Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web

Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Removed Packages. 22 packages have been [76]removed from the Debian archive during the past week: 76. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt * webmin-* -- Web interface for system maintenance, and modules [94]Bug#343897: Request of maintainer, outdated; unmaintained [ please reply to

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

2006-01-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin does. Any

Re: VMware

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Fedyk
Matias Rollan wrote: Hola ! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked out VMware's site and it did not list Debian as a distro that it supports. Has anyone had any problems with this? The cost is $189.00 for the download. If there is a problem with VMware,

Re: Making spamassassin nice?

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Fedyk
David Baron wrote: I am running through procmail. I find that this spawns multiple processes and they run at normal priority and bog the system. Do I run with nice in the procmail file or better to set somewhere (where?) in a conf file? Use spamc from procmail, and limit the number of spamd

Re: Making spamassassin nice?

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jon Dowland wrote: On 7/25/05, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. /etc/default/spamassassin has limits on child processes and nicelevel as well. Can anyone report on what sort of resources are needed to run spamassassin adequately? Since the upgrade to sarge,

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed

Re: Mega Problem with SATA / 2.6.8.* und 2.6.12.*

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
news.gmane.org wrote: Hi NG! I've got a mega problem with SATA and the above mentioned kernels under Debian 3.1. I have installed Debian to a PATA 120GB IBM drive on the onboard controller. As well I have a RAID-5 set (software raid) consisting of 4 samsung sata drives on two pci-controllers

Re: cahnging debian version

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:30:11PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: security team.

Re: apt-move stable[/-]updates problem

2005-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
W M Brelsford wrote: I've been using apt-move update to populate a local hierarchy for use by my other machines via nfs: deb file:/n/di/var/debian stable main contrib non-free deb file:/n/di/var/debian stable/updates main contrib non-free Since the sarge release, however, the

exim4, tls failing message delivery

2004-12-16 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a Debian sarge exim4 mail server that is having some trouble delivering messages to several clients behind Postini's mail service. I see these errors in my logs: 2004-12-16 18:35:22 1Cf1IT-0007mU-Ry TLS recv error on connection to oomc.com.s8a1.psmtp.com [64.18.7.10]: A TLS packet

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Huston wrote: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithmleft-symmetric chunk-size 32 device /dev/sda3 raid-disk 0 device

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Huston wrote: sda3 is the partition for the whole drive where my root, and Linux partition reside. I have three: Linux, root, and whole, which encompasses the other two. Could that have been my problem? Should I have just chosen root or native instead of whole. Should I partition the other

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
] To: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: raid Here is how it is when I hit p after putting in the disk and entering the partition a hard drive command. They are in columns so you may have to maximize the window. Device flag

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
- Original Message - From: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:40 PM Subject: Re: raid Your data is gone. I don't know why you have a partition that overlaps your others, but you have just erased all of your data. Only use empty

MD software raid multiple disk failure recovery help script

2004-11-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi all, I just wrote a script runs a brute force attack against a raid5 array that has had multiple drives removed from an active array. Yep, that's what I did, and the last resort was (from everywhere I could find with google) was to use the old mkraid tool if I had a raidtab. I have been

Re: MD software raid multiple disk failure recovery help script

2004-11-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Then it will create a new array (make sure you have one missing drive so that it doesn't try syncing the disks) with the old disks. What you're trying to do is find the original disk order, and if you fail multiple disks, that ordering info is lost AFAIK. Here[1

Where to put module config with module-init-tools?

2004-09-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, What file should I edit to set options for a module at boot time? I looked at /etc/modules.conf, and it is generated by update-modules, but that is a deperciated command, so what is the new way of doing things? I created /etc/modutils/options[1], and ran update-modules but the options I set

Re: Where to put module config with module-init-tools?

2004-09-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
Prashant Kumar wrote: what to do for kernel 2.6 I have similar problem everytime after reboot I have to issue modeprobe -k psmouse in kerne 2.6 and xfree86 how to get rid of it Why do you have to do that? The problem should be fixed. Have you filed a bug report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Where to put module config with module-init-tools?

2004-09-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
Andreas Janssen wrote: Add options aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,pci_parity:1,global_tag_depth:1 to some file in /etc/modprobe.d (2.6) or /etc/modutils (2.4). If you use 2.4, run update-modules or update-modules.moditils. Also make sure that /etc/modprobe.conf does not exist if you use a current version

Strange nss-ldap auth failure

2004-09-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I just did a dist-upgrade to sarge today. I can login as root (obviously) and su to an account via libnss-ldap, but if I try to su from any normal user to any other (or the same) user who has their account defined in ldap, the authentication fails. Also, I have other debian linux systems

How to send jobs to a SCSI printer with cups?

2004-09-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Does the scsi backend use SG (SCSI Generic) device files to send the jobs to a printer? I have been unable to find device file names to use for the backend. Also my goal is to be able to send PCL to this printer: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: HP5000/C50

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
Danie Roux wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:09:47PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3

Re: Using debian as backup authentication for win2003 AD server?

2004-09-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:50:04 +0200, Mike Fedyk escreveu: Can I setup a linux based system to act as a backup kdc to the win2003 server? Youd better check up the Samba documentation for that. It was scheduled to be included in Sambas

Re: how to know whether the sarge iso including sata_via

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Li Daobing wrote: Hello, I want to install debian-sarge on my computer. the harddisk on my computer is VIA-SATA, my debian sarge install cdrom can't detect my harddisk, I want to download the newest version, but i don't know whether the newest version include sata_via module to detect my

Re: need iptables port forwarding help!

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Tom Vier wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: I suggest you use the shorewall package. It adds enough abstraction to be powerful without getting in your way, and has very good documentation. unforunetly, i can't even get masq to work right with it. 8( also, i

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37 Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id,

Re: need iptables port forwarding help!

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Tom Vier wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:43:36PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Did you copy the apropriate files to /etc/shorewall? What changes did you make? did shorewall restart give any errors? no errors. here's a tarball of my config. i didn't add the stuff for dnat. thanks for the help

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: [...] I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them

Using debian as backup authentication for win2003 AD server?

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Right now, I have one win2003 server running AD, and all of my (debian) linux servers authenticating against an openldap server with libnss-ldap (but not libpam-ldap). After doing a little research, it looks like I can easily install libpam-krb5 point it at the win2003 server, and use that for

Re: need iptables port forwarding help!

2004-09-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Tom Vier wrote: i've tried several times, using multiple different rules i've found from different sites, and i still can't get port forwarding working. does anyone have working rules they could send me? i'm trying to forward packets from my isp to port to an internal ip (i use nat) and port

[OT]Ghostscript Lists?

2004-07-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
I've looked at the archives for AFPL and GNU Ghostscript, and it doesn't seem like very many people are there, except for a couple here and there exchanging patches on the AFPL list, and complete spam on the GNU list. I'm looking at using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL for an Oce PS372

Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

2004-07-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:00:15 +0200, Mike Mestnik wrote: I see the need for a distributed database and all, what I'm not finding is a step by step howto. Something on the lines of type this in. I had installed openafs-fileserver(deb-pkg) on paladen but that didn't seam

Debian Installer + MD RAID? was: Debian Installer + LVM

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Alexei Chetroi wrote: I've just tried beta-3 of Sarge installer and I have to say that I'm impressed. Great job, folks. I've installed my current system from beta-2 on lvm, beside root partition, but in beta-2 me had to format physical volume from shell, as I didn't find how to do it from

sh scripting framework project?

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of reporting errors. I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as possible. One thing I just thought of was to write a wrapper that creates a different email based on exit code. The thing is, I'd rather

Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Clicking on a folder in the left pane of the KDE 3.1 file manager tries to drag folder

2004-03-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm running KDE 3.1 in Sarge, and whenever I click on a folder in the left pane of the KDE file manager, it acts as if I was dragging the folder but I have lifted my finger off of the mouse button. Has anyone else seen this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? if you're using sid and KDE 3.2 you can use krandrtray. I

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Paul Johnson wrote: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? C-M-+ and C-M-- are your friends. Yes, I

Tiered bayesian spam filtering

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
I've been thinking of setting up a two tier bayes system for my users. Have a global (wait! hear me out...) bayes database used by all users, and a user specific bayes database also. When you train the per user bayes database, you're also training the global bayes database. The global database

Re: Remote shutdown windows server from Debian Linux?

2004-03-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
Philippe Marzouk wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:06:30PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I have a few Linux and Windows servers hooked up to the same UPS. Is there command that will send the signal to a windows server to shutdown and turn off in Debian Linux (ie, already packages

Send Page not working with Mozilla-FireFox Mozilla-ThunderBird

2004-03-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
When I select the menu option in FireFox, there is no response. I checked /etc/alternatives, but there wasn't anything there for MUA. What do I need to do to get this working? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Remote shutdown windows server from Debian Linux?

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a few Linux and Windows servers hooked up to the same UPS. Is there command that will send the signal to a windows server to shutdown and turn off in Debian Linux (ie, already packages)? And if not, is there something like that at all? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi guys, I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ All of the features I need could be provided by Linux, but the question is. Can I get hardware that'll give me 12-16 gigabit ports in one computer? Are there

Re: LILO

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Kent West wrote: No. Boot up off your installer CD, go through the installation as far as mounting / and /usr, but DO NOT partition/initialize (skip those steps). Then shell out via Alt-F2. Run chroot /target. Now you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to fix whatever problems it has, then run lilo. exit,

Re: system performance monitor

2004-02-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
Andy Fish wrote: Hi, I am new to debian and I'm looking for some kind of performance monitor that gives an instantaneous readout of typical performance indicators like memory, cpu and network bandwidth. it should be terminal based if at all possible as the machine is hosted and doesn't have X

Re: Thunderbird empty - anyone else ?

2004-02-26 Thread Mike Fedyk
Stewart wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: After the latest upgrade, Thunderbird opens without problem, but does not show anything. Just the title. No Icon, no menu. It does not complain either. Any idea; anybody else experiencing this ? Yes. It happened when I upgraded TB from 0.5-1 to 0.5-2. The old

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: The fontconfig library does client-side text rendering. Thanks. I looked it up and it looks like it's freetype that does the rendering. There's a new package in Debian Unstable and the changelog mentions freetype changes. I'm

PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm going to setup PDF printing, instead of Adobe Acrobat Pro to generate PDFs for my users. I could write up a shell script, but why duplicate work if it's already done? Anyone know of anything that'll help me with this, or any tips and tricks I should know? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

xf4vnc packaged for debian?

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm setting up a Linux Terminal Server and the lack of anti-aliasing for some applications isn't very appealing to the eye. xf4vnc supports the Render X11 extension, and I'm writing to this list looking for experiences with it, and to see if it happens to be packaged for debian on some

Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 00:19 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm going to setup PDF printing, instead of Adobe Acrobat Pro to generate PDFs for my users. I assume this means that your users are on Windows, right? If that is the case, you should check out redmon. That would almost

Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:59:58PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm more looking for a solution that uses cups/lprng/lpr to queue to ps2pdf then to a file that will be emailed to the user. How about this, which is more than likely a gross hack, but works for me? OK, this looks

Stampeeding heard of kdeinit processes

2004-02-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have several users running KDE on one of my servers, and whenever I upgrade a package that changes the menu, all of the KDE users re-parse the entire menu list. Has anyone else seen this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Disabling artsd on multi-user VNC server

2004-02-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have several users running KDE desktops through VNC on one of my servers. The only problem, is that every user starts artsd and a message comes up saying it couldn't initialize the sound system. I searched for arts|audio|sound in /etc/kde3 but didn't find anything promising. How do I

Re: Hard copy books for Debian?

2004-02-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
Katipo wrote: Hello Mike, On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:52:29 -0800 Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a friend who is looking for a hard copy book to debian Linux. Can anyone point me to some good ones? Thanks A thread has just ended to this effect within the last couple of days. You

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver

2004-02-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
Jan Suchy wrote: I believe you can't get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver because it doesn't support OpenGL. You'll probably get an error message similar to this one: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :3.0 when you try to start an application which normally has anti-aliased fonts. AFAIK

Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but maybe I'm doing something a little different. I'm setting up what I call a Linux Desktop Server. It uses a similar idea to Citrix and MS Terminal server, but with VNC instead. Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts,

Hard copy books for Debian?

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a friend who is looking for a hard copy book to debian Linux. Can anyone point me to some good ones? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. They're seperate machines, so I'm hoping there is some package I forgot to install, or some config option that needs to be set so I can have anti-aliased

Re: Remote access PC support

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've worked with VNC and several other technologies (radmin, WTS, and another which fails to come to mind...). For intermittent support work, they are acceptable. Wouldn't want to work on 'em full time though. I'm working on a

Re: CLI

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:45:20PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: (Now if only I played FPS games with any skill ...) Hey, you're not the one that started chatting with me only to get my hand off of the mouse to get a head shot are you?! ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default destination in exim?

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned: Try adding the following to exim.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses} {$value}fail} In which section would this go? You will also need to put * into

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:52:30PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: For the second time: I'm not saying you have to move *all* your services to another provider, address, or pipe. Given current spam filtering realities, you probably *will* have to find someone -- a major ISP, a friend, a small

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:32:55PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: fun stuff RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices (RAID) comes in various flavors. RAID 1 is a flavor where you take two disks of the same size and have the computer

Re: mymail worm

2004-02-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:07:22AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: # Put A TAB Character Between [] Brackets Below. * 1^0 ^[ ]charset=.?Windows-1252.? Can't you use \t or $'\t' there instead of using an actual tab character? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Only 16 groups max with nss-ldap?

2004-02-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a working setup with a ldap server hosting my unix accounts and groups, and both the server and clients are running debian sarge. The problem starts when I have users that are members of more that 16 groups. with th 17th and up group all access is denied to directories marked 770 and

Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird

2004-01-15 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:48:49PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: OK, I have this in /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mailnews.js Do I need to make a /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/prefs.js file? What do I need to do to change the default settings for new profiles mozilla-thunderbird

Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird

2004-01-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:05PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: mozilla its next generation standalone-apps (fbird, tbird) do hold all global configuration within their own tree. For debian that would be: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/default/prefs. the prefs folder is linked to

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-13 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:25:44AM +0100, John Smith wrote: how about defining multiple ip-addresses on your 'server', with each having their own hostname and running a user unique vnc server on each? Well, that would eliminate the need to put :NN after the hostname, but not the elegant

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:45:22AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I really don't see what the OP's problem is... the vncserver package comes with documentation on how to set it up through inetd to provide an xdm chooser on connect via XDMCP. I have it configured so on all the other boxen in the

Re: Change default browser for Mozilla-Thunderbird

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:54:43AM -0600, Paul Stolp wrote: * Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-09 23:47]: Currently they open up with konqueror, how do I change that to mozilla-firebird? I use mutt from unstable, but I had to: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser That did

Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I'm using running thunderbird[1] debian testing, and noticed these[2] files in /etc, but they don't seem to affect my configuration. For instance, there are references to ldap servers in [2], but prefs.js in my $home doesn't say anything until ldap until I added it manually. How do I set the

Change default browser for Mozilla-Thunderbird

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Currently they open up with konqueror, how do I change that to mozilla-firebird? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I like the feature where I can have my users login through one port and then login to their user with [xgk]dm, but last time I tried it I was able to make several instances of desktops, but not login to the same desktop again from another vncviewer (say, from another host). Is there a way to

/proc/meminfo for 2.0, 2.2 2.4.x

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi everyone. I'm working on a script that parses /proc/meminfo for output to rrd-tool. It's part of lrrd-client, and currently it parses the Mem: and Swap: lines for its information, and if they're not there, it goes through rest of the file to parse the output. I'm thinking of reversing that

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-21 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:05:42AM -0800, Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: And about kernel. Thanks for comments that kernel-source is already shipped with all necessary patches. Roberto asked about which mount options I used to mount cd. /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:35:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ ...though I see no mention of Anaconda on it. Anyone know? I've read it a few days ago, and it mentioned anaconda in passing saying why we're using debian-installer instead of

Re: Building XFree 4.3

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:28:01PM +, . . wrote: Hi everyone I'm tring to build Xfree 4.3 on my debian system because I need a patch to the siliconmotion driver that has only been committed in 4.3.99. I'm trying two separate paths, and I'm stuck in either. If you send us a diff, we

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:12:35PM -0800, Daddy Vaughan wrote: Sorry about the lateness of this question, but in furthering spamassassin's training, should one _not_ have SA write a log into the spam being used for training? sa-learn will filter out the spamassassin report, and only look

Re: kde in testing ?

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:07:10PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: * Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. It's

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Yes, especially ham. And the spam that hasn't been taught

Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/username directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.

Re: Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:03:01PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: * Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031113 14:20]: snip With xserver-xfree86 it suggests a few hardware detection packages, that should detect the hardware I have. (I tested discover, and read-edid manually, and they did

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:29:38PM -0800, Tom wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:46:33PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom Try Scite, you'll love it.

Re: kde in testing ?

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=meta-kde Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Testing system from stable install

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:19:34PM +, Tim Milstead wrote: Thanks for the advice I'll give it ago tonight. It looks like you are assuming I'm not installing the base with a 2.4 kernel e.g. bf2.4. Is it okay to do so (and still upgrade it)? After I cahnge to testing will I have to stay

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:01:49PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Configure X by hand? Why? The Debian X packages have a very sophisticated configuration system which walks you through the configuration. With a little googling, you'll even find that installing hotplug, mdetect and read-edid before

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:48:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's Err, I mean the discover package... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:19:42AM +1000, Tom Massey wrote: * Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-17 15:06]: RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, Hmm. I respect Mr Stallman's ethical position, but

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:49:02PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:27:35PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: Thanks to all the people that helped me clear this issue. Is there a way to repartition my swap and root partition the Partition Magic way (no need to format etc.) as it seems that my swap partition is to big (2gigs for 1 1gig

Re: Automated security updates?

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:23:36PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:10:48 -0400 Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use cron to apply updates from security.debian.org? Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? apt-cache show cron-apt How would

Mixed testing/unstable system, and dist-upgrade

2003-07-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have kde, and gnome installed from unstable, and as packages get upgraded, and dependancies change, or new versions are available in unstable, I more often than not, have apt-get trying to remove 50-100 packages instead of getting the needed packages from unstable. If I read the

Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?

2003-07-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:20:22PM -0400, Aaron wrote: On -4665-Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:57:44PM -0500, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus, On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:35, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Mike Fedyk

Re: Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:05:36AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Neal Lippman said on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:28:56PM -0400: The reason that I selected cyrus over courier was that it provided me with the ability to use fetchmail to retrieve my email from all of my pop3 mailboxes and forward

gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when they're in one window with seperate tabs? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Mike Fedyk: Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when they're in one window with seperate tabs? Alt-N, where N is one of the numeric keys, such as 1, 2, 3, etc... will jump

Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-16 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06:09AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:22:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I

Re: wireless/cat5 bridge

2003-07-16 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:28:52PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: I'm looking to set up a transparent wireless/cat5 in the uncommon direction - i.e. the network and rest of the world are on the wireless side and the LAN is on the cat5 side. At some point, I'll probably go with a hardware solution,

Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server

2003-07-16 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi D-U :) I'm going to switch from pop3 to imap, and I'd like to know what you guys think is the best debian packaged IMAP server, and why. I'd really like to use MailDir mailboxes. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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