Re: Debian on floppy

2002-05-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Wyandt, Marlena wrote: I'm looking to get Debian/Linux potato on floppy. Any idea where I can find that? The website. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-23 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: Meanwhile, most Canadian beer is nearly as bad as American macro-breweries; the only really good Canadian brewery I know of is Unibroue, which is in Quebec and therefore only nominally Canadian. Have you

nntpcache

2002-05-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody know where I can get a deb for the current version of nntpcache? The one Debian is apting out is *ancient* - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Can not boot to Linux

2002-05-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Willy S wrote: HDA : IRQ timeout : Status=0xD0 {Busy} IDE0 : Reset : Success [The sound still there] This is your hard drive having a death knell. Probably a good idea to back up user data and get a new drive now. Power

Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a good way to benchmark performance on web surfing with squid doing caching and without on a small household network? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Verify bounce-debian-user-digest=steidler=mchsi.com@lists.debian.org for tony@lockergnome.com

2002-05-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Tony Steidler-Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the note, Your email has been received, though it hasn't yet been delivered. In order for your email to be delivered, you'll need to reply to this message. Wow, I'm

Re: Uninstalling programs

2002-05-22 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, curtis wrote: I'm sorry for this stupid question, but how do you unmake or uninstall a program that wasn't install through apt-get or dselect? If your lucky, it'll have come with a script. If you're not lucky, get ready to

Debconf problems

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I gotta wonder what happened to being able to choose the priority and display type for debconf in sid...I have a feeling I have the priority cranked too high, but if I reinstall debconf, I don't get a menu asking me what I want debconf to do... - --

Re: Debconf problems

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 May 2002, Robin Putters wrote: 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' doesn't help either? Oh hey, that worked. I didn't know about dpkg-reconfigure before. That's handy. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: versions

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jisv wrote: This seems like a stupid question, but if I download the current stable version - potato?, does that use the 2.4.18 kernel and xf86 4.xx? No. Woody I *think* does, and it'll be the stable tree RSN. sid I know

Re: att and cable modem

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 May 2002, Deva Seetharam wrote: when i do a ifup eth1 or pump -i eth1, i get the message operation failed. (btw, i did register the mac address with att.) Sounds like your iptables rules are blocking dhcp. I'm also not too familiar

Re: Fetchmail

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Turn on your line wraps to 72 columns, please. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: I am newish and have just installed Woody onto two machines at home and I am having a few mail hic-cups. I noticed that there was a global fetchmail

Re: Where's the POP3 package?

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I need to install a POP3 server. What package is it in? ipopd is what I have installed for the job. There's also ipopd-ssl, same package, new secure attitude. cyrus-pop3d and cyrus21-pop3d look

Re: OT: regexp spam filter

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 May 2002, Gary Turner wrote: I am not practiced in the use of regexp's, and need some help. I want to block a Nigerian domain (I wonder why?) whose IP block is 217.78.64.0 - 217.78.79.255. For unknown reasons (ignorance?), my various

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote: Now that you've probably gotten all huffy, no, I don't mean you specifically, I mean you in the Outlook using, javascript-RTF enhanced non-RFC compliant email sending twits out there. If you fall

OT: apt-get install non-us/beer

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: No, no, no. American beer is American beer. Come to England and try a decent bitter or ale sometime ... If it's anything like Canadian beer, count me in. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 May 2002, Peter Corlett wrote: It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically linked. I find it to be a horrible shell otherwise, and I'd rather not have that as the default root shell on my boxes. So if you can't use the

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Its funny... I am not able to connect to www.nvidia.com from my linux box. I tried several browsers (konqy, netscape, lynx). Everytime i get a serer timeout error. I have on the same machine win2k

Re: dialup server

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: I am trying to set up a dial up server with mgetty so friends can log in to my computer over ppp. PPP howto covers this. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: ext3

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: 1) How do I change the ext3 file system to ext2 without wiping out the data so woody can access the files? Remount as ext2. ext3 is backwards compatible. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: apt-get sources

2002-05-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, user list wrote: Is the debian ftp site also a round-robin of all the ftp mirrors? It *should* be, but it's better to use apt-spy to find the fastest for you. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7

nntpcache 3.0.1

2002-05-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody create debs for this yet? nntpcache 2.3.3 is considered ancient... - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE86V/iNtWkM9Ny9xURAkziAJ9gxaPZhad97qOKUMud9d3H2bxB5wCgocX3 hJJyzbJNk/xU1aE52gXTGAY= =C2K2

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 begin On 16 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: The symptoms of the gpg thing are that the Outlook user gets the e-mail, but instead of treating it as a signed message, it treats it as an empty message with an attachment (or something like that). I

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Cam Ellison wrote: To the best of my knowledge, they do not. It is difficult for me to actually get into each of the machines in question and play around, since they are some distance away (anywhere from 40 km across a large

Re: jpeg

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ted wrote: Can anyone please help..My son is currently wandering around India and he has sent me mail with an attachment kaur_jpeg..This jpeg opens at the bottom of the mail showing 4 photos...I want to print one of these but

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mike Frisch wrote: Can somebody recommend a decent GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R? Essentially a wrapper for cdrecord and some utility to convert MP3 to WAV. I am looking for something easy to use and reliable.

Re: MS Outlook98: wrong place for mails from Debian-User-DE-list

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Walther, Christoph wrote: I'm subscribed in debian-user-german@lists.debian.org, incoming mails from this list are provided to be received in the folder Debian-User-DE Liste in my Outlook post-box. Unfortunately, some of this

OT: Decent .us registrar?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any recomendations for a cheap and fast .us registrar? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE85RC8NtWkM9Ny9xURApgTAJ0djQxCZEpya0zrNQ07SBszXV/ijACfcPs5 niV7ZoYDb7IK/eMBMP48nSM= =tlLe -END PGP

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Rick Macdonald wrote: (Baloo - I tried to reply to you privately but the mail bounced) Read the bounce message. Most likely you got bounced due to an open relay being involved and there will likely be a URL pointing you

Re: exim configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: You'll want to base the server on option 1 (Internet site) or 2 (Internet site using smarthost), depending on whether you feel a need to route all outgoing mail through your ISP's server. A few sites

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: You're describing a different bug in OE. There are so many from which to choose... And as demonstrated here, they all have similar effects with many different causes... - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 May 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), I sometimes wonder if email conventions should be derived from limitations of such ancient hardware. In some sense, its a good practice

RE: make is really slow!

2002-05-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: I mentioned swap because 2.4 uses swap very differently from 2.2. We know now that 2.4 is somehow involved. Actually, = 2.4.10 swaps very differently than =2.4.9. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP

bug and gnupg

2002-05-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any good reason why you can't sign submissions to BTS with gnupg using bug? Would this be a good feature request? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: word format

2002-05-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, csj wrote: The solution is to use an Open and Free format such as plain text. HTML (and its cousin XML) is also open and free. But most folks in this list hate it like hell. There's also roff and TeX... - -- Baloo

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Turn your line wraps on to 72 columns, please. On Thu, 16 May 2002, Cam Ellison wrote: Is there a setting I am missing, or do I have to strong-arm them all to use Eudora (which also works fine)? Getting them onto Linux is another step, but one

Re: bug and gnupg

2002-05-16 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 May 2002, dman wrote: Is the reason good or not? I think you're having trouble because you're encoding mechanism puts that -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 header above your message. As a result the

Re: AGP not available error.

2002-05-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Juranich wrote: (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler Any ideas out there? Recompile with AGP enabled, and fix your permissions? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andy Saxena wrote: Just curious, but does anybody have any thoughts on TMDA? What exactly is TMDA? - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: IRC

2002-05-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on. On Tue, 14 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: I am curious to take a look at IRC, something I have never taken much interest in before. As I use exclusively Gnome, I was wondering if people could make a suggestion as

Re: Stopping spam

2002-05-13 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: The last two RBLs in my config don't list anything but every IP address assigned to Korea, and the other every IP assigned to China, since it doesn't appear any admins in either country have a clue. What might these RBLs be? Gah...I hate

Re: home network

2002-05-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: and eth1 is 10.x.x.x and the client machine is turned on once every couple days for people to access the internet when they want, it is also on 10.x.x.x ... now the problem. Frequently when the client fires up it is not able to connect to the host.

Re: GIMP and gif files

2002-05-10 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jim Lynch wrote: Is it just Debian or is GIMP not supporting gif files any longer? http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/gimp1.1-nonfree.html -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modules question

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 8 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: possible, right? Create an hourly cron job that does rmmod -a, to eliminate any unused modules. If you do that, do modules get re-inserted as needed? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 7 May 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: Also, especially in the release process of woody I find this highly inconvenient :) I would sleep better knowing that I track woody, not testing, when a new testing can pop up over night, and woody suddenly means stable I think that third, special tree

Re: under six inches of water -- a debian tale

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 7 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: Will, that is a wonderful story, but I imagine it says more about Acer than about Debian. :} Yeah. Makes me want to buy an Acer for my boat... I hear Acer makes great boat anchors. 8:o) -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Increasing font size in mozilla

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mike Fontenot wrote: Has anyone succeeded in getting significantly larger font sizes in (potato's) mozilla? Try going into the font preferences and playing with the DPI settings. I bet those aren't tuned right. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: The Debian web site says that Debian will install on 12 Meg RAM. Is that information current? I haven't seen a reason why it wouldn't be. What are the main differences between Debian and Red Hat (I'm assuming there are a few current or ex-Red

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: Linux and low RAM boxes don't get along well. Not sure what paralell universe that's from. Linux runs on PDAs, for chrissake. 8:o) I ran ursine.dyndns.org on a 386 with 8MB RAM and 111MB of disk space (I was in high school and had to scrape

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I don't have a problem as much with downloading dependencies as I do with needing programs that require conflicting libraries. I'm fortunate in that I have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm accessing can handle

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 9 May 2002, Ron wrote: I don't remember being able to easily install 2 versions of the same package. Countless times I had installed a newer version of a package only to discover it managed to slip it in there in some borken manner that left the old version completely intact *and* installed

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm accessing can handle it. If the perl dependencies in your example install without breaking other dependencies, I'm good to go. Jeez...I'm so glad I'm back on cable.

Stopping spam

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I'll look into it. I need some way to kill the spam that goes through my servers. Yesterday I received an email from Brazil. I'm not real sure what it said, but it looked official, made several references to spam, and quoted at the bottom

Re: Modules question

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Seneca wrote: I think it would depend upon the kernel. Early in the kernel config, there is a question about autoloading modules when needed. I haven't tried kernels without it, but whenever fat support is unloaded, if I use my floppy (all my floppies are fat), it's

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, dman wrote: number is kinda part of the package name. The package name is as much as you specify, rather than having specific delimiters like dpkg. rpm also allows multiple packages with the same name (different version) installed, as long as no two files have the same

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, dman wrote: | That just hurts...why would someone implement something in such an | obviously painful manner? Have you ever tried to read RH init scripts? Have you ever tried to find an init script? Yes, I have, which is why I wonder why they made the same fscking

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 9 May 2002, dman wrote: debian! Use exim instead, it's much easier to configure. I'm going to have to strongly agree with that. It's mail simplicity and easier than walking your boss through OE by phone (my current measure for the most difficult anything should be). -- Baloo --

re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 9 May 2002, Jens Tollofsen wrote: Would be cool with water cooling in it. koolance or some other vendor, and isolate the box with noisekiller pads. shouldnt sound that much then. I love my Koolance box. Put it in mode two, leave the window open. Ursine drowns out the outside world drowns

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: In the muc groups' articles, why not set the followup-to: header to be the mailing list e-mail address? Because newsreaders are expecting newsgroups to be listed in the followup-to, and it wouldn't work? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Allowing sound only from console

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
2.4.18, devfs, ext3. How do I get it so only people sitting at the console can use audio? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice question

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Gary Turner wrote: apt-get install j2re1.4 openoffice.org ^^^ s/b j2re1.3, no? Yeah. I typo'ed. Could you trim your quotes down so it's easier to read and respond to, please? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Networking - still could not telnet in

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, shyamk wrote: I am actually confused on how to read the situation. apt-get install telnetd? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: Can I start xterm in unreadable mode by default or with a certain option? I mean unreadable as when chosen with ctrl+right click Unreadable. My guess is it's one of the many things xterm does, but I don't know for sure. But it got me interested: Why

devfs joystick question

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled them post-reboot... -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list and in linux.debian.user news group? It varies by propagation path. Not long. Try muc.linux.debian(?), as it's the anointed official mirror group. b: Do all the messages sent to

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: It's fine if you get it right and it's well-maintained - just pointing out that the standard loop problem is probably why the newsadmin responsible for the gateway hasn't set it up. Actually, I believe this is up to the mail admin to check for loops,

Re: Allowing sound only from console

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Look for CONSOLE_GROUPS in /etc/pam.d/login. Add users to the 'audio' group is they're logged in on the console. Could we get an example? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: bounce-debian-user log entry

2002-05-04 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: May 4 14:54:15 snob sm-mta[1790]: g44DsFJX001790: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=8878, class=-30, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=snob [127.0.0.1] What does this mean? I've never had trouble with the debian

Re: bounce-debian-user log entry

2002-05-04 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: But it's nevertheless strange that logcheck decided to flag it as a possible security violation. Possibly frightened by the the BAD in the msgid string? Not knowing how logcheck works, my guess is logcheck just didn't know what it was, I doubt the

Re: OpenOffice question

2002-05-04 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 4 May 2002, stan wrote: I just downloaded the OpenOffice 1.0 installer, and ran it on my woody mahcine. I told the installer to put the installation in /opt/OpenOffce. I looked through the opt/OpenOffice tree, and I don't see a bin directory. What else do I need to do to use this

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: Could someone set me straight on the using Gimp with GIFs under Debian? Friends don't let friends use GIF. Use PNG instead. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org Woody

2002-05-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Tim Dijkstra wrote: Not tried it yet, but I've got another question. Why isn't openoffice available via the debian mirrors? Is this because nobody ever bothered to package it properly or are there some licence issues? Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns, posting

tune2fs question

2002-05-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: WARNING Never use tune2fs to change parameters of a read/write mounted filesystem! Use this utility at your own risk. You're modifying a filesystem! So I was lucky when I did -j to a mounted filesystem? -- Baloo -- To

Re: Reverse Depends on packages

2002-05-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote: Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages that are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system? deborphan does just this, debfoster is a little more flexible. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 2 May 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf, ...).

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Um, http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ should help clear it all up for ya :) Oh, yeah, I remember him now. The only other person I've talked to with a *sane* view about POTS modems. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, craigw wrote: Better still, purchase a better modem at WalMart, put the sound card claiming to be a modem in the modem box, and return it saying it was defective for a refund. Break even. LOL I love it! That's a good one. I used to do that with the Wilsonville

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, craigw wrote: They always are at Fry's. I wouldn't touch anything there that shows any signs of having been opened before. Returned stuff goes straight back on the shelf AFAIK, maybe with a little Tape or new shrinkwrap. If it's been opened before, I open it myself and

Re: Windows 98 question.

2002-05-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, infotechsys wrote: Hi, I have a friend that has Windows 98 installed on her computer and she can't remember her password. Is there anyway that she can get around this? I don't know anything about Window. Thanks for your time and help. Wayne Hit escape. -- Baloo --

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: Or, better yet, mail the winmodem back to Wal-Mart, with a thanks anyway, bought a Courier v.Everything external on eBay for $20 instead. Better still, purchase a better modem at WalMart, put the sound card claiming to be a modem in the modem box, and

OT: Spamcop

2002-04-29 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Has anybody other than Julian Haight successfully install spamcop? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Converting mbox - maildir

2002-04-28 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: I'd use maildir -- but then again, I always use maildir. =) I think the reason you give below is a pretty good one. Any good reason to use mbox? Not afaics, unless you're running out of inodes. So how do you convert? Exim mta, procmail are in use, as

Re: IP Masquerade

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Richard Beri wrote: I would like to set up simple IP Masquerading on my machine for another machine on my network to connect to the internet via cable modem. In the past I used a nifty firewall/masquerade setup utility called PM Firewall, but it only works on 2.2

Re: Need Sparc CDs ASAP

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Michael Mueller wrote: I've tried to download .iso images without success. I've been able to get a few RH7.2 iso images, so I'm pretty sure my end of things is working OK. Give this a shot: http://www.linuxiso.org/download.php/253/binary-sparc-1.iso

Re: help on make

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Tim locke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/test$ make c++ -I. -O -Ilinux-include -c Func.cc Func.cc: In function `void do_fmt(const char *, Val *, ODesc *)': Func.cc:247: implicit declaration of function `int localtime(...)' Func.cc:247: implicit declaration of function `int

Re: apt

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 27 Apr 2002, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: The following packages have been kept back libwraster2 wmaker 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. freak:/home/ernst# Why are they kept back? They depend on packages or specific versions that haven't been

Exim and spamassassin

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is there a way to make exim run everything to all users through spamassassin, put the spam in ~baloo/mail/zero and deliver the rest of the mail normally to thier respective users? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...

2002-04-27 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Please turn your word wrap on. On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Soul Computer wrote: I remember that Linux can use a partition for virtual memory. Well ... I want to upgrade my computer by adding an 80GB HDD and making it the boot disc. The second (original HDD will then be delegated to some other

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Since all the official Debian security announcements are for Potato only, how can I keep my Woody up to date? Shoud I grab the patch myself and rebuild my patched .deb? Do this periodically: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade This will sync your

Re: leafnode kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, sda wrote: 1/ My system hangs periodically, everything freezes. Running, top the culprit seems to be kupdated. What package do I need to remove, to be rid of this beast? I assume it's part of KDE [which I don't use anyway] just need the libs. Has anyone else seen this

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. linux.debian.user. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, ben wrote: just out of curiousity, having noticed the same, how is it that certain posts don't make it to the archives? Feel the power of the X-No-Archive: yes header... -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: muc.debian.user, IIRC. The muc bit I'm sure of. linux.debian.user.

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg03306.html High authority ;-) Please *don't* Cc: me on list mail. Eh, there wasn't a reply-to. Sorry. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: leafnode kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, sda wrote: That's what I generally do, but for some reason due to the fact that the package installer insists on setting it up for me, Woody refuses to run the real leafnode config file. It keeps seeing the values entered when I apt installed. Copy the configs in and

Re: leafnode kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: Thanks fell silly now thinking it was a kde process. I agree both of those Window Managers suck, I'm partial to wmaker, icewm and xfce. GNOME isn't a window manager. On one of my boxes, I use icewm with GNOME. Yes, it's a desktop environment, as

Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

2002-04-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Unable to open /usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs - Permission denied E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] No pages found! Why is permission denied? You don't have read permission on /usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs most likely.

spamassassin at a system-wide level?

2002-04-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Would it be possible for spamassassin to be run at a level where all inbound mail gets run through it and spam forwarded to the local postmaster? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin at a system-wide level?

2002-04-24 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, martin f krafft wrote: what's your mta? i crafted a little perlscript that should work with exim and postfix, maybe even qmail, and it will act as MDA, essentially forcing procmail onto everyone (which is not too much a problem). let me know if you're interested... exim

Re: re-installing dpkg when dpkg is borked

2002-04-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Gary Turner wrote: 2. How do you install dpkg if dpkg is broken? Since I have yet to compile any packages, doing so for a critical app is not high on my list of druthers. Find a .tar.gz pkg? apt-get source dpkg (you must have deb-src lines in your

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