Re: your mail

2003-11-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:15:38PM +0300, faisal diab wrote: > I HAVE A MOTHERBOARD VIA AC97 WITH SOUND CARD SIS 300/305 &INEED IDENTIFICATON FOR > THEM Please don't shout at us (don't use CAPITAL LETTERS) and use a meaningful subject line. You did not ask a question and it is not clear to me

Re: freelance sysadmining -- friends

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > Smaller. Friends of friends, etc. Build up a reputation before > expanding. friends can be across the other side of the country too :-0 ( couldn't resist :-) > You'll be going on-site much more than you think, if you want to > keep your custom

Re: Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:03:01PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > * Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 14:20]: > > > > > With xserver-xfree86 it suggests a few hardware detection packages, that > > should detect the hardware I have. (I tested discover, and read-edid > > manually, and they did

CVS branch: what is "rcs -b" equivalence?

2003-11-12 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, May I know how to close a branch in "cvs"? Eg. branch sequence: 1.1.0.1 --> 1.1.0.2 --> 1.1.0.3 Now, how to start branch 1.2? In rcs, I can close it with "rcs -b" May I know how to doit in "cvs"? thank you, -- Abdul Latip - Junior Staff - http://people.WebIndonesia.com/dullatip/ - - Dear

Re: Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
* Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 14:20]: > > With xserver-xfree86 it suggests a few hardware detection packages, that > should detect the hardware I have. (I tested discover, and read-edid > manually, and they did discover the hardware I have). So how do I get > xserver-xfree86 to use t

CVS brach: what is "rcs -b" equiv?

2003-11-12 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, May I know, what is "rcs -b" equivalence in "cvs"? Eg. in a branch, the revisions sequences are as following: 1.1.0.1 --> 1.1.0.2 --> 1.1.0.3 Now, I want to start branch 1.2. In "rcs", I will close the branch by using "rcs -b". thank you, -- Abdul Latip - Junior Staff - http://peop

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread eCLe
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:51, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello, > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem > to fit the bill yet. > I need a window manager with the following > - As lite as possible on memory (I

Re: freelance sysadmining -- fun stuff

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tom On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: .. > 1. A couple of executives paid $50/hour for me to set up Quicken on > their wives's laptops. (They were actually members of the Springs > family, of Springs mills [textiles] wealth)

Exim & Cyrus error notification simplification?

2003-11-12 Thread Bill
Hello all, I have configured Exim (v3.35) with Cyrus IMAP (1.5) and am having a small cosmetic problem in the mails that contain delivery error notifications (mail box full, mailbox does not exist). Currently I am getting errors that look like the following: This message was created automat

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:58, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... > :( > Now that you have thoroughly discouraged me from remote sysadmining, how > about if I start small and locally with home users within a certain radius > (50 miles?)?

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya vikki On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... > :( > Now that you have thoroughly discouraged me from remote sysadmining, how > about if I start small and locally with home users within a certain radius > (50 m

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:46PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > This WM was mentioned by a poster on this list a month or so ago. At > the time I was using sawfish, but was getting sick of the bloat and > considering switching back to fvwm. I'm _so_ glad I tried openbox3. > > I have it set up to

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Tom
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... > :( > Now that you have thoroughly discouraged me from remote sysadmining, how > about if I start small and locally with home users within a certain radius >

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote: > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise > it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very > loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is > there an alteration I can

Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to > create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old > XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. Am

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Burkhard Woelfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 13:14]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:18, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am lookin

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... :( Now that you have thoroughly discouraged me from remote sysadmining, how about if I start small and locally with home users within a certain radius (50 miles?)? About the credit card machine-- my mom closed her business

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 & linux-wlan-ng Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi Thomas, * Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 08:18]: > I compiled a new kernel from kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 and, after > installing module-init-tools, most of my modules are loaded and working > except for my pci wireless networking card. This has always been > something of a p

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Jimmy Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 08:16]: > Hi, > > I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to > create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old > XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. Am I supp

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > > > The g

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Burkhard Woelfel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:18, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > > recommendations for a window manager. > Blackbox, Openbox, or

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
Yikes. I'm starting to think the FooAdmin part of Foosoft is a bad idea... :( -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Disc space -- the final frontier! PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5C

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I re

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0800, Jigga Man wrote: > Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple > reason that windows has this capability built into it > and debian being far better than windows lacks such a > basic thing?? are there any

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:51:10 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem > to fit the bill yet. > I need a window manager with the following > - As li

Re: interface fonts in ooffice

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I just reinstalled my system. After reinstallation the open office > interface fonts are way too large and I couldn't find how to change > them. See bug #218585. > My system is debian unstable. Gee, there's another one now. -- Ma

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:18:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper > is set, but the following problem prevails even if I set > --medium=a4. A4 is described as "Medium: A4 595 842", > basically it's all out of the box Debian

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "oskar nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hoyt Bailey wrote: I recieved my USR5610B and replaced the Intel winmodem. From U.S. Robotic Installation guide pag 4: Linux 2.3 and Higher Users NOTE: All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels contain the U.S. Robot

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now > see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. > Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Yeah, to keep it up to

Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-12 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, Apologies since this isn't really a Debian question but does anyone know where a person can download the anaconda port for Debian? I saw the announcement a while back from Progeny but there were no links, binaries, source or hints as to when they might make it available. Perhaps they're w

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem to fit the bill yet. I need a window manager with the following - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't have m

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem to fit the bill yet. I need a window manager with the following - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't have m

Re: Exim4 configuration

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:56:22AM -0600, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Anyway, someone knows how to get exim4 send mail outside without the use > of a SMTP server ? (I tried their site but it was much complicated, I > don't have enough strengh to read

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > BruceG wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM > > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one [snip] > > Still a

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:20, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama > > > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:58, Bruce

Re: OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
Annoying though it may be, license terms you don't like are not necessarily illegal. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: dvorak keyboard

2003-11-12 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i've been getting enough questions off-list (of a few lists, not just > this one) about my experiences with the dvorak keyboard layout that i > finally wrote them up: > > http://www.maenad.net/geek/dvorak/ > > in case anyone's interested. http://ww

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem > to fit the bill yet. > I need a window manager with the following > - As lite as possible on memor

SOLVED: Re: IRQ conflict?! (was Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 ...)

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 11 Nov

window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem to fit the bill yet. I need a window manager with the following - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't have much to spare). - Mul

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "oskar nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 16:02 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I recieved my USR5610B and replaced the Intel winmodem. Turned on the > > computer and it dialed the ISP in

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread p
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:08:54PM -0600, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote: > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise > it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very > loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is > there

Re: OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-12 Thread p
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:46:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I plan to send copies of the body of this message to the presidents of > Systemax and Tiger Direct, my senators, my congressmen and any one else > who might have influence. I am postint it here for suggestions for > addresses.

Re: looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:54 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > I don't use either the Gnome or the KDE desktops (just Blackbox, plus > whatever apps I need). > > I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of > memory for what it

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
> 802.11B is 10 MBPS. 802.11G can go to 54MBPS. You may be limited by > distance. I figure since my DSL connection is 256Meg or so - 10 Meg is okay > on the LAN side, although it can get slow doing backups over wireless. > Wow! That 256Meg is a FAST DSL connection! I should have said 256K. I just

RE: better than nice -d 19

2003-11-12 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:17:39PM +1300, Jochen Daum wrote: > >> And did you enable DMA on you disks (hdparm)? > > > >No, didn't. Thanks for this. But when I try hdparm -d /dev/hda I > >always get > > > >using_dma = off (0) > > > >instead of enabling/disabling it as the manpage says. Does

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Benedict Verheyen wrote: my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Yes. As time goes by the contents of both spam and ham will shift. Not only in the content but the other data y

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:58, BruceG wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mike

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:21 PM Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one > > BruceG wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > T

Re: keyboard doesn't respond: assistance needed

2003-11-12 Thread Hooman Javidnia
But KNOPPIX does not ask for a username. What happens when you boot the KNOPPIX CD with "knoppix 2" as boot parameters? What do the messages show before he halts at the prompt? Well, I tried it. The Linux prompt appears and the keyboard is working. The problem happens after I install KNOPPIX to

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: hi ya vikki -- in a quickie summary .. - yes .. anybody can do remote admin of a home users PC including windoze admin (90% of the market is windoze at home?) - 95% of all admin can be done remotely, you only need a local gorilla to hit the power/re

OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I plan to send copies of the body of this message to the presidents of Systemax and Tiger Direct, my senators, my congressmen and any one else who might have influence. I am postint it here for suggestions for addresses. The body is as follows: I am enraged by the manipulations of Microsoft C

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:31:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Please take the suggestions I previously made and enhance the sarge > installation process accordingly. Please send suggestions for the installation process to the appropriate place, namely debian-boot or bug reports against the 'install

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:19:52AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:07:10PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > > * Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. > > > > It's there, all right, and so is KDE2. Don't try to install KDE3 from >

Re: better than nice -d 19

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Jochen! On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:17:39PM +1300, Jochen Daum wrote: And did you enable DMA on you disks (hdparm)? No, didn't. Thanks for this. But when I try hdparm -d /dev/hda I always get using_dma = off (0) instead of enabling/disabling it as the manpage says. Does this point to not bei

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Edward Murrell
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:30, Jigga Man wrote: > Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple > reason that windows has this capability built into it > and debian being far better than windows lacks such a > basic thing?? are there any apps are written to over > come this ? The timezone setu

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:58, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama > > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote: > > > > > 3.

RE: better than nice -d 19

2003-11-12 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! > Hello Jochen! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:58:35PM +1300, Jochen Daum wrote: > >I have a backup process running on a debian woody webserver with > >kernel 2.2.20-compact. The system is not very responsive while this > >backup process is running. Is there any way I can improve that? > > >

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one > > >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:18:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Help! > > I am trying to use a2ps to print 2 pages onto one. Very simple: > > a2ps -2 file.ps > > The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper > is set, but the following problem prevails even if I set > --

Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread stan
Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I really don't think I will lose anything. However I ha

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-12 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Unilateral toltarian rule of the system ulimits... Set the max for the system and the user can set it higher than that... This will just make the forkbomb seg fault when it's hit the limit... Regards, Jeremy On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote: > How does o

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
John Hasler said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:49:10PM -0600: > Mark Ferlatte writes: > > Check that the following things are true: > > ... > > ... > > Tzconfig creates the correct /etc/localtime link. Good to know. It doesn't do the other stuff, though, which also tends to cause people grief. M

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Daniel Edmund Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:08 PM Subject: how to change beep noise > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise > it is making on ambiguous file-complet

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Florian Ernst said on Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:39:58AM +0100: > Hello Tom! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote: > >How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with: > > > >perl -e "while(1){fork}" > > > >System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a l

Trying to move "Zim Dababase" binary app from SCO to Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Marco Antonio V. Assad
In fact, my first email wasn´t well explained. What I'm tring to do is move two binary apps from SCO servers to Debian. They are "zim", a database, and "noffice". Can anybody help me? Here goes the original email again: - Hi all, I'm trying to run some SCO Openserver 5 binaries o

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark Ferlatte writes: > Check that the following things are true: > ... > ... Tzconfig creates the correct /etc/localtime link. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Jigga Man writes: > ...only thing is that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock ( > which shows up on the panel) is off by an hour. Run tzconfig as root (you should have been offered an opportunity to do this during installation). If you can't find your time zone come back here and ask

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Tom! On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote: How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with: perl -e "while(1){fork}" System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one > > - Original Message - > From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about debian-update-3.0r1-i386.iso

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Barry! On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:55:08PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: I am getting ready to do a new install of Debian woody from iso's, and just downloaded the first three. In addition, I noted that there is an iso named: debian-update-3.0r1-i386.iso Do I need this, or is this iso what is

Koffice installation

2003-11-12 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I had some trouble with Kpresenter and thought if I remove it and install it again, some trouble might be solved. At least I can add new slides..only to be sure that I did not broke something by mistake and it is a real bug. well when I try to install Koffice again I get this messa

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:08:54 -0600 (CST) Daniel Edmund Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep > noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is > very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not > r

Re: better than nice -d 19

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Jochen! On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:58:35PM +1300, Jochen Daum wrote: I have a backup process running on a debian woody webserver with kernel 2.2.20-compact. The system is not very responsive while this backup process is running. Is there any way I can improve that? I checked the nice value w

Re: freelance sysadmining - web [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:58, Vikki Roemer wrote: .. > > Could be. I've been having problems lately with connections refused and > > stuff. Dunno what the problem could be. I thought I'd restored the > > settings that I'd lowered, but I guess not. Whe

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Daniel! On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:08:54PM -0600, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote: Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is

Re: initrd with sshd ?

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Nov 12, 2003 at 07:32:47PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > This is very very similar to what S390 wants. Except that they might > make do with telnetd instead of sshd. http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/

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2003-11-12 Thread Debian
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Re: modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Hugo! Just a short note, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092 might be of interest, too. Cheers, Flo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote: > > > 3. Move PCs to new building. This is just a short walk, so they

Re: cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:47:47PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am trying to get cvs to access the repository through a ssh connection > > when the sshd is listening on a non standard port. > > I tried using > > cvs -s CVS_RSH="ssh -p port" -d :ext:

Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-12 Thread Tom
How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with: perl -e "while(1){fork}" System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded question, I know.) Please no answers like: "don't do that" or "working by design". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 9:30 pm, Jigga Man wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have > a problem setting the correct time on my system. My > hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed > debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is > that we follo

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread Otto Wyss
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > the password for root!?! > > > > You should have been asked to supply a password during the installation > > process. It's that one. > > > I wasn't asked. I guess I just started the installed system right after > After going ag

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one > Hi, > > my current LAN looks like this: > > cable - eth0 (public ip) -server > modem

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jigga Man said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0800: > I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have > a problem setting the correct time on my system. My > hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed > debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is > that we follow dayli

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-12 20:40]: > > Thanks, > > This is all thats in my sources.list (comments rm-ed) deb > http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free deb http://security.debian.org

how to change beep noise

2003-11-12 Thread Daniel Edmund Davison
Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is there an alteration I can make within debian to change/disable this noise? thanks,

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread oskar nl
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I recieved my USR5610B and replaced the Intel winmodem. Turned on the computer and it dialed the ISP in Windows. So I said hey this is going to be easy. Went to U.S. Robitics website and no debian driver only RH, Mandrake, & SUSE. Ok I can do rpm. downloaded rpm driver put i

Re: mailfilter bug? (Never mind)

2003-11-12 Thread csj
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:49:16 +0100, Nicolas Rueff wrote: > > Ainsi parla Roberto Sanchez le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: > > > csj wrote: [...] > > > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for > > > "^Subject:.*Test" and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and > > > "marssocietynewsletter": > > >

Re: Refreshing the Application Menu

2003-11-12 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:31:21 -0800 (PST) Jigga Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running gnome 2.4 on Sarge and i have noticed > that everytime i > install a new program on my system it will not show up > right away in > my Gnome Application Main menu. I have to logout and > login in order >

USB 2 and APIC Question.

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to get a Sony USB DVD+R+RW drive working with an Albatron KX400-8XV motherboard and a 2.6.0-test9 kernel. An Epson Stylus C82 USB printer is also attached to the system. With APIC enabled in BIOS and booting up with a 2.4.22 kernel both the DVD drive and the printer are recognized

Re: madwifi .deb package

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know where I can download a .deb package for the madwifi > drivers? I don't really have room on this laptop (540MB HDD) to keep > the kernel sources that it wants around. I've thought about building a package, but the source is non-free an

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
"Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my current LAN looks like this: > > cable - eth0 (public ip) -server > modemeth1 (192.168.0.1) > | >hub >

Re: cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get cvs to access the repository through a ssh connection > when the sshd is listening on a non standard port. > I tried using > cvs -s CVS_RSH="ssh -p port" -d :ext:cvs:/var/lib/cvs co package > but cvs insisted on trying port 22. > Is it

Refreshing the Application Menu

2003-11-12 Thread Jigga Man
Hi All, I am running gnome 2.4 on Sarge and i have noticed that everytime i install a new program on my system it will not show up right away in my Gnome Application Main menu. I have to logout and login in order for it to show up for the first time. I would assume that once you install a program

Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Jigga Man
Hi, I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have a problem setting the correct time on my system. My hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is that we follow daylight savings time and now my clock ( which shows up on the pane

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now > see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. > Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Yes, especially ham. And the spam that hasn't been taught e

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2003-11-12 Thread faisal diab
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Re: cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Micha Feigin said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:35:41PM +0200: > I am trying to get cvs to access the repository through a ssh connection > when the sshd is listening on a non standard port. > I tried using > cvs -s CVS_RSH="ssh -p port" -d :ext:cvs:/var/lib/cvs co package > but cvs insisted on trying

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