On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote:
| Hi All !
|
| When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM...
|
| But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor
| the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful. Where is aditional
| documenta
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:08:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake dman:
| > What you want to do is install "python2.2" and "python1.5" and let
| > "python-base" be removed. All python packages are versioned now (eg
| > python1.5-tk and python2.2-
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:21:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 01:39:59PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| >
| > I have a friend who uses windows and aol. Yesterday he fell for the
| > hoax that says the long-filename support files are a virus an
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:44:17AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:07:41PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| ...
| > I ***DESPISE*** info. The pinfo alternative helps somewhat, but the
| > basic concept still sucks. It should be scrapped for a searchable
| > format based
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:09:24PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
| I ran apt-get install mutt in hopes of setting up a mail box with
| threading for this list. There does not seem to be any POP3 connection
| in the application as downloaded. Any suggestions?
www.mutt.org
There is a good m
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
| Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing
| C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use.
I recommend Debian for the IDE!!
What do I mean by that? Well, here is a major difference
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote:
|
| > >This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why
| > >are you using software by the antichrist?
| > >
| >
| > You might have heard of a little thing calle
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a
| recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA.
I like exim. The docs are _excellent_ and the config is easy to work
with.
-D
--
Whoever gives heed to instruction prosp
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
| On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:50:35 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:26:52PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| > | On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote:
| [snip]
| > |
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:13:07PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| My Norton Anti-Virus program identified 2 viruses in the message
| from erich (check spelling- I dumped it in a hurry) @ debian.org
| The subject is a phrase that repeats over and over
| with no breaks
It's
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:44:01PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
| I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I
| want to access the internet on.
'links' is real small and lightweight
| A problem that I have is that when the
| network that I use was set up, the gate
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM +0800, csj wrote:
| On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0800 (PST)
| "Paul 'Baloo' Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, John Cichy wrote:
| >
| > > Yes, but we might have to be more careful now, billy is going to
| > > concentrate on security fr
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:09:34AM +1000, john wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
| > | Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing
| > | C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:54:18AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
| I installed the spamassassin package and set it up as per the docs.
| The test routine works properly but when I added the entries to my
| .procmailrc file, fetchmail failed to download any of the mail. There is
| a message about a
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:52:48PM -0500, Titus Barik wrote:
| Here's what I get:
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mp3$ cdparanoia -B
|
| ...
|
| /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default,
| cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
| Consider using -sv to force a more complete a
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I
| decided to give exim a try.
|
| I used eximconfig, and took choice 2, but i'm afraid that I don't
| understand the questions it asks well enough to arrive at a work
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Kevin Beauchamp wrote:
| On 31 Jan 2002 15:10:52 -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
| >On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:55, Stan Brown wrote:
|
| >> I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on
| >> an easy to set up, reliable MTA.
| >>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:44:52AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:36:14PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| > In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel
| > 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what advantages
| > do framebuffers ha
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:16:09AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
| I used to use Eudora as my main MUA, but I find that Outlook
| meets my needs better. Outlook isn't *just* an MUA, it also
| has a calendar, a task scheduler, a journal, etc. (all of which
| I use, actually). Since I'm going to use
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:48:19AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| On Thu Jan 31 23:29:30 2002 dman wrote...
| >
| >On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| >| After listening to everyones recomendations on an MTA for my needs, I
| >| decided to give exim a try.
| >
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:21:52PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
| On Fri, 01 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
| > Ok, when I did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade two days ago /var/mail
| > was created, but I still have /var/spool/mail also and that's where my
| > system says I have mai
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 08:34:38AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| I'm migrating from an HP-UX workstation, as my primary machine to a woddy
| box. I'm also migrating from elm to mutt for my MUA.
|
| I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, which then hands it to procmail, which
| in turn filters the mail
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:11:39AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
| -- Forwarded Message --
| Subject: Re: Samba clarification
| Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:11:08 -0800
| From: Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| > You said "printer utilities".
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:00:49PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
| On February 01, 2002 at 6:38 PM Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote :
| You're a fucking arrogant bastard, you know that?
No he isn't. He's been a helpful member of this list for quite some
time. You can't claim that he didn't see what he
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:36:30PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
| On Friday 01 February 2002 12:41, you wrote:
| > Hi,
| > Wired 4 Life installs a number of linux servers which allow Windows Boxes
| > to access network services such as windows, internet and ... Printers.
| > Printer services dont n
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:30:01PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
| First I've inslalled samba* and cups* debs to my woody box.
| I tried to share some folders with samba and it worked fine.
| well, my printer Epson LQ 100+ ESC/P2 is found on /dev/lp0
Is that a line printer or an inkjet?
| /usr
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
|
| From: "Carl Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To:
| Subject: Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»
| Date: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:31 PM
|
| terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > what are these chinese/japanese/exotic/* adver
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:14:30AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| I'm converting from elm to mutt. Elm supports a "local" signature filename,
| and "remote" .sig file. How can I get mutt to do this?
Probably with a hook. Perhaps
send-hook '~t ^address_pattern$' 'set signature="other.sig"'
(untested
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:28:31AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| Yes, another mutt question :-( That's this weekends project.
|
| How do I enable threads?
My muttrc enables threads for list folders, but not for others. Take
a look at the 'folder-hook's in it.
HTH,
-D
--
Failure is not an option
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
| dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > SpamAssassin does a pretty good job of tagging these so I can
| > automagically dump them.
|
| Then I am doing something wrong. Spamassassin doesn't do anything
| with
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:46:05AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
| I have SpamAssassin working perfectly with Exim (thanks to dman!) but I
| cannot workout how to specifically allow through an email which falls foul
| of SA. I subscribe to a newsletter which SA marks as SPAM. Here are the
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:29:43PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
| Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:48:52AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > > | dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is report
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
| I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter
| of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who
| send only html.
Yeah, it's annoying but this helps :
~~ /etc/mailcap, in the "Use
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:30:17AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| When the installation process returns an error and even
| 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to
| forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the
| system as it was?
|
| The errors are:
| trying to
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and
| it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in
| printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters
| into the printing proces
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0600, William Lacy wrote:
| I installed debian on a desktop computer and for some reason although I
| chose "make a boot floppy" the install script wrote "grub" the the mbr
| of /dev/hda.
Huh!? boot-floppies comes with grub now? I thought it was lilo.
| I w
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:12:34PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:50:08PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| > | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and
| > | it's goin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:23:56PM -0500, stan wrote:
| Still tweaking on my uutt config
|
| I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter
| a folder. I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given
| thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit "d"
| onl
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:42:32PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| begin Jeremy Gaddis quotation:
|
| > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired
| > of them) and I have actually never had any problems with
| > it.
|
| Except for not being able to read messages like this one?
Or t
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:35:22PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
| Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case,
| hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail
I believe that part of an RFC states that MX records can only point to
IP addresses or A records but not to CNAME records.
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
| I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about this, I think. Like Aaron, I could
| get a rescue disk to work. No amount of fiddling with "root=" or
| "append=root=" in either lilo.conf or at boot would get 2.4 up and
| running.
Did you speci
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:36:16AM +0100, Vegh Karoly wrote:
| On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > I'm compiling a new kernel(2.4.17) for my laptop, and I know this may be
| > a newbie question, But what do I enable in the kernel to enable it to
| > automatically power off when shutd
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:24:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
| I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install
| apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following:
|
| >request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted
| >VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03
| >please
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:32:59AM +0800, csj wrote:
| On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:06:52 -0500
| "Jeremy Gaddis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Gary,
| >
| > I also run Free Agent, though just for the newsgroups.
| > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired
| > of them) and I have act
(I'll answer this only once, even though there are two parallel
threads)
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:40:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
| On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:22:47 -0500, dman wrote:
|
| >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
| >
| >| I'm gonna feel
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote:
| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined?
dunno
| If not, any sugestions as to an alternate?
http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim_spamassassin.html
-D
--
Misfortune pursues the sinner,
but prosperity is
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:09:44PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
[...]
| > | On Outlook Express, if you even preview those things, they open
| > | Internet Explorer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:47:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Can you play vcd on PC?
Yes, if by "PC" you mean x86 class system with Debian on it.
| If can how? and what do I have to do to play it? What program do I
| have to download???
apt-get install xine-ui
Some people say 'mpeg' (or
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:25:00PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
| I want to rearrange my computer so that I can dual boot Patato and Woody.
| I want a separate partition for each, so that I can have a full set of
| appropriate software for each.
Just be sure that any modules (in /lib/modules) for
he From: address can very easily be forged.
| >| If not, any sugestions as to an alternate?
| >http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim_spamassassin.html
|
| Does something totally different,
Apparently. It is still related to spam though ;-).
| and could be useful.
| The default rule
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:31:24PM -0500, Ray Bowles wrote:
| Anyone know why I wouldn't be able to intall potato using a MS Natural KB
| Pro (I also have a wireless Intellimouse Pro) both are USB I disconnected
| the mouse with the same result. they work under progeny and redhat so it
| must be sp
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:51:03PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| Okay. I have 2.2r5 coming but have a USB keyboard too. So where can
| I find the 2.4.17 Kernel? Searched
| ftp://ftp.debian.org and ftp://ftp.us.debian.org from top to bottom.
http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/kernel-image-
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:46:12PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| On Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:32 PM, dman wrote:
| > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:09:44PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| > | From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > | > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37P
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:13:34PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
| Msny thanks dman. (and to Deva too) Sure glad there was a phonebooth
| handy.
|
| The new kb sounds like a good idea, but that would be a _serial_ kb,
| no?
I've never seen a serial (DB-9 or DB-25 connector) keyboard before.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:39:52AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
|
| > I've never seen a serial (DB-9 or DB-25 connector) keyboard before.
| > PS/2 is a 9-pin mini-DIN connector. A small round thing. Prior to
| > PS/2 was the AT key
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:48:55AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
| In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| [spamassassin]
| >| The default rule scoring seems pretty far off to me though.
| >Can you expand on this?
|
| (These comments are based on the few dozen mainly spam messages
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:01:36AM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote:
|
| Thanks for the tip Baloo!
| __
|
| Okay, dman. I know that you're right. Re-install XP, creating
| partitions for Debian too..But.
|
| 1) A- I was planning on settin
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:49:00AM -0800, ben wrote:
| On Saturday 09 February 2002 09:12 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
| > I've given up on getting my hp882c to print under linux. Filters dont
| > work, etc.
|
| have you tried installing cups? if not, it's definitely worth the time it
| takes to
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:23:19PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| I got it working using the web interface of CUPS under Lynx. Took about 4
| attempts and some mild swearing but after 5 years of using Linux its the
| first time I got it to print ;-)
|
| Would you mind posting what you've put in smb
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:46:58AM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
| Which libs need to be apt-get to resolve the following linker errors?
|
| /tmp/cclWH5EI.o: In function `A::name(void)':
| /tmp/cclWH5EI.o(.A::gnu.linkonce.t.name(void)+0xe): undefined reference
| to `endl(ostream &)'
| /tmp/cclWH5EI.o(.A:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:55:28PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote:
|
| Hi all,
|
| I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can
| print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr
| /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I prin
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:19:54PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote:
| > $ dpkg -S lpadmin
| > cupsys-client: /usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz
| > cupsys-client: /usr/sbin/lpadmin
|
| Very odd - that doesn't work for me at all.
| zulfiqar:~# dpkg -S lpadmin
| dpkg: *lpadmin* not found.
That means you do
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote:
| On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote:
| > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone had
| > this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is it
| > done?
|
| to follow up on that probl
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:46:01AM +0100, Günter Knab wrote:
|
| On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, dman wrote:
|
| > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote:
| > | On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote:
| > | > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:19:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It looks like the default max number of processes in Debian testing is 300
| processes. How can this be increased? Any input would be appricated.
| Thanks!
|
| Oh, on i386. :)
man ulimit
(actually it's the bash manpage, type "/
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
| >It seems that Java could not find the classes (in com.ibm.speechapps.*).
It was complaining about locating a ResourceBundle (see the javadocs
for java.util.ResourceBundle), not a class. (for the latter you would
have seen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:27:38AM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
| * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 12. 2002 03:04]:
|
| > spamassassin has been restructured and updated. if you decide to
| > update your system, be sure to test thoroughly. it will *not* work out
| > of the box in all cases.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:31:20PM +0800, csj wrote:
| I've been banging my .muttrc for over 3 hours now. I now think it might be
| an exim config problem. I've set various combinations of "set envelope_from"
| ~/.in muttrc to no avail. The Sender: header is still extracted from my
| /etc/email-add
ally send (where you can also
add attachments).
If determining which From: to use is regular, the following technique
may help you :
set realname=dman
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set use_from
send-hook '' \
'set realname="other_name" from="other_addr"'
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:31:25PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
| >The 're' directory is for the "JRE" (Java Runtime Environment). It is
| >all you need to _run_ java programs. The "sdk" directory is for the
| >"SDK" (Software Development Kit) which is needed only if you want to
| >develop
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:59:34AM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:31:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
| > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| What is the difference with 'list' keyword?
| And what is 'unsubscribe' for?
(excerpt from 'man muttrc')
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:29:11PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled...
| > How do I get a USB mouse to work?
| > I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled:
| >
| > CONFIG_INPUT
| > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV
| > CONFIG_USB
| > CONF
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:48:20PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
| dman wrote:
[...]
| >It is just a matter of sticking the properties file in the jar file.
| >The 'jar' program works much like 'tar' does (though the file format
| >is "zip" with the
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:19:04AM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote:
| On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:28:40AM -0500, dman wrote:
|
| > (excerpt from 'man muttrc')
|
| Yes, i HAD read it. OK, i'll formalize my question:
|
| What is the difference between 'subscribed' (and also &#x
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote:
| hello,
| I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX
| (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb)
| before they go to the rubbish.
| I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail
| (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail,
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:31:31AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote:
| I found some interesting information on the imwheel homepage that
| concerned anyone running gpm as well as X4 (ie. most people)
|
| Here's a link to the page
|
| http://jcatki.2y.net/imwheel/
|
| And heres the relevant part of the
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
...
I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch
in my case) wasn't the Right Way.
| The 486 that connects to the internet also does the masquearading. All
| traffic flow to eth0, and gets masq'd, but t
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:23:28PM -0500, stan wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:58:29AM -0500, dman wrote:
| >
| > Huh. I wonder what all this really means ... I had heard, a while
| > back, that imwheel was no longer needed since X now supports the
| > scroll wheel directly.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:33:23PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
| Thus spake Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
|
| > * Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| > >
| > > I think I have my printer configured correctly. I want to do an "lp
| > > /etc/passwd" as a test of straight u
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:00:06PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Hi,
|
| My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite
| some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee
| while waiting for it to open.
|
| How many messages can be stored in that single file w
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Game Wizard wrote:
| umm, perhaps i am wrong as i don't know what kind of switch do u have but
| isn't switch's purphose is to divide the network into subnets ??!
A router would do that. A switch is a link-layer device. It is the
same as a hub, but inste
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
| Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Hi,
| >
| > My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite
| > some weeding out. Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee
| > while waiting for it to open.
|
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:01:10PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:57:53AM +0100, R. Pac wrote:
| > By the way how may I configure Mutt to take mail directly from a pop
| > server without using fetchmail ?
|
| You don't. The closest you can come to this is probably IMAP,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:04:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Is there a HOWTO regarding installing gcc-3.0 in parallel to the
| standard gcc-2.95?
man apt-get
:-)
('apt-get install gcc-3.0')
The package puts gcc 3.0 as /usr/bin/gcc-3.0 and gcc 2.95 as
/usr/bin/gcc-2.95. /usr/bin/gcc
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:08:04AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I've just installed CUPS and the default printer with the deskjet.pdd driver
| in woody. My printer is a HP DeskJet 930C. Does exist a better CUPS' driver
| for it, or the default deskjet.ppd is fine?
There's prob
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:17:47AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| >
| > Hey, that's nifty. I adjusted some of my scoring and I only get one or
| > two that find their way through, but I'll surely zip those off to that
| > address.
|
| Speaking of adjusting
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > > I'm trying to do a first time cups install for my HP parallel printer.
| > > The "cupsomatic-ppd" package in sid claims to have the cupsoma
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-common,
| who in turn depends on libaxw and so on (THIS BOX HAS NO FSCKING X!!!).
It is a sugggestion, not a req
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:10:47AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote:
| Twice now, I have experimented with upgrading from potato to woody. Each
| time, however, I've experienced the exact same problem, which I can't seem
| to resolve.
|
| During the update you get a question basically like this:
|
|
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:13:48AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * Brian Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 15. 2002 18:59]:
| >
|
| > > > I'm not using spamd, I'm firing off spamassassin with Procmail. But,
| > > > I'm setting required_hits in /etc/spamass
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:54:39PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:56:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| > | Ok, now bitchx depends on xutils, who in turn suggests xfree86-
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 07:16:13PM -0800, David Frey wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:38:46PM -0800, ben wrote:
| > this has worked for some people. in gpm.conf, set the repeat type to raw,
and
| > use /dev/gpmdata as the pointer device in your x config, and run gpm. if it
| > doesn't work, l
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
|
| > > What am I doing wrong, or not doing, please?
| >
| > You're not doing the following: RTFM and edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
|
| I di
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:18:40PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
| On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:26:36AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote:
| > Try
| > /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
| >
| > Here's what I get:
| > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already
| > exists
| > i
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:23:30PM +0100, Grégory Karékinian wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel
| without initrd.
This is a snippet of the kernel configuration documentation :
~
Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
The in
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:30:13PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
| i have mutt sort my mails by threads, the arrow (--->) now appears
| to be garbled(squares, unknown chars)... what should i do?
Some comments and observations :
gnome-terminal (in fact, GTK+ itself (ver. 1.2)) doesn't suppor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on
| python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable.
A snippet of 'apt-cache show python-gtk' :
Version: 0.6.8-14
Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)
The current versi
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on
| > | python-base (>= 1.5) b
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:53PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
| I am working on a computer for friends and want to be able to login to it
| once they take it home so i can fix things at a distance if they have a
| problem. I haven't found a howto that covers this, but if there is one
| please stee
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:12:48PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
| On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote:
| > Hello,
| >
| > Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a
| > kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p).
|
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