Re: Illegal instruction after upgrade

2003-09-20 Thread Bruce Pinsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David S. Miller wrote: | On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:22:25 -0700 | Bruce Pinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are |>giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is so

RE: With newer chipsets, is ECC memory slower ? Worth the penalty ?

2003-09-20 Thread Paul McHale
Hi Bob, > Negative. My own memory test benchmarks using a (cough) windows based > test program shows only a 1%-2% speed degradation. Of course that > depends upon the chipset used. But I wouldn't expect anything above > 5% in the worst case for anything reasonable. Thanks for the info. It

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On > various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting > hammered by the mail, too. > > From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it m

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:49, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On > various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting > hammered by the mail, too. > > >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it mails itself

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-09-20 Thread p
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: __snip__ > > > What does appear to be missing is a "quote headers in reply" option. > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:02:43AM +, p wrote: > > (give me another 7 months and i'll > > figure out what that means.) > > > > On Sat, Sep 2

Re: debian package install problem

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:43, gerald simpkin wrote: > I am a new user of Debian. I have the operating system installed but > due to some difficulties cannot seem able to install packages. At > install when I use apt it starts okay but then I get a configuration > error in configuring Binutils . I do

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:02:43AM +, p wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > i was thinking in terms of, say, > a thread by 50 different authors > about printing. if i take the > automatic mailbox default, i would > be creating 50 different mailboxen. > then, fi

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread cr
On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:18, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit > > > the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can > > > try different sizes to se

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:11:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it mails itself to > > "recipients extracted from the victim machine", yet I'm seeing so many > > of these to

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:07:58 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:45, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:25:29 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -050

OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
Martin: Your spam blocking is bouncing my mail: - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Received: from mail by ganymede.tranquillity.lan with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0u2r-0006SS-AP for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:33:59 +0100 Re

Re: SBLive! 5.1 in Debian?

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:34:08PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What precisely do I need to get my SBLive! 5.1 soundcard working? I'm > becoming fairly good at using make xconfig and I've built several > kernels of my own, but I can't figure out for the life of me figure > out exactly what I n

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:09:09AM +0100, Mark wrote: > or you could use update-alternatives to update 'x-window-manager' to > point to your wm of choice, which is the debian method. Uh, no, the Debian method is the bog-standard method of correctly configuring your ~/.xsession file to start the X

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it mails itself to > "recipients extracted from the victim machine", yet I'm seeing so many > of these to my personal email address alone that I can't believe my > address i

Help w/http default Woody install, Squirrelmail, defaults

2003-09-20 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I installed a Woody system on my Intel box with an HTTP installation from debina.lcs.mit.edu. I wanted squirrelmail, so I installed apache-ssl, then squirrelmail, all via apt-get, and squirrelmail magically worked fine. After a couple weeks of perfect operation, I opt to add virus scanning for em

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:06:26PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:18, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the > > > size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try > > > different sizes to see what

running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

2003-09-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
When I give the following command to do a DESTRUCTIVE bad block check: badblocks -o 11.bb -b 4096 -v -w /dev/sda11 the following message appears repeatedly on the console: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers However, the test seems to proceed normally. Is this a problem? Each

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-20 Thread cr
On Friday 19 September 2003 21:12, cr wrote: (Finally got DOS, w95 and w98 each installed in their own partitions). > > Next step, see if I can boot the whole thing with GRUB > > cr Yep, GRUB booted fine, DOS, w95 and w98. I just made a Grub boot floppy as instructed in the Howtos, made

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:49, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. Because billg and his minions are Evil, focusing on money to the detriment of technical competence. With their lock on OEMs, if MS had focused even a little bit on security, Linux w

Re: touchpads in Linux

2003-09-20 Thread p
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:47:21PM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) > From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm trying to find a good touchpad (as a standalone device) > > to use with Linux in the place of a regular mouse. > > [SNIP] > > > I'

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Oops, nevermind. The problem turned out to be that my computer was slowly > stirfrying itself. :( No harm done, thankfully. Well, except for > contributing noise here. But I learned a valuable lesson about painting a > computer-- *

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:22:31PM -0700, gerald simpkin wrote: > What I am most concerned about is getting help with the Debian > problem I described (although it should be noted to send > questions in plain text if that is the way you want to get it). > I went to the Debian organizations website

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the > > size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try > > different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window > > appears s

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:45, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:25:29 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500 > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And *even if I did run my own

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:35, csj wrote: > > > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > > > Michael C. wrote: > > > > > > > > In lin

SBLive! 5.1 in Debian?

2003-09-20 Thread joe
I posted yesterday about compiling kernels with network drivers. I got it working, thanks :) However, it hasn;t got me any closer to solving my problem (getting sound working). What precisely do I need to get my SBLive! 5.1 soundcard working? I'm becoming fairly good at using make xconfig and I

SBLive! 5.1 in Debian?

2003-09-20 Thread joe
I posted yesterday about compiling kernels with network drivers. I got it working, thanks :) However, it hasn;t got me any closer to solving my problem (getting sound working). What precisely do I need to get my SBLive! 5.1 soundcard working? I'm becoming fairly good at using make xconfig and I

Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting hammered by the mail, too. >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it mails itself to "recipients extracted from the victim machine", yet I'm

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-20 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:39:14AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ lists: > > - DSN <> > - postmaster > - abuse > - whois > - ipwhois I have used a number of addresses in my whois records and they always are some of my top spammed email addresses. -- B

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:34:37PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:52:44PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > @files=`ls`; > > foreach $file (@files) > > { > > chomp $file; Instead of this, it's better to use opendir(), readdir(), and writedir(). `

Re: Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Tommy McCabe wrote: > I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into > computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet > and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't

Re: Procmail logging

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:03:34 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:58:25AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:30:24 +0200 (CEST), > > David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:45:17 +1000, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with > >> "rescue root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a ker

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Bijan Soleymani: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:52:44PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > @files=`ls`; > > foreach $file (@files) > > { > > chomp $file; > > if(-f $file) > > { > > $newname = uc $file; > > `mv $file $newname`; > oops that should be: >

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-20T23:34:37Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > oops that should be: > `mv "$file" "$newname"`; > So that files with spaces won't screw up. That won't work either. Suppose that $file contains a doublequote? If you're in Perl anyway, use: rename $file, $newname;

Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?

2003-09-20 Thread Mike Mueller
On Friday 19 September 2003 19:29, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:56:03PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > If the fee is a result of the domain name expiring and this is a > > "special" reinstatement fee, then it seems usary to me. > > > Usury means interest. Perhaps "extortion"? > > >

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-09-20 Thread p
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:34:06AM +, p wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: > > > in mutt, when i save an email to a > > > file, how do i save the headers, too? > > > > ...thought i'd report back to > > list.

Re: Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Tommy McCabe wrote: I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't access anything. Everything points to an Ether

Fatal Error: Module load failure

2003-09-20 Thread Karol Krizka
Hello! I just installed Debian Woody and can't start up xserver. I get the following error: II) LoadModule: "xtt" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a Duplicate symbol TT_FreeType_Version in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a:xttmodule.o Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fo

Fatal Error: Module load faliture

2003-09-20 Thread Karol Krizka
Hello! I just installed Debian Woody and can't start up xserver. I get the following error: II) LoadModule: "xtt" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a Duplicate symbol TT_FreeType_Version in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a:xttmodule.o Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fon

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which > > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). > > The e100 shows up in (at least) the 2.4.20 and later kernels. It is a > module and you would need to load

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 20 Sep 2003 17:06:26 +(-0400), Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 20 Sep 2003 23:35:34 +(+0200), Nicos Gollan wrote: > Let's ignore the scripts intended purpose for a while and talk about what will > happen when it's trying to process a filename with a space character... > > Quote all uses of variables: > > if [ -f "$file" ] > > Otherwise, if you

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:24:12 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've considered a scripted (manually triggered, not fully automated) > response but suspect that it's not advisible until I've got a better > idea of the accuracy of headers in the r

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:52:44PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl > @files=`ls`; > foreach $file (@files) > { > chomp $file; > if(-f $file) > { > $newname = uc $file; > `mv $file $newname`; oops that should be: `mv "$file" "$newname"`; So that files

Fatal Error: Module load failure

2003-09-20 Thread Karol Krizka
Hello! I just installed Debian Woody and can't start up xserver. I get the following error: II) LoadModule: "xtt"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.aDuplicate symbol TT_FreeType_Version in/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a:xttmodule.oAlso defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts

Fatal Error: Module load faliture

2003-09-20 Thread Karol Krizka
Hello! I just installed Debian Woody and can't start up xserver. I get the following error: II) LoadModule: "xtt"(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.aDuplicate symbol TT_FreeType_Version in/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libxtt.a:xttmodule.oAlso defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/li

Re: Procmail logging

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:58:25AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:30:24 +0200 (CEST), > David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Is it possible to get procmail to tell in its logfile which recipe > > that was triggered

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with "rescue >> root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a kernel panic, >> because it can't mount the root fs... This time there was some error >> about "unsupported optional

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:06 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script > below, which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile ] >

Re: Procmail logging

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:30:24 +0200 (CEST), David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to get procmail to tell in its logfile which recipe > that was triggered by every mail that is being logged? ..yep, in your .procmailrc, put: LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log-pro

Re: touchpads in Linux

2003-09-20 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to find a good touchpad (as a standalone device) > to use with Linux in the place of a regular mouse. > [SNIP] I've been using a Cirque Easy Cat with Linux all this century & hope to never again tou

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:25:29 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And *even if I did run my own mail server*, all of the virus/spam- > > > filled packets

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:22:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > > > > addresses? > > > My "problem" is that those

Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Tommy McCabe
I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't access anything. Everything points to an Ethernet "card" (which I do

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:34:06AM +, p wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: > > in mutt, when i save an email to a > > file, how do i save the headers, too? > > ...thought i'd report back to > list. > > if the "pipe" command "|" is > used, the _whole_ (mutt) e- > ma

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:35, csj wrote: > > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > > Michael C. wrote: > > > > > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:35:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. > The return path is the actual email address of the infected > victim/sucker. What evidence

Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Donald Spoon wrote: Kent West wrote: I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. In the RealPlayer8 window select "Help"-->"Mime Type/Plugin Install" and follow the directions there. I did that, which was a repe

Evolution without X / PIM on server

2003-09-20 Thread Andre Kalus
Hi, can you run evolution without a gui? If not perhaps anybody has another idea: I have a palm as well as a mobile phone that can sync to evolution via multisync. I want to keep all data in sync and AFAIK evolution is the only solution in linux "everybody" can sync to (perhaps some kde applicati

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:06:26PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. While we're at it: $ rename tr/a-z/A-Z/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: USB2.0 and IRDA on IBM ThinkPad T40

2003-09-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 20 Setembre 2003 20:14, en Fallen_Angel va escriure: > Hi, > > this notebook works great with linux, but there are few problems. > > I tried to use a USB 2.0 Harddisk on it and it runs with the ehci driver > on the new kernel 2.4.22 with 40

mouting a smb share with linux

2003-09-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i recently installed samba on my server and made it a PDC. I can log in and access the shares fine from xp. I share the home dir, the tmp and the mp3 dir. (The smb.conf is shown below). My hostname in linux is the same as the hostname in windows and is the one i added to the samba server in or

console-tools setup problem

2003-09-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have a Sid box that has been giving me this error after every apt-get session for about a week now: Setting up general console font... set_kernel_font: Invalid argument failed. I have uninstalled (purged) and reinstalled, downgraded to the testing version, and google searched. Nothing has help

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 20 September 2003 8:12 pm, Michael C. wrote: > My ISP thinks it's doing me a favor by removing windows executables > and throwing a virus warning in as an attachment in its place. So > most of this junk is only around 15K but on dial-up it still bogs me > down. > My ISP seems to b

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:06:26PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile

Re: Anti-virus for Exim

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Mark Maas wrote: This should get you going: http://ente.limmat.ch/linux/exim_v3_-_amavisd-new.html Hope it helps, and let me know if it does not... Mark Hi Mark Tried that one but am receiving the same error message you got earlier in the month: "failed to lookup IP address for localhost" How

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-20 13:07]: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the > script below, which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile ] > the

Problem with Horde and changing password

2003-09-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I have Horde running on a Woody box and have recently encountered this error: Failure in changing password : Connection refused A google search yields only a mailing list archive hit from the Imp mailing list that talks about poppasswd (which does not apply to me). All other funtions in Horde/IM

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: gerald simpkin wrote: I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. What I am most concerned about is gett

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- gerald simpkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email > sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to > send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. > What I am most concern

Re: colours of the printer

2003-09-20 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:50:20 +0200, Christine Hawksworth wrote: > i could use your help that if this is what you deal with - when i print > out using colour some of the colours are not printing out eg red/yellow > and when i try to print colour words they are not in the right order - > it was fine

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:35, csj wrote: > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > Michael C. wrote: > > > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 20 September 2003 23:06, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script > below, which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile ] > t

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:22:31PM -0700, gerald simpkin wrote: > I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the > email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a > configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance > about this email. What I am

RE: Anti-virus for Exim

2003-09-20 Thread Mark Maas
This should get you going: http://ente.limmat.ch/linux/exim_v3_-_amavisd-new.html Hope it helps, and let me know if it does not... Mark -Original Message- From: Greg Bolshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 11:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anti-virus f

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:07, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:40, Nicos Gollan escribe: > > Well, it seems to have slowed down a little. Yesterday, I received about 11MB > > in a few hours and "only" 7MB during the last 12h or so. > > Me too. Lots of

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Mark
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:22:31PM -0700, gerald simpkin wrote: > What I am most concerned about is getting help with the Debian problem I described > (although it should be noted to send questions in plain text if that is the way you > want to get it). I went to the Debian organizations website

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:27:51 -0700 Carla Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron's posts were perfectly clear, I understood what he was talking about. > Yeah, so you run your own mailserver, I'm impressed- that doesn't have > anything to do with Ron's question. Which, in turn, had nothing

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Michael D Schleif
Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:20:17:06:26-0400] scribed: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 11:19, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 11:58 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out there

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
gerald simpkin wrote: I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. What I am most concerned about is getting help with the

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And *even if I did run my own mail server*, all of the virus/spam- > > filled packets would *still* have to be sent down to me. > > 'cept for blacklisting at the fir

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:27 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- > > ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net > > down to your PC. > >

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Geordie Birch
Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20 Sep 2003 11:09 +0200]: > So I would like to try out some lightweight windowmanagers. What is an > easy way to start different window managers (so I can try them out)? > > OK, I *could* live with a graphical login, if there's no easy text based > solution.

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-20 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 20 September 2003 9:06 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! > > > > Yes, this happened to me too; my mouse dropped out. > > Put me in that list too. I took the xserver-xfree86 security update > and sure enough thi

Anti-virus for Exim

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Hi I'm looking for a package to scan incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses. Currently using Exim as my MTA. Is there anything in stable that can do this? Your suggestions, please. -- +===+ | Greg Bolshaw E-Mail: [EMAIL P

Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Donald Spoon wrote: Kent West wrote: I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. I can manually run rp8 and watch realplayer files/etc, but some sites ( some new IBM Linux videos - http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/# )

Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Donald Spoon wrote: Kent West wrote: I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. I can manually run rp8 and watch realplayer files/etc, but some sites ( some new IBM Linux videos - http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/# ) seem to require

Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, which does...nothing. #!/bin/sh for file in $* do if [ -f $file ] then ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` if [ $file != $ucfile ] then mv -i $file $ucfile fi fi done Any tips? TIA Jeff Elkins

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-20 Thread Vikki Roemer
Oops, nevermind. The problem turned out to be that my computer was slowly stirfrying itself. :( No harm done, thankfully. Well, except for contributing noise here. But I learned a valuable lesson about painting a computer-- *do not* use acrylic metallic paint, it's too rubbery and acts as an in

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And *even if I did run my own mail server*, all of the virus/spam- > filled packets would *still* have to be sent down to me. 'cept for blacklisting at the firewall. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your pries

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:41:15 -0400 Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, you are just being pedantic. I don't let my ISP handle my > mail[actually I do use them for outgoing mail], but that doesn't mean I > don't have to fetch my mail from a remote pop server. No, I am not. Not eve

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- > > ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net > > down to your PC. > > Uhm, no. Yo

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net down to your PC. Uhm, no. You're operating under the assumption everyone let

Debian

2003-09-20 Thread gerald simpkin
I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. What I am most concerned about is getting help with the Debian problem I describe

Re: With newer chipsets, is ECC memory slower ? Worth the penalty ?

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul McHale wrote: > I have always heard ECC memory is more reliable, but there is a performance > penalty. Crucial.com estimates the penalty to be 10% to 15%. That's a lot. Negative. My own memory test benchmarks using a (cough) windows based test program shows only a 1%-2% speed degradation.

is the tty serial layer working in 2.6.0-testx?

2003-09-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I have run into another problem with 2.6.0-test2 and -test4. I use a Pilot M505 which I have always synced using the serial port (I never got around to getting it connected via USB). This has worked fine under the 2.4.x series, but does not work now that I have started using 2.6.0-test2 and -test4

Re: Bind9 patches? (Was: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy)

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley wrote: > I might have missed a post but is there a plan to update bind9 in > stable with the bind9 patch for dns wild-carding? It's not really a > security issue, but a worthwhile[1] patch, IMHO. Use LaMont's backport area. I think Joey posted it earlier too. # BIND, packit, po

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