Re: need help with mailfolders

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:18:24AM +0100, ernst wrote: > I have done something really stupid, playing around with emacs reading > mail, when my primary mailclient is pine. Everyting from > /var/spool/mail/username is gone to ~/RMAIL, and I don't know how to get > it back;( If you do M-x apropos

Re: Apt-get Info meeded...

I have the exact same problem -- I can no longer do any apt-get installs and dselect's update function fails as well. This is a show stopper! Thanks for any help on this one. on Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:09:52 -0600 Larry Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to be having a problem now with APT

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Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:16:26PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > I can confirm: I lost data because of reiserfs. I'll never use it again. > Could you please tell us what happened to your data lost? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Why sid instead of sarge??

Hi, When trying to get the "sarge" pan source, I get sid source instead. Also, I tried "apt-get -t sarge --build source pan" and it gave the same results. # apt-get -t testing --build source pan Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 2848kB of source archives.

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002 at 11:22am, Isaac To wrote: > > :> "Matthias" == Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > :Matthias> Ext3 is rock-stable since it is based on ext2 which is in use > :Matthias> for many years and

Re: Postfix server acting as relay !!!!

Selon Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, I took your advice, except for the check_relay_domains, but still > I am relaying. I guess the intended recipients have FQDNs. > > check_relay_domains I am not using because originally that is what I > did, but it would only relay to those domai

Re: jpegs to mpeg? convert->mpeg2encode?

Le mar 26/11/2002 à 02:17, Michael Jinks a écrit : > Hi all. > > I have a user who has found that the "convert" program (part of > ImageMagick) can string a list of JPEG files into a MPEG movie. Or at > least, it used to be able to do that; it relies on a delegate program > called mpeg2encode,

Re: DVDrip question

Din Tuck schrieb: I am now able to Rip DVDs using DVDrip. But I have two questions What are some good settings for a nice divx file ? I tried some on Xvid and Dvix5, but they don't look too good. Anyone recommend some settings? Most often I use the "medium frame size" option for the output

Re: need help with mailfolders

Hi This did the trick;) And so easy, I scould have known that emacs could do that to. It exported everything nicely. Thanks for all help. /ernst On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Nick Hastings wrote: > * ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021126 18:19]: > > Hi > > > > I have done something really stupid, pl

Re: unsubscribe

Dear all, On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Christian L?pez wrote: > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] obviously, the Debian User Base disposes of some people that still do not know reading the emails! I am really getting

Re: Postfix server acting as relay !!!!

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:22:30 -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: >I thought I had fixed my server so it wouldn't relay, but I just now >looked at the queue and OH MY GOD!!! > >Here is my main.cf > >Any ideas Please pardon my lack of better help, but the subject does interest me for exim config purp

Re: Zone Alarm

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:52:41 + Martin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:32:42 +, Martin Johnson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>Wouldn't it be a good idea to drop UDP + TCP 137, 138 and 139 at > >>Nildram's routers? > > > > It

Re: smbfs just isn't there

Hi I'm not sure if I'm totally out here, but have u tryed apt-get install smbfs? If I do apt-cache show smbfs it gives a lot of output, here is some: Source: samba Version: 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3 Replaces: smbfsx Depends: netbase (>= 2.02), samba-common (= 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3), libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13),

Re: dvips "out of stack space" -- help?

On 26 Nov 2002 06:49:06 +0100 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just wrote a LaTeX document with heavy use of the \qtree [1] > package. it compiles fine, but there the fun stops -- when i try to > turn it into .ps to print, dvips poos and gives me the following > error: > > orange:..

Re: Postfix server acting as relay !!!!

also sprach Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.26.0122 +0100]: > #relay_domains = $mydestination, $virtual_domains uncomment that! -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to d

help on moxa C168P multiport serial needed

Hello All, Does anybody get working multiserial card in Debian? I'm trying to install Moxa C168P card (actually two) in my box running woody, fresh install, kernel-image-2.4.18-686 with devfs. I've configured these cards with io_irq.exe under dos: one card has CAP: 0x300 and IRQ:5 and another'

Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:42, matt wrote: > first off, thanks everyone for trying to help me figure out my ssh2 > delema. completely reinstalled woody and used openssh and the problem > persists. but at least i now know it's not the debian machine. Sorry, didn't read the previous mails about your

Re: Matlab R12 suddenly stops running

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:49, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I ran Matlab R12 under unstable debian. After several apt > update, I cannot run Matlab with java support. The following is the > error msg with I run matlab > > Warning: Unable to load Java Runtime >Environment:/u

Calculator for X

Hi there, I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot find a calculator for an X-Window system. The only module I've found is named 'calc', but dosn't work in an X-window system, does it?? Thank you very much, Fabien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Calculator for X

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot find a calculator >for an X-Window system. The only module I've found is named 'calc', but dosn't work >in an X-window system, does it?? xcalc is in xbase-clie

Re: Calculator for X

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot find a calculator >for an X-Window system. The only module I've found is named 'calc', but dosn't work >in an X-window system, does it?? > > Thank you very much, > Fabie

Re: Calculator for X

Hi! On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:32:52AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot > find a calculator for an X-Window system. The only module I've found > is named 'calc', but dosn't work in an X-window system, does it?? Hm, xbase-clients c

mod_bandwidth

Hi ! I want to use mod_bandwidth with Apache on Woody. My configuration should be ok since I cutted and pasted it from a redhat server with mod_bandwidth working and enabled. However, when the server access a directory that is in mod_bandwith config, I get the following error in the logs: [error]

Package deity no more available?

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engspchk not working in vim

hello all i installed engspchk as recommended. downloaded tar.gz, gunzipped, etc. all as a non-root user. i have copied /etc/vimrc as my ~/.vimrc - no modifications. then when i do \ec, it shows some text scrolling off towrads the bottom of the screen but it does not highlight incorrect words.

Re: kernel recompile

Craig Jackson wrote: > Just installed woody but I forgot to install UFS driver. Being somewhat new > to Debian (I have in the past recompiled the kernel on Gentoo and Redhat) > what is the standard procedure for recompiling the kernel under Debian? I > need the source kernel. My present kernel i

Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:08:53 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe > Nahmias) wrote: > > >> Chris, >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Linus himself said that >> using dump on live (mounted) filesystems was a bad idea. I'll see >> if I can dig up a reference to it

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on,... Ppp can deal with this. Just select 'Dynamic' in the

Re: Package deity no more available?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:49:39PM +0800, Stephan Broennimann wrote: > I can't find the package deity anymore? Does it no more exist? It was far too buggy and wasn't getting fixed, so it was removed. Consider using aptitude instead.

Re: unsubscribe

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:21:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > I am really getting sick of all this unsubscribe emails. Wouldn't it > be possible to just knock out all the "Subject: unsubscribe" emails? Procmail is your friend. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin

inetd: discard?

Hi, It is said that the service discard in inetd is just for testing and can be removed. What's the origin of this service and what is the purpose? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in order to use them. The other way round, "normal" LaTeX

libc6_2.2.5-13 not in stable

Hi, I would like to install avview 0.10.8-1 in order to watch TV with my ATI card. I've downloaded the debian package of avview, but when I want to install it with 'dpkg -i', there is a dependencie problem : dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of avview: avview depe

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I > have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and > .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png > for pdflatex

Re: Calculator for X

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot find > a calculator for an X-Window system. The only module I've found is > named 'calc', but dosn't work in an X-window system, does it?? gnome-calculator

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Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:42:35 +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: >Hi everybody > >For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I >have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and >.ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png >for pd

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

Hello Johann I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear in comments below: Johann Spies schrieb: \newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article} \else \pdfoutput=1 \let\special\message \pdftrue \documentclass[

Re: inetd: discard?

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:41, Qian Gong wrote: > It is said that the service discard in inetd is just for testing and can > be removed. What's the origin of this service and what is the purpose? > Thanks in advance. Basically, discard can be described as a protocol used to debug network traffic. I

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

On 26/11/02 J?rg Johannes did speaketh: > Hi everybody > > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I > have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and > .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png > for pdflatex in o

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:31:47PM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote: > Hello Johann > > I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear > in comments below: > Johann Spies schrieb: > > >\newif\ifpdf > >\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined > > \pdffalse > > \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4pa

what's loading stv680?

I have a cheap camera that connects to a USB port. One of my problems getting it to work with debian (woody) is that when I plug it in, the module stv680 gets loaded. After I 'rmmod stv680', gphoto2 can download the pictures in the camera, but while it's loaded, it can't. What is causing that m

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jörg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. Me too. > The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) > understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures > from gnuplot

Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

Here I am still relaying like crazy. Here's an example.  Interestingly enough, as of lately it's all to carolyn.d @ changing domains. They are not even FQDNs and still its relaying. This is nuts.   Curtis   E26E047EF91*    1388 Tue Nov 26 06:31:36  [EMAIL PROTECTED]E26CF47EF71*    1387 Tue

Re: dvips "out of stack space" -- help?

on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:37:43AM +, Rupert insinuated: > On 26 Nov 2002 06:49:06 +0100 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i just wrote a LaTeX document with heavy use of the \qtree [1] > > package. it compiles fine, but there the fun stops -- when i try to > > turn it into .ps to pr

pam_limits message in auth.log

I am running sid, and have the .76-8 version of pam installed. I have noticed that since the upgrade from .76-7, everytime I ssh into my box from another, a pam_limits message (such as below) is logged in /var/log/auth.log pam_limits[5134]: setrlimit limit #7 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operat

Pinerc Folders -> muttrc folders???

At work we have an SSL mail server. I've gotten my mailboxes working fine for that but there's a new "catch" certail aliases are archived off to another IMAP folder. Under pine they can just change folders and up they pop to be browsed through. I'm trying to set up the same thing in mutt but

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

Hi {pdf,}LaTeX Fans ! There is a package written by Oberdiek which does the job: `epstopdf' Read the comments before to use it. Otherwise, I guess that this list is not the proper one for pure TeX issue. I hope that helps, Jerome Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody For my documents, I have to

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Re: Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

-- Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 06:33 AM -0800): >Here I am still relaying like crazy. Here's an example. Interestingly >enough, as of lately it's all to carolyn.d @ changing domains. They are >not even FQDNs and still its relaying. This is nuts. Did

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

> >How do you tell "make-kpkg buildpackage" to use the gcc 3.02 compiler > >instead of the gcc 2.95 'default' compiler? Sorry I can not find > >anything about this. I ave read that this newer 3.02 compiler is > >required for AMD chip maximizing and I have had zero luck getting a > >kernel to build

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:12:14AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I was hoping for something that would work across the system. > I was wondering if I altered the /etc/alternatives links for @cc @cpp > @gcc etc. to their corresponding newer versions i.e @gcc which now > points to -2.95.4 to point

Automating rtin logging into news server

Is there a way to automate the login process for rtin? I'm using an NNTP server that requires authentication and would like rtin to just log me in rather than prompting me for my password each time it (re)connects. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit the Infobahn Offramp -

Re: dvips "out of stack space" -- help?

on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:41:06AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:37:43AM +, Rupert insinuated: > > Summary: get the source, increase STACKSIZE in dvips.h and recompile. > > sounds easy enough. however, while i have been able to track down > dvips.{c,h}, they have abou

RE: Testing; openoffice installed but I can not find the setup program in any menu.

Open Office 1.01 is installed but the .debs do not seem to have created a .setup file for /root or the /home/user directory. I installed from testing mirror site. I know that I need to run this and input the info required in the registration area (even though it is not required) in order for the va

Re: Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

Here's how part of my main.cf file currently reads. I restarted this time, instead of reloading, which IS what I usually did. Note, no more carolyn.ld@ or whatever it was are no longer going through. Curtis #smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated smtpd_client_restrictions = perm

iptables & dsl-provider

Hi , im making a Gateway with a debian 2.4.18 recompiled kernel with iptables full nat support everything is ok but excep when i try to use an login autentication on a windows clients the dsl-connection hags up. i have been using RH to do this , but debian is more stable and more little to do this.

Re: Outils d'audit de sécurité réseau

"Loick.B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Je souhaiterai auditer la sécurité de mon réseau. > Mes serveurs sont tous sous woody sans interfaces graphiques (uniquement lynx > comme navigateur). > Quels outils me conseillez vous? > Pourriez vous m'en donner les principaux avantages/inconvénients. be

iptables & dsl-provider

Hi , im making a Gateway with a debian 2.4.18 recompiled kernel withiptables full nat supporteverything is ok but excep when i try to use an login autentication on awindows clients the dsl-connection hags up.i have been using RH to do this , but debian is more stable and more littleto do thi

Re: Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

also sprach Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.26.1601 +0100]: > smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unknown_client > mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 > relay_domains = *.domain.tld > where "domain.tld" is my domain. Which opens you up to re

Make a package from source?

Ok, Is there a good doc of how to make a debian package from source? I am trying to custom compile iptables and would like it to install as if it were a .deb. Digging around debian.org, I didn't find anything. :wq! ---

trying to get integrated NIC on ASUS P4B533-VM to work, no luck

A full listing of lspci -v I did look up the pciid and it is apparently a Seiko Epson Corporation devicewhich according some listings elsewhere on the net is apparently an eepro100, however trying to load this does not work... NOTE eppro100-diag has no idea what the card is Walter

Re: smbfs just isn't there

I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686? On Monday 25 November 2002 17:42, sean finney wrote: > i think your problem is that the kernel installed by default doesn't > seem to support smbfs. if you're not completely attached to said kernel > and want to join the rest of th

RE: Outils d'audit de sécurité réseau

Title: RE: Outils d'audit de sécurité réseau nmap pour voir les ports ouverts sur tes serveurs nessus qui fait aussi un scan de port mais envoie des paquets un peu tordus whisker pour les cgi john the ripper pour auditer la fiabilite de tes mots de passe. sniffit une suite d'outils d'audit sno

Re: Make a package from source?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:49:46AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Ok, Is there a good doc of how to make a debian package from source? I > am trying to custom compile iptables and would like it to install as if > it were a .deb. Digging around debian.org, I didn't find anything. if you're co

Automatic creation of VMware kernel modules?

When building a new kernel (with make-kpkg) I always forget to also build new VMware kernel modules. It would be easy to put make-kpkg and vmware-config.pl into a script, but that is not enough: we have multiple machines using the kernel package I thus create. Therefore, we need to find a way to

Re: trying to get integrated NIC on ASUS P4B533-VM to work, no luck

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Walter Tautz wrote: > A full listing of lspci -v I did look up the pciid and it > is apparently a Seiko Epson Corporation devicewhich according > some listings elsewhere on the net is apparently an eepro100, however > trying to load this does not work... NOTE eppro100-

Re: CUPS & Samba print server under Debian

Thanks for the reply Derrick. Next time please try to be a little quicker though would ya? :) I ended up spending a few hours figuring everything out. Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > | I'm in the process of settin

kernel recompile

This is a response to all here. Thanks for your response. I downloaded the latest kernel from kernel.org make xconfig make dep make clean vmlinuz-2.4.19 modules modules_install make install Then copied the kernel and map to /boot, edited lilo, ran lilo, and presto! The new kernel works grea

Re: smbfs just isn't there

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:52, Tim Verry wrote: > I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686? You must choose i586, mmx or not. Same for the K6. i686 would PPro upwards. From the kernel doc, a few widely used conventions of varying relevance to the current topic : Here are t

kernel upgrade

I was able to edit the source.list and tried apt-get -s install kernel-image-2.4.18 and it acts like it's going to install a whole bunch of kernels. I don't understand this. Is it just because of the -s? Does it just know what cpu I have? Should I just specify? Reading Package Lists... Done

Audacity worked once, but not twice.

Here's something weird. Last week I brought home my pastor's sermon on audio cassette and copied it to my hard drive using a standard tape deck, an RCA-to-1/8th inch cable, and audacity. Audacity was set to read /dev/dsp at 44.1 kHz at 16 bps (CD quality). So I got the audio file I wanted and wa

CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

i set up apache and name-base virtualhosting on my box. my pcs name is home-woody.dm0nkz.net then created a vhost of a) vhosta.testing.org b) vhostb.dm0nkz.net so i then created a cname for vhostb.dm0nkz.net and vhosta.testing.com like ... home-woody.dm0nkz.net. A 192.168.0.1 vhosta.tes

dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

i'm going from potato to woody and aside from having to apt-get install apt-utils by hand, i'm getting things like this, a lot: Preparing to replace eeyes 1:0.3.11-5 (using .../eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement eeyes ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archive

exim filtering

A particularly effective anti-spam tool that I've see in use is to block mail claiming to be from a webmail provider (e.g. hotmail) that never actually passed through a server controlled by that webmail provider. Has anybody written such a filter for exim that can be run system-wide? I want to do i

automatic installation

Hi, I want to install a debian system without any user interaction. All parameters like partition table or filesystems or packages to install are fixed. Is there already a solution? The next problem is the package configuration, is there a way to configure the packages without user interaction

Re: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

Thanks to Charlie and Vincent for their responses, I got my keyboard properly configured. I did, however, do so in a slightly different manner. The usual method fo swapping Caps Lock and Control keys does just that, it swaps the keys; so, if you run xmodmap on the file twice they are back to how t

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

Hello Lists. Thank you for your suggestions ! Got clear now about grub's numbering. And the penguin offers me a beer from the mbr, and this moment behind me there's the windull2000 device installer happily rattling through the hd Looking back, the main problem was that i made things too com

Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:02, Andrew R Reid wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Joe Nahmias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 2:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program > > > Hello list, > > I am looking for recommendati

Window Maker Configuration

Hello, it's strange, when I install a new application, it's not updated automatically in Window Maker (such as abiword, ...). A friend of mine told me it should be automatic. Is it true? Do you know where the problem lies? Thank you very much, Fabien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Make a package from source?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:04:30AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:49:46AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Ok, Is there a good doc of how to make a debian package from source? I > > am trying to custom compile iptables and would like it to install as if > > it were a .d

Re: Testing; openoffice installed but I can not find the setup program in any menu.(solved)

> Open Office 1.01 is installed but the .debs do not seem to have created > a .setup file for /root or the /home/user directory. I installed from > testing mirror site. I know that I need to run this and input the info > required in the registration area (even though it is not required) in > order

Re: kernel recompile

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Chris Lale wrote: > Craig Jackson wrote: > > Just installed woody but I forgot to install UFS driver. Being > somewhat new > > to Debian (I have in the past recompiled the kernel on Gentoo and > Redhat) > > what is the standard procedure for recompiling the kernel under

Re: Window Maker Configuration

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.26.1801 +0100]: > it's strange, when I install a new application, it's not updated > automatically in Window Maker (such as abiword, ...). A friend of > mine told me it should be automatic. Is it true? Do you know where > the problem lies?

Re: smbfs just isn't there

Tim Verry wrote: Nope, just installed from 3.0_r0/i386/debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso This: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/ search_contents.pl?word=smbfs.o&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386 tells me that smbfs.o is in the 2.2.20 kernel image package, so that

Re: exim filtering (and postfix)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: | A particularly effective anti-spam tool that I've see in use is to block | mail claiming to be from a webmail provider (e.g. hotmail) that never | actually passed through a server controlled by that webmail provider. | | Has anybo

Re: Testing; openoffice installed but I can not find the setup program in any menu.(solved)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:20:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > > Open Office 1.01 is installed but the .debs do not seem to have > created > > a .setup file for /root or the /home/user directory. I installed from > > testing mirror site. I know that I need to run this and input the info > > require

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:20:30 -0800 (PST), nate wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre said: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13 -0800, nate wrote: > > > Then, why is fsck necessary with ext3? > > tradititional fsck should not be with ext3's journalling turned > on (sometimes people forget to mount it with

Re: dvips "out of stack space" -- help?

On 26 Nov 2002 16:27:19 +0100 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:41:06AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:37:43AM +, Rupert insinuated: > > > Summary: get the source, increase STACKSIZE in dvips.h and recompile. > >=20 > > sounds easy

Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:43:07AM -0600, will trillich wrote: | i'm going from potato to woody and aside from having to | i'm getting things like this, a lot: | | | Unpacking replacement eeyes ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/eeyes_1%3a0.3.12-4_i386.deb |(--unpack): | tryi

Re: Exim domain setup problem for dialup use

Bill Moseley wrote: I've got a Debain machine running exim acting as a MASQ machine on a pppoe connection (e.g. the machine has two NICs). The hostname is "burn". The domain, for this example, is "burn.foo.net" The problem is if I send mail to outside machines: echo "hello" | mail [EMAIL PR

Re: Window Maker Configuration

On 2002.11.26 12:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's strange, when I install a new application, it's not updated automatically in Window Maker (such as abiword, ...). A friend of mine told me it should be automatic. Is it true? Do you know where the problem lies? apt-get install menu -- Darryl L.

why is the package being pulled from testing?

i have stable and testing sources in my sources.list, as well as the following entries in /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 999 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 333 now i am trying to install, say, mhonarc, which is being pulled from

Searching for sources

Hi, does anybody know how can I search for a source package? For example, I was wishing to install pine in my machine. If I do: apt-cache search pine the pine package isn't listed, but if I do: apt-get -b source pine it installs the package perfectly. So, how could I know in advance which pack

Re: Postfix relaying like crazy !!!

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:39:09AM -0800, Curtis wrote: | Here's how part of my main.cf file currently reads. I restarted this time, | instead of reloading, which IS what I usually did. Note, no more carolyn.ld@ | or whatever it was are no longer going through. | Curtis | | | #smtpd_recipient_res

X11 and PM Event received: Power Status Change

Today I installed debian (from Knoppix) on my Laptop. Nearly everything works fine so far, except for one little flaw. Every minute or so a new line is written in my /var/log/XFree86.0.log, stating (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change What can I do to disable this (nonsense) message. This m

tiger complaines about ypbind running as root

Hi all, If get messages like these like every hour or so send from "tiger". >Subject: Tiger Auditing Report for lehua > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `sshd' is listening on socket 6012 (TCP on loopback interface) is run by shao. > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `identd' is listening on s

Re: dist-upgrade: "trying to overwrite" errors

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:43:07AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | i'm going from potato to woody and ... > | i'm getting things like this, a lot: > | > | > | Unpacking replacement eeyes ... > | dpkg: error processing /var/c

Re: Exim domain setup problem for dialup use

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:39:29PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | I've got a Debain machine running exim acting as a MASQ machine on a pppoe | connection (e.g. the machine has two NICs). | | The hostname is "burn". The domain, for this example, is "burn.foo.net" | | The problem is if I send mail t

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