Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets me listen when I have the > time, rather than when it's broadcast. Talk someone into archiving it for you. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMA

apt-get rollback !?!

It can happen, even to the best, even from "stable"--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other things were changed in the upgrade as we

Re: ext3 why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:02:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3. His > understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is > today. Days passed, several crashes occurred. Jan d

dhcp3-server and pcmcia

Hello, I'm trying to use an old Compaq Contura with 2 3COM 3c589D pcmcia NIC's as a router/firewall between my home network and my cable modem. I use Debian3.0r2 and Shorewall 1.4. The internal network should be served with DHCP(dhcp3). Here are two little problems: 1) dhcp3-server won't start

Re: ext3 why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling > fs instead of ext2? If you crash, or otherwise don't unmount cleanly, when it comes time to remount, no data is lost, the jo

Re: ext3 why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:08:46AM -0500, Al Davis wrote: > A journalling file system is of no help when the cause of the crash is > bad memory, bad disk, disk controller bugs. If your hardware is really > bad, the best file system is a simple one w

Re: ext3 why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:10:17PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > I don't get it are you saying ext3 recovers better or worse? Try it and find out! 8:o) Seriously, though, ext3 recovers way better. What was suggested about dropping the ext2 filesystem

Re: Beginner question

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:43:18AM +, Pedro M. wrote: > In any case, one can create a newbie-user and advanced-user email lists > if necessary. > > I think it's what Debian need now . There was a good rebuttal of this recently, observing "well, who would hang out on this newbie list to help

ext3 why?

Hi, A note to say it's worth scanning other peoples questions and not just delete them. I have been reading this thread as I have often wondered why ext3? This has anwsered a long standing q. Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Talk on "Why Linux, Why Debian"

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06.20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi folks, > > With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net > at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome. > > I would like to thank all the people who helped me put this > together.

update-rc.d

Hello debian-user, what's the equivalence of chkconfig --list in debian using update-rc.d ? i have difficulties in listing what services are on on init level 3 for example. thank you. -- Best regards, Tjhan Albert "The future belongs to those who believes in the beauty of their d

Re: xtree for Linux

stephen parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I suggest you look at unixtree, it is the real thing, very close to > >>XTreeGold. Check it out at . > > > >>UnixTree is written by Rob Juergens and is "Free Software", released as > >>"Open Source" under the t

Re: ext3, why?

Simple enough to change the filesystem using tune2fs. Getting it boot up as ext3 is another story. If ext3 is not compiled in your kernel, you will need an initrd. I never got one working with 2.4.22. Works fine with 2.6.2. Installing newer kernel images most always requires and makes the initr

Re: gnome

Nitebirdz escribió: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:21PM -0400, Vikram wrote: That surprises me. The Gnome is already 2.4.2 stable, why is Debian lagging in adopting a newer version of Gnome. If I were to install Debian 3.0_r2, what would I have to get the benefits of the latest version of Gnom

Re: gnome

Nitebirdz escribió: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:21PM -0400, Vikram wrote: That surprises me. The Gnome is already 2.4.2 stable, why is Debian lagging in adopting a newer version of Gnome. If I were to install Debian 3.0_r2, what would I have to get the benefits of the latest version of Gnom

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Hello, I have tried a completely new tape and now it appears I cannot write to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zeros count=50 obs=1024 ibs=1024 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 51200 bytes transferred in 0.001761 seconds (29072577 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dd if=/tmp/zeros

Alt+Cont+F(1,2,...) not responding

Last night made an update in a sid system. Now after rebooting I can't get to console. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:19:03AM +, Pedro M. wrote: > Updated http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianGnome > > You can add more information too. So did you get rid of the useful information Jordi and I put there to help keep track of problems with non-i386 architectures on sarge? That wasn'

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Hi, I want to upgrade the kernel of a Woody from 2.2.22 to 2.4.25. The computer is an old Pentium 75 with two NICs (NE2000) ; everything goes well with 2.2 (io and irq in modules.conf), but NICs are not recognized with 2.4, even with insmod followed by the io and irq parameters. The module

How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Hi folks, I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this repository? I tried adding deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:16:47AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets me listen when I have the > > time, rather than when it's broadcast. > > Talk someone into archiving it for you. Okay, that

RE: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Hi folks, I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this repository? I tried adding deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is "m

Re: Alt+Cont+F(1,2,...) not responding

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:21:41AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Last night made an update in a sid system. Now after rebooting I can't > get to console. Any ideas? > The problem seems to be with Gnome. I logged out, killed X, came back in a fluxbox, and the Alt+Contr+F1 combination is working

Re: update-rc.d

Hello T. Albert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > what's the equivalence of chkconfig --list in debian using > update-rc.d ? i have difficulties in listing what services are on on > init level 3 for example. thank you. ls -l /etc/rcS.d /etc/rc3.d I don't think update-rc.d can do tha

Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

"Daniel Haude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not > organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make > apt recognize this repository? I tried adding > > deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ > > to the

Re: Test

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Irritating error messages when booting 2.6.3

Could anyone shed some light on how to get rid of the following messages that I see flashing by when booting?? I get multiple of the following: /script: 1: rmmod: not found And these three lines: locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAG

Re: e1000 / debian installer problem

On (24/02/04 21:35), Hamid wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install debian on my machine. It has a Gigabyte motherboard > (8KNXP) which uses IntelPro/1000 CT ethernet controller. I downloaded the > CD images from > http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.i

Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 25.02.04 11:09:28: > You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO > . Simple enough, as I expected. I just didn't know where to look. Thanks also to the

Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

Hello Daniel Haude (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not > organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make > apt recognize this repository? I tried adding > > deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/ > > to the apt-sour

all my ext3 filesystems died - completely!!!!

started as a libranet 2.8.1, headed towards sid + extras (yes i know) had downgraded to a 2.6.1 kernel not quite sure about state of X left it downloading via jigdo-lite, with screensaver in open-gl random mode on return - and a lot of 'bus error' in xterm a reboot gave 'attempt to access past end

problem with exim4, cyrus21 and db4, help wanted..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just setup a exim4 mailserver with cyrus21 und a db4 database. No mailuser is a local user on the system. Now I want to check with a exim4-router, if the user has a valid mailbox. On the net I found: # look in the Cyrus IMAPD mailboxes.db file fo

Re: Alt+Cont+F(1,2,...) not responding

Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:58:05 -0500: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:21:41AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Last night made an update in a sid system. Now after rebooting I can't > > get to console. Any ideas? > > > The problem seems to be with Gnome. I

Replacement of Linuxconf in debian?

Is there a replacement of Linuxconf (the one with RedHat) in Debian/unstable? Thanks JSS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to deny host through Mac Address

Dear Sir/ Madam, I am Gaurav Arora working in internet company.Can you help me in telling that how to deny a host through mac address so that customer or host may not able to use internet further. I will be thankful to you if u help me in trying to solve this problem   Regards Gaurav Arora  

Large Disk LBA48 Install with Debian

  I am trying to install Debian on a 200GB disk. I am using a recently purchased (3.0r2) CD set.   I've figured out that to use LBA48 addressing I need a late model kernel (>= 2.4.19). Apparently the kernel(s) on the Debian boot CD is not recent enough so that when the installer takes me to

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Personally, I would add a deb-src line for unstable, get the source package, and build the .debs myself. $ apt-get source wine $ cd wine- $ dpkg-buildpackage# this is in dpkg-dev $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb Yeah, I tried that, but it has lots of build-depends on

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

Or if you follow my post you can add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main do aptitude update aptitude install mplayer-386 mplayer-mozilla mplayer-fonts w32codecs (or instead of mplayer-386 use accelerated mplayer-686 mplayer-k6 mplayer-k7 and in

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > The "Debian Way", as I think i've heard it refered to, is merely the way > its done using Debian's particular tools (i.e. make-kpkg rather than the > all manual kernel compile, using .debs rather than installing from > source, etc). I

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:06:07PM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > You can get unofficial debs from here: http://marillat.free.fr/ Its been changed, problems with the server, the new address is ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ or just put deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

Re: OT: Michael D. Schleif -- and any other social network types

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:04:55PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I don't know if I'm the only person you spammed with your social network > invitation. I certainly didn't appreciate it. Not recognizing your > name from Adam, I simply spamlisted the from address and shot a LART off > to the admi

Re: How to deny host through Mac Address

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:53:38PM +0530, GauravA wrote: > Dear Sir/ Madam, > I am Gaurav Arora working in internet company.Can you help me in telling that how to > deny a host through mac address so that customer or host may not able to use > internet further. I will be thankful to you if u help

dmesg flooded with ...

This is just a small sampling. The sequence seems to repeat but the Code value changes. There are a bunch for asa0060/sero1/input1 as well evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 2, Code: 1, Value: 1 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event.

Re: Evolution oddness

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:46:32PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > Well, I'm absolutly sure that the problem I'm having does not have to do > with dependancies. I'm able to access the calendaring feature when > running evolution as a different user. > > I fixed this problem by removing my ~/.gconf/ap

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:12AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:53:43AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > Its actually wrong also for bicycles. If you skid it takes a much > > > longer time to stop. Another thing a lot of casual cyclists don't > > > know is that you

Re: Evolution oddness

/ David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I fixed this problem by removing my ~/.gconf/apps/evolution folder and | rerunning the evolution config druid. So, my problem had something to do | with the evolution config, but as for what it was exactly, I have no | idea. That fixed it for

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:06:10PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:53:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > I believe the proper technique is to brake harder with the front brakes > > > and apply enough

Re: DVD copying and CSS

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:20:16AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:36, John Hasler wrote: > > s. keeling writes: > > > Previously, this was accepted behaviour; making backup copies of > > > originals was just something that was done. > > > > I don't recall anyone making backup cop

Re: Problem with using DRI cvs

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:48:18PM -0500, Robert F Merrill wrote: > Since I've started using the XFree 4.3.0 debian packages, I've had a > problem: > > Programs run with libx11-6 4.3.0 from sid won't connect to regular 4.3.0 > or DRI trunk servers (or I think vice-versa) > > I get "protocol not

CDs under 2.6.*, complete instructions

What goes into lilo (even if CDs are not boot devices here)? What gets changed for K3B and others of it ilk? Load ide-cd in place of ide-scsi? etc. Interesting aside: Since, as long as one might keep an older kernel around, there will be two somewhat different /etc/modules sets. Is there a way of

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> * Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: >> > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I >> > only want to use secure updates (that means updates whic

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:50:07AM +0100, ??yvind A. Holm wrote: > On 2004-02-24 02:20-0800 Nano Nano wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I need any program for make a 'mpeg' or 'avi' movie from 'jpeg' > > > pictures. Do you people k

Re: CDs under 2.6.*, complete instructions

Hello David Baron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > What goes into lilo (even if CDs are not boot devices here)? > What gets changed for K3B and others of it ilk? If your versions of cdrdao or cdrtools is recent enough, k3b should work without problems. If the programs are not suid root, change own

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] bike week Hey, when you're done with that heavy-consumption-of-technology recreation you can play some centrifugal bumble puppy and a round of electromagnetic golf at the Charing T. I like to ride my bicicyle out on the trail b

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and > nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims > mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will > avifile-pl

Re: ext3 why?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:52:55PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: | On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:24 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: | > | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: | > | > hi all, just looking for infor

Re: ext3 why?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:58:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: | xucaen wrote: | >hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs | >instead of ext2? | | Less likely to suffer catastrophic data loss in the event of a crash. This is not true. You can still have data loss,

Broken aptitude/dselect

Hello all, Last night I gave Kpackage a try, and it seemed to work OK. Today I have gone back to Aptitude, which dies on start up. Dselect starts up all right, but gives the error message below when I try to download new packages: /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install: line 57: 2490 Segmentation

mouse - gpm, X (was: Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?)

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:49:25PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: | On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:58, Shot wrote: | > Richard Lyons: | > > You have mouse active in console? I haven't seen that | > > since I switched from RedHat. How do you achieve that? | > | > Through apt-get install gpm. There w

howto block ports

i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from an external machine. the utility detected that, although the ports were _closed_, the ports still responded to the port scan utility. i suspect that data destine

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:50:37 +0100 Moritz Beller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > >> * Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: > >> > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrad

Re: howto block ports

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:50, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports > that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from > an external machine. the utility detected that, although the ports > were _closed_, the ports st

Fwd: Re: howto block ports

At Wednesday, 25 February 2004, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:50, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports >> that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from >> an external machine

Re: howto block ports

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:28AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports > that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from > an external machine. the utility detected that, although the ports > were _closed_,

e1000 / debian installer problem, Please help

Hi I am trying to install debian on my machine. It has a Gigabyte motherboard (8KNXP) which uses IntelPro/1000 CT ethernet controller. I downloaded the CD images from http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.isoand burned it to a CD. In its list it shows

Differentiating fetchmail-pulled accounts (in procmailrc)

Hi there. I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed. Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate between the accounts in .procmailrc. There has been some partial progress, though: (0) I can have two fetchmails running concurrently when I rm ~/.fetchmail.pid manually (1) the trac

Re: Talk on "Why Linux, Why Debian"

Hello!, the link to Majon's talk is not working any more... Where can I find the talk? Thanks in advance, Marcelo On 25.02.04. 02:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi folks, With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comme

Re: fake

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Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

Hi Carl, I did a lot of poking around after the Car Talk switch and as far as I can tell, wma9 encoded audio can not be played unless you can run Microsoft(TM) brand software. I've sent a couple of emails to the Car Talk guys explaining this and pointing out that their tips page is wrong without

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > It doesn't help that you handle cross-traffic turns (left in the US, > right in GB) by what Americans call "tangle turning" and is a major > no-no on the west side of the pond...why hold fast to "keep left" when > it's safer on a right turn at an intersection

Re: dmesg flooded with ...

Hello David! On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:08:36PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > This is just a small sampling. The sequence seems to repeat but the Code value > changes. There are a bunch for asa0060/sero1/input1 as well > > evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio1/input0, Type: 2, Code: 1, Value: 1 > e

Re: xtree for Linux

xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:30:30AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> stephen parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> above the home directory. I assume there must be a way to fold up subtrees. > if my memory serves I think you can use the '+' and '-' keys to

Re: Talk on "Why Linux, Why Debian"

Hello Marcelo! On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:47:18PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On 25.02.04. 02:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net > > at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome. > the link to Majon's talk

Re: e1000 / debian installer problem, Please help

Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In its list it shows an e1000 for network card modules but choosing it > issues an error message. > So basically I am stuck and can't go further. > Can someone please provide me the latest kernel module for e1000 and > tell me how I should tell debian-installer

Re: apt-get rollback !?!

On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: > It can happen, even to the best, even from "stable"--an upgrade is > done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. > > While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, > compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:13:51AM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > Mine is in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf > > > > > > > ah cunning. > > > > as in using t

Re: hi

This is an autoresponder. I'll never see your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

best practice for crontabs

Hi, I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in debian /etc/crontab /etc/cron.d/... /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly /var/spool/crontabs/... but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do such a simple thing. Can anyone enlighten me as

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:36:46AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > [snip] bike week > > Hey, when you're done with that heavy-consumption-of-technology > recreation you can play some centrifugal bumble puppy and a round of > electromagneti

RE: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

I use XMMS to play a shoutcast stream of NPR radio, both for the classical music and car talk. That works out really well, and you may find it works out for you. HTH -- Douglas G. Phillips Distributed Computing Eastern Illinois University -Original Message- From: Brad Sawatzky [mailto:[

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies (my original post is below, under the line). It appears that PHP is not connecting to our postgre database, as indicated by the following error that appears on the main PHP web page: Parse error: parse error in /var/www/srp/dbconnect.php on line 5

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

My recommendation (I didn't see this in your extensive littany of steps taken) is to add the following line to /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf and then restart postgresql) tcpip_sociket = 1 good luck, ~c Danny O'Brien wrote: Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies (my or

Re: best practice for crontabs

Hello Andy Fish (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs > in debian > > /etc/crontab > /etc/cron.d/... > /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly > /var/spool/crontabs/... > > but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many

Re: Beginner question

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was a good rebuttal of this recently, observing "well, who > would hang out on this newbie list to help them?". I know I wouldn't > - I can barely cope with debian-user as it is. All we would need is a auto-responder that would randomly choose some

RE: Multiprocessor Linux boxes

Title: RE: Multiprocessor Linux boxes You should also compile in Enhanced Real Time Clock support (found under Character devices) for a multiprocessor box. Not sure why - just remember reading it somewhere that you're supposed to. Gary Vetter ND Retirement and Investment Office 701 328-9879

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > The myth about not touching your front break or you will a spectacular > endo over your handle bar is a nice folk tale but almost completely > wrong. Doing an endo depends on how well you

No printing at all!

After using Mandrake and Knoppix over the last couple of years I have finally managed to install a working Debian system :-), and everything seems to be fine except the printing :-( I have looked through several forums, and done my best to rtfm but haven't come up with anything that has made a

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:35:14PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hardly a ride goes by without me and my bike going out different > directions, and not at a standstill. Every now and again it happens > going over 20, usually a rock waiting by to give me

Re: Beginner question

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:22:57 -0500 Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There was a good rebuttal of this recently, observing "well, who > > would hang out on this newbie list to help them?". I know I wouldn't > > - I can barely cope with de

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > As a USian, I'm really confused by this description of turning. Could > you please explain the term "tangle turning"? If you were to perform a tangle turn in the US, when you turn l

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

Quoting Danny O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > This led me to examine "dbconnect.php" -- the following line is present: > > $link = pg_connect ("", "", "", "", "ourdb" or > die ( "Could not connect to database." ); Danny, First of all, that code snippet can't be rig

Re: howto block ports

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:28AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports > that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from > an external machine. the utility dete

Re: Strong encryption in Mozilla

On 2004-02-24, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:27:59 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: >> Does the Debian version of Mozilla support strong (128 bit) >> encryption? > > As long as you ensure mozilla-psm is installed as well, yes. > Does that work for fire[bird|fox], or is th

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > It doesn't help that you handle cross-traffic turns (left in the US, > > right in GB) by what Americans call "tangle turning" and is a major > > no-no on the west side of the pond...why hold

Re: Differentiating fetchmail-pulled accounts (in procmailrc)

On 2004-02-25, Jan Minar penned: > > --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > quoted-printable > > Hi there. > > I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed. > > Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:40:01AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just keep well-tuned brakes and don't think about it anymore, since > I can pretty close to stop on a dime up to about 20 MPH on my bike > using the rear brake alone. I don't know about that. Using just the rear break. I can complet

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:00:03PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > It's a requirement in the UK Highway Code. While Paul decries it on > safety grounds, the rationale is in fact that going around the other > vehicle like this is safer because you can see

Re: No printing at all!

On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote: > After using Mandrake and Knoppix over the last couple of years I have finally > managed to install a working Debian system :-), and everything seems to be > fine except the printing :-( > > I have looked through several forums, and done my best to rtfm but

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

OK -- many thanks, much better -- the parse error is gone, so it appears that the PHP page is connecting to the database! Alll right! (Please forgive the missing ')' in the string below, I'm not a PHP programmer, but I'm learning in a hurry. And under the old config, these files worked perf

Convert system to root software raid

I have finally finished my documentation on converting a system to use software raid. http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ Took me about 100 hours to finish it from start to finish. Over a 3 month period. Surprising how long it takes. I would like to thank the following people for their effort in

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