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logwatch and imap

Please, logwatch is reporting: - IMAP Begin [IMAPd] Connections: = Host | Connections |SSL | Total -- | --- | |

usb cdrom on X30 thinkpad

Please, if this is a FAQ, I am really sorry, my googling cannot find it. My Sarge installation booted fine of the usb cdrom and I proceeded to install and run a 2.6.8 kernel. Beautiful, thankyou. I've been using it for a few weeeks. But I am defeated trying to access the CDROM. I do not know

Re: sharing a bibliography

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: Latex is a huge learning investment, but if you write a lot, or are planning Too right, I am struggling through that investment at the minute but loving every minute of it. Especially if you typeset mathematics, Latex makes Word and

kghostview refresh time

Kghostview is very useful, the way it can watch a file and refresh its display if the file changes. If the file changes kghostview doesn't refresh for a few seconds. (Which is a long time if frequent changes are being made.) Is there any way this time can be shortened ? --help-all dosen't

Re: OT: don't understand something about xpdf

the text in the pdf file is not ascii ? Surely even the text is stored as a graphic in the pdf file ? I am obviously misunderstanding something. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] good laptops

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:47:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things about

Re: Possible hack attempt?

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: I got so many of them, though, that my log filled the partition. So I wrote a little shell script that checks for this frequently, and blocks the naughty IP(s) for a few days. How about sharing it ? :-) Joe -- To

Re: OT: Copying image using acroread from pdf file

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:34:00PM -0500, T wrote: If I have to paste from pdf's, which I do quite often, I use xpdf. are you talking about text, or image? Text only I'm afraid :-( Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT: Small business financial software

. Since then (about 1 year), it has been rock solid and quite flexible. Hope this helps. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Copying image using acroread from pdf file

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 11/29/05, T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT question. I know how to copy, but I need to know what tools that will accept the image content copied from the acroread. Try pasting it into emacs. That will probably

Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world SOLVED

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:14:55AM +, TreeBoy wrote: If this doesn't help, then we may have to look at what hosts (virtual and otherwise) you may have configured. Oh dear, this is rather embarrassing :-( I really must try and get out more ! Wait for it: all I had to do was hit the

debian eye candy

a fanatic !) From where might I steal these ? If not Debian, Linux will do. Thanks. -- Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) voice:(44)2837-548074mob:(44)7802-572441

cannot get my home page from o/s world

for home on my own beloved debian machine. Confused. -- Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) voice:(44)2837-548074mob:(44)7802-572441 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world

and /var/www/apache2-default Same result. I assume that owner and group for these files has to be www-data ? Where is my apache getting the default page from ? I cannot find any likely index.html file ! Hope this helps, Thanks a lot for all the help. -- Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE

Re: Writing technical text

plan, scheme of work, memo, ..? Is there a repository of such things somewhere ? Perhaps I can make my own ? The FAQ doesn't seem to answer this for me. Thanks a lot. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using LaTeX, AUCTeX and emacs-snapshot-gtk

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:05:04PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: And if you use Emacs for typing your texts, I would highly recommend you And _x_emacs ? I've been using it for years and years. Wonderful too. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !

. Thanks a lot. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drawing application

Take a look at idraw too (Debian package ivtools-bin). Simple, elegant. $ idraw idraw: error while loading shared libraries: libUniIdraw.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory :-( Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

spurious mailman messages

Oh dear, during the experiment phases of my mailman installation I subscribed myself (and my poor long-suffering wife) to the sheep mailing list. This is described in the user docs. Now I am getting quite regular mails like the following:

Re: spurious mailman messages

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:05:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What fun! It is or rather was your own mailing list, right? yes, b, bh blck, shep, :-) Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: spurious mailman messages

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:55:50PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Then I have a really brutal way of deleting everything...: cd /var/spool/exim4/msglog/ exim4 -Mrm `ls` done. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Writing technical text

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:56:07PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: LaTeX is by far the best if you are writing a textbook. However, there Communications with O'Reilly lead me to believe that they are leaning towards XML. Is XML a modern possibility for serious book/paper preparation ? Joe

exploring a M$ network

The college I work for is an M$-only shop :-( I don't know if it is XP, or 2000 or whatever. I can plug my beloved sarge notebook into the network and use firefox etc no problem. But, how do I avail of the M$ disk spaces, printers etc ? Is samba (under the sarge) the way to go and if so what

automating lynx

of firefox or mozilla, or a perl script or what ? I realise that lynx is a text-only script. Thanks Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: playing midi with timiditySOLVED

Please note I have started another tread re timidity and rosegarden4. It has nothing to do with this one (different machine), and largely sussed. The timidity in debian is supposed to have working alsa support. Heck, I use it... It is supposed to have both alsa output driver support (play to

backup compress on the fly

burner!) Thanks -- Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rosegarden4 no sound

snd_ens1371 confused and stuck. Thanks Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: Please, sarge, 2.6 kernel, alsa I can get sound from neither rosegarden4 (wow, _what_ a program, thanks a lot) nor kmid. I can play midi files fine using timidity. I didn't RFM :-( (again !) Once I'd

Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi I completely trashed Windows from my system and my kid has been pestering me for the Road Rash game. :-) It's a Bike Came for Windows. Anyone knows of an equivalent type of game on Debian? Why not buy him a bike, or a

Re: playing midi with timidity

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:57:16PM -0700, Seeker5528 wrote: Check the capture level, the iec958 levels, mute any inputs not being used, and try changing what is selected as the recording device. Sorry, I don't know what iec958 is. I have used alsamixer and muted all the inputs I can.

Re: playing midi with timidity

,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec soundcore 10336 1 snd gameport4704 1 snd_ens1371 If I revert to a 2.2 kernel and use the oss drivers, everything is fine. But with 2.6 and alsa I can use mplayer and listen to BBC Radio 3, no problem. Stuck. -- Joe Mc Cool CEng

mutt rocks

Ye Gods ! mutt really is super. Thanks a lot to everybody involved. And to think it took me all these years to find out. Sigh. -- Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent

unsubscribe

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confused on mailman

Please, sarge, mailman, exim4: all I wish to do is set up a simple mailing list for family use. Any family subscriber can post a message and any family subscriber can respond. Much like debian-user. so far I have: apt-get install mailman I've read:

Re: printing to HP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone. I'm running Sarge with a 2.4 kernel. I installed cupsys. I am trying to print to a networked printer that has Jetdirect 170x. The actual printer is an HP LaserJet 1300. In Gnome, I went to Desktop Pref/System Tools/Printing, to install the printer.

install doesn't see scsi disk

Please, I suspect this is something simple. I am booting from an IDE Cdrom (sarge), but the install does not detect my scsi hard disk. I've tried 3 separate disks without success and I have ruled out the problem of termination on the cable. Thanks Joe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

xfce4 had overwritten kde

Oh dear, on my Debian sarge box I ran: apt-get install xfce4 since that, when ANY user logs in to a kdm prompt, they are presented with xfce4 instead of kde. I had really only intended xfce4 for my own personal use. How can I rectify this elegantly please ? Joe

Re: xfce4 had overwritten kde (SOLVED)

Oh dear again, I am such a twit ! All I had to do was stipulate the session type on the KDM login menu ! You see, I use KDE so little :-( My apologies. Joe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slow X and kdm startup

Joe Mc Cool wrote: Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: at boot up I get a login prompt at the F1 console ok. After about 10 secs, the screen goes blank. After another very long delay I get an hour glass in the middle on the screen at F7. There is another very long delay before I

Re: slow X and kdm startup

Žáček Kryštof wrote: Try updating the font cache by typing # fc-cache Thanks a lot. That is one of the first things I've tried, but to no avail. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

Albert wrote: I can find no documentation for using a window manager other than xdm, e.g. xfwm4 with ROX. I don't want either Gnome or KDE. Can anyone here point me in the right direction. X Windows was up and running before I installed these two packages. Now I just get a gray screen and no

Re: slow X and kdm startup

Adam Hardy wrote: don't you see which part of the load process is being carried out when you startx? Yes, I described this in an earlier post where I tailed /var/log/XFree86.1.log. thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how-to for using xfwm4 and ROX?

Joe Mc Cool wrote: just last night I ran: apt-get xfce4 aaargh, that should have been: apt-get install xfce4 (go see www.xfce.org) super system, beats kde anyday. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slow X and kdm startup

Sarge, and with either 2.2 or 2.6 kernels: at boot up I get a login prompt at the F1 console ok. After about 10 secs, the screen goes blank. After another very long delay I get an hour glass in the middle on the screen at F7. There is another very long delay before I get a KDE login prompt.

downloading mail from demon

Please, currently the users on my small sarge network use Mozilla to read mail from Demon.co.uk. They stipulate their incoming user name as user_name+benburb to pop3.demon.co.uk. I would like to change this setup so that my Debian box automatically pulls down the emails for ALL USERS.

downloading mail from demon.co.uk

Please, currently the users on my small sarge network use Mozilla to read mail from Demon.co.uk. They stipulate their incoming user name as user_name+benburb to pop3.demon.co.uk. I would like to change this setup so that my Debian box automatically pulls down the emails for ALL USERS.

no kdm after 2.2-2.4

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joe Mc Cool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24

Re: no kdm after 2.2-2.4

I can run X ok and startkde, but I need kdm to provide user logins a la kde. A line in /etc/init.d/kdm features the debug level. I uncommented this and now kdm presents a login fine (irrespective of kernel), but very, very slowly. But - wait for it - I re-commented the bebug line and

Re: no kdm after 2.2-2.4

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joe Mc Cool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24 solaris kdm: :0

Re: alsaconf cannot find my es1371

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joe Mc Cool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: sarge, 2.2.20 kernel If you still use the Woody installation kernel, you should upgrade to kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8. OK, I have tried this several times and can't get past this booting error (kernel-image-2.4-686

no kdm after 2.2-2.4

Please, if this is a FAQ, my google searches can't find it. I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24 solaris kdm: :0[610]: Hung in

alsaconf cannot find my es1371

sarge, 2.2.20 kernel insmod es1371 works fine and I can play sound no problem. For some time I have been struggling to get sound recording to work. This was part of my reason to upgrade from woody to sarge. So, I thought I'd try alssa. apt-get install alsa no errors but alsaconf does not

realplayer10 and sound quality

Sarge, kernel 2.2.20, small home network. Server: PII 333MHz. Thanks a lot for Debian. I have just installed RealPlayer10 and it works fine, listening on line to BBC Radio 3. Wonderful, thanks again everybody. But this is when only one person is logged on. If, say, another user is moving his

Re: power failure during upgrade

Guillaume TESSIER wrote: power failure during upgrade Damn... Actually, it was faulty hardware. My fault entirely. Maybe while being disapointed and sending all damnation on the power plant, you forgot to modify your sources.lists No. I shouldn't have to touch these. They still point

power failure during upgrade

in order to upgrade from woody to sarge I did: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade off it went, but unfortunately I had a power failure during the upgrade and my system got hosed. (I repeated the above steps, but my system would then boot only with a ro root filesystem.) So, coward

OT: deliver text as email (UK)

something that I cobble together on the command line. Thanks a lot. Joe Mc Cool -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no eth0 after 2.2.20 - 2.4.18

broadcast 150.126.17.255 gateway 150.126.17.10 (I have to load yenta_socket, or modprobe whinges about unresolved symbols - YES, I know this is a shot in the dark !) modprobe i82365 finds a CS4237B _audio card_ and then dies with no such device (perhaps this is unconnected) stuck ! Joe Mc

copy os files from CD to hd

Please, I've hosed my system, entirely my fault. It will only boot of one of the Installation CDs, number 5. This give me 2.4.18-bf2.4 and everything works fine. What files do I copy from this CD and to where to have a normal HD boot. Sorry to trouble you all with this. Thanks a lot. Joe Mc

cca2wav screws up first tract

. The resulting track_01.wav is unreadable. Stuck. -- Joe Mc Cool Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) voice:(44)2837-548074fax:(44)-870-0520185 The more you say the less the better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE