[EUG-LUG:790] Home Mail System

2001-04-27 Thread Jim Darrough
Hi Guys. I went brain-dead and missed the gathering tonight (I'm sorry). Must be the Vicoden. Anyway, who can help me with setting up a home email system? Seth is so darn busy I haven't got the heart to ask him, and I am kinda stuck now. I managed to get sendmail working, all my mail

[EUG-LUG:792] Re: debian woody

2001-04-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
Are you running gmp (the textmode mouse daemon, forget the name, moused makes more sense to me ;). Try turning that off. Sorry, not familiar with any mice but generic 2 and 3 button serial and PS/2 mice. If you could supply your dmesg, perhaps I could give more advice. I prefered dselect at

[EUG-LUG:793] Re: debian woody

2001-04-27 Thread larry a price
actually apt-get is what dselect uses to calculate dependencies, if you try to install say mozilla without installing X it will tell you that it needs to install 12 dozen packages wit it, if you remove a package for libc for instnce it wants to remove everything that needs it. that said dselect

[EUG-LUG:798] Re: debian woody

2001-04-27 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:18:13AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: Just b/c a program has a UI doesn't mean that it is nice, or that it's intuitive... you had to read the man page or otherwise to learn to use apt-get, right? So dselect has this great documentation too, but I notice that it also lets

[EUG-LUG:799] Portsentry and firewalling (FreeBSD)

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Hudson
Hi All, I've got portsentry and ipfw running on a firewall/gateway at home. One thing I like is when you add a deny rule to ipfw, it blocks all packets. I wrote a little perl script that reads in the hosts.deny file and re-adds those IPs upon boot-up. There is probably another way to do this,

[EUG-LUG:801] Re: debian woody

2001-04-27 Thread Ben Barrett
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Cory Petkovsek wrote: I'm not sure what you're after here, but I'll interject something I learned from Neil. It wasn't console-scrolling I was after, it was interactivity... I didn't realize (still don't know really) if apt-get is interactive; I liken it to using rpm from

[EUG-LUG:804] Re: Printer Help.

2001-04-27 Thread Dennis Soper
On 27 Apr 2001, at 20:59, Dragon Singer wrote: Wayne and Sequoia from the Illinois chapter of Eug-LUG (ROFLMAO), and I have a question to put to the group about my wife's HP722c printer. Is there any way possible to get it working under Linux? Check out:

[EUG-LUG:791] debian woody

2001-04-27 Thread Ben Barrett
I just reinstalled over my Mandrake 8.0 beta2, with debian: whee!! I did a minimal install, 100mb, then switched apt sources to get the testing tree. After a little playing around, I got everthing going, and X started happily even! but no mouse :(( Has anyone had problems running mouse with