Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 31, 2009 11:13:13 am Jeff Chimene wrote: What was the solution? I'm interested in getting Exim4 to talk to a smarthost provider. TBird seems to have no problem, but Exim4 provokes an unexpected error. Did you run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config? I use a smarthost here with no

Skype package available for amd64

2009-01-31 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I put together a Skype package for the am64 architecture in the sid (unstable) distribution. It is available in the following apt-getable repository: http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/ It actually contains the binary executable distributed by skype.com in the Debian etch i386

Re: Sendmail wants to auth local mails

2009-01-31 Thread Andics László
Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Andics László wrote: The original message was received at Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:25:17 +0100 from r...@localhost Is localhost in /etc/mail/local-host-names ? and sendmail.mc has FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl # local-host-names Yes, its

Re: file completion command line

2009-01-31 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Kenneth Karlsen kennethka...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. I have noticed a change in the way file names are completed on the command line. a directory with: file ab and file abc rm a*c and tab will not complete the filename abc. How can I enable this

Re: Sendmail wants to auth local mails

2009-01-31 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andics László wrote: I have these two Connect lines: Connect:localhostRELAY Connect:gophernet.huRELAY looks ok I have really no idea what is wrong with this. Anyway, thanks for the answer. Any Srv_Features lines ? -- Rick Nelson Where in the US is Linus?

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of my CPU is high. Taking a look at System Monitor i have also discovered that my swap space is being used while only 13% of the RAM is, why isn't is using the rest of the RAM. Has anyone got any ideas why? Unless you really have

Re: Sendmail wants to auth local mails

2009-01-31 Thread Andics László
Richard A Nelson írta: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andics László wrote: I have these two Connect lines: Connect:localhostRELAY Connect:gophernet.huRELAY looks ok I have really no idea what is wrong with this. Anyway, thanks for the answer. Any Srv_Features lines ? No, my access file

Re: Resizing vfat partition with fdisk ??

2009-01-31 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/1/31 Rodrigo Hashimoto rodh...@gmail.com: Yes, there's data but if I loose it no problem, I'm using my usb flash drive to test this partition resize. Like Ron said, gparted is the correct tool to use if there is dada you want to keep. I'd suggest that at least some of your data is toast

Re: exim4 as a client of a smarthost w/o TLS

2009-01-31 Thread s. keeling
Jeff Chimene jchim...@gmail.com: I've been trying to get exim to send mail via a smarthost that doesn't use TLS. I've set the AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = 1 to no avail: exim4 does not fall back to AUTH LOGIN or AUTH PLAIN. I can get exim4 to send mail via mail.gmail.com

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Try to run `free' to get a more detailed break up (or even cat /proc/meminfo). Running free -g on my system returns 3. I have 4. Running cat /proc/meminfo returns 4030668KB, which is 3.84GB according to onlineconversion, closer. Does RAM also have a sort of FAT? It seems as though free won't

I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I use webmail, i'm not running a mail server. At most i'd use an MUA to comunicate with whichever mail services i use. However, i must have exim4 installed. How can i work around this? Regardless of how much resources it requires i find it irritating. The real nudge is having Starting

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:28 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:37:34AM +1300, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz was heard to say: Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though (apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: Don't remove those

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Jan 31, 2009 at 21:58:01 +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: How can i work around this? Regardless of how much resources it requires i find it irritating. The real nudge is having Starting MTA: lagging by boot by half a minute or so. You need one, as far as the system is concerned, to

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:44:58 -0600 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, basically, I don't have access to IRIX machines and I wonder if there are counterparts or similar headers in linux that I can use for parallel programming. The problem is not the headers, you can

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 03:58 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings. I use webmail, i'm not running a mail server. At most i'd use an MUA to comunicate with whichever mail services i use. However, i must have exim4 installed. How can i work around this? Regardless of how much resources it requires i find

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/2009 03:58 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA? Linux? No. Please, don't overestimate :) Base system is also Linux, though it doesn't contain any MTA for the obvious reasons. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID:

Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I recently installed Lenny from scratch on a new HD. It's time to maintain some basic web pages, so I went looking for mozilla composer (that I used before) and found that mozilla is gone from Lenny. Tried to find a composer feature in iceweasel, but there is none. Then went searching

startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread John Magolske
Mostly I use the framebuffer console with screen. When I start up Xwindows on occasion, it resets kbdrate to slower settings than I like. My solution so far is to start X with this script: #!/bin/sh startx # startx seems to mess with kbdrate...set it back to what I like sudo

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 31, 2009 02:33:21 pm A. F. Cano wrote: Hello, I recently installed Lenny from scratch on a new HD. It's time to maintain some basic web pages, so I went looking for mozilla composer (that I used before) and found that mozilla is gone from Lenny. Tried to find a composer feature

Re: Light-weighted voice recorder

2009-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:40:14PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi I'm looking for a light-weighted voice recorder (for quick note taking). I've tried most of the CLI tools, the problem is that none of them have the pause feature that I need during recording. Have you looked at Ecasound?

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:12:24 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/2009 03:58 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings. I use webmail, i'm not running a mail server. At most i'd use an MUA to comunicate with whichever mail services i use. However, i must have exim4 installed. How can i work

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:04:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 09:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:52:34AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +, Dean Chester wrote: Hi I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the

Re: calender, contacts, appts., to do list, etc. server for Debian

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:35:50AM -0500, H.S. wrote: Hi, I am playing around with the idea of installing a calender server on a Debian machine at my home. The idea is that the family can maintain their calenders, appointments, schedules and to-do lists on the server and be able to access

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:05:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It

Re: Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jeff Chimene jchim...@gmail.com [2009 Jan 31 13:32 -0600]: What was the solution? I detailed my config files earlier in the thread. The bullet points are that I had to ensure the actual hostname of the SMTP server was in the config and passwd files. I had to enable a macro to send the

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt [2009 Jan 31 16:00 -0600]: Can i have a regular desktop Debian without an MTA? Difficult, but try the esmtp package. It is very light weight and only runs when actually needed. - Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 06:00 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:04:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 09:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:52:34AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +, Dean Chester wrote: Hi I

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net [2009 Jan 31 07:34 -0600]: A bit late, but I've been unavailable. When I need help configuring Exim, I look at the Exim mailing lists - just like I do any product. In the README.Debian file it quite explicitly discusses that

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Thanks for the suggestions. For now i'll try restraining DNS. Whenever the loss of mouse pointer forces me to reboot again i'll see it it works :) If not, either getting it out of the init scripts o switching to another MTA. I like the client/server approach but this MTA stuff is kind of

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread Robert Hodgins
Found some hits: seamonkey, kompozer/nvu, but none of them are in Lenny. I'd like to keep the installation as standard as possible, so I'd prefer not to have to get non-aptitude packages. Would iceape work for you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-31 02:52:34 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +, Dean Chester wrote: I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of my CPU is high. Taking a look at System Monitor i have also discovered that my swap space is being used while

The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I was forwarded this. Please ignore the political content. I tried to watch the video clip in my totally standard Lenny, with iceweasel http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php and I can't believe the result. The video skips and freezes, the sound hiccups and repeats like a

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Aneurin Price
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. For now i'll try restraining DNS. Whenever the loss of mouse pointer forces me to reboot again i'll see it it works :) If not, either getting it out of the init scripts o switching to

Re: startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:10:23PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: Mostly I use the framebuffer console with screen. When I start up Xwindows on occasion, it resets kbdrate to slower settings than I like. My solution so far is to start X with this script: #!/bin/sh startx # startx

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 07:28 PM, Aneurin Price wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. For now i'll try restraining DNS. Whenever the loss of mouse pointer forces me to reboot again i'll see it it works :) If not, either getting

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Martin
2009/2/1 Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: I like the client/server approach but this MTA stuff is kind of annoying for regular desktop use. Is there a bogus MTA? One that'll pretend to be one and accept stuff from its clients but basically /dev/null everything? I like nullmailer,

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 07:26 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: Hi, I was forwarded this. Please ignore the political content. I tried to watch the video clip in my totally standard Lenny, with iceweasel http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php and I can't believe the result. The video skips and

Re: Sendmail wants to auth local mails

2009-01-31 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andics László wrote: Any Srv_Features lines ? No, my access file is have only those two Connect lines. Ok, what does your DAEMON_OPTOINS line look like, M=a will cause this -- Rick Nelson The purpose of having mailing lists rather than having newsgroups is to place a

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Nye writes: I'm curious however what it is you have installed that depends on exim, or the mail-transport-agent virtual package. bsd-mailx is standard and depends on mail-transport-agent. You can, of course, remove bsd-mailx though this anti-MTA prejudice baffles me. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... No hiccuping in IW 3.0.5 and Flash 10.0r15. Interesting, I have the exact same versions. ... The exe files are self-extracting zip files, simple as that. $ dir GC*exe -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 28366848 2009-01-31 19:59 GC Short

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:09:23PM -0700, Robert Hodgins wrote: Found some hits: seamonkey, kompozer/nvu, but none of them are in Lenny. I'd like to keep the installation as standard as possible, so I'd prefer not to have to get non-aptitude packages. Would iceape work for you? Ahh...

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or 'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening? $ aptitude why mail-transport-agent i lsb Depends lsb-core i A lsb-core Depends exim4 | mail-transport-agent Same results if i why on exim4. I assume lsb

Set alsa capture on using amixer

2009-01-31 Thread T o n g
Hi, I suddenly can't use my microphone for voice recording any more. I made it work before. Now with the same HW and SW, nothing get recorded. (I can hear the echo sound from the speaker when speaking to mic). Checking back my log, I noticed one difference: Previously it was: $ amixer set

Re: Light-weighted voice recorder

2009-01-31 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:26:18 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Have you looked at Ecasound? Thanks everyone for the reply. Nigel's recommendation, MhWaveedit, is exactly what I am looking for -- as simple as possible. Ecasound is powerful, but it's almost 5 times bigger than MhWaveedit, and

Re: startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:35:29 +, David Jardine wrote: # startx seems to mess with kbdrate...set it back to what I like sudo kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 -s . . . Is there some way to avoid the way Xwindows resets kbdrate? Look at kbdrate in the kbd or console-tools package. Isn't that

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Nuno writes: I assume lsb includes cron and other base-level tools that require mail functionality. No. Lsb is an extra package that you almost certainly don't need unless you are running LSB-compliant closed-source software. LSB stands for Linux Standard Base. Google it. Is this all that

Re: Light-weighted voice recorder

2009-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:55:13AM +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:26:18 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Have you looked at Ecasound? Thanks everyone for the reply. Nigel's recommendation, MhWaveedit, is exactly what I am looking for -- as simple as possible. Ecasound is

Re: startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread John Magolske
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [090131 20:37]: On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:35:29 +, David Jardine wrote: # startx seems to mess with kbdrate...set it back to what I like sudo kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 -s . . . Is there some way to avoid the way Xwindows resets kbdrate? Look

Re: Set alsa capture on using amixer

2009-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:45:41AM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, I suddenly can't use my microphone for voice recording any more. I made it work before. Now with the same HW and SW, nothing get recorded. (I can hear the echo sound from the speaker when speaking to mic). Checking back my log,

prevent access to a hard drive completely

2009-01-31 Thread Olive
My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an external hard drive (and I boot from a CD since this is an old laptop not being able to boot from USB). I would like to prevent the kernel to access the internal

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 09:24 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: [snip] main concern. I guess having an MTA is a side-effect of the whole client/server thing; prejucide or not it's an opinion. That's Windows-think to say whether a *computer* s a client or server. Such a mindset needs to be banished to get full

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: It seems as though free won't return the accurate size. I also have 4 gb of RAM (new Quadcore Intel) and 'free -g' reports '3' as well, I suspect this is underrounding to the extreme, and 'free -gb' returns a more

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 08:21 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... No hiccuping in IW 3.0.5 and Flash 10.0r15. Interesting, I have the exact same versions. What video driver? And CPU/RAM? ... The exe files are self-extracting zip files, simple as

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 03:27 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Try to run `free' to get a more detailed break up (or even cat /proc/meminfo). Running free -g on my system returns 3. I have 4. Running cat /proc/meminfo returns 4030668KB, which is 3.84GB according That's 4030668*1024 = 4,127,404,032. to

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2009 11:01 PM, David Fox wrote: [snip] It isn't that RAM has a FAT - those things only are present on filesystems. It is more likely that free's interpretation doesn't include kernel memory. Also, 4gb may be 4*1024*1024 not 4*1000*1000, although that is more likely to be a concern with

Re: The most windows-centric/linux-unfriendly web site yet?

2009-01-31 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:02:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/2009 08:21 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:02:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... No hiccuping in IW 3.0.5 and Flash 10.0r15. Interesting, I have the exact same versions. What video driver? And CPU/RAM?

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread zhang zhengquan
Thanks a lot. Now I know what I need to do now. 2009/1/31 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:44:58 -0600 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, basically, I don't have access to IRIX machines and I wonder if there are counterparts or similar

Re: I don't need an MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:55:50PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Nuno writes: I assume lsb includes cron and other base-level tools that require mail functionality. No. Lsb is an extra package that you almost certainly don't need unless you are running LSB-compliant closed-source software.

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-31 Thread consultores1
El mar, 30-12-2008 a las 09:58 -0800, Bob McGowan escribió: On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 09:46 -0800, consultores1 wrote: Hello I have tried to connect my Debian laptop to a TV, using different methods, but it became almost impossible. Can somebody please, write the diferent steps to do it

lenny: mouse clicks are not registering reliably

2009-01-31 Thread Allan Wind
I just upgraded my laptop from etch to lenny and found that (wacom) mouse clicks are now intermittently either ignored or take some significant fraction of a second to register. It seems like there is intermittent latency on keyboard input as well that I did not notice prior to the upgrade.

Re: prevent access to a hard drive completely

2009-01-31 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:56:57 +0400, Olive (not0read0...@yopmail.com) wrote: My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an external hard drive (and I boot from a CD since this is an old laptop not being

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