spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi, I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam messages still go through spamassassin. man razor tells to use a procmail r

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread nate
Nicolas SABOURET said: > Hi, > > I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward > and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. > How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam > messages still go through spamassassin. > m

Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread Fred Sloniker
I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to focus on something more basic, specifically gettin

Re: Newbie needs help badly!

2002-11-29 Thread nate
Fred Sloniker said: > I can't even boot into Linux now because fetchmail will eat more of my > email. Would someone please tell me what I need to do to get those > 300-odd messages delivered so I can stop using Windows? I can't remember fetchmail ever eating a message for me. what fetchmail does

RE: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread David Pastern
Andre Douglas said on Friday, 29 November 2002 6:41 PM: >na I tryed that and it didnt work. >here is what it says when i log in. > >..a bunch of crap saying ive loged in etc... > > >then if ive gone into user its >andre2@andre:~$here i can type commands (andre is my name) >

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Geordie Birch
said Andre (on 2002-11-29), > Please can you help, i want to get this up and running asap. In addition to what others have said, you might check out the #debian channel on irc.openprojects.net. Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:53:02AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like his > microsoft counterpart when encountering flash, java, etc. 'enhanced' > web pages. These cause mozilla 0.99 to ask me to download some > 'plug-ins' in some wacky f

Re: geforce4

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
[Please, please, please actually delineate your message from the quote! That standard syntax is prefixing each line with a '> ', as you see below. At least you wrapped your lines this time...] On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:09:40PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > TNX for the info but when I try to instal

Re: Further information on 'eaugh'...

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
[again, please wrap your lines] On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:12:27PM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > Typing 'plog' periodically during a connection attempt shows that the > computer gets as far as connecting with the other side, then appears > to give up before username and password are supplied, sayi

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:46:07PM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: > Hi, > > I am using CDRDAO to record CDs. I add the user to group cdrom to enable > the access to /dev/scd0 (linked by /dev/cdrom). But I got an error > message 'Cannot map "/dev/cdrom" to a SG device." It seems the user > should have to

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:08:29PM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > 4 months ago I switched to Redhat 7.2 - patched weekly with the Redhat > network. This infrastructure was hacked repeatedly, my email server was an > open relay, my ftp server was being brought down every other day, my web > server had

Re: A mixed stable/testing system

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: > If anyone know the solution, could he/she gives me his "/etc/apt/sources.list" > and his "/etc/apt/apt.conf" so that I can see how to do it. I think you also need an apt-preferences file. Read the man page or search the archive sin

Re: edit menus under gnome2

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:05:20AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do I edit the menus, or create a custom menu under gnome2? GNOME 2 doesn't include a menu editor, yet. Soon, apparently... > I am running a woody system. > It seems like the control panel under gnome 2 is completly anemic and >

Re: Eaugh. Connection problems.

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
[Please, please, please wrap your lines at something sensible] On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:41:43PM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > Okay, so I went through the twelve-hour download and install without > significant hitches. (A few files had to be retried because my modem > connection dropped a few ti

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or stat

Re: 2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:07:17PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Is this normal? Or can the lower libs be removed? I did a dry dselect run > to see what would happen, and got warnings on different things for each of > the tk libs. I assume there are different dependencies? I'm not really sure

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:19:32AM -0600, Mailing List wrote: > On 11/28/02 10:07 AM, "Walter Tautz" wrote: > > > > > Thought you might be interested in the FUD being reported at wininformant. > > The link to the story is: > > http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27428 > > >

Re: Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:21:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > STOP TROLLING. Trolling == pointing out important flaws in someones' reasoning? Also, your mail client seems to be broken. It should be putting quoted messages in the body. -rob msg16022/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
[Ach, please wrap your lines!] On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:43:57PM +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > Is there a way to prod the kernel into reporting whether its > parameters are accepted as valid? I ask because I also tried feeding > it some nonsense parameters and it didn't complain in any obviou

Re: dselect trying to remove newer stuff in favor of older stuff

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:06:22PM -0500, Tim Verry wrote: > Everytime I mess w/ the sources.list, and go into dselect, it seems to > arbitrarily choose a bunch of stuff to install. Well for instance adding > "testing" for the first time. I don't even select anything, and then there > is this

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
> The problem with Java, Flash and Acrobat is that they're non-Free. > Debian isn't allowed to distribute them. There are other solutions (you > can get a Java plugin from blackdown.org, f'r instance), not until there > are Free versions, it can't be integrated into Debian. If you want it > to wo

is software raid across two networked machines possible ?

2002-11-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Hello I have two PCs connected having IPs 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, in one machine I am having an 80 GB HDD and the other 20 GB. My critical application software is running in the 20 GB HDD machine. I want to mirror this across the network on to the machine having this 80 GB HDD. Th

PHP4 with Apache on Alpha platform broken....

2002-11-29 Thread C Swanson
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has a way to get the current supposedly stable release of PHP4 (4.1.2-5 from dselect) to work with Apache 1.3.26 on the Alpha platform. I installed from dselect only to have Apache fail to start. Something to do about libmm and not being able to load the module?

Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Whiteley
Please, What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. I have a couple of labs full of machines, all more or less identical. They are all dual-booted Linux and XP . They are maintained by dumping OS images onto them using a proprietary produc

djbdns breaking out of a chroot?

2002-11-29 Thread martin f krafft
just found this in my logs, after installing djbdns via djbdns-installer (FHS) and starting it through svscan. albatross kernel: grsec: Attempted fchdir outside of chroot to root by (dnscache:29264) UID(105) EUID(105), parent (supervise:24861) UID(0) EUID(0) what is it doing? i don't know m

neighbour table overflow, lo device is up

2002-11-29 Thread Christian Hähnel
Hello, on my system, pentium with intel d845gbvl mainboard, 3com 3c905C-TX Fast Ethenet (module 3c59x) I get a lot of the following error messages: ... NET: 1044 messages suppressed. Neighbour table overflow. Neighbour table overflow. ... Loopback device is up and running. ifconfig sho

security rating

2002-11-29 Thread fLokNo
hello! some time ago (more than a year) friend showed me a cool consolecommand to test the security rating of a system considering the opened ports and the os type etc. it said something like: the rating is 3462356; which is very good i think mine was like 435647... (w2k then). does anybody know

ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Chris Lale
Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows users. Why not instructions for Linux? Suppose everyone with a dialup account were

Re: PHP4 with Apache on Alpha platform broken....

2002-11-29 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:39:53PM -0700, C Swanson wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has a way to get the current supposedly > stable release of PHP4 (4.1.2-5 from dselect) to work with Apache > 1.3.26 on the Alpha platform. I installed from dselect only to have > Apache fail to start. Somethin

Re: PHP4 with Apache on Alpha platform broken....

2002-11-29 Thread David Hellekalek
- Original Message - From: "C Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 6:39 AM Subject: PHP4 with Apache on Alpha platform broken > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone has a way to get the current supposedly > sta

Re: security rating

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Massey
* fLokNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-29 21:24]: > some time ago (more than a year) friend showed me a cool consolecommand > to test the security rating of a system considering the opened ports and > the os type etc. > it said something like: > the rating is 3462356; which is very good i think > mi

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I'll make some comments, in the hope that they'll help. On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:35:01AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage wit

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:35:01AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows > users. Why not i

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> How will the user know? > How will the helpdesk guys know? (If it's a winmodem or not) > On which serial port is it? > Maybe trying to autodetect it (w/ wvdial) would help tell if it a serial modem? I mean, to help tell if it's a winmodem Sorry! J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:10:13AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. dhcp-client has some options in /etc/dhcpcd/config that you can play with to do what you want. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:35, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows > users. Why not instructions f

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:39:25AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Create an XML file format for all the details required: ^^^ Yes! Buzzword! Good! :-) I don't like XML (cluttered, too verbose), but it widely accepted in the corporate world. > DNS servers > Dialup number > Authenticat

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-29 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Jerome the LaTeX package `epstopdf' allows to convert PostScript files on the fly: you should find it at your favorite CTAN site in the folder: CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberliek or somethinh lik that. This looks very promising, I have to check it out. But wait... this should

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Perfect idea, Antoine! I second it. Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins (Flash+Java+Real Player...). Is this allowed ? I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could apt-get the plugins without violating the dis

Re: is software raid across two networked machines possible ?

2002-11-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Raghavendra Bhat [Fri, Nov 29 2002, 03:35:13PM]: > Hello > > I have two PCs connected having IPs 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, in > one machine I am having an 80 GB HDD and the other 20 GB. My critical > application software is running in the 20 GB HDD machine. I want to > mirror

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Richardson
Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. > > ... /etc/hostname is identical on all > the machines. The IP addresses are correctly discovered and set. > > I know that I could write a script

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:35, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows > users. Why not instructions f

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:36:30AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > I mean, to help tell if it's a winmodem Easiest way is to follow this flow... Is it internal? --- Yes --- Pester your manufacturer, though it's | probably not worth the bother.[1] No | Is

OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, i mainly run Linux - testing/unstable - and a part of the saga not mentioned below (posted to alt.os.windows.2000), was the trouble I had getting X to work. I was running kernel 2.4.17-686 and was only able to fix it after installing 2.4.19-686. I've added a CD burner, and was dismayed t

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > Is this allowed ? > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could > apt-get the plugins without violating th

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:23, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > > Is this allowed ? > > > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in De

Re: Partition size

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Friday 29 November 2002 03:24, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:40, Michael Naumann wrote: > > For this very reason, I have ext2. But gkrellm shows me small write > > peaks every other second. I figured out, that /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > gets filled with > > (II) PM Eve

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Craig Genner
That would be a really great idea if most ISP's did it, but... 1. When ISP's say they support Windows they provide call up numbers to help those with windows connection problems. They would have to do the same for Linux and they can hardly say "Sorry, ask you local LUG to help you". Looks bad on

Re: web based survey/database

2002-11-29 Thread Chip Rose
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would > provide a web based solution for users to > take surveys, answer questions and have the data > stored in some kind of database to be displayed on > a web page. > Any such software

Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Großjohann
I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating. But it also looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch. So maybe someone else has done it already? I'm using sarge and I'd like to use initrd to be able to boot the same kernel on different hardware. So, for example, I don't need to

Re: edit menus under gnome2

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:34:11PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:05:20AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Also the desktop pager won't show viewports, only workspaces under > > sawfish, and the tasklist only shows one row. > > Viewports were pretty much removed from both sawfis

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Chris Lale wrote: > 3. Run pppconfig. Navigate the menus using the spacebar, arrow, tab, and enter keys. Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > Will it always be available? The ISP could supply it on their CD. It's in Perl and will run on any distribution. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
I am very sorry for the misspelling, so let me try again: you can find the `epstopdf.sty' LaTeX STY file in the drectory `/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/oberdiek' Bye, Jerome Jörg Johannes wrote: Hello Jerome the LaTeX package `epstopdf' allows to convert PostScript files on the fly: you should f

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:23, Tom Badran wrote: > > On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > > > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > > > Is thi

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:56:07PM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > That bunch of crap that comes up is actually very important. It is your > system details. Sure, you don't have to know what it all means, but it's > good to have some idea what it is. Try entering: > > cat dmesg | less > > at th

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Richard Hector writes: > Create an XML file format for all the details required: > DNS servers > Dialup number > Authentication type > etc > Write a config utility (or modify pppconfig or whatever) to read it, and > only ask the remaining questions such as username and password. Make those text

recompiling kernel with just one change?

2002-11-29 Thread Alex Polite
When I need to recompile my kernel I usually erase my /usr/src/linux, get a fresh version copy in my old .config and start working. Compiling the kernel only takes 10 minutes, so it's no big deal. But still... I'd rather just recompile the stuff that needs it. Sometimes It's just a matter of adding

mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
I installed the mozilla-unstable branch yesterday. the Java-jvm plugin that I had before was no longer listed as available so I tried to reinstall the java plugin from the sun.com website. I did the install as 'root' so that I wouldn't have any problems with access rights for installing the plu

linux 2.4 freezeing with palm m515 hotsync ?

2002-11-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi all! I got a palm m515 and when i try to hotsync the machine seemes to freeze (no ping answered, kerboard ligths not responding). I was able to hotsync before with my 2.4 kernel (unstable) and last pilot-link version, but now that the palm is loaded with a bunch of programs hotsync dies on d

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Kai posts : >> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >> could they be pilfered for my purpose? The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff. They can be pilfered and you can re-master your own Knoppix CD. It is very easy. The following links will be of help, h

troubles with `kernel-patch-lpp'

2002-11-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello All, I have just build a buid a new kernel with the patch LPP and configured my Debian boxe as suggestd in the document file. Every thing look find, exept the last stage: the picture stay. Apparently the command line `echo 101 /proc/progress ' in the suggested `/etc/init.d/rc' script does

Re: recompiling kernel with just one change?

2002-11-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
without erasing the /usr/src/linux, just cd there and make menuconfig (or whichever you prefer) the config loaded will be the one you last choosed, so adding a module should be seconds of typing and minutes of compiling after config, make-kpkg clean and make-kpkg... (usual) hope it helps Alex Poli

Paper based survey/database, (Was Re: web based survey/database)

2002-11-29 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 29 November 2002 12:58, Chip Rose wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would > > provide a web based solution for users to > > take surveys, answer questions and have the data > > stored in some kind of

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS?Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > Anecdotal, of course, but I keep hearing the exact opposite from people > who are forced to maintain MS machines. Also, how many reboots do they > require? Under Windows 98 at least, now requires one reboot just to load the controls to see what's needed to

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > > E: Problem with MergeList > > >/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
David Pastern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | PS I'd suggest that you don't have X working because you did not | either install XFree86, did not configure it properly, did not | load a graphical user interface (kde, gnome) or have not set up | drivers for your graphics card properly yet. Bas

sooyo 7vca

2002-11-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
anyone has this mainboard? can anyone help me configuring (onboard) sound on this ? I'm using unstable and 2.4 thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:56:07PM +1100, David Pastern wrote: | > That bunch of crap that comes up is actually very important. It | > is your system details. Sure, you don't have to know what it | > all means, but it's good to have some idea wh

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
> > > Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from > > > blackdown. > > > > I can't find RealPlayer... > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > recently removed as a result. So there's a need for a new one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > The realplayer contrib installer had a bucketload of bugs and was > > recently removed as a result. > > So there's a need for a new one. As ever, it'll happen as soon as a developer is interested. -- Col

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: > Hi, > > I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward > and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. > How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam > messages

How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 01.39 schrieb damar thapa: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do > not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can > I do that in Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/v

Re: recompiling kernel with just one change?

2002-11-29 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > When I need to recompile my kernel I usually erase my /usr/src/linux, > get a fresh version copy in my old .config and start working. > Compiling the kernel only takes 10 minutes, so it's no big deal. But > still... I'd rather just reco

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Free Check Recovery

2002-11-29 Thread NSF
Title: NSF_Mass

Re: trying out 2.4.19 w/pcmcia+DHCP debian woody

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian-user" == debian-user writes: debian-user> woah! yes it's true! I am trying 2.4.19 on my laptop! debian-user> I figured what the hell, I mean worst case my system debian-user> gets hosed and I lose everything. nothing on the debian-user> laptop I need so, screw it, why

Re: Ready-made initrd setup?

2002-11-29 Thread Kai Großjohann
Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai posts : > >>> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >>> could they be pilfered for my purpose? > > The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff. Ah, and there are even Debian packages for this! Cool. > They can

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"pop" == pop n fresh0 0 writes: pop> now im assuming that there is a command to access the debian pop> window and actually get into it, so do you know what it is? pop> Please can you help, i want to get this up and running asap. You need to install the X window system and some d

Re: [OT] Debian vs Gentoo (discussed in newsletter)

2002-11-29 Thread csj
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:02:41 +1100, Russell wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:19:20 +1100, bob parker > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Docs are very much a personal-preference item, but I must say > > I find the info pages awkward. Jumping about between nodes in > > a

ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-29 Thread Russ Cook
Please help. I have loaded Debian on a Compaq Presario. X windows is working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, and how to get it set up? Thanks much for any help. Regards, Russ -- To UN

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-11-29 Thread Brian Stults
Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose in

WindowMaker Menu

2002-11-29 Thread f . holler
Hi there, I installed OpenOffice on my desktop. I downloaded the tarball, I didn't use the apt-getable package (I tried, it didn't work...). After I installed it, my menu in WindowMaker doesn't include OpenOffice in the submenu Apps (eventhough I apt-getted install menu). So I tried to add it w

spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Hi, I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. How can I make sure whether it is used by spamassassin or not ? 1/3 spam messages still go through spamassassin. man razor tells to use a procmail r

Re: spamassassin & razor

2002-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: > > Hi, > > > > I installed spamassassin and I use it "locally" (with a user's .forward > > and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. > > How can I make sure whether it is

sooyo 7vca

2002-11-29 Thread Miguel Griffa
anyone has this mainboard? can anyone help me configuring (onboard) sound on this ? I'm using unstable and 2.4 thanks! (reposted due to date mess) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:39:25PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:07:17PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is this normal? Or can the lower libs be removed? I did a dry dselect run > > to see what would happen, and got warnings on different things for each of > > the tk libs.

Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Helmut Steinwender
I had the same problem. Mozilla.org states that JRE 1.3.x may not work. See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2/#java Try JRE1.4 from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian It works for me ___

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. > How can I do that in Debian? Normally, you don'

Any updates on Bonobo/unstable?

2002-11-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I saw some messages about part of Bonobo (iirc, bonobo-activation) being, ummm, less than entirely compliant with smoothly functional software (aka microsofted) recently on Sid, and was wondering if it is still *to be avoided*, or is it safe now? I was going to pull in something from Unstable, it d

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:01:33PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: ... > A weird thing came up on #debian today, which maybe someone else can > explain to _me_: a guy was trying to setup CD ripping with ide-scsi > emulation enabled, and had enormous trouble since cdparanoia claimed it > couldn't find a gene

Re: VIA P4X333 CHIPSET

2002-11-29 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to herv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > i think i have a little prob.Could some one help me?? > i have those message from dmesg...: > . > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaf1, last bus=1 > PCI: Using configurati

Re: OT: Major screwup in multiboot

2002-11-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tim" == Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Hi, i mainly run Linux - testing/unstable - and a part of the Tim> saga not mentioned below (posted to alt.os.windows.2000), was Tim> the trouble I had getting X to work. I was running kernel Tim> 2.4.17-686 and was only able t

Re: Any updates on Bonobo/unstable?

2002-11-29 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: I saw some messages about part of Bonobo (iirc, bonobo-activation) being, ummm, less than entirely compliant with smoothly functional software (aka microsofted) recently on Sid, and was wondering if it is still *to be avoided*, or is it safe now? I was going to pull in somethi

which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. Since I have no need to support a legacy OS, I am wondering what sort of partition table would be best to use. I intend to create a lot of little partitions on t

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive > to > become /dev/hdb? > > What I know: > > edit lilo.conf, run lilo > edit fstab > > What about the partition table though? I am surprised not to have seen this among all of the answers about s

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The

Webmail question

2002-11-29 Thread David Ellis
My Configuration: Mail Server: Pentium 166, 128MB of RAM 9 GIG scsi Cyrus, and exim for IMAP and sendmail. Web Server: Pentium 166 256MB of RAM 18 GIG scsi Apache and Apache SSL Squirrelmail 1.26 This works great for reading 100-200 messages, but my Debian folder times out (1000+ messages), squi

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-29 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is irrelevent bullshit, and its getting on my nerves. SHUT > UP. Anyone, someone take me off this list. > I guess this means that you still have not figured out how to unsubscribe? "From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

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