Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL> Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: NL> I have Google'd, and can't seem to find anything relevant. I also tried NL> removing all of the mozilla packages using dpkg -P, and reinstalling; I NL>

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 9:30:13 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: NL> Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: NL> marvin:/home/nick# dselect install NL> Reading Package Lists... Done NL> Building Dependency Tree... Done NL> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove a

Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Scott
Slaanesh wrote: Hi folks, In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to disable the caps lock mode Not any MS Windows computer I have ever used. Tell us what your special circumstances are. Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Exim

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:18:26PM +0800, Support wrote: > How to configure exim only allow server ip and 192.168.0.2 to relay ? eximconfig and let it know that you want to be a smarthost for 192.168.0.2 - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: exim - automatic signature

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:35:39AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > children ... at which point I presume you would balk. They asked for a > feature; s/feature/legally questionable bug - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `

Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:14:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:50:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:27:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > I've set up DAV before; it's inappropriate for this pa

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:48:17PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > | Kent writes: > | > I stand corrected. And surprised. I really thought they were all > | > auto-gens. > | > | I gu

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:50:39AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:47:52PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > | From experience, it seems like everyone [.

Re: udev and fb

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:10:05 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: >> > Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default >> > resolution. I know that fbset us

Re: Nvidia GeForce4 MX Monitor.

2004-03-11 Thread Dhiraj
Hello, Nvidia doesn't make monitors. The monitor is the thing that contains the CRT and looks a bit like a TV. Nvidia chips should work even with the default open source driver, but you should go to Nvidia's site and download the latest driver provided by Nvidia. Install that. As far as your

Re: clamav backport install

2004-03-11 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 11 March 2004 21:53, you hurled the following on the wire: ... ... > > For you (and others out there), I'm currently working on a web-based > > frontend (PHP) to the amavisd-new per user configuration. > > As you may or may not know, you can store per user configuration (spam > > tress

Re: clamav backport install

2004-03-11 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 11 March 2004 21:27, you hurled the following on the wire: > Joost, > Thanks for taking the time to reply. > I believe I have clam anti-virus actually working?!!? > Tho I'm a bit cautious about saying it too loudly. :-) > * > On a suggestion from Adam Web from clamav-users > Tues, March

Re: iptables script absent in Sarge?

2004-03-11 Thread H. S.
David Clymer wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:14, H. S. wrote: I've got an /etc/init.d/iptables, on my testing box. Might you just be looking for the wrong script name? Nope, I was looking for this script. I also searched for *ip* in the directory rc.S (or the one which executes script at startup)

Re: udev and fb

2004-03-11 Thread Jason A Whittle
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: > > Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default > > resolution. I know that fbset used to be used to set the framebuffer > > terminal resolution, bu

Re: /usr/bin/mail help - SOLVED

2004-03-11 Thread T. Albert
Hello s., Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 12:13:43 AM, you wrote: sk> Incoming from T. Albert: >> >> i'd like to change default mta which /usr/bin/mail use from exim to >> qmail / sendmail (from qmail package). is there any guidance how i sk> When I went from postfix to exim, the former was u

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4

PROBLEMS WITH QUAKE 3

2004-03-11 Thread Breanna Niebel
Yeah, I need you help badly. I downloaded Quake 3 from this guy's server and it's awesome, one thing, I can't quit out of it! I must have pressed the esc key ten million times it won't let me go! What the hell? Is there some way to fix that? ~BREANNA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Configure BIND9

2004-03-11 Thread Support
Dear: Drogo I have done it. Thank a lot for your kind HELP ... My DNS server is done.. Thank a lot. Best Regards, SUPPORT - Original Message - From: "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drogo Bumbleroot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:29 PM Sub

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-11 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:46:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Don't you read Slashdot? I really hope there's a smiley that's supposed to be there that I just can't see. Why would anyone *ever* consider SlashCrap any sort of news source worth paying attention to? It's an em

Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread Number Six
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:00:56PM +1100, Colin Bell wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: N. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 12 March 2004 15:46 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Caps lock problem > > > > > > * Slaanesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-12 00:00:

RE: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread Colin Bell
> -Original Message- > From: N. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 12 March 2004 15:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Caps lock problem > > > * Slaanesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-12 00:00:31 +0100]: > > In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:46:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Don't you read Slashdot? I really hope there's a smiley that's supposed to be there that I just can't see. Why would anyone *ever* consider SlashCrap any sort of news source worth paying attention to? It's an embarassment to the FOSS c

Re: fake [#3106242]

2004-03-11 Thread service . clients
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Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread N. Thomas
* Slaanesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-12 00:00:31 +0100]: > In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to > disable the caps lock mode I'm writing this on a Windows 2000 box, and I have to hit caps lock again to disable it. What version of Windows has this functionality? Thoma

Re: Configure BIND9

2004-03-11 Thread Support
Thank for your reply. I have tested with ; zone "khimmaki.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.khimmaki"; }; and zone "khimmaki.net" { type master; file "db.khimmaki"; }; but it was the same .. any idea .. Thnak for your HELP Best Regards, Support

Net Install of Debian testing on AcerNote Nuovo computer (with failed CDROM)

2004-03-11 Thread Trevor de Stigter
Help!!!   I am trying to perform a net install of the testing system on an AcerNote Nuovo laptop which I aim to use as a server.  I have downloaded the image files and duly copied the boot, root, and Net driver floppies, but the system refuses to access my network card, I have had this probl

RE: Configure BIND9

2004-03-11 Thread Drogo Bumbleroot
I see one thing wrong here. You've told your machine via named.conf that the zone file for khimmaki.net is db.khimmaki.net However in your /etc/bind directory, you've called your file db.khimmaki This does not answer your rndc.key question... -Original Message- From: Support [mailto:

webmin-samba configuration problem

2004-03-11 Thread n n
We have created a user account remotely using Webmin, but it doesn't appear to be creating a Samba account automatically on the remote machine. The following error occurs: -- Error   Failed to save user : samba::useradmin_create_ser failed : Undefined subroutine &samba::get_share called at /usr

Nvidia GeForce4 MX Monitor.

2004-03-11 Thread Shivakumar Patil
Hi All, I am using the above monitor and created the XF86 config file using the xf86config tool. But it is still not able to start the X windows. The o/p dispplays the different chipsets available in Nvidia. I am using 2.2.20-idepci stable kernel. Just wanted to know what I am doing wrong

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives.

Net Install of Debian testing on AcerNote Nuovo computer (with failed CDROM)

2004-03-11 Thread Trevor de Stigter
Help!!!   I am trying to perform a net install of the testing system on an AcerNote Nuovo laptop which I aim to use as a server.  I have downloaded the image files and duly copied the boot, root, and Net driver floppies, but the system refuses to access my network card, I have had this prob

Re: Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2004-03-11 Thread Lucas J Barbuto
Hi, Thanks Brad for your reply, I guess it was a pretty obvious test to try a different DE. Anyway, I'm using Enlightenment for the time being and I've not had any problems with Xlib so far. I guess it's a GNOME thing at least in part? I'll try GNOME again when 2.6 is out I suppose. Regards,

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or rem

Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)

2004-03-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Katipo wrote: > >> Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >>> >>> 2. what happened to the "Debian" folder inside every kde submenu? it's >>> lost >>> since the upgrade... >>> > Try:- '$update-menus' tried that. just to make sure I'm clear: I have the main "Debian" menu. what I'm missing is the "Debian" menu in

Re: Mouse lost, solved. Was (Re: udev questions (and answers))

2004-03-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I answer myself: > > The line in /etc/X11/XF86Config that refers to the mouse must be > changed to: > > Option "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux" Or you can change the /etc/udev/udev.rules files to have mouse be created as /dev/psaux. Actually, you a

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0

Re: iptables script absent in Sarge?

2004-03-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was setting up my home network on Debian and noticed that there is > not /etc/init.d/rc.iptables or some similar script (that used to there > when I had installed Woody and dist-upgraded to Sarge a few months > ago). I don't think the package maintainer th

Re: spamassassin ?

2004-03-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I too like SpamProbe but that word file can get big. 278MB on my > primary platform. OK. Sure, pairs of words will give you better precision, and square the size of your database. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)

2004-03-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Daniel Teichert wrote: > And I heard Haim Ashkenazi exclaim: >> 1. my nvidia drivers take a very long time to load (about 30 seconds), >> and every time I switch from X to console and back it takes about 15 >> seconds to load. I thought it was a memory/CPU issue but running top >> didn't show heav

exim4 doesn't connect to smarthost

2004-03-11 Thread Micha Feigin
For some reason my exim configuration stoped sending mail to the smarthost. I haven't changed anything in the configuration files manually but it is unstable regularly updated so it could be a result of an update, although it has been a few days now that I am having problems. I am recieving mai

coda vs. nfs on home lan?

2004-03-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm prepping for my next little home project, wherein something like NFS is used for the obvious reasons (accessing /home on alternate machines). I have no clue whether NFS or CODA (or AFS) is a best choice for this, though. As well as I have seen via Googling and searching this list (over the pa

Configure BIND9

2004-03-11 Thread Support
Dear: Debian Users I have done install Bind9 with dselect. I need to create my own DNS Server locally. I use before redhat as my DNS server. Now I am convert to Debian Bind9. What is rndc.key for ? The problem is I can't create a record into my Bind9. Below is my file in my /etc/bind/ smtp:/etc/

Re: Exim spool file is locked

2004-03-11 Thread S.D.A.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:57:40AM +0800 or thereabouts, Support wrote: > 2004-03-12 09:53:01 1B1bpq-rr-00 Spool file is locked (another process > is handling this message) > 2004-03-12 09:53:01 End queue run: pid=3347 > > Hi! Debian Users. > > I am try to send an 3.0MB attachment email to my

Exim spool file is locked

2004-03-11 Thread Support
2004-03-12 09:53:01 1B1bpq-rr-00 Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2004-03-12 09:53:01 End queue run: pid=3347 Hi! Debian Users. I am try to send an 3.0MB attachment email to my Exim SMTP Server. But there was an error apear. Above is my exim log error message.

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Richard Hoskins
David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Turing test (Alan Turing) is, simply put, a test to see if one > can pick the the machine from among several human conversationalists > in a blind encounter (Conversing via IM or a chat room). Was Turing on AIM or ICQ? -- Lift me down, so I can mak

Re: kernel-image-2.6.3-1 (testing)

2004-03-11 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 11:00, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > Hi > > I have installed the Testing kernel package (kernel-image-2.6.3-1). With > this kernel, XFree86 is unable to find a core pointer (my PS/2 mouse). I > suspect this is because there isn't a handler associated for the mouse > device i

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:48, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > | Kent writes: > | > I stand corrected. And surprised. I really thought they were all > | > auto-gens. > | > | I guess they passed the inverse Turing test. > > What is the in

Re: OT: behaviour (was: Re: ps - complete username)

2004-03-11 Thread S.D.A.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:46:51PM -0700 or thereabouts, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:02:06AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > Hallo, > > although I'm not involved, I was mentally going over the idea of writing back, > > I would like to share some thoughts. > > > > > One last

Re: downgrade Sid --> sarge or woody

2004-03-11 Thread Kevin Bailey
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Just reinstall the machine, that's the safest procedure. I didn't find it that difficult. Create /etc/apt/preferences and put this in it: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 and of course change (or add ?) sou

Re: OT - ignore - Re: ps - complete username

2004-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > > OK, it was'nt clear that I studied the ps manpage before asking. > Even when it's not usual, I do so in most of the cases, before I'd ask. And I'm sorry I sniped at you. Perhaps it could have been handled better; sorry for that. I try to assume the best in people.

Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:00:31AM +0100, Slaanesh wrote: > Hi folks, > > In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to disable > the caps lock mode whereas in the Unix world, and indeed under Debian > GNU/Linux, one has to hit caps lock key again. > I would like to know if som

Re: Gnome Desktop Configuration

2004-03-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Thomas G wrote: Application "gnome-background-properties" (process 11384) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Aborted) I've tried reinstalling gdm and gnome. It seems I have come up with nothing. Is there a way to fix this problem so I can get my desktop manager to work? Thanks Thomas I had som

Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread Richard Hoskins
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slaanesh writes: >> In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to >> disable the caps lock mode... > > ?? That's _bizarre_. That's the way typewriters work. Also IIRC, (at least on Selectrics), it was called "Shift Lock", and did the

Can't connect to windows box from Debian, can from Red Hat

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Stein
This is a really bizarre situation. I have not been able to send mail to a specific Windows mail server at cw2.coreweb.com from a Postfix server on Debian. I cannot telnet to port 25 on the Windows machine from any Debian box that I have. I can telnet to the machine from Red Hat and Windows mach

Re: Cron-ing apt-get update

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:20:20 +0100, David Baron wrote: > Tried to do this, using webmin. Set it up a root at midnight each day. Anacron > is run daily. > > Has not executed. The only cronjobs that are anacron'ed by default are the ones that are run in the /etc/cron.monthly, /etc/cron.daily, and

Re: udev, scanner and memory stick

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse > when I started looking around and placed "misc" between /dev and > /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner > could possibly be. Anot

Re: udev and fb

2004-03-11 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: > I've been avoiding using framebuffer for the terminals since fb support > was mainstreamed into the i386 kernel, and simply setting the term > resolution in lilo.conf. It seems that framebuffers are the way of the > future, and may ev

installing packages with dpkg as not-root

2004-03-11 Thread Number Six
Over on debian-devel, [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg00624.html], a thread got started about running "dpkg --force-not-root --root=`pwd`. I asked the diff. between that and just extracting it, and was told it would "update *a* (not *the*) package database). So

apache problem

2004-03-11 Thread Dustin Whitney
Hello, I can't get the PATH_INFO environment variable to show up in Apache with any of my cgi scripts. I installed a very barebones woody and then put myself on the testing tree and upgraded. Then I installed Apache. I haven't been able to get PATH_INFO to show up in plain old apache, apach

Re: iptables script absent in Sarge?

2004-03-11 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:14, H. S. wrote: > (this is a retry, my earlier post seems not have made it to the list) > > I installed Sarge using the new installer (the new install is a *much > much* better version now:) > > I was setting up my home network on Debian and noticed that there is > no

Gnome Desktop Configuration

2004-03-11 Thread Thomas G
Application "gnome-background-properties" (process 11384) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Aborted) I've tried reinstalling gdm and gnome. It seems I have come up with nothing. Is there a way to fix this problem so I can get my desktop manager to work? Thanks Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

ide-scsi module not found while installing debian testing

2004-03-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I installed debian before, but never encountered this problem before. I am hoping there is some simple solution to this. I downloaded the beta installer from debian website. During installation I am getting this error Linux kernel modules needed to drive some of your hardware are not available

OT - ignore - Re: ps - complete username

2004-03-11 Thread VEGH Karoly
OK, sorry, for being OT. OK, it was'nt clear that I studied the ps manpage before asking. Even when it's not usual, I do so in most of the cases, before I'd ask. I read this list for around two years now, asking and helping people. Came here because somewhere I read 'debian-user is sooo friendly

Re: OT: behaviour (was: Re: ps - complete username)

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:02:06AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Hallo, > although I'm not involved, I was mentally going over the idea of writing back, > I would like to share some thoughts. > One last time, You're not forced to answer any posting, if You do and You can > help (or even get

Re: Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread John Hasler
Slaanesh writes: > In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to disable > the caps lock mode... ?? That's _bizarre_. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

OT: behaviour (was: Re: ps - complete username)

2004-03-11 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Hallo, although I'm not involved, I was mentally going over the idea of writing back, I would like to share some thoughts. >Instead of thinking of it as hostile (I didn't see it that way), think >of it as a pointer in the right direction. I.e. the info *is* in the man >page, read carefully. Yes,

Installation with 2.6 kernel and serial console?

2004-03-11 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, I am looking for a debian install CD that will boot kernel 2.6.x in the installation process and also install 2.6.x during the installation. If the installation could additionally be done via a serial console, I'd be eternally grateful! I have looked at the beta installers for sarge but I

Caps lock problem

2004-03-11 Thread Slaanesh
Hi folks, In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to disable the caps lock mode whereas in the Unix world, and indeed under Debian GNU/Linux, one has to hit caps lock key again. I would like to know if someone could tell me how to configure my keyboard to act the Microsoft

Re: sound card

2004-03-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:49:38AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Wayne Sitton wrote: > >I'm looking to buy a high end sound card to do alot of audio editing and > >such. The Creative SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro seems to have everything > >I want. I googled to see if there was any mention of wheather or n

Re: More on installation

2004-03-11 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:21:39AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thanks for the info on installation. I may not need to download > any stuff. I have been passed a 'debian-30r1-i386-binary-1' > cd-rom with 600+ MB of content. > > I start-off installation with a rescue.bin floppy, th

Re: LAN down after installing kernel 2.4.24-1-k7

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thanks, Andreas, it's working now. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day you will live to be 150, unless your wife shoots you first." -- Dr. Ferenc Androci -- (Winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mga_vid driver - any news? (Newbie)

2004-03-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:59 +0100, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > Now I'm starting with Debian Sid / 2.6.3. I can watch videos with xine, > but I'm convinced the quality can be better. It looks there is no > mga_vid.ko or something... Will there be one in the future? I think you need to ask the Matr

Amavisd-new+Exim3 trouble

2004-03-11 Thread Martin
Hello, i have problem with Amavisd-new (uses Spamassassin 2.63 and ClamAV 0.67) in only positive spam scenario... the mail is correctly quarantined but Exim generates an following error response to the spam sender: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A mess

Re: Pentium 100Mhz New User

2004-03-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:09:58AM +, Tomy Alarie wrote: > I have a serial mouse type > Com-2 or serial. I just want to know which selection im supposed to choose > in the xfree86 configuration generated by debconf ? > On my Pentium 133 MHz, my cheap 3-key serial mouse (hardware type = "Mo

Re: udev and fb

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:21:17PM +, Jason A Whittle wrote: | but it seems that with udev, the /dev/fb[0-9] devices | no longer exist. Is there a way to get around this, or does everyone | simply use xterms these days? My solution was to add this line to /etc/udev/links.conf : M fb0

Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Goran Christiansson: > More Information: > The shell script files have executable permission, and the good one actually > gets run, but it does not do what I want. > > I put in a "touch test.hourly" just to see that the script is run, and the > file is created. > > #!/bin/bash > ncf

Re: Retroactive apt labelling?

2004-03-11 Thread Jason A Whittle
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:46:22PM +, Alexis Huxley wrote: > > Is it possible to retroactively label debs as having been automatically > > installed by apt? I'd like to be able to install package dependencies > > What are you using to install debs that *isn't* keeping track of > dependencie

DVD Case & CD Sleeve Prices (Updated)

2004-03-11 Thread Danny Vidal
We've updated our prices! Here is just a sample: Black DVD Cases --- $0.1952 Each for 25 DVD Cases $0.1171 Each for 10,000 DVD Cases White Paper CD Sleeves with 4" Window and Flap --

Re: Mouse lost, solved. Was (Re: udev questions (and answers))

2004-03-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:35:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:27:11PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > | On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:57:58PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > | > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:01:46PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > | > > Thanks to

udev and fb

2004-03-11 Thread Jason A Whittle
I've been avoiding using framebuffer for the terminals since fb support was mainstreamed into the i386 kernel, and simply setting the term resolution in lilo.conf. It seems that framebuffers are the way of the future, and may even be The Right Thing, so when I recently installed sarge on new ha

Re: Newbie: cron.hourly problem

2004-03-11 Thread Goran Christiansson
More Information: The shell script files have executable permission, and the good one actually gets run, but it does not do what I want. I put in a "touch test.hourly" just to see that the script is run, and the file is created. Here is the shell script that I would like to have run once an hour.

Re: sound card

2004-03-11 Thread supermann
Wayne Sitton wrote: I'm looking to buy a high end sound card to do alot of audio editing and such. The Creative SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro seems to have everything I want. I googled to see if there was any mention of wheather or not it will work under linux. If anybody know if this will success

Re: problem with apt-get and 2.4.18 kernel upgrade

2004-03-11 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:08:33AM -0800, Billy Pilgrim wrote: > > vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac > > Package: kernel-patch-2.4.18-powerpc I gave you the wrong advice. I Think you don't use the kernel-patch package unless you compile a Kernel yourself. The 2.4.18 version doesn't say much, s

Re: 2 problems after sid update (nvidia and kde menus)

2004-03-11 Thread Katipo
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: 2. what happened to the "Debian" folder inside every kde submenu? it's lost since the upgrade... Try:- '$update-menus' Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-cacher (was: Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections)

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-11, Lucas Albers penned: > setup a local apt-cacher repository. This drastically speeds up > downloads, as it only gets new package lists once per day (per > configuration). It saves all previously downloaded apt files to the > cache. This is good because: Downloads are a lot faster.

Re: exim - automatic signature

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-11, Antony Gelberg penned: > > I don't think that what they want to do is a good idea. However, they > are paying me good money and having tried to dissuade them from doing > this, they are certain that they want to go ahead. > fwiw, I support you in this. While what they want to do i

Re: ps - complete username

2004-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kent West: > s. keeling wrote: > > >Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > > > >>s. keeling wrote: > >> > >>>Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > >>> > pls CC: me, I'm currently offlist. > >>> > >>>Check the archives then. > >> > >>wow, friendly. > > > >?!? [snip rant] Augh! Here I am wasting t

Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Hallo, > >Is there any way to reinstall the root user?? > well basically, that's the problem, lfs users have to deal with during > install. I think (but You might get more acurate descriptions from > http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

[OT] robots.txt creation script?

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I've recently developed an interest in preventing spiders from accessing certain areas of my site ... but as near as I can tell, robots.txt is pretty stupid. It only lets you *disallow*, whereas it would be a lot more sensible for me to specify what I want to *allow*. I was thinking I mi

What happens if one of the source.list are no longer found.?

2004-03-11 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I use testing as my standard distribution. I got xserver-xfree86 4.3 from backports some time back (stable/pre/xfree86) and this directory is no longer available in backports. I suspect this leaves many dependencies hung in apt. It does not want to upgrade xterm xbase-clients etc and man

Re: ps - complete username

2004-03-11 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:40:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > >Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > > > > > >>s. keeling wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Incoming from VEGH Karoly: > >>> > >>> > pls CC: me, I'm currently offlist. > > > >>>Check the archives the

mga_vid driver - any news? (Newbie)

2004-03-11 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hello, Do you know where I can find up-to-date info concerning the mga_vid driver, or what is supposed to replace it? I used to have it last year (mga_vid.o) on my GNU/Linux system, a Slackware 8.1 / 2.4.18 and it allowed me to watch videos with very good quality using MPlayer. Now I'm starti

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Number Six
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:47:52PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > | From experience, it seems like everyone [...] emailing from aol.com > | has an IQ low enough that bricks are insulted by the comparison. > > I won't tell my

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: | Kent writes: | > I stand corrected. And surprised. I really thought they were all | > auto-gens. | | I guess they passed the inverse Turing test. What is the inverse Turing test? -D -- A)bort, R)etry, B)ang it with a large hammer

Re: Curious about AOL users and this list

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:48:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | From experience, it seems like everyone [...] emailing from aol.com | has an IQ low enough that bricks are insulted by the comparison. I won't tell my girlfriend or her parents you said that. They use AOL solely because it is the ch

Re: Checking Exim4 for being open relay server?

2004-03-11 Thread Mark C
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 19:08, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not sure if this will help you, but do a "man exim" and check out the -bh > option > damn, I even read the man pages, oh well must get some glasses :) Cheers to both of you, will give it a go. Mark -- Microsoft's version of 'integrati

Re: Maintain usb-storage device entries

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:18:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: | On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:27, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:50:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: | > | Is there any way to make usb-storage maintain device names? | > | > udev. | > | > http://www.kern

Re: What is the minimum RAM needed for 2.4?

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:19:41AM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: | I haven't seen a minimum, but I was wondering since there are a | couple of 133's here with 32meg of ram that I want to update. I used to have a machine with 8MB RAM running with a 2.4 kernel. It thrashed a lot (well, -anything-

Re: Mouse lost, solved. Was (Re: udev questions (and answers))

2004-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:27:11PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:57:58PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:01:46PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: | > > Thanks to Derrick 'dman' Hudson, I'm now the proud admin of a | > > udev-enabled machine

Re: Checking Exim4 for being open relay server?

2004-03-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:45:08PM +, Mark C wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just migrating from a redhat 7.2 sendmail server to a debian woody > Exim 4 server, at the moment the server is on a restricted internal ip > range, so it's not open to the wild yet, > Can anyone tell me of the best way to chec

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