Re: Getting htdig to work with apache2

2004-11-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 21:38:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Everything seems to work just fine until I try and run the search > form. The page comes up but whenever I click on the search button I > get a download dialog because the htsearch is a "BIN file." > > I've been tearing my hair out

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Nov 2004, Robert Parker wrote: > On Saturday 13 November 2004 00:35, Emil Perhinschi wrote: > > > > > > I guess Debian is the best if you just want to start doing non-geekish > > stuff like reading mail, writing term papers/articles/poetry/... , > > listening music, watching movies or writing

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:45:25 +, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:53:58PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why > > > Debian

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tim yup.. i agree most everything .. including the differences On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 22:24, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > people can and will jump ship for any number of reasons ... > > Strength in numbers, etc. If enough debian developers "jumped

Debian for business?

2004-11-13 Thread ken keanon
Hi,   Read all the responses to "Why debian". My summary: 1. It is free, w/o any non-free components. 2. It can be easily updated and upgraded.   My questions: 1. Is it free because it is not popular? If its user base keep growings, will there not be a temptation to commercialise it? That's how

Postmaster verification failure - why?

2004-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to post to a mailing list I'm subscribed to. The posts bounce with this message: Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.sourceforge.net[66.35.250.206] said: 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking <[EM

Re: Debian for business?

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ken On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, ken keanon wrote: > My questions: > 1. Is it free because it is not popular? its free because most of the software is GPL'd ( the license ) and debian adds/checks for additional restrictions so that "debian" is not restricted or violate the various ( thousands )

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > > mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael > > gaz

Re: UDF on Sarge with kernel 2.6.x.x

2004-11-13 Thread Ulrich Fürst
hanasaki schrieb: What is needed to do UDF rw on sarge? So say the 2.6 still needs some patch. Other's say do not patch it. ide-scsi emulation is off. I have heard it needs to be off from some, on from others, on for any reasonable speed from others. Thanks. Running kernel 2.6.8.1 udftools

Re: Postmaster verification failure - why?

2004-11-13 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 13.11.2004 at 11:00 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.sourceforge.net[66.35.250.206] > said: 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550-(result of earlier verification

key binding in X

2004-11-13 Thread Prashant kumar
Hi all I wish to map key to giong to previous virtual console i.e to work same as ctrl alt F6 from Xwindow. Can Xmodmap be used to do it or what else can help? TIA Prashant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

make-kpkg initrd and modules

2004-11-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just used make-kpkg to build the pristine source of 2.6.9 into a debian kernel. I copied the .config file from kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7 (its installed in /boot/config-2.6.9-1-k7) and then issued the following command MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --revision

fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My graphic card is a Vipper 770, lspci indicates: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2

Re: Postmaster verification failure - why?

2004-11-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:00, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to post to a mailing list I'm subscribed to. The posts bounce > with this message: > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.sourceforge.net[66.35

Reusing .debs

2004-11-13 Thread Jim Bailey
Hi, Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? -- Peace Jim :-) keys: http://freesolutions.net/jim/pubkey.asc If you can piss in it it's craft, if you can piss on it, it's art. --Thor Froslov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:38 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine > but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers > for the video options but the screen size still remains small. > My graphic car

Re: Reusing .debs

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:21 +, Jim Bailey wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the > /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? If the other machine's debs are up to date, then just scp them into your own /var/cache/apt/archives, and do "apt-get updat

cd burning problem

2004-11-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I tried kernel 2.6.8 and it worked fine -- but I got myself into a cd burning problem. The first time under kernel 2.6.8 , cdrecord did work, but because of too much business in the computer (other programs running, and the fact that cdrecord seems to try and get to the maximal speed, som

DHCP on two interfaces

2004-11-13 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi everybody, after a long abstinance from debian-user, I've run into a problem, I can't solve on my own. Here it is: I have to local interfaces, eth0 (192.168.1.1) and wlan0 (192.168.2.1). There's also an isdn interface (ippp0) connected to the outside world. I want DHCP to serve IPs and stuff

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:38 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine > > but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers > > for th

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:30:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine >> but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers >> for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My >> graphic card is a Vippe

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 07:49 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:38 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine > > > but I can'

recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread bing yu
This question might have been asked before. I just want to know Is it possible to recover data after rm -rf. filesystem is xfs where to find docs to recover my data if there is a way go get my data back. and is the process too hard to master by newbie like me? and again sorry to ask such a stup

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote: > What I actually mean is that you get the movie on the fullscreen just like > on TV. When I use the -fs option, I see no other windows but the playing > movie itself is still in a small window in the middle of my screen. different font sets or

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:10:51 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This question might have been asked before. I just want to know Is it > possible to recover data after rm -rf. > > filesystem is xfs > > where to find docs to recover my data if there is a way go get my data > back. and is t

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Prashant kumar
Christian Christmann wrote: Hi, I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My graphic card is a Vipper 770, lspci indicates: nVidia Corpo

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Christian Christmann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:00:09 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:26:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:38 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine >> > but I can't u

Re: Postmaster verification failure - why? -SOLVED

2004-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Nov 2004, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:00, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm trying to post to a mailing list I'm subscribed to. The posts bounce > > with this message: > > > > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.0.0 > > Diag

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:48 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:30:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine > >> but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers > >> for the video optio

Re: scsi with 2.6.8-smp kernel

2004-11-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 12 November 2004 12:21 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 07:26 am, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > I used the sarge debian-installer to install with a 2.6 kernel. My > > My ISA adaptec scsi2 card was not found, of course, but I can't find > > any adaptec drivers in the

interfaceing to ancient TRS-80 model 100 portable

2004-11-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have inherited an old Tandy TRS-80 model 100 portable computer. What Debian software do I use for this. No ... I/m not trying to put Linux on a Basic-only machine. But it hase a serial port to upload/download data and programs -- but I have no documentation. I can probably get it to pipe stuf

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Christian Christmann wrote: Hi, I've installed mplayer from the sarge packages. The player works fine but I can't use it in fullscreen mode. I've tried all available drivers for the video options but the screen size still remains small. My graphic card is a Vipper 770, lspci indicates: nVidia Corpo

Re: Debian for business?

2004-11-13 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-13, ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Is it free because it is not popular? If its user base keep growings, > will there not be a temptation to commercialise it? That's how many > 'free' software end up. Debian is free, period. For your information, it's very popular as well,

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-12, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess Debian is the best if you just want to start doing non-geekish > stuff like reading mail, writing term papers/articles/poetry/... , > listening music, watching movies or writing your own apps ... That's it. You get a working sys

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:29 +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Christian Christmann wrote: > [snip] > > > What is the repository for mplayer ?. deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA US

Re: interfaceing to ancient TRS-80 model 100 portable

2004-11-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:11:30 -0500, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have inherited an old Tandy TRS-80 model 100 portable computer. > What Debian software do I use for this. No ... I/m not trying to put > Linux on a Basic-only machine. But it hase a serial port to > upload/download da

An advantage of Debian (from securitypipeline.com)

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
According to one firm, "Linux" is less secure than Windows, but the criticism doesn't appear to apply to Debian. http://www.securitypipeline.com/52601025 -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: How to get more than 800x600?

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:59, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > --- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. How do I get above 800x600? > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > and choose the resolution. In Sarge (Testing), you can also use configure-debian. Also, a gnome applet gnome-randr-a

Re: Reusing .debs Solved apt-move

2004-11-13 Thread Jim Bailey
On Nov 13, 12:21, Jim Bailey wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the > /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? > Bad form to answer my own question but the answer for me seems to be no there is however a very good tool called apt-move, which I used to

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Prashant kumar
Juha Siltala wrote: On 2004-11-12, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess Debian is the best if you just want to start doing non-geekish stuff like reading mail, writing term papers/articles/poetry/... , listening music, watching movies or writing your own apps ... Sorry but

Re: How to get more than 800x600?

2004-11-13 Thread Prashant kumar
Chris Lale wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:59, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: --- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. How do I get above 800x600? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and choose the resolution. In Sarge (Testing), you can also use configure-debian. Also, a

Re: How to get more than 800x600?

2004-11-13 Thread Prashant kumar
Prashant kumar wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:59, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: --- Michael Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. How do I get above 800x600? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and choose the resolution. In Sarge (Testing), you can also use configu

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > > > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > > > mkboot

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Antonio Rodriguez([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how > > > > do I > > > > create a boot (

Re: gcj and kaffe (solved)

2004-11-13 Thread Gerard Robin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:08:36PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I compiled the file: HelloWorldApp.java > > class HelloWorldApp { > public static void main(String[] args) { > System.out.println("Hello World!"); > } > } > > gcj -C HelloWorldApp.java > > the compiler has

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 12 November 2004 4:45 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > Debian isn't a true democracy.  We elect our leader, and thereafter > the leader acts under his own accord. For what its worth, monasteries in medieval England used to be ran that way; the monks would elect an abbot who then would have abso

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-13 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:24:14PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > it's trivial to make dep ; make bzlilo ; update lilo/grub > and straight forward .. > - too many extra hoops for the debian way ... > - too many kernel module problems in the debian kernel Too many extra hoops? $ fakeroot

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see http://ursine.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/Top_Posting Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to see Debian emerge as a standard of sorts. All the > incompatible collections of RPMs, TGZs and whatever holds Linux > development b

Re: sing .debs

2004-11-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday November 13 2004 13:21, Jim Bailey wrote: > Is there a quick and dirty way to get debian to use the > /var/cache/apt/archives .debs from another machine? There is also a not-so-dirty way that can save you time and bandwidth if you have several machines. Have a look at the apt-proxy p

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-13 Thread downtime null
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 00:07, Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:06 -0600, downtime null wrote: > > > > mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy > > > > It also does not show up in dmesg. What could be causing this? What > > can > > I do to fix it? > > > try using /dev/ev

Re: Debian for business?

2004-11-13 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:50AM -0800, ken keanon wrote: > 2. It can be easily updated and upgraded. Most definately. That's precisely why I use it on my server and desktop! :) > My questions: > 1. Is it free because it is not popular? It's free because the founders ensured that it would stay

pslib: c++ linking

2004-11-13 Thread Thomas Ruschival
Hi, as far as I know I can link all C libraries in C++ as well. but I can't get it done with pslib. the exactly same code compiles and links with C and it doesn't when I use C++. This is my linking command: gcc -o test -L/usr/lib/ -lps -lstdc++ test.cpp and in /usr/lib is definitely t

[OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread William Ballard
[quote] It's also a problem that has affected Gates personally. He said his home PCs have had malware, although he has personally never been affected by a virus. "I have had malware, [adware], that crap" on some home machines, he said. [/quote] http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,383100,

Re: pslib: c++ linking

2004-11-13 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Thomas Ruschival wrote: > Hi, as far as I know I can link all C libraries in C++ as > well. but I can't get it done with pslib. the exactly same > code compiles and links with C and it doesn't when I > use C++. > This is my linking command: > gcc -o test -L/usr/lib/ -lps

trapping kernel messages

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I get lots of these: Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: nasd: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0x21 Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: [__alloc_pages+449/848] __alloc_pages+0x1c1/0x350 Nov 13 11:30:01 debian kernel: [__get_free_pages+31/64] __get_free_pages+0x1f/0x40 They are page a

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-13 Thread Matt Price
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded mozilla-firefox to 0.99+1.0RC1-4 and notice that ctrl-a no longer acts in an emacs-like manner ... And is there a way to change keybindings in firefox? thanks, matt Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads gtk-key-theme-na

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:11 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- > The two only time I ever got a virus were (1) a floppy at the university > in 1993 and (2) Code Red when my machine was on CorpNet at Microsoft. Come to think of it, the only time I've ever had a virus or spyware on my computer w

[OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know exactly where to ask this question anyway. I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a records-keeping application. So far, for my hardcopy, I simply fopen /dev/lp0 and talk straight to the printer. My output is

Re: gcj and kaffe (solved)

2004-11-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 13 2004, Gerard Robin wrote: > I used the unstable version of gcj and kaffe and I guessed that was this > version which did not works fine. > I removed gcj and kaffe and reinstalled the woody packages and now all > works fine. ;-) What about using the versions in testing/sarge? This way you

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "John Hannibal Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Nope, this is an open list, spammers often post to the list. Whether or not SPI has any luck collecting advertising fees from the spammers is another quest

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:48:16 -0500, John Hannibal Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > All

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBlmthUzgNqloQMwcRAlBYAJ97dZK0SZGzM

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian isn't a true democracy. We elect our leader, and thereafter > the leader acts under his own accord. It's a representative democracy, much like the US government. Except Debian actually works. > The

Re: Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have downloaded a weekly build of sarge and burned 9 of 13 cd's onto > rewriteables (ran out). Everything is working really nicely, and I'm > quite impressed. I am however wondering if there is a way for me

Re: Debian for business?

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Is it free because it is not popular? No, it's free because we want it to be free. Quality software should be free, and Debian demonstrates that point. You can get a worse OS, but it just costs more. >

Re: Postmaster verification failure - why?

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have put an entry in /etc/aliases and run newaliases: > >postmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This doesn't help, however. What is wrong here? Can you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so, forwar

Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

2004-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:07:31AM -0500, Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:06 -0600, downtime null wrote: > > > > mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy > > > > It also does not show up in dmesg. What could be causing this? What > > can > > I do to fix it? > > > try

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-13 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads > > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" > >Worked for me, anyway. > thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web, > too,

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:03, Clive Menzies wrote: > Below are a range of packages that deal with > spam: > gotmail - Utility to download email from a Hotmail or MSN account Also, in testing and unstable: hotway - acts like a pop3 server, but actually goes to hotmail.com to retrieve requested m

Re: program for printing sheet music

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Griswold
Nardis Dome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > i'm looking for a program for printing guitar > (tablature) sheet music. You could try gnometab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Cd Installation

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:45, Paul Tsai wrote: > Thanx for the advice. I unfortunately don't have internet access at > home, which is why I am working off the cd's. Is there a way to change > apt.conf to look off a hard drive location? See http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto sectio

Re: program for printing sheet music

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:59 -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > Nardis Dome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > i'm looking for a program for printing guitar > > (tablature) sheet music. > > You could try gnometab. More generally: $ apt-cache search tablature etktab - ASCII guitar tab ed

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > The solution I've come up with is to rely upon Latex. That is, generate > the output text, insert any tex formatting and send this to a temporary > file, let "dvips" convert to postscript and pipe this to "lp" or "lpr". I've used latex before, bu

Re: critical install failure, most hardware attempting to use irq 1.

2004-11-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:37:18 +, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try putting "pci=noacpi" on the boot command line. If you do that then > the kernel will use the older PCI BIOS interface to find out the PCI > configuration and is more likely to get correct answers. I'm afraid I > h

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ Sure, but I don't think this is a munge - I understood his post to mean that "[E

How to configure sendmail

2004-11-13 Thread Matt Perry
Can anyone tell me if there's a Q&A setup procedure for sendmail on Debian? dpkg-reconfigure sendmail just exits to the shell with no output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know exactly where to ask this question anyway. I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a records-keeping application. So far, for my hardcopy, I simply fopen /dev/lp0 and talk straight to the printer.

apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
Hi, apt-get install won't let me do anything until I fix some dependency problems. But when I run apt-get -f install it exits with the output pasted below. The package that is mentioned as involved in causing the error (fglrx) is the driver for my ATI radeon video card which I got from their webs

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>>Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. | | | http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ While I agree that address munging is Not A Good Thing, I find the attempt t

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:04:08 -0600 Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The enormity of > debian gives instant access to all manner of very useful programs that > simply don't make it into mainstream distros. This is very important > to an admin, at least to me. In light of this I'd like t

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:11 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- The two only time I ever got a virus were (1) a floppy at the university in 1993 and (2) Code Red when my machine was on CorpNet at Microsoft. Come to think of it, the only time I've ever had a virus or spywa

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. Who are you reporting spam to, anyway? I'd like to contribute but I'm woefully out-of-touch. --

Re: apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote: > apt-get install won't let me do anything until I fix some dependency > problems. But when I run apt-get -f install it exits with the output > pasted below. The package that is mentioned as involved in causing the > error (fglrx) is the

about dhcp client and cdroms

2004-11-13 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi everybody, I am new to Debian and i find its a great Operating System, I decided to use Debian Sarge, i made a netinstall and everything work fine, just a few things that i dont know how to fix. the first one is that i have 2 cdroms, the system dectect both at booting, and with dmesg i find: hd

Re: apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Dan Davison
Alright, thanks a lot. But can you give me just a bit more instruction on effecting the switch between drivers please? I have a configuration file called XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11R6/ which contains a section "Graphics Device Section", with config instructions for a "standard VGA device" and the ATI

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. >> Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. > > Who

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 13 17:54 -0600]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Debian isn't a true democracy. We elect our leader, and thereafter > > the leader acts under his own accord. > > It's a representati

Re: apt-get problems

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 05:31:26PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote: > Alright, thanks a lot. But can you give me just a bit more instruction on > effecting the switch between drivers please? I have a configuration file > called XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11R6/ which contains a section "Graphics > Device Sectio

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:44:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Who are you reporting spam to, anyway? I'd like to contribute but I'm > > woefully out-of-touch. > > Well, the hosting networks, of course. Though spamcop.net automates > the process great

why cant i send mail with squirrelmail?

2004-11-13 Thread Nick Smith
i have a mail server set up and can successfully send mail using an email client aka thunderbird, im running postfix/courier-imap all the users are stored in a mysql db, i can recieve mail fine as well. im using apache and squirrelmail for my webmail. i have to use relayhost = mail.comcast.net

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
The only virus I ever had the pleasure of cleaning up after was the Stoned virus back in 1991. It had this propensity for putting itself into the book record of every floppy and, as I recall, it couldn't infect my hard drive. It was a bugger to get rid of and one of the locals came up with an ant

Re: about dhcp client and cdroms

2004-11-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 13 November 2004 23:15, "Sergio Cuéllar" wrote: > Hi everybody, I am new to Debian and i find its a great Operating > System, I decided to use Debian Sarge, i made a netinstall and > everything work fine, just a few things that i dont know how to fix. > the first one is that i have 2 cd

Re: fullscreen with mplayer

2004-11-13 Thread Robert Storey
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:48:18 +0100 Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I actually mean is that you get the movie on the fullscreen just > like on TV. When I use the -fs option, I see no other windows but the > playing movie itself is still in a small window in the middle of my >

Re: about dhcp client and cdroms

2004-11-13 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Thanks, i ve already fixed the problem with dhcp-client , but i havent found the man pages of devfsd or udev. Ive also tried a dpkg -l | grep devfsd and it seems i dont have this packages installed. Which package do you recommend me to install ? On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:30:05 +, Alan Chandle

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Robert Storey
There's no simple solution for recovering the data you've already lost. However, there is a very good way to prevent such a thing from happening again. Install Libtrash. It makes a trashcan which works no matter how you delete files (either from command line or with some point-and-click utility). Y

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Travis Crump
Robert Storey wrote: There's no simple solution for recovering the data you've already lost. However, there is a very good way to prevent such a thing from happening again. There is an even better way, make backups. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: why cant i send mail with squirrelmail?

2004-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:16:35PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > ... so why can i send mail with a client and not with SM? i have > SM setup to use localhost for both incoming and outgoing mail so it > uses my servers settings. what can i provide for you to better > assist me? How about log entrie

Re: about dhcp client and cdroms

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 00:30 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 13 November 2004 23:15, "Sergio Cuéllar" wrote: > > Hi everybody, I am new to Debian and i find its a great Operating > > System, I decided to use Debian Sarge, i made a netinstall and > > everything work fine, just a few things

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:13:57PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > > The solution I've come up with is to rely upon Latex. That is, generate > > the output text, insert any tex formatting and send this to a temporary > > file, let "dvips" conver

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 17:58 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 13 17:54 -0600]: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Debian isn't a true democracy. We elect our leader, and thereaf

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