapped, but does not insert line terminators.

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:58:30 +0200 Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you mean the base section, there probably is a command-line > variable, but if you have dpkg-www installed you can search for: > "section=base". > That's interesting. I have dpkg-www installed, and apache is runnin

Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I seem to have a small problem that maybe someone on the list can help with. I belong to a small organization on campus. We currently have some very old (circa 1995-1996) PCs running Win95. These machines have Pentium 150-166 CPUs and 32 MB RAM. They are in need of replacement for several rea

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-14 Thread John Hasler
> I know the shortcomings of csh have been discussed elsewhere in this > thread. But tcsh is enhanced csh. I have no problem with csh (or tcsh) as a login shell. It is just not suitable for scripting. > Perhaps you should rephrase your complaint to address a more significant > issue, the presenc

Re: What does /etc/paper.conf do?

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:45:37 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My printer doesn't quite centre its A4 pages. I've tried playing about > with the values in /etc/paper.conf but these don't seem to change > anything. I can compensate for the displacement in Latex but I'd like > to

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is what I mostly use: wget -r -np -nH --convert-links http://www.domain.edu/page the -r recursively retrieves subdirectories and referencing pages -np = -no-parent makes sure it doesn't go all over the entire web. -nH = no host directories --convert-links makes sure the page works off the fil

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-03-14 Thread Subba Rao
Hello, I am having the same problem and have read all replies on this thread. My /etc/dhclient.conf has the following entries only (and nothing else): == prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1, 10.2.0.25; supersede domain-name "homenet.cablespeed.com cablespeed.com

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:00:21 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (and it *IS* the Debian way to put modules you want loaded at boot in > /etc/modules! Just not options, etc. My bad. Though it *does* work!) Isn't the Debian Way to put a list of modules you want loaded at

Re: /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten

2003-03-14 Thread Subba Rao
Hello, I am having the same problem and have read all replies on this thread. My /etc/dhclient.conf has the following entries only (and nothing else): == prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1, 10.2.0.25; supersede domain-name "homenet.cablespeed.com cablespeed.com

Re: Debian Boot Process

2003-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:24:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't have line wraps turned off. > > I take it you're not seeing wrapped lines? Well, when you mentioned including fulltext isn't a good thing, your single one line wasn't wrappe

Re: user agents

2003-03-14 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:21:03 +0100 Nicolas Kratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > X-Mailer: Sylpheed > > Sylpheed automatically wraps lines... for you. If there are those > little crooked arrows at the end of each line, it will send the > paragraph as one line. You need to do one of two things: > >

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-14 Thread Craig Dickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > not all Unix or > Unix-like (attention SCO) systems use or would use bash. Nor do they all have csh. But they all have sh. If you want least-common-denominator portability, use sh and stock Unix commands. > I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who w

Re: sendmail + sasl == Broken?

2003-03-14 Thread The Doctor What
* Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030314 13:56]: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, The Doctor What wrote: > > > When I upgraded sendmail due to security problems, the > > sendmailconfig program asked me if I wanted to use PAM, it didn't > > say what for. I stupidly said "yes". > > Eh? I beg to differ

Re: SMTPS/SASL and ports

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030314 14:13 PST]: > Trying to configure postfix for SASL connectivity. > > Now most mail clients have you check SSL connectivity enabled, but the > port remains 25. However, in /etc/services the smtps is by default set > for

Re: setting up iptables

2003-03-14 Thread Cameron Hutchison
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this > > mailing list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a > > sample iptables config file, with no success. Have a look at http://www.linuxgur

Re: considered harmful

2003-03-14 Thread Alan Shutko
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who would choose > to use csh in their build system. I would only consider installing the > package if the csh is something inherited from Sun and is in the process of > being replaced. It is somet

Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
I just realized that due to the fact that Mozilla, and it's descendents, in unstable, is now being built with the 3.2 compilers I'm stuck without a useable Java plugin. Anyone have a solution to this? I've been using the 1.4 *.debs from Blackdown, but those appear to have been compiled with 2.9x co

Re: setting up iptables

2003-03-14 Thread Hugo Portela
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:55:56 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this > > mailing list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a > > sampl

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Tom
Alex Malinovich: >> Is it okay to >> install the snapshot that is available in sid while having 1.2.1 >> around too? Can they be installed next to each other, just by >> apt-getting them? Or will I face some fun problems by doing so? > > Absolutely! That's why the package is called mozilla-snapsho

Re: Address familily not supported (Woody)

2003-03-14 Thread nate
Waldemar Gorus said: > Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.debian.org: Address family > not supported by protocol > > All common protocols I have in use (like smtp,pop,http,ssh) are working > properly > > no idea, how to solve this problem.. I've had this problem for a long time, po

Re: CUPS Howto configure

2003-03-14 Thread Stephen Hargrove
This is one of the best Debian-specific CUPS HowTo documents I know of: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 12:01, GBV wrote: > I have 3 printers... > > Xeroz docuprint n32 > Tektronix Phaser 850 > Lexmark Optra T614 > > All connected via ethernet... >

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-14 Thread csj
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:24:26 +, Olivier wrote: > > Quoting "Conrad Newton" : > > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mar 14, 2003 at 04:07:18 > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 hdd=ide-scsi ignore=hdd > > Maybe you want something like > root=/dev/hda6 hdd=ide-scsi ignore=hdc ide-cd ignore=h

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-14 Thread csj
On 13 Mar 2003 16:40:25 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh > > scripting, OpenOffice.org. [...] > I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who > would choose to use csh in their build system. I would o

Re: setting up iptables

2003-03-14 Thread Jamin Collins
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:27:29AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this > mailing list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a > sample iptables config file, with no success. Ahhh, but did you try "apt-cache search ipta

Re: mutt and reply_to not working

2003-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.2307 +0100]: > Is the message "from" you in the mutt sense? (check your alternates > pattern). If so, and reply_self is unset (which it is by default) mutt > will assume you want to reply to the recipients, not the sender (or the > reply-to

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
mh, so i tried explicitly setting colours. this is the config i came up with: base_color= normal=white,default: selected=black,white: marked=yellow,default: markselect=black,yellow: errors=red,default: input=white,default: reverse=white,black: gauge=yellow,default

Re: Strange messages

2003-03-14 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0457 +0100]: Cron is an automated program manager, kind of like Windows Task Scheduler. except it's reliable and flexible I stand corrected. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: apt-pinning gnucash 1.8.2-1 in testing errors

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Wohler
wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running Testing and have managed to install the above package > using apt pinning: > apt-get -t unstable install gnucash > This worked with no errors. When I tried to run it from the menu, > nothing happened, so I tried from the commandline to see if there

Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > I'm curious whether you have good reasons to move away from sendmail. > The "if it ain't broke ..." philosophy is probably a good one for > server admin'ing, and since you have a working sendmail setup that you > like, what's wrong with keeping it?

gneralized locale error! [was: emacs fonts/locale error]

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi everyone, > > when I run emacs from within X, I suddenly now get the following > message: > > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs .muttrc > No fonts match `-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' > --- > this se

Re: Switching to unstable

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Matthias Szupryczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:28, Bill Wohler wrote: >> I run testing and grab packages from unstable that are having a hard >> time making it over to testing. This is a nice compromise between >> stability and bleeding edge. You might consider

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030314 13:14 PST]: > I wound up with teh command line: > > wget --convert-links --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com \ > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > > Just to get the final resolutin in the list archive for tho

setting up iptables

2003-03-14 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: Well, it seems "google is your friend" is used extensivly trough this mailing list. I tried my best to make friends with him and to find a sample iptables config file, with no success. tldp also gave me the same results. I admit that the iptables man page is too cryptic for me ( and I

user agents

2003-03-14 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:24:04AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:03:04 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow! Complete with line wraps turned off! Bonus windows luser > > wannabe troll points! 8:o) > > I don't have line wraps turned off. > > I t

Re: Setting Static IP Address

2003-03-14 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 13 March 2003 23:50, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > CM Miller wrote: > >Very new to Debian and installed Woody last weekend. > >FOr some reason, it didn't recognize by pci 3com nics, > >but after a little help on this list I got them. > > > >Now, how do I set a static ip address? > Use t

Address familily not supported (Woody)

2003-03-14 Thread Waldemar Gorus
Hello, yesterday evening I tried some configurations with ssh and X11-Forwarding (also some changes at apache, but all modules are from the stable distribution). However, I just noticed that every try to connect with bitchx to a irc-server, fails now with the message: Unable to connect to port 6

Re: mutt and reply_to not working

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030314 13:18 PST]: > I have reply_to set to ask-yes in my muttrc. However, when I receive > a message with a Reply-To header set, and I reply to it with 'r', > I am not prompted and the From address is used. If I set reply_to to &

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-14 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 13 March 2003 23:28, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2142 +0100]: > > Give Filerunner a look-see. I use it when I'm doing reorganizing like > > you describe. I has a two-pane view, mouse driven, supports FTP, > > flexible config, etc. > > inte

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.1740 +0100]: > and yet, on one machine mc is transparent and the other it has this > buttugly blue background. i'd like to make that transparent. so > first i wonder where that's set (considering the machines are > basically identical), an

Re: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-14 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 14 March 2003, 05:15 PM +): > Quoting "Matthew Weier O'Phinney" : > > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mar 14, 2003 at 09:46:49AM -- > > > In your /etc/modules file, add the following: > > > > ide-cd ignore > > ide-scsi > > > > where is

Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)

2003-03-14 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm moving from a sendmail mail server to a Woody based exim setup. > I am an Exim beginner, so I'm trying to get prepared for the move. Any > tips or pointers to HOWTOs would be appreciated. > My current sendmail setup does a number of things I'd like

SMTPS/SASL and ports

2003-03-14 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Trying to configure postfix for SASL connectivity. Now most mail clients have you check SSL connectivity enabled, but the port remains 25. However, in /etc/services the smtps is by default set for port 465. So, my question is: what is advisable a) change the smtp port for all clients to 465; o

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:12, Tom wrote: > Hi all, > > While wasting my time on some stupid HTML-page, I today saw Mozilla > 1.2.1-10 (sid) crash time and again on, ehm, that very page. So I'd > say it is a bug, since the page is correct syntactically (if that's > an English word). > > However, I

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
"n/a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apparently there's something i'm not getting thru my thick skull about > packet filtering. I think others have pointed out the main problem---packets being forwarded by the machine don't pass through the INPUT and OUTPUT chains. This behaviour differs from t

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:11:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:40:36PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I thought the no-parent might eb the key, but I tried: > > > > > > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backu

mutt and reply_to not working

2003-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
I have reply_to set to ask-yes in my muttrc. However, when I receive a message with a Reply-To header set, and I reply to it with 'r', I am not prompted and the From address is used. If I set reply_to to yes, the From address is still used. What can be causing this? Google was unhelpful. Thanks!

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-14 Thread Glyn Millington
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.1907 +0100]: >> It may have something to do with your $TERM variable. Is it identical on >> both machines? Is the terminfo database identical? > > yes, and yes. it's weird. > >> Anyways, just

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:40:36PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I thought the no-parent might eb the key, but I tried: > > > > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com > > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > >

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > So I'd say it is a bug, since the page is correct syntactically It would be a bug anyway. No program should crash merely because it received invalid input. > However, I think I should try it with some snapshot version before filing > the bug, which is where my question comes in. J

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:00:40PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com > > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > > > > And let it run for a few seconds, and here is what I get: > > BackupCentral.com uses

Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Tom
Hi all, While wasting my time on some stupid HTML-page, I today saw Mozilla 1.2.1-10 (sid) crash time and again on, ehm, that very page. So I'd say it is a bug, since the page is correct syntactically (if that's an English word). However, I think I should try it with some snapshot version before

Re: TELNET

2003-03-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joao Paulo wrote: > > > >Telnet is considered harmful, use ssh instead. yuppers... but > > > telnet is also very good (but for other things). > telnet host 25 > telnet host 21 > ... but your firewall should also block "the wrong protocols" connecting to the wro

XFree86 in 1152x864, problem!

2003-03-14 Thread Janke Dávid
Hi all! I want to configure XFree86 to run in 1152x864 mode. There's no problem with startup, but altough I do not enable virtual screen, it appears as one. (I don't know if it is running at 1152x864 with a virtual screen of 1280x102 or running at 1024x768 with a virtual screen 1152x864). Has some

mozilla-xmlterm

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, anyone had any luck getting xmlterm to work on the woody backports of mozilla 1,.2? So far all I've gotten is an empty window popping up. btw: mozilla 1.2 seems *way* fater than 1.0! thanks folks! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, stan wrote: > I thought the no-parent might eb the key, but I tried: > > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > > And let it run for a few seconds, and here is what I get: > > ls > > openvie

Re: ssh & sshd

2003-03-14 Thread nate
linux learner said: > i understand that i can log into any computer that has > my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys yes.. > > but when i log into my computer running sshd it > automatically adds me to the authorized_keys list for > that user. How do i turn it off? I think you are confused. I

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-14 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > I can't see why the second program fails to compile, as far as > I would expect these programs are identical. > Does anyone knows what goes wrong? Declaring variables "anywhere" is a C++ism. (One which I consider a bit yucky, but

Re: ssh & sshd

2003-03-14 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I'm curious if you're getting confused with it adding new hosts to the known_hots file not the authorized_keys file... I've yet to see an sshd process in Debian (or any system for that matter) that automatically touched the authorized_keys file... That file has always had to be created by m

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.1907 +0100]: > It may have something to do with your $TERM variable. Is it identical on > both machines? Is the terminfo database identical? yes, and yes. it's weird. > Anyways, just start the program with "mc -b" which disables color a

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find a list of the packages included in the basic installation of Woody? Kevin 'grep-available -FPriority required -s Package' and/or 'grep-available -FPriority standard -s Package'. Standard priority packages are installed if dselect is run, even if you do

Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting

2003-03-14 Thread iks_kzm
Thanks for answer. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > > > > I had problem with cups: > > Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing "--" > between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) in

sendmail + sasl == Broken?

2003-03-14 Thread The Doctor What
Hi! Here is my situation. Prior to the latest security update for sendmail in woody, I had SASL working using the sasldb for SMTP_AUTH. It worked fine with my woody version of Evolution, and I was happy. When I upgraded sendmail due to security problems, the sendmailconfig program asked me if I

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Alan Shutko
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wget --no-parent -r -l0 --domains=www.backupcentral.com > http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html > > And let it run for a few seconds, and here is what I get: BackupCentral.com uses some URLs like http://www.backupcentral.com/cgi-bin/redirect?url=http://www.s

Toshiba laptop keybounce

2003-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
reassign 121335 kernel thanks [I am not subscribed to debian-user.] On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:14:19PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > I take it 121335 should be reassigned to the kernel, then? > > I would not object. However,

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-14 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > I can't see why the second program fails to compile, as far as I would > expect these programs are identical. The programs are not identical; prog2.c has regular code between declarations. gcc-3.2 can compile both programs, unli

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-14 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2003-03-14 um 17.40 schrieb martin f krafft: > i am confused. i have two machines, both run mc 4.5.55-1.2, both > have rxvt terminals, both have exactly identical /etc/mc/ > hierarchies, both have exactly identical ~/.mc/ hierarchies... > > and yet, on one machine mc is transparent and the

Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)

2003-03-14 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:23, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm moving from a sendmail mail server to a Woody based exim setup. > I am an Exim beginner, so I'm trying to get prepared for the move. Any > tips or pointers to HOWTOs would be appreciated. > > Should I stick with Exim 3 or would it be wise to

ssh & sshd

2003-03-14 Thread linux learner
hi all, i just started using sshd on my two debian boxes at home. i understand that i can log into any computer that has my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys but when i log into my computer running sshd it automatically adds me to the authorized_keys list for that user. How do i turn it off

CUPS Howto configure

2003-03-14 Thread GBV
I have 3 printers... Xeroz docuprint n32 Tektronix Phaser 850 Lexmark Optra T614 All connected via ethernet... How can I configure??? thks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-14 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:43:27PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > The only problem I had was getting it to work "nice" with the MB's > built-in IDE controllers. The ULTRA100-TX2 cards HDs were detected as > hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh. The on-board controllers captured and held onto > the hda-hdd HD

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-14 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:07:39 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where can I find a list of the packages included in the basic installation of Woody? If you mean the base section, there probably is a command-line variable, but if you have dpkg-www installed you can search for: "section=base". Bye -

Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)

2003-03-14 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:23, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm moving from a sendmail mail server to a Woody based exim setup. > I am an Exim beginner, so I'm trying to get prepared for the move. Any > tips or pointers to HOWTOs would be appreciated. > > Should I stick with Exim 3 or would it be wise to

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