userdb with courier-imap

2001-04-26 Thread Bill White
I am not having any luck getting courier-imap's user authentication to work. Is there some trick? I did the following: 1.) Set the appropriate fields in /etc/userdb, which has the right permissions (600). I set imappw and systempw, separately and together at different times. Ran makeuse

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 in Debian

2001-03-30 Thread Bill White
e my mistakes for me. I have heard that people have gotten the sources and built them for potato, but it's not clear to my untutored eye which source packages I need to get. On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:12:46PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry opined: > > On 30-Mar-2001 Bill Wh

XFree86 4.0.2 in Debian

2001-03-29 Thread Bill White
What is the easiest way to upgrade to X 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 for a Debian system. I need to upgrade to an X version which has support for a Voodoo5, and I can't seem to find a set of sources from XFree86 or the DRI project which will build. Thanks. -- Call me Svejk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] G

Re: Problems exporting X Display through ssh.

2001-03-29 Thread Bill White
This could be caused by NFS caches not being updated properly. At my installation, I have the same home directory on all machines. When I start xterms I run a small script ($HOME/bin/xrsh) which execs a program at a known location ($HOME/bin/xrshd) on the remote side. xrsh writes and xrshd reads

Re: Multidomain on email server

2001-03-28 Thread Bill White
gt; doesn't exist in the other domains.) ... -- Just call me Svejk. Bill White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etnus, LLC http://www.etnus.com 111 Speen St. Framingham, MA 01701 508-875-3030 x324 pgpuOPa1742Rg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-27 Thread Bill White
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:31:08AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > ... > > Now, when I update, I frequently can't see packages with "dpkg -l", > > but I can install them. That is to say, if the package

Re: apt-get update

2001-03-26 Thread Bill White
bian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode

Re: bind worm

2001-03-23 Thread Bill White
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:20:49PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Bill White wrote: > > > you might want to check the archives of security but AFAIK the > security problems are released for potato as well. So I guess if it was > fixed in testing/unstable it was also fixed

Re: bind worm

2001-03-23 Thread Bill White
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:39:14PM -0500, Bill White wrote: > This is very confusing to me. It looks to me as if the version of bind > in stable is 8.2.2p7-1. It looks to me as if you have to go to unstable > to get 8.2.3-4. So, when you say we should "run our updates", d

Re: bind worm

2001-03-23 Thread Bill White
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:23:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:53:59PM -0500, John Cuson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > forwarded sans alert ... > > > > john cuson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six

Re: Linux wannabe

2001-03-21 Thread Bill White
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:55:29PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:18:21PM -0800, jens wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:32:09 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > > > Lots of good replies but I should point out that windows is not THAT > > bad > You've never used Windows ME have you?

Re: remote management

2000-12-15 Thread Bill White
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:08 EST, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opined: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :> :goes d

All-in-one fax/printer/scanner compatibility

2000-04-20 Thread Bill White
Does anybody have any experience with any of the all-in-one fax/printer/scanner devices? They all say they require Windows 9X or NT, but is it possible to use them through Linux some way? I would guess that if they are Mac and Windows compatible, they either are or could be made to be Linux comp

Developing Gnome Apps with Debian?

2000-03-07 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about Gnome and Debian. I have installed the October Gnome using apt-get from debian/~vincent/mumble on my reasonably stock slink system. I want to track the latest Gnome libraries, and in particular, the glade and gtkmm libraries, and bonobo. These are apparently quite ou

Developing Gnome Apps with Debian?

2000-03-04 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about Gnome and Debian. I have installed the October Gnome using apt-get from debian/~vincent/mumble on my reasonably stock slink system. I want to track the latest Gnome libraries, and in particular, the glade and gtkmm libraries, and bonobo. These are apparently quite ou

Re: Firewall Routing Question

2000-02-21 Thread Bill White
Thank you very much for your reply. The answers to most of your questions were in the first email I sent. I tried to simplify it by leaving out details, but apparently the details were what you wanted to see. In any case, my current network topology is this: > [DSL]--[HUB]--[216.254.24.95] >

Re: Firewall Routing Question

2000-02-18 Thread Bill White
Hi. Sorry to bother you again, but my problem is not fixed. I looked at the ICMP Masquerade Enabled setting in my kernel, and it appears to be enabled. I think that the problem I am having is: o I have a firewall machine, with an interface whose number is 192.168.2.10. o I have machines on the s

Firewall routing question.

2000-02-14 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a routing question. I have tried this in various combinations, but I don't seem to have the right one. This is my desired HW and SW configuration. o One GNU/Linux firewall machine. This also has its own IP number. This will also handle incoming email, ftp and web traffic, but that

Firewall question

2000-01-28 Thread Bill White
Hi. I have a question about how powerful my firewall computer should be. I want to make a firewall for a small constellation of computers in my living room. Behind the firewall I will have two Win98 computers, one computer which boots Win98 or several flavors of Unix/Linux, and one Hurd box. Th

Kernel 2.2 and slink.

1999-06-30 Thread Bill White
Hi. I'm sorry for bothering, but I am thinking of upgrading my 2.0.36 kernel to 2.2. I am running a fairly stock installation of slink, but with more recent kde and gnome packages. I seem to remember some talk on this list about what other packages I need to upgrade, but I can't seem to find in

CD/R disks for backup?

1999-04-20 Thread Bill White
Does anyone use CD/R disks for backup? I have some questions. 1.) How do you make sure that mkisofs doesn't make a file system which is bigger than the disk? 2.) If your partition is 1000Mb and it is mostly full, you have to partition the partition. How do you do that without much manual