Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
ensitive files elsewhere, however. But it is your system and your choice. You can modify the system as you see fit. Remember that root is not a real user. You should not be using root to do nonadministrative work on the machine. Use a real user account for that. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: secondary root account

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
x27;rwpsu'. Create a new account in /etc/passwd with the same line as my normal 'rwp' account but with the uid changed to be 0 instead. If you use shadow passwords, recommended, then also duplicated the entry in the shadow password file. My home directory would be /home/rwpsu. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to play custom sound on mail alert in Moz Mail?

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
e you could have it just send a normal beep too. :-) Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
up a hostname? Perhaps you have a smarthost configured and it is forwarding? Just guesses. If that is the problem then you will need to deduce ways around the problem. It is normal for some crontabs to generate output which needs to be mailed. You won't want to completely prevent that. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-03 Thread bob parker
eaper than earlier models apparently. Switch connects to 2 * dual boot Mdk/Win XP machines and 1 network printer. The fw machine is to run Debian with 2.4 kernel and iptables. My question is, what is the best way to go about setting up the Debian fw machine? I have the 7 cds for 3.0r1. Thanks

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-03 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:59, Jamin Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:11:12AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > My son's proposed network is to be this: > > > > Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. > > Connects to hardware router / switc

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-03 Thread bob parker
ow that is appealing, I run 3.0r1, so I can build the fw script on my m/c. Does it support iptables? I am a complete newbie at this but I think I should go for the latest techniques. Thanks Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-04 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 02:04, Russell Shaw wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > My son's proposed network is to be this: > > > > Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. > > Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. > > He has the sw

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix - revisited

2003-03-04 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:13, bob parker wrote: > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > connection. > > I started on 27 January. > > Murphy's Law being what it is the md5sum of my d/l iso differs from the one > I got from the ftp site. &g

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
did. PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;history -n' Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread bob parker
t /cdrom/ md5sum /cdrom/* | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > cdsums mount original.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt md5sum /mnt/* | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > isosums diff cdsums isosums hth Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
onfig needs libncurses5-dev. apt-get install libncurses5-dev Also, as mentioned in a followup, you can copy a mostly working /boot/config-version file to your .config and then run 'make oldconfig' which will start you off with the previous configuration. Then you can tweak changes starting from that base. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:47, bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:03, Craig Dickson wrote: > > bob parker wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > > > i bu

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix SUCCESS

2003-03-06 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, > > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > > powered dial up connection. &g

XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-06 Thread Bob Paige
I am trying to set up a XDMCP server and client. The client is a hacked Compaq Internet Appliance with 32MB RAM and an on-board flash disk holding the Linux image. Problem is, about 45-seconds into the session, the client freezes. Could it be that the client doesn't have enough RAM, and crashes

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:36:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to "shutdown -r now" than holding the power button.. To be precise, under a default debian config,

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Rob Weir wrote: Could you setup the box to log to another machine using syslog-over-TCP? This'd tell you if/when the kernel goes nuts. Also, recent 2.4 kernels (at least) start nuking things when memory gets tight. That said, 32MB should be enough to run an X server...that's more RAM than most Un

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Here's a related question: Once you are running an XDMCP session on the client, is there any way to invoke an executable on the client machine? Specifically, I want to be able to turn off the screen on the client machine, which can be accomplished by running a special executable on the client.

apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
I am curious about how secure the apt-get system is; is it possible to spoof a debian server and thus send compromised updates to a given machine? -- Bobman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-07 Thread bob parker
rom find and xargs. Example: find /cdrom1/ -type f -print | xargs md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort > sumscdr mount whatever.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt ind /mnt/ -type f -print | xargs md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort > sumsiso diff sumsiso sumscdr Not sure if t

Re: eth0: card reports no resources

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
; package, IIRC. Yes. A good solution. We used the e100 Intel driver direct from the Intel site and our network dropout problem completely went away. I think I saw that Intel opened the code up and so the e100 driver will enter the mainstream in the future, likely replacing the eepro100 driver

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
networking restart' script in place to work around the problem. Restarting would reset the network for us after a dropout. We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the problem went away. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
nate wrote: Bob Paige said: I am curious about how secure the apt-get system is; is it possible to spoof a debian server and thus send compromised updates to a given machine? If you have 3rd party apt sources in your sources.list it is very easy to spoof an update. Which is one reason I

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: Another variable, just in case it will shed any light: I'm using a USB ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M; very small). I've heard in the past of problems with USB ethernet adapters disconnecting a

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:55, Narins, Josh wrote: > > From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM > > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > > > See this post for more detail on this subject: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:12, Levi Waldron wrote: > On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: > > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little > > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and > > xargs. > > Hm? Why w

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Nathan E Norman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the > > problem went away. > > That driver (well, the source code for it) is available in non-free as > "e100-source". Rob Weir in the other thre

Re: conflicting backports

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Proulx
u should be able to deduce the conflict. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Paige
Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected "use defaults" and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Paige
Bob Paige wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look & feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected "use defaults" and apply

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
w Plextor CDRW exactly. And different independent software is generating the same result. I imagine something fundamental is happening that I am not understanding. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
The traditional unix bahavior has always been the other way around. Therefore I think the answer is that traditional unix behavior has been replaced with contemporary ms behavior many places. Mozilla has been around for a long time and must be using the "normal unix" behavior for

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
that vendor to supply packages in the format that their users are using. You are using Debian therefore ask them to supply Debian packages directly. Bob [1] http://www.debian.org/intro/free [2] http://www.linuxbase.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for > top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.) > [...] > Therefore I think the answer is that traditional unix behavior has > been replaced with contemporary ms behavior ma

Re: Bash scripting

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
David Z Maze wrote: > Two somewhat common ways: > > uname -m | grep i.86 > /dev/null && echo x86 My I suggest using 'grep -q' to save the need to redirect? > case `uname -m` in > i?86) echo x86 ;; > esac I prefer the case statement approac

Re: Bash scripting

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
case "$string" in *.xyz) echo Hello .xyz, pleased to meet you. ;; *.abc) echo Hello .abc, pleased to meet you. ;; esac Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for > > top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.) > > But with some recent update I find that

VNC and font server

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Paige
I've added some fonts to my machine recently, but it appears VNC can't find them. I've confirmed that my XF86Config-4 file includes the font server ("unix/:7100") as an entry in the font path, but when I start VNC, it has a different font path. Consequently, some applications have dotted boxes

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-10 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:57, Bob Proulx wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > My post on this thread needs few errata: > > 1. CD image size can be obtained by "mount" the CD and run "df". > > Interesting. Thanks for educating us about that. > > > 2. Onl

Re: Quiet cases (was Re: buy or build computer?)

2003-03-10 Thread bob parker
the cpu fan running as fast as necessary. Normally his cpu fan is at min speed unless he is video encoding. For that job the fan is flat out. hth Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto NFS shared writable space

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
n bash_profile file in their home directory. You will need to handle those users in some way. Probably by editing those files and deleting the umask line from them. But being user files you need to tread carefully. Many users take offense at the administrator touching user files. And they may have already customized it. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
ship with a man page for the debugger. But 6.0 did. If you have the 6.0 version around, keep it and use it for 7.0. Did I say done? Sorry. You still need a license file. Place your license file for the compiler in your $DESTINATION/licenses directory. The software will not operate without a pro

Re: Howto NFS shared writable space

2003-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
se that do need it can set it up. But I have wondered why umask is in the /etc/skel/* files redundantly with /etc/profile. That propagates the changes into the user's profiles which once embedded are a much more delicate problem to change. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Bob Paige
Warwick Brown wrote: tbh it looks like you have lost some vital system binaries, your best bet is to boot off the rescue disk, back up yer data files and reinstall, but make sure u bad block check the disks when u reformat them, coz lappies do get bounced around a fair bit, so disk damage shoul

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Paige
martin f krafft wrote: i have a tree of all the documents i ever touched in the last 14 years, and i would like to reorganise it. there are 120,000 files and thus i am reverting to a GUI approach; on the shell, my fingers would fall off, mc is nice but a little archaic to use i find, so i want a m

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Paige
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.13.2218 +0100]: xftree? is that packaged for Debian? wajig install xfce You can run xftree without starting the rest of the pieces. also, please don't CC me, as I request in my footer. no biggie thoug

Re: failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
s time. Let's not jump from the frying pan into the fire. Ecartis anyone? I have not tried it and so the bugs there that I don't know about must be better than the ones I do know about. :-) Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: looking for configuration management tools

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
ast discussions. Posting a note there would probably find a useful and well informed discussion. http://mailman.terraluna.org/pipermail/infrastructures/ Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS hangs??

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
to why you are hanging. Run 'showmount -e servername' and see that you are allowed access. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
nings that it can with the optimizer enabled. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
t[1]. The patent does not expire until at least June 2003. Looking at my calendar watch I see it is only March. And there may be other submarine patents in the portfolio which will only be published once this one is expired. Patience. Bob [1] http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US04558302__ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
formation. The three things you are looking for are video, sound and network. http://www.knoppix.org/ Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nvidia follow-up and new question

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
roup. You will need to log out and then log back in again to have that take effect. You can tell what groups you are in by the 'id' command. Make sure it looks similar to this. id uid=1000(bob) gid=1000(bob) groups=1000(bob),4(adm),25(floppy),29(audio),40(src),44(video),50(staff)

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
20, gcc-2.95.4, libc6). Perhaps the symlink to the library got corrupted. Try running 'sudo ldconfig -v' (sudo needed there :-) and see if it fixes the problem. You might want to remove and reinstall libncurses5-dev. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody debian

2003-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
mgmt-base echo apm >> /etc/modules (I don't have an ACPI system so I can't say exactly what is needed there. But it is probably similar.) HTH Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: incremental/spanning backup to CDR

2003-03-17 Thread bob parker
back up a tree to CDR, and since > it's larger than 700Mb, you span it across media. ideally, > there is an index file that helps you locate the file in the > media pool mondo might be worth a look. hth Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Kernel-Recompile edba too big

2003-03-17 Thread Bob Underwood
version now in sid. Any ideas of how to get around this? Thanks. bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download accelerator Question

2003-03-17 Thread Bob Proulx
then they are worth. But then I am not downloading movies either. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-17 Thread Bob Proulx
530TX+ or the Linksys Etherfast cards. They are <$20 and definitely have good linux drivers available. The Dlink is built into the bf24 kernel but is the '8139too' driver, the Linksys uses the 'tulip' driver. Going the PCI card route to install definitely sounds like less trouble. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
same as ASCII, except characters between 160 and 255 are treated as normal characters. export LESSCHARSET=iso8859 Does that make your problem go away? Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Christopher Swingley wrote: > Thanks. That does work. I wonder why less can't do the same, since > "less is more". . . Less is more! :-) You just have a character set mismatch. Try this. export LESSCHARSET=iso8859 Your problem should go away. Bob pgp0

Re: [OT] New Mobo, etc

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Paige
Bill wrote: Hi, FYI Those MSI boards can go up to a 2600 with a BIOS Update. Gotta love MSI! :-) You have to change the memory though but it's a cheap upgrade for those that want the speed. http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/cpu_support/cpu/spt_cpu_detail.php?UID =386&NAME=MS-6593 Then only ba

Re: Reading the mutt manual.txt.gz without the escapes...

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think mutt justs uses iso8859 charset and you are not using it. > > Therefore there is a character set mismatch. It is really hard to > > call it a bug to use an iso8859 character set. > > No, this is not a character set is

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
r card or switch if you have LEDs. I think you should be close right now. At this point it is bound to be something very small that is causing the trouble. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: C code to find interface IP address

2003-03-19 Thread Bob Proulx
adcast addresses. Putting in the error checking is left as an exercise to the reader. I probably broken it splitting it out of its working environment. YMMV. Bob Proulx #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include enum { ADDRS_SI

Re: startx as a normal user

2003-03-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
get that message, but whenever I check with top, I find it is running -10. >Other than that, I don't know if it is considered > "wrong" to simply startx as a user. That is the only correct way to run startx. Running X as root is deprecated. Regards, Bob -- _ |_)

Re: [OT] New Mobo, etc

2003-03-19 Thread Bob Paige
Bill wrote: Hi, FYI Those MSI boards can go up to a 2600 with a BIOS Update. Gotta love MSI! :-) You have to change the memory though but it's a cheap upgrade for those that want the speed. http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/cpu_support/cpu/spt_cpu_detail.php?UID =386&NAME=MS-6593 Then only bad

[OT] Backup solutions

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Paige
I've been running my debian system without a backup for about a year now. I understand the need for backup (hence this message) so please, no assaults for not using one. Questions: 1) what is better for backup, tape, or CD? (I already have a CD burner) 2) if tape, what is a good/inexpensive prod

Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Paige
Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backups will finish fast, too.) My amanda server at work can easily run a week's worth of backups without needing a tape, just saving it all up on the holding disk. Just be sure t

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
nvironment alone? Since intrisically 'su' is designed to do things in a different way I would use 'sudo' instead. sudo -s Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian SID ISOs

2003-03-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
iles for the "unstable" distribution on CD (i386, regenerated weekly) Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pa

updating KDE menus

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Paige
First, even though I'm using KDE, I do think this is a debian question. Whenever I install a new app, the KDE menus get updated. Cool. Better than I've seen in other distros. However, some apps I install aren't debian packages. How do I update the KDE menus to see my new apps? I've been able to

How does Debian cope with overworked mantainers ?

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Alexander
ect to handle these cases (i.e. finding a new mantainer without consent of the current) ?? Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > editor /etc/default/rcS > > # Set FSCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at > > # startup. > > FSCKFIX=no > > > > If the time it takes to fsck is not a factor and it sound

Re: ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
d? Just let it run in the foreground. $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null exec icewm-session Personally I add those types of startup customizations to my window manager init function instead. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bill Moseley wrote: > > > ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & > > Tsk, tsk! You should have a passphrase on your key. Contemplate this > > instead. > > xterm -e ssh-add > &g

Re: Problem with my printer and cups

2003-10-17 Thread bob parker
the following installed packages: cupsomatic-ppd cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-pstoraster kdelibs3-cups libcupsys2 Also, if you have only 1 printer you may not need the -P option. HTH Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automated installations

2003-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
00/debian-boot-29/msg00310.html Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Resetting a serial port

2003-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
yS0 > /var/backups/ttyS0.stty-g.out Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
-8259A-interrupt Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bind9 Files for Debian

2003-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
inevitable. Eventually your address will be harvested. Better to install and use antispam tools. Better to fight spam and virus software at the source of the problem. But let's not start yet another thread about that here. For any who think to try please take that discussion elsewhere. Bob

Re: Installing my own Apache?

2003-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Walters' nice chroot guide. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Wilson wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > > Just ignore it. It basically means that you do not have anything > > > connected to the

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Wilson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > That isn't right either. IRQ7 is not the lowest priority interrupt > > How do you figure that IRQ7 isn't the lowest priority interrupt? > > IRQ0timer tick > IRQ1keyboard > IRQ2chained to IRQ9 > |

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
eard nothing back. I imagine that they tossed my email > since it is a vulnerability/security issue and I don't a SF account > to mail them from. They may have ignored it simply because it was a wiki and therefore can't really be considered a crack. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-26 Thread Bob Proulx
depends upon the newer version, similar to 'gcc' and other packages. [Drift: I have not checked. Which dhcp client is the new d-i installing by default? I sure hope it is dhcp v3 and not dhcp v2!] Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
s such as your postfix or exim program or other things will handle it when the hostname changes under them. Those services might need to be restarted too. You will need to keep an eye on those. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Any Debian package to manage Apache users ?

2003-10-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Is there some GUI to define, revoke, update passwords for Apache(2) users ??? Tried Apache Webmin but it does not and I would like to avoid using the htpasswd command line for this (many users and quite dynamic). Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-28 Thread bob parker
ilar. See the man page. Then the iso for the first burn mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage $OFN burn it subsequent burns mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage -C $NEXTTRACK -M /dev/cdrom $OFN and burn it. And I agree with you, leave the GUI stuff out of this, it adds complication for no real gain. HTH Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS server setup -> 'nfs-kernel-server' or 'nfs-user-server' !

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Emil wrote: > someone please guide me in setup of NFS server. apt-get install nfs-kernel-server cat >> /etc/exports < pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: postfix /etc/mailname

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
nvironment. Do I support /etc/mailname since it is a Debian thing? Or do I junk it since since it is a Debian only thing? I ended up writing my scripts to be adaptive and use it on Debian but do not use it on non-Debian. Remember that the /etc/mailname is a patch to the Debian sources and not

Re: how to set SETSERIAL values forever

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
ld place the right configuration in your /etc/serial.conf file automatically. dpkg-reconfigure setserial Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
ands for that handy. But google around and you will find many references for how to do that. There is an article every month in one magazine or another about it. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ethernet card reports no resouces...

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
become disabled and you will need to restart networking to reactivate it. Most of the time the message is innocuous. If you are using a different card/driver then I don't know what it means. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
en select the driver. If you have trouble determining what driver to use then post your lspci output and we can figure it out from that. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: df problem

2003-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
ck count, usage, etc. Check /etc/fstab. The likely thing is that you are actually mounting the same /dev device twice! This command will also show good stuff. df -lhTP Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-29 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:52, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:44:16AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian > > > 3.0r1/testing.) They bu

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
t; > O, tell me how! Since Karsten volunteered this we will use his posts as an example. Mine aren't as interesting. :-) folder-hook . "color index cyan black '~f kmself'" Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
ctly to the first poster that helps them on any given list. This is one of the other netiquette problems. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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