amd

2002-04-25 Thread David Wright
I am using the amd automounter, or at least trying to, but I'm having a very hard time. I'm not trying to do anyting tricky. In the end, I essentailly just want to reproduce the following line from /etc/fstab: files.example.com:/home /home nfs ... master.example.com:/usr /usr nfs ..

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-25 Thread Paul Mackinney
Keith G. Murphy declaimed: > Mike Thompson wrote: > > > > at the end of /etc/exim/exim.conf write > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Ffr > > > > or similar. > > > Also, look at the really nice rewriting rule that is commented out at > the end of the default exim.conf provided i

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2002-04-25 Thread Joel
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Re: amd

2002-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david for doing "nothing fancy/tricky" with automounters... autofs is easier/simpler/faster than amd... - you can either (should) explicitly list ip# ... or you can use 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 for all 255 machines on that network lets say you wanna share your home dir

Re: amd

2002-04-25 Thread David Wright
Hi ya Alvin! :-) Thanks for the tip and the detailed instructions, but I'm afraid I'm in a situation where I'll have to use amd. The point of moving to an automounter is to have an automatic failover system, so that if an NFS server goes down, the clients will all automatically force-umount i

Re: amd

2002-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david i see... now ya cheating a little bit... nothing tricky eh ... as originally posted... yes..amd supports the syntax for failovers... autofs is supposed to be able to do so also in autofs-4 but i have not tested it autofs-4... ( dont know if it made it in ) vi /etc/auto.hom

Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now gone up to over 40 spam pieces a day and its a pain to keep adding conditions on each .forward on each account. Just to make clear, my particular desire to stop stuff from Korean and Taiwan is that I speak neither Kore

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want something free (speech) and works like Quark, try Scribus: > http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ There's a Debian package in unstable: $ apt-cache show scribus Package: scribus Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 2444 Maintainer: Wol

Help i need someboody..........

2002-04-25 Thread paja
I have 1 question 1. Why Debian use kernel 2.2 and 2. When can I download Woody Debian via ftp.. 3 And witch ftp server in Slovenia or Germany ... Thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Nik Engel
Hi ! I have installed a softraid (Level 5 ) on my Debian Sid Box running Kernel 2.4.17. Unfortunatly one disk seems to be faulty as the system is no longer able to sync with that disk. But i can after stopping the raid format the disk etc. which tools can i use to verify the state of the disk ?

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dude -- you are SO ready for the open relay database. you sound pretty harried. that's where i was a few months ago. not to sound overly dramatic, but www.ordb.org changed my life. also, i've been compiling a list of networks that send spam from asian countries like china and korea. when i get

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I wonder if anyone can help with these tests: > 1. I am on numerous Korean spam lists. So I want to exclude all email > with Korean charsets. How do I set $h_Content-Type: contains > "ks_c_5601-1987" to score 20? ... These Asian spam

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Ross
patrick wrote: > > I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now > gone up to over 40 spam pieces a day and its a pain to keep adding > conditions on each .forward on each account. > Why don't you look into http://www.spambouncer.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Help i need someboody..........

2002-04-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:25:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 1 question Looks like you have 3 questions :) > 1. Why Debian use kernel 2.2 and Because that was only available stable kernel at the time of potato (r2.2) release. You can choose to use 2.0 series too. > 2. When c

Re: Running into a brick wall with gconfd on NFS

2002-04-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 22:48, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm having trouble running gconfd{-1,-2} on a Debian (testing) system with > /home mounted via NFS from a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE server. Whenever I try to > start the daemon, I always get: > > Apr 22 10:38:40 pooh gconfd (jennifer-8327): starting

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nik assuming you have 4 out of 5 disks still working as sw raid5 or 3 out of 4 still working... you can rebuild your raid... if you have 2 dead disks... your entire raid is shot... unless you wanna go diggin into more funky recovery tools ( manually doing what e2fsck does automatic

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Nik Engel
Hi Alvin! > if you do have your raid intact... and just a dead disk > than you can take that disk out and add a new one > > -- if you were manually able to recreate /dev/md0 > -- backup all your data now to some other disks > -- on your lan > > -- than cont

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Hi, Please note that with some disks, formatting may not do anything, or do very little. I was dismayed to buy a 40 MB IDE drive recently and then download the formatting utility, only to find that it formatted in under 5 seconds. What I suggest you do is find some software that will do a ba

Re: [OT] DFSG-free DVD writing software

2002-04-25 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 06:54, csj wrote: > I've noticed that the price of DVD writers and media are starting to > fall. I'm wondering if Linux and other free OS are ready for the > transition to this more ample optical storage medium. There appears to > be a lack of DFSG-free software that can write

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now > gone up to over 40 spam pieces a day and its a pain to keep adding > conditions on each .forward on each account. > > Just to make clear, my particular desire to

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nik if you think the hard disk is still working... you can confirm it by: a) check for any hda problems in /var/log/* replace hda with the suspect drive that is claimed to be bad by the raid5 sw -you'd have some checking/gambling to do to see if you have a

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:17:00PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > > packages have already been configured. > > I just stumbled across dpkg-reconfigure (a mention of > dpkg-reconfigu

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:14:32AM +0100, My Personal Mail wrote: >Hi all, My question was a little verbose so here it is in short form: I want to add to the default set of Spamassassin tests. Does anyone have an example of for example, blocking al email from someone called 'esavings'? Procmai

Web logfile analyzer?

2002-04-25 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'd like a recommendation for a web server logfile analyzer. My web hosting service uses apache. I've used analog on Windows (where it's pretty hard to use) but I understand it runs on Linux too so maybe you can tell me how to do what I want with it. Analog is complex to configure and some ex

USB-Scannner CanoScan N1240U

2002-04-25 Thread thomas marquart
hello, I try to get the above scanner-model working on my woody box. USB and the scanner kernel-module work fine, but I cannot find a backend for sane that supports it. any help/suggestion is very welcome thomas -- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Paul Gauguin (S

Re: CD for temporary Debian Installations.

2002-04-25 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Rodrego Alverez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use Debian on my own PC, but am also obliged to move round and use > other PCs at work where I can not install Linux to other people's > harddisk. I can use use whatever I want while working on these > machines though. So what I need is a boot CD

Re: External USB hard disks?

2002-04-25 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Do you have a preferred firewire card? When I asked a similar question, Michael D. Crawford helpfully replied: > I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, > but this page may help you: > > http://linux1394.sourceforg

Re: Web logfile analyzer?

2002-04-25 Thread Quenten Griffith
I use awstats I think its in Woody, or you can go to awstats.sourceforge.net "Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > I'd like a recommendation for a web server logfile analyzer. My web hosting > service uses apache. > > I've used analog on Windows (where it's pretty hard to use) but I understand > it >

kernel patches

2002-04-25 Thread Richard Kimber
I am reading up about Debian prior to installing 3.0 when it comes out. (I'm moving over from Mandrake). I'd be grateful if someone could point me to a document that explains the nature of the kernel that is installed in the first instance and which patches have been applied. I'd like to work out

vim :help error?

2002-04-25 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i cant get :help to work in vim. i get this error: "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue how do i fix this?

dns web configurator

2002-04-25 Thread Francois Chenais
I'm looking for a web dns configurator. François -- Woody 3.0 Linux tanna 2.4.14 #3 SMP Thu Dec 6 14:04:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External USB hard disks?

2002-04-25 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:45, Norman Walsh wrote: > Supposing I pony up the cash and buy myself the 160Gb external > Firewire drive and get it all working, what's the collective opinion > on filesystems for it? One great big EXT2 partition? A few somewhat > smaller ones? One of the journaling filesy

Re: wie 'mutt' ich das machen? :)

2002-04-25 Thread Kristian Rink
> Moin, > >einen zugehörigen Ablagefolder stopfen - wie kann ich mutt die Frage, ob > >dies auch wirklich getan werden soll, abgewöhnen? > unset move > >und dabei die "Öffne Mailbox ..." - Frage, die derzeit kommt, zu umgehen? > Klar, schreib ein Makro. Ohne Test: > macro index '' > Hallo,..

Re: Running into a brick wall with gconfd on NFS

2002-04-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:53:25 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > The main issue is that the NFS lock daemon (lockd) is not running on > both the client and the server. Check that they are. Indeed. And should the server for some reason no be able to run a lockd, you can always use "-o nolock" on the c

Re: vim :help error?

2002-04-25 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 25 April 2002 06:00 am, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i cant get :help to work in vim. > > i get this error: > > "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C > Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": I believe this is the same problem I ran into not long ago. If

Re: Diald configure problems

2002-04-25 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi Still having hassles with diald: dpkg -i diald_0.99.4-5_i386.deb (Reading database ... 22341 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diald 0.99.4-5 (using diald_0.99.4-5_i386.deb) ... Stopping diald: fifo-removed diald. Unpacking replacement diald ... Setting up diald

Re: "mirror"

2002-04-25 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:23:27PM +1000, John Habermann wrote: > You can just copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archive the > /var/cache/apt/archive of the minimal machine [...] > I have had a look at apt-proxy and will Or, you can set up apt-proxy first, and use apt-proxy-import to put the c

Re: vim :help error?

2002-04-25 Thread maasha
if i remove my .vimrc an tries it goes: "help.txt.gz" [readonly][Incomplete last line] 8 lines, 3051 characters E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue ? martin On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:25:22AM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 06:00 am, Martin A

docbook: xml -> (x)html conversion

2002-04-25 Thread Johann Spies
I am learning docbook and try to build a html file from xml using a dtd from the package docbook-website. I find it ironic that it is easier for me to get a good html-file using as a framework and converting it using "jw" than The docbook-website package provides this "website.dtd" b

Re: Repartitioning/Reinstalling

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Johnson
> > In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without > reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the > backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full > one, before you embark on making major changes to your system. > > Good luck!

Re: Web logfile analyzer?

2002-04-25 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Hello, I'm using webalizer. It's quite easy to configure and gives useful stats. Hope it helps, Daniel On Donnerstag, April 25, 2002, at 12:47 Uhr, Quenten Griffith wrote: I use awstats I think its in Woody, or you can go to awstats.sourceforge.net "Michael D. Crawford" wrote: I'd like a

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: resource temporarily unavailable

2002-04-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, Alexis Georges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey > yesterday i wrote a message in which i explained that my ethernet > connection did not work in debian (it wont configure automatically ) > even though it has worked before when i installed int a while > ago..today someone told

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:50:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: >On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: >> I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now >.procmailrc now because it's faster): > >header BROKEN_KOREAN_CHARSETContent-Type =~ /charset="

Debian installation hangs

2002-04-25 Thread wreck diver
Anyone seen this problem. My system: CPU: AMD - Athalon Linux Dist: Mandrake 8.1 Keyboard: keytronic PS/2 connector to PC I want to remplace Mandrake with Debian. This dist I have is 2.2 r5. I'll do the apt-upgrade to after. I put the Debian ISO image (the disk are good I installed the dist on

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > I have a 1.5 Gbyte disk partitioned into 2 DOS drives, one 900 Mbyte > (Windows), and the other 600 Mbyte. I want to use the 600 Mbyte for Linux. > Using cfdisk in dbootstrap I configure two primary partitions in this drive, > a Linux swap and a Linux nat

Re: Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > Then it would only make sense to start with a program that a lot of people > already like and whose source is available (like LaTeX), and change it so it > can do everything you want it to accomplish. Maybe give a Gui and call it > GooeyLaTex. :) A GUI

Sid and tetex:format file error

2002-04-25 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I upgraded two days ago a sid distribution which was working fine, but now I don't seem to be able to run latex. The format files are there, but when I type latex test.tex, I get Fatal format file error; I'm stymied. I get the same thing when I type tex -fmt latex test.tex I get the same with pd

Re: dns web configurator

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Francois Chenais quotation: > I'm looking for a web dns configurator. STFW. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=dns+config§ion=projects -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmah

dpkg-builpackage

2002-04-25 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I want to install enlightenment from CVS tree on my debian woody. There is debian directory in each package. I want to install the packages in /opt/E instead of /usr. Can I change this option using dpkg-builpackage ? Do I use the good dpk commande

Downgrade ...

2002-04-25 Thread STOJICEVIC Edi EXPSIA
Hi, I would like to "downgrade" my Sid to Woody but I dont know how to do it exactly... I know that we can "force" apt to upgrade with one version (stable/testing/unstable) but I dont remember what file I need to configure ? Also I didnt do an apt-get update since 2 weeks ago ... What will happen

Re: fn keys in FX270

2002-04-25 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:57, David Poisson wrote: > Hi Mark, > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I just went in console and I didn't get any error messages in the > kernel. Although, when I hit FN+F5, I did get a list of FN functions > that are supported by the laptop and my cdrom did ej

can't get user list from Samba as PDC

2002-04-25 Thread Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
Hello everybody, I'm trying to set up a Samba as a PDC for my Microsoft net. My clients are able to logon, change passwords and access the shares on the server. The problem is that my clients can't share directories using the option "user secure list": I got a message: "You cannot view the user

can't get user list from Samba as PDC

2002-04-25 Thread Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
Hello everybody, I'm trying to set up a Samba as a PDC for my Microsoft net. My clients are able to logon, change passwords and access the shares on the server. The problem is that my clients can't share directories using the option "user secure list": I got a message: "You cannot view the user

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

2002-04-25 Thread Michel Verdier
Nik Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > as i am able to format "dead" disk under the running os -> is there a > way try to sync manually ? or how can i check the dead disk, if it is > really dead ? Have you tried badblocks ? -- Michel Verdier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Emacs vs. Vim (Re: vim :help error?)

2002-04-25 Thread craigw
On Thu Apr 25, 2002 at 06:25:22AM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 06:00 am, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > > i cant get :help to work in vim. > > > > i get this error: > > > > "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C > > Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands fo

Re: Downgrade ...

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i seem to recall someone saying on this list that it's not possible to downgrade, but that doesn't sound right to me. change unstable to testing in /etc/apt/sources.list (or sid to woody), do a "dselect update". then do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". apt will print out what it thinks you want it to

Firebird hangs on install (Re: Call for testers FireBird 1.0)

2002-04-25 Thread Bob Thibodeau
Here's what I see: porter:~# dpkg -i ~tibbs/Downloads/firebird-s64-server_1.0.0-3_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package firebird-s64-server. (Reading database ... 100272 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firebird-s64-server (from .../firebird-s64-server_1.0.0-3_i386

Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread DSC Siltec
I have a bit of a problem: I just installed Woody on a dual-boot box, got KDE and all up and running, and very soon found that I was losing my connection. I inquired as to why, and I was told I was being cut off because my computer was scan-attacking the ISP proxy server. One scan attack att

XFS filesytem for debian LINUX

2002-04-25 Thread dkotian3
Hi, I would like to install xfs filesystem on debian LINUX. Where could one I find the downloadable version xfs filesystem for debian. I checked the site http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ for download. But none of the download site seems to be operational, gives a message "page

Re: dns web configurator

2002-04-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> I'm looking for a web dns configurator. > > François I assume you mean you are looking for a web front end for DNS servers on Debian. In which case I can highly recommend Webmin. Which is useful for LOTS of things, not just configuring your DNS servers. Andrew "I do not agree

Re: Diald configure problems

2002-04-25 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Still having hassles with diald: dpkg -i diald_0.99.4-5_i386.deb (Reading database ... 22341 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diald 0.99.4-5 (using diald_0.99.4-5_i386.deb) ... Stopping diald: fifo-removed diald. Unpa

kdm [] XFree86 [XF86Config-4]

2002-04-25 Thread Davi Leal
Hi all, Is it possible run a kdm on Atl+F7 and another on Alt+Fn?. Any pointer to how do it?. The idea is to use the same monitor, keyboard and mouse on Alt+F7 to one user and on Alt+Fn to another user, but not at the same time. Note that if I move the mouse only the console which is on the monit

Re: Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread afj
to the best of my knowledge the services you mentioned are almost all passive. even those like htdig shouldn't generate this sort of behaviour. there are many others which could : nmap, amap, pnscan to name a few - Original Message - From: "DSC Siltec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thurs

replacement for ical?

2002-04-25 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. Just upgraded one of our users from 2.1 to 3.0, and found out afterwards that he uses ical to keep track of his schedule but there's no ical in the latest version. I've also tried to compile it (ical source version 2.2) but the compile dies with tcl errors. Is there something in woody th

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:32:32PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > > > packages have already been configured. > > > > I just s

Re: XFS filesytem for debian LINUX

2002-04-25 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > >I would like to install xfs filesystem on debian LINUX. > >Where could one I find the downloadable version > >xfs filesystem for debian. > >I checked the site http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ for download. >

sendmail half-works

2002-04-25 Thread dman
We've got 2 debian servers at work now! One of them needs to serve email, and since the admin comes from RH we installed sendmail and linuxconf. However, sendmail isn't working correctly. Sendmail properly listens on port 25 and will deliver mail, but it can only receive local mail from root.

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:32:32PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > > > Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the > > > > pac

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Peter Ross quotation: > Why don't you look into http://www.spambouncer.org/ Why? Spamassassin, in my experience, is vastly more accurate and effective than SpamBouncer. I used SpamBouncer for several months up until March 2002. I could never get it to block even almost all spam without al

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > ahh. it looks like fileutils owns /bin/ls!:) > > > > If I were worried about configuring the contents of > > /bin/ls, I'd be set. :) > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/network/interfaces > > dpkg: /etc/network/interfaces not foun

install debian 2.2.x on ciryx166Mhz 32 MRam EDO???

2002-04-25 Thread bernard bertrand
Hello, I want install debian 2.2.1.3 on old computer mother board asus with Ciryx 166Mhz and 32MRam EDO. Perhaps this 32MRam EDO is not sufficient for this debian Help me please? __ Envoyez des messages musicaux sur le portable de vos amis ht

Re: dpkg-builpackage

2002-04-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Apr-2002 Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > I want to install enlightenment from CVS tree on my debian woody. > There is debian directory in each package. > > I want to install the packages in /opt/E instead of /usr. > Can I change this option using dpkg-builpack

Re: bf-2.4 kernel package?

2002-04-25 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:56, Scott Henson wrote: > I dont think there is a bf-2.4 kernel package on my system. Even though > I have files and such on my system relating to that kernel, there is no > package for it. I would like to remove it cause it is clutering up my > boot directory and taking

alpha-release of a bug-report & some questions

2002-04-25 Thread Piotr Sawuk
the installation was quite flawlessly, except that I found no instructions on how to download the whole thing with dap (download accelerator) in windows (which would have been a lot faster than apt-get) and configure sources.list to accept that download as a valid mirror. anyway, I configured sourc

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > ahh. it looks like fileutils owns /bin/ls!:) > > > > > > If I were worried about configuring the contents of > > > /bin/ls, I'd be set. :) > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/netw

Re: vim :help error?

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:00:04PM +0200, Martin A. Hansen wrote: | hi | | i cant get :help to work in vim. | | i get this error: | | "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C | Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": | E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off | E4

Re: replacement for ical?

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael Jinks quotation: > > Is there something in woody that will read ical data files, or, has > anybody managed to get ical to build on woody? STFW: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/223/2001/3/0/5458561/ -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:26:13AM -0500, dman wrote: | As a regular user : | $ echo "hi" | /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | collect: Cannot write ./dfg3PGCNaY004221 (bfcommit, uid=1048, gid=101): Permission denied | When a regular user tries to send a message, the file given in

Re: Howto turn off the mic at bootup

2002-04-25 Thread Willy Sutrisno
* Ren? Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Have a look at /etc/init.d/aumix. I believe there is a way to save the > sound settings and restore them at boot. Do u mean that I should put the aumix prog into /etc/init.d/ > Otherwise install setmixer. I have look through dselect, but could not find

Re: install debian 2.2.x on ciryx166Mhz 32 MRam EDO???

2002-04-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:49:00 GMT+1 "bernard bertrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want install debian 2.2.1.3 > on old computer mother board asus with > Ciryx 166Mhz and 32MRam EDO. > Perhaps this 32MRam EDO is not sufficient > for this debian That would really depend on what you mean by "

Re: install debian 2.2.x on ciryx166Mhz 32 MRam EDO???

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:49:00PM +, bernard bertrand wrote: | Hello, | | I want install debian 2.2.1.3 | on old computer mother board asus with | Ciryx 166Mhz and 32MRam EDO. | Perhaps this 32MRam EDO is not sufficient | for this debian | Help me please? No problem. I've got debian on

Re: XFS filesytem for debian LINUX

2002-04-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Greg C. Madden wrote on Thu Apr 25, 2002 um 08:14:15AM: > I did a google search on 'Debian xfs' and got the following. I have used > the 'rescue/bootdisk' bootbf2.4-xfs... works fine for a net install or > if you have local packages of Woody. I tried and failed to do an xfs > kernel from

Re: replacement for ical?

2002-04-25 Thread Jerome Lacoste \(Work\)
searched ical in packages.debian.org Found this "Current users of the popular program ical should definitely take a look at KOrganizer and compare features." I don't know if it can help. Perhaps it can import the ical files? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? Bingo. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wro

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:30:28AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > that seems to indicate that these files aren't owned by any package. > > > something like /etc/hostname is no more owned by a package than, say, > > > /etc is. > > > > I assumed that they were put there by the "configure" st

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Do you use exim? Some of this stuff can be done at that level. In /etc/exim/exim.conf include something like this (may need to be adjusted for version 3.x) : system_filter = /etc/exim/system.filter system_filter_user = nobody

RE: vchkpw debian help request

2002-04-25 Thread justin cunningham
Pursuant I choose option 1 how do I tell dpkg to leave vpopmail alone? Thanks for the reply, justin -Original Message- From: Angus D Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:32 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: vchkpw debian help request justin cu

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin dman quotation: | > | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? | | Bingo. Ok, so should /usr/sbin/sendmail be suid root? (I'm not sure because sendmail is much more complex than exim is and has many more pieces) If

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Ok, so should /usr/sbin/sendmail be suid root? (I'm not sure because > sendmail is much more complex than exim is and has many more pieces) Yes. > If so, why wasn't it that way already? Does the package come with it > suid and linuxconf screwed it up, or is the packa

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Richard A Nelson quotation: > > > | Bingo. > > Bzzt. wrong for sendmail >= 8.12.0 ! Oops. Glad to hear that. That will cure a lot of ills. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it A

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
> | 3. How can I blacklist specific names? For example, esavingszone send > | me two messages every day and I want them automatically blocked. But > | they use differing domain nemaes so I want to block > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and every other > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > how about

Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?

2002-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
> > > I am planning on shipping Linux boxen with Debian preinstalled. > > > > > > When the customer unpacks the box and fires it up, what is the > > > best way to allow him to reconfigure the sorts of things that > > > one normally configures as part of an install: > > > > > > * Hostname This is

networking under 2.4.18

2002-04-25 Thread David Smead
Going from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 hosed networking. % ./networking start Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter Configuring network interface: SIOCSIFADD: No such device eth0: ERROR: while getting interface flags: No such device And it goes on with more errors. What config files do I need t

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:36:10AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: | > | 3. How can I blacklist specific names? For example, esavingszone send | > | me two messages every day and I want them automatically blocked. But | > | they use differing domain nemaes so I want to block | > | [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: networking under 2.4.18

2002-04-25 Thread Quenten Griffith
Sounds like your network modules didn't get loaded into the new kerenel what type of card are you using? David Smead wrote: Going from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 hosed networking. % ./networking start Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter Configuring network interface: SIOCSIFADD: No such dev

Re: amd

2002-04-25 Thread David Wright
> i see... now ya cheating a little bit... > nothing tricky eh ... as originally posted... I apologize for being misleading. I was having trouble getting amd to do even the simple stuff, so I started with that. Turns out the failover configuraion is easy, once you're over the initial hurdle. > a

imapd-ssl

2002-04-25 Thread aldous
Hi, i've apt-getted uw-imapd-ssl (woody), and it seemed to run just fine. I was able to connect from machines in my local network. Then I changed the hostname of that machine, and i think this was the moment when it started to refuse connections. However, i thought removing and regenerating th

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:20:31PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: | On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, dman wrote: | > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | > | begin dman quotation: | > | > | > | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? | > | | > | Bingo. | | Bzzt. wrong for

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Glyn Millington
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/examples/ Great!! Many thanks for this - good stuff. Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/ For the children http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-j

Re: Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread DSC Siltec
afj wrote: > > to the best of my knowledge the services you mentioned are almost all > passive. > even those like htdig shouldn't generate this sort of behaviour. > > there are many others which could : nmap, amap, pnscan to name a few Okay, here's the kicker question: How can I, as a newbie,

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