Making a java 1.4.1 deb

2002-11-02 Thread mdevin
Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is it possible to use this and s

Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb

2002-11-04 Thread mdevin
tial. Yeah, I thought it was something along those lines. > mdevin> I don't mean this email to be any criticism of the speed > mdevin> at which java .debs are released. More of an inquiry as > mdevin> to whether there is anything that I can do about it. >

broadcom lan

2002-11-11 Thread mdevin
I have a ASUS A7V8X mother-board with a built in lan which I think is a Broadcom 4401 10/100. I have searched high and low for any mention anywhere of anyone using this with linux and can't find anything. Can someone tell me what kernel module will work with this Broadcomm 4401? Note that I am t

Re: broadcom lan

2002-11-11 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 19:18:04 +1000, mdevin wrote: > I have a ASUS A7V8X mother-board with a built in lan which I think is a > Broadcom 4401 10/100. > > I have searched high and low for any mention anywhere of anyone using > this with linux and can't find anything. >

Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
I have a ASUS mobo (A7V8X) with a 10/100 Broadcom network card built in (not the gigabit one). The CD that came with the mobo has a linux driver on it. It is for RedHat, but it also has the source in a tar gzip file and instructions on how to compile it and use it. I didn't think that there woul

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:04:28 -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:30:10AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > I have a ASUS mobo (A7V8X) with a 10/100 Broadcom network card built in > > (not the gigabit one). The CD that came with the mobo has a linux > > dri

insmod issues

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
I am having an ongoing battle to get my network card to work. It built in on my ASUS A7V8X mobo and uses a broadcom 4400 driver which is on the CD that came with the motherboard. Now, I have the module compiled for my particular kernel version (2.4.18). In fact, I just recompiled my kernel and t

Re: Compiling RedHat network driver

2002-11-13 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 23:00:32 -0500, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:42:30AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > One further thing: Obviously you don't need this kernel-headers-2.4.18 > > package to compile a 2.4.18 kernel because I didn't have it and

Re: insmod issues

2002-11-14 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:26:10 -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:45:52PM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > I am having an ongoing battle to get my network card to work. It built > > in on my ASUS A7V8X mobo and uses a broadcom 4400 driver which is on the > >

Re: insmod issues

2002-11-14 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:02:13 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * mdevin [Fri, Nov 15 2002, 09:38:11AM]: > > > I compiled the module bcm4400.o against the kernel-headers-2.4.18 > > package (ie. the one for my kernel-source 2.4.18), so I don't understand &

dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
I seem to have gotten dpkg into an inconsistent state for the portmap package. I can't install it and I can't remove it either. I have tried the following: apt-get install portmap apt-get -f install portmap apt-get remove portmap --purge apt-get install portmap --fix-missing Should I manually de

Re: dpkg portmap error

2002-11-16 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 18:16:00 -0800, nate wrote: > mdevin said: > > > /etc/init.d/portmap: No such file or directorydpkg: warning - old > > pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from > > the new package instead ... > > /var/lib/

ldap re-creating database

2002-11-17 Thread mdevin
I didn't like the way Debian setup the initial ldap database for me and want to start over. I have tried purging the slapd package and reinstalling after keeping my modified slapd.conf as well as trying to manually remove each entry in the database. I just want a clean slate to start with so that

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-17 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 18:49:40 -0800, nate wrote: > mdevin said: > > > In my most recent attempt I deleted the /var/lib/ldap/* files, put my > > slapd.conf file in place and started slapd. However, when I try to > > migrate the base system I get "Invalid creden

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-17 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 00:13:28 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 07:45:37PM -0800, nate wrote: > | mdevin said: > | > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 18:49:40 -0800, nate wrote: > | > | > Thanks, it worked straight away. But you have scared m

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-17 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 23:11:56 -0800, nate wrote: > mdevin said: > > > Can you spell that out even more for this ldap newbie? > > In my slapd.conf I do have the following: > > rootdn "cn=admin,dc=mycompany,dc=com" > > rootpw {SSHA}JuaW

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Agh, I am going crazy here. Going very basic now and still can't seem to be able to use ldapadd like the documentation suggests. Here is what I have just tried. 1. Stopped slapd: /etc/init.d/slapd stop 2. Removed all files in /var/lib/ldap/ rm /var/lib/ldap/* 3. Created a /etc/ldap/sla

hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Sorry for starting a new thread, but I was getting lost in the other about hdparm since it started out as about KDE. On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:03:16PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > # hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount= 16 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq= 1 (o

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 14:46:27 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > [...] > > > Now the kernel I am using I compiled myself and I selected to use DMA > > when available. Here is part of the kernel config: > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y > > CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > >

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:26:22 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:11:56PM -0800, nate wrote: > | mdevin said: > | > | > Can you spell that out even more for this ldap newbie? > | > In my slapd.conf I do have the following: >

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 16:16:57 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > So are the read times as expected for an IDE ATA133, 7200RPM, 40GB drive? > > Certainly not. Bellow is what I got from my IBM 7200 rpm disk, (using > UDMA66): > I only just got this computer and hard drive 1 week ago and it is suppo

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
I have an just checked the hdparm output on another computer for an earlier model Western Digital drive which is ATA100, 7200RPM, 40GB. Therefore this drive should not perform as well. Here is what I get: Note that the kernel being used on this machine also has compiled support for using DMA by d

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Actually, some more digging shows some new support in the 2.5 kernel for the VIA VT8235 chipset which is on my mobo. It seems that udma6 can then be enabled by passing 'ide0=ata66' to the kernel at boot time. (Note that I do have the drive connected using an 80 pin ATA133 cable). Hmmm, I don't th

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:47:09 -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > > > # hdparm -i /dev/hdc > > /dev/hdc: > > Model=WDC WD400BB-32AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6R3707054 > > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:04:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > thats a good option, you might also wanna try > > hdparm -c3 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > -u1 allow the system to process other systeminterrupts > while waiting for the disk Yep, tried that too but each time I see errors in syslog and

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
Another thing: I just noticed that everytime I send and email now, the log screen for slapd spews heaps of stuff. I guess postfix is already communicating with it for some reason, although I am not sure what. There are is far too much info flying off the screen for me to figure out what is happen

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:53:44 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > === CAUTION > > > === playing will hdparm options -- you risk losing data on your disks > > > > Yeah, I have read that and it worries me. > > you're supposed to do hdparm testing on your spare disk that you > dont care about >

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 17:54:43 -0800, nate wrote: > did you restart SSH after making the change? Yes. > I have priviledge speration set to no, just because I haven't had a > chance to test it with yes yet, I don't think it would work with the > strict permissions on the pam_ldap.conf. maybe yo

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-19 Thread mdevin
I really appreciate the effort you and others have put into helping me with this problem. Unfortunately, I won't be able do things like compile a 2.5 kernel or re-boot with ide0=ata66, until I return from work in about 5 days time. I don't want to do stuff like that remotely. The first thing I w

Re: hdparm and DMA and raid

2002-11-20 Thread mdevin
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:04:49 +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > [slightly change/addition of topic] > > It seems like you could try 2.4.20-pre2-ac5 (or later I guess) instead > of stepping to 2.5, at least the change log says "Add VIA vt8235 IDE > support". Excellent. I will compile one when I ge

Re: ldap re-creating database

2002-11-20 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 18:16:34 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:24:18PM +1000, mdevin wrote: > > | One thing interesting though is that if I enter my proper system > | password then ldap refuses me once and gives another Password: prompt. &

How to request specific IPaddress with DHCP?

2002-09-17 Thread mdevin
Hello all, Does anyone know if there is a way to try and force the DHCP server for your ISP to give you the IPaddress you want? I am using dhclient as my DHCP client. Basically, I want to try and limit the possibility that my IPaddress will change. In fact it just changed and I want to try and

Re: How to request specific IPaddress with DHCP?

2002-09-17 Thread mdevin
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:47:13 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 05:19, mdevin wrote: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to try and force the DHCP server for > > your ISP to give you the IPaddress you want? > > > > I am using dhclient as my

Re: How to request specific IPaddress with DHCP?

2002-09-21 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 16:16:53 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.18.0143 +0200]: > > I just thought that there was a way to refuse to take a certain > > IPaddress and thereby force the server to issue a new one. However, I >

Re: How to request specific IPaddress with DHCP?

2002-09-21 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 23:40:00 +1000, Tom Massey wrote: > * mdevin [2002-09-21 22:42]: > > Hmmm, that is interesting. But how do I change my mac address? My > > ethernet card has this hard coded in its chip by the manufacturer. I > > can't see how you can overri

login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
I have just installed debian potato again and now I seem to have a problem with logging in. When I reboot the system and then try to log in on a virtual terminal as root it refuses telling me "login incorrect". When I log in as a user and then log out and then log back in as root it works fine.

PPP VJ decompression error

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
What does this mean? I see this occasionally in my syslog: PPP: VJ decompression error Everything seems to work OK still but just wondered if I need to fix something? Thanks. Mark.

Some logging not working after reinstallation

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
I have just reinstalled debian potato on this system and now some things don't work as they did before. Now I copied a lot of my config files before reinstalling so things really should be the same. Here is a specific example: I run fetchmail after establishing my ppp connection - it all works f

Re: login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:05:11AM -0400, Steve Barr wrote: > > Now I know this has something to do with the virtual terminal not > > recognising the keys properly when I type them. It must be that the > > word "root" doesn't have enough characters for the terminal to detect > > what type it shoul

Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread mdevin
This is not a debian specific question, but I know there are some hardware experts out there that may be able to help me and I would much appreciate it :-) I am considering upgrading our server at work. I don't fully appreciate the performance advantage / disadvantages of dual processors and SCSI

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-21 Thread mdevin
Thanks for all the replies. They have been most helpful. It seems as though SCSI is definitely the way to go for this large database server. Essentially it will be the server for a database with the 486 / slow pentiums retrieving and writing small amounts of data continuously. So definitely sold

Re: lilo trouble

2001-06-22 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:06:24AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also > faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on > IDE. So far, so good. But I can“t, for whatever reason, just boot > comple

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
I am on a dynamic IP address and some other user may have previously attempted to abuse the server or send some spam? Anyway, please let me know if it is a bad idea to send mail directly rather than through a smarthost when you are on an intermittent PPP link. Thanks. mdevin.

Re: Exim as a LAN mail server [possibly-OT]

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
ere used for spam or not. So this blocking probably had nothing to do > with the previous user of that IP address spamming, it might as well > have been a generic block. Hmmm, that is a good reason to use a smarthost indeed. Thanks. mdevin.

Scanner + printer choice

2001-07-14 Thread mdevin
I have decided to purchase a new scanner and printer - especially since Canon seem unwilling to help development of drivers for their scanners. I intend to ditch my Canon models to a friend and won't buy Canon again. I was considering one of those combo units with the printer and scanner together

Real Player for potato

2001-07-15 Thread mdevin
OK, just need a little help here trying to install realplayer on my debian potato box. I went to the real.com site and downloaded their rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin file. But then I did a bit of google searching and found that there is an installer .deb for it but it is only in woody / sid and

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:51:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, just need a little help here trying to install realplayer on my > > debian potato box. > > > > I went to the real.com site and downloaded their > > rp8_linux20_

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-22 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:21:53AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > This is what I hoped would not be the case. The new debconf in turn > depends on perl 5.6.1, you don't want to "dpkg -i" with all that. > > > What gives? > > A dead end, unless you can switch to four wheel mode and upgrade to > te

Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-22 Thread mdevin
Hi all, What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? For example, I can read .pdf files straight away on trying to open their attachments and it automatically uses xpdf (which is loaded on my system). So, two questions: 1. What is the best, quickest, simplest, smallest p

Anyone got acroread working on potato?

2001-07-23 Thread mdevin
Everytime I try to open a .pdf file with acroread it gives me the following error: Exited with error code: 0x400e0009. I am running potato and xpdf works OK - but it doesn't display the fonts in the .pdf file properly. Is there something wrong with acroread or my system? Thanks. Mark.

Re: Reading .doc files from within Mutt

2001-07-27 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: > > What is the best (simplest) way to read .doc files from within Mutt? > > /etc/mailcap: > application/msword; /usr/bin/antiword '%s'; copiousoutput; > description="Microsoft Word Text"; nametemplate=%s.doc > > and (if you wan

Turning off services

2001-08-14 Thread mdevin
I am trying to learn a little more about just what daemons I need running for the system to work and what I can do without. Now, when I installed Debian, I told dselect to not install things like: ftpd, telnetd, fingerd, talkd, and identd. From memory, the installer wanted to put these on by defa

Colour coding in vim?

2001-08-27 Thread mdevin
Hi all you vim fans. Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be good to see all the comments coded a different colour. How do you do this? Thanks. Mark.

Fetchmail fails to connect to postfix

2001-11-19 Thread mdevin
Last week, I started getting these errors in my syslog when trying to download my mail: Nov 16 12:07:44 flea fetchmail[455]: starting fetchmail 5.3.3 daemon Nov 16 12:07:58 flea fetchmail[455]: 262 messages for mdevin at pop.ozemail.com.au (812090 octets). Nov 16 12:07:59 flea fetchmail[455

Web-based email encryption / signing

2001-11-19 Thread mdevin
Are there any-web based email providers that allow you to sign or encrypt emails? Is this even possible to be done? Would it still require that the computer you use to access the internet have a copy of your private key, or could this be stored by the web-based email provider? Thanks. Mark. pg

Re: Web-based email encryption / signing

2001-11-19 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:40:58AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:22:04PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there any-web based email providers that allow you to sign or encrypt > > emails? > > http://www.hushmail.com > > > Would it still require that the computer

squid or masqueradeing?

2001-11-28 Thread mdevin
I have an iptables firewall running on my linux box connected to the internet with a standard dialup ppp link. Now I have just connected another debian box and a windows98 box to this firewall box. So far I have only allowed ssh into the firewall box from the internal LAN. There are no ports ope

What the! Now localhost doesn't resolve.

2001-11-28 Thread mdevin
I don't know what I just did but now all my mail is being bounced by postfix. Here is part of my logs: Nov 29 15:12:38 beast postfix/smtp[576]: 236DB1901C: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Name service error for domain localhost: Host not found) host localhost --> give

Re: What the! Now localhost doesn't resolve.

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
> I don't know what I just did but now all my mail is being bounced by > postfix. Here is part of my logs: > Nov 29 15:12:38 beast postfix/smtp[576]: 236DB1901C: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Name > service error for domain localhost: Host not found) > Appologies f

Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
I just stumbled upon this LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection/Defense System) see: http://www.lids.org I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and what they think of it. Is it hard to set up? What happens when you do an apt-get dist-upgrade - will it refuse to change the binaries you want to u

Secure Auth server?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
I notice that everytime I send mail to the debian-user list, I get requests to port 113 on my machine by the debian mail server. Here is an example from my firewall log: Nov 30 11:31:11 beast kernel: incoming_new_::IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=216.234.231.6 DST=144.134.71.208 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TT

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:41:25PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:31:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just stumbled upon this LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection/Defense > > System) see: http://www.lids.org > > > > I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and wh

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:36:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya mark > > are you trying to detect that files has changed > or are you trying to protect files from being changed ?? Well, I was really trying to weigh up the pros / cons of both. It seemed to me from first appearances that some

Re: Secure Auth server?

2001-11-29 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 05:58:48PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > > prepared to open up port 113 if I could guarantee that the program > > would not give my real user id and there is no way that it could be > > compromised. > > i don't think theres anybody who could give a network daemon > a complete

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-11-30 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:11:04PM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Fre, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:31:08 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just wanted to know if anyone is using this and what they think of > > it. > > I think it's a good protection that bring's a linux system a step > further in the

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:32:06PM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Sam, Dez 01, 2001 at 03:32:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is it easy to get rid of it, if it causes me more trouble than it is > > worth? > > run an unpatched kernel, disable it with kernel option "security=0" > (e.g. lil

Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is doing to me since I fiddled with its main.cf? For example here is how my list looks in mutt for the debian-user list currently. I have configured mutt to sort by

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
fetchmailrc file: - snip - set postmaster "mark" set no bouncemail set syslog # loging of errors etc. set daemon 900 # puts it in background, polls every 900secs (15mins) poll pop.ozemail.com.au with

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:22:07PM -0600, DvB wrote: > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:34 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:02:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list.

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
Check this out, it is a simple cut/paste from my mutt main view. Sorry the thread patterns don't come out quite the same. But this is one thread currently on debian-user. 53 O 12/01 Jens Luedicke (0.5K) LILO and FreeBSD 54 O 12/01 Jens Luedicke (0.7K) t*> 55 O 12/01 ben

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:58:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya mark > > duplicates ( to you) from me is probably just my reply to you and the > deb list... you may or may not ( but probably will ) get 2 copies of this > email...depends on how the mta is configured ... > > otherwise... i do

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-02 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:46:12AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > I haven't changed anything in my fetchmailrc, /etc/postfix/main.cf, or > > .procmailrc files. And yet it seems to have stopped now. > > > > Very confusing? > > Mark, > > Don't know why you are

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates? -- nope

2001-12-04 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:28:07PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Don't know why you are getting them, but I have this in .procmailrc which > >> weeds duplicates pretty effectively. > >> > >> # Nuke duplicate messages > >> :0 Wh: msgid.lock > >> | $FORMAIL -D 81

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-05 Thread mdevin
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:57:57AM -0800, Empty One wrote: > I realise this may be a little late, it being the > fourth and all, but i'm a behing in reading the list. > Are you sure you aren't leaving the origional message > on the server? I know that with some mail programs, > every time you sca

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-05 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Son, Dez 02, 2001 at 08:47:41 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't forget to protect lidsadm binary. This is the interface for > supplying a password to deactivate the features in the kernel. > The password can't be cracked

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-05 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:06:52PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.30 14:16:57+1000]: > > Also, the openwall patch that Alvin Oga recommended seems to only be for > > 2.2 series kernels - so I guess that is not possible for a 2.4 kernel. > > And I re

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-05 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:22:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote: > > Is your mail server protected by netfilter firewall? If so, I'm suppose that > problem of duplicating mail is caused by netfilter. Let's consider following > scenario: Yep, using iptables on 2.4.14 kernel running potato with

UPS software

2001-12-06 Thread mdevin
I am looking at purchasing a UPS and trying to decide between APC and Best (Invensys). Best apparently used to release their source code for their unix driver - which is a big plus. But this is no longer the case. Best provides binary versions of drivers for linux which is good. Apparently APC d

Re: SNAT or MASQUERADE?

2001-12-08 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:48:13AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, David B Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:36:20 +1000, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > SNAT would be. However, you better make sure that each time the IP > > address of your interface changes, your firewa

Re: iptables script

2001-12-09 Thread mdevin
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:52:49PM +, Am?rico Rocha wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to forward port ssh (22) to another computer > on my intranet > > The network topology is simple: 192.168.0.12, is connected > on eth0 to dhcp, and eth1 acts as a NAT to the intranet > consisting on 9 comp

Changing the mail spoolfile

2001-12-13 Thread mdevin
I have changed where procmail puts mail for each user with the following settings in /etc/procmailrc: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox LOGFILE=/dev/null SHELL=/bin/sh So now the spoolfile for each user is in $HOME/mail/inbox

Automatic download from secure site?

2001-12-25 Thread mdevin
I am looking for a way to automate some downloading from my banks secure site. I am a customer and have a login account and password. I can login and view the page with my account details etc. But I would like to be able to setup a program to do this on a daily basis and download the page to my

Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-20 Thread mdevin
I need to change the ownership of my 2nd serial port for nut to work properly with my ups. I am using devfs which is enabled at boot. I can set the ownership with a command like: chown root.nut /dev/tts/1 That works no problem, but I need it to continue to have those ownerships when the computer

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-21 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:04:44PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 22:14, mdevin wrote: > > I need to change the ownership of my 2nd serial port for nut to work > > properly with my ups. I am using devfs which is enabled at boot. > > > > Als

Shutdown script for nut to shutdown a ups

2002-02-21 Thread mdevin
Can someone help me with something related to ups setup? I was trying to setup the shutdown command properly and was reading through the nut-doc/shutdown.txt file and found this: -- snip 2. Edit your shutdown scripts to check for that flag file and then call you

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-24 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:12:22PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > Umm.. this actually brings me to a question: I upgraded my kernel to > 2.4.17 from 2.2.something, and after a while found a complaint from > noflushd that I had a devfs-enabled kernel, but devfs wasn't on, and > so it wouldn't st

what is xconsole.real?

2002-03-04 Thread mdevin
I just upgraded to Woody from Potato and I have noticed that there is a symlink in /etc/alternatives which seems to point nowhere. dpkg seems to have created this link: root:~# ls -al /etc/alternatives/xconsole lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 28 Mar 2 23:35 /etc/alternatives/xconsole -> /

Re: what is xconsole.real?

2002-03-06 Thread mdevin
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 14:54:43 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:59:05 +1000, mdevin wrote: > > /etc/alternatives/xconsole -> /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole.real > > [binaryname].real are lefovers from the old xaw-wrappers package. > Hmmm, I am still

Exim rewriting addresses

2001-05-01 Thread mdevin
I am having some difficulty understanding how the last section of /etc/exim.conf rewrites addresses. Here is the part of the config file in question: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ {$value}fail} Ffrsw Here is what I h

Re: Exim rewriting addresses

2001-05-01 Thread mdevin
David Purton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am having some difficulty understanding how the last section of > > /etc/exim.conf rewrites addresses. Here is the part of the config > > file in question: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > >

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-02 Thread mdevin
Here is what I did step by step on 2 separate computers to change over to reiserfs. First of all you must have a partition large enough to hold everything. Lets say you have 4 partitions and part4 is big enough to hold everything. Lets say the 4 partitions are mounted as /boot, swap, /, /var. Y

Adding a gateway for ppp?

2001-10-16 Thread mdevin
I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail. Now this time I am trying to connect through my local university (QUT). I went through the same process in

Re: Adding a gateway for ppp?

2001-10-16 Thread mdevin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:51:28AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the > basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can > connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail. > > Now this time I am trying to c

Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-18 Thread mdevin
Earlier I set my tabstop to 4 to give me some more screen room in my C program .c files. The problem is that when I print out the source code (eg. for a Uni assignment) or when someone else edits it, the tabstops are by default 8 spaces. What is the best way to deal with this? What I have curren

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > Here's what I do: > > - > " Global defaults, applies to everything > > syntax on > > if version >= 600 > filetype on > filetype plugin on > filetype indent on > endif > > set autoindent > set tabstop=8

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > Here's what I do: > > - > " Global defaults, applies to everything > > syntax on > > if version >= 600 > filetype on > filetype plugin on > filetype indent on > endif > > set autoindent > set tabstop=8

Re: Settings for vim for C programming?

2001-10-19 Thread mdevin
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:56:32PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:19:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:45:39PM -0400, dman wrote: > | > Here's what I do: > ... > | > First I set some default values the way I want them for all buffers. > | > Then I

HTMLConverter for Java2 - why can't users run it?

2001-11-14 Thread mdevin
When you follow the instructions on Sun's site for installing the HTMLConverter for Java2, you end up only being able to run the HTMLConverter.sh file as root. This is because all the directories seem to have only rw permissions when the archive is extracted and not rwx permissions. Is there some

SMTP connect to localhost failed

2001-11-15 Thread mdevin
ting these errors in my syslog when trying to download my mail: Nov 16 12:07:44 flea fetchmail[455]: starting fetchmail 5.3.3 daemon Nov 16 12:07:58 flea fetchmail[455]: 262 messages for mdevin at pop.ozemail.com.au (812090 octets). Nov 16 12:07:59 flea fetchmail[455]: reading message 1 of 262 (3327 octe

Printing .pdf files

2001-09-13 Thread mdevin
I am getting totally frustrated with trying to print .pdf files. Here is my setup: Printer: HP1220 - Laser with post-script level 2 emulation Print driver: CUPS (the potato version - cupsys_1.0.4-9_i386.deb) What happens is, I have heaps of trouble trying to stop the edges of pages being chopped

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