Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-31 Thread Bryan Andersen
First check to make sure you can run the SATA devices in PATA emulation mode in hardware. If you can't, you will have to build a custom kernel on a different system so you can use it to when you load Debian. If you load using the SATA drives in PATA emulation mode, when you build your new ker

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Vincent Lefevre wrote (2004-01-31 01:09): >However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't >very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also >perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-based solution >(with primitives for MIME decoding) would proba

Re: Remote health test for servers?

2004-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Randy Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > >>Let's not forget Big Brother > >>http://www.bb4.com > >>Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of > >>developers and users for support. > They have a license the

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Adam Aube wrote (2004-01-31 04:18): >On Friday 30 January 2004 07:09 pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't >> very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also >> perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-b

test

2004-01-31 Thread alice
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Please help with permissions problem

2004-01-31 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Whenever I install a new Debian Woody system, create a normal user account, then log in as that user, some X-based (and maybe some non-X, but I don't recall right now) programs work fine, while others require sudo access. One example is Mozilla via apt-get. I discovered kword works fine. I perfo

debian home gateway; nat + multicast/igmp

2004-01-31 Thread debian-user
hi, my broadband provider allows me to view video via a multicast. I can't find any tool for iptables that makes this work. I see igmp-packets on both sides of my gateway - but ofcourse it is not forwarded. Is there any NAT-module for IGMP/Multicast? Or anyone else made this work? //BR Niklas

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:55:21 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:27:57 -0600 > From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so >> they can be turned off or down when not needed . . . > > > PC Power & Cooling (

Re: Errors starting up alsa

2004-01-31 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to build alsa modules for my kernel 2.4.21-5-k7. I also edited the > config files as instructed. But when i /etc/init.d/alsa start the > following error message is shown: Storing ALSA mixer settings > ... failed Shutting down ALSA (version 0.9.6): done.

choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I'm thinking of writing a tool that would aspire to eventually being something a debian sysadmin would like to have around. A very basic tool, no gui required, should be useful for just about any unix-y install, but I want to focus on debian. It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must > be either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent > would I be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python > or

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2004-01-30 18:34:17 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> See http://www.exim.org/ . Click on "Documentation and FAQs". > >There are several things I don't like: You're probably right on most of those, exim filtering

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2004-01-30 14:57:37 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: >> > Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that >> > adds the correct From for list-

Re: Please help with permissions problem

2004-01-31 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 06:24, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > What am I missing? > you're missing some important information...what are the permissions on /home/scott/.ICEauthority ? $ ls -l ~/.ICEauthority the permissions on mine are 600: -rw---1 daviddavid 930 Jan 31 08:06 .ICEaut

Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Marius Amado Alves
I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me the old fas

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Kent West
Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put in my sources.list? (I don't have CDs yet, jus

Re: Please help with permissions problem

2004-01-31 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 06:24, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > > What am I missing? > > > > you're missing some important information...what are the permissions on > /home/scott/.ICEauthority ? > > $ ls -l ~/.ICEauthority > > the permissions on mine are 600: > > -

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:56 am, Kent West wrote: > I'd love to help you, but printing on Linux is _still_ a black art. > I've been using Debian exclusively on my boxes for about four years > now, and I generally just avoid printing if I can. > And I'm not a stupid person. So the short answer

Undelivered mail: hi

2004-01-31 Thread DrWeb-DAEMON
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Data Recovery Software - Download Username & Password

2004-01-31 Thread Data Recovery Software
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Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Monique writes: > It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must be > either compiled or bash. Not true. Perl is in the base system. You have to stick to basic Perl, though. No libraries. > Yes, in many ways, it would be better for the community for me to pitch > in on an

dh_installpam error

2004-01-31 Thread David Clymer
I'm attempting to build a backported (to woody) source package of freeradius-9.2-4 However I've run into a problem (build script error below): dh_strip dh_installlogrotate dh_installinit -n dh_installpam --name=radiusd Unknown option: name dh_installpam: unknown option; aborting make: *** [binary

Failed to load module "xft"

2004-01-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I keep getting "Failed to load module 'xft'" in my X log. ls -1 libXft* in /usr/X11R6/lib gets: libXfont.a libXfontcache.a libXft.so libXft.so.1 libXft.so.1.1 libXft.so.2 libXft.so.2.0 libXft.so.2.1 libXft1.a libXft1.so Does anyone know what he is looking for and can't find it? Or a p

Re: USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

2004-01-31 Thread Robert Voppmann
Am Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:20:51 -0500 schrieb Barry Skidmore: > I am trying to use an external USB 1.1 drive on a Debian (woody) system > with kernel 2.4.24. > > I have been able to partition the USB drive as ext2 using the > SystemRescue CD (v0.2.9) with 'QtParted'. It shows up as 'dev/sda', with

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:56, Kent West wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > > * Window/Desktop System * > > I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change > > to a more modern system? [...] > You've probably installed stable, which is ancient. stable is suitable > for

Re: USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

2004-01-31 Thread Barry Skidmore
Robert, The sd_mod module does not exist on my system. As I recall, when I compiled the 2.4.24 kernel, I did not include scsi support, as I forgot that it is required for usb drives. So, I need to recompile the kernel with scsi support, is that correct? Barry > When I tried using an external u

Re: 2.6 upgrade (mouse)

2004-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:58:36PM -0800, Brian Corman wrote: > Sorry about the lack of information. It is a ps/2 mouse, and lsmod doesn't > return any mouse related modules. I checked the Debian documentation on > mouse configuration, and it indicates that I should have a > /etc/sysconfig/mouse fi

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:10 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Gnome 2.2 I get from the evilgeniuses backport > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992 > There probably is something similar for KDE too KDE for Woody is available from download.kde.org. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:04:16PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:03:30AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > > Or can it be assumed that people will be posting non-english email to this > > list. > > It happens. I don't know what the volunteer listmaster wants to do, > but for

xmms broken lately on Testing

2004-01-31 Thread Uwe Dippel
... very lately, indeed. Yesterday I used it without problems; today, after the latest upgrade, it opens, everything okay, but when clicking 'Play' it simply doesn't do anything. It neither complains nor crashes / freezes. Simply nothing. Doesn't play; doesn't advance the counter. Any idea welcome

vncserver startup problem - bug or feature?

2004-01-31 Thread Jaime Towns
Hi all. After a few days of trying to understand why my vncserver startup wasn't providing the normal desktop environment, I've finally discovered that vncserver's behaviour varies depending on whether I start it from a virtual terminal or from a terminal emulator running inside my already-runnin

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-31, Nicos Gollan penned: > --Signature=_Sat__31_Jan_2004_15_02_55_+0100_Q8IxOoqnGREZXD.J > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread rthoreau
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network > of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach > on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right > archive

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-31, John Hasler penned: > Monique writes: >> It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must >> be either compiled or bash. > > Not true. Perl is in the base system. You have to stick to basic > Perl, though. No libraries. I'm confused. I opened up aptitude, wen

Re: Errors starting up alsa

2004-01-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-31, Niels L. Ellegaard penned: > Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> to build alsa modules for my kernel 2.4.21-5-k7. I also edited the >> config files as instructed. But when i /etc/init.d/alsa start the >> following error message is shown: Storing ALSA mixer settings >> ...

Re: 2.6 upgrade (mouse)

2004-01-31 Thread Setu, Prem
Hi It happened for me, too. I have added two lines in /etc/modules . -- mousedev psmouse -- or try as root: # modprobe mousedev # modprobe psmouse love setu Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:58:36PM -0800, Brian Corman wrote: Sorry about the lack of information. It is a ps/2 mouse

Re: Very slow mount over NFS?

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > on Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:59:50PM -0500, Aaron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Good day, Debs, > > My guess: Install the portmapper service on *BOTH* your NFS server and > the clients. "portmap" seems to be running on both machines. The client is Debia

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-31 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:05:14 + James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able to use > it on both my Debian (Sid) box and my iBook (Mac OsX). > > I have no problems making it accessible to either machine but neither > seems to be abl

Re: xmms broken lately on Testing

2004-01-31 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:17 am, Uwe Dippel wrote: > . very lately, indeed. Yesterday I used it without problems; today, > after the latest upgrade, it opens, everything okay, but when clicking > 'Play' it simply doesn't do anything. It neither complains nor crashes / > freezes. > Simply nothi

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Monique writes: > Could you please clarify this? Pppconfig as an example of what? A Debian/base package written in Perl. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

2004-01-31 Thread Robert Voppmann
Am Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:22:52 -0500 schrieb Barry Skidmore: Hi Barry, > The sd_mod module does not exist on my system. As I recall, when I > compiled the 2.4.24 kernel, I did not include scsi support, as I forgot > that it is required for usb drives. So, I need to recompile the kernel > with scs

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment. People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run with the hood off. Also take off the cover on the power supply, and threw away th

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:14:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > What would english emails written by people using utf8 systems look > like? So far, no difference. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian a

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > * Window/Desktop System * > I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change > to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with > apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to p

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Colin Watson wrote: > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET > > source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of > > it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look > > at the source -- Microsoft is handing out r

Re: xmms broken lately on Testing

2004-01-31 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:50:07 +0100, Uwe Dippel wrote: 'Solved'. Had tried everything; including Log-Out / Log-In; you name it. Finally, remembered my old days on 'that other OS' and grepped a Ctrl-Alt-Del; after which everything came back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. The BBS posts were 8 bit. You had the entire 256 IBM CMOS bitmaps. The BBS posts offered ANSI color. It's not just mono like this. HTML giv

relaying my own mail through my own server

2004-01-31 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out exactly what kind of work would be needed to allow myself to relay mail through my new server. Right now I'm portforwarding through another server using: ssh -L 8025:localhost:25 mail.domain.com and a minor fix locally to postfix to relay mail through

Controlling size of printed text?

2004-01-31 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm trying to print a text HTML file from Galeon, and the size of the printed text is much too big. I printed the same document yesterday, and the final size was 29 pages. Today, I try again, and the size of the text on the page has nearly doubled (55 pages). Altering the text size in the Galeo

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:09:21AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > * A result of a pipe can't be retrieved (and that's why the FAQ > recommends to use procmail for such things). ...you mean that if you pipe a message through some external program you can't then feed the output of that program ba

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > >* Printing/CUPS * > >I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web > >interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the > >applications. It's an HP DeskJet on t

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Brett Carrington
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:00:00PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > Perhaps I have not expressed myself well, but the point is, that it is > more difficult to use email now than it used to be; given the reputation > of the computer business for 'progress', that's odd. So are you looking for a solution? Be

RE: 2.6 upgrade

2004-01-31 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi Brian, sorry for being not precise ... in a console and as "root" you need to run modprobe -v mousedev modprobe -v psmouse for a ps2-mouse. Otherwise replace 'psmouse' with 'sermouse' or similar, depending on the mouse you have. The listing from /lib/modules/2.6.0-1-k7/kernel/drivers/in

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Pigeon: > > exim -bm. Useful if you want to avoid having to learn > Sanskrit^Wprocmail. > > For example, the following is what I use to strip the advertising from > Yahoo Groups mailing list traffic: Oh yes, that's far simpler than learning Sanskrit^Wprocmail. Yesiree, Bob! You b

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Kent West
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marius Amado Alves wrote: * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the applications. It's an HP Des

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-30 22:18:58 -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Have you looked at maildrop? I hesitated between maildrop and procmail and chose procmail propably because I was already using it on another account. But maildrop is installed on my machine. BTW, does anyone know when the new version (1.6.3) will be

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-31 18:43:10 +, Pigeon wrote: > ...you mean that if you pipe a message through some external program > you can't then feed the output of that program back into exim? It > initially appears so, but it's straightforward to write a shellscript > wrapper for the external program that adds

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:42:22 -0800, Day Brown wrote: > One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment. > People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the > fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run > with the hood off.

Re: xmms broken lately on Testing

2004-01-31 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 01:17:19 +0800 Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... very lately, indeed. Yesterday I used it without problems; today, > after the latest upgrade, it opens, everything okay, but when clicking > 'Play' it simply doesn't do anything. It neither complains nor crashes > / fre

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:49:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > So, um, is there a way to list all packages that are in a particular > section? My aptitude test must have been naive, but I'm not sure why. > Other than my just-now "reverse-engineered" approach of trying the url > http://packages

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > aptitude ~sbase > aptitude search ~sbase ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mpalyer -vo problem

2004-01-31 Thread Fernando - FRBK
My Mplayer is not working... the first error is: "New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf)" But the program still running... When i try to play any wmv file i get an error message saying that the program can't open my -vo option... i

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Note that the expectation of the System V init system is that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke-rc.d is undefined for that service in that runlevel. Methods of shutting o

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:11:37 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows > > CE.NET source which is freely available. It's a for

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:00:44 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The only one I don't do this to is the CPU fan - I leave that with the > full unhindered 12V. ..reminds me of that eerie sound I heard on a big fs shuffle half a year ago; gkrell read cpu @

dpkg, make-kpkg and 2.6 kernel

2004-01-31 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have used make-kpkg to make a 2.6 kernel deb which is producing a strange error on attempted installation. I simply used the source package with the config file from the 686 kernel image deb. I receive the following error when attempting to install: dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.0

dpkg, make-kpkg and 2.6 kernel

2004-01-31 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have used make-kpkg to make a 2.6 kernel deb which is producing a strange error on attempted installation. I simply used the source package with the config file from the 686 kernel image deb. I receive the following error when attempting to install: dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.0

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:51:14AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good side of this AFAICT, is my wee linux business will survive > another coupla years, before the big landslide of ex-MSCE etc hits. ;-) I was a MCSD thank you :-) I got mine in 1995 on the NT 3.51, VB 3.0, and Access 2.0 rou

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:44:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:14:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > What would english emails written by people using utf8 systems look > > like? > > So far, no difference. > Won't they fail the 8-bit test? (My system is not utf8 at t

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:42:22 -0800, Day Brown wrote: One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment. People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run with th

Nalezen virus v mailu od Vas! Virus found in mail from you!

2004-01-31 Thread AvMailGate
* Antivirove upozorneni * Antivir nasel tyto viry v mailu od Vas: Worm/MyDoom.A2 Mail nebyl dorucen. *

Cleanup and OpenOffice (was: Windows and Printing Systems)

2004-01-31 Thread Marius Amado Alves
Thanks all w.r.t. windows and printing systems. Slightly better now: running icewm instead of twn, and lp seems to print PS files. But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially failed (gnome, kde, cups-client

Re: USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

2004-01-31 Thread Barry Skidmore
Robert, I have recompiled the kernel (2.4.24) to include scsi support in addition to usb. Here are the relevent lines from dmesg: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices es1371: version v0.32 time 17:29:13 Jan 31 2004 usb.c: registered new d

inn2 user auth problem(?)

2004-01-31 Thread Krisztian VASAS
Hello all! I'd like to configure the inn2 in woody, but i've got some problem... I've configured the inn2 in my own computer (sid, 2.4.1) and it works well... Then I've installed onto woody (2.3.2), but with quiet same config the server haven't worked. The server starts, you can read it without

Re: dpkg, make-kpkg and 2.6 kernel

2004-01-31 Thread jjluza
Le Saturday 31 January 2004 23:09, Darryl Barlow a écrit : > I have used make-kpkg to make a 2.6 kernel deb which > is producing a strange > error on attempted installation. I simply used the > source package with the > config file from the 686 kernel image deb. I receive > the following error >

Struggling with Postfix configuration

2004-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
I have decided to switch from exim to postfix - but am struggling with a couple of parameters I am sitting on a local lan behind a NAT gateway, so most of my machines have names of the form *.home externally I appear to be the chandlerfamily.org.uk domain. I have set the basic parameters as f

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Nate Duehr
On Friday, Jan 30, 2004, at 22:00 America/Denver, Day Brown wrote: I see where people in email now continually complain of being misquoted, how attribution with the system of single, double, triple,.. angle brackets is often misleading. But my QWKMAIL put my words up here in amber, and before cit

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:42:42 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> >> aptitude ~sbase >> > > aptitude search ~sbase > Thank you, nano, I am an idiot. -- paul It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:48:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:56:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >>Marius Amado Alves wrote: > >> > >>>* Printing/CUPS * > >>>I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web > >>>interface, but this p

Re: New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting

2004-01-31 Thread Damian
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Adam Aube (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:45 pm, Damian wrote: I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound card (Soundblaster Live! 5

Re: Screen fonts in X

2004-01-31 Thread G. Crimp
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > G. Crimp wrote: > > > > - dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig in order to allow bitmapped fonts, > > but the command complained it didn't know what fontconfig was (neither do > > I, but that was the suggestion in one of the threads; > > > > Hello, > > Just

Re: BIND 9 with DHCP-DNS and PPPD Demand Dial

2004-01-31 Thread Peter A. Cole
I didn't get any responses to my original query with this, so I did some more poking around of my own. As it turns out, I should have been using dhcp3 instead of just dhcp as it has DDNS capability built in. I have removed dhcp and dhcp-dns, installed dhcp3, and am using the builtin DDNS capabili

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:45:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Pigeon: > > > > exim -bm. Useful if you want to avoid having to learn > > Sanskrit^Wprocmail. > > > > For example, the following is what I use to strip the advertising from > > Yahoo Groups mailing list traffic: > > Oh y

Re: Failed to load module "xft"

2004-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:29:37AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I keep getting "Failed to load module 'xft'" in my X log. > > ls -1 libXft* in /usr/X11R6/lib gets: > > libXfont.a > libXfontcache.a > libXft.so > libXft.so.1 > libXft.so.1.1 > libXft.so.2 > libXft.so.2.0 > libXft.

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): >Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email >functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on >the internet. I had similar thoughts. I used Crosspoint on Fido, and still miss some features from both. >

Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Everyone :) I am using Debian testing/unstable. I wished to get rid of klogd,sysklogd, cron/anacron - I did so. Every damn service pointing to scheduled tasks got uninstalled, too (slogrotate, and so on). My question now is, if this surgery is without complications if regarded from the operation

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note that the expectation of the System V init system is >that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each >runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular >runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke

Only use security-updates?

2004-01-31 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Hello everyone. Be a minimalist - could one use the /etc/apt/sources.list with only the security line added? (for instance: deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main non-free) If I did not update the entire packages on regular basis with any mirror available, does the only line above sti

Configuring APT

2004-01-31 Thread Stefan Baums
Dear list, I would like to configure APT to do the following: - install requested and update installed packages from repository X (unstable or third-party) for as long as those packages are not available in repository Y (testing or stable) - automatically switch to updating

Re: Please help with permissions problem

2004-01-31 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:02, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Here are some of my permissions: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la .ICEauthority > -rw---1 root root 1102 Jan 31 06:19 .ICEauthority > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > This would certainly be a good explanation why a program that runs w

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Alexander Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 01:44): >/var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to >get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if >considering to run the system without logging capabilities? My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it a

Re: Struggling with Postfix configuration

2004-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:39 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:23:54PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I was hoping that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets delivered locally, but it > > seems to being sent via the default transport (which is set to deliver to > > the smtp server of my IS

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing > what you might be up against. Agreed. The best solution for the OP would be to just configure

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-01-31 23:51:55 +, Pigeon wrote: > I don't think I'm trying to say "don't use procmail". Just that > there's more than one way to skin a cat. Which is one of the things I > like about Linux. I had the choice between "figure out procmail" and > "use bash / ed / exim which I already know";

Re: Screen fonts in X

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:01 pm, G. Crimp wrote: > Secondary question. In more than one place I have read that in v4 of > X, font serving is integrated, so a font server is not necessary unless > one wishes to make fonts available off thte workstation. Correct. > Anyone know why x-window-s

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:46:19PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: [snip] > 2. Get quiet hard drives, like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 line. > I'm hearing people say that the Barracuda 7200's aren't the legends of quietness that previous models were. Instead, the Samsung Spinpoint line is said to the

Re: unchecked 31 times

2004-01-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > My understanding is that lilo works off a system > map which is created at installation and is sector based. So, as long as > it can figure out where the kernel is physically placed at installation, > it can map it. Then, when loading

Re: xmms broken lately on Testing

2004-01-31 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:30:21 +0100, Jacob S. wrote: > I've seen this caused numerous times (especially on a machine running > Sarge) by an esd/artsd crash. Killing it and restarting it should bring > it back. never had this before, though. Thanks, try next time to find the hanging soundd. OTOH, u

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

2004-01-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-31, Paul Morgan penned: > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:42:42 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >>> >>> aptitude ~sbase >>> >> >> aptitude search ~sbase >> > > Thank you, nano, I am an idiot. > Thank you, both. I had no idea that apt

Re: Saving mouse from catlike applications

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:43PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Yes, some of those games eat the mouse and you can no longer use it outside > the game's window. How does one configure to keep the cats off the mice? Perhaps you could be more specific, David? -- Jan Minar "Please

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