Re: sftp file creation mask

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:23:48PM -0600, Lynn W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where do I set up the file creation mask so that when someone uses > sftp to upload a file to a Debian system, it results in file > permissions other than rw-r--r-- ? I have tried adding umask in > .bash_profile for the u

Re: slow Iomega 20GB usb hdd on linux

2003-11-20 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Here is the relevent output of usbview: USB UHCI Root Hub Serial Number: b400 Speed: 12Mb/s (full) Number of Ports: 2 Bandwidth allocated: 0 / 900 (0%) Total number of interrupt requests: 0 Total number of isochronous requests: 0 USB Version: 1.00 Device Class: 09(hub ) Device Subcl

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(unstable debian, evolution) > >I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: > >- is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? > >- is there a way for it not to show deleted emails (it shows them

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
Mr. Folkert has a grudge against me from another forum in which a rather flagrently explosive fest of fabrication of history and rules, failure to stand by prior statements, gross personal abuse, spinelessness in standing up for justice (with few exceptions), and violation of personal confidences,

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> >> >>>Mark Healey wrote: >>> >>> I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so >>I'm >> >> trying agai

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx program, but no stopx. Preston> "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it just springs back to

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:13:08AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But then it just springs back to life again, with a login prompt (at > least with xdm here). > > Let's pretend my monitor is being borrowed for a few days and being > replaced by a VT100, and I want to properly end all X processes and

A web interface for apt-get upgrade

2003-11-20 Thread rajkumars
Hello, I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron. Now is their an application which can show in a neat web interface a list of all mach

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 21 Nov 2003 at 0:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > No no no no! Don't start over. If you have headers, there > is no need to "make" anything. I originassy thought you were > going to install kernel-sources. Since you installed headers, > just go ahaed an remake the driver module. > Just for

Re: slow Iomega 20GB usb hdd on linux

2003-11-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 10:23 GMT, J.S.Sahambi penned: > I have a Iomega 20 GB usb hdd. It gives good data transfer rate when > used with windows. But when I use it with linux, the data transfer > rate is low, in the order of 500 Kbytes/sec. Is there any way to > increase the data transfer rate? Th

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CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one >> wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx >> program, but no stopx. Preston> "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it just springs back to life again,

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > 5. Is it possible to go ahead as I have mentioned above? Well, if it is at all possible to get that machine online, you'll be glad you did. Then you can use one of the netinst images (just

slow Iomega 20GB usb hdd on linux

2003-11-20 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I have a Iomega 20 GB usb hdd. It gives good data transfer rate when used with windows. But when I use it with linux, the data transfer rate is low, in the order of 500 Kbytes/sec. Is there any way to increase the data transfer rate? Thanks J S Sahambi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: cd /usr/src/ ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 linux cd linux/ Okay. I just gave that a try, and then running make oldconfig still gives me the "No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop" error. I think I'm just going to have

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 > > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > > on Tu

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 22:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > cd /usr/src/ > ln -s kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 linux > cd linux/ > Okay. I just gave that a try, and then running make oldconfig still gives me the "No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop" error. I think I'm just going to have to go ahea

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

Re: 802.11g PCI cards & Debian

2003-11-20 Thread shawn
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:16:00PM +, James Hosken wrote: > Can any one recommend any 802.11g PCI cards that will work with Debian. > They need to be avaliable in the UK. According to the wireless lan howto, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ (not an

Re: window tabs with emacs 21.3.5

2003-11-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone knows if and how its possible to get tabs for the buffers in > emacs 21.3.5 (like the window tabs with xemacs, multi-gnome-terminal, > mozilla etc.)? Not quite. I think there's some emacs lisp somewhere which gives you tab-like things at the top

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can look into clamAV. > But if SpamAssassin is too resource intensive I think you will find > antivirus scanners to be even more so. > > clamav+spamassassin scanning in daemon mode takes 10-20 seconds per me

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:58, Erik Steffl wrote: >(unstable debian, evolution) > >I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: > >- is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? CTRL-E will expunge. It is also under the Actions menu. >- is there a way for it not to show de

Re: UFS and NTFS

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Goesele
Simon Umbricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi there > > i'm new to linux, so i'd be glad if someone could help me out with a > little problem > > > what i'd like to do is access my unix files using windows xp and the > ntfs partitions using linux. i couldn't really find anything helpful > on

Re: memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 03:25, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows, > etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported > total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be? > > P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-20 Thread Gregory K. Johnson
marcos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lucas Bergman a écrit : > >>This could be a bug in your drive or in the ide-scsi kernel module. >>If no one else chimes in with clever ideas, then this may be a >>question for the Linux (kernel) hackers. [Ominous music begins >>playing in the background.] >>

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:01:42PM -0800, Wm.G.McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any way I can reset the directory/partition that apt uses > to install software? I believe it currently install packages under > /usr... and /var > > The history of *nix is very diverse and

window tabs with emacs 21.3.5

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
Anyone knows if and how its possible to get tabs for the buffers in emacs 21.3.5 (like the window tabs with xemacs, multi-gnome-terminal, mozilla etc.)? The package is compiled from source so it could be compile time options. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Building XFree 4.3

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:28:01PM +, . . wrote: > >>Hi everyone I'm tring to build Xfree 4.3 on my debian system because I > >>need a patch to the siliconmotion driver that has only been committed in > >>4.3.99. > >> > >>I'm trying two separate paths, and I'm stuck in either. > > >If you se

Re: mutt - changing maildir in responce to script output

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:49:17AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:13:30AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > (I am trying to get list of maildirs with new messages in the subtree, > > print the number of new messages and allow to choose which one to switch > > into). > >

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:39:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > >The problem is > >that under X the mouse only works when scrolling down and not when > >scrolling up. > > > >/etc/gpm.conf: > > > >device=/dev/input/mice > >responsiveness= > >repeat_type=raw > >type=autops2 > >appe

Re: mozilla mail freezes on start

2003-11-20 Thread Kent West
Erik Steffl wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mark Healey wrote: I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm trying again. My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries to start it

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread tallison
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:33:23AM -0500 or thereabouts, Robert L. > Harris wrote: > > Hello Robert, > >> For home, spam assassin, tell it to tag MS Executables very high >> (3000) and devnull anything >1000. > > Ah SA, too resource intensive for me. > >> Professional, so far I like central comma

Re: severe bug:Failure to start X related to /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread tallison
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:42:32PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: >> ls -l /: >> drwxr-xr-x root root tmp >> >> This is the problem. >> >> It's an extremely severe bug. > > Not really, it's easily reversible. > Yes, it is easily reversible. I changed /tmp to rwxrwtrwt (IIRC) and it's working f

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel source): cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-2-4-18- .config make oldconfig make dep After all that, it should work. The headers are now allegedly

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread tallison
> on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:41AM -0800, Mark Healey > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries >> to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to >> look at the log followed by one asking if I want to try automatic >

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-20 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:35:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > ...though I see no mention of Anaconda on it. Anyone know? I've read it a few days ago, and it mentioned anaconda in passing saying why we're using debian-installer instead of

NIC problem

2003-11-20 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Finally, a _real_ Linux problem! It's taken me months to get one! The box is a bridging firewall, with a custom compiled kernel. I've done this configuration loads of times, but not with these NICs. Here's some pertinent info: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corpora

Re: Spamassassin daemon running aimlessly

2003-11-20 Thread Haines Brown
> From: ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm finding the documentation cryptic, and need simple direction. > > I ran # spamd -cd, and assumed it would check my incoming mail > > according to a preferences file, and that it would du

Re: samba printer

2003-11-20 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:57:53PM +0100, Martin Sengstschmid wrote: > Hallo! > I found your Email-address in the Mailinglist of debian. Note that I'm sending this message to the list as well. If this isn't enough to get you going, please direct further questions to the list. > I have now > the

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 2:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Execute the following (this assumes /usr/src/linux points to your > current kernel source): > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp /boot/config-2-4-18- .config > make oldconfig > make dep > > After all that, it should work. The headers are now allegedly pr

Re: mutt - Getting a list of the number of new messages in each mailbox

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:38:34PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible with mutt to get a list of mailboxes and the number of > new messages in each mailbox without resorting to an external script (or > is there a script that can already do that?) See mutt manual section 3.11. -- Jon Dow

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen wrote: What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable & Exim3? Anything around that will delete postives before accepting for delivery? Stable and Exim3? Don't know. Stable and Exim4? I belive so. IIRC exim4-daemon-heavy has been packaged for stable. Grab that and ClamAV

Re: mutt - changing maildir in responce to script output

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:13:30AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > (I am trying to get list of maildirs with new messages in the subtree, > print the number of new messages and allow to choose which one to switch > into). > Is it possible to do this? I'm not sure if this exactly answers your questio

Re: SpamZilla

2003-11-20 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:50:37PM -0800, Tom wrote: > I would love to see Spamassassin's bayesian filters merged with Mozilla: > > I could point at the "main text flow" (usually, a table cell) and say > "this is ham", and I could point at a block of "sponsored links" or > "text advertisments" a

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:59:00 -0500, Stephen wrote: What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable & Exim3? ^ --- /etc/postfix/body_checks ^^^ Uh did you mean to do that?

Re: SpamZilla

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Tom wrote: I could point at the "main text flow" (usually, a table cell) and say "this is ham", and I could point at a block of "sponsored links" or "text advertisments" and say "this is spam". The granualarity of content is usually a range of table cells or a frame. You can guess what's spam

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 19:41, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: > > Couldn't find package kernal-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > ^^ > > Kernel is spelled with two e's and no a's. Could that be the problem? > That's possib

Re: Spamassassin daemon running aimlessly

2003-11-20 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm finding the documentation cryptic, and need simple direction. > > I ran # spamd -cd, and assumed it would check my incoming mail > according to a preferences file, and that it would dump spam into a > location such as ~/mail/spam

SpamZilla

2003-11-20 Thread Tom
I would love to see Spamassassin's bayesian filters merged with Mozilla: I could point at the "main text flow" (usually, a table cell) and say "this is ham", and I could point at a block of "sponsored links" or "text advertisments" and say "this is spam". The granualarity of content is usually

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Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: No problem there - you did install from a cd right?(you must have, as you don't have connectivity). Use "apt-cdrom add" to put your install cd in your sources and I did that, and inserted the disk that has the kernal headers (disk

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-20 Thread Kent West
Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is that under X the mouse only works when scrolling down and not when scrolling up. /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/input/mice responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=autops2 append="" sample_rate= The X setup for this mouse: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 21:12 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: > > ..other wintendo compiler and virus signatures, anyone? > filename\=.*\.(pif|scr|exe|bat|com|vbs) -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!!

Re: exim4 smtp auth via libpam-dotfile

2003-11-20 Thread Sergey V. Spiridonov
Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: Hi I tried to make exim4 smtp auth against libpam-dotfile with no success. Is it suppoused to work? Solved. -- Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov A: No Q: Should I quote below my post? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:39, John Peter wrote: > No problem there - you did install from a cd right?(you must have, > as you don't have connectivity). > Use "apt-cdrom add" to put your install cd in your sources and I did that, and inserted the disk that has the kernal headers (disk 6). > >

Re: Q about corrupt windoze filesystem

2003-11-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:59:32 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:19:19AM -0500, Bill Benedetto > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello. > > > > This isn't a Debian question, per se, but the depth of knowledge > > on this

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:09:21 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:59:00 -0500, Stephen wrote: > > Folks, > > > > What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable & Exim3? > > Anything around that will delete post

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 20 Nov 2003 10:16:05 -0500, John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based > system, you download the RPM and attempt to install it, only to find > out you need another RPM (actually a lib from anot

any way to speed up dpkg-scanpackages?

2003-11-20 Thread Tom
I have 727 .debs in a directory as my "local cache". Whenever the contents of the directory changes, I dpkg-scanpackages to find the dups and write the Packages file. It takes many seconds to complete. Since the directory changes little each time, it seems like lots of the work must be wasted

Re: exim4-spamassassin individual user prefs

2003-11-20 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:55:58PM -0800, Jim Tyler wrote: > > Doing it that way, spamassassin is using the user's > > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file -- but shouldn't > > your setup via exim > > directly also be doing that? > > Unless I'm mistaken, since exim doesn't run as the > individual use

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-20 Thread marcos
Lucas Bergman a écrit : This could be a bug in your drive or in the ide-scsi kernel module. If no one else chimes in with clever ideas, then this may be a question for the Linux (kernel) hackers. [Ominous music begins playing in the background.] Thanks for answering. I've got an email saying

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
csj wrote: On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source tarball that I can ./configure --pref

evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
(unstable debian, evolution) I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: - is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? - is there a way for it not to show deleted emails (it shows them striked out) - is there a way to go to next unread mail, even if it happens to be in nex

Re: exim4-spamassassin individual user prefs

2003-11-20 Thread Jim Tyler
> Doing it that way, spamassassin is using the user's > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file -- but shouldn't > your setup via exim > directly also be doing that? Unless I'm mistaken, since exim doesn't run as the individual users, neither would spamassassin when called by exim. Spamassassin would,

Re: mozilla mail freezes on start

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (cyrus) using other cl

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source tarball that I can ./configure --pref

pppd boring problem...

2003-11-20 Thread Federico Briata
Hi,I get this error after a while with pppd with persist option. I need tokill the pppd and restart it.Any hints would be welcome...Here is a more complete log... rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0xb6 magic=0xf691b01f c0 23 05 06]sent [LCP EchoRep id=0xb6 magic=0xd3b01c00 00 2d 0f 01]Hangup (SIGHUP)Modem

getting scrollwill to work in a java application

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to get the scroll will to work in a java application (one that I can't change to code to)? I'm not sure if it will actualy solve the problem since the program in question is matlab but the graphic interface is writen in java, although I don't know if they are using swing/awt or doing

Re: More apt-preferences

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> when does the preference (or does it?) show up in > the policy? It should show up immediately. Save your revised /etc/apt/preferences, rerun apt-cache policy, and you should see the change right away. If you don't, then you probably have an error in /etc/apt/preferences. apt won't tell you t

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: >> I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm >> trying again. >> >> My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries >> to start it and after several attem

Re: exim4-spamassassin individual user prefs

2003-11-20 Thread Nate Duehr
Jim Tyler wrote: Hi, I would like to figure out how to have exim use the local users' spamassassin preferences. My I have done this on a box similar to yours with only a few users by using a procmail recipe that handles sending things to spamassassin. Doing it that way, spamassassin is using

mutt - changing maildir in responce to script output

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I wrote a small script that does some analysis on my maildir tree structure and gives me some options to chose one of the maildirs. The problem is how to change into that maildir. I tried bind index "c=!

Re: packaging a self compiled program in a .deb file

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable uninstalling > it cleanly later. > It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I tried > the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any extra da

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread csj
On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install > rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes > into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source tarball that I can > ./configure --prefix

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:33:58PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:36, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I configured my logitec usb optical wheel mouse (a lot of words for the > > standard one ;-) to repeat to X using the raw protocol. The problem is > > that under X the mouse only

printing problem (mozilla 100% CPU)

2003-11-20 Thread Valentine Kouznetsov
Hi, I'm tuning/learning my new unstable debian. The problem I have is the following. In Mozilla (doesn't matter which version, I had 1.4-6 and now it's 1.5) when I select print (either to file or to printer) it just stuck at pop-up window (preparing...). Using top, I see that mozilla takes 100% of

exim4-spamassassin individual user prefs

2003-11-20 Thread Jim Tyler
Hi, I would like to figure out how to have exim use the local users' spamassassin preferences. My understanding is that spam filter settings are individual - one user's spam is another user's ham. Hence, a site-wide spam filter may be too generic. Since individual users have no input into site-w

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Scarletdown
Second try at this.  Meant to send it to the list last night, but ended up going out as a private email instead... On 20 Nov 2003 at 10:44, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote: > > I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself. > > > > 1. Have a

Re: backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:06:53PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:26 PM > Subject: Re: backporting question > > > > > > Erm, sometimes, but it depends ho

Installing sarge with the new debian installer

2003-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Barish
I am attempting to install sarge using the new debian installer according the directions at http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Those directions describe how to install sarge using CDs made from a CD image available at htt

Installation upgrade errors--- HELP

2003-11-20 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Does anyone have a recommendation as to: what do I do with this error??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jack# apt-get install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 478 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to ge

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Nick Welch
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:36:45AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I noticed that xmod-ing the buttons (to make the wheel works as 4,5 > instead of whatever the mouse 'naturally' sends) can have strange > consequencies. If you didn't already: try the mouse without using xmod > to remap the buttons

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5-->7.2

2003-11-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 02:50 GMT, Henry Hollenberg penned: > Hello, > > I have a database running on potato using postgres 6.5 that I'd like > to upgrade to Woody running postgres 7.2. > > The docs seem to imply that upgrading with this big a jump from 6.5 to > 7.2 is dangerous.even if I do i

Re: Segfaulting WindowMaker

2003-11-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Karsten M. Self wrote: My suggestion: run X bare (either 'X' or 'startx xterm') from console. Launch windowmaker using strace, and log output. When it crashes next, look at the strace log. Which is likely to be very, very long. One issue I've found with recent (0.7x, 0.8x) WindowMaker releases is

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:36:34 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:51, Stephen wrote: > > > What's with you? I mean, Debian because of the text installer may be > > a little intimidating, but it'

Re: backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:26 PM Subject: Re: backporting question > Erm, sometimes, but it depends how complicated the dependencies are. My > subversion backport requires six other packages

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm trying again. My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to look at the log followed by one asking i

Dual-boot w/ Debian on external HDD

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
A friend of mine needs to install Linux to build a testing system at work. However, she wants to keep the original system image on the main HDD pristine. Can a lilo or grub floppy boot disk boot Debian from an external drive connected with either Firewire or USB 2.0? Can Debian run exclusively

Re: Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

2003-11-20 Thread Brian Nelson
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my > (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start > up. For example: > > {53} dmaze% xcalc > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for o

UFS and NTFS

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Umbricht
hi there i'm new to linux, so i'd be glad if someone could help me out with a little problem what i'd like to do is access my unix files using windows xp and the ntfs partitions using linux. i couldn't really find anything helpful on the internet tho. thanx in advance simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: xterm - selecting URL

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nick Welch wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:24:07AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I miss one thing from gnome. gnome-terminal let me ctrl-click on a url, and open mozilla. Any other xterm replacements that can do this? But I don't want to install all the gnome-terminal dependencies if

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:51, Stephen wrote: > What's with you? I mean, Debian because of the text installer may be > a little intimidating, but it's not /that hard/. It is hard, and it has nothing to do with the installer being text based (R

RE: memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-20 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: memory not pro-actively marked free? > > P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one > wants just to use the humble console?  I know there is a startx > program, but no stopx. > > "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server.

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:36:56PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:57PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: Two months later, I--like so many others before me--came crawling back to Debian, my hands weary from long h

memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows, etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be? P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nick Welch wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:01:59PM -0800, Tom wrote: Wow, that was something I would have never thought of. However.. no dice. xev reports nothing but MotionNotify events, and hexcat'ing the device produces the same things when I move the mouse, regardless of whether I'm holdin

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:23:57 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:16, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Is there a way to turn this off, BTW?  I find it somewhat annoying. > >  I'd prefer just having spam tagged as such, with

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031120 10:19]: > * Tom wrote: > > The ability to launch special applications when I press buttons doesn't > > "press my buttons" :-) Do they work as back/forward in Moz? That would > > be useful. (I wonder if anyone has gotten Microsoft's new side-to-side

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