Re: is there a program that can read dBaseIII files?

[Mark L. Kahnt]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 02:04, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
> 
> i am stuck for good! and i have already done apt-cache search - no use.
> 
> i need to open a dBaseIII file and convert it into any other more
> sensible format - xls, inclusive.
> 
> is there a program that can handle dBaseIII files?
> 
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[kahnt] {kahnt@hosehead} : Wed Jan 15 bash(22) # apt-cache search dbase
dbview - View dBase III files
libxbase2.0-0 - xbase compatible C++ class library
libxdb - xbase compatible C++ class library
postgresql-contrib - Additional facilities for PostgreSQL
php4-dbase - dBase module for php4

Beyond that, OpenOffice.org and Gnumeric both handle it fine, as well,
and both can save to xls (although when you can work with the files in
either on Linux, why bother with Excessel?)
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web hosting file management tools

[Haim Ashkenazi]

Hi

I'm looking for tools to let users manage their own files in our apache
server, instead of ftp/sftp. preferably by assigning user/pass to a
directory (so they won't be able even to see sites owned by others.

any suggestions?

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Re: ISO image

[Paul Johnson]

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> What are bin and cue images?  In this context, I though that ".bin"
> was just another way of naming files, since ".iso" is only a
> convention, not a mandate.

.bin and .cue files are basically the image without a TOC and a 
seperate file containing the TOC, as is my understanding.  I'm not 
entirely sure.
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Re: Apt-get funkitude

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:17:07PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I would guess that it's due to nautilus's build-dep on libfam-dev (which
> has been compiled with g++-3.2 in unstable), and some other build-dep
> that depends on the non-g++-3.2 version of libfam.  Thus, the build
> dependencies cannot be resolved.

That's...bizarre.  Why would it be depending on something not
available in Debian?

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目錄更新

[ken]

how to set my email address on outgoing mail?

[Adam]

On my ISP shell account I can  set my email address in Emacs when using 
RMAIL but this doesn't work on my Debian box, is this exim's doing?

Adam
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How to set colors of ls listings?

[Adam]

I have changed the background color of my gnome-terminals and now the 
colorized text from ls is ugly and hard to read.  How can I change these 
colors?

Thanks,
Adam



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RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

[Joris Huizer]

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> 
> Sorry about the previous post w/o RE line
> 
> Get kernel-source package of your choice and compile
> your own kernel.
> 
> If you can compile the driver module as you are
> trying to do, then you can compile your own kernel.
> 
> 
> Davor
> 
> 
> 

Is that necessary - I mean, will debian have probs if
I don't? 
I ask because I tried some time ago but I gave up
because I got loads questions - and hard questions I
didn't really know the correct answers of (much
hardware info and stuff) - maybe I tried the wrong
command so if there is a way to make it just compile
by detecting system info automatically without so many
questions - then I can try allright

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Re: web hosting file management tools

[Johann Spies]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:09:35AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm looking for tools to let users manage their own files in our apache
> server, instead of ftp/sftp. preferably by assigning user/pass to a
> directory (so they won't be able even to see sites owned by others.
> 
> any suggestions?

If I may I want to expand the question a little bit:

What policy do experienced administrators on this list have around
this issue?

I ask because as an inexperienced administrator I had to make
decisions about this: Recently two clients asked for the php
configuration to allow uploads by users.  So far I have refused to do
it and reconfigured apache to use suexec in stead.

Regards.
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Horde 2 configuration pb

[Francois Chenais]

Hello, 

I have this error while installing horde2
Any idea ?



 dpkg-reconfigure horde2
 sed: -e expression #1, char 158: Unknown option to 's'


François


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never mind last 2 questions

[Adam Kao]

I got my last two questions answered on IRC.

Thanks,
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Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

[Rial Juan]

You must put the color config in a file, eg: /etc/DIR_COLORS (that's an
example of where they could reside; a shell server where I have access
puts them there). Then you need to make sure that on every login you run
the dircolors command with that file as an argument, like this:
`dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS` (replace -b with -c if you're using csh
or a variation instead of bash or sh). Making it run at every login can
be achieved by putting that line in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent shell
rc-file.

As an example I attached the DIR_COLORS file from that shell server
since I have no idea if there's actualy a debian package that provides
this config file in any way...

"dircolors" is provided in coreutils, so you'll already have it
installed.

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 09:55, Adam wrote:
> I have changed the background color of my gnome-terminals and now the 
> colorized text from ls is ugly and hard to read.  How can I change these 
> colors?
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
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# Configuration file for the color ls utility
# This file goes in the /etc directory, and must be world readable.
# You can copy this file to .dir_colors in your $HOME directory to override
# the system defaults.

# COLOR needs one of these arguments: 'tty' colorizes output to ttys, but not
# pipes. 'all' adds color characters to all output. 'none' shuts colorization
# off.
COLOR tty

# Extra command line options for ls go here.
# Basically these ones are:
#  -F = show '/' for dirs, '*' for executables, etc.
#  -T 0 = don't trust tab spacing when formatting ls output.
OPTIONS -F -T 0

# Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable
TERM linux
TERM console
TERM con132x25
TERM con132x30
TERM con132x43
TERM con132x60
TERM con80x25
TERM con80x28
TERM con80x30
TERM con80x43
TERM con80x50
TERM con80x60
TERM cons25
TERM xterm
TERM rxvt
TERM xterm-color
TERM color-xterm
TERM vt100
TERM dtterm
TERM color_xterm

# EIGHTBIT, followed by '1' for on, '0' for off. (8-bit output)
EIGHTBIT 1

# Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
# string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
# Attribute codes: 
# 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
# Text color codes:
# 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
# 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
NORMAL 00   # global default, although everything should be something.
FILE 00 # normal file
DIR 01;34   # directory
LINK 01;36  # symbolic link
FIFO 40;33  # pipe
SOCK 01;35  # socket
BLK 40;33;01# block device driver
CHR 40;33;01# character device driver
ORPHAN 01;05;37;41  # orphaned syminks
MISSING 01;05;37;41 # ... and the files they point to

# This is for files with execute permission:
EXEC 01;32 

# List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
# to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
# (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
.exe 01;32
.com 01;32
.btm 01;32
.bat 01;32
.sh  01;32
.csh 01;32
.tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
.tgz 01;31
.arj 01;31
.taz 01;31
.lzh 01;31
.zip 01;31
.z   01;31
.Z   01;31
.gz  01;31
.bz2 01;31
.bz  01;31
.tz  01;31
.rpm 01;31
.cpio 01;31
.jpg 01;35 # image formats
.gif 01;35
.bmp 01;35
.xbm 01;35
.xpm 01;35
.png 01;35
.tif 01;35

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

[Aryan Ameri]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 04:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN:
>
> 1.) What program can I use as an alternative to MSN messenger? I know there
> was something called everybuddy (Is that what I should apt-get?).

everybuddy does the job, but I prefer gaim. If you are a kde user, you can 
also try kopete, although it's beta yet.

gaim and everbuddy are apt-getable


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Re: nagios usable?

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:04:39AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>   Nagios plugins have not had a stable release yet so the
> maintainer is holding off on packaging them however the Netsaint plugins
> still work with Nagios... 
> 

If I try to install them, apt-get wants to remove nagios.

I made a debian package from an nagios-plugins rpm I got somewhere and
installed it, but apparently Debian's configuration for the plugins
are not standard: In /etc/nagios/command.cfg I read "Debian doesn't
use this file by default" and then it refers to an empty directory
/usr/share/netsaint/pluginconfig and a program update-netsaint (which
does not exist on the system) to enable the plugins.

It seems to me as it is on the moment the debian version of nagios is
unusable.

Regards.
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Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

[Elijah]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:55, Adam wrote:
> I have changed the background color of my gnome-terminals and now the 
> colorized text from ls is ugly and hard to read.  How can I change these 
> colors?
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam

Try settings>preferrences>colors and you can select a theme from there.
I think it's better to do 'ls --color' instead.

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RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

[Elijah]

> Is that necessary - I mean, will debian have probs if
> I don't? 
> I ask because I tried some time ago but I gave up
> because I got loads questions - and hard questions I
> didn't really know the correct answers of (much
> hardware info and stuff) - maybe I tried the wrong
> command so if there is a way to make it just compile
> by detecting system info automatically without so many
> questions - then I can try allright
> 
> Joris

Why not download from the debian site those kernel-headers,
simply unload them to the /usr/src/ directory, make a symbolic link and
it will probably compile. Works for me.



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Re: On-board lan. SOLVED (at least for ASUS mptherboards).

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:45, Janke Dávid wrote:
> At last I found out that ASUS provides a linux driver for its on-board
> broadcom lan.

Open Source or binary?

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RE: usb-scanner detected, but nothing about usb in /dev

[Janis Hagelberg]

no, usbdevfs is disabled in the kernel. it seemed very experimental, and i 
didn't read the doc.

i'll rebuild the kernel with it enabled.
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RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

[Joris Huizer]

--- Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>
> Why not download from the debian site those
> kernel-headers,
> simply unload them to the /usr/src/ directory, make
> a symbolic link and
> it will probably compile. Works for me.
>
>
>
> Elijah
>

Sorry for the confusion which might have been caused
by that message.
I did download the kernel-headers and made the
symbolic link. However, when compiling I got this
error:

ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel
size NVdriver
   textdata bss dec hex filename
 894496   55476   52396 1002368   f4b80 NVdriver
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.20/video/NVdriver
make: *** [package-install] Error 1

I checked the file /lib/modules/2.2.20/video/NVdriver
exists - so I really don't know what the error means

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Re: Apt-get funkitude

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:17:07PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > I would guess that it's due to nautilus's build-dep on libfam-dev (which
> > has been compiled with g++-3.2 in unstable), and some other build-dep
> > that depends on the non-g++-3.2 version of libfam.  Thus, the build
> > dependencies cannot be resolved.
> 
> That's...bizarre.  Why would it be depending on something not
> available in Debian?

Because there's a major transition happening at the moment and some
things inevitably get out of sync for a while.

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Re: Horde 2 configuration pb

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:15:59AM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote:
>   I have this error while installing horde2

Please give a version number. You'll probably want to file a bug report.

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Re: How does one use debugging library packages?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:24:41AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I have libgtk1.2-dbg installed; it contains /usr/lib/debug/libgtk.so and
> libgtk-1.2.so.0*, which contain debugging symbols.
> 
> I have not found a way to get these libraries used in preference to the
> standard ones in /usr/lib.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug has always worked for me.

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Re: comiling Nvidia source - still probs

[Robert Ian Smit]

* Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15-01-2003 11:12]:
> I just re-installed debian (I didn't really feel like
> working on it the hole christmas time) but I still
> don't have it working.
> 
> I've downloaded both the kernel source and the
> kernel-headers - but I can't see what to use of those
> to make this work, as none of them seems to contain
> the requested .h file ... please help!

Did you download (apt-get) the source packages for the Nvidia
driver (glx and kernel)?

Have a look at the Debian specific description of what to do in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-*.

The generic description in the Debian Reference manual wrt to
compiling kernels and packages might also be helpful.

I can't be more specific at the moment due to my limited internet
connection, but I hope it helps.

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Exim delay in accepting new mail from localhost

[Robert Ian Smit]

Due to my limited internet connection I can't peruse the Interweb at
the moment. I dial in to send and receive mail once or twice a day
until my new DSL line is active.

My mail server runs Exim in the smarthost configuration. All
non-local mail goes via my provider. Currently new message will have
to sit in the Exim queue until I manually make a connection.

When I compose and send a message in Mutt (which runs on the same
host as Exim) there is a delay of a couple of seconds before the
message is accepted by the mail server. 

I'd like Exim to accept the message first and then attempt to
deliver the message to the next hop instead of accepting the message
after the delay (time out?).

Without the proper documentation exim.conf is enough of a mystery to
me that I don't know where to look. I would be much helped if
someone would provide me with some hints.

Thanks,
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Re: email-fax gateway - need suggestions

[Richard Hector]

Apologies for not responding to the start of the thread - it had gone
before I realised I wanted to contribute ...

> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:05PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote:
> > 
> > My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a
> > an address in my office (eg "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and have that email
> > automatically faxed out.

Wouldn't it be easier, and perhaps more intuitive, to send these emails
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? That way the sender can just specify all
the recipients on the To (or CC or BCC) line in the normal way, instead
of mucking round with putting stuff in the first line of the message or
the Subject. The mailer could probably handle the LDAP lookups too, so
the address would end up as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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re: Sid upgrade pango/locale probs?

[Peter Van Der Male]

Hi all, 
just upgraded Sid, running gnome2 etc, now after the upgrade Gnome
won't start, the screen is rendered in 2 small squares of different parts
of the screen and then it exits.
The only thing I see at the console is a Gtk_WARNING about locale not
supported and there's nothing in the logs.
I did an apt-get install totem just before the upgrade and this installed
some libxft2 packages.
Anyone else seen this on Sid and know what to fix?

cheers Peter van der Male

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How does one use debugging library packages?

[Oliver Elphick]

I have libgtk1.2-dbg installed; it contains /usr/lib/debug/libgtk.so and
libgtk-1.2.so.0*, which contain debugging symbols.

I have not found a way to get these libraries used in preference to the
standard ones in /usr/lib.  I had thought of using -rpath, but gcc 3.2
does not seem to contain that option.

In the end I had to copy the debug libraries into /usr/lib.

What is the proper way to do it?

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re: Sid upgrade pango/locale probs? (fwd)

[Peter Van Der Male]

sorry please reply to my last message from this address {:)

cheers Peter vdM

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Subject: re: Sid upgrade pango/locale probs?

Hi all, 
just upgraded Sid, running gnome2 etc, now after the upgrade Gnome
won't start, the screen is rendered in 2 small squares of different parts
of the screen and then it exits.
The only thing I see at the console is a Gtk_WARNING about locale not
supported and there's nothing in the logs.
I did an apt-get install totem just before the upgrade and this installed
some libxft2 packages.
Anyone else seen this on Sid and know what to fix?

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squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

[martin f krafft]

after the upgrade to squirrelmail 1.3.2, users can't log in anymore.
all they see is the message

  ERROR
  You must be logged in to access this page.

upon entering the correct user and password. there are no bugs about
this, and i have no idea where to start the diagnosis. anyone else
come across this?

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Re: NVidia source compiling problems

[Qian Gong]

The following steps works for me smoothly and perhaps is useful to you.

download nvidia-glx-src_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb and
nvidia-kernel-src_1.0.4191-2_i386.deb from unstable
$ sudo dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-src_1.0.4191-2_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i nvidia-glx-src_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb
$ sudo su
# apt-get install debhelper modutils kernel-package 
libncurses5-dev
# apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
# vi /etc/kernel-pkg.conf
# cd /usr/src
# tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 
# tar zxvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz
# cd kernel-source-2.4.18
# cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 ./.config
# make menuconfig
Remove the Frame Buffer option which is conflict to the Nvidia driver.
Add loop back device for lvm initrd creation.
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --append_to_version -nvidia kernel_image 
modules_image
# cd ..
# dpkg -i  kernel-image-2.4.18-nvidia_1.0_i386.deb 
# dpkg -i 
nvidia-kernel-2.4.18-nvidia_1.0.4191-2+1.0_i386.deb
# cd nvidia-glx-1.0.4191
# dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
# cd ..
# apt-get install xlibmesa-dev
# dpkg -i nvidia-glx_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb
# dpkg -i nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb
# cd /etc/X11
# cp XF86Config-4 XF86Config-4.2003.1.6
# vi XF86Config-4
32c32
< # Load"GLcore" # removed by nvidia driver
---
>   Load"GLcore"
36c36
< # Load"dri"  # removed by nvidia driver
---
>   Load"dri"
78,79c78
< # Driver  "nv"
<   Driver  "nvidia"   # needed by nvidia driver
---
>   Driver  "nv"
130,132c129,131
< #Section "DRI"
< # Mode0666
< #EndSection
---
> Section "DRI"
>   Mode0666
> EndSection

If you have Athlon processor, it's better to use 2.4.20 kernel from
unstable or you need patch for kernel 2.4.18 and below. If your mainboard
is VIA chipset you should set the AGP value between 0xEA to 0xEE from
BIOS. These two points are written in the manual of the NVIDIA driver.

Good luck,

Qian
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:17:13PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Sorry - because lynx couldn't log in on yahoo.com I
> have to reboot in windows to read mail which is why I
> didn't add it before.
> 
> 
> I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both
> in /usr/src.
> I've used the following commands (as suggested by
> Ochronus somt time ago)
> 
> cd /usr/src/
> tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz 
> 
> export KSRC=/usr/src/
>  - or -
> export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/
> 
> export KVERS=2.4.18
> cd modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123
> debian/rules binary_modules
> 
> Because the kernel is pre-compiled this gives problems
> (cc mismatch) - therefor I edited the Makefile in the
> NVIDIA subdir, so it won't stop right away. Then
> when I call the 'make' prog I get this error output:
> 
> cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat
> -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith
> -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar  -O -MD -D__KERNEL__
> -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__
> -DMODULE  -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0
> -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123  -DNV_UNIX   -DNV_LINUX  
> -DNVCPU_X86   -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include
> -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
> In file included from nv.c:14:
> nv-linux.h:24: linux/modversions.h: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
> 
> How do I get around this ??
> 
> 
> --- Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Joris Huizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I've been trying to get the packages nvidia
> > GeForce 2
> > > MX video card working before before christmas but
> > I
> > > gave up then and temporarily installed the redhad
> > 8.0;
> > > :-S
> > > 
> > > Today I installed Debian woody again. And,
> > > unfortunately, I still don't see what's going on
> > and
> > > why it's not working - I installed the kernel
> > source
> > > and I point to that but the nvidia-kernel-source
> > > doesn't compile - still complaining about a
> > missing .h
> > > file :-(
> > 
> > I'm sure someone could be of a lot more assistance
> > if you posted the
> > full error message you're getting.
> > 
> > Gary
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Re: exim wierdness

[Rohan Nicholls]

I am embarassed to say that it sent me a message to mail, and I read it 
and it disappeared after that, but got results below.  I have sent more 
mails from mutt, but now they just disappear with not mail being sent to 
me, but the command you gave below seems to duplicate the error.

Shyamal Prasad wrote:

What error? Please tell us what exim complains about as precisely as
you can.

I ran the command below.


Rohan> This is a little urgent as I would like to use exim as my
Rohan> smtp mailer, because it doesn't mind if I am at work or at
Rohan> home it still delivers mail.:)

What does '/usr/sbin/exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED]' produce?


rohannLinux:~$ /usr/sbin/exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
user "rohan.nicholls" for file existence test not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable:
  unknown local-part "rohan.nicholls" in domain "informaat.nl"

This is the same message I was being sent in the mail messages.

I have just tried to another account with a '.' in the local part, and 
it succeeded.

I think the stuff about local-part and thinking it is the informaat.nl 
domain mailer is correct.

So now these work:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

and this does not:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When exim installed it ran what I assume is eximconfig, and confused me 
terribly.  How do I get it to stop thinking it is the domain mailer, and 
just send the mail, which it is doing a good job of except to my work 
addresses



I am presuming of course that informaat.nl is *not* the mail domain
for you Debian machine.

That is right, it is my work domain.

thanks again for the responses guys,

exim is something I have not grocked at all and even after reading the 
documentation I am still confused.

rohan



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Re: Exim delay in accepting new mail from localhost

[Robert Ian Smit]

* Eugeny Nemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15-01-2003 13:17]:
>> When I compose and send a message in Mutt (which runs on the same
>> host as Exim) there is a delay of a couple of seconds before the
>> message is accepted by the mail server. 

>  Do you have reverse zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa in your DNS?

I am not exactly sure what that means. I use the DNS-servers at my
provider (resolv.conf) and have a small hosts file for the couple of
local boxes I am running.

I will look at my local network more closely. I had to change IP
numbers because of the (very) temporary Win98 gateway I am using. I
am not sure how Mutt sends a message to Exim. Does is originate from
127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.2, or something else? I suspect it's the latter
but I'll have a look at what exactly is defined as local wrt to exim
and my home network.

Thanks for the reply.

Bob



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apt-get debconf

[Florian Sukup]

Hi,

just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.

If I use 
apt-get install package_name ,
is this package automatically configured by debconf.

If not how can I do that? I know there is the command dpkg-reconfigure but 
I don't want to do a reconfiguration and it should be done automatically 
without invoking configuration for each installed package.

Thank you for the answer.

Florian.


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Re: Nautilus barfs

[Russell]

Paul Johnson wrote:

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:46:19AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:


   Don't use Nautilus. It's a bloated piece of crap. 


What do you suggest as an alternative?


apt-get install gnome-commander/testing

Don't get the one from stable because the
one in testing has much more implemented.


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Re: apt-get debconf

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> If I use 
> apt-get install package_name ,
> is this package automatically configured by debconf.

If the package uses debconf in the first place, yes. (debconf is not and
should not be universal; it's there for packages that need it.)

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Re: exim wierdness

[Rohan Nicholls]

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:


What error?  Show the exact error message -- there are dozens, if not
hundreds, of different reasons for seeing an error.


Sorry the error has been recreated with Shyamal Prasad's suggestion, I 
have the error in my response to him.

| This is a little urgent as I would like to use exim as my smtp mailer, 
| because it doesn't mind if I am at work or at home it still delivers mail.:)
| 
| But all the mail addresses at work involve the 
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] protocol, so I cannot send any mails to 
| coworkers using mutt.

My guess, based on what you say here, is that you told exim it is
handling the "informaat.nl" domain.  That is wrong since you don't own
the domain informaat.nl and are not the administrator of that domain's
mail server.  

this is right...

Most likely you don't have an actual domain for your
machine.  When you configure exim, tell it the domain is
"localdomain.invalid" or something like that.

I have

qualify_domain = informaat.nl which I have now commented out, and ...

local_domains = localhost:informaat.nl

which I have now changed to:

local_domains = localhost:localdomain.invalid

and that seems to have done it, as I have just sent myself an email at 
work and it worked beautifully.

Now to figure out how to get ldap working and connect it with mutt.:)

Thanks for all the help.

rohan


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Re: exim wierdness: Thanks for the help

[Rohan Nicholls]

Thanks Derrick and Shyamal for your help with this.  I really appreciate
it, and think I have this present challenge dealt with.

Allows me to move over from using mozilla which I find very resource hungry.

I still have to try this at home, but as Mozilla needed to use the work
exchange server at home this will be added functionality rather than
reduced :)

Thanks again,

rohan


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Re: Emacs installed, why?

[Rohan Nicholls]

* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030114 18:39]:
> I'm riding all three trees and was curious why lately unstable or testing
> has wanted to install Emacs on a dist-upgrade?
> 
> root@teleute:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   gnupg gpg-idea gpgp libgpgme6 libgtk-common liblcms libmagick5
>   libncurses4-dev libpango-common sylpheed-claws 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   emacs20 emacsen-common fontconfig libglu1 liblcms1 libmagick5.5.3
>   libwmf0.2-7 
I am assuming that you didn't have emacs installed before, and I would
have thought that emacs21 would be the upgrade.

That is a little wierd, unless you had emacs installed and it was a
lower version in which case it would update it.

Sorry I don't have any answers for you.

rohan


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Re: apt-get debconf

[Brian Potkin]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.
> 
> If I use 
> apt-get install package_name ,
> is this package automatically configured by debconf.

If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to
installing it either of

dpkg -s  | grep debconf
apt-cache show  | grep debconf

will give you the information.

Brian


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Infected E-Mail

[isgcs]

>> In an E-Mail send from you <<<
  Recipient / Subject

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   we detected a Virus in the Attachment.
   Thus, the E-Mail will not be 
delivered to the recipient.

Virus information:
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Re: apt-get debconf

[Vanilla]

Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list.
I only have 3:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

Tanks in advance


Brian Potkin wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:

 

Hi,

just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.

If I use 
apt-get install package_name ,
is this package automatically configured by debconf.
   


If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to
installing it either of

dpkg -s  | grep debconf
apt-cache show  | grep debconf

will give you the information.

Brian


 




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Re: apt-get debconf

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> > just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.
> > 
> > If I use 
> > apt-get install package_name ,
> > is this package automatically configured by debconf.
> 
> If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to
> installing it either of
> 
> dpkg -s  | grep debconf
> apt-cache show  | grep debconf

Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows minimal information for
packages that aren't installed yet, not including dependencies.

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Re: apt-get debconf

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:39:14PM +, Vanilla wrote:
> Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list.
> I only have 3:
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

Well, that's all of Debian stable. What else are you looking for?

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Re: exim wierdness

[Shyamal Prasad]

"Rohan" == Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Rohan> Shyamal Prasad wrote:

>> What error? Please tell us what exim complains about as
>> precisely as you can.

>> What does '/usr/sbin/exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> produce?

Rohan> rohannLinux:~$ /usr/sbin/exim -bt
Rohan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] user "rohan.nicholls" for file
Rohan> existence test not found 
Rohan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable: 
Rohan>   unknown local-part "rohan.nicholls" in domain "informaat.nl"


What this means is your exim configuration thinks informaat.nl is your
Linux machine. It is looking for a user on your machine called
"rohan.nicholls" and not finding it.

Rohan> So now these work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rohan> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

That is because hotmail.com and canoemail.com are not "local domains"
for exim. What do you get if you run the exim command above on these
addresses? 

Rohan> and this does not: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rohan> When exim installed it ran what I assume is eximconfig, and
Rohan> confused me terribly.  How do I get it to stop thinking it
Rohan> is the domain mailer, and just send the mail, which it is
Rohan> doing a good job of except to my work addresses

Do you remember what option you chose when you ran eximconfig?
Basically, you should never enter 'informaat.nl' into eximconfig at
any point, because you do not want it treated specially.

>> I am presuming of course that informaat.nl is *not* the mail
>> domain

>> for you Debian machine.
Rohan> That is right, it is my work domain.

Look in /etc/exim/exim.conf for a line like this

local_domains = localhost:informaat.nl

That is probably the culprit (particularly if you chose the smarthost
option in eximconfig). Remove informaat.nl from it, make sure that
only localhost and your hostname are defined as local_domains (read
the comments in the file for this variable), rerun the exim command
with -bt to test that the informaat.nl domain is treated similarly to
the others.

Rohan> exim is something I have not grocked at all and even after
Rohan> reading the documentation I am still confused.

Yeah, the exim documentation is written as a reference, not a
tutorial. It is stunning in volume, but hard to learn from. Sounds
like a lot of the rest of Unix  ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal


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Re: apt-get error

[Bruno Diniz de Paula]

I'm not really sure, but I suppose that the default cache size used by
apt became small for the amount of packages got by apt-get update. So
the line below increased the cache size and allowed apt to work
correctly again, for the cache available space now is enough. Some on
the list could confirm if it is right?

Cheers,
Bruno.

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 10:38, Matt Price wrote:
> thank you!!!  that did it.  so what exactly was the problem?
> why/where/how did apt run out of room??
> 
> saved my butt, I really appreciate it!
> m
> 
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:17:35PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> > 
> > try adding 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Bruno.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:13, Matt Price wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > can someone parse this error for me?  Got it while trying apt-get update:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> > > E: Error occured while processing kernel-image-2.4.18-hotplugforalsa
> > > (NewVersion1)
> > > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > > 
> > >  kernel-image-2.4.18-hotplugforalsa is a kernel I compiled myself
> > >  using the debian method.  
> > > 
> > > Thanks!!!
> > > matt
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USB Mouse Dead [Woody 2.0r1]

[jvarney]

Greetings,

Trying to set up system from Woody 3.0r1 ISO CD but can't get it to
recognize my Logitech USB wheel mouse.

1. Went thru install using Woody 3.0r1 .iso CD.  On starting X, X fails and
complains no core pointing device.

2. The CD installs 2.2 kernel by default. So then I used the debian 2.4
kernel from dselect and compiled a new kernel in the debian way from the
sources on the CD. In the new kernel made sure USB was included.

3. Now on starting X, X completes with no error messages. The desktop is
there with mouse cursor, but moving mouse does nothing.  Running cat
/dev/input/mice and moving mouse --> nothing happens.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful.  -- Jim


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Re: Window Manager doesn't start

[Harvey Kelly]

On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > Don't know what has happened.  Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday.
> > But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried
> > kde, gnome, blackbox).  X itself starts, I get the nasty nvidia logo
> > splash screen, but then it shuts down - and this with root too.  Why has
> > it started messing me around?
>
> Is .xinitrc broken? Try putting a simple 'xterm' at the top and then
> running the rest by hand to see where it breaks.

Ha!  Putting exec xterm in .xinitrc worked, as did exec kde2.  

Normally I just have a .xsession with:

#exec blackbox
#exec ion
exec kde2
#exec wmaker

and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then?  And why has 
.xsession suddenly starting playing around?

Many thanks,

Harvey


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spamd and /etc/aliases

[will trillich]

now that spamassassin/woody is working on my server
(system-wide, not per-user), i wonder how to deal
with email aliases--

logcheck alerts me to these:

Jan  6 14:47:48 server spamd[22546]: handle_user() -> unable to find user [rtharp]!
Jan  6 14:47:48 server spamd[22546]: Still running as root: user not specified, not 
found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.
Jan  6 14:47:48 server spamd[22546]: handle_user() -> unable to find user [rtharp]!
Jan  6 14:47:48 server spamd[22546]: Still running as root: user not specified, not 
found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.

i tried various grepping such as
$ zgrep alias /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/*
and didn't find it. :(

which paragraph (and in which doc) covers that? (or maybe this
is something addressed in the unstable distro...)

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Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

[Michael Waters]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 22:14 -0800, nate wrote:
> sounds like it could be bad hardware. I've never had such a thing happen.
> I tried downloading that WAV file and copied it to 4 different places
> (2 local partitions and 2 NFS partitions located on different systems) and
> the md5sum remained the same for all.
> 
> maybe bad ram..or something, not sure

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 00:54 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> 3 different file systems here, 2 different machines, same md5sum and no
> differences reported by cmp. I'd guess it's a bad drive or possibly bad
> RAM.

I ran memtest86 and you're both right... bad ram. :(  memtest found bad
ram in test 5 not on the old machine but on a newer machine that I
didn't suspect.  I've been running this machine for a while without any
obvious problems so it's surprising to me...  installed debian and
compiled kernels without problems...

Should I be thinking of reinstalling from scratch after replacing the
ram?  :( Is there a way of checking md5sums of installed debs?

Thanks,
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Re: apt-get debconf

[Harvey Kelly]

Have a look at http://www.apt-get.org/ - pretty much anything you'd want is 
there.

Harvey

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:39:14PM +, Vanilla wrote:
> Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list.
> I only have 3:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free


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Re: OpenOffice language locale

[Chris Lale]

I cannot install the unstable version of openoffice.org.

Chris Halls wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:01:42PM +,
>
> This was a problem with the package openoffice.org-debian-files that 
should
> have been corrected in the latest version in unstable.



Steve Juranich wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 20:33:50 +,


Use "pinning".  You'll want to make an /etc/apt/apt.conf file that
looks something like this:

APT {
  Default-Release "testing";
};

(Be sure to replace "testing" with whicever branch you want to
follow.) 

Done! (I used "stable".)


Then a/etc/apt/preferences file that looks like:

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 40

This will give all of the unstable packages a really low priority so
that they will never be installed automatically, only by specific
request from the command line.


Done!

I commented-out these lines to /etc/apt.sources.list:
# openoffice.org
# deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib

I added these lines to /etc/apt.sources.list:
# unstable
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

I ran apt-get update. These files were read:
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/contrib Release

OK so far! But, 'apt-cache show openoffice.org' gives the currently 
installed version: Version: 1.0.1-5+woody.2. Apt-get install 
openoffice.org reports that he current version is already the latest 
version.

A Debian website package search of unstable shows: Package: 
openoffice.org 1.0.1-7 [contrib] is the latest package.

Any ideas?

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Re: OpenOffice language locale

[Chris Lale]

Chris Lale wrote:

I cannot install the unstable version of openoffice.org.


Solved, I think. 'apt-get install openoffice.org/unstable' seems to do 
the trick!

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Re: Big difference in antialiasing

[Brian Stults]

Jörg Johannes wrote:


Totally agreed. This is one major reason for me not to use gnome. I 
stick to icewm...


I don't like rap music, but that doesn't mean I won't use my CD player.

In other words, you can use gnome without anti-aliasing.

BTW, no offense to rap music.  I just don't like it.


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compiling NVidia - some progress

[Joris Huizer]

Hi everybody,

Thanks for all the help so far.
I really felt sooo stupid when I suddenly found my
kernel version is NOT 2.4.18 - it's 2.2.20
I assumed it was 2.4.18 as the debian has been
installed a yesterday - anyway I found I had to use
uname -r to get the correct kernel version.

I now cleaned the /usr/src/ folder so it just
contained the rpm folder and then downloaded the
nvidia sources;
Now, I've got some part compiled.

In the nvidia kernel README it says:
to build the nvidia package: cd
/usr/src/modules/nvidia-1.0.4191
debian/rules binary_modules
 This is still a prob - I can edit the Makefile in the
modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191
and at last it now compiles - but it just creates a
nvidia.o file which is (I think) just a part of the
driver. How do I make it compile the rest ?
Thanks in advance
PS: I found how to use apt-get to install lynx-ssl
which means it's easier to email now

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RE: how to maintain /var on a debian system

[Narins, Josh]

This is my favorite DU for investigating these things...

du --summarize --human-readable * (executed from /var, at first)

-Original Message-
From: nick lidakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:21 PM
To: Debian
Subject: how to maintain /var on a debian system


I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I can't
seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? I'm trying to
apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont have enough space
to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 300MB partition. /var seems to
be slowly filling up, but what can I safely delete from var to trim it down?



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Re: apt-get debconf

[Brian Potkin]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > 
> > dpkg -s  | grep debconf
> > apt-cache show  | grep debconf
> 
> Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows minimal information for
> packages that aren't installed yet, not including dependencies.

Thanks for the correction.  I should really have used the dpkg manual to
refresh my memory. (And remembered to have tested the command on an
uninstalled package!)

Brian.


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bogus 'active system attack' logcheck (merely postgres "explain"!)

[will trillich]

well my adrenals got their exercise today. i'm wondering what's
the best approach -- munge logcheck? munge postgres?

here's logcheck sent me:

Active System Attack Alerts
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-2] Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13992.25 rows=1 
width=101)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-3]   ->  Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13990.98 
rows=1 width=97)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-5]   -> Nested Loop  
(cost=0.00..13986.19 rows=1 width=68)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-2] Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13992.25 rows=1 
width=101)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-3]   ->  Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13990.98 
rows=1 width=97)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-5]   -> Nested Loop  
(cost=0.00..13986.19 rows=1 width=68)
Jan 15 08:32:24 server postgres[6712]: [3-2] Nested Loop (cost=0.00..13992.85 rows=1 
width=101)
Jan 15 08:32:24 server postgres[6712]: [3-3]   ->  Nested Loop (cost=0.00..13991.58 
rows=1 width=97)
Jan 15 08:32:24 server postgres[6712]: [3-4] ->  Nested Loop  
(cost=0.00..13988.56 rows=1 width=93)
Jan 15 08:32:24 server postgres[6712]: [3-5]   -> Nested Loop  
(cost=0.00..13986.19 rows=1 width=68)


which are only the results of running an "explain" query in
postgres:

hits=# explain
hits-# select * from hits where at>'2003-1-14';
NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:

Merge Join  (cost=1314.44..1555.23 rows=348 width=304)
 -> Index Scan using browser_pkey on browser b  (cost=0.00..215.83 rows=7894 width=64)
 -> Sort  (cost=1314.44..1314.44 rows=348 width=240)
 -> Hash Join  (cost=2.91..1299.74 rows=348 width=240)
 -> Hash Join  (cost=1.15..1291.01 rows=348 width=215)
 -> Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..1283.77 rows=348 width=201)
 -> Index Scan using h_ix on _hits h  (cost=0.00..230.11 rows=348 
width=100)
 -> Index Scan using referer_pkey on referer r  (cost=0.00..3.01 
rows=1 width=101)
 -> Hash  (cost=1.12..1.12 rows=12 width=14)
 -> Seq Scan on method m  (cost=0.00..1.12 rows=12 width=14)
 -> Hash  (cost=1.61..1.61 rows=61 width=25)
 -> Seq Scan on server s  (cost=0.00..1.61 rows=61 width=25)

EXPLAIN
hits=# 

what would be the least insane way to address this and give my
adrenaline a sense of relaxation?

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Want to LEARN MORE ABOUT VIM? From inside vim (when you're
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:help options
Type "ctrl-W ctrl-W" to switch 'panes', or "ctrl-W q" to close
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Re: Big difference in antialiasing

[Brian Nelson]

Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>
>> You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty.
>
> Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying?  I hate them, sure they "look" 
> smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to 
> read.  Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes.  It hurts.

Amen, brother.  I've never understood the obsession with AA fonts.  They
don't just seem blurry; they *are* blurry.

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IMP breaks after security update

[Marcus Schopen]

Hi,

after updating my IMP (woody) I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql on line
197
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
/etc/horde/session.inc on line 407
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
/etc/horde/session.inc on line 120
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
/etc/horde/session.inc on line 416

Any Ideas?

Thank you
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Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

[Thomas R. Shemanske]

martin f krafft wrote:

after the upgrade to squirrelmail 1.3.2, users can't log in anymore.
all they see is the message

  ERROR
  You must be logged in to access this page.

upon entering the correct user and password. there are no bugs about
this, and i have no idea where to start the diagnosis. anyone else
come across this?



When you configured libc-client2002, did you disallow plaintext passwords.

This will cause the login to fail

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Re: Galeon HELP!!!

[Brian Nelson]

"Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well I have tried now running mozilla, and that doesn't spawn infinite
> windows, but rather just exits.  There is not output in the console. It
> just exits.
>
> I have run apt-get install mozilla and apt-get install galeon

Sounds like a bug that has been reported many times against mozilla:

http://bugs.debian.org/mozilla

Always check Debian's Bug Tracking System when you encounter a bug like
this.  It can save you a lot of trouble.

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Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote:
> I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I
> can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var?
> I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont
> have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 300MB
> partition. /var seems to be slowly filling up, but what can I safely
> delete from var to trim it down?

du -ak /var/ | sort -n | tail

You may wish to move /var/cache/apt/archives to some bigger partition to
get around your immediate problem.  Put a symlink in place pointing to
the new location.

noah

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Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:44:05AM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> Should I be thinking of reinstalling from scratch after replacing the
> ram?  :(

Shouldn't be necessary, although you may have to reinstall a few
packages if they turn out to have been broken ...

> Is there a way of checking md5sums of installed debs?

Yes, try debsums. Not all packages come with md5sums, but the majority
do.

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Re: Window Manager doesn't start

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:33:38PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > > Don't know what has happened.  Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday.
> > > But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried
> > > kde, gnome, blackbox).  X itself starts, I get the nasty nvidia logo
> > > splash screen, but then it shuts down - and this with root too.  Why has
> > > it started messing me around?
> >
> > Is .xinitrc broken? Try putting a simple 'xterm' at the top and then
> > running the rest by hand to see where it breaks.
> 
> Ha!  Putting exec xterm in .xinitrc worked, as did exec kde2.  

Right, it will certainly work, but my point was that that was pretty
much guaranteed to work. Once you have an X display up with just an
xterm in it, you can then run the other things that are normally in
.xinitrc by hand and see where they go wrong.

> Normally I just have a .xsession with:
> 
> #exec blackbox
> #exec ion
> exec kde2
> #exec wmaker
> 
> and nothing else - should I just use .xinitrc instead then?  And why has 
> .xsession suddenly starting playing around?

To my knowledge, startx has only ever used .xinitrc, not .xsession ... I
don't know why it used to work. Maybe you had a symlink in place at one
point?

My .xinitrc at work reads:

  #! /bin/sh
  xrdb -merge .Xresources
  exec "$HOME/.xsession"

I don't think this gets me quite the same environment as I do when
logging in normally using a display manager (which just uses .xsession),
but it serves well enough for the odd occasion when the display manager
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Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
| On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
| > What were you expecting?  The only way you can suppress each recipient
| > from knowing who else is recieving something is using BCC...
| 
| That's not true.  Mailing list managers do it (I don't know the
| addresses of everyone subscribed to debian-user).

Actually, look at the headers of this message.  It was sent only to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  The fact that some other entity
picked up the message and stuffed it in a new message without
"correcting" the address in the letterhead is a separate issue.

| You can also supress the names of the recipients by adding an entry
| to /etc/aliases (or whatever your MTA uses).

That only works if you address it to your own domain.  Whether or not
that becomes an issue depends on the rest of your criteria and
knowing what this means.


MLMs and MTAs operate on the envelope, not the message itself, thus
they can manage to get the message delivered to some user without
their address appearing in the message.  mutt operates on the message
itself, and then infers the (original) envelope based on the To:, Cc:,
and Bcc: headers.

HTH,
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Re: Easiest Nameserver

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:11:10PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Kirk Strauser wrote:
| > At 2003-01-13T16:49:26Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" wrote:
| > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:05:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
| > 
| > >> and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of what
| > >> DNS software you which to use).
| > 
| > > Technically this isn't true.  A DNS server isn't required to store the
| > > zones in the same format as bind.
| 
| This last comment strikes me as excessively nitpicky. To say that you'll
| have to write zone files (or, more generally, configure your zones,
| whether by writing files, using a web interface, or whatever) regardless
| of which DNS software you choose is a reasonable statement. I don't see
| any implication that these files will be in any particular format.

It all depends on how you interpret the original statement.  Some bind
opponents claim that bind's zone file format is archaic or difficult
to manage or other negative things like that.  The original statement,
"you still have to write zone files", could be read as meaning you'll
still have to deal with the "bad" format bind uses.  If it is read as
simply meaning you'll need to configure whatever software you use,
then yes that is a correct assertion.

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Re: Big difference in antialiasing

[Alan Shutko]

Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Amen, brother.  I've never understood the obsession with AA fonts.  They
> don't just seem blurry; they *are* blurry.

Try it on a LCD sometime... subpixel antialiasing is wonderful.

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Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:25:25PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
| On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, ernst wrote:
| > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:

| > > I'll bet even if you buy Opera you still see banner ads in your
| > > browser. ;)
| > 
| > Nop, the second you hit enter after typing in a name and the key, It's
| > gone.
| 
| But you still have banner ads on sites you visit.  That was the ;) above.

Huh?

$ apt-cache show adzapper
[...]
Description: squid_redirect advertisement zapper
 A redirector for squid that intercepts advertising (banners, popup
 windows, flash animations, etc), page counters and some web bugs (as
 found). This has both aesthetic and bandwidth benefits.

:-).

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Re: OpenOffice language locale

[Chris Lale]

Everything now works. Thanks to everyone who hepled.

Chris Lale wrote:



Chris Lale wrote:


I cannot install the unstable version of openoffice.org.



Solved, I think. 'apt-get install openoffice.org/unstable' seems to do 
the trick!

Yes. I also had to 'apt-get remove openoffice' because otherwise 
openoffice.org-l10n-en was not upgraded.

I then used OOodi to reinstall the UK dictionary, then reconfigured the 
writing aids and languages in Tools > Options > Language settings. This 
time they remained after rerunning OOo.

I also had to reinstall ttf fonts using OpenOffice.org Printer 
Administration (/usr/bin/oopadmin).

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Re: Big difference in antialiasing

[Craig Dickson]

Brian Nelson wrote:

> Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying?  I hate them, sure they "look" 
> > smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to 
> > read.  Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes.  It hurts.
> 
> Amen, brother.  I've never understood the obsession with AA fonts.  They
> don't just seem blurry; they *are* blurry.

True, but at the same time, I find AA fonts far more readable than
non-AA fonts, since the purpose of the blur (as we all surely know) is
to smooth out jaggies. At large sizes, the smoothing is less necessary,
but still makes the characters look smoother, which is aesthetically
pleasing; but at very small sizes, it can make text readable that would
otherwise not be, due to excessive jagginess (assuming the display
itself is sharp enough that small text doesn't just turn into mud).

I find that looking at small non-AA text gives me a nasty eye-strain
headache after an hour or two. On MS Windows, there seems to be no
solution for this, because Windows (stupidly) only anti-aliases text
above a certain minimum size. In Gnome 2 or KDE 3, all text can be
anti-aliased, and I have found that this actually makes it possible for
me to work with smaller fonts without getting a headache. This, in turn,
makes it possible for me to use my display more efficiently by using
smaller fonts to enable me to see more at once. I consider this a good
thing.

If your mileage varies, then by all means, disable AA fonts in your
account; but recognize, please, that this is a personal preference on
your part, not a general proof that AA fonts are useless eye-candy.

Craig



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Re: Installing on flatpanel

[Tim]

try inputting

linux video=vga16:off

at the boot: prompt

You can also use video=vga16:off as a kernel parameter in GrUB and LILO

Omnecide wrote:

Im trying to install the stable version of Debian on my MAG innovision 
flat panel moniter but after it goes to the boot: and i hit enter to 
begin the install the screen goes black. and just sits there. It runs RH 
fine wiht no problems. And it is displaying something because if i 
hookup a normal CRT moniter it shows the setup menu




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Re: Broken symlinks, now no panels [SOLVED]

[Tim]

All that was required was to type panel in a gnome-terminal, which reset 
my ~/.gnome/session file.

Tim wrote:
Hi,

Second time this has happened to me.  Computer crashed, some library 
symlinks were broken-they were pointing to unknown files, eg
librt.so.1 -> librt-2.2.5.so
was changed to
librt.so.1 -> librt-2..so

I've corrected those I could find, and have my system booting again. But 
within Gnome, I've lost my panels.  Could someone suggest what symlinks 
I should look for so I can correct them?  I've been through the /lib 
directory but no others at this stage.  I'm running Stable 3.0r0, 2.4.18 
kernel.

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Re: On-board lan. SOLVED (at least for ASUS mptherboards).

[Janke Dávid]

I searched with google for the strings "broadcom 4401" (thats mainly the
lan chip on newer asus motherboards with i845xx chipset). On some sote I saw
a help for a redhat 8.0 user, where somebody said that he should take the
driver from the asus suport cd-rom, and compile (or recompile, I don't
remember) as a kernel module, and insert it with insmod.
On the asus download site I saw this driver download. It takes 16MB in a
zip file (I don't understand why asus provides a linux driver in zip
format), I haven't downloaded yet, but I guess it's a source code. I can't
imagine a driver for a Lan device with a size of 16MB :-))

David

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> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:45, Janke Dávid wrote:
> > At last I found out that ASUS provides a linux driver for its on-board
> > broadcom lan.
>
> Open Source or binary?
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opera or other fast browser

[Florian Sukup]

Hi,

I'm installing Debian on an old machine. Therefore, I need a fast browser. 

So, I thought Opera could be a good idea. But I can't find a package 
including it (at least not bin/opera).

Is there a debian package for it?

Or are there other fast browsers with flash/java support which I should 
try?

Thanks for info.

Florian.


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Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Thomas R. Shemanske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.1805 
+0100]:
> >  ERROR
> >  You must be logged in to access this page.
> 
> When you configured libc-client2002, did you disallow plaintext passwords.

I don't even have that installed. Never did. Squirrelmail 1.2.6 works
fine without, and 1.3.2 doesn't depend on it.

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Re: DNS hosting

[will trillich]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:57:34AM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> I am looking for some reliable company for our dns server
> hosting. I am facing problems with the current company, their
> one of the server is always down and second server is down off
> and on. Suggest me if you know of some good company in US.

well i've got a static ip and i do my own dns'ing. maybe i can
be your temporary secondary/slave dns for a while until you get
straightened out with a real dns server?

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Would you like to use SHUTDOWN AS NORMAL USER?  Install appropriate
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User_Alias  SHUTDOWNERS = 
Cmnd_Alias  SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot
SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN

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Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Thomas R. Shemanske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.15.1906 
+0100]:
> I assumed your mail server (e.g. uw-impad(-ssl)) required libc-client2002.

The mail server is courier-imap and it works perfectly.

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File rights

[Daniel L. Miller]

Can some kind soul please point me to the documention area(s) that will
let me understand file/directory rights per user?  I've trying to use
WINE, and install some Windoze programs - and I can't get user access to
create the directories/files needed (of course, I can do it as root -
but I'm not supposed to do that).

Daniel


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Re: Emacs installed, why?

[Bob Proulx]

Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-14 08:46:55 -0800]:
> I'm riding all three trees and was curious why lately unstable or testing
> has wanted to install Emacs on a dist-upgrade?
> 
> root@teleute:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   gnupg gpg-idea gpgp libgpgme6 libgtk-common liblcms libmagick5
>   libncurses4-dev libpango-common sylpheed-claws 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   emacs20 emacsen-common fontconfig libglu1 liblcms1 libmagick5.5.3
>   libwmf0.2-7 
> 
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>  ICQ: 5107343  | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
> To email: Don't despair!   |  -- Lenny Nero, Strange Days
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It does seem strange that there is no line saying, "The following
packages will be upgraded".  Was that just missed in the cut-n-paste?
But it is important information.

On first pass it would seem that almost any upgrade in unstable would
want to upgrage at least one package and therefore it must just be
missing from your post.  I would look over that list of packages and
see which of them is pulling in emacs20 and pushing out gnupg and
other such dependencies.

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Re: mutt 1.5.3 test package

[Jason McCarty]

Marco D'Itri wrote:
> http://www.bofh.it/~md/mutt/
> 
> Please test and let me know[1] if anything breaks.
> 
> 
> [1] By private mail, I'm not subscribed.

Marco,

I'm interested in testing your package, but the URL you gave 404's. Is
there another address I can get the package at?

Thanks,

Jason


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idesk fonts problem

[willem]

hi,

Yesterday is wtiched to SID completely, was running a mix of testing and
SID before, and installed idesk.
Followed the manual...and the examples that come with the package but
whatever i do i get the message : 'Can't find font: tahoma'.
I've also added a few truetype fonts, including tahoma, from 
windows(sorry Bill...sue me:)
And within X i can pick these fonts, in mozzila for example, and
they all seem to work/display fine. When i run xfontsel all the fonts
seem to be there and selectable aswell.
I've edited the ~/.ideskrc file pointing it to other fonts...arial...etc..etc..tried
dozens of fonts but i keep getting the 'Can't find font: ' error.
Anyone know the cause/solution?

Cheers,
Willem


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Re: On-board lan. SOLVED (at least for ASUS mptherboards).

[Janke Dávid]

I've looked at the downloadable file. It not only contains drivers for
linux, but for all OSes. The linux driver is source code.

David


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Subject: Re: On-board lan. SOLVED (at least for ASUS mptherboards).


> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:45, Janke Dávid wrote:
> > At last I found out that ASUS provides a linux driver for its on-board
> > broadcom lan.
>
> Open Source or binary?
>
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> |RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines|
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Re: opera or other fast browser

[Kevin Smith]

Hi,

Just download the Linux version from here :

http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux&session=

Just select the option deb and QT Static.  I have it installed on my Debian
3.0 PowerPC and it works a treat.  I bought a licence to (upgrade infact)
for $15.

Very easy to install to, just type install.sh in the opera directory once
unpacked.

Regards,

Kevin

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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:57 PM
Subject: opera or other fast browser


> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Debian on an old machine. Therefore, I need a fast browser.
>
> So, I thought Opera could be a good idea. But I can't find a package
> including it (at least not bin/opera).
>
> Is there a debian package for it?
>
> Or are there other fast browsers with flash/java support which I should
> try?
>
> Thanks for info.
>
> Florian.
>
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(OT, Long) Very strange behaviour with real W2k file sharing, solvedby using Samba.

[Mike Dresser]

We have a group of W2k machines that have CADD software installed on them.

In particular, we use a program called I-DEAS, currently at version 9.

This software is installed and runs locally, and accesses our part
datafiles off a network drive mapped to T:

Under NT 4.0 on the client, this worked.  Once I upgraded the
client machine to Windows 2000, this quit working.  Same file share, etc,
nothing has changed on the server side.

No matter what I set the permissions to, even to giving the user
administrator and full control, it would not work, claiming it couldn't
open the files it needed.

The users were manually copying 2.3 gig of data files to the machine they
needed to run from, and mapping their \\ownmachine\c$ to T:, and strangely
enough this would actually work.

Enough of that!  I brought over a spare Windows 98 machine in an effort to
simplify the file sharing, shared the drive full control, and mapped the
T: drive on the client to this machine.

Still no go.  After a few hours of playing with every possible setting in
I-DEAS 9, I figured I'd do a last ditch effort.

I copied the 2.3 gig of files over to our local Linux backup server,
nano'd /etc/samba/smb.conf to setup a quick and dirty share, and
chmod'd/chown'd the files to the user.

This worked, I-DEAS was quite happy to map to T: and run and access all
the files without complaining.  Both users can access their files without
problems.

Just how weird is that, Samba works better than real windows networking.

Mike


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Re: listing intstalled packages and their origin

[Jason McCarty]

Willem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are several ways to get a list of the packages which are installed 
> but i haven't been able to figure out if it i possible to list the dist they're from 
> stable, testing or unstable.
> Is there a command for this or could i pipe dpgk -l through something else
> to get this done?

You can use apt-show-versions to do this. For example:

vector:~$ apt-show-versions|grep mutt
mutt/stable uptodate 1.3.28-2

The '/stable' part obviously indicating that mutt is from the stable dist.

HTH,

Jason


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Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

[Crispin Wellington]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
> If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling
> yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or
> something a little less fun.

Humour can stay, but geek elitism must die. (That goes for all elitist
geeks out there).

Crispin




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Re: apt-get debconf

[Joao Paulo Serrachinha]

I read somewhere that there are ".deb" packages like OpenOffice 1.0.1, 
Mozilla 1.0.2 created by people that we can trusth, for Debian Woody.

Thanks


Colin Watson wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:39:14PM +, Vanilla wrote:
 

Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list.
I only have 3:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
   


Well, that's all of Debian stable. What else are you looking for?

 




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Re: SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet session?
> 
> Thank you for any hints,

Use a telnet programme that emulates a sco-ansi terminal.

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Re: IMP breaks after security update

[Marcus Schopen]

Hi,

Marcus Schopen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after updating my IMP (woody) I get the following error:
> 
> Parse error: parse error in /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql on line
> 197
> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
> /etc/horde/session.inc on line 407
> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
> /etc/horde/session.inc on line 120
> Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output
> started at /usr/share/horde/imp/lib/db.pgsql:197) in
> /etc/horde/session.inc on line 416

 
There was a type in the first security package. Get the new one.

see: [SECURITY] [DSA 229-2] New IMP packages fix SQL injection and typo

Ciao
Marcus

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Re: DNS hosting

[Kevin Smith]

Same goes this end, if you want a thirdendary/slave DNS I can add this in
for you.  Like the spelling? ;)

Regards,

Kevin
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Subject: Re: DNS hosting


> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:57:34AM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> > I am looking for some reliable company for our dns server
> > hosting. I am facing problems with the current company, their
> > one of the server is always down and second server is down off
> > and on. Suggest me if you know of some good company in US.
>
> well i've got a static ip and i do my own dns'ing. maybe i can
> be your temporary secondary/slave dns for a while until you get
> straightened out with a real dns server?
>
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>
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #92 from Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Would you like to use SHUTDOWN AS NORMAL USER?  Install appropriate
> entries into /etc/sudoers (assuming that 'sudo' is installed:
> User_Alias  SHUTDOWNERS = 
> Cmnd_Alias  SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot
> SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN
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Re: opera or other fast browser

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:57:12PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing Debian on an old machine. Therefore, I need a fast browser. 
> 
> So, I thought Opera could be a good idea. But I can't find a package 
> including it (at least not bin/opera).
> 
> Is there a debian package for it?

Yes, see http://www.opera.com/download/


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Re: File rights

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:15:46AM -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Can some kind soul please point me to the documention area(s) that will
> let me understand file/directory rights per user?  I've trying to use
> WINE, and install some Windoze programs - and I can't get user access to
> create the directories/files needed (of course, I can do it as root -
> but I'm not supposed to do that).
> 
> Daniel
> 

man chmod


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[Fwd: Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish]

[Adam]

Here is an email feedback that was intended to go to the list.
There is a new version of my webpage at 
http://www.ideogram.com/do-nothing/sawfish.html
with many changes, major one being split into two versions,
one for Unix experts and one for novices.

Adam

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From: CAiRO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Jan 2003 08:22:54 +0100

hi,

i'll just write down what comes to my mind while reading your howto.

> I have written an introduction to configuring sawfish, called "How
To
> Make Sawfish Do Nothing".  The official version is and will be at
> http://www.ideogram.com/do-nothing/sawfish.html
> A text version is included below for your convenience.

maybe you should include a table of contents and the possibility to
download the raw, text and html version.
besides i think a chapter with links where to get further information
would be nice. i know, there is a misc chapter already. maybe add
more
links to themes repository etc. there?

> Some specific questions I have:
> 
> Right now the instructions use the Configurator to set three
keybindings
> that could equally well be set in ~/.sawfishrc.  Reasons to put it
in
> the .sawfishrc are (1) I seem to run into a bug losing the root
menu
> when I set too many keybindings at once, and (2) setting them in
the
> .sawfishrc makes the instructions shorter.  Which do you prefer?

why don't you mention both of them in 2 subsections? i also think
they
have both advantages and disadvantages. if you are not a programmer
and
do not like to fiddle around with config files, sawfish-ui is your
friend. on the other hand it can be much faster/shorter to do it
through
your ~/.sawfishrc.

besides i wonder if everybody who is reading the howto is aware of
the
fact that the graphical configuration through sawfish-ui has it's own
config file (~/.sawfish/custom) while the user config file is
~/.sawfishrc.


> 0.  Make sawfish your window-manager
> 
> The default window-manager for GNOME is metacity.  To replace it
with
> sawfish, enter at a terminal window:
> 
> $ killall metacity; sawfish &

> (The $ represents the prompt, do not type it.)  To save this setup
go
> to the GNOME menubar at the top of the screen, click Actions,
select
> "Log Out", check "Save current setup" on the popup dialog, click
OK,
> and then log in again.

especially if you are using debian you should use
$ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
to set your default window manager.
if you've allowed user-x-sessions users might be able to start
sawfish
from ~/.Xsession.

some links to howtos on how to configure xfree on debian/redhat etc
might be useful here.


> 1.  Root menu and Configurator
> Click the right-pointing triangle at the top-right corner of the
> dialog to get to more tabs.
> 
> Click Move/Resize tab.  Check the "Show current position of windows
> while moving" checkbox.
> 
> Click Sound tab.  Check the "Play sound effects for window events."
> checkbox.
> 
> Click left-pointing triangle to go back to previous tabs.

these points above should maybe more sound like recommendations than
commands :)
besides, even if your readers are novices, they're not stupid. you
should explain why setting a certain option this way is recommended.
(eg. i doubt that everybody likes to have sound effects turned on)


> This procedure creates the file ~/.sawfish/custom.  You should not
> edit it directly, however you can use the GUI to find the string
> corresponding to a desired key combination (for use in
~/.sawfishrc,
> step 2) by adding the keybinding using "Grab..." and reading the
> generated ~/.sawfish/custom.

point out more that ~/.sawfish/custom is the config file from
sawfish-ui. besides i think the part about finding strings is rather
confusing. maybe a chapter with tips & tricks would be better place
where to put this tip on how to find key combinations in the custom
file.

> $ sawfish-client -f restart
> 
> If the problem remains, delete ~/.sawfish/custom and add the
> keybindings one at a time (Close the Configurator dialog after each
> keybinding added).

the file should probably renamed first to custom.save or something
before deleting it at once. after the custom files has been renamed,
sawfish has to be restarted.


> 2.  Make ~/.sawfishrc
> 
> Edit a file in your home directory called .sawfishrc, cut and paste
> the following text not including the cut lines into it, and save
the
> file.

a link to the OPTIONS file (the one that has all options commented
out
in it) might be usefull. http://www.unfactored.org/sawfish/OPTIONS

> 3.  Create a theme

i wonder if it is really that good for novices to fiddle around with
themes. maybe it is more useful to write down the names of some good
minimalistic themes that can be found on the net by everybody.

so, that's all so far.

oh, one more thing. it seems that the window menu (process) hangs
sometimes in sawfish 1.2. (at least that's wha

Re: usb-scanner detected, but nothing about usb in /dev

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney]

-- Janis Hagelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 11:46 AM +0100):
> no, usbdevfs is disabled in the kernel. it seemed very experimental, and i 
> didn't read the doc.
> 
> i'll rebuild the kernel with it enabled.
Before you go to that effort, try doing the following as root:

# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV usb

That should create a /dev/usb tree with a bunch of devices. Then try
rebooting and see what happens. (My usb scanner is mapped to
/dev/usb/scanner0)

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Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

[nate]

martin f krafft said:
> after the upgrade to squirrelmail 1.3.2, users can't log in anymore. all
> they see is the message
>
>   ERROR
>   You must be logged in to access this page.
>
> upon entering the correct user and password. there are no bugs about this,
> and i have no idea where to start the diagnosis. anyone else come across
> this?

if you can't resolve it here I reccomend trying the squirrelmail list.

this particular message from squirrelmail is VERY old. I first encountered
it over a year ago. It was very common back then up until about 6 months
ago when most people were able to get it resolved.

For me, the resolution was to use mod_php instead of using php as a cgi(which
is the reccomended configuration for SM according the last docs I saw, I use
1.2.9). Though last I checked the debian version also used mod_php. There
were a number of other possible resolutions(I don't remember), consulting
the SM list may help.

before I discovered this workaround for my situation I was forced to use
php 4.0.x in order to avoid this message.

it may be a bug relating to a new version of php in whatever debian
your running, or a configuration change or something ..or a bug in SM..but
whatever the case, its not a new message.

nate
(SM user since 1/2001)



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Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

[Adam Kao]

Here is the reply to my reply to the previously forwarded message.

--- Start of forwarded message ---

hi

> May I post your email on my website?  I wish to record contributions
> and show critiques so that future reviewers can read what has been
> said and express agreement or disagreement.

yes, of course. you can use it as you like. i actually wanted to post it
to the whole mailing list but somehow i accidently replied directly to
you.

> To clarify, this is not a HOWTO.  It is a recipe, simple step-by-step
> instructions to achieve a particular configuration of sawfish, namely
> the configuration I like to use.
> 
> As a recipe, it should be tasted first.  If you don't like the results
> of this recipe, you can go back and fiddle with it.  You can look for
> other recipies.  You can eventually make up your own recipies.  (I
> will add a section on undoing the changes made.)

ok, i agree. i've seen that you've already modified your version a bit.
there's one thing i want to mention: if you say
"This is a recipe, simple, step-by-step instructions to make a specific
configuration of sawfish, the one I use."
you should also say what kind of configuration you use, ie if it is
minimalistic, eye-candy or something like that. i know, one would notice
this while reading the recipe, but if i had a real recipe from you i'd
like to know what i am cooking before i actually start. and the
information that it is the meal that you like is nice, but still i'd
want to know what it is before i try it :)

> > why don't you mention both of them in 2 subsections? i also think
> > they
> > have both advantages and disadvantages. if you are not a programmer
> > and
> > do not like to fiddle around with config files, sawfish-ui is your
> > friend. on the other hand it can be much faster/shorter to do it
> > through
> > your ~/.sawfishrc.

while we are at links, why don't you offer a .sawfishrc file and two
theme.jl files to download with the conents you describe in your recipe.
users then would not have to copy paste & it, although they might learn
less this way. so maybe only put the links to the files at the bottom?

> > some links to howtos on how to configure xfree on debian/redhat etc
> > might be useful here.
> 
> ~/.Xsession and configuring xfree are beyond the scope of the
> document.  I think experts will either know it or be able to figure it
> out, while it is too much information for novices.

especially because it is beyond the scope of the recipe you should add
links to other howtos/readmes where these topics are covered. after all
doing it the way how it is intended on your distribution should be the
prefered way to prevent possible problems in the future. the users can
then decide if the follow the links or ignore them.

> > the file should probably renamed first to custom.save or something
> > before deleting it at once. after the custom files has been renamed,
> > sawfish has to be restarted.
> 
> I don't think it will help to save the file if sawfish always has
> problems starting up with it.

it doesnt help but you're on the save side not deleting any
configuration files. after all you have a problem and you _try_ to
delete the custom file to see if it works then. maybe the problem is
caused by other things and deleting it was in vain. you lose all
configurations done through sawfish-ui if you delete the custom file.
especially if you're a novice you should save old config files. you
never know when you need them again.

btw, you can save your current gnome session with a program called
"gnome-session-save". (should be included in gnome by default, try "man
gnome-session-save")

besides,

killall metacity && sleep 2 && nohup sawfish

might be better.. sleep prevents sawfish from starting too early and
nuhop detaches sawfish from the xterminal so one can close it. (and use
gnome-session-save afterwards [but before closing the terminal of
course])


greets,



CAiRO
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RE: I do not have Super Cow Powers

[Narins, Josh]

Geek elitism _exists_solely_to_destroy_ Geek elitism

We are obviously making geek elitism _so_ attractive that everyone wants to
become one of the "geek elite"
Which will make the term meaningless, and end geek elitism forever.

Now, elitism based on something unchangeable and uncontrollable, (e.g. where
the person was born, or to whom) is what has to go. 

Even a first year frobnitz can see this.


 

-Original Message-
From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:06 PM
To: Debian Users
Subject: Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers


On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
> If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling 
> yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or 
> something a little less fun.

Humour can stay, but geek elitism must die. (That goes for all elitist geeks
out there).

Crispin


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Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

[Adam Kao]

Here is my reply to the previously forwarded email feedback.

--- Start of forwarded message ---


Thank you for your email.

May I post your email on my website?  I wish to record contributions
and show critiques so that future reviewers can read what has been
said and express agreement or disagreement.

To clarify, this is not a HOWTO.  It is a recipe, simple step-by-step
instructions to achieve a particular configuration of sawfish, namely
the configuration I like to use.

As a recipe, it should be tasted first.  If you don't like the results
of this recipe, you can go back and fiddle with it.  You can look for
other recipies.  You can eventually make up your own recipies.  (I
will add a section on undoing the changes made.)

Novice users like my mom get confused if you offer them many options
at the beginning.  They do not know enough to know what they want and
become afraid of making the wrong choice.  That is why the recipe is a
simple linear sequence.  (Although I will add links to optional steps
for experts.)  (You could argue that users that inexperienced would
not use Linux and I am targeting the wrong audience, to which I have
no reply.  The only way to find out is to put it out there and see if
people find it useful.)

An observant user following the instructions will notice that things
can be done differently.  For example, someone who does not want sound
probably does not need to be told he can turn it off by unchecking the
checkbox labelled "Play sound effects for window events.".  (I will
put [Optional] in front of some of the steps.)

I wrote this recipe because:

1.  The existing sawfish documentation is scattered, sparse, and
outdated.  I had to Google, read pages closely, and read functioning
examples (that were more complex than I needed) to figure out what to
do.

2.  It is simple enough for novices.  It is an excellent teaching
example because it doesn't do much (thus the name "How to make sawfish
do nothing").  There are few steps, the files to be created are short.

3.  It is powerful enough for experts.  I am an expert.  I spend much
time fighting software that does things for me when I know exactly
what I want to do.  I prefer software that does nothing.

This recipe touches on all the ways to configure and extend sawfish
short of modifying the source.  After reading it an expert will be
able to use any theme or Lisp package and create his own, hopefully
saving him the hours of web browsing I spent.

I also believe that because sawfish is so easy to configure and the
results are so immediate, configuring sawfish can provide a gentle
introduction to programming for the non-programmer.


Responses to individual points:

> maybe you should include a table of contents and the possibility to
> download the raw, text and html version.

It is too short for a table of contents, and it is intended to be read
linearly, not as a reference.  I see no reason to provide a download
when you can simply save the html to a file.  I do not expect anyone
will need to read it more than once.


> besides i think a chapter with links where to get further information
> would be nice. i know, there is a misc chapter already. maybe add
> more
> links to themes repository etc. there?

There is a link to a themes repository under 4.  More themes.


> why don't you mention both of them in 2 subsections? i also think
> they
> have both advantages and disadvantages. if you are not a programmer
> and
> do not like to fiddle around with config files, sawfish-ui is your
> friend. on the other hand it can be much faster/shorter to do it
> through
> your ~/.sawfishrc.

This could be handled with an optional link as I mentioned above.


> besides i wonder if everybody who is reading the howto is aware of
> the
> fact that the graphical configuration through sawfish-ui has it's own
> config file (~/.sawfish/custom) while the user config file is
> ~/.sawfishrc.

This is mentioned at the end of 1.  Root menu and Configurator.


> especially if you are using debian you should use
> $ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> to set your default window manager.

Thank you, I will look into this.


> if you've allowed user-x-sessions users might be able to start
> sawfish
> from ~/.Xsession.

> some links to howtos on how to configure xfree on debian/redhat etc
> might be useful here.

~/.Xsession and configuring xfree are beyond the scope of the
document.  I think experts will either know it or be able to figure it
out, while it is too much information for novices.


> these points above should maybe more sound like recommendations than
> commands :)
> besides, even if your readers are novices, they're not stupid. you
> should explain why setting a certain option this way is recommended.
> (eg. i doubt that everybody likes to have sound effects turned on)

See general comments above.  I will add [Optional} before these steps.


> point out more that ~/.sawfish/custom is the config file from
> sawfish-ui.

Re: apt-get debconf

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:52:13PM +, Joao Paulo Serrachinha wrote:
> I read somewhere that there are ".deb" packages like OpenOffice 1.0.1, 
> Mozilla 1.0.2 created by people that we can trusth, for Debian Woody.

  http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/mirrors.html

... for instance; Google will help you a lot here. Or try:

  http://www.apt-get.org/

Cheers,

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