Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:26:32AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > The Bayesian stuff did seem to reduce the spam ending up in my +inbox > (dozens a day down to 3 or 4), but it still has the rules to generate > false positives. One thing I had to do to avoid missing important mail is to zero the score

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-02-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:16:29PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > Actually, if you export as "Combined PS/LaTeX", it can used LaTeX to > typeset the text part of the figure. And if you set the "special" flag > in your text (click on the text tool. Then, at the bottom of the > screen, click on the "T

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-02-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:20:44PM -0500, Xavier Barnabe-Theriault wrote: > Exporting in ps/latex creates two files. One is the pstex which is an > eps file with another extension, containing all non-special text stuff, > as you've seen it ! The other, pstex_t, is a latex file > containing latex co

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

2003-02-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:34:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > So, having had some experience doing this: your class has TA's, right? > And they review the things students turn in? When I've been a TA, > this has caught the more gratuitous cases of cheating; having a class > policy that code shar

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

2003-02-09 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:15:15AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:04:12 -0200, > Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > I know one person who used to teach Compiler Construction. He > > had a program that parsed the student's compiler, built a >

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 04:42:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > We have taken the discussion up in private. The problem is in fact > the dynamic IP of the dialup, which I filter using the dynablock > RBL. It just happens that these RBL filter > 65% of all my spam > before it hits the content fil

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:32:38PM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > Unfortunately, there are many private victims for false positives of > RBL-like lists, according to them, mostly due to the lack of response > from our ISPs. As a matter of fact, I do have a fixed IP but that is > taken out of a ran

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:49:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > If your ISP is being a bitch about it, then switch! Otherwise just > relay via their SMTP smarthost and the problem is solved. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of options. And the SMTP "smarthost" is veeery unreliable. Quite a me

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:55:20PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I already use all of these (plus ordb.org), but most of the spam > (and most of the virus crap) is filtered by dynablock. Did you try putting dynablock at the end of the list, so as to check if some dynablock rejects wouldn't be ca

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:23:48PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nothing in particular, in general. For example, there is only one > drugstore in my village. The owner is entirely free to set his prices > however he wishes. Same goes for my ISP. I think the point is that in Brazil you can't start

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > > I think the point is that in Brazil you can't start offering DSL > > service. The monopoly is sort of enforced by a regulating agency. > > And thus we have an example of the e

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> How can I find out the SA (v2.55) scores of all email? I think it's in /usr/share/spamassassin, in the .cf files. > I ask that because I'd like to see how it scores spam that it thinks > is ham. Once I know that, I know which knobs to tweak. Change the scores in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf J.

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:10:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Ok, clarification: I'm not asking for the score parameters; I'm > asking for the score of each individual email. Isn't it in the headers? My configuration does nothing but to put names in whitelists/blacklists, and I always get the sc

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:24:52PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote: > easiest seems to be to pipe the message to 'spamassassin -t'. > Depending on your mailclient, of course. > I'm sure it's also possible to make spamassassin insert its report > header into every mail it checks. I always pipe it thr

Re: en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> searching a little bit i found out the the "compositions" were defined > but in the "wrong" (i.e. different than what i'm used to) order of key > strokes. So I just patched the file > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose > > to include any order (for all key compositions). > > i'd l

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> It does, actually. I was thinking of the more detailed report that > comes in the body of spam messages, and which lists each matched > test's score and description. Ah, I see. I used to check each score in /usr/share/spamassassin, but I agree -- piping it through spamassassin -t (as you suggest

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:48:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 06:28, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=4.0 > > tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, > > REFEREN

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:24:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 07:44, Richard Humphrey wrote: > > Add this to your local.cf file and each email will contain the results of > > the tests, so you can compare ham vs spam etc. > > > > always_add_report 1 > > Ok, I added th

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:32:14AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Yes, I know. I mean that I don't have anything like that in any > of my mails, neither ham nor spam. (But the spams get quarantined > and I get a SPAM FROM email from amavisd-new, so that doesn't bother > me.) Wait... You're calling

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:16:38PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > I've already mentioned the web authorization idea and the rotate your > email address on some schedule ideas in another thread. I've even seen a > web site go so far as to use a .js file function to put together the email > address fr

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> But my goal was to reduce the spam I get that is harvested from mailing > lists. If someone wants to subscribe to a mailing list that doesn't do > reverse dns, then there needs to be authentication before DATA on some > other bit of information. I could still get posts from the guy in Brazil > or

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:43:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > 1) apt-rpm is a piece of shit compared to apt-get due to RPM > >stupidity. > Aehm the only difference I can find from user standpoint is that > apt-rpm is slower cau

Help detecting possible intrusion

2003-09-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. Today I found one of my servers (Woody on an uml kernel) was down. It's in another country, but I can admin it remotely. I rebooted it (uml lets you do that), and found a couple of strange things. - AIDE tells me all /dev and some tty devices were created right before the server crashe

aptitude works as root, not with sudo

2002-10-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. As the subject says, I've tried aptitude as root (runs perfectly), and with sudo. When I use sudo, I can't update the package database: sudo aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: John the Ripper

2002-10-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:03:36PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >John writes the list of cracked passwords in ~/ which would be /root if > >run by the superuser. > > I guess that I have a basic Woody box: > so why `john.pot' is in '/' but not in '/root' ? You are probably talking about John's c

Re: All bugs I've commented on in the Debian BTS

2002-10-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 03:34:52PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > How do I see a list on one page all of the bugs I've commented on in the BTS? http://bugs.debian.org/from:your@;email.address J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'd like to put Knoppix on a rewritable CD so I'd be able to upgrade (and even change it) without wasting the CD -- but the image is too bug (700 Mb will fit on my CD-Rs, but not on my CD-RW disks). So I thought I would mount the compressed image, chroot into it, and use dpkg to change it.

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix? [ found it ]

2002-11-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I think I found something (after a few days trying different keywords): http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gnome-live-cd/doc/modificar_knoppix2.txt?annotate=1.1&cvsroot=GNOME J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:18:31PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Can you see what it's pausing on? Aha. ll $MOUNTDIR/lib/modules/2.4.19-xfs/kernel/fs/ Stalls. And this seems to be where cp and tar stall too. Funny... I'll check this. > About the only thing I've seen cp > screw up on is files in /pro

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

2002-11-13 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:43:28AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:34:12AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > > ll $MOUNTDIR/lib/modules/2.4.19-xfs/kernel/fs/ > > > > Stalls. And this seems to be where cp and tar stall too. > > Funny... I

Calling init.d script from perl daemon?

2002-11-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I've spent a few hours trying and researching, but it seems that I am unable to call the init.d script for maradns (all others work). The following: my @c = ("/etc/init.d/jabber", "start"); system @c; @c = ("/etc/init.d/maradns", "start"); system @c; will start jabber, but not mara

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I'll make some comments, in the hope that they'll help. On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:35:01AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage wit

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> How will the user know? > How will the helpdesk guys know? (If it's a winmodem or not) > On which serial port is it? > Maybe trying to autodetect it (w/ wvdial) would help tell if it a serial modem? I mean, to help tell if it's a winmodem Sorry! J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:39:25AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Create an XML file format for all the details required: ^^^ Yes! Buzzword! Good! :-) I don't like XML (cluttered, too verbose), but it widely accepted in the corporate world. > DNS servers > Dialup number > Authenticat

Re: make-kpkg ( line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file)

2003-08-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20030812 kernel_image > > Which is (for the 2.6 try): > > lots and lots of output.. > . > and finally > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.0-test2' > echo done > stamp-build > /usr/bin/make -f /usr

Re: make-kpkg ( line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file)

2003-08-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> The interfaces have also changed, meaning that the nvidia driver you got from > nvidia will not work with newer kernels without some hacking. Just google > around and check nvnews.com, as there are plenty of kernel hackers out there > on the bleeding edge that have gotten theirs to work and then

Posted RFP, but the project seems inactive. Close bug?

2002-10-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. As the subject says... I have posted an RPF long time ago (bug #100475), but checked the website today and it seems that there were no updates to the software since October 10, 2000 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kuml). Should I close the bug, or just leave it there? There are better al

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:23:19PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. 2.4.20 is not out yet -- there are only pre-releases (the latest one is 2.4.20-pre9). I believe 2.4.20 will be available in unstable a reasonably short time after it r

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > > chkconfig will list the servi

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:04:34PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The hosting provider I mention above offers 600 MB space and 25 GB/month > (for the $70 plan) or 800 MB space and 35 GB/month (for the $100 plan). > That should be plenty for most any organization. Since I wanted root access, I go

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-09 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:57:56AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > I also use Linode, Linode is great, I have no complaints! They have a > forum (quite like fastmail.fm's one) where you can get help from other > users and the developer of Linode, and they use a special kernel hack to > prevent other p

Re: md5sum input/output errors with large files

2005-05-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:30:12AM +, Pollywog wrote: > When I do a md5sum check on large files (500MB or larger), I get this sort of > error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/RO$ md5sum RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip > error processing RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip: failed in buffer_read(fd): mdfile: > Input/output

Re: What BackUPS?

2005-05-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:55:34AM -0400, Colin wrote: > Bill Day wrote: > > Well we had some rain and lightning and thunder and winds yesterday and i > > was > > asleep in my chair... lost all of my uptime becuase my old BackUPS was > > dead. > > > > Finally the question, what BackUPS do yo

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:00:54AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 21 2005, Johan Kullstam wrote: > > "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Thanks but the old clunker's motherboard is not expandable to 256M > > > :-( > > > > Star/Open-Office is not going to be pleasant. TeX, on

GNOME/KDE in Sarge?

2005-06-08 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I have to install Linux on one box that I will admin remotely. A few users there will want to use GNOME (or maybe KDE, but it would be fine if I install just GNOME). I'll have to make a short trip to install the OS, and would like to do this as quickly as possible. So -- since I don't have

Re: GNOME/KDE in Sarge?

2005-06-08 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:45:33PM +0200, David Mat wrote: > Just installed sarge, the installer is great. Tthere is an option to > autodetect your video hardware, so it'll work right away for some harware. Hm, that's what I wanted to know. With Woody, installing X didn't autodetect things prope

usbmount only mounts pendrive as "root:root"?

2005-06-09 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello! So, after swithing one box from Fedora to Debian Sarge, there's onw thing users would probably like, but I don't know how to do: Fedora will mount pendrives automatically for you, with the permissions of whoever is on the console. I tried usbmount, but it seems to always mount as root. Afte

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat > CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs. > > A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be > much appreciated. ope

boot-floppies dependencies

2000-08-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
X for Czech/Slovak typesetting _* Xtr tex cspsfontsSupport for Czech and Slovak Type1... _* Xtr tex cstexfonts Czech/Slovak fonts for TeX _* Xtr tex csplain Plain for Czech/Slovak typesetting -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil

gcc version / compiling the kernel

2000-08-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello... Did any woody users out there have any problems compiling kernels with the gcc 2.95.2 (the version in woody)? Are there any issues? That's the one I'm using... Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeron

Re: gcc version / compiling the kernel

2000-08-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ompile on these newer versions of > gcc. > my experience thus far in potato(also gcc 2.95.2) i have had no problems > compiling kernels. Ok... I also compiled X 4.0.1 and had no problems... But I was wondering if there is any optimization loss when using 2.95.2. Do you know of any? Thank

Galeon debs

2000-08-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
http://thebucket.org/echo/projects.php3 It's working fine here in my woody box... I just didn't find it to be too fast, if compared to Mozilla... But I havn't tried it for enought time! :-) It'll complain about some dependency; just --force, and it'll work! J.

-dev dependencies when building debs from source?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
really the way it works, it may be a lot of work to change it, since information aboit building dependencies would have to be added to packages) Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mai

.xsession / .xinitrc?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
user-resources allow-user-xsession use-ssh-agent +++ Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -dev dependencies when building debs from source?

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
d it seems taht someone has already suggested adding support for automated installation of -dev packages... :-) > HTH > yours, > peter -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www

Querying and managind daemons

2000-08-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ivated at startup. I sort of didn't know what to say... I know how to change the scripts called at startup time, but I never thought about querying running daemons... Any ideas? Thanks! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo m

Easy potato installation alternative?

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
find some unofficial potato CDs at some store here... But I'm not sure if these are a good choice. Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Error msg from cron -- file changed in package?

2000-09-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
no idea why this is happening now (and it didn't happen in the last days or weeks)... Any ideas? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cleanly migrating from ide install to scsi system

2000-09-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ure lilo and I had a woody box running. (I also had to delete his user account and add mine, but you won't need to do that) It's worth trying... Just don't forget tto add all the SCSI stuff into the kernel. > Regards, > Wm HTH, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Comp

screen being blanked every 2 or 3 seconds?

2000-09-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
it's some of the packages that were upgraded recently in woody... Did anyone else have this problem? I'm not using gdm, and I also tried stopping gpm, disabling ACPI in the kernel and BIOS, disbling/enabling APM in the BIOS... Didn't help. Any ideas? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegr

Re: screen being blanked every 2 or 3 seconds?

2000-09-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
easy to find a list of the recently upgraded packages, so it'll be easier to trck down the problem? J. > Frederik -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest libc does NOT fix everything

2000-09-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
il and it was also broken) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

xdvi wrapper not working - is it related to some recent upgrade?

2000-10-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Maybe some side-effect of the libc upgrade? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xdvi wrapper not working - yes, there's a bug filed

2000-10-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Ok, I had searched for bugs aggainst tetex-base and found none, but xdvi is in tetex-bin! And I just found that there's a bug filed against it already)! So, that was the problem. J. :: On 01 Oct 2000 22:36:59 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello. >

Sunclock kills other windows?

2000-06-18 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
is this an Enlightenment bug, or a sunclock bug? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building gimp-print gs driver problems...

2000-06-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ay to do this? I just removed gs-pdfencrypt... But I think there may be a way to change the info in the gs-stp package so it'd provide waht's necessary (I'm not sure. Anyone else knows about this?) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect behaves differently in 2 similar situations?

2000-06-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
is what's puzzling me -- why would dselect now refuse to do something it did just a few days ago? As far as I remember, it was not even upgraded (so I'd have the same dselect program behaving differently in 2 similar situations)... Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of C

Re: Kernel Source Code [New User]

2000-07-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
work? > []s, Roger... thanks! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-errors & scwm

2000-07-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
window!) I've switched to BlackBox now, and it's working well... J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
o a "test2-ac22", in Alan's directory, but I found no test3 anywhere... Was that a typo, or did I not really find the (actually existent) test3 kernel? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel problems (was: Re: Unresolved Symbol?)

2000-07-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
k). J. > Are you running on IDE? IF yes: SHUTDOWN AND PRAY immediately :) > Maybe the information hasnt so wide spread yet but test2 is bound to > corrupt your filesystems. > take care, Rolf > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorsten Clever wrote: -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Insti

X crash question (where's the core file?)

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ently... So, after crashing, X tells me that it dumped a core file - that I wanted to use - but it's nowhere... Any ideass of what I could do so I can perhaps determine where the crash is happening and report this? This is woody, with XFree86 3.3.6-10. Thank you, J. -- Jeronimo

Re: X crash question (where's the core file?)

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
core files from my own programs two weeks ago, so I assumed the limit wasn't set to zero. Maybe the default changed in some recent upgrade... Anyway - thank you! I've already changed it, and I'll get the core next time X segfaults. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computi

Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup

2000-07-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
problems. I first installed plugger, then realplayer. I've already used the plug-in, and it's just perfect. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

2000-07-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
list saying that test2 had some serious problems (filesystem corruption), when used with IDE... I had problems myself (a whole directory was screwed up. Luckily, that was just a copy of kernel sources that I didn't need anyway) Did you try 2.4.0test5-pre4? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Insti

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

2000-07-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:19:51 +0200, "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:03:45 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: >> Did you try 2.4.0test5-pre4? > Is this a patch by Alan? No. It is the alpha series (the beta one is without the &

Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

2000-07-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
nd then doing 'cat | patch -p0' ? > I have not applied a kernel patch in a long time. Since I have a few different kernels around, I usually get the source, rename it to linux-2.x.y-pre-z, then get into that directory, and patch -p1 < ../patch J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute o

dhelp problem

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
could be all those docs? Apache seems to be ok (I've acessed http://localhost without problems) Thanks a lot! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
h, ok. well, yes, there is a /usr/doc/HTML, which is a link to /usr/share/doc (aha!) So, all I had to do was to change Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ to Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/ (Although I feel like I shouldn't need to do that - and that apache should be able to follow the link...) T

Changes in ext2

2000-07-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
e case? (Is there a wy to inspect the filesystem format being used?) - Are there big or important differences between these two? (Is it worth trying to change it?) - And what woudl be the best wy to change? (I have free space in the hard disk) Thanks a lot, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institu

Disk performance when installing packages

2000-07-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
30 Mb of free memory.) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compose key in X 4.0.1?

2000-07-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
startx &> X.out, but nothing is reported about it in X.out. (I don't like the Xkbd config that came with 3.3.6, because it used deadkeys... I like to have a Compose key!) Any ideas? Thanks a lot, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://ww

Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ome raw measures. Not sure > what you can turn to for disk I/O and realtime swap usage. Anyone? > Hmmm... xosview is butt ugly but damned useful, it might be helpful > also. Thank you. I'll install xosview later. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1?

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
to "Compose" (on PC101). You can use > a different keycode, of course. Thank you... but tht didn't work. I think I'll revert to 3.3.6, since I saw no performance improvements in 4.0.1 (maybe because I installed the binaries and didn't compile the sources myself). Th

Re: Compose key in X 4.0.1? [SOLVFED!]

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On 01 Aug 2000 10:49:11 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: :: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:29:51 -0700, "Eric G . Miller" said: >> Look at /etc/X11/Xmodmap or ~/.Xmodmap. I don't know if these are >> sourced the same way in 4.0 as 3.3, but I in

System locking

2000-08-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
did not happen when I ws using X 4.0.1, but it did happen when I went back to 3.3.6... Did anyone hve that sort of problem? Any ideas of what may be happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://ww

System locked and now complains at startup about modules

2000-08-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
with kernels 2.4.0-test5, 2.2.16 and some other that I don't remember...) Not that I didn't expect to have crashes running woody, but... Locks like this? Is this common? Next thing I'll do is to compile X 4.0.1 and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then (and I'd

Re: System locked and now complains at startup about modules

2000-08-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
y? i > wouldnt reccomend going to XF86 4.0.1 if you can avoid it its likely to be > more buggy then XF86 3.3.6 for that video card(but i could be wrong) Actually, I did use 4.0.1 for a few days, and it didn't crash... But it may have been too little time. (I thought this could be a reasonable option, since the code is a lot different from that of 3.3.6) > hope this helps! Yes, that helped a lot already. > nate J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System locked and now complains at startup about modules

2000-08-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
e module with >> >> But these are parts of commented lines in /etc/modules!!! >> Ok, after a new upgrade with dselect, the problem was gone... I think modutils had some bug! So, the -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System locked and now complains at startup about modules

2000-08-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
nd /usr/X11R6 And held all updates of packages that could install anything on /usr/X11R6... But I think that if you compile it yourself, you can install it in a different directory (/usr/X11R6.4); then you could even keep installing stuff under the old /usr/X11R6 and just include /usr/X11R6.4 in your PATH... > nate J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System locked and now complains at startup about modules

2000-08-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
imes. I'll get the version from potato and see if it's any better. Can this really be a problem? I bought this soundcard some time ago... And indeed, it ws near the time when I got the new mouse, etc... > nate J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazi

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ock Addresses instead of C:H:S addresses, allowing access to all partitions on disks greater than 8.4Gb. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: soundcard

2000-08-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
u see a SB16 at a very low > price, suspect VibraX. Is there an easy way to tell if I have one of those? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting dma66 support in kernel

2000-08-20 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
. But I've tried it with 2.2.17-pre19, and lots of hunks failed (including in ide.c and pci-probe.c, IIRC) I have not seen any ide patches for 2.2.17-pre19 or any of these more recent ones... J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim loosing mail?

2001-02-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
livered mails? > If so, fix /etc/cron.d/exim and the problem will sort itself out. And there's also a line in exim.conf that should be changed: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100 a bigger number there could help... Otherwise, wxim will only accept 100 messages poer connection.

Re: Borland C specific libraries in Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
(a Debian package will be > better :-). > At school my daughter use Borland C and I don't want to install > Windows on my computer only for that. Beside emacs is a better tools > for programming than Borland IDE :-) > Thanks, > Dan -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Comput

changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
le to know what the changes are before upgrading a package... J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
n't seem to work always... I triedd with xmms twice, and in the 3rd time, it worked. Didn't work with libc6 (and I tried quite a few times). The server tells me "No such changelog file". Didn't work with gprolog, either... Any ideas of why this happens? Thank you, J. -- J

Re: changelog.Debian and APT

2000-10-15 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
not for the version that's available in woody today... Maybe it takes some time for that to be upgraded. But that still doesn't explain why some of the changelogs are missing. I'll check the bug tracking system and see if there's something. J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Instit

Re: problems with udma66

2000-10-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
ble all you needed in the kernel to use UDMA. Maybe you'd like to try that first? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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