Re: how to set environmental variables for a shell temporarily (ie not via .bashrc)

2006-05-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
> > even if I run it, it only sets the variables within the run shell > it does not source the variables for the father (mother) shell > > How can I do this? Duh, source filename works just like like in the c shell where i saw it used before sorry to bother ... > > Thanks > Mitchekk --

Re: Wiki recommendation

2006-05-06 Thread Storm
On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:43, Jeff wrote: > The "best," of course, depends on your specific needs. But if you want > the ease of a flat-file wiki (i.e. no database required), that also has > tons of flexibility, Pmwiki can't be beat. Specifically I am working on an idea for a podcast, and want

[Solved!]Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus; (solved?) and a new annoyance

2006-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:02:47PM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Then the mozilla extension installer worked, *but* the new image of > > firefox has a problem that is in its own internal configuration. It > > is most noticeable in the top line of butt

how to set environmental variables for a shell temporarily (ie not via .bashrc)

2006-05-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I want to set a few shell variables that I occasionally want to set up. I dont want them set always. Thats why I can't put them in .bashrc thus I want to temporarily export PATH=/home/mlaks/stable-gtk/local/bin:$PATH export \ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mlaks/stable_gtk/local/lib:/home/mlaks

Re: Permissions required for burning

2006-05-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Christian Pernegger wrote: > Hi list! > > What exactly are the minimum permissions required for a user to be > able to use a CD/DVD burner? > > The thing is, burning works fine with a Plextor 716A on amd64-sid with > the user in the cdrom group and no suid anywhere, but a LiteOn > SOHC-5232K on

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-06 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:40:32PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I think you might be misunderstanding what ramfs does. And I think you might be as well. Ramfs and tmpfs are distinct filesystems, with the most significant difference being that tmpfs can make use of swap space whereas ramfs cann

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:44:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Initialiy this was for people with older computers, not a 2 GHz amd64 > with 2GB ram. Think P90 with 64Mb or slightly better. > > We are not talking "generally" here but "specific". Specific to > certain hardware. OP mention

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus; (solved?) and a new annoyance

2006-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then the mozilla extension installer worked, *but* the new image of > firefox has a problem that is in its own internal configuration. It > is most noticeable in the top line of buttons (File Edit View > ...). When I click on any of these it becomes 'h

Re: ipw3945 and general WLAN questions

2006-05-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: > Of course that is fine for one wireless lan, but I am not sure about the > best way to get the wireless card to try several keys and find the one > that works on the current hotspot (please let me know if you find a > solution to t

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-06 Thread Dave Witbrodt
During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to CDs or DVDs were caching data in /tmp before burning. It seems like using tmpfs for /tmp under that kind of scenario would be a real problem. My old box would probably roll over and die, and my newer one probably would if

Re: esound clobbers OSS?

2006-05-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 06 May 2006 16:47, Marty wrote: > >>My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. > >> > >>I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found > >>that OSS was not worki

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Infrastructure != education. Those are two > completely different things. I disagree only because the same argument is used to support both efforts by "government": That without government doing it "for the good of all", there would be people who

Re: Wiki recommendation

2006-05-06 Thread Jeff
Storm wrote: Hi, I need to do some collaboration with a friend and intend to set up an OpenVPN connection for him to access a wiki located on one of my servers. Which wiki is generally best? I'm looking for something that is simple to maintain and simple for collaboration. Suggestions?

Re: esound clobbers OSS?

2006-05-06 Thread Marty
Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 06 May 2006 16:47, Marty wrote: My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it started working again after

Re: esound clobbers OSS?

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 06 May 2006 16:47, Marty wrote: > My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. > > I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found > that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it started > working again after I unchecked t

Re: AMD 64 on HP laptop

2006-05-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:18:08AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 13:09:55 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a HP Pavil

esound clobbers OSS?

2006-05-06 Thread Marty
My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it started working again after I unchecked the "enable sound server startup" option in the Gno

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know how this scam works? There's an amusing account of baiting one of these scammers at http://spl.haxial.net/nigerian-fraud/ -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:11:16PM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong: > > About 2 years ago I started reading up about Linux when I was first > decided whether to try it, and which distro to use. I took about a > year before I finally installed Debian last May. > > D

how to find out the value of parameters a loaded module use and do me a favor

2006-05-06 Thread Serena Cantor
Suppose a module has been loaded, how to know all the values of parameters it use? Again I request help. I'm in China and some sites are blocked. Could you send me the latest issue ( 6 pdf files) at: www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org The site has a email address that allows users sign up to inform

Re: Spamassassin spamming system?

2006-05-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
W.D.McKinney wrote: We use a Barracuda Networks if front of our MTA. Makes the MTA purr. These are nice boxes that do a perfectly good job. There are other similar products out there which are perhaps more open source friendly, though. Ahem. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodym

Re: Wiki recommendation

2006-05-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm partial to mediawiki myself. http://en.wikipedia.org/ is probably the best known wiki running that software. I've heard good things about MW also. The only reason I didn't use it last time the need came up was because a database backend was severe overkill, I use

(solved) ISA sb16 problem

2006-05-06 Thread Serena Cantor
I have complained my sb16 does not work on sarge several times on the list. Now it is solved on my own! The problem is with isa-pnp module, it fails to assist sb module in detecting my card. The solution is to disable isa-pnp: isa-pnp isapnp_disable=1 sound uart401 sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma1

Permissions required for burning

2006-05-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list! What exactly are the minimum permissions required for a user to be able to use a CD/DVD burner? The thing is, burning works fine with a Plextor 716A on amd64-sid with the user in the cdrom group and no suid anywhere, but a LiteOn SOHC-5232K on i386-testing causes both k3b and the nautil

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:07:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > Wikipedia is great for learning the urban folklore about how it works, > > but does anybody *know* how it works? > > It's bloody well obvious. > > > And what is the success rate? And the income generated? >

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-06 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Please correct me if I'm wrong: About 2 years ago I started reading up about Linux when I was first decided whether to try it, and which distro to use. I took about a year before I finally installed Debian last May. During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to CDs or

Re: Wiki recommendation

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:54, Storm wrote: > Hi, > > I need to do some collaboration with a friend and intend to set up an > OpenVPN connection for him to access a wiki located on one of my servers. > Which wiki is generally best? I'm looking for something that is simple to > maintain and simple f

Re: AMD 64 on HP laptop

2006-05-06 Thread hendrik
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:18:08AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 13:09:55 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z laptop wit

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Saturday 06 May 2006 06:55, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >>Why so complicated? Just give people the option to *choose* between > >>public or private SS programs. The same for schooling. If I send my > >>children to a p

Wiki recommendation

2006-05-06 Thread Storm
Hi, I need to do some collaboration with a friend and intend to set up an OpenVPN connection for him to access a wiki located on one of my servers. Which wiki is generally best? I'm looking for something that is simple to maintain and simple for collaboration. Suggestions? -- --Brad

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Wikipedia is great for learning the urban folklore about how it works, > but does anybody *know* how it works? It's bloody well obvious. > And what is the success rate? And the income generated? Write to the scammers' trade association. I'm sure they publish a slick broc

Re: Spamassassin spamming system?

2006-05-06 Thread W.D.McKinney
>-Original Message- >From: David Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2006 10:48 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Spamassassin spamming system? > >Not really, but lots of nice instances are really bogging down the system when >a lot of emails are being pro

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 06 May 2006 06:55, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >>Why so complicated? Just give people the option to *choose* between >>public or private SS programs. The same for schooling. If I send my >>children to a private school I wouldn't have to pay the tax and even >>get b

Firefox question about pop-up menus; (solved?) and a new annoyance

2006-05-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Going out on a limb here Paul... I use Debian Sarge 3.1r1 (2.6.8-2-386) I have NOT yet fired up either Mozilla Browser, nor Firefox on this installation In the past I have used both (and more, on Debain Sarge 3.1r1) I've had issues (like yours) with Mozilla Browser on win98 (I know), and as far a

Re: Spamassassin spamming system?

2006-05-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
David Baron wrote: Not really, but lots of nice instances are really bogging down the system when a lot of emails are being processed. They are run nice 15. How might I reduce this problem Reduce the number of messages that need processing, perhaps? Greylisting springs to mind. -- Martin A.

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:24:28PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sat, 6 May 2006 14:28:48 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17AM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: > >> > >> mrs_stellamohamed wrote: > >> >Dear Friend, > >> > >> [snip Nigerian scam] > >> > >> Brilliant

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 06 May 2006 06:55, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Why so complicated? Just give people the option to *choose* between > public or private SS programs. The same for schooling. If I send my > children to a private school I wouldn't have to pay the tax and even > get back what I already payed si

Re: xorg 6.9 & backports.org

2006-05-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello list > > I have actually in local installation XFree 4.5, but maybe is better > install XFree or xorg using the dpkg methods. > For example if I install xorg 6.9 from "http://www.backports.org"; and > this mean that I must update all my Debian system from this page

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 6 May 2006 14:28:48 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17AM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: >> >> mrs_stellamohamed wrote: >> >Dear Friend, >> >> [snip Nigerian scam] >> >> Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! >> >> I don't know which I liked better,

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread juro
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17AM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: > > mrs_stellamohamed wrote: > >Dear Friend, > > [snip Nigerian scam] > > Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! > > I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or > "all the sufferness". > > I'

Re: ipw3945 and general WLAN questions

2006-05-06 Thread Anton Piatek
Stefan Bellon wrote: >I have a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 which needs the ipw3945 driver in >order to make WLAN working. > >I removed all of IEEE802.11 from the kernel sources of the 2.6.16 >kernel, installed an up-to-date IEEE802.11 subsystem (version 1.1.12), >installed version 1.0.2 of the ipw3945

Re: Spamassassin spamming system?

2006-05-06 Thread Raquel Rice
On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:48:40 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not really, but lots of nice instances are really bogging down the > system when a lot of emails are being processed. They are run > nice 15. How might I reduce this problem? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Raquel

ipw2200 wireless network card stops working

2006-05-06 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I am wondering if anyone has had problems with their ipw2200 network card losing connection after a while. It can vary between a minute and twenty before the connection stops, and I cannot figure out why. I don't *think* I have anything running trying to reconfigure it, and it still has the ri

Spamassassin spamming system?

2006-05-06 Thread David Baron
Not really, but lots of nice instances are really bogging down the system when a lot of emails are being processed. They are run nice 15. How might I reduce this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Magnus Therning wrote: >>On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:50:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>>Hi, >>> >>>Anybody knows of a dialog package version (Displays user-friendly >>>dialog boxes from shell scripts) that has mouse support? >>M

[OT] How to test a bunch of ethernet cards of a cluster?

2006-05-06 Thread James He
Hi, all My boss wants me to test a bunch of gigabit ethernet cards of a cluster. He kept getting time-out problems when running some MPI jobs on the cluster. The problem only happens when the network traffic is very high (~100MB/s). Therefore, he wants me to determine which ethernet card(s) is/ar

mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello List When I listen radio like this one "http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx"; I always hear at the end of the current song, and then, the connection hang. What can be the problem ?? Second I want know how transcode to "mp3" audio format a dump audio file. This dump file I record from

Re: mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 14:32 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello List > > When I listen radio like this one > "http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx"; I always hear at the end of the > current song, and then, the connection hang. What can be the problem ?? aviplay (in package avifile-player)

Re: mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 06 May 2006 09:48, gustavo halperin wrote: > Second I want know how transcode to "mp3" audio format a dump audio > file. This dump file I record from some Microsoft audio/radio stream > like this one "mms://200.59.146.10/rockandpop-ba", using 'mplayer' in > the next form "mplayer mms://

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anton Piatek wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Kent West wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Question is: How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other consoles work ok). How about killing the getty process on tty1? I

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-05-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 04.05.06 00:50, Digby Tarvin wrote: > What puzzles me is that this option is not better documented. The installer > for my BSD system makes you explicitly decline during the install process > if you don't want it. It's not very common, although I think it should be... > > The only problem is/w

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 5/3/06, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to see the effects of compiling programs with -Os, I tried to get the sources for firefox 1.5 from testing (which is what I use by default) and compiled it with -Os, instead of -O2. The program was much more responsive, with less use of swa

Re: how do I setup UTF-8?

2006-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/06 17:00), Michael Stevens wrote: > I'm trying to get UTF-8 working. Specifically, I want to use the > en_GB.UTF-8 locale. I'm on Debian stable. > > I've successfully generated the locale and set it as the default in > /etc/environment, and am now in a confusing situation where it works

mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello List When I listen radio like this one "http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx"; I always hear at the end of the current song, and then, the connection hang. What can be the problem ?? Second I want know how transcode to "mp3" audio format a dump audio file. This dump file I record from

xorg 6.9 & backports.org

2006-05-06 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello list I have actually in local installation XFree 4.5, but maybe is better install XFree or xorg using the dpkg methods. For example if I install xorg 6.9 from "http://www.backports.org"; and this mean that I must update all my Debian system from this page ? Other way, how I update only th

xorg 6.9 & backports.org

2006-05-06 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello list I have actually in local installation XFree 4.5, but maybe is better install XFree or xorg using the dpkg methods. For example if I install xorg 6.9 from "http://www.backports.org"; and this mean that I must update all my Debian system from this page ? Other way, how I update only th

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus; (solved?) and a new annoyance

2006-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:08:55AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:23:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >>Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you > > >>just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use t

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at >> least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably >> trust gcc not t

Re: libctk3-dev examples don't compile

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, libctk3 says: "Console Tool Kit is a toolkit for writing text-based GUIs. The syntax is almost the same as GTK+. It provides mouse support on the console through gpm". Sounds promising. libctk3-dev comes with examples. They don't compile because the includes point

Re: thunderbird

2006-05-06 Thread John Kirkland
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, I install thunderbird from testing repository. Now i wanna install an RTL extension for it.But it can't install it & say me incorrect version. Please link me Yours,Mohsen I couldn't help it! http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Jo

Re: AMD 64 on HP laptop

2006-05-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 13:09:55 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z laptop with a 2.0 ghz AMD Turion, a gig of ram, and dual 80 gig hard drives. I have tried to install the AMD 64 version of Sarge twice on this machine. Both times it has be

Re: courier mysql auth problem [solved]

2006-05-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > But still, it doesn't seem to work. I'm getting this in my log: > > May 6 15:38:26 postbox courierpop3login: authdaemon: starting client > module > May 6 15:38:26 postbox authdaemond.mysql: failed to connect to mysql > server (server=127

Re: AMD 64 on HP laptop

2006-05-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:16:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 13:09:55 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a HP Pavilion dv8000z laptop with a 2.0 ghz AMD Turion, a gig of ram, and dual 80 gig hard drives. I have tried to install

Re: Converting from rgb to cmyk

2006-05-06 Thread Stephen
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:43:08PM +0200 or thereabouts, Søren Christensen wrote: > I have some jpg-graphics, that I need to use in a leaflet-folder, that > shall be printed in offset. > > The jpg-graphics are in rgb-colormodel, but the printer would like to > have them in the cmyk-model. Unders

Question about uw-imap

2006-05-06 Thread David Lie
Hi: I am using imap with debian testing(sarge) The version if imap installed is 2002edebian1-13 (note it appears that even unstable is at the same version). I'm getting a strange error message everytime my mail client (Thunderbird in this case), tries to save a mail message to a folder: "Argumen

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I just ripped into you a few posts ago, you do have a > point here. It would be interesting if social security could be > altered so that (this is just off the top of my head here, so I'm sure > it's not by any means perfect, but maybe

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though I just ripped into you a few posts ago, you do have a > point here. It would be interesting if social security could be > altered so that (this is just off the top of my head here, so I'm sure > it's not by any means perfect, but maybe

Re: courier mysql auth problem

2006-05-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 14:23 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm not sure if the problem is with courier or sasl. I'm setting up a > postfix/mysql/courier box for multiple domains following these guides: > OK, I'm an idiot. I didn't have courier-authmysql installed. But still, it doesn't seem to work

Re: mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 08:52:13AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Use "-vo null -vc null" in your command line. You have to *specify* a video > stream, but the above says to not actually do anything with the video. Actually that would be for mplayer, not mencoder, wouldn't it? -- Carl Fink

courier mysql auth problem

2006-05-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm setting up a postfix/mysql/courier box for multiple domains following these guides: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Courier-IMAP_and_MySQL#SASL2_Install I've set up a box like this before, also

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Hal Vaughan wrote: > Isn't there an archive for non GPL'ed software, as well? There is a great deal of Free, DFSG-compliant software in Debian/Main that is not GPL'd. The X Window System is a prominent example. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-06 Thread Tyler Smith
Just as a follow-up, in case anyone else had the same problem: I installed gdm with aptitude, and that appears to work just fine. I still have no idea what's wrong with xdm, but for the moment it's not an issue. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-05-06 Thread George Hein
I have done it often, and even the entire partition, BUT: On Debian now you should always use the same partition number as the initrd.img has been set (at install by mkinitrd.yaird) to the partition listed in /etc/fstab. This is something new with Debian, and I have never encounted this probl

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But what befuddles the mind, or my mind at least, is: do they actually > get customers to ante up? According to the authorities they take in tens of millions every year. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:32:49PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Second I want know how transcode to "mp3" audio format a dump audio > file. This dump file I record from some Microsoft audio/radio stream > like this one "mms://200.59.146.10/rockandpop-ba", using 'mplayer' in > the next form

Re: screwed console [help, please]

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anton Piatek wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Kent West wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Question is: How can I reset /dev/tty1 from another virtual console (other consoles work ok). How about killing the getty process on tty1? It should restart automa

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:15:59PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:23, Steve Lamb wrote: > Count me as one for apt. I like the social contract, but I have to run > a business. While I try to avoid non-FOSS, I'm not going to let my > business fail or spend months or years

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 13:10:19 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >>On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: > >> > >>>mrs_stellamohamed wrote: > >>> > Dear Friend, > >>> > >>>[snip Nigerian scam] > >>> > >>>Brilliant - you

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-05-06 Thread Rick Reynolds
Just an update about apt-listbugs. It still seems to behave the same way, even when I'm running apt-get within an xterm (actually gnome-terminal). Apt-get runs along as usual, then gets to this line: Retrieving bug reports... Done and seemingly hangs. It is instead waiting for me to respond

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Stumbles
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: mrs_stellamohamed wrote: Dear Friend, [snip Nigerian scam] Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or

libctk3-dev examples don't compile

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, libctk3 says: "Console Tool Kit is a toolkit for writing text-based GUIs. The syntax is almost the same as GTK+. It provides mouse support on the console through gpm". Sounds promising. libctk3-dev comes with examples. They don't compile because the includes point to the wrong place. Aft

mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello List When I listen radio like this one "http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx"; I always hear at the end of the current song, and then, the connection hang. What can be the problem ?? Second I want know how transcode to "mp3" audio format a dump audio file. This dump file I record from

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: mrs_stellamohamed wrote: Dear Friend, [snip Nigerian scam] Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or "all the sufferness". I'm

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: > mrs_stellamohamed wrote: > >Dear Friend, > > [snip Nigerian scam] > > Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! > > I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or > "all the sufferness". > > I'm sur

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Stumbles
mrs_stellamohamed wrote: Dear Friend, [snip Nigerian scam] Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or "all the sufferness". I'm sure these folks could make more money as entertainers than from these scams. -

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Check out the Xorg transition wiki first; it has solutions for the most > >common problems related to the upgrade: > > > >http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > >

Re: who has heard of libnd?

2006-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joris Huizer wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In pursuit of a dialog like replacement that uses the mouse I came across Ndialog: http://gehenna.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/ndialog/ But it needs a libnd to compile its examples: cc -o fancyhello fancyhello.c -lnd -lpanel -lncurses -lgpm

Re: Installing TBSS after Debian Packages

2006-05-06 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-05, 18:56:50 (-0400) skrifaði Gil Citro: > I'm running Debian sarge on an AMD64 processor (but only running 32 > software due to caring more about compatibility than performance) and > am trying to install FSL. I installed from the Debian packages which > worked fine. > > The documen

Re: search and replace code in php or html files

2006-05-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-05 @ 18:48:36 (week 18) H.S. wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > > > > find . -name "*.html" | xargs sed -i.bak -e > > 's/string_to_replace/replacement/g' > > > > Does something like this work? If your match pattern spans more than > > one line than you'll need a more complex script