A way two pc game controllers act like one?

Hi all, Here's a weird question. I need a way to...multiplex my two usb controllers so they both act like the same joystick device (ie they're both seen as js0 at the same time, if that makes sense). I specifically want one controller to be able to send events while the other is invactive (ie no

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

> "JDB" == Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDB> Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered JDB> that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have JDB> been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var/backups, JDB> and threw away a file f

Re: vim syntax

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William said > Hi > > How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > type :syntax on? Create a ~/.vimrc with this one line: syntax on and it will highlight whatever it can. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: vim syntax

Thanks for your help. On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:44, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > > type :syntax on? > > in .vimrc: > > syntax on > > > > > Thanks > >

vim syntax

Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: vim syntax

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > Hi > > How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > type :syntax on? in .vimrc: syntax on > > Thanks > > Paul > -- > > .''`. Paul William > : :' :Debian admin and user > `. `'` > `- Deb

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle paste mode in > > | Vim) > > another approach could be > :set pastetoggle= > and use F9 whether in insert mode or not... Oh, that's perfect. Thanks. Any reason not t

vim syntax

Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and

Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var/backups, and threw away a file from /var/lib/dpkg/updates/ that was making dpkg choke (it was malformed, probably truncated) and

Re: Searching for an editor...

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:42:23AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:24:11 -0400 > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > Not to start a flame war,

Re: Searching for an editor...

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:24:11 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more > > > graphical than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, bu

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > | I'm finding with vim as my mail editor I jump in and out of insert mode > | for things that are kind of basic. I miss from Nano: > | > | Control-A/Contrl-E fo

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:10:12 +0200, james terris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course now I have a new problem. > When I reboot I get: > > LI > > So I changed lilo.conf from: > disk=/dev/hde > bios=0x80 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hde1 > > to: > #disk=/dev/hde > #bios=0x80 > boo

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:24:26PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > where's the list of all the tests, and what they do? man > Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf tells about customization directives, > but not the tests themselves... > pointers? dpkg -L spamassassin locate spamassassin :) --

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:24:26 -0500, Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:11:27PM -0400, 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... > > > > That being

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:07:36AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Gah, I didn't think of that. So I've still eaten a stupid amount of > traffic this week. Does anyone have any neat scripts for automaticaly > blacklisting Swen-sending ips for a period of time with Postfix? It has been something on

Re: Searching for an editor...

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:22:38PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:43, Tom wrote: > > > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: > > > > > > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like > > > > >

Re: OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:07:05PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > Or I could take the plunge and switch to an address on my own > domain, on my own mailserver. (The current one is hosted by my > ISP.) But if I do that, I'll be all tempted to upgrade to > exim4 with the funky integration with SA to do SM

Re: Simple little basic config questions

Haines Brown wrote: In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which I operate at this point from console. 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in /etc/profile, but that only aff

Re: X11R6

Hi, You could try dpkg-reconfigure-plow xserver-xfree86 And select frame buffer disabled. With a similar (to yours) nvidia chip that worked for me. I can't get my new nvidia to work at all though. Good luck. --- David R Hovland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get xwindows to start in Debi

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:11:27PM -0400, 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... > > That being said, what worked for me was to grab a backport of > spamassassin 2.55 for woody from ht

Re: Migrated to debian; aliases stopped working

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:30:12PM -0400, Haines Brown said > When I moved to debian, my aliases are no longer working. For example, > in /etc/aliases I have the following entry: > >debian:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > However, when I try to send a message to debian, it sends a > message to [EMAI

Re: spam settings (5mb "nei-group" email every few minutes!)

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 21:51, Will Trillich wrote: > we've had a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" alias for a while, and now > it's killing us. every six to eight minutes we get a new email > which pretends it's from "@nei-group.com" and it contains > microso~1 html with a FIVE MEG excel file attached. > > ever

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:05 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote: >>>Well, it is a known bug in the apache package, you should have checked. >>>The basic problem is that the modules are inserted into modules.conf in >>>reverse order. >>> Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to

Re: X11R6

[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:10:44PM -0700, David R Hovland said > How do you get xwindows to start in Debian? I have

Re: X11R6

David R Hovland wrote: How do you get xwindows to start in Debian? I have reloaded it four times thinking I needed to use a different disk. I downloaded all seven. All I get at login is this: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xi

Re: X Windom System will not start

Hoyt Bailey wrote: Last First /etc/fstab /dev/hda3/ext3errors=remount-ro0 1 /dev/hda5noneswapsw0 0 Additional proc entrys. I don't understand the line "Last First /etc/fstab" I dont know abou

spam settings (5mb "nei-group" email every few minutes!)

we've had a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" alias for a while, and now it's killing us. every six to eight minutes we get a new email which pretends it's from "@nei-group.com" and it contains microso~1 html with a FIVE MEG excel file attached. every few minutes! over and over again. i've got each user set up

Re: Why startx files on /dev/agpgart when xf86cfg runs? (XFree86 4.3 for Woody)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:26:28PM -0400, Daniel Barclay said > Daniel Barclay wrote: > > >If xf86cfg can successfully run the X server, why would running X > >with startx die with an error saying: > > > > (EE) GARTInit: Unabled to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) > > (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgar

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

>>Well, it is a known bug in the apache package, you should have checked. >>The basic problem is that the modules are inserted into modules.conf in >>reverse order. > >>>Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to work >>>What's a fix? For some reason I never saw this messag

Re: Searching for an editor...

Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more graphical > > than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, but not Emacs21). > > I don't think I have used emacs21 but I don't remeber, so I can't tell.

Re: apt-move and local "obsolete" files

James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to get apt-move to move an apparently unknown package > (libsensors-1debian1) into the partial mirror, I've created a file, > "/mirrors/debian/.apt-move/testing.binary.local" containing this line: > >libsensors-1debian1 optional main/l/lm-se

X11R6

How do you get xwindows to start in Debian?  I have reloaded it four times thinking I needed to use a different disk. I downloaded all seven. All I get at login is this:   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec:

Re: Simple little basic config questions

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 19:57, Haines Brown wrote: > In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little > basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which > I operate at this point from console. > > 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1=

Re: Simple little basic config questions

Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little > basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which > I operate at this point from console. > > 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I cha

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:59:07PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 20:54 GMT, David Jardine penned: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >> > >> english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > >> etc. but it consists mos

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

Hi, Unfortunately I am going over my quota every couple of hours now. So until I find a reasonable solution, and it's definately not Yahoo, ( I can't even contact them) it will be adios for awhile. I have tried many things with my video card problem, including installing ncurses and running make me

Re: X Windom System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:44 Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed. > >Hoy

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > > > I was hoping the open sour

Simple little basic config questions

In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which I operate at this point from console. 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in /etc/profile, but that only affects user, not root.

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 19:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:58:52PM -0700, Tom wrote: [snip] > > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS > > linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. > I didn't want to have to mess w

Migrated to debian; aliases stopped working

When I moved to debian, my aliases are no longer working. For example, in /etc/aliases I have the following entry: debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, when I try to send a message to debian, it sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my FQDN attached to the alias name. That is, the

cupsys: cupsd dosen't start, instead it loops.

I'm hoping to get some attention to this bug, downgrading to cupsys in stable worked. What do I have to do to get an NMU to fix this? This is provided as is and may harm your computer. HERE IS WHAT TODO IF YOUR SYSTEM HAS THIS BUG... as root wget \ http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:14:50PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > I was hoping the open source community might have done it right.

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:37, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up > some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux > backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on. > > So I'd prefer

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. I didn't want to have to mess with Linksys shitty HTML management :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:58:52PM -0700, Tom wrote: > (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from > changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock > to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. T

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:41:41PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > From what I understand, it's actually possible to have XP apply your > timezone to a clock that's set to GMT. I'm not really sure how you do it > though as I don't use XP. kewl > > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does snea

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:58, Tom wrote: > Two questions: > > (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from > changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock > to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. > From what I understand, it's actually

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:58:28AM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > Does anybody know how to get a "100x40" or "100x37" textmode with a NOT > SVGA-compatible graphic card, I mean a replacement for 'SVGATextMode' ? Pass vga=ask to the kernel at boot? - --

Problems getting Gnome to work on "testing" amchine

I'm building a new "testing" machine today, and I can't sem to get Gnome to work. I'm using gdm, and when I log in I get an error popup about the session manager ahving problems. Here's the .xsession-errors file: /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK /etc/gdm/Sessio

Re: fstab usb entries

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 20:46, Gabriele Persia wrote: > Hello, > > In /etc/fstab I have the line: > usbdevfs/proc/bus/usb usbdevfsdefaults,noauto 0 0 > > when I mount usbdevfs I can get info about the usb bus, good. > > Now, I've upgraded the libusb package and the configur

Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

Two questions: (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS linksys FW open p

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:44:37PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's > > really hard to screw that up... > > > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I d

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > > should be very easy for lots of peop

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:31:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon said > > > > Er, I think you may have misunderstood... I have a wrapper around gcc > > to ensure it is always called with my desired optimisation options > > even if I'm compiling a package

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:36:53PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > And is it only my ISPs getting their acts together or is the flow > of swens starting to dry up? > I've been killing swen at my ISP with mailfilter every hour for the past 100 hrs (>4d). I get about 6/hr. I don't see any trend

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I tried emailing my ISP suggesting they block the "star offender" > viruses like swen and sobig at SMTP time, pointing out that this might > also help stop the complaints they've been getting lately about their > POP3 server being slow,

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 21:09 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: >> >> >> > -- >> > - >> > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffe

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash SOLVED

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:47:59PM -0500, Hans Koch wrote: > Hi > > I read you about:plugins->crash posting > > I had exacly the same problem. > strace helped to find the solution: > > There were 4 old libraries/files in /usr/lib/mozilla/components > libnsgif.so > libnsjpg.so > libnsmng.so > lib

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > -- > > - > > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jefferson, LA USA > > > > "Eternal vigilance is the price of l

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

Hello Joseph Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, > libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find > glib-config. > > Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) You can check on

RE : Courier configuration

Hello If you are using Debian unstable , you're using Exim4 i suppose Ok... You want to fetch some mail from your isp mailbox and deliver it on your private network... Firstable you have to configure correctly Exim or it won't work ... I use Exim4-daemon-heavy + fetchmail + courier-imap-ssl +

irq conflicts on laptop: sound

hello, I am having problems with my soundcard and my NIC on my laptop running woody 2.4.18. (My sound is jumpy and my NIC is sometimes not identified- this may be related to the state of the sound device when i power down, but i'm not sure.) laptop=toshiba portege 7140CT I think this is due to t

Re: Mailfilter+Mutt Problem--SOLVED

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: [huge snip] > > AFAIK the only thing that will alter that Status: header is mutt > itself... and the only time I've found all my new messages shown as > read is after leaving the room with my keyboard accessible to my pigeon. > [snipa] >

Re: 2.6.0-test8 PCI (?) troubles

Thanks a lot for the reply, Andre! On Saturday 25 October 2003 12:29, Andre Kalus wrote: > had some PCI problems with 2.6, too. I were able to solve them by > disabling ACPI (partially or generally). OK! >You do not have to compile a > new kernel for this, just try to append one of the followi

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:04:59PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: >> >> Ron Johnson kindly sent me a Python script that deleted all the >> large files from the server. All right, I had seen these messages >> piling up a

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of > > interactive fetchmail that reads the

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:54:05AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote: > > ... > > ... > > I've read the fetchmail documentation and concluded that fetchmail > > will never delete anything without consulting exim or whatever. > > I've tried to follow all the

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of > > interactive fetchmail that

installing cdwriter with ide-scsi

I am failing to make a new IDE CD-writer work on a good stable Debian server and feel I'm out of ideas. Reading threads on this and other lists and FAQs and HOWTOs, many dating back way before my kernel, is taking further astray I think so a big plea for help. I've given as much detail as I c

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:08:40 -0600, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 17:26 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > > > > Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug > > #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off > > your mach

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > -- > - > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jefferson, LA USA > > "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever > stealing from the many to the few. The manna of

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

What is the root-n in my root??

Dear all, before submitting this request of help I have been looking around quite a while in my system and in the user groups without success. My problem is the following, I run a Debian system aligned with the latest testing distribution and kernel 2.4.22. Since few months I noticed a file -

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen > at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - "Read this line, > you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots > of people very

Re: Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work > without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could > not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV > doesn't know how to make one. The d

Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd

I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to make one. The dvd-rom drive is the master on ide2 and a cd-rw dri

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:03:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > But the "less formal process", i.e., intuitive mapping without know- > > > ing what adjectives, adverbs, participles, etc are is less efficient > > > than having formal knowledge (even if that formal knowledge does not > > > consist

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phonetic symbols

I have changed from Windows 2000 to Linux because of the viruses. Iam very happy now because Linux is much safer and much more stable.However, I have a problem: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic transcription but Openoffice or KWord of Debian-Linux doesn't convert some of the s

choise of UDMA and SCSI kernel package...

Hi, does all "stable" k7 kernel-images have support for new 200 Gb UDMA/133 IDE and U160 SCSI disks? And do all kernel-images give me UDMA (IDE's) performance? IF not, which kernel-image package do I need to get? Thank you! /Emil -- __ Check out the

fstab usb entries

Hello, In /etc/fstab I have the line: usbdevfs/proc/bus/usb usbdevfsdefaults,noauto 0 0 when I mount usbdevfs I can get info about the usb bus, good. Now, I've upgraded the libusb package and the configuration script suggest to add none /proc/bus/usb usbfs

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:52, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:09:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > > > > > I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn w

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:48, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change sha

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. > > The problem may relate to the deluge of MS mail bombs. Originally

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 17:26 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > > Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug > #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off > your machine neatly. > Hasn't been fixed in unstable, either. It hadn't occurred to me to look in the

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create vario

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon said > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:56:39AM +0200, GCS wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have read on debian-user that you could compile libc6 for yourself > > with a wrapper around gcc. Can you please send it to me? My problem is > > even if I do not change

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:27:42PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman said > Okay. So then I go to the bug list, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=midentd > > There certainly seem to be some relevant entries, but none of the > outstanding ones are less than 2 years old. Hrm. > > How

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Nicos Gollan said > On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:23, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > Hi, > > Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. > > I have some misgivings about this location. > > Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:53:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb said > Rob Weir wrote: > > I'm dropping mail based on a DATA regexp. I have the following line in > > /etc/postfix/ms-crap > > Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the DATA regexp come after all the > DATA is already across the wire? There

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:47:22AM +0100, Karsten M. Self said > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:43:46AM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This is a good point, but it's not something I notice anymore. I scan > > through my lists and hit "y" on any spam in mutt; it passes the mail to >

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman said > Is sa-learn really so intensive that multiple instances will bring down > a machine, or is that mostly a concern for older hardware? Yup. When I run it over one message at a time, it takes maybe 3 seconds per message. For 5 at on

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 15:30 GMT, Conrad Newton penned: > > I would not mind having some advice, either. I wrote to the ISP, but > they addressed me as an idiot, explaining the meaning of "bounced > mail", when instead I wanted to know why they were getting an error > message of the form: > >

Re: X Windom System will not start

Hoyt Bailey wrote: Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed. Hoyt Look in /etc/fstab at your various mount points. If any of them say "ext3", those partitions are (presumably, if you get no errors) in ext3 format and are being mounted as such. If they say "ext2

Re: Courier configuration

Hello, thank you and sorry. I try to play with courier at my desktop and I use exim as default. Thus I cyclicly reinstall smtp packages and it takes time. By now, I am able to send email from my desktop through courier, but I do receive messages neither by SMTP nor by IMAP to localhost nor IMAP to

Re: logcheck

Hi, I finally got my problem fixed. You comments were partially helpfull because I'm still using the version in stable and some tips didn't make sence (e.g. other file names). You were correct that in logcheck.violations I had a reject in it that matched the postfix lines. I then added to logch

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

>From Thomas H. George on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:28:57 -0500: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. I have had the same problem, although not all my mailing lists were aff

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