#: One thing I now realize I *am* apparently guilty of -- and that is
#: having too high an expectation of what Debian is capable of
#: delivering
#: from upgrades such as testing.
I'd say that unfortunately, you are guilty of not realizing the purpose of
Testing. Testing exists to make mostly st
>From: Price, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>That said, I notice gnome 1.4 Release Candidate 1 just came out
>(http://download.gnome.org/), there are only rpm packages &
>source at the
>mo', but debs should follow *fairly* quickly :)
I would hope, but I was expecting Evolution .9 debs quickly
>From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Why doesn't the
>linux community adopt something like a Linux Carpet that will
>work on all
>kinds of desktops/window managers ?
Sorry for the length, but...
Well...I believe that despite our best efforts, money is still required to
live. Sinc
>From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>services (don't get me wrong here :-)/applications but don't see why a
>common update/installation interface would be a drawback for commercial
>company's. In fact it would be advantageous to them, offering
>free publicity
>(in a list of sites
Ahhh, but the information is supposed to be free, right? Science vs.
corporation, right? If you limited the information access
>the barrier to
entry would immediately become almost too great.
>
>I think you're missing my point here. I'm talking about some
>service wich
>would just be
>are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of
>debian-systems.
>
>At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some
>resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from
>administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and
>config
>From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>i know sendmail has the vacation program, but i would like to do some
>kind of auto responder at our mail 'hub', which has no accounts just
>a bunch of aliases that point to leaf servers. since the vacation
>program seemingly relies on a $HOME to store
Prolog: Running Debian Potato 2.2 r2 with most recent security updates from
the security servers. *Any* suggestions or comments welcome.
I was checking my RADIUS server logs...just for the fun of it :-) and came
across this in my setuid.changes line:
***
Recently I've bee trying to replace my company's Ghost software when two
documents came my way. One was 'Stupid DD tricks' and the other was 'Linux
CD-ROM game system'. My plan became to use Linux and DD across the network
as our created images are now too big to fit on CD-ROM and we can't get
MD-D
> I want to set up printing (preferably using magicfilter) for an HP
> Laserjet 5N. Since I don't see this printer listed in the magicfilter
> setup, which one works best with this printer?
All of the LaserJets are backward compatible. There are no LJ5 specific
filters, but you can use the ljet4-
Hi there.
> Features:
> Session management is not there. All my windows come back in the
> first pane of the desktop. There seems to be no way to get rid of
> things once they are in there. I tried closing them and resaving the
> session. I tried deleting them from the session configuration to
> 1) I'm running gnome-terminal as my xterm. The title on the
> window simply says 'Terminal'. Is possible to have the
> window title dynamically change to the current working
> directory. Kinda like the way emacs changes the window title
> to the name of the current file.
If your running
> That's an option, and I might resort to it, but it would mean
> setting up a mail
> server on the Linux box, which isn't as "clean" in the eyes
> of the administration as
> a print server.
"clean"? How is hacking a print driver/filter more clean than using a
program designed to do various task
Sorry for the cross post, but maybe someone reads debian-user and not
debian-firewall that knows.
-Original Message-
Hey,
I'm trying to take over the firewall of our company. I would like to deploy
a Linux masq'd gateway (which I have done before for another company) to
replace AIX version
> I know. But I'm saying it doesn't even work with that.
oh... O.K.
> I know. If you noticed, after the cat command was listed "1"
> -- it was
> already enabled.
Duh...I was looking at a followup message that didn't display that. Sorry.
Maybe not enough coffee. :)
Could you please state kernel
> As soon as I do an "ipchains -P MASQ" (yes, I know that's
> evil), the pings
> work. So, I can do masquerading.
(lightning bolt to head) As stated in the IPMasq Howto, "Ja, you do have to
state masq'ing packets. Forwarding chain doesn't mean outside all the time."
Besides all the other chains
>I thoroughly enjoyed this ripping tale of intrigue,
>adventure, and romance, but would you mind explaining
>to a debian-newbie exactly who or what the culprit
>was? I've been having trouble connecting to various
>sites (www.ups.com,www.zdnet.com,www.sun.com to name
>a few) and I have absoluetly
Dear fellow Debianites:
Hopefully there are those of you out there who have experience with the
OpenLDAP server 2.0.7 (from Sid) and it's authentication methodologies,
'cause I need help bad. I'm trying to move to LDAP authentication and will
be using the libpam_ldap to do so. Setting up the server
Seriously, has no one setup the libpam-ldap in Debian?
Just some working config files to enlighten me as to the little thing I
haven't gotten right would be splendid. You don't have to talk to me, you
don't have to be my friend...I won't come to your house and drink your beer
if you respond. Promi
> # pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script--
> send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'"
> # any email going out to any address containing "debian-"
> # gets the output of ~/.signature-debian as a signature block
>
> --
> --
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> What's a
Andrej Hocevar wrote:
>did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or
>was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question
It would seem just a little of both. ;) Karsten is often brusque in
requesting list etiquette be observed. I will share a better way to change
>I have yet to find a fix for this problem I am experiencing. I have a
>testing box without any man pages(command)!
>
>When i run the man command I get this error back:
>
>"bash: man: command not found"
Make sure you have man-db installed:
apt-get install man-db
--
Those who would give up essen
>Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package
>(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get,
>but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I
>never even get a prompt.
>
>I can understand if I cannot connect as a normal user without
>configuring, but I
>Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for
>viruses going in and out of my Debian email server?
>
>Thank you
We use Postfix for the mail server, but Amavis (www.amavis.org) and your
preference of virus scanning software (McAfee in our case) works well.
--
Those who would
>also sprach Dave Sherohman (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:22:04PM -0500):
>> The only virus scanners I am aware of that run under linux are
>> designed to scan for Windows viruses in traffic that the linux server
>> is handling.
McAfee's (NAI) searches for Windows and Unix variants. From the Virus DAT
u
>I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I
>should direct apt-get.
>
>I have a basic install of debian but would like to
>obtain some other parts and have updates via the www.
http://www.debian.org./misc/README.mirrors
--
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a littl
>I am new to debian and am trying to find out where I
>should direct apt-get.
>
>I have a basic install of debian but would like to
>obtain some other parts and have updates via the www.
Argh! Didn't read the post as you wrote it. Hate when I do that.
Please disregard my previous post and just lo
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