RE: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 19 December 2003 10:22 AM > To: Debian User Mailinglist > Subject: Re: Debian logo stolen. > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:55:33 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > I remember some news about

RE: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Andreas Janssen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2003 1:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: right kernal for AMD > > > Hello > > Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > How do I find out what the right image is for a A

RE: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Nunya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80? > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > home->work). How

RE: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Nunya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2003 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80? > > > As I think about getting a job, I realize wherever next will probably > block outgoing traffic o

3c556 Hurricaine Cardbus

2003-12-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm just going through menuconfig for 2.4.22, and I cannot find a 3Com 3c556 Hurricaine Cardbus nic in the networking section. It is a mini PCI card in a Gateway Solo laptop, the nic has been detected in stock woody install and still works after a upgrading to testing. Does anyone know what

RE: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ?? > > > It's "cracker". Not "hacker". > http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/Jargon30/JARGON_C/CRACKER.H

arp slowness

2003-12-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I am trying to run 'nmap -sP xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24' and then 'arp -a' on two pcs on two different networks. On one woody box nmap runs as quick as I would expect... Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (83 hosts up) scanned in 8 seconds On another woody box on a different network it takes much mu

RE: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Pro ject Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Monique Y. Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 7:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: > Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications) > > > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 17:56 GMT,

RE: Backup question

2003-11-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Victory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 2:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Backup question > > > Hi All, > > I want to back up some directories on Debian machine > to Windows XP CDRW, I want to do it from Windows XP mac

RE: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Scripting Manuals > > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach > me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? > > Thanx

RE: regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 1:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: regarding kernels > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:53PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > I com

regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I complied the kernel I am using last may. I noticed when I did an 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' that a kernel-source-2.4.18 was updated. So should I recompile ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

RE: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Darik Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 12:24 PM > To: Joyce, Matthew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment > > > > Does anyone here use Debian as a file s

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Excel i

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Rodney D. Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 4:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3 > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 > "J

using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, Does anyone here use Debian as a file server in a NT4 or AD domain ? I'm just wondering what headaches the integration would bring, we have w2k pro/ os9.2 and osx 10.2 on the desktops. The older mac files can be a pain, but I guess I can have hfs. How do I control access to the files. Ca

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > >>Hi. > >>How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? > >>This is the final step for moving completely from > windows to linux! > >>yay! > >>Thanks > > > > > > You can't convert the partition in-place, you'll have to > copy the data > > somewher

RE: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather > than a rant or flame ... > > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing > list, why do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so > of which I'm unaware? > > I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header

RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
/etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

RE: hi

2003-10-26 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Most Toshibas have a small pinhole reset button. Try pressing this button while holding down the left shift key, keep the left shift key pressed while it boots up. This does not work for all tosh laptops. Matt -- -Original Message- From: michael stephens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: please read this

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Pomber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 11:03 AM > To: trevor brooks; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: please read this > > > --- trevor brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to G

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > What's w

RE: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. e nglish [was: ])

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:55 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of > german v. english [was: ]) > > > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Nori Heikkin

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Spam is just marketing. > > SWEN isn't marketing. Part of this is about SWEN (and > other similar viruses/worms). > SWEN is about propogating a spam delivery system. > > Marketi

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More on spam > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:58:16 -0400, > Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > O

RE: motherboard temperatures

2003-10-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 3:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: motherboard temperatures > > > Greetings all, > > does anyone have a recommendation for a program to monitor > temperatures inside my box? Us

RE: defragmentation on M$ disc?

2003-10-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Joris Huizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2003 9:02 PM > To: debian-list > Subject: defragmentation on M$ disc? > > > Hello everybody, > > I'm wondering, is 't possible to "defragmentate" a M$ disc > while running > in Debian? I wan

RE: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > >> I currently use a fetchmail / procmail / mbox / mutt e-mail setup, > >> with ssmtp (properly linked through `sendmail` of course) for > >> sending. I would really like to have a web mail system set > up so that > >> I can at least read, if not send, e-mail from my website as well. > >

RE: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Probably better to export as text from outlook first. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Frederico Rodrigues Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook > > > Hi. > Ha

RE: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00929.html Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: apt: exporting and importing list of installed package

fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), they end up in spool somewhere. Any ideas ? I've clearly missed something important. Matt -- To

RE: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-09 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Monique Y. Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 01:35 GMT, Naitik Shah penned: > > Easiest would be to install

RE: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SWEN isn't slowing down > > > on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:31:53AM -0700, A P > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > These f** SWEN emails

Replace HDD

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I have an old pc running Debian Woody and I have 2 questions. Firstly, the hard drive ios quite old and become quite noisy, I suspect it is on the way out. What is the easiest way to replace it ? It only have 2 partions, one of them a swap. The new drive is slightly bigger. Secondly, compl

RE: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Well, a virus like Swen wouldn't need root access to spread. I don't > know what Swen does to a Windows machine (and I don't care, I haven't > got any), but just to annoy people with enormous amounts of e-mail, > someone could imageinebly write a perl script with its own > SMTP-engine. >

RE: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 3 October 2003 8:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses > > > "Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > > .." > > > > Aye, but you do have backups right?

RE: gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 5:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: gettext > > > * Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031001 00:21]: > > > > Hi, > > > >

gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm trying to a horde/imp system, the doc say I must have gettext support in php4. running Woody, appache-ssl, php4 I have run apt-get gettext, but the docS say it is php4 which needs gettext. Any ideas ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

RE: Laptop battery

2003-09-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
get it to go in my prompt? > > On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:41 PM, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > I used to use apmd, it worked pretty well, I used to cut the power > > left % > > out and use it in my prompt. > > > > hub:~# apt-cache show apmd

RE: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
yes, there does seem to be a reduction, hopfully these boring threads will stop soon too. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 10:54 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down? >

Exim dress rehearsal

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I'm just configuring an Exim setup and I want to test it. I do not want to change my MX records yet, but I want to be sure it will accept email and relay it properly. Is there anyway to do this ? Are there any tools to analyse exim configs ? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of This really is a horrible turn of phase for many reasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MS mail bombs

2003-09-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... > > -- > -daniel It is probably (should be imo) the future of all computing. Permit this Permit that Deny everything else -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

RE: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
"very high volume, very low signal," Much like this thread has become. The first 3 posts were useful, the other 7 (8) were totally off topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Group rights

2003-09-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debain Users, I'm a little confused regarding the use of group to assign file rights. I was under the impression that user can be members of groups and groups can be used to assign permissions to files and folders. How then, do I assign multiple groups, different permission to the same fol

RE: ms exchange to courier imap

2003-09-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
They are both servers, so it's not clear what you mean. What are you trying to achieve ? Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Louie Miranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 3:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ms exchange to courier imap > > > can co

RE: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-03 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > There have been computer games for as long as there have been > > computers. > > [quibble] > > The first computers were not driven by electricity. > > Why don't you take a history lesson first before co

RE: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> Uh, no, what's keeping Linux away from the desktop is the > lack of APPLICATIONS. Joe Public couldn't care less about X, > or anything else, as long as it works. The idiot gamers > aside, X is plenty for what Joe Public needs in a graphical > environment as long as he can move windows arou

RE: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus Schopen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: simple backup script > > > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > [...] > > RAID only provides resilience against

RE: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Yves Goergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: simple backup script > > > On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple backu

RE: kernel compile issues

2003-09-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > I can boot with the OldLinux ok, are there any logs I should be > > looking at ? ...checking the config (menuconfig), I cannot see > > anything which might cause this behavior, if any thing it's > a pretty > > light build. > > Did you (if necessary) change the LILO-configuration file and

kernel compile issues

2003-08-31 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have a old laptop, a Toshiba 320CDT, 233Mhz PII MMX, 128Mb. Woody has installed and I have compiled 4.2.18 sucessfully many times. After tryting a few other distros on this laptop, I wanted to go back to woody, but after compiling 4.2.18 and rebooting, it will not start. After the 'Linux..

email server setup

2003-08-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debian-Users, Could someone direct me to a step by step guide to setting up a mail sever. SMTP,IMAP is required, SSL for both would be preferable but not essential. thanks muchly m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

RE: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> As we use Debian, I don't think there is the need for any > company to protect us. As far as I know, linux is immune to > any virus, and that's > the main reason why I don't want to install windows on my machine. > -- > Zeng Nan > If this is your main reason, why not use windows with antivi

RE: virus (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
>From OED online. [a. L. vrus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste. Hence also F., Sp., Pg. virus. In Lanfranc's Cirurgie (c 1400) 77 the word, explained as 'a thin venomy quitter', is merely taken over from the Latin text.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. Als

RE: ssh tunneling

2003-08-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> i am not able to connect to a vnc-server thats running behind the > firewall. i know that the vncserver is running because i can open > vncviewers from other clients behind the firewall. but when i > ssh to the > gateway from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -L > 5903:vncserver:5903 option and fo

RE: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> * iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030811 04:12]: > > * Petrisor Marian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [an entirely blank message with a semi-informative subject line] > > > > This pisses me off majorly > > There's more important things in life... My "d" key deals > with messages like his

RE: test please igore

2003-08-05 Thread Joyce, Matthew
what is this 'ignore' you speak of ? Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Jake Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 3:23 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: test please igore > > > > > -- > Regards, > Jake Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _

RE: Arpwatch (was : mac addresses)

2003-07-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
-- > -Original Message- > From: Sebastian Kapfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 28 July 2003 1:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: mac addresses > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 03:10:06 +0200, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > I was going to run > >

RE: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:16, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac > > addresses being used on a lan ? I'm trying to discover if foreign > > devices are being connected over the weekend. > > > > I

mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debian Users, Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac addresses being used on a lan ? I'm trying to discover if foreign devices are being connected over the weekend. Ideally I'd like to be able to compare one list with another and see the difference. Thanks Matt --

RE: Radius Server

2003-07-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
McCord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2003 10:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Radius Server > > > Just set one up two weeks ago using cistron-radiusd. What do > you need help with? > > Ken > > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:40, Joyce

RE: Radius Server

2003-07-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Has anyone setup a Radius server before using Debian ? Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Joyce, Matthew > Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2003 11:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Radius Server > > > > Dear Debian-User, > > I use a Cisco vpn to

Radius Server

2003-07-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debian-User, I use a Cisco vpn to connect to our office NT network. At the moment the vpn is setup to authenticate with the NT domain controllers. I am wondering is anyone has implemented a Radius server on Debian which could be used for authentication ? Can anyone offer any comments about

RE: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> having a slow system due to adding a disk is equally bad as a > scrambled disk. ( fix the problems that causing the symptoms ) > -- dont mix drives unless they are both ata-100 > and both have 2MB disk buffers .. etc.etc.. > > c ya > alvin > I've never heard of matching buffe

RE: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-06 Thread Joyce, Matthew
If the master is the 8gb drive I would imagine it is not ata100 and the 40 probably is ata100. Is it possible that you are not using the correct type of cable and it is dropping back to ata33 ? Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 7

RE: Enabling ssl on web?

2003-07-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
if you are using apache-ssl then there is a corresponding command # apache-sslctl usage: /usr/sbin/apache-sslctl (start|stop|restart|fullstatus|status|graceful|configtest|help) start - start httpsd stop - stop httpsd restart- restart httpsd if running by sending a SIGHUP or start

RE: Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I followed these instructions a while back and they worked for me. http://www.apache-ssl.org/ Now I've got my server installed, how do I create a test certificate? Step one - create the key and request: openssl req -new > new.cert.csr Step two - remove the passphrase from the key (optional

RE: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Google for 'bash loops' http://www.google.com.au/search?q=bash+loops&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= the first link is http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-7.html Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: David selby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2003 7:15

RE: test - please ignore

2003-06-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
can't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian

2003-06-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have been using Debian for about 18 months now. I like it and prefer it to other dristos I have tried. Today I had to install Redhat 9 on a system. It detected everything. A totally good experience installing this os. I'm not saying I will be moving from Debian to redhat, but I do wish Debian

RE: migrate to new hardware

2003-05-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2003 4:05 PM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: migrate to new hardware > > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Dear Debain-Users, > >

RE: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I tried many editors, I found them all crap. What I wanted was a port of Edit which came with MSDos6. Alas there is non. I did try using RHIDE, a programming IDE, for a while, ok as a text editor. These days I just use Touch to create a file and then Midnight Commander's built in editor. Matt

RE: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-04-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could use Imagemagik, a very useful bunch of routines. # apt-cache show imagemagick Package: imagemagick Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 3436 Maintainer: Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 4:5.4.4.5-1 Replaces: imagemagick-doc, geomview (<= 1.8

RE: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a > moot point > > as such a high percentage of hits come from cache. > > remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives > are 8MB cache > > > - the 2MB disk cache will be flooded and not used at all... > > T

RE: Partitioning for Speed

2003-03-31 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a moot point as such a high percentage of hits come from cache. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:35 AM > To: debian user list > Subject: Partitioning for Speed

RE: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
a segmentaion error. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Joyce, Matthew > Sent: Monday, 31 March 2003 12:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: undelete > > > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it

undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. is there an undelete util ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unsubscribe

2003-03-26 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message   I love this thread.   Matt-- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 6:06 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: UnsubscribeUnsubscribe

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-26 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Devil's advocate: how do you knmow firestarter does what it > says it is doing if you don't understand iptables? Please > don't take this as a personal attack; I just feel if you > don't understand the technology, using said technology is > fraught with peril. For a real world example,

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Basically, if someone doesn't know how many keys ones keyboard has, > > _and_ he doesn't know how to count them, then I doubt he should be > > using a computer at all. > > Devil's advocate: > > A new user may not know whether to count every single key. > For example, shift doesn't do a

RE: POP3 daemon recommendation?

2003-03-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> qpopper Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3). I have used this and found it to be very, very easy to setup and use. I moved to an IMAP server fairly soon afterwards, so I cannot comment on how it performs over time. Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only indepen

RE: MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I do not know the answer to your question. However, I was googling about similar things and stumbled across a developer thread, the gist of which suggested that it would not be any time soon. One point made, was that there are sill bugs being found in 3.23, and another was that DB developers are

RE: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have been using BMF ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ ) for about 6 months with procmail on woody, utterly impressed. The developer answers email on the mailing list very quickly and as far as I can tell noone has found any bug since I have been using it. .deb supported. I can't see how

RE: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> The part of the argument that is incomprehensible to me is > why they need $1000 to buy a single computer! Nowadays most > people (even those who use Windows) are spending $500 or less. > > Since presumably no one in the group is simulating nuclear > bomb blasts or calculating the structure o

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > From the man page. > > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multi­ple > search patterns > > that are and'd together." > > > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > > quite different amounts of hits, the space does not 'stop' it. > > OK, I may not

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > > package > > > files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package > > >

mysql v4

2003-03-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I am keen to move to a later version of Mysql. I have a fairly unmessed-around Woody stable, can anyone guide me through the upgrade from mysql v3.23 to 4 ? thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely devoted to rese

can't connect to mysql on debian

2003-03-06 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have a debian woody box running mysql from apt-get. PHP4 on the same box can connect ok, but I cannot connect from another machine on the same subnet. Do I have to specifically allow other non localhost connections ? Thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independen

RE: mysql >v4.0

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? > > > > there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. > > > > thanks > > > > Matt > > > > > > > deb ftp://ftp.de

RE: Test

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> The last two messages I have sent using this account have not > gone through. > > Testing, please ignore. > > Thank you! > > -- It is not the policy of this list to ignore posts. Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely

mysql >v4.0

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely devoted to research into the causes, prevention and c

RE: firewall -- best practices

2003-02-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> 2. Occasionally, I would like to ssh into my network from > work. Is it > best to only open up the port on the firewall or do some port > forwarding so that ssh connections automatically go to a different > (non-firewall) machine? I have been using ipCop on a P133 with dsl, no problems at

RE: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> I don't know of a single native Windows or Mac ftp client > that supports it. For that matter, the last time I checked > support in the UNIX world wasn't that great either. Most of > my ftp is through wget or ncftp (in both Linux and Windows) > and I don't think either one supports ssl-ftp.

RE: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message You cannot unsubscribe.  Noone can.  Why would you want to anyway ?     Matt -Original Message-From: Fer'had Erdogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 9:16 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: how the fuck do I unsubscribe I have bee

RE: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
HP do a RedHat and a Suse version of the webjetadmin. http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNum= WBJASW&prodName=hp+web+jetadmin+software&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId= 18972&prodSeriesId=27905 Can either of those be persuaded to work on deb ? Matt >

RE: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-03 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Guys...it's a bit sad when some very brave people died in > Columbia to be talking stuff like this...i agree with Vincent > that comments like this are not necessary. Spare a moments > thought (or longer if possible) for those brave Astronauts > and their families who will no doubt end

RE: unsubscribe

2003-01-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
bwahahahah! Matt > -Original Message- > From: Vincent Morlot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: unsubscribe > > > unsubscribe > -- > Vincent Morlot([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

RE: regexp help

2003-01-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I really do not know why filters like this are so popular, surely they need constant manual changes to keep up with the spam. I have found the bayesian filters to be much much more effective and easier to mangage. hey ho, each to their own I suppose. Matt > -Original Message- > From:

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