kernel-source/kernel-headers/HCF drivers

2002-10-24 Thread jerry k
Apologies for the long post. I'm attempting to install HCF modem drivers from a tarball --I know, I'll get a real modem, that's not my point just now-- and it's expecting to find the kernel source tree at /usr/src/linux. That's fine, i've got a symlink there to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20 and m

digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
Hi I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. - What software to use (ripping, coding) - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) - What hardware to use (I have a cdda capable cdrecorder) - How to store the files

RE: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Kuhar
I've worked with HPUX, AIX and Solaris. I've delt with Debian, RH ans Suse. I find that Debian is closest to any of the above UNIXs. If you know Debian, you can find your way around any UNIX box. As far as a registry is concerned, UNIX/Linux does not need it. A registry is the biggest waste of

Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-24 Thread debian mailing lists
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:50:43PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > alternatively, you can switch it from the command line (or make a > window manager shorcut to do the same), thus not needing to muck > with your X settings at all. while i was in paris, i never really > got into the whole azerty keyboa

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
This is my route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 213.250.143.240 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 00 eth0 172.16.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 172.16.16.0 0.0.0.0

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
> One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just > send a carbon copy to another user? I am pretty sure if you had it just > forward the mail back to you again that it would go in an endless loop. > Thanks for everybody's help. Although this was pooh-pooh'ed in your earlie

Re: sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname()

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Oct 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi all - > > I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj and now when > i > invoke "sudo" i get the followin message: > slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v > sudo: unable to lookup callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname() > > this follows across reboots

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although this was pooh-pooh'ed in your earlier thread, I really think > that procmail is what you want/need. It was pooh-poohed because it wasn't needed. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! No, the illuminati aren't out t

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.24.1654 +0200]: > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > sdb be half that size at 898

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
"steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just > send a carbon copy to another user? In .forward: \user, [EMAIL PROTECTED], anotherlocaluser -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Never lie unless you have an

Re: Looking for a firewall

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:36:58 -0400 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running with iptables. > However > I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. Can anyone send me > a "here's mine" or close for something that does this: Take

pasting digraph characters from mozilla/galeon

2002-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
whenever i paste a text containing digraph characters from mozilla or galeon into vi or the shell even, they are split into two characters, the two that make up the digraph. example: pasting française will yield this franc,aise to be pasted. the ç is generated by combining , and c with the

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Ángel Carrasco
I don't understand you because all my hosts can connect without problems but my public IP, I cannot use internal. This is my big problem. Sorry My English is bad, can you explain me, plesae? - Original Message - From: "Pietro Cagnoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ángel Carrasco" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to > report

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Rodney Green wrote: Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the accounts are dependent on a system user account there can only be one webmaster account. Of course, an alias can be setup that points [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a different local system user like webmaster2. With some e-mail systems I've seen (Wind

Creating Release{.gpg} files, how to do it...for a local cache

2002-10-24 Thread Walter Tautz
Q. Are the tools the ftp-master uses available for the general user? Q. If so are they documented? Q. Are they in a deb package...I'm aware of stuff like apt-move, apt-ftparchive.. I have succeeded in getting one to work by changing the Origin to something other than Debian and then using /etc

CUPS + Epson480 don't work!!

2002-10-24 Thread Gustavo Rahal
Hi I'm having problems with cups and epson480. I think I installed all the packages and properly configured the printer using the cups web interface (port 631). But when I send a job nothing happens. Does any body know what I should check? Thanks Gustavo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Chris Hilts
>> Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and >> sdb be half that size at 8984MB each? Or is it typical of Raid0 to >> report the combined size of the two drives it uses for striping? Speaking of hardware RAID, I've set up a RAID-1 (mirroring) array on my server. Eve

USB mouse problem

2002-10-24 Thread raysookhyun
I'm having a USB mouse problem. When I boot up it looks like all the modules I need are loaded correctly. When up if I unplug and plug in the mouse I get kernel messages telling me that the device is there and that it has an address. When I try to cat /dev/input/mice it returns 'no device'. This is

Re: kernel patch howto

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Crap, I forgot to put the --config=config (no ncurses or X) It took around 8 hours to compile everything. (P 166 with only 48 Meg of RAM) I'm going to have to start it over. Mike > After copying your config file over, you can: > % cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you extract the kernel source

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Christian Mascher
> One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just > send a carbon copy to another user? I am pretty sure if you had it > just > forward the mail back to you again that it would go in an endless > loop. > Thanks for everybody's help. I think you can just put a backslash on a

Progeny installer for woody

2002-10-24 Thread A R
I think may be interesting to the list members http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/ How does it work exactly? __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
Keith, Thanks for the reply. I just checked out Courier's site and it looks like it does what I want. I hadn't heard of it until now. I currently use Postfix as an MTA. Rod - Original Message - From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 2

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Michael West
I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their fonts. I get a 404 when trying to retrieve the fonts: --- apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed:

Re: sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname()

2002-10-24 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SL> Hi all - SL> I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj SL> and now when i invoke "sudo" i get the followin message: SL> slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v sudo: unable to lookup SL> callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname() Do you have callerio.

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:05:26PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Hi, > > Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS > Exchange email setup ? > I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or > Outlook. > [snip] > Any ideas ? > Suse se

Re: .forward

2002-10-24 Thread sean finney
i don't think that that's really "too hard" :). your solution is simpler, yes, but it forces all mail to go that way, whereas with procmail you can set it to only forward specific emails to that address. also, what if one of the addresses is the recieving address? i.e. if this account is steve@s

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just thought of something while setting up port forwarding on my > server > First I searched google on how to do something like that and came > across a howto. I figured thats great and tried to work through it > but it was pretty technical a

Re: HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:02:41AM -0700, nate wrote.. > Kevin Coyner said: > > > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB) > > > > Is this correct? Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and > > sdb

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
The fonts are now hosted in various other spots (the licensing on the fonts allows them to be hosted elsewhere; Microsoft just shut down their server, they can't change the existing licensing). You need to get the msttcorefonts package from testing; that one works. -- ---

Re: mlock & ipopd

2002-10-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, dizma wrote: > Hi there, > Does anybody knows why when I checking my POP3 account I receive in the nail log the >following: > > Oct 24 16:20:56 debian ipop3d[1312]: Auth user=dizma host=debian.riskeng.bg >[192.168.210.2] nmsgs=2/2 > Oct 24 16:20:56 debian /usr/bin/mlock[1316

Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-24 Thread sean finney
alternatively, you can switch it from the command line (or make a window manager shorcut to do the same), thus not needing to muck with your X settings at all. while i was in paris, i never really got into the whole azerty keyboard thing, so i'd do: setxkbmap us which sets the keyboard layout to

Re: sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname() SOLVED

2002-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
Thanks Morten and Anthony; changing /etc/hosts to reflect the new hostname eliminated that error message. Shawn --- Morten Bo Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SL> Hi all - > > SL> I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj > SL> a

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > fonts. > I don't know if the package has been fixed, but you can still get the fonts from http://corefonts.sf.net/ -rob msg08778/pgp0.pgp Description

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Jeff
Ángel Carrasco, 2002-Oct-24 10:26 +0200: > Ok: > > My office network is: 172.16.16.0/24 and his IP is: 172.16.16.1. > My web network is: 172.16.8.0/24 and his IP is: 172.16.8.1 > My service network is: 172.16.4.0/24 and his IP is: 172.16.4.1 > My public network is:213.250.143.240/28 and his IP is:

Re: .forward

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
begin sean finney quote on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:40:54PM -0400: > also, what if one of the addresses is the recieving address? i.e. if > this account is steve@somehost, and in his .forward he puts > steve@somehost, steve@someotherhost, things will go Very, Very, Wrong. If you want the local ac

Re: squid and calamaris

2002-10-24 Thread Toens Bueker
Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem is in trying to understand the Calamaris report and make some > good use of it in terms of tuning Squid. > > I've read the man and done my googling, but have not yet found something > that kind of gives definitions, etc. I.e. for Incoming TCP-req

Re: refreshing wmaker screen

2002-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:18:41AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:18:56PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > I am grabbing images from NWS and putting > > > them on my desktop background. Is there > > > a command I can insert in .xinitrc or somewhere > > > else th

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:02:35PM +0200, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > RedHat 6.1 -> Mandrake 7.0 (painless) > Mandrake 7.0 -> Debian 2.2 (very hard) > Debian 3.0 -> Slackware 8.0 (rather easy) > > Today, I use regularly all of these. I think Slackware is by far more > "clean" than Debian, but

Re: Creating Release{.gpg} files, how to do it...for a local cache

2002-10-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:04:58PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > I have succeeded in getting one to work by changing the Origin > to something other than Debian and then using /etc/apt/preferences > to bump up the PIN priority so that my packages are on par with > the rest of debian stable. There m

Re: Looking for a firewall

2002-10-24 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running > with iptables. However > I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. > Can anyone send me > a "here's mine" or close for something that does > this: > > Allows all oubound ne

Re: vncserver: cannot restart on same display

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:36:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > how come it is not possible to run vncserver reusing the display > number? the following should work: > > vncserver :1 > vncserver -kill :1 > vncserver :1 > > the first two work, the third one does not, her's the error mesag

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:34:38 -0700 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, remember that corporations are taxpayers too. One could reasonably > argue that it is just as improper to deny them the full use of publicly- > funded code is it would be to deny any individual American citizen. U

Galeon and java

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Montagne
I updated java. Now Galeon crashes when I go to a site with a java app. The error refers to the path of the old java plugin. I relinked all the references in /etc/alternatives. Where does Galeon get it's path to java? -- Michael Montagne [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 503.226.1575 -- -- To

Re: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:36:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:15:55AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > I was under the impression Knoppix fits about 1 or 2 GB of data on to > > the CD. I didn't find an explicit option to do this in bootcd. > > Yes. Using a home-brew spec

Who is ghostscript maintainer?

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Fontenot
Can anyone tell me who is the current Debian maintainer of ghostscript? Or how I can determine that information? Google told me that, as of about a year ago, the Debian ghostscript maintainer was Torsten Landschoff. I sent him an email about a problem I'm having with gs-aladdin 7.04 (from testi

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 6:16 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > > fonts. > > I don't know if the package has been fixed, bu

dired broken

2002-10-24 Thread Ross Boylan
In emacs20 (testing) dired doesn't work anymore. If you hit enter, e, or v it says "No file on this line." I've noticed this for perhaps a week, and I see there's a bug filed on it (#163762, which speculates the update for GNU coreutils is the cause). Does anyone have an idea what is causing thi

Re: Who is ghostscript maintainer?

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Mike, On Oct 24, Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Can anyone tell me who is the current Debian maintainer of | ghostscript? Or how I can determine that information? jason@inj ( jason ) 14:34$ apt-cache show gs Package: gs Priority: optional Section: text Installed-S

Re: Who is ghostscript maintainer?

2002-10-24 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:22:49PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Can anyone tell me who is the current Debian maintainer of > ghostscript? Or how I can determine that information? > > Google told me that, as of about a year ago, the Debian > ghostscript maintainer was Torsten Landschoff. > I

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-24 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:01:00 +0100 From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > . . . a tossup whether a reader chancing upon `Debian' for the first time will favor `De-' or `-ian'. Hence ehb vs eeb. > > It's a toss-up for americans. No-one from the UK would ever say > > 'Deebi

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread UnKnown
Yours its really one of the most intresting introspections that I have read on any of the debian lists. To beging with most of the people complayns on how hard is to work with debian compear with redhat or suse. Most say that it is a distro for gurus, or geeks who like dark and hiden knowledge, to

Re: .forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread Steve Juranich
> In .forward: > > \user, [EMAIL PROTECTED], anotherlocaluser Ah, then I bow to your supreme mastery of the .forward file. :) I just like killing flies with shotguns. It tends to make the house messy, though. -- Stephen W. Ju

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread UnKnown
They gona shot their toes, and then they will shot all the users toes at ones. rak On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:22:23AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:18:52AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > configs files alone (e.g. Slackware) or layer it away so thoroughly that > > chan

Re: CUPS + Epson480 don't work!!

2002-10-24 Thread Patrick Lane
Check your logs (located in /var/log/cups/) for any clues as to what happened. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:02, Gustavo Rahal wrote: > Hi > > I'm having problems with cups and epson480. I think I installed all the > packages and properly configured the printer using the cups web interface > (port 6

Courier-imap

2002-10-24 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: Courier-imap Hi, I'm still trying to setup my courier-imap server. Here's what I'm doing to create my first user My personnal Maildir is in /home/mikael/.Maildir * Userdb "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" set home=/home/mikael mail=/home/mikael/.Maildir uid=1000 gid=1000 * Then use

Problem: plperl.so failed....

2002-10-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i use the plperl extension for postgrs on unstable, and got lately problems: Warning: pg_exec() query failed: ERROR: Load of file /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/plperl.so failed: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libpthread.so.0) there seems to be some problem here..

Re: Creating Release{.gpg} files, how to do it...for a local cache

2002-10-24 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:04:58PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > I have succeeded in getting one to work by changing the Origin > > to something other than Debian and then using /etc/apt/preferences > > to bump up the PIN priority so that my packa

How do rip out pictures from PDF file?

2002-10-24 Thread Egor Tur
By analogy with psrip. Thanx! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install-info fails for many packages

2002-10-24 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jan Tomasek wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Perhaps you have somehow replaced debian's install-info with the GNU > > one, which has a very different purpose. I suggest you check out: > > > > Shame on me! I'm very sorry, I installed TexLiv

Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Olds
I am unable to get Proftp Anonymous ftp working (download only; "real" use on the internal network is working fine), and am hoping that someone here can help me out with this. I have read all the Proftp docs faqs etc, and subscribe to the list where I have not received any help. I have checked, hos

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-24 Thread John Hasler
Barney writes: > On the contrary it suggests that the government sell the > government(public) IP to companies and let them do what they want with > it. What they do now in most cases is let the company that developed the software under contract retain all rights except for a non-exclusive license

Re: Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Michael Olds said: > I am unable to get Proftp Anonymous ftp working (download only; "real" > use on the internal network is working fine), and am hoping that someone you mention "internal" network. to me this makes me think you are running it behind NAT. passive ftp does not work well with NAT. t

RE: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Ángel Carrasco
I have two routers because I use one for internal users and other to use with public internet servers. Ok? And I cannot manage or add new rules in these routers because they are administrated by other company. Can you help me,please? Ángel -Mensaje original- De: Jeff [mailto:jcoppock1@

Re: How do rip out pictures from PDF file?

2002-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By analogy with psrip. pdfimages, in xpdf-utils. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Gee that bastard smells. No wonder they call him Pooh. --Chris Robin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Robert Ian Smit
Because of the increasing amount of spam I receive, I want to do something about it. I know spamassassin by name. I believe the version in stable is quite old. Is it useful to install that version? What other tools should I consider? My setup: fetchmail -> exim -> procmail (-> mutt) Ideally I'd

HW raid 0 setup

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm trying to setup a Raid0 using a SCSI LSI Raid controller card and four 9G SCSI drives. The intent is to have two drives (sda and sdb), both of which use Raid0. During POST I can get into the controller bios and set it up for Raid0. I then continue on with the normal boot process, which yie

Re: 386 or 486 machine

2002-10-24 Thread Dean Allen Provins
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 06:02:07PM -0700, Mike Thompson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:41:31PM +0100, Rupert wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:24:01 +0400 > > Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > is it possible to put Debian on a 386 or 486? > > > > I put Debian Woody on a 48

Re: small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its > > max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications > > (gaim, mozilla,etc). With xfonts-100dpi there are huge characters

sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname()

2002-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hi all - I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj and now when i invoke "sudo" i get the followin message: slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v sudo: unable to lookup callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname() this follows across reboots, if however i echo "callerio" back into /proc/sys/ke

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:08, Rodney Green wrote: > Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts > to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the > e-mail address and the username to download mail. > > Thanks, > Rod that's pretty mu

Looking for a firewall

2002-10-24 Thread Robert L. Harris
I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running with iptables. However I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. Can anyone send me a "here's mine" or close for something that does this: Allows all oubound new connections from inside on my 192.168.0.0/24 (or the IP of ETH0 on my

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the accounts are dependent on a system user account there can only be one webmaster account. Of course, an alias can be setup that points [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a different local system user like webmaster2. With some e-mail systems I've seen (Windows based) the full e

Re: More info from apt-cache show?

2002-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:02:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:16:34PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:01:55PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > I wouldn't be surprised if this exists already, but I sure can't find > > > it. Is there a general "w

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rodney Green wrote: > Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user > accounts to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would > both be the e-mail address and the username to download mail. > > Thanks, Rod erm, sorry if I misunders

Re: [OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-24 Thread Kent West
Jamin W.Collins wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:59:17 -0400 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I WOULD like to clean up my home directory, tho'. All those . files and directories make it an unwieldy place sometimes! Perhaps a simple convention of storing user application config

Re: Dosemu can't find vga font - SOLVED

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: > After a recent upgrade of dosemu it won't find a suitable font. > In /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I have: > > _X_font = "vga"# basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/* > # (without extension) e.g. "vga". > > but dos

Re: sending email w/perl

2002-10-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: The problem is: > open(FILE,">eltonjohn.txt"); Here, you open FILE for writing, but then... > [snip] >$smtp->datasend(FILE); Here you try to read from it. That won't work in any case; you can't read from a writing file handle. But you also hav

Re: [OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:59:17 -0400 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I WOULD like to clean up my home directory, tho'. All those . files and > directories make it an unwieldy place sometimes! Perhaps a simple convention of storing user application configurations under a single

OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Rodney Green
Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the e-mail address and the username to download mail.   Thanks, Rod

.forward file another question

2002-10-24 Thread steve
One more question regarding this file. Is there a way to have it just send a carbon copy to another user? I am pretty sure if you had it just forward the mail back to you again that it would go in an endless loop. Thanks for everybody's help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 24 October 2002, 09:06 AM -0400): > Russell sez: > } Gregory Seidman wrote: > } > Russell sez: > ...and all this starts looking more and more like LDAP. Certain parts of > the registry (e.g. the passwords) would have to be system-only, > re

Problems with zebra and netlink-cmd

2002-10-24 Thread Matthieu Couvrand
Hi, I would like to use zebra but when I start it, I have the following message. 2002/10/24 15:39:37 ZEBRA: can't create router advertisement socket: Address family not supported by protocol 2002/10/24 15:39:37 ZEBRA: netlink-cmd sendto failed: Connection refused 2002/10/24 15:39:37 ZEBRA: netl

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:59:54PM +1000, Russell wrote: > IMHO, a registry would be ok if it was ascii/human readable, you could > tell applications to ignore it, and no applications are forced or required > to know about it. A set of utilities for examining and manipulating it > would be useful t

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 24 October 2002, 02:05 PM +1000): > Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS > Exchange email setup ? > I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or > Outlook. > I just wondered i

Re: small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Russell
Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Hi all > > I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its > max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications > (gaim, mozilla,etc). With xfonts-100dpi there are huge characters and > with xfonts-75dpi the characters are small

squid and calamaris

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've recently set up squid and calamaris on a small server for a small LAN. So far so good as it all seems to work, and Calamaris is emailing to me a daily report. Problem is in trying to understand the Calamaris report and make some good use of it in terms of tuning Squid. I've read the man

Re: X 4.1.0 - is there gatos code?

2002-10-24 Thread phillim2
> I was wondering if any knows of the "official" XF 4.1.0 debs in woody > include any gatos code? I am planning to hook up an ati radeon 7500 dual > port (DVI-I and VGA) card, and have been advised that the drivers > modified with "gatos" project code do not work properly. > X4.1 does not suppor

small xfonts

2002-10-24 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all I have some questions about xfonts. My LCD display is configured to its max resolution (800x600). I want small fonts for my X applications (gaim, mozilla,etc). With xfonts-100dpi there are huge characters and with xfonts-75dpi the characters are small (not enough) but very bad 'quality'. I

mlock & ipopd

2002-10-24 Thread dizma
Hi there, Does anybody knows why when I checking my POP3 account I receive in the nail log the following:   Oct 24 16:20:56 debian ipop3d[1312]: Auth user=dizma host=debian.riskeng.bg [192.168.210.2] nmsgs=2/2Oct 24 16:20:56 debian /usr/bin/mlock[1316]: (64) name not regular file   and someti

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Kent West
Bob Proulx wrote: Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]: How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? It would only mount a swap partition if the type marked was linux swap previously. O

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Kent West
Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in, you can remount

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Rob" == R Ransbottom writes: Rob> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:11:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad Rob> wrote: R> How should I make this work? >> My guess is you have attbi.com listed in local_domains in >> exim.conf. Rob> Yes, it is. That is certainly a problem, since I

Re: Where to put .Xmodmap ?

2002-10-24 Thread John Keniry
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:52:45PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I don't use Xsession files. But you need to make sure that the above > xmodmap settings are not overridden by a xmodmap call in an Xsession > file. As far as I could tell they weren't - I grepped the /etc/X11 directory. > Also,

[OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
Russell sez: } Gregory Seidman wrote: } > Russell sez: [...] } > } and no applications are forced or required to know about it. } > } > No! For it to be useful, all applications must use it. That's why there } > needs to be a good implementation; good means that it is so solid and } > convenient t

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2002-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Perski
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Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Jon-o Addleman
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:26:32PM +1000, Russell spake thusly: > Linux kind of has a scattering of registries already, eg, termcap/terminfo, > xf86config, /etc/X11/app-defaults, /etc/X11/xkb, various other files in /etc... > I'd think a standardized unix registry system would be quite doable. It's

cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread Lorenzo Fini
after an upgrade from potato to woody I cannot connect to internet by my modem any more. I use pppconfig and pon. The modem make the phone number correctly, but when it receives 'CONNECT' from the remote the connection is terminated. I tried wvdial/other isp but with the same result. any idea? th

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 21:25:28 +1000, Russell wrote: > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm, > press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options" > menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". Alternatively, > type: echo -n "^[[?1h", where

Re: IDE CDRW

2002-10-24 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, James Tappin wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:45:29 +0200 (METDST) > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. Now your CDRW is a SCSI device, so /dev/hdc does not exist anymore. > > Try doing a 'mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom'. if that works and you are happy > > with it

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