Re: mutt and aliases

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:04:22AM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > Btw, how do you take out addresses automatically? I don't think you can. But it's not hard to go delete a single line out of a text file. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:08:32 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Is the algorithm for creating lines for sources.list defined > somewhere? > > 2. Is this line correct? > > deb > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > unstable main non-free > > 3. Is

Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:49:44AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > | is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and > | put it in another? > > Just ensure that > 1) the other machine's hardware can

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > I've been glued to this and the related thread. I received virus affected > email last week and this week. I described the event for my local LUG (no > repost of addresses) and submitted it

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Vincent Thomasset
you give rights to use X... adduser *user* video Le Vendredi 21 Mars 2003 07:26, Isuru Binduhewa a écrit : > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. > > Please help me. > >

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
addgroup username video --- Isuru Binduhewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. > > Please help me. > > Isuru.. > >

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:26:29AM +, Isuru Binduhewa wrote: > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. that is normal. you usually can not start an x session as root. bu

Re: New exim setup (and exim 4?)

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:23:21AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | I'm moving from a sendmail mail server to a Woody based exim setup. | I am an Exim beginner, so I'm trying to get prepared for the move. Any | tips or pointers to HOWTOs would be appreciated. | | Should I stick with Exim 3 or would i

Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: | is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and | put it in another? Just ensure that 1) the other machine's hardware can handle the disk (naturally :-)) 2) the kernel of the other box supports the f

Re: Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Isuru Binduhewa said: > Hi > > I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go > to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I > logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. I assume you mean as a normal user you CANNOT go to X windows.. this usually is because of the Xwrapper confi

Re: smtp alais to point to dev null

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:04:37AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | hi! | | i was selling a car once and posted a message to some new jersey for | sale newsgroup. luckily i set up an alias "car" to send the message... So far so good. (in fact, I did nearly the same thing several months ago) | 'c

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:54:20PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: | On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:41:02AM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: | > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:05:38 + (GMT), Rus Foster wrote: | > | > >I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up | > | > Fetch yourself the sour

Re: wireless, packet loss

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Jim McCloskey said: > > Is this just routine and to be lived with? Or are there things I could > tweak to eliminate this apparent problem? looks like it's pretty harmless..a quick search turns up: ==quote== Status 1 is a "retry error" which I believe means that the firmware has retransmitted the

Problem with startx

2003-03-20 Thread Isuru Binduhewa
Hi I am using debian.When I loged in as the root I can go to Xwindows using startx at the prompt.But when I logged in as a normal user I can go to Xwindow. Please help me. Isuru.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from

wireless, packet loss

2003-03-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I recently got a Lucent Orinoco Gold wireless card for my laptop. At home, it connects through a LinkSys 900 WAP. I'm using the orinoco_cs driver (plus associated kernel modules). The kernel is a hand-compiled version of 2.4.18: Linux lapdog 2.4.18 #2 Tue Jan 28 23:44:35 PST 2003 i686 Int

Re: KDE Not Upgrading

2003-03-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 21:49, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > nate wrote: > > > > > in situations like this, if theres a package I want, and it doesn't > > upgrade from running apt-get upgrade, I usually call it via install > > > > e.g. > > > > apt-get install ark artsbuilder karm ..etc.. > > > > you

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

2003-03-20 Thread Joey Hess
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 > want to flush their buffers first, or perhaps

algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Scott
1. Is the algorithm for creating lines for sources.list defined somewhere? 2. Is this line correct? deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian unstable main non-free 3. Is there an http version of this line? TIA Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 04:35 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > Note the bottome of the page: > > > > How do I get MS Linux? > > ... i wouldnt be surprised if they did come out wiht their > own versio

Re: How to make/ modify a "root.bin" file?

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Abdul Latip said: > Hi, > > I am looking for information/ URLs about how to create or > how to modify the "root.bin" file. I tried to search the > "debian-boot" archive and google without luck. > > I am able to loop mount a 2.8 MB "rescue.bin" file. > Unfortunately, I have no idea about the format

Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Hanasaki JiJi said: > is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and > put it in another? > sure. I've never seen a linux system damage a disk by itself. i've moved disks tons of times, never had a problem. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > GPL should be modified to say ... that a corp entity > cannot buy the dead company's IP to merge it into > their own new widgets > > > -- as an example MS buys turbolinux or buys suse > or even buy redhat and al

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:01:13PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > >>Perhaps one day they'll improve upon FTP. > > > >HTTP improved upon FTP long ago. The fact that the name hasn't been > >changed doesn't

Re: gcc 3.2 and kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-20 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:24:11 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that gcc-3.2 has entered testing and have it installed. If I > compile the kernel with the new gcc and install it, will there be any > noticeable improvement in performance? Or will there be any gotchas? > >

[SOLVED]Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-20 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Mike M wrote: I used deselect and loaded stuff related to cups (search on "cup" like you would in vi "/cup"; other have given methods using apt-cache Then I used KDE-Control Center-System-Printing Manager; don't remember all the steps but it involved using the wizard; I kept playing with cups u

Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Paige
Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backups will finish fast, too.) My amanda server at work can easily run a week's worth of backups without needing a tape, just saving it all up on the holding disk. Just be sure t

Re: mutt and aliases

2003-03-20 Thread Joao Clemente
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I have this line > > source ~/.mutt.aliases > > in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to > .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guessing that that line only tells > mutt where to LOOK when it needs to look

Re: KDE Not Upgrading

2003-03-20 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
nate wrote: in situations like this, if theres a package I want, and it doesn't upgrade from running apt-get upgrade, I usually call it via install e.g. apt-get install ark artsbuilder karm ..etc.. you probably only have to do a couple, chances are that the packages depend on some common thing t

Re: mutt and aliases

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | I have this line | | source ~/.mutt.aliases | | in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to | .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guessing that that line only tells | mutt where to LOOK when it needs to look

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:56, Randall Hansen wrote: > Folks ~ > > When I 'su' to root on my machine, my bash user environment > (aliases, path, etc.) gets replaced by root's login environment. > How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' > while leaving root's login environm

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:01:13PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > >>Perhaps one day they'll improve upon FTP. > > > >HTTP improved upon FTP long ago. The fact that the name hasn't been > >changed doesn't

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:16:51 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Randall Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' > Use su - Thanks for the reply, but I've tried that and it doe

How to make/ modify a "root.bin" file?

2003-03-20 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, I am looking for information/ URLs about how to create or how to modify the "root.bin" file. I tried to search the "debian-boot" archive and google without luck. I am able to loop mount a 2.8 MB "rescue.bin" file. Unfortunately, I have no idea about the format of "root.bin" Thank you, -- Ab

moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and put it in another? ide? scsi? -- = = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = = right things.- Peter Drucker

Re: KDE Not Upgrading

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Joseph A Nagy Jr said: > I added > > deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main > jan-jr-ent:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back >ark artsbuilder karm kate kcalc kcharselect kcolored

Re: KDE Not Upgrading

2003-03-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030320 20:49]: > I added > > deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main > > to my apt sources.list so I can upgrade to KDE 3.1.1. > > Ran apt-get update to make sure everything was in order (had to run it a > few times to run out a few du

gcc 3.2 and kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I noticed that gcc-3.2 has entered testing and have it installed. If I compile the kernel with the new gcc and install it, will there be any noticeable improvement in performance? Or will there be any gotchas? Compiled and tested mplayer-0.9rc5. Runs well and noticed no problems in 5 minutes of te

mutt and aliases

2003-03-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
I have this line source ~/.mutt.aliases in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guessing that that line only tells mutt where to LOOK when it needs to lookup an alias, NOT to save them when I create one. Is it possible to have mutt

Re: Evolution

2003-03-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:49, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install Evolution, but strangely, apt-get wanted to remove > Galeon. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install evolution > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be insta

RE: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote: > Note the bottome of the page: > > How do I get MS Linux? ... i wouldnt be surprised if they did come out wiht their own version ... ... i woulnt be surprised if they bought out the rights to some of the "walking-dead linux vendors" th

KDE Not Upgrading

2003-03-20 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
I added deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main to my apt sources.list so I can upgrade to KDE 3.1.1. Ran apt-get update to make sure everything was in order (had to run it a few times to run out a few duplicate entries), getting a successful update message. So I run 'apt-

RE: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Randall Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: making 'su' keep user environment? > > > Folks ~ > > When I 'su' to root on my machine, my bash user environment > (aliases, path, etc.) gets

RE: POP3 daemon recommendation?

2003-03-20 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> qpopper Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3). I have used this and found it to be very, very easy to setup and use. I moved to an IMAP server fairly soon afterwards, so I cannot comment on how it performs over time. Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia is the only indepen

Re: Evolution

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:49, Oki DZ wrote: > I'd like to install Evolution, but strangely, apt-get wanted to remove > Galeon. I think the output below suggests that Galeon depends on libgtkhtml1.1-1, while Evolution depends on libgtkhtml1.1-3. libgtkhtml1.1-3 will obsolete libgtkhtml1.1-1. I've

Re: CD burning question

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
I did something like this on accident. I appended to a CD but wrote over its fixation. Got back to the needed data previously on it by ripping a CD image and then mounting it with the loopback interface. Probably not what you want to do though. -jackp > I burned a CD-R in DAO mode (I used the late

RE: Offtopic : MS Linux :)

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
Note the bottome of the page: How do I get MS Linux? We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships. MS Linux is released under the provisions of the Gates Private License, which means yo

making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ When I 'su' to root on my machine, my bash user environment (aliases, path, etc.) gets replaced by root's login environment. How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' while leaving root's login environment alone? TIA, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:14 +0100, Paul Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: >> > They work for me too, however, won't updated packages

Evolution

2003-03-20 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to install Evolution, but strangely, apt-get wanted to remove Galeon. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install evolution Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: bonobo gtkhtml1.1 libbonobo2 libcamel0 libgal-dev lib

Re: (SOLVED) exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
I solved this a while ago. Did the following: in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script I added the line: echo "$4" > /etc/exim/current-ip then in /etc/exim/exim.conf I did the following: qualify_domain = myisp.com qualify_recipient = AMDKing local_domains = localhost:AMDKing:/etc/exim/current-ip That's all

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Pistachio
Note the message when failed loading ide-scsi. This must be because it is compiled into the bf2.4 kernel (not a module), as well as the other modules you noted are missing. I hadn't even thought of this because I always compile my own kernel. So you should give the following kernel command line o

Re: mkisofs problem with woody

2003-03-20 Thread Rich Price
Rob Sims wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:29 pm, Rich Price wrote: The command: mkisofs -r -graft-points \ -x /var/image\ -o /var/image/cdromimag1 \ primus/bin=/bin \ primus/boot=/boot\ primus/etc=/etc \

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Perhaps one day they'll improve upon FTP. HTTP improved upon FTP long ago. The fact that the name hasn't been changed doesn't affect this. (I do this for a living.) Cheers, Then what purpose does the contin

Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
fun stuff... :-) On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > i dont have time to play with tapes.. daily changing it.. > > - forget one day... and you're hosed > > Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a > decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backu

Unusual time sequences in various log files...

2003-03-20 Thread Jeff Hahn
Debian 3.0r1 testing with an occasional unstable (new libc) libc6 2.3.1-14 ntp4.1.0-8 sysklogd 1.4.1-10 System runs ntpd and is locked on hard to correct time. Ntp is not reporting any time jumps, loss of lock, etc. Hwclock is UTC and correctly synced with the system ti

Re: mkisofs problem with woody - huh ??

2003-03-20 Thread Rich Price
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Rob Sims wrote: wild guess... isn't /dev missing from both of those examples below ?? Should[can] /dev be backed up? and i hope mkisofs is smart enough to ignore /var/image/cdromimag1 when its copying /var onto the cdimage to burn Why not be safe? other bur

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:39:51PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >Why are you using the ftp method? The http method is more efficient > >since it uses HTTP 1.1 pipelining. > > *shrugs* Because I am. Maybe I'll switch to HTTP after today, but for > now I'm happy with f

Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 14:54, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > i dont have time to play with tapes.. daily changing it.. > > - forget one day... and you're hosed > > Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a > decent-sized

Re: font size

2003-03-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ruediger Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030320 13:01 PST]: > Paladin wrote: > >Do you have xfonts-100dpi-transcoded (and/or 75dpi) installed? > > > ---snip--- > ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 4.1.0-16 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded > ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded

Re: jabberd start-stop-daemon

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:04:09PM +1100, Peter Lavender wrote: | Hi Everyone, | | I installed jabberd from .deb. However jabber won't start from the start | stop script /etc/init.d/jabber | | I can however start jabber from the commandline as root. Since I could do | this I thought it might ha

Re: mail retrieve

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 05:01, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Florentin Ionescu wrote: > > Is there a mail-retrieve-program which can be customized to delete > > messages on server after a period of time ? > take a look at fetchmail, and man fetchmail. I use archivemail against my imap server to keep

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:40:10AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: www.kernel.org was broken. It should be back now. Thanks (to everyone). Why are you using the ftp method? The http method is more efficient since it uses HTTP 1.1 pipelining. *shrugs* Because I am. Maybe I'

Re: mkisofs problem with woody - huh ??

2003-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Rob Sims wrote: wild guess... isn't /dev missing from both of those examples below ?? and i hope mkisofs is smart enough to ignore /var/image/cdromimag1 when its copying /var onto the cdimage to burn other burn cd stuff ( and bootable cd stuff ) http://www.Linux

Mozilla Baynesian Filters

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Crump
Klaus Imgrund wrote: On a related topic, anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. Klaus I haven't. Part of my problem is that I don't get enough spam[that gets past spamassassin] to train it on. I think the trick

Is kmail (sid) already able to use the integrated GnuPG & OpenPGP support?

2003-03-20 Thread Davi Leal
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Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On 20 Mar 2003, Glenn English wrote: > > 1) tape - can easily back up the entire system (and a small network) > > 2) DDS - others are faster, but they cost more > > 3) amanda, amanda, and amanda - command line, cron-able, free, and very >

Re: mkisofs problem with woody

2003-03-20 Thread Rob Sims
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:29 pm, Rich Price wrote: > 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 > Versi

Re: POP3 daemon recommendation?

2003-03-20 Thread Fraser Campbell
Shaun Crossley wrote: > courier-pop POP3 daemon with PAM and Maildir support > cucipop Cubic Circle's POP3 daemon I've used both of these and have no complaints. courier-pop is only useful if you're going to use Maildir storage, if you're using POP only then there isn't a great dea

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

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Hurt
James D Strandboge wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in general. And a few things just plain didn't work . . . Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport? If gnome2.2, I'd like to know what doesn't work for

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

2003-03-20 Thread Fraser Campbell
Barry Rab wrote: > About 2 weeks ago I received a klez type virus wth the sender as > debian-user etc., so how would I go about filtering that? Bogofilter is my tool of choice. There are others that are supposed to work even better but bogofilter does well enough for my needs. -- Fraser Camp

Re: [OT] Backup solutions - my preferences

2003-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On 20 Mar 2003, Glenn English wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:59, Bob Paige wrote: > > > Questions: > > 1) what is better for backup, tape, or CD? (I already have a CD burner) > > 2) if tape, what is a good/inexpensive product to use? > > 3) what software works best? > > IMHO, > 1) tape - c

[kmail] OpenPGP plug-in

2003-03-20 Thread Davi Leal
How can I solve the problem showed in the below message?. What deb must I install, or where is the pluging which I must add in the crypto plugin tab?. Note that I have installed the gnupg deb package. "Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Proble

Re: CUPS printing (newbie)

2003-03-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:01:17AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: | How do I print from KWord, OpenOffice Writer and even from command line? The same as always. (that is, it's no different than if you had lpd or lprng or whatever installed; see Matt's explanation of the interface) | Also, how do I add

Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable

2003-03-20 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:14 +0100, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > They work for me too, however, won't updated packages overwrite > > (replace) the supplemental ones I

Re: font size

2003-03-20 Thread Ruediger Noack
Paladin wrote: Do you have xfonts-100dpi-transcoded (and/or 75dpi) installed? ---snip--- ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 4.1.0-16 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 4.1.0-16 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded ii xfonts-base-transcoded 4.1.0-16 standard fonts for X (transco

Re: e-machines , e-one

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 09:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know anything about e-machines ( and e-one model), with > respect to quality, debian and ibm compatibility, software compatibility, > I was thinking to install debbian in one wi

Re: Mozilla Spam Filter [was: Re: ignore the spam. don't reply toit.]

2003-03-20 Thread Klaus Imgrund
David P James wrote: Klaus Imgrund was roused into action on 2003-03-19 14:29 and wrote: anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. Yes, I have got it working for me. I don't know what you have done but you have to com

Re: debian 2.0: some intruder broke in - backups/tracking

2003-03-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:27:06PM +, Jan Andrzej wrote: > > Some intruder broke in (cracked in) debian 2.0 > > system. > > Why weren't you using a version that's still actively maintained with

Re: mozilla/unstable doesn't want to work with j2re1.4 ?

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: daniel huhardeaux wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed j2re1.4 from blackdown mirror. ii mozilla1.3-2Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package ii j2re1.41.4.0.99beta-1Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, St You

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:40:10AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > I'm having problems with updating the package list from > mirrors.kernel.org (apt-get says connection times out). Is this a known > problem or am I just one of the (un)lucky few who this happens to? > > Here's a partial output f

Re: [OT] Backup solutions

2003-03-20 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:59, Bob Paige wrote: > Questions: > 1) what is better for backup, tape, or CD? (I already have a CD burner) > 2) if tape, what is a good/inexpensive product to use? > 3) what software works best? IMHO, 1) tape - can easily back up the entire system (and a small network)

Re: mozilla/unstable doesn't want to work with j2re1.4 ?

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Scott
daniel huhardeaux wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed j2re1.4 from blackdown mirror. ii mozilla1.3-2Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package ii j2re1.41.4.0.99beta-1Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, St You have to use an java c

Mozilla Spam Filter [was: Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.]

2003-03-20 Thread David P James
Klaus Imgrund was roused into action on 2003-03-19 14:29 and wrote: anybody ever got the mozilla spamfilter to do some actual filtering? I hear it's great but it doesn't do anything for me. Yes, I have got it working for me. I don't know what you have done but you have to compile the "corpus" in

The war has stopped debian mailing list?

2003-03-20 Thread GBV
Where is the volume? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian unofficial repositories w/ Apache 2.0.44/PHP 4.3.1/MySQL 4.0.12

2003-03-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Ryan Aligen wrote: > > Hello, this is my first time on this list. I was just wondering if there > are any repositories with these packages or if I will have to compile them > manually. Check out http://www.apt-get.org/ . If you don't find what you want

Re: Can't Send Mail, Mozilla Problem? Please Help

2003-03-20 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
--gm5TwAJMO0F2iVRz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Emily Dryden wrote: > As in previous message, we have three computers in a local network=20 > linked through a route to a DSL modem. I am sending this message fro

Re: Finally - Your Own Low Cost Teleconferencing Service!

2003-03-20 Thread Mike M
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:53:45PM +0200, Barry Rab wrote: > > And I was flamed for Re-spamming the list with the spam I received > > from the list. Hmph! > > Responding to spam is always b

Can't Send Mail, Mozilla Problem? Please Help

2003-03-20 Thread Emily Dryden
As in previous message, we have three computers in a local network linked through a route to a DSL modem. I am sending this message from my daughter's computer. She is the DSL subscriber and I send mail from my computers through her SMTP link. Suddenly, after distribution upgrades of my two

e-machines , e-one

2003-03-20 Thread askronny
Does anyone know anything about e-machines ( and e-one model), with respect to quality, debian and ibm compatibility, software compatibility, I was thinking to install debbian in one with an Intel Celeron at 433 Mhz, 64 MB of RAM and a Hard Disk of 2 Mb, and first I tried to test it with knoppix

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Wohler
That does it, spamassassin is toast. The Bayesian stuff did seem to reduce the spam ending up in my +inbox (dozens a day down to 3 or 4), but it still has the rules to generate false positives. Yesterday, I discovered that it had junked a very, very important message, and even though I happened t

Re: PPPoE: Howto setup connection?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Erik "Svderstrvm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ok, but how can I setup the serverside of the > connection? I haven't done that before. Anyone else? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian!

Re: Memory leak - somewhere :)

2003-03-20 Thread David Z Maze
Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For sometime, I've been feeling that there's a memory leak in one of > the apps because after quite a few days of use KDE becomes > slow. Apps I typically use are KMail,Konqueror,KMerlin,Konsole,K3B. > > I've noticed that memory seems to be consumed at an

Re: Multilingual Support as in Windows

2003-03-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:13, Muhammad Asif wrote: > I need some clear guidelines towards a bit confusing issue. I need to > evaluate what kind of support/services are available in Linux as in > windows xp for devloping and viewing Multilingual applications. > Such applications need support bot

Re: [OT] Backup solutions

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Bob Paige said: > Opinions? see this: http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/03/03/18/0252218.shtml?tid=106 for my own use, at the moment I use an Exabyte Mammoth tape drive for my backups. 20/40GB tapes. I got the tape drive for $100 from my previous employer(at the time ebay had em for $400-500).

Re: Memory leak - somewhere :)

2003-03-20 Thread nate
Jeetu Golani said: > I can't make much of it.is this normal?? doesn't look like it > should.since I'm basically not turning on any programs...therefore > something seems to be up...any help on either clarifying my > understanding on the above or tracing the rogue program would be > ap

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

2003-03-20 Thread James D Strandboge
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: > I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in general. And a > few things just plain didn't work . . . Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport? If gnome2.2, I'd like to know what doesn't work for you or what is missin

Re: Memory leak - somewhere :)

2003-03-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jeetu Golani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Debian 3.0 installation on my P4 2.2 512MB with 256MB Swap > system. I use KDE 3.1. > > For sometime, I've been feeling that there's a memory leak in one of > the apps because after quite a few days of use KDE becomes > slow. Apps I typically u

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

2003-03-20 Thread James D Strandboge
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:09, Andy Hurt wrote: > I found the Gnome 2 backport to Woody a bit underpopulated, in general. And a > few things just plain didn't work . . . > Are we talking about gnome2 or the gnome2.2 backport? If gnome2.2, I'd like to know what doesn't work for you-- maybe I can f

Re: Problems with Apt-Get

2003-03-20 Thread Peter Hicks
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:56:50AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >Nicolas Kratz wrote: >>man ping >>man traceroute >> >>Sometimes, a server just happens to be down. >> > >www.trace-route.org > >Called my ISP, they can't ping or traceroute the site either. Did a >whois now am going to contact them

Re: KDE Theme Manager Problem

2003-03-20 Thread debian_newbie
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:41:00 +0100 swysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sat at his keyboard and wrote: > After looking again, I stand corrected! I did a google search and > found relatively nothing, but I can't imagine that we are the only one > with this problemsince it is virtually identical on b

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