Re: Question on GPG

Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys (of course I

Re: Disabling USB devices?

Phil Edwards wrote: A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical ar

Re: Multi-user Debian

Roberto Sanchez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: |>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and |>>Debian... |> |>Hurry! Patent it! ;-) | | | Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology | was popular back in the mid-80s. | I don't bel

Disabling USB devices?

A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical arrangement of the ma

Re: Question on GPG

Roberto Sanchez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part o

Re: Fonts in gvim

> > gvim only offers up a seemingly small subset of fonts on my system > > (compared to what Mozilla shows, for example). > > *Which* gvim? A GTK1 gvim is going to use any XLFD font you care to > name... a GTK2 gvim is only going to use ones served by fontconfig > (Xft2). > > > I'd like to use

Re: Problems getting security updates?

Chuck Mattern wrote: Possibly a newbie issue here but the lines: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Update CD 20030109: i386]/ woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)]/ unstable contrib

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

Hi Yall & Eward, who wrote at some length below. The most friendly Debian I've tried, given the generation of hardware you are talking about, is Xandros Tux 1.0. It auto-detected & loaded the nVida drivers, when I ran there kit. If your friend can hold off a month or two, a newer version of

Courier logins fail (postfix+courier+mysql)

Hi all, I'm trying to get a virtual mailbox setup going using Postfix, Courier-IMAP, and mySQL, all from the unstable/sid tree, using this tutorial as a guide: http://www.high5.net/howto. I'm able to have postfix recognize incoming mail and put it into the appropriate maildirs, but I've met with u

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:46:11 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (28/09/03 00:39), Peter Nuttall wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: > [snip] > > > If you are looking for these things, could I recomm

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome (gdmconfig show system menu)

Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: Is there a way of allowing any user to shutdown. Idealy from the taskbar (but I guess in this case it's simply a case of writing a short script and calling it from the taksbar. Ben Have a look to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf Also accessable as su -c "/usr/sbin

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to a DVD. I have found someone who has

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:46:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (28/09/03 00:39), Peter Nuttall wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: > [snip] > > > If you are looking for these things, could I recom

Re: pppd daemon dies

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat Sep 27, 2003 at 01:03:30AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: The remote system is required to > > authenticate itself Sep 26 05:42:22 deblnx pppd[1178]: but I couldn't > > find any suitable secret (passwor

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 03:44, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:17:21 +1200 > > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Conclusions: > > > > 1. Back up the MBR and everything else, first! > > 2. Be very, very careful when using 'map' to swap drives around > > 3. It's probably safest to le

OT: Using a mic in Windoze Re: problen

jay wrote: hi i have a on board sound card a ac97 on my msi 865pe neo2 board running home xp the problem is thst the head phones and mic work in all on board tests and also on msn mess test all scales move up and down but and this is the big but i can hear other people talk to me but they ca

Re: ppp stalls on computer activity

Thanks, csj DMA was the problem. I didn't have the chipset set in the kernel. Works like a dream now. Michael Westwind On Friday 26 September 2003 11:38, WMFender-Westwind wrote: > Hi all > > I have a Sony laptop PCG-FXA32 running Debian SID, kernel 2.4.20 > (hand-rolled) with an odd problem.

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Pim Bliek wrote: I get the virii with 3 different content-types: application/x-msdownload,audio/x-wav,audio/x-mid so, just exe doesnt seem to cover it. But how do you filter them out using postfix? Pim I was commenting that you can not

Re: MS mail bombs

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 18:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:13:20 +0800, > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:13:53 +0100, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > [1 ] > > > on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([E

Lindows was Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.26.0032 +0200]: While we're on that subject, does anyone in here have any Lindows experience? I remember that several years ago when it was first announced, there was rumors about a "100% MS Windows compatible Linu

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (28/09/03 00:39), Peter Nuttall wrote: > > On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: [snip] > > If you are looking for these things, could I recommend mandrake linux over > > debian. IMHO debian is for the power user who is ready t

Re: kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device "305" or 03:05 Pleace append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did no

kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k

"kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device "305" or 03:05 Pleace append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did not use initrd, I tried t

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

Also Sprach Steve Lamb >On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:48:22 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> - Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano. >> operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J) >First off, make sure you're in mail mode. That'll let vim know >what format to expe

sarge make-kpkg lilo problems

Hi all.I haven't had problems before on other machines with make-kpkg. Just used it to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.22 on a machine at work, and have had a horrible time. I get the message: "fsck ext3 No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb2" which is my root directory. Then

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:36:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > Debian's i

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:12:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:40:18PM -0700, Ernest Johanson wrote: > > I'm running the mondoarchive package on Debian 3.0 using a 2.4.22 kernel > > compliled from source. Saw the commentary on the mondo web site; not sure > > what t

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: > Hi there, > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > rendered his machine unusable. He's asked me to reinstall Windows, an

Re: source-kernel-2.4.22 and cpufreq

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 12:59, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Dijous 25 Setembre 2003 20:21, en Jerome BENOIT va escriure: > > > I've succeeded installing patch-2.4.22-ac4 onto vanilla kernel-source > > > 2.4.22 > > > > I guess that by vanilla is meant the o

Re: source-kernel-2.4.22 and cpufreq

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 18:27, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > is there a patch for the source-kernel-2.4.22 > as distributed in Sarge to incoporate the `cpufreq' stuff ? > > Thanks, > Jerome If I am not mistake, there is no official patch. You will need to either download the patch or try

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On (28/09/03 00:39), Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > > rendered his machine unusa

Re: Determining eth -> driver mapping

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 12:47, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:10:08 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would rather try to detect which interface is mapped to the driver > > instead of assuming the active one is always on eth0. > > Is there a way to do that? > > AFAIK there isn

Re: Apache-perl install failure on sid

At 7:32 Uhr -0700 25.09.2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else have the problem of Apache-perl hanging on installation? Yes I've seen it too, and downgraded to testing again because of it. (Time for a bug report if not done already) Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: > Hi there, > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > rendered his machine unusable. He's asked me to reinstall Windows, and > Linux i

Re: MS mail bombs

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:13:20 +0800, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:13:53 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, >

Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

Hi there, A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's rendered his machine unusable. He's asked me to reinstall Windows, and Linux in a dual boot configuration. The problem is this; while I've bee

Re: apt-get has turned against me

a little contribution dpkg --help say that there is an option "--no-debsig" it can be util for few packages. for lot of them the modification "no-debsig" in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg should be the solution. thanks. -- Creado con Evo-GroupWare

usb mouse stopped working

I just did an upgrade a couple of days ago and after that my usb mouse stopped working. I am using debian unstable with kernel 2.4.23-pre4 and the moues is forwaded using gpm. The mouse is functioning under winXP and in usbview (also under proc) so I don't think that it is a hardware problem. Any i

Re: pam and other authentication methods

David Z Maze wrote: Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Today i read that Slackware doesn't use PAM by default because of some of the leaks that pop up now and then. I was wondering what other type of authentications there are on Linux and how easy/difficult they are to set up. The ba

Re: Multi-user Debian

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:34, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > |>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and > |>>Debian... > |> > |>Hurry! Patent it! ;-) > | > | > | Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of techno

Re: pam and other authentication methods

Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today i read that Slackware doesn't use PAM by default because of > some of the leaks that pop up now and then. I was wondering what > other type of authentications there are on Linux and how > easy/difficult they are to set up. The basic answer her

Re: snapshot.debian.net

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:17:51PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:27:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does http://snapshot.debian.net really keep EVERY version of EVERY > > > package in unstable? > > > > Se

Re: Question on GPG

El sábado, 27 de septiembre de 2003, a las 17:53, Roberto Sanchez escribe: > I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Yes, I can tell, indeed your message was very useful for me in order to test a procmail rule that make signatures generated by your Enigmail play nice with my mu

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all > or doesn't h

Re: Multi-user Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: |>>This has got to be the best idea since Linux and |>>Debian... |> |>Hurry! Patent it! ;-) | | | Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology | was popular back in the mid-80s. | I don't believe that will have an i

Re: Question on GPG

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene Engelhard wrote: | Hi, | | Roberto Sanchez wrote: | |>When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys |>(of course I did not read through all the way before starting), I |>searched for my key. It turns out that at some poi

Re: ppp stalls on computer activity

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:38:09 -0700, WMFender-Westwind wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a Sony laptop PCG-FXA32 running Debian SID, kernel > 2.4.20 (hand-rolled) with an odd problem. I have an external > hardware modem (Motorola modemsurfr) on ttyS0. Every time > there is heavy load on the machine,

Re: Multi-user Debian

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:56, csj wrote: > At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT), > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box, > > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard > > and a mouse. > > [...] > > > It is described here: > > > > http:

xawtv problem

i have Debian 3.0 and TV board with Bt878 chip. i re-compile the kernel and run xawtv, but the images it displays are not correct and there are no sound. i'm in mainland China which use PAL/DK. does xawtv support PAL/DK? what's the problem? thanks in advance! __ D

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:49:00 +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > someone on this list mentioned some other program to check > > popservers before fetchmail'ing? > mailfilter? There are others: popsneaker

Re: Question on GPG

Hi, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching for keys > (of course I did not read through all the way before starting), I > searched for my key. It turns out that at some point all my keys (3 in > all) were exported. The problem is that I had alrea

Re: burning a CD

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 20:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:15:01PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > > > Op vr 26-09-2003, om 02:17 schreef Carla Schr

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:06:50 + (UTC), "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:33:51 +0200, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > penned:> > > ..to swat that last one too: _Nobody_ needs binaries in email. > > Those without "zip.

Question on GPG

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part of the HowTo on searching

Re: Multi-user Debian

At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box, > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard > and a mouse. [...] > It is described here: > > http://startx.times.lv/ > http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/ > http://va

howto get (retrace) synched fullscreen tvout with mplayer

hello, i'm trying to get fullscreen playback with mplayer (MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.3.2) on my TV with enabled "wait for vertical retrace" to eliminate the vertical bars (old picture<->new picture problem). It seems for me that i can get only synched output with the gl or gl2 driver (set __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLA

Re: Still on install

Sidney Brooks declaimed: > I have two problems left. > > 1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp, to dial, but > they do not authenticate. The kppp log says: > > The system is required to authenticate itself > but I cannot find any suitable secret (password) for > it to use to do so. > (None of th

howto get (retrace) synched fullscreen tvout with mplayer

hello, i'm trying to get fullscreen playback with mplayer (MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.3.2) on my TV with enabled "wait for vertical blank" to eliminate the vertical bars (old picture<->new picture problem). It seems for me that i can get only synched output with the gl or gl2 driver (set __GL_SYNC_TO_VB

initrd kernel uplevel problem

Hi all, I load the ft3xx module in my startup initrd, to enable me to continue booting from my Promise Fasttrak 376 SATA RAID controller. This worked great with the bf24 install, which created an initrd in /boot/initrd.debinstall, which I have used with every subequent kernel that I've compiled.

: Re: pppd daemon dies

After adding 'noauth' to /etc/ppp/options kppp still fails with this message: Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Sep 27 13:00:46 deblnx pppd[1153]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Sep 27 13:00:46 d

Re: How to Image a Flash card?

Vineet Kumar wrote: * Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 08:27]: I've got two 128MB flash cards. One of them is a SanDisk brand, and from what I've found on the web are prone to "dying". Mine has died. However, before giving up on it completely, I thought I'd see if I could clone an image

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, Kent West wrote: This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search mkfs.vfat dosfstools: sbin/mkfs.vfat dosfstools: usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz dosfstools. Grüße/Regards, René That "apt-file" tool is somet

Re: setting umask for an nfs mount

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:18, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:05:30AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Shri Shrikumar said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:00:25PM +0100: > > > I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does > > > not give any help since nfs doesnt

logcheck vs logwatch

Hi, I am running a few debian machines with logcheck installed and its working fine. I also maintain a couple of redhat machines and I stumbled across logwatch and the reports from logwatch seem to be a lot more intelligible for a non-techie user. Anybody here have any opinions on logcheck vs log

Re: snapshot.debian.net

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:27:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does http://snapshot.debian.net really keep EVERY version of EVERY package in > > unstable? > > See the statement on its front page. It's true. > Thanks. I'd re

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

Paul E Condon declaimed: > An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo > Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for > Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian > package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... . I had mostly

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:48:22 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano. > operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J) First off, make sure you're in mail mode. That'll let vim know what format to expect. gq> will to go th

Re: TV tuner cards?

On 03-09-26 21:00 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm also thinking of getting a TV tuner card for same, for the CardBus slot. > This would be able to receive broadcast TV, accept NTSC and S-Video inputs, > and in an ideal world also receive FM. > Hi Carl, Not exactly a recommendation, but to help yo

Re: what mailing system for me ?

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, mess-mate wrote: > > Found it in a tutorial. > So, When I compare with yours all seems ok, didn't ? > If it is, what is the command to place the messages in the MALDIR ? > When I give the command 'procmail', it hangs until a ^C. > mess-mate > > I'm not an expert on this but

Problems getting security updates?

Possibly a newbie issue here but the lines: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Update CD 20030109: i386]/ woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib no

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:36:10AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I disagree. I can't think of any reason why I'd be mailing an executable to > someone instead of a URL to where they can download it themselves, with the > exception of development collaboration among people experienced enough to > u

Re: burning a CD

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:15:01PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > > Op vr 26-09-2003, om 02:17 schreef Carla Schroder: > > > > If it's Office 2000 or older, a simple disk co

Re: Took 2 days for my message to post!?!

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:01:53 -0700, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > * Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 08:15]: >>=20 >> The unfortunate result is that it doesn't seem worth it to respond to >> questions, since *someone* will surely respond before my messages get >> throug

Rsync'ing "netinst" images from gluck

Anyone know how it's done? I would like to update my files from the following site without downloading them from zero again. http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

sound/mixer issues

Since my power has come back on after hurricane Isabel, none of my programs will play sound until I fidget with the volume controls. This is strange because until this week I never had to do so. I'm using unstable, with an es1371 sound card, and using aumix to load the mixer settings at start

Re: burning a CD

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Op vr 26-09-2003, om 02:17 schreef Carla Schroder: > > > If it's Office 2000 or older, a simple disk copy will work. If it's XP, I > > > don't know. If an ordinary disk copy

Re: How to Image a Flash card?

* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 08:27]: > I've got two 128MB flash cards. One of them is a SanDisk brand, and from > what I've found on the web are prone to "dying". Mine has died. However, > before giving up on it completely, I thought I'd see if I could clone an > image from the second

Re: Took 2 days for my message to post!?!

* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 08:15]: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:13:20 -0500, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > My message: "Subject: route entries will not stick" was sent on Wed > > 9/24/2003 @ 12:52pm CST it posted to the list on Friday 9/26/2003 @ ~11:00 > > CST. T

Re: per user samba

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:59:47PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > Is there a way to setup samba, to enable the users to share files/dirs > under their home dirs. Under kde/konqueror there is an option to share > files, and if I'm root under kde I can setup to allow the users to share > files/d

Re: fetching older packages?

Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Is there a way for me to get a listing of all past versions of a > package? For example, I knew that I wanted "whatever python2.3 was > before 2.3.1-1", which turned out to be 2.3-4 -- and I found that out by > browsing through the pool directories. Is there an easier w

Re: burning a CD

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op vr 26-09-2003, om 02:17 schreef Carla Schroder: > > If it's Office 2000 or older, a simple disk copy will work. If it's XP, I > > don't know. If an ordinary disk copy does not work, try the dd command, as > > it does a liter

Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?

Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I used the .DOC directly without problems. You

Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?

Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can't thin

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

* Willem-Jan Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 06:54]: > My antivirus is working well, but all those MS mails are very annoying > Better delete before seeing it :) Consider, at least temporarily, blocking anything with an exe attachment at smtp time. I started this a few days ago on my mail serv

OpenOffice.org Margins?

I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right margin of one (1) in

Re: fetching older packages?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:28:44PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:29:10 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> 1) Where do I find this older version? In this case it should be the > >> ver

Re: burning a CD

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:26:41 +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Divendres 26 Setembre 2003 08:57, en csj va escriure: > > readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdimage.iso > > That can also be done using: > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso > > but... do you know if the

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:13:53 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [1 ] > on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up > > > POP3 m

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:59:53 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:22:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:51PM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Why not? Mailfilter has a log feature of varying degrees > > > of verbosity. So if I accidentally delete a notice say

Re: fetching older packages?

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:32:07 +0200, Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: >> >> I don't get what you mean here. Could you explain in more detail? > > He wants to remove python 2.3.1-1 package and let the rest be > installed. Thats OK, the depend package is not removed. If he wants > to remove

Re: screwed custom kernel image, recovering getting bad

TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the following sid screwed system: > / in hdb1 > /home in hdb2 > swap in hdb3 > grub floppy is used to boot. If you haven't figured it out yet, you should be able to use the GRUB floppy to boot from an old kernel: root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz- root

Re: Starting Emacs: "Loading 40mule-ucs (source)..." takes a while.

(Please Cc me if you reply this mail.) On September 26, 2003 at 12:07PM +0100, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've never had this problem on Emacs on other Linux distros or > >> OpenBSD, although I use mule. Why does this slow loading occur > >> specifically in Debian, and how can I fix it?

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Is the file readable by user 'fetchmail'? > this file must be writeable for user 'fetchmail'. Thanks. This is the solution. It now works. > (I also setup a logrotate for it) First item on my todo-list juh -- Schlachtet die Unschuldslämmer! http://

Re: fetching older packages?

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:29:10 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:23:56AM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Anyway, this brings up the question, how do I revert to an older version >> of a package? A friend pointed out that I can just dpkg -i >> whatever.de

How to Image a Flash card?

I've got two 128MB flash cards. One of them is a SanDisk brand, and from what I've found on the web are prone to "dying". Mine has died. However, before giving up on it completely, I thought I'd see if I could clone an image from the second (PNY brand) to the dead SD unit. I'm figuring the "dd"

Re: sa-learn and spamassassin's markup

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:56:23 -0400, Kenneth Dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > The --dir option supports globbing too, since I have separate maildirs > for SA-caught & SA-missed spam, I was able to do something like: > > $ sa-learn --spam --dir ~/Maildir/.spam-*/cur > > & then > > $ sa-

Re: Took 2 days for my message to post!?!

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:13:20 -0500, Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Is the list running slow because of the MS Virus? > > My message: "Subject: route entries will not stick" was sent on Wed > 9/24/2003 @ 12:52pm CST it posted to the list on Friday 9/26/2003 @ ~11:00 > CST. Then my re

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: > fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can't think of a way to unmount

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:44:00 -0400, Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Should you need to recreate your partition table you can do so using fdisk > (not cfdisk and certainly not parted). > What do you have against parted? I started using it a little over a year ago and have used it

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