Re: Installing a kernel off CD-ROM

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:20, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the >>> install >>> CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? >>> >>> Currently, I have

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Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-08 Thread David Palmer.
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Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:09:25PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > It is compiled into exim4-daemon-heavy so just install that package. I > think I had read somewhere that Andreas might eventually include exiscan-acl > into exim4-daemon-light. I may b

LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-08 Thread Christof Hurschler
Hi, I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it gives me a kernel panic... I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue root=/dev/hda1", but I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, or is it? If I could get back in with the

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:48:54 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, I found it. I like how KDE 3.2 finally has some kpdf > integration. > Question, though: Where do you get exiscan in debian form for exim4? It is compiled into exim4-daemon-heavy so just install that package.

Grub, need to change fstab?

2003-10-08 Thread J Y
Hi, I've been messing with grub without accomplishing much, accept an occasional kernel panic, error fs not found and an hour or more rescuing my system. I let grub do most of the work on the configuration that follows and it actually boots debian, with the SuSE kernel!!! Damn I think I u

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-08 Thread Michael D Schleif
Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:09:00:47:57-0500] scribed: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:22:40PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; > > but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. > > > > Is the

Running 'Jigdo' question

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Just join this list 1) I encountered problem to download all jigdo files, templates including md5sum, etc. collectively with 'jigdo-lite' command as follow; $ jigdo-lite Jigsaw Download "lite" Copyright 2001-2003 by Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Loading settings from `/home

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Close enough. Got a howto? > > I found a pretty good how-to on-line with Google. Search on "exiscan-acl > clamav pdf". It should be the 2nd link. Yup, I found it. I like how KDE

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-08 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Check out vsound. On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:22:40PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; > but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. > > Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format,

To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-08 Thread moseley
...or else the riaa might sue you. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html -- bill moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ruby support problems

2003-10-08 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:07:45AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Yes. Have you read the on-list replies as well? > > > I'm not > > sure what you are referring to when you say "mode > > line." In Xemacs, there is a line below the buffer, > > actuall

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:35:12PM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: > LyX is very good, and the QT interface for it is very nice. It would be nice if KOffice did TeX. You'd think it would be the obvious format choice. KOffice is lighter weight, faster, and

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:28:02PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize > it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. LaTeX, TeTeX, CrApTeX...they're all StUdLyCaPeD. - --

Re: install debian in SATA

2003-10-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:35, Attila Csosz wrote: Hi, Is it possible to install debian from scratch in an SATA winchester? How? If bf2.4 used kernel 2.4.22, I bet it would work, but I don't think that 2.4.17 knows enough about SATA. This might help. I used it to install Woody

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:08:12PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > LaTeX would > probably only work for you if you had some guru type person who set up > templates that the other people could use so they didn't have to become > too knowledgeable about

Re: changing permissions of files in directories

2003-10-08 Thread kmark
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:04:01AM +, Adam wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:00, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > find -type f | xargs chmod 0644 > > > > I would have come up with > > > > find PATH -type f -exec chmod 0644 '{}' ';' > > > > Is the ver

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread moseley
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:36:26PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How would I install exim4 .deb on woody for testing (i.e. without > > replacing the current exim package)? > > You don't. They're mutually exclusive. So to test

Re: two ethernet ports on one PCI NIC?

2003-10-08 Thread Mark Devin
Chris Evans wrote: I run a small postfix/ecartis Email list service (double opt in) for some charities. My firewall is due to be replaced and I'd like to go for one of these new tiny, very quiet boxes since the old things I've got do create a great racket in my study and take up space. All the

spamassassin vs. html emails

2003-10-08 Thread Will Trillich
i get a LOT of spam that slips thru spamassassin -- it's multipart/alternative, but the only alternative is html, which i would hope would get a positive hit under "html-only email" test. the end of all the headers looks thus: Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Another exception I have thought about is to > limit the outwards bandwidth on port 25 so that pumping large amounts > of e-mail is infeasible, just in case anybody who is connecting

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would I install exim4 .deb on woody for testing (i.e. without > replacing the current exim package)? You don't. They're mutually exclusive. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMA

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: > > > > So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or > > testing/unstable/main), which "is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX > > that runs under the X Window Syst

Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-08 Thread Michael D Schleif
I am constantly receiving realaudio files, and I want to listen to them; but, I do not want to install non-free programs on my system. Is there some way to convert these audio files to some other format, preferably by CLI? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things befo

Re: install debian in SATA

2003-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:35, Attila Csosz wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install debian from scratch in an SATA winchester? How? If bf2.4 used kernel 2.4.22, I bet it would work, but I don't think that 2.4.17 knows enough about SATA. -- --

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been > keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or > WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so > postscript output good), and the doc

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:37, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:20:16 +0200, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the > > proprietary-ness of Word. > > And these days, it even has a 'direct to pdf' exporter. All of the modules

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-08 Thread Mike Mueller
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 18:29, Edward Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:56, David Palmer. wrote: > > But as all of this is going to applied later in a commercial > > environment, I was wondering if anybody would be able to advise as to a > > decent make of commercial standard Nics. > >

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: > > So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or > testing/unstable/main), which "is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX > that runs under the X Window System". Inspired by your post, I downloaded and installed lyx_1.1.6fix4-2_i386.deb

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-08 Thread Michael D Schleif
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:08:16:41:21+] scribed: > Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following: > > home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 31 Sep 21 10:12 > /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /e

Going crazy with sound. No soundcore.o in kernel-source.2.4.21 distributed in SID

2003-10-08 Thread A R
After "updatedb" hpd:~# locate soundcore /lib/modules/2.4.20-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/utils/patches/soundcore.2.4.20.patch /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/utils/patches/soundcore.2.4.patch hpd:~# uname

Re: Sound Server + Grub vs lilo?

2003-10-08 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:49:04AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi, I get this message when logging into my account & in the root > account also. "error while initializing the sounddriver /dev/dsp can't > be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue using the Permission denied often means y

Re: Ugly PDF display: libXft.so.1 vs. libXft.so.2 / Freetype

2003-10-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:43:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been wondering why Xpdf's display looks so bad compared to > mozilla's display of web pages. What you see in Mozilla is usually optimized for the screen... what you see in a PDF isn't. Xpdf by default is going to try and

Real Producer seg fault in unstable

2003-10-08 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I have an odd issuer since upgrading to unstable. I DJ on a radio station that has a Real Networks server (worse luck!), hence I use Real / Helix Producer to broadcast my show. However, it is now segfaulting: antgel $ producer -ac /dev/dsp0 -o /tmp/tmp.rm Helix(TM) Producer Basic 9.0.1

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread moseley
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:25:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:46:48PM -0700, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > Is there a package of exim 4 for woody? My smtp server is woody, and I > > really have no desire to upgrade it to a more recent distro. > > Have you searched apt-get.

Re: Repartitioning questions

2003-10-08 Thread Kent West
Tom wrote: Hey ho, Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP on C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes Debian, installed on some logical partitions. I would like to shrink the FAT-partition (which is way too big), and - of course - regain the

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:50:04AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:40:33AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > >You need to bootstrap the bayesian filter with at least 250 spam and > > Is there a download possibility to get so much spam mails? Since I > delete my spam,

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Philipp Weis
On 08 Oct 2003, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To make it pass if security or abuse is in, I could only extend accept > local_parts = postmaster to accept local_parts = > postmaster:abuse:security, right? Right. > It wouldn't be a problem in my other case either, with the spamtrap

Re: Repartitioning questions

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:43:10 +0200, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hey ho, > > Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP > on C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes > Debian, installed on some logical partitions. > > I would like to shrink the

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Nathan Michaels
I highly reccomend Lyx. It is a very easy to learn, intuitive, powerful editor that generates LaTeX output. It can also export to HTML via latex2html, for which it has built in support. I've also seen it say something about text output, but I can't vouch for that since I haven't used it. An

Ugly PDF display: libXft.so.1 vs. libXft.so.2 / Freetype

2003-10-08 Thread moseley
This is on a Sid machine with X4.2.1.1 I've been wondering why Xpdf's display looks so bad compared to mozilla's display of web pages. I notice that Xpdf is linked against libXft.so.1, but Mozilla 1.4 is linked with libXft.so.2. Xpdf's display looks a lot like the example at: http://www.

install debian in SATA

2003-10-08 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, Is it possible to install debian from scratch in an SATA winchester? How? Thanks Attila -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-08 Thread Edward Murrell
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:56, David Palmer. wrote: > But as all of this is going to applied later in a commercial > environment, I was wondering if anybody would be able to advise as to a > decent make of commercial standard Nics. First off, avoid anything with a realtek chipset. That should avoid

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:25:59PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:57, Mariano Kamp wrote: > It's in a not-very-densely populated area, > so if any of the neighbours would need some bandwidth, I'll just > monitor it to see if it gets out of the hand (it's like go

two ethernet ports on one PCI NIC?

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Evans
I run a small postfix/ecartis Email list service (double opt in) for some charities. My firewall is due to be replaced and I'd like to go for one of these new tiny, very quiet boxes since the old things I've got do create a great racket in my study and take up space. All the tiny boxes I'm co

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-08 Thread Robert Kasunic
Hi, On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:54:49AM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > but, when i tried running ./runInstaller on Disk1 it ask me for a DISPLAY so > i just export a setting. And found out that Oracle must be run on a GUI?. > > Hm, is there other solutions here? there is a so called "silent" insta

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:35:12 +0100, Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > >> I also have heard that OO.org is working on Reveal Codes for their >> next release -- which, if true, has me drooling. That's the biggest >> thing I miss about WordPerfect. > > No idea what these are so cant comment ;

Repartitioning questions

2003-10-08 Thread Tom
Hey ho, Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP on C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes Debian, installed on some logical partitions. I would like to shrink the FAT-partition (which is way too big), and - of course - regain the freed space

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:40:53 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data > and reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a > partition from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail. > tune2f

hotmail refusing connections?

2003-10-08 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I'm using postfix and logcheck reports the following Oct 8 22:18:24 schamper postfix/smtp[15999]: connect to mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.254.151]: Connection refused (port 25) Oct 8 22:18:24 schamper postfix/smtp[15999]: connect to mx2.hotmail.com[65.54.166.230]: Connection refused (port 25) Oc

Re: Swen

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:54:33PM +0530, Sudeep Mukherjee wrote: > Hi > > I subscribed to this newsgroup a few days ago. As soon as I subscribed > I started receiving a lot of email from Microsoft, all of which is the > swen virus. I know this to be swen cause I use swedeleter to check my > email

Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:31 pm, Lou Losee wrote: > Hi, Currently on boot, my system is loading the usb-uhci module. I > am trying to change that to get it to load the uhci module instead. > I am running a custom 2.4.22 kernel if that matters.

Re: [solved] System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Lou Losee
Never mind ... usb-uhci was in /etc/modules Dooh!!! Lou Losee * Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-08 17:12]: > Hi, Currently on boot, my system is loading the usb-uhci module. I am > trying to change that to get it to load the uhci module instead. I am > running a custom 2.4.22 kernel if th

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 17:28, Steve Lamb wrote: > > and modifies the Subject-line > > to include *SPAM** rather than just add another one. > > Any ideas on how to do this? > > To be honest, no. Actually, I discovered at least how to rewrite the Subject line, it's in example 3 in

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Thanks for the response! On Wednesday 08 October 2003 21:23, Philipp Weis wrote: > This is certainly true for postmaster, but I think it would be > RFC-compliant to reject viruses and spam on abuse or security. Yeah, I think so too. However, rejecting legitimate mail could be scary in either cas

Re: Rootstrap Failing - is it the debbootstrap problem? or a comms problem

2003-10-08 Thread Antonio Rodr
You should file a bug report. I did so last night, against dbootstrap and installer, which have been consistently failing for me. > I noticed someone on here said they had had a problem with > debbootstrap failing. I must admit, that I had tried to build a > chroot environment on my machine in de

Re: System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Albert Dengg
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:31:08 -0400 Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Currently on boot, my system is loading the usb-uhci module. I am > trying to change that to get it to load the uhci module instead. I am > running a custom 2.4.22 kernel if that matters. I want uhci instead of > usb-u

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:40, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data and > reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a partition > from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail. Yes, not only is it possible, b

Debian 3.0 or testing on GeForce2 Go

2003-10-08 Thread bmp2265
Hallo everyone, I've struggled the last days during an extensive installation session, trying to get Linux running on a Vaio Laptop with Geforce2 Go. Unfortunately, this chipset is not supported by XFree 4.2.1 and therefore won't run with Debian 3.0 or testing. I've tried the NVidia binary driver w

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize > it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. LyX is very good, and the QT interface for it is very nice. Ive just done a full 30 page report with it and w

System refuses to load uhci instead of usb-uhci

2003-10-08 Thread Lou Losee
Hi, Currently on boot, my system is loading the usb-uhci module. I am trying to change that to get it to load the uhci module instead. I am running a custom 2.4.22 kernel if that matters. I want uhci instead of usb-uhci based on the following output I get from a lspci -v | grep HCI command: 00:

Re: w2k to samba

2003-10-08 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Sounds like a winders question to me. Probably won't get very many answers on this list. On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:40:34AM +0100, Gabriel Granger wrote: > Hi All, > > I've set up a Debian NAS box using Samba(I know samba is not the issue) > on my network which is working great, but I need to b

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been > keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or > WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets > (so postscript output good), and

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:20:16 +0200, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the > proprietary-ness of Word. And these days, it even has a 'direct to pdf' exporter. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to repl

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:35:12AM +0100, Stuart Robinson wrote: > > Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I > > suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would > > prefer a journalling format can I change it without a reinstall? > Look in

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Stephen A. Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > I don't have any experience with DocBook or XSLT, but I do nearly > everything in LaTeX and I love it. From LaTex source you can pretty > much automatically generate html and pdf as well as postscript. I do >

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
I suggest OpenOffice: + available for Linux and Windows platforms + easy to learn, many things are similar to Word (but some advanced features are IMHO better than Word's) + its own format is XML based, can also read and write Word, RTF and other formats + new version can generate PDF directly

Rootstrap Failing - is it the debbootstrap problem? or a comms problem

2003-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
I noticed someone on here said they had had a problem with debbootstrap failing. I must admit, that I had tried to build a chroot environment on my machine in despairation after failing to get user-mode-linux to run and found that it failed on me. However, I persevered with uml and have manage

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have > been keeping documents in various formats I'd like to move to > text-based documents so we are not dependent on a specific product > (like Word). So I'm looking for suggestions. Aah, the document

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Philipp Weis
On 08 Oct 2003, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, it is my damned duty to read or at least manually inspect the > stuff sent to postmaster, abuse, security, etc. So, I should never > reject anything sent there, and therefore, it is no point scanning it > either; that would on

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been > keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or > WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so > postscript output good), and the documents ar

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 08 Oct 2003 19:35:26 +0200, JG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi, > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > >> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following: >> >> home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx1 root >> root 31 Sep 2

Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:35PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:52:40PM +0100, duck wrote: > > > > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have: > > macro index "!fetchmail\n" > > It is already bound to "G" in mutt. I was hoping it would do it perio

Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > I am still having some problems getting mutt to work. > > 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite > of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ? Your spool file should be /var/mail/yo

Re: disable keyboard

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:30:51 -0400, Victory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > How do I disable "keyboard" or "mouse" from command line so that=20 > when system boot up, it will not looking for it. I am running Debian > 3.0r1 > This sounds like you're talking about the BIOS, not Debian. -- moniqu

Re: NVIDIA driver and modconf/.deb

2003-10-08 Thread Naitik Shah
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:10:54 -0300 Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > I currently have 2 kernels installed on my machine. 2.2.20-idepci > > (default on debian cd) and a compiled 2.4.22 from www.kernel.org > I've tried to install the NVIDIA driver fr

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031008 00:20]: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:37, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Yes, spamc will lighten the load on your server as compared to running > > spamassassin on each message individually. spamc is a small C program > > that just pipes the message to an already-run

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault.

Re: vim + termcaps + colors

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:25:50 -0500 (CDT), Aaron Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > The t_Co sets the number of colors your terminal supports. xterm and > the linux console do 16 colors. The vt220 is how my OpenBSD console > identifies itself, and it doesn't work with 16, so I set it to 8 > ins

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-08 Thread duck
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (07/10/03 11:22), michael montagne wrote: > > I have two knoppix systems with the same problem. The time returned by > > "date" does not match the timestamps shown in the logfiles. I've run > > "tzconfig" and changed the timezone to US/Paci

disable keyboard

2003-10-08 Thread Victory
How do I disable "keyboard" or "mouse" from command line so that when system boot up, it will not looking for it. I am running Debian 3.0r1   Regards, Victor,

Swen

2003-10-08 Thread Sudeep Mukherjee
Hi I subscribed to this newsgroup a few days ago. As soon as I subscribed I started receiving a lot of email from Microsoft, all of which is the swen virus. I know this to be swen cause I use swedeleter to check my email account before downloading the email. So does this mean that some one on thi

man dangling symlink question

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following: home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 31 Sep 21 10:12 /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mit, 2003-10-08 at 07:40, Oliver Elphick wrote: > The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are > dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware > clock. Not anymore. At least XP (not sure about 2000) has a "System clock is GMT" check box -

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:25, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > One concern is that if somebody has a router with a connection to the > Internet and my Access Point (which isn't bad in itself, as long as my > packets can go either way), then my CUPS server would be accessible to > the world, not what I de

Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread moseley
I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so postscript output good), and the documents are also available on-line in HTML (to fit their existi

NVIDIA driver and modconf/.deb

2003-10-08 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi. I currently have 2 kernels installed on my machine. 2.2.20-idepci (default on debian cd) and a compiled 2.4.22 from www.kernel.org I've tried to install the NVIDIA driver from www.nvidia.com from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496.html and installed it for m

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-08 Thread HdV
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > 1 - Bluetooth. Any ideas of the Linux support? Does anyone have a > specific adapter working? AFAIK support for Bluetooth is in any reasonably recent kernel. Don't know about specific hardware though... > 2 - Syncing the data. A lot of these phone

Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I'm still working on my Exim4 config, and I have now a server that nicely uses exiscan-acl to reject viruses and spam with an SA score above 13. However, it is my damned duty to read or at least manually inspect the stuff sent to postmaster, abuse, security, etc. So, I should never r

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: 1 - Bluetooth. Any ideas of the Linux support? Does anyone have a specific adapter working? I'm having one of those Acer bluetooth dongles which works great with linux. Enable usb and bluetooth support in your kernel and install the bluez-* packages like bluez-uti

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:20:00 +0200 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I think I would prefer that it behaved as the current > SpamAssassin do, that is, it makes an attachment out of the original > message, inserts the report in the body, and modifies the Subject-line > to inclu

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 02:37:47 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:12:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > There isn't, really. My approach was to try to create a new eval() > > test in SA which called clamav. I ended up installing > > exim4-daemon-heavy and usin

Re: how to get gnome?

2003-10-08 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:15:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really impressed. After not touching Debian for a while, I > now did a fresh install and dist-upgrade to sarge and... wow. > It works. Just so. Out of the box. > > I know I should be happy now, but I'm one those w

Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:14:54AM +0100, Colin Watson insinuated: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:20:42PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty > > innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( > > It seems to be part of xbase-clie

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-08 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everybody go: apt-get install r-recommended now! :-) I heartily second that! R is an extremely capable and well done system that not only produces very nice graphs, but is well ahead of many commercial/professional statistics sy

Re: how to get gnome?

2003-10-08 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is there a task or meta-package or sumsuch that I simply didn't see? Usually, yes. Currently[for testing], no. You could try the metapackage from sid which is mostly installable on sarge with the exception of nautilus and gnome-media. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Samba 3 on stable

2003-10-08 Thread Albert Dengg
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:11:52 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed Samba 3 (final) from untesting on a stable version > of Debian? Any concerns I should be aware of before giving it a try? > > Curtis > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wit

forum, mailinglist, knowledgebase

2003-10-08 Thread VEGH Karoly
Hi, I'd like to build up a webportal, with the following conditions: - forum/newsgroup with two-way mailgateway - searchable archivum - userauth from AD (I believe I'll need some DB behind it) ofcourse auf debian/linux. Being opensource or free is no disadvantage :) has anyone ever done so

Re: changing permissions of files in directories

2003-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:55PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Colin Watson said... > > The downside is that you can only use xargs this way for programs that > > let you specify an arbitrary number of filenames lasting up to the end > > of the command line. > > xargs -n 1

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