Re: clustering outgoing SMTP servers

On Oct 20, 09:05, Steven Jones wrote: > I would like to cluster 2 servers to share the load of outgoing email. > > Not detail so much as the principles to give me something robust. I don't do stuff like this anymore since giving up stock options and start ups for community colleges and group hugs

Re: USE flags ??

On Oct 21, 09:56, Paul Johnson wrote: > WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a possibility to use "USE FLAGS" like in gentoo ? > > No. We're not ricers. http://www.funro

Re: USE flags ??

On Oct 26, 10:17, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > During the early days of the Debian project, the members then did > consider going source-based: provide the upstream source and a > debianized patch after which the users would compile it themselves.But > later on they did realize that a binary distr

Re: USE flags ??

On Oct 25, 11:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Oct 21, 09:56, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> WARNING: Unsanitized content foll

Reusing .debs

Hi, Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? -- Peace Jim :-) keys: http://freesolutions.net/jim/pubkey.asc If you can piss in it it's craft, if you can piss on it, it's art. --Thor Froslov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Reusing .debs Solved apt-move

On Nov 13, 12:21, Jim Bailey wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the > /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? > Bad form to answer my own question but the answer for me seems to be no there is however a very good tool called apt-mov

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

On Jul 28, 04:55, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello! > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:44:49AM -0500, Scott Thompson wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a > > version for Debian. > > Please see >

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

On Jul 28, 07:23, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 06:14 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Though to be honest I use > > > Gentoo live CD because of > > > its EVMS package to carve up scsi

Re: dselect disorientation

On Aug 07, 09:32, Dieter wrote: > I lost the orientation with dselect.-( Can anyone tell how to get it > back?-) I think I made somathing wrong but I don't know what. > I don't understand why there are so many packages to be removed and > downgraded. > Is there a good way to get a "clean" status ba

Re: Bogus reply-to

On Aug 08, 11:22, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-08-09, Tim Connors penned: > > > > What I am saying, is all of these discussion lists have differnt > > policies. It's kind of silly expecting people to remember which > > policy belongs to which list, and blasting people when they get it > > wr

Re: Bogus reply-to

On Aug 09, 11:16, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-08-09, Jim Bailey penned: > > > > I use mutt, if I press 'r' to reply I get offered the following > > address > > > > Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([yes]/no): > > > > If I refuse I get off

Re: Old friend gone awry :-)

On May 27, 08:45, David Baron wrote: > A few years back, I used to run SETI at home on my Windows machine. This is > the first of but a few attempts at distributed computing at its utmost. Never > had any problems with it--when I needed the CPU more intensively, I shut down > the SETI. > > So,

Zope/zwiki install problems

Hi, I am trying to configure and run zope and the zwiki module for on a mixed Debian stable/testing box but the zope httpd doesn't start on the default port 9673. I selected the setup as per debconf and a perusal of the docs shows nothing obviously amiss. the zope log says the system has started

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Jun 19, 12:29, Jason Lim wrote: > Certainly avoid ALL country block lists, and block lists that include > large chunks of IPs. This may include SPEWS and SBL. They are okay in a > weighting system (such as with Spamassassin) but not good if you're using > them to block outright (especially Spews

Re: Debian Update

On Aug 13, 01:54, Rus Foster wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Victory wrote: > > >Can anyone tell me how to update all the packages and patches ? > >I installed Debian 3.0r1 and want to update up today patches. > > > >Regards > >Victor, > > > > > > apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > > That will do

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

On Aug 14, 10:09, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:55:00PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > > I just don't understand where you people come from. I've been > > installing Linux since SLS (ca '93), and I've never thought Debian's > > installer was anywhere near as bad as some of you peopl

mirrorservice.org not mirros.ac.uk

I am not too sure if this is a bug or not but, http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US shows: ftp://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ Currently this is correct but possibly not for long since this stopped be

200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

Hi all, I am trying to find information on whether large external firewire drives are effected by the various bios limitations on older hardware. Google is not turning up much and I would be appreciative of any pointers to docs and articles people may know about. Peace Jim -- keys: http://free

Re: 200GB firewire drives and bios drive size limits

On Aug 20, 10:46, John Summerfield wrote: > Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > >Well, I didn't tried it myself, but I guess a machine which is recent > >enough to support firewire should be modern enough to support large > >drives. > > > > > > Nothing prevents you from getting a firewire 800 card and

Re: query about logrotate

On Aug 20, 09:27, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:10:16 +0200, vivek misra escreveu: > > > hi sir, > > Not only old men here??? > > > > acctually I am making a log rotate for log files and ionly want that > > all data except last six days are remove

Multiple users and multiple languages

Hi people, I realise this is a FAQ but I don't seem to be able to find it in the FAQs or Debian docs. My problem is simple I have to set up a desktop PC which will be used by a number of non English speakers of several nationalities and languages. RTFM most appreciated but where? Peace Jim --