Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.0448 +0100]: > 1 compound word: offlineimap yes. i nominate this for the best piece of software in of the last week (which is when i discovered it) > (the trick, is that courier is configured to send anything saved to that > box.. must be i

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have > net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would > try to figure out what's best to setup.. For sending mail from my laptop I have Postfix inst

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:55:59AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > (the trick, is that courier is configured to send anything saved to that > > box.. must be in 822 format, which mutt does.) > > how do you accomplish that? /etc/courier/imapd: ##NAME: OUTBOX:0 # # The next set of options deal w

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.0923 +0100]: > ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0 > # > # If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by copying > # a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder. Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? -- Please do not CC m

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:55:55AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? No, I periodically do that manually. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Universe was created.

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1244 +0100]: > > Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? > > No, I periodically do that manually. so courier keeps track of which of these have been sent? New flag? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read

grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot partition then ? Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... --

checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... Am i right that fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so one rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do that ? ( For the curious, yes, now I'm ready to move to ext3 ;-) --

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
mi wrote: Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot partition then ? Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... As an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, I would think grub wouldn't

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Fluch
No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in this case. - Martin On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, mi wrote: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? > Didn

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 10 March 2003 17:12, mi wrote: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? > Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... Basically, ext3 is ext2 + additional dat

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
On 10 Mar, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > mi wrote: > >Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > >( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > >partition then ? > >Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... > > > > As an ext3 filesystem

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1712 +0100]: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? i am doing so right here. yes, it works. -- Please do not CC me when

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1717 +0100]: > Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... Am i right that > fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so one > rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do > that ? not entirely true. as lon

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "mi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... > Am i right that fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so > one rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do that ? > > ( For the curious, yes, now I'm ready to move to ext

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash / grub / ext3

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Thanks, all, for your answers ! Good to hear they're easy, grub and ext3 :) Derek Broughton: > and I run into the 20-mount limit at least once a week. So ext3 has to be checked regularily, too ? I remember there's a 'tune2fs' option to turn it off - is this untrusted ? > btw, if you have /boot

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:43:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > so courier keeps track of which of these have been sent? New flag? Read the docs. AIUI, it sends mail which gets *saved* to that mailbox. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:22:29AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: >On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: >> Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have >> net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would >> try to figure out what's b

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1825 +0100]: > No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in > this case. ... provided that you did properly umount the filesystem before. accessing an ext3 filesystem as ext2 without it being umount'd or properly fs

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On 10 Mar 2003 01:35:41 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : kernel: hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > : kernel: hde: command error: error=0x51 > : kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), sector 132 > : kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=21:00, i

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:18:34 -0400 Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regularly... I have an as-yet-undiagnosed bug that locks me up and requires a > poweroff to reset, so I get the fsck on boot messages all the time. It mounts > the root system read-only to fsck it when required. Then

OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message OK... I give up trying this without a little help...   I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory.   I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the installation b

Running 2.5.xx on a laptop?

2003-03-10 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian on my Tecra 8200. It's been suggested that 2.5.xx might have better USB support for my shiny new Palm Trident. Unfortunately, 2.5.6[34] with a fairly bare config just hangs silently and hard after "Now booting linux kernel..." Any

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:51:07 -0500 "Peter S. Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot get the Nvidia to work at all in X... I've downloaded NVidia's > drivers (the two packages from their site) and tried making them... the > "GLX" make works fine, but the "Kernel" package continually gives me

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
Peter S. Hayes wrote: OK... I give up trying this without a little help... I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory. I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the installati

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message Thank you for some suggestions... even as I type, I'm printing these tidbits of knowledge off so that I can try to follow them when back in the world of Linux (I'm afraid I'm on Win XP at the moment).   I'll let everyone know how it comes out!     Thanks again!     Pete

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
> Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at 22:35: > > > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 account. > > Don't use POP, use IMAP. Then you won't need to fetch, and all the mail is > alway

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread François TOURDE
"Peter S. Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK... I give up trying this without a little help... > > I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron > 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory. Just have a look at Tuxmobil.org, or linux-laptop.ne

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Leone
Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/10/03 at 21:10: > > > Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at > > 22:35: > > > > > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > > > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 ac

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.0448 +0100]: > 1 compound word: offlineimap yes. i nominate this for the best piece of software in of the last week (which is when i discovered it) > (the trick, is that courier is configured to send anything saved to that > box.. must be i

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have > net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would > try to figure out what's best to setup.. For sending mail from my laptop I have Postfix inst

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:55:59AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > (the trick, is that courier is configured to send anything saved to that > > box.. must be in 822 format, which mutt does.) > > how do you accomplish that? /etc/courier/imapd: ##NAME: OUTBOX:0 # # The next set of options deal w

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.0923 +0100]: > ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0 > # > # If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by copying > # a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder. Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? -- Please do not CC m

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:55:55AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? No, I periodically do that manually. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184 "In the beginning the Universe was created.

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1244 +0100]: > > Is the message subsequently deleted from the outbox folder? > > No, I periodically do that manually. so courier keeps track of which of these have been sent? New flag? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read

grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot partition then ? Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... --

checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... Am i right that fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so one rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do that ? ( For the curious, yes, now I'm ready to move to ext3 ;-) --

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
mi wrote: Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot partition then ? Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... As an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, I would think grub wouldn't car

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Fluch
No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in this case. - Martin On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, mi wrote: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? > Didn

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 10 March 2003 17:12, mi wrote: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? > Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... Basically, ext3 is ext2 + additional dat

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
On 10 Mar, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > mi wrote: > >Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > >( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > >partition then ? > >Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs... > > > > As an ext3 filesystem

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1712 +0100]: > Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem, > ( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot > partition then ? i am doing so right here. yes, it works. -- Please do not CC me when

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1717 +0100]: > Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... Am i right that > fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so one > rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do > that ? not entirely true. as lon

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "mi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anybody on a laptop list experienced with that ?... > Am i right that fsck shouldn't be run upon the running root-filesystem, so > one rather would boot another linux (e.g. from an installer cd ) to do that ? > > ( For the curious, yes, now I'm ready to move to ext

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash / grub / ext3

2003-03-10 Thread mi
Thanks, all, for your answers ! Good to hear they're easy, grub and ext3 :) Derek Broughton: > and I run into the 20-mount limit at least once a week. So ext3 has to be checked regularily, too ? I remember there's a 'tune2fs' option to turn it off - is this untrusted ? > btw, if you have /boot

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Beattie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:43:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > so courier keeps track of which of these have been sent? New flag? Read the docs. AIUI, it sends mail which gets *saved* to that mailbox. Mike. -- Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:22:29AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: >On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:16, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: >> Anyway, I'm working at 2 different locations and besides that I also have >> net at home... This totals 3 different configs to send mail, so I would >> try to figure out what's b

Re: grub on ext3

2003-03-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.10.1825 +0100]: > No problem. There is no diference between ext3 and ext2 file system in > this case. ... provided that you did properly umount the filesystem before. accessing an ext3 filesystem as ext2 without it being umount'd or properly fs

Re: CD-reader on SONY VAIO SR27K

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On 10 Mar 2003 01:35:41 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : kernel: hde: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > : kernel: hde: command error: error=0x51 > : kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:00 (hde), sector 132 > : kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=21:00, i

Re: checking root-filesystem after crash

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:18:34 -0400 Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regularly... I have an as-yet-undiagnosed bug that locks me up and requires a > poweroff to reset, so I get the fsck on boot messages all the time. It mounts > the root system read-only to fsck it when required. Then

OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message OK... I give up trying this without a little help...   I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory.   I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the installation b

Running 2.5.xx on a laptop?

2003-03-10 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian on my Tecra 8200. It's been suggested that 2.5.xx might have better USB support for my shiny new Palm Trident. Unfortunately, 2.5.6[34] with a fairly bare config just hangs silently and hard after "Now booting linux kernel..." Any

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread ntrfug
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:51:07 -0500 "Peter S. Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot get the Nvidia to work at all in X... I've downloaded NVidia's > drivers (the two packages from their site) and tried making them... the > "GLX" make works fine, but the "Kernel" package continually gives me

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Kraftcheck
Peter S. Hayes wrote: OK... I give up trying this without a little help... I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory. I have run through the installation a couple of times (each time the installation

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message Thank you for some suggestions... even as I type, I'm printing these tidbits of knowledge off so that I can try to follow them when back in the world of Linux (I'm afraid I'm on Win XP at the moment).   I'll let everyone know how it comes out!     Thanks again!     Pete

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
> Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at 22:35: > > > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 account. > > Don't use POP, use IMAP. Then you won't need to fetch, and all the mail is always

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread François TOURDE
"Peter S. Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK... I give up trying this without a little help... > > I'm trying to get Debian Linux (woody...2.4.18) onto my Dell Inspiron > 8200 with the NVidia GE Force 440 Go video card (64 MB) of memory. Just have a look at Tuxmobil.org, or linux-laptop.ne

Re: Mail (smtp) config at different locations. Script or ..?

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Leone
Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/10/03 at 21:10: > > > Joao Pedro Clemente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 03/09/03 at 22:35: > > > > > As I'm the single user of my laptop, this seems a overkill: > > > - I only fetch mail of 1 user (me) from my [1] pop3 account

Re: OK... Newbie gives up and needs a little help... Dell Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia GEForce 440 GO...

2003-03-10 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:51:07PM -0500, Peter S. Hayes wrote: > OK... I give up trying this without a little help... > [..] > "GLX" make works fine, but the "Kernel" package continually > gives me errors about a missing header file... but I can find > the header file in the locat