Journaling filesystems [was: Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???]

2003-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:42:17PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:57:02PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > I'm not familiar with XFS, bu

Re: IP's

2003-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:44:23PM -0800, John F. wrote: > I would like to tell my firewall to deny all connections from any IP > address. What would I put as the IP to be blocked? I don't understand your question. Are you using ipchains or iptables (kernel 2.2 or 2.4)? Are you planning on acc

Re: Certification

2003-02-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:53:19AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Wendell Cochran wrote: > > >Hmmm. If I were hiring nowadays, I'd search mailing-list > >archives for posts by applicants who made the final list. And I'd > >award demerits, too, for apostrophe's, speling, & similar signs of > >abus

Re: IP's

2003-02-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:05:52AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:28:05PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > (that seems not very useful). By "deny" do you mean REJECT or DROP? > > In any case, I _think_ the answer to your question has something

Re: postfix problem

2003-02-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:02:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:26:04PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:07:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > To me, your description sounds as if the problem is with the editor > > > (perhaps nvi), not postfix

Re: firewall -- best practices

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:54:10AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > anybody know of one of these downloadable firewall-on-iso gizmos > that are based on debian? http://www.gibraltar.at/index.php?product_gibraltar_download_eng -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The best

Re: firewall -- best practices

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:54:01PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: [ please don't top post; it's ugly. Your quoting looks a little broken too but one rant per reply is enough ] >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:48:10AM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: >>> I read this conversation, and now I have a qu

Re: Problem with HP Laserjet 2100

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:01:08AM -0300, Carlos Eduardo Araujo Vieira wrote: > Hi everbody, > I have one question about the LaserJet HP2100. I connect it using > the twisted pair (RJ45) and now i want to configure it so thar the others > machines could access it and print. Anyone had t

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since > 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running > unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided, > because I didn't

Re: debian for s/390

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:02:55AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > before i order the cd's > does the dbeian for s/390 (ibm mainframe) > support db2 v8.1 or db2 v7.2 > and does it support hyper sockets.. With no offense meant to the subscribers of this list, most members of this list tend to be "aver

Re: Gibraltar, apache and samba at the same machine

2003-02-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:20:10PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > A question about Gibraltar. I'm not Bill Gates, so I can't afford another > computer, but I want to secure my system. I want to try Gibraltar, and I > want to run this on an existing Debian machine, together with Apach

Re: tunnelling -- best practices

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:13:16AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:44:37AM -0500, jereme wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system > > > > I always thought this was an *excellent* footer.

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:53:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:19:34PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:54:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Actually, unstable updates at 19:52 UTC (or 20:52 UTC if auric is on > > > daylight savings time). >

Re: Gibraltar, apache and samba at the same machine

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:21:10AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:45:33AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > gibraltar is not what you want. Install the "ipmasq" package. > > Well, if we're talking only a single computer altogether, then ma

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:40:05AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hi there, > > > > I set up DHCP and faked it out so that it doesn't gripe > > > about eth0 not having a subnet config (hours of study and > > > trial...there's supposed to be a simple config setting for > > > this, but it d

Re: free Bitstream fonts

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:25:59AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > At LinuxWorld Expo there was much talk of the fonts Bitstream was making > available for free use (mainly for GNOME). It appears that they have been > released in a preliminary version at http://gnome.org/fonts/ > > Is anyone plann

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:57:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > They are (others have posted the Debian pages related to this). "hamm" is a > toy piggy bank (voice by one of the Cheers characters, the postman, I > believe) in the movie and "slink" is a slinky toy (voice by Gilbert Gnarly > is

Re: Boy! this spam is riling me!Re: First Time

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:08:58PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Barry Rab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Cannot something be done to stop them using the list? > > Thanks , Barry > > > > You can: > > 1.) Report the spam to the ISP it was sent from. > 2.) Put add a filter so that it doesn't get in y

Re: Changing process priority

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:59:31PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:23:41PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could please tell me how to change the priority for > > a process. Actually what I want to do is give more (most) processor priority

Re: Boy! this spam is riling me!Re: First Time

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:46:57PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Actually, I never saw the original but I did see the response. That > > made me angry, very angry indeed. > > http://www.angelfire.com/pa/lkmarvin/images/ang

Re: Changing process priority

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 02:49:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Er, I think you'd want to use "nice --20" or "nice -n -20" or even ^^^ > > "nice --adjustment=-

Re: *grins*

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:35:16PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > David Pastern wrote: > > > Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"? > > > > BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker > > operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos > > Torovoltos, bef

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:42:47PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > Yup, both in Toy Story. You really should see the movie. For being a > > "kids" movie it is very good!! > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Ame

Re: Need help configuring box as router

2003-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: [ top posting SUCKS ] > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:07:55AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > > I have a fresh copy of the woody dist installed on a box with kernel > > > 2.2.19, eth0 is 19

Re: [OT] Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:32:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: > I don't know what you do when multiple cards use the same module. Most drivers probe in MAC address order. Thus, you need to look at your cards when you install them and make sure you know which is first (lowest MAC address). I

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:18:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > > associate animation strictly with children? > > > >

Re: Need help configuring box as router

2003-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:31:11AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 23 Feb 2003 14:25:07 -0600, > Justin Ryan wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:27, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > > /dev/hda7reiserfs9.29 GB(mount point) / > > > > /dev/hda5ext215.1 MB/boot > > > > shmfs shm 57.9 MB/dev/shm

Re: [OT] what are you running? (was Complaint)

2003-02-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:07:16PM -0600, Ray wrote: > > (I'm sure there are more then a few Evolution and OE users on the list). > > what are people on the debian-user list using for there primary machine(s)? > > the last few messages i see are from users of (going by User-Agent or > X-Mailer h

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 07:18:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, nate wrote: > > > I get cc'd or bcc'd on almost every post that someone replies to me, it > > would be nice if people didn't do that but it's not a big deal to me. > > I prefer if people DO cc me, it's much easie

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:31:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:51:29PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Who is BCCing you? Is this a real person on this list or a SPAMMER. I > > do get few strange BCC messages or bounce messages from SPAMMER. They > > harvest addresses fr

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:21:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:03:43PM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > > Thanks Everyone, yes I was talking about http:\\ > > and and ftp in the same sentence, sorry to mess you up. > > I'm not sure most ftp servers grok the concept of virtual

Re: Shadow RAM can't be disabled

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:48:51AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > "Who knows what system data lies in the heart of the BIOS - the Shadow > RAM knows - Haaa, Haaa, Haaa" That laugh is not evil enough :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a positive side to no

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:48:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > The article "New Linux support policies are ominous" by Jon Lasser, > Security Focus Online at > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/29330.html is disturbing. It > highlights new support policies from Mandrake and Redhat that is ba

Re: Setting up IPTables..

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:45:22AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:27:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Hi all, > > >Can anyone tell me where there is a HOWTO describing (or give

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: > Debian Folks > > I have a next question. > > I wandered through the manpages and internet for a few hours but can't > seem to find a satisfactory answer for this one. > > I have an up and running IBM PC with Debian kernel 2.2.19 at th

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:49:28PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:47:59PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Works just fine, you do need a seperate IP address per vhost though. > > No, you don't, it's just slightly easier if you do. I used to do this > myself, thou

Re: adding eth1

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:57:56AM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > First, I have to mention that I hate rtl8139 cards :-) However, if it > > works for you ... > > Why? The source code for the driver use

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:48:45PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: [ please don't top post; it makes your email hard to read and destroys all context for the reader ] > Well, I picked up a card for free from a friend. It is the following, > and I cannot get it to work under Woody: > > Compaq Netelli

Re: Debian security support for older versions

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 11:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why is obscelesence somehow a surprise to people? > > Because you don't expect your vacuum cleaner to > need a new hose every 3 years... ? I don't think you could have ch

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:31:56PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 14:09:41 -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > > as i recall, mr. sheer had the source online for critique and i asked him > > what "rute" was in "R ute U sers T utorial and E xposition" and he just > > sent me a

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:17:25PM -0800, nate wrote: > Joao Pedro Clemente said: > > > > AS I've seen some of these files after installing some packages, as since > > they are not unpacked by apt-get, I am wondering if there isn't a "smart" > > way of reading this instead of unpacking first... > >

Re: About user nobody

2003-03-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:38:33AM +, Satish Iyer wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop > system. At times I notice a process with high disk > activity running under user name "nobody". How can I > figure out which program is responsible for this and > what exactly is i

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:50:40AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:44:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:11 PST]: > > > My point is that the testing release ahs proven to be stable in a > > > production environemnt (for me at least), and has,

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > > acn be used in production> For ins

Re: sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:43:22PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > I've been looking for the Debian response to the recently found sendmail flaw > and corresponding fix (http://www.sendmail.org). Can someone point me to > where I can find this information? You are subscribed to debian-security-announce,

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:36:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to "shutdown -r now" than holding the > > power button.. > > To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to >

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:06:31PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > On approximately Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:48:18PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks for answering. > > > > > > I am afraid that this is not what I want: > > > The problem is

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > Quoting Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I got this very interesting logcheck email with this line > > > > > > Mar 6 14:24:35 server kernel: lp0 on fire > > > > > > What does this mean - I can confirm

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:20:09PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > > > > > >Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge > >disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. > > > >You asked for that one :-) > > > > Wow, > > you're in a charming mood today dude. I see your mail

Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.

2003-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:22:12AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > I want to use KNOPPIX for create my LaTex documents. But I can not > reconfigure LaTex distributive because files of tetex are on CD. Can I > do this. (Now I need reconfigure hyphenations). Thanx. Note: I've never used knoppix.

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - > > > > > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding corr

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >[ No technical content, just a funny story ] > > > >At a prior job, we had a bunch of servers in a datacenter. Some of > >the datacenter people liked to play with the keyboard; one of

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:35:55PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: [ Please don't top post, it makes your post hard to read and easier to ignore ] > Hubert Chan states that I can just take my old config file and copy to > the new tree. I assume you mean to copy it to where I am compiling the > ker

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:20:10AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > > to use it under

Re: [SOLVED] Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:58:05PM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > The SMTP protocol is documented RFC821 so you can see how mail > servers communicate and what the three digit codes mean. > You can then test stuff by "telnet localhost 25" which is useful > for troubleshooting problems. Please re

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:34:05AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Charlie Zender wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ > >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not > >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs ins

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:08:00AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:10:07PM +0100, J. Lambrecht wrote: > > // I am not on the list so please, reply to all > > > > > > Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids > > > > --- > > "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote: > My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't boot from > the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into bios-setup mode.) I > don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was so slow that it's probably ti

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nathan E Norman writes: > > There are some oddities in /etc/init.d on debian systems; some > > maintainbers have, er, "interesting" ideas about scripting. However, the > > cool thing about debian is ev

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:53:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > ... > > IMO, you can avoid anything printed by Prentice Hall except stuff > > written by W. Richard Stevens. > > I think that's ill

Re: failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:56:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million > people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. > i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i

Re: TELNET

2003-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:43:44AM +, Joao Paulo wrote: > telnet is also very good (but for other things). >telnet host 25 >telnet host 21 >... Yuck. Use 'nc' from the netcat package instead. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Great minds discuss id

Re: Source for 2.2.20 kernel

2003-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:47:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:51:14AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > I'm missing something. What is the name of the source for the 2.2.20 > > kernel? > > kernel-source-2.2.20 if it's still actually in the distribution; it's > pre

Re: MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:58:23PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > >Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>* Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030318 15:27 PST]: > >> > >>>With the recent release of MySQL 4, I was wondering when (if ever) Debian > >>>was going

Re: Apt: Searching for "Provides: ..."

2003-03-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:46:31AM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi! > > I want to search for all packages which provide xserver. > > apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*' > > This should find xserver-s3, but it doesn't. > > Any hints? I'm no apt-cache expert, but my reading of the man pa

Re: Making PDF document in KWord

2003-03-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:06:47AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi There: > > When I want to make a PDF document with KWord (Using print menu), KWord is > able to make a pdf file, but the result is crappy, many words are not in > their original position, and all in all, it is unreadable. However,

Re: OT: what's the difference between apache+mod_perl and apache-perl, apache+mod_ssl and apache-ssl etc...

2003-03-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:49:40PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > If I understand corectly, apache-perl is staticaly compiled with mod_perl (that is > it's the same as installing apache+mod_perl). so how come I can install both? the > same with apache-ssl. > > Am I missing something her

Re: Making PDF document in KWord

2003-03-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can create a PS document with TeX and then convert it to PDF > > using 'ps2pdf'; the result is usually poor. > > Try making your ps f

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

2003-03-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Conference Service wrote: [ snip _entire fdreaking spam message ] > Okay, this is just bad, folks. Consider yourself whacked upside the head with a clue-by-four. Reposting spam to any mailing list is at best considered bad form

Re: Debian unofficial repositories w/ Apache 2.0.44/PHP 4.3.1/MySQL 4.0.12

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Ryan Aligen wrote: > > Hello, this is my first time on this list. I was just wondering if there > are any repositories with these packages or if I will have to compile them > manually. Check out http://www.apt-get.org/ . If you don't find what you want

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:40:10AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > I'm having problems with updating the package list from > mirrors.kernel.org (apt-get says connection times out). Is this a known > problem or am I just one of the (un)lucky few who this happens to? > > Here's a partial output f

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:01:13PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > >>Perhaps one day they'll improve upon FTP. > > > >HTTP improved upon FTP long ago. The fact that the name hasn't been > >changed doesn't

Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:49:44AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > | is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and > | put it in another? > > Just ensure that > 1) the other machine's hardware can

Re: gpg: DSA requires the use of a 160 bit hash algorithm

2003-03-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:18:40PM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > I can't anymore sign e-mails using mutt. Error is > > gpg: DSA requires the use of a 160 bit hash algorithm > > What to do to fix this? I started getting the error after installing > spamassassin from testing to a woody host. I did

Re: not accepting mail despite proper A<->PTR setup

2003-03-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:54:52PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I just got a mail delivery error from another MTA: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host xxx.xx[123.12.123.12] refused to > talk to me: 501-HELO requires a valid host name as operand: > 'albatross.madduck.net' 501-connection

Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

2003-03-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: > I need to change my locale from LANG=C to LANG=en_US > on debian-390 (woody-3.0r1), running under hercules > 390 emulator. Just changing the value of LANG does > not seem to do what I expect. In fact, it doesn't > seem to do much of

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:26:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I think he showed up late last year, yes? > > Late last month. I think he posted twice out of a few dozen times > that he demonstrated he had a clue. I think his b

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:07:24PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:03:24AM -0800, nate wrote: > > hopefully this time around there's enough time for them to get it > > working, though I don't know if we'll see an official X11-based installer > > for the next revision, I hope

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:30:10PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > | Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not > | being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it > | will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. > > I'v

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:05:16AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > > Of course, when the shiny happy install doesn't work on some esoteric > > hardware you're screwed, but nobody runs _that_ stuff. (or do > > they??) > > > > *sigh* > > About 2 1/2 years ago, I installed Suse on a 1997 Mac clone with

Re: setting up RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:20:55PM +0200, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote: > > > G'day all, > > I'm setting up a RAID1 set in debian 3r0. > > I checked /proc/mdstat & got the following: > > Personalities: [raid1] > > read_ahead not set > > unused devices: > > > > hmmm, I got RAID support, woopeee >

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:40:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:26:38AM -0600, Jamin Collins wrote: > > > No it's not. Version number indicate a progression of an > > > application, they have no indica

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:51:55AM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling > > yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or > > something a little less fun.

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > > just do: > > > > startx

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( > > > > >

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > > > DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines) > > > VGA: 640 x 480 > > > SVGA: 800 x 720 > > > XGA: 1024 x 768 > > > SXGA 1280 x1024 > > > UXGA: 1600 x1440 > > >

Re: Root-on-LVM-on-RAID HOWTO

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:02:20PM +0100, Massimiliano Ferrero wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over > LVM and RAID. > > If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.html > > Any suggestion/cri

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These seems to be coming up about once a day on the list, isn't *anyone* > > searching the archives or at least googling? > > Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seeing this

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [ snip ] > > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long > > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the > > install

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing > this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that > the main offen

Re: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:12:31PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: >> From: Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: 22 January 2003 17:54 >> To: Colin Ellis >> Cc: debian user list >> Subject: RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII >> >> >> Hello Colin, >> >> I ha

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:37:12PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: > > > Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions > > but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on > > Debian. I keep an older version around whic

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:46:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > [ s

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > Perhaps the default is set too low, and many people are seeing this > > > problem for the first time? > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That's an interesting arg

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's an interesting argument: if the problem is widespread people > > shouldn't have to do their homework? > > Or maybe, the software

Re: Own kernel doesn't work

2003-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:28:24PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0100, Michael Schlottke wrote: [ snip - the old way ] > Why don't you compile the kernel debian way: > > make-kpkg --revision=your.kernel.name.1.0 kernel-image > dpkg -i your.kernel.name.1.0

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:56:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:56:14AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > 3) Even if the bug has been filed 8192 times and fixed for the last > > month, everyone running stable is still going to run into this > &g

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:17:42AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl + > > Net:SNMP > > > > I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need i

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:11:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:04:53AM -0500, Mike Dresser insinuated: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > orange:~# df -h > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/hda5 93M

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