Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Faheem Mitha: well. The bottom line is that in Python whitespace is syntatically meaningful, in C etc. it is not. This has the consequence that in C, emacs is able to correctly indent the code, using the built-in syntax rules it knows about. This is very useful since it

Re: Internal Modem

2004-06-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Endianto: After reinstall Debian many times, finally KDE 3.1 running smoothly on top of Debian Woody -2.4.18-bf2.4- on my Pentium III system. My next target is connecting it to the net. I already have internal modem Prolink V92 which is detected by system -lspci- as

Re: Re: .bash_profile problems under gnome

2004-06-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Siepel: ~/.xsession. Others do the same and report ~/.xsession is ignored in favour of ~/.xinitrc. With that in mind, change the file in question. The first line should be: #!/bin/bash --login which will make it a login shell, and your bash startup files

Re: help on a script

2004-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Oliver Elphick: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:38, Oliver Elphick wrote: Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password. How exactly would I do that? Make a user that doesn't have to

Re: Internal Modem

2004-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Endianto: From: s. keeling I can only guess that hsfmodem_6.03.00lnxt04051300full_i386.deb is corrupted. If they supply an md5sum with the .deb, can you compare it to what md5sum says it should be? I can see md5sum in Linuxant.com but I don't know what to compare

Re: apt dependency problems

2004-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Lee Hanxue: 'user' implies noexec, otherwise exec is the default. If var does have 'user', I'd just remove it[so the options' field is just 'defaults'], there is no reason for it. The reason I want to have 'user' or 'users' is because I want to allow

Re: A bit OT: GPRS connection problems

2004-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Vittorio: I'm trying to connect my debian-testing portable PC to my GPRS provider via a serial pcmcia card. To no avail! This is my GPRS-provider /etc/ppp/peers/gprs noauth connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs debug /dev/ttyS1 115200 defaultroute

Re: xfs and cyrillic

2004-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Glenn Meehan: I am getting the following line in /var/log/messages on start up. xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable) The directory: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ does not exist. I don't need cyrillic fonts. How can I make the

Re: smtp install error Debian Woody PPC

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alexander Rau (private): I am trying to re-install smtpd. I am wanting to use exim. I am getting the following error: debian-box:~# apt-get install smtpd Try apt-get install exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages

Re: Trying to get my CD-RW to work

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Johnny: Incoming from Johnny: Incoming from Johnny: I have install debian 3.0r2 i386 about 2 weeks ago, now I am trying to get my CD-RW to work this what I have. That's inside the computer IDE 1Master- HD All used for Debian IDE 2 -

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Simon L: In my /etc/profile file, I wrote: PATH=/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can startx and when I open a terminal, the PATH is

Re: Trying to get my CD-RW to work

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from H. S.: I have 2.4.26 on Sarge and I use my CD-RW as ATAPI device. So 2.4.x doesn't necessarily mean the CD-RW is SCSI, does it? Last I heard, everyone who tried it with 2.4.x had their box lock up immediately. Perhaps it's improved since. -- Any technology distinguishable

Re: Is there a utility to get IP address from interface?

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from James Sinnamon: Is there a utility to simply return the IP address of an interface, say eth1 or ppp0? I need something that works like: $ netutil eth0 144.133.251.117 #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my ( $ip ); open ( IFC, /sbin/ifconfig | ) or die qq($0: failed opening

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Simon L: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Simon L: In my /etc/profile file, I wrote: PATH=/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin First, you should append /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin to the _end_ of your PATH

Re: password change

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joost De Cock: On Wednesday 09 June 2004 14:04, Michael Martinell hurled the following on the wire: Is there a way to script out the changing of passwords at the command line. I have about 60 passwords to change manually, according to federal policy. apt-get install

Re: Good News Server

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Loren M. Lang: Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post news.individual.net (my favorite) or gmane.org -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To

OT: Re: Good News Server

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Simon Kitching: On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:29, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Loren M. Lang: Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post A good news server sounds like a fine idea - none of this depressing war, famine and SCO stuff :-) That's just

xmllint libxml2? Stable.

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I just not finding it? Thanks. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ed Sutherland: Still, I am unable to mount /dev/hdb or /dev/cdrom in order to play the audio CD. You don't mount audio CDs, and it's not /dev/cdrom; it's /cdrom. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: xmllint libxml2? Stable.

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from CW Harris: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:34:58AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I Seems to be in libxml2-utils not in stable[1]. libxml2-utils 2.6.9

Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

2004-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Luis R Finotti: Dear all, For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it and I get the following message when I try to mount it: debian[~]% mount /dvd/ ...^ What's that doing there? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: i screwed up my apt-sources file(cont)

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from cecil: Can someone just copy and paste a working testing sorces file. And then when its all back to normal I just wont mess with it anymore, I promise! I am scared to screw up my system... lol man apt-setup ?? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: ccing

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Cheryl Homiak: I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. However, it's often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least in Pine, I often The usual reply to this is submit a bug report. If it came from a list, the reply should go to the list. If you want

Re: ccing

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Cheryl Homiak: 1. I have no intention of changing my email system. No offense meant, really. But have you ever tried mutt? You should have no trouble going from one to the other interchangably (they shouldn't do any rmail style mangling of your existing mail, for instance). The

Re: ccing

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Cheryl Homiak: I have my configuration set to use reply-to; maybe that's wrong. However, it isn't purely a Pine problem; I never have this problem with many lists to which I am subscribed; the list email is automatically chosen. In fact, I have to intervene manually with very

Re: ccing

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Scott: s. keeling wrote: No offense meant, really. But have you ever tried mutt? I would use mutt before pine any time but I use Thunderbird because of its 3 panes displaying all of my mailboxes and the headers from the selected mailbox or folder and the current

Re: funny bug causing powerdown on install

2004-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from xyroth: For some reason, when attempting to install debian (sarge) on one of my k6-2/400 machines, it appears to install mostly, and then suddenly powers the machine down before completing. As you can imagine, this makes it somewhat tricky trying to track down the problem.

Re: ccing

2004-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Scott: Faster as far as processor time, etc. is not relevant *if the machine is fast enough* since the machine still has to wait for the user to do something. I couldn't care less whether the machine is waiting for me to do something. That's its job. :-) However,

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

2004-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Cecil: I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in windows. Is that all?!? :-) Is it just me? Or does everyone love their lin boxes this much? Can't speak for others, but you're not alone. You know that cliche about ... pry it from my

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brian Nelson: I don't know about that. I've found that mutt is one of the painfully slowest MUAs around (at least at loading large Maildirs or IMAP folders) even on very fast computers... That's pretty simple to deal with. Archive old mail, and just keep a year's worth in

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: Mutt's new mail here! feature doesn't provide any granularity betwee[n] ignore it completely (not in the list of folders to watch), give it the same weight as every other watched folder or check the folder list manually. Try using it in combination with (eg.)

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: s. keeling wrote: Try using it in combination with (eg.) GKrellm. mutt knows about and Why is the most common answer to this deficiency in mutt to use another program when we have addressed it by using another program? :) Uhhh?!? This is the quoteUnix

Re: XConsole in Root Window with KDE

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Martin Fluch: Is there a possibility to get the messages send to /dev/xconsole vissible on the root window whilest running KDE (in my case the latest version comming with Debian unstable)? Or alternatively, is there a KDE application which replaces the xconsole

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joachim Reichel: [someone]: Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the beginning of the font path. That did not help. Try moving 75dpi ahead of 100dpi (or vice versa, depending what you have now). -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Cecil: I am curious as to what the pros and cons would be of picking just one desktop and deleting the other. Please tell me which you prefer, and resons why. I have bothe kde and gnome now. Thanks, We like both kinds; Country and Western. *-) I gave up on both of those;

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael B Allen: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:15:24 -0400 Paul Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash --login exec x-session-manager Yes, I think this is my problem. But I don't understand what the reasoning is for this default configuration. Obviously if the

Re: Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Al Davis: On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:17 pm, jack kinnon wrote: That's true, there are a lot of possible mix-and-match. I am looking for a completed one that may suit my needs. Basically I have in mind an integrated environment like those available fr Borland or MS. Some

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael B Allen: So what you're saying is their is no mechanism to change the behavior of all shells derived from a logon session and that the observed behavior is not a mistake and that the proper method is to simply lauch shells with the appropriate flags depending on the

Re: OT? kernel configuration guessing

2004-06-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joris Huizer: I find myself often just reusing my configuration endlessly, which is probably not the smarted configuration anymore; In the transition from 2.4.x to 2.6 some configurations went away but still.. is there a some kind of script or something to make the kernel

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael B Allen: Paul Galbraith said: I assume you're using a gdm or xdm or kdm...someone earlier on this list taught me this...I just wrote a .xsession file in my home directory that looks like this: #!/bin/bash --login exec x-session-manager Mmm, for some

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: dircha wrote: Right. That's when you bring up a dired buffer in emacs. Why would I want to load a 20M+ editor to do such a simple task? Trust me, any time the answer involves emacs and it isn't editing text, it's the Thank you for confirming that you're just

Re: Firestarter, ports access

2004-06-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Beresford: I'm running a woody debian system and firestarter 0.9.3 and have a 56k USR modem for the internet. The thing is, whenever I connect to the internet, I receive a lot, but really lots of attempts to access on port 445, microsoft-ds and some port 135, loc-srv. Is

Re: How to print the name and email from a signature file?

2004-06-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I print out the signer's name and email address from a signature file, without being it imported? What are you talking about? Probably a PGP/GPG key. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jake Johnson: I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. Please note that it is not the verbose headers either. ignore * unhdr_order * unignore \ from: \ subject: \ date: \ ...

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jon Dowland: On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:54:19 -0600, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Jake Johnson: I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. Please note

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wolfgang Pfeiffer: On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:41, Thomas Adam wrote: !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade should be used here. Sometimes in these situations I do a apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade I'd advise people learn how

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Adam: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When That's a very good point. For those who _just can't wait_ for sarge to go stable, I say nuts to you! There are many options for you, including sarge and sid, and Libranet, Xandros, Morphix, ...

Re: sarge release vote

2004-07-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Metzler: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:34:16 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sick to death of this voting business. Sarge will be released When Uh, WTF? This concerns a vote the developers were having on what Marvelous. Excellent. Some of us are just

Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

2004-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Felix C. Stegerman: I've recently acquired a 2nd hand PC I want to use as replacement for our family PC. That means my Mom, Stepdad and little sister (5 years old) will use it. Specifications: CPU: 466MHz Celeron RAM: 128MB DDR PC100 NIC: 3Com 10/100 Drives: hda:

Re: help

2004-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sanjay Kaushal: can you tell me how to use the command line arguement with c program?? http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - A Subject: line of help is about the silliest thing you could use on a mailing list. - Do you have a _compiled_ C program which

Re: force check on boot

2004-07-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. I'm getting this every time I boot my system. When I shut down, I do either exit or logout, and then manually shut down the laptop. Laptop is What do you mean by manually shut down the laptop? If you mean

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul E Condon: I am trying to make a configuration change in Gnome, but I'm not sure where I should look to make the change. My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for this because I like xterm for this

Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

2004-07-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000 or thereabouts, James Sinnamon wrote: My ${HOME}/Mail directory is currently nearly 350 Megs in size. A lot of it is due to high volume mailing lists such as debian-user (48 Meg so far), and this can only get much worse

Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: :0 * (^TO|^X-Mailing-List:.*)debian { :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $LISTDIR/Debian/debian-openoffice/ With a little care, you might replace all of the latter with one recipe: :0: *

Re: OT: Managing huge Mail/ folders (with mutt?)

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from James Sinnamon: Karsten and others, Firstly, thank you all for the responses. On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:35 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +1000, James Sinnamon snip/ So could anyone tell me how they handle ever growing Mail folders?

Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the problem started. This is

Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steven Satelle: On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:58:40 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] this is how it's supposed to work. host(1) is an interface to the resolver library, which does not use /etc/hosts by design. The problem is that it seems that a few other things seem to be

Re: Default Handler for A Certain Type of Files

2004-07-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Clement: Using Mozilla in KDE, do you know how I can tell the system (Mozilla or KDE or Debian) what program to use to open a particular type of email attachements? Right now, to open an attachment, I have to type the program name on open with. That is not convenient enough.

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Fokkema: Probably spammers will invest a lot of time. BUT, so will C-R system designers. Challenges may require more and more human logical thought, like little riddles or something, or requiring to actually _read_ something or whatever. If spammers will invest more and

Re: Debian Woody VI (6.1.18)

2005-06-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Robinson: I wonder if anyone can help me? I am trying to VI a file that appears Hopefully you mean vi? to have control characters. They appear as bold ~U| and bold | |, without the . I have tried seaching for these characters, with :/~U and :/| and Backslash, not

Re: lilo to grub conversion

2005-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Graham Smith: Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little confused about how to go ahead and do this.

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

2005-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Patrick Wiseman: On 6/2/05, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Jun 2005 01:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I _had_ planned on just staying with 'testing' in my sources.list. Is that a bad idea? I think Patrick might be referring to switching from sid to

Re: PPPD exit code 2

2005-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from xxx xxx: I've installed Debian Woody v3 r2 and everything works fine. The problem is, that I cannot connect to the Internet when I'm an oridnary user(I have Add yourself to groups dialout and dip (/etc/group). Logout then log back in. pon -- Any technology distinguishable

Re: lilo to grub conversion

2005-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Graham Smith: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Graham Smith: kopt=ramdisk_size=16384 I don't use it but mine has a comment: # kopt_2_6_0=ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/hda9 ro acpi=yes Thanks for the help. You do actually have a non-default ramdisk size. Actually, no I

Re: Re: root is unable to change file permissions!

2005-06-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Andreas Hatz: Thanks for the tip re the chkrootkit. There are a couple of warnings: Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 (or variation) rootkit installed Checking `lkm'... You have 3 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed

Re: How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes

2005-06-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Witbrodt: This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email application exists that would allow me

Re: shell cript deleting backups

2005-06-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from mess-mate: I backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde backup utility). I've to delete manually older backups of these. The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz Is there a utility to delete oldest backups automatically or must it done

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Jan Leewe Behrendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 21:18 schrieb Jacob S: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:34:53 -0400 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote: be getting out of hand :) us a lecture on top posting sometime

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 09 June 2005 05:26 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: So a top-poster is concerned about him or herself not doing extra work. A bottom-poster is concerned with improving the quality of reading for others. That's the most self-serving, self-centered,

Re: Remote administration of a server

2005-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: thing is a pain in the but. At least on the Linux machines it is straightforward and I set those up when I can to use keys instead of passwords. May I introduce you to ssh-agent and ssh-add. They are a

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

2005-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Jardine wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

2005-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:57:56AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems to have arisen from the use of the words stable and testing. I am not a Debian developer. I am a user. But I know enough about

Re: scp from remote to remote machine

2005-06-11 Thread s. keeling
belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I want to send a file from one remote machine to another one like this scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/dsl-1.2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian ...^^^ Password: Host key verification

Re: Remote administration of a server

2005-06-11 Thread s. keeling
Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, s. keeling wrote: And if anyone can get at your console, they can CTRL-ALT-Backspace to get to a logged in shell prompt. They may not still have your ssh-add No they can't. A session managed by a display manager does not fall

Re: spamassassin bayesian - db format

2005-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Chris Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Old woody system - the bayes files for spamassassin give the following: $ file * bayes_seen: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order) bayes_toks: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order) New sarge system - perl's Tie::DB was

Re: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-14 Thread s. keeling
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Martinell wrote: Does anybody have any suggestions for this? Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is the killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin task which implies to some degree having command

Re: bash not running ~/.bash_profile

2005-06-17 Thread s. keeling
James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For some reason my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc are not being executed by bash. Is there some way I can fix this problem? I tried to add a What problem exactly? What symptoms? What happens when you xterm -ls? That tells xterm to start up as a login

Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?

2005-06-21 Thread s. keeling
I'm having a bit of trouble here. My employer's op. is based on a vpn running on Ensim (Pt!), within which is running a MySQL database. I've looked at several things (mysql-navigator 1.2.4-1, OpenOffice 1.1.4, ...) in order to connect remotely, to no effect. mysqladmin doesn't appear to

Re: PE 1600SC ???

2004-08-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sergio Basurto: I had problems with installation of woody in a PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that comes as default with the rescue disk with my own kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: But now that your address is out in the open, there's no real point in munging it anyway, so what's the problem? It was out in the open when he tried to post to linux.debian.user; Swen is still out there, still scraping mail addresses. -- Any technology

Re: Can't dial up

2004-09-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scotty Fitzgerald: Advice please, I can't dial up. I am using the K environment, and I enter the command kppp and when I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is not in the drop down box. I tried ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem from the shell, but when

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Svenn Are Bjerkem: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote: Why fracture and duplicate the effort already taken care of by lists.debian.org? Because we are fed up with people using pgp and gpg on emails to mailinglists. Well, that's the dumbest thought I've seen

Re: test ram

2004-09-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Anthony Campbell: On 04 Sep 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: janet gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi someone gave me this site to look at i am looking for a file or program to test my ram can you help me? memtest86 may be what you are looking for. Version: GnuPG v1.2.5

Re: Getmail version 4 + spamassassin + procmail

2004-09-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joe Wrigley: Replying to my own message in case anyone cares, I've sorted out my problems and got getmail and spamassassing working together properly. For anyone who wants to do the same thing, here's what I did... Installed getmail version 4 from

Re: Cannot connect to CVS -help!

2004-09-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Siju George: I tried to connect to the cvs server(its on a debian woody 3.0r2) from a windows 2000 system using eclipse but received the following error message. Error fetching resource list from repository. Reason: I/O Exception occurred:

Re: Cannot connect to CVS -help! [Sorry. Ignore my reply.]

2004-09-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from s. keeling: Incoming from Siju George: I tried to connect to the cvs server(its on a debian woody 3.0r2) from a windows 2000 system using eclipse but received the following error message. Error fetching resource list from repository. Reason

Re: Time

2004-09-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: Paul Akkermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not set the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do this without having to install the entire Debian system again?

Re: compile problem

2004-09-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wesley J Landaker: On Thursday, 09 September 2004 11:55, Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to compile the following program. But from the output I get the feeling that not all links are made. I believe this is due to the fact that not all libraries are

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Josef Oswald: looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig At the end it says one need to create for each quote a single file, my question is: what name can I use and or does this

Re: gnome-python-vfs

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Blake Swadling: I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs. anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable? No, but this might point out the way: (0) keeling /home/keeling_ apt-cache

Re: A Little Confused

2004-09-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Lowell: A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window system after a console login and startx after having first written an ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian

Re: Mozilla irc

2004-10-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Erik Jakobsen: How do I install the Mozilla's irc to a running Mozilla. Running Debian Sarge. apt-get update apt-get install mozilla-chatzilla -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: chkrootkit finds 'value too large for defined data type'

2004-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Geoff Thurman: I'm running woody on one hd, and have recently installed sarge on another by upgrading everything over the net after installing from my original woody cds. Tonight on the sarge hd, chkrootkit gives about twenty lines of /proc/1544/fd/1 : value too large for

Re: Firewall in Sarge

2004-10-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adi Linden: In Debian/Sarge, where is the appropriate place for some iptables rules to deny access to some local ports? Dunno about sarge, but there's a /etc/network/if-up.d/ here. If you're using a modem, there's /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: Firewall in Sarge

2004-10-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adi Linden: On my system I put a firewall script in /etc/init.d and have it loaded on startup. But this is on a LAN. You may want to do things differently for dial-up. It's on a LAN. Sounds like everyone just rolls their own then, no standard place to stick iptables rules.

Reclaiming Windows ptn for Linux (was: Re: )

2004-10-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from P P PRASAD: Can you guide me in following case : We are having a System having 2 HDDs C D . On C Windows 2000 Server is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full. We want to format C and extend it for Linux. My hitch is if I delete partition of C, The

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Clive Menzies: On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will In your

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Clive Menzies: On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Clive Menzies: On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joost Witteveen: Clive Menzies wrote: # this doesn't: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free Ah! Well this does here: deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main [snip] Anyway http://www.debian.org/security

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