Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-29 Thread Russ Pitman
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 21:17 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Greg Folkert wrote: < snip> Seeing as nvidia drivers are being 'installed' here may I ask if anyone has had problems running frozen-bubbles under these drivers.? Every time I tried the system gave

Re: question about kernel 2.6

2004-07-09 Thread Russ Pitman
j smith wrote: > thanks! > > i read the Debian book, but it explicitly says: > > "Note that you don't have to compile your kernel the > ``Debian way''; but we find that using the packaging > system to manage your kernel is actually safer and > easier." > > so i choose non-debian way. the correct

Re: Installing nvu:"the html editor for L--dows"

2004-03-04 Thread Russ Pitman
David Baron wrote: > If you already have Debian up and running, you do not need Lindows. Agreed > Nvu is a Mozilla operation. If you have a recent Mozilla, it should play. I I use the latest version from mozilla.org > have not installed Nvu as of yet but downloaded it for both Linux and > W--

Re: mouse

2003-10-21 Thread Russ Pitman
Marlin Unruh wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial > track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The > track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. > > Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I t

Re: Getting Radio/TV on Debian.

2003-09-30 Thread Russ Pitman
Stephan Balmer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:20:15PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > The card is crap, I knew that when I bought it. (Couldn't miss the price though.) > > > With the 2.6.Kernels, I installed both test2 and test4 images from the > > archives

Getting Radio/TV on Debian.

2003-09-15 Thread Russ Pitman
Having been given Radio/TV card and finding it is working, I have had no success so far installing it in my Debian m/c running Sid,currently uptodate. The card is a Prolink Pixelview Play TV Pak modelPV-Bt878P+ Rev4E >From the cardlist No.50 an exact match The tuner is an LG TPI8PSB02P Cardlist No

Re: Devices not found

2003-09-01 Thread Russ Pitman
Apologies for replying to self. All fixed OK. Module failling to load. -- Cheers Russ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Devices not found

2003-08-31 Thread Russ Pitman
I installed the radio package. When running radio with or without option flags I get 'no such device' errors. The kernel finds the tuner and the bttv driver is loaded and /dev/radio has 666 permissions.(pruned outputs shown below). I'm sure there is docs/FAQ for this but have hit a mental roadblo

Re: Sylpheed spellchecking help

2003-08-22 Thread Russ Pitman
Roy Pluschke wrote: > > Sylpheed doen't have spell checking -- use sylpheed-claws instead they call it > a bleeding edge version but I have always found it stable enough for day to > day use. > > Hope this helps > R. Pluschke Thanks Roy, that will do fine. I never looked in woody thinking a 'b

Sylpheed spellchecking help

2003-08-21 Thread Russ Pitman
I tried for several times to sub to the sylpheed mail list to ask this but no go so far, probably my error, however perhaps someone using sylpheed can help. Briefly I installed a debian woody system for a elderly friend to use as a browser and email and 'learn about computers'. He can manage both

Re: Midnight commander won't start on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Russ Pitman
Robert Black wrote: > I just installed Woody and trying to get everything set up, I can't get > Midnight commander to start. Having used Slink this is the only thing I > know to use to get the tweaks set. Anyone run into this problem? I see > it in the /bin directory. Is there anything else comp

Re: Scan rate for Elonex MN009 monitor

2003-08-14 Thread Russ Pitman
Pigeon wrote: > Not completely OT, as I want the information for configuring X under > Debian... > > In search of info on the range of scan rates accepted by an Elonex > MN009 monitor, I searched Google to no avail, so decided to email > Elonex, who said: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:14:46PM +0

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-09 Thread Russ Pitman
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:49:11AM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:08, Daniel Teichert wrote: > > > And I heard Pigeon exclaim: > > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:23:25PM +1200, cr wrote: > > Try > > cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI: -scanbus

Re: testing

2003-06-28 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:26:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I seem to have lost the ability to post to this > list. This is a test to see if I have. It works here. -- Cheers Russ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Help

2003-06-09 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:23:46AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Firstly Haines, please Do Not encourage anyone to send HTML mail to > > any maillist. Many list members will simply ignore and/or discard > > html unread, It's considered bad form. > > Russ, I quite agree, and that was my intended p

Re: Help

2003-06-09 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:06:31AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Wow, Fred, people are going to get upset with you. Multiple versions > of multiple messages from you are showing up. I see that you are using > Word to send your message. I suggest you don't do that and also that > you follow some of t

Re: Beginers guide to spamassain ?

2003-06-09 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:11:49AM -0400, stan wrote: > > That's apmbouncer in the noisy mode. >^^ > It works good. I've never had a _real_ spammer actually _read_ the message, > and send spam _with password_, in over 5 years of using it. Mostly if it's > _real_ spam, the reply bo

Re: inode error, linux won't boot

2003-06-03 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:35:58AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > This is really quite strange. I was moving my office from one room to > another. I hadn't shut down my computer and when I went to do a "sudo > halt" it couldn't find "sudo". It was weird but I was in the middle of > moving so I po

Re: X needed on printserver?

2003-06-02 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:38:00AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:48:28AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Thanks Alex and would the same apply to Xprint? > > I never used it so I don't know. I use cups (apt-get install cupsys) > which I'm very hap

Re: Constant sync between two nodes?

2003-06-02 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0200, Mailinglists at Soderlund.Org wrote: > Hi all, > > setting up another machine as a backup to my private mailserver. I would > like to have a constant sync (preferably increments) of directories and > files that I choose between the two, using the LAN bet

Re: X needed on printserver?

2003-06-02 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:59:03PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:37:45PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > If a client workstation is passing X data to a printserver does the > > printserver machine need to have X installed? > > > > I find muc

X needed on printserver?

2003-06-01 Thread Russ Pitman
If a client workstation is passing X data to a printserver does the printserver machine need to have X installed? I find much documentation confuses me using the single word 'server' for both the machine and the software that may/should reside on a different machine which in turn may also be a

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-03 Thread Russ Pitman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:24:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:32:43AM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > I'm no expert really, and maybe there is some other permissions problem going > > on, but I observe that with a default Debian Woody install that cdrecord is > > setuid.

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:46:12PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:23:19PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. > > 2.4.20 is not out yet -- there are only pre-releases (the latest one is &g

Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. As of a few minutes ago they havn't showed up in the unstable archive and I have info that support for Netjet ISDN modems is included in 2.4.20. I obtained one yesterday from a college moving up to ADSL, unfortunately no docs etc

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.[Fixed]

2002-09-02 Thread Russ Pitman
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:31:09PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To those who replied .Many Thanks,you stirred the mud betwwen my ears:-)) > > > > The attachment was telling mutt it was an 'application octet

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.[Fixed]

2002-09-02 Thread Russ Pitman
To those who replied .Many Thanks,you stirred the mud betwwen my ears:-)) The attachment was telling mutt it was an 'application octet-stream'. Adding a line application/octet-stream; /usr/bin/acroread '%s' etc etc in /etc/mailcap worked fine Thank you all. -- russ lin

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.

2002-09-02 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:23:55PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Russ Pitman told: > > > Using mutt in unstable uptodate,kernel 2.4.18 . > > > > I have a supplier who insists on sending me documents as attachments.pdf &

Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.

2002-09-02 Thread Russ Pitman
Using mutt in unstable uptodate,kernel 2.4.18 . I have a supplier who insists on sending me documents as attachments.pdf via his isp's WebMail 2.0. I cannot change that situation. Tryiny to view the attachment fails,mutt can only ask to view binary. My .mailcap had 'application/pdf;' set to /us

Re: cashbook program

2002-05-31 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:38:07PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > > My son thinks that gnucash is a little overkill for his requirements. Can > > anyone suggest a linux program with similiarity to using M$

Re: Recovering a dd'd MBR -Possible?

2002-05-28 Thread Russ Pitman
Eric, I cc'd this to the list hope you don't mind. It maintains the thread and may be usefull to others who may be tempted to do something equally stupid. On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:23:59AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Pitman <

Re: Recovering a dd'd MBR -Possible?

2002-05-28 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 03:50:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, May 26, 2002, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have two hard drives, hda and hdb. I wiped the MBR on /dev/hdb not > > realizing that it would cause the boot of /dev/hda to fail while it was &

Recovering a dd'd MBR -Possible?

2002-05-26 Thread Russ Pitman
I have two hard drives, hda and hdb. I wiped the MBR on /dev/hdb not realizing that it would cause the boot of /dev/hda to fail while it was still in the chain. With /dev/hdb switched off /dev/hda boots fine, but I need to be able to access /dev/hdb to transfe all/most of the files over to /dev/hd

cashbook program

2002-05-20 Thread Russ Pitman
My son thinks that gnucash is a little overkill for his requirements. Can anyone suggest a linux program with similiarity to using M$ money cashbook. This is part of my conversion of the family to freedom. thanks. -- russ

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Russ Pitman
Replying to myself. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. Forget all ths crap Russ On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:07:28PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs -- r

Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-16 Thread Russ Pitman
I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from years ago when I first started in linux. Now I want to try out speech, no I am not losing my sight, its simply the challenge, which brings me back on to

Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)

2002-03-21 Thread Russ Pitman
-snip- > It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix > didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -snip- And sometime soon in unstable ? -- r

Re: Testing my serial port?

2002-02-24 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:34:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know, how can i test if me serial port is fried? my > external modem that used to work just fine, stopped working.. both > in windows and debian...(i dualboot) Its very strange ,because from > windows,

Re: Sound

2002-02-14 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:03:18AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:54, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > > Thanks.. I have done that now and it said my user is added but I still get > > no sound as root. I will keep your info for future installs because I see > > another one coming u

Re: Sound

2001-01-30 Thread Russ Pitman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:23:39PM -0500, T. Green wrote: > newbie to debian > I have ensoniq audio PCI model (ES1371) sound card, An I can't get it > to make a sound. > Anyone know what is needed to get the card to produce sound. > Tkank you > Assuming that you are running the kernel as instal

Colours in MCEDIT

2001-01-29 Thread Russ Pitman
Can anyone tell me specifically how to change the colour of comments lines in mcedit (Midnight Commander). The default is illegible to my old eyes and I got bushed in the various docs. TIA, -- russ

Re: 3c509 with 2.4.0 kernel and sid

2001-01-27 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > let's have a look ... > > Did you try ... ? > > http://www.linux.com/links/Documentation/ > > Also, if i'm correct you would be able to set this parameter with netconf or > would at least find the dox when you use > > man net

Re: Backup packages

2000-11-28 Thread Russ Pitman
You could look at bu by V.Stemen. Get it from http://www.AdvancedResearch.org I have used for several years, don't think it has been debianised tho. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:26:33AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > I have several HDDs on my system and use one of them for on-line >

Re: xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 config error

2000-11-28 Thread Russ Pitman
Sorry for replying to my own mail. Just finished an apt-get dist-upgrade and it sorted everything out. Please ignore the mail. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:54:05AM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > An apt-get upgrade two nights ago included xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 that > failed to install

xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 config error

2000-11-27 Thread Russ Pitman
An apt-get upgrade two nights ago included xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-8 that failed to install at the configure stage. Just now a replacement download failed again. The error shows: -- Unpacking replacement xserver-xfree86 ... Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-8) ... sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:00:28PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > What do you do if you want to buy a laptop? I think buying a laptop > > > without windoze is nearly impossible (at least here in austria) :((( > > > > > > Bernhard > > > > there's more and more companies s

Re: Debconf/Perl-upgrade fails

2000-11-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:47:59PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > spent a while with this one my self: > > # apt-get install perl-5.6 > > Solves all your worries :) > > I really should check to see if this is an officially known bug. > > -Jon > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s uns

Debconf/Perl-upgrade fails

2000-11-19 Thread Russ Pitman
As a result of trying to install Xfree-4 ,apt-get installed/removed a raft of packages. The install process finally produced these errors -- Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.21) ... Can't locate warnings/register.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

Re: sound in pysol fails

2000-11-09 Thread Russ Pitman
cured pysol and killed saytime ? but I can live with that. On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:11:12PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > Reply-To > > I have just upgraded pysol in woody and now sound fails and causes the > program to not exit properly. Exiting leaves a blank playing surface which &

sound in pysol fails

2000-11-09 Thread Russ Pitman
Reply-To I have just upgraded pysol in woody and now sound fails and causes the program to not exit properly. Exiting leaves a blank playing surface which can only be removed by killing the pid's Starting up from an xterm reveals this error SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled) Sa

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-05 Thread Russ Pitman
ke. Maybe worth a try for you? [A On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:35:57AM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:21:06PM +1100, Russell Davies wrote: > > ; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a > > ; bunch of errors and declined to wo

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:21:06PM +1100, Russell Davies wrote: > ; Tried both upgrade and dist-upgrade, can't be certain now but one gave a > ; bunch of errors and declined to work. The one that did loaded 57 files > ; including pcima stuff which I did not have or want and libc6 v2.1.96-1. > ; >

Re: woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-04 Thread Russ Pitman
talls on separate drives which are non-updateable.:-( Am I the only one woody doesn't like ? On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 07:35:24PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:25:46PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato s

woody upgrade still breaks apt-get

2000-11-03 Thread Russ Pitman
Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato systems and have used the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to bring up a woody installation. Always after the upgrade finishes apt-get fails with the 'something wicked' error. I have tried using just 'nameserver localhost' in resolv.conf bu

Re: mount permissions

2000-10-28 Thread Russ Pitman
Use 'noauto' as an option in your fstab entry-- see man fstab . On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:06:16PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: > when my FAT32 file systems are mounted at > boot time the owner and group are "root". > As a regular user I can read files but not > write them. > > I have the user op

Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving (Now Fixed!)

2000-10-25 Thread Russ Pitman
Just to clear this thread. Tonight I did an apt-get install postfix which reinstalled all the current deps and now postfix is fine. Many thanks for your assistance. On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:45:56PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:05:32PM +1100, Russ Pitman wr

Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving 'http.us.debian.org/http '

2000-10-23 Thread Russ Pitman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:05:32PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > Jason, > Will do later this evening, I'm a bit lost on bind tho. > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:05:13AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Hi Jason, back now. Well, changing /etc/resolv.conf seems to have part

Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving 'http.us.debian.org/http '

2000-10-23 Thread Russ Pitman
Jason, Will do later this evening, I'm a bit lost on bind tho. On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:05:13AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > > Postfix broke with a stuck mail queue, apt-get broke again and I have just > > finishe

Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving 'http.us.debian.org/http '

2000-10-23 Thread Russ Pitman
Hi; I have been bitten with this twice now, so I think that there is more than one issue here. The first time I had just restarted my cron updates after having shut them down as soon as the glib problem was reported on this listmail. I mailed the list on Oct 16,see thread"still cannot access DEbia

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:07:01PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Bill writes: > > ...I can't connect to the internet (WVDial fails with my ISP)... > > Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then use 'pon' to connect > and 'poff' to disconnect. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: Running procmail on an existing mailbox

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:50:47AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > How can I run an already-flooded mailbox through procmail's filters, > preferrably supporting both maildir and mbox input formats? > > -- > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Please always Cc to me when repl

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:36:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:19:06PM +1100, Russ Pitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > My bad!! > > I really should have seen that :-( However the error persists > > > >

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-20 Thread Russ Pitman
first try. Maybe wget would have worked ok if I knew more about it, in any event I am indebted to this list- thank you-. On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:46:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > try going here to find it: > > ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html > > nate > &

Re: netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Russ Pitman
> >netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > > --- > > > > Trying to download using the address gives, > > > > -- > > arjay:~# ncftp > > ftp://archive.netscape.com.archive/navigator/3.01/unix/netscape-v304-export >

netscape navigator-v304

2000-10-19 Thread Russ Pitman
In a potato install from the CD dpkg returns this; --- ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: /tmp/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] Do NOT simply rename the archive of another version in order to force it to install with

Still cannot acess Debian.org

2000-10-15 Thread Russ Pitman
I am still getting these errors when trying to update/upgrade. arjay:/home/russ# apt-get update Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages Something wicked happend resolving 'non-us.debian.org/http' Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Something wicked happend r

Re: Setup X-Windows with TNT VGA Card

2000-09-24 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:59:32AM +0800, Eddie Leung wrote: > Dear friends, > > I encount problem when setup X windows using Riva TNT card. I cannot > used the setting in card database to setup but I had success setup in > RH. > > Could you please suggest how make it works? Thanks, > > Eddie >

Re: Changing Mutt's defaults- possible?

2000-09-24 Thread Russ Pitman
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:58:45PM -0400, Bruce DeVisser wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:55:34PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Can the 'N' flags in the index list be configured so that they > > remain set until all the folder's contents have been read > >

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Russ Pitman
So apt-get update apt-get upgrade on a daily routine should keep your release as secure as possible. Yes? On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:48:01PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Debian "back-ported" the relevant security patches that w

Re: R: R: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-24 Thread Russ Pitman
Marko: First what I can do is apologise for missinformation. If your so- file runs it should accept the -net suffix,and give you a net install in your root directory as /office52. I just went thru the install both ways to check. The instructions in the pdf file refer to usin

Re: R: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread Russ Pitman
H On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:17:24PM +0200, marco frattola wrote: > > > > > -Messaggio originale- > > Da: Russ Pitman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Inviato: mercoledì 23 agosto 2000 14.09 > > A: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Oggetto: Re: net inst

Re: net install of staroffice 5.2

2000-08-23 Thread Russ Pitman
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:02:18AM +0200, marco frattola wrote: > hi all, _SNIP_ I forget what I actually did to get a net install but I think that the option was offered during the install process. Just a thought- Sun has a pdf file of the all the install details on their web site. --

Re: Unable to load atd.

2000-08-08 Thread Russ Pitman
n Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:32:16AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:43:59PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Running woody with 2.2.15 kernel, system updated today. > > >> > What messages do you see in /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/daemon? >

Unable to load atd.

2000-08-07 Thread Russ Pitman
Running woody with 2.2.15 kernel, system updated today. At bootup the kernel messages show that the at daemon as being loaded,no error. Entering an 'at' command results in, Can't open /var/run/atd.pid to signal atd. No atd running? 'ps' agrees. >From the command line using '/etc/

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Pitman
:26:40AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have no problems with the S3 Trio64V+ at 1024x768 -16/24bit > > but it may be because I had 4 meg ram and upgraded to 8meg latterly > &

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Well-- The oportunity to comment here is too good to pass. I believe that mc should also be known as LSAK ( Linux Swiss Army Knife). Been an addict for years and still don't know all its tricks-:)) On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:51:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Color me clueless, but I ju

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

2000-08-03 Thread Russ Pitman
I have no problems with the S3 Trio64V+ at 1024x768 -16/24bit but it may be because I had 4 meg ram and upgraded to 8meg latterly still using it on a 'passed over' machine. On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:29:07PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Does anybody have a XF86Config fi

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-03 Thread Russ Pitman
Try using mc . Just select the file and hit 'F3'. On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > hi. > > i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/* > > i'm guessing it's been done that way for the sake of space-conservation. > > i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Russ Pitman
Hmm-- Thanks, I will put fetchpop on the system and check it out next time fetchmail falls over. If it works, maybe do some stirring :-)) On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Russ Pitman wrote: > > > I have that problem on a fairly re

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Russ Pitman
I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to tell fetchmail to disregard th

Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

2000-07-20 Thread Russ Pitman
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 07:38:46PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been poking around Freshmeat and the Debian package list for > Woody, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. What is it, you > ask? > > I was wondering if there was a calendar/planner software that would > all

Re: non-US Packages

2000-07-03 Thread Russ Pitman
Chris, Yes, worked fine with both ftp:// and http:// prefixes. Thanks. On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:22:33PM +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: > * Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Failed to fetch > > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non

non-US Packages

2000-07-03 Thread Russ Pitman
I get this error running apt-get update Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.de.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Release Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages Unable to fetch file, server said '/debia

apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread Russ Pitman
In /etc/apt/sources.list I have, deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US Running apt-get update gives the following, --start here Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release Get:1 ftp:/

Home network redhat to debian ?

2000-06-22 Thread russ pitman
I have two boxes networked,this one (arjay) and another (oriole) which is running mandrake 7.1 When running RH 6.2 on oriole I can telnet from either box ok,but I cannot get the configuration for debian to work. My understanding is that Deb./etc/network/interfaces correspo

Re: Cannot mail out of debian

2000-05-25 Thread russ pitman
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > May 13 15:31:58 arjay kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 > > 203.31.17

Cannot mail out of debian

2000-05-14 Thread Russ Pitman
I recently installed debian slink and sucessfully (?) followed advice to upgrade to frozen,thanks Eric.G.Miller! Now trying to get mail up, when I run 'fetchmail -v'it hangs and syslog reports May 13 15:31:43 arjay syslogd 1.3-3#33: res

Re: Mounting non Debian partitions

2000-05-07 Thread Russ Pitman
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 08:30:39PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote: > > Have only just managed to install Debian 2.1, after giving up > > many times. > > Now mostly it all works, all I need to do is hang in there. > &

Mounting non Debian partitions

2000-05-07 Thread Russ Pitman
Have only just managed to install Debian 2.1, after giving up many times. Now mostly it all works, all I need to do is hang in there. Normally using redhat, I now need to shift configurations etc but when in deb. and I try to mount any linux partition that is not debi