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2004-11-23 Thread David Baron
This is still getting "upgraded" with every upgrade from Debian Sid. Only the version number stays the same :-) Time to fix this, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Not recieving e-mails from this list anymore

2004-11-23 Thread ms linux
Hi, I am currently registered in debian-users mailing list, but have not been recieving e-mails from the list since November 20th, 2004. I have checked at the mailing archieves of debian-users and there are still e-mails on the list untill November 22nd, 2004. If this because the list is currently

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Sack
David A. Cobb wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the CD's ), it appears that I need to be able to build the nVidia kernel-patc

Re: Not recieving e-mails from this list anymore

2004-11-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:39:20PM +0800, ms linux wrote: > If this only happening to me, then please let me know. It happened to me as well for at least a couple of hours, but that was because of some dns problems on my side. Everything is fine now. There's nothing wrong with the list as far as I

Re: testing to sarge

2004-11-23 Thread RituRaj
Igot it working. I already posted to this list earlier regarding the same. Had forgot to do apt-get update. Thanks anyway. Rituraj --- Tony Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should work - that is how I have my machines > set up. It means that > I can control when the machine moves

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-23 Thread michael
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: yes I did all this! it's the C++ that seems to be causing problems when looking for header files (eg I compiled up all of mpich without problem) Ok. How about -cxxlib-icc option then? $cat sizes.cpp #include using namespace std; int main() { cout << sizeof(char) <

LFS + Debian

2004-11-23 Thread RituRaj
Just need some info/suggestion before i proceed to experiment on my system. I have WinXP and Sarge on my system. WinXP is loaded on first drive /dev/hda1. Debian is in /dev/hda2 -/boot and /dev/hda6- / (hda3,hda5 being swap) My boot-loader is grub. I need to remove windows and put LFS-5.1.1(Linux

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:23:42 -0600, Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I start the VNC server it says it's "starting applications specified > in /etc/X11/Xsession" > I don't have a ~/.vnc/xstartup file or whatever... if I create one is VNC > likely to still read from it? > Thanx, >

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian Coiley wrote: > > >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the category > >of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads "Exit > >Finished. Return to previous menu." Which

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:17 +0200, Basri Kanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > > When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere unde

Re: clock oddity

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:03:44 -0500, Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:35 + > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, > > > but cannot

/var/mail/mail

2004-11-23 Thread David Baron
This is a protected file only accessible to root and "mail". Attempts to change its permissions are overrided on startup. Cron mail notifications are sent to this file. How might I reroute them to another mail file such as root (which mail group can read)? I am using exim4 and there should be

Re: Fork, session leader and printing to stdout

2004-11-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Shaul Karl wrote: > What will happen when a daemon process with no controlling terminal > tries to print to its stdout? It depends. Many daemons guard against this by opening /dev/null on descriptors 0, 1 and 2. Otherwise, they will get a write error. Most code doesn't ch

Re: Not recieving e-mails from this list anymore

2004-11-23 Thread ms linux
Maurits van Rees wrote: >On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:39:20PM +0800, ms linux wrote: > >>If this only happening to me, then please let me know. > > >It happened to me as well for at least a couple of hours, but that was >because of some dns problems on my side. Everything is fine >now. There's nothi

Re: /var/mail/mail

2004-11-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:04:58PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > This is a protected file only accessible to root and "mail". Attempts to > change its permissions are overrided on startup. > > Cron mail notifications are sent to this file. How might I reroute them to > another mail file such as r

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Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-23 Thread Frederik Dannemare
Hi Horst, On Monday 22 November 2004 21:39, Horst Bursik wrote: > Hi, Frederik, > > I tested it with your 'recipe' but unfortunately it won't work. > Amavis is not able to rewrite the emails because "SEND via PIPE" > returns always: "550 5.1.1 Recipient unknown". But the recipient is > of course

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-23 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Monday 22 November 2004 22:04, Horst Bursik wrote: > Some Add-ons Information: > > I just turned the debugging output to the highest level and found the > problem (although i was not able to solve it yet). Amavis says the > following in its log: > > ---snip--- > Nov 22 21:58:21 voyager amavisd-n

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Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Coiley
"Brian Coiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Brian Coiley wrote: > > > > >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the > category > > >of modules", there is no list o

Re: intel compiler not finding (system) header files

2004-11-23 Thread michael
michael wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: yes I did all this! it's the C++ that seems to be causing problems when looking for header files (eg I compiled up all of mpich without problem) Ok. How about -cxxlib-icc option then? $cat sizes.cpp #include using namespace std; int main() { cout << s

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it fits > in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it. > > I'm probably not alone ;-). There

Usin CUPS client server model, how to see remote and local printers.

2004-11-23 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Hi there, I am running CUPS server in cross-platform academic environment. People are using Debian Sarge as a desktop workstation, some have local printers attached. How do I configure CUPS client so that it can use both: queues on the CUPS server and local queues? I can configure CUPS client to

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-23 Thread Bram Mertens
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:54, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: [...] > I will need to use uploading of pictures in a website, and it seems to > me that this was the window used by (who/what)ever entered. Do you > have any recommendations about security measures related to this? > May creating some chroot en

Re: announcing debian-installer release candidate 2

2004-11-23 Thread Vinu Jacob
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:32:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > This second Debian-Installer release candidate is expected to be the final > release of the installer for Debian 3.1 (sarge). Limited changes have been > made to the installer since the pre-rc2 release last month, but there are > a few: >

Fwd: dual-OS disk partition

2004-11-23 Thread ken keanon
ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:10:22 -0800 (PST)From: ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: dual-OS disk partitionTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Hi,   I intend to adopt the following disk partition strategy for my dual-OS system.    I'll go NTFS and FAT32 for Windows. As

A generic way to access the local X server as root.

2004-11-23 Thread Olive Esseret
Hello, I want to do the following thing: when a user press the poweroff button, there is a xmessage which ask the user what he want (poweroff, reboot, etc ...). We could also envisage this for the state of the battery. This should work even if no user is currently logged in (in xdm for example) F

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: I ran the distribution update again, having taken Maurits' advice to make sure that I first did an apt-get update. It updated over 200 packages! Running it a further time updates nothing, so I assume it is all done now. So you did: # apt-get update (and it updated your li

Re: /var/mail/mail

2004-11-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the best way is to change the file /etc/aliases. A few lines > from that file on my system: > * * * > mail: root I have this line there. I added cron: root so will see what happens with that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: su: Permission denied, (Ignored)

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
martin f krafft wrote: I have just encountered a weird message by /bin/su: master:/tmp# su -c id collector su: Permission denied (Ignored) uid=200(collector) gid=200(collector) groups=200(collector) root su's to the collector user (pam_rootok allows this), and the command is executed. But

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Brian Coiley wrote: My sources.list file currently reads: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main That looks okay to me I did notice you had a / on the end of your sitenames, which I don't have in my sou

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:42 +0200, Basri Kanca wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > > When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under > the 'Applications

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 ar

Fetchmail trouble with mailing lists

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Dörnbach
Hello people, I'm having a Debian Sarge box here running fetchmail, sendmail, spamass-milter. Mail retrieved by fetchmail from 2 multidrop POP accounts is delivered to local sendmail (for spam check) and then forwarded via mailertable to an Exchange server. Everything on the Debian box are off

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > > (which I couldn't find) that explains why we need xprint, how it > > fits in, and

Re: telnet problem

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
Jacco Hoeve wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Jacco Hoeve (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: One more quick question: I am used to typing "telnet 0 port" .. but after I upgraded woody to sarge "telnet 0" gives: server01:/etc# telnet 0 25 telnet: could not resolve 0/25: Name or service not known It does the s

vrms error-badly formed dpkg-status

2004-11-23 Thread RituRaj
Installed vrms...gives following error vrms vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #223! pkg=[emacsen-common], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] No non-free packages installed rms would be proud. __ Do you Yahoo!

Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !

2004-11-23 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:30:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the > malfunction of grub Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't

upgrading from request-tracker-3.0.10 to 3.2.2

2004-11-23 Thread Nathan Kroll
Hey everyone, We're prepping to upgrade our debian installation of requestion tracker from 3.0.10 to the lates 3.2.2. Does anybody know what (if any) changes occured to the database schema and how to apply these changes to an existing database? I can't find much help with this in the debian pack

CUPS Server Error

2004-11-23 Thread Noah Durell
Hi, I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an unknown reason. CUPS is i

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian Coiley wrote: > > >>I ran the distribution update again, having taken Maurits' advice to make > >>sure that I first did an apt-get update. It updated over 200 packages! > >>Running it a further time updates nothing, so

Re: segmentation fault in shib target: has anyone experienced this?

2004-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:21:59 -0500, Kanipe, Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a bunch of problems like this and it was related to a combination > of OS, and compiler version. What setup are you built for? Red Hat ES 3.0., kernel 2.4.21-15.EL gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-3

Re: segmentation fault in shib target: has anyone experienced this?

2004-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
oops, apologies for the mis-reply. Got my lists mixed up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread ocl
Matt Zagrabelny wrote on 2004-11-23 16:27: On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:42 +0200, Basri Kanca wrote: I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) When I do an 'apt-get install ', does actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under

Re: mozilla has lost it's default printer

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Tivoli
Mozilla uses Xprint's configurations. In order to set the default printer for Xprint set the env var XPRINTER: XPRINTER=your_cups_printer_name export XPRINTER -- Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:31:01 +0200, ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do have the 'menu' package installed. I did not know I had to > run 'update-menus' manually. Plus, a lot of stuff that has GUI > does not get a menu item, even when 'update-menus' is issued. You do not have to run update-men

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:27:31 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you click on the gnome applications menu and navigate to the desired > submenu you can *right* click and add a new menu item there. no need for > external applications. That solution only works for gnome though -

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-23 Thread Massa Takeuti
Are you "root" ? On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:13:24 -0500, Noah Durell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-23 Thread Noah Durell
Massa Takeuti wrote: Are you "root" ? On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:13:24 -0500, Noah Durell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I get this error when I try to configure the printers in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check th

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kent West wrote: > > > Brian Coiley wrote: > > > >>> My sources.list file currently reads: > >>> > >>> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > >>> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main

TCP/IP and Image Manipulation libraries?

2004-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I posted this on the evening of Nov 21, and again last night (Nov 22) about 27 hours after the original post. It has now been another 13 hours since the second post and I have still not seen my post come back to me. Yesterday, I was unable to even connect to lists.debian.org to even see if my

Re: Linux on HardDrive

2004-11-23 Thread Icebiker
Hi, So Curtis gets his Debian system onto a disk and moves it back to his laptop. Won't he have problems with Linux waking up in a different hardware environment? Can it autoconfigure itself to find the right networking, sound, ACPI drivers and so on? I had the impression that a lot of this was

Re: User can't start firefox

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry Turba
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:40:08 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Jerry Turba wrote: > >>I just installed debian on a computer for a friend (PIII 500meg ram) >>and everything has gone fairly well. I installed firefox and thunderbird >>and some of the basic programs. >> >>Root can start and run firefox and

Floppy too smal for mkboot

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry Turba
I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel and it is working fine, but I cannot create a new boot disk for it (mkboot) because it complains that it runs out of space. Is there a way to create a boot disk in this situation? Thanks Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Newbie's question about hard disk partition

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 8:54 am, Lian Liming wrote: > RRPotratz wrote: > > This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are > > / and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of > > RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition. > > > > When I try out

Sarge - sound problems on a ThinkPad T23

2004-11-23 Thread Mark Scott
I installed sarge via netinst on an IBM T23 laptop, taking mostly defaults, and ended up with an OSS sound setup. uname -a gives me: Linux mest23 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux lsmod output below also. I am getting intermittent failures of sound, which I am only able

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in messag I would suggest trying a simple window manager, like icewm, until things get working right. # apt-get install icewm Then edit/create ~/.xinitrc and put in the single line "icewm". Now try "startx". What happens? Exactly the sa

Re: Floppy too smal for mkboot

2004-11-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:35 -0800, Jerry Turba wrote: > I have installed the 2.6.8 kernel and it is working fine, but I cannot > create a new boot disk for it (mkboot) because it complains that it runs > out of space. > Is there a way to create a boot disk in this situation? is this a stock debian

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > > > (which I couldn't find) that expla

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > on Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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. > > > Keep

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > Anyway, if someone could explain or point me to a document or thread > > > (which I couldn't

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I did notice you had a / on the end of your sitenames, which I don't have in my sources.list file I removed the / characters: it worked just the same i.e. no errors and nothing to upgrade. Given that

Re: User can't start firefox

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Jerry Turba wrote: I was wondering how I could stop the GUI and use the startx command. Several methods. If you want to make this a (semi-)permanent change, just remove the login manager package you have installed. # apt-get --purge remove xdm wdm kdm gdm should do it. If you want to make it a

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:15:14 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > > Anyway, if someone c

Re: Sarge - sound problems on a ThinkPad T23

2004-11-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Scott (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I installed sarge via netinst on an IBM T23 laptop, > taking mostly defaults, and ended up with an OSS sound > setup. > > [Sound does not work] > > I get the impression that moving to a 2.6 kernel with > alsa might fix things - but how likely is it

CD/DVD folders disappearing when rebooting

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Pack
I'm running Debian Sid. When I booted into Debian, I will sometimes get the following message: discover reports that /dev/hdc is a CD/DVD device, but it and /dev/hdc do not exist. Not updating /dev/cdrom0. discover reports that /dev/hdd is a CD/DVD device, but it and /dev/hdd do not exist. Not

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/11/04 10:46), Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:15:14 + > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On (23/11/04 08:52), Jacob S wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:41:32 -0600 > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 23 06:12 -0600]: > > > > Anyway

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:41:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Personally, my own recommendation would be that you don't. Sound advice, considering how lazy I am. > - Finding out what DNSBLs are accurate (SpamCop, SpamHaus), a few > others. I'm not sure what you mean by "accurate" in

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:29:34 +0200, ocl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Zagrabelny wrote on 2004-11-23 16:27: > > > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:42 +0200, Basri Kanca wrote: > > > >>I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > >>simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > >>

Re: CD/DVD folders disappearing when rebooting

2004-11-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:58 -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid. > > When I booted into Debian, I will sometimes get the following message: > > discover reports that /dev/hdc is a CD/DVD device, but it and /dev/hdc > do not exist. Not updating /dev/cdrom0. > discover reports that /

Re: CD/DVD folders disappearing when rebooting

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Pack
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:10 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Are those *other* kernels from the 2.4.x variety? if Yes, this does not > surprise me. > > For the 2.6.x kernels: > Are you running udevd? and is hal installed? > > If not that would be your first order of business. > > WARNING: udevd

mplayer vs fbxine

2004-11-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I posted earlier http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2 an attempt to run fbxine: OSS sound would quit after a few minutes. Trying mplayer like this: mplayer -vo fbdev -vm -fbmode 1024×768-60 The_P

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> For now I will adopt "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. I am > unsure of what removing x-window-system entails ... something to explore > when I have more time ;) This shouldn't be hard. Just 'apt-get remove x-window-system', and see what it wants to take out with it. You can always

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > > > Probably not without a bit of work. x-window-system seems to be a meta > > package that doesn't really provide anything, it just depends on a bunch > > of other stuff - all the things that developer thought should be in a > > basic x-window-system - including xprt. > > > > I don't have

I killed ghostscript -- "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

2004-11-23 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript. Here's the error I get, both on firefox and enscript-created postscript files: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: F0 Times-Roman Font

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages. --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > > >After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, my system does not bring up the lilo or > >grub menu. I > was > >using lilo initially but tried setting up grub, but it

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:50:44PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Can anyone help clarify the relationship between any of the following > things that may or may not be on my computer? > hotplug When an event happens on any of the various buses (pci, usb, firewire, etc.) such as device connect

Re: Sarge - sound problems on a ThinkPad T23

2004-11-23 Thread Steve Garcia
Mark Scott wrote: I installed sarge via netinst on an IBM T23 laptop, taking mostly defaults, and ended up with an OSS sound setup. I don't have Debian on my T23, I have Gentoo. (I have Debian on a desktop and a few servers.) But I can tell you that a 2.6 kernel with ALSA works quite well on

Re: MBR problem

2004-11-23 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages. > This sounds like your BIOS is trying to boot the old LILO boot sector rather than your grub boot sector. Are you installing grub to the MBR or to a partition

Segmentation fault on startup

2004-11-23 Thread David Baron
I am seeing the "segmentation fault" message as the startup scripts race by. Cannot retrieve it by dmesg afterwards. It is apparently (hopefully) harmless. Anybody else getting this. I have the most recent 2.6.8-4 kernel image off Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wayne Topa: > Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > Do you have another URL Karsten? At one time, http://linuxmafia.com/~karst

Re: CD/DVD folders disappearing when rebooting

2004-11-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:30 -0500, Brian Pack wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:10 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > Are those *other* kernels from the 2.4.x variety? if Yes, this does not > > surprise me. > > > > For the 2.6.x kernels: > > Are you running udevd? and is hal installed? > > >

Openoffice printer problem

2004-11-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Until the most recent dist-upgrade Openoffice had no trouble printing with the local printer, an HP 940C installed with Cups. The printer installation is correct. Lynx localhost:631 shows in as the default printer, available and accepting jobs. The test page prints perfectly and a simple tex

Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok, I want to put a linux distro on an old handheld pc. Here are it specs. Most distros, however, don't seem to like the lack of RAM. TOSHIBA LIBRETTO 50CT PROCESSOR Intel Pentiumï 75 Mhz 16Mbit EDO DRAM I wanted to put Knoppix on it, but Knoppix won't like the low ram at all. I would put Debian

Re: Fetchmail trouble with mailing lists

2004-11-23 Thread Tony Middleton
This is one of the interesting features of Fetchmail. You say you are using Fetchmail with a multidrop mailbox. It may be that Fetchmail is not looking for the correct header to determine the address to deliver to. Look in the fetchmail man pages in the sections on "envelope" and "Header vs En

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-23 Thread downtime null
On Monday 22 November 2004 04:13 pm, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > > How difficult, would you say, was it to get it installed and get > > everything working. Do you play any games? Specifically do you play any > > Windows games using cedega? Are you happy with your configuration? Would > > you recommend

RE: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Steven Jones
Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5 years ago. With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode only? if you expect a gui, forget this hardware IMHO. If it is for

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Martin Lorenz
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:01:21AM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Printing has been working great in Mozilla-browser and galeon for me, as > well. No complaints at all. > > I'm running Sarge, btw. did you (or anyone

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Coiley
"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian Coiley wrote: > > >"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in messag > > > >Exactly the same. I don't think it has anything to do with the wm. From > >what I've learned persusing archives, the "client rejected from loca

Re: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:20:23 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I want to put a linux distro on an old handheld pc. Here are it > specs. Most distros, however, don't seem to like the lack of RAM. > > TOSHIBA LIBRETTO 50CT > PROCESSOR Intel Pentiumï 75 Mhz > 16Mbit EDO DRAM > >

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: Googling the problem reveals some folks discussing files called "Xauthority" and "xinitrc" which are in the home directory. I have no such files. Should I, perhaps? Try creating a new user ("adduser testman") and then log in as that user; see if X works. If it does, then t

Re: Sarge - sound problems on a ThinkPad T23

2004-11-23 Thread Scott <
Andreas Janssen wrote: Mark Scott (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: [Sound does not work] I get the impression that moving to a 2.6 kernel with alsa might fix things - but how likely is it I can do that without breaking anything? Would that upgrade be a sensible move? Is it really as simple as apt-get

Re: Segmentation fault on startup

2004-11-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Baron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am seeing the "segmentation fault" message as the startup scripts > race by. Cannot retrieve it by dmesg afterwards. It is apparently > (hopefully) harmless. Anybody else getting this. I have the most > recent 2.6.8-4 kernel image off Sid. Activ

Re: mplayer vs fbxine

2004-11-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:13:29 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I posted earlier > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=fbxine+group:linux.debian.user&hl=en&lr=&scoring=d&selm=2VxCv-5jm-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2 > an attempt to run fbxine: OSS sound would quit after

RE: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Olav
Op wo, 24-11-2004 te 08:30 +1300, schreef Steven Jones: > Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to > need "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it > was 4 or 5 years ago. > > With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode >

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
s. keeling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Incoming from Wayne Topa: > > Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz > > > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found > > > > Do

Re: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-23 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:03, Kent West wrote: > Brian Coiley wrote: > Hmmm; why a woody package on a sarge upgrade? Again, perhaps the upgrade > wasn't completed? Just a thought - perhaps some of the packages are downloaded and unpacked but not configured? You can configure all unpacked but unco

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