aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! My System is Debian GNU/Linux Etch and Half. I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and it works well with iceweasel so far. Then I edit /apt/sources.list ---> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free ---< and setup apt to can use deb packages from Debian Ba

pppoe redial when disconnected

2008-06-14 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! I've set up a pppoe connection to my ISP with pppoeconf(8), and now I can connect to it using `pon `. Is there a daemon or something which listens when the ppp0 device goes down, and redial if needed? My config file: # cat /etc/ppp/peers/digi # Minimalistic default options file for DSL/PPPo

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-14 Thread Reeyarn
2008/6/14 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [ Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 14:18:40 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've come accoss a similar problem, that my apt-get or aptitude wanted to > > remove my gnome, gtk, etc. Almost erv

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Samstag, 14. Juni 2008 19:03 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > On 14/06/2008, Marloque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, > > there's a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. > > I wrote a review of a Dell

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/15 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does Google even index gopher sites? > Yes, via the HTTP to Gopher proxy at http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ e.g. A search at google.com on "gopher sdf happy" resulted in the 8th hit being a gopher site. but if you want to search gopherspace you ar

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 21:41, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. > > Ron Johnson writes: >> That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer who use gopher, the >> fewer who create gopher "pages", thus

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 22:01, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote: >>> Koh Choon Lin writes: Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols? >>> The very fact that alm

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-14 Thread Ignacio Mondino
Star Liu wrote: > Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now using the > microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my IM, blog and email > service provider, because i'm a windows user for a so long time. Two weeks > before, I installed debian etch and lenny, and i li

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/14/2008 08:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote: Koh Choon Lin writes: Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols? The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. That's sup

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-14 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Saturday 14 June 2008 06:32:59 pm Star Liu wrote: > Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now using the > microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my IM, blog and email > service provider, because i'm a windows user for a so long time. Two weeks > before, I inst

Compiling fails: file missing but it's there

2008-06-14 Thread Sladi
Hi, I try to compile xf4vnc on Lenny AMD64 following this page: http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/modular.html Only compiling the xserver fails. It complains about missing pixmap.h file. The file is installed via aptitude ("/usr/include/pixman-1/pixman.h") and when trying "make install" it seems

Installing additional truetype fonts in Lenny fails partially (Iceweasel problem)

2008-06-14 Thread Sladi
Hi, I try to install some additional truetype fonts in Lenny AMD64. Everything seems fine but specifying antialiasing rules in /etc/fonts/local.conf for those fonts won't work. I copied some Windows fonts to a newly created folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows/ (Tahoma and Lucida Console).

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. Ron Johnson writes: > That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer who use gopher, the > fewer who create gopher "pages", thus the narrower the range of gopher's > usefulness. *Sigh". _For some purposes_ the fact that

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > If data=journal is subject to kernel bugs then you are saying that Linux > doensn't have any filesystem suitable for non-UPS-protected systems. If Neither will be safe against that, unless you have write caching disabled OR write barriers enabled, an

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 20:32, Star Liu wrote: > Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now > using the microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my > IM, blog and email service provider, because i'm a windows user > for a so long t

Re: Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:08:06AM +0300, Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis wrote: > I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install > Debian OS on it. > > I can't find the driver to configure the Ethernet Network port. I need it so > I can continue the OS installation over

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > IMHO, thinkpads have a long history of supporting linux (or rather that > linux works on them) and many really like it. OTOH, the Vostro is also > a box fully supported (watch what wireless you get) and the Latitude is > of simila

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/08 19:28, John Hasler wrote: > Koh Choon Lin writes: >> Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols? > > The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. That's superficial logic. Practically, the fewer

Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-14 Thread Star Liu
Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now using the microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my IM, blog and email service provider, because i'm a windows user for a so long time. Two weeks before, I installed debian etch and lenny, and i like it very much. I'd

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:00:08PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +0200, David wrote: > > > This isn't a solution for me. I want fsck to run regularly, > > Why? Why not just run fsck manually (i.e. shutdown -RF now) whenever you want. If you do it frequently e

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
David wrote: Here is a summary of my PC usage: 1) Turn on home PC briefly to check e-mail etc, before going to work, then shut down. 2) Back from work, turn it on for the evening, and off again before going to bed. The PC is near my bed, I don't like to have the noisy fans etc going while I'm

Re: Debian Lenny Installer

2008-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install Debian Testing, with the current CD-Image. I have to > use a braille display. With the first beta release, I could use my > braille display without any problems. Now on the first console there

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Koh Choon Lin writes: > Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols? The very fact that almost no one uses it can be an advantage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/15 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Iceweasel 3.0~rc2-1 still seems to support Gopher. > It was in the early RC's of FireFox as well, as I understand it the final decision to pull it from FF3 was taken quite late in the day. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/14 Koh Choon Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just curious, what advantage does Gopher offers over other protocols? > I'd suggest reading gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/relevance.txt for a full answer. I think "advantage" is probably the wrong word it's an alternative, an example of the

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/14 Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Evidently the gopher-internet is not at all dead. > It's alive a kicking with active development of several gopher servers (including pygopherd in the Debian repositories), on the client side there is the console client under active development and as

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Peter writes: > I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 has > been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are for > support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because support > for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of Fir

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 14 June 2008 12:43, Peter Tynan wrote: > Just to summarise the problems - Iceweasel (and FireFox) is the only > "integrated" GUI gopher browser, most other gopher browsers just show > the gopher menu tree and in some cases plain text documents with > Iceweasel I can view images, html

Re: Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 14 June 2008 17:13, Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis wrote: > Greetings > > I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install > Debian OS on it. > > I can't find the driver to configure the Ethernet Network port. I need it > so I can continue the OS installation ov

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +0200, David wrote: > This isn't a solution for me. I want fsck to run regularly, Why? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849754

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread James Richardson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > yeah. I need to find out why `ps aux` shows fetchmail run by user > '103' and exim run by user '101' instead of by their names... > > A Their names are longer than 8 characters. -- James Richardson James Richardson Technology Consulting http://www.jamesr.

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 > has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are > for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because > support for the gophe

Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis
Greetings I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install Debian OS on it. I can't find the driver to configure the Ethernet Network port. I need it so I can continue the OS installation over the Internet and be able to use Internet later on. Is there a driver appropriat

Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis
Greetings I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install Debian OS on it. I can't find the driver to configure the Ethernet Network port. I need it so I can continue the OS installation over the Internet and be able to use Internet later on. Is there a driver appropriat

Re: Strange directory in home

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat June 14 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Can anyone explain this ? > > The name "file:" reminds me of how file managers sometimes refer to > local files in their address/location bar. Some application might > misunderstand expressions such as "file:///home/frank/Desktop" and > therefore creat

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>> If the gopher protocol still has life in it (and I gather >> that it does), then the community will be better served by having >> motivation to pick up development of the other browsers, or perhaps >> incorporate better gopher support into the other web browsers. Just curious, what advantage do

Re: Strange directory in home

2008-06-14 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:49:22 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 13:48:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Lately,I've been noticing a strange directory popping up in my home > > directory. It's called "file:" an

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 11:24 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > We are in the same position, and need a quick solution. I'm looking at > Newegg's Lenovo Thinkpads (R61i and T61) at <$1K and the Dell > Vostro/Latitude D630 choices at the $600/850 levels. > > Costco has some HP's as well, roughly the

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat June 14 2008 11:24:06 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > We are in the same position, and need a quick solution. I'm looking at > Newegg's Lenovo Thinkpads (R61i and T61) at <$1K and the Dell > Vostro/Latitude D630 choices at the $600/850 levels. > > Costco has some HP's as well, roughly the same lev

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread David
Hi list. For those interested, I've filed 2 wishlist bugs against the BTS: sysvinit: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486258 e2fsprogs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486261 David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Strange directory in home

2008-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 13:48:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Lately,I've been noticing a strange directory popping up in my home > directory. It's called "file:" and has subdirectories of home , > home/frank , and Desktop with Desktop empty. > I have deleted it several times but it keeps re-a

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote: > [...] > > > > Sort answer, read the disk-related HOWTOs and try switching to JFS. > > > > Unfortunate

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:24:21PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:00:42PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > My smallest box is a 486 with 32MB ram with a 512 MB drive. Granted it > > can't run Etch anymore but it runs up-to-date xorg from OpenBSD. > > Why can't this

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:32:55AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Watch out that data=journal. It is far more kernel-bug prone than > data=ordered, for the simple fact that almost everyone uses data=ordered, > including those who mess w

Re: POP3 server

2008-06-14 Thread Tobias Nissen
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > I have used POP3 server now a few months, but I have forgot whitch > one it was. :-/ How can I find out whitch server I am using? :-D Is the server still configured in any application you are using? pgpEjyDvtcF40.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CGI scripts and Busybox

2008-06-14 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:32:19 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:28:02PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:03:58 +0300 > > ccostin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > What is the minimal configuration for httpd.co

Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
We are in the same position, and need a quick solution. I'm looking at Newegg's Lenovo Thinkpads (R61i and T61) at <$1K and the Dell Vostro/Latitude D630 choices at the $600/850 levels. Costco has some HP's as well, roughly the same level. The $$ is fine across the board--I wanted quick feeling

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > yeah. I need to find out why `ps aux` shows fetchmail run by user > '103' and exim run by user '101' instead of by their names... > I believe it has to do with the length of the name. (Even tough fetchmail does not seem very long.) Taken from http://wiki.debian.o

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If the gopher protocol still has life in it (and I gather > that it does), then the community will be better served by having > motivation to pick up development of the other browsers, or perhaps > incorporate better gopher support into the oth

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat June 14 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > so for me, this is an interesting situation. But I don't use > gopher. For you it must be downright annoying. > > Here's how it's interesting. Firefox provided a full-blown modern > gopher browser that essentially killed the other gui gopher brows

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:25:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > > named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as > > well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery. > > Andrew Sackvil

video playback and beamers (was: Debian on laptop)

2008-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 18:27:19 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: [...] > I have Debian/Etch on a Dell Latitude D 520. > No Problems. > The only thing that is a bit tricky is getting a picture of a video on the > Beamer (clone-mode). For instance *.flv: You get the full picture on the lfp > and the p

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > 2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > >> > >> Iceweasel (and FireFox) prior to version 3 despite a few bugs were > >> the most convenient GUI gopher brow

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Sam Kuper
http://www.debian.org/misc/laptops/ may be of use. 2008/6/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14/06/2008, Marloque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, > there's > > a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based o

Debian Lenny Installer

2008-06-14 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello, I tried to install Debian Testing, with the current CD-Image. I have to use a braille display. With the first beta release, I could use my braille display without any problems. Now on the first console there is the message on the braille display: "Screen not in text mode". Is there a ne

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 14/06/2008, Marloque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, there's > a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. > I wrote a review of a Dell Ubuntu Laptop here: http://everything2.com/title/Dell+Ubuntu+Lapto

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: >> >> Iceweasel (and FireFox) prior to version 3 despite a few bugs were >> the most convenient GUI gopher browser available and the loss of >> gopher support would be a big blow for

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as > well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery. Andrew Sackville-West writes: > It appears that the fetchmail init script does somethin

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Samstag, 14. Juni 2008 15:41 schrieb Paul Cartwright: > On Sat June 14 2008, Marloque wrote: > > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, > > there's a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. > > > > Must my two pennies. > > I have Debian runnin

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Tynan wrote: > I was under the impression that although Iceweasel started off as a > simple rebranding project that the maintainers had greater ambitions > and that they already made changes to the source that have nothing to > do with the branding - am I wrong? So, let’s dig into our fi

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:42:08PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > 2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > >> I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 > >> has been made available in Sid and I wa

Lazarus & Debian

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! My system is Debian Etch And Half. I need to install Lazarus but there is no debian package for Etch. Can I, and if can, how can I install Lazarus on Debian Etch? I have tried to search on Google but can't find any solution. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/in

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread David
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: >> Hi again list. >> >> I'm going to reply to several mails at once. Please excuse the length, > > Please don't do that. *You* can receive your mails in digest mode b

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
2008/6/14 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: >> I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 >> has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are >> for support of the gopher protocol

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:35:59AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Jamie writes: > > using individual user ~/.fetchmailrc files is probably a safer and > > preferred way to use fetchmail. > > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > named "mailagent" which then passes

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 01:31:07PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 > has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are > for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because > support for the gophe

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 05:54 -0700, alfa beta wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > > After spending hours of reading about the Linux distributions and > compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose you because of your > "Social Contract", though I'm not sure Debian is still updated, > apologize, I couldn

Re: POP3 server

2008-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:26:37PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > I have used POP3 server now a few months, but I have forgot whitch one > it was. :-/ How can I find out whitch server I am using? :-D Start with: netstat -lntp | grep 110 to check what process listens on port 110 . -- Tzafri

Re: CGI scripts and Busybox

2008-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:28:02PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:03:58 +0300 > ccostin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > What is the minimal configuration for httpd.conf required by busybox > > httpd to run simple CGI scripts ? I believe that busybox in Etc

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat June 14 2008, Marloque wrote: > I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, > there's a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. > > Must my two pennies. I have Debian running on my newer Dell XPS desktop, complete with NVIDIA drivers. I have

Re: indexing particular file types

2008-06-14 Thread Mag Gam
Yes. This is exactly what I intend to do. Thanks for the feedback. If you have any advice on this please don't hesitate to share with us :-) TIA On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/10/08 05:43, Mag

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:32:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Your / should be small, fsck-friendly, and resilient as all heck. If > > running fsck in your / takes enough time that you wouldn't afford to do it > > at every boot (in

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, charlie derr wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> I guess the defaults are very conservative settings regarding >>> reliability of your data and were implemented at a time when there was >>> no journalling for data p

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:00:42PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:42:55PM +0100, abelahcene wrote: > > I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to > > install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a > > window . Any s

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Jamie writes: > using individual user ~/.fetchmailrc files is probably a safer and > preferred way to use fetchmail. Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as well be Procmail) for local sorting

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Marloque
I would look into the Ubuntu laptops from Dell. If they run Ubuntu, there's a chance they'll run Debian, since Ubuntu is based off of Debian. Must my two pennies. --Marloque alfa beta wrote: Dear Sirs, After spending hours of reading about the Linux distributions and compatible hardware, I

PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved

2008-06-14 Thread Cassiel
Hi you all, I got this line in dmesg output and my PCI audio card (Terratec DMX 6fire) not working at all. Can someone tell me if this bug (a kernel bug probably, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480513) prevents PCI cards from working? or my audio card has compatibility problems w

Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Tynan
I noted from a recent discussion on this list that iceweasel 3.0-rc2 has been made available in Sid and I was wondering what the plans are for support of the gopher protocol in Iceweasel 3? I ask this because support for the gopher protocol has been pulled from the core of FireFox 3 and I was hopin

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:52:07PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > Isn't it possible to run fetchmail as root and then one process fetches > the mail of all users with help of ~/.fetchmail? > > If no, is there any script that executes daemon automatically for every > user that has .fetchmailrc?

Re: Quota - delete Single Entry

2008-06-14 Thread URNIL FGBEZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri June 13 2008 18:07:47 URNIL FGBEZ wrote: >> There is no possible way that there are still files owned by that user >> because i use the following way to delete that account: >> 1. userdel 1500 >> 2. rm -rf /srv/HOMEDIR >

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Jamie Griffin wrote: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers have been specified. failed! Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in /etc/fetchmailrc? Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy. *

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > Hi again list. > > I'm going to reply to several mails at once. Please excuse the length, Please don't do that. *You* can receive your mails in digest mode by specifying it with some command to the list server, but PLEASE don't enforce it o

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Jamie Griffin
>>> # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart >>> Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers >>> have been specified. >>> failed! >> >> Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in >> /etc/fetchmailrc? >> >> > Sorry, that took so long. :-( Had been busy.

POP3 server

2008-06-14 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
I have used POP3 server now a few months, but I have forgot whitch one it was. :-/ How can I find out whitch server I am using? :-D Tero Mäntyvaara -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 14:18:40 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > Hi, > > I've come accoss a similar problem, that my apt-get or aptitude wanted to > remove my gnome, gtk, etc. Almost ervery core module of gnome i think.(see > attached for the res

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Jamie Griffin wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:21:25PM +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: # /etc/init.d/fetchmail restart Restarting mail retriever agent: fetchmailfetchmail: no mailservers have been specified. failed! Did you run it as root? and have you entered all the required info in /et

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread David
Hi again list. I'm going to reply to several mails at once. Please excuse the length, or let me know if separate mails is better netiquette. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-06-13 13:38, D

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-14 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, buyoppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges > whether some data is encrypted or not? Depends on what you mean by encryption. If you mean encryption via GPG, see `file' command. OTOH, I can encrypt a plain text file