Re: Diald dials all the time

1998-08-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it -- but no luck. Any idea what else might make diald think there's traffic when there isn't? If you kill -USR2 it it'll log what traffic it has in the buffer. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: Why hurd ? was (What is hurd?)

1998-08-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
/Win32/fooOS) without learning any other packaging systems. I love OS's! Well, FreeBSD is not just as kernel, it's the whole OS, unlike Linux Hurd, which are just kernels (the distribution is the OS). You could do it, but then you could do Debian GNU/Solaris too if you wanted. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect

1998-08-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
or 2.0! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: telnet break-in

1998-08-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have to leave them enabled. How about just plain telnet? Even though you'd be transmitting passwords in plain text, that might be better than rsh, which will let you in without even that if you can spoof it properly. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [fixed]New installation problem

1998-08-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
in changing it, since it works (and I would have to muck around with the DOS drivers). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a threaded newsreader and a kill file. There's always a threaded mail reader (mutt) and a mail sorter (sortmail or procmail). hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: debian 1.2 or 1.3

1998-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:13:43AM -0500, Alan Maciel Salcedo. wrote: Anyone have the debian 1.3 base disk set or the 1.2 or anyone knows where to get it? If anyone is feeling really nostalgic I have 1.2 and 1.1.11 on CD-ROM and can burn copies :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

1998-08-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Ouch.. use htons(), htonl(), ntohs(), ntohl() to convert; you don't have to know what endianness the machine is you're using, you rely on libc knowing and implementing those functions appropriately. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: xterm-debian

1998-08-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hazardous if you're on quota (280k wasted). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: nasty...

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
would you ever remove base-files? Hence your devices would never be lost. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: ipmasq, winnt and isp homepage?

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, because we pay through the nose for bandwidth here in Australia). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: clock skew ???

1998-08-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
) while running make menuconfig. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: samba problems

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:11:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once, which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would prefer that those users didn't have to enter

Re: samba problems

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 12:42:40AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: It works (I'm using that now) but my system is internet connected as well, so it's not very secure. I have set allow hosts = to limit connections but do want to allow some outside

Re: nasty...

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 04:12:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush. I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged. Aargh! you removed base? You might be in for some

Re: xdm starts local server

1998-08-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: no-run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm no-xdm-start-server However, xdm still starts a local

xdm starts local server

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm no-xdm-start-server However, xdm still starts a local server. Also, if I startx as a user, it doesn't run the window manager (I have no ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc), although it does if I login through xdm. Suggestions? thanks, hamish -- Hamish

nasty...

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; asking for hd will create only hdaN and hdbN (not hdcN or hddN), while creating sd will create all the way up to sdp. Hamish (about to play russian roulette by rebooting) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

samba problems

1998-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
95 users have to supply their network password once, which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would prefer that those users didn't have to enter a password. Any suggestions for a solution? thanks, hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: kernel image size...

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to be compressed (the date is the only thing that will change I think) the compression algorithm produces a result of different size. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
X has been implemented. I just installed Debian 2.0 on my Toshiba notebook on Friday, and backspace doesn't work in xterm! Perhaps it is just the keyboard on the thing [I chose standard 102 key keyboard in the setup]; I have to use C-h though. Suggestions? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: problem at start of debian linux installation

1998-08-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and it worked fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: update of message about debian on toshiba laptop

1998-08-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
booted my new 310CDS using the resc1440tecra-fast.bin on a floppy and I am now at the monitor colour selection screen. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sequences and put them in the PS1 environment variable. Standard? Which? Bad idea IMHO. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: Backups

1998-08-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
which work fine but the 2Gb seems to be quite different. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: SCSI Controller

1998-07-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
SCSI card manufacturers being absorbed in to Adaptec .. I do like Adaptec's CD mastering software for Windows though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from

Re: Help required SB16 PnP

1998-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
isapnptools to be sure. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header--CORRECTION

1998-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
post. As others have said you can fix it in ~/.muttrc or /etc/Muttrc. Actually, I think this is a bug in either Mutt, exim, or their interaction, because it works just fine with smail. I think hostname and domain name handling on Unix is pretty messy all up. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

pgp question

1998-07-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the PGP User's Guide. This happens even if I try to sign my own key. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: not a block device?

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
neither helped. Anyone ran into anything like this? After you insert ppa you also need to insert the scsi disk module -- sd or sd_mod or something, can't remember the exact name. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: New to debian -- question about shells unused accounts

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. From memory postgresql requires you to do all database admin work from its special account, not root, so you'd su to root, then su - postgres again. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP

Re: Can only play mp3 files as root.

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the adduser, did you log out (as cbarry) and back in? Group changes don't take effect until you do. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists

Re: xcdroast cant find scsi

1998-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
/devices. my scsi device is called sr there. confusing ...) sr is SCSI CD-ROM support, not scsi generic support (which is something else altogether). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP

Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything

Re: Mounting Win95 Shares with samba

1998-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. I have /cdrom, /zip, /local (which contains /usr/local and /home via symlinks), etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome

Re: Year 2000 compliance

1998-07-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
there are rather a lot of them you can assume that there are some which use other mechanisms. Anything that stores a string, for example. So Unix is by no means automatically Y2K-proof. Do you disagree? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Dtime of Inodes

1998-07-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
any abnormal shutdowns. I don't know why. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe

Re: mutt and mbox file?

1998-07-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
-yes, so I assume the former should work. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail

Re: Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
reboots immediately -- cheap motherboard. It worked fine on a better board though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: [avandor@intergate.bc.ca: crc error]

1998-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and bad motherboards and stuff. For example, I had a miscellaneous 486 board and tried to put on an IBM Blue Lightning using the Cyrix 486 settings but the machine would give the above error when booting. However I would not expect this behaviour on an out-of-the-box PC. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: ls - color by default

1998-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
on this list recently will only work on the console, xterm/rxvt, and ansi/vt100/etc terminals, but not others like vt52, wyse etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: color prompts

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
not work on others. It is safe enough if you know you will only ever use those terminals, but some people like to write this sort of thing in to software without being aware of the limitations. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, well beyond the 528mb limit. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
CD-ROM drive and upgraded an older machine from bo over HTTP. That went okay, if slowly (DX2-66 with 16mb RAM and klunky hard drive.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: ISP logon problems

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
/shut down the serial line. connect /etc/ppp/startppp-diald disconnect /etc/ppp/ppp-disconnect and in /etc/ppp/startppp-diald: chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:47:16PM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: On Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm from the Cheapbytes

Re: Lock up with NE2000 card (md)

1998-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
a lot of cards probe there; I suggest 0x280, 2A0, 2C0, or 340. 360 is bad because it overlaps with lp1 at 0x378, and 320 may be bad if you have a MIDI adapter (eg on SB16) at 0x330. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to resources on that topic on the web are also welcome). It is not too hard to hose your system when initially configuring LILO. Once it's installed it is safe enough. I do not know of any other advantages of LOADLIN. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Print .ps files.

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to install the `magicfilter' package; it will set up printer filters to use ghostscript and other programs to allow you to print lots of file formats on your printer. I use the laserjet 4L selection with my 5L. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: power-save mode in screen mode ?

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 08:51:13AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: is ther any way to force monitor come to power saving mode when i'm in full-screen mode ? setterm -powersave on? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Ah, I didn't know iso and fat where languages :-) Changed in 2.0.35 anyway, just out. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: Secure Mail server

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
HTTP's authentication rather than implementing something with CGI HTML, then look in to .htaccess files. The databases of authentication details can be in text, db, or dbm format, and maybe even some of the RDBMSs like postgresql. (This is for Apache.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Exim!

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to learn a new set of filtering rules is an appropriate course to take. You must have an interesting ISP; I suspect most ISP users would say What's unix? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: Web access woes

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
... For netscape you just enter your proxy host as proxy.vianet.net.au and the port is 80, rather than all of the above, which is just for command line programs like lynx apt. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
say www.vianet.net.au without any proxy settings? If I remember rightly netscape has some DNS helper or something, perhaps that is broken. I don't know how that would happen or how to fix it, just something that came to mind. I don't have any more ideas unfortunately. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?

1998-07-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
. My ISP does this too, it is cheaper for them if they get any cache hits at all. Proxy performance here is excellent so I don't mind so much. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5

Re: Mail-Followup header

1998-07-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 05:18:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:20:57AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: What is the purpose of the Mail-Followup-To header? See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/replyto.html It appears to force the group reply function

Re: MUA configuration for correct From address.

1998-07-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
anything about exmh unfortunately. In mutt for example, you can do my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will do that. I use the From one to put the debian.org address on my mail. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Mail-Followup header

1998-07-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 11:39:43AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 05:18:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:20:57AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: What is the purpose of the Mail-Followup-To header? See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto

Re: Hamm in Australia? Yes!

1998-07-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
undergrad and don't have sufficient disk space on any server at uni, nor a good way to get the image to my own PC, and this machine (rising.com.au) is paying for bandwidth. Perhaps I will give you a yell when hamm is out for real. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Mail-Followup header

1998-07-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
What is the purpose of the Mail-Followup-To header? It appears to force the group reply function in mutt to reply to the list only -- I would rather use the list reply function if that is what I wanted. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
name is beitamos and my ISP's mail server is mail.inter.net.il Hope it will help. Since you have got your MUA to add the reply-to, why not configure it to send your correct From address instead? I cannot imagine why anyone would go around with a broken from address. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Duplicate Messages II

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
unknown. sigh So it looks like no one in Italy is going to stop the duplicate messages. Is it RBL time yet? :) `postmaster' is the standard -- abuse is a relatively new one due to current UCE/spam problems, and root is a unixism. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:23:14AM -0500, Eric wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here. I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why an MUA would be using it. It's my understanding that a Return-Path

Re: ftp problem on Red Hat

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:36:09PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: Solved. It was neccesary to Comment /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file line: shutdown file That isn't the fix -- you have disabled ftpshut completely. The solution is to delete the file referred to on that line. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, but will never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
message... and others... Whew! I thought I was losing my mind. I'm glad somebody spoke up before I tore up my mail system here. Some Fidonet gateway in Italy appears to have dumped a bunch of traffic back at us. I sent their postmaster an email. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:02:40PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file

Re: ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
telnet, only when using ssh. I am using non-secure CRT 2.20 beta 4 here with telnet to a current hamm box and haven't noticed any problems. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: unsubscribe helper line

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, but . . . Also, mail is mailx; if anyone has set up their MUA with a different address, the mail will be from the wrong address and no unsubscription will occur .. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
++ is the egcs one (1.0.3a). egcs gcc is also available. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the -f for tail, especially if you are just running this from the ip-up script or something. You can run any program in the background by putting an on the end. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: Problems with apt

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
requires libc6 (Hamm) on a libc5 (bo) if I want to upgrade to Hamm using apt. 1. Use the HTTP method, which doesn't use perl. 2. Grab perl 5.004 from the bo-unstable directory at the mirror sites. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: modem works now - but modem-computer comunication really slow

1998-07-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
string, rather then ATZ ? Slow computer-modem comms (on internals) is often due to IRQ conflicts. Unfortunately PnP modems provide very poor jumper settings. I still prefer externals where practical. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
threads with one keystroke after you discover you don't want to read it in mutt (Control-D). I have no trouble keeping up with debian-user, debian-devel, policy, mentors, etc with this. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: CAP and linux

1998-07-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
okay though. A bit slow but that is Appletalk for you I gather. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: VCD Player and SB 16 PnP

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the sound driver? I have a PnP BIOS and still use isapnptools. Windows wouldn't need PnP support if it were this simple. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from

Re: LILO: Unexpected EOF?

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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Re: NCR SCSI - which debian kernel will work

1998-07-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; finger @linux.kernel.org [linux.kernel.org] The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.0.34 The latest *beta* version of the Linux kernel is: 2.1.108 Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp

Re: Please help with IP Aliasing

1998-07-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the virtual-host-by-name stuff that Apache has (but obviously all the modern ones do). you do not need the route add -net after each eth0 alias. You can't ping the local alias without it, but that's not tragic. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

mp3 decoder

1998-07-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Are there any mp3 decoders available for Linux/Debian? Preferably libc5/bo but libc6/hamm is fine too. It doesn't look like mpg123 or 8hz-mp3 do decoding, and the l3enc/mp3enc people are now shipping the demo without l3dec. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where is Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
, libg++27 (= 2.7.2.1-1), xlib6 (= 3.3-0), xpm4.7 (= 3.4j-0) Or maybee there is a package for bo somewhere ? There used to be, but now there isn't. :-( But you can use --force-depends and it will work on bo, assuming you haven't downloaded the glibc2 netscape. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
know what to do.. Download and use BOOTPART. It will set this up for you. It runs on DOS, and maybe in an NT dos box (I can't remember if it does or doesn't.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub

Re: Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
accross a reasonably priced hamm CD in Australia, a quick note to the list would be really appreciated! I could burn one but don't have an easy way to download the images unfortunately. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 06:04:20PM -0700, Gasper Fele - Zorz wrote: Why don't U just get someone to bake it 4 U ? Part of the problem is that we pay for bandwidth used in Australia -- $230/Gb on most of the backbones. It's just a bit cheaper to get a CD from the USA. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: saving copies of sent mail with mutt

1998-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
record=~/Mail/sent or whatever file you want to put it in.. Another option is my_hdr Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or my_hdr Fcc: a_file to avoid saving all the messages to file manually. But set record would be easier. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: ppp analog bonding w/ eql

1998-06-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
no sign of any traffic being sent. /proc/net/dev lists lots of packets being dropped on the eql device, nothing sent or received. Any ideas? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP

Re: ppp analog bonding w/ eql

1998-06-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
weird on ethernet but anyway) and didn't seem to get anywhere further. I'll try again soon and check out the kernel list. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies

Re: Postgres, php question

1998-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
with www-sql and have created some big messes to do it. I haven't found a reason to switch to php yet. I mix it with shtml. Hamish (www-mysql/www-pgsql maintainer) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
you to see :-) I think this has been on comp.risks within the last few months. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: dosemu

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to the partitions in the config file, in which case DOS will see the partitions and assign drive letters itself. You cannot also have Linux mounting them in this case. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
it (and its dependencies) again. Even selecting hold for this package doesn't work. This should only happen for required, not recommended packages. Isn't this just dselect being obnoxious? Hit Q to force dselect to give up. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: How to read a word 7 file?

1998-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
save to the end of the file. Once some number of fast saves has been exceeded it will rewrite the whole lot. strings is only going to show the original at the last non-fast-save time. This could be completely different! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: help! NT4 destroyed my Linux partitions!

1998-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
be surprised. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:13:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:49:16 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [12:47am] [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet ftp.debian.org ftp Trying 130.207.7.21... Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. Escape character is '^]'. 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP

Re: ftp.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org

1998-06-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
- 230-Welcome to the Georgia Tech College of Computing FTP service. 230- 230-Access from yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au is being logged. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest

Re: Mesa

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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