setting up exim

2003-01-24 Thread Harmohan Bhamra
Hi I am trying to setup exim, to send and receive for a single tld domain on debian woody. I want users to authenticate to /etc/shadow over ssl if possible. The users are using Outlook or Outlook express or squirrelmail (web based mail) Currently I have installed exim-tls. However when the us

locales fr_CA

2003-01-24 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey folks: I need to have a french locale installed for ht://Dig. I've installed it with dpkg-reconfigure locales. (I've even set it as the system default, I'm that desperate right now.) When I do locale -a it's listed; however, ht://dig needs a specific file that I can't find. Here are the instr

Re: KDE 3.0 Package Issues

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:53:58PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > You will have an easier time (and be succesful) if you use 'aptitute' or > 'dselect' to do the upgrade. How so? apt-get resolves package dependencies a whole lot more sanely than does dselect frequently... -- .''`. Baloo <[EM

Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:51:41PM +0200, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm >interesting about batch mode. > Reading This F.. Manual didn't take desired effect :(. > > And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > of your memory, then that is no reason to worry. Your kernel > simply uses free memory to cache the files you already read. > This memory area can be viewed as beeing free. If you just came from the Windos world, think of the cache

Re: Flash player for Konqueror

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:17:05PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I find it? It's the same as is for mozilla. Netscape, Mozilla and Konq use the same plugins. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > Hi > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. What does it say when you type free? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admi

Re: Flash player for Konqueror

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:12:37PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Konqi just uses netscape plugins... I know that in KDE 3.1 there is > an option to tell konqi what paths to search for plugins, but i > don't know about versions before that. It's in the same place in 2x. -- .''`. Baloo <[E

libcupsys2 is kept back

2003-01-24 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Dear All, After a recent DSA regarding CUPS, I decided to upgrade my woody box, but apt-get -u upgrade after an apt-get update tells me that libcupsys2 has been kept back: uni-hq:/home/lex# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages

Re: OT: march 2002 article on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:52:31AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > y'all see this? > > http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-03&article=debian > > more press like this wouldn't hurt. :) Looks to me that we accomplished what UnitedLinux could only wish to be. -- .''`.

Re: regexp help

2003-01-24 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:16:49PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:43, andrej hocevar wrote: > > [Which made my script almost think you were a spammer 8-)] > > > Sorry about that :-) It didn't occur to me, but I bet it was filtered > out on a lot of boxes! my (woody) spamassassin

OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

2003-01-24 Thread will trillich
okay, i used to know how these makefiles worked, but that was a few lifetimes ago... :( i'm doing many iterations on the edit-run-edit cycle in creating a postgresql 7.2.1 (woody) and thought that make would be able to help keep my inter-dependencies in line. of course, there's no "object" file a

Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:24:29PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Just a quick question: > Why is gnome 1.4 installed by default rather than > gnome 2 ? Are there security reasons or whatever ? If you're using stable (woody?), then it's because stable always lags behind for the sake of stability and

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Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:34:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT > the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience > holds will be in approx another year and a half. That is assuming there > isn't a gnome 3 by then :) I th

Re: Can't figure out CVS

2003-01-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 24/01/03 Pigeon did speaketh: > Well, sort of... they provide 2 lines of example, which don't help if > you can't figure out what "module" means. I was looking around for > lists of modules, files with module in the name, a modules > directory... Trying things like '*' and 'all' for module name

Re: Mouse Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Alvin Oga wrote @ Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:21:28 -0800 (PST) > > hi ya > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > /dev/mouse > > /dev/psaux (used by gpm) > > > > and different protocols > > > > protocol PS/2 > > protocol

Re: Next release schedule (was: Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??)

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Reading the observation of "speeding up the release cycle," I wonder if > the new release efforts should not be invoked shortly after the libc6 > logjam breaks, particularly if KDE 3.1 and Gnome 2/2.2 can be brought in > with it. That

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Re: Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:39:56AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > I am afraid that I will be kicked off of this list because of this silly > question. Uuh, no. The worst that happens is you realise you asked an obvious question once you get the answer. Unless you ask to be unsubscribed, in which

Re: setting up exim

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:32:50PM -0800, Harmohan Bhamra wrote: > I am trying to setup exim, to send and receive for a single tld domain on > debian woody. > > I want users to authenticate to /etc/shadow over ssl if possible. > > The users are using Outlook or Outlook express or squirrelmail (w

Re: 80 80 80 80 80 80 ... after new install reboot with SCSI [SOLVED]

2003-01-24 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Hi, and thanks for all the tips! For me the add of: "/dev/sda... bios=0x80" in /etc/lilo.conf solved the problem. It turned of that when combining IDE and SCSI disk devices LILO cant tell which on is the primary disk, then setting IDE by default. /Emil --

Debian on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)?

2003-01-24 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Hi, does Debian run on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)? If yes, what problems can I expect? Yours, Emil -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Next release schedule (was: Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??)

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:34, nate wrote: > > gnome2 should be available in the next debian stable release(NOT > > the next POINT release, i.e. 'revision') which if my past experience > > holds will be in approx another year and a half

Re: locales fr_CA

2003-01-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:34, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hey folks: > > I need to have a french locale installed for ht://Dig. I've installed it > with dpkg-reconfigure locales. (I've even set it as the system default, > I'm that desperate right now.) When I do locale -a it's listed; however, > ht:/

Configuring Netscape/Mozilla to use Debian courier package

2003-01-24 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Hi, I'm very stuck here. I've found various mentions about editing the prefs.js file and using advanced dialog on the server setting dialog, but they don't help. Setting the server sub directory to INBOX. in prefs.js *almost* works, but I get an error saying "The current command did not succeed.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:18:18PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] > > I learned this in this list but reading manual page of apt-get (8) > ... > --default-release >This option controls the default input to the policy engine, it >creates

Quick spamassassin question

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg25892/p

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* John & Peg Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030121 05:06]: > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And then > I > will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys Print > server, > and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the "back

Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??

2003-01-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Well ok - everybody is saying just stick with gnome 1.4 so I'll use that one (or the fluxbox I recently installed) - thanks for the replies :-) --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:24:29PM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > Just a quick question: > > Why is gnome

Re: pam_limits problem

2003-01-24 Thread Andrew Och
Dear Colin > I believe it's harmless, though annoying. http://bugs.debian.org/159053 > appears to be the root cause. Thank you for putting my mind at ease. What with so many ssh exploits always popping up, I felt quite worried about my bodge. Best regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Debian on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)?

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:33:49AM +0100, =?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= wrote: > does Debian run on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)? > If yes, what problems can I expect? STFW? http://debian.org/ -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - w

Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-24 Thread Sacha Chua
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some >> information on doing so? > Back when I was playing with one, general advice was that you only > wanted to try to put Debian on it if you had a lot of persistent > storage. The Familiar

Re: nvidia driver

2003-01-24 Thread Xavier Sanz
I think that's something related to agp module/driver. Alexis Roda wrote: Hi, recently I've purchased a MSI Geforce MX440. X is configured with the latest nvidia drivers, dualhead (twinview), one monitor 1600x1200 and the other 1240x1024 with a virtual desktop of 1240x1200, 16bits. It works gre

debian woody beside suse

2003-01-24 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello Debian user, I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize

Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello. Recently I had to connect a CDROM drive to the IDE interface of my SoundBlaster 32 card, but the system only recognizes the first two (onboard) IDE interfaces and not the sound card's one. Checking in /proc/isapnp I can see the interface but it says "Device is not active". Can anyone pl

Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kieren Diment
From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21) and for some reason the tulip module that runs it wont load by default. I came up with a really ugly hack for thi

Re: Re: IDE for java

2003-01-24 Thread Joris
> When you say "make", is that the same make program most c++ programs use? > If so, i didn't know one could use it with other languages. I'll have to start >learning it then. > I know there is a java specific make too: jmake. > Any experience with that one? there is another java specific make r

Re: Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Castillo
On Friday 24 January 2003 12:47, you wrote: > Hello. > > Recently I had to connect a CDROM drive to the IDE interface of my > SoundBlaster 32 card, but the system only recognizes the first two > (onboard) IDE interfaces and not the sound card's one. > > Checking in /proc/isapnp I can see the interf

Re: Galeon & Type Ahead Find problems

2003-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.24.0351 +0100]: > pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false); > > in /etc/prefs.js should be enough. I don't have that file. Should I create it? Or add the user_pref to ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (ww

sed

2003-01-24 Thread behapy
Hi? kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi => www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+- sed -e 's/^*+-//g' SOM

How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Dear list,   this is what happened to me: I have developed a piece of software and created a .deb package out of it. I then tried to install my new package onto a system using dpkg. Unfortunately I discovered that I had a typo in the dependencies of my new package so it has one dependen

can't install debian!!!

2003-01-24 Thread sergey dyshel
Hi I'll try to explain here my installation process with all its problems and maybe you'll help me to fix them. I downloaded Debian 3.1 unofficial ISO-images (dated 11 of January), and burned them on CD-R. Then I tried to boot from the first CD. First I chose default "cdrom" (or "linux") boot. The

Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
did people see this and just noone respond? - Forwarded message from martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:08:47 +0100 From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: getting postfix + sasl to work User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Org

getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system clock based on the time from one of the many timeservers on the internet.

Re: fun with tulip not autoloading

2003-01-24 Thread Kent West
Kieren Diment wrote: From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: fun with tulip not autoloading i'm using 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21) and for some reason the tulip module that runs it wont load by default. I came up with a r

Re: Pioneer 105 DVD ... How to Burn?

2003-01-24 Thread Hank Marquardt
-scanbus shows scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-105 ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM I did not do the source dance, but rather simply installed the binary packages for everything. I did find I have to use -dao and actually build an iso image (I normally just pipe mkisofs to cdrecord

Re: Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:47, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello. > > Recently I had to connect a CDROM drive to the IDE interface of my > SoundBlaster 32 card, but the system only recognizes the first two (onboard) > IDE interfaces and not the sound card's one. > > Checking in /proc/isapnp I can se

Re: sed

2003-01-24 Thread Craig Dickson
behapy wrote: > kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi > kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi > > => > > www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html > kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi > kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi > > I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+- > >

Turning off error messages

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all I was wondering if there was a way to turn off kernel messages from getting spit out on the active tty. I keep getting this error message; I have no idea what it means; I don't see any problem (I can still mount netware drives just fine...), and I'd like it to stop popping up. IPX: Net

Re: debian woody beside suse

2003-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:18, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello Debian user, > > I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer > beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the > spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by > it ow

Re: Debian on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)?

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:33:49AM +0100, =?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= wrote: > Hi, > > does Debian run on a HP C180 (PA-RISC)? > If yes, what problems can I expect? You might find [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be a richer source of experts here. However, http://parisc-linux.org/hardware/support

Re: Openafs woes

2003-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for your response. My experience is, in general, that even long-idle AFS mounts work fine across NAT; the only time this has caused a problem is when there's a documented drop in connectivity between the firewall and the AFS server. I'll work on fs checks and fs flush next time this happens

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Badran
--Boundary-02=_BRUM+D5lEvfSYKN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 24 Jan 2003 12:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in

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Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Russell
Rohan Nicholls wrote: * John & Peg Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030121 05:06]: In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I ca

gnome-panel drawer problem

2003-01-24 Thread Joris
Hi, yesterday I upgraded my unstable box, and since then the 'drawers' in the gnome panels are avoided by new/maximized windows. in general, the gnome2 panels and applets seem to have much less functionality than their 1.4 variants. is that intentionally or is gnome2-panel just not completed yet?

Re: can't install debian!!!

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:11:00AM -0800, sergey dyshel wrote: > I'll try to explain here my installation process with all its problems > and maybe you'll help me to fix them. > > I downloaded Debian 3.1 unofficial ISO-images (dated 11 of January), > and burned them on CD-R. The sarge installatio

Re: can't install debian!!!

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:11:00AM -0800, sergey dyshel wrote: > default. So I pressed ENTER (I don't think I needed > shell at this stage) and > the installer printed a huge list of 31 different > options. Not knowing what > to do I pressed "q" to exit and was told that the > installer can't find

USB Printer Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have an Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to a USB port. I am using CUPS and cupsomatic-ppd. localhost:631/printers shows Foomatic + stp-4.0 and usb:/dev/usblp0. When I try Print Test Page nothing is printed and the /var/log/cups/error_log lists GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error,

Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote: > I have developed a piece of software and created a .deb package out of > it. I then tried to install my new package onto a system using dpkg. > Unfortunately I discovered that I had a typo in the dependencies of my > new package s

Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package (e.g. a security update) from unstable. There are people that use apt pinning to install pack

dist-upgrade question

2003-01-24 Thread D.
Hi all, I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted to do a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results of the apt-get -u dist-upgrade. My questions is why is it trying to remove the task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I have lost my "Desktop" and only had text only mode?

RE: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Gary Noack
Try Chrony. The Woody package should work straight out of the box with a standard dial up service. Gaz. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 12:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up Hi,

Re: IDE for java

2003-01-24 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Take a peek at Ant from jakarta.apache.org - make functionality - written in Java - no tab/space issues of Make - makefile of make = buil.xml of Ant - that's correct. ant "makefile"s are written in xml Dave Carrigan wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:33, Benedict Verheyen wrote: When you sa

Re: Support Sun Sparcstation 5

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Falco Chung said: > Hi there, > > Does Debian support Sun Sparcstation 5 workstation? > > If yes, what version I should & when I can download? > > Best regards, > > Falco Try here: http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ It looks like yes. -- ---

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the > system clock based on the time from one of the many timeservers on the > internet. > What package do I need to do this? Chrony. > How do I make it autorun once pppd has got the ppp connection up and > running

Re: Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Ronald Castillo
On Friday 24 January 2003 14:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:47, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Recently I had to connect a CDROM drive to the IDE interface of my > > SoundBlaster 32 card, but the system only recognizes the first two > > (onboard) IDE interfaces and not

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:33:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-24 Thread Wilhelm Klink
I use the powstatd package with by APC BackUPS 500. The real advantage that it offers is that you can run "powstatd -t" and see what signals the UPS sends. It's also a good idea when testing the UPS to *not* plug the computer into the UPS. Instead, just plug in a lamp into the UPS. Another adv

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:10:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: ... > headless would be a monitor, keyboard and mouse, with no cpu > box. Not quit. Headless would be without monitor, cpu and memory. Lack of cpu and memory could be called brainless, but lack of cpu alone lacks any resemblance with

Help with setting time from internet timeservers over dialup

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I am using Debian 3.0r1 and connect to the internet using a dialup. Basically I've set my /etc/peers/provider and my /etc/chatscript to dial up Freeserve Anytime and negotiate ppp using PAP. pppd handles getting the link up and running and all I do is type 'pon' and 'poff' to bring the netw

Re: Quick spamassassin question

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences > still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? Yes, they do apply, at least if you're running the it via spamd. You have to explicitly turn off user preferences wit

[HELP] ALSA won't work though installed properly

2003-01-24 Thread J. L.
Hello People, Recently i re-installed my linux-system to stable and upgraded to kernel-2.4.20, since i'm using an ABIT-AT7-MAX motherboard i had to install ALSA-SOURCE 0.9 wich is the only package supporting the Realtek ALC650 (VIA8233A) Chipset. I have installed ALSA and configured my system acc

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system > clock based

Re: RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-24 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am copying & pasting their post: > > > I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over > LVM and RAID. > > If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.htm

RE: *install* the kernel was Re: GeForce4 MX

2003-01-24 Thread Narins, Josh
I went to Parris Island, Marine Corps boot camp, back in May 1997, with a Hogbin from West Virginia. Is it a common name? > -Original Message- > From: Emma Jane Hogbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: *install* the ker

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: > If I had one of those SNMP modules here I'd whip together a script, > but my APC is directly attached using a serial cable. > > Regards, Ours is double connected, now that I think of it. AS/400 on the serial side, and the SNMP board handles the rest

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Hans Wilmer
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > show which process that eats all the memory. Maybe the memory is used for the disk cache/cache buffers --- free and top can display that. Afair, it's possib

Hylafax faxrcvd script

2003-01-24 Thread Zdzislaw A.Kaleta
May by some guru can send to silly nonprogramer a checked script of faxrcvd for hylafax which print a received faxes to printer automagicaly. The server is on computer which print with simple lpr command. Thank for advance -- z.a.kaleta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

CD-writer is not recognized as a scsi device

2003-01-24 Thread Vera Friederichs
Hi, in my computer is a ATAPI IDE CD-writer (and another CDROM). But cdrecord -scanbus finds only my scsi hard disk. In lilo.conf there is a line append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" dmesg: ... Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=802 hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi ... scsi1 : SCSI host

Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread D.
Why can't he do a dpkg--purge then do a apt-get clean ? Just a thought Don --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Torsten > Schlabach wrote: > > I have developed a piece of software and created a > .deb package out of > > it. I then tried to install

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:56:44PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | did people see this and just noone respond? [snip forwarded message] Yes. I worked through the problem on my system, but I used version 2.0.x from unstable. I didn't think my solution was relevant to your problem (see bug 176048

Re: Asus ME-99 mobo manual

2003-01-24 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:18:34PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:41:24 -0600 > "Larry W. Irwin Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I just got an Asus ME-99 mobo and need to find a manual for it in text, > I founded everything on the ASUS site ! For the ME-99 I don't know.

Re: Quick spamassassin question

2003-01-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-24T10:54:27Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences > still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? Yes, based on the settings in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs . -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, er

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system > clock based on the time from one of the

Re: Quick spamassassin question

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:54:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences | still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? It depends on how you run spamassassin. If you're using the config I documented on my web site then, no

Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:04:07AM -0800, D. wrote: [Please mail replies only to the list, not copied to me.] > Why can't he do a dpkg--purge misspelled one> then do a apt-get clean ? He said he'd done 'dpkg -P' (an alias for --purge) already ... The only effect of 'apt-get clean' is to remove

Hex Editor

2003-01-24 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, I'm looking for a Hex Editor, kinda along lines of Norton's NDiags (or better). Something that will give me access to the different segments of the Hard Disk and memory and preferably across different partitions. Would appreciate if you guys could tell me what's the best and where I coul

Re: libcupsys2 is kept back

2003-01-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote: | Dear All, | | After a recent DSA regarding CUPS, I decided to upgrade my woody | box, but apt-get -u upgrade after an apt-get update tells me that | libcupsys2 has been kept back: | | uni-hq:/home/lex# apt-get -u upgrade | Reading

Re: USB Printer Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas H. George,,, said: > I have an Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to a USB port. I am using > CUPS and cupsomatic-ppd. localhost:631/printers shows Foomatic + > stp-4.0 and usb:/dev/usblp0. When I try Print Test Page nothing is > printed and the /var/log/cups

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 14:59:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with > outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: > > apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package (e.g. > a security update)

ip_table installatio

2003-01-24 Thread Atteo Erasmo
Title: ip_table installatio Hi, I would like to install the ip_table module no linux redhat 7.1. Could you ,please, tell me how to do it o where i could find information about the installation procedure ? Thmahs Erasmo

active programs overview

2003-01-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, What is the program to use when I want to know which programs are running ? Thanks :-) Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Kahle
> > The new kernel boots fine, but eth0 no longer can get an IP. lsmod > > says that I have no modules loaded. I double checked to > ensure that I > > didn't build this into the kernel and I did! So I did the same > > process a second time, same deal only this time I made sure that I > > sp

Re: libcupsys2 is kept back

2003-01-24 Thread Torrin
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote: > After a recent DSA regarding CUPS, I decided to upgrade my woody > box, but apt-get -u upgrade after an apt-get update tells me that > libcupsys2 has been kept back: I had this same problem. To upgrade, I had to install libpng2.

Re: Activate SoundBlaster IDE interface

2003-01-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 24 January 2003 15:26, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I thought there was some kind of support in more modern kernels... I > remember seeing some option in xconfig while configuring my kernel which > did something like search for ISA PNP cards at boot time. Maybe that will > help some? In any

Re: dist-upgrade question

2003-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote: > My questions is why is it trying to remove the > task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I > have lost my "Desktop" and only had text only mode? Task packages are (were) empty packages containing only dependencies. They do not pro

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-24 Thread Glenn English
2 or 3 years ago I struggled long and hard with an APC UPS on a Linux system. I finally gave up in disgust and replaced it. > I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my > experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable > for Unixy systems than Windows.

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> > > That is what I do, but as I said earlier a dist-upgrade could remove > some packages you want to keep so the -s option will tell you what it > will do before you regret doing it. A dist-

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