Re: Mail setup for new user in Debian

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:01:14AM +1000, Jason Binder said > Hi userlist, > > First time here and even unsure if this is a mailing list so my > apologies to all. > > We have just recently taken over a clients computer support that has a > debian unix box running squid and mail. > > My proble

good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web application. And good suggestion? Please CC me. -- Edwin ERTW Lau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mystery: disappearing .mailfilterrc

2003-10-23 Thread Ross Boylan
In the last week I have twice rebooted, and each time my .mailfilterrc AND its backup in an RCS directory have disappeared. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this truly bizarre behavior? I know the file was there because a) I checked and b) mailfilter ran fine before the reboot. I

Re: stairstep printing on an HP Deskjet

2003-10-23 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Corey Hickey wrote: > [snip] >> Currently, if I try to print a text file by using: >> $ lpr text.txt >> I get a stairstep effect - the first line is good, the next line is >> tabbed over, the next line even farther, etc. From searching google, >> I've determined that this is to be expected in HP

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:42:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon said > I've been looking at a lot of options for dealing with Swen > and the next Sobig, soon to arrive. In the discussions here, > I learned that some people use tmda as a part of their spam > defense, and looking into it I soon learned that

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Roberto Sanchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Scott Hansen wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install. I am new to >> Debian, and Linux as a whole. The question I have is thatI do not >> know >> how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde. >

Re: Kernel panic error

2003-10-23 Thread Anim Asante
--- Anim Asante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Bill Marcum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 22 October 2003 07:01 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Kernel panic error > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:27:29AM +0100, Anim > > Asante wrot

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > Hm, now I check, 27253 of those did *not* come from my secondary MXs. > That is a stupid amount of crap. In fact, it is 3.8985GB of crap. > Imagine that instead of dropping that shit on the floor, you sent a CR > query. You've just doubl

Re: good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/10/03 03:01), Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web > application. And good suggestion? Please CC me. It depends on your level of competence (scripting languages etc.) If you're new to all this (like me) I'd recommend La

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:42:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon said > > I've been looking at a lot of options for dealing with Swen > > and the next Sobig, soon to arrive. In the discussions here, > > I learned that some peopl

Re: RPC: Program not Registered - SOLVED

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:52, Clive Menzies wrote: [...] > > > so nice to try to get at the work I've been doing mentime on my laptop > > > by an nfs mount and to get: RPC: Program not Registered [...] > You might want to look at: > file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS-HOWTO.gz Yes, found t

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:42:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been looking at a lot of options for dealing with Swen > and the next Sobig, soon to arrive. In the discussions here, > I learned that some people use tmda as a part of their spam > defense, and looking into i

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:33:39 -0700, Scott Hansen wrote: > > Greetings, > > I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install. I am new to > Debian, and Linux as a whole. The question I have is thatI do not know > how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde. Could you help me > wi

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:21:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:14:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:36:26PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How wou

Re: Wolfenstein ET on debian?

2003-10-23 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:33, Dennis van Turnhout wrote: > Since no one replied: > > http://tjw.org/etded/ > > The so far in this article is missing: "sh et-linux-2.55.x86.run" to > start installation AFAIK eted is the server, not the client, so this document wouldn't be of much use.. Howev

Re: good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:19:40AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > For a more comprehensive reference/guide: PHP and MySQL Web Development > by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson which is the first book we bought but > I found it difficult to get started with. We've recently bought the > Second Edition

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-23 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:39:28AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:21:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > chroot? > No. > The ports aren't chrooted, so you're sharing the same :25 with the > parent. > However user-mode Linux would work, on a separat

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > ... > > >> of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in > > >>en

Re: exim4: How to stop viruses at SMTP time

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:06:06PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:07:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I was thinking the same thing, but I decided against something like > > > that i

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-23 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> 1. I fetch my mail via fetchmail from my mailbox at my isp. The standard >> way of exiscan's handling viruses and spam seems to be that it refuses >> the >> mail. Is there a w

Re: exim4: How to stop viruses at SMTP time

2003-10-23 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:21:39AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:06:06PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Because we're already beating master into the freaking ground trying to > > scan things, OK? We need to make it do something sensible with > > cro

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-23 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:28:53AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > I was wondering that in my setup, exiscan wouldn't even be worthwile using. > Isn't fetchmail going to get the full message before sending it over to > exim? If that is the case, exiscan will not do what i want it to do. > If this

Re: good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Scott
Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web application. And good suggestion? Please CC me. O'Reilly's Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by Hugh E. Williams & David Lane is excellent! ISBN 0-596-00061-3 Paul Scott -- To

Re: OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-23 Thread TR
> The Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war in the > United States of America. US Constitution, Article I, Section 8. > With all due respect, this is in theory. In practice, GWB (or those behind him) did take the country to war, the Congress merely ratified and made legal th

Re: OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:24:31AM -0400, TR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war in the > > United States of America. US Constitution, Article I, Section 8. > > > > With all due respect, this is in theory. In practice, GWB (or those > b

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:15:29AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Roberto Sanchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian. To get a graphical login > > prompt, execute an 'apt-get gdm' while logged in as root ... > Note that KDE also has an login manager calle

Re: lilo and winblows

2003-10-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:02, techlists wrote: > it seemed to install ok, but when I rebooted, the machine would show > LI and start beeping. I had to reinstall lilo from a rescue disk, > which of course overwrote my lilo.conf file It usually helps to just re-run lilo if it's screwed up.

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-23 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:28:53AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> I was wondering that in my setup, exiscan wouldn't even be worthwile >> using. >> Isn't fetchmail going to get the full message before sending it over to >> exim? If that is the case, exiscan will not do what i want it to do. >

Re: good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Edwin Lau
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:41:34AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Edwin Lau wrote: > > >Hi everyone, > > > > I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web > >application. And good suggestion? Please CC me. > > > > > > > O'Reilly's Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-23 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
i bet that this works ( assuming the kernel has been told by grub/lilo the hdc=ide-scsi option ) mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and if it does ... make a link cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrom ( for reading cd's ) cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrw ( for writing ) c ya al

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread Harry Brueckner
Hi there, --On Thursday, October 23, 2003 06:54:45 AM -0400 Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is NOT urgent, since Debian provides working kernels. However, I am just wondering on where to find clues on how to solve problems while compiling the kernels. I tried google with not much luc

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread Robert William Hutton
Abdul Latip wrote: This is NOT urgent, since Debian provides working kernels. However, I am just wondering on where to find clues on how to solve problems while compiling the kernels. I tried google with not much luck. The problem is, whenever I recompile a newer kernel using "make-kpkg"; most like

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Ash
Dear List and Vineet, I began: > > I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful > > Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, > > but I cannot figure out how to set hostname and domain using > > dhcp.

Re: Sound stutter

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Bona
Rene Cunningham wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:59PM +0200, Michael Bona wrote: >> I am running Woody / KDE 3.1.3 with aRts on a Duron 800 with 258 MB of >> RAM. I have tried several players, notably noatun and kaboodle. >> Soundserver runs with realtime priority (setting in KDE control ce

Re: What's rc.local in debian?

2003-10-23 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:53:07PM +0200, Dennis van Turnhout wrote: > I want to set some hdparm parameters at boot for my system. > According to a tweak guide this has to be set in rc.local for a redhat > system. > > What's the file name for a debian server? I've no idea what rc.local is on RedHa

Re: Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Hansen
Thanks for everyones response to my post! In response to the last posting helping me with my request, no I do not have the graphical side of things working. Here is what goes on when I use startx (although I am unsure if I am doing this correctly): scorpion:~# startx /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/s

Re: OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:59:47 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, the US President commands the armed forces. Congress holds the > purse strings. And the recent Iraqi disagreement was not a declared > war -- there have been none involving

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/10/03 04:50), Scott Hansen wrote: > Thanks for everyones response to my post! > > In response to the last posting helping me with my request, no I do not > have the graphical side of things working. Here is what goes on when I > use startx (although I am unsure if I am doing this correct

Re: Advanced printing... continued

2003-10-23 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:43, Wayne Topa wrote: > > One issue left: my paper size is A4, but xpp won't let me select > > anything other than US Letter. Or rather, I can point at A4, do the > > selection, and end up with US Letter still being highlighted. > > Have your tried editing the .ppd file?

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:19:10AM +0200, Toens Bueker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of > > my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager > > (LVM via EVMS), I don't wa

exim as backup mx

2003-10-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'd like to set up exim as a backup MX for a friend's domain. Any tips on doing this? I was going to put the domain in local_domains in exim.conf, and have a catchall in /etc/aliases. But how do I forward the queued mail to his server when it comes back up? A -- Now playing: Porcupine

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > My personal pet peeve is: > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi > > oc?to?pus( P ) Pronunciation Key (kt-ps) > > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> James D Freels writes: James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered James> that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because James> it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have James> copied these files (foun

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-23 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:47:54PM +0200, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > From: "[loonyx | rolf joho]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user mailinglist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ide-scsi problem on woody > > >i bet that this works ( assuming the kernel has been told by grub/lilo > >the hd

how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, Woody's spamassassin (2.20) provides me with a hit rate of about 60%; partly to increase this, partly because I'm curious about that fancy Bayes filter, I'd like to have a more recent spamassassin. But how? I'm a little shy of installing tarballs -- I'm afraid this would give me trouble wh

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-23 Thread Toens Bueker
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is generally not a good idea to use LVM directly on >> top of a disk. You always should use LVM on top of a >> RAID-System. If you use xfs as your filesystem you can >> even extend your partitions while they are mounted. > > What's your basis for

kde freeze, sorting problem

2003-10-23 Thread LeVA
Hello! I have compiled kde-3.1.4 from source. This problem happens with _all_ of the kde applications, which has this "column feature". If an app has a file/info listing in its window, for example Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 Name Size Date then if I click onto one of these sorting

Re: NFS has a file size overflow problem

2003-10-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So: presumably NFS is known to use 32 bit file sizes, but ls understands >a 64 bit file size? I also note that the fstat, stat etc system calls >return the file size as an off_t, which in the i86 header files for >2.4.22 is a

problem viewing this list through newsgroup...

2003-10-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi please cc your reply to me cause at the moment I can't access this mailing list... I'm viewing this mailing list through nntp server which works great, but in the last 2 days, I don't see any new messages. even on groups.google.com they don't appear. anyone has an idea why? thanx -- Haim

Login managers (WAS: Re: new to debian)

2003-10-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andreas Janssen wrote: Note that KDE also has an login manager called kdm which you maybe want to install instead of gdm if you use KDE instead of Gnome. best regards Andreas Janssen GDM is more configurable (at least as far as I know). You can also theme it with a KDE-looking theme (of w

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm no expert here, but I think the fact that this works means that ide-cd has got /dev/hdc, which is why ide-scsi doesn't grab it. I think there's an option to tell ide-cd to explicitly ignore /dev/hdc, but I don't know what it is. ap -

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 02:53, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > Hm, now I check, 27253 of those did *not* come from my secondary MXs. > > That is a stupid amount of crap. In fact, it is 3.8985GB of crap. > > Imagine that instead of dropping that sh

Xfig not working with KDE in sarge

2003-10-23 Thread Roger Young
Dear all, I am using debian sarge with the latest updates (as of yesterday), and have recently attempted to use Xfig 3.2 patchlevel 4. I have found that in KDE, which I normally use at the moment, the Xfig window freezes as soon as I try to use its menu and I cannot close it, although I can move t

Re: Re: ide tape errors

2003-10-23 Thread Christopher Marino-Cebulski
Hello, I had a similar problem with a Seagate STT3401A Travan ide tape drive. It was reporting: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, ... After some research, I found the solution on Seagates web site: http://www.certance.com/support/kb/tape/faq/travan40_redhat.html # rmmod ide-tape # rmmod ide-scsi # modp

Re: exim as backup mx

2003-10-23 Thread moseley
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to set up exim as a backup MX for a friend's domain. Any tips on > doing this? I was going to put the domain in local_domains in exim.conf, > and have a catchall in /etc/aliases. But how do I forward the queu

Re: exim as backup mx

2003-10-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:23:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:37:27PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to set up exim as a backup MX for a friend's domain. Any tips on > > doing this? I was going to put the domain in local_domains in exi

RE: Fwd: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ed
you can get it at ftp://corel.com/linux/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sandersweb.net - Original message > From: David Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ed Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

anyone got X running on the new Medion Laptop?

2003-10-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello put up an unstable debain on my brand new Medion laptop and there seems no way to get X working... i got XF86config files from other people having this laptop but running under Suse, rEdhat or Mandrake and who have no problems i even tryed to copy over the config file knoppix us

Re: exim as backup mx

2003-10-23 Thread moseley
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:39:21PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > > Unless dealing with a large amount of mail I wonder if it's even worth > > using a secondary. The only reason for it would be to read your mail if > > you primary machine fails. For example, for a small home setup if your

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ralph Alvy
Bill Benedetto wrote: > FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. > Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't had > real good luck so far (although I haven't looked at it in a few > weeks). Thanks! Did you apt-get install libc5 xpm4.7 xlib6 before at

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Victor Cain
I would certainly like to vote for the WP import/export in OO.org. Do I need to e-mail someone else? On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: > > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > > that it

debian on HP Proliant MC330 G3

2003-10-23 Thread Marco Di Costanzo
Hi, I have a problem installing Debian on a HP Proliant MC330 G3. The hard disk controller (SCB-6 UltraATA 100) and the network interface are not recognized, thus I can't proceed through the installation process. I searched the net for pre-loadable modules but I found solutions for SuSe or RedHa

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > Europe is America minus 10 years. > > And not just Europe. And that's exactly what the bin Ladens, > Jacques Chiracs etc of this world are fighting to prevent. I'm kind o

Re: How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

2003-10-23 Thread stan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:45:04PM -0400, Darik Horn wrote: > > 1. What are the various size limits for IDE33/66/100 & 133 ? > > Read the History of BIOS and IDE limits at: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html Thanks that's helpful I thought I rembered more limits than that in var

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Woody's spamassassin (2.20) provides me with a hit rate of about 60%; > partly to increase this, partly because I'm curious about that fancy > Bayes filter, I'd like to have a more recent spamassassin. > > But how? > I'm a little shy of installing

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Bill Benedetto wrote: James D Freels writes: James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP8 to work in Woody. Does anyone have the steps necessary to do so? I haven't

Re: booting from a usb mass storage zip drive

2003-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Benton wrote: > PROCESSES: > root15 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 02:46 0:00 > [usb-storage-0] > root16 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 02:46 0:00 > [scsi_eh_1] These are kernel threads, that's why they're low-numbered processes just above 1 (init), have their name

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:15:29AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Roberto Sanchez (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian. To get a graphical login prompt, execute an 'apt-get gdm' while logged in as root .

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb said > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > Hm, now I check, 27253 of those did *not* come from my secondary MXs. > > That is a stupid amount of crap. In fact, it is 3.8985GB of crap. > > Imagine that instead of dropp

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:44:48AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: | Nothing says exim must use port 25 and, IIRC, there's a recipe on the Exim | site which explains how to divert a copy of mail to another MTA for testing | purposes. Throw it on :2525 and see how it works? Just thinking aloud. If y

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-23 Thread csj
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:24:44 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > [1 ] > * csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031018 03:22]: > > At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:28:44 -0600, > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: > > > > > > > >english has a fairly simple a re

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:47:34AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >Okay, I'll bite. > >apt-get install wdm Kent, Could you turn off HTML mail, please? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:20:46AM +0100, Karsten M. Self said > on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If you have the level of MTA control neccessary to automatically reply > > to CR queries, then just block Swen at the MTA level. I've rejected > > 3455

Debian hardware (HP Proliant), version and backup questions

2003-10-23 Thread Nate Aune
Hello, I work for a company called Learning Lab Denmark and we are currently switching our website to an open source content management system called Plone, and we need to set up a server for internally hosting our site. I am coming to this list as a Redhat refuge - We have been having problems g

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Robert William Hutton wrote: When you copy a config file from elsewhere, it's a good idea to do a "make oldconfig". oldconfig asks you about any drivers/options that didn't exist in the previous version. while i know that this is the way to go when upgrading to newer kernel-versions, is also s

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:41AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > Yup. Reason #23131 why CR is a poor solution. I'm quite amazed at how > well SA and simple checks like my Postfix body regexp work. I still get > spam, and oodles of it, but it's almost flawlessly classified. I check > out my spam fold

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:47:34AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Okay, I'll bite. apt-get install wdm Kent, Could you turn off HTML mail, please? Thanks, Aw, sorry; I'm using someone else's computer at the moment, and didn't think to check. Hopefully I've got it fixed now.

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >  What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't have big sales of WP

suspend to ram, or hibernate

2003-10-23 Thread LeVA
Hello! Is it possible to suspend my system to ram, or to hibernate it? Could someone tell/show me a howto about this. Btw, is there a way to suspend my system and to keep my network connection simultaneously? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

how to figure out the gateway number?

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew Kasza
I have debian 3.0. I have to change the configuration of network (I mean I have to change IP, netmask and so on). I know my IP address, netmask, broadcast. Is there a way to figure out the network and gateway number? Is it enough to do the following three steps?: 1step 'ifdown --all' 2step ' to

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:44:41 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Benedetto wrote: > James D Freels writes: > > James> I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just > discovered > > FWIW, I'd be VERY interested in getting WP

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 03:42 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: > I've been looking at a lot of options for dealing with Swen and the > next Sobig, soon to arrive. In the discussions here, I learned that > some people use tmda as a part of their spam defense, and looking into > it I soon learned that > >

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-23 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > > > My personal pet peeve is: > > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi > > > oc?to?pus( P

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Kent West
Alan Shutko wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What is _wrong_ with Corel?! Do they not see this gaping wide opportunity? They didn't exactly have good sales of WPO2k (probably because it was a buggy piece of junk) and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. And even before, they didn't ha

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:15:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > would this be a canidate to run more than one version of debian? (the > chroot thing whereby you setup something like apache or xf86 to run in > chroot env that is different (libs, etc) than your current system) Yes, absolutely[0]

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:29:19 +0200, "[loonyx | rolf joho]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Robert William Hutton wrote: > > > > When you copy a config file from elsewhere, it's a good idea to do a > > > > "make oldconfig". oldconfig asks you about any drivers/optio

Challenges, Postfix, and Auto-handling crap (was Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...)

2003-10-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:56:03AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: | On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb said | > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: | > > Hm, now I check, 27253 of those did *not* come from my secondary MXs. | > > That is a stupid amount of crap.

Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Debconf encloses the entire XF86Config-4 file inside its: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION and ### END DEBCON

Correctly Designing Secondary MX (was Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...)

2003-10-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:20:46AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > If you have the level of MTA control neccessary to automatically reply | > to CR queries, then just block Swen at the MTA level. I've rejected | > 3

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Rob Weir writes: > Ah, yes, that's even worse. I'm also bloody sick of getting "a virus was > detected in your mail" messages from people I have never written to. Or "A virus was detected and removed from this message to you" followed by instructions on how to retrieve the virus and the "cleaned"

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:31:50AM -0700, Tom said > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:41AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > Yup. Reason #23131 why CR is a poor solution. I'm quite amazed at how > > well SA and simple checks like my Postfix body regexp work. I still get > > spam, and oodles of it, but it'

Re: update-modules, sound on boot-up

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:31:15AM -0400, Michael Bonert said > I have a frustrating little problem with sound on boot-up. > > Sound works if I manually load the required sound module: > - > $ su > # modprobe emu10k1 > > Result: Get great sound. :) Add the name of the module to the end o

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Woody's spamassassin (2.20) provides me with a hit rate of about 60%; > partly to increase this, partly because I'm curious about that fancy > Bayes filter, I'd like to have a more recent spamassassin. > > But how? > I'm a little shy of

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, John Hasler wrote: > Or "A virus was detected and removed from this message to you" followed > by instructions on how to retrieve the virus and the "cleaned" Swen. How about the ones that have something to the effect of "Scan engine failure, unable to scan" that let you know

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-23 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:38:18AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > > Europe is America minus 10 years. > > > > And not just Europe. And that's exactly what the bin Lade

Re: make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:29:19PM +0200, [loonyx | rolf joho] said > Robert William Hutton wrote: > > > >When you copy a config file from elsewhere, it's a good idea to do a > >"make oldconfig". oldconfig asks you about any drivers/options that > >didn't exist in the previous version. > > > >

Anyone use mikmod?

2003-10-23 Thread Nicolas
Just wan't to know if anyone is using mikmod. My friend is the new maintainer (with the benediction of the old one) and he made some changes. He sent a bug report to annonce the new maintainer/homepage/version (with color) and he didn't got even a mail or a visit on his page. Is mikmod dead?

Re: suspend to ram, or hibernate

2003-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:31:40PM +0200, LeVA said > Hello! > > Is it possible to suspend my system to ram, or to hibernate it? Could > someone tell/show me a howto about this. You can use "swsusp" (google for it, it's a kernel patch), but I don't think it's ready for serious use yet. Can't yo

Re: how to figure out the gateway number?

2003-10-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:52:22AM -0700, Andrew Kasza wrote: | I have debian 3.0. I have to change the configuration | of network | (I mean I have to change IP, netmask and so on). | | I know my IP address, netmask, broadcast. Good. | Is there a way to figure out the network Yep. In fact, the

Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-23 Thread Aaron
No relation to the P.O. box chain :p I wonder what most people use to organize their local mail these days? I don't run a full-on MTA, I rely on fetchmail and procmail for the delivery of my messages, and they are stored (by default) in mbox format. Are there any comparative guides out there? Wha

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