Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: The situation gets stranger and stranger. For completeness, I have repeated the problem below. None of the suggestions helped. Whether I used the boot floppy or installation CD, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Then, for no sensible reason, I put Debian in t

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit > > > the

RE: No Screens found

2003-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Now we're heading straight for a bug (strange, on an 'old' system like woody). Fresh install from 3.0r1, basic, just X. No ftp, no updates; everything from CDROM. Mouse driver and uhci (USB) activated. startx crashes just like last week on me. apt-get install x-window-system-core comes ok (nothing

Re: OT: Re: having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread Michael D Schleif
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:22:01:27:52-0400] scribed: > David Palmer wrote: > >On Monday 22 September 2003 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>every time i turn on the computer. > > > >I think you are going to experience another one here. > >Regards, > > > >David. > > Spamassass

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Louie Miranda
> ..check that your "getty" actually supports this, there are > some that doesnt, like mingetty in RH. T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 I use this as my configuration for inittab. I running a Debian 3.0r1. I also tried this configuration.. /sbin/getty 9600 ttyS1 And used mingetty,

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Louie Miranda
minicom sends me this.. > minicom <- enter -- Welcome to minicom 1.83.1 OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n Compiled on Nov 21 2001, 00:35:58. Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H$v login: ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G Router>rpcproxy1s

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:56:10 +0800, "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > > Im trying this but i could not connect to it, im trying to connect > using minicom. > But it wont get thru.. > > Any ideas? Im plann

apt-get problem (bug in apt-get?)

2003-09-21 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I suspect this is an actual bug in apt-get, but I'm not sure where the problem would be, or when it occured. Anyway, it looks like it must be some kind of database inconsistency, and I'm really more interested in fixing my package database. Lately, I've started to get this message when trying

OT: Re: having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread Travis Crump
David Palmer wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every time i turn on the computer. I think you are going to experience another one here. Regards, David. Spamassassin marked [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message as spam and when I saw it in my caught spam box I couldn't j

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder 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 > > c

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Louie Miranda
i solved the blank screen problem. but i see some un-usual char even when im not typing any commands i think minicom sends it, what could be wrong? - Louie - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:09 PM Subj

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
The situation gets stranger and stranger. For completeness, I have repeated the problem below. None of the suggestions helped. Whether I used the boot floppy or installation CD, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Then, for no sensible reason, I put Debian in the lilo boot loader

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Louie Miranda
solved!! just d baud rate - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: consoling to a cisco router using inittab > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > > Im trying this but i could no

Re: having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread David Palmer
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > every time i turn on the computer. I think you are going to experience another one here. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:59, csj wrote: > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > 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: > > > >

consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-21 Thread Louie Miranda
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Im trying this but i could not connect to it, im trying to connect using minicom. But it wont get thru.. Any ideas? Im planning to move over to win/hyper terminal but i choose to learn first. - Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is better. Any opinions? Gerard http://devslash.org Razor can be used in procmail recipes (which I do) or in SpamAssassin. If you like what you've read about razor, you can use it in either/bot

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread David Palmer
On Monday 22 September 2003 05:23, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:06:53 +0200 > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any company in the world which can > > > > > do that without having the status of a monopoly? > > > > ..www.telenor.no ? It "only" has the copper.

../etc/apt/sources.list and X and DRI-Mach64 for woody

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..from my tentative 'cat /etc/apt/sources.list': # XFree86 4.3: # deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./ # is gone, but where??? # http://people.debian.org/~nobse/deprecated/experimental/xfree86/ ? # Also I get my DRI-Mach64 drivers from Dänzer's unofficial "site"

RE: No Screens found

2003-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
As add on: I was starting to doubt myself. So I took the same, original 3.0r1 and threw it into another, old machine (AMD400, PS/2-mouse). Everything okay, X, mouse, you name it. Piece of cake. Now I will install from scratch on that other machine, delete all work so far, everything documented and

Re: Help w/http default Woody install, Squirrelmail, defaults

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Scott Ehrlich wrote: 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

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

2003-09-21 Thread Paul McHale
Bob, > Having said all of that I will say that all of my servers which run > 24/7 all have ECC memory in them and they are very reliable. The disk > drive is the least reliable part for me and I use RAID to offset that. > ECC is barely more expensive than non-ECC. I always look for ECC when I d

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
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 PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sidney Brooks wrote: I followed the instructions below. When I entered "linux single" at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Ah, this points to a non-X problem. Did you ever get to the point whe

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

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At least one technical description of Swen (which I can no longer > find) states that [ . . . ] Found the reference. See: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml under the heading "Spreading in e-mails and to newsgroups", second paragraph.

unsuscribe

2003-09-21 Thread Carlos Colorado
Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On 20 Sep 2003 16:24:34, Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have run into another problem with 2.6.0-test2 and -test4. > > I use a Pilot

Re: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread tb . nospam
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > -Original Message- > From: AnotherLinuxGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Divx and DVD playback > > > what is the best of the best when it comes to a

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

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin Buhr
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. At least one technical description of Swen (which I can no longer find) states that,

having reponse problem

2003-09-21 Thread WMw7wmw
every time i turn on the computer.

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:44:48 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, > isapnp etc under Woody. > > Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation > kernel, adding s

Re: apache and rewritten config files

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Well, I just *noticed* it happening ... I had a half-baked install of twiki and didn't remember what I'd done with/to it, so I ripped it out and installed it again. As twiki was reinstalling itself, it apparently modified httpd.conf, once again dinking out the php4 line. Now, why is it doing that?

RE: No Screens found

2003-09-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
Dear all, nope, tried all, no framebuffer, no luck. Tried another -f upgrade, tried the apt-get install x-window-system-core; you name it. With the latest upgrade, it seems to detect the card, but the mouse now is the problem: (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device

Eth0 promiscuous mode ??

2003-09-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
When I boot my system in the boot sequence (after starting etho interface) I get a message; device eth0 entered promiscuous mode device eth0 left promiscuous mode And then these continue to trickle out.. Never saw this before on this machine, something wrong?? Thanks. -

apache and rewritten config files

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
It's possible that I have gremlins in my machine ... Okay, so, I don't look at the php pages on this machine all that often. But every now and then, I do so and find that -- poof! -- apache has forgotten how to render php, and consequently, anyone in the world can see the source to various pages.

X11 startup permission problem

2003-09-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a system that when it boots reports that X11 couldn't start, and if I then try to start it manually (startx), it says: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership, not root:root and It is actually: nobody:nogroup If I change it, and then do startx, it works. but then later at a reboot it

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:22:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > > If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box > > makes it conk out, I think you ought to install som

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Monday, September 22 at 1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following: This is just a plain bug, and I see it on my laptop too. In fact, see http://bugs.debian.org/210838. It looks as if cron 3.0pl1-81 will fix it, so let's try ... yep, works for me. That package is available from http://incomin

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sunday, September 21 at 8:53 pm, gerard penned the following: I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is better. Any opinions? I just installed SA yesterday, so I may be missing something, but SA has the option to call Razor as part of its shtick ... in fact, S

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Monday, September 22 at 1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Stock which version of Debian? The scheme has been changed in unstable, and the permissions match what Monique quoted. So, Monique, you should probably change them ba

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matthew" == Matthew Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> What are the contents of /etc/modules on your system. I suspect >> most of the errors you are seeing have to do with the contents >> of /etc/modules.conf Matthew> I gather /etc/modu

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:53:15 -0400 "Gerard Ceraso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is > better. Any opinions? You're asking if 10w30 motor oil is better than a stick shift. Both are used in the same vehicle, both have some con

RE: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I would say mplayer. I use it for all of my movies, although I don't really watch DVDs on the computer so I would know for that. But for divx movies and stuff it works great for me. -- Gerard -Original Message- From: AnotherLinuxGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2

spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread gerard
I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is better. Any opinions?   Gerard http://devslash.org

Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-21 Thread Levi Waldron
-- Arnt Karlsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp ...is missing on your box, mknod it. -- No, /dev/dsp exists with proper permissions (see further below in my posting). Rather, it seems that the ad1848 sound module

Re: modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-09-21 Thread Nick Hastings
* Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030922 07:55]: > I have been unable to get modconf to work under 2.6.0-test2 or -test4. > The program runs, but shows only the "exit" option, with no modules > displayed for selecting. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem,and > if, any suggestions? Modconf

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:53:15PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is > better. Any opinions? Spamassassin can use razor, I think all you have to do is apt-get install it. I'm not 100% on that though. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Why can't my user run crontab? > > > > The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do > > their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a > > normal user, I get n

spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Gerard Ceraso
I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is better. Any opinions?   Gerard http://devslash.org

..typo bug in xdm-4.1.0-16woody1, fails 'apt-get upgrade'

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..found typo bug in xdm-4.1.0-16woody1, fails 'apt-get upgrade' _and_ 'dpkg --configure xdm', want's me to 'dpkg --configure wdm', which I don't use: a45:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back .. 0 pac

Hotplug doesn't restart

2003-09-21 Thread Default User
The short of it: hotplug appears not to work after I exit runlevel 1 (let's say by typing Ctrl-D after invoking "init 1"). None of the USB devices I plug in are recognized. I have to issue an "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart" to get hotplug back into working order. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread csj
At Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:05:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 04:39, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2003, a las 21:03, Ron Johnson escribe: > > > There goes "Britany kissing Madonna"... > > > > Did she? I should watch more TV... What about Ju

Re: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:54:43PM -0400, AnotherLinuxGuy wrote: > what is the best of the best when it comes to a program that does > playback of divx and DVDs? i have heard Xine and Mplayer, in Xine i get > no sound, i use esd or dsp i think, its on a compaq armada m700 laptop, > and in mplayer i

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Matthew Bennett
I'm much clearer about what initrd is supposed to do now, thanks. Shyamal Prasad wrote: > What are the contents of /etc/modules on your system. I suspect most > of the errors you are seeing have to do with the contents of > /etc/modules.conf The contents of /etc/modules is just: af_packet radeon

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: I followed the instructions below. When I entered "linux single" at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Ah, this points to a non-X problem. Did you ever get to the point where it asked for the administrative password? You might try booting

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp d

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > > I think the point is that in Brazil you can't start offering DSL > > service. The monopoly is sort of enforced by a regulating agency. > > And thus we have an example of the evils of regulation, not of t

syncing Jpilot+Squirrelmail+mutt+Palm addresses

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
Any suggestions how to best manage email addresses on my home LAN. I use a Palm and Jpilot, Squirrelmail, and mutt mostly. I'd like to be able to sync addresses from all these sources. I.e., enter address in Squirrel mail and have it show up in mutt and on jpilot. Time to learn LDAP? Than

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > I think the point is that in Brazil you can't start offering DSL > service. The monopoly is sort of enforced by a regulating agency. And thus we have an example of the evils of regulation, not of the evils of monopoly. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) D

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: > One thing is to double prices and expose them _before_ you pay, and > another thing is to double prices you suddenly have to pay in > disagreement with a former contract. Maybe you are a lawyer, but for my > taste, these things stink like hell. That's got nothing to do wi

Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread AnotherLinuxGuy
what is the best of the best when it comes to a program that does playback of divx and DVDs? i have heard Xine and Mplayer, in Xine i get no sound, i use esd or dsp i think, its on a compaq armada m700 laptop, and in mplayer i get a segment fault right off the bat, but they dont have a deb package

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:40:23 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> # hdparm -d /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target?/lun0/generic > > Neither of these approaches will work as the drive is IDE behind the USB > port. Thus, the system sees USB, then SCSI. That's why I wrote "In the case of a real IDE device...".

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:10:08 +0200, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 > in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US tes

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:26:13PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > marinus schreef op zondag 21 september > > 2003 13:56: > > > >> beste user. > >> kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? > >> kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? > >> > >> bij voorbaat dank

Tuning Exim 3.35

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm wondering what others use in the exim.conf (mostly for combating spam by checking headers). I assume sender_verify is good. What about sender_verify_fixup? What about headers_sender_verify and headers_check_syntax? Also, for a small home lan (about 1000 mails a day), is sender_verify_host

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in > 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box > makes it conk out, I think you ought to install some extra fannage. I have another fan and a spot on the case to screw it in to, but nowhere on the MB to plug it in. I

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:55:34PM +0200, marinus wrote: > beste user. > kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? > kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? > > bij voorbaat dank moin marinus, mijn Pentium = 133 MHz met 128 MB RAM (16 MB werk well met text monitor; >=32 MB werk ok met X

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread csj
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:18:20 -0700, 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

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
I followed the instructions below. When I entered "linux single" at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. I might add, Debian "potato" didn't work for me in the graphical mode because it only accepted the lowest resolution, 640x400 (I think), and everything was so b

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:23:48 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Simon writes: > > If your only local provider doubles price in a consumer product, what > > would happen in your area? > > Nothing in particular, in general. For example, there is only one > drugstore in my vil

FSCK: Filesystem has unsupported features

2003-09-21 Thread Charlie Dyson
Hi, I'm using Debian (stable) on a UML (user-mode-linux). Everything works fine (apart from using devfs which required me to edit /etc/inittab), except that I can't run fsck on my root filesystem, because it complains about unsupported features. It's ext2 with features (according to dumpe2fs):

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:03:00PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in > 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > --- > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:23:48PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nothing in particular, in general. For example, there is only one > drugstore in my village. The owner is entirely free to set his prices > however he wishes. Same goes for my ISP. I think the point is that in Brazil you can't start

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: > If your only local provider doubles price in a consumer product, what > would happen in your area? Nothing in particular, in general. For example, there is only one drugstore in my village. The owner is entirely free to set his prices however he wishes. Same goes for m

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt8 root roo

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
orry, forgot to mention I'm running unstable ... The permissions: ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 27K Sep 17 18:18 /usr/bin/crontab toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ drwx-wx--T2 root crontab 4.0K Sep 21 13:55 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ I made t

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:03, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in > 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > --- > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stabl

Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines --- deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debi

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hi all! I hope someone might have an answer to a puzzling question ... Why can't my user run crontab? The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a normal user, I get nastiness

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Although one person answered the message below, I never saw it posted. In case something strange happened, I am trying it again. Rodney D. Myers responded to it. I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went smo

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Why can't my user run crontab? > > The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do > their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a > normal user, I get nastiness: > > crontab -e > crontabs/monique: Permission denied > [...]

ATI ALL-in Wonder //PRO

2003-09-21 Thread techlists
I am looking to do some video capture, editing, and maybe watch TV on my Desktop. I am running Woody, KDE 3.1, AMD XP1300, 512 meg ram, and an nVidia GeForce ti 200 /128 meg ddr ram. going trough the company's "box o' parts" I found 2 older ATI ALL in Wonder cards. One is a PCI ALL in Wonder, t

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:06:53 +0200 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any company in the world which can > > do that without having the status of a monopoly? > > ..www.telenor.no ? It "only" has the copper... ;-) Ooops. World seems to be a worse place than I thought. -- Chri

install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
Although one person answered the message below, I never saw it posted. In case something strange happened, I am trying it again. I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went smoothly until I tried to use it after the installation. All I

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:19:42 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latter. Having a monopoly is not illegal. Taking unfair advantage > of it is. It might not be illegal, but the method to reach/hold it might at least be questionably for a normal citizen. > I have only one provider

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel B. wrote: > Why doesn't it (or some part of the GDM/etc. login process) know your > default shell the same way /bin/login knows (and invokes an instance > of) your default shell? It does seem like it should be able to know that. But of course it won't know about my own whizzy furblyburb

Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Mark Maas
- Original Message - From: "Greg Bolshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam > Mark Maas wrote: > > >I've installed a mailserver with the following: >

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

2003-09-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:43:01AM -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: > > I also wonder if some of the zombies that spammers use to blast out > msgs might have been compromised by this virus as well. Me too. Especially as most spam I get has got my address from debian-user or other Linux lists, and I'

Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Mark Maas wrote: I've installed a mailserver with the following: Exim 3.35, Amavis using clamav-daemon, Spamassassin and Razor. Everything works great, as expected, and my follwing question is just to extend this functionality: All spam is now placed in the same quarantine directory as all virus-e

crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I hope someone might have an answer to a puzzling question ... Why can't my user run crontab? The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a normal user, I get nastiness: crontab -e crontabs/moni

Mozilla and Content-Encoding: gzip

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
How do I get mozilla to unzip this and display it as text/plain? Mozilla asks me to save it to a file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ HEAD ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim3/FAQ.txt.gz 200 OK Server: University of Cambridge Computing Service ftp Server Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Leng

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:52:28 -0300, Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:04 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Christoph Simon writes: > > > Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal... > > > > Which count

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.21.1712 +0200]: > Have you tried the cat > /proc trick, something like: > cat using_dma:1 > /proc/ide/hdX/settings also sprach Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.21.1946 +0200]: > # hdparm -d /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target?/lun0/generic Neithe

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matthew" == Matthew Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I'm using 3.0r1 with a custom 2.4.22 Matthew> kernel. /boot/grub/menu.lst contains: title Debian root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd Matthew> However, /initrd is an empty

Re: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Steven Schlansker
Thanks, that fixed it. On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:25 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Would you post the content of file /etc/inittab to the li

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:09:39AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > That last sentence is the important one. If you run a mail server > then you must accept abuse to it. So by definition all mail sites > should accept mail to abuse. But if you don't run a web server then > there is no requirement t

KDE installation broken?

2003-09-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I tried to install kde 3 on my sid system and found that it is broken in sid and woody: [defiant /]# apt-get install kde Reading Pacage Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are u

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: > I'm not a lawyer, so I can't offer you a legal definition of a monopoly, > but ask Microsoft about their last big trial and that which still seem to > be in process in the EU. Or wasn't that in the end about being a monopoly > and taking unfair advantage of it? The latter

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks for the tips, folks. This will help me avoid a PITA recurring task... Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Mark Maas
Hello all, I've installed a mailserver with the following: Exim 3.35, Amavis using clamav-daemon, Spamassassin and Razor. Everything works great, as expected, and my follwing question is just to extend this functionality: All spam is now placed in the same quarantine directory as all virus-email

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