Fix for boot failure with testing stream and 6.6.13-amd64 kernel

2024-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
the machine bootable again. Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Fix for bug in r8168-dkms with kernel 6.4.0.2-amd64

2023-09-01 Thread Sam Varghese
est regards, Lol. -- I am not subscribed to the list. Sam Varghese

Hibernation issue with 4.19.0-4-amd64 on Debian testing

2019-05-11 Thread Sam Varghese
any issue. Otherwise, if I just let it return from hibernation without any intervention, even though the system is using the 4.19.0-2-amd64 kernel, it does not hibernate when I try to put it into this state and I have to do a hard reboot. Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? Thanks, Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
id, you should probably opt for this > kernel: > https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Thank you, Andrea, and everyone else for the helpful responses. Much appreciated. I think I will avoid the "G" variant; the Ryzen5 2600 is available for $259 (Australian dollar

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 22, 2019 8:11 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my >> concern. > > I haven't seen any while running Stretch or later. >> I presume that the built-in graphics

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:46 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running >> Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a >> year and cannot find anything on this subject. &

Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
good experiences with AMD processors in the past - my current box has a K6-2 chip - I would prefer to go with a processor from the same company. If anyone does respond, could you please copy me in? I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 07:12:48PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, "Sam Varghese" wrote: > > > > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the > > past couple of weeks and have been getting the following er

Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-02 Thread Sam Varghese
I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Fetched 70.5 kB in 13s (5,300 B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists...

Wireless connection problems after testing upgrade

2014-10-07 Thread Sam Varghese
I run Debian testing on a Lenovo Thinkpad E531 which I bought in June. I have been running Debian for the last 14 years, and have used the testing stream on several machines for the last seven or eight years. I have never used network-manager to manage my wireless connection, depending instead on

Re: /usr/sbin/alternatives-update missing

2014-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:37:33AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 19:20:57 +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > i am running the testing stream on a fairly > > old laptop. > > > > At the end of every upgrade, I get this message: > > sh: 1: /usr

/usr/sbin/alternatives-update missing

2014-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
can be corrected. i am not subscribed to the list, and would, thus, appreciate being copied in. thanks, sam (sam varghese) debian user since 2000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-16 Thread Sam Varghese
he drivers were taken out of the kernel. Thank you very much for taking te trouble to reply. My problem has away after an apt-get update && apt-get install linux-firmware. There are some error messages during bootup but they are about udev. Thanks to all the others who offered helpful sugges

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 12, 2010 23:41, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> > The most likely cause is a problem with the video driver's kernel >> > modules. Assuming that you indicate that the X login screen doesn't >> > appear and that the computer does try to indeed start X, could you >> > please check if there is

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-12 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, February 13, 2010 01:39, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm >> thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. > What type of Thinkpad is this? the thinkpad is an R50e. full specs: Processo

vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-11 Thread Sam Varghese
ystem boots and runs as it should with the previous kernel image, vmlinuz-2.6.30-686. has anyone else experienced this? any way around it? or should one wait for a fix to appear in the regular course of things? thanks, sam ---- (Sam Varghese) PS: anyone responding, please copy me in as i a

Jerky mouse movements with 2.6.0

2004-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
3 Emulate3Buttons EndSection Changing the protocol to IMPS/2 does not make any difference. Under the older version of X, I was using BaudRate and SampleRate but the mouse works perfectly with 2.4.19 and this configuration so I haven't bothered to add those parameters. Cheers, Sam - -- Sam Va

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sam Varghese
/www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Be5tZyXhknb+33gRApQ4AJ0SiiS

Removing a signature from a file

2003-06-24 Thread Sam Varghese
x27;t decompress it. Anybody got an idea about how I can recover this file? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread Sam Varghese
mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail client. There's a howto here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utm

Re: vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
s and are having some problems with the new provider. There were three messages from the list admin over the last two days explaining the problems in detail. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a gre

Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
do a recompile? Or will these not work properly with Woody? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:45:38AM -0700, David Monarres waxed eloquent and said: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:20 am, Sam Varghese wrote: > > How does one get Gnome 2.2 to run on testing with its default window > > manager? I'v

Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
ckbox. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGI

Re: Antivirus in Debian?

2003-03-28 Thread Sam Varghese
as caught them all. The two Windows boxes have anti-virus software installed but nothing has ever got through the Debian server - yet. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The years teach much which the days never knew. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: OT: VMS / WNT [was: Re: Official Exim 4 package]

2003-03-26 Thread Sam Varghese
NT project in 1988. Amid suspicions of intellectual property theft, DEC eventually sued Microsoft, citing that Cutler and his Mica team had actually continued the same project within Microsoft, culminating in the birth of the Windows NT OS. After Microsoft settled the case with DEC for $150 million,

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Sam Varghese
Save yourself the trouble. 8:o) > > Because IE has around 90% share of the browser market -- if it doesn't > work on IE, you lose your audience. I tend to agree. Even getting something to display correctly on different versions of the same browser and browsers which are said

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-18 Thread Sam Varghese
ney > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn > it off. Could you tell me how you did this? I had a similar problem with my CD-ROM. What I did was make a one-line executable in /etc/init.d: /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

Re: DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:20:46AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:51:17PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > | On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: >

Re: DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:11:51AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > | i've been trying to find some app which would let me connect to the net > | with a

DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i've been trying to find some app which would let me connect to the net with an usb dsl modem and have drawn a blank. would anyone on the list know of any app that can be used? sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-03 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:42:55PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev spake thus: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:42:58AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > g'day all, > > > > i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, us

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga spake thus: > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > g'day all, > > > > i'

netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
came with the disks - 2.4.18-bf2.4. the network cards on the box both use the rtl8139 module. i'm about to put the box on the net to test it but wanted to find out the cause of the messages before i do so. any help would be appreciated. sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The do

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Sam Varghese
ily's mail. I also help to run a charity project to provide Internet access for elderly and disabled people in one region of the state of Victoria - we use a P133 running Debian as our server. It handles mail, dial-up and caching-only DNS for about 55 people. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnu

Re: Burning CD Revisited

2003-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
r which I need... > So with, that I used a new CD, now I have been having one heck of a time > trying to burn another one, using Xcdroaster... I didn't see your previous posting so pardon me for asking: are you trying to burn a data CD or an audio CD? And if data is it a bootable CD? Sa

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Sam Varghese
ne from > the top dir of your kernel source) The Debian method of compiling a kernel is outlined here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel= - -baking Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alon

mysql-server refuses to install on testing

2002-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
error. I'd appreciate any help in understanding why this is so and how I could resolve it. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+D

syslog-ng[3946]: STATS: dropped 0

2002-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
The list archives show that the same question has been asked but never answered. Can someone please explain what this means? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+BbelZyXhknb+33gRAu+eAJkBaPcRSzNuabTDc

Re: PPoE support in 2.4 series kernel

2002-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:14:46PM +1100, Rob Weir spake thus: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:24:48AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > I'm looking to compile a kernel with PPoE support so I downloaded the > > latest source available

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:33:23PM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > Thus spake Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > > > Since I started using GPG to

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
7;m using > the latest mutt from unstable. > > Anything one of us can set to get around this other than me turning off > auto-signing? Change your Mutt options to clearign your mail. I use this in my .muttrc: macro compose \CP "Fgpg --clearsign\ny" Sam - -- Sam

PPoE support in 2.4 series kernel

2002-12-16 Thread Sam Varghese
tinct impression that the 2.4 series has support for PPoE - am I wrong? If so, can someone point me to a patch for the required support? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. -BEGI

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-08 Thread Sam Varghese
ion? If it's Outlook 97, you can use the script available here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/lookout/ Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. - - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: tag lines in mutt?

2002-11-08 Thread Sam Varghese
form of this file - lots of others on this list will be able to offer much more complex examples): % { Name Tag line % | Name second tag line % | Name Third tag line % } Then to your .muttrc add this line: set signature = signify| That's all you need to do. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www

Re: How to add "testing" source to my apt.conf?

2002-11-05 Thread Sam Varghese
p; examples & still am baffled (prog > feedback says there is an error, but not how to fix it), as to how > to correctly add a url, so I can use Synaptic to get .debs. > > What is the correct syntax please? Run apt-setup, make your choices and it will add the correct line

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-25 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:46:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just got an evaluation pack from the Australian reseller yesterday. >

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:20:42 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open >

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
ace the IMAP, POP3 and the public > folders (I think) with free linux stuff, but I don't believe there is a free > calendering solution yet compatible with outlook/eudora. There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open Mail. It's free for up to five mailb

Re: How to compose a line in sources.list

2002-10-23 Thread Sam Varghese
kages/desktops/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid/ > > > > > > Can anyone help me get this working? > Why don't you try : > deb ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/woody/ ./ I got my KDE stuff here: deb http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/woody

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Sam Varghese
everything from source then fool > around with it.Did it,too. Try updating any other distribution (using the tools they supply) and then try apt-get. You won't ask these questions again. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but mor

Re: Oracle 9i and Debian

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:49:21PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh spake thus: > Does anybody have experience with installing Oracle9i on Debian? On April 5 this year, there was a detailed post about installing 9i on Woody. Sam - -- Sam Varghese h

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Sam Varghese
e a good look at: > > http://www.openoffice.org/ > http://www/kde.org/ Win4Lin runs all M$ apps without a problem. CXOffice does an adequate job with Office 97 and 2000 - apart from M$Access. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Where does your symbolic link point today? -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-28 Thread Sam Varghese
discovered that I was using a version of ssh-non free as client rather than OpenSSH. But does OpenSSH default to version 1 or version 2? I find that I can log in to the two servers which I need to - one uses version 1 and the other version 2 - and I don't need to supply the -2 switch. Sam - -- Sa

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-28 Thread Sam Varghese
m. On woody the ssh client which comes with Openssh uses protocol version 1. I installed ssh2 and used it instead. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-07 Thread Sam Varghese
; used our software on their servers? > > Of course not. And I'm not willing to rethink Debian even when elderly > people use it. Quite often these old folk thank me and the other volunteers who help at the project - and a lot of the credit, frankly, belongs elsewhere. I just thought

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Sam Varghese
7;s about their only means of access to the world as many of them are disabled and house-bound. Thank you for providing free, quality software which is easy to maintain. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it

Re: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail

2002-06-04 Thread Sam Varghese
POP3 accounts and serve e-mail > to two users (myself and my wife), so I don't need a large capacity > setup. This guy's done something similar to what you are trying to achieve: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The

Re: Signify Googlebomber (was Re: random signatures in mutt)

2002-05-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 01, 2002, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I > > looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it > > on

random signatures in mutt

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Varghese
How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it only be done by editing config.h during compilation. Is there some hack for this? I'm running version 1.3.28i on Woody. Sam -- Sam Varghese -- To UNSUBS

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-19 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:43:23PM +0200, Martin Zipfel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:47:48 +1000 > Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after > > this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom. >

Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Sam Varghese
ing the device file but that did not make any difference. Any hints to get out of this would be appreciated. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-03-30 Thread Sam Varghese
nstead, I tried the 2.2.20 kernel which contains both 8139 and > 8139too and neither are shown as experimental. That kernel also > failed in the same way. Use the NE-2000 PCI module. It has worked for me on all kernels from 2.0.36 right up to 2.4.17. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gn

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Sam Varghese
lding the > server.Thanks for the help in advance. http://www.burningvoid.com/iaq/linux-root-password.html Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler

Re: Why Debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Sam Varghese
and Paul Sheer's book for slightly more experienced users, that plaint is no longer valid. Check http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html and http://rute.sourceforge.net for the books mentioned above. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not ab

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Sam Varghese
t for about five months, I wouldn't dream of going back. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community

upgrading potato to woody

2002-02-23 Thread Sam Varghese
reasons Debian is what it is. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:30:52AM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: > Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. > > I get a message stating that the file exists. > > You've got your parameters

X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
first time. I would appreciate some pointers in getting out of this mess. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community

Re: newbie

2002-01-18 Thread Sam Varghese
machine for Linux alone? How big is your hard drive? How much memory (RAM) do you have? Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: console Editors similar to winedit

2002-01-15 Thread Sam Varghese
rning VI or Emacs (and don't > want to have to worry about poison in the coffee :) ). Have you taken a look at nedit? Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Continuing ALSA suckage

2002-01-15 Thread Sam Varghese
ly fairly new to Linux and have > a lot of other things to learn as well. Have a look at http://rute.sourceforge.net Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Sam Varghese
speak from my limited experience. i have found these measures to work, therefore i practice them. of course, one would agree to disagree. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Sam Varghese
fy that "all" to the IP range which you use: in.qpopper: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I'm not an ISP or even a tech person so maybe someone else can get in on this and elaborate. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Sam Varghese
due > to illogical security defaults as with anything Microsoft puts out for > Email? Exim is the default MTA on Debian and nothing is easier to configure for a small network. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Sam Varghese
fter inspecting the headers and before downloading the > body. There's something called popchecker which I use. http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/programs.html Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:22:11AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:42:15AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:26:33AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > ... > > > More seriously, there is only one *good* audio copy program on Wind

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
Copy. Nero does data CDs and handles over-burning up to 76 minutes and 30 seconds on a standard 74-minute CD. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: NIST time

2002-01-05 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:41:38AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Sam Varghese writes: > > ntpdate always complains that it cannot find the time servers. > > ... > > chrony runs without complaint. > > This has got to be a configuration problem, as ntpdate and chrony use th

Re: NIST time

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:27:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Sam Varghese writes: > > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy > > who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is > > simple and works well. > > Tha

Re: NIST time

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:40:47PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: > > > i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same > > guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig > > it is simple and works well. >

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is simple and works well. apt-get install chrony would suffice sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling subst

Re: How to delete Exims' queue

2001-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
(there are two files for each message) and in /var/spool/exim/msglog/ you will find one system message for each mail which has been frozen. These can be removed as well. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > # mount -t auto /dev/fdo /floppy If this is really what you typed, then I hope you have noticed that you have typed the letter 'o' instead of zero. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the c

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
ct? You can try this link instead: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
provide the mail transport. The relevant portion of my .muttrc set pop_user = set pop_pass = set pop_delete = set pop_host = set pop_checkinterval=60 set pop_port = 110 set pop_last = no Fill in your details. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
from now on find a better distro that can make a OS that is NOT > broken to hell! > and that someone that wants to learn linux can do so without having > everything go wrong! See my sig. It really means something in this context. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
t work on Linux at linmodems.org sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Exim.conf help

2001-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
to my ISP, but I > don't seem to be able to set up a second agent that tests for hostname > 'foo2' (I've added this as a static entry in resolv.conf, I can ping > foo2 by name). here's a chap who's done something similar to what you are trying: http://www.lin

Re: Solved: upgrading a single program

2001-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
Never guess the dual booting os :(. > Here's something from /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: > > boot = /dev/hda2 > compact > image = /vmlinuz > image = /vmlinuz.old > other = /dev/hda1 > table = /dev/hda > label = msdos what are you looking for? a lilo.co

Re: Some program wrongly updates my /etc/resolv.conf after reboot

2001-12-11 Thread Sam Varghese
n your resolv.conf, then it will change when you reboot or dial out afresh. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Sam Varghese
part of the kernel, not as a loadable module. changes are documented in a file called (surprise!) Changes is in /usr/src/linux/Documentation, assuming you unpacked your kernel source in /usr/src. read the Changes file. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-12-01 Thread Sam Varghese
for the mobo in question. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

ppp dropouts on a 2.2.20pre12 kernel

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
been four days. i wonder if anyone has had similar problems and what could be using them. i've checked the usual web pages which list such issues but have come up with a blank. any help would be appreciated. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Networking a Linux and a Window workstation

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
on't even > know what they are!)? Bill McCarty's book on Debian gives a fairly simple explanation of Samba: http://antiweb.org/translation/debian/ch10_03.html And this LJ article gives a reasonably simple explanation of samba passwords: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2717

Maildrop permission problems

2001-11-23 Thread Sam Varghese
1 root mail 139448 Aug 12 2000 maildrop -rwxr-xr-x1 root root36376 Aug 12 2000 reformail -rwxr-xr-x1 root root31228 Aug 12 2000 reformime What am I doing wrong? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it > under debian? I think it is some type of page layout file. .qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it, I couldn't help you. sam -- (Sam Var

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
continually switch it off and on. Their explanation is that there is a jolt to the system when it starts and that causes more damage than leaving it on all the time. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
nks. Netscape was good until 3.0. After that it has degenerated into crap. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-11 Thread Sam Varghese
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > >Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? > Sam Varghese wrote: > > >i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, > >runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. > On Sat, No

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