Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

ng the connection So basically I'm doing this command: ssh remote-host /usr/sbin/imapd | some-local-process If you were doing SMTP-over-SSH, I guess you'd be doing something similar. But for reasons that I don't want to take the time to list, it seems like you wouldn't be doing

Re: scripting

book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder.' to the license reference or copy. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Readable Bash Primer

7;t help, often the last step is to do dpkg -L [package-name] |less which will display all the files that [package-name] installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it does and where to run it from. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.

Re: News Flash

copyrights or patents from anyone but lawyers. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: File encryption

x+encrypted+filesystem Let us know if that helps. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

n expand upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have used VMWare some years ago and it is quite good. However, I tend > to prefer Qemu for most workstation-related things. YMMV. Just curious why. In my experience, qemu is slw. -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: Manpages??

matching 'fork'. So there you go. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup strategy using rsync

ic files scattered throughout /etc and /var are specific to your hardware is annoying. My advice would be to just exclude whole directories that you know contain files which shouldn't be backed up -- directories like /sys, /proc, etc. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-

Re: backup strategy using rsync

rectories -- e.g., don't back up /sys, /proc, and /dev . -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Encrypted email question

x27;s not particularly useful. I'm sure mutt could be hacked to make it happen, though; mutt can be hacked to make anything happen. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bash script question

If that approach won't work -- because, say, files created on date D are modified later -- then you'll have to do some more magic. I'd probably use Perl with the DateManip library for that. But hopefully that's unnecessary. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308

Re: annoying beeping speaker

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > How do I make it stop without opening the case and removing the speaker? > It's really annoying. xset -b -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0300, Debian User wrote: > but this does not show the everything the progress. It should, in fact, show the overall progress. Can you send us the output of that command? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP

Re: Progrees meter in scp

ry] [dest directory] If your files are highly compressible, and not too large (where 'too large' is probably defined by the amount of memory you have), you can use the -z flag as well; this will compress your files before they go over wire, and save you even more time. -- Stephen R. Lani

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:48:13PM -0300, Debian User wrote: > how to make to appear the bar of progress in scp ? scp displays progress *percentages*, but not a bar. Whenever possible, try using rsync instead, with the -P option. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5

Re: Progrees meter in scp

hat uses the -q switch). Why would the original poster want to use -q to make it disappear, when he said he wanted it to *appear*? :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

nd up it goes. Things are a little trickier when you're using static IP, but not much. And they get maybe annoyingly tricky when you do wireless, but not much -- and certainly they don't get annoying because of resolv.conf messiness. I'm curious how you got into the spot you're i

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

f torture, so it's good to do it infrequently. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

that email I sent?" > What do you use that keeps up with white/grey/black lists? 'Keeps up'? A whitelist is my list of people who are canonically non-spammers; that's my own list. I believe we get blacklists from Razor. Greylisting is, again, site-by-site. -- Stephen R. Lanie

Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

allenge/response systems: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

e web. My server uses greylisting, whitelisting and blacklisting, and consequently I maybe get a spam every other day. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

is processing. Which is why I mentioned the '-0' thing, and suggested that you poke around. Also, '-i' is indeed supported, though the manpage suggests that it's deprecated. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

ages and do for i in $(above command); do apt-get install $i; done Or you could use xargs: above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' Though that might be a little tricky, and you might need to use xargs -0. Fiddle with that a bit; it may help you. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROT

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > apt-get install privoxy ?? Oh, sorry; I was reading the original poster to be saying that he wanted to upgrade just the dependencies. Yes, apt-get install privoxy is the easy way to do this. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

he packages you've already got installed. If Privoxy is already installed, all its dependencies will also be installed as well, so you can go ahead and only upgrade the packages that you've got installed. This is all doable inside a short Perl script, but the margin is too small to contain it

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

r, then you probably don't have the root password either -- in which case it will be impossible for you to run any command featuring 'find /'. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

t sudoers is configured to only let me run one or two commands. For most people, I imagine -- and certainly on most machines I've used -- sudoers are equivalent to root. But yes, I suppose I should have qualified my 'sudo find' command with the words "if you're allow

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default > setup.) I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://

Re: upgrade only if installed

ages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell:

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

roup. But this will change *all* the files, not just the files currently owned by user [blah]. Which is not what the original poster wanted. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? Had I done sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \; then yes. But with xargs,

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: upgrade only if installed

1 |grep '^firefox$' Using '^firefox$' prevents the command from matching packages with firefox in their name, like firefox-gnome-support. That command will return 0 if it finds anything, 1 if it doesn't. That should get you on your way. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTE

Re: script with date operation??

he number of > days since Feb 2, 2006. That sort of work is precisely why I do it in Perl. Because then you start getting into messiness with leap years, timezones, etc., etc., etc. There's a reason that time libraries are hard to write. :-) Perl's done all the work for you; be lazy.

Re: script with date operation??

I should note that "perl -e" is super-awesome. The alternative, using just the command-line 'date' tool, is too cumbersome. Perl's actually the easiest here, I've found. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

t are outside of the ASCII range that are troubling you. For that, you have to make sure that your locale is set properly, and that your terminal program is also using the right locale. If you need help in that direction, let us know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617)

Re: Treason?

:191101508. Repaired. This is why god invented Google. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/linux/2001-q3/0083.html or more generally http://google.com/search?q=%22treason+uncloaked%22 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://lan

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

Though if you want to prevent one machine's compromise from compromising another machine, set HashKnownHosts. Then, at least, people won't be able to guess your other machines once they've broken your current machine. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 htt

Re: using apt-listbugs

27;t need to wait for a reboot. If you want to stop X, you can just do sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (or '/kdm stop', or whatever). But don't worry about stopping X. As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll. --

Re: using apt-listbugs

at your monitor's vertical positioning needs to be changed. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Network printing

get the various CUPS config-file settings right :->). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emusing

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:36:26AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > 2) Enter your email address in the form field there. Do you >know what a form field is? Another approach, should that one not work: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". -- Stephen

Re: emusing

n of the FCC is laughable. I wish you knew just how laughable it was. Please unsubscribe and never post here again. Thanks. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: howto check open ports ?

579 52343 52382 52426 52462 52481 52482 53166 53494 56174 56241 57329 6 61464 62586 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: howto check open ports ?

pache to work over port 8080; almost no one blocks ports that high. You could also use nmap to scan ports. But nmap is only going to scan privileged ports to see which ones are open; it's not going to tell you that ports 8080 and above are open, because they always are. -- Stephen R. L

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

d that means that > DHCP isn't necessary. Well, one needn't have a fixed IP to host a website; I've hosted several using dynamic DNS -- see, e.g., dyndns.org. But of course you're right that the original poster almost certainly does not have a fixed IP. -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

-5 Version table: *** 1:4.2p1-5 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

it with 'apt-get install ssh'. I assume > your Debian is running Sarge. I don't believe sshd is running by default, is it? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

it! You can configure things, but for basic connections that'll do the trick. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

h ImageMagick, will expand at the shell into convert -resize 200x200 filename.bmp filename.jpg and ImageMagick will then automatically convert the file from BMP to JPEG. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signa

Re: [OT] Mutt -- how to send tagged msgs. as bcc's ?

t of addresses to whom the message will be bounced. All of the recipients will see the 'To:' line, but they won't see the other people to whom it was bounced. Does that answer your question? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http:

Re: logs crazy

user.log but what is the difference between kern.log, messages, dmesg, > syslog and all the other logs. Thanks Check out /etc/syslog.conf and the corresponding manpage (syslog.conf(5)). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.

Bulletin-board software that doesn't suck

BB in recent days, and have found it pathetic. Patching it, in particular, is a nightmare -- hence the final bullet above. Do people on this list run lots of bulletin boards for their clients? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniel

Re: Root's Mail

else? So you edited something like /etc/aliases so that mail destined for root is now going to use foo, say. Have you already created the user called foo on your machine? If not, go to a command line and do sudo adduser foo Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

are fairly portable, right? I know very little about programming at that level, so I'll have to consult Stevens. I just find the lack of portability here rather bizarre. Thanks again for your help. I'll dig through the books and links that you referenced. Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R.

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:45:36PM -0700, John Purser wrote: > You might consider one of the multi-platform languages like Python or > Perl. Both have modules that will do this I believe. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Does anyone know the Perl function for this task? -- S

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

status: no carrier lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

some POSIX-approved way to do this, right? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Large LDAP deployments

n anyone out there recommend a directory server that's 1) as featureful as OpenLDAP; 2) as easy to administer as OpenLDAP; 3) affordable for 200-odd seats; 4) easy to administer; and 5) open source? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://lani

Re: find

uch simpler command: grep -r '#include' . 'find' and 'grep' are perhaps the two most valuable tools in the UNIX toolkit. They're definitely worth getting to know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Which daemons run at startup

ices. For that matter, 4) Other than testing for the existence of /etc/[distro name]{_,-}version, is there any way -- without assuming that the distro is LSB-compliant -- to figure out which distro is in front of me? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniel

Re: ways to read man pages

s in /usr/share/doc are probably closer to what you're looking for. Though a manpage like that for procmailrc(5) probably meets your demands. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wireless Help

in Debian which do what you need, and it would be easier for you to use one of those. What are you trying to do with this package? We may be able to recommend others. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

s something like :0 * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam I.e., "If spamassassin labeled it spam, send it off to my spam folder." There are more complicated routes, but that's basically the idea. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key:

Re: Vim question

x27;//' at the beginning of every line. Just to be clear, that last substitution command is equivalent to :s/^/\/\/ but is, I think, prettier. If you wanted to instead replace line 1 line 2 line 3 with /* line 1 line 2 line 3 */ I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps ot

Re: Bash commands

> should be: b = BB35 Well, it's taking whatever the value of $a is, and replacing 23 with BB. You didn't specify the value of $a before you run that substitution; what is it? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

RW: 1 Can write RAM: 1 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Where is my Economist?

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:39:01PM -0700, Fritz Volbach wrote: > Please check on this subscription and finally start sending me the Economist > again! What led you to post that to a mailing list about the Debian Linux distribution? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-557

Re: commands and packages

ready located on your machine, you can do dlocate ypwhich or whatnot. If you don't know whether it's on your machine, you can run apt-file update; apt-file search ypwhich If apt-file isn't already installed on your machine, you can do sudo apt-get install apt-file Cheers,

Re: internet connection

f this sort of thing. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

ble to all users, I suspect the canonical answer would be /usr/bin. See the man page for hier(7). Everyone has /usr/bin in his or her path. If, however, you only want it to be available to a specific user, put it in that user's ${HOME}/bin, then put ${HOME}/bin in their $PATH. -- Stephen R.

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

(>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

ame] 2) If you're installing a package that's part of Debian, you can do sudo apt-get install [package name] 3) You want to use sudo rather than running commands as root. Really. It's much safer. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ P

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

for reasons that have been done to death on any number of Linux lists. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

t you started on the road to installing things under Debian. Let us know if you have any difficulties. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

readpst

cessing Folder "Entw "Entw\urfe" - 1 items done, skipped 0, should have been 1 Processing Folder "PocketMirror" "PocketMirror" - 0 items done, skipped 1, should have been 1 "Pers\unliche Ordner" - 0 items done, skipped 0, should have been 0 Finished. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mkaing apt-file do it's job

apt-cdrom: it looks like you'll do something like sudo apt-cdrom add to get the indexes recreated. Then apt-file update, like you did, then apt-file search. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rsync does not work

t to rsync to get verbose output. If that doesn't give you any hints, try doing rsync -v -e 'ssh -v' rather than just rsync -e ssh The 'ssh -v' argument will have ssh also spit out verbose information. Try that, see if you get any better results, and send us the ou

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

x27;s anxious > not to mess up his laptop. > > Anyone else noticed anything similar?? I've been using it under Ubuntu for months; I've had this problem you mention for a while now. I'm not sure what the latest status on it is; I'll ask on the Ubuntu list and see what they

Re: Help!

d on the machine. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help!

lows programmers the luxury of being lazy in their UI design. We should assume that people won't read the docs, and build our products with that assumption in mind. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help!

e-option prompt at their first screen: "I am a beginning user", "I am an intermediate user", or "I am an advanced user." Beginning users wouldn't have to type anything else, except their desired username and password. All other questions would get default answers.

Re: Help!

op on your machine. It's a tiny bit complicated to explain how to get a graphical desktop installed now that you've completed the installation. You'll need to install a number of Debian packages -- among them the gnome package -- but I don't know which ones to tell you offhand. I a

Re: using the 'find' program

am's Razor as we do, I think the simplest explanation consistent with the facts is 'the OP made a typo.' :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: using the 'find' program

> find . -type f -exec file '{}' \; > > which returns nothing. Again, if you please: copy from the command line into an email, including any errors you got. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

l want to use a separate filtering program, like procmail. Your ~/.procmailrc file would contain blocks like so: :0 * ^TO_.*debian-user debian-user which will take any message addressed (via the To:, Cc:, Bcc:, etc. fields) to debian-user and filter it into the debian-user folder. I hope th

Re: mass user property changes

ions on this that will, say, only change shells for certain users. But if changing every instance is what you want, that will do it and is probably the easiest way. The Perl route -- sudo perl -p -i -e 's{/bin/false}{/bin/passwd}g' /etc/passwd -- looks a little cleaner. -- Stephen R. La

Robots.txt for *all* virtual hosts?

Suppose I want every virtual host under Apache to reject particular robots. Is there any way to set up a robots.txt-equivalent that applies to all virtual hosts? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: wget -c 'problem'

nly ones that don't specify the image size. I suspect FTP is going to have a hard time working with the '-c' option, but that's just a guess. If you're using FTP, try to find an HTTP alternate to the image you're downloading. If you're not using FTP, then I'm ver

Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

ulnerabilities, which means keeping the number of extraneous programs to a minimum. If you can do without GNOME, it's probably best to do without GNOME. But if your users need it, then you should install it. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

and, I imagine most people get their computers from their manufacturers and don't modify them at all. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

ake the /dev/input/mice node to get X to start. But maybe it'll be possible once Breezy stabilizes. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

think about is essential for the end-user. I'm perfectly able to script such a thing, but the average user shouldn't be expected to do so. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian package containing header files?

-static-dev xoids xorg-driver-fglrx-dev xpcd xscavenger xsmc-calc xteddy xvier xvile xxgdb zblast-x11 zed -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Good GUI for essid selection?

e would be able to connect to it from then on. This would then be *more* usable than Windows, if I'm not mistaken. Is this sort of thing available? * - if this were Slashdot, this would immediately result in my post being rated a 1 or at most a 2. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Autoplay?

, then down to Preferences, then Removable Drives and Media. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Clean firefox cache commandline?

e no such command-line option, according to the Firefox man page. But if you're willing to accept a little command-line hack, you could try #!/bin/bash FFDIR=~/.mozilla/firefox find $FFDIR -depth -type d -name Cache -exec rm -R '{}' \; Not very tested, but it seems like it should do t

Web-based calendaring/project mgmt

ultant signs in through a web form and describes his meeting with a client, including the times he met with the client, what they talked about, whether the client needs followup, etc. That's a good start. Does any good free software for this purpose exist? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL P

Re: How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

EDITOR environment variable -- emacs or vim or nano or whatever. Caveat: if this job needs to run with root privileges, then you'll need to edit the global crontab in /etc/crontab. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/sla

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