Re: VMware for Debian

1999-08-08 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there > isnt Win95 installed. > How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows > here. > Thanks,Paulo Henrique Well, you need a lincense of

looking for a mail client

1999-08-08 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there. I'm currently using netspace's messenger but it does not completly meet my needs. I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to filter!). Another must is PGP support.

procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)

1999-08-09 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
I thank everybody for their great help. I think I will go for mutt since the PGP stuff works really fine now. However, I have some questions regarding procmail. Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives without the need for every user to have his .forward set to |/usr/bin/

Re: scsi hd idle spin down

1999-08-10 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Eberhard Burr wrote: > > I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch > > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when > > needed. > > what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all? The reason that the fans to keep the disks coo

mutt question...

1999-08-11 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
this may be a stupid question however I cuold not find the answer: How do I set my From: address in mutt? If I use the my_hdr From: thingie, my fcc-hooks don't work any more. my fcc hooks look like this: fcc-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] +OUT.10.people.baron.dieter changing the sendmail variabl

firewalling (ipchains) question

1999-08-13 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi! I'm playing around with firewalling a bit and would like to know if I got this little (not real world) task right: I tried to setup the ipchains so that the only thing 'marvin' should be able to do is using smtp with host 'laus'. Is the following correct for my wish? ipchains -P input REJ

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-15 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote: > | ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ... > | > | When I use cu on Debian I get the message"pppd permission denied". I can > | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get i

Re: PPP over an Ethernet connection.

1999-08-24 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > shaul wrote: > > I want to set up a *dynamic* PPP connection over an Ethernet connection (at > > least, that is what I think). > > Can you tell me what are the available tools ? > It might help

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 > SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) > the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the >

How to kill a process (if kill -9 does not work)?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi there! I ran into a problem today where xcdroast crashed several times when reading a cd image off a cd and I wanted to kill it. No big thing I thought, send it a SIGTERM, if this does not work, use a SIGKILL. Well, I did so but after I sent it a SIGTERM using kill -s 9 `ps` still showed the

Re: Forgotten root password HELP

1999-09-01 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the / > partition mounted read-only just a thought: mount -o remount,rw / or did I miss something? -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfr

3 things: exim, isdn, login.defs

1999-09-06 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hello everybody. I set up a mail server last week in our office and stumbled accross a few items wher eyou can perhaps help me. 1) exim --- I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go online and for

pgp question

1999-09-11 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
I'm a fairly new pgp user and hope that the gurus here can bring some light into my dark. I'm a bit puzzled about the validy of keys that pgp (6.5.1) tells me. Here's what I have: KeyID Trust Validity User ID 0x... marginal complete Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cultimate

Re: pgp question

1999-09-11 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 10:08:09PM -, Pollywog wrote: > You exchanged passphrases?? I don't think you should do that. > Your passphrase is for your own use when you encrypt or sign something. oops, fingerprints :) -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP e

Re: checking integers in scripts?

1999-09-19 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:24:17PM +0100, Steve George wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write a script to check if ipforwarding is running on my > access box but I can't work out how to check for an integer in a script. It > may be clearer what I am trying to

Re: killing dormant/dead processes

1999-09-23 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 08:27:57AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used the power off switch... > risky, but it worked. Compile 'Kernel Hacking' into your kernel. Now you can use Alt-SysRQ-S to sync your disk and Alt-SysRQ-U to mount everything read only. This way it's more likely to avoid

Re: killing dormant/dead processes

1999-09-24 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:55:09PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: > :) But, does anyone know a way to umount / and so forth before powering off? I would assume this is not pssible since at least one process always uses / or a directory below. If you look at your /etc/init.d/umountfs script, you can

imap

1999-09-24 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hello out there! I recently set up a mail server in the office running slink. The mail is fetched from one pop address using fetchmail. I then use exim & procmail to delicer the mails to several mail folders. Mail is read using imap. (I installed the imap package from main/mail). The clients ar

Re: awk or sed?

1999-09-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:12:57PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > I want to write a script, that gets the local ip address, and does a > reverse ns lookup, then sets the hostname to the dns response. The Trinity OS uses these lines to get the IP and the Point-to-Point peer (if any) where E

Re: imap

1999-09-28 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
BAK again, after the weekend :) Today I had some time to try further things and I succeded. I'm using the imapd that comes with slink (imap_4.5-0slink3.deb). procmail, which I use to deliver messages to different folders can write to directory folders. There are (at least) three different direc

Re: imap

1999-09-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:46:11PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > By the way, if you are using exim, then it supports Maildir directly, no > need to use procmail for this. TNX for the hint, I did not know this. But I need procmails mail processing cpabilities anyway :) -- Weasel

Re: on selective multi file delete

1999-10-03 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote: > hello everyone ... > >i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of > subdirectories using wget ... >is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget > scatered all throughout ??? I'm not sure b

Re: download HTML Installation manual

1999-10-07 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Easier even: > wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ Actually, I prefer wget -r -l inf -np -k -t 0 retry if error ^^ convert absolute links to relative ones

cannot open tty:

1999-11-03 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi gurus - For a few days now I get some error message when using pgp. (but I doubt it's pgp's fault) [...] Enter pass phrase: cannot open tty, using stdin [...] this happens at the (virtual) console as well as in xterms. The permissions for /dev/ttyp1

Re: Network sniffer

1999-11-15 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:43:46PM -0700, AzCaPpY wrote: > try Sniffit. I don't know if there is a Debian package for it but the > standard .tar.gz works great with Debian. there is: debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/admin/sniffit_0.3.5-3.deb for i386s. -- Weasel

killing a process

1999-11-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi there! I've a little problem: a process (some diff) that just won't die. I've tried kill -s SIG with SIG = 2,3,6,9,14 and 15 but it is still there. This process accesses /mnt/md5/ and I cannot remount it ro. (I thought I should always be allowed to rmount,ro something??) Any ideas how I c

Re: RAID mounting at bootup

2000-02-13 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:59:23AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > again a question form someone how has changed from SuSE to Debian: > > - after building my RAID-Array I need to know how to mount it > automatically at bootup? In SuSE there is a file in > "/sbin/init.d/boot.local"

Re: Emptying files

2000-02-16 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:44:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need a utility that will take a list of files using standard wildcards > and empty their contents, but not deleting them. Has anyone stumbled on > something like this? Thanks a bunch. how about for i in do

Re: which 2.2 kernel?

2000-02-17 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:25:42AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I was wondering which is the stablest 2.2 kernel curently > I am never shure if it is the even or uneven numbers ( is it 2.2.13 or > 2.2.14 ?) > I am using kernel 2.2.9 , is it worth the update? 2.2.x \-- 2 is even -> stable 2.

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-19 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 03:23:56PM +0100, Horacio MG wrote: > As I use xdm, I suppose I would have to reboot before the changes > have effect? This is not the other OS you must know, there's a method which IMHO is a little bit smarter :) try running /etc/init.d/xdm restart as root. not from

Re: Linux and PS/2

2000-02-22 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi Kent! > <..> Debian 2.0 was based on the Linux kernel 2.0.36, and I believe > Debian 2.1 is > likely to be based on the Linux kernel 2.4, but I don't keep up with that so > I'm not > for sure. Now I'ld really like potato comming with kernel 2.4 but I doubt that they change such a critica

Re: kill script

2000-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi David! On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > i'm looking for a script/command that will do something equivalent to: > > ps -e | grep > kill -9 > > does anybody have something that will do this? i don't know how to > script well enough to do a script like this myself, yet.

Re: kill script

2000-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi David! > function mykillall { > kill -9 `ps -e | > grep bash | > grep -v grep | > awk ' { print $1 } '` > } replace bash with $1 :) and then put this into your .bash{rc,_profile} -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP/GPG encrypted mess

Re: kill script

2000-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi David! On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > how about a csh/ksh version? this is for work on HPUX, but we > don't have bash. Sorry, I don't know those shells but if they don't have functions, you can still make a script like this one: #!/bin/tcsh kill -9 `ps -e | grep $1 | grep -v gre

Re: sudo

2000-02-23 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
Hi Eric! On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote: > Can someone please advise the correct format for > entries in the sudoers file? I'm trying to set my > account up and find that the man page is not very > specific on how this is done. Yepp you're right. I have problems too reading the manpage

Re: GnuPG stands for ...?

1999-12-25 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 09:23:20AM -0800, Fish Smith wrote: > Okay, if PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, does that > mean GnuPG stands for GNU Pretty Good? I don't know > how this title conveys encryption... Gnu Privacy Guard. -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~pp

Re: /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

1999-12-29 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:58:29AM +0800, Olivier Lemaire wrote: > Greetings :) Hi > I saw in the DWN : > "Should /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path so they can > easily run traceroute [...] > > [..] Why don't we make a > sudo package included in the base install ? It may be my fault

Re: Can't get scripts to work

2000-01-06 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:15:48PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > By default, the current directory (.) is not on your path. You can add it, > but it opens up some security holes. (I can put a program named "cd" in a > random directory and the next time you go there, it gets executed when you >