after recent update, upgrade, in unstable, boot deadlock in pppd

2002-12-18 Thread eric
Dear Linuxer or/and httpd of apache users: After recent update upgrade, using unstable, after I reboot, it is deadlock in pppd link in my 2.4.20 kernel, it also dead lock in 2.2.18 after detect ? usb... Also what may cause other side can not access my documentation root's file , for examp

XF86Config-4 for international keybard

2002-12-18 Thread Rikard Borg
Hi List, I've installed Woody on an old Mac and things are slowly fall into place. As for the keyboard I thought I answered the configuring questions correctly but initially there were no "special character". By assigning Mode_switch to the "Alt Gr" I got them "@${[]}..." working. Here in swed

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:57:02PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > John Griffiths wrote: > > >At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Any ideas why I can't apt-get remove exim without removing mutt? use dselect. much easier than apt-get :) -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --***

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread Paul Scott
John Griffiths wrote: At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? exim doesn't fetch mail fetchmail fetches mail. Thanks. So that's why

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

2002-12-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:28:28PM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:55:18PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > > > sorry. i do not use procmail. can a similar thing be achieved with > > > .forward file that is used as a

Re: urgent - system slow after spamassassin

2002-12-18 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:05:47PM +0100, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:47:00AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:30:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hello all > > > > > > after installing spamassassin, my system has become terribly slow! i > >

browsers crashing

2002-12-18 Thread David Zelinsky
I recently got a new system with debian/woody installed, and I'm finding my web browsers _very_ unstable. The problem is worst with Mozilla and Galeon. Netscape 4 is better, but even it seems to crash much more often than it did with my old 133 MHZ Pentium system. With both Mozilla and Galeon, t

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least >where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? exim doesn't fetch mail fetchmail fetches mail. from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or a

simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread Paul Scott
I have been looking through exim documentation for quite a while and I am almost as confused as when I started. What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? Is procmail a good choice for filteri

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Ehem. Mail-Copies-To: never. Doesn't mutt respect that header? "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html >> >> Tell your father to stop using OE, or any other MS mailer. They're a

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'll give him your phone number to call when he has questions and > can't understand why the background on his mailer changed colors. He's > 65 and has just learned windows in the last 2 years, uses his computer > just to send email every oth

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html > > Tell your father to stop using OE, or any other MS mailer. They're all > broken and should never be used by anyone for any purpose. Unless, of > course, you want to demonstrate how pi

Re: Max resolution not usable and NV drivers load slow

2002-12-18 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:26:56PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > I'm running Branden's unofficial XFree86 4.2.1 packages and a rolled > 2.4.20 kernel on Debian and am running into some problems with > X. These problems are exactly identical in the official 4.1.0 > packages and Debian's 2.

Re: bash

2002-12-18 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:45:19PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > How does that one work then? > > Observe: > > $ echo '#!/bin/bash' > foo.sh > $ echo 'echo "It runs"' >> foo.sh > $ cat foo.sh > #!/bin/bash > echo "It runs" > $ ./foo.sh

ssh login can't apply /etc/security/limits.conf

2002-12-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am trying to configure the user resource restriction in /etc/security/limits.conf. I believe the configuration has no problem, but when the user ssh login, the session will not include the limits in the limits.conf file. BTW, I checked the /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/ssh file

Re: Cups getting tired

2002-12-18 Thread Cam Ellison
* Florian Struck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > Model: > Canon S400 (K10186 written on the bottom) > > Canon.ppd in ppd directory? i can send it to you but it actually looks > allright. In /usr/share/cups/model/Canon are the drivers. I think your best bet is the one listed first,

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
>If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember >correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- >my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's >certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is >still fairly easily

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 08:58 PM -0600): > I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. > > Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with > 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be e

amavis anti-virus add-ons

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
From some other list (I think) someone suggested using "clam" as a free anti-virus package. I was checking through the Debian packages and there appears to be more than one. clamd clamav (for starters) Which would be the correct one to use on a single machine with amavisd? -- Unix is mature O

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread nate
nate said: > I'm sure people will disagree but I strongly do not reccomend running a > system, even a minimal one with less then 64MB of ram. If your using zope > you probably want something more powerful. My experience with zope is > limited to Zwiki, but I have noticed that it takes 100 to 200 o

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Dan Hunt wrote: > I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. > > Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, > and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, on a > st

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Dan Hunt said: > I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each > month. > > Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 > MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, > on a static DSL IP address without any fire

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe otherways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, nate wrote: > Mike Dresser said: > > you can get a rsync.exe that works in the dos prompt but at least for > me it wasn't nearly flexible enough, I needed bash, and grep and scp, > and ssh with RSA keys to do what I had to do. Using the cygwin setup now, because smbmount is

Up to date sources list

2002-12-18 Thread Steve
I can't find a sources list on the Debian web site. Google seems to return lists for packages other than the official Debian stuff. Is their an url that I could go to? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Mike Dresser said: > Or do I understand rsync wrong? I used rsync for about a year on multiple NT4 and win2k servers to sync to debian systems. the rsync ran once a day, every day .. my setup consisted of a full cygwin enviornment, with a SSH server running(openssh, cygwin can run openssh as a NT

Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Dan Hunt
I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, on a static DSL IP address without any firewall. Will this meager e

Re: SSH w/ root and keypair authentication problem

2002-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:00:43AM -0800, Adar Dembo wrote: > Note the use of PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only which should allow > me to ssh in as root, using my keys, as long as I run a command afterwards. Beware that 'PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only' was broken in 1:3.4p1-1, the versi

Max resolution not usable and NV drivers load slow

2002-12-18 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
I'm running Branden's unofficial XFree86 4.2.1 packages and a rolled 2.4.20 kernel on Debian and am running into some problems with X. These problems are exactly identical in the official 4.1.0 packages and Debian's 2.4.18-bf2.4 image, so I don't think it has to do with the packages. First, whe

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe otherways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On 18 Dec 2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Mike" == Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> But since there's no rsync server being used in this case, > Mike> it has to read the entire file anyways. > You don't need a server for the incremental updates to happen. rsync > on

RE: cups and hpijs driver

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Olds
Donald, Thank you for sticking with this! I havn't yet done anything on Linux that hasn't been a major hassle (not complaining, I really like the brain exercise and I like the end result which usually works well...I have my webserver up and running without a problem now for a couple of months...ge

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 18:40, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:35:35PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > That was the first reboot in five weeks, and when the system came back, > > it couldn't find "localhost". It could find hosehead.dyndns.org and its > > various morphs (hosehea

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Brian Nelson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I started using GPG to sign my emails my father is having issues > with reading them. Here's description of what he's see'ing. I'm using > the latest mutt from unstable. > > Anything one of us can set to get around this other than me turnin

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:24, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > Just tried each (well, not really the third, as I don't use nscd) and > > "localhost" can now be pinged, but exim and ftp are still not > > responding, meaning fetchmail is still being refused. Interestingly, I can > > dispatch a

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mike" == Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> But since there's no rsync server being used in this case, Mike> it has to read the entire file anyways. You don't need a server for the incremental updates to happen. rsync on the client side invokes rsync on the remote side an

Re: $DISPLAY

2002-12-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Hey all, I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set Chris> correctly. I'm trying to run an X program on a remote Chris> computer through ssh. It says: Chris> Cannot create window - please check your DISPLAY Chris

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Andy
> > I am trying to copy the whole drive from a Win2000 Server to a Debian box > > over the LAN for backup. The whole 2000 drive is mounted on my /mnt > > directory. This is the command I use: > > steelhead:~# rsync -av --ignore-errors --force /mnt > > /home/andy/serverbackup > > > > With rsync 2.5.

Re: Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread Randy Orrison
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | | | Randy Orrison writes: | | | > Is it likely to be just a poor modem,... | | | Yes. My Zoom modem does it too. Very irritating. | | Anyone have any ideas whether it can be fixed via a setting, or | | recommend an external har

Re: bash revisited

2002-12-18 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 18 Dec 2002 15:02:13 +(-0800), Peter Hicks wrote: > > I wonder if having a .xsession file source .bash_profile would be the > right way to achieve this? That's not exactly the same as invoking a login shell. Instead, you could add this line to ~/.Xresources : *loginShell:True --

Re: cups and hpijs driver

2002-12-18 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Michael Olds wrote: Re: setting up DeskJet 960c as local printer on Woody box I have reviewed the cupsomatic perl script situation and this basically duplicates the work being done by the custom PPD and the foomatic-bin and foomatic-db (at least that's how I understand it). I have also installed

RE: cups and hpijs driver

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Olds
Re: setting up DeskJet 960c as local printer on Woody box I have reviewed the cupsomatic perl script situation and this basically duplicates the work being done by the custom PPD and the foomatic-bin and foomatic-db (at least that's how I understand it). I have also installed cupsys-bsd, gv, and q

external router [was: Re: getting networking to work]

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/18/02 16:12, Adam Majer wrote: :) With Linux you don't even need a router or most of the other things. The only thing that is useful on a "normal" network with "linux-aware admins" are switches and hubs. Linux can do all the routing (hence the routing tables in Linux), NAT, bandwidth manag

fast but unresponsive modem connection

2002-12-18 Thread Jon
I connect to the internet using a good modem & phone line. The connection is reliable, and fast for a 56k modem. My problem is this: say I am downloading a file already. Then I want to check my POP3 server at the same time - it'll work, but it will take an ~extremely~ long time, so long that I wan

Re: New Pppconfig --Please Test

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/18/02 17:21, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:24:09AM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/17/02 23:40, John Hasler wrote: I've just uploaded pppconfig 2.1 to Unstable. It contains few user visible changes but substantial internal ones. I would appreciate tests and bug reports. Dyn

Re: Re: Kernel problems: QM_MODULES

2002-12-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Tobias Bengtsson" writes: >> I just recently started a new project; to put together a new >> firewall/gatway/webserver/etc at home. Now, I installed Debian 3.0 >> on an old p2-machine and then I d

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:35:35PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That was the first reboot in five weeks, and when the system came back, > it couldn't find "localhost". It could find hosehead.dyndns.org and its > various morphs (hosehead.dyndns.ws and mlkahnt.dyndns.org,) and it had > no problem wi

Re: /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe

2002-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Expert User) wrote: >When the dhcpclient used to be dhcpcd, there was a way to run some >script after the dhcp has run by putting a script in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe. > >Now that I have dhclient, how do I achieve the same res

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:55:18PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:17:01AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > You are using procmail to filter your mail aren't you? In that case, > > > just move the rule that filters your

Re: Kernel problems: QM_MODULES

2002-12-18 Thread David Z Maze
"Tobias Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recently started a new project; to put together a new > firewall/gatway/webserver/etc at home. Now, I installed Debian 3.0 > on an old p2-machine and then I did an dist-upgrade to the latest > unstable/testing. Everything worked just fine, bu

Informazioni su DEBIAN

2002-12-18 Thread Nunzio
Salve a tutti, faccio la premessa che sono un principiante su debian, volevo solo sapere se esiste un manuale ufficiale "DEBIAN" e come reperirlo eventualmente. Saluti ;)

Re: bash revisited

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Hicks
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:51:22PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: >Hello users, > >I posted a message regarding bash and what files it executes. Some replied >that I should read the invocation section of the bash man page. I've done >just that and while some questions are answered, others are not. >As

Re: bash

2002-12-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: > How does that one work then? Observe: $ echo '#!/bin/bash' > foo.sh $ echo 'echo "It runs"' >> foo.sh $ cat foo.sh #!/bin/bash echo "It runs" $ ./foo.sh bash: ./foo.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied $ bash foo.sh It runs

Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-12-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> my grandparents sent me their ThinkNIC, > I was shocked on how fast it booted up X, I guess its because its > so stripped down(I upgraded it to 128MB from 64MB), but was wondering > if the preloading of stuff had much to do with it, Xvesa starts up very fast indeed (for many reasons, including

Re: New Pppconfig --Please Test

2002-12-18 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:24:09AM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/17/02 23:40, John Hasler wrote: > > I've just uploaded pppconfig 2.1 to Unstable. It contains few user visible > > changes but substantial internal ones. I would appreciate tests and bug > > reports. Dynamic-dns should work pro

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > Just tried each (well, not really the third, as I don't use nscd) and > "localhost" can now be pinged, but exim and ftp are still not > responding, meaning fetchmail is still being refused. Interestingly, I can > dispatch a message to sendmail addressed to kahnt@localhost, an

Re: Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread John Hasler
Brooks writes: > It can be fixed with a setting. The problem is that it mistakes voice for dialtone. No setting can fix that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: $DISPLAY

2002-12-18 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:37:23AM -0600, Chris Burns insinuated: > I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set correctly. I'm trying to > run an X program on a remote computer through ssh. It says: > > Cannot create window - please check your DISPLAY environment > variable. along these lines, i have

Kernel problems: QM_MODULES

2002-12-18 Thread Tobias Bengtsson
Hi, I just recently started a new project; to put together a new firewall/gatway/webserver/etc at home. Now, I installed Debian 3.0 on an old p2-machine and then I did an dist-upgrade to the latest unstable/testing. Everything worked just fine, but then I decided to compile a new kernel and that's

Re: bash

2002-12-18 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Puzzled Pigeon: Huh? It gets executed, according to the first line... > > # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. > > It sure looks like a shell script, and you put shell script > commands in it. And shell scripts need to

RE: Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| | Randy Orrison writes: | | > Is it likely to be just a poor modem,... | | | | Yes. My Zoom modem does it too. Very irritating. | | Anyone have any ideas whether it can be fixed via a setting, or | recommend an external hardware modem available at a reasonable price in | the UK that won't dial

/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe

2002-12-18 Thread Expert User
When the dhcpclient used to be dhcpcd, there was a way to run some script after the dhcp has run by putting a script in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe. Now that I have dhclient, how do I achieve the same result? I learned from the man page that there is /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks script I can create, b

Re: FooBillards for Debian?

2002-12-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Yet another followup On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:58:02PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Add > deb http://www.xs4all.be/~gevaerts/debian ./ > deb-src http://www.xs4all.be/~gevaerts/debian ./ Should be deb-src http://www.xs4all.be/~gevaerts/debian/ ./ for the sources, and deb http://www.xs4all

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:49, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't > > think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like > > that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 > > gumm

Gateway 600XL and Debian

2002-12-18 Thread Socheat Sou
I am considering purchasing this notebook and installing Debian on it. I've checked linux-on-laptops.com and mobilix.org for info on this laptop, without any luck. I also couldn't find any help on Google about installing linux on this particular model (or even family). Does anyone here have this

Re: Woddy and ATI Radeon 7500

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:41:07PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > Guess I'm new around here, so hello to everyone. > I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500 mobiliti as > it's video card. Using woody, I can't setup my X server. when I issue the > command "start

Re: bash

2002-12-18 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:24:52PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:02:42PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > > I seem to recall that there are some conf files that aren't read if it has > > > the wrong permissions. > >

Re: Nvi recovery program please shove off

2002-12-18 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:46:31PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:23:13PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > The other day something dumped me into vi, which I got out of by my > > usual method of trying every key combination I can think of, swearing > > a lot and doing kill -9 from a

Re: Quake 3 + nVidia drivers

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:56:29AM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Using quake 3 on debian woody with the nvidia drivers the game loads > > > fine but the display is all garbled. > > > > What parts of the display are garbled? > > th

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe otherways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I say rsync is the way to go, since it handles incremental changes > within files, which can be a very good thing, especially for large files > with frequent little changes. But since there's no rsync server being used in this case, it has to read the en

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: > >On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > >Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get > >access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm >

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 12:10]: > > Does anyone have experience with rsync? I heard it was > simple and fast and the best choice for simple real time backups. > > I am trying to copy the whole drive from a Win2000 Server to a Debian box > over the LAN for backup. The whole 2000 driv

Re: urgent - system slow after spamassassin

2002-12-18 Thread Chris Niekel
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:47:00AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:30:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all > > > > after installing spamassassin, my system has become terribly slow! i > > I experienced this also. The whitelist won't help, since the message >

Re: FooBillards for Debian?

2002-12-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:57:13PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:58:58PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I saw a link for a neat game called FooBillards on LinuxToday. I graabed > > the tarball and tried to compile it on my Woody machine without much luck. > > > > Ca anyone poin

Re: bash revisited

2002-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:51:22PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello users, > > I posted a message regarding bash and what files it executes. Some replied > that I should read the invocation section of the bash man page. I've done > just that and while some questions are answered, others are not.

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:33:23PM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > Thus spake Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > > > Since I started using GPG to sign my emails my father

Which X pkgs to hold?

2002-12-18 Thread Tony Crawford
Hi Gang! I have a woody notebook and put XFree86 4.2.0 on it from the tarballs (because of better hdw support than in X v3). Now I want to try out some window managers, but apt-get wants to install xfree86-common every time I ask it for an X app. The Question: - What packages do I need to ma

Re: PowerPC + PReP

2002-12-18 Thread Johannes Berth
* Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:27:38 +0100, Johannes Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where can I find this zImage.prep ??? It's just a working kernel, so you could use the one that comes with the Debian CD or you could compile a new kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I set that and will bounce it his way. Do you have an auto_view entry for application/pgp or application/pgp-signature? How do you have it set up? When mine is enabled it says it's not supported. Thus spake Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Ro

Re: rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Andy said: > > Does anyone have experience with rsync? I heard it was > simple and fast and the best choice for simple real time backups. rsync on win32 is flakey, and probably always has been. I used it for about a year at my previous job for backups, it worked most of the time but often the in

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > > > Since I started using GPG to sign my emails my father is having issues > with reading them. Here's description of what he's see'ing. I'm using > the latest mutt from unst

Re: hesiod

2002-12-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > How about you simply don't link against the zephyr libraries at all? Won't be done. It's just a small number of libs that will not bother the system much if you don't need them. > I'm sure Zephyr sites wouldn't appreciate that, but I wonder how man

Re: apt-get update "error"

2002-12-18 Thread Steve
On 12/18/2002 11:50 AM, Colin Watson pounded the keyboard with stubby fingers to type: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Steve wrote: And these archives are found where? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Thanks I'll look there, I searched my local archives for the past two week

Re: Need Help getting DRI working

2002-12-18 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:57:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > >Hmmm, it looks like you're first problem is that you only compiled in > >generic agpart support, but no actual agp device driver. It looks like > >you should enable 'VIA chipset support' in your kernel also...

rsync fails to copy (both 2.4.6-1 and 2.5.5-0.1) maybe other ways to copy?

2002-12-18 Thread Andy
Does anyone have experience with rsync? I heard it was simple and fast and the best choice for simple real time backups. I am trying to copy the whole drive from a Win2000 Server to a Debian box over the LAN for backup. The whole 2000 drive is mounted on my /mnt directory. This is the command

Re: $DISPLAY

2002-12-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Chris Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 05:37 AM -0600): > I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set correctly. I'm trying to run > an X program on a remote computer through ssh. It says: > > Cannot create window - please check your DISPLAY environment variable

bash revisited

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Park
Hello users, I posted a message regarding bash and what files it executes. Some replied that I should read the invocation section of the bash man page. I've done just that and while some questions are answered, others are not. As far as I understand this, there are two ways of invoking bash. 1.

Re: ipopd-ssl

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:05:32AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 03:35]: > > How do you rebuild the SSL certificates? > > I haven't used ipopd-ssl, but here's a few general ideas. > > http://google.com/searchq?openssl+certificate+generation minor correcti

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't > think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like > that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 > gummed up Railroad Tycoon 2 on display :1, and then suc

Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 gummed up Railroad Tycoon 2 on display :1, and then succeeded between them in trash

Re: Alpha installation

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0700, Ocasio Anthony R Civ 746 TS/TGGIG wrote: > When I try to boot to either cd using 'boot dqb0 -flags 0' > it seems to start reading from the cd, but halts after about 40 seconds, > the screen changes color, and the last line written to the screen is: > SMC

Re: $DISPLAY

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Dec 18, 2002 at 05:37:23AM -0600, the boisterous Chris Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > So i checked the value of $DISPLAY and it is blank. I'm not sure what > to set it to. I used to be able to do this on a previous Linux > installation (i think it was Mandrake 8) but it ha

Re: hesiod

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:58:17AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I'm sure that if I were to enable notifyd and configure it to use zephyr > > notifications, I'd run in to problems. But otherwise, there's no reason > > Ok. After that one (read what you wrote), I will only believe y

Re: Cups getting tired

2002-12-18 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:34, Cam Ellison wrote: > > My first guess is that you have the wrong .ppd file. That is exactly > what happened to me, and I ended up symlinking to the right one. > Before we go further, what's the printer model number,

Re: ipopd-ssl

2002-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 03:35]: > How do you rebuild the SSL certificates? I haven't used ipopd-ssl, but here's a few general ideas. If you don't want to call openssl directly, you have a couple of options: 1: If initially installing ipopd-ssl generated one for you, and you hav

Re: new key bindings?

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:51:33PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > Is there a way to map the, say, F1 key to some command like poff > or whatever else? I use enlightenment to change my keyboard functionality in X, and xmodmap to change the kebindings (I use the dvorak keyboard layout). The xmodma

Russian Phonetic Keyboard, pt 2

2002-12-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
According to some advice I got, there should be a file ru_yawerty in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols, which apparently is for a Russian phonetic keyboard. However, in my installation of Debian 3.0, KDE 2, there is no such file. So, I found the file on the internet, and copied it over to this directory.

Re: FooBillards for Debian?

2002-12-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:58:58PM -0500, stan wrote: > I saw a link for a neat game called FooBillards on LinuxToday. I graabed > the tarball and tried to compile it on my Woody machine without much luck. > > Ca anyone point meto a .deb, or sugest how to get this to cimpile on > Debian? I have d

Re: SSH w/ root and keypair authentication problem

2002-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adar Dembo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 03:02]: > I'm trying to create a backup script that will, when run, connect to > another computer, and rsync all of its partitions into the local computer. > > In order to be able to rsync properly and copy all the files, the user > logging in must be roo

Re: OT: duplex entry in printcap

2002-12-18 Thread mtsouk
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Martin F Krafft wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:42:04 +0100 > From: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: OT: duplex entry in printcap > Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:42:51 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > H

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm getting about 84kB/s (much better than my old 53.2k dialup). I finally got

Re: FooBillards for Debian?

2002-12-18 Thread nate
stan said: > I saw a link for a neat game called FooBillards on LinuxToday. I graabed > the tarball and tried to compile it on my Woody machine without much luck. > > Ca anyone point meto a .deb, or sugest how to get this to cimpile on > Debian? looks like an interesting game. I put a compiled ver

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