Re: cron job mergelog failure

2012-02-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 10:57:54AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: 0 1 * * * mergelog /var/log/apache2/access.log [...] Every day I get an e-mail telling me this failed. Now, I can go in and to this manually, Why can't cron do it without my intervention? What reason does the

Re: Debian's release support policy

2003-03-28 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:28:44AM -0800, ow wrote: IMHO, I will probably continue to support does not really sound like a policy. I think Debian users, including potential ones, would benefit from clear and precise security/support policy (whatever it may be) that can be found in an obvious

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote: On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection refused

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If there's a

Re: sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote: ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any resolve, ive used splack,

Re: Exim4 Cyrus21 SA

2004-01-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:36:20PM -0800, Quenten Griffith wrote: Hello all I am looking for suggestions on how to best implement a Exim4 with Cyrus IMAP mail boxes (virtual users) with spamassassian where users prefs. are stored in mysql. Currently I have tried amavisd-new but it does not

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:20:35PM -0400, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: first of all, I'm not definetely willing to start a war here (although I think I have already). :-) I'm a very satisfied and enthusiastic Debian user, but I would like to hear from you guys the essential pros and cons of

Re: 4.3.0

2003-06-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:28:00PM -0700, Piero wrote: I had to install X 4.3 because former version didn't support my video card. I istalled it from a tarball downloaded from the Xfre86 site. Is it possible to tell the packages databae managed by dpkg or apt-get that this operation has

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:48:29AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: I'm running woody 3.0_r1 and I'm looking for same way to play mp3 files on xmms. Is it possible? Is there any plugin? In case the answer is not, which player do you recommend me to play mp3 files? I do believe that xmms plays

Re: Attack?

2003-06-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:27:52AM +0800, Rolf Schatzmann wrote: One of my debian servers (stable) has been locking up over the last few prior to this it has been rock solid for over a year. I had suspected that there might be a hardware failure somever however the last error in

Re: wmmon IO

2003-06-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:26:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: I have wmmon running, the CPU memory screens work AOK but the I/O screen showes zip no matter how much disk I/O I do. I checked out there web site at http://windowmaker.mezaway.org, it no longer exists. I scanned google but

Re: In woody wdm garbles list of window managers, shows only a few

2003-06-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
[ insane crossposting removed ] On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:06:02PM -0400, TR wrote: Line from /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config: DisplayManager*wdmWm:

Re: Rack servers

2003-06-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:48:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I am in the works of trying to plan for a handful of new servers, and have had enough with towers... Does anyone have any suggestions for rack (1 or 2 U) servers that I can install Debian on? I like Sun Netra's. They're

Re: Anti Virus Software

2003-06-20 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:27:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Someday some bright cracker is going to figure out how to wrap a remote root exploit in an e-mail. Might as well be ready. It already happened 15 years ago. I was six and I remember hearing about it. Well, you should probably

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:19:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:08:23AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: There's no good reason why Debian doesn't. You mean other than the fact you only have to run the installer once? Maybe *you* only have one computer. Not everybody

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:10:08PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: What is the reason that people (like you) do not underestand that Debian supports way more hardware architectures than RedHat does, and that detecting hardware on all these architects, and developing an installer wich runs on all

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the packages and installing them? There certainly is. It's called apt-listchanges. It does

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:32PM -0400, Aaron wrote: What is this all about?! Is there any way I can fix it? Is it not an ext3 problem? It is almost definitely not an ext3 problem, and you'd likely see the same behavior with whatever fs you use. More likely, the problem is that you don't

Re: Debian/Woody and kernel 2.4.6

2001-07-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
No, that url is for potato. Woody does not need any special tweaking. There should be no reason for woody to ship with anything other than kernel 2.4.x when it's finally released (except, maybe, for kernel 2.6 coming out by then ;^). noah On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0700, Vibol Hou

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:56:45AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: Any ideas on how to get java stuff working properly with the existing Mozilla-0.9.1 ??? If you haven't already done so, move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way and let mozilla create a new one for you. You can safely

Re: I NEED REALLY FAST HELP

2001-07-16 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:14:12PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Now something on the filesystem was destroyed and i must restore it. I have to navigate on the tape 2 marks back. I enter mt -f /dev/nht0 fsfm 2 and i get an imput/output error! Tapes are notorious for needing lots of care

Re: [OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:08:44PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: Unfortunately, I was unable to get their site to cooperate with me using any of Mozilla, Netscape 4.77, or Konqueror. Their site is so javascript-heavy (and broken) that I could only get it to work with IE/Win32. Unacceptable. I

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:28:42PM -0400, dude wrote: I know PINE is not what debian users use, but i recently convinced my girlfriend to let me install debian on her windows computer. Her only gripe with using it is that there are no debs of Pine. There are unofficial (and perfectly

Re: Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

2001-07-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:28:38AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan the scsi bus (cfr drvconfig; disks on Solaris) ? The scsitools package contains a nice script to do it,

Re: Mutt Question

2001-07-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:17:11AM -0400, Todd V . Rovito wrote: I have procmail set up to filter my mail into folders for the list servers I belong to. Some days I just don't have the time to read the mail in that particular folder (or list server), I would like to be able to perform a mass

Re: dselect: improper dependancy resolution behavior?

2001-07-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:34:15AM -0700, Gladimir wrote: I am hand selecting my packages, but I am having a problem with libncurses4 and libncurses5. Until I know more about this, I suppose it won't harm anything to just install both versions. However, if I try to remove libncurses4, the

Re: Optimizing fron source

2001-07-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:41:56AM -0400, dude wrote: There was recently a thread on this aobut optimizing for newer chips but i thought i read that the speed increase was not worth the compile time. What do others think? The thing is, very very few packages are CPU bound enough for

Re: screen 1024x768 desktop 1600x1200

2001-07-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:27:48PM +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: Thank you for your help, but one last question: the solution of my display is now 1024x768, but the desktop has still 1600x1200, so it scrolls while using it, how can i stop that? In the Display subsection where you specify the

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:52:15PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Effective Midnight 7/31/2001, all non-subscription access to MAPS'SM services will cease. Anyone wishing to transfer or query MAPS'SM data must have a signed contract with MAPSSM, and have access enabled in our ACL.

Re: Tape backup software

2001-07-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:59:48AM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes. You want amanda. It's spread across a few packages in Debian: amanda-common, amanda-client, and

Re: ipchains rules: REJECT vs. DENY

2001-07-25 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:38:19PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: Are there any drawbacks to DENY? Is there a general consensus on this subject? In general, DENY is good because it does just what your friend says. This also makes things like portscans more difficult, as they take longer to

Re: laptop and linux: any dangers?

2001-07-25 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:06:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please fix your mailer. You aren't setting any kind of sane return address. I plan to purchase a notebook that shall run debian GNU/Linux. My question: do I have to take care on special features? I do not expect to get all

Re: How long from release to unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:10:34AM -0700, Jeremy Whetzel wrote: I'm just wondering how long it generally takes something like the next version of X to make it's way into the unstable branch of Debian? I'm looking It very much depends on the package. X is enormous, and there are many

Re: debian install problem with scsi

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:35:23AM -0700, RB Bruce wrote: If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is going to try harder over and over again before it gets to the first blue install screen. Check for SCSI ID conflicts. Try

Re: Promise IDE ATA-100 controller on ASUS A7V133

2001-07-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:57:32AM -0700, David Grant wrote: Okay, everyone keeps telling me to use the idepci disks, which sounds like it would probably work. But on the website it says that the idepci ONLY supports IDE and PCI devices, not SCSI. I don't have any SCSI devices, but actually

Re: Freeing up lost memory

2001-07-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: But still, all my precious RAM is nowhere to be seen: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:513464 359332 154132 0 6332 131384 -/+ buffers/cache:

Re: [OT] Pinging and traceroute

2001-07-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:04:26AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: Any ideas why I'm unable to run a traceroute to an IP address without first pinging it ?? If I try and trace a site, it does little to I am not sure here. I do have an IPTABLES firewall running. Pinging a site does nothing to

Re: learning to find packages

2001-08-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:42:57PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: I'm still in library/package management hell. I try to start an application and it says that it can't load libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2. You should not have to deal with this problem. What application are you using? Was it installed from

Re: CrushLink New Password

2001-08-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
I found the means to shut this crap off on their privacy policy page. I have blocked further mail from this wacky service to debian-user. I do hope nobody minds. 8^) On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:25:20PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, You may now use the password: qogxmw To sign in

Re: Toggle English/Dvorak keybaord in wmaker?

2001-08-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:42:38PM +, Paul Mackinney wrote: I'm very happy with my decision to switch from Gnome to WindowMaker, but I can't figure out how to set up both US and Dvorak keymaps. The interface to toggle between keymaps is evident in the WPrefs utility, but I only get the

Re: woody or sid

2001-08-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's kind of neccesary that my system is stable cause it is running a website. But my whole problem started when I wanted to install the unstable nmap cause I wanted the newest as possible. I'm now thinking of installing sid

Re: Debian dream machine?

2001-08-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:01:36PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: I am planning on building a computer from various components with the intent of setting it up to dual boot to Debian and Windows ME. Initially I had ordered an Athalon 1.3 Ghz processor and Abit KT7A motherboard but then got cold

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:43:30PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom kernel? Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during the boot

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. However, it is behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: eth1: Something Wicked Happened!

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:09:58PM +, joe golden wrote: What the heck do i need to get kde to get in to hotmail??? You need a web browser. apt-get install konqueror noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: latex docu

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't According to xdvi's man page, it should be able to open this file directly: If a file

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: However, it is behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed. I don't see this with my driver release. This is very unusual --

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:39:29PM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: You need a web browser. apt-get install konqueror You also need crypto support, which will not be installed by default. These Really? You can't access a hotmail account without SSL? I'm impressed. noah --

Re: tripwire - or others?

2001-08-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: i need to employ some tripwire-like tool on a couple of hosts and i was wondering if you had any experience. i myself have used tripwire for years, but i could see many features that other programs could have that tripwire

Re: Totaly OT: how to cut up pictures

2001-08-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:20:27PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel wrote: Hmm.. this has got me thinking, this kind of thing is very useful and could probably be automated, I should write some gimp scripts to automate the process... but I digress. Hope this works for you as good as it worked for me The

Re: Route Discovering tools (rdisc) ?

2001-08-31 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:42:30PM +0200, christophe barbé wrote: I'm playing with rdisc a tool included in the redhat iputils rpm. This tool allows automatic root discovery, I mean you do not need to add manually static routes to reach a network behind a gateway running rdisc. There are rdisc

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
One more thing: Note that kernel 2.4.x includes the natsemi driver already. It is the National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support option in the kernel configuration. It's not same as the file from scyld, but is based on it. noah --

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: How do I get the kernel to 'see' the natsemi.c file and compile this driver into the kernel? You will need to do some kernel hacking. Unless you have experience integrating drivers into the kernel, it is likely to be non-trivial.

Re: default window managers

2001-09-17 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where do set the system wide default windows manager? i recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade of the unstable tree and it changed the default windows manager from windows maker to fvwm, and now when i set up a user to run

Re: OT: DSL Providers

2001-09-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:18:03AM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: has any one have any experience with a dsl provider in the san francisco (south bay) area that doesn't immediately go catatonic if the os is not from the great Satan of the northwest? I am fairly

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was the latest distribution). Recently, I've been unable to build almost all the applications I have tried. The usual problem seems to be missing file

Re: debian distro vs. applications

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it anymore. Well, almost. I run Potato on machines that I don't generally want to log in

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. What version of the kernel are you running? If it's 2.4, are you running the natsemi driver included with

Re: m86k Xwindow

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:44:00PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: Let's see - I'm not sure how you're trying to open /proc/bus/pci/devices It doesn't matter at all how he's trying to open the file. He's running on a 68040 Mac. It doesn't *have* a PCI bus, so there won't be a

Re: Window Manager

2001-09-23 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: I got myself in trouble by playing around with the window manager. I changed from icewm to enlightenment. Now, I find that enlightenment is not as good and I want to go back to icewm. In older versions of Debian, all you had to

Re: ext2 fs question

2001-06-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:46:25PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:13:09PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon uttered: What I'm trying to figure out specifically is if I have a file, or a directory, at the beginning of my disk and it start to get bigger and bigger will it push the

Re: machine crash

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: I'm at loss here, the log from messages file looks like it had something to do with the drives and the one that was on console looked like it was null pointer, beside that i have no idea how to find out which process it was or

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:27:53PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Mostly it is. You'll want to get grub from woody or sid, though, as it comes with a handy script ('grub-install') that's not available in the potato version. I second that. Unfortunatelly sid's or woody's version of grub

Re: why is lg-issue?? upgraded all the time?

2001-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:21:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: The old issues don't change. Why are they constantly upgraded? Have you considered checking the changelog? All debian packages must have one, else it is a bug. noah -- ___ |

Re: libc6=2.1.97

2001-06-10 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:26:43PM +0100, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to install a .deb package which depends on libc6=2.1.97 and have been unable to locate it. I run Potato and only have v.2.1.3-13 of libc6. From the sound of it, you're trying to install a package from woody or sid on your

Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:09AM -0500, ktb wrote: Take a look at the man page for update-rc.d # update-rc.d -f bind remove should remove the offending scripts. No no no no no. That is the *wrong* way to do it! If you do it that way, then the very next time you upgrade your bind package

Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote: I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir (I don't want them to be able to see or reach / or even /home ) I've already wasted half a day on just that, I'd really appreciate it if anyone could tell me

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:49:12PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: Anyone aware of something that can be used on Linux when a radio station offers streams for Windows mediaplayer or for Quicktime? Nope. Can't be done. Quicktime is a patented codec, so that's out (conceivably some company could create

Re: Streamed Audio application?

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Ed Falis wrote: Thanks. That's sort of what I suspected. I'm going to suggest to the broadcaster that they consider something that can be handled by realplayer. They could always strem mp3 format. Sure, it's patented, too, but there do exist

Re: [OT] quick CVS question

2001-06-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:44:23PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: In the CVSROOT/modules file, define your module like so: myproj-o ln -s bar foo myproj Yes, I think that is what I was looking for. Though you're right that -o needs to be given a single argument. Accoring to the

Re: downloading with dselect??

2001-06-15 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: that manual for dselect is not well written ;[[ how to download with dselect only libc6 and all the packages that libc6 require? when i press + on the numpad it adds more packages that are needed (i think ;])... What are you

Re: iPAQ ?

2001-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:34:15PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: This is definately premature, but... I'm getting an iPAQ early next week, and was wondering if anyone out there's wedged debian onto one yet? It's meant to come with Linux, which I can only assume means Dead-Rat, or

Re: Telnet responses problem

2001-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:12:17AM +0800, Ken Ng wrote: I update Kernel 2.4.5 , but telnet responses very slow ... What do you mean by slow. Is the act of initiating a connection slow, or is the connection slow for the duration? If initiating a connection is slow then the

Re: Starting with XML

2001-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:43:57AM +, Victor wrote: 1) What deb packages should I install to build and view XML documents? 2) Where can I find documentation both on the packages themselves and, above all, on XML? XML files are just text files. You can read and create them with your

Re: OT: newbieDoc and XML -- can you help?

2001-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:10:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote: i'm looking for something like oh, grab Frammistat::XML-wonk from cpan, and use it with apache/clavis (available at www.somewhere.there) or maybe try the webmin module newbie-xml-toolbox ... ideas (and, of

Re: iPAQ ?

2001-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:26:21PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I actually know surprisingly little about what I'm getting, whatever version Compaq is handing out to the Oxygen project that they're calling Handy 21's, pretty sure it's a 3650. Yeah, I think they also include the Mercury

Re: Speeding up Kernel compiles using make-kpkg

2001-07-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:42:20PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: Is there any way to pass the -j jobs option to make when building kernels using make-kpkg ? RTFM. 'man kernel-pkg.conf' and search for CONCURRENCY_LEVEL or just '-j'. I am hoping that by passing the -j option to make, kernel

Re: menu

2001-07-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: After adding the new options as I have done in the past for other distros, I find that there has been no change to my menu options. What is the correct way to personalize my menu options? cd /usr/share/doc/menu.

Re: CVSup equiv. in debian

2001-07-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:11:55PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: One thing I miss is the cvsup utility in FreeBSD, where I could update the source and recompile the entire source tree. No, sadly we really don't have an equivalent in Debian. While apt-get does allow you to pull down the source

Re: CVSup equiv. in debian

2001-07-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:34:55PM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: $ apt-cache show cvsup Package: cvsup Well yes, CVSup is available in Debian. That's not really the point, though. In *BSD you use CVSup to update the source tree for your whole system. It's sort of like 'apt-get

Re: HOW TO: Use of /etc/environment to manage SMP application compiles

2001-07-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0500, John Foster wrote: # environment settings LANG=C CONFIG_SMP=y CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium # EOF The CONCURRENCY_LEVEL variable only has meaning to make-kpkg, not to make or to anything else. So adding it to your environment will

Re: Compiling Debian completely from sources

2001-07-03 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:53:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way of automatically downloading all the debian packages (that I use) source code, storing it locally for editing, and/or installing it from source? Nope. Not easily, anyway, and definitely not

passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
When is it necessary to pass the mem parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is not

Re: passing mem=??? to the kernel

2001-07-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
Well, as it turns out, the problem is actually with the hardware. I am not sure exactly what the problem is, as both 128 MB DIMMs are fine (according to a couple hours each under memtest86). But if they're both in the machine at once then it won't even boot reliably. I found that out on about

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a new image viewer to use. Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the current

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-06 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:26:37PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: If you do 'display *.jpg' for a large number of files total memory used keeps increasing until all memory (including swap) is used up. This does not happen with xv. It's things like this that will make me miss xv so much. It's

Re: Security manager (mozilla M18), trying to run as normal user

2001-07-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:10:23PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: I installed security manager for mozilla (Mozilla M18 under Potato, normal direct modem connection-no proxies) a few days ago and am still trying to run it as normal user. I have no problems running it as root, but when I try

Re: debian vs suse

2001-07-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: What is the different between debian and suse? How are the security and stable? Security is more dependant on the administrator of the system. I've heard it said that security is 99% system administration and 1% software. If you don't

Re: question about package source configuration

2001-11-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:13:16PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: After I apt-get source mysql-gpl-client then cd mysql-gpl-*/ I can dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc to build the binary. But how can I modify the ./configure parameters? configure is called from ./debian/rules noah --

Re: Tulip chip Netgear card

2001-11-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:37:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are *not* new NICs, I've had them for a few years now. I am nearly certain that they are 310s. As I said, both will run on SuSE 6.3 using the standard tulip.c driver. I just need to know what to do to get them to work

Re: 404s on update/install

2001-11-16 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:53:30AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. ---snip--- I have been noticing this too over the last

Re: Web-based email encryption / signing

2001-11-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:22:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any-web based email providers that allow you to sign or encrypt emails? http://www.hushmail.com Would it still require that the computer you use to access the internet have a copy of your private key, or could this

urgent wdm security issue (woody sid only)

2001-11-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
(Sorry for the cross-posting; this is somewhat important) Versions 1.20-11.2 and 1.20-12 of wdm contain a configuration error that caused X session authentication data to be stored in a non-existant directory. In situations like this, the X server falls back to a security mode which allows *all*

Re: IPSEC questions

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:28:06PM -0800, Mike Pfleger wrote: I've been looking into ipsec for Linux, and have read the recent posts by nate et al. vpnd and vtun look promising, but I have the unenviable circumstance of needing to talk to a 'doze network whose servers talk to remote hosts via

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24:42PM -0800, Louis Roth wrote: Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I need help with the Debian installation. If you are using kernel 2.2, you need to get the

Re: Newer Tripwire

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:17:55PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote: Has anyone succeded is getting a (somewhat) newer version of Tripwire to run under Woody. That 'old' version in the Woody archives is nearly useless. Yes, I have used it on several machines. It builds without too much trouble,

Re: files in /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d are ignored

2001-12-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:00:36PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: while trying to find out why masqmail does work when going online via modem and fails when using ethernet i found out that for network cards /etc/pcmcia/ip-up.d apparently is ignored (I put an 'touch /tmp/alive' into

Re: Fwd: beta software in debian releases?

2001-12-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:09:05PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: If I'm reading it correctly, once Woody is frozen, that only means that new packages (or new major versions of the same package) cannot be added, but that bugfixes to the existing package can be added. So, with PHP, new RC

Re: connections

2001-12-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:28:35PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: tcpwrapper only works on inetd activated ports. wu-ftpd runs as a daemon and is not filtered by tcp-wrapper (same for apache) That is not entirely true. Any service can be configured with tcp wrappers support. sshd in debian,

Re: Network Card Modules

2001-12-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:39:30PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: Is there anyone out there using the FA311 who can tell me which module I should be using from a potato distribution? You need the natsemi module. It is not included with kernel 2.2.x, but you can get the source for it (as well as

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