no network after sleep on squeeze with gnome

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Otte
I had a minimal Lenny system that I upgraded to Squeeze and installed Gnome Desktop on. I never used the sleep function before, but set it to go to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. After awakening from sleep I find I no longer have a network connection, but can get it back by typing:

Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Otte
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 30 Set 2009, Niu Kun wrote: Ric Otte 写道: I am running Lenny with exim4 and one user would like all email to him to be rejected. I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, and wonder if there is an easy way to do this with exim. This user

Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Otte
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 30 Set 2009, Richard Otte wrote: I tried using a .forward file contining: :fail: but then I get the error message: R=userforward defer (-17): error in redirect file: :fail: is not permitted Any thoughts? I'm using exim 4.69-9 in Lenny. Yes, for :fail

mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-28 Thread Richard Otte
I am trying to set up mutt to access IMAP accounts. I can access them, but I want to be able to move to the available mailboxes when I type c (and it says to type '?' to see the mailboxes and then select a mailbox. I can see the mailboxes, but if I choose one, I get a line that says: 1

Re: photo management and camera download by date

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Otte
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:49:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jmt wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:09, Richard Otte wrote: Hi, I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way that they are sorted into directories

photo management and camera download by date

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Otte
Hi, I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The camera will often have photos taken on different dates, and I'd like the directories to

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What if you pipe stdout to a text file? Ron, I reformatted the drive, and began rsync with the errors piped to a file (rsync -av --exclude-from=.rsync.all /home/ric /bkup/ 2xxx.rsync) Things went fine for a long time, but eventually

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-03 Thread Richard Otte
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:55:43PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Please try: $ hpmount /dev/hdc2 $ hpumount $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS and don't worry about warnings and errors. Elimar Elimar, thanks for the suggestion. But when I learned I could mount hfs+ drives containing

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Richard Otte
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each message. - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? - if as a daemon, is smtp_accept_max set to anything? - if from inetd, are you spawning loads of exim

Re: after dist-upgrade mutt in reverse video

2004-05-22 Thread Richard Otte
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:57:20PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Ric Otte: I am running a testing machine and just did a dist-upgrade. This time when I start Mutt from the menus, it shows up in reverse video. Before it looked as if it was being run from rxvt, which is not in

Re: inetd not being run at startup

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Otte
Aha, sure enough, only rc0.d and rc6.d have a file K20inetd I assume I can fix this by typing update-rc.d inetd defaults Someone please let me know if it would be a mistake to do so. Also, I noticed that there were several other files missing besides inetd, such as: cron, kerneld, ppp,

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Otte
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. My XF86Config-4 includes this: Section Device Identifier MATROX CARD 1 Driver mga

Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data

2003-02-03 Thread Richard Otte
, Richard Otte wrote: Pigeon, Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz

Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data

2003-02-01 Thread Richard Otte
Pigeon, Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz. Thanks, Ric On Fri, Jan 31,

Matrox G550 and DVI input

2003-01-07 Thread Richard Otte
I have a matrox G550 video card, and have XFree86 version 4.2.1. I have a Dell monitor that accepts analog and digital input. Everything works fine with analog input, but I was wondering how to use the digital input. I first tried installing matrox's powerdesk software, which is supposed to

Re: procmail slow email delivery

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Otte
Hi, I looked carefully and noticed that I have both a /etc/exim.conf~ and a /etc/exim/exim.conf. In the first file (conf~) I had the lines: qualify_domain = otte local_domains = localhost:otte which probably says my localhost is otte, instead of otte.ucsc.edu. It was not like this in

Re: procmail slow email delivery

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Otte
Hi, I ran eximconfig and created a new /etc/exim/exim.conf file. With this things are working, in that mail is not handled twice by exim, and there is no long delay before I get my email. A few weeks ago I did a dist-upgade to testing, and now think that I should have run eximconfig then. I'm

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: You can list files that are available for recover with 'vi -r'. At boot time or perhaps by cron this is being mailed to users. I tried this, and it didn't list any files. Thanks for suggesting RTFM, but I had done that and wrote

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Otte
Thanks for all the useful suggestions, but I'm still having problems getting things to work. I installed netatalk, and the Mac can see my machine, but cannot connect to it (it gives the error: files are already mounted locally). I then tried to ftp to the Mac, which had file sharing on and

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Otte
Success! I finally got ftp to work between Debian and the mac-osx. The problem was that the ip address I assigned the mac wasn't the same block. Thanks for all the advice. (and I sure feel stupid) But I was still puzzled as to why netatalk wouldn't work; I couldn't mount at all. So I plugged in

home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Otte
At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could transfer files between the machines. We also have a postscript printer connected to the switch, and we both use the phone to connect to the internet. Can

gdm startup (xsession)

2002-05-03 Thread Richard Otte
Hi, I have gdm installed, but am unable to have any commands executed at startup in .xsession or .xinitrc. I have the line exec wmaker in my .xsession file, but when I choose xsession in gdm the screen goes blank and I'm shortly returned to the gdm login session. I can login by choosing

Re: gdm startup (xsession)

2002-05-03 Thread Richard Otte
Right now my .xsession file has one line in it: exec wmaker Do I need more than that? I have another linux machine (running xdm and not gdm) that doesn't have much more than that, and it works fine. I've found it doesn't make any difference if I remove the '' or not; I've tried it both ways.

Re: gdm startup (xsession)

2002-05-03 Thread Richard Otte
I'm not sure why, but it is now working! I did take out the '' at the end of the 'exec wmaker' file, and perhaps that is what did it (but I don't know why that didn't work before?). Anyway, I appreciate the help, and it is working fine now. Thanks. Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Mondo, needs ramdisk support

2002-05-01 Thread Richard Otte
I have kernel 2.4.16 and have downloaded mondo 1.41.1-1. When I type: mondoarchive -Ow 16 I get the following error message: Mondo Archive v1.41 --- http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20 Found CDRW device - 0,0,0 Switches:- -O -d 0,0,0 -w 16 See

controlling screen dimming, sleep

2002-04-30 Thread Richard Otte
What controls whether or not my screen dims (goes to sleep) when I don't use the machine for a while? I have the power saver features disabled in the bios, and still get the screen dimming on inactivity. I'd like to find out how to disable this, because I think it is also not allowing my machine

/tmp size

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Otte
I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a separate

Re: latex packages

2002-01-23 Thread Richard Otte
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:22:27PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: The geometry package is often the right way to go. Also, have a look at /usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html for a list of many LaTeX packages. I don't have the file catalogue.html in the above directory

Re: Gnome GDM - root login?

2002-01-06 Thread Richard Otte
I read this thread with interest, and can tell you one reason why I often login as root using gdm. I recently got a machine with gdm installed, and began shutting down in my usual way by su root shutdown -h now This had the result that gnome was saving every application that was open, and

installing DVD player

2002-01-04 Thread Richard Otte
I recently acquired a DVD player from another Linux machine, and am considering installing it in my Linux machine. I have an IDE CD-RW in the machine, and can hook the Dvd up to the end of the ribbon connected to the CDRW. But I wonder what sort of software modifications I would have to make