Re: AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, two questions: 1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and no. 2.) If not, is it possible somehow to re-export an AFS filesystem? I'm thinking then of mounting AFS on the firwall machine and exporting it to the other machine via

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not that well versed on calculating netmasks and broadcast address, but these look a bit strange. You might try the standard settings: a netmask of 255.255.255.0 could only be consider standard in a LAN environment. the mask in the original message

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the Jeff permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root Jeff console and X cannot open display. one way of doing this is * as non-root owner of the X session, do xauth

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff are there any more permanent solutions so this doesn't have to Jeff be done every time i wish to run ethereal? one way would be to use the XAUTHORITY enviroment variable, which names the file in which authorization info is kept. if the X

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-03 Thread Joseph Dane
David == David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s/not\s+//; David I appreciate the good-natured jibe. I didn't think the analogy David to the Debian release process was so far-fetched, but it David appears that it is. I'll admit to being one (of many, probably) who read the first sentence

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Richard == Richard Cobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals are 80 characters wide, and 72 leaves enough

Re: safe load average

2002-05-07 Thread Joseph Dane
Kirk == Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Safe? I think you should be more interested in CPU states Kirk than load average. For example, consider running 50 webserver Kirk processes, all of which are in an I/O wait state. Your load Kirk average may be near 50, but your CPU may

Re: safe load average

2002-05-07 Thread Joseph Dane
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin The load average refers to the average number of processes Colin that are runnable or in uninterruptible sleep. The latter Colin usually indicates I/O. I did not know that. still, processes in uninterruptible sleep are certainly waiting

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Elizabeth == Elizabeth Barham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elizabeth emacs is simply a great editor. A lot of people are put Elizabeth off at first by it's complexity and memory foot-print size Elizabeth but once you get the hang of it, vi and other editors Elizabeth become a real drag to use.

Re: maintenance mode in woody

2002-03-29 Thread Joseph Dane
Marcelo == Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo Hello! Marcelo how can I enter the maintenance mode in woody at boot time, Marcelo for example for run e2fsck? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] as others have mentioned, you can use

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a start menu type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed (mouse-2??) on the root window, which could allow for the launching of new

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-07 Thread Joseph Dane
Hans == Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans Since no one else has disputed this post yet, I think it is Hans time to do so. I have used X-forwarding over SSH enough to know Hans that you need not and you should not set $DISPLAY manually. no, you don't need to set DISPLAY. but you

Re: question about /bin utils

2002-03-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Michael == Michael Marziani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there Michael is no /bin/vi at all, it's in /usr/bin. I've never seen a Michael distro without a /bin/vi; how do I edit my files when my Michael /usr partition crashes? ed!

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-05 Thread Joseph Dane
Hans == Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans This tip is bad. It does not work. The first line makes the Hans following fail (or, I think, in case of bad security on client Hans succeed but by-pass the ssh-tunnel). no, it works as expected. if the tip had been client ssh -X server

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Joseph Dane
Pete == Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pete Does anyone know how to increase the number of allowed Pete processes? if you are running a 2.2 series kernel, you have to recompile the kernel after tweaking a header file. it's been a while, but I think you only have to change one line in

Re: Sharing network from VMWare client

2002-02-11 Thread Joseph Dane
C-Cose == C-Cose Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: C-Cose My questions are then: C-Cose 1. Would I be able to change the vmnet IP to something in the C-Cose 10.x.x.x range? Assuming that would also involve netmask C-Cose changes, what would they be? you can do this, although I can't recall

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread Joseph Dane
johnpf == johnpf john writes: johnpf Actually, as much as it shames me to admit it, there is one johnpf feature in the VC6 M$ bloat thing IDE I really want to see on johnpf a Unix platform, and that's the incredibly powerful way it johnpf can back reference callers, classes etc. Perhaps

Re: Mozilla fonts huge--'File' menu item takes up most of screen

2002-01-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Daniel == Daniel Farnsworth Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel When I start up Mozilla, the fonts are *huge*. I'm running at Daniel 1600x1200, and the 'File' menu item takes up the majority of Daniel the screen (nice scaling, by the way--not a bit blocky : ). no help here, but I'm

Re: Mozilla Address Books

2002-01-08 Thread Joseph Dane
Ron == Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Thanks. Are there any network-based address books that I (using Ron kmail, but maybe switching to evo1 or mozilla-mail) and my wife Ron (using Outlook Express, but soon to be going to Linux) can use Ron to share addresses? Ron I don't care

Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields

2001-10-18 Thread Joseph Dane
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like Colin this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' Colin near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details Colin field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg

Re: vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Joseph Dane
Royce == Royce Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Royce Jeffrey... Have you tried connecting to DSL ~through~ vmware? I do this, sorta. there is a vmware networking option ('host only', I think it's called) whereby the host OS is given an interface on a private network (192.168.x.x). I

Re: vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeffrey == Jeffrey W Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeffrey You can also do it the other way: give your vmware machine Jeffrey two interfaces and a real IP. Then give your debian machine Jeffrey a private subnet. NAT all the traffic through the VMware Jeffrey machine. wow. my head hurts

Re: What process started/owns another process?

2001-09-21 Thread Joseph Dane
Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I have a lot of these processes on my system: ... Peter How do I determine what process started them? pstree. it's in the psmisc package. or you could figure it out the hard way by asking 'ps' for the parent PID. the '-f' option to

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Martin == Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin and could someone give me a perl one-liner that takes each Martin such line fed into its STDIN, and for each line, calls an Martin external shell script with the entire line as argument? why not just use xargs? find . -name \*.c |

Re: OT: tail -f | while read

2001-09-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Martin == Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin also sprach Joseph Dane (on Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:26:37PM Martin -1000): why not just use xargs? find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l I think you can pass '-n 1' to xargs to cause it to execute the command a separate time

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Dave == Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? Dave 1) Yes, there is a

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Joseph Dane
Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian However, Gnus seems to perform badly (IMHO) when accessing Brian remote mail: Brian - on startup, it tries to check for mail on every folder. This Brian is slow and time consuming (I only have a shared 28.8kbps Brian Internet

Re: max concurrent processes can't be 257?

2001-05-04 Thread Joseph Dane
Nate == Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nate Brett wrote: I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for hundreds of outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer but the new admin of some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm using Debian Linux 2.2.18pre21

Re: combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-11 Thread Joseph Dane
Brandon == Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to offer them Brandon Probably the ugliest point. You could over engineer it and Brandon use OpenLDAP to

combo GUI/text mail client

2001-04-10 Thread Joseph Dane
Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send

Re: Comments VMWare?

2001-03-01 Thread Joseph Dane
Jonathan == Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan Hi, I might have to run a windows app, and one code copy Jonathan protected at that. Anyway, how is VMWare at running 32 bit Jonathan windows apps? as I understand it you load VMWare, then Jonathan W95/98, then your app. Does

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-22 Thread Joseph Dane
Ralf == Ralf G R Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote: '-X' option. note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work. So I have to stop a running X server first, then

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

2001-02-21 Thread Joseph Dane
Andre == Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre Talking about ssh, could somebody point out the steps Andre necessary in order to export a remote host's display to my Andre local machine via, if possible from scratch...? Sorry if this Andre is a stupid question. do you mean that you

Re: About Debian documentation

2001-01-26 Thread Joseph Dane
Others have already mentioned how one can go about tracking more recent versions of packages. I will add that many people (well, at least one person: me) would much rather have a system which is known good than one with the latest versions. I personally have no need for XF4, so I'll wait

Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
Timmy == Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Timmy mutt reads /var/spool/mail/blah etc. Timmy mutt pipes sent mail to /usr/lib/sendmail etc. Timmy /usr/lib/sendmail etc. pipes to exim exim sends mail to Timmy another host exim is more or less a replacement for sendmail. one would not

Re: exim

2000-12-13 Thread Joseph Dane
Pap == Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pap Try telnet to localhost port 21 to see if exim is running. Since when does exim listen on port 21? sweden [~]grep 21 /etc/services ftp 21/tcp fsp 21/udp fspd ... SMTP (and exim) are on port 25. -- joe