Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

Peter Stoddard wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 09:49 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The final corrected version will be uploaded to http://people.cornell.

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez wrote: Q2. I think that google should be the first place to search and the first question to answer. Yes. But from a debian-user point of view, I think the language is also as important as googling. We can probably understand a post written in english (even if t

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

Kent West wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. Looks very good. Thanks. I just did a cut and paste job of some of the previous posts, from archives and re

Re: [OT] They hate us, but they really make us laugh.

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 01:59 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > Who dares to say "That's not funny"??? > hahaha > > I love Debian, but you can't not to laugh. Huh? I think maybe you've had too much spirit, eh? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:49:02 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. First of all, if there is a newcomer list, think about who its subscribers will be. It will most probably be newcomers who are having some problems and need advice/suggestion

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:11:53AM -0800, scanda wrote: > ==> update > > i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, > kernel 2.4 > > if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem > > afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partit

[OT] They hate us, but they really make us laugh.

Who dares to say "That's not funny"??? hahaha I love Debian, but you can't not to laugh. -- Cheers -- Gabriel Parrondo Linux User #404138 "In theory there's no difference between the theory and the practice. In the practice There is." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Voice recognition software?

* A. F. Cano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, let's start this subject rolling, > What's the status of speech recognition for Linux these days? I'm afraid things are still pretty much in the might-be-great-someday phase. Last time i checked free software for speech recognition was pretty much inex

Re: can i be sub'd but not receive posts?

On 12 Jan 2006 at 19:39, Jacob S wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:54 -0800 > "David M. Besonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i would like to be able to post and i would like to > > have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list > > from gmane. > > No, it's not possible to be subscrib

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 02:47:28PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Really? I heard him interviewed on the radio within the last > week. Do you know the outcome? The Navy Lieutenant declared victory, even though the Navy didn't change its policy. http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20060107-110

Re: Voice recognition software?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:07:16PM -0800, ke6isf wrote: > Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon > Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about > Linux. > > Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition > software, so

Re: Voice recognition software?

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Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all OTOH, maybe I am thinking of mpack/munpack and scripting with file,

Re: Voice recognition software?

ke6isf wrote: > Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon > Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about > Linux. > > Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition > software, so with that in mind, is there anything in De

Emulate middle click with different buttons

This is isn't specifically related to Debian, but I recently have acquired an ergonomic 3m mouse. Unfortunately, this thing only has three mouse buttons, none of them being wheels. So, I went ahead and and set up the middle mouse button as an emulated scroll wheel like I have on my Thinkpad. How

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:12:49PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060112 20:37]: > > > > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from an > > ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru his > > ISP's smtp server. > > Right.

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Matthias: > > I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > happening harddisk read/write operation. If you are using a journalling file system like ext3, this is normal and shouldn't stress your hard disk. J. -- When I am doing sex I wonder if my emotions can be detected by alien civil

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060112 20:37]: > > OTOH, if you are Joe Consumer getting your i'net connection from an > ISP, then no, It Won't Work. He'll need to send all email thru his > ISP's smtp server. Right. And this is easy enough to do. > As Gregory Seidman wrote, OP will have to

Voice recognition software?

Ran into a local who is a partial quadriplegic, and is using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows system, and has exhibited curiousity about Linux. Due to the nature of her paralysis, she requires voice recognition software, so with that in mind, is there anything in Debian (or, for that matter,

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:31 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > Why is it that thugs can extort protection money from small business > > owners? Because to those businessmen, the pain of losing that business > > which his life is poured into, and which supports his family is greate

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:28:03AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? > >> > >>Th

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:57 +1100, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > > It should just work[tm]. What error messages

Re: can i be sub'd but not receive posts?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:09:54 -0800 "David M. Besonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > just sub'd to this mailing list. > > i would like to be able to post and i would like to > have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list > from gma

Re: camera and mounting

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:05AM +0100, Embrik Kaslegard wrote: > I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it > by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media) > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >

can i be sub'd but not receive posts?

hi all, just sub'd to this mailing list. i would like to be able to post and i would like to have no posts delivered to me. i'll read the list from gmane. is this possible? if so, is there a smartlist command i can issue to effect this change or do i need to contact the list admin? thanks

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all - output was the same as input. It seems to be designed only to han

Re: Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

 

Re: Problem with package linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.12-1-k7

On 1/12/06, Christoph Nenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and depmod -ae says: > WARNING: Loop detected: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/linux-wlan-ng/p80211.ko which > needs p80211.ko again! > WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/linux-wlan-ng/p80211.ko ignored, due > to loop > WARNING: Module /lib

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. It should just work[tm]. What error messages are you getting from mutt? Are there any entries in you

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:20:04PM -0500, Dan Martins wrote: [...] } Hi, I JUST finished setting up mail using fetchmail/procmail/exim4/mutt. } What a pain! I found this website very helpful: } http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lativyn/articles/debian-mutt/ } If found all of the other articles i came acr

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:51:51PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > } I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > } to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > } > } All this time Mozilla

Problem with package linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.12-1-k7

Hi, I want to use a D-Link DWL-122 USB-WLAN adapter. As I'am using Debian kernel 2.6.12-1-k7 I installed the package containing the modules for prism2 (linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.12-1-k7). When I plug in the stick I get kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcdand address 4 usb.

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: } I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able } to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. } } All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no } difficulties and I find Mozilla

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John L Fjellstad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never done this, but you can put scripts into the /etc/dev.d > directory. These are called after a node has been created by udev. > Check the udev man pages. Thanks, I'll check that out. Andy -- To UNS

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson writes: > Why is it that thugs can extort protection money from small business > owners? Because to those businessmen, the pain of losing that business > which his life is poured into, and which supports his family is greater > than giving away some money. Exactly. And so they choose

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John L Fjellstad<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PROGRAM key is used for rule matching. Yeah, I spotted that. However, there is a 'RUN' key. However, this isn't mentioned in the version of udev in debian stable. I tried installing udev from backports.or

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: > > How huch RAM & which daemons do you have running? If your system > is RAM-constrained, it will be page a lot. > There is actually swap space used in my system but hardly. I have 256MB of ram and i can boot without

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:07:56 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able > to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. > > All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no > difficulties an

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:49 +, Don McLaughlin wrote: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts, > and ot

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:39:58 +0100 Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 > > Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi list, > > > > > > i've installed a default sarge,

Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no difficulties and I find Mozilla will thread the downloads from the list by subject. I have not yet found

Re: OT --was Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 13:01:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > richard writes: > > > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > > > more difference. > > > > Armies and police forces consist of individuals

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is probably no help, but I think you can write udev rules to > handle this stuff. I know there is a PROGRAM key in udev that might > serve your purpose. Unfortunately I'm only just learning about > udev. check the archives for more info and

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me what I need to do (presumably in udev) to arrange for > vgscan and vgchange to be exectued when this drive is detected? I already > have udev rules to give it a persistent name, so udev is set up to some > extent. What I need now is to

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 14:33 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > I don't know how it works in the post-modern EU, but in the rest of the > > world, if you choose not to obey orders from the leaders you have sworn > > to obey... > > _Chosen_ to swear to obey. > > > ...the coercive p

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson writes: > I don't know how it works in the post-modern EU, but in the rest of the > world, if you choose not to obey orders from the leaders you have sworn > to obey... _Chosen_ to swear to obey. > ...the coercive power of the state lands full square on your shoulders. The individual

Re: camera and mounting

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:05AM +0100, Embrik Kaslegard wrote: > I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it > by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media) > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Well, since we are in FULL TOPIC DRIFT MODE, there is a Navy chaplain who is on hunger strike here in the USA because he has been ordered not to pray in public in uniform "in the name of Jesus Christ". He claims tha

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 > Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi list, > > > > i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions > > e.x. /usr > > > > # mount > > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,erro

IBM Z60m w/ sarge

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has successfully installed sarge on an ibm z60m laptop? I looked through http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html and didn't find reference. Granted this is a new model but just wondering if anyone out there is using one. During an initial bootup sarge couldn't detec

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: > > It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - > > decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very > > well - even with broken boundary lines and missing heade

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:54:03PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Well, since we are in FULL TOPIC DRIFT MODE, there is a Navy > chaplain who is on hunger strike here in the USA because he > has been ordered not to pray in public in uniform "in the name > of Jesus Christ". He claims that this is not

Re: apache2

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:21:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Clive, > > > You need to install apache2-doc > > thx, after installing it the documentation link works. Fine, but one > curious thing is > it only works from the machine i installed the apache. On this machine > the default a

Re: sarge problem with additional partitions - S05keymap.sh ...wouldn't be executed

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:54 +0100 Thomas Börnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi list, > > i've installed a default sarge, with additional partitions > e.x. /usr > > # mount > /dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid

Re: subscribe

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:21:22 +0800 Limin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subscribe > to subscribe, send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to post to the user list send to debian-user@lists.debian.org which is where you sent you subscribe message > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

NFS rooting current root

Dear all, are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of the read-only exported one?? Thanks for any hands-on experience hints. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf

Re: apt-listbugs and security

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:02:07 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: > > Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) > #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, > fixes security issue. > Merged with:315718 > >

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

Karl O. Pinc ha scritto: On 01/11/2006 03:30:07 PM, Marco wrote: Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... BTW, you want your free memory to decrease becase memory is no good unless it's used. If it's not used for anything else the OS uses it for disk buffers. See als

Re: camera and mounting

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:40:05 +0100 (CET) Embrik Kaslegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just bought myself a samsung digimax v700 camera. I've tried to mount it > by adding this line to the /etc/fstab (after I made the catalog mmc in /media) > /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user

Re: (SOLVED) Logrotate don't route

David Jardine ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:14:35PM +0100, Marco wrote: David Jardine ha scritto: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote: David Jardine ha scritto: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: H

Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:00:57 -0600 (CST) Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group > (SIG) took little time since the teacher is quite experienced. We > partitioned the Seagate into 3 main areas with a swap partition f

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. I don't kno

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very well - even with broken boundary lines and missing headers etc. However the more I tested it the more problems I

Re: apache2

Hi Clive, > You need to install apache2-doc thx, after installing it the documentation link works. Fine, but one curious thing is it only works from the machine i installed the apache. On this machine the default apache page is in english. When i call the default page from another machine the def

Re: Email login options

On 01/12/2006 09:49:50 AM, Tony Heal wrote: What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does anyone have any suggestions that does not require sendi

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For both of you, how about formail as a tool? I already use formail for various tasks related to extracting messages from a mailbox - very useful. However it doesn't handle decoding of attachments. > Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modul

Re: Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

It sounds like you at least have the base system installed since you mentioned you rebooted the machine. In order to continue on with the installation of the selected packages, simply bring the system back up and log in with the credentials you set up for the root user and type "base-config" withou

Bug fixing - was: apt-listbugs and security

Hi, so I guess there is no easy answer:-/ Luckily, in this case the bug-report gives a workaround that is easy enough:-) But what is the Debian bug-fixing process? In this case patch 9 was developed - problem 'fixed' - but, 205 days later the patched version is still not available as a .deb packag

Re: Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:38:29AM -0500, jef e wrote: > apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" > > I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for > this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change > of the package as ment

Resuming interrupted etch beta Installation over Internet

I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS P4P800E deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB Seagate drive. Assembling the new system at the hardware Special Interest Group (SIG) took little time since the

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > >> richard writes: > >>> Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > >>> more difference. > >> Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually > >

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:10 +, Matthias wrote: > Subject: who is r/w-ing my hdd? > Newsgroups: RWTHNEWS:linux.debian.user > > Hello, > > I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds > happening harddisk read/write operation. It is > really annoying - even if there is (from my side) > n

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > richard writes: > > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > > more difference. > > Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to > take individual actions. I don't know how it wor

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

For both of you, how about formail as a tool? Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modules like Mail::Mbox::MessageParser or Mail::MboxParser ? Cheers, Andy (who used MANGOnet while in Zimbabwe in 1992) -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

Mike McCarty wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> richard writes: >>> Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make >>> more difference. >> Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually >> choose to >> take individual actions. > Thank you. Precisely my point.

who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Subject: who is r/w-ing my hdd? Newsgroups: RWTHNEWS:linux.debian.user Hello, I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. It is really annoying - even if there is (from my side) no system activity at all. I also fear the health of my hardware if th

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

Hi On 11 Jan 2006, Don McLaughlin wrote: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the same messages but with all the attachments, HTML parts, > and other non-plain-

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Chinook wrote: I've got /netatalk/ installed and minimally configured on Debian and set all the appropriate switches in OS X, and I can look at and move files back and forth from either box if I initiate (mount) the server on my Mac. I have not ye

RE: Email login options

True, but then traveling users would have to connect to the vpn before they could get their email. 2 many steps for them. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. Thank you. Precisely my point. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

richard writes: > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take individual actions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: 83 IBM P4 LAPTOPS FOR SALE OFF LEASE

Jimmy Gent wrote: This email is in compliance with the anti-spam legislation known as the Can-Spam Act of 2003 (S.877). According to this federal legislation (which supercedes all state legislation) a commercial email is not "spam" (even if it is unsolicited) as long as it meets the followin

Re: Kontact/KMail problem in sid

Paul Johnson wrote: After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, I can't check mail anymore. Checking my IMAP settings in KMail, I find that the path to IMAP folders has changed to some incomprehensible nonsense about namespaces that I can't make heads or tails of. So, big question: How do I point con

Re: apt-listbugs and security

david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged with:315718 The trouble is that I can't find v. 1.6.8p9 from the stable package list, and e

Re: Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:38:29AM -0500, jef e wrote: > apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" > > I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for > this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change > of the package as ment

Re: Email login options

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:49 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6 > & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email > client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our > office, this causes people in remote

Re: apt-listbugs and security

Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged with:315718 The trouble is that I can't find v. 1.6.8p9 from the stable package list, and etch provides sudo 1.6.8p12-

Email login options

I have a Debian woody server that runs our email (ipopd, 2001adebian-6 & exim, 3.35-1woody3). We use MS outlook (Office XP) as an email client. I currently have SMTP use limited to the net block of our office, this causes people in remote sites to have to use EarthLink for SMTP, or in my cas

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Re: apt-get update public key problem

On 1/12/06, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for that. It doesn't actually work for me for reasons I'll read > up when I have time. > > bordello:/home/richard# gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys > 1F41B907 > gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server wwwkeys.e

Re: apt-get update public key problem

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 9:13:41 -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fetched 2972kB in 1m10s (42.4kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > > W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures > > couldn't be verified becaus

Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change of the package as mentioned in the bug report correspondence. It seems that the synt

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Re: Observations on greylisting (I get no spam any more)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 23:02:11 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > I have been using the greylistd Debian package by Tor Slettnes for well over a > year now, and have found something quite astonishing: when I started using > greylistd, I received around 30-50 spams a day. I installed greylistd and

SOLVED RE: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device

I solved this by following the note within XF86Config-4 about doing an md5sum on the file when updating, and by doing a modprobe mousedev. I was trying to set the mouse device stanza to specify my /dev/psaux and PS/2 but It turns out I wasn't really updating the file. Thanks to everyone for the

RE: SOLVED New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

I solved this by following the note within XF86Config-4 about doing an md5sum on the file when updating. I was trying to set the mouse device stanza to specify my /dev/psaux and PS/2 but It turns out I wasn't really updating the file. Thanks to everyone for the help. Ed -Original Message

RE: ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

Unless I'm misinterpreting things, all the google searches I've done point to this working with ndiswrapper. However, I'll take a shot at madwifi if I can find good info. Lspci yeilds: :00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 0 01a (rev 01) So I know it's

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately. DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My m

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:45:10AM -0800, hillbilly wrote: > Just a question to Marc Perrudin... > In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the > 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ > directory as indicated in your response and place the 'local' f

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It > >keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop > > > > The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost syn

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