Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access > > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From' doesn't need > > to be escaped

Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8...

2003-10-27 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi! > > I think I need to make more tty-devices, and I'm using devfs, so the > short question is: How can I make more than the usual tty0 to tty8? > (Because it is only those in Debian from the start, right...?) > Do you mean de

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-27 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to > use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash. > > Ken > D

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

2003-10-27 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:53:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > SiS6326-based cards are cheap, are available in PCI format, and can be > used with svgatextmode using my ClockProg. They're crap for games but > fine for desktop stuff. > Thanks for your information, I'll try buying such a card. What i

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:14 > Subject: Re: reiserfs > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:31 GMT, Vivek Kumar penned: > > > Hi there, >

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:38, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 04:08 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> Even if exim spoke SSL to the smarthost, the email would

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread David Lloyd
Monique, > > Aha, sure enough, only rc0.d and rc6.d have a file K20inetd I assume I > > can fix this by typing update-rc.d inetd defaults Someone please let > > me know if it would be a mistake to do so. Also, I noticed that there > > were several other files missing besides inetd, such as: cron

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 21:22 GMT, Richard Otte penned: > Aha, sure enough, only rc0.d and rc6.d have a file K20inetd I assume I > can fix this by typing update-rc.d inetd defaults Someone please let > me know if it would be a mistake to do so. Also, I noticed that there > were several other files

Xserver-Xfree86

2003-10-27 Thread David R Hovland
Hi guys, I'm back. Thanks for the advise, it worked, part way. I ran apt-get install xserver-xfree86. Now the problem seems to start at: (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No device detected. Fatal server error: no screen found X connection to :0.0 broken ( explic

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 04:08 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Even if exim spoke SSL to the smarthost, the email would still be >> plaintext between there and the originator. At leas

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 00:26 GMT, Tom penned: [snip] > > ...which seems to suggest > > * not only that a .procmailrc makes a .forward useless when that > .forward is only meant to roll on procmail * but *also* that it's the > cause of the duplicate mails, since the .procmailrc puts mail in it's >

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

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:20:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > the distinction that's being missed here is that people don't code in > english, people use english words as symbols in their code. there's a > huge difference. Random webpage I have open... GtkTreeStore* gtk_tree_store_new

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

2003-10-27 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:51:17PM -0800, Tom insinuated: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:20PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm arguing that _neither_ english _nor_ german is perfectly > > suited to code, since one needs to do some translation to get the > > sentence into the form in which a human

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > So they know where it came from and is going to. Whoop-de-doo... Actually that's my philosophy when it comes to all privacy: fuck it. Come look. If it creeps you out, that's on you. It's a remarkably effective stance to take. --

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Even if exim spoke SSL to the smarthost, the email would still be > plaintext between there and the originator. At least, I think that's > how it works. If you really want to hide t

Re: HOWTO make a server

2003-10-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Leandro Patrón Rizzo wrote: Hi. I'm reading a lots of HOWTO's, I want too put a linux box that sharing internet and act as DNS server for a private network. But, all the things that appears in those HOWTO doesn't match the files in Debian's distribution. Where can I find HOWTO's for networking over

Re: emacs: adding default minor modes?

2003-10-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:31:53PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:30:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What's the easiest way for a non-LISPer to add ispell-minor-mode to be > > one of the default minor modes in emacs? > >

Re: which one is better??

2003-10-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Gatherum wrote: Which NFS is better, the NFS-user-server or the NFS-kernel-server? I need to set up a box on a pretty large network to dump some pretty large files, and share them throughout. I have lebranet installed and have 400g to play with. What would you recommend? It depends on

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

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:20PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm arguing that _neither_ english _nor_ german is perfectly suited to > code, since one needs to do some translation to get the sentence into > the form in which a human would say it. > > on top of that, i'm arguing that _no_ langu

Re: e-mail

2003-10-27 Thread Paul William
This is a debian user list (we use Linux not windows). This is not an appropriate place to ask for windows help. Debian users - give this guy a break ;-) On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 05:37, Gaolon O. Hall wrote: > I had to reload all of my programs including Windows ME because of > virus infection. Now

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

2003-10-27 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:22AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > > >>Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >> > >>>now, think of an example in which you encounter anything remotely like > >>>full sentence structure in code,

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-27 Thread Nori Heikkinen
just in case this hasn't been answered yet ... on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > ... > > >> of course, you can create var

re:palm on debian

2003-10-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Zire 71 was not detected by a 2.4.18 kernel (the latest is OK), so I had to had this in /etc/modules (try to change the value): usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x60 Thanks, all that I had to do was change the vendor and product number to match th

Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8...

2003-10-27 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi! > > I'm still working with the backstreet ruby kernel Andreas Schuldei has > made available to get another seat on the machine. I had a breakthrough > yesterday. Now my (2.4) kernel runs, and I can use one graphics card. > N

Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working

2003-10-27 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I've got this machine with a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC in it, and a clean install of woody. (not much beyond the base system at this point). The thing is, Debian doesn't seem happy with the NIC. Under the standard installation process I chose the bf24 kernel, and it refused to configure the n

Re: which one is better??

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Paul Gatherum said on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:07:57PM -0800: > > > Which NFS is better, the NFS-user-server or the NFS-kernel-server? I > need to set up a box on a pretty large network to dump some pretty large > files, and share them throughout. I have lebranet installed and have > 400g to pl

Re: kernel upgrade issue

2003-10-27 Thread Kent West
Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi, I had 2.20 version installed on my system and reiserfs was not working. So I installed kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386). It did configure and then I reboot my box and the reiserfs started working butsomehow my networking is gone. I can't get

Re: FW: Kernel panic error

2003-10-27 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:45:28AM +, Anim Asante wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Jerome R. Acks > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 24 October 2003 03:47 > > To: Anim Asante > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Kernel panic error > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 20

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:06:20 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:23:35PM +0100, Tom wrote: > > | However, the longer this takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a > | little nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some > | misconfiguration of

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-27 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:13:21 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, by my count, by the end of this message I have committed 39 acts > of trademark infringement... :) ...excluding your .signature, quotation and attribution as well a

which one is better??

2003-10-27 Thread Paul Gatherum
  Which NFS is better, the NFS-user-server or the NFS-kernel-server?  I need to set up a box on a pretty large network to dump some pretty large files, and share them throughout.  I have lebranet installed and have 400g to play with.  What would you recommend?    

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
* [28/10/2003 00:49] Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, initially, I thought it was from a .forward. Afterwards, I > > learned that today's Debian/Exim configuration doesn't need a .forward > > to call procmail. As soon as a .procmailrc file exists in the user's > > home directory, m

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:15:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:41:57PM +1100, Brendan J Simon said > > > Which are the most accurate at detecting spam? > > This is a good question, and I've never seen a comparison of this. SA + > some simple procmail rules catches basica

Courier imap (maybe procmail too?) newbie question

2003-10-27 Thread J F
I killed fetchmail and tried to kill uw-imap then: I did an apt-get mb2md and converted /var/mail/USER to ~/Maildir and also converted the directory formerly used by uw-imap. Then apt-get courier-imap and a reboot. Now I see only my Inbox folders (Inbox is the parent of all subfolders now.) I c

trimming posts: was: Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-27 Thread Paul Scott
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-10-26T18:46:05Z, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rm -r `ls` do the trick? No; it wouldn't list files starting with '.'. That whole line of experimentation also fails on any filename with a space in it. Thanks for trimming that so well! I wonder ho

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-27 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:17:09PM +0100, L.F. wrote: > First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fonts used in Windows > were these: 1) WP Phonetic 2) SymbolProp B, also called WP Multinational > Roman. 3) Times New Roman. 4) WP Greek Helve and 5) Century Gothic. > I have Debian Knoppix, the la

Re: want to install testing distribution on Intel system using network install CD

2003-10-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi James, * James Oldham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 09:46]: > I am new to Debian and a relative novice with Linux. I want to > install the testing distribution on an IBM Pentium II (model > 6285-66U, 384 ram, plenty of disk space, 4MB S3 on the motherboard). Welcome. Tip number 1- wrap your line

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-27 Thread John Hasler
Colin Watson writes: > Just in case other people try this, 'rm -rf .*' is VERY DANGEROUS. > '.*' expands to include '.' and '..', and if you happen to have > privileges to write to the parent directory then you'll end up > removing all directories *next* to your current directory as well! That was

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 23:58 GMT, Derrick 'dman' Hudson penned: > >| I didn't realize that editing a .procmailrc without having procmail | >set up through a .forward could get me into trouble ... > > exim can be set up to handle procmail delivery directly, without the > indirection of a .forward

Re: remote update -> how to re-enforce

2003-10-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 09:43]: > Dear all, > > Debian is great for remote system administration. Thus, I make use > of it for several "head-less" servers that are only adminstratable by > remote-login via network interface. Usually, I do an upgrade/update > at the same time

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-27 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm trying to build a new machine for work this weekend. I'm running out of > weekend, and I still have not mamanged to get a working Gnome install. > > What's the best way to get this working on a "testing" machine? It appears > that there m

Re: emacs: adding default minor modes?

2003-10-27 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:30:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > What's the easiest way for a non-LISPer to add ispell-minor-mode to be > one of the default minor modes in emacs? > In Debian's emacs21_21.2-1_i386.deb you can start flyspell-mode by typing: M-x flyspell-mode -- Jerome pgp0.p

Re: palm on debian

2003-10-27 Thread Erinn
One time on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:44:50AM -0500 this person named Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am using jpilot, which also defaults to /dev/pilot. I am in the dialout > group and all of the /dev/ttyUSBx device files are set to 660. I have > tried using /dev/ttyUSB0-3 with no success. Did you syml

Re: USB subsystem problems?! or only mouse?

2003-10-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Lorenzo Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 09:47]: > Nicos, > > I tried also this...to display octal caracters... but without > results..:( > No caracters are show on terminal... Ok, so /dev/input/mice is not working. > I have the following entries in my XF86config-4 file: Since the devi

Re: Kernel 2.6 and framebuffer

2003-10-27 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:35:08AM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > I had the same problem and I think it is the CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y that is > the cause but I am not positive... Well I am now :-) Thanks for the tip. It is working now. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. Ignorance is bliss.

HOWTO make a server

2003-10-27 Thread Leandro Patrón Rizzo
Hi. I'm reading a lots of HOWTO's, I want too put a linux box that sharing internet and act as DNS server for a private network. But, all the things that appears in those HOWTO doesn't match the files in Debian's distribution. Where can I find HOWTO's for networking over DEBIAN? Thanks a lot :) Lea

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:23:35PM +0100, Tom wrote: | However, the longer this takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a little | nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some misconfiguration of | mine. Don't be so nervous, you just get duplicate mails. It's not the worst that could happen :

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:49:07PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 22:23 GMT, Tom penned: | > * [27/10/2003 22:54] Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > | >> > Has anyone else experienced something like this? | >> | >> How are you calling procmail? If it's from a .

purpleeyes

2003-10-27 Thread misssabyna
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Re: Fw: Plattenfehler

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 08:59, Andreas Bohnert wrote: > nein, christian hat schon recht: > ein cp -a funtkioniert auf den ersten blick, aber es gibt kleinere probleme: > > ich hab das auch versucht und konnte nicht mehr mit einem normalen user > unter kde einloggen. > schau mal, ob das bei dir ge

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > i'm running ext2 - is there any way, such as in fstab, to specify "-y" > to e2fsck if it ever needs to be run manually at startup? when you manually run e2fsck, use -p to tell it to just go and clean it up and once a year or so, it wil

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-27 Thread Georg Nikodym
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:10:01 + "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:36:25PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > > Sadly no, I neglected to say that I could not get things

Re: Debian to English translation

2003-10-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:24 Subject: Re: Debian to English translation > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:17, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > >>I just read the abp-

Re: vim syntax

2003-10-27 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:53:22AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:25:01PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > } Hi > } > } How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > } type :syntax on? > > Add syntax on to your .vimrc > or to '/etc/vim/vim

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-27 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:57:20AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > As for setting up basic bash configuration, a little experimentation > shows that this is what I've got (debian 3.0r1). > > Root has both .bashrc and .profile, and the configuations (custom bash > prompt and setterm) can go in either

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Ric Otte
Aha, sure enough, only rc0.d and rc6.d have a file K20inetd I assume I can fix this by typing update-rc.d inetd defaults Someone please let me know if it would be a mistake to do so. Also, I noticed that there were several other files missing besides inetd, such as: cron, kerneld, ppp, hwcloc

sudden death of mozilla firebird + gnome-sound-recorder hang

2003-10-27 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello all, Since approx two weeks, mainly two applications make enourmous problems: mozilla-firebird and gnome-sound-recorder. All this happended just after an apt-get upgrade. I do think that the reason is to be found in some base libs (gtk or so?). I think i can exlude defect versions of the n

Re: [OT] - problem with java

2003-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 05:09, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I tried replacing the internal java matlab is using (either 1.1.8 or > > 1.3.1) since it is causing problems with window sizes. > > I installed j2re 1.4.1 from blackdown in the right

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:14 Subject: Re: reiserfs > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:31 GMT, Vivek Kumar penned: > > Hi there, > > > > I was trying to mount my removable hdd as reiserfs filesyst

re:palm on debian

2003-10-27 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Lundi 27 Octobre 2003 17:44, Marc Shapiro a déclamé : > Oct 27 11:37:24 local kernel: usb.c: USB device 11 (vend/prod > 0x82d/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver. > What am I doing wrong? Am I missing a driver that needs to be loaded? > If so, where do I find it and how do I load it?

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:20:10 +0100 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but Mutt displays some mail twice, > which is quite annoying. I was only getting started with > exim/procmail/mutt, and it worked correctly for about two days. Exim > hands mail over to pro

nfssvc: Function not implemented

2003-10-27 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi all, I got the following error while trying ot start nfs server: nfssvc: Function not implemented Also when I do ps -ef | grep rpc I get follwoing: /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd --no-nfs-version 3 Any help.. -- Vivek Kumar System Administrator (AIX & LINUX) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-27 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi! So here we are trying to convince HP to support Debian! What we need are some figure. We've to tell HP that there are lot's of people/sysadmins out there who use Debian on HP Server or consider using buying HP-Hardware if they'd support Debian. HP claims, that since Debian has not figures o

3Ware SATA Raid

2003-10-27 Thread rahul jadhav
Hi All! I am trying to put together a Debian server with 3Wares Escalade 7000 Series 2 port SATA Controller and Seagate drives. I am a little nervous about the motherboard. I was thinking of getting an Intel (anyone of S845WD1, D845GEB, D865GBFLK). I'd like to know if anyone has had a smooth run

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 22:23 GMT, Tom penned: > * [27/10/2003 22:54] Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > Has anyone else experienced something like this? >> >> How are you calling procmail? If it's from a .forward, can we see >> that, too? > > Well, initially, I thought it was from a

chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
I got the following output from chkrootkit but couldn't find any explenation on what processes don't appear: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed How do I check this? I also got: Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Tue Oct 7

Re: http authentication , apache , .htaccess

2003-10-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Lucio de Aquino Marinho wrote: > > > > Hello for all ,, > > >i have a problem with debian unstable , apache , and nagios-text , > > Everything is ok , but the apache do not authenticate , someone can > help-me > > > > httpd.conf > > > ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/c

Re: Removing unused modules from initrd image

2003-10-27 Thread Doug MacFarlane
The modules in the initrd image aren't what's running after your machine boots, just a superset of what you need in order to boot your machine. If you have a bunch of modules that are loading and are unused, use modconf to deselect them and restart. madmac - Original Message - From: "B

Re: Debian to English translation

2003-10-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "JG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:06 Subject: Re: Debian to English translation > Hi, > > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just read the abp-get manpage and cannot understand some references. >

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Keresztes József said on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:54:12PM +0100: > And this time when the cursor move to another place it leaves > a line, or a part of a line. Sounds like you probably should try turning off the hardware cursor in X. Try setting the SWCursor option in the Device section of /etc/

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > At 27 Oct 2003 10:31:01 -0500, > Vivek Kumar wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I was trying to mount my removable hdd as reiserfs filesystem. It gave > > me following error. What should I do ?? > > THE VERSION I CHECKED IS 2.2.20. > > KINDLY HEL

Re: nfs problem

2003-10-27 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 27 October 2003 22:01, Vivek Kumar wrote: > I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other > machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says > (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux > box from there and also I can telnet ot it.

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread benoit
Message de Tom, le lundi 27 octobre : > Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but Mutt displays some mail twice, which > is quite annoying. mutt displays your mails twice, because they are like this in the mailbox. you can see it thanks to the = sign in the arrow. look for configuration problems oustsid

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
* [27/10/2003 22:54] Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Has anyone else experienced something like this? > > How are you calling procmail? If it's from a .forward, can we see that, > too? Well, initially, I thought it was from a .forward. Afterwards, I learned that today's Debian/Exim

Cursor dust

2003-10-27 Thread Keresztes József
Hi everybody ! I use Debian 3.0/stable with 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernel. The GUI are KDE2 and Gnome 1.4. My debian packages I always refresh with "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" commands. I have got this problem for a year since I used Debian. I put the question to hungarian linux and debian

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Otte
Aha, sure enough, only rc0.d and rc6.d have a file K20inetd I assume I can fix this by typing update-rc.d inetd defaults Someone please let me know if it would be a mistake to do so. Also, I noticed that there were several other files missing besides inetd, such as: cron, kerneld, ppp, hwclo

Re: List mail being redirected?

2003-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
Thanks for letting me know my message got through. I'm only at the point of setting up the X windows system in my debian installation, so can't yet cruise cyberspace to check the archives. At present, my X server starts, but all I get is a blank blue screen. I try to start icewm (it seems to be rea

Re: USB subsystem problems?! or only mouse?

2003-10-27 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 27 October 2003 21:28, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: > The first mouse is a logitech on ps2 port, and it works. > The second is the Logitech usb that does not work... Have a look at the BIOS. If there is an option like "PS/2 emulation for USB mouse", make sure it is disabled. Normally it should

Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8...

2003-10-27 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 27 October 2003 19:10, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > I think I need to make more tty-devices, and I'm using devfs, so > > the short question is: How can I make more than the usual tty0 to > > tty8? (Because it is only those in D

nfs problem

2003-10-27 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi, I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux box from there and also I can telnet ot it. What is that I am missing. Any suggestion. Thanks --

Re: List mail being redirected?

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 17:44 GMT, Haines Brown penned: > Sorry if this has been brought up before, but a message I send to this > list this morning seems to have been redirectected at some point to a > different domain: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following address had permanent fatal >

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 19:20 GMT, Tom penned: > Hey, > > Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but Mutt displays some mail twice, > which is quite annoying. I was only getting started with > exim/procmail/mutt, and it worked correctly for about two days. Exim > hands mail over to procmail since I have a

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 17:49 GMT, ScruLoose penned: > Wouldn't it make more sense to switch to a journalling fs such as > ext3? I believe you can switch from ext2 to ext3 non-destructively... Completely non-destructively. You can also choose to mount an ext3 drive as ext2 after you've converted i

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 17:59 GMT, Tom penned: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:16:55AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> You're using a plaintext pop password on the wire and you're worried >> about some file in your home directory? > > I use the SSL option in my .fetchmailrc, so I hope my pwd and more >

Removing unused modules from initrd image

2003-10-27 Thread Bharath Ramesh
I instaled kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7 recently. This boots using initrd. After booting lsmid shows a lot of modules that are unused and I dont require them. I would like to know some way by which I can remove those modules from my initrd image so that they arent loaded automatically. I am not subscr

Re: USB subsystem problems?! or only mouse?

2003-10-27 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Nicos, I tried also this...to display octal caracters... but without results..:( No caracters are show on terminal... I have the following entries in my XF86config-4 file: The first mouse is a logitech on ps2 port, and it works. The second is the Logitech usb that does not work... Section "Input

Re: USB subsystem problems?! or only mouse?

2003-10-27 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Nicos, I tried also this...to display octal caracters... but without results..:( No caracters are show on terminal... I have the following entries in my XF86config-4 file: The first mouse is a logitech on ps2 port, and it works. The second is the Logitech usb that does not work... Section "Input

Re: USB subsystem problems?! or only mouse?

2003-10-27 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Nick, the entry I have in my XF86config-4 file are the following: The first mouse is a logitech on ps2 port, and it works. The second is the Logitech usb that does not work... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option

Apt-get problems when my PC freeze

2003-10-27 Thread Juan Pablo Valenzuela
My pc freezes when I were doing a dist upgrade and I restarted in the hard way. Now the apt-get doesn't work. This is the error: After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 106117 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diff 2.8.1-4 (usi

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:05:58 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, David Palmer. wrote: > > > > > -- > > > David Jardine > > > > > > The way I see it is that with all the separate componentry available > > with Debian, you can configure for any eventuality accordin

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can anyone recommend a good spam filter for Debian??? > > I use Mozilla as my mail client on an Apple PowerBook and also an > Intel > > desktop. > > Mozilla includes a bayesian spam filter, doesn't it? Not the version included in Woody. I think 1.4 and l

'make-kpkg kernel-image' failure with kernel 2.6.0-testing8

2003-10-27 Thread Ketyi
Hi, After a successfull 'make-kpkg --config oldconfig' I wanted to make the .deb package with the command 'make-kpkg kernel-image'. I tried 3 times :( But did not work. The output is: ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test8/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.6.0-test8/kerne

phonetic symbols

2003-10-27 Thread L.F.
First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fonts used in Windows were these: 1) WP Phonetic 2) SymbolProp B, also called WP Multinational Roman. 3) Times New Roman. 4) WP Greek Helve and 5) Century Gothic. I have Debian Knoppix, the latest version. I think the file in Debian that converted the

Re: 2.6.0-test8 PCI (?) troubles

2003-10-27 Thread Andre Kalus
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:34:27 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > Yeah, I just tried test9 too. I downloaded a vanilla test8 yesterday, > patched it with test9 today. That stopped even earlier... It seems > something was wrong with the framebuffers. It goes down to where the > Matrox fb stuff is l

Re: nslookup? What package is it in?

2003-10-27 Thread Shane Hickey
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:10:40PM +0100, JG wrote: > Hi, > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I can't > > seem to find nslookup. > > > > I've got it on most of my "testingh" boxes, but the one I'm building at the > > moment

Re: RES: http authentication , apache , .htaccess

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 10:59 GMT, Lucio de Aquino Marinho penned: > > the two directories > [snip] I think he meant the permissions of htpasswd.users. -- monique Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please don't email me directly. I will most likely see your pos

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 15:44 GMT, Ric Otte penned: > I recently lost my hard drive, and after restoring, fetchmail does not > work. I get the smtp failed for localhost message, and discovered > that exim is not running (I can't telnet to localhost 25). Things > work fine if I start exim manually

Re: how to set SETSERIAL values forever

2003-10-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:05:31AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > Hi ! > I have fixed my winmodem problem by using > > setserial /dev/ttyS2 int 9 > > When machine restarts, that seting is lost. > > What file must I edit to have this value forever ? > > I am using LINEX (this is a Debian d

Re: Debian to English translation

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Hoyt Bailey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just read the abp-get manpage and cannot understand some references. > The manpage for each option gives a useage such as APT: :GET: :PURG These are options to use with the apt configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf. These are different from the c

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:16:55AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > You're using a plaintext pop password on the wire and you're worried > about some file in your home directory? I use the SSL option in my .fetchmailrc, so I hope my pwd and more importantly email bodies come over the cable modem encr

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