Re: stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Ethan Benson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:05:20AM -0900: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:56:04PM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: > > > > > > exim gets removed, postfix gets installed. > > > > oic, I just tried with qmail, but that was the .deb

Re: stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Nathan E Norman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:50:58AM -0600: > > How do you simply replace a package with another package that offers the > > same functionality? > > exim provides mail-transport-agent > > qmail as well > > > > so I want to upgrade mail-transport-agent from exim

Re: stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Ethan Benson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:38:57PM -0900: > > How do you simply replace a package with another package that offers the > > same functionality? > > exim provides mail-transport-agent > > apt-get install postfix > > exim gets removed, postfix gets installed.

stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Bram Dumolin
re all, How do you simply replace a package with another package that offers the same functionality? exim provides mail-transport-agent qmail as well so I want to upgrade mail-transport-agent from exim to qmail What's the best way to do that? Pointers on a good apt-get/dpkg faq? -- P

Re: NAT/MASQ in single NIC

2001-03-01 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Osamu Aoki([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:42:23PM -0800: > Well .. I danno... Never done it. Just a thoght which may work. > > Seriously, PCI NIC costs only $20 these days. I have 2 NICs and MASQ > them to access Cable and LAN. It will act as good firewall too. If you only hav

Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)

2001-02-28 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Hall Stevenson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0500: > > If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will > > be a sequence of characters which the console interprets > > to 'switch character sets' and then any lower case characters > > become little boxes,

Re: Slow DNS Lookup (4TH POSTING)

2001-02-28 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Alvin Oga([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:55:02PM -0800: > what does the snippetts of your dns files look like ??? > > -- are you supporting more than one domain name on your lan ??? > > soa records > a records > ns records > ptr records > > $TTL > $ORIGIN > > contents of > na

Re: Drawing diagrams of servers

2001-02-26 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Russell Coker([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:26:01PM +0100: > Thanks to Bram Dumolin for the reference to tkined (scotty). I haven't > checked it out as dia is a program dedicated to my task which seems to work > well. actually I didn't mention it but

Re: Drawing diagrams of servers

2001-02-26 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Russell Coker([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:07:07PM +0100: > I want to draw some diagrams of a network showing things such as "user > uploads files to an FTP server, FTP server uses rsync to push data to web > server, users download data from web server". I want to do this will

Re: hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

2001-02-23 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Pap Tibor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:38:19AM +0100: > Sorry for the hungarian post. Why apologize if you can answer in English? :P -- People using html in email should be shot. A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Erdmut Pfeifer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:21:09PM +0100: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on > > suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of > > my account when

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, The Doctor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:42:31AM -0500: > Like an idiot, I accidentally wrote a LILO boot into my windows partition, so > nw booting from my LILO to windows (on /dev/hda3) starts up another LILO that > croaks with > LI > is there a way to be able to boot windows

Re: HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-16 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, CaT([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:41:12PM +1100: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:38:14PM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: > > > This'll get you a testing fdisk compiled for your system. Worked > > > brilliantly > > > for me. > > > > uhm th

Re: debian command list

2001-02-16 Thread Bram Dumolin
will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:42:26PM -0600: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi all... > > I'm looking for a web site that would have > > a nice list and basic description of debian commands. > > Anyone know of such a place? > >

Re: rebuilding dpkg db from manual compiled stuff

2001-02-13 Thread Bram Dumolin
Brian May([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:46:56PM +1100: > >>>>> "Bram" == Bram Dumolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bram> 1) How do you rebuild the dpkg db on a system where there > Bram> are so many self-compiled/installed p

rebuilding dpkg db from manual compiled stuff

2001-02-13 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, 2 questions: 1) How do you rebuild the dpkg db on a system where there are so many self-compiled/installed programs that you lost track of it. I mean, is there a simple way of checking them in the db, so you can upgrade easily to the newest versions or do you have to install the debs and th

HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
re, Machine: linux-2.0.33, Debian slink, upgraded to latest stable (potato?) I have an IBM 30 GB hd and it shows up as a 4GB in fdisk. Does someone know if this is a kernel issue or something else? In the bios I put it as LBA. Although this might not be a Debian specific problem, I'm running Deb

Re: Fwd: Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
Vadim Kutsyy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:51:36AM -0500: > > I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. > > 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. > > But the original openssh site says : 2.3.0p1 > > Can someone enlighten me on this? > > debian:/usr/local

Fwd: Re: ssh version ?

2001-02-12 Thread Bram Dumolin
(This might get on the list more than one time. I don't know what's wrong with my submission to this list as I get replies from some .jp domain, not being descriptive whatsoever). I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. But th

ssh version ?

2001-02-11 Thread Bram Dumolin
hello, I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. But the original sources say : 2.3.0p1 Can someone enlighten me on this? -- /bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] People using html in email should be shot. By US Code Title 47, Sec

ssh version ?

2001-02-10 Thread Bram Dumolin
hello, I was wondering what the deal is with the version of ssh. 1.2.3-9.2 is the latest version shipped with Debian. But the original sources say : 2.3.0p1 Can someone enlighten me on this? -- /bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] People using html in email should be shot. By US Code Title 47, Sec