Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

s as password. pass [EMAIL PROTECTED] 230- 230-Welcome to the Georgia Tech College of Computing FTP service. 230- 230-Access from yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au is being logged. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: lpr versus lprng

y magicfilter (lpr configuration tool) Yet some dummies like me just can't get it running. The bounce queues idea sounds great, but I never got it to work. I use dodgy scripts and pipes with lpr instead. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest D

Re: The juggernaught expands?

ord Macro Viruses, > a completely asinine file format. Word warns you that the document contains macros before opening it and gives you the option of removing them. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

Re: 1021 cylinders(?), 8.4GB, and FreeBSD

I don't know much about BSD and haven't really had much luck/time with it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Mesa

If it isn't in there you can certainly add it and run ldconfig. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.o

Re: Please clarify...

raded those few packages by hand, run dselect to upgrade everything else. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hami

Re: print permissions

> > Now lpr is the wrapper program (not script) and the real lpr, lpr.orig > does not have the right permissions to run. I think this is how sudo > works. I guess that should work. Glynn has suggested a much nicer method anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: print permissions

On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 10:51:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > > How can I control who can print and who can't? > > > > I am guessing, but I guess you could put e

Re: print permissions

files in /var/spool/lpd directly, which they normally cannot. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: retrieving gifs through HTTP from script

this for you, and is available for Debian. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Please clarify...

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 05:38:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:36:24 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >But that is a design goal of the distribution. If it is not being met, > >it is a bug -- please report bugs as appropriate. > > It is an unobta

Re: Please clarify...

wise to > wait for official cdroms. > > 1.3.1 -> hamm takes ~50 MB of downloads. Really? My hamm system of a few weeks ago wants to download 70mb just to get itself up to date. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at

Re: Please clarify...

; just don't agree with the absolutes that all upgrades don't need a reinstall. But that is a design goal of the distribution. If it is not being met, it is a bug -- please report bugs as appropriate. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lat

MTA suggestions

r B? I heard 8.9.0 has good anti-spam, which is becoming a problem at A (but not B). thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate > > I think -- standa

Re: perl broken install (bo)

I fix it? without perl, other packages > are left uninstallable. I've seen this happen in a buzz -> hamm upgrade too. You will have to look through the postinst for perl and find out where it's dying. "rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst" is always a possibility, although not

Re: HELP! Spammer using my system !

ly won't, because the default way to run smail is via inetd. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

d MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a Unix system, and should probably be as strict as possible to keep the size down. Optional remains appropriate. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could run a port redirector on the FTP control port (21) on the dialup > > machine, which redirects connections to your FTP server. > > Sorry, but I&#

Re: route anon ftp requests how?

ur FTP server. This may or may not work, though; FTP data connections occur on dynamically allocated port numbers, and the server connects back to the client. I think it should work in theory. Passive connections won't (client connects to server on dynamically allocated port). Hamish -- Hami

Re: HTTP mirrors

nt variables eg http_proxy="http://proxy.isp.com.au:8080/"; I have to use one here too. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing list

Re: Using Vim with mutt

losing it, or is it possible (or even necessary) to do > this? Yes, you just hit the enter key at the end of each line. :-) Use J to join lines when reformatting, etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising

HTTP mirrors

have huge setup times per file, so I'd rather use HTTP. My favourite mirror, ftp.monash.edu.au, is about 12 days out of date now. Anand, do you have a full debian mirror at progsoc? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packa

Re: Newbie Install - Serial port and PPP does not work

D. Some parts of it ARE fit for CD. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CD-rom and ZIP

think /cdrom is pretty standard. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: aic6260, cdrom & linux

2x=0x340,11,7,0,0 I think the 1->0 disables disconnect or similar. I used an NEC CD-ROM drive too and it worked. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from ma

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

necessarily relevant to Debian? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:41:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 18:29:10 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >A few messages back you said that you found qpopper unacceptable because > >the POP send is buggy, so you preferred cucipop. Now you say cucipop > &

Re: 2.0.34

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >bash-2.00# ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast > >203.14.18.127 > >

Re: Re[6]: pop3 mail problem

r unacceptable because the POP send is buggy, so you preferred cucipop. Now you say cucipop doesn't even have POP send. Am I missing something here? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: 2.0.34

#x27;t work on 2.0.32 either, I just discovered. Thanks to everyone who has replied. Any other ideas? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are

2.0.34

routes etc. What is the fix -- is a new ifconfig required, or something else? I can get it to accept 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.254 255.255.255.252 255.255.255.248 255.255.255.240 255.255.255.224 255.255.255.192 but not .128. It works on 2.0.32 and 2.0.32 though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

Re: cd writers & linux

nts. If you want to get IDE, just go get it -- don't keep asking about it when you don't seem to want to know the answer! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of

Re: cd writers & linux

10mbit/s, ie 1mbyte/sec, which is >> 600kb/s for a 4X write, you say? A CDR benchmarking program says that the transfer rate off the Windows machine was under 600kb/sec on average. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: cd writers & linux

e Linux supports most IDE and SCSI drives. I'm > not sure about ECP/EPP parallel port drives. It's not the speed, it's compatibility. If you think all the software you will ever want to use does IDE, then go for it. Otherwise use SCSI. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Checking Ports? (fwd)

OL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, (char *) &on, sizeof(on)) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not set socket options\n"); } Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising

Re: cd writers & linux

On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:38:06AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > What does linux support? Or is there a standard protocol for ide? SCSI would be a much better choice. I have IDE disks but felt it was worth paying a bit more for a SCSI burner. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

printing with samba

anyone else and NT works perfectly ... It's a bo machine with sambades, and pam insists on writing millions of log entries at every print attempt which is also getting rather infuriating. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packag

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:36:41PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 07:07 -0700 1998-06-02, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called > >OpenPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec > >thoug

Re: Can't recognize com port

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 08:16:26PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > It seems Slackware is often slow to adapt to new things... > (e.g. FHS!) Well, we are not even running the FHS yet so that's a bit unfair. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: hard disk restarting a couple of times an hour

initializze" type messages if there is a read/write attempt > when > this happens. I suggest swapping the power supply if you have another on hand. I had this problem with one of my servers (fortunately I was only overseas 12,000km away at the time) and changing the power supply fix

Re: libc5 applications (Netscape, StarOffice, WordPerfect) segfault

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 03:34:20AM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > Again, the problem goes away without /usr/X11R6/lib in > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Why do you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH anyway? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packa

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

enPIC or similar. Cyrix use the same spec. Intel use a different spec though and no motherboards available support the open one. Unfortunately for now that means going with Intel's usual overpriced efforts if you want SMP. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: low throughput on PPP link

en used spd_hi for 57600, or spd_vhi for 115200. If your software actually supports > 38400 (eg pppd) there is no need to do this. I might be wrong, of course -- but I'm using 57600 here and I haven't touched spd_vhi in years. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: subnet broadcast?

bleshoot? The broadcast is right. The routing problem is to do with your routes probably; post the output of /sbin/route, and tell us what your router should be? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/

Re: No E 14 yet

X usage is on xterms at university, which do 8 bit colour only, and I hear that E isn't so good in such circumstances. I even found afterstep to chew too many colours to be worthwhile. Instead I am a diehard fvwm2 fan. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTE

Re: lprng on bo

Please ignore; user did not realise that even in 1998, printer must be plugged in to computer by way of cable. Hamish On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 11:41:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Having trouble with someone's system using lprng, on bo. Jobs appear > to get accepted into the

lprng on bo

etuid root and setgid lp. Any ideas? I hate it when people install machines they can't administer and call me to fix it for free every bloody time. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish.

Re: How can I configure X11 to open applications on startup?

end to symlink one to the other for flexilibity). You might do xemacs & xterm -e pine & xterm -e lynx & fvwm2 You must list your window manager last, and it should not have an & - the others must. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot problem after installation

/dev/hda5 > root=/dev/hda5 > > change this to: > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda5 That is the wrong solution to the problem. Something is probably wrong with lilo.conf, or the wrong partition is marked active, but changing lilo.conf isn't the best solution. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: X-windows and PPPD

rrupt 5 or 7 > can be used for the third comm port. ttyS0 and ttyS2 would normally share an interrupt, as do ttyS1 and ttyS3. You need to change one out of each pair if you have both. I have four serial ports in one machine, using IRQs 4, 3, 5 & 7. 2 is also available if necessary. Hamish

Re: starting point doc abut regexp and perl

ne reference. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: angband save problems

an do is trash the score files for the various games. The same is true using setuid games, but also means you could interfere with other people's games if you could a setuid games shell etc. Basically the existing systems works just fine as far as I can see. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EM

Re: Unidentified subject!

about it. It says that here too and printing works just fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To

Re: Another failure notice

cannot really see how this is a huge problem -- certainly not one worthy of so much discussion I should think. I get them too and just delete them without a thought wasted. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.

Re: NT: boot to Linux?

OOTPART, BOOTPA20.ZIP. I have Linux and FreeBSD both booting from the NT menu. It can also set it up so you can boot both 95 and DOS directly, instead of going via 95's menu. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.ri

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

nyone > who is used to tar. Can you explain to me, in words of one syllable or less (since I am obviously dumb), why this should be a goal? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PG

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

anyway. They exist solely for use on Debian and derived systems. I cannot imagine why we are even having this discussion. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from m

Re: gcc broken?

e, Sun's uses the other and I can't remember which is which.) There are CXXFLAGS or something similar to go with it. Also note that you can't usually use gcc to do the linking either; use g++. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: IP Masquerade and PPP

is supported and works fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

you can give it a list of all your folders (using procmail or sortmail to sort) and it can go through each showing you the new messages, just like tin/nn. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

(Linux doesn't do this, so it is safe to use boot=/dev/sda2 if sda2 is your Linux partition. The default for Debian, even.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D

Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

dump it to a text file either by 1. copying it to another NT machine, or 2. running regedit under dosemu? then edit it, and merge it back however. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

gt; the 's' indicates setuid. > I know this is just a type but it needs to be cleared... > > setuid is -rwsr-xr-x Of course, probably a bigger problem is that it was the wrong port, rather than wrong permissions on pppd. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL P

Re: still can't start ppp, even as root

to run on a virtual terminal, it tells you the kernel does not have PPP support, which isn't helpful at all but that's the way it is. You want /dev/ttyS1, which IS a serial port. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz and one other; data.tar.gz contains the files. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish

[off-topic] light comic relief

hile, in Cupertino, California, Apple interim-CEO Steve Jobs was rumored to be in discussion with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about deploying Apple's Newton technology against Microsoft. "Newton was the biggest bomb the Valley has developed in years," said one hardware engineer. "

Re: Backups on Iomega-ditto 2Gb tape drive

uccessfully with the Ditto Dash accelerator. The linux-tape list is definitive on this subject (it's a vger list). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies fr

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

x27;s reasonably safe, but it's "security by obscurity," if you like. You can also extract your xauth cookie with xauth extract $DISPLAY then transfer it (ftp, rcp, scp) to the local server, and run xauth merge ssh is much easier and even more secure, though, but like you

Re: first script executed

's called, but I'm pretty sure that it is deleted after it is used. Why would you want to run it again and what do you mean `how can i configure it'? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/

Re: SMTP connection went away?

viously does not.. :-( Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: SMTP connection went away?

who's answered about ten emails from me today :) .. > No problem, the help is usually there for me when I need it too. The postinst for smail actually looks like it should re-enable this properly, so I'm not sure where the problem is. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: SMTP connection went away?

s the port bound. It doesn't ask if you wanted to switch to daemon mode first though. Then there's no documentation on the anti-spam provided either. As soon as I get a chance I might upgrade my production system to exim. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: URGENT: problem of dependencies

esort. No, use pre-depends after discussion on debian-devel as to why you need it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http:/

Re: dselect oddities

hicker skin because > that 1 atom thick stuff you're wearing now just isn't cutting it. I do not think I should need a thick skin when volunteering my time. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://f

Re: dselect oddities

suggestion, indeed I think it is a logical extension of dpkg. My only complaint is with how you ask for it. I do not know why you keep asking, over and over again. I have put far more energy in to this conversation than it deserves. I wish Manoj luck if he wants to continue it. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: dselect oddities

. For the bug system to forget something, somebody has to tell it to. On the other hand, people can forget things far more easily. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of

Re: dselect oddities

ELF-HOWTO. Debian's system is exactly what I want and is a godsend. > Tell me, what is so hard to understand with this simple concept: No > autoupdating. There is nothing hard to understand about it. You have the right to request it. But I do not feel you have the right to demand

Re: dselect oddities

an, get the latest software, and still not get the guarantee. So following unstable is no worse than DIY with Slackware. Having said all that, I have absolutely no idea what it is you want done. You want stable software, yet you want the absolute latest versions of some software, but not others. I thin

smail anti-spam

Can anyone give me an example of an smtp_remote_allow for smail? I have tried smtp_remote_allow=localnet:rising.com.au and some variations, but whatever I do, my machine hamishpc.rising.com.au is not allowed to relay mail through. Any ideas? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:34:22PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism > >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. &g

Re: dselect oddities

ich can install a package and all its dependencies without upgrading everything. In short, use the dpkg command line. The behaviour if dpkg, even if it isn't what you want exactly, works and is consistent. dpkg can do what you want. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL P

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

d packages are on > >hold. > > My isn't that obvious. Not. We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: dselect removed everything

e time soon. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: URGENT how to change your domain name

ig eg /etc/smail/config, it is in your news server probably if you have one, and other places as well. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mai

dselect removed everything

d when I got to remove, it started to remove almost everything! All the standard packages, all the essential packages etc. This really hosed the system. Why would it do this? It did it on another machine once too. I just reinstalled it with bo, since it was only a test machine anyway. Hamish --

Re: sound card mixer defaults

. > I think I should recompile the kernel w/ sound built in.. Just load it in /etc/conf.modules instead of with kerneld. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies fro

Re: terminal settings from linux->Solaris

OK. I always assumed they would be architecture/OS-specific in format, so I use infocmp to export it and tic at the other end to integrate it. This works for linux, rxvt etc quite nicely. As a non-root user I set my TERMINFO env. variable to $HOME/.terminfo first. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Modem] No BUSY tone detect in SPAIN

ell modems have it, Supra does though. I have to use it on my Supra for Australian tones. My Australian-packaged Rockwell modem works without it though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/ha

Re: V.90 modem recomendation

always found the cheaper Rockwell option to work just fine. I would recommend saving your money! Here in Australia a V.34 modem is around $100, USR Courier is still mid $200s. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: problems with stable - gzip, debianutils, kernel

ude/linux. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Lost access to my system

On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:48:12AM +0300, Ionut Borcoman wrote: > My system boot with loadlin and is hamm (frozen). Lilo doesn't want to work > as > my first primary partition is a vfat2 of 2Gb. What's that got to do with anything? So is mine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffat

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

t; several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these > are placed. Are they placed in "standard" locations? If so, what are > they? Well, one of them is at 8193, which is what it is telling you! I would guess that the next one is at 16383, but I'm

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 01:17:25AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Anybody got any way for a script to tell if > > > 1) I'm logged onto the console > > > > Well, if `tty` matches /tty\d/ is probably best. > >

Re: sound card mixer defaults

or from a file. I suspect they are reset each time you boot, not login, though. Hamish (cam maintainer) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are

Re: tty1 is frozen!

it and kill the > shell bl was running from, and now only tty1 is frozen. Killing getty on > tty1 didn't help either. The permissions for /dev/tty1 are also correct. > > Any suggestions on how to fix this (without rebooting)? Press scroll-lock? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

Re: How to tell if I'm logged on from console?

mines if I'm > logged on from the console and runs startx if I am. > > Anybody got any way for a script to tell if > 1) I'm logged onto the console Well, if `tty` matches /tty\d/ is probably best. > 2) there's no other X process running ps | grep -c ... ? Hamish -

Re: Linux and ADSL

idden by the providers, etc. Cable modem here is $65/mo I think, including 100mb traffic, then it's *** 35c/mb! *** ISDN is about $70/month rental, with timed local calls; costs a small fortune for a semi-permanent connection. (That's for 2xB + 1xD, ie basic rate.) Hamish -- Hamish Mof

Re: Webserver.

ng? > > > > What is the name of your webserver ?? Apache ?? wich version?? The problem is in /home -- how are any of these questions relevant? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/ham

Re: how do I delete not empty directories

hen > use mv -R whatever ~/tmp. Possibly a dangerous suggestion. If you get used to having a system where files are not really deleted, then one day you'll use another system, rm -rf something and it's really gone. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

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