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

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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 range

No Install with HPT Raid Drive

2003-09-21 Thread George Bell
Hi all, I'm new to this list and Debian in general. Got stuck with the Debian install from CD. I'm trying to install Debian on the extra space provided by two 40 GB hds in a RAID 0 configuration on a ABIT motherboard. There already installed on the drives two versions of Window which I

Re: How to include the experimental distribution

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:03, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi The expertimental distribution should be locatet on many mirror at debian/ projects/experimental. I wondering how i should access this place through apt. A line like deb some mirror address/debian/projects experimental main

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread HdV
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, marinus wrote: beste user. kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? Hi Marinus, You might try asking your question in English. Chances are you'll get more response that way. I don't think there are too many Dutch speaking

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Karsten M. Self wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I think the only two that you *must* receive mail for is 'postmaster' and 'abuse', IIRC. So I think the others can be bounced without fear of any problems. http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ lists: - DSN - postmaster - abuse - whois -

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window appears

providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. -Chad- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to include the experimental distribution

2003-09-21 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Sunday 21 September 2003 17:59, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:03, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi The expertimental distribution should be locatet on many mirror at debian/ projects/experimental. I wondering how i should access this place through apt. A line like deb

Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Steven Schlansker
Every five minutes, the entire screen fills with a usage line for getty, repeated some 10 times, and then INIT: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. Five minutes later, the process repeats. It doesn't seem to break anything, but it's annoying. What could cause this? (Please CC

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread csj
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:23:32 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: hdparm can make the difference between an IDE harddrive and something connected to the IDE bus which is about as fast as if I'd type the bits by hand. I am down with that, and my IDE drives are at paramount speeds. I also have an

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread csj
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:35, csj wrote: At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, Michael C. wrote: In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003

Re: dealing with testing and security

2003-09-21 Thread HdV
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Chad M Stewart wrote: I'm tired of the stale nature of stable. Last weekend I upgraded to testing. I'm wondering what is the recommended method of dealing with security updates for testing? Should I downgrade and only upgrade the few packages that I want newer

Re: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 08:29:53AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Every five minutes, the entire screen fills with a usage line for getty, repeated some 10 times, and then INIT: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. Five minutes later, the process repeats. It doesn't seem to

gnumail

2003-09-21 Thread ZekeVarg
Anyone got gnumail going? I installed it through apt-get without any problems, but when trying to run it from a terminal all I get is this: $gnumail 2003-09-21 18:28:46.868 GNUMail[31615] File NSData.m: 153. In readContentsOfFile Open (/home/zeke/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache/:0.0) attempt failed -

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:43:49 +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However under 2.4 its already working quite nicely. some people do get some trouble at times, but its quite stable. I suspend and resume several dozen times without problems, by that time

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
If your ISP is being a bitch about it, then switch! Otherwise just relay via their SMTP smarthost and the problem is solved. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `-

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.21.1738 +0200]: reject_rbl_client relays.visi.com, reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org, reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client proxies.relays.monkeys.com, reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org, reject_rbl_client

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:10:23PM -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. Unless you're doing something truly outrageous, there should be no reason to need to define anything

Re: debian package install problem

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:51:40 +0100, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On (20/09/03 23:54), Greg Folkert wrote: Be pleasant - Do [not] be belligerent Great response (in spite of a few typos) ;) Perhaps a cleaned up version should be dispatched to anyone

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:49:21 +0200 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your ISP is being a bitch about it, then switch! Otherwise just relay via their SMTP smarthost and the problem is solved. Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal, I could understand your suggestion.

Re: With newer chipsets, is ECC memory slower ? Worth the penalty ?

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul McHale wrote: Thanks for the info. It sounds like I would be crazy to not use ECC memory. That all depends on things like the soft failure rate of the memory used and how much of it you have. I tend to leave the PC running 24/7. That alone might make the ECC worth while. If there is a

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 mess.

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:10, Chad M Stewart wrote: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0

is ${PATH} in pam_env.conf supposed to see PATH set by login.defs?

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
In /etc/security/pam_env.conf, is ${PATH} supposed to see the value of PATH set by /etc/login.defs? If I set PATH in login.defs (using ENV_PATH=xxx) and set PATH=${PATH}:yyy in pam_env.conf, the setting from login.defs doesn't show up (PATH gets set to :yyy). If I remember correctly (I looked

is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf?

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
/etc/security/pam_env.conf gives an example containing ${HOME}. However, ${HOME} doesn't work (it evaluates to nothing) when invoked by logging in on a console. (This is on woody.) Is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

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

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread David Z Maze
Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. You probably want a 'gateway' line in /etc/network/interfaces on exactly one interface that's up. -- David Maze

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030921 18:10]: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. In the file /etc/network/interfaces with a gateway-line. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp

Re: Flash plug-in hangs Mozilla (sid)

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:30:22 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Hi, I just downloaded and installed Macromedia Flash plug-in for Mozilla (1.4-4). When browsing to a web location with flash content, the browser hangs. I guess you have some app playing sound in the background. Maybe it's

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
Hi. I'm German, but I think I understood what you wanted to say -- next time please ask in English. This is an international mailing list :-) On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:40:16 +0200, marinus wrote: beste user. kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? Yes, you can install Debian in

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
I should have thought to do 'man interfaces' before today. :) I'm not used to doing 'man name of file', rather 'man command'. Suggestion -- the default interfaces file should have something like what is shown below already there, only commented out and something telling people to 'man

Re: Getting X to recognise usb mouse on plugin

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:43:51 +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a usb mous which isn't always plugged in (its a loptop). It its plugged in when X starts up it is recognised ok (there is a pointer entry for /dev/input/mice). If its not plugged in

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
Michael C. wrote: In linux.debian.user, Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Smith wrote: .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell, Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your

install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went smoothly until I tried to use it after the installation. All I get is a blank screen and a frozen computer. I think that my problem is a video card that linux does not like, S3 Pro-Savage KM133. Any suggestions as to how I can make things

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: ... And $HOME/.xsession is a more general purpose way of doing it. Except that it's inconsistent: If you log in using different interfaces (console vs. graphical), you get different environments (without intentionally asking for differences). It also means that you

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Jeff McAdams
Also Sprach martin f krafft I don't see why people don't relay via their ISPs. Is there one good reason? Maximum size? FTP! Not always practical...but then, sending large files via e-mail is a crapshoot at best anyway. Aestethics? Colocate! Not sure what you mean by aestethics. Privacy

Reappropriation, was: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:59:17 +0800, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Sorry, but I don't receive legitimate 41KB (and over) attachments from anonymous sources. There's always a way to white-list all

getting rid of debian gnome

2003-09-21 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Is there any clean way to get rid of gnome. When I did apt-get install gnome) it installed a whole bunch of packages. but when I did apt-get remove gnome it just removed the gnome package. I tried gnome2 also. am using sid. I did look this up in the archives but didn't see a definitive answer. If

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal... Which country might that be? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: ... When you log in at a graphics console the profile is not sourced. The Xsession script uses /bin/sh and does not know what shell you will be using. Why doesn't it (or some part of the GDM/etc. login process) know your default shell the same way /bin/login knows

Console characters display as blocks

2003-09-21 Thread Geordie Birch
When I switch from X to VT 1-6 all characters display as blocks and the keyboard goes into raw mode. After using C-M-SysRq to reset the keyboard I can log in and type commands blindly. Switching back to VT 7 shows only block characters, even though X is still running. I have

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.21.1902 +0200]: Did you try putting dynablock at the end of the list, so as to check if some dynablock rejects wouldn't be caught by the others first? Good point. I will do so now. Anyway -- the situation is a mess, but the point is,

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:30:18 +0200, csj wrote: Have you tried the cat /proc trick, something like: cat using_dma:1 /proc/ide/hdX/settings In the case of a real IDE device, you can use the plain old IDE device nodes. My ide-scsi-driven CD-ROM drives (one burner, one reader) respond: #

Re: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:25 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Would you post the content of file /etc/inittab to the list? Seems like there's a misconfigured line in it. I see a line which is suspect - it's commented as Example how to put a getty on a modem line.

Re: getting rid of debian gnome

2003-09-21 Thread Geordie Birch
Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Sep 2003 12:09 -0500]: Is there any clean way to get rid of gnome. When I did apt-get install gnome) it installed a whole bunch of packages. but when I did apt-get remove gnome it just removed the gnome package. Have a look at debfoster and

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went smoothly until I tried to use it after the installation. All I get is a blank screen and a frozen computer. I think that my problem is a video card that

missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Matthew Bennett
I'm using 3.0r1 with a custom 2.4.22 kernel. /boot/grub/menu.lst contains: title Debian root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd However, /initrd is an empty directory on my system, so it complains and I have to manually enter the first two lines in the grub shell

Re: getting rid of debian gnome

2003-09-21 Thread tb . nospam
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0400, Geordie Birch wrote: Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Sep 2003 12:09 -0500]: Is there any clean way to get rid of gnome. When I did apt-get install gnome) it installed a whole bunch of packages. but when I did apt-get remove gnome it just

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:04 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Simon writes: Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal... Which country might that be? I'm not a lawyer, so I can't offer you a legal definition of a monopoly, but ask Microsoft about their last big

Re: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:25 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Would you post the content of file /etc/inittab to the list? Seems like there's a misconfigured line in it. I see a line which is suspect - it's

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-21T15:49:21Z, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your ISP is being a bitch about it, then switch! Otherwise just relay via their SMTP smarthost and the problem is solved. Martin, First, I've beaten this to death on Slashdot, so I don't want to go into long-winded detail.

Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Mark Maas
Hello all, I've installed a mailserver with the following: Exim 3.35, Amavis using clamav-daemon, Spamassassin and Razor. Everything works great, as expected, and my follwing question is just to extend this functionality: All spam is now placed in the same quarantine directory as all

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks for the tips, folks. This will help me avoid a PITA recurring task... Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: I'm not a lawyer, so I can't offer you a legal definition of a monopoly, but ask Microsoft about their last big trial and that which still seem to be in process in the EU. Or wasn't that in the end about being a monopoly and taking unfair advantage of it? The latter.

KDE installation broken?

2003-09-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I tried to install kde 3 on my sid system and found that it is broken in sid and woody: [defiant /]# apt-get install kde Reading Pacage Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:09:39AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: That last sentence is the important one. If you run a mail server then you must accept abuse to it. So by definition all mail sites should accept mail to abuse. But if you don't run a web server then there is no requirement to

Re: Id S respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

2003-09-21 Thread Steven Schlansker
Thanks, that fixed it. On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 09:25 AM, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Would you post the content of file /etc/inittab to the

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Matthew == Matthew Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew I'm using 3.0r1 with a custom 2.4.22 Matthew kernel. /boot/grub/menu.lst contains: title Debian root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd Matthew However, /initrd is an empty

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.21.1712 +0200]: Have you tried the cat /proc trick, something like: cat using_dma:1 /proc/ide/hdX/settings also sprach Sebastian Kapfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.21.1946 +0200]: # hdparm -d /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target?/lun0/generic Neither of

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:52:28 -0300, Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:04 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Simon writes: Living in a country where monopolies are ilegal... Which country might that be?

Mozilla and Content-Encoding: gzip

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
How do I get mozilla to unzip this and display it as text/plain? Mozilla asks me to save it to a file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ HEAD ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim3/FAQ.txt.gz 200 OK Server: University of Cambridge Computing Service ftp Server Content-Encoding: gzip

crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I hope someone might have an answer to a puzzling question ... Why can't my user run crontab? The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a normal user, I get nastiness: crontab -e

Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Mark Maas wrote: I've installed a mailserver with the following: Exim 3.35, Amavis using clamav-daemon, Spamassassin and Razor. Everything works great, as expected, and my follwing question is just to extend this functionality: All spam is now placed in the same quarantine directory as all

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:43:01AM -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: I also wonder if some of the zombies that spammers use to blast out msgs might have been compromised by this virus as well. Me too. Especially as most spam I get has got my address from debian-user or other Linux lists, and I've

Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam

2003-09-21 Thread Mark Maas
- Original Message - From: Greg Bolshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Amavis, Spamassassin, and delivering Spam Mark Maas wrote: I've installed a mailserver with the following: Exim 3.35,

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel B. wrote: Why doesn't it (or some part of the GDM/etc. login process) know your default shell the same way /bin/login knows (and invokes an instance of) your default shell? It does seem like it should be able to know that. But of course it won't know about my own whizzy furblyburb

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:19:42 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latter. Having a monopoly is not illegal. Taking unfair advantage of it is. It might not be illegal, but the method to reach/hold it might at least be questionably for a normal citizen. I have only one provider

install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
Although one person answered the message below, I never saw it posted. In case something strange happened, I am trying it again. I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went smoothly until I tried to use it after the installation. All

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:06:53 +0200 Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any company in the world which can do that without having the status of a monopoly? ..www.telenor.no ? It only has the copper... ;-) Ooops. World seems to be a worse place than I thought. -- Christoph

ATI ALL-in Wonder //PRO

2003-09-21 Thread techlists
I am looking to do some video capture, editing, and maybe watch TV on my Desktop. I am running Woody, KDE 3.1, AMD XP1300, 512 meg ram, and an nVidia GeForce ti 200 /128 meg ddr ram. going trough the company's box o' parts I found 2 older ATI ALL in Wonder cards. One is a PCI ALL in Wonder,

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Why can't my user run crontab? The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a normal user, I get nastiness: crontab -e crontabs/monique: Permission denied [...]

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Although one person answered the message below, I never saw it posted. In case something strange happened, I am trying it again. Rodney D. Myers responded to it. I attempted to install Woody version 3.0. Everything went

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hi all! I hope someone might have an answer to a puzzling question ... Why can't my user run crontab? The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a normal user, I get

Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines --- deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:03, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines --- deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
orry, forgot to mention I'm running unstable ... The permissions: ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 27K Sep 17 18:18 /usr/bin/crontab toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ drwx-wx--T2 root crontab 4.0K Sep 21 13:55 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ I made

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt8 root

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: If your only local provider doubles price in a consumer product, what would happen in your area? 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

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: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:03:00PM -0300, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines --- deb

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Christoph Simon
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:23:48 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Simon writes: If your only local provider doubles price in a consumer product, what would happen in your area? Nothing in particular, in general. For example, there is only one drugstore in my village.

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Sidney Brooks
I followed the instructions below. When I entered linux single at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. I might add, Debian potato didn't work for me in the graphical mode because it only accepted the lowest resolution, 640x400 (I think), and everything was so big

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread csj
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:18:20 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different sizes to see what

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:55:34PM +0200, marinus wrote: beste user. kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? bij voorbaat dank moin marinus, mijn Pentium = 133 MHz met 128 MB RAM (16 MB werk well met text monitor; =32 MB werk ok met X

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-21 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box makes it conk out, I think you ought to install some extra fannage. I have another fan and a spot on the case to screw it in to, but nowhere on the MB to plug it in. I

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Tuning Exim 3.35

2003-09-21 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm wondering what others use in the exim.conf (mostly for combating spam by checking headers). I assume sender_verify is good. What about sender_verify_fixup? What about headers_sender_verify and headers_check_syntax? Also, for a small home lan (about 1000 mails a day), is

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:26:13PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: marinus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef op zondag 21 september 2003 13:56: beste user. kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? bij voorbaat dank Hello Marinus,

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:10:08 +0200, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:40:23 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: # hdparm -d /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target?/lun0/generic Neither of these approaches will work as the drive is IDE behind the USB port. Thus, the system sees USB, then SCSI. That's why I wrote In the case of a real IDE device As

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Christoph Simon writes: One thing is to double prices and expose them _before_ you pay, and another thing is to double prices you suddenly have to pay in disagreement with a former contract. Maybe you are a lawyer, but for my taste, these things stink like hell. That's got nothing to do with

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread John Hasler
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 evils of regulation, not of the evils of monopoly. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

syncing Jpilot+Squirrelmail+mutt+Palm addresses

2003-09-21 Thread moseley
Any suggestions how to best manage email addresses on my home LAN. I use a Palm and Jpilot, Squirrelmail, and mutt mostly. I'd like to be able to sync addresses from all these sources. I.e., enter address in Squirrel mail and have it show up in mutt and on jpilot. Time to learn LDAP?

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 evils of regulation, not of the

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp

Re: install

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: I followed the instructions below. When I entered linux single at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Ah, this points to a non-X problem. Did you ever get to the point where it asked for the administrative password? You might try booting

Re: missing initrd image

2003-09-21 Thread Matthew Bennett
I'm much clearer about what initrd is supposed to do now, thanks. Shyamal Prasad wrote: What are the contents of /etc/modules on your system. I suspect most of the errors you are seeing have to do with the contents of /etc/modules.conf The contents of /etc/modules is just: af_packet radeon I

Re: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:54:43PM -0400, AnotherLinuxGuy wrote: what is the best of the best when it comes to a program that does playback of divx and DVDs? i have heard Xine and Mplayer, in Xine i get no sound, i use esd or dsp i think, its on a compaq armada m700 laptop, and in mplayer i

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