exim4 catch all problem (cannot find transport driver redirect)

2004-06-26 Thread Vadik
I am trying to configure exim4 catchall by creatting 40_exim4-config_catch_all and using update-exim4.conf. Here is an output: xxx:/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport# cat 40_exim4-config_catch_all catchall: driver = redirect data = catchall xxx:/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport# update-exim4.conf

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:25:39PM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: Thanks for all of the help from everyone - eh, I sounded quite desperate, but I was really pissed off that day, returning from a 10 hour shift with only a few precious hours to spend at home and my debian giving me shit for no

Re: Two-part question

2004-06-26 Thread Stephen Touset
On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 12:18, Stephen Touset wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 11:52, John Summerfield wrote: Who owns the directory etc this creates? Who is the cp command being run as? Are the sudo and maildirmake in the right order? The problem was with permissions. However, I'm going

Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread cecil
Yay! My new winbook fx is within a truck drive away. Seeing a how its a 150mhz machine with 32 meg ram and 2 gig hd, I need to start thinking about how to set this up to be my school laptop. I know linux will install. Setting up power management, I can read up on it. The memory, that too can

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:43:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jon/hohn On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a CD is bootable. usually bootable cd's will have an extra directory /syslinux or something

Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-26 Thread Joris Huizer
the softrat wrote: I've tried a bunch of things: going to LPRng, various printcaps as advised by various books and websites, http://www.linuxprinting.org, ... Print spooling is *still* sick: Part of the first page, then nada! BTW, how does one return ALL of the print queues and status messages, et

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Rich wrote: As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally burned a non-bootable image, all I could see was one big .iso file. I wasn't No, if you saw

ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread Ludwig Meyerhoff
Hallo! I have a VIA C3 (Ezra) processor. It is very nice for normal applications, as it takes only a few watt. I have a problem with the ACPI support of the kernel ... While 2.4.20 recognizes the processor to support C1 and C2 states, the 2.4.26 does not, as the 2.6.6 does not also. AFAIK the

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: base install for debian takes up? I was going to dual boot to dos(250 ~200 MB. meg). All I need is my development stuff(pretty much already included), the pcmcia package, and X. Well, I don't NEED X, but it would be nice. How much space does Gnome take

Re: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Allen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to even debug this? I'd hate to find a situation where WinDoze is more stable than Linux! Any help I could get solving this problem would be greatly appreciated! When you say erratic, how do you mean? If you have the trapped moth

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Adam wrote: Cecil, Kindly in future make sure you reply via the list. I charge for private consultancy. :) will xmms even run on this system??? I really like my rant-radio! Yes, it will. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic --

Re: Gnome UI stops responding

2004-06-26 Thread Santiago de Ledesma
Thanks for the advice! Apparently the esd daemon was to blame (I usually have the sound muted, so I didn't even think of it when it happened). I disabled it for now and everything works just fine. Again, Thank you very much. On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 00:16, Mark Roach wrote: Hmm, my first guess

Re: pppd: LCP terminated by peer

2004-06-26 Thread jakob bratkovic
John Summerfield wrote: Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, John! On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:10:23PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I'm using pppd 2.4.2 to connect to my DSL Internet provider. After a period of inactivity pppd terminates the connection with a message LCP terminated by peer. Can I

Re: pppd: LCP terminated by peer

2004-06-26 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Jakob! On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:59:56PM +0200, jakob bratkovic wrote: lcp-echo-interval 60 I've already put fetchyahoo to my crontab. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it on another system. With kind regards, Baurjan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian stable with 2G ram

2004-06-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 26 June 2004 06:05 am, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: Which Kernel for Debian stable do I need for a machine with 2G ram? The machine is a HP DL140. Thanks, Jacob A quote from the kernel config for memory. If you are running dual procs you may get highmem suport with one of the

Re: Newbie installation

2004-06-26 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Martin Dowie wrote: Hi all! I'm a first-time GNU/Linux (wanna-be) User although I have some Un*x experience. I've downloaded all 14 Sarge .iso CDs and have happily managed to get a system that will now boot to a command line after installing from CD1. I used the

kernel 2.6.7

2004-06-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What is the status of 2.6.7 in sid? Does any one know, or how to find out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian CD will not boot

2004-06-26 Thread tom muahaha
Hey, I have set my primary boot drive to CD ROM and tried to boot from a cd burned with the Debian 3.2 (cd3) ISO. "Booting from CD:" comes up everytime i boot up, but then continues to Winows XP startup. Has this anything to do with md5sum? If so, what does md5sum involve? If not, any one know

Re: Newbie installation

2004-06-26 Thread Geordie Birch
During or immediately after boot you can scroll back through the video buffer with shift-page_up. There should also be a /var/log/boot that you can look at (maybe not in stable yet?) Geordie. - Original Message - From: Martin Dowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:54:01

RE: kernel 2.6.7

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
My understanding is it's out and ready to go- I'm still on 2.6.6. -Original Message- From: DGLU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 3:29 PM To: Debian Users List Subject: kernel 2.6.7 What is the status of 2.6.7 in sid? Does any one

RE: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
I'm not sure what you mean by the trapped moth syndrome, but I have tried just about every protocol that XF86Config says it supports. Right now, since I'm using my wndz machine to check the email and forums, I've got my Linux machine shut down. I'll check the xset man page as soon as I boot it

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-26 Thread Paulo Silva
A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill it with Ctrl^C, then with 'kill -SIGKILL procid', killing the Konsole tabbed

Re: ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 26 June 2004 18:37, Ludwig Meyerhoff wrote: Hallo! I have a VIA C3 (Ezra) processor. It is very nice for normal applications, as it takes only a few watt. I have a problem with the ACPI support of the kernel ... While 2.4.20 recognizes the processor to support C1 and C2 states,

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-26 Thread Leonardo Boselli
Il 22 Jun 2004 alle 8:40 Adam Funk immise in rete This is a smarter way to do it. Wouldn't you admit that the problem is not from MTAs on dynamic IP addresses, but rather from infected Windows machines on dynamic IP addresses? Just a note. Since these are infected machines, a first test could

Console Fonts and Keymaps

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, while i was trying to set up my keyboard's map by hand (which is a new mac layout), i suddenly became very confused with how debian handles standards compliant console fonts. the default setup was SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 in /etc/console-tools/config. this confuses me. i have been

Re: How do I make my linux machine a dialin server

2004-06-26 Thread Kent West
Johnny wrote: Hi I am interested in makeing my Debian linux machine a dialin server. So that when I am at my sister house she has a win95 box. I want to dial up my linux box from her computer to get connected to my linux computer get a file or check my email. How would I configure this. My linux

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread dircha
cecil wrote: Setting up power management, I can read up on it. Your mainboard's BIOS may or may not support ACPI, and may or may not be buggy. You might need to use APM, and you might only get partial or minimal support. Search the 'net for Linux + [your laptop make and model]. The memory,

Re: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Kent West
Allen Williams wrote: (undeclared snippage in the following) The KVM switch connects a Linux and a Windows machine. But with Linux, however, if you boot with Linux selected on the KVM, it is OK, but if you switch to Windows and back again, the Linux mouse is all screwed up again. So, at best,

Re: Debian CD will not boot

2004-06-26 Thread Kent West
tom muahaha wrote: Hey, I have set my primary boot drive to CD ROM and tried to boot from a cd burned with the Debian 3.2 (cd3) ISO. Booting from CD: comes up everytime i boot up, but then continues to Winows XP startup. Something's wrong with the CD (or the drive -- will the computer boot

RE: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
I'll give that a shot- don't know what gpm is or how to install it (apt-get?), but I'll man it and see what I can do. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mouse Jumps/ Moves

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:30:49 -0500, cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yay! My new winbook fx is within a truck drive away. Seeing a how its a 150mhz machine with 32 meg ram and 2 gig hd, I need to start thinking about how to set this up to be my school laptop. I know linux will install. Setting

Re: Console Fonts and Keymaps

2004-06-26 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, while i was trying to set up my keyboard's map by hand (which is a new mac layout), i suddenly became very confused with how debian handles standards compliant console fonts. grrr... sorry i missed the if you are using a framebuffer, make sure you apply this to all the virtual

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Leonardo Boselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Il 22 Jun 2004 alle 8:40 Adam Funk immise in rete This is a smarter way to do it. Wouldn't you admit that the problem is not from MTAs on dynamic IP addresses, but rather from infected Windows machines on dynamic IP addresses? Just a note. Since

Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?

2004-06-26 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:13:53 -0700 the softrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:50:05 +0200, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You didn't answer my question! And how come CUPS won't let me administer my own printer??!! Ok. A little more information would be helpful

Re: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Magnus Therning
I noticed similar behaviour. First the mouse wasn't noticed by X at all, actually. After a quick unload/load of the two mouse related kernel modules (mousedev, psmouse) I got that erratic behaviour. I rebooted, and that took care of it (for this time anyway). Does X (or rather the kernel module)

Re: ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread Matthijs
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:40:10 +0200, Ludwig Meyerhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a VIA C3 (Ezra) processor. It is very nice for normal applications, as it takes only a few watt. Now: does anyone know how I can achieve full ACPI support for my processor in a more recent kernel than

Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?

2004-06-26 Thread Ben Russo
I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the good part of the disk and just

sound problem: init_module: No such device

2004-06-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
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Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:30:12 +0200, cecil wrote: install. Setting up power management, I can read up on it. If the laptop's old enough to have a 2 gig drive, it most likely will have apm (which simply works) rather than acpi (which needs a lot of work). that too can be worked around. But does

sound problem: init_module: No such device

2004-06-26 Thread Nori Heikkinen
sound is no longer working after having rebooted my computer. when i try to play music using music123, i get the following error: Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) this i've seen before. so i updated kernels to make sure i had all the modules i needed -- sound and

Clamassassin

2004-06-26 Thread John Fleming
I need a tiny bit of help with Clamassassin on a Debian system. Clamassassin, of course, is a script that calls ClamAV's clamscan to scan email for viruses. Clamscan works from the console and detects a test virus string. Clamassassin writes new headers to the email, but it's not detecting

Configuring kdm

2004-06-26 Thread number18
Hi again, I recently installed xfce4 in my woody system. Now I want to have the option to select the xfce4 window manager in my kdm menu. How can I do it? Anybody, could help me please? Thomas Beresford Cool Things Happen When Mac Users Meet! Join the community in Boston this July:

Re: ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread Ludwig Meyerhoff
Hallo! I already tried the epia1 patch for the 2.6.6 kernel, I even tried the acpi patch (acpi.sourceforge.net) for the 2.6.7 kernel, without getting the new kernel recognize the processor to have also a C2 state (saves about 25% power when idle) ... What processor do You have (cat

Re: ACPI and VIA C3

2004-06-26 Thread Ludwig Meyerhoff
Hallo! Actually, other ACPI modules work quite fine, like the thermal_zone (says the system has about 27°C) or the button ... I now tried a 2.6.6 kernel with the epia1 patch, a 2.6.7 with the acpi (acpi.sourceforge.net) patch and a 2.4.20 standard kernel ... The processor is recognized to have C2

Help with telnet for regular user on woody

2004-06-26 Thread Scott
Greetings: I'm having a hard time with telnet on my debian woody box. Network is fine, I can SSh to the box but I have a need to be able to turn on telnet when necessary. I can't get it to work to save me. I use xinetd, and I have telnet configured in it's .conf as follows: service telnet {

Re: Good Linux backup program

2004-06-26 Thread Ivan Fernandez
On 2004-06-26, Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Backup2l works. (That's an l, not a 1). I absolutely second that. I've been using it for months and it performs flawlessly. It's a commandline application and the original poster was asking for a

4mm DAT drive

2004-06-26 Thread Eric N. Valor
Howdy. I have an older 4mm SCSI DAT drive (HP C1533A). It's supposed to be 4gb native, but I can only seem to tar up ~3gb. It's been quite a few years since I last used a tape drive (back when SunOS4.1 was new), so I don't remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event,

Re: pppd: LCP terminated by peer

2004-06-26 Thread John Summerfield
jakob bratkovic wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, John! On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:10:23PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I'm using pppd 2.4.2 to connect to my DSL Internet provider. After a period of inactivity pppd terminates the connection with a message LCP

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-26 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill it with

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Re: Is it safe to use disk with many bad blocks?

2004-06-26 Thread John Summerfield
Ben Russo wrote: I have an 80GB hard disk. badblocks shows that it has about 78M blocks. The first 50 million or so can be checked (write patterns) for many days with no problems. Beyond that I start to get errors. Does anyone have any experience with creating a partition in the good part of the

Re: Help with telnet for regular user on woody

2004-06-26 Thread Shaun Jackman
I am no xinetd guru, but if I were to guess I'd say there's something wrong with the user=nobody line. If the telnet daemon starts as nobody, it won't be able to gain the permissions of the user that wants to login. $ ls -l /usr/lib/telnetlogin -rwsr-xr--1 root telnetd 5736 Apr 6

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-26 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to kill it with

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-26 Thread John Summerfield
James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Paulo et al, On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:12 am, Paulo Silva wrote: A Sex, 2004-06-25 às 12:25, James Sinnamon escreveu: Dear list subscribers, At first I thought my command: mount -t nfs 192.168.0.6:/etc /mnt/nfs ... had failed. It seemed to have hanged. I tried to

How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-06-26 Thread cecil
Someone told me today at lunch that what with my wierd obsession, as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try that latex thingie. My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some reading up on it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do all that with no window system.

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-26 Thread deb_milist
Oliver Elphick wrote: Do you mean that it still says it can't find "127.0.0.1," or simply that it doesn't authenticate? Sorry Oliver, i was just too desprated. The current error is different from the previous which simply said : techtables didn't know which host to connect. It has

Questions about x window environment (kdm and xdm)

2004-06-26 Thread linuxnand
Hello all, I have installed Sarge with the netiso cd and then installed x-window, kde, mozilla and everything to have a working desktop. I have later installed xdm and kdm and changed /etc/inittab to have run level 5. When it starts it tries to run kdm but then crashes. If I type manually then

How to setup sound under Debian

2004-06-26 Thread linuxnand
Hello all, I would like to understand how to setup sound under Debian. I am using a 2.6.6-1-686 kernel and I have noticed that there are no alsa modules for this kernel on the online repositories that I am using. So, how do I set it up? Are there any updated howtos? I am enjoying using Debian,

Re: NFS mount very very slow

2004-06-26 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear John et al, (Firstly, sorry about the previous double posting. At first I posted using a different e-mail address to that under which I had been subscribed, so I resent it using the correct address.) On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:53 pm, John Summerfield wrote: James Sinnamon wrote: Dear Paulo

optimizing X configuration

2004-06-26 Thread linuxnand
Hello all, I have a Toshiba PII Equium 7000S desktop with 256mb of Ram and an inboard ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP that has 32mb shared memory configured to it. The monitor is a Gateway EV910 and is properly configured in my XF86Config-4. However I can only do 800x600 with either 16 or 24 bits of

Re: How do I make my linux machine a dialin server

2004-06-26 Thread deb_milist
John Summerfield wrote: Antony wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:56:06PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Johnny wrote: Hi I am interested in makeing my Debian linux machine a dialin server. So that when I am at my sister house

Re: Newbie installation

2004-06-26 Thread cr
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:54, Martin Dowie wrote: Hi all! I'm a first-time GNU/Linux (wanna-be) User although I have some Un*x experience. I've downloaded all 14 Sarge .iso CDs and have happily managed to get a system that will now boot to a command line after installing from CD1. I used the

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