Re: SCSI Tape Drive

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:34:44AM -0500, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have recently installed a SONY SCSI tape drive onto my linux box. I > > would like to use the Taper program to back up my hard drive to tape. But > > I seem to be having a probl

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 06:11:13PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [Slow releases] > > This is a fallacy. The longest Debian release cycle I could find on > > record was 7 months. In fact, that is the average. Red Hat and Slackware > > have both had 7 month long releas

Re: Disk Druid

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"B. Szyszka" wrote: > > Hello, > > >From Win98 with Partition Magic, I have resized my partition and > made room for a partition I'll use for /var . In Red Hat, I had the option > to use Disk Druid, format the partitions I wanted as Linux partitions, > and set their mount points. I'm having troub

Re: Hardware Compatibility

1999-09-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Matthew Dalton wrote: > [cut] > > The modem will probably work as long as its not a winmodem. > Are there any onboard ones that aren't?

Re: Debian hardware issues and need for children's software

1999-09-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
michael ottaway wrote: > [cut hardware question that someone else can answer better] > > Do you feel that there would be a need or desire for children's software? I > am currently go to school and have completed an associates degree in Child > Development. Though I may major in computers before I

Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

1999-09-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bob Billson wrote: > [cut] > > # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd > #* molec3 "" * > richmolec3 "" *<--the only user allowed to run ppp Substitute a real username and your machine name here. > > # UserIDs that cannot use PP

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO

1999-09-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Hi, > > As someone who's written lots of code toward making free Unices easier to > use, let me just say that I think this supposed conflict between power and > ease of use is total nonsense. > > Even if a tool is for power users, it can be pleasant for those users to

Re: Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

1999-09-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bob Billson wrote: > > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > stats molec3 "*" - > > > ^^ > > > Is this column supposed to be the local machine name? I can't find it > > > documented anywhere.

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition...

1999-09-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William T Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, rich wrote: > > > I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux > > Didn't we just do this one? :} > > First go to single user mode. It is probably not necessary but won't > hurt. > > > 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linu

Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO [not so long, but OT]

1999-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Art Lemasters wrote: > [cut] > BTW, I recently worked a contract for a corporation that uses > nothing but NT servers and workstations. The machines were rebooted > every two or three days, and complete images were installed to them > once a week or more. Granted, though, the employees ther

Apache 1.3.9-7: where's the manpages?

1999-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I just got through upgrading apache-doc, apache-common, and apache, all to version 1.3.9-7 (latest from unstable). I don't seem to see the manpages I would have expected. 'man apache' and 'man apachectl', in particular, don't seem to turn anything up. Has anyone else upgraded apache, and do yo

Re: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > > Hello, Manuel: > > > > [1] If you simply install the telnetd package, the daemon, I believe, > > will start running. If you reboot, it certainly will. So install > > it with: > > > > dpkg --install > > > > or: > > > > a

Apache segfaulting upon perl module load

1999-09-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I'm having a strange problem where apache is segfaulting when I start it. The only time I get the segfault is when DynaLoader.pm loads an ".so" file, for example, DBI.so, resulting from "use DBI" or "use Apache::DBI" in startup.pl. But "use Apache::Status", resulting in loads of Request.so, et al

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Taupter wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with > > daylight savings time in a tropical country? > > Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million > people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with

Re: vi problems

1999-10-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > Hello: > > I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never > experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line > at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'. > For the record, I use 'xterm's

Re: flexfax: customizing coverpages?

1999-04-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Daryl Williams wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > i have just set up a hylafax server and i would like to customize > > the cover page. it currently prints a silicon graphics logo. > > is there a way to change this? also th

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jiri Baum wrote: > > Hello, > > John Galt: > > > Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email, > > Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be > decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail. > > If you have messages that MUST not get into hostil

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Prof. Feedlebom wrote: > > First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It > seems a bit off-topic. > How and/or why did Branden's original message get to the list in the first place? Here's the E-mail header I have from what I assume is the original message: Return-Path

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Prof. Feedlebom wrote: > > > > First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It > > seems a bit off-topic. > > > How and/or why did Branden's original message get to the list in the > first place? He

No DBD perl module for Postgresql?

1999-04-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a DBD perl module for Postgresql in the online distributions. There is libpgperl, which is not DBI/DBD, therefore (I assume) won't work with Apache::DBI to afford me handle persistence. Am I overlooking something entirely here, or should I just quit whin

Re: No DBD perl module for Postgresql?

1999-04-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Keith G. Murphy hat gesagt: // Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a DBD perl module for > > Postgresql in the online distributions. There is libpgperl, which is > > not DBI/DBD, therefore (I a

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: SMBMOUNT won't > Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:56:16PM +0200 > > In reply to:Mirek Kwasniak > > Quoting Mirek Kwasniak([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:25:52AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > > Got a sample syntax? I use > > > > >

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Russell Rademacher wrote: > > Okay... I checked the process by ps x and seen that diald is running. > Unfortunably, the dial-on demand is not working yet as I tried doing lynx, ftp > or ping from root or user account. > > As for the package version, it is diald_0.16.5-3.deb versio

Re: Amanda rescue floppy

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Max wrote: > > I would like to make a floppy that would allow me to boot up my system > from that floppy and contain all of the Amanda tools that would allow > me to recover my hard drive file systems in the event something goes > wrong. Has anyone set up something like this? Any pointers would

Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David B.Teague wrote: > [snip] > > One thing: your message had a very long line, it will help those of us > who use text mailers (PINE, etc) for you to press return every 70 > characters or so. Some mail composers generate local but don't > insert them into the file. > That makes me curious. H

Re: Debian printer server for heterogenous network

1999-04-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: > > Hi! > I want to set up a server to control the printers we've got > scattered around here. Basically, there are a number of computers which are > now accessing the printers through some very simple parallel port hub (i.e., > all parallel port cables go into a b

Re: Linux NFS locking

1999-04-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a Debian box running as a Samba server, with mostly NFS mounted drives. > When the users try to access files that need locking,, like Access > databases, it can't lock the file, and won't allow them to open it. > How *does* one get Linux to do real NFS locking?

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Thanks to those who have replied. > > Let me recapitulate: > > I have a 10.2Gb disk. > > I am using an updated BIOS, which recognises 10Gb of space and does not > attempt to show a geometry. > > `sfdisk -s' shows the correct size: 10022040 > > However, cfdisk actuall

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-28 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David B.Teague wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk? > > > Debian 2.0 is working well

Re: network card problem

1999-04-28 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jonathan P Tomer wrote: > > i'm installing two new pcs at work, one with solaris x86 and one with debian > so that i can show my employer how much nicer debian is. unfortunately > there is one major problem: the hamm cd i have is not successfully detecting > the ne2k (well, encore enl832tx, which

Re: Dialup question

1999-04-28 Thread Keith G. Murphy
rob wrote: > > Hi > Does anyone know how to setup debian to be a dialup server? > If so, please tell me how! > Check out mgetty and return here after you've read the documentation, tried it, and have further questions...

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-28 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > raymond rote, > [snip] > > 2. If you're going to run Windows, get at least decent freeware > > antivirus software. > > This is what pentiums are for. Safe computing dictates that you should > draw one around your computer before loading windows or otherwi

Re: New to list - is there a FAQ?

1999-05-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bryan Scaringe wrote: > > Hi, > I just joined the list. Any docs I should read before posting? > Is there a list-specific FAQ? (I've seen the Debian-FAQ.) > I have had experience with various Linux distros for a couple of > years, and just switched from RedHat to Debian (because o

Re: What to do with a tape drive?

1999-05-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
M.C. Vernon wrote: > > (Please CC all replies to me) Hope that reply-to is correct... > > Hi, > > I've just installed a new tape drive, but I can find no > documentation on how to use it. Do I just write cron jobs to > > tar -zcvf {files} /dev/sct0 ? More like 'tar -zcvf /dev/sct0 {fil

Re: Help! Tar won't work!

1999-05-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Dan Smith wrote: > > The first few archives I opened with tar worked fine, > but then it stopped working. I installed cpio and the > first few tars I opened with it worked fine too, but > then it stopped functioning as well. I tried > reinstalling both, to no avail. What happens is, I > type th

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like FTP would be more like what the doctor ordered... Bob Nielsen wrote: > > You will need to set it up on the remote computer for NFS. > > On Thu, May 13, 19

Re: mount drive through internet?

1999-05-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > True, but does anyone do this? Seems kind of bandwidth-wasteful, and > > like it would be slow. Sounds like a connection-oriented protocol like > > FTP would be more like what the doctor ordere

Re: Hdd install

1999-05-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Koyote wrote: > [cut] > Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 > boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in > this machine, then moving the hard drive to another machine and > running the install there. (Boot flom floppies, install from hdd)

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also > upgraded. > > Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get the > following error message: > [cut]

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also > > upgraded. > > > > Toda

Re: DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

1999-05-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > on my slink system I have noticed the following behavoiur: > > Whenever I start Netscape (version >= 4.51) it tries perform a DNS lookup > of my local hostname (terra.local.universe.de). After approx. 5 minutes > the page finally loads. > > I am usin

Re: desk jet 710C - drivers

1999-06-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:28:05AM +0200, IS ZG wrote: > > Hi, > > My name is Margaret. I'm writing from Poland. > > Help me!!! > > My printer Desk Jet 710C doesn't print in DOS 6.22. I need this. > > Where can I find these drivers? > >

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"N. Raghavendra" wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. > There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy > drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and > the other floppy drive as B:. Are

Re: mgetty password trouble.

1999-10-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
aphro wrote: > > I've had a PPP server setup for quite some time using mgetty 1.1.18-1, and > it works great, BUT i just noticed today that it is doing no password > authentication. Any user/pw will work to login. Security isn't a huge > issue but i'd like to get it so i can track who logs in!

Re: Apache segfaulting upon perl module load

1999-10-06 Thread Keith G. Murphy
wrote: > > one solution is to build Apache and mod_perl from source, and linking > mod_perl static instead of a dso. > > -Doug > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > I'm having a strange problem where apache is segfaulting when I start

Re: samba problems (was: Re: Serial conn. to WIN (success!) - thanks)

1999-10-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > Hello! > > Now, the further problems: I hope perhaps someone can send me some > suggestions about this 'cause I have read the smb.conf manpage thoroughly > and don't know what to do (although I said I was probably able to solve > this). > > I'm using a ip connection

Re: I can't connect to Novell network

1999-10-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Istvan Benak wrote: > > "Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > > > > In fact I'm not Novell expert, but in my case everything works ok. > > I'v used debian packages for ncpfs. > > > > >NetworkRouter_Net Router_Node > > >19930921 0F02 034CA255 > > >0F02 Directly Connected > > > >

Re: SB-PCI-64

1999-10-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Jordi wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > > > On jue, oct 07, 1999 at 07:08:56 +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: > > > > La SoundBlaster 64 PCI es realmente una Ensoniq 1371, no una > > > > soundblaster. Ponle

kernel 2.2 and smbmount 2.0.5a: Win95 bugfix?

1999-10-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I have become quite confused about the interaction of the kernel versions and the different versions of Samba and smbmount. I have just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel. 'make menuconfig' gave no choice by which to enable the Win95 bug workaround. At the same time, smbmount 2.0.5a, which seems to be the

Re: trouble with mod_pyapache

1999-10-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I'm apparently having trouble loading mod_pyapache in both apache and > apache-ssl. Apache refuses to start with the module line uncommented > (yes it's installed!), giving a Segment violation. I'm wondering if I > need some other module or if there is a conflict. I

Re: A RedHat6.0 User

1999-10-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Li Bing-QCH1550 wrote: > > I am a new Linux fan. However, I choose RedHat as my first try. Who knows > about the redhat email-list? > Use Debian. Their mailing lists are easier to find! ;-)

Re: html, and a file manager.

1999-10-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
tf wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I'm on a roll. Those of you who write html for a living, what do you > use? I have, but have not tried, asWedit, amaya, and (ahem) > wordperfect. I hate to plug a windows app, but notetab pro is great. > Sure would be nice if someone would make a clone for linux. I

Re: How to read the result of inittab

1999-10-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mickael Vera wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm still looking for reading the results of inittab. > Redirection of the output to a file is not a solution > as the root partition is mounted read-only when it > executes. /var is not mounted yet, so that you don't see it in /var/log/messages? > > My problem i

Re: Need SCSI Tape Help

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mike Barton wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with > 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec > 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a > really sweet server here except

Re: install, I'm in over my head

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
jh wrote: > [cut] > > Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would seem to > fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see > mitsumi cd-rom and mitsumi cd-rom with extended features. When I try to > install these I get an error message like: >

Re: Postscript Merging & Dial-in PPP Access

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Peter Ludwig wrote: > > 2) Dial-in PPP Access. Before people start screaming > at me to read the manuals, I suggest they also look in > the documentation. The current documentation is not > detailed enough for me to get the system to work. I > can setup shell access using mgetty, but as soon as

Re: ppp not working

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Samuel Varghese wrote: > > i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. > however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a > message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in > the > install is the ppp module loaded?

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"David J. Kanter" wrote: > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > I've got plenty of available drive spac

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and thanks to all, which had helped me. > (7 and some doubled Mails). > > Please one more time: I am on the List and I do not like if > I get all Answers as CC two times. > It's the kind of Courtesy Copy that is no courtesy, right? ;-)

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's > > > > crap and they > > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > > them > > > > anything

Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-11-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Don Galloway wrote: > > i thought /mbr was supposed to be /MBR ? > i could be wrong though. Remember, this is DOS; CaSE doEsn'T mattER. :-)

Re: PPP to ISP

1999-11-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Further to PPP to ISP saga - > > once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so > excuse formatting) ... > > DestinationGateway Genmask Flags MSS Win irtt Iface > > 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 15

Re: PPP working now! Recommended browsers for slink?

1999-11-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Miskinis wrote: > > > SO, now I am looking for recommendations on downloading a browser > that will run under slink. I figured since it will be a BIG download > I would be best to ask for advise first. This will also help people > who look at the mailing list archives I hope. > It's proba

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Howard Mann wrote: > > [cut] > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > apps like "TLinker." > > > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > >

Re: [Fwd: Re: Login to home from work]

2002-09-10 Thread Keith G. Murphy
That leads me to this thought: if you really want access to a GUI desktop on your home machine, and/or don't want to carry an Putty floppy with you... What about installing (Tight)VNC on your Linux machine, and use its HTTP/Java capabilities to get to your machine from any Internet-connected

Re: substitute for dreamweaver's template/link tracking

2002-09-10 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > So I have a couple of small websites I'm trying to move over to > linux. Up to now I've managed them with dreamweaver, which has two > great features: > > -- templates that you can update, i.e. you can build a site around one >set of templates, with one 'look', a

Re: apache-perl vs HTML::Mason

2002-09-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bob Proulx wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-29 23:30:31 -0500]: > >>okay, apt-get is wonderful and all that -- but when sticking >>with a tried-and-true potato setup, it's hard to get feature >>updates without some extra-apt activity... > > > Wait, wait, wait. Did you say "s

Re: Foomatic and CUPS

2002-10-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bill Wohler wrote: > I was under the impression that one could simply install foomatic and > then CUPS would then be able to present the available printers and > drivers to the user. CUPS would then call foomatic-configure on behalf > of the user to automatically put together a ppd file. T

Re: Foomatic and CUPS

2002-10-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bill Wohler wrote: > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Bill Wohler wrote: >> >>> I was under the impression that one could simply install foomatic and >>> then CUPS would then be able to present the available printers and >

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I tried under a different subject heading that may have been misleading. > So here goes another try: > > I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of > exim and cyrus from sid. > > Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily ab

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 02 October 2002, 11:05 PM -0400): > >>I've recently started using mutt remotely when I'm on campus to check >>for email that Mozilla is automatically downloading to my Debian box at >>home > > Not to

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Joe wrote: > i install woody but X and sound do not work. I have the exact answer, but won't yield it, because I'd like you to go to another distro. -- "Buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-04 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > >> >>You might want to try this. I don't know if it makes any difference or >>not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that >>I always use the u

Re: Printer Trouble

2000-08-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Debian User wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Where can I find some docs on how to install a printer on Debian (woody)? I > just picked up a Lexmark Optra E312, plugged it in, booted up, and it > naturally did not work. A couple things to share... > > As a users I typed: cat > /dev/lp1 and received a

Re: .*? still greedy (perl,python)?

2000-08-30 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Marco Pantaleoni wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:16:36PM +0300, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I noticed that .*? in perl and phython, if used at the beginning > > of an unanchored (without ^) regular expression still behaves half-greedy: > > > > perl: > > "hello" =~ /(.*?)l/; > >

Re: PPP not going

2000-09-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
In your server end's options file you should do something like : And in the client's you can have: ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote You can read about this stuff in 'man pppd'. There are other combinations you can use as well. By the way, don't do jeopardy-style posting, answering at the

Re: Linux crashed a lot - more info

2000-09-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Reinke wrote: > > > Yet another problem I've had that you reminded me of - the CPU fan will > occasionally speed up and slow down. I've seen it stop almost completely, > too. Sometimes, it makes a nasty rattling sound, but it seems to be > attached well enough to the CPU that it shouldn't fa

POP -> IMAP w/ Maildirs?

2000-09-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
I have an application in mind where I download some folks' POP3 mail from their ISPs to our local server, then present their E-mail (they're Win95 users on our local network) using an IMAP server. So far I can do everything very simply using fetchmail + procmail -d + UW IMAP. However, I'd like to

Re: Basic hostname question

2000-09-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Anthony Campbell, > > How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but > > just connect intermittently to an ISP? > > > > Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails. > > Basically, you have to make your mails look from the out

Re: Exim configuration on cable modem gateway

2000-09-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I'd really like to get the system log summaries outside of a bounce > > message. Ideally, I'd like the mail to get sent using the machine's > > external

Re: Exim configuration on cable modem gateway

2000-09-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I think the same effect could be achieved simply by changing > > 'qualify_domain' in exim.conf to 'creighton.edu', in this case. If I'm > > understanding

Re: TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:

2000-09-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: > > > 1) They're replying to the list, rather than to the x-envelope > > sender... whats the difference between my.netvigatr.com errors and these > > virus warnings? > > Well, NOTHING is going to send anything to any x- header address. They > MIGHT send something to an E

Re: exim or smail?

2000-09-28 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I thought I had exim working well, but then I found I was unable to send > mail to the mail server at one of my ISPs. Eventually I commented out > "qualify_domain" in /etc/exim.conf and this seemed to fix the problem, > but I didn't understand why. > Usually it's th

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > takers? > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, > wing/flipper over each others shoulder!

Re: Apache and perl cgi problem

2000-06-15 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello > > I have a little problem with Apache and the execution of the cgi-script. > > I have already set the ScritpAlias and it work fine. Now I'd like to > have under the public_html dir of one user (my user) a directory tree > wicht contain one entry for every pro

Re: smbmount

2000-07-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > thanx for the replies, it is all working now... > > it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient > included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. > Not everyone who uses samba needs both of those. For instance, I use samba, and smbmount

Re: dial-up

2000-07-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Chris Mason wrote: > > I'd like to add one dial-up access modem to my firewall machine. What do I > need to install to the machine to allow dial-up access? > mgetty, pppd, & a modem!

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-31 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Adam Scriven wrote: > > At 20:53 2000/07/30 -0500, you wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:42:29AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > > > I'm still very much getting used to Debian, however, and the long time > > > between releases is stopping my Dad from switching, since he wants to > > > switch to th

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-31 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:09:28PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > > If I am right, then to keep users, you should try to update kernels in > > minor releases. > > The kernel is upgraded in point releases when justified (an exploit > for example). However, there's no way D

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Actually, "we" could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. Jason Quigley wrote: > > Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're already on the > list :) > > --On Monday, July 31, 2000 9:40 +0800 "CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hear ye..hear y

Re: mutt -- in color

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Will Trillich wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:42:24PM -0600, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > > Here's my color section of my .muttrc: > [snip] > > hmm. i must have some odd video settings. i used your > settings verbatim [thanks!], and i do see bold items here and > there, but still no color. (mc h

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
mike wrote: > > Stormix is an easy way to get Debian potato up and running on your > computer > with a graphical installer. The Debian/Stormix distribution also includes > the newest Helix-gnome and 2.2.16 kernel. > You also get a very useful graphical front-end to apt-get and dse

Re: News Release from IBM FYI...

2000-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
John Foster wrote: > > Hey all; take a look at this! Seems IBM has finally decided to get on > the wagon all the way :-) > > http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/08/153.phtml > This intrigued me: "Recently, IBM announced: Linux running on a wrist watch." Never could find a link for it... I noticed a

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-13 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bryan Carpenter wrote: > > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but neither seems > to be easy to set up. I did try getting the "tulip" > driver

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-14 Thread Keith G. Murphy
mike polniak wrote: > > Jeff Weatherford wrote: > > Bryan Carpenter wrote: > > > > > > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > > > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > > > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > > > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but n

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: > > > heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob > with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm > guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as > someone already said installing a new kernel..

Re: Using DSL connection.

2001-02-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use Verizon DSL modem from Linux. I > have this modem connected to a 3Com ethernet hub, which connects to 3 > machines. Verizon DSL has software for PC and Mac, and both work. Each > machine would get its own IP address. No

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
William Leese wrote: > > On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Actually, I don't understand the part about "if i had a server". > > If > > you've got a Linux box, you can run Apache and any one of several DB's > >

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve wrote: > > > It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as > good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most > pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is > WYSIWYG and almost no one writes their own postscript

Re: [OT] Template Toolkit

2001-02-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
-- > From: Richard Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor > > > From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Steve wrote: > >

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