Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The > > > large print and *wide*, lined paper made

Re: Debian on ancient machines

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:46:50 +0100 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: > > Two popular ones I know of are: > > DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the > > entire *.iso image is > > But he can run also

Dual boot wont work

Dear Debian, installed by instructions, but as Debian tries to boot from Grub after some while this error message occurs and it stops right there : <6>note: kblockd/0[31] exited with preempt_count 1 (this is just the last line I put here) Everything went right during the installation. I manual

Re: Dual boot wont work

What two operating systems are you dual booting between? Can you get into the other operating system with GRUB or are you completely locked out of your computer? On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:03:15 -0800 (PST) Andreas Jost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian, > > installed by instructions, but

Re: Debian on ancient machines

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: > >> Two popular ones I know of are: > >> DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the > >> entire *.iso image is > > > > But he can run also

Re: nvidia driver problem

Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: Joe Hart wrote: steef wrote: i did that several times. when i still had the I actually use GlassMonitor which is a theme for superkarmba. I'm all KDE here. You can also see the cpu usage with k

Re: The Planet / Debian Install

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:31:59AM -0800, SM wrote: > I just ordered some new servers at The Planet (formally EV1) ... and > asked about having Debian installed on my servers. They are saying > that Debian is unsupported due to the following reason: > > "The latest release of Debian is out of dat

Re: Debian on ancient machines

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:46:50 +0100 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: > > > Two popular ones I know of are: > > > DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact

how can use Debian as a network tap

Hi all how can i make debian as a network tap with 3 ethernet cards on for network in and one for network out third one is connected to another debian with ntop to hear the traffic is this possible solution. if yes.. any resources for the same or any suggestion will be welcome ram

Re: HP a1540n

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:28:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Nu-Genoa wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian > > (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that > > have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070221 11:14]: > Hello Russel, > > Now I have to build a collection of three editons (de, en, fr) of > Education-Books of each 2500 Pages which will be splitted into 11 > volumes. > > I do not know, wheter TeX is the right way to go, but I need at the end >

Re: python readlines() is slow when run in an apache2 cgi running in a vserver

So, I finally solved my problem[1]. Darcsweb was slow under vserver because python dup2 is slow when ulimit -H -n is high : closing all those fd's in a python loop is slow, see Lib/popen2.py in the python source that says : for i in xrange(3, MAXFD): try: os.close

Re: measuring CPU usage (was Re: nvidia driver problem)

steef wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: steef wrote: LAST QUESTION: what package do i need to measure cpu-usage? (valgrind maybe??) I don't think valgrind is what you're after. "top" is a console program that does what you want (and is a required package in Debian), or there's gnome-system-manager (

Re: Woody on 486 problem

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:46:26PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-16 09:57:22, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > I have 16MB of RAM because that's the minimum configuration > > > for that machine when I bought it. And, actually, I have > > > used some of the extended RAM on occasion, with a d

Re: Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

No, sorry, I am not flushing the queue? How do you flush the queue, and where are the mail messages in the queue placed? Thanks in advance? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and the

1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 10:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-16 21:47:05, schrieb Ron Johnson: >>> ..you wanna google "2GB limit" "8.4GB limit", "137GB limit", those >>> old 386 bioses covered those wee old disks waaay back then. >> I remember the 8.4GB

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > >>The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. > >>Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference. > >> >

Re: Debian on ancient machines

Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: Two popular ones I know of are: DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the entire *.iso image is But he can run also

Re: Woody on 486 problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 10:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-15 21:19:26, schrieb Mike McCarty: >> Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > How do you have coded this on a 8085? > Was it not a 8080/8086 and they are 8 Bit No. 8080/8085 have 8-bit registers. 8088/8086

Re: Woody on 486 problem

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:21:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/16/07 15:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/16/07 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > > Why not install Linux and dosemu? > >>> > >>> On a machine

Re: Woody on 486 problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 10:46, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-17 11:51:56, schrieb Ron Johnson: >>> Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running >> C600 with only 16MB??? > > I have an Athlon XP2400+ running with a PC2700/333 32 M

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 03:58, Chris Lale wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> [...] >> I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has >> the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you >> upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:3

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 12:05, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually, I'm serious a

Re: /dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:44:42PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > > >root=/dev/sda1 > > > > to: > > > >root=/dev/hda1 > > > > Um... Is this bad or something? Why doe

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 07:32, John Hasler wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: >> You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to >> make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the >> back for flow charts and such. > > Prin

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

H.S. wrote: Earlier today I noticed these messages in /var/log/syslog: Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault See

latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today > > that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and > > completeness (proper versi

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. Rebooting after a general upgrade will make n

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

Hi again, Michelle. I think that, for such a long document (2500 pages, 11 volumes), LaTeX makes very good sense. Using the LaTeX "\include" directive, you could keep each volume in a separate file, and yet LaTeX would process the set of files as one large document. And LaTeX provides valuabl

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with > this > mail. > > what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy > stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there'

[OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > > Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f

questions regarding debian use

Hi! We just installed Debian a couple of days ago, and so far are thrilled with what we've found! I've just encountered a couple of difficulties, I'd like to request help with. 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete installation process. Initially, the name and model of my p

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wro

Re: Debian on ancient machines

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:25 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Michelle Konzack wrote: >>> Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: Two popular ones I know of are: DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fa

Re: questions regarding debian use

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. When I attempted to add my printer, was unable to complete > installation process. Initially, the name and model of my printer popped > up automatically, but in the screen where I am suppose to choose printer > make and model, my mode

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte >>> Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. >> Where from? What's the mod

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:34, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 15

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue,

Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL we have installed. To achieve this I set up apt-pinning to Testing, and trie

VMWARE problem with Etch

Hi, three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not able to run Debian First on Gnome, i could open the console, connect to the server (localhost) but when i browse for the file I got an error, that is documented on the internet, but with no solutions. :( I tried with XFCE a

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. Where from? What's the model number? http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/me

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with > > this mail. > > > > what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy

Security bug in CAPI code; please test updates

There is a potential buffer overflow in logging of CAPI messages in libcapi20 (part of isdnutils; bug 408530). The same broken code from libcapi20 is present in the Linux kernel (bug 411294). Also, the affected functions are not thread-safe and are unlikely to be made so without API changes; multit

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:53:06 +0100, Joe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >>> ..huh??? Both c-w and C-q works for me, both in kde and fluxbox, > >on >> both Iceweasel and Konqueror. > >> Perhaps you're running Sa

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: > We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been > running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To > support a specific web application, I need to upgrade the version of MySQL > we have

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > Looks like a flame war to me > > No, just some good natured humor. indeed. :) > > > This computer boots strait into KDE because the installer put in the > > init scripts to start kdm.

Re: VMWARE problem with Etch

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:12 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not > able to run Debian > Have you properly compiled and setup VMware on you new installation? Are you running a Debian Kernel? which one? Do you have "kernel-pa

enlightenment news server

Hi All! I'm having trouble customizing a theme in the enlightenment under etch. Sourceforge.net holds a couple of mailing lists on developing and using enlightenment. I'd like to view and post to those lists via thunderbird (...sory, I ment icedove ;) ) but I can't find what news server holds

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:19, Larry Irwin wrote: > > On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > >>> >

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 16:19 -0500, Larry Irwin wrote: > > On 02/21/07 14:07, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 10:13, Ron Johnson wrote: > Note: Last week I have ordered four of the first 1 TByte > Hitachi HardDisks for my 3w9500 as Backup-Server. > >>> Wher

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The last time I saw this it was the end of my disk. What does /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/hdb say? Hugo Here it is what it says: ## ~# /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -a -d ata /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-li

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

Michelle Here is an excerpt from Xen Development that I think applies to your situation. There do not appear to be a lot of Debian possibilities as near as I can find out. But I'm still forging around. Your questions are further down. Here is the scoop from Xen Development regarding AMD. Th

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:45:35 -0600, Hugo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > The only re

Re: Upgrade to MySQL tries to remove kernel

On 2/21/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:04:33PM -0500, Ropetin Again wrote: > We're having a slight issue with one of our Debian servers. It has been > running for about 6 months now, using only standard stable packages. To > support a specific web

syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .vimrc set bg=dark hls syn on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju When I search for kamaraju in file.c inside a vim session opened by 1) konsole (with white on black schema) then the highlighted string is shown in brown colo

Re: Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

On 2/20/07, Niels Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported. I think this is the problem I had. You need to "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" to allow sending mail outside your computer. -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:47:03PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have tried to compile my own Xen-Kernel but failed... > > Is there a Step-by-Step docu/howto HOW to build your OWN Xen-Kernel > on a Debian-System? This is something I wrote a while back about compiling your own Xen kerne

Re: cannot find PDF file printed by cups

* H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-21 11:30]: > > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, I have installed a cups-pdf virtual printer. Last > time I check, last week, it was working okay. Today when I tried to > print a web page, it seemed like the virtual printer worked, but the > printed file was now

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 15:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Looks like a flame war to me >> No, just some good natured humor. > > indeed. > > :) > >>> T

How does Cron send email?

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at my gmail accoun

Re: How does Cron send email?

Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command) I can get email at m

Re: How does Cron send email?

Miles Fidelman wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail' command

Re: How does Cron send email?

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and > under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is > HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of > whatever script it runs. I don't understand how

Re: How does Cron send email?

Grok Mogger writes: > I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically sends > email. man mail > My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real Internet > email It already does. > ...so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on my linux box > (which I read via the

[Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that output. I'd like to unde

OT: Re: How does Cron send email?

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: What do you mean "legitimate internet mail?" What would illegitimate internet mail be? Well.. not to throw gas on the fire spam, improperly formatted headers, :-( Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: How does Cron send email?

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I don't understand how it mails that outp

Re: How does Cron send email?

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 19:53 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Grok Mogger wrote: > >> I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically > >> sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real > >> Internet email so instead of just getting mail

Re: syntax higlighting of vim in konsole

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > How can I get xterm's behaviour in konsole as well? I am using Debian Etch > (testing). > :set t_Co=256 inside .vimrc solved the issue. regards raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- T

was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Grok Mogger wrote: >> I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under >> what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails >> it. I know that cron just sends the ou

nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for that matter. Thanks Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Install of "etch"

Hi List; I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: How does Cron send email?

Grok Mogger writes: > I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under > what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. Most likely it uses the 'sendmail' command, which all MTAs provide. > Are you telling me that if I set my MAILTO entry to somethin

Mail for newbies (was Re: How does Cron send email?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 18:53, Grok Mogger wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Grok Mogger wrote: >>> I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically >>> sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real >>> Internet email so inst

Re: Install of "etch"

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:32 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi List; > > I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is it > easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off > downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Depends. Is the test machine a cou

Re: How does Cron send email?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 19:16, John Hasler wrote: > Grok Mogger writes: [snip] >> I find that hard to believe. > > Why? Because he's been a client all his life. The technology has been magic to him. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linu

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new > video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? > > I'm not finding the information on nvidia's website, or on the web at all for > that matter. What

Re: Install of "etch"

On Wed February 21 2007 17:32, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is > it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off > downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Either way will work. If I were in you situation I wo

Re: How does Cron send email?

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote: I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of whatever script it runs. I do

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

Ken Heard wrote: > PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when > installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Only if they contain a filesystem, otherwise as long as you aren't doing anything with the card at the time you yank it, everything should happen automagically

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Ron Johnson wrote: > xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize > it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that > MS Windows is designed. If that were the case, X woudldn't be network aware and would suck at trying to run it over a network. Meanwhi

Re: multicore gizmos

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe > videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll > have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one d

Re: How does Cron send email?

Grok Mogger writes: > I could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux box > sitting right here without the need for a valid "mail account" on a > "mail" server or anything of the like. That's right, isn't it? No. You have a valid "mail account" on a "mail server": your own mach

Re: Install locations when not using .deb

Peter Teunissen wrote: > I'm trying to install CloverETL [1], a java based ETL tool. It's not in > the repository, and they don't provide a rpm or deb installer, only the > java apps etc. in a zip file or the java source. That's fine with me, > but I'd like to follow debian's guidelines on the FSH

Re: It's a simple question....

Justin Hartman wrote: > So down to the "simple" question. Is this really normal on a PC-based > Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? With the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, not usually. With Dell, HP, Acer, etc, yes, the experience is typical. This is a result of most laptop vendors

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

Ken Heard wrote: > Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the > situation is as follows: > > PCMCIA cards can be hot plugged and hot unplugged just like for instance > USB devices. Right. > However, also like USB devices, if the PCMCIA card is or contains a > mobile s

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to > make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion > loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. > Can any of you help me on the following please? > > 1,

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

Celejar wrote: > On 15 Feb 2007 18:25:28 -0800 > "rocky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to >> make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion >> loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver

Re: switching mysql server on debian etch

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:40:11AM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > [...] > I've installed mysql-server-4.1 on etch but > mysql-server-5.0 installed too. > [...] $ apt-cache show mysql-server-4.1 Package: mysql-server-4.1 [...] Version: 5.0.32-3 Depends: mysql-server-5.0 [...] This is an empty transit

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

Michelle Konzack wrote: > I can not recommend ReiserFS I second that advisory. I've found problems with data corruption on my system using reiser. > and with XFS I have no experience. > I am looking forward to the new "ext4" which could give a > performance plus for databases I tried XFS, b

Re: It's a simple question....

Paul Johnson wrote: Voting with your money is important when it comes to compatability on Linux. I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of an

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I read an article: > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says > is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. > > But the article

Re: nvidia driver and monitor with wqxga 2560 x 1600

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:39:05PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 01:31 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Would it be reasonable to assume that the nvidia driver will run with a new > > video card and monitor with 2560 x 1600 resolution? In etch? > > > > I'm not finding the informa

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Re: [solved]Email receiving problems

adding the command in main.cf and uncommented the line in maildroprc and it is now working. Thanks Kelly Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:04:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder if you need this in main.cf?

Re: was Re: [Fwd: Re: How does Cron send email?]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:23:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 19:06, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Grok Mogger wrote: > >> I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and under > >> what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is HOW it mails > >> it. I know t

Re: How does Cron send email?

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > And secondly, with this little epiphany comes a realization of > just how easy it is to spam and where it all comes from... I > could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux > box sitting right here without the

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