setting up a new mirror (unofficial)

2000-05-13 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I am, and have been attempting to set up a local mirror of stable frozen unstable. I live behind a firewall and the local admin seems to think that the rsync port should be closed. I was hoping to use mirror to install only the i386 and powerpc binary branches. Unfortunately my

Re: swat man pages

2000-04-09 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 01:00:05AM +0800, FreeMan wrote: my inetd.conf already ends like this: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat #off# swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/swat I've tried

looking for nice way to throw out old mail in mutt

2000-03-23 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello Dusers, I like being subscribed to debian user. I also end up not being able to read it from lack of time. I have exim filter debiaan user into its own mailbox, but I would like to be able to have messages over a week (or some other arbitrary time) fed to the /dev/null monster. Does any one

bootloaders and fips alternative

2000-03-23 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings yet again Dusers, I have been asked by our Physics Dept. to carve up a win box and install the one true OS on it. I recall reading a while ago that there was an up and comming nice replacement (functionally) to fips. Unfotunately I don't recall the name off hand. Any body know what I am

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:06:04PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: in that case it should work, does id or groups show that you are a member of the cdrom group? is your cdrom REALLY /dev/hdc? (secondary master) groups does not show me as a member of cdrom. I did the following; janet:~# useradd

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:27:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: If groups isn't displaying the right output after a useradd, then my guess is that you haven't logged out and in again since the useradd ...? ACK! I have gotten so used to things working when I do them ( as opposed to Windoughs,

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:39:33AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Radim Gelner wrote: On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using cdcd, can I change

Re: Group for /dev/cdrom, Does not work for me :-(, addendum

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: Hmmm I always just made my cdrom ( hdc ) world readable. this seemed should refer

Re: suggestiotn for mailing lists

2000-03-20 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:26:46AM +, Alvaro Ortiz de Urbina wrote: In order to do appropiate filtering in my mail box, to avoid hundreds of messages that don let me see other e-mails, I think it would be a very good idea to include in the subject things like [deb] or [deb_boot] or any

help with ppp-- Linux-eth0- windoze home network

2000-03-19 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello fellow Dusers, I am (and have been) trying to get my home machines running with the following configuration. So Far I have had little success. I have Debian Box (Potato) configured with ppp (Love it!) My wife has a winblows box (Hate it!) Both have ethernet cards and are cabled to each

Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

2000-03-17 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:11:19AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Yannick Jestin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would you care to enlighten me and the rest of the list? The original file is only removed if `tr' succeeded. For reference, I suggested: for file in *; do mv $file

Re: HELP: update produces an empty db???

2000-03-15 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:52:39PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, i tryed it now by hand: localhost:~# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found updatedb: new database would be empty and in effect the db is empty what's this frcode about and how do i get this

Potato: MAKEDEV doesn't recognize ht device

1999-10-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I have an ide tape drive that I know works (had it running in slink) with linux. I recently did a complete install of potato from scratch, using slinks bootfloppies. I have a custom 2.2.10 kernel with the ide tape support compiled in. when I run MAKEDEV update it horks on ht with

solved: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-22 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello all, I am the original poster. After receiving a tip from an old mentor of mine I tried setting up dvips with texconfig and set the printer in 2 seperate locations. It seems to be working now but dvips now is very verbose when ps'ing a dvi file (not complaining though :) Thanks for all the

dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-20 Thread esoR ocsirF
greetings all, I have read and searched and sighed... but I can't find anything on how to get dvips to generate 2400dpi output. I believe the fault lies with the default printer selection but when I changed config.ps (for texmf?) it complains about mismatched mode ljfour and 2400 even though I

Re: I suspect the kernel: `ping', and name resolution in general, hangs

1999-10-10 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings all, I just installed a potato box via the usuall minimal slink then point apt at potato scenario. I experienced the same problem reported in this thread, namely no name resolution but IP worked just fine. I finally was able to fix it by changing /etc/init.d/network the gateway was left

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-08 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I have placed the linux logo debs at my web address, http://www.eou.edu/~rosef/logo please don't hit this to often or my campus admin might get cranky :-) -- Frisco Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Science Journal Ed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hoke Center 307

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

1999-10-07 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:15:18PM -0400, addiction wrote: Until this evening I had linuxlogo displaying the pretty debian swirl. -Lex I have been wanting to ask the same thing... I did try downgrading to get the swirl back but I can't find which version actually HAD the swirl to begin

dynamic IP and exim config (different from LG #43)

1999-09-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I have been tinkering with a different way of setting up exim/fetchmail/mutt so that I can get mail on a dynamically assigned IP but still act like a static email address. I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my ISP assigned email address. I have also set up exim to think that my personal

double trouble with exim filter

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings all, I have been playing around with exim and its filter capabilities and I ran into a problem I didn't find a solution for in the docs. # Exim filter if $h_Resent-From: contains ebian-user or $h_Cc: contains ebian-user or $h_To: contains ebian-user then save

Re: Xwindows

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Beverley Eyre wrote: This seems like the permissions aren't correct, but when I check, it seems like they are. Does anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Just a quick thought from a non-expert. When you checked permissions did you look

Re: double trouble with exim filter

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:53:36PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 07:42:52PM -0700, esoR ocsirF wrote: OK, so the idea is to send stuff from debian-user to its own mailbox and stuff from all other subscribed debian lists to debian. Problem is that I am getting

Solved [apparently] Re: double trouble with exim filter

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
Thanks to all, I have received messages into both of my mailboxes without redundancy or repitition. The finish seems to do the trick, I am posting my filter for any future readers that may like to follow suit. # Exim filter if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains ebian-user then save

Potato with alzheimers

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
Memory question / concern, First off, I am running a bleeding edge potato box and know that I will get bitten more than once ;-) I just had the strangest thing happen, I was on vc5 when everything just sorta stopped (interactive wise) but the dis activity went into overdrive. I also had a bunch of

Re: Potato

1999-08-31 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:11:45PM -0700, Beverley Eyre wrote: OK, I give up. What's potato? Potato is the code name for the unstable section of debian. The current version of debian is code named slink and is considered stable. The previous version was hamm and before that... well lets just say

Re: What inkjet color printers are well supported?

1999-08-07 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 07:35:17PM +0200, Bernard wrote: I am planning for a color inkjet purchase, I gatherned several info and welcome suggestions and feedbacks. Is the following info correct? what would you add to it? - no USB support for printer yet, so printer stay on printer port

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Minimal requirements

1999-08-07 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:11:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 11:46:20AM -0400, Bill Leach wrote: You can not install X without graphic card dependencies. That is, to display X sessions on your computer there must be an xserver that knows how to speak to your

monitoring advertising on this list

1999-08-01 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello all, I asked this question some time ago and got no response, so... rant I hate those pesky ads that pop up on the list. They really annoy me. /rant Does anybody know if the message on http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe is actually enforced? It would appease my wrath to know that

Re: hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:43:35AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Brian J. McHugh wrote: It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a MB when it's really 1048576 bytes so they can call their disks

prefered database in debian?

1999-07-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, I hope this is not to far off topic :-] I have to learn to use a database for a CS assignment. I have the choice of either postgres or MySQL. My question is this, are there any reasons that I should pick one over the other? I would like to learn something that I can eventually turn to

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-26 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:55:48PM +, Kaa wrote: Hello, This is a slightly off thread post, but relavent. I am new to mutt butt I am under the imression that mutt will handle pop queries directly. If I am wrong tell me, and I will go back to my hole. Any way the following got my attention;

missing dependency

1998-12-26 Thread esoR ocsirF
I think I have found a missing dependency in exim_2.05-1. exim uses update-inetd in the install script but did not complain when netbase was not selected, netbase provides update-inetd. Just thought that you would like to know :) Frisco Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Violence is the last

Re: Debian dselect question

1997-01-13 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: ... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386. There is no 'stable' directory on my CD. I was just wondering if you had mounted your CD-rom before you ran dselect?

Re: Debian Package

1997-01-13 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote: umm, is any one allowed to make a debian package? if so, is there a HOWTO on it? Hi, try downloading the manual at the following URL ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/programmer.ps.gz Good luck,

installing pico

1997-01-13 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello, Has anyone got an idea where I can find info on installing pico? If this message is not appropriate, please let me know. I am ... (look sideways, and whisper)... a newbie. /