Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > Both VGs and LVs can be dynamically resized (though > I'm not certain if LVs can decrease in size or only increase). You can decrease an LV if you have first decreased the overl

Re: How do I do a net install when there's no driver for my nic?

2002-11-30 Thread nate
Brian Kendig said: > I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop computer with a Dell Latitude C/Port > dock. The laptop has no network connectivity, but the dock provides an > Ethernet port powered by a 3Com 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 chip. > > Problem is, the Debian 3.0 installation disks have no driv

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:32:01AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Yep, the modules are fine - I've been burning CDs for a couple years > with this box. Xcdroast also is fine at burning CDs, just not seeing any > CDs to read in, data or audio. I'm working off the command line and via > the hard drive

Re: Can't get KDE working!

2002-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 3:28 am, JAMES MERRITT wrote: ... > A few weeks ago, I installed woody on my computer and finally got X to > work. I have an ATI Rage 128 video card and during the installation, I > chose KDE as my windows manager. The ins

How do I do a net install when there's no driver for my nic?

2002-11-30 Thread Brian Kendig
I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop computer with a Dell Latitude C/Port dock. The laptop has no network connectivity, but the dock provides an Ethernet port powered by a 3Com 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 chip. Problem is, the Debian 3.0 installation disks have no driver for this network inter

gtk2 very slow and memory hungry?

2002-11-30 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am not sure what problem is it? But since I upgrade to gnome2, things are just very slow. Startup time for gnome-terminal (gtk2), gvim (gtk1) and galeon (gtk1) are much longer then it used to be. gnome-terminal in gtk1 use to take 1s, but now the machine freezes up for like 3s o

Re: cgi

2002-11-30 Thread Gary Turner
Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: >There was indeed a cgi-bin in /usr/lib/ but if I put a script in it, it >doesn't work. > >Can someone help me to setup cgi so that it works. A remote-login is >also possible. [For mail-lists, will you please turn off the HTML?] Check /etc/apache/httpd.conf for the foll

Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

2002-11-30 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Foster wrote: >>That seems to be in your file. If you have installed the gcc-3.2 why not >>simply link /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc-3.2. >> >>Oliver >> > -- > Thanks I thought of that, b

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Leo Spalteholz wrote: hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins. leo edit /etc/mplayer.conf so that it contains gui=yes[and get rid of gui=no if it exists] or add gui=yes to ~/.mplayer/config in whic

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 09:20 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > > >>>you can add > > >>> > > >>>deb

Re: Perl and MySQL on Debian - I need help

2002-11-30 Thread pierre
On Sunday 01 December 2002 00:05, Wyn Snow wrote: Hello! Just a dumm question is php installed? second if installed is phpadmin work with your "Mysql"? you may try loading it via phpadmin? Also I prefer to make sure that mysql version 4 max is installed on my box as followed /var/local/mysql M

IPMASQuerading.. (just making sure) iptables 2.4 kernel

2002-11-30 Thread louie miranda
Im switching over to 2.4 kernel this week, I dont have any test machines so im posting it here to make it sure everything is set as i read the docs on how to do it correctly. I am actually wondering Is their an option where i will set the private ip that ill be using.. I remeber on 2.2 kernels usin

Re: Quoting style

2002-11-30 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >Trim what you're not responding to, and >respond conversationally, it'll make the threads *far* easier to >follow and [...] >actually recover context from it. > >http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html >http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Good poin

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:53:28PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Okay, I know its messages indicate data, but it refuses to read any cds > > I put into that drive, data or audio. I consider that a part of the > > *Alpha* nature of the program, al

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > >>>you can add > >>> > >>>deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > >>> > >>>to /etc/apt/sources

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: | Hi, | | I have the following ~/.forward: | | # Exim filter | if $header_from: contains "digest" | then pipe "/home/pigeon/bin/burster" | save "/home/pigeon/mail/debug/burster.log" | endif Ok, that's fine. | The program "burster", wr

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-11-30 Thread Russell
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Gregg & Monica wrote: I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if it will support the gui...here are my computers info... cyrix MII 266Mhz, 4gig hard drive, windows ME loaded and updated, sound card w/powered

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:53:28PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Okay, I know its messages indicate data, but it refuses to read any cds > I put into that drive, data or audio. I consider that a part of the > *Alpha* nature of the program, although it could also be a limitation of > the Acer CD bur

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Thanks Cameron and Alan. Your explanations and examples corrected my mental model of LVM. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:44:00AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | The point of LVM is that you can easily create, resize or delete | these logical volumes without worrying about them being contiguous | withi

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:28:49PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pigeon" == jah pigeon writes: > > >> According to IDE specs, master is supposed to go on the end of > >> the cable. > > Pigeon> I think that for reasons of termination (such as it is for > Pigeon> IDE), if you

Re: Perl and MySQL on Debian - I need help

2002-11-30 Thread nate
Wyn Snow said: > I am stymied and stumped in attempting to get the DBI modules working and > accessible on my Debian Linux system. If someone can help me, please email > me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have downloaded the following files from mysql.com: > > Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz > DBI-1.18.tar.gz

Cost Effective Product Documentation

2002-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail

2002-11-30 Thread John Foster
Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Gregg & Monica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-11-30 17:56]: I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if it will support the gui...here are my computers info... [Information about system] There is no way somebody can garuantee that Debi

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > but apt-get install mplayer returns > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package mplayer > > any ideas? mplayer is like the kernel-image packages: You need to pick an arch. -- .'

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:31:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > - Not that mplayer could handle all .rm's and work as a browser plugin > anyway. Look upthread for my post containing the sources.list lines. Pick the mplayer closest describing your system and w32codecs and there won't be a movie f

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:38:14PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > But of course mplayer isn't in Debian currently either so I don't see > how you can point to that as a solution... While not in debian, there are apt-get sources available for it. deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main deb http://m

Perl and MySQL on Debian - I need help

2002-11-30 Thread Wyn Snow
I am stymied and stumped in attempting to get the DBI modules working and accessible on my Debian Linux system. If someone can help me, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have downloaded the following files from mysql.com: Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz DBI-1.18.tar.gz Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2216.t

Re: How to get compiler changed to gcc-3.20

2002-11-30 Thread John Foster
Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, John Foster wrote: I have set the variables in /etc/environment to the following ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf # Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved # by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "### BE

RE: new kernel

2002-11-30 Thread David Pastern
Mark L. Kahnt said on Saturday, 30 November 2002 2:50 PM >Would you run a beta of the next version >of Windows on your only box? That is what running a development kernel >at this point involves. I see your point Mark, but this is my only box (hey i'm poor and can't afford a 2nd box). If it stuf

Advanced procmail question

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
What would be a good example procmail rule to automatically delete messages 72 hours old or more? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg16315/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: Compiling NVidia kernel

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:48:43PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > What compiler and which version do I need to compile nVidia's kernel part of > the driver? It might be the same as of the GLX part but I'm not sure. Whatever's the current gcc seems to be working just fine for me... -- .''`. Bal

Can't get KDE working!

2002-11-30 Thread JAMES MERRITT
Hi everyone, I am having a problem with my KDE not running, or rather it is running but all I get when I type: startx is twm. A few weeks ago, I installed woody on my computer and finally got X to work. I have an ATI Rage 128 video card and during the installation, I chose KDE as my windows

Re: new kernel

2002-11-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:53, David Pastern wrote: > Hi guys and gals, > > Anyone tried the latest development kernels of their Debian machines (I > presume so)? I was going to have a fiddle with 2.5.50 (this baby is huge, > 37mb for the src). I know its development tree, but i've been hearing v

Proxying and forwarding

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
I've got something in mind that I want to make sure is sane before I go try to impliment it on my home network. First, have a private network. 192.168.0.0/24. Transparent proxying of outbound HTTP requests. Easy enough, I've done it before. Now, getting an IP. Client machine A sends out a DHC

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: you can add deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main to /etc/apt/sources.list and do # apt-get install mplayer I've never gotten this to work.. In my

Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
Hi, I have the following ~/.forward: # Exim filter if $header_from: contains "digest" then pipe "/home/pigeon/bin/burster" save "/home/pigeon/mail/debug/burster.log" endif The program "burster", written in C, takes its standard input (the digest) apart into individual messages and writes th

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:36:42PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I have not read the exim source, but do try setting your real > user/group identities to the mail user/group (=8 on Debian) before the > system call. (man setuid, man setgid) It might work out. Hey man, you rock! That works. I inse

Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
Hi, I am trying to compile the slink version of mozilla, because the binary .deb version I have installed has several peculiar bugs: eg when you type an address into the URL bar, you can't make it go to that site, it just ignores it; also, an error dialog "Actions not found: BtnUp, BtnDown" keeps

Re: dist-upgrade (potato->woody): how to get X back up?

2002-11-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, will trillich said: > and X windows worked fine under potato. > > now i've "dist-upgrade"d to woody and there are a plethora of > technical questions i'm supposed to know the answers to, in order to > get X going. such as-- > > select the desired X server driver

dist-upgrade (potato->woody): how to get X back up?

2002-11-30 Thread will trillich
under potato i had X (and kde2 thanks to some unofficial sources.list items) up and running like a champ. occasionally konqueror would die colorfully (hit alt-left to go back a few pages and boom, only one desktop, no window borders...) and X windows worked fine under potato. now i've "dist-upgra

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > > you can add > > > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main > > > > to /etc/apt/sources.list > > and do > > > > # apt-get install mplayer > > I've never gotten this to work

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread vasco figueiredo
Leo Spalteholz wrote: On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: sean finney wrote: i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution illegal. i'm

Re: usb mouse

2002-11-30 Thread nate
Bruce Park said: > > Hello all, > > I have a MS Wheel Mouse Optical plugged into the usb port in my pc. This > mouse has two buttons and a scroller. > It seems to me that my X-Server won't start because it doesn't recognize > /dev/input/mice. I've read somewhere you need to load the usb modules > b

Re: usb mouse

2002-11-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bruce" == Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> It seems to me that my X-Server won't start because it Bruce> doesn't recognize /dev/input/mice. I've read somewhere you Bruce> need to load the usb modules before you can use them. Since Bruce> I just finished installin

usb mouse

2002-11-30 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I have a MS Wheel Mouse Optical plugged into the usb port in my pc. This mouse has two buttons and a scroller. It seems to me that my X-Server won't start because it doesn't recognize /dev/input/mice. I've read somewhere you need to load the usb modules before you can use them. Sinc

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian > > distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or > > proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution > > illegal. i'm not sure

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-11-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On November 30, 2002 02:56 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:53:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > wouldnt it be slower though? Pentium 1 or 2? What about a Cyrix > > MII 366. > > > > Regards, Dean. > > Well, it sounds like a pretty old machine, so it may be limited to > a Penti

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list *partly solved, not on my side*

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | Why don't the list maintainers wipe the faulty address? How would they know the address is faulty? *You* got the error message, not them. The list software does automatically remove bad addresses (like it did to yours a while ago

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Seneca [Fri, Nov 29 2002, 03:52:18PM]: > > working fine, but I have no audio. The motherboard has an integrated > > ES1869 chip for audio. Can anyone tell me which driver I have to use, > > and how to get it set up? Thanks much for any help. > > You could try "modprobe sb", which I

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:14:04PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Re time delay: I've just given it over 15 minutes to see what would > happen, and it didn't flush its queue, and doing ps ax every so often > has revealed no trace of exim or any other mail programs running. Not shure you have a real proble

Scheduler SIGTERMS in Cups

2002-11-30 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
I posted another message earlier in the week documenting my printing problems, and today when I look at /var/log/cups/error_log, I see the following error in all of my printing attempts: I [29/Nov/2002:23:03:45 -0600] Listening to 0:631 I [29/Nov/2002:23:03:46 -0600] Configured for up to 100 cli

Re: DMI pool data

2002-11-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002, Michael Naumann wrote: > Does your bios have something like > "Restore faile-save settings" > > I would give a try. Failing that, try reflashing the BIOS, and make SURE to tell the flash program to fully erase the DMI area. But be careful, if you do it wrong, the machine wil

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:54:19AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Thanks! Xmms has the same problem - repeating portions of the audio > multiple times before moving to the next portion. I checked the system > log with dmesg as suggested and get the following indicators: > > SB 3.01 detected OK (220)

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions *Done*

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:15:45PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > in /usr/share/spamassasin/ > > There are a lot of files. > 10_misc.cf 25_body_tests_es.cf 40_spam_phrases.cf > 20_anti_ratware.cf 25_body_tests_pl.cf 50_scores.cf > 20_body_tests.cf25_head_tests_es.cf 60_whitelist.c

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list *partly solved, not on my side*

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
> The mail bounced because it was attempted to be delivered to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, the server handling the > domain green.hartshorne.net can't find a user named "debian_user". > > This is only half of the story, though. The mail server for > green.hartshorne.net is horridly broken. The

firewall problems !!

2002-11-30 Thread daves debian
I have firestarter installed on my system, I logon as root, start the setup wizard, simple config, test as root, aok, log out and into a user account, aok re-boot my machine and root is OK but no matter what I configure, my day to day user account cannot access the web, or mail !!! I thought th

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pigeon" == jah pigeon writes: >> According to IDE specs, master is supposed to go on the end of >> the cable. Pigeon> I think that for reasons of termination (such as it is for Pigeon> IDE), if you only have one drive, it should go on the end Pigeon> of the cable. If you

Re: weird message

2002-11-30 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:07:31PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > I am now running debian 3.0 without the utilization of X. Whenever I log on > to my machine, this message appears once: > purious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg03028.html -- Sene

weird message

2002-11-30 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I am now running debian 3.0 without the utilization of X. Whenever I log on to my machine, this message appears once: purious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Does anyone have idea what this means? I am using road runner and I wondering if this has anything to do with this. As always, all help

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 18:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > > cloning bootable data CDs? I w

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-30 Thread vasco figueiredo
sean finney wrote: i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution illegal. i'm not sure if this is even true anymore (i hear it's now completely GPL too), but

Re: DMI pool data

2002-11-30 Thread Michael Naumann
30.11.2002 22:15:59, mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello all, >after searching on 'dimi pool data' I didn't found a >solution on my pb: >My computer hangs after the bios message : >'Verifyng DMI pool Data ... update success ' >I tryed following: >-cleared the cmos >-disconnect everything

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the > Woody CDs, and

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:53:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > wouldnt it be slower though? Pentium 1 or 2? What about a Cyrix MII 366. > > Regards, Dean. Well, it sounds like a pretty old machine, so it may be limited to a Pentium 1 which gives you a max clock of 233MHz. So a bit slower,

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:57:39PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > To force delivery of email to remote addresses, it seems that I have to > > pon and then exim -qf. For exim -qf, I have to be root. I'd rather not > > have to. > > You shouldn't have to. Exim should have installed /

Re: dysfunctional echo escape

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:15:58PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 07:45 PM 11/30/02 +, Pigeon wrote: > >Hi, > > > >man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an > >octal number should output the character whose ASCII code is nnn. > > > >So, I should get: > >$ builtin echo -e

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:39:28PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > > > Which does not involve unplugging it and changing its position on the > > cable, like a floppy drive does. You'll only need to do this sort of > > thing if you're not happy with your current /d

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:49:33PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: | This was: Spamassassin Config Questions, as it originated after I | installed spamassassin. But I'm splitting it off now for 2 reasons. | 1) Cause it's sort of it's own problem now. It is. | 2) Testing to see if it causes another

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
Re time delay: I've just given it over 15 minutes to see what would happen, and it didn't flush its queue, and doing ps ax every so often has revealed no trace of exim or any other mail programs running. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re:

2002-11-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:50:46PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 16:56, Gregg & Monica wrote: > > I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if > > it will support the gui...here are my computers info... > > > > > > cyrix MII 266Mhz, 4gig

Re: apt after installation

2002-11-30 Thread D.
--- Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have now succesfully installed debian a second > time with DHCP. =) > The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I > tried this command as > root: > apt-get install emacs > > And I got the follwing error: >

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > Which does not involve unplugging it and changing its position on the > cable, like a floppy drive does. You'll only need to do this sort of > thing if you're not happy with your current /dev/hdb becoming /dev/hda. According to IDE specs, master is supposed to

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"jah" == jah pigeon writes: jah> BUT... /usr/sbin/exim is setuid root. Huh? Exim probably uses the root permission for very, very few things (like opening port 25 when in daemon mode). It probably drops the root permission as one of the first things it ever does. jah> So I wrote a l

Re: apt after installation

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Bruce Park wrote: The first thing I thought was that maybe the package name was wrong. Is there a simple way to view all the packages say via a file? If there were such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep and get the package name rather easily. There is apt-cache which is included w

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
> > -- > > Could someone tell me why this bounced? This didn't start until I > > installed spamassassin. This is what I sent and it did arrive at the > > list, but I also got a bounce back? I'd like to fix it, just can't find > > o

Bounced Message but still sent to list

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
This was: Spamassassin Config Questions, as it originated after I installed spamassassin. But I'm splitting it off now for 2 reasons. 1) Cause it's sort of it's own problem now. 2) Testing to see if it causes another bounce. -

Re: apt after installation

2002-11-30 Thread Glyn Millington
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The first thing I thought was that maybe the package name was > wrong. Is there a simple way to view all the packages say via a file? > If there were such a file, then I could pipe the result to grep and dpkg -l emacs* will probably show you what yo

apt after installation

2002-11-30 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I have now succesfully installed debian a second time with DHCP. =) The first thing I wanted to install was emacs and I tried this command as root: apt-get install emacs And I got the follwing error: - E: Package emacs has no installatio

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 12:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the > Woody CDs, and with both a

DMI pool data

2002-11-30 Thread mess-mate
Hello all, after searching on 'dimi pool data' I didn't found a solution on my pb: My computer hangs after the bios message : 'Verifyng DMI pool Data ... update success ' I tryed following: -cleared the cmos -disconnect everything but maintained the floppy -changed the HD -setted the bios to his

new kernel

2002-11-30 Thread David Pastern
Hi guys and gals, Anyone tried the latest development kernels of their Debian machines (I presume so)? I was going to have a fiddle with 2.5.50 (this baby is huge, 37mb for the src). I know its development tree, but i've been hearing very good things about it since 2.5.45 or so and I don't thin

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-11-30 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Michelle Storm: > -- > Could someone tell me why this bounced? This didn't start until I > installed spamassassin. This is what I sent and it did arrive at the > list, but I also got a bounce back? I'd like to fix it, ju

Re: cgi

2002-11-30 Thread pierre
On Saturday 30 November 2002 13:28, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello 2 way i can see it done 1.chown user[.group] file Change the user and group ownership of files. To make the file index.html owned by the user web $ chown web index.html To make the file index.html owned by the user web and owned b

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
> Take a look at the headers of your email - there's an X-Spam-Status header > added by spamassassin if it's running. If you see it, it's working. It's > up to you what you want to do with meassages marked as SPAM, though - I > don't trust spamassassin enough to delete them yet, so I just save

cgi

2002-11-30 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again,   There was indeed a cgi-bin in /usr/lib/ but if I put a script in it, it doesn’t work. Can someone help me to setup cgi so that it works. A remote-login is also possible.   Willem-Jan Meijer, Netherlands

Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-11-30 Thread Stephen Gran
Michelle Storm writes: in /usr/share/spamassasin/ There are a lot of files. 10_misc.cf 25_body_tests_es.cf 40_spam_phrases.cf 20_anti_ratware.cf 25_body_tests_pl.cf 50_scores.cf 20_body_tests.cf25_head_tests_es.cf 60_whitelist.cf 20_compensate.cf25_head_tests_pl.cf 65_debi

Re: dysfunctional echo escape

2002-11-30 Thread Stephen Gran
Pigeon writes: Hi, man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an octal number should output the character whose ASCII code is nnn. So, I should get: $ builtin echo -e \101 A $ I don't. I get: $ builtin echo -e \101 101 $ Why? Pigeon steve:~$ echo -e \101 101 steve:~$

Re: dysfunctional echo escape

2002-11-30 Thread sean finney
heya, it's because the \101 is being interpreted by the shell as 101 before being passed to echo. try it with '\101' or \\101 and you should get A. hth sean On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 07:45:05PM +, Pigeon wrote: > man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an > octa

Re: dysfunctional echo escape

2002-11-30 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:45 PM 11/30/02 +, Pigeon wrote: >Hi, > >man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an >octal number should output the character whose ASCII code is nnn. > >So, I should get: >$ builtin echo -e \101 >A >$ > >I don't. I get: >$ builtin echo -e \101 >101 >$ > >Why? The she

SpamAssassin Config Questions

2002-11-30 Thread Michelle Storm
in /usr/share/spamassasin/ There are a lot of files. 10_misc.cf 25_body_tests_es.cf 40_spam_phrases.cf 20_anti_ratware.cf 25_body_tests_pl.cf 50_scores.cf 20_body_tests.cf25_head_tests_es.cf 60_whitelist.cf 20_compensate.cf25_head_tests_pl.cf 65_debian.cf 20_head_tests.cf

Re: Will Gregg and Monica's computer support Debian?

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:56:45AM -0700, Gregg & Monica wrote: > I need to know if my computer can support debianand I need to knwo if it > will support the gui...here are my computers info... > > cyrix MII 266Mhz, 4gig hard drive, windows ME loaded and updated, sound card > w/powered speaker

dysfunctional echo escape

2002-11-30 Thread Pigeon
Hi, man bash (bash-2.01) tells me that echo -e \nnn where nnn is an octal number should output the character whose ASCII code is nnn. So, I should get: $ builtin echo -e \101 A $ I don't. I get: $ builtin echo -e \101 101 $ Why? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-11-30 Thread Qian Gong
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:56:42PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello all, > > First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question. > OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the > boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still ling

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the > Woody CDs, and

Re: installing on vprMatrix

2002-11-30 Thread Johan Ehnberg
ATI mobility Radeon 7500 should be no prob. download the drivers from ati's site Orinoco miniPCI WIFI card There's at least a driver for the PCMCIA version, it works fine for me. In the kernel, the CONFIG_HERMES should make it work, according to the help screen. Synaptics PS/2 type touch

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-11-30 Thread Travis Crump
Bruce Park wrote: Hello all, First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question. OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the boot, swap, and root partition. Here are some questions that still linger in my head. 1. Should I make the /boot bootable

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 06:15, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:59, bob parker wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list > > > without my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good > > > pro

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:59, bob parker wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple

ATI Radeon 8500 All-in-Wonder

2002-11-30 Thread Bill Moseley
Anyone using these series of video cards that can give me an overview of supported features under Linux for home desktop use. I'm considering 8500DV 64MB or the 8500 128MB. I do have a spare firewire card so that part of the "DV" is not that critical. And from http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/feat

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:59, bob parker wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 05:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a coup

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