Re: Is the system clock broken ?

2005-01-04 Thread chris-usenet
jens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Chris. Ok, I confess, I stuck an extra 'n' in there > me bad. Why, oh why, oh why, did you email me as well as replying here? If someone answers your post then surely it's obvious they're reading the newsgroup/mailing list, so you don't

Re: Is the system clock broken ?

2004-12-23 Thread chris-usenet
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:45:55 +, jens wrote: > Hi there, I set up a new Debian box with a 2.6 kernel. For some reason or > other I can't get the system time to be correct. When I do a 'tzconfig' it > reports me as being in the correct time zone (American/Vancouver) but > when I do a 'date' comma

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread chris-usenet
Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? Dovecot with Maildir support works for me. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: open terminal in VNC

2004-12-06 Thread chris-usenet
Stefan Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things work like a charm but. Sometimes you accidently close the > terminal in the VNC and you are stuck. Is there a way to open en termial > through ssh or similar and make it appear in the VNC session? What window manager is the remote end using?

Re: vsftpd with shell set to /bin/false

2004-11-26 Thread chris-usenet
Ruben van Engelenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was installing vsFtpd om my Debian server today and found out that > users can't login if their shell is set to /bin/false. [...] > Is there a way to change this behaviour [...] Add your "shell" to the list in /etc/shells (see "man shells" for

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-25 Thread chris-usenet
Sayantan Sur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am on sarge (testing) and can see only Firefox version 0.9.3 Ivan Teliatnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox 1.0.2 is current version in sarge (or at least this is the case > for my sarge). I think it's only recently been promoted from unstable. C

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-24 Thread chris-usenet
> See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html for more details. It > works for me. Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris. I hope you can provide another reference to a more complete > explanation of apt-pinning, or that Sayantan has already basic knowledge > of it... cause

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-22 Thread chris-usenet
Sayantan Sur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is the firefox (or thunderbird) package going to be in the > unstable/testing of Debian Sarge? I am on sarge (testing) and can see > only Firefox version 0.9.3 I'm also on sarge, but I use apt pinning to let me pull in particular packages from unstable - i

Re: openvpn

2004-11-22 Thread chris-usenet
Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need something that can have both linux and windows clients > and which does not create many compatibility problems ... from my own > tests openvpn would do nicely. I use it between GNU/Linux clients, Windows clients, Mac clients, and entire networks.

Re: Set up virtual tap0 device on boot

2004-10-22 Thread chris-usenet
Damir Dezeljin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to set tap0 in promisc mode and add it to br0 bridge that is > set up on boot from /etc/network/interfaces. I would like to avoid adding > my own program for tap0 registration. Is there anything similar already > implemented in 'standard' Deb

Gnome "courier" font is invisible except at 14pt

2004-10-20 Thread chris-usenet
I'm running gnome on debian sarge, as provided by apt-get and friends. My gnome "Courier" font appears to render as invisible text at every pointsize apart from 14. The text can be copied and pasted, but it cannot be viewed. This is particularly annoying for me because a lot of websites use "couri

Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

2004-10-15 Thread chris-usenet
For what it's worth, the answer to the stretched printing appears to be Xprint's default postscript resolution. It's 600x600 and for me, when I reduced it back to the more normal 300x300 the printing problems disappeared. Oh, the file (debian "sarge") is /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document, an

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-20 Thread chris-usenet
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cat /etc/issue or cat /etc/issue.net I overwrite /etc/issue on all my boxes to provide pre-login text warnings to my users. I don't like advertising which flavour of *nix I'm running. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-30 Thread chris-usenet
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the latest ntp configuration the file is /etc/default/ntpdate. So > your problem is already fixed and will be in the next Debian release. A quick hack to /etc/default/ntpdate and all's happy - this uses your non-local "server" entries in /etc/ntp.conf:

Re: ftp.uk.debian.org not allowing connections?

2004-06-16 Thread chris-usenet
Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've no idea what the cause is, but it seems to flake out regularly... I'm > using mirror.ac.uk now. You do know that mirror.ac.uk is likely to be disappearing, to be replaced by a completely different system...? See http://www.mirror.ac.uk/help/funding_a

Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-15 Thread chris-usenet
On Monday 14 June 2004 11:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with > 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041 > (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with > it. David Sanders <[EMAIL PROTEC

2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-14 Thread chris-usenet
I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041 (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with it. I've googled (web and news), and generally had a look around but cannot see anyone else having

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

2004-06-14 Thread chris-usenet
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, "Luis R. Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is in testing (0.5) and unstable (0.6). It's also on backports.org if you're running stable. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO