Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Dan Lawrence
On 29 Jan 2004, "Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in linux.debian.user: > I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is > there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of > setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from > those who have u

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Tobias Reckhard said: > I'll throw postfix into the ring. It's very secure and still very > flexible. You may want to use a more recent version than the one in > woody, though, but a backport is available on http://www.backports.org. I am not sure why you need to upgrade postfix to a newer version

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Steve Lamb said: > Sendmail - so difficult to configure the configuration language needs > a > macro language to make sense of it. > > Exim - so easy to configure that in most cases you can do it with the > comments in the config file. > > That's where the comperison ends for me.

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Pigeon said: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:09:57PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: >> Would be nice to have your address munged from this list, or the option. > > You do have the option. Add to /etc/exim/exim.conf: All the spam comes from other machine. I reject 99% of it anyway, I just see it on my rej

RE: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Over the weekend, I will 'play'. I just came across this comparison of the four which I found interesting. http://shearer.org/en/writing/mtacomparison.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-01-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > e-mail Manager Notification ** > > As a security precaution this mail was blocked and discarded since it Grrr. Can we pass a law that says all these virus checker programs have to insert an X-Virus-Bot: header into thei

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-01-30T05:11:23Z, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure if it's available in the Debian archive or not, It's in non-free. qmail isn't free software. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Configuration: Internet with smarthost > Append .domain? No > Smtp relay host? My ISPs smtp server > Final destination domains? > --->Force synchronous updates on mail queue? Yes > > Is that it? Just drop in and go? I did "force

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 30 January 2004 12:40 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > > qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very > > easy to install and setup. > o.O I've had to work with QMail and I have to say that it is one > big giant headache. I disagree, but we are each entitled to our op

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:36:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > That's where the comperison ends for me. I've never found a need for > sendmail in the modern 'net populated with Postfix and Exim. Well, i just bit the bullet: I installed postfix-tls on Sid. Up till now I just answer the questi

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Adam Aube wrote: My personal preference is qmail. Not sure if it's available in the Debian archive or not, but you can check out www.qmail.org for more info - look for the links to netqmail. Probably not given the nature of its license. qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have fo

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Ian Perry wrote: I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both. sendmail is probably more difficult. Is there something

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Ian Perry wrote: I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both. Sendmail - so difficult to configure the configuration

Re: different hard drive size showing

2004-01-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
SEAN KIM wrote: Greetings, Someone asked me a really challenging question regarding a hard drive size. Why there are 2 different sizes showing on a same hard drive when someone looks for its hard drive size through its BIOS and through its Window Operating System? I was seeing the phenomenon des

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:35:41PM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have an idea! > Why don't we figure out a way to bounce all the virus crap to the spammers. > That would kill two bad birds with one big stone:-) Hehehe, feed the homeless to the hungry,

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Katipo
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:50:54 +1100 "Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an > advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance > etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who h

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:50 pm, Ian Perry wrote: > I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is > there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of > setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those > who have used both. > Is there

Re: NFS performace on 2.6.1 -> 2.6.1

2004-01-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to get decent performance out of my NFS Client/Server goth on Woody. I'm running 2.6..1 on both and can't get any more than 8kb/s out of the NFS Client/Server. I've tried a number of things and ATM have got jaxx:/data /data nfs bg,wsize=16384,rsiz

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2004-01-29 Thread margaret_doll
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Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:49:55AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Actually, the most daunting thing about this list is the sheer volume > >of mail involved. > > Do you even grasp the irony of this statement? If volume is a prob

Re: Server Report

2004-01-29 Thread ag1
The computer that the message i am replying to has been infected with a virus which is sending out the following message with a malicious program attached. "peace" Andy > The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary > attachment. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both. Is there something better than either of them ? I have very little e

NFS performace on 2.6.1 -> 2.6.1

2004-01-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm trying to get decent performance out of my NFS Client/Server goth on Woody. I'm running 2.6..1 on both and can't get any more than 8kb/s out of the NFS Client/Server. I've tried a number of things and ATM have got jaxx:/data /data nfs bg,wsize=16384,rsize=32768,sync,tcp

RE: Sendmail and TLS

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Then the problem must be somewhere else I am getting TLSSTART error messages in syslog as I have not set up any of the files in the ssl directory. Ian > -Original Message- > From: Oliver Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 3:03 PM > To: 'debian-user' > Su

Re: New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting

2004-01-29 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:45 pm, Damian wrote: > I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However > after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound > card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read > that I needed to use the 2.

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Re: Sendmail and TLS

2004-01-29 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Ian Perry wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that Sendmail in Debian 3.0 comes with TLS enabled. > > I have been through sendmail.org to no avail. Is there an easy way of > disabling it ? and what are the consequences. I don't have roving users, From /usr/share/doc/sendmail-do

Re: DHCP client unable to see external net

2004-01-29 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 29 January 2004 07:59 pm, Christopher Blough wrote: > Here is an updated capture of route -n > -- > Kernel IP routing table > DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref > Use Iface > 209.112.193.120 *255.255.255.248 U 0 0

Re: G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-29 Thread Clint Adams
> I have some :)) money for this project (ca.4500 euros) and I am unable to > decide myself what would be the best solution: an apple Xserver dual G5 2GHz > or an Sun Blade 1500 Worksation. The Xserve will blow the SB1500 out of the water. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting

2004-01-29 Thread Damian
Hello world. For the record this is my first post. I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read that I needed to use the 2.4 ke

Re: OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue

2004-01-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:33:53AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hey everyone, > > trying to get procmail to pipe messages to a script I wrote that > processes mail to a web page. Here's the recipe: > --- Hi Matt, did you do any testing? did you create a sam

Sendmail and TLS

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, It appears that Sendmail in Debian 3.0 comes with TLS enabled. I have been through sendmail.org to no avail. Is there an easy way of disabling it ? and what are the consequences. I don't have roving users, and the network is static so entries in the relay_domains would suffice. Ian --

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for > > xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files > > named xfree86-4.2.1*. The

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> > >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation > >> There's an faq at > >>http://invisible-island.net/x

Re: Books for Debian.

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:11:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over a year ago I tried to install Debian, but did have the > time to play with the installation. I'm thinking of giving it > another try and was wondering if there are any current >

RE: stopping exim4 from hanging on startup with no network

2004-01-29 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I don't know if this is related or not... Sendmail used to hang on me with no network (for a min or so) until I put an entry in the hosts file to cover the domain name. Sendmail was trying to look up the mailname on the nonexisting network. Ian -Original Message- From: Micha Feigin

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:42:33AM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > If a user will open a random zip file they received in their email and run > its contents, they will certainly enter their root password when prompted > to do so. Again, it's a correctable

Re: Name resolving doesn't work

2004-01-29 Thread John Hasler
frankh writes: > I have no IP number of my ISP or his nameserver. It is allocated > dynamically. Then run pppconfig and select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameservers' screen. BTW the nameservers for terra.com.br are 200.176.2.75 and 200.176.2.110 . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: building evolution 1.4.5 (SOLVED, kinda)

2004-01-29 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:35, David Clymer wrote: > didnt send this to the list, sorry. > > -Forwarded Message- > > > From: David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: building evolution 1.4.5 > > Date: 22 Jan 2004 17:52:43 -0500 > > > > On T

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2004-01-29 Thread support
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Re: grep-available

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:26:40AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:31:44PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > What is the precise definition of "available"? > > Whatever's in your available file (/var/lib/dpkg/available). Remember to > run 'dselect update' rather than 'apt-get upd

Re: stopping exim4 from hanging on startup with no network

2004-01-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:08:05AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (29/01/04 00:32), Micha Feigin wrote: > > I have exim4 setup on a laptop, thus the network isn't always available > > when the system starts up. > > The problem is that when the network isn't found it hangs for about a > > minute b

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-30, Pigeon penned: > > Playing CDs is a special case. The audio goes direct from the CD drive > to the sound card via a dedicated cable, and /dev/dsp is not involved. > So you can play a CD, and any app that wants to use /dev/dsp will find > it unused, and you will hear both noises at on

Re: grep-available

2004-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:31:44PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > What is the precise definition of "available"? Whatever's in your available file (/var/lib/dpkg/available). Remember to run 'dselect update' rather than 'apt-get update' to keep this up to date. I believe only the latest version of each

SSL certificates

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Joyce
Can anyone comment on www.instantssl.com certs ? any problems with them ? In fact can anyone recommend cheap ssl certs ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for > xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files > named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the > whole of xfree86 in orde

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Source Package for xterm?

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the > >> > debi

Re: Name resolving doesn't work

2004-01-29 Thread frankh
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] frankh wrote: > > > > > /etc/resolv.conf > > searchdpc388.net > > nameserver192.168.1.2 > > nameserver ip-number.dns1.your-isp.com > nameserver ip-number.dns2.your-isp.com > > just add any real dns server and you're all set I have n

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Pigeon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"${if match {$header_to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" frFs ...or other similar methods, depending on what email software you're using. Hmmm, never thought of that for people who insist on sending CCs to messages on lists which e

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:09:57PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > Would be nice to have your address munged from this list, or the option. You do have the option. Add to /etc/exim/exim.conf: ## # REWRITE CONFIG

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:59:58PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-29, Kirk Strauser penned: > > 1) The old-style /dev/dsp only allows one process to use it at a > > time. You couldn't listens to MP3s and still get audio alerts from > > other programs at the same time. > > See,

Adding GTK+ engines to /usr/local

2004-01-29 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just installed the lighthouseblue GTK+ engine into /usr/local on 3.0r2. I like to keep my own from-source installations in /usr/local instead of /usr, so they won't mix with my debs. GTK+ doesn't seem to be able to find it, though. It's not coming up in my Theme Selector in GNOME. Is there a

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the >> > debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and >> > I'd

Re: Re: DHCP client unable to see external net

2004-01-29 Thread Christopher Blough
Here is an updated capture of route -n -- Kernel IP routing table DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 209.112.193.120 *255.255.255.248 U 0 00 eth0 netstat -nr results Kernel IP routing table D

Re: Exim and virtual mail hosting

2004-01-29 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 08:39, Toby Batch wrote: > OK I've had a little sucess on my own but i've hit another problem. > The previous error was due to me adding the new director to the wrong > part of the config file. > To get this directive to work it needs to be added at the _top_ of the > directiv

securing and configing exim4

2004-01-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
As a recent convert from redhat to debian... im wondering if anybody has any good resouces for securing and configing exim4 on debian (currently sarge on i386). We are evaluating debian for use as a 'corporate' mail server for 10+ users. The box is behind a firewall connected to a 2Mbit circuit an

Re: Screen fonts in X

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:27:07PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed Debian 3.0 r.0 from CD (No internet connection, I > know 3.0 is at r2). Fonts are very fuzzy. Title bars are unreadable, > text in a terminal window is, but not for very long, menus can be used > too, but ve

Screen fonts in X

2004-01-29 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, Just installed Debian 3.0 r.0 from CD (No internet connection, I know 3.0 is at r2). Fonts are very fuzzy. Title bars are unreadable, text in a terminal window is, but not for very long, menus can be used too, but very hard on the eyes. I've looked in the archives. I'm forc

Re: Grub doing strange things

2004-01-29 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Alan Chandler wrote: > > I've just switched over to grub. > > When I boot it seems to automagically include all the kernels installed > in /boot in its list after the ones I put there. > > 1) How do they get there, and can you turn them off > > 2) Why do they always fail to work (seems they are

Re: Help! New Debian install + Rocket133 = no HDDs!

2004-01-29 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:25, W. B. Maguire II wrote: > Problem: > > I tried to install Debian on this 2-HDD-Rocket133 system, and Debian > complains that it can't find any HDDs, and tells me that this better > be a disk-less NFS install, or I need to load modules to allow Debian > to "see"

Re: script to list installed packages

2004-01-29 Thread Nick Hastings
* Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040130 00:46]: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > > Careful, dpkg --get-selections doesn't always list only installed > > packages > > Try: > > > > dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | cut -f1 > > To be pedantic, this wi

Grubb & Ellis Email System Notification (Virus) NBR

2004-01-29 Thread Grubb & Ellis EMail System Notification
This notification is to inform you that content(s) in your eMail was infected by a virus. The eMail was deleted and not delivered. Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Delivery System Date/Time: Thu Jan 29 17:19:30 2004 Filter: Antivirus Filter Task: virus A vi

grep-available

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
What is the precise definition of "available"? $ grep-available dnsmasq | grep-dctrl -s Version . Version: 2.0-1 $ apt-cache show dnsmasq | grep-dctrl -s Version . Version: 2.1-1 Version: 2.0-1 FYI, 2.0-1 is what I have installed, but it will be upgraded to 2.1-1. I'm using it in this script:

Lilo config for a compactflash

2004-01-29 Thread luisa
Hello I have a problem with lilo for a compact flash I have a compach flash that will run on a system(1) as /dev/hdc. It has a patrition /dev/hdc1 with a root linux instalation. But I have to configure this flas on other machine(2) (firt one have no keyboard and can't have) thas only can detect

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
* Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 12:10:54]: > Hello Debian User, > > Q1: > I am using GNOME and Debian woody updated from unstable distro. When I > right click on the date and time (displayed at the right-top of the > GNOME) I got error: > > "Failed to locate a program for conf

Re: jigdo question

2004-01-29 Thread kegwasher
Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 29 January 2004 09:40 am, kegwasher wrote: >> just finished downloading sarge via jigdo. the first three produced >> iso images. The other 9 end with iso.temp. What do I do to make >> them into iso's > >

New Debian install + Rocket133 = no HDDs! (Please help this Debian newbie! Thanks!)

2004-01-29 Thread W. B. Maguire II
Hello all: +-+ | This post is an UPDATE to my prior post, with more information! | | This post supercedes the original one. | +-+ Pl

Re: Keeping track of new packages (again)

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:22:53PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] > > What files on my hard drive do apt-cache reference to display that > information? Perhaps if I back those up daily and later diff them. What do you think about this? grep-available . | grep-dctrl -sPackage,Version . > backup

Re: Grub doing strange things

2004-01-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Alan! On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:37:32PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just switched over to grub. When I boot it seems to automagically include all the kernels installed in /boot in its list after the ones I put there. 1) How do they get there, and can you turn them off The update-gru

Keeping track of new packages (again)

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
I asked how to rediscover what packages are "really new" after you change your sources.list and everything shows up as new in this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg05571.html Aaron Hall suggested: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ I'm using that, but I've

Re: G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:45 am, Angel wrote: > I am a newbee in the workstation /server world. > I am going to buy hardware to do biological modelling involving data > input/output, R programming (an statistical language) and a few > graphics vis

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Pigeon said: > There was a lot of gas generated about the swen worm when that hit. That > harvested email addresses off the web. Again, clueless Windows users > without > effective virus protection - only a wider base of them, ie. not just ones > subscribed to this list. > My solution is - for th

eTrust InoculateIT Lotus Notes Domino Option detected virus!

2004-01-29 Thread eTrust_InoculateIT_Lotus_Notes_Domino_Option
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Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-29, Joey Hess penned: > > A fairly large number of modern sounds cards and/or modern sound > drivers can handle mixing multiple sounds themselves. My last three > laptops have been capable of this. > Nice! Good to know. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: problem with php and mysql

2004-01-29 Thread federico silva
Hi, what are your sources? ( in /etc/apt/sources.list ) fede On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:54, Raul wrote: > Hi > > Debian stable > Updated up to 29-01-2004 > > 8<-- > zzz:/# apache-sslctl start > PHP Warning: Unable to load dynamic library > '/usr/lib/php4/200

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-29 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:01:24 + James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:05:14 + > > James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able > > > to use it on bo

Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Erich Waelde
Hello, checking the Debian Installation Guide for 'Automated Installs', it reccommends FAI (homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/), available as a debian package. I haven't used it myself, though. Good luck, Erich -

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-29, Alex Malinovich penned: > > I would suggest that if your soundcard is supported by ALSA, to use > it. I've had much better results with ALSA than I have with OSS on > all of my machines. It's a little bit more work to set it up, but well > worth it. > Unfortunately, it's not suppor

Re: ATI radeon 9200, 2.6 kernel, xfree 4.3 - but still bad performance (dri failing?)

2004-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 26 January 2004 6:34 pm, Michael Biebl wrote: an, > > i also own a radeon 9200 and had similar problems. What does lsmod show, > is the agpgart and radeon module loaded? Yes > When I switched to 2.6 these two modules were loaded in my case, but dri > didn't work also. > The trick was, th

Grub doing strange things

2004-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
I've just switched over to grub. When I boot it seems to automagically include all the kernels installed in /boot in its list after the ones I put there. 1) How do they get there, and can you turn them off 2) Why do they always fail to work (seems they are missing an initrd clause) -- Alan Cha

lilo problem!!!!!!!

2004-01-29 Thread Angel Parra
Hello I need to install lilo on a HD on a machine that see it as /dev/sdc and use it to boot linux (root=/dev/sdc1) on a machine that see it as /dev/hdc (root=/dev/hdc1). My problem is that second machine realy is not a PC, so I must create disk on a PC. Can you give me a clue??? Thank yo

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:44:37AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > >Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47 > > What X server do you use? I currently have XFree 4.3 (self-compiled) (0) root /root/dox_ COLUMNS=110 dpkg -l | grep xfree ii xfree86-common4.2.1-3.woody3X Wi

Re: ATI radeon 9200, 2.6 kernel, xfree 4.3 - but still bad performance (dri failing?)

2004-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 2:01 pm, Michael Biebl wrote: > hanasaki wrote: > > I have DRI working but check out my glxgears output! ... > > Hi Alan, > > I think we're getting closer ;-) > Did you check if the via_agp module was loaded without problems and You are confusing me with Hanasaki - I don

why me?

2004-01-29 Thread debian-devel
You say in the www. that i'm a terrorist!!! No way out for you. I REPORT YOU ! You've said THAT about me

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Long story short: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the only way > >this forum is read: Other mailing lists mirror this one, as well as > >several usenet newsgroup. Closing the list would severely limit > >debian-user's us

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > See, I thought I remembered that, but without arts or esd running, I was > able to play an mp3 on xmms while playing a cd on grip. I heard both > songs coming through the speakers. Well, I'm under the impression I had > neither running. I seem to have gstreamer-artsd i

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out (was Re: Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working)

2004-01-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
I had recently the same problem I have a very old system and I had a find & grep over / so I forgot to exclude /dev as I did with /var/log and got some grep: /dev/kmem: Bad address grep: memory exhausted grep: memory exhausted after this I looked over the log files and found the message from the

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-29 Thread James Tappin
# KDE Config File [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=k3b Icon=k3b DocPath=k3b/index.html Comment=CD writing program Comment[da]=CD-skriveprogram Comment[de]=CD-Schreibprogramm Comment[el]=Πρόγραμμα εγγραφής CD Comment[es]=Programa de escritura de CDs Comment[et]=CD kirjutamise rakendus Comment

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-29 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:49:31 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:05, James Tappin wrote: > > I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able to use it > > on both my Debian (Sid) box and my iBook (Mac OsX). > > > > I have no problems making

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-29 Thread David
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:44:37AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Though I'd ordinarily avoid subjects like this (I despise things like > swf), I actually have it working here so maybe this will help > somebody. I'm using Woody & Mozilla 0.9.7; "About Plugins" shows: >Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47

Re: script to list installed packages

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:21:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The origional idea for this was for instances of having installed > something to try it out, then removing it. If a bunch of dependencies > were pulled in, I don't remember what they are. Over time this leads to > lots of

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-29, Paul Morgan penned: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:46:48 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> >> Fine, drag my shame out into the light of day. >> >> You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the >> gnome panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to "mute," and >> c

Re: Re: DHCP client unable to see external net

2004-01-29 Thread Christopher Blough
I will get a copy of route -n information when my machine is at hand. At the moment, I'm at work, and it isn't available. IIRC, the only entry was something like this: AddressGateway 209.112.xxx.120* There was only that one entry. The IP address listed in my route add example

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:59, Monique Y. Herman wrote: --snip-- > Since you seem to actually understand all this stuff ... > > How does alsa fit into all of this? If I have working sound drivers in > the kernel, should I care about alsa at all? ALSA is a kernel-level driver for the sound device,

Re: music maker

2004-01-29 Thread Roy Pluschke
On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote: > Hi R.J.P, > > Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but > i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list > of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should > i do ne

Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Christopher Swingley
ph, * Pedro Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-Jan-29 06:00 AKST]: > I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the > same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat > between them. > > I would like to know if there is possible to, for example, install and

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-29 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:50:25AM +0100, Mike M wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:04:43AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Definition of Isolationism > >1. involvement without commitment - "advantages without obligations" > Impossible. > >2. no permanent, entanglinq alliances > Impossible. >

Returned mail

2004-01-29 Thread smtpgateway
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Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-29 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:05:14 + James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able to > use it on both my Debian (Sid) box and my iBook (Mac OsX). > The fact that a colleague has a USB keyring solid-state disk that is > readable on Mac, L

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