Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
T wrote: > Why? You'll have better support. Recently I need to config my MTA to use > smarthost to talk to my ISP. For several weeks, I tried to do it with > Exim. Then another several weeks on postfix, I searched and asked, all > efforts ended no where. Not sure why anyone who needs just a s

linuxtv on debian

2006-09-01 Thread Alan Chandler
Is there anyone out there who has set up a usb dvb-t tuner under debian. I have been trying to ask questions on the mythtv mailing list, but the people I am talking to do not understand debian and I am not getting very far. All the documentation I read says that hotplug should deal with things

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Nate Duehr
John Kelly wrote: sendmail.cf is not trivial. Even Eric Allman says to treat it as a binary, and use .mc files for configuration. If you don't listen to the experts, who can you blame but yourself? Generally anything that requires you to write a configuration file that then writes another

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler Debain package for multi-core computers ? > > As opposed to a job scheduler for

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:28:34AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Interesting. I also mam a non-mailgeek, but got Postfix working as > a Smarhost within an hour. "dpkg-reconfigure postfix" plus a little > Googling and it worked. (Note, though, that my ISP's smtp server is > unauthenticated.) >

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > Prejudice against sendmail? I think so personally. There are too > many people trash talk sendmail here, I think it is time that I > speak up. > > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote: [snip] > Why? You'll have better suppor

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread H.S.
Redefined Horizons wrote: I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian have a package with a utility that will allow me to do this? Yes, you can get PDF from a tex file. You can use pdflatex on a tex fil

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread T
Prejudice against sendmail? I think so personally. There are too many people trash talk sendmail here, I think it is time that I speak up. On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote: >>Do you have some expirience with sendmail > > Sendmail has the best integration with cyrus imapd, via

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote: > daves:~ # ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail > -r-xr-sr-x 1 root mail 681648 2006-08-12 14:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail This is not a good one. Though I don't doubt the flexibility of sendmail, the .mc and compiler dependency is a

Re: Fake package to satisfy dependencies

2006-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:00:45AM +0200, T wrote: > Hi > > I remember there is a tool that allows me to build a fake package which > contains nothing but package info to satisfy dependencies from other > packages. What it is? > > For example, I never use package Y, but (stupid) package X insist

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:48, John Kelly wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:33:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >I follow debian-security and I used to follow Bugtraq fairly closely. > > What's the ratio of sendmail bugs to linux kernel bugs? Straw man. What's the severity

Re: AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 01 September 2006 2:36 am, Margiolas Christos wrote: > But if you > want the 32bit debian I suggest you to use the k7 version of kernel because > the x86 can't recognize the dual core of the cpu... Really, 686-smp doesn't see it? Athlon64's are /both/ 686 and k7's in that they support a

Re: AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 01 September 2006 1:43 am, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yesterday's paper had a Fry's add for an ECS C51GM-M MB and An Athlon 64 X2 > 4200+ Dual Core CPU for $199.98. >   >  First, does anyone know anything about this board?  Will it run under linux? I dunno, I use a Asus A8N-E (nForce4 ultra

Re: Packaging tags

2006-09-01 Thread T
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:32:56 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > I've searched in apt-cache and aptitude man and googled, but don't locate > a command-line based program to list installed programs filtered (or not) > by tags. Any idea? Thanks :) ara - Command line utility for searching the Debia

Fake package to satisfy dependencies

2006-09-01 Thread T
Hi I remember there is a tool that allows me to build a fake package which contains nothing but package info to satisfy dependencies from other packages. What it is? For example, I never use package Y, but (stupid) package X insists on the dependencies of Y. I want to build a fake Y just to make

Re:Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Dippel
By now I have followed some advice: Added #attachmentView { -moz-appearance: none !important; height: 65px !important; overflow: auto !important; } to userChrome Now the 'Attachments' is much larger, but the field white and empty. I have created a new profile, and the same thing happens for t

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread John Kelly
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:33:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I follow debian-security and I used to follow Bugtraq fairly closely. What's the ratio of sendmail bugs to linux kernel bugs? >sendmail.cf is not trivial. Even Eric Allman says to treat it as a binary, and use .mc file

X, dpi and fonts

2006-09-01 Thread T
Hi Several questions about X and dpi: - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? - Is there any relation between X dpi and font selection? - How does X map font request such as '-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' to actual font name? I think for the '-*-lucidatypewri

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:27, John Kelly wrote: > >It's a pretty hefty package with new bugs turning up on a > >somewhat regular basis. It's not as commonly used as it used to be, > >thankfully. > > You don't use it, but you keep up with the bugs? I follow debian-security and I used to follo

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread John Kelly
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:38:55 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Design weakness. Opinions without facts are like [blank] without [blank]. >It's a pretty hefty package with new bugs turning up on a >somewhat regular basis. It's not as commonly used as it used to be, >thankfully.

Re: editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

2006-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:01:14 -0700 Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a recording of a wedding at a beach, but it is very difficult > to make out the words because of the noise due to the waves and wind. > I am looking for suggestions about how to begin editing the file to > remo

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 01 September 2006 03:49, Martin Möller wrote: > As I was reading about the different MTAs, I collected some arguments pro > and contra sendmail, which almost everywhere can be found: > > Pros: > * very powerful > * very flexible > * biggest support and development community > > Cons

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:21, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 9/1/06, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but > > couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian > > have a package with a utility that

editor to remove noise (wind and wave) from sound file

2006-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I have a recording of a wedding at a beach, but it is very difficult to make out the words because of the noise due to the waves and wind. I am looking for suggestions about how to begin editing the file to remove the noise and retain the voices. I've looked a bit at rezound and audacity, but

Re: dpkg segfaults installing locales

2006-09-01 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: then it tries again and eventually the whole machine freezes and I have to hard boot. On one of the runs, it segfaulted. I think it was one of the first runs. Seemed to be at different places. Onvce again, I'm way out of my depth... though that has deepened in the last year.

Re: Switching Crontab Files Via At

2006-09-01 Thread Martin McCormick
martin f krafft writes: > If you can ensure that there are no syntax errors in the file you > install manually, then yes, it should be safe. The reason why this > note is there is because crontab does syntax checks on the > user-submitted file. Great! Thanks. To ask if I can insure there

dpkg segfaults installing locales

2006-09-01 Thread Wulfy
I have a problem. While updating, dpkg segfaults while configuring locales. The error message is: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 6634 Illegal instruction localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): subprocess post-install

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Miles Bader wrote: > Nonetheless, if such a cookie is present, it's a great thing to use for > this purpose, as it's unambiguous. Sure, but still I would begin with parsing shebang (with some additions -- like Tcl), and then I would see how many scripts are ambiguous. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Miles Bader
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The mode name should appear in this line both preceded and followed by >> `-*-'. Other text may appear on the line as well. For example, >> >> ;-*-Lisp-*- > > Except that this is totally Emacs-specific and to the best of my knowledge > nobody outsid

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/1/06, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian have a package with a utility that will allow me to do this? # apt-get install tetex-bin $ latex file

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Redefined Horizons") writes: > I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but > couldn't find one. > Looks like you searched in the wrong way. This is what can easily be found on Debian/unstable: snip [root]~ > apt-cache search pdftex pgf - TeX Po

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

2006-09-01 Thread José Alburquerque
ciol wrote: Hello, I have got a problem with cdrecord. My CD-writer is an 'ATAPI'. So I followed these instructions : /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup # cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus I get : scsidev: 'ATA:' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1 Warning: Using badly designed ATA

pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Redefined Horizons
I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian have a package with a utility that will allow me to do this? Thanks, Scott Huey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: etch installer and dm-crypt

2006-09-01 Thread Owen Heisler
(Oops, Brett, I sent this to you before) On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:13 -0400, Brett Viren wrote: > sigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The best would be, to have i.e. 3 encrypted partitions, give one > > passphrase at boottime, and that's it. I am planning on setting up encryption on top of RA

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

2006-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler Debain package for multi-core computers ? As opposed to a job scheduler for *single*-core computers? as on a small cluste

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/01/2006 02:10 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: > ... after the last upgrade of Thunderbird on Sarge, I noticed that of the > Attachments field only the upper third part was visible . > No chance to see a name of an attachment or click on any. > No, I'm not a newbie I have tried resizing the window,

Re: Problem booting RAID1/mdadm system when one disk is unplugged

2006-09-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: All, I have already posted this question to gmane.linux.raid, but would really appreciate some help from a Debian perspective please... My System has 2x120GB IDE disks with the an up-to-

Re: Problem booting RAID1/mdadm system when one disk is unplugged

2006-09-01 Thread James Brown
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: All, I have already posted this question to gmane.linux.raid, but would really appreciate some help from a Debian perspective please... My System has 2x120GB IDE disks with the an up-to-date Sarge install, running kernel 2.6.8-3

Re: Switching Crontab Files Via At

2006-09-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.2258 +0200]: > The actual crontab file for a given user has a warning > about not editing it directly. When you use crontab -e, the > application takes care of installing the new crontab for the > user and appears to do a kill -HUP

Re: mozilla-firefox keeps crashing

2006-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:46:47 -0400 "Edward Shornock (debian ml)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:23:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > It turns out that it's any page that contains flash (I tried both the > > nonfree and the regular (free ???) plugins) > > What are the co

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:44:00 +0100 Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:28:24AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > >>> Right now, on my system, t-bird is using 76MB RES & 200MB VIRT > >>> memory. :( > >>> > >> And I thought that sylpheed-cl

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler > Debain package for multi-core computers ? As opposed to a job scheduler for *single*-core computers? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA US

Re: Problem booting RAID1/mdadm system when one disk is unplugged

2006-09-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, James Brown wrote: All, I have already posted this question to gmane.linux.raid, but would really appreciate some help from a Debian perspective please... My System has 2x120GB IDE disks with the an up-to-date Sarge install, running kernel 2.6.8-3 and configured for mi

Switching Crontab Files Via At

2006-09-01 Thread Martin McCormick
The actual crontab file for a given user has a warning about not editing it directly. When you use crontab -e, the application takes care of installing the new crontab for the user and appears to do a kill -HUP on cron to get it to load the new crontab for that user. Suppose one w

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
T wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).

Problem booting RAID1/mdadm system when one disk is unplugged

2006-09-01 Thread James Brown
All, I have already posted this question to gmane.linux.raid, but would really appreciate some help from a Debian perspective please... My System has 2x120GB IDE disks with the an up-to-date Sarge install, running kernel 2.6.8-3 and configured for mirroring. When I tested booting my system,

Re: Braindead package management -- was Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread T
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:12:49 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: >>>... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then >>>apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it >>>conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was >>>for). >>> >>It

Re: HP DL320 USB Problem

2006-09-01 Thread Micha
George Borisov wrote: micha wrote: What do you mean by "...Despite this, I still had problems. ..." (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg446512.html) I do not need USB (USB 1.0 it is I guess for this uhci_hcd module) on my server. Will there appear other problems whe

Re: How do I configure acpid?

2006-09-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 20:06:41 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I am trying to get uswsusp to work on my Unstable Laptop. I > was told this by a uswsusp dev: > > >But the usual (all Toshibas do this AFAIK) power-button event after resume > >is not ignored by your userspace. Try integrating s2ram i

job scheduler for multi-core computers

2006-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to install and to use) job scheduler Debain package for multi-core computers ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs

2006-09-01 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:50, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:12 -0700, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >Is there another place where bootup messages are recorded? > > Does your /etc/default/bootlogd say: > > # Run bootlogd at startup ? > > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes > > Tha

Re: another place where bootup messages are recorded?

2006-09-01 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:50, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:35:12 -0700, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >Is there another place where bootup messages are recorded? > > Does your /etc/default/bootlogd say: > > # Run bootlogd at startup ? > > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes > > Tha

Re: Packaging tags

2006-09-01 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 9/1/06, Benjamí Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, aptitude show or apt-cache show, shows the tags program: apt-cache show kpoker|grep -i tag Tag: game::card, interface::x11, suite::kde, uitoolkit::qt, use::gameplaying, x11::application Tag: game::card, interface::x11, suite::kde, uit

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 9/1/06, Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lorenzo Bettini wrote: >> Hi >> >> I need to detect the actual programming language of a script. >> >> A way of detecting it is to examine the first line searching for th

Packaging tags

2006-09-01 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hi, aptitude show or apt-cache show, shows the tags program: apt-cache show kpoker|grep -i tag Tag: game::card, interface::x11, suite::kde, uitoolkit::qt, use::gameplaying, x11::application Tag: game::card, interface::x11, suite::kde, uitoolkit::qt, use::gameplaying, x11::application ncurses a

Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password [solved]

2006-09-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 23:34 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:06 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > > > mysqldump -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] web8_db1 > > >> /home/backup/web8_db1.sql > > > > > > This fails. But I can log in with mysql -u root -p and then type the > > > password in, an

What is the status of XGL on Debian

2006-09-01 Thread Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera
Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. I have Debian SID for ppc. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> I need to detect the language of the script in order to highlight it >> accordingly (GNU source-highlight >> http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite) >> > See Emacs manual "How Major Modes are Chosen". It says > >You can specify which major mode should be used for

Re: Michelle Konzack's sex (was: Email programs that work.)

2006-09-01 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:21:28 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Michelle Konzack's sex (was: Email programs that work.) Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:18:08 -0500

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
martin f krafft wrote: > Without trying to be religious or anything of that sort, I can > recommend postfix without restrictions to most anyone -- it has an > excellent security track record, a large support community, great > documentation, and it's really not that complex (even though it can > be

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Martin Möller wrote: > * very powerful > * very flexible Actually, most probably overkill for whatever you need (people who need advantages sendmail has over any competing MTAs usually don't need to ask questions ;-)). > Cons: > * attacked frequently > (either because of design weakness

Re: Michelle Konzack's sex

2006-09-01 Thread George Borisov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you know something I don't? I always thought that Michelle was > female. "The Internet: where men are men; where women are men; and where little girls are FBI agents." (Shamelessly stolen from someone's signature.) :-p -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd sig

Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Dippel
... after the last upgrade of Thunderbird on Sarge, I noticed that of the Attachments field only the upper third part was visible . No chance to see a name of an attachment or click on any. No, I'm not a newbie I have tried resizing the window, the panes, fonts, you name it. It simply doesn't

Modem-Telephone

2006-09-01 Thread David R. Litwin
Good-day.I have had success in hearing a dial tone, as well as a "the-phone-is-off-the-hook-hang-up" message. Clearly, I can use it to call other persons (not computers). However, I don't know what software I need to be able to do this. Please do not confuse my situation with VoIP: I wish to commun

Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff D
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of cake. Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but can't reach the

Re: AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Next, assuming there are no compatability problems with th MB or CPU, can I > just replace the MB, add appropriate memory, connect my old HD with Sarge and > Etch as mentioned above, and expect the system to boot? Certainly, it will > not see the dual cores and it would be running in 32 bit

Re: Braindead package management -- was Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
pr- on the command line was for). It should work. That's the trick I used to play. Now I'm thinking that your whole package management system is in some kind of weird stage now... Nope, still just as dumb: [update-tiem]: Command: aptitude -y -o Aptitude::Log=log-20060901-12051

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

2006-09-01 Thread steef
ciol wrote: Hello, I have got a problem with cdrecord. My CD-writer is an 'ATAPI'. So I followed these instructions : /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup # cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus I get : scsidev: 'ATA:' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1 Warning: Using badly designed ATA

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > OK, so the line "exec ..." can be used as an heuristic for detecting the > actual scripting language, right? I have no idea why they use this construct (something similar is used in some perl scripts when they try to be cross-platform between Unix and Windows, which appare

Michelle Konzack's sex (was: Email programs that work.)

2006-09-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:00:18AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > Well, the numbers are silly, but the point is Mutt will not break > until long after any of your favorite GUI programs will. Please try > to remember that Michelle is not a native English speaker, and is > trying to make his points

Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-01 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Messed up, huh? No 3rd plug. There is a power supply but no connector. On 9/1/06, Zbigniew Wiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: don't you really have 3rd IDE plug ? " Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been

Re: logicel fonction pas

2006-09-01 Thread Shoes Center Depot Soukra
Quelles sont les problemes du logicel xlpos

Re: Help with Syncronization

2006-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:41:01AM -0600, Lord Tyranus wrote: > Hi wizards, I have multiple MySQL databases on one server. I would like > to be able to automatically syncronize tables A, B from database 1 to > database2 , somebody knows how to do that? . Thanks in advance. > I am thinking that us

asus am2

2006-09-01 Thread steef
hi out there! bought myself a m2npv-vm asus am2 motherboard and a workinghorse_cpu amd sempron 3200+ am2 256kb. installed sarge on a 120 gigaB hd and all went well. till i mounted a second hd and tried to copy files from this hd to my new 120GB device. this went terribly slow: 500 kb pro

Braindead package management -- was Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
ne was for). It should work. That's the trick I used to play. Now I'm thinking that your whole package management system is in some kind of weird stage now... Nope, still just as dumb: [update-tiem]: Command: aptitude -y -o Aptitude::Log=log-20060901-120519.txt install kernel-image-2.

Help with Syncronization

2006-09-01 Thread Lord Tyranus
Hi wizards, I have multiple MySQL databases on one server. I would like to be able to automatically syncronize tables A, B from database 1 to database2 , somebody knows how to do that? . Thanks in advance. -- Web Page http://geocities.com/lord_tyranus_96/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-09-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 18:23:08 +0200, T wrote: >Hi > >I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading >hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. > >But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: > >% aptitude install apac

Re: Tripwire vs. other file integrity checkers

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:18:26PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, I've been use Tripwire since a lot of years on my Debian > boxes, but now I want to know if there is any file integrity checker > package better than Tripwire, that presents any visible advantage...or > is Tripwire still the bes

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Matej Cepl wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: IOW, "wish" is a Tcl script? wish is Tcl runtime (the same as /usr/bin/perl for Perl programs). OK, so the line "exec ..." can be used as an heuristic for detecting the actual scripting language, right? -- +--

Tripwire vs. other file integrity checkers

2006-09-01 Thread Alejandro
Dear all, I've been use Tripwire since a lot of years on my Debian boxes, but now I want to know if there is any file integrity checker package better than Tripwire, that presents any visible advantage...or is Tripwire still the best option at the present ??? Really thanks, Alejandro -- To UN

Re: HP DL320 USB Problem

2006-09-01 Thread George Borisov
micha wrote: > > What do you mean by > > "...Despite this, I still had problems. ..." > (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg446512.html) > > I do not need USB (USB 1.0 it is I guess for this uhci_hcd module) on my > server. Will there appear other problems when disabling

Fwd: debian 3.1 doesn't play sound on acer aspie 1640 series laptops

2006-09-01 Thread deekay gupta
-- Forwarded message --From: deekay gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Sep 1, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: debian 3.1 doesn't play sound on acer aspie 1640 series laptopsTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]hello siri wanted to use debian ut debian or even ubuntu or even fedora core 5 doesnt play sound alltho

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > # dpkg --purge lilo Don't purge it! Just --remove -- at least you would have working /etc/lilo.conf if you would like to return back. > # apt-get install grub > > Double check /boot/grub/menu.lst *before* you reboot. Sure. > Personally, I would stick with lilo if it works

Re: [OT] carriage return/line feed characters

2006-09-01 Thread noc
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 18:18:04 -0700, noc wrote: >> sorry about the office topic. >> >> At one point I used a command shell (?) to display whether a file had an >> extra CR-LF characters. For some reason I'm drawing a blank :( >> >> can anyone enlighten me. > > The "file

Re: [OT] carriage return/line feed characters

2006-09-01 Thread noc
Bill Marcum wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:18:04PM -0700, noc wrote: >> sorry about the office topic. >> >> At one point I used a command shell (?) to display whether a file had an >> extra CR-LF characters. For some reason I'm drawing a blank :( >> >> can anyone enlighten me. >> > cat -v ?

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Derek Martin wrote: > But it IS there... so what's the problem? The presumption that it is. > A simple minimal ESMTP > engine might be more convenient -- and numerous solutions for that are > available for mutt -- but being able to choose to use a full-fledged > MTA like sendmail offers the u

Re: mv files by date

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > Shift key? That's what Caps Lock is for. It has been remapped to couple of months ago ;-). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread John Kelly
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:49:48 +0200, Martin Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you have some expirience with sendmail Sendmail has the best integration with cyrus imapd, via socket maps. Sendmail also has a commercial organization which relies on the open source codebase, so you have more than

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > IOW, "wish" is a Tcl script? wish is Tcl runtime (the same as /usr/bin/perl for Perl programs). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 1328222

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > I need to detect the language of the script in order to highlight it > accordingly (GNU source-highlight http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite) > See Emacs manual "How Major Modes are Chosen". It says You can specify which major mode should be used for editing a cer

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread dsr
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:11:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > It's a monolithic setuid binary. It's flawed by design, IMHO. Points > 1 and 3 above are just direct consequences of that. > > Without trying to be religious or anything of that sort, I can > recommend postfix without restrictions

Re: Sid: Recorded audio CD is just an hour of nothing

2006-09-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:15, Christopher Richard Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Unfortunately, the CD is dead air. When I listen to the mp3 > > before it's burned, in K3b, it's fine. When I stick the resulting > > audio CD into

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread Michael S. Peek
T wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for).

Odp: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-01 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
don't you really have 3rd IDE plug ? " Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of cake.  Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-09-01 Thread George Borisov
Dmitri Minaev wrote: > > And Mutt's address book really depressed me :/ If this helps: back in the days when I used mutt as my main MUA (before moving to Thunderbird on my GUI desktops :-p) I used the 'abook' package with mutt for all of my address book needs. Abook is easily configured to be acc

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-09-01 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 8/30/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. IMAP has (afaik) no support for such "filtering" Strictly speaking, no. Still, there is RFC 3028 which allows mail clients to control mail filtering remotely. -- With best regards, Dmitri Minaev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.1249 +0200]: > Pros: > * very powerful > * very flexible > * biggest support and development community How did you arrive at that latter point? > Cons: > * attacked frequently > (either because of design weakness or because it'

(OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Martin Möller
Hi all, I don't want to start another holy war like the mutt vs. GUI mailer that is raging on this list. So please: no emotions! Get a real religion instead! ;-) As I was reading about the different MTAs, I collected some arguments pro and contra sendmail, which almost everywhere can be found:

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1157062897 past the epoch, Paul Johnson wrote: > Your situation is kind of unique: Most people have a more > difficult time with lilo than grub. I did an etch d-i beta 3 install last weekend and I was not offered grub as a bootloader choice. This might be due to a limitation in relation to L

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Lorenzo Bettini wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I need to detect the actual programming language of a script. >>> >>> A way of detecting it is to examine the fi

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