Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Block
Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version of Debian are you installing? Patrick, The file is plain text, just typed as binary in the attachment for some reason. -- Steve

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Block
don't see any reason for concern, and I certainly don't see any reason to kill and restart hotplug. As I already said, as long as your volumes are unmounted cleanly you can safely remove the drive. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Block
y? I have two machines running Sarge, both updated within the last 24 hours, both reporting gnome 2.8.1-3 as the latest installable gnome version. -- Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ev-15.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Steve Block
sides). As far as to the 1280x1024 question, I don't know. What I do know is that when I run my 19" Trinitron on 1280x1024 everything looks great, and when I run it at 1280x960 things look strange. Maybe I just got used to the aspect over time. -- Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ev-

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:20:24PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? > > Looking at "practicing" getting one installed, for future reference. I use Cyrus IMAP. It isn't terribly dif

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-21 Thread Steve Block
y. I customized it so long ago, however, that I don't remember most of the options you can set. The web site tends to be pretty helpful though. I run it under screen on a remote server, and it is a very stable program -- /uptime returns 'Irssi uptime: 337d 20h 33m 36s' and VM us

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

2004-12-21 Thread Steve Block
dir. || createdir $dir' That is all on that page, but it isn't as obvious as it should be. Those changes should allow any package that wants to talk to saslauthd at the usual location to do so, and also keep postfix from complaining. I hope this helps some with your query. -- Steve Blo

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Steve Block
ry* old, a 686 kernel should be OK. 686 is for pentium II and above Just for accuracy, 686 also applies to the Pentium Pro. The original Pentium was 586. -- Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ev-15.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: incremental backups howto?

2004-12-25 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:40:10PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Joao Clemente wrote: > > > In the latest thread about "Synchronize two servers" it was > > talked about incremental backups. Well, can you quick-start me > > in this topic? > > An incremental backup is done by backing up all files that

Re: Sarge/Exim4: Precedence of /etc/aliases?

2005-05-28 Thread Steve Block
ority of the aliases file? Any pointers would be appreciated, Maybe this is stupid to say, but did you run newaliases after editing your aliases file? This is just a guess, I'm a postfix user and have no idea how exim handles things. -- Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes

2005-06-04 Thread Steve Block
options to set the profile directory, though I am not familiar with them. The common directory would have to be on a filesystem that all the OSs can read and write. If you're using Windows that would pretty much limit you to using FAT32 or trying one of the methods to read/write ext2/3 in Wind

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Block
sid" in sources.list, does sid become the new testing? If so, what will be the distro name of unstable? Sid will still be unstable. The release name of the next testing version will be etch. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://www.steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: On IMAP servers (was: Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?)

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Block
d to move the entire contents to my cyrus store. Worked fine then, and if you like maildir it sure was easier to deal with than Courier (we didn't get along). -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://www.steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Block
x27;t try much). Setting mutt to save sent items isn't too hard. Hope you find the example useful, it works well for me. set record="imaps://mail.server.com/INBOX.Sent" -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Block
re up to the task. Can't say for recent versions of mutt, Eudora, TheBat! or Netscape. :D Apple's Mail.app has done it well for years. It's still the best damn mail client I've ever used. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:28:52AM -0500, Steve Block wrote: Apple's Mail.app has done it well for years. It's still the best damn mail client I've ever used. Have you tried GNUMail.app (Debian package by the

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Block
werty system you'll have to relearn your typing skills pretty much from scratch. In short, change if you want to, but I found the effort much too high for any percieved potential reward. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian drops ball on security updates

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Block
, change a line in a text file fuh. If you don't have this skill you don't deserve a computer. I'm tired of this crap. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Did I barbeque my Debain system?

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Block
If it doesn't "just work" as it should then 99% of the time, the answer is archived somewhere on the internet, and if not then I just pass it on to the Debian maintainers in the form of a bug report. You never try to fix a problem unless you know it's hardware? That's pat

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Block
just want to run login shells all the time than some of the other suggestions in this thread may work. If this problem is occuring with login shells (I may have misinterpreted), then I'm not sure what to do. Hopefully someone has the answer. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://stev

Re: Mail

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Block
your system is set up, it might generate more responses. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Block
nting system are you trying to use?, etc. You've got to give a little more information than "I can't print" or no one will be able to help you. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
used with the command. See "man sudo" for more info. visudo also does syntax and sanity checking, so that you can't use illegal syntax in the file. Makes it easier to not break sudo. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: saslauthd does not start at reboot

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
/var/run/saslauthd /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd none rw,bind 0 0 There's some more info on the guide I wrote a while back, though it may not include the bind mount. Start at http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system#sasl and there may be more information you can use there. Hope this h

Re: debian - matlab platform

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Block
his helps all that much, what with budgets and all, but I can confirm that Matlab 7.0 works flawlessly on Debian Sarge. Perhaps the error you're getting is just due to the old version being less unix friendly than it ought to be. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL P

Re: Debian Base Install to many un-necessary packages?

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Block
x27;t want? Seems a lot less prone to breakage. The base system installed PPP for me (makes sense to have it in the base), but I purged it and now it is gone. If you're installing to a lot of systems, like in a computer lab, then do it once and clone the drive. -- Steve Block http://ev-15

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Block
tem, your favorite apps, your skills and future jobs are in danger. Why spend time getting more skills on a system which might die? G Why be a fear-monger? We have software patents in the US but debian hums happily along. Also insulting the list that you want discussion from won't win y

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:05:22PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Steve Block wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability

Re: multiple mailings

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Block
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:10:24PM -0500, June & Al wrote: We have a new jewelry prduct we'd like to promote through the mail. Can you help us get started? June B. Green no -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Block
esponsing file for your shell of choice). eval $(lesspipe) This will set things up to make life easier for you with less. Now less file.gz will work as if the file was not compressed. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Block
ddress away and haven't had a problem since. I imagine most mail programs have some way to filter the mail so you never see it, whether you do it at the server end such as with procmail or with your local client. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: virtual machines

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Block
g Xen for this. Make your debian system the host (dom0) system, and then have a debian system and a fedora system running inside that. I did this a while back just for the fun of it and it worked extremely well. Much nicer than UML in my experience. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://st

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Block
or rcconf to manage the symbolic links for you. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Block
, but they do usually appear. I know I see messages I post to the list. I am unsure what could cause you to not receive messages you posted. Not much help, I know. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-23 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:49:12PM -0600, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: # help I don't think I can. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-26 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 01:11:42AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:20:55 -0600 Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:49:12PM -0600, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: ># help I don't think I can. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Block
it look like Windows? "Gnome" is a dependency package that just installs a complete GNOME suite. Since Evolution is part of that suite, the Gnome package has to be removed if you want to remove Evolution, but the rest of the individual programs that make up the suite remain. -- S

Re: Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
hosts: files dns which will check your hosts file first and then dns. If that line says something else that could be your problem. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: [OT] MPEG2 on Windows (was Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
have access to any windows-boxes now, has anybody else had this problem? Cheers, Kjetil Windows doesn't include an MPEG2 decoder. You have to find or buy one or use VLC. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Building postgresql 8.1.0: trouble finding readline, libz, etc

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
em to be missing. For example, the package libreadline5-dev (or libreadline4-dev, as appropriate). -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Block
ent. It would be sort of email directories as under any email client plus soft links between them? Any ways, if someone knows about such thing I would like to know as well, :) It's not quite as smooth but smart folders in Apple's Mail and virtual folders in Evolution are similar

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-25 Thread Steve Block
sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 200 Run apt-get update and then search for mysql 5 and you should find packages available. Note that packages from backports.org are not official debian packages, however. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

Re: A BIOS password?

2006-01-25 Thread Steve Block
system (or hands control off to another bootloader). I believe it would be set in the grub boot menu file: /boot/grub/grub.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Block
n 5.2, but the version in sarge is 5.4-1. If you're running woody (old stable) rather than sarge (new stable) then sarge packages won't do you any good. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Block
ming. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: mysql 5.0

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Block
as much as I know at this point. Good luck. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: THE END OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Block
by spam. Thanks. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No luck getting Gallery to work on Sarge..Anyone able to??

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Block
. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Block
#x27;s related to a bunch of changes in imagemagick 6 that were intended to make it more consistent. Command line options are now processed left to right as a series of steps (though grouping is supported). See http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/basics/#why for more informati

Re: Debian security.

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Block
ssues and releases fixed versions of packages (via security.debian.org) that can be installed easily using apt-get. This won't help with vulnerable third party php programs however, as I learned when someone used the xmlrpc bug to install a warez ftp server on my colocated machine. -- S

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe? That depends. What is win-axe? -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PUHHLLLEEEEZZZE LOOK AT THESE RETARDED NAMES OF EXE's YOU DEBIAN PACKAGE DUDES

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Block
ect of your original email and tell me how you didn't start off by being a jerk. Besides, Debian very rarely changes the actual name of a program file, and checking the documentation for whatever you are trying to run is your best bet. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://stevebl

Re: another lost one

2006-02-04 Thread Steve Block
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 11:06:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AOL WALLET USED TO WORK BUT STOPPED ABOUT 5 MONTHS AGO NEED HELP RICH You certainly do. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Backport Questions

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Block
rsion or the other mysql 5 packages will be broken. Using aptitude in curses mode makes this pretty easy. Once again I would not recommend blinding pullingin packages from backports, and certainly not trying to dist-upgrade from it. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [E

Re: your mail

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Block
an suggest that you use an appropriate subject in your emails so that those who just skim the list can see what you're asking about. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: upgrading Cyrus

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Block
sure it's not hanging around in /usr/sbin? I built the cyrus 2.2 packages for sarge using the unstable source package for 2.2.12-4 and /usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist is provided by cyrus-common-2.2. /usr/sbin contains ctl_cyrusdb and ctl_deliver as well. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://stev

Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Block
#x27;ve never had a machine I could test that on. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
gh to figure this out; and 2) Your -resize option is under-specified. The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but there are no guarant

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:41PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. Consistent with what? No

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Block
tiple kernels (solaris, hurd) in the same package system as linux. Of course I'm not exactly sure how that would effect the rest of the environment, i.e. i wouldn't expect a program compiled for linux to run on a solaris kernel. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock

Re: Managing memory usage per *user* (or group) not per *process*?

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Block
e) per user? Or, even better, per system group (so I could say "all users in group 'staff' are limited to a total memory usage at any one time of 4GB RAM" or similar)? Any suggestions and ideas most welcome! I think /etc/security/limits.conf may be what you're looking for

Re: Intel Xeon

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Block
g of Itanium? -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why backports packages not deactivated

2006-03-17 Thread Steve Block
www.backports.org Pin-Priority: 200 Michelle, that should pin the package in the same way but his problem was that the package version he had installed was at priority 100, as it was not available in any other archive. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Copress a directory

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Block
gzip: tar zcvf dir.tar.gz dir -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: do I need to have ide-scsi loaded for 2.6 kernels?

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Block
ATAPI interface. I think K3B works as well, but it's been a long, long time since I used it, and I'm not sure if that was after i switched from 2.4. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: novell hula open source project?

2005-07-23 Thread Steve Block
il is ugly, you might take a look at ilohamail. It's faster and better looking than squirrelmail. I would use it myself if it had a plugin to talk to my SIEVE server. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: unsubscribe

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Block
with this mailing list? Thanks for your help. Check the mails you're getting for the Return-Path header, make sure it matches the name of the email address you're trying to unsubscribe. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Block
the list header munging stuff goes, I don't think it would really bother me either way, but having the ability to choose to reply on or off list based on which button I push is kind of nice. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: php4-mysql

2005-06-30 Thread Steve Block
mmand: mysql> set password = old_password('thepassword'); -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Steve Block
le. Please stop or take your comments to slashdot, where they belong. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Block
st. One of the most recent discussions can be found here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/27c44ac62e37253a/c86e93a96c7e2f6a Note: I find google groups easier to search than the debian-user archive. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.c

Re: postfix+cyrus21

2005-09-04 Thread Steve Block
ket directory and see if there's something in there preventing postfix from seeing the socket. A last thing to do if none of that works is to check the master.cf file and see if the lmtp agent is running chrooted. It shouldn't be (n in the fifth column). Good luck. -- Steve Block http://e

Re: mutt rocks

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Block
D No wonder it seems so confusing to new users (myself included, about 2 years ago). -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NOT INTERESTED!

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:51:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I DO NOT WANT YOUR WEB PAGE! STOP BLOCKING MY FREEMAIL.HU WEB SITE WITH YOUR HOMEPAGE! I AM NOT INTERESTED, TAKE YOU WEB PAGE AWAY! Awesome. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Block
ide in? I went and looked and it appears to be provided by the procps package. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge - postfix/saslauthd issues

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Block
d 0 0 It was easier to do it this way and have the machine come up fully and properly with a reboot, since I always seemed to have to recreate the symlink on reboot with the prior method (until I started editing startup scripts, but let's not get into that). -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ ht

Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Block
nge I made that required them to go do work like generating keys would result in a lot of complaining. There are also times when I need to log in from another machine and don't have my keys handy. Advice and insight are appreciated. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.c

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:54:14PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Steve Block wrote: I looked at my logs and found that every one of these attacks used password authentication when trying to authenticate to the server. This gave me the idea that I could

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:47:27AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya steve On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote: login attempts were reported as one of faileduser/password from ip.addr. or faileduser/none from ip.addr. >From the logs I've looked at after I changed my SSH configur

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:12:32PM +, Pollywog wrote: On 10/03/2005 07:49 pm, Steve Block wrote: I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do with port numbers at all. I'm

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:24:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote: I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do u sure do have an whacky attitude fo

Re: Synaptic Package Manager vs. RPM

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Block
lled with dpkg, and therefore be managed by the package system. You can install packages directly via rpm sometimes but I wouldn't recommend it, since they will not be registered with the debian package system. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Where is my Economist?

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:27:11PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Please do not follow up to these. You'll just generate Google hits and therefor more such emails. Bah, I find this stuff more amusing that what usually goes on in here. :-) -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://stevebloc

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
mostly use the machine remotely then the regular command line vncserver will do. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
g and how I might re-install things properly? Any help would be appreciated. Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: How to completely reinstall a package?

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0500, Tim N9PUZ wrote: Steve Block wrote: Running dpkg-reconfigure will take you through the configuration stuff again. As far as missing programs such as startx goes, I am unsure. dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system didn't do anything obvious. Reading

Re: Solved: Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Block
o the list just so anyone searching for a similar answer can find it. Steve Block wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:27:25PM -0400, Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote: Hi! Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific applic

Re: new users

2005-10-19 Thread Steve Block
more secure than an FTP server. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Block
be able to work with something else. With XML as a valid storage mechanism of course. Like iTunes or OO.o. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Block
claiming Debian is a better OS than Red Hat. There is in fact just such a Debian GNU/Solaris project in the works. I ran across it on OSNews a short while back. http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Dedicated Hosting, recommendations - Debian

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Block
n using the result for about 6 months and it's great. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unsubscribe

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Block
Read the paragraph below, which gets added to every email to this list, and try unsubscribing to the correct email address, please. To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Block http://ev-15

Re: files became readonly!!

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Block
t sure what about upgrading could have set that, but it's possible. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Block
to d-u in the first place. Of course, once somethings on a public mailing list like this it's pretty much there forever. It's on my server (IMAP copies), google, debian's archive, usenet, and plenty of mirrors and individual machines. Consider it a lesson on addressing email, perhaps. -

Re: aol art files:

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Block
!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ahahaha, awesome. They will never learn, ever. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aol art files:

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Block
list for users of Debian GNU/Linux--you won't be in the wrong place. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a one-time "change this password" script for login

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Block
user to change his/her password at the user's next login. Wouldn't address them setting their favorite shell, etc, like you mention but if they are intimidated by the environment in the first place it's probably best to just use bash, the default, anyways. -- Steve Block http://ev-1

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Block
the last 30 years is not necessary, and, compared to 80% of the people in the world, is extravagant as all hell. Work all day on a CRT for years and then switch to an LCD and tell me that they are "not necessary" or "extravagant as all hell." And your quip about how a $50 mp

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Block
y and cheap to eat too much. I am fat because I eat when I'm bored or not hungry at all, not because of growth hormones fed to cows. I prefer more natural things but I'm not going to go blaming someone else because I eat too much. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [

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