Re: how to download and save files from the internet?

2002-03-18 Thread Tyrin Price
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:14:42AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Mozilla help didn't, and I have no idea how to download and save to > file. On Win, it was OK to be a big dummy :( This is http url. See > http://browsex.com. Will someone help me with the proper incantation. > Or point me to the do

Re: Disable screensaver

2001-04-13 Thread Tyrin Price
* eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [13Apr01 8:25 -0600]: > try modify /etc/inittab > default runlevel from 2 to 1 Bad advice is worse than no advice at all! You've advised this person to change to single-user mode. Have you even *read* /etc/inittab? The answer is to use "xset s noblank" -- Regards,

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-12 Thread Tyrin Price
* Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12Apr01 19:24 -0400]: >Some people get my point, and others don't. I don't expect anything. > Let me try another analogy, since my first one was lousy; > Your latest analogy is worse than the first... espeically the part about people bashing down the door

Re: opera browser

2001-04-12 Thread Tyrin Price
* Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12Apr01 20:15 -0300]: > I would like to try the Opera browser in my potato box. From where can I > download it? http://www.opera.com/download/linux.html I am not sure what kind of license it has and I have no idea whether it is any good or not. -- Re

Re: dump fdisk data to TXT file

2001-04-12 Thread Tyrin Price
* Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12Apr01 15:23 +0200]: > Is there a program in Debian to dump the fdisk data to a file? fdisk will do the job, just use the -l switch ... fdisk -l /dev/hda > hda-partitions ...will dump the partition table for /dev/hda to a file named hda-partitions. -- Reg

Re: Default Window Manager

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 22:31 -0400]: > Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the > associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most > people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as > root. X is a _very_ large

Re: /etc/hosts.deny

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 23:14 +0200]: > Well, no. The RPC section was empty and I couldn't figure out what goes > there. Even the new nfs howto is silent on this, although it talks a lot > about hosts.access/deny. Frankly, I think it's stupid that debian's > inetd.conf is nearl

Re: /etc/hosts.deny

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 22:35 +0200]: > On the server I have running: > portmap, rpc.statd, inetd, [nfsd], [lockd], [rpciod], rpc.mountd > On the client there is running (when nfs dirs are mounted): portmap, > rpc.statd, [lockd], [rpciod] > > But a tcpdchk on the server tells

Re: /etc/hosts.deny

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 21:49 +0200]: > I see. But changes to (types s l o w l y) inetd.conf do require it, > don't they? Yes, changes to /etc/inetd.conf do not take effect until inetd is next started, however, changes to /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny take effect immedi

Re: /etc/hosts.deny

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Robert Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 19:07 +0200]: > I put the line > ALL: ALL > in /etc/hosts.deny and tried to mount a directory on this machine from > another one, just to see if it actually denies access to all other hosts. > /etc/hosts.allow is empty. But I could still mount and acce

Re: /etc/hosts.deny

2001-04-08 Thread Tyrin Price
* Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 21:01 +0200]: > Now it's getting lame inetd It doesn't matter, anyway, since you do not have to restart anything for changes to your access control files to take effect. They take effect immediately after a change is made. -- Regards, -=[Ty]

Re: Which package contains dmsg?

2001-04-07 Thread Tyrin Price
* Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07Apr01 22:26 -0500]: > Which package contains dmsg? I don't seem to have it on my computer. Try "dmesg" vice "dmsg". :-) -- Regards, -=[Ty]=-

utmp tty1 bug in Woody xterm?

2001-04-07 Thread Tyrin Price
Has anyone else using Woody experienced a weird problem with xterm sessions causing whoever is logged in to tty1 to disappear from "w" or "who" listings? I just submited this as a bug ... -- Regards, -=[Ty]=-

Re: Resource Conflict

2001-04-05 Thread Tyrin Price
* SuperPenguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05Apr01 19:19 -0400]: > It would be much more pleasant if Debian automatically fixes all > resource conflicting problems. These problems prevent many > beginners from using Debian. Please take this issue into > consideration in future releases. JT

Re: Adore Linux virus

2001-04-05 Thread Tyrin Price
* Shawn Garbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05Apr01 13:17 -0400]: > There's a new virus in town. Here's the news for the mouthpiece of Bill > himself: > > http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2001/04/05/motorola_set.html > It mentions an adorefind program, has anyone run this under Debian? Are > the

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Tyrin Price
* Robert A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03Apr01 12:44 -0500]: > Well...woody and potato handle X and its configuration very differently. > Woody uses X 4.02 (I think) while potato uses 3.3.6. There are a number of > differences, not the least of which is that your X configuration is no longer > s

Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine

2000-10-21 Thread Tyrin Price
> I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from > my IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the > machine occasionally blocks: it's like everything freezes for > about half a minute before I can do anything again. This only > happens when the ZIP drive

Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Tyrin Price
I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Mutt for reading and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering. When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes into your smtp send queue. Just issue the command to send queued mail when you re-connec

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Tyrin Price
* Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14Oct00 16:38 +0200]: > No! Nevertheless this is the only way for me to advertise for my new > buisnes, cause i have not enought budget to pay for other possibilitys. And > i think i have the right to get my existence. And isnĀ“t it all the same if > you see publ

Re: What is all of this junk??

2000-10-13 Thread Tyrin Price
That's a problem on the debian-security-announce list rather than the debian-user list. I've gotten several of them, myself. * Christopher W. Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [13Oct00 23:30 -0400]: > What is this junk?? I must have gotten several > dozen of these messages today. > > -=cwa=- > > > >