My /dev/hda hard drive is on the way out, and I just wanted to run my
backup plan past you all, to minimise any pain if/when it's replaced...
My setup is as follows:
Running Debian woody with a few backported newer packages.
40G /dev/hda split between an ext3 root partition (about 20Gb), a swap
One of my ex workmates has shown signs of being interested in experimenting
with
Linux. She is, however, quite knowledgeable about computers, programming IBM
mainframes for some time.
I'm planning on giving her one of the 'live CDS', probably either the Linuxcare
BBC or
the SUSE 7 Live
Re: old NICOn Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:27:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier
wrote:
Hey guys. I just tossed an older Cicero ISA 10 Meg NIC in my old i486
box.
It says that it's ne2k compatible, but that module requires me to figure
out
what io address and irq it's supposed to use.
Any idea
OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?Does someone have a
hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small)
Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a
gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting
up the ipchains rule and the
module for usb supportI have a scanner HP5200c connected to a usb port,
invisible from debian,
which makes me suspect that there is some module for usb that I have not
installed. does any one know which?
USB is not properly supported in Linux until the 2.4 kernel (the one that
still hasn't
been
Title: Re: Backup packages
You could also try the package mirrordir or
similar.
apt-cache search mirror
or
apt-cache search backup
should give you a good shortlist... :)
- Chris
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:26:33AM +, Lee Elliott
wrote: Hello List,
I have several HDDs on my
Title: Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail
on the remote server you'd just use fetchmail to
download it, although, I *think* gnus has it's own
software to download the mail if that's what you want.
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704Make A Buck Or Two @ TheMail.com -
Free Internet Email
Sign-up today at http://www.themail.com/ref.htm?ref=1763925
Did anyone else notice this bit?
I had a quick look at the web page, and basically its a pyramid
scheme where you get money for signing people
Re: apt: http vs. ftp?
Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
a proxy involved.
why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it
better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
transfer...
Presumably the level of
The story behind this one is that I want to save some emails that come
through my POP3 account to my local user to another account (that of my
wife). I don't want to forward them, because replying to a forward
ends up sending the message to me (in Evolution, anyway). At present I'm
manually
In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended
up using packages from unstable. Unfortunately, I ended up getting
libc6 and a few other important ones. Now I'm seeing various errors
sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade.
First question, what's the
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:39:24PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Chris Kenrick wrote:
The story behind this one is that I want to save some emails that come
through my POP3 account to my local user to another account (that of my
wife). I don't want to forward them
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:54:00PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:11:44PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote:
The story behind this one is that I want to save some emails that come
through my POP3 account to my local user to another account (that of my
uhm? why
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:21:07PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:11:44PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote:
The story behind this one is that I want to save some emails that come
through my POP3 account to my local user to another account (that of my
wife). I don't want
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:05PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote:
I was hoping some folks here could give me some suggestions on setting
up an email to fax gateway.
My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a
an address in my office (eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and have
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:47:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:28:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
BTW, I have not yet tried flphoto's rotation. Will come back after some
more experiments :-)
Am back after my trials with flphoto. It rotates in a
I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to
read Usenet articles too. I've been using a Python based NNTP
downloader, but it's a bit slow, and doesn't seem to handle
errors/failures very well.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to a good way to achieve this using
Debian
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:52:14AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
can anybody tell me whether the debian mutt package is configured to enable
fetching from one's pop server. I get errors when I try to use the pop_host or
pop_user variables in my .muttrc.
I'm not sure of the answer to your
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:16:27PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 03:41, stan wrote:
I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and
cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the
mailing list archive search engine to
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:41:55PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
Team:
I need to put up a simple, HTML-only site. No database/CGI/anything.
Apache looks like overkill.
Can you recommend a nice, compact, efficient alternative?
IIRC there is a Linux kernel based webserver, which can
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:47:40AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:41, Scott Henson wrote:
I reinstalled my system last week with a mix of unstable and
experimental(gnome2 packages). Since then I have been experienceing
some unexplained restarts. Basically the machine
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote:
Hello,
Have people aside from me lately had problems with crippled
debian-user-digest messages? The digests I get always have less message
entries than the TOC says and the number of attached original messages
corresponds to
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:44:59PM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote:
On Friday 18 October 2002 03:34 pm, Chris Kenrick wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:47:40AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:41, Scott Henson wrote:
I reinstalled my system last week with a mix of unstable
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote:
Hi,
still got the same problem with the way fetchmail is set up in debian
(woody):
after dialing with pon provider /etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken is called by
fetchmail-script in ip-up.d. But fetchmail doesn't fetch mail,
: Chris Kenrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
(above should be all on one line in the file, but wrapped for mail
purposes)
Sorry to sound like a mutt fanboy, but it really is a nice MUA.
- Chris
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:18:45PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote:
I am new to debian and wondered what's the best way to add a
job for crontab (indexmaker for mrtg) ?
Write a short shell script to do what you need, looking something like
#!/bin/sh
mrtg dosomething
and put the file in
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:48:13AM +0530, Sharninder wrote:
I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based
access?
not any AFAIK. All web mail clients might handle and do handle the
client side differently even though they might be using the same
IMAP or POP
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't
received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting
lists.debian.org I see there's been plenty of traffic. Has anybody
else not received the digest?
I'm not
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 09:13:16AM +1000, Lindsay Yardley wrote:
G'day All,
A very special THANKS to all those who've helped me get started with
debian. Unfortunately I don't have the time to cope with the quantity of
mail on this list so I'm off to find a quieter one. Thanks again,
Glad you
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:11:42PM -0500, Charles Logan wrote:
I'm not sure when this little problem began, but the only system changes have
been updates from security.debian. The system is an all stable Woody box.
The problem is that images saved in the jpg format appear horribly blurred and
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:24:12PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've googled. I've found scripts that don't Work For Me. I've found the APT
howto and not understood the little information I could see there.
I've got seven CDs burned myself from the ISO images I downloaded.
Unpacking
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:44:01PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
hello all
i do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising.
there is a win9x application - e2fs that can explore linux partitions on
dual boot machines.
here is the homepage
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:53:20AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:52:02PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote..
Hi all,
I've got a Belkin compact flash card reader connected to my USB port.
Works fine under Win2K even with plug and play, so the hardware is OK
are at the moment running lots of
unnecessary
crud (installed on top of base), so I needed to derive
a list of
base packages so I can work out what extra needs
installing. Fortunately, Karsten's magic command line
suggestion should solve it I think.
- Chris Kenrick
accessed in the last 24 hours
B) The total disk usage by the given file list A)
- Chris Kenrick
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whole bunch of stuff snipped
Can you name me a single OSS app that can do what
Norton does??
Can you name me a single OSS app that can take
images of entire hard
drivers,
or various parts, and send them over the network on
the fly??
Can you name me a single OSS app that can multicast
to
I've managed to get sound working on an SB16 sound card (manually modprobing
from the command line works), but I'm having trouble trying to get it to
load at bootup. Yes, I did run update-modules after each change... but
after reboot no sound drivers are present according to lsmod, and dmesg
Thanks all for the help. CUPS got me fixed right up. Now I'll be trying
to configure sound.
I have a soundblaster AWE32 sound card. I configured the sound into my
kernel during installation. dmesg output:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.13 detected
-user-digest
broken, or is there a problem (mail gateway issue?) on
my end? Note that debian-user mails get through to me
fine.
- Chris Kenrick
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free
I have two boxes here, a Debian woody box, not
internet connected and a Windows NT box, internet
connected. It's not an option to connect the Debian
box to the net, but it is an option to connect it to
the NT box via a null modem cable...
So what I am asking is, how can I get apt to not
download
What's the recommended approach for installing Woody
these days?
Is is still best to install a minimal Potato then
dist-upgrade, or is there a better way.
- Chris
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- Original Message -
From: Chapman, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:00 AM
Subject: Restore CD image equiv.
Hi,
I would like to know if anyone has something that will work for
You've probably already thought of this, but would a simple shell script
do the trick...
eg
while [ true ]
do
ps aux | grep [s]omeprocess somelogfile
sleep 60;
done
Note that the using the square brackets around the first letter of the
process name is just a neat trick to
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0400, Jason Bleazard wrote:
I've found a lot of good documentation about IMAP, fetchmail and
procmail individually. However, I'm trying to figure out how to make
them all work together and I'm afraid I don't quite get it. I've tried
some Google searches
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:33:55PM -0400, Kapil Khosla wrote:
Hi,
I got my sound card to work by doing
modprobe trident
modprobe sound
but I have to do this everytime at boot time.
I also did update-modules expecting that it will modify the .conf file and I
will be all set but that doesnt
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
allegedly the last email from ponik the slovakian bofh
It is my last mail for you.
Thank everybody for help.
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
management. something similar
According to mutt doco, if one sets followup_to to yes, and adds a
mailing list definition eg subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED], then
mutt will automagically add the Mail-Followup-To header to mails sent to
that list.
At what point does the header get added? When I use E to edit the
message with full
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help
him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course!
That would save a lot of bandwidth (the offending posts *and*
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:58:18AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
Hi,
I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about
Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro
of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas.
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:13:55PM -0500, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote:
Which package is utempter.h in? X needs it to build xterm...
Thanks in advance,
None of them, according to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.
At the bottom of that page, you'll find a facility that allows you to
search
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not
adjusted?
You need to turn on APM
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
All,
I recalled a package (in woody) that would analyze your dependancies and point
out unused libraries, etc. Does anyone recall what the name of that package
is?
deborphan?
- Chris
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I'm just about to do a motherboard upgrade, and that will mean replacing
my current modem, which is unfortunately ISA based.
Anyone able to recommend options for a replacement? I know that the
cheaper internal modems are very likely to be winmodems, and (possibly)
unsupported, but I'm not so
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:04:26PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:58:36PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Funny, I've heard this external-is-better for years, but I've been using
internals for more than a decade and never had problems with them.
An external
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:23:00PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I
have consulted as well as the man page and I can't
figure out how to use tar to back up my /home
directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my
other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:25:39AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[sot of off topic]
is there a digest version available of debian-user? Couldn't find one on the
mailing list pages..
Jani
Well, there is debian-user-digest (or at least was). However, it was
broken last time I looked...
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:55:31AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:25:39AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[sot of off topic]
is there a digest version available of debian-user? Couldn't find one on the
mailing list pages..
Jani
Well, there is debian-user
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:31:08PM -0700, alephtnull wrote:
Hi, I have made a boo-boo. I recompiled my kernel (after 5 months
doing make dep,make clean, make modules and make modules_install) then
make bzImage then copied bzImage to vmlinuz and backed up vmlinuz
(just in case something goes
Mail forwarded back to list - Chris
- Forwarded message from Larry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 06:50:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Larry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: i made a boo-boo
To: Chris Kenrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think this may have happened:
The LILO entry
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:14:10PM -0400, Tom Zych wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
Can you get there now? brainfood.com, its host, was off the network for
a few minutes earlier today.
Sorry, I forgot to say this is an ongoing problem. Started
a couple of months ago, I guess.
ping gives
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:14:18PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote:
Hi list, can you please clarify something for me-- this should be pretty
straight forward so sorry if the question seems a bit lame. Can you
please reply to the email in addition to the list since I'm not
currently subscribed.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:08:34PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote:
What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail,
there were some change which causes ^M in mail file.
It is
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:32:45PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote:
If I wanted to restrict ssh to only listen for my office's ip until it
gets patched how do I do this? I tried editing sshd_config and putting
my office ip as the listenaddress but it didn't work. What did I do
incorrectly?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:41:48PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Okay, back to Unix 101 for me.
How do I produce a directory listing followed by a count of files and
directories?
ls | wc
only produces a count without listing the files, and it doesn't
distinguish between files and
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration.
Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now
I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the
mail, which forwards
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:49:04PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but none of those things help. See below...
On 0, Chris Kenrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying something New and Different
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:25:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in size
with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for easier
multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself.
tar has
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:22:37AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
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On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote:
I've been having trouble with the find utility in
Potato.
Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission
to look in
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