Re: scripting

reference or copy. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

this command: ssh remote-host /usr/sbin/imapd | some-local-process If you were doing SMTP-over-SSH, I guess you'd be doing something similar. But for reasons that I don't want to take the time to list, it seems like you wouldn't be doing the same thing with SMTP. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: Readable Bash Primer

dpkg -L [package-name] |less which will display all the files that [package-name] installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it does and where to run it from. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key

Re: News Flash

or patents from anyone but lawyers. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: File encryption

if that helps. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I have used VMWare some years ago and it is quite good. However, I tend to prefer Qemu for most workstation-related things. YMMV. Just curious why. In my experience, qemu is slw. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

the spectacularly stupid debate. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Manpages??

there you go. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup strategy using rsync

: there will be lots of scattered files all over the place that are, including lots in /etc/X11 . However, isolating these one by one and excluding them is probably not the best idea. My approach would be to exclude wide swaths of directories -- e.g., don't back up /sys, /proc, and /dev . -- Stephen R

Re: backup strategy using rsync

are specific to your hardware is annoying. My advice would be to just exclude whole directories that you know contain files which shouldn't be backed up -- directories like /sys, /proc, etc. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: Encrypted email question

could be hacked to make it happen, though; mutt can be hacked to make anything happen. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bash script question

are modified later -- then you'll have to do some more magic. I'd probably use Perl with the DateManip library for that. But hopefully that's unnecessary. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: annoying beeping speaker

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: How do I make it stop without opening the case and removing the speaker? It's really annoying. xset -b -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key

Re: Progrees meter in scp

). Why would the original poster want to use -q to make it disappear, when he said he wanted it to *appear*? :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:48:13PM -0300, Debian User wrote: how to make to appear the bar of progress in scp ? scp displays progress *percentages*, but not a bar. Whenever possible, try using rsync instead, with the -P option. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: Progrees meter in scp

directory] If your files are highly compressible, and not too large (where 'too large' is probably defined by the amount of memory you have), you can use the -z flag as well; this will compress your files before they go over wire, and save you even more time. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell

Re: Progrees meter in scp

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:37:48PM -0300, Debian User wrote: but this does not show the everything the progress. It should, in fact, show the overall progress. Can you send us the output of that command? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

static IP, but not much. And they get maybe annoyingly tricky when you do wireless, but not much -- and certainly they don't get annoying because of resolv.conf messiness. I'm curious how you got into the spot you're in, where resolv.conf isn't working. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

is already installed, all its dependencies will also be installed as well, so you can go ahead and only upgrade the packages that you've got installed. This is all doable inside a short Perl script, but the margin is too small to contain it. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: apt-get install privoxy ?? Oh, sorry; I was reading the original poster to be saying that he wanted to upgrade just the dependencies. Yes, apt-get install privoxy is the easy way to do this. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

in $(above command); do apt-get install $i; done Or you could use xargs: above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' Though that might be a little tricky, and you might need to use xargs -0. Fiddle with that a bit; it may help you. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

is why I mentioned the '-0' thing, and suggested that you poke around. Also, '-i' is indeed supported, though the manpage suggests that it's deprecated. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

server uses greylisting, whitelisting and blacklisting, and consequently I maybe get a spam every other day. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

/Rants/challenge-response.html -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

? What do you use that keeps up with white/grey/black lists? 'Keeps up'? A whitelist is my list of people who are canonically non-spammers; that's my own list. I believe we get blacklists from Razor. Greylisting is, again, site-by-site. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default setup.) I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

me run one or two commands. For most people, I imagine -- and certainly on most machines I've used -- sudoers are equivalent to root. But yes, I suppose I should have qualified my 'sudo find' command with the words if you're allowed to run 'find' as sudo. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

the root password either -- in which case it will be impossible for you to run any command featuring 'find /'. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upgrade only if installed

$' prevents the command from matching packages with firefox in their name, like firefox-gnome-support. That command will return 0 if it finds anything, 1 if it doesn't. That should get you on your way. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:16:25PM -0400, H.S. wrote: sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' Shouldn't it be followed by a semicolon? Had I done sudo find / -uid [old UID] -exec chown [new UID] '{}' \; then yes. But with xargs, no. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

. But this will change *all* the files, not just the files currently owned by user [blah]. Which is not what the original poster wanted. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upgrade only if installed

be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org

Re: script with date operation??

the command-line 'date' tool, is too cumbersome. Perl's actually the easiest here, I've found. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: script with date operation??

. Because then you start getting into messiness with leap years, timezones, etc., etc., etc. There's a reason that time libraries are hard to write. :-) Perl's done all the work for you; be lazy. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

of the ASCII range that are troubling you. For that, you have to make sure that your locale is set properly, and that your terminal program is also using the right locale. If you need help in that direction, let us know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: Treason?

. This is why god invented Google. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/linux/2001-q3/0083.html or more generally http://google.com/search?q=%22treason+uncloaked%22 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

machine's compromise from compromising another machine, set HashKnownHosts. Then, at least, people won't be able to guess your other machines once they've broken your current machine. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: using apt-listbugs

with these or not? -- is always off my screen, below the bottom line. I hit space to no avail, and when I hit return I find that I've just answered the default to the question ('YES install these'). It's probably just that your monitor's vertical positioning needs to be changed. -- Stephen R

Re: using apt-listbugs

worry about stopping X. As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Network printing

config-file settings right :-). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emusing

knew just how laughable it was. Please unsubscribe and never post here again. Thanks. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emusing

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:36:26AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: 2) Enter your email address in the form field there. Do you know what a form field is? Another approach, should that one not work: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: howto check open ports ?

blocks ports that high. You could also use nmap to scan ports. But nmap is only going to scan privileged ports to see which ones are open; it's not going to tell you that ports 8080 and above are open, because they always are. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org

Re: howto check open ports ?

52343 52382 52426 52462 52481 52482 53166 53494 56174 56241 57329 6 61464 62586 -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

that DHCP isn't necessary. Well, one needn't have a fixed IP to host a website; I've hosted several using dynamic DNS -- see, e.g., dyndns.org. But of course you're right that the original poster almost certainly does not have a fixed IP. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

configure things, but for basic connections that'll do the trick. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

ssh'. I assume your Debian is running Sarge. I don't believe sshd is running by default, is it? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to get SSH to work on my box?

: *** 1:4.2p1-5 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

at the shell into convert -resize 200x200 filename.bmp filename.jpg and ImageMagick will then automatically convert the file from BMP to JPEG. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [OT] Mutt -- how to send tagged msgs. as bcc's ?

will be bounced. All of the recipients will see the 'To:' line, but they won't see the other people to whom it was bounced. Does that answer your question? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: logs crazy

is the difference between kern.log, messages, dmesg, syslog and all the other logs. Thanks Check out /etc/syslog.conf and the corresponding manpage (syslog.conf(5)). -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Bulletin-board software that doesn't suck

in recent days, and have found it pathetic. Patching it, in particular, is a nightmare -- hence the final bullet above. Do people on this list run lots of bulletin boards for their clients? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: Root's Mail

something like /etc/aliases so that mail destined for root is now going to use foo, say. Have you already created the user called foo on your machine? If not, go to a command line and do sudo adduser foo Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

? I know very little about programming at that level, so I'll have to consult Stevens. I just find the lack of portability here rather bizarre. Thanks again for your help. I'll dig through the books and links that you referenced. Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571

Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

-approved way to do this, right? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

-- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:45:36PM -0700, John Purser wrote: You might consider one of the multi-platform languages like Python or Perl. Both have modules that will do this I believe. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Does anyone know the Perl function for this task? -- Stephen R. Laniel

Re: find

toolkit. They're definitely worth getting to know. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Large LDAP deployments

a directory server that's 1) as featureful as OpenLDAP; 2) as easy to administer as OpenLDAP; 3) affordable for 200-odd seats; 4) easy to administer; and 5) open source? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Which daemons run at startup

. For that matter, 4) Other than testing for the existence of /etc/[distro name]{_,-}version, is there any way -- without assuming that the distro is LSB-compliant -- to figure out which distro is in front of me? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP

Re: Vim question

of every line. Just to be clear, that last substitution command is equivalent to :s/^/\/\/ but is, I think, prettier. If you wanted to instead replace line 1 line 2 line 3 with /* line 1 line 2 line 3 */ I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam I.e., If spamassassin labeled it spam, send it off to my spam folder. There are more complicated routes, but that's basically the idea. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: Wireless Help

to do with this package? We may be able to recommend others. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ways to read man pages

are probably closer to what you're looking for. Though a manpage like that for procmailrc(5) probably meets your demands. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bash commands

of $a is, and replacing 23 with BB. You didn't specify the value of $a before you run that substitution; what is it? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

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Re: Where is my Economist?

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:39:01PM -0700, Fritz Volbach wrote: Please check on this subscription and finally start sending me the Economist again! What led you to post that to a mailing list about the Debian Linux distribution? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: commands and packages

machine, you can do dlocate ypwhich or whatnot. If you don't know whether it's on your machine, you can run apt-file update; apt-file search ypwhich If apt-file isn't already installed on your machine, you can do sudo apt-get install apt-file Cheers, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: internet connection

of this sort of thing. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

suspect the canonical answer would be /usr/bin. See the man page for hier(7). Everyone has /usr/bin in his or her path. If, however, you only want it to be available to a specific user, put it in that user's ${HOME}/bin, then put ${HOME}/bin in their $PATH. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

(= 1:1.2.1) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

know if you have any difficulties. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

been done to death on any number of Linux lists. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

of Debian, you can do sudo apt-get install [package name] 3) You want to use sudo rather than running commands as root. Really. It's much safer. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description

readpst

done, skipped 0, should have been 0 Finished. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mkaing apt-file do it's job

you'll do something like sudo apt-cdrom add to get the indexes recreated. Then apt-file update, like you did, then apt-file search. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rsync does not work

. If that doesn't give you any hints, try doing rsync -v -e 'ssh -v' rather than just rsync -e ssh The 'ssh -v' argument will have ssh also spit out verbose information. Try that, see if you get any better results, and send us the output if you'd like us to help you parse it. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything similar?? I've been using it under Ubuntu for months; I've had this problem you mention for a while now. I'm not sure what the latest status on it is; I'll ask on the Ubuntu list and see what they say. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308

Re: Help!

of being lazy in their UI design. We should assume that people won't read the docs, and build our products with that assumption in mind. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help!

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:16:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote: 1) It's been a while since I've installed Debian. Are new users added automatically to the sudoers file? No. Just to be clear: I didn't mean all new users; I just meant the first non-root user created on the machine. -- Stephen R

Re: Help!

completed the installation. You'll need to install a number of Debian packages -- among them the gnome package -- but I don't know which ones to tell you offhand. I assume others do. Good luck. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org

Re: Help!

am a beginning user, I am an intermediate user, or I am an advanced user. Beginning users wouldn't have to type anything else, except their desired username and password. All other questions would get default answers. How close does the Sarge installer get to this? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL

Re: using the 'find' program

and pasting directly from the command that you typed; I think you'll find that you made a typo in your use of 'find'. find . -type f -exec file '{}' \; which returns nothing. Again, if you please: copy from the command line into an email, including any errors you got. -- Stephen R

Re: using the 'find' program

with the facts is 'the OP made a typo.' :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

would contain blocks like so: :0 * ^TO_.*debian-user debian-user which will take any message addressed (via the To:, Cc:, Bcc:, etc. fields) to debian-user and filter it into the debian-user folder. I hope this helps, Steve -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org

Re: mass user property changes

for certain users. But if changing every instance is what you want, that will do it and is probably the easiest way. The Perl route -- sudo perl -p -i -e 's{/bin/false}{/bin/passwd}g' /etc/passwd -- looks a little cleaner. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP

Robots.txt for *all* virtual hosts?

Suppose I want every virtual host under Apache to reject particular robots. Is there any way to set up a robots.txt-equivalent that applies to all virtual hosts? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc

Re: wget -c 'problem'

is going to have a hard time working with the '-c' option, but that's just a guess. If you're using FTP, try to find an HTTP alternate to the image you're downloading. If you're not using FTP, then I'm very wrong. :-) -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key

Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

the number of extraneous programs to a minimum. If you can do without GNOME, it's probably best to do without GNOME. But if your users need it, then you should install it. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

get their computers from their manufacturers and don't modify them at all. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

-user. I'm perfectly able to script such a thing, but the average user shouldn't be expected to do so. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

. But maybe it'll be possible once Breezy stabilizes. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian package containing header files?

-x11 zed -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Good GUI for essid selection?

to connect to it from then on. This would then be *more* usable than Windows, if I'm not mistaken. Is this sort of thing available? * - if this were Slashdot, this would immediately result in my post being rated a 1 or at most a 2. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http

Re: Autoplay?

to Preferences, then Removable Drives and Media. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Web-based calendaring/project mgmt

a web form and describes his meeting with a client, including the times he met with the client, what they talked about, whether the client needs followup, etc. That's a good start. Does any good free software for this purpose exist? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571

Re: Clean firefox cache commandline?

-line option, according to the Firefox man page. But if you're willing to accept a little command-line hack, you could try #!/bin/bash FFDIR=~/.mozilla/firefox find $FFDIR -depth -type d -name Cache -exec rm -R '{}' \; Not very tested, but it seems like it should do the trick. -- Stephen R

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

freedom. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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