also sprach Martin Feeney (on Wed, 09 May 2001 11:09:48AM +0100):
> Except you'll then try to download the 200k email. try using top instead
> of retr. It'll get the headers plus a bunch of lines of the message.
good point. thanks.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\__
> I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running
> 'fetchmail ; mutt'. This is a *little* bit annoying, because I'd
> rather be able to get my mail and read it with one command. Is
> their a way to download mail, while in mutt?
well, if you have a shell account and procmail capabili
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Wed, 09 May 2001 02:00:03AM -0700):
> 1. You can launch sslwrap from inetd, rather than running as a
> daemon. This is what I do, and have never had a problem with it.
> However, if you have a heavy load on pop3, this might not be a great
> option.
that's one idea. i'll
also sprach Mike Fedyk (on Wed, 09 May 2001 08:14:57PM -0700):
> When I scroll by line, the line highlight color is kept on the sides where
> the text didn't change.
>
> Can this be fixed with a termcap tweak, or is this something I'd have to put
> up with?
nope. screen's terminal handling in ter
debians,
i (we) operate a number of Potato servers in different locations.
After a hack attack on one of our machines, we reinstalled it (using
pretty much defaults), and now we're having problems connecting to it
from some machines. specifically, the problems relate to the sshd /
hosts.deny inter
also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 10 May 2001 10:02:42PM -0500):
> Just curious, can you access the internet using Netscape on a Windows
> box ?? If not, it's likely that MS Proxy is also doing (NTLM)
> authentication. If it is, you may be out of luck.
you can pretty much forget it. micro$oft pr
also sprach Carlos Laviola (on Fri, 11 May 2001 01:31:22PM -0300):
> Here's the thing: I have a small network at work (4 computers, each one
> using a 10.0.0.x address). The Debian server is 10.0.0.1. There's a
> notebook at 10.0.0.4.
what's his home IP? is it in the same subnet? i.e. also a 10.0.
also sprach Oliver Elphick (on Fri, 11 May 2001 06:16:34PM +0100):
> If the notebook is using a PCMCIA card to connect to the local network,
> package pcmcia-cs contains a program, cardctl, which you can use to tell
> the notebook which system you are attached to.
but he's using windoze, isn't he?
hey guys,
i would finally like to pull one of my systems up to testing, but i
still can't really afford losing it, so i am a little cautious. i
guess i would simply like to know if anyone of you had previous bad
experiences with the dist-upgrade. i am on a laptop, currently running
potato with a cu
also sprach Matt Chipman (on Sat, 12 May 2001 10:23:56AM +1000):
> Use windows hardware profiles. They are there for exactly this reason. He
> will get a menu at boot asking if he is at work or home.
he doesn't want to reboot. since windoze takes like 2.5 years...
martin; (greeting
hey debians,
i just dist-upgraded to testing and am now running XF86 4.0.2.
however, my keyboard seems to be going wild. I have the following
settings:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver"keyboard"
Option"CoreKeyboard"
Option"XkbRules" "xfree86"
Opti
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Sat, 12 May 2001 09:06:17PM -0600):
> I need to copy everything from hard drive to another. I'm assuming this is
> done w/ dd, but I need to be sure. Could someone give me an example of how to
> copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1?
only if they are the same size partitio
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Sat, 12 May 2001 09:14:22PM -0600):
> I'm actually copying from a 4GB to a 40GB partition, so I guess that won't
> work. Would tar or rsync be more suitable for this? Oh yeah, will it still
> be bootable if I use tar or rsync?
yes, it would be more suitable as dd
also sprach Erik Steffl (on Sun, 13 May 2001 02:08:18AM -0700):
> is there anything I have to do to enable ssl? Since the description of
> mutt package says it supports ssl I thought it would work right away.
> There is no separate mutt-ssl package...
my experience is that the mutt package does
also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:34:21PM -0500):
> May 13 15:37:16 server named[16551]: ns_forw:
> query(mail2.something.com) NS points to CNAME (rain.something.com:)
> learnt (CNAME=11.22.33.44:NS=55.66.77.88)
>
> what does that translate to, in newbiespeak?
my first
hi,
i use Alt-F[0-9] to navigate between my WindowMaker workspaces. I
have my opera browser (h. opera!) on workspace 9 and it's bound
there (i never close it anyway). now i would like to write a function
which will open a url in opera ("opera " either starts opera, or
passes the request to a ru
just wanted to share:
a production system of mine (very very important actually):
i use rsync, i specify .. accidentally as opposed to .
i use the --delete flag
--> /etc/* recursively gone.
AAH
but: i have a week-old backup.
i am ssh'd into the thing. no problems though
also sprach Oki DZ (on Mon, 14 May 2001 01:37:26PM +0700):
> I'd like to mirror the harddisk of my running system to another disk.
> What is the best route to do it? What I have in mind is to mount the
> second disk under /mnt and then copy all the files into it. Can rsync do
> it? Of course, I'd l
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 13 May 2001 11:09:13PM -0500):
> Unfortunately, running 'apt-get -f install' doesn't seem to fix the
> problem.
i believe that i had the same problem when i did the same. i can't
remember, but i think apt-get -f install fixed it. and if it didn't
there is alw
hey guys,
whenever i use perl (rename, apt-get/dpkg, anything), i get
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning
also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Tue, 15 May 2001 10:18:09AM +0400):
> Perl will always complain if you have problems with libc locales
> setup. So usuallly when you see such messgae it is not perl
> problem. Did you installed 'locales' package that matches version of
> libc6 package? Is your locales
also sprach Joey Hess (on Tue, 15 May 2001 11:56:58AM -0400):
> Also, see the section of perllocale(1) under "LOCALE PROBLEMS".
alright. but i am apparently too stupid. i have
/usr/lib/locale/en_US/* and locale -a lists en_US as well.
furthermore, just `locale` gives
LANG=en
LC_CTYPE="en"
LC_NUME
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Tue, 15 May 2001 02:00:41PM -0400):
> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US?
i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost!
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also sprach Viktor Lakics (on Tue, 15 May 2001 07:17:09PM +0100):
> The most comfortable way (I never tried it though) seems to be to
> have a nice KDE 2.1.1 desktop. I use Debian potato, and noticed,
> that there is a kmail import utility under Utilities in the KMENU.
> It imports Outlook express
hey debians,
is there any way to find out the motherboard make and model number of
a running system? i can't take it down... just not an option. but i
need the mobo info.
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also sprach Colin Watson (on Wed, 16 May 2001 10:40:45PM +0100):
> >is there any way to find out the motherboard make and model number of
> >a running system? i can't take it down... just not an option. but i
> >need the mobo info.
>
> Assuming it's a PCI system, does /proc/pci give you what you n
also sprach Dana J . Laude (on Wed, 16 May 2001 04:49:05PM -0500):
> Open up the case and use a flashlight? ;-) That's about the
> only option I can think of, but who knows... might just be
> a program that does this.
yeah well. you do that on a running system with 70 users and you are,
um, brave
also sprach Brandon High (on Wed, 16 May 2001 03:13:02PM -0700):
> You'll need to know the board manufacturer and BIOS version before upgrading
> the processor. You may need to flash the BIOS to make sure that it supports
> the new CPU.
yes, i am aware of that. it's a standard award bios and i am
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 16 May 2001 05:24:46PM -0500):
> Maybe this isn't a lot of help but there is a couple of programs out
> there that fit on a windows floppy that tells you the board number. That
> can be used to find the manufacture and hopefully the documentation from
> there. I used it on
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:23:07PM -0500):
> give the executable an enviornment to work. Finding the board number
> would take the time of two boots and a minute or less more. From there
> finding the jumpers could take 10 minutes to never.
yeah well, you have a point. but then, if
also sprach Dimitri Maziuk (on Wed, 16 May 2001 06:56:47PM -0500):
> In that case I don't see any other option but to go and _carefully_
> open the fscker. With a flashlight and good eyesight you will find
> whatever info the manufacturer printed on the board. Hopefully there
> will be enough to go
also sprach omicron (on Wed, 16 May 2001 03:57:53PM +0530):
> what does it mean ? I *did* compile (and recompile ) my kernel a
> dozen times..is it because of that ?
yes. copy the file /usr/src/linux/System.map to
/boot/System.map-`uname -r` and you are set.
System.map maps kernel address s
also sprach DvB (on Wed, 16 May 2001 08:30:15PM -0500):
> I was going to burn myself a copy of potato to see how much the
> install's improved since I last ran it and noticed there are not one,
> not two, but _three_ freaking iso images (binary-i386-1 thru 3.iso) out
> there. Are they all really
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Wed, 16 May 2001 09:30:37PM -0700):
> > Anybody know how to do kernel rebuilds in such a way that existing 3rd-party
> > kernel modules (ie those not included in the kernel src tree) aren't
> > removed from /lib/modules/... ?
>
> Copy them off to the side, the co
"Microsoft Windows has better security than Linux"
it's absolutely hilarious, just about like everything that comes out
of the redmond circus.
the original is at
http://www.microsoft.com/europe/industry/downloads/
retail/Linux%20report.doc
but because that's about 600% the size of the actu
also sprach Willi Dyck (on Thu, 17 May 2001 06:37:42PM +0200):
> Linux is less secure
>
> "Open source" means that anyone can get a copy of the source code.
> Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same
> is not true with Microsoft Windows.
>
> Damn! How can I protect
also sprach Frank Zimmermann (on Thu, 17 May 2001 05:53:40PM +0100):
> not really the lastest news. Suse already respondet at the 11.05.
> (sorry only fond a german version:
> http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html ) and the OpenSource
> Community responded recently to this:
> http://perens.co
also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400):
> """
> Limited Developer Tools
>
> There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are
> available are much more difficult to use than Microsoft Visual Studio.
> Thus, the same application can take much longer to develop
also sprach Cameron Matheson (on Thu, 17 May 2001 04:42:19PM -0600):
> I have a little problem w/ ssh. Me and a few other folks started a free web-
> hosting company, and I'm supposed to be the sysadmin. The server's at someone
> elses house, so I am supposed to ssh in. For some reason, it alway
also sprach Patrick Colbeck (on Fri, 18 May 2001 09:48:43AM +0100):
> I just installed 2.2r3 on a Libretto and it works fine except that on
> boot it starts the networking before it starts PCMCIA so the ethernet
> card is not initialised. I can do a /etc/init.d/network resart and it
> all bursts in
also sprach Ilya Martynov (on Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:57AM +0400):
> >> Why are you setting LANG=en instead of LANG=en_US?
> Md> i am not setting anything anywhere. in fact, i am lost!
> check /etc/environment
cool. i didn't know this file existed. how does it tie in? when is it
sourced?
martin;
also sprach Michael Soulier (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:18:32PM -0400):
> And there they are.
run 'apt-get -f install'
then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry.
anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++
won't install, you can always force it to...
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans (on Fri, 18 May 2001 04:01:36PM -0400):
> Now, I know Redhat's Linux distribution sucks, but is it bad enough that
> it should be considered "ideal for the ex"???
read the page the link points to... it's ideal for the "experience
user", not your ex... :->
but hey, i
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:44:31PM -0400):
> > ever used it? it hurts!
> Most distributions hurt if you don't know how to use them.
alright then, i'll expand: redhat hurts especially if you know linux
very well. or can you find convincing arguments for linuxconf??? or
rpm???
trying to install opera, i got dependency errors, which even apt-get
-f install couldn't fix. subsequently i isolated the dependency, and
one of those were liblcms. but an apt-get install liblcms yielded:
Package liblcms has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means th
also sprach Alan Shutko (on Fri, 18 May 2001 05:58:29PM -0400):
> Nobody can find convincing arguments for linuxconf... but nobody
> forces you to use it. Many RHL users remove it on sight... I did,
> when I was using it.
so did i. nevertheless, i don't know about redhat 7.x anymore, but
redhat 6
also sprach Stephen E. Hargrove (on Fri, 18 May 2001 07:03:42PM -0500):
> i'm running woody and have it installed:
that's probably the problem - since i am running woody on one machine
where it works, and potato on the one where it doesn't.
but i should be able to install all these dependencies w
also sprach Brian Nelson (on Fri, 18 May 2001 09:12:57PM -0400):
> Can't say I'm all that impressed with it though. The damn toolbar/ad
> crap takes up half the damn screen. Maybe you're not missing out on
> much...
i have a registered version and i wouldn't want to substitute it for
any of skip
what's going on???
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also sprach Kurt Stege (on Sat, 19 May 2001 06:20:13AM +0200):
> Nach der ganzen Diskussion, ob man würfeln soll oder auf jeden Fall
> antworten: Ich würde den Brief ohne Überlegung wegwerfen, wie jede
> andere uninteressante Werbung oder Spam auch. Und per E-Mail
> flattert mir jeden Tag sowas ins
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Mon, 21 May 2001 08:26:32PM -0700):
> Or perhaps it stems from the fact that I su to root? I'm running
> under gdm. For example, my USER variable is still set to my original
> name after the su.
well, i assume that you figure out how to use xterm su'd to root -
right
also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Tue, 22 May 2001 12:50:47PM +0200):
> Where can I get a document describing the maildir format? The short
> page on Dan Bernstein's site is informative but I doubt complete, I
> can figure out how to read and mark messages to ./cur from ./new but
> nought is said abou
also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500):
> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00
> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead
process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way yo
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700):
> No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be
> scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server.
one of the reasons why i wouldn't run mysql for any reason in the
world! unless you don't need a true data
dudes,
i set some domain names up such that host.aaa.com points to
host.dyn.bbb.com (CNAME). furthermore, host.dyn.bbb.com's MX is set to
mail.bbb.com.
on mail.bbb.com, there is a postfix running with an entry in the
virtual map for host.aaa.com to point to a local user.
mail.bbb.com allows relay
also sprach Ross Boylan (on Wed, 23 May 2001 07:51:04PM -0700):
> Thank you; it worked. But why is it necessary to do this?
well, Xresources isn't read every single time you start an xterm (a
watch stat on the file will confirm this), so it's buffered. xrdb (x
read database) updates the cache.
hey all,
so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom,
just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP.
i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the
only bootable one, and i get to a lilo prompt with options "linux",
"floppy0", "re
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 23 May 2001 11:56:04PM -0500):
> You need root.bin, rescue.bin and 1 or more driver disks. If the disks
> aren't being read the most likely two problems are a bad or dirty floppy
> drive and or bad floppy disks. I assume your following the installation
> instructions at t
also sprach Mike Egglestone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 07:00:44PM -0700):
> Which platform of hardware would be best?
> G4 from apple
> Pentium something from somewhere
is that a serious question???
the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
is just pittyful compared to RISC.
also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Wed, 23 May 2001 09:01:13AM +0200):
> I want to use a maildir as a sort of queue for processing incoming
> emails with structered data which needs to be processed and written
> to a db. Now, once I've decided to read a message, I move it to
> ./cur, but how do I let a
also sprach Leonard Leblanc (on Fri, 25 May 2001 10:32:36AM -0500):
> heh, you pretty much summed up my reaction.
so what does 114 days of uptime buy you?
does it matter that much???
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also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:09AM -0500):
> > To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your
> > local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not.
that should be 0.0.0.0.
i found that once somewhere and never again, but from the source code,
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:31:18AM -0500):
> I did not sprach this.
i am sorry, my bad. should pay more attention to quoting.
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also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:48:29AM -0400):
> chmod o-rwx /
> chmod o-rwx /home
> chgrp root /
> chgrp root /home
at which point you won't be able to access even your homedirectory
anymore. na, you need the x right on directories higher up the
hierarchy from where you want to
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200):
> I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good
> idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I
> don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need
> to be able to retreive
also sprach D-Man (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:47:35PM -0400):
> Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner
> read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on
> my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755
> (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in t
hey,
i am using snort straight out of the potato distribution on a server
that i administer remotely. as i have to find out every now and then,
snort - started through /etc/init.d/snort - dies and i have to
manually restart it.
have you guys experienced similar problems?
martin; (gre
also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200):
> Any similar utility under Debian?
nope, and that's why debian is so good. if you need those utilities,
get redhat or suse or progeny! those gui utils have inherent problems
on systems like linux where config files may be edited by hand too
i have an xntp3 server (redhat, sorry) running on 192.168.1.1
configured as follows:
//
server 130.149.17.21 prefer # ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de
fudge 130.149.17.21 stratum 1
server 129.132.98.11 # bernina.ethz.ch
fudge 129.132.98.11 stratum 1
restrict default
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:58:22AM -0400):
> Simply edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have
>
> alias eth0
>
> where is the kernel modules for your ethernet card. One of
> mine is 'tulip' and another is 'ne'.
even better. although modconf is important too. but understanding the
also sprach Rafael Sasaki (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:59:39PM -0300):
> poll server1 with proto POP3 user "user1" there with password
> "***" is asuzuki here options keep
>
> (if this is the account you just want to read the messages, not
> delete them from server)
and you might want to consider
also sprach Alex Suzuki (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:42:37AM +0200):
> Do I just have to add this at the end of the line?
> options keep uidl
precisely.
did you 'man fetchmailrc' ?
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also sprach Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:08:14AM +):
> Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200
> files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have
> 300 files ?
ls -1 | head -200 | xargs echo rm
when you made sure that the command lin
also sprach rich (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:00:49AM -0500):
> I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find
> out which .deb package provides these?
fishbowl:~# dpkg -S libXt.so.6 libX11.so.6
xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
xlibs: /us
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