Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Mal Beaton
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700 Dave Carrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where 9 track tape was most common). If you had a disk crash,

Re: iptables related query

2005-07-03 Thread Mal Beaton
This may help as well http://www.mbeaton.id.au/debian/debian-5.html#ss5.1 I prefer to use sub chains to identify from the internet or from internal etc I also learnt from a very experienced firewall administrator to use the long switches so anyone else can easily read the scripts J.A. de

Re: menu problem

2005-07-03 Thread Mal Beaton
Jon Dowland wrote: Mal Beaton wrote: I am using the menu package to create customised menus However of late It doesnt update menus but says it does You are using KDE. Are the menus properly updated in another window manager (I see you have twm installed there for example). GNOME and KDE

Re: menu problem

2005-07-03 Thread Mal Beaton
what I do I cant get the new entries to appear. Can anyone suggest which package I should submit a bug against or if there is any further testing I can do Mal Beaton wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: Mal Beaton wrote: I am using the menu package to create customised menus However of late It doesnt

Re: apache behind nat

2005-07-01 Thread Mal Beaton
Brent Clark wrote: Hi list I have an apache server that is behind a natted fw. My apache was working, but now for some funny reason if keep supplying the webbrowser the private ip. the dns is fine because all resolves etc, but in the web browser it says fetching 192.168.111.11 I

Re: what programe like chconfig as in redhat

2005-07-01 Thread Mal Beaton
Khanh Cao Van wrote: I'm news for debian and used to chkconfig in redhat to manage deamon scripts to startup at boottime or not . Could you please tell me what program in debian with the fuction like that ? update-rc.d begin:vcard fn:Mal Beaton n:Beaton;Mal email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

menu problem

2005-06-26 Thread Mal Beaton
Thought I would check with the mailing list before I submitted a bug I am using the menu package to create customised menus However of late It doesnt update menus but says it does If I completely remove the remote-hosts the menu stays there but nothing can be executed put it back and the ones

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-06 Thread Mal Beaton
Steven Jones wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 2:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation for digital camera On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm looking

Re: How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

2004-06-21 Thread Mal Beaton
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). What would be the easist way to accomplish this? 1. use an NFS mount of

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-15 Thread Mal Beaton
Alexander Sack wrote: Thunderbird crashes itself. There is no open dialog Maybe you have been upgrading from 0.5-x? If this is the case, try to rename the chrome directory in the users profile. At least until this is done after a major version upgrade, thunderbird may show some unwanted

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-14 Thread Mal Beaton
Alexander Sack wrote: thanks however right click on any attachment pdf, sxc, jpg and select open. THey all crash Does thunderbird crash itself or 'just' the apps started by the open dialog?? If so, does thunderbird crash if you select save as.. too, or just when trying to open? If it

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-09 Thread Mal Beaton
Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/08/04 22:50, Mal Beaton wrote: apt-cache show mozilla-thunderbird Package: mozilla-thunderbird Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 31944 Maintainer: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.6-2 When trying to open attachments mozilla

Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-08 Thread Mal Beaton
apt-cache show mozilla-thunderbird Package: mozilla-thunderbird Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 31944 Maintainer: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.6-2 When trying to open attachments mozilla-thunderbird closes. The attachements do not open In

Re: Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

2004-06-08 Thread Mal Beaton
James Sinnamon wrote: Dear debian users, Is there a utility to simply return the IP address of an interface, say eth1 or ppp0? I need something that works like: $ netutil eth0 144.133.251.117 ... or is it necessary to use ifconfig something like as follows: $ ifconfig eth0 | sed ' ... ' | cut

Re: newb question: user switching in KDE?

2004-06-07 Thread Mal Beaton
Kent West wrote: Ignatz Sol wrote: I am a recent convert to Linux, running Debian sarge/testing with KDE 3.2.2. I am interested in setting up some sort of user switching, so that my wife can have her setup separate from mine. I've been especially inspired by the switching available in the new

Re: newb question: user switching in KDE?

2004-06-07 Thread Mal Beaton
Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/07/04 20:00, Mal Beaton wrote: Kent West wrote: [...] Then to switch between users, Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch to the first session, Ctrl-Alt-F8 to the second, Ctrl-Alt-F9 to the third, etc. [...] Thanks for the idea. That is good. However I start the second session ctl-alt-f2

Re: New ADSL user - need net and firewall help

2004-06-05 Thread Mal Beaton
Mal Beaton wrote: Mike Mestnik wrote: I would turn off nat on your ADSL. :) Keep using masq or upgrade to snat. Treat ethX as you did pppX. Every thing should work fine. --- Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help. For many years I have been using Debian Linux on machines at home

Re: what happened to KDE?

2004-06-03 Thread Mal Beaton
om Kuiper wrote: Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:21:45 -0400 From: Alex Derkach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Kuiper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what happened to KDE? ... Why not just make a new /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file? I've included mine for reference. That's

Re: what happened to KDE?

2004-06-03 Thread Mal Beaton
Bingo it worked THanks Tristan Mills wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:32, Tom Kuiper wrote: I few hours ago I upgraded the unstable version (2.4.20 kernel) with 'dselect' and found that a KDE log-in session was no longer an option. I've tried to force it back in but all that did was mess up Gnome

Re: debian on imac - compiling kernels

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:48:16 +1000, Mal Beaton wrote: I copied the old 2.4 config to the source of the 2.6.6 and did make oldconfig There have been many changes between 2.4 and 2.6 in how config options are named, how they depend on eachother, what the defaults

pcmcia modems with debian

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
I finally have the need for a modem on my laptop before diving in a purchasing a pcmcia modem would like to hear what people are using out there and how easy or how much trouble they were to set up any advice would be greatly appreciated -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: script to stay connected//dynamic IPs

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from David Baron: Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet connection (pptp - ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect? Try using the keyword persist

Re: script to stay connected//dynamic IPs

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 03:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from David Baron: Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet connection (pptp - ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect? Try using the keyword persist in

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Sometimes I might do an apt-get update and upgrade and my menus will stop working sort of I usually check http://bugs.debian.org to see if any bugs are listed on it. however I have used unstable on my laptop with kde for over a year and it works very well. when I say breaks they are usually

[Fwd: Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?]

2004-06-02 Thread Mal Beaton
Ignatz Sol wrote: Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian. -- Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based! Knoppix was the first Linux that I saw, as I guess it is for many. That sounds

Re: Best UPS for Linux?

2004-05-31 Thread Mal Beaton
I use apc bk500ei USB UPS there is a util called apcupsd that controls the UPS and works very well Thomas H. George wrote: I must replace my Belkin UPS which was damaged by a power surge. I have been happy enough with it and the Bulldogdry software for linux. Its internal software got fried

debian on imac - compiling kernels

2004-05-30 Thread Mal Beaton
I have just been playing with installing debian on an imac computer i just got hold of. The standard installation went fine. All boots and kde works I decided to compile a 2.6.6 kernel to see how it would go I copied the old 2.4 config to the source of the 2.6.6 and did make oldconfig answered

Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.

2004-05-18 Thread Mal Beaton
Adam Funk wrote: (Sorry about the long lines but they illustrate the output I'm talking about.) ``dpkg -l'' on its own in a terminal produces wide output, e.g.: $ dpkg -l perl* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/

Re: fax in linux

2004-05-15 Thread Mal Beaton
have a look at hylafax www.hylafax.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i would like to know how can i send a fax from linux. kde is version 3.2. i am bahind an ADSL connection. could somebody tell me a quick and easy way to do that? as i am quite new. Msg sent via Spymac Mail -

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Mal Beaton
The company I work for installs debian servers (gateway, firewall, mail web etc) I would strongly recommend stable Most of what you need is on stable. If you need anything extra you could probably get it from backports. Sit down and have a look at what you need I wrote a howto and posted it

Re: fax xDSL

2004-05-14 Thread Mal Beaton
hylafax www.hlafax.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know if there is a way to send fax from linux. as for internet connection, i got an xDSL (ADSL) connection. if possible, please let me know how. thanks Msg sent via Spymac Mail - http://www.spymac.com -- To

Re: fax xDSL

2004-05-14 Thread Mal Beaton
woops spelling error www.hylafax.org Mal Beaton wrote: hylafax www.hlafax.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know if there is a way to send fax from linux. as for internet connection, i got an xDSL (ADSL) connection. if possible, please let me know how. thanks Msg

Re: mozilla firefox, mozilla thunderbird and kde-3.2.2

2004-05-10 Thread Mal Beaton
Paul Stolp wrote: * Mal Beaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-09 17:23]: can anyone point me where I can look further to change these settings so that email link selected from webbrowser opens up in mozilla-thunderbird web link selected from email opens up in mozilla-firefox thanks Hi Mal, Take

Re: 2.6 and nvidia

2004-05-10 Thread Mal Beaton
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:46:38AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: As a warning ... I was getting ready to upgrade my kernel to 2.6. I downloaded the new nvidia package. I was following instructions from /usr/share/doc without really thinking and did a make on the modules

Re: Debian as a router.

2004-05-07 Thread Mal Beaton
that some people on this list experience in trying to put it all together Mal Beaton wrote: No worries. I now will review it and update. I have been slack. I will post the url tonight or tomorrow morning. messmate wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2004 20:14:05 +1000 Mal Beaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Debian as a router.

2004-05-06 Thread Mal Beaton
No worries. I now will review it and update. I have been slack. I will post the url tonight or tomorrow morning. messmate wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2004 20:14:05 +1000 Mal Beaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a good howto for this if you are interested. I can post it here However Mine