RE: How to change machine+machine name and ip-address in Debian?

there wld be one though), so you'll probably need to manually edit /etc/resolv.conf to change those (if necessary). cheers Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia

RE: crontab control?

hi it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the specific scripts ... Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, Scho

RE: ssh from nt? - Port forwarding

"application tried to connect to forwarded port", and then it terminates. Does anyone have any experience with this? cheers Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Au

samba error

penin' here???!!? TIA Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"

help! ... doin' the samba

:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988) Username is invalid on this system [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408) Closing connections thanks a lot for any help!! Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH

RE: help! ... doin' the samba

obert" as the username on both the NT and Samba box ... tks ANdrew ps. I'm on the samba mailing list, but no-one seems to have an answer to this there ... -Original Message- From: James Sasitorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:30 PM To: Andrew McRobert;

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

... is your BIOS set to auto-detect your HDDs ... and do they show up at startup? tks A -Original Message- From: Cody Cutrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:07 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive I can get all the dif

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

ur lines, and in the top line I made out LBA before it disappeared. I can't remember what was below. Just so you know, Windows 98 does boot up and detects the hard drive just fine. I don't know. - Original Message - From: "Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

RE: Get install to Recognize Hard Drive

IDE BUS Master Enabled That is the third screen, character-for-character, space-for-space. Now maybe you can help me some more. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Cody Cutrer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc

Quick netsat qstn

hi all i was wondering what it means when netstat shows a connection at: [my.computer.dom]:smtp [foreign address] ... does it simply mean that someone is sending mail to my.computer.dom? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT

RE: Quick netsat qstn

ly did you mean by verifying the address? thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:19 PM To: 'Andrew McRobert' Subject: RE: Quick netsat qstn Basically yes. It means there is a connection to the SMTP port of

Majordomo Approvals

;> approve [passwd_appears_here] subscribe dtlj_sub [EMAIL PROTECTED] approve: invalid list or password. >>>> Help for [EMAIL PROTECTED] : thanks for any help Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School o

RE: debian cron: How do I change when /etc/cron.daily/standard is scheduled?

[295]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab)" tks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a

RE: Samba Headache

hi Jay First of all, I'd recommend subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a general mailing list for SAMBA-related issues, and the people on it r very helpful (generally :) ). Ok, when you ran sambaconfig, did you specify the INETD option or to 'run as daemon' option. In your case, if you're runni

Boot floppy - quick qstn

27;ve also tried switching to the second virtual terminal and executing "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy", but that doesn't seem to help either. any ideas? many thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURD

vmlinuz-2.2.12scsimod

t find /var/lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia ...). My root partition does have all the correct drivers (including PCMCIA), for 2.2.12 version kernels. thanks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Weste

RE: I need help please

ilable @: http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html Which may fix the problem(s). If you've got any specific questions, feel free to e-mail me. cheers Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western

RE: Tape backup software?

I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ... depends what you're used to I guess. tks Andrew -Original Message- From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:47 AM To: Krzys Majewski Cc: Kelly Corbin; Debian Userslist Subject: Re

RE: Ethernet cards on network

ask 255.255.255.0 eth0 #$> route add default gw X.X.X.1 eth0   ... and a similar thing for the eth1 interface.   Perhaps if you could post the results of a "netstat -r" command and a "netstat -a" command.   cheers Andrew     ------

fsck for UFS?? (fwd)

I sent this to the debian-sparc list ... but thought it might be worth copying to here too ... tks -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:51:54 +0800 (WST) From: Andrew McRobert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: fsck for UFS?? hi al

RE: noise from monitor, HELP!

I usually just hit mine :) - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who ar

Re: filesystem-hierarchy

I don't know of one @ the Debian WWW site, but there's one in the O'Reilly "Learning GNU/Linux" book ... which may be at least partly on the Web ... Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

e. tks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -Original Me

RE: Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

r the crash. tks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"

HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

hi I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail working on a Debian box? One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows calendar sharing etc. between employees in an enterprise. The evaluation ver

Printer Setup - Netscape etc. & SMB

r. In other words, if I hit the "Print" button in Netscape it prints automatically to a Windows printer (hanging off the PDC). thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 93

Alien to .tar.gz

hi Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... tks Andrew ----

RE: Alien to .tar.gz

cheers - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at

Proftpd - intial directories

nks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"

Resizing "/var" ie. /dev/sda6

hi Does anyone know of a tool that will let you resize an ext2 partition (I need to give more space to the /var filesystem) ... I guess I could use Partition Magic ... any other suggestions? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert IT Liaison Officer

RE: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

sorry, I don't have an answer to this myself, but I'm also interested in knowing how to do this ... thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: res

Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

ories in /etc: rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d, rc3.d, rc4.d & rc5.d (ie. no "rc.d"). Is there any danger in creating the "/etc/rc.d" directory and storing the relevant files from the RPM there? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.

RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

many thanks mate. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the rcN.d directories for? (I know about init.d, no so much about rc0.d etc.) cheers Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth

RE: Location of "/etc/rc.d" directory Debian v RHAT

thank you sir :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of

[off topic] Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger

Microsoft advertises for Linux team product manger Computer giant Microsoft has advertised for a product manger to drive its corporate Linux strategy. http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/2811/A63247-2000Aug11.html - Andrew McRobert IT

Re: HP OpenMail

hi I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to the stage of converting the rpm's to .tgz files and extracting the files to a temporary directory. It looks like it could take a fair bit of hacking

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

thanks for that ... On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:40:51AM -0700, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote > > Hi all! > > > > I'm trying to restrict my FTP users in own directories using ProFTP. > > > > I used the configuration examples found in

Re: HP OpenMail

Michael Meskes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:40:44PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > > I downloaded the files the other day, and have just begun the process of > > trying to install this on our Debian server. I've only had time to get to > > the stage of convert

Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

hi Does anyone have a good Modeline for this monitor? I can get X running @ 1024x768 with 16bpp, but there's a bit of shadowing around eterm windows etc thanks! Andrew

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

yeah, and it lets me widen the image on the screen, but not stretch it vertically, and doesn't really help with the shadowing (which isn't so bad, I'd just prefer it wasn't there). thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(C

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

yep, it's an onboard adapter, I downloaded the X server from the mainboard manufacturer's site ... Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360

Port No. 1032 - iad3

hi all Does anyone know what port 1032 is used for on a Windows machine (or any machine for that matter)? Running a port scan on my computer shows this port open and labelled as supporting "iad3"?? thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB

RE: Modeline for ADI Multiscan E75

sounds like a possibility ... what are those "ferrite beads" you're talking about? cheers Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 64

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

... when you log into the potato box, what's the value of the TERM environment value (get this by typing "env"). tks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Aus

RE: vi won't work with any TERM setting

[EMAIL PROTECTED]> export TERM // export as env. variable then try 'telnettting' ... tks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Austra

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

rl alerted me to this mail thread on that port (yep, I noticed it's not in /etc/services): http://www.securityportal.com/list-archive/firewalls/1999/Feb/0303.html tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School o

RE: Port No. 1032 - iad3

... it's listed as supporting "BBN IAD" on this list: http://members.toast.net/kmfahey/ports.html A --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360

LILO & Kernel Image too big

l is about 500K). Anyone have any ideas how to solve this? thanks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PR

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big

bzImage :) Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Gener

RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

ld cause this error? thanks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Message- Fro

SOLVED: RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error

;make modules" etc? thanks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Messag

RE: crontab

, and just run a backup tape reminder through something like: crontab remindme.txt Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 66

fyi: Linux Office Suite Consortium - NY Times

er vendors. The foundation plans to announce a set of initiatives, including a unified desktop user interface and a set of productivity programs intended to compete as a free alternative to Microsoft Office." --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp.

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

e) rom a mirror site, but the box did not boot the rescue disk. Thanks for all your sharing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERS

Console display - font & line sizes

hi all Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of lines per screen for the console?? thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Austr

RE: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

om the floppy ... Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -Original Me

fyi: Winux??

her versions of UNIX. It's apparently a complicated business to get Windows applications to run normally in Linux, and so far results are disappointing. See http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2874 ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci

Resetting dselect

hi all Does anyone know a quick way to unselect (hold I guess) all the packages in dselect (as opposed to going through the whole list and hitting "=")??? thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, Sch

RE: Resetting dselect

thanks, but that doesn't seem to be working ... (I'm still getting about 2 ga-zillion packages to install) Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [

HELP! - LILO (SCSI)

hi all I tried adding a ULTRA SCSI hard disk to the server (on the separate ULTRA SCSI channel on the controller), and while the system correctly identifies all of the attached SCSI devices (including the two other HDDs), it gives me this message when I connect the ULTRA SCSI drive: can't locate

mkboot

hi all Can anyone tell me a reliable way to make a boot disk? I've tried the mkboot util, and I have to say it's pretty average - it hasn't successfully booted a disk, only get's to: "LILO boot: Loading linux" and dies ... I'm pretty sure there's a way to make a boot disk with dd, but can't reme

Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

kick-in first, meaning that my main system drive (SCSI id 0), is /dev/sda??? *Any* help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LL.B B.Sc (Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer School of Law Murdoch University Ph: +61 8 9360 6479 Fax: +61 8 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?

g new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge? On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the > kernel and root partition on "/dev/sda1". this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt a

Adding UFS support

me to run a UFS module with 'insmod' or something along those lines? cheers Andrew McRobert

dselect

(I guess). I've been cheating by using apt-get, as I haven't had the time to check it out in detail, but thought someone may know a quick trick for this? ta ---- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: What did I do wrong?

hi   ... you need to configure your network if you haven't already done so ... the files you need to edit are:   /etc/init.d/network & /etc/hostname   I also find that sometimes my PCMCIA card isn't detected @ startup (and therefore no indication of network connectivity on card). I find tha

RE: Laptop Screen Size Problems (cont...)

hi I've installed xfree ver 3.3.6-6, still having problems though. Have included the output from running 'startx' (thorough "startx &> startxout"). Would be grateful for any assistance ... XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date

RE: root tries to automatically log in

do you have any other system users created in /etc/passwd? Andrew -Original Message- From: Mark Crotts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 12:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: root tries to automatically log in I reinstalled my 2.1 debian base last week.

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

hi when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 etc. etc. any ideas? thanks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MU

REPOST: Laptop Screen Size Problems (cont...)

ing to keep the initial installation as simple as possible as I hadn't installed Debian on a laptop previously (eg. running XF86_SVGA server etc.). Machine video specs follow: 8 MB Video RAM Max Res: SVGA - 1280 * 1024, Char. Matrix 8x16, Freq. Ver: 60Hz, Horiz: 48.3/60.0/68.7 wld like to run

Apology for dumbass qstn

>sorry, I hadn't seen the FAQ section on error 111 which basically equates >to "the server caused an error but I'm damned if I know what it actually was" > >tks > >Andrew > >

Shadow passwords with SAMBA

hi all ... does anyone know the configure option to compile samba with shadow password support? (It's not listed on the samba.org site with all the other options). thanks ANdrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School o

RE: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server

Monday, May 15, 2000 3:50 PM To: Bret Comstock Waldow Cc: Heather; Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail); Debian-Laptop (E-mail) Subject: Re: S3, S3V, or XF86_SVGA server > > On that basis, it seems the XF86_SVGA server is the right one for the > Savage chips, and it looks as thoug

FW: Tape Backup Problem

... i'm using tar & smbtar on a Dell Poweredge (with SONY DDS3 tape drive) running Debian 2.2.14 (potato) ... works very nicely ... tar's a great little program & very useful for your shell scripts ... backing up several gig with no problems, I'd stay away from GUI tape drive managers, there's real

"libX11.a"?

GA: Detected S3 Savage/MX (--) SVGA: using driver for chipset "s3_savage" (--) SVGA: videoram: 8192k (--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 250 MHz (--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 83.045 MHz (--) SVGA: VBE Version 2.0 (--) SVGA: BIOS label is "S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS" X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Dumb X Windows Question

-Original Message- From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:04 PM To: 'Jay Kelly' Subject: RE: Dumb X Windows Question ... try these .debs at least xfree86-common xlib6g xf86setup ... just apt-get update & then "apt-get

X Weirdness

ion 2.0 (--) SVGA: BIOS label is "S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS" X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Webmail

hi while I'm waiting in hope re: my X Win qstn, does anyone know of a good Web mail package (ie. let's you download mail from another POP server & look @ it through WWW. ta A ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School

RE: help!!!!!!

hehe, spot the Microsoft user ... sorry, must be constructive ... what is the exact problem you're having? Andrew -Original Message- From: John Archuleta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: help!! To Whom It May Conc

RE: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?

hi ... given the absolutely beautiful simplicity of "pon" and "poff" ... who wld want a clunky GUI? :) A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Taupter Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: is there a g

XFCOnfiggin'

hi again Can someone tell me why an XF86Config file from an identical laptop will not work on mine (ie. identical model, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video Card, Sound Card etc.) BUT ... mine's Debian as opposed to Red Hat ... ? tks A - Andrew McR

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

l is "S3 Incorporated. M7 BIOS" X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:42 PM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: XFCOnfiggin' On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:0

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

nope :) A -Original Message- From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:15 PM To: Andrew McRobert Cc: 'Eric G . Miller'; 'Debian-Users (E-mail)' Subject: RE: XFCOnfiggin' Are you out of quota or out of diskspace ? Ron Radem

RE: XFCOnfiggin'

thanks guys, but I've run xf86config & XF86Setup about 300,000 times (almost no embellishment there!!) ... I've also got a server flag for "don't die if the mouse fails" ... oh well Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vitux Sent: Wednesda

RE: internet connection

hi Scott ... all you should need to do is run pppconfig (to set up the connection properties for your ISP), and then run "pon ". You must have also set the IP addresses of your ISP's nameservers, in /etc/resolv.conf A -Original Message- From: T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

No high memory space

amp; greater ... is there some issue there? My laptop has slightly more than 128 ... thanks Andrew --------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RFC 1878 documents for subnet

they should be on the IETF site ... I'm guessing www.ietf.org A -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RFC 1878 documents for subnet On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:41:21PM +0800,

REPOST: No high memory space

[Andrew McRobert] , hi, I thought I'd repost this in case someone with the answer to my question missed this thanks I've had a number of problems getting X to run on my Toshiba ... I know think it may have something to do with a message I receive @ startup. THe message is "

PHP3 cgi/apache

ks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

quick sendmail question

hi all ... the output from "ps -eax | grep sendmail" shows that sendmail is rejecting all connections requested on its port (no. 25). Does anyone know how I can quickly change it so that it will accept connections? thanks ----- Andrew Mc

RE: Win 2000 smbmount problems

hi ... can you remember how to configure Samba to support shadow passwords? tks Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:06 PM To: Paulo Henrique Baptista; Debian User Subject: Re: Win 2000 smbmount problems Hi I had a

Samba passwords - Session setup error

s the root user doesn't care about the old password). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: fetchmail with ssh

... if it is a mail server name problem, you can get the server's name through a whois query .. Andrew -Original Message- From: Eric G . Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 12:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fetchmail with ssh On Sun, Jun 04,

RE: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

... I didn't notice any earlier mailings on this, so I'm coming in cold a little. Trade dress in the US is like "passing off" in Australia. It doesn't give you any more extensive protection than trade mark registration *e.g. for the debian swirl* and is harder to prove, because with TM protection,

Aeromail

ory permissions for the mail directory specified in "config.inc" seems to be ok ... tks ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"

Port 139

hi output from "netstat | more" shows a connection from a remote machine to: [my server].139 I was wondering what port 139 is used for ... thanks Andrew ----- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNI

RE: Port 139

n-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: Port 139 On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:46:55PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > output from "netstat | more" shows a connection from a remote machine > to: > > [my server].139 > > I was wondering what port 139 is used for ... $ cat

samba passwords

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umask

- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"

very quick question :)

hi does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a machine for a pattern e.g. "lawpc34", I've been trying: grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H &> lawpc34.log & but that doesn't seem to work thanks a lot Andrew ----

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