Re: Getting Radio/TV on Debian.

2003-09-30 Thread Russ Pitman
Stephan Balmer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:20:15PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > The card is crap, I knew that when I bought it. (Couldn't miss the price though.) > > > With the 2.6.Kernels, I installed both test2 and test4 images from the > > archives. > > Both failed to find the network

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-30 22:17]: > Tha sounds like a very logical thing to do, as you can tell I'm a > newbie. Do you mean running the script from ip-up?? Assuming the script ip-up runs *after* the DSL connection is established, then yes. When it comes to dial-up/ppp

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove too much??

2003-09-30 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 06:19, Ken wrote: > I have appended the console output apt-get -u dist-upgrade produces > below. If let run, it will remove a whole lot of packages that I want > to keep. I had a similar problem with a Debian testing/unstable mix. Some of the system libraries, most n

Re: Recent "weblint" and/or "xmllint" packages

2003-09-30 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:09, Abdul Latip wrote: > May I know where to find recent "weblint" and/or "xmllint" and/or > equivalent packages? xmllint is in libxml2-utils and weblint should be in the 'weblint' package. I don't know if they're recent enough, though. apt-cache search is your fr

Atapi Zip detection woes!

2003-09-30 Thread Rthoreau
Dear: fellow Debian users; I am having a problem setting up my Atapi Iomega Zip drive under Debian. I have followed the Zip disk howto, and have done all its suggestions but I am still not able to have the device work. First off I have the Zip Drive attached to a Promise Ultra 133 ATA contro

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. Where did you get that impression? man 5 crontab - --

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian > but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to "754" so > user could access it but it doesn't change th

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:20:25PM -0500, Michael D Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:00:53:46+0100] scribed: > > on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Christof Hurschler
Tha sounds like a very logical thing to do, as you can tell I'm a newbie. Do you mean running the script from ip-up?? Maybe somone can tell me how to tell pppd to connect, i.e. without for instance running ping? Thanks, Chris > * Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-30 15:04]: > > $

Sid's sendmail no longer allows outbound mozilla-mail to connect

2003-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have an sendmail server on my network that acts as an outbound SMTP server for users using mozilla on windows boxes in the network. Things work ed fine until the recent upgrade to 8.12.10; and now i get errors whenever mozilla tries to connect to the server: ===

permissions problem

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, (by the way I'm not on the lists anymore and don't seem to be able to resubscribe-if someone replies I'll read the reply in the archives-thanks) I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > rendered his machine unusable. He's asked me to r

kernel messages to virtual console instead of to log file/etc.

2003-09-30 Thread Daniel B.
Although I have /etc/syslog.conf set up to send most messages elsewhere, I still get messages like: EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option bs and EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device. dumped directly to the current virtual console (when I'm in a text console). (This is on woody with kernel

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-30 Thread Tobias Reckhard
R Ransbottom wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:13AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I'd prefer for LVM support to become complete first, personally, but that's due to the fact that I don't have a DVD burner (but use LVM). You may

Re: howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

2003-09-30 Thread matt wilkie
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Re: cd writer setup, k3b won't work, fstab right??

2003-09-30 Thread Ken
Since my earlier post I have fixed one part of the problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ken# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SAMSUNG '

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2003-09-30 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
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Re: bind has quit working

2003-09-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 29 September 2003 1:17 am, Jacob Anawalt wrote: >Do you want other computers in the network to look to themselves or the >dns server for resolution of the reverse dns zone? > >@ IN NS server.elkins > >I think it's odd that you had to uninstall/reinstall bind I've not yet >had that issue

cd writer setup, k3b won't work, fstab right??

2003-09-30 Thread Ken
I am using a Dell P3 that I installed Knoppix 3.2 on. I did the hard disk install and have a dandy running Debian unstable system. It works beautifully. Then I yanked a cd burner out of another computer here and tried to get it working. I have xcdroast installed. When I try and run it, it won't

apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove too much??

2003-09-30 Thread Ken
I am using a hard disk install of Debian from Knoppix 3.2. It is working nicely. I do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade every once in a while. I am using unstable/testing sources. I have appended the console output apt-get -u dist-upgrade produces below. If let run, it will remove a whole

Is the list working????

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
I've been removed from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? I can't believe it! :0 --- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security holes*** ***Maintain your Privacy - MS Passport Free*** ***Anti SPA

Re: I'm not on the users list anymore???

2003-09-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
J Y wrote: Would someone email me if this list is still working. I am not getting any messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have my comments been that offensive?? :( I had the same problem. My Yahoo! mail box filled several times per day over the last couple of weeks with swen. I stopped getting all o

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive? (SOLVED)

2003-09-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:43:39PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: | | But AFAIK, cdparanoia additionally needs sg (generic SCSI), so This was it! cdparanoia now works while using ide-scsi instead of ide-cd. For the a

I'm not on the users list anymore???

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Would someone email me if this list is still working. I am not getting any messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have my comments been that offensive?? :( --- ***Protect your PC from local E-Mail Application security

Re: pppd daemon dies is a permissions problem? help?

2003-09-30 Thread J Y
Hi, I did the following: Copy /etc/ppp/peers/provider as /etc/ppp/peers/orcon and edit the file 'orcon' to suit (e.g. include 'noauth', and in my case comment out the sample chat script # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" ) Then, to use the 'call' option with K

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Michael D Schleif
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:00:53:46+0100] scribed: > on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Seems > > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable hand

RE: Laptop battery

2003-09-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I cannot rememeber the format of the apmd command or the output of the command, but basically you use 'cut' to snip out the xx% part. Probably there is neat regexp you could also use. For the prompt bit, have a read here http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x293.html I really was

Recent "weblint" and/or "xmllint" packages

2003-09-30 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, May I know where to find recent "weblint" and/or "xmllint" and/or equivalent packages? Is there any informal .deb package available? Thank you for any clue. regards, -- Abdul Latip - Junior Staff - http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ - - Dear IETF: I want back my X.400 under X.25 or C

Re: Laptop battery

2003-09-30 Thread Steven Schlansker
Cool, apm works fine. How can I get it to go in my prompt? On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:41 PM, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I used to use apmd, it worked pretty well, I used to cut the power left % out and use it in my prompt. hub:~# apt-cache show apmd Package: apmd Priority: optional Sect

ipmasq 3.5.10c problems

2003-09-30 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hi, I recently upgraded to the ipmasq version 3.5.10c because of security risks through apt-get upgrade. The problem is, now there is no working IP masquerading. when I issue the command: < dpkg-reconfigure ipmasq> Initializing IP Masquerading...iptables: No chain/target/match by that name done

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-30 15:04]: > $pop = Net::POP3->new('pop3host', Timeout => 60); Perl, eh? Never played around with that language, sorry. > but I haven't been able to get it to work in swendelete, I always get > a "can't connect to mail server" error when I run sw

Re: Filesystem Choice

2003-09-30 Thread Alvin Oga
on Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:05:33AM +0100, Rus Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > Is there any type of filesystem that can do inline backups such as > NetApps WAFL or VMS's versioning system. > > Or is there something I can lay over the top. This is for backup > purposes so it will be

Iptables, anti-spam and gnome.

2003-09-30 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi group; I would like know how can I use in my Debian (Woody) iptables -m string --string??? My kernel don't support this. I'm using Spamassassin in my qmail, but this doesn't work, I'm receiving a lot of spam in my e-mails. Can I configure spamassassin better for work better??? I'm thinking us

Re: howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

2003-09-30 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:31:29AM -0700, matt wilkie wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone direct me to a faq or howto on installing and configuring > debian for end users on quite old hardware? Old means 486 and early > pentiums (<200mhz). > I am using a Pentium w/ AMD K5, 128 MB RAM and a Tseng ET4000

Re: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-09-30 Thread John Hasler
man script -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-09-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:20, ListDude1 wrote: > Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger avaialble for > Debian...I MUST give out an account and MUST know what it is > doing. Perhaps you could set up his login to run script (in the bsdutils package). script captures everything

Re: Configuration file and auxiliary packages

2003-09-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:20, Patrick Goetz wrote: > A less easily solved problem has to do with auxiliary files. We are heavy > TeX users, and consequently have various TeX gadgets that are not packaged > by Debian. OK, so we have our own tex-utm package containing these > things. What do you do

Re: Filesystem Choice

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:05:33AM +0100, Rus Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > Is there any type of filesystem that can do inline backups such as > NetApps WAFL or VMS's versioning system. Not in general use. > Or is there something I can lay over the top. This is for backup > purpo

Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-09-30 Thread ListDude1
Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger avaialble for Debian. I'm the administrator of a very secure machine. Unfortunately, I need to give out a single user account. To be honest, regardless of the policies my company has in place, I absolutely do not trust the user (I don't k

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Seems > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > > barring ISPs refusing to carry executables in email format. > > He

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
shorton wrote: > Greetings: > > Another RH to Debian convert question... > > I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc. I've mostly gotten the > hang of dselect I think. > > Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run > to get the desired result: > > rpm -qa = show

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

2003-09-30 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > The only question should be the kernel version. The NDA-conscious > manufacturer could always code for the latest stable versions of the > kernel.org kernel (the plain, unpatched, official Linus Torvalds vanilla > version of Linux). True for kernel modules and the rare userland prog

Configuration file and auxiliary packages

2003-09-30 Thread Patrick Goetz
We run a network of 300+ debian servers and desktops with a few Mac OS X clients thrown in for good measure. Having hundreds of machines means that there's usually a lot of installing and upgrading going on. I'm mostly happy with the dpkg system, but there are a couple of things that have been b

Re: Problem with Fontconfig and TrueType Fonts in Unstable?

2003-09-30 Thread Josh Metzler
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:18 pm, Scott Thatcher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing with a question that I believe concerns fontconfig in > unstable. I've searched every combination of keywords in Google and > Google Groups that I can think of, but haven't found anything that can help > me. Here's

Re: Umask trouble

2003-09-30 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:34:08PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to find some umask settings, however I'm afraid the ones I > look for don't exist. Here's what I'm trying to achieve: > > When a user makes a file: -rwxrwxr-- > When a user makes a directory: drwxrwx--

Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?

2003-09-30 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Dan Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on > /dev/hde5). > > Where is the initrd for debian located? AFAIK the default woody kernel doesn't use initrd. if you need one for some reason (or you want to compile a new kernel with initrd) you have to

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:56:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:41, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Seems > > > > like about the only way we're goin

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

2003-09-30 Thread csj
At Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:01 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > 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

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > This works well: > > > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/swendeleter/?topic_id=29 > > > > To use in cron, I commented out the line: > > > > say "$nmails left in the mailbox"; >

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

2003-09-30 Thread csj
At Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:43 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:11:04AM +0800, csj wrote: > > At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:43:35 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > As with most questions, ask google. There are numerous sites > > > and hardware compatability lists that have been created. It

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Martin Jungowski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> And SCSI Emulation can not be compiled as a module. I tried that, >>> for some weird reason it did not work. It has to be compiled into >>> the kernel, not as module. >> >> IDE SCSI Emulation _can_ be compiled as a module. lsmod on my syste

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Christof Hurschler
Thanks, I figured it out! I now have another problem. The script I'm using is connecting to the mail server using the Net::POP3 module, and it's timing out before I can establish my DSL connection. The module supposedly takes a Timeout command i.e. $pop = Net::POP3->new('pop3host', Timeout =>

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 03-09-30 12:29 -0400, Angus D Madden wrote: > shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package provided program > > x > > If the package is installed: > > dpkg -S > > If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-30T20:47:44Z, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 00,15,30,45 * ... > >would be executed every 15 minutes "*/15" is a handy shortcut for the same thing. That's particularly handy for jobs that need to run, say, every 3 minutes. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non

Re: modprobe

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Victory (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My system complain at reboot time > "modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135" > Look at /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/arch/i386 and found > the entry like this: > alias char-major-10-135 rtc. > > I did comment it out, but did no

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd > like to run the swendeleter.pl scrip

Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:13:24 -0400, Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on > /dev/hde5). > > Where is the initrd for debian located? > > I currently have something like this for my debian entry: > > image=/boot/vml

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Angus D. Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: >> >>Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run >>to get the desired result: >> >>rpm -qa = show all packages installed? > >Use one of: > >dpkg -l >dpkg --get-selections > >> >>

Re: Where is Debian's initrd located?

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Anderson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is > on /dev/hde5). > > Where is the initrd for debian located? > > I currently have something like this for my debian entry: > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 > label="Debian

Re: RE: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Reaz Baksh
> > From: Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 03:56:49 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cannot find libncurses > > Hello > > Reaz Baksh (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > >>From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13

Re: OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:47AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > 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... > Back on topic, I agree that it is important to realize that different >

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:08:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:14, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > > > > > > > If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say RedHat, tha

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
To get access to your cron conf file run $crontab -e It will open up your defualt editor. This means you do not have to be root to change cron run times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfce4 install problems in unstable

2003-09-30 Thread A. Loonstra
Amal Phadke wrote: Hi all, It seems xfce4 package in unstable is broken. I get the following message when I try to apt-get it. [snip] I have the same problem, so it seems. I haven't found a solution either. It seems this package xfce4-msc-plugins is simply missing. I tried adding another so

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:13:58 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: >> >> I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragr

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:03:12AM -0700, A R wrote: > I posted this in debianhelp.org and didn't get much > help. Hope to do better here. > > My audigy card is not seen by the kernel, > es1371: version v0.32 time 20:40:16 Sep 29 2003 > Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, > 20:40:11

Re: sendmail and procmail , spamassaign

2003-09-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi , > > I am using sendmail for my mails. I was told that if i want to use > spamassassin and redirect the rejected mail to some user account (like > spam user) I need to use procmail. > I installed procmail but I don't understand that can i use this for

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only > set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time > intervals. I'd like to run th

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cd writer

2003-09-30 Thread David Palmer
Driver:- emu10k1 Source:- Sourceforge. For your sound. And definitely go for the alsa modules. Can't help you with the rest, sorry. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:11:19 +0200, Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd

RE: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Reaz Baksh (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: >>> When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: >>> >>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses >>>

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-30 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:13AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: > R Ransbottom wrote: > >I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root > >could not be found. I bailed out because it seems > Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I'd > prefer for LVM support to be

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Hi! > I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access > from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod > it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change > the permision on it. Simply chmod'ing the permissions of the mount point won't help. Use mount with the uid,

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-30 12:35]: > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time > intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically > every so often to keep my mailbox from overfiling. I think you looked in the wrong place (took me a wh

Where is Debian's initrd located?

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Anderson
I'm trying to edit my LILO config so that I can run debian (which is on /dev/hde5). Where is the initrd for debian located? I currently have something like this for my debian entry: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 label="Debian Linux" root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/boot/

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set > up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time > intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script automa

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-09-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragraph to > 78 chars; ctrl-k makes it flow; use ':let my_tw=x' before ctrl-L > to ali

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Make sure you have the partition in your /etc/fstab, it has to look something like this: /dev/hda3 /data vfatuser,uid=1000,rw,exec,devmode=0666 Now all you gotta do is type "mount /data" as normal user in terminal/shell. Note that you're not supposed to type "mount /dev

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Christof Hurschler wrote: Hi, I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd you can specify the values separated by commas, example for minute

apache upgrade

2003-09-30 Thread Bill West
Dselect upgraded apache but during the setup stage it asks the following question. The icons Alias specifed in srm.conf is non-standard. Fix? [Y/n] Hangs here forever till I abort out of the process. Anyone else run into this or know how to fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problem with Fontconfig and TrueType Fonts in Unstable?

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Thatcher
Hi, I'm writing with a question that I believe concerns fontconfig in unstable. I've searched every combination of keywords in Google and Google Groups that I can think of, but haven't found anything that can help me. Here's my situation: I've tried to insert endashes, emdashes, curly quotes

Re: Problems with kernel: no sound, printer, cdwriter

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Well for some weird reason it did not work for me. How bout sg, d'you have that compiled as module or not? MJ On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 20:30, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Martin Jungowski (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > And SCSI Emulation can not be compiled as a module. I tried t

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:11, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd > like to run the swendelet

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread John Spray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change the permision on it. If you mean that users can't mount it: to allow users to mount volumes, y

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2003-09-30 Thread David Hartman
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Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-30 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:40:09 +0200, csj wrote: > Try compiling the linux kernel X times. In my experience at some > point bad memory will cause a kernel compile to fail (of course a > bad CPU would casue it to fail much faster, but CPU's are > probably the hardiest part of your system) That, or i

Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Christof Hurschler
Hi, I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically every so often to keep my mailbox from ov

Re: postfix pop-before-smtp problem

2003-09-30 Thread Wilfried Essig
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 18:02, Hans Steinraht wrote: > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > permit_mynetworks,reject_non_fqdn_recipient,check_client_access > hash:/var/lib/pop-before-smtp/hosts,check_relay_domains > > After restarting Postfix all looks fine but by receiving the first email > Postfix sta

modprobe

2003-09-30 Thread Victory
My system complain at reboot time "modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135" Look at /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/arch/i386 and found the entry like this: alias char-major-10-135 rtc.   I did comment it out, but did not help. Anyone had an idea ???   Regards, Victor    

Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread ZekeVarg
Hi! I have a windows-partition (/dev/sda1) I want to access from debian but can only do it as root (su). I tried to chmod it to "754" so user could access it but it doesn't change the permision on it. -- Cattle die, kinsmen die, thyself too soon must die, but one thing never, I ween, will

Verbose Debian Linux Mail Server Walkthrough

2003-09-30 Thread Darik Horn
I am working on the Verbose Debian Linux Mail Server Walkthrough, a document that precisely describes how to add such a thing to a Microsoft Windows domain. http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/projects/lmsw/ It is currently a draft, but it should be helpful. Feedback, as always, is welcome. -- T

Re: diff arguments for building diff for dpkg-source

2003-09-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Micha Feigin wrote: > Currently I am trying to build the diff for the source trio > (orig.tar.gz/diff.gz/.dsc). The problem is that using the standard diff > arguments diff -ruN doesn't work. dpkg-source -x returns an error for > the diff line (the first one in the file) and for the file dates

Re: Problems with IMAP

2003-09-30 Thread Wilfried Essig
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:02, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > What is giving me the problem is this: > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_sender_access > hash:/etc/postfix/access, permit_tls_clientcerts, > reject_unauth_destination, reject All postfix-smtpd are using this line(s

pango error installing gaim

2003-09-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i used to have gaim on my system, and i need it back for work -- but i need version 0.70 out of unstable, the one that supports the yahoo protocol. on a different (but similar) debian system, a month ago or so, i was able to simply apt-get install gaim -t unstable and voilŕ, magic, it worked. f

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

2003-09-30 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > 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'? >

kernel-package build, is this a problem

2003-09-30 Thread stan
This doesn't look so good. I just donwloaded a new kernel 2.4.22 source tarbal, did a : make menuconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image and when I went to dpkg -i the resultant .deb, I got the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src# dpkg -i ker*22*deb Selecting previ

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

2003-09-30 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:14 +0200 Chris Niekel wrote: > > I once grabbed a function from somewhere: > packageof() { > [ $# = 1 ] && w3m -dump "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?> > } > > This allows you to do "packageof hello". I very much doubt that. At least, not until you

Re: Explanation of package list at www.debian.org. (solved)

2003-09-30 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > 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

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