Re: keyboard problem in graphical login

2004-10-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/10/04 11:49), jeroeng wrote: > Hello, > > Ik have a weird problem i hope you will be able to help me with. > > Problem: > After upgrading my sarge-system (lots of packages, no idea which causes the > problem) suddenly i cannot type letters in de kdm-login window. Numbers and > other keys

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/10/04 15:17), Alex Polite wrote: > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? Hi Alex I also use unstable and am very happy with it. However, we've been tryin

Re: gvim crashes on alt-tab

2004-10-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/10/04 16:41), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Recently gvim (not vim) is crashing if I press alt-tab and switch to > another window. If I press the alt-tab, then the crash occurs most of > the time but not always. > > I am not sure what I did wrong and could not track down the problem. > Googl

strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at 022 however when I create a file, the permissions look like this: -rw-r--r-- instead of: -rwxr-xr-x Am I being really dense or is this a bug? umask 555 creates files as --w--w--w- which looks fine. TIA Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/04 18:04), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:05 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > hello, > > > In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at 022 however when I > > create a file, the permissions look like this: >

Re: MS OutLook Unknown Options ???

2004-11-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/11/04 09:25), Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am working in an enviroment where LINUX + QMail > is configured as Mail Server, when my clients check > thier mail from MS Outlook the whole Inbox is shift > to that desktop, which left no Mail copy at server and > give a huge tension

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/04 20:13), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 23:30 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > a shell script for example? What actually alerted me to this was > > a .sh > > to back-up a file to a series of backup files as an exercise. But it > > couldn

Re: strange umask behaviour

2004-11-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/11/04 11:25), Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 08 November 2004 05:15 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (07/11/04 18:04), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:05 +, Cliv

Re: CUPS keeps dying

2004-11-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/11/04 10:12), Alex Malinovich wrote: > Anyone else have a problem with CUPS repeatedly dying in unstable? For > the last 3 weeks or so, CUPS just seems to stop once a day or so. No > warning, no log messages, it just stops responding. I do > an /etc/init.d/cupsys restart and it comes back up

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #1571

2004-11-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/11/04 04:04), Ajitabh Pandey wrote: > Hi All, > > I am on dialup and can't download ISOs and burn them. > I installed woody 3.0r2 on my stystem and then I have > started using apt-pinning to upgrade to latest > packages. > But this is also coming out to be expensive. apt-get > dist-upgrade

Re: How to get more than 800x600?

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/02 09:03), Michael Barton wrote: > 1. How do I get above 800x600? > I am using ATI - Radeon 8500. > > 2. Where to application directories go like "Program Files" in XP? > I am installing Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox. >From the date on your message it would appear that your system

Re: create GRUB boot disk (sarge)

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/04 14:32), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick one (can't find answers by searching www.debian.org), but how do I > create a boot (rescue?) floppy for sarge which seems to use GRUB? (I tried > mkboot as per LILO but it didn't seem a happy bunny.) Thanks, Michael Googling for: grub debian h

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/04 10:48), John Hannibal Smith wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Will my e-mail address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? > > Just curious! Thanks! No it won't be sold or distributed but spammers harvest mailing list archives and news group

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

2004-06-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/06/04 21:12), James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear KDE/Debian users, > > (Similar e-mail previously sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > I have an established Red Hat 9.0 system and I am trying to migrate to a > Debian/Sarge system using all the same /home/* subdirectories. I am > simply hoping to h

Printing from Mozilla and Firefox

2004-06-30 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Until recently, printing from Firefox and Mozilla was working fine, however, following recent upgrades first Firefox (0.8-12) baulked and later Mozilla (1.7-2) became similarly afflicted. There are two networked printers on separate woody servers running cups and locally, I'm running cups on a

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/07/04 17:26), Brad Sims wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 1:07 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > Since I am not willing to configure my printers a third time with that > > crappy Xprint stuff (why the heck do we have CUPS including easy setup, > > PPD support, KDE/GNOME integration, etc et

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/07/04 19:37), Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:30:48AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > } On (06/07/04 17:26), Brad Sims wrote: > } > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 1:07 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > } > > Since I am not willing to configure my printers a

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/07/04 11:58), Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > If anyone needs mozilla 1.7 debs with postscript re-enabled and > xprint removed, I've just built some here: > > deb http://apt.leapster.org sid mozilla > > I'll be doing firefox sometime later today, too. > > Cheers, > > Paul. Hi Paul I presume t

Re: Debian on a laptop....

2004-07-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/07/04 18:31), Bill Gladney wrote: > hello...I'm trying to remove the remnants of Debianbut it is > password protectednot my machine...a friend of mine asked me to > get it all offor format it .and install a copy of Win XP that > she could use and understandshe bought this

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/07/04 13:23), Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:06:00PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I presume these are i386 debs only ;( - I'm on ppc but thanks anyway ;) > > Oh yeah, sorry, forgot to mention that :P > > I can do sparc packages too, i

Re: Winfax FXM viewer for KDE

2004-07-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/07/04 18:25), Clement wrote: > To my surprise, after a 2 hours search, I cannot find a KDE viewer that > can view FXM fax files by Symentec Winfax. Do you know one? I guess that means that Kfax doesn't? I receive all my faxes by email and Kfax works well but that may be totally irrelevant

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/07/04 13:36), Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending > > aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends. > > Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.

Re: Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 09:21), Bill Wohler wrote: > I just installed a new Sarge system and went to play an audio CD like I > always do by clicking on the open button and entering /dev/cdrom in the > textfield and hitting enter. > > However, the dialog goes away but the UI doesn't do anything. > > XMMS pla

Re: Mailing to remote domains not supported

2004-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/04 14:45), Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:45:16 -0600 > Subject: Mailing to remote domains not supported > > Guys, > > I have configured fetchmail just fine, i.e. I downlo

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/07/04 10:08), Jacob S. wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:31:24 +0100 (BST) > Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Steve Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to > > > > ask. What is the command that limits output

Re: When Will Postscript PPC FireFox Be Available?

2004-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/07/04 11:20), Ed Sutherland wrote: > Does anyone know when the correct Mozilla-Firefox be available for the > PPC? I have 9.0.1, but it still crashes when I choose Print Preview or > try to print. (I prefer the Linux version to the OSX, but need a working > printing function. BTW, it won'

Re: How I set up my Microsoft Trackball Optical

2004-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
Thanks for this Kirk ;) I've had a trackball for sometime (which is the best piece of kit, I've ever seen from MS) but only use the wheel and two main buttons. Inspired by your post I'll try this when I find some time. Regards Clive On (16/07/04 16:37), Kirk Strauser wrote: > This was kind of a

Re: Smbclient works but not Samba

2004-07-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/07/04 10:39), Ken Januski wrote: > I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work > going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work the other > way round by trying to connect from XP to Debian. The most common error > is "This machine not authorized

Re: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/07/04 08:12), Jason Skala wrote: > Thanks everyone that replied to this, apparently it is easier then I > thought to get everything I want on the install. Hopefully I should not > run into any problems and it will all go smooth if not I know I can come > here and get some help. > A couple of

Re: Squatted harddisk

2004-08-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/08/04 14:22), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:22:16 +0200 (CEST) > Subject: Squatted harddisk > > Help! My harddisks are being sqautted by renegade bits! > No, seriousely, my hdd's are slowly filling up, but I'm not realy

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/12/03 17:22), mmissett wrote: > > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have just changed the

Re: Installing CUPS printing subsystem

2003-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/03 04:57), David LaPlant wrote: > Is there an easy way to install CUPS and the packages > it depends on (using dselect)? > A good start is: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html I googled on: debian cups howto HTH Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk str

Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network

2003-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/03 10:01), John Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 23:01, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine from > > another Windows machine simply by naming the destination:

Re: access denied

2003-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/03 19:25), Gruessle wrote: > > From: Scarletdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Gruessle wrote: > > > I get access denied when I try to make a folder from my > > > win2000 machine on my Debian user folder > > > > > > \\Rebel\tamer\public_html > > > > > > Rebel is my Debian box > > > ta

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote: > HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a > mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new > kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i > found some packages i had were removed etc any way i > made some changes and went to the main me

Re: Woody with Gnome2.4 Backport or Sarge?

2003-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/03 08:50), M. Kirchhoff wrote: > A friend of mine is interested in migrating from WinXP to Debian. I > suggested that Woody is ideal for the most secure, stable environment, > but he balked at the ugly Gnome1.x. > > My question is thus: is it better to install Woody and backports of > Gn

EXIM4 - remote_smtp delivery to user@local.domain - SOLVED!

2003-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi This may be obvious to many but I found a dearth of information on how to deal with my situtation and I thought that my fix may be of some help to some other desperate soul like myself. It took me a while to crack this: Scenario: I have a local domain, clivemenzies.co.uk, for which I have tw

Re: Starting Gnome (GTK+) applications is slow (font loading)

2003-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/03 09:02), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2003-12-22 18:07:53 -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Just guessing, but probably you have both the FontPath and the font > > server defined in /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4). Use only one. > > I have the following in "/etc/X11/X

Re: USB <-> HP Officejet problem

2003-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/03 11:24), Jacob S. wrote: > I've been googling, but all the similar problems I find seem to either > not have an answer, or use a solution that doesn't fit my situation. > > I'm trying to hookup my HP Officejet G85 to a machine running > testing/unstable. The G85 is in the list of supp

Re: USB <-> HP Officejet problem

2003-12-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/03 13:13), Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:44:57 + > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On (23/12/03 11:24), Jacob S. wrote: > > > > Use "modconf" to install the usb printer driver > > hmm... Seems pretty obvious.

Re: messages in mutt: \225 etc

2003-12-31 Thread Clive Menzies
On (31/12/03 00:47), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I have a feeling that I should know this, but I don't, and I'm not quite > sure how to google for the answer. Any insight would be greatly > appreciated. > > I occasionally view a message I've received in mutt and see the following: > > \225We have

Re: X fonts problem

2004-01-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/04 12:36), Olivier Sirven wrote: > I'm running a debian unstable release and I've got a problem with my X fonts. > I've installed the fixed font but X doesn't want to load it (I can't see it > under KDE). > I've also a strange error message in my X log : > "Not loading .note.GNU-stack" >

Re: Hard drive checking.

2004-01-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/04 15:45), Alex wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:45:24 + > Subject: Hard drive checking. > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi There, > > Is there a tool on the debian installation disc for checking a hard > drive prior ot i

Re: Problems with Static network configuration

2004-01-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/04 07:51), Robert Ames wrote: > Recently moved our unofficial debian server into a proper lab up > at work. Used to have it set up as DHCP (without any troubles), > but the networking people have given us a range of static IP's > on our own interal subnet, so I'm trying to stick the serv

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/04 18:20), Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:50:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > how mane times do I have to send this email. > > How long is a piece of string? Unsubscribe instructions are shown in the signature from the list: > -- > To UN

Re: How to easily input special characters? (encoded in UTF-8)

2004-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/04 06:53), Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:05:56 +0800, Hongzheng Wang wrote: > > >Now I have to use openoffice to input them, but, you know, the > > opening process of openoffice is so slow. Is there another easier method > > to input them? > >Thank you very much.

Re: fetchmail not deleting mail's that have already been downloaded ?

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 12:19), Gregory Machin wrote: > Fetchmail is not deleting mail's that have already been downloaded ? > all seem's to go fine until 291 / 296 which gives the following error. In my limited experience of fetchmail, I found it to work as follows: When I was setting fetchmail up, I had "o

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 08:15), Greg Norris wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need > one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a > plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and > PS/2 outputs. > > I recently tried a Be

Re: Exim3 --> Exim4

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 11:22), Stephen wrote: > Asked this earlier, I'll try again. > > Is there any gotchas, gimme's that I need to be aware of, upgrading > stable to testing in terms of keeping a working Exim3 configuartion > going? FWIW I recently upgraded from woody to sid but did a total reinstall (hav

Re: Exim3 --> Exim4

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 12:28), Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:21:54PM + or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (06/01/04 11:22), Stephen wrote: > > > Asked this earlier, I'll try again. > > > > > > Is there any gotchas, gimme's that I

Re: Exim3 --> Exim4

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 10:58), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 at 17:45 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > I can't remember exactly in what sequence I did everything (I did a > > few installs with different configurations). However, at least one > > install involved Ex

Re: woody > sarge problems

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 19:19), Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:57:11PM -, Martin wrote: > > Is there a way to get any version of kde running? > > [Please don't send me private copies of mails to mailing lists; thanks.] > > 'kde' is just a metapackage. You should be able to install most

Re: Package installing / Kernel Upgrade

2004-01-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/01/04 14:33), Jan Albrecht wrote: > after my debian is working without problems on my firewall for a few months, > I have two more or less simple questions: > > #1 > While updating or installing a package the computer needs a lot of time. For > example updating 2 packages took about 45 minu

Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge

2004-01-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/01/04 19:10), Russell Shaw wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >Watching a program on PBS, I decided I wanted to read about Stonehenge. > >Off to google, I go, searching for "Stonehenge". Didn't like the > >results. Tried Google directory, Yahoo, and Teoma: didn't like any of > >them. > > > >The

Re: default terminal application in KDE

2004-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/01/04 08:39), Andreas Janssen wrote: > Josh Robinson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > apologies if this is an absolutely inane question: when i execute a > > command (e.g. after pressing alt + F2) and elect to 'run in terminal', > > it always chooses to use uxterm. is there any way of tel

Re: kernel

2004-01-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/01/04 12:19), Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I need to recompile my kernel so I can use my cdrw and scsi tape, > however the dir > > cd /usr/src/linux > > Is not there to run make xconfig. Need I download a new kernel source? > > Gavin. Hi Gavin The following is a comprehensive guide t

Partition size discrepancy df v parted/cfdisk

2004-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi List I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr (to upgrade from woody to sid). The partitions I messed with were /home, /usr and two swap. /home was 35 Gb and /usr 1Gb Using parted I deleted home and

Re: Versions

2004-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/04 15:26), Pedro Hernandez wrote: > --- Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, > Pedro > > > Debian stable aims for well, stability so the old packages are known > > to be > > secure and work. If you want newer versions have a look at things > Ok. I can buy that

Re: Status of Galeon in testing?

2004-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/04 09:22), stan wrote: > > For several weeks now, I've had to freeze all my "testing" systems, as an > apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove galeon, which is a critical > requirement for these systems. > > Can anyone enlighteen me as to what's going on with this package? Sorry - I can't

Re: Partition size discrepancy df v parted/cfdisk

2004-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in > > a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr > > (to upgrade from w

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-06-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/06/03 14:22), Paul E Condon wrote: > > I think that it used to be that when I posted to this > list, my message would be returned to me from the server at > the time that it was sent out to everyone else on the list. > Now that is not happening. Now, when I post, I see nothing > on the lis

Re: dual booting

2003-06-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/06/03 22:41), Armin Catovic wrote: > From: "Armin Catovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dual booting > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:41:43 +1000 > > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP > Professional with SP1. I would like

Re: NFS

2003-07-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/07/03 16:37), tt tt wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:37:41 +0100 (BST) > From: tt tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: NFS > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am going to try and learn NFS between two debian boxes. Does anyone know of any > good guides for debian? Is it already compliled into the

Re: Installing Debian on existing winxp+rh9.0 hdd

2003-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/07/03 18:39), sudeep mukherjee wrote: > Hi > > Extremely sorry to have messed up the Subject line. > > I have a Celeron 600MHz with 40 GB Hard Disk. > > I already have WINXp(Sorry for this) and RH9.0. Want to install Debian Woody. > Anypointers would be welcome. > > Thanks in advance

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/05/04 15:17), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 14 May 2004, John Chronakis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Although I am an old Linux user, I have never used debian, and I am a > > bit confused about the various versions. > > > > I would like to install testing (sarge) on a small business server > > (g

Re: Concerning testing

2004-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/05/04 22:44), Silvan wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:44:42 -0400 > Subject: Re: Concerning testing > > On Friday 14 May 2004 10:17 am, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > conclusion was that Unstable is the way to go in preference to

Re: duplicate emails

2004-05-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/05/04 06:40), Tom Allison wrote: > Lee Braiden wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm getting a lot of duplicate emails occasionally, as my ISP's POP3 > >server seems to drop connections a lot :/ I've tried both fetchmail > >and getmail, with no luck. Best I've managed is to limit the number of > >m

Re: KDE

2004-05-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/05/04 16:28), Endianto wrote: > Just installed Woody 'succesfully', but couldn't find KDE which is already setted > up as kdm. Hi Edianto Not sure what you mean by this. Are you using tasksel, dselect or aptitude to install packages? Or maybe you are just doing apt-get install package?

Re: HP DeskJet 672C

2004-05-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/05/04 07:27), Donna Orsino-Lawrence wrote: > I am not as comupter literate as those you communicate with on this website. > All I need is to replace my installation CD. Can you tell me how I can get one? > I have Windows 98. > > Thanks, > > Donna Orsino-Lawrence Hi Donna This is a Debian

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi David 'xcuse the top post but what a well reasoned argument. You get my vote ;) Thanks Clive On (24/05/04 20:50), Katipo wrote: > David P James wrote: > >On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: > > > > > >>David P James wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad w

Re: kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/05/04 16:41), Juan Nin wrote: > > Luis Finotti wrote: > > >I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the > >kernel, but it seems that that's not the case. (I > >don't have any updates there.) > > nope... > > the kernel is the "heart" of Linux, so you have to explicitly update it

Re: tweedlegnum and tweedlekdee in sid?

2004-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/05/04 08:12), richard lyons wrote: > I (foolishly, with the benefit of hindsight {a useful new acronym > WTBOH??} ) dist-upgraded to sid on one box yesterday. To my horror, > I lost gnumeric (which I love, and have work in progress in). I > tried to install it (via aptitude) - but found

Re: books on debian

2004-05-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/05/04 10:15), Iain Mac Donald wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 02:12, dircha wrote: > > Fernando Cardenas wrote: > > > I am still new to linux, can somebody suggest me books on debian? > > > Thanks. > > > > Have you checked the Debian Documentation page [1] yet? > > > > There are very few D

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/06/04 16:09), J. Preiss wrote: > > "apt-get install kde kdm" > > If kdm is already installed, then do "dpkg-reconfigure kdm". > > Select "kdm" as your default display manager. (If it doesn't take, try > > again, select one of the other managers, then repeat the process a final > > time and s

Re: Larger screen size

2004-06-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/06/04 17:39), Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:39:26 +0200 > Subject: Larger screen size > > I am currently only able to use 800x600. > When I use Knoppix I can use a larger screen. > > How can I ge

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/06/04 18:59), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I asked earlier about getting the NFS server > running on my new Sarge install. I got no replies. > I have tried researching it myself but have not > found anything that explains it properly. Can > someone please help? > > I need to be able

Re: ftp.uk.debian.org not allowing connections?

2004-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/04 10:58), Ian McCall wrote: > Hello. > > Last few days I've been trying to do an aptget update for a server box > running Stable, and I've had: > > Err ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages > Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:21 (195.224.53.39). - connect > (111 Connecti

Re: woody kde fonts

2004-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/04 10:12), Jason Kretzer wrote: > > Which fonts must I install for the fonts in KDE to not > look so bad? > > -Jason Rob Weir produced the following excellent guide: http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt I found it v. useful ;) Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.u

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/06/04 07:29), Adam Funk wrote: > I've been using Debian testing on my home workstation for a while now > and am generally happy with it, but I understand there are some > disadvantages in comparison with unstable, such as recency of security > updates. I suppose the name "unstable" puts me

Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems

2004-06-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/06/04 14:07), Carl Fink wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:07:39 -0400 > Subject: Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:22:37AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > > When I rebooted, the Apple OpenFirmwa

Re: Reserving space for mail on /var

2004-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there > is no space left. > > What

Re: Upgraded to exim 4 and now I'm getting knoppix messages (not a knoppix user though!)

2004-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/04 22:17), Jerome Werner wrote: > I upgraded to exim 4 in unstable and now I'm getting error messages in my user inbox: > > /begin message/ > > >From Mailer-Daemon > X-Failed Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > [...] > A m

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/06/04 08:40), Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-06-23, Travis Crump penned: > > > > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: > >> > >>>I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from > >>>there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another

Re: fetchmail

2004-06-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/06/04 21:35), Bert Colemont wrote: > Does anyone has a how-to about how to setup a system that cathes your mail > with your provider, scans it for virusses and spam, and then placeses in a > POP3 queue? Hi Bert I'm not sure what you're asking but mailfilter can be called from fetchmail and

Re: HOWTO's on sid/sarge - where are they?

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 16:54), James Sinnamon wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:19 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (07/06/04 18:59), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I asked earlier about getting the NFS server > > > > > A good place to start is: > &

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 17:25), Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote: > > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody: > > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz > > > > In what package do I find this file? I have installed > > doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs i

Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/06/04 07:18), the softrat wrote: > I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as > advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org, > ... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada! > > BTW, how does one return ALL of the print

Re: Debian PPC Console?

2004-08-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/08/04 01:24), Ed Sutherland wrote: > Any PPC users lurking about here? I just finished tinkering with > OpenDarwin, but think I'm returning to the Debian nest. A question, though: > > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not > text in X) is clipped on the left

Re: OT: Hardly any messages getting through

2004-08-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/08/04 08:50), Alan Chandler wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:50:06 +0100 > Subject: OT: Hardly any messages getting through > > Is there a load of mail held in a queue somewhere, or is there a problem with > my registratio

Re: KDE 3.3 logout crashes the system

2004-08-31 Thread Clive Menzies
On (31/08/04 13:14), David Bokan wrote: > >Yes, I have tried CTRL-ALT-DEL and it does not work, which is why I believe > that logging in over a LAN wont work, however, I will try a telnet/ssh when > I get home tonight, > > I have tried to SSH into the system. It works when the system is running >

Fwd: lpr/cupsys-bsd printing problem after upgrade

2004-09-07 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I posted this on debian-powerpc recently but received no response, so I thought I'd try here. After a recent sid upgrade, I seem to have lost the ability to print from some applications. I thought at first it was to do with postscript printing because Firefox 0.82 (an older version which supp

Re: Fwd: lpr/cupsys-bsd printing problem after upgrade

2004-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/09/04 01:58), Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:47:37AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > After a recent sid upgrade, I seem to have lost the ability to print from > > some applications. I thought at first it was to do with postscript > > printing because F

Re: Network Connection/Newbie

2004-09-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/09/04 06:56), Roger Creasy wrote: > Zachary Rizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:--- Roger Creasy wrote: > > > Howdy! > > > > I just installed sarge with KDE. I have DSL internet > > connectivity through my network card, so the card is > > working. However, if, from the KDE desktop, I go to > >

Re: nfs

2004-09-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/09/04 13:43), Steven Jones wrote: > I am trying to mount a nfs share between laptop and server. > > exports has > > /home/share/ 130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0(ro) > > exportfs shows it as being exported, iptables is disabled, no firewalling. > > all the directories are 0777 permissions, yet ev

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/09/04 16:38), Pradeeper wrote: > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sidath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Pradeeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:38:44 +0600 > Subject: How to Shutdown as a normal user? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi All > > Is there a way to shutdow

Re: Defoma

2004-09-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/04 01:35), John Lowell wrote: > Anssi Porttikivi wrote: > > > > >Neither can anyone else. It's a mess. > > > Hi Anssi, > > First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I > sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things > like that, eh? :-)

Re: e1000 / debian installer problem

2004-02-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/02/04 21:35), Hamid wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install debian on my machine. It has a Gigabyte motherboard > (8KNXP) which uses IntelPro/1000 CT ethernet controller. I downloaded the > CD images from > http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.i

Re: No printing at all!

2004-02-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote: > After using Mandrake and Knoppix over the last couple of years I have finally > managed to install a working Debian system :-), and everything seems to be > fine except the printing :-( > > I have looked through several forums, and done my best to rtfm but

Re: [Fwd: Re: No printing at all!]

2004-02-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/02/04 13:00), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:18, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote: > > > After using Mandrake and Knoppix over the last couple of years I have finally > > > managed to install a working Debian syste

Re: sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing?

2004-02-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/02/04 12:11), Bill Moseley wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:11:02 -0800 > Subject: sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing? > > Do I need testing and stable entries in my sources.list if running > unstable? No - you

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