Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-03 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:37:17 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions? (Yes, I've read the supported devices lists on > various websites and browsed through various websites selling > hardware, but I'm curious to hear what others are using.) I took a look at a local computer

exim problem - SMTP error from remote mailer after AUTH PLAIN

2004-01-03 Thread Jerome R. Acks
For over a year now I've been using fetchmail, procmail, exim 3.36, and mutt to send and receive email. After going away for three days, I return to find that I can no longer send email via exim. I can still send email using mozilla mail. When I try to send a email via mutt and exim, I immediat

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 20:38 America/Denver, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Russ Schneider wrote: When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following: file1 file2 file3 dir1 dir2 file4 etc. When you do the same on Mandrake, you get file1 file2 file3 dir1/ dir2/ file4 You

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 14:52 America/Denver, Andy Firman wrote: Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in understanding a few things. Neither are most of us, but we'll try. ;-) First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, other cfdisk being curses based? fdisk i

[OT] USB error message

2004-01-03 Thread David
This isn't a Debian-specific topic, but it seems my ISP doesn't carry comp(?).os.linux.setup anymore so... I've just installed a USB card in my old computer. It's a Belkin 5-port card. I get a couple of errors in this messages in dmesg. usbdevfs: remount parameter error ** RE: the above e

Re: Starting dhclient at boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, You can add iface eth0 inet dhcp to your /etc/network/interfaces Grzesiek On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > This may be an old question which has been already answered. After booting into > linux (debian woody), I always have to open an xterm, log in as root a

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Russ Schneider wrote: > >Any way to config Debian's ls to do that? I realize it's just a nitpick, It seems quite important to me, though ;-) > In your .bashrc file you can enable console colors. It's not the same, ...or ev

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Russ Schneider wrote: > >When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following: > >file1 file2 file3 dir1 > >dir2 file4 > > > >etc. > > > >When you do the same on Mandrake, you get > >file1 file2 file3 dir1/

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-03 Thread Ed Lawson
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:56:55 -0600 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you shake the chicken bone and sprinkle the blood when you ran > cfdisk? > Oh, how foolish of me. I forgot. I will try it and see what happens. At some point seems as good as anything else to solve problems

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:31:41PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following: > file1 file2 file3 dir1 > dir2 file4 > > etc. > > When you do the same on Mandrake, you get > file1 file2 file3 dir1/ > dir2/ file4 I doubt that either a

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Russ Schneider wrote: When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following: file1 file2 file3 dir1 dir2 file4 etc. When you do the same on Mandrake, you get file1 file2 file3 dir1/ dir2/ file4 You see how there's a / at the end of each directory name, making it really easy to

ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Russ Schneider
When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following: file1 file2 file3 dir1 dir2 file4 etc. When you do the same on Mandrake, you get file1 file2 file3 dir1/ dir2/ file4 You see how there's a / at the end of each directory name, making it really easy to tell at a glance wh

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:04:08PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > Problem solved. Recompiling with CONFIG_FILTER set lets dhcp work. I > think they ought to change the recommendation in menuconfig; it kind of > says it's not important and to set it to N if you're not sure. Doesn't > seem like

Re: Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:35:56PM -0800, Chris Cothrun wrote: > Hi, > > My sid system won't boot. Kernel panic after a > bunch of attempts to load modules. > > Output is something like: > modprobe can't open dependancies file /lib/modules > mount: you must specify filesystem type > pivot_root:

Re: PHP > 4.1 package available?

2004-01-03 Thread Russ Schneider
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, GCS wrote: > There is, but not for Woody, at least not officialy. A quick search on > www.apt-get.org revealed that there's a 4.3.4 version of php4 - > unofficial ones ofcourse. The sources.list entry for this: > deb http://debian.moolfreet.com ./ Well that particular package

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ed Lawson wrote: On 02 Jan 2004 23:57:08 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure that you have the vfat module loaded? lsmod should tell you. Yes, I can use another pen drive without a problem using vfat as well as the zip drive. It remains a puzzlement to me and

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2004-01-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 19:13:45 +, W. Citoan wrote: > I changed it from galeon to mozilla-firebird and it worked for me. The > problem is not in mozilla-thunderbird; it is in your set-up. Make sure > you have 0.4 installed from unstable and that you edited the correct > profile. Ah, thanks for

is ${PATH} in pam_env.conf supposed to see PATH set by login.defs?

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel B.
In /etc/security/pam_env.conf, is ${PATH} supposed to "see" the value of PATH set by /etc/login.defs? If I set PATH in login.defs (using ENV_PATH=xxx) and set PATH=${PATH}:yyy in pam_env.conf, the setting from login.defs doesn't show up (PATH gets set to ":yyy"). If I remember correctly (I looke

chroot for packaging

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
I'm dumb and lazy: I want a chroot'd woody so I can identify build-depends for my own debian package (basically a GTK 2 app). I don't want to create a separate partition: I just want to do it on some spare space on an existing partition. (1) What is an authoritative source that tells me how to

Re: Openoffice.org font problem + strange dependency (?)

2004-01-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:18:55 -0500, Michael Bonert wrote: > The menu across the top says: > "(F)", "(E)", "(V)", "(I)", "(O)", "(T)", "(W)", "(H)" > > Instead of: > "File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format", "Tools", "Window", "Help" Have you tried to reinstall or even remove --purge and instal

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2004-01-03 Thread liyanjing
Thank you all:) I add that line to my js file as you said, it works well W. Citoan wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 02:03:00 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:22:18 +, W. Citoan wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html If it's not workin

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Schwartz
Paul Schwartz wrote: Paul Schwartz wrote: Paul Schwartz wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: >Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, >try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall >properly. That's what I

Uh-Oh - boot problem

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Cothrun
Hi, My sid system won't boot. Kernel panic after a bunch of attempts to load modules. Output is something like: modprobe can't open dependancies file /lib/modules mount: you must specify filesystem type pivot_root: no such file or directory /sbin/init: cannot open /dev/console: no such file atte

Re: C'mon, let's get free movie tickets!

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:13:00PM -0500, Balbuena, Alexander wrote: > However, who is our friend at FreeFlixTix of San Francisco ? > We cannot help but wonder who he or she might be ! > _ > Author: "Julia Leonardo" at HQ-IRM-001 > > This invitatio

Starting dhclient at boot up

2004-01-03 Thread abhay
Hi: This may be an old question which has been already answered. After booting into linux (debian woody), I always have to open an xterm, log in as root and start dhclient. How can I do this automatically at boot up? Regards, Abhay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bookmarks: Konqueror *AND* Mozilla ???

2004-01-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael D Schleif([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > For various reasons, I use _both_ Konqueror and Mozilla browsers. > > What are the best ways to maintain bookmarks that are accessible and > update-able by _both_ browsers? > > In other words, I want to centralize my bookmarks, and

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:26:17AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:06:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > If I had known this I would never have purchased the Western Digital > > drive and, needless to say, I will never purchase another. I proceeded > > to format it w

Re: Setting up a mail server

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Gayton
G'dday Bjorn, Try: lifewithqmail.org - this should give you a running mail server in a couple of hours Once your mail server is running, following section 5.2.1 of lifewithqmail.org will give you an integrated pop server. Then http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Main/LifeWithBincIMAP will giv

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Andy Firman wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:43:29PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: mike wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance already checked man mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man m

RE: C'mon, let's get free movie tickets!

2004-01-03 Thread Balbuena, Alexander
Thank You for your continuing concern for me to get free movie tickets. My associates say " thank you " as well. However, who is our friend at FreeFlixTix of San Francisco ? We cannot help but wonder who he or she might be ! On the subject of movies: I watch n

[Mailer-Daemon@luna.mooo.com: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2004-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
> > [Micha Feigin schreef op 01-01-2004 21:52 +0200] > > > > I would like to make a shortcut to switch between the previous and > > current desk/page. Something like Alt-tab does for windows (I would > > settle for just the current and previous ones on the stack, > > I use control alt left and rig

Re: locales and coding systems

2004-01-03 Thread Haines Brown
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:25:47 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Do you happen to know which of these variable names is likely to be the > > one used by emacs? At this point, I may need to approach the problem from > > the emacs side, but my sense is that the problem is not there. > > It's b

Re: NFS Mount .... Permission Deny

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alexander On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Alexander B. Cheng wrote: > I'm getting permission deny by server when I try to mount NFS on a > client machine. > > my /etc/exports is > > /home/kingsmen 192.168.10.0/24(rw) > > my /etc/hosts.allow is > > ALL:192.168.10.10 explicity define only what you

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS? - encrypted fs

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > regardless of method the basic underlying nfs structure is insecure > > so you're supposed to replace the insecure portmap, rpc services with > > something more secure > > http://www.linux-sec.net/FileSystem/#NFS ... > > - or even b

Setting up a mail server

2004-01-03 Thread Bjorn Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to set up a mail server on my box (running sarge) with mail accounts that don't necesarily have login accounts. I would like imap, and preferably pop3 also. I also need to provide smtp authorization. If I can get all that working

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:43:29PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > mike wrote: > >On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote > > > >>Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible > >>relevance > >> > >>already checked man mailman > >> > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED

NFS Mount .... Permission Deny

2004-01-03 Thread Alexander B. Cheng
I'm getting permission deny by server when I try to mount NFS on a client machine. my /etc/exports is /home/kingsmen 192.168.10.0/24(rw) my /etc/hosts.allow is ALL:192.168.10.10 and my /etc/hosts.deny is portmap:ALL the server is using kernel 2.2.20 stable and I'm at a lost on why it's not

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-03 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > Matthias, > >Thanks a lot for your reply. This is very comprehensive and to the point. >Thank you again. You made my day. Im glad you found my post informative. >I believe in time, the VIA solution will appear.Until then

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread GCS
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? Not much, you can achieve your needs in both. > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > Both model WD400BB but they were

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
mike wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance already checked man mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman No manual entry for mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache searc

Re: Jerky mouse movements with 2.6.0

2004-01-03 Thread GCS
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:31:24AM +1100, Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem: > > After compiling and running a 2.6.0 kernel with testing, I found that > the mouse pointer would suddenly wander off on its own when I use it. > This is a generic two-button wheel mouse. Do you mean

Re: devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-03 Thread GCS
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:30:06PM -0800, ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell, it really won't matter much if I > get rid of devfs. I wanted to check with everyone > here to see if there were any issues with getting rid > of devfs. Is there anything I need to look out for or > c

autoloading modules

2004-01-03 Thread Rieker Flaik
Hi, I have one physical parport and as I wish I attach a "printer" or "2 SNES-Joypads by Adapter". so if I use a "lpr printme.txt" the lp module get loaded but if I use "jstest /dev/js0" NO 'joydev' and 'gamecon gc=0,1,1' is loaded When I boot up my new 2.6.0 Kernel-system, I configured it this

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread panda
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:36:33PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or Antonio> secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway Antonio> (debian) machine with confidence of not being observed. Any Ant

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: > Hi, guys, > Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just > noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month > starts, all the past statistics are gone, and everything starts from 0 > (e.g. number of

How to use PKCS certificates with kmail

2004-01-03 Thread LeVA
Hi! I need to use a "PKCS #1 MD5 With RSA Encryption" certificate (this info is from mozilla, I don't know exactly what cert I have) and sign my messages with it (this is essential for my work). It signed by TrustCenter, and it works fine with mozilla. And I have to use mozilla till I can not use

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:36:33PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or > > > > Antonio> secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway > > > > Antonio> (debian) machine with confidence of not being observed. Any > > >

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? imho, fdisk is more controllable of what it does ... > I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk > during the install. It seems that on

Re: USB 2 Sony Microvault Problems

2004-01-03 Thread Ed Lawson
On 02 Jan 2004 23:57:08 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure that you have the vfat module loaded? lsmod should tell > you. Yes, I can use another pen drive without a problem using vfat as well as the zip drive. It remains a puzzlement to me and I really think it

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:04:21PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or > > > Antonio> secure nfs session? I would

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Schwartz
Paul Schwartz wrote: Paul Schwartz wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: >Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, >try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall >properly. That's what I'd do. And please pos

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? They shall all partition your disk well. Just use the one that suits the task.--There are no secret cheats in Debian, see?-) > Do the physical

cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
Hello. I am not a hard drive expert and need some help in understanding a few things. First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, other cfdisk being curses based? Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about 6 months apart. I just bo

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:04:21PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or > > Antonio> secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway > > Antonio> (de

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:12:42PM +0100, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:04:02PM +0100, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any other ideas on what else I could try in order to increase the # > > of open file descriptors to 32000 for all users and why the approach with > > editing

Jerky mouse movements with 2.6.0

2004-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have recently re-subcribed to this list after a break of about 8 months - if the query I make has been covered, I would be grateful if someone could provide me an URL. I have searched the December archives but found nothing. My problem: After compi

devfs and Linux LVM

2004-01-03 Thread ope
I installed lvm10 on a system that is mostly testing with a few packages from unstable. At first it all worked very well but after a few reboots I was completely unable to mount the LVM volumes. Based on what I could find it looks like this is a known problem with LVM and kernels compiled with de

Re: Bookmarks: Konqueror *AND* Mozilla ???

2004-01-03 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
> Methinks you have your own little open source project there as far as i > know -- very badly needed. I wrote a PHP/Mysql web app to access links > anywhere. It's a very simple concept and easily maintainable. I threw in > a little javascript for expandable folders. Search Freshmeat or > Sourcefor

Re: having trouble with abcde

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:34:07PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote: > Getting CD track info... cd-discid: /dev/cdrom: CDROMREADTOCHDR: > Input/output error > abcde error: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive? Scott, Do you have read permissions to the device /dev/cdrom symlink points

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya antonio On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or > Antonio> secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway > Antonio> (debian) machine wi

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004, GCS wrote: > I tried that too, but got an "Operation not permitted" message as soon as > I logged in as a regular user. Exactly. This is a feature. Mere users can't higher their hard limits, so they can't DoS the system. Either use sudo/su for the particular task, or set

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:27:49PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance > > already checked man mailman > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman > No manual entry for mailman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > No other documentation

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 09:06 America/Denver, Thomas H. George > wrote: > > > I just replaced a hard drive. Thinking this a routine choice I > > bought the one with a big rebate, namely Western Digital. I wasn.t > > too upset that the insta

Re: lost adobe fonts in Mozilla

2004-01-03 Thread Travis Crump
Arthur H. Edwards wrote: I just upgraded to testing and lost the adobe fonts in Mozilla. How do I get them back? Art Edwards Remove mozilla-xft. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread mike
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:27:49 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote > Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance > > already checked man mailman > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman > No manual entry for mailman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-03 Thread Katipo
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 11:06:05 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just replaced a hard drive. Thinking this a routine choice I > bought the one with a big rebate, namely Western Digital. I wasn.t > too upset that the installation CD was only for Windows and Macintosh > but I

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Thomas. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am in the process of replacing a failing hard drive. I copied my home > directory from the old drive to the new drive with > >cd /oldhome/tom >cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by trial and error t

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:53:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:09:42 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Several words have been used in this thread (it happens in other threads > > also) that have traditionally been considered "foul language", at least > > in my Texan culture,

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:53:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: [snip] > With regard to foul language in posts, I think that the net effect is > probably that it demeans the poster more than it offends the reader. Probably. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:09:42 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Several words have been used in this thread (it happens in other threads > also) that have traditionally been considered "foul language", at least > in my Texan culture, although without a standard definition of "foul > language" it's h

Re: USB tv tuners?

2004-01-03 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm looking for a good USB tv tuner for my Woody box so I can use it to > basically just watch TV on my computer, nothing too fancy. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for something that works with Linux > (preferably Woody out of the box)? > I ha

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Thanks for your quick reply! On Sat, 03 Jan 2004, GCS wrote: > [...] > Maybe put the relevant lines into /etc/profile? Someone really know a > better solution, this one is ugly IMHO. I tried that too, but got an "Operation not permitted" message as soon as I logged in as a regular user. G

Re: Configuration of Herbert Xu's kernel-image-2.6

2004-01-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:03, GCS wrote: > Could be a mistake of 'make allyesconfig' or whatever. Please note that > packaging the 2.6.0 version of kernels is probably not sane enough. Thanks, that helps. Will investigate further -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Openoffice.org font problem + strange dependency (?)

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Bonert
I'm having a little problem with fonts in Openoffice. The menu across the top says: "(F)", "(E)", "(V)", "(I)", "(O)", "(T)", "(W)", "(H)" Instead of: "File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format", "Tools", "Window", "Help" All the submenus are likewise effected. I'm not sure if that is a good de

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antonio> What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or Antonio> secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway Antonio> (debian) machine with confidence of not being observed. Any Antonio> ideas? Thanks.

having trouble with abcde

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Berry
I am having a problem converting tracks from my cdrom which is "/dev/cdrom." This is the error message I get when I try to do this: abcde Getting CD track info... cd-discid: /dev/cdrom: CDROMREADTOCHDR: Input/output error abcde error: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive? --

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2004-01-03 Thread W. Citoan
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 02:03:00 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:22:18 +, W. Citoan wrote: > > >> >>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html > > > > If it's not working for you or you want to manually set the browser > > it should use, then see the above link

mailman/exim problem

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Exim's conf file attached as well as /etc/aliases due to possible relevance already checked man mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# man mailman No manual entry for mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search mailman docs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache search mailman doc [EMAIL PRO

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:55:01 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > You probably favor "diplomacy" -- some people who hate Bush say Clinton > did this. What *really* happened is we got a false sense of security > that the world was at peace while the criminals really operated with > impunity. The Clin

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread GCS
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:04:02PM +0100, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other ideas on what else I could try in order to increase the # > of open file descriptors to 32000 for all users and why the approach with > editing /etc/security/limits.conf didn't work (and what I could do to

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:06:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > If I had known this I would never have purchased the Western Digital > drive and, needless to say, I will never purchase another. I proceeded > to format it with ext2 partitions usi

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Nano Nano wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:18:45PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: [snip] You do not need to remove civil liberties to fight terrorism. Less freedom does not equal more secure. Okay, what's the plan? Passivity, of course, is not an option. I'm gonna fight to protect myself

Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-03 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:30:59 +0100 "Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so I should just keep my mouth shut and not suggest there might be > alternatives? Like I said, I got that specific modem to work as a > newbie, thats all. Did I suggest that it was a better choice? No. No,

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:18:45PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: [snip] > You do not need to remove civil liberties to fight terrorism. Less > freedom does not equal more secure. Okay, what's the plan? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:30:25 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 13:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > how mane times do I have to send this email. > > If you actually *READ* this mail. Maybe you could understa

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Kent West
Josh Robinson wrote: Not meaning to be a prude, but see: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct, next to last rule. could you please quote webpages for those who have difficulty accessing webpages from email? (the sysadmins have disabled the URL-viewer in Pine when run on my email

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:55:01 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > Yeah but there *really are* people out there who want to kill us. > It's your job to prevent them. Maybe this should be continued elsewhere, because it doesn't have too much to do with Debian. On top of that, you're probably wrong. They coul

Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I'm running Debian testing in conjunction with kernel 2.6.0. I've got an application demanding up to 32000 sockets in certain circumstances. So, I wanted to set the # of open file descriptors on a system-wide basis. I'm using bash as the shell for all my user accounts. Here's what I tried: 1

Re: 56K Modems

2004-01-03 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
so I should just keep my mouth shut and not suggest there might be alternatives? Like I said, I got that specific modem to work as a newbie, thats all. Did I suggest that it was a better choice? No. Chris On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Well, having worked tech supp

Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?

2004-01-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 09:06 America/Denver, Thomas H. George wrote: I just replaced a hard drive. Thinking this a routine choice I bought the one with a big rebate, namely Western Digital. I wasn.t too upset that the installation CD was only for Windows and Macintosh but I was shock

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 00:41:46 -0700, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Incoming from Tim Connors: > > Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 2 Jan 2004 > > 20:38:32 -0800: > > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:29:32PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > > That is j

Re: nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 17:30, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:34:46PM +, Richard Lyons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I did recently apt-get kernel-image 2.4.18-1-k6 (actually via > > aptitude), but it doesn't boot correctly, so I continue with the > > 2.2.20. > > What's

Re: locales and coding systems

2004-01-03 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:25:47 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Do you happen to know which of these variable names is likely to be the > one used by emacs? At this point, I may need to approach the problem from > the emacs side, but my sense is that the problem is not there. It's been a long t

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2004-01-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:22:18 +, W. Citoan wrote: >> >>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html > > If it's not working for you or you want to manually set the browser it > should use, then see the above link. I added the following to my prefs > file in order to use galeon

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 17:57, GCS wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since it was released about 10 months ago, shouldn't this already be known? Yup, you are right. Anyway, they did break it last time: I had a h

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Nano Nano wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: [snip] There are always people (often good, well-meaning people) in every country and government who seek greater control over their citizens, because they honestly believe that they know best how people should behave and

Re: Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.

2004-01-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Colin, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > # ls -l /usr/bin/ | grep gnome-session > > # ls -l /usr/bin/ | grep Gnome-session > > both no printout > > Install the gnome-session package. # apt-get install gnome-session rebooted PC Xterm window $ startx /usr/bin/gnome-session ERROR There was

lost adobe fonts in Mozilla

2004-01-03 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I just upgraded to testing and lost the adobe fonts in Mozilla. How do I get them back? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-03 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 17:57, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since it was released about 10 months ago, shouldn't this already be > > known? > Yup, you are right. Anyway, they did break it last time: I had a hard > session on up

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: [snip] > > There are always people (often good, well-meaning people) in every country > and government who seek greater control over their citizens, because they > honestly believe that they know best how people should behave and run > t

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