Re: x-window-manager

1999-12-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:55:30PM +0100, Francesco Tapparo wrote: I maintain SCWM, a guile-powered window manager. An user asked me to add a Provides: x-window-manager, but I cannot find this virtual package in the virtual package list, neither in the policy (I have debian-policy 3.1.1.1).

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-08 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:47:12PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: 1. get qmail source and build a deb: apt-get install qmail-src cd qmail-src-* fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. sudo apt-get install qmail-src build-qmail, you mean. -- Havoc

Re: Amanda questions

1999-06-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:05:50PM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: ERROR: charlie: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR: alpha: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR: bravo: [access as backup not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo

LOCAL: Finnish Debian Meeting

1999-03-09 Thread Tommi Virtanen
We are organizing a Finnish Debian Developer/User Meeting this weekend. If you are not in Finland, feel free to press 'd' now. The rest is in finnish. Suomen Debian-tapaaminen Tapaamme lauantaina, 13.3., Helsingissä, klo

URGENT: Uploaded ssh 1.2.25-0.1 (source i386) to non-us

1998-06-13 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ssh- a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp ssh-askpass - under X, asks user for a pasphrase for ssh-add Changes: ssh (1.2.25-0.1) frozen unstable; urgency=high . * The upstream version now uses binaries ending in '1

Re: netscape4 and long keys

1998-05-23 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 07:37:32AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On 22 May 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: Is it possible to get a copy of netscape4.05 with hard encryption (128 bit keys) for Linux 2.0? I would like to install this if possible. I am in the U.S. and qualify to obtain such a

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 05:16:09PM -0600, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: That's good for selecting packages but if you are just updating the things, my suggestion would be a local mirror and apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get clean. What is apt-get? I can't find any

Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 05:15:26PM -0600, Kenneth L. Summers wrote: Could you please give more details about that. Imagine I need to update some package (perl for example) on 6 nodes simultaneously, what do I do? It was posted a week or so ago, but here's what they said: a) Install one

Re: ssh telneting

1998-04-27 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 07:18:25PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: I often telnet to my Linux box from a win95 machine. Does anyone know of a nice win95 telnet program that supports ssh and ANSI (preferably free)? Look at www.datafellows.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-31 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 04:27:03PM -0500, James A.Treacy wrote: FYI, it has been my intention to have the actual web pages generated using m4. This would allow us to have a generic header and footer (for each language) and have time stamps be generated automatically. Modifying the

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

1998-03-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:04:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into buffers. Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary behavior?

Re: Debian and Pgp w/ RSA support?

1998-03-20 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 08:07:29PM -0800, Steven Morrill wrote: Does anyone know if one of the newer versions of Pgp (like 5.0 or so...) has been complied with RSA key support for Debian? pgp5i-5.0 has backwards-compatible support for RSA keys. However, the i there means it

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 09:26:03AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? It's a (silly) company requirement. xbanner will help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-18 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:11:56AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: Is there an easy way to make xdm display something like the following? xbanner will help. Can xbanner print more than one line of text? --8-- 3. At present, XBanner can only render one line of text. A future version will

Re: deltree for linux

1998-03-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 04:32:01AM -0500, Alain Toussaint wrote: does exist a deltree lookalike for linux (or a good way to get rid of some directory and their files) ??? rm -rf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it's a valid address w/o spam -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft Intellimouse

1998-03-02 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 10:20:16PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: To get the extra button working on my Intellimouse, I had to plug it into the serial port with the adapter supplied with the mouse; then select Intellimouse and it should work fine. Plug it in the PS/2-port and use Section

Re: Yikes, sorry. (Was Re: make-kpkg)

1998-03-02 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:14:37PM +, Lorens Kockum wrote: Only one thing I don't really like: sure, we do get shadow passwords if we ask for them (and oh joy, xlock knows that!) but why do we get asked at all? Are there any reasons at all for keeping crypted passwords in /etc/passwd ?

Re: removing user from group; vigr -s errors; group policies

1998-02-19 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: Is there a simple way of removing a user from a specific group (not knowing what other groups the user is in), or is there a debian package that will do gpasswd -d user group $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gpasswd

Re: would like to use qmail on debian box and got bo running on a hinote ultra 2

1998-02-03 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 07:43:35PM +0900, Sen Nagata wrote: i get an error about 'debstd' not being found -- is there a good place for me to look to find out where debstd might be obtained? It's in the package debmake. Unpacking libgdbmg1-dev (from .../libgdbmg1-dev_1.7.3-21.deb) ...

Re: libc6-dev and kern-source-2.0.33

1998-01-04 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 01:29:20PM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: libc6-dev depends on either = kernel-source-2.0.32-2 or = kernel-headers-2.0.32-2 or greater, neither of which are available. But, I have the Linux kernel sources for 2.0.33. So, I made a kernel-source-2.0.33 package with make-kpkg

Re: tar, cpio, or cp?

1997-11-25 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:40:10AM +0100, Francesco Potorti` wrote: tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -) This one's good. cd /path; find . | cpio -dump /other/path This one (actually, find) won't handle filenames with newlines. If dump would have something

Re: Adding users to groups

1997-11-25 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 10:41:26AM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote: Couldn't find it in the FAQ's or howto's: how do I add users to diffferent groups, e.g. dialout? Do shadow passwords affect the process at all? Just edit /etc/group and put the username you want at the end of the line

Re: Multiple instances (was Using source code for debian; compiling debian)

1997-11-06 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These were not web BROWSERS he was talking about but web SERVERS. You can not, in anything even remotely resembling a normal system, use two different web servers. Now in fact if you REALLY want to do this you can, in that you