Re: Reporting Spam (Was: That C-R crap)

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:09:37 -0700 > Umm, spamcop is not run by spammers. I didn't say it was. But dicing spam is not important enough to me to spend money on. If I'm not going to spend money to obtain their products why would I spend money to make them go away no matter who runs it? Eithe

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:24:23PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > www.spamcop.net has a free reporting service that allows you to forward > spam to them (or paste it into a web interface). It then goes through a > bunch of tests (which I know little or noth

Re: dhclient fails after kernel recompilation

2003-08-08 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Did u set CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_SOCKET in your kernel? (i am not 100% sure if these are the correct keywords, but i had a problem with DHCP earlier this week after install of a new kernel. turned out to be the problem that these 2 were not set in my kernelconfig..) Pim

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:32:46PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > 2) The person calls up the MSP main menu and chooses [g] Harassment. >They enter the email address at the prompt provided. Ah, I see... Never mind my previous question on this, sorry. > 6) A recipe is written into the user's .proc

Re: finding the cause of a lock-up

2003-08-08 Thread Gary Hennigan
techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a slight problem with xmms, and freeamp. Both, on the start-up > of playing the first song lock-up for approxametly 5 minutes...then > start playing fine. after the initial lock-up the programs run with no > problems what so ever. > > I've run the

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:18:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > This doesn't jive with my experience. I munge with a legal > address and just ignore that address. I get tons of spam to it a > day and the only place I ever use it has been one, maybe

Install X windows

2003-08-08 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello all, I have installed a test system with potato debian and want to have the KDE installed onto the system. The problem that I am facing is I do not have a text browser to search for packages and install them. Which packages would I need to install in order to get KDE installed on to

Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
Here's the Person who's been harassing me: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 15:44:11 2003 Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.216] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.11 polling pop.earthlink.net accou nt [EMAIL PROTECTED])

RE: Firewall and Mailserver questions - suggestions wanted.

2003-08-08 Thread Bengt Thurée
Thanks for the various suggestions... Appreciate it a lot, and now I am busy doing a lot of reading... and then off to the second hand computer stores :))) Thanks /Bengt -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:22 To: [EMAIL

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-08 Thread Kent West
Jefferson Cowart wrote: I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be having problems as on boot it outputs and L followed by 01 01 01 and on and on. i.e. "L 01 01 01 01..." Any clues what the problem

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-08 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there! On Wednesday 06 August 2003 17:10, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Never do this! > > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to > do! > > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't > know how long it will take to get things back working; o

Re: Hard Drive Mirroring

2003-08-08 Thread Christopher Swingley
Vince, * vinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Aug-07 11:25 AKDT]: > Hi I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to > get information from. 'dd' will mirror everything from one drive to another (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb), including partition tables, master boot record (MBR)

Re: ssh is slow

2003-08-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-08-2003 14:19]: > Wheen ssh'ing to and from my Debian 3.0r1, ssh acts dead slow when > connecting, even when all keys are installed and no passwords are used. Run the ssh client in verbose mode (up to 3 -v switches) to see if you can find at least a hint to wha

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:55:49PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > I'd like to thank all of the nice folks who sent me mail today, one of which > I actually read. It was filled with the same juvenile abuse I have been > receiving on the list for the last c

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:02:42PM -0400, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm > having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the > client sends a UDP packet from a hi

Re: Lilo Problems OT

2003-08-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, August 06 at 2:46 AM EDT Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to this list. > >http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/mail-responses.html >Either set Mail-Followup-To: yourself or don't request it. Paul - for future reference - wha

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:55AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > > Note that: > > > > rm -

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
Oh this is GREAT! I can't thank you bullies enough. 1) An MSP user receives an abusive mail from someone who has gone through the CR process, thus giving away their actual address. 2) The person calls up the MSP main menu and chooses [g] Harassment. They enter the email address at the pr

Re: Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-07T15:55:54Z, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stop! Stop! You are reminding me of my CS classes. Its summer... have some > pity on an overloaded student! :) If you cut me a check for one credit-hour's worth of tuition, I'll sent you a paper certification. :) > Br

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 04:10:05 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an experiment by posting a temporary account in the From header > in a bunch of different fairly high-traffic, high-spam groups as well > as the ones I regular. Six months later when I remembered I had > started that

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:06, Alan Connor wrote: > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 15:44:11 2003 > Status: U > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.216] > by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9

Re: Animate png images.

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 12:18, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > Is there any programme for manipulate png images, for example animate > *.png from many frames? How gifsicle for manipulation *.gif images. > Thanx. Hi Egor From the "convert manpage (imagemagick): To create a MNG animation from a DNA

Re: non gnomified emacs

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 05:46, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Is there a "recent" version of emacs that is not gnomified with all > of the bells & whistles? > > The version loaded with sarge has new keystrokes for doing things, > and has become annoying (IMHO). From my .emacs: (menu-bar-mode 1) ;; Thi

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread cr
On Saturday 09 August 2003 00:07, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > *plonk* yourself. > > > > killfiled > > I am FED up with you. > > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. > Therefore I suggest you unsubscribe as you

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:00:47 -0700 Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless the dude harrassing you is the list moderator/admin, then I don't > see how this thread should have been started in Debian-User. Wait... I thought Alan Connor NEVER got harassing email thanks to... *Fanfare*

Modconf and no modules after kernel upgrade

2003-08-08 Thread Rex Chan
Hi guys, after deciding to muck around with compiling and installing a new kernel (from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.4.21) from source, I've managed to lose all the modules that I had before ie using modconf shows only one entry and that's a dummy network driver. Going back to the old kernel image hasn't he

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters

2003-08-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:53AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 09:40:20 2003 > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:33:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. > > > > Are you referr

Re: how do I get the "you have new mail"

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:17:26PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis sent the sound: > You've got mail! Great, now I'm going to have nightmares for a month again... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'`

Re: Installing LVM

2003-08-08 Thread Toens Bueker
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm trying to install an LVM system under Debian. > > > >>lvcreate -L3G /nusr vg0 > >>invalidate: busy buffer (about 20 repeats) > >>/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such file or directory > >>Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? > > > >Well,

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:45:44PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > What makes you think I'm not? Well, that's why I thought I missed it. > I'm pointing out that the assertion that > addresses posted to newsgroups are not harvested is false. Howeve

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Philipp Leusmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > due to a harddisk-failure many files were corrupted. Far too many to > reinstall them manually. > Is there a way to reinstall all installed packages? something like 'apt-get > intall --reinstall *'? Ye

stress testing software routers

2003-08-08 Thread Dan
I'd like to stress test a software router to determine how many packets it can handle per second. Is there any package available for doing this? One requirement I would need is that I should be able to create custom packets to be used for the test. If anyone has done this or something similar

Re: Unable to connect DShot II camera

2003-08-08 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: | The camera is recognised as FujiFilm @xia ix-100, and uses | /usr/local//lib/gphoto2/2.1.1/libgphoto2_soundvision.so as its driver. Could it be possible that the DShot II and other cameras use the FujiFilm @xia ix-100 driver? Seems there a

Help needed with getting USB working on a new install

2003-08-08 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi all: I have just completed a Knoppix install using the 3.2 version dated 2003-07-26 EN. My hardware is a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MBO with a AMD Athalon XP cpu. I booted the Knoppix cd with only the lang=us 2 option set. From there I did a hard disk install. I then rebooted and ran apt-get update/upgra

Re: Adding a default outgoing sig to exim4

2003-08-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:57:00PM +0100, Mark C wrote: | On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > No. Read this to get an understanding of the technical and | > non-technical issues of such an attempt : | > http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ | | See belo

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-08 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:26 pm, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Hello, > > Since ages, I wanted to replace CVS here. > > I firstly tried to find out all the most interesting candidates for > this. I have now a list of 2 items: subversion and tla. [ . . . ] > So I claim your help in making my choice:

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 17:03:39 2003 > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > > > > What does this have to do with Debian? > > If you want sympathy, I think this might not be the place to get it,

Re: Meta: Scoring debian-user with mutt?

2003-08-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jesse Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a tad curious how people use mutt (or any other MUA) with scoring to > handle the vast amount of email that passes through this list. I use gnus' scoring to increase/decrease the score of posts by certain people depending on if I like them or not, dec

jdk1.4? compatible tomcat?

2003-08-08 Thread nori heikkinen
hey all, i certainly don't understand all the technicalities of debian + java, but i do know that i can apt-get install jdk1.1, but not jdk1.4. why is this? this is particularly frustrating for me right now, as i need jdk1.4 and tomcat 3.3, but can only get the latter with jdk1.1 via apt. thank

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Guess what address is only used on the newsgroups. So use a 'Reply-To:' with your 'used and read' email address. Spammers usually get only the 'XOver', which only has the From: in it, so they won't see your Reply-To: Email

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 15:44, Aaron wrote: > On -1782-Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:31:21PM -0700, Alan Connor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 16:30:09 2003 > > > > > > > > > I can testify that once you move to Debian, you will not move > > > away. > > > > >

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-08-08 Thread Kenneth Jacker
pj> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:54:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: >> I'm sure that someone with a more than mediocre knowledge of apt / dpkg >> could suggest a way of forcing removal of xlibs and leaving it's >> dependencies. I'd venture that you cold force removal of xlibs with >> dpk

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with me. > > They simply don't post their opinions on the list for fear of being attacked > > by the pr

Re: Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:08:14AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-07T10:06:43Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [3] Like you... > > I think you're dereferencing a null pointer. You're right. In one paragraph, I called the C

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Shutko
"Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Munging has always traditionally been okay in news. Not to many people, including myself. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Show up at the funeral services in a clown suit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Joe Emenaker
Alan Connor wrote: First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then why did you respond to it? Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy "Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you pulled me over, then you must have been speeding, too. So YOU'RE under arre

Re: exim: local vs. remote smtp ???

2003-08-08 Thread Siward
Hi Michael D, you wrote : > I want to know from where the email came whenever I open it. > For example, when I send from loki to bragi, > I expect to see From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] exim will get it from @ you need to tell exim to rewrite that address on outgoing mail (by specifying that in

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-08 Thread tallison
I've been catching up on my email for the past few weeks and found this rather horrible thread. My sincerest apologies for all of my earlier posts. I had no idea what a fluster-cluck this had become. However, the issue of blocking spam does seem to get people excited, even to the point of religi

Re: Newbie Modem Q

2003-08-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bruce Banner (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > You need ahardware modem. Most any USR modem will be fine. They do > make internal pci hardware modems as well. You /can/ use internal pci modems, even if they are softmodems or controllerless modems, as long as there is a driver available, lik

Making a file system image

2003-08-08 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, HIt a bit of a quandry. Trying to work out how to do the following. I'm basically wanting to create a file, format it then loop back mount it. Now for the life of me I can work out how to format a file. Any ideas? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/m

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:50:17AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Then in /etc/apt/apt.conf > >APT::Default-Release "testing"; > or >APT::Default-Release "unstable"; Apt pinning is considered harmful if you're running stable. Just use the back

Re: [OT] Calif. cable ISP info-- RR or Earthlink??

2003-08-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:57]: > Sorry 'bout the OT on the list, but my systems have Debian hearts. We are > looking at roadrunner and earthlink as possible cable providers through Time > Warner. Anyone able to comment on/compare them? Since they will be the same 99% on t

Re: Newbie Modem Q

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:46:22AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > Plus, it should work under almost any OS that understands what a modem > is. Actually, a working external modem will Just Work(tm) in any OS that understands what a serial port is. - --

Firewall and Proxy

2003-08-08 Thread Mehmet AK
Hi   I am using Linux Server in my Company.  Personel usally using kazaa , imesh and downloading mp3 files on the web. That so our internet is down. i want configure firewals against these programs and downloading. Can you help me

Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law. EFFING. STOP. PH4KK3RZ, JUST QUIT IT. We are doing more bandwidth wasting picking every NIT, than ANY CR or GPG Signature would or has in MY Lifetime. For the love of Mike... Let's just drop the subject already... Enough of the "Gentleman's Flame Fest"... it ALMO

Re: One Last Note

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:35:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hell, all I need to know is someone was further out than someone else on > alt.fan.furry to get the giggles. What? The group's reputation preceeds it? Or you already know about the re

Re: [~OT:] philosophy of installation ease

2003-08-08 Thread Kent West
nori heikkinen wrote: however, something like knoppix, based on debian yet compatible with everything i've ever slipped it into, makes me wonder why the initial debian install process can't be easier than it currently is. Short answer: * Debian developers don't have to install often (install it

Re: nls iso8859-1

2003-08-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I do not have X installed on my server, and thus do not have any > additional fonts installed. However, when I try to map to an smbfs > share, I get the error that samba can not load nls iso8859-1. What > packages can install to correct this error

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am I missing something in apt-get when updating the > packages. I noticed that perl 5.6 is kind of old as well as the apache > 1.3.26. Are the debian packages not kept up-to-date? No, they are, we just do something called testing, which seems to be

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:58:21PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:56:02PM +, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > > Where do I get the public key (8B362A2F) to verify the above-quoted > > message? You seem to be using a new key. Are you testing us? > > x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ or

Re: Ooops. I've broken my command line.

2003-08-08 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: And, even so, I still can't get it to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo net join member -U westk westk password: [2003/08/06 09:45:53, 1] libsmb/clikrb5.c:ads_krb5_mk_req(267) krb5_cc_get_principal failed (No credentials cache found) ads_join_realm: organizational unit

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

2003-08-08 Thread leroyljr
There are no quotes because I have already deleted this question. However, I just thought of something: I think vim is in vi compatibility mode by default, unless you have a file called .vimrc in your home dir. Try doing 'touch .vimrc'. Seems like I had to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:24:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:06:43AM -0700, baloo wrote: > > Where: The loft at Rock Bottom Brewery[1], subject to change with > >demand. This is a 21 and over establishment. If you're under > >21 and want to attend, sp

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 09:40:20 2003 > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:33:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. > > Are you referring to those very short descriptions consisting of a few > words which are di

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-08 Thread Erik Rask
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Gilles Missonnier wrote: > Just to ask people to answer to the list about any NFS hints ! > > because we have at our site > bad ferformances too > [ not that bad : 10 MBytes/sec on fast Athlon MP with giga-ethernet : > we could expect much more, since ftp/rcp put more than 3

newsx problems

2003-08-08 Thread SJ Straith
I am trying to install the newsx NNTP client on my boxen and am getting nowhere at hyperspeed. I don't know what the fsck I'm doing wrong, but as I said, I'm getting nowhere. For the record I am running testing. I sued into root (naturally) and did my usual apt-get install -u newsx Responce w

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can never convert it into a single unique number. That can be proved > to be impossible. No, it can't. Counter-proof: let the MP3 represent a single number, base 256, where the first byte is the lowest-order digit, second byte next lowest order, et

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:02:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:55AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:57:17AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uh, no, they're not the same. In a mailing list if someone munges they > don't get mail and might cause accidental bounces. In usenet, no bounces are > possible unless someone else is

Re: Mailserver suggestions?

2003-08-08 Thread Waldemar Gorus
Hello I only setup one mailserver. Exim seems to be easy to configured. However, you really have to watch out not becoming an open mail-relay-server. Read documents documents documents... ciao Waldemar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

RE: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Jeremy Davis
Thanks to everyone that has answered my questions. My linux requirements are pretty minimal compared to that of a desktop users. I pretty much just use apache, perl, php, exim, proftpd, mrtg, iptables for custom packetfilter for wireless networks and redirection rules for authentication. I would

GCC for kernel compilation

2003-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this version can't compile all the drivers in kernel 2.4.21. Which version should I use? And how do I set this version (Environment variable?) without deinstalling GCC 3.3? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:05:46 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, I think I missed it. Why aren't you reporting? What makes you think I'm not? I'm pointing out that the assertion that addresses posted to newsgroups are not harvested is false. I use an address ONLY on th

Equivalent of ide-cs for kernel PCMCIA?

2003-08-08 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently managed to get IEEE1394 working with kernel PCMCIA (an apparent requirement that I'd previously been able to work around, but nevermind). Today I popped my PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter into the slot and found that there's no ide-cs module.

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-08 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:02, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I have /etc/resolv.conf containing a nameserver entry. I also have some > name servers listed in the forwarders section of /etc/bind/named.conf. > Is there a way to configure both bind and the normal name resolver (how > does it work???) t

Re: Automated message to d-u gateway

2003-08-08 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > WTF? The gateway is *not at all* read only. Fair enough, but occasionally people post in a vacuum, so to speak. Here are two (News) message-ID's of articles posted to the debian-user gateway as News which never reached the mailing-

How to clean/align printer cartridges in Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Kent West
I haven't used a deskjet in years, but recently acquired one for my Debian box. The black ink seems to be a problem, smearing, skipping, etc. I seem to remember from back in my Windows days there were some tools in the "Toolbox" to do such things as align the ink cartridges or clean them. Is th

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100): > Never do this! > > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! > > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know > how long it will take to get things back working; only jus

Re: Postfix issue

2003-08-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:22:44AM -0300, Guilherme Viebig wrote: | Hi all, | | I trying to configure postfix to listen as a remote smtp, | | my host name is plannercorretora.com.br | | but if I send an an message to a domain that´s not my host name, postfix say | Relay Access Denied Your smtpd

Lockup

2003-08-08 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, Just installed Woody on a friend's Shuttle PC. It's got the Nvidia Nforce chipset, so I've installed their video and network drivers. Also I downloaded and built 2.4.21 as it includes DMA and sound support for that chipset. Apart from that it's standard Woody. When in X, we're getting

I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-08 Thread MJM
Recent threads have piqued my interest and desire to use separate MUA/MTA/MDA. I am looking for the "TFM that I should R" [see note 1] to help me get the basic understanding of how things fit together. I STFW and found lot's of pages on the web that discuss things from a practical pov for hybri

Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody in the Portland area up to do a keysigning/Debian 10th Anniversary party in the Portland area in about two weeks or so? If the time or place sounds unreasonable, let me know. Updates at http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ Here's the rundown: Where: Th

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

2003-08-08 Thread Jaque Moreau
Santanu Chatterjee schrieb im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> it didn't work. >> >> >> > try >> >:set term=$TERM >> >> in vim? What does it do? > > I read this thread from the middle and missed the rest. So, if I > understood your question correc

Re: Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

2003-08-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:44:12PM -0700, Mike Hunt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB o

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck > declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it > dies, so i knoppix-boot and manually e2fsck -y the thing so i don't > have to sit there and babysit it. it fi

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Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:38:05PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Note that they DID teach me a valuable lesson. Now any mail addressed > to me goes to /dev/null. Lol. Any mail *addressed* to you goes to /dev/null now that's a pretty extreme method to get rid of spam. > > That doesn't mean that the

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > *plonk* yourself. > > > > killfiled > > I am FED up with you. > > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. Therefore > I suggest you unsubscr

how do I get the "you have new mail"

2003-08-08 Thread Jake Johnson
How do I get the message to say you have new mail at the shell prompt? Is someting looking for a specific directory or file? -- Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the

Re: How command "manpath" works?

2003-08-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:51:35PM +0800, Zhao You Bing wrote: > I downloaded j2sdk from SUN and extracted it to /usr/local > and I found the /usr/local/j2sdk/man is in the list of command "manpath" > > But I haven't set manpath manully and it's not listed in /etc/manpath.config If you haven't se

/dev/dsp

2003-08-08 Thread mustafa taha al-shawaf
Hey group. I get an error when starting up kde that says that sound cannot be initialized because it cannot open /dev/dsp. I tried looking for a man page on dsp but there wasn't any. I assume that it has something to do with the file permissions on /dev/dsp and that all I have to do is to use ch

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: Top posting considered harmful. http://learn.to/quote I'd like to read this, if I could just figure out what the address is _supposed_ to be . . .:-) -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-08 Thread Aaron
On -1785-Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:53:23AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > Please enjoy my new article, "Let's Put SCO Behind Bars", which you may > find at: > > http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html > > Here's the introduction: