Re: testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:03:50PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: | I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is | this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there | any? There probably aren't any. It's possible that all the packages you have

Re: block websites

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:17:38PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: | Hello again, | | I posted this mail earlier today and I have had some reactions but they | don't work or I don't understand it (I'm a dummy) | | I want to block http://www.grolle.nl for all computers in my network. | |

Re: sound over lan

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:13:26PM +0100, fLokNo wrote: | is it possible to transfer sound over lan or wan like in winXP with some | sort of client and server technology? esound (aka esd) is supposedly capable of doing this. I sorta tried it once, but didn't get it to work through my firewalls

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I | am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are | already loaded. Don't assume. Check. (do you know what assume

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:33:51PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:33:18AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: | | The program burster, written in C, takes its standard input (the | | digest) apart into individual

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: | 01.12.2002 18:07:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that | flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that cares. Its possible that it | only cares

Re: Exim permissions

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:02:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: | OK, but I still don't quite understand why the trusted user bit | doesn't work. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that part. The short answer is trusted_user doesn't mean what you think it means. See section 5.2 of the spec for a longer

Re: configuring X

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:53:11PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I've got a few questions regarding X. I hope that someone can help me to | solve these problems. | 1. I need to configure X so that I can use xfont-75dpi. I currently have | xfont-100dpi and I cannot get rid of this

Re: Spammassassin errors *SOLVED*

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:47:41AM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | I am getting the above errors. Roommate tried to setup spamassassin on | my system last week. I think it was bouncing everything back cause I | stopped recieving emails, so I removed it. (I had to re-subscribe to | deb-user

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:49:33PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | This was: Spamassassin Config Questions, as it originated after I | installed spamassassin. But I'm splitting it off now for 2 reasons. | 1) Cause it's sort of it's own problem now. It is. | 2) Testing to see if it causes another

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list *partly solved, not on my side*

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | Why don't the list maintainers wipe the faulty address? How would they know the address is faulty? *You* got the error message, not them. The list software does automatically remove bad addresses (like it did to yours a while

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Thanks Cameron and Alan. Your explanations and examples corrected my mental model of LVM. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:44:00AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | The point of LVM is that you can easily create, resize or delete | these logical volumes without worrying about them being contiguous |

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: | Hi, | | I have the following ~/.forward: | | # Exim filter | if $header_from: contains digest | then pipe /home/pigeon/bin/burster | save /home/pigeon/mail/debug/burster.log | endif Ok, that's fine. | The program burster, written

which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. Since I have no need to support a legacy OS, I am wondering what sort of partition table would be best to use. I intend to create a lot of little partitions on

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. Sure. Put sed in place before the file is written : s/@/ AT /g s/\./ DOT /g Ok, so now the addresses are munged. They're also a royal pain for honest

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with | the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. | Since I have no need

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:35:01AM +, Chris Lale wrote: | Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' | thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most | ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows | users. Why not

Re: Can I eliminate carriage returns when sending to mac

2002-11-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:43:45PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | I have to send text files to a publisher who uses a mac. | | The files are written with vim and sent via mutt. I am told that all the | lines have carriage returns. I've tried using no textwidth setting in | vim and have

Re: exim filtering (and postfix)

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: | A particularly effective anti-spam tool that I've see in use is to block | mail claiming to be from a webmail provider (e.g. hotmail) that never | actually passed through a server controlled by that webmail provider. | | Has

Re: dist-upgrade: trying to overwrite errors

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:43:07AM -0600, will trillich wrote: | i'm going from potato to woody and aside from having to | i'm getting things like this, a lot: | | snip | Unpacking replacement eeyes ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb |(--unpack): |

Re: Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:39:09AM -0800, Curtis wrote: | Here's how part of my main.cf file currently reads. I restarted this time, | instead of reloading, which IS what I usually did. Note, no more carolyn.ld@ | or whatever it was are no longer going through. | Curtis | | |

Re: Exim domain setup problem for dialup use

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:39:29PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | I've got a Debain machine running exim acting as a MASQ machine on a pppoe | connection (e.g. the machine has two NICs). | | The hostname is burn. The domain, for this example, is burn.foo.net | | The problem is if I send mail to

Re: laptop questions

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:15:58PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: | | 1) PCMCIA cards. We have a linksys ethernet card that is recognized as | an NE2000 compatible ethernet card. When I did the install, the only | way I

Re: ip_table problems

2002-11-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:05:44AM +, daves debian wrote: | I run kernel 2.4.19, I want to run firestarter as a GUI firewall, it needs | IP chains enabled in the kernel ipchains or iptables? The two are quite different. | I finaly tracked down an article telling me what modules to enable,

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:32:32AM -0500, Oleg wrote: | Hi | | Can anyone who is very familiar with these FS types summarize their | relative features in terms of | | a) quality (bug content) I haven't experienced a bug with ext3 yet (or ext2 for that matter). | b) reliability (resistence to

Re: CUPS Samba print server under Debian

2002-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: | I'm in the process of setting up a Linux server for my Home LAN and | have some questions regarding the setup. First question is in regards | to CUPS. I see that under cupsomatic-ppd it says that you should try | foomatic-bin and

Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 root=301

2002-11-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:49:07PM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote: | On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 07:44, Charles Baker wrote: | I had the same problem when I first moved to a 2.4.x | kernel on a plain intel based machine. The problem wa | slack of initrd line in lilo.conf . For example, | |

Re: Open Source file delivery for apache

2002-11-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:59:22PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: | This means, a person should be able to register herself by providing a | least a valid email address to which an access code is sent to. This | access code is then used to download the respective tar-files. I don't know of any

Re: mutt mucks up 'Subject'

2002-11-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:45:17AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:12:42AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: | On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 9:05am, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: | | [...] | | :There is an option for the muttrc that allows you to specify which | :headers

Re: IPX over TCP/IP?

2002-11-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:55:46PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello list, | | Is it possible to build a pptpd on Linux and make some Windows client to | use pptp to connect to the pptpd server and connect to each other via | IPX protocol? | | Some LAN games use IPX protocol, how can I make it

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:06, Kent West wrote: | | I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not just | tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a similar problem with Java, or | have I just been

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:37:57PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:25:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: | The problem with using TERM=xterm on Solaris is that all you get is | bold and underlines for highlighting because programs will think | your terminal

Re: text mode clone of gaim?

2002-11-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:03:36AM -0600, Kent West wrote: | Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | | i have been using gaim - a good im package. It is stable as far as AIM is concerned, but IMO the UI is a bit lacking. | is there a clone that runs on console? may be i can postpone starting x | that much

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:24:18PM +1000, mdevin wrote: | One thing interesting though is that if I enter my proper system | password then ldap refuses me once and gives another Password: prompt. | If I then enter the proper system password again, I am allowed to login. | So ssh must check

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 07:40:30PM -0800, nate wrote: | mdevin said: | Another thing: I just noticed that everytime I send and email now, the | log screen for slapd spews heaps of stuff. I guess postfix is already | communicating with it for some reason, although I am not sure what. There |

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | really? i've been beating my head against this for a while now, and | have to date only managed to get dark-blue-and-pink syntax | highlighting on the Suns i work on ... exporting TERM=dtterm doesn't | seem to do much, either. do

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:11:56PM -0800, nate wrote: | mdevin said: | | Can you spell that out even more for this ldap newbie? | In my slapd.conf I do have the following: | rootdn cn=admin,dc=mycompany,dc=com | rootpw {SSHA}JuaWFhw+AXDgppTgOJPtpZARL1PpWRoj | | | you sure

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | That's Phase-II of this project... ;) I think it would be good for him to | see that to burn his CD he can just move files via samba to the Linux | machine and run a single command or shell script. That's easy to do. Another

Re: realaudio on xmms

2002-11-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:43:21AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: | Hi, | Is there a way to play realaudio ,.ram and .rm files | on xmms . Grab ftp://ftp.xmms.org/xmms/plugins/rmxmms/libreal.so and put in in ~/.xmms/Plugins. Then open the .ram file in your editor and copy the rtsp:// url

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:45:37PM -0800, nate wrote: | mdevin said: | On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 18:49:40 -0800, nate wrote: | | Thanks, it worked straight away. But you have scared me now. I want to | migrate over other stuff too for host information, users passwords etc. | Should I keep

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:20:43PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: FYI since you've already solved the problem. | I have tried printing to file from the Windows box, and it ouputs a .prn | file, which is apparently of type: .prn only means came from a printer driver. It bears no relationship to the

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:45:09AM -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: | | Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresses that do not exist | because robot software can use that info to build a database of | valid addresses

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:30:09PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | no. someone asked me to

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:59:17PM -0800, nate wrote: | You can test this by typing several lines, then going back to | command mode (ESCAPE) and scroll up and down the file, it will | scroll one line at a time, if it jumps 2-3 lines at once, that is | just 1 really long line. Actually, if you

Re: SMTP error in fetchmail fetch

2002-11-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: | Can anyone interpret this syslog message for me? Yes. :-) | Nov 15 08:59:24 sakura fetchmail[19276]: SMTP error: 550 Syntax error in | 'To' header: or . expected after Low: failing address is: Low | Rates On Your Dream Home! |

Re: printing - from beginning

2002-11-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Sandip : Don't start two threads on the same day regarding the same problem. That makes it hard to follow what you've tried, what dosn't work, and what suggestions you've already had. Just start one thread and continue with it. On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Stephen

Re: Exim configuration for Laptop

2002-11-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:48:30PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | I've been wondering how best to configure Exim for use on a Laptop. How | are other Debian users configuring it? My recommendation is to use a smarhost, one way or another. Are you the admin of some mail server on the Internet

Re: How do I prevent DHCP'd interfaces from coming up automatically on boot?

2002-10-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 06:02:43PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: | I've got a built-in ethernet jack on my laptop. Being a laptop... this jack | is often not plugged into anything (aka: I don't want it coming up | automatically on boot). However, being a laptop, when it *is* plugged in, it | gets

Re: IIS worms and apache

2002-10-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:49:58AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in | real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the | corresponding abuse contacts automagically? An incomplete answer follows. /etc/apache/httpd.conf :

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:18:19PM +0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote: | OK - i see it can be installed ... but with no less than 16 meg of RAM One technique (which I used because at the time I didn't have sufficient network resources and the BIOS was too old to boot from a CD) is to pull the hard drive

Re: Spurious interrupt...

2002-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:42:00AM +0800, Joey Quevedo wrote: | Hi, | | Does anybody know what does this message means: | | Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7? It means nothing, more-or-less. At one point I did a google search and found out more details. I see it too, on a dell inspirion 7500

Re: exim troubles - is there an end to this?

2002-10-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:00:43PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | hello all! | | my troubles with exim seem to be endless! Actually, I think you're really close. See below. | now, 192.168.100.1 is ip address of nt server we have here to which i am | connected. i use the same address in my

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: | | Is there a download manager for linux at all ? gtm | I would like to schedule late night downloads. This can be scripted quite nicely with cron and 'wget'. As an example, I have this cron job : # every day, do an apt-get

Re: building (deb) everybuddy-0.4.2 source on woody [was: help compiling everybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody]

2002-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:57:14AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | I'm trying this, but it still barfs at me, now complaining it can't | find the libtool bits it wants. | | In file included from main.c:55: | plugin.h:25: ltdl.h: No such file or directory | make[1]: *** [main.o]

Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:11:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | Now Micro$oft apparently found out that my brother has installed | Linux and that many of his friends are getting interested, so they | ordered the system administrators to install Proxy Server 2.0, a | discontinued product! How

Re: using adduser script ldap

2002-09-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:52:14PM +0200, Thorsten Klein wrote: | hi, | | i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a | ldap-server on woody. | | i'd googled for a while and can't find anything usefull on that topic. Take a look at

Re: mozilla too many process

2002-09-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:53:11PM -0400, Seiichiro Tanizaki wrote: | When I lunch mozilla, it takes about 80M of memory | with seven processes running. This last statement isn't true. It's one process with 7 kernel threads. The linux kernel maps threads onto lightweight processes. Your

Re: 'ping -f' a Win98 box (was: Re: Collisions on lan using Linux versus Windows)

2002-09-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:36:47PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | I have been following the thread with interest. I decided to do a | test my LAN here while my bride was playing a game on her computer. | I started a ping -f session on her box with my Linux laptop, then | started another

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: | On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: | Is it possible to connect two computers with a USB cable? | | Yes, but it won't get you a network if that is what you | want. Sure it will. Ok, the network will

Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim

2002-09-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: | I am trying to set up majordomo alongside exim, but everytime I mail | majordomo (majordomo@my_domian), the mail is frozen and remains | undelivered until I remove it from the queue. | | I have listed below all relevant details

Re: helo

2002-09-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:15:06AM -0700, nate wrote: | Stefan said: | I have a problem with my lq100 | I`m using windows 2000 and i have problems printing [...] | if it does not related to linux you should contact the support group | or company responsible for the device you are using. in this

Re: apache suexec

2002-09-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:36:33PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: | Is there a way to run apache in suexec mode without compiling by hand? Yes. | Anyhow, so anyone know if there's a way to make apache debs run | su-exec? thanks. They come that way. All you have to do is play by the rules for

Re: OT: storing laptop (Li-ion) batteries

2002-09-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:05:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Joe Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.09.2003 +0200]: | Seal them in bags so they stay dry and store them in the freezer. They | should stay charged quite a bit longer. | | Anyone ever done this? No, but it

Re: postfix bouncing

2002-09-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:08:35PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I am trying to send mail to a localhost installation of postfix. ... | Mail is rejected at the localhost smtp server with the following | in /var/log/mail.log: ... | (Name service error for tacocat.net.sea.mail.core.tacocat.net:

Re: PAM use by non root applications

2002-09-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:34:08PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: | Does Woody allow non-root id applications to to PAM auth? Yes. No. It depends. Which PAM module are you trying to use? You can't use pam_unix *if* you use shadow passwords *and* the non-root user does not have permission to

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.

2002-09-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:45:28PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: | On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:23:55PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: | On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Russ Pitman told: [view pdf attachments from mutt] | My .mailcap had 'application/pdf;' set to /usr/bin/xpdf so I

Re: dev and runtime library packages

2002-06-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:31:07AM +1200, Massey, Craig wrote: | Do I need to install both the dev and runtime libraries packages when | compiling applications from source code, Yes. | or do the dev libraries compile to the runtime libraries? They are not dev libraries, they are dev packages.

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: | | hello all- | | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another | | directory. how can i select only

Re: Ot c++ programming in linux

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:36:31PM -0700, ben wrote: | On Friday 28 June 2002 06:56 pm, Scott Henson wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 21:51, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:17:14PM -0700, faisal gillani wrote: |Well i am a newbie learning c++ these days we are |being

Re: exim question

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 11:50:00AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | Exim is the mta on both machines. | failed to open database lock file | /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied | (euid=8 egid=8) Notice that exim is running as mail:mail at this time. (and that's not a

Re: kernel upgrade and dhcp

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:41:13PM -0500, Larry Elmore wrote: | I've recently installed Sid on a new computer and use a Linksys router | and cable modem for Internet access. I've built a 2.4.18 kernel image | package, and it works fine except for networking. | | I've read the relevant HOW-TOs,

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade error

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 03:48:15PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | I then looked at dmesg and I see a bunch of errors concerning my hdd. | | end_request: I/O error, dev 16:08 (hdc), sector 229232 | hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } | hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: D-Link DFE-690TXD

2002-06-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:28:12PM -0400, Joe Paxton wrote: | When trying to compile module for D-Link DFE-690TXD under Woody, No need. $ pwd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/net $ grep DFE-690 * 8139too.c: { D-Link DFE-690TXD (RealTek RTL8139), RTL8139_CAPS }, Install a recent 2.4

Re: Mail Server

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:53:03AM -0400, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: | Actually, your both not totally correct. If you follow the Life | with qmail document, its called vpopmail smtp authentication. [POP-before-SMTP] | -- hence nobody can actually send e-mail through the server

Re: ipchains: drop a single IP address?

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:30:00AM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: | This works for me: | | ipchains -A input -s 12.27.41.66 -j DENY -l Does this send back a connection refused packet? I forget what the target names are for ipchains, but with iptables you want to use DROP instead of REJECT.

Re: Mail Server

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:33:03AM -0400, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: | On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:53:03AM -0400, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account | wrote: | [POP-before-SMTP] | | -- hence nobody can actually send e-mail through the server unless | | they have a username and

Re: Mail Server

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:31:29AM -0400, Jeff Hood wrote: | Have any of you set up Postfix in a professional environment and if so, | what kind of success/failure have you experienced? I have some Sendmail | experience but I have been experimenting with Postfix on a test server and | I have found

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: | hello all- | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can | i select only these files and not the standard files. | | ls .* doesn't seem to work. It does (but without -a you won't see them), but it

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:57:18AM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: | Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I | caught the new gnome-terminal package (2.0). Oh, it's availble? Cool! I'm hoping it fixes the unicode display problems (rather, lack thereof) in 1.4. | I can't

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:47:38PM -0500, Kent West wrote: | Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | at the risk of starting a Holy Way, | | Do'h! Six or seven postings later, I notice the misspelling. It's | supposed to be Holy War, as I'm sure everyone realized. :-0 Some of those who skim

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:06:30PM -0230, Michael D. Crawford wrote: | This seems silly. Is there an easy/accessible way, preferably through | LILO, to boot into single-user mode with few, if any, daemons running? | However, a preferable option is to use GNU Grub, I prefer grub too, but all you

Re: SMTP with PostgreSQL

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:10:43PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | Hi all, | anyone knows any SMTP (Exim or others) to use with a Debian | GNU/Linux system? I know the Exim and Courier has MySQL support but | I only want to use PostgreSQL. Exim has postgres support. I

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 07:45:18PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:41, Matthew Tedder wrote: | That's the place I've spent hours looking... The mirrors are | mirrors of lots of different things including plenty of Potato and | jigdo but where is Woody?? | ^ | jigdo

Re: SMTP with PostgreSQL

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:31:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:36:41 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:10:43PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | | | Hi all, | | anyone knows

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:03:21PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: (lots o' snippage) | You are not free to do what you will with it, so it is | not free software. Capitlize the Free :-). | Generally speaking, a restriction on the modification of source | kills something in Debian, Agreed. | since (I

Re: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app

2002-06-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:36:30AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I am trying to get a commercial application which was originally intended | for Redhat 6.2 to work on Woody. | | It complines that gethostbyaddr() cannot find the local machine's hostname. | The box is set up correctly

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:45:51PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Christian Schoenebeck declaimed: | Es geschah am Montag, 24. Juni 2002 22:26 als Paul Mackinney schrieb: | So, no matter of your .forward file, does Maildir at least work or are all | messages saved in mbox? | | Maildir works.

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:29:33PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | Lately I've been playing a little with sending mail to myself | (great fun, that!:)). I'm using postfix and it works perfectly. | I've found out that if I send mail using sendmail -f foo -F bar | root to rewrite headers there's an

Re: Subject Prefix - Procmail Hacks

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:27:51PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: | On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | | The subject prefix is widely used by sites running majordomo. | One example is PostgreSQL. I've been on several lists there for | years and never heard anyone complain about the

Re: An Internal Modem - Configuration

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:56:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How would you configure an Internal Modem ? If it works, the same way you would configure an external one. (eg it will be /dev/ttyS0, so just go ahead and use minicom and chat, etc) -D -- Don't use C; In my opinion, C is

Re: PAM not working reliably

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:39:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | So why is it if I have /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow, group has read | access, and mail in the shadow group, exim can't authenticate through | PAM. If I chown /etc/shadow to root:mail, it works...WTF? I haven't checked it, but

Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | 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 it to

Re: mutt's thread editing (was Re: Thread stealing )

2002-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 05:03]: | On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: | Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current | thread and changing the subject ?

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:29:16PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Christian Schoenebeck declaimed: | I've been trying to switch from mbox to maildir, but exim won't deliver | to my maildirs. Here's the relevant section of my exim.conf: | | I replaced the local_delivery section by: | |

Re: [ Debian Users ] Subject Prefix ?

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:51:58AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: | On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: | Why have we no subject prefix on postings, ala [Debian Users] | to use for sorting... ??? | | Because it's (a) intrusive, (b) annoying, and (c) not necessary. Here's a

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:47:47AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 11:38]: | Is it possible to have a centralized /etc/passwd (plus all necessary | MD5 password files) as well as the home directories in a network? | | What you're looking for is NIS. Start out

Re: exim error: What does it mean?

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:55:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | What does this mean? | | # /usr/sbin/exim -v -M 17MVAm-0002nz-00 | delivering message 17MVAm-0002nz-00 | LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC DIE | Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set | a uid for local delivery

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

2002-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:51:09PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | snipped | | Well this doesn't hurt at any rate, the old system of having the primary | | deliver go to | | | | file = /var/spool/mail/${localpart} | | | Do note that you must use the directory = option,

Re: PAM and exim redux

2002-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:32:40PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:05:20PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: | Sounds like one of the modules in your /etc/pam.d/exim does not actually | exist. Often, the debian-provided examples include pam_pwdb.so even | though there _is_ no

Re: just a dmesg periodic checkup please

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:02:03PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Fellas, are these dmesg's no big deal or indicative of impending tooth | decay etc.? | spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I see this periodically on a laptop I use. As your google search indicated, it seems not to be significant. -D

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