Re: Slide show software

2003-09-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:20:02PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > Does Debian in their "deb" files have anything that will allow > me to run my photo's as a > slide show on my computer? This is probably way more than you need but I just discovered gallery and I think it is awesome! It has a sl

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Stuart Johnston wrote: > I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers > using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. > It looks like the standard kernel images in Debian stable do not support > the 2GB of RAM. The 2.4.18 kernel in wood

Re: ipmasq not doing NAT after upgrade

2003-09-24 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:41:42AM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:37:29AM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > I have the following problem: > > > > > > After upgrading t

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread cr
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > > RedHat's business model is moving toward support services for enterprises > and away from sale of boxed sets of CDs. I don't think it makes much > sense for them to continue work on the RedHat Linux distribution, but I > can see why th

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread cr
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:38, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030920 20:47]: > > I love Kmail too, but I'm running 1.3.2 (the version that comes with > > Woody) and I'm not sure it offers that facility.I believe the newest > > version does, but when I installed it brief

Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viruses can be very harmful to Linux users, even if they can't

Re: radeon opengl help

2003-09-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 21:20, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:53, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:31, Mark Roach wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Any suggestions or documentation anyone can give would be much > > > appreciated, documentation especially as I would like to ac

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:56 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any good or > not. It worked OK for me - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.

cdrecord as regular user

2003-09-24 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I have problems with cdrecord when run as a regular user. I configured the debian package with suid, but still I get the irritating RR-scheduler warnings: cdrecord.mmap: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord.mmap: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set prior

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 02:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viru

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed without removing 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-24 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 23. September 2003 17:20 schrieb David Z Maze: > So when you say "built from source", what do you really mean? I'd > think that, if you used stable's kernel-package to build a 2.4.21 > or 2.4.22 kernel from either the kernel.org or Debian

2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I have two networks (at home & at uni) and every then and now I do netcardconfig change my IP and so on but on the long term it is quite tedious - Is there a way to set up two network systems and swaping between them by executing one sinlge command? cheers martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viru

ldconfig returns bus error

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, I'm having some trouble after the latest update of my Debian unstable. I'm running it on an AMD Opteron 144, ASUS SK8N mainboard, self-compiled Kernel 2.4.21 After updating my system few days ago via "apt-get upgrade" it installed a new libc6 v. 2.3.2-6. Since then, I've been unable to instal

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Jungowski
> Can you go to someone else who will let you use SMTP to get mail? (Like > Demon Internet in the UK.) Uh... I think you got that wrong. Isn't SMTP just for delivering/sending mail? Receiving mail is either POP3 or IMAP but as far as I know, not SMTP. Martin > -- > Oliver Elphick

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Francois Bottin
Quoting Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have two networks (at home & at uni) and every then and now I do > netcardconfig change my IP and so on but on the long term it is quite tedious > > - Is there a way to set up two network systems and swaping between them by > executin

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:09, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > Can you go to someone else who will let you use SMTP to get mail? (Like > > Demon Internet in the UK.) > > Uh... I think you got that wrong. Isn't SMTP just for delivering/sending > mail? Receiving mail is either POP3 or IMAP but as far as I

fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and fonts used when writing documents. My gnome desktop has really nice anti-aliased fonts. How can I give openoffice nice fonts. Thanks for your help Pa

ls: filename: Input/output error

2003-09-24 Thread Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon
Hello all, Thanks in advance for any helps. When I list the content of a directory, I can't see the file. But when I execute "ls -al filename", I got "Input/output error". I just wonder, can I remove this file by using commands like "debugfs"? If yes, can I do it without shutting dow

Sub-process gzip returned an error code

2003-09-24 Thread Jon Haugsand
Everything has worked find up to now. But then: jonhaug:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Packages [202B] Hit http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Release gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip retur

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread tb . nospam
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days > ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and > fonts used when writing documents. My gnome desktop has really nice > anti

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:13:06 +0200 Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > I have two networks (at home & at uni) and every then and now I do > > netcardconfig change my IP and so on but on the long term it is quite > > tedi

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: I think my pizza would be crisped by now ;) but thanks for this. Coincidentally, I was trying to confilgure mailfilter last nigh

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:01:07 +0100 Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no provision that I know of in fetchmail to filter stuff before > it downloads it, but you could have exim4 filter it before it gets to > your mailbox. preconnect "mailfilter" will allow you to filter and del

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^^ please put your full name in here. > I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days > ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and > fonts used when writing documents. My gnome deskt

Re: named complaining about lame servers when resolving

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:56:18 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > > Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > > > > Error message (repeated over and over): > > > > Sep 22 17:12:00 ns1 named[12680]: lame server resolvin

Re: Verislime

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:38:17 -0400, "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > > > Seems like if Verisign is now hosting all NXDOMAIN domains, then > > they should pay for them just like the rest of us, after all. > > How can we

Re: opengroupware.org

2003-09-24 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, Sure is nice! I'd love to be able to provide support for this to my customers. However, I don't like the fact that the Outlook plugin is closed-source... with quite a high price-tag. It will be impossible to convince customers to use OpenGroupware.org instead of Exchange if it is basically as

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^^ You know that this is senseless? > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days > > ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), > >"Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>Compare this to th

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? Have you any idea why msttcorefonts doesn't show when I dselect? sources.list is as follows: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ s

setting umask for an nfs mount

2003-09-24 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does not give any help since nfs doesnt seem to have the umask option. Any ideas on what I could do to acheive this ? BTW, I am running testing / unstable. Best wishes, Shri -- -

Re: Video recorder

2003-09-24 Thread Savio Ramos
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:35:34 +0200 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .you want to take "screen snapshots", 'apropos snapshop' to I don't want snapshots I need something with video format. Something that recorder Qcad while is in use. -- Savio M. Ramos - Arquiteto Rio de Janeiro ICQ174

Re: ls: filename: Input/output error

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:41:11 +0800, Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, >Thanks in advance for any helps. >When I list the content of a directory, I can't see the file. >But when I execute "ls -al filename", I got "Input/output

udeb

2003-09-24 Thread M.Balakrishna Pillai
hi all, can somebody explain (or a pointer to the details of) udeb package and its difference with deb packages. with regards M.Balakrishna Pillai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > apt-get install mailfilter - it only depends on libc, libstdc++ and > debconf, so no baddies there. Mailfilter is not in Woody. I didn't try installing the deb from Unstable: just the source package. It has some source dependencies I didn't feel like bothering with. -- John Has

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Ashish Ariga
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:21, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > I have two networks (at home & at uni) and every then and now I do > netcardconfig change my IP and so on but on the long term it is quite tedious > - Is there a way to set up two network systems and swaping between them by > exec

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Francois Bottin
Quoting Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:13:06 +0200 > Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personnaly, I use netenv but I'm planing to change it soon (I don't want > > to have to choose the config during the booting phase). A quick > > apt-cache search re

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 07:43), John Hasler wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MS mail bombs > From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:43:10 -0500 > > Pigeon writes: > > apt-get install mailfilter - it only depends on libc, libstdc++ and > > debconf, so no baddies there.

Re: radeon opengl help

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:50, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 21:20, Mark Roach wrote: [...] > > hmm, there's not really a lot of info there... I thought drm was bad :-) > > Checking... Oops, no. However, it mentions to use kpkg (kernel-package) > and tells you to read kernel-package/

xserver-xfree86: problem setting resolution with MGA G550

2003-09-24 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, with latest xserver-xfree86 ( xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-11 ) I would like to configure the screen resolution to be 1280x1024 for my LCD monitor. I am using a Matrox MGA G550 (AGP) card. In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I have the following settings. Section "Screen" Identifier "Defaul

Re: udeb

2003-09-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, M.Balakrishna Pillai wrote: > hi all, > > can somebody explain (or a pointer to the details of) udeb package and its > difference with deb packages. > > with regards > M.Balakrishna Pillai > A udeb (with the u representing micro I suppose) is just a stripped down .deb for us

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? > > Have you any idea why msttcorefonts doesn't show when I dselect? > sources.list is as follows: > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main

Re: xserver-xfree86: problem setting resolution with MGA G550

2003-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 15:19:47 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > So, my question is quite simple: how can I get my box to provide an > X-Interface at 1280x1024? Or what do I have to change to make it work? Configure appropriate HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges in the Section "Monitor". HTH, Ray -- UN

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: > I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed > this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your Linux box, and are trying

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Maas
- Original Message - From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in me

Re: setting umask for an nfs mount

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Shri Shrikumar said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:00:25PM +0100: > Hi, > > I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does > not give any help since nfs doesnt seem to have the umask option. > > Any ideas on what I could do to acheive this ? BTW, I am running testing > / uns

Re: ls: filename: Input/output error

2003-09-24 Thread Angus D Madden
Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon, Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:41:11PM +0800: > Hello all, >Thanks in advance for any helps. >When I list the content of a directory, I can't see the file. >But when I execute "ls -al filename", I got "Input/output error". >I just wonder, can I remove this file by u

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 15:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > > > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? > > > > Have you any idea why msttcorefonts doesn't show when I dselect? > > sources.list is as

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:20 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same > package manager. Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's > ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be an enterprise version > of Libranet, and, since it charges f

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Stuart Johnston
Bob Proulx wrote: Stuart Johnston wrote: I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. So far they seem a little slower than had I hoped (particularly the RAID 5). But then they have been r

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread csj
At Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:14:27 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > [1 ] > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:52:20AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:02:20 -0400, > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For telnet simply run: > > > telnet

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:20:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:28, Terry Hancock wrote: > > It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly > > planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I would probably think > > so. No need to scent conspiracy the

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:19:10PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 11:03, Paul E Condon wrote: Hi, > > I think they would save themselves a lot of head aches if they did move to > > Debian. This collective support of the RedHat distribution, without selling > > CDs looks to me l

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Stuart Johnston said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Stuart Johnston wrote: > > > >>I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers > >>using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. > > > > > >Should work very nicely. > > > > So far t

Re: setting umask for an nfs mount

2003-09-24 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:05, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > The umask is a per-process setting, not a per mount setting. > > What are you trying to accomplish? I have the following directory structure ~/ src/ shared/ What happens now is that wherever I create a file, its created with -rw-rw

Re: xserver-xfree86: problem setting resolution with MGA G550

2003-09-24 Thread Lukas Ruf
> J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-24 15:50]: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 15:19:47 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > So, my question is quite simple: how can I get my box to provide > > an X-Interface at 1280x1024? Or what do I have to change to make > > it work? > > Configure appropri

SSH security glitch exposes networks

2003-09-24 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi there, I heard about the ssh security glitch from our network administrator. I allow only ssh connection from remote machine to my linux boxes. Is there anything alarming for linux users/systems. Thanks Vivek > SSH security glitch exposes networks > By Patrick Gray > > http://zdnet.com.com/2

Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi all, How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages ?? Thanks -- V Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:30:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Read the thread "MS Mail Bombs" that started a few days ago, > particularly: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg03898.html Thanks. I searched for spam, virus, and a few other things, but not "bomb" or "M

Re: Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Vivek Kumar: > Hi all, > > How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages > ?? apt-get update; apt-get install package -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most tra

RE: Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Sargent
apt-get install package_you_wish_to_update -Original Message- From: Vivek Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2003 17:09 To: debuser Subject: Package update Hi all, How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages ?? Thanks -- V Kumar -- To UNSU

Re: install

2003-09-24 Thread Sidney Brooks
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Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Tom
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:44:44PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ^^^ > You know that this is senseless? > "The falseness of a judgement is to us not necessarily an objection to a judgement. The question is to what extent it is life-advancing, life-preserving

Re: install

2003-09-24 Thread Sidney Brooks
Following the suggestion of Zak B. Elep,I changed "framebuffer device interface" to no and got a display of 800x600. However, among all the installed programs, there was nothing to dial onto the internet. I assumed that I had done something wrong in the initial install. Being less sophisticated th

Re: Xlib : extension "Xfree86-DRI" missing error- Unable to play Tux racer, Chromium

2003-09-24 Thread SRIKANTH NS
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section

Re: Apache dies silently?

2003-09-24 Thread j2
> There's some kind of conflict with PHP4 and apache in Unstable. The > following worked for me: Well, removing imap from extensions got it running for me.. But guess what i kinda need IMAP :( Anyway, thanks for the hints everyone, ill tinker around, at least i now know the nature of the prob

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > preconnect "mailfilter" Mh, my fetchmail hangs when I set this option: preconnect '/usr/bin/mailfilter -M /home/juh/.mailfilterrc' It uses 50% CPU for minutes. So I killed it after a while. But it works if there are no messages to kill on the server.

Please retitle the thread

2003-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
Since this has nothing to do with me anymore and I frankly have other things to do than to discuss where and what monopoly is good or bad in this way or another, please retitile the thread. Better yet, stop it altogether. It has no place on debian-user. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lis

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Clive writes: > I am not sure I agree with you You're right. Mailfilter is in Woody. I had forgotten that I had been mucking about with sources.list. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: MS mail bombs - This does work ;)

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Apologies to Pigeon - this does work ;) On (24/09/03 11:48), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: > I think my pizza would be crisped by

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Antonio Rodr
> Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any > > good or not. Hi Bijan, You posted a while ago a solution for spam using telnet. There you used several com

Cannot change background in Testing

2003-09-24 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hello, After the most recent updates to Testing (the update that got rid of the error message regarding control center at login), I cannot change the background. If I right-click the desktop and choose "Change Desktop Background", nothing happens. If I go to Applications -> Desktop Preferences ->

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has > no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Jan Ulrich Hasecke([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > preconnect "mailfilter" > > Mh, my fetchmail hangs when I set this option: > > preconnect '/usr/bin/mailfilter -M /home/juh/.mailfilterrc' man mailfilter default Mailfilter tries to

Unstable,gnumeric text import

2003-09-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not appear. This is present in the gnumeric in testing. Could somebody enlighten me as to what is wrong. Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Oh

Debian on cobalt RaQ2

2003-09-24 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Has it been done? I see info on putting NetBSD onto a RaQ2 but not much on Debian Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On א', 2003-09-21 at 19:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:43:49 +0300, > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > However under 2.4 its already working quite nicely. > > some people do get some trouble at times, but its quite stable. I > > s

revoking public key

2003-09-24 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Is there a way to revoke a gpg key if you have lost the password and didn't create a revocation certificate? What happens if I just upload a new public key? Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Following the suggestion of Zak B. Elep,I changed "framebuffer device interface" to no and got a display of 800x600. However, among all the installed programs, there was nothing to dial onto the internet. I assumed that I had done something wrong in the initial install. Being

trouble compiling grub

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Kaufer
I'm trying to backport the version of grub that's in unstable back to stable and am running into a compilation error. Does anyone know what I'm lacking here? == ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -

mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Can't seem to make a FAT file system; see below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs Password: Usage: mkfs [-V] [-t fstype] [fs-options] device [size] Wed Sep 24 14:32:06 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory Wed Sep 24 1

Re: Booting minimal debian off of IBM Microdrive

2003-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:50:15 +0200, Andreas Loong wrote: > > Hi, > > Trying to get a minimal install of debian to boot here. > The installation goes fine, partitioning and so on goes fine. > However, trying to boot yields some problems. > > My setup is a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, 512MB ram an

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:16:08 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > # Trying port address 0273 > > > # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 > > > > > > # (DEBUG) > > >

Re: Unstable,gnumeric text import

2003-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 14:32:38 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not >appear. I'm behind an X-less box right now, so I can't properly check, but hasn't it moved to Data -> Get External Data -> Import Text File? (If not,

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:16:08 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ... > > ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel > > and compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them.

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:53:07 -0400, Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > >Im trying this but i could not connect to it, im trying to connect using >minicom. >But it wont get thru.. > >Any ideas? Im planning to move over to win/hyper terminal but i ch

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:01:43 +0200, "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - Original Message - > From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:52 PM > Subject: Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usene

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..this too makes a neat installer: http://damnsmalllinux.org/ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Kent West wrote: > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search mkfs.vfat dosfstools: sbin/mkfs.vfat dosfstools: usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz dosfstools. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer :

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:33:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? apt-get install dosfstools -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the

S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread René Seindal
I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked the logs because the disk make a weird sound. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute:

EmulateWheel horizontal scrolling

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hello, I recently enabled emulatewheel in X on my laptop, which is really cool. It's a thinkpad, so the buttons are in this sort of funky layout: [1][3] [ 2 ] So now button 2 is set to emulatewheel, which means it generates events for buttons 4 5 6 and 7, which I have mapped to the X and Y axes.

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 13:19]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs -t fat /dev/sda1 > mkfs.fat: No such file or directory > > > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? in the dosfstools package. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ --

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen said: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), >> >"Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >

Re: revoking public key

2003-09-24 Thread Henning Moll
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:30, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Is there a way to revoke a gpg key if you have lost the password and > didn't create a revocation certificate? No, not really. You can start a brute force attack. If you used a 'word' (=something from a dictionary), chances are bett

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:01, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:20:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:28, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly > > > planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I woul

Re: trouble compiling grub

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:15:10 -0700 (PDT), "Mark Kaufer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to backport the version of grub that's in unstable back to > stable and am running into a compilation error. Does anyone know what > I'm lacking here? ..me, no, but wh

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:38, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:20 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > > That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same > > package manager. Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's > > ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be a

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