On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> ...
> > I have all services locked down to localhost; my only connections to
> > the outside world are mail, news via nntpcached, web via squid... I run
> > Apache but it to
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:24:17PM +1100, John wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just started looking for a new laptop courtesy of the logic board on my ibook
> dying and being hit for a Aust $935 bill for a new one. I have been looking at the
> Lindows Mobile PC which I could get for Aust $1165 from sub3
Hi Debianistas,
I'm trying to setup 2 monitors.
one is a isa t9680 (cirrus logic) - max 800x640 8bit
and the other is a ati 1024x768 16 bit.
I had the ati working and then I added the isa card. Ever since then, the isa is the
only one recognized.
I did a X -configure but it did not work 100% alt
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for PowerPC,
> but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port.
>
> I have /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 (first SCSI CD drive). The
> permissions for /dev
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive)
> 5 => swap (256 megs)
> 6 => /var (256 megs)
> 7 => /misc (the rest of the harddrive)
>
> After a virgin install, I log on as root and...
>
> mv /home /misc/home
> ln -s /mi
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text
> > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll
> > off the screen.
>
> just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues
> >>unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use
> >>"pon dsl-p
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all a little background:
> To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then
I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ]
nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors).
This is a kno
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:16:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or
> > whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled.
Tru enough, there was some info but it was scattered. I pers
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Dan Davison wrote:
>
> Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing
> options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below.
> Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only
> other thing I've tried is
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, tripolar wrote:
> while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it
> came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt
> notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line
> blank thinking when i
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I plan to send copies of the body of this message to the presidents of
> Systemax and Tiger Direct, my senators, my congressmen and any one else
> who might have influence. I am postint it here for suggestions for
> addresses. The body is as follo
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:18:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd
> > normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead)
> > and run 'passwd root'.
>
> I found t
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian
> > > form a directed graph. Presumably, it is acyclic. T
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> csj wrote:
> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> > describe below.
> >
> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
> >
> > $ g
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya marco
>
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote:
> > > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is
> > > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> I installed a dict front end (ding) and somehow inadvertently
> configured it for "" as background color. I can't figure out in the
> startup script how to correct that, and so decided simply to reinstall
> ding.
>
> I ran: aptitude purge ding, and the
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, wil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:(
>
> Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system.
> HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including
> surface (advanced) check and was fine.
>
> Did an update via d
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine
> > > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or securit
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Rob Weir wrote:
> > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src"
> > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only
> > >an opti
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Rob Weir wrote:
> > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src"
> > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only
> > >an opti
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned:
> >
> > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the
> > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of
> > data and making a chart. But nobody uses Micr
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Is there a way to use the fetchyahoo program with maildirs?
> It seems that using the pipe option to exim or sendmail may work but I
> wasn't sure.
>
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> >
> > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine
> > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted
> > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding.
> >
>
> Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have
> OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I
> understand what you mena by "They use the space bar and not the tab". In
> Windows I had everything in just one fil
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Andy Firman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was
> surprised to see that there is now a choice between
> RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and
> found this post by the Debian project leader:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/deb
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told
> me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to
> the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly
> a developers list ... so here it
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned:
> > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an
> > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion
> > is better than forgetting you're root and d
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set
> up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or
> gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing
> hotplug, follow
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Johann Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 18:32
> Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)
> I will keep your email for the time when and if I am able to get w
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> > each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to
> > authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user
> > does.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
>
> > so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your
> >
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let
> > me know how I can make it so.)
>
> My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before,
> and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgott
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> first time I hear from mini-install iso's. Great idea! Don't
> know who is responsible for this (searched for netinst in the packages
> but couldn't find anything) but would it be pos
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> Hi.
> How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition?
> This is the final step for moving completely from windows to linux! yay!
> Thanks
> -- Fred
>
>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the sheer
> > size of HP suggest one of these support schemes may be un-autorized
> > by HP's corporate board. They might wan
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Tuesday October 28 at 04:54pm
> Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 14:48]:
> > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> >
> > > > Speaking for myself only. I have to mak
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the
> >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT
> >> would be entirely corre
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have
> the Acrobat Reader program;
---right.
In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs
> 600 euros.
expected.
> Email the file to me, if you like -- I'll convert it for you on my
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> > >
> > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on
> > > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to
> > > use Pathetic Wri
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I mentioned something a few days ago. You need to redirect your mail flow.
> > normally you mail does this:
> > pop3 server -> evo
> > if you want to use spamasssin you need to make evo read mail
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> Having installed Debian on a mate's PC, his kids are complaining
> because they can't get onto MSN Messenger...
>
> The kids have given me a username eg. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and a
> password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim,
> kmerlin
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC.
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: Transmit timed out, status , PHY status 786d, reset
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Paul William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome "your program has crashed" dialog
> keeps popping up.
>
> I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely
> with Linux.
>
> What should I do?
Hi Paul,
use coldsync.
-Kev
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly.
> > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I
> > don't want people
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I have seen recently one suggestion on how to integrate Mozilla Mail
> with spamassassin; I was wondering if there is a way to do the same with
> evolution.
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
> Riccardo
> --
H
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
>
> I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
> didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
> work--sort of.
>
> When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get i
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Simon Tod wrote:
> After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to
> dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work
> fine but my debian_version is still reported as
> testing/unstable.
you are correct. knoppix is a combination of some testing and some
unstable packa
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >My Zire 71 was not detected by a 2.4.18 kernel (the latest is OK), so I had
> >to had this in /etc/modules (try to change the value):
> >
> >usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x60
>
> Thanks, all that I h
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in
> > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>I have a win2k box set to do ICS and dial on demand (not the question) -
> 192.168.0.1
>
> I have my Debian laptop attached to this eth0 192.618.0.10. They share
> files via samba. But, I'd like to be able to set Debian so that it uses
> 19
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, stan wrote:
> I'm putting an older machine back in service. I'm having a problem with the
> framebuffer. I see teh penguin on startup, so frambuffer is starting, but
> when I try to use, say fbi (and other framebuffer apps), I get:
>
> can handle only packed pixel frame buff
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, David Palmer. wrote:
> > --
> > David Jardine
> >
> The way I see it is that with all the separate componentry available
> with Debian, you can configure for any eventuality according to the
> individual need, whether that be for high volumn or otherwise. Standard
> config
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Marco Bagni wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> before submitting this request of help I have been looking around quite
> a while in my system and in the user groups without success.
>
> My problem is the following, I run a Debian system aligned with the
> latest testing distribution and
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little
> basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which
> I operate at this point from console.
>
> 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in
>
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> I have changed from Windows 2000 to Linux because of the viruses.
Good move.
Iam
> very happy now because Linux is much safer and much more stable.However, I
> have a problem: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic
> transcription
Is the file in
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I asked Earthlink to check for virii [oh the flames] and they said it
> > would be an invasion of my privacy but spam they can che
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik wrote:
> > Is there something I can do to block this stuff with an on-line mail
> > account?
>
> Demand they reject viruses at SMTP time or take yo
On 24 Oct 2003, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-10-24 um 16.24 schrieb Vivek Kumar:
> > Hi there,
>
> D/L a Debian netinst CD (50-100MB) and boot up the new system with it.
> The default kernel on the CD should be compiled for 386 so it'll boot up
> *any* CPU. Mount the old drives manual
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I cannot get my modem to work properly, can you help?
>
> LaBelle
>
Hi 'Belle,
what have you tried? What is the model of your system?
what is the result of lspci?
what is shown in dmesg? in /var/log/messages?
-Kev
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up
> some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux
> backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on.
>
> So I'd prefer that back
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, trevor brooks wrote:
>
>
> Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. We
> have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know
> where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the do
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote:
> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered
> that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because
> it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have
> copied these files (found by ldd
y
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered
> > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because
> > it requires
Hi Debianista,
I've come across a challange. Install on a laptop with no floppy, no
cdrom, an ethernet port and bootp/dhcp.
Does anyone know an links to docs on this kind of install?
TIA
-Kevin
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:46:19PM +0200, Martin Wegmann said
> > hello,
> >
> > I have some dependency problems - broken packages and tried to fix them with
> >
> > apt-get -f install/remove
> >
> > but that does not work, any advice how to proceed? using
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:
> hi there
>
> even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my
> ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier
> installations, i am asking for hints.
>
> through /etc/modules i successfully load this:
> s
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Thanks much for writing this up.
>
> One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
> applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
> of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in us
HI B,
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to
> do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on.
> There are a couple of methods like:
>
> 1. Making a group, put the user in that g
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Marlin Unruh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial
> track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The
> track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse.
>
> Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file?
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> every now and then I install Debian on new ix86 machines (Dell PowerEdge).
> They often have hardware which is not yet supported by the kernels of the
> official stable Debian release 3.0r1. So far I was using an unofficial
> "stable" netinst
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned:
> >
> >> These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that
> >> the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also
> >> on your network, so that would diffe
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I did not know about the '+' option. That is nice.
>
> > Now once that is done, you need to determine what to do with the 4
> > mail types: inline forward, attachment forward, inl
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do
> 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously).
> 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you
> selected.
>
> Cheers,
Hi Colin and
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote:
> > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a
> > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> stan wrote:
> > How cna I do this?
> >
> > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating
> > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance.
> >
> > Will this ne a problem?
> >
>
> On source machine:
>
> dpkg --get-s
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect
> > > data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) t
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect
> data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the
> data to some location every so often.
>
> Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an
> onli
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
> I administer 3 email servers which use spamassassin. We are testing
> the service with about 110 users whose email are scanned by SA.
>
> My arrangement with them is to send me either spam that scored too low
> or false positives as attachments with ei
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:04:01AM +, Adam wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:00, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > > find -type f | xargs chmod 0644
> >
> > I would have come up with
> >
> > find PATH -type f -exec chmod 0644 '{}' ';'
> >
> > Is the ver
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, cr wrote:
> Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install
> CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)?
if the kernel-image package is in your /etc/sources.list then just
apt-get it.
Althought, I would read this first
(http://newbiedo
On 6 Oct 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote:
>
> The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its
> policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the
> following packages:
>
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@)
> kernel-source-2.4.22
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Stuart Robinson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?)
> Sorry.
>
> Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I
> suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would
> prefer
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Tyler Morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently surmounted an odd problem involving Apache 1.3.27.0-2
> on Debian testing/unstable (with a 2.4.22 kernel) and thought it may be
> worthwhile to explain what happened to a group of people who might care,
> in hopes that others find
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
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> On Monday 06 October 2003 01:16 am, Marshal Wong wrote:
> > Check if /proc/bus/usb is mounted. That maybe where KDE info center
> > gets its information. (I don't use KDE, so I can't really help y
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
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> On Monday 06 October 2003 12:12 am, Marshal Wong wrote:
> > First off, did you recompile the kernel or are you using a stock
> > kernel? Did you load the usb modules?
> >
> > I don't know how well
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, John Carline wrote:
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>
> Pascal Hakim wrote:
>
> >You're in luck... I wrote a bit of code last night to keep a copy
> >of the last bounce message we've received from all addresses.
> >
> >
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host relay1.kubtelecom.ru[213.132.64.82] said: 554
> >Mess
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
> > There are those collections of Microsoft-Fonts around. Do we have a
> > package in Debian ? I tried apt-cache, but no success.$
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> Make sure you have included the contrib repositories and:
>
> apt-get install msttc
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I make procmail sort out the debian user list?
> I've tried:
>
> #Debian user
> :0
> * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> debian
>
> But it doesn't work.
Hi Anjun,
this procmailrc contains a few helpful options. A logfile, a default
mailbox and a backup
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> Hi.
> I tried to uninstall exim, which led me to a question... why does
> KDE depend on KMail? Isnt KDE a Desktop Environment and KMail a mail
> client/service?
> -- Fred
Hi Fred,
Kde 'desktop' requires kde 'libraries'. You
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote:
> Thanks Kev. Your help is truly appreciated. I had
> "read" right through that info earlier. It didn't make
> sense though becuase I wasn't getting anything like
> what was described in the doc. It wouldn't have been a
> problem on my main PC. That's
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Christian Borchmann wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> What right have i to give to the .procmailrc file?
>
chmod 644 .procmailrc
chown spitfire:spitfire .procmailrc
this is how mine is set.
-kev
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> Given that I live alone with a cat, I still lock my desktop when I walk
> away for any length of time, set xscreensaver to cut in (and lock)
> anyway, and require a password for 'sudo' on my personal account.
>
Hi Karsten,
you must have one smart cat
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote:
> Thanks Jan. I am grateful for your help. My problem
> is, however, that I'm trying to install. I have to
> have the card working before I can even install
> Debian. Oh me. Such troubles. I'm not sure how to get
> the pcmcia module loaded for the ins
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Neo wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:34, Jason Housewright wrote:
> > I am in dire need of help...again. I have dl the
> > netinst image from debian (the official for test). I
> > cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to
> > recognize my pcmcia ethernet card. I
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Dan Hunt wrote:
> Ever do something careless and not know how to fix it?
>
> Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in
> /var/cache/apt/archives . Problem was I deleted the everything
> up to /var/cache/apt/
> ( Why? The old .deb files are not being deleted
>
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote:
> Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing
> with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't
> it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this
> next question...
>
> Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more
> freedom regar
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>
> I think that a lot of users tend to switch to using root because they
> cannot achieve simple tasks with their "normal" user. For instance
> writing cd's. It would help if there is a doc that explains how users
> can best set up their system to a
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:37, Tom Allison wrote:
> > does Debian have package development for the new AMD 64-bit processor?
>
> It's a work-in-progress, targeting sarge. There's a mailing list,
> if you're interested.
Amd recently came to my LUG and expl
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Haralambos wrote:
>
> Hi yall,
>
> I am having issues with apt, as per the above subject.
>
> "apt-get -f install" does not clean up this wee mess.
>
> Um, a quick search via google was of no joy, except to point out that
> this does occur once in a bit.
Hi H,
It is best if
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