On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this?
i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot,
runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it.
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:13:21PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Has anyone used the Epson 1650 flatbed scanner via USB successfully on
> Linux?
I've used an Epson 640U in the past. Have a look at
http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/faq.html
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e same card.
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ssage) and cancel
any that you don't want delivered any more. The command is:
exim -Mg 15sIjN-0005OC-00
(just the message ID - leave off the -H or -D). You'll get an e-mail saying
the message was cancelled.
HTH.
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resent).
Try using es1371 instead. I have about five of these cards running
under Debian, Red Hat, Slackware and Mandrake and all run fine with
es1371.
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:13:43AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> It's very easy to forge From-addresses in email, that's what the line
>
>Sender = "Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
>
> in your ~/.muttrc files tell mutt to do. Most MUA (m
I was looking at the Debian mailing list archives
for some info this morning and came across one
of my old postings. The headers read as under:
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: exim problem - rejecting senders
From: Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:15:36
ist
As root run
apt-get update
apt-get install task-kde
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e wheel.
add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto
then, as root, run:
apt-get update
apt-get install task-kde
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s own PC can be construed as an offence.
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and then running
#apt-get update
#apt-get install task-kde
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filter
> $ apt-get install mailfilter
>
> ...prolly the latter, though I use the former.
Thanks very much for this info - I found a very useful program
called popcheck at the same site which houses the spamfilter
program.
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I have one box which runs Win2000/Red Hat6.1/Red Hat 7.1 without
any problem as far as the booting goes - I use LILO.
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n use apt-setup.
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ing stuff from the juniper suite - like
smtpfwd?
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t the line, the mail from
these two addresses came through.
It mystifies me. Has anyone on the list experienced anything
similar?
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few days
back by Joachim Trinkwitz. Have a look in the archives of Sept 25.
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:56:44PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> Hey i was curious where this book by Bill McCarty online. I would love to
> read it.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html
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7;s wrong. How is the
> image not defined? What's wrong?
Install lilo on the mbr of hda. What's on that disk?
What's on hdb? Post it here and I'll give you a config
that should work.
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ill McCarty's book on Debian (still online, free) is, IMHO, still the best
guide
for new users.
Marcel Gagne has recently released a book on system administration - he writes
very
simple and engaging columns for Linux Journal. His stuff is a bit rpm-oriented
but he does offer instructions for other distributions as well.
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s a nice GUI
for stuff like setting up ppp, dns, dhcp etc. It could be a good
start for someone who knows little about using Linux as a firewall.
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or, I tried to log in when I had assumed root status.
At that time I got this message, realised what I was doing
and exited root status.
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7;s username is sydney, then
the file has to be in /home/sydney/
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ally. It looks like this:
#exec /usr/bin/enlightenment
#wmaker
#blackbox
icewm
#afterstep
#scwm
#startkde
#twm
As is evident, I am using the ice window manager. If I want
to change window managers, I comment out icewm and uncomment
one of the others.
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qstring_to_xtp result code -2
Unhandled exception:
ORACLE_HOME environment variable not set
qstring_to_xtp result code -2
It runs fine on Red Hat 6.1, though.
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.microsoft.com
>
> Heh. I wonder if nimda actually responds to redirects.
>
> -=greg
Looking at my logs, it seems to work:
GET /cmd.dll HTTP/1.0" 302
GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 302
Same Apache redirect response as for /default.ida
and
correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its
> responsibility to follow it, unless it's using a toolkit that does so
> automatically.
>
> Code Red, for instance, wouldn't follow redirects.
try calling default.ida from my server --
http://www.gnubies.com/default.ida
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Nicholas Petreley had this suggestion for redirecting
nimda probes using Apache:
RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com
Of course, one can choose to redirect the request anywhere.
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che logs into something
> IM> useful...
>
> I prefer "webalizer"
>
> http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
i've used analog for some time; it's very fast and can be configured
to analyse your data in many different ways. the web site is at
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/
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x27;ve been using junkbuster for some time now
and it is extremely effective. you can apt-get it,
get a good acl file and edit your config file. there is a
good link from the junkbuster site to some ACLs - the site
is junkbuster.com, btw.
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ine drops.
/resolv.conf contains only the name of your nameservers - not much
involved in inputting that manually. same goes for the hosts files.
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but nothing on blocking email from a particular user.
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periodically delete itself.
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ave used FAT32, then you can use lilo
as you would for earlier avatars of Windoze.
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, the only thing
you can do is to go out and buy a full modem.
sam
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, try booting from your debian
bootdisks and running lilo after you have accessed your
debian system.
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potato. thought
i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i
thought of 2.4.
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nameserver.
i would appreciate some feedback on this.
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root partition
on hda3)
prompt
boot=/dev/hda
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=50
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
image=/vmlinuz
label=l
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
other=/dev/hda1
label=w
table=/dev/hda
btw, please don't send copies to me; i am subscribed to the list.
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nt still figured out the problem.
did you format your win2k partition as fat32 or ntfs?
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make isapnp run
> at startup?
>
> Art
you can try using alsa.
www.alsa-project.org
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pmfirewall.
http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/
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ed boot floppy (yea, i'm
> pretty new to this myself) but it doesn't sound like you have a big problem
> with re-installing sooo, you might try that, and removing xdm from runlevel 2
> right from the start.
to go into single user mode, type linux 1
at the LILO prompt.
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e
random 2 to 8 in every excel spreadsheet on a pc... and then
propagated itself quietly.
when would we hear about it? when some financial giant
went bankrupt...
sobering thought, indeed.
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htmare.
> BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge...
> even more so than oldies I'd say : )
can you tell me how you upgrade slackware? how did you upgrade
from 7.1 to 8.0?
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exim.conf first.
> My advice: locate and examine some sample .forward files. Many have
> recently been posted to this list, some are in /usr/doc/exim and/or
> /usr/doc/mutt, etc.
seems a sensible way to approach it. having almost come to
grief after trying to use fetchmail, your advice a
ared to set up everything without trouble.
>
> 2) Used pon to connect, modem dials, tries to authenticate, fails and hangs
> up.
do you know whether your ISP uses CHAP or PAP to authenticate?
does your account have a dynamic IP or a static IP?
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Do you have any suggestions as to how to make them more self-evident?
>
> Sam Varghese writes:
> > are you trying to be a smartass?
>
> I'm trying to ask for suggestions on improvements
mho, is a beast of burden. You probably get the point.
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:50:19PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Sam Varghese writes:
> > use pppconfig (as root) to connect...
>
> More precisely, use pppconfig to configure and pon to connect (and poff to
> disconnect).
>
> > ...follow the prompts all of which are f
re this modem.
use pppconfig (as root) to connect, follow the
prompts all of which are fairly self-evident.
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do funny
> things in vim via tera term. I figure I need to change the key mappings in
> tera term, and I know how to do that, but they seem to be mapped ok
> already... help?
use putty - it's the best ssh client for windoze.
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gt;
> All I want to know is what modules to select at install time for the
> sound card to run properly. Any one used this board/sound chip and give
> me the best answer?
>
you can try es1370 or es1371. i have used either of
these with creative clones.
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ubscribe. don't abuse
people on the list, they have nothing to do with it.
i trust this is clear.
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:55:23AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> If you're not averse to running a legacy MS Windows OS, Lin4Win provides
> more compatibility than WINE for Win9x series applications.
shouldn't that be win4lin?
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fied as per the exim documentation
at www.exim.org
since it doesn't work, i must be doing something wrong. this
box uses potato with a 2.2.19 kernel.
could someone enlighten me?
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experience, smaller wd drives are particularly prone to failure.
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d run
apt-get update
apt-get install task-kde
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p_to syntax doesn't appear to apply to the version of
mutt you are using (1.2.5i). i use the same version.
my muttrc has this line for the list:
subscribe debian
and that's all. it works fine.
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ll start up. the same for
icewm - no exec icewm, just plain icewm.
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tried running potato with XFree86 4 from testing and what gotchas
are there?
Alternatively, am I better off just upgrading to testing/unstable?
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poff to cut the connection.
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ome slow until the cache builds up again.
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to
> the original sender (or whoever is in the Reply-To: header if a
> mailling list munges it) and "g" replies to all people in the To: and
> Cc: headers (maybe Mail-followup-to: also).
Thanks very much for that - saves me a lot of typing. Now
I only need to figure out how to get my mail sorted into
folders on arrival.
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too, if it matters...)
>
> If I got it right, it should be sufficient to invoke
>
> 'insmod rtl8139.o', and
> 'ifconfig up eth0'
try using the ne2k-pci module instead.
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your sources.list and install a set of packages
which you want. then update them using ftp
after that, comment out the lines in sources.list,
type apt-setup and create a sources.list with
download sites. run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.
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on using ip masquerading?
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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:54:22AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> | my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation
> | as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which
> | i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varghese
com/mailing-lists/
and take your pick.
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i have a problem with mutt (yes, another one) for
which i would value some advice.
my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation
as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which
i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
appears. why, is my question.
w to handle TWM to go back to gnome.
> plz. reply soon.--thanx jocky.
you can make a file called .xinitrc in your
home directory and have one line in it:
twm
save it and run startx. that should logically
start up twm.
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dev/hda1
label=w
table=/dev/hda
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:02:48AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote:
> > i managed to get two 20" monitors today - but
> > both are fixed frequency.
> > does anyone have any experience in getting a
> > monitor of this kind to work with
i managed to get two 20" monitors today - but
both are fixed frequency.
does anyone have any experience in getting a
monitor of this kind to work with linux?
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or this?
All releases of Debian are named after characters from Toy Story.
Potato is Mr Potatohead. The earlier release @.1) was named Slink,
the previous one Hamm etc. The forthcoming one (3.0) is Woody and
the one after that Sid.
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thing,
> you lose a bit of that stability.
That's a good point, Joost. But newbies will always have that
little hangover from their Windoze days when they tweaked something
every morning, noon and night. C'mon, this need for tweaking in
Windoze is a bloody industry :-)
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the server
using Sylpheed (which I don't use anymore). I am
now looking for a way that she can read the mail
herself - all of it is from mailing lists on
Maltese terriers, her one interest.
Any help would be gratefully accepted. I have tried
Netscape with no success.
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as it seems to fit my
> needs the best.
can't help you there. i haven'd dallied with anything other than exim -
it does the smtp bit from my own workstation and handles mail on my server.
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t to
4.77, that stopped. i use icewm and ximian, the latter at times when i'm
feeling like inflicting some punishment on myself.
can't say about your problem with opera because i've just started
using it recently and it runs without a problem. btw, i'm
running potato.
rs. Nothing like a genuine
SCSI for robustness. I use xcdroast as a GUI frontend.
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er one line - gnome-session
Then when you type startx after logging at the command line,
your X should start.
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l be grateful
to yourself later on.
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ings like that
> will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely,
> because then I'll lose the task- package that gave it to me in the first
> place.
Rough and ready method no 667:
find the script in /etc/init.d/ and just add
exit 0
at the top.
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matically so that from the user's point of view nothing will
> have changed.
I sent them a request for non-commercial use about three weeks
back but apart from an acknowledgement (automated, with a reference
number) I haven't heard a thing.
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e; for that, refer to the exim documentation
at www.exim.org)
Then create this file (hosts) in /etc/block/mail (you
can create it in any other location, change the
path accordingly. I chose this because it was listed as
the default).
It works for me. YMMV.
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has anyone had a go with the new beta of
evolution? i got it down last night but
it seems to have a most peculiar bug - you
can't reply to any mail which you receive!
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box
> connected to the world with a cable modem connected to eth0.
>
> Are there any docs for the simple minded? I've searched on Google and
> have found a lot of examples pertaining to forwarding.
Have a look at
http://logi.cc/linux/ipchainsLogAnalyzer.php3
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entation.
For a raw newbie, Bill McCarty's book is still pretty good even though
it was written for Slink. And then there's tons of documentation on the
Net plus a very active user community.
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ere a nice, easy (secure!) web interface for an IMAP store
> that can be dropped in easily?
Webmin.
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tation: runs exim
>exim sends any non-local to Server, using it as a relay
>exim does address-rewriting, using /etc/email-addresses
I have a simple question here - if you are able to block mail at the
server level, why do you need to again block stuff from your workstation?
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had success with Star Scheduler
(part of Star Office but seems to come only with the official
pack, not as part of the download edition - I may be wrong)
but that means running X on the server.
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r server,
then you can try e-smith.
Then there is groupware like worldpilot for ZOPE.
I haven't used any of them except the web mail feature which is
part of the e-smith distribution.
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onfig file /etc/X11/Xf86Config
> crated.
If you have run XF86Setup or xf86config and entered the
correct details about your monitor, video card etc,
all you have to do is typ startx and X should start.
If not, you need to run one of these set-up programs
and configure X. You have to do this as r
on the web does not do
what it is supposed to. i use mutt to download
and read my mail with exim doing the smtp bit.
i wanted to automate the mail checks but the
syntax set pop_checkinterval=60 doesn't appear
to be valid.
i am using version 1.2.5i on potato.
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windows have gone. One thing - Ximian is too much of a drain on
RAM to run on anything but a real top-end box.
Thanks for the help.
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840
> series PentiumII 266Mhz, with Acer 54e 15" color
> monitor.Thanks for your help.
Could you be a bit more specific on what you have tried?
I'm sure several people could offer help but they'd probably
need to know the disease before recommending medicine.
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sible location and cannot source
the root of the problem.
I have downloaded all the recent Ximian patches as well
but none of them seems to fix what is a very irritating
problem.
In the meantime, I have switched to icewm to retain my sanity.
Any hints from the assembled on this problem?
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Sam Varghese muttered:
> > The best resource for new users IMHO is Bill McCarty's
> > book which is online at:
> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html
Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Thanks, Sam! I'm quickly becoming an Oreilly addict, didn'
ng up with apt. And I had a fair
degree of proficiency in installing plenty of other Linuxes,
including Slackware, at that point in time.
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her soporific, to put it
mildly.
I'll experiment with my muttrc over the weekend and report back.
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