Re: Additional Apt-get sources

2001-10-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Morbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011015 12:08]: Are there any official or unofficial apt-get sources worth adding to the sources list besides the official debian sites? http://www.google.com/search?q=unofficial+apt+sources (please don't add that to your sources.list directly!) good times, --

Re: Two questions

2001-10-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* sheine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011015 12:09]: 2. Is there a linux equivalent to presizer, a way change a partition size non-destructively? check out GNU ext2resize and parted. Both are packaged for all of {{un,}stable,testing}. for future reference, also try

Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??

2001-10-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011013 19:40]: How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives to dump it into the local mail spool? Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011012 08:48]: * Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:36]: Thanks for the hint; I hadn't yet noticed mine. Perhaps a better solution is to specify ext3,ext2 in /etc/fstab instead of auto? Is that a valid option for fstab ?? I'll let you

Re: *total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 17:59]: Hello, I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do better than .Xmodmap. I tried using loadkeys(1) with

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 16:13]: Personally, I've switched from fetchmail to getmail. I can't give it a wholehearted recommendation, though: I have it delivering straight to procmail but since (as pointed out from fetchmail(1)) procmail is a safe or careful mda

Re: ethernet card IO address

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* MarceI Figuerola Estrada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 06:50]: - Original Message - From: Bojan Zdrnja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:00 AM Subject: RE: ethernet card IO address This looks to me like you're choosing wrong

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:36]: Thanks for the hint; I hadn't yet noticed mine. Perhaps a better solution is to specify ext3,ext2 in /etc/fstab instead of auto? Is that a valid option for fstab ?? I'll let you try it and report back... How's that ?? ;-) Well, so far

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011009 10:09]: Its interesting that people don't really seem to think much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* conversion to it

Re: woody apt: dowloading from different releases

2001-10-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tal Danzig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011012 08:55]: * On Fri Oct 12, 2001 11:32:47 -0400, Bruce Miller wrote: I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it upgraded to 0.5.4. This version of apt has a

Re: bootp vs. dhcp

2001-10-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 21:43]: so bootp is more fine-grained with respect to remote-boot aspects, but other than that pretty much eclipsed by dhcp (which can do static IPs too)? Can't give a complete answer, but yes, dhcp can give the same IP address to a given MAC

Re: ethernet card

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Marcel Figuerola Estrada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011009 18:35]: My card is a ethernet PCI compatible card (Surecom EP-320X-V) See this page: http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?1633 unfortunately, the description is slightly incomplete. You should use the via-rhine module. I

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 08:43]: [Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400] Stan Brown : Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. Where can I turn this off? Either do a 'dpkg --purge dhcp/dhcp-client/dhcpcd' or better still remove instances of

Re: Why is my machine sudenly trying to do dhcp?

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 09:37]: On Mon Oct 8 11:46:37 2001 Raghavendra Bhat wrote... [Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400] Stan Brown : Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't wnat. Where can I turn this off? Either do a 'dpkg --purge

Re: concerning ext3fs

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Marc Becher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 12:00]: hello, don't know whether this has been mentioned already. In /etc/updatedb.conf debian sets per default PRUNEFS= ... auto ... . But the docs for ext3fs-patch recommend using auto instead of ext3 in /etc/fstab, which is a reasonable

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Royce Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 11:20]: Hall... I appreciate your comments, but hasten to reply that the only thing comparable to the arrogance of Microsoft is the reverse arrogance of their detractors. I would have sworn that my questions to this list were in the interest of

Re: Help PLEASE, Can't rlogin to myslef!

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 07:54]: I'm trying to get a Debian stable box set up to be a Amanda tapehiots. It's _almost_ working. The only serious remaining problem is that it can't see it self! This can be exhibited by atempteing to rlogi8n or rsh from itself to itself. if I

feet in respective mouths and self-replies

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:32]: This is getting even further OT, so it's the last I'll say on the matter. okay, so I lied earlier, but I'll keep it quick. In having hastily responded to Royce's message, I totally proved his point. I got a LART off-list, and decided a public

Re: postfix delivery options

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 14:48]: I'm not sure how to configure postfix to have the following behavior: *when I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it gets sent to hartshorne.net to be delivered to someone. *when I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it gets sent to hartshorne.net,

Re: howto avoid connection reset by peer with ssh

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alejandro Diego Garin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:59]: hello linuxfriends: The firewall of my company is reseting my conections with ssh when is idle 3 minutes or something like these. How can I prevent this with the ssh client on my Linux? I need to send every 2 minutes a x

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 19:56]: press cntrl+c to freeze it and cntrl+q to unfreeze it that's ctrl+s to pause and ctrl+q to unpause. This is the same as using scroll lock, but is handy on terminals where scroll lock is either not present or not supported (i.e. via some

Re: another question

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* MarceI Figuerola Estrada ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 12:02]: When I start linux I get a list of error messages which I can't view because the screen scrolls so fast. Is there any way to read them? The short answer is 'dmesg'. Check out 'man dmesg' for more info, or just peek in

Re: setting up network

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Antti Tolamo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 16:37]: I don't think you need more than network(in this case 192.168.0.0) and define gateway to DSL router. I'm not sure what 'auto eth0' does, I atleast don't have it with my DSL connection. auto eth0 specifies that eth0 should be brought up

Re: drivers

2001-10-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011008 19:11]: Hmm.. I tried upgrading some drivers (orinoco-0.8.tar.gz) by copying them into the linux drivers tree (/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/...) but the new modules didn't get installed when I ran 'dpkg -i ../kernel_image...' did they get

Re: How can I get dselect's selection to match what's installed?

2001-10-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011005 12:07]: OK, somehow I'v _reallY- got dselct's selection list munged up. It want's to dlete 200+ packages! How can I (short of spending hours ding it by hand), get dslect's desired selection to match what's installed on the system? I don't know of a

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011005 12:23]: Hi, I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of SDRAM. I am

test - please ignore/delete

2001-10-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
Apologies, all. Either everyone suddenly fell silent today, or I somehow mysteriously stopped receiving list mail. This aims to find out which. -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq

Re: SSH port forwarding

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 10:23]: I have some boxes behind a firewall that I need access to from the internet. I don't control the firewall, so I thought I would try to use OpenSSH port forwarding. I have placed GatewayPorts yes in the outside machine's sshd_config. The boxes

Re: sudo and Debian (was ssh and Debian)

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 06:29]: Hmm, even using the PASSWD: option I still don't have to enter my password. I don't know why. debian's sudo package has the password timeout set to 15 minutes. This means that once you enter your password once, as long as you don't wait more

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 04:01]: also sprach Rory Campbell-Lange (on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:10:49AM +0100): Should I repoint mutt to my mbox, by default? How should I do this? Also, how can mutt know that there is unread mail in other folders? ever tries the manual?

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: Hello, We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites we were unable to download the required files. With many sites, the make-psudo-imaage command terminated immediately and

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Shriram Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 11:09]: Hi All, just wondering if it was possible to set one of the tty's like tty8 to login to another machine via ssh instead of just to the local machine. Haven't done this, but check out the manpage for getty. The -l option looks like it

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 10:32]: Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and esound-common. When I do a ps -eaf | grep esd it doesn't find anything. I also can't find which package contains esdctl which used to be the way to start and stop the esd

Re: IP Alias

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Chad Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 16:29]: Hello, I set up an IP Alias on my system but I'm unable to access the aliased IP address from other computers. I have: eth0, IP Address A - can ping from my computer and from other computers eth0:0, IP Address B - can ping ONLY from

Re: new system

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:46]: I am getting ready to build a new box and I would like to make it like the one I am currently using. I am running Sid updated daily. Is there a way to do a base install of potato on the new system then change apt.sources to point to sid and is

Re: new libc6, mozilla

2001-10-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011002 20:07]: i just apt-get updated and noticed the new mozilla and libc packages in unstable. i think i'll wait to hear if they work before burdening the network with my download. can anyone affirm that they work together harmoniously? nope. see

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011001 16:06]: $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* ls: /dev/ttyS*: No such file or directory doh! one more question I hadn't even considered the first time around: is this using devfs? If *not*, then you probably need to create the device files like this: mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010930 23:12]: Hi there, Whenever I boot up, i get messages from the kernel complaining that it cannot find ttS?? modules, or /dev/ttS?? modules. it would be very helpful if you could post the exact complaint that the kernel gives you. If you can't copy and

Re: Package optimization

2001-10-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrin Jose T. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010930 16:59]: Hello all Is it possible to make *k7.deb instead of *i386.deb ? See dman's post to understand why it's not done regularly (as in, in the archives). If you do still feel you want binaries optimized for your k7, you can download

Re: Email all users

2001-10-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Aaron Hall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 17:43]: On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of such a way to email all the users a quick message without having to send the email seperately to each user? There might be more than one way. If everyone checks

Re: Portforwarding

2001-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jan Tammen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010928 11:28]: Hello, I'm using potato and kernel 2.4.8. I'm trying to map some ports to a client inside my NAT-network. So far i'm using this, but it seems to have no effect: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i mydevice --dport -j DNAT --to

Re: install package from an user

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010925 07:51]: On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:40:19AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: when i use RedHat, i install some applications from the source file (tar.gz) in my home directory. Is it possible with Debian to install in my home directory some debian

Re: Another mutt question?

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Josh McKinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010927 09:03]: I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say 'debian-user'

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010926 23:14]: == randline == #!/usr/bin/perl ## print 1 randomline from a file @_=; print $_[rand$#_]; while this one works, the one Martin posted is a better solution. They're both O(n) in terms of time, but Martin's is O(1) wrt space,

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes 'From'

2001-09-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010927 13:45]: I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as 'From'. Needless to say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. I have no idea where this is happening (I

Re: OT: netfilter inquiry

2001-09-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010926 00:18]: On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:27:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Tim Moss wrote: here's the message i'm getting: ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team ip_conntrack (1023 buckets, 8184 max) iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010923 19:17]: First, please note that using Gnome will not help you because it is no where near ease-of-use as KDE is. Browsing the web is no big deal because just about any browser can browse the web. However, you might seriously consider Konqueror.

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010924 14:21]: dude ... that is so NOT a word! yes, but fuck isn't a word, either, your point being?? As to your points regarding application software, I'd tend to agree with your description of word processors, but I think you were a bit harsh on

Re: Regarding /tmp

2001-09-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 11:01]: Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in /tmp. /tmp means temporary, it doesn't mean delete upon reboot. If you want that, how about /gets-deleted-at-reboot. DUH. /tmp on Linux is not some stupid

Re: nv driver causes strange mouse cursor

2001-09-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010922 01:58]: If I use the nvidia driver my Riva 128 card works correctly. If I use the nv driver, however, the mouse cursor appears as a little coloured square. Has anyone seen this? Any cure? You could try to disable the hardware cursor and use the

Re: apt-get packages marked as rc

2001-09-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:23]: Hi, Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg ? When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration files,

Re: an urgent harware question

2001-09-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010921 07:14]: Hi, my local workshop is trying to install a network card of the type: 3com 3C905C-TXM This is a very well-supported card. Into my computer running Debian GNU/linux stable version. The kernel is 2.2.17. They are complaining

Re: mutt and SSL/imap on testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 14:27]: * Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 07:23]: When I try to open an imap mailbox using ssl mutt complains about SSL not being available. Is it not compiled in in testing? Any clue about what I could be doing wrong I open

Re: Maintaining woody/sid mixtures

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010917 03:31]: Vineet Kumar wrote: If you don't need to custom-compile one (which it sounds like is the case) simply select kernel-image-2.4.9 for installation from dselect, and follow its guidelines to ensure that you have the proper modutils, etc

Re: Ctrl-4 exiting

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 14:22]: Robert Kerr wrote: Hi, I have some interesting behavior with an application I'm working on. When I type Ctrl-4 in the window, it kills the application. I'm wondering what symbol Ctrl-4 sends to my program, and how to find that out.

Re: stable - testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 16:07]: I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my future. This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from cvs. Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, which

Re: unstable package install into testing

2001-09-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 12:16]: I have downloaded the unstable version of abiword into my home directory. I would like to install this on my testing system. I believe all dependencies for the unstable version (0.9.0-0.1) are met. How do I do the install? Do i need

Re: general ups experience

2001-09-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010912 14:54]: Im curious on what experience you all have with smart/dumb ups's under linux. I know that i'd be hoping too much to hear someone say they've gotten the usb connection to work... but atleast with the serial one it shouldn't be too hard.

Re: fbset

2001-09-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: Hello all, Seems like a silly question, but I can't quite figure out how to do it. I would like to have my terminals display at something like 1024x768 at boot time. I have tried both vga=ask and vga=0x305 in /etc/lilo.conf, and neither gives

logrotate wtmp,btmp,lastlog

2001-09-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
I noticed that the stock /etc/logrotate.conf includes explicit configurations for wtmp and btmp after this comment: # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here Until recently, this file included a rotator for lastlog as well, and it also had mention in the comment. I'm not sure I

Re: Network Stalls

2001-09-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:07]: Hello, I posted a message in here last night about network stalls and direcpc running on a win98 machine with winroute as the proxy. I believe this is because of the Direcpc satellite and latency. The local network has no problems. Here is

fbset [was Re: uptime]

2001-09-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 18:21]: Ooh, cool. I'll have to check it out. Maybe that way I could switch framebuffer resolutions without rebooting :-). umm ... I take it you've never heard of fbset? -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use

Re: Speeding up GPG

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Casper Gielen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 14:04]: Hi, I've set up to use GPG, it seems to work fine. However loading a signed message takes annoyingly long, 10 to 20 seconds. As I get quite a lot of mail, much of which is signed this is a pain in the butt. I'm on a PIII500 so processor

Re: pine for Debian

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Faheem Mitha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 19:03]: On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Joe Koenig wrote: Trying to install pine on Potato. Downloaded the official sources. cd pine-3.96M. dpkg-buildpackage. dpkg --install pine-tech-notes_3.96M-5.0_all.deb -- snip

Re: Debian 2.2r3 potato - linux core release?

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Roger Broadbent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 16:59]: It appears that the potato release (2.2r3) uses the Linux kernel version 2.2.19pre17. However, I can only seem to find kernel headers for 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 on the release CD. This appears to mean that to install any modules without error

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 21:34]: Thanks for all your help.. I found out what my problem was. In the testing version of perl, it doesn't include that file ioctl.ph. I was trying to get the package libdevice-serial-perl installed and when setting the handshaking to cts/rts

Re: Mounting a windows partition with full access

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Dmitriy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010903 02:01]: On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: ace22b == ace22b [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eduard == Eduard Bloch wrote: Eduard Put umask=000 to the other options in /etc/fstab. man Eduard mount will tell you more about

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010903 12:39]: Hi, I'm running a server in a public location, and the applications running on the server run in their own virtual console (or an xterm window). However, if someone came up and closed the xterm or hit ^C they could cancel the server

Re: zlib and files 2GO

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010910 10:22]: Patrick Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe (not sure for a fact, but fairly sure) that zlib has nothing to do with this size limitation... it has something to do with kernel 2.2.x. I'm not completely sure about that. The

Re: X forwarding problem with SSH.

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 13:38]: This may seem like an obvious question, have you a look in the messages/syslog file on the xserver itself? Perhaps its coming across permissional errors. With the xserver running run the command in an shell prompt: $ xhost + That'll

Re: mutt and SSL/imap on testing

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Daniel de los Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 07:23]: When I try to open an imap mailbox using ssl mutt complains about SSL not being available. Is it not compiled in in testing? Any clue about what I could be doing wrong I open the mailbox using imaps://server.com/INBOX If I use

Re: Q: how to allow permanently other users to X

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* S?ndor B?r?ny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 07:32]: My problem is the following: if I started kdm as user X and change to user Y I have to use xhost + to be able to start xclock. (xhost +localhost and the like is not enough.) But anyhow, I want to allow it for the all users on the same machine

Re: runtimes

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 12:24]: OK, Debian runtime levels seem...well...different. I'd like to have two different runtimes. One that boots into X and one that doesn't--but that still offers network support and other goodies. Am I going to run into problems if I muck

Re: Maintaining woody/sid mixtures

2001-09-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010916 12:44]: So, I have two questions. 1: Why does dselect detect problems that the other tools ignore? Can I safely ignore these problems myself (I can't find any more conflicts--but dselect insists on changing my selections. Should I just use Q to

Re: .m2v files which format ?

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 12:10]: Hi, My friend has got a CD on which he has got some mpeg files and some files are in .m2v format ? Which format is this ? It also looks to be a video file from its size. Has anybody come across this format ? Which player can play these

Re: Unstable - Testing

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeremy Nickurak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010914 22:40]: A while ago I had to set myself up a little low-priority router. Now, being the irresponsible person I am, I just had to install unstable to get a few toys testing was missing at the time. :) doh! You should have used pin priorities in

Re: quick perl check

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adam McDaniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010915 08:39]: Hey...i think i've found a slight issue/bug with the testing version of perl, but I need someone running stable to run this command: # dpkg -S ioctl.ph Actually, now that I think about it, anyone running either stable OR testing if you

Re: Exim delivery to a maildir (or just use procmail?) questions

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010914 18:08]: Ok, I've got courier-imapd installed and configured. How do I get exim to deliver all localy generated mail to stay in the standard mail spool for the system but all other mail which is coming in through fetchmail to go into a maildir

Re: can't find install - yeah right!

2001-09-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010913 15:37]: david: install is part of the fileutils package. i don't know what the appropriate debian package is. you can get it at the gnu web page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz and compile your

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010914 08:18]: also sprach Ailbhe Leamy (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:34:30PM +0100): Correction: It'll switch to the next mailbox with NEW mail. If you open a mailbox, read half of what's new there, and leave, the other unread messages will not cause the

Re: Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

2001-09-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010913 06:54]: Hi all, I have a Debian box that acts as a file and mail server along with a Win2k laptop belonging to my employer. (I work from home). Currently I'm trying to edit a .forward file by adding a score based filter. Its too long to typoe

Re: Webwasher alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010910 15:43]: What other webwasher type proxies are there out there? I have a strong preference for free software. I've never used webwasher, but I know of a program called filterproxy; might it work for what you seek? Package: filterproxy Priority:

Re: Why do I have ^M's after my mailheaders?

2001-09-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Danie Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010911 12:19]: Suddenly, all mail I get has ^M's after the header. Which means my filtering breaks, and I get a lot of emails in my inbox. What could have caused it? Exim? I upgraded an hour ago. Do you use fetchmail? Are you familiar with the stripcr

Re: gpg

2001-09-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
that when you see someone dispensing advice with a signature from this key, it's probably the same person who did it a few weeks back (even though you have no proof that I'm actually Vineet Kumar). To start collecting public keys, your best bet is to tell gpg where it can find a keyserver, and when you ask

Re: Question about screen

2001-09-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010911 09:52]: Frederik Vanrenterghem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using screen on 1 machine with 2 windows, 1 of the windows is used to ssh to another machine. Now I would like to start a new screen session on that other machine, and be able to create

Re: exim woes

2001-09-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010902 12:51]: Just a follow up - When I re-read my original message, I realized that I was a bit unclear. What I am hoping to discover is why exim finds an apparently bad IP for my smarthost when I send messages to some servers. It looks to me like

Re: thread hijacking [was: shell script for bash]

2001-09-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 19:55]: * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: SNIP Give it a later number in /etc/rc?.d (probably /etc/rc2.d) than the sendmail init script. They're started in sequence by /etc/init.d/rc. Hey Colin. Yeah, that was my first thought. It was

Re: Newbie : Modem question

2001-09-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Narasimhamurthy Giridhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010907 15:45]: hi I have a ITU V.90 56K modem. I dont know the manf. Is there a driver for this in Debian ?? I don't have a definitive answer, but a few tips: Debian doesn't drive modems. Linux does. If it works in Linux, it works in Debian. We

Re: exim

2001-09-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Socket Secured ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 02:06]: The contact webpage told me to ask my question here, but this looks like a mailing list, so if this goes thru could you e-mail me the response back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I have run eximconfig a million times and can't get SMTP relaying to

Re: Just a question

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 21:14]: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:45:29PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 19:41]: Is there a way that I can take a passwd file and compare the full name data in it to the email ldap server and give a a list

Re: debian equivalent of redhat mouseconfig

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 19:44]: Hi, I'm trying to get X Window System up and running. I'm failing because I do not have a /dev/mouse. I understand that at some point I was suppose to make this a symbolic link to the real mouse device (??/dev/psaux ??). Poking

Re: no mouse with X

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Cliff Sarginson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 15:38]: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:51:15PM -0400, Eric Cheney wrote: Hello. I'm trying to introduce a debian box to my officeI am not a sysadmin, so I stumble a little bit with these things. Anyway, I want to make a good impression

Re: IDE tape drive

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 19:50]: hi guys, i have a machine with an IDE tape drive, 20Gb in size or so. my kernel has the ide-tape.o module, and /dev/ht0 exists. the logs are fine, in short... i think the tape drive just might work. however, i have no clue how to use it.

Re: PrettyGoodPrivacy

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* greg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 12:45]: Still getting: `E: package gnupg has no installation candidate' What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? did you run 'deselect update' ? -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may

Re: Manually bring up NICs not found at install and/or rebuilding Kernel

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 10:34]: Some success! The command I used was modprobe eepro100 and both NIC's came up. I'm running a Red Hat 7.1 box also but I'm hesitant to set the Debian box up exactly the same way because of formatting differences. So where should I put the

Re: Everybuddy or Gabber

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ron Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 10:35]: I'm trying to get Everybuddy or Gabber for Debian... but i installed Gabber, but i can't find it anymore... if anyone can help me, email me back (Gabber installed gpm so i've been dealing with that for a while-MS Mouse Wheel) For future

Re: xterm -display 0:0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 13:30]: X11-4 box? vi /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, make sure the 2 words -nolisten tcp aren't there on the box you are trying to display to. Better yet, use ssh -X remotehost -f xterm if you're not using ssh, you should be. If you are using

Re: how 2 replace xterm with rxvt?

2001-08-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010831 16:12]: Hello, Pls CC me when replying...thanks! I want to replace xterm with rxvt..I have installed rxvt but haven't removed xterm yet...should I? Anyway, couple of problems/questions rxvt should be smaller so it should load faster...yet it

Re: Just a question

2001-08-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Schramm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010830 19:41]: Is there a way that I can take a passwd file and compare the full name data in it to the email ldap server and give a a list of what it finds and what it misses? I am doing this manually but with the number of users that there are

Re: allowing users to upload

2001-08-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010825 11:23]: hi, i operate a couple of non-profit servers for friends to host their websites. there is only ssh, no ftp, but most users are mac or windoze, and so they have considerable difficulty uploading, even with the OpenSSL or other comparable

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