Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
What does it mean when /dev is said to be static? dynamic? What should I be reading about? On Linux, static tends to be used on embedded systems for speed and sanity when you know about all the hardware that will be connected and don't want anything interfering. OpenBSD has a Makedev script

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-11 Thread Valery Mamonov
2012/10/11 houkensjtu houkens...@gmail.com Thanks Joe, Brian, Murphy As I post above, I forgot to say all these experiments were done in my home on my laptop... Now I am in my office and re-do all this experiment. To be short, now all experiment which is done with ip address works well,

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html A bit of searching the net on port-forwarding oughta give you the answer. You probably forgot to forward port 22 on the router to whichever ip adress your DEBIAN has. Search around for stuff on your router/ISP combo as they're almost always

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Joe
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:35:13 -0700 (PDT) houkensjtu houkens...@gmail.com wrote: Hi debianer! I am a newbie both of debian and networking... Recently I am trying to connect my home laptop(I have a router in my home) from office. I read several articles on port forwarding. And I succeeded in

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 08:35:13 -0700, houkensjtu wrote: I am a newbie both of debian and networking... Recently I am trying to connect my home laptop(I have a router in my home) from office. I read several articles on port forwarding. And I succeeded in opening an 22 port on my router, also

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 19:44:27 +0100, Joe wrote: [Some good advice snipped] However you resolve the initial problem, the ssh server is very heavily targeted by the bad guys, using password checking bots. A quick and dirty security measure is to forward a non-standard high numbered external

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread houkensjtu
Hi Joe! Thank you for detailed reply! Actually I found a switch which solved my problem and now all my experiments works perfectly. The command is: echo 1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward but...What is it?! Is there any other way to check and configure my laptop's status without writing directly

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread houkensjtu
Brian於 2012年10月11日星期四UTC+9上午8時00分04秒寫道: On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 08:35:13 -0700, houkensjtu wrote: I am a newbie both of debian and networking... Recently I am trying to connect my home laptop(I have a router in my home) from office. I read several articles on port forwarding. And I

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 08:19:25 PM houkensjtu wrote: Thanks for great reply!! I have to apologize for sth... I forgot to say that all these experiments were done in home on my laptop...omg So, now I solved the problem with echo 1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward What is this file? Is

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread houkensjtu
Thanks Joe, Brian, Murphy As I post above, I forgot to say all these experiments were done in my home on my laptop... Now I am in my office and re-do all this experiment. To be short, now all experiment which is done with ip address works well, while if I do ssh USER@DEBIAN, it will say: ssh:

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-09 Thread Randy Patterson
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:06, Michael M. wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading your post one of the things that I think

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-08 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:47 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: Thanks for taking to time to post all that information. I have installed Gnome, just haven't figured out how to get it going yet! After reading your post one of the things that I think I need to do first is read some good

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because distributions default to something doesn't mean that other things don't work on them. The beauty of Debian is that almost everything is available in the repositories. You can use whatever you feel most comfortable with. The only way you will

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. As I had stated previously I installed from the debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, which sounds

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an install of the Gnome core; aptitude install gnome-core The Gnome option doesn't appear under the Session

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an install

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: As I had stated previously I installed from the debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, which

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: As I had stated previously I installed from the debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice of which system to start or will I have to manually

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 07:29 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 14:41, Michael M. wrote: snipped Michael's long and very helpful post! -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S.

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 10:49, Michael Pobega wrote: The Gnome option doesn't appear under the Session Type option. I assume that I haven't installed all the packages needed for Gnome. What additional packages do I need? Maybe the gnome-session package? Try that one it, I think

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:05:52 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Keep the following packages at their current version: fam [Not Installed] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam nautilus recommends fam Score is -341 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] end I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add these

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-)

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previously I

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previously I

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
Oops! Sorry about that! Kmail gave me an error on the first send so I didn't think it was sent out. On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:33, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't really have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would be

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) Flamebait! Oh now, now we're going to get a flamewar over which DE is best.

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. Too bad that this is not in Etch. But good to know. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: Minimal command line interface: no monitor, no graphics card, no terminal, just a dot matrix printer and a keyboard. Yup, did that once when I _really_ needed to fix something. You really don't want to get into that competition here. --

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and was

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I had stated previously I installed from the debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice of which system to start or will I have to manually close KDE and

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system that I prefer and was wondering if

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a favorite windowing system

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Javier Enrique Tiá Marín
El Miércoles, 4 de Abril de 2007 19:09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi escribió: Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Randy Patterson
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:09, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson wrote: So would you say in general that the debian-testing-xxx-kde-CD-1.iso image is for higher end system installs and the debian-testing-xxx-xfce-CD-1.iso image is for lower end and debian-testing-xxx-netinst.iso image is to allow for all options? I do not think

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:12:58PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: So would you say in general that the debian-testing-xxx-kde-CD-1.iso image is for higher end system installs and the debian-testing-xxx-xfce-CD-1.iso image is for lower end and debian-testing-xxx-netinst.iso image is to allow

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Pobega wrote: On 02/17/2007 08:52:31 AM, Jan Sneep wrote: [...] If you use iTunes to download music you're out of luck, because there are almost no Linux equivalents. If your kids only use iTunes to update their iPods, then there is always gtkpod, which is what I personally use to

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On 02/17/2007 08:52:31 AM, Jan Sneep wrote: Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first time for any Linux OS for that matter) and thanks to the replies to my last question I've got Samba up and working beautifully and this week-end I'm going to get CUPS

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread John K Masters
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:52:31 -0500 Jan Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and for the second part to my question ... How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 17-feb-2007, at 14:52, Jan Sneep wrote: snippage How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because some iTunes

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:52 -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to re-boot my machine after they're done because some iTunes service

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 16:30 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 08:52 -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: How about iTunes for loading songs onto their iPods? At the moment they use my Windows Xp machine to fill up their iPods, because of course iTunes doesn't run on ME. I have to

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:52:31AM -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first time for any Linux OS for that matter) congrats!! welcome to freedom... Inspired with my recent success installing Debian on one machine I was thinking

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:52:31AM -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: Well two weeks ago I successfully installed Debian for the first time (first time for any Linux OS for that matter) congrats!! welcome to freedom...

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:41:29PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected email-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject 'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: SMTP,

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... no server error, and the fact that you later say you see nothing

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only accept connections from

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:44AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: I actually set the 'listening' addresses option to blank. I believe this means that my server should be listening on all available network addresses shouldn't it? Yes, and you can verify this using lsof -ni:25 | grep LISTEN,

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:47:15PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: no server error, and the fact that you later say you see nothing in your exim4 logs make me wonder if you've setup MX records for your domain to point to the IP address of your server? In the absence of MX records, mailers

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm not sure what an MX record is. Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS records come in a variety of types: the most common being the 'A' record, which

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
A useful function is # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:06:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm not sure what an MX record is. Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS records come in a

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:33:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [ snip: Jon Dowland's nice mini-tutorial about dig and MX records ] okay, so I had to try this to learn and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short bigpond.com mx 10 extmail.bigpond.com. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had to try this to learn and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25 so

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:37:55AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:19:46AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 Duncan McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 Duncan McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:00:10AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:21:09AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 Duncan McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails No I was just asking. I'm just trying to figure out why I can send email

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
[ apologies for the long time since replying ] Miles Fidelman wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit /etc/default/bootlogd. It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
Florian Kulzer wrote: I'll echo the question about where to find that out other than a helpful reply on this list. A manpage does not always include specific info about how things are set up in Debian, unfortunately. (You can file a wishlist bug asking the package maintainer to include

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ooops. I guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been. Editing /etc/default/bootlod to set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Works like a charm. Miles Willie Wonka wrote: [ apologies for the long time since replying ] Miles Fidelman wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
Miles Fidelman wrote: Ooops. I guess I wasn't as clear as I could have been. Editing /etc/default/bootlod to set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Works like a charm. Miles Thanks for clarifying that for me ;-) Regards __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit /etc/default/bootlogd. It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why wouldn't the man page say how to enable it? Or where should I look for that kind of

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 15:15:40 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit /etc/default/bootlogd. It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why wouldn't the man

Re: newbie question

2006-07-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Wulfy wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Miles Fidelman wrote: Wulfy wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Wulfy wrote: man bootlogd it's part of the sysvinit package... :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S bootlogd sysvinit: /sbin/bootlogd initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootlogd initscripts: /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd initscripts: /etc/default/bootlogd sysvinit: /usr/share/man/man8/bootlogd.8.gz

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/21/2006 09:31 AM, Willie Wonka wrote: [...] So I drop to a VT/VC (ctrl-alt-f2) and login as root; then rerun above command '/sbin/bootlogd -lps' and it *seems* to have taken affect -- but i guess i won't know for sure until I reboot...well here goes ;-) Regards AFAIK, that's not the

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-21 Thread Willie Wonka
Mumia W. wrote: AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit /etc/default/bootlogd. It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion - but why wouldn't the man page say how to enable it? Or where should I look for that kind of info instead? I'm

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 17:01 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: Are there some settings that control what's logged at boot time? Hope this helps: man syslog.conf man sysklogd Cheers. PS: next time it would be better that you read the documentation and google for a while before you ask. Some

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 17:01 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: Are there some settings that control what's logged at boot time? Hope this helps: man syslog.conf man sysklogd Cheers. PS: next time it would be better that you read the documentation and google for a

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and capture the console

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Wulfy
Miles Fidelman wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to

Re: newbie question on finding and keeping customized files with dpkg or apt

2006-04-15 Thread Chris Lale
Marco Prandini wrote: Hello, I'm switching to Debian after a long time on RedHat, and I haven't been able to find a couple of functions of the package manager I'd like to use... hoping they exist at all! 1) I'd like to find which files of a package have been altered with respect to the

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