offlineimap with more than two mailboxes?

2007-10-22 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. Has anyone tried to use offlineimap to synchronize more than two mailboxes? I suppose it should just work, but if it does not, then I'd possibly lose some email. I was thinking of having one main server, A, and two sattelite boxes, B and C, syncing with the server. But I'd delete and move

Re: converting file system

2007-08-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by doing a backup, going single-user, unmount the partition, remake the filesystem, mount

Re: Linux on a Router

2007-07-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:00:11PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:18:43PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: OpenWRT being the more open of the options, is a good place to start, but might be a bit more manual than you want to set things up. I have been using openWRT for over 2

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:53:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Yes, it happens to me also -- unfortunately, because I have gotten used to having several tabs open, and I keep opening and closing tabs all

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated set of emails. When I've tried to open

Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. I would like to: 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, I don't want to have to csv add any files); 2. Not have to manually check

Bad cups printing after upgrade from sarge to etch

2007-04-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I had a sarge system running as a print server. After upgrading it to etch, I recreated the cups config files (the old ones didn't work) and the printers. The strange thing is... I have an Epson Stylus Color 850, and there are two drivers in the list given by Cups that would work with it: -

Re: Bad cups printing after upgrade from sarge to etch

2007-04-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: I would try to change the quality setting by using the lpoptions command, both as your normal user and as root. Maybe this will turn up a clue. Is your normal user a member of the lpadmin group? No, but I can do that as root;

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:03:59PM +, Mark Crean wrote: If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of different methods, but which one might suit the following: I only want to encrypt a single

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:01:34AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:36:18PM -0500, Mike Polyakov wrote: Michael, Why not just use a std::setint here? Repeated inserts of the same value will be ignored. True, but that will use extra memory. Since

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-01-18 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:22:33AM -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote: The computer has just begun loading the CD and it seems to be hanging. This is what I see: Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives Loading module 'yenta_socket' for

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
audio editor [ ] audio player [ cdcd, mpg123 ] cd-ripper [ crip ] Desktop Environment [ openbox ] DBMS [ postgresql ] development [ gcc, g++, bash, libboost*-dev ] disc burner [ wodim ] e-mail client [ mutt + offlineimap + fetchmail + mairix ] file manager [ bash + find + grep + sed ]

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I may get bored and try something else but fluxbox is lean mean but pretty functional.

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:57:44AM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote: On 10/31/06, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:07:59PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:33:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored

Re: Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: (I'd like to back up diffs of modified files, as opposed to a full dump of /etc). Not sure if I am understanding exactly what you want. I _think_ you are looking

Hot to get the original version of a conffile?

2006-09-13 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I was looking at bug #247336, and wondering if it's possible at all to get the original conffile for an installed .deb. Is this information stored in the installed system somewhere? (Other than /var/cache/apt/archives, which does not necessarily have the .deb anymore) Given a package, I know

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:56:24PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: Now I did investigate, and this is what I found out: given that the BIOS is configured correctly, I can remotely wake the box if I shut it down before it boots Linux (it works if I shut it down while the Grub menu is visible),

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:28:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how this scam works? I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: What is the point of sudo?

2005-08-29 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:58:37PM -0400, Michael Spang wrote: Ian wrote: I know it provides a fake root environment for work, but why would you want that? No, sudo allows root privileges on a per-user, per-command, and per-host basis. Yes -- but I would be careful when granting

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:57:53AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi, I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and has some development to

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

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

usbmount only mounts pendrive as root:root?

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

GNOME/KDE in Sarge?

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

Re: GNOME/KDE in Sarge?

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

Re: Is 64MB enough?

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

Re: md5sum input/output errors with large files

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

Re: What BackUPS?

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

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

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
There's another problem with the above C++ code: If ny and nz aren't constant, you can't write double s[ny][nz]; Instead, either you allocate the array in two stages: double** s = new (double*)[ny]; for (j=0; j ny; ++j) s[j] = new double[nz]; Actually, the first version

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: mpage? Or enscript? J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling maildrop with mysql enabled fails on sarge

2004-07-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
./configure: line 1: mysql_config: command not found configure: error: Unable to run mysql_config configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for maildrop I am no developer-person so I am lost here... And I really need the mysql-support into maildrop :(. Install libmysqlclient-dev (or

Re: compiling maildrop with mysql enabled fails on sarge

2004-07-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
debian/maildrop/usr/bin/maildrop: error while loading shared libraries: libfakeroot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: ldd on `debian/maildrop/usr/bin/maildrop' gave error exit status 1 dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 256

Re: compiling maildrop with mysql enabled fails on sarge

2004-07-11 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Jul 11 20:07:09 srv1 postfix/pipe[29843]: 359E431346: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=maildrop, delay=526, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x0B ) It is a long road to getting this to work I don't know what signal 0x0B means, but maildrop doesn't seem

Re: migration of Maildir to new system. Also advice wanted on performance

2004-07-08 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Thanx for the reply Jim, but please post to the list so everyone can read :). Anyway, is there anyone who can answer my other questions? How big is the performance gap between Maildir / Cyrus? Is it worth it? I don't know about that, but I didn't install Cyrus because upsteam considers the

Re: migration of Maildir to new system. Also advice wanted on performance

2004-07-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On the other hand, I'd prefer to stick with my current stuff since I now it. So this makes it Postfix + Courier again. One last consideration for me is a nice web-based admin tool for virtual domains and virtual users. I would like to store the info in LDAP or MySQL. I had quite some issues

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

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

Help detecting possible intrusion

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

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

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

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

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

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

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

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Apache character encoding problems [ FIXED; thanks ]

2003-08-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Thanks to the guys who answered in private (but do answer to the list next time!) I had to comment out this line: AddDefaultCharset on in httpd.conf, so now Apache will not force ISO-8851-1. I understand there's a security issue involved (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html), but we

Apache character encoding problems

2003-08-02 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'm trying to migrate one web server to one Debian box, and almost everything works... Except for one little problem. This server hosts sites in different languages, and it seems that only the ISO-8859-1 languages are being shown correctly (Spahish, English, Portuguese, Italian, etc). All

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

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

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

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

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

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

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

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

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

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

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

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

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

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

Calling init.d script from perl daemon?

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

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

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

Re: Easy way to modify Knoppix?

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

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

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

Easy way to modify Knoppix?

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

Re: John the Ripper

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

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

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

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

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

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

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

Re: [he's got psm] Re: can't access some https with mozilla

2002-06-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:09:10PM +0100, Ben Thompson wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 3:00 pm, DvB wrote: Thanks for your offer, here is the most important one (my bank) http://www.smile.co.uk If you click on account login in the top left corner, it should open a new window and a form

Re: Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:23:30PM -0400, David P James wrote: But the other day I was helping my brother with configuring grub for a multiboot involving Windows on his RedHat 7.3 box and he had a nice splash image load with grub. Is this possible with the grub that comes with Debian? Not

Re: Frontend to System Services

2002-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:42:47PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: rcconf Yes. But see that you may get false positives because: - Some files in /etc/init.d may be marked as conffiles, and someone may have changed the init script so it does not start; - Some init scripts read a variable

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -F foo root gives: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 24 22:27:43 2002 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:27:42 -0100 (GMT+1) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (foo) To: undisclosed-recipients:; What's that doing there? man sendmail and check the

Re: Strange mail behaviour

2002-06-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
man sendmail and check the -F option: -F full_name Set the sender full name. This is used only with messages that have no From: message header. Oops... That make sno sense! It says From:, not To: Sorry! Anyway, I can reproduce it here. Not sure why it

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-16 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I think everyone agrees that Debians package and security update systems are better. Red Hats installation procedure is userfriendlier, but that doesn't explain why professionals use it. I can think of some reasons... - Even being professionals, they want everything to be detected and

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:18:01AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: Probably. More significant though, is marketing. Most of us here agree that Windows isn't the best OS around, but it's got the largest userbase because of marketing and because it's what comes preinstalled on most PCs. Marketing

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Let me say something here... Many sites? Interesting. I have only found one site lately that does not work with galeon / mozilla, and it uses flash heavily. Could you elaborate on what you mean by do not work? Examples? Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I'm not advocating FreeBSD. In fact, I tried it a couple of times, ran it for a week or two and hated it for a variety of reasons. Debian is the only OS/Distribution that I ever liked (which is no surprise, of course) I just wanted to say that maybe changes to stable should be more

Re: good Linux modems

2002-06-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Note this also supports the new V92 standard. It seems like a good modem. Any external modem would be Ok with Linux, but the USR models seem to be a good safe choice. USB too? I remember having heard that USB modems were basically winmodems, and therefore wouldn't work with Linux. If you

Re: mozilla 1.0

2002-06-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
According to a comment on DP.org, the security patches will be applied to the version currently in woody (0.9.9, I think) instead of uploading a whole new version. What about non-security fixes? There was a lot of bug-fixing before 1.0... J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:51:04PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: This came up on debian-devel not too long ago. Someone proposed a point release to woody that would have gcc-3.1, GNOME 2.0, new KDE, and no major changes to the distribution -- even though this would require recompiling everything

Re: good Linux modems

2002-06-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
wherever you heard that should be dismissed for lack of credibility. i'm running the same modem, albeit an earlier v.90 incarnation, for a year without the slightest problem. it's possible that your source made an assumption based on the fact the usr--and it's usr, not usb--site doesn't

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on each outgoing message, so that it would read something like you are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that address_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the magic word. That way, the clueless would

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
How does FreeBSD manage to stay reasonably secure and stable, yet modern (compared to Potato)? I think it's because they don't have a zero-bugs release policy like Debian. The base system is stable. The stuff in the ports tree is not, from my experience. I once decided to install gdm on a

Re: Desktop suitability (was Re: this post is not off-topic)

2002-06-05 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I'm not really concerned with how much geeks and developers like potato for the simple reason that they (we) are capable of dealing with the uncertainties of woody/sid and might even be willing to do the occasional `./configure ; make ; make install` to get things that our distro(s) of choice

Re: mplayer (making it deb)

2002-06-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:13:01AM +1200, James Hook wrote: The mplayer people objected to distributions including it for various reasons, and there were legal problems. These may be resolved now, but The mplayer docs I have here say that there is non-GPL code which can only be distrubited

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
It's not clear what can be done about this at Debian's end other than to encourage people to post full headers whenever anything goes wrong. Blocking his posts to the list while the listmaster tries to help him could help -- if the listmaster has the time to do that, of course! That would save

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

2002-05-21 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:56PM -0400, stan wrote: Anyone know where i can get this? Usually, you can try http://packages.debian.org/ and if that doesn't help, http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp See http://bugs.debian.org/78209 about Broadcast2000. J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dpkg sanity check?

2002-04-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
I just tried to do a sudo ls on my sid box. I'm getting a memory fault. /usr/bin/sudo has a very new file stamp and I don't remember it being updated recently. Is there a way to verify pkg's like an integrity check? Install debsums and try debsums -s sudo J. -- -- To

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

2002-04-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Would you prefer these motherboards to the more recent ones from the point of view of stability under Linux? No... I always try to get information on the spcific motherboard I'm buying. And I don't trust a strong vendor name (like Asus); I instead try to find the chipsets they used, check if

spamassassin's whitelist_to not working...

2002-04-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I'm using spamassassin (2.20-1 from sid), an just noticed a problem with the whitelist_to. I'd like to whitelist_to my root address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) because some packages will send mail ot that address, but it doesn't seem to be working. 1) If I whitelist_to something like

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

2002-04-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:56:03PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: [ Question about the Assu A7M266 ] Does anyone have any comments on this? If you use this motherboard on Debian without problems, particularly with a recent 2.4 kernel, I'd like to hear about it. I plan to put Woody on it with

Re: Compilei o kernel 2.4.16 e agora ?

2002-03-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:36:03PM -0300, Flávio Alberto Lopes Soares wrote: Olá pessoal, Neste último fim de semana consegui compilar o kernel 2.4.16 (make deps, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install) pro meu Debian 2.2r5 Você precisa atualizar uma série de pacotes para usar

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