Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 9/25/23 17:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 04:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: Lastly, do I understand correctly that the root of this whole issue is simply misformed headers in the original spam mail that I receive at my Dreamhost account? Oh, and does all this lead

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 9/25/23 14:58, Rick Macdonald wrote: Some of the mail in the queue is up to 4 days old. I'm going to clear it all out to see what new arrives in this state. I've made a bit of progress. First, I deleted the almost 6000 messages in the mail queue: # mailq | grep 1q | cut -c11-26 | xargs

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
this bounce message back: On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:24:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: # exim4 -Mvb 1qkOYj-001Hnf-2V 1qkOYj-001Hnf-2V-D --foo-mani-padme-hum-306716-2546159-1695559801 Content-Type: text/plain This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 9/25/23 12:42, Michael Kjörling wrote: The following address(es) failed: rickm@localhost    SMTP error: 550 header syntax So something running on your local system almost certainly tried to send mail to either "rickm" or "rickm@localhost", and that triggered queuing the non-delivery

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 9/25/23 08:29, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 24 Sep 2023 20:58 -0600, from rickm...@shaw.ca (Rick Macdonald): My /var/log/.exim4/log file is flooded with messages such as shown below. I'm not trying to send mail to any of those .co or .com addresses. I use my ISP (shaw.ca cable provider

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 9/25/23 10:03, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Rick, On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 08:58:04PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: 2023-09-24 20:48:37 1qkRDH-001Zqh-1Z == 6626-879-8427-40-rickm=timshel...@mail.purecuresol.co R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-54): retry time not reached for any host

Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
My /var/log/.exim4/log file is flooded with messages such as shown below. I'm not trying to send mail to any of those .co or .com addresses. I use my ISP (shaw.ca cable provider) as a smarthost. Are people trying to use my system as a relay? If so, can I block them without cutting myself

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

2023-08-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 8/24/23 07:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: So, given that I purged everything and re-installed and it still didn't work, is this indeed a packaging error? I've been running Debian for well over 25 years (I started with a pre-release before buzz was released) and I don't remember anything that

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

2023-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 8/23/23 18:14, Dan Ritter wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: Silly me though, I see I didn't actually describe the failure when I try to connect to localhost/phpmyadmin. The browser just opens and shows the text of the file /usr/share/phpmyadmin/index.php. Is this a clue? That generally means

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

2023-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 8/23/23 11:03, Michael Kjörling wrote: I don't use roundcube any more. Would it help to uninstall it? Although, at the moment I have only php5.6 and php8.2 installed. I'm guessing the bookworm upgrade removed php7.x. I imagine that uninstalling roundcube won't do anything either way.

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

2023-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 8/22/23 03:08, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 21 Aug 2023 20:00 -0600, fromrickm...@shaw.ca (Rick Macdonald): # dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin Determining localhost credentials from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf: succeeded. dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf dbconfig

upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

2023-08-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been running phpmyadmin for years. It survived the upgrade to bullseye about a month ago but now the upgrade to bookworm broke it. I don't see any similar bug reports. I do see similar error messages around the web from over the years, but I don't expect to have to do a manual re-install

Re: gnome-schedule gone from bullseye and bookworm

2023-07-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 2023-07-14 16:26, songbird wrote: here's the removal bug for more details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808060 BTW, for anybody interested, I found a simple Tcl-based cron/at GUI: vcron. No binaries (but requires Tcl/Tk installed) and the tar file is set up

gnome-schedule gone from bullseye and bookworm

2023-07-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
I fell behind with my major upgrades, and just upgraded from buster to bullseye (soon to be followed by bookworm). I've been using gnome-schedule, a simple cron GUI, for quite some time now but it seems to be gone. The upgrade REMOVED it, as shown below. Strange thing is, searching the web

Re: Adding wine64 to wine installation (buster)

2021-03-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 2021-03-25 11:50 p.m., Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: "wine" command is a 32-bit ELF binary and "wine64" command is a 64-bit ELF binary. In my experience it doesn't matter which one to use, as long as you run programs inside a prefix that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit (WoW64). [1] You

Re: Adding wine64 to wine installation (buster)

2021-03-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
X pointing to the old .wine directory that I renamed ".wine32"? Rick On March 25, 2021 12:10:59 p.m. MDT, "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: >On 25.03.2021 22:47, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> I've been running a few 32bit Windows programs with wine for many >> yea

Adding wine64 to wine installation (buster)

2021-03-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been running a few 32bit Windows programs with wine for many years, but now I need to run some 64bit programs. The Debian wine wiki says "Users on a 64-bit system should make sure that both wine32 and wine64 (or wine32-development and wine64-development) are installed". I have "deb

remmina toolbar icons missing using stretch-backports

2019-01-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On my stretch system, I just upgraded remmina to 1.2.32 using stretch-backports. It works fine except now many of the toolbar icons show [X] as if they're are missing. Some are OK, such as Tools, Preferences, Screenshot. Missing ones are: Resize, Toggle Fullscreen, Switch Tabs, Toggle Scaled

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: I would do the downgrades. Then do an "apt-get clean", and after that, re-install firefox-esr. If you want an up-to-date firefox, install it directly from Mozilla in /opt/firefox. Thanks to Dan, Jochen and songbird for the advice to do the downgrade. I

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 19/07/18 12:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: This isn't absolutely awful; you can recover from this. Here is the list of downgrades if I pin stable to 1001: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   fonts-stix libevent-2.1-6 libhunspell-1.6-0 libjsoncpp1

Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Rick Macdonald
I'm going to pose my question here at the top in case it can be answered without wading through all the details that follow: Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from stable as the stable versions

Re: Upgraded to stretch but apache2 still uses php5

2017-12-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 04/12/17 04:51 AM, x9p wrote: The downside of upgrading php5 -> php7 is.. some apps can break. Still, there are some workarounds to make them work with php7 (most of cases). check if you have libapache2-mod-php7.0 installed. remove/purge any other previous versions of this package and

Upgraded to stretch but apache2 still uses php5

2017-12-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
I thought I'd try a better webmail than squirrelmail, so I tried to install roundcube. After many hours I gave up (missing php pdo modules), purged it all, and then tried a non-debian package: rainloop. I spent may hours with it, trying to solve missing php curl modules. What had me going

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 28/11/14 05:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: My apologies for the delay in replying. On 28 November 2014 at 16:08, Rick Macdonald rickm...@shaw.ca wrote: On 26/11/14 04:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/14 06:32, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 26/11/14 04:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/14 06:32, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 16:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped Sorry for replying to my

Re: disk group (was ... Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?)

2014-11-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 26/11/14 04:36 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: I vaguely remember reading somewhere (may have been on this list) that putting anybody in the disk group is a big no no, I think it was to do with security. *It is* (shoot foot material). So is setting ntfs-3g setuid. Which is another practise used

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 16:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Sorry, I don't know what DE means! Desktop Environment e.g. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc KFCE. ?? https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kfcesearchon

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 16:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Are you using Debian?? Scott, I really appreciate your time in helping me, and I realize it's not easy with my typo

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 26/11/14 04:20 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/14 06:32, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 08:24 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 26/11/14 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 16:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped Sorry for replying to my

How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire filesystem, have failed me this time. I'm running up-to-date wheezy. How does one override or change to options fuse gives to ntfs-3g (if I have that right)? I have an NTFS filesystem on a USB-connected hard drive. With nothing in

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 04:04 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 08:03, Rick Macdonald wrote: Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire filesystem, have failed me this time. I'm running up-to-date wheezy. DE? Sorry, I don't know what DE means! It's an i386 desktop that's been

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Sorry, I don't know what DE means! Desktop Environment e.g. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc KFCE. I had to abandon GNOME when they removed all the customization settings... but it's already on the mount command line. The problem seems to be the dmask

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 10:14 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: OK, I tried all that and it makes no difference. With either line in fstab there are no messages in syslog from fuse/ntfs-3g about that partition, and I have to mount it manually. We're you expecting it to auto-mount? The following run as root

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 08/04/14 02:51 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Some routers have built-in support for DDNS, so you don't

Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've been running 32bit Debian since release 0.93, before buzz was released. I've been through a few PCs over these 20 years, and now my latest one is dying on me (HP Dual core Pentium D, 4GB RAM). I'd like to take a step up and get a machine with more memory (12 or 16GB). I've done some

Kernel panics after wheezy upgrade (but blaming hardware)

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
I finally updated my 32bit PC to wheezy in October. Shortly after, I started getting kernel panics (blinking CapsLock/Scroll Lock for about 10 seconds, then it would re-boot itself). I ran memtest for 14 hours; no errors. It often happened while watching videos in iceweasel, especially when

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 13:58 -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Are there any issues with switching to amd64? What about drivers? There aren't issues. What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine Wine and at least VBox can do this. There might be issues for 32-bit VSTs

Sawfish wm won't start from gdm3

2012-08-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
I recently (finally) upgraded from lenny to squeeze. All seems well except if I choose the sawfish window manager from the gdm3 greeter, the dialog goes away and it just sits with the debian logo and the stars background. I can't find any error messages anywhere (~/.xsession-errors). If I

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Martin Paraskevov wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? Here are a couple, not to mention the various GUIs: rickmlinux:~# dpkg --get-selections|grep apt apt

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Rick Macdonald wrote: Martin Paraskevov wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? Here are a couple, not to mention the various GUIs: rickmlinux:~# dpkg --get-selections|grep apt apt

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have looked fairly carefully at the metacity.schemas file and I have not found a way to alter the window behavior to customize metacity. I'm now using KDE because gnome/metacity had diminished my productivty. I miss the simplicity of gnome's presentation and would use it again I

Re: dpms keeps turning off

2006-06-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just installed etch on a new destop. xset -q shows dpms is off. If I enable it with xset +dpms dpms 300 600 900 it somehow gets turned off some while later. How do I get the setting to stick? I forgot to mention that I'm using Gnome. I have a sarge installation with Gnome but still

dpms keeps turning off

2006-06-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just installed etch on a new destop. xset -q shows dpms is off. If I enable it with xset +dpms dpms 300 600 900 it somehow gets turned off some while later. How do I get the setting to stick? Running xset dpms off will put the monitor into the off state. I have DPMS in my xorg.conf file.

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
Manoj Srivastava wrote: 4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image Manoj - I've switched from --revision= to --append-to-version because new kernels of the same version don't clash module directories. It seems much better to me. Do you still prefer --revision for some

Re: Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
Gregory Seidman wrote: I've started using Sunbird 0.2 at work (under Windows, sadly) and I really like it. I'd love to be using it at home, too, but there doesn't seem to be a sunbird package in table, testing, or unstable. Does anyone know where I can find a .deb, or even a deb-src repository?

Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?

2005-07-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
Thomas H. George wrote: I did a Google search and found forlorn messages from someone trying to get a Linksys PCI card to work. I have one of those too and wasted over a month two years ago trying to get it to work. Finally gave up and bought the Netgear card which, with a little start up

Re: Getting a Dinamic Remote IP

2005-05-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Hi, You need to obtain a program called ddclient from the dyndns.org site, which you run on your system. It will check to see if dyndns.org has the correct IP address every few minutes, and tell dyndns.org about it when it changes. It's also a debian package: apt-get

Re: Getting a Dinamic Remote IP

2005-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
Colin Ingram wrote: I would get a dynamic dns account so you can ssh to foo.domain and never have to worry about the ip again. try http://www.dyndns.org/ ;the service I use Which update client do you use? ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Roy Pluschke said: On February 9, 2004 04:42 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: timidity is installed and works but I need true midi now. I don't understand the above statement. Timidity is/has true midi. To run timidity as a alsa synth start up timidity like this: timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 Its

ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
In order to get MIDI going I upgraded to sid, updated kernel 2.4.19 to 2.4.24 and switched form the kernel sound driver to ALSA. Everything still works (xmms can play mp3 to ALSA output, for example), but still no MIDI sound. lsmod shows all the modules as shown below. Playing a midi file goes

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: On Mon, 09 Feb 2004, Rick Macdonald wrote: Searching the web and Debian site uncovered that I may need to load sound fonts with sfxload, but it's not clear to me if this is still required or not. Also, the awesfx package no longer exists. What do I need

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep SB 02:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 02:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) Roy Pluschke said: On February 9, 2004 04:42 pm, Rick Macdonald wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz Peter Nuttall said: On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 4:27 pm, Victory wrote: Hello all, Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical system configuration rather

Re: new mozilla version in stable ?

2003-03-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've never used any unofficial debs, but a few weeks ago the Debian Weekly News announced unofficial backports of newer versions of mozilla, OpenOffice and a couple other packages. This seemed somewhat official and somewhat part of, or somewhat condoned by, Debian. Any comments on this

Safe to make long jump from potato to sarge/sid?

2003-02-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Is it OK to run apt-get dist-upgrade to update a potato install to sid, or would it be safer just upgrading to woody first, the to sid? ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
If you did apt-get update after changing sources.list, then the subsequent apt-get dist-upgrade has you running unstable, which is sid. by way of Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Howdy List! I'm exploring Debian via the Koppix CD, which I installed to an empty partition on my RedHat 8 box.

Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi All, I know that this has been discussed before so I apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can copy it to another, then do the bunzip2?

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
My file was dated 1996 and I too have no idea where it came from. The following makes it even more obvious: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' Brian Potkin said: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: Dear All, Oh my. I cannot believe what I

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

2002-10-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
I installed gcc (g++ and g77) 3.2 last week or so. I added sarge to my sources.list, then ran apt-get update, then installed al the 3.c ompiler packages, then removed sarge from sources.list and ran apt-get update again. I do this often, sometimes even from sid. When I run the apt-get install I

Re: Quicken under debian

2002-06-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Neal Lippman said: I am wondering if anyone could recommend a solution for using Quicken on my debian woody system. Quicken is essentially the ONLY windows application that I still need, and thus is the only reason that my laptop still has windows98 loaded on it. As far as I can tell,

Re: Comments on the new gnome-terminal.

2002-06-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alex Malinovich said: On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:11, Alan Shutko wrote: Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a config file for this terminal anywhere that I can edit by hand so I can at least get a working font set up? ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml

Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise? http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71535%2C00.html?nlid=AM ...RickM... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Johnson said: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: Has there been any Debian disscussion about this, official or otherwise? Why should there be? We are already the One True Linux Distribution. 8:o) I wrote to Caldera asking if UnitedLinux is Debian based

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Google is so amazing I hardly need to post to lists anymore. Sometimes I try it before looking at man pages. ;-) Entering lsb gives this as the first hit: Linux Standard Base Latest Happenings, About the LSB. Specification Proposals The latest draft of various specification proposals are now

Re: squirrelmail -- php4 -- imp login failure

2002-05-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
Thomas R. Shemanske said: Both squirrelmail and imp are installed on several machines in our department, but they are used infrequently. The last time I used them was in March when they worked fine; a few days ago, I was unable to login on any installation with either squirrelmail or imp.

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

2002-05-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
I get this: Get:1 http://http.demudi.org woody/local bcast 2000c-1 [3373kB] Fetched 3373kB in 37s (90.1kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package bcast. (Reading database ... 82734 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bcast (from .../bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

2002-05-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Tom Massey said: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:15:29PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: I get this: Get:1 http://http.demudi.org woody/local bcast 2000c-1 [3373kB] Fetched 3373kB in 37s (90.1kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package bcast. (Reading database ... 82734 files and directories

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Baloo Johnson said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mike Frisch wrote: Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert MP3 to WAV. I am looking for

Re: Is there any tool like purify(memory leak check tool) for LI

2002-05-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Paul Smith said: %% Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sp none of them are as cool and featureful as purify. Of all of the sp tools I have used, I miss that one most. Unfortunately apps like sp that are decidedly hard to write and the commercial ones are sp REALLY expensive

Re: smail drops off; what to replace it with? exim?

2002-05-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
dman said: | Ah, yes, I think you're right: | | timshel# apt-get install -d exim ... | I just tried the above and then exited. I didn't actually run it yet, See the '-s' option. It tells apt to simulate the operation, but to not actually try to execute it. It also gives more details

smail drops off; what to replace it with? exim?

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
smail keeps dropping off my woody system and I have to continually restart it. Rather than deal with the problem I thought I'd just replace it. A newer woody system seems to have exim. The system with smail has been running Debian _before_ the first offical release (buzz I think). Should I

Re: smail drops off; what to replace it with? exim?

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
Vineet Kumar said: * Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020502 15:31]: I've never tried to replace a package that has many packages that require it. What do I tell apt to get it to remove smail and install its replacement? apt-get install exim Ah, yes, I think you're right: timshel# apt

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Derek Williams said: ALSA is still officially beta, so the packages are still in a state of flux; it always seems at least a bit broken when I try them with my SBLive. I have gotten alsa working with my sblive... don't think I did anything special. Running alsaconf always seemed to get it

Re: Mozilla issues

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
curtis said: One problem that bothers me with mozilla is printing. I can't seem to figure out how to add a printer to Mozilla, which might resolve this situation. Otherwise, my default printer is listed as PostScript/default and the print command under properties is for lprng (I use cups).

Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!

2002-03-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: Argh! - HOWTO overload. I've got a Sound Blaster Live Value. I'm running Debian Testing. I've build my own kernel 2.4.17 from kernel-source package. I did build the emu10k1 module. I ran modconf and selected emu10k1. emu10k1 loads fine without

Re: SquirrelMail help

2002-03-20 Thread Rick Macdonald
I recently installed Squirrelmail when I login it just times out, anyone that have had the same problem? I get this error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 87 I had this exact error a few days ago. In

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: I don't understand if IMAPs role is simply to serve up the mail to the remote client and allow deleting, moving to other folders, etc, or if it will want to replace my existing steps of fetchmail/procmail. Think of IMAP as like POP, but leaving

Re: How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Duggan wrote: OK, I'm getting close. I now have fetchmail handing mail off to smail/procmail as before, but added a procmail rule for a particular account to go into a maildir format for courier-imap, which I now have installed. I think the only think

How to use SquirrelMail?

2002-03-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
Below I've outlined what I'd like to do, but I'm not sure if SquirrelMail will do this. I easily installed apache and SquirrelMail, but I haven't installed an IMAP yet. Here's what I do now: - run fetchmail to grab mail from a few different mail servers for deposit locally for a few different

Re: Best Email Web Application

2002-03-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
I installed squirrelmail, but which IMAP should I use? Can I still keep running qpopper to provide POP3 for users on my lan (wife and kids)? Or does IMAP conflict somehow? On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Angus D Madden wrote: Dave Scott, Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:45:18PM -0800: Anyone have any ideas on

Re: configuring ext3 (was Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users)

2002-03-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Dave Thayer wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:08AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020306 19:12]: I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting it up?

Re: Boottime keymap

2002-03-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Timo Benk wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:10:06PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: Hi ! I've renamed boottime.kmap.gz in /etc/console to boottime.kmap.gz.bak and copied es.kmap.gz in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, so that the

Re: seti@home

2002-03-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:13:16PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate directory to unpack and run this little bippy? I

Re: SoundBlaster Live!, /dev/audio, and bad sound quality

2002-03-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: Greetings, all. New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module. Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP. In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I also use SquirrelMail on both woody and potato machines. I skipped the .debs this time and installed directly. Works great and haven't had a single problem yet. I'm looking at the SquirrelMail web site, and I can't see that the MessageList

Re: procmail. query use of trailing :

2002-02-27 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: Hi, Why should i, or why should I not, use the trailing : in the first line of a procmail recipe? I know this is to do with a lockfile, but do not understand the whys and wherefores of same. :0: * ^TOscuba scubafile :0 * ^From.*peter *

Re: NVIDIA driver

2002-02-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Also make sure you comment out the Load dri and Load GLCore lines. There wasn't one in my XF86Config. For starters, you can check that the driver is there. If the nvidia-glx package (the one you built) is installed, you can use dpkg -L

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memtest86

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the console, the login prompt came back without

Re: IP Chains question

2002-02-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, David Gardi wrote: I've just switched to 2.4.x on my laptop, and it was painless. I'm about to do the same on a desktop that runs a firewall using my old original ipfwadm rules, which are magically translated by debian (potato/2.2.x) into (i think) ipchains. Is

Re: IP Chains question

2002-01-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:08:45 -0500 (EST), Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set up a firewall using ipchains and the bridge patch (bridgein) under potato (2.2.19). The one snag I had was although the firewall works well only

Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
Well, I'm going to say 2.4.17 anyway... Yesterday, I compiled a 2.4 kernel for the first time. I went for 2.4.16 because I thought it was better for vmware. It failed to compile even before I got to the pcmcia source. The message wasn't exactly what you got; it was from the linker. Unresolved

Debian uses gcc272 for kernel; conflicts with NVidia-kernel-src

2002-01-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
When I build my kernel 2.2.19 (using make-kpkg), the gcc version is forced to gcc272. Installing and building the NVidia drivers (sid 2313), it forces you to use the same gcc version. But then the compile fails. I'm forced to build my kernel with 2.95.4. Is this a bug or what? gcc272 -c -Wall

Re: Debian uses gcc272 for kernel; conflicts with NVidia-kernel-src

2002-01-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, nate wrote: quote who=Rick Macdonald When I build my kernel 2.2.19 (using make-kpkg), the gcc version is forced to gcc272. you don't mention whether or not forcing gcc to 2.7.2 is intentional or not. 2.95.x is probably the best compiler for 2.2.19. i have several

Re: Kernels - The Debian Way

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Romain Lerallut wrote: Thus spake Keith O'Connell on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:34:08AM +: Yes you did, and that was the post that sent me (as a newbie) into dselect looking for newbiedoc but it isn't there. Some of the followup posts make me see that is must be part

SOLVED: Re: Can't get DPMS to work with woody/sid

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote: Ever since I upgraded to woody many many months ago (on two different machines) DPMS no longer powers off my monitors. I just can't figure it out. xscreensaver blanks the screen but it never goes

Re: What is option -P to smbclient?

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote: In trying to print to a printer hanging off a Windows box, I find that the smbprint script has this line: echo print - cat ) | smbclient $server\\$service -U $password -N -P $logfile I have been unable to find any

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Kent - I may have had a similar problem such as the cat errors and stair-stepping. At one time I think I found that it was the last line of the magicfilter driver (the default) that was the problem (when printing plain text). I think I found that I could cat a file directly to smbclient using

Re: make-kpkg exists, right?

2002-01-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:23:43PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | Right now my system is half-working and is a combination of potato and | woody. I am trying to compile a new kernel after having a number of problems | with my system. The instructions for

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