qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you shoul

Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:19:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and you weren't in it for the $$$ ?? > (just that bugs and exploits exists? ) When I learned about Godel's work I really freaked out. When I learned there are certain true statements which are not expressible by manipulation of symbo

APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

2003-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a testing system (with a few items built from unstable sources), and just added unstable to my apt sources.list. As recommended in the HOWTO, I put APT::Default-Release "testing"; in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/preferences file. When I tried apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it wanted

SID: Webmin will not let me edit, systems users

2003-11-30 Thread John Foster
I have webmin installed from Debian.org not from the upstream developer. I have always been able to use it to add users, groups , & edit them. Now it has a warning that I can not, & it will not let me edit the existing users or add new ones. What gives. I have been using it since before it was

problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
having problems installing java first using apt-get or aptitude what should I install? 2) any tricks to have konqueror, mozilla,& netscape find java? 3. Any links I should set up and how? I have main non-free & contrib in my sources.list unstable thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:37:08PM -0800, Paul Burkett wrote: > Could it > be ext3 is just a lot slower than ext2 and can't > handle it? Is there anything I can do to tweak this? > Or should I move onto XFS or ResierFS? Should I buy a > new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions > would b

(OT) Re: Godel

2003-11-30 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:05 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once somebody disproves Godel I will rest easy... The one(s) doing this wouldn't survive the lynching parties the theoreticians would start, and AFAIK, the Goedel stuff is rather well proven. So don't hold your breath. -- Got B

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:15:32 +0100 Frank Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recommend you to buy a video card with a nVidia chipset. Why? > I mailed the ATI support in this summer regarding their linux drivers, > read the answer below. For me this was very disappointing. ATI seems to have chan

Re: (OT) Re: Godel

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:11:39AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:00:05 -0800 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Once somebody disproves Godel I will rest easy... > > The one(s) doing this wouldn't survive the lynching parties the > theoreticians would start, and AFAIK, t

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: > Gerard Ceraso wrote: > > I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right > > now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have > > noticed that some of the Ati cards seem to have a bit better per

USB "audio" driver problem

2003-11-30 Thread David Selby
Good Morning I have a quickcam pro 4000 USB webcam with a built in microphone which I am trying to get working. I have installed USB drivers, pwcx-2.4.20 & pwc which give me video, According to /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/Documentation/philips.txt I need to install USB audio support for the microphon

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:56:16AM -0600, tripolar wrote: > having problems installing java > first using apt-get or aptitude what should I install? > 2) any tricks to have konqueror, mozilla,& netscape find java? I did the following do get the java plugin working on my testing/unstable box: Downl

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Kristian Niemi
Well ... I don't know if there's a `debian-way' that could be used, but I installed it by downloading it from the web ... From the following address, I believe: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html I use Mozilla Firebird, and there I had to put a symbolic link from a file `from java' t

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-11-30 Thread Jan-Marek Glogowski
Hi That's not really a problem. The system does run the check programs (e2fsck etc.) on every startup. These programs mainly check, if the partition was umounted correctly. If there was a correct umount they increase the mount counter, if not they check the full prtition and reset the counter to 0

Re: Compiling kernel - problems

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Cruncher wrote: I'm running Debian woody on a Pentium machine, installed from DVD and using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. I'm trying to play around with different kernel settings, so I thought I start by recompiling this one. I installed kernel-package and kernel-source-2.4.18. I go to dire

Re: mailinglists and mailclient usage?

2003-11-30 Thread smurfd
Ah,cool, noticed just now, that Evolution has that basic feature too.. Thanks :) On sön, 2003-11-30 at 02:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:54:19PM +0100, smurfd wrote: > > I press "Reply" in my mailclient (evolution btw) and

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread John Peter
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resour

kde 3 on testing/unstable -- newbie query

2003-11-30 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am a newbie to debian (former RH user.) I have a set of woody CDs. I installed a base system, upgrade to testing using the go-woody script. I then installed X with apt-get install x-window-system. I now have a working X install with twm. I now want to install kde 3.1.4 (it's present in knoppix)

Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Scarletdown
I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems that all I had to do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is lower the default resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running 1024x768 24- Bit color. Changing to 800x600 16-Bit color seems to have done the trick. It's kind of

Re: I have xp 2000-and aol as my carrier-

2003-11-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
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Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
James Hosken wrote: Quoting Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:46:13 +, James Hosken wrote: Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ and I get th

Re: Unable to reach greeter screen

2003-11-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 21:32 Subject: Unable to reach greeter screen > I had to reinstall libernet 2.7 due to apg-get refusing to install, remove, > or ignore a program. After

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:43:25 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems > that all I had to > do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is > lower the default > resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running > 1024x768 24- > Bit color. Changing

util-linux and mount w/ linux 2.4.23 crypto

2003-11-30 Thread David Butts
Hello, folks- I recently upgraded to a 2.4.23 kernel on an otherwise vanilla sarge install (sparc64, though I suspect this to be general to all of the supported archs), and discovered that the default mount package (2.12-3) doesn't seem to handle the new CryptoAPI interface. Although the usage cl

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Jiele
tripolar wrote: having problems installing java first using apt-get or aptitude what should I install? 2) any tricks to have konqueror, mozilla,& netscape find java? 3. Any links I should set up and how? I have main non-free & contrib in my sources.list unstable thanks This is what I did. There a

apt-get problem (on debian sid)

2003-11-30 Thread Tim Broddin
Since some days I don't get any upgradable packages when doing an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded). First I thought it had something to do with an old Packages file being cached in the proxy server. I then did a grep on the Pa

Re: apt-get problem (on debian sid)

2003-11-30 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:32:56 +0100 Tim Broddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I have this idea that my local package database might be broken (?) > since it's impossible that there haven't been any package updates to > sid last week. > > Anyone has any ideas on fixing this? ... Hi It is possible

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have noticed that some of the Ati cards seem to have a bit

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2003, a las 16:37, Paul Burkett escribió: > Should I buy a new sound card? Should I try ALSA? Any suggestions Yes, you should try ALSA. You also can try recompiling your kernel including one (or both) low latency patches. As you are running unstable, you can easily do

Re: tuning the machine after a knoppix install... keyboard in X, sources.list and using

2003-11-30 Thread Joris Huizer
Jacob S. wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:40:29 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, its STILL a mess! in X, the keyboard seems to have some kind of german setup I ve never seen before (and which wasnt there at all when booting with knoppix), the sources.list is one big mess of il

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:08:04 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined > mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added > append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot > and both of them worked

Re: Man pages in unstable don't display right--third try

2003-11-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
I had originally set locale to utf8 but have since reverted to en_US.ISO-8859-1 (via 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'). The man pages are still screwed up. Is there some further step I need to take? I tried searching Debian mailing list archives but couldn't find the posts you mention. Thanks. Cu

Re: problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-30 Thread dooble M
Paul Morgan a écrit : On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:02:11 +0100, dooble M wrote: hi everybody, I'm new on this list ! I'm runing with woody and i'm trying to use my ide cd-burner. Since I read that I need scsi emulation to make it work, I just recompiled my kernel (2.4.22 with make-kpkg) with sg, s

Re: questions/comments about new sarge installer & LILO

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:42:43 -0600, tripolar wrote: > I have used the new sarge installer alot in the last week and am pretty > impressed. Thanks to all responsible. > A few things that seem different are > 1) the way discs are labeled in lilo > for example: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El domingo, 30 de noviembre de 2003, a las 02:56, tripolar escribió: > having problems installing java I assume you mean installing the java plug-in for your browser. > first using apt-get or aptitude what should I install? If you were using woody, things would be easy, just make your sources.li

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:12:07 +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: >> Gerard Ceraso wrote: >> > I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right >> > now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have >>

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread jqdkf
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:34:15AM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Well ... I don't know if there's a `debian-way' that could be used, but > I installed it by downloading it from the web ... > > From the following address, I believe: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html > > I use Mozil

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:12:07 +0100, Elie De Brauwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: > > Gerard Ceraso wrote: > > > I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia > > > geforce2 right now and it works gr

Re: Spamassassin, woody, tricked

2003-11-30 Thread Tom Allison
Scott Ehrlich wrote: Well, the link to http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/node11.html was helpful, but my email, I've discovered, is not properly getting spam-tagged. I sent myself spam email from another account and it was getting caught, but I didn't realize the other ac

fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-11-30 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Hi! I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages: fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< -ERR cannot open disk file error 2 fetchmail: cannot open disk file error 2 f

Re: Hot to be a Guru

2003-11-30 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2003, a las 22:05, Brendan Sleight escribió: > I would be interested in how other people have made > the step passed newbie. Socrates never did. Regards, Ismael -- `Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'autheurs il en est grande cherté.' signature.asc Description: Dig

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications

2003-11-30 Thread John Hasler
Monique wrote: > Agreed. But I wanted to be clear, both to you and to everyone else, that > slashdot's front page is *not* in any way guaranteed to be accurate. > Taking any of their blurbs at face value tends to make an ass out of you > ... Same applies to the front page of any newspaper. -- Jo

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:43:25 -0800 (PST), Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Previously, I was running 1024x768 24-Bit color. Changing to 800x600 > 16-Bit color seems to have done the trick. It's kind of a bummer not > being able to use the higher settings

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > it won't grind out falsehoods ... But Goedel's Theorem actually says that in any formal system, there will be true propositions that cannot be proved (without going

Re: problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-30 Thread Gregory K. Johnson
Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There were a similar thread some days ago. I *think* the problem was a > known issue with the kernel 2.4.22. Check the archives for this or give > 2.4.23 a try. The problem was in 2.4.22-3. The changelog for 2.4.22-4 reads: * Fixed initialisation lockup

please send me the software

2003-11-30 Thread VitoPower

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Sunday 30 November 2003 15:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:12:07 +0100, > Elie De Brauwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: > > > Gerard Ceraso wrote: > > > > I am planning on getting a new vid

Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

2003-11-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:25:06AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a testing system (with a few items built from unstable > sources), and just added unstable to my apt sources.list. As > recommended in the HOWTO, I put > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/prefe

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > > it won't grind out falsehoods ... > > But Goedel's Theorem actually says that in any formal system

Re: please send me the software

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody care to mailbomb this guy with a few .iso's ? ROFL! Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:01:16AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system there are no guarantees > > > it won't grind out falsehoods ... >

Re: questions/comments about new sarge installer & LILO

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tripolar wrote: I have used the new sarge installer alot in the last week and am pretty impressed. Thanks to all responsible. But where do you get the iso file from? I still cannot get to gluck on Debian. Hugo. A few things that seem different are 1) the way discs are labeled in lilo for exam

Re: Spamassassin, woody, tricked

2003-11-30 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Here is my .procmailrc: SHELL=/bin/sh VERBOSE=yes LOGFILE=/home/scott/proc-debug.log DEFAULT=/var/mail/scott SPAM=/home/scott/Spam /usr/bin/spamc :0bc:pager1$LOCKEXT * ^Received:.*wunderground.com | /home/scott/wx/warndir/storm-date :0: * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES $SPAM Here is a sample from the log f

Changing GTK2 shortcuts...

2003-11-30 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, I am trying to change my GTK2 apps shortcuts just as I used to with GTK1 apps (namely Gimp, now trying to work with gimp1.3). I've modified the /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels key in gconf, but it does not work. I've also tried to set gtk-can-change-accels=1 in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (e

Re: Compiling kernel - problems

2003-11-30 Thread Bill Goudie
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:15PM -, Cruncher wrote: > I'm running Debian woody on a Pentium machine, installed from DVD and > using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. > > I'm trying to play around with different kernel settings, so I thought > I start by recompiling this one. I installed kernel-p

Re: apt-get problem (on debian sid)

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 07:32, Tim Broddin wrote: > Since some days I don't get any upgradable packages when doing an > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 > to remove and 3 not upgraded). > > First I thought it had something to do with an old Packages file bein

irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get problem (on debian sid)

2003-11-30 Thread Tim Broddin
Thanx for the reply both. Stupid me, thought I nuked my system :) On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 16:22, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 07:32, Tim Broddin wrote: > > Since some days I don't get any upgradable packages when doing an > > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (0 upgraded, 0 newly

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi list! > > Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? Yes, irc.debian.org #debian -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Tom
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:07:18AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:01:16AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:00:05AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > ... that in any sufficiently complex formal system the

Re: Linux Sound Issues

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Burkett wrote: I've been having a helluva time to get sound working decently in Linux. The issue isn't so much quality (though I do notice a slight difference in quality compared to Windows, nothing to complain about) but that fact that is skips whenever I do anything that requires CPU resourc

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:11:22 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi list! > > Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? > > Thanks! > > Hugo. Yes. /server irc.debian.org /join #debian -- paul "The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days. This is no way to ru

Re: Spamassassin, woody, tricked

2003-11-30 Thread Colin Keefe
* Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-30 10:13 -0500]: > Here is my .procmailrc: > > SHELL=/bin/sh > VERBOSE=yes > LOGFILE=/home/scott/proc-debug.log > DEFAULT=/var/mail/scott > SPAM=/home/scott/Spam > /usr/bin/spamc > > :0bc:pager1$LOCKEXT > * ^Received:.*wunderground.com > | /home/scott

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! here are naive questions: What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? Is there a Gnome interface ? Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! Is there an irc equivalent to linux.debian.user? Yes, irc.debian.org #debian Tha

libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. However... After the installation I get this error from Xprt: debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version inf

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List ! here are naive questions: What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? Is there a Gnome interface ? Since I have mozilla 1.5 and 1.6a compiled with xft from their source I use chatzilla. Hugo. Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:1

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread John Smith
Hi, try gaim (apt-get install gaim) Sincerely, Jan. On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 17:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List ! > > here are naive questions: > What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? > Is there a Gnome interface ? > > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday November 30 at 10:12am Elie De Brauwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's do some benchmarking > I have a PIV 2.8 ghz (800 mhz fsb), 1 gig ddr 400 ram and an geforce > fx 5900 ultra with 256 meg ram. When running X at 1600x1200 resolution > I get about 4800 fps in glxgears > > Any othe

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:16:56PM -0500, Malcolm Ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > > >>Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the > >>attendant problems. > > > > I'm trying to

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your answers, I will try soon. Jerome John Smith wrote: Hi, try gaim (apt-get install gaim) Sincerely, Jan. On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 17:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List ! here are naive questions: What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? Is there a Gnome i

Re: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:03:48 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List ! > > here are naive questions: > What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? > Is there a Gnome interface ? > > > Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>>Hi list

Re: Spamassassin, woody, tricked

2003-11-30 Thread Tom Allison
Scott Ehrlich wrote: Here is my .procmailrc: SHELL=/bin/sh VERBOSE=yes LOGFILE=/home/scott/proc-debug.log DEFAULT=/var/mail/scott SPAM=/home/scott/Spam /usr/bin/spamc the key here is that you need to change this preceding line to something like: :0: | /usr/bin/spamc You might play with options f

Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Eric Dickner
Hello All, I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went on to try and configure PPP as best I could... When I try to use 'pon' I get messages about looking for ethernet cards instead of any dia

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Elie De Brauwer
> (I didn't turn any of my processes of, attached is ps axf) > > Hardware: > AMD Athlon T-Bird 900mhz > 768mb Crucual PC2100 > GeForce4 MX440SE 128mb > IBM G74 1280x1024 24bit > Matrox Millennium2 8mb > Acer 79g 1280x1024 24bit > FIC AN11 mb (VIA 8266/A/7) > 2x Maxtor 160gb (7200, 8mb)

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-30 Thread csj
On 29. November 2003 at 11:07AM -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 14:56 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > > > I don't see how this is an issue. I found out the same way I > > get all my other news: from slashdot :-) > > > I read slashdot, too, and I r

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:15:32 +0100 Frank Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recommend you to buy a video card with a nVidia chipset. Why? I mailed the ATI support in this summer regarding their linux drivers, read the answer below. For me this was very disappointing. ATI see

Re: Godel [was Re: qmail Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?]

2003-11-30 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > I thought it was neither complete (the doesn't capture all truths thing) > nor consistent (may contain both a statement and its complement)[1]. > But I can look that up. > > The Stanford prof told me the Lambda calculus (Lisp-ish stuff) almost > proved o

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Dickner wrote: Hello All, I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went on to try and configure PPP as best I could... When I try to use 'pon' I get messages about looking for ethernet cards

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
Thanks to all who have helped. I downloaded java to mom's pc, unpacked it, moved it and created links to mozilla & netscape Now I will wait for my mom to get up and try netscape and mozilla to see if it works :-) Kristian Niemi wrote: Well ... I don't know if there's a `debian-way' that could b

(was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-11-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 11:03, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List ! > > here are naive questions: > What is the basic tools provided with Debian (Sarge) to do IRC ? > Is there a Gnome interface ? Here goes: ayttm - Universal Instant Messaging Client bitchx - Advanced Internet Relay Chat client bitch

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 12:04 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > You have a fair chance of gaining some unexpected experience points by > logging into X as root, unless you are unplugging all external network > devices first. Not allowing root access to X is pretty much at the > top of my "never, ever d

Install problems on Asus A7V333

2003-11-30 Thread Chris Gumm
I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am running in to a problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the RAID controler so I disabled it with a jumper setting. Now when it gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choices, /dev/ataraid0, /dev/hda and /dev/hdab. When I patitio

Re: Compiling kernel - problems

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 15:17 GMT, Bill Goudie penned: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:15PM -, Cruncher wrote: >> I'm running Debian woody on a Pentium machine, installed from DVD and >> using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. >> >> I'm trying to play around with different kernel settings, so I >> t

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread Kristian Niemi
Hmm ... Strange. I do have it linked to .../plugins. As it should be. Forgot to write /plugin; good that you noticed. ;) Strange that it works, actually, because it *is* a bug. Firebird simply crashes; others have had the same problem. I believe they've worked out a fix for it, but ... So, wond

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 10:07 GMT, csj penned: > On 29. November 2003 at 11:07AM -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 14:56 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: >> > >> > I don't see how this is an issue. I found out the same way I get >> > all my other news

x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6 I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/ does that look right? that has worked in the past. I was told to remove files in /tmp relating to dcop or orbit ( sorry I forgot and I am not on that machine because x only works for root and I have yet to fi

Re: kde 3 on testing/unstable -- newbie query

2003-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 04:13:29PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am a newbie to debian (former RH user.) I have a set of woody CDs. I > installed a base system, upgrade to testing using the go-woody script. > > I then installed X with apt-get install x-window-system. I now have a > wo

improving security on a home server

2003-11-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i use a pc a gateway plus email server and i was wondering how i could secure it better. Right now, i have snort, samhain, iptables firewall and logcheck installed. Nothing runs in a jail for the moment. I also haven't anything installed yet on my client pc to check the server. I think i will

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-30 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You > can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can > copy the files you saved from the cache back and after updating the > package l

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
.kde3-errors + break + sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap + usrmodmap=/home/suley/.Xmodmap + startup=/home/suley/.kde3rc + resources=/home/suley/.Xresources + startssh= + sshagent=/usr/bin/ssh-agent + '[' -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent -a -z '' ']' + startssh=yes + '[' -x /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap ']' + '[' -f /etc/X11

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-11-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: > > Gerard Ceraso wrote: > > > I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right > > > now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:08:06 -0600, tripolar wrote: > I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6 > I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/ > does that look right? > that has worked in the past. > I was told to remove files in /tmp relating to dcop or orbit ( sorry I > forgot and I am not on

Re: Install problems on Asus A7V333

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:01:42 -0500, Chris Gumm wrote: > I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am running in to a > problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the RAID controler so I disabled it > with a jumper setting. Now when it gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choice

Limiting port speed

2003-11-30 Thread Rus Foster
HI, Can anyone tell me what comamnd I can use to force an network card down the 10mbp 1/2 duplex Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-633

creating password for shadow file

2003-11-30 Thread LeVA
Hello! I need to add users to a passwd/shadow file, but these files does not reside in /etc dir. Thus I can not use the adduser or useradd tool to add the user, because they will add it to the /etc/passwd|shadow file. I managed to create a passwd file, and wrote the user name and uid, and home

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:17:41 -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PCI Bus 1, device 4, function 0) on an Intel > Pentium 4 that the debian configuration software never did detect. I went > on to try and configure PPP as best I could... > > When I try to use '

Re: problems installing java

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
it didnt work. mom just tried to access her pogo games , yeah she is addicted ;-) and got java not working error. I was trying to get it worked out for her before I went out of state :-( no such luck. will have to try again when I get back thanks Kristian Niemi wrote: Hmm ... Strange. I do ha

Re: x only works for root

2003-11-30 Thread tripolar
Thanks a million both gnome & kde work now as regular user Paul Morgan wrote: /tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone: drwxrwxrwx9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp as root, do chown root:root /tmp chmod 777 /tmp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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