gnome-panel in stable/main

2003-10-07 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi Everyone, I recently installed the stable/main distribution of Gnome (1.4) and I have been experiencing problems with applets segfaulting. There seems to be one or two that segfault and throw the panel into a tizzy. Any ideas on why this is happenning? I've checked the bug reports and

where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Nori Heikkinen
anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( /nori -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^

Re: gzip question

2003-10-07 Thread David Z Maze
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file compression application. (gzip only compresses a single file, but this might apply to tar or similar programs.) Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific

X Forwarding with ssh

2003-10-07 Thread Shaun ONeil
I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just not playing ball. Any hints? desktop Is Debian sid, with a display running on :0 server is Debian woody, and headless (hence using ssh) I've tried with and without passing -X to ssh, and I understand my entries in ssh_config

Re: Telnet 25 port problem

2003-10-07 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:46:43PM -0300, Agustín Ciciliani wrote: These are some of the mail servers that I can't reach with my Debian: mail.matrocolayasoc.com.ar, mail.skytel.com.ar, mail.ecogas.com.ar, and others... Do you have ECN enabled in your kernel? You can check this by doing cat

Problems with Courier Packages after update today...

2003-10-07 Thread Christian Borchmann
I did an Update to my Debian/SID box today and got some errors: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/courier-authdaemon_0.42.2-9_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to

Re: gzip question

2003-10-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:16:06PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file compression application. Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific directory structure for the files you wish to compress. For

Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 00:20, Nori Heikkinen wrote: anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( /nori xbase-clients ? joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim headers!

2003-10-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Naitik Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 14:35]: I'm using exim4 and i receive mail using fetchmail and check using courier-imap (various clients). What I find quite annoying that sending and receiving mail, exim adds headers that are quite useless, and rather disrupting. It adds these, which

Re: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:31:53AM -0700, A P ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These f** SWEN emails are still pouring in. I am getting about 80 per day. It's sickening. I have added practically every major country suffix in my /etc/mail/access file and I am discovering new ones every day!

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 22:54, Naitik Shah wrote: I've got procmail piping mail through spamassassin (about that, is it better to use spamc? ) By all means, if you understand the security risks (see /etc/default/ spamassassin and read the mentioned README) and don't think they are a

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Naitik Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 14:29]: I've got procmail piping mail through spamassassin (about that, is it better to use spamc? ). Yes, spamc will lighten the load on your server as compared to running spamassassin on each message individually. spamc is a small C program that

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:03PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:54:49 -0400, Naitik Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I've got procmail piping mail through spamassassin (about that, is it better to use spamc? ). From what I understand spamassassin learns all the time.

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-07 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-10-07 um 18.05 schrieb Jon Haugsand: [...] Anyway, I downloaded kernel 2.4.20, and recompiled it, and after several tries, I still have some problems. E.g. the network is not found. (I used to recompile the kernel often in the old days, but I seem to have lost the touch.) I

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:48, Alfredo Valles wrote: I was near suicide when some good guy in this list recommended me spamassissin. It's so easy to get to work

Re: vim + termcaps + colors

2003-10-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:25:50 -0500 (CDT), Aaron Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: snip Here's what I ended up doing. The key, apparently, is a couple of escape sequences. Now, I still don't fully understand this, but it's working reliably with my setups, giving me full color whether I'm on the

Re: X Forwarding with ssh

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote: I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just not playing ball. Any hints? desktop Is Debian sid, with a display running on :0 server is Debian woody, and headless (hence using ssh) I've tried with and

Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:20:42PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( It seems to be part of xbase-clients. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Exim headers!

2003-10-07 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:41:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Naitik Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 14:35]: I'm using exim4 and i receive mail using fetchmail and check using courier-imap (various clients). What I find quite annoying that sending and receiving mail, exim adds headers

Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday October 8 at 12:43am Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 00:20, Nori Heikkinen wrote: anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( /nori xbase-clients ?

Upgrading kernel

2003-10-07 Thread Jan Agermose
I have been handed over the "control" of a debian server - and of cousenow it startes to misbehave... (and I know nothing about debian - sadto say) I does not really crash totally, as I can still ping the server - but lookingat the server from the outside, this is really not much

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:06, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:48, Alfredo Valles wrote: I was near suicide when some good guy in this list

RE: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-07 Thread Joyce, Matthew
-Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SWEN isn't slowing down on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:31:53AM -0700, A P ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These f** SWEN emails are still

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:41:29 -0700, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:03PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:54:49 -0400, Naitik Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I've got procmail piping mail through spamassassin (about that, is it better to use

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeremy Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 17:04]: Is there a package of exim 4 for woody? My smtp server is woody, and I really have no desire to upgrade it to a more recent distro. Yes, courtesy of Andreas Metzler: # exim4 and gnutls from andreas metzler deb

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Naitik Shah
I usually just send spamassassin marked mail to a specific folder, and go over it really quickly. I keep backups, so if I do overlook something, and I find out later, I can always look it up. Naitik. On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:41:29 -0700 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at

Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-07 Thread KRF
On the advice of some compadres I have ordered the 7 CD package so that I can try Debian. I currently run RH 7.x and 9 and was griping about RedHat always moving stuff from to some oddball location and having to reregister every thirty days to use their site. I have been trying to follow

PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-07 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am looking to replace my Palm PDA and my current cellphone with one of these new fancy GSM phones. I have too many things hanging off my belt. I am starting to feel like Batman... A lot of these new phones have Bluetooth built into them. Here is where my questions begin. 1 - Bluetooth. Any

Re: Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* KRF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031007 17:22]: On the advice of some compadres I have ordered the 7 CD package so that I can try Debian. I currently run RH 7.x and 9 and was griping about RedHat always moving stuff from to some oddball location and having to reregister every thirty days to use

Re: X Forwarding with ssh

2003-10-07 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:14, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote: I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just not playing ball. Any hints? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ^x xfree86-common

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:44:12PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:41:29 -0700, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:03PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:54:49 -0400, Naitik Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: [snip] I'm not sure

Re: How to secure WLAN access?

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:51:48PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: From what I've read so far this is pretty unsafe (the WEP part). Right. Would this be the right approach? If you're thinking security: Go back to wires and ditch the wireless.

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Neal Lippman
You may wish to check out horde. My ISP uses this for webmail, and it is very nice. I understand it to be open source. I do not know the status of it in debian, or what backend mail stores it can access, soyou will need to research it. nl On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:49, Aaron wrote: Hey, Debian

Re: Spamassassin thinking i'm a spammer

2003-10-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Maas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031003 03:23]: All, I installed the following: Exim 3.35, Amavis, spamassassin, razor and clam-av. Amavis scans incoming and outgoing emails, and therefore also get passed on to Spamassassin for checking as wel. How are you doing this? I assume you

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:54:10PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: Does anyone know of a package that can put mbox mail on the web? It sounds kind of silly, given the inefficiency of mbox, so I'm not holding high hopes, but if anyone has info. about it, that'd be great. I know it's super

Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Ian Melnick
Hey all Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over a million points. Excel has many limitations, as it turns out -- which I managed to get around, but not the graph preview pane, which is horribly

Webmin Sys/Hostname.pm broken

2003-10-07 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I haven't seen a solution for this anywhere, webmin has been broken in my install for a couple of weeks now, since I did a dist-upgrade to the latest testing. I get this: Error - Perl execution failed Can't locate Sys/Hostname.pm in @INC... Any clues where that should be? Did a package remove

SOLVED Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

2003-10-07 Thread Brian Walker
In answer to myself, and for anyone else who has the same problem: On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 14:30:14 +0800, Brian Walker wrote: Charles Forelle wrote: Michael, Thanks. I ran xf86config as you suggested, selecting the generic video card option since I didn't see mine (Intel chipset 82810E) in

Is anyone else having trouble isntalling/upgrading mplayer?

2003-10-07 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm just wondering if anyone here is experiencing apt-get problems with mplayer. I'm running testing. I was using mplayer and the mplayer-plugin for mozilla just fine on my prior (athlon) system - I had mplayer-k7 installed. I upgraded that system to a new mb and processor, so now it's a P4

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ian Melnick: What'd be nice is just a simple text-based program that outputs a nice postscript-type graph. Does such a program exist? And if so, does it do anything close to what I need? Have you tried gnuplot? -- Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, I'm just guessing,

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Naitik Shah
gnuplot maybe? On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:43:15 -0500 Ian Melnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over a million points. Excel has many limitations, as it

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Ian: I don't have a million points for line graphs, although I do for maps. For line graphs I use gnuplot which makes good PostScript (or EPS) images which I can include in publications. For maps, use Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) which will also do first class line graphs. it too generates

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-07 Thread Nick Hastings
* Sudeep Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031008 10:17]: Hi I want to disable some services, e.g., Samba. What is the Debian way to do it? Since no one seems to have mentioned it sofar, I will; rcconf. This is a front end to update-rc.d. Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish

Re: Webmin Sys/Hostname.pm broken

2003-10-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jonathan Markevich wrote: I haven't seen a solution for this anywhere, webmin has been broken in my install for a couple of weeks now, since I did a dist-upgrade to the latest testing. I get this: Error - Perl execution failed Can't locate Sys/Hostname.pm in @INC...

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
A lot of these new phones have Bluetooth built into them. Here is where my questions begin. There are bluetooth drivers with my 2.4.22 kernel. Run (as root) modconf and scroll down till you see the bluetooth drivers category. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Atapi Zip detection woes!

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan J. Malmberg
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:08:21PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Hi, AFAIK, there are 2 versions of ZIP drives, either connected to the parallel port or to an SCSI controller. Which one do you have? You need the following modules (you may have to recompile your kernel): scsi_mod,

netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
Hi, I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the following error message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /netsaint/ on this server. I am using woody and my web server is apache. The netsaint deb made the needed changes to my httpd.conf. How do I access

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-07 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:44:17AM +0200, Jan Agermose wrote: I have been handed over the control of a debian server - and of couse now it startes to misbehave... (and I know nothing about debian - sad to say ) I does not really crash totally, as I can still ping the server - but looking

Re: Samba 3 on stable

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone installed Samba 3 (final) from untesting on a stable version of Debian? Any concerns I should be aware of before giving it a try? My buddy said he tried it and it seemed to go smooth. but he said something about the smbpasswd file being

Re: help with xinetd

2003-10-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:17:18 -0500, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings: As I setup my debian box, I installed xinetd so it would be more like the RH setups I was used to. The change seemed to go fine when I installed it via dselect. I expected a

installing oracle9i

2003-10-07 Thread Louie Miranda
hey guys, i just downloaded Oracle9i Database Release 2 on oracle.com its composed of 3huge 500mb+ files. I transfferred it to my shell only server. and did the instructions as told on the website of oracle. but, when i tried running ./runInstaller on Disk1 it ask me for a DISPLAY so i just

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:37:56 -0700, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:44:12PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:41:29 -0700, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:03PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:54:49

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

2003-10-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:00:52 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Danie Roux wrote: If I read S10checkroot.sh correctly, if I specify an environment value of FSCKFIX=yes on LILO boot line it would run this for me. I'll be doing that for now, and

Re: Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
*official* debian cds are stable. After you install upgrading to unstable or testing is easy and painless. I use unstable because I love having up2date (excuse the rh pun) software and I dont like waiting for milestone releases from other dists ie. redhat/mandrake. Upgrading to unstable or

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:41:29 -0700 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to ask a question of spamassassin users: Do you have to visually scan spamassassin logs or output folders, to make sure it's doing the right thing? Depends on the score SA assigns to the message. Between 5 and 8 it

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:54, Louie Miranda wrote: hey guys, i just downloaded Oracle9i Database Release 2 on oracle.com its composed of 3huge 500mb+ files. I transfferred it to my shell only server. and did the instructions as told on the website of oracle. but, when i tried running

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Louie Miranda: hey guys, i just downloaded Oracle9i Database Release 2 on oracle.com its composed of 3huge 500mb+ files. I transfferred it to my shell only server. and did the instructions as told on the website of oracle. but, when i tried running ./runInstaller on Disk1 it

ATI talks Linux!--ATI news link for those interested.

2003-10-07 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall, not much to add from the subject, except the url http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=threadid=33715645 Oh, one more thang. A big thank you to the weather Goddess Godz for their work in CHCH, NZ :-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Holidaze are okaze! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

OT: Jabber IDs

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:26:07AM +0200, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: ralphfdewitt on Yahoo and Aim ralphdewitt on Jabber ralphdewitt is not a valid Jabber ID. Jabber IDs are [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:09:08PM -0400, stan wrote: What distribution would you point apt-sources to to upgrade a Progeny machine? stable? At this point, Progeny is so far gone, taking the sources.list from a stable machine should work. I

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I selected yes to Set Hardware Clock to GMT, Debian would be an hour out. The hardware clock should always be

Re: netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:50, Paul William wrote: Hi, I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the following error message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /netsaint/ on this server. I am using woody and my web server is apache. The netsaint deb

E: Tried to deque a fetching object

2003-10-07 Thread Adam Bogacki
No, this is not about being jilted in love... :-! I changed all my unstable to stable, ran apt-get update and keep getting the repeated message E: Tried to deque a fetching object I've tried commenting out various things but nothing changes. What am I missing here ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL

Re.E;Tried to deque ...

2003-10-07 Thread Adam Bogacki
Apologies, I managed to get it working ... but I am now facing ... apt-get install gnome-gv . E: The package gnome-gv needs to be re-installed, but I can't find an archive for it. This is in stable (!) and I've forgotten how to do it off CD-ROM. Can anyone remind me ... ? Adam Bogacki,

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