Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:33:00AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: | On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:24:18PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: | > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Saxena wrote: | > | > > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? | > | > What exactly is TMDA? | | Tagged Mail Deliv

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Joe Biron wrote: > Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the Debian release > universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the newest... you > want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the "testing"? > My \etc\apt\sources.

Re: how to create a patched glibc?

2002-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:49:05PM +0200, Oliver Kowalke wrote: > Hi, > > as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with > the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched > and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In > order

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:24:18PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Saxena wrote: > > > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? > > What exactly is TMDA? > > - -- > Baloo > Tagged Mail Deliver

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Saxena wrote: > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? What exactly is TMDA? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE84yZmNtWkM9Ny9xURAgh2AJ0cG5VGB2u41kFWXuGf

Re: "AGP not available" error.

2002-05-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Juranich wrote: > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available > (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler > Any ideas out there? Recompile with AGP enabled, and fix your permissions? - -- Baloo -BEGIN P

Re: mpg123 playing to both file and speakers (stdout)

2002-05-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> > mpg123 file.mpg --cdr /dev/stdout | tee file.cdr | programm-to-handle-cdr > > OK, changing things up a bit: mpg123 --wav - file.mpg | tee file.wav | wavp /dev/stdin appears to record a wav file but it will not play. In addition, not sound comes from the speaker while processing the co

Re: "AGP not available" error.

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 14:07 Steve Juranich wrote: Now that I've gotten rid of the visual garbage on my Radeon VE, I'm trying to get dri working on it. I've got everything set up the way that things are supposed to be set up (loading the radeon and agpgart modules on boot, and the radeon module is refere

Re: gzip dpkg error

2002-05-15 Thread Ryan O
> On 2002.05.15 18:30 Ryan O wrote: >> I was trying to perform maintance to a system recently but as you will >> see >> below I was not successful. >> For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in >> the >> system (delete, move, whatever). I even tried a chattr to clear any >

Re: gzip dpkg error

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Shutko
Ryan O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in the > system (delete, move, whatever). I even tried a chattr to clear any flags > that might prevent its deletion, with no success. Check syslog... are you getting any filesystem errors? Sin

Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Jiang Alan
I think so. But I don't want my additional keys not work. From: "Ian D. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Jiang Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:43:31 -0

Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 12:50 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: alt is alt and meta is meta. in both rxvt and xterm meta is the window key, I take it this is just for US-104, and with US-101, alt is still meta? Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: gzip dpkg error

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 18:30 Ryan O wrote: I was trying to perform maintance to a system recently but as you will see below I was not successful. For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in the system (delete, move, whatever). I even tried a chattr to clear any flags that might pr

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:14:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:41:45PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote: > > > > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, bu

setuid, setgid, secondary groups and inheritance

2002-05-15 Thread dman
Note: I've crossposted both the debian-user and zope lists because this issue relates to both. Do the Right Thing with replies (and I won't complain if I happen to get a duplicate copy one way or another). I am using Debian GNU/Linux (x86) with kernel 2.4.18, libc6 2.2.5-6, and zope 2.5.1-1.

Re: building deb-src packages

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Looks about right to me, although you want 'apt-get build-dep' in the > former case too. You need to get build-dependencies as root, while > everything else can be done as an ordinary user. > > Actually, there's a note in the FAQ abou

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:02, perceval anichini wrote: > > > Moreover, argv + sizeof (argv[1]) is equal to argv[4] (as sizeof (char*) = > > 4) ... > > And then a non-32bit system came along... No no no no no, that's why I used sizeof( char* ), s

[OT] Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, perceval anichini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > correct, the call should be: > >execv( argv[1], argv[2] ); > > > For the fanatically correct, this might be better: > >execv( argv[1], argv + sizeof( argv[1] ) ); > > Could you explain this? Why would this line be *more* correc

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? There was a thread on it on gnu.emacs.gnus not too far back (look on http://groups.google.com for it). There are people who swear by it; arguments against it are (a) it's rude to force people to a

gzip dpkg error

2002-05-15 Thread Ryan O
I was trying to perform maintance to a system recently but as you will see below I was not successful. For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in the system (delete, move, whatever). I even tried a chattr to clear any flags that might prevent its deletion, with no success.

Re: mpg123 playing to both file and speakers (stdout)

2002-05-15 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:40:01PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Is there a way to have mpg123 play a file and record it to a file at once? > > One can play mpg123 file.mpg or > mpg123 file.mpg --cdr file.cdr > > but can I do both at once? well, doing two functions to the same ti

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:41:45PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote: > > > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, but some do. > > I keep seeing this statement often, but I must not be

mem info interpretation

2002-05-15 Thread Ruben Porras
I'm trying to interpretate the memory information the file /proc/e820info, for example, the second line says: 04000 @ 0009fc00 (reserved) >From where to where are this addresses go? as I know 4000 in binary is 0100 => 2^14/8=2.048 Kb and 9fc00 is 1001 1110 1100

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:04:50AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > The last two RBLs in my config don't list anything but every IP > > > address assigned to Korea, and the other every IP assigned to China, > > > since it doesn't appear any a

Running commands on logout from KDE

2002-05-15 Thread AE Roy
When I use the logout button to log out from KDE, I need to be able to run som spesific command. If I logout from a shell, then I would put those commands in the file .bash_logout. But when using the KDE-logout button, that file is not used. In what file should I put these commands so that I can ru

Re: Debian packages MD5 sums

2002-05-15 Thread Andy Saxena
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote: > > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, but some do. Also a few weeks > > ago there wa I keep seeing this statement often, but I must not be understanding it completely. If I

mpg123 playing to both file and speakers (stdout)

2002-05-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Is there a way to have mpg123 play a file and record it to a file at once? One can play mpg123 file.mpg or mpg123 file.mpg --cdr file.cdr but can I do both at once? Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: apt-cdrom and source discs.

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Simon Callan wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently purchased a set of Debian 2.2r6 CDs, and am trying to > install off of them. However, I am having problems with the source > discs. > > During the install process, you are asked to insert all the CDs in the > set, so that the system

procmail cp mail to 2 folders imap/mbox

2002-05-15 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I would like to have procmail copy some mail into two folders, one is an imap folder, the other is a mbox folder. The command I found was: :0:lance.lock * ^TO_debian-user@ :0 c debian.archive#mbox folder called debian.archive :0 | tail +2 | $DELIVER -e -a lance -m Listserv.debian #imap folde

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apt-cdrom and source discs.

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Callan
Hello, I have recently purchased a set of Debian 2.2r6 CDs, and am trying to install off of them. However, I am having problems with the source discs. During the install process, you are asked to insert all the CDs in the set, so that the system knows what you have. When I do this, the source CDs

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script SOLVED

2002-05-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T20:23:39Z, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ended up using su -c for this particular case since the script is > already running as root but now that I know about sudo I've got a dozen > other scripts that I can finally write. Thanks! :) Heh! That's much the same rea

Re: Mutt file locking?

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:26:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:34:53AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > My server is running nfs-user-server. > > Anyone know the right way to fix this instead of just going to an older > > version of mutt? > > The userspace NFS serve

Re: Upgradeing my TiVo using Debian Woody system?

2002-05-15 Thread Paul Smith
I upgraded my TiVo (original 14hr, bought it in January of 1999!) and I used a boot floppy that actually contained a little Linux system (based on tomsrtbt I think). I've not been following the latest developments but I'm sure there are Linux based solutions: all the original hackers who made the

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script SOLVED

2002-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:15, Kirk Strauser wrote: > My new favorite answer is "use sudo". It lets you give certain users > permission to execute certain programs (including scripts) as particular > other user, with or without prompting for a password. It's very well > supported across a range o

shared memory and dynamic pointers

2002-05-15 Thread John F Davis
Hello Does anybody know if there is a open source library which provides dynmic memory in conjunction with shared memory allocated using shmget/shmat? I want to allocate some shared memory and then later dynamically create some buffers also in shared memory. It seems that I will have to have an

Re: Upgradeing my TiVo using Debian Woody system?

2002-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:20, stan wrote: > I have just ordered a TiVo Serries 2, and I plan on upgrading it by adding > an additional 120G drive, and conecting it to my network. > > I found some food directions on the disc upgrade at: > > http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/ > > But

Re: Shell script anomaly SOLVED

2002-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Sure. If your script is called something like "check-xscreensaver" > the grep finds the script itself. > > Why not use "pidof xscreensaver", see man pidof(8) That was it! The script name was 40xscreensa

Upgradeing my TiVo using Debian Woody system?

2002-05-15 Thread stan
I have just ordered a TiVo Serries 2, and I plan on upgrading it by adding an additional 120G drive, and conecting it to my network. I found some food directions on the disc upgrade at: http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/ But it's all absed upon the assumption that you are doing it

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:15:01AM -0700, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > Hi All, > > I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, > suspicion > is about flash BIOS was wiped out) after "apt-get dist-upgrade" and following > hibernation last Friday. Are you using lm_sensors? II

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
My SBLive Value is working fine under a whole bunch of different kernels, (thought not 2.4.19-pre8 in particular), in both OSS and ALSA mode. On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:13:54PM -0500, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to > work. I'm running De

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't know, but I would very much like to recompile glibc, the Xlib, and > the gnome libraries to be optimized for the different processors I'm > running. I'd be careful using any optimisations on these fairly critical libr

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Eventually (in fact it may have already happened, I can't remember) > woody will be frozen, outstanding bugs will be fixed as well as may be > and then woody will become the stable distribution. Woody is almost completely frozen, nothing

Another OpenOffice.org workaround: printing and anti-aliased font problem

2002-05-15 Thread James D Strandboge
There are bug reports on this, but it took me a while to find them, so I thought I would pass this along. OOo 1.0 has problems with printing and anti-aliased fonts on my system. I looked it up and found that if you disable the font cache, printing and anti-aliased fonts worked correctly. Here is

Re: apache et ssl

2002-05-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 17:21:22 +0200, Eric Laeuffer wrote: > Je viens de me rendre compte quil existe apparemment deux packages qui > fournissent ssl ; apache-ssl et libapache-mod-ssl. Pouvez vous me dire > rapidement la diffrence entre ces deux packages ? This question is addressed in both pack

Re: infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, tilman utz wrote: > hello list, > > recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, > bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). > > All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password > and a default user. afte

Re: Problem with modem

2002-05-15 Thread Andrey Vlassov
did you try run setserial in order ttyS03 ttyS02 ttyS01 and see what tty will accept your settings. In my case modem was reported in windows as com4 but in linux it was ttyS01. Andrey tim truman wrote: > Hi all > I have recently moved from Redhat to debian and am having problems with > an Ac

Re: infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:32:05PM +0200, tilman utz wrote: > recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, > bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). > > All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password > and a default user. aft

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:09:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > You probably got the spam message that prompted the release of Evolution > 1.0.5. > > I have no idea if debian has newer packages, you'd have to ask them. Yes, in the unstable distribution. (I'm not the maintainer, just a bystand

Re: xvidtune + xfree4

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 15, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine > > > except it is an

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks, but it still crashes. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 15 May 2002, Veit Waltemath

Re: Testing a Floppy Drive

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 14, 2002, David Raeker-Jordan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I suspect that the floppy drive on my computer has gone bad, but the > diagnostic software from the manufacturer (Dell) says the drive is fine. > > Is there software to test whether a floppy drive has gone bad? Create floppies

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:02:24PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: ->I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest ->woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning ->documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked ->this morning,

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 11, 2002, Miroslav Mazurek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager (it > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice? On that kit, bash. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" d

infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread tilman utz
hello list, recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password and a default user. after displaying the message 'loading /etc/console/bootti

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
FYI, the new xsane segfaults too. Arrgh! -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 15 May 2002, An

"AGP not available" error.

2002-05-15 Thread Steve Juranich
Now that I've gotten rid of the visual garbage on my Radeon VE, I'm trying to get dri working on it. I've got everything set up the way that things are supposed to be set up (loading the radeon and agpgart modules on boot, and the radeon module is referenced in my XF86Config-4 file), but it's s

sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked this morning, now crashes miserably: scanimage --batch=page%04d.pnm --mode Binary --

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
You probably got the spam message that prompted the release of Evolution 1.0.5. I have no idea if debian has newer packages, you'd have to ask them. Jeff On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:40, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have several thousand messages awaiting me on my POP server. > > A couple times n

Re: how to create a patched glibc?

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Oliver Kowalke wrote: > Hi, > > as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with > the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched > and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In > order to access linux new featur

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020515 02:22]: > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. > > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) > --set

how to create a patched glibc?

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Kowalke
Hi, as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In order to access linux new feature over a POSIX.4 interface I've to patch glibc. B

Problem with modem

2002-05-15 Thread tim truman
Hi all I have recently moved from Redhat to debian and am having problems with an Actiontec PCI Master controller-based modem. After installing Potato and compiling 2.4 kernel (due to better PCI support) I am getting the following boot message ttyS04 at port 0x1800 (irq = 11) is a 16550A The m

Re: USB Mouse with Debian 2.2r6

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:48:43AM -0500, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: | Does the kernel that ships with 2.2r6 recognize usb devices. I don't think so, but I could be wrong. | I am going to try compiling the 2.4.18 kernel and see if that works. I recommend installing the prepackaged version.

Re: xvidtune + xfree4

2002-05-15 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine > > except it is an inch or two off-centre. > > Why not merely adjust your monitor contro

Re: exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:25:17PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: | I have problem sending mail to some email-addresses (some MTA's), I'll | start with describing my situation: | | I'm connected to the Internet via NAT. I have no access to the servers | that have a "real" Internet address, and

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:46:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to use | word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my | documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell m

rsync performance between HP-UX and Debian

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Madden
I've been using rsync to backup HP-UX 10.20 and Debian Woody machines, and I've seen performance issues on the HP-UX machines. On the Debian machines, I'm using rsync 2.5.5-0.1, and the HP-UX machines are using 2.5.5. All the HPs are C3600s with 100 MB connections and 18 GB SCSI disks. The Linu

Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Jiang Alan wrote: >I have just installed debian/woody and xemacs21. I encountered two > problems: > 1. when I apt-get install xemacs21, it says post install configuration > error. I find the problem is that when create a symbolic link at > /usr/man/man1/., there is not /u

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my Tom> notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. Tom> Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: Tom> --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o pas

USB Mouse with Debian 2.2r6

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I have downloaded Debian GNU/Linux version 2.2r6 and installation went fine, but it doesn't seem to recognize my usb mouse so X won't startup.  Its the MS Optical Explorer mouse and lights up on power on but goes dark and never comes back on?    Does the kernel that ships with 2.2r6 recognize

Re: Mutt file locking?

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:34:53AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > My server is running nfs-user-server. > Anyone know the right way to fix this instead of just going to an older > version of mutt? The userspace NFS server doesn't handle locking. You have to switch to a kernel with NFS server su

exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path

2002-05-15 Thread Andreas Henriksson
- Forwarded message from Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path Hi. I have problem sending mail to some email-addresses (some MTA's), I'll

Problem with pop3

2002-05-15 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
Hi guys, I am having one problem with pop3, I am using ipop3d and its working fine to receive messges from my local clients(in my LAN). But when i try to get messages from external client(remote notebooks with dialup connection to Internet using normal ISP) the connection is too slow, i can't fi

RE: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: | > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my | > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. | > | > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: | > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password

Re: (fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 15 May 2002 14:43:58 +0200 "Lukas Ruf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > after I have sent this message to debian-testing, I resend I to this > list. Maybe anyone here has any idea. > > The upgrade was from 2.2r to 3.0 -- now, I can use neither dselect: (snip) > nor apt-get (s

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:02, perceval anichini wrote: > Moreover, argv + sizeof (argv[1]) is equal to argv[4] (as sizeof (char*) = > 4) ... And then a non-32bit system came along... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Tom Allison wrote: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? > I use ~/.bashrc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T04:05:08Z, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script > which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then > activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being run > as an

RE:environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Tom Allison writes: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? In your startup script. Perhaps .profile or .bashrc. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like > RSYNC_RSH? In your .profile, .bashrc, or .zshenv file, depending on which shell you use. Infidels might also consider .cshrc. :-) (I have a separate dotfile, .variables, which sets this sor

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a > script which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it > and then activates it. However, the script always gets run as root > (it's being run as an APM script). This doesn't

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Not Zed
'quit' is a polite if incorrect way to say 'crashed and burnt'. You should probably try and upgrade if possible, a lot of these types of errors have been fixed since 1.0.2, although without debugging information its hard to say if this particular bug is fixed. Also, perhaps try removing the .ibe

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Epifanov
FYI: I was aware about lm-sensors and never installed then at all. --- Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing I'm aware of is a warning from the lm-sensors package which > comes up if you try and install lm-sensors-source (not sure about other > lm-sensors packages:

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Mike Alonzo
Tom Allison wrote this message last Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:37:09AM -0400: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? in your ~/.bash_profile . > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROT

Re: bastille deb (testing) hosed?

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 20:45 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, "cj" == Colin Watson wrote: cj> The maintainer just mailed me to say that a new package cj> is available, and he'd like you to test it out. Only one perl booboo remains: "Using Tk user interface module. "Only displaying q

Re: BitchX question

2002-05-15 Thread Theo Bierman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2002.05.15 12:46, Theo Bierman a ecrit : > > Hi All > > > > This is probably meant to go somewhere else but anyway: > > > > WindowMaker allows for multiple desktops via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc > > > > and > > > > BitchX

Re: [misran@vlug.vein.hu: debian hpt370 raid]

2002-05-15 Thread Varady Geza
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > Tue, 14 May 2002 17:57:28 +0200 "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > AFAIK (I have EPOX with same hpt370) you should connect > CD board controller (ide0 or ide1) and then you can boot potato with no > problems. But, potato has 2.2.x kernel and sup

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
On 15 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
On Tue, 14 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to use > word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my > documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell me > what I did wrong

(fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, after I have sent this message to debian-testing, I resend I to this list. Maybe anyone here has any idea. The upgrade was from 2.2r to 3.0 -- now, I can use neither dselect: onizuka root 145 (local/sbin): dselect Segmentation fault nor apt-get onizuka root 146 (local/sbin): apt

Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Jiang Alan
I have just installed debian/woody and xemacs21. I encountered two problems: 1. when I apt-get install xemacs21, it says post install configuration error. I find the problem is that when create a symbolic link at /usr/man/man1/., there is not /usr/man/man1 directory, so it failed. When I

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. > > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) > --set my

Re: (no subject)

2002-05-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:19:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > can i get some advise please, Advise is free. E.g. "Please put a proper subject on your mail." > i have windows 2000 and installed several languages, > i'm trying to use some hebrew fonts like Rashi, it actualy shows on >

Re: Sendmail: How to get at the envelope in Procmail?

2002-05-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:33:58AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand the setup, so I may be way off here. > > > > The best solution is to have your IPS (or who ever fills that mailbox) > > add a Delivered-To header with th

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-15 Thread Andreas Nowack
On 14 May 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > if ps -A |grep -q "[x]screensaver"; then xscreensaver-command -activate > else xscreensaver& xscreensaver-command -activate; fi > > However, if I put that exact line into a shell script and run it, the if > ALWAYS gets evaluated as true. Any ideas? I would

Re: IRC

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 05:31 Ulf Rompe wrote: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. There is irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk in Debian also but they are >*ancient*. Don't use them. What I love about irssi-gnome is it's panel applet. I tend to keep some not really busy channels open while doing

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few >hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect >whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it >launches

Re: BitchX question

2002-05-15 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.05.15 12:46, Theo Bierman a écrit : Hi All This is probably meant to go somewhere else but anyway: WindowMaker allows for multiple desktops via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc and BitchX also allows for multiple windows via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc, Can I change my window handling in Bitc

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