mail option

hello all, since i have subscribed to various mailing lists. i just want to keep a copy only of those mails which is directly to my address(i mean non-mailing list mails) for example i need to keep a copy of only mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at server and the rest should be deleted always from the

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:57:15AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor > > of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm > > font unchangeable. > > oh. Which b

mouse problem

Hi, from boot-up, the mouse is frozen at the kdm login screen. Have looked through xorg.conf. Seems OK to me. Have also tried Explorer PS/2 for protocol. Attached are : Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf. would appreciate the assistance in resolving the problem Thks kangja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: resolv.conf changing over time

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:54:04PM +0200, Joris wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:08 -0400, T wrote: > > The problem is it won't be long before my etc/resolv.conf, which points to > > my own DNS cache server, get changed. How can I solve that? Is there any > > hooks like ipup(?) for dial up? > >

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

George Borisov wrote: >Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > >>Hi, >>Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access >>MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. >> >> > >I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server >has it enabled. >

Re: resolv.conf changing at boot -- solved for now at least

Don Jackson wrote: > After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. > waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every > time). This is happening on two different computers which were upgraded. > > I find that my original entries of two nameservers in my re

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor > of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm > font unchangeable. oh. Which bug report is that? (Debian has a bug-reporting system, which doesn't seem

Re: Megaraid HP Proliant ML330

Am 2006-05-15 21:45:48, schrieb Grant Thomas: > This may not be of assistance to the Megaraid question I have, but > installing the system on one of the drives listed in the installer > installs to just one drive. ??? Which Type of Megaraid do you have? I am using an older "Megataid Enterprise 1

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 12:07, Richard wrote: > Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? >this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc > If you are planning to share this partition with windows and Linux then use fat32. If this partition is to be used exclusi

Re: Linux boot CD failure

qgong wrote: Hi, Recently I failed to install Linux on a new PC by Debian installation CD. The booting process stalled after I pressed "Enter" at the first Debian prompt. The system stalled, displaying "Loading" below the prompt line. I have tried a few other Linux live CDs, including Ubuntu liv

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

At 1148493199 past the epoch, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Perhaps there should be a FAQ somewhere that explains the > procedure for converting to a more traditional runlevel > structure if it is too hard to get concensus for a change > to the defaults on Debian. Or maybe there already is?

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

At 1148505571 past the epoch, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I recommend doing it the 'Debian way': > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/java-package > > This package will create a .deb file for you from the > official Sun installer. Installing the .deb will give you > the necessary executable files

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

On 5/25/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/25/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? >this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS i

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

On 5/25/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS is better. If not, then ext3 is good enough. -- Jed R. M

Environment and Sudo

Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases. Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invoking using sudo vi will get the "other" vi. Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

Dmitri Minaev wrote: > > And both Evolution and Thunderbird as IMAP clients are PITA to work > with . Thunderbird sometimes can't copy the outgoing message into Sent > Items folder [1]. Yup, but this seems to be more of a problem with Exchange IMAP component. In the same client I am connected to m

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

Christopher Nelson wrote: > A smart mail client shouldn't hide parts of the message unless you tell > it to, it should show you everything it can, and tell you what it can't > (with an option to set up an external handler). And most clients these days have an option, normally by default, to hi

Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm font unchangeable. One annoyance is that I can't post from a GUI app into gnome-terminal if any character in the selection is non-ASCII (for instance

Icons missing in Etch

I know I had seen a posting from someone else that had this same problem, however I cannot locate the thread. I am running Etch with Gnome 2.14.1 and after a recent update, the system seems to be unable to locate most of its icons. This also affects some applications like Evolution. When I try

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:26:01PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Colin Finck wrote: > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > > script or program. > > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

Þann 2006-05-24, 23:22:19 (+0200) skrifaði Hans du Plooy: > Hi guys, > > I'm getting a mail every now and then (a few times a day, it seems): > > Subject: > Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/sbin/rdate 128.2.136.71 | logger -t NTP > > Body: > rdate: connect: Connection refused > > For the life of m

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

Will you need to ready that on windows? if not, the best is ext3 -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

George Borisov wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > > > I have Debian running on another drive now, and have another question. > > When I update the system using aptitude, the "mark upgradeable > > packages" (or similar) option in the menu will mark all the packages to > > update. Then I can see what

Re: compile firefox.

At 1148551039 past the epoch, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > apt-cache does not give any typical nsinstall stuff. i > had downloaded an rpm having nsinstall and installed it by > converting it to deb using alien. the error report i gave > was with nsinstall installed. > > thanks in advance. If you do "ap

Re: X-Windows Problems

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > I am stumbling through

Re: eterm / gnome window position

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ivan Glushkov wrote the following on 24.05.2006 09:04: >> On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok: >> Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 & >> Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 & >> >> > That would mean that

Re: eterm / gnome window position

> The string I have for my Eterm icon is: > > /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade > 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next > > So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of > the terminal, since they are the same. If I set also t

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:18, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. > > I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. > > I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some > things remain. > > I note that gconfd-2 is running when I

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

Am Mittwoch, den 24.05.2006, 08:26 -0600 schrieb Ed: > I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a > search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. > > I downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin file, and ran the > install. I tried it in both /usr/local and then ag

Re: Redirecting X from a remote host

Ed wrote: I need to redirect an X application on a Debian box to run on another system running cygwin X. I managed to start X on the cygwin machine. I telneted to the remote Debian box. Now I want to invoke an application and have it displayed on my cygwin X (client?) On the debian box I know I

Re: mouse problem

kangja wrote: Hi, from boot-up, the mouse is frozen at the kdm login screen. Have looked through xorg.conf. Seems OK to me. Have also tried Explorer PS/2 for protocol. Attached are : Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf. would appreciate the assistance in resolving the problem Did it ever work? --

Re: eth2_temp

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:29:44 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote: > hi all. first of all, I'm not suscribed to this list, so please cc: me > in the answers. > > so, I just installed an etch server (wanted shorewall 3.x) which will > serve an internal net through 4 adsl lines. the problem (is not

Re: apt-get question

George Borisov wrote: > Eric Wong wrote: > >>3) dpkg -P apache2 >>And then I remove apache2 > > > Try using "apt-get remove --purge apache2" instead? > > > Hope this helps, > That will not help as apache2 is just a meta-package. There are other packages with file in /etc/apache2. -Roberto

Re: mail option

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:07:20PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > hello all, > > since i have subscribed to various mailing lists. > i just want to keep a copy only of those mails which is directly > to my address(i mean non-mailing list mails) > for example > i need to keep a copy of only mails to

Re: rar archiver

On Wed, May 24, 2006 19:48, Henrique G. Abreu said: > I've installed 'unrar-free' and 'rar-2.80' on my etch > but they are both not working > they list the files in the archive > but when going to extract, return 'failed' > And my stupid windows user friend just extracted then on rwindows > > any

Re: DPT PM3224 PCI SCSI Card - The manual, or...

... this! http://artofhacking.com/th99/c/C-D/20945.htm Bye bye! Atlantis.X

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

This doesn't work. There's a HUGE problem with the firefox install on Debian since the last week. I have a gadzillion plus options for paper sizes and even when I select the right one from the list I STILL get a message that there is no supported paper size selected. I'm submitted this as a pre

Re: best way to secure communication?

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:56:51AM +0200, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > That may be because of how the internet started -- it was meant just for > > sharing information; when you don't care about who could read your data, > > there isn't too muc

Re: Directory for bash profile snippets?

Why not put the alias in /etc/profile ? Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50,

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

Ed: > > I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a > search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. This JDK as in the unstable non-free archive since a few days ago because Sun changed their licence a bit. But I don't know how well the new sun-java5-* packages inte

Kill tcp connection

Hi all :-) sometimes i see (with netstat -putan) a courier tcp connect active for several time i need kill this tcp-connect which tool i could use? Thank! ;-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PUBKEY errors

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:51:07 +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > Greetings, > These following errors were shown with the "apt-get > update" command. > I have tried a few things to try to import the PUBKEY into my sytem, > without success. I would appreciate any help.. Many thanks

Re: Redirecting X from a remote host

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 07:03:22PM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:31:36AM -0600, Ed wrote: > > I need to redirect an X application on a Debian box to run on another > > system running cygwin X. I assume from this that you are running the application on the Debian box, but want to

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

s. keeling wrote: > You: * 3 * Uh, no. That's called industry standard. The buttons are numbered in the order that they appeared. We had a one button mouse, then a 2 button mouse and then a 3 button mouse. The 2nd button went to the right of the first hence RMB vs LMB and it is a

RE: PerlModule B::TerseSize causes Prototype mismatch: sub B::OP: size:none vs () error

Unfortunately its seems to vary which modules crash my system, for example at the moment DBI is doing so. However, I have noted a possible anomoly with the results for Time::Local which you might check. The total given by Memory Usage is 179KB but the constituent parts add up to 51KB. Other module

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:15:00PM -0300, Donald Teed wrote: > It would be helpful if I could learn of other academic > institutions using Debian in core Internet service roles, such > as email and spam filtering, DNS, DHCP, web, etc. Hm, much could be said, but it all comes down to that Debian j

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

> KDE, icewm are reasonably stable. Have not tried others so cannot comment on > them. In general, if you are using stable releases, all the destop > environments or window managers should be stable enough. Large desktop environments (KDE, GNOME etc.) are always more likely to fail than small ones

Re: sudo versus su environment?

Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to > update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the > environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use > sudo. env shows the proxy set correctly, b

Re: [desktop][netinst]How can i choose a kde as a default?

At 1147975636 past the epoch, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Would anybody know why kde is not a choice in installation > menu? Yes: I think that it is because the d-i/tasksel people felt that users divide best into two camps[1]: 1) those who do not know the distinction between gnome and kde, and j

Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -r PACKAGENAME /etc/apt/` turns up nothing.) -- T

Re: key.asc generation from apt ring

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:59:29 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > Hi, > > As I don't have internet access at home, I use apt-mirror (very nice > tool by the way) to keep an up to date repositorie under an USB disk. > > I downloaded the debian and gnuab key ascii files (*key*.asc), howe

Re: logrotate's problems with /var/log/pacct

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:56:24AM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hi, > > every day Anacron tells me about problems it has with logrotate. I > couldn't find any report about a similar problem on the net. Is this > behavior normal (how can I get rid of it, then?) or is it maybe a bug? > What i

Re: mouse problem

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:06:33PM -0400, kangja wrote: > Attached are : Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf. No, they aren't. For text files, it's better to include them inline than attach them anyway. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:33:51 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have the > camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any connection > and you'll be checking your cables all ov

Linux boot CD failure

Hi, Recently I failed to install Linux on a new PC by Debian installation CD. The booting process stalled after I pressed "Enter" at the first Debian prompt. The system stalled, displaying "Loading" below the prompt line. I have tried a few other Linux live CDs, including Ubuntu live CD and Linux-

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

Þann 2006-05-24, 14:18:10 (-0700) skrifaði Marc Shapiro: > I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. > > I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. > > I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some > things remain. > > I note that gconfd-2 is runni

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? > > It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion > is long over by the time my response to the original m

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:56, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox etc... ? KDE, icewm are reasonably stable. Have not tried others so cannot comment on them. In general, if you are using stable releases, all the destop environments or window manager

Re: rar archiver

On 5/24/06, Henrique G. Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've installed 'unrar-free' and 'rar-2.80' on my etchbut they are both not workingthey list the files in the archivebut when going to extract, return 'failed'And my stupid windows user friend just extracted then on rwindows any help?unrar e /

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

Joseph Smidt wrote: > Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox etc... ? > Yes. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

Donald Teed wrote: > Howdy, > > My workplace is a small University currently working > with FreeBSD and Solaris for their *nix OS standards. > > I'm recently become the sysadmin. My boss agrees > that FreeBSD isn't serving us as well as it did. > To me, the big kicker is the dropping of our back

printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spurious form feeds

Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and switched to CUPS for printing, I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts. The error pattern is that somewhere in the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character, and right next to the "d" (I think after it) there is a column or two of erro

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? I was receiving all messages from lists.debian.org on a substantial delay a few days ago. Most messages seem to be coming in fine

Re: How does inetd work?

Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but > where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. > > > It there any simple example server available that was written to work > with inetd? There is Stephens' UNIX Netw

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

You should know that Vim behaves differently when invoked as vi then when invoked as vim. Therefore, you may want to use vim from now on. or use elvis. i have come to like elvis quite a lot. the debian install defaults to the elvis GUI, which i can take or leave, but i'm sure there is a way

Why are my posts so delayed??

Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion is long over by the time my response to the original message appears... Or is everyone

Re: (switching between X11 and consoles (Re: switching games between fullscreen and window)

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:50:37PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > You could try one or more of the following: > > - Driver "kbd" instead of "keyboard" > - comment out the "ctrl:nocaps" line > - "pc104" or "pc105" as the XkbModel > - add a line: Option "Xkbdisable" "true" > > More suggestions are

Re: (switching between X11 and consoles (Re: switching games between fullscreen and window)

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:48:28 +0200, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:37:19AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > avail. When I start gdm, I can switch as long as I'm not logged in, > > > but I don't use gdm and don't want to log off to switch anyway. > > > > Check with "xev" if the Ct

grub launch the kernel in ~90s

Hello, Does someone ever experienced my problem ? When Grub load the kernel (even if I choose it manually, it's not the grub timeout option), it waits there, for about 1m30s, and then it starts. - grub (0.97-7.1) - kernel (2.6.16-12 / linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7) I don't know if it's grub or the ke

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

* David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-24 16:15]: > In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed > functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or > "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last > character) of the line, and the direc

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:15:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed > functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or > "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last > character) of the line, and th

Re: Learning Scripting

Am 2006-05-15 23:18:11, schrieb Anil Gupte: > BlankHi all: > > what am I doing worng here? Here is my script: > ** > #!/bin/sh > > msgtest="jumbalaya" > > test1=$(ps ax) > > echo $test1>psout.temp > > check=$(grep -i $msgtest psout.temp) > count=$(#check) > > if [ count>0

Re: Mail getting through?

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: >sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the >list don't seem to have made it all the way! Lately I've been having problems with this too. Well over 12 hours for an email to make the roundtrip from my system and ba

Re: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 08:54:18AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 10:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A program I wrote and has run many many times before suddenly stopped > > running, giving "permission denied" errors. Thinking this ight have to > > to with the recent C++

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:00:14PM +0800, Jed R. Mallen wrote: > Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS is > better. It's better unless Linux also has to write to the partition. Last time I checked support for writing to NTFS was beta and strongly not recommended. --

sudo versus su environment?

Hi, I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use sudo. env shows the proxy set correctly, but apt-get cannot seem to

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > RMB on the folder, properties, click "check for new mail" or some > > > such. > > > > ..^^^ Maybe on your mouse. On mine, that would be MB3. > > Maybe on your mouse, MB3 here is "center". :P

Building case for Debian in server room at a University

Howdy,My workplace is a small University currently workingwith FreeBSD and Solaris for their *nix OS standards.I'm recently become the sysadmin.  My boss agreesthat FreeBSD isn't serving us as well as it did. To me, the big kicker is the dropping of our backupclient for networker from FreeBSD ports

Re: deborphan defaults?

Marc Shapiro wrote: > Can I reasonably assume that it is safe to uninstall these packages? I normally believe in deborphan's output, so I'd say it is. However, if you want to be sure, just check the rdepends. Most probably you'll see some package you installed sometime, but then later removed it. I

Re: How does inetd work?

My understanding is that it depends upon the type of connection. A dgram ("nowait") server is spawned separately and the socket is passed, while a wait server is passed stdin, stdout, and stderr and managed through inetd. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-inetd.h

Re: best way to secure communication?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > That may be because of how the internet started -- it was meant just for > sharing information; when you don't care about who could read your data, > there isn't too much reason to secure communication... it's just that at > the st

Re: best way to secure communication?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:08:25AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > Yeah, I wondered why that has not been done. It's one of the first > > things to think of when creating any protocol that can be used to > > transfer information over insecure channels. > > I doubt most users of IM programs do not

(switching between X11 and consoles (Re: switching games between fullscreen and window)

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:37:19AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > avail. When I start gdm, I can switch as long as I'm not logged in, > > but I don't use gdm and don't want to log off to switch anyway. > > Check with "xev" if the Ctrl, Alt and Fn-x key generate the right key > press/release eve

Re: switching games between fullscreen and window

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:10:39PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1148347889 past the epoch, lee wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:19:33AM +0100, Jon Dowland > > wrote: > > > Off the top of my head, the program must call SDL_Quit > > > and re-initialise the SDL subsystem with the new video > >

logrotate's problems with /var/log/pacct

Hi, every day Anacron tells me about problems it has with logrotate. I couldn't find any report about a similar problem on the net. Is this behavior normal (how can I get rid of it, then?) or is it maybe a bug? The file /var/log/pacct has the following state: -rw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 27 1

Re: compile firefox.

Jeffrin Jose wrote: > --- > /usr/bin/nsinstall -R nsinstall ../dist/bin > /usr/bin/nsinstall: cannot access nsinstall: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [export] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/src/mozilla/confi

Re: compile firefox.

Jeffrin Jose wrote: > hello all, > i am trying to compile firefox. > i had given ./configure --disable-compile-environment > --enable-application=browser > it did not show any errors. > but when i gave "make" it gave... > > --- >

Mail getting through?

sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the list don't seem to have made it all the way! matt

Re: About newsgroups related to debian lists

On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:39:47 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> Different mail to news gateways. The gmane.* heirarchy is generally >>> the best mail to news gateways. > > T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 2nd to that. > > Sorry, what do you mean with `2nd to that'? (My

deborphan defaults?

In my continuing effort to remove unneeded packages from my system I ran deborphan and came up with the following list of orphaned libs: libruby libdvdread3 liba52-0.7.4 libzzip-0-12 libfaad2-0 libhal0 libxosd2 libdirectfb-0.9-20 libstartup-notification0 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 libpostproc0 libdivxd

Re: Banshee?

I really like amarok. 1.4.0 was just released. On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:13:15AM +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > Hi there.. > > I am wondering whether anyone has used Banshee (reviewed at > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html and if so, what > have they thought of i

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

You can just use java-package to create a java debian package. apt-get install java-package On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:22:34AM -0600, Ed wrote: > Thanks. I've been in a windows world lately and have forgotten so much > simple stuff. > > Here's what I did: > I modified the .bash_profile with > >

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Colin Finck wrote: > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian

rdate, ntp configuration

Hi guys, I'm getting a mail every now and then (a few times a day, it seems): Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/sbin/rdate 128.2.136.71 | logger -t NTP Body: rdate: connect: Connection refused For the life of me I cannot find where this is configured. There's no mention to either rdate, l

Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some things remain. I note that gconfd-2 is running when I run top. Is this just a leftover from before I did my purge

How does inetd work?

I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. It there any simple example server available that was written to work with inetd? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

key.asc generation from apt ring

Hi, As I don't have internet access at home, I use apt-mirror (very nice tool by the way) to keep an up to date repositorie under an USB disk. I downloaded the debian and gnuab key ascii files (*key*.asc), however the debian-marillat key I grabed on the machine that I can connect to Internet no

Re: About newsgroups related to debian lists

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In my experience, it is possible to read and send messages to debian lists > in at least three ways: e.g., the present one: > via `debian-user' mailing list; through `linux.debian.user' newsgroup; > through `gmane.linux.debian.user' newsgroup. > > Now, I realised that `gma

Re: Redirecting X from a remote host

Thanks Mark. Ed On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:31:36AM -0600, Ed wrote: I need to redirect an X application on a Debian box to run on another system running cygwin X. I managed to start X on the cygwin machine. I telneted to the remote Debian box. Now I want to invoke an application and have it d

Re: rar archiver

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:48:55PM -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > I've installed 'unrar-free' and 'rar-2.80' on my etch > but they are both not working > they list the files in the archive > but when going to extract, return 'failed' > And my stupid windows user friend just extracted then on rwi

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