On Tuesday 07 November 2006 06:20, Deephay wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 November 2006 19:36, David R. Litwin wrote:
> > > On 06/11/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Greetings all,
> > > &g
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:40, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > If that is the case, the developers need to rewrite the manual in a way
> > which is understood by others. The content is probably OK but may need
> > reorganization. Getting RTFM questions does not always mean tha
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:36, David R. Litwin wrote:
> On 06/11/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I found that the linux-image-2.6.16 package on etch cannot be purged:
>
> I'm using Sid and can't purge the 2.6.17 kernel, for what that's worth. I
> get the same er
On Monday 06 November 2006 03:47, Kent West wrote:
> ChadDavis wrote:
> > But what's with all the attitude people flash around here.
>
> We're people; people are imperfect.
It's nothing the Debian developers can't fix ;)
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On Thursday November 2, 2006 8:32 pm, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> > Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that
> > someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your
> > mail and take your TV while you're at work?
>
> See, it does not really hurt me if they use
On Thursday 02 November 2006 02:08, gniuxiao wrote:
> Yes, I know their usage, I just want to know what their "full names" are
> :-)
>
> e.g. "Editor MACroS" is the full name for "emacs".
I believe apt is for Advanced Package Tool.
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On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote:
> I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg
> mean? Thanks.
apt and dpkg are commands used to install or remove Debian packages. If you
have used RedHat derivatives, dpkg is similar in function to rpm.
See the Debi
On Sunday 29 October 2006 04:01, Steve Lamb wrote:
> cothrige wrote:
> > Is this really "off putting"? Why? Maybe I am just not really seeing
> > what is meant here, but I cannot recall a single instance of being
> > bothered because somebody held a particular view concerning the
> > political or
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:09, Pollywog wrote:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:01, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > I believe the errors are due to incorrect gcc versions used to compile
> > > the module and the kernel. I am using
> >
> > Hmm, you have
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:01, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > I believe the errors are due to incorrect gcc versions used to compile
> > the module and the kernel. I am using
>
> Hmm, you have to be root to insmod the drivers.
>
Shouldn't one use modprobe with current versions of Linux?
Of cours
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:24, Douglas Tutty wrote:
>
> I'm assuming you tried Etch because your hardware was too new to install
> Sarge (the current stable). It is frustrating to have new hardware and
> no stable distro to install on it. Fortunatly, I find myself in that
> predicament only
I also found this tutorial
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/
It's for RedHat so some things might be a bit different in Debian.
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_beginner_books/debian_linux_desktop_survival_guide/Using_UDEV.shtml
I found those with Google Linux h
On Saturday 28 October 2006 05:32, Scarletdown wrote:
>
> That was a little more understandable, but it still apparently wasn't
> useful to this problem.
>
> Specifically, I tried this line from the article...
>
> BUS==”usb”, KERNEL==”sd*”, SYSFS{product}==”USB 2.0 Storage Device”,
> NAME=”%k”, SY
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, Bruno wrote:
> Thanks I'll certainly re-try later Debian and etch.
> Especially because I already put stikers 'Debian' on my laptop and would
> not like to remove them ;-)
>
> Bruno
Did Debian detect all the hardware on your laptop? The reason I removed
Debian
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:09, Bruno wrote:
> Once again I do not want to start any flame here : indeed Debian is a
> superb distro (packaging system is really superb) but, IMHO, dedicated to
> 'Linux techies' ?
> However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if
> yum i
On Saturday 28 October 2006 04:10, Scarletdown wrote:
>
> I take it this is the link you were referring to?
> http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>
> If so, it proved to be completely useless and even incomprehensible.
There is also an article about udev in the October issue of Linux M
On Friday 27 October 2006 22:18, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I'm thinking the best way to proceed might be to build an nvidia-kernel
> package to go with the current testing kernel (2.6.17--is that the one
> that will be released?). Some of the 2.6.18 linux kernel bugs make me
> hesitant to install it,
On Friday 27 October 2006 14:23, Pollywog wrote:
> I am seeing some weird errors in Bind9 (version 9.3.2-P1-2) that look like
> this:
>
> Oct 27 13:16:05 lilypad named[6161]: unexpected RCODE (REFUSED)
> resolving 'libglx.so/NS/IN': 209.68.0.85#53
>
> Why woul
On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the
> > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie
> > operation and starts sending spam
I am seeing some weird errors in Bind9 (version 9.3.2-P1-2) that look like
this:
Oct 27 13:16:05 lilypad named[6161]: unexpected RCODE (REFUSED)
resolving 'libglx.so/NS/IN': 209.68.0.85#53
Why would BIND be attempting to resolve libglx.so ? Is Linux becoming that
esoteric?
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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:53, Serena Cantor wrote:
> how to find out domain name of an IP address?
> Thanks!
I use 'host ip.add.re.ss'
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On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi ,
> I run Debian-testing i386 ,
> I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics ,
> and this is what I got back !!..
>
> mozilla-mplayer:
> Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> mplay
On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi ,
> I run Debian-testing i386 ,
> I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics ,
> and this is what I got back !!..
>
> mozilla-mplayer:
> Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> mplay
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:06, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been
> meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people
> would stop replying to spam, quoting spam or otherwise legitimizing spam to
> my bayesian filters. T
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:08, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> It might be possible to use checkinstall to build a .deb package for
> your self-compiled version of iptables. This can then probably act as a
> drop-in replacement for the standard iptables package on your system.
>
I was not sure how to g
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:08, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> It might be possible to use checkinstall to build a .deb package for
> your self-compiled version of iptables. This can then probably act as a
> drop-in replacement for the standard iptables package on your system.
>
I think that might work
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:41, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> If your package manager lists these packages as upgradable then you
> either have not run "update" in a while or the progeny mirror is
> seriously broken or you have found a bug in the package manager.
>
I had the same problem in Etch a few
On Saturday 21 October 2006 20:39, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> When I
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
>
> I get an error to the effect that:
> kernel-image-* needs
> initrd-tools >=0.1.48
> but,
> initrd-tools-0.1.12 is in place,
> according to
> dpkg
On Saturday 21 October 2006 23:57, Pollywog wrote:
> I have a Sarge system on which I am installing ipsets, in order to use
> ipsets with Shorewall firewall.
>
> I am following the instructions here:
> http://ipset.netfilter.org/install.html
>
> I downloaded the iptables so
On Sunday 22 October 2006 00:18, Pollywog wrote:
>
> I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm) but I
> could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP?
What I meant was: can mailagent deliver mail to IMAP mailboxes?
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On Saturday 21 October 2006 15:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:58:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> > On 2006-10-17 03:19:23 +, s. keeling wrote:
> >> You're the first person I've seen to describe procmail as
> >> "underpowered." I would not list that
I have a Sarge system on which I am installing ipsets, in order to use ipsets
with Shorewall firewall.
I am following the instructions here:
http://ipset.netfilter.org/install.html
I downloaded the iptables source from the link on that page, but it doesn't
say there whether I must remove the ip
On Friday 20 October 2006 18:22, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Mumia W.. wrote:
> > Taking down the botnet is another way to fight the spam. It doesn't
> >
> > always work as planned:
> >> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> >>
> >> A message that you sent could not b
Does anyone know whether ipsets will work on Sarge systems and which kernel I
should install on a Sarge system to get it to work? I have found information
that kernel 2.6.16 is required for ipsets functionality but also read that it
can work on 2.6.11 kernels. Is patch-o-matic available for De
On Monday 16 October 2006 01:39, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> > upgradeable?
>
> Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
> updated. Use anot
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:56:32AM -0700, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote:
> >I hope you have sent it ti bugs.debian.org :)
> >
> >Dirk ??(??):
> >> When a reiser4 partition is full and some process keeps writing to it
> >> you can revive
On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> I thought this was a wind up :) and so I did 'man shred' and
> whadayaknow, it exists and is pretty groovy.
I did not know that the shred command could remove subdirectories, only files.
That is why I only mentioned 'wipe'. Neither tool w
On Sunday 08 October 2006 21:49, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sun October 8 2006 07:24 am, Brad Brock wrote:
> > Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
> > curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
> > in my computer..??
>
> wodim is a debianised cdrecord. It's new and that'
On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:14, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 18:06:50 +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:56, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
&
On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:56, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
try 'mozilla-firefox' instead of just 'firefox'
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On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:41, Richard wrote:
> Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items,
> from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media
> types..
>
> What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents,
> without me going into the folder
On Saturday 07 October 2006 23:39, Jeffrey Rolland wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> I am a Debian newbie who has recently had Debian 3.1r2 "Sarge"
> installed onto an Old World Power Macintosh 7500/100 running KDE, and
> I am now trying to log onto my dial-up ISP with KPPP.
>
> My ISP, Ticon.net, does not
On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:56, Seeker5528 wrote:
>
> Hmmm, interesting, I will have to check that out and the others
> links mentioned in the thread.
>
> My additions to the free and legal music.
>
> http://www.garageband.com
> http://www.peoplesound.com
> http://www.besonic.com
>
> And last u
On Friday 06 October 2006 21:36, Pollywog wrote:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > package.list
>
> Then I open the resulting package.list file in a text editor and change
> the "hold" status on the desired packages, save the file and close it.
>
> Next as root:
>
&
On Friday 06 October 2006 21:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:09:46PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (06/10/06 10:33), Enrique Morfin wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > if i hold some packages, how can i unhold them?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > HIghlight the package and press
On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:58, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>
>
> Compiled!? I didn't know we could compile shell scripts. Does it compile
> them to machine code or some other intermediate form?
>
I did not know ipset was a shell script.
http://shorewall.net/ipsets.html did not indicate th
On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:31, Pollywog wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my
> > > firewall/gateway
On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my firewall/gateway
> > and was planning to make it pure stable when etch gets released. But I
> > could make an ex
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:33, George Adamides wrote:
> hi
> how do i delete directories in linux? i used rmdir but when a directory has
> other subdirectories its a mess. is there an easy way around?
rm -rf will remove a directory even if there are other
directories or files within.
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:03, Pollywog wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, Brad Brock wrote:
> > Hi, I need libXinerama.so.1. What package should I install?
>
> It looks as though you can get it here:
>
> http://packages.debian.net/stable-backports/libxinerama1
&g
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, Brad Brock wrote:
> Hi, I need libXinerama.so.1. What package should I install?
>
It looks as though you can get it here:
http://packages.debian.net/stable-backports/libxinerama1
I don't think it is in the official Sarge release.
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On Wednesday 04 October 2006 07:49, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> There might be a slight misunderstanding: KDE does not really automount
> usb devices in the strict sense of the word. What happens is that an
> icon pops up on your desktop after you insert a pluggable device or
> removable media, but it
On Monday 02 October 2006 16:45, Pollywog wrote:
> Vmware surprised me this morning by not working, so I went about trying to
> recompile it and it turns out I must recompile my kernel because the last
> Etch upgrade upgraded the compiler.
>
> The problem is that when I run 'm
Vmware surprised me this morning by not working, so I went about trying to
recompile it and it turns out I must recompile my kernel because the last
Etch upgrade upgraded the compiler.
The problem is that when I run 'make oldconfig' I get this:
slider:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# make oldconfi
On Friday 29 September 2006 19:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> > Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> > alsa-conf too.
>
> Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom
> 3. I'll check RTCW late
On Friday 29 September 2006 19:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> > Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> > alsa-conf too.
>
> Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom
> 3. I'll check RTCW late
On Friday 29 September 2006 15:34, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I since module-assistant has cganged its menus, I do not
> understand twat. With the list of sound modules given above, and including
> the fact that my soundcard uses 'snd_ens1371'. Which one can I remove?
>
> Cheers Vegar
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:48, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> debian:~# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_ens1371226882
> gameport137041 snd_ens1371
> snd_rawmidi 223041 snd_ens1371
> snd_seq_device8460 1 snd_rawmidi
>
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:48, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> debian:~# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_ens1371226882
> gameport137041 snd_ens1371
> snd_rawmidi 223041 snd_ens1371
> snd_seq_device8460 1 snd_rawmidi
>
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:41, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> I was not able to test this, since mpeg123 is no longer available trhough
> apt (how come?). Either way I reinstalled all crucial ALSA-packages,
> including the oss-emulation package. This had no effect on my problem.
>
> Either way, tha
On Friday 22 September 2006 21:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> my post was really intended as a joke. the original spam was sent to
> the list, so the list itself needs to unsubscribe. We (debian-user
> subscribers) are probably not on their list and unsubscribing would
> probably do nothing.
> > It was not a USB stick, it was a memory stick from a digital camera.
> > She had a USB dock for the memory stick. Windows recognizes and
> > mounts it fine. Debian won't recognize it.
I had to edit /etc/fstab in order to get Debian to recognize mine.
Is this one that has the USB plug built-in
On Friday 22 September 2006 19:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:26:37PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Pre Bett Show Release wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >This email is an advertisement. To be removed from our list please
> > >email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >with unsubscr
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:08, Jason Martens wrote:
> It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I
> thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian
> is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works.
> I love the quality o
On Thursday 21 September 2006 21:11, Seth Goodman wrote:
> On Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:39 AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the
> > onus is on Debian to fix things on their end.
>
> Strongly agree. Spam from USENET is part of it, but
Does anyone know if there is a way to set a particular smtp transport for
certain *recipients* in kmail?
I send my spam (spam I receive) to a dummy account on one of my systems and I
sometimes forget to choose the correct transport for this in kmail. It would
be advantageous to be able to set
I am seeing this in my logs on a Debian Sarge system:
Sep 21 06:24:08 lilypad udev[9336]: parse
error /etc/udev/rules.d/025_logitechmouse.rules, line 1:25, rule skipped
Is there a way to fix it other than just ignoring it?
I do not use a Logitech mouse.
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I did not know Mulberry was still around. I thought it was no longer under
development. I was a Sylpheed Claws user until I began using IMAP, then it
no longer worked for me, but fortunately kmail has developed into a nice
mailer.
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On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the
> closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into
> Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done?
>
> How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their
> Kernel and yet remain
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was
> able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180
> drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat.
> Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still
> preferred Debian and deci
I am unable to get PythonCard to work in Etch. When I run codeEditor, it
complains it can't find the pythoncard installation. This is what I have
installed:
ii pythoncard 0.8.1-7
ii pythoncard-doc 0.8.1-7
ii pythoncard-tools0.
On Monday July 31, 2006 5:38 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote:
> > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an
> > answer to this problem.
> >
> > I want to get a source package from the "testin
I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an answer
to this problem.
I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from "stable",
so I did this:
apt-get -t testing source
It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily
modi
On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a
> site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened
> when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message.
>
> So that is why I'm stuc
On Saturday 29 July 2006 14:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> J F wrote:
> > Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?
> >
> > I guess I'm a little confused about which one is better/newer or
> > the one to use?
>
> I favor Seamonkey (Mozilla suite replacement):
> http://www.mozilla.org/project
On Friday July 28, 2006 10:41 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> PS, to show you that USB drives just showing up is "for real", I'll
> email you a couple of screenshots I took. Both taken at 18:21 (6:21
> PM), the first before I had turned on the USB drive, and the 2nd just
> after I flicked the switch
I am unable to read the user tips that appear when GIMP is started. only the
words at the left of the user tips box appear, the rest are missing. Has
anyone else had this problem in Etch? If so, I will submit a bug report.
thanks
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On 10/05/2005 11:10 pm, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> I'm trying to build a debian kernel using make-kpkg. It seems simple
> enough, except when I install the newly created kernel package, it
> doesn't create the initrd image. So, when I manually create the
> initrd image with mkinitrd, the boot process
On 10/03/2005 09:00 pm, Jared Hall wrote:
> I took care of it all last night a couple of minutes after I posted.
> Here's what I did.
>
> I looked at my logs and found that there was no successful root login.
> the reason netstat was showing another root connection from the
> mentioned ip is that
On 10/03/2005 07:49 pm, Steve Block wrote:
>
> I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the
> thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do
> with port numbers at all. I'm asking if disabling password
> authentication while leaving keyboard-inter
On 10/03/2005 06:14 pm, Marty wrote:
> Jared Hall wrote:
> > It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off
> > of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131
>
> It's a kid! Whois returns "Hanguk Kwangsan Technoledge High School."
BTW if you want to kill the connec
On 10/03/2005 06:14 pm, Marty wrote:
> Jared Hall wrote:
> > It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off
> > of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131
>
> It's a kid! Whois returns "Hanguk Kwangsan Technoledge High School."
I get lots of those, often from As
On 10/01/2005 04:36 pm, askar k wrote:
> I use debian sarge.
> I didn't install kde, use Fluxbox.
> KDE has its own media player for video files.
> Now I need to install a player for AVI movie file.
> In dselect search for "player", but couldn't file the needed package.
> My installation uses only
On 09/30/2005 08:57 pm, Petr Mandys wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently
> installed in the system?
>
> How to?
As another reply mentioned, the command is dpkg-repack
That's just the name of the package, not the filename, so if I wanted to
repac
On 09/27/2005 08:53 pm, michael wrote:
> > On 09/27/2005 08:43 pm, michael wrote:
> >> I should also add that it'd be better to link the machines so that I
> >> only
> >> have to download all updates once from the Internet (and then use copy
> >> locally)
> >
> > Using a router would not prevent yo
On 09/27/2005 08:43 pm, michael wrote:
> I should also add that it'd be better to link the machines so that I only
> have to download all updates once from the Internet (and then use copy
> locally)
Using a router would not prevent you from doing that.
8)
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On 09/27/2005 08:06 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> michael wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >>michael wrote:
> >>
> >>Er, then I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps
> >>you're trying to turn the computer that's plugged into the USB modem
> >>into a
On 09/25/2005 03:51 am, Robert Wolfe wrote:
> - Original Message
> From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Jared Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Imap: no login... ps aux - imapd.pid -nodnslookup
> -noiden
On 09/25/2005 03:30 am, Jared Hall wrote:
> I've tried Pollywog's method and I still can't loginto email accounts
> using "telnet localhost 143." I've got some ideas about things to play
> with, but my problem still isn't solved. Please help if you have any
> ideas!
You won't be able to login wit
On 09/25/2005 12:56 am, Jared Hall wrote:
> debian users
>
> I'm a newbie having trouble getting imap to authenticate user and password:
>
I had similar problems and this is what I did to get it working:
Edited /etc/courier/imapd-ssl making the following changes
IMAPDSSLSTART=NO (it was set to
On 09/24/2005 02:43 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 23 September 2005 07:14 am, Fritz Brown wrote:
> > > Please read the Debian Reference. One of the main reasons to use
> > > Debian is to use software packaged from Debian repositories rather than
> > > downloading generic binaries and source.
On 09/22/2005 10:02 am, Vasily Levin wrote:
> i' using debian eth, opera 8.02 cups.
> cups works fine, progpam lp prints fine too.
> i can tell opera to use lp as printing program, but it leads nowere -
> i only see message printing... and all
I assume you have cups-bsd installed.
Are you using KD
On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> Josh Battles writes:
> > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the
> > task...
>
> Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle batteries
> are designed to be deeply discharged with great frequency. Car ba
On 09/20/2005 03:39 pm, Josh Battles wrote:
> Alvin Oga said:
> > car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely
>
> I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the task,
> but a generic car battery would definately be cheaper.
>
> > and keep your car
On 08/19/2005 10:03 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> After various upgrades an installs, I found I couldn't get onto my
> system via ssh. There was no record of my attempts on the logs, as far
> as I could tell.
>
> When nothing else worked, I shut down ssh and started it in debug mode.
> At least from lo
On 08/04/2005 01:37 am, Pollywog wrote:
> On 08/04/2005 12:28 am, Bill Day wrote:
> > I take it there is not a prepackaged setup on debian.org for use with
> > apt-get? searched for acrobat reader and adobe on apt-cache after I did
> > and update...
>
> That is correct,
On 08/04/2005 12:28 am, Bill Day wrote:
> I take it there is not a prepackaged setup on debian.org for use with
> apt-get? searched for acrobat reader and adobe on apt-cache after I did and
> update...
>
That is correct, there is not a prepackaged one for Debian. There is a
prepackaged one for X
On 08/03/2005 11:47 pm, Bill Day wrote:
> Finally got around to reading the "TuxMagazine" PDFS for the first 5 issues
> and I ahve noticed taht while in kPDF, when I finish with one pdf and go to
> open anotehr via file open, or clicking the open icon, kPDF crashes,
> everytime.. enclosed is copy
On 08/03/2005 08:20 pm, Pollywog wrote:
> On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> > Is there a way to install a printer using cups without
> > a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)?
> >
> > I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server
On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> Is there a way to install a printer using cups without
> a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)?
>
> I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in
> the dept but have no interest in installing X-windows.
Are you using KDE? If
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