[OT] PGP GPG on the same system?

2000-12-11 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I'm attempting to get Mutt to properly deal with encryption. I have some old pubring.pkr and secring.skr files that I created using the International version of PGP 5 for Windows (I'm sorry, but I don't remember the exact version). I've also created a new key for GPG. When I try and

INN2 and Suck, posts not propagating upstream.

2000-10-12 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I thought I had this INN2/Suck thing all figured out, but apparently not. It's been working great, downloading the groups I want, archiving the way I want. Local posting is working just wonderful, but I noticed that the posts didn't seem to be getting any replies (I usually get at

Re: how can I add disk space?

2000-10-06 Thread Adam Scriven
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl wrote: And what do you mean with LVM is more flexible (and by the way what does RAID and LVM mean?)? RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (Disks?) LVM stands for Logical Volume Management (IIRC). I've done quite a bit of

Re: bits and pieces

2000-10-04 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:10:54PM -0700, David Erdman wrote: On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any issues installing potato on a system with these components: . Asus K7V motherboard with an Athlon 800mhz processor . Matrox Millennium G400 (16MB video

Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

2000-10-02 Thread Adam Scriven
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:40:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Could someone who knows about printers help Willy? It isn't my area. I just spoke up because I have a BJC-1000. I don't know printers, but I have a BJC-1000, and have had no problems with it at all. I installed the magic-filter

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

2000-09-21 Thread Adam Scriven
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:39:35AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried putting * * in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. I just have * in mine, and it seems to work OK HTH Adam

Re: Filtering with Procmail

2000-09-20 Thread Adam Scriven
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:13:46PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: Can I use Procmail to also filter out SPAM I get on a regular basis from a bunch of spam servers (MyFamily.com, copernic.ca, V3) ? Yup. You should pose this question to the procmail list, but I think this recepie will do. And how

Re: dselect and apt-get

2000-09-19 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name, or is there a better way? I don't know if this is a better way or not, but I usually

[OT] Re: BeOs

2000-09-19 Thread Adam Scriven
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:05:49PM +, stefan goeman wrote: Any of you ever been playing around with BeOS? I have it installed, but I don't play around with it too much. That would involve me rebooting Linux, after all! 8-) I wonder if it is easy to install especially on a PC with Win98

X and Console in the same News/E-mail program?

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've been thinking (dangerous) recently about what I'd like in a news and e-mail reader. I'd like them both to be X based, for the most part, but it would be handy if there was a secondary curses (or other console) based interface, for when I telnet into my box remotely. Is such a

Fine tuning my system, I could use some advice.

2000-08-25 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. My little piece of heaven here is almost working properly, but there are some little (I think) things that are kinda bugging me. I'm getting these errors in my syslog: named[16414]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on oracle? My main machine's name is oracle, and it's running

RE: DSL and Debian questions

2000-08-24 Thread Adam Scriven
At 00:12 2000/08/24 +, you wrote: On 24-Aug-2000 David Bellows wrote: 2. I installed the default kernel in my system and didn't set up any networking stuff (currently using a dial up connection -- I'm presuming that DSL is a kind of networking thing). Where do I find the information

Re: .ems attachments???

2000-08-24 Thread Adam Scriven
At 14:11 2000/08/24 -0700, you wrote: What's the deal with the email (from some users) coming from this list that ends up with the body of the message coming as an '.ems' attachment? If it's an email client option, I'd suggest deactivating the option. I can't be the only one who can't read

Recommended File and User sharing between Debian systems?

2000-08-20 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've got another machine added to my network (Old 486, 12MB Ram. Debian went on OK, but the kmod (i think) errors on boot went on for ever), and I'm wondering what the best (if there is such a thing) way of sharing users and shares between computers? I've read a lot of bad press

Re: canon bjc-2000

2000-08-20 Thread Adam Scriven
At 18:01 2000/08/20 -0600, you wrote: I bought a bjc 2000 printer just recently and I have not been able to get it to work. I was wondering if someone could give me some help, and write me a little instruction on how and what I need to get it working properly. Here's the page at

Seriously screwed up PostgreSQL. 8-(

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I tried to install PostgreSQL (apt-get install postgresql), but I happened to think about it at the same time that Potato was released, so most of my downloads failed. This wouldn't have been a problem, except that I kept trying, and so I seem to have screwed up the install. I never

Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian servers that are being pummelled right now. 8-) I'd like to

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 09:00 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: So, with all this in mind, if you can be more specific about what you want to mirror maybe we can be more specific on how to go about doing it. Ok, sure. I should have mentioned this before, but I'm only going to do stable x86, since that's all I have

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 13:20 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: This is so not true. If you installed all your machines, without using any sort of shared local cache it would still produce less bandwidth than 1 week of a full local mirror. You realize it takes about 200meg/day to keep up with our archive? Ok, fair

Re: Complete local mirror.

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Scriven
At 22:05 2000/08/15 -0400, you wrote: Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions. Adam Scriven said: How would I implement shared apt? That sounds like what I'd like to do, but I've never even heard of it. Orion wrote: What I do is have /var/cache/apt/archives

Re: can't ftp through IP Masq

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Scriven
At 19:28 2000/08/14 -0500, you wrote: I am not able to ftp from my private network, through IP Masqerading. I now have Debian 2.2, and I had Debian 2.1 before. As far as I can tell, I have set up IP Masq the same way as I did before. You need the ip_masq_ftp.o module installed, OR you need to

Apache w/ Potato, strange .CGI functionality.

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I'm not exactly sure if this is a Debian + Apache problem, or just an Apache problem, so if you can point me in the right direction (another list, perhaps?) I'd be most appreciative. I installed the apache-perl package on my fileserver, and I've configured it for multiple

Re: Apache w/ Potato, strange .CGI functionality.

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Scriven
At 10:21 2000/08/13 +0200, you wrote: Some pointers: - Is the first line of the script: #!/usr/bin/perl ?? or did you try the execution from the commandline by 'perl script' ?? First line is #!/usr/bin/perl which perl gives me #!/usr/bin/perl - Make sure there's a handler for .cgi scripts

Re: Mail configuration and setup LONG REPLY

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:09 2000/08/12 +0100, you wrote: I was hoping someone would be able to help on this one as I have never done it before. I just got through doing something very similar to this, so I'll do my best. What I am trying to do, is set up a debian box that will serve as a mailserver (both smtp

Re: Setting up IP aliasing, cannot find kernel modules

2000-08-10 Thread Adam Scriven
At 08:25 2000/08/10 -0500, you wrote: I can't find it at the debian site. That probably just means I don't know where to look, since I'm still new to debian. It's a standard module in the kernel, AFAIK, so that's why there's no entry on the debian site, cause it's always part of the kernel

VI and .html files?

2000-08-09 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I've been using VI for 8 years now, but this is the first time I've ever seen it have this little problem. I try and VI a .html file, and I get what looks to be a lynx-style WYSIWYG editor. It doesn't show me the source code, it actually shows me the HTML page formatted. Does

SOLVED: Re: VI and .html files?

2000-08-09 Thread Adam Scriven
At 09:01 2000/08/09 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Adam Scriven wrote: I've been using VI for 8 years now, but this is the first time I've ever seen it have this little problem. I try and VI a .html file, and I get what looks to be a lynx-style WYSIWYG editor. It doesn't show me

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

2000-08-08 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:40 2000/08/08 -0400, you wrote: It's possible to mount your Windows partition with all the files set with whatever ownership/permissions you want. You can put the settings in /etc/fstab, but I can't find the appropriate settings in fstab's manpages.. I think you can do it in Linuxconf

Re: Exim mail is frozen

2000-08-08 Thread Adam Scriven
At 09:48 2000/08/09 +0900, you wrote: I retreived some mail using fetchmail, which worked fine. At the time, I used root to generate my /var/spool/mail/USER file. This caused some 120+ email to be bounced. I couldn't get any mail to my USER. These mail got stuck in /var/spool/exim/input. I

Selective bouncing of e-mail, using Exim?

2000-08-07 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok, I've decided to stick with Exim for now (I know everyone was waiting to hear that). I've skimmed through the (vast) documentation, but I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible. I have my own domain, so all mail goes to my POP mail box (not the best setup, but it works, and since my

Setting up a mail server, looking for some recommendations.

2000-08-06 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. Fresh from my conquering of the TrinityOS firewall, the Right(tm) way of compiling a kernel into a .deb (thanks Simon!), and getting file/print sharing (mostly) setup, I now want to tackle a mail server. I have an ADSL link @home (not through @Home, however), and I have my own

apt-get vs. dselect?

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I'm going through the process of upgrading the kernel on my router box, and implementing some better firewall rules (Thanks to the TrinityOS doc. Very helpful). Traditionally I've used dselect to manage the packages that I have installed, but it gets rather cumbersome having to

Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven - Lore
Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow completely fscked up my router. It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that part looks like it's working great. I've got 2 other network cards, both 3Com 905B. I have the 3c59x module

Re: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
At 14:36 2000/08/04 -0400, you wrote: whoopsie... :) been in windows too long.. anyhow.. possible though ? Yup. That just means to use the whole C block as one subnet. Basically, I've got 2 different subnets, 192.168.0.* and 192.168.1.*. BUT, I got it to work...and I got my portforwarding

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
At 13:22 2000/08/03 -0400, you wrote: At 11:11 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: each time i re-install windows on the box (every 6 months, tops), it fscks the pnp info on every card, so i sometimes have to set my card on pnp or manual config. when this happens, changing the io address fixes the

FIXED: Buggered up my router somehow.

2000-08-04 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok, no laughing. I setup the TrinityOS firewall script too. I didn't mention this, but I have no idea why. I had the $INTIF setup wrong. eth1 != eth0. Sorry. Adam Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian, one small? problem

2000-08-03 Thread Adam Scriven
Ok, thanks to all the great suggestions, I can now see the Canon on the Mac+, and it tries to print. The problem is, there's no PPD file that I can find for it. Does this mean that I'm screwed? I've searched the canon site, I downloaded the canon set from Adobe, but there's nothing that even

Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

2000-08-03 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey again. I've got an old ISA AHA-1542CF SCSI card in my new fileserver. The bios for the card boots up OK, and I can see all devices on it (just a zip drive right now, ID 6), but the card isn't being seen in Debian. I compiled the driver as a module (I've recompiled a much nicer kernel

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

2000-08-03 Thread Adam Scriven
At 11:11 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:41AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: So, I tried to fix that with a boot parameter, aha1542=0x130, but that doesn't seem to have done anything either. each time i re-install windows on the box (every 6 months, tops), it fscks

Re: What do I have to do to get my server running?

2000-08-03 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:15 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: I'm turning my Linux into a server for my family's to Windoze machines, but I'm not sure what exactly to do. I've installed the Samba packages, and compiled SMB support into the kernel. I've got my NE2000 working, so now I just need to know how to

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-31 Thread Adam Scriven
At 12:48 2000/07/31 +0900, you wrote: Adam Scriven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, for him to go to 2.2, and get the upgrades that he wants, he needs to reinstall. He has no problem with this, and I've recommend Debian, but no matter how stable the frozen version is, it IS STILL frozen

Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

2000-07-31 Thread Adam Scriven
Hey all. I'm picking up a new computer tomorrow, that will be a fileserver on my home network. One of the things I need it to do is share files/printer with Windows (samba) and Macs (netatalk+asun). I've setup and run both of those programs on other systems, so that's OK. My problem is, I

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

2000-07-31 Thread Adam Scriven
At 08:42 2000/07/31 -0500, you wrote: The Mac+ wants to talk Postscript to the Laserwriter, yes? I'm not exactly certain. What I remember is that you'd install the actual LaserWriter drive on the Mac+, and point it to your networked LaserWriter printer, sitting on the Linux box. But, the

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Adam Scriven
At 00:28 2000/07/31 +1000, you wrote: How common is the Debian last practice, that is, try other distributions (including non-GNU/Linux) and then come to Debian to stay? I started out as a user on a X-friend's Yggrassil (sp?) system. Then we switched to SlackWare, and that was also my first

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-30 Thread Adam Scriven
At 20:53 2000/07/30 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to switch to the most updated release possible if he

Re: deborphan

2000-07-29 Thread Adam Scriven
At 11:23 2000/07/29 -0600, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:37:04PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:32:36AM +, Henry White wrote: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... [...] Any ideas or suggestions? try newer 2.2.17pre's. I've got the same