RE: Scan email for viruses

2002-11-15 Thread
Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >> -- use secure pop3 or secure imaps >> It's going to be a web interface mail server so, i shouldn't have a lot of >> work on imap securization but i'll put some efforts on the apache side > >some webmail stuff still uses pop3/imap to get to the mailboxes * w

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:47:32 +0530 "Sandip P Deshmukh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:57:25PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > First you need to wrap line at 72 > > sorry for that. i just asked in another post, how do i make vi do > this? > > > > if i send mail to a non-exis

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > :map! longhash 60i#o > > The above creates a macro that prints 60 "#" characters when you type > the word 'longhash'. The  is Control-v,Esc to simulate going into Actually, 'simulate' was a poor choice of word on my part. It *d

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cu

If Sid's latest Gnome2 fails to start

2002-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
If you upgrade to the latest Gnome2 packages in Sid (just updated today) and find that your Gnome session refuses to start at login, downgrade all the *bonobo* packages to the previous version and you should be fine. I will be filing a bug on this against bonobo-activation. I see someone else has

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:57:25PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > First you need to wrap line at 72 sorry for that. i just asked in another post, how do i make vi do this? > > if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced back > > to me. what can be wrong? i know the solution lies

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:55:30PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced back to > > me. what can be wrong? i know the solution lies in /etc/exim/exim.conf but > > i do not know what parts of the file are relevant. > > a

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:59:17PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > hello all > > > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of > the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither hyphanates nor pushes

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
First you need to wrap line at 72 On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:20:40PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > while my exim and fetchmail and mutt is working wonderfully, one > problem still remains. > > if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced back > to me. what

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cu

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > while my exim and fetchmail and mutt is working wonderfully, one problem > still remains. > > if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced back to > me. what can be wrong? i know the solution lies in /etc/exim/exim.conf but > i do not kno

mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all while my exim and fetchmail and mutt is working wonderfully, one problem still remains. if i send mail to a non-existent address, i do not get it bounced back to me. what can be wrong? i know the solution lies in /etc/exim/exim.conf but i do not know what parts of the file are relevan

vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither hyphanates nor pushes it to the next line. is there w

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:02:33 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently tracking sarge. My video card is the Matrox Millenium > G450. Recently, X 4.2 arrived in sarge. As it turns out, it broke my > working XF86Config-4 file for 4.1, though I didn't realise it right > a

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:45:37AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:07:06 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >hello all! > > > >my console seems to be switching into framebuffer mode when i boot. > >how do i turn it off and on? > > Try vga=0 in your boot parame

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > Just to give my 2cents worth, this is exactly my worry, that one of the > last few bastions of *free* software will cave in to weak users > and a nasty general attitude. Being free does not mean that everything > is easy, it mean

Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all - > > I'm having a problem with my .muttrc config. > > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > complaining > "b: not supported in this mode". > >

Re: procmail + cron for regular email cleanup?

2002-11-15 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to cleanup my sent mailbox regularly. If any email in > the mailbox is more than 2 months old, the email should be purged from > the mailbox. I am thinking using cron + procmail to do the job, but I > don't know how.

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:36:48AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Travis Crump wrote: > <...> > > There is a long long ongoing debate in debian-devel[1] on this. Please > > don't start another debate here. > > This seems like the proper place for a discussion, they are wanting to

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:12:53PM +, Ricardo Diz wrote: > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > mutt/vi when sending mail? /usr/doc/nvi/vi.advanced.txt.gz regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** You will never amount to much. -- Munich

X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I am currently tracking sarge. My video card is the Matrox Millenium G450. Recently, X 4.2 arrived in sarge. As it turns out, it broke my working XF86Config-4 file for 4.1, though I didn't realise it right away, since I keep the X server up and running for long periods. I sent in a b

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:20:43PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I have a file that I created using MS Word (I know, I know) that IU > would like to convert into a postscript file. The problem I am having > is that Openoffice, Abiword, etc. all mess up the formatting when I try > to open it, so I c

Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-15 Thread lameth
How do I go about putting program icons on the Blackbox desktop? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:24:26AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> my question - why doesnt debian turn dma on by default? > Sandip> dont we like fast machines? > > Because Debian runs on a lot of different machines. Some of those > do

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:36:44PM -0400, james leclair wrote: > Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in > the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant > get myself out of thinking the ms-dos way:) I don't know about a tutorial, but

Re: printing - from beginning

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:31:34PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Sandip : > Don't start two threads on the same day regarding the same > problem. That makes it hard to follow what you've tried, what > dosn't work, and what suggestions you've already had. Just start > one t

Re: Mplayer

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any sid package for Mplayer ? Official answer: No. In practice: Yes. Add this to your sources.list deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main deb http://marillat.free.fr unstable main -- .''`. Ba

Re: printing - from beginning

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:50:22PM -0800, nate wrote: > > i think i have all thse modules installed. how do i make sure that i > > have them up and loaded? here is what dmesg ha

Re: lilo msg

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0800, Florentin Ionescu wrote: > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different > head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > fn 08: 784 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors > fn 48: 13328 cylinders, 15 heads, 63 sectors If it boots, don't

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Stephen" == Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Somewhere in /etc/pam.d (maybe security?) there is an Stephen> option to disable root console logins. You might check Stephen> to see if that's been enabled. /etc/pam.d/login # Disallows root logins except on tty's l

Re: GNOME 2 on Woody?

2002-11-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mister" == Mister Pu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mister> Hi all! HAVE A SPECIAL QUESTION! :-( Who doesn't? Mister> I´m using stable Debinan (woody) und have a super running Mister> GNOME 2 (self compiled from debians unstable source codes Mister> an then installed into woo

Re: system will not soft power down

2002-11-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wayne" == Wayne Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wayne> I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading Wayne> my motherboard / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon Wayne> xp2000) it used to soft power off no problem. Once I had Wayne> rebuilt the pc using th

Re: SMTP error in fetchmail fetch

2002-11-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Derrick" == Derrick Hudson writes: Derrick> 2) disable the syntax checks in exim since it can't Derrick> really reject mail because you're not running your own Derrick> mail site (What I mean is this: take my system for Derrick> example, my exim setup receives mail directly

Re: system will not soft power down

2002-11-15 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:46:19 + (GMT), Wayne Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >I would greatly appreciate any help with this problem as I have spent days >trying to solve this already with no success. > >I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading my motherboard / >processo

Re: SMTP error in fetchmail fetch

2002-11-15 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:38:37 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > >> Can anyone interpret this syslog message for me? > >Yes. :-) SWITCH NOBOYDIE (sorry, couldn't resist it) Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: ASUS P4B533 Motherboard

2002-11-15 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:20:36 +1100, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:07:33PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >> I should look into the IDE card. I have two IDE drives (not RAID) and IDE >> CD-R and CD/DVD. I'm never sure if both hard drives should go on one IDE >> as ma

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-15 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:07:06 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hello all! > >my console seems to be switching into framebuffer mode when i boot. > >following is the resective line from dmesg: > >Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 >fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer

Re: Power outage: partition lost

2002-11-15 Thread nate
Robert Ian Smit said: > Note to self: start creating backups NOW. and get a good UPS with good monitoring software http://mrtg.aphroland.org/smartups1k/ http://mrtg.aphroland.org/cyberpower1500/ http://portal.aphroland.org/cgi-bin/nut/multimon.cgi I haven't run any of my own computers without a

Re: Setting default width of xman

2002-11-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:38:33PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > >More generally, how can I find the available resources for a > >particular X-client? > > This is something I'd also like to know. I too often end up with > experimenting. In the case of xman, the widget hirarchy can be > obtain

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:08:22AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:21:50 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > cat /usr/share/doc/debian/social-contract.txt, please. This is just > > FUD. > > Okay, allow me to take a step back from my original message. > > First of all, I love Debi

Punching IRC DCC connections through a nat/conntrack firewall

2002-11-15 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Hi, My firewall runs woody, with my build of Linux 2.4.18 (plain vanilla Linus version). I'm using IP conntrack and NAT, with iptables/netfilter firewalling. I'm NATting all outgoing connections to a single source address, which is obtained via DHCP using pump. I've got ip_nat_irc and ip_conntr

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:38:34PM +, Glyn Kennington wrote: > However, vim will grab all mouse actions, and do something completely > different if you shift-click (I think it performs some kind of search) > unless you disable the mouse completely with > :set mouse="" Perhaps you are referring

Re: Debian on an iBook

2002-11-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:18PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? check www.hispalinux.es/

Re: blackbox startup

2002-11-15 Thread iain d broadfoot
Colin Keefe wrote: * iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-13 02:11 +]: k, installed blackbox, purged gnome2, how do i get bb to run bbkeys/time/date etc in the slit at login? wdm seems to skip my .xsession entirely... iain On the login screen, select default instead of a parti

Re: pptp vpn

2002-11-15 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mikael Jirari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to patch ppp. > > I did apt-get source ppp and now i have a couple of files with dsc, diff, > orig. > My patch is linux-2.4.16-openssl-0.9.6b-mppe.patch. > > How can i apply the patch, i know how to do for the kernel but not for a > special pa

Power outage: partition lost

2002-11-15 Thread Robert Ian Smit
I have had a couple of power outages this week and my systems crashed badly as a result. I run ext3 on all of my Linux systems and no critical data was lost. However the /opt partition (/dev/hda10) with games on it, was badly damaged. I had to run a manual fsck and had to answer lot of questions.

[OT] OpenMCU

2002-11-15 Thread deFreese, Barry
Hey Debian gurus, Anyone tried to use OpenMCU to conference multiple NetMeeting clients? I got it set up and installed on a Debian "Woody" box and it works but the video is severely pixelated no matter what configuration I use. If anyone has set it up, do you have any suggestions on configuratio

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:12:53, Ricardo Diz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > mutt/vi when sending mail? In vi you can read the result of a command like this: :r !hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 01:30:28, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Better in vi Are you serious. VIM is always better :-) I agree, except where vi is aliased to vim :-> - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > It'll work in pure vi, better even than with vim. > Better in vi Are you serious. VIM is always better :-) Naturally. Though in this case, I have to say I prefer VIM's vi-emulation mode of ignoring the mouse. > Add following to ~/.vimrc > > " -

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:38:34, Glyn Kennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone found a way to >make it ignore shifted mouse events but still process normal clicks? You can disable it via :map Put this in your .vimrc and you're set. HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Naumann
16.11.2002 00:14:34, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On November 15, 2002 03:31 pm, Llies Meridja wrote: > >> No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do >> ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do >> ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! > >Did you

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Russell
Mike Egglestone wrote: Quoting james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant get myself out of thinking the ms-dos way:) Thanks, James Hi, Check out: htt

RE: Scan email for viruses

2002-11-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mikael On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Mikael Jirari wrote: > -- use secure pop3 or secure imaps > It's going to be a web interface mail server so, i shouldn't have a lot of > work on imap securization but i'll put some efforts on the apache side some webmail stuff still uses pop3/imap to get to th

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:38:34PM +, Glyn Kennington wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > > > mutt/vi when sending mail? > > could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in > > vi, middle click to 'pas

Re: blackbox startup

2002-11-15 Thread Colin Keefe
* iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-13 02:11 +]: > k, installed blackbox, purged gnome2, how do i get bb to run > bbkeys/time/date etc in the slit at login? > > wdm seems to skip my .xsession entirely... > > iain > On the login screen, select default instead of a particular win

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya james collection of linux fs http://www.Linux-Sec.net/FileSystem/#FS c ya alvin On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, james leclair wrote: > Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in > the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant > g

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives: FIXED

2002-11-15 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:44:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 22:44:38 -0500, Jerome Acks Jr > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >See man update-alternatives to see how you would normally modify files > >in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. I am not sure if anything would break > >if you just

Re: system will not soft power down

2002-11-15 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 15, 2002 01:27 pm, Wayne Brown wrote: > and I have apm 'compiled in' to the kernel, thanks, anymore ideas anyone? There's a discussion on the linux kernel mailing list about what happens if apm and acpi are both going: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-00/0826.html I

Re: Mozilla icon in titlebar

2002-11-15 Thread Phil Edwards
Ah, the techhouse.org icons did it. Thanks on behalf of all my users! :-) Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- To

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
> I did try that and it worked perfectly Then it's kind of late for me to comment. But that never stopped me before, so... > > No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do > > ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do > > ctrl+alt+del I get system guard

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Hugh Saunders wrote: > > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > > mutt/vi when sending mail? > could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in > vi, middle click to 'paste'] -this works in vim, havent tryed with > pure vi It'll work in pure vi

Re: system will not soft power down

2002-11-15 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 15, 2002 01:17 pm, Mark Copper wrote: > This is just what I needed, but it didn't work.  apt-get install went > smoothly but "modprobe apm" failed.  The message in dmesg was > apm: BIOS not found > I've got an intel d845bg board.  Any ideas?  Thanks. > > Mark If your bios doesn

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
> If you save the file for Word as an RTF, it's alot easier for any other word > processor or conversion program like unrtf to read it. I tried that a couple of days ago. I lost all my figures and most of my formatting. - David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RE: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Llies Meridja
I did try that and it worked perfectly Thanks guys _ This electronic transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance of this transmission. -Original Mess

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
> P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > mutt/vi when sending mail? could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in vi, middle click to 'paste'] -this works in vim, havent tryed with pure vi hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread Levi Waldron
If you save the file for Word as an RTF, it's alot easier for any other word processor or conversion program like unrtf to read it. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 15, 2002 03:31 pm, Llies Meridja wrote: > No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do > ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do > ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! Did you try Nate's advice? Log in, open a terminal (xterm, for example), t

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-15 Thread Ricardo Diz
I've been following this thread and, since I haven't 'played' with this before, I just ran a 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 >hdparm' so I can compare my values with those shown here. My results are in the attach. I was very suprised to see that, even that for buffer-cache I got 130.61 MB/sec, I got 2.10 MB

sid or sarge for wimp user

2002-11-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
In December a friend will burn 9 debian CDs for me to upgrade my poorly networked 'woody of may 02' system. Shall I have him burn sid or sarge? I'm basically a wimp user but need fresh software so I don't sound too silly in my many bug reports. What are the chances my system will come to a scree

Re: Filtering out external DHCP requests

2002-11-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:33:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > My DHCP server also acts as my NAT router and as such is connected both > to my internal network and the outside world. I only want the DHCP > server to listen to requests on the internal connection. (eth1) Which dhcp server are yo

Re: IRC

2002-11-15 Thread Ron Sinclair
On Friday 15 November 2002 16:12, james leclair wrote: > Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other > debian users? Thanks in advance! > James Well, I can suggest where NOT to go: irc.openprojects.net, #debian I went there but not for help, but because I love Debian and want

Re: IRC

2002-11-15 Thread burningclown
try irc.openprojects.org channel #debian On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, james leclair wrote: > Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian > users? Thanks in advance! > James > > > -- +-+ This is not a signature +-+ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: IRC

2002-11-15 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:12:26PM -0400, james leclair wrote: > Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian > users? Thanks in advance! irc.debian.org #debian is a good start! hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Sophos for Postfix

2002-11-15 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > I recall someone from this list stating that they were using Sophos. I > think it might have been Nate, but I'm not sure. > > My question, is anyone using Sophos on a Postfix server? If so, here's > the problem. Sophos had me switch smtp over to port 2525 in the > master.

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:14:19PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Quoting james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in > > the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant > > get myself out of think

Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:08:57PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ^ ^ ^ >

IRC

2002-11-15 Thread james leclair
Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian users? Thanks in advance! James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sophos for Postfix

2002-11-15 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I recall someone from this list stating that they were using Sophos. I think it might have been Nate, but I'm not sure. My question, is anyone using Sophos on a Postfix server? If so, here's the problem. Sophos had me switch smtp over to port 2525 in the master.cf and services files. Wel

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Craig Dickson said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I have a file that I created using MS Word (I know, I know) that IU > > would like to convert into a postscript file. The problem I am having > > is that Openoffice, Abiword, etc. all mess up the formatting when I try >

Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-15 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^ ^ ^ Delete the '"' and the Space. > The online mutt manual gives the exam

Re: Automated ad-hoc url extracting

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I'm looking for a program or some code to help extract url's from > arbitrary file types. I imagine I could write such a program using bison, > but I'd like to use an existing program to reduce the amount of research > that I would have to do to figure out what i

utf8 in emacsen

2002-11-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I'd like to edit & save some files in UTF-8, preferably with xemacs-21(-mule), if not possible then with emacs(-21). I won't type any other characters than latin1, but they should be stored as utf-8 and any other chars (even chinese) should not be damaged, but I don't need them to be dis

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Stephen Gran wrote: > I have a file that I created using MS Word (I know, I know) that IU > would like to convert into a postscript file. The problem I am having > is that Openoffice, Abiword, etc. all mess up the formatting when I try > to open it, so I can't just print to file there. I have no

Re: Debian Woody NFS Install

2002-11-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> How can I install Debian Woody via NFS? I have figured out how to > install the base system via NFS after loading the network card driver, > but after the base system is installed and a reboot is performed, > I cannot figure out how to install the rest of the system via NFS. > Am I missing somet

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread David Gaudine
I have tried printing to file from the Windows box, and it ouputs a .prn file, which is apparently of type: > steve@gashuffer:~$ file Resume.prn > Resume.prn: HP Printer Job Language data I'm more interested in what's in the file, rather than what "file" thinks. I don't have a postscript driver i

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #498

2002-11-15 Thread Llies Meridja
Problem solved, I was logging in from the physical machine (i.e. not from network) I managed to do shutdown as su with root password.   Thanks to all who replied with some help   Llies

Filtering out external DHCP requests

2002-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
My DHCP server also acts as my NAT router and as such is connected both to my internal network and the outside world. I only want the DHCP server to listen to requests on the internal connection. (eth1) Unfortunately, it seems that no matter what I do requests (i.e. DHCPDISCOVER from * via eth0) st

Re: Help with Netgear MA401 wireless card...?

2002-11-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:29:09PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > eth0: Error -19 reading firmware info. Wildly guessing capabilities... > eth0: Station identity ::: > eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 0.00 > eth0: Intersil firmware earlier than v0.08 - several feat

Automated ad-hoc url extracting

2002-11-15 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm looking for a program or some code to help extract url's from arbitrary file types. I imagine I could write such a program using bison, but I'd like to use an existing program to reduce the amount of research that I would have to do to figure out what is and isn't a valid URL.

Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I have a file that I created using MS Word (I know, I know) that IU would like to convert into a postscript file. The problem I am having is that Openoffice, Abiword, etc. all mess up the formatting when I try to open it, so I can't just print to file there. I have not yet tried antiw

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in > the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant > get myself out of thinking the ms-dos way:) > Thanks, > James > Hi, Check out: http://www.tldp.org

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

2002-11-15 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:19, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 14:55 2002-11-14 -0600 hat John Hasler geschrieben: > > > >Edward Guldemond writes: > >> With software patents, distributing this software could be considered > >> illegal to distribute in the United States. Fetching it from outside of > >

Re: printing - from beginning

2002-11-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Sandip : Don't start two threads on the same day regarding the same problem. That makes it hard to follow what you've tried, what dosn't work, and what suggestions you've already had. Just start one thread and continue with it. On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Stephen Gr

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: > Not to promote the spread of FUD, but interestingly it has come up > recently on debian-legal that the MIT/X11 license could possibly be > interpreted as non-free: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200211/msg00164.html No, the referenced thread mere

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Others have tried to help with the shutdown thing - and I hate to nag in a moment of crisis. But could you turn off the html e-mail when you post to the list? I suspect the htmp is broken - at least it comes out as a real mess here. Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Pl

Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT

2002-11-15 Thread Glyn Kennington
Llies Meridja wrote: > MessageNo it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do > ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do > ctrl+alt+del I get system guard! The ctrl+alt+del thing only works when you're on the console - X will not interpret it in the same wa

linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread james leclair
Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant get myself out of thinking the ms-dos way:) Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:12:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If you think BSD is non free, then the MIT license is non free, >> uninstall X and get back to your console, while the rest of us use it. > > Can you bloody well read what I wrote, plea

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