Re: It's a bird....it's a plane....

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 01:33:31 -0800, Carrie Cook wrote: >..It's Super Dog Media! > >RedMoss Media invites you to celebrate the launch of our new property >www.SuperDogMedia.com! Super Dog Media is the number one provider of fresh, >targeted & highly responsive leads for the Network Marketing and

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread Joel Mayes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ > are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference > book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/interest.html fo

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:56:50PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated: > > This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual > > resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a > > small monitor that can only h

Re: question about "dpkg -l"

2002-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:03 pm, dman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:48:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > | What do ii & ri mean in the 1st column of the dpkg output? > > You snipped it out : > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > >

Re: FW: Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:53 pm, dman wrote: > Ron : use the "reply to all" button (or whatever kmail has) to keep > the replies on-list. Sorry. The other lists I belong to munge Reply-to, so it's a pretty ingrained habit to "reply to sender".

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > while i'm at it, another problem to add to the above laundry list: > > when ever i read a manpage, it tells me: > > (null:) can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > is this referrint to the lines > > LANG="

Re: question about "dpkg -l"

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:48:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | | What do ii & ri mean in the 1st column of the dpkg output? You snipped it out : Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:09:27PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello, | | I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended | for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) "lshort" ("The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX2e") Google will turn it up. Pick the most rece

question about "dpkg -l"

2002-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What do ii & ri mean in the 1st column of the dpkg output? ii xlibs 4.1.0-9X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1.1.3-5compression library - runtime ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-5compression library - devel

FW: Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread dman
Ron : use the "reply to all" button (or whatever kmail has) to keep the replies on-list. -D - Forwarded message from Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index Dat

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2002-01-09 12:09:27, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended > for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) "Latex - A Document Preparation System - User's Guide & Reference Manual" by Leslie Lamport is good. That said, I would be surpr

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:05:52AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0239 +0100]: > > (again typing -- my mouse is working, no gpm restart necessary, i just > > can't cut and paste in tty!): > > try pasting with just the right button. great; works.

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated: > This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual > resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a > small monitor that can only handle 640x480. One thing I've noticed is > that you want to put the hig

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Lamport's _LaTeX: A Document Preparation System_ and _The LaTeX Companion_ are good (the first is more of an introduction, the second a reference book). Also check out http://www.tug.org/interest.html for links to lots of good online documentation. -

Re: "screen" will not read /etc/profile

2002-01-08 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:01:39AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I have set some aliases in /etc/profile, but > when I enter "screen" and create a new "screen" session, > it does not work, I am afraid screen will not read /etc/profile. > Idea? Screen doesn't read profile or .bashrc, bash does. S

any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

2002-01-08 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-) -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatezplay.gpg

Re: usb mouse freezes machine

2002-01-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:43:11PM -0800, Dean Roman wrote: > Hello all, > > > PROBLEM > === > Whenever I try to access the /dev/input/mice device, the machine freezes. > After this, I must do a hard power off > reboot. Not even the Ctrl-Alt-Del key works. > >I have tried the fo

Re: Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display

2002-01-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:00:55AM +0530, shyamk wrote: > I am having problem in > configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display. > I get only 8bpp while Win98 is crystal clear.I am sulking because > I want to shift completely to Debian , even the pictures. > As you can guess , th

"screen" will not read /etc/profile

2002-01-08 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have set some aliases in /etc/profile, but when I enter "screen" and create a new "screen" session, it does not work, I am afraid screen will not read /etc/profile. Idea? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg

Re: Apache virtualhosts with different user

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gabor Gludovatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0324 +0100]: > Is it possible somehow? Having read the apache docs, I haven't found > anything useful, but there must be a solution if I don't want my users to > run php scripts as www-data. i don't think so, since the www-data user is gl

Mozilla 0.9.7-2 quits on back button

2002-01-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Today when reading Slashdot, and following links to other pages, then pressing the back button to return to slashdot, Mozilla 0.9.7-2 from Sid (PowerPC) suddenly quits. I only noticed this today, and haven't updated for a few days. Mike

Re: Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:00:55AM +0530, shyamk wrote: | I am having problem in | configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display. | I get only 8bpp while Win98 is crystal clear.I am sulking because | I want to shift completely to Debian , even the pictures. | As you can guess , th

Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display

2002-01-08 Thread shyamk
I am having problem in configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display. I get only 8bpp while Win98 is crystal clear.I am sulking because I want to shift completely to Debian , even the pictures. As you can guess , the list of drivers does not show anything proximate to Mercury or i

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:00:52AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0229 +0100]: | > | > > PrintMotd no | > | > > PrintLastLog no | > | > | > | > commented out. didn't do anything. | > | > You want those line not commented out. | | good point. |

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:51:57PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:51:49AM +0100, marTin insinuated: | > fetchmail should totally not flush the mail from POP3 when it fails | > to deliver locally... | > | > you can temp fix this since you use procmail: | > | > add an option

Re: tar question

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
> | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with > | > | causing recursion? why would you want to backup /tmp??? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."

Apache virtualhosts with different user

2002-01-08 Thread Gabor Gludovatz
Hello, if I define 'user' in virtualhost section of apache's httpd.conf, then my cgi scripts will be running as 'user' if suexec has been set up correctly. It's okay. But how can I tell apache to run the whole virtualhost as 'user'? Including accessing html files, and especially php. Is it possib

Re: tar question

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:08:35PM -0500, dman wrote: | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with | > | causing recursion? | > | > tar -

Re: routing help on dual homed box

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:41:02PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | | On Sunday 06 January 2002 8:22 pm, dman wrote: | > | > I wrote /etc/init.d/FIREWALL, a shell script I wrote to configure | > iptables. Then I added a symlink to it | > | > $ ls -l /etc/rc2.d | > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Getting APT to works with SOCKS

2002-01-08 Thread Andrew Nesbit
I am trying to get apt-get to work through a SOCKS v5 server, but so far, it doesn't seem to like Dante's socksify. I heard that Dante is broken with respect to blocking, but I don't know about how to get any alternatives to work. Does anybody know how to accomplish this? Thankyou. -Andrew

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0300 +0100]: > on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated: > > This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual > > resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a > > small monitor that ca

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0231 +0100]: > | echo .muttrc | vim - > > ls .muttrc | xargs vim aha, the '-' is the problem. > I didn't think that would work (once I straightened out my > understanding of the stdin stuff), but it does. yeah, it surprises me too... oh well. vi

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0229 +0100]: > | > > PrintMotd no > | > > PrintLastLog no > | > > | > commented out. didn't do anything. > > You want those line not commented out. good point. > | /etc/init.d/ssh restart > > Nah, just > > /etc/init.d/ssh force-reload >

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0251 +0100]: > on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:51:49AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > > fetchmail should totally not flush the mail from POP3 when it fails > > to deliver locally... > > > > you can temp fix this since you use procmail: > > > > add an

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0239 +0100]: > (again typing -- my mouse is working, no gpm restart necessary, i just > can't cut and paste in tty!): try pasting with just the right button. > orange:~> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 > perl: warning: Setting loca

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated: > This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual > resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a > small monitor that can only handle 640x480. One thing I've noticed > is that you want to put the hig

Can no longer print in gnome apps using libgnomeprint

2002-01-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi Recently I have been unable to print in gnumeric. It just gives blank output, in the preview, and in the postscript output. Balsa, which also uses libgnomeprint just segfaults if I try to print something. In both gnumeric, and balsa, I get a whole bunch of the flowwing errors to stdout:

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi On 2002.01.07 00:48 martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2127 +0100]: > | i even went as far as to renice xmms to -20 *and* > | rsync/bzip/gzip/make-kpkg to 20, but it doesn't really help. > > Well, kernel compilation is very CPU intensive, and bzip2 can do

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:51:49AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > fetchmail should totally not flush the mail from POP3 when it fails > to deliver locally... > > you can temp fix this since you use procmail: > > add an option > > mda "/usr/bin/procmail" > > to your .fetchmailrc's mailbox description

Re: Help with crashed system

2002-01-08 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 08:53:06 +0100 Johannes Angeldorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have used Red Hat 7.0 for a while as a web server with > apache/php/mysql. Now the system has crashed, and when I try to > reboot I get all the way through the boot process, but --- then I am > not all

Re: Help with crashed system

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Jinks
First of all, why did it crash? Any chance you were hacked? If so, that might account for the flaky login behavior. As for getting the files off -- there are _so_ many ways, but most will depend on the details of your setup and the resources available to you, none of which we know about. How is

Re: Debian install of squirrelmail

2002-01-08 Thread Jeff Green
Actually, I've worked with mixed tarball / deb package installations with cyrus and sendmail, and would really prefer to move this server back to a fully debian package installation. It is just as easy (if not easier) to install and configure SquirrelMail manually. I have SM 1.2.3[cvs] installe

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 01:51:49AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 and again i run up against unset locales: (again typing -- my mouse is working, no gpm restart necessary, i just can't cut and paste in tty!): orange:~> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 perl:

Help with crashed system

2002-01-08 Thread Johannes Angeldorff
Hi, I have used Red Hat 7.0 for a while as a web server with apache/php/mysql. Now the system has crashed, and when I try to reboot I get all the way through the boot process, but --- then I am not allowed to log in! The system asks for a login, but never stops to ask for the password after the

Re: HOWTO update modprobe......

2002-01-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:30:29PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > Recently upgraded potato->woody and now find /sbin/modprobe absent. That doesn't sound right. If it was there before upgrading (and it should be because it belongs to a required package in base) it should be ther

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:24:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0124 +0100]: | > :-). Hmm, interesting, vim is able to read the filename from stdin. | | ??? | | echo .muttrc | vim - | | gives me a new file in vim with contents ".muttrc", but

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:51:49AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0141 +0100]: | > yes, it obviously did. not just the fonts and icons -- it's as if i'm | > seeing the entire screen blown up about 50x, but because it's so big, | > all my

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:51:49AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: ... > you can temp fix this since you use procmail: > > add an option > > mda "/usr/bin/procmail" the docs advice to use the following though: mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" IIRC leaving out the "-d %T" makes it fail. --

Re: Any experience with Cyberpower Inc (for computers, not UPSs)?

2002-01-08 Thread Stan Kaufman
nate wrote: > first thing i thought of was cyberpower UPSs when i saw > the subject :) > > is the url correct ? WHOIS says no matches for > cyberpowercorp.com. Oops, miscopied the url. It's http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/ And I subsequently found this site: http://www.resellerratings.com/ which

Re: No inodes free on /var

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm pretty sure that in order to raise the number of inodes, you'll have to reformat the partition, which will mean moving your news articles aside; there may be a way to edit a live ext2 filesystem to raise the inode count but even then I'd want to make sure I had a backup of /var, as it's likely

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 07:27:30PM -0500, dman insinuated: > AFAIK 'login' is what outputs the MOTD (Message Of The Day) which is > stored in /etc/motd. great! thanks. > Yeah. Instead of "en" use "en_US" and see if that helps. no dice ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>--

No inodes free on /var

2002-01-08 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
Trying to reconstruct a set of news archive, I recently ran out of inodes. debian:/home/merlin# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 61M 34M 23M 59% / /dev/hda2 182M 15k 173M 0% /tmp /dev/hda3 7.3G 5.1G 1.9G 73% /v

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0141 +0100]: > yes, it obviously did. not just the fonts and icons -- it's as if i'm > seeing the entire screen blown up about 50x, but because it's so big, > all my screen can display is the upper-leftmost corner of it. the > little icon

Re: Any experience with Cyberpower Inc (for computers, not UPSs)?

2002-01-08 Thread nate
> Cyberpower Inc (http://www.cyberpowercorp.com/) appears to offer > attractive value for price in their computer systems, and notably > sell their boxes with no OS (thus no M$ tax). Has anyone bought > from them? Any comments/experiences? TIA! > > Interesting that their name is virtually identica

Re: Question about IP masqing

2002-01-08 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm not sure. The freshmeat guys (or whomever) might have just been guessing based on contextual clues, like ident checks failing, or ftp connections switching to "passive". Without knowing the context it's hard to say for sure. On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:00:27AM +0100, Willem wrote: > Hi, > >

usb mouse freezes machine

2002-01-08 Thread Dean Roman
Hello all, PROBLEM === Whenever I try to access the /dev/input/mice device, the machine freezes. After this, I must do a hard power off reboot. Not even the Ctrl-Alt-Del key works. I have tried the following two things: 1) Setup gpm to use /dev/input/mice (machine freezes after

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:58:29AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1954 +0100]: > > 1. X is huge. it's about sixteen times the size it should be, and i > >mean visually. the reconfigure stuff moved it and all its files > >from /usr/X11/ (

line length in evolution mail

2002-01-08 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Is there a way to increase the number of characters before evolution will wrap text in a plain-text (not HTML) mail message? I tried to send someone my resume and it wrapped most of the lines by a word or two. I couldn't find a way to change this. I finally sent it from Mozilla. Thanks, Mike -

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0129 +0100]: > Interesing effect. That does solve the problem; and, contrary to > intuition, the last login and MOTD are still printed (though just > once). Prior to the change was it printing once from sshd and once > from login? i think sshd and

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:34:07PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > | > | > Is there a package that would allow me to examine JUST THE HEADERS of > | > these mail messages, and allow me to delete chunks at a time? There > | > may be

Re: xhost errors under root and from remote hosts

2002-01-08 Thread Jor-el
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, François Chenais wrote: > I run xhost > Francois : xhost > access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect Note what it says -> ^^^ and now read 'man xauth'. xhost will only all

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0124 +0100]: > :-). Hmm, interesting, vim is able to read the filename from stdin. ??? echo .muttrc | vim - gives me a new file in vim with contents ".muttrc", but it doesn't open .muttrc... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.0118 +0100]: > What does it take to setup an RBL domain? My guess is that you just > need a DNS server. pretty much. to RBL an IP 1.2.3.4, you create two entries in a zone, say rbl.madduck.net (which happens to be one btw...) 4.3.2.1 IN A 127.0.0.

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:58:29AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | it's the new ssh. make sure you have the following two lines uncommented | in /etc/ssh/sshd_config | | PrintMotd no | PrintLastLog no Interesing effect. That does solve the problem; and, contrary to intuition, the last login an

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 06:31:48PM -0500, dman insinuated: | > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | > | > | 2. when i login to my own machine via ssh, i get the login message | > |twice. i didn't know

problems with apt overwriting installs and with trafstats, debian-unstable

2002-01-08 Thread Teunis Peters
I hope this is the right place to ask, I'm not really sure so if anyone can help, please??? I've been using debian-unstable due to requiring lots of current software but have run into a couple of problems: some packages I've needed to recompile to use different libraries (or versions of libraries

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:34:07PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > | > | On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > | > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 > | > messages I think) because a spammer has

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:22:57AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.2343 +0100]: | > | sure, that will read the output of the find command into vi, iff you | > | actually omit the xargs. | > | > Yeah, but you didn't omit xargs :-). | | because i wan

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:40:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.07.2215 +0100]: | > ...how would one do this via procmail, filtering on 'Recieved' | > lines? Anything from this domain should be forwarded to a spam | > complain addresses and shitcanned. |

Question about IP masqing

2002-01-08 Thread Willem
Hi, I'm trying to get to grips with all the network stuff. I'm still using a script from the net cause i don't feel confident enough to build my own yet... But one thing keeps illuding me. with MASQ..if a client on the local LAN makes a connection it will appear on the other side as if the linux

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1954 +0100]: > 1. X is huge. it's about sixteen times the size it should be, and i >mean visually. the reconfigure stuff moved it and all its files >from /usr/X11/ (i think that's what it was) to /usr/X11R6, and now >it's waaa

OT REPLY: Re: the bell in console mode..

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:27:22PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg insinuated: > Use 'setterm'. 'setterm -blength 0' disables the bell forgive the offtopicness, and this should probably go to debian-curiosa, but i just had to share my joy at this discovery. as i'm now functioning in tty mode until i ca

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread thyrinn
Check /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/pam.d/ssh for settings. I commented the settings out of /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I can't remember what option it was cause I fixed it a while ago. -Scott > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > | 2. when i login to my own machin

Re: can't load library 'libXm.so.0'

2002-01-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:18:15AM +0800, a wrote: > i have Debian 1.2 and installed lesstif and compiled nedit but can't run it. > nedit complains: Wow, 1.2 is old... > can't load library 'libXm.so.0' > > although libXm.so.0 is in /usr/X11R6/lib Try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/X11R6/lib.

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 06:31:48PM -0500, dman insinuated: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > | 2. when i login to my own machine via ssh, i get the login message > |twice. i didn't know where it is to begin with, and i'm not sure > |why it's doubled now.

Re: Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install

2002-01-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:03:01PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > Most things I try say that the GLIBC 2.2 package library or whatever is not > installed. I try various permitations of apt-cache search and apt-get install > and reinstall and fix to try get things working again, but most things,

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: | | On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: | > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 | > messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail | > address of mine and used it. This

Re: X too big; login double; fetchmail kaputt

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | 2. when i login to my own machine via ssh, i get the login message |twice. i didn't know where it is to begin with, and i'm not sure |why it's doubled now. i'm using zsh. I don't know what causes this, but I have gotten

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.2343 +0100]: > | sure, that will read the output of the find command into vi, iff you > | actually omit the xargs. > > Yeah, but you didn't omit xargs :-). because i wanted to use it. i wanted it to provide filenames to vi the same way that find .

Sid: Probing when starting X?

2002-01-08 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
Hi, I'm running Sid (2.4.17) and the latest XFree86 (4.1.0-11). When starting X, it takes 15-20 seconds before the KDE-splash appears. In that time, the screen flashes about 5 times. I assume it is some kind of probing... Is there any way to prevent this and specify the values manually (if i

can't load library 'libXm.so.0'

2002-01-08 Thread a
i have Debian 1.2 and installed lesstif and compiled nedit but can't run it. nedit complains: can't load library 'libXm.so.0' although libXm.so.0 is in /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: It's a bird....it's a plane....

2002-01-08 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
... It's a spam selling MLM spammer support! Carrie Cook wrote: [nothing of importance] Linda "slow email day" Laubenheimer -- Linda J Laubenheimer - UNIX Geek, Sysadmin, Bibliophile and Iconoclast http://www.modusvarious.net/ - consultants available http://www.laubenheim

Missing GLIBC2.2 on potato install

2002-01-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I've installed potato a few times on this particular PC, and for various reasons, I wanted to do a clean re-install. I repartitioned and off we went. Everything went smoothly and I soon had a working system. I wanted to access reiser filesystems (version 2) created by another linux distro, so

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:38 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 > messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail > address of mine and used it. This means that > '[EMAIL PRO

Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 messages I think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail address of mine and used it. This means that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (which I had no idea was legitimate) has received many thousands of mail bounces. Is there a packag

Re: OT: xargs & vi

2002-01-08 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:59:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.2146 +0100]: | > Other people have explained what happened, but not how to get where | > you want to be. For vim, at least, | > | > find . -name Root | xargs vi - | > | > Tell vim

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 January 2002 04:06 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 5:26 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Mark Lanett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1749 +0100]: > > > You need to remove exim and install postfix in one co

Re: partition resize

2002-01-08 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 22:52, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > Hi all, > i have woody box with reiserfs > i made some mount points as > > /usr > /home > /boot > /temp > /var > > all mount points are on reiser, only /var is on ext2fs, because > this partition is just 100mb, and reiser refused to make suc

Any experience with Cyberpower Inc (for computers, not UPSs)?

2002-01-08 Thread Stan Kaufman
Cyberpower Inc (http://www.cyberpowercorp.com/) appears to offer attractive value for price in their computer systems, and notably sell their boxes with no OS (thus no M$ tax). Has anyone bought from them? Any comments/experiences? TIA! Interesting that their name is virtually identical with the U

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > apt-get install postfix will already remove exim... > > But will it satisfy the dependancies for removing exim, and also remove mutt, > samba, leafnode etc ... I don't understand why removing exim should remove > samba. Then look at the chain of package dependencies un

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-08 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 00:00, Brian Nelson wrote: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:59:20 +0100 > > > > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > also sprach Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1547 +0100]: > > > > > is this good or bad? hda2 is m

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-08 Thread Theo Wribe
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:00:27PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > It's all about scsi baby... > > /dev/sdb: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.78 seconds =164.10 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.62 seconds = 39.51 MB/sec My Western Digital 80G 7200RPM is pretty good too.

Re: postfix dependancies

2002-01-08 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 5:26 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mark Lanett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1749 +0100]: > > You need to remove exim and install postfix in one command, e.g. > > apt-get install postfix exim- > > apt-get install postfix will already remove exim... But will

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-08 Thread Brian Nelson
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:59:20 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > also sprach Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1547 +0100]: > > > > is this good or bad? hda2 is my swap partition: > > > > > > This is bad (<1/6). > > > > what do

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin matlads Atukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.05.1810 +0100]: > #lsmod | grep snd > snd-seq-midi3136 0 (autoclean) (unused) > snd-synth-trident 6976 1 (autoclean) > snd-seq-instr 4208 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-trident] > snd-ainstr-simple

Re: trident: incredibly crappy sound

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.31.0308 +0100]: > I missed the original post I guess, so I don't have all the > background, but is your mixer level turned up too high? I get a lot > of distortion on my sound card if it is. not at all. no matter whether they're at 20%, 60%, 8

Re: problems copying audio cd w/ cdrecord and cdrdao

2002-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:25:14PM +0100, Thomas Kral wrote: > Worry not, > > After setting up the sound I can play it back in the burner, I still cannot > play it in my stereo though. > > Last tests I made were done only with a single .wav track, -nofix flag, and > cdrecord on R/W cd media, th

Re: woody isos and stuff

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Chris Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.2145 +0100]: > OK, I see the Woody images there, but what app do I use to burn a .raw > image? Sorry if this is a dumb question. assuming a correct setup in /etc/cdrecord.conf cdrecord -v -eject -isosize -data file.raw -- martin;

It's a bird....it's a plane....

2002-01-08 Thread Carrie Cook
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offline apt with a twist

2002-01-08 Thread John Tyner
I have two machines that have no network connection that I need to keep updated. I read the offline apt document on how to use apt on another, networked machine to keep my standalones up to do date, but I have one problem. Due to the nature of the use of the stand alone machines, they are "write-o

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