Re: Bind/DNS

2002-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Does anyone have a down and dirty, current and quick HOWTO on setting up BIND for a few domain names? Check out the DNS-HOWTO. It goes into a lot if theory up front, and you really should read that part, but you'd probably

/home: Stale NFS file handle

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
I took the NFS server down to replace a couple hard drives on Saturday and now the clients are all complaining that the NFS handle for /home is stale. mounting and umounting the same export elsewhere doesn't work, despite some claims on lkml that this might do some magic. The other things I've

Re: Printing with CUPS

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:02:14AM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: It prints line 1 and only line 1 of any document. I can't understand why. Try printing a file with very short lines. Say, something like this. Does it print out as Say, something like this. ? If

Re: /home: Stale NFS file handle

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Short answer: no. Ah, well. I've already rebooted them anyhow, though, so it doesn't really matter. Next time unmount on the clients before doing something like that. I just realized... The stale handles are because of the new

Re: wmaker menu

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:29:49AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I would like to use the plain text menu, as suggest in the window maker preferences program. I have read the /usr/share/doc/wmaker/README.preferences and the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu files without success. According to

cfdisk, fdisk, and mke2fs: file size limit exceeded

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to replace a pair of 30G drives in a RAID0 configuration with a pair of 60s so I'll be able to do RAID1 instead. However, I keep getting file size limit exceeded errors whenever I: - Try to write a configuration with more than 2 logical partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (although the

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:23:56PM -0500, dman wrote: What is your raw data? Do people always spool only Postscript, plain text, and PCL? Well, actually, yes... What will happen on your current setup if I try lp -d some_raw_spooled_to_jetdirect_printer foo.dvi or lp -d

CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent hook in CUPS. Where can

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:50:08PM -0500, dman wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and | it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in | printcap, which provides an easy

Re: Funky email disclaimer

2002-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:44:46AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Yow, not only does the legal team have no clue about technology, but no clue about the McQuary Limit, to boot. The _what???_ limit? Is that the `no more than 4 lines in your sig'

Potato horde hangs on install

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Like the subject says, horde from potato is hanging on me: # apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X?

2002-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:26:02PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton wrote: What is X? The X Window System. The most common GUI for unix-type systems. How do you run it in case I have it? If you have a GUI (which is pretty much a given if you're running Netscape or Mozilla), X is already running. --

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:04:45AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: On every standard Debian install, anybody can gain the root password within minutes (given the attacker has phyiscal access to the box): As others have said, if an attacker has unrestricted physical access to the machine, he has

Re: Hyperlink Howto?

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:14:03PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: I used to be able to ctrl-click a hyperlink to launch my browser go to the link, but this no longer works. I've looked in the FAQ the list archives. Can anyone tell me how (or where to RTFM)? In what program? Also, is there

Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:48:28PM -0600, Rob Rati wrote: When I try to create a file with vi and save it in this dir, I get the same kind of error. Sounds like a permission problem. What does `ls -ld /usr/share/doc` say? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote: Is there anyway around this? Check out expect. I basically want to remote shell into my server, run a scp command that may take serveral hours, but be able to let the scp take place while I exit the shell and go for lunch. Also check

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:41:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there! - The people. This mailing list is

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:18PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run rnews -U every hour, and then sends me, as sysadmin (ha, ha), warning me that it has failed to find rnews. How can I remove this cron job? I have looked for crontab

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:57:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In TeX you should write lefthand string\hfilcenter string\hfilrighthand string I don't think that would work properly in cases where the left and right sections are of different lengths. My understanding of how \hfil works is

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:30:10AM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: and now the stupid question: why aren't nfs, the rpcs, and the startup scripts at least an option during the installation? i understand that some people may not want these daemons running, but it should be offered during the

Re: Ulimit

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:08:33PM -0200, Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf wrote: 1) Editing /etc/security/limits.conf, addind the line: rbw softstack unlimited Had you tried also increasing the hard limit to unlimited? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop

Re: probably a stupid question

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: to be specific: portmap lockd mountd rquotad statd Yes, and all of them are in the packages I mentioned earlier, with the exception of rquotad, which is in the quota package. I'm not terribly familiar with the package

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0500, dman wrote: I may just have to learn screen :-). Now that you mention it, screen probably would be the easiest way to accomplis what you want to do... -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:09:23PM -0500, dman wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote: | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies | go away? If that is the reason for

Re: What is OT:

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...like so ``wtf wtf`` on a cl ;-) wtf's vocabulary seems a little limited: $ wtf ot Gee... I don't know what ot means... $ wtf hand Gee... I don't know what hand means... (This is

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a somewhat off-topic question : You know all those nice CD vendors that have a donation checkbox for Debian. How do I know they are really donating the money ? And if they sell Debian CD's why aren't they _required_

Re: init 5 ?

2002-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:50:04PM -0700, darrell wrote: this does irritate me somewhat too! when i was trying to figure out how to fix gdm, i tried to pass runlevel to lilo - this was nice when 1-3-5 where the runlevels singleuser-network-gui, guess that is old hat now? Not, that's not old

Re: RAID screwup

2002-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:31:04AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: dd if=/tmp/tmpimage.png of=/dev/md0 Heh... I did something very similar the first time I tried to create a tarball. Not smart, this was to write to my raid system. Now when I do an ls I get something like: ls: lib: Input/output

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up. For those who don't grok this, look at the

Re: Changing a software license

2002-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Matt Yanchyshyn wrote: Say I write some origianl code (that does not use any external libraries, programs or otherwise) and license it under the GPL or BSD license. As the original author of that code, can I change its license later on or it it

Re: Bad header/ Subjects line in debian-user-digest

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:05:34AM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: What's the deal? Every email I get has the same header and subjust line which doesn't match with the actual messages. I usually just browse the subjects to see if there is anything I'm interested in. Because you're subscribed

Re: Speeding up apt-get security updates

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:35:39PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Hello all, I manage a small groups of Debian stable boxes that manage the internet side of a local business. I'm wondering if there is a kosher way to only download security patches once. Our link isn't so hot, and

md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:14:00 -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what might be preventing swap from getting started automatically at boot? Well, /etc/init.d/mountall.sh generally runs swapon at some

Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: this is what i put in there (these are the default values on my laptop without any data in /etc/security/limits.conf !!) * hardcoreunlimited * softcore0 * harddataunlimited * hard

Re: md resync vs. swap (was Re: Swap not starting)

2002-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Something in the back of my mind says it's to do with having a swap file/partition on the raid volume, that that is a bad thing while it is syncing it. I don't remember exactly though. I suppose that could lead to some nasty

Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I logged in this morning to discover syslog full of ntpd[179]: recvfrom() fd=6: Connection refused entries. This server is configured to reference four time sources. Is there any way to determine which one is refusing connections? (Other than remove one from ntp.conf, wait to see if the errors

Re: Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:54:00AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: telnet ntp_sever ntp I wouldn't expect that to work (and a quick test looks like it doesn't). NTP is UDP-based, not TCP. or check the log files... it should tell you which ip# is refusing the connections

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Did you read the original post? The guy wants to test a site that uses some Microsoft specific tags in an HTML-like document. Sending MSIE's user agent string won't allow Opera to suddenly understand these tags. I almost sent

Swap not starting

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
I have a quad-cpu machine running a 2.2.19 kernel with the following lines in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb7 noneswapsw,pri=10 0 0 but it doesn't start either swap partition until explicitly told to do

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

2002-01-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:58:09PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: The bug affects only a tiny minority of users: I've seen three reports on d-u counting mine so far. Make me number 4, unless you've already counted my comments from two months ago. And I still say that this isn't needed. If an

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:52:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Linux piper 2.4.9 #1 Tue Sep 11 15:39:28 CEST 2001 i686 unknown 16:45:25 up 13 days, 1:17, 7 users, load average: 3.40, 3.56, 3.70 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.8% user, 22.3%

Re: fancy MDA sought

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:36:26AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: I may be wrong, but wouldn't this break some expectations? I know only of MDAs that are called via ~/.forward, so there's no point in parsing it. What am I missing here? Although it's not the most common configuration, ISTR that

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:53:36PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.07.1709 +0100]: Although I think that ALSA sounds like the most likely source of trouble, based on previous responses, I'll also point out that, with load in the 3-4 range

Re: Pause

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:48:44PM -0800, L Vogtmann wrote: dmesg will show you the last kernel messages. More specifically, the last 8192 bytes of them. Use it after boot to see what the kernel spits out when it boots. ...unless your boot process concludes with something very verbose (such

Re: Pause

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:23:42PM -0500, dman wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | ...unless your boot process concludes with something very verbose | (such as the md subsystem) spewing 8kB of useless messages which | drive everything else out of dmesg's

Re: Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:06:07AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: $ apt-get install wipe shred $ man wipe shred $ dpkg -S shred fileutils: /usr/share/man/man1/shred.1.gz fileutils: /usr/bin/shred -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. -

Re: How to delete Exims' queue

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: exim -Mrm message-ID will remove from the queue. all from man exim. ...but the thing I've never been able to find is something that lets you do the equivalent of exim -Mrm * or even exim -Mrm msgid1 msgid2 msgid3... instead of

Re: Must I have an `alias char-major-14 off' line?

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:28:05AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: That is exactly the thing I do not understand. Since those lines are only comments, why does modprobe tries to locate module char-major-14 in the first place? (I do not want any sound.) $ ls -l /dev | grep 14, crw-rw1 root

Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Thomas Deselaers wrote: I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea to be able to switch it of as user without being root. I had two ideas of making this possible. The one is to make it sudo-able and the other is to put

Re: Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2001-12-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin wrote: So essentially I can write a user mode file shredder/secure deletion program in C using just the standard C library on Debian? Sure, if you really wanted to. Or you could just `man shred`. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop

2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y which should be the appropriate settings. It's currently installed on a single disk and I'm trying to use the

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:51:26PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: I'm setting up a potato system to boot off a software RAID, using a 2.2.19 kernel and raidtools2. The kernel was built with Did you apply the RAID 0.9 patches to 2.2.19

Re: 2.2.19/raidtools2 not cooperating

2001-12-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:22:44PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: Is the kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid package good for 2.2.19 also or do I need to download the patch from elsewhere? Get the 2.2.19 or 2.2.20 ones. They are in unstable

Re: chmod quiestion

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:23PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Providing I have a directory /grpdir and chmod it to 775. If a user of that group creates a subdirectory under it, say /grpdir/subdir, the subdir will have 755 as it's default mode. How to force the files and subdirectories

Re: mutt saving maillists automatically

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:53AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: Let procmail do it. I use the following recipe for debian lists: # Debian lists ... :0 * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[] *\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail/$MATCH/ Or, if you're running exim

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:24:53AM -0500, Matt wrote: IT? Artsy? Young? Old? Bitter? Socialist or CrewCut? Utopian or realist? Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P+++$ L+++$$ E- W--(++) N o+ !K w--$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r% y+ -- When we reduce

Re: How to handle whitespace in filenames ???

2001-12-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:32:18PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the whitespace's supposed to be input

Re: wdm problem

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no keyboard access. This is what the ps ax | grep wdm shows [08:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps ax | grep wdm 901 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/wdm 905 ?

Re: ssh session doesn't terminate until programs are closed

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Joshua Goodall wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:00:23AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: I was wondering about an ssh session not closing until all the programs started in it are closed. How can I change this behaviour? Or maybe better, how can I

Re: su does not appear to be working

2001-12-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:01:53PM -0500, Jason Stechschulte wrote: If I look at the permissions for /bin/su, on a working machine: -rwsr-xr-x ^ I'm assuming this has something to do with it. From my limited knowledge, I believe this is called the sticky bit? Close, but not quite:

Re: space usage misreported?

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:57:16AM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: /dev/sda5 (/var) = 1.8G total Used (from df) = 1.7G du reports /var = 88M (approx. 0.1G) Hence Used space not reported = 1.7G -0.1 G = 1.69G (but I rounded inaccurately down to 1.6G). is my maths not correct? Your

Re: adding applications to WindowMaker menu

2001-12-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:40:18PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: A stub WMRootMenu might look as follows: Alternately, you can edit ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu to contain /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook instead of just menu.hook and then use wmakerconf (or, I assume, WPrefs) to suck the

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:56:41PM +0100, Josef Oswald wrote: I used # perl logwatch.pl but prints a error: sh /bin/mail file not found, could it be this because Debian uses postfix to fetch and send mail No, it's because Debian policy states that only binaries which are essential to the

Re: Logwatch anyone using it on Debian?

2001-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:53:03AM -0800, ben wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2001 07:46 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] (And, as a side note, Debian's default MTA is exim, not postfix.) are you sure about this? i would expect that any default application would be part of the default

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:44:20PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does debian do any patching or just distribute the official

Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people want it on anyway? That's not Debian-specific. The Linux kernel ignores most BIOS settings and

Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:03:19PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: I use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It is an optical trackerball and as such it is very easy to keep clean. The large ball just pushes out and accumulated fluff etc. can be blown away. I swear by the standard Trackman Marble

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:52PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Dima (see headers for relevant tags) It takes all the sport out of it when you specifically tell people where to look... -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence

Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does debian do any patching or just distribute the official source unmodified? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. -

Re: power management monitor

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:33:50PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: xset -dpms OK, so how do you make that the default? I've commented out the Option DPMS line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but it still defaults to turning the monitor off after however many minutes. -- When we reduce our

Re: No functional xterm access from testing KDE

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:42:10PM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Also, I still never got an answer to my question of weeks ago about how to change the window manager by editing a configuration file. Doesn't anybody know this? Is it really that complex just to switch window managers? I didn't

Re: sticky directories

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:11:29AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote: Q: is there some way in Deb to cause new files to inherit ownership and permissions? In particular, I want files created by certain users in a certain directory to be owned by a group that each belongs to but that is not the

Selecting paper tray for HP 2100TN with lprng

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got an HP 2100TN and need to allow the users to select which paper tray it prints from. It's got a JetDirect card, but the printer's internal queue is being fed by an lprng queue. What do I need to do to get this working properly? (Or, in the likely case that this is a case to RTFM, which

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:02:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is doing to me since I fiddled with its main.cf? The list looks normal to me. I'd guess it's

ssh exploit?

2001-11-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
Heard a rumor on the local LUG mailing list this morning about a remote root exploit in sshd. Nothing resembling details was presented, just a link to the openssh-unix-dev mailing list archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-devm=100696253318793w=2 Anybody know anything of

Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:09:53AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: * Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.28 10:44:02-0600]: Bull. Give me one reason why it sucks. It's the way of giving them anonymous cvs access without too much hassle. Or do you believe that

Re: Installing on ABIT KT7A-RAID motherboard

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:15:27PM -0800, L. Vogtmann wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:53 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: Is that still the recommended procedure for installing onto a RAID which is handled by this board's HPT370 controller or has something better and/or simpler been

Re: How to change logcheck.sh reporting?

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm trying to remove some annoying fetchmail lines from the logcheck.sh reporting as they are not error messages and they overflow my report. I tried to add different things to stop the problem even: fetchmail\[.*\].* won't

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: * filtering (it would be cruel to liken it to procmail filtering, but it's in the same general ballpark in that you can reject/drop/delete/forward based on header information) That's something I've wondered about for a while...

Re: upgrading unstable -- 44 packages held back?

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:25:47AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: So, I'm assuming this is expected behavior, but can anyone explain how the determination is made to hold back certain packages? If it's not the hold flag, what else does it look for? apt-get upgrade will refuse to add any new

Re: New bash and tab completion

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:37:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: I don't know if there is a way to revert back to the old behavior, but this change is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz: c. The completion code no longer appends a `/' or ` ' to a match when completing a symbolic

Installing on ABIT KT7A-RAID motherboard

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've just built a new system based on a KT7A-RAID, which I know can be made to work, but my potato install CD says that it can't find any hard drives and offers to load any required modules from floppy. Poking around on google, I found a message quoting a debian-boot post from last December

Re: df redux

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:09:50PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: NB I've tried the 'cruft' program to i.d. whatever might be taking up the sudden 24% of this 15G partition. 'cruft' spits out a 500MB file when I run it with no options. Well, at least then you know what's eating all the disk

Re: symbolic links

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:39:33AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: .Apr 1 2001 mail - ../mail My question: I'm guessing that the file mail is linked to here: /var/mail but the above output doesn't tell me that. Yes it does. It tells you that, if you're in /var/spool, 'mail' and '../mail'

Re: ssh and scp loging : please help

2001-11-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:28:20PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: I am not getting anything in syslog :( How can I record ssh login / logout / bad passwd Look in /var/log/auth.log . How can I record all scp ops what was copied from and to and bad passwds scp uses a normal ssh connection, so

Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default

2001-11-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:57:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to have CAPS Lock turned on in all VCs and perhaps telnet sessions by default? I believe this is a BIOS setting. I've often seen

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:13:08PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: So let's change tack. How would I go about mounting the entire contents of a remote computer's filesystem and only be able to access the remote computer's files within subdirectories of that mount point? There would be no confusion

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:46:26PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: Which is a PITA, meaning I will will have to reproduce all the mount points on the client computer if I implement NFS. The standard way of dealing with that is to use an automounter and have it read its automount maps from NIS, which

Re: Own DNS server inside an existing network

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:04:03AM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote: I am the owner of mydomain.tld which is currently hosted by an ISP. Would it be possible to set up a nameserver at a.b.c.d that will be authoritative for mydomain.tld given that the ISP allows a custom nameserver? Sure. You

Re: foobar

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:57:41AM +1100, Richardson, Martin wrote: Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning? http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius

Re: logging out users

2001-11-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:05:21AM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: How do you logout leftover sessions? For example, I ssh'd into my debian box, the connection went down because of line problems, and when I log back in the old session is still there. I don't know how to kill it. This happened a

Unwanted debug info from woody postgresql

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
With postgresql 7.1.3-4 (the current woody version as of last Friday), I'm getting a large number of messages logged by postgres at 4:00 every morning, most of them prefaced with DEBUG:. This strikes me as rather odd, given that /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf explicitly states debug_level = 0.

Re: i can't run cgi in user_dir

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:11:21PM +0700, hero wrote: # test.pl !#/usr/bin/perl -w print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print h2Test cgi/h2\n; # /var/log/apache/error.log [Sun Nov 17 20:32:31 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers:

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: (Whatever happened to the very intelligent policy of configuring programs in /bin in /etc, configuring programs in /usr/bin in /usr/etc, and configuring programs in /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc?!) Wouldn't really help any, given

Re: NFS trys following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote: I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example: bash: cd: backup2: No such file or directory Because that directory doesn't exist on my

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:44:02AM +, root wrote: this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself? *sigh* You seem to have

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:52:58AM -0500, Paul McHale wrote: Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot. I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran fine. In three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash. If this sort of thing

Re: software strategy for shop

2001-11-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: i) What database would you use (server will be debian but there will be at least one windows machine off of it). Postgres. ii) In what language would you write the administrators screen for data entry and sales reports. Perl

Re: DNS/BIND questions

2001-11-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:45:58PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: - I currently have ONE static IP. If I choose this to be the name server for all my domains, do I NEED/have-to-have a backup? Yes. Most (all?) registrars require you to submit at least one secondary name server. - Does a

Re: Question about memory use in Linux

2001-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:18:35PM +, Aniartia wrote: Adding a 2nd swap file on a disk seems counter productive as you've not got 2 stores and unless the swap priorty is the same will jump between then making things slower. I don't understand swap priortys but to say you can tell linux to

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