Good Debian-based distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros mostly for the packaging system, especially all those apt-* commands. Though for my less linux experienced fr

Re: Curious GUI problem

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:28, W wrote: > Any way, I get a graphical login screen but when I login as root > it attempts to load KDE but then returns back the login screen like there > was an error. I am wondering what I did wrong in the setup to have it > do this. Does anyone have an idea what is g

vnc not starting correct session

I'm playing around with vnc on a couple of testing boxes. I run gdm on the boxes, and my normal user id starts up Gnome. Yet when I run vncserver on one of these machines, and use vncviewer to access the other, I get a initial KDE session setup screen. Logical since I've never set up KDE on these

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters

At 2003-08-07T16:42:53Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. They are, being spammers at heart, and therefore mortally opposed to > CR programs, just trying to distract people. > > What other choice do they have? There arguments have been shown to be > utter nonsense or outright disinfor

Re: how do I get the "you have new mail"

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:20:13AM -0400, Jake Johnson wrote: > > How do I get the message to say you have new mail at the shell prompt? Is > > someting looking for a specific directory or file? j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gotmail.wav Description

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:57, ZekeVarg wrote: > Hi! > > Have just installed debian and run a dist-upgrade to sid. Now when I try > to open a gtk based program I get this error message: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Any idee's on what's the problem and how to fix it? > > Zeke Zeke

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:37:02AM -0400, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > This might be another dumb question, but how do I tell if the connection > tracking module isn't loaded? How is this configured, enabled, > disabled, etc? iptables will bitch at yo

Re: Unusual idea..

"Craig Tinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imagine converting an mp3 into a wav and loading it into a wav editor.. > you will see a waveform.. there must be a mathematical way of converting > that waveform into a unique number that will represent that waveform.. > the number would be huge to hol

Re: Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machineto another over DSL

On 09 Aug 2003 00:17:08 +0100 Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas on a reliable way to transfer 1 or 2 gb of data over dsl ? Well, the method you described is reliable provided the DSL lines are reliable. Do you have access to both ends of the connection? -- Steve

Re: HP printer saga

J. Zidar wrote: --SNIP-- < The package hpijs is already installed. Cups packages installed: cupsys(1.1.14-5), cupsys-bsd(1.1.14-5), cupsys-client(1.1.14-5), cupsys-pstoraster(1.1.14-5), qtcups(2.0-4), hpijs (1.3.1-1.1), a2ps(4.13b-16), apsfilter(7.2.2-3), gcc(3.3), glibc(didn't find). The ppd

Re: konqueror - https?

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:17:35AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:31:00PM +0200, Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How do I get Konqueror to use https on Sarge and Sid? > > > > As I understand it in Woody installing kdelibs-crypto would enable > > konqueror t

USB CD-RW Drives

I have two usb cd-rw drives connected to my computer. I recently had to reinstall Woody 3.0r0. Now, Woody cannot see these drives. In my previous install they were scd0 & scd1. Now, when I run "sg_map -i" these drives do not show up. In modconf I can see that I have sg installed, and I have usbco

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:31:49PM -0400, alex wrote:> > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap? Take a look at the Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO and the parted manual,

RE: Mailserver suggestions?

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:40:08 +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > What I want to do is: > > Collecting e-mails from the domains burger-harmonie.com, > computerdokter-groenlo.nl > and bellebloazers-eibergen.nl on my debian box. From my workstations I want > to read > them in microsoft outlook, does

how to connect to the Internet via Gnome?

Hi :) I tried the whole day but it does not work.. So how do I install my external 56K modem in Gnome? Thanks. Ciao Riccardo :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lockup

too.Like > the nvidia driver and harassing different forums about how to get two > apps to work at the same time - don't really need it but some family > members have a tendency to get hung up with it - not with alsa anyway. > It might be a different story with the so called 's

Re: FYI

On -1783-Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:33:38PM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > Just to let the bullies here who keep bouncing off me and just can't take > it, and who apparently have no ethics at all: > > I post here under another identity and confine myself there to strictly >

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 11:30:45 2003 > > > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But the widespread use of CR systems would eliminate spam from the face of > > the earth. > > What do you do about spam that goes to mailing list? > > -- > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I

Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

Caidence, Your best bet is definitely a kernel upgrade. It is possible to get the VIA Southbridge to work under an older kernel using Alsa, but it's something of a pain. The one time I did it it took me quite a few hours to figure out exactly what had to go into /etc/modutils/snd and get everyth

moving partitions

I'm slowly working my way through an installation and have arrived at the point where I need to move partitions. I did a minimal installation and added lvm partitions. I now want to move the existing sections, like /usr/ to it's own lvm partition (/dev/vg/usr/ instead of somewhere on /dev/hda3)

Re: Helping the newbie

Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:08:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'd like to read this, if I could just figure out what the address is _supposed_ to be . . .:-) Click the ENGLISH link... Do you mean the hyperlink you put i

Re: Install help

Alan Waterfall wrote: I have attempted to install Debian onto an Apple Mac 4400. According to the installer I have done so succesfully. All I am presented with on startup after log in is a black screen with a prompt like a dollar sign. I foolishly imagined ( after all I am only a Mac user) that so

Re: Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

Anthony Campbell wrote: My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19" monitor. I don't play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D performance and AGP. Any recommendations please? AC I recently bought a NV

Re: Helping the newbie

Hello Jeremy Davis (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am in the process of learning the the subtle differences in debian > compared to my main linux distro, which is Slackware. So I believe > that I am going to move to debian because of apt and all that it > implies :) > But I do have a question.

Offline aptitude?

Maintaining as I do a number of machines with poor connectivity to the internet, I make heavy use of the technique described in the "APT Offline Usage Guide" to upgrade packages on these systems. However, I now find that I need something even more powerful: offline aptitude! The situation is,

[OT] Calif. cable ISP info-- RR or Earthlink??

Sorry 'bout the OT on the list, but my systems have Debian hearts. We are looking at roadrunner and earthlink as possible cable providers through Time Warner. Anyone able to comment on/compare them? Many thanks in advance. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would asp

Re: Helping the newbie

Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:44:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: http://learn.to/quote It results in an Alert dialog box in Mozilla that says: "www.learn.to could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Right, becaus

Re: Source Builds

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:44:10PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > David Z Maze wrote: > >Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from > >>the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build > >>only? > > > >

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:43:58PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Now, and if you will read back through the thread, ignoring the huge amount > of misinformation (basically, read only my posts) you will see that Pardon me, Mr. Connor, but wouldn't t

Re: nfs is very slow

* Gregor Stößer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:37]: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:01, Gregor Stößer wrote: > > > I'm having some trouble with my nfs-server. Performance is very bad, but > > > all ather protocols (ftp, http, scp) ar

nls iso8859-1

I do not have X installed on my server, and thus do not have any additional fonts installed. However, when I try to map to an smbfs share, I get the error that samba can not load nls iso8859-1. What packages can install to correct this error without loading the entire X suite? Thanks in advance

Re: One Last Note

On 09 Aug 2003 00:51:30 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:52, Alan Connor wrote: > > You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for > > sure. > > You can figure it out: They are the ones that spearheaded the opposition > > against CR.

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing > Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post > to the gateway could be automated to go out every week or two just

RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot

If you only allow SSH and not telnet, you should not really allow ftp either. Perhaps look into some more secure alternatives (like scp, sftp or something) Also, make sure that you do not run your webserver as root, since if someone do manage to break in through your webserver, then they will have

Re: ftp to webserver - not as rot

Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to be able to work on pages in /var/www, because those pages > come up when the domain name is accessed via browser. /var/www is > root.root > > Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, > ssh and su to root and move them, to

Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19" monitor. I don't play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D performance and AGP. Any recommendations please? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbe

Re: Source Builds

Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from > the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build > only? Modify the source as you feel appropriate, add a new entry to the top of debian/changelog, and run 'debuil

/parport0/autoprobe ... shows no "parport*"... can't set up printer

Hello All, another huge gap in my knowledge I wonder if you can help with please: (kernel 2.6.0-test2 I know it's a testing kernel but that's what makes it an interesting learning experience) cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe CLASS:PRINTER; MODEL:BJC-6200; MANUFACTURER:Canon;

Re: ftp to webserver - not as root

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Fischer wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:30:06 +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > > > This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. > > > > I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going > > and mailman as well

Re: How to clean/align printer cartridges in Debian?

Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I seem to remember from back in my Windows days there were some tools in the "Toolbox" to do such things as align the ink cartridges or clean them. Is there such a means in Debian to accomplish this? Dragón wrote: I apologize about the other wande

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:51:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > It's arguably a useful (if rude) tactic in news, since, I hypothesize, > it's much faster for spammers to harvest From: addresses because they're > usually in the overview file while Reply

Problem with Canon BJC 4300

Not sure I have the correct address - my Canon BJC 4300 will not print - I tried changing the cartridge, but that is not the problem. Purchased the printer in March of 1998, I believe. Have not had a problem before - When I push print it stops and indicates "error". Is there a solution? Would a

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Note that: > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > > rm -rf /home/.* gets rid of a little bit too much... > > Doh! Yeah, you're right. Forgot that m

Re: perl cgi problem

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:14:43AM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > Hi! > > I use a perl cgi script to start a daemon via http-request: > > > ---ttt.pl--- > [...] > system("daemon &"); > [...] > print " ... "; > ---ttt.pl--- > > starting of the daemon works, but the http-request is neve

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:41:22AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Please note that CR systems are actually grossly misnamed. They SHOULD be > called something like: > > "positive gateway/caller-id" mail programs. Actually, CR is pretty aptly named.

Re: SAMBA setup from newbie

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:25:26PM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > smbclient -L knight(myhostname) > > but the computer output: > bash: smbclient: command not found apt-get install smbclient - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pr

Re: FYI

*please* grow up... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automated message to d-u gateway

Hallo! * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which newsgroups are you gatewaying to, and which groups are > read-only? I think if we isolate that, we might be able to move > forward. I'm reading the ML as 'gmane.linux.debian.user' and I think I also have 'linux.debian.user' in my list. Th

squid problems with DNS resolution

Sorry if this is a dup, but I didn't see any sign of it on the list after 12 hours... --- I've recently setup squid for a small home network (2 boxes, not counting the proxy server itself). Unfortunately, I instantly get the error text below when I try to access a non-cached site. If I do a shi

FYI

Just to let the bullies here who keep bouncing off me and just can't take it, and who apparently have no ethics at all: I post here under another identity and confine myself there to strictly Debian matters. I have no doubt that a few folks here will abuse their power and have this identity bann

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

%% Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xm> Since ages, I wanted to replace CVS here. If you give an idea of what problems you have with CVS that you're trying to solve we'll have a better idea on how to advise you. xm> I firstly tried to find out all the most interesting candidates

Re: let's remove fortran from my system

Dan Jacobson writes: > Description: The perl data language. Perl extensions for numerics. looks > threatening to the system. Ok, better quit while I'm ahead. If you had anything installed that depended on pdl apt would be offering to remove it. If removing pdl was threatening to your system apt

how to use two HDDs in one external IEEE1394 case?

hi folx, i just bought an external harddisk case from Roline (the one on the left in http://shop.rotronic.ch/cgi-bin/rotronicsag.storefront/3f33bdd7018c19e4273fc38d5d5206b2/Ext/ProductDetail/16015202) which is designed for two HDDs. after playing around with the modules, hotplug and rescan-scs-bus

Re: Ethernet Card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Jacob Tennant wrote: > Is anyone aware of any drivers for a Microsoft MN-130 ethernet card for > debian? Drivers are not distro-specific. If there's kernel modules for it, then it will work. http://google.co

Re: apt and changelogs

Hi, * Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030805 11:33]: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: > | hello, > | > | Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can > | usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there > | any sim

Re: Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machineto another over DSL

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 00:27, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 09 Aug 2003 00:17:08 +0100 > Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas on a reliable way to transfer 1 or 2 gb of data over dsl ? > > Well, the method you described is reliable provided the DSL lines are > reliable. Do you have

Re: Passing args to in-kernel drivers?

* Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Aug-06 10:39 AKDT]: > If the pwc driver is built directly into the kernel, how does one pass > these options to the driver via an append="" in /etc/lilo.conf? It's probably rude to reply to one's own message, but here goes anyway: one way to do t

Re: On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 22:20:12 +0200, Caidence wrote: > I've had this large tangle with getting my sound to work. I know it > works, I had it working before with support compiled into the kernel... > but I recompiled the kernel, and forgot the working settings and didn't > save the config, so it's

Re: Ethernet Card

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 01:36, Jacob Tennant wrote: > Is anyone aware of any drivers for a Microsoft MN-130 ethernet card for > debian? > > Jake K8JWT > UN*X support is concerned with chipsets not the CARD BRAND NAME. what does lspci say, iwconfig say? anything in /var/log/message or /var/log/dmesg

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

On 9 Aug 10:32, Dan Hunt wrote: > http://www.alsa-project.org/ was my stop today. > I downloaded the latest alsa stable files into my home/alsa directory. > I have the same motherboard and the on-board sound works fine with ALSA. > I have made some progress, posted the last dmesg to > http://

removed kde but remnants remain

I recall I at one point "removed kde from my system", however I still see # dpkg -l kde\*|grep ^i ii kdeaddons-doc- 3.1.2-1KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format ii kdeartwork-the 3.1.2-2icon themes released with KDE ii kdebase-data 3.1.2-1KDE Base (shared data) ii k

Re: Adding a default outgoing sig to exim4

(lost original thread) > | I 'm asking this question, as I will be setting up a local small > | companies mailserver using exim4 and they wish to append an automatic > | signature, and not a disclaimer, i.e their company name, main contact > | and website. So I assume their setup prevents them fr

Re: Helping the newbie

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Top posting considered harmful. http://learn.to/quote On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:16:35PM -0400, Jeremy Davis wrote: > I think linux servers are less complicated than linux desktops. At least > they are to me. The only headaches I've had with linux

Re: Unusual idea..

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:22:47AM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote: > Guys... > > I've had an idea for a "play project" I can work on at home in my spare > time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. > > Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a > number"? I know that s

Re: charset in debian mutt

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:35:18AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I looked carefully at the appropriate debian readme; I made sure > my locales were set (used debconf-reconfigure locales), put the > appropriate export line in my ~/.bashrc. But mutt still says it's > using 7-bit US aSCII instead

Re: Lockup

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:34:03 +0100 Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When in X, we're getting random lockups. I can't even Ctrl-Alt-F1 to > get to a console and see what's hanging. Any ideas about how I could > debug this? The only thing I seem to be able to do is press the reset

SAMBA setup from newbie

Hi! I have just install Samba by running: apt-get -t testing install samba then I would like to try listing the shares available on my server by running: smbclient -L knight(myhostname) but the computer output: bash: smbclient: command not found after I run testparm it outputs: Load smb config

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

> > Earlier, someone said that I was wrong because so many people disagreed > with me. > > That's a foolish statement, and I should have called him on it at the > time. > > Facts are facts, and the fact is that traditional spam-blocking strategies > don't work, and CR programs do. > Interesting co

looking at deborphan's output first

Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers' bad Depends: etc. fields? Or during normal usage does a debian system accrue useless packages? In /usr/share/doc/deborphan/README.gz : REMOVING ALL SUGGESTED PACKAGES --- deborphan -p4 | xargs

Re: nls iso8859-1

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 12:02, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Dan Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I do not have X installed on my server, and thus do not have any > > additional fonts installed. However, when I try to map to an smbfs > > share, I get the error that samba can not load

KMail

Admittedly I'm running unstable. But why does kmail create a file called /home/dcorbin/.kde/share/apps/kmail/.lock.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup.backup

Re: is exim attempting to relay ???

Michael D. Schleif wrote: Recently, I am getting emails bounced back to me from my mail gateway. Strangely, the attempted outgoing From: is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!?! The entire bounce is here: What do you think? I'm no SMTP expert... but maybe somebody

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:09:07AM +0100, Tim wrote: | rmdir -f and rm -f both fail. If I delete the offending file, a new one | takes its place, named (eg) .nfs90301. | | Any suggestions? Find out what is creating the file, and solve the real issue. I know it is related to NFS and locking or

Re: Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

Please I know Goodwin's wasn't really crossed just that it has gotten terribly long and wasting. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:32, Greg Folkert wrote: > I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law. > > EFFING. STOP. > > PH4KK3RZ, JUST QUIT IT. > > We are doing more bandwidth wasting picking every NIT, than ANY CR

USB Storage, Digital Camera, devfs, scsi, mounting hotplug

I have found a workable solution, though I think Hotplug in Debian Unstable will need a little work before it makes it to testing. It appears that Hotplug loads sr_mod instead of sd_mod for this device. A simple modprobe sd_mod is sufficient to get it working. Thanks to everyone who replied f

Re: linux cluster

hi ya On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Nyc0n wrote: > What is a linux cluster and what does it do? I have 3 linux servers that > I could cluster together, but what is the benefit? What would I actually > gain by clustering? I mean technically speaking they are in a cluster > right now, they are clustered a

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 09:50:07 +0200, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > exim4 is debian's default and is very capable and very well documented. exim3 is still debian's default MTA although it isn't supported any more upstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Mounting windows share

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 21:07, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > OK, additional info. Running smbclient -L mandor (mandor is the name of > > the file server) from the Mandrake machine shows three file shares, one > > of which is the one I'm trying to access. Running the same command from > > the Debian mac

Re: Mouse Pointer Problem

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:56:41PM -0300, Guilherme A. Mendes wrote: > I have a big problem with my mouse pointer: suddenly it loses the focus, > for example if I put the pointer under an icon, the pointer is not > exactly under that icon, it's some pixels left. > > I'm looking for the solution fo

Re: One Last Note

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:52:40PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: | | You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for | sure. Yeah right. Spammers don't subscribe to mailing lists like this one. | You can figure it out: They are the ones that spearheaded the opposition | again

unsubscribe

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2003 : Issue 2301 Today's Topics: Re: Offline

nfs is very slow

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my nfs-server. Performance is very bad, but all ather protocols (ftp, http, scp) are quite fast. Using scp I can write around 7 MB per second on the nsf-disk, while with nfs it's just 300 kB. I checked the net, all switches and the ethernet cards, so I'm sure all

Re: nfs is very slow

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:44:19AM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Have you installed the package called 'portmap'? This has helped me > tremendously in the past. Also, there has been some recent talk on this > list about some nfs related packages getting upgraded and the older > packages

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:36:27PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 12:22:35 2003 > > > > Please learn to quote if you're going to bother wasting the bandwidth telling us you snipped it...http://learn.to/quote > Par

Re: How to set two IP addresses on the same NIC?

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:04, David List wrote: > How do I set two IP addresses on the same NIC? I know I can use > ifconfig, but is there a debian-specific way of doing it - some script > for instance? > > Best regards, > David List > If you want it done on startup each time you can add the confi

Re: Reason for so many questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:59:04AM -0700, Jacob Tennant wrote: > Sorry to be a pain but I am new to linux by 6 hours! You may find ESR's tutorial on how to find good information helpful: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - -- .''`.

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:38:05PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Here's a sample from today's mail log. Someone has been sending me > mails, over and over, with MY address on the From: line. See, at least with PGP, you could tell the complainers, "Go

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:10:03AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Spammers DO send false CRs, but they are EASY to spot. I suppose they are easy to spot _if_ you remember all the Subject headers and addresses to which you send mail. Suppose I decided to send you a private reply about this very me

Re: How can I get VNC to start a Gnome session?

On Thu, August 07 at 7:15 AM EDT stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to set up vnc so that I can access my Debian boxes remotely. > >I've figured out that when I start the vncserver script, it uses >/etc/X11/Xsession to control the "session" it starts. > >Problem is that seems to eb a KDE

Re: Unusual idea..

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:22:42PM -0400, MJM wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2003 13:43, Pigeon wrote: > > read a book on DSP. > > Recommendations? ...would also be of interest to me! I'm no DSP expert; I merely know one or two basics, and bemoan the lack of good technical volumes in public librari