Re: Recommendation on Digital Cameras that work well with linux....and...

On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:24:43 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any other recommendations, especially stuff to avoid. walter I have a Canon PowerShot A60, works great using gtKam Canon S45 also. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Cron output logging

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:02:24 -0500 Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: I don't think it's coming directly from the *output* of the script. It seems to me that the script is doing something that now gets logged that used

Re: Cron output logging

documentation that explains fully enough how logcheck works so that I can stop it. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron output logging

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:37:08 +0100 Dave Thorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:12:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:53 +0100 Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe: /path/to/script.sh 1/dev/null Thanks, but that doesn't do

Re: Cron output logging

distro, or a custom script? The logging is emailed to me along with other stuff, like leafnode activity, and other cron activity. I assume it's organised by logcheck. It's a custom script that checks some file permissions on files I own and if necessary changes them. Richard -- Richard Kimber

Re: Cron output logging

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:12:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:53 +0100 Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe: /path/to/script.sh 1/dev/null Thanks, but that doesn't do it. /script.sh 2/dev/null 1/dev/null Nor does that I'm afraid - Richard

Cron output logging

A recent upgrade to my testing system has caused stuff to be logged that was not logged before (I think this is pretty poor practice, but that's another question). How do I stop the logging of the actions of one script in cron.daily but not all the others? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard Kimber

Re: Cron output logging

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Bojan Baros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I stop the logging of the actions of one script in cron.daily but not all the others? Thanks, - Richard Maybe: /path/to/script.sh 1/dev/null Thanks, but that doesn't do it. -- Richard Kimber

Re: testing dist-upgrade question

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:54:23 +0100 Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a dist-upgrade some X packages didn't install properly and now nedit doesn't work because it can't find libXp.so.6. If I ask aptitude to install the libXp package, it wants to remove 505 packages, which doesn't

testing dist-upgrade question

After a dist-upgrade some X packages didn't install properly and now nedit doesn't work because it can't find libXp.so.6. If I ask aptitude to install the libXp package, it wants to remove 505 packages, which doesn't sound optimal. Any suggestions? -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Re: Goodbye stable?

to do all my work. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

, then? :) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

than the British Post Office provided circa the 1950s, even if it had been allowed to. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg problem

appreciated. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg problem

, reference to `mozilla-psm': version contains ` ' I tried removing mozilla but got the same error. What should I do now? I'm running testing. Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:37:38 +0100 Conrad Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Roger Chrisman on Saturday, 2004-02-07 at 16:47:13 -0800: What command tells me most about my hardware? http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/hardware/system-info -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

job. Hmmnn. Well, in the UK, and especially in Wales, the answer is usually yes. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The threat to our national security

-- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ Political Science Resources -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: display directories only

know if this is of any use; it's what I use:- == #!/bin/sh # ldirs - Richard Kimber # # By default ldirs lists all the sub-directories in the current directory # in columns. It has the syntax: ldirs [-h] [path of directory] # -h will cause dot directories

question about driver packages

I'm planning to buy a new machine with an onboard raid0 controller. It seems from Googling that all the drivers that are available are described as being either for RH or Suse or sometimes Mandrake. How specific to the distributions are these? Can any of them be used with Debian? - Richard.

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

. If enough people do this, they may see reason. In some cases, mail to the admins is blocked too. In those that aren't my (limited) experience is that the email is ignored. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

such mail? I agree, but there are some who insist on emailing me, who then block my reply to them, apparently on the basis of rejecting microsoft crap, which presumably they take my ISP's smarthost to be. - Richard (Debian testing, Exim, Sylpheed, ..etc) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:24:39 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is a kernel. I can almost guarantee that you've never, for example, discussed an implementation bug with a microsoft or apple kernel developer. The gripe is about linux as though all of the thousands of

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

name, only a phrase that might commonly be used in the contexts to which I was referring. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:07:16 -0500 Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, its not for consumers. Well, at least Debian is not. Perhaps Mandrake or SuSE, where you can pay for support, is what you're looking for. You're right. Too many consumers are too dumb for for Linux,

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:01:44 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent users with quite a lot of experience can come unstuck in those areas with which they are not familiar, simply because the documentation is often so poor.

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0600 Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle and learn the system. That is the person who can usually explain things

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:15:24 -0700 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like an excuse for programmers not to document their programs. Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If you think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it. Aren't you missing

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:58:25 -0700 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If you think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it. Aren't you missing the point that you need to understand it before you can document it,

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

, but it was an interesting coincidence that in the midst of this thread I picked up a copy of the Christmas edition of Linux Format and found a two-page piece on Steve Ballmer's comments that Open Source code was not more secure than Windows. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Alsa make and install question

it works fine with gcc-3.3. Advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:31:52 -0800 (PST) Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2)the ones from ATI A)are crap B) intended for Mandrake c) available as binaries only 3)a dedicated debian one isn't available yet. Can it be used via alien? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

is replying to the right list when someone has set a reply-to to somewhere else, etc.). And would the terrific people who solve all our problems be active in both the lists? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

shopping

All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic see you. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shopping

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic

Re: LKM?

] /proc/ shows the following processes: 4, 5, 6, and 7 which appear to be the ones showing up as '0'. No. It's not a compromise. It's just a bug. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Help! strange bttv problem

When I do make xconfig for the first time in a clean 2.4.22 tree I am presented with the option to have support for BT848 video for linux (having already said 'm' to the main Video for Linux and to I2C support). When I choose 'm' and save, an examination of .config shows there is no reference to

Re: Help! strange bttv problem

for me ... # # Multimedia devices # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m # # Video For Linux # CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m # # Video Adapters # CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m ... +i2c support yours Albert Dengg On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:18:56 + Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Bug#221273: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: Patches not applied cleanly

-installed from the source when you run the clean target something like together with this option, or with PATCH_THE_KERNEL set to yes. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: kernel patch question

clean, ... This implies that it runs a make clean anyway. So I guess this is misleading too, since having to run make-kpkg clean separately is hardly an automation. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: kernel patch question

continue to fail, despite a prior 'make-kpkg clean' I've submitted a bug. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#221273: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: Patches not applied cleanly

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:30:03 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is not much kernel-package can do about this. The best that can be done is to ensure that the unpatch script is called, which it is. Whether or not the patch applies again after unpatching depends on

Re: LKM Trojan

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:10:00 +0100 Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checking `lkm'... You have     4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) It happens in testing too. -- Richard Kimber http

kernel patch question

been removed properly? And how should I proceed? Do I really have to delete the tree and start over again? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem compiling kernel

]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Is this a bug, or have I done something silly? I've been using 2.4.19. Would I be better off with another version? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Re: looking for Knotes type application

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:20 -0700 Wesley J Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a storage space for copying and pasting between apps). If I've understood top

looking for Knotes type application

Gnome applet, but it seems that won't work on a stand-alone basis, or at least I couldn't get it to. Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:18:56 +0100 Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device This may not be the answer, but I find

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

at. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libGL and DRM error with Matrox card

Some apps give an error when started saying: libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering XFree86.0.log says:- MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled Is there a problem? If so how should I resolve it? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

don't do a dist-upgrade just yet ... etc. Maybe there is such information - if so I'd like to know how to find it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

the package manager says it's going to remove and say no if it looks mad. OK. Thanks. This may be a stupid question, but has consideration been given to having a 'holding area' between testing and stable to which stuff gets moved only when there are no breakages? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

the reply to list option from working properly. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

, which I cannot do. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:36:21 +0200 Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been experiencing the same problems on 2.4.22: Why do you have this set like this? Reply-To: LIST-Reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] It defeats Sylpheed's automatic reply-to-list facility. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

. Don't ask me why. Excuse me if I do, but I'd really like to find out what's happening. Would you mind posting: Output of lsmod *before* and *after* invoking cdrecord -scanbus Your /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf Next time I have the problem. I will do this. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system Wot's that tangle of dots in your sig? ;-) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-modules not working

the work around I used, but I'm puzzled as to why the force option didn't work. Could it be a bug? If so, I guess I should report it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

update-modules not working

/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep. None of this stops the system working. but it's irritating. Thanks. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

winhelpcgi.cgi

. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmer for hire

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:07:28 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual user's needs. and synaptic. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: off the list again

not getting - it's the people mailing me that get them - they don't seem to understand that :( - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off the list again

that used to be delivered. Maybe spam filtering, maybe something else. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing user-list

. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: blufish

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:23:19 -0700 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: Not really sure where to ask this cos there douse not seem to be any email lists or forums for bluefish. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

Re: mailing list

75% full and I never got that). I can only suspect my ISP had a problem and wrongly bounced messages. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dangling symlink?

there are more important issues to deal with. I doubt it's rare, I have about half a dozen, but I agree it's harmless - I've not bothered to do anything yet. Maybe when I'm bored ... - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

mailing list

Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? Yesterday I found I was not receiving any messages. Today I discovered I was not subscribed, even though I had not unsubscribed myself. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: mailing list

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:01:15 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:47:08PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: | Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? | | Yesterday I found I was not receiving any messages. Today I | discovered I

update-modules problem

because when I turn on my OSS sound it rewrites the modules.conf to ensure other sound modules are inactive. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: record sound...

I'm using Audacity for wav (as I write). - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:56 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any good or not. It worked OK for me - Richard -- Richard Kimber http

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

on the server, on the basis of headers. As has been mentioned earlier. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrade failure

I run mostly testing and just did an upgrade, which included libc6. It recommended restarting services, but it hangs when it tries to restart cupsys What should I do now? Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Quoting

for a minute? There's times when a GUI isn't necissarily the best choice. Why not have the best of both worlds and have a nice-looking gui, but use the keyboard to operate it? I'm sure many people do this. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Quoting

underneath. It's non-snipping that's the real problem. It seems virtually to be the norm in many non-computer usenet groups. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: Virus found in the message

the kick in the nads? Is there any way of filtering them that can distinguish between these and genuine delivery failures from messages I have geuninely sent? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

, 5 newly installed, 96 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Hnn. So why do I get :- E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed when I do a dist-upgrade? - Richard. -- Richard

Re: Good Debian-based distro

that work on all platforms? Or can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

, and simple home users who don't - like me. When I installed Debian, I spent _a lot_ of time getting exim/fetchmail/procmail/bogofilter to work. Correctly configuring anything is certainly a goal, but just getting it working is nice. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk

hotplug question

, however. Is this a bug, or are the docs wrong about a Debian way? I have hotplug 0.0.20030117-7 Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

user cannot access usb interface 0

module (e.g. dc2xx or stv680) is using the device and you have read/write access to the device. *** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') *** What do I have to tweak to get it running as user? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

tee -a /dev/null

When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: tee -a /dev/null

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy Orrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Kimber wrote: When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null

Re: tee -a /dev/null

. You should not worry since it's harmless :) Check /etc/init.d/xprint for details. Thanks. I'll have to research it. I thought I was just running cups. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

itself. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

, but I've always found the documentation on this obscure. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine: Photoshop?

than user-friendliness, The GIMP is not a straightforward alternative with all the facilities of Photoshop, or indeed other programs like PSP8. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

running aptitude and apt-get from cron

]99% [Waiting for file]99% etc., with no indication of what, if anything, has been achieved. Is there a way of getting aptitude to give output similar to what one gets in a terminal, like apt-get? Or should I not be doing this at all? Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)

was. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

packages have unmet dependencies: apt-listchanges: Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages How do I get round this? I'm running testing. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

cleared things up. Should I just wait for 0.5.5 to come into testing, or get it from unstable? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 02:22:22 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:12:57PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:29:09 -0400 Graeme Tank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and bug #188900 seems fixed. Thanks. But this morning listbugs still says

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

this facility if it doesn't report the true position. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get upgrade advice

in assuming that the #188900 bug is such that I should avoid upgrading binutils? Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I don't know about

apt list-bugs question

two bugs. Is this a bug in list-bugs, or does done not mean that the bug has been fixed? The man page doesn't say what done means. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: compiling pan

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:31:21 +0200 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 19:49:49 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: I tried to compile pan 0.13.4, but got a configure error saying that it couldn't find gnet = 1.1.5 so I installed the unstable version 1.1.7-3

Re: 2 Hardware Questions (LCD/Wireless Router)

proprietary color adjustment software, for instance; and if so, are there ways to compensate under Linux? I have a 17 Belinea 10 17 20 which I'm very happy with. It's just like a CRT in the respect that you mention. I can't answer your question about colour compensation. - Richard. -- Richard

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