Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

2012-12-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Use something in protocol (i.e. configured in Exim), perhaps, and be /really/ careful about blocking entire /24s. The collateral damage could be more than you intended. Cheers, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews // Oxford, London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: file systems

2011-04-19 Thread Jonathan Matthews
ough it's still 'new' and 'lacking' features) Nope. Not production ready. Cheers, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlkting-xb7olc8v0bkibzdwa9znms...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
edominately British insult. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimuq-zm4fbngn1ygswvegum8f7...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Reformat/salvage old LaCie drive?

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201) > > How do I reformat and test if the drive is reliable? Don't. It's 8/9/10 year old technology which has already started to tell you it's going south. Just bin it. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK htt

Re: User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
-20 > > I'm still getting > > starach@debian:/> nice --5 cat logfile > nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied > > What could I have done wrong? Doesn't look to me like you're running the command as the user you specified in limits.conf. Jonathan --

Re: HALF SOLVED!! :) - 2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 17 April 2011 12:49, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > I "half solved" it!! :P Well done. As I believe you were previously informed, this is a mailing list for debian-specific traffic. Please use it as such. You may have better luck over here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/. Jonathan

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
uter. Also, learn how to respond to people trying to help you with your questions whilst /not/ sounding like a git. If this is a secondary-language thing, hence you didn't otherwise realise it: your email, above, made you sound like a git. Stop that. HTH, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthew

Re: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
stro-specific question.. :\ I think you're wrong. Please use the appropriate lists; this list is for Debian-specific traffic. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
cle-owned product at this point. They're showing themselves to be too hostile to FLOSS to trust them. And while I /know/ virtualbox is good and useful, the (relatively small!) extra work required to get KVM+libvirt (i.e. virt-manager) going will repay you many times over for the greater control

Re: Your favorite bug tracking system

2011-04-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
ingestion, too, if you hit it hard enough. As above, though, it's not *nice*. It's not a priority for the Redmine devs. If there's enough demand (again, it's OT for this list, I recognise) I'll pop some scripts I wrote around email ingestion up on the Redmine wiki. They

Re: Your favorite bug tracking system

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
xible project management web application", not a trouble ticket system or bug tracker in the first instance. HTH Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: When ram memory is critical ?

2011-04-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
te, and you run some gargantuan simulation app that eats all 8GB >>>>> when >>>>> launched.  I doubt that's the case, as you'd not be asking this >>>>> question >>>>> if you used such an app. >>>>> >>>&g

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 22 March 2011 13:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/03/11 23:56, Jonathan Matthews wrote: >> It looks to me (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cwebx) that perhaps >> the only reason gcc is /on/ your machine is due to aptitude pulling it >> down when you installed cwebx. He

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Matthews
ude install gcc ; aptitude remove cwebx" achieves this directly - do let the list know ... Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-20 Thread Jonathan Matthews
PV/LV." Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=K

Re: Question about mii-tool

2011-03-14 Thread Jonathan Matthews
but if you can achieve what you want with ethtool, just use that. Cheers, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

2011-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
ot;users" option had to be in > there. The option specified by mount(8)'s manpage is "user", not "users". I don't recall if that relates to the automounter at all. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To U

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Matthews
VMWare for free (site license/etc), or if you have very deep pockets, take a look. Otherwise - vbox. For server-side virtualisation - KVM. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: creating a pv guest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu desktop is failing on pv-ops Dom0 kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Tapas - As someone else already pointed out, this isn't an ubuntu mailing list. You probably want to retry your request here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How do I get this dialog back?

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Matthews
te the upgrade?". To "add to this list", just manually restart the service now with "service foobar restart" or "/etc/init.d/foobar restart". > [OT] How did you get that image, with a camera? Looks like a screenshot of a putty session running on a vista machine

Re: Virtual Hosts/Domains

2006-03-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews-Levine
On 3/8/06, Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks up for a discussion of a ''canonical'' implementation of > virtual hosts and/or domains? [snip] > - vdomain-webmin? I'd say that it's a great idea in geneneral, but this last "reseller-friendly" addition would be very, *very* useful. I'd

Re: How to set time

2004-07-29 Thread Jonathan Matthews
David P James had the gall to say: > Considering that the user is (1) on ALO and (2) using a Windows > mailer (ALO it looks like) I have my doubts that the above is much > help... Agreed. Does anyone else find it easy to filter out such obvious "noise" solely on where the text versus the heade

Re: Moving to a dedicated host...

2004-06-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] had the gall to say: > Hi all, [snip] > Any > experiences with other providers of decent non-managed Debian boxes with > a monthly datalimit of about 100GB? FWIW, I find www.bytemark.co.uk to be very good. They provide UML machines for a very reasonable amount. I can't remembe

Re: DVD+RW gone missing on moving to kernel 2.6.6

2004-05-22 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Graham Williams had the gall to say: > My "_NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive" that is easily > identified under 2.4.25 (as /dev/hdc) goes missing under my 2.6.6 > kernel. dmesg has no hint at all of the DVD. This is my only IDE > device (using a SATA hard drive). > > Is this a matter o

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Paul Johnson had the gall to say: > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Almost. murphy generates a bounce and sends it to the list manager > > (mailman, majordomo, ezmlm, etc. - I don't know what one murphy is > > running). The list manager then counts that against you

Re: No access but root

2004-05-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Pritpal Dhaliwal had the gall to say: > no one else has a clue? > > come on guys ( and girls).. its the debian users list.. If I wanted to > start doing fresh install when things get messed up.. I could stick to > windows... > > help me out please Please remember you're talking to /volunteers/

OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evenin' all. I've installed ClamAV+Exim4 to reject viruses at SMTP time. d-u's headers don't seem to mention anything about /virus/ scanning (as opposed to SpamAssassin), so I guess I'm ok asking this question here: The whole point of having virus scanning while the sender still has an open c

Re: devfs.rules vs. udev.rules

2004-04-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
csj had the gall to say: > What's the relationship between /etc/udev/devfs.rules and > /etc/udev/udev.rules? With the latest udev upgrade (0.024-6), I > lost my video for linux devices. Before the upgrade they were in > /dev/v4l/*. > > Sure enough I found that the rules for them had disappeared

Imap && imap-ssl && pop3-ssl

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
[Sorry for the cross-post - I think it's applicable to both -isp and -user.] I need to offer imap, imapssl and pop3ssl services. FWIW, imap would be localhost only, but -ssl services would be publically accessible. My reading thus far leads me towards Courier-imap with Exim 4 backported to sta

[OT] Taking notes

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for courses. I'm studying T171 with the Open University (it's a compulsory course on the way to their BSc in PeeCees), and a lot of the assessment is writing up what you thought about various resources (websites, reports, etc)

Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Doing a bit of advocay, I've managed to convince a friend to try Debian on his newly put-together PC for a bit, while he saves up the £165 WinXP tax. Unfortunately, I'm not doing a great job. I did a netinstall from debian-installer (12-01-04, FWIW, and it *rocks*!), but can't seem to get X t

Woody-->Sid - any current gotchas?

2004-01-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evenin' all. I'm about 2 hours away from getting my SOs new (well, third-hand) desktop machine up and running. Because she's a fairly non-technical sort, I want to give her the friendliest DE/WM I can - and I'm guessing that means something Gnome 2.4-y, which I'm only really going to get in S

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Paul E Condon had the gall to say: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it goes as fast as is reasonable. I think

Re: printer icon

2003-10-02 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Sebastian Kapfer had the gall to say: > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 04:30:15 +0200, Zeeblanc wrote: > > > I have a Lexmark z 11 printer.Until I was connected to aol 9.0 optimized > > it worked fine the icon was on my task bar. > > Can anyone enlighten me why _Windows_ users keep posting their [CENSORED]

Re: OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?

2003-09-19 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:21, Jonathan Matthews wrote: [snip] > > Which ADSL modem > > > > o has an ethernet port > > o works with BT broadband > > o offers most bang per buck > > I

OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?

2003-09-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
After a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing, my dad's finally got round to installing broadband. Specifically, BT broadband (here in the uk). He's asked me to slip in a 486 class router/firewall inbetween his Windows machines and the ADSL modem, so I'd much rather go with a modem that has RJ4

How do I make quality PDFs from LaTeX?

2003-09-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all. I've tried googling lists.debian.org, but I don't get anything coming up that seems to address my problem. I'm trying to get a "nice" looking PDF from a latex document. I'm using the normal article class, with no other packages loaded. I'm using a couple of symbols that I wouldn't ex

Re: Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machine to another over DSL

2003-08-14 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:17:08AM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines connected to the internet using DSL. What I would > like to do is backup one machine to the other. The files are compressed > and encrypted and then transferred usinc SCP. Atleast, thats what its > suppos

Re: Mouse Pointer Problem

2003-08-14 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:56:41PM -0300, Guilherme A. Mendes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a big problem with my mouse pointer: suddenly it loses the focus, > for example if I put the pointer under an icon, the pointer is not > exactly under that icon, it's some pixels left. > > I'm looking f

Re: pipes, dpkg and default screen width (sort of)

2003-07-18 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:15:03AM -0400, charlie derr wrote: > Hi, > Often I find myself executing the following: > > $ dpkg -l '*foo*' > > to find all packages with foo in the name. > When instead I look for only installed foo packages as follows: > > $ dpkg -l '*foo*' | grep ii > > the

woddy-proposed-updates vs. security

2003-07-05 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Just a quickie - Is there any difference between woody-proposed-updates and security.debian.org, for a stable machine? In other words, if I have stable and security in sources.list, am I missing out on /anything/ that's been updated by not having proposed-updates in there too? In other, other

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-29 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly > well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count .. [snip] for N in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 do echo $N done I'm sure someone will point o

Re: Debian-user, PASSIVE MONEY GENERATOR!!!

2003-06-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:02:45AM +, Staver wrote: [snip] > JUST GO TO http://www.euroinvclub.com AND DEPOSIT NOW!!! [snip] $ wget http://www.euroinvclub.com 2>/dev/null >/dev/null $ grep "as" index.html This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as

Re: "cut" command not working as expected

2003-06-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:54:59PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I need to get the first two file names from a directory ... If that's the spec, then I'd do ls | head -2 and that'd give you the first two files, unless you have 'ls' aliased to something else (ls -C, perhaps ..?) > My code > > di

Re: Plw

2003-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:50:36PM -0700, frosty frees wrote: >Hi there, u wont know me, but im wondering if you can take five minutes >out and help me out. [snip] Preaching to the converted, I guess, but I strongly suspect this to be email-address gathering spam. Reply off-list at your

Re: Networked sound - any ideas?

2003-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:32:25PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:58:21PM +0200, Andreas Schulz wrote: > > what's about setting up a sound server (streaming )on each machine, > > and the one with the hifi-plug joins the streams ?? > > Any suggestion on the package(s) t

Networked sound - any ideas?

2003-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all. I've got a few machines on the internal LAN that I'd like to network the sound on. Only one of them is connected to the hi-fi, but they all have sound cards in. I've had a look at Esound and ARTS, but never had any luck with implementing a system-wide solution that my non-techie partn

Re: Problem with sqwebmail login (repost)

2003-06-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Sasa Babic wrote: > /* Sorry if this is double post. I'm not sure if it got to the list (seems > * not). */ > > Debian stable & sqwebmail. > > I must be doing something wrong, because I'm not able to authenticate trough > sqwebmail interface. Searched th

Strange iptables behaviour (success/failure depends on presence of "harmless" logging line)

2003-06-03 Thread Jonathan Matthews
[ SUMMARY: Why does adding a "harmless" logging line to my iptables script let traffic pass (the desired behaviour) that is otherwise stopped? ] I'm having problems doing port forwarding through my old 486/25sx NAT box here. The only reason I mention its spec/age is that I'm having difficulty

Re: default run level

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:20:12AM +0500, Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW wrote: > Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X > installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended > up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:09:47AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have read Security-Quickstart-HOWTO. > > I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received > returned emails she neversent) and plan to take drastic action. The > network consists of DSL modem, a wireles

Re: startx problem

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:08:14PM +0300, yaron wrote: > Tran Tuan Anh wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've just installed Debian, but cannot bring the window system up. > >When I run startx it gives "Fatal server error: no screens found". > > > >I am using Philips 107S monitor, > >Video adapter: GeF

Re: X screen shifts right !!.

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Dave Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having an irritating problem with Debian 3.0 on Intel. I'm using > olvwm on top of XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. (it is over 12 months old). > Hardware is on board Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (re

Re: kdm vs xdm

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0200, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi guys > > This is probably a stupid question, but here goes. > > At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm > instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to > kdm,

Re: buying a cd writer

2003-03-29 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:01:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Yes, agree, I have an old 12x lite on and a newer 40x. Works fine on > both windoze and debian. I'm also useing a Plextor 48x, very nice. And a > old Sony 12x and a Teac scsi 12x, also very nice. > > I'm useing scsi emul

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

2003-03-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:26:54PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi List > > I'm running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results in > my > processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use > the CPU at no more than, say 30%? > I ha

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get > update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, > bailed with the following error: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /

name conflict: ud / ud-ldap

2003-03-27 Thread Jonathan Matthews
I've just noticed that "man ud-ldap" gives the same manpage as "man ud", which is also the name of the uptime daemon package and binary. The ud-ldap manpage says that it represents the binary "ud", but I know from another debian box that both root and users can execute ud to get a summary of th

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 ori

Re: I need a little help

2003-03-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:00:43PM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote: > Is not that I don't want to share or soimething like that, is just I have > some scripts that need to be part of the web page code but they compromise > in some ways the security of the site and the privacy of those who are > par

Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > google text input

Re: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:54:05AM -0800, linux learner wrote: > > Like it says at the bottom of every message: > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". > > Okay *MY BAD*, it was ambiguous perhaps. > > How do i turn off message deliv

Re: Mouse/X

2003-03-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +, Olivier wrote: > Quoting "Paul M Foster" : > > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mar 12, 2003 at 10:59:50 -- > > > I'll give you the solution someone gave me on my system. I'm using a > > Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card, so YMMV. > > That's quite interestin

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, please help

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:07:22PM +0100, PeterG wrote: > "Jonathan Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im > Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > Hi, > > [snip rtl8139 problems] &g

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, please help

2003-03-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi, [snip rtl8139 problems] No idea if this is feasible here, but my favourite way of solving 8139 problems is to put a decent nic in the box (Intel EtherExpress, Tulip, LinkSys - maybe, etc.) and ignore the PoS RTL. Seriously

Re: [newbie] Setting up network

2003-03-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Untill now, I only got online using a dial up connection. Now i am going to > dormitory, and in order to get online I have to connect to my dormitory's > LAN. I can setup the network using the following two commands: >

Re: Apt-get, downloading a single package

2003-03-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:31:39PM -0500, Radek Zajkowski [Deb] wrote: > What would like a command to apt-get look like if I wanted to download a > single package. # apt-get install This might pull in some extra packages. If you're hoping to avoid this, I'd suggest you don't, as apt-get only p

Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

2003-03-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:36:09PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think we're talking at cross purposes - I meant "I find it strange > > that the excuses cited should be taken as reasons for the mail to be &g

Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

2003-03-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:39:49AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:31:02AM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > SPAM: EXCUSE_16 (-0.3 points) BODY: I wonder how many emails they sent in > > error... > > SPAM: EXCUSE_14 (-0.2 points) B

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-03-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:34:12PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > >>The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of > >>kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on >

[SOLVED] Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

2003-03-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Jonathan Matthews wrote: [snip] > > I'd just like to get some confirmation that these weightings are wrong. > > It's the stock install of SpamAssassin in testing, with no alterations > > made to the conf

SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

2003-03-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Quick Spamassassin question: I've got SpamAssassin 2.43 installed, and it's working well. However, I noticed the two lines quoted below in the altered body of some spam that it caught recently: SPAM: EXCUSE_16 (-0.3 points) BODY: I wonder how many emails they sent in error... SPAM: EX

Re: Using one mailbox at ISP for many people

2003-02-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:32:57PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all > > > > [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox > > at my ISP into different users locally?] > >

How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] The following NEW packages

Using one mailbox at ISP for many people

2003-02-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all [BRIEF SUMMARY - How do I segregate one mail stream from one mailbox at my ISP into different users locally?] At the moment, I'm the only person using my machine. However, having installed the GNOME 2.2 backport, I've finally got a desktop that I feel happy in sitting my SO down in fro

Re: Taking over your desktop, one box at a time

2003-02-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:08:57AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: > This is probably offtopic for this list, but can everyone download > http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian_gel_logo/ (Debian Gel/Aqua Logo > Background) and tell me what they think of it? heh - have had it as my b/g for a week o

Re: Odd 'which' behaviour - not finding shell script [SOLVED]

2003-02-22 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:53:27AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > nate wrote: > > > Jonathan Matthews said: > > > Here's a transcript from a shell session. > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $PATH > > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/us

Re: Odd "which" behaviour - not finding shell script

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:50:03PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: [snip] > According to which's manpage, it examines all the directories in > $PATH, and doesn't reply on a previously generated index. s/reply/rely/ jc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Odd "which" behaviour - not finding shell script

2003-02-21 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Here's a transcript from a shell session. Can anyone explain why the "which" line doesn't find the script when both tab-completion and running it do? jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ echo $PATH ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ ls ~/bin firewall-up.ipchains jc.disco

PCI graphics cards recommendations

2003-02-14 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi everyone. Can anyone recommend/warn me off any PCI graphics cards that are still available at retail? I've googled a bit, but can't find any info written in the last year or so, or any relevant to X4.x FWIW I'm running X4.2, with a 15" CRT and a K6-III/550Mhz. I'd be looking to try Quake I/

Re: X whacking monitor

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:51:53PM -0500, Mike M wrote: [snip] > This is also known as the Trident 9880 chip. It is on a Jaton 107AGP card. [snip] > I might be swapping out the Trident video cards for something else if the > problems persist. > Mike M. Mike - I think the prevailing wisdom when

[SOLVED] Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Hi all - > > I'm having a problem with my .muttrc config. > > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:08:57PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:17:20PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > When starting mutt, it barfs over the line > > send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:50:33AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:42:14 -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > why do people that don't want non-free .deb's just remove it from > > their sources line? > > Amen. > > Where is the original of this posting? All I can find on the >

muttrc parse error - why??

2002-11-15 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all - I'm having a problem with my .muttrc config. When starting mutt, it barfs over the line send-hook "~b [EMAIL PROTECTED]" my_hdr From: Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> complaining "b: not supported in this mode". What's wrong with it? Can I not use ~ notation in a send hook? The

Preload Openoffice.org at X startup

2002-11-13 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all - anyone got any hints on preloading Openoffice.org when X starts, sort of like the galeon -s option ... ? It's great, n'all, but a bit of a pig to start on my 550 K6-3! Failing any built-in, background server type functionality, would "cat > /dev/null &" in my .xinitrc be of any /real/

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

2002-11-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:26:25PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > > Here are the requirements: > > > > 1) Must be able to "maximize window to available space" a la > >enlightenment. > > 2) Must support multiple sequence key bindings a la emacs. > > 3) Must be fast. > > 4) Must be faster. > >

[OT] Practical differences between Netgear models

2002-11-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evening all - I'm looking to take my home network up to 100Mbps, and I wondered if anyone could give me a clue as to the difference between a couple of netgear models that I've seen advertised at a fairly decent price (~35UKP+tax, I think) I'm looking at the FS105 & FS108, versus the FS608. The

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:08:02AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 08 November 2002, 01:40 PM +): > > Look at abook for a simple addressbook written for mutt. Its manpage > > says that it ca

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:34:47PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:52:11PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:51:28PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh spake thus: > > > > > i have recently migrated from windows to linux. currently i use woody 3.0. > > >

Re: Playing sound over the network

2002-10-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Michael Schulze wrote: > > So, is there a way of getting /dev/dsp (or whatever) to be forwarded > > over the network, so that I can play stuff locally with apps not > > having to know that any jiggery-pokery is going on? > > i once used esound (Enlighten

Playing sound over the network

2002-10-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi list - I've got one server/music box attached to my hifi, networked to my main work box. My main box /has/ got a soundcard attached, but I'd really like to avoid having to compile soundcard support in to the kernel. Also, it's got on-board AC97, which I gather is a PoS. So, is there a way

Re: phpgroupware and php4

2002-06-25 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 03:17:57PM -0400, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Try apt-get install 4> > > I think I tried this a while back and it worked. > > Erik > > -- > Erik Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://erik.mathisen.us > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at

phpgroupware and php4

2002-06-25 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Does anyone know how to convince an "apt-get install phpgroupware" not to remove php4, php4-pgsql and phppgadmin and install them with php3 based packages? Here's the apt-get log: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: libc-client200

Re: howto kill old screen sessions?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:04:07PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Hello, who shows some old screen sessions but ps aux doesn't show the > associated pts/x so I can't simply kill them. Screendump will show the > output but depends on the session name for further use. I know I can > reboot but t

Lite-ON LTR-32123S cdrw - any successes?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi - just wondering if anyone has had any luck using a Lite-ON LTR-32123S CD rewriter. I've only found one reference to it in a linux context, and that was on linux-kernel - where no-one replied to a mail asking about how to deal with some errors when booting/using it. Sorry - not online as I wr

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:45:22PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > &g

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > >

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a while ago, and > > someone mentioned that it

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > > in the error messages) keeps jumping ah

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