Re: CF & MemoryStick Reader

2003-01-11 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Kevin Coyner said: > > > I've got a 4-in-1 USB card reader that can accomodate Sony MemoryStick > and CF. > > To get started, I used directions from > > http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/ > > and > > http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux > > Using sg_scan -i and sg_map, it was f

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Trey Sizemore said: > This is the output of my /etc/fstab file. When booting, I noticed > that > the screen said I had an error on line 15 (which is the line I just > added for the camera). Can you see what might be wrong? What is the > correct way to edit this file? I have noticed, based on

Re: the vanishing console message trick

2003-01-05 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Jeff Cours said: > Hi, everyone - > > I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, > my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all > vanished. > There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the > monitor hasn't gone into power save), b

Renaming files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Sorry for the length of this thought I should be VERY clear as to the limited scope of what I'm doing. Bob, I use mmv out of habit. It does more than mv and I've used those functions in the past -- rather than try to remember which functions mv does not do. OK -- when I followed up on that old t

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Colin Watson said: >> Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I >> ended up with this: >> >> if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] >> >> then for i in *.jpg; do mmv "$i" `date +%s`-$a.jpg; a=a+1; done >> >> fi > > In general it's better to avoid putting backticks in the middle of

Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Are you watching the filesapce *AS* the file downloads? Perhaps whatever you are downloading with is using /tmp to save the file until it's complete and you don't have /tmp on a separate partition. G Denzil Kelly said: > I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to > /home/myhome/myiso

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Jamin W. Collins said: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > >> I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, >> "FALSE" if there are zero of them. > > Assuming you don't want the

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Colin Watson said: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:20:31AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> if [ -e *.JPG ]; then for i in *.JPG; do mv "$i" "${i%.JPG}.jpg"; >> done fi > > That -e test looks dreadful ... surely it'll usually expand to lots of > arguments which will confuse [, or perhaps to an empty strin

Re: dhcpd: how to quiet DHCPREQUEST in logs

2002-12-29 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Jeff said: > Bill Moseley, 2002-Dec-29 10:44 -0800: >> >> In my server I've got >> >> default-lease-time 600; >> >> but the DHCPREQEST messages are sent from the client every five >> minutes so > The default lease time is in seconds, so 600 is 5 minutes. That's why > the clients make a new req

Re: Saving a system

2002-12-22 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
nate said: > Gerald V. Livingston II said: >> I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. >> >> When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link >> their >> new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives

Re: not work, plese help

2002-12-22 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Bill Moseley said: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, eric lin wrote: > >> I suspect my system setting or isp level have problem > > Have you taken the good advice of all the people that have recommended > you > read some introductions to HTML and CGI? > > You are posting on four lists that I read -- how man

Saving a system

2002-12-22 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
I'm dumping an old P-90 so I can give the machine to a friend. When I am in single mode can I safely umount /usr and /var then link their new locations after I copy them over to one of the hard drives. This machine is not net connected and I'm trying to squeeze all the files onto a single drive so

Re: ntpd / ntpdate on a dialup line

2002-12-22 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Mark Zimmerman said: > Greetings: > > With all the traffic on ntp stuff recently, I thought this would be a > good time to ask: > > Is there a better solution than ntpdate on a dialup machine? > Currently, I run it from an ip-up.d script. I was looking to see if > ntpd could run continuously but o

Re: not work

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
eric lin said: > but my html.index of C:\apach2\htdocs\ or /var/www/index.html > >Actually in the start apache2 in dos mode, I get some error or > warning > message > (730048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocal/network > address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not

Re: about web link

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Vineet Kumar said: > This mailing list is intended for community support for Debian > GNU/Linux. As it is extraordinarily high-traffic already, we would > appreciate that everyone try to limit posts here to on-topic questions > (somehow related to Debian), and take other questions to more > appr

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Nathan E Norman said: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 01:40:51AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: >> Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile >> under >> woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. >> >> Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I

Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
nate said: > Gerald V. Livingston II said: >> Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile >> under >> woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. > > > I'm not sure how closely you track the kernel but I've read several > places that th

Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-20 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Is there any special info on getting a 2.4.20 kernel to compile under woody on a Sun UltraSparc-1 Creator. Yes, the Debian Way (tm) -- or not, I don't care. Right now it fails at the "make dep" stage using either method. First it was some missing header files. Figured out where they were and got t

(SOLVED) Re: woody and X on a Sun UltraSparc 1 Creator

2002-12-19 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Gerald V. Livingston II said: > OK, got woody installed OK but I can't seem to figure out which video > to use when trying to set up X. Has anyone else set up woody and X-4 > on an UltraSparc 1 Creator? Any tips appreciated. > > No mail access on the machine yet so copies o

woody and X on a Sun UltraSparc 1 Creator

2002-12-19 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
OK, got woody installed OK but I can't seem to figure out which video to use when trying to set up X. Has anyone else set up woody and X-4 on an UltraSparc 1 Creator? Any tips appreciated. No mail access on the machine yet so copies of errors from startx will be difficult. If noone replies with a

Re: Its a SPAM & Fuck You.

2002-12-15 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Robert L. Harris said: > But atleast it's not the Nigerian spam so he gets 2 points for > originality. Obviously not IQ points though. I'm still trying to figure out just what the purpose of the Nigerian spam is. It's started changing countries a bit lately. I replied to one of those from a jun

Re: smtp of ISP needs passwd,how to setup exim?

2002-12-15 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Dai Yuwen said: > Hi, all > > I want to setup exim use my ISP's smtp server as a smart host. But > this > smtp server needs user name and password. How do I use exim this way? > Thank you in advance. > > Best regards, > Dai Yuwen > This was just covered in the last 4 or 5 days. Please check th

Re: Courier-IMAP folder layout

2002-12-13 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Alex Malinovich said: > I've decided to give courier a shot at replacing uw-imap since it's > gotten really slow lately. I've got it set up on a testing machine, > but > I'm having a problem with getting a proper folder hierarchy set up. > Using uw-imap, I can create as many root folders as I want

Re: Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
R Ransbottom said: > > I am trying to set up a debian mail server that > sees the world through incoming.verizon.net and > outgoing.verizon.net. > > Fetchmail is set up and recieving mail fine. > > I have muddled through a few small setups of > sendmail, smail and exim over the years. > > Verizon

Re: courier-imap

2002-12-11 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Derrick 'dman' Hudson said: > | Or did I miss something with uw-imap and squirrelmail? > | SquirrelMail is creating folders in the format of: > | INBOX.Sent and uw-imap has folders like Sent. > > I have squirrelmail and uw-imap together on my machine. I did find > a bug filed as #152219 but I thi

Re: Fetchmail doesn't fetch

2002-12-09 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Sam Rosenfeld said: > My command of "fetchmail" yields an index of messages which hangs and > then after it times out (300 sec), gives the reason for the error as > "7". ?The manpage says this condition (fetchmail timing out) can occur > "while waiting for the server." > [SNIP] > 1666 messages (2

Downgrade sid libc6?

2002-12-07 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
OK, I'm running sid. I've dug around and it appears my dying apache is because of php4-imap -- and this is being caused overall by the libc6 problem. What kind of trouble am I looking at trying to downgrade libc6 to the testing version and how would I go about it. I've downgraded other things but

Re: amavis - which one?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:04:27 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Coyner said: > > > > I'm setting up clamav and amavis to scan incoming email. > > > > A quick check of apt-cache search amavis gives me several choices: > > > > amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner.

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:13:29 -0600 "Gary Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:21:03 -0600, Gerald V.Livingston II wrote: > > snip > > >3 to 6 characters using the alphabet only, no numerals, underscores, > >or full-stops then we are looking at (3^26)+(4^26)+(5^26)+(6^26) o

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:18:31 -0500 "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:00:17PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote:> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 > > "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [OT] RFC 822?

2002-11-16 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:45:09 -0500 "Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:48:53AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > > > Many ISP's do not bounce mail sent to addresses that do not exist > > because robot soft

Re: mail does not bounce!

2002-11-15 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:47:32 +0530 "Sandip P Deshmukh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:57:25PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > First you need to wrap line at 72 > > sorry for that. i just asked in another post, how do i make vi do > this? > > > > if i send mail to a non-exis

Re: [Semi-OT] IMAP clients for other OS Plus my broken SID Apache

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:46:12 +1100 "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:07:19AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > I need to know if there are any decent, free, IMAP clients out there > > for Windows. I'm currently using Outlook Express and > > tunneling my > > Moz

Re: ssh port forwarding [solved]

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald V . Livingston II
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 03:24:54 -0600 "Gerald Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the laptop I'm using the ssh command line: > > ssh root@home-machine -R 143:localhost:143 > > I also tried 1143 as the second port argument thinking maybe > I couldn't use a privileged port locally as non root

Re: Newbie networking problems; pppd with Woody.

2002-11-05 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 21:05, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I've been frustrated for a long time about a problem I'm having with DNS > lookup. The first time I try to initiate internet connection with pppd I > consistently receive the following type error: > > barry@debian:/etc/ipmasq$ ping pop.mindspring

Re: Spam that's good for a laugh for Debian users

2002-11-05 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:48, David Gaudine wrote: > I got this spam today complimenting me on my web site: > > I visited annette.concordia.ca today and have the following comments. > > Your Images and Icons are creative and interesting. The content is > > informative and precise. ... > As much as

Re: ssh port forwarding of IMAP connection

2002-11-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:28, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2002 12:54 pm, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > I can't help you with your apache problem but have you thought of trying ssh? > > Get putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ which is

Re: VCD creation

2002-11-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 20:50, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:18:58PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > Is it possible to create a VCD from a '.mpg' or '.avi' with some > > program(s) available as Debian packages? I'm running si

Re: Compiling a new kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 07:12, Emanuele Boieri wrote: > Hi everybody I hope that somenone can help me. I just followed > precisely the instruction for compiling/installing a new kernel >(2.4.19). The previeous version was 2.2. > 1.. tar xvjf "the kernel source" > 2.. make menuconfig > 3.. make

apache sid

2002-11-04 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Anyone having problems with apache after a sid upgrade? For some reason apache won't start now. Nothing in syslog, Nothing in /var/log/apache/error.log (even with loglevel set to debug). No error from the init.d script. I do end up with two session_mm_apache0.[mem|sem] files in /tmp though? #ro

Re: Mounting a partition with access allowed for only one user

2002-11-03 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:31, Neal Lippman wrote: > I am wresting with a mount question but getting nowhere. > > Suppose that I want to mount a disk partition onto a subdirectory of > /home, but want it to be available only to one particular user. Is there > any way to effect this? > > eg, I creat

VCD creation

2002-11-03 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Is it possible to create a VCD from a '.mpg' or '.avi' with some program(s) available as Debian packages? I'm running sid here. I've figured out how to BURN VCD's that come in bin/cue format, but I don't know how to turn a straight mpeg into a bin/cue that can be burned as vcd/svcd. G -- To UN

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-04 00:31:17 +1100]: > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:42:59PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of Kevin Coyner told: > > > > kosuke9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00

Evolution [WAS: any suggestions on mail client?]

2002-11-01 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 06:56, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Dale K Dicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Fullquote snipped] > > > apt-get install evolution :) it is an outlook clone. > > Coincidence? Well, at least he didn't top-post. > > Ciao, >Jens > > P.S.: sorry if this reply sounds a bit

[Fwd: [AMaViS-user] Amavis-ng + exim -- help please.]

2002-10-19 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
elp please. From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, October 19, 2002 2:22 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> amavis-ng 0.1.4.1 exim 3.36 The error seems to occur when Exim.pm attempts to feed the scanned message back to the real exim MTA. When the error occurs t

Re: OT: DNS servers

2002-10-13 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
> Quoting "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> The name servers that I normall use with my ISP are having a few >> "flakiness" issues today. I recall seeing a link to a list of name >> servers that can be used by the public free

OT: DNS servers

2002-10-13 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
The name servers that I normall use with my ISP are having a few "flakiness" issues today. I recall seeing a link to a list of name servers that can be used by the public freely (ie. the admins don't get upset if you stick them in your /etc/resolv.conf). Does anyone happen to know of such a list?

Re: wysiwyg html editor

2002-10-12 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
> Incidentally, if you use XEmacs you get an HTML mode based on the > PSGML mode by default. This comes with all the DTDs for HTML, and > the editing mode is fully validating. You can use mouse clicks to > figure out what elements are allowed at any point, have emacs > normalize your HTML code, fi

Re: NAV detected a virus in a document you authored

2002-10-05 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Hehe -- whoever wrote/released KLEZ is an A**! My primary email address has received NO spam for the last 3 years -- it still gets no spam, but 8 - 10 KLEZ messages per day. G On 5 Oct 2002 at 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please contact your system administrator > > > The scanned docu

Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

2002-10-05 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On 5 Oct 2002 at 6:25, csj wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:33:33 -0400 > christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The status of gnome2 in experimental is very good. I can't find a > > good reason to keep it out of unstable other that the idea shared > > by a few that yet another debia