Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
instructions. (This isn't remotely amd64 specific. Please ask debian-user.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buffer Image

2006-05-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t time the card was in that mode. Text mode uses a much smaller (and possibly different) section of the RAM. > Anybody there who is working on it. Is it a problem? You could blank the RAM somehow if it's important. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAI

Re: Chown problem

2006-03-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> chown -R jkr:jkr -- * Thank goodness someone gave the right answer, after all the (incorrect) picking about . versus : ! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:50:07PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good web-based (CGI, PHP etc) manager for HTTP > > password/group files? > > > > Specifically I need to maintain a list of users, a

web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good web-based (CGI, PHP etc) manager for HTTP password/group files? Specifically I need to maintain a list of users, and assign the users to one or more groups. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBS

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:32:55AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > I do plan to start up a more structural package checking effort after > Sarge is released, hopefully addressing at least part of your concerns. Bring back the maintainer ping! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB &

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

2003-10-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > So I'd prefer that backups are initiated on the remote PCs, and that > > even the file set to backup was controlled on the remote PCs. All the > > Lin

remote backup from Windows PCs

2003-10-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t even the file set to backup was controlled on the remote PCs. All the Linux server is doing then is streaming the data to tape. Can anyone recommend some software to achieve this? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

DNS/TSIG setup

2003-08-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ot;thedomainname" IN (acl) I can't work out why. Documentation for this seems to be lacking too (the BIND manual is almost useless). Can anyone help? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote.. > > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > > apt-get install procmail. Then, in your ~/.procmail/rc.recipe file,

spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
les seem to contain a non-functional rbl, as every delivery takes 30 seconds while it times out. :-( Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIM features

2002-01-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
pe plugin on" > > and surrounding all vim-features with > > > > if v:progname != "vi" > > s00perd00per vim/gvim options > > endif > > Bad idea, i don't like typing m after vi to get the editor. That's OK, you can edit the conffile. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Promise ATA100 and translations

2002-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
x27;s a command line parameter for the kernel which will fix it up. Will Windows also see the disk? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ghtly hint of it. dpkg -s | --status package-name ... Report status of specified package. This just disĀ­ plays the entry in the installed package status database. This seems fairly clear(?). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
.. > - a power mosfet is better suited ... You will need some large diodes and you may well need cooling ie heatsinks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > In power combining applications like these, balancing diodes > > or resistors are usually used. It's not good just to connect > > the outputs

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? +55v

2001-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in the supply voltages, but I don't see that being a significant problem with 5V logic. No, I haven't tried it. But yes, I do know something about electronics. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ications like these, balancing diodes or resistors are usually used. It's not good just to connect the outputs together. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:46:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > &

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > > You have a hefty ground connection between the power supplies anyway > > (the

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ting as ground). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish> I thought somebody said they made a mistake and there is no C > Hamish> version -- just the i386 as

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3 > >> supports vi, emacs, wordstar,

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
#x27;s not portable. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n the worst of both worlds, right? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

dual head Matrox

2000-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
picture. But because of the BusID thing, if I put the same busid for the second device, it ignores it. So the second display is never used. (I have a screenlayout section). Any ideas? thanks, Hamish (please cc: me on any replies) -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problem with potato

2000-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hen I'm working with postgres (while I work under X11). I'm not sure why though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

apache includes

2000-04-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should > do, but they have no right to be heard. Your post only rated a 1.5 on my trollometer. Please try harder. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB &

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
configured it that way myself) -- you can still email me at debian.org just fine though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

NFS from selected hosts

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can NFS be completely disallowed from selected hosts, like the TCP wrappers do for TCP services? My new cable modem provider doesn't allow any servers, so I need to block it. I still want to use NFS on my LAN though. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ich run on 6.0 and not 6.1 are broken and should be fixed. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

funky samba stuff

2000-03-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
53, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456) PANIC: failed to set gid Any ideas what this means and how I fix it? It's running from inetd. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

strange thing in pap-secrets

2000-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e particular user/IP lines, it wouldn't connet; "unauthorized remote IP address." The IPs are specified in the options.ttyS* files. This server is running 2.3.11-1.3; I have another server running 2.3.11-1.1 which is working just fine. Any thoughts? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ppp -- unauthorized remote IP address

2000-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
silly "*" - support silly "*" - stats silly "*" - # some dialout connections.. silly * password hamish * '' Any ideas? thanks Hamish, stumped. -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

colour in CRT

2000-03-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
n the linux end, with no luck. If I set $TERM = ansi, I do get colour but cursor positioning doesn't work properly, things end up all over the screen (even if ANSI terminal type is selected in CRT). Anyone have a solution? I like to have mutt in colour. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs o

tif/jpg conversion to postscript

2000-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
at PDF Writer on Windows to do it.. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: spice (fwd)

2000-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lator, which is similar but better (faster, etc). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
l him Lie-nus, the traditional American/Australian pronounciation? You might, but I personally would not as I think it would be rude. His name is pronounced Lee-nus; you can download the recording of him saying it from sunsite. The same applies to Linux. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of r

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:59:59AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Because it's rude to pronounce names wrongly? > > Leinux or Lienux though a spelling of Linnux would remove all ambiguity. Well, native English speakers pronounce

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it's rude to pronounce names wrongly? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: libc.so.4

2000-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
27;s a big job to get it working again, and hardly worth the effort. It's safe to just dump the libraries in /lib or /usr/local/lib. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Acer machines

2000-01-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
u only have one CPU. However, Microsoft does publish information on how to upgrade it to the multiprocessor kernel afterwards. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

mutt ignoring [tags]

2000-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o sort my mail into folders. I developed a complicated system where exim pipes the incoming mail through a perl script to remove the tag and through the filter again to remove it, but it's a bit ugly. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: ITP: LVM

1999-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
iption along with your ITP? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail

1999-12-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 11:38:49AM +0100, Marit Sandsmark Stabel wrote: > I need a driver to Hercules stingray 128\3D Don't we all? Try debian-user. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I sometimes wish we could settle on some of these key technologies, > > like the two rc schemes, and inetd versus xinetd. It would make a lot > > of things sim

Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
itions and wastes space shockingly on small files. (I wasted over 100Mb on 300k of small files earlier today, on a 2Gb FAT16 partition). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have to convince myself I don't need NT. Using a separate server is a possibility, but some of the stuff I am doing is video-related and I don't think disk access will be fast enough. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
FAT32) partition just fine. I had stock NT4.0 ^^^ Eric has assumed these are the same. Quite obviously they're not. NT works fine with VFAT (which is a linux term for it and not an MS term anyway) but not with FAT32. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of re

Re: suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
rity qualities on VFAT, but if it's a home sys... VFAT is not FAT32. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

suggestions for inter-OS file sharing?

1999-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
write support yet. Any other suggestions? My current feeling is to ditch NT, something I wanted to do within a few months anyway. Linux and Win95 can share FAT32 just fine. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

pcmcia network card dramas

1999-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
months ago in a pcmcia-cs upgrade. Has anyone else experienced this? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
be better on Debian. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: modem firmware update: cu, seyon, minicom?

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
s with "cu"; > seyon and minicom want to dial phone numbers but not just the modem. No, minicom dumps you into the terminal screen where you may enter AT commands. There is no need to dial any phone numbers. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: New release over due

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:47:10PM -0500, Tim Webster wrote: > I have continued to use debian despite the fact that it has grown extremely > out date. In what way? The software in it is old, although not too old. Does it still work? My slink systems still run happily. Hamish --

Re: Lynx and .deb

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 01:53:26PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. No, it just downloads them without any interpretation at all. Same as wget downloads a file. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists

Re: [Debian: XFree86] Linux shut down the VGA-Output

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
X > (kdm,) Why not just press Control-Alt-F1 to switch to the first text console? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ve your suggestion about will overwrite MSDOS.SYS (Win95's boot-time configuration file) with one which tells it not to boot into the GUI. Hence it is not a good idea. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
k well over an hour to install Windows 98. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: OPL3-Sax

1999-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
opl3 io=0x388 Couple of things: * I don't think multiple io= settings makes any sense. What is the purpose of that? * How do you know dm=1 and dma2=0 ? * Try my settings, maybe they will work for you :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: OPL3-Sax

1999-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
soundcore 2564 6 [sound] I can play MP3 files with mpg123 just fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
onio, what sort of controller do you use for the drive -- sbpro or some other card? I suggest, if at all possible, buying an IDE CD-ROM drive and forgetting the old Creative drive. They are quite cheap here in Australia, much less than I paid for my CR-562 drives a few years back. Hamish -- Ham

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
486 PCs using the DOS client, and also NCD X terminals using the Citrix client (with MetaFrame on the terminal server machines) -- works quite well. There's a linux client for MetaFrame too which I have used. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

keyboard hassles with Debian from HP-UX

1999-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
- except in some programs (noticeably urlview, so probably most slang programs at least) backspace acts as delete, and c-backspace is required to actually delete the previous character. Is there a way to fix this? Something I can change in my HP-UX rxvt settings? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

copyline in HPTERM

1999-10-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hpterm (on HP-UX) has a copyline feature where you can use the right mouse button (by default) to copy from the current mouse position to the end of the line and immediately paste it. Is there any way to do this on xterm or rxvt? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:13:41PM -0400, Terry Katz wrote: > 2.1.3-2 is one that does it ... Seems to behave itself here. But then I only have fvwm2 installed, none of these fancy new wms. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

strange ethernet problem

1999-09-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ssing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

mtu/mru 296 most unhealthy!

1999-09-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ves various versions of the above plus the occasional socket: no more data space, plus once "no more processes". Time to upgrade the kernel -- will this go away? I also use BSD compression on the link. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

bash prompts question

1999-09-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t's a terminal-specific way to do it anyway?) thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

secure tunnels

1999-08-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
on port 443, which isn't blocked by our ISP. Thoughts?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ion which is not true on Debian GNU/Linux. They should allow you to specify the location. You should not (and should not need to) do the above hack to your /usr/include directory. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. pgpvS4OazeGi0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux freezing up

1999-08-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:22:40AM -, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel? My AMD K6-2 350MHz system is 100% stable, so Intel must be impressive :-) Cyrix M2 333MHz is another matter. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:59:08PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't feel strongly enough about this topic to reply to each of your > > points. I agree that some MUAs (specifically pine and netscape) are > > operable

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
spool/mail would be inconsequential. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a unix system without an MTA would be broken. > lie. I never used mutt much, so can't say for sure if it can use a remote > host's MTA and POP/IMAP, but if it can, then it can function without a > MTA, so the dependency should therefore be reclassified. It can do POP, but doe

Re: lost the root password

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t=/bin/bash Instead of loading init, bash is loaded, giving you a root shell. Mount the root file system read/write, run passwd, then reboot. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
users would like to do this. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
don't handle that very well. X programs say they are unable to connecct with an error 111 or something like that (presumably because they can't create their Unix domain socket in /tmp). Very ugly; I never found out what caused it, but it went away in about 1.3. Hamish -- Hamish M

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
) that entry, it shouldn't do it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ux/gcc? > > Yes, 6, it will insert a single extra character at the end of text to > place the alignment of num on a 4 byte boundry. Or even 8, since an int is 32 bits. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

netscape packages

1999-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
The netscape-smotif-ver packages depend on both communicator-smotif-ver and navigator-smotif-ver. Why would I want to install both? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Solaris binaries

1999-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is there any support for running Solaris/x86 binaries on linux i386? I haven't had any luck searching the web. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
" is really the nasty pronunciation trio ;-) Or is that "Deebian New Lye-nux". Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
be wrong :-) It's a mix of Debra and Ian. (Deebra?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

fetchmail and exim problem

1999-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ress for localhost.rising.co m.au is the local host I put "relay_domains = localhost" in exim.conf to get this far, otherwise exim would refuse the mail entirely. Any thoughts? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
onnecting the two pins permanently) does the trick though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: exim configuration problem

1999-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ry timeout? hostname.domain1 hasn't run smtp in ages and anotherhost knows it and refuses to send. Hamish On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:29:39AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'm reconfiguring my local mail setup at home and I've run in to a problem. > I converted one machine from smail

exim configuration problem

1999-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and it worked. hostname.domain2 has an A record, after all. What am I doing wrong? thanks, Hamish (not an MTA guru!) -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: ipacset

1999-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
d any IP accounting rules in /etc/ipac.conf, ipacset doesn't do anything (it doesn't need to), and hence fetchipac thinks it wasn't run. The later versions of the package check for this in the cronjob so the error doesn't occur. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: ipacset

1999-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
e help or I'll go mad. > > TIA, > -- > alisdair mcdiarmid > [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: PPP where for out thou?

1999-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
line, you get to ttys*). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
OSS is now). The thing I dislike most about OSS is the licensing. Sure, it's GPL, but we get features from the commercial version whenever 4FrontTech feels like it. OSS/Commercial has been modular for ages; somebody else (Alan Cox) had to modularise the free one for it to be in OSS/Lite. Ham

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
E="$1" > PPP_TTY="$2" > PPP_SPEED="$3" > PPP_LOCAL="$4" > PPP_REMOTE="$5" > PPP_IPPARAM="$6" > PPP_TTYNAME=`/usr/bin/basename "$2"` Works fine after I changed that. Thanks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: What/Where is ssh?

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tall a package, and > I've had no idea what to do about it. I think it means that APT knows that the package used to exist, but it doesn't any more. Hence there is no installation candidate. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
orking, but beyond that, nothing but net. Modem, that's why. All I have is about 28.8K to the Internet, and it takes a long time to download a whole Debian install on that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Newbie trouble: How to log on as "root"

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
em. /var/www, in particular. Group project directories, too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
'll try it out. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: my ip-up.d script doesn't work

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ry > | and files with other names will be silently ignored. > > Maybe that is it? My file is called route-rmit, which should be OK given the above: bash-2.01# ls /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ -l total 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 582 Jun 6 18:59 route-rmit Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish

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