Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-05-10 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Tham Kine Seng's email, 10-05-2001: Hello people, I had mounted a windows partition. Now I am trying to give write permission to my user to this windows partition. Anybody knows how to go about giving this permission? All suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thank you. =

Re: How do I set route at boot time ?

2001-05-10 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Franck Routier's email, 10-05-2001: Hello, I want to set up the route to a new box on my LAN. If the route is not set, the connexion is refused (I think this is an otion in the kernel networking configuration) Where should I put this route ? From the docs I have found it should go

Re: I don't get it.

2001-05-10 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Karsten M. Self's email, 10-05-2001: on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:19:32AM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:04:23PM -0500, ktb wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:01:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: potato = stable woody = testing sid

Re: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In M G Berberich's email, 22-03-2001: Hello, 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

Re: parallel clusters of single cpu boxes

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Darryl Röthering's email, 21-03-2001: I am curious if anyone knows anything about clustering several single cpu boxes together and attempting to run a multi-cpu build of Linux on top of them. Has anyone figured out a way to thus put together a relatively cheap emulated parallel

Re: apt-get and growing cache

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001: Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Can I delete these files ? Where can I tell to not keep these file ? I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only the diff when

Re: maple 6.01 on debian 2.2

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In A.E. Roy's email, 05-02-2001: I`ve noticed that maple 6.01 conatins an install script for suse and redhat, does anyone know how it is like installing maple 6.01 on debian 2.2? A. Roy Simple. You just install like a normal Linux, and it installs all the RedHat stuff in /usr/local/maple6

Re: debian poster

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Allan Andersen's email, 07-02-2001: Hi, Right now I have a poster with Corel Linux (better than nothing I think) hanging on my door. But I don't use the Corel Linux disto - so I thought if there were anyone out there who have a good quality of the debian logo which could be used to make

Marking all messages read in mutt?

2001-01-21 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hello! This is a simple question, but my 15-minutes of scouring the web didn't turn up anything, so here goes. Is there any way to mark all messages in a folder read in mutt? This function would be particularly useful after coming back to 300+ mail messages from debian-user after a 2-day

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

2001-01-13 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In hanasaki's email, 12-01-2001: Support was added to the kernel when Potato was installed. The system does not seem to see the card. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you Is this a eepro100 card, or one of the Intel integrated ethernet controllers (on the motherboard). I have a

Re: Debian / Redhat comparison

2000-12-01 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Ard Righ's email, 02-12-2000: ([ On 1 Dec 2000, some witty mortal wrote: ]) RedHat has kickstart which greatly simplifies the install process. Currently users here can fill out a webform and get a customized boot disk that will do the right thing, just boot from it go to lunch and

Re: recommended TV/radio cards for potato

2000-11-21 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In robert_wilhelm_land's email, 21-11-2000: Would someone kindly share his experiences in using a combo TV/radio card on Deb 2.2.17? Having a look on the internet I found the two cards at reasonable prices: 1.) Hauppauge WinTV Primio FM TV/Radio-Karte PCI Mono/Stereo I can attest to

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Samuel Hathaway's email, 10-11-2000: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... I ran the following commands... # cd /usr/src # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17 # bunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2 # tar -xf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar # cd kernel-source-2.2.17 # make dep # find . -name

Special dev access for users @ the console?

2000-11-03 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hello debian ppl! I am a lab admin. I need to give access to the floppy (/dev/fd0), zip drive (/dev/hdd), and sound (/dev/dsp) to the person logged in at the console (x or tty). If this was my personal machine, I would just put the users in the group console. Unforfunately, this cannot be

Re: task-x-window-system list of packages

2000-10-14 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Dwight Johnson's email, 13-10-2000: I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system does not give it and /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian does not

Re: apt-get and customized kernel

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Jack's email, 13-10-2000: Hi, I always compile my own customized kernel. However, it brings one thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade. As you can see as following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead. Can I shut it off? thanks, [ snip of apt/dpkg

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hi! IMHO, vmware is a rather large solution to just running windows - if you're looking for something commercial, you might take a look at win4lin (www.trelos.com). I have been using the eval version for about a week and I like it alot - it required a modified kernel, but once you get that

Re: firewall script

2000-07-05 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 04/07/00 04:50:21AM: Hi all Debian users, anyone has a firewall script that can send me. I already know ipchains well but with a script (commented) it will better. :) Thanks, Paulo Henrique Hi - You

Re: diskus on distribution contents?

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 28/06/00 12:07:55PM: I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's... Probably because no-one has so far been interested in packaging it, or adding it to an existing package. Not so: http://www.realbodo.de/debian these packages work

Ping and traceroute not working on new potato install

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hi -- I recently installed a machine with debian. I only have one problem with the install.. I can't ping.. whenever I try to ping: 3 bleh:~ ping 127.1 ping: socket: Protocol not supported traceroute has this error also: bleh:~# traceroute 127.1 traceroute: icmp socket: Protocol not

Re: Nessus potato

2000-06-08 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org at 07/06/00 02:20:12PM: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right? Really? I don't think that is the case. I thought the whole point was to be able to scan a machine from the

Re: Centralizing Logins

2000-06-05 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 05/06/00 12:22:52PM: We are currently building up several servers, all of which will be hosted here locally. The thing is, it's going to be more than 25 servers. Maintaining user accounts on all these bastards is going to be hell. I've

Re: OT. Debian w/s in schools - info needed.

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Lindsay Allen at 23/05/00 09:54:58PM: I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school. We have a Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually breaking away from

NIS+? Alternatives?

2000-05-17 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian: I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which I would like to use NIS+ for authentication and also for autofs mapping.. Has anyone actually succeeded in using NIS+ with Debian? I've currently taken

Re: amd home map

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Barak Pearlmutter at 15/05/00 03:54:29PM: From: Graeme Mathieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] For autofs ... I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single server? The reason we are considering amd (or