development dropin for /usr/sbin/sendmail

2006-03-16 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I develop quite a lot of webapplications and i also try to make the debugging as easy as possible, but when it comes to sending mail, its a bit cumbersome, especially when not on a real network. I would like to have something like a drop in for the sendmail binary that either just writes

webmin error, unable to login

2006-03-16 Thread Deboo ^
I just installed webmin. After installtion when I try http://localhost:1, webmin asks for user/password but denies access to root. I created anotehr user in /etc/webmin/miniserv.users but that user also unable to login and later I get: Error - Access denied for 127.0.0.1. The host has been blo

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >What is so hard about sending an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject >subscribe anyway? I don't think the problem is really the subscribing part, its the unsubscribing part that is the problem. I do agree with you, is it really that hard to

Re: procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Dave Sherohman: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Steve Lamb: > > > email was. And procmail? Investigated it; it's line noise masquerading > > > > than do without. There are alternatives to procmail if you're that > > averse to it. >

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-16 Thread David R. Litwin
This post is long.I have:# smbclient configuration//zeus/cma /smb/cma cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770  0 0 //zeus/clive /smb/clive cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770  0 0//zeus/misc /smb/misc  cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:06, Tim Connors wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:16:45 -0800: > > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe > > > as a *poster* as [EMAIL PROTECTED], whi

Re: How to restore /bin? SOLVED

2006-03-16 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:19 pm, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:32:46PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > >Run this: > > > >apt-get --reinstall install \ > >$(cd /var/lib/dpkg/info; grep -l '^/bin/' *.list|sed 's/.list$//') > > Thanks for this ingenious solution; there are still a cou

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ritesh: > > Yeah,, > > The rest of the lists (redhat-* or name most others) are stupid and don't > want their users to get help from the list. What are you talking about?!? > -- Your sigdash is malformed. > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Proposed-change-f

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Users, I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8 MB [snip] I wonder how this ever came out. Did you find a version which fit your memory needs? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf

wajig upgrade problem for a Newbie

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Frechette
I have benn trying without succes to upgrade my system ( i am using Debian sarge testing distro) and i always get this error > debian:/usr/local/Program/OpenOffice/OOA680_m1_native_packed-1_fr.8990/RPMS/desktop-integration# > wajig upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: > s. keeling wrote: > >"Do one thing, but do it well." That means MTA + MUA + procmail + > >bogofilter + ..., not Thunderbird which does all/some of that > >marginally and is designed for Windows users who can't be bothered to > >learn The Unix Way. > > Actually, as

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Tim Connors
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:16:45 -0800: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe > > as a *poster* as [EMAIL PROTECTED], while receiving > > the posts as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my

Re: Debian X.org 7.0 experimental packages

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:15:52PM +, Michael Ott wrote: > Hello guys! > > Does anybody tested the new x.org packages from debian experimental. > > How do they work? Are there any problems with installing and using this? > Does anybody tested it on a T43? And can I play tuxracer with them? >

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.6.15 and now no keyboard or mouse.- Resolved! Gigabyte GA-7DPXDWP motherboard

2006-03-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
I have resolved this issue. The problem is discussed on the Linux Kernel mailing list. It is a problem with conflicts with USB subsystem. I am using the Gigabyte GA-7DPXDWP dual AMD motherboard with dual athlon MP 2400+ processors. If you turn off USB keyboard and USB mouse support in the Mthe

Re: State of webmin (was: Webmin themes)

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 16:49]: [ webmin maintanance ] > There is a new team of maintainers forming up using an alioth group > (sorry, not web access right now, can't give you an exact URL, would > guess the project is called pkg-webmin). > > Don't know the current st

Re: Debian X.org 7.0 experimental packages

2006-03-16 Thread Bill Wohler
Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody tested [xorg 7.0] on a T43? Heck, I'd be happy to hear reports about any of the T series with the Radeon video chips. I'm holding at 6.8 until I hear some better reports than what we heard with 6.9. Thanks. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-16 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:13 -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > However, AFAICT, the code in pg_maintenance looks like it is secure > enough for -T. In fact, it doesn't fail when I run it. Can you > run /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance from the shell without error? > I spoke too soon. My apt-get upgrade f

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan Bellon
Casey T. Deccio wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 18:16 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -- "-T" /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance > You won't find it that way, because it is a command-line switch > combined with another: > #!/usr/bin/perl -wT Argh! :-} [snip] > However, AFAICT,

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

2006-03-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Kent West wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello dear maintainers, I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but it does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw that there already a password for root exists. What is it ? Can you please tell me ?

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/03/06 16:54), David R. Litwin wrote: > On 16/03/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried putting up files for sharing on the XP system and checked > > whether you can see them? > > I've got smbclient and smbfs installed and mount file shares within > > /etc/fstab > >

Re: super block error

2006-03-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/16/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:45:37 -0800 > L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I get msg while booting as > > superblock last mount time is in the future FIXED > > superblock last write time is in the future FIXED > > What does it sig

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:01:02 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >> On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I would try a "modprobe > > d

flashplayer-mozilla: Major security fixes, March 15

2006-03-16 Thread Ralph Katz
FYI -- Fixed in normal update with (marillat in /etc/apt/sources.list), but no security notice I've seen anywhere in debian. So... be sure to upgrade flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.61.0-0.2 -> 7.0.63.0-0.0 http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashplugin/?branch_id=2730&release_id=222491 Flash Plugin for Brow

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Leo Britto
What is your motherboard? I had this same problem when installing linux on a A8N-VM CSM at home. I used knowppix to partition the drive and later I couldnt use it at all. So I had to upgrade my desktop's kernel to 2.6.15 because there was some problem with the sata drivers with earlier kernels. I h

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:50 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the drive connected. Oh, dear! Sarge

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, fi

different flash packages

2006-03-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I am getting more and more confused by different flash packages out there. Their package descriptions are equally vague enough. I would like to know what are the necessary and sufficient list of packages that I need to have inorder to get flash fully working on my system. I do not develop any f

Re: ASUS A8N-E alsa not working (Sarge)

2006-03-16 Thread Kaffe
When I run 'alsaconf', alsaconf replies: "No supported PNP or PCI cards found" I have also run '/usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices' Here is output of lsmod: Module Size Used by snd_intel8x0 36140 0 snd_ac97_codec 69508 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss543

Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba

2006-03-16 Thread David R. Litwin
On 16/03/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (15/03/06 19:53), David R. Litwin wrote:> I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet> 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro.  I> downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP

Re: Can't reinstall missing init.d script

2006-03-16 Thread Winston Smith
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:06:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Maybe you could extract the file from the .deb manually. > > This is probably the best idea. Thanks. That worked. If I recall correctly, I did: dpkg-deb --extract \

Re: mpeg and media player

2006-03-16 Thread Bruno Buys
Michael Ott wrote: Hello! From a friend a got a small movie. But I cannot play it with mplayer or xine. file give me the following informations: MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex How can I play this movie? CU Michael This will give much more info on the m

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-16 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 18:16 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat -n /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance | head -50 | tail -7 > 44 @options = ('--cluster', "$v/$c", '-a'); > 45 push @options, '-f' if $full; > 46 push @options, '-z' if $analyze; > 47

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Duehr wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Using my "measured tone" voice... One of the pros of Debian is that I'd only have to become more-or-less expert in one distribution. Why? Not true. There are plenty of us out here that learn the How can you know what is true for my circumstance bet

OT: RSS feed server software?

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; Maybe someone has a suggestion for some software that can do this (preferably already packaged for Debian! :-)). I'm looking for a very simple RSS feed "server" (either standalone or something with Apache; CGI or mod_* or whatever). Basically what I want to be able to do is have a local

Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable

2006-03-16 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:40:11 +1100 Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:20:23PM -0800, Bill Thompson wrote: > > I have tried the built-in kernel modules and the source packages for > > ieee80211-modules v.1.1.6-2 and ipw2100-modules v.1.1.3A. > > Has anyone been

Oops and segmentation fault

2006-03-16 Thread Pelusa Vali
hi everybody, well my problem is this, i had debian sarge and because of many changes i had to do to libs it become unstable, so i tried to reinstall it, but now i cann't.it stops suddenly when try to install libc6, so decided to download again CD#1 and tried to upgrade to testing version be

Re: udev and some usb mouses.

2006-03-16 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. > > > > I try for example in /etc/udev/local.rules (symlink from > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/@z10_local.rules): > > > > BUS=="input", SYSFS{phys}=="usb-:00:1d.0-2/input0", > > > > SYSFS{name}=="Genius NetScroll + Traveler", KERNEL=="mouse?", > > > > NAME="input/%k", MODE="0660", SYMLIN

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] i think more than anything, it exposed your own brute-force and ignorance approach to getting your way to a worldwide audience. I hope that's how you want people to think of you, since that is what you're projecting. I think that the tone of this particular e-ma

Re: procmail vs. exim

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Ewart wrote: Is it possible to do user-based filtering using exim for non-root users? Yes. What is the exim-equivalent of editing ~/.procmailrc for example? Editing ~/.forward by default. Though some people I know have changed it so .forward isn't overloaded and placed it in

Re: procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: Are there things that procmail can do that exim filters can't or is it just a case of procmail being what people have used for years and they're not aware that an alternative is installed by default in Debian? A little bit of both I think. No doubt someone, somewhere

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:44, Steve Lamb wrote: But the fact that you see an error and work to correct it is good. You have a good point here, and it is important that the point you are making is not overs

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Anybody with a wiki can tell you those are bigger spam magnets than open posting could ever dream to be. Even blogs with tracebacks are tough to keep spam free these days. :( -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. As an example, I'd like to pro

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 03:14, wrote: ... As others have pointed out, it was poor form of me to threathen to unsubscribe you. So I have not done this. No offense, but you make it sound like you're doing him a favor by not doing it. I'll go one step further: It is "agai

Re: super block error

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:45:37 -0800 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get msg while booting as > superblock last mount time is in the future FIXED > superblock last write time is in the future FIXED > What does it signify? If something wrong how to fix it? what kernel? what version of e2fs

Re: GNOME 2.14 released :-)

2006-03-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Magnus Therning wrote: >I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! > >Anyway I can help? > >/M > > > How long took it the last time? About 5 months or so? *g* Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan Bellon
Casey T. Deccio wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:37 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at > > /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance line 49. calling vacuumdb on cluster > > 7.4/main failed > Seems that the -T switch is new to the /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance >

Re: switching between xorg.conf files

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:01:08 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I have two xorg.conf files. The first one is for laptop alone ( say > xorg1.conf) . The second is used when laptop is connected to a projector > (say xorg2.conf). > > I usually use xorg1.conf . But when

Re: best way to install asterisk

2006-03-16 Thread Nic
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. Let's backup a little. > > - Which distro (Sarge/Etch/Sid) are you running? I am installing to a virtual machine so I don't care what version of debian I'm using. I will happily run any debian be it sarge, etch or sid. > - Where are yo

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Ritesh
Yeah,, The rest of the lists (redhat-* or name most others) are stupid and don't want their users to get help from the list. Ritesh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Proposed-change-for-subscriptions...-t1263446.html#a3442563 Sent from the Debian User forum at Nabble.com.

Re: GNOME 2.14 released :-)

2006-03-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Magnus Therning [Thu, Mar 16 2006, 04:16:52PM]: > I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! > > Anyway I can help? Did you consider to donate money? Eduard.

Re: procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 14.03.2006 at 13:05 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [...] > > Personally, I agree with Steve that procmail configs look like line > noise and I also wish to echo his question regarding it: Given that > exim is installed on Debian systems by default and that exim has a > much more easil

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:41:01 +0100 Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Since, I have quite a lot of trouble even if I don't try to change the > >> wake-up time. Setting up the wake-up time through bios > > ---

DELL 1370 config problem

2006-03-16 Thread Leo Britto
Hi, I am trying to get this wireless adapter to work for a long time now. I have a DELL 1370 Mini-PCI and I am trying to use ndiswrapper to install the windows XP driver downloaded from DELL's website. My dmesg gives me this output for ndiswrapper: ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:41, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > > As others have pointed out, it was poor form of me to threathen to > > unsubscribe you. So I have not done this. > > Well, at least you saw reason, sort of. > > > Unfortunately the thread is (still) continuing - so I'v

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:06:28AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > In fact, if the tone of further emails from you matches this one or > you continue on this topic I'll forcibly assist you in the process. > > Anand > I think this is the first mistake you made in this discussion. Long ago you w

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:44, Steve Lamb wrote: > But the fact that you see an error and work to correct it is good. You > have a good point here, and it is important that the point you are > making is not overshadowed by anything e

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:24:10 -0600 > > "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:16:43AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Sorry, maybe I'm dense, but why is it ridiculous? > > > > It prevents private repli

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:17, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Sorry, maybe I'm dense, but why is it ridiculous? http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 14:08, Chris Metzler wrote: > But one would never guess those two things from the usual tone of your > posts here. In Steve's defense, his tone in this thread is not his usual tone. He's usually one of the friendliest, more helpful personalities this list has to offer.

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 08:54, Steve Lamb wrote: > Good, finally a name to go with this idiocy.  Anand Kumria, clueless list > manager. That's a good way to win hearts and minds: Abuse the person you're trying to convince. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jab

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 12:42, Kent West wrote: > A challenge-response would also be acceptable, provided I can specify > what email to send the challenge to; wouldn't want the challenge to go > to the customer's email from which I'm sending the post, etc. Challenge-response is considered harmful.

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 12:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West said: > > I'm still not sure I'd want to "subscribe" either. Sometimes I just want > > to email a correction or comment, and don't need a reply, etc. > > In those cases would you be willing to post via a webform as proposed > elsewher

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:29, Steve Lamb wrote: > We have the list mantainers saying that the list subscribers have to > put up with the junk that gets through because signing up is too hard. Yet > have any of them really thought about making subscribing any easier than > the above? What i

Re: lovesong 2006-03-16 11:02 Security Events

2006-03-16 Thread hendrik
My logcheck is giving me many many copies of the following messages. > > Security Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 16 10:58:43 lovesong kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13 > Mar 16 10:58:43 lovesong kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 172.25.1.11 ... ... > > System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-= > M

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 08:46, Steve Lamb wrote: > Considering I don't find it a woefully heavy burden to scan headers and > delete subjects that aren't relevant to me (oh, the horror, about 5m a > *day* on this oh so busy list) It makes it harder on me and weakens my own > defense against spam. U

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:35, Mike McCarty wrote: > I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that > messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the > list. I didn't state this, but I had in mind that this would be one > of the modifiable characteristics

Re: Outsider's observation upon the pros and cons of Debian

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:21, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd say that one of the cons to Debian is the way this list > is administered. To put it another way, the quote above > translates in my mind into > > "Nothing is going to change, so if you aren't happy with the > setup of debian-user then Debian

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. > I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while > sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 March 2006 03:14, Anand Kumria wrote: ... > As others have pointed out, it was poor form of me to threathen to > unsubscribe you. So I have not done this. No offense, but you make it sound like you're doing him a favor by not doing it. > I've been deliberately not responding in orde

procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Steve Lamb: > > email was. And procmail? Investigated it; it's line noise masquerading > > You don't like procmail. Great. That's no excuse for insulting it. > For some of us, it's a remarkable tool; one we'd rather ab

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Anand Kumria wrote: As others have pointed out, it was poor form of me to threathen to unsubscribe you. So I have not done this. Well, at least you saw reason, sort of. Unfortunately the thread is (still) continuing - so I've now instituted a 1 day delay for emails on this thread. I'm th

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: Your solution is to knuckle under to the spammers, closing off the lines of communication between Debian Users? Closing off the lines of communication? Uh, no. That would be shutting down the list completely. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm yo

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: "Do one thing, but do it well." That means MTA + MUA + procmail + bogofilter + ..., not Thunderbird which does all/some of that marginally and is designed for Windows users who can't be bothered to learn The Unix Way. Actually, as I have explained many times in the past t

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:45:09 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geez, you sound like a Lisp hater. them's fightin' words pilgrim! <\humor> A pgpSBa71V91r0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-03-16 Thread Örjan Bredberg
I think I had a similar problem with all updates generating "Not Authenticated" with synaptic. It was solved by reloading the package information with CTRL-R in synaptic. regards //Örjan

Re: debian lists subscription options

2006-03-16 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:12:29 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to subscribe to debian-* mailing lists with mail > delivery turned off? No, but you can post if you're not subscribed. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:50 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the > > drive connected. > > Oh, dear! Sarge i

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Glenn English
On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the drive > connected. Oh, dear! Sarge is doing this too. > If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I believe my problems are all > software related. Knoppix finds it as /dev/

debian lists subscription options

2006-03-16 Thread riteshsarraf
Hi, Is there a way to subscribe to debian-* mailing lists with mail delivery turned off? Thanks, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention" "Stealing logics from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is researchut"

Re: Intel Xeon

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:31:56AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/16/06, debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have an Intel Server with an Xeon Nocona 3.0 GHz EMT64 processor. I would like to run it

Re: Intel Xeon

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:31:56AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/16/06, debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have an Intel Server with an Xeon Nocona 3.0 GHz EMT64 processor. I would like to run it as a stable webserver. Which distribution

Re: GNOME 2.14 released :-)

2006-03-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:02:05PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: >Hello *, > >On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:16:52PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: >> I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! >> >> Anyway I can help? > >For starters, please see "The GNOME team needs your help" at >

Debian X.org 7.0 experimental packages

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Ott
Hello guys! Does anybody tested the new x.org packages from debian experimental. How do they work? Are there any problems with installing and using this? Does anybody tested it on a T43? And can I play tuxracer with them? CU Michael -- Michael Ott, e-

Re: Q about debian based specialty distro

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:44:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Specifically the distro is BDI-4.30, which is optimized for computer > numeric machine control, uses kernel 2.6.12-magma as its realtime kit. > > The problem is one of gfx speeds, DRI is not being enabled for some >

Re: GNOME 2.14 released :-)

2006-03-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:16:52PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! > > Anyway I can help? For starters, please see "The GNOME team needs your help" at , as recently

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL

2006-03-16 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:37 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at > /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance line 49. calling vacuumdb on cluster 7.4/main > failed > Seems that the -T switch is new to the /usr/sbin/pg_maintenance script. What does line 49 read

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Hans-J. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060316 09:31]: > I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but > it > does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw that there > already a password for root exists. What is it ? Can you please tell me ? N

Re: ASUS A8N-E alsa not working (Sarge)

2006-03-16 Thread Wackojacko
Kaffe wrote: Hi I can't figure out how to configure ALSA When I try to open alsamixer it says: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device My motherboard is ASUS A8N-E Kernel 2.6.8-2-K7 In /etc/modules I hav added "snd_intel8x0" Here is output from lspci: :00:00.0 Memory

super block error

2006-03-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I get msg while booting as superblock last mount time is in the future FIXED superblock last write time is in the future FIXED What does it signify? If something wrong how to fix it? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

GNOME 2.14 released :-)

2006-03-16 Thread Magnus Therning
I hope we'll see it in Debian Sid soon. Go GNOME team! Go! Anyway I can help? /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents,

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-16 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
You might be interested in Asus! Some friends used Asus and the laptops took linux very well. Another thing is that if you buy a "built on Asus" in many vendors online they have the no OS option. Try: www.geared2play.com,www.jncs.com The problem is that nowdays they are slightly over

Re: hi

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 16 March 2006 06:12, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:47, Mike McCarty wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Your message was received at Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:40:19 +: > >> > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: hi > >> > >> This account is protected by Bluebott

ASUS A8N-E alsa not working (Sarge)

2006-03-16 Thread Kaffe
Hi I can't figure out how to configure ALSA When I try to open alsamixer it says: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device My motherboard is ASUS A8N-E Kernel 2.6.8-2-K7 In /etc/modules I hav added "snd_intel8x0" Here is output from lspci: :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVi

Re: Which release???

2006-03-16 Thread B.Hoffmann
Hi Mathew, You need to go for i386 release as this means Intel and AMD processors. As you stated to have an XP it is not 64 bit. However if you didn't know this it might be time for a bit more reading and exploring your computer. Otherwise I'm not hopeful the installation will succeed. Good luck

Re: best way to install asterisk

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Your original message makes it seem like the package installs in Sarge and Etch, but without amportal. However, you want the amportal package, which is only available for Sid. If that is the case, then you can

Re: Which release???

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Mathew Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am a bit puzzled about the supported architechtures for Debian, and which one that I should get! I have a GigaByte GA-7VA-A with an Athlon Xp Processor. Can anyone help??? Personally, I would recommend Sarge (for i386, naturally). However, you

Re: Intel Xeon

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/16/06, debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have an Intel Server with an Xeon Nocona 3.0 GHz EMT64 processor. I would like to run it as a stable webserver. Which distribution shall I install? You can install both i386 and amd64 (the last usuall

Re: Automount of CD in my distribution

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, We are creating Linux distribution based on Debian. The installable CD is also built but it is not mounting CD automatically. How can i make it possible. Which package I need to change in order to make my OS to automatically mount the CD. Thanky

Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi list, I have a new SATA drive (WDC WD800JD-60LUA0) that I have problems with getting recognized by Sarge. Knoppix finds it OK, I can partition the disk, write to it, no problems. The Debian3.1r1 Debian Installer, finds it, identifies it, but

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