Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 05 November 2004 04:20, Rich Rudnick wrote: After looking over the bug reports, cupsys-bsd will create a link from /var/run/cups/printcap to /etc/printcap _if_ it doesn't exist or dangles, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193069 . Several years of experience with

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 05 November 2004 06:00, ms linux wrote: which one is the best webmail ??? I've been looking for this ... squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... If you want an administrator's point of view, I don't know. As a user I prefer SquirrelMail over IMP (although they are both good). -- To

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-04 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 21:00, CW Harris wrote: Rather than ignore it, I think it is better to link /etc/printcap to the CUPS printcap file (/etc/printcap.cups by default IIRC), then applications that try to use /etc/printcap will be using the correct one. Interesting point, although I

Re: Going from stable to testing

2004-11-04 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:30, Jacob Friis wrote: I noticed this: snip src=http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html; Note that tracking the testing distribution of Debian can have the side effect of delaying the installation of packages containing security fixes,

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 21:50, Jason Rennie wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:15:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: So I'd like to know if there is any easy way to switch between them, just for local printing. I'm considering adding a second printer to /etc/printcap with the same device (/dev

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 31 October 2004 14:50, Michael Marsh wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:48:40 GMT, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to use mplayer from the console successfully to listen to the Car Talk radio show. http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html As shown below, it now fails

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 01 November 2004 01:30, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 08:28:03PM +, Adam Funk wrote: I thought I had! Aren't they in a deb package from Marillat's repository? Or did you get them somewhere else? All I have installed is the w32codecs package (plus what comes

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:50, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:15:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: So I'd like to know if there is any easy way to switch between them, just for local printing. I'm considering adding a second printer to /etc/printcap with the same device

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 13:00, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:11AM +, Adam Funk wrote: Thanks, but what I really want to do is use some of mplayer's other options to record it to a WAVE file (as I had been doing until it mysteriously stopped working). I can do

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 17:30, Frank Gevaerts wrote: AFAIK yes, but maybe you'd better try it. While I have used such a setup, I never try to print much at the same time, so I may never have been in that case. I used magicfilterconfig to set up /etc/printcap as follows:

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 18:40, Rich Rudnick wrote: (I have the following packages installed: magicfilter, cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data, cupsys-pt.) For a long time now I've been using an HP940 on CUPS. Since the hpijs and

Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-02 Thread Adam Funk
I have a Brother HL1450 laser printer on my parallel port. I used to use the Postscript driver but had problems with some documents overloading the printer's memory, so I switched to the hl1250 driver. Unfortunately LaTeX/dvips output doesn't look as good now---I assume this is because it is

Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-10-31 Thread Adam Funk
I used to use mplayer from the console successfully to listen to the Car Talk radio show. http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html As shown below, it now fails with a missing codec, but I have not removed any packages from my system. Any suggestions for getting it to work again would be

Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

2004-10-31 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:00, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:48:40PM +, Adam Funk wrote: I used to use mplayer from the console successfully to listen to the Car Talk radio show. http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html As shown below, it now fails with a missing

Re: Install mplayer on debian

2004-10-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 22 October 2004 02:40, Lian Liming wrote: That means i can't use apt-get to install mplayer. Yes, but not from the official Debian repositories. As everyone know, to install mplayer from the source is a different thing. So I've heard (but I haven't tried it). how can i find a

Re: debian webhosting services

2004-10-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 22 October 2004 09:30, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am looking for debian webhosting service, probably dedicated, unless the speed and bandwidth are so good that it doesn't matter being shared. Does anybody have any suggestions? (of course price is very important). Have a look at

Certain web pages on Mozilla cause my screen to go funny.

2004-10-18 Thread Adam Funk
Certain web pages cause my screen to go funny with horizontal lines for a few seconds, then leave it looking ugly until I log out of GDM and back in again. This happens only with Firefox and Mozilla; I can look at the same pages in Konqueror and Galleon. It used to happen occasionally on

Re: GDM puts a semi-persistent X in the middle of the screen.

2004-10-06 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 20:10, Andrea Vettorello wrote: The X you see is probably the default xfree86 mouse pointer. When the X appear, can you still see, and move, the usual arrow mouse pointer? Yes. During the GDM login screen and after logging in, the X is fixed in the middle and the

Re: GDM puts a semi-persistent X in the middle of the screen.

2004-10-06 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:40, yo mero wrote: the problem is the hardware cursor enabled this is the setting on my XF86Config-4 Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver savage Option SWCursor on

Re: Limiting CUPS Completed Jobs Listing

2004-10-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 30 September 2004 16:00, CW Harris wrote: # MaxJobs: maximum number of jobs to keep in memory (active and # completed.) Default is 500; the value 0 is used for no limit. # #MaxJobs 500 MaxJobs 50 I'd also been trying to figure this out. Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Adding folded headers in Exim 4.

2004-10-05 Thread Adam Funk
I want to add a folded, multi-line header (RFC2822, Sec.2.2.3) like this: X-Comment: foo foo foo    bar bar bar using the headers_add option.  I've experimented with it a little and I think this works:    headers_add = X-Comment: foo foo foo\n   bar bar bar and even this:    headers_add = 

GDM puts a semi-persistent X in the middle of the screen.

2004-10-05 Thread Adam Funk
When I log out of xfce4, the gdm login box appears normally. Not long afterwards, an X (like the multiplication symbol rather than the letter) appears right in the middle of the screen. When I log back in, it stays on the screen until I run kmail or knode, either of which makes it disappear. I

Re: Flash card reader

2004-09-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:20, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: El Miércoles, 29 de Septiembre de 2004 20:37, Adam Funk escribió: On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:10, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: The problem is that it seems that the kernel does not recognize the chipset, so

Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Adam Funk
Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio format. I started with this: mplayer -dumpfile foo.wav -dumpstream rtsp://ra but

Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:50, Adam Funk wrote: Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio format. I started

Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 30 September 2004 20:20, Kevin Mark wrote: recently I wanted to timeshift the new HHG realaudio stream. after googling, I found VSOUND. app-VSOUND-/dev/dsp at least for audio, this works. I tried that, because vsound --timing -f foo.wav realplay URL works with RealPlayer. But in

Re: Flash card reader

2004-09-29 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 18:00, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: Hi all, I have de following flash card reader, does anybody know how to make it works? :00:10.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.:

Re: Flash card reader

2004-09-29 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:10, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: The problem is that it seems that the kernel does not recognize the chipset, so there is no /dev/sdX devices detected. Could you post the output of /sbin/lsmod? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:30, Dave Carrigan wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Jacob Larsen wrote: I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. The script may only run in 1 instance. My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The script

Re: Why won't XMMS play .au files?

2004-09-23 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:50, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: You probably need http://www.mega-nerd.com/xmms_sndfile/. I'll take a look. Don't know if there is a Debian package for it, or if Debian XMMS comes with it Not as far as I can determine. (I don't use

Re: Command to find out a running package

2004-09-23 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:00, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I want to find out whether a package has been installed on Debian. Kindly advise what command shall I use equivalent to rpm -q package OR rpm -qa | grep package If you know the exact package name: dpkg -l package If

Why won't XMMS play .au files?

2004-09-22 Thread Adam Funk
I'm running the xmms 1.2.10-1 package. $ apt-cache show xmms ... It's able to read and play: * Audio MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (with mpg123 plug-in), * WAV, RAW, AU (with internal wav plug-in and MikMod plug-in), ... When I run XMMS the audio input plugin includes the following: MikMod

Re: Why won't XMMS play .au files?

2004-09-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:00, Johann Koenig wrote: On Wednesday September 22 at 07:36am Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it will *not* play any of these files: Well, what happens when you try? Your description leaves a lot to the imagination. My imagination says 'user error

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-21 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 06:20, Christian Benito wrote: I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine too. Can anybody give me a pointer

Re: xemacs auctex

2004-09-21 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:30, Vittorio wrote: What shall I do to make xemacs21 modify its menu as soon as a .tex file is loaded? Have you tried to put (require 'tex-site) in your ~/.emacs configuration file? YES. To no avail. Vittorio I use GNU Emacs rather than XEmacs, but you

Re: freshclam reports error (because I'm not using clamd?)

2004-09-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 16 September 2004 16:50, Sam Snow wrote: Adam Funk said: I recently installed packages clamav, clamav-base and clamav-freshclam, but not clamav-daemon. Whenever freshclam (running from /etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam) updates the database, it mails me an error message: ERROR

freshclam reports error (because I'm not using clamd?)

2004-09-16 Thread Adam Funk
I recently installed packages clamav, clamav-base and clamav-freshclam, but not clamav-daemon. Whenever freshclam (running from /etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam) updates the database, it mails me an error message: ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file

What controls the rotation of /var/log/auth.log?

2004-09-13 Thread Adam Funk
What causes /var/log/auth.log to be rotated? `grep -R auth.log /etc/` lists only the /etc/syslog.conf file entry to produce the auth.log file. It *is* being rotated weekly on my system, but I want to add to the rotation procedure a script to mail me a log analysis. -- Thanks, Adam -- To

Re: What controls the rotation of /var/log/auth.log?

2004-09-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 13 September 2004 10:50, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Adam Funk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What causes /var/log/auth.log to be rotated? `grep -R auth.log /etc/` lists only the /etc/syslog.conf file entry to produce the auth.log file. It *is* being rotated weekly on my

Re: What controls the rotation of /var/log/auth.log?

2004-09-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 13 September 2004 10:40, Lukas Ruf wrote: Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-13 11:06]: What causes /var/log/auth.log to be rotated? `grep -R auth.log /etc/` lists only the /etc/syslog.conf file entry to produce the auth.log file. It *is* being rotated weekly on my system

Re: What controls the rotation of /var/log/auth.log?

2004-09-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 13 September 2004 12:50, Florian Ernst wrote: You mean it is rotated daily? | $ tail -n 11 /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd | for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles --auth` | do |if [ -f $LOG ]; then | chown root:adm $LOG | chmod o-rwx $LOG |fi | done | | # Restart

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 06 September 2004 16:50, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In particular I am

Why did apt-get remove my equivs-made package to install gnupg?

2004-09-05 Thread Adam Funk
I compiled GnuPG myself and installed it in /usr/local/. To satisfy dependencies I created the following control file Package: gnupg-af Provides: gnupg Conflicts: gnupg Description: GnuPG compiled by AF. GnuPG compiled by AF and made a package file and installed it. A few days ago, while I

Re: KMail crashing on startup.

2004-09-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:30, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:50:33PM +, Adam Funk wrote: Does anyone know how to fix this, perhaps by uninstalling some related package and reinstalling the testing version of it? I am desperate. You should not be using Unstable

Re: KMail crashing on startup.

2004-09-02 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:30, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:50:33PM +, Adam Funk wrote: Does anyone know how to fix this, perhaps by uninstalling some related package and reinstalling the testing version of it? I am desperate. You should not be using Unstable

Re: KMail crashing on startup.

2004-09-02 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:20, Adam Funk wrote: Following various advice received here, I upgraded from testing to unstable today. Although it kept package kmail back (version 3.2.2-2), something related has changed and kmail now crashes every time I try to start it up. kmail

KMail crashing on startup.

2004-09-01 Thread Adam Funk
Following various advice received here, I upgraded from testing to unstable today. Although it kept package kmail back (version 3.2.2-2), something related has changed and kmail now crashes every time I try to start it up. kmail: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkmailprivate.so.0: undefined symbol:

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-27 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 27 August 2004 04:10, Kent West wrote: It's a point-and-click type application for loading/unloading modules. In addition, it'll add (and remove?) module entries from /etc/modules. If you know the name of the module you wish to install (see /lib/modules/[kernel-version/

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-26 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 20:10, Adam Funk wrote: How do you enable APM or ACPI in the kernel? Let me rephrase that. How can I enable ACPI in a stock Debian kernel? (I have no experience in compiling my own kernel.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Weird Samba misbehaviour.

2004-08-26 Thread Adam Funk
BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --text follows this line-- I've received the following advice by e-mail, which I think I ought to share with the list. 1 It is a known bug that was scheduled to be fixed in 3.0.5, but I 1 guess the 3.0.5 version ended up being a somewhat

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-26 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:00, Kent West wrote: I think it's a good learning process to be able to roll your own, but just to get standard hardware features to work, it's a bit overkill for the majority of new users coming into the GNU/Linux camp. (Still, as Loki says, it's a good thing to

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-25 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 22:20, Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:09:02PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I have to push the power button

Re: Exim4 return-path header

2004-08-25 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:40, Eddy wrote: I use Exim4 with Sarge and have a little configuration problem regarding mail headers. What should I do in order to have Return-path and Sender headers added by Exim to be exactly the same as the From header created by my mail client ? I messed

Re: Combining images?

2004-08-25 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 14:10, Andreas Ehn wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:59:04PM +, Adam Funk wrote: I was certainly glad to discover ImageMagick after I started using a digital camera: the command line is the easiest way to rotate 30 JPGs 90 degrees to the left! You might want

Re: Combining images?

2004-08-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: As usually happens, I stumble across a solution. Another search pointed me toward a method of creating a panorama with the Gimp. That, in turn, led to pnmstitch and pnmcat of the netpbm package. pnmstitch will combine images that have

Re: select N random lines in a file

2004-08-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 22 August 2004 20:40, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello all, I would like to write a script that will select N number of random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? I can't guarantee that this is the best approach, but I would write a small Perl program. If you don't

Re: chkrootkit output

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 20 August 2004 20:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 20. august 2004, 09:32, Adam Funk wrote: /usr/lib/blender/.bfont.ttf Why are these files flagged as suspicious, They all begin with a period, so they don't show with ls (you need ls -a) to see them. dot-something

chkrootkit output

2004-08-20 Thread Adam Funk
The output of chkrootkit is clean except for the following. Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/electric/.cadrc /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Cenon/Projects/.dir.tiff /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Cenon/Devices/hpgl/.dir.tiff

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-08-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 30 July 2004 15:10, Tom wrote: * [Friday 30 July 2004 15:34] Adam Funk: For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear them (`cat /dev/null/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the problem

What determines which /dev/sd* a USB device becomes?

2004-08-02 Thread Adam Funk
I unplugged my USB SmartMedia card reader and plugged in a different brand of the same thing. It now shows up as /dev/sdb (and /dev/sdb1) but /dev/sda is still present (although useless). This is a minor nuisance as I had to change /etc/fstab so I could mount it as a normal user. What causes

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-08-01 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 30 July 2004 15:10, Tom wrote: * [Friday 30 July 2004 15:34] Adam Funk: For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear them (`cat /dev/null/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the problem

`who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-07-30 Thread Adam Funk
For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear them (`cat /dev/null/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the problem. The false entries all seem to refer to xterm sessions (running bash but without the -l option),

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:40, Chris Metzler wrote: 2) Needs to work well with Debian (obviously). I think the best support is obtained by cameras that are seen as USB mass storage devices, right? I don't own a digital camera, unfortunately; so take any advice I may give with a

Weird Samba misbehaviour.

2004-07-17 Thread Adam Funk
I routinely run the Windows backup utility to create the backup file on a network drive which is really a Samba share on my Debian box. Today it doesn't work: Windows backup says Q:\w2k.bkf is not accessible. But at the same time, I can create, edit, save and rename a text file on the Q: drive.

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 17 July 2004 09:40, Adam Funk wrote: I have a digital camera and I agree with this. I've never bothered to hook the camera up to try gphoto. I just put the cards in the card reader and copy the jpg files to my hard drive. Anyway, I have an Olympus C750 (now discontinued, I

Contributing to dict-freedict-* databases?

2004-07-16 Thread Adam Funk
I don't feel qualified to be a package maintainer but I would like to contribute content to some of the freedict bilingual dictionaries. How would I do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Scrolling beeps while playing music.

2004-07-05 Thread Adam Funk
Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short, high-pitched beeps when lines scroll on any visible application. In other words, if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it beeps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-04 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 02 July 2004 17:50, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Adam !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade should be used here. In what circumstances is 'upgrade' more appropriate than 'dist-upgrade'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-07-03 Thread Adam Funk
Thanks to everyone for the advice. The `apt-get install blah ... blah` worked. I'll use dist-upgrade next time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim4: Avoiding dynamic IP blacklists

2004-07-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 03 July 2004 08:10, Paul Johnson wrote: An article on vnunet reminds me that I was going to post how to get exim4 to go around those plain retarded DULs. I finally got around to it, and here it is. I do something similar but upside-down in the routers section (of my monolithic

Re: exim4: Avoiding dynamic IP blacklists

2004-07-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 03 July 2004 08:10, Paul Johnson wrote: An article on vnunet reminds me that I was going to post how to get exim4 to go around those plain retarded DULs. I finally got around to it, and here it is. Here are some more domains for the sample picky-hosts file, if you're interested.

apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Funk
I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. I tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatened to remove packages I need. So I tried apt-get install all the packages kept back and it thinks it can do it: !root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade Reading Package

Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Funk
To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a lower-numbered version, how would I do

Re: apt-get upgrade conflicts

2004-06-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:10, Karl Hegbloom wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:41 +, Adam Funk wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back. I tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatened to remove packages I need. I really enjoy aptitude

Re: usb key,debian and encryption.

2004-06-28 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:20, liz wrote: Heres a quick question. I have a USB key that I use for storing my resume etc rsa key etc on ... Im concerned about the data on it and I would like to encrypt it in case it gets lost and falls into the wrong hands. Is there any utility out there

Re: is it save to clean /var/tmp?

2004-06-27 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 27 June 2004 09:10, Andreas Janssen wrote: |/var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system reboots | |Purpose | |The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that |requiretemporary files or directories that are preserved between |system reboots. Therefore, data

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 21 June 2004 22:50, Simon Huggins wrote: That report refers only to the icons. I'm not having that problem! You want: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252715 and the many merged bugs. I'm not sure what's truely causing it though sadly. Yes, that's my bug. It's

Re: Another testing vs unstable question

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 21 June 2004 22:00, Chris Metcalf wrote: If I remember correctly, unstable is called unstable because the packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync. Now that's interesting. The name unstable

Re: Another testing vs unstable question

2004-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 17:00, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Unstable: parts are frequently broken but quickly fixed Testing: parts are broken less often, but when they are, it can take months to fix them Stable: nothing is broken, but you won't be able to play with the latest gizmos unless

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

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 19 June 2004 08:40, Paul Johnson wrote: Spamcop is what I use. I recommend it. I also respectfully demand that for whatever list you use, you reject it WITHOUT mentioning the blackhole list. It's not the list's fault that you decided to use their listings as grounds for

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

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:40, Francisco Borges wrote: THE QUESTION: We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, Whatever you do, don't be one of those ignorant, asinine admins who block mail from all dynamic IPs. A lot of home broadband users operate legitimate, secure

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-19 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 11 June 2004 22:30, Micha Feigin wrote: It has a few characteristics relateing to this: if some part of kde in 'testing' has may bugs, and this cases kde to not function, the whole of kde is removed from 'testing'. So, groups of packages can be moved in and out as things get fixed

Re: Software for webcam@

2004-06-18 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:40, Didier Caamano wrote: Hello everyone: I was just wondering if there is a software that I could use with my webcam, specially if I could chat with my friends and at the same time using the webcam. GnomeMeeting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system sends empty emails to myself - should I worry?

2004-06-16 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 04:40, Micha Feigin wrote: On my home server I get about once every couple of days an empty email sent to myself as the regular user. The headers seem to indicate that it originated on the local machine but nothing else. Should I be worried about this? Any ideas on

Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-16 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 04:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: The new version of GDM uses /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop files. Here's my xfce4.desktop file, for example: I'm using the version of gdm that comes with woody. Does it work the same? And where should I look to find this documented? I

Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 14 June 2004 18:30, Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hello, I am running Debian unstable and updated to Gnome 2.6 this past weekend. After the update (and an update to the newest version of gdm 2.4.4.7-3) I can't select any other window managers from the GDM login-screen. I want to add

Circuit simulation with oregano?

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Funk
$ apt-cache search spice gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators oregano - GNOME application for schematic capture of electrical circuits I've installed all three packages. I ran oregano and threw in a simple circuit to try it out. The simulator

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:40, Enrico Zini wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji You must use sda1, not sda: the data is on the first (and only) partition of the

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-14 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 14 June 2004 16:00, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:40:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: Same thing here. Did you also notice that the icons appear clipped on the panel now? No, my panel looks the same

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: Same thing here. Did you also notice that the icons appear clipped on the panel now? No, my panel looks the same. I'm not sure but I bet on the GTK upgrade from a week ago. Could be. Is there a bug report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:30, William Ballard wrote: Assuming I have a good sized key with a really, really good passphrase, how easy will it be to crack GnuPG encryption if the cracker has access to the Private Key? My understanding is that the private keyring file contains the result of

Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-11 Thread Adam Funk
I use GDM and XFCE4 with the following packages installed. ii gdm 2.4.4.7-3 ii xfce4 4.0.5-1 ii xfce4-artwork 0.0.4-3 ii xfce4-datetime-plugin 0.2-3 ii

Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-11 Thread Adam Funk
I've been using Debian testing on my home workstation for a while now and am generally happy with it, but I understand there are some disadvantages in comparison with unstable, such as recency of security updates. I suppose the name unstable puts me off, since I work from home a lot and need a

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-08 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 17:10, Kent West wrote: By sending the above email? No. Instead, you want to go to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and select the debian-user list and then scroll to the bottom and enter your email. You'll then get an email, to which you must reply

Re: OT: Gentoo users show their intelligence...

2004-06-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 06 June 2004 14:00, charlie derr wrote: Adam Funk wrote: I'm sure one could even find some stupid posts here (after an exhaustive search). Doesn't even require an exhaustive search -- for instance http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00091.html (and the post

Re: How to get rid of logrotate

2004-06-06 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 05 June 2004 12:00, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, is there any easy possibility to get rid of logrotate? I make use of sid on one station and sarge on another one. logrotate is marked as a dependency of several packages. Among others mailman and apache. However, I do not want

Re: OT: Gentoo users show their intelligence...

2004-06-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 05 June 2004 13:20, Nicholas Lativy wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:33:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: ...and they're tied with AOL users. http://funroll-loops.org/ All that page does is quote a few stupid things that *some* Gentoo users have said. Considering the vast number

Re: cancel of 1X898-2no-1@gated-at.bofh.it

2004-05-24 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 19:30, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cancel by original author Just a hint, cancels don't work on mailing lists. But they work on the newsgroup (version of the list), which I read. I hadn't

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:00, Paul Johnson wrote: Wow, Ian's being rather optimistic in thinking that RPM can overcome it's own shortcomings to stop sucking. Such as, 1) distro-dependent RPMs, RPM isn't standardized like Deb is. 2) Naming conventions. RPM isn't standardized. 3) Per-file

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-18 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:00, Paul Johnson wrote: Dominique Dumont wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: #rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm As other people have written doing this is not a good thing. Put yourself in the other position. I have a .deb file from Debian. I

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