Re: good debian backup software?

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Patterson
with a daily tar of /etc and the package status list (dpkg --get-selections > file) and an occasional CD backup with multicd of /home and /usr/src (for my own kernels). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Pu

Re: Remote sound

2003-09-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
ng fancy. Which package do > people recommend? I've not used remote sound before, but esd (package esound) will do it, you probably need to run this on both the client PC and the server (speaker) PC. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Quick and probably dirty BIND method to correct verisign's broken DNS

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Patterson
162.30 { bogus "yes"; }; server 192.31.80.30 { bogus "yes"; }; server 192.55.83.30 { bogus "yes"; }; server 192.54.112.30 { bogus "yes"; }; server 192.26.92.30 { bogus "yes"; }; server 192.52.178.30 { bogus "

Re: Big Problem ? With APT-GET Database

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen Patterson
error, increase the value. if that file doesn't exist add it -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Verislime

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:00:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone care to calculate how many domains that would be? ;) Given that they're using IP4 addressing, anything up to 4 billion (less currently assigned hosts). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Determining eth -> driver mapping

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
rivers are all modules, you can prompt the system to always load rtl8139 for eth0 anda different module for eth1. You do this by adding aliases to /etc/modutils/aliases and running update-module. This is what I have on my firewall. alias eth0 8139too alias eth1 3c509 -- Stephen Patterson http://

Re: per user samba

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
chmod 0777), but keep /home/user user-only (chmod 0700). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bind has quit working

2003-09-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
r named config and zone files for sanity. Its helped me fix completely broken DNS servers in the past. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE

Re: Determining eth -> driver mapping

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
) then you won't get an eth0 interface. Likewise for eth1. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-30 Thread Stephen Patterson
system) That, or install something with apt. This usually barfs when my laptop has got into segfaulting mood. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCS

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:20:16 +0200, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the > proprietary-ness of Word. And these days, it even has a 'direct to pdf' exporter. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-headed X servers for multiple local users

2003-10-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
session file on the laptop for your gf that just ssh's to your main system and starts a window manager. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MC

Re: broken mozilla-firebird

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
y appreciated. I didn't know there was a package, but I've got it working on my system with just the binaries from mozilla.org. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
home /home nfsdefaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 hope this helps. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To

Re: Name resolution on a dual homed host

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
equesting any dns servers, I just get the local one set with the prepend option. supersede domain-name "localdomain"; prepend domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, host-name; require subnet-mask; -- Stephen Pa

NFS failing unless server restarted

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
s.allow (client) portmap: 192.168.1.3 ALL: .localdomain ALL: 192.168.1.0/24 mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 I've run a process check (ps -e|grep rpc) and rpc.mountd seems to get killed off when the NFS filesystem is exported. So, with all the nfs stuff in this group recently, has anyone got

Re: [OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
UCKS! >> >> I always heard it as: >> >> M R ducks >> M R not ducks >> O S A R >> C D E D B D wings? >> Y I B! M R ducks! And back in England, Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 ME -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMA

Re: Code rights for employees (was Re: SCO identifies code?)

2003-08-21 Thread Stephen Patterson
the > person you're replying to requests the duplicate copy. I'm with Paul on this one, the whole point of a mailing list is that traffic should stay on the list. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: Help parsing a fetchmail dumped mail file

2003-08-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
e right lines there, you need to use the -s option on formail (to split the messages apart) and feed the output of formail into procmail so that it gets filtered the same as your regular mail. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to rep

Re: procmail filters

2003-08-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
e folder Debian Users. Does anyone know if there is a good howto or how to >> do this? >> > man procmailex > man procmailrc > www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs > man procmail- the NOTES section I found Timo Salmi's procmail page to be usefule as well, but

Re: exim + mutt

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
here) because the user-space NFS daemon doesn't support file > locking and mutt will refuse to write to files it can't lock. In fact, thats as simple as 'apt-get install nfs-kernel-server'. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
n tools are out there for > Debian. Does anyone have any recommendations? Other than the venerable emacs? Quanta, Bluefish, Mozilla Composer. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Pu

Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea

2003-06-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
100 Ohms, and a cable where pins 3 and 6 are in > two different pairs should fail that test. What testers do you recommend? -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: Lightweight Word Processor

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
x27;re not afraid to RTFM, LaTeX rules. You edit an input file in your favourite text-editor (emacs with auctex) and run it through latex when you're done. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 1

Re: lufs kernel module

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
ight kernel sources (2.4.19), patch them with lufs and build the whole lot together yourself. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-12 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:50:19 +0200, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Have you noticed any performance improvement? I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size using PostScript rather than PC

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-12 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:10:13 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote: > Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've recently been profiling a PS/PCL printer from windows (so shoot >> me :) and there's about a 40% reduction in transmitted print job size >> usin

Re: GTK Themes not appearing right

2003-06-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
apt-get install gtk-engines-pixmap' And please don't post in HTML+text, you're only wasting bandwidth. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: htmlview hanging in mutt

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Patterson
nd i can view the message *after* deleting the formatting attachment > following process: I've had a lot of success with these settings in .muttrc auto_view text/html set mailcap_path = ~/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap and in ~/.mailcap text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html %s; copiousoutput -

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
reads ~/.vnc/xstartup IIRC -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: mutt pop configuration

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
mutt needs a configured local mailserver (exim, postfix or the like) though I've recently found smtppush to be very useful for sending email directly via my ISP's mail server (yes, I've got a dynamic IP and there are just too many places blackholing dynamic IPS these day

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
ruent with any > instructions I have seen anywhere else, but it works for me. I find that mutt works better with imap if INBOX doesn't contain messages, but is instead a folder containing only message folders. This way I can use the C key to browse the full folder structure (not just the on

Re: Strange NFS messages: "lockd: cannot monitor..."

2004-11-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
systems for security reasons, and probably has notes on how to cope with the few bits that need to be written to (symlinks?). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be

Re: http Traffic Anayalsis

2004-12-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:20:09 +0100, JB Hewit wrote: > I understand that there will always be traffic not going through our > proxy (Windows updates, etc) but I want a way to find out where the > traffic is going. http://www.ntop.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-04 Thread Stephen Patterson
makes it difficult to distinguish >> braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding. > > -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1 I find my regular terminal font (7x13) to be good and just set emacs to use that. -- Stephen Patterson

setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-05 Thread Stephen Patterson
d for gtk1 applications, given that the current gnome-control center only sets it for gtk2? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To U

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
wer management will just work :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
st run thunderbird from there. Easy enough to remove later when a debian thunderbird 1.0 comes along. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:00:09 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > After all, > even Outlook has File->Archive... functionality, so that the .PST > file won't get so huge. Though thats due to the fact the outlook can't cope with pst files above 2 GB. -- Stephen Patterson

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-23 Thread Stephen Patterson
r. I want the backup > system to be in full readiness to take over, so all I have to do is throw a > DNS "switch" to have it become the server. Well, there's always rsync. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Co

Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen Patterson
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > You can put the package on hold. I'm not sure if it is the best way to > secure the package from accidentally being removed. but if you put the package on hold it'll never get upgraded... -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
e /etc with the backed-up version. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Ste

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Bob Freemer wrote: > Wrong. NTP will fail to update the clock if the hardware clock skew is > too large. NTP cannot operate without a reasonably stable internal > hardware clock. Although there is an option to force ntp to set the clock, however large the difference is. -- Stephen

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
ppy image to /dev/hda). [1] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (there should be a package in debian/main too). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried

Re: Which fonts a program uses

2005-05-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
i, gsfonts-x11 and msttcorefonts to get a decent selection of fonts. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ could be handy too -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible nev

Re: launching screensaver manually

2005-06-05 Thread Stephen Patterson
g in the background, 'xscreensaver-command -lock' will do it. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'

Re: Encrypting the hard disk?

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:50:15 +0200, Nardis Dome wrote: > > Hi, > > try cryptoloop > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/ Just don't forget your password or encryption type. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 1

Re: enhancing xdmcp performance

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
ltime on a 100MBit network, though I've not tested full-screen and you'd then need some way of pushing sound across the network. Either way (ssh or XDMCP) are much quicker than regular vnc. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831

Re: running one thin client?

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
here's a configuration menu on gdm). Then on the laptop you can login locally as normal, or run a chooser from the gdm menu to connect to the X session on your desktop box. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E9

Re: Debian drops ball on security updates

2005-06-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
rg/debian-project/2005/06/msg00147.html> and > following replies. Oh? and I'd just classified this as more FUD from yet another company thats in the sack with Bill. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8

Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?

2005-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
tain whatever you put in the option. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: fluxbox application switching panel

2005-06-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
igure the iconbar (right-click) to show minimized and non-minimized windows, then you should be able to switch any window with alt-tab. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

2005-06-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
I've run out of space on an upgrade, repeated calls of 'apt-get clean' followed by 'aptitude upgrade' have sorted things out well enough. If you run apt-get clean, that'll delete all the .deb files that have been downloaded to your system and free up quite a bit of space (

Re: Available printers

2005-06-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
an correct this by editing /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document and setting *default-printer-resolution: 300 (or whatever resoution is appropriate for the printer). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Who

Re: Navigator 4.77 packages and sarge

2004-10-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
; wants to maintain them any more. Though should you need them, they'll run fine under the current sarge. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazar

Re: How to use 2 sound cards in Debian

2004-10-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
e you tried playing sound to any dsp devices above /dev/dsp ? cat, and xmms can both be configured to do this. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
ier with large maildirs, pity mutt doesn't correctly display the message size with maildir though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to yo

Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File

2004-10-03 Thread Stephen Patterson
#x27;ve seen this happen once before when a runaway backup script filled / -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
her were not perfect ... but > getting there! It may be worth installing ssh and the rfb version of vnc so you log in remotely for support. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Cautio

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-10-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
but hey, it was *the* main browser of the world for quite some time. [1] you need a sources.list entry for contrib, not sure whether its woody or sarge though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public ke

Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:20:08 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > There are a number of ways for a workstation to control an MP3=20 > player on a headless Linux "sound server". One of the very pleasant ones is mpd from http://www.musicpd.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/

Re: Debian on HP DL360?

2004-10-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
ian-installer/ It works just fine, though you've got to install lilo instead of grub. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

Re: Does the classic mailer recipe from perlcookbook work fine in debian?

2004-11-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
s to use the perl Mail::Sender module instead. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia_core

2004-11-04 Thread Stephen Patterson
while, there should be a pcmcia-modules package for your kernel version, which will sort it out. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -

Re: apache being hit

2004-11-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0100, Mathias Tauber wrote: > Here you need the comment. If you still encounter problems, let > us know... Preferably with a few of the offending log entries. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux C

Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)

2004-11-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:50:10 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, spamc 3.0 can be kinda slow (or mine isn't tuned that well). > Especially with Baysean filters turned on. bogofilter tends to run a lot leaner than spamassassin. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
or "lpr". I've used latex before, but that needs to generate a fair number of files from your input foo.tex document, so it can be painful making sure that none of these overwrite existing files and to clean them all up afterwards. groff is neater in this respect, as you can jus

Re: OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
ondary slave = /dev/hddscsi: 4th scsi drive = /dev/sdd > etc... On 2.4 at least (no devfs or udev pokery) usb drives get lettered in port order so sda'll be your 1st port, sdb the second usb port. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: sunclock and colours

2004-06-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Sunclock's colours are not working properly on a pc with an ati > graphics card: > > sunclock: warning: can't allocate color `Grey92' You may need to add those colours to /etc/X11/rgb.txt or increase your

Re: spamassassin on low memmory machine

2004-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
in to run no more than 1 session at a time? I use Exim4 and > courier. I run spamassin with spamd/spamc from procmail, using a lockfile so that procmail can only run 1 spamc process at a time :0fw:spamassassin.lock | spamc -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remov

Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
aving 1 server and multiple clients connected to it. For a more distributed setup, you may find coda useful, though when I checked 2+ years ago it only supported ~15MB shares. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
w list on last-line. hardstatus on hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string "%{.1099} %-w%{.bg}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%H %c:%s " and in .bashrc # check for detached screen processes screen -ls|grep Detached -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls

2004-07-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
n the server and client, filtering on either IP or MAC address. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gnumeric Fatal error

2004-07-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
to uprgrade for just this reason. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Firefox and Flash issues?

2004-07-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
not confirm if sound does not work either as I have > no sound card on this machine. Anyone experienced this? Might be worth tailling ~/.xsession-errors or running firefox from an xterm to see if any errors are logged. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remov

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
t; that. Or you can just edit /etc/inittab so that Ctrl+Alt+Del from a console is mapped to 'shutdown -h' rather than 'shutdown -r' -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

2004-08-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
tgres"'. The defualt setup (see /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf) is to only allow users to access postgresql databases if their postgres username matches their linux username. To create database user accounts, log in as root, su to postgres and run createuser. As postgres, you can run

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 08:30:13 +0200, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > I need to know a fast way to convert 1600x1200 to 800x600 pictures from > the command line. Any ideas on how to do this? You can use mogrify from the imagemagick package, thusly mogrify -geometry 100x100 file --

Re: Backup XP box to Debian system

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
ackage from the Debian (Testing) > archive that can back up an XP-based system, with provision for a > full recovery? Well, you could always blat out a disk image with dd. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Lin

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We

2003-06-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
iscovered the swiss-army chainsaw of programming - perl :( -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Samba Problem

2003-07-05 Thread Stephen Patterson
ge option in your print spooler (:bp:) in /etc/printcap for lpd and lprng. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
n the fine tradition of 'go away or I shall replace you with a small shell script', I offer this sacrifice to the winds. for i in `dpkg --get-selections|grep apt-howto|grep -v \-en`; do apt-get -y --purge remove $i; done -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://p

Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
sections 6 & 7 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSU

Re: What's the best forum to discuss linux(especially Debian) besides this mailing list?

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 03:50:06 +0200, Zhao YouBing wrote: > LinuxQuestions or other ?? > > What forums do u think best or visit most? Me? #debian on irc.freenode.net -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
s (rather then fscking around with emulators) to install prboom or lxdoom and use them instead. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub'

Re: Printer driver for HP 6L

2003-07-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
ver. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_6L -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Last one down the pub's an MCSE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Patterson
uns under at execution time with the nice command. To set a default nice value for a process, the only way I can think of would be to create a shell script or alias to start the process. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
; manually rmmod-ing them, my mouse unfroze and all was happy. If you don't need them, add 'alias module off' (for each module) to /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules. -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to rep

Re: mutt with nntp support

2004-05-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
ead tweaks and direct SMTP support) I've used the original source, not the debian one, and used stow to manage/package the installation. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Cautio

Re: Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?

2004-05-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 15 May 2004 07:50:07 +0200, dircha wrote: > 3a. Put .bat script on (A) to zip files, prompt for password, and > transfer files with command-line scp from PuTTY. Or you could set up passphrase-less ssh keys for a 'click-and-go' type solution. -- Stephe

Re: aptitude in cronjobs

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
ything else automatically), you could use 'apt-get update -q' -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: html mails in mutt

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Patterson
of them at the end. However, it doesn't render tables, which w3m does (though w3m drops all the links) After setting either of the above in ~/.mailcap, you need to put auto_view text/html in ~/.muttrc so that mutt will pass html to lynx or w3m for parsing and display the result in the me

Re: DHCP slow renewal, actually times out but mysteriously still gets an IP

2004-05-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
with a reboot? I >> >havent a clue about the internal workings of the DHCP protocol. >From what I've seen windows 2000 at least appears to hold and reuse its old IP address unless it can't contact a DHCP server, then it uses a static IP thats coded into windows. -- Stephen

Re: X not starting on Intel 845G

2004-05-30 Thread Stephen Patterson
have an on > board sound card that came with the 845G chipset -- ICH(?). This will most likely use the i810_audio kernel module, wihch you can load with modconf. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public k

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-30 Thread Stephen Patterson
olute' though 'http://www.google.com' works fine in it. > 2. how do I get past this You could use w3m, or create a local html doc with this code snippet in it: http://www.google.com/search";> -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove S

pcmcia-cs in sarge not deconfiguring network interfaces

2004-06-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
466]: modprobe exited with status 1 Jun 2 20:43:38 localhost cardmgr[466]: executing: 'modprobe -r serial_cs' -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be h

Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)

2004-06-02 Thread Stephen Patterson
launched? Well, startx is a shell script, you might be able to edit it and execute it as the last item in /etc/init.d -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be

Re: pcmcia modems with debian

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Patterson
vice would be greatly appreciated I've got a Xircom REM56G/100, which works almost perfectly (its a combined AT modem and network card so I've got to keep an eye on the routing). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Co

Re: xpdq?

2004-06-03 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:00:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > With the broken cups in sid I want to start using the trusty old pdq > again. I don't need xpdq, but that makes life a lot easier. There's always lprng, which works beautifully with magicfilter. -- Stephe

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