Re: via-rhine problems with dlink DFE-530TX [SOLVED, kinda]

2003-10-31 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:16:36PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi again, folks, > > I have this kind of ongoing issue with a machine that's got a > pretty-much clean install of woody, and has a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC in it > that doesn't want to play nice with Debian. > > When I configure it all up m

Install : Xserver not found

2003-10-31 Thread - _ r a r o h _ -
Hallo, What to do ? Nov 1 08:15:12 deba gdm[598]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp Nov 1 08:15:12 deba gdm[590]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the XKeepsCrashing script Nov 1 08:15:19 deba gdm[590]: Failed to start X server several times in a

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: The post then said to run "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 | more" and then select the apprpriate kernel. There was no output when I ran that. I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page sugges

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread cr
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > > DOS - most of its (very necessary) improvements were written as little > > apps by third-party developers (often copied from UNIX) and then copied > > by M$ > > Ah, nostalgia... I have quite a ros

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 04:08 GMT, BruceG penned: [snip] > mutt. Don't think I'll ever be a vi person, though. > Never say never! -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 03:26 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > >>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: ... >>> >>> >It all comes down to specific hardware config

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>Which books have you tried? > > I didn't even go past the reverse of the title page. The most recent > copyright date was july 2000. Fair enough. A lot of the core material

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:53:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael, > > forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed > your point. > > > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the d

Re: Hardware kompatiblity question

2003-10-31 Thread Steve Scrimpshire
I don't even know if this reply will go through, but I found this question on the Web. I'm not sure about the SATA controller yet, but the Gigabit lan with the latest driver from the asus website works fine, as does everything else (but 8x agp, of course), but I'm looking to see if the SATA con

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Paul Mackinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed: > > Michael, > > forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed > your point. > > > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. (nontechnical e

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: Ok, this is getting frustrating. I understand. It was very frustrating for me in the beginning also. Is it possible to get debian running without learning a bunch of arcane hacker lore? Simple answer? "No." Debian is not about ease of installation (as much as many peopl

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:19, David Z Maze wrote: > "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Ainsi parla BruceG le 304Ãme jour de l'an 2003: > >> > >>>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to > >>>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running > >>>

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:26:39PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> >It all comes down to specific

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP working. Chances are you have a so-called "soft-modem" (aka "winmodem"). You _might_ get it working, but it'd be a whole lote easier to just put a real modem on one of your serial ports. -- Kent --

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 03:39, stan wrote: > I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some > information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the > console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten to > it :-( > > How can I fix this? > Its

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: >On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> ... >> >> >It all comes down to specific hardware configuration. Every system has >> >some hardware that it won't

can't start KDE as user

2003-10-31 Thread paul
A dist-upgrade last night broke my formerly sid system. I was getting seg-faults from almost everything including bash. I saved my home and etc directories and a few other files and re-installed. At this point my system is woody and kde is installed but will only stay logged in as root. When

Re: exim4 in sarge - config issues with smarthost hostname vs IP

2003-10-31 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I have the exim4 heavy package and: dc_smarthost='hostname' <= works if this is an IP fails with a hostname of 'smtp' hostname smtp resolves to an IP OK lookup of host "smtp" failed in smarthost router grep -r DCsmarthost . ./conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > ... > > >It all comes down to specific hardware configuration. Every system has > >some hardware that it won't be prepared to use right out of the box. > > The Broadcom 4

Re: debain email setup

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
> Hi all. > > I am looking for advice on setting up a small office with an email > server on a Debian box. I also need to do some outgoing email > filtering/blocking. > > I have no experience setting up an email server as I've always worked > on my own and just let my ISP handle the chore. Now

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I am interrested in learning how it works but it has to be working for >> that to happen. The fact is that the installation routine and >> documentation just plain suck. It doesn't help that the books >> available are ancient. > >No

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Bruce Griffis
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:55:39PM +0100, Jakob Lell wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2003 20:25, BruceG wrote: > > > Ainsi parla BruceG le 304?me jour de l'an 2003: > > >> Hey all, > > >> > > >>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to > > >>make a SMTP/POP mail server w

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > > > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or securit

Re: Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:21:21PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Stefan Seifert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've got again and hope someone could help me with this problem again. > > Thanks a lot for the help! > > > > I want to play some svcd or vcd with mplayer. I put the cdr

How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-10-31 Thread stan
I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten to it :-( How can I fix this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary

Re: Driver installation

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 09:53 Subject: Re: Driver installation > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have the driver and kernel headers on a CD. I assume installation > > is via

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Haines Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:11 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 > > > Would that be XFree86-4.0.2 or 4.0.3 or 4.2 or 4.3. If the latter I have > > more downloading to do? > >

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 08:14 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>If you haven't tried updating

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Dani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 06:07 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Speaking for myself only. I have to make do with whatever is > provided. I am t

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Haines Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 05:39 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 > > Thanks you Haines. I have downloaded all the required stuff and > > only need to know where to put it to in

Re: Driver installation

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Werner Mahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 08:23 Subject: Re: Driver installation Am Freitag, 31. Oktober 2003 02:34 schrieb Hoyt Bailey: > I have the driver and kernel headers on a CD. I assume > in

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 00:46 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>I understand that you're getting frustrated with the install process, >>but really, the install is something you'll do once for this system. >>If the installation process is suc

PAM rejecting valid username/passwd ???

2003-10-31 Thread Michael D Schleif
It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ;< My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for many months. Now, my user (mds) can no longer ssh into a remote debian system: # ssh -X deb.platinumaire.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission d

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Michael D Schleif
"Douglas M. MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:31:15:58:09-1200] scribed: > > His shows this: > > > ># cat /proc/modules | grep -i scsi > >scsi_mod 84952 1 (autoclean) [sr_mod] > > > > What are we missing? > > Use modconf to add the st and sr_mod modules to load at bo

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread A. Loonstra
Greg Folkert wrote: [snip ksymoops] Warning: Gut reactions have come forth, please be aware that your feeling MAY be hurt. Okay, I think I see an ID10T error afloat here. Re-Install the latest kernel (the one you are running), but before you do move the modules dir to .old Then re-run lilo -v if

Re: exim4 in sarge - config issues

2003-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hanasaki JiJi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031031 15:29]: > 1. when did exim4 make it into sarge? http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim4.html Looks like it was on 2003-10-01 > > 2. cool config stuff > > 3. smarthost configuration is working fine using the IP of the > smarthost. It fails when I put

custom kernel hangs during boot (debian sid/unstable)

2003-10-31 Thread Kevin Thornton
Here's my issue-- So I had to re-install my system today (long story). I run a custom kernel in order to get NVIDIA drivers to work (the gcc version mismatches always have stumped me w/regard to getting the drivers working with stock kernels). To make a custom kernel, I did the following (all ru

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:59:31 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:40 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >>> >>>Run "uname -a". If your CD is a woody ("stable") CD, and it probably >>>is, you're probably running a 2.2 kernel. If so, run "apt-cache search >>>kernel-image-2.4 | more" to s

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-10-31 Thread John Hasler
Erik Dörnbach wrote: > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a > feature or something? That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about. See http://spf.pobox.com/ -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:57 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: Paul E Condon wrote: But when your employer provides tools, you really should use the provided tools. Except, perhaps, in situations where you can save a project by using something better. Or in situations where i

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-10-31 Thread Todd Pytel
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:11:24 +0100 Erik Dörnbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...there are some guys using our server against us, > by simply opening an smtp connection to us, pretending to be > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - sendmail > doesn't see this as a relay or

exim4 in sarge - config issues

2003-10-31 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
1. when did exim4 make it into sarge? 2. cool config stuff 3. smarthost configuration is working fine using the IP of the smarthost. It fails when I put in the hostname of the smarthost. "hostname smarthost" does return the IP. What could be wrong and how can it be fixed? thanks -- To UNSU

~98 0545-1234

2003-10-31 Thread mhebert
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Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:57 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > >> But when your employer provides tools, you really should use the >> provided tools. Except, perhaps, in situations where you can save a >> project by using something better. Or in situations where it is >> unl

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:40 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >>Run "uname -a". If your CD is a woody ("stable") CD, and it probably >>is, you're probably running a 2.2 kernel. If so, run "apt-cache search >>kernel-image-2.4 | more" to see if you have any 2.4 kernels available >>on your CD. If you do, p

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031029 07:26]: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:44:52PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:12:28PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote: > > > With this mail program (the default Mac mail program, which I've not > > > used much), when I click "reply"

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 22:34 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:03:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> ... >> >> In a company where opensource products are referred to as "freeware" >> and where many of the tools I *have* to use have no Linux-based >> alternative, I'm best

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul E Condon wrote: But when your employer provides tools, you really should use the provided tools. Except, perhaps, in situations where you can save a project by using something better. Or in situations where it is unlikely that you will be 'found out'. If you are 'found out', deny using GNU/Li

stability of libc6-i686?

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Unstable has a new package available: libc6-i686. Apparently libc6 optimized for the 686 architecture. Now, this sounds attractive to me, but the package warns of commercial apps potentially blowing chunks. IBM's jdk is specifically called out for this. Does it seem fairly safe to go ahead and i

Xawtv

2003-10-31 Thread Wayne Sitton
ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a picture, but no sound. However the radio works fine when usin

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:11:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> >>>Mark Healey wrote: >>> >>> >>> When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:03:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > ... > > In a company where opensource products are referred to as "freeware" and > where many of the tools I *have* to use have no Linux-based alternative, > I'm best off using MS crap. My boss would not be impressed if I told >

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> In perl you could do: >> perl -e 'for(1..80){print "*";}print "\n";' > > Can you just explain how to use this for ? It seems far away the ones I know > (C,C++,basic,Java,php,etc.) That invocation happens to do the perli

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Haines Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 04:41 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:40AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > > > Is anyone running t

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:19:21PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: | In perl you could do: | perl -e 'for(1..80){print "*";}print "\n";' | | Technically that is shorter than: | echo "" | | But not by much... Actually

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: | Hi, | | Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. | | like echo "**" | (In bsh or ksh) | | Is there any short command ?? Since this hasn't been shown yet, python -c 'print

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread theocrite
Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since bash is the default shell in Debian you should be able to open up > an xterm and type: > for x in `seq 80`; do echo -n \*; done; echo Yeah, I sure have a bash and it does work. > Basically this is the bash (or sh) for loop. > > for variable in

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Douglas M. MacFarlane
> His shows this: > ># cat /proc/modules | grep -i scsi >scsi_mod 84952 1 (autoclean) [sr_mod] > > What are we missing? Use modconf to add the st and sr_mod modules to load at boot. madmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: debain email setup

2003-10-31 Thread Douglas M. MacFarlane
Well, the simple answer, with a few added items that will save you grief down the road: Run Exim4 on the debian (testing) mail server using your ISP as a SmartHost for sending outgoing mail. Configure it to use maildir storage format, and run the Courier IMAP daemon for retrieval. Your "firewall

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread lorian
Michael, forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed your point. > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. ^

no sound with kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386...deb

2003-10-31 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I downlaoded the kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386_2.6.0-test9-1_i386.deb and I installed it successfully. Everything works fine, except the sound. ( I run also the kernel-image-2.4.20 and the sound is ok with this kernel ) My sound card is a sb. First I launched modconf but no module was dis

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 20:33 GMT, Vineet Kumar penned: > > > * Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031030 15:37]: >> Hah, vim just indented that line because I had a "case statement" in it. > >:set filetype=mail > It is. I apparently have an extremely mild boo-boo somewhere in my config.

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Bruce Sass
...we have plenty of free software, and as we all know, > Linux will get you through times of no money better than money will > get you through times of no Linux... > :-) ditto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > So what? They did indeed change a LOT. If you compare WinME to WinMX, see > > the fact that MS plans to include an actually useful firewall and disable > > several services (and of cou

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread kmark
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Rob Weir wrote: > > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src" > > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only > > >an opti

debain email setup

2003-10-31 Thread Eric Walstad
Hi all. I am looking for advice on setting up a small office with an email server on a Debian box. I also need to do some outgoing email filtering/blocking. I have no experience setting up an email server as I've always worked on my own and just let my ISP handle the chore. Now I need to set

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:27:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > > > > > like echo "*

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Rob Weir wrote: > > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src" > > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only > > >an opti

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Nicolas Rueff
Ainsi parla Vivek Kumar le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > Hi, > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "**" > (In bsh or ksh) > > Is there any short command ?? > perl -e 'print "*"x80' -- .,p**"*=b_ Nicolas Rueff

Googly paranoia

2003-10-31 Thread Tom
Argh, people. I've been out of work for a while and Google is literally like 1/2 Mile from me in Mountain View. But I don't want to work for them! I get the creeps whenever I am obliged to look at anybody's history list in their browser, imagine what drugs you'd need to look at google's logs

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vivek Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031031 11:50]: > Hi, > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "**" > (In bsh or ksh) how about this (bash): for ((i=0;i<80;i++)); do echo -n '*'; done ; echo I don't know about bsh or

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-31 Thread Keresztes József
Hi ! I have tried these options and reboot PC, but the problem is not solved. > Try either > Option "sw_cursor" > OR > Option "hw_cursor" > > Only one (1) of the above, and reboot. Bye, Joe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031031 20:50]: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. [..] > Is there any short command ?? for x in eq 1 80 ; do echo -n \* ; done Works in bash, don't know in other shells. Yours sincerely, Alexander pgp0.pgp Descript

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > DOS - most of its (very necessary) improvements were written as little apps > by third-party developers (often copied from UNIX) and then copied by M$ Ah, nostalgia... I have quite a rosy memory of DOS 3.x being pretty easy to work with. I

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > So what? They did indeed change a LOT. If you compare WinME to WinMX, see the > fact that MS plans to include an actually useful firewall and disable several > services (and of course you'll have to avoid IE and OE), the bottomline i

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Dani wrote: > I installed a Samsung SC-148B CD driver in my secondary master and tried > the installation. Guess what. I had exactly the same problem. It seems > not to be something of the CD or CD-RW driver. Might it be the > motherboard? Maybe it would help if you tried to get it working aft

Re: Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stefan Seifert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've got again and hope someone could help me with this problem again. > Thanks a lot for the help! > > I want to play some svcd or vcd with mplayer. I put the cdrom in the > drive mount it. And when i say "play svcd" the mplayer error message

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031030 15:37]: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned: > > > > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the > > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of > > data and making a chart. But nobody u

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031030 14:35]: > Gnomes' Gnumeric has full excel functionality. Funny, I don't recall seeing anything that looked like a flight sim in the source... =p good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread theocrite
Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > > > like echo "**" > > (In bsh or ksh) > > > > Is there any short com

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "**" > (In bsh or ksh) > > Is there any short command ?? Depending on what you're actually trying to do; Perl is the big hammer you can throw a

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
"BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: >> >>>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to >>>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running >>>Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16M

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "**" > (In bsh or ksh) > > Is there any short command ?? A possible not good way to do this in bash: for x in `s

Re: reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:48:47PM +0100, Jakob Lell insinuated: > On Friday 31 October 2003 20:38, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian > > install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set > > it up with the dvorak layout (oops).

Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Stefan Seifert
hi, I've got again and hope someone could help me with this problem again. Thanks a lot for the help! I want to play some svcd or vcd with mplayer. I put the cdrom in the drive mount it. And when i say "play svcd" the mplayer error message is: Failed to open vcd Playing vcd://1 CD-ROM Device '/

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Jakob Lell
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:25, BruceG wrote: > > Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > >> Hey all, > >> > >>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to > >>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running > >>Debian Stable. My PC is kind of

Re: reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Jakob Lell
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:38, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian > install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set it > up with the dvorak layout (oops). this is no problem for X -- i just > did a `dpkg-reconfigure xserve

print command

2003-10-31 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi, Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. like echo "**" (In bsh or ksh) Is there any short command ?? -- Vivek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set it up with the dvorak layout (oops). this is no problem for X -- i just did a `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` and switched the layout. but for the instances when

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Andrea Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it > stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one > opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go > on, it does not. The Debian bug-tracking system

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Andrea Tasso wrote: > hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the > language selection screen, I > mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to > go on, it does not. > any experience ? That's as far as this demo goes

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
> Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > >> Hey all, >> >>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to >>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running >>Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM, >>1 Gig disk sp

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 10:15 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I'm being forced to use Excel and Powerpoint at work. I hate it. >> It's not just MS-specific, in this case: I hate data entry, and I >> hate prettifying it. > > Knoppix is y

Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 00:15 GMT, Dan Jacobson penned: > After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new > thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user > > Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search > isn't as good yet. >

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2003 19:11, Tom wrote: > > Theseus was walking in the woods one day, when he came across the house > > of a giant. Now, this giant considered himself a perfect host; all who > > visited him must spend the night, a

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-31 Thread Dani
Hi. On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:58:56 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net |debian-testing|" said: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Dani wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net > > |debian-testing|" said: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
>> Thanks for the info. I looked at some of the packages and am >> impressed. My server (that's using the term a bit optimisticly) might >> not be up to the task of running MySQL. It already has PHP installed, >> but is a little underpowered. >> Think I'll start off with a simple text-editor or us

OT: simple V4L camera code sought

2003-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
Does anyone have some code that interacts with a camera via Video4Linux? I have some code, but I think it's using some horribly outdated methods, so I'd like to see a more complete version. xawtv and such are a little too complicated... Thanks for any hints. -- Please do not CC me when replying

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 31 October 2003 19:11, Tom wrote: > Theseus was walking in the woods one day, when he came across the house > of a giant. Now, this giant considered himself a perfect host; all who > visited him must spend the night, and must be given a bed which fits the > guest perfectly. > > Unfortuna

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Exim's default configuration needs to be changed though in order to support maildirs, and you need to either create one (don't remember the command) you send yourself an email to create it. From the courier-base README.Debian: > Just ru

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