Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I found a distribution of MythTV that was based on Knoppix. At the end of the instalation it converts itself to a Debian system. It sorely needs some updates and additions. I've never used a debian system before, I went from Slackware directly to dead rat. Is there an easy way to upgrade it?

Myth-TV and YES MAX

2006-06-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Has anyone been able to copy recorded programs from a Yes Max using Linux? When I got it, I was told that you would be able to download programs real soon now (RSN), I was wondering if it ever happened and works with Linux. The boxes themselves are quite popular, they are also sold by Sky in the

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:59:45AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, I found a distribution of MythTV that was based on Knoppix. At the end of the instalation it converts itself to a Debian system. It sorely needs some updates and additions. I've never used a debian system before, I

Re: Preventing email spoofing

2006-06-20 Thread Danny L
Ilya Konstantinov wrote: Elazar Leibovich wrote: Thanks! That's about the tool I've needed. But do you have experience with it? Does it has many (any) false positives? Will it reject many valid clients? SPF is not about guesswork and false positives. For one, it requires the active

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/06/06, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should have some relevant lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list, depending on what version and what mirror you want to use. I personally have deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian sid main contrib You might want sarge

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Omer Zak
--=-ZcjCYESjRaKVhkw8tw2r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From my experience, updating Debian is piece of cake. I am attaching the /etc/apt/sources.list which I use (Debian Sarge being used there). After copying it to your /etc/apt, activate aptitude (if you didn't

Re: Myth-TV and YES MAX

2006-06-20 Thread Erez D
just didn't understand why did you put mythtv in the subject if this mail is about yes-max ?On 6/20/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Has anyone been able to copy recorded programs from a Yes Max using Linux? When I got it, I was told that you would be able to download

Re: (no subject)

2006-06-20 Thread Ancient1
just run the Connect script every t minutes ? after all , it won't make new if exist. (talking about 012 cable-start script) or am I missing a something here .. ? on 2nd thought , what does it mean in fact connection lost ?? after all both sides are configured in memory (routing table)

was no subject now is autoreconnect

2006-06-20 Thread aamehl
HI again, On second thought I didn't catch that the previous script is run at time periods. What I was looking for was it to be event driven not time driven. the connection dies, the system reconnects. So I gather to do this I would need a daemon running which checks for a live connection

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
also possible that your dist is old. so you can run apt-get dist-upgrade ( once ) Omer Zak wrote: --=-ZcjCYESjRaKVhkw8tw2r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From my experience, updating Debian is piece of cake. I am attaching the /etc/apt/sources.list which I use

RE: was no subject now is autoreconnect

2006-06-20 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
Hi. pppd has 2 scripts (/etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down) that are run when connection is established or terminated. See manual on pppd. Regards, Gregory. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Re: was no subject now is autoreconnect

2006-06-20 Thread Shahar Tamir
Hi, You can let pppd start pptp, and have it run in the forgruond: pppd nodetach pppd_args pty pptp --nolaunchpppd pptp_args That way it can be in a loop since pppd will return only after disconnecting. Shahar On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI again, On second thought

Why Unix is important

2006-06-20 Thread Lior Kesos
http://www.popup.co.il/?p=1343 Although if Shoshanna's remark about apt-get install sex actually worked on debian systems the open source movement would have ended in stallman fondeling his misbehaving and -- Lior KesosLinnovate - http://www.linnovate.netAll Paths Are Open!

amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-20 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi experts, After leaving the 64-system for a while, yesterday when I returned to it, I found with displeasure that the script do_dchroot (I am refering to the Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO by Rosenberg, Iverson, von Brederlow, Schueler, Mills and Pariset) does not work any more. The error

Re: Updating Debian

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Michael Ben-Nes: also possible that your dist is old. so you can run apt-get dist-upgrade ( once ) This is the ONE thing MythTV and KnopMyth suggest NOT doing. Ohh well, never was a mythTV expert. in fact i don't even know what it is ;) --

Re: amd64-bit/32-bit woes

2006-06-20 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: Hi experts, there are no experts for this subject here, it seems. try hobbists - you might have better luck ;) anyway, i got some hunch that you'll need to test, see below: After leaving the 64-system for a while, yesterday when I returned to

Re: Why Unix is important

2006-06-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Lior Kesos, from the post of Tue, 20 Jun: http://www.popup.co.il/?p=1343 Although if Shoshanna's remark about apt-get install sex actually worked on debian systems the open source movement would have ended in stallman fondeling his misbehaving and and?... AND?? # apt-get

Re: Myth-TV and YES MAX

2006-06-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Tue, 20 Jun: Has anyone been able to copy recorded programs from a Yes Max using Linux? When I got it, I was told that you would be able to download programs real soon now (RSN), I was wondering if it ever happened and works with Linux. I

Re: Why Unix is important

2006-06-20 Thread Yonah Russ
Please don't post links of this nature without warning other readers about their contents. A simple Don't go to this link if you don't want to see topless women/if your 5 year old is sitting on your lap/if your boss is standing behind you would suffice. Thanks, yonahOn 6/20/06, Lior Kesos [EMAIL

Re: Why Unix is important

2006-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:31:02AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Lior Kesos, from the post of Tue, 20 Jun: http://www.popup.co.il/?p=1343 Although if Shoshanna's remark about apt-get install sex actually worked on debian systems the open source movement would have ended in stallman

Re: Why Unix is important

2006-06-20 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yonah Russ, from the post of Wed, 21 Jun: Please don't post links of this nature without warning other readers about their contents. A simple Don't go to this link if you don't want to see topless women/if your 5 year old is sitting on your lap/if your boss is standing behind you