Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:54, csj wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:36:07 -0600, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > In Gnome Volume Control 2.4.0, I try to set the volume, but get > > the error > > > > Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'. > > Please check that you have permissions to ope

proxy configuration

2003-11-11 Thread Haiko Etzel
Hello, my server is behind a proxy-server with authentification. I installed debian through http, where I inserted the proxy informations. But now I need to change this informations! Where can I find the config files? Or is there a config-programm? Thanks Haiko ___

Re: Kernel Compiling: Source for my nic isn't included: Was:Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Healey
Trying to do my first kernel compile because my nic isn't supported on any of the ones on the distribution CD's. Anyway I have an onboard Broadcom 4401. When I run make menuconfig it isn't listed but a Tigon 9 is. 1) Is the Tigon 9 the name of the boxed-plugin card with the same chipset IOW is t

problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-11 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Hi out there! I 've got the following problem: I built in a Plextor-CD-Writer in my Desktop-PC (with Woody on it) but the machine (kernel) do not recognize it. I put the following command-line into my /etc/lilo.conf append="hdc=ide-scsi" and started lilo again but there is still somet

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Chris Knoblock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one. > running unstable and trying to install > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error > > ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code > (139) > > Failed to create initrd image. > > c

Re: [HS et plus si VITAL] , vraiment!

2003-11-11 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Lundi 10 Novembre 2003 21:31, François Boisson a déclamé : > De façon étonnante, ce ne serait pas un canular (j'ai un peu + de 40ans > et suis A-, ça m'a perturbé). C'est bien la première fois. Ce qui m'étonnait était qu'il y avait des coordonnées apparemment réelles - mais pas de date précis

Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, and has had a huge number of new features. The maintainer has been very reluctant to package this branch, even in a people.debian.org repository, so I decided to package FVWM 2.5.8 for myself; and I have decided to share t

Re: something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Tod
--- mbc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Please reply to me as I'm not on this list * > > Hi. So, I'm trying to build a kernel so that I can > compile some modules > I need for my wireless card to work. I want to > disable modversions in my > kernel so that the madwifi modules and the bcm4400 > mo

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:04:57PM -0700, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > echo "set ignoreeof" >> ~/.bashrc > > Oops! This would probably be what was intended. > > set -o ignoreeof Yep. Thanks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PR

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 09:58]: > > Hi, > > The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, > and has had a huge number of new features. The maintainer has been > very reluctant to package this branch, even in a people.debian.org > repository, so I de

Re: need advice on default font size in X app menus

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:10, mike wrote: > oops - after an upgrade to Xfree86 where I wasn't paying enough > attention to the prompts telling me which config files were going to > be overwritten I have a problem. The font of the menus in many X > windows applications such as openoffice, mozilla bro

understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Kordula Martin
Hi fellow Debian fans, I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package collection. I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I installed Woody). I have fetchmail running as a daemon and checking for mail ev

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:23:09 +0100 Kordula Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi fellow Debian fans, > > I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. > I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package > collection. I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default > instal

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > Guess not.  I don't see them anywhere in the menuconfig hierarchy. How did you install it...? I've followed this HOWTO with great success on my main workstation: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/ kernel-pkg.html#ADD-THIRDPARTY-KERNEL-

fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread wsa
I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. Right now in fetchmailrc i have "set no bouncemail, antispam -1, batchlimit 50, keep" as defaults. Fetchmail in my case fetches email of several pop3 servers fro

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-11 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > wvdialconf would not run unless I did the following: wvdialconf > /etc/wvdial.conf (or something like that) > When it did run it only checked ttyS0 and ttyS1 plus some ports and didnt > find the modem. However the modem shows up in KDE Control Center. Si

galeon

2003-11-11 Thread Lakshmi S.
Hi all, I guess I have done something seriously wrong while trying to install a package(gchempaint) from testing on my stable machine :-( Now, I am unable to install most of the gnome packages. It gives the following error when I try to install galeon. Reading Package Lists... Building Depen

Unidentified subject!

2003-11-11 Thread 遛遛网上书店
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Re: hardware detection on i386

2003-11-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:21, Tom Allison wrote: [...] > > You may want to check out http://www.libranet.com. The previous > > version is available for free download, and an apt-get upgrade will > > bring you to sarge/sid. > > Very impressive! > Thank you for the suggestion! [...] > PS - wood

Re: something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello mbc! On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0800, mbc wrote: First, I tried copying /boot/config-2.4.22-1-686 to /usr/src/linux/.config then doing make mrproper && make oldconfig && make dep && make bzImage && make install && make modules && make modules_install. [...] AFAIR make mrproper re

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-11 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:35:22PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > --- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:33:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> > >> > >>>probably that you're not in the "audio" group. Add yourself to this > >>>group with a command like "addgroup ly

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been > reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. > Right now in fetchmailrc i have "set no bouncemail, antispam -1, > batchlimit 50, keep" as defaults. >

Re: something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:50, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello mbc! > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0800, mbc wrote: > >First, I tried copying /boot/config-2.4.22-1-686 to > >/usr/src/linux/.config then doing make mrproper && make oldconfig && > >make dep && make bzImage && make install && ma

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been > reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. > Right now in fetchmailrc i have "set no bouncemail, antispam -1, > batchlimit 50, keep" as defaults. >

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:01:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > > A moment with 'apt-cache search graph|sort|less' produces > > apt-rdepends. Thus, along with the recommended package graphviz, > > one can do: > > apt-rdepends -d evolution | dotty >

preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
Not really Debian related, but there should be a Debian way to solve this... I have a USB device that I want to access as a raw USB device. However, it is a HID device, and thus claimed by the HID driver upon plugin (thanks to hotplug). What's the best/most elegant way to prevent the HID driver fro

mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I wrote the following configuration items for mutt, in an attempt to end the accidentally-replied-to-poster-rather-than-mailing-list problem: folder-hook debian 'bind index r list-reply' folder-hook debian 'bind pager r list-reply' folder-hook !debian 'bind index r reply'

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 03:23, Kordula Martin wrote: > Hi fellow Debian fans, > > I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. > I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package collection. > I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I > installed Woody).

Re: Configuring AC97 sound

2003-11-11 Thread Kent West
David Jardine wrote: But this brings up a question of principle. It's a genuine question, because I'm quite inexperienced in all this. - The manpage doesn't mention your way of doing it. - The preamble to the actual adduser script doesn't mention it. - The script starts by checking the command

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:01:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > A moment with 'apt-cache search graph|sort|less' produces > > > apt-rdepends. Thus, along with the recommended package gr

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:12, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Guess not. I don't see them anywhere in the menuconfig hierarchy. > > How did you install it...? > > I've followed this HOWTO with great success on my main workstation: > http://newbie

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread wsa
Exim passes it on to icourier so everyone on the local network has their mail on an imap server. It all works fine and sofar nothing has ever gone wrong, but i still have 'keep' as default in fetchmail to prevent people loosing their mail in case i screw up somewhere. But as you say, mail boxes

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:06, martin f krafft wrote: > Not really Debian related, but there should be a Debian way to solve > this... I have a USB device that I want to access as a raw USB > device. However, it is a HID device, and thus claimed by the HID > driver upon plugin (thanks to hotplug). Wh

Problems with mozilla

2003-11-11 Thread lomena
Hello! I have a problem with the mozilla package of the sid distribution. It doesn't show well some of the symbols found in the IPA extension of unicode fonts. The testing and stable versions of mozilla do work well. Does anyone know whether this is a bug? Or must I configure somet

GATOS driver -- is there a debian way?

2003-11-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have apt-cache searched for gatos, but did not find the ATI X11 drivers packaged. I have doubts that installing the precompiled version from gatos.sf.net will be good for dpkg's database consistency. I'm afraid it will completely break during tomorrow's dist-upgrade... So, has anybo

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Not really Debian related, but there should be a Debian way to solve > this... I have a USB device that I want to access as a raw USB > device. However, it is a HID device, and thus claimed by the HID > driver upon plugin (thanks to

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > # cd /usr/src > # tar xvfj kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > # ln -sf :-) > Hey, look what's in /usr/src!!! Never noticed that > > alsa-driver.tar.bz2 > > I guess I'll have to take a look at t

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:11:04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:31:08PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > > > We're all here because we know that Windows achieves "easy" at the > > expense of being hopelessly insecure and often b

Re: UI font size in OpenOffice

2003-11-11 Thread moseley
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. > > See bug #218585. So there's no resolution yet. Correct? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:23:09 +0100, Kordula Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi fellow Debian fans, > > I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. > I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package > collection. I also have Exim 3.35 insta

Re: [Fwd: ps broken]

2003-11-11 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:21, Prasanna Meda wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:21, Prasanna Meda wrote: > > > > > In reply to > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg01866.html > > > > > > I also noticed the same problem. It is due to > > >

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:41, wsa wrote: > Exim passes it on to icourier so everyone on the local network has their > mail on an imap server. Technically, I don't think that's exactly true. Exim drops the mail in Maildir/ *files*. It doesn't know nor care if an IMAP server is running or not. --

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 14:41), wsa wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:41:18 +0100 > From: wsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email? > > Exim passes it on to icourier so everyone on the local network has their > mail on

Re: mplayer, ogle, unable to play DVD

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:01:10 -0800, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:05:19AM +0800, csj wrote: > > Have you tried mounting a *DVD* on the DVD-ROM drive? What's the > > console output when you try to copy a file off a DVD (some of

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:23:09AM +0100, Kordula Martin wrote: > Hi fellow Debian fans, > > I'm having a problem understanding fetchmail. > I've got fetchmail 5.9.11 which I installed from the stable package > collection. > I also have Exim 3.35 installed (which was a default install when I > i

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > > # cd /usr/src > > # tar xvfj kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > > # ln -sf > > :-) > > > Hey, look what's in /usr/src!!! Never noticed th

Re: Spamassassin

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 November 2003 21:47, Greg Folkert wrote: > Use Maildrop... much nicer rules and the WHOLE bit. Just make sure you > put in a /etc/maildroprc proper. Have to agree with this. Having used both, I find maildrop to be a lot easier to use th

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > I've been following the recent threads on fetchmail and i've been > > reading up on it but i'm not quite clear on when one can loose mail. > > Right now in fetchmailrc i have

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Tod
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:12, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson > wrote: > > > Guess not. I don't see them anywhere in the > menuconfig hierarchy. > > > > How did you install it...? > > > > I've followed this HO

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:58:29PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I wrote the following configuration items for mutt, in an attempt to end > the accidentally-replied-to-poster-rather-than-mailing-list problem: > > folder-hook debian 'bind index r list-reply' > folder-hook debian 'b

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > > > # cd /usr/src > > > # tar xvfj kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > > > # ln -sf > >

Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently running Debian Testing, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (from Mozilla.org), and Java 1.4.2_02 (from sun.com), and I'm having problems with the combination. Even though I followed the instructions at sun.com and mozilla.org (putting a link from /

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:02:49 +0100, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 09:58]: >> >> Hi, >> >> The development branch of fvwm is nearing a stable release, and has >> had a huge number of new features. The maintainer has been very >> reluctant t

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-11 Thread moseley
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:57:56PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Bill, Fair enough, but it doesn't work on both heads, not just one. > > You should get accelerated OGL on both heads. I try and take good notes setting things up, but all I have is "doesn't work on secondary head". My memory is

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:48:17AM -0500, Parfait BINI wrote: > Good morning Sir, > My name's Parfait BINI, I got a boot problem with my computer. I had a new RAM for > playing Playstation games,when I start by Win98 iI don't have no problem but when I > start by WindowsXP it shows me an error o

Re: Latest version of fvwm packaged

2003-11-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-11 17:05]: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:02:49 +0100, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > can I simply update to the new packages by inserting the > > deb-statements into my /etc/apt/sources.list ? I'm running > > unstable. > > That's the wa

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > > > Successful delivery to your MTA. What your MTA then does with it > > is something that fetc

Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Iago Sineiro
Hi. I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it possible? Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo and I don't want to install it. Iago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

RE: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Walstad
On Monday 10 November 2003 17:10, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > I don't know courier-mta but i would go back to exim4. [...] Thanks Benedict. I have it working now. I dropped back to exim (not exim4) and followed the nice howto at: w

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:22, Simon Tod wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:12, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson > > wrote: > > > > Guess not. I don't see them anywhere in the > > menuconfig hierarchy. > > > >

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Jesse Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 04:27 Subject: Re: Installing modem. I tryed echo "ATDT555-1234"> /dev/ttyS3 that should have done the same thing and nothing happened.See my previous post

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Mental Patient
Iago Sineiro wrote: Hi. I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it possible? Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo and I don't want to install it. make shutdown suid root and only executable by the shutdown group? -- Mental ([EM

mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread csj
Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety' ~/.mailfilterrc DENY=^Subject:.*Test ALLOW=^To:.*marssociet

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 21:55 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > finished I attempted

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:58, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:48:17AM -0500, Parfait BINI wrote: > > Good morning Sir, > > My name's Parfait BINI, I got a boot problem with my computer. [snip] > > Parfait BINI > > > Remove all that Windoze stuff and install Debian. > > [

Invalid ICMP error messages

2003-11-11 Thread Cam Ellison
I have iptables installed, and using kernel 2.4.22. Though the first rule is to drop these things, my kernel, syslog, and messages logs are filling up with this sort of thing: Nov 11 04:54:51 treehouse kernel: 24.207.8.30 sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast: 24.207.15.255 on

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-11 Thread Sven Heinicke
If lilo don't work for you and grub will, do the Debian install, make a boot floppy boot of the boot floppy and then install grub from the debs. grub is a great boot loader, but lilo has always worked for me. I think I have always put it on the mbr though even though / or /boot has been in all s

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:15, Jacob S. wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:22:44AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > > > > > > > > Successful delivery to your

Re: galeon

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:52:11PM +0530, Lakshmi S. wrote: > Hi all, > > I guess I have done something seriously wrong while trying to install a > package(gchempaint) from testing on my stable machine :-( > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > galeon: Conflicts: moz

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:42:09AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Wouldn't it be easier to use mutt's builtin support for mailing lists? > > Add the line > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > somewhere in your .muttrc, and then use L for "reply-to-list"... I do use mutt's built-in support for maili

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:22:41PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > > I'm currently running Debian Testing, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (from > Mozilla.org), and Java 1.4.2_02 (from sun.com), and I'm having > problems with the combination. > > Even though I followed the instructions at sun.com and mozi

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > Hi. > > I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it > possible? > > Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo > and I don't want to install it. > > > Iago. FWIW KDE3.1 gives me reboot/shutdo

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Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Iago Sineiro said on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:28:52PM +0100: > Hi. > > I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it > possible? > > Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo > and I don't want to install it. Why not? That's what sudo i

Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread moseley
What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from all the parts, tested that it's valid and then exim4 is started with the new config. The file that is written is stripped of comments. I guess that's

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:05:34 -0800 Eric Walstad wrote: > > Now I would like to find out a way to setup usernames and passwords for > courier-imap that are different than the user login. I'd prefer not > sending the system login info over the lan. See the courier info on authuserdb, edit /etc/c

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety' ~/.mailfilterrc DENY=^Subject:.*Test ALLOW=^To:.*m

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:57:34 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:58, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:48:17AM -0500, Parfait BINI wrote: > > > Good morning Sir, > > > My name's Parfait BINI, I got a b

Re: mplayer, ogle, unable to play DVD

2003-11-11 Thread Sudarshana N Koushik
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Sudarshana N Koushik wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Sudarshana N Koushik wrote: > > > Hi ppl, > > >I have one CDR/W drive and one DVD drive. cdrecord -scanbus displays > > > the foll. > > > scsibus0: > > > 0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-32

Re: something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ron! On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:09:26AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:50, Florian Ernst wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:59:05PM -0800, mbc wrote: >First, I tried copying /boot/config-2.4.22-1-686 to >/usr/src/linux/.config then doing make mrproper && make oldconfig &&

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:22, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm currently running Debian Testing, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (from Mozilla.org), > and Java 1.4.2_02 (from sun.com), and I'm having problems with the > combination. > > Even though I follow

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:10:40 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:15, Jacob S. wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:36:30 -0500 > > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:40:37PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > I don't know if

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:25:25 +0100, Kordula Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > and thanks for the reply. > No matter what I try, with 'mutt -f pop://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' , > or 'mutt -f pop://user:passwd@' , > or 'mutt -f pop://user:passwd@' , I get "c

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is >> it possible? >> >> Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have >> command sudo and I don't want to install

scsi vs. cdrom_read

2003-11-11 Thread steef
...mmm. if you put anyway: that is the way it works on my machine. a suggestion: (not too expensive i hope and without the trouble to compile a new kernel): add another cdrom-player to your machine. steef On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:53:51 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: >> I knew I co

Re: GATOS driver -- is there a debian way?

2003-11-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:38, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I have apt-cache searched for gatos, but did not find the ATI X11 > drivers packaged. I have doubts that installing the precompiled version > from gatos.sf.net will be good for dpkg's database consistency. I'm > afraid it will c

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > > > > # cd /usr/src > > > >

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Miller
Arnt Karlsen wrote: fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 .. checking failed! and it does not seem to matter if I change 'localhost' to the FQDN of my server either. I've been reading that fetchmail is well documented, but I've checked the man pages, and I'm just not getting it. Am I trying to

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 13:21), Roberto Sanchez wrote: > csj wrote: > >Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > >describe below. > > > >I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > >and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > > >$ grep -Ei

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file > into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from > all the parts, tested that it's valid and then exim4 is started with the > new config. > >

file creation permissions

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, How would I force a newly created file by userA to have the permissions set automatically to userB, groupB 775? What I am trying to do is when a user uploads a file to our ftp server (proftpd) it does not create the file using their username as the group and owner of the newly created file

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > describe below. > > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > $ grep -Ei 'test|mars

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I don't know much about mailfilter, but it seems as though the > rules are being applied in the order encountered. You may need > to move yoru DENY rule to a position after the ALLOW rules. > Just a thought. It may look that way

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote: > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > > > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is > >> it possible? > >> > >> Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that does

Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read

2003-11-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:37:36 +0100 steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...mmm. if you put lilo afterwards you 'make' your cdrom_reader/player/writer into only > a cdrom_writer. to use it as cdrom-reader again you have got to get > rid of the line in lilo again. > anyway: that is the way it wo

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:01:32PM +, Jess Anderson wrote: > But isn't this group moderated No, it's not. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 10 November 2003 23:07, Eric Walstad wrote: > Greetings kind debianites, > > I'm in the process of learning MTA admin. My head is about to explode. > > I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an > ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3

IRQ conflict?! (was Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 ...)

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > # apt-get -

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Re: UI font size in OpenOffice

2003-11-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 11, 2003 06:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. > > > > See bug #218585. > > So there's no re

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