Re: [OT] DFSG-free DVD writing software

2002-04-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 08:25, csj wrote: > On 25 Apr 2002 17:37:26 +0800 > Crispin Wellington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 06:54, csj wrote: > > > I've noticed that the price of DVD writers and media are starting to > > > fall. I'm wondering if Linux and other free OS are

Re: leafnode & kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:21 pm, sda wrote: > Greetings: > > I've just installed Woody and am in the process of setting it up. I have > two issues/problems that I hope this list can help me with. > > 1/ My system hangs periodically, everything freezes. Running, top the > culprit seems to be kupd

cups - printing to another machine

2002-04-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I setup cups on machine1 to print on machine2? Machine2 is setup with cups and I can print on it. I have tried the following from machine1 thinking that cups has builtin http support: lpadmin -p Laserjet -v ipp://machine2/printers/Laserjet (from the docs) lpadmin -p Laserjet -v http://m

printing problems

2002-04-26 Thread David Smead
I'm running Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. I can print using xpdq and pdq, but when Iset up with lprngtool, the lpr command works in some cases and not in others. Do these two packages interfere? I'd prefer to use lprng so that I don't have to change the print command on several remote machines,

Re: cups - printing to another machine

2002-04-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I setup cups on machine1 to print on machine2? > > Machine2 is setup with cups and I can print on it. > > > I have tried the following from machine1 thinking that cups has builtin http > support: > > lpadmin -p Laserjet -v ipp://machin

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:50 pm, faisal gillani wrote: > Well can you tell me how to use wvdial ? i mean how to make a new > connection in wvdial .. or edit the connection .. it seems that wvdial > cannot find my modem as it said when i install wvdial .. but my modem is > there on com port 2 a

How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-04-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Since all the official Debian security announcements are for Potato only, how can I keep my Woody up to date? Shoud I grab the patch myself and rebuild my patched .deb? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: GNOME 2.0 Beta dpkgs?

2002-04-26 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 23:41, Dmitriy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:05:13PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > > Anybody know of a source of GNOME 2.0 Beta dpkgs that will happily > > co-exist with the current version of GNOME on woody? > > > There is none, since gnome1 and their gnome2 counterparts

Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:59 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I keep getting the error > > lpstat -p > printer Deskjet disabled since Jan 01 00:00 - > No pages found! > > > and can't print? > > and > > > /usr/bin/enable Deskjet > lp0: compatibility mode > lp -d Deskjet ~/test > request id is

Re: printing problems

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:13 pm, David Smead wrote: > I'm running Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. I can print using xpdq and pdq, > but when Iset up with lprngtool, the lpr command works in some cases and > not in others. > > Do these two packages interfere? I'd prefer to use lprng so that I don

Does Debian handle kernel threads?

2002-04-26 Thread louie
Yes does Debian handle kernel threads? Uhm, im quite confused on how it works w/ applications that uses this things. Can you give me a wider info about this. thanks, louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disabling/enabling 2 devices on 1 irq?

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have two sound cards. A Delta66 and a SB16. The Delta66 does not have any > place Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. > I would set both the Del

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in > linux.debian.user, but most of them don't. Is there a > newsgroup version of the list somewhere? muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. -- Karsten M. S

Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book. > Title of the Book is : Learning Debian GNU/Linux. > By Bill McCarty Yes. Neither the book nor the disk are particularly good, though I managed an install fro

Re: replacement for ical?

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 19:30:29 +0200, Jerome Lacoste (Work) wrote: > > Found this > > "Current users of the popular program ical should definitely take a look > > at KOrganizer and compare features." > > But can it be started ico

ov511 video cam

2002-04-26 Thread Scott Henson
I am trying to get my Ezonics webcam to work under linux. I have figured out that it uses the ov511 driver. It is usb and I keep trying to get it to work, but no program I use seems to work. I keep getting an error about no such device. I know I have the module loaded and it registers fine. An

Re: Does Debian handle kernel threads?

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes does Debian handle kernel threads? > Uhm, im quite confused on how it works w/ applications that uses this > things. > > Can you give me a wider info about this. > > debian kernels are in no way distinct from any other linux kernel

Re: disabling/enabling 2 devices on 1 irq?

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have two sound cards. A Delta66 and a SB16. The Delta66 does not have > > any place > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > rec

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in > > linux.debian.user, but most of them don't. Is there a > > newsgroup version of the list somewhere? > >

Re: apt-get for RedHat

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:51:57PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > > I've got a RedHat 7.1 machine that keeps begging to be upgraded to Debian. > > Can someone point me to a package I can install and execute which will do > > a net

One-way newsfeed (was Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup)

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in > > > linux.debian.user, but most of them don't.

Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

2002-04-26 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I've been given the opportunity at my place of work (which is currently a Mandrake shop) to tout Debian. I was intending to use Woody, and have created the 8 CD's. I work for a managed security provider, and one of the reasons that they are using Mandrake over the likes of Red Hat is because

Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:20 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book. > > Title of the Book is : Learning Debian GNU/Linux. > > By Bill McCarty > > Yes. > > Neither th

Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Whysall
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 07:20, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book. > > Title of the Book is : Learning Debian GNU/Linux. > > By Bill McCarty > > Yes. > > Neither the

Re: One-way newsfeed (was Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup)

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:15 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this

fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: 3/15 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null ...which should restart fetch

Re: docbook: xml -> (x)html conversion

2002-04-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:52:14PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > docbook-website is pretty specialized; it's a DTD/stylesheet combo > designed pretty much exactly for building Web pages that look like, > say, http://www.docbook.org/. If that's what you're trying to do, > great; otherwise, there's

Re: Number of 1's in 64 bit number...[don't read if not interestedin algos/math...]

2002-04-26 Thread DSC Siltec
How about some NASM code? (I don't know NASM, so I'll just have to write this in assembler...) ; ; ; Assume that the 64-bit number is stored at EDS:ESI PUSH EAX ; Only if we need to save AX (usually not). PUSH ESI ; Only if we need to save ESI (proba

Also from Algorithm genius

2002-04-26 Thread DSC Siltec
Okay... I'm not a genius, but this is going to be a no-brainer for some of you, I can't figure it out. I have a simple program that uses log. I have "include " in my program. When I compile on gcc, I get "unknown identifier: log." gcc mylogprog.c -o mylogprog.exe I'm guessing that I need to

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:28:12AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > Hmm, I too have this pr

Re: Also from Algorithm genius

2002-04-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, DSC Siltec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay... I'm not a genius, but this is going to be > a no-brainer for some of you, I can't figure it out. > > I have a simple program that uses log. > > I have "include " in my program. > > When I compile on gcc, I get "unknown identifier: log." >

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Since all the official Debian security announcements are for Potato only, > how can I keep my Woody up to date? Shoud I grab the patch myself and > rebuild my patched .deb? Do this periodically: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This will sync your

Re: leafnode & kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, sda wrote: > 1/ My system hangs periodically, everything freezes. Running, top the > culprit seems to be kupdated. What package do I need to remove, to be rid > of this beast? I assume it's part of KDE [which I don't use anyway] just > need the libs. Has anyone else seen this

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. linux.debian.user. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:17 am, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I've been given the opportunity at my place of work (which is currently a > Mandrake shop) to tout Debian. I was intending to use Woody, and have > created the 8 CD's. > > I work for a managed security provider, and one of the reason

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. > > linux.debian.user. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=muc.lists.debian.user -- Karsten M. Self http://kms

Re: Does Debian handle kernel threads?

2002-04-26 Thread louie
Well one more thing, whats the default threads that a default debian can handle or shall i say linux can handle? i know how to increase it on 2.4.x kernels on other distro it supports adjusting on sysctl, but how about on 2.2.x kernels? > and, > apart from that, do the research yourself. you can't

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, ben wrote: > just out of curiousity, having noticed the same, how is it that certain posts > don't make it to the archives? Feel the power of the X-No-Archive: yes header... -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. > > > > linux.debian.user. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=muc

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:28 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > > > 3/15 * * * * root /e

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of.

Re: Also from Algorithm genius

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:35 am, DSC Siltec wrote: > Okay... I'm not a genius, but this is going to be > a no-brainer for some of you, I can't figure it out. > > I have a simple program that uses log. > > I have "include " in my program. > > When I compile on gcc, I get "unknown identifier: log."

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:59 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, ben wrote: > > just out of curiousity, having noticed the same, how is it that certain > > posts don't make it to the archives? > > Feel the power of the X-No-Archive: yes header... how many do i owe you now? than

Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:20 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Reason I am doing it , because it takes time to download from. > > > http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?dis

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg03306.html > > High authority ;-) > > Please *don't* Cc: me on list mail. Eh, there wasn't a reply-to. Sorry. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

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(going OT)Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 01:22 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: [snip] > > > > while i have no urge to contest anything you say here, karsten, > > OT -- I really wish you (and others) would. Particularly when I'm > blowing smoke. > > > i do think that www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html is

apt-cache again!

2002-04-26 Thread Satelle, StevenX
Ok, I'll try to explain this better. Where does dselect store its listing of tasks. If you tell it to download 20 packages from the web and it downloads and installs 18 of them. The next time you say install it will include the 2 packages it didn't download last time. Even after rebooting or updati

Re: replacement for ical?

2002-04-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 23:26:30 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, Vincent Lefevre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [korganizer] > > But can it be started iconized like ical? > > That's a window manager function, not an application one, unless the app > is broken enough to ignore WM

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 01:31 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg03306.html > > > > High authority ;-) > > > > Please *don't* Cc: me on list mail. > > Eh, there wasn't a reply-to. Sorry.

Performance over NFS

2002-04-26 Thread Ramesh_Pathak
Placed At : Hi, We are planning to install Debian linux in a Dell poweredge 2450. On this box we will be NFS mounting a T3 storage device. The NFS server for this storage device is a E3500 box with sun solaris as OS. Presently we are having performa

Re: Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

2002-04-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Andrew Pollock wrote on Fri Apr 26, 2002 um 05:17:28PM: > Any, question #1: > > Where can I get a boot disk for Woody that has ext3 support (and a 2.4 > kernel). More to the point, where is it _documented_? I rummaged around on Release notes. With the stable release, you get kernel cho

ssh and X forwarding

2002-04-26 Thread H C Pumphrey
Not sure if this is a bug, or just something I did wrong. If it's a real bug, I'll report it. I upgraded an (intel-based) laptop from potato to woody and I now find that when I log into it with ssh -X I can't get X forwarding to work. I have edited sshd_config to set X11Forwarding yes The sess

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:28:39PM +0100, My Personal Mail wrote: >On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:50:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: I've been wading through the documentation and cannot find how to stop spamassassin rewriting the message bodies? Does anyone know how to do this? Patrick -- To UNS

netscape3 installation

2002-04-26 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please help. Is netscape 4 not available? Thanks Johan van der Walt - Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'D

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 11:52, H C Pumphrey wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug, or just something I did wrong. If it's a real > bug, I'll report it. Not a bug in SSH anyway... read on... > I upgraded an (intel-based) laptop from potato to woody and I now find > that when I log into it with ssh -X I

Re: Also from Algorithm genius

2002-04-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:21:21AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2002 12:35 am, DSC Siltec wrote: > > Okay... I'm not a genius, but this is going to be > > a no-brainer for some of you, I can't figure it out. > > > > I have a simple program that uses log. > > > > I have "include " in my p

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:12:17 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in > > > linux.debian.user, but most

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-26 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I've been wading through the documentation and cannot find how to stop > spamassassin rewriting the message bodies? Does anyone know how to do > this? Yep, put: defang_mime 0 in the local or system wide prefs. I think it does no

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2002-04-26 Thread H C Pumphrey
Many thanks, Mark! On 26 Apr 2002, Mark Janssen wrote: > Run '/sbin/ifconfig' and see if 'lo0' is up... it probably isn't... > > Try enabling your loopback interface and try again, if it still doesn't > work, send more mail (with good content and error msgs, like this one :) Yup, that was it.

Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:28:04PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > What, you mean config files? Debconf does not ever, ever, write to > config files. Ill-designed maintainer scripts might. I wish people could > get their terminolgy right; accusing debconf of writing to a config > file is akin to accusing

Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi There, I've got a box here that currently reports holly:~/linux-2.4.14# free -tm total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3021 1041 1980 0 4885 -/+ buffers/cache:151 2870 Swap: 3905

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I've been wading through the documentation and cannot find how to stop > spamassassin rewriting the message bodies? Does anyone know how to do > this? Try something like 'report_header 1' and 'use_terse_report 1'. The documentation y

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 12:54, Paul Sargent wrote: > Hi There, > As you can see, it's a 3G physical RAM box. Currently it's sitting there > with 885MB of Memory labeled as Cache, but if I run a process which requires > lots of memory, then the system seems to prefer swapping, rather than > freei

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:09:35PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: > > The Linux VM prefers to swap stuff out, instead of clearing the cache. > Lot's of stuff can safely be swapped out, Agreed, sleeping processes and such like. That's why the idle state of 140MB swapped out doesn't bother me. > and u

Rock solid no GUI pim?

2002-04-26 Thread m2
A couple of months ago I ditched GUI mail programs for ever. I'm now a happy mutt user. Now I'm looking for A) a calendar program B) an address book, that are as non graphical, stable and as versatile as mutt. Anything that works with emacs gets a plus. op -- o polite http://plusseven.com/gpg/

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 13:13, Paul Sargent wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:09:35PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: > > The Linux VM prefers to swap stuff out, instead of clearing the cache. > > Lot's of stuff can safely be swapped out, > > Agreed, sleeping processes and such like. That's why the idl

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:26:59PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: > > Also, try asking on the kernel list (or maybe to the VM maintainers) > This isn't really debian specific, and they know a lot more about that > then people here do :) I'll do that aswell, but I had hoped somebody here may have had

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread christophe barbé
I have the same problem. My system-wide fetchmail dies sometimes without any warning, without any apparent reason. I have not yet looked at other init.d scripts like gdm, but would it be possible (logical) to spawn fetchmail (I mean if it die, relaunch it automatically). Christophe On Fri, Apr 2

How to speed up fetching mail

2002-04-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, I'm trying to speed up failfetching via my modem. I've got four accounts to fetch mail from, i'm running spamassassin and sanitizer. My problem is: Every mail is fetched, scanned, delivered into my mailbox and afterwards deleted from the pop-server. That takes more than one second per mail, th

Re: plog messages tell me what does it mean

2002-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Please re-post your question. I missed it because you did not mention ppp in the subject. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command Line Listing?

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Travis King quotation: > > If you could supply me with a list of commands for Linux, and how to start > the GUI > it would be greatly apreciated. http://www.debian.org/doc/ -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) Th

Re: Handling lots of mail

2002-04-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:19:30PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020425 13:44]: > > set record="+archive/sent-mail/`date '+%Y/%m-sent-mail-%Y'`" > set mbox="+archive/inbox/`date '+%Y/%m-inbox-%Y'`" > set move # move read mails from inbox to $mbox (default

spamassassin's whitelist_to not working...

2002-04-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'm using spamassassin (2.20-1 from sid), an just noticed a problem with the whitelist_to. I'd like to whitelist_to my root address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) because some packages will send mail ot that address, but it doesn't seem to be working. 1) If I whitelist_to something like whitelis

Re: Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Andrew Pollock quotation: > > I work for a managed security provider, and one of the reasons that they > are using Mandrake over the likes of Red Hat is because of the control > Mandrake allows over what gets installed. (i.e. when you say you want > nothing, you get exactly that. The exact

RE: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| However, | - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period? I had a slink box that upgraded to potato just fine. | - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted | from the mirrors? IIRC, potato will be moved to archive.debian.org and remain there like other

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote on 26/04/2002 (07:53) : > Hello: > > I have just tested this following: > - get a packet copy using "dpkg --get-selections" > - put it to a new installed system using "dpkg --set-selections" > - after installing potato, I changed the sources.list dist to woody > -

Re: ov511 video cam

2002-04-26 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 26 Apr 2002 02:39:29 -0400 "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get my Ezonics webcam to work under linux. I have > figured out that it uses the ov511 driver. It is usb and I keep trying > to get it to work, but no program I use seems to work. I keep getting > an error

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
"Satelle, StevenX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/04/2002 (11:13) : > Ok, I'll try to explain this better. Where does dselect store its listing of > tasks. If you tell it to download 20 packages from the web and it downloads > and installs 18 of them. The next time you say install it will include

Re: ov511 video cam

2002-04-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:39:29AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > I am trying to get my Ezonics webcam to work under linux. I have > figured out that it uses the ov511 driver. It is usb and I keep trying > to get it to work, but no program I use seems to work. I keep getting > an error about no su

Re: Performance over NFS

2002-04-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-04-26T09:35:46Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We are planning to install Debian linux in a Dell poweredge 2450. On this > box we will be NFS mounting a T3 storage device. The NFS server for this > storage device is a E3500 box with sun solaris as OS. Presently we are > having performance

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: resource temporarily unavailable

2002-04-26 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:54:28PM -0700, Alexis Georges wrote: > hey > yesterday i wrote a message in which i explained that my ethernet > connection did not work in debian (it wont configure automatically ) even > though it has worked before when i installed int a while ago..today someone > to

OT: Recommendations for a mail-list client]

2002-04-26 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evening all. Let me preface this slightly OT mail by explaining why I'm asking this on deb-user. I'm asking for suggestions for a simple mail-shot client for windows, so that I can pass this on to a friend of mine. He's quite "into" the internet, with all the connotations that those quotes impl

exim and dialup

2002-04-26 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all - I use exim on a dialup system, and use more than one dialup provider. I'd like to get exim only to try delivering mail when I'm connected via one specific provider, as the smarthost that my main ISP provides doesn't relay for me when I'm dialed in via another ISP. At the moment, exim s

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-26 Thread marshal
> "Satelle" == Satelle, StevenX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Satelle> Ok, I'll try to explain this better. Where does dselect Satelle> store its listing of tasks. If you tell it to download 20 Satelle> packages from the web and it downloads and installs 18 of Satelle> them. The

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > Checking just now, the daemon's still running. Change that /dev/null to /tmp/wtfisupwithfetchmail for a while, and see what your script is

reposting pppconfig problem ... output of the plog file..

2002-04-26 Thread faisal gillani
here is to a freind who wanted me to repost .. as he missed this post .. thanks for the help ..   as i told earlier that i cannot dial using pppconfig i>> i type pon & nothing happens >> here is what is present in the plog>> server pppd [255] : Terminating on signal 15> server pppd [255] : Conn

how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

2002-04-26 Thread faisal gillani
i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory .. as i dont want to type huge command to reach there .. i do know how to create from gui mode .. but i wana create it in the command mode ..   thanks*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - pla

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > Please *don't* Cc: me on list mail. He's using Pine. Good luck. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

emu10k1/modprobe/modconf IRQ probs after upgrade...

2002-04-26 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hello! I've been using Woody for the past 10 months and had no problems with it so far... until this morning. What happened is that my SBLive stopped working... Apparently it's some IO/IRQ problem - dmesg says: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.18, 18:55:36 Mar 4 2002 PCI: Assigned IRQ

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul Sargent quotation: > > holly:~/linux-2.4.14# free -tm Try a newer kernel. They've been farking around with the VM lately. In particular, look at the changelog for 2.4.17: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.17 Especially this line: - Make kernel try a bit ha

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Re: Linux on a Pseries?

2002-04-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:39:37PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > We're getting an IBM pSeries to play with. Redhat and Suse want to > charge alot of money for that version of the distro. Turbo linux has a > version as well. I'm wondering if we have a Debian version available. > I couldn't fin

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello Again: Apology for my poor english. Let me try again to express my concerns: I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace the old packages first before installin

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:26:48AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > > I've noticed that a few of the messages in this list show up in > > > > linux.debian.user, but most of them don't. Is there a > > > > newsgroup version of the list somewhere? > > > > > > muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'

Re: Rock solid no GUI pim?

2002-04-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:18:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A couple of months ago I ditched GUI mail programs for ever. I'm now a > happy mutt user. Now I'm looking for A) a calendar program B) an > address book, that are as non graphical, stable and as versatile as > mutt. Anything th

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten Heymann quotation: > > fetch every day). Now how can I reduce the online time? Is there some > way to scan/sanitize the mail in background? Or at least fetch from the > accounts parallelly? I tried retchmail from unstable but it somehow Ok, first off, change your name; one Karsten

Re: emu10k1/modprobe/modconf IRQ probs after upgrade...

2002-04-26 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hello! Sorry about replying to my own posts, but changing a PCI slot helped... Anyway I suppose it shouldn't have happened in the first place. Anyone has a clue why it acutally did? Or if there's a way to change/fix it without PCI slot swapping? Regards, -- Marcin Fusinski qrchaque(at)master(

Re: leafnode & kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin sda quotation: > > > > kupdated is a kernel daemon, not KDE (though leave it to KDE to make > > things more komplex and konfusing and kbloated than necissary, but CDE > > and Gnome both suck as well). > > Thanks fell silly now thinking it was a kde process. I agree both of > those Window M

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...

2002-04-26 Thread David Z Maze
faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Unnecessary, and irritating on public mailing lists; please configure your mailer to send plain text only.) > i want to create a link of another directory in my home directory > .. as i dont want to

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