Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Gerald V. Livingston II said: > Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under > woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. I'm not sure how closely you track the kernel but I've read several places that the "generic" kernel is rarely the choice for anything other then x86. the n

Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong? *solved*

2002-12-20 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 02:35:11AM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:49:47 +0530 > Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello all > > > > in my quest for finding a solution for this problem, i came across a > > script on this mailing list which claimed to do this.

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
Oops! I didn't send two of these to the list: David H. Clymer wrote: ${local_part} is taken from the recipiant's email address. if someone sent you an email (to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the exim splits up the address on the @ and sets two variables: local_part: paul domain: foo.com What pro

Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-20 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I don't care. Right now it fails at the "make dep" stage using either method. First it was some missing header files. Figured out where they were and got t

Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?

2002-12-20 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:49:47 +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all > > one of the differences between debian and windows was that debian did > not turn numlock on by default while booting. > > in my quest for finding a solution for this problem, i came across a > script

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll copy this back to the list On Friday 20 December 2002 10:44 pm, you wrote: .. > >>>On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:13, Paul Scott wrote: > Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has: > > local_delivery: > driver = appendfile > group = mail >

Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?

2002-12-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:49:47PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | and disaster struck. my system refused to give me a login prompt!! i did | init=/bin/bash at lilo. this gave me a prompt but mounted filesystem | readonly. how do i make it read-write? Remount it. # mount -o remount -o rw / |

Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-21 12:49:47 +0530]: > > #!/bin/sh > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] > for tty in $INITTY; do > setleds -D +num < $tty > done > [...] > what is wrong with the script? is there any way in which i can make num > lock turned on on all virtual consoles? It is this l

Re: just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?

2002-12-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Saturday 21 December 2002 10:49 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > one of the differences between debian and windows was that debian did > not turn numlock on by default while booting. Well, this is actually something that the BIOS software (usually) handles. Most of the systems I ha

just survived from unbootable system - what was wrong?

2002-12-20 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all one of the differences between debian and windows was that debian did not turn numlock on by default while booting. in my quest for finding a solution for this problem, i came across a script on this mailing list which claimed to do this. here is the script: #!/bin/sh INITTY=/dev/tty[1

Xnest under X. Question.

2002-12-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. I want to setup Xnest with depth 8 under X with depth 24. When I try do this I see messages Fatal server error: Unable to find desired default visual. Ok. I see man Xnest and I see that this must work. xdpyinfo show me that I have number of visuals:4 and next visual classes TrueColor

X in unstable is unstable [hosed] ?

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I just wanted to report a nasty problem with X in unstable. After about 6h of uptime, it starts to reset the screen. I have to reboot - restarting X does nothing. Here's the tail of the X log: (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=30480 bottom Y=24060 (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top Y

Re: 2 Problems Quake3 and Bind9

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:42:43PM -0600, Jason Jorgensen wrote: > Now, the more important question! > Quake3. I recently upgraded my Debian unstable workstation and now all > of a sudden my Quake3 for linux wont respond to my mouse movements. The > mouse buttons register fine inside the game, bu

kde 3.1 on sarge

2002-12-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
hi there: this may have come up before, but I searched the archive and couldn't found the answer, so I decided perhaps it would be best to ask the ML. I wonder if anyone is aware of any apt-get-able site with kde 3.1 (RC) packages for sarge. I have found Karolinas KDE 3.1 packages ( http://wh9.

Re: '%Pon' can't connect

2002-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Rodrigo writes: > Does anybody knows what is going on ? Without more information, no. Post the output of the plog command and copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Mask any passwords. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSU

Re: '%Pon' can't connect

2002-12-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rodrigo F. Baroni wrote: Hello all, When I type '%pon' to get connect at my internet server it do the call, send the user name and passwd, but disconnect after this. Does anybody knows what is going on ? Rodrigo I don't have a clue, and I doubt others will either based upon th

Re: win2k WS FTP doesn't play well with debian

2002-12-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 20:53, Sasha Karlik wrote: > Anyone possibly know what is going on here? > Is this a win/ws ftp problem? What did the other Windows FTP clients you tested do? Were they able to complete the transfer, or did they fail in the same (or similar way)? -- Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL P

Re: win2k WS FTP doesn't play well with debian

2002-12-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 03:53, Sasha Karlik wrote: > This is a repeat request for help. > > Windows2000 machine :: networked to :: Debian > All files are browsable in WS FTP. When beginning a file transfer, the file > name appears in the destination directory on the debian machine, then the > trans

'%Pon' can't connect

2002-12-20 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
Hello all, When I type '%pon' to get connect at my internet server it do the call, send the user name and passwd, but disconnect after this. Does anybody knows what is going on ? Rodrigo ___ Busca Yahoo! O melhor

win2k WS FTP doesn't play well with debian

2002-12-20 Thread Sasha Karlik
This is a repeat request for help. Windows2000 machine :: networked to :: Debian All files are browsable in WS FTP. When beginning a file transfer, the file name appears in the destination directory on the debian machine, then the transfer locks up immediately. after about a minute, an error mes

Re: wu-ftpd woes

2002-12-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 19:03, Michael Kahle wrote: > I am trying to setup a ftp server on my company lan for a repository of g4u > created machine images. I have chosen to install wu-ftpd. > > I cannot seam to get this to authenticate me. I have NOT setup anonymous > user access, I am only config

can't set belgian dutch local

2002-12-20 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i'm trying to add euro support to my console and X environment. Now, to accomplish this i'm following the Debian Euro howto. 1) In chapter 3 there is a part on modifying a keymap. It basically deals with copying an existing keymap and adjusting it accordingly. I did that with the /usr/share

err I dselected libpng .... help

2002-12-20 Thread daves debian
Err I made a **?!?** mistake !! I have deselected libpng-dev libpng2-dev libpng2 libpng3 I haven't actually actioned it yet because the list of packages about to be removed is 208 inc KDE etc ... I have tried various combinations of the four libpngs, to no avail. I currently have libpng2

Re: compaq 1600r's with Debian 2.4.18-686-smp

2002-12-20 Thread Thing
dmesg does not detect the second cpu, yet the bios does and init's it. cat/proc/interrupts shows 1, ditto cpuinfo Ive compiled my own kernel, still the same, I have 2 such boxes both only see one, ive swapped cpu1 into slot 0 and booted fine, so the hardware seems OK. this suggests a "common" p

Re: Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > > I found this: > > :0 > > > > * [ ]*(Content|(file)?name=).*\.(scr|exe|p(if|as)|v(bs|xd)|ba[kt]|\ > > wab|cp(p|l)|asp|xls|mpe?g|reg|ini|d(iz|ll)|sys) > > { do stuff } > > I tried this but it seems to

Re: how to build mozilla .deb's from sources?

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/20/02 10:20, Osamu Aoki wrote: [Andrew Hurt] >-> Here goes my way--not necessarily the _proper_ way I agree but I would do this a bit differently If I had to (I did not do this.) After adding deb-src for unstable and in testing environment (or in woody if you are lucky) So if you wanted

Re: can not access from outside link

2002-12-20 Thread eric
Dear Rob or any linuxer: I did not quite know apache yet, I had a line in source of html of companyA http://www.linuxspice.com/cgi-bin/showphoto.pl";> and that suppose to powered by me , companyB in my C:\Apache2\cgi-bin\showphoto.pl --- #!c:\perl\bi

Re: compaq 1600r's with Debian 2.4.18-686-smp

2002-12-20 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:52:39AM +1300, Thing wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 of these running dual p2-450 cpus, the problem is on neither machine > cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the second cpu, ive swapped the cpu's about and > booted with 1 cpu at at time and the server still boots so this suggests the

Re: boo lexmark (was: Which USB portable memory?)

2002-12-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:52:58AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021220 11:45]: > > hi, > > > > for my sd/mmc (secure digital/multimedia > > card), sandisk works flawlessly, mounted > > as /dev/sda1. > > > > a lexmark card reader is frigid towards my > > linux box. erg

个人创业当老板首选项目,金属艺术刻绘机

2002-12-20 Thread lotoinfo

Who have S3TrioV2/.. video card, which work under X version 4.2. ?

2002-12-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. Who have S3TrioV2/.. video card, which work under X version 4.2. I can only use X with resolution 640x480 and depth 8. Are there other drivers for this card that work under X (4.1.., 4.2..)? Tnanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7

2002-12-20 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:55:05PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:54:53PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > > > Check the archives. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-usr/2002/debian-user-200206/msg03028.html > > That should be: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2

compaq 1600r's with Debian 2.4.18-686-smp

2002-12-20 Thread Thing
Hi, I have 2 of these running dual p2-450 cpus, the problem is on neither machine cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the second cpu, ive swapped the cpu's about and booted with 1 cpu at at time and the server still boots so this suggests the hardware / cpus are fine. anybody know a fix? Im using standar

Re: bash

2002-12-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 20:26]: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:45:19PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > environment. I'm sure you can see that profiles would be much less > > useful if they were executed instead of sourced... > > And there was me thinking in my fuzzy way that that was

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 December 2002 8:03 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > David H. Clymer wrote: > >On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:13, Paul Scott wrote: > >>Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has: > >> > >>local_delivery: > >> driver = appendfile > >> group = mail > >> mode = 066

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Bret Comstock Waldow said: > Hotsync doesn't happen at all (works in my Redhat with gnome-pilot) and > pilot-xfer starts sync'ing, transfers a variable number of files, then > fails on the Visor. I've done it several times, and it fails on > different files, so it isn't db file specific. I've on

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:56, nate wrote: > > Bret Comstock Waldow said: > > > Directly attempting the hotsync with pilot-link, a la the HowTo, gets a > > message about pi_bind: > >Unable to bind to port /dev/ttyUSB1 > >pi_bind: Permission denied > > should be fairly simple, the userid y

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 15:06, David H. Clymer wrote: > > Could you be so kind as to point me to the place where I can find the > visor module option in make menuconfig? I cant seem to find it. Maybe > I'm looking the wrong place. I'm using v2.4.18 BTW. I'm afraid I can't. I'm not working with co

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing (not found; but issue now moot)

2002-12-20 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c> Joseph Barillari wrote: >> The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called >> snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c> [...] c> Just to be sure, what version of alsaconf a

Re: spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7

2002-12-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:54:53PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > Check the archives. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-usr/2002/debian-user-200206/msg03028.html That should be: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg03028.html subtle but distinct difference. -- Jamin W.

Re: TV / Radio card modules and software? Outlook calendar sharing?

2002-12-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:47:52PM +, Andrew M. A. Cater wrote: > I've acquired a brand-new Hauppage Primio FM WinTV card. > > I guess it will work with the bt848?? modules and the corresponding > radio module - is there any software to effect the tuning and so on. If it does work with the bt

Re: spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7

2002-12-20 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > Does anyone know what causes this? Check the archives. http://lists.debian.org/debian-usr/2002/debian-user-200206/msg03028.html -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

TV / Radio card modules and software? Outlook calendar sharing?

2002-12-20 Thread Andrew M. A. Cater
I've acquired a brand-new Hauppage Primio FM WinTV card. I guess it will work with the bt848?? modules and the corresponding radio module - is there any software to effect the tuning and so on. [I have a Windows drivers disk which is useless.] Second question: I'm about to build a Debian server f

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread David H. Clymer
> >> > >${local_part} is taken from the recipiant's email address. if someone > >sent you an email (to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the exim splits up the address on > >the @ and sets two variables: > > > >local_part: paul > >domain: foo.com > > > What process does that substitution? I'm not exactly sure,

spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7

2002-12-20 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
Does anyone know what causes this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

boot deadlock

2002-12-20 Thread eric
Dear Rob: In the 2.4.20, the last line of boot is start pppd link- then everything stop there no matter what keyborard I push after I enter save mode, fsck /dev/hdc2 startx it showed hostname(none) but I do put a line in my /etc/hostname www.linuxspice.com and

Re: Which USB portable memory?

2002-12-20 Thread Dave W
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 15:38, Craig Dickson wrote: > Lars Jensen wrote: > > > Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking > > about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure > > Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work. Are you looking to

Re: Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-20 Thread John Conover
http://www.johncon.com/john/QuarantineAttachments/ has a regex that you can hack ... John Tom Badran writes: > On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > > I found this: > > :0 > > > > * [ ]*(Content|(file)?name=).*\.(scr|exe|p(if|as)|v(bs|xd)|ba[kt]|\ > > wab|cp(p|l)|asp|xls

Re: changing the IRQ number

2002-12-20 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:49:32PM -0200, Osvaldo Mundim Junior wrote: > I want to change the IRQ number of a onboard NIC (realtek 8100) because I > have another hardware using it. I'm trying to use setpci, but I dont know the > slot's number to set it up. > > How can I get the slot number of a

qt problems ...

2002-12-20 Thread daves debian
I am trying to upgrade my woody KDE to 3.0.4, Ive done this in the past with red hat AOK but am having problems with debian. My KDE is in /opt/kde3 My qt is in /opt/kde3/qt I setup my variables with the following script ... #! /bin/sh KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 QTDIR=$KDEDIR/qt PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/b

Re: Which USB portable memory?

2002-12-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Lars Jensen wrote: > Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking > about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure > Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work. There are reports of the Cruzer working with SuSE 8.0, so apparently it can be

free alternative to xwin32 anyone?

2002-12-20 Thread sean finney
hi all, so i'm back home for the holidays, and unfortunately sitting at a windows 98 machine. now lately i've really gotten used to x-forwarding certain applications off of a central server (like my licq/aim programs for example), and would like to do so here as well. in the past i've used xwin3

Re: Which USB portable memory?

2002-12-20 Thread Craig Dickson
p wrote: > for my sd/mmc (secure digital/multimedia > card), sandisk works flawlessly, mounted > as /dev/sda1. Some of SanDisk's USB card readers are USB-storage compatible, and some aren't -- and of those that aren't, one or two have custom drivers available in the Linux kernel, but most don't

Re: Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > I found this: > :0 > > * [ ]*(Content|(file)?name=).*\.(scr|exe|p(if|as)|v(bs|xd)|ba[kt]|\ > wab|cp(p|l)|asp|xls|mpe?g|reg|ini|d(iz|ll)|sys) > { do stuff } I tried this but it seems to filter out _all_ messages. Any chance you possibly made

Re: Procmail attachment pruning (was Procmail attachment filtering)

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 6:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason I read Tom's problem differently. Does somebody > have a rule to remove the attachment and retain the text of an > email? Or how do you disentangle the text from an email that has > both text and html parts (as if there are m

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread David H. Clymer
Could you be so kind as to point me to the place where I can find the visor module option in make menuconfig? I cant seem to find it. Maybe I'm looking the wrong place. I'm using v2.4.18 BTW. davidc On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:39, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I just installed Woody r1 (presumably,

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
David H. Clymer wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:13, Paul Scott wrote: Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has: local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} but mutt te

Re: slowdown when reading from block devices

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Wim De Smet said: > Hi, > > I've noticed in my (woody based) testing/unstable that when I access block > devices such as (very obvious off course) my hard disk or my cd-rom > device, my system hangs for short moments. Meaning heavier and longer than > you would expect it to on an ide system. My ker

Re: changing the IRQ number

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Osvaldo Mundim Junior said: > Hi all, > > I want to change the IRQ number of a onboard NIC (realtek 8100) because I > have another hardware using it. I'm trying to use setpci, but I dont know > the slot's number to set it up. > > How can I get the slot number of a onboard NIC (doesn't have one?) ?

boo lexmark (was: Which USB portable memory?)

2002-12-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021220 11:45]: > hi, > > for my sd/mmc (secure digital/multimedia > card), sandisk works flawlessly, mounted > as /dev/sda1. > > a lexmark card reader is frigid towards my > linux box. ergo, ...can't recommend lexmark. lexmark also makes printers that won't work witho

slowdown when reading from block devices

2002-12-20 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, I've noticed in my (woody based) testing/unstable that when I access block devices such as (very obvious off course) my hard disk or my cd-rom device, my system hangs for short moments. Meaning heavier and longer than you would expect it to on an ide system. My kernel version is 2.2.20, I have

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread nate
Bret Comstock Waldow said: > Directly attempting the hotsync with pilot-link, a la the HowTo, gets a > message about pi_bind: >Unable to bind to port /dev/ttyUSB1 >pi_bind: Permission denied should be fairly simple, the userid your using does not have access to /dev/ttyUSB1 I create a gr

console framebuffer in Woody r1

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I've just installed Woody r1. (At least I was connected to an apt-source on the net while installing and it downloaded a lot, so I assume it's r1). I've been using Redhat 7.3 and SuSE 7.3 before that, and I've been using framebuffer support for my console sessions (Alt-F1, etc). I get my 1024x76

Re: resolved -- Re: my .muttrc is locked (i.e., read-only)

2002-12-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021220 11:19]: > debs, > > firstly, thanks to all that replied. > i got good info. ("world writeable, > vi.recover"..."glad to meet-'cha'.") > and thirdly, during my morning 75-mile > commute to denver, the thought popped > into my head that i could remove the > ~

Re: Which USB portable memory?

2002-12-20 Thread p
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:20:54AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking > about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure > Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work. > > Any info apprecuated. > > Thanks,

Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I just installed Woody r1 (presumably, as I connected to sources on the net while installing, and it downloaded a lot of stuff). I included pilot-link, gnome-pilot, evolution, and the things they each said they depended on. The kernel is 2.2.20. I have been running Redhat 7.3, and have been reli

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread David H. Clymer
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:13, Paul Scott wrote: > Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has: > > local_delivery: > driver = appendfile > group = mail > mode = 0660 > mode_fail_narrower = false > envelope_to_add = true > return_path_add = true > file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} > > but mutt

Procmail attachment pruning (was Procmail attachment filtering)

2002-12-20 Thread csj
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:04:03 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:10:29AM +, Tom Badran wrote: > > Can someone give me a rule to filter out .exe attachments, or > > any of the other kind sent by lookout viruses. I seem to get > > 2 or 3 of these a day and i dont even run blood

Which USB portable memory?

2002-12-20 Thread Lars Jensen
Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work. Any info apprecuated. Thanks, Lars. -- Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-39

resolved -- Re: my .muttrc is locked (i.e., read-only)

2002-12-20 Thread p
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:18:39AM +, p wrote: > debs, > > my .muttrc is "read-only." i need to > modify it, as i've been able to do > in the past. i don't know what i > did to make it r/o. > > (permissions = 666) > > $ ls -la .muttrc > > -rw-rw-rw-1 bt bt 8503 Oct

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
Ok. My /etc/exim/exim.conf has: local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} but mutt tells me that /var/spool/mail/paul is not a mailbox. BTW the way where is

Re: potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:03:40PM -0300, Ricardo - Eureka! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had the same problem a few months ago, when woody was released. > > I had the solution this way (via http:) > > 1 - apt-get update -uy > 2 - apt-get dist-upgrade -uy > 3 - apt-get upgrade -uy > > I hope i

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: David H. Clymer wrote: Ah. This is one of those areas I haven't quite got down: How do I tell who's listening to port 25? Do you have any suggestions as to what to you could try: lsof -i TCP:25 That gives me: inetd 243 root 11u IPv4 477720 TCP *:smtp (

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread David H. Clymer
I just realized that I wasnt sending my replies to the list :) silly me. davidc -Forwarded Message- From: David H. Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: simple exim configuration Date: 20 Dec 2002 13:20:56 -0500 > That gives me: > > inetd 243 roo

Re: bash

2002-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Bruce, Am 16:39 2002-12-16 -0500 hat Bruce Park geschrieben: > > >Dear debian users, > >My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it starts up, >it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How does this work in >bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it

Re: postfix/smtpd - illegal address

2002-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Kevin, Am 08:40 2002-12-16 -0500 hat Kevin Coyner geschrieben: >Dec 16 08:30:44 sumida postfix/smtpd[26504]: warning: Illegal address \ >syntax from localhost[127.0.0.1] in MAIL command: ^

i810 / CAM'97 sound problem - it plays mp3s too fast

2002-12-20 Thread jonas bösch
Hi, I've installed Sarge onto an ibm r32 thinkpad.. almost everything works by now except for the sound .. all mp3's are being played wy to fast. google told me that those shitty i810 sound chips can only play samples with a fixed rate so all other samples have to be up/downsampled, and t

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > If you mean readline in bash, you can add > > "\M-[A": history-search-backward > > to your .inputrc. > A newly started bash should then handle CURSOR-UP the way you like. But if I add sequences that already have a meaning (like "

Re: potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Ricardo - Eureka!
I had the same problem a few months ago, when woody was released. I had the solution this way (via http:) 1 - apt-get update -uy 2 - apt-get dist-upgrade -uy 3 - apt-get upgrade -uy I hope it works with you! (Sorry for my english!!!) -- Ricardo A.Frydman - Analista de Sistemas Usuario Linux

changing the IRQ number

2002-12-20 Thread Osvaldo Mundim Junior
Hi all, I want to change the IRQ number of a onboard NIC (realtek 8100) because I have another hardware using it. I'm trying to use setpci, but I dont know the slot's number to set it up. How can I get the slot number of a onboard NIC (doesn't have one?) ? Somebody can give a instruction? tks i

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
David H. Clymer wrote: Ah. This is one of those areas I haven't quite got down: How do I tell who's listening to port 25? Do you have any suggestions as to what to you could try: lsof -i TCP:25 That gives me: inetd 243 root 11u IPv4 477720 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) What progr

Re: my .muttrc is locked (i.e., read-only)

2002-12-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 20 December 2002, 07:29 AM +): > Are you editing .muttrc while mutt is running? Does mutt lock its config > file when it is in action? Mutt doesn't lock the config file while running - I've often made changes to it while running mutt el

Re: 3.0r1 isos -- where?

2002-12-20 Thread bwagner
> Not out yet, AFAIK. You could just burn an update CD with the changed > debs though. What's the usual turn around between the announcement of a new version being released and the availability of its isos? Thanks for the reply, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Cups getting tired

2002-12-20 Thread Cam Ellison
* Florian Struck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 19 December 2002 04:44, Cam Ellison wrote: > - -snip- > > you add the printer, use ipp://name.of.server/printers/xxx is whatever > > name you have given the printer. Once I got the name right, > > everything just worked. > >

changing the IRQ number

2002-12-20 Thread Osvaldo Mundim Junior
Hi all, I want to change the IRQ number of a onboard NIC (realtek 8100) because I have another hardware using it. I'm trying to use setpci, but I dont know the slot's number to set it up. How can I get the slot number of a onboard NIC (doesn't have one?) ? Somebody can give a instruction? tks

Re: Cups getting tired

2002-12-20 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 04:44, Cam Ellison wrote: - -snip- > you add the printer, use ipp://name.of.server/printers/xxx is whatever > name you have given the printer. Once I got the name right, > everything just worked. > - -snip- I just did a d

Re: Which X pkgs to hold? THANKS

2002-12-20 Thread Tony Crawford
Rob Weir wrote (on 20 Dec 2002 at 18:55): > Ideally, you would have either used the Debian packages, or > installed into /usr/local/X/ or something and used equivs to satisfy > apt. The first option is definitely superior though, especially > since X 4.1 *is in woody*. Thanks to Doug MacFarlane,

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:29:55PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Pigeon wrote: According to man fetchmail, it delivers it by SMTP to port 25, whence it is picked up by exim or whatever other MTA you have and delivered to wherever it has to go. Ah. This is one of those areas I

Re: Browser identity crisis

2002-12-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:38:17 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > [1 ] > * csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021219 11:05]: > > A certain site's javascript afaict has checks to identify whether > > the browser logging on is NS4 or IE4 or greater. Is there a way > > to get Mozilla to identify itself as proprieta

Re: DONE

2002-12-20 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
Hi all, The solution that I got ready: Get and compile kernel 2.4.18, compile and install ALSA following the instructions in file INSTALL, setting /etc/modules.conf (has sad in INSTALL too), ando so %modprobe mydrive Hugs, Merry Cristmas for all! Rodrigo Rodrigo F. > Baro

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-20 Thread Steve Juranich
On 20 Dec 2002 14:21:06 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I suppose it is too much to ask for a simple way a simple user can use > sound on Linux version 2.4.18-k7 with VIA VT8233 AC97 Audio > Controller. I looked at many a Debian Sound HowTo already. > http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt is what I've

potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
When attempting an upgrade from Potato to Woody via either apt-get or dselect, I get the following error: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend This appears after placing disk 1 of the update set into the CDROM tray, and the disk is read for several seconds. I've researched this

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:29:55PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:02:21AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: > > > > > >>Paul Scott wrote (on 18 Dec 2002 at 23:57): > >> > >> > >> > fetchmail to get the mail, procmail to sort it, mozilla or mutt to > >>

Re: Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:04:03AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:10:29AM +, Tom Badran wrote: > > Can someone give me a rule to filter out .exe attachments, or any of the other > > kind sent by lookout viruses. I seem to get 2 or 3 of these a day and i dont > > even run

apt-spy failure

2002-12-20 Thread Charles Baker
I've been trying to run apt-spy the last couple of days and keep getting the following error: usmghdebian:/etc/apt# apt-spy -d unstable -s \ /root/tops.20021220 ::: Will save top sites to /root/tops.20021220. ::: Unrecoverable Error [1]: Could not retrieve list from DEBIAN.ORG ::: [] Savin

Re: Agghh! hostname in Woody install

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 09:08, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > > So what happens when you fill in /etc/hostname with your hostname? I attached the network cable, and then did a new install, using an ftp mirror to update everything during the install. Now, I get this: [bret@ganesha etc]$ ls -l h* -rw-

Re: .xsession & wdm

2002-12-20 Thread Tom
> 1) Delete and recreate from scratch with your favourite editor the > .xsession file, in case somehow there is a stray non-printing character > that is mucking up wdm in the handoff. It works. I just don't get it; the .xsession files were literally *identical*. Still, recreating mine solved the p

Re: LAN IPv6 global connectivity HOWTO

2002-12-20 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 19:52, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > [..] Your construction of the EUI-64 is off a bit... [..] Thanks a million for your explanation : turns out I had really not understood how to produce an address. As a result, I rewrote sections 6.1 "Setting up the router's LAN interface" and

Re: how to build mozilla .deb's from sources?

2002-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:11:46PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> On 12/19/02 09:05, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote: > -> >I'd like to compile mozilla distribution directly from source/CVS. > -> >Is there any 'easy' way to do it? I see there is already > -> >build/packages/debian directory i

Re: package trees

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Nelson wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing "bitch" by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I s

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