Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Kimball
Chris Kenrick wrote: > I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to > read Usenet articles too. Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read and then configure the lists as mail<->news gateways. Subscribe yourself to the lists. Viola. Instant NNTP

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:17, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote: > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap > and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keepin

OT: c++ reference documentations

2003-08-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just picked up a c++ book and started to learn (I only have experience in perl). I was wondering if there are info/man pages (or any other electronic documentation) that I can use as a reference (at least for the standard library). if I want for example to find the syntax of "string.rfi

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

2003-08-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:18, Greg Folkert wrote: --snip-- --snip-- --snip-- --and snip some more-- Please tell me that you didn't, in fact, just type that all out by hand? That's got to be quite hard on the fingers and terribly un-amusing to boot. Why, one might go so far as to postulate that it w

Re: 2.4.18 pcmcia troubles

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:34:07PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > Hey all, > > I can't seem to get my pcmcia network cards working after an upgrade to > the 2.4.18-586tsc kernel (from Debian kernel-image package). Me again... No luck so far. I've noticed no responses to this over the few days since I

Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:29:10AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > But I would suggest to go the whole way, and just use slrn for news. I > love mutt for mail myself, but I use slrn for news. Much the same "feel" > as mutt gives you. I just tried slrn...tw

Re: New to list

2003-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 00:08, Anil Gupte wrote: > Hi all! > Hi Anil, > I am resending this message because I forgot to change the topic on the last > one. Most lists want a hello message, so here it is: > > I am newbie to Linux, and decide to throw my lot in with Debian. I always > learned by as

xemacs21-gnome-mule show w/o frame when called as xemacs

2003-08-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I have xemacs21-gnome-mule configured under alternatives to be attached to xemacs21 which in turn is pointed to bu xemacs. When I call it using xemacs, the window comes up with no frame. The printout I can see that says something other then default is in to status line (or however they call it) say

modules deleted (but not removed) after suspend

2003-08-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I enabled swsupd on my laptop. It mostly works ok, but some of the time when the laptop wakes up I see that the usbcore module appears under lsmod and is marked as deleted. In this state I can't remove it since the kernel claims its not there, and I can't reinsert it since the kernel claims there i

touchpad misbehaves

2003-08-04 Thread Micha Feigin
My touchpad seriously misbehaves under the 2.4.21 kernel. under X I get a very slow response (I need to set the sesitivity and acceleration values to max to get somewhat proper behaviour). Under gpm in the console its mostly unusable since when it does respond it just jumps too far. Its the touchpa

Come to Debian booth at LWorldExpo 8/5-7 SanFrancisco

2003-08-04 Thread Hereon
The (SF) Bay Area Debian group welcomes everyone to San Francisco to share in the Debian experience at Linuxworld Expo. If you'd like to help out staff the booth, or loan a computer for during the expo, check out the wiki web page at: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Linuxworld2003expoDebianbooth

Re: New to list

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:08:18PM -0500, Anil Gupte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all! > > I am resending this message because I forgot to change the topic on > the last one. Most lists want a hello message, so here it is: > > I am newbie to Linux, and decide to throw my lot in with Debian.

installation via network

2003-08-04 Thread maurizio gatto
HI, i'm a recent debian GNU/linux user and i'm getting problems in installing a debian distro via network on a laptop Penthium 1 120Mhz 32Mb ram with no cd rom on it. I got for it a EP-427x 16 bit 100/10M Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter and started install following the instruction i found in the sect

Re: Sony Digital Camcorder connected via USB possible?

2003-08-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:18:39PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > I'm trying to connect my new Sony DCR-TRV 250 Digital 8 Camcorder to > my Debian Sid workstation via USB. I can't find anything on Google or > the Debian mailing lists about connecting camcorders via USB. Has > anyone done this b

Re: OT: how to send a keystroke to another program

2003-08-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 00:01, Andrej Hocevar wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to do this -- I'd > like to write a program that would make another program behave as if > a certain key was pressed, e.g. PgD. Thus I could implement > something like moving down in a p

Re: Exim, alias patterns

2003-08-04 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:42, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:13:44PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > | Is it possible to configure exim to treat all emails matching a paticular > | pattern as an alias for particular user? for example: david* -> > | dcorbin? > > Yes. C

Re: Sony Digital Camcorder connected via USB possible?

2003-08-04 Thread Antonio Rodr
> In general, yes. With that particular model, no. All I needed to do > was treat the camera like any other USB storage device, and make sure > it was on. Can you be more explicit? I tried that approach and didn't work at all (Sony model DCR TRV33). So now I am upgrading my system so that I can

package installation question

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, what is the "correct" way to install a package thet depends on a library which I didn't install from a deb but compiled by hand from source? Just download the deb and make a dpkg --force -i package.deb? Regards Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Debian & OpenBSD (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:55:39AM -0700, Loren M Lang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations about linux vs. openbsd? I have > always used linux for everything and propably still will for the most > part, but for security, would it be better to use openbsd? - From > what

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:26, Travis Crump wrote: > Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? > kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 doesn't exist as far as I can determine[and > apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.0-test1-i386 and/or apt-get build-dep > kernel-source-2.6.0-tes

Re: installation via network

2003-08-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * maurizio gatto [Mon, Aug 04 2003, 10:55:22AM]: > 4) when program modconf runs, i tried to conigure pCMCIA support, choosing > controller i82365, and giving no further option to kernel. But i guess that > here i failed because i got from PC firstly a high sound and then a low > sound.

Re: installation via network

2003-08-04 Thread TR
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 10:55:22 +0200 maurizio gatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > i'm a recent debian GNU/linux user and i'm getting problems in > installing a debian distro via network on a laptop Penthium 1 120Mhz > 32Mb ram with no cd rom on it. I got for it a EP-427x 16 bit 100/10M > Ethe

Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:24:14PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:18:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:14:12PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > In order to make it work, I didn't have to touch anything in squid's > > > own config, just p

Ethernet Alias

2003-08-04 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Looking over interfaces(5) I can't see how I could define an alias for an interface. Could someone push me in the right direction? Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: 07919 373537

Re: Identifying spamhosts

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:46:28PM +0100, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to put together a web data base to allow people identify > which machines are the primary routes of spam into our Inboxes. > > Does anyone have a useful link? Spamcop seem to have a fine l

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Travis Crump [Sun, Aug 03 2003, 03:26:07PM]: > Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? apt-get source kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386 apt-get build-dep kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386 MfG, Eduard. -- Labello und kein Kuß quietscht mehr. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread J. Zidar
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:17, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > > Is this expected behavior if some of the plugins are built with an > > > incompatible gcc, or is something else going on? > > > > I'm not sure, but it might be. Have you tried removing or moving aside > > all of the plugins-- e.g. mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins{,-hold} -- and > > seeing if Moz

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:45:55AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:17, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > > | /usr/bin/spamassass

Re: Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Incidentally, how much space are you dedicating to your Squid cache? I > know that this can't be assigned directly, so either the segment size, > or net use (du -s on cache) would be u

Re: package installation question

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > what is the "correct" way to install a package thet depends on a library > which I didn't install from a deb but compiled by hand from source? > > Just download the deb and make a dpkg --force -i package.deb? Try to avoid

exim smtp auth

2003-08-04 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'm trying to migrate from sendmail to exim, and having a little bit of a problem with SMTP AUTH. In /etc/exim/passwd, I know I need: user:(MD5)sfasionfsuofnadovnd The question is how do I generate the part after the (MD5)? Copying from /etc/shadow doesn't seem to work. A -- To UNSUB

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-04 Thread ajlewis2
> mkdir /b2 > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /b2 > > # Drop to single user; kills any pesky daemons writing stuff in background. > telinit 1 > > # Anything here we don't understand? If not, proceed. > cd /home && ls -la > > # Copy everything whose name does not start with a dot. > cp -a * /b2 &&

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-04 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > mv /home/* /mnt/home2 > get rid of old home directory with > rmdir /home I would not remove /home, because you will need it for a mount point. You have moved everything out of it; so it should be empty. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Identifying spamhosts

2003-08-04 Thread Alvin Oga
> on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:46:28PM +0100, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to put together a web data base to allow people identify > > which machines are the primary routes of spam into our Inboxes. get the ip# of the spammer and check it against the e

Re: Printing

2003-08-04 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I have installed lpr and apsfilter to drive my HP DeskJet 660C. During apsfilterconfig, I chose [ijs/DESKJET_660] as th printer driver. I couldn't pass print test. It failed with the msg: sh: hpijs command not found GNU Ghostscript 6.53: Can't start ijs server "hpijs" Unable to op

Re: Ethernet Alias

2003-08-04 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Lundi 4 Août 2003 11:51, Rus Foster a déclamé : > Hi All, > Looking over interfaces(5) I can't see how I could define an alias for > an interface. Could someone push me in the right direction? I've got this in /etc/modutils/aliases. alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne Then it seems that I

konqueror - https?

2003-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
How do I get Konqueror to use https on Sarge and Sid? As I understand it in Woody installing kdelibs-crypto would enable konqueror to use https. But in Sarge and Sid, I don't find any package with this query: apt-cache search kde | grep crypto Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread François Chenais
Hello, Is this working with test2 flavour ?? François On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:46:22 CEST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Le Dimanche 3 Août 2003 21:26, Travis Crump a écrit : > > Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? > > kernel-source-2.6.

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-08-04 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Tom Vier said: (Saturday 02 August 2003 10:49 am) > usbmgr sees it, i still have the same problem. i have to press the hotsync > button before /dev/ttyUSB* will show up. when i run pilot-xfer or kpilot, > they want me to hit it again. if i don't, they complain that the

Re: Identifying spamhosts

2003-08-04 Thread moseley
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... In fact, such recording itself is useful as an antispam measure. > One tactic is to deny (non-permanent error) the first connection that > a mail server, any server, makes to your host. Most servers will wait > through a time

Re:

2003-08-04 Thread Henning Moll
On Sunday 03 August 2003 09:58, Howell Evans wrote: > [...]man hwclock please. On an win32 system? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more install problems

2003-08-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 04 August 2003 06:34, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > Looking at the cardctl output from your card, I think the 8139too > module provided with 2.4.18-686 ought to work. Remember that your > mandrake install worked without needing to compile a separate > driver. Yes, but it doesn't seem

Re: Sony Digital Camcorder connected via USB possible?

2003-08-04 Thread Mark C
Once upon a time Jamin W. Collins was quoted as saying: > In general, yes. With that particular model, no. All I needed to do > was treat the camera like any other USB storage device, and make sure it > was on. Whilst in general that is true, I had a problem a while back tring to get my digita

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread François Chenais
doesn't work :-| tanna:~/tmp/kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386-2.6.0-test1# apt-get build-dep kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Build-Depends dependency for kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386 cannot be satisfied because the package kernel-so

Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Henning Moll
Hi! Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal debian version only) i would like to know about the changes. Is there any other way to view debian/changelog than to download the source package? Regards Henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Looking up email addresses (was: Identifying spamhosts)

2003-08-04 Thread moseley
My domain names are being flooded with bounces these days. After talking with others it seems to be their largest source of bad mail, too. I think what's happening is a virus is attached to email that turns a machine into a mail proxy. Then mail is sent out from that machine, but with a from a

debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello all, I was earlier trying to get potato installed on to a system and had several problems while doing so. I am actually assigned the task of upgrading two of the production servers from potato to woody, and which is why I wanted to install the old stable. I am a complete newbie to de

dc2xx in 2.6.0

2003-08-04 Thread Nicolas
Does anybody know where the dc2xx driver (for digital camera) is in 2.6.0? -- Rune's Rule: If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: more install problems

2003-08-04 Thread Richard Lyons
Hello again. I have found the configurator that I needed, in theory. It is modconf. But I cannot install i82368, the errors include 'No such device' and 'depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/.../8139too.o' So the compilation was not successful apparently. Perhaps I should reiniti

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-04 Thread alex
Thanks all a lot of good info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > debian version only) i would like to know about the changes. > > Is there any other way to view debian/changelog than to download the > source package? Have you

--purge when package already gone ?

2003-08-04 Thread Christophe Courtois
Hi, Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get doesn't want to. Any way through the standard tools ? (And how could it occur ? I installed sl

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:27:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 13:37, David Fokkema wrote: > > As filtering is a spam-reduction system, so is C-R. The chance of > > receiving spam from a whitelisted address is, in the experience of tmda > > users, very rare. And even if it hap

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > > debian version only) i would like to know about the changes. > > > > Is there any other way

Re: Printing

2003-08-04 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, Print test from within apsfilterconfig is OK now after choosing the right printer driver. The choices for HP printers are especially confusing. Now I still cannot print from the command line using 'lpr'. The printer that I ocnfigured is in th printcap file. In the file, the path to th

2.6.test02 fails to compile...riscom8.o

2003-08-04 Thread A. Loonstra
I've installed a debian woody system with a gnome2.2 backport. Basically it's a fresh install. I wanted to compile 2.6-test02 and created a config from config-2.4.18-686-smp config and enabling the 2.6 features by hand. When I run make-kpkg kernel-image I fails around riscom8.o. I tried severa

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-03T22:02:53Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Appreciated, Kirk. Any time. I still owe you favors for writing the "why I sign my email" essay that I refer the occasional person to. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > *I* don't get any spam. im guessing you dont get much ham either... -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: --purge when package already gone ?

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Christophe Courtois (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly > complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not > 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get > doesn't want to. Any way through the st

Re: --purge when package already gone ?

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly > complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not > 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get > doesn't want to. Any way through the standard to

Re: installation via network

2003-08-04 Thread maurizio gatto
Dear Edward, i thank you or your answer. I just add two lines to tell you what conscol ALt-f3 says as i try to install my pCmcia networ card. I start a few lines before that moment: Kernel and module install was successul moving away /lib/modules to /lib/modules.old making /lib/modules a link to

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 03:47, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:18, Greg Folkert wrote: > --snip-- --snip-- --snip-- --and snip some more-- > > Please tell me that you didn't, in fact, just type that all out by hand? > That's got to be quite hard on the fingers and terribly un-amusi

Re: 2.6.test02 fails to compile...riscom8.o

2003-08-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:05:47PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: > I've installed a debian woody system with a gnome2.2 backport. Basically > it's a fresh install. I wanted to compile 2.6-test02 and created a > config from config-2.4.18-686-smp config and enabling the 2.6 features > by hand. You pr

operating system

2003-08-04 Thread stan & nin
I have a question for you my system comes up with operating system not found i have tried different things but nothing works HP doesnt give recovery disc no more so i cant go that way either i cant find a way to make a boot disc to get it going and i have not figured out how to f disc yet an

UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hi all, I was able to install Debian 2.2.26 on my system (Potato). I could not get my network card to work once the system started up. I used all the drivers 1-4 but apparently the drivers for my network card were not loaded. While booting up, the system does recognize the Realtek network card.

best wireless card for debian

2003-08-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi all, I recently purchased a dlink DWL 520+ card which uses the TI acx100 chipset which so far only has binary drivers and it has not managed to work yet and I intend to put it on a server without module support. This leads me to the question. Which is the best card that I should go for for nat

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Rich Puhek
Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add :0fw: spamassassin.lock | /usr/bin/spamassassin to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to /var/mail/, rather than follow

Re: best wireless card for debian

2003-08-04 Thread Howell Evans
My vote is anything based on the prism2 chipset. I love my orinoco silver card. cheers -howell Shri Shrikumar wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased a dlink DWL 520+ card which uses the TI acx100 chipset which so far only has binary drivers and it has not managed to work yet and I intend to put it

Re: New to list

2003-08-04 Thread Anil Gupte
Thanx Kevin and Karsten! Will download the docs. Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:53 AM Subject: Re: New to list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Shashank Bhide (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I was able to install Debian 2.2.26 on my system (Potato). I could not > get my network card to work once the system started up. I used all the > drivers 1-4 but apparently the drivers for my network card were not > loaded. While booting up, the

kernel update causes ps to segfault

2003-08-04 Thread Lindsey Simon
Since upgrading the kernel on our webserver, when root runs ps, it segfaults. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 007c printing eip: c014bfee *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[]Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: ebx: d65380

Re: operating system

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
"stan & nin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the mailing list in plain text only, not HTML, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters.) > I have a question for you my system comes up with operating system > not found i h

downgrading from testing to woody

2003-08-04 Thread Nyc0n
I normally run testing on both my machines, but I have been having some issues and wanted to try to go back down to stable or woody, when I upgraded to testing it took about 45 mins to download and install all the packages, via apt-get dist-upgrade, I changed my sources.list file back to wo

Re: UPDATE: debian potato to woody transition

2003-08-04 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:18, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hi all, > I was able to install Debian 2.2.26 on my system (Potato). I could not get > my network card to work once the system started up. I used all the drivers > 1-4 but apparently the drivers for my network card were not loaded. While > boo

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > > > debian version o

Maildir -- purging old messages

2003-08-04 Thread Bill Moseley
I have a spam folder. I check it once in a while for false positives (rarely found). I'd like to run a cron job that would clean out messages older than a 15 days. Any harm in doing something like: rm `find ~/Maildir/.spam -type f -mtime 15` or maybe better to pipe find to xargs find

Re: operating system

2003-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:45:26PM -0400, stan & nin wrote: > I have a question for you my system comes up with operating system > not found i have tried different things but nothing works HP doesnt > give recovery disc no more so i cant go that way e

Re: best wireless card for debian

2003-08-04 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:23:03PM -0400, Howell Evans wrote: > My vote is anything based on the prism2 chipset. I love my orinoco > silver card. > > cheers > -howell > Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I recently purchased a dlink DWL 520+ card which uses the TI acx100 > >chipset which

Fetchmail

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
Help   a url to find information about fetchmail?

Re: Fetchmail

2003-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:52:08PM +0200, vinz wrote: > Help a url to find information about fetchmail? http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=fetchmail http://ursine.ca/doc/fetchmail.toberemoved/fetchmail-FAQ.html - -- .''`. Paul Johnso

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 10:36:15 2003 > > > > At 2003-08-03T22:02:53Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Appreciated, Kirk. > > Any time. I still owe you favors for writing the "why I sign my email" > essay that I refer the occasional person to. > Funny. I know

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:17:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: | Hi all, | | I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd | like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add | :0fw: spamassassin.lock | | /usr/bin/spamassassin | to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then t

Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Does anyone know if there is a way to pass a parameter to a telnet session? I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log in. I telnet to his account from another box using: telnet hostname -l username I want to be able to pass a parameter of some kind, or set an en

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > > > Sometimes when ther

Re: Fetchmail

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach vinz (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 07:52:08PM +0200): > Help a url to find information about fetchmail? Google is your friend: -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 8

Re: downgrading from testing to woody

2003-08-04 Thread Howell Evans
I wont swear on stack of bibles to this, but what you want seems not really possible without a reinstall. It seems to me you have already upgraded to versions of packages in testing. So to go backwards would mean to revert all your packages to older versions. However i think apt and its various

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:28, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > *I* don't get any spam. > im guessing you dont get much ham either... Morning. Morning. What you got? Egg and Bacon Eggs, Sausage and Bacon Egg and SPAM Egg, Bacon and SPAM E

Re: Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows andHardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 06:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Incidentally, how much space are you dedicating to your Squid cache? I > > know that this can't be assigned directly, so eith

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T17:41:37Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither of > which use his real name or stats. What makes you think that my real name is Kirk Strauser? > He can prove that he is some

Re: OT: c++ reference documentations

2003-08-04 Thread Felix Natter
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I've just picked up a c++ book and started to learn (I only have experience in > perl). I was wondering if there are info/man pages (or any other electronic > documentation) that I can use as a reference (at least for the standard > library).

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:41:37 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither > of which use his real name or stats. > > He can prove that he is someone he isn't. No, he can't. That's not what a PGP signature is, does, or

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is not > numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this > particular program to be downgraded every week. > > How do I keep from having this particu

network logging suggestion

2003-08-04 Thread Christian Nordin
Suggestion needed. I'm currently using iptables and fwlogwatch, altough I want to make reports on amount of incomming and outgoing traffic for specifik programs. Which I don't seem to be able to do with fwlogwatch. What is the best alternative for realtime monitoring of network traffic? Thanx

Re: Maildir -- purging old messages

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:40, Bill Moseley wrote: > I have a spam folder. I check it once in a while for false positives > (rarely found). > > I'd like to run a cron job that would clean out messages older than a > 15 days. Try archivemail, I do exactly that on all my mailing lists/spam folder

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > > to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to >

Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
Why can I not access my linux server as the root?

Re: Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log > in. That's not a Good Thing (TM) unless you're in a very trusted environment, and even there I would not consider it unless absolutely unavoidable. > I want to be able

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 04 August 2003 21:08, vinz wrote: > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? Don't use telnet, use SSH. Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) is a pretty good SSH client and should do everything you need. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

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