Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread John Cichy
This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based system, you download the RPM and attempt to install it, only to find out you need another RPM (actually a lib from another RPM) you search for the required RPM and download it and attempt the install, only to find out you need a

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-21 Thread John Cichy
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:20, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On 20 Nov 2003 10:16:05 -0500, > John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based > > system, you downlo

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:02, benfoley wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:00 am, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > > At 16:01 31/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > >Chris Mueller wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >>7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - > > >>all of them from linux-mailinglists. > >

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:15, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote: > > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to > > concentrate on security from now on... > > Do you honestly believe it's more

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-01 Thread John Cichy
Victor, IMHO (and this might get me flamed), 3com. I have tried a lot of other cards and I have found that 3com's are well supported (by both linux and doze) and just seem to keep running. 3com's are usually more expensive then the others, but I feel the extra cost is worth having less aggravat

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-01 Thread John Cichy
or above. > > What are peoples experiences with switches ? For the office where the co. > pays, I would have to recommend cisco for the same reasons. But for the > soho or home network, cisco is not cost feasible. How well do small > switches scale ? How many devices/traffic to saturat

praise to the debian gods

2002-02-05 Thread John Cichy
Well, after spending Sat, Sun and most of Mon trying to get Mandrake to install on a K6/3 with 'no joy' (could not make it past package selection), I tried to install debian (woody), IT WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY!! My reasons for trying Mandrake were two fold: 1) I run MySQL as my database server

Re: Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (waspraise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread John Cichy
I want to thank everyone for their thoughts on journaling file systems. Sorry for posting and not answering until now, but you all gave me a lot to review!! Have a great day... John

Sendmail access.db

2002-02-09 Thread John Cichy
Hello, I'm at it again. I am currently trying to convert my mailserver to debian(woody). All works except using the access.db to decide who can RELAY. During installation and setup with dselect no mention of the access file or access.db is made. Can someone help me to turn this switch on? TIA

Re: Sendmail access.db

2002-02-09 Thread John Cichy
Thanks for the response, but when I put this in the sendmail.mc and run either make or sendmailconfig it gives the following error: ***WARNING: Missing -T in argument of FEATURE(`access_db', hash -o /etc/mail/access) It does accept the mail for delivery, but does anyone know what this warning

dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
Hello all, It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. Does

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 ?s 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it'

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 17:43, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 13:50, John Cichy escreveu: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my h

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43:25PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 18:42, John Cichy wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:43

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:04, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osam

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:34, Thomas Cook wrote: > John Cichy wrote: > > [snip!] > > This has caused enough confusion! Why do you _need_ to use the symbolic > name for the mirror??? Why not just use the IP address in > sources.list? Like this: > > deb ftp://192.

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 19:04, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:42, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:40, Michel Loos wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2002-02-11 às 21:19, John Cichy escreveu: > > > > On Monday 11 February 2002 18:15, Osam

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-11 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 11 February 2002 21:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entr

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-12 Thread John Cichy
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:43, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 00:29, John Cichy escreveu: > > On Monday 11 February 2002 21:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > >

Re: dselect and resolving

2002-02-12 Thread John Cichy
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:35, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 00:32, Richard Cobbe escreveu: > > Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > I have potato on a 486SX, 25MHz, 300MB hard drive, 8MB RAM. It tends > > to drag because it swaps a lot, but otherwise is fully functional. I > > had it masquerading the dial-up connection with no problems. The > > reason I don't

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
your internal net is not exposed to the > internet and all is ok :- > > > - Original Message - > From: "John Cichy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:35 PM > Subject: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) > >

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
Yes this clears it up, I'm not using ppp (or pptp) so I forgot all about it being considered an interface. apt-get upgrade brain :) John On Thursday 14 February 2002 13:31, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On 2002.02.14 17:35:55 +0100 John Cichy wrote: > > On Thursday 14 Febru

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 14:48, dman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > ... > > I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch > in my case) wasn't the Right Way. > > | The 486 that connects to the internet also does the masque

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
On Thursday 14 February 2002 15:23, Game Wizard wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a question for all of you. I need to setup a service that uses > antivirus on linux to scan incoming mail (ie POP3). I already tried > TrendMicro viruswall, and now d/l sophos. Are there any other good (and > relatively che

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread John Cichy
Actually a switch first broadcasts a request and see's 'who' answers, then the next time a request for the same ip is made, it directs the request to the previously answered port. Some switches can divide to subnets as extra functionality (generally more expensive) but to be a switch, it does no

Re: ppp problems with strange log diagnostics

2002-02-16 Thread John Cichy
On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:51, Laurent EVAIN wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:21:52PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen > > patiently answered: > > [ snip...] > > === > > All of these errors seem to point towards an unreliable modem > > connection. Perhaps you have noise on the phone line? > > > > C

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread John Cichy
You might want to take a look in the bios settings, usally the advanced settings, I know some IBM systems offer a way to allow you to boot without kbd/monitor (I have 4 that allow this). John On Saturday 16 February 2002 23:06, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya Mike > > to boot w/o kb is tricky mou

Re: OT: kvm alternatives? (was: booting with no keyboard or moue)

2002-02-17 Thread John Cichy
You might look on ebay or something like that, I was lucky, a friend decided he was going to upgrade his and gave me a 6 port KVM. To help you find one here is the info: BELKIN Omni View (model F1D065) This is an AT/Serial type KVM but adaptors can be purchased for a couple of dollars to plug

Re: a way to limit the MB used for a MYSQL database?

2002-03-04 Thread John Cichy
This question comes up on the mysql list, and one suggestion is to use quotas (user/group) or make disk partitions of the size of your limit. The problem here is if the disk fills up, access to the tables will be limited or not at all. 'Monty' suggests a patch that can be applied to mysql to ret

Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?

2002-03-06 Thread John Cichy
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:19, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:30, csj wrote: > > On 05 Mar 2002 22:38:57 -0500 > > > > Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:33, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > > > So, can I get myself a Radeon card? > > > > > > Yes y

Re: XFree86 4.1.x ATI Radeon support?

2002-03-06 Thread John Cichy
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 17:57, Scott Henson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 15:34, John Cichy wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:19, Scott Henson wrote: > > 4.1 did say that it has full support for radeon (the reason I purchased > > the card), it identified the card on

Looking for lib's

2002-01-08 Thread John Cichy
Hello all, This is my first post to the list so please be gentle. I am trying to migrate my machines from redhat to debian. The first box I am converting will be set up as an email virus scanner. The install of debian went well. But when I tried to install the virus scanner (Network Associates

Re: Looking for lib's

2002-01-08 Thread John Cichy
task. Thanks very much, John BTW does anybody know if there are any MySQL.deb packages available? I mirror the MySQL site, but they do not seem to have one (this is for another machine). On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:58, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:21:47AM -0500, J

debian mirror

2002-01-25 Thread John Cichy
Hi all, Can anyone tell me the aprox. size required to create a mirror with 'anomftpsync' if I were to exclude everything execpt the i386 stuff? TIA John

Re: netcams

2002-01-25 Thread John Cichy
Hello, Linux Journal has an article this month on this very thing... www.linuxjournal.com John On Friday 25 January 2002 19:05, Brian Schramm wrote: > I have been given a 3com netcam and would like to use it on my Linux > system. But I cannot find anything on the net about software for it. > Ha

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-21 Thread John Cichy
Jules Dubois wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run stable and live with the age of the packages. Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? She i

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread John Cichy
On Friday 08 March 2002 13:36, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:12:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >>"Francisco" == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Francisco> An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch > > Francisco> faster than

Re: spammers are killing me

2002-03-20 Thread John Cichy
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 11:30, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020319 19:48]: > > it's either too late in the night or here's something going on. > > IP=3D195.226.187.154, postfix 1.1.3-1 on debian woody, port 25, > > mailhost for 27 domains, otherwise closed relay.

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread John Cichy
Stupid question...I thought making a copy of the original CD to 'preserve' it was 'acceptable' use?? On another note, I buy CDs (I know I can 'share' but until now, I like have the originals, I still have a collection of LPs, but no turntable ;-) for my office to play while I'm working, on my P

OT: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 25 March 2002 16:55, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Dave Steinberg quotation: > > According to the site, "...key2audio does not introduce artificial > > (C2) errors into the music, thereby preserving the title's original sound > > quality...A hidden signature applied to the disc during gl

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-16 Thread John Cichy
On Monday 15 April 2002 21:56, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > when would you use programming as opposed to scripting? > > Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference > between "programming" and "scripting". (Warning: I don't think there's > mu

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread John Cichy
I'm sure that it won't make a whole lot of difference, but RedHat asked me to fill out a survey last week (I used to run all RedHat servers), I answered the survey and explained that I had converted all my servers (15) to debian because RPM just does not cut it. I would not expect RedHat to conv

Re: WM Suggestions

2002-06-07 Thread John Cichy
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:01:40 -0600 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although this is not a window manager suggestion, I would like to offer something that I just went through. I experenced 'random' hangs and was blaming the WM after changing to another, still experenced the same thin