Re: is there a nice frontend to procmail for creating some recipes?

2002-02-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
There is dot-procmail. I don't know if that's simple enough though... :-) --On Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:54:31 -0500 Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am thinking of some console or gui driven tool that could create some recipes by asking the user some simple questions? -walter

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-12 Thread Stuart Krivis
--On Saturday, January 12, 2002 13:03:27 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: LDS indicates /etc/{init,rc}.d, so RH is coming around to the standard. Mind you, when I try explaining this to my RH friends, there's generally strong resistence to the concept that Dweebian might have got this one ri

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-10 Thread Stuart Krivis
--On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]: Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps? only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are really func

Re: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config-4 don't work

2001-12-23 Thread Stuart Krivis
I ran across this one during an upgrade from potato to woody the other day. I wondered why fonts looked so horrible all of a sudden and I thought maybe xfs wasn't running. A closer look at things showed that xfs-xtt was running on 7110 and X was expecting xfs on 7100. A quick change to the confi

Re: Critical: ssh-nonfree IS exploited

2001-11-11 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 09:54 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Bernd Eckenfels wrote: just a small information, I have at least 2 confirmed reports about Hacked Debian Boxes. All of them are hacked by exploiting the old nonfree-ssh and installing a rootkit. Fortunatelly the roo

Re: So: reiserfs or ext3 (was Re: ext3 to be in 2.4.15!)

2001-11-11 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 05:03 PM, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:16:54PM -0500, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So, unlike what I read in ReiserFS, I can just hang out on this for a while and then upgrade at my leisure? This is so totally cool Is the

Re: PDAs

2001-06-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
--On Thursday, June 14, 2001 08:37:48 +0100 Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are currently no utilities for syncing with Linux but you can There's something called psilin that's supposed to sync, but the docs are in French, so I haven't tried it yet.

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-27 Thread Stuart Krivis
I found that Mandrake offers an rpm of drivers for CUPS that works rather well on Debian too. The quality of the drivers varies from printer to printer. An HP 8000 was supported very well, while a Lexmark Rn+ showed poor results. I went back to lprng and magicfilter, but I generally only prin

Re: Pakiety Debiana

2001-05-15 Thread Stuart Krivis
alien helps to convert from rpm to deb man alien or apt-get install alien if man alien doesn't produce results... On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:30:02AM +0200, mec wrote: > Cze¶æ > U¿ywam na swoim komputerze RH ale chcia³bym dowiedzieæ siê du¿o na temat > pakietów Debiana lub co¶ w stylu porównani

Re: woody release date

2001-05-13 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many times freezes have to be res

Re: Woody: Can't start X as regular user

2000-12-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +, sena wrote: > > When anyone but root tries to run 'startx', I get the following error: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > Of course, users can still use X via [xg]dm. > Yadda, yadda... > > > I didn't see anything about this in t

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-08 Thread Stuart Krivis
re the flaws, and suggested how it could have been done better. The editor thanked me and said that my comments were being forwarded to the author. (I got the impression that other people submitted comments that went into a blackhole because they were abusive.) -- Stuart Krivis

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-04 Thread Stuart Krivis
The other suggestions for various file viewers are good too. I think I'd have to say that midnight commander is my choice. It is a very useful utility. -- Stuart Krivis

Re: Complex passwords

1998-06-14 Thread Stuart Krivis
null password! I don't know of any way to force passwd to do this. But, there are a number of password generators around. I use one written in expect. Maybe you can just make it a policy that the generator has to be used. We used to have fun with passwords... things like b0ne.hEad or Uf0o

Re: Windows Managers

1998-06-12 Thread Stuart Krivis
onal, plus it is good-looking. Stability seems to be good too. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: telnetting to a host behind ip_masq

1998-06-10 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > > Is it possible to telnet directly to a host behind ip_masq? -- Something > like connecting to a different hostname at the same ip, and acting as a > different computer. -- Apache does this

Re: Xwindow from win95?

1998-06-05 Thread Stuart Krivis
would run for 2 hours at a time and would only allow > one use at a time per network. Check out http://www.starnet.com/ The best one I've seen is eXceed from Hummingbird. It works quite well. Under NT you can get OpenNT with an X server. That works nicely too. -- Stuart Krivis[EM

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread Stuart Krivis
etty stable. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Few Questions

1998-05-17 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? Just checked and the -k flag seems to be the default under linux - at least in RH5. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Few Questions

1998-05-17 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? df df -k for a more readable output. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -I- where? is source for sshd?

1998-05-05 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > find the source for sshd. Can someone please tell me the main ftp site where > sshd is located? Thanks in advance. ftp.cs.hut.fi when you install it, it will include ssh and sshd -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-27 Thread Stuart Krivis
attempts have failed miserably - possibly > user-related, but non-the-less) I never had much luck with that either. I did switch to RedHat 5 since there are several commercial applications that are packaged in rpm format and alien choked on them. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
The shortcomings of rpm are why I am looking into debian. Upgrading a Redhat-based system is a mess. Dselect makes it an easy process. I suspect I'll keep using Caldera and just try to learn as much as I can so I can move to debian eventually. I can see that debian will allow me more room

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
work and that's not my idea of fun. :-) I suppose I should really learn more about the system, but I'd rather not have to dive in right away. So now I guess we're at the point of arguing about making things easy for the user versus the user learning how to use the system. Shoul

new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread Stuart Krivis
-X and debian? I'd basically like to run a debian system, yet use selected pieces from Caldera. Can anyone offer any tips on how best to do this? Thanks in advance. Stuart -- Stuart Krivis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Team OS/2] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .