Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Kratky
hi, i had the same problem and then i read in a faq for mc if i'm not mistaken that the problem was actually in bash (i assume you use it) -- an upgrade solved the thing for me. robert Martin Strauss wrote: I have the same problem in Eterm - how do I fix this? I've tried binding the keysyms

RE: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Just do it, if it NT it will give you a 'lock workstation' dialog bog, which you can cancel. Matt -Original Message- From: Tom Cook [mailto:tom.cook@;adelaide.edu.au] Sent: Friday, 25 October 2002 9:44 AM To: Debian User Subject: Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-25 Thread Michelle Storm
> Good point. I didn't really think before I blurted out "Yup." :) > > The quick-n-dirty way that I'd do it is: > > mkdir /usr/templocal > cp -rp /usr/local /usr/templocal > umount /usr/local > rmdir /usr/local > mv /usr/templocal /usr/local > > Ok, so it's not really that much quicker. 5 steps

Keyboard and Mouse hangs Up

2002-10-25 Thread Eysis Info
Hi, I got a Copmaq Eraze Eaze Keyboard and a Samsung Optical mouse (OMGB30B) . I can go through the entire debian setup with the keyboard functioning properly but once X loads up, Keyboard hangs up and Mouse goes to the top right corner of the screen. Both worked well on MDK and RH. Also,

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:10:53 +1000, Russell wrote: > I want to activate them so that my keyboard doesn't have stupid > non-functional keys. Normally, you don't need to activate them. But I've noticed that they don't work with zsh on my Debian machine, whether they are activated or not. On a R

Re: automatic ip assignment

2002-10-25 Thread Joey Quevedo
>AFAIK, no. Assigning IP addresses for PPP connections is something >PPP does, if my understanding is correct. hmm. there must be another software to do this. in the windoze world, dhcp could do the assignment. >Just assign the dailup pool a few addresses and give a unique IP in >/etc/ppp/optio

mkdosfs: strange?

2002-10-25 Thread Q. Gong
Hi, all, There is a very strange thing about mkdosfs. I have a 80GB WD hard disk. At the end of this disk I created a Win95 FAT32 partition for Windos 98. I used mkdosfs -f 32 /dev/hdc6 to format it. Under both win98 and Linux I can read and write on hdc6. But for Linux, ls only list the files cre

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:35:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > People do not read in random order. Please learn to quote > > intuitively. http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html > thanx for the tip ... but i typically dont care about >

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Martin Strauss wrote: > > I have the same problem in Eterm - how do I fix this? > I've tried binding the keysyms to  and  respectively, but this fscks > up home and end in vim and other applications... I just installed Eterm, and it looks winderful;) I think it can even load different colors fo

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-25 Thread thomas kral
"Since many people have asked, Debian is pronounced 'deb ee n'. It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra." Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:01:00 +0100 From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > . . . a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-25 Thread Rupert
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:42:41 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bugreport time: ratpoison has no man page! There's a man page on my system and in the sources in the Debian archive (stable=1.0.0.cvs and testing=1.2.0.cvs). If you don't have a man page on your system I'd guess that this _is_ a

Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-25 Thread Glyn Millington
> >>Hello >>I need to configure my X 4.1.0-16 in woody on x86 PC to switch between >>different keyboard maps. I need standard us/uk keymap and cz_qwerty >>keymap. So I change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows: >> >>Section "InputDevice" >>Identifier "Generic Keyboard" >>Driver

Re: which anti-spam tool? - dynamic ip

2002-10-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:35:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > and i think either dyndns or another outfit provides DNS services > > for domains that are on DHCP based isp connections ?? > > - so you still can get a domain name registe

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:10:53 +1000, Russell wrote: > > I want to activate them so that my keyboard doesn't have stupid > > non-functional keys. > > Normally, you don't need to activate them. > > But I've noticed that they don't work with zsh on my Debian machine, >

Re: Xnest and fonts

2002-10-25 Thread Rupert
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:49:07 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But in trying Xnest, I ran into a problem ... as per the man, I tried > the simple startup command of 'Xnest :1'. It does bring up a next, but > I can't do anything with it. No clicks and no buttons work. > You nee

Re: which anti-spam tool? - error message

2002-10-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi paul ( again ) On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > > donate to any of the rbls that is used ... or any other open development > > cause > > Of course. Though do so directly. yup... always give to the end user of the funds.. ( http://www.debian.org/donations in the case of debian ??

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just do it, if it NT it will give you a 'lock workstation' dialog bog, which > you can cancel. Yah, but if it's not transmitted by x2vnc it will reboot my linux box, not a good move at present. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services,

mail in linux

2002-10-25 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
i am new to linux. i have been using mail 'windows' way. use some program like popcheck to download headers from various pop3 accounts. delete headers i dont want to download off the server. finally, use mozilla to download the remaining messages. now, i am told, unix has better ways of handli

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:05:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > > some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember > > earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget > > what the problem was) I made a ch

Re: Progeny installer for woody

2002-10-25 Thread Frederik Dannemare
A R wrote: I think may be interesting to the list members http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/ How does it work exactly? I've just tested it on two machines, and it worked great for me with hardware auto detection and everything. Remember though, it is still in development, and there's, o

Why does Root need passwords?

2002-10-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Hi there, after ca. 1 month uptime I had a bad system crash due to a hardware failure. I encountered strange behaviors and after some reboots I set "forcefsck". Several errors where found which my ext3 did not realize by journalling (and now I know why Ext3 is still experimental). And since t

sound problems

2002-10-25 Thread Amit Shah
Hello everybody, I've just switched to Debian Woody 3.0 from RH/Mandrake based systems. I'm trying out the features of Debian, here's one question about sound: I can play sound as root using mp3blaster on the console, but can't use mpg123 or mp3blaster as a normal user, where do I edit the permis

Re: exim - what is missing in my set-up?

2002-10-25 Thread pd3
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:30:08PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > i seem to be pretty stuck here! umpteen attempts and quite a few posts > and iam still unable to solve the mistry! > > relevant portions of /etc/exim/exim.conf > > ###

Re: exim - what is missing in my set-up?

2002-10-25 Thread pd3
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:30:08PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > what if there is no smart host to do the job for me? can i not use exim? > and will i have to always use mozilla with an smtp server specified for > delivering mail - the windows way? Hello As far as I know the smtp server (

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 18:26:37 +1000, Russell wrote: > Are you using xterm? I'd try comparing your local config files > on both machines, and any relevant global config files in /etc > and in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Hmm... Finally, it doesn't work with zsh either on the RedHat machine. I do

Re: sound problems

2002-10-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 11:15 schrieb Amit Shah: > I can play sound as root using mp3blaster on the console, but can't use > mpg123 or mp3blaster as a normal user, where do I edit the permissions > so that normal users can play sound? Try "adduser audio". This adds you to the group of users

Re: mkdosfs: strange?

2002-10-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 09:55 schrieb Q. Gong: > Windos 98. I used mkdosfs -f 32 /dev/hdc6 to format it. Commands are case-sensitive - try "mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdc6". > Under both > win98 and Linux I can read and write on hdc6. But for Linux, ls only > list the files created under Linux. Un

Re: [SPAM] Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
why did you prefix the subject with [SPAM] ? also sprach Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.0016 +0200]: > 1) Burn CD-ROM with boot floppy image (Use 2.88 if you can) and boot from CD there is no CD-ROM or floppy in this machine. > 2) Boot MS-DOS and use syslinux or loadlin. > Floppy i

Re: [SPAM] Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:41:45AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > why did you prefix the subject with [SPAM] ? He didn't. Must be your filters ... -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.24.2359 +0200]: > Can you scp the file onto the box, and then point lilo or grub to the > file? That's the only obvious thing I can think of, if you don't want > to throw in a floppy drive (although they are only US $5 or $10 these > days . . .

keeping pppd alive?

2002-10-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am on an ADSL connection, and most of the time the ppd daemon copes well with the periodical disconnects, but some times it dies... i wnat to keep the line up and running as neatly as possible... i made a script wich uses ping etc to see if the line is up, but this causes much more disco

Re: [SPAM] Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1147 +0200]: > > why did you prefix the subject with [SPAM] ? > > He didn't. Must be your filters ... Not that I'd know. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SI

Re: sound problems

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:45:24PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > I can play sound as root using mp3blaster on the console, but can't use > mpg123 or mp3blaster as a normal user, where do I edit the permissions so > that normal users can play sound? Don't mess with the permissions. Add users who you w

Writers wanted, readers needed

2002-10-25 Thread Zachie
Students, teachers, readers, and writers alike, gather your paper, uncap your pens, and dust off your reading glasses because Poetrylist is back and bigger than ever. If you're a talented ambitious writer looking for a way to share your art or simply someone who loves poetry in general read on be

spamd "still running as root"?

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
spamd[17856]: Still running as root: user not specified, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. never seen this before. no spamd user in /etc/passwd. is this a problem with the last update of spamassassin on testing? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \__

printer ejects a blank page after job

2002-10-25 Thread Adam Galant
Hello! I have a problem with a printer. It's connected to a samba box which shares the printer with a win9x network. And after _each_ job the printer ejects a blank page, Configuration: woody+samba+lpd, defaults used (only the necessary changes like workgroup and printer name have been made). Pri

Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that come through Sid. Could somebody please point me to the URL? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Root need passwords?

2002-10-25 Thread Q. Gong
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Andreas Eichner wrote: > > Hi there, > > after ca. 1 month uptime I had a bad system crash due to a hardware > failure. I encountered strange behaviors and after some reboots I set > "forcefsck". Several errors where found which my ext3 did not realize by > journalling (and no

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:36:41AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that > come through Sid. > > Could somebody please point me to the URL? http://snapshot.debian.net/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PR

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-25 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 > Go to opensecrets.org. In the "Find a Politician:" search box, type "Smith". At Rep. Smith's page, click "Top Contributors

Autoresponder

2002-10-25 Thread wso
Title: Autoresponder  THIS IS A COMPUTER GENERATED RESPONSE….Please do not reply to this message Thank you for contacting the Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. (WSO).  Your inquiry is important to us and is being processed along with standard postal and fax correspondence.  You will r

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-25 Thread James Hughes
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 /. has covered this. To save you all some time, they point to stories here: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/17

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Russell wrote: > > Martin Strauss wrote: > > > > I have the same problem in Eterm - how do I fix this? > > I've tried binding the keysyms to  and  respectively, but this fscks > > up home and end in vim and other applications... ... > > The keypad Home/End worked by default, but i can disable/e

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:44:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:36:41AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that > > come through Sid. > > > > Could somebody please point me to the URL? > > http://snapshot.debian

Re: Xnest and fonts

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25:05AM +0100, Rupert wrote.. > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:49:07 -0400 > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But in trying Xnest, I ran into a problem ... as per the man, I tried > > the simple startup command of 'Xnest :1'. It does bring up a next, bu

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:08:16AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Thanks for the immediate response, Colin. > > I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package > they offer is for Woody. I thought they might be in the xlibs-dev > package. However, I am running the 4.1.0-17 vers

OT: Recommendations for Linux Distributions running on Intel-basedEmbeded Systems/Flash Disks

2002-10-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I admit that this is OT, but maybe someone has already tried (possibly Debian-based distributions) that are available for free and work on embedded Intel-based systems and accompanying flash disks? The distro should also support journaling filesystem(s) and should come with packages allowing

Re: [OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:01:42 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:01:33AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Perhaps a simple convention of storing user application configurations > > under a single ~/.etc/ directory would solve matters? This would keep > > t

Re: Why does Root need passwords?

2002-10-25 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 12:46 schrieb Q. Gong: > Have a loot at /etc/pam.d/su. Is there an entry like > > auth sufficient pam_rootok.so There's no file "su" anymore. I've created a new containing this line and now it this works. Is there any more which should be in this file? Cause it

Re: Xnest and fonts

2002-10-25 Thread Rupert
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:10:35 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried: > > Xnest :1& > ion -display :1& > > and while I get the Xnest, I don't get the xterm to show up within the > Xnest. The err msg is ... > > sakura:~$ ion -display :1& > [2] 14609 > sakura:~$ AUDI

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Ian Smit
[Thanks to everyone who replied to my initial question] * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-10-2002 08:09]: > I like Spamassassin, myself. I use unstable, though, and don't really > follow stable to know how old it is. It seems to work quite well, > especially when integrated into exim as a f

What's logcheck/cracking.d?

2002-10-25 Thread DSC Siltec
I've been recently trying to upgrady my debian/woody box to unstable, so that I can pull KDE up to KDE 3.04 or better, because of a bunch of crashing on my sound server, plus some bug reports that essentially say that the 2.2.2 Konquerer has some major security flaws. Anyhow, while doing the DSE

Re: Xnest and fonts

2002-10-25 Thread Rupert
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:50:42 +0100 Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may work for you: > > #!/bin/sh > > MCOOKIE=3D$(mcookie) > xauth add $(hostname)/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE > xauth add localhost/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE > Xnest $1& > ion -display $1 > xauth remove $(hostname)/unix$1 localhost/unix$1

Re: What's logcheck/cracking.d?

2002-10-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:42, DSC Siltec wrote: > Configuration file /etc/logcheck/cracking.d/standard Generally, read /usr/doc/logcheck The rules in /etc/logcheck/ define expressions to enable logcheck to interpret stuff it finds in the logs. E.g., kernel: Oversized packet received from means t

Re: OT: Recommendations for Linux Distributions running on Intel-based Embeded Systems/Flash Disks

2002-10-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:34:37 +0200 (CEST) Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I admit that this is OT, but maybe someone has already tried (possibly > Debian-based distributions) that are available for free and work on > embedded Intel-based systems and accompanying flash disks? You might t

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-25 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Because of the increasing amount of spam I receive, I want to do > something about it. > > I know spamassassin by name. I believe the version in stable is > quite old. Is it useful to install that version? What other tools > should

Re: Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:27:12AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:08:16AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Thanks for the immediate response, Colin. > > > > I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package > > they offer is for Woody. I thought they might

Re: Why does Root need passwords?

2002-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:50:23PM +0200, Andreas Eichner wrote: > There's no file "su" anymore. I've created a new containing this line and > now it this works. > Is there any more which should be in this file? Cause it is included in > the login package, I've reinstalled it but this file wasn

Re: which anti-spam tool? - error message

2002-10-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 04:37, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi paul ( again ) > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > donate to any of the rbls that is used ... or any other open development > > > cause > > > > Of course. Though do so directly. > > yup... always give to the end user of the

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 18:26:37 +1000, Russell wrote: > > Are you using xterm? I'd try comparing your local config files > > on both machines, and any relevant global config files in /etc > > and in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. > > Hmm... Finally, it doesn't work with

Re: mail in linux

2002-10-25 Thread Auke Jilderda
Hi Sandip, welcome to the beautiful world of Linux ;-). First thing to tell you is that, in contrast to the Windows world, there are always several ways of doing things in UNIX. Mail handling is extremely flexible. You can use a very simple setup or a more flexible one, depending on your needs

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Russell wrote: > > Martin Strauss wrote: > > > > I have the same problem in Eterm - how do I fix this? > > I've tried binding the keysyms to  and  respectively, but this fscks > > up home and end in vim and other applications... > > I just installed Eterm, and it looks winderful;) I think it >

diald for a pptp connection

2002-10-25 Thread Jason D. Michaelson
Title: Message i've got a pptp connection set up on my machine so that i can start the connection just by calling pppd. has anyone ever tried to configure diald to bring up a pptp connection like this on demand?   thanks   jdm   - Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/  o htt

printer troubles

2002-10-25 Thread Donn Shaffer
After a new Woody install on my Dell Latitude I can't get my HP6L Laserjet printer to work with some apps. I am trying to use CUPS. I have installed cupsys cupsysclient cupsomatic-ppd cupsys-driver-gimpprint kdelibs3-cups I went to http://localhost:631 to configure the printer. I can print from

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 22:57:03 +1000, Russell wrote: > I'm assuming TERM="xterm". I use either TERM=xterm-xfree86 or TERM=xterm-vt220 (but the escape sequences for Home and End keys don't depend on which value I choose). > Type: echo -ne "\e[c" and see what numbers are returned in > both termin

Re: mail in linux

2002-10-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> 1. how do i run fetchmail? as a daemon or what? I run it as a daemon. Sandip> 2. can i ask fetchmail to download only headers and Sandip> delete unwanted headers off the server only? Don't know. Sandip> 3. after fetchmail f

Re: exim - what is missing in my set-up?

2002-10-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> 2002-10-25 12:15:23 184yDi-Fl-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=sandip P=local S=320 2002-10-25 12:15:23 184yDi-Fl-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost Sandip> T=remote_smtp H=192.168.100.1 [192.168.100.1] 2002-10-25 12:15:23 184yDi-

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Russell
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 22:57:03 +1000, Russell wrote: > > I'm assuming TERM="xterm". > > I use either TERM=xterm-xfree86 or TERM=xterm-vt220 (but the escape > sequences for Home and End keys don't depend on which value I choose). > > > Type: echo -ne "\e[c" and see wh

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-25 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:46:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just got an evaluation pack from the Australian reseller yesterday. > > I'm reading off the mat

kernel .config file

2002-10-25 Thread dizma
Hi there   When I make: apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18   debian woody install in /usr/src: kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2   after that I bzip2 this archive...   So my question is how to load the current kernel and modules configuration in .config file   dizma 

Re: kernel .config file

2002-10-25 Thread Kurt Yoder
dizma said: > Hi there > > When I make: > apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 > > debian woody install in /usr/src: > kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 > > after that I bzip2 this archive... > > So my question is how to load the current kernel and modules > configuration in .config file > > dizma You

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 23:41:49 +1000, Russell wrote: > After doing echo -ne "\e[?1h", does Home still give ^[[H ? No, ^[OH as expected. > For a bash-specific fix, you could try: set enable-keypad on. > Maybe zsh has a similar setting. No, I think I need to configure that with bindkey. By defa

Re: OT: Recommendations for Linux Distributions running on Intel-based Embeded Systems/Flash Disks

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1334 +0200]: > I admit that this is OT, but maybe someone has already tried (possibly > Debian-based distributions) that are available for free and work on > embedded Intel-based systems and accompanying flash disks? Debian GNU/Linux is your

Re: kernel .config file

2002-10-25 Thread dizma
Exactly!!! Thanks man...I didn't notice that I have config in /boot dizma - Original Message - From: "Kurt Yoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: Re: kernel .config file > dizma said: > > Hi there > > >

Re: which anti-spam tool? - dynamic ip

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:20:31AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > that server should allow everybody to have control of their mta > and eliminate most spams .. way before it even hits the > fetchmail/exim/procmail/mutt process Uuuh, no. They don't serve *anything* but DNS for you. You're serving all

Garmin Street Pilot 3 and Debian?

2002-10-25 Thread stan
I'm lookinmg for a GPS system to add to my new car. I can't seem to find any aftermarket units that work like the OEM units, in that the directly read the CD/DVD. I have found a nice looking unit from Garmn called the Street pilot III. Problem is thta it expects you to download the map data from

A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your harddrive? (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg to uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.

Re: keeping pppd alive?

2002-10-25 Thread shaulka
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:15:34PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i am on an ADSL connection, and most of the time the ppd daemon copes > well with the periodical disconnects, but some times it dies... > > i wnat to keep the line up and running as neatly as possible... > i made a scri

Re: OT: Recommendations for Linux Distributions running on Intel-based Embeded Systems/Flash Disks

2002-10-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 25 Oct 2002 14:15:24 +0200 "martin f krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1334 > +0200]: > > I admit that this is OT, but maybe someone has already tried (possibly > > Debian-based distributions) that are available for free and work on >

Re: which anti-spam tool? - error message

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:37:56AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > -- i use errror message 553 for these > -- if they send me prescription spam... > -- if they send me credit repair scheme... > -- if they send me get rich quick scheme... > -- you get the idea .. 553 means too many recipients according t

HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can accomodate? I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use 'easily'. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG ke

Re: Xnest and fonts

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:01:04PM +0100, Rupert wrote.. > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:50:42 +0100 > Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may work for you: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > MCOOKIE=3D$(mcookie) > > xauth add $(hostname)/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE > > xauth add localhost/unix$1 . $MCOOKIE >

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
snipped > Do I need to edit/update "fstab" after this? (just making sure) > > Almost done reading up on "parted", so hopfully I can post a solved > to this soon. > > -- > Michelle Alexia "Jade" Storm short answer: yes Shawn __ Do you Yah

Re: dired broken

2002-10-25 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On October 24, 2002 at 11:18AM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In emacs20 (testing) dired doesn't work anymore. If you hit enter, e, or v it > says "No file on this line." I've noticed this for perhaps a week, > and I see there's a bug filed on it (#163762, which speculates the >

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Roach
OK, here's a go at some of these On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:21:05AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and se

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 25 October 2002 07:58, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can > accomodate? > > I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I > just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use > 'easily'. > >

I broke apt and dpkg - need help

2002-10-25 Thread Robert
Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are broken, Can't reinstall them either. Any suggestions or humorous comments welcome :( Does the net install disk offer some sort of rescue option? Any ideas? all

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can > accomodate? > Not sure WHAT the limit is, but it's definately higher than anything commercially available today.(speaking of that, Maxtor needs to get their 320 gig drives available

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1658 +0200]: > I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I > just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use > 'easily'. 120Gb works perfectly fine. I think the limit would be by the IDE bus itsel

Icewm hotkeys to run a program

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Dresser
I've looked a fair amount, and can't find a way to do the following. I want to be able to press some sequence of keys, and have a program start from that. In windows, i have ctrl-alt-c mapped to start, or switch to, a command prompt. I'd like a similar setup for xterm. I could hit ctrl-esc, and

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Steve Juranich
> 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg to > uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb free.) man apt-get (esp. the 'remove' section) > 2.) How do I m

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wathen, Metherion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.25.1621 +0200]: > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on your > harddrive? either use dselect, or apt-get remove > 2.) How do I modify swap partiton size without having to reinstall > everything all ov

OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

2002-10-25 Thread Chip Rose
I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power supply versus standard 300w. Benefits? Thanks/Chip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Kurt Yoder
(Ignoring ones I can't answer quickly) Wathen, Metherion said: > Hi and thanks for any help I receive in response to the following: > > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space on > your harddrive? > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
As long as your bios supports it i think you are ok with 120 Gigs, I am sure you will get plenty of testimony off the list, though! I have about 95 Gigs on 2 different drives right now. Shawn --- Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that De

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:49:08PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > [Thanks to everyone who replied to my initial question] > > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-10-2002 08:09]: > > I like Spamassassin, myself. I use unstable, though, and don't really > > follow stable to know how old it is.

Re:Configuring?

2002-10-25 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the tip! I had the prompt option in, but as usual I had forgotten the /sbin/lilo -v, as usual. I guess I'll have to muck about on the fonts and kde issues, as I have not yet recieved any info on them yet, or maybe it was too off-topic fo

Re: Icewm hotkeys to run a program

2002-10-25 Thread Michael Montagne
I have a directory called .icewm in my home directory and within that a file called keys with some already set. I bet there is one in /etc/X11/icewm too. HTH >On 25/10/02, from the brain of Mike Dresser tumbled: > I've looked a fair amount, and can't find a way to do the following. > > I want

[Semi-OT]: Dual Head Laptop?

2002-10-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
I've got a buddy that wants to switch to using just a laptop for all his needs, instead of the laptop/workstation combo he currently uses. One thing he's decided he doesn't want to do without though is a dual-headed setup when he's in the office. My initial thought was that surely someone made a do

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Chip Rose wrote: > I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power supply > versus standard 300w. Benefits? > Thanks/Chip System specifications? Type of each power supply? You could be getting a cheap junk 400w instead of a good 300w, for all we know

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