Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > My local-host-names file is empty. How should I put local host in there? edit the file. Put 'localhost' on a line of its own in the file. Then issue 'killall -HUP sendmail' as root. When you're testing fetchmail, use 'fetchmail -k' so

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer > > > have access to Debianized packages of this non-free > > > software? These packages would simply have to be managed >

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: >> > Pardon me, but why do you folks think you will no longer have >> > access to Debianized packages of this non-free software? These >> > packages would simply have to be manag

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think this is a good thing. >Debian is a great distribution, and I do agree, the project shouldn't >be wasting time with bug trackking (except where its the deb that got a >problem). Um, I think that's one of the main goals of the project :) We c

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Igor Mozetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, if this resolution is passed, I will consider switching to another >distribution. I have to maintain 11 Debian machines, and even so spend >quite some time on proper configuration. Before such a move, I would like >some informed suggestions about pos

Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have for some time been concerned about the overall size of the basic >Debian distro. I voiced that opinion and here will repost it. The >Debian distro would be best served by limiting the BASIC distro to >those main items covered by the GPL, LGPL etc. and

Re: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:57:38PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Well I put localhost in the local-host-names and then killall -HUP. I then > tried again but I had the same problem. I receive the mail but cant find it. > Any Idea's ??/ Try posting your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. -Dan > On Fri, Jun

Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...

2000-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But it does cost money to put the non-free stuff on servers Really, I don't think that's the issue. "Resources" have been mentioned, but I think the idea is more of developers' time [1]; non-free is about one-tenth the size of main, and changes relatively

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > Both have excellent manuals and tutorials. Being in the process of teaching myself SQL by way of PostgreSQL, I have to say that the PostgreSQL docs fall far short of my definition of "excellent". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Arbeitsspeicher nicht auf 100%

2000-06-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:27:26 +, Thomas Wild wrote: >ich bin neu in der Liste und wende mich direkt mit einem Problem an >Euch. Ok, first the preferred language in this list is English, not German. [Hier spricht man gemeinhin Englisch, nicht Deutsch.] >Wenn ich den TOP-Befehl eingebe, zeigt

mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Mason
My usual workflow is to work on a locally hosted debian/apache webserver then upload to a remote site. I would like to be able to sync the sites more easily than using an ftp program. I looked at fmirror but it only transfers remote to local, not the other way around. I'd lke to be able to give one

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Colin Watson wrote: > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 8 Jun 2000, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > >> There is a General Resolution proposed by developer John Goerzen that > >> is under discussion on both debian-devel and debian-project, maybe also > >> a few others that I am not aware o

potato libdb2 package missing from all ftp mirrors

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
Hello, I am trying to upgrade from Debian 2.1 to 2.2, and I am having a problem. The libdb2 package upon which many others depend is not in the right place on any debian mirror. All the links from the package download page on www.debian.org are broken. This is the error that apt-get upgrade giv

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > There are many types of users that depend on Debian. Most of them probably > > have a mixture of motives that include both the political (DFSG) and the > > practical (apt rules!). However, the argument that Debian should be > > worried about keeping

Re: off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
john smith wrote: > > ... if software from os/2 can be ported to linux. Basically, any software can be ported. If you can get the source code... > I know that os/2 > can use enlightenment, etc so that means the libraries used are not much > different to linux??? (i'm guessing here...) The libr

Re: mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:14:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'd lke to be able to give one command and any files on my local server > would be uploaded if they were newer. Any ideas? rsync. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.e

Re: mirror local to remote

2000-06-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:14:11PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > > I'd lke to be able to give one command and any files on my local server > > would be uploaded if they were newer. Any ideas? > > rsync. > > -- > Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Bolan Meek
Johann Spies wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:40:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 08:40:58AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > I have done this before, but can not get it right this time. I want to > > > fortify Netscape Communicator 4.72 but do not find the correct

Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-09 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware problems with it. Many thanks! p3 650mhz

Re: OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts?

2000-06-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi rick if you want your box to automatically mount your floppy than you can do so... you might need to tweek the options and stuff - stick the floppy in... - ls -l /mnt/floppyand you see the stuff on the floppy however, popping out a mounted floppy is bad idea... you sh

Re: Fortifying netscape

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > tell it: > > > > /usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real > > Thanks for the answer, but it is not working :( > > Fortify says: > > "/usr/lib/netscape/472/communicator/communicator-smotif.real" is > n

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I'm worried about loosing contrib, waisting _more_ time > > supporting some non-free or contrib software, and the explosions > > of badly-made and incompatible deb packages that may result. > > Point taken. I, howe

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with > > the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent > > attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line > > > > "running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" > > >

Re: passwords broken

2000-06-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > Please, please help me. > > Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I > had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped and > started the computer, and when it came back up I got the usual fs

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
You also need to install ncurses-dev or whatever it is called. I ran into this yesterday. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, deja luser wrote: > Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new > kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I > should

RE: Lost Mail??

2000-06-09 Thread Jay Kelly
-Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 3:16 PM To: Dan Brosemer Subject: RE: Lost Mail?? sendmail.mc file divert(0) VERSIONID('@(#)sendmail.mc 8.11.0-1 (Debian) 2510') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)

Re: which SQL database?

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: >MySQL is faster, but at the sake of some redundancy/features. MySQL also > has a quirky, non-free license. > >PostgreSQL is slower but is a fuller SQL implementation. It's also DFSG > free. Someone did some benchmarking awh

Re: passwords broken

2000-06-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:20:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > > Please, please help me. > > > > Sometime, overnight my work computer seized up. When I got to work, I > > had a blank screen and nothing would change it. So I stopped

(no subject)

2000-06-09 Thread john mason
To Whom It May Concern: I have a Western Digital 15.4GB harddrive and a 1.6 GB harddrive.There are in a pentium 100 system.I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe without any progress.My BIOS only supports up to a 8GB harddrive and I think that is promblem,but I am not sure.I cann

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread David Blackman
In potato it's libncurses5-dev, you'll also need bin86. ===< David Blackman > - http://www.whizziwig.com=== | | /| / / _ \/ _/President | |/ |/ / ___// / Whizziwig Productions Inc. |__/|__/_/ /___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] lbh ner gbb trrxl =

Who/what is GR (was: Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...)

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Who or what is "GR"? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: off-topic

2000-06-09 Thread Jeff Self
X Windows was ported to OS/2. Thats why a lot of X based packages work on it. But OS/2 is not compatible with Linux unless you have the code and can work with it to run under Linux. On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, john smith wrote: > this is sort of off-topic but I don't know where else to ask I would

Re: Who/what is GR (was: Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...)

2000-06-09 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Who or what is "GR"? GR stands for General Resolution, ie. the process Debian goes through before making a vote on something.

port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Joseph Kafka
Hello, I have been the subject of repeated scans of port 27374 on my system by the same IP address, over and over again.What might their intent be? Please advise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
Just a guess, but maybe they don't like people who sent HTML mail? > Joseph Kafka wrote: > > Hello, I have been the subject of repeated scans of port 27374 on > my system by the same IP address, over and over again.What > might their intent be? Please advise. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Bryan Scaringe
This is a scan for Sub-7, a nasty little trojan. A good place for info on what you're seening in your security logs is: http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html Whenever someone scans me for sub-7 (or any other trojan) I add their IP to my ipchains script. Today they are loo

Re: port 27374

2000-06-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:03:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html Nice pages, thanks. Also look at http://www.snort.org and click on "Port Search" link for a handy search tool. -- Bob Bernstein at http://www

purging X from debian installation

2000-06-09 Thread w trillich
i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell. i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and use only ncurses console/telnet/ssh interaction, and server software -- but when i try to zap the xlib6 packages (xlib6 and xlib6g) it wants to remove elvis, perlmagick/ libmagick and a

Re: purging X from debian installation

2000-06-09 Thread Lee Revell
I am having basically the same problem, except that I built XFree86 4.0 from source and I use that as my X server. Almost all packages built against the older X libraries work fine, but dselect keeps bugging me to install these packages. Is there a way to get it to stop bugging me once and for al

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-09 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian > on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would > appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware > probl

Re: Does Windows regenerate MBR by itself?

2000-06-09 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:47:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:33:03PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > > I'm going over tomorrow to reinstall LILO for him. > > you should dd his kernel to a floppy, then use rdev to set the root > device to is real root partition. th

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