Re: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Heironimus
vy system monitoring, tracking other administrator's actions > as well as getting a good 'feel' of what's going on in the system (for > example apache running cgi scripts). ttysnoop is another potentially useful package for this, but you have to tell it what tty&#x

Re: LDAP & Databases

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Heironimus
d of thing. I know it's in 2.1, but I don't remember if it's in any older versions. It's been a while since I looked in to it so I can't really give you much useful information on it, though. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: EveryBuddy questions (MS update and others)

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Heironimus
ally being maintained anymore and that they were putting all their efforts toward EB-Lite. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Samba, Win2k, Weird files

2003-09-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
one it was. Check the archives of the Samba mailing lists, it's been discussed some there. I think the general consensus was that there wasn't really a good way to store them and there were much more important things to work on. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE bus rescan?

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
f there's nothing there or the hardware doesn't work it will give you an error. By the way, SCSI is different. You actually do need to rescan a SCSI bus to pick up new devices. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-01 Thread Michael Heironimus
ll use GNOME and KDE apps if the base systems are installed. There isn't much that you can't do (and usually do better) without GNOME or KDE. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot set ethernet card into promiscuous mode

2003-09-01 Thread Michael Heironimus
see packets either originting from or detined to the Debians. Are you on a switch or a hub? If it's a switched network you'll only be able to see traffic to and from that machine. Some high-end switches can mirror traffic from one or more ports to one port for monitoring. -- Micha

Re: What is the most cost effective DVD Burner for Linux?

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
re in the process of going under. They'll have to liquidate their current stock of drives, so they may be pretty cheap in the near future (because they'll have no real warranty). I'd avoid buying any with rebates, Cendyne can't afford to pay them out. -- Michael Heironimus

Re: [OT] open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
not have a legitimate say in what license it gets. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
you already have, etc.). How important each of those is depends on where you are and who you're talking to. A lot of times the decision isn't even based on sound technical advice, just on company politics, product marketing, and short-term cost. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
), and he'll pick up the syntax just fine. And as soon as you tell him to write something he'll write code that looks EXACTLY like COBOL in C/C++/Java syntax. It will be unreadable, unmaintainable, and hopelessly inefficient, but nobody will ever have time for the rewrite it desperately nee

Re: start program in ssh command line?

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
-TTY unless you ask for one. That's what the '-t' option is for, refer to the ssh man page for more details. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up the parport

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Heironimus
he lp0 line says that /dev/lp0 is using parport0. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veering OT] RE: Panda antivirus?

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
you're looking for software to run on a UNIX file/mail server the tests against infecting the local machine wouldn't apply, but you might want to try letting a workstation infect files on a share and make sure they're detected quickly and properly. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSU

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
often use different versions of sendmail, so you can't always use the same M4 file for all your servers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: retrieving emails to an exchange via linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
ress book. Other people used POP3 to get their mail. I don't know if these things are all enabled by default in Exchange or if they require extra configuration, but it's worth trying. I know that mutt can connect to IMAP servers, I think recent versions of pine can too. fetchmail can also

Re: Mouse Pointer Problem

2003-08-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
ems with the hardware cursor, including things like what you describe. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
e, but should be able to cover your > needs. One addition to this is to send a ping to broadcast before running arp, unless it's filtered out every machine on the subnet will reply so your arp table will have the full list. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the difference between ". cmd" and "cmd" in shell script??

2003-07-20 Thread Michael Heironimus
run in a subshell. Functions and environmental variables defined in cmd will not be available to the currently running script. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome2 in Testing

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
now it's going one at a time. A few major components haven't made it in to testing yet, in particular gnome-control-center. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel.sem question

2003-07-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
instructed from Internet) "cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem", and > the reply of the console is " No such file or directory". /proc/sys/kernel/sem only exists for 2.4 kernels, not for 2.2. Those limits are hard-coded in the 2.2 kernels. I'm not sure what values Debian's kerne

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:02:39PM -0400, MJM wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 22:02, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > > but when I tested out the "tar cf /home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar > > > /home/desire/piers" I get a lot of "Permissions denied"

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
on the server you can add the no_root_squash option to allow root access on an exported filesystem. See the man page on exports for details. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
vwm2 isn't really GNOME2-ready yet. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > > configuration systems we have now? > > Ermm... XF86Config... and f

Re: HowTo for Gnome2??

2003-07-03 Thread Michael Heironimus
could easily coexist even if the packages did allow it. They have different pieces of infrastructure, and GNOME applications tend to start up any infrastructure they need that isn't already running. And then they leave it running when they exit. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash: display running foreground command in xterm title

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
- they're both Bourne shells and they both support almost all of the same command-line features like completion, history, emacs/vi line editing, etc. Configuration is a little different, though. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF viewers capable of high zoom factors

2003-07-01 Thread Michael Heironimus
end to go to the opposite extreme and fail without any useful error messages, unless there's no X session or something. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
dy things, too. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Heironimus
like the changes, or you might decide you don't (I don't), but you should try to use it long enough to give it a fair chance. I'll warn you that there still aren't nearly as many cool little panel applets or GNOME2-aware window managers as with 1.4. -- Michael Heironimus -- T

Re: DivX and XviD - hardware requirements

2003-06-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
d decoding and you have software that can use it. Normally, playing a highly-compressed format like DivX or XviD will require a considerable amount of CPU power. Older codecs don't need as much power, since they were written for older computers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Where to keep .gnupg?

2003-06-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
emovable storage business to being the major player by making a great product. They did it by making a cheap product and spending a lot of money on marketing instead of good design or quality control. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
ly a hack that tends to cause strange problems. "security = domain" is really pretty easy to set up and works properly. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Accessing a NFS mounted directory as a user.

2003-06-05 Thread Michael Heironimus
y is overkill. It might be worth your time to migrate to NIS (or some other centralized account system), but it's not really necessary unless you expect to add more machines you should definitely look in to it. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: quick question about fvwm 2.4 screen shot

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
uff or something). It can be customized just as extensively as the rest of fvwm2, in that screenshot it's running several "swallowed" applications and modules (ones which are run inside the FvwmButtons toolbar instead of inside their own windows). -- Michael Heironimus --

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
be available, and should show up in the configuration tool under Workspaces. I found that using the GNOME pager with a single horizontal row of workspaces screwed things up and I had to add (setq overriden-num-workspace-rows 1) to be able to flip past the left and right edges instead of only t

Re: Antivirus in Debian?

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Heironimus
t there is for DOS/Windows or MS Office macros. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Heironimus
r at least you're supposed to know) why you have files open, so you should usually be trying to make an informed decision about what to do with them. Thinking ahead about things like that is a good habit, I've had no end of headaches from listening to programmers going on about how the co

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
hat it's worth, by default Solaris CDE sets $EDITOR to dtpad (dtpad is to CDE what notepad is to Windows), and $VISUAL isn't set at all. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
's Win2K. > Presently I ftp files up to it, but I'd rather be doing something a > little more secure. Is there a way of getting an SSH server running on > it that my Debian SSH client can connect to? As I recall, the OpenSSH server can be run through cygwin32. -- Michael Heiron

Re: wget usage help, please

2003-03-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
g wrong? I think you can probably get around that by using --include-directories=/path to further limit what you retrieve. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing perl scripts for register_globals = Off

2003-03-13 Thread Michael Heironimus
Both of those variables are now part of the _SERVER array, you would access them as $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] and $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]. Similar automatic array variables are used for GET and POST form data, session variables, cookies, etc. http://www.php.net/manua

Re: trap 123

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
ctrl-c at a critical time), but it can also be used to run a command when it gets a signal (like allowing a user to break out with ctrl-c but make sure the script cleans up after itself). Refer to the man page on bash, it should cover trap in some detail. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSC

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Heironimus
r $5-10, so that might very well be more economical. Most of these cheap cards are based on Realtek chips (so are most of the cheap on-board NICs), they're not exactly the best cards around but they do work. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
tware works. It's a bad idea to use broadcasts for NIS anyway, though, you should explicitly give it a list of servers to use. As I recall you set those up in /etc/yp.conf, check the man page for ypbind for the syntax of that file. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > default permissions of 700 on a clean > install? Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't want any user's home directory to be world-read

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
the most basic use of mkisofs and cdrecord. If you don't have a copy, you can find it on http://www.tldp.org/. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: df returning inaccurate results

2003-02-23 Thread Michael Heironimus
xist on disk until they're closed so they'll keep using up space, but there won't be a directory entry for them anymore so du won't show them. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing process priority

2003-02-21 Thread Michael Heironimus
itive > > twenty whic is invalid; the highest numer (and lowest priority) > > accepted is 19. > > Ought to be "nice -n -20" actually; "nice --20" is a deprecated form. Oops. That's why I always refer people to the man pages. -n is probably the best thing to r

Re: Changing process priority

2003-02-21 Thread Michael Heironimus
;nice". If you want to give it highest priority you'd use "nice -20 command ...", but it's usually a better idea to use -10 or -15 instead to just give it an advantage over most of your other processes (which usually run at 0). -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
t swapped the top lid like I said, you could later add the sheet feeder or buy it preinstalled just like the duplex adapter on most printers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
age to a writable CD. Can anyone help me? cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -v file.iso -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
ike "-rwsr-xr-x") the executable can arbitrarily change its effective UID or GID, though. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using multiple keys with ssh-agent

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Heironimus
t; I could only get that to work with X11 Forwarding and X applications. I > can't get console apps to work that way: > > Can't access terminal or input is not a terminal. Redirection of > standard input is not allowed. For example "pine < file" doesn't work. Try

Re: Terminal Blancking

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
gt; not become blank ? I believe it's "setterm -blank 0". setterm is how you control most of the behaviors of the console, refer to the man page for full details. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > $ chown moseley ~/libdvdread2-0.9.3 > chown: changing ownership of `/home/moseley/libdvdread2-0.9.3': Operation > not permitted You need to be root to chown it to your user. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSC

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
d about security use ssh/scp/sftp instead. There's also an SSL-enabled telnet, which almost nobody uses for the same reason. SSL-wrapped POP3 is slightly more common, but I think the only truly common uses of SSL are for HTTP and IMAP -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Certification

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
sking on this list) are still so new that they're not well-known, the only one that seems to be widely known is RHCE because Red Hat never misses an opportunity to mention it. How much a Linux certification will help you really depends on where you're working (or wanting to work). -- Micha

Re: vim undel

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Heironimus
use ctrl-r to redo. If you delete something with "d" it also ends up in vim's cut buffer, so you can use "p" to paste it below the current line (or "P" to paste it above the current line). -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel compile failure

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
> {standard input}:0: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline inserted > {standard input}:500: Error: no such instruction: `j' The first thing to check when you get strange inconsistent errors in a compile is bad hardware, bad memory seems to be a particularly common cause. --

Re: samba plus nfs, or only samba - 3 pcs

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
ons for better UNIX support are being implemented in both Samba's and the kernel's development branches. That might make life easier, especially in places where the relatively weak security of NFS is an issue. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
used JetAdmin printers more than once without any special software. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sed GURU help me~

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Heironimus
gt; sed -e "s/^insert move " insert again only www.~~ I think that there's probably a nicer way to do it, but sed 's/^\c:\\tmp\\[a-z]\++-\(.*\)/move "&" \1/' should do what you want. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browser autoconfiguration

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Heironimus
g correctly, and pretty much forget it until you make a change to your proxy. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
essions, or to redirect output to a file and run tail -f on it. I prefer the second, since it leaves me with a logfile I can check later. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP 8250i cd-writer

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Heironimus
What do you mean with "the limit"? I meant the lower limit on track size, how small the track had to be to cause a problem. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP 8250i cd-writer

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
very rarely run in to it because the limit is so small. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
seen Linux ext2 filesystems that filled up completely not drop below 100% again until they were fsck'd. fsck didn't actually DO anything, it found no errors at all, but the filesystem went from 100% down to the level where it was supposed to be. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBS

Re: Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Michael Heironimus
cognize (NTFS, ext2, Linux swap). fdisk doesn't change anything except the partition table and lets you control all the details of where a partition goes, but I'm not familiar with parted. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-25 Thread Michael Heironimus
m some mail-order places. 80min discs are the largest that actually follow the spec, 90/99min discs wind the spiral tighter and run it out to the very edge of the disc. Not all burners can reliably burn them, and some hardware can't read them either. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Michael Heironimus
the benefit of being as widely used. But I can say that if I were rolling Linux PCs out to replace Sun or HP desktop workstations I'd probably use it to make people feel more at home with the new machines. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Heironimus
s, and the only time I ever had problems was when I played with using it to mount removable media. autofs was vastly more reliable than the automounters on HP-UX or Digital UNIX. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
ate's default output isn't very good as a filename you probably want to specify the output format. I would use something like this: tar czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/`date '+%Y%m%d'`.tar.gz myfiles which would give you a file named 20030119.tar.gz. The reason I use year-month-day format

Re: Block access in Apache

2003-01-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
.org/docs/mod/mod_access.html#deny http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_access.html#allow -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dxr3 problems

2003-01-17 Thread Michael Heironimus
card overlays the playback window with the video. The Windows application had to be adjusted to put the playback box in the right spot inside the window and to line up the movie with the box exactly right. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
m is truly locked it won't be able to respond to your sysreq. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO image

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
mixtures of ISO data, CD audio, (S)VCD video, or just about anything else. And, in spite of the above comments, bin/cue files are almost universally usable, recent versions of cdrdao will burn them just fine. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
much non-package software you install you may want to share parts of /usr/local as well. I wouldn't recommend sharing all of it, though, because of binary compatibility problems between different versions of glibc. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: hard to find out what those daemons are about

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
low PIDs because they are started at boot. > Anyway, is it really sometimes that hard to track down things one sees > in ps(1) output? If they're kernel processes there won't be any file associated with them, so it can be difficult. In the case of Linux most of them can probab

Re: CDROM's headphone jack old-fashioned?

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
stop buttons on the front of the drive it's worth trying. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
iting. It was amazing how many fewer questions and complaints I got after I changed the global default to xterm. If you're going to reinvent the wheel, you should at least try to make it sort of rounded on the outside..., -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: jpeg to xpm format ??

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Heironimus
of my jpeg images to use as the splash screen. A > while ago I found an article that showed a command to convert jpeg --> xpm If you have ImageMagick installed you can run convert image.jpg image.xpm to convert an image. ImageMagick supports a wide variety of formats. -- Michael Heironi

Re: You passed an undefined mode number

2002-12-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
des? I remember doing that when I was originally playing with large consoles. The kernel documentation on mode numbers was a little out of date when I was using it, I don't know if it's any better now. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script Alias Directive in Apache

2002-12-26 Thread Michael Heironimus
local or cgi-shared for the other). Alternatively, if you just want individual user directories (~user) to have CGIs instead of virtual hosts you can add ExecCGI to the options for the user directories and use "AddHandler cgi-script cgi" to treat any file ending in .cgi as a CGI. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: files who won't tell who their parent packages are

2002-12-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
perly installed and configured. Maybe if you describe the problem you have with sndstat somebody will be able to help. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
And if not, do you have them defined in your zone files (you should)? -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDC based apache authentication?

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
point > me in the right direction? I think there are several 3rd-party modules to allow this, but I don't know which is the most current. Head over to http://modules.apache.org/ and do a search for "auth", almost all of them will probably be named "mod_auth_something". -

Re: nfs and non-matching users

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Heironimus
server had some support for uid/gid remapping. This is not really a normal feature of NFS. I think there are also some patches floating around somewhere to allow uid remapping in the kernel NFS client, but nothing recent. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-13 Thread Michael Heironimus
access it. And most of the other groups were less technical than the one I was in. Is this pretty typical? Or do other places actually make real use of the group calendars? Or is it that the only people who really know how to use all the features are the people who aren't doing real work (like th

Re: xterm copy-n-paste and mouse selection in scroll back

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Heironimus
int with right-mouse to extend the selection. > 3) Do any of the xterm clones allow searching the scroll-back buffer? Don't know about this one, it's not something I normally need to do. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to unpatch?

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
+ > |+++ linux.50-ac1/arch/alpha/defconfig 2002-12-03 20:54:30.0 + > -- cd into your linux source tree and use "patch -p1" instead. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell game

2002-12-07 Thread Michael Heironimus
rably more efficient. Not much difference for a dozen files, but if you have a few thousand results you're saving the time of starting a few thousand shells that do nothing but run a single command and exit. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: shell game

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Heironimus
relies on bash-specific options. Something like this should do it. #! /bin/bash # Make globs that don't match expand to null string shopt -s nullglob if [ -n "$(echo /path/to/*.jpg)" ] ; then # Do stuff because .jpg files exist fi -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SSH vs SSH2

2002-12-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
110, 25 and 22. OpenSSH supports both protocol versions, but unless you really need it you should disable support for version 1. v2 is generally more secure, and I believe that clients are available on all major platforms. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Michael Heironimus
he > Woody CDs, and with both a burner and a CD-ROM on my box, I'd like to be > able to just load both up and *copy*, but nothing seems to handle it all > that well. I know that Xcdroast will clone audio CDs, but that is not my > goal. I think I've used cdrdao for directly copying

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Heironimus
filesystems on my Debian Woody & Sarge. > What package contains this file? As I recall, /etc/filesystems isn't actually installed by anything, it's a configuration file used to override a default. When you set the filesystem type to "auto" it will try filesystems in the order t

Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
oo long to fit in the display it replaces the middle with a tilde. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Heironimus
pting DVD" I'm not sure if this is the same thing you're talking about, but I know that a region-locked drive has to authenticate before the data can be read from a region-locked DVD. Not sure how all that works in Linux, though, I don't play DVDs on my computers. -- Micha

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
not sure if Debian gives you a kernel with UDF support, though. It's been a long time since I looked at the UDF driver, I'm not even sure if it's still being actively worked on. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chntps utility to floppy?

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
ries are linked against so you can copy over anything that isn't likely to be installed on the machines where you're going to run it. Remember to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the binary, you may want to write a shell script wrapper to do it for you. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNS

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