Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:08 +0200, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: >> I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and >> the boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice >> characters - haven't counted rows nor columns, but framebuffer must be >> working.) I have an nVidia GeForce4 video card and a Compaq 7550 >> monitor, using a stock 2.6.18 kernel. > > Thats grub-splashimages, not bootsplash. > > Anyway, I've got bootsplash working. I installed bootsplash, bootsplash- > themes-debian, linux-patch-bootsplash and had to build a new kernel > using the bootsplash patch. > > Install the full kernel sources, copy /boot/config* to /usr/src/linux- > source*/.config then > "make-kpkg --version=custom1 --added-patches=bootsplash kernel-image" > > (but there's a bit more to kernel-building than that) and I also had to run mkinitramfs > /boot/initrd.2.6.21 to add the splash image to the initrd so it would get used, then add an initrd line to grub. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > I'm using vga=791. The splash image displays at the grub screen, and the > boot messages are "nice". (No graphics, but small and nice characters - > haven't counted rows nor columns, but framebuffer must be working.) > I have an nVidia GeForce4 video card and a Compaq 7550 monitor, using a > stock 2.6.18 kernel. Thats grub-splashimages, not bootsplash. Anyway, I've got bootsplash working. I installed bootsplash, bootsplash- themes-debian, linux-patch-bootsplash and had to build a new kernel using the bootsplash patch. Install the full kernel sources, copy /boot/config* to /usr/src/linux- source*/.config then "make-kpkg --version=custom1 --added-patches=bootsplash kernel-image" (but there's a bit more to kernel-building than that) -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:10:05 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Stephen Patterson wrote: >> I've tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian >> bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes >> resolution and loads the frambuffer at boot (verified via dmesg) it >> doesn't display any splash image but boots normally as >> framebuffer-text. >> >> > Yea this is what I am seeing also. I tried downloading the patch to the > kernel from bootshplash.de but the latest kernal patch they had was for > 2.6.15 and I am running 2.6.18 and it wouldn't compile. I would love to > get this working now, most just b/c I haven't figured it out than > anything else. :) I haven't given up, but it has been put on the back > burner I upgraded to unstable last night just in case, didn't make any difference to it at all. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone have success with bootsplash package?
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:18 +0200, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have tried installing this package on two of my three machines and had > no success with it. I have verified that I have frame buffer support > compiled into the kernal and I have also even installed the patch that > is listed in apt-get, but nothing seems to work. At one point I was > able to get text size change during the boot up, but then machine locked > up during the boot process. > > So I was wondering if anyone had any tips if they got it working on > their machines. > > Eric I've tried it, with a few different vga=parameters using the debian bootsplash & bootsplash-themes packages and although it changes resolution and loads the frambuffer at boot (verified via dmesg) it doesn't display any splash image but boots normally as framebuffer-text. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get k3b back in testing (yes, this sounds familiar)
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:40:04 +0100, H.S. wrote: > So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer > packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But > yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if > k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed so did > not upgrade at all. So, to get k3b back, what do I do? I know it is not > there anymore in Testing. Where can I find it's last deb package for > Testing? You could always download the current debian sources (apt-get source) and build your own binary package. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the last 2 years. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDamEtUKIGN+Po6XQRArufAJ4g2wwg/nAsiTSU9JqlsMIfn8n8WQCfWzlu WB7JcSEiVLAu8NdP+Lx5wBg= =567v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting USB stuff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:50:15 +0200, Michael S. Peek wrote: > for that matter, without the user having to even know what "mount" means. > (After all, if I let users mount stuff, it's just a matter of time before > someone forgets to unmount, and then they call me wondering why files are > broken/missing.) autofs is your friend, mounts a device when the associated directory is accessed, then unmounts it after a configurable period of inactivity. Don't know how you'd obscure the difference between sda1 & sdb1 though. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDYO6WUKIGN+Po6XQRAlb3AJwNqzSxSX11tfplhclB0ggCZi90aQCgg8Qy 937PA9cbaohyr8ivKMq4Km0= =6m1G -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An alternative to ~/.xinitrc when using GDM ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:00:13 +0200, All Nicks Are Taken wrote: > Hey... I've just swapped from the regular 'startx' method to GDM, and I'm > looking for some way to launch all my apps (panel, wallpaper setting, xrdb > -load ~/.Xdefaults etc...). I'm using Openbox3 so there is no way doing it > from the WM. ~/.xsession (executable) works, it seems to have the same syntax as ~/.xinitrc and the common #! syntax is understood. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDXiVMUKIGN+Po6XQRAlK2AJ4qBOII7K4I1DiUUT8g2rYptHkCmgCeM7Ev y4boFcg8JFsYKgsHJuRC1wY= =3vYq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should users have to manually modprobe to use standard peripherals?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:40:07 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > Twice this week, I've had to become superuser and install kernel modules > manually to make standard peripherals work. This seems broken to me. If you always want the module loaded, add its name to /etc/modules, then it'll automagically get loaded on bootup. Hotplug's also meant to be able to find modules as needed. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GMail invites to anyone who wants one "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDSOiRUKIGN+Po6XQRApaDAJ9tokhdEvWQnZDgpUR1cdIDoL+WPwCeLmwC cZRbSclXhzIa41lO261qbeY= =zGNB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:40:10 +0200, David R. Litwin wrote: Well, thats a lot of unreadble data, but seeing as you mention wireless, I thought I'd better mention that WPA is cranky at the beat of times. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDOrQzUKIGN+Po6XQRAtvOAJ9l9KrLTaXKEMPF4UH2nf3qD6yXdwCgnkVJ LK1NdCNSRuUNuCBoui36d1U= =M6Hj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:10:06 +0200, Miles Bader wrote: > [This is so I can get some sort of progress view on a raytracer, which > only slowly produces its output image, without having to deal with > writing X color allocation code myself... sigh...] Gqview can handle updating on file change, not sure whether it barfs on STDERR though. - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLviIUKIGN+Po6XQRAiXjAKCE1khcVe2LcM3STYJ/BcmbHa2pFACgmaJd RSqxdg8PeqbKC6k7mvhOKkE= =N3Zx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Edit as new; was Re: Thunderbird not visible
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:50:04 +0200, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > --V88s5gaDVPzZ0KCq > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:20:27PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> > > By `bouncing' the message (generally `b'). >>=20 >> It doesn't allow me to change the From: address which T-Bird's "Edit as n= > ew" >> does. > > Yes, it doesn't, as it sends the mail "as-is". However, you can do a > dirty work around; copy the message, edit it to change the From: and > then bounce the edited message. In mutt, Esc-e lets you edit and resend a message (e lets you edit and keep a stored message). - -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJA7GUKIGN+Po6XQRAjgiAJ9Ucva2JWYUzLP2/48TILqXyvxHCgCdG+QZ 5Uy4ADnx29QGQXujrqRuGeo= =HYIU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:40:12 +0200, Derrick Hudson wrote: >| and keeping my Debian stable system up to date. > > Use a cron job such as > > @daily root aptitude update >/dev/null && aptitude -d -y u= > pgrade >/dev/null If you track stable/sarge then there won't be many new/upadated packages to download. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox Downgrade (was Re: Problem with Firefox and Mime (I think))
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:30:47 +0200, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Thanks for your prompt reply ... > > >>> From where can we obtain this previous version? > > rw> `apt-get install packagename=version` IIRC. > Didn't work! Other ideas? If you run aptitude and select firefox, you can see what versions you have available, to get an older one, you *might* have to add a sources.list entry for a previous debian release. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature
> >> >I would like to make a list of email clients which have a >> > reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I >> > know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would >> > comment about whether their favorite email client has this feature or > not. Or use the newsgroup :) -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i cant print from firefox?
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:40:12 +0200, Eric Persson wrote: > I'm using cups, and I couldnt get the line above to work from the shell > either, so it might be that? but what should the line say? :) Cups (if you've got cupsys-bsd installed) provides an lp command rather than an lpr one. You should also install xprint-xorg if you've not already got it. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automatically load module at boottime
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:00:14 +0200, Gabe Granger wrote: > > I've just completed setup of a OnStream SCSI backup device in my > Debian box, which is working really really well. I had a power cut > earlier today and when power was restored I checked the backup device > and noticed that the osst module was not loaded. how can i make the > system automatically load the module at boottime? Add the module name to /etc/modules -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shorthand for ip ranges
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:50:12 +0200, Jörg Schütter wrote: > ipcalc 192.168.0.151 - 192.168.0.185 I find http://subnetmask.info can be handy for IP calculations. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Available printers
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:50:07 +0200, David A. Cobb wrote: > When my wife tries to print from her desktop, the choices of printer are > * scx5400_5400@:64 > * xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_xprint ... @:64 > * xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_xprint ...@:64 > * Postscript/scx5300_5400 > And everything she tries to print comes out with very large fonts and > only about half on the page, as though the dots-per-inch setting is way off. That system's running xprint, and it just appears that the default resolution configured for xprint is above the available resolution of your printer. You can correct this by editing /etc/Xprint/C/print/attributes/document and setting *default-printer-resolution: 300 (or whatever resoution is appropriate for the printer). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:30:11 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote: > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, > it ended up producing an unending stream of > > multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out > of disk space The few times I've run out of space on an upgrade, repeated calls of 'apt-get clean' followed by 'aptitude upgrade' have sorted things out well enough. If you run apt-get clean, that'll delete all the .deb files that have been downloaded to your system and free up quite a bit of space (especially for a major upgrade). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fluxbox application switching panel
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:31:56 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > I googled but could not find out how to make fluxbox show a switching > panel when using alt-tab It doesn't do that. > and also could not find out how to switch to > minimized windows with alt-tab. You need to configure the iconbar (right-click) to show minimized and non-minimized windows, then you should be able to switch any window with alt-tab. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:20:10 +0200, Phil Dyer wrote: > The other way would be to edit /etc/dhclient.conf and tell it to prepend > to the list of dns servers > > prepend domain-name-servers x.x.x.x; Or there's the supersede option in dhclient.conf which makes resolv.conf only contain whatever you put in the option. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian drops ball on security updates
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:30:11 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello *, > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:53:10AM -0700, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrot= > e: >> CNET News.com (http://www.news.com/) >> This story has been sent to you on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (e-mail address not verified). > > Ah ha, great joke. > >> Debian drops ball on security updates >> By Renai LeMay >>=20 >> The newly launched Linux distribution has a glitch--some versions were re= > leased with default security updates turned off. > > OK, in order to prevent confusion: > > There is a discussion going on on d-project about how to possibly > react to this, see ><http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/06/msg00147.html> and > following replies. Oh? and I'd just classified this as more FUD from yet another company thats in the sack with Bill. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running one thin client?
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:40:15 +0200, Cameron Matheson wrote: > So my computer is kind of loud which is drawing some complaints from > other people in my room at night... This is pretty simple with gdm. Install gdm on both systems and set gdm on the desktop to allow remote tcp connections (there's a configuration menu on gdm). Then on the laptop you can login locally as normal, or run a chooser from the gdm menu to connect to the X session on your desktop box. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enhancing xdmcp performance
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:00:18 +0200, Cam wrote: > XDMCP works surprising well, but it's still a little sluggish > (especially when switching workspaces or alpha effects come into play > (like w/ the download manager in firefox, or the logout screen in > gnome). I'm using a wireless network, which may be too slow... or > would a faster network even do me any better? I would like to have > the client over the network work as much like using a real computer as > possible. from what i've read, it can be done. anyone have any tips? > would using ssh w/ compression enabled have better performance than > XDMCP? also, is there any way to do media-intense apps (movie > players, games, etc), over the network? I've seen that ssh with X is much slower with the higher overhead (and then extra load for encryption) XDMCP can handle videos in realtime on a 100MBit network, though I've not tested full-screen and you'd then need some way of pushing sound across the network. Either way (ssh or XDMCP) are much quicker than regular vnc. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Encrypting the hard disk?
On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:50:15 +0200, Nardis Dome wrote: > > Hi, > > try cryptoloop > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/ Just don't forget your password or encryption type. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: launching screensaver manually
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:20:08 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: > I want to launch my screensaver manually sometimes, so I think it would > be best to have an icon on my desktop or menu but I can't get the cmd > line right. Well, if you've already got the xscreenasver daemon running in the background, 'xscreensaver-command -lock' will do it. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which fonts a program uses
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:20 +0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote: > - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? I'd expect anything running under X to simply load named fonts from those that are available to the X server. > - How do I discover which fonts are installed on my box, or better put, > which fonts are available, to each font-handling method ? xlsfonts will tell you which fonts are available for use by X, from the listed FontPaths in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Its probably a good idea for you to install cfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, gsfonts-x11 and msttcorefonts to get a decent selection of fonts. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ could be handy too -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!
Deboo ^ wrote: > I have lots of data on it, useful data and lots of linux things I > wouldn't like to lose. Can someone help? I've had luck with gpart[1] in the past, it'll scan the disk and find any partition boundaries (oh the fun of accidentally writing a rescue floppy image to /dev/hda). [1] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (there should be a package in debian/main too). -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [solved] clock troubles
Bob Freemer wrote: > Wrong. NTP will fail to update the clock if the hardware clock skew is > too large. NTP cannot operate without a reasonably stable internal > hardware clock. Although there is an option to force ntp to set the clock, however large the difference is. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup and Restore Strategy
Bob Freemer wrote: > I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then > simply copy over appropriate files and do apt-get dist-upgrade or > something like that. Modifying /etc/fstab might be required but other > than that any other issues to concern myself with? I usually back up /etc, /boot and anywhere else I've added data (/home and /usr/local/), plus a list of installed packages (dpkg --get-selections). Its then relatively easy to wipe the system, install the base packages, feed in the old installed package list to install from and overwrite /etc with the backed-up version. -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > You can put the package on hold. I'm not sure if it is the best way to > secure the package from accidentally being removed. but if you put the package on hold it'll never get upgraded... -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: E3E8E974 "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." -- Melissa O'Brien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:50:08 +0100 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm looking to do, in more detail, is keep two Woody-based servers > functionally identical by having the backup server periodically grab web, > mailing list, and mail files from the primary server. I want the backup > system to be in full readiness to take over, so all I have to do is throw a > DNS "switch" to have it become the server. Well, there's always rsync. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:00:09 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > After all, > even Outlook has File->Archive... functionality, so that the .PST > file won't get so huge. Though thats due to the fact the outlook can't cope with pst files above 2 GB. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird 1.0
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:00:28 +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > does anyone know if thunderbird 1.0 is going to make it into unstable > anytime soon? No idea, but the official dist from the tunderbird sites is a precompiled tarball that extracts very neatly into a directory, and youcan just run thunderbird from there. Easy enough to remove later when a debian thunderbird 1.0 comes along. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nightstand Terminal
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:10:10 +0100, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size, > any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are > known to be able to run Woody?! Probably anything thats not too recent would work well, though for your purposes I'd suggest an IBM Thinkpad 760EL, ok, thats a P1 with a 2 gig disc but this model doesn't have any fans so the only noise is the hard drive (which won't keep you awake). THe other good news with one of these is that it uses real APM so your power management will just work :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setting GTK 1 font size
I'm running sarge with all the latest updates, and without gnome installed, though with a few gtk2 and gtk1 apps. Everything's looking good apart for the rather huge font size on the few remaining gtk1 programs (xmms and uae). Does anyone know how to I can set the font size used for gtk1 applications, given that the current gnome-control center only sets it for gtk2? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs fonts for coding
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:30:17 +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
>> I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have
>> tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad
>> corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish
>> braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding.
>
> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
I find my regular terminal font (7x13) to be good and just set emacs
to use that.
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Re: http Traffic Anayalsis
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:20:09 +0100, JB Hewit wrote: > I understand that there will always be traffic not going through our > proxy (Windows updates, etc) but I want a way to find out where the > traffic is going. http://www.ntop.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange NFS messages: "lockd: cannot monitor..."
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:30:15 +0100, Terje Fåberg wrote: > (1) initrd creates a new tmpfs > (2) initrd copies the image of the root file-system > minus /usr into that tmpfs > (3) mount /usr from server in read-only mode > (4) initrd pivots to the tmpfs > > This way no data on the server needs to be writable > at all. The clients will also want to be able to write to /etc/mtab and will probably need to be able to write a few logs in /var/log. Might be worth checking the 'securing debian' howto, that suggests having a read-only local root on systems for security reasons, and probably has notes on how to cope with the few bits that need to be written to (symlinks?). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how does mutt send?
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:50:10 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> This may be wrong, but it seems to work. If I add INBOX to folder, then
> when I try to navigate back to the inbox from elsewhere, and [tab] on
> the IMAP item in the list it offers me imap:.place.net/INBOX/INBOX
> which is to say it appends {'/' . $mailboxes} to $folder. That means that
> even if I make $mailboxes null, I still get the extra '/' and cannot
> open the inbox. The way I did it, I can both navigate back to INBOX and
> save copies of sent mail to Sent. It is not congruent with any
> instructions I have seen anywhere else, but it works for me.
I find that mutt works better with imap if INBOX doesn't contain
messages, but is instead a folder containing only message
folders. This way I can use the C key to browse the full folder
structure (not just the ones named by the 'mailboxes' option).
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Re: mutt pop configuration
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:00:23 +0100, George Iordanou wrote: >> It will ask for your password. I do not know whether the outgoing mail >> server can be configured via mutt. > As i've seen i have to configure smtp through sendmail. Unfortunately > mutt does not support smtp. mutt needs a configured local mailserver (exim, postfix or the like) though I've recently found smtppush to be very useful for sending email directly via my ISP's mail server (yes, I've got a dynamic IP and there are just too many places blackholing dynamic IPS these days *grrr*). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VNC server desktop environment?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:00:18 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > it might be reading ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. Put the KDE window > manager binary path into that. I can'tremember what it's called, but > for another window manager (say, pwm) you'd have > /usr/bin/pwm VNC reads ~/.vnc/xstartup IIRC -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:10:08 +0100, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > ide: primary master = /dev/hdascsi: 1st scsi drive = /dev/sda > ide: primary slave= /dev/hdbscsi: 2nd scsi drive = /dev/sdb > ide: secondary master = /dev/hdcscsi: 3rd scsi drive = /dev/sdc > ide: secondary slave = /dev/hddscsi: 4th scsi drive = /dev/sdd > etc... On 2.4 at least (no devfs or udev pokery) usb drives get lettered in port order so sda'll be your 1st port, sdb the second usb port. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > The solution I've come up with is to rely upon Latex. That is, generate > the output text, insert any tex formatting and send this to a temporary > file, let "dvips" convert to postscript and pipe this to "lp" or "lpr". I've used latex before, but that needs to generate a fair number of files from your input foo.tex document, so it can be painful making sure that none of these overwrite existing files and to clean them all up afterwards. groff is neater in this respect, as you can just pipe strings into the lpr command. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:50:10 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, spamc 3.0 can be kinda slow (or mine isn't tuned that well). > Especially with Baysean filters turned on. bogofilter tends to run a lot leaner than spamassassin. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache being hit
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0100, Mathias Tauber wrote: > Here you need the comment. If you still encounter problems, let > us know... Preferably with a few of the offending log entries. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia_core
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:50:10 +0100, Tom Allison wrote: > From the logs at startup, I can't find the pcmcia_core file. I found > it in the /lib/... as pcmcia_core.ko... Not something I'm familiar > with, but maybe it's a 2.6 kind of think to do. I had this for a while, there should be a pcmcia-modules package for your kernel version, which will sort it out. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the classic mailer recipe from perlcookbook work fine in debian?
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:00:19 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I wonder if the classic recipe from the perl cookbook needs some > readjustment in debian due to sendmail being a link to exim? I tried > to implement it and was giving me a bunch of errors. Does it need some > adjustment, or works just the way it is? exim and the other sendmail replacements (postfix, qmail... etc) are written to function from the command line in the same manner as sendmail itself. So (assuming your perl recipe is just a pipe to sendmail) it should just work. I've found it much simpler at times to use the perl Mail::Sender module instead. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on HP DL360?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:40:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a few DL360 G2's with compaq smart arrays I need to install > on. I've tried a few of the different netinst images on the website, most > of them seem to be broken right now (perhaps due to the new release?) > failing md5 and missing files.. The ones that don't seem to be broken do > not have the cciss drivers, or the drivers for the compaq nic. I installed sarge to one of these servers around the start of September using the businesscard i386 image from. http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ It works just fine, though you've got to install lilo instead of grub. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:20:08 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > There are a number of ways for a workstation to control an MP3=20 > player on a headless Linux "sound server". One of the very pleasant ones is mpd from http://www.musicpd.org/ -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use 2 sound cards in Debian
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:50:08 +0200, Norm wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to use two sound cards with my Debian unstable install. As > seen with this lsmod, the drivers are there for my two cards: > There are other modules of course, this was the most pertinent to show they > were both there. I'm running kernel 2.6.8 with alsa and it works fine with > the emu10k1 but I can't address the second sound card (intel_810). I don't have 2 sound cards as such, though the sound card I have (ensoniq 1371) has 2 wavetable devices, /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1. Have you tried playing sound to any dsp devices above /dev/dsp ? cat, and xmms can both be configured to do this. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Navigator 4.77 packages and sarge
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:20:06 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > dircha writes: >> If so, where should I look to determine what has happened to them, or >> what the reason for their having disappeared is? > > They are being dropped because they are non-free and obsolete and no one > wants to maintain them any more. Though should you need them, they'll run fine under the current sarge. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:50:08 +0200, Don Jackson wrote: > I have installed sarge with kernel 2.4.26 on it -- no problem. Actually, > everything works fine on it, with KDE and Kmail and Mozilla-Firefox as my > choices (since that's what I'm using myself). The problem is that with only > a 166 MHz processor speed and the limited 96MB of RAM, the machine is I've just been inspired to try netscape 4[1] on my p233 laptop, and this thing flies (especially compared to firefox). Some websites will probably look a little interesting due to partial stylesheet support, but hey, it was *the* main browser of the world for quite some time. [1] you need a sources.list entry for contrib, not sure whether its woody or sarge though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:20:07 +0200, Don Jackson wrote: > I'm sure I could make more speedup by going to different wm, but > could not justify the time needed for my learning curve. Just > changing to S-C and Dillo seemed good enough for her, as unlike me, > she has never been exposed to faster computers. FWIW, switching from one of the big desktop environments (gnome/kde) to fluxbox will really speed things up. I could get a from an X login prompt (wdm) to a working desktop almost instantly on the old P166 laptop I used to run before it developed too many hardware problems. > Revised computer has been back in her hands for some time now and performing > well with the exception mentioned about printing of a couple email files. I > need to look into them and possibly report a bug. Still get bugged with > phone calls as my written instructions to her were not perfect ... but > getting there! It may be worth installing ssh and the rfb version of vnc so you log in remotely for support. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt Error: Can't Open Temporary File
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:10:06 +0200, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote: >> I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary >> file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or >> solution? Thanks. Check your diskspace, I've seen this happen once before when a runaway backup script filled / -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:30:17 +0200, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox > files, IMHO. If you have issues with the speed, try switching to > maildir format -- much faster with large mailboxes. Evolution is *much* happier with large maildirs, pity mutt doesn't correctly display the message size with maildir though. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A Little Confused
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:20:09 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Otherwise, dump *dm and hack your style file: > > ~/.fluxbox/styles/TDF: > > rootCommand: /usr/bin/feh --bg-center /home/keeling/grf/omega_nebula.jpg Or you could use ~/.fluxbox/init which overrides all style files, anyhow the simplest way of prettifying xdm is to install one of the others, such as wdm. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs & auctex again....
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:20:09 +0200, Vittorio wrote: > What shall I do to make xemacs21 modify its menu as soon as a .tex file is > loaded? Ah, emacs and xemacs are 2 slightly different beasts. The simplest solution would be to replace xemacs with emacs-x11, which is the same as your console emacs, but with X11 support as well. This is what I use on the odd times I need ot monkey about with latex. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and Mozilla memory usage issues
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:10:04 +0200, [KS] wrote: > Is this is know issue with Mozilla and Firefox? Is > this called memory leak? Is is solely related to > Mozilla or does Debian has to do something with it? Sounds to me like normal memory caching of recently used code & data, especially as the debian packaged firefox runs just fine (albeit a little slowly) on my old P2 with only 64MB RAM. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache2 (testing) cgi-bin doesn't execute?
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:10:05 +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ > You want a slash here^ > AllowOverride None > Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > > > > > -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backuppc
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:40:11 +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Anyone tried backuppc ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ) > If so, here's my files: > Fatal error (bad version): Host key verification failed. Sounds like ssh is being bitchy wrt to the identity key for each host. Can you ssh login between the hosts ok? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Campus Monitoring System...!
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:15 +0200, Eduard Bosma wrote: > Hi All! > > I'm looking at the home site of Nagios, and although it looks very > promising, I can find the last missing piece of information: how does > Nagios monitor the host? > > I need a tool where I can monitor my machine park of AIX/HP and Solaris > machines, but we do NOT want to use SNMP to do this due to different > reasons (mainly security related). I can't see how Nagios is doing the > remote monitoring (i.e. the hard disk usage and for example the telnet > service) Can someone clear this up for me? Nagios uses a set of plugins, which are in the nagios-plugins package, and available from the main nagios site (iirc, the plugins are also on nagios-plugins.sf.net). For network service monitoring (like telnet) there's a connect_tcp plugin which can open a tcp connection to any numbered port. Some of the common services (ssh, and http at least) have custom plugins which return whatever banner the host sends. The only way I've ever seen nagios monitor internal system states (disc usage, cpu usage etc) is via SNMP. The check_snmp plugin supports snmp 1 & 2, possibly 3 and has command-line options that can be used to specify different get and set community names from the default public/private, you could take advantage of this and use different community names from the default on your snmp devices. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200, Alan Shutko wrote: > $ echo Debian GNU/Linux Nooo, you want echo "Microsoft Windows 2.0" :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set up CUPS client
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:10:07 +0200, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I have 2 machines on a local network, both running Debian/Sarge. One has > a printer (Epson SC 660) attached to it's parallel port, and I have that > printer set up with CUPS so that I can print to it from that machine. > That machine is a CUPS server and client, and it works fine. I used the > CUPS web interface (port 631) to set it up. The simplest way is to install these packages on the client (not sure if cupsys-bsd is really needed) cupsys install cupsys-bsd install cupsys-client install libcupsimage2 install libcupsys2-gnutls10 install Cups has a (default enabled) browsing protocol which will let the cupsys server on your client pc discover printers which are configured on the cupsys other server[1]. This should simply work, though if either system has more than one IP or network card, you may need to configure BrowseAddress in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. [1] OK, I'm simplifying things here. In a more diverse network, any one cupsys process can discover printers on any other cups server. AFAIK even windows can't beat that :) -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "The world's most effective spam filter"
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 06:50:08 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 09:08:00PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: >> The world's most effective spam filter: >> >> while :; do sleep 1 > /var/mail/$USER; done > > how about > > halt Isn't the least effort one to forget to pay your electricity bill? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pcmcia-cs or hotplug?
I've got sarge on a laptop with a pcmcia network card, all configured using pcmcia-cs and working just fine. An aptitude upgrade since then has pulled in hotplug, so I've now got a system with pcmcia-cs and hotplug. I'm just wondering which of these is considere the 'official' way to sort out pcmcia? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables practical guide ?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:20:08 +0200, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Hi All > > Im researching iptables, as when my laptop is disconnected from my > network i have no real security ive found this guide > http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Networks/Firewall_Installation.html but its > for ipchains, does anyone know of a guide that overs the same ideas, ive > read the man pages but i want a guide that shows the practical use of > the iptables for say block connections i didnt request etc. I could use > firestarter but i would really like to learn this the proper way. > Thanks in advance There's the iptables guide at netfilter.samba.org, and I've made some notes regarding modular firewalling for a laptop at http://patter.mine.nu/thinkpad/firewall.html -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migration to debian from NT4 :)
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:10:12 +0200, Gabriel Granger wrote: > Many thanks to all for the advise :) cant wait to put a sledge hammer > through our NT4 PDC ;) but what will you use to keep the door open with? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring CUPS to allow all users to (re)start printer
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:10:12 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On fredag 20. august 2004, 16:02, Tim Kelley wrote: >> >> AuthType Basic (or Digest) >> AuthClass User That looks exactly like an apache config for .htaccess, so this might do it, replace HPLJ with the printer name. AuthType Basic AuthClass System Authtype Basic AuthClass User Authtype Basic AuthClass User > Uhm, OK, thanks. So there isn't any way to narrow it down to the > specific action of just starting the printer (which is really what I > was looking for)? -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'screen' saves life, all in a day's work
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:00:23 +0200, Bojan Baros wrote: > How can I adjust the scrollback buffer? I actually use my box only > through ssh sessions, and I tried scrollback xxx, but I get 'scrollback: > window required' error message, and it then defaults to 100 or so... In your .screenrc defscrollback 1024# 1024 line scrollback -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba syslog error message
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:30:07 +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > I'm running woody with backports of samba (3.0.5). > I keep seeing the following in my syslog, and was wondering if someone > might now how to fix whatever the problem is. > > Aug 12 16:02:23 rivendell smbd[5441]: [2004/08/12 16:02:23, 0] > passdb/pdb_tdb.c:tdb_update_sam(652) > Aug 12 16:02:23 rivendell smbd[5441]: Unable to modify TDB passwd ! Error: Record > does not exist > Aug 12 16:02:23 rivendell smbd[5441]:occured while storing the RID index > (RID_01f5) As a complete guess, does the username you're trying to change the password of exist in the samba password database? If not, use smbpasswd -a to add it. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:30:14 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much > easier to share a filesystem. > > I've never used NFS, but everything I read says it's highly insecure. OTOH, > my network sits behind a Belkin router with only my own systems as nodes. > > The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I > sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than > NFS (?) but much harder to set up. I use both NFS and samba to share /home on a linux server to linux and windows clients, on a lan with a linux firewall. Samba works for sharing /home to linux, however it doesn't correctly track file permissions and this causes a lot of problems loading .xsession and a few other things I can't remember right now. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Start postgresql for the first time
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:40:06 +0200, Bob Parnes wrote: > After using mysql for several years, I decided to try the testing > version of postgresql, but I cannot get started. I cannot log in to > create users, and I cannot create a database. > > According to the documentation, the system contains a predefined user, > 'postgres'. However, when I run > > psql -U postgres > > I get the error message, 'No database specified'. When I run > > psql -U postgres -l > > I get the message, 'IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"'. The defualt setup (see /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf) is to only allow users to access postgresql databases if their postgres username matches their linux username. To create database user accounts, log in as root, su to postgres and run createuser. As postgres, you can run createdb to create empty databases. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto make root commands available to any user
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:10:10 +0200, John Summerfield wrote: > If you are running Sarge (or Sid) you can configure acpid so that you > can shut down the system by pressing the power button. You can do it on > Woody too (with a 2.4 kernel), but you need to build your own kernel for > that. Or you can just edit /etc/inittab so that Ctrl+Alt+Del from a console is mapped to 'shutdown -h' rather than 'shutdown -r' -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and Flash issues?
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:10:06 +0200, Chad Davis wrote: > I am having an issue with firefox and flash player. When I go to > sites with flash the spot where the flash movie is is grey and it does > not appear. I can right click on it to get the flash menu and it says > play,etc. I can not confirm if sound does not work either as I have > no sound card on this machine. Anyone experienced this? Might be worth tailling ~/.xsession-errors or running firefox from an xterm to see if any errors are logged. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric Fatal error
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:00:08 +0200, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > I just installed (via apt-get install) gnumeric, but it crashes when I > run it. > > It displays the following error: > >"Fatal error: Cannot allocate memory" It runs in sid, I've had to uprgrade for just this reason. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs-kernel-server and firewalls
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:10:10 +0200, Tom Allison wrote: > Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all > over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports. The only way I can think of sorting this out would be to allow any packets between the server and client, filtering on either IP or MAC address. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tips on using "screen"?
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:00:18 +0200, Will Trillich wrote:
> we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or
> settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not
> picky.
I use a lightly mofified version of Sven Guckes' configuration, the
only interesting bits I've got are a list of all windows with the
current hostaname and time along the bottom of the screen, and a few
lines in my .bashrc to remind me if I've left any detached screens
running (ok, this may interfere with scp should you use that).
in .screenrc, for window list on last-line.
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{.1099} %-w%{.bg}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%H %c:%s "
and in .bashrc
# check for detached screen processes
screen -ls|grep Detached
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Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:00:15 +0200, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I see the need for a distributed database and all, what I'm not finding is > a step by step howto. Something on the lines of type this in. I had > installed openafs-fileserver(deb-pkg) on paladen but that didn't seam to > help any. Any one with experiance might help by inproving the pkg's > debconfig:) > > Is NFS still the right choice for me? > To set that up, I echo "$path-to-share client(rw)" >> /etc/exports; and > apt-get. NFS will work, though that is centred on having 1 server and multiple clients connected to it. For a more distributed setup, you may find coda useful, though when I checked 2+ years ago it only supported ~15MB shares. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin on low memmory machine
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:20:05 +0200, Vadik wrote: > I run my web and email server on machine with 32 Mb RAM. It works fine, > but spamassassin really takes a lot of memory. And to make things > worse, it often runs 10 and more sessions. is the a way I can configure > spamassassin to run no more than 1 session at a time? I use Exim4 and > courier. I run spamassin with spamd/spamc from procmail, using a lockfile so that procmail can only run 1 spamc process at a time :0fw:spamassassin.lock | spamc -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sunclock and colours
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Sunclock's colours are not working properly on a pc with an ati > graphics card: > > sunclock: warning: can't allocate color `Grey92' You may need to add those colours to /etc/X11/rgb.txt or increase your colour depth. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting Perl script from inetd
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:20:05 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trying to start a Perl smtp(port 25) server from inetd. > Failed to start server :Address already in use > (in cleanup) Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Net/SMTP/Server.pm line 55. > Connection closed by foreign host. Sounds like you've got something else running on port 25. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:50:06 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > There are also several latex to rtf converters. You may lose some > formating but it will open under word. Specifically, it tends to bork on multiple tabular environments. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4mm DAT drive
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event, I'm > sure it's different in Debian than old SunOS... =20 If nothing else, you could create a compressed tar volume with the j or z options to tar. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:30:12 +0200, cecil wrote: > install. Setting up power management, I can read up on it. If the laptop's old enough to have a 2 gig drive, it most likely will have apm (which simply works) rather than acpi (which needs a lot of work). > that too can be worked around. But does anyone know how much space the > "base" install for debian takes up? I was going to dual boot to dos(250 > meg). All I need is my development stuff(pretty much already included), > the pcmcia package, and X. Well, I don't NEED X, but it would be nice. I don't know about base, but I've got a working laptop here with enough for me on ~600Mb of a 2 gig drive. Debian sarge with X, LaTeX, firefox, dillo, fluxbox (rather than gnome or kde) and openoffice, enough to make a usable system for me. Dev software could end up taking a lot of space, once you start getting away from the core C libraries. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:10:04 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I try to mount a floppy with file system marked as auto in fstab > it does recognize vfat file system (disks from windows), I have to > specify vfat explicitly. Any way around that? You can create /etc/filesystems, a text file with 1 filesystem per line. This indicates which order to attempt different filesystems for devices with fs-type auto. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Linux backup program
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:30:17 +0200, Brad Sims wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2004 11:19 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: >> Bacula, Amanda. > > Mondorescue is my pick, Free and it works as advertised. > The mailing list is quite active, if you have any questions and I just write my own with bash scripts, tar and (sometimes) scp, backing up /boot /etc /home /usr/local and my installed package lists (dpkg --get-selections > foo). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution Attachments icons problems
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:40:08 +0200, Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail > window and try to attach, shows a blank attachment panel (but it attach > the file, because if i push send the attach is recibed). does any body > has the same problem, have anyone the solution? I get the same in testing, and have never had attachment icons in evolution working. As evolution's a gnome component, you may need to install nautilus for it to work. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim startup timeout
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 22:10:09 +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > How can I lessen (or disable) this timeout? Many times, I boot my system > without being connected to the net, I don't want my system to sit for > two minutes doing nothing. I don't want to remove exim4 form my init > scripts, I want it always to start, I just don't want this ridiculous > timeout. If the DNS timeout is down to a single address (for instance, do you have the laptop set to relay everything via another server). If so, you could add that server's name and IP to /etc/hosts -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etherape alternatives
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 03:50:06 +0200, Tom Allison wrote: > I have no speakers or anything else on this box. It's likely to be a > headless server in a week. Is there something "lighter" than etherape > that would still show similar information? Well, there's tcpdump, ethereal and ntop to name but a few -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome desktop messup
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:50:12 +0200, H. S. wrote: > If I mess up my gnome desktop, what do I do to get the default setting > back (icons, background, menus, all the works). I guess there are some > files to be deleted in ~/, maybe also in /tmp, so that the next time I > log in, I will be given a newly created default desktop(?) GNOME uses gconf to store most of its setup, so you could delete ~/.gconf* (though you would probably lose the config info for all your gnome apps). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I stop portmap from listening on port 111 on my internet connection?
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:30:10 +0200, Jerome Werner wrote: > I'm using Debian unstable. I use gnome so I need FAM, which in turn needs portmap. > That's fine with me but I don't want portmap to listen on port 111. I > read man portmap and famd but didn't find what I was looking for? Also I > don't want to just block it with a firewall, I want to understand how to > stop it from the inside. portmap uses tcpwrappers, so it will respect settings in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny for /etc/hosts.deny, you should have ALL: ALL portmap: ALL and in /etc/hosts.allow portmap: 127.0.0.1 -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia-cs in sarge not deconfiguring network interfaces
I've worked around it by adding 'ifconfig eth0 down' to the stop_fn() section of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt v. elm: reply-to-list
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:10:05 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > At least if you hit L (IIRC, been a long time since I've used mutt), > it automatically understands that you're replying to the mailing list > itself. Though you do have to set the subscribe variable so that mutt recognises the email addresses of mailling lists. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing under Sarge is messed up.
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:20:16 +0200, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Has anyone else had a problem with printing under Sarge recently? Which printing system are you using? If its cups, I'd suggest installing cupsys-bsd -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xpdq?
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:00:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > With the broken cups in sid I want to start using the trusty old pdq > again. I don't need xpdq, but that makes life a lot easier. There's always lprng, which works beautifully with magicfilter. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia modems with debian
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:50:11 +0200, Mal Beaton wrote: > I finally have the need for a modem on my laptop > before diving in a purchasing a pcmcia modem > > would like to hear what people are using out there and how easy or how > much trouble they were to set up > > any advice would be greatly appreciated I've got a Xircom REM56G/100, which works almost perfectly (its a combined AT modem and network card so I've got to keep an eye on the routing). -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatic login (NOT gdm)
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:50:15 +0200, Matt Kay wrote: > 1) Upon boot, automatically log in as 'kiosk' user and issue the 'startx' > command. This is easy using gdm but I don't really want to use a window > manager at all: is there a way to do it before x is launched? Well, startx is a shell script, you might be able to edit it and execute it as the last item in /etc/init.d -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
