Re: woody installation problem

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Sweger
Ditto. I have consistently encountered this error with the 20020416 netinst image for the last week or so. At first, I thought it was a bad installer. However, I also get the error "Malformed Release" when using the 20020215 netinst image which had been working just fine previously. This is when us

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Tom Allison
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:33:57PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: The problem I have is that I'm not really clear on what of the 5 choices I should pick up for the Server versus the various clients I have, which are running exim as localhost mail. Can someone give me a rough

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I mentioned swap because 2.4 uses swap very differently from 2.2. We know now > that 2.4 is somehow involved. Actually, >= 2.4.10 swaps very differently than <=2.4.9. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 May 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), > I sometimes wonder if email conventions should be derived from > limitations of such ancient hardware. In some sense, its a good > pract

Re: Problem with iptables and 2.4.17

2002-05-17 Thread Nick Croft
Hi Norman, I've taken my advice from a tutorial by Daniel Robbins, published by IBM. He advises enabling the following under network options: <*> Packet socket [*] Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains) <*> Unix domain sockets [*] TCP/IP networking [*] IP: advanced router [*] I

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > You're describing a different bug in OE. There are so many > from which to choose... And as demonstrated here, they all have similar effects with many different causes... - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > You'll want to base the server on option 1 (Internet site) or 2 > (Internet site using smarthost), depending on whether you feel a need > to route all outgoing mail through your ISP's server. A few sites >

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

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote: > (Baloo - I tried to reply to you privately but the mail bounced) Read the bounce message. Most likely you got bounced due to an open relay being involved and there will likely be a URL pointing you somepl

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:47:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:00, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:51PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thank you for your post. Pastor

Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

2002-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:05, Soul Computer wrote: > Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that > since Linux is the original multi-user, > multitasking operating system for the PC, it Fat chance. MP/M (the multi-user variant of CP/M was running on 8080s & Z-80s (8 bit processors!!) back in the

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread DvB
Petr Vanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:47:06PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > > > A# dpkg --get-selections > selections > > A# scp selections B: > > A# ssh B > > B# dpkg --set-selections < selections > > B# dselect install remove > > > > Keep in mind though, this wil

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:00, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:51PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thank you for your post. Pastor "Chick" is very busy processing > > > Emails and Internet tape orders

Re: X forwarding dead in Sid

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using X forwarding between my 2 Sid computers for a while now > with no problem. However, at some point since my last update (about 3 > weeks ago) X forwarding over SSH seems to have died. I run ssh with the > -X option, and I've checked the

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:30, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> Any clues on where to find the old package? It's not on the sane page or >> the debian page. > > Try /var/cache/apt/archives/ > failing that, maybe someone here on the list has an old deb laying > aroun

Re: Character Set trouble

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:04:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am seeing the ? character instead of actual accented characters in > mail I get, even if it has > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > I am using mutt in a KDE console on woody, so I'm not even sure what > com

Re: Character Set trouble

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:04:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am seeing the ? character instead of actual accented characters in > mail I get, even if it has > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" You might want to try adjusting your $LC_CTYPE to something with the ISO-8859-

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-17 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:09:44AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote: > Uh boy. So how to I rectify this? I do have several packages that are > not installing correctly, such as libgnomeprint-data and other packages > that are in its depends tree. You can remove all the Ximian-gnome packages. It may be a

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread Petr Vanek
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:47:06PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > A# dpkg --get-selections > selections > A# scp selections B: > A# ssh B > B# dpkg --set-selections < selections > B# dselect install remove > > Keep in mind though, this will not reproduce the CONFIGURATIONS, just the > PACKAGES. Y

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020517 09:32]: > > Flowed just means that 72 character lines are terminated by a soft > > return instead of a hard return so that when a program like Mutt reads > > the e-mail it will see the soft re

Maybe a corny idea ...

2002-05-17 Thread Soul Computer
Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought that since Linux is the original multi-user, multitasking operating system for the PC, it could be used to do some really neat stuff. What I had in mind for those of you who could afford it was the purchasing of a flat screen LCD touch screen, then laying it

Character Set trouble

2002-05-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I am seeing the ? character instead of actual accented characters in mail I get, even if it has Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am using mutt in a KDE console on woody, so I'm not even sure what component I should be looking at. When I visit my mail file in emacs the acce

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:51PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank you for your post. Pastor "Chick" is very busy processing > > Emails and Internet tape orders. Please be patient as he will respond > > to you as soon

Re: RealPlayer does nothing at all

2002-05-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:04:10PM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > > Hi. > > Last night I tried to install the realplayer using the 'realplayer' > package in unstable. As instructed by the package help, I downloaded > the 'RealPlayer 8 Basic' RPM from real.com, and let the package > install it. (It

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Richard" == Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: >> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: >> > The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, >> > terminals >> >are 80 characters wide, and

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya robert am only referring to software raid ( raid features in the kernel as you call it )... lots of different software raid howto -which one best suits you would depend on where you are in the raid process - convertng an existing system ( not too easy ) - installing

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals > > are 80 characters wide, and 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with > > "> " four times. That's one of the r

Re: SGML help

2002-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:38:29PM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:33:42PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I'm looking for help (for newbies) on using debiandoc-sgml. > > > The problem is that I want

wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > The reason most people > suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals are 80 characters wide, and > 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with "> " four times. Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), I somet

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread David Wright
A# dpkg --get-selections > selections A# scp selections B: A# ssh B B# dpkg --set-selections < selections B# dselect install remove Keep in mind though, this will not reproduce the CONFIGURATIONS, just the PACKAGES. You could try B# rsync -e ssh -a A:/etc / to get /etc synch'd, but some things

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020517 09:32]: > Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are "flowed" > > when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are > > all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lin

Print font in mozilla

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Fontenot
I followed some advice I got on this mailing list, to increase the font size in mozilla (for the headings, etc), by changing the DPI setting under view->preferences->font. (I changed DPI from 96 to 192, and I like the results very much). There are only two remaining problems: 1) When I print an

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:43:49AM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > Well it seems that by installing ximian gnome I installed a mixture of > incompatible libs, ( just found out this evening as I wanted to > install various *-dev libs.) > > Now how can I solve this situation? What exactly are you tr

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:20:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > My mistake, I meant latex2rtf for RTF and ps2pdf for PDF... > > Thanks for pointing that out. You're welcome :-). It's nice to know such a thing as latex2rtf exists. I really don't like authoring in rtf directly. -- N

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2002-05-17 Thread Simon Read
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RealPlayer does nothing at all

2002-05-17 Thread Daniel Katz
Hi. Last night I tried to install the realplayer using the 'realplayer' package in unstable. As instructed by the package help, I downloaded the 'RealPlayer 8 Basic' RPM from real.com, and let the package install it. (It did this with no complaints.) I then tried to run it from the command lin

Problem with gdm, local and remote logins, and pam_group

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Renfro
(I posted this to debian-security earlier today, but debian-user might be a better place for it. Please CC: me on replies.) Haven't found a solution in any searches I've done thus far, so here's my problem: Given: - 1 workstation running gdm 2.2.5.5-2 (and pam 0.72-35), offering XDMCP access t

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > Whew! > > I just got back from the data centre. As I was getting ready to boot into > the old kernel, something that Craig Dickson pointed out struck me: check > the DMA settings. Well i rebooted and went into my BIOS settings. There was > this weird opt

starnge problem with dialup clients with pop3

2002-05-17 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
Hi guys, I am having troble with qpopper performace with some kind of client. First I have one email server with sendmail and qpopper. And I have 3 kind of email client, first kind is my LAN, second is ADSL from Internet and the last is dialup laptops from Internet. To send email, all my clients

Re: Stupid pan question

2002-05-17 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:33:24PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi, > Somehow I seem to have gotten my pan newsreader into a state where it > doesn't display articles in the header pane in threaded mode, just in flat > mode. How do I get it back to threaded mode? I can't find any menu > it

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Whew! I just got back from the data centre. As I was getting ready to boot into the old kernel, something that Craig Dickson pointed out struck me: check the DMA settings. Well i rebooted and went into my BIOS settings. There was this weird option (with no descriptions) that said, "Load Optimal S

Re: SGML help

2002-05-17 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:33:42PM -0300, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm looking for help (for newbies) on using debiandoc-sgml. > > The problem is that I want to write documents in spanish, and i don't > > know how, because the dtd's contro

Re: fonts in gnome 1.4

2002-05-17 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> Hi! any way to implement antialiasing fonts in gnome 1.4 Marcelo> shipping with woody? Look at the libgdkxft0 package. Beware, though, that it's a hack. There's no reasonable way to get gtk+ 1.2 programs to do antialias

Re: xvidtune + xfree4 [SOLVED]

2002-05-17 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:39:06AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 15, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > I've upgraded to X

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread traxlend
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > > Hi, I'm completely stumped. > > I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since > then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most > notable is if I run make. > > For example,

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > Well, this Celeron 700 has 256 MB of RAM. Here's the swap useage. So that > looks okay to me. I'll check some of the hard drive stuff you mentioned. > > shiner:/# free -t > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Hi,   Thanks for the info. But my issue is that I do not have a RAID Controller. I was looking at using the raid features built into the kernes. I have been playing with 2.4.18 and raidtools2. Thanks Alvin Oga wrote: hi yabooting into raid1 or raid0 for / should be fine...for scsi disks...

fonts in gnome 1.4

2002-05-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! any way to implement antialiasing fonts in gnome 1.4 shipping with woody? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > No, under the old kernel, everything was great. I upgraded and everything > slowed down. But if you boot back into the old kernel, does it speed up again? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya booting into raid1 or raid0 for / should be fine... for scsi disks... you'd need to make sure the kernel supports your controller... ( use initrd ) am assuming ( md0 ) / contains /boot and everything needed for single user mode if it was ide ... /dev/md0 == /dev

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
No, under the old kernel, everything was great. I upgraded and everything slowed down. At the same time, I upgraded a similar machine with a slightly slower CPU. It suffered no degredation of any kind when upgrading the kernel. Michael Lee (TOR) Service Architect TELUS Corporation 910-222 Bay St

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Well, this Celeron 700 has 256 MB of RAM. Here's the swap useage. So that looks okay to me. I'll check some of the hard drive stuff you mentioned. shiner:/# free -t total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:254180 223784 30396 0 11

Software RAID question

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Is it possible with the newer kernels to actually boot to a software raid?? I have a machine with 4 SCSI drives and I want to be able to RAID 1 the drives in pairs. One pair for the / and the second pair for /var only. But everything I have read to date says you cannot do this. TIA Robert

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Considering everything was fine under the 2.2 kernel, I don't think it's a swap issue. :( I also checked gcc. Anyone have any comments about my suspicions of running i386 builds on a Celeron (Coppermine) machine? OR better yet... any thing that I could have just completely missed? (This is most

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread luc . lefebvre
Hi, My mistake, I meant latex2rtf for RTF and ps2pdf for PDF... Thanks for pointing that out. -- Luc Lefebvre o /`-' Open Source, a strategic choice \ for mission-critical applications___/___./ Key f

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > Hi, I'm completely stumped. > > I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since > then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most > notable is if I run make. > > For example, "make menuconfig" takes about two full minut

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:57:35AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > > Yep. I wish it were that simple. :( >From that I presume you got the same slowness even under the old kernel? -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

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

2002-05-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:36, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: > I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. The deb package is eroaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 17-May-2002 Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > > Hi, I'm completely stumped. > > I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since > then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most > notable is if I run make. > is swap enabled? Do you have enough? T

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Yep. I wish it were that simple. :( ~~ michael lee -Original Message- From: David Roundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:55 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: make is really slow! On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote:

Re: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Michael Lee (TOR) wrote: > > I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since > then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most > notable is if I run make. Have you tried rebooting using your old kernel? --

make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lee \(TOR\)
Hi, I'm completely stumped. I recently upgraded my Debian system from a 2.2 kernel to 2.4.18, and since then it has slowed to a near-halt (on a Celeron 733). Where it's most notable is if I run make. For example, "make menuconfig" takes about two full minutes to bring up the dialog boxes. And th

Automounter problems

2002-05-17 Thread stan
I have a debian woody machine on a network with various FreeBSD OpenBSD and HP-UX machines. On all the machine I have exports files that export all of the various filesystems to a netgroup called "all". Using the autmounter on the Debian amchine, I can cd /net/{machine_mane} and have acess to the

Stupid pan question

2002-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, Somehow I seem to have gotten my pan newsreader into a state where it doesn't display articles in the header pane in threaded mode, just in flat mode. How do I get it back to threaded mode? I can't find any menu items that seem relevant. (It's version 0.11.3-2, if that makes any differenc

cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I installed cfingerd 1.4.3-1.1 on a Woody system and opened port 79 in my firewall. I'm trying to finger myself from another host that's also behind a firewall. The messages I get in daemon.log look like this: May 17 12:41:20 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: connect from somewhereelse May 1

Invitación a globalservice@domeus.es

2002-05-17 Thread globalservice-unsubscribe
Hola debian-user@lists.debian.org, Bienvenidos a Al-andalus Noticias y Servicos - domeus le confirma su suscripción al boletín globalservice Por favor, conserve este e-mail para futuras referencias. SI NO DESEA RECIBIR más información de este boletín, en

Re: spurious xterm windows on boot

2002-05-17 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
>This all is really strange I'm not sure what's going on, but maybe >it has something to do with gnome 'restoring' the last session? What >happens if you kill all xterms and then say 'restore session'? This >doesn't explain the incrementing numbers though. Maybe that's got >something to do wit

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

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I would like to find a nice ncurses based console burning app myself. I use GUIs but most of the work gets done via the command line. Thanks, Matt - Original Message - From: "Mike Frisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re: GUI front-end for writing C

How does Debian support iSCSI

2002-05-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am evaluating iSCSI solution on Debian. How does it currently being supported on Linux? Any experience highly appreciated. -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatpahud.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pcmcia orinoco in a desktop, problems

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
Thanks all. Using yenta_socket made things work. There was a little problem with cardmgr looking for the orinoco drivers in /lib/modules/xxx/pcmcia instead of /lib/modules/xxx/kernel/drivers/net/wireless; this may be related to the problem G. Edwards mentioned. Creating soft links in pcmcia to ../k

syn flood attacked?

2002-05-17 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have a heavy smtp server and recently I got a lot messages like May 17 22:53:24 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25. Sending cookies. May 17 22:54:25 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25. Sending cookies. May 17 22:55:25 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25.

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Crawford wrote: > A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are "flowed" > when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are > all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines > each terminated by a return. > > I don't see how to d

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread dman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: [snip] | The bug you describe is caused when it recieves a message that | starts with "begin " and isn't starting a uuencoded file. OE users | will attest to this as this particular post will trigger that bug. Oh, yeah, that bu

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread dman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:51:20AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I think I'm getting stuck on this configuration. | Below is the last (summary) screen of the eximconfig process. | What I'm trying to do is use this to send email from my own domain | (tacocat.net) that is sent to this machine from oth

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:45:36AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > Netstat reports that foreign address is *:*, and I indeed > _can_ connect to it with telnet, altough if I send anything to > it with the telnet, the connection gets closed. Further, there > is only one wdm process running. Maybe I

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

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

Re: mail user

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:42:56AM +0100, Ben Cooling wrote: > The primary group of my mail user is set to "lp". Is this correct? I > would have expected it to be the "mail" group. No. mail's primary group should be mail, with uid and gid 8. lp should be uid and gid 7. You might want to chec

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections - Original Message - From: "Lukas Ruf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: Identical installations on several machines > Dear all, > > using Debian 3.0, I really admire the dselect feature. As I h

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The symptoms of the gpg thing are that the Outlook user gets >> the e-mail, but instead of treating it as a signed message, it >> treats it as an empty message with an attachment (or something >> like that). > > I think you're getting your bugs m

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:33:57PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > The problem I have is that I'm not really clear on what of the 5 choices > I should pick up for the Server versus the various clients I have, which > are running exim as localhost mail. > > Can someone give me a rough sketch of where

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

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:36:42AM -0500, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: > I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. Never heard of that one, but the screenshot on freshmeat looks nice. Yet another burner app to try :-) > Instead of writing your own perhaps it would be wise to join

Converting incoming image attachments

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Shutko
At work, I keep receiving bmp attachments from our clients. These are annoying because they're big and my mailer won't display them inline. I'd like to convert them automatically to pngs before they hit my mailer. Anyone know of an easy way to do that, perhaps a procmail recipe or something? --

Re: SUGGESTION for Debian FAQ

2002-05-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Please do not cross-post to so many lists with general comments. Following up to debian-user. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:54:37PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > BTW, I tried to find out (in FHS and Debian Policy) the > differences between /usr/doc/ and /usr/share/doc as well as > why s

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

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. Instead of writing your own perhaps it would be wise to join another project. I have found that cd burning frontends have gotten out of hand today. There are way to many that only work partially. If they all combined into a really good

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

2002-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:18, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:40AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > MP3 to WAV, I use xmms with the disk writer output plugin. For the > > burning process itself, I use cdroast. > > I am trying to make it a one-step process, instead of two.

XFree86

2002-05-17 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I am currently running Debian 2.2r6 and want to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 or XFree86 4.2.  My last experience with upgrading to 4.2 was educational. It said I needed GLIBC_2.2 to run.  So I wanted to run XFree86 4.1 instead.   I was just wondering what the best/easiest route was for upgrades X

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

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:40AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > MP3 to WAV, I use xmms with the disk writer output plugin. For the > burning process itself, I use cdroast. I am trying to make it a one-step process, instead of two. I tried xcdroast but quickly found that it doesn't handle

OT: Decent .us registrar?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any recomendations for a cheap and fast .us registrar? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE85RC8NtWkM9Ny9xURApgTAJ0djQxCZEpya0zrNQ07SBszXV/ijACfcPs5 niV7ZoYDb7IK/eMBMP48nSM= =tlLe -END PGP SIGNATUR

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:46:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I resort to "RTF" format using "latex2pdf" which it often is in my case...> or "ps2pdf". > > Hope this helps... While RTF is a nice format to use when people want resume's in 'Word format', latex2pdf won't produce it. Did you m

Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

2002-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 01:25, Paul Scott wrote: > Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > A usenet moderator pointed out to me that my paragraphs are "flowed" > > when I post to usenet. I think what he means is that my paragraphs are > > all one line terminated by a return, rather than a sequence of lines

Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))

2002-05-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, "cam" == Cam Ellison wrote: cam> set editor="emacs '+/^$' \"set textwidth=70\"" Nope. On my system this tells emacs to edit a file named (something like) "textwidth=70". Look at your list of buffers when you use this command string. cam> What should I do differen

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:48:55 -0700 "Eric Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then > one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks > out for power saving. Next you come back and press space bar and the

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread luc . lefebvre
I resort to "RTF" format using "latex2pdf" or "ps2pdf". Hope this helps... -- Luc Lefebvre o /`-' Open Source, a strategic choice \ for mission-critical applications___/___./ Key fingerprint = D2E5 5

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Cam Ellison
I have had my suspicions about the existence of some such thing, but being no expert on M$ (I was an OS/2 user before Linux), I have not been sure where to look. I shall go looking for it (my kids' machine will run Win98 for up to an hour before it GPFs). :-) Thank you, sir Cam * Paul 'Baloo' J

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Also just use something like the "ALT" key instead of the spacebar. You shouldn't have a problem then. Joey Hess wrote: Eric Richardson wrote: I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody.The

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Richardson wrote: > I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is > that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody. > > The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then > one of these configuration screens comes up, and then

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly since hda1 is NOT in your /dev/md0 ... you're stuck... -- once it all works... use /dev/hda and /dev/hdc instead -- remove all the extra (disk info) jibberish in your lilo.conf and raidtab but ... first, try building your raid manually...

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya karoly... hi & thx for the help, > did you try "raidsetfaulty" ? > raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 /dev/md1: can not hot-remove

lpr to NT4 intermittent problem

2002-05-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
We have a NT4 machine that serves as a (proprietary) plot sender to an OCE plan printer. I'm spooling files from a linux server using lpr. About twice a week We get this sort of message 4 times after which plotting is disabled until we restart the NT4 machine: 2001-08-07-10:52:27.312 hopnet axis_

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly... did you try "raidsetfaulty" ? raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 .. what does your lilo.conf look like ?? - does it have initrd.gz in it ?? - which kernel is in initrd.gz ?? thanx alvin On Fri, 17 May 2002,

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you are trying to hotadd ... you need to hotremove it first... ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid1 hdb1[0] 4200896 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 hda2[1] hdb2[0] 6297408 blocks [2/2]

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