Re: terminal true type fonts

cga2000: > > http://www.geocities.com/cga/pic00/ > > One that uses verdana for everything is in the moz.png file. That looks quite ok, but for me it's too small to be read easily. And if fonts are larger, I definitely prefer AA. > What I like about verdana 8pt is that it ends up looking a l

Re: terminal true type fonts

Russell L. Harris: > > Have you seen the font books of Donald Knuth, author of TeX? They are > (1) Computer Modern Typefaces, (2) The METAFONTbook, and (3) METAFONT: > The Program. No, but I am using Computer Modern this very moment as I am writing my diploma thesis (which I have to hand in on T

Re: inetd or xinetd

T: > > # /etc/init.d/inetd has been diverted by the xinetd package. > # The inetd service is provided by xinetd, which means inetd > # doesn't need to be run. > # > # See /etc/init.d/xinetd, or /etc/init.d/inetd.real. > > exit 0 > > > Does it imply xinetd is more

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

Jordi Carrillo: > > I'm using Debian testing and I was thinking about switching to unstable. Is > Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system? No, if you rely on your system to be available 100% (time and function wise). No, if you don't (know how to) use the BTS, dpkg, apt, package docume

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

Ron Johnson: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Jordi Carrillo: > > > > No, if you rely on your system to be available 100% (time and function > > wise). No, if you don't (know how to) use the BTS, dpkg, apt, package > > documentation. If you don't know how to

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

Jordi Carrillo: > > If packages go from unstable to testing in just 10 days then it's not worth > going to unstable, is it? I mean, you can live in the bleeding edge as well > being in testing. You are forgetting the complicated dependency structure of Debian's packages. When a new version of one

Re: aptitude update and pdiff files

celejar: > > Well, that's exactly the problem. If one doesn't update daily, there > can be quite a few pdiffs to download. Apt is configurable in this respect, it just isn't documented yet (see Bug #376158): apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false or, to make this setting permanent, put the fol

Re: stopped jobs

George Adamides: > > sometimes when i try to logout from my linux system i get the following > message: > #There are stopped jobs. > > what does this mean and how do i handle this issue? Background: You can suspend jobs in a shell by pressing Ctrl+z or let them run in the background by starting

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

Amit Uttamchandani: > > I usually have to type up the notes pretty quick in class and > sometimes with LaTex, typing up \item and \textit{}...takes > sometime... Take a look at the vim-scripts package. It contains a quite impressive LaTex mode. It takes some time to learn how to use it, though. B

Re: Question about how "aptitude search" is used

Daniel Burrows: > > In the current CLI, "aptitude search blah" searches for packages > whose name contains "blah". In contrast, "apt-cache search blah" > searches both package names and descriptions. Which is the reason why I am almost exclusively using apt-cache for searches (and probably the

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

michael: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> when I migrated to amd64, I did nothing special for flash, and it >> seems to just work... (Now I'm thinking I need to go check). In >> theory, in sid, you use nsplugin-wrapper to allow 32bit flash to run >> on 64bit

Re: bash script question

Ken Irving: > > If you want to remove the .svn/ directories and everything within them, > something > like this should work (remove the 'echo' if the output looks ok): > > $ cd starting/directory > $ find . -type d -name .svn -exec echo rm -r {} \; GNU find also accepts the parameter (or be

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

Kyle Barbour: > > dpkg: failed to write status record about `vlc-nox' to > `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device Run 'apt-get clean' and see how much free space you get. Apt stores downloaded debs locally and never deletes them until asked to do so. J. -- I have been manipulated and p

Re: Webalizer Seizes to work after a cronjob addendum

John Marvin L. Magsino: > > it says /var/log/apache2/access.log.1 could not be read. > i checked the /var/log/apache2/ and found out that only access.log exists. i > guess it is not generating access.log.1 because of the crontab i made. Usually, the program logrotate moves access.log to access.log

Re: wakeonlan

NN_il_Confusionario: > > I suspect that when the power supply is "completely off" (first case), > then the harware (the nic) loses the status that makes it able to wake > on lan (a manual boot, with the re-initialization of the nic by the bios > would be necessary to re-enter the "wake on lan" sta

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

Jonathan Kaye: > > Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst > file I have this: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro > I should change this line to > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > > Is this

Re: banshee transition - or worse?

Enno Weichert: > > First I supposed this is a transition problem with banshee and stayed > calm but now I am not so sure anymore. > And if it's not I'm not sure where the error may be found. > Since this is lasting for a week now I just thought I might ask the > public. What exactly is your quest

Re: INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

(Sorry for messing up the encoding, I don't know whether that's my fault.) ��û��: > > To compile our solution, we need these packages, kernel-development, > kernel-source and pam-delvelopment and so on. > > I installed Debian 3r4, 4r0 and 4r3, but I couldn��t find these > packages. > > - I use

Re: search for Tree genration script for openoffice .

Jabka Atu: > > I'm searching for tree generration script (or extention). > for example if input the next text : -- snip > and i will get a OCBT as an image/Chart whatever. Graphviz can do this (but with a different syntax). It can output various file formats, but I don't think it can rceate OOo f

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

paragasu: > > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand because > my bios only > support 2GB. Linux doesn't care what the BIOS thinks about the hard drive. Have you tried to use larger disks? Chances are that it just works[tm]. J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me

Re: Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder

Yassir Saeed: > > I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced > Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i > am having a problem installing debian-builder package Which version of Debian are you running? Etch (=stable), lenny (=testing) or sid (=unst

Re: swap partition question?

ISHWAR RATTAN: > > I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1) > and fdisk -l shows that. But the command > > # swapon /dev/sda1 > > says that ..:/dev/sda1: is invalid argument. Did you create a "swap filesystem" on the partition? # mkswap /dev/sda1 && swapon -a J. -- I have never been

Re: Installing a new kernel

James Allsopp: > > but when I try: > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.686 > it always says most recent version installed. Does this mean that there > isn't a post 2.6.21 kernel image available in Lenny or Sid? Linux kernel packages have been renamed to linux-image-* long ago. J. -- I throw awa

Re: How to turn on mail led in laptops ?

Jabka Atu: > > I'm working on laptop mail script (will turnon and turn off mail led). > With acerhk it is : > > echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/led > but about other laptops ? Some Asus laptops have a similar interface in /proc/acpi/asus/[mw]led. J. -- I want to look younger than my friends so I

Re: GRUB Error 17

Cassiel: > > I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else > could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the > process stopped (input/output error) and the system went completely frozen. >> From that moment on I can not boot from HD. > > Using

Re: top command results from an ssh

avilella: > > how can I get the results of doing a "top" sorted by memory usage from > an ssh command? I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but $ ssh -t host top will show top's output from the remote host in your current terminal. You need the -t option when you want to force ssh t

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

Dmitryi & Elf: > > The default keyboard driver doesn't allow multiple simultaneous key > presses. This is a big problem for an FPS, as it means the player can > either strafe, turn, or shoot. Looks like only four or so keys can be > pressed simultaneously (tested with a couple Quake clients,

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

Javier Vasquez: > > Do you suggest using "dd" instead? Would it work even if the destine > partition is bigger (I read somewhere it works perfectly when source > and destine are the same size, but I never read it works perfectly > when destine is bigger)... Yes, it works. You have to resize your

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

Javier Vasquez: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Why do you only copy 446 Bytes back? > > That's what I read is necessary, since the last 64+2 bytes of the 1st > 512 bytes correspond to the partition table,

Re: root, -1 unkown

David Baron: > What the h*ll is that? > > Running Debian Sid, KDE4-devel from experimental. This is an error message reserved for people running software from experimental who don't know how to ask smart questions. :) J. -- As a child I pulled the legs from a spider. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

Robert Jerrard: > > Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an > AMD64? As far as I know, there is none. At least not for a current Java version. The best solution (if you really need that plugin -- I haven't missed it yet) is to run your browser in a 32 Bit chroot. J.

Re: Homepage management system?

Micha: > > I am looking for some framework to allow easily setting up homepage for all > the > people in my uni lab. The idea is to setup some template that they can fill > out > as no one is getting around to it I don't know how tech-savvy your users are, but I found rest2web to be a quite good

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

Brad Rogers: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All's well that ends. > > Indeed. > > Now, where is your PGP public key? It doesn't appear to be on the > regular servers. As such, signing messages is, pretty much, redundant. $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949

Re: Where do you run ssh-keygen, server or client.

Nathaniel Homier: > > I have 1 desktop computer (we will call it son) and it runs a ssh > server. When I visit my mothers house I would like to be able to access > (son) from my mothers computer (we will call it mom). I have setup the > ssh server on (son) to use key based authentication.

Re: mutt signatures

James Richardson: > > What package/software do you use to rotate signatures in email? I use mutt. I have used signify for years. J. -- Looking into my eyes is the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: SSH private keys, dangerous to carry around or not. Was Re: Where do you run ssh-keygen

Nathaniel Homier: > Sudev Barar wrote: >> >> Yes, but if you are carrying private key in your pen drive and you >> loose it or some one copies it your total security is compromised >> howsoever strong encryption algorithm was used to generate the key >> pair. > > I was under the impression that th

Re: simple image upload server to coexist with wiki?

mmiller3: > > We're running a wiki on a debian box (using moinmoin) and I'd > like to set up a simple web-based system that allows users to > upload images. What I'd like a cgi that lets a user submit an > image, stores it on the web server and returns a permanent link > to it that can be used in

Re: GPG and Signing

Michael Pobega: > > I got this for your mail: > > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sun 01 Apr 2007 08:09:36 AM EDT) > --] > gpg: Signature made Sun 01 Apr 2007 04:27:11 AM EDT using DSA key ID > 70859BD9 > gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found > [-- End of PGP output --] This mea

Re: getmail question

Jude DaShiell: > I'm trying to get getmail to work and am needing to have the incoming > e-mail filtered through clamscan which last night had clamscan throw > several errors one aout executing root commands. All I want to do with > the filtering is have clamscan inspect incoming messages and h

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Wei Chen: > > You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new features and > software will not get into it any more. Correct. > So what is a better choice now, to stick to Etch or to switch to the > next testing? I am not sure which is more important for desktop users, > stability or

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Wei Chen: > > But I once heard that things in the "Testing" distribution always change > gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the > upgrade not so easy after some time of the release of stable. Is that true? Yes, more or less. If you do upgrades, there is always a chan

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Wei Chen: > > Also, maybe one disadvantage of upgrading to a newer version early is > that one can in fact upgrade at any time if still using the old one. But > once upgraded, it is never possible to get the old one back again... It is *possible*, it just isn't supported. You can always go to htt

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Owen Heisler: > > We have the names: Sarge, Etch, Lenny > and aliases: stable, testing, sid I am not sure whether I understand this correct, but I think you got the current release process wrong. Sid is always unstable, it will never be released. Lenny is going to start off as an exact copy of sa

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Wei Chen: > > Might there be conflicts for backports and "distribution upgrade"? Theoretically: yes. But since backport.org's maintainers are Debian developers themselves (at least most of them, I think), compatibility to the official repositories is very good and there shouldn't be any problems

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Joe Hart: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Owen Heisler: >>> We have the names: Sarge, Etch, Lenny >>> and aliases: stable, testing, sid >> >> I am not sure whether I understand this correct, but I think you got the >> current release process wrong. Sid is

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Wei Chen: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Theoretically: yes. But since backport.org's maintainers are Debian >> developers themselves (at least most of them, I think), compatibility to >> the official repositories is very good and there shouldn't be any

Re: Some cleanup questions

Hans du Plooy: > > ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers > ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se > > Do I need both? No, only one of them. Which one depends on whether you are running Apache2 or the earlier version. J. -- If I

Re: dovecot does not work

Nevruz Mesut Sahin: > > Deae friends in my system dovecot 1.0 is running I configured then I > wrote below commands There is no Dovecot 1.0 yet, only a number of 1.0 release candidates (latest version is RC29, I think). RC29 is in sid, RC15 is in etch. > chkconfig --level 2345 dovecot on > chkco

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

Dennis G. Wicks: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. Are you using Gnome? Then it sounds like nautilus either isn't running or has been configured not to manage the desktop any

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

csanyipal: > > I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open the port 22: That probably means you are blocking any traffic not explicitly allowed, correct? Maybe it would help to show us your complete iptables script. And you are connected directly to the internet, right? No NAT? >

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

csanyipal: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:53:24PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> I use iptables as a firewall and have added a rule to open the port 22: >> >> That probably means you are blocking any traffic not explicitly allowed, >> correct? Maybe it wo

Re: SSH port 22 is invisible from the internet!! :(

csanyipal: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> If you can see either both incoming and outgoing packets or no packets >> at all, your setup is fine and someone else is dropping them. If you see >> only incoming packets, it's your

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

Jonathan Kaye: > > Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now > write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the > sensible thing to do? You lose some write performance, but apart from that it doesn't hurt and a lot of people think it is a good i

Re: "less" or "man" clear-screen issue

Daniel Haude: > > when viewing man pages (or any kind of file, really) with "less", what > bugs me is that less restores the screen content before its execution on > exit. Which means that I always need to switch between two terminals (or > use screen) when I need to keep an eye on the manpage whi

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I am wondering about the best way to install software. I have used > the "apt-get" method, which is pretty simple, and have also downloaded > and compiled from source "tarballs" which is a little more complicated > but doesn't seem to be a big deal. Are there significant ad

Re: dnsmasq in debian

Gunnar Björkdahl: > > I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in > /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside > world. What have I done wrong or missed? There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP

Re: Fetchmail Problems

Michael Pobega: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:39:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Is ssmtp a daemon? Maybe you need to restart it. Have you tried >> looking in /var/log/mail.log? > > There doesn't seem to be a daemon for it. I *think* fetchmail can use any sendmail-compatible binary (/usr/b

Re: Fetchmail Problems

Michael Pobega: > > Well the last thing I need is to get procmail working, if I can't I > may end up just abandoning Debian altogether (I'm not threatening it, > but it's just really annoying, and I NEED procmail, it's not even a > "nice thing to use", I NEED it). /me too. > I really don't get w

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

Jeff D: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: > >> When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast address >> I get replies from the embedded and the self-built sysem, but not from >> the two Debian boxes: -- snip > if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: > echo 0 > /proc/s

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

Lubos Vrbka: > > has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same > time on an etch box? I am running unstable and I had no problems having both of the packages installed at the same time in the last couple of months. Only recently aptitude has warned me it would have to r

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

michael: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > Forcing reload of web server (apache2)...apache2: Could not reliably > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for > ServerName You may want to set ServerName in your apache configuration to get rid o

Re: lenny

seeds: > > how do i upgrade to lenny? am using debian etch. Compulsory answer: if you don't know how to do it, you shouldn't do it. Lenny is not in a releasable state which means you may encounter problems that are much harder to fix than it is to upgrade from stable to testing. But since you mi

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

michael: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:06 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> michael: >>> >>> httpd (no pid file) not running >>> apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified >>> domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName >>

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I added the lines: > > Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1 > 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main > Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-2 > 20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main > Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0

Re: Default Media Player

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Totem? XFMedia? Because it didn't look like either. It was awesome and I > want to add it to my xfce only environment. It was GTK+2 and had a > playlist on the right side as default. Sounds like totem (which's sidebar may be switched off). J. -- I wish I looked more lik

Re: z25_persistent-net.rules

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > My network card isn't listed, Where do you look for it? How? > concerning the files: > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > /etc/network/interfaces > There is no reference to Realtek, who make my card at all. I have been > told that there should be. Not literally

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> Apt-get install synaptic >>> And it came up with errors that the repositories do not exist. The DVD >>> Binary-1 was mounted. >> >> Did you run 'apt-get update' before trying to insta

Re: Debian policy on copyright

Marty: > > The recent media debate over a released HD-DVD key, and resulting DMCA > take-down notices, got me thinking about a broad range of questions > regarding Debian policy about "IP rights" in general, and specifically > about numbers as copyrighted "intellectual propery." Any piece of di

Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

Tyler Smith: > > Not a real burning issue, I know. Is this possible, and if so how? Is > this something that X can do, or is it controlled by the wm? Just install unclutter and run it after logging in. How to do the latter automatically depends on your WM / desktop environment. And believe me, wh

Re: mutt: slow reading d-u

Andrei Popescu: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:23:05AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: >> >> Are you using maildir (opposed to mailbox)? If you keep a lot of >> content around consider using ext3 with dir_index enabled. Do you have > > That's on Did you enable it yourself or did the installer do it for

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

Ron Johnson: > > And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor as yourself". > > That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it > actually follow it correctly. In a religion that constantly reminds everyone that the "natural man is an enemy to God", most people don't love themselv

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

Ron Johnson: > On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Ron Johnson: >>> And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor as yourself". >>> >>> That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it >>> actually follow it correctly

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

Karl E. Jorgensen: > > In vim, you don't need to select the text first though - 'gq' reformats > the current paragraph. > > As an alternative in Vim, you could try > > :set filetype=mail textwidth=72 formatoptions+=ac OMG! I for about six years now and *that's* the one thing I always missed

Re: [OT] Screen

Tyler Smith: > On 2007-05-10, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also, >> I just prefer having fewer windows open. And if for some reason I >> have to restart X, I don't lose whatever was going on in the >> terminal since it just "detaches" instead of closing and killing >> whatever pro

Re: Best Debian packages

Deboo ^: > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? http://popcon.debian.org/ Definition of "usage" is tricky, though. J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc Descrip

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

George Barnett: > > As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and > I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which > I understart are the serial keyboard/mouse bits. These are both kernel threads (as you can see from ps output where such threa

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

Bob Cox: > George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think my biggest win is going to be ditching openssh :) > > How would you talk to the NSLU2 then ? ;-) There are alternative implementations of the SSH protocol. Dropbear is quite popular on small devices, for example. J. -- I wish I

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

Dan H: > > (...and I just noticed I had to copy that by hand because aptitude > --and only aptitude!-- seems to disallow copying text from the xterm > it's running in! What kind of sadism is that?) :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. You probably can use the mouse

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

Telly Williams: > > I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much > as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead > of a full GUI. Is it possible to revert (maybe, apt-get re

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

Lethal Possum: > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) > that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also > like to be able to simply plug my laptop into the server with a US

Re: FW: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 "Etech" - could not setup syslog

Kuruvilla, Chindu: > > Most forums & documents recommend using a Linux box is best for setting up a > syslog since it has the syslog daemon built-in. I decided to use the most > recent release(4.0 r0 “Etech”) It's called "Etch" (without the additional 'e'), but well. > & I could not setup the sy

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

Orestes leal: > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from > the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because th

Re: USB enclosure?

Zach: > > I just bought an external HDD enclosure for my old IDE disks so I can > attack to my laptop using USB. How do I set this up? What exactly do you want to achieve? If you don't need automounting, you don't need to do anything at all. As soon as you plug the drive in, the necessary module g

Re: firefox slows system

Liam O'Toole: > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a fix for Firefox, or should I learn to like Epiphany? > > Try creating a fresh profile for yourself using the command 'firefox > -ProfileManager'. It may be that your current profile is to blame. Which is, of course, j

Re: how hot is my xeon?

michael: > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 > with two 3. GHz Xeon chips. Anybody know how to get mobo/chip/internal > temps (and pref fan speeds)... my box gets noisy and I'm trying to see

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I just installed Debian. I'm wondering about the Synaptic Package Manager. > As > I've never used a GUI for Linux before, I will need to get used to how things > work. If you already have experience in using the command line, nothing stops you from keeping to use it. In m

Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me

Paul E Condon: > > The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png > or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, > but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use > mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose

Re: generate syndication feed for podcast

Russell L. Harris: > > I discovered and installed a Debian package "python-pyrss2gen" which is > a Python interface for generating RSS 2.0 feeds, but the package appears > to have no man page. I searched with Google but I did not find information > about the package, so I don't know how to use it

Re: "what" command under Debian

Marcello Di Marino Azevedo: > > Anybody knows if we have something like "what" command under Debian as > under HP-UX? It would be easier to answer your question if you had told us what "what" does on HP-UX. Unfortunately I don't have this OS at home. ;-) But maybe "which", "whatis" or "apropos" d

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

Yura: > > Do I need to "register" it in my ISP? Not for local usage. If, for example, all you need is to resolve host names from your own network and want to provide a single nameserver to all your clients, you should try dnsmasq. It is a DHCP server and automatically resolves local host names. (

Re: What is the easiest way to setup simple DNS server on my server?

Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > all your clients, you should try dnsmasq. It is a DHCP server and > > automatically resolves local host names. (At least, when your clients > > send a hostname when they ask

Re: kernel module static compilation: how to pass options

Stephane Durieux: > > 1 - In the case of two ethernet cards : how to > distinguish one from the other , more precisely to > affect the name that I want to each (eth0,1,2 ..) > kernel ether=..,..,eth0 ether=..,..,eth1 ? If you are using sarge, I guess the best option is ifrename, if you are u

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* cd-ripper [ abcde ] * Desktop Environment [ none (IceWM as WM) ] * development [ Python ] * e-mail client [ mutt ] * browser [ firefox -- I use it since Phoenix 0.4 days but start to hate it. It's only the large number of useful extensions that keep

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Miles Bader: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * ftp [ lftp -- also does sftp and the like and supports resuming, > > even for sftp. ] > > Hmm, lftp does sftp too?!? It's been a long time since I've used it, > but it look

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

José Alburquerque: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * mathematics [ calculator ] >> >> Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... > > Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but it's the > command that brings up t

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

Paul E Condon: > > I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter > form mbox files being updated almost daily. What kind of clutter? If you are doing incremental backups (in the form of diffs to previous versions) mbox should be alright. A good comparison between both for

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

Ron Johnson: > On 10/28/06 10:01, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > But for active email correspondents, the whole collection of old > > emails is copied six or seven times per week. I can live with the > > waste of disk space, but I would like to see the time-stamp on > > individual messages from 'ls -l'

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

Ron Johnson: > On 10/28/06 16:26, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > But one should mention that there are few automatically generated > > filenames that are as ugly (and mostly meaningless) as those of > > maildirs. > > Ugly? yes. > > Meaningless? Definitely

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

Bart Martens: > > Users of Debian "testing" are invited try flashplugin-nonfree version > 9.0.21.55.1 from "experimental". This version installs Flash Player 9 > beta [1]. On unstable this appears to work fine. I installed the package from experimental, searched google for "need flashplayer 8" a

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

Ron Johnson: > On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc > > > > but the login message is the same. Look into ~/.xsession-errors, maybe there's more info. And BTW, my ~/.dmrc is 600: -rw--- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 37 2006-08-0

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