Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient if not impossible.) Not at all. IIRC, Abiword can both import DOC and export LaTeX. On the other hand, if you want *nice* LaTeX, you'll have to try a bit harder; Abiword seems to try to preserve as much of the formatting as possible, rather than just letting TeX deal with it. -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:07:46AM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: I searched this group on this error message, which I get at odd times on Debian Etch, usually when using Mutt or xpdf to read an attachment. I'll go to those groups too, but sometimes I think I see it even from the command line. Anyone else? Or does anyone know what it means? I googled it a while back; apparently it's due to a harmless bug/design flaw in the libraries used by Xpdf. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS The error is harmless, though annoying. -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tool for document management
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:26:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: At first glance I am leaning for throwing Subversion on my main box so I can sync the other two machines off of it. Not sure if there is something better suited to the task or that svn would be particularly ill suited. I can't see any particular reason why svn (or any other RCS) would be bad for documents, assuming they're plaintext (PDFs and OpenOffice/MS Office/OpenDocument might be slightly more problematic, since they're binary, but only relative to plaintext as svn and most other RCSs handle binary perfectly adequately). It's common practice for software projects to keep their documentation in revision control along with the software, and for example IkiWiki http://ikiwiki.info/ (and I believe other wiki-type systems too) uses RCSs as a backend for what is basically documentation (in this case a website, but the file formats are basically the same). -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ To the person who ate the contents of the container labeled 'James' - warning, it was my biology experiment - from a note on a students' fridge. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Tool for document management
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 04:29:46PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 2) ISTM that it would be darn straightforward to get a VCS to handle zip files properly -- unzipping the current repo version and comparing to the new incoming version and then zipping the whole thing up. I know it doesn't help your current situation much, but once of the still in development VCS'es might be able to incorporate this feature right away. I'm thinking particular of Darcs which is still heavily worked on, I think, and being written in Haskell should be subject to fairly quickly adding a feature like this. Might be worth a shot. Anything that supports prehooks and posthooks should manage it; mercurial can, IIRC (and there's an example of something like it in the hgrc manpage), and darcs should be able to once the next version is released (it has prehooks, whereas the current version only has posthooks). bzr, git, svn should all be able to manage it too. -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:53:57PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename -- including directories -- so that the latter are mixed in with regular files in the output of 'ls'. The last time I ran into this putting 'export LC_COLLATE=C' in .bashrc remedied the unwanted behaviour. No such luck this time. Do 'printenv | grep LC_COLLATE' or 'locale' show the right setting? I notice in proftpd's postinst script a 'ListOption' configuration variable was set. Did this somehow get lodged somewhere in a system file such that even with the purge of proftpd it is still active? I shouldn't think so, but it's not impossible (I can't see why it would change system settings, but it could have done). -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ Now, now, dear man, this is not the time to be making enemies. - Voltaire, on his deathbed, when a priest asked him to renounce Satan signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: choice
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Just compare https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrtools/ with https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit to understand realiability of cdrtools and cdrkit. lack of bug reports != lack of bugs. The CDDL is a free software license that gives more freedom than the GPL does and it is definitely accepted even by Debian. It's accepted by Debian? I've never seen any consensus that it's DFSG-free, and it's certainly not GPL-compatible, since AIUI it includes restrictions that the GPL doesn't (or at least the GPLv2, I don't know about v3). And AFAIK there are no CDDL packages in Debian ATM. What makes you say that it's definitely accepted? None of the references I could find were particularly recent, though: http://web.archive.org/web/20050215224024/members.optusnet.com.au/benjamincarlyle/benjamin/blog/2005/02/04/#cddl http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00023.html (and subsequent thread) -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:10:38PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 10:42 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani escribió: If you want more up-to-date apps you'd rather use Lenny, which is the actual testing distribution. It has the advantage of being up-to-date while keeping a good level of stability. It's meant for final users (unlike stable, which is meant for servers) The testing is meant for final users? I mean I am using etch on a laptop but of course would like some of the latest versions of some programs without having to compile them from source. So lenny is quite stable then for end desktop users? Yes it is. Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is, you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a non-stable distro!) Whyever not? I've been using aptitude on various testing/unstable systems since before Sarge was released and I've never had a problem. In fact, hasn't aptitude been recommended over apt-get since Sarge? -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mail messages with only html
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on sending blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is usually a sign of spam, and I usually delete such messages without wasting time wondering what might be in them. But I do get some messages in this form that I want to read, and even keep. Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs when the href text doesn't have it) and write the bare text back into the source email so that I can see it? The html attachment could be left in place or discarded, it usually won't matter which. Or would this mess up the IMAP or Maildir indexing in some way? Obviously there are plenty of examples of html-strippers around, but generally the output lands up somewhere else, and it would be a great help if the missing original message could be inserted so as to be viewable while browsing the email folder hierarchy. Not a direct answer to your question, but if you are using mutt under X, then there are html viewers that can hook into mutt. There are viewers that can hook into Mutt even if you don't run it under X. In .muttrc: auto_view text/html In .mailcap: text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput Or: text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. I could be wrong, but I don't think that editing the contents of a message would mess up the indexing (most applications that I know of only index the headers). On the other hand, it might be safest to write it to a new file in the maildir, with a new unique name. -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself. - Kenneth Williams signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Real problem with debian user is NOT spam, but that posts don' t get posted.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:54:05PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/10/2007 02:46 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, On Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 18:41:15 -, J wrote: Real problem with debian user is not spam, but that posts don' t get posted. Can you please check if you are subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Huh? This is the first I've heard of that address? Where is it documented? I've never heard of it before either, even though I've been here on and off for years. On the other hand, I've never seen a problem posting, or been aware that there was a problem. It's listed on the subscribe page on lists.debian.org -- Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem. I still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom. mailq works for root. OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq. You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4. Kumar strace -e trace=open,write mailq run from user tom exits after open (/etc/passwd write(2, exim: permission denied If I run /etc/init.d/exim4 restart I get a warning that the exim4 paniclog is not empty. tail/var/exim4/paniclog ends with failed to read delivery status for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the delivery subprocess. I have tried editing exim4.conf.template and uncommenting the Login lines in the Authentication section and entering my user name and password after the colons in the server_promts line. This does not solve the problem. Firstly, IIRC, Exim4 has its own ideas about who can run it as /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/sbin/exim; you'd need to run it as root or find the setting to permit other users to run the commands. This isn't a problem for Fetchmail, though, as Fetchmail is trying to connect to a mailserver running on the local machine, port 25. Fetchmail's problem is that Exim isn't configured to run as a server, so it has no idea what to do with the mail it's fetching. You need to either configure Exim to listen on port 25, or configure Fetchmail to deliver to a program such as procmail; the second option is probably better all round, unless fetchmail is downloading mail for more than one local user. Ben signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the configuration. As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that could neither be fixed nor removed. As instructed, I read /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz and tried to follow the instructions without success (my fault, I just could find proper file and make the change as instructed). Finally, I found example.conf.gz in /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples, unzipped it and copied it to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. With this change apt-get -f install completed the installation of exim4. With exim4 installed fetchmail fetched 200+ postings from several users lists and put them somewhere but mutt couldn't find them. As root I ran runq but mutt still found nothing. I know most of this setup works because I sent an email to myself and then ran strace -e open,write fetchmail. I was able to read the email I sent to myself in the output. Also mutt still displays older messages which I have not erased. For the present I am reading my emails with iceape but I preferred the mutt output. I would appreciate any help in restoring the mutt output of the email that fetchmail fetches. Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? Ben signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen is locked with a screen-saver. I do not quite understand the issues!! (1) What good are keys when nobody is logged in?? (2) If the screen is locked with a screen saver (by some user, may be yourself), you still have the six VT, whch will give a shell (after LOGGING in), wherein you might (I am not sure) use xbindkeys (as Celejar was suggesting) to launch your favorite shell scripts (as long as they dont require X). You certainly do not wish to launch a command bypassing the screen lock, do you? Keys are quite useful when nobody is logged in, if for example you want them to work on the login screen (for example, changing a keymap to make it possible to type usernames/passwords). It's also perfectly possible to disable switching to a VT from X11. I seem to remember Ubuntu does by default, which I always discover just when I have a problem that I need to switch to a terminal for... Ben signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up all sorts. Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website (for simplicity lets say it's this): /mydirectory/index.html /mydirectory/images/image.gif I want to make a backup so in the /mydirectory/ folder I do: cp -r ./ backup I wanted his to result in: /mydirectory/index.html /mydirectory/images/image.gif /mydirectory/backup/index.html /mydirectory/backup/images/image.gif Does that make sense? The error I get is: cp: cannot copy a directory, `./', into itself, `backup' Is there a way to have cp ignore the newly created directory? Something like: cp -r ./ backup --ignore=backup I usually do: cp -a ./* ./.* backup/ You'll get an error when it tries to copy backup into itself, but everything else will be copied fine. Ben signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:19:39PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:26:34 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto � wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: My point is that God, if She exists, is beyond our comprehension. We have to have faith in Her existence. A valid point, except that God is in fact a He. Regards, -Roberto Now it is you that missed my point. I am saying that nobody really *knows* what God is. I am sure there are many females that would disagree with you on this point. Personally, I would better define God at as It. Let us just agree that to you, God is a He. In the mainstream, traditional Western religions, God is described as He. Anyone can believe anything he (or she) wants, but if females choose to believe that God is a she just because that suits their vanity, that's just silly. No more silly than patriarchal religions describing God as He just because that suits *their* vanity (heaven forbid they follow orders from a female, divine or otherwise...). bma signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:09:11AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-10, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screen(1) is what Unix users used before x terminals and PCs were inexpensive enough for everyone to have one. That much I know. Why would an acknowledged user-wizard choose to use screen instead of xterms is my question, especially since said wizard is using X and a window manager. The folks who use screen seem to be on the high-end of the wizard scale, so I'm assuming it must do something better than regular xterms, but having browsed (briefly I admit) the man page it isn't obvious to me what that might be. Depends on how easy it is to launch an extra xterm - starting an extra shell inside screen may be more convenient than running a second terminal. Screen also lets you detach and reattach sessions from the terminal, so you can (for example) detach, restart X, reattach, and be exactly where you were before. This is the main reason I use it. bma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:40:17PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: Does anyone know of any good, inexpensive players with support for the ogg audio format? I've burned all of my music to .ogg format and I'd like to find a good music player that ISN'T Cowon America (Their customer support is pathetic, I refuse to buy anything from them). The iRiver T30 (and presumably other models) cost me about 40GBP on Amazon UK; it supports Ogg-Vorbis and (once a firmware upgrade is installed, which requires Windows) appears as a USB storage device. I can recommend it. bma signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Logrotate and mail
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:41 -0500, Foote, Bruce (OFT) wrote: However, can I use mail to mail a log to a system user? That is, a user specified in /etc/passwd?' Yes, just send it to the username: $ cat /var/log/syslog | mail root You might want to look at the logcheck package, if you just want reports of important messages. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee http://benalee.co.uk/ Technical Officer, TermiSoc http://termisoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gpg keys on multiple machines
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:40 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:49:44 + Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there's a preferred method for setting up the same gpg profile (keys) on multiple machines? I'm surprised I haven't been able to find much on the web about this. Surely there must be thousands of us sending/receiving email both at home and at work, and probably for some folks umpteen other places as well. man gpg mentions --export-secret-keys [name] you could probably just gpg -o [file] --export-secret-keys [name] on one machine and then gpg --import [file] on the other machine... I haven't tried it... I just copy my ~/.gnupg directory and its contents around; nothing has broken so far. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee http://benalee.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. I tried a few different ones and ngircd seems to be the easiest. DCC appears to be working, and I know I haven't touched any settings related to it. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee http://benalee.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: remote desktop
Rodney Richison wrote: What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. How about VNC? A VNC daemon is available for windows, and clients are available for Linux. Ben -- Termisoc Tech Officer http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail protocol question.
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:44 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Can someone direct me on where I can find information on what Should and Must be included in an email message that is a Reply, Forward, Replay-to-All type of message? I'm not sure what the correct RFC is for this or if there really are any specific requirements. RFC 2822 is probably what you want. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html HTH, Ben -- Termisoc Tech Officer: http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ All murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Re: .bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:44 -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote: is there something about the way xdm or KDE starts which keeps it from sourcing a .bash_profile file? How can I configure xdm or KDE to read in these files if they don't? .bash_profile is only sourced for login shells; when you open an xterm in KDE or wherever, it's not a login shell so it's not sourced. If you start X from a shell, it's already sourced .bash_profile so the variables are inherited. If you want the variables set in all shells, not just login shells, set them in .bashrc. Ben -- Termisoc Tech Officer: http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use - Søren Kierkegaard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: telnet as login shell
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen Le wrote: Is it possible to change a user's login shell to an instance of telnet to a user-unique port? When a user logs into my server, I'd like them to be immediately dropped into a telnet session on a specific port running on the server and to be disconnected when their telnet session ends. You should be able to write a script that calls telnet with the appropriate options, and set that as the shell (add it to /etc/shells). That's just a guess, haven't tested it. Ben -- Termisoc Tech Officer: http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. - Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to return bash from dash?
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:30 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: How to return bash as /bin/sh? Why it is not in /etc/alternatives? Well, if it really isn't in /etc/alternatives/ , try as root: # rm /bin/sh # ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh Or similar. bma -- Termisoc Tech Officer: http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail spamassassin
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:31 -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: How can i tell spamassassin or procmail to check the message only once? (then deliver to each mailbox) Have a look at the sa-exim package, which will scan it before it gets to Procmail. Thank you very much. I'm testing it right now. Don't you know something similar for clamav? Haven't tried it out, but clamsmtp looks like it could be what you're after. Ben -- Termisoc Tech Officer: http://termisoc.org/ My Homepage: http://benalee.co.uk/ My GnuPG Key: 1146 4336 BB6D2 FA0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Adding fonts to Gnome.....
Redefined Horizons wrote: I've got GNOME 2 running on Debian Sarge. I'd like to add some fonts to GNOME. (Currently I've only got about 12 fonts.) What type of fonts are compatible? Truetype fonts should work (they did for me last time I tried, at least). I've never tried any others, but I think Type 1 fonts might work too. How do I add them to Gnome? Try putting them in a subdirectory of /usr/share/fonts. You may or may not need to restart Gnome/X11 for it to take notice of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000 or thereabouts, R G Cottrell wrote: As far as I can tell, the latest testing kernel image for Pentium is: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-586tsc_2.4.27-6_i386.deb (11.5M) What commands do I need to issue in order to generate a .deb that is _identical_ to that? I assume I have to use make-kpkg, and it probably depends on the precise version of the compiler. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html I assume that works; I don't bother making a .deb package and just compile it the non-Debian way. -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A Men can't multitask, but Unix can. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Exim4 config help request
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:31:59PM -0500 or thereabouts, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for exim4 (I have been using Sendmail and have tried Postfix too!). Requirements is that it should send to and receive from remote domains (office box connected to Internet via LAN). The error message sent back by exim is: ... Mailing to remote domains is not supported in fact, it does not send to another machine in the same domain! Any pointers will be appreciated. -ishwar You've got the exim4-daemon-light package, which only does local deliveries. You need to remove that and install exim4-daemon-heavy, which does remote deliveries too. apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy should work, I think (I use aptitude, it's easy :). -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A Men can't multitask, but Unix can. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest in Iraq either way. If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied Iraq with weapons, when it was fighting Iran. And to the Taliban when it was fighting the USSR. How does that make the USA better than the rest of the world, exactly? -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A Men can't multitask, but Unix can. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: wireless pcmcia card
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:36:50AM -0500 or thereabouts, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: Does that include cards with the Boradcom chipsets... like the Linksys WPC54G? I've just managed to get my Broadcom wireless card working, using ndiswrapper. It's not particularly hard if you know what you're doing, just compile the module, tell it where to find the Windows driver, and that's about it. -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A Men can't multitask, but Unix can. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM + or thereabouts, Joao Clemente wrote: Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily? If you want it to run silently, you can put MAILTO= in /etc/crontab But otherwise cron jobs only mail if there's output to stdout, so if you want more out put, not less, you'd have to set each one individually (I think). -- -Benjamin Matthew A'Lee, currently trying to make sure Mutt doesn't let him accidentally reply to sender instead of reply to list... Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A The right to bear arms is only slightly less silly than the right to arm bears. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Except that those of us that do not use GNOME (WindowMaker, in my case) Only see the apps from the Debian menu system. That is, unless I bother to build my own entire menu heirarchy. Personally, I think it is fine the way it is. Besides, pretty much every app that has built-in GNOME integration already puts itself into the GNOME menu. -Roberto I think he means (optionally) replacing the GNOME menu with the Debian menu; that would save having two separate menu heirarchies. Anyone who doesn't use GNOME would be unaffected. -- -Benjamin Matthew A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A The right to bear arms is only slightly less silly than the right to arm bears. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
