Fwd: [Snort-users] Debian, Snort, Barnyard, BASE, Oinkmaster Step-by-Step Guide

2006-04-20 Thread Andy Firman
/deb-snort-howto.pdf There is a full plain text version below. Let me know if you see any errors or if you have any feedback! Thanks, Andy - Forwarded message from Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Andy Firman

Re: [OT] The decline and fall of Google Groups

2004-12-18 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:24:13AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: Google's becoming evil. Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own group namespace beside usenet. It's horrible. I agree 100%.

Re: search mail archive

2004-12-12 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:12:45PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: ken keanon wrote: When I tried to use the Search in the Debian page, I was directed to Google. This is inefficient. Google indexes the site on its own, and it uses Google's advanced search features to only search debian.org. How

/etc/group problem

2004-11-27 Thread Andy Firman
I have added myself to the audio and camera groups. (i.e. usermod -G audio andy) For some reason, I keep dropping out of those groups. Something is messing with the /etc/group file. What could be doing this or where do I start looking to solve the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Alsa module problem with snd_pcm_oss, snd_emu10k1, soundcore

2004-11-08 Thread Andy Firman
I have 2 Debian unstable boxes with the same sound card which is the: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Both boxes using kernel-image-2.6.9-1-386. The work box has no volume control, but base and treble control works. So it is stuck on one volume level. The home box is just fine with all

Re: alsaconf

2004-11-08 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:59:11AM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El lunes 8 de noviembre de 2004 a las 02:29:34, Rick Pasotto escribe: I have installed libasound1, alsa-base, alsa-utils. When I run alsaconf it says it can't find any PCI sound cards even though I have an Ensoniq

Re: [OT] Debian advocacy for Smart but Scared People With Lives

2004-10-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:28:05PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: And I spent a month getting all Debian's eyecandy and hardware acceleration working. And mutt was ridiculous at first compared to Outlook. You can say that again!!! It is funny as hell to look back at how foreign it felt

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:54:13PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:40, Andy Firman wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would

Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-16 Thread Andy Firman
Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would like to connect to an Exchange server. I know how to join a Windows PDC using the net rpc command from the Samba 3 suite and I can mount all the necessary shares. So far so goodbut need to do the shared stuff on Exchange. Searched

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would like to connect to an Exchange server. There are some packages here: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/debian/sid

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:00:07PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: %% Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: af apt-cache search ximian-connector shows nothing. af How do I get his packages in? apt-get install evolution-exchange I must be doing something really stupid: chum:/home/andy# apt

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the two comment lines warning me not to change things manually) everytime I reboot. I just plain don't have any

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

2004-06-13 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: Team: I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . . I am

Re: Cannot launch remote apps on X

2004-04-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:27:14PM -0400, Linux Nick wrote: [-- Autoview using /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --] Sorry top poster for life, not scrolling all the way to the bottom to get a reply I know what the previous email said and don't need to read it

Re: RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya antony On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc connected. I then got a

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:56:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. My budget is small, maybe $100. My question is therefore, what sort of suggestions people have to apply antivirus scanning?

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:30:09AM -0400, Andy Firman wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:56:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4) Probably more configurations I had not thought of. My budget is small, maybe $100. My question is therefore

Re: standalone home desktop user virus

2004-03-29 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:30:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wanda Round) writes: I know how to use F-Prot and Clamav as command-line scanners, but is there any way to make them on-demand or on-all-the-time? I'm glad you asked!

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:32:56AM -0500, Jody Grafals wrote: I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, I like it just the way it is, thank you very much. YES exactly. I don't understand

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-27 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:55:52PM +, Craig Genner wrote: On Friday 26 Mar 2004 10:28 pm, Nicolas wrote: If it can help anyone, I also have a config for my TV. My videocard is a nVidia and I use their module. I put the raw config. I don't like to delete lines, comments are good for

Re: Dual Display on a Laptop?

2004-03-26 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:58:52PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-26 04:55]: On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:37, arief# wrote: I mean, can I make it viewing different view than the ones coming up on my LCD? Sure you can, just like a dualhead. I use

Re: Kernel recompile woes

2004-03-26 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:35:16PM +, stdPikachu wrote: Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster. As you may have gathered, I'm having trouble getting a new kernel working on my (pretty bog standard) Woody install, which after much trial and tribulation got downgraded back to

Re: KDE Wallet Access

2004-03-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:51:41PM +, Tom Simnett wrote: I am trying to disable my KDE Wallet - its just annoying me every time i log into my machine. Im sure its meant to be in KDE Control Centre - Security Privacy - KDE Wallet, but its not there. Also, it isn't under the KDE Menu

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: SNIP I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and it looks the same as my printout. I am using debian mozilla. gm:~apt-show-versions mozilla-browser

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:21:38PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (23/03/04 07:52), Andy Firman wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: SNIP I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:44:56PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/04 15:20, Glenn Meehan wrote: | Hi, | | I am having a problem printing from mozilla. | | This is what I am doing: | File - Print | I then select postscript-default for

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:31:20PM -0500, David P James wrote: On March 22, 2004 03:03, Glenn Meehan wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:42, Kent West wrote: Sounds like a driver problem. I've had issues when I've used the correct driver for my printer that the default cups installation

Re: Success or failures with Mailman 2.1.4 on woody

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:11:37PM -0800, Matt Perry wrote: I've heard from some people that Mailman 2.1.4 has problems working correctly on Debian woody. Is there anyone here that is running Mailman 2.1.4 installed from the tarball and is or was having problems with it? I'm also

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:18:52AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang around when you remove (without purging) a

backport squirrelmail help

2004-02-27 Thread Andy Firman
I posted this message to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list but did not get any answers there. Not sure if anyone is even on that list. Maybe somebody here can help me. Where do all of you get the latest squirrelmail backport? Here is my question:

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-02-26 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:34:40AM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I just started a job at Duke. I've been told to put together a machine quote for my office. I want to run Debian on it. I tried to persuade my employer to use Monarch, but was told I have to use Dell. I'm not

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:40:05PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:33, Norman Walsh wrote: / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, | but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of ext2? thanks! Jim This is a very busy list that is primarily about Debian. Not to be a jerkbut please google first about Linux things that have

Re: /usr/src/linux symlink

2004-02-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:48:03AM +0100, David Baron wrote: Won't compile without it! You will need one for headers--./debian/rules based compiles as well. The things they don't tell you Okay. I have a question about this from the kernel README:

Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:53:15AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Anybody out there with a better alternative for RSS ? Yes in my opinion. Try this: http://www.w3.org/2002/09/rss2email/ RSS feeds come right into your email. Awesome, especially if you use mutt for easy reading. I've always

Re: Kernel compilation woes

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:09:10PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm trying to compile my own 2.4.24 kernel using the sources from kernel.org and the .config from Sarge, and I'm getting some errors: # make-kpkg kernel_image compiling... if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0600, Mark Gillingham wrote: In your opinion, am I wasting my time doing this? No. In fact, the local school districts recently were threatened

Re: [OT] ABI vs. API

2004-02-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:20:48PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I'm a bit confused, I guess. What's the difference between an API (Application programmer interface) and an ABI (application binary interface)? In both cases, they seem to be libraries used by developers to do stuff. This is

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-30 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering. For example here's the filter for this list: # Debian-user if $h_List-ID: contains

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-06 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:20:24PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following layouts of my drives be sufficient? Briefly

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:48:48PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about 6 months apart. I just bought the second one as I want to try out

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:24:34 +, Pigeon wrote: I'm intrigued by the drive having an installation CD with it. What was on it? You sometimes needed to load EZ-Drive or Disk Manager off a floppy in the days when the half-gig

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:36:42AM +0100, GCS wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about 6 months apart. It may be an other revision, hdd controllers can

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:39:17PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 14:52 America/Denver, Andy Firman wrote: I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders and the other has 77545 cylinders. Why

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:20:09PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. Just did the

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:27:49PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance already checked man mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman No manual entry for mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# snip No other documentation

cfdisk vs fdisk speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in understanding a few things. First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, other cfdisk being curses based? Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about 6 months apart. I just

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: Hi, guys, Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month starts, all the past statistics are gone, and everything starts from 0 (e.g. number of

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:43:29PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: mike wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance already checked man mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman No

Re: update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-02 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: Hello Friends, I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be

Re: update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-02 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:23:12AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: Hello Friends, I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust the present

Re: update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-02 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:47:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:23:12AM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration files between Exim3 and Exim4

Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:19:53PM -0800, wynn wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:19:24PM +, Adam Barton wrote: Guys, what about us 'non-guys'? I think we are all guys. Unless you are something that we don't know about. www.dictionary.com 4 entries found for guys. 1. guy:

Re: problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, and it comes back Unable to find the Ncurses libraries The following are installed [Woody] libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term Why

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms, and reports in

Re: Printing to hplj1100 connected to windows computer

2003-12-28 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:32:28PM +0200, Andrus Moor wrote: I have a hp lj 1100 pronter connected to windows 98 computer in LAN. First you need to share the printer on the Win98 machine so others on the LAN can print to it. How to print to this printer from debian workstation? Install

Re: woody upgrade/update path

2003-12-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi all, I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add hylafax server to them all. The servers can't go down, at least

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:16:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya andy On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote: for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) - make sure the partition type is FD(raid) not 82(linux) Can one simply change the partition type via fdisk

Re: wireless network problems

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: I'm relatively new to Linux, and have installed debian woody with the bf2.4 kernel. I'm having trouble getting my orinoco wireless card to work. The card beeps during startup, and its green light flickers, but doesn't stay on. When

Re: Popup suppression, et. al.

2003-12-21 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:45:32PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Anyone know of any popup surpressors that will work with Konquerer. Settings Configure Konqueror Click on Java Java Script Click on the Java Script tab. Then you will see at the bottom JavaScript web popups policy Make your

Re: Filtering emails in ~/Maildir

2003-12-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -, demslh wrote: I've jsut setup a Debian unstable box as an email server. It uses fetchmail to pull emails from several different pop3 accounts, which passes the emails to exim4, which dumps them in ~/Maildir I then pick up the emails using courier-imap

Re: software raid

2003-12-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. [snip] for setup of a new system ( the right way?? ) - make sure the partition type is

Re: printer setup

2003-12-18 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: My printer man says following. Is there a HOWTO on this? Unix Systems Follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set up the SpeedStream 2614

Re: Exim3, with spamassasin, mailscanner and Clam-AV upgrade to Exim4

2003-12-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:30:43AM +0100, Joakim wrote: I'm about to upgrade from exim3 to exim4. I only have one domain, but I have two separat exim conf pretty much according to the mailscanner README.Debian. If I do a apt-get install exim4 Can i use the ./convert4r4 for both conf files

Re: spurious interrupt

2003-12-13 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote: For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message: spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7 I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it means? I did a little searching for you.

Re: App for making invitation cards

2003-12-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:57:46AM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction

Re: RAID question

2003-12-05 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:41:56AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: I have a mainboard (ASUS A7N8X) with onboard SATA controller (SiI 3112A) and am planning to plug in two SATA drives and use RAID 1 (mirroring) on them. Besides telling the controller to use them as a RAID array, what do I have to

Re: Debian Users...

2003-11-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:19:39PM -0800, Jeff wrote: Russell Coker, 2003-Nov-20 04:14 +1100: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:00, Caoilte O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't fam engage in periodic disk access? i certainly get a lot less when not using kde despite having 256M RAM. I was

Re: messenger

2003-11-19 Thread Andy Firman
I just noticed that AOL provides software for Linux. Check it out here: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp They provide a .deb here: http://ftp.newaol.com/aimgen/380469/aim-1.5.234-1.i386.deb Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to Auto-power-off?

2003-11-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:37:48PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:28:29PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: Hi, how can I make the system to automatically switch off the power after system halt? what kernel are you using and what computer? if its a self compiled

Linux Professional Institute Exam (with DPKG) !!!

2003-10-30 Thread Andy Firman
Hi, Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was surprised to see that there is now a choice between RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and found this post by the Debian project leader:

opengroupware.org

2003-09-24 Thread Andy Firman
I don't remember seeing this page the last time I looked at OpenGroupware.org: http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/debianpkgs.html Since you can apt-get it now, I thought the debian list would like to see it. If it is old news, I apologize. Either way, it is an exciting development. Andy

Re: Slide show software

2003-09-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:20:02PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? This is probably way more than you need but I just discovered gallery and I think it is awesome! It has a

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:04:44PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: I'm receiving more and more emails with M$ trojan crap. I want to get ride of them, but the problem is that I download my emails from a pop3 server that I don't configure. My question is: Is there a mail client that aloud me

Re: Slrn

2003-09-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote: Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that looks like something that outlook used to do(does?). I think it has to do

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Firman
I would like to backup my computer with rsync regulary with cron to a linux server. Both computer are running with debian. I am using the following script: #! /bin/sh umount /mnt/daten rsync -bazv -e ssh --backup-dir=/mnt/data/skeeve/backup_wolber /home/wolber/ [EMAIL

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Firman
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:30:05AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Andy Firman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030917 10:18]: I have never used ssh-add but I am doing the same thing you are and I used this very nice how-to that you may find useful: http://killyridols.net/rsyncssh.shtml Careful

Re: eFax tiff viewer?

2003-09-12 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:24:41PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote: eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, gimp, or gimv I can only see the first

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-12 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor, whereas rugged reliability would be.

Road Runner dialup problem using pppconfig

2003-09-12 Thread Andy Firman
I am trying to dial into RoadRunner dialup service. They unfortunately only support Windows and won't help me with Linux. My Thinkpad WinModem is working fine and I have tested it by dialing up to other dialup ISP accounts. RR might be doing some proprietary things now that they have been

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-20 Thread Andy Firman
There's another option, of course: fetchmail - exim ...no procmail. I've never seen the need to use it. All I want to do in the way of filtering, sorting, spam-tagging, stripping the adverts out of yahoo list mail, etc, I can accomplish with exim's filter facilities and the odd

Re: crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-25 Thread Andy Firman
Oh well. Second time this year. How on earth and why are you getting cracked? Can you share with us the reasons you have been cracked twice in 7 months? What services do you think are being compromised? What kind of security (if any) policies do you implement besides iptables? Is it

Re: rsync problem

2003-06-13 Thread Andy Firman
I have a problem using rsync which seems to give an error when copying files. Although it appears consistent for a given file, it is not consistent between files. If I issue this command rsync rabbit.home::alan/My\ Documents/Mail/Agent\ News\ Data/GROUPS.IDX . Some files form the

Re: /var/run/dhclient.pid - no such file or directory

2003-06-10 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:43:58AM -0400, dhobner wrote: I built a new kernel and now when the system is shutdown the following error message is displayed: /var/run/dhclient.pid - no such file or directory. Also when I run ifconfig the following line is missing: inet addr: x.x.x.x