Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. September 2003 17:48 schrieb Monique Y. Herman: > "She," but otherwise mostly right. It turns out that I didn't need > to uninstall 2.3, anyway, though -- just had to revert one version. Sorry, Moni. I didn't read the name because it

Re: who are you

2003-09-29 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 09:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am what I am. - -- MfG usw Werner Mahr GPG-Key-ID 9CCBC2B0 Registered-Linux-User: 303822 (http://counter.li.org) ICQ-Nr. 317910541 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Schulz
Hi, On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Not to shoot the messenger, but this is what I found: > > http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/clients/clientscert.html > > > Red Hat SuSE > laptops 7.3 7.2 7.1 8.0 7.3

Re: 3d games crash

2003-09-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:39:57AM +1200, Paul William wrote: > Hi debian-users > > I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I > just find it odd that two 3d games both give segfaults so I think it > may be a problem on my end. > > I have an nvidia card and I am using th

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-29 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El lunes, 29 de septiembre de 2003, a las 04:41, Pigeon escribe: > I know; see my next paragraph... I'm pointing out that the system is > not necessarily "magically" secure if not used with the intended > rigour, as may be the case on a mailing list environment, or if > outhouse excess supported pg

Re: op showing cpu-states on woody

2003-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:44:38PM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: > I also found a post suggesting the sysstat package with the mpstat > program which provides some similar functionality. > > I use this: mpstat -P ALL 1 Thanks Stuart! Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 40

Re: Black Holes.

2003-09-29 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
David Palmer. wrote: > O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, and am struggling > to find directions that make sense. > It's got to the point where I have actually got to the point of starting > off a series of posts at an open source forum to help out other newbies > like myself. >

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: > > | Can one post via the newsgroup? > > Nope. It's a one-way gateway. Posts via the newsgroup only show up > in the newsgroup, or so I've been told. The rest of us use the > mailling list (SMTP; aka ema

Re: Enabling IMAP access

2003-09-29 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 28 de septiembre de 2003, a las 23:48, Roberto Sanchez escribe: > - How do I allow this only over SSL (i.e., imaps)? # apt-get install uw-imapd-ssl I use UW's IMAP daemon for a fast and easy kick-off. Check Cyrus if UW's not enough for you. > - Is there a greater security risk in ope

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-09-29 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 08:12]: >The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native >resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with 1024x780. >How can I fix this problem. The graphic card is NVidia GeForce420 >32MB and the driver in XF86Config is "nv".

Saving image from email in evolution

2003-09-29 Thread John Stevenson
I am not able to save an image from an email, in this case my daily dilbert strip, when using evolution 1.2 as my email client. I can right click on the image and get a pop-up menu with a single menu item of save as.. but when I click this nothing happens. I cannont find any reported bugs against

Re: archive `dmesg'

2003-09-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Good point ! Thanks, Jerome Albert Dengg wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:14:32 +0300 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Is there a way to archive the `dmesg' in the `/var/log' directory ? ... there already is... on a debian standard installation the kernel messages(which is what dmesg disp

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > > rendered his mach

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Redhat has somehow managed to allow any user to shut the computer down from the GNome logout menu. Usually, that only appears in case you're running GNome2 as root - hence it almost never happens. I have tried everything to get that enhanced logout menu in Debian unstable / GNome2.x but I hav

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's > > > getting s

Re: X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On September 28, 2003 10:04 pm, Nathan Weston wrote: > I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a > window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down > the screen, taking about 1 second to finish. > > I'm using a PCI GeForce2 MX with the 4496 d

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:43:35 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:35 am, alex wrote: [...] > > What are the indicators that will tell us whether the > > components are fully Linux compatible, whether they are part > > of a ready to run Windows computer, a systemless compu

Re: Determining eth -> driver mapping

2003-09-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:20:08 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: >> alias eth0 8139too >> alias eth1 3c509 >> > > My main question about this, in the case where 8139too is not load and > then I try to access eth1, this will load the 3c509 module, but will > that bring up eth1 with no eth0 due to the alias

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread cr
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:58, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > Other question - what's the 'proper' way to give a user (me) access to > > ppp? > > Add the user to the dip group. It is not necessary to add the user to > dialout as pppd opens the device while running as root. Thanks! I added myse

Re: Determining eth -> driver mapping

2003-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:10:08 +0200, michf wrote: > I would rather try to detect which interface is mapped to the driver > instead of assuming the active one is always on eth0. Is there a way to > do that? Have a look the nameif utility. It assigns names by MAC addresses, i.e. it can recognize whi

Re: pppd daemon dies

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The obvious 'fix' of adding myself to group 'root' is, I think, not a good > idea ;) Na, not a good idea ;-) > However I seem to have fixed it - I'll include this in case it helps anyone: > > /etc/ppp/options says: > > # Require the peer to authenticate

Re: How do you know if it works in Linux?

2003-09-29 Thread David Palmer.
Quote/This will only work for expensive or really dumb products like PS/2 keyboards. A case in point: I'm trying to google for Linux-compatible USB modems (dialup). The only recommendations I could find are for the ultra-expensive USR modems. With one or two exceptions, I couldn't find any Linu

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Heres my perl script. I also run it in cron. On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 03:49, Ron Johnson wrote: > (Mailfilter only checks headers, so can't see filenames of > attachments.) > > I've got this in my crontab: > */5 * * * * (/home/me/pop_zap_msft.py && fetchmail -s) > > The rc (named ~/.pop_zap_msftrc)

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux? - modems

2003-09-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, csj wrote: > PS/2 keyboards. A case in point: I'm trying to google for > Linux-compatible USB modems (dialup). The only recommendations I experience says a modem is linux compatible if it has a uart chip on it if it doesn't have uart chip on the modem card or o

HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading? Just realised my kernel has SMP disabled which might have been a mistake, but I can't find a definitive answer by googl

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 05:54, devotion wrote: > Hi. > I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if > that unappropriate). > I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using > default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. > I am using adsl, whose mod

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread sturla
David Palmer. wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: Hi there, A friend of mine has had Win

gawk manual in dwww/ doccentral

2003-09-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
The gawk manual does not show up in the info index (eg. running [p]info in a shell and searching for "gawk" - not found), or the dwww search index (from the dwww front page) or from the doccentral search box. What gives? Is this a bug I should report against. At some point I found the manual in m

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Howorth
Andrew Ingram wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading? Just realised my kernel has SMP disabled which might have been a mistake, but I can't find a defin

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Schulz
Hi, > If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say RedHat, that's > where I started. > RedHat 9 has a great installer and contains anything a normal user will > ever need, including OpenOffice.Org. I also would put Ximians XD2 on top of that. I use it on some machines and am very happy w

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Greg Norris
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my > kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an > Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading? Just realised my kernel has SMP > disabled which m

Re: to make kppp working with unprivilege user ?

2003-09-29 Thread Charles-Roberts
David Creed wrote: jjluza wrote: Hi, I try to make kppp work with a normal user (so, not root). I had this user to group dip and dialup. Now it tells me that I can't use the ppp option "noauth" without root privilege ... Is there a way to use kppp with my normal user account, and without making

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread gaspard
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Greg Norris wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my > > kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an > > Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading?

Re: X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Mental Patient
Nathan Weston wrote: I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down the screen, taking about 1 second to finish. I'm using a PCI GeForce2 MX with the 4496 driver from NVidia. Under 2.4.21, the s

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Sunday 28 September 2003 4:20 am, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote: > Hi all, > > I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. > > I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management > system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of D

Re: dselect, was Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-29 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Saturday 27 September 2003 2:18 am, Terry Hancock wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2003 10:29 am, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install

Re: Black Holes.

2003-09-29 Thread D.
--- "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, > and am struggling > to find directions that make sense. > It's got to the point where I have actually got to > the point of starting > off a series of posts at an open source forum to > help out

Re: Black Holes.

2003-09-29 Thread Charles-Roberts
David Palmer. wrote: O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, and am struggling to find directions that make sense. It's got to the point where I have actually got to the point of starting off a series of posts at an open source forum to help out other newbies like myself. But even thou

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Opps, forgot to mention that the line: $delete=0 if /^To.*?linux/i; Must be altered. Replace the linux part with any string that occurs in your email address. eg if you address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] you should replace linux with abc123 ie. $delete=0 if /^To.*?abc123/i; My bad, Cheers Paul --

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > David Palmer. wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 > > Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: [snip

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-29 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Friday 26 September 2003 5:31 pm, cr wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:40:14 +0200, cr wrote: > > > ... having just recovered from another screaming encounter with > > > dselect. > > > > One word: aptitude > > Thanks, I'll bear 'apti

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:19, Greg Norris wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my > > kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an > > Intel P4 processor with HyperThrea

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alfredo Valles wrote: > The advice I always give is to install knoppix to your hard drive, then in 20 > minutes you'll have a fully functional debian testing/unstable. This is not a good advice. if he wants to upgrade there is only unstable as the option and Debian beginners should NOT use u

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 07:59, Andrew Ingram wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:19, Greg Norris wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: [snip] > Sounds easy enough! Might explain why my BIOS logo doesn't sport the > "HT" after a reboot of Linux, but does after a reboo

Swen has finally gone too far!!!

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
My pager is alpha-numeric, and there's an smtp gateway, so that *short* emails can be sent. Well, guess what I just go (the 1st 50 bytes of)? Yep, Swen... -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Why should we no

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Sindre
> The BIOS is pre-OS, so that logo must be displayed by Windows. Your facts are right, but your conclusion is wrong, the bios is actually aware if the last booted OS did use smp or not. My quad cpu compaq report 3 of the cpus as failed if I reboot after using a non-smp kernel, or 2 failed if I l

Re: X is slow on 2.6-test6 kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Nathan Weston
Stephen Cormier wrote: >On September 28, 2003 10:04 pm, Nathan Weston wrote: >> I just installed 2.6.0-test6, and X is incredibly slow -- if I minimize a >> window which covers most of the screen, I can watch the redraw creep down >> the screen, taking about 1 second to finish. >> >> I'm using a P

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 07:59, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:19, Greg Norris wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > [snip] > > Sounds easy enough! Might explain why my BIOS logo doesn't sport

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:27:45PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Alfredo Valles wrote: > > The advice I always give is to install knoppix to your hard drive, > > then in 20 minutes you'll have a fully functional debian > > testing/unstable. > This is not a good advice. if he wants to up

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:56:18 +0200, Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Samstag, 27. September 2003 17:48 schrieb Monique Y. Herman: > >> "She," but otherwise mostly right. It turns out that I didn't need >> to uninstall 2.3, anyway, t

Re: Swen has finally gone too far!!!

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:35:40 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > My pager is alpha-numeric, and there's an smtp gateway, so that > *short* emails can be sent. > > Well, guess what I just go (the 1st 50 bytes of)? Yep, Swen... > Okay, fess up, what mailing list was *so* important th

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:42, Sindre wrote: > > The BIOS is pre-OS, so that logo must be displayed by Windows. > > Your facts are right, but your conclusion is wrong, the bios is actually aware > if the last booted OS did use smp or not. > My quad cpu compaq report 3 of the cpus as failed if I reb

RE: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-29 Thread Bajusz, Richard G.
I don't know about netatalk and resources forks, but when I make CDs on Linux to read on my Mac I use a command like: mkisofs -apple -J -R -l -hide-rr-moved ... Long file are preserved. Rich > > Hello, > > I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. > > We have a fileserve

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This works well: http://freshmeat.net/projects/swendeleter/?topic_id=29 To use in cron, I commented out the line: say "$nmails left in the mailbox"; So I only get cron email if it deleted anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:55:53PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 16:00]: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > > Rabson, who took some special time to

[OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Price
anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-09-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:48:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm looking for a little quick-start help with Vim (in converting from | Nano). | | Can someone share their vim setup used with email? The features I care | about In my .vimrc I have the following mail-specific settings:

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread XDebian
Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody.  I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on.  I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appreciate your help and thanks f

Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Kyle Loree
I have two Debian severs that were installed on kernel 2.2.x and are now 2.4.17-686-smp. one has seemed to have been restarted. 09:41:45 up 2 days,  4:26, in reading http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158  the uptime returns to zero after 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes and 53 seconds it state

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-29 Thread David Z Maze
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think another possible way would be through the C library. I believe > that the C library has certain authentication functions (I think for > passwd file and NIS). I think that you could modify these functions to > provide whichever method you want.

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-29 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op zo 28-09-2003, om 00:45 schreef David Z Maze: > >> I think both Kerberos and RADIUS are "single sign-on" protocols: when >> you log on you get some sort of authentication token, which you can >> use to talk to other services without typing a passw

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm Trying to trying to buy a new motherboard for Debian 3.0 Woody. I'm hoping that you would recommend some new motherboards (Support P4 or AMD doesn't matter) that I would have no problem installing debian on. I'm a new user, so I'm kind of lost here. I appre

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-29 Thread csj
At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:27:30 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: [...] > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? > (why?) > > What is a good solution? (IOW, what do you do, or what do you > suggest?) -d --force-cdrom-device: use specified device; disallow

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Bowtell
> > I didn't mean to CC you, i just hit reply assuming it would go to the > > list but it went t you instead. My DMA settings in the kernel are: > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set > > CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y > > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set >

Re: USB floppy problems (more details)

2003-09-29 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 29 Setembre 2003 01:44, en Oleg Trott va escriure: > I have a USB floppy connected and sg.o, sd_mod.o and usb-storage.o loaded. > The device does not show up in /proc/scsi/scsi however, and >    mount -t auto /dev/sda /floppy > fails ("not a

cdrecord gives buffer underrun warnings

2003-09-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I apologise for double posting, but I must have missed many mails (because of that stupid M$ virus sending so much junk) or nobody responded before. Each time I try to burn a (large) cd image, I get the following error before the actual burning process starts: cdrecord.mmap: Op

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 29 September 2003 12:05 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >You probably only need to hit the "send" button once (seven copies of >the message ended up on the list). > I'd also add that HTML messages are not good. On my system they go directly into the spam folder, unless the sender is whitelis

kde xdisplay problem

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I am running KDE 3.0.3 but when I try to change my display settings via Control Center -> Peripherals -> Xdisplay the cursor starts flashing but nothing happens. What might be wrong? or how do I change my settings otherwise? thanks in advance, cheers Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > This works well: > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/swendeleter/?topic_id=29 > > To use in cron, I commented out the line: > > say "$nmails left in the mailbox"; > > So I only get cron email if it deleted anything. The problem with using h

Re: Swen has finally gone too far!!!

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:12, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:35:40 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > My pager is alpha-numeric, and there's an smtp gateway, so that > > *short* emails can be sent. > > > > Well, guess what I just go (the 1st 50 bytes of)? Yep, Sw

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 > > > Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > > > On

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, I would DEFINITELY not suggest to use unstable if you're a Debian or even worse, Linux newbie. It may work 95% of the time but it may also be either unstable or not work at all after an update. That's why it's called sid, still in development. I've been using sid for about a year now and duri

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:49, Kyle Loree wrote: > I have two Debian severs that were installed on kernel 2.2.x and are > now 2.4.17-686-smp. > > one has seemed to have been restarted. > 09:41:45 up 2 days, 4:26, > > in reading http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158 the uptime > returns to zer

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Yes, please do us a favor and disable HTML-messages. I'm like Jeff, HTML-mails go directly into the spam folder unless the sender is whitelisted. On topic: All current VIA-mainboards (except for the Athlon64 ones) are pretty well supported so you may wanna get one of those. Same with nForce3 mainb

Re: cdrecord gives buffer underrun warnings

2003-09-29 Thread John Spray
Joris Huizer wrote: cdrecord.mmap: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. Can anybody tell me what to do to solve this? This has to do with you burning as a normal user rather than root. It's possible to configure your way around this issue. See http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/g

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: > I have two Debian severs that were installed on kernel 2.2.x and are now > 2.4.17-686-smp. > > one has seemed to have been restarted. > 09:41:45 up 2 days, 4:26, > > in reading http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158 the uptime returns to > ze

Re: Swen has finally gone too far!!!

2003-09-29 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's what confuses me. My pager's email address must have been > harvested from somewhere besides a Usenet cache. Swen does take addresses from local address books. Know of any Windows user who might have that address in their

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2003-09-29 Thread hold
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ANTIVIRUS LA REGION - Virus encontrado (RECIPIENT)!

2003-09-29 Thread euro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] intentaba mandar un e-mail con virus. - KAV report: - pack56.exe infected: I-Worm.Swen - This message redirect to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message ---

ANTIVIRUS LA REGION - Virus encontrado (RECIPIENT)!

2003-09-29 Thread euro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] intentaba mandar un e-mail con virus. - KAV report: - suspicion: Exploit.IFrame.FileDownload dnxhtzvn.exeinfected: I-Worm.Swen - This message redirect to

Problems with xawtv on testing/unstable

2003-09-29 Thread David Kutalek
Hi, I have Debian unstable+testing, with my own kernel kompiled using make-kpkg (2.4.20). I run XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 with 'nv' driver. Xawtv gives me this output: - This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20timothy) WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support. WARNING: couldn't find

Re: Swen has finally gone too far!!!

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:35, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > That's what confuses me. My pager's email address must have been > > harvested from somewhere besides a Usenet cache. > > Swen does take addresses from local address books. Kn

debian Sid & Alsa & kernel 2.6.0-test6

2003-09-29 Thread Seppe Van Sande
Hi all,Well, I'm trying to setup ALSA with my Debian Sid with kernel2.6.0-test6 for my Audigy (emu10k1), but I get nothing but errors :-( I downloaded the driver, libs and utils package, but the driver failswhen I do a make. First, I did: ./configure --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer=yes--wit

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:14, Martin Jungowski wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 > > > > Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? > For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I > double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this? /etc/mc/mc.ext is the place to look.

changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hello, I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, I'm a bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The problem is the line breaks in the .txt files. Does anyone know how I could convert single hard returns into a white space? It must be some variation of:

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread R Ransbottom
I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. So instead: find, cpio, growisofs, and a tomsrtbt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Sidney Brooks
I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From what I read, I must install the module uhci to do this. I do not know where to find this module and how to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success. This must be something that everybody but me knows how to do as everything I read assumes

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:27:30PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? (why?) Works fine here... I have four optical drives in this box, all controlled by ide-scsi, and cdparanoia will rip from any or all of them. -- Marc Wilson |

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:07:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Gak! And send him into Dependency Hell? That's nonsense. People like to throw that crap out, but users cause it for themselves when they install RPM's from random places, same as Debian users cause it for themselves when they install

Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? Certainly. Command Menu >> Edit Extension File -- Marc Wilson | Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because he is a foo

Subversion apache module will not load in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I've been running subversion on an unstable server for quite a while. A while ago (over a month I'd say) it stopped working following an upgrade. Subversion has been through a few upgrades in the meantime but still willl not load. Here's the error message that I get: Restarting web s

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:09:45PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, I'm a > bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The problem is the line > breaks in the .txt files. > > Does anyone know how I could convert single hard ret

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