Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-28 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running debian stock kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 . I get error abort when mondoarchive attempts to create the .iso. Its error message says mkisofs is broken, which I sincerely doubt, but maybe some feature that I have never needed before, and is required by mondo, is broken. Maybe

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Thanks for the fast response Ron, you make good suggestions! However; At 03:42 PM 29/09/2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20

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Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:44:25 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: > >|

Black Holes.

2003-09-28 Thread David Palmer.
O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, and am struggling to find directions that make sense. It's got to the point where I have actually got to the point of starting off a series of posts at an open source forum to help out other newbies like myself. But even though I am able to find

XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-09-28 Thread Hooman
Hi list, I installed Debian using KNOPPIX 3.2 on my Gateway notebook. After installing KNOPPIX I used apt-get to upgrade to unstable. The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with 1024x780. How can I fix this problem. The g

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I don't know minicom at all. I've never used it. I have been thinking that I'm an idiot lately since I can't resolve this problem. I don't think it has anything to do with my isp or I wouldn't be able to connect with SuSE 8.1 & (yuck) Win ME, and tonight I installed slackware 9.0 just 15 minutes

OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ScruLoose wrote: As others have noted, virus traffic is not actually the same as spam-traffic, and you might want a particular tool for each job... To me they are both Spam. I did not ask to recieve either, and they are both attempting to fill the mailboxes of several users on the same syste

Re: Gnome 2.4

2003-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:47:23AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > How? > > apt-get install gnome-core? > (On Sid.) GNOME 2.4 is waiting until a few more bits of GNOME 2.2 get into testing properly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Ken Bloom
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote: > Hi all, > > I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. > > I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management > system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debi

Re: [OT] kernel 2.4.22 local APIC errors

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I compiled linux 2.4.22 from kernel-source-2.4.22 and now my logs are flooded with these errors: Sep 27 15:32:24 orion kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) Sep 27 15:32:52 orion last message repeated 45 times ... Lots of people were getting this error. Try searching g

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:27, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the > mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed > stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel support fails the > aci

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:54, devotion wrote: > Hi. > I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if > that unappropriate). > I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using > default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. > I am using adsl, whose mod

Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Just wondering if there is a person or group working on supporting the mirror features of the Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian? I installed stable and got the controller working OK - but the kernel support fails the acid test, when a HDD is unplugged, the system rocks on for abou

Re: bind has quit working

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 9:10 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: What is a missing ptr? OK, to named.conf I added: zone "192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.192"; }; A minor note, I'd write db.192 as db.192.168.0, so that if you have another p

Re: Enabling IMAP access

2003-09-28 Thread Darik Horn
> - How do I allow this only over SSL (i.e., imaps)? If you choose to run the Courier IMAP service, then you would set ... in /etc/courier/imapd: ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 ... in /etc/courier/imapd-ssl: SSLADDRESS=0 This would allow the webmail client to access the IMAP service locally, and require that

Re: 2.6.0-test4, ALSA and Ensoniq 1371 sound card

2003-09-28 Thread Nick Hastings
* Christopher L. Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030929 10:37]: > when Gnome 2.2 cranks up after I log in, I get an error message > saying "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer". > > perusing /dev, I see a /dev/sound directory, but no /dev/sound/mixer > > I compiled all the sound modules into

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:57:25PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El domingo, 28 de septiembre de 2003, a las 17:38, Pigeon escribe: > > OK, the fake key will have a different fingerprint, but given that > > Roberto has said he's experimenting with gpg, suddenly finding a new > > key woul

Enabling IMAP access

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have this Woody server (I've written about it several times before). Anyhow, I ported the mail configuration over from the previous server (RH 9), which the previous admin had setup using IMAP and IMP, for users to be able to access their mail via webmail. For some reason he chose to only al

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: > and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the > terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. I should read your post to the end ;-) Please provide the complete log information from pppd with debug turned

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 10:21:36AM -0800, J Y wrote: > When I type pon highstream.net the modem dials up (as it does with kppp > and wvdial) then it just sits there. No messages. when I type poff the > terminal message is no pppd running and none stopped. Maybe the defaultroute is not setup p

GPG integration with IMP

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have a Woody server that allows SSL access to email via the IMP webmail program for the users in my lab. I would like to know if there is an easy way to integrate GPG with this. I have Google searched and searched the various Horde and IMP mailing list archives, but this subject rarely ment

Re: Problems getting security updates?

2003-09-28 Thread Chuck Mattern
Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a not-so-transparent proxy doing virus scanning and > uncompressing but not recompressing the files, or is it just that it > doesn't like "woody"? > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free DOH! It was my fire

Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-28 Thread devotion
Hi. I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if that unappropriate). I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. I am using adsl, whose modem is connected to my only NIC, a Realtek 8139C (not C+,

Rebuilt box, problems booting

2003-09-28 Thread Bradley Alexander
My sid workstation had a boot drive failure. I replaced the failed drive (a Maxtor 30GB) with a Maxtor 120GB. I kept the same partition layout (swap hda1; / hda2; lvm hda3). I then rebuilt the base system from the woody bf2.4disks and did an apt-get dselect-upgrade from the package list in backups.

Gnome 2.4

2003-09-28 Thread Oki DZ
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Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: | Can one post via the newsgroup? Nope. It's a one-way gateway. Posts via the newsgroup only show up in the newsgroup, or so I've been told. The rest of us use the mailling list (SMTP; aka email). (btw, subscription doesn't matter) -D

Compatability.

2003-09-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, alex wrote: > Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of > experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? > > Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something > that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches s

Re: confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Nicolas
Hi, I got the almost the same setup as you (ps2 touchpad on dell i8k + usb logitech). Since 2.6.0-test1, /dev/psaux is used by me usb mouse. /dev/ input/mice (for usb in 2.4.x) is use by both. If you cat /dev/input/mouseX, you will find your ps2 mouse on mouse0 and usb on mouse1.

Re: Representation size error when using gv

2003-09-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:45:13PM +0200, Keppler Istvan wrote: | $ gv | Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override | internalWidth | Segmentation fault FAQ by now. Search the archives or the bug list. Both have the solution. | it seems to me, that the problem is with x

Re: Getting Totally [OT] was Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:09:50 -0400, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >>On hindsight a reformed Soviet Union probably wasn't a bad idea. > >>Now we have all these little despots waging their little wars and > >>sometimes getting

cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
When I got my cd burner, I started using the ide-scsi module to access it and the cdrom drive. This has worked well, until today. I received two new audio cds in the mail. I put one in each drive and played them through with xmms. No problem there. I then tried to rip the cds using cdparanoia

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Re: Son of Swen?

2003-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
John L. Fjellstad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 26 September 2003 15:09, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > You need an account to look at it. ;-( > > Check again, because I don't have an account on it, and I checked again now

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread kmark
> > So tell you what: show us the rule that you've created to try to perform > the above filtering and tell us how you know it's not working. Then > maybe we can tell you the flaw in your approach. > > "Teach a man to fish ..." > -- > monique > Since I'm learning procmail, my first procmail rules

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Michael Schulz wrote: we (HP) do this with Workstations, Business PCs and Laptops. You just should consult the vendors website (in our case www.hp.com/linux) to see if the system is supported (means working with Linux). Of course this isn't valid for every vendor :(. I would also like that to be s

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 16:00]: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels whi

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread kmark
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, alex wrote: > Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of > experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? > > Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something > that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches s

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
alex wrote: Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches such as for winmodems or other

X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-28 Thread Nathan Weston
I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down the screen, taking about 1 second to finish. I'm using a PCI GeForce2 MX with the 4496 driver from NVidia. Under 2.4.21, the same driver produces g

Re: Getting Totally [OT] was Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On hindsight a reformed Soviet Union probably wasn't a bad idea. Now we have all these little despots waging their little wars and sometimes getting smart-bombed for it. ..this notion or whatever, _might_ be worth a mention in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jacob Anawalt wrote: I was going to try enigma. Do you remember clicking on something to send the key to the server, or did it do that on it's own to be 'helpful'? Playing with Kgpg it didn't show me the first test key I made until I made a second one when I didn't have any in my account. I hop

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:58:50PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Today i read that Slackware doesn't use PAM by default because of some > of the leaks that pop up now and then. I was wondering what other type > of authentications there are on Linux and how easy/difficult they are to > set up.

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi alex > alex wrote: > > > Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something > > that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches such as for > > winmodems or other components, etc---how can you make sure you're > > getting what you want? experience and tak

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-09-28 Thread Scott Horton
> > What does one have to do to add a sub interface? This is a freshly > > installed and updated Woody system. This was the first settign I tried to > > change. PITB. > > > > Thanks very much for the time to help, > > > Things are definatly different in many places. I hope getting the hang > o

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Scott Horton wrote: What does one have to do to add a sub interface? This is a freshly installed and updated Woody system. This was the first settign I tried to change. PITB. Thanks very much for the time to help, Things are definatly different in many places. I hope get

USB floppy problems (more details)

2003-09-28 Thread Oleg Trott
I have a USB floppy connected and sg.o, sd_mod.o and usb-storage.o loaded. The device does not show up in /proc/scsi/scsi however, and mount -t auto /dev/sda /floppy fails ("not a valid block device") The drive works under Windows and BIOS though. Any ideas? I'm using linux-2.4.22 and DevFS.

USB floppy problems

2003-09-28 Thread Oleg Trott
I have a USB floppy connected and sg.o, sd_mod.o and usb-storage.o loaded. The device does not show up in /proc/scsi/scsi however, and mount -t auto /dev/sda /floppy fails ("not a valid block device") The drive works under Windows and BIOS though. Any ideas? Please CC to me when replying. T

init problem

2003-09-28 Thread Oleg Leschov
After upgrading to libc libc6_2.3.2-7 from unstable (although this may not have been a direct reason for the situation), I've got the following problem with init - somewhy, it does not switch to any runlevel, except for S (upon boot) and 0. When the system is booting, init successfully runs ever

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:28:53PM +0100, Dan Bowtell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:42, Pigeon wrote: > > > > I've tried running it with cdrecord.mmap suid root and as root but it's > > > still just as slow. Could it be related to me not being able to set dma > > > on any of my drives? How doe

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi Can anyone give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? I keep > getting failure to authenticate messages. the following is from the kppp > details box: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > authenticate

Re: revoking public key

2003-09-28 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:18, Ashish Ariga wrote: > Verification is done using the key id of the public key. It doesn't > matter what mail address(es) are attached to it. > If your public key is queried using your mail address, both will be > retrieved. During verification the correct one wi

Re: kde package installation???

2003-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 03:39:43PM -0700, Jordan Haddow wrote: > Hello, this is my first use of this mailing list. I am sorry if this is the > wrong area for this type of question. If it is could someone tell me where > I should send it instead. > Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable)

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Kent West
alex wrote: Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches such as for winmodems or other

Compileing FreeSWan 2.01 support for kernel 2.4.18 problem

2003-09-28 Thread Damir Dezeljin
Hi. I'm using Debian Woody with kernel 2.4.18. I want to set-up the VPN (FreeSWan) on my box. So I installed freeswan backport from Sid to Woody (APT: deb http://www.backports.org/debian ./dists/woody/freeswan/binary-i386/). I installed the following packages: # dpkg -l |grep -i -e "freesw

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all > or doesn't ha

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 28-09-2003, om 00:45 schreef David Z Maze: > I think both Kerberos and RADIUS are "single sign-on" protocols: when > you log on you get some sort of authentication token, which you can > use to talk to other services without typing a password. I know much > more about Kerberos, so I'll tal

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:35 am, alex wrote: > Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of > experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? > > Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something

kde package installation???

2003-09-28 Thread Jordan Haddow
Hello, this is my first use of this mailing list. I am sorry if this is the wrong area for this type of question. If it is could someone tell me where I should send it instead. Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable) and everything has been going fine, until I tried to install KDE. For

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:31:21 +0200, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hello! > > Here is a bit harder question :). > I have a few email addresses, and I want to ensure that I get just those > messages which were posted to me. > So I want a rule (or more, I don't know) which filters all mails, if

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Schulz
leva, On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 23:31, LeVA wrote: > I have a few email addresses, and I want to ensure that I get just those > messages which were posted to me. > So I want a rule (or more, I don't know) which filters all mails, if > they has a To or Cc or Bcc line in the header, which is followed

procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread LeVA
Hello! Here is a bit harder question :). I have a few email addresses, and I want to ensure that I get just those messages which were posted to me. So I want a rule (or more, I don't know) which filters all mails, if they has a To or Cc or Bcc line in the header, which is followed by one of my

GNOME Settings Daemon error

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, trying to login today I found myself looking at a blank screen and the message "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not wor

Re: Explanation of package list at www.debian.org.

2003-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at > www.debian.org. > > Some packages have a red "label", security, behind them. Does this mean > that this package is security enhanced or that it is a security risk? I

Re: Getting Totally [OT] was Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:29:15 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:47:46 +0200, > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > [...] > > > ..WWII was won on 3 major factors: Russian (and Chechen!) blood, > > FDR's New Deal policy reforming US capitalism by

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 28 de septiembre de 2003, a las 17:38, Pigeon escribe: > OK, the fake key will have a different fingerprint, but given that > Roberto has said he's experimenting with gpg, suddenly finding a new > key wouldn't be too surprising. No public keys are trusted by default. I won't trust a si

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
debian.1 wrote: Greetings: I'm a current Redhat user _trying_ to switch to debian. More under the hood differences than I expected :-( I need to add a static IP subintrface on eth0. I used to just add a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts corresponding to the new intrface and reboot. No

Explanation of package list at www.debian.org.

2003-09-28 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Hi, I have a quick question about the package list (stable) at www.debian.org. Some packages have a red "label", security, behind them. Does this mean that this package is security enhanced or that it is a security risk? This might be a silly question, but I am confused because I can't find a key

Re: confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Sunday 28 September 2003 19:59, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:36:25 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Hi > > > > Im not sure if I got that right. Every mouce device accessed through HID > > can be accessed via /dev/input mice. Is that right? > > > > Im

Re: confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Sunday 28 September 2003 20:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > > Well, every _USB_ mouse connected will be accessible through > /dev/input/mice, but ps2 devices are not managed with hid and therefore are > not accessible through /dev/input/mice but through /dev/psaux > Hmmm... what exaclty is the psmouse

Getting Totally [OT] was Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-28 Thread csj
At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:47:46 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [...] > ..WWII was won on 3 major factors: Russian (and Chechen!) blood, > FDR's New Deal policy reforming US capitalism by "banning" it ;-), > giving _all_ of American industry a fair deal on re-tool flexing, and, > "everybody knew _dee

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot

2003-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy your setup looks good ... what is your partition type from "fdisk /dev/sda" - it should be raid ( linux raid type ) lilo.conf looks correct for boot= and root= ( "correct" == the way i do it and works for me ) - nothing wrong with lilo.conf - other last issue is th

Representation size error when using gv

2003-09-28 Thread Keppler Istvan
Hi! After an upgrade, I find the following problem: when I'm triying to use gv, an error message comes: $ gv Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override internalWidth Segmentation fault I'm using Debian GNU/Linux testing version with kernel 2.4.20 it seems to me, that th

Re: How to Image a Flash card?

2003-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 08:59]: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:01:37 -0700, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > > If a drive isn't partitioned, 'sda1' doesn't really mean anything, so > > this might not work. You could try to cat 'sda' instead, which should > > get th

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Schulz
Hi On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:35, alex wrote: > Is there something that prevents manufacturers from clearly stating > that a product is fully suitable for Linux? It's done for MS > Windows. Is this some kind of legal or technical issue, or is it > some kind of 'business arrangement'? > we (H

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Schulz
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:31, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Just to clarify (because I read it as syntax at first) > > In the case of deletion, FILENAME would be /dev/null > In the case of wanting to send it somewhere other than your normal > mailbox, FILENAME would be ~/mail/mysupercoolfilterbox or

Re: razor report not working -- please help

2003-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:13:19 -0400, John Covici wrote: > replying with nsl=razor2 report failed: No such file or direc\tory > Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at > /usr/share/perl5/Razor2/Client/Config.pm line 404, line 1. The Debian 'razor' package needs to have a pat

Re: archive `dmesg'

2003-09-28 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:14:32 +0300 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Is there a way to archive the `dmesg' in the `/var/log' directory ? ... there already is... on a debian standard installation the kernel messages(which is what dmesg displays) are saved in /var/log/kern.log, or if yo

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:26:40 +0200, Michael Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:00, LeVA wrote: >> Hello! >> >> How can I make this with procmail (what should I write to the >> ~/.procmailrc file): >> >> If an email has a given text in it's subject, delete the

How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-28 Thread alex
Not exactly a Debian only topic but where else is the degree of experience and expertise available besides this Debian list? Suppose someone wants to put together or buy a computer ---something that is fully compatible with Linux.no makedo patches such as for winmodems or other components,

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-28 Thread Dan Bowtell
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:42, Pigeon wrote: > > I've tried running it with cdrecord.mmap suid root and as root but it's > > still just as slow. Could it be related to me not being able to set dma > > on any of my drives? How does that affect scsi emulated drives? > > (I'm CCing you, since you CCe

archive `dmesg'

2003-09-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Since a while I have try to rebuild my kernel, but the rebuild version lead to a panic state at boot time. Is there a way to archive the `dmesg' in the `/var/log' directory ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Schulz
Hi, On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:00, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > How can I make this with procmail (what should I write to the > ~/.procmailrc file): > > If an email has a given text in it's subject, delete the mail, > if another email has aonther given text in its subject write it to > another file

Re: confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:36:25 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi > > Im not sure if I got that right. Every mouce device accessed through HID can > be accessed via /dev/input mice. Is that right? > > Im experiencing some problems here. I try to setup my laptop wich has an

Re: SMTP Relay, closed (or so i thought)

2003-09-28 Thread smurfd
> What's your firewall? Is your firewall receiving the e-mails then > passing them to Exim? If so, it may not be modifying the headers of > the e-mail to indicate this. Hey greg! My firewall is just forwarding all smtp/imap stuff to my mailserver. Also it seems i overreacted, since it seems t

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:29:51PM +0100, Dan Bowtell wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:16, Pigeon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:35:19PM +0100, Dan Bowtell wrote: > > > I've just installed an ASUS CRW-5224A CD writer in my debian computer > > > and I've got it running under scsi emulation.

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:03:07AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) > > > >Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice > >with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. > > > >Whe

Re: confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:36:25 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > problem is the touchpad. HID successfully detect it if i insert psmouse.ko i > get: > > Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 > Firware: 5.9 > Sensor: 37 > new absolute packet format > Touchpad has extended capabilit

procmail question

2003-09-28 Thread LeVA
Hello! How can I make this with procmail (what should I write to the ~/.procmailrc file): If an email has a given text in it's subject, delete the mail, if another email has aonther given text in its subject write it to another file than the user's mail spool file. Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA --

patents, Re: Multi-user Debian

2003-09-28 Thread cls-du
"csj" wrote: > Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be > patented. That's true today, but only because the USPTO is broken. Long ago, when they were doing their job, the rules were: 1. No prior art 2. Not "obvious to anyone skilled in the art" 3. Useful and valuable. #2 meant

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up+

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I forgot to add, sorry, that I tried all of this i.e. pon, wvdial , kppp logged in as root with identical results. Thanks. Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. > And come back to it. > Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below jus

confused about /dev/input/mice

2003-09-28 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Im not sure if I got that right. Every mouce device accessed through HID can be accessed via /dev/input mice. Is that right? Im experiencing some problems here. I try to setup my laptop wich has an internal touchpad, connected via PS/2, and an external Logitech mouse connected via USB. I ru

Re: Fonts in gvim

2003-09-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:10:34AM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > I personally don't care about fancy antialised fonts in my text editor. > I just want my "6x13" font back, and I don't want to have to build my > own version of vim just to get it. > > Any suggestions on how to get that xterm fon

Re: pppd daemon dies follow-up

2003-09-28 Thread J Y
I seem to be batting zero. So I'll take a break. And come back to it. Adding noauth from kppp or internet dialer as described below just got me a 'ppp daemon died unexpectedly' message and the details box said that noauth is only available to root. removing noauth from the kppp setup (I edited /et

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:33:28PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello all, > > At this moment I'm receiving loads of spam, mostly with virusses included on > my postfix mail server. I downloaded and installed spamassassin and amavis > with Clam antivirus, but I don't know how to configure. Th

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot

2003-09-28 Thread Andrés Roldán
Have the disks different volume ID? Check this by issuing: # lilo -T vol-ID If not, you must set different volume ID to each disk. Read README.raid1.gz (from lilo-doc package) and README.volumeID.gz (from lilo package) for more information. Doing the following will set different volume ID to your

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:32:22PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Rene Engelhard wrote: > | Roberto Sanchez wrote: > | > |>Is there a way to get rid of them from the keyservers? > | > | > | Unless you have revocation certificates for them (what I doubt), > | no, no way... > > No. I hadn't re

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500, debian.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_00BE_01C385AB.592B7D30 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello: > > I'm having

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 28 Sep 2003 10:27:19 -0500, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: >"Tarun" == Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Tarun> I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package >Tarun> management system. However I read that one mustn't try the >Taru

Jpg's to mpg

2003-09-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am trying to convert a bunch of jpg files to a mpg file. I used this command: $ convert *.jpg test.mpg sh: line 1: mpeg2encode: command not found convert: Delegate failed (mpeg2encode "%i" "%o"). convert: Delegate failed (mpeg2encode "%i" "%o") [No such file or directory]. I checked and

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