GUI Mail Client

2003-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my existing pine config and folders? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Email - Web Space - Custom Solutions - Shell Accounts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

biff type notifier for remote IMAP servers?

2003-02-25 Thread rb
Is there a mail arrival notifier which can monitor one's mailboxes on a remote host's IMAP spool? (using gnus to read mail from the remote hosts and locally from /var/mail/user). Thanks very much, rb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: vim: first letter of last word on line ???

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Tue Feb 25, 2003 at 09:05:25PM -0600, the boisterous Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > It seems that I'm always in vim trying to goto the first letter of the > last word on a line. > > Is there already a key binding to do that? > > The closest I've found is Esc A Esc B ; bu

Re: Restricting relaying with Exim

2003-02-25 Thread Sharninder
> I'm trying to set up Exim on a firewall so that Internet email > comes in through Exim and then is forwarded to my internal email > server (there is no local delivery on the gateway server). I've > got everything running where mail flows through both ways, but I > need to block email with a forg

Re: Webadmin

2003-02-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > Can someone please tell me if Webadmin is available > > in Debian (woody).   > > If you are referring to webmin, then yes (ver 0.94.7) Oh Btw, don't use the packages in woody. They are broken in various ways and plus upstream says to use

Re: woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
> So there are probably some apps out there that do something > similar, so I wouldn't rely on such behavior. Perhaps it's I've checked the source code (and via strace) and they use gethostbyname(), which should respect the nsswitch.conf and host.conf settings. It almost looks like a bug in glibc

Re: Verification of Webmin

2003-02-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Shawn Owens wrote: > I've had a look around and can see indications of the program being > installed but when I try and access this via port 1, I receive an > error "the page can't be displayed. > Because you're using http instead of https. Whenever installing a package,

Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Pepas
Hello, I have observed the following behavior with debian woody (3.0) installs: - if you say "no" to tasksel, a very very minimal set of packages are installed. - if you say "yes" to tasksel, but don't select any packages, a bunch more packages are installed than the above. my question is, how

Superblock unreadable with upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18-586tsc kernel on Woody

2003-02-25 Thread Mark A. F.
I am running Debian 3.0r1 (woody/stable). Initially, I installed kernel-2.2.20. I would like to upgrade to kernel-2.4.18-586tsc. My system has two harddrives. The second harddrive contains only a single extended partition divided into a logical linux swap partition and a logical ext2 partitio

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt > more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus > protection, especially for email: [snip] > Is there some webpage that compar

Re: vim: first letter of last word on line ???

2003-02-25 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: It seems that I'm always in vim trying to goto the first letter of the last word on a line. Is there already a key binding to do that? The closest I've found is Esc A Esc B ; but, that is really (3+) keystrokes ;< What do you think? Well, you can replace 'A Esc' with '$'

NAT with iptables: dealing with MSN messenger.

2003-02-25 Thread calyth
Yes I know, MSN messenger isn't that great. I have this problem: all my computers goes through a NAT "firewall" using iptables, and with the current rules, I could definately do MSN (as an IM agent) and receive files with it; however, it cannot send files. I suspect that there needs to be some p

Re: MRTG

2003-02-25 Thread nate
Shawn Owens said: > Has anyone previously installed MRTG onto a debian machine? I've tried > using apt-get install MRTG but I receive a failure when installing two > packages. probably not. I think your the first! > Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org testing/main libgd1 1.8.4-16 404 Not > Found

Re: cannot change eth media type

2003-02-25 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sean Proctor wrote: > >The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use > >10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, > >this > >is what I get: > > > ># /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT > >port: S

Re: cannot change eth media type

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Sean Proctor wrote: The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use 10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, this is what I get: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT port: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported Does linux not support switching

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Jeffrey L. Taylor (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 05:15:53PM -0600): > I am using Postfix, amavis-new, and ClamAv + F-Prot + H+BEDV AntiVir. > I was using OpenAntiVir (OAV) and DrWeb. OAV's signature database is > updated infrequently and is written in Java, putting a bigger load on > my system.

Re: mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:08:02PM +1100, Russell Shaw insinuated: > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I > > just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my > > old one to do what I want to do. - jackp > > man xset or `gpmconfig`,

cannot change eth media type

2003-02-25 Thread Sean Proctor
The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use 10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, this is what I get: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT port: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported Does linux not support switching or is it the driv

Restricting relaying with Exim

2003-02-25 Thread Ken McCord
Help! I'm trying to set up Exim on a firewall so that Internet email comes in through Exim and then is forwarded to my internal email server (there is no local delivery on the gateway server). I've got everything running where mail flows through both ways, but I need to block email with a forged

MRTG

2003-02-25 Thread Shawn Owens
Has anyone previously installed MRTG onto a debian machine?  I’ve tried using apt-get install MRTG but I receive a failure when installing two packages.   The following extra packages will be installed:   libgd1 zlib1g   Err http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org testing/main libgd1 1.8.4-16   40

vim: first letter of last word on line ???

2003-02-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
It seems that I'm always in vim trying to goto the first letter of the last word on a line. Is there already a key binding to do that? The closest I've found is Esc A Esc B ; but, that is really (3+) keystrokes ;< What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 - Dare to fix

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On 25 Feb 2003, John Hasler wrote: > Alex writes: > > Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO > > I'm aware of no such HOWTO. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/PPP_Server w/ hayes stuff you'll need if your ppp server and clients dont talk to each ther the first time c ya alvin --

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Re: Help w/ debugging an unfunctional talk and talkd

2003-02-25 Thread fbrian
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:43:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How do I see where talk or talkd are hanging??? > > Do you have talkd enabled in your inetd.conf? As far as I know. Here is the relavent lines from inetd.conf #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. talk

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
John Hasler wrote: Alex writes: Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO I'm aware of no such HOWTO. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=pppconfig+howto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Jack Pistachio wrote: How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp man xset -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread nate
Will Lowe said: > ... the manpages indicate this should work. after a recent bout with trying to figure out a sendmail issue on a friend's mandrake machine I discovered that sendmail seems to completely ignore /etc/hosts under some(all?) circumstances. This behavior was confirmed when I helped an

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Simon Tod wrote: So why can't modprobe find any of the modules - if indeed that's the problem - cause they're certainly where they're supposed to be. Looking through the output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* again suggests to me that it's some sort of dependency or configuration problem... the sam

woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread Will Lowe
On my woody box, I have an entry in /etc/hosts that looks like this: 10.1.1.1 foo.bar.com foo There's also a record in dns for "foo.bar.com" that instead points to 10.1.1.2 -- I'm trying to explictely OVERRIDE that by making the /etc/hosts entry, so I have "hosts: files dns" in nsswitch.conf an

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Alex writes: > Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO I'm aware of no such HOWTO. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwto play .mpg files

2003-02-25 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:02:55AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg > files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run > them. > > I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't > run them. What's the result? > Wh

Manually updating dpkg database

2003-02-25 Thread Errol Neal
Hello, I have been a debian user for a number of years now. I believe that debian is probably the most robust linux distribution available today. I am new to the user list, so please forgive me if my question has been brought up and answered before. Okay, I am faced with a situation that I am

Verification of Webmin

2003-02-25 Thread Shawn Owens
I’ve had a look around and can see indications of the program being installed but when I try and access this via port 1, I receive an error “the page can’t be displayed.   mail:~# apt-cache show webmin Package: webmin Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 3432 Maintai

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
* deFreese, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > > threads? > > > > -- > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ertius.org/ > > If your talking to me, it would surprise me. I'm stuck wi

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread alex
Did you try? # pppconfig Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After following the directions (from the howto's and faq's) I am still unable to get it functioning. I tried with PAP as well as CHAP. An error is ret

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030225 15:41]: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:20:55AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > > I had a host, but not this host. It seems nslookup is deprecated in > > favor of host. Thanks. > > In favour of dig, IIRC. Either one: doozer:~% nslookup Note: nslookup is depreca

mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Jack Pistachio
How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.

where is libMP3.so

2003-02-25 Thread John Foster
I am trying to use mplayer-update to compile and install the latest cvs of mplayer. It seems to work to the point that it seeks libMP3.so then faile giving error2 Anyone have experience with this?? Thanks -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

supported hardware

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supported hardware

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RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
> > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > threads? > > -- > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/ If your talking to me, it would surprise me. I'm stuck with Outlook at work!! :-( Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Mana

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:21:51AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Nearly. Testing has got (effectively) no new binary packages in months, > because sid has switched to libc6 2.3.1, which is, er, 'a little buggy'. > It's been broken enough that it's been unable to move into testing, and > since all binar

Re: server side ftp

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box Arkansas: Your tax dollars at work here with this guy. apt-cache search ftp (find one that looks good) apt-cache show (to find out if it's really what you want. apt-get install (to downl

Re: FW: Sound Blaster Live Support

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:35:34PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Fortunately, when I upgraded from kernel 2.2.x to 2.4.20 (that is from > 'testing'; I think 2.4.19 is in 'stable') it included the emu10K driver > as a module, so it just worked. It's also in the 2.4.18 (IIRC) kernel from woody, just n

Re: Help w/ debugging an unfunctional talk and talkd

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:43:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I see where talk or talkd are hanging??? Do you have talkd enabled in your inetd.conf? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to d

Re: Latest MPlayer

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:08:57PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > What do I add to my sources list to get the latest MPlayer? deb http://marillat.free.fr stable main deb http://marillat.free.fr unstable main -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'`

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > threads? it's not just you. my mutt is set to _not_ thread by subject, and in any case doing such is unlikely to track exactly who anyone is replying to. thanks for speaking up! :D ia

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The final thing which I still do not understand is that, after I > passed the ether= kernel parameters for each card, only eth0 would > work. But if I `ifdown eth0` then only eth1 would work. Finally > if I `ifdown eth1` then eth2

Re: man -k apropos --> nothing apropiate

2003-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Drag?n wrote: > I have the feeling that dlocate has the same problem. > > May be a problem with cron? [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] The man-db bug was fundamentally something separate (trust me on this, I fixed it), but if cron

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey L. Taylor said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:13:01PM -0600: > > Or not as the case may be. On my laptop, it insists that that the > > laptop is on battery power and won't run. The laptop only runs on > > AC since the battery won't hold a charge. >

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:53:48AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:44:16PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > > IMO, yes. > > > > Although, I use "sarge" not "testing" to be sure that I dont > > inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident. > > right, but be

Re: Exim error

2003-02-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Eduardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030225 11:08]: > Hi people, my exim (now after some more configurations done) I'm > receving this kind of error in my exim log. > Any knows what is this ? > > > 2003-02-25 13:38:08 18nE7f-0005Nc-00 Message is frozen > 2003-02-25 13:38:08 18nDzq-0005Lu-00 Message is

Re: server side ftp

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:05:19PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > trying to get ftp installed on zvmlinx5 (linux virual machine running > under vm) Your networking setup under this VM is broken. Fix it. > > Noll, Ralph wrote: > > zvmlinx5:/etc/apt# apt-get update > > Hit http://10.38.1.45 stable/

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:43:02AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > If you're a newbie, I'd recommend taking the first scheme, use Debian > for a day or two. Then do the install all over again, wiping the drive, > using the second scheme. Then do it again in a week or so, wiping the > drive, and making

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried passing kernel parameters > > ether=11,0x2000,eth0 ether=10,0x4000,eth1 ether=9,0x6000,eth2 Actually, if I read the source right, these aren't having any effect. They certainly aren't doing what you want them to do: they aren't determining whi

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:18:30AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > > > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > > > Which is actually really sad and unfair to Walt Disney > > himself. He never > > advocated animation strictly as entertainment for children. > > It was after > > his passing that the

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread sean finney
hi brian, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:54:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > So where would I do this in the install process, at the prompt for hda > disk partition? Skip over the swap prompt? What comes after, a dialog > listing of all the hard drive partitions? /home I understand, but what > is

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:20:55AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Rus Foster wrote: > > >On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > > > >> I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier > >> I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is > >> ptknslookup in

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I am using Postfix, amavis-new, and ClamAv + F-Prot + H+BEDV AntiVir. I was using OpenAntiVir (OAV) and DrWeb. OAV's signature database is updated infrequently and is written in Java, putting a bigger load on my system. ClamAv starts with OAV's signature database with additional signatures added

Re: Exim error

2003-02-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Eduardo" == listas linux writes: Eduardo> Hi people, my exim (now after some more configurations Eduardo> done) I'm receving this kind of error in my exim log. Eduardo> Any knows what is this ? Eduardo> 2003-02-25 13:38:08 18nE7f-0005Nc-00 Message is frozen Eduardo> Me

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brian Durant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030224 23:21]: > [...] I know that Debian has a long and honored reputation of not > including commercial software, but does that mean that no attempt is > made to support commercial products [...] You mean "non-Free", or "proprietary", in place of "commercial".

Re: cyrdeliver fails with errorcode 75

2003-02-25 Thread nate
David Masover said: > Is this a known bug? I've tried going to unstable and using cyrus > 2.something, which wouldn't even install -- the cyrus sasl libraries > failed to install. The cyrus website is no help at all -- 1.x is > depricated and no longer supported. I've been using cyrus 1.5 for a

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 23:13, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Or not as the case may be. On my laptop, it insists that that the > laptop is on battery power and won't run. The laptop only runs on > AC since the battery won't hold a charge. Have a look in /etc/init.d/anacron: case "$1" in start)

Re: login by ssh fails

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Norris
I expect that you're running into the default TCP-Wrappers configuration. If this is the case, there are at least 2 ways to resolve the issue. 1) If the remote system has a static IP address, just add an /etc/hosts entry for the box. 2) Edit /etc/hosts.deny, and change the "ALL: PARANOID" entry

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800): > > > Here are the fruits of two minutes of research using only dpkg -p, which > > you could just as easily have done yourself: > > Of course, I have already done this [...] Then you could have at least

Re: How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

2003-02-25 Thread nate
Felix Erkinger said: > I'm currently wondering, why my system is constantly ignoring any attempt > in /etc/login.defs to change the mail Variable to Maildir style. > > I tried QMAIL, MAILFILE, MAILDIR, but no effect (stays /var/mail/xy) so > far. the /etc/pam.d/login looks like it does not change i

Re: How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

2003-02-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Felix Erkinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030225 14:35]: > I'm currently wondering, why my system is constantly ignoring any attempt > in /etc/login.defs to change the mail Variable to Maildir style. > > I tried QMAIL, MAILFILE, MAILDIR, but no effect (stays /var/mail/xy) so far. > the /etc/pam.d/logi

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jeffrey L. Taylor said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:13:01PM -0600: > Or not as the case may be. On my laptop, it insists that that the > laptop is on battery power and won't run. The laptop only runs on > AC since the battery won't hold a charge. on_ac_power is probably broken on your laptop. You

Re: OT: Debian nor OS/X get time from MS's SNTP

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kent West said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:21:21PM -0600: > This is what my Windows admin says: > > >... here's what MS has to say about the time service running on ntp0: > >'The Windows Time Synchronization service (W32Time) is a fully compliant > >implementation of the Simple Network Time Protoc

Re: Exim rewrite of local usernames but only for non local Recipients

2003-02-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Felix Erkinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030225 14:02]: > I found out a working solution, for one of my problems, > on how to rewrite email-addresses with exim for outgoing mail, > but only if the Receipent isnt local. Is your local_domains setting correct? How about your qualify_domain and/or quali

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:25:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > > /dev/hda7reiserfs9.29 GB(mount point) / > > > > /dev/hda5ext215.1 MB/boot > > > > shmfs shm 57.9 MB/dev/shm

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 25, 2003 03:58 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Just apt-get install anacron.  It will Just Work (tm). Yep, and leave cron in place (don't try to uninstall it). anacron "recommends" cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

cyrdeliver fails with errorcode 75

2003-02-25 Thread David Masover
Using cyrus 1.5.19 on debian-testing. Noticed exim 3.36 wasn't delivering local mail -- it had been using a simple pipe driver to the command "cyrdeliver". Checked cyrdeliver out, read the manpage, and tried to make it work manually -- it fails, with no messages to anywhere -- no log, no stdo

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread John Anderson
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:23 pm, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote: > [...] > > > Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed > > the machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) > > however I don't want that to e

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:33:58PM -0800: > > It looks like Anacron is much better choice vs. cron for system that > > isn't a dedicated server - either a laptop or a dual-boot system. > > > > If this is the case, is there a partic

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800): > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt > > more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus > > protection, especially for email: > > > > # apt-cache

How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

2003-02-25 Thread Felix Erkinger
I'm currently wondering, why my system is constantly ignoring any attempt in /etc/login.defs to change the mail Variable to Maildir style. I tried QMAIL, MAILFILE, MAILDIR, but no effect (stays /var/mail/xy) so far. the /etc/pam.d/login looks like it does not change it. I've tried it via ssh login

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Craig Dickson wrote: Michael D. Schleif wrote: Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus protection, especially for email: # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort amavis-exim - Inte

Re: kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sidupgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:17, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Thanks. Are you sure you don't mean CC? Ooops, sorry, you are right -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome2.2 backport for Debian Woody available for download

2003-02-25 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:53:58AM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote: > First of all, a big thanks to all the Debian maintainers for making such > good source packages. They did all the real work. Also, thank you thank you, and everyone, for all the hard work! > > Add this to your /etc/apt/sourc

Re: HowTo play divX with xine

2003-02-25 Thread csj
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 19:19:01 +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > is there any "standard" way to play divX movies from a CD with xine? > > /* xine runs at my side, however, when I try to play a divX-CD, > nothing happens. When I try to provide or > in mounted or unmounted state, nothing

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > -SNIP- < With the testing CD's it boots fine.Everything works ok there until I try to find my NIC. With every ISO I tried (bout 5) with bf-2.4 it starts to load the kernel.The screen comes up and then I get an error about wrong magic followed by the reiserfs superblocks it ca

Re: DocBook

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Mueller
On Monday 24 February 2003 18:28, Mike M wrote: > On Monday 24 February 2003 15:45, David Z Maze wrote: > > Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to restart my DocBook efforts. I have SGML source and want > > > to produce HTML and PDF docs > > > > > > Should I start by installing these p

Re: cdrecord image

2003-02-25 Thread csj
One Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:32:45 -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > Well, just issuing a command like: > cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -v - cdimage.iso > > starts the processes up and eventually gets to to: > Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... > > And it just sits there like that forever. > >

Re: Latest MPlayer

2003-02-25 Thread csj
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:52:40 -0500 (EST), Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > I would have to agree on this one. For example, here is my > mplayer configure command when I compile it: > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/mplayer-0.90rc4 \ > --datadir=/opt/mplayer-common/share/mplayer \ > --with-win32libdir

Exim rewrite of local usernames but only for non local Recipients

2003-02-25 Thread Felix Erkinger
I found out a working solution, for one of my problems, on how to rewrite email-addresses with exim for outgoing mail, but only if the Receipent isnt local. Here is the snipet, if sombody else is searching... (Change "saturn" to the name of your local machine) (Uses the standard debian /etc/email-

Re: FW: Sound Blaster Live Support

2003-02-25 Thread Bob Paige
Administrator wrote: Sound support seems to be one of the less well documented areas for Linux in general and Debian in particular (go ahead, flame away and point me to the how-to's I missed!). I know I SHOULD be able to get a happy configuration with my Sound Blaster Live - but I'm not getting ve

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt > more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus > protection, especially for email: > > # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort > amavis-exim - Interface between MT

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 18:15, John Anderson wrote: [...] > Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the > machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I > don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2 > Cd's

Re: OT: Debian nor OS/X get time from MS's SNTP

2003-02-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Kent West said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:03:26PM -0600: Our Windows admin guy tells me that the time server for campus is running SNTP (RFC 1769). I've noticed that neither my Debian box nor two Macintosh OS/X boxes can synch time against our ntp server. However, they c

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread nate
Michael D. Schleif said: > What do you think? as an amavis user for more then 2 years I think amavis is a good package. Though I run the stuff from amavis.org, haven't tried any of the debainized versions. My last amavis deployment was amavisd snapshot 3(march 2002 I think). Before that I ran ama

Re: kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 25 Feb 2003 02:14:41 +0100, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:03, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> So, you can still compile kernels with it, though I agree that there >> might be some problems if everything insists on calling gcc. > > Set the env variable then > >>

Re: Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:33:58PM -0800: > It looks like Anacron is much better choice vs. cron for system that > isn't a dedicated server - either a laptop or a dual-boot system. > > If this is the case, is there a particular method I should follow to > utilize Anacron inst

Re: Downgrading all packages to woody versions

2003-02-25 Thread Josh Metzler
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:45 am, David Gaudine wrote: > I use woody, and I have a few packages that came from an early > version of sid. For these packages, dselect always shows me that the > installed version is the same as the available version. For example, my > openssl and libssl packa

Re: Problem with kernel update

2003-02-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Harry Brueckner , Harry Brueckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any idea what could be wrong? I found several postings about this problem > but not a single useful reply to them. :-/ Upgrade your initrd-tools package and reinstall kernel-image. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.deb

How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus protection, especially for email: # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner. amavis

Re: OT: Debian nor OS/X get time from MS's SNTP

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kent West said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:03:26PM -0600: > Our Windows admin guy tells me that the time server for campus is > running SNTP (RFC 1769). I've noticed that neither my Debian box nor two > Macintosh OS/X boxes can synch time against our ntp server. However, > they can synch against

.bkf files from Windows 2000/XP, and how to read them in Debian

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Dresser
Supposing I had a .bkf file from a Win2000/XP backup, and wanted to be able to extract files from it in Linux, how would I go about this? Just looking at the file, it looks similar to a tar file, but of course it's not. Supposedly it's Veritas Backup Exec that is bundled with W2k. I use smbtar t

Re: ATI Rage 128

2003-02-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 20:44, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > I'm encountering a few problems with this product - on two different > machines (with the same kind of video card) > > In MODCONF, there's an option for framebuffers. If I choose to install > the Rage 128 - my screen goes "nuts". If I memori

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-25 Thread Simon Tod
So why can't modprobe find any of the modules - if indeed that's the problem - cause they're certainly where they're supposed to be. Looking through the output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* again suggests to me that it's some sort of dependency or configuration problem... the same comment appea

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