RE: firewall -- best practices

2003-02-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> 2. Occasionally, I would like to ssh into my network from > work. Is it > best to only open up the port on the firewall or do some port > forwarding so that ssh connections automatically go to a different > (non-firewall) machine? I have been using ipCop on a P133 with dsl, no problems at

mysql >v4.0

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely devoted to research into the causes, prevention and c

RE: Test

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> The last two messages I have sent using this account have not > gone through. > > Testing, please ignore. > > Thank you! > > -- It is not the policy of this list to ignore posts. Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely

RE: mysql >v4.0

2003-02-24 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a apt-source to update my mysql server ? > > > > there are some features in v4 which are not in the v3.23. > > > > thanks > > > > Matt > > > > > > > deb ftp://ftp.de

can't connect to mysql on debian

2003-03-06 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have a debian woody box running mysql from apt-get. PHP4 on the same box can connect ok, but I cannot connect from another machine on the same subnet. Do I have to specifically allow other non localhost connections ? Thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independen

mysql v4

2003-03-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I am keen to move to a later version of Mysql. I have a fairly unmessed-around Woody stable, can anyone guide me through the upgrade from mysql v3.23 to 4 ? thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely devoted to rese

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the > > > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: > > > > > > search search performs a full text search on all available > > > package > > > files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package > > >

RE: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > From the man page. > > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multi­ple > search patterns > > that are and'd together." > > > > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce > > quite different amounts of hits, the space does not 'stop' it. > > OK, I may not

RE: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> The part of the argument that is incomprehensible to me is > why they need $1000 to buy a single computer! Nowadays most > people (even those who use Windows) are spending $500 or less. > > Since presumably no one in the group is simulating nuclear > bomb blasts or calculating the structure o

RE: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have been using BMF ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ ) for about 6 months with procmail on woody, utterly impressed. The developer answers email on the mailing list very quickly and as far as I can tell noone has found any bug since I have been using it. .deb supported. I can't see how

RE: MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I do not know the answer to your question. However, I was googling about similar things and stumbled across a developer thread, the gist of which suggested that it would not be any time soon. One point made, was that there are sill bugs being found in 3.23, and another was that DB developers are

RE: POP3 daemon recommendation?

2003-03-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> qpopper Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3). I have used this and found it to be very, very easy to setup and use. I moved to an IMAP server fairly soon afterwards, so I cannot comment on how it performs over time. Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only indepen

RE: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Probably better to export as text from outlook first. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Frederico Rodrigues Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook > > > Hi. > Ha

RE: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-17 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > >> I currently use a fetchmail / procmail / mbox / mutt e-mail setup, > >> with ssmtp (properly linked through `sendmail` of course) for > >> sending. I would really like to have a web mail system set > up so that > >> I can at least read, if not send, e-mail from my website as well. > >

RE: defragmentation on M$ disc?

2003-10-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Joris Huizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2003 9:02 PM > To: debian-list > Subject: defragmentation on M$ disc? > > > Hello everybody, > > I'm wondering, is 't possible to "defragmentate" a M$ disc > while running > in Debian? I wan

RE: motherboard temperatures

2003-10-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Brian Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 3:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: motherboard temperatures > > > Greetings all, > > does anyone have a recommendation for a program to monitor > temperatures inside my box? Us

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More on spam > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:58:16 -0400, > Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > O

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Spam is just marketing. > > SWEN isn't marketing. Part of this is about SWEN (and > other similar viruses/worms). > SWEN is about propogating a spam delivery system. > > Marketi

RE: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. e nglish [was: ])

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:55 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of > german v. english [was: ]) > > > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Nori Heikkin

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > What's w

RE: please read this

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Pomber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 11:03 AM > To: trevor brooks; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: please read this > > > --- trevor brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to G

RE: hi

2003-10-26 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Most Toshibas have a small pinhole reset button. Try pressing this button while holding down the left shift key, keep the left shift key pressed while it boots up. This does not work for all tosh laptops. Matt -- -Original Message- From: michael stephens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
/etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

RE: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather > than a rant or flame ... > > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing > list, why do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so > of which I'm unaware? > > I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > >>Hi. > >>How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? > >>This is the final step for moving completely from > windows to linux! > >>yay! > >>Thanks > > > > > > You can't convert the partition in-place, you'll have to > copy the data > > somewher

using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, Does anyone here use Debian as a file server in a NT4 or AD domain ? I'm just wondering what headaches the integration would bring, we have w2k pro/ os9.2 and osx 10.2 on the desktops. The older mac files can be a pain, but I guess I can have hfs. How do I control access to the files. Ca

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Rodney D. Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 4:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3 > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 > "J

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Excel i

RE: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Darik Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 12:24 PM > To: Joyce, Matthew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment > > > > Does anyone here use Debian as a file s

regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I complied the kernel I am using last may. I noticed when I did an 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' that a kernel-source-2.4.18 was updated. So should I recompile ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

RE: regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 1:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: regarding kernels > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:53PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > I com

RE: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Whoops, > > missed a step converting a box to ext3 > > procedure i was using was: > > 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* > > for all ext2 file systems. > > 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto > > 3) #touch/forcefsck > > 4) reboot > > only i forgot step 2 > > it reb

RE: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> >- > -- > > >--- This message is intended only for the personal and > confidential use of > > > the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not > the intended > > > recipient of this message you are hereby notified

RE: regexp help

2003-01-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I really do not know why filters like this are so popular, surely they need constant manual changes to keep up with the spam. I have found the bayesian filters to be much much more effective and easier to mangage. hey ho, each to their own I suppose. Matt > -Original Message- > From:

RE: unsubscribe

2003-01-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
bwahahahah! Matt > -Original Message- > From: Vincent Morlot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: unsubscribe > > > unsubscribe > -- > Vincent Morlot([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

RE: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-03 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Guys...it's a bit sad when some very brave people died in > Columbia to be talking stuff like this...i agree with Vincent > that comments like this are not necessary. Spare a moments > thought (or longer if possible) for those brave Astronauts > and their families who will no doubt end

RE: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
HP do a RedHat and a Suse version of the webjetadmin. http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNum= WBJASW&prodName=hp+web+jetadmin+software&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId= 18972&prodSeriesId=27905 Can either of those be persuaded to work on deb ? Matt >

RE: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message You cannot unsubscribe.  Noone can.  Why would you want to anyway ?     Matt -Original Message-From: Fer'had Erdogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 9:16 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: how the fuck do I unsubscribe I have bee

RE: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> I don't know of a single native Windows or Mac ftp client > that supports it. For that matter, the last time I checked > support in the UNIX world wasn't that great either. Most of > my ftp is through wget or ncftp (in both Linux and Windows) > and I don't think either one supports ssl-ftp.

Group rights

2003-09-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debain Users, I'm a little confused regarding the use of group to assign file rights. I was under the impression that user can be members of groups and groups can be used to assign permissions to files and folders. How then, do I assign multiple groups, different permission to the same fol

RE: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Joyce, Matthew
"very high volume, very low signal," Much like this thread has become. The first 3 posts were useful, the other 7 (8) were totally off topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MS mail bombs

2003-09-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... > > -- > -daniel It is probably (should be imo) the future of all computing. Permit this Permit that Deny everything else -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

RE: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of This really is a horrible turn of phase for many reasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exim dress rehearsal

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I'm just configuring an Exim setup and I want to test it. I do not want to change my MX records yet, but I want to be sure it will accept email and relay it properly. Is there anyway to do this ? Are there any tools to analyse exim configs ? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
yes, there does seem to be a reduction, hopfully these boring threads will stop soon too. Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 10:54 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down? >

RE: Laptop battery

2003-09-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
get it to go in my prompt? > > On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:41 PM, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > I used to use apmd, it worked pretty well, I used to cut the power > > left % > > out and use it in my prompt. > > > > hub:~# apt-cache show apmd

gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm trying to a horde/imp system, the doc say I must have gettext support in php4. running Woody, appache-ssl, php4 I have run apt-get gettext, but the docS say it is php4 which needs gettext. Any ideas ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

RE: gettext

2003-10-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 5:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: gettext > > > * Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031001 00:21]: > > > > Hi, > > > >

RE: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 3 October 2003 8:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses > > > "Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > > .." > > > > Aye, but you do have backups right?

RE: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Well, a virus like Swen wouldn't need root access to spread. I don't > know what Swen does to a Windows machine (and I don't care, I haven't > got any), but just to annoy people with enormous amounts of e-mail, > someone could imageinebly write a perl script with its own > SMTP-engine. >

Replace HDD

2003-10-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I have an old pc running Debian Woody and I have 2 questions. Firstly, the hard drive ios quite old and become quite noisy, I suspect it is on the way out. What is the easiest way to replace it ? It only have 2 partions, one of them a swap. The new drive is slightly bigger. Secondly, compl

RE: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SWEN isn't slowing down > > > on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:31:53AM -0700, A P > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > These f** SWEN emails

RE: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-09 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Monique Y. Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 12:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop > > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 01:35 GMT, Naitik Shah penned: > > Easiest would be to install

fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), they end up in spool somewhere. Any ideas ? I've clearly missed something important. Matt -- To

RE: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00929.html Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: apt: exporting and importing list of installed package

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could try running etherconf to help construct a valid /etc/interfaces If it not already installed apt-get install etherconf If is is already installed dpkg-reconfigure etherconf Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 October 2002

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Well you could try configuring with a static address, and prove the hardware, network is actually working ok. I recently had a similar problem, I had to add a couple of modules to my kernel (2.4.18) and recompile. CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER I think Matthew Joyce -Original Message---

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I'm sure I had to include "Packet Filtering" and "Socket Packet" in the Networking Options in make menuconfig, before my dhcp client would work. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I definitely have a Packet Socket option. I also have Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers selected in Code maturity level options. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 2:19 PM To: Joyce, Matthew

RE: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
linux lark, so I'm sorry I have not helped much, I hope I have not caused you to waste your time. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 2:44 PM To: Joyce, Matthew; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

RE: Debian Package Categories

2002-10-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I largely agree with this post. Would it be useful to simply create many more groups or categories and allow packages to associate with more than one group ? So, perhaps there could be a ConsoleApps and XServerApps and TextEditors, Nano would be part of ConsoleApps and TextEditors, whereas Kate

IMP / Horde / php / Pear / MySQL

2002-10-09 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I while back I attempted to install IMP webmail, however I got into an awful mess with mysql passwords and eventually gave up. Has anyone managed to get the latest IMP version (www.horde.org/imp) working on Debian ? Can anyone give me some advice as the sequence of installing all the various co

Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
My adsl connection gets a different ip address each time it connects, this makes setting up routes tricky. Is there anyway to setup routes using MAC addresses or even eth1 instead of using the ipaddress ? Thanks Matthew Joyce Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au --

RE: IMP / Horde / php / Pear / MySQL

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Yes, apt-get install imp would be great. I think I will use quirrelmail until then, I really did not have any fun with imp before. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Alvaro Figueroa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 1:53 AM To: 'Debian User List' Subject: R

RE: Default gateway

2002-10-10 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Ah, interesting stuff. Many thanks. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 3:01 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Default gateway On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:49, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > My adsl conn

MC config

2002-10-13 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, It is so nice to the old Norton Commander cloned as MC, a hugely productive tool. I seem to remember being able to use alt+key in NC to jump to the first matching file/folder. Is there a similar feature in MC ?What does M-key mean is this the same ? Also, can I configure MC so it remem

RE: Rebuilding the Kernel Mini HOW TO

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I found this document bery useful. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html I did not follow it to the letter, but I did manage to rebuild the kernel first time with no problems. Perhaps also a section on why someone might want to rebuild, I found the pcmcia so much easier in

Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Is there a download manager for linux at all ? I would like to schedule late night downloads. Preferably with a pause/resume feature. Any ideas ? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
27; Subject: Re: Download manager This one time, at band camp, Joyce, Matthew said: > > Is there a download manager for linux at all ? > > I would like to schedule late night downloads. > Preferably with a pause/resume feature. > > Any ideas ? cron + wget? Steve -- "It

RE: how to control console's resolution?

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could try adding the following to /etc/lilo.conf vga=ask When it boot it should give to option to try different modes, and you can enter 'scan' which will try to determine which mode are suppoorted. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Try KDE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: laptop environment detection

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
>So, I am fiddling around with whereami to do this; check for a wire, if so >bring it up. If no wire, drop eth0 and bring up wlan0. Solves the "pump" >problem; now all I have to do is get it to find the wireless card on boot. Can't you test the output of lspci for the wireless nic ? Just a tho

RE: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Does wget -I file, read the entire file before starting downloads, or just the first line ? Can I add to the file after wget has started ? Matthew Joyce -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 12:22 PM To: 'Debian User List' Subject

RE: Unsubscribe

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Stay where you are, noone leaves! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I was able to install woody v3 on a 486/16mb/500mb the other day. I don't really have any need for it, I just did it to see what would happen. Matt -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Barham [mailto:soggytrousers@;yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Imap issue

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Just for the archives sake, the problem I was having was causes because, the router's acl was blocking port 143. Matt -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:debian-user@;aphroland.org] Sent: Friday, 18 October 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Imap issue Joyce, Ma

RE: Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message Possibly apt-proxy or apt-move   I have not done this myself, but I am mildly interested.     Package: apt-movePriority: optionalSection: adminInstalled-Size: 164Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Architecture: i386Version: 4.1.21Depends: awk, bc (>= 1.05a-6), dpkg-dev (

Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS Exchange email setup ? I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or Outlook. We are about to expand some, and I will have to replace the current server wityha bigger one, and buy a heap of l

Imap issue

2002-10-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Hi, I have a box running woody v3, kernel 2.4.18, with uw-imap I can connect from a client on the same network, everything works fine, but I cannot connect from home, or anyother network so far. The network guys assure me the correct ACL changes have been applied to the routers. >From home and

RE: Imap issue

2002-10-18 Thread Joyce, Matthew
ate [mailto:debian-user@;aphroland.org] Sent: Friday, 18 October 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Imap issue Joyce, Matthew said: > > Hi, > > I have a box running woody v3, kernel 2.4.18, with uw-imap try telnetting to it. from your nmap output I get the impression that it is fire

RE: which half are you in?

2002-10-21 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You need to delete a netware partition which contains a segment of the root volume, on a 1000+ user server, on a Friday afternoon, before a magazine goes to print, to fully understand the word, humility. Matt -Original Message- From: dave mallery [mailto:dmallery@;cia-g.com] Sent: Mond

RE: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I recently read that Brits tend to put emphisis in the leading sylables and the Americans on the trailing sylables. ...um..i don't really have a point to make. Matt -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo@;ursine.dyndns.org] Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 4:08 PM To: duser

RE: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Just do it, if it NT it will give you a 'lock workstation' dialog bog, which you can cancel. Matt -Original Message- From: Tom Cook [mailto:tom.cook@;adelaide.edu.au] Sent: Friday, 25 October 2002 9:44 AM To: Debian User Subject: Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL

RE: dual-booting with debian

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have done this on several machines. By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start from scratch. Then, install w2k. Do not use the whole drive though, but how big a partition to make, will be dependant on how big your drive is and what you will be using the two OSs for.

RE: (semi-OT) Novell eDirectory on debian - anyone tried it?

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I was able to get to the download for a 74mb tar of eDirectory 8.64 for Linux. http://download.novell.com/filedist/pages/PublicSearch.jsp I used Novell NDS extensively a few years back, at the time it was years ahead of others for managing 1000s of users on 100s servers. I think eDirectory is th

RE: Speed

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Most BIOSes have a fast boot/less tests option. Having said that, I recently took out a scsi burner because the boot time was just doing my head in. The answer is to not shutdown, but this is not very ecological. Matt -Original Message- From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:crispin@;aeonlin

RE: dual-booting with debian

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 11:01 AM To: debian-user Subject: RE: dual-booting with debian On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have done this on several machines. > > By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start > from scratch. This is a go

RE: dual-booting with debian

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
broadfoot [mailto:ibroadfo@;cis.strath.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 12:10 PM To: Joyce, Matthew Cc: 'Greg C. Madden'; debian-user Subject: Re: dual-booting with debian > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > >>I have done this on several machines. >> >&

Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have an old 486/66 with debian, I though I might use it to get my emails from several accounts. I have install fetchmail, configured exim and install courier imap. After creating a Maildir folder (makemaildir I think) I can connect via an imap client and see the folders ok. When I ran fetchma

RE: Problems with internet browsing

2002-10-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You can try to ping a host by hostname, one that is not in you hosts file. If DNS is working ping with use and display the ip address. Also look at the 'nslookup' or 'dig' util. Matt -Original Message- From: Ole Gammelsæter [mailto:gammelsa@;online.no] Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 6:0

RE: Corporate Anti-virus solutions

2002-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
http://www.fprot.org http://www.kaspersky.com/products.html?ftype=20896 Matt -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:curtis@;npc-usa.com] Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:00 AM To: Debian User List Subject: Corporate Anti-virus solutions One year ago, our organization was t

RE: Corporate Anti-virus solutions

2002-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have used sophos a lot in the past, I was not aware of a linux client though. I found it was a particularly fast av scanner when use to scan many small files , such as on an email filtering box, like Mimesweeper. But I did not like the update methods. Basically wget iirc. As for Nortons/Syma

RE: Install w/ floppy not working on compaq laptop (armada m700)

2002-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Title: Message Is base1.bin bootable ?   I think you need to get some other floppy images.   They depend on which type of kernel you will be using.   http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-from-floppies   11.2.3.1 Files for the Initial System Boot http://www

RE: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Thanks, I deleted the exin.conf, and reconfigured exim, then made the change you suggested : file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} directory = /home/${local_part}/Maildir and added maildir_format When I run fetchmail, it connects and recieves, but the mails do not appear in the Maildir

RE: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I fixed the problem of mails not arriving in my Maildir, they were ending up in /var/spool/exim/input with the error, /home/matt/Maildir is not a regualr file. - Frozen I had a .forward file in my home folder with the line /home/matt/Maildir, I deleted the file and it all started working. I ha

RE: blank LCD monitor

2002-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
After it has booted, and gone blank, can you disconnect it and connet a crt monitor ? Unless yuo are uing a dvi connecter I suppose. Matt > -Original Message- > From: Rick Berger [mailto:rberger@;sympatico.ca] > Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2002 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: for tecnical linux users

2002-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
It's not something simple like the mouse/keyboard is plugged in the wrong way round ? Matt > -Original Message- > From: messmate [mailto:messmate@;tiscali.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 7:54 PM > To: debian-en > Subject: for tecnical linux users > > > Hi experts, > I have a li

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Perhaps people will start to use the existing cpus for longer, and recycle older ones, distributed processing etc, instead of feeling they must upgrade their hardware because there is an upgrade available. However, emailing all my friends and family and trying to explain TCPA to them and ask them

RE: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
The information below should be sent as a separate email to users when they sign up. Full marks for clarity. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bob@;proulx.com] > Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 5:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Thread Stealing (was: Ins

RE: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Righto, I will email Senator Richard 'ludite' Alston and ask him to clarify the Australian Governments position this matter. Are there any questions you would like me to ask him, or information, or urls I should bring to his attention ? Matt > -Original Message- > From: David Pastern

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