Re: apt-listbugs and security

> I'm not trying to discourage you from using Debian, it's great, but > you may want to look at the next release of Ubuntu Server, which will > have security support for five years. But using debian sarge for servers is secure or not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Kontact/KMail problem in sid

After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, I can't check mail anymore. Checking my IMAP settings in KMail, I find that the path to IMAP folders has changed to some incomprehensible nonsense about namespaces that I can't make heads or tails of. So, big question: How do I point contact back at ~/mail/ fo

Re: ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:41:33PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). > I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1. > Google for DWL-G510 wireless card Linux chipset The second entry suggests that you don't use ndiswrapper. It's l

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

I have a completely different use for the parport. However, 'why' is irrelevant. If modules are only loadable, where's the flexibility? What if you're fiddling around with various PCI cards or some such experimentation? My application was previously run on RH9 and it was easy to rmmod the lp, pa

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Gabriel S. Farrell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for > > the direct reply Andy. > > Are you Grring because you wish you were using Mutt? It's the

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Thanks, I'll try that. Please excuse the 'disorder' of my replies - something funny happened when first loading the web page and I missed Marc's response. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-listbugs and security

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:25:24AM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > > I'm not trying to discourage you from using Debian, it's great, but > > you may want to look at the next release of Ubuntu Server, which will > > have security support for five years. > > But using debian sarge for servers is secure

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Just a question to Marc Perrudin... In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ directory as indicated in your response and place the 'local' file in that one instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Well, that works brilliantly! I created /etc/modprobe.conf/local and added to it the following lines... install parport /bin/true install parport_pc /bin/true install lp /bin/true and lo and behold, the drivers did not load. Thank you, Marc and one and all for your responses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

==> update i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, kernel 2.4 if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partition and everything went ok any idea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Just a further note to Adam Porter in addition to my response on the why and wherefore above, I discovered that the wierd behaviour with not being able to access the status port appears to be specific to the combination of Debian Sarge with the particular PC I was using. The difficulty does not ap

camera and mounting

I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media)  /dev/sdc1   /media/mmc  vfat    rw,user,noauto  0   0 This is probably not enough, though it is anough to mount an MP3-player.

Problems with Softdog...

Hi all. I need to use Softdog in my system. I'm doing some tests to get it working... I have an old Debian machine [ kernel 2.4.21, Debian 3.0 ] I start my app ( see test.c ), if I interrupt it I get: SOFTDOG: WDT device closed unexpectedly. WDT will not stop! and the machine reboot within 60

Re: apt-listbugs and security

> The next release of Ubuntu Server, which is scheduled to have > five years security support, isn't due out until October. > Debian "stable" / Sarge shuld be fine for most purposes - > _you_ need to assess _your_ risk, look at the applications you're > running and, potentially, screen apt-listbugs

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

Oliver Lupton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: I vaguely recall there is a utility to capture input to the terminal to file. To record the entire session; $ script -f file Exit the shell with Ctrl-D when your done, then read "file" wit

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Re: camera and mounting

I get this message when I try to open: mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Any sugestions? Well, does it exist? Post output of "ls -al /dev/sd*". Also try installing "hal-device-manager". It gives you a great deal of informat

problem with snapshot.debian.net: solved

On 01/10/2006 04:14:34 PM, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: I tried to get it from snapshot.debian.net, but while it says packages since 2005/03/13 are available, I couldn't access packages earlier than 2005/11/01, and couldn't grab versions earlier than 1.8.4-2 (current is 1.8.4-3). snapshot.debia

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Well, must modify that last claim that the modprobe.conf idea worked. It did but the very presence of the /etc/modprobe.conf/local file (even if empty) caused some other drivers to fail to load properly (or at all, maybe). I discovered this when trying to access the floppy and the system informed

sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh ...wouldn't be executed

hi list, i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions e.x. /usr # mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,nosuid) /dev/hda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid) /d

sarge UTF-8 problem with ssh with USEPAM=no

hi list, i've a sarge default install. cat /etc/environment shows - snip --- LANGUAGE="en_US:en_GB:en" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -- snip -- sshd_config has USEPAM=no after ssh login locale -- snip--- LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_N

Re: kernel-2.6.15 cannot compile

On Thursday 12 January 2006 03:14, Brian Nelson wrote: > Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error: > > [snip] > > http://bugs.debian.org/347487 > Thank you, the workaround worked (downgrade kernel-package 10.031 to 10.030

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Just one last point in case anyone is interested... The file does not have to be called /etc/modprobe.d/local It can be anything you like... such as /etc/modprobe.d/psychopath if you like. It seems that modprobe functions in such a manner as to scan and process all files in the /etc/modprobe.d/ dir

lpr: lp: unknown printer

Hi, i have succesfully instaled network printer HP-Color-LaserJet-4650. When I go http://localhost:631 to administration of printer, theere the name of the printer is "HP-Color-LaserJet-4650". I`ve had stupid idea to remove lp printer from system through webmin. Now my problem is, that on some pro

Re: mozilla + mutt

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:03:17PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: > > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives > > > you s

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a c

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working and all my dreams will have come true... Check the chipset: do an lspci and report back to the list what it outputs. If it's an Athero

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 0:27:12 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > >Touche', I had indeed momentarily forgotten that. I had also at the > >time spoken rather pointedly to my senators and rep

Re: apache2

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 8:50:38 +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > > Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See > > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ > > There is an italian too? There is a debian-italian list, but I am not sure whether an FAQ exists. The parall

Re: Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 17:54:23 -0800, Lee Ann Spalteholz wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Roger Spalteholz Jr. I dont see my last name too often, You sure it isn't Groucho? Sorry, but this does sound like a line out of Animal Crackers... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It > >keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop > > > > The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost syn

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:45:10AM -0800, hillbilly wrote: > Just a question to Marc Perrudin... > In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the > 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ > directory as indicated in your response and place the 'local' f

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately. DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My m

RE: ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

Unless I'm misinterpreting things, all the google searches I've done point to this working with ndiswrapper. However, I'll take a shot at madwifi if I can find good info. Lspci yeilds: :00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 0 01a (rev 01) So I know it's

RE: SOLVED New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

I solved this by following the note within XF86Config-4 about doing an md5sum on the file when updating. I was trying to set the mouse device stanza to specify my /dev/psaux and PS/2 but It turns out I wasn't really updating the file. Thanks to everyone for the help. Ed -Original Message

SOLVED RE: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device

I solved this by following the note within XF86Config-4 about doing an md5sum on the file when updating, and by doing a modprobe mousedev. I was trying to set the mouse device stanza to specify my /dev/psaux and PS/2 but It turns out I wasn't really updating the file. Thanks to everyone for the

Re: Observations on greylisting (I get no spam any more)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 23:02:11 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > I have been using the greylistd Debian package by Tor Slettnes for well over a > year now, and have found something quite astonishing: when I started using > greylistd, I received around 30-50 spams a day. I installed greylistd and

83 IBM P4 LAPTOPS FOR SALE OFF LEASE

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Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change of the package as mentioned in the bug report correspondence. It seems that the synt

Re: apt-get update public key problem

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 9:13:41 -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fetched 2972kB in 1m10s (42.4kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > > W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures > > couldn't be verified becaus

Re: apt-get update public key problem

On 1/12/06, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for that. It doesn't actually work for me for reasons I'll read > up when I have time. > > bordello:/home/richard# gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys > 1F41B907 > gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server wwwkeys.e

83 IBM P4 LAPTOPS FOR SALE OFF LEASE

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Email login options

I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6 & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our office, this causes people in remote sites to have to use EarthLink for SMTP, or in my cas

Re: apt-listbugs and security

Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged with:315718 The trouble is that I can't find v. 1.6.8p9 from the stable package list, and etch provides sudo 1.6.8p12-

Re: Email login options

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:49 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6 > & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email > client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our > office, this causes people in remote

Re: Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:38:29AM -0500, jef e wrote: > apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" > > I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for > this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change > of the package as ment

Re: apt-listbugs and security

david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged with:315718 The trouble is that I can't find v. 1.6.8p9 from the stable package list, and e

Re: Kontact/KMail problem in sid

Paul Johnson wrote: After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, I can't check mail anymore. Checking my IMAP settings in KMail, I find that the path to IMAP folders has changed to some incomprehensible nonsense about namespaces that I can't make heads or tails of. So, big question: How do I point con

Re: 83 IBM P4 LAPTOPS FOR SALE OFF LEASE

Jimmy Gent wrote: This email is in compliance with the anti-spam legislation known as the Can-Spam Act of 2003 (S.877). According to this federal legislation (which supercedes all state legislation) a commercial email is not "spam" (even if it is unsolicited) as long as it meets the followin

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

richard writes: > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. Thank you. Precisely my point. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p

RE: Email login options

True, but then traveling users would have to connect to the vpn before they could get their email. 2 many steps for them. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Chinook wrote: I've got /netatalk/ installed and minimally configured on Debian and set all the appropriate switches in OS X, and I can look at and move files back and forth from either box if I initiate (mount) the server on my Mac. I have not ye

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On 11 Jan 2006, Don McLaughlin wrote: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts, > and other non-plain-

who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Subject: who is r/w-ing my hdd? Newsgroups: RWTHNEWS:linux.debian.user Hello, I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. It is really annoying - even if there is (from my side) no system activity at all. I also fear the health of my hardware if th

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Mike McCarty wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> richard writes: >>> Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make >>> more difference. >> Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually >> choose to >> take individual actions. > Thank you. Precisely my point.

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

For both of you, how about formail as a tool? Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modules like Mail::Mbox::MessageParser or Mail::MboxParser ? Cheers, Andy (who used MANGOnet while in Zimbabwe in 1992) -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > richard writes: > > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > > more difference. > > Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to > take individual actions. I don't know how it wor

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:10 +, Matthias wrote: > Subject: who is r/w-ing my hdd? > Newsgroups: RWTHNEWS:linux.debian.user > > Hello, > > I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > happening harddisk read/write operation. It is > really annoying - even if there is (from my side) > n

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > >> richard writes: > >>> Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > >>> more difference. > >> Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually > >

Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS P4P800E deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB Seagate drive. Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group (SIG) took little time since the

Re: Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:38:29AM -0500, jef e wrote: > apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" > > I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for > this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change > of the package as ment

Bug fixing - was: apt-listbugs and security

Hi, so I guess there is no easy answer:-/ Luckily, in this case the bug-report gives a workaround that is easy enough:-) But what is the Debian bug-fixing process? In this case patch 9 was developed - problem 'fixed' - but, 205 days later the patched version is still not available as a .deb packag

Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

It sounds like you at least have the base system installed since you mentioned you rebooted the machine. In order to continue on with the installation of the selected packages, simply bring the system back up and log in with the credentials you set up for the root user and type "base-config" withou

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For both of you, how about formail as a tool? I already use formail for various tasks related to extracting messages from a mailbox - very useful. However it doesn't handle decoding of attachments. > Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modul

Re: Email login options

On 01/12/2006 09:49:50 AM, Tony Heal wrote: What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does anyone have any suggestions that does not require sendi

Re: apache2

Hi Clive, > You need to install apache2-doc thx, after installing it the documentation link works. Fine, but one curious thing is it only works from the machine i installed the apache. On this machine the default apache page is in english. When i call the default page from another machine the def

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very well - even with broken boundary lines and missing headers etc. However the more I tested it the more problems I

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. I don't kno

Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:00:57 -0600 (CST) Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group > (SIG) took little time since the teacher is quite experienced. We > partitioned the Seagate into 3 main areas with a swap partition f

Re: (SOLVED) Logrotate don't route

David Jardine ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:14:35PM +0100, Marco wrote: David Jardine ha scritto: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote: David Jardine ha scritto: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: H

Re: camera and mounting

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:40:05 +0100 (CET) Embrik Kaslegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it > by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media) > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

Karl O. Pinc ha scritto: On 01/11/2006 03:30:07 PM, Marco wrote: Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... BTW, you want your free memory to decrease becase memory is no good unless it's used. If it's not used for anything else the OS uses it for disk buffers. See als

Re: apt-listbugs and security

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:02:07 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: > > Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) > #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, > fixes security issue. > Merged with:315718 > >

NFS rooting current root

Dear all, are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of the read-only exported one?? Thanks for any hands-on experience hints. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf

Re: subscribe

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:21:22 +0800 Limin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subscribe > to subscribe, send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to post to the user list send to debian-user@lists.debian.org which is where you sent you subscribe message > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh ...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi list, > > i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions > e.x. /usr > > # mount > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid

Re: apache2

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:21:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Clive, > > > You need to install apache2-doc > > thx, after installing it the documentation link works. Fine, but one > curious thing is > it only works from the machine i installed the apache. On this machine > the default a

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Well, since we are in FULL TOPIC DRIFT MODE, there is a Navy > chaplain who is on hunger strike here in the USA because he > has been ordered not to pray in public in uniform "in the name > of Jesus Christ". He claims that this is not

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: > > It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - > > decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very > > well - even with broken boundary lines and missing heade

IBM Z60m w/ sarge

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed sarge on an ibm z60m laptop? I looked through http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html and didn't find reference. Granted this is a new model but just wondering if anyone out there is using one. During an initial bootup sarge couldn't detec

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 > Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi list, > > > > i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions > > e.x. /usr > > > > # mount > > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,erro

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Well, since we are in FULL TOPIC DRIFT MODE, there is a Navy chaplain who is on hunger strike here in the USA because he has been ordered not to pray in public in uniform "in the name of Jesus Christ". He claims tha

Re: camera and mounting

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:05AM +0100, Embrik Kaslegard wrote: > I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it > by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media) > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson writes: > I don't know how it works in the post-modern EU, but in the rest of the > world, if you choose not to obey orders from the leaders you have sworn > to obey... _Chosen_ to swear to obey. > ...the coercive power of the state lands full square on your shoulders. The individual

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 14:33 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > I don't know how it works in the post-modern EU, but in the rest of the > > world, if you choose not to obey orders from the leaders you have sworn > > to obey... > > _Chosen_ to swear to obey. > > > ...the coercive p

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me what I need to do (presumably in udev) to arrange for > vgscan and vgchange to be exectued when this drive is detected? I already > have udev rules to give it a persistent name, so udev is set up to some > extent. What I need now is to

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is probably no help, but I think you can write udev rules to > handle this stuff. I know there is a PROGRAM key in udev that might > serve your purpose. Unfortunately I'm only just learning about > udev. check the archives for more info and

Re: OT --was Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 13:01:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > richard writes: > > > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > > > more difference. > > > > Armies and police forces consist of individuals

Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no difficulties and I find Mozilla will thread the downloads from the list by subject. I have not yet found

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:39:58 +0100 Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 > > Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi list, > > > > > > i've installed a default sarge,

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:49 +, Don McLaughlin wrote: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts, > and ot

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:07:56 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > > All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no > difficulties an

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: > > How huch RAM & which daemons do you have running? If your system > is RAM-constrained, it will be page a lot. > There is actually swap space used in my system but hardly. I have 256MB of ram and i can boot without

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John L Fjellstad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PROGRAM key is used for rule matching. Yeah, I spotted that. However, there is a 'RUN' key. However, this isn't mentioned in the version of udev in debian stable. I tried installing udev from backports.or

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson writes: > Why is it that thugs can extort protection money from small business > owners? Because to those businessmen, the pain of losing that business > which his life is poured into, and which supports his family is greater > than giving away some money. Exactly. And so they choose

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John L Fjellstad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never done this, but you can put scripts into the /etc/dev.d > directory. These are called after a node has been created by udev. > Check the udev man pages. Thanks, I'll check that out. Andy -- To UNS

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: } I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able } to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. } } All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no } difficulties and I find Mozilla

Problem with package linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.12-1-k7

Hi, I want to use a D-Link DWL-122 USB-WLAN adapter. As I'am using Debian kernel 2.6.12-1-k7 I installed the package containing the modules for prism2 (linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.12-1-k7). When I plug in the stick I get kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcdand address 4 usb.

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:51:51PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > } I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > } to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > } > } All this time Mozilla

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