snet-mail in mutt (was:Re: mail)

2000-08-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html#common-problems a -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: Followup: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
_ $ls -l /var/log/messages gets you -rw-r-1 root adm 78711 Sep 1 15:52 /var/log/messages which tells you that user root can read and write to this file, and anyone in the group adm can _read_ the file. No-one else can read it, either. A -- A

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
tive called Win4Lin: http://www.trelos.com/trelos/Trelos/Products/Product_Information.htm This is useful if you _only_ want to use Windows (and don't need other OS environments). I don't know how it works, though. It's new. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Pine (Was: [Fwd: dependencies rpoblem])

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ult) according to Debian policy, and the copyright holders on pine do not allow you to distribute altered binaries. Therefore, pine is in non-free (and, just to be clear, it's not part of official Debian). There's also a set of diffs for altering pine to make it Debianized.

Re: postfix help

2000-06-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
.myip.org> Not always sorted out, but a cool service. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
if you go with the version from woody, and you want to use PHP, you may have to do some compiling from source. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:02:39AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as risky). > > I've heard it said that rlogin has security problems, but I don't > understand why?

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
this by > pointing out the dependencies to me? I don't know. I do know that you can install the php3-pgsql package without having PostgreSQL installed, so apparently there is no dependency. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ointless bit of language trivia, Tom Christiansen has a long rant on why the plural of virus is 'viruses', and most especially, is not 'virii': http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAI

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
w.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-changes-9902/> you find it on page 2. The word "fetchpop" is also in the body of the message, so why wouldn't a search on this turn it up? Are the mail archives badly broken? (And if so, could someone post a note to

Re: Man -K

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
t -- it searches the description (at least on my system). man -k works fine here, though, on potato. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
hat makes it immune to those problems. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street B

Re: PHP4 & Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
hp module loaded? Do you have a mime-type or an application type set of PHP4? Is it the same extension? --- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: PHP4 & Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ting the other line that includes "php" not to include that extension). I might be completely wrong about this, because I haven't played with the config too much (PHP4 was not ready when I started the project I'm using PHP3 for, and I'm in no hurry to go back and re-test ev

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
o make sure that your (mysql) module is loaded properly (it is never configured to load for me by default); alternatively, manually call the module for insertion from inside your PHP scripts. This is slower if you're using the database on every page. That's all I&

Re: Problems with my cable company

2000-10-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
es. So, if you can only get one IP from the cable modem, and there's already a MAC address cached, you can't get another card to grab an IP. The answer, in this case, is to reset the cable modem. That will mkae it lose its cache. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
y expect people to have to pay brokerage fees for such a straightforward transaction. Given the NAFTA, one would have imagined that brokers would have dried up; that there are more brokers than ever gives the lie to the "F" in the acronym. I speak only for mysel

Re: Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact, searching for a appropiate module

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
x directory! You likely haven't installed the kernel-source package for your preferred kernel. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: GPL and software I have written

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
license is quite another matter, since no-one's ever tested it.) A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

OT: Who's governed by GPL? (Was: GPL and software I have written)

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:39:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's not true that nothing in the GPL restricts the author in any > >way. > IANAL, but this sounds nonsensical. The licence is a grant of rights > f

Re: Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
nd LyX, assuming that they are there? > > Roy LyX is not in main, but in contrib, because it depends on the Xforms library, which is not free. There is a current effort under way to port LyX to GTK+, I believe. If you want LyX, add the relevant contrib and non-free sections to your ap

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ur mouse movement and change your resolution if you really want that. I haven't tried it, though. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

LyX and HTML exports

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
lyxcode environment, the responses indicated that others have had no problem. It could be only a local problem, of course, so I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to get the lyxcode environment to put out fixed-width HTML under Debian. If so, did you do anything special, or did it just work?

LyX and HTML exports

2000-12-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
definition list, so it looks like hell, but it's still there. Naturally, though, this is an imperfect solution. Any further suggestions on something that I might be overlooking would be more than welcome. Thanks. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer S

way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
kups. Will this work? A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
e dpkg is using to get its data; I always assumed so). Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
/usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 debuild: fatal error at line 293: dpkg-buildpackage failed: Illegal seek A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
hat, but that's also what I came up with. It's not suitable for --set-selections, but it'll do. Thanks. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:51:16PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Do you have bison and flex installed? They're required for the parser. Oh, shoot, I thought I'd checked on bison, but I just re-checked, and you're right. I'm a moron. Thank

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system > may work. This worked beautifully, once I constructed a "fake" path under a temporary directory. Thanks for the suggestions, all. A --

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-12-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ror at line 293: dpkg-buildpackage failed: Illegal seek I do have the devel libraries for ImageMagick and bz2 on the system. Thanks for any pointers, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
y hand. Thanks for any tips. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington

Re: Need help with mirroring non-US (fwd)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Here's one that works for me: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free (the line is wrapped, but you can fix that at your end). -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL P

Re: Another modem question (was: Modem not working)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is that _most_ PCI modems are Winmodems. As for the "install-'em-both" approach, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: gv

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:14:10AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf > to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. ps2pdf. It should be in the gs package, I think. A -- Andrew Sullivan Co

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

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
*BSD. But let's let sleeping dogs lie.) For the record, the above sentiments are my own, and do not represent the opinion of the BPL. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Bur

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
BTW, and you can often solve it by appending -dev to the package name.) -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:18:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? Try the HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
.html> A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: pgaccess & Postgresql

2000-06-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
problem? I _think_ that pgaccess connects to a TCP/IP socket. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

latex2html "no such image type"

2000-03-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
t than what I've put above: if I do -verbositty 8 I still get the same output. Any suggestions? Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
he > full amount of RAM. It's a problem peculiar to some IBM laptops (and, presumably, other machines that do the same thing with shadowing the video RAM). A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: > How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about > changing the background and the font types. Make sure you have XBanner installed, and edit the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad A --

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
irectory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12? mount /dev/hda12 /mnt cp -ra /home/* /mnt umount /mnt mv /home /oldhome [paranoia setting = high] [edit /etc/fstab to get /dev/hda12 to mount as /home] mount -a Should get you what you want. -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
ever managed to get this to work. this is also a > somewhat obscure solution to propose to the clients. it also (again > afaict) requires the user to have a interactive ssh account. again > this won't work for ftp only users. See the man pages for ssh-a

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:37:19PM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > Um.. in spite of what Andrew said, they're not modules. I hate it when I write without my brain engaged. Sorry, I wasn't thinking. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <