Re: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot. What is this?
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see messages in log's: > client1 kernel: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot See Question 11 in http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ . The only times I've seen this message were when the network interface card was bad, or when the driver wasn't really suitable for the card. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody vs. quota
"Michael Zedler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get quotas up and working. > ... > quota and quotarpc are started on startup. Unfortunately it tells me > quotaon: can't find //quota.group on /dev/sda2 [/] > quotaon: can't find //quota.user on /dev/sda2 [/] See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=161430 which has a discussion of the problem. It seems to involve a conflict between which quota file format the kernel wants and which format is created by quotacheck with default arguments. The bug report also gives a workaround, namely to use the command quotacheck -acF vfsold explicitly to create quota.user instead of aquota.user. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP
Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. > > ... /etc/hostname is identical on all > the machines. The IP addresses are correctly discovered and set. > > I know that I could write a script that gets the host IP address, and > then gets the name associated with that IP, and then updates the > /etc/hostname; and that I could run this script "somewhere" in the > bootup process, or even during the login process. ... See the man page dhclient-script(8). I've had success with a script /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks like this: # Set the hostname if [ x$reason != xBOUND ] && [ x$reason != REBIND ]; then exit; fi echo dhclient-exit-hooks: IP address is $new_ip_address hostname=$( host $new_ip_address | sed -ne 's/Name: //p' ) hostname $hostname echo dhclient-exit-hooks: hostname is $( hostname ) You could update /etc/hostname too if you like. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: galeon "personal security manager" needed?
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i click on a link, in galeon (using potato/gnome), that > tries an https:// connection a dialog greets me saying > > This document cannot be displayed unless you install the > Personal Security Manager (PSM). Download and install PSM > and try again, or contact your system administrator. > > eh? "personal security manager"? > > the system administrator didn't have a clue (that's me, of > course) so i snooped around-- > > $ apt-cache search galeon > ... Maybe potato is different, but on woody $ apt-cache search PSM | grep PSM mozilla-psm - Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Manager (PSM) Note that the galeon package requires mozilla-browser, and mozilla-browser recommends mozilla-psm. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnomecal coredumps on startup
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running woody, and recently I noticed that gnomecal has refuses to > start. >... > Relevant information: > > This is a stock Woody installation, nothing special > > ii gnome-pim 1.4.6-1Calendar and address book for GNOME. This or something similar has happened to me too, and apparently to lots of other people. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83840 which says "Should be fixed in 1.4.7". How can Debian stable users easily upgrade to that version? -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Considering switching to debian
I am currently using SuSE (6.4 and 7.0 on various machines) but am getting fed up with the name mangling suse performs on packages. For some reason, the package names follow the 8.3 msdos naming convention, as if that wasn't bad enough, the name of the package _inside_ the rpm (where it doesn't matter to the filesystem at all) is _also_ 8,3. Frankly, this sucks. There are some other issues with suse that I won't bore you with, but the crux of the issue is that I am considering switching to debian and have a few questions before I take the plunge. 1) How "good" is laptop support ? apm, pcmcia, etc 2) I want to use 2.4.x kernel to get access to good usb and iptables is this stable enough for general use ? 3) Can I use the stable dist, and add the unstable/testing packages I want, like latest gnome, without too many problems or is it either/or? 4) How difficult is it to build deb packages from tarballs? ie ./configure;make; -> make a deb. Since I am likely to want to play with code that has no current .deb 5) Can I "downgrade" packages easily if they cause probs? That should cover it for now, thanks for your time -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Digital Camera to Linux
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:09:37PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Are there applications out there to get my Digital pics (Olympus D-360 > Camera) imported into the linux world for transmission over the net??? > Thanks you Debs always have good answeres. John Gphoto (www.gphoto.org) says it supports the D-360L. Might try that. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Rich text format.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:08:54AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote: > > > I would like to know what program you would use to work with rich text > > format in Linux. > > Staroffice and Applixware are both reported to work properly in RTF im- > and export. But possibly there are as well some converters around. > > Also, Ted works with rtf fine. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Mirror
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:49:24PM +0100, Hamelsveld van, S (Sven) wrote: > Hi there people, > > I hope that one of you can tell me how I can create a debian mirror ? > I would like to create one here so that we can easy update the systems we > have running debian > > Thanks for the info > > Sven > > > De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en > is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht > onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en > de afzender direct te informeren door het bericht te retourneren. > > The information contained in this message may be confidential > and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee. Should you > receive this message unintentionally, please do not use the contents > herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. > > http://cdimage.debian.org has instructions on this I think. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and modules
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Frédéric de Villamil wrote: > Hi all > I've tried to install kernel 2.4.2 > unpacking modutils, no problem > then installing them as written in the doc, no problem too (maybe a dir to > specify???) > then unpacking and compiling kernel sources > no problem > But when I mauch modconf or modprobe, my computer is unable to find the > modules. > Have I forgotten to do something? > > compiling the modules themselves is a seperate step from compiling the kernel. Did you "make modules;make modules_install" after compiling the kernel? -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the YOPY > and the Agenda VR3 (for virtual reality??) claim to be the first > Linux-based PDAs. Both seem to be in short physical supply, though > the YOPY mockups show it to be a gorgeous color model. > > The Compaq product (dis)appears to be even worse, more of a proof of > concept thing. > > The yopy and agenda are both available for developers. But not as a general public thing. (Not that you have to be anything special to get one, just fork over the cash, but they (or at least the agenda) are 'not ready for prime time' yet. I got the agenda, and it's fun to play with and dev for, but it's not replacing my palm pilot anytime soon. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Unstable, sid woody, what?
Can someone give me a quick crash course on what the relationship between the names (sid, slink, etc) and the dev_status. i.e. Is sid the stable tree? woody is testing? I am a little confused here. Thanks -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:05:50PM +0800, csj wrote: > On Tuesday 20 March 2001 12:13, Jim Richardson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the > > > YOPY and the Agenda VR3 (for virtual reality??) claim to be the > > > first Linux-based PDAs. Both seem to be in short physical supply, > > > though the YOPY mockups show it to be a gorgeous color model. > > > > > > The Compaq product (dis)appears to be even worse, more of a proof > > > of concept thing. > > > > The yopy and agenda are both available for developers. But not as a > > general public thing. (Not that you have to be anything special to > > get one, just fork over the cash, but they (or at least the agenda) > > are 'not ready for prime time' yet. I got the agenda, and it's fun > > to play with and dev for, but it's not replacing my palm pilot > > anytime soon. > > Can you program on it (hoping against hope)? Let's say I want to > compile my own enhanced version of "Hello World." More sensibly, does > it provide a command prompt, so I can run my favorite bash pipeline? > > For the Agenda Absolutely. Resources are limited (16MB flash, only about half of which is currently available for userland) Uses the FLTK toolkit over X, which is pretty easy to use. Things are a little rough around the edges (bash is there, but it has issues with the narrow display) But developement is rapid. There are numerous developers on the lists. You _can_ develope on the agenda, but frankly, it's a pain with the limited resources. Vim is no fun without a keyboard :) But it's easy to dev on a "real" linux box and simply upload the stuff to the agenda. Telnet, etc are available. Even Xbill is there I understand. I have the agenda, it was relatively cheap (under $200 delivered) and arrived about 4 days after I ordered it. It is _not_ (currently anyway) a replacement for my palm pilot, but it is cool. For Yopy, I believe that most of the above is true, ie, bash, etc. however, the dev kit costs about $800. But to be fair, the Yopy has a 206MHz strong arm with 32MB Ram and a colour screen of higher resolution than the Agenda.( from mem, 320x200 vs 240x160) Also, I think that the Yopy may have an FPU (which the agenda doesn't) but I am not sure. I'd buy the Yopy in a hot second if it were half the price. As it is, I couldn't justify it. The agenda was just in the "what the hell" range. Meanwhile, I am keeping an eye out for a colour Ipaq. (for topicallity, neither the yopy nor the agenda currently use debian as a base distro :) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:53:13PM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi All, > > > There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some > time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they > didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying to > a message because they are already signed up on the mailing list. It > looks like I am seeing two messages from some people who have > replied to a question from someone. Which to me means that they > replied to the the person asking the question, and Cc:'d to > debian-users lists, resulting in me(and everyone on the mailing list > I imagine) receiving two replys that are exactly the same. One of of > them being an unessary duplicate because of the Cc:. I have been Cc > my replies to the debian-user list lately because I thought maybe my > responses were only going to the person I was replying to. But I > don't know. Do I need to put in the Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > if I want to make sure it goes out to everyone? Or is this automatic > because I am signed up on the mail list. I tried looking at the FAQ > for the mailing list to see if I could find anything about this > subject, but didn't see anything on it. I'm wodering if I don't need > to be Cc'ing, then how does that work? How does it go out to > everyone? If someone could enlighten me I'd sure appreciate it. > Excuse me for my ignorance on this matter, but I thinking I might > not be the only one cornfused... :-) > > > Sincerely, > > Jimmy Richards > > It is dependant on your mailer, I use mutt, which can be configured to reply to the List, even if the mail was from a persons account, provided that the headers included a list address I was subscribed to (or aware of) Look in the help docs for mutt. For other mua, I have no idea -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:04:39PM +, joe golden wrote: > I'm planning on teaching a short intro to perl unit in our middle school. > > I have one linux box running kernel 2.2.18pre21 on our windows NT 4.0 > ethernet connected network of 9 machines. telnet version is 0.16-4potato.1 > telnetd version is same > > > Is it feasible to have eight telnet sessions, one from each individual NT > workstation, into the one linbox? > > I think telnet is not the most elegant at timesharing with this type of > load. I'm not sure if it is designed for this (clunky) application. Any > tips on optimizing the setup for this scenario? > > Three students have logged in simultaneously via telnet, so I think the > basic setup is sound, but we haven't done much yet. Something to consider is setting up quotas and ulimits on the linux box to stop rogue programs from sucking up all the available resources. They are newbies, and it's awful easy to shoot yourself in the foot with perl (wanna see my scars? :) You might also want to set up a monitor program in the scripting language of your choice, to make killing off such processes easier. Monitering all processes from a give group of users etc. Anyway, good luck -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:09:11AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > > Greetings Jason, Jim, and Karsten, > > > > I appreciate and want to thank you for your responses. They > certainly made me more knowledgeable about how to reply on this > mailing list. > All three of you said you use mutt. I have been using 'evolution' > lately. It's very nice and I like it, but I do seem to be having > trouble getting to make paragraphs like I want it to. I kinda gave > up on it for now. It is a beta, and I am using the cvs version > though. I have heard other people say they like mutt also. But I do > not know anything about it other than it is a mail application. I am > going to try it out though and will hopefully be using by tommorrow. > > > mutt has a fairly steep learning curve compared to evolution. But is well worth the learning. Together with a good procmail setup, you can do just about anything with the mail. www.mutt.org is the place to go for info on mutt. There are a couple of maillists there also Evolution is supposed to be more than just an mua yes? how'd you like the rest of the prog? -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: OT: Best PDA?
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:13:16PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to make my debian more mobile by hooking up a PDA. Last I > looked, the Palm OS dominated, only I didn't like learning its language. > Is there anything else or is it worth learning after all? My primary > use will be for making text notes. Or, let's say, adapting text notes > made on the desktop and moved over. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > > Take the time and learn graffiti, it's fast, and accurate. Most of the handwriting recog programs suck, they are either too slow, or inaccurate, or both. Get a visor instead of the palm. I have the palm, bought my wife the visor, and wish I could trade. The palm is not as sturdy as the visor, and is slightly wider than the visor. (this is for the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going to do is take notes, then you can get the cheaper 2MB visor, but if you are like me, you'll wind up installing stuff and would miss the extra ram. Although with the visor you can add a ram expansion via the springboard slot. Anyway. I prefer the visor enough that I will be replacing my palm with one in a month or less. Another option is the Agenda (www.agendacomputing.com) if you want to be linuxised, but frankly, I have one, and it's no replacement for a pilot or visor. It's cool, and it has promise (it's in developement now) Pocket PC is another option, but I have little experience with them. Ipaq, (expensive and hard to get) can use linux, I don't know how well they work as a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a visor or palm. Just my $0.02 worth. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: PCMCIA modem card recommendation
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:17:41AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > A friend of mine writes: > > P.S. If you know any linux laptop gurus who can recommend a good PCMCIA > modem > card that I can get in a hurry, I'd be most appreciative. I'm really > f*cked > without one. > > Thanks! I have a linksys 10/100 base T and 56K modem, works great cost about $180 at compusa IIRC. I'd get the model number but it's plugged in and occupied right now:) Nice thing about it is that it doesn't use a cable "dongle" to hook to the network or phone lines, the jacks are build in. Downside is that it takes all the space in the pcmcia port. "There can be only one" -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: quick howto-command questions?
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:10:03PM -0800, Alexander Poquet wrote: > > ls -a | grep ".c$" > > This is silly, of course, but if you want to be rigorous about it you > probably should do 'ls -a | grep "\\.c$"' because grep (unlike the shell) > uses proper regex syntax -- in which '.' is a special character (match any > char). Thus 'ls -a | grep ".c$" would list files such as 'fooc', so > escaping the . is necessary. Two backslashes are required to get > through the shell escaping. > > Apropos, I have a question: frequently I am in a directory (such as /dev, > for example) which has more stuff in it than I can see in one screenful. > Normally I pipe it through less, but am bothered by the 'one file per > line'-isms that ls spits out in this case. I understand the necessity > of this behaviour, but I was wondering, is there some option which > forces columnated output regardless of the presence of a filter? -C > is documented as column-formatting, but it is ignored in a pipe. > ls |column -c80 |less will pipe ls thru column, make it 80 wide, and then through less. > In a related question, can one force sort by rows instead of by > columns, ie, "a b c\nd e f" instead of "a c e\nb d f"? I say related > because when viewing copious output through a pager, it would be > useful to have sort by rows instead of by columns, which is the default > behaviour. easy, simply add the -x flag to column, it ls |column -x -c80 |less -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Routing problem...
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:19:06PM +0100, Mateusz Mazur wrote: > Hello. > I will be very, very greatfull for your help. I'am newbie and I have big > trouble (big for me of course). I would also apologize for my english. I'am > from Poland and english isn't my nativ language. Here is some kind of map. > It should illustrate my problem. don't apologize, your english is better than a lot of native speakers I know :) > > LAN INTERNET > > +--+ > | COMP. A| > | 192.168.1.10 |-+ > +--+ |++ +--+ > || DEBIAN MACHINE |--|xSDL MODEM|--ISP-- > +--+ || 192.168.1.1 | +--+ > | COMP. B|-+++ 195.117.3.4 > | 192.168.1.11 || 195.117.3.5 > +--+| ++ > +---| WWW SERVER | > ++ > > So... > My ISP give me xSDL modem (1 Mbit/s to the internet) with ethernet plug on > the end. He give me aslo two public IP and he routes this IP to this modem. > Questione is... How to configure Debian Machine to work with that. I want to > have one IP for Debian Machine and one IP to www server. I also want to have > that computers from my local networks could use internet connection (I think > I must use IP Masqu for that - it is also a problem). > But the main problem is that I don't know how to > configure DEBIAN MACHINE to route this. For example. If COMP A want to > vistit WWW SERVER (i guest he can uses DNS from ISP) he should go stright to > WWW SERVER (without MODEM). I don't know how sould it work. DEBIAN MACHINE > has tree pci network cards (one for lan, one for modem and the last one for > www server). Second question is what rules for firewall (ipchains I tink) > should I made. > > How I say. I'am newbie so I would be greatfull for complete solution, but > even small help will be nice (I have no idea what should I do). > > Big thanks. Ok, as I see it, this task can be broken down to the following sub-tasks 1) Routing incoming requests to either the debian machine, or the www server based on the requested ip address 2) Routing internal requests to either the internet, the www server, or (at least for admin) the debian server, based again on ip address 3) Some kind of firewall to protect your internal network from the world at large, whilst letting in the stuff you want. OK, there's a lot of info on this out there, and here's a start. The howtos (many of which are available in Polish if the english ones give you trouble) are available via ftp at ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO For html versions and online reading, try www.linuxdoc.org note that the mini-howtos are (or at least were) in a subdirectory of the howto directory for 1) read the Bridge minihowto. It has a basic setup, step by step for 2) Bridging covers this also. for 3) things get a little more complicated with bridging as well as firewalling, but ta-dah! there's also a bridging+firewalling mini-howto :) note that both the above mini-howtos are a little on the old side, but (AFAIK) still work with current kernels (2.2.x, not sure about how iptables affect things.) Good luck. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: OT: Best PDA?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:56:42AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > > This sounds very interesting. Does it run Linux default and I can > install Vim? I'll pop on the url. > Vim is a pita with a stylus, using a kbd (external, via telnet or something) is fine, but with a stylus, it's just not as useful imho. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Checking port scanning?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:20:42AM +0100, Frédéric de Villamil wrote: > Hi dude > just try porsentry, it's a nice scan detector > but be carefull: if you use portsentry and nmap your owncomputer, you'll find > numerous ports open you don't use the services as portsentry watch many ports > by default > have fun > fred > Portsentry is a nice start, but it misses a lot of stuff. Snort is much better, but is more work to configure. Big problem with portsentry is that it binds to the ports, and makes it appear that a particular exploit might be running on your machine, this is like blood in the water to the dumber variety of script kiddies. (the vaguely smarter ones figure out that an ip with a dozen backdoor exploits is probably not really running them) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: OT: Best PDA?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:54:42AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Jim Richardson wrote: > > > the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going > > to do is take notes, then you can get the cheaper 2MB visor, but if you > > Yes, just notes. I assume Visor uses the Palm OS and apps/applets? Would > it be better to get more ram, if so, why? Yes, the visor uses PalmOS, as a licencee from the Palm folks. as an aside, the visor is produced by the folks who originally did the palm itself, they split off to form Handspring inc and build the visor. > > > Ipaq, (expensive and hard to get) can use linux, I don't know how well > > they work as a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a > > visor or palm. > > How does it use Linux. If it's to present the same front end as the > others, then it's of limited interest. If it's to give you a command > prompt and run vi, that's another story... you get a cmd line, or the gui front end, or both, your choice. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Viewing html-attachments with mutt
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:32:22PM +, Bastian Bowe wrote: > Hello, > > I try to view an html-attachment using mutt. After pressing "v" and > choosing the file netscape comes up. Netscape says "no such file or > directory" or something like that. Sometimes it works. Mutt seems > to copy the attached file to /tmp, start netscape and then delete the > file before netscape is able to open it. > > Please help > Bye > -- > Bastian Bowe > what does your ~/.mailcap say about text/html mimetypes? If there is no file called that in your homedir, what about the system wide one (in debian is it in /etc? ) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Sid vs unstable
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:07:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference > > between sid and unstable is? > > Debian distributions have a 'code-name': > > (the current) stable -> Potato > (the current) testing -> Woody > (the current) unstable -> Sid > > Later, Woody will be the new stable and Sarge will be the new > testing. Unstable will be always Sid. > > moritz I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I continue to follow woody as it stabilizes? Sorry if this is an obvious one, I haven't actually installed debian yet. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: Sid vs unstable
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:54:47PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JR> I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to > JR> use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it > JR> moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I > JR> continue to follow woody as it stabilizes? > > It depends on what you call it in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. If > you refer to it as 'woody', then it will follow woody between testing > and stable (likely with an intermediate frozen stage). If you call it > 'testing', you'll always follow the current testing distribution, even > if woody freezes and becomes stable. > > -- Ah! that makes sense, thanks -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: PPPD problems
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:05:25PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem connecting to my ISP with > Debian Potato 2.2r2 and Wvdial > It dials correctly and pppd is started properly > but I can not ping to any web adress ping command just hangs > my /etc/resolv.conf has proper DNS entries > what could be the problem > > I recently started using debian > I also use redhat and i can connect to my ISP properly from Redhat > using KPPP ( in KDE2.1 ) > > Any suggestions > > > It's probably a routing problem. Do a route -n and see what is listed under the gateway column, if it's not your ppp0 IP, then you'll need to adjust the calls to pppd to make the changes to the route table. For example, in kppp, make sure to add the argument replacedefaultroute in the setup, and that default gateway and assign this route to gateway are checked. I am afraid that I can not help with specifics on wvdial as I don't use it. But the routing tables are the first thing that springs to mind with this sort of problem. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:54:24AM -0500, Shawn Garbett wrote: > > Coding discipline will develop maintainable code in just about any > language, including Forth (although it noted special merit on the > writting unmaintainable code site). > > Shawn Garbett All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you weren't looking :) On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa :) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: mount a mounted filesystem
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:39:48AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:50:31AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm not familiar with NFS, but believe that an export will not traverse > > filesystems. If you think about it, this is a good thing. > > You are correct and it is absolutely a Good Thing for reasons other than the > situation you brought up. If an NFS-mounted filesystem could be reexported, > the original server (where the fs physically resides) would lose the ability > to restrict which clients could mount it. > > -- PMFJI You can't rely on the other guy following the rules if you want a secure system. If you mount an nfs volume, or smb share, you can reexport it, there is nothing that the server can do to prevent you. All the server can do is limit the permissions of whoever initially mounted the share (remote mounted that is) So that the remote client cannever gove anyone higher permissions than they have. From memory, I believe there is a way to reexport remote filesystems with the std linux tools, but I am having a devil of a time remembering it. Ah, found it, man nfsd for details, but re-export is an option. (This is for the userland nfs server.) Also man mountd shows a re-export option that includes nfs and smb volumes. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2001 14:21, will trillich wrote: > > > did i mention i have two debian systems on the network? and that > > i ssh from console on debian#2 to debian#1? and that i was > > changing the settings on the remote debian system? and that no > > mouse movement for eternity on debian #2 would ever be affected > > by settings on debian #1? > > Wait til you type 'shutdown -h now' on the workstation in front of you > and nothing happens, then from the other room (where all the servers > are...) you hear, "Hey! What the [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Or do the same thing by hitting the up arrow key one time too many followed by return... Anyone know how to make bash history *not* keep certain commands? :) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Forth (was Re: pyton & perl)
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you > JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you > JR> weren't looking :) > JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just > JR> about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa > JR> :) > > Yeah. Forth is really cool! What's a pity it is not popular nowdays. > On the otherhand, postscript is very much like forth in many ways, and is only a printer away... -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Re: signing off
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:16:05AM -0700, paul taylor wrote: > In the month or so I have had debian on the machine I have not been able to > get pon to work. I can't get kppp to work. the printer does not work in > star office or koffice. It just another distro that is not ready for prime > time > > So why the drive by posting? If you choose to use something other than Debian or linux, are we supposed to beg you to reconsider? It's a free world, use what you want. "Ask not if Debian is ready for you, ask if you are ready for Debian" -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
