Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:24:56PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Then there is also the time-honored usenet practice of requesting > that all replies be directed to the original poster, who will then > post a summary of the replies at a later date. N

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Conference Service wrote: [ snip _entire fdreaking spam message ] > Okay, this is just bad, folks. Consider yourself whacked upside the head with a clue-by-four. Reposting spam to any mailing list is at best considered bad form

babelfish for linux ?

I am in need of a language conversion program, english > spanish, spanish > english. Babelfish works great but only for 150 words and loses formating. The babelfish products only work for windows (yuk!) Does anyone know of an alternative for linux ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:48:03PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Again, I disagree. People who have problems with their debian > systems should be able to obtain help without subjecting themselves > to the hundreds of messages per day which are gener

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > signed up for this list less than a month ago. Within a week I > started getting spam on my list address, which seriously sucks, > death to all spammers. I've been toying with the notion

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Of course, if a person is a newbie and needs help, they probably aren't > used to the protocol for asking for help. Yes, I do remember my newbie days. However, after the fourth or

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:42:27AM -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: > I receive way more e-mail than I have time for. So far my filters > are only mental, but configuration of grey cells definitely flags > `newbie', `please help', & any vacuity like `Str

Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:26:49PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > No, THIS is just bad. Again, spamassassin catches spam, and some IDIOT > re-posts it back to the list. Not only that, but the stupid bastard managed to to score so low in spamassassin th

ignore the spam. don't reply to it.

* Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 20:50 PST]: > Okay, this is just bad, folks. No, THIS is just bad. Again, spamassassin catches spam, and some IDIOT re-posts it back to the list. Get a fucking clue! Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "They that can giv

KDE Theme Manager Problem

Pardon me if this is on the wrong list. I wasn't sure whether to post this on this list or the KDE list. I don't know what I've done, but I've screwed up my Woody system somehow. I had a perfectly good Woody system and then I decided to upgrade all of the security updates. Then, being the newbie t

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Okay, this is just bad, folks. Replying to spam and quoting the whole thing for the benefit of those of us who missed it the first time? I fully agree. Maybe you'd like to look back in the archives at what it was like before spam

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:24:41PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > >>Colin Ellis wrote: > >>>Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! > >>> > >>>Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam l

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:59:30AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > yes I recieved the message to, but of course I did not send it. The > > To: header for that thing was huge, as colin pointed out it was sent > > to the list members off list, it did not come through the

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:00PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had > an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, > a virus, if anyone had any doubts. > > j. > >

Re: grep / sed + regex : possible bug ?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:36:28AM +0100, Axel Schlicht wrote: > But, as grep and sed only operate on line levels (altho sed can work on > multiple lines with some tweaking) the $ should play no role here > So > grep '/Name/[^/][^/]*' > should mean > find a line with /Name/ anywhere > the find at

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:00:55PM -0500, sean finney wrote: >> if this fix is as trivial as it seems, why hasn't it been uploaded yet? >> i don't mean to be getting cranky, but i can't install at least half a >> dozen packages because of this... > > So j

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Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:18:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: I disagree. Replies should go where the person sending the reply wants them to go, with consideration for any request which may be made by the poster of the message being replied to. Sa

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Re: users question

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:16:13PM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: > Greetins to all: > > My question is: > > How can I block a user to his home directory? so he can have access to his > home directory but no other directory on the system. > > Any hint will be appretiated. > have a nice day Set t

Re: Need this scanner working for a report!

Paladin wrote: Hi guys! I have a HP ScanJet 3200C. I've read about this online and installed sane and configured the umax_pp backend. I've selected the EPP mode in the bios and compiled the parport, parport_pc, ppdev and lp modules. Even so, in /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/active there's no acti

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:18:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >I disagree. Replies should go where the person sending the reply > >wants them to go, with consideration for any request which may be > >made by the poster of the message being replied to. Say, for > > I

mkisofs problem with woody

I am running Debian 3.0 and have installed this mkisofs package: Package: mkisofs Priority: extra Section: otherosfs Installed-Size: 724 Maintainer: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: cdrtools Version: 4:1.10-7 The command: mkisofs -r -graft-points \ -x /v

Re: default editor

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:41:07PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > > days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor > > interactively? > > It's been a couple years,

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:32:26PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > please retain the CC to rbutterworth > > > Subject: Linux stdio question. > > On non-linux unix systems, one can reference __iob[] > to find all currently fopen()ed files > (e.g. when forking a new process one would generally > wan

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:19, Pigeon wrote: > It wouldn't take much coding effort to put a File menu on the image > window. I'm almost tempted to hack it myself, but now that I know how > to save, I can't be arsed to familiarise myself with the source of > such a large app just to make one tiddly c

Re: Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.

Gaute B Strokkenes wrote: I've recently upgrade to the Gnome 2 backport for Woody, and I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what to think of it yet. For instance, I have a package installed called gnome2-user-guide. However, I can not for the life of me find out who I am supposed to read it. A

Re: grep / sed + regex : possible bug ?

Hi Clive Thanks for the answer. > No, it's not a bug. Regular expressions match substrings, not entire lines, unless > constrained by anchors (^ or $) [1]. Of course. But, as grep and sed only operate on line levels (altho sed can work on multiple lines with some tweaking) the $ should play no rol

Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you can, you may want to suspend mail delivery when you do that, in > case sendmail decides to write to the mailspool at the same time you > do. (Incidentally, does anyone know a better way to lock a mailspool > before appending messages to it?)

Re: tar ate my symlinks

Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe you're right. It was "exiting now" when untarring /proc, > which apparently prevented it from finishing the job. > > >tar -jtvf linuxbackup.tar.bz2 | egrep '^l' | \ > > perl -lane 'print "ln -snf $F[7] $F[5]" if (@F == 8 &&

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:45:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible?

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:04:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's faily easy. The list managet (software or person) has to munge everything > that looks like an email address so it becomes unusable. Oooohhh... Even better! Now, if I find someone on the list that wants to work on a proje

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:45:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > >>A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. > >Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible? > If you want

Can't Send Mail

I have a three computer home network connected through a router to a dsl modem. Initial attempts to set up the email accounts with kde failed because konqueror could supply the user name for the smpt account but not the password. Fortunately, mozilla could do both. Now mozilla can no longer

Re: font size

Do you have xfonts-100dpi-transcoded (and/or 75dpi) installed? --- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Colin Ellis wrote: Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the list?! It's called not letting non-subscribed per

Re: Grip Causing System Lockup

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:20:20PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > nate wrote: > >Joseph A Nagy Jr said: > > >probably not so much a grip problem as an I/O problem. Any way to > >check the kernel logs on the machine? I'm thinkin they are getting > >flooded with I/O errors, in which case there's n

Re: font size

Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi all I'm using woody, Gnome 1.4, Mozilla 1.2.1, ... with X resolution of 1280x1024. All seems well, but... Currently I'm using a locale with latin-1 (de_DE). But if I change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) all my fonts in X are very small (gdm greeter, Gn

Re: locales problem / grep question

On Wed 19 Mar 2003 14:50:18 +(-0800), Vineet Kumar wrote: [...] > > find / ! -fstype nfs -type f | (etc.) > > Wouldn't it be better to make use of find's -prune, something like > > find / -fstype nfs -prune -o -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ... > > The xdev one should be fine though. (also, -mo

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 3:11 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > > A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. > > Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible? I for one no longer

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > yes I recieved the message to, but of course I did not send it. The > To: header for that thing was huge, as colin pointed out it was sent > to the list members off list, it did not come through the debian mail > system. And that, for Colin Watson's benefit, is why the

Re: default editor

Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > days... when was the last time you actually used a line editor > interactively? It's been a couple years, but I've been known to use it to fix a broken system... 8^) -- Alan Shut

Re: Why use COPS?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > CUPS provides lp, lpr, lprm, lpq, lpstat, and maybe^^probably some > other commands I don't know about. Understood. I was just clarifying that lpr, lprm, lpq are the BSD versions of the commands, in the cupsys-bsd package. lp is the SYSV print command, from the c

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 07:28PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the floppies are from Woodyr1 I can't think of anything else to >suggest (except maybe bugging your burning friends some more). Oh, working on that, believe you me, though ao far my friends don't quite follow. ".iso? Lik

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36:00PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had > an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, >

Re: Slow printing with CUPS

Joseph Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I having been successfully using CUPS with Debian unstable > for many HP LaserJets Do they have PostScript cards? If so, is CUPS set up to spew directly to them? If they're not PostScript, CUPS will render things into PCL for them using its modifie

Gnome 2 user guide--how do I read it.

I've recently upgrade to the Gnome 2 backport for Woody, and I have to admit that I'm not quite sure what to think of it yet. For instance, I have a package installed called gnome2-user-guide. However, I can not for the life of me find out who I am supposed to read it. According to dpkg -S and lo

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Jeremy Gaddis wrote: -Original Message- From: Joseph A Nagy Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Check the update from Microsoft. It's called not letting non-subscribed persons post to the list. Then you wouldn't be ab

Re: [OT] boot CD from grub?

"deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I have a system that won't boot from (SCSI-)cdrom when any IDE >> harddrives are configured in the BIOS (yes, this is very definitely a >> bug). This is somewhat annoying and I am looking for a worka

Need this scanner working for a report!

Hi guys! I have a HP ScanJet 3200C. I've read about this online and installed sane and configured the umax_pp backend. I've selected the EPP mode in the bios and compiled the parport, parport_pc, ppdev and lp modules. Even so, in /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/active there's no active devices in t

Re: default editor

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:20:39 +0100 "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, but mutt (normally) obeys VISUAL if present - it's only the > >Debian package which seems not to. > Maybe you think this because the debian package is a 1.5 sn

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Colin Ellis wrote: > >Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! > > > >Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the > >list?! > > It's called not letting non-subscribed person

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Hall Stevenson said: > I rec'd the message and I by no means know the person who sent it. I did > glance at the "To:" list and saw '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or something > similar. I didn't look at any "cc" or "bcc" lists though. I wasn't gonna reply to this thread but you brought me into it!! ack..

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 2:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > If you mean the original spam, it didn't appear on the list; it was sent > > privately to some of the list's subscribers. If you're talking about the > > discussion, well, I

Re: Why use COPS?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:26:17 -0500 Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lp is the sysv command that's standard with CUPS, lpr would be the > bsd version. CUPS provides lp, lpr, lprm, lpq, lpstat, and maybe^^probably some other commands I don't know about. I can use all of those and I don

RE: Check the update from Microsoft.

> -Original Message- > From: Joseph A Nagy Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Check the update from Microsoft. > > > > It's called not letting non-subscribed persons post to the list. Then you wouldn't be able t

RE: Check the update from Microsoft.

> -Original Message- > From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > >was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had > >an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, > >a virus, if anyone had any

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 3:11 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > > A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. > > Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible? I don't know how to operate a mail list, so I

Re: default editor

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:20:39 +0100 "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Yes, but mutt (normally) obeys VISUAL if present - it's only the > >Debian package which seems not to. > Maybe you think this because the debian package is a 1.5

Re: [OT] New Mobo, etc

Bill wrote: Hi, FYI Those MSI boards can go up to a 2600 with a BIOS Update. Gotta love MSI! :-) You have to change the memory though but it's a cheap upgrade for those that want the speed. http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/cpu_support/cpu/spt_cpu_detail.php?UID =386&NAME=MS-6593 Then only bad

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible? If you want an offlist reply, you can set the reply-to to your addy. Otherwise all replie

Re: default editor

Alan Shutko wrote: > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The patch (to init.c) seems to be: >> >>Tempdir = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("TMPDIR")) ? p : "/tmp"); >> - Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "vi"); >> + Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "/u

Re: default editor

Alan Shutko wrote: > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction > >> between them has long been lost. > > > > Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your >

Re: default editor

On Mar 19, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [FYI: since somebody asked about it, bidirectional gating will be enabled for all linux.debian.* newsgroups hopefully before the end of the month, as soon as I can change what is needed in the software. News->mail gating for linux.debian.user will

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:45:11PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > A list manager that hides subscriber's addresses would be nice. Umm... Wouldn't that make offlist replies impossible? -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past severa

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 12:56PM, Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:35:41 -0500 >> John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Once again, a million thanks for all your help. Despite my continuing >>>inability to install, ev

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030319 17:44]: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:36:25PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > > Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! > > > > Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the > > list?! > > If you mean th

Re: Testing the connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 March 2003 01:18 pm, csj wrote: > Thanks to the pointers in this list (and 1.2 MB of downloaded > documentation) I have what appears to me to be a crossover > cable. I have the two Linksys NICS slotted nicely in and have > loaded the tu

Re: default editor

Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patch (to init.c) seems to be: > >Tempdir = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("TMPDIR")) ? p : "/tmp"); > - Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "vi"); > + Editor = safe_strdup ((p = getenv ("EDITOR")) ? p : "/usr/bin/editor"); >Visua

Re: iproute2 and /etc/network/interfaces

Once upon a time Peter Hicks said... > Is there a correct debian way to use iproute2 in the > /etc/network/interfaces file? I need to set up a firewall machine with > multiple external ip addresses and would rather use the ip tool than > aliasing the addresses to eth0. Does ifup and ifdown support

Re: locales problem / grep question

* Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 14:27 PST]: > By the way, recursively searching from / will search all files on any network file > systems you have mounted, which can take ages. If this affects you, you could try > something like > > find / -xdev -type f

Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:54:38 -0800 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jeremy Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 12:58 PST]: > > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had >

Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > The proper thing to do is silently ignore such messages. i think the proper thing is to "bounce" the spam .. and dont even receive it in your "spam folders" - if you bounce it, the sending servers get filled up with their own spam

Slow printing with CUPS

[Please CC me to any correspondence] I having been successfully using CUPS with Debian unstable for many HP LaserJets (using networked JetDirect boxes)for quite a while. Recently, I have noticed that the print jobs take an extremely long time. Sometimes, on just a 5 page text PDF, it can take

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 2:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:36:25PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > > Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! > > > > Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on > > the list?! > > If you mean

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Colin Ellis wrote: Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the list?! Colin http://www.solution-city.com It's called not letting non-subscribed persons post to the list. -- http://mc-luug.homelinux

Testing the connection

Thanks to the pointers in this list (and 1.2 MB of downloaded documentation) I have what appears to me to be a crossover cable. I have the two Linksys NICS slotted nicely in and have loaded the tulip.o kernel driver. The problem now is: what do I do with it? This is my /etc/network/interfaces on B

Re: Gnucash errors in unstable

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:56, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > David Z Maze wrote: > > Have you looked at the Debian Bug Tracking System? There are, in > > fact, bugs against both gnucash (184683) and libgwrapguile1 (184681) > > about this. (http://bugs.debian.org/) Poking around suggests that > > the

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

"Colin Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the > list?! Most of the spam tool authors don't do anything about viruses. They just tell you to run antivirus software. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Look

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:36:00 -0500 "Jeremy Gaddis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had > an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, > a virus, if anyone had any doub

Re: default editor

[ Bcc to md at linux.it; package maintainer see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg03514.html] In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Yardley) writes: >> Shouldn't VISUAL (if present) override /usr/bin/editor as the >> default full-screen editor?

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:36:25PM -, Colin Ellis wrote: > Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! > > Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the > list?! If you mean the original spam, it didn't appear on the list; it was sent privat

Re: stupid problem with Apache

* Ignacio Mas Ivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 13:52 PST]: > Hi all: > > I am having a weird problem with Apache that I know must be pretty > simple to solve, but i am getting crazy with it. I have installed > apache-ssl-1.3.27 with the php4 modules... and everything

Re: stupid problem with Apache

Ignacio Mas Ivars said: > Hi all: > > > all the files... and i would like to do things right... So where in > /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf do I have to touch to make the php3 > extension recognized as php code?!? try AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 or AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .p

Re: locales problem / grep question

On Wed 19 Mar 2003 13:04:59 +(-0500), Matt Price wrote: [...] > if I run emacs -nw, the error doesn't occur, so I asusme the issue is > x-specific. Anyway, though people were sympathetic, no one seemed to > have seen this specific problem before (if it's familiar, help would > still be absolut

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Gianfranco Berardi wrote: Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, a virus, if anyone had any doubts. j. OYou mean Microsoft DID

Solved!: Need Help:w/KDE3 unstable error message "can't start kdeinit" check your install

> John Foster said: > > I just did a dist upgrade from a mixed system to pristine unstable :-) I > > deleted all od the /.kde stuff in both /home/mydir and /root after > > restarting the system when kdm stars it runs for about 3 seconds the > > splash screen with the KDE3 Liquid logo pops up then a

ignore the spam. don't reply to it.

* Jeremy Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030319 12:58 PST]: > Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it > was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had > an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, > a virus, if anyone had any d

iproute2 and /etc/network/interfaces

Is there a correct debian way to use iproute2 in the /etc/network/interfaces file? I need to set up a firewall machine with multiple external ip addresses and would rather use the ip tool than aliasing the addresses to eth0. Does ifup and ifdown support this? TIA :^P -- Peter Hicks GnuPG public

Re: users question

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:16:13PM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: > How can I block a user to his home directory? so he can have access to his > home directory but no other directory on the system. If you're talking about read access, which people who ask this question generally seem to be doing: h

Re: Remote Monitoring

Rus Foster said: > Hi All, > Can anyone recommened a a monitoring package that isn't to hard to setup. > I've got nagios working but the config is a pain and I need to setup a > load more machines and don't fancy speding all my time typing out configs what specifically are you wanting to monitor?

Re: xv (graphics package)

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:26:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > xv was in non-free in potato but it appears that no one wanted to maintain > it any more so it was removed. Actually, it turned out to be against the terms of the licence to distribute binaries built from patched source, which included

Re: locales problem / grep question

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:04:59PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > if I run emacs -nw, the error doesn't occur, so I asusme the issue is > x-specific. Anyway, though people were sympathetic, no one seemed to > have seen this specific problem before (if it's familiar, help would > still be absolutely we

Re: Remote Monitoring

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:31:49PM +, Rus Foster wrote: >Hi All, >Can anyone recommened a a monitoring package that isn't to hard to setup. >I've got nagios working but the config is a pain and I need to setup a >load more machines and don't fancy speding all my time typing out configs > >Rgds

RE: Check the update from Microsoft.

Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!! Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the list?! Colin http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 March 2003 21:10 To: [EMAIL P

Re: xv (graphics package)

Hello * On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:57:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to recall that the xv package (graphics viewer / editor) by John > Bradley was formerly included in an earlier distribution (potato, maybe?). > It doesn't seem to be in the current di

Re: gmane.org (was Re: default editor)

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:04:25 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:28 -0800, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work >> at the moment, unfortunately. ] > > Try the public access ne

Re: Check the update from Microsoft.

Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course, a virus, if anyone had any doubts. j. OYou mean Microsoft DIDN'T send a patch to fix my

stupid problem with Apache

Hi all: I am having a weird problem with Apache that I know must be pretty simple to solve, but i am getting crazy with it. I have installed apache-ssl-1.3.27 with the php4 modules... and everything is working fine. I have downloaded bookmarker and I am trying to install, it but all the ph

Re: startx as a normal user

Burkhard Ritter wrote: It nice value doesn't matter (at least for me, I think it is not that important). To check why X does not start properly have a look at the logs (/var/log/XFree*) and your .xinitrc . Burkhard X starts up just fine. I am just saying that before it does, a message is spit

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