Re: anyone using ssh-3.2.9.1 non-commercial with unstable?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:01:47PM -0400, Alan Ezust wrote: > I have the non-commercial version of ssh-3.2.9.1 which I compile from > source on every machine I use, because it happens to be used by the > server at Suffolk (our sysadmin there likes it). > > Here's what happened. Before, I would run

Re: Sound problem: ALSA + emu10k not working

2004-04-25 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 03:17, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:57:59 -0300 > Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using Debian sid for a while and after an apt-get dist-upgrade 1 day > > ago the sound is gone. My soundcard is Creative Audigy

Re: First Debian install was a fiasco

2004-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I like the stability and security of the stable branch, but would like > more frequent updates for certain packages (on a workstation, at > least). http://www.backports.org/ http://www.apt-get.org/ What more do you need? > I used the new installer (beta) to in

One more font question

2004-04-25 Thread user list
And another thing. When gv or ggv display some postscript files (probably bitmap images) they look like shit. On my box at work, they look just fine. Any suggestions? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fonts in xemacs

2004-04-25 Thread user list
I just built a testing box that is using the 2.6.4 kernel, a matrox g200 graphics card with framebuffer compiled into the kernel. I am now working on font problems. 1. In xemacs, I can get a very nice looking font for the actual editing. However, the menu bar (where things like file, edit, etc. sh

Re: "less than greater than keys"

2004-04-25 Thread Bytor the Destroyer
> I assume you mean, it works in a terminal; and when you start X, > it wouldn't !? Yes this is correct. This is what I have in my XFConfig-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option

Re: Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-25 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:32:55AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > OK, so far, I have gotten: > > In syslog: > Unsuccessful attempts by cron runs to send to "anonymous.my_domain.my_domain" > Successful attampts by cron runs to send to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"--however, I do > not know to where the message

Re: SSH display problem

2004-04-25 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:54, Matthijs wrote: > This may not be Debian related - other than that the system I'm > accessing is installed with Debian Linux - so if anybody has a better > suggestion for a newsgroup to post this to, let me know... > > I've got a server here running sshd. I can access

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer??

2004-04-25 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:26, alex wrote: > There's this computer that has integrated video and integrated sound and > no modem except for an optional PCI modem. It comes with SUSE > preinstalled. Does this sound like it should work well with Debian > without a lot of makedo reconfiguration? >

Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

2004-04-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-25 19:47:49 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > I run this on my home computer, where I've switched to unstable > immediately after installing Woody. So I guess there aren't security > updates for me anyway since unstable is not supported by the security > team (but please correct me if I'm

Re: wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, John Hasler wrote: > Deboo writes: > > How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to > > it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? > > Put a script containing a call to wget in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. > > > How to set aptitude to download and install pack

anyone using ssh-3.2.9.1 non-commercial with unstable?

2004-04-25 Thread Alan Ezust
I have the non-commercial version of ssh-3.2.9.1 which I compile from source on every machine I use, because it happens to be used by the server at Suffolk (our sysadmin there likes it). Here's what happened. Before, I would run ssh-add from a konsole shell, and it would ask for a passphrase fr

Instaling debian sarge, diskfull !! (¿bug?)

2004-04-25 Thread Mario Abajo
Installing the debian sarge (with debian installer beta 3, 100mb cd) it doesn't warning you if you select more packages to install than your hard disk can storage. Yesterday i began the installation with almost no error, when i came to tasksell part i begin selecting almost everything for a des

Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

2004-04-25 Thread Andrei Badea
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-04-23 20:39:27 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: I tried to change /etc/apt/preferences to this (one single rule): Package: * Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org Pin-Priority: 999 in order to increase the priority, just to see what would happen. Unfortunately nothing, on apt-c

Re: Backup Strategies for linux?

2004-04-25 Thread Tom Vier
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 03:21:02AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > i say keep it simple ... use find and tar gnu tar does incremental backups. use -g (and -M for multiple tapes). -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Backup Strategies for linux?

2004-04-25 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 20:12, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > (Recently) there was a discussion about it. `mondoarchive´ and cdbackup > or similar were suggested. apt-cache search backup will give you a > bunch of options. I used mondoarchive to do a complete backup to cd of my system. Seemed to work

Re: Hosting virtual mail domains on Debian.

2004-04-25 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 04-04-23 13:34 -0600, David Anselmi wrote: > David Anselmi wrote: > >I'd really like to be able to host virtual mail domains on a Sarge server. > [...] > Ok, no takers on that question. Anyone have any ideas where else I > should ask? Just go straight to the developers' lists? Hi David, I'v

SSH display problem

2004-04-25 Thread Matthijs
This may not be Debian related - other than that the system I'm accessing is installed with Debian Linux - so if anybody has a better suggestion for a newsgroup to post this to, let me know... I've got a server here running sshd. I can access it from my Windows PC using PuTTY - no problem at all w

Re: iptables firewall and MSN messanger

2004-04-25 Thread ZgSTar
Hi, did you get it working? i'm still going crazy about it. Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for a private mail.   Ziggy

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > PS: I never understood why is bootlogd turned of by default. In case > some big guru is reading this, I would be grateful for a pointer to an > explanation. :) Gurus become gurus by reading. :) See the sysvinit changelog. sysvi

Re: First Debian install was a fiasco

2004-04-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 17:02:09 +0200, Tim wrote: > I'm new to Debian and have some questions. > I didn't know how to find out which version of a package was in which > branch. I still don't know how to do it, "apt-cache policy " > but I decided to be brave and install KDE 3.2.x, so I went "apt

Re: "less than greater than keys"

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:23:22 +0200, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: > I am having a problem wiht the less than and greater than key on my > keyboard. > It is not working. It works in text mode Could you take a decision, please ? I assume you mean, it works in a terminal; and when you start X, it woul

colorscheme for vim in console

2004-04-25 Thread Roman Joost
I'm looking for a colorscheme for my xterm+vim combination which has not the same contrast as black background and white foreground fonts. I tried some colorschemes, but they only work well with gvim. After googling a bit around, I tried to set my xterm with other colors, but this breaks the color

Re: update-grub hangs

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:40:34 +0200, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to install a low-latency kernel and managed to get through > the whole process, but when I ran update-grub, it finds my old kernels > but not the new one. To me looks more your / a kernel problem than a grub-problem. Rebo

"less than greater than keys"

2004-04-25 Thread Bytor the Destroyer
I am having a problem wiht the less than and greater than key on my keyboard. It is not working. It works in text mode and I followed the advice from an earlier reply to my problem and tested it in blackbox to rule out gnome. It did not work in bloackbox either. As I have said in my earlier pos

Abiword & Fonts

2004-04-25 Thread Vittorio
I have two debian testing boxes where -both under kde- run abiword (all installed via apt-get). Now it happens that - using abiword - in one box I can use many more fonts than in the other. As an example in one box I can select "Caligula", and "Dragonwick", fonts which are missing in the other.

gaim-vv

2004-04-25 Thread H. S.
Good thing Gaim with Voice and Video (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-vv/ has been start) has been started. Another one of the last reasons removed to boot in Windows to let someone in the house chat with a webcam :) A deb is not available yet though. ->HS -- (Remove all underscores,_if

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:48:54 +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > actually xcdroast works quite nicely, in 2.6 with hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrom > and no ide-scsi anywhere in sight You *think* so; or it *does* ?? Then tell us your secret. I tried ... root=/dev/hda5 hdb=cdrom and re-detected the drive, etc.,

Re: ping shell script

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:10:06 +0200, Deboo wrote: >How to make a script which would ping the server every few minutes to >check if it's up or down and also log this status as well as time >of pinging and any error messages. Doing something similar, I'd recommend a cronjob ('every few m

First Debian install was a fiasco

2004-04-25 Thread Tim
Hi, I'm new to Debian and have some questions. I like the stability and security of the stable branch, but would like more frequent updates for certain packages (on a workstation, at least). I used the new installer (beta) to install a stable base version. I installed no extra packages at that

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-25 Thread Katipo
Jules Dubois wrote: I still have this question: If I can find some combination of installable or upgradable packages which removes a "broken" condition, can I just go ahead and install them? (I must have a reliable system for the next three weeks or so and then I can break it.) I think the im

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:03:23PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: ... > You might not have let mutt know what your email addresses are: > > set alternates="\^(\ > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])\ > |([EMAIL PROTECTED]))" > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#index_format > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/m

Re: Exim4 Config

2004-04-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:49:22AM +0100, David Cannings wrote: > On Sunday 25 April 2004 04:06, Paul Johnson wrote: > > David Cannings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would it be best to write my own, simpler /etc/init.d/exim4? > > No, just edit /etc/exim4/conf.d instead, it's way simpler. > >

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

2004-04-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 15:22:31 +0200, Jeremie.Viel wrote: >Is she "compatible" with Ipv6 protocole Not in a meaningful way, no. At http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-stable you can read about Debian's release process. 3.0r1 is a point release of the curren

update-grub hangs

2004-04-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to install a low-latency kernel and managed to get through the whole process, but when I ran update-grub, it finds my old kernels but not the new one. I added the new one by hand, copying the portion of menu.lst that specifies a kernel, changing the name, and copying the entire kern

Dodgy "uname -r" and upgrading libc

2004-04-25 Thread Piglet
I have been having problems upgrading libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11 to libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12. The pre-installation script returns the error: WARNING: Your kernel version indicates a revision number of 255 or greater. Glibc has a number of built in assumptions that this revision number is less than 255.

apt-proxy not working for security updates

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Patterson
I've got apt-proxy set up and working fine for the main debian stable and testting archives, but it doesn't work for security updates. I have the security backend in apt-proxy configured as follows add_backend /security/ \ $APT_PROXY_CACHE/security/

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Hans
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong nameservers were my fir

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Patterson
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Sorry for the incoherence. I will have to read what I write before sending it. Let me be more explicit: For inbox folder (incoming mail): 'From' field is good, I want to know who sends it. For sent folder (outgoing copied mail) 'To' field is good, I want the name of the pe

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:03:23PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: > Hey, > > > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > > > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have > > >

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Rex! On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:03:23PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: > > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > > > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have > >

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Rex Chan
Hey, > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have > > showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously

Re: pocket knoppix?

2004-04-25 Thread Kent West
Deboo wrote: Where to find pocket knoppix? I read it on the knoppix forum and one guy was making a knoppix mini CD for his personal use. Can I get more info on this or can I have the iso image of this pocket knoppix anywhere? I couldn't find any such distro or one which I could download.

Re: wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)

2004-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Deboo writes: > How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to > it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? Put a script containing a call to wget in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. > How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously > given, at start of a ppp

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Kent West
Hans wrote: Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong nameservers were my first thought, but they are dynamic, not static

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Antonio! > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:10:53AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the

CORRECTION: Re: Intel 845 in XFree4.3.0.1

2004-04-25 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I had similar problems on my Dell GX270. Turns out that the A06 version of the BIOS is broken, and once I downgraded to A03 all was well. Should've been "Turns out that the A03 version . . . A01 all was well." -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Debian on a SUSE computer??

2004-04-25 Thread alex
There's this computer that has integrated video and integrated sound and no modem except for an optional PCI modem. It comes with SUSE preinstalled. Does this sound like it should work well with Debian without a lot of makedo reconfiguration? http://www.microtelinc.com/BTO/Page/pgBTO.aspx?cat

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Antonio! On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:10:53AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have >

Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

2004-04-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously the 'From:' field ten

Re: Why fonts available with X and not with KDE/GNOME ?

2004-04-25 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Le mardi 20 Avril 2004 01:38, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Hervé Piedvache wrote: > > Le dimanche 18 Avril 2004 03:02, Hervé Piedvache a écrit : > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a trouble with fonts ... I can see some fonts under X ... with > >>xfontsel for example ... or with this command : > >> > >>$ xlsfon

Re: My sound works perfectly - am I the only one? :)

2004-04-25 Thread welly hartanto
--- Brian Saghy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps its because you're using OSS that you have > it working. For > those of us who are using Sid or some kernel 2.6, > alsa's really the only > way to go, and its not fully mature yet, in my > opinion. I'm running sid too with 2.6.5, but sound see

Re: Backup Strategies for linux?

2004-04-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Deboo wrote: >What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I >have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something >semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), >kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not sat

Re: Backup Strategies for linux?

2004-04-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:14:38PM +0530, Deboo wrote: >What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I >have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something >semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), >kbackup, floppybackup, and few ot

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 25 April 2004 11:09, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] > I know of three ways to edit PS/PDF files. The first requires running > a PS file through pstoedit, which can convert it to several editable > formats (such as xfig or svg). I had dismissed this rather hastily - partly because I know n

Re: pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: > Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in > with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or > any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong > nameservers were my first thought, bu

pocket knoppix?

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
Where to find pocket knoppix? I read it on the knoppix forum and one guy was making a knoppix mini CD for his personal use. Can I get more info on this or can I have the iso image of this pocket knoppix anywhere? I couldn't find any such distro or one which I could download. I tried

ping shell script

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
How to make a script which would ping the server every few minutes to check if it's up or down and also log this status as well as time of pinging and any error messages. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

pon okay, browsers not.

2004-04-25 Thread Hans
Interesting problem, which I have never encountered. I set up my dial-in with pppconfig, run pon and I connect to my ISP fine. Mozilla, lynx or any other browser can't connect to anything on the net, however. Wrong nameservers were my first thought, but they are dynamic, not static. Any hints o

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does dmesg holds the complete log of the bootup messages? If not, is > there any way for me to retrieve and view the complete log of the > bootup messages? There is daemon called bootlogd which creates a bootlog-file named /var/log/boot. The bootlogd is part of the pac

Re: Exim4 Config

2004-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
David Cannings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 25 April 2004 04:06, Paul Johnson wrote: >> David Cannings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Would it be best to write my own, simpler /etc/init.d/exim4? >> No, just edit /etc/exim4/conf.d instead, it's way simpler. > > So many folders, so many

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-25 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:00, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:30:05 +0200, Mike Chandler wrote: > > > I give up. What is wrong with k3b? > > Everything. Especially the 'k'. Because it means you run KDE. Look at the > dependencies ! > That is one of the great things of xcdroast: You can

Re: *** VIRUS ALERT *** its me

2004-04-25 Thread webmaster
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Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

2004-04-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-23 20:39:27 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > I tried to change /etc/apt/preferences to this (one single rule): > > Package: * > Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org > Pin-Priority: 999 > > in order to increase the priority, just to see what would happen. > Unfortunately nothing, on apt-cache pol

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

2004-04-25 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:38:34AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: } On Sunday 25 April 2004 08:56, Kevin Mark wrote: } > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: } > > On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:07, David Purton wrote: } > > > Hi, } > > > } > > > Does anybody know of a tool to

Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:46, Deboo wrote: >I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now >using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it >hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being >news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists an

Larger console fonts

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
How to get bigger console fonts? I've compiled the kernel with all console fonts available including the SUN8x12 and other one. It's too big for a 15 inch screen. Though it sure is nice for the eyes. Isn't there any other console font smaller than this SUN font and bigger than the n

aptitude's rude behaviour with postfix

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
I've installed postfix, but whenever I run aptitude upgrade or install anythign using the interactive aptitude interface, aptitude removes postfix and installs exim. Instead of delting exim, what else can I do to stop this behaviour of aptitude? I always have to press _ on exim and

Re: new net install works, but sound is LOUD

2004-04-25 Thread stephen parkinson
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Just got my friends new computer working, using the net install. Everything is working as advertised, except that the sound in KDE is very LOUD. Before I left last night, I used aumix to mute, adjust, just plain abuse the sounds system. No affect It had no affect on xmms, n

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:07, Jules Dubois wrote: [...] > I still have this question: > > If I can find some combination of installable or upgradable packages > which removes a "broken" condition, can I just go ahead and install > them? (I must have a reliable system for the next three weeks or s

Re: Exim4 Config

2004-04-25 Thread David Cannings
On Sunday 25 April 2004 04:06, Paul Johnson wrote: > David Cannings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Would it be best to write my own, simpler /etc/init.d/exim4? > No, just edit /etc/exim4/conf.d instead, it's way simpler. So many folders, so many files! I quite like the monolithic configuration

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-25 Thread stephen parkinson
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 07:49:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I do understand that we don't want scsi-emulation any longer. So far so good. Whatwhatwhat? This changed? I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and didn't lose my burner..

ifconfig eth0:1 up, says - Cannot assign requested address

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
I am not able to set up ip aliasing on eth0. Here's my eth0 configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:2C:0F:87 inet addr:172.16.16.22 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1

offline email

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
How to send offline email? I don't think there is any option to store more than one email offline under mutt, pine or any other console mail-reader. If there is such a mail-reader, plese let me know. I mean how to set postfix/exim4 so that it accepts email and stores them and as soon

Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 25 April 2004 08:56, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:07, David Purton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know of a tool to add bookmarks to an existing pdf > > > under linux? > > > > Good question.

wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously given, at start of a ppp connection? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
I'm subscribed to lots of mailing lists. I use mutt for email. Now using emacs, I use mutt within emacs since I use IMAP and find it hard to use gnus (which kinda behaves like pine, being news-oriented). I archive some mailing lists and have some mailboxes, going nearly over 40MBs or

Backup Strategies for linux?

2004-04-25 Thread Deboo
What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script), kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with them. What I need is somethin

Re: Can't stop apache Daemon

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 25 April 2004 07:51, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi mike, > > What kernel version are you running? > I have just updated to 2.6.5 and noticed a similar thing, but I am in > the middle of updating stable --> testing --> unstable using aptitude > and at some stage I noticed Out of memory error

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:30:05 +0200, Mike Chandler wrote: > I give up. What is wrong with k3b? Everything. Especially the 'k'. Because it means you run KDE. Look at the dependencies ! That is one of the great things of xcdroast: You can run it from any desktop environment. Non-bloated ones, e.g.:

Re: new net install works, but sound is LOUD

2004-04-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:00:07 +0200, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Can't the speakers are built into his flat screen monitor. Fine. Let's swap your useless flat screen monitor with built-in speakers with a nice 17" Monitor and extra speakers. How's that ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-25 Thread Jules Dubois
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:47:24 +0800, Katipo wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >> Libranet decided a few months ago to modify my sources.list to >> use unstable instead of testing. >> > When the Debian server compromise happened, Libranet installed their own > mirror

gimp2

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Lyons
My recent update of my sid system has brought a number of changes to my life, including gimp 2.0.0. Benjamin Sher's question to gimp experts prompts me to ask the same people for help. The new gui for gimp seems to me to have lost the elegant minimalism of the old. The various tool windows ar

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-25 Thread Daniel Asarnow
Thanks for all your help, hopefully my problem is now resolved. I am using the idle=pass argument in my lilo.conf (reading man lilo.conf made me realize my prior mistake) and ACPI is not compiled in my kernel (in fact, no power management modules are). I never did figure out how to use the hdparm

Re: Can't stop apache Daemon

2004-04-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi mike, What kernel version are you running? I have just updated to 2.6.5 and noticed a similar thing, but I am in the middle of updating stable --> testing --> unstable using aptitude and at some stage I noticed Out of memory errors ... killing process xxx which happens to be apache processes sp