Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Wilhelm Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021008 00:02]: > In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for > composing mail. Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? When running mutt, what does it give you if you type :set ?editor ? Also, try issuing :set edi

Re: Woody & Locales

2002-10-08 Thread thomas kral
Thank you, This helps. However my concern still is about Woody's redundancy of locale paths, i.e. /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale, while I thought only one of them may be present. On my system both contain valid locale files in order for the apps to make use of them. I suspect inconsisten

Problems with Ati

2002-10-08 Thread Aleksandar Simeonov
Hi, I receantly installed Debian 3.0 and all worked OK, excep X windows. It wrote to me that it could not initialize display. I have Ati Radeon 7500, Duron 950 MHz and 128 Mb of RAM. Could sombody help me to fix this. Many thanks from Simeon (Aleksandar Simeonov) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: [SOLVED] DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-08 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
El Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings escribió: > Please wrap your lines at about 72 characters. > > * Felipe Martínez Hermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 17:08]: > > > > Hi everybody! > > > > I am trying to set up wmaker to be my default wm. When I log in > > through xdm I on

Signed messages

2002-10-08 Thread bounce-debian-user=archive=jab . org
Hi, I saw quite many PGP signed messages in this list. How can I get the posters' public keys easily from mutt? On one particular message, I had the following: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Tue 08 Oct 2002 02:52:39 PM WIT) --] gpg: Signature made Tue 08 Oct 2002 01:05:31 PM WIT using DSA

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-08 Thread bounce-debian-user=archive=jab . org
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:54:45PM +0800, Joey Quevedo wrote: > how do i set-up a dial-in server in debian? what are the necessary files to > configure? You'd need the mgetty package. To set it up, I think webmin-ppp would be helpful. But if you'd need only terminal connections, then mgetty woul

Re: Q: Xfree troubles!!! help, please

2002-10-08 Thread Raúl Wild-Spain
hhh#%&$!! I've updated and upgraded. After that again XFree -configure and -xf86config with the newer config file. ... the same error!!! Should I do something more? - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Llista Debian USERS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Fwd: Re: Signed messages]

2002-10-08 Thread Gottfried Szing
u wrote: >BTW, why don't people put their public keys on key servers like >pgp.mit.edu? The keys would be propagated to other servers anyway; the >ones in pgp.net. I believe that would make our lives a bit easier; one >definition of keyserver in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, we could retrieve others' >pub

Re: Problems with Ati

2002-10-08 Thread Roman Joost
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:31:33AM +0200, Aleksandar Simeonov wrote: > Hi, > I receantly installed Debian 3.0 and all worked OK, excep X windows. It > wrote to me that it could not initialize display. I have Ati Radeon 7500, > Duron 950 MHz and 128 Mb of RAM. Could sombody help me to fix this. >

Re: Non-english characters in mutt (was: Locale and date/time settings)

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-10-2002 22:57]: > Along this same line, is there a locale setting which would allow mutt > to display non-English characters? Now they all show up as "?". Nice way of putting that, non-English, but I guess you want to display umlauts, circumflexes etc. Us

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Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Thanks for your review. It is a good one. ;-) On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 1. imps2 issue > > > > Is "imps2" really needed for woody gpm? Woody gpm default seems to > > have moved to "autops2"

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ? Can't tell yet - I'm very new to all this and thought of sending and replying mail on localhost. There arn't any other settings in ~/.muttrc which I could test. > When running mutt, what does it give you if you type > > :se

Re: Non-english characters in mutt (was: Locale and date/time settings)

2002-10-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:35:51AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-10-2002 22:57]: > > Along this same line, is there a locale setting which would allow mutt > > to display non-English characters? Now they all show up as "?". > > Nice way of putting that,

change modem serial port

2002-10-08 Thread Michael R
I just installed Debian on my computer and I guess I choose the wrong serial port for my modem because it doesn't work, I tried to find some way to change it without having to go through the entire reinstallation process but haven't been able to find one. Any help would be great. THANKS, MIK

RE: Building a small distribution, reprise,

2002-10-08 Thread Jonas Persson
I am using bootcd for this purpose. I install a minimal debian system, configure the kernel like i want to have it and then i take a snapshot of the minmal debian machines harddrive and put it into a iso and burn it. Then on another machine i simply insert the cd and transfer the whole contants

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-08 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: > > I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc , hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from your .xsession... (i had to put this in by hand... but on

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: > > > I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc , > hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the > .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-08 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 06:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: > > > I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc , > hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is called by default from the > .xsession try to call the .xinitrc from

Re: Signed messages

2002-10-08 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello, On Oct 8, wrote: | I saw quite many PGP signed messages in this list. | How can I get the posters' public keys easily from mutt? If you use the "keyserver options auto-key-retrieve" in your ..gnupg/options file, gnupg will try to grab the key automatically. -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya there's probably howto on ppp servers.. - get a good external modem - 3com makes too many versions ...donno which is good or bad - zoom, best, few others works good ( first time ) ( if you get a bad modem... you;d be spinning your tail - test it with a

Re: dial-in server

2002-10-08 Thread D. Nathan Cookson
A few words about modems: First, the Winmodem term is actually copyrighted and trademarked by 3com/USRobotics. They at least are honest about labeling their modems as such.Other makers label them as, Host-based modems, Controllerless Modems, the most notorious for issues, the chips for them

Re: Xwindow problems ASUS A7N266-VM board (nForce)

2002-10-08 Thread Cam Ellison
* Robert Wilhelm Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Cam Ellison wrote: > > > >Well, after some fiddling around, and downloading and installing > >2.4.19, it's all working like a hot dam. > Thanks for your re Cam. I'm very interested in this board aswell. > Are you usingthe USB2.0 (not USB1.0 modi

Re: Signed messages

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:49, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > Hello, > > On Oct 8, wrote: > > | I saw quite many PGP signed messages in this list. > | How can I get the posters' public keys easily from mutt? > > If you use the "keyserver options auto-key-retrieve" in your > ..gnupg/options file,

Re: change modem serial port

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Hastings
Howdy, * Michael R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 22:00]: > > > I just installed Debian on my computer and I guess I choose the wrong > serial port for my modem because it doesn't work, I tried to find some way > to change it without having to go through the entire reinstallation process > but

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Hastings
Slight tangent... * Robert Wilhelm Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021008 22:00]: > > Additionaly - are these links a debian way of setting up a system?, > I'm really confused! Yes. This is the Debian "alternatives" system. Since there are often many different programs that will perform the same

Re: Signed messages

2002-10-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:36:56PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:49, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Oct 8, wrote: > > > > | I saw quite many PGP signed messages in this list. > > | How can I get the posters' public keys easily from mutt? > > > > If y

Re: dial-in server - modems

2002-10-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya nathan yuppers... the "good modems" i was referrng to are those that have - a uart chip ( 16550 or equivalent uart ) - if you do NOT see a uart, stay away from it cause it probably is a "software modem" and brings lots of fun with it for those that like to get in

eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

2002-10-08 Thread Marcel Fehr
hi there How do I search for a explicied pattern within all my installed packages? for e.g if I want to look which package owns the command cu, a "dpkg -S cu" will list all package where's a pattern starting with cu (cups, custom, ... same as I would do "dpkg -S cu*"). Is there a way to limit t

using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate program. This was the command I ueed: rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc ... no reaction. Rereading the info gave me: " Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters:       &pi0;*', &pi0;?',

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Mutt should read /etc/Muttrc first, then your ~/.muttrc , so your > personal settings will override anything in /etc/Muttrc. The /etc/Muttrc file was the one that confused. Unfortunately I didn't recognized that this file  w a s  on HDD. After failed I didn't think of

Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get nothing. If I do 'lpq' it says : Printer: lp@local 'HP Deskjet 400' Queue: no printable jobs

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-08 Thread Fred
Hi, before changing anything, i want to know what's wrong. Unmounting my ntfs partitions has no effects (just a try to see). I'm going to read linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and about mke2fs ; if you know any means to diagnose the pb, let me know. BTW : what are "FDs" ? merci Fred msg0595

Re: Q: Xfree troubles!!! help, please

2002-10-08 Thread Kent West
Raúl Wild-Spain wrote: >hhh#%&$!! > >I've updated and upgraded. After that again XFree -configure and -xf86config >with the newer config file. > >... the same error!!! > > Which "same error"? The one below? >Should I do something more? > > > >>* When installing x-window-s

Re: Q: Xfree troubles!!! help, please

2002-10-08 Thread Kent West
Raúl Wild-Spain wrote: >hhh#%&$!! > >I've updated and upgraded. After that again XFree -configure and -xf86config >with the newer config file. > >... the same error!!! > >Should I do something more? > > > PS. Do you have a LUG close by? They might could get their hands dirty

floppy sized packages

2002-10-08 Thread Michael R
Does anyone know where to find floppy sized packages for Debian??? I need to download them on my XP computer and then transfer them using floppies onto my Debian box. Or if anyone happends to know of a file splitter for Windows that will make files I can join with a linux program that would w

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marcel Fehr said: > hi there > > How do I search for a explicied pattern within all my installed > packages? > > for e.g if I want to look which package owns the command cu, a "dpkg > -S cu" will list all package where's a pattern starting with cu (cups, > custom, ..

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > nothing. > > If I do 'lpq' it says : >

Re: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Ed McMan said: > There is no rate limiting that I am aware of. I am using pmfirewall. > All other hosts work fine (including this one when in Windows!). > > Now, this host can access the Lan without problem. I can SSH and scp > all I want without problem. However,

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:09, Marcel Fehr wrote: > hi there > > How do I search for a explicied pattern within all my installed packages? > > for e.g if I want to look which package owns the command cu, a "dpkg -S cu" > will list all package where's a pattern starting with cu (cups, custom, ...

Re: Repartioning NTFS

2002-10-08 Thread Rhodri
as someone has already said, there are not linux tools to create and/or resize a ntfs partition. Moreover, it has been said as well that you should make a general backup of the data you can to keep. Just in case. I had the same problem and reading the debian installation guide, they tell (not ver

"unhandled exception" running Wordperfect on Woody??

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Best (CRO)
I am running Debian Woody (with a sprinkling of sid), w. XFree86 4.2, KE 3.0.3, and am trying to get Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux working. Whenvever I try to start one of the office apps (wordperfect, quattropro, etc.), I get the following errors:

Unable to use network card with 2.4.19

2002-10-08 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and the 2.4.1[8,9] kernel. I boot my laptop with the card (both a D-Link 660 and a 3Com EtherLink III) inserted and the system sometimes comes up and sometimes doesn't (I'm using DHCP). But, if I reboot my system and load the 2.2.19 kernel, t

XF 4.1 + Vesa == No Modes found

2002-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
We have a new station here with an nVidia GeForce4, and since XF 4.1 doesn't support that (yet), I wanted to use the vesa driver. However, with a standard configuration (vesa as driver, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480 as modes @ 24bpp, and 1024x768 @ 75 Hz as configuration of the LCD), X doesn't start

Re: resolv.conf in the DNS server.

2002-10-08 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 08 Oct 2002, 09:55:01, Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon wrote: > If my server is a DNS server itself, should I put its own IP in the resolv.conf >file? eg: > search domain.com > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver dns.server.ip1 > nameserver dns.server.ip2 I typically do this, so that any DNS name that th

Re: XF 4.1 + Vesa == No Modes found

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-2002 16:05]: > We have a new station here with an nVidia GeForce4, and since XF 4.1 > doesn't support that (yet), I wanted to use the vesa driver. > > Do you have any tips for me? You could, license issues aside, try the Nvidia driver. It works (say

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:05, Alan D. Salewski wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:22:14PM +, Doug MacFarlane spake thus: > > On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my living room has 12 computers > > > > in it, 5 of which are turned off due to hea

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so* > >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Oct 7 18:17 /lib/libc.so.6 > >-

Re: eliminate subwords in dpkg --search?

2002-10-08 Thread Marcel Fehr
At 15:41 08.10.2002, Claudio Bley wrote: >On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:09, Marcel Fehr wrote: > > And is it possible to shapen the scope so that it looks > > into all available packages on the installation medium rather > > into the installed ones only? Would avoid to check > > http://www.debian.org/

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:16:32AM +0200, Fred wrote: > Hi, > > before changing anything, i want to know what's wrong. > Unmounting my ntfs partitions has no effects (just a try to see). > I'm going to read linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and about > mke2fs ; if you know any means to diagnose t

ARCHSUPPORTS.NET

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Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:15, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: > > By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate > program. > > This was the command I ueed: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > ... no reaction. > .so I tried: > > rla

runnind bind as non-root

2002-10-08 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Dear List, I;m trying to setup bind9 on my woody box to run as non-root. The problem I have is that non-root named cannot write to /var/run/named.pid One solution I see is to make /var/run group writeable or to recompile named to use pid=/var/run/named/named.pid. How other debian users circumv

Re: Signed messages

2002-10-08 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Mark, On Oct 8, Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > There needs to be a dash between the first two words: | > "keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve" Oops. Thanks for the correction. | > Is it just me or is it normal that your message can't be proven to be | > authentic? |

unsubscribe

2002-10-08 Thread arnaud
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Re: "MUD" Game Engines

2002-10-08 Thread Soul Computer
> On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00, Soul Computer > wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone would know where I > > could find "MUD" game engines for Linux. > > > > Please "Reply All" when you reply to make > certain > > I get any information you send my way. > > > > Thank you very much for any help yo

Re: XF 4.1 + Vesa == No Modes found

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > We have a new station here with an nVidia GeForce4, and since XF 4.1 > doesn't support that (yet), I wanted to use the vesa driver. However, > with a standard configuration (vesa as driver, 1024x768, 800x600, > 640x480 as modes @ 24bpp, and 1024

Re: "MUD" Game Engines

2002-10-08 Thread Soul Computer
> On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00 am, Soul > Computer wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone would know where I > > could find "MUD" game engines for Linux. > > > > Please "Reply All" when you reply to make > certain > > I get any information you send my way. > > > > Thank you very much for any help

NFS server slow when more clients access it

2002-10-08 Thread Lukas Kubin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having troubles with the speed of nfs-user-server, when the number of computers booting root system from it exceeds the approximate number of 5--7. The lower number is quite fast. The boot procedure of Debian "base" then takes about 15 to 20 minut

Re: resize partitions using parted

2002-10-08 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
>> Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok? >Used it. Loved it. Broke it :-}. Read the docs and only use it as it >says. Heed the warnings about meddling with the root partition. Did you run into this problem when you ran parted from a floppy disk after booting from a

Re: "MUD" Game Engines

2002-10-08 Thread Soul Computer
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:21:49PM -0700, Derek > Gladding wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00 am, Soul > Computer wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone would know where > I > > > could find "MUD" game engines for Linux. > > > > > > Please "Reply All" when you reply to make > certain > >

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:39:23AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: .. > > IIRC I had problems with autops and some mice I have, be it a Logitech > > Mouse Man Wheel, or the simpler wheel version. > > It is "autops2". I checked source an

getmail replacement

2002-10-08 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, My I.T. cohort wants to switch our email system around (mostly to start filtering spam). He's nervous about doing any kind of linux implementation because he's mostly a Microsoft junky and feels "safe" with those sorts of products. He wants to go to a maildrop or a domain mail

Re: X-server won't start on 3.0

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian 3.0 today, but X won't work. I've put my XF86Config-4 > and Log file in the email. > I have an Club3d ATI Radeon 8500 Pro video card. > I hope someone can help me out ??? > > Cuno > Xfree 4.2.1 supports the following chipsets (II) RADEON:

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-08 Thread Aaron Baff
I believe you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces you can do a man interfaces in order to get information on how you need to edit it. and for dns info...I think you can place it in /etc/resolv.conf Aaron --- Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:15:21PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:59, Chris McCormick wrote: > > At 18:32 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > >ls -alF /lib/libc[-.]* > > > > > >-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 888096 Sep 26 02:30 > > >/lib/libc-2.1.3.so*

Re: Non-english characters in mutt (was: Locale and date/time settings)

2002-10-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
Got it working, thanks. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-08 22:52:45 +1000]: > update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator > > This will give you a menu of all the editors on your system and let you > change/chose the default one. I know you meant to say this instead. update-alternatives --config edit

Re: XF 4.1 + Vesa == No Modes found

2002-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.1633 +0200]: > X 4.2? Now out in sid. IIRC, this card is supported. I wanted to keep it testing, but it's running X 4.2 from sid now. That fixed the problem -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo ma

Re: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-07 20:37 -0400: > Argh. Now I'm just more confused. OK, tethereal picks up the pings > leaving the machine. So, that means there must be some kind of queue > or rate limiter blocking it as the router never receives it. That, or > the switch is evil and blocks frames coming f

Re: ifup, dhcp troubleshooting

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
paul, 2002-Oct-08 00:17 -0400: > I have 'network packet filtering' disabled. I think that's used for a > gateway/firewall configartion. > I don't see 'socket packet' but there is 'socket filtering' which is also > disabled. what would you suggest? Right, you need socket filtering..."CONFIG_FILT

Calendars

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Montagne
I need a good calendar. Evolution is OK, but all I want is a calendar, amd I want it to be speedy. Gnomecal is my current chice but I can't figure out how to add holidays and other events that aren't appointments. I also like the command line interface to gnomecal that allows me to query the ca

Re: Calendars

2002-10-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Montagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.1842 +0200]: > What is the popular choice out there? remind -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck the packages come out en masse, like minitab, sy

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Jeff
Claudio Bley, 2002-Oct-08 16:25 +0200: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:15, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > > This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: > > > > By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate > > program. > > > > This was the command I ueed: > > > > rland@MINI:~$ locate [M

ow can I reliably find a given .deb?

2002-10-08 Thread stan
I find myslef in the position of trying to install isag from testing on a machine that is in sevice, and I don;t want to take a chance on messing up. The problem is that it's a Progeny machine, and therfore it's gotten quite a bit out of date. So, I'm tying to find out wher to manually get isag.

Re: Calendars

2002-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Michael Montagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need a good calendar. Evolution is OK, but all I want is a calendar, > amd I want it to be speedy. Gnomecal is my current chice but I can't > figure out how to add holidays and other events that aren't > appointments. I also like the command li

Re: ow can I reliably find a given .deb?

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, stan said: > I find myslef in the position of trying to install isag from testing on a > machine that is in sevice, and I don;t want to take a chance on messing up. > > The problem is that it's a Progeny machine, and therfore it's gotten quite > a bit out of date. >

Re: ow can I reliably find a given .deb?

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:55:33PM -0400, stan wrote: > I find myslef in the position of trying to install isag from testing on a > machine that is in sevice, and I don;t want to take a chance on messing up. > > The problem is that it's a Progeny machine, and therfore it's gotten quite > a bit ou

logcheck and apache

2002-10-08 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I have logcheck running on a couple of servers, and it doesn't scan the apache logs by default, so there are also no default logcheck ignore rules. I have added the apache logs to logcheck's searchlist, and now of course I get ridiculous volumes of mail from it. I can pretty easily tr

Re: ow can I reliably find a given .deb?

2002-10-08 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 08:55, stan wrote: > I find myslef in the position of trying to install isag from testing on a > machine that is in sevice, and I don;t want to take a chance on messing up. > > The problem is that it's a Progeny machine, and therfore it's gotten quite > a bit out of date. >

Re: Calendars

2002-10-08 Thread Edwin Lau
or you can try remind. I think it is good. It is a commandline program, but there is a gui version tkremind. It has a lot of advance feature I think. Edwin Lau --- Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Montagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need a good calendar. Evolution

Re: DEFAULT WINDOW MANAGER

2002-10-08 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
El Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:04:11PM +0200, Claudio Bley escribió: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:28, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:18:53PM +1000, Nick Hastings wrote: > > > > I have tried including "exec /usr/bin/wmaker" in ~/.xinitrc , > > hmmm not sure if the .xinitrc is c

Re: ow can I reliably find a given .deb?

2002-10-08 Thread Ben Goodstein
On (08 Oct 02 12:55), stan wrote: > I find myslef in the position of trying to install isag from testing on a > machine that is in sevice, and I don;t want to take a chance on messing up. > > The problem is that it's a Progeny machine, and therfore it's gotten quite > a bit out of date. > > So,

installation cds

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Park
Hello, I was just wandering, it seems like the latest version has this thing called "flavors" where you decide what type of installation you want to do regarding your hardware. So, is it OK for me to JUST download disk 2 that contains the vanilla flavor? Will this include all the necessary ker

How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Terje Fåberg
Hi, I have a nice eMail server here, which servers mail to about ten users using cyrus-imapd. Amavis is scanning all incoming and outgoing mail for over about a year now. I've been quite happy with this until yesterday, when one user encountered quite an old mail containing the famous love le

Re: getmail replacement

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:51, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > My I.T. cohort wants to switch our email system around (mostly to start > filtering spam). He's nervous about doing any kind of linux implementation > because he's mostly a Microsoft junky and feels "safe" with those sort

Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Falloon
Hi, I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of the package in woody. It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is using the same tcl/tk (for portability issues, stupid solaris) so I wanted to make sure by removing the deb package from everyones mac

Re[2]: [despammed] Re: odd networking problem

2002-10-08 Thread Ed McMan
Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 12:00:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) wrote: Jeff> Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-07 20:37 -0400: >> Argh. Now I'm just more confused. OK, tethereal picks up the pings >> leaving the machine. So, that means there must be some kind of queue >> or rate limiter blocking it

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Ughh. What happened to /bin/echo?

2002-10-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
It appears that /bin/echo is gone. In stable it was contained in shellutils and shellutils was replaced by coreutils, which doesn't include /bin/echo. I realize echo is a builtin in Bash, but my Makefiles don't seem to realize this and are now completely broken. Did echo move to a different packag

Using Linux system as an X terminal

2002-10-08 Thread David Gaudine
I changed one of my systems to act as an X terminal by changing one line of /etc/initab and adding another line as follows: id:5:initdefault: 7:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query systemname This seems to work. Is there anything "wrong" with doing it this way? Is it appropriate to use run level 5

Re: Nothing prints anymore!

2002-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Shapiro said: > > A few days ago my system just stopped printing anything. Nothing > > through Netscape. Nothing through WordPerfect. Nothing with 'lp > > filename'. Even if, as root, I do a 'cat filename > /dev/lp0', I get > > nothing. > > > > If I do 'lpq

Re: Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dave Falloon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 08 October 2002, 03:12 PM -0400): > I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of the package > in woody. It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is > using the same tcl/tk (for portability issues

apt questions

2002-10-08 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me. I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them and I was hoping that some one can answer my question. It seems that debian has three ways to install packages. 1) dpkg 2) apt 3) dselect My quest

Re: Help need to use compiled source instead of deb package

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:12:02PM -0400, Dave Falloon wrote: > I have compiled tcl/tk and want to use this version instead of > the package in woody. Put it in /usr/local and point your build scripts there only? > It is imperitive that every one of the developers at my office is > using t

Re: Ughh. What happened to /bin/echo?

2002-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:31:58PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > It appears that /bin/echo is gone. In stable it was contained in > shellutils and shellutils was replaced by coreutils, which doesn't > include /bin/echo. Hm? $ dlocate /bin/echo coreutils: /bin/echo $ dpkg -l coreutils | gre

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:59:47 +0200 (CEST) Terje Fåberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a nice eMail server here, which servers mail to > about ten users using cyrus-imapd. Amavis is scanning > all incoming and outgoing mail for over about a year > now. > > I've been quite happy

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Gerald Livingston wrote: > clamav" but you may want to check it out. Says it scans archives etc. > for virii so I'm assuming it is something you can run against the files > in a filesystem (maildir). I have courier imap set up here. If cyrus > buries its mail in a special form

Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK -- I'm about to start serving mail for my mom and brother from this machine via IMAP. They may be using Outlook Express as their client. I want to do all virus scanning on this side before they read the mail. Maybe some spam filtering too since my brother was careless with his address at some p

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