Re: How to specify MAIL FROM

2003-07-21 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:38:18AM +0800, yuwen wrote: > like [EMAIL PROTECTED]' where leo is my hostname. Many stmp server refuse mail > whose MAILFROM is not a correct domain name. Have you tried to run eximconfig? You'd get options for setting up according to the situation you have. Oki

Re: how do I get sendmail SMTP-AUTH to use pam (and not SASL2)?

2003-07-21 Thread Todd Pytel
Quoting "Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, I'm being light on information because it seems to me > that SMTP-AUTH is something a huge number of debian/sendmail > users would want and therefor I expected it to be an easy > item to configure (if not the default)... > > the /etc/mai

XDM init file

2003-07-21 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console. One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting sawfish its called something else and started wmaker. Can any one tell me what file its called as I can't find anything with grep wmaker ~/.* C

Re: Nvidia problems

2003-07-21 Thread Chris Everts
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:31, Jose wrote: > I am running Libranet 2.8 (based on sarge) and can't seem to get my > onboard graphics going. I can use "nv" and X works but only half-assed. > > Attached are the files and logs which i hope will provide someone with > enough info to help me with this.

Re: How to specify MAIL FROM

2003-07-21 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Monday 21 July 2003 05:38, yuwen wrote: > Hi, Dear all > > I use exim to send mail directly to the outside world. But since I > don't have my own doname name, the MAIL FROM field of my email is just > like [EMAIL PROTECTED]' where leo is my hostname. Many stmp server refuse mail > whose MAILFRO

X, font problems (woody->sid)

2003-07-21 Thread Amit Shah
Hello all, [please cc: me] I have some X-related problems: 1. I get random images thrown all over the screen... if an html page is loading in the background, I'll portions of gifs/jpegs all over my screen, or the toolbars, scroll bars, etc... This happened when I tried 2.6.0-test1 on woody. 2

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 compiling problems [almost solved]

2003-07-21 Thread arief_mulya
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 13:22, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2003 1:18 pm, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > On Saturday 19 July 2003 17:30, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 July 2003 2:20 am, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > > > On Saturday 19 July 2003 2:16 am, Marino Fe

Re: XDM init file

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Jul 20, 2003 at 11:52:29PM -0700, Rus Foster wrote: > I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console. > One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting > sawfish its called something else and started wmaker. Can any one tell me > what f

Re: RealPlayer on Debian

2003-07-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Johnson wrote: > Always start by checking the debian archive using apt-cache search > . > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search realplayer > realplayer - Real Player (installer) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show realplayer [...] > Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/realpl

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David Z Maze wrote: > >> Another is to use the man command; often random files are documented >> in man pages. For example, nologin(5) documents what exactly >> /etc/nologin does such that you'd need an init script to remove

mkboot

2003-07-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
hi, I wanted to make a boot disk, prior to experimenting with the compiling of kernels. I ran mkboot /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7, and the disk was created. I rebooted and the floppy started to boot up, until it hit a kernel panic. The error message was; Root fs not mounted VPS: Can

Re: rmnologin in rc$.d

2003-07-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jimmy Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for all replies, , they were very helpful! I got confused by the >rm at the beginning of nologin and couldn't find a man page for it. Then I >got lazy and asked about makedev and quotarpc also, instead of reading th

Re: kernel oops playing sound -- sound now wedged

2003-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:04:44AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Sounds like time for "lsof" to see what is keeping the sound system > busy. Of course I rebooted days ago. I did use "lsof" but aside from reporting that various sound modules used each other, it wasn't helpful. As for compiling

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-21 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > 1. try: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r10735/unixcomm.html > Google will be a useful resource here. Also try snooping around in the > Debian documentation pages. > > 2. Assuming you have installed and configured X11, type 'startx' at the > prompt. > >

"Can't open display" after migrating from sarge to sid

2003-07-21 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I upgraded to sid running KDE 3 last weekend. Now I find I can't display X apps from other hosts onto my PC. I've had a google around and tried a few things that I found in my searches but the problem persists. I've tried: -- Running 'xhost +' -- Using ssh -X -- Using the x app on the command

VPN

2003-07-21 Thread Tom Allison
I haven't looked in a long time, but what plans are there for including IPSec into the Deb Kernels? -- There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. -- Lily Tomlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Choice of MTA

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in order to choose a mail transport agent. The ones of interest to me are primarily sendmail (I've used it for many years, but need a comparison), postfix (which I gather is readily configured to solve a problem I'm experiencing and was the di

UTF-8 and kernel choice

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
I get the impression that support for UTF-8 (unicode) is introduced at at certain kernel level. Is that so? If so, which kernel supports it? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to specify MAIL FROM

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:38:18AM +0800, yuwen wrote: > like [EMAIL PROTECTED]' where leo is my hostname. Many stmp server refuse mail Don't log in as root! Use your normal user for doing things like sending mail! - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[E

Re: VPN

2003-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 06:22, Tom Allison wrote: > I haven't looked in a long time, but what plans are there for including IPSec > into the Deb Kernels? Well, there's always 2.6, when that comes out... -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Welcome !

2003-07-21 Thread ceo
Title: ai fammi sognare ai fammi sognare, ancora un po' leggermente ho tanta troppa voglia, non posso aspettare Succhiami così leggermente ancora ... ancora di più ... di più Mi sento umida Toccami! Mmmhh...dai fammi sognare, ancora un po' leggermente ho tanta troppa voglia, non po

Re: Nvidia problems

2003-07-21 Thread Paladin
While "nv" doesn't need a kernel module, the "nvidia" does. Your X start log seems to indicate that there's some kind of problem in that area. Do a "lsmod" and check for "NVdriver". If it isn't there then that's your problem! On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:31:45 -0400 Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Xfree86 4.3 confusion

2003-07-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:28, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:16:28AM +0100, Mark C wrote: > > > >I have been using > > the one from here: > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ > > > > >

mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread J. Smith
i have debian 3.0 and complied/installed mplayer, but can't play a mpeg file. below is output of mplayer: Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer 0.90rc2-2.95.4 (C) 2000

Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any suggestions? -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
I need to compile a module to be used with the LT 2003 Debian CD, which comes with the 2.4.20-bf2.4 kernel. I can't seem to find the kernel-source package. Of course, there is kernel-source-2.4.20, but I don't know which revision is on the CD (as the initially installed Linux kernel is not register

Re: Choice of MTA

2003-07-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Haines" == Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haines> I don't want to start a flame war, but need some input in Haines> order to choose a mail transport agent. A flame war you will start ;-) There was a recently (in the last week or so) a long, noisy thread on debian-devel abo

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:50:10 +0200, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > I have tried to add the above command in ~./bashrc and ~/.profile, but > when i start kde again, i have to type again, so that i want to ask > which file i need to edit so that the above two commands can run > automatically when i star

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Randy Orrison
Richard Kimber wrote: When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Hard to say what it is... ps -ef gives the user, process id, and parent p

Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:47, Paul E Condon wrote: > ds: no socket drivers loaded! (excl.pt. is part of the displayed message) > I learned from pcmcia that there are two possible socket drivers: tcic and i82365. > I tried insmod on both. Neither would install. Use modprobe instead of insmod. modp

unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
I know little about unix file attributes, and wonder if someone would point me to an introduction to the subject. When a file is saved, I specify its name and where to save it. I know from use of the ls -l command that there's additional information about ownership, permission, last saved date dat

Re: mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake J. Smith: > VO: [fbdev] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12 > fbdev: Can't put VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument > init_vo failed I think that's fairly explanatory. It's trying to use the framebuffer for video output. Are you using a framebuffer console? Try using -vo x11 -- Nathan Poznick

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I don't believe the bf2.4 represents a different kernel source - rather it's a particular configuration of the 2.4.20 kernel, for installing ("bf" = "boot floppy" IIRC). You can copy the config- file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config (note the .) to duplicate your current installed configuratio

Re: Lexmark USB Printer

2003-07-21 Thread Tinus Kotzé
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 03:15, ghwb wrote: > Tinus Kotzé wrote: > > Good day > > I am setting up my first USB device. It is the Lexmark z25 printer. > > Under kprinter(add local printer) it is listed under the usb devices as > > a lexmark z25_z35 printer. Everything seems fine, accept that if I print

Anyone Install Debian on an SGI Indy?

2003-07-21 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone on the group here has installed Debian on an Silicon Graphics Indy Workstation. Years ago I read somewhere that it could be done but you had to leave IRIX on the system also. Actually, I'm looking for some pointers and advice on how to do this, even a link to a ho

G++ problems in Woody

2003-07-21 Thread Larry
How do I repair a broken g++? When I try to compile even a simple "hello world" program with g++, I get the following: /lib/ld-linux.so.2(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__xstat64' /lib/ld-linux.so.2(.text+0xc810): first defined here /lib/ld-linux.so.2(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__fx

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I know little about unix file attributes, and wonder if someone would > point me to an introduction to the subject. > > When a file is saved, I specify its name and where to save it. I know > from use of the ls -l command that there's

Re: x-window display managers

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A simple question: gdm, kdm and xdm: which one uses minimum runtime > memory? Almost certainly xdm, since it doesn't have to pay the memory cost of a major widget set. (It might use Xt/Xaw, but I'm pretty sure that's strictly cheaper than Qt or Gtk2.)

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Howorth
I thought that the command lsattrib would display all this information, but apparently no such command or utility exists. Is there something that will display all the information about a file, going beyond the ls -l command? 'stat' (in the stat package) shows you all the metadata. 'ls' can be persu

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-21 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:49:06AM +, Alan Connor wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:50:07 +0200, GLS-Ausmines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any = > > at Debian and Redhat sites.) > > > > http://rute.sourceforge.net > > can b

Re: XDM init file

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console. > One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting > sawfish xdm generally runs .xsession, xinit (startx) runs .xinitrc. It seems to be fairly common to syml

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy Orrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Kimber wrote: > > When I do a ps, I see a process: > > > > tee -a /dev/null > > > > I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this > > process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null

Re: "Can't open display" after migrating from sarge to sid

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to sid running KDE 3 last weekend. Now I find I can't display X > apps from other hosts onto my PC. 'ssh -X remotehost.example.com' has always worked just fine for me... > Running 'xhost +' *NEVER EVER* do this; you've now made it possibl

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby > enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any > suggestions? I suspect you're not really writing postscript documents by hand; what is producing the files? T

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.21.1554 +0200]: > I don't believe the bf2.4 represents a different kernel source - rather > it's a particular configuration of the 2.4.20 kernel, for installing > ("bf" = "boot floppy" IIRC). Yes, that I actually know... > You can copy

SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL

2003-07-21 Thread Jan Tammen
Bonjour. I am trying to setup SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL on Debian unstable. So far I got these packages installed: postfix 2.0.13-1 postfix-tls 2.0.13-1 libsasl2 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-dev 2.1.12-1 libsasl2-modules 2.1.12-1 sasl2-bin2.1.12-1 I want to authen

Bochs

2003-07-21 Thread Savio Ramos
Hello, I installed bochs/testing and after that installed win98SE. 1) if i do apt-get -t unstable install bochs, bochs will be upgrade but, it will remove win98 that i installed before? 2) bochs/unstable is really better than bochs/testing? What is the advantage? []'s Sávio. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bochs and plex86

2003-07-21 Thread Savio Ramos
Hello, I installed bochs/testing but i can't install plex86 with bochs. Is plex86 makes bochs runs fast? Can i install plex86 with kernel 2.4.18bf24? []'s Sávio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plex86

2003-07-21 Thread Savio Ramos
Hello, Can i install plex86 and win98SE without bochs? If is it possible, could anyone help me? The www.plex86.org doesn't gives sufficient information on its documentation section. Debian/testing; 2.4.18bf24; gnome2.2 []'s Sávio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Randy Orrison
Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy wrote: Richard Kimber wrote: When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Hard

CUPS problem with lpd printer on unstable

2003-07-21 Thread Carl D. Blake
I have 2 debian unstable systems with cupsys version 1.1.19final-1 installed. Both systems exhibit the same problem when attempting to print to an lpd based printer on a RedHat 6.2 system. An error message is reported by cups that says "Connected from port 515..." I have another debian stable sy

Re: 120 GB hard drive on old P75

2003-07-21 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 01:19, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdc: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive > > Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdd: , ATA DISK drive > > Your kernel is having trouble "contacting" hdd

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > [Finally I must join this thread now.] > > On Sat Jul 19, 2003 at 01:05:32AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > This argument just doesn't make it. Mutt does filtering (shouldn't > > Where does mutt filter you messages

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:00:11 +0200, Kent West wrote: [...] > The protocol and location depends on what type of mouse you have. Let us > know that detail, and we might can guide you a bit further. Did you actually _READ_ the original mail? Marvin explicitly said the mouse is working, just the poin

Re: Choice of MTA

2003-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On 21 Jul 2003 08:27:02 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can personally recommend that you go with exim first. It is > relatively friendly, configurable (straightforward? I don't know that > any MTA is that), Debian friendly, and known to be stable. The > eximconfig program will

Re: How to specify MAIL FROM

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:38:18AM +0800, yuwen wrote: > Hi, Dear all >=20 > I use exim to send mail directly to the outside world. But since I=20 > don't have my

Could this be debian ?

2003-07-21 Thread alex
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-21.htm Item 10 - Just for grins Get your flamethrowers ready! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP AUTH with Postfix and SASL

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D.
Sorry, no hints from me. But I think I'm having the exact same problem with my setup except that I'm using sendmail. Here's a tip for Debian MTA package maintainers: Many people who want an MTA running are going to want SMTP-AUTH and TLS. These should be configured and enabled by default. I don't

Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver

2003-07-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:45:41AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:47, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > ds: no socket drivers loaded! (excl.pt. is part of the displayed message) > > I learned from pcmcia that there are two possible socket drivers: tcic and i82365. > > I tri

[OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
This Slashdot story (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) references this Yahoo! story (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html) where they talk about this: "... it will offer UnixWare® licenses tailored to support run-ti

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-21 Thread Kent West
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:00:11 +0200, Kent West wrote: [...] The protocol and location depends on what type of mouse you have. Let us know that detail, and we might can guide you a bit further. Did you actually _READ_ the original mail? Marvin explicitly said the mou

strange ifconfig output

2003-07-21 Thread Nicolas
I have a working ethernet card on a router with strange output. It has no TX paquets and a lots of errors. I tried to change the NIC ant PCI socket. I event switch the two interfaces (eth0 and eth1) using the mac address. What ever I do, if I user a fix ip address, every thing is good. But

Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Antonio Rodr0X
The following is only an ficticious sequence of events. Any similarity with reality is purely coincidental. Nobody that I know intends to do so. \begin{fiction} Suppose you have a DVD movie that you want to copy. What would be the best way to do it? \end{fiction} Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 21 July 2003 19:03, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > "... it will offer UnixWare® licenses tailored to support run-time, binary > use of Linux ..." (quoted from the Yahoo! article. > > Any ideas is this will actually go through? What will Debian do about it? > Should we start looking at how the D

Re: Could this be debian ?

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:39:00AM -0400, alex wrote: > > http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-07-21.htm > > Item 10 - Just for grins > > Get your flamethrowers ready! LangaList is stupid and to be ignored. See nntp://news.spamcop.net/spamco

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This Slashdot story > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) > references this Yahoo! story (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html) > where they talk about

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Any ideas is this will actually go through? Around the time I get a 37-figure income. > What will Debian do about it? Laugh. > Should we start looking at how the Debian GNU/FreeBSD

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 21 July 2003 19:31, Antonio Rodr0X wrote: > \begin{fiction} > Suppose you have a DVD movie that you want to copy. > What would be the best way to do it? > \end{fiction} Search google for "dvd::rip". That should do it for transferring movies to ((S)V)CD, DVD+-R(W) or harddisk. -- Got B

Re: Setting up eth0 - estrange behaviour on Woody

2003-07-21 Thread Valter G. Nogueira Jr.
Shaul Karl 200.152.201.242 is my internet address which I alredy tested with a Window 98 machine. below are the outputs ifconfig and ping: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:CC:8D:65 inet addr:200.152.201.242 Bcast:200.152.201.241 Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAS

Re: Copying a dvd movie

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Antonio Rodr?0X wrote: > The following is only an ficticious sequence of events. Any similarity with reality > is purely coincidental. Nobody that I know intends to do so. > \begin{fiction} > Suppose you have a DVD movie that you want to copy. > What woul

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-21 Thread Lars Unin
Ive downloaded 2.4.18 k7 but it wants another couple of packages. This is turning into Mandrake all over again... I installed using a hard disk net install with kernel 2.4.18-bf. i'll have a go at downloading packages, otherwise i've just about given up. When sarge is released I may come fo

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030721] Richard Kimber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks. I get > > root 11858 1 0 Jul05 pts/500:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac > -pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11 > R6/lib/X11/font

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Bijan Soleymani (Mon 21 Jul 02003 at 12:08:29PM -0400): > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > > mails belongs on the server side and not on the client. > > > > ad POP: Do

Re: Auto load pop3 mail at night ?

2003-07-21 Thread David selby
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:11:13PM +0100, David selby wrote: When I installed Debian, it offered me something like this, but at the time I ignored it and enterd defaults ! I now can not remember what the package was to do a dpk

Making coasters

2003-07-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have started experiencing some odd behavior when burning CDs. I am running Sid with a Debian 2.4.20 kernel (with the nVidia AGPGART patch). I always burn the CDs from the command line with cdrecord. Every so often the machine hangs during the burn process. I have tried bruning from a gnome-

Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 Anything better or a perl one liner? Cheers Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $1

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Jeff Schaller
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to > print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far > is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner? Boy, reminds me of the ol

webmin-quota fails

2003-07-21 Thread Robert C. Mosher II
I'm trying to use webmin to manage disk quotas, but when I go to the Disk Quotas link I get this error: mount::list_mounted failed : Undefined subroutine &mount::list_mounted called at (eval 14) line 2. I'm using running Woody, have the quota package installed, and have quota support compiled in

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rus Foster said on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:54:21AM -0700: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 > > Anything better or a perl one liner

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Nicolas
try "sed -n 'x p; x q' filename " That will print only line x On Monday 21 July 2003 14:54, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out > line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) > > cat /tmp/file | head -$x |

Re: unix file attributes: general question

2003-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
> > Is there any other attribute information stored or potentially stored > > in the file? Applications apparently can detect a document's file > > type, so that information must be held somewhere. Is information about > > the document's MIME type and charset also held? > > No. Applications that d

SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew P. Porter
About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, >From the Linuxandmain website: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; the text could have traveled in the other direction (or both come from a common source).

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > smarthost using mailserver within 9.3 seconds (if you are fast ;-). > > But that

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Andrew P. Porter wrote: > > > > > About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, > > >From the Linuxandmain website: > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 > > It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; > the text could have traveled i

netenv doesn't do anything

2003-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed netenv on my laptop since I constantly move between networks/proxy servers etc. Only problem is that it doesn't seem to actually do anything other then ask me what network to start on. Couldn't see any environment variables or any change to the ips. How do I set it up? Also on that note

mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread J. Smith
> i have debian 3.0 and complied/installed mplayer, > but > can't play a mpeg file. > > below is output of mplayer: > > Using GNU internationalization > Original domain: messages > Original dirname: /usr/share/locale > Current domain: mplayer > Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale > > > M

cvs command usage remotely

2003-07-21 Thread Asim Hussain
hello ppl... i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin remotely... i used the command: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login to logini enter my password and i get in... then i use: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcReposit

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Roberto write: > "... it will offer UnixWare® licenses tailored to support run-time, binary use > of Linux ..." (quoted from the Yahoo! article. > Any ideas is this will actually go through? What do you mean by "go through"? They don't need anyone's permission to sell a promise not to sue. > Wh

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:23:40PM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > > s

Re: mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Please see my earlier message in reply to your first mail. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg02915.html -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost pgp0.pgp Desc

Re: Could this be debian ?

2003-07-21 Thread John Cuson
actually made me grin a little. reminded me of the time when i was starting with debian a few years ago and going around in circles because dpkg wouldn't let me install pkg. a w/o the presence of pkg. b, and wouldn't let me install pkg. b w/o the presence of pkg a. looking back, however, no one o

Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-bf2.4 ?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:56, martin f krafft wrote: > I also found that. My problem, and I probably wasn't quite clear > enough is that I don't know what revision to use for the kernel > module package. You want to know the revision of the kernel modules that go with this kernel (are installed if

Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Christophe Courtois
Do you know a way to set the niceness of a process without typing renice at the command line after each reboot? Especially when renicing to -10, which needs to be root... Problem : xmms skips sometimes due to the -ck patches ; I'd like to keep the patches, KDE is much more responsive, and se

Re: Anyone Install Debian on an SGI Indy?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ also, Google on "Debian SGI Indy" and other combinations. I'm not doing it, but there appears to be non-trivial support. Cheers, Bret On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:50, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi All, > I'm wondering if anyone on the group here has installed Debi

somewhat off topic: ethernet card problem

2003-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I guessing my eth card is dead but hoping ;). Sony's support team are useless and incompetent so I don't bother (tried to contact them on other problems but they were never able to give anything else then the template answear). My eth card stop functioning. Its a realtech 8139 compatible onboard c

Re: Anyone Install Debian on an SGI Indy?

2003-07-21 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
For that matter: http://www.zorg.org/linux/indy.shtml On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:50, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi All, > I'm wondering if anyone on the group here has installed Debian on an Silicon > Graphics Indy Workstation. Years ago I read somewhere that it could be done but you > had to le

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Schaller wrote: > Boy, reminds me of the old "useless use of cat" award... I always > use: I've got a bunch of those on the shelf here, anyone need one? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: cvs command usage remotely

2003-07-21 Thread David Z Maze
"Asim Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin > remotely... i used the command: > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login > to logini enter my password and i get in... Do you, in fact, have a CVS p

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:20:09 +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Do you know a way to set the niceness of a process without typing renice > at the command line after each reboot? Especially when renicing to -10, > which needs to be root... Well, you can set the nice value a program runs under

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