Re: authenticate from LDAP (samba PDC)

2002-05-27 Thread Tom Cook
y solution I can think of is to periodically rebuild the > smbpasswd file from LDAP. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to achieve this? How will people change their passwords if you do this? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: authenticate from LDAP (samba PDC)

2002-05-28 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:59:11AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > | On 0, dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > | > We're trying to move from lots of duplicate authentication data on > | > different systems to having

Re: attach3...aprox 189kB

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Cook
a way of ensuring that the person who is writing this letter is really who they claim they are. If you want to dabble with public-key encrypting, the I suggest: apt-get install gunpg and probably: apt-get install mutt If you want to get my public key to try it out, then you can get it from t

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Tom Cook
the proposed-updates pool is opened, every developer will want his/her package in there, because it is, of course, important. Then testing will become neglected, and every new package will just go into proposed-updates, which then doesn't get released because we're waiting on bug fixe

Re: Print to postscript question

2002-06-06 Thread Tom Cook
t; Any PS viewer shows this. And I've looked inside generated PS files - lines > are really duplicated there. > > Can this be reprodused by anyone else? > Can this be fixed somehow? > > Using KDE from Debian unstable. Check the bug database, post a bug. Tom -- Tom Cook Inform

Re: Robocode Article in June LJ

2002-06-06 Thread Tom Cook
going to need something more recent that 1.1. I think blackdown have .debs around - you need something like: deb ftp://your.blackdown.mirror.here/pub/java-linux/debian testing non-free in sources.list. Personally I use the installer thinger from Sun and put it all in /usr/local Tom -- Tom Cook In

Re: when is debian 3.0 coming out ?

2002-06-07 Thread Tom Cook
the enormous discussion threads about the woody release... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.&quo

Re: your mail

2002-06-10 Thread Tom Cook
or something. > > They do not see "myfile.zip". What do I need to do in mailto > > so that the recipients see the name of the attached file I > > am sending? > application/x-zip is the mime type of the file. I can't help but think that this is not the firs

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-11 Thread Tom Cook
to be really stable. Obviously, once woody because stable, a whole lot of less-tested packages will migrate into the new testing distro - and all the bugs will be gradually ironed out. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoi

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Cook
set to LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" and it finds ~/bin/lesspipe.sh in > my home directory. # dpkg -S /usr/bin/lesspipe less: /usr/bin/lesspipe There you go. In woody, at least. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "There are few things more

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Cook
h: /dev/console: Permission denied > Now only root can make it beep. Without resorting to root powers, > what can one do? echo -e \\a works for me, both in a shell and a script. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Other people's priorities

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Cook
d not get here. > ps: I'm so sorry, my english is no very good. <;) Your English may not be perfect, but it is quite serviceable. Far more annoying is that you didn't use an intelligent subject line. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Ne

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Cook
e \\a > /dev/console > Dan> bash: /dev/console: Permission denied Do you mean something like this: --- thing.sh --- sleep 3 echo -e \\a --- thing.sh --- # nohup ./thing.sh & ? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't fo

mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Cook
need to create this file (empty) and then everything will work? Or is there some other way to get mutt to read this mail directory? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelig

[SOLVED] Re: mutt and maildir(?)

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. > Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now > I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the &g

Re: openssh

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
tp://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free You meant: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free didn't you? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "My advice to you is to get marr

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
ackage system; annoying, > but doable. This is not true. I have Java 1.3.1_02-b02 from Sun running fine on a woody system with only libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 installed. It runs both server-type systems and gui-apps (eg robocode). [snip] Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
king, a restriction on the modification of source kills something in Debian, since (I understand) the source has to be modified in some way before a .deb can be made. You are still free to use it; /usr/local/ is the place for non-.deb software. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The U

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
pkg-reconfigure ssh' or 'apt-get install ssh' to either reconfigure the ssh server to support both protocol 1 and 2 or to upgrade your ssh client so that it supports protocol 2, respectively. Note that there is a new ssh in security.debian.org as there has been an exploit discovered rec

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The Java you get from Sun will require you to have the version of the C > > > runtime library that it was compiled for,

Re: openssh

2002-06-28 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:47:15AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > On 0, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's only been added recently as part of the preparations for release. > > > > >

Re: Logout script

2002-06-30 Thread Tom Cook
ss violently: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/bash -c "ps auwx | grep sawfish | awk '{print $1;}' | xargs kill But if you really want a violent way out of your X session, can't you set up a shortcut key combination to exit sawfish? Or, if that's not good enough, what's wr

<    1   2   3   4