Re: ALSA Troubles...

2004-07-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:13:50AM -0400, Alex Derkach wrote: Hello, I have been trying to set up my sound card (CMedia CM8738) to work with alsa. All of the appropreate modules for the device are loaded I had simmilar problems with several soundcards and 2.6 kernels. But loading the prime

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to Debian. I'm working my way through: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Are you thinking of something like vsound? -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received headers. Can't you use

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot -- readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue to use exim -- or equivalent

Re: C-_ on the console

2003-08-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:32:38PM -0400, Brian White wrote: When I hit C-_ (undo) in an X window, it works fine. If I hit it from a console window, it does nothing and I have to hit C-- (no shift) for it to work. I tried M-x describe-key C-_ but it doesn't even seem to notice when I try to

init=/bin/bash not working with initrd?

2003-06-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, when tonight I tried to boot into my system bypassing init I found to my surprise that init=/bin/bash doesn't work anymore. Atleast not with kernel-image.2.4.20 and initrd. It still works with 2.2 kernels without initrd. Googling and searching the deb archives didn't give me any hint why

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-06-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:41:25AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: ... snipped all but the strangly important dd line # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 ... Thanks for the response, Carel; I didn't mean to leave you hanging for so long without an acknowlegement

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:14:20AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... I seriously doubt this is sane:) According to the grub.info (node: Images): While Stage 2 cannot generally be embedded in a fixed area as the size is so large, Stage 1.5 can be installed into the area right

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: Carel, Now I'm really getting worried, and trying to recall were I picked up the suggestion to create a grub floppy (it wasn't my own idea). I was from Linux Journal, but I can't seem to pin down the issue. I'm not sure I

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted floppy: # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: ... I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner document. It can be found at http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html looking at your scribbles, I noticed that one

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:53:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: ... IMO, you can avoid anything printed by Prentice Hall except stuff written by W. Richard Stevens. I think that's ill informed advice. Some of the best books on informatics are from them, like: A discipline of programming,

Re: [OT]: 10pt in LaTeX?

2003-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:31:37PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... that's cool ... i was looking for an option i could just pass to \documentstyle, i guess, but you can only tell it to be 10, 11, and 12pt. whatever; this is likely the only thing i'll ever do in \tiny :) You could try

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:36:43AM +, p wrote: ... in view mode, i try to save the email into a file. don't go into view mode, but save from the index instead. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: ... Well, I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to figure out how to make a usable boot floppy ... or perhaps a boot CD ... I really don't care which one I have, as long as I have _some_ source for a boot record besides

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Quoting Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...more likely your kernel doesn't know about SCSI disks, so software. I've been booting up and running off of SCSI disks day in and day out for weeks on gthe same kernel, when I boot

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set. My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at the boot: prompt ... rescue

Re: Cdrecord and audio cd

2003-01-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:47:34PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: ... The cd does not spin. CD channel is unmuted. I can play other audio cd's. No, I am not attempting to mount an audio cd. All cd players under linux gave me the same error. I missed some of your possed and don't feel like going

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:30:32AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I never could really find the info whether that 15Watt power supply is part of the bricks or not and whether it needs any fan itself. Could you enlighten me

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: I re-emphasize the www.ltsp.org approach. ... I bought a diskless workstation 3 weeks ago from a link on ltsp.org, a workstation the size of your outstretched hand yet having audio, USB, parallel, serial, and ethernet ports --

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:40:05PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:33:19PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... To be serious again, what's really lacking to get headless machines to fully work is lack of support in most (all?) BIOS'ses to use a serial line instead of directly

Re: Switching smart relays automatically in Exim...

2003-01-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:26:00AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: ... My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change settings when I go from one place to the other? There are many ways to achieve this,

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... Here me English is lacking, atleast I can't parse the above. ... Yeah, I did say something weird there :) ...sniped the explanation Okee, I see. In my experience most

Re: Removed from lists due to email errors.

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:37:35PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: Your mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has been removed from the following mailing lists, because it generated an exessive number of bounced mails: bounced messages are normally not generated by mail clients like Kmail

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between various o/s, how reliable is

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: Mark L. Kahnt said: a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the serial option for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one

Re: /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe

2002-12-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:58:32PM -0800, Expert User wrote: When the dhcpclient used to be dhcpcd, there was a way to run some script after the dhcp has run by putting a script in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe. Now that I have dhclient, how do I achieve the same result? I learned from the

Re: finding network activity

2002-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:45:48PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, Hi to you too. Let me warn you first, me head is not working properly so what I say may make no sense, but... I have demand dialing turned on and would like to determine why ppp is starting up at 15 minute intervals. I am

Re: OT: mutt deletes folder when last message is removed

2002-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: ... I've recently switched from Pine to mutt on Debian Woody and am now faced with the problem that as soon as I remove the last message from a folder, the folder is also deleted. Any idea why this could happen and how to avoid

Re: quick shell questions

2002-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:00:51PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: 1. How do I combine these two (JPG vs jpg): for f in /path/to/*.JPG; do mv $f `date +%N`.jpg; done for f in /path/to/*.jpg; do mv $f `date +%N`.jpg; done that's really simple: for f in /path/to/*.[jJ][pP][gG]; do mv $f $(date

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:51:11PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:13:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give such nonsensical advice

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:07:25AM +, Chris Owen wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give such nonsensical advice, it seems that it's even a favourite one

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:34:55PM -0500, Chip Rose wrote: ... I've deleted all entries to exim in cron.weekly and cron.daily, the only places I found any reference to exim, and it still dials in every five minutes. For now, I'll have to just let it dial away until I find the answer, but will

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:31:26PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Carel Fellinger writes: Could it be some DNS query? Such as a browser tab loaded with to an auto-updating Web site? Or exim or fetchmail doing some name lookup, or... -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:13:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +, Chris Owen wrote: ... I knew it:), to access those you need to be in the audio group. Haralambos, maybe you should check your system again, and undo all those I ment both Hatralambos

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:54:19AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Thanks! Xmms has the same problem - repeating portions of the audio multiple times before moving to the next portion. I checked the system log with dmesg as suggested and get the following indicators: SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:14:04PM +, Pigeon wrote: Re time delay: I've just given it over 15 minutes to see what would happen, and it didn't flush its queue, and doing ps ax every so often has revealed no trace of exim or any other mail programs running. Not shure you have a real problem,

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:01:33PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: ... A weird thing came up on #debian today, which maybe someone else can explain to _me_: a guy was trying to setup CD ripping with ide-scsi emulation enabled, and had enormous trouble since cdparanoia claimed it couldn't find a generic

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:59:59PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... I started looking through the HOWTO. I'll need some better visualization of how it works before I really get it. Anyways, I found the linux-lvm mailing list, so I think I'll try learning some stuff there. Mind to

Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:29:46PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:33:19AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... Yep, how about reading my Debian Reference. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ For above question, it is detailed

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:57:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work:( The otherday I tried to unsubscribe from debian-ipv6 to find out that I subscribed under a different name, so I tried

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:41:49PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: ... Your problem is that, since you have changed your server, your unsubscribe message is coming from the wrong address. You will have to be removed manually. If that is true then you should be able to go to this page and paste

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:39:23AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: .. IIRC I had problems with autops and some mice I have, be it a Logitech Mouse Man Wheel, or the simpler wheel version. It is autops2. I checked source

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: ... rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc ... no reaction. Rereading the info gave me: ...snipped where you found out about metachars and quoting .so I tried: rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' rland@MINI:~$ locate

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: On the way trying to convince mutt to use emacs -nw instead of vi by editing .muttrc as: set editor=emacs -nw There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : set editor=emacs -nw -- groetjes, carel --

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I am going over ML for the next Debian Reference over the mouse configuration. I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. I have 3

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... 2. What do you think of Debian Reference description? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ Chapter 3.3 Mouse configuration O, and why don't

Re: [Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:08:45PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Hello, Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check Not wasted at all, atleast not for me:) I've postponed looking into this for month now, yet the shere amount of fetchmail blurbs made it harder to

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:34:09PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: I've just received a message from the list with no reference in the headers to debian. Since I sort my mail on the basis of headers, the message went into the wrong box. Has there been some change in how the list is

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:09:07AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: Good morning Carel, Live on the East Coast? nah, I'm living in the Netherlands (Europe), but I've strange sleeping habits:) Thank you again for your careful attention to this! I have followed your instructions and the output

Re: Email (Solved)...next...POP3 setup

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: Carel, OK, I got it. ... great. ...now...on to POP3 configuration...I am using qpopper. I see the qpopper.conf in /etc/ but the package installed with no configuration dialog and the instructions say to configure using

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
[ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not sure list trafic will reach you. If it does, pray tell and I wil adjust ] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:02:00PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... You say you've used the defaults during exim install/setup. Did you choose the Internet site or Satellite or... So Internet or what was the #1 choice. yep, that's Internet site. The proper general choice for what you want.

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:05:03AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... user root? Gid? e bit? Are You using maildirs? I think even for maildirs the owner of /var/mail/userme should be userme Moreover when the owner is root, it's highly unlikely that a mer userme will be able to read it. So

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... One other thing: I noticed the word 'smarthost' in the log file entries you posted on this. Does you use a smarthost or not? nah, that was an example log snipped from *me*, not from Michael -- groetjes, carel -- To

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local machines (including

Re: Naming convention invalid (local) domain

2002-09-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:01:54AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: ... I think that would be the address rewriting rule that by default looks in /etc/email-addresses. I never liked it very much to have user stuff like that in /etc, but at the time it was the only way I That's because it's here

Re: Naming convention invalid (local) domain

2002-09-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:16:52AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: ... I am using dyndns, and was wondering if I could use my subdomain from that service as a domain. I only use dyndns to be able to log yes ofcourse (I take it you mean subdomain.dyndns.org). You know, a valid domainname doesn't

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]: ... BTW, what's more secure? Putting everything in the firewall PC or on The general answer to this is that it's more secure to keep your firewall machine as minimal as possible. The

Re: About GNOME Setting and XMMS Sound

2002-06-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:45:07PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... Esd is a daemon process that will open /dev/dsp and direct sound output to there. If esd starts before you run xmms, then xmms won't be able to acquire the sound device, so it won't work (and vice versa). To solve

Re: exim's header rewrite

2002-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: I have two pop mail servers, 1 from my ISP and one from softhome.net. here's my mailing list subscriptions: PACIFIC.NET.PH(ISP

Re: exim's header rewrite

2002-05-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: I have two pop mail servers, 1 from my ISP and one from softhome.net. here's my mailing list subscriptions: PACIFIC.NET.PH(ISP) SOFTHOME.NET debian-user boost-users

Re: Newbie Hostname Configuration

2002-05-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:12:30AM -0700, ben wrote: Maybe I misunderstand your advice, but... On Wednesday 22 May 2002 02:45 am, Paul Walton wrote: ... I am about to install 2.2r5 on a standalone dialup machine and would like to get this basic step right, should I use an imaginary name and

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:10:10PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: ... Use su and read the originating user's ~/.Xauthority, or use ssh's X forwarding. On my Debian system root can automatically run X-Apps (after an su). I

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:10:10PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: ... Use su and read the originating user's ~/.Xauthority, or use ssh's X forwarding. On my Debian system root can automatically run X-Apps (after an su). I was

Re: how does root run a graphical prog

2002-05-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I think you did `su', not `su -'. A mere `su' merely changes your identity, but the environment stays the same. In particular $HOME. So when you launce an X-appl, the authorisation cookie is read from

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:35:26PM +0200, Xingyu Zhu wrote: sorry for reacting so slowly, it's been a busy week. Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I simply installed woody and added sid's cyrus21* packages. Trying to run cyradm or `nc localhost imap' gives me `badlogin:...plaintext or cram-md5

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Kerstin Espey wrote: sorry for reacting so slowly. ... I simply installed woody and added sid's cyrus21* packages. Trying to That's what I did. After that, I had to edit /etc/imapd.conf and create a password with saslpasswd2 for the admin (cyrus

Re: From latex to context

2002-05-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:01:19PM +, Vittorio wrote: I've been using latex for some months. Now I'd like to start using Context which is included in the tetex packages but as far as I can grasp is not ready-for-use. as root run `texconfig' and choose `formats'. This willput you in your

Re: Sendmail: How to get at the envelope in Procmail?

2002-05-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:33:58AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2002, Carel Fellinger wrote: I'm not sure I understand the setup, so I may be way off here. The best solution is to have your IPS (or who ever fills that mailbox) add a Delivered-To header with the envelop

Re: Sendmail: How to get at the envelope in Procmail?

2002-05-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:58:48PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: Hi, I've got a setup whereby I've got an entire subdomain being directed at one mailbox (using a virtusertable). I'd like the procmail recipe in that mailbox to be able to access the intended recipient, which may not necessarily

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:26:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... How did you manage? Whatever I try, I can't get authorisation to work:( Oops, at which point do you stuck? Everything is working fine now at my side.:-) For authorisation I use PAM with mysql. Good to hear it's

Re: problems with cyrus (sid) on woody

2002-05-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:39:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the cyrus-Server from sid on a debian woody installation: How did you manage? Whatever I try, I can't get authorisation to work:( ... For whatever reason, I seem to have problems with some permission: ...

Re: Accessing 2 POP mail servers

2002-05-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:13:50AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: Moin, * Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-04 02:58]: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:31:10PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: * Mike Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-03 17:55]: how bout my From: header? What about them? I

Re: Accessing 2 POP mail servers

2002-05-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:31:10PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Mike Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-03 17:55]: how bout my From: header? What about them? I guess he wants them to be in accordance to the popserver he got the email from when he replies. He could use Exim's header

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:34:05AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:41:11PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: ... M- goes to the top M- goes

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: ... M- goes to the top M- goes to the bottom ... On the woody computer at work Esc- and Esc- does what M- and M- should do. Yep, that's how it's supposed to be:)

Re: Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:35:58PM +0100, Paul Sargent wrote: Hi People, ... The problem seems to be that not all mails from this list get tagged with X-Mailing-List which is what I'm checking on. This is my current rule: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^X-Mailing-List:

Re: chrooted debian install from base image (was re: instalation question: toshiba tecra 8000)

2002-04-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:33AM +0200, eduard bloch wrote: karsten m. self wrote on sat apr 06, 2002 um 08:52:50pm: ... - tar the partition to be converted to altnernate storage (if you've created a fair number of partitions, you can park it elsewhere -- e.g.: /home or /usr,

Re: Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:25:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Apr 07, 2002, Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: ... Not sure what you're at here, but if it's just module configuration why not hint at modconf

Re: Chrooted Debian install from base image (was Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000)

2002-04-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: This is a draft of a HOWTO I'm working on for doing a chrooted Debian thanks for taking your time to add this usefull document. install. It's a method I've found useful over the years. Yep very handy. I started using it when

Re: more alt key questions

2002-04-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: I just went back through the archives to questions I thought would help. They did, but for a different problem ( which I wasn't having). I used to have a 'meta' key in Emacs. I also used to do Ctrl-A, Alt-d in xterms to erase a

2e Try:) Alt-Control doesn't work

2002-03-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
I've posted this some days ago, noone reacted so either it went unnoticed or noone knows. Hoping for the first I retitled it. Tired of stretching my little finger to reach for the control key I thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to function as an extra control

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:42:58AM -0700, Brian wrote: ... Finally, if you are going to start using databases, you may as well use Postgresql because it is a database you can grow into. I too need a database, but for huge amount of information, think of three annotated natural language

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:01:54PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:59, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... So the big question is: Does anyone know whether it's possible to bypass the SQL layer in PostgresSQL? No, it isn't possible. Thanks for the confirmation

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:34:58PM +, Siward de Groot wrote: Thanks Siward, for this most polite and correct reply. That's the way to keep this list a friendly place! I agree with you that most likely this user in mere dispair resorted to the spamming action, at least I interpreted his

Weird keymap problem

2002-03-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
Tired of stretching my fingers to reach for the control key I thought of using my thumb instead, so I defined the right alt key to function as an extra control key. But this doesn't fully work! And it doesn't matter whether I try this in X with xkeycaps and copying the left Control key onto the

Re: tiny mouse howto - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-03-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:03:34PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: ... Well, i reinstalled gpm and install imwheel, because someone mentioned gpm might require imwheel??? My mouse still works, but not the No imwheel needed! ... A snip of my XF86Config-4 file: Identifier Mouse1 Driver

Re: Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper

2002-03-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:39:02AM -0500, John F Davis wrote: I wrote a Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper (html) for my local linux users group. Nothing fancy, but its a quick intro to the packaging on debian. How to use apt, dpkg, dselect, and even how to build a package - quick

Re: Slow list?

2002-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: ... http://murphy.debian.org/mrtg/ Nice graph you're refering to, but I don't know how to interpretate it. Could you share us your insights as to why it tells us conspiracy theories are out? Look ma! No conspiracy theories! --

Re: Mail server for local lan

2002-03-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:49:30PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: ... The things I'm really unsure about are: 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this server. Well, you'll first have to decide where

Re: removing exim installing sendmail in debian

2002-03-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:34:32AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: Well debian comes with builtin exim mailer deamon which is good but i want to replace it with sendmail mainly cause i have bought its book but i cant remove the package as it keeps giving me dependicies problem .. so how can i

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

2002-03-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Troels Petersen wrote: Hi, How do I remove frozen messages from the exim queue, messages like : Have a look at the -Mg option (see info exim, or man exim) -- groetjes, carel

Slow list?

2002-03-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
Is it just me, or are others too experiencing a rather slow debian-user? It takes more then an hour just to get me own posting back! This used to be mere minutes. So what happened, is my ISP holding up the messages or is the debian mail server sluggish. And if the latter, what has happened to

Re: truncate utility (not split)

2002-03-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:59:07AM +0800, csj wrote: Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or no more than two pieces are produced? Something like: (1) original_file - small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarded) (2) original_file - (smaller_1st_chunk discarded)

Re: The quest for rodent power

2002-03-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:14:03PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... It was the one sec delay that I was after:) So it's similar to what happens here including that `Alarm clock' message. BUT I only get that behaviour when an other gpm instance

Re: More cheese nibbler questions

2002-03-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:53:31AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: Stock woody install from testing Kernel 2.2.20 Comments: X is installed but not running for these tests Mouse works in X but not in console If I say: # /etc/init.d/gpm force-reload Stopping

Re: More cheese nibbler questions

2002-03-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:05:57PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Err no, but isn't that what is printing those messages above? Yep, it is. But it's supposed to do more then just printing those:), and I prefer to eliminate all possible errors, so I

Re: More cheese nibbler questions

2002-03-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:55:39PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That depends. Is your ps/2 driver compiled in or compiled as a seperate module? Look through /boot/config- for the awnser. Its not clear what any of that means and the only entry

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