Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-13 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/12/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't start a new thread for this. I already replied in the original > thread. Making new threads is a good way to lose the people who are > already trying to help you. I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be held responsible for

Re: Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 wheel support buggy

2006-01-13 Thread Adam Porter
Andreas Boegehold wrote: > Hi, > i have following problem: > As soon as i move the mouse, the mouse wheel won't scroll anymore. > I checked on the /dev/input/event2 device with input-events from the > input-utils and it shows very few mouse wheel events passed from the > kernel when i move the mou

Re: can't killed the xserver

2006-01-13 Thread ericradt
2006/1/13, ericradt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: yestorday,i am install sarge in my X86 PC,and install xserver-xorg,linux-source-2.6.15,from sid,but i find can't killed the X,with "CTRL+ALT+<-" or "pgrep X and kill it"if i kill X uses the keyboard with "CTRL+ALT+<-"the screen is became black,and can't uses

mdnsresponder - what's in a name??

2006-01-13 Thread Chinook
Networking layman would appreciate clarification from someone more networking savvy - please :-) ... P4 with Debian Etch (testing), kernel 2.6.12-1-686, Gnome desktop PMac G5 running OS X Tiger

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-13 Thread Marty
Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: Matthias: I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and shouldn't str

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 12:00 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > at.bofh.it: > > > > > >>Matthias: > >> > >>>I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > >>>happening harddisk read/write operation.

Re: Mail configuration (was: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?)

2006-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-13 22:44:27 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-01-12 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > 1) procmail -- I still don't properly understand how to write my own > >recipes; all of mine are cut and paste or modified from cut > >and paste > > It is

Mail configuration (was: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?)

2006-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-12 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > 1) procmail -- I still don't properly understand how to write my own >recipes; all of mine are cut and paste or modified from cut >and paste It is buggy (I had that confirmed earlier today), I would not recommen

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:29:54AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Karsten M. Self wrote: > >>>on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >>>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How would I popu

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:00:27AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Karsten M. Self wrote: > >>on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab e

Re: ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, versio

Error inserting genrtc

2006-01-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Looking at the hwclock docs, I suppose this is unsightly but harmless?: # grep rtc /var/log/boot Sat Jan 14 00:38:28 2006: Setting the system clock:modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting genrtc (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-k7/kernel/drivers/char/genrtc.ko): Device or resource busy Sat Jan 14 00:39:21 2006

Re: Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Vendredi 13 Janvier 2006 14:33, Felipe Ledesma a écrit : you should also check the content of /etc/default/halt > Hi > > My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from > kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown > automatically. What should

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive mail with fetchmai

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-13 17:04:23 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > I also find exim difficult to configure. Under Debian, there's almost nothing to do! Just answer a few questions. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2,

Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-13 Thread John Hasler
Jacob writes: > So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so that I > can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I don't know what > it is. Anyone have any advice on a good way to fix this? I'd try deleting the trustdb and letting gpg rebuild it. -- John Hasler --

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Noah Dain
On 1/13/06, David M. Besonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0100, Joris Huizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >you may see this as some problem: > > > >"Isn't running stuff off the net a security risk? > >Isn't that where you get your software from anyway? Zero Install

Re: ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2,

pop.auth - APOP - qpopper

2006-01-13 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Does anyone know of a util program that can read the pop.auth file to help us maintain this data base? Thanks, Ken Rea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
evert wrote: Hallo Steef, Bij het zoeken naar mijn probleem : Linux Sarge, Frozen mouse kwam ik jouw vraag /antwoord tegen. Ik ontmoet momenteel na een Debian sarge installatie hetzelfde probleem. Wat mij bevreemd is dat ik niet ergens een afdoende oplossing of antwoord op het probleem vind.

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
David M.Besonen wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0100, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you may see this as some problem: "Isn't running stuff off the net a security risk? Isn't that where you get your software from anyway? Zero Install automatically performs a number of checks fo

Add a header line with postfix

2006-01-13 Thread Mark Lijftogt
Hi, I'm in the unlucky position to be searching for a possible solution for a header issue that a java application is giving me. This java application POP's it's email to distribute it later on. Now, in most cases this goes without a hitch, except when the adress on which the java application c

Re: Live CD for Headless Box

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:27:37 -0800 Stephen Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know of any livecds specially targetted towards headless > computers? I need a livecd that I can drop into a computer and > immediately get SSH access to the syste

Re: Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

2006-01-13 Thread evert
Hallo Steef, Bij het zoeken naar mijn probleem : Linux Sarge, Frozen mouse kwam ik jouw vraag /antwoord tegen. Ik ontmoet momenteel na een Debian sarge installatie hetzelfde probleem. Wat mij bevreemd is dat ik niet ergens een afdoende oplossing of antwoord op het probleem vind. Trial and erro

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread David M . Besonen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0100, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >you may see this as some problem: > >"Isn't running stuff off the net a security risk? >Isn't that where you get your software from anyway? Zero Install >automatically performs a number of checks for you (such as checkin

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 8:47:33 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:18PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > } > } I'd be interested to see the results of such long-considered > } improvements (privately if you don't want to post it here). The pressure [...] > > W

Problem with dvorak layout

2006-01-13 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hello everyone, I moved a couple of months ago from qwerty to dvorak. And in my latest install dvorak is my default distribution. Everything works great but for some reason when I type a shortcut like ctrl + shift + x (in eclipse for example), the app receives ctrl + shift + b (which is where "B"

Live CD for Headless Box

2006-01-13 Thread Stephen Le
Does anybody know of any livecds specially targetted towards headless computers? I need a livecd that I can drop into a computer and immediately get SSH access to the system. If nobody knows of such a livecd, does anybody know how I would make one that worked in such a manner? Thanks.

Re: Debian vs. Debian vs. Debian vs. Debian

2006-01-13 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Felix Miata wrote: > Even after that fix, mc doesn't work right. Its > display on the ttys is subject to character shifting so that you're > rarely exactly sure where you're looking at valid display and where > you're seeing corruption. That's simply a matter of the locale: mc cannot cope with UT

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-13 Thread mike
> Matthias Pfeifer wrote: >> Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> at.bofh.it: >> >> >>>Matthias: >>> I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. >>> >>>If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, th

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: Matthias: I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and shouldn't st

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-13 Thread Matthias Pfeifer
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: > Matthias: >> >> I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds >> happening harddisk read/write operation. > > If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and > shouldn't stress your har

Re: ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2, and the appropriate alsa-u

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hide local name in outgoing mail: No I've had a stupid ISP who would not relay mail for other accounts. It might be a stupid suggestion, but... Do you have a Verizon mail account? try to set this one, or change

Debian vs. Debian vs. Debian vs. Debian

2006-01-13 Thread Felix Miata
I've had only frustrating experiences with Debians in the past, but I decided to give some a try again. I set up a K6/2 550 on MVP4 with 256M, TNT2 16M, and 40 GB HD to install as follows: hda3 78M /boot for hda7 root hda6 384M swap hda7 4.8G for Debian Etch / hda14 2.7G for Knoppix 4.0.2 / hda15

Re: ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2, and the appropriate alsa-u

Re: Wierd processor usage after 2.12 and 6.9

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[KS] wrote: Hello all, Since the last couple of days when I got the gnome 2.12 and X.org 6.9 upgrades, my machine has been acting a bit strangely. The processor usages goes to 100% for simple tasks e.g. copying data from DVD to HDD (it shouldn't use that much processor due to DMA), deleting a di

Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so I created this problem for myself. But now I can't figure out how to fix it. The problem comes because I simply dropped a .gnupg directory along with it's pubring, secring and trustdb into my ~/ directory so that I could use my gpg keys. Excep

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi Thomas On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > I also find exim difficult to configure. I am happy with mutt, and I use msmtp for deli

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL > connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive > mail with fetchmail but I have not

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
David M. Besonen wrote: hi all, i have recently been reading about the zero install system as a result of my interest in the rox desktop. i personally would prefer to use rox with apt. however, it seems the rox devs are primarily packaging for zero install. anyhow, is there any reason i

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

2006-01-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
I did the switcheroo with an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade.  I had to kill/dispose of a few packages and reload them, but (thanks to dselect pointing out "obsolete" packages) it wasn't all that difficult.  A final cleansing using debfoster, a replacement kernel to get rid of the malfun

zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread David M. Besonen
hi all, i have recently been reading about the zero install system as a result of my interest in the rox desktop. i personally would prefer to use rox with apt. however, it seems the rox devs are primarily packaging for zero install. anyhow, is there any reason i wouldn't want to use zero i

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:12 -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > > If you just want mutt to work like m

Re: Voice recognition software?

2006-01-13 Thread Graham Smith
I've just downloaded and compiled up the latest CVS version of sphinx-4. I haven't had much time to play with it but I'm quite surprised how accurate it can be when the number of possible inputs is limited. Unfortunately, I don't have a very good microphone so the quality of my speech wasn't b

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
CaT wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. It should just work[tm]. What error messages are you getting from mutt? Are there

Re: Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Noah Dain
On 1/13/06, Felipe Ledesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from > kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown > automatically. What should I do to fix this? > > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:33, Felipe Ledesma wrote: >Hi > >My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded > from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to > shutdown automatically. What should I do to fix this? > >Thanks Have a look in the bios, it might

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:18PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: } On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] } > 5) spamassassin user_prefs -- I shouldn't discount this, since I had } > developed it over the course of years on a } >

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:02:07 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged

Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Felipe Ledesma
Hi My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown automatically. What should I do to fix this? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

CUPS problem printing pictures is very slow

2006-01-13 Thread Hans Poppe
Hi all, I've encountered a strange problem with CUPS that I've not been able to solve neither by myself, nor by googling or searching newsgroups. I've a network of approximately 70 workstations running Windows XP, but printing is done on a Debian Sarge printserver running CUPS. The printserver is s

Re: NFS rooting current root

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:21:29PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my > server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the > client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of > the read-only exported one?? > > T

RAKI, SYNCE and syncekonnector (KDE) and lots of hair-pulling

2006-01-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi y'all: First of all: This is not meant as a rant. It seems that I got my PDA (YAKUMO GPS300) connected to my debian sid desktop allright. I can use synce-pstatus and can browse the pda with rapi:/ in konqueror (KDE 3.5.0) but I fail to sync the PDA with kontakt. However Multisync (with "c")

can't killed the xserver

2006-01-13 Thread ericradt
yestorday,i am install sarge in my X86 PC,and install xserver-xorg,linux-source-2.6.15,from sid,but i find can't killed the X,with "CTRL+ALT+<-" or "pgrep X and kill it"if i kill X uses the keyboard with "CTRL+ALT+<-"the screen is became black,and can't uses keyboard to do anything,

Application Developer - 3 month contract - Work Remote bl855-1

2006-01-13 Thread Dan Frey
I found your resume on the internet and thought you might be interested in the position below: Position Description: Applications Developer to develop, support and maintain basic application development projects according to appropriate specifications Required Skill Set: Three years or more of

Re: doxymacs configure error

2006-01-13 Thread Yasir Assam
Thanks - I'll do that from now on. Yasir Hello *, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:44:39PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: I'm using Etch and I just tried installing doxymacs - I got the following error: [...] /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/doxymacs/doxymacs.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file"

Re: NFS rooting current root

2006-01-13 Thread Laurent CARON
Lukas Ruf a écrit : Dear all, are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of the read-only exported one?? Thanks for any hands-on experience hints. wbr, Lukas

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. If you just want mutt to work like mozilla, look at the package 'msmtp'. Alternatively, if you want

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 23:18 +1100, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:36:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from > > an ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru > > his ISP's smtp server. > > s/need/might have

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 12:07:18 +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > Yes, there are many examples out there to plagiarize. And I am always > finding new tweaks, and learning how to do the bits I gave up on > previously. No other MTA gives so much entertainment ;-) ^^

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:36:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from > an ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru > his ISP's smtp server. s/need/might have to/ This is where the error messages are important. Just

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately. DISP

GNU Emacs displaying small latin-2 fonts

2006-01-13 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello everybody, I'm using GNU Emacs 21.4a-3 under X11, my machine is running an up-to-date Debian testing. I'm using the "Misc 7x13" font for Emacs. Whenever I use set-input-method to enter latin-2 characters, these characters appear extremely small. This problem occurs with any fonts from the

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...]> > I have things set up with three fetchmail accounts (two go to > my mailboxes, one to my wife's), exim4, procmail, spamc/spamd, and > courier-imap. Of those, the hard parts (in order of difficulty) were: [...] > > 4) m

Re: doxymacs configure error

2006-01-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:44:39PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > I'm using Etch and I just tried installing doxymacs - I got the > following error: > [...] > /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/doxymacs/doxymacs.el: > !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "url")) > [...] > dpkg: error processi

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi, I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. I did recently suffer a severe breakdown so I reinstalled most of the mac

Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-13 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. I did recently suffer a severe breakdown so I reinstalled most of the machines. At this point I wou

How to show iowait in top?

2006-01-13 Thread Bart
On my debian box, which is running sarge, top does not display the iowait in the cpu states. Various posts on the net however, indicate that it should be possible. And yes, iostat also gives me the iowait, but i'd like to monitor it all the time in top. So what should be done to show iowait? I'm I

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread matthias
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:51:51PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: >> } I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be >> able >> } to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. >> } >> } All this time

Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 wheel support buggy

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Boegehold
Hi, i have following problem: As soon as i move the mouse, the mouse wheel won't scroll anymore. I checked on the /dev/input/event2 device with input-events from the input-utils and it shows very few mouse wheel events passed from the kernel when i move the mouse (grepped it and 2-3 for severa

doxymacs configure error

2006-01-13 Thread Yasir Assam
Hello, I'm using Etch and I just tried installing doxymacs - I got the following error: # dpkg --configure doxymacs Setting up doxymacs (1.6.0-3) ... install/doxymacs: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21 Loading 00debian-vars... Loading 50autoconf (source)... Loading 50css-mode (source

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:32:17 -0400 Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience, FWIW, Simply put: > > In kernel 2.4, ide-scsi module, we got used to the scsi-emulation concept. > > Whereas, > > In kernel 2.6, we were (somewhat confusingly, IMO) told the above, i.e.: > "SCSI emulation is no

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On 12 Jan 2006 00:45:10 -0800 "hillbilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question to Marc Perrudin... > In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the > 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ > directory as indicated in your response and place th

ca0106

2006-01-13 Thread steef
greetings to you all! bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a sarge-user i discovered debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot have this driver. so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2, and the appropriate alsa-utils and tools

Re: mozilla + mutt [SOLVED]

2006-01-13 Thread mess-mate
Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: | > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: | > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives | > > you symlink the line: | > |

Re: Voice recognition software?

2006-01-13 Thread Katipo
Jaime Herazo B. wrote: * A. F. Cano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So, let's start this subject rolling, What's the status of speech recognition for Linux these days? I'm afraid things are still pretty much in the might-be-great-someday phase. Current status... http://news.zdnet.co