debconf frontend / perl error

2003-12-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hello, I've been having a problem with debconf for a couple days, & noticing the lack of bug reports or noise about it on the list, suspect it's due to some weird anomaly on my system. It's debian unstable, kernel: Linux enlil 2.4.20-2003-03-03 #1 Mon Mar 3 14:38:11 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pa

Re: What is going on here? Re: FW: eject won't work any more

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, ScruLoose wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:05:21PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I sent him a brisk note and promptly killfiled him. ;-) You killfiled him ... how does it look like ... what weapons did you use ... was he bleeding ... he should burn in /dev/null. Oliver -- ... d

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image .. missing modules

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Richard Pearce wrote: > Hi I've been trying to recompile my kernel however the list of modules coming out is > incomplete.. > > What i've been doing.. > > First off I got kernel-source.2.4.20 .. > then i did make menuconfig and decided on the stuff i want in the kernel..

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image .. missing modules

2003-12-15 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:00:38 +, Richard Pearce wrote: > Hi I've been trying to recompile my kernel however the list of modules coming out is > incomplete.. > > What i've been doing.. > > First off I got kernel-source.2.4.20 .. > then i did make menuconfig and decided on the stuff i want in

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:48:41AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > | A couple of web searches don't find a simple step-by-step guide to > | installing Spamassassin on Debian Stable. > > Oh, sendmail. I can't help with that (other than suggesting > 'apt-get install postfix' or 'apt-get install exim' ;-

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 19:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I tryed it a couple of hours ago and it was still down. Seems to be up now. (21:35 PDT) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 13:01 Subject: Re: Debian down at present? > However, packages.debian.org is still down, isn't? > > Marcelo > > > On 15.12.03 13:34, Colin Watson

Re: hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jonathan On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:07:53 +, > Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying > > to get all my hardware working again :-(

hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-15 Thread michelle
Every time I perform a keypress at the console (command line, nano, etc.) I can hear a tick from the hard disk. Also, compiling from the console is almost 4 times slower than compiling from inside KDE3. This doesn't make sense to me. I get similar results for 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 kernels. Does any

trouble with pio4 and dma in 2.6 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread michelle
The 2.4 kernel from the Woody install had no problems, and I had about 26MB transfer rate. The 2.6-test9 and 2.6-test11 kernels don't let me set pio mode or dma at all, and my transfer rate is about 7MB. Is this a bug, or did I do something wrong in the installation? I have dma selected in the

Re: changing roots on: dpkg -i

2003-12-15 Thread ben_foley
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:50:17AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to install the xfree86 packages with the /opt directory as > > root. I've tried using --instdir but the install fails on the > > pre/postinst scripts. Is there an easy way to d

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread charlie derr
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? for what it's worth, here's what i use for X4.3

RE: Web server Partitions

2003-12-15 Thread Braxton Neate
I have separate directories for each website but they are in /var. Is there any particular reason why you have yours in /home? I tend to keep /home strictly for users home directory's. There isn't many users that will have shell access, but my home directory is usually quite large 3=). The plan is

how to clean up or reinstall fonts

2003-12-15 Thread H. S.
Hi, A few days ago I fiddled with the fonts in my Debian Sarge system. Since then I have observed some pecularities. Gimp hangs on selecting some fonts. And maybe also connected is that when i do ssh to a different machine and open a remote xterm and then right click the mouse button on the xt

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the install on its way. Answered all the questions, made a boot floppy,

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:10 PM Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000 > Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > >Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, > >xserver-commo

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:00:06PM -0600, Jason Norment wrote: > Debian installed pretty well without a hitch. (There was a minor sound > problem, but it was easily remedied.) > I'm now trying to compile the newest and greatest kernel available > (that's listed as stable), and I aim to get such

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-15 Thread Edward Murrell
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:38, Braxton Neate wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I know this is a question that gets asked a lot, but googling around I > can't seem to find a good answer. > I'm re-installing a web/sql server which currently has one large root > partition and a swap partition. > This is obviously

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm

OT-Make more noise.

2003-12-15 Thread alex
All you guys who complain about not being able to purchase computers that can run Linux. Why are you complaining to each other? You send an occasional complaint to a vendor or manufacturer which is ignored.Make it a mass mailing, form letter or whatever. Make it known that it's not

Re: Keyboard configuration for X

2003-12-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On December 15, 2003 02:40 pm, Francisco Castellon wrote: > Hello: > > I am having problems with my keyboard on X, I can't seem to be able > to type certain characters on the keyboard itself, I just recently > upgraded most of my packages and had to reconfigure a few things > (including the configu

Re: Samba Problem

2003-12-15 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have testing debian with samba and while the linux server is on the > network the other systems on the network lock up and freeze for several > minutes then un freeze. After I remove the debian box from the network it > does not freeze any of the other computers on th

Re: LISa (LAN Information Server) problems

2003-12-15 Thread Doug du Boulay
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 11:56, Paul Johnson wrote: (B> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (B> Hash: SHA1 (B> (B> DO NOT HIJACK THREADS! Start a new thread instead of replying to (B> another thread if you have something unrelated to say. (B (B Sorry about. Thought changing the subject wa

Web server Partitions

2003-12-15 Thread Braxton Neate
Hi Everyone, I know this is a question that gets asked a lot, but googling around I can't seem to find a good answer. I'm re-installing a web/sql server which currently has one large root partition and a swap partition. This is obviously not the best setup. I'm wondering what other people would r

Re: Orphaning of Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-15 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 18:01, John L. Fjellstad pisze: > Thanks for the quick reply. Does the fact I'm on a dial-up and probably won't > be tracking unstable make any difference? I have a system where I run > stable, and I try to track testing as well as possible on my workstation, b

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Schwartz
Hope this isn't a duplicate. Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from the Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 and sent the install on its way. Answered all the qu

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:01:13PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > However, packages.debian.org is still down, isn't? Yes (irrelevantly to the original post, though). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Orphaning of Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-15 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Grzegorz, Thanks for the quick reply. Does the fact I'm on a dial-up and probably won't be tracking unstable make any difference? I have a system where I run stable, and I try to track testing as well as possible on my workstation, but I'm stil

Using libstdc++.so.5 on Woody

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I compiled Mozilla 1.6b on Woody, Xft enabled. It runs good but has a problem of pasting, not germane to the subject problem. To see if the Mozilla's problem also exists on Mozilla 1.5 I compiled it too. It refuses to run because it cannot find libstdc++.so.5 The problem was mentione

Re: email client (OT)

2003-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:33:23 -0600, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gruessle wrote: > > >Here I like to thank Andreas Janssen for letting me know that > >replacing the subject line on an email does not start a new thread > > > Opps, I did not know

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:35:28 -0800, Nunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > home->work). However, my employer doesn't mind. I use tunnelling > > just to bypass the technical limits of a single

Re: LISa (LAN Information Server) problems

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DO NOT HIJACK THREADS! Start a new thread instead of replying to another thread if you have something unrelated to say. On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:19AM +0900, Doug du Boulay wrote: > The lisa daemon does not appear to be running. > In order to use

Re: IGNORE: test

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:59:13PM +0100, Burkhard Woelfel wrote: > test If your email works, you can use the mailing list. Duh. Don't test. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `-

Re: Can't install Debian on HDD w/Promise controller card

2003-12-15 Thread Boudewijn
Boudewijn wrote: George Adams wrote: I'm sure this must be a FAQ, but I can't seem to find anything helpful googling for the answer. I'm trying to install Debian woody (3.0r2) onto a new hard drive (WD1800JB, 180Gig Western Digital) in a new computer. It is the only hard drive in the machine, a

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Jason Norment
I think that there is a how-to to get truetype fonts working in Debian: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html . As far as the email client goes... have you tried Thunderbird? It includes message filtering... I'm pretty happy with it so far... (Had to do some major configuration to get it wor

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image .. missing modules

2003-12-15 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:35:29PM -, Richard Pearce wrote: > Hi I've been trying to recompile my kernel however the list of modules coming out is > incomplete.. > > What i've been doing.. > > First off I got kernel-source.2.4.20 .. > then i did make menuconfig and decided on the stuff i wa

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Jason Norment
Debian installed pretty well without a hitch. (There was a minor sound problem, but it was easily remedied.) I'm now trying to compile the newest and greatest kernel available (that's listed as stable), and I aim to get such features as 'automounting' working... (A few other 'wants', such as th

Re: email client (OT)

2003-12-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Gruessle wrote: I have some problems and what I have learned so far is that I need to send you guys more info so you can help me. First think I should do I guess is setup an email client on the Debian box otherwise I will have to type all the errors in to my email. How do I do that and which ema

Re: LISa (LAN Information Server) problems

2003-12-15 Thread Doug du Boulay
hi (B (Bdebian unstable (B (BI installed lisa 3.1.4-1 on my vaio laptop but seem to be having a few (Bdifficulties. (apparently this is part of KDE networking) (B (BThe lisa daemon does seem to be running but it is hogging 99% of the cpu usage (Bwhich seems to cause the cpu to overheat m

Re: hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Xavier Andrade
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:07:53 +, > Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying > to get all my hardware working again :-( > > Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:27:04 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Not at all! I will try something like that to be able to boot Debain. As of now I have no way to boot the Debian install. since lilo did not write to the drive. In fact, the installer, might not have correctly

Re: hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:07:53 +, Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying > to get all my hardware working again :-( > > Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4 dri

Re: email client

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:32:22AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > When I started, I used the email client Pine. It is a basic text-based > mail client. Some people do not like it because it is not Free Software. Not to mention pine lacks important basic f

Re: email client

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn on your line wraps to around 72 columns. On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:17:40AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > How do I do that and which email client is easy to use? kmail or mutt are the de-facto MUAs. I use mutt, myself, but Windows addicts may

Re: web page -> ps problems

2003-12-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ross Boylan wrote: I saved a web page as html with Mozilla 1.5, and then printed it to a postscript file. Can you print anything to file with Mozilla 1.5 and look at it with gv? Hugo. I use xprt-xprintorg 0.0.8.cvs20030508-6. Somewhere along the way something went wrong; when I faxed it (h

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Top posting is universally considered harmful. http://learn.to/quote/ On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:48:25AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > Also is there something like aptitude or dselect for RedHat? Short answer: No. Long answer: Yes, but you have to buy

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:34AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > Where can I find gpm (Setting Up Mouse) apt-get is your friend. But don't bother with gpm if you're using X and don't generally use the console. gpm is a massive pain in the ass to deal

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:44:01PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > Now I have Redhat and that is easy to install. Debian is just as easy to install, you just need to read the manual. It's on the CD as well as on debian.org (hit Installation Manual in the co

pty problem

2003-12-15 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to configure mlterm to run and it seems that there is a problem with the pty setup on my computer. The line that keeps failing is: if( ( ttydev = ptsname(*master)) == NULL) I added pty support in my kernel (custom compiled) but it seems that its not enough. Any idea what I'm missi

Re: Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 18:10, Scott M. Wiseman wrote: > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms > Do you know what you get yourself into? Look here: http://www.petemoss.com/spamflames/ShifmanIsAMoronSpammer.html I wonder whether you folks are

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:04:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had the same thing; the drivers that I nabbed from nVidia have been > rock-solid and quite functional, whereas the Debian packages...besides, > why is it a 'crap driver'? The de

XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-15 Thread ninaiz
try as a normal user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ su ( AND NOT SU - ) Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mozilla -- Debian unstable || pub 1024D/CDD636B2 || Linux 2.6.0-test11 #1 Thu Nov 27 09:49:

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:29:23 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:25:11 -0500 > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw >> yourself

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-15 Thread ninaiz
El Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:53:28 +, James Hosken escribió: try as normal user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mozilla -- Debian unstable || pub 1024D/CDD636

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-15 Thread Austin Gonyou
Just FYI, sorry for replying to this so late, the modules.conf(<6.06.00) or qla2[2,3]00.conf(6.06.00+) file when used with the SANSurfer software is where it writes module specific config information. I was just curious if these options might've impacted you here at all. but it doesn't sound like y

Tarballs, backports... and dist-upgrade?

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, The topic says it all... I'm using woody on all machines here. Ofc, I'm tempted to install backports of some software, or sometimes from tarballs. How will this affect the eventual dist-upgrade once sarge gets released? cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:41, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > This is even easier. Your local mailserver should not immediately > deliver to the recipient, but to your providers smarthost. The mail will But how could I do this? Sorry if I'm capturing a thread here... I've posted my quetsions to th

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:07:19PM -0800, Raquel Rice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:04:53 -0500 > charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > > WTF is going on? Why is this guy bombarding the list with junk? > > > It's > > > not even proper s

Re: FW: eject won't work any more

2003-12-15 Thread Ken Gilmour
*plonk* feck off On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 17:37, Sreelal Chandrasenan wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LIST ADMIN (was Re: FW: Authorization Request Declined)

2003-12-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: > s. keeling wrote: > >Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has > >been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who > >don't use procmail. > > And snarky replies from holier-than-thou snobs who think procmail's the > onl

Re: is this the list for me?

2003-12-15 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:35:33PM -0600, James Miller wrote: > I'm a fairly recent "convert" to Linux (been using it for about 2 yrs > full time) who has finally settled on Debian as his distro of choice. I > often need to ask some pretty stupid questions about setting up, using and > administeri

Re: is this the list for me?

2003-12-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:35, James Miller wrote: > I'm a fairly recent "convert" to Linux (been using it for about 2 yrs > full time) who has finally settled on Debian as his distro of choice. I > often need to ask some pretty stupid questions about setting up, using and > administering Debian. S

is this the list for me?

2003-12-15 Thread James Miller
I'm a fairly recent "convert" to Linux (been using it for about 2 yrs full time) who has finally settled on Debian as his distro of choice. I often need to ask some pretty stupid questions about setting up, using and administering Debian. So, my first stupid question is: is this the right forum f

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:21:48PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ Thanks. > Oh, sendmail. I can't help with that (other than suggesting > 'apt-get install postfix' or 'apt-get install exim' ;-)). I can adapt it, I suspect. --

Re: LIST ADMIN (was Re: FW: Authorization Request Declined)

2003-12-15 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who don't use procmail. And snarky replies from holier-than-thou snobs who think procmail's the only way to filter mail. -- Steve C.

Re: Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:29:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:10:07 +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >..2 basic ways: install Knoppix, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, then > >' apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade ', or, if you

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:07:19PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:04:53 -0500 > charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > > WTF is going on? Why is this guy bombarding the list with junk? > > > It's > > > not even proper spam! > > > > > > Ca

Re: LIST ADMIN (was Re: FW: Authorization Request Declined)

2003-12-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 17:42, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Raquel Rice: > > > > Can this crap be stopped? > > Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has > been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who > don't use procmail. Or Maildrop and SA. -

RE: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Nunya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80? > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > home->work). How

Re: howto install gnome (in woody)

2003-12-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:54, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'd like to get gnome installed but > apt-get install gnome > replies with: > --- > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package gnome > --- > > What do I have to install to ge

Re: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Goudie
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:04:48PM +0100, Peter wrote: > I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a > userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say > passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a > switch todo this in a style like passwd user p

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Nunya
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > home->work). However, my employer doesn't mind. I use tunnelling > just to bypass the technical limits of a single IP address and NAT. Thanks, I was looking for at least one person to say "my employer doesn't mind." Of co

apache2, mod_autoindex, "missing" entries in auto index

2003-12-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I just discovered that apache2's auto index of a directory omits subdirectories for which access is restricted. Is there a way to change this behavior? Concrete example (apache 2.0.47-1): /var/www/Foo contains directories Bar and Baz. /var/www/Foo/Bar contains a .htaccess which contains,

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Jason Norment
I followed all the links on that page, off that page into tldp.org (found many neat how-to's in there that I will be referencing as I'm attempting to get this kernel to do everything I want it to), but no information on the same level that would allow me to make smarter choices when configuring

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Alf Werder
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few > weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) > > However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be much > better and I'd want to get

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0600, Michael D. Harnois wrote: | On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:20, John Smith wrote: | | > just to be sure, you say 'identical', they are not useing the | > same hostname, I hope? | | Well, no, they aren't. But the hosts files are identical; it's only the | /etc/ho

Re: i810_audio problem

2003-12-15 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
On Mon, 15 December 2003 at 15:46, Johann Spies wrote: > > Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 14:44:17 Dec 11 2003 > i810_audio: Pure MMIO interfaces not yet supported. Have you tried alsa? Install alsa-modules and alsaconf; the latter will find automagically the drivers you need (i810). Th

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 04:41, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Hello, > lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux > experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. > By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme, menues, > MUA-settings, browser-setti

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:48:41AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: | A couple of web searches don't find a simple step-by-step guide to | installing Spamassassin on Debian Stable. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ | I'm unwilling to experiment without some guidance because I d

RE: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Nunya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2003 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80? > > > As I think about getting a job, I realize wherever next will probably > block outgoing traffic o

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:56:06PM -0800, Nunya wrote: | As I think about getting a job, I realize wherever next will probably | block outgoing traffic on most ports. | | I always thought I could have ssh listen on some port which gets through | like FTP port or HTTP port to bypass all those res

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Nunya said on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:56:06PM -0800: > I always thought I could have ssh listen on some port which gets through > like FTP port or HTTP port to bypass all those restrictions. > > Two obvious, unavoidable problems will be: my employer probably won't > want me wasting bandwidth and

Re: Dictionaries in OpenOffice.org

2003-12-15 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:28:39 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kent> Mon Dec 15 13:26:18 Kent> - Kent> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> apt-cache search rench | grep ffice Kent> koffice-i18n-fr - French (fr) i18n files for KOffice Kent> openoffice.org-help-fr - OpenOff

chmod, apache and php

2003-12-15 Thread Stephen Turner
Hi guys, Thanks for all the help so far. Ok, i have changed all my php files. To 775. Using chmod. So no problem there. Some of my php files worked. When i pointed my browser at them. So cool. But, after some clearing up. My folders where a mess. So i moved the php folder, to a new slot. Made su

Re: Dictionaries in OpenOffice.org

2003-12-15 Thread Josh Metzler
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:28 pm, Kent West wrote: > Dominique Deleris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How do I activate spelling dictionaries in OOo? Is there a > > special package to be "apt-get install-ed", or should I do it > > manually? > > > > I am seeking to activate english & french dictionari

Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Nunya
As I think about getting a job, I realize wherever next will probably block outgoing traffic on most ports. I always thought I could have ssh listen on some port which gets through like FTP port or HTTP port to bypass all those restrictions. Two obvious, unavoidable problems will be: my employe

Re: hdb: driver not present

2003-12-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, December 15 at 9:07 PM EST Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After having recently installed Debian 3.0 over Mandrake, I'm trying to >get all my hardware working again :-( > >Although the boot messages initially correctly identify all 4 drives >(two hard drives, CD-RW, CD-ROM)

Re: LIST ADMIN (was Re: FW: Authorization Request Declined)

2003-12-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Raquel Rice: > > Can this crap be stopped? Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who don't use procmail. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -->> (rtf, doc) What's the best route?

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:31:50AM -0500, Antonio Rodr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to convert some pure text pdf file of a spanish text to > doc for a friend, (he needs to annotate it) but I can't find the rut. > I've tried several ways, but I am stucked either way at the same spot: >

Samba Problem

2003-12-15 Thread David . Grudek
I have testing debian with samba and while the linux server is on the network the other systems on the network lock up and freeze for several minutes then un freeze. After I remove the debian box from the network it does not freeze any of the other computers on the network. Any help would be

web page -> ps problems

2003-12-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I saved a web page as html with Mozilla 1.5, and then printed it to a postscript file. I use xprt-xprintorg 0.0.8.cvs20030508-6. Somewhere along the way something went wrong; when I faxed it (hylafax) the recipient only got the upper left corner, very enlarged. gv reports "Error: PostScript inte

Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -->> (rtf, doc) What's the best route?

2003-12-15 Thread Antonio RodrX
> > Did you try pdftotext? It is part of the xpdf-package. > > If you can get the source (tex/Latex) code of the document, you can > use Hevea to create a .html or .txt version. > I just tried pdftotext, but there is a problem with the encoding that is giving me trouble, and I don't know how

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few > weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) > > However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be much > better and I'd want to get

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-15 Thread James Hosken
As I said in my first email, when I set debian up, I didn't enable that option. I don't know how to change this option now it's all installed. James Christian Wiedel wrote: try to login is as root from the beginning and run it fro there. It has worked for me a few times.. On Mon, 15 Dec 20

aptitude and synaptic

2003-12-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Does Synaptic's ability to "remove including any orphaned dependencies" do as good a job as the inate abilities of aptitude? I've recently abandoned apt in favor of aptitude for its ability to track and automatically remove unneeded dependencies. However, I really like Synaptic, but want to be s

Suggestions for a route daemon?

2003-12-15 Thread Shaul Karl
Any suggestions for a route daemon? It will be used in a simple network with minimal routing options. However I do want to learn about the problem and the available solutions by implementing it, which is why I might consider a heavy tool which is not needed for this case. A short search I made

Re: Install confusion

2003-12-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > After reading about using the F3 key at the initial boot screen from > the > Woody CD#1, I decided to try it. > > At the boot: prompt I typed bf24 > and sent the install on its way. Answered all the questions, made a > boot floppy, and reboote

Change password from shellscript

2003-12-15 Thread Peter
Howdie, I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a switch todo this in a style like passwd user password Thankz, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
However, packages.debian.org is still down, isn't? Marcelo On 15.12.03 13:34, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:23:38PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I haven't been able to get to www.debian.org today or to ping it either. > Is it down at present? Not another compromise I hope...

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