trimming ~/.maillog

2003-02-21 Thread Andy Saxena
Hello, I use ~/.maillog to log the actions of procmail verbosely. However the file keeps growing by the day. Is there any way to trim the file size and keep it under 100 Mb? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

digital voice recorders for Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Andy Saxena
Hello, I would appreciate a recommendation for a digital voice recorder that works with Linux, along with a recommendation for the software. Thank you, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tightvnc java security

2003-03-16 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to figure out a way to securely connect to the X server on my machine (the host machine) using a web browser. Tightvnc with java is very promising since I don't need any special software as the applet downloads from the host machine upon access through the browser. I don't know m

Re: IMAP/Exim

2002-10-05 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:10:07PM -0500, debuser wrote: > Currently on my system I have the following email setup: > > Has anyone else set up IMAP with Exim/fetchmail? What is the I am a recent convert to the IMAP way. My setup consists of Cyrus IMAP + Exim + fetchmail. > suggested IMAP daemo

Re: point and click with latex

2002-10-05 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Olivier Esser wrote: > Dear LaTeX users, > > I have configured emacs and xdvi for forward and inverse search: > C-c C-s willl open xdvi in the place you were in your tex file and > reciprocally hold the CRTL key and click in xdvi to put the cursor in >

Re: repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk ?

2002-10-05 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:58:14PM +1000, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > > Is there any way of repairing the ntfs partition using fdisk or another > tool under linux ?? > > Fortunatly I can still mount the partition to rescue the important > files, but it is still bad. One would think that the

Re: repairing a ntfs partition

2002-10-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:01:44PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: > Just a word of caution here. > I had a similar problem with W2k and the repair went OK but as it > completed w2k suggested I run "checkdsk /f". This corrupted my kernel > image and made the ntfs partition I had on a logical drive in th

Re: Outlook 2000 and XP vs uw-imapd

2002-10-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:05:59AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > A client I put a Intranet in for pointed out an odd problem which I can > duplicate on my own network. > > The default IMAP setup works perfectly for all accounts when they use > Outlook Express or Squirrelmail. > > But

Re: Manually changing IRQ/reconfiguring network?

2002-10-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:11:46PM -0400, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > I have Debian 3.0 installed on an HP Pavillion N5425 laptop, and after > considerable modifications it is (mostly) working. > > 1) Reconfiguring network: I have somehow managed to break the network > configuration, so that I no

Samba 'security=server' Debian/Windows passwd consistency [was Re: Samba 'security=domain' help]

2002-10-07 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:38:36PM -0700, nate wrote: > > if your wanting to authenticate from the domain the easiest way > is to do security=SERVER and set the password server to the > PDC of the NT domain. You don't have to do security=domain. > If you really do want to do security=domain(can y

Re: Repartioning NTFS

2002-10-07 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:47:36AM -0700, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > What I'm trying to do is setup a duel-boot system that will be running my > current OS (Windows XP) and Debian Woody. My problem is that my hard disk > is a NTFS file system and the FIPS program they say to use in the in

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-07 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to > my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). > > So your situation is completely different. I don't see how you could > use fetchmail to do what you are wan

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-07 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +, Angles Puglisi wrote: > Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to > >my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). > > > I've been using this app for years, always stable, very flex

Re: Hotplugging USB, debconf question

2002-10-07 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:17:34PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > I'll give this a try... > > [great explanation] > I hope this helps. > > jc > Thanks, that's a very lucid explanation. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-08 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:27:24AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to > Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are > applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:29:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in > brief: > Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their > procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail a

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:33:29PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I actually do all this, too (except the squirrelmail part -- I just use > mail2web with the IMAP options for web access). It *is* a beautiful > setup -- can't recommend it highly enough! > If you have no trouble trusting

Re: Repartioning NTFS

2002-10-11 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:23:17PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have successfully repartioned a ntfs partition with parted last > year. > > Just read the documentation and work carefully. Make sure that your > data is on a part of the disk which will not be affected. > You are joking, right?

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-11 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:03:05AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >I am a happy squirrelmail user, but I think the above solution is an > >elegant solution for a large user base. It's low-maintenance and > >hassle-free. > > Apparently, th

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-11 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:34:13AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to > >Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are > >applies I backup

Re: how to use NT's shared files?

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > > Or if you are GUI minded, take a look at komba or gnomba. Works well to > mount SMB shares with a couple of mouse clicks. Compared to Windows > "network neighborhood", the discovery behaviour is much more consistent, > espe

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-14 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux > CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between > DemoLinux & Knoppix? > > Thank you. > Andy &

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:28:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Cyrus doesn't use maildir. It uses something that kinda looks like > maildir. Regular users can't even read the files in the Cyrus mail > spool. This is precisely the reason why I was asking the question in the first place. I was h

Re: Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > The package description doesn't mention it, but the version of archivemail > in SID has IMAP support. > Thanks to all those who suggested archivemail. It is exactly what I was looking for. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-10-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:51:44PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > "the heathen", I love it! > > I must say that I've done quite a few demo's with Knoppix when folks > pop in and ask, "Hey, what are you using there?". I also get > questions when I pull my laptop out of my bag, open the lid and start > t

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:30:34PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > You know, as far as I know, only 1 person at a time can access a VNC > server, right? > > I am almost certain, that the company I'm talking about has a server, > much like Windows Terminal Services, that allows multiple remote use

Proxy settings for apt-proxy

2002-10-19 Thread Andy Saxena
How do you add proxy server settings to apt-proxy? The man pages don't seem to indicate a setting. If one is using apt and not apt-proxy this is possible using, IIRC, /etc/apt/apt-conf. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Netscape 7.0

2002-10-19 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:37:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > [cjwatson@arborlon ~]$ madison kvirc > kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 |stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, >m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > kvirc | 1:2.1.2-11 | testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa,

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:33:08PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 22 Oct 2002 23:15:58 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Let's be honest - if users didn't have to work through the install, a > > key headache and admitted weakness in Debian would be avoided... > > So, pr

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:36:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:15:55AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I was under the impression Knoppix fits about 1 or 2 GB of data on to > > the CD. I didn't find an explicit option to do this in bootcd. > &g

Re: vncserver: cannot restart on same display

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:36:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > how come it is not possible to run vncserver reusing the display > number? the following should work: > > vncserver :1 > vncserver -kill :1 > vncserver :1 > > the first two work, the third one does not, her's the error mesag

Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that come through Sid. Could somebody please point me to the URL? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:44:06AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:36:41AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I believe somebody had setup an archive of all the old packages that > > come through Sid. > > > > Could somebody please poi

Re: Old packages archive

2002-10-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:08:16AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Thanks for the immediate response, Colin. > > I am looking for X includes to build Kapital, since the Debian package > they offer is for Woody. I thought they might be in the xlibs-dev > package. However, I am runni

Kapital on Sid (unstable) with KDE 3.0

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Saxena
Has anybody had any luck running Kapital on KDE3? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bash login file [was Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?]

2002-10-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:14:00PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > I found that commands in my .bashrc file got executed every time I opened a > new konsole, but I have commands I only want to run once when I first log in. > It seems there are 2 ways to make commands that only run when you first

archivemail will not delete mail

2002-10-27 Thread Andy Saxena
I am unable to get the "--delete" option of archivemail to work. $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup' to 'inbox.backup_archive' ... set tempfile directory to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' guessing mailbox is

Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

2002-10-28 Thread Andy Saxena
Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive or similar piece of hardware? It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the usual USB kernel modules. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Printing fonts from browser

2002-11-01 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:41:38PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > I successfully installed truetype fonts for X. They appear on the > screen fine and I can print them via ghostscript. But when I print a > web page containing the fonts from Mozilla/Galeon, generic fonts are > substituted. Surely i

Re: Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:02PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > > >Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive > >or similar piece of hardware? > > > >It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from t

Re: Better calendar tool?

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:38:06PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > What do people use out there for a personal calendar tool? > > I've been using gnomecal, from gnome-pim, but it's too buggy: I've > installed the latest version from unstable and still it can't do the > most trivial things, such as disp

VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare on Debian and VPN on Windows

2002-11-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:31:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:33, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Does anybody have any experience running VMWare on Debian hosting > > Windows (preferably Win2K) and using Windows VPN software? > > > > I ru

SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

2002-11-09 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:53:18AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > I am unable to get the "--delete" option of archivemail to work. > > $ archivemail --delete -d21 -v imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup > archiving 'imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox.backup&

NOT SOLVED [Re: archivemail will not delete mail]

2002-11-10 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I got it to work > > $ archivemail --delete -d 21 -v imap://user:passwd@imapserver/inbox.backup > Sorry about the false report. It still doesn't work! I didn't realize that it is created backup files

Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-16 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 15 November 2002, 12:47 PM -0500): > > I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in > > the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email shou

Re: Does a Maxtor 5000 LE USB Drive Work under Linux?

2003-01-01 Thread Andy Saxena
--- Begin Message --- On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:26:50PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I presently have 2 unknowns I am trying to resolve. I have > installed USB support and the USB mass-storage driver on a Debian system > using the 2.4.19 kernel. The USB stuff installs with no complain

Extracting email headers

2002-09-02 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, The problem is really simple. I receive email on my long commute, and I'd like to be able to send some of the more important messages to my cellphone, so I can make the necessary calls. The trouble is that my cellphone can only receive about 100 characters in the body of the email. So my pl

apm does not suspend

2002-09-08 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to cut down my electricity bills. I'd like to be able to suspend my desktop when it detects no activity for 30 min. I have the apmd package installed, but I get the message # apm: suspend was vetoed For example, overnight I will have a dozen of these messages on the console. Al

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-19 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:33:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: | > | > 'scuse my ignorance. How do you configure UDMA 100 (or the other | > modes)? | > | > Geoff Crompton | It's all in the kernel .config: | CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y | C

Re: traceroute

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:03:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: | I still have problems trying to configure a home network. Thinking | traceroute might shed some light on this, I ran the program and got | the following error messages:- | | a. From box 4 to 5 where ping works but not telnet | | t

Re: Moving mailboxes in Postfix

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:27:37PM -0700, nate wrote: | | I may be missing something, but from what I know, postfix doesn't | store mail(other then the mail queue), if your referring to moving | a mail account from 1 system to another, and how easy it is, that | entirely depends upon the kind of

Re: fstab user mount SOLVED

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:27:48PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I guess you have to type entire pathname. | | If I am in /mnt | | I cannot type 'mount cdrom' | I must still type mount /mnt/cdrom | | Lance | That is quite strange if it solved your problem. You should be able to do /mnt $

Re: modprobe can't locate /dev/lp1 ..

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:23AM -0500, John Manko wrote: | If the kernel autoloader for modules is set to yes, and I compile IDE | and IDE-SCSI as modules, will the autoloader load IDE or IDE-SCSI on | boot. That is, if nothing is specified in /etc/modules.conf | | I'm thinking I have to ex

Re: Network lost after softboot

2002-09-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:49:26PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | I run sid and recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18. When I | first installed sid (with kernel 2.2.19), my network card, a | | 3Com Etherlink 10/100 (3c905c) | | was immetiately recognized. I did a kernel upgrade from | t

CUPS & Epson - Prints Blanks!

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, This one's proving to be a real head-scratcher for me. I got my Epson Stylus Color 740 configured with CUPS, choosing the "Epson Stylus Color 740, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2(en)" driver from the CUPS configuration. However, when I go to print a test page, I can see the printing head moving b

Re: bochs v. vmware

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:21:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0700, nate wrote: > > some may even require use of vmware/bochs/etc to run .. > > Is bochs anywhere near as user-friendly as vmware yet? Nope, not by a long shot. Also, vmware is also lightening f

Re: i810 and X (and automatic power-down)

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:25:24PM -0700, nate wrote: > > I believe debian disables apm on the default kernels since not all > systems are compadible with it(my mom's CTX laptop for example will > crash hard when APM is turned on). You can possibly override this > by putting apm=on in the append

Re: CUPS & Epson - Prints Blanks!

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:47:42AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > This one's proving to be a real head-scratcher for me. I got my Epson > Stylus Color 740 configured with CUPS, choosing the "Epson Stylus Color > 740, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2(en)" driver

CUPS - unable to print postscript file

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
I got my printer to work and I thought I was done. Guess not. I can take text files and pipe them through enscript and they print just fine. However $ lp somepsfile.ps gives me rows of barcode-like lines on the printout. I read the user manual and it said that CUPS understands the postscript fi

Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

2002-09-21 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:24:28PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > By chance, are these Postscript files from xpdf? I have the problem > when printing Postscript files generated from pdf files using xpdf, > otherwise, all other Postscript files print perfectly. (The solution is > to let CUPS co

Re: Exim & Cyrus

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:02:00PM +0100, sdownes wrote: > I've had exim working well for some time & am now trying to add cyrus > imap. I'm getting the following error having modified exim.conf in line > with the exim book as follows:- > > > local_delivery_cyrus: > driver

Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:58:59PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > Dunno if this will help or not, but I initially had the same problem & > stumbled upon an answer for me. > > First, I use the "Printing Manager" in KDE to set up CUPS. All of the > rest is in reference to this utility. > >

Re: cyrus & exim

2002-09-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:23:28PM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: > local_delivery: > driver = pipe > command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ${local_part}" > return_path_add = true > return_output > prefix = "" > user = cyrus Shouldn't command be command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" ?

running another OS on plex86 [was Re: bochs v. vmware]

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:27:34AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I stand corrected. > > Citations help. From the Plex86 information page: > > http://www.plex86.org/info.phtml > > What is Plex86? > > The goal of the Plex86 p

Re: IMAP is a memory hog

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:27:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > IMHO there are only two IMAP servers worth the bother: Cyrus and Courrier. > You should try both, and use whichever works best for you. For Cyrus, it is > very, very, very important to read the docs, otherwise you p

Re: IDE master to slave conversion

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:01:13PM -0700, nate wrote: > install rescue cd(if your using the default kernel). lilo may complain > if you try to point it to a non-existant device. with a boot disk you > can do > > linux root=/dev/hdb6 > > and have it boot, then you can run lilo to install the new

Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, How would I increase the screen refresh rate in X? XF86Config-4 allows one to set a range for horizontal and vertical sync rates. How can I find out what the current refresh rates are? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file from one kernel source tree to another. Specifically, there are two cases that I am interested in: 1.) Copying config file from the 2.2 series to the 2.4 series. 2.) Copying the config file from one minor version to an

Re: Map Keys ???? pls help

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Reposting three times in two days isn't going to get you an answer. If nobody's replied so far it's because nobody that's read your posts knows the answer. Please wait a few days, and if somebody who knows the answer reads your post, they will help you out. Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

[Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)]

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Just thought I'd make this part of the mailing list. -Andy --- Begin Message --- Andy Saxena wrote: >Hi, > >I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file >from one kernel source tree to another. > >Specifically, there are two cases that I

Re: Printing trouble driving me crazy.

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:16:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Hello Joh: > > IMO, the thing you did wrong was not installing cups. I think it has to be > the most user-friendly way to get a printer up and running on any distro of > Linux. The driver base is huge and the ability to co

Knoppix & DemoLinux

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to promote Linux at the office. I handed out a few DemoLinux CDs for my co-workers to use. Could somebody draw a comparison between DemoLinux & Knoppix? Thank you. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > How do you do it? Isn't it a pain to go through the entire configuration routine when, perhaps, all you want is an additional feature t

Re: Configuring Kernel Options (/usr/src/linux/.config)

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:47:12PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 23:40, Andy Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to know if there are any side-effects of copying the .config file > > from one kernel source tree to another. > > by all

Re: created problems uninstalling xdm

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Jim Hribar wrote: > I uninstalled xdm (apt-get remove xdm) and which in turn removed the > meta package x-window-system. Then I removed all instances of the xdm > directories (the uninstall said the directories weren't empty): > > > > /var/lib/xdm >

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello.. > > Reading this thread I decided to give a try to CUPS and I've managed to > configure my printer (HP Deskjet 722C connected to a Win2K PC on LAN). > Anyway, I'm not able to print because I need to specify the Username

Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > Try modprobe 3c59x > > From the kernel source help line: > > CONFIG_VORTEX: > > This option enables driver support for a large number of 10mbps and > 10/100mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: > > "Vortex"(Fast

Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:52:52AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > Hi Andy, > > 1) What module is for this card listed when you do an lsmod as root? > > 2) Are you using the same kernel (2.4.18) with the kernel-pcmcia-modules? > > > Thanks for your help, > Lars. Lars, Firstly, please keep your p

gcc 3.2 & kernels compiled with 2.95

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I don't quite understand the complexity of the process to move Debian to gcc 3.2. It seems there's an issue about programs compiled with 3.2 not being able to work with libraries compiled with 2.95. Without going into too much technical details, could somebody tell me if this is correct? I w

Hotplugging USB, debconf question

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am running sid, and I just upgraded the hotplug package. During setup I am asked if I want to use hotplugging with USB or not. Could somebody please explain why hotplugging should or should be needed with USB? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: gcc 3.2 & kernels compiled with 2.95

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:52:36AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Friday 27 September 2002 02:50, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > > I just got rid of an installation I compiled with 3.2 > > IMHO you don't really need gcc 3.2 just jet.Didn't see the 'great' speed > > increase in apps but got a l

Re: Some problems printing

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:37:19PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I'm trying to print the test page from a Debian Sarge PC. After messing > around a while I made KDE see the printers, but non-KDE apps (Opera) don't. I don't use Opera, but I'd guess that Opera sends its output to lp or lpr. Pip

Re: Increasing screen refresh rate in X

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:31:48PM -0700, nate wrote: > xvidtune, I think the only way to manually set the refresh rate would > be to make your own modelines ?? > > not sure though. > > nate Duh! That did it - my refresh rates are the best possible so I don't need to mess with the modelines. T

Automating IMAP email maintenance

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I use Cyrus as my IMAP server. When I transfer email from my ISP to Cyrus I use a procmail recipe. Before any of the procmail rules are applies I backup all email into a backup folder. I would like to be able to run a cron job to automatically delete messages from this backup folder. Any po

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel has > created an initrd image which it loads on boot and uses to load the ext3 > mo

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:13:42AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > (You do report spam, right? It's not hard, http://spamcop.net/ makes > it droolproof) I parsed through the website. It seems one has to register to get an account. Then one has to follow up on the spam by choosing the recepients

Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > Putting ~/bin first in your $PATH is a security risk. Consider that if your user account got hacked into, somebody could place a mo

Re: Odd Path issue

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:18:00PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: > > > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > s/~/$HOME/ > > Guessing the ~ expansion in $PATH is a pro

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:22:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm down to the point where I rarely get spam addressed to me, it's > usually sent to debian-user, and on a bad day I get 5. > Only 5 a day? Is that before or after filtering the email? I have hotmail accounts that I download w

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [a whole bunch of things about LVM, initrd, etc.] Thanks to you and Shyamal for the information. As always, I learnt something new. I guess I need more knowledge on LVM and initrd. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Procmail for local delivery

2002-09-30 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of exim and cyrus from sid. Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily able to deliver local email to myself. However, if I call the procmail director before localuser, the delivery fails. Shown below are the

Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:27:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I disagree that this is a security risk. I want to override > system-provided executables, hence ~/bin is at the start of my $PATH. If > my user account gets hacked into, all bets are off; it's pointless to > worry about what somebody

Re: resize partitions using parted

2002-09-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:53:03AM -0400, John F Davis wrote: > Hello > > Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok? > Used it. Loved it. Broke it :-}. Read the docs and only use it as it says. Heed the warnings about meddling with the root partition. > I have a box wh

Re: Exim automatic response

2002-10-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:08:33PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: > > verify failed for SMTP recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > What's wrong? > Can you ping mydomain.com from another machine? $ ping mydomain.com -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: A Better XTerm?

2002-10-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:56:49PM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote: > I'm looking for a better XTerm. I'm using Konsole right now (the one > that KDE uses by default). > > The thing that I really want is the ability to horizontally scroll. The I haven't seen anybody mention this, but you could change

Re: shrink partition with fdisk

2002-10-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:46:37PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > > I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs partition. It worked > fine, and df is reporting the device size that I expected. However, > fdisk still reports the old size. How can I shrink the partition in > fdisk so it r

Re: running another OS on plex86 [was Re: bochs v. vmware]

2002-10-02 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:27PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:42:29 -0400 Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So who's the brave soul who's managed to run another OS on plex86? How > > easy has it been? > > I'll

Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-02 Thread Andy Saxena
Hi, I tried under a different subject heading that may have been misleading. So here goes another try: I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of exim and cyrus from sid. Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily able to deliver local email to myself.

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > >I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of > >exim and cyrus from sid. > > > > > >SHELL="/bin/sh" >

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