Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:19:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Try: > > $ lynx -dump checkip.dyndns.org I'd do wget -O - checkip.dyndns.org 2>/dev/null Same idea, but it just dumps everything to the command line rather than invoking a browser. -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

7;s a very-specific-to-my-router, very hackish way of getting what I want, that will break as soon as the formatting of the status page changes. But it works. If you'd like me to walk through what the command line does, let me know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 ht

Re: RealPlayer

ile that it doesn't know how to play. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RealPlayer

s debates. The one that puzzles me the most is emacs v. vim. I mean, sure, I can see the arguments for both sides, but ... I just don't see the point of the debate. So: rock on with your Totemized self. :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key:

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

rofile dir]/lock) will get rid of this error. Let me know if that does the trick here. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

in use was quite simple -- it was whether or not it contains a lockfile. Try doing something like find ~/.mozilla -name lock and see if anything comes up. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: NFS failover

uot;slave server".) Let me know if that helps you. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Grub - change boot options

For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed # chainload /bootsect.dos See if that gets you in the right direction. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 30

Translate inotify fix from Gentoo to Debian?

ppen at all. All of this is well-known, but apparently there's a fix coming down the pipe: http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2005/05/sorting-out-gamin-brokenness-testers-needed/ I'm not exactly clear which of the pieces in there carry over to Debian. Does anyone know? --

Re: Apt-Get Upgrade Error - Apache-SSL

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:12:53PM -0500, Patrick Kirchner wrote: > Template parse error near `www-sivut.', in stanza #5 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > apache-ssl.templates Looks like this bug has been reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308591 -- Stephen R. La

Re: Grub - change boot options

ve copying a block out of /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst Let me know if this helps. And please email the debian-user list directly, not me. That way others with more and different expertise can help you too. Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 htt

Re: your mail

ence normally is -- why didn't it load automatically for you?), but that's a start. A hint: you'll get much better responses to questions like this if 1) you include a descriptive subject line, and 2) you tell us what you've tried to do, what worked and what didn't. Then we&

Re: default-display-manager

of daemons sit in /etc/init.d/, and they get symlinked into /etc/rc*.d depending upon where in the boot order they're supposed to load. rcconf handles this symlinking for you. Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: Mirrors and apt

your throughput will be quite good anywhere. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

st to enable the client. Knowing about /etc/default would have saved me a good deal of time earlier on. Actually, I knew about it; it just didn't register in my head. Keep it in yours, and all will be well. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: ht

Re: how to determine source of lockups?

; if you can get to a place where you can normally reproduce the bug, but do everything with the keyboard (Ctrl+Q to quit, Ctrl+Tab to go to the next tab, etc.), see if it still appears. The inotify bug never showed up for me unless I moved the mouse. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617)

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html 2) Can someone explain what the difference is between what ends up in klogd, bootlogd, dmesg, and /var/log/syslog? And why one would prefer one of those to another? Thanks much, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://la

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

ase that you could keep latched to your computer when it's on your desk and take off when you leave. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

you couldn't install Debian on it. I have no experience using modems with Debian, but I have the 2200BG on my laptop; it works great with the Intel-provided IPW2200 driver: http://ipw2200.sf.net Everything else should be fine, as well. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 h

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

ave $filename\n"; sub saveFile { my $filename = shift; if( open( OUTFILE, ">$filename" ) ) { print OUTFILE @_; if( !close OUTFILE ) { return 0; } } else { print STDERR "Could not op

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

27;s a tiny script that will do it: #!/bin/bash wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ 2>/dev/null -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: help scp or rsync

I did have some experience with Mandrake. The Mandrake 'urpmi' command normally resolves dependency problems. It may also be available under Red Hat proper; I'm not sure. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: startx , the command not found

e, then ... um ... that's a problem. We'll cross that bridge etc. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: startx , the command not found

l xbase-clients There's probably an easy way to add in all the packages that you need to get a GNOME or KDE desktop running. In fact, I'd bet that there's one single package you can install which depends on all the packages you need, hence installs everything properly. Can someone else

Re: Readable Bash Primer

7;t help, often the last step is to do dpkg -L [package-name] |less which will display all the files that [package-name] installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it does and where to run it from. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.

Re: scripting

book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder.' to the license reference or copy. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

ng the connection So basically I'm doing this command: ssh remote-host /usr/sbin/imapd | some-local-process If you were doing SMTP-over-SSH, I guess you'd be doing something similar. But for reasons that I don't want to take the time to list, it seems like you wouldn't be doing

Re: Bash script question

If that approach won't work -- because, say, files created on date D are modified later -- then you'll have to do some more magic. I'd probably use Perl with the DateManip library for that. But hopefully that's unnecessary. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308

Re: Encrypted email question

x27;s not particularly useful. I'm sure mutt could be hacked to make it happen, though; mutt can be hacked to make anything happen. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup strategy using rsync

rectories -- e.g., don't back up /sys, /proc, and /dev . -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup strategy using rsync

ic files scattered throughout /etc and /var are specific to your hardware is annoying. My advice would be to just exclude whole directories that you know contain files which shouldn't be backed up -- directories like /sys, /proc, etc. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-

Re: Manpages??

matching 'fork'. So there you go. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have used VMWare some years ago and it is quite good. However, I tend > to prefer Qemu for most workstation-related things. YMMV. Just curious why. In my experience, qemu is slw. -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

n expand upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: File encryption

x+encrypted+filesystem Let us know if that helps. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: News Flash

copyrights or patents from anyone but lawyers. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: script with date operation??

I should note that "perl -e" is super-awesome. The alternative, using just the command-line 'date' tool, is too cumbersome. Perl's actually the easiest here, I've found. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: script with date operation??

he number of > days since Feb 2, 2006. That sort of work is precisely why I do it in Perl. Because then you start getting into messiness with leap years, timezones, etc., etc., etc. There's a reason that time libraries are hard to write. :-) Perl's done all the work for you; be lazy.

Re: upgrade only if installed

1 |grep '^firefox$' Using '^firefox$' prevents the command from matching packages with firefox in their name, like firefox-gnome-support. That command will return 0 if it finds anything, 1 if it doesn't. That should get you on your way. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTE

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? Had I done sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \; then yes. But with xargs,

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

roup. But this will change *all* the files, not just the files currently owned by user [blah]. Which is not what the original poster wanted. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upgrade only if installed

ages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell:

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default > setup.) I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

t sudoers is configured to only let me run one or two commands. For most people, I imagine -- and certainly on most machines I've used -- sudoers are equivalent to root. But yes, I suppose I should have qualified my 'sudo find' command with the words "if you're allow

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

r, then you probably don't have the root password either -- in which case it will be impossible for you to run any command featuring 'find /'. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

he packages you've already got installed. If Privoxy is already installed, all its dependencies will also be installed as well, so you can go ahead and only upgrade the packages that you've got installed. This is all doable inside a short Perl script, but the margin is too small to contain it

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > apt-get install privoxy ?? Oh, sorry; I was reading the original poster to be saying that he wanted to upgrade just the dependencies. Yes, apt-get install privoxy is the easy way to do this. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

ages and do for i in $(above command); do apt-get install $i; done Or you could use xargs: above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' Though that might be a little tricky, and you might need to use xargs -0. Fiddle with that a bit; it may help you. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROT

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

is processing. Which is why I mentioned the '-0' thing, and suggested that you poke around. Also, '-i' is indeed supported, though the manpage suggests that it's deprecated. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

e web. My server uses greylisting, whitelisting and blacklisting, and consequently I maybe get a spam every other day. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

allenge/response systems: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

that email I sent?" > What do you use that keeps up with white/grey/black lists? 'Keeps up'? A whitelist is my list of people who are canonically non-spammers; that's my own list. I believe we get blacklists from Razor. Greylisting is, again, site-by-site. -- Stephen R. Lanie

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

f torture, so it's good to do it infrequently. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

nd up it goes. Things are a little trickier when you're using static IP, but not much. And they get maybe annoyingly tricky when you do wireless, but not much -- and certainly they don't get annoying because of resolv.conf messiness. I'm curious how you got into the spot you're i

Re: Progrees meter in scp

hat uses the -q switch). Why would the original poster want to use -q to make it disappear, when he said he wanted it to *appear*? :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:48:13PM -0300, Debian User wrote: > how to make to appear the bar of progress in scp ? scp displays progress *percentages*, but not a bar. Whenever possible, try using rsync instead, with the -P option. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5

Re: Progrees meter in scp

ry] [dest directory] If your files are highly compressible, and not too large (where 'too large' is probably defined by the amount of memory you have), you can use the -z flag as well; this will compress your files before they go over wire, and save you even more time. -- Stephen R. Lani

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0300, Debian User wrote: > but this does not show the everything the progress. It should, in fact, show the overall progress. Can you send us the output of that command? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP

Re: annoying beeping speaker

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > How do I make it stop without opening the case and removing the speaker? > It's really annoying. xset -b -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/

Re: logs crazy

user.log but what is the difference between kern.log, messages, dmesg, > syslog and all the other logs. Thanks Check out /etc/syslog.conf and the corresponding manpage (syslog.conf(5)). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.

Re: [OT] Mutt -- how to send tagged msgs. as bcc's ?

t of addresses to whom the message will be bounced. All of the recipients will see the 'To:' line, but they won't see the other people to whom it was bounced. Does that answer your question? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http:

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

h ImageMagick, will expand at the shell into convert -resize 200x200 filename.bmp filename.jpg and ImageMagick will then automatically convert the file from BMP to JPEG. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signa

Re: emusing

n of the FCC is laughable. I wish you knew just how laughable it was. Please unsubscribe and never post here again. Thanks. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emusing

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:36:26AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > 2) Enter your email address in the form field there. Do you >know what a form field is? Another approach, should that one not work: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". -- Stephen

Re: Network printing

get the various CUPS config-file settings right :->). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: using apt-listbugs

at your monitor's vertical positioning needs to be changed. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: using apt-listbugs

27;t need to wait for a reboot. If you want to stop X, you can just do sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (or '/kdm stop', or whatever). But don't worry about stopping X. As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll. --

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

Though if you want to prevent one machine's compromise from compromising another machine, set HashKnownHosts. Then, at least, people won't be able to guess your other machines once they've broken your current machine. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 htt

Re: Treason?

:191101508. Repaired. This is why god invented Google. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/linux/2001-q3/0083.html or more generally http://google.com/search?q=%22treason+uncloaked%22 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://lan

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

t are outside of the ASCII range that are troubling you. For that, you have to make sure that your locale is set properly, and that your terminal program is also using the right locale. If you need help in that direction, let us know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617)

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

it! You can configure things, but for basic connections that'll do the trick. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

it with 'apt-get install ssh'. I assume > your Debian is running Sarge. I don't believe sshd is running by default, is it? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

-5 Version table: *** 1:4.2p1-5 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

d that means that > DHCP isn't necessary. Well, one needn't have a fixed IP to host a website; I've hosted several using dynamic DNS -- see, e.g., dyndns.org. But of course you're right that the original poster almost certainly does not have a fixed IP. -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: howto check open ports ?

pache to work over port 8080; almost no one blocks ports that high. You could also use nmap to scan ports. But nmap is only going to scan privileged ports to see which ones are open; it's not going to tell you that ports 8080 and above are open, because they always are. -- Stephen R. L

Re: howto check open ports ?

579 52343 52382 52426 52462 52481 52482 53166 53494 56174 56241 57329 6 61464 62586 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

of what you want. I usually consult the documentation in /usr/share/doc/[package] if I'm new to a program, and only consult the man pages if I'm just confused about which particular arguments to pass. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP ke

Re: startup programs

to handle all the symlink insertion and deletion all at once. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xorg and switching VT

odate 0.13.6-0ubuntu5 libglu1-xorg/unknown uptodate 6.8.2-36 xserver-xorg-driver-ati/unknown uptodate 6.8.2-36 xserver-xorg-input-mouse/unknown uptodate 6.8.2-36 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fetchmail running as a daemon, but can't deliver to user's mail box

f to procmail. 3) Procmail slices and dices your mail, puts various messages in various boxes, etc. Often messages end up in user's spool (/var/mail/[username]). 4) mutt checks spool periodically to see whether it's changed. Does that help at all? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fetchmail running as a daemon, but can't deliver to user's mail box

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:34:11PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > Now, I've never been clear why -- I'm sure others are -- but > fetchmail can't really run as a global daemon. A Debian developer corrected me on this. Let me just amend this, then, by saying that *I*, p

Re: Setting permissions, changing the owner...

ner of the file read and execute permissions, and to make this change apply across all subdirectories of the current directory, do chmod u+rx -R . where the trailing dot ('.') means 'the current directory.' I hope that helps. Let us know if you have more questions. -

Re: rysync laptop

uld work. Is it a reliable way to accomplish this? You want to use 'unison' to sync in both directions: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

s I'm not aware of? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

allows them a little more freedom. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

o be root. But I'm not sure. The bottom line is that there's no good reason to run k3b as root, and many bad reasons. So you should avoid running as root if at all possible. At the very worst you should be doing 'sudo k3b', but even that is too much. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

to change permissions or group memberships. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

al device file is kept. Try doing grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab and send us the results. That will probably list the device node that corresponds to your CD-ROM drive. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

7;ll find that you're not a member of a group that has write permissions on the CD drive. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

$ groups > sher dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev Huh. So you do, in fact, have write access to the CD drive. That's odd. My hypothesis is shot to hell. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.a

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

otten no complaints from my users. I'd install Ubuntu now if I were setting up desktop machines for the same clients. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: set language in bash

the error message directly into the editor within command mode like so: :r !apt-get [whatever you told apt-get to do] -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

able in server installations. I wouldn't put Ubuntu on a server, if only because the Ubuntu repositories don't contain as many packages as the Debian ones. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

ing the list overwhelmed with newbie complaints, but I'd urge you to think about how many newbie users are going to get scared away from even asking for help if people are mean to them -- as I think you were, above. Ditto calling them 'lusers.' Do you want to get new users to Linux

Re: How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

EDITOR environment variable -- emacs or vim or nano or whatever. Caveat: if this job needs to run with root privileges, then you'll need to edit the global crontab in /etc/crontab. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/sla

Web-based calendaring/project mgmt

ultant signs in through a web form and describes his meeting with a client, including the times he met with the client, what they talked about, whether the client needs followup, etc. That's a good start. Does any good free software for this purpose exist? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL P

Re: Clean firefox cache commandline?

e no such command-line option, according to the Firefox man page. But if you're willing to accept a little command-line hack, you could try #!/bin/bash FFDIR=~/.mozilla/firefox find $FFDIR -depth -type d -name Cache -exec rm -R '{}' \; Not very tested, but it seems like it should do t

Re: Autoplay?

, then down to Preferences, then Removable Drives and Media. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Good GUI for essid selection?

e would be able to connect to it from then on. This would then be *more* usable than Windows, if I'm not mistaken. Is this sort of thing available? * - if this were Slashdot, this would immediately result in my post being rated a 1 or at most a 2. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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