Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:19:12AM -0500, dman insinuated: > Sometimes it is more convenient, and other times it isn't. (FWIW > UNIX had the first IM called 'talk', too bad I never see it used > anymore (in fact, I can't get it to work at school)) oh, i am a talk *geek*, and use it all the time on my

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Brian Clark
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 18. 2002 00:12]: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:51:58PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > | I never understood the appeal of an IM, other than it tells you if > | someone's online. Email always seemed to be plenty fast enough, and a > | lot easier to deal with. [...]

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Brian Clark
* David Gardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 17. 2002 20:07]: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq > >and gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying > >problems (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get > >deliv

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:19:12AM -0500, dman wrote (1.00): > (FWIW UNIX had the first IM called 'talk', too bad I never see it used > anymore (in fact, I can't get it to work at school)) Heh. I use talk all the time, but it's different from IM's... (although I guess the "chat mode" of ICQ, etc

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:51:58PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: | I never understood the appeal of an IM, other than it tells you if | someone's online. Email always seemed to be plenty fast enough, and a | lot easier to deal with. Emails are better for asynchronous communication. I write a lot

Re: exim doubt

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:41:02AM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: | hi all | in the exim mailer, the remort delivery should not tries more than 3 mail | servers , the error | 2002-01-16 07:50:52 16QfY2-5q-00 mail2.rediffmail.com [203.199.83.4]: Connection refuced | 2002-01-16 07:50:52 16QfY2-5

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > john wrote: > > > csj wrote: [snip] > > > So what would you recommend as a DTP program in Linux? There's one in Freshmeat. Don't know how good it is, though. -- +

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread ben
On Thursday 17 January 2002 08:04 pm, you wrote: [snip] > FYI, The book version is the personal edition, which does not have all > the features of the full edition , WP8 ver 8.1 is the version with all > the features included. This is included i nthe Corel Linux Deluxe > editions, which can be had

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:51:58PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte insinuated: > I never understood the appeal of an IM, other than it tells you if > someone's online. Email always seemed to be plenty fast enough, and > a lot easier to deal with. different medium, different mode of communication. i have differ

Re: How to setup a pop3 server?

2002-01-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > My mate has just asked if I could set up an old machine to run as a > little mail server for 3 people who hang out together, all running macs. > They have an ADSL line connection without a fixed IP. I thought I'd run > exim/fetchmail (in daemon mod

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:56:32PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote (0.50): > Any client that hasn't been updated yet to use the new protocol will > have this problem. Some updates are in progress in Debian unstable. I've been using GnomeICU for the last 4 hours, and it hasn't had the repeated messages p

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread Rupa Schomaker
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think a command line option should be available to say "don't create > a prefs file". That should be the user's job anyways. Uhh, use the spamd/spamc combination. Then edit the /etc/default/spamassassin file. Remove the -c option from OPTIONS and you won't h

ip route

2002-01-17 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm trying to utilize two devices on my machine using ip route. bdg:~# ip route del default scope global nexthop via 202.146.253.9 dev ppp0 weight 2 nexthop via 192.168.1.45 dev eth0 weight 1 bdg:~# ip route list 192.168.11.2 via 192.168.1.25 dev eth0 202.146.253.9 dev ppp0 proto kernel sc

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:06 pm, ben wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:57 pm, Douglas Hespe wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote: > > > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down > > > under there,

Re: Debian uses gcc272 for kernel; conflicts with NVidia-kernel-src

2002-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:46:12PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, nate wrote: > > i only have 1 system that uses the nvidia drivers, 2.2.19 with > > gcc 2.95.4(debian woody). potato has 2.95.2. i have not tested > > the nvidia drivers on debian potato ... > > It seems to me th

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on client s

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:45:37PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote (0.44): > This is not a bug with licq, this is a problem with AOL. AOL is > attempting to kill ICQ off by making it as unreliable as possible. > Annoy AOL if this bothers you. Doesn't bother me in the slightest... I'm only using

exim doubt

2002-01-17 Thread Jijo Jose A
hi all in the exim mailer, the remort delivery should not tries more than 3 mail servers , the error 2002-01-16 07:50:52 16QfY2-5q-00 mail2.rediffmail.com [203.199.83.4]: Connection refuced 2002-01-16 07:50:52 16QfY2-5q-00 mail3.rediffmail.com [203.199.83.132]: Connection refuced 2002-01

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > | I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client > > Ugh! That client is really really ugly. And it wouldn't solve the mis-sends and duplicate messages...my roommate across the hall and a buddy of mine across town both use the Windows

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on client startup... this is a

routing problem - solved :-)

2002-01-17 Thread Klaus Neumann
Thanks folks! After I discovered linuxconf, and played a little with its network menu, I could suddenly connect to the internet. Any volunteer who would help me to exchange my SuSE router with Debian? Regards, Klaus

Re: Cinalerra

2002-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:46:39AM +0800, csj wrote: > FUD time: I remember reading somewhere in the site that cinelerra is > being abandoned by its author because of lawsuit fears (maybe has > something to do with the dominance of non-free codecs). No, that was Broadcast 2000, and since it's GP

Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-17 Thread Arne W. Flones
Hi, I recently updated my stable, but out of date, SuSE system to Debian Potato (2.2r4). I'm now trying to smooth out some of the wrinkles. I use a lot of html locally for internal documents, all of which I markup manually with Emacs. Since upgrading there are two problems I have not seen befor

Re: routing problem

2002-01-17 Thread Klaus Neumann
On Thursday 17 January 2002 03:44 am, Jeff wrote: > Klaus Neumann, 2002-Jan-16 22:07 -0800: > > Hi, > > > > I just replaced my SuSE with Debian potato on my second computer (B). > > Using computer A, still SuSE installed as router. I can ping from A to B > > without problem. If I ping from B to A,

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:11:52AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > nori, wanna help? love to. give me a few days to get my life packed up, across the country, and back to the wired world, and then i'll go wild. :) -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>--

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread ben
On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:57 pm, Douglas Hespe wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote: > > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down under there, > > i mean. where, as in vendor outlets, can it be bought? and which version > > of wp is available? > > Hi

Re: USB Printing, kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:56:49PM -0600, earvin wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:10:02 -0500 > Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:50:28PM -0600, earvin wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem trying to use my printer under Debian, i comp

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0700, darrell wrote: Is this in potato? i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing? yes run: cat /etc/debian_version A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is 2.2. If you

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:41:14PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr insinuated: > run: > > cat /etc/debian_version > > A response "3.0" means you are using testing, i.e. woody. Stable is > 2.2. woah, so according to this, i'm running woody. heh, and i didn't even know. what is this classification dependent

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:07:38AM -0800, ben wrote: > > where exactly in Australia? I've got family over there, down under there, i > mean. where, as in vendor outlets, can it be bought? and which version of wp > is available? > Hi Ben, In Sydney there is a place called Basement Books

Re: LaTeX problem

2002-01-17 Thread Glen Snyder
Thanks for the tips. Here is what I have figured out (and I still don't know why) but it may explain why some have reproduced this problem, and others haven't. -The problem only exists if you use \maketitle (If I comment out \maketitle, then placing \pagestyle{empty} before \begin{document} s

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > I do not want to reboot. Any magical suggestions which rtfm to > examine? ps aux | grep tty

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0700, darrell wrote: > Is this in potato? > > i am still a debian newbie - havent quite figured out how to tell where > i am getting my packages / package lists and if there are > multiple versions, > ( i ahve edidted the apt-get sources file, but, there > is

Re: One time user access

2002-01-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:23:29AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 00:08, Caleb Shay wrote: > > Why not just use ssh and a windows ssh client like putty? > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > > > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote: > > > I was w

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: | Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? Not much recently, but I still sign on. (#53433584) I use 'everybuddy'. It isn't complete, and icq can make it crash sometimes, but it is nice. I used to

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread David Gardi
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+ m

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:27:36PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Wednesday 16 January 2002 2:33 am, dman wrote: | > I'm now trying to set up spamassassin on my system, but am running | > into some hurdles. I use exim as my MTA, so I'm following the guides | > at | > http://bogmog.sourceforg

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Baris Hasdemir
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:56:46 -0800 Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > <...> I am using gaim 0.50 on slackware, I don't think that it wont work

Re: [Exim] Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:52:40PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: | On Wed 16 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: | > | > sounds like (a) exim does it just like postfix. maybe they document it | > more sophisticatedly, (b) you doubling the load unnecessarily, and (c) | > you are asking for trouble. why

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:30:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1704 +0100]: | > Exim doesn't run pipe commands immediately like procmail does (with | > 'f' flag). It schedules the command to be run later, and later | > (during the actual deliver

Re: using xfwm as gnome's wm

2002-01-17 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 04:09, csj wrote: > > [...] Have your tried IceWM?[...] > Hello! Yes, i tried IceWM some time ago, but did not knew that it has GNOME support... wait, let me do a apt-get... :-) Thank you so far, will report in some time. Timo

Re: Fwd: =?iso-8859-1?Q? =B8=DE=C0=CF_=C0=FC=BC=DB_=BD=C7=C6=D0_=BE=C B =B8=B2_=3Cbi?= gice@naver.com>

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:57:12PM +0100, Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen wrote: | I get this every time I write to the debian-user list. | Any idea why? Not really, since I'm not getting it. In any case, you can junk mail from their site with your filters. I saved the message you forwarded

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
At 04:22 PM 1/17/02 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: >On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:27:39PM -0500, dman wrote (1.00): >> | I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client >> >> Ugh! That client is really really ugly. > >I don't care so much about how ugly it is, I just need it to

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:27:39PM -0500, dman wrote (1.00): > | I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client > > Ugh! That client is really really ugly. I don't care so much about how ugly it is, I just need it to work well. I'm currently trying GnomeICU, as I don't

small network setup tools

2002-01-17 Thread Thomas Halahan
Hi, Looking for a few pointers as how to best set up a small office network. Basically can install debian on the machines but don't really know how to join them in the simplest way (4 machines). I want the server to be the gateway to the internet. I've tried linux conf at setting up gatew

Re: wrestling with dselect

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
Is this in potato? i am still a debian newbie - havent quite figured out how to tell where i am getting my packages / package lists and if there are multiple versions, ( i ahve edidted the apt-get sources file, but, there is no clear indication with those urls if i am in testing stable or wha

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:56:46PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: | Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? Not much recently, but I still sign on. (#53433584) I use 'everybuddy'. It isn't complete, and icq can make it crash sometimes, but it is nice. I used to use GnomeICU (and gaim for aim

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
> > fishbowl:~> apt-cache search icq >- centericq - A text-mode icq client based on ncurses >X everybuddy - An all in one messaging client >X gaim - GPL clone of AOL Instant Messenger - GTK version >D gnomeicu - Small, fast and functional clone of Mirabilis' ICQ >+ jabber - Daemon for the jabber.o

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from | top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. Does 'top' or 'ps' still show the process? Which signal did you use to kill it? Use SI

Re: parallel port reading and writing

2002-01-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:21:26PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > hi folks. > forgive me for posting just another boring message. I am building > some hardware to work in the parallel port. I want to have full control of > the parallel port control register, to use as some signal lines. In the >

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.0056 +0100]: > Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and > gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems > (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered > again on

Re: corporate time server on debian (http://www.steltor.com)

2002-01-17 Thread John Hasler
martin f krafft writes: > ntpd, which is included in the 'ntp-simple' package is what most > professional time servers use. and yes, it's free, and yes, it runs on > debian like a charm. So does chrony, but a quick glance at the Web site indicates that what we mean by 'time server' and what Stelto

Re: corporate time server on debian (http://www.steltor.com)

2002-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Blake Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.18.0053 +0100]: > Corporate TimeServer is not an NTP implementation. It's an enterprize > messaging/colllaboration/calendaring server. Check out the link he > posted initially. sorry. something to speak for capitalization in emails ;) i didn

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread John Griffiths
> >Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the >suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the >infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm). > >Thanks for any help, > >M Gnome ICU did everything I wanted and more, been a year since I used it though

Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Does anyone out there use ICQ under Debian? So far I've tried licq and gaim with the ICQ plugin, and both of them have very annoying problems (messages get lost, or messages from previous sessions get delivered again on client startup... this is a problem when you have 20+ messages that come in eve

Re: How to setup a pop3 server?

2002-01-17 Thread ben
On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:57 pm, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > My mate has just asked if I could set up an old machine to run as a > little mail server for 3 people who hang out together, all running macs. > They have an ADSL line connection without a fixed IP. I thought I'd run > exim/fetchmai

Re: corporate time server on debian (http://www.steltor.com)

2002-01-17 Thread Blake Barnett
Corporate TimeServer is not an NTP implementation. It's an enterprize messaging/colllaboration/calendaring server. Check out the link he posted initially. On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:42, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.2239 > +0100]: > > I was wond

Mondo in Debian unstable?

2002-01-17 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I tried mindi the other day and it seems cool, but what about mondo I didn't see it anywhere in unstable. Anyone have packaged it? -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yah

Re: Removing dependancys

2002-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Di Toro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.2318 +0100]: > Just what does that mean, will the packages still be there and i'll have to > remove them still or does it imply further that they will be removed as > well? Also will that act recursively so that multiple levels of depends

Re: corporate time server on debian (http://www.steltor.com)

2002-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thedore Knab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.17.2239 +0100]: > I was wondering if anyone on the list is running corprate time server > on Debian. The comercial evaluation package is in tar.gz format. like which one? > If there is a free alternative with the same features I would love to

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread Kent West
john wrote: csj wrote: The level of control you want for your documents is better served by a dedicated DTP program like Ventura. The DOS version (running IIRC a run-time version of the GEM desktop environment) was fast, pretty fast even when run on an ancient XT. But I share the WP crowd's

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-17 Thread darrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/01/2002 (10:04) : here is some pix of my desktop nori, btw, wmaker is cool and pretty damn hard to beat, i have tried many desktops, gimp 1.2 runs real You mean you have tried several windowmanagers. Have you tried sawfish?

Re: Redhat -> Debian, done remotely

2002-01-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:50:06AM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:06:56AM -0500, Greg Berenfield wrote: > > I have a box with Redhat on it and would love to be able to install > > debian-woody on it, remotely (simply by ssh'ing into redhat box). > > Is there a method

Boottime keymap

2002-01-17 Thread Andrew Nesbit
Okay, so install-keymap places its boottime keymap in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz. That's fine. The question is this: how can I know from which keymap this file was generated from? TIA -Andrew

Re: How to setup a pop3 server?

2002-01-17 Thread nate
> However I need a Mac-friendly pop3 daemon that will work well with > exim and Macs (OS9 Entourage and OSX Mail, I think). There are no > special needs. However if there is no real difference between them, > I'd prefer to 'do it right' and learn to configure a good pop3 > implementation rather t

Re: Problem with sendmail

2002-01-17 Thread nate
> Hi! > Jan 16 17:44:31 debian sendmail[331]: XAA01148: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=hawky > (1000/1000), delay=18:32:37, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, > relay=fmx1.freemail.hu., > stat=Deferred: Name server: fmx1.freemail.hu.: host name lookup > failure >

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-17 Thread john
csj wrote: > > I beg to disagree with the crowd. Its features aside, WP must be one of > the most vicious pieces of software I've handled, next perhaps only to > vi(cious ;8-). I'm not particularly demanding WRT ease of use: just > something you can start and exit without reading the manual. (I c

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-01-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
use biff I think. biff is shell command that tells you of incomming mail. more details in man biff On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, YO MERITA wrote: > what can i do to get notified of new mail? > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail!

Unidentified subject!

2002-01-17 Thread YO MERITA
what can i do to get notified of new mail? __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

Re: How to setup a pop3 server?

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 8:57 pm, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > My mate has just asked if I could set up an old machine to run as a > little mail server for 3 people who hang out together, all running macs. > They have an ADSL line connection without

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony get a better 80-conductor IDE cable... not the old cheap 40pin ( 33Mb/sec ) cable... have fun alvin and turn on dma mode if "mounting it turns it off" hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

parallel port reading and writing

2002-01-17 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hi folks. forgive me for posting just another boring message. I am building some hardware to work in the parallel port. I want to have full control of the parallel port control register, to use as some signal lines. In the past two days I have been colecting information on how to use ioctl, and I

Removing dependancys

2002-01-17 Thread James Di Toro
Ok, after spending an hour running dpkg to remove x and everything that depended on it I went back into the docs to see if I had missed any thing, and lo and behold the '-b' option reared it's head. But this just says that it will 'deconfigure' the packages that depend on it. Just what does t

Problem with sendmail

2002-01-17 Thread HawkY
Hi! I've got a problem with my sendmail. It does not send mails through my dial-up connections but does deliver my local mail. In /var/log/mail/mail.info I've found something I don't understand: Jan 16 17:44:31 debian sendmail[331]: XAA01148: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=hawky (1000/1000), dela

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:30, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > The reason there are broken dependencies is because a package won't > install. There is a bug in it that must be fixed before it will work. I > want to be able to install completely unrelated packages with apt-get in > the mean time. Is that poss

Fwd: ¸ÞÀÏ Àü¼Û ½ÇÆÐ ¾Ë¸²

2002-01-17 Thread Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen
I get this every time I write to the debian-user list. Any idea why? Regards, Erik Brandstadmoen - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:53:03 +0100 Received: from [211.218.150.16] (he

Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Baker
--- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cant i use a 2.4.x one? > > thanks > > Note I said a debian kernel package ( read precompiled and in .deb format ) You can of course compile your own 2.4.x kernel for potato, but IIRC it takes a bit of adjustment...There are some instructions and package

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Epprecht
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: > >> /dev/hdc: >> Timing buffered disk reads: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { >> DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >> hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } >> hdc: dma_i

How to setup a pop3 server?

2002-01-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
My mate has just asked if I could set up an old machine to run as a little mail server for 3 people who hang out together, all running macs. They have an ADSL line connection without a fixed IP. I thought I'd run exim/fetchmail (in daemon mode) and procmail to filter mail into the mailboxes. Howev

Re: Multihead on Console ?

2002-01-17 Thread Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen
Markus Grunwald wrote: >With X11, I can use the two screens, that my Matrox G550 supports. But on the >text-console, both screens show the same. > Can I change this console-behaviour ? How ? > At least I know there's experimental support for multihead on console in kernel 2.4.17. (just saw it whe

Re: One time user access

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 6:52 pm, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:46:18AM -0800, Anton Graham wrote: > | XFree86 also apparently now compiles under cygwin (see > | http://xfree86.cygwin.com) > > Binaries available too. I recommend this.

corporate time server on debian (http://www.steltor.com)

2002-01-17 Thread Thedore Knab
I was wondering if anyone on the list is running corprate time server on Debian. The comercial evaluation package is in tar.gz format. If there is a free alternative with the same features I would love to learn about it. Ted Knab

Re: Problem with email

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 7:53 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: > See below for my reply: > > > I have a problem with my mail working on imap and > > > pop3. I thought that I had it set up ok since I Just a thought - do your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hos

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
libgtkhtml20 needs libgal19 (both are ximian packages), but libgal19 tries to overwrite a file in another package. I've contacted Ximian about the bug and they say a fix will be out within the week, but in the mean time I'd like to be able to install unrelated packages with apt-get. Anyone have any

killed process still on-screen

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. I do not want to reboot. Any magical suggestions which rtfm to examine? Ian -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
The reason there are broken dependencies is because a package won't install. There is a bug in it that must be fixed before it will work. I want to be able to install completely unrelated packages with apt-get in the mean time. Is that possible? Ben Pharr On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:59:55PM -0500

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 2:33 am, dman wrote: > I'm now trying to set up spamassassin on my system, but am running > into some hurdles. I use exim as my MTA, so I'm following the guides > at > http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?d

USB Printer Setup Problem

2002-01-17 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have an Epson StylusColor 860 which I wish to use on a usb port. I compiled my 2.2.19 kernel with usb support, usb file support and usb printer. cat /proc/bus/usb/devices is emplty, cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers shows: hub usbdevfs 0- 15: usblp I have checked BIOS (

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread David Z Maze
Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when > there are broken dependencies? You need to use 'apt-get -f install' to fix the broken dependencies first. (Or, possibly, generate dummy packages using 'equivs', but you're more likely t

Re: Window Maker crashes on Woody

2002-01-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I used wmaker for years. But I always tried out other > windowmanagers. So I apt-get this one and that one. While doing this > wmaker suddenly stopped working for a while, then worked again, now crashes > again. At the moment I am very happ

Re: apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:35:17PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: | Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there | are broken dependencies? Which dependencies are broken? You may not want to ignore that! -D -- All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weig

Re: [impossible?] libc6 upgrade/install issue

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 January 2002 7:16 am, Rob Weir wrote: > Howdy > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:30PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently i ran into quite a lot of trouble with my Debian Gnu/Linux > > system. I can't exactly recall w

Re: Debian uses gcc272 for kernel; conflicts with NVidia-kernel-src

2002-01-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, nate wrote: > > > > > When I build my kernel 2.2.19 (using make-kpkg), the gcc version is > > forced to gcc272. > > you don't mention whether or not forcing gcc to 2.7.2 is intentional > or not. 2.95.x is probably the best compiler for 2.2.19. i have > several dozen servers

apt-get

2002-01-17 Thread Benjamin Pharr
Is there a way to install or dist-upgrade with apt-get even when there are broken dependencies? Ben Pharr

Re: Debian uses gcc272 for kernel; conflicts with NVidia-kernel-src

2002-01-17 Thread nate
> > When I build my kernel 2.2.19 (using make-kpkg), the gcc version is > forced to gcc272. you don't mention whether or not forcing gcc to 2.7.2 is intentional or not. 2.95.x is probably the best compiler for 2.2.19. i have several dozen servers running 2.2 and all of them are compiled with 2.95

Re: exim not sending email

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:51:02AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: | | > I recommend trying to send a message manually (use telnet) and see | > exactly what the interaction with the remote host is. Aternatively, | > you can run exim with the -v option to see the SMTP interaction on | > stderr. | >

Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:30:14PM -0800, Camilux wrote: | Cant i use a 2.4.x one? Sure, but you'll have to upgrade your 'modutils', and possible something else. -D -- Folly delights a man who lacks judgement, but a man of understanding keeps a straight course. Proverbs 15:21

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

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

Re: exim not sending email

2002-01-17 Thread ben
On Thursday 17 January 2002 08:57 am, you wrote: [snip] > I'm using IMP 2.2.6 with imap. > I think I get the same log errors, If i login to the mail > server via ssh and use the mail command to send mail. > Could this be dns related somehow? > can you ping the mailserver? is this a new problem on a

Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?

2002-01-17 Thread Camilux
Cant i use a 2.4.x one? thanks On 17 Jan 2002, at 10:23, Charles Baker wrote: > > --- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > > > Well, im using Debian 2.2 r5 (just upgraded a while > > ago to that)... > > > > again, thanks a lot for all the help.. > > > > - Camilo > > > >

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