Re: If esd is running Mozilla won't launch

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:42:48 -0500 "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very strange. > > I just installed package esound (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) on my > powerpc Macintosh. Afterwards I found that I could not launch Mozilla > anymore. > > Figuring Mozilla was having

Diald Implementation.

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Re: Importing Corel Draw

scripsit Luis Fernando Llana Díaz: > I have some pictures made with Corel Draw. Is there any possibility > of use them under Linux? I haven't been able to find any. I have many of these, too, from an earlier career -- as well as many WordPerfect and QuattroPro files. No one has ever been ab

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Re: finding what is using a mount point

lsof will do what u ask. I think u do "lsof | grep pattern" On Friday 21 November 2003 08:43, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but n

apt-getting source for my kernel

I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Without networking how do I get it. Or if it

Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

On 21 Nov 2003, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:39:10 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Christ, now I'm really getting scared: > >chkrootkit reports: > >Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command > >Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > chkrootkit is we

Re: Importing Corel Draw

I don't know what you can do about Corel Draw, but Thanasis Kinias asked about WordPerfect. AbiWord has a plugin for WordPerfect. I haven't tried it, but I'm very impressed with AbiWord in general. I would suggest downloading it directly from http://www.abiword.com/ rather than using the Debi

root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

Hi, I have a problem I've never run into before with a system: the root partition is undesirably and inexplicably being mounted as ext2 during bootup. I'm using kernel 2.4.20-20.8 (sorry this happens to be a Red Hat machine although I wish it weren't--it's outside of my control) and all other part

dselect makes me feel like an idiot

I open dselect and search / for nvidia 3 choices come up. i enter return a few times, get to "install" enter then this comes up Why are all these kde programs being removed? Am I not doing something right? Thanks "Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following package

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:53:49PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting > kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. I believe any nic driver source you need will be in the "straight" kernel sources. You mentioned "disk-5", I will assume

Re: Diald Implementation.

on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:41:36PM +0700, David Sudjiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I leave my office for a week holiday and planned to get back to it with > success story about diald implementation next week. > > Currently, on my toshiba tecra8100 laptop: > - - Installed diald > - - my wvdial

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

What are the ramifications of this? Should I be concerned about the Security of all my Deb Boxes? Could I have downloaded some packages containing trojans et al? Thanks -red On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:09, Nick Welch wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: > > All, Im gettin

xterm title bars

Hey folks, lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list archives properly; sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum. my .bashrc has the following code in it to set the title of xterms: # If this is an xterm set the title to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir case $TERM in xt

Re: running script from cdrom fails

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 07:58, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: > bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one > that did work. Any idea? You

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

On Monday 24 November 2003 21:44, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I have a problem I've never run into before with a system: the root > partition is undesirably and inexplicably being mounted as ext2 during > bootup. I'm using kernel 2.4.20-20.8 (sorry this happens to be a Red > Hat machine although I w

Re: antivirus recomendation?

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > You can look into clamAV. > But if SpamAssassin is too resource intensive I think you will find > antivirus scanners to be even more so. > I ran Postfix+amavisd-new+clamav on a 133MHz 486 just fine. Adding SpamAssassin killed it. Jeffrey

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:37:29PM +, p wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do I save a mail message to disk with mutt? I want to save it to > > disk, not another mail folder (saving to a different mail folder appears > > quite clearly in the docs but

How to install BitTorrent on Woody?

I'd like to install BitTorrent on Woody, but it's not available in stable. I think it's available in testing. Or does someone have a package built for Woody? I need it for PowerPC. I think BitTorrent is written in python, but it uses wxPython, for which I would need a PowerPC binary. I adde

Re: Learning debian Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: David Palmer? As in President David Palmer? What are you doing in Australia?;-) > I am a Linux Newbie. > I checked out Red Hat 8, Mandrake 9, and Libranet is the best Linux > Newbie distro. I

New Debian release

Hi, I'm reading that an update for Woody is online... will be new iso or I have to download all the packages to upgrade my Debian machine at home? Thanks Massimiliano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

compromised servers

Does anyone know anything else about the Compromise of the security servers? I dont have a very warm fuzzy feeling right now. Id like to know more about the incident. Thanks, in advance -red -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

3com network driver

I have an AMD Athlon machine with a 3Com network card. I first install Debian 2.4.18-bf24 for Sid and everything worked fine. Recently I tried to use kernel-package to make a new 2.4.22 kernel. I ran menuconfig and set what I believed to be all the appropriate settings. Under network devices I

Re: compromised servers

Hi! On Mon Nov 24, 2003 at 10:00:26AM -0600, red wrote: > Does anyone know anything else about the Compromise of the security > servers? > > I dont have a very warm fuzzy feeling right now. > > Id like to know more about the incident. At [1] you can read the clean-up status and some detailed in

3rd Attempt at installing Debian

After doing a bunch of ugly things for a second time to get a Debian system installed and running I'm trying a third time. There is no networking. I need to build a module for my nic which doesn't have a .deb package. I have the source but need the kernel source which wasn't installed. I discov

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Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

Looks like our beloved apt server was 'sploited :-( http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 I am not sure what is in my rsync'ed mirror and when it is safe to install new packages :-( red wrote: All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen any ideas? Err http://non-us.debian.org unstab

Re: Learning debian Linux

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: > > David Palmer? As in President David Palmer? What are you doing in > Australia?;-) > > > I am a Li

Re: building a tivo?

Matt Price wrote: Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? You could look at Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't comple frox from scrath.. HELP

I'm compiling frox on debian woody using - ./configure --prefix= --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib \ --enable-configfile=/etc/frox/frox.conf --enable-ccp \ --enable-transparent-data --enable-libiptc --enable-virus-scan \ --enable-local-cache --enable-http-cache and i get the following

can't comple frox (FTP Proxy) from scrath.. HELP

I'm compiling frox on debian woody using - ./configure --prefix= --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib \ --enable-configfile=/etc/frox/frox.conf --enable-ccp \ --enable-transparent-data --enable-libiptc --enable-virus-scan \ --enable-local-cache --enable-http-cache and i get the following

Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

Hi, auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargestellt. Was muss ich tun um das zu beheben? Mfg, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A web interface for apt-get upgrade

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different > package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and > do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron. Now is > their an applic

(unofficial) Debian project list status

I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. This is an unofficial informational posting. If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were compromised by what appears to have been a password capture through one of the Debian Developers. This includes m

Re: Procmail virus recipies (was Re: Mimail Virus.)

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Since nobody in their right mind whom I don't already know would send me > a MSFT executable, procmail rules... Thanks for sharing your procmail rules. Let me recommend a very simple but for me effective set of virus scanner rules for procmail. I have been having good su

Re: dselect makes me feel like an idiot

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 01:36, tripolar wrote: > I open dselect and search / for nvidia > 3 choices come up. i enter return a few times, get to "install" enter > then this comes up > Why are all these kde programs being removed? Am I not doing something right? > Thanks > > "Reading Package Lists...

Re: running script from cdrom fails

On 2003-11-21 15:58, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: > bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one > that did work. Any idea? It could be

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:37:15 +0100 Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargestellt. Was muss ich tun um > das zu beheben? > > Mfg, Tim da debian-user mitglieder meistens auf englisch schreiben und daher weniger ahnung darueber haben wuerden, da

test - please ignore

My posts aren't showing up & I'm wondering why... -- When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. -- Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: building a tivo?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:12:48AM +, Dave Howorth wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > >Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of > >cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? > > You could look at Or freevo: http://www.freevo.org/ -- Car

Re: 3rd Attempt at installing Debian

Mark Healey wrote: After doing a bunch of ugly things for a second time to get a Debian system installed and running I'm trying a third time. There is no networking. I need to build a module for my nic which doesn't have a .deb package. I have the source but need the kernel source which wasn't i

KDE -> GNOME (some Questions)

Hi All, I recently switched from KDE to GNOME and I love it. However, I have a few questions that I hope someone can answer. * How can I use the win key. In the shortcuts setting, whenever I click the win key - the shortcut just turns to . Other key combinations with Ctrl, Alt etc. work. Win work

Re: antivirus recomendation?

- Original Message - From: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:09 PM Subject: Re: antivirus recomendation? > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > You can look into clamAV. > > But if SpamAssassin is too

Re: exim4 + fetchmail - duplicate mail in Inbox and in folders

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:26:28 -0500, BruceG wrote: > I think the list was discussing this last week, but I can't find it. Darn! > Anyway - I am using Exim4 (with ClamAV) as my SMTP transport. I created some > subfolders to group mail on the server. I am also using fetchmail to grab > pop mail from m

Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. Every time before I've had

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

Urg... sorry should have been posted in debian-user-german. Grtz, Tim Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 13:05 schrieb ben: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:37:15 +0100 > > Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargestellt. Was muss ich tun um > > das zu

Help: Xfree and P4 with hyperthreading - CRASH

Hello debian-user, I have installed a Debian Woody with a 2.4.22 kernel taken from Debian unstable on a Intel 865 mainboard with a Pentium4 processor with hyperthreading support. The kernel is configured as SMP and it can see the two "virtual" processors correctly. Everything works but X cra

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:07, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Urg... sorry should have been posted in debian-user-german. Na,na,na... auch hier gibt's Leute, deren Muttersprache nicht englisch ist. > > > > > > auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargestellt. Was muss ich tun um > > > das zu beheben? First

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. Every

Re: exim4 + fetchmail - duplicate mail in Inbox and in folders

> > What I am seeing is that the mail is duplicated. It shows up in my Inbox, > > and it also shows up in my subfolders. Where should I look to solve this > > problem? My .forward is below: > > Perhaps "save" is not a significant delivery by default? I don't > remember all the details anymore, bu

Scaling Debian - SSI Linux

Greetings all, Thanks to Debian and this list, I have grown in the past four years from Linux hobbyist to smalltime sysadmin with a brokerage firm, to sysadmin at an ISP. One of the best things about my last job has been that the bosses placed their confidence in me and Debian. Backed by the qua

Re: xterm title bars

on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey folks, > > lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list > archives properly; sorry if this has been discussed ad nauseum. > > my .bashrc has the following code in it to set the title of xterm

Are the main archives back online yet?

I've read http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/ but it's not clear if the main archives are back up yet. The status page says non-us and security are up, but I tested http.us.debian.org/debian main as an apt-source, and it appears to be up. (1) Have I misread the status page? It lists several othe

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 13:36 schrieb Christian Schnobrich: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:07, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Urg... sorry should have been posted in debian-user-german. > > Na,na,na... auch hier gibt's Leute, deren Muttersprache nicht englisch > ist. > > > > > auf der Konsole werden äöü

Re: Are the main archives back online yet?

%% Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> I've read http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/ but it's not clear if t> the main archives are back up yet. The system housing the main archive was not compromised, so it never went down in the first place. -- -

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

>From Alex Malinovich on Tuesday, 2003-11-25 at 05:58:25 -0600: > I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very > little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the > moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. > > My friend's mother is fed

Re: sqwebmail

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:38:04AM -0500, David Gaudine wrote.. > I'm having trouble with sqwebmail. I'm using sarge, but a quick > attempt on a > Woody system seemed the same. I followed the instructions in > README.Debian; > > -copied /usr/lib/courier/sqwebmail/html to /home/mywebmail

Running SCO RM-COBOL under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

Hi all, I have received the task of doing a migration from a SCO Unix server to a Debian GNU/Linux one, the only problem its a COBOL app that is running on the SCO system, I have found information about using SCO binaries under Linux, but it's quite old, does anyone have recent information about

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: > In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 > MHz with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus > on there and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to > load and another 2 minutes for the fil

Re: Are the main archives back online yet?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:55:45AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > t> I've read http://www.wiggy.net/debian/status/ but it's not clear if > t> the main archives are back up yet. > > The system housing the main archive was not compromised, so it never > went d

Re: running script from cdrom fails

Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: > bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one > that did work. Any idea? Probably yo

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

On Saturday 15 November 2003 07:00, David Palmer. wrote: > I don't know why we have to go to Red Hat for something that Debian > requires. My reason for being interested in anaconda-debian is kickstart, that's the entire reason, the only reason. I agree that debian-installer is the way to go fo

Re: Learning debian Linux

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:15:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Knut Willy wrote: > > 5. Is it possible to go ahead as I have mentioned above? > > Well, if it is at all possible to get that machine onlin

Re: finding what is using a mount point

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that mou

Can't Re-Subscribe

My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! -as I have resceived no new postings in the last two days. Several times I have gone to the Debian web site and tried to re-subscribe. Each time, after a long wait, I get a message that the site is not responding. I wont b

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the > source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which > means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting > kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't ex

Re: Can't Re-Subscribe

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:40:44AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > My subscription to this list must have been cancelled - but not by me! > -as I have resceived no new postings in the last two days. Not really, no. Subscribe to debian-announce and

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. Ever

Re: finding what is using a mount point

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:16:06PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > ,-. > > -ScruLoose- |You don't *have* a soul. You *are* a soul. < > >Please | You *have* a body, temporarily.< > > do

how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on this debian mailing list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist Should I just wait until it can be restored or is there another way to subscribe? Many thanks to the entire Debian team and commun

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

Alex Malinovich wrote: I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. Ever

NoMailAudit error

I'm trying to get Spamassassin to work with Postfix and Procmail. I got to the point of creating a "filter" account, and went to it to test it by running: # cat notspam.txt | ./sa-filter.sh -f brownh -- brownh I message I received as a result lacked body and spam test. There were at least two r

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Where are you trying to gett it from? (the lin

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:11:01 -0500 Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 07:00, David Palmer. wrote: > > > I don't know why we have to go to Red Hat for something that Debian > > requires. > > My reason for being interested in anaconda-debian is kickstart, tha

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > > I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on > this debian mailing > list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist The list archives (lists.debian.org) are hosted on mast

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel: Second post since the list server seemed to be down.

Mark Healey wrote: I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist. Without networking how do

Re: running script from cdrom fails

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: > bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one > that did work. An

apt-get etiquette

I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a local cache? Once up and runnin

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:27:54 -0800 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Erik, > > > > Go to the 'view' menu, and click 'hide deleted messages.' > > That will solve your first two points. > > they don't seem to go to trash (I would like the emails from IMAP > server go to trash on t

Re: Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my >> (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start >> up. For example: >> >> {53} dmaze% xcalc >> X Error of failed reque

Re: 3rd Attempt at installing Debian

Mark Healey wrote: There is no networking. I need to build a module for my nic which doesn't have a .deb package. I have the source but need the kernel source which wasn't installed. I discovered that unilike what many people told me I don't need to rebuild the kernel. I fought with a machin

Re: Importing Corel Draw

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:07 am, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > scripsit Luis Fernando Llana Díaz: > > > I have some pictures made with Corel Draw. Is there any possibility > > of use them under Linux? > > I haven't been able to find any. I have many of these, too, from an > earlier career --

How to downgrade a package

I'm having problems since upgrading to the latest apache-perl in Sid. How can I downgrade to the previous package (including all dependencies)? I want to verify what I think is wrong. I still have these in my cache. I'd like to downgrade to the 1.3.28-4, which is the last version that I was u

Re: .db files

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:20:35 +, amit tiwari wrote: > hi > i have come to know through google > will u pls tell me how to open .db files $ cat foo.db $ vim foo.db $ less foo.db What do you want to do with it? Also, what *type* of file is it? Note that *type* and *name* are two independent

Re: finding what is using a mount point

Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that mount point? The 'fuser' command. fuser -m

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

On (25/11/03 02:48), Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've been lurking on the #debian-devel IRC channel, some info on lists. > This is an unofficial informational posting. > > > If you weren't already aware, several Debian project servers were > compromised by what appears to have been a password captur

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

On November 21, 2003 at 7:27PM +0800, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:24:16 + > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:09 -0800 > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben

Re: Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Debian?

On 21 Nov 2003 at 11:05, John Peter wrote: > Roberto is right - don't let yourself be intimidated with it ! > Put everything on paper and follow the guide step by step, you will > succed and it's not that hard - it just seems so... > Don't forget to unninstall and clean everything you did be

Woody on Sparc

I could install woody on a dual cpu SparcStation20. Everything is working fine except X. For the xserver, I tried fbdev, sunfbdev, suncg3, suncg14 in 8, 16 and 24 bit depths. Every time startx fails. Searched the archives and googled. Could not find much info on getting X on such a machine. If

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:41:23 -0600, red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? ..it has been shut down on suspicion of a dns crack attempt, see the www.debian.org thread. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kin

Re: finding what is using a mount point

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that moun

.note.GNU-stack in XFree86.0.log file

Hi XFree86 version is 4.2.1-14 (apt-cache show xserver-xfree86); I use NVIDIA's installer for my graphics card rather than the nv driver. /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows [snip] XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-14 20031113

Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 November 2003 09:33, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Maybe the first thing you should do is to downgrade all the upgraded > packages to stable/woody. Backup critical data and wait! Let us hear > the extent of damage and then proceed for

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:16, John Cichy wrote: > This is when you find something that you need to run on your RPM based > system, you download the RPM and attempt to install it, only to find out > you need another RPM (actually a lib from anothe

Re: Learning debian Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:36, sda wrote: > Actually I don't think it's hard at all, remember, many 1st timers > haven't installed anything before. Most consumers don't ever install a > Windoze OS, they buy it pre-installed. I think it's more of

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:27:54AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:50, David Palmer. wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >(unstable debian, evolution) > > > > > >I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: >

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

- Original Message - From: "Ilkka Lindroos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > In this particular case, however, I

woody vs. raid array

i've managed to get an actual budget to put together a woody server with a real raid -- and of course, it's not going smoothly. athlon xp 1800+ 768mb eec-registered ddr ram dual 160gb (western digital, 7200rpm) drives, raid1 (mirror) fasttrak100 lite yet, during st

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

scripsit Pete Harlan: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:37:29PM +, p wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > How do I save a mail message to disk with mutt? I want to save it > > > to disk, not another mail folder (saving to a different mail > > > folder appear

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