how to reject all connections? [was: Re: IP's]

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Wardle
of all hosts, it would take the form 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0, which I believe can be written as 0.0.0.0/0 for short (please confirm this before using it). Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
d to try is: $ xrdb ~/.Xresources Then reload Emacs. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
t; where the text is or where the cursor has moved). What color is the area where there is no text? Is it gray (DarkSlateGray)? Is it possible that you're just setting the wrong resource? -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
e tried changing the values of emacs*font and font-lock-mode, but the colors still appear the way you want them to on my system. Are there possibly any other resources or Emacs preferences you are changing that could cause the font colors to not be as you want? -- Michael Wardle Adacel Tec

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:07, Tom Montroy wrote: > I don't think this is an .Xresource problem, but maybe some default > thing is weird. I have 2 computers which have this same issue. Perhaps you could post your Emacs configuration file (~/.emacs). -- Michael Wardle Adacel T

Re: Emacs and shell display

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
of $LOCALE and $LANG. Also: If you are using "ls --color", you should use "ls --color=auto" rather than "ls --color=always". Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
d line. > > What do you use to convert? This has got to be a FAQ somewhere. I think the command is: # tune2fs -j example: # tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
ope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
at config file on another machine that does have that file If the process runs for a little while, you could also run "top" or "ls" and see what user it's running as. (Hardly perfect, but it might be enough information to get it working.) -- Michael Wardle Adacel

Re: Where to find Debian 2.2/2.4?

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wardle
istory of Debian [1] for more information. Debian 2.2 and greater can be obtained from the main section of your nearest Debian mirror. LINKS [1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.html> -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wardle
#x27;s best not to change permissions on files you didn't create. ;-) Why not start a new Mozilla session with "mozilla -ProfileManager", create a new profile, and compare permissions? -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Wardle
,0,0 -v- cdimage.iso) I'm not too sure how reliable it is to use a pipe between the two; I would be worried that using a pipe would make a buffer underrun more likely. -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
h would also now match both examples. -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
erwriting it with the empty string: # echo "" > /var/log/messages Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 21, 2003 16:12, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Michael Wardle (Fri 21 Feb 02003 at 03:16:51PM +1100): > > On Friday, February 21, 2003 14:49, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > I have a problem with procmail processing one source of my > > >

Re: "label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Wardle
something > like "Special device LABEL=usr not found" Is it possible that the device's label is not "usr", but perhaps something subtly different such as "/usr"? Try running "e2label" on the disk partition to find out its correct e2fs label. -- Mic

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
ckshow use the file monitoring features of FAM, so either should automatically refresh when the file changes. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
x27;re running nvi as vi. You could also run vim and see if there's an option to not clear or initialize the screen. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:14, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:11, Michael Wardle wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Specifically, this regards "window blanking" in "full screen" curses > > > app

Re: nvidia geforce4... help...

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
ngs" > It also happens when I do ctrl-alt-F* into any other terminals from X. I had similar problems when I was running the framebuffer console driver with the proprietary X drivers. If you're in a similar situation, it might be best to revert to the standard text mode console drivers.

Re: Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...| xargs rm -f'?

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 14:45, Dai Yuwen wrote: > Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Some systems have an alias for "rm" that invokes "rm -i". It's possible that running with env -i ensures that the true, unaliased command is run

Re: using diff command

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Wardle
treat both files as text. Manual pages are wonderful things. :-P To find out the root cause of the problem, you might like to run the "file" utility on each of the files you are attempting to compare: perhaps one of the really is (or does look like) a binary file. Hope this helps --

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Wardle
rience and belief that VISUAL takes precedence over EDITOR for interactive editing. I will have a quick look to see if there's anything else that agrees with this point of view. LINKS [1] tcsh manual page <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcsh&apropos=0&sektion=0&manp ath

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Wardle
$VISUAL is inspected before $EDITOR. LINKS [1] Debian Policy Manual - Customized Programs http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Evolution

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Wardle
stable or a different distribution (Testing or Stable)? You might be able to work around this by searching for a slightly older version of the Evolution package. I think packages appear in the pool directory on Debian mirrors. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To U

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Wardle
27;su' > while leaving root's login environment alone? I think "su -m" might do what you want. See the su(1) man page. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Wardle
it kills anything beginning with xine. This is very useful for killing evolution and its components when a major error occurs. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Wardle
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:41, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:22:13AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > > > > My preferred metho

Re: regexp help

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Wardle
a great job on its own, and only use mail filtering to place my mail in the appropriate folder. HTH -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switching groups - not working

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Wardle
en trying to debug a script that was trying to perform a newgrp to the user's primary group. It turned out the user needed the group listed in his/her additional groups as well. For example, do: usermod -g foo -G foo,bar,baz example rather than: usermod -g foo -G bar,baz example H

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Wardle
, but I'd suggest rereading the support details before you make the decision. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Wardle
- Kabir Of course, the Debian and Red Hat online documentation is very good too. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

list delay

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Wardle
s? Thanks -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recursively export NFS file systems

2003-02-02 Thread Michael Wardle
r /var /boot ...) in /etc/exports on zarathustra. You might also like to investigate the BSD automounter, amd, which seems slightly more powerful to me, but is not supported on most other Unixes. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: libfam0c102 kills 182 KDE3 packages

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Wardle
I have stated is correct and then inform the maintainer of the KDE packages that the dependency name has changed. I'm CCing the Debian FAM package maintainer to see if he knows what's going on and how to resolve this problem. HTH -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNS

Re: CD Player no sound

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Wardle
her than staying on solid). Digital mode does not use the CD audio cable. -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unreal Tournament

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Wardle
ries from <http://www.lokigames.com/products/ut/> It runs very well if you have an nVidia video card with the official nVidia Linux drivers, and should also perform well on any hardware that has a decent OpenGL implementation (that is to say not Mesa). Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle Adacel

Re: list delay

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, January 31, 2003 11:15, Michael Wardle wrote: > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. As Nathan and others pointed out, there was an unusually high amount of In

Re: Demand PPP

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Wardle
Feel free to post most information, questions, or answers here, and I'll try to help. -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Wardle
in the "non-free" Debian distribution. As the 1st CD contains enough for a decent GNU/Linux installation plus the core parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops, I usually recommend getting just the 1st CD and downloading any extra packages from your nearest Debian mirror. Hope this hel

Re: Debian unstable: problems during migration from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Wardle
ment variable to the path of your preferred window manager to change this. Many other settings which are not obviously modifiable can be accessed using the gconf-editor tool. -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webmin revisited

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Wardle
min does not enable https by default. You need to connect using http and enable SSL access. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Wardle
nt: - linux.org - librenix.com - freshmeat.net I haven't used any of them, so can't advise which is most appropriate for taxation purposes. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Wardle
elps. LINKS [1] <http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/gthumb.html> [2] <http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/mmv.html> -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Wardle
ackages> and perform a search to see which are available as a Debian package. -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Wardle
packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. you can clean these out using "apt-get clean". I don't know whether apt-get will automatically clean out its cached packages when it need the space; perhaps your upgrade simply requires more than 300 MB. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle <[

Re: Non-US characters in mutt summaries

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Wardle
t likes the old one more > than the new one. I'm no mail expert, but the second encoding looks like it's related to "quoted-printable". -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galeon "personal security manager" needed?

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Wardle
). Download and install PSM > and try again, or contact your system administrator. You probably need "mozilla-psm". -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need some dhcp help

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Wardle
gt; from someone who's successfully done this. I'm more familiar with dhclient, however the "-H" option to dhcpcd or the "--lookup-hostname" option to pump may be what you need. Hope this helps -- Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adacel Technologies -- To

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
raphael calvelli wrote: > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > costing" together; > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ? It is already > working in italian "libero", french "libre" and spanish "libre". "gratis software" would be a good term, since

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
Michael Wardle wrote: > > raphael calvelli wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > > > So, what about use of the term "libre software" ?

Re: [off topic] about terminology

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Wardle
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:30AM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > > raphael calvelli wrote: > > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > > costing" together; >