exim - what is missing in my set-up?

2002-10-24 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! i seem to be pretty stuck here! umpteen attempts and quite a few posts and iam still unable to solve the mistry! relevant portions of /etc/exim/exim.conf ## # ROUTERS CONFIGURATION

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread Russell
Bob Proulx wrote: > > Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-25 10:10:53 +1000]: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Why do you have to activate them? > > > > I want to activate them so that my keyboard doesn't have stupid > > non-functional keys. > > You completely misread my meaning. I was NOT asking wh

Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-24 Thread Robert Kratky
hi, this doesn't seem to be a problem of switching but of the keymap itself. does the keymap function properly when you leave it the only one and start x with it? as for newer versions, the unstable version (4.2.1) works without a glitch on my woody box from the point it was installed (i actual

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Ángel Carrasco
I cannot do it because, the big router has a little bandwidth only used by these servers. I try to use the office network to give internet all rest. And the second, I would have to do NAT because, each router only manages his range. - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul thanx for the tip ... but i typically dont care about which came first... :-) - but will keep that in mind for future On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > People do not read in random order. Please learn to quote > intuitively. http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Em

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB > backend..) That's not entirely isolated to AIX. Some other systems keep some things (like user accounts) database files somewhere, and just update the files in /etc for backwa

Nautilus 1.0.6

2002-10-24 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I use Nautilus 1.0.6, and also the galeon-nautilus package. In Nautilus, I think it's pretty strange that the proxy password entered in the Preferences gets showed up after you go back to it; by showed up, I mean that the real characters get displayed instead of the asterisks. BTW, how do you

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
People do not read in random order. Please learn to quote intuitively. http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:22:13PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > best way to fight spam.. > - get an MTA that you can control ... > ( get a domain name ... $9.00/

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > I know spamassassin by name. I believe the version in stable is > quite old. Is it useful to install that version? What other tools > should I consider? I like Spamassassin, myself. I use unstable, though, and don't really follow

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember > earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget > what the problem was) I made a change to a file in /etc, it was resolv.conf > or hosts or nsswitch.conf

Can't suddenly login relocation error in libncurses.so.5

2002-10-24 Thread Jonas Persson
Hi, I Just arrieved to work and tried to resume a screen session i have against my box at home. When issuing screen i got the error message : screen /lib/libncurses.so.5: undefined symbol: ble So i logged out from the machine and tried to login again now i get : Last login: Fri Oct 25 06:59:39

12 main items ( SSS-4 )

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Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Kent West
Shawn Lamson wrote: thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it anyway. I have several friends who are eager to try Linux until the word "partitition" comes up. There is even one guy at work who is look

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
Read it again. Swap FILE on a MS-DOS partition. No partitioning involved. On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:52:04PM -0700, Shawn Lamson wrote: > thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that > trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it > anyway. I have s

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > I was thinking wasteful underkill, since you lose flexibility with a > monolithic registry rather than the nice layout of /etc. some UNIX's do have a form of registry. AIX for example, I remember earlier this year while trying to fix a AIX 4.3.x machine(I forget what the pr

Can't suddenly login relocation error in libncurses.so.5

2002-10-24 Thread Jonas Persson
Hi, I Just arrieved to work and tried to resume a screen session i have against my box at home. When issuing screen i got the error message : screen /lib/libncurses.so.5: undefined symbol: ble So i logged out from the machine and tried to login again now i get : Last login: Fri Oct 25 06:59:39

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:47:14PM -0400, Mike Kuhar wrote: > As far as a registry is concerned, UNIX/Linux does not need it. A registry > is the biggest waste of processor bandwidth and disk real-estate, and a > bitch to maintain. Things are handled very nicely with /etc. Anything else > is ove

Re: exim troubles - is there an end to this?

2002-10-24 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:00:43PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | hello all! | | my troubles with exim seem to be endless! Actually, I think you're really close. See below. so i wish, too! | by the way, the first message - sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was | succ

Re: [OT] registry implementation (was Re: Debian, too easy?)

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:01:33AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Perhaps a simple convention of storing user application configurations > under a single ~/.etc/ directory would solve matters? This would keep > them out of normal view and yet not clutter one's home directory all at > the same ti

Re: squid and calamaris

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:33:38PM +0200, Toens Bueker wrote: > When I'm not interested in hosts and content I'm just > looking for the hit-rate in "Incoming TCP-requests by > status". If the byte hit-ratio is above 20%, I'm happy. If you install adzap, you'll see that figure go up closer to 50-70

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:53, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) > - What har

Re: squid and calamaris

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:35:32AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I've recently set up squid and calamaris on a small server for a small > LAN. So far so good as it all seems to work, and Calamaris is emailing > to me a daily report. You might be interested in adzap, as well. http://www.zip.com.a

Re: any read-only news group for this ML?

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:54:12AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Is there any read-only public news group available which collects > all mailing list archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? muc.lists.debian.user is the newsgroup, though other newsgroups have some of the du posts (linux.debian.user, IIRC, is

RE: Apache handling SSI

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Olds
OK Thanks something to think about -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:debian-user@;aphroland.org] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache handling SSI Michael Olds said: > Hello, > > I know I could just do this, but I am a little gun shy: can

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it anyway. I have several friends who are eager to try Linux until the word "partitition" comes up. There is even one guy at work who is looking into some "swappab

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-25 10:10:53 +1000]: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Why do you have to activate them? > > I want to activate them so that my keyboard doesn't have stupid > non-functional keys. You completely misread my meaning. I was NOT asking why you want to use the keys. I think

Re: Kernel Panic

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Mykl said: > Hi, > > I have a Compaq Proliant ML 330 with an 18 GB SCSI hard-drive and another > hot-plug able SCSI HDD of the same capacity. > I want to install Debian Potato on this machine as in I would like to use > it as a DNS, Mail, Proxy Server. > During boot up they system this error > any

Kernel Panic

2002-10-24 Thread Mykl
Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant ML 330 with an 18 GB SCSI hard-drive and another hot-plug able SCSI HDD of the same capacity. I want to install Debian Potato on this machine as in I would like to use it as a DNS, Mail, Proxy Server. During boot up they system this error Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to

Re: qmail deb question

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:18:21AM +0800, david hong wrote: > All services running fine. > when i test to send a local mail, i can see the mail sent out > successfuly at the mail.log file. > However, i can find the mail at /var/spool/mail. > > anyone knows where the mail store? Qmail normally de

Re: Apache handling SSI

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Michael Olds said: > Hello, > > I know I could just do this, but I am a little gun shy: can an Apache > server that now runs SSI using an .shtml mime type and an .shtml > AddHandler be made to run SSI on .htm files by just including > AddHandler server-parsed .htm ? > > Not sure I said that correct

Apache handling SSI

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, I know I could just do this, but I am a little gun shy: can an Apache server that now runs SSI using an .shtml mime type and an .shtml AddHandler be made to run SSI on .htm files by just including AddHandler server-parsed .htm ? Not sure I said that correctly: I want to include includes in

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Petr Vanek said: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. > > is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it > against policies to make nonsecurity update in stable? i mean, can we > as

Xnest and fonts

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
After all of the discussion about lightweight window managers, esp as regards Ion and Ratpoision, I decided to give them all a try. Ion has gone well, Ratpoision less so, but that's probably due to personal preferences more than anything. But in trying Xnest, I ran into a problem ... as per the

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-24 Thread Martin Strauss
I have the same problem in Eterm - how do I fix this? I've tried binding the keysyms to  and  respectively, but this fscks up home and end in vim and other applications... Martin Begin Russell quotation: > stefan wrote: > > > > Problem: > > In xterm, my home key and my end key do not work, o

Re: any read-only news group for this ML?

2002-10-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Patrick" == Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> Hello list, Is there any read-only public news group available Patrick> which collects all mailing list archive of Patrick> [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Why read-only? news.gmane.org allows both read and write (although you need to veri

qmail deb question

2002-10-24 Thread david hong
i downloaded the installed all these from smarden.org/pape/Debian/.. daemontools_0.76-woody1_i386.deb daemontools-run_0.76.3_all.deb ucspi-tcp_0.88-woody1_i386.deb dot-forward_0.71-woody1_i386.deb fastforward_0.51-woody1_i386.deb qmail-run_1.0.0_all.deb qmail-uids-gids_1.0.0_all.deb qmail_1.03-wo

Re: dist-upgrade

2002-10-24 Thread shaulka
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:30:03PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: > I tried this morning to upgrade from potato to woody. The procedure I > followed was: > > apt-cdrom add > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > After inserting the appropriate CD, apt-get returned the following the > eror m

any read-only news group for this ML?

2002-10-24 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there any read-only public news group available which collects all mailing list archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Pubilc Key at http://www.ezplay.tv/~pahud/pahudatezplay.pubkey MD5 checksum: b948362c94655b74b33e859d58b8de91 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:59:54PM +1000, Russell wrote: >> IMHO, a registry would be ok if it was ascii/human readable, you could >> tell applications to ignore it, and no applications are forced or required >> to know about it. A set of utilities for ex

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Kent West
Shawn Lamson wrote: --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But in the case of low RAM, if a Linux partition is not available, Knoppix uses the Windows partition and creates a swap file (not a swap partition). Kent Does it use "freespace" on the drive, or will i

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ole" == Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ole> I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on Ole> this? Perhaps undertaken such a task yourself? I am going Ole> to do this to about 500 CDs and want to do it right from the Ole> start. ;) I did this t

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Petr Vanek said: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. > > is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it > against policies to make nonsecurity upda

[req. for programmers - GPL Dive Planner - Java ][25/10/2002-0:13 GMT]

2002-10-24 Thread Aldo Solari [APS]
This is a call to the OSS community for volunteer (Java) programmers who would like to join the GPLDivePlanner project (gpldiverplanner.seul.org): [1] Definition and mission statement: The aim of this multinational-multidisciplinary project is to produce the "GPL DivePl

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-24 Thread Russell
stefan wrote: > > Problem: > In xterm, my home key and my end key do not work, only > beep... This was fixed last night. To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm, press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options" menu, then select "Enable Applicati

Re: Problems restarting Sendmail after upgrade.

2002-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:36:04PM -0600, Curtis Hogg wrote: > I'm running Debian unstable (yes, i know that's a bad idea), and get this > message after apt-get update/apt-get upgrading today: > > Start sendmail now? (Y/n) > Starting Mail Transport Agent: sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail: /lib/libc.so

Re: xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, stefan said: > Problem: > In xterm, my home key and my end key do not work, only > beep... There is a current thread on this mailing list about the same issue - several solutions have been advanced. HTH, Steve -- Reply hazy, ask again later. msg08842/pgp0.pgp

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-24 Thread Geordie Birch
said csj (on 2002-10-25), > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT) > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > said csj (on 2002-10-24), > > > > > I managed to find out Ion's "restart_other" option, but with > > > Ratpoison I appear to be trapped. I need to log-out of my XSession > > > befo

Re: install-info fails for many packages

2002-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:28:44PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jan Tomasek wrote: > > Shame on me! I'm very sorry, I installed TexLive7 and allowed it to place > > links in /usr/local/bin :(( > > > > | semik:~# which install-info > > | /usr/local/bin/install-info > > | semik:

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread Russell
Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm, > > > > press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options" > > > > menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". Alternatively, > > > > type: echo -n "^[[?1h", where ^[ is the

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]: > > > >>How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as > swap > >>without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? > > > > > > It would only m

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Petr Vanek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Right after Woody release, MS stopped serving these font on the net. is it too much to ask maintainer to update that package, or is it against policies to make nonsecurity update in stable? i mean, can we ask, or is it nonsence? --

Re: Making one machine an "apt server" for others....

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:05:35PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > So, I got to thinking... why can't machine "A" do a normal upgrade > > and save all of its .deb packages. Then, all of the other machines > > would have their sources.list file pointed to machine "A" and they'd > > just hit *tha

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:23 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in > > > > xterm, press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT > > > > Options" menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". > > > > Alternatively, type

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 04:33, Tom Cook wrote: > > > There is something I'm not quite game to try though. If my mouse is > > currently on the NT box, and I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, will that be > > transmitted to the NT box? Or will it reboot my linux b

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Michelle Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 02:26:44 -0700]: > > Now, as for recommendations, here are mine. For starters, quit using > > /usr/local. I prefer to have all of my users (myself included) store ALL > > of their personal files within their home directory. This makes managing > > it a

Re: Xserver mysteriously dieing

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently my X server has been dying unexpectedly and unpredictably. I > was wondering if anyone could help me diagnose this problem. I am > running Unstable with Xfree86 4.2.1 and Gnome2 packages from > experimental. This seems to occur when my compute

Re: cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread ben
On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:04 pm, Tom wrote: > did you upgrade the kernel also from 2.2 to 2.4? > ive had this problem with a kernel upgrade after i forgot to upgrade ppp > also > so you may wanna upgrade ppp to see if that works if you also updated the > kernel > - Original Message - >

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya best way to fight spam.. - get an MTA that you can control ... ( get a domain name ... $9.00/yr ( get a server ( your pc using fetchmail/mutt even ) ) ( using fetchmail is too late to stop spam .. - you are already confirmed and added to toher spam lists

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
> > > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm, > > > press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options" > > > menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". Alternatively, > > > type: echo -n "^[[?1h", where ^[ is the literal ESC character. Why

Re: USB mouse problem

2002-10-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"raysookhyun" == raysookhyun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: raysookhyun> I'm having a USB mouse problem. When I boot up it raysookhyun> looks like all the modules I need are loaded raysookhyun> correctly. When up if I unplug and plug in the mouse raysookhyun> I get kernel message

RE: Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Michael Olds said: > I am behind a USRobotics broadband router which has a built in firewall. > I have two boxes, a linux server and a windows 2000 workstation each with > their own what I call "internal" static IP numbers. are you certain this is possible with that router? i would contact USR to

Re: cannot connect to ISP

2002-10-24 Thread Tom
did you upgrade the kernel also from 2.2 to 2.4? ive had this problem with a kernel upgrade after i forgot to upgrade ppp also so you may wanna upgrade ppp to see if that works if you also updated the kernel - Original Message - From: "Lorenzo Fini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

xterm: 'home' and 'end' keys not working

2002-10-24 Thread stefan
Problem: In xterm, my home key and my end key do not work, only beep... I have already been searching the web for this one for a while. I actually found a posting about this on debianhelp.org, but the proposed solution didn't work for me. From what I've read so far, I suppose this is a matter wit

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-24 Thread Henrik Enberg
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT) > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> CTRL-t : newwm afterstep > > This works. Thanks. But where is this documented? info ratpoison -- Booting... /vmemacs.el -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Looking for a firewall

2002-10-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > I've got my handy-dandy firewall up and running with iptables. However > I'm always looking for a better way to lock it down. Can anyone send me > a "here's mine" or close for something that does this: > > Allows all oubound new connections from inside on my 1

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:33:26 +0200 Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know spamassassin by name. I believe the version in stable is > quite old. Is it useful to install that version? What other tools > should I consider? I use Ifile with procmail. Ifile works differently from spamass

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-24 Thread csj
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > said csj (on 2002-10-24), > > > I managed to find out Ion's "restart_other" option, but with > > Ratpoison I appear to be trapped. I need to log-out of my XSession > > before I can change WM. > > CTRL-t : newwm a

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On October 24, 2002 11:45 am, UnKnown wrote: > Yours its really one of the most intresting introspections that I > have read on any of the debian lists. Hehe, thanks. > To beging with most of the > people complayns on how hard is to work with debian compear with > redhat or suse. Most say that i

Re: Configuring?

2002-10-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
24/10/2002 23:31:59, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First, I know that to see the boot-menu I have to hit shift, which I >did not have to do in mandrake, as long as I had either >install=/boot/boot-menu.b in lilo, or I had it linked (boot -> boot-menu.b). >Can I get it to go to the menu wi

RE: Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Olds
nate, First, you are correct, The information I gave you about the Masquerade directive should have been: MasqueradeAddress external.static.ip# I gave you and used internal.static.ip#, but internal or external, global or within the directive, it still doesn't work. With the external.static.ip m

Re: anyone packaging redhat's bluecurve themes?

2002-10-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Emile" == Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How about "GNUCurve"? Because it rhymes and is therefore >> similar to the original. Emile> Hmm, that would only confirm the subliminal notion already Emile> held by some people that GNU is all about ripoffs. That's

Configuring?

2002-10-24 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently switched from Mandrake 9.0 to woody, because of many reasons, mostly because mandrake was getting slower than molasses in winter. I've run across some things I'm not used to and was wondering how to adjust them to my taste. First, I know t

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-24 Thread csj
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:16:36 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:22:21AM +0800, csj wrote.. > > > I managed to find out Ion's "restart_other" option, but with > > Ratpoison I appear to be trapped. I need to log-out of my XSession > > before I can cha

Re: How to pronounced "Debian"

2002-10-24 Thread alex
Here's a quote from the Progeny Debian User's Guide, page 25, (Learning About Debian) "Debian was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, now president and CEO of Progeny. The name of Debian combines Ian's name with that of his wife Debra. Its full name, Debian GNU/Linux, recognizes the central role of

Some keys do not work on X-Window 4.2

2002-10-24 Thread Luis Arocha
Hi, After upgrading X-Window to version 4.2 the keys \ | @ # ~ ¬ ceased to work. (I'm writing this on text console) In my (spanish) keyboard this keys can be obtained pressing key [Alt Gr] plus keys º 1 2 3 4 6 on the top left. When I use AltGr+1 in a text console somthing like (Arg ) appear

Re: Mozilla's STOP button needs new brake pads

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Chip, On Oct 24, Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I like Mozilla a lot better than Netscape in many ways, but the | STOP button leaves a lot to be desired. When I hit stop, it takes | a few extra moments to realize it's supposed to hit the brakes and | stop - must need a brake tu

Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:37:22AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > I have a machine without a floppy, but a 1.4 Mb floppy image I created > with dd. Is there any way to make lilo (or grub) boot that so that > I don't need a floppy drive? few methods.. 1) Burn CD-ROM with boot floppy image (Use 2.

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:08:59AM +0100, Ben Thompson wrote: > I've installed the msttcorefonts package on my sarge system, but I can't > get it to work. I've used this package before on other systems, and it > works fine normally, but not on this system. The installer works fine, > it downloads t

Re: kernel-source/kernel-headers/HCF drivers

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:47:06 +0100 "jerry k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's wearing me down having to switch to > windoze to go online. That does tend to be a pain. > None of the docs I found relating to kernel > rolling and source were debian-specific - where should i be looking? A good

Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Martin F Krafft said: > I have a machine without a floppy, but a 1.4 Mb floppy image I created > with dd. Is there any way to make lilo (or grub) boot that so that > I don't need a floppy drive? > > Thanks! Can you scp the file onto the box, and then point lilo or grub

RE: Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread nate
Michael Olds said: > Nate, thank you for this response, > > I am behind my router's firewall, but set up with static external and > internal IPs: what is the configuraiton? you sure it is setup for static NAT? are you using NAT at all?(static or dynamic?) > > In Proftp (global) I Set up: > UseRev

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got an evaluation pack from the Australian reseller yesterday. > I'm reading off the material which came with it. Very interesting... wasn't able to find anything along those lines published on their web site. --

Re: .forward

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark Ferlatte said: > Debian probably should have a manpage describing the .forward file. /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz HTH, Steve -- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. msg08805/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kernel-source/kernel-headers/HCF drivers

2002-10-24 Thread jerry k
Jamin W.Collins wrote: > Did you configure the kernel sources, and run at minimum a "make dep" in > the kernel source directory? > Nope, i'm too green. I guess I'm in such a hurry to get the modem working so i can find documentation online that I'm missing things in the documentation I've got.

Re: switching between keymaps in X

2002-10-24 Thread sean finney
hi marek, if setxkbmap works, then i think the best way to fix this would be to not muck with the X server at all but just make a keyboard shortcut in your window manager of choice (or use that applet)... or at least, i don't know enough to help with xf86 :) --sean On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:42:

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:20:42 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open > > Mail. It's free for up t

Re: NETWORK ROUTES

2002-10-24 Thread Jeff
Ángel Carrasco, 2002-Oct-24 22:21 +0200: > I have two routers because I use one for internal users and other to use > with public internet servers. Ok? And I cannot manage or add new rules in > these routers because they are administrated by other company. > > Can you help me,please? > > My publ

RE: Anonymous Proftp setup problems

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Olds
Nate, thank you for this response, I am behind my router's firewall, but set up with static external and internal IPs: In Proftp (global) I Set up: UseReverseDNS off IdentLookupsoff MasqueradeAddress 000.000.000.00 of the servers internal IP PassivePorts 6-65535 and set up my rou

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:20:42 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open > Mail. It's free for up to five mailboxes - anything over that has to be > paid for. Doesn't look that way from their site (http://www.samsungcontact

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:53, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) > - What har

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Sergio Da Silva
apt-cache show abcde On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:53:54PM +0200, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) > - How to name the ogg files (using a onlin

Problems restarting Sendmail after upgrade.

2002-10-24 Thread Curtis Hogg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian unstable (yes, i know that's a bad idea), and get this message after apt-get update/apt-get upgrading today: Start sendmail now? (Y/n) Starting Mail Transport Agent: sendmail/usr/sbin/sendmail: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3'

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-24T20:53:54Z, Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - What software to use (ripping, coding) I use Grip. If you have 500 CDs, you probably like your music, so you'll probably want to specify a higher -q value (I use 5.5). > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 October 2002 13:53, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > > - How to store the files (on disk I guess, but in some kind of > > hierarchy with category etc?) > > I do \Artist\Album\tracknum-trackname.ogg > > > I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this? > > Yep, did it for a

Mozilla's STOP button needs new brake pads

2002-10-24 Thread Chip Rose
I like Mozilla a lot better than Netscape in many ways, but the STOP button leaves a lot to be desired. When I hit stop, it takes a few extra moments to realize it's supposed to hit the brakes and stop - must need a brake tuneup or new brake pads. Actually it seems a little sluggish in getting

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Peter Ross spake thus: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:05:26PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS > > Exchange email setup ?

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) cdparanoia for ripping, oggenc for coding. Both are in Debian; oggenc is in the vorbis-tools package. > - How to

Re: kernel-source/kernel-headers/HCF drivers

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:01:05 +0100 "jerry k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's expecting > to find the kernel source tree at /usr/src/linux. That's fine, i've got > a symlink there to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.20 Did you configure the kernel sources, and run at minimum a "make dep" in the kerne

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 24 Oct 2002 22:53:54 +0200 Ole Sebastian Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) jack > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database?

Re: cd writing on Debian

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Lewis
On 2002.10.24 08:36 Sebastiaan wrote: High, On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Paul Lewis wrote: > I would like to install cdtoaster / cdroast to burn CDs, but > whenever I > try to 'apt-get install cdroast' it reports no such package. Trying AFAIK, the package is called xcdroast. > 'cdrecord' tells me ther

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