Re: Configuartion of Icedove under Lenny

2009-10-18 Thread Wayne
Icedove in Lenny At the top of the Folder list there are 4 headers, the far right being Size. To the right of that is a small box with a down arrow that when you click on it shows 2 items you chan enable/disable. Totals is one of those options. Hope this helps. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Configuartion of Icedove under Lenny

2009-10-19 Thread Wayne
Klaus Jantzen wrote: Wayne wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, how can I configure Icedove to show in the message folder tree not only the number of unread messages in the folders but also the total number of messages in the respective folder. Thank you. KDJ On my Icedove in Lenny

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-22 Thread Wayne
with debian are highlighted red. Is that also possible with mutt? Sure http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#color And how to label mails with tags? For a start While in mutt, hit F1 (the Manual page) and do a search for 'tag'. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its "dependencies"?

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
dmit, I'm using Synaptics ... As a new user of Debian you would be well advised to install the debian-reference package. Most, if not all, of your questions are addressed in that package. I find it useful after 15+ years of running Debian. Of course, YMMV Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its "dependencies"?

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri October 23 2009, Wayne wrote: As a new user of Debian you would be well advised to install the debian-reference package. Most, if not all, of your questions are addressed in that package. I find it useful after 15+ years of running Debian. how would one access

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its "dependencies"?

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri October 23 2009, Wayne wrote: As a new user of Debian you would be well advised to install the debian-reference package. Most, if not all, of your questions are addressed in that package. I find it useful after 15+ years of running Debian. how would one access

Grub2 Question

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
;t be read? TIA Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Grub2 Question

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Op Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:07 -0400 Wayne wrote: When I select the kernel entry in the grub2 selection screen, the next screen contains a message of some sort. It clears so fast I can't read much of it. Can anyone tell me, 1. how to get that page to display long

Re: resolvconf error

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
dns-nameserver 192.168.10.1 gateway 192.168.10.1 Paul You ,might want to add your ISP's nameservers to the dns-nameserver line. Wayne I'm putting this back on the list so that others can learn too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: resolvconf error

2009-10-23 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri October 23 2009, Wayne wrote: so this is what I changed my /etc/network/interfaces file to include, lets see if that is what it wants: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 dns-nameserver 192.168.10.1 gateway 192.168.10.1

Re: X lockups yet again

2009-10-24 Thread Wayne
or the past 1-2 months I have had to manually install packages after an upgrade to try to avoid the bugs. Thought my bug spray was at fault. :-) Good luck Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to change the domainname ????

2009-11-08 Thread Wayne
i change it Read the hostname man page. It tells you how to change it and the domain name. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Console Font Size?

2009-11-11 Thread Wayne
can read without glasses. This works for me but I am left wondering about the different options. I had to do the following to get a usable font here dpkg-reconfigure console-setup. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Setting global printer options in Lenny/Gnome

2009-11-18 Thread Wayne
150 dpi or pdf. HTH Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-21 Thread Wayne
printer and look at the jobs. I deleated all pending jobs and lpq -a didn't find them anymore. HTH Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-21 Thread Wayne
input) 6092040 bytes what does this mean, and what do I do to fix it? Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-21 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat November 21 2009, Wayne wrote: Nov 21 05:42:29 paulandcilla lpd[11629]: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory Nov 21 05:43:30 paulandcilla lpd[11702]: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory Sorry missed this in first read. Use the modify printer option of cups. The

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-21 Thread Wayne
Klaus Jantzen wrote: Wayne wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: I am using Lenny, up2date. I use CUPS for printing, and everything prints just fine for MOST applications. I just tried to print a web page, and I think it was a flash type page. It brought up a very small window that ( I thought) had

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-22 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat November 21 2009, Wayne wrote: In the cups interface http://localhost:631/printers pick the printer and, in squeeze anyway, select in the administration dropdown select Modify printer. Select Continue on the first two selections until you get to the 3rd which

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-22 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun November 22 2009, Wayne wrote: Install the cups-bsd package. see the output of 'apt-cache show cups-bsd' That's why I suggested looking at the cups-bsd package description. cups-bsd is the cups interface to the printer. It replaces all of the pr

Re: printing confusion

2009-11-22 Thread Wayne
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun November 22 2009, Wayne wrote: That's why I suggested looking at the cups-bsd package description. cups-bsd is the cups interface to the printer. It replaces all of the programs that lpr supplied. The entries you were worried about in your OP were lpr gene

Re: PHP5 for Sarge

2009-11-23 Thread Wayne
i wrote: Hello debian-user, google failed, I can`t find any source with function packages PHP5 for Sarge distribution. Sarge is OLD. Your best option id to upgrade, to etch, or the now stable lenny. WT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: X fails after upgrade

2009-11-27 Thread Wayne
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running testing on my laptop, which I haven't upgraded for a while. Today I set a massive upgrade in motion, which eventually completed. Rebooting, I now find that X won't start; the Xorg.0.log contains error messages to the effect that "freetype" and "ati" modules

Re: X fails after upgrade

2009-11-27 Thread Wayne
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Wayne wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running testing on my laptop, which I haven't upgraded for a while. Today I set a massive upgrade in motion, which eventually completed. Rebooting, I now find that X won't start; the Xorg.0.log contains error messa

Anyone running virtualbox?

2009-12-05 Thread Wayne
In the not to distant past, packages didn't go from sid to testing unless they worked. Buggy maybe but they at least ran, to a point. That seems to have changed in the last few months. Is that a new policy? If so, maybe testing should be to 'could-not-fixed-in-sid'.

Re: Alt key not working

2009-12-08 Thread Wayne
console-tools package? The showkey program for instance. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-08 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Alt key not working Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:25:41 +0100 From: roberto To: Wayne References: <4bcde3e10912080934t4b85e591j23f729a6658d4...@mail.gmail.com> <4b1e9851.2010...@gmail.com> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne wro

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-10 Thread Wayne
it back in it takes the next ttyUSB* inline ie ttyUSB3 for me currently as I have a USB 3G dongle occupying ttyUSB1 and ttyUSB2. I have looked around in udev ie /etc/udev/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/ to find the file where I can lock it to ttyUSB0 but had no success. Edit /etc/default/gpsd Wayne

Re: ttyUSB0 and GPS

2009-12-10 Thread Wayne
Dale wrote: 2009/12/11 Wayne : Dale wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how to lock a GPS down to use ttyUSB0 all the time, whether it get plugged in and out of the USB port? Basically I want it to reclaim ttyUSB0 after it have been removed from the USB port and then plugged back in. Â Currently

Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-14 Thread Wayne
, then anything else I have tried. It beats the AT&T sierra device by far. Sierra is supported in the kernel but not this Novatel USB760 AFAIK. Any info or pointers are welcomed. I really need to get this working on Debian and don't want to switch to Ubuntu if possible. TIA Wayne

Looking for a USB Wireless Adapter that supports wpa-supplicant

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne
with wpa. A google search did not help too much. It looks like 'maybe' a Netgear WNDA3100 or a Netgear WN111v2 would be what I want but I don't want to get either one until I know that someone is using it on Debian. Thanks in advance for any/all replies. Wayne -- To U

Re: Looking for a USB Wireless Adapter that supports wpa-supplicant

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:41:54 -0500 "Wayne " wrote: As the subject says I need a USB adapter that works on Debian and supports wpa-supplicant. We are finally able to get a fate network connect here in the mountains, using a Verizon MiFi2200 connection. The only

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-20 Thread Wayne
green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any Debian success posts. This is a 3G modem and, in my

Safe-upgrade problems

2009-12-20 Thread Wayne
tice it until a few programs I run with 'at' threw the errors. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne
gs of jigdo (0.7.3-2 -> ) #515285 - Please remove jigdo or make it functional Summary: jigdo(1 bug) ISTR it being that way for many months now. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne
green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-20 09:29 -0700: green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any

Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-30 Thread Wayne
reported to be running on linux, I would hope that I can keep windows software out of the equation. Any suggestions on any of the above are welcomed. I really would like to get this beast working. Thanks and a Happy New Year to you all. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-30 Thread Wayne
Wayne wrote: green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-30 10:24 -0600: Brief history. I am now using a D-Link DWA-556 PciE card. It has an Atheros AR5008 chip and I am using the mad-wifi ath5k driver code. I can connect to the Verizon MiFi , using wicd, get a ip address for the ath0

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. A little IPv4 network education is in order: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable to contact a DHCP

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network] UPDATE

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:29 -0500 From: Wayne To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com> <20091230231525.ga9...@swansys> <4b3bfca8.9030...@gmail.com&

[Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:09 -0500 From: Wayne To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References: <4b3b7ecd.1080...@gmail.com> <20091230231525.ga9...@swansys> <4b3bfca8.9030...@gmail

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 7:57 PM: The following are the results of trying to connect to the MiFI Output id from the wicd.log 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 channel 11 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: iwconfig ath0 ap 00:21:E8:B5:C4:B5 2009/12/31 18:38:21 :: WPA_CLI

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2009-12-31 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
green wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2009-12-30 21:04 -0600: Wayne put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable to contact a DHCP server. Please read the RFC to better

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 10:18 PM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP. Please show output of

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 1:43 PM: This is a good sign: /var/log/wicd# ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:5a:bb:e8:c5 inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 2:57 PM: I think I am missing something but don't know what other then a missing route statement. It's not a route issue because the PCs are all on the same class C subnet (or should be). I looked at a previous route table you pos

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-02 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 5:31 PM: Hope this helps!! Best I can tell all the subnet masks are correct. I was just thinking... (smoke rises). dmesg shows a small amount of packet traffic to/from the MiFi WLAN interface, basically the DHCP setup handshake packets, and

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE] {SOLVED}

2010-01-02 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/2/2010 1:53 PM: As soon as you said firewall, I remembered having this problem before. I had meant to disable the firewall last night when testing the MiFi connection, but forgot. First rule of thumb: Network problem? Disable all firewalls before

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE] {SOLVED}

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/2/2010 6:28 PM: Yes and I can connect to the internet with and without the firewall up. I have more to do on the firewall though. I can't connect to the MiFi admin page at 192.168.1.1 with the firewall on. So, you are right on all points. Ge

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne
be interested in grub-legacy, which is the grub you are used to. Have fun Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
dapter Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Please explain. The subject says that Lenny doesn't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wirelss but the the list above does show it is recognized. So what is it not doing? Wayne Best regards, Wen -- Xianwen Chen Sent

Re: Can't recognize Realtek 8187 USB wireless adapater

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
s more information. Note: All replies should go this the list not to those you expect to help you. Wayne On 1/18/10, Wayne wrote: Xianwen Chen wrote: I think it's supported. It's a Realtek 8187B adapter. This is what lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundat

Re: umask for init?

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne
m the change you propose, but it would be fun to find out. :-) man cmask might be of some interest. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: error opening mutt

2010-01-20 Thread Wayne
are missing. I have a ~/.mutt dir and .mutt.aliases the colors file in under ~/.mutt maybe you forgot the '."? Wayne thanks, i had created those files. All seems well but when i ran "fetchmail -v" command, I can't see any mail eventhough there's a few emai

Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne
n connect, fix your firewall. I use firehol. Thanks Again Stan for all of your help. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne
eb/ stable non-free my /etc/apt/preferences as below Package: * Pin: release a=lenny Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 100 where is my mistake? aptitude install Iceweasel=3.0.6 ?? Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010-01-22 Thread Wayne
eb/ stable non-free my /etc/apt/preferences as below Package: * Pin: release a=lenny Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 100 where is my mistake? Woops aptitude install iceweasel=(version you want) get the full version by doing aptitude show icewea

Re: string occurrences

2010-01-23 Thread Wayne
roberto wrote: hello is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string occur in a text file ? ps: sorry for the italian post Yes. man wc Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Monitoring Memory Utilization

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne
Debian system. Wayne -- Give a man a fish, feed him for a day Teach a man to fish, feed him for life -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne
Dec 2 10:04:38 2009) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) I don't have any such file in /tmp. Have you tried, as user, 'crontab -e' to edit that users cron entries? Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

2010-04-21 Thread Wayne
Joe wrote: On 21/04/10 18:37, Wayne Topa wrote: just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Wayne We've had it in Sid since at least 12/04. I'm using mail and news, LDAP addresses, I think I'm exercising most of

using Mondo -k FAILSAFE switch

2002-04-10 Thread Wayne
nyone used this software and if so did you use this switch? Please let me know before I toast a box of CD-R's! Thanks in advance. -- Regards Wayne Registered Linux User #250084 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

howto reset dselect to currently installed packages ?

2002-04-21 Thread Wayne
suggested greping the file: /var/lib/dpkg/status then piping through sed, doing a sort of find / replace . I couldnt get it to work though so If theres anyone who can help me I will be very grateful. TIA. -- Regards Wayne Registered Linux User #250084 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: howto reset dselect to currently installed packages ?

2002-04-21 Thread Wayne
e happy with the results replace the original 'status file' -- Regards Wayne Registered Linux User #250084 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Wayne Topa
28 My filters did pick up 11 spam messages from what was downloaded. Of those spamassassin and other procmail filters caught all but 1 and sa-learn ahould take care og that one in the future. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a languag

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Brian Walker([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Done! Many thanks Wayne :) > > Can I add a line to procmail to prefilter spam with mailfilter, before > letting spamassassin get to work? What about the line to add to delete > swen messages? > Yes - see /usr

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Ross Boylan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:15:21AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Brian Walker([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > Done! Many thanks Wayne :) > > > > > > Can I add a line

Re: Advanced printing... continued

2003-10-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Christian Schnobrich([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, > > after some try-and-error I eventually got printing to work; cups, > foomatic and xpp now work hand-in-hand. > > One issue left: my paper size is A4, but xpp won't let me select > anything other than US Letter. Or rathe

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-25 Thread Wayne Topa
ian? I also boot to text login. I never installed xdm or any other display manager so it boots into text. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Linux - for those that deserve the Very Best! ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Andre Kalus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > It is very simple - you do not need any config. I just installed mutt > (from unstable). Then I call: > > mutt -f pop://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > where xxx is my customer number from GMX (you can use both e-Mail > address and customer

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
se you didn't know this. After making changes to these files it is not necessary to exit and relogin. Just enter . .bash_profile As long as you have the above in .bash_profile, any changes to either file will take effect. Oh, welcome to Debian. You won't be sorry you switched from RH

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Do you have > > > > source .bashrc > > > > As the last line of your .bash_profile? That might help. > > No, the default (debian3.0r.1) is to comment that in .bash_profile: > > # if [ -f ~/.bashrc]; then > # source ~./bashrc

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Of course, your password will then be in plain-text in a file. If you > are the only person with root access, this probably isn't a big deal > until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the > willies. You

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Tom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > * [28/10/2003 02:14] Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > | However, the longer this takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a little > > | nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some misconfiguration of > > | mine. > > > > Don't

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Keresztes József([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi ! > > I restarted the X-window, of course. > I tried to write > > Option "HWCursor" "off" > > into the XF86Config-4 file also, > because this was in the documentation. > Try either Option "sw_cursor" OR Option "hw

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I don't think anything is broken in your setup. I do seem to > > recollect that, when I used RH, su- was able to use Xwindows, so it > > may be that some distros execute this differently. > > Yes, Richard, apparently I had work habits

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > My next question has to do with disabling screen blanking and power > > > saving under X. This also may be the result of moving into a somewhat > > > different setup when I moved from RedHat to debian. > > > > > > I had added to ~/.Xc

Xawtv

2003-10-31 Thread Wayne Sitton
ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a picture, but no sound. However the radio works fine when usin

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Every step toward getting packages installation to work has been like > pulling teeth. Please be patient. > > I want my /etc/apt/sources.list to support the installation of testing > packages, and so I appended the line: > > deb http:/

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Have you read any of the below? > > > > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/index-apt-get-intro.html > > /usr/share/doc/n

Re: newbiedoc error [Re: Testing URIs not working]

2003-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
u should report that as a bug. see man 8 runlevel When run by root, #runlevel N 2 Wayne Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [teach to fish mode] > > Yes, by all means! > > > apt-cache show newbiedoc > > I tried this on an uninstalled package (mysql), and nothing wa

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:49:02PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Just to show you I'm in a "learning mode", when I could not install > &

Re: Source list help

2003-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > > >>I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to > > >>get packages from unstable. > > > > > >deb http://

Re: Source list help

2003-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've been following the thread with interest. While not the nearest > > > repository, I appended the above lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list and > > >

Re: Source list help

2003-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
d list from some other site. Takes longer to do the update but, to me, it's worth it. Wayne -- No matter how much data you add to your laptop, it will not get heavier. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
but here ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc and it works. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Linux helps those who help themselves ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
+10o = ^X-pstn-levels: Is catching mail that my other (extensive) rules were missing. For more info on this see http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/documentation/guides/sps_gsg_v1.pdf Page 17-10 :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- Scheduled Release Date: A carefully calculated date determined by esti

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
John L. Fjellstad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:00, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > I didn't put the link in -my- mozilla-plugin directory but here > > > > l

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Wayne Topa
ar/cache/apt/archives? Please upload > to ftp.madduck.net/incoming, I would be eternally grateful! Dare I say, google is your friend. a2ps_4.13b-20_i386.deb found many sites on the first page. Wayne -- Computers follow your orders, not your intentions. __

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Had to change ### Variable: lp.default #{lp.hook} lp #{lp.options} to ### Variable: lp.default #{lp.hook} lpr #{lp.options} To get ### it working Variable: lp.default #{lp.hook} lpr #{lp.options} Margins are good and its printing. HTH Wayne -- User n.: A programmer who will be

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-15 Thread Wayne Topa
ntil I made that change. Reason You got me. Wayne -- Computers follow your orders, not your intentions. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source files

2003-01-19 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello > I try to find the source code of the kernels, I need it do compile a driver > I don't know where to find it > Thanks for your help either apt-cache search kernel-source then apt-get which one you want, or ftp..kernel.org wo

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Al Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay > wrote: > > > I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for > > > my IDE disks. > > On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > If you have a VIA chipse

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