CVS over ssh hanging on testing

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Wohler
I took the plunge and upgraded testing today. All seems well so far except for one thing: A "cvs update" on a remote host hangs. My CVS repository is on the host where I did the upgrade. I use CVS_RSH=ssh. A "cvs server" process does start on my local host. If I use CVS_RSH=ssh-verbose,

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030315 18:22 PST]: > > hi ya > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > > hi -users, > > > > i'm running with two unstable boxes, one as an nfs client and > > the other as a server. when i try and con

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Using the -Wall flag (you should) will warn you about such things. An excellent suggestion. Let me note that -Wall really wants -O -Wall so that it can generate all of the warnings. Without -O it can't tell as much and won't be able to produce all of the warnings that it ca

termimnal emulator with URL support

2003-03-15 Thread Raju Kurunkad
Hi, Can any one suggest a terminal emulator with good URL support? I want to run mutt in it so that I can open URLs(from my mails) in my browser with a single click. Thanks, Raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Alvin Oga wrote: > > /usr/local/music192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync) > (ro,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) might be better I recommend against 'soft'. Running 'soft' allows errors to cause data corruption. Been there, done that, won't do it again. The man page documents this when it says "Usu

Re: PAM for Samba?

2003-03-15 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > I've looked around through the Samba HOWTO and /usr/share/doc/samba, but I > can't find anything that is helpful in trying to set up samba to use PAM > for authentication instead of it's own (retarded) method. > > Has anybody succeeded in using PAM for samba? If so, what help

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread nate
Osamu Aoki said: > What was the reason for 8192? Any reference? improves performance by setting read/write buffers, 8192 is usually the limit you can set on most systems. see: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/performance.html nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
[BTW, your Mail-Followup-To: is broken. I guess you need to tell your mailer what your real address is rather than just "floris".] On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:06:33PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:12:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > #include // need this to use malloc()

Re: message from cron

2003-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
John F. wrote: I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon. I would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how. I would think if I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled with "ksysv", so I don't know what to do. A complete copy of one of t

Re: matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:09:36AM +0900, Youichi Mano wrote: > I want to "uniq" by comparing the specified column for matrix data. > I want to realize this operation by command line programs , > not any script file. I must say, this arbitrary restriction kind of looks like a homework question to

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:44:51PM +, Karsten M. Self 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. > > Good arguments, and likel

libtrash & anacron

2003-03-15 Thread Robert Storey
I recently installed Libtrash (it creates a trash can for Linux!). For some reason, the deb package (version 0.8) in Woody is way out of date (current version is 2.0) and the deb package only seems to include the documentation rather than the usable program. So I downloaded the source tarball from

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:02:29PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > (ro,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) might be better > > - make sure portmap and rpc.* is running > - make sure that the firewall is NOT blocking nfs traffic > - make sure /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} is NOT blocking nfs traffic What was th

PAM for Samba?

2003-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked around through the Samba HOWTO and /usr/share/doc/samba, but I can't find anything that is helpful in trying to set up samba to use PAM for authentication instead of it's own (retarded) method. Has anybody succeeded in using PAM for samba?

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread nate
Jeremy Gaddis said: > Nice work Nate. > > It'd sure be nice if this were available as one big file suitable > for printing though (e.g. plain text or PDF). *hint* :) > I used to.. but it was hard to maintain. With Zope+Zwiki I have a lot more control(integrated versioning system, search engine

using xcdroast was Re: gtoaster used to work...

2003-03-15 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Nevermind... it looks like I can still use xcdroast without having to play with any settings or fix anything. emma :) -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gtoaster used to work...

2003-03-15 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey all: gtoaster used to work but now it doesn't. I'm not even sure where to start...I must have updated something that updated something that "broke" things. I get the following errors in the terminal window that's started gtoaster and I can't see anything useful in the /var/log/system log. I t

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Mike M
On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:21, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Domain=[THE_MATRIX] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > > Sharename Type Comment > - --- > IPC$ IPC Remote IPC > print$ Disk

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> -Original Message- > From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian and LDAP > this should work for your needs: > http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP/ConfiguringHostBasedAccessWithLDAP Nice work Nate. It'd

message from cron

2003-03-15 Thread John F.
I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon. I would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how. I would think if I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled with "ksysv", so I don't know what to do. A complete copy of one of the messages is

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

2003-03-15 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your > > printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: > > I have HP Laserjet 1200 series. > > > 1) cupsys-

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
I've attached two Perl scripts which may or may not come through. One is the LDAP-aware version of useradd, the other the LDAP-aware version of passwd. If they don't come through, let me know and I'll send them privately. You don't have to create all the accounts manually, there are "migration to

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > hi -users, > > i'm running with two unstable boxes, one as an nfs client and > the other as a server. when i try and connect from a client, > it hangs indefinitely, and not only that, doesn't respond to > backgrounding with ^Z or die with ^C. no

NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread sean finney
hi -users, i'm running with two unstable boxes, one as an nfs client and the other as a server. when i try and connect from a client, it hangs indefinitely, and not only that, doesn't respond to backgrounding with ^Z or die with ^C. not surprisingly, it also does not respond to any signal delive

Re: Laptop PCMCIA Ethernet Card and Wireless

2003-03-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:39:32PM -0500, Metnetsky wrote: > I also have a PCMCIA wireless card, > suggestions or links on how I might go about installing that? what is it? linux-wlan-ng, is a good place to start. [http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/] wlan is fun:-) hugh ps: this isnt for ins

Re: matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Youichi Mano
dear Travis Crump, > Umm, use 'uniq'...? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uniq -W1 << EOF > > 1 eagle 197 > > 1 bird 387 > > 2 camera 91 > > 2 dog 62 > > 3 apple 89 > > EOF > 1 eagle 197 > 2 camera 91 > 3 apple 89 > Thank you. You mean -w option? I want to uniq by any column,any data. For exampl

Re: matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:09:36AM +0900, Youichi Mano wrote: > I want to "uniq" by comparing the specified column for matrix data. > I want to realize this operation by command line programs , > not any script file. [snip example] > Such a editing is easy in perl script but I cannot easily do that

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Brian Nelson said... > Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that depends > > on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would have to change > > libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with libv

Re: matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
Youichi Mano wrote: Hi all, I want to "uniq" by comparing the specified column for matrix data. I want to realize this operation by command line programs , not any script file. Is there any idea? Umm, use 'uniq'...? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uniq -W1 << EOF > 1 eagle 197 > 1 bird 387 > 2 camera 91 >

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
yep, works, thanks. This avoids needing to convert these files to ogg which would incur another slight compression loss in quality. However, I might still do this later Were you able to keep xmms from popping up a blank movie window whenever a wma file is played? Or get xmms to read the file in

Re: Backing up multisession Blue Book CDs

2003-03-15 Thread nate
Michael Hackett said: > I've looked high and low and can't seem to find any info on this, so I > hope someone here can help. > > I would like to make complete backups of some of my music CDs, but I > haven't figured out how to get images of both the ISO 9660 (Windows) and > HFS (Mac) partitions fro

Re: can't forward

2003-03-15 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:30:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: > I am setting up a new gateway and it will not forward. > Forwarding is working fine actually. I found a problem with the routing on the machine with the 10.0.0.1 interface. 10.0.0.1 can ping 10.0.2.2 but 10.0.2.2 still cannot ping

matrix uniq

2003-03-15 Thread Youichi Mano
Hi all, I want to "uniq" by comparing the specified column for matrix data. I want to realize this operation by command line programs , not any script file. For example , if the following data is operated by first column uniq, - 1 eagle 197 1 bird 387 2 camera 91 2 dog 62

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that depends > on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would have to change > libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with libvorbis0, but that's > easy to do from the source.

Laptop PCMCIA Ethernet Card and Wireless

2003-03-15 Thread Metnetsky
If anyone read my previous message, I just installed Debian, very bare boned. I'd like to begin updating my system as well as downloading all my backup files off of my server. So during the install I configured PCMCIA with all the Intel defaults. My system was then able to connect through my eth

Backing up multisession Blue Book CDs

2003-03-15 Thread Michael Hackett
I've looked high and low and can't seem to find any info on this, so I hope someone here can help. I would like to make complete backups of some of my music CDs, but I haven't figured out how to get images of both the ISO 9660 (Windows) and HFS (Mac) partitions from the "Enhanced CDs" (aka CD-Extr

New Install || weirdness || blue-ish text

2003-03-15 Thread Metnetsky
I realize that the subject is a horrible description, but it takes some explaining. I've just done a base install of Debian on my Dell 8200 laptop which previously has Red Hat installed. In Red Hat, console or X mode, everything looked fine. In Debian however, the installer had lines running up

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

2003-03-15 Thread csj
At Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:58:48 +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Saturday 15 March 2003 03:05, John Hasler wrote: > > > 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 >

Re: Problem with FireWire

2003-03-15 Thread p
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Emilio Murcia wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a little problem with the IEEE1394 support on my computer, a > Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop... > > when I plug my shiny iPod (which works really good under f*cking > windows) to the computer, the laptop suddenly hang

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > a ] share your entire xp drive (ew...), smbmount it onto the woody > box, and then just rsync -a between two directories your entire XP drive is shared anyways, you could smbmount it onto the woody box using the C$ share and the admin login/password.

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:01:59 +0100 Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:04:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Check out O'Reilly's Linux Server Hacks. It has a good section on > > backups, including full and incremental scripted backups with rsync. > > Is t

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:06:23PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 ma

Re: looking for configuration management tools

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: > I administer some 20 servers and it's a pain to keep something > like the various postfix configurations up to par. What I'd love to > do is use CVS, but it stores no permission/user information. There's > cvs-conf, but it's not documented and thus crap. As opposed to poin

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on your system. -jackp --- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Searching a good inn2 HOWTO

2003-03-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, can somone point me to a good inn2 HOWTO. I am running leafnode and want to change to inn2. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit http://www.wreckingpit.com http://www.wattzap.com http://www.rocknrollpurgatory.com http://home.arcor.de/oliverfuchs1/debian/muttrc.html -- To UNSUBSC

Re: mozilla sans gnome = crash

2003-03-15 Thread John Hasler
I run Galeon with FVWM and suffer no more than the usual number of crashes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:04:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Check out O'Reilly's Linux Server Hacks. It has a good section on > backups, including full and incremental scripted backups with rsync. Is this a book or an online article? Thanks in advance, -- Rudy Gevaert[E

tax return sites

2003-03-15 Thread Mark Laird Copper
Anyone out there (US) taking the plunge with on-line tax prep? eztaxreturn.com worked ok (but not great) for me last year and isn't working this year. TurboTax (Intuit) doesn't seem to like Mozilla (anyone try Opera or Galeon?) TaxCut (HR Block + M$): no thanks. I'm trying TaxBrain.com, but I

cfengine users?

2003-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
are there cfengine users out there who use cfengine with debian? i'd be interested in how you went about it. cfengine is totally comprehensive, capable of everything. but i want to keep a fully functional debian system underneath. who'd be willing to share his configuration with me so that i can c

Re: mozilla sans gnome = crash

2003-03-15 Thread Andy Hurt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this a few days ago but go no responses. I'm trying again in hopes someone will have a suggestion, even just pointing me to another groups in which to ask. Here's the scoop: Using woody, when I'm running a plain X session (without Gnome), both Mozilla and Galeon

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Conrad Newton
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Saturday, 2003-03-15 at 21:22:40 +0100: > >From Roberto Sanchez on Friday, 2003-03-14 at 20:06:23 -0500: > > > > 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 > > pur

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread GSO
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:51:17 -0900 Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jan-jr-ent:~# apt-get install cups > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Package cups has no available version, but exists in the database. > > This typically means that the package w

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:20:54 +0100 Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If they don't want to use the hardware and your knowledge, someone > > else will. > > Kevin start out right but get the wrong conclusion. Up until the last > paragraph he has the right strategy. Actually what yo

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? > > Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness to > > ogg forma

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >> >>>I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a >>> clue on how to mount a printer. >> Take a look at CUPS. >> > > jan-jr-ent:~#

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread bounce-debian-user=archive=jab . org
>From Roberto Sanchez on Friday, 2003-03-14 at 20:06:23 -0500: > > 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: > > (snip) >

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Saturday 15 March 2003 05:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ou

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-15 Thread Bruynooghe Floris
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:12:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: > #include // need this to use malloc() Well I thought so to, but it _did_ work without to my surprise (discovered after I stupidly forgot it) But using `//' is also a C++ism no? BTW; thanks to all of you for the replies, I couldn't find t

digital voice recorders for Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Hello, I would appreciate a recommendation for a digital voice recorder that works with Linux, along with a recommendation for the software. Thank you, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:33:43 -0500 Barry Mathieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a relatively newbie to Linux administration and I need some > suggestions for data backup/disk mirroring. Check out O'Reilly's Linux Server Hacks. It has a good section on backups, including full and incremental scr

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 15 March 2003 10:01 am, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > >>I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a > >>clue on how to mount a printer. > > > > Take a look at CUPS. > >

Re: Averiguar Kernel

2003-03-15 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Friday 14 March 2003 16:36, Emilio Murcia wrote: > En un terminal introduce I recomend http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish -- Svenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for configuration management tools

2003-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.15.1956 +0100]: > Do you guys know of better tools to manage a configuration across > multiple servers? cfengine2? i even know the author. are there alternatives? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. mar

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken-SOLVED

2003-03-15 Thread Lonnie Sutton
Thanks to all who replied and for the good advice and troubleshooting help. As is often the case, all of my problems were "Operator Error" and I have managed to get myself "un-fubarred" again. I can now play my audio cds using xmms, listen to NPR and BBC news on RealPlayer, and burn cds as user, us

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya barry On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I'm a relatively newbie to Linux administration and I need some > suggestions for data backup/disk mirroring. > > I have a home network with a cable router and I'm using samba to share > data. Two machines are connected to the router; an X

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread sean finney
hi barry, On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:33:43PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I think rsync is the correct application for such a task; is this > correct? I don't want try to redesign the wheel and I think many others > have passed this way before. I'm a bit confused by the rysnc > documentation - it

kword: print preview truncates lines.

2003-03-15 Thread Janis Hagelberg
hello! i've tried to write a text with kword, to see how it works. but when i want to see se print preview (using gv) or when i print my text, it systematically truncates the end of the lines. it also changes the shape of the text, for example on a letter header it doesn't appear as a block on t

Re: TELNET

2003-03-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:09:59PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joao Paulo wrote: > > > telnet is also very good (but for other things). > > > telnet host 25 > > > telnet host 21 > > > ... > > > > but your firewall shoul

looking for configuration management tools

2003-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
I administer some 20 servers and it's a pain to keep something like the various postfix configurations up to par. What I'd love to do is use CVS, but it stores no permission/user information. There's cvs-conf, but it's not documented and thus crap. Do you guys know of better tools to manage a conf

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a clue on how to mount a printer. Take a look at CUPS. jan-jr-ent:~# CUPS su: CUPS: command not found jan-jr-ent:~# man cups No manual

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-15 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:30:55 -0800 debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard and wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:28:32 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard and wrote: > > > also sprach debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.11.2252 > > +0100]:> OK, where

Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Barry Mathieu
I'm a relatively newbie to Linux administration and I need some suggestions for data backup/disk mirroring. I have a home network with a cable router and I'm using samba to share data. Two machines are connected to the router; an XP Pro box and Debian Woody (running samba). The XP box has a singl

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a > clue on how to mount a printer. Take a look at CUPS. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.15.1603 +0100]: > Since you use rxvt, I'd look at whether or not the two machines have the > same resources defined. Yes, they do. The machines are identical. It's the difference of calling mc locally or through an ssh pty which changes the colo

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

2003-03-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I have no problem with csh (or tcsh) as a login shell. It is just not > suitable for scripting. Johan Kullstam writes: > I do. If csh (and tcsh) suck for scripting, then why on earth use them > as your shell? I don't. > If you make them your shell then you have to spend time learnin

Re: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread ronin2
On 15 Mar 2003 09:11:46 +0100 Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Using useradd etc every user has also his own group. Do I *really* > have to create all of them by hand? That's because /etc/adduser.conf says to do it that way. You can change this if you want all users to belong to the

can't forward

2003-03-15 Thread Michael West
I am setting up a new gateway and it will not forward. The gateway looks like: eth0 10.0.0.2 eth1 10.0.1.1 eth2 10.0.2.1 - route: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.0* 255.255.

Printers via SMB?

2003-03-15 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Domain=[THE_MATRIX] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment - --- IPC$ IPC Remote IPC print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk C D

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

2003-03-15 Thread iks_kzm
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > 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 w

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Blake Covarrubias
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 07:13, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:05:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? > > > Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness

iptables: forwarding internal webserver

2003-03-15 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have a router<->firewall<->LAN with the firewall being a Linux box. The firewall runs (among others) a webserver. When from within the LAN a webpage is requested with the external IP, the browser gives a time-out because the router freaks out when his own IP is requested from within. What I

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:40:51 -0800 "Martin J. Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > goo

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

2003-03-15 Thread Johan Kullstam
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. I do. If csh (and tcsh) suck for scripting,

Re: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread nate
Aaron Isotton said: > > - How can I manage the accounts in a sensible way? useradd and the like > seem not to use PAM, so I can't use them; until now I've used > directory-administrator and gq to manage the accounts, but I have a strong > dislike for GUI programs for such tasks. I know I can use

Re: mc colour scheme

2003-03-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:03:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Mh, i got a little further. the blue colours show up when I access > mc locally. If I go through an ssh connection within a local > terminal, the nice colours appear. If I start the terminal remotely, > the ugly colours show. if i s

smtp alais to point to dev null

2003-03-15 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hi! i was selling a car once and posted a message to some new jersey for sale newsgroup. luckily i set up an alias "car" to send the message... 'cause now i'm getting a lot of spam to that alias. so, i took "car" out of /etc/aliases, but now exim receieves the message, hold it it queue, then bounc

Re: TELNET

2003-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:09:59PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joao Paulo wrote: > > 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 wrong

simpleinit init scheme?

2003-03-15 Thread Andreas Happe
I was just wondering why there is no "simpleinit" support in util-linux (as mentioned in http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/)? thanks, Andreas -- 'The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "DO", "DON'T", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY

Re: Two Debian Release Cycle Issues

2003-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:24:00PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: > * The Multiple Architecture Support Issue > > Each additional architecture support will significantly increase > the Debian release cycle, including security update, as well as > moving from "unstable" to "testing". I don't believe th

Re: filesystem encryption

2003-03-15 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:19:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I've been considering creating a partition on my hard drive with an > encrypted filesystem for storing my financial data. Looking through the > literature on how to do this, it appears that there are several > competing systems around

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

2003-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Aryan Ameri writes: > OK you guys say that, OOo is bad software because they use csh, and they > use java to build it. Don't get me wrong, I am a true believer in free > software, but I guess sometimes, you have to see things from a different > point of view. My main objection is not that csh and

Promise/ataraid and 3.0r1

2003-03-15 Thread Frank Feingold
Hello, I've searched all the archives etc. and can't find anything on this. I'm trying to install 3.0r1 with the bf24 kernel. I have a system with the Promise FastTrack RAID controller. I've found the magic string to add (ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2) and that works great during the ins

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:05:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > Anyone know of a plugin to play *.wma files in xmms? > > Or howabout a way to convert this proprietary madness to > > ogg format? > > mencoder might be able to do it

pilot-mail fix, exim question, what happened to LinkDirect?

2003-03-15 Thread G S Osler
1) Fixed woody build of pilot-mail: http://www.gsowww.uklinux.net/pub 2) Anyone know how to generate an exim SMTP AUTH password file? 3) What happened to LinkDirect? http://tuxmobil.org/pda_linux_palm.html#ToC3 http://tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/Mobile-Guide.html http://tuxmo

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-15 Thread Robert A. Knop Jr.
"GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of > this two great softwares.. Here you go: KDE: People who prefer it think that it's better and Gnome is ugly/clunky/obselete/poorly designed/etc. Gnome: People who prefer it think th

Re: List of base-system debs

2003-03-15 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:39:16 +0200 Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you played with your httpd.conf? maybe you changed something to > cause permission problems. take a look at '/var/log/apahe/errors'. Umm, I don't know enough about apache to play with httpd.conf; I have a default

Re: Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:02:36AM -0800, Shaun Crossley wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > >I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's > >machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a > >base Woody system, current

Re: installing Debian on an OldWorld PowerMac

2003-03-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:28:15AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > has anyone gotten Debian up and running on a WallStreet PowerBook? > any pointers? I've never owned any Apple hardware (not that I don't want to...), but perhaps http://www.debian.org/ports/ppc/ would have some useful links? Also, t

Re: mozilla sans gnome = crash

2003-03-15 Thread dzpost
I posted this a few days ago but go no responses. I'm trying again in hopes someone will have a suggestion, even just pointing me to another groups in which to ask. Here's the scoop: Using woody, when I'm running a plain X session (without Gnome), both Mozilla and Galeon crash at the drop of a h

Problem with FireWire

2003-03-15 Thread Emilio Murcia
Hi! I've got a little problem with the IEEE1394 support on my computer, a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop... when I plug my shiny iPod (which works really good under f*cking windows) to the computer, the laptop suddenly hangs. I recompiled my kernel yesterday (I had 2.4.18-bf2.4, and moved to 2.4.2

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