Re: Where can I find the files for a floppy image

2001-10-03 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:39:58AM -0700, Mike Towery wrote: > I am new to Debian and Linux. My cd-rom based version > of Debian is not booting. Where can I find the floppy > disk boot disk image? > in the CD itself. look for the directory disks-i386. -- "GUIs normally make it simple to accom

Re: OT: netfilter inquiry

2001-10-03 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:29:36PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther wrote: [...] > > I don't know if this is a really good idea. I'd rather test and try to break > it down to the _real_ problem. > Flushing the tables as 'iptables -F' does will be important one day you do not > further think about you've d

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-03 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:21:59AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: [...] > > Any comments on the topic of forging addresses[0]? > > 0: No, this isn't personal, either, just an attempt to get back > on-topic. > i've only read a couple of messages in this thread and all i can say is forging address

bind pop/ftp/sendmail to a port?

2001-10-03 Thread Ian Marlier
I'm running a machine with multiple ethernet interfaces. The box runs sendmail, pop, and ftp...but I can't figure out how to make any of them bind to a specific one of the eth ports...it's not documented! Help! ipop2d, ipop3d, and ftpd are all run out of inetd. Sendmail runs as a daemon. -

Re: (OT) non-proprietary software merits

2001-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
>this is off-list but I hope that you will make a summary and post it >back to the list... > > erik Greetings, I received some fantastic information and url's. I'm still following up on these. I *Will* post the compiled data that I condense and submit. I am very grateful to each of y

how to download debian

2001-10-03 Thread Suresh Kumar R
Hi, I tried downloading debian using psudo image kit. Many servers I tried didnt allow downloading. It just stops connecting. Somesites allows to download upto a few Mbs and then halts. Reconnection doesnt help Where can we download it from? Thanks Suresh -

Re: how to download debian

2001-10-03 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, re. your following: On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Suresh Kumar R wrote: > Hi, > > I tried downloading debian using psudo image kit. > Many servers I tried didnt allow downloading. It just stops connecting. > Somesites allows to download upto a few Mbs and then halts. Reconnection > doesnt help >

RE: Beam Internet

2001-10-03 Thread Andy Laurence
> > Here in Canada there is a similar service starting at > CAD$40 /month :-) > > > > http://www.expressvu.ca > > > > You need to also subcribe to Bell Expressvu TV (Satellite dish). > > OMG, goto http://www.expressvu.ca/en/aboutdirecpc.html .. that looks > horrible. Using a modem to send the req

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread xio
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > > > Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to > upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On > 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory > because of Mozilla's big footpr

Re: short reference for Unix commands

2001-10-03 Thread Alexander Steinert
Sorry for not being precisely enough: Rather than introductory docs I'm looking for a _short_ reference of Unix / Linux commands. The best would be _one_ table with all command names and descriptions and maybe links to the man pages. Stony

exim config for site

2001-10-03 Thread Timothy Ball
I now have several computers on a network and I would like for all of them to act smartly together on a network. I have a parisc box acting as the main email server to send and recieve email, it works properly rewriting the hostname and everything. The part that doesn't work is setting up all the c

Printing in Linux

2001-10-03 Thread Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu
I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a printserver to all the windows-machines on the network by its WINS-name (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . How can I use this printer? I've tried to use samba, but I cant get it right Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks -- Erlend Bj

Re: SSH port forwarding

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 10:23]: > I have some boxes behind a firewall that I need access to from the internet. > I don't control the firewall, so I thought I would try to use OpenSSH > port forwarding. I have placed "GatewayPorts yes" in the outside machine's > sshd_config. The box

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Simon Law wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM. Is

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2001-10-03 Thread Tarjei Huse
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Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (03/10/01 00:03), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This probably isn't news to most people, but I though I'd go on the > record here with a warning: > > If you subscribe to and use Debian mailing lists, you WILL get > spam. If you post to any mailing list with archives on the web you are likely

RE: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread jgp
>= Original Message From Ailbhe Leamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >If you post to any mailing list with archives on the web you are likely >to have your address harvested by spammers. This is not news. Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have appreciated having the connection betw

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Oct 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Simon Law wrote: > > >On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > > > >> > >>Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an > >>obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a > >>new set of disks. By the

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 05:32:49AM -0400): > Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have appreciated > having the connection between lists and spam made to me when I signed > up, so, I make it now to anyone who might be tempted to use > their primary e-mail ad

mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I've got a procmail rc file redirecting my mail either to one or other mailbox or otherwise to my /Mail/mbox mailbox. Mutt by default views the contents of my mail spool (/var/spool/mail/myname) rather than my mbox. Should I repoint mutt to my mbox, by default? How should I do this? Also, how can

aptitude: unrecoverable missing packages

2001-10-03 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debian users! the upgrade to just the ssh2 package seems to be connected with some wide ranging dependencies... system: Linux merlin 2.2.19pre17c #1 Fri Sep 28 13:44:24 CEST 2001 i686 unknown potato was trying to install the ssh2 package by getting package from packages.debian.org, then,

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>This probably isn't news to most people, but I though I'd go on the >record here with a warning: > > If you subscribe to and use Debian mailing lists, you WILL get > spam. This is not new I'm afraid. And warning people _on_ the list is not well thought through. I imagine the minority of the lis

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >= Original Message From Ailbhe Leamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > >If you post to any mailing list with archives on the web you are likely > >to have your address harvested by spammers. This is not news. > > Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would hav

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 05:32:49AM -0400): > > Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have appreciated > > having the connection between lists and spam made to me when I signed > > up, so, I make it now to anyone who might be temp

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread xio
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:10:49AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've got a procmail rc file redirecting my mail either to one or other > mailbox or otherwise to my /Mail/mbox mailbox. > > Mutt by default views the contents of my mail spool > (/var/spool/mail/myname) rather than my mbox. >

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread P Kirk
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:32:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>= Original Message From Ailbhe Leamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >>If you post to any mailing list with archives on the web you are likely >>to have your address harvested by spammers. This is not news. > >Yeah, knee-jerk reacti

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Hunsley (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:41:50AM +0100): > Less sarcasm young man. Many people may find this list via the debian > users newsgroup, which can be read by anyone, subscribed or not. Also > the archives can be read before subscribing. usenet, well, maybe... but archives are us

Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

2001-10-03 Thread Brian Stults
Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: How would you go about printing to a remote printer on a WinNT without CUPS? I have it working beautifully through CUPS/smbclient, but CUPS is too heavy memorywise on my old laptop. I couldn't find any info on the web on how to do it without CUPS, though. I use

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rory Campbell-Lange (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:10:49AM +0100): > Should I repoint mutt to my mbox, by default? How should I do this? > Also, how can mutt know that there is unread mail in other folders? ever tries the manual? probably the best thing is a line like export MAIL=~/Mail/mbo

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I managed to stay 'clean' for nearly 9 months to my primary account, now > I'm spitting chips at the vision of my e-mail address brunt onto some > get-rich-quick-marketting-tool CD-R. :-( eh, even if you haven't subscribed to any mailing list, there

Delay and jitter generator for Debian? Like Dummynet

2001-10-03 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Is there among the Debian packages something like Dummynet http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/, ie. delay and jitter simulator for testing network applications under varying conditions? -- Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen Decem yhdisty

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
martin f krafft wrote: > > to email me, remove the BLOCK from addressS > > however, this is both obnoxious, and useless - the mass mailers that i > have seen (no, i am not a spammer) have features that check for a wide > variety of such blocks, and successfully remove them... What's obnoxious a

Re: Printing in Linux

2001-10-03 Thread Angus D Madden
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:30:25AM +0200, Erlend Bj?rnson Barkbu wrote: > I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a printserver to all > the windows-machines on the network by its WINS-name > (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . > > How can I use this printer? > > I've tried to use

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:03:36 BST, Alex Hunsley writes: >What's obnoxious about it? I don't want spam, dad. It's that simple. Almost nobody wants spam. It's that simple. But such is life. I also don't want advertising in my physical mailbox (and yes, this also costs the recipient money. My hous

Re: recent woody upgrades leave me unable to use X as ROOT!

2001-10-03 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 01:31, John Foster wrote: > I have recently upgradeed my Woody boxes I have 2 and now I can not log > into my gnome-kde enlightenment system as root. I could do that before > the last upgrade. A new bug maybe?? > John look at /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf [..] [security] Allo

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Hunsley (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 01:03:36PM +0100): > What's obnoxious about it? I don't want spam, dad. It's that simple. maybe obnoxious is not the right word, and hey, i don't want to start a flame war... but i almost replied to you in person without noticing it, and that would hav

oberon in linux?

2001-10-03 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I would like to know if there is any way of using oberon on linux? Since the faculty which I am a student of has a class called Programing 1, which teaches the use of Oberon as a object programming language. I would like to pass the class without the need to install windows on any of my comput

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > > > Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. > > Running either pump or dh

scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debianists! have a question regarding the access of a scsi-disk... dmesg shows: sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 4, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 2 device 4 function 0 irq 11 sym53c895-0: ID 7, Fast-40,

sudo and Debian (was ssh and Debian)

2001-10-03 Thread Brian Schramm
I get the same thing. I also run Sun's and other unix systems that do not have this problem. I figure it is a problem with Debian but I am not sure. Anyone got any ideas at all? Brian Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:26:33 -0400 From: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (03/10/01 13:03), Alex Hunsley wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > > to email me, remove the BLOCK from addressS > > however, this is both obnoxious, and useless - the mass mailers that i > > have seen (no, i am not a spammer) have features that check for a wide > > variety of such blocks, and

Re: ssh and debian

2001-10-03 Thread Sean Quinlan
--- Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-02 15:10): > For some reason my debian box never propts me for a ssh password when loging > into a sudo session. Is there some setting I need to do to tell it to ask me? Are you part of the sudo group? If you are, you're never prompted for a passwo

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Try this in your .procmailrc [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/mbox -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Mail correction... MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Keith Willoughby
Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you believe in using fake addresses, why not use something like > [EMAIL PROTECTED] This doesn't (and probably won't) exist, so you > have the benefit of a faked address but don't simply shove the load > unto someone else. Funnily enough, UK ed

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Jussi Ekholm
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to > Netscape in the end, with all its faults. The 4.7 versions seem to crash > less often than earlier ones. What about Konqueror, have you tried it? For me, Kon

downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread kumar suresh
Hello, We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites we were unable to download the required files. With many sites, the make-psudo-imaage command terminated immediately and with someother sites we could donwload only upto 21MB or so. T

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
Ailbhe Leamy wrote: > > On (03/10/01 13:03), Alex Hunsley wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > > to email me, remove the BLOCK from addressS > > > > however, this is both obnoxious, and useless - the mass mailers that i > > > have seen (no, i am not a spammer) have features that check for a

konqueror crashes again

2001-10-03 Thread Marcin Inkielman
Hi! I still have problems with konqueror. It crash every time on all websites I saw in the list that the problem is already solved. I tried to reinstall all the kdelibs3. (apt-get kdelibs3* --reinstal). Downgrade of the libc6 dosn't help alot (I have crashes also) Everything other: mozilla, kde w

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Alex Hunsley (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 01:03:36PM +0100): > > What's obnoxious about it? I don't want spam, dad. It's that simple. > > maybe obnoxious is not the right word, and hey, i don't want to start > a flame war... but i almost replied to you in person w

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Alex Hunsley
Robert Waldner wrote: > > Of course it would be easy to make such bots a little bit more > intelligent. But why bother? Also, most spammers probably don't target > people who already have formed an opinion against it, their main > targets are AOL- & -newbies, anyway. Fair point. > If you b

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Oct 2001, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to > > Netscape in the end, with all its faults. The 4.7 versions seem to crash > > less often than earlier ones. > > Wh

Re: Printing in Linux

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 03:30, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote: > I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a printserver to all > the windows-machines on the network by its WINS-name > (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . > > How can I use this printer? > > I've tried to use samba, but I

Re: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > Hello Debianists! [ snip ] > how do I proceed if I want to partition sdb? use fdisk instead of cfdisk. The interface isn't as pretty, but it works. 'h' gives you help :) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:18:22PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Oct 2001, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to > > > Netscape in the end, with all its fault

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > One limitation I have is that my bank won't > > accept anything but Netscape. > > I like galeon ... you can configure the Agent string > galeon presents to the server. I subscribe to some mozilla-related lists and according to many posts, you can't 'trick' *all* web servers. Some can see past

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:50 am, P Kirk wrote: > Now armed with this assumption, set up a .procmailrc or .forward to block > them. To get you started, my .forward which has a way of scoring mail > to filter spam is attached. I get a certain malign pleasure out of > checking my junlmail inb

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 07:12 am, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I managed to stay 'clean' for nearly 9 months to my primary account, now > > I'm spitting chips at the vision of my e-mail address brunt onto some > > get-rich-quick-marketting-tool C

Re: SSH port forwarding

2001-10-03 Thread Failure
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:38:21AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: <> > > I connect like this (from the firewalled machine): > > > > ssh -g -C -R 3001:firewalled_machine:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I can now connect to 3001 on the outside machine, but the connection doesn't > > do anything and is qui

Re: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > > - cfdisk on /dev/sdb tells me: > FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table > Press any key to exit cfdisk > > how do I proceed if I want to partition sdb? > > I have no idea why yo

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Craig Dickson
Jason Boxman wrote: > I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email > in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on... Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but doesn't that mean that if someone bcc's you on a legit message that you really ought t

Re: scsi partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
fdisk will complain about not being able to read the partition table if you have scsi bus bogosity. check dmesg for scsi parity errors.

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:10:06 BST, Alex Hunsley writes: >Robert Waldner wrote: >> If you believe in using fake addresses, why not use something like >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] This doesn't (and probably won't) exist, so you >> have the benefit of a faked address but don't simply shove the load >> unto

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
* Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.03 18:26:21+0200]: > this.is.a.trap.graffl.net TXT "this is just a spamtrap" > this.is.a.trap.graffl.net A 127.255.255.255 that's a splendid idea, but don't you want to consider 127.0.0.1 instead. broadcast is kind of harsh... --

Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-03 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module... The instalation cd I have for debian doesn't have any packages, It get's them

xRe: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > I have no idea why you are getting the error. Have you tried > the "fdisk" command? I have seen it work in cases where cfdisk > fails. Yes, first try fdisk. Sometimes a new disk wi

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, kumar suresh wrote: > So is there any site from where we can get latest > debian? Check out http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html for a list of Debian CD Image mirrors. (This link was last posted on the list just a couple of days ago.) Cheers. -- Dave Steinberg [EMAIL

Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.

2001-10-03 Thread igor
On Wednesday, September 26 2001 11:27 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because > > I was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs. > > That's a good possibility.

graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
hi, is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that funny bad-ass-looking cloud (or similar) to visualize the Big Bad Internet? xfig has an ob

esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop the esd daemon. Anyone know which package? :wq! ---

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages for it: Package: dia Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 10836 Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Craig Dickson
martin f krafft wrote: > is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you > know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics > program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that > funny bad-ass-looking cloud (or similar) to visualize the Big

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: RLH> RLH> RLH> Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. RLH> When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find RLH> which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop

Re: Sharing Printers w/ Win2K machine and Samb

2001-10-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Anyone know about these special versions of win2k-enabled sambas? I'm > just using the latest out of SID. Samba 2.2.1a works fine with w2k. I can't help you with that error message, but TFM has enough info to set it up (I'd suggest buying _Sa

Re: graphical tool for network design/illustration

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:20:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi, > is there a utility that i can use to create images of networks? you > know, the object-based host/server/firewall-bridge/router/hub graphics > program that allows for easy interconnection - and which has that > funny bad-ass-l

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I read my email from several places, not all of which have a linux box handy > (e.g. work). Is there a promail equivelent for windows? Why you need procmail? If you have one fixed IP machine, run Linux there and access it through SSH

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > Ah, this is the part I missed ... I didn't reali

setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login to another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. thanx in advance. Shri __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > It's a Eicon Diva 2430. I found this on it: > > http://www.eicon.com/pubs/diva_2430/index.htm > > with lots of links for explanations and help. > > It says the modem has the IP 192.168.1.1 and that it can be > configured by pointing a web browser at that address. Can't wait > to

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Just a quick 2sec search, but this might point you in the right direc

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Jacques Normand
Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. It is possible by editing the inittab (/etc/inittab) but it will set a pb if you need a password to set the con

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that > needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy > the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module... > > The instalation cd I have f

X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
recently, i have been experiencing trouble with fonts on my 3.3.6 X server running on 2.4.5/woody. certain programs, like "plan", "dia", display text as dotted rectangles, and not even one per letter. i took the liberty to attach a file to this mail, a gif stripped down as much as possible, please

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
how about an account with zero-password (or password=username), whose shell is a shell script (careful with those), asking for the username, and spawning ssh. it would be better to get getty to do this, though... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto:

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-03 Thread Scott Henson
> Hi there! I have a lapotp I want to install debian in, it has a nic that > needs a modifyed version of tulip To be able to use it I need to copy > the modifyed version and recompile the kernel to recompile the module... > > The instalation cd I have for debian doesn't have any packages, It

OT: yann.aubert@internetfrance.com, are you there?

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has subscribed to debian-apache, but his email addy bounces with user unknown. i have disabled email delivery for now. please get in touch with me. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTE

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Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
am i a dork. someday, i'll use artificial intelligence to make sure that attachments are not forgotten. her she is... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] as i learn the innermost secrets of the peopl

Re: sudo and Debian (was ssh and Debian)

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 06:29]: > Hmm, even using the PASSWD: option I still don't have to enter my > password. I don't know why. debian's sudo package has the password timeout set to 15 minutes. This means that once you enter your password once, as long as you don't wait more

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 04:01]: > also sprach Rory Campbell-Lange (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:10:49AM +0100): > > Should I repoint mutt to my mbox, by default? How should I do this? > > Also, how can mutt know that there is unread mail in other folders? > > ever tries the manual?

Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > certain programs, like "plan", "dia", > display text as dotted rectangles, and not even one per letter. In some programs, that means appropriately-sized screen fonts are not available. -=greg

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: > Hello, > > We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by > the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites > we were unable to download the required files. With > many sites, the make-psudo-imaage command terminated > immediately a

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 11:09]: > Hi All, > > just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login > to > another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Haven't done this, but check out the manpage for getty. The -l option looks like

X compilation problem

2001-10-03 Thread ice . planet
Hello I'm using debian and i have tried to compile the new X (4.1.0) I'm using the sources from your ftp and the compilation always takes about 700 mb of HDD space and then fails sayng that someone is not member of some group. I tried various kernel versions (from 2.2.17 to 2.4.10), but nothing h

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-03 Thread Jason Boxman
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:21 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jason Boxman wrote: > > I find the effective rule is to trash mail that doesn't have my email > > in the From: address. Hopefully the spammers won't ever catch on... > > Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, but doesn't that mean

Re: X fonts problem

2001-10-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 20:32:33 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > certain programs, like "plan", "dia", display text as dotted rectangles, > and not even one per letter. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "Fonts missing after upgrade". HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Ne

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 10:32]: > > > Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. > When I do a "ps -eaf | grep esd" it doesn't find anything. I also can't find > which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop > the

Re: IP Alias

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Chad Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 16:29]: > > Hello, > > I set up an IP Alias on my system but I'm unable to access the aliased IP > address from other computers. > > I have: > eth0, IP Address A - can ping from my computer and from other computers > eth0:0, IP Address B - can ping ONL

A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-03 Thread Walter Landry
Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if I type tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig' * then it excludes all fi

Re: new system

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:46]: > I am getting ready to build a new box and I would like to make it like > the one I am currently using. I am running Sid updated daily. Is there > a way to do a base install of potato on the new system then change > apt.sources to point to sid and

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