Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not that well versed on calculating netmasks and broadcast address, > but these look a bit strange. You might try the standard settings: a netmask of 255.255.255.0 could only be consider "standard" in a LAN environment. the mask in the original mess

Re: AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, two questions: > 1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and no. > 2.) If not, is it possible somehow to re-export an AFS filesystem? I'm > thinking then of mounting AFS on the firwall machine and exporting it to > the other machine v

Re: Alternatives To NFS?

2002-09-20 Thread Joseph Dane
Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. AFS allows for NFS-like connectivity and mounting (some large > universities use it for home directories). AFS servers and clients > are available in Debian (though I've never gotten around to setting > one up). I have. it was not simple, and not

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Jeff" == Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> are there any more permanent solutions so this doesn't have to Jeff> be done every time i wish to run ethereal? one way would be to use the XAUTHORITY enviroment variable, which names the file in which authorization info is kept. i

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Jeff" == Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the Jeff> permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root Jeff> console and X cannot open display. one way of doing this is * as non-root owner of the X session,

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-03 Thread Joseph Dane
> "David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> s/not\s+//; David> I appreciate the good-natured jibe. I didn't think the analogy David> to the Debian release process was so far-fetched, but it David> appears that it is. I'll admit to being one (of many, probably) who read the f

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Richard" == Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: >> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> > The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, >> > terminals >> >are 80 characters wide, and

Re: safe load average

2002-05-07 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> The load average refers to the average number of processes Colin> that are runnable or in uninterruptible sleep. The latter Colin> usually indicates I/O. I did not know that. still, processes in uninterruptible sleep are certain

Re: safe load average

2002-05-07 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> "Safe"? I think you should be more interested in CPU states Kirk> than load average. For example, consider running 50 webserver Kirk> processes, all of which are in an I/O wait state. Your load Kirk> average may be near 50, but

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Elizabeth" == Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elizabeth> emacs is simply a great editor. A lot of people are put Elizabeth> off at first by it's complexity and memory foot-print size Elizabeth> but once you get the hang of it, vi and other editors Elizabeth> become a real d

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-29 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> Hello! Marcelo> how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, Marcelo> for example for run e2fsck? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Marcelo> Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] as others have mentioned, yo

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a "start menu" type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed ("mouse-2"??) on the root window, which could allow for the laun

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-07 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Hans" == Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> Since no one else has disputed this post yet, I think it is Hans> time to do so. I have used X-forwarding over SSH enough to know Hans> that you need not and you should not set $DISPLAY manually. no, you don't need to set DISPLAY.

Re: question about /bin utils

2002-03-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Michael" == Michael Marziani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there Michael> is no /bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a Michael> distro without a /bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my Michael> /usr partition cras

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-05 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Hans" == Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> This tip is bad. It does not work. The first line makes the Hans> following fail (or, I think, in case of bad security on client Hans> succeed but by-pass the ssh-tunnel). no, it works as expected. if the tip had been client> s

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Pete" == Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pete> Does anyone know how to increase the number of allowed Pete> processes? if you are running a 2.2 series kernel, you have to recompile the kernel after tweaking a header file. it's been a while, but I think you only have to change on

Re: Sharing network from VMWare client

2002-02-11 Thread Joseph Dane
> "C-Cose" == C-Cose Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C-Cose> My questions are then: C-Cose> 1. Would I be able to change the vmnet IP to something in the C-Cose> 10.x.x.x range? Assuming that would also involve netmask C-Cose> changes, what would they be? you can do this, although I c

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread Joseph Dane
> "johnpf" == johnpf writes: johnpf> Actually, as much as it shames me to admit it, there is one johnpf> feature in the VC6 M$ bloat thing IDE I really want to see on johnpf> a Unix platform, and that's the incredibly powerful way it johnpf> can back reference callers, classes etc. Perha

Re: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen

2002-01-17 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Daniel" == Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at Daniel> 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of Daniel> the screen (nice scaling, by the way--not a bit blocky : ). no help here,

Re: Mozilla & Address Books

2002-01-08 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ron> Thanks. Are there any network-based address books that I (using Ron> kmail, but maybe switching to evo1 or mozilla-mail) and my wife Ron> (using Outlook Express, but soon to be going to Linux) can use Ron> to share addresses? Ron>

Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

2001-10-18 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' Colin> near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details Colin> field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /

Re: vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey W Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeffrey> You can also do it the other way: give your vmware machine Jeffrey> two interfaces and a real IP. Then give your debian machine Jeffrey> a private subnet. NAT all the traffic through the VMware Jeffrey> machine. wow. m

Re: vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Royce" == Royce Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Royce> Jeffrey... Have you tried connecting to DSL ~through~ vmware? I do this, sorta. there is a vmware networking option ('host only', I think it's called) whereby the host OS is given an interface on a private network (192.168.x.x). I

Re: What process started/owns another process?

2001-09-21 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> I have a lot of these processes on my system: ... Peter> How do I determine what process started them? pstree. it's in the psmisc package. or you could figure it out the hard way by asking 'ps' for the parent PID. the '-f'

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:26:37PM Martin> -1000): >> why not just use xargs? >> >> find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l >> >> I think

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each Martin> such line fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an Martin> external shell script with the entire line as argument? why not just use xargs? find . -n

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: >> Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that >> the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on >> most lists? Dave> 1) Yes,

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> However, Gnus seems to perform badly (IMHO) when accessing Brian> remote mail: Brian> - on startup, it tries to check for mail on every folder. This Brian> is slow and time consuming (I only have a shared 28.8kbps Brian> Internet

Re: max concurrent processes can't be > 257?

2001-05-04 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Nate" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> Brett wrote: >> I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for >> hundreds of outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer >> but the new admin of some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm >> using Debian L

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Brandon" == Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they >> either get out of sync, or require more attention than one would >> like to offer them Brandon> Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and Brandon>

combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-10 Thread Joseph Dane
Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail

Re: Comments VMWare?

2001-03-01 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> Hi, I might have to run a windows app, and one code copy Jonathan> protected at that. Anyway, how is VMWare at running 32 bit Jonathan> windows apps? as I understand it you load VMWare, then Jonathan> W95/98, then your ap

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Ralf" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralf> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: >>> '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the >>> remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. >> So I have to stop a running X s

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Andre" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Talking about ssh, could somebody point out the steps Andre> necessary in order to export a remote host's display to my Andre> local machine via, if possible from scratch...? Sorry if this Andre> is a stupid question. do you mea

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Joseph Dane
Others have already mentioned how one can go about tracking more recent versions of packages. I will add that many people (well, at least one person: me) would much rather have a system which is "known good" than one with the latest versions. I personally have no need for XF4, so I'll wait un

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Pap" == Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pap> Try telnet to localhost port 21 to see if exim is running. Since when does exim listen on port 21? sweden [~]>grep 21 /etc/services ftp 21/tcp fsp 21/udp fspd ... SMTP (and exim) are on port 25. --

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Timmy" == Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timmy> mutt reads /var/spool/mail/blah etc. Timmy> mutt pipes sent mail to /usr/lib/sendmail etc. Timmy> /usr/lib/sendmail etc. pipes to exim exim sends mail to Timmy> another host exim is more or less a replacement for sendmail. on