Re: [misran@vlug.vein.hu: debian hpt370 raid]

2002-05-15 Thread Miroslav Mazurek
Tue, 14 May 2002 17:57:28 +0200 "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AFAIK (I have EPOX with same hpt370) you should connect CD board controller (ide0 or ide1) and then you can boot potato with no problems. But, potato has 2.2.x kernel and support for hpt370 is included in 2.4.x kernel, so you ne

woody installation problem

2002-05-15 Thread Aaron Anderson
I'm trying to install Woody however I'm having problems with the installation.  When I try to install the base system from the internet (http.us.debian.org), I get "Invalid Release file, no main components".  I've tried the vanilla and bf-2.4 set of disks but both produce the same error.  I'

making dos partitions: help

2002-05-15 Thread Dan
Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition. Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem. Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 device, but then the REAL problem begins. Is there a simple way to transfer usual msdos bootloader + syst

jde

2002-05-15 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to install jde; it said that it depended on semantic 1.4. Unfortunately, even in sid, the version of semantic is 1.3. How can I resolve this? Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in a, say, C compiled program. El Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:05:08PM -0500, Alex Malinovich escribió: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script > which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, star

Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have several thousand messages awaiting me on my POP server. A couple times now, when attempting to receive them with Evolution 1.0.2-1, it receives some mail but then I get the message: "The Evolution component that handles folders of type "mail" has unexpectedly quit. You will need to qu

Re: making dos partitions: help

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition. > Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem. > Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 device, but then > the REAL problem begins. Is there a simple

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:06, Craig Dickson wrote: > > I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the > > shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly. > > > > You don't say what shell you're using (or what

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in > a, say, C compiled program. No, that's when you want to do it the other way around. If you are root and want to run it as someone else, then: su -c will do it w

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:59, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-05-15T03:46:45Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to > > use word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in > > my documents and the e-mail him

Re: making dos partitions: help

2002-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:57, Dan wrote: > Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition. > Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem. > Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 device, but then > the REAL problem begins. Is there a simpl

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to use > word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my > documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell me > what I d

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:31:09PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in > > a, say, C compiled program. > > No, that's when you want to do it the other way around. No. 'Cause

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
Hmmm wasn't thinking very hard when I wrote that mail... On 0, "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:31:09PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > On 0, Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know, you can't. I think you have to setuid() and exec() in > > > a,

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device > to increase their profits. I bet th

Re: making dos partitions: help

2002-05-15 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:57, Dan wrote: > > Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition. > > Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem. > > Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 devic

Re: [users] Workaround for Openoffice.org not starting on Gnome+sawfish: unset SESSION_MANAGER

2002-05-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tir, 2002-05-14 kl. 17:29 skrev Chris Halls: > Workaround: simply >unset SESSION_MANAGER Should be inserted into the $installdir/program/soffice script. *YES*, hurrah, at *last*! What is "SESSION_MANAGER" supposed to do? > before starting openoffice. You can also workaround the problem

beach towel

2002-05-15 Thread linda
Dear Sirs: We know your esteemed company in beach towels from Internet, and pleased to introduce us as a leading producer of high quality 100% cotton velour printed towels in China, we sincerely hope to establish a long-term business relationship with your esteemed company in this field. Our

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:17:41PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > However, you are not entirely correct. This does, in fact, compile, > with the exception of the type of execve for execv. It also, funnily > enough, doesn't loop infinitely, which makes me think that the execv > call is just failing. I

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Michael D. Crawford
At the risk of helping a windows user, let me suggest a solution to your problem that won't cost you any money. Go to http://www.abisource.com/ and download AbiWord version 1.0.1 for Windows. It is a very nice, lightweight WYSIWYG word processor, it has all the features you would need to form

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:17:41PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > > However, you are not entirely correct. This does, in fact, compile, > > with the exception of the type of execve for execv. It also, funnily > > enough, doesn't loop infinitely, which makes me think

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a

Re: WMaker Menu

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Allison
Theo Bierman wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:51:37AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I'm running Window Maker on three different workstations, and all the Menu structures are different. Admittedly, the only thing that I am in a position to address right now is this: On one machine I decided to s

Re: xvidtune + xfree4

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine > except it is an inch or two off-centre. Why not merely adjust your monitor controls? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of

Re: making dos partitions: help

2002-05-15 Thread Dan
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:57, Dan wrote: > > Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition. > > Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem. > > Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 de

Erweiterung Hardwarecompatibilitätsliste

2002-05-15 Thread Herbert . Herwig
Hallo, wer auch immer die Arbeit macht. Möchte mitteilen, das der externe USB-Brenner Freecom Portable unter Woody mit Kernel 2.4.16 auf einem Vobis Advance II Laptop mit Xcdroast einwandfrei brennt. MfG H.Herwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

linux async io and glibc

2002-05-15 Thread oliver . kowalke
Hi, as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In order to access linux new feature over a POSIX.4 interface I've to patch glibc. B

xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Allison
I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) --set my monitor to standby/suspend/shutoff Seeing as I have a bun

Re: IRC

2002-05-15 Thread Ulf Rompe
Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. There is irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk in Debian also but they are >*ancient*. Don't use them. What I love about irssi-gnome is it's panel applet. I tend to keep some not really busy channels open while doing my work. Doing work needs screen real

environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Tom Allison
Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

files with spaces

2002-05-15 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I tried to run a "find | xargs" command. It worked well until a file with a space in it showed up. There each part of the filename is treated as a seperate argument of the command executed by xargs. Is there any way to get find or xargs putting a "\" in front of every space in a filename?

No certificate files found with proftpd on woody

2002-05-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I'm having a odd error when I launch proftpd: srv01:~# /etc/init.d/proftpd restart Restarting professional ftp daemon.proftpd. .. - No certificate files found! proftpd. done. --> what is this "No certificate files found" error ? Any idea ? Thanks. Antoine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: files with spaces

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:48:40AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I tried to run a "find | xargs" command. It worked well until a file with a > space in it showed up. There each part of the filename is treated as a > seperate argument of the command executed by xargs. > > Is there any way to

Re: No certificate files found with proftpd on woody

2002-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 11:49, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > --> what is this "No certificate files found" error ? > Any idea ? It's most probably because your daemon is SSL enabled and therefore requires the generation of a SSL certificate. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread perceval anichini
> correct, the call should be: >execv( argv[1], argv[2] ); > For the fanatically correct, this might be better: >execv( argv[1], argv + sizeof( argv[1] ) ); Could you explain this? Why would this line be *more* correct than the precedent? Moreover, argv + sizeof (argv[1]) is equ

(no subject)

2002-05-15 Thread AFOBardichev
hi can i get some advise please, i have windows 2000 and installed several languages, i'm trying to use some hebrew fonts like Rashi, it actualy shows on the drop menu, but i'm trying to use it the Time New Roman is poping up, and dosent give me the option to use Rashi, with David or Aharoni i do

old Woody ISO

2002-05-15 Thread Willy S
Hi, I just ordered Woody CDs, there are 7 of them. It is dated 9 Sept 2001, so its quite old. Is there are a way to check the difference between the ISO at that time to the latest one? I need to know what package do I miss. One think for sure, there is no Galeon in my CDs. And when I search it th

Re: WMaker Menu

2002-05-15 Thread Theo Bierman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:30:02AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Theo Bierman wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:51:37AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>I'm running Window Maker on three different workstations, and all the > >>Menu structures are different. > >> > >>Admittedly, the only thing

BitchX question

2002-05-15 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi All This is probably meant to go somewhere else but anyway: WindowMaker allows for multiple desktops via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc and BitchX also allows for multiple windows via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc, Can I change my window handling in BitchX? I have checked bxfaq.html but I cannot f

Re: old Woody ISO

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:29:11PM +0800, Willy S wrote: > I just ordered Woody CDs, there are 7 of them. It is dated 9 Sept 2001, so > its quite old. > > Is there are a way to check the difference between the ISO at that time to > the latest one? I need to know what package do I miss. One think f

Re: BitchX question

2002-05-15 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.05.15 12:46, Theo Bierman a écrit : Hi All This is probably meant to go somewhere else but anyway: WindowMaker allows for multiple desktops via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc and BitchX also allows for multiple windows via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc, Can I change my window handling in Bitc

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few >hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect >whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it >launches

Re: IRC

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 05:31 Ulf Rompe wrote: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. There is irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk in Debian also but they are >*ancient*. Don't use them. What I love about irssi-gnome is it's panel applet. I tend to keep some not really busy channels open while doing

Re: Shell script anomaly

2002-05-15 Thread Andreas Nowack
On 14 May 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: > if ps -A |grep -q "[x]screensaver"; then xscreensaver-command -activate > else xscreensaver& xscreensaver-command -activate; fi > > However, if I put that exact line into a shell script and run it, the if > ALWAYS gets evaluated as true. Any ideas? I would

Re: Sendmail: How to get at the envelope in Procmail?

2002-05-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:33:58AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand the setup, so I may be way off here. > > > > The best solution is to have your IPS (or who ever fills that mailbox) > > add a Delivered-To header with th

Re: (no subject)

2002-05-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:19:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > can i get some advise please, Advise is free. E.g. "Please put a proper subject on your mail." > i have windows 2000 and installed several languages, > i'm trying to use some hebrew fonts like Rashi, it actualy shows on >

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. > > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) > --set my

Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Jiang Alan
I have just installed debian/woody and xemacs21. I encountered two problems: 1. when I apt-get install xemacs21, it says post install configuration error. I find the problem is that when create a symbolic link at /usr/man/man1/., there is not /usr/man/man1 directory, so it failed. When I

(fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, after I have sent this message to debian-testing, I resend I to this list. Maybe anyone here has any idea. The upgrade was from 2.2r to 3.0 -- now, I can use neither dselect: onizuka root 145 (local/sbin): dselect Segmentation fault nor apt-get onizuka root 146 (local/sbin): apt

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
On Tue, 14 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to use > word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my > documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell me > what I did wrong

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
On 15 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft

Re: [misran@vlug.vein.hu: debian hpt370 raid]

2002-05-15 Thread Varady Geza
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Miroslav Mazurek wrote: > Tue, 14 May 2002 17:57:28 +0200 "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > AFAIK (I have EPOX with same hpt370) you should connect > CD board controller (ide0 or ide1) and then you can boot potato with no > problems. But, potato has 2.2.x kernel and sup

Re: BitchX question

2002-05-15 Thread Theo Bierman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2002.05.15 12:46, Theo Bierman a ecrit : > > Hi All > > > > This is probably meant to go somewhere else but anyway: > > > > WindowMaker allows for multiple desktops via alt+1/2/3/4/5/6/7 etc etc > > > > and > > > > BitchX

Re: bastille deb (testing) hosed?

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 20:45 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, "cj" == Colin Watson wrote: cj> The maintainer just mailed me to say that a new package cj> is available, and he'd like you to test it out. Only one perl booboo remains: "Using Tk user interface module. "Only displaying q

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Mike Alonzo
Tom Allison wrote this message last Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:37:09AM -0400: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? in your ~/.bash_profile . > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROT

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Epifanov
FYI: I was aware about lm-sensors and never installed then at all. --- Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing I'm aware of is a warning from the lm-sensors package which > comes up if you try and install lm-sensors-source (not sure about other > lm-sensors packages:

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Not Zed
'quit' is a polite if incorrect way to say 'crashed and burnt'. You should probably try and upgrade if possible, a lot of these types of errors have been fixed since 1.0.2, although without debugging information its hard to say if this particular bug is fixed. Also, perhaps try removing the .ibe

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a > script which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it > and then activates it. However, the script always gets run as root > (it's being run as an APM script). This doesn't

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like > RSYNC_RSH? In your .profile, .bashrc, or .zshenv file, depending on which shell you use. Infidels might also consider .cshrc. :-) (I have a separate dotfile, .variables, which sets this sor

RE:environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Tom Allison writes: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? In your startup script. Perhaps .profile or .bashrc. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-05-15T04:05:08Z, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the effective UID for a shell script? I've got a script > which checks if xscreensaver is running and if not, starts it and then > activates it. However, the script always gets run as root (it's being run > as an

Re: environment variables

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Tom Allison wrote: > Where is a good place to park an Environment Veriable like RSYNC_RSH? > I use ~/.bashrc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script

2002-05-15 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:02, perceval anichini wrote: > Moreover, argv + sizeof (argv[1]) is equal to argv[4] (as sizeof (char*) = > 4) ... And then a non-32bit system came along... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: (fwd) Re: Upgrade Potato to Woody (3.0)

2002-05-15 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 15 May 2002 14:43:58 +0200 "Lukas Ruf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > after I have sent this message to debian-testing, I resend I to this > list. Maybe anyone here has any idea. > > The upgrade was from 2.2r to 3.0 -- now, I can use neither dselect: (snip) > nor apt-get (s

RE: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: | > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my | > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. | > | > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: | > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password

Problem with pop3

2002-05-15 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
Hi guys, I am having one problem with pop3, I am using ipop3d and its working fine to receive messges from my local clients(in my LAN). But when i try to get messages from external client(remote notebooks with dialup connection to Internet using normal ISP) the connection is too slow, i can't fi

exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path

2002-05-15 Thread Andreas Henriksson
- Forwarded message from Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Andreas Henriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path Hi. I have problem sending mail to some email-addresses (some MTA's), I'll

Re: Mutt file locking?

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:34:53AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > My server is running nfs-user-server. > Anyone know the right way to fix this instead of just going to an older > version of mutt? The userspace NFS server doesn't handle locking. You have to switch to a kernel with NFS server su

USB Mouse with Debian 2.2r6

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Reath, CCNA
I have downloaded Debian GNU/Linux version 2.2r6 and installation went fine, but it doesn't seem to recognize my usb mouse so X won't startup.  Its the MS Optical Explorer mouse and lights up on power on but goes dark and never comes back on?    Does the kernel that ships with 2.2r6 recognize

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my Tom> notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. Tom> Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: Tom> --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o pas

Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Jiang Alan wrote: >I have just installed debian/woody and xemacs21. I encountered two > problems: > 1. when I apt-get install xemacs21, it says post install configuration > error. I find the problem is that when create a symbolic link at > /usr/man/man1/., there is not /u

rsync performance between HP-UX and Debian

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Madden
I've been using rsync to backup HP-UX 10.20 and Debian Woody machines, and I've seen performance issues on the HP-UX machines. On the Debian machines, I'm using rsync 2.5.5-0.1, and the HP-UX machines are using 2.5.5. All the HPs are C3600s with 100 MB connections and 18 GB SCSI disks. The Linu

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:46:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I was e-mailing a resume and the person could not open file. He said to use | word format. I wrote my resume in Microsoft works and then saved in my | documents and the e-mail him for AOL with attachments. If you could tell m

Re: exim behind a NAT gateway and MTA's reverse-tracing the Received-path

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:25:17PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: | I have problem sending mail to some email-addresses (some MTA's), I'll | start with describing my situation: | | I'm connected to the Internet via NAT. I have no access to the servers | that have a "real" Internet address, and

Re: xvidtune + xfree4

2002-05-15 Thread Harvey Kelly
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine > > except it is an inch or two off-centre. > > Why not merely adjust your monitor contro

Re: USB Mouse with Debian 2.2r6

2002-05-15 Thread dman
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:48:43AM -0500, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: | Does the kernel that ships with 2.2r6 recognize usb devices. I don't think so, but I could be wrong. | I am going to try compiling the 2.4.18 kernel and see if that works. I recommend installing the prepackaged version.

Problem with modem

2002-05-15 Thread tim truman
Hi all I have recently moved from Redhat to debian and am having problems with an Actiontec PCI Master controller-based modem. After installing Potato and compiling 2.4 kernel (due to better PCI support) I am getting the following boot message ttyS04 at port 0x1800 (irq = 11) is a 16550A The m

how to create a patched glibc?

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Kowalke
Hi, as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In order to access linux new feature over a POSIX.4 interface I've to patch glibc. B

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020515 02:22]: > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. > > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) > --set

Re: how to create a patched glibc?

2002-05-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-May-2002 Oliver Kowalke wrote: > Hi, > > as I've posted to debian-glibc-list I want to program a little bit with > the new async IO implementation from Ben LeHaise. The kernel is patched > and libaio (provides the native async io api) is also installed. In > order to access linux new featur

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
You probably got the spam message that prompted the release of Evolution 1.0.5. I have no idea if debian has newer packages, you'd have to ask them. Jeff On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:40, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have several thousand messages awaiting me on my POP server. > > A couple times n

sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked this morning, now crashes miserably: scanimage --batch=page%04d.pnm --mode Binary --

"AGP not available" error.

2002-05-15 Thread Steve Juranich
Now that I've gotten rid of the visual garbage on my Radeon VE, I'm trying to get dri working on it. I've got everything set up the way that things are supposed to be set up (loading the radeon and agpgart modules on boot, and the radeon module is referenced in my XF86Config-4 file), but it's s

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
FYI, the new xsane segfaults too. Arrgh! -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 15 May 2002, An

infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread tilman utz
hello list, recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password and a default user. after displaying the message 'loading /etc/console/bootti

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 11, 2002, Miroslav Mazurek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I need som recomendation for some realy small footprint window manager (it > should run on 386/16MB). What's best choice? On that kit, bash. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" d

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Veit Waltemath
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:02:24PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: ->I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest ->woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning ->documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked ->this morning,

Re: Testing a Floppy Drive

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 14, 2002, David Raeker-Jordan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I suspect that the floppy drive on my computer has gone bad, but the > diagnostic software from the manufacturer (Dell) says the drive is fine. > > Is there software to test whether a floppy drive has gone bad? Create floppies

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks, but it still crashes. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 15 May 2002, Veit Waltemath

Re: xvidtune + xfree4

2002-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 15, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine > > > except it is an

Re: [Evolution] Evolution quits while recieving mail

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:09:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > You probably got the spam message that prompted the release of Evolution > 1.0.5. > > I have no idea if debian has newer packages, you'd have to ask them. Yes, in the unstable distribution. (I'm not the maintainer, just a bystand

Re: infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:32:05PM +0200, tilman utz wrote: > recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, > bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). > > All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password > and a default user. aft

Re: Problem with modem

2002-05-15 Thread Andrey Vlassov
did you try run setserial in order ttyS03 ttyS02 ttyS01 and see what tty will accept your settings. In my case modem was reported in windows as com4 but in linux it was ttyS01. Andrey tim truman wrote: > Hi all > I have recently moved from Redhat to debian and am having problems with > an Ac

Re: infinity loop when booting

2002-05-15 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, tilman utz wrote: > hello list, > > recently I installed woody from cds on my machine (i386, qwertz-kbd, > bios-clock on GMT from previous linux (suse6.4) installations). > > All went on quite smoothly, until after configuring the root password > and a default user. afte

Re: apache et ssl

2002-05-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 17:21:22 +0200, Eric Laeuffer wrote: > Je viens de me rendre compte quil existe apparemment deux packages qui > fournissent ssl ; apache-ssl et libapache-mod-ssl. Pouvez vous me dire > rapidement la diffrence entre ces deux packages ? This question is addressed in both pack

Another OpenOffice.org workaround: printing and anti-aliased font problem

2002-05-15 Thread James D Strandboge
There are bug reports on this, but it took me a while to find them, so I thought I would pass this along. OOo 1.0 has problems with printing and anti-aliased fonts on my system. I looked it up and found that if you disable the font cache, printing and anti-aliased fonts worked correctly. Here is

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:57:22AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Eventually (in fact it may have already happened, I can't remember) > woody will be frozen, outstanding bugs will be fixed as well as may be > and then woody will become the stable distribution. Woody is almost completely frozen, nothing

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't know, but I would very much like to recompile glibc, the Xlib, and > the gnome libraries to be optimized for the different processors I'm > running. I'd be careful using any optimisations on these fairly critical libr

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
My SBLive Value is working fine under a whole bunch of different kernels, (thought not 2.4.19-pre8 in particular), in both OSS and ALSA mode. On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:13:54PM -0500, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to > work. I'm running De

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