link button (was: Debian 2.1 NOW! logo)

1999-03-02 Thread Carey Evans
Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With the imminent release of Debian 2.1, and people asking how to make Debian more visible, I've revamped a logo I created a while ago, and put it on my web site. It's less than 2K as a GIF, but even so I won't attach to an email to a public list. I'd

Re: help for samba.conf

1999-03-01 Thread Carey Evans
with smbclient, e.g. $ smbclient '\\hostname\tmp' -U whoever You can add -d 2 or -d 5 to get debugging output from smbclient. You can also increase the debug level, and check (IIRC) /var/log/smb for errors. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ And so, New York has

Re: rm message..what is the answer.

1999-03-01 Thread Carey Evans
-- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ And so, New York has joined the fraternity of cities whose only admission requirement is to be overrun with evil zombies.http://www.sluggy.com/

Re: Autostart application from console

1999-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
;\ *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty12 So that Alt-F12 displays the most recent syslog messages, with very little overhead. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ And so, New York has joined the fraternity of cities whose only admission requirement is to be overrun with evil

Debian 2.1 NOW! logo

1999-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
would prefer if it was used as a pointer to URL:http://www.debian.org/ or a suitable page on that site. Obviously, for the release of Hurd I can replace Tux with a Gnu. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ And so, New York has joined the fraternity of cities whose only

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-28 Thread Carey Evans
too. The easiest way to get the package lists in sync is to choose apt as the access method in delect, and use `dselect update' instead of `apt-get update'. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ And so, New York has joined the fraternity of cities whose only admission

Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
Roland E. Lipovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:36:14AM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: Trying to use 192.168.0.xxx is asking for trouble, in my opinion. Try Why? Oops. Because: 1. It was after midnight the first day back at work, and I really shouldn't post

Re: [FIXED] Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-11 Thread Carey Evans
and you don't have an lmhosts file, the only effect is that you get an annoying error, which is why I said you could ignore it. You could also put the following in your smb.conf. name resolve order = bcast host -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S

Re: Network Not Working!

1999-02-10 Thread Carey Evans
: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused $ smbclient -L win95 -I 192.168.1.2 [...] $ smbclient -L win95 [... should be the same] On Win95: C:\PING 192.168.1.1 Start-Find-Computer LINUX Start-Run telnet 192.168.1.1 The output of these commands would be useful. -- Carey Evans

Re: no permission for rnews

1999-02-08 Thread Carey Evans
the news? If one of these files start with #! rnews ... you can just run rnews on it: # rnews D.downtowdcc58 -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left

Re: setserial question

1999-02-03 Thread Carey Evans
to do this if all programs are using the latest POSIX termios code, so Linux 2.2 complains about it. Try removing these flags if they're there, and see if anything stops working. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting

Re: Can I block _only_ privileged access with ipchains?

1999-02-03 Thread Carey Evans
work to do on it, but it's basically finished. If you're running Linux 2.0, check the ipfwadm(8) man page; my docs might still be of use. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's

Re: minicom config

1999-02-03 Thread Carey Evans
to change anything. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader

Re: exim: I get mail but cannot send

1999-02-03 Thread Carey Evans
sort of messages you've got. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader

Re: chmod script

1999-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Does anybody have a script for changing all the dirs and subdirs into mode 700 and all the files into mode 600 ? Maybe chmod -R u=rwX,go= path Capital X means preserve the exisiting execute permission. -- Carey Evans http

Re: start-stop-daemon and multiple exim daemons

1999-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
. Actually, I found an old version (1.4.0.7) of start-stop-daemon, when it was written in Perl, and it does have the behaviour you want. Maybe this is a bug in start-stop-daemon. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting

Re: man/apropos/mandb problem...

1999-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
the changes and reboot, and let fsck clean up the mess. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader

Re: setserial question

1999-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
of setserial (or maybe dip) is old. Try downloading the one from slink (frozen) and see if it will work without any complaints: # dpkg -i setserial_what-ever.deb It would be a good idea to have the old package around in case this doesn't work. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: Network problem

1999-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
the tcpdump package? Do you get any unusual messages when you start ppp with the `debug' option in /etc/ppp/peers/provider? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
it was. If it happens again I'll have to report it to linux-kernel. I _did_ use Alt-SysRq-P to find out that it seemed to be looping in schedule(), but didn't record anything else. This is with a Pentium 166 and a no-name motherboard. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

Re: this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
of the kernel developers to explain. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader

Re: How do file transfer with minicom?

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
on configuration) and choose zmodem. To send to a Unix host, type rz to start the ZMODEM receiver then choose ^A S in minicom to send the file. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys

Re: LPRng - I give up!!

1999-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
, where printer is the host name of the server. This should work quite well with the cti-ifhp package. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left

Re: Minicom installed and ppp working...at l o n g last

1999-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
and DESQview. It's actually the terminal emulator, i.e. xterm, that lets you cut-and-paste between the windows. On the console, you can use gpm to do this. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-30 Thread Carey Evans
didn't want to start, and with -pre6 (I think) logging funny messages, but aside from that I haven't had any problems with 2.2.x. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during

Re: Communicator Package 128 bit encription

1999-01-30 Thread Carey Evans
packages. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader. - Bruce Martin

Re: this guy talks to ff01a8c0 from loopback

1999-01-29 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader. - Bruce Martin in RISKS

Re: Problem with perl and locale

1999-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader. - Bruce Martin in RISKS

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
.' Do you have a PS/2 mouse (with a little round connector), and should you have it compiled in? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise

Re: http proxy

1999-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
hassle. Using apt-get, we set the http_proxy to 'http://login:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80/' and away it went. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left

Re: smail. From field

1999-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left as an exercise to the reader

Re: bash programming question

1999-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
somestuff $file done You could rewrite it in Python and use walk() from os.path, or in Perl and use File::Find. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with children's toys during office hours is left

Re: HP 4000 N

1999-01-12 Thread Carey Evans
looks best (it prints darker than the HP5 setup) on our Lexmarks. and because doing things like ls -l|lpr generates a listing with a staircase effect. if= filters don't get run when you use rm=. Try using lp=192.168.10.20%9100 instead. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-12 Thread Carey Evans
traffic that I'm not interested in. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-11 Thread Carey Evans
...' shows this to be the case, at least for replacing my current exim with smail. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-10 Thread Carey Evans
equivs needs to `Conflicts:' and `Replaces:' mail-transfer-agent, like exim, smail, sendmail etc. do. (Is anyone reading that actually *understands* dpkg?) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way

Re: HP 4000 N

1999-01-10 Thread Carey Evans
the bounce queue stuff: :lp=hplj4000n%9100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4000n:\ The cti-ifhp filters can also help in this case to do real accounting using the printer's page counter, and set things like duplex printing, etc. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: named/BIND 8.1.2-5 won't accept inbound zone xfers

1999-01-10 Thread Carey Evans
to 1999011001 (which is greater than 121219981), or you'll have to try manually getting BIND to forget its cached zone files and get the whole lot from the master again. (And you'll have to do this every year. You *don't* need these problems in Jan 2000.) -- Carey Evans http

Re: Search and Replace

1999-01-10 Thread Carey Evans
/index.html -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: Printing on win95

1999-01-10 Thread Carey Evans
VERTICAL LINE |, not an ISO-8859-1 BROKEN BAR. Try the script from the command line, i.e. netprint printme.txt Once that works, try it with lpr: lpr -Plp1 printme.txt _Then_ work on WP8. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-09 Thread Carey Evans
0.0.0.0/0 123 -p UDP -j ACCEPT # Only accept other UDP traffic on non-privileged ports. ipchains -A inet_in -d 0.0.0.0/0 0:1023 -p UDP -j REJECT -l # Accept other traffic (including ICMP and existing TCP connections). ipchains -A inet_in -j ACCEPT - -- Carey Evans http

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-09 Thread Carey Evans
/SiliconValley/Pines/2361/logo.bmp if anybody wants to try it. Unfortunately that's the wrong size. :( MS went for a 320 wide by 400 high logo, with rectangular pixels. Also, Geocities transmits .bmp files as text/plain, so Netscape tries to display them. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-08 Thread Carey Evans
. In /etc/conf.modules, I have alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 What changes should I made to a standard Hamm 2.03 system so I am able to use a 2.2.0(Pre) kernel? BTW, 2.2.0-pre5 was out last time I checked. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Yes, AFAIK. dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
, which for debian-user is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: need various libs ... ??

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
, or would they change to the versions in my system?? If you install the -dev versions of all the libraries where necessary - probably just libc6-dev - it will depend on your current system, including f2c's current libf2c.so.2. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: Remote boot question

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
/ Is this the sort of thing you're after? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
--install new-mta.deb [Marc proves me wrong.] /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install says: dpkg --install --auto-deconfigure and uses: dpkg -iB Maybe it matters which order it goes in? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
not using a null envelope sender in its message, which it MUST do. Elsewhere in this RFC is the requirement for a postmaster mailbox. I suppose I should wish them luck... -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] qvirtual option in fetchmail

1999-01-06 Thread Carey Evans
from one of the messages after it gets into the maildirsmtp queue. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: How can I set Linux up as a File Server?

1999-01-06 Thread Carey Evans
. Win98 3. Linux Assuming you've got them networked and TCP/IP working, you just need to install Samba. Otherwise, have a look at the docs in /usr/doc/HOWTO, like the NET-3-HOWTO. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap

Re: need various libs ... ??

1999-01-05 Thread Carey Evans
try `objdump --private-headers executable | grep RPATH' to see if there's a path to the libraries compiled into the program. If there is, carefully change the path using something like Emacs's `hexl-find-file' to something that doesn't exist. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: smbmount-2.1.x: how does it work ?

1999-01-04 Thread Carey Evans
? smbmount-2.1.x //servif3/user4if -U jzago -c 'mount /mnt/servif3' There's an example like this right at the top of the smbmount-2.1.x man page here. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way

Re: Q: dpkg-ftp and socks

1999-01-03 Thread Carey Evans
-clients package in unstable includes a runsocks script that lets you socksify most programs automatically, runsocks dselect update and runsocks apt-get install lynx for example. This is what I use at work with our SOCKS firewall. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: Problems with drive usage (Debian 1.3.1)

1999-01-03 Thread Carey Evans
instead, then restore OS/2. Then install Linux and change the DOS partitions to Linux. This is a lot of trouble, especially if it doesn't work. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other

Re: slink

1999-01-03 Thread Carey Evans
into the resulting directory and run debian/rules binary. 3. dpkg -i the resulting .deb package. *Don't* force it if it refuses to install - reinstall the old package and ask for help. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag

Re: Network File Server

1999-01-03 Thread Carey Evans
with LPRng and cti-ifhp it works quite well with HP-compatible laser printers. (Would you have gotten a reply this fast from MS support on a statutory holiday?) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see

Re: Modem trouble, Please help!!

1999-01-03 Thread Carey Evans
of the supplied kernel images to work. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: LaTeX and overhead production

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
source for a few slides. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: Xdm on remote servers.

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
And see what happens then. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
and /usr/doc/kbd. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.

Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
psaux prw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 3 11:55 xconsole| [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ptyp1 crw--w 1 careytty3, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ttyp1 crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 7 Jan 3 11:58 tty7 $ -- Carey Evans http

Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found

1998-12-20 Thread Carey Evans
. (Great Christmas present, that.) Note that each of the bad files in lost+found is one (possibly essential) one that has disappeared from where it was supposed to be. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Microsoft is the answer! The question is, Why did my PC crash?

Re: xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-13 Thread Carey Evans
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) what more can I try (outside reboot) to clear the terminals? setfont -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Microsoft is the answer! The question is, Why did my PC crash?

Re: Mouse pointer

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
? You _can_ change the foreground and background colours - see the xsetroot man page for details. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue

Re: firewall question

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
the web server manual for more details. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: emacs xemacs

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
* good for looking at Slashdot. (But make sure you still have a copy of the old .deb around in case it doesn't work.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ (I wish I knew why I'm at home on Saturday night, writing brick text.)

Re: auth port security

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
install a dummy one which claims to know nothing. You should probably ask if your user really needs to use IRC. (This is the only case I can think of when it's _needed_, and other networks than Undernet are usually less strict anyway.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: elm email gets through, exmh email doesn't

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
/etc/exim.conf and adding ist.flinders.edu.au to local_domains. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: how to create locales? [OFF TOPIC]

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
is in the manpages package. You might also want to have a look at /usr/doc/gettext/ABOUT-NLS from the gettext package. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find

Re: Set-up My Apple Laser Writer on Debian Linux

1998-12-12 Thread Carey Evans
the lprng and magicfilter packages. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: surprise! was( USR; dialing wrong number)

1998-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: w3-el, Howto?

1998-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
case, it tries to do frames. (The same applies to XEmacs.) 2) How do I get started with it? Alt-X W 3 Enter Better would be control-h i, and read the info documentation. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans

Re: scriptl interacts with telnet port daemon?

1998-12-05 Thread Carey Evans
/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.01.tar.gz very few programming experience ;-P I don't think this is the right thing to start with. :-/ -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
load-path (cons (directory-file-name (expand-file-name ~/share/emacs/nnimap)) load-path)) (require 'nnimap) Would anyone be interested in this as a Debian package? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes

Re: Re : Re: Re : RE: please help me: problems for users!

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
? This will list the errors (look for E? symbols in the output) that vi gets accessing the files. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron

Re: backup

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
too. If you *have* got the tape working, but just can't get at the tapes, you're beyond my knowledge. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue

Re: How to fix Kernel panic

1998-12-02 Thread Carey Evans
-F2 after it boots but before installing anything. Here you can use fdisk etc. to find out which partition is which, and mount them to see what's on them. Once you get it to boot, edit /etc/lilo.conf to work right, run /sbin/lilo again, and reboot to make sure it worked. -- Carey Evans

Re: Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

1998-11-30 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruchira Datta) writes: Sometimes when I switch from X to a virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, the virtual console starts substituting some characters for others. Try the command `setfont'. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone

Re: Recommandation for LTT

1998-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
be, but hopefully not many email-collecting robots will decode the following properly: A HREF=mailto:c%2Eevans%40clear.net.n%7A;c.e#118;ans#64;clear#46;net.nz/A (Note especially that there are no @ characters for them to spot.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: sendmail check_mail ruleset

1998-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
-f-is-evil) (setq message-sendmail-f-is-evil t) If all else fails, you could add the line below to your remote_smtp transport in /etc/exim.conf and see what happens. headers_remove = sender -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually

Re: sendmail check_mail ruleset

1998-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
what's happening. (I'm not having any problems with Ole's messages because my ISP inserts the Return-Path: header, which fetchmail uses first, and which is the *real* MAIL FROM address.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
in /etc/X11/fvwm2/ will be changed, but the old files in ~/.fvwm2/ will still contain the old data, and will override the new data, until that user runs update-menus again. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so

Re: virtual hosts

1998-11-28 Thread Carey Evans
with the friendly Apache documentation. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: Blocking an arbitrary port with ipfwadm

1998-11-28 Thread Carey Evans
0.0.0.0/0 31337 to stop *your* users connecting to another BO server. -o = Log the address of the offender, so you can complain to their ISP. This will also drop some legitimate UDP comms, if something happens to grab port 31337 itself. I could live with this. -- Carey Evans http

Re: Problems with Exim with ISP-dialupping

1998-11-26 Thread Carey Evans
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: ethernet card and ppp modem connection

1998-11-26 Thread Carey Evans
kernels, to send only rlogin traffic over the PPP interface, but you'll have to work out how to do that yourself. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-25 Thread Carey Evans
think anything will get changed automatically for that user when new packages are installled. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-24 Thread Carey Evans
. Ultimately, there should probably be another package that manages this and provides an `update-binfmt' program. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone

Re: How to customize fvwm entries ?

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
461 To change it for all users: $ su Password: # cp /usr/lib/menu/lyx /etc/menu/ # edit /etc/menu/lyx [ Make the change. ] # update-menus # ^D $ -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
in the deliver proces?? See `man procmail' near the bottom. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Beginner - Ethernet configuration was: Re: HELP

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue? - Cameron Laird

Re: How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
is that myprogram starts something, and logger won't exit until there's nothing left writing to _it_. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find someone to sue

Re: networking problem with 2.1.x

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
interface is usually attached to a network of some kind. If it's not, try configuring it as netmask 255.255.255.255. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest as to be unable to find

Re: Downloading the Linux file from ftp -Help!

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
-wrapping to 70 columns, or whatever it's called in your program. David: Complain to someone about Pine leaving the HTML alternative in. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes that USAicans are so modest or intellectually honest

Re: Problem starting X for first time

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
by X. (This is a gross oversimplification.) Try something like: $ startx X.log 21 If you want to see the messages go flying by, that would be: $ startx 21 | tee -a X.log Another handy program is SuperProbe, to make sure your idea of what the card is matches X's idea. -- Carey Evans

Re: SQL Database performance

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
. See URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/18/0837247.shtml. I'm also planning on sticking the first page of the PDF at URL:http://www2.software.ibm.com/news/news.nsf/n/cjig425nf2 up at the office somewhere. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who

Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
is a new security feature in the development (2.1.x) Linux kernels. proftpd is probably trying to use these for extra security, but will be the same as before if you're running 2.0.35. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Is there anyone who actually believes

Re: ftp daemon

1998-11-20 Thread Carey Evans
involved. In this case, I would guess it lets proftpd use reserved ports (like 20 and 21, ftp-data and ftp-control) without needing to be root. This means that if there's any bug somewhere in proftpd, there's no straightforward way to get root access to the box. -- Carey Evans http

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