Re: rsync or wget?

2003-07-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:22:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Hi group, > > > > > > I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching > > > packages? I don't re

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:08, MJM wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:14:08PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Please let's not start a flamewar. I won't cc you anymore since > > > you read the lists all of the time. > > > > Better yet, don't

AW: DLT tape problem

2003-07-16 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi , I use dd with(out) a bs or tar and a DLT4. Murat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 14. Juli 2003 13:51 An: Debian-User Betreff: Re: DLT tape problem On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 03:00, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > Hi, > I get the following

Re: Can't print from apps

2003-07-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jul 2003, J. Buchanan wrote: > Please reply to me as well as the list since I can't subscibe to high volume > lists without my internet connection choking :) > > My lprng with a Kyocera Mita FS-1010 printer seems to work really well - the > KDE printer preferences dialogue sends a test page

how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, small question. How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? This question because I have a server and some technician who had to work on another system had chosen the wrong keyboard !! So, the debian was on it's login screen ant it rebooted and I don't want this to happen agai

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.0251 +0200]: > Basically what's happening is that FreeS/WAN very emphatically > refuses to accept any contributions from US citizens. I usually support any political statement against the US government, the Patriot Act, etc. because I b

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.0919 +0200]: > I tried that, but I hate vim being the default editor, setting it > to xemacs caused problems in my xterm. Furthermore I use pop/smtp > to get/sen my emails via a freemail provider, and I did not want > to mess around with ex

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030716 00:51]: > also sprach Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.0919 +0200]: > > I tried that, but I hate vim being the default editor, setting it > > to xemacs caused problems in my xterm. Furthermore I use pop/smtp > > to get/sen my emails via a

Re: apt-get and proxy setting

2003-07-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through > http proxy setting. I tried the following: > >1. Set the environment variable as > > export HTTP_PROXY="http://203.195.221.129:3

Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:41, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > >in an ongoing saga trying to get usb and acpi working correctly on > my Fujitsu LOOX T93c (Japanese cousin of the P2040), I compiled and > booted linux-2.6.0-test1. > > I read [1] and made sure I had CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y,

Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems

2003-07-16 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
I have no problems with this kernel. Here is my config-2.6.0-test1 Apart from the CONFIG_VT business, another important configure-related change from 2.4.X to 2.6.X was that you have to enable the devpts filesystem even if you use devfs. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac #

bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, after reading the bootcd manual and searching the archive I have these questions about bootcd : 1.Is it possible to create an image in order to save it on the harddisk, or can it write only to a cd?(I know bootcdwrite can build a cd with nfs mounted systems) 2.I have run bootcdwrite an a sys

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:31, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.0919 +0200]: > > I tried that, but I hate vim being the default editor, setting it > > to xemacs caused problems in my xterm. Furthermore I use pop/smtp > > to get/sen my emails via

Re: how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030716 00:46]: > Hi, small question. > How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? > This question because I have a server and some technician who had to work on > another system had chosen the wrong keyboard !! > So, the debian was

Re: how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:44, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > Hi, small question. > How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? > This question because I have a server and some technician who had to > work on another system had chosen the wrong keyboard !! > So, the debian was

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:19:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Furthermore I use pop/smtp to get/sen my emails via a freemail > provider, and I did not want to mess around with exim & co. to send > mail. Fetchmail is super-easy as is exim. If you

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > And kmail has one major advantage: I can read mails > with over-long lines without problems... So can mutt, but the ultimate solution is to tell your correspondants not to send email i

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

2003-07-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:50:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Vittorio [debian-user] <15/07/03 18:12 +>: > > Has anyone of you debianists used the two typesetting systems? > > > > What are your impressions? > > > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > > > Sorry friends, I restate my question: > >

Re: Booting from a floppy to install debian

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:15:49AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I _vaguely_ recall reading on this list that there's a script on the CD > to make floppies, but as I say, it's a hazy recollection and could be wrong. Not scripts, but disk images. dd if=/

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.0956 +0200]: > It can? Afaik, mutt doesn't speak smtp. It does pop and imap. Well, you might be right. I think I had a patched version then... > Actually, recently I've been using it with local maildirs > synchronized via offlineimap, whi

Re: how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:44, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: >> Hi, small question. >> How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? >> This question because I have a server and some technician who had to

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:19:20 +0200 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that, but I hate vim being the default editor, setting it to > xemacs caused problems in my xterm. Furthermore I use pop/smtp to > get/sen my emails via a freemail provider, and I did not want to mess > around

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:14:52 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > And kmail has one major advantage: I can read mails > > with over-long lines without problems... > So can mutt, but the ultimate solution is to tell yo

Re: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Jul 16, 2003 at 10:11:23AM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > 1.Is it possible to create an image in order to save it on the harddisk, or > can it write only to a cd?(I know bootcdwrite can build a cd with nfs > mounted systems) Not with version 2.08. But with recent version you can set fol

apt-get error messages

2003-07-16 Thread Wm . G . McGrath
Hi, I'm fine tuning my sources.list file and get the following error message. The presence of CDs in the file seems to create a problem for apt-get update. The CDs were added with apt-cdrom, and are present in both the sources.list and /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list files. But the second problem is

AW: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, where do I get an eralier version of bootcd? I have tried to copy the content on my pc and it couldn't read either,so I think the cd is bad written. I cannot write the complete error because it is on the monitor and it tries all the time to read from cd. Actually I need a rescue cd (booting

Re: apt-get and proxy setting

2003-07-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:56:47AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through > > http proxy setting. I tried the following: > >

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Piers! Piers Kittel wrote: > [...Backup...] > 00 4 * * 0 root rm -f /home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar; tar cf > /home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar /home/desire/piers Hmm, you completely delete your older backup, and then you try to get a new one? What do you think might happen once an "err

Re: apt-get error messages

2003-07-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Wm.G.McGrath wrote: > What's the problem here? > Failed to fetch cdrom:['Libranet GNU/Linux 1.9 > CD1']/archive/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD > recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CDs > Reading Package Lists... > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >

Re: apt-get error messages

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hi there! Wm.G.McGrath wrote: > [...] > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing pentium-builder (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_testing_main_binary > -i386_Packages > > E: The package lists or status file coul

how to use mplayer

2003-07-16 Thread John Joe
i have installed mplayer on my Debian 3.0, with no extra libs. could you tell me the command to encode test.mpg(VCD format) to MPEG 2 or 4 to reduce file size? THANKS in advance!!! please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because i will leave the list soon. __ Do you

Re: exim / amavis-ng overload

2003-07-16 Thread Randy Orrison
David Fokkema wrote: Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and almost immediately, my server became irresponsive. I managed to squeeze in and run top which came on after three minutes and saw my load increase from 20 to 30 to 50 to 77.81. I had a few exim processes and _l

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:42:49AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > So can mutt, but the ultimate solution is to tell your correspondants > > not to send email in a retarded manner. > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D0

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:03:15 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact Sylpheed-claws' reply on a list message defaults to > reply-to-list. > It has a reply-to-sender for list mail to which you want to reply > directly to the sender. Very sane, IMHO. This is also in Sylpheed

Re: Un-KDE-ifying myself

2003-07-16 Thread Fraser Campbell
On July 14, 2003 11:18 pm, MJM wrote: > I use KDE 2.2.2 in Debian 3.0r1. KDE misbehaves at times and I have to > logout and login to regain control. If you have broadband you can easily and safely upgrade to the latest KDE, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://downlo

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:39:53AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Not in my view. I never understood why people have such a woody on having > an MTA on a machine that most likely doesn't need it. The mail client is > perfectly capable, or at least sh

Re: how to use mplayer

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:12:28AM -0700, John Joe wrote: > could you tell me the command to encode test.mpg(VCD > format) to MPEG 2 or 4 to reduce file size? > > THANKS in advance!!! Search the fscking web and you would have found it in the archive

OT: Munich buys Linux

2003-07-16 Thread cr
Apologies for the OT, but this is nice reading for any Linux fan http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030714/5320229s.htm cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread 'Thomas Krennwallner'
Hi! On Wed Jul 16, 2003 at 11:22:38AM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > where do I get an eralier version of bootcd? Why do you want to use an earlier version of bootcd? > I have tried to copy the content on my pc and it couldn't read either,so I > think the cd is bad written. > I cannot write the c

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Paladin
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:03:07 +0200 Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, you completely delete your older backup, and then you try to > get a new one? > What do you think might happen once an "error" occurs directly > after deleting the old backup? You will end up with _no_ backup >

Problems with Samba and/or Sundance Ehternet Driver

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Galbraith
I'm having a lot problems getting Samba running on my deb 3.0 machine. I suspect the problem is really a problem with the sundance ethernet driver, but that's a fairly random guess. The main diagnostic symptoms are numerous read failures in the samba log file, such as: [2003/07/15 15:29:33, 0]

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:14:42 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because it's pointless and un-necissary to impliment the better part > of an MTA into an MUA. Which is why you don't do that. Smarthost doesn't need a full blown MTA to do it. This is smarthost behavior. Here are t

Re: exim / amavis-ng overload

2003-07-16 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > >Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and > >almost immediately, my server became irresponsive. I managed to squeeze > >in and run top which came on after three minutes and saw my loa

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1042 +0200]: > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD=my%2Emonster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=company%2Emonster%2Ecom&AD=http%3A%2F%2Fjobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom%2Fjobsearch%2Easp%

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1013 +0200]: > Fetchmail is super-easy as is exim. If you can't find the example > config in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/examples and don't understand > eximconfig, I've really got to question how you managed to make it > past the installer. f

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1435 +0200]: > Lookup DNS > Connect > Process > > That doesn't look like an MTA to me. it does to me. it's only the smtp side, smtpd is not implemented. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f.

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 15-07-2003, om 17:16 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > Hi, > > i tested mondo mindi for a full backup of my system and i ran into some > problems. The creation of the cd's works, as does the booting of the > recovery cd (after adding initrd to the kernel config). > However, after i boot from the

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:05:37 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:03:15 -0700 > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In fact Sylpheed-claws' reply on a list message defaults to >> reply-to-list. >> It has a reply-to-sender for list mail to which yo

Re: how to use mplayer

2003-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:17:56AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Search the fscking web and you would have found it in the archives > from when I asked it. You want avidemux. It's use is an excersize to > the user, there is good documentation on it's website. Well, avidemux segfaults on about ha

Re: Cannot access CD packages

2003-07-16 Thread Jianan Huang
The file size of 500+ MB is correct. Mine is a US version.The Non-US version will be 600+. All is not lost. I was able to use Undisker and MagicISO to extract the directories files from the .iso image. But that's under Window. Any similar utilities for Linux? Browsing through the Web, I came a

AW: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi I have downloaded the latest version of bootcd and run : linux:/etc/bootcd# bootcdwrite To see full output: tail -f /var/log/bootcdwrite.log --- Cleanup --- /var/spool/bootcd/cdimage.iso will be created ! /var will be cleaned (apt-get clean) ! Ok to continue? (y/n) y --- Checking for p

Re: apt-get error messages

2003-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:43:02 -0700 Wm.G.McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the problem here? In general, when you've got a question, it's a good idea to try doing a simple web search, or search of this mailing list's archives. In particular, your question gets asked pretty frequent

Re: apt-get and proxy setting

2003-07-16 Thread Bec Dridan
Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hello, I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through http proxy setting. I tried the following: 1. Set the environment variable as export HTTP_PROXY="http://203.195.221.129:3128"; Do you mean http_proxy? I thought it had to be lower-case

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Paladin! Paladin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:03:07 +0200 > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm, you completely delete your older backup, and then you try to >> get a new one? >> What do you think might happen once an "error" occurs directly >> after deleting the old ba

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:45:46 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1435 +0200]: > > Lookup DNS > > Connect > > Process > > > > That doesn't look like an MTA to me. > it does to me. it's only the smtp side, smtpd is not imple

Re: exim / amavis-ng overload

2003-07-16 Thread Randy Orrison
David Fokkema wrote: | On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote: |>David Fokkema wrote: |>|Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and |>|almost immediately, my server became irresponsive. |>[In exim.conf:] |>deliver_load_max = 4 |>queue_only_load = 4 |

Re: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread 'Thomas Krennwallner'
Hi! On Wed Jul 16, 2003 at 03:27:42PM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote: [...] > --- WARNING --- > Could not calculate Kernelconfig to make further checks. > If you install a kernel from a .deb package the kernel will be named > /boot/vmlinuz and there will be a kernel config file named > /boot/config. B

RE: squid user_auth

2003-07-16 Thread Botha, Francois
Hi, "password" is not a acl, I tried proxy_auth but still no go ): Regards, FB > -Original Message- > From: Ernest Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 July 2003 19:30 > To: Botha, Francois > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: squid user_auth > > > Francois, > > Try adding the

AW: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread Yildiz, Murat
No I haven't, actually it'S a brand new cd/dvd drive and no problems with other cd's.I tried to copy the content on my pc to harddisk and it failed saying "cannot read ", too. Before I write another bootcd the last question : Why does it take vmlinuz instead of KERNEL=$SRCDISK/boot/bzImage?Ma

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op di 15-07-2003, om 17:16 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > > Hi, > > > > i tested mondo mindi for a full backup of my system and i ran into some > > problems. The creation of the cd's works, as does the booting of the > > recovery cd (after add

Re: apt-get and proxy setting

2003-07-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:50:14PM +1000, Bec Dridan wrote: > Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through > >http proxy setting. I tried the following: > > > > 1. Set the environment variable as > > >

Re: Cannot access CD packages

2003-07-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hi Jianan! Jianan Huang wrote: > [...] > Browsing through the Web, I came across a suggestion using the > 'mount' command. > > mount -o loop /dev/hdc/debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso /cdrom Err, no. > > /dev/hdc is the device for my cdrom drive Right, it's the _device_. > /cdrom is the mount po

2 NICs and the source ip address

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a simple and preferred way to configure the ip parameters for the following situation: Host A has 2 NICs (say eth0 and eth1), where eth0 is connected to the LAN and is given the ip address 1.2.3.4. The DNS entry of host A points to that ip address. In addition,

Re: 2 NICs and the source ip address

2003-07-16 Thread Lukas Ruf
Thomas Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-16 16:43]: > > > This will result in the correct routing table. But there is no > control of the source ip address leaving eth0 or eth1. It seems > preferable that all packages going through eth0 are given the > source ip address 1.2.3.4 and all the pa

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:03:12AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I nominate offlineimap for the Tool of the Year 2003 Award! Offlineimpa had severe problems with defunct threads last I saw, and yes I filed a bug report on it. Sadly, it got passed around with nothing coming of it last I checked

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-16 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since when is a list header from a known list "unreliable"? Since people may cc you personally, giving a transit path for a message which does not contain said header. In other words, the reason this subthread exists. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROT

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:31:30AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since when is a list header from a known list "unreliable"? > > Since people may cc you personally, giving a transit path for a > message which does not contain said header. In oth

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1653 +0200]: > Offlineimpa had severe problems with defunct threads last I saw, and yes > I filed a bug report on it. Sadly, it got passed around with nothing > coming of it last I checked. What's a defunct thread? I am using it now for

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1709 +0200]: > Then the message was a peronsal message not a list message and thus the > filtering on list headers is not "unreliable" it worked perfectly. > Messages to the list end in the list box, messages to me end in a > personal box

phpMyAdmin

2003-07-16 Thread Didier Caamano
I'm having problems connecting to mysql using phpMyAdmin, locally I'm able to connect to mysql, using the user name and password, but when I try to use phpMyAdmin, with the same name and password, it does not work. I change the lines in the config.inc.php file, and put the absolute URL for my s

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:07:59PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1653 +0200]: > > Offlineimpa had severe problems with defunct threads last I saw, and > > yes I filed a bug report on it. Sadly, it got passed around with > > nothing coming of it la

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:07:54 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is also in Sylpheed itself. > > Really? Did you have to do anything funky to get that functionality, > or did it just come with the version in sid? (I note you're running > 0.9.3; I'm on 0.8.2) I run sylpheed,

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > debs if I knew how, but I've always

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:40:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > fetchmail requires you to have an MDA configured, which may well be > beyond the average user. Wait, since when? I ran fetchmail *long* before I ran procmail... - -- .''`. Paul

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 16-07-2003, om 16:27 schreef Dale Hair: > I had these same problems and more when backing up to nfs. After some > frustration I downloaded and installed > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/stable/final/mondo-1.65.tgz and > everything seems to work as I expect it to. I've tested by

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 00:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | I use KMail - is it being lame? > > Yes. Or, possibly, it has a list reply feature that you haven't found > yet. I can't say for certain because I don't use it. On Wednesday 16 July 2003 03:19, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I use kmai

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:41:56 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > debs if I knew how, but I've always found the documentation on this >

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 11:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > > debs if I knew how, bu

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:14:34PM -0400, MJM wrote: > application. More PITA. So my thinking is that KDE, Gnome, and others like > them are too much stuff too tightly integrated with too many test cases for > even the OS community. I want to return to 1993 and reclaim some reliability > and c

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1755 +0200]: > Yeah, I'd love it if there was something more in the form of a concise > HOWTO. If there is one, I haven't found it but would love to be > proven wrong. God knows I would package everything I compile on my > own and throw up

Re: bootcd questions

2003-07-16 Thread 'Thomas Krennwallner'
Hi! On Wed Jul 16, 2003 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > actually it'S a brand new cd/dvd drive and no problems with other cd's.I > tried to copy the content on my pc to harddisk and it failed saying "cannot > read ", too. Hm, sounds like a misburned cd... Do you use cdrw media? I

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:40:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > fetchmail requires you to have an MDA configured, which may well be > > beyond the average user. > > Wait, since when? I ran fetchmail *long* before I ran p

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:55:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Which brings me to a question. Hey, all you Debian Developers! Do > you put the fact you're a DD on your resume? Yes. It's a significant part of my free-time work and experience, so it deserves to be there. I suspect it may have bee

Re: Installing Debian on existing winxp+rh9.0 hdd

2003-07-16 Thread sudeep mukherjee
HI Thanks to everyone who replied to me. I have successfully managed to install Debian on the same hard disk with existing winxp and red hat 9.0. Thanks once again. Happy Debian user -- .~. Sudeep Mukherjee /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^Registered Linux user # 255384

jabberd configuration

2003-07-16 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On a woody system I'm trying to configure jabberd. I installed the woody jabber package and have configured it using the info from www.jabber.org and in the associated documentation. I changed the hostname and spool location in the jabber.xml and jabber.cfg files, created the spool directory and ch

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:19:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 a

[RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-16 Thread HdV
Hi, Currently I am writing a piece on the why and how of setting up SSH2 for public key authentication. For now it is in Dutch, but an English version will follow later on. In this document I want to show a couple of examples of starting ssh-agent from ~/.xsession, ~/.profile or ~/.login. This is

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

2003-07-16 Thread Rajkumar S
Magnus Therning wrote: The free LaTeX documentation that is available is pretty good, and it is sufficient for most people An excellent LaTeX tutorial is available at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html raj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: jabberd configuration

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:00:14AM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On a woody system I'm trying to configure jabberd. I installed the > woody jabber package and have configured it using the info from > www.jabber.org and in the associated documentation. I changed the > hostname and spool location i

Re: How to add fonts to X11 on Debian??

2003-07-16 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:36:13PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:34, Zhao You Bing wrote: > > I've read some howtos, but felt that none of them states it clearly, I > > want to know the underlying mechanisms. > > > > Are there any suggestions or good articles?? > > No, but

Re: kernel.sem question

2003-07-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:44:36PM +1000, Jennifer wrote: > The kernel version of this Debian 3.0 release is 2.2.20. > > I tried to check the values of sem ( I need to change the SEMOPM > value in order to properly install Oracle9i on Debian), so I used the > command ( as instructed from Interne

Re: phpMyAdmin

2003-07-16 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:32:45 -0600 "Didier Caamano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having problems connecting to mysql using phpMyAdmin, locally I'm > able to connect to mysql, using the user name and password, but when I > try to use phpMyAdmin, with the same name and password, it does not > wo

Re: phpMyAdmin

2003-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Didier Caamano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having problems connecting to mysql using phpMyAdmin, locally I'm able > to connect to mysql, using the user name and password, but when I try to > use phpMyAdmin, with the same name and password, it does not work. > > I change th

problems with tetex-bin package

2003-07-16 Thread Rune Elvemo
During my latest system upgrade, there were several errors during the processing of the 'tetex-bin" package. Also during this latest upgrade I got a selection among various hyphenations (or whatever it is called), during tetex-base, and I selected "nohypb.tex". (debian sarge, but the problem is re

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Florian, You are completely correct, and I totally agree, but the issue here is that the hard drive in Destiny is 12Gb, and the backup is around 6GB and so there isn't room for 2 backups. Interestingly, when I tried to tar the files on the main PC (Desire) and then copy it over via NFS, I alwa

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Great! Seems to be working Cheers! Piers Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:24:45AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > >>Bascially, I've got 2 computers, one which is my main PC (named desire), >>and the other is a server (named destiny). I'd like the server to >>backup the /home

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

2003-07-16 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 22:43, Rajkumar S wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > > The free LaTeX documentation that is available is pretty good, and it > > is sufficient for most people > > An excellent LaTeX tutorial is available at > http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html > > raj That seems indeed l

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1819 +0200]: > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM > and use alien to make a .deb from the .rpm. NO! do it right! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1827 +0200]: > If you are thinking about replacements for KDE and Gnome you may want to > check out: Fluxbox and/or Blackbox (fluxbox is based on blackbox). > http://fluxbox.sf.net > http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ or: Win

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Furthering the subject... Is it possible to get the crontab to email me each time the job succeeds/fails or is it better to write a shell script and get crontab to execute the script? Cheers - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

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