Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette > (as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I could use > the busies

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Bryce
I can only imagine what language this fella speaks natively. - Original Message - From: "DAVID MARK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:40 PM Subject: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS FROM: DR DAVID MARK PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL # 3 Onyeama Street

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:49:04AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:42:22AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: < snip -- merits of sudo vs. su > > > How's stuff like that supposed to work in a "strict" proof of concept > > GUI environment with no *term available -- ie. all you are

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly

2007-01-10 Thread Wackojacko
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:55:37PM +, Wackojacko wrote: It certainly does, I do not have all of these symlinks. Obviously, I can create them manually but I would prefer to know why they disappeared in the first place. What command is suppose to create them?

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing power not to mention disk I/O which I'm just not seeing. it takes few minutes to open /u

Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly [SOLVED]

2007-01-10 Thread Wackojacko
Kevin Mark wrote: I'd expect symlinks to be created with postinstall scripts, so you may want to re-run them. Those scripts are in /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PKG.postinstall and are usually bash scripts. Cheers, Kev Me too but having reinstalled java it didn't work :(. Also some of the links that are

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 10.01.2007, 03:02 -0500 schrieb Kevin Mark: > heres a few: > - -remove chunks of the post if possible as its better to not send 50 line > posts each time if you are only replying to 2 lines. > - -if the person is responding to a mailing list, reply to the list only > - -unless the

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 03:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > > Hey All, > > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > > netiquette > > (as you may have gue

Re: wireless adapter/card recommendations?

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
John C wrote: Hi folks, I'm in the process of changing my home network from wired to wireless and am trying to find a card for a desktop that will work effortlessly with etch/sid. Preferably one whose drivers are already available as part of debian. So far I've not done well and purchased o

Network problem

2007-01-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, the last few days I have had the following network problem with Debian Unstable: Trying to ssh to a machine using its host name gives the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ssh adonis.uio.no ssh: adonis.uio.no: Name or service not known But I can use 'nslookup' or 'host' to get the machines I

cross-posting (was Re: iTunes & Linux (Debian))

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
Please do not cross-post to the lists unless there is a compelling reason to do so. Your question has nothing to do wtih debian on laptops and so I'd suggest that it was only appropriate for debian-user. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Justin Gallardo wrote: > When replying to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in > the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? I am a staunch believer that if one is replying to a post on the list it should go to the list only. Reply-to-all defeats the very purpose of the

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Justin Hartman
On 1/10/07, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2: If someone posts a problem, and gives all the relevant information (hardware configuration, log files, errors, etc), and the only thing you can respond with is "Works for me", then please do everyone a favor and don't even bother posting. A

Re: wireless adapter/card recommendations?

2007-01-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 1/10/07, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the process of changing my home network from wired to wireless > and am trying to find a card for a desktop that will work effortlessly > with etch/sid. > > Preferably one whose drivers are already available as

Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

2007-01-10 Thread Gerard H. Pille
Hello, I've just gotten this USB host-to-host device for my new-year, and I wonder if it can be used with Linux. When connected, the device is recognised as a cdrom: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support

Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi all, I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the network, I don't seem to be able to receive any email sent

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:41:29PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected > by the server. The rejected email-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Subject 'test', Account: 'blah', Server: 'mail.bigpond.com', Protocol: > SMTP,

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: Sorry for late reply. On 1/9/07, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install the package lm-sensors and run sensors-detect, it will even > write the modules to /etc/modules for you That's nice, but if hardware is not autodetected at boot or at very least during Debia

Pinning X.org

2007-01-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I need to upgrade my laptop without upgrading X.org. The laptop is a reasonably up-to-date etch install with X.org 7.0.22 and proprietary drivers from ATI. (As soon as I have time and can risk a non-working X server I'll upgrade those too.) I want to pin X.org, but am not clear on the depende

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: >it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on > machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds. > >system: > debian unstable > icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 > pentium 2.4 GHz > 1G

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a > problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly > from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within > th

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread David Shultz
On 1/10/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The graphics card obvious has to participate, but I don't see the driver for the graphics card i2c. It may be there but I don't know what it's called. I think in my case it's called fb_radeon_i2c, so I would expect to see something like fb_nv_i2c. So

gforge problems

2007-01-10 Thread Vladimir Kozlov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've just installed etch from scratch, and installed gforge, but during the installation I've got following problems: 1. In /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/postgresql.conf it is necessary to change #tcpip_socket = false to tcpip_socket = true oth

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian list" Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... "no server error", and the fact that you later say you see nothing in your exim4 logs m

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1 it will only accept connections from localhost, no one outside of lo

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:54:44AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > I actually set the 'listening' addresses option to blank. > I believe this means that my server should be listening on > all available network addresses shouldn't it? Yes, and you can verify this using "lsof -ni:25 | grep LISTEN",

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:47:15PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > "no server error", and the fact that you later say you > see nothing in your exim4 logs make me wonder if you've > setup MX records for your domain to point to the IP > address of your server? In the absence of MX records, maile

Вопрос по установке

2007-01-10 Thread Алексей
Здравствуйте. При установке Debian с DVD дисков (образы дисков скачаны по ссылкам сайта debian.org) программа установки сообщила о том, что не находит жесткий диск. При этом жесткий диск у меня единственный и ОС Windows на нем работает без проблем. Подобный вопрос обсуждался здесь: http://www.n

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > not sure what an MX record is. Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS records come in a variety of types: the most common being the 'A' record, which speci

Re: Can I change motherboard without reinstal ling sarge

2007-01-10 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > a wrote: > > I change motherboard, sarge refuse to boot, it says BIOS check fails > > I used debian before (woody, potato...) there's no such problem > > Do I have to re-install sarge? > > I would make sure you have a stock Debian kernel insta

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800 or thereabouts, Justin Gallardo wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I > could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Ben Breslauer
Justin Gallardo wrote: Hey All, I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source of information. ... Also, if you can think of any

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
A useful function is # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Вопрос по установ ке

2007-01-10 Thread Vladimir Kozlov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Alexey, You'd better ask questions in russian to the debian-russian@lists.debian.org, while this list is for English-speakers ;-) This guy tries to install Debian from DVD disks, but installer could not find hard disk. I am asking for more det

Re: Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:10:59AM -0800, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > Hello, > > I've just gotten this USB host-to-host device for my new-year, and I > wonder if it can be used with Linux. > > When connected, the device is recognised as a cdrom: > scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROMOTi EasyCopy-

When login, get error: configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)

2007-01-10 Thread csanyipal
Hello! I upgraded my Debian system from Sarge to Etch. After that, whenever I login, get the error messages on Vterm: -> configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration err

[OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread marc
Erik Steffl said... >Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the > one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading > files (it's probably used in other places as well). > >The dialog has two parts - left part has shortcut to user home dir,

Re: wireless adapter/card recommendations?

2007-01-10 Thread celejar
On 1/9/07, celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] 2) Madwifi [1] is terrific code, albeit unfree (it's in Debian non-free). Cards that claim support for 108 Mbps probably use Atheros chips that are supported by Madwifi, since 108 is a proprietary Atheros extension to the 802.11g standard (yo

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread celejar
On 1/10/07, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... > indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in > those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing > power not to mention disk I/O which

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what... they both are printing html pages (gnucash report generator produces html). I wonder if that's the common thread. Have you tried printing from o

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set to listen to 127.0.0.1

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread celejar
On 1/10/07, Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Along the lines of this one may I ask what is the netiquette on thanking someone who helped you find a solution? I naturally would like to thank someone if they managed to resolve the problem for me however I notice a lot of issues on

rebuilding linux-image-2.6.18-3-vserver-686

2007-01-10 Thread Alexei Chetroi
Hi, I want to rebuild linux-image-2.6.18-3-vserver-686 to add some extra patches, but don't know how. In sarge, there was linux-source-2.6.8 and separate kernel-patch-vserver package. I used make-kpkg to build custom kernels with needed patches applied. Now, when the vserver patch got integr

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > When replying > to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in the To: line of > the email, and the CC the list? Or is it better to just send your reply to > the list, not specifically mentioning the original poster. Poss

Re: DVD-RAM questions

2007-01-10 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:25:20PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > UDF was designed for the Write-Once, Read-Many DVD-ROM/RAM/RW. Just use > udf. Any compuer with a DVD drive can read udf; ext2/3 is designed for > read-write filesystems and only works on Linux. UDF was designed for write once and

Re: When login, get error: configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:24:46PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > Hello! > > I upgraded my Debian system from Sarge to Etch. > > After that, whenever I login, get the error messages on Vterm: > -> > configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator) > configuration

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > > It does this automatically. > > sudo It does not: $ sudo xlogo Password: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. It might work if the X app

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Per Carlson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I > could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source of > information.

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread robin putters
modprobe fb_nvidia_i2c On 1/10/07, David Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/10/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The graphics card obvious has to participate, but I don't see the driver > for the graphics card i2c. It may be there but I don't know what it's > called. I think in my case

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Wayne Topa
David Shultz([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 1/10/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The graphics card obvious has to participate, but I don't see the driver > >for the graphics card i2c. It may be there but I don't know what it's > >called. I think in my case it's called fb_

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:06:20PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:52:01AM +1100, Duncan McDonald > wrote: > > As I said I'm fairly new to system administration so I'm > > not sure what an MX record is. > > Domains are mapped to IP addresses via DNS records. DNS > records co

Fwd: Bug: funny network problem.

2007-01-10 Thread Waqar Malik
On 1/10/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Waqar Malik schrieb: > After update today, I've had a funny network problem: > The network works for kde apps (konqueror, kopete, etc) but fails when > using apps like iceweasel, aptitude, apt-get, synaptic (gtk apps?). Do you use a proxy? I

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:01:06AM EST, Rob Sims wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > > > > It does this automatically. > > > > sudo > > It does not: > $ sudo xlogo > Password: > X11 co

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Justin Gallardo
P.S. Sorry to pick on you, but this was a glaring etiquette mistake, (at least to me). No, don't worry about it. It was an obvious mistake on my part looking back at it now. Not so much a netiquette issue as it is more of an English problem. The only way we can learn from mistakes is knowing t

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Kent West
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:20 -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:02 +1100, Geoff Reidy wrote: >>> >>> It's awful, if I just type in "/usr/bin" I get "/usr/src//bin" because of it's autocompletion, so y

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:02:39AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Justin Gallardo wrote: > > When replying to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in > > the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? > > I am a staunch believer that if one is replying to a post on the list it > sh

Re: When login, get error: configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)

2007-01-10 Thread csanyipal
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:55:35AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:24:46PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > > .. login: unknown configuration item `CLOSE_SESSIONS' > > -^ > crucial information, IMO. I would check /etc/login.defs, in sid its > full of comments abo

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:03:22AM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing > >from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what... they both are printing > >html pages (gnucash report generator produces html)

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread David Shultz
modprobe fb_nvidia_i2c I did exactly that it gives an error message: FATAL: Module fb_nvidia_i2c not found. I may have missed it. What kernel are you running? I'm using kernel 2.6.8-3-386

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:44 -0600, Kent West wrote: > I thought it was a problem in iceweasel, but I can not now recreate the > problem there. But I can recreate it in icedove, version 1.5.0.9 (20061220). > > Steps: > * Receive an email with an attachment. > * Double-click on the attachment. > * S

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Kent. Kent West, 10.01.2007 17:44: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:20 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> >>> Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:02 +1100, Geoff Reidy wrote: > It's awful, if I just type in "/usr/bin" I get "/usr/src//bi

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory > Opus 8 [1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader > folk should examine. If Linux could get close to just its two pane > setup, I would be

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:33:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [ snip: Jon Dowland's nice mini-tutorial about dig and MX records ] > okay, so I had to try this to learn and > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short bigpond.com mx > 10 extmail.bigpond.com. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.big

Emacs opening post files as latin-1 and the rest as UTF-8

2007-01-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
I am running Debian testing with the mutt and emacs21 packages installed (then they are Mutt 1.5.13 and GNU Emacs 21.4.1). In my .emacs there's the following: (set-locale-environment (getenv "LANG")) Where before I had this which also gave the same problem: (when (string-match "UTF-8" (getenv "

Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a fresh testing install: Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/modutils/linux-sound-base_noOSS' to `/lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modutils.conf': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing l

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had to try this to learn and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +short bigpond.com mx 10 extmai

how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread H.S.
If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have to click on "close window" to get rid of it: http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm How are these kind of windows implemented? Java script? And how do I prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? I don't get a

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. H.S., 10.01.2007 18:41: > If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have > to click on "close window" to get rid of it: > http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm > > How are these kind of windows implemented? Java script? Correct. There is an element created dynam

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello once again. Mathias Brodala, 10.01.2007 18:49: > H.S., 10.01.2007 18:41: >> If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have >> to click on "close window" to get rid of it: >> http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm >> >> How are these kind of windows implemented? Java

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > okay, so I had to try this to lear

My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Fran
I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all software up to date) is spewing traffic they're calling IRC_nick, which is apparantly some sort of IRC bot. I'm unable to locate the file/files that are infected. Additionally, I can't see the process/processes for the bot

cascading dependencies problems

2007-01-10 Thread vineyard saker
Hi, I have used Kanotix 2005-4, a distro based on Debian Sid with the same repositories without any problems until I tried installing a application (dvdrip) when during the installation process I got a warning that the xserver might have problems after the installation (I should add that at that

Re: Printing from WP8 (was Re: Text on printed pages truncated)

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
Patrick, You will no doubt recall our e-mail exchange on the Debian user list in November 2005, where you first drew my attention to your page about WP8 and Debian. Four sources enabled me to get WP8 up and running: your page, Rick Moen's "WordPerfect on Linux FAQ" (http://linuxmafia.com/wp

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:41:50PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > If I go to this web page, I get a window within the web page and I have > to click on "close window" to get rid of it: > http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32640.htm > > How are these kind of windows implemented? Java script? And how do I > p

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:53:42AM -0600, Fran wrote: > I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all > software up to date) is spewing traffic they're calling IRC_nick, which > is apparantly some sort of IRC bot. > > I'm unable to locate the file/files that are infecte

Re: When login, get error: configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:37:44PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:55:35AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:24:46PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > > > > .. login: unknown configuration item `CLOSE_SESSIONS' > > > > -^ > > crucial informati

Re: Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:31, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a > fresh testing install: > > Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... The same version exists in both testing, unstable according to http://packages.debian.org

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common practice in my area that ISP's would block ports like 25 so you couldn't run servers

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:55:15AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:03:22AM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > > > >Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing > > >from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what

FW: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Belt
Your problem really seems to be DNS related. I would use the tools at www.dnsstuff.com. Just running the regualr DNS Report it will check a number of areas that your DNS settings could be wrong. Pay close attention to the MX portion or the report, to see if anything doesn't pass. Steve Belt

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:37:55AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > >okay, so I had to try

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:59:37AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in > *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed the window, but not > the pop-up, which is annoying. However, the very useful NoScript will block scripts selectively on

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:19:46AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > > >It was a common

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: well I have to say that is the most aggregious linux site I've ever seen. At least one pop-up plus that window plus the streaming video... holy crap that's ugly. I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed th

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread John Hasler
H.S. writes: > And how do I prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? Mathias writes: > You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a > lot of hair. Maybe there’s an extension for Firefox which lets > you enable JavaScript only for specific pages after that.

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > It was a common practice in my are

RE: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Steve Belt
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette (as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that > maybe I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source > of

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread marc
Liam O'Toole said... > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 - > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory > > Opus 8 [1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader > > folk should examine. If Linux could get close to

Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
Hello all and thanks in advance to any replies I get to this message. I have a couple of things... What I want to do is be able to launch applications without actually loading X. What I mean is, I want to load RDesktop or Firefox or some other application and without actually having a deskto

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you manually mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:49:54PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > > And how do I > > prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? > > You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a lot of > hair. Maybe there???s an extension for Firefox which lets you enable

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:13:03PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:59:37AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I use adblocker extension on firefox and I put in > > *banners.sys-con.com* into ad block and it killed the window, but not > > the pop-up, which is annoying.

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:53:42AM -0600, Fran wrote: > > I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all > > software up to date) is spewing traffic the

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > so you can get to the machine, i.e

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:53:42AM -0600, Fran wrote: > > > I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all > > > software up to date) is spewing traffic they

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

2007-01-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Roberto. Roberto C. Sanchez, 10.01.2007 20:09: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:49:54PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> And how do I >>> prevent these kind of windows on Mozilla and Firefox? >> You could just deactivate JavaScript and prevent yourself from losing a lot >> of >> hair. Maybe th

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:55:21PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > Hello all and thanks in advance to any replies I get to this message. > > I have a couple of things... > > What I want to do is be able to launch applications without actually > loadi

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/07 11:53, Fran wrote: > I've been told by my ISP that my sarge webserver (only port 80 open, all > software up to date) is spewing traffic they're calling IRC_nick, which > is apparantly some sort of IRC bot. "IRC_nick" is really ambiguous.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I > could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good source of > inf

RE: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
Thanks for the quick response. So it seems like I would ALWAYS need an X-Server but I can do without a Window Manager. -Stephen From: Kevin Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 1/10/2007 2:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Launch App wit

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