Re: two apt sources

2001-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:12:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi to all! It is possible to have two sources in /etc/apt/sources.list? I mean, it is possible to have one line pointing to stable and another to testing? This would be the case in a potato system with one package from

Re: DDS backups

2001-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 7 May 2001, francisco m . neto wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that could do that? We're changing gradually our systems from RH to debian, and the software we

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: Well, this distro _does_ include APM support compiled into the kernel. However, that support is turned off by default because it's insane to not support the least common denominator

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided

Re: How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:17:13PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: :Hi, :I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup

Re: device3dfx

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:50PM -0700, Greg Steele wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:22AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I'm sure this is not the fix you are looking for, but I used to have the same problem with 2.2.18. After I built the 2.4.3 kernel, however, the module compiled

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year.

Re: postfix not easy to install

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: On 2001-05-05 20:45:27, mdevin wrote: I get the following in my mail.log file: postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf differ postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:16:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here?

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:21AM +1000, mdevin wrote: postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in use I think this was due to inetd binding this port for some reason. I had upgraded from Exim and it was gone and there was no other smtp daemon running. I didn't

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Darren Wyn Rees wrote: What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent Debian, which just hangs at power down/off ? The difference is on the setting of the kernel. I use Debian and my system get powered off after

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote: If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and there won't be any reverse current,

Re: power management tune up

2001-05-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:30:05PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: Who can I tune up power management using linux? my bios has support for apm but I'd rather linux I'm not very familiar with linux, as I couldnt find any HOWTO specificaly for apm. thank you To use APM, you must enable

Re: start-stop-daemon

2001-04-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:58:02PM -0500, DvB wrote: Just how effective is the start-stop-daemon anyway? For instance, can I upgrade my kernel (assuming I use a prepackaged version or package my own with make-kpkg) or X server and not reboot? This service only works for daemons, right?

Re: getting mutt, procmail or whoever to filter mail

2001-04-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:50:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # debian user mailing list :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user If you subscribe to more than a few debian lists, try this: :0 * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * ^X-Mailing-List: .*[]

Re: remove from all lists

2001-04-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:16:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:55:50PM -0300, Jair Szapiro - www.tecnomidia.com.br ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: somebody registered us in all newsletters please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that Debian uses opt-in subscriptions

Re: inetd discard/udp: help with interpretation

2001-04-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:42:49PM -0700, serge rey wrote: i am trying to diagnose the following log entry (with little luck thus far): Apr 20 18:54:35 gnubox inetd[254]: discard/udp: bind: Address already in use i've looked through output of netstat and don't see anything that seems to

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:40:47AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix

Re: lists.debian.org: FAQ / tip-of-the-day

2001-04-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:16:24AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: I think a tip of the day would be great.. Whats one more message when you get 50 to 100 anyway? I suggest a compromise. Send a weekly mail with the newbie howto stuff in it. I'd guess we get several new subscribers every week. --

Re: Sawfish screwed up after upgrade

2001-04-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:39:48PM -0500, Larry Elmore wrote: After upgrading to 'Unstable', Sawfish reverted to default settings and any attempt to use the Gnome Control Center to change those settings results in the Gnome Control Center being locked up. Has anyone else had a problem like

Re: 2.2r3 and pseudo-image

2001-04-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:48:22PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: Feel free to point me at a FM to R. I have an iso image of 2.2r2 binary 1, built using the pseudo-image kit. Q: Can I loop mount this puppy and use rsync to convert it to 2.2r3 binary 1? Seems like it should be do-able,

Re: WTF -- klogd has disappeared from woody?!?

2001-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:06:41PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, i just updated woody and klogd has disappeared into thin air. It's found in the klogd package. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:24:59PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: [ snip ] However, at 3am, the local police bash down my uncle's door, and drag me out of bed. They charge me with violating a local ordinance. I have made a suggestion to widen the mall entrance without showing up with a

Re: Funny Story

2001-04-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Did you know that there are Nuclear Battlecruisers (i'm not a soldier, don't know the exact name for this type of ship) running on windows NT ? Scary huh I believe you're thinking of the Aegis cruisers which do have NT systems on

Re: mysterious ipchains deny from 192.168.*.* ??

2001-04-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:02:05AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: I don't know if this applies to you or not, but our local Road Runner Cable service has packets in the 10.X.Y.Z address space all over the network. A friend noticed this after he used part of this space for his home LAN, and

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to useLinux?

2001-04-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:40:48PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2001 13:52, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Not to mention they think of windows as free as well (probably only 30% of windows users actually paid for it), and don't understand the free speech / free beer distinction.

Re: custom kernel

2001-04-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:58:11PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear debianers, I've already compiling (debian way) a 2.2.18pre21 custom kernel for my potato box. I have the new /usr/src/kernel-image_*.deb file waiting to be installed. I think that if I do dpkg -i I will destroy the

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:00:24PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: imagine how much hair-pulling you'll save the next poor soul if you document what you learned... hmm? Ahh, but I'm not a Linux or Free-Software devotee. This is where you lose the sympathy of a lot of people. You've

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? Oh no, another flamewar in the making :)

Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:09:29AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: running root on raid5 is tricky stuff... - i think is a bad idea... ( just silly me ) Hardware or software? I'll run hardware RAID any time I can afford it on all the disks, thanks ... catastrophic data loss can still be

Re: Power off Button

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:28:33PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: So you could try: - compiling your own 2.2 kernel - upgrading to a 2.4 kernel Here's a fairly painless idea. If you're using the stock debian kernel-image, add a line to your /etc/lilo.conf: append=apm=on and run lilo as

Re: Change size of terminal window?

2001-04-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen. I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT flatscreen

Re: black white icons in Netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:16:23PM -0600, Willem van Schaik wrote: One problem though: I installed Netscape 4.76, which works fine, but the toolbar-icons (back, forward, reload, home, etc.) are all in black and white. The content of the pages is perfectly colored. Are you running 24 bpp? If

Re: Unable to open various sites.

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: Scott E. Graves wrote: This problem only occurs when the 2.4.2-k7 kernel is installed. 2.2.18pre21-ide works perfectly fine. Any suggestions? yes there is an option in 2.4.x to disable i believe that should fix this. i forget

Re: Shutdown

2001-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:15:27PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ales Jerman wrote: Hello! Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, but for halt or shutdown system? C-A-D does a /sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now, so just edit /etc/inittab and remove

Re: signing off

2001-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:16:05AM -0700, paul taylor wrote: In the month or so I have had debian on the machine I have not been able to get pon to work. I can't get kppp to work. the printer does not work in star office or koffice. It just another distro that is not ready for prime time

Re: SOLVED! Apache mod_perl + mod_cgi in same directory

2001-04-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:32:34PM -0500, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: Caveats: This is not the most secure solution in the world. If you do not personally know your users, as I do, and/or you do not trust them, I suggest you stick with the Apache recommended approach of creating a cgi-bin and/or

Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

2001-03-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:30:46PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine sees the floppy. /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0 is the entry in fstab. I then popped in a blank floppy and did; mke2fs

Re: exim: daemon vs. inetd

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:51:22PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:44:50AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: I was wondering if their were any security benefits/pitfalls exiting between running exim through inetd or running it as a standalone daemon. I believe the only

Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:20:12PM +0100, Gregor Kaleta wrote: Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is the first election RedHat Linux? My former employer Midcontinent Media Inc

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 04:59:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:38:36PM +0100, William Leese wrote: Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were as you should

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: Question -- what is the best approach to stop portmap from running on a Debian system? IIRC, portmap is part of netbase in potato. Renaming the /etc/init.d/portmap script or removing all the start/stop links caused an upgrade

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory leak? Which was why apache-perl was

Re: something wrong with security.debian.org?

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:30:16PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: is something wrong with security.debian.org? I'm trying to apt-get update at the moment and its timing out... consistently for the last hour. is it just busy or does it need a kick or is something going badly wrong? Did you

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:08:19PM -0800, Nick wrote: I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists No, he just gives a shit about netiquette and asks others to do the same. (Karsten is active on the list though; that's a good thing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good

Re: linux card

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:54:24AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this had gone through last time I submitted this. I need to create a card that when scanned in a credit card scanner it connects to my server via the phone line. It did go through both times. It still doesn't

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I've had to suffer this one - providing telephone support and advice over a week plus to an old and valued friend :) [Hi Martin :) ] [Hi, Andy! Just about to put this one to the

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:23:02PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Ok, I'm not in the mood for flamefests today so here's a serious question: apache here fails to start with (this is from error.log) [Wed Mar 14 12:36:15 2001] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean

Re: x and console runlevels

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:00:17PM -0600, Bill Morgan wrote: On 3/14/01 4:17 PM, Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really quite easy. By default Debian boots to runlevel 2, and xdm (or gdm, wdm, whatever is installed) is started at each runlevel.

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:39:53PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:17:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: ... Have you tried running apache (not apache-perl) and loading mod_perl? It looks to me like you've got some problem caused by the prel 5.6 upgrade. Hmm

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:22:28PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: But I doubt whether any developer could reproduce this system exactly without an accurate image of my machine state; so I'll start with the big problem (apache) and try to send in a fuller description of all the problems

Re: etherexpress card and modconf

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:17:00PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Don Seiler wrote: hullo. I'm having trouble getting my Intel EtherExpress card online. Using modconf, when I try at add the eexpress module, it first does an autoprobe and returns this: eexpress io =

Re: SCSI boot and loopback device

2001-03-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:13:45AM -0600, Scott E. Graves wrote: Why is it necessary to have the loopback device in order to boot Linux from a SCSI controller? I've been searching for the answer, but can't seem to find any information. Why do you think it's necessary? I have at least one

Re: Booting from SCSI when there is IDE

2001-03-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:46:31AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: More than 3 years ago someone filed a bug report that LILO doesn't support booting from SCSI drives when there is an IDE drive in the system. I am not able to test this as I don't own any SCSI devices, and the person who

Re: qmail logging (and in which package is accustamp)

2001-03-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:35:44AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Having replaced exim with qmail yesterday, I'd like to deal with the loggin issues, since qmail's logging is quite verbose. I notice that it logs seemingly identical information to all of the: /var/log/syslog /var/log/mail.info

Re: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0800, Raphael Crawford-Marks wrote: So now I'm trying to set up X. The motherboard has the intel FW82810 (also called i810) chipset onboard for video. What card should I select in the XFree86 setup? Tried the three intel cards on the list, none worked.

Re: Only 8 char passwords?

2001-03-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:50:56AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: After worring quite a lot about using complex (and long) enough passwords today I have realized that it doesn't matter what I type after the eigth char of any user's password it will be accepted. Why is this? I've got shadow

OT: Anyone attending the IETF Meeting this month?

2001-03-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
Are there any debian developers (or any linux-heads for that matter) planning on attending the IETF conference in Minneapolis March 18-23? I live in Bloomington and I'm interested in meeting people there (my employer has asked me to attend). Perhaps some key signings could occur. Anyone have a

Re: bsd ftpd chroot'd environment

2001-03-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:04:29PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:41:12PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: I am trying to set up chrooted environment for my bsd ftpd users, but I can't seem to get any statically linked ls binaries (is there some ftpuser package or

Re: network card update...final....:)

2001-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:21:30PM -0800, Brian Murphy wrote: Well, that was interesting. As I previously stated, the module was loaded. So, I apt-get install dhcp-client just for kicks and boom...everything works..mostly. It grabbed the necessary info. eth0 shows up under ifconfig as it

Re: lag?

2001-03-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:52:43PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: is it just me and my mail server, or is the debian-users list like 10 minutes behind? fishbowl:~/web/limerence.org date Mon Mar 5 18:52:33 EST 2001 It's probably a little behind as it's very busy processing meaningless messages like

Re: help with rogers!

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Ok, I'm really confused. My old network settings with rogers were: IP: 24.43.42.96 MK: 255.255.255.0 GW: 24.43.42.1 Now, they've changed my IP address, and my new settings are IP: 24.114.127.148 MK:

Re: [OT]Can someone help me understand these mail headers?

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:06:32AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this was mentioned on the list a little while ago. Wasn't it an exim 'oddity', or something? This all started with everyone's favorite, sendmail. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better

Re: stupid questions about apt-get/dpkg

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:35:43PM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: re all, How do you simply replace a package with another package that offers the same functionality? exim provides mail-transport-agent qmail as well so I want to upgrade mail-transport-agent from exim to qmail What's the

Re: why no apache-* 1.3.14 ?

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:38:18AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why have the apache packages not been upgraded since .14? I'm talking about the packages in unstable, so the packages should be fairly current right? I see that 1.3.19 was released today, can we expect packages for it? Did

Re: ldconfig not found in PATH

2001-02-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:26:15PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: + John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. Are you running dselect

Re: stuck in apt loop with gnome-libs-data

2001-02-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: since i upgraded libc6 and dpkg (from unstable) i've been having a lot of problems with dpkg seg faulting trying to install stuff. currently i tried to upgrade gnumeric and it bombs out on gnome-libs-data like this: (Reading

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. Now I'm not even sure the 3com provided driver will work. I might just put in a different

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 06:19:29PM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. Linux Fdisk resyncs the disks almost immediately. DOS fdisk requires a reboot to do this. Did you reboot after

Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:28:07PM -0500, Mahalingam, Sivendiran wrote: hi Does anyone know how to create Debian boot disks? I am trying to install Debian for the first time, but I only have a CD distribution, and my computer does not have support to boot up from a CD. Anyone got some

Re: TTL

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:14:44PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: [ snip ] ps: look at TTL, retry, refresh, expire, negative TTL, and then join in into our chant to paul vixie: make it intuitive in bind 10! make it intuitive in bind 10! Or just say to hell with BIND; it's buggy and insecure and use

Re: OT: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:17:24PM +1030, David Purton wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 dev eth0 metric 1 Slightly off topic, but can anyone explain to me what the metric field does - the man page is bit brief for my level of understanding in

Re: today's Q from the 'net-dunce :-)

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: haaa. sorry 'bout that. first complaint i've had. RFC 1855 says: - If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb is no longer than 4 lines. Remember that many people pay for connectivity by the minute,

Re: Runlevel links?

2001-02-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:10:22AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:47:41AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:47AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: Could someone suggest some links where I can learn the concept of

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath unix/:7101 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype FontPath /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled FontPath

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process, I seem to have versioned up to XFree86v4. Currently: - X display managers don't allow a session to start (see attached error output). This is

Re: XF86v4: mouse and fonts

2001-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:20:14PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:14:39AM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process

Re: another quick question

2001-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:07:05AM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: Does anyone know how to disable the computer speaker? (just the little internal one) Obvious solutions include wielding a pair of diagonal cutters, or pulling the plug from the system board, but I guess you're looking for a

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:21:36AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/02/2001 (10:12) : if he's using mutt, no munging of the reply-to field is necessary: to reply to the sender, use mutt's r key. that'll reply off-list to the sender, and nobody

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: :0 * ^X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Debian-User You can then add rules if you want to seperate other lists as well. Of course, there's more than one way to do it. If you're subscribed to several debian lists,

Re: mutt + seperate folder for lists

2001-02-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:12:55PM -0600, will trillich wrote: to reply PUBLICLY to a list, use mutt's L key. it looks for 'x-mailing-list' headers and uses that as the reply-to, but only *IF* you've set up your ~/.muttrc to recognize the list name: # ~/.muttrc lists debian-user

Re: What is bounce-debian-user ?

2001-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:24:13AM +0530, USM Bish wrote: Hi folk, Just a small clarification. The mail placed below was received by me today from bounce-debian-user. This was NOT initiated by me. Quite surprised to see my name on the LOG (List of Greats!). Did others receive this

Re: tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:04:31AM -0600, Adam Blomberg wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. Essentially, I want to archive a large

Re: syslog.conf

2001-01-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:35:34AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: hi, is it possible to put two lines for the same facility? ie. *.emerg root *.emerg -/var/log/emerg will that do both? Yes, though why you want the dash in front of

Re: Compiling PCMCIA support (2.2.18/Potato)

2001-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:28:50PM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:16:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I was somewhat surprised to see that there were no PCMCIA

Re: reluctant farewell

2001-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:26:55PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: [ please don't cc: me on replies, I read the list ] MUA's people are using. And I have seen Webalizer, but people want Webtrends. Real-time on-the-fly reporting and all. That's it. So configuring apache to log to an sql database

Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:17:41PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote: RCN is also DHCP only (well, maybe you can get static for more $$, I'm not sure), but so far I've only had my address change once in 8 months, and I think it was some kind of infrastructure change since the new address was

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:27:41AM -0600, Bill Bell wrote: Hello all, I have a dual NIC system using two 3c509 cards. This configuration has been working well under sid with a 2.2.18 kernel (my current system). I have been trying to move up to a 2.4.0 kernel and I am having problems. My

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:36:14PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: 2) You're missing the network line from your iface stanza. Since it looks to me like you're adding a different subnet this is kinda important. Ok, I thought (from man interfaces) that the network line

Re: 2-part NIC question

2001-01-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: I have Debian 1.3, and managed to bring my system up with my 4 Megs of Ram and 80386. Thanks, all for the help in that. However, I have two new questions relating to a new problem. I still can't bring my CompexRL2000A card

Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...

2001-01-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: just add something like this to /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0:0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:03:58PM -0500, RAccess wrote: What does it mean when I get the following: *** debian:~# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-devel-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: packages have been kept back?

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:52:57PM +1100, hogan wrote: What's the difference between: apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get upgrade in English? :) w/o looking at the man page ... Upgrade upgrades packages that you have installed. If new dependencies will remove existing packages, install new

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

Re: Install help needed/New tulip drivers

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0600, David Kanter wrote: I'd like to install Debian but have a slight problem: my Ethernet card (ADMtek 983) requires the latest tulip drivers. I have a DSL connection with PPPoE. I'd like to install a bare-bones base system and install the remaining

Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got: 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb. 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs, including netsaint-plugins and

Re: Stability of testing

2001-01-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:50:14AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1, how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which distribution is for

Re: [PLUG] Re: x on my laptop problems

2001-01-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:01:53PM -0600, Michael H. Collins wrote: I never knew this list was for a specific distro? You're right; it's named debian-user for no apparent reason whatsoever. * plonk * pre-emptive strike Don't Cc: me on list mails, I get them already. Thanks /pre-emptive

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