Re: (OT) low-power home server

2003-03-17 Thread Tom Allison
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: For a long time now I've been using an old Pentium 75 as the headless mail server/firewall/gateway (running Woody) in my home, and it works very well. The only problem is that it is old and I wonder what to replace it with if it dies. Ideally I would like to have a new

drive errors!

2003-03-12 Thread Tom Allison
I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. And this is the thanks I get Any suggestions? It seems to work. Mar 12 12:14:21 gandolf kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 {

iptables + dhcp_client

2003-03-08 Thread Tom Allison
I can't seem to find anywhere that this is specifically mentioned, but... If I have a script of iptables rules... (/etc/network/if-up.d/) And I'm running as a dhcp_client... How do I know when my dhcp assigned IP address has changed and re-run the iptable rules script? And to add another level

OpenOffice - critical crash

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Allison
I just ran into a problem with a file on my disk. I was writing it up from scratch, but now if I try to open it, X-Server crashes and I have to login again. I didn't think such problems were possible. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions on what to do? I can open it one another machine,

Re: pcmcia + apm = no suspend

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Allison
nate wrote: Tom Allison said: I have an IBM A21m, if it matters. I have a thinkpad T20, and suspend works fine on it with both network and power connected. Not sure how your trying to suspend(I haven't read the thread), but what I do is su to root and issue a apm -s I use the buttons

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hugh Saunders wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I'm running out of memory and am unable to complete the installation. I thought this could still be done on 16MB of RAM. yeah should

pcmcia + apm = no suspend

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
I must have been struggling with this for months. I have a pcmcia wireless nic running a DHCP connection. I have removed the 'auto' entries in /etc/network/interfaces and have only the network.opts to load the network configuration when I install the card. I have that apm thingy file set to

Re: pcmcia + apm = no suspend

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
Lukas Ruf wrote: * Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-18 12:29]: But it doesn't seem to work as well as it should. my IBM laptop goes to sleep if either the power plug or the network card are removed. If both are connected, it doesn't suspend. wbr, Lukas Yes! If I pull the power

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Allison
Hugh Saunders wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I'm running out of memory and am unable to complete the installation. I thought this could still be done on 16MB of RAM. yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another machine

DNS + DHCP

2003-02-17 Thread Tom Allison
How do these two play nice together? Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a way to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)? I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job going between the two. But I thought that with the newer versions of bind and

16MB not enough to install

2003-02-16 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to install Debian onto a machine with only 16MB of RAM. I have a 16MB swap drive as well. The installation is for i86 architecture using the Advanced rather than the Simple package selection. I have opened dselect and closed it without picking anything else beyond what it choose by

Re: reportbug wishlist

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Allison
Colin Watson wrote: 200 days old is actually relatively young for a bug report. The oldest non-wishlist bug against the packages I maintain is 4 years and 175 days old, and the oldest wishlist bug is 5 years and 185 days old. Of course I wasn't actually a developer when those were originally

Re: Bad Magic

2003-01-27 Thread Tom Allison
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 02:31, Tom Allison wrote: What does this mean? I'm failing at the beginning of a boot. You mean you get the message directly after LILO (or BRUB or whatever you're using as bootmanager) is done? It would be helpful if you could pinpoint

Re: CD-ROM

2003-01-27 Thread Tom Allison
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:18:15AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of CD. Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. It worked very nicely

Re: CD-ROM

2003-01-27 Thread Tom Allison
Pigeon wrote: I've used an old Ricoh CD writer (7200 I think, 2-speed, SCSI) and it is CRAP. It keeps doing stuff like that for no apparent reason; wet-cleaning the lens with IPA helped a bit, but not much. The easiest way to burn a CD on the box concerned is to remove its lid and that of the

Re: pci scan

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
David Z Maze wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware? For PCI specifically? /sbin/lspci should get you a listing of everything you have installed; there are a couple of packages that claim to do autoconfiguration of one sort

CD-ROM

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of CD. Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. It worked very nicely for a long time when I was under stable. It's been many months since I've tried

Installion Diffs between v2. and v3.

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
I have an older Debian 2.2 installation CD (single CD) that I've been using for installations. I was wondering if there are any differences in the installation process between this and the Debian 3.0 with regard to the set-up and configuration. -- We wish you a Hare Krishna We wish you a Hare

Bad Magic

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Allison
What does this mean? I'm failing at the beginning of a boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pci scan

2003-01-25 Thread Tom Allison
Is there some tool that you can use to autoscan your hardware? (I was testing out an install from gentoo and have to confess that parts of the install were impressive. It's a rather raw distribution, but it has it's features) -- Weinberg's First Law: Progress is only made on alternate

tmda

2003-01-13 Thread Tom Allison
Where, and in what format, does tmda save it's list of email addresses? -- Beer -- it's not just for breakfast anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: drscheme - unstable - installation error

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Allison
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Tom Allison said: Setting up drscheme (202.3-3) ... /usr/bin/mzscheme: relocation error: /usr/bin/mzscheme: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference dpkg: error processing drscheme

clam anti-virus

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Allison
IIRC there is an anti-virus tool that comes as a debian package called clam. Or something like that. Problem is I can't seem to find the package name. I'm looking for a basic (and free) anti-virus tool that I can use with amavis-new. -- You know, the difference between this company and the

drscheme - unstable - installation error

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Allison
Setting up drscheme (202.3-3) ... /usr/bin/mzscheme: relocation error: /usr/bin/mzscheme: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference dpkg: error processing drscheme (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit

drscheme - unstable - installation error

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Allison
Setting up drscheme (202.3-3) ... /usr/bin/mzscheme: relocation error: /usr/bin/mzscheme: symbol __libc_stack_end, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference dpkg: error processing drscheme (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit

Re: any experience with IBM Thinkpad A31, model 2652M5U ?

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Walter Tautz wrote: Specifically, Thinpad A31 Model # 2652M5U$3689.99 P4 1.8Ghz/256MBDDR/40GB/CDRW/DVD/15/56KV.92/10/100ENET/WiFi/Windows XP Professional 256MB PC2100 CL2.5 NP DDR SDRAM SODIMM$164.00 Model #10K0030 IBM does not seem to allow an option to buy laptops with linux as an

Mason, step one

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I thought I would try Mason tonight. I loaded this into httpd.conf and restarted OK: - PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler Location / SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler /Location - I added: % 2+2 % Into an HTML page just like the docs suggested. I

Apache Configuration

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I ran into another problem with configuration MASON for Apache I added: PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler Location / SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler /Location Right before the start of Section 3: I thought is was OK, but now the configtest dies with:

Re: Apache Configuration

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: OK, I ran into another problem with configuration MASON for Apache I added: PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler Location / SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler /Location Right before the start of Section 3: I thought is was OK, but now

broken package: testing: libapache-request-perl

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache-request-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 Depends: libapache-mod-perl but it is not going to be installed Before I make this a bug-report, can someone suggest anything? I have perl 5.8.0 (unstable)

package corruption from /non-us.debian.org

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Allison
I see this from time to time and don't know what to do with it, so I'll just post the error messages: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) 99% [Waiting for file] [Waiting for file] [Waiting for file]

Re: missing rm

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:31:16 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing. rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk). That's weird - that upgrade path

libc-client2002 configuration

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
If I was using cramd5 password authentication And I upgraded to libc-client2002 And I wanted to migrate to a non-plain text password scheme? What are my options? -- What ever happened to happily ever after? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

apt-get problem

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
I keep getting the following error when I run 'apt-get update' Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kernel-headers-2.4.13-586-ext3 (NewPackage) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not

Re: Turning off printer and other daemons

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Is there a general way to disable start up of specific daemons at boot time. I know I can rip the whole package out, or do a update-rc.d -f remove lpd, but is there a more elegant way? Some have files in /etc/default with XYZRUN=no. Does this work in general? TIA,

Re: Abiword ... am I being dense ???

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Dave Selby wrote: I have dselected abiword, downloaded the source for abiword 1.0.3 and compiled it, AOK and it works a treat ... The spelling is american and I need british ... The abiword FAQ refers me to .. http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-winnt.html Which I only half understand. I

Re: changing IPs

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Pentium 200 MMX running Debian Linux v1.3. The machine has recently moved and now needs a new fixed IP as it is functioning as a server. What files need to be modified for this IP change? I have modified the file at /etc/init.d/network. Is that the right

Re: apt-get update fails with Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Wayne Topa wrote: Rupa Schomaker([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I run a mix of sid/sarge/woody/+KDE3. I recently did a apt-get update and got the following error: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing gnome-applets

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
Michael West wrote: I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS. One of the large expenses of this is the 200Gb+ RAID-5 disk on the EMC frame. When presented with $ the question came, can't I just get something I can put under my desk and save $?

Debian Business Cards

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Allison
I found the link for the business cards from the Debian Weekly News (go Martin!). What are some of the applications available to edit these files into my own business cards? I think it would be very sweet to have a Debian Genie on my card. -- Stop me, before I kill again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

missing rm

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing. rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk). Any suggestions short of a rebuild? None of the dpkg/apt utilities will function because they all error out with 'rm

apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Allison
I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal. I was running

Re: Squirrelmail/uw-imap start up problems

2003-01-04 Thread Tom Allison
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: 4) upgrade to version 2002rc10debian-1 or newer since it includes that patch -D Hmmm Debian packages doesn't seem to show this on their web site. However they do have this is unstable: uw-imapd 5:2002a.dev.snap.0212051126debian-3

Squirrelmail/uw-imap start up problems

2003-01-03 Thread Tom Allison
I managed to get squirrelmail working for one account of mine that I've had for quite a while, but I am having trouble with new accounts on the same server. What I do: I create a new Unix account (/etc/passwd) with disabled password. I create an entry in my /etc/cramd-md5.txt file (uw-imap

Re: Squirrelmail/uw-imap start up problems

2003-01-03 Thread Tom Allison
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: 4) upgrade to version 2002rc10debian-1 or newer since it includes that patch -D Is this uw-imap? -- Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. -- Susan Sontag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

doom

2002-12-23 Thread Tom Allison
Anyone get the doom package working? I'm having sound problems with OSS (like there isn't any sound). -- If you're happy, you're successful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: doom

2002-12-23 Thread Tom Allison
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:36:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Anyone get the doom package working? I'm having sound problems with OSS (like there isn't any sound). -- If you're happy, you're successful. apt-get install lxdoom lxdoom-sndserv lxdoom-x11 lxdoom

Re: doom

2002-12-23 Thread Tom Allison
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Anyone get the doom package working? I'm having sound problems with OSS (like there isn't any sound). apt-get install lxdoom lxdoom-sndserv lxdoom-x11 lxdoom -width 640 -height 400 -iwad ./Doom/DOOM.WAD

squirrelmail

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
I have a split web server (http / https) and I would like to have the squirrelmail installation run entirely under https. Ordinarily I would have installed apache-ssl under a completely different DocumentRoot. But I wasn't sure if SquirrelMail would be able to install with this different

Re: apache and apache-ssl

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Jacob S. wrote: Sorry, I do realize that apache-ssl doesn't secure information by default, but requiring basic authentication over ssl using a .htaccess does, and that is the reason I was asking. Is there really any reason for the apache and apache-ssl packages to default to using the same

Re: package trees

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Nelson wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, if you intend to ensure that a package and all of its dependencies are stable enough before you will use it, then you're just reinventing the testing distribution. Then again, I did say that this was probably a really bad idea

Re: package trees

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Nelson wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing bitch by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I

apache-ssl + squirrelmail

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
I have both apache and apache-ssl installed on a server. I've noticed that they run different http config files.. I have a directory under the document root that I would like to restrict to only https access: SETUP: document root: /var/www/ directory to restrict: /var/www/squirrelmail What

Re: vi alternate problem

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: One day I installed 'vim'. Now I have nothing that is recognized as 'vi' What do I actually install in order to regain this tidy little editor? Hrm. Post the output of 'update-alternatives --display vi

Re: vi alternate problem

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
Bob Proulx wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-17 20:12:29 -0500]: One day I installed 'vim'. Now I have nothing that is recognized as 'vi' What do I actually install in order to regain this tidy little editor? update-alternatives --config vi Then select nvi as the alternative

Re: reportbug

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I've got one little problem with reportbug. Under dselect, it's trying to uninstall itself from one of my servers. Here's my preferences file: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release

package trees

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
This will probably get me ejected from the planet or accused of not understanding how Debian works, but here goes. There has been a long standing bitch by some that Debian is so vary slow to update their base system. Personally I stand entirely behind the philosophies of making stable really

Installing SASL2

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I'm just about at my wits end here. I started installing cyrus21 and needed to get sasl2 working. How? I tried to use the saslpasswd2 application to add my name and password into the /etc/sasldb file and it won't add anything, and it doesn't say anything either. According to

ipopd-ssl

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
How do you rebuild the SSL certificates? -- Cops never say good-bye. They're always hoping to see you again in the line-up. -- Raymond Chandler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pop certs

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
Dec 18 03:49:22 ipop3d[25946]: SSL error status: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line Dec 18 03:49:22 ipop3d[25946]: SSL error status: error:140B3009:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_RSAPrivateKey_file:missing asn1 eos OK, I tried to create a new cert to solve my problem of having a

pop - ssl

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
if ipopd is replacing ipopd-ssl, then how are you supposed to get SSL support for POP? I noticed that ipop-ssl is just a dummy package, but ipopd has NOTHING in it discussing it's support for SSL. -- If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. --

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
nate wrote: Tom Allison said: I'm looking for suggestions on which of the .deb available IMAP servers might do well for scalability and security. I am planning on tying this in with a webmail interface, probably squirrelmail. I use cyrus, its quite scalable, very fast. Courier is good too I

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It's a standalone box that doesn't have anyone else to talk to, I really don't think that I need kerberos. 1. Install cyrus21-imapd, cyrus21-admin, sasl2-bin, cyrus21-pop3d, cyrus21-clients 2. for i in all your users ; do saslpasswd2 -c $i ; done 3. vi

amavis anti-virus add-ons

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
From some other list (I think) someone suggested using clam as a free anti-virus package. I was checking through the Debian packages and there appears to be more than one. clamd clamav (for starters) Which would be the correct one to use on a single machine with amavisd? -- Unix is mature

Re: hesiod

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Allison
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:01:14PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: 'apt-cache show zephyr-server'; I assumed since your original question was about zephyr you were trying to set it up... *prods* Oh, I see now: the Cyrus IMAP server added support for sending notification

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Allison
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Tom Allison wrote: I currently have procmail delivering a majority of my email into filtered mailboxes (eg: ~/debian) with only the non-filtered email being delivered to the /var/spool/mail/tallison. Cyrus 2.1 can do this through sieve

reportbug

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Allison
I've got one little problem with reportbug. Under dselect, it's trying to uninstall itself from one of my servers. Here's my preferences file: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable

vi alternate problem

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Allison
One day I installed 'vim'. Now I have nothing that is recognized as 'vi' What do I actually install in order to regain this tidy little editor? -- You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

SSL certificates

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Allison
This might sound kind of simple... I hope it is... If I have a website (eg: www.mydomain.com) and I create a certificate for it, I am asked to enter in the server name for the certification. I typically would enter server.mydomain.com. When I do this, I start getting errors when I attempt to

hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Allison
From what I can gather on this hesiod library, it's a dependency of zephyr which comes from a dependency from cyrus21 (unstable). If I don't use Kerberos, how do I *not* install yet another DNS server? And could someone please explain what this does that regular Bind 9 doesn't do.. why do I

Re: hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Allison
David Z Maze wrote: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what I can gather on this hesiod library, it's a dependency of zephyr which comes from a dependency from cyrus21 (unstable). No, it's an intrinsic dependency of zephyr. In particular, zephyr can use it to find the zephyr servers

Re: Wireless card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Allison
Randy Edwards wrote: Any recommendations as to cards that have worked with Debian? The Lucent Orinico cards get mentioned in my google trawls on the subject but seem rather expensive... Yes, but IMHO they're worth it (did you check www.pricewatch.com for prices?). Mindlessly simple

Re: LED application

2002-12-15 Thread Tom Allison
Pigeon wrote: This is the third time this dude has posted 88k of crud to the list; is there any way in which such things could be filtered out at source? ie. Does the list have any sort of human editor, who could be flagged if someone posted an enormous file and make an intelligent decision as to

java installation problems

2002-12-14 Thread Tom Allison
These messages pertain to the packages found in: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/pool/non-free/j/j2re1.4-i386/ There is no 'mozilla-cvs' directory on my installation. (it appears that j2re1.3 does not have this problem, but I haven't been able to verify it

spamassassin + amavis

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to get amavis-postfix (unstable) set up to use spamassassin. But the README.Debian says this is disabled. 1) How do you turn it back on (he didn't say). 2) What is known about why razor doesn't work with amavis/spamassassin? 3) How would you add your own perl code to filter from

README.amavisd-new-RELNOTES.gz

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Allison
The following is pulled from the RELNOTES from the debian-unstable branch. I'm just a wee bit confused about the two statements in this section and the section in README.Debian. QUESTIONS: Is razor in unstable (v2.20) compatable? How do you turn spamassassin back on, if it isn't on already?

amavis antivirus packages

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Allison
What .deb packages can I install for amavis to work? -- QOTD: Say, you look pretty athletic. What say we put a pair of tennis shoes on you and run you into the wall? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amavis antivirus packages

2002-12-13 Thread Tom Allison
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.12.13.1503 +0100]: What .deb packages can I install for amavis to work? What MTA do you use? exim, postfix, sendmail amavis-exim, amavis-postfix, and amavis-milter

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Tom Allison
nate wrote: Tom Allison said: I'm looking for suggestions on which of the .deb available IMAP servers might do well for scalability and security. I am planning on tying this in with a webmail interface, probably squirrelmail. I use cyrus, its quite scalable, very fast. Courier is good too I

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Hilts wrote: must configure your MTA to deliver to procmail instead of cyrus, and use cyrdeliver to send the email from procmail to cyrus. Which is much slower than simply delivering it to cyrus and using sieve in the first place. As a side note, if your MTA can speak LMTP, that's

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Tom Allison
Chris Hilts wrote: must configure your MTA to deliver to procmail instead of cyrus, and use cyrdeliver to send the email from procmail to cyrus. Which is much slower than simply delivering it to cyrus and using sieve in the first place. As a side note, if your MTA can speak LMTP, that's

APM / PCMCIA conflict.

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
I have an orinoco gold pcmcia wireless LAN card. works fine. But I can't suspend the notebook, or hibernate. If I pull the card, the apm related operations are just fine. apm -s works with the card in place. apm -S doesn't work in either case. but the keyboard buttons for standby/hibernate

courier-imap

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
Does the courier-imap server .deb also support the mbox/mailbox formats that come from postfix, or is this limited to exim/qmail only? If it is, then I guess I am interested in what other imap servers are out there that are effective. I have the uw-imap installed now, but it seems there are

IMAP recommendations

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
I'm looking for suggestions on which of the .deb available IMAP servers might do well for scalability and security. I am planning on tying this in with a webmail interface, probably squirrelmail. -- Beggars should be no choosers. -- John Heywood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: DWL-650 Wireless NIC

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Allison
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:04:55PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I've recently installed the orinoco gold card and it's working very well. Except it keeps dropping down to 2MB even when 5' away. I don't know how this can be managed from the drivers or what can

Re: DWL-650 Wireless NIC

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Allison
Martin Hermanowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Dennis Stosberg wrote: Am 08.12.2002 um 12:32 schrieb Tom Allison: Now I am looking at an Orinoco WAP. Wireless connectivity (signal strength and reported speed) is excellent, better than the D-Link. But there's

postfix: local_recipient_maps

2002-12-08 Thread Tom Allison
Does the debian installation of postfix support this through the /etc/passwd file? Or is there something more that needs to be done... -- If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine. If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine. - A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming

DWL-650 Wireless NIC

2002-12-08 Thread Tom Allison
I have an interesting problem that has recently come up and I'm wondering if others have had a similar experience. I have a D-Link DWL-650 Wireless NIC. I used to have a D-Link DL-713P Wireless router. Between the two, things worked very well. But the range was a little short. At one point

Netdev watchdog errors

2002-12-07 Thread Tom Allison
I'm getting thousands of these all the time and the network keeps stopping. -- This is on a DWL-650 network card. I have also seen this on an ISA 3com 905 card as well. What is NETDEV WATCHDOG? How can this get fixed? -- Dec 7 15:45:32 thorin last message repeated 8 times Dec 7 15:45:32

Re: macromedia flash player

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Allison
Shawn Lamson wrote: I can view presentations and play games in macromedia flash player using mozilla 1.something... but it is about 1/3 the speed that it should be. Has anyone else experienced this? I can view/play them fine in win2k, so it isnt a processor/connection issue ( i think ) unless

spamproxyd set-up

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Allison
I found spamproxyd on my system in /usr/sbin/ Well, not quite. an old updatedb listing had it. But it isn't really there. Is spamproxyd in Debian anymore? a search on 'spamproxy' came up empty. If it is or is not: Can this be started by creating a file entry in /etc/init.d/ ? Has this been

spamassassin: recovery from CPAN install

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I screwed up more that I thought I did. I installed Mail::SpamAssassin and Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus via CPAN. now the debian package for spamassassin keeps giving me errors. This is after I removed the aforementioned packages from the PC and reinstalled spamassassin from the deb

Re: spamassassin: recovery from CPAN install

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Allison
nate wrote: Tom Allison said: u forgot to load Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus?) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm lin e 1822. try deleting that rm -rf /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin nate Let me guess. CPAN puts it in ...perl/5.6.1

mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
I installed the mozilla-unstable branch yesterday. the Java-jvm plugin that I had before was no longer listed as available so I tried to reinstall the java plugin from the sun.com website. I did the install as 'root' so that I wouldn't have any problems with access rights for installing the

Re: Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
(--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: j2re1.4 mozilla-cvs?? From: Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash Date: 29 Nov 2002 09:10:34 -0500 I installed

Re: Subject: Re: mozilla/unstable + java-jvm = crash

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: Helmut Steinwender wrote: I had the same problem. Mozilla.org states that JRE 1.3.x may not work. See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2/#java Try JRE1.4 from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian It works for me

Reverse Upgrade

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
How can I reverse an upgrade? I tried upgrading to Testing and was met with far too much hear-ache for my time right now. Is there some way that I can install everything back down to Stable? -- Removing the straw that broke the camel's back does not necessarily allow the camel to walk again.

Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Brian White wrote: Dropping non-free would not help Debian. Most users and few companies are really concerned with the copyright on the packages they use as long as they get the job done. If you remove those things from Debian, then those users will soon go to a distribution that gives them

Re: perl lint

2002-11-10 Thread Tom Allison
Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Heironimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-09 19:24:10 -0600]: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: is there something to clean up perl code similar to other lint type applications? The -w flag (perl -w script.pl or #! /usr/bin/perl -w) enables

Re: apt-get perl mods?

2002-11-09 Thread Tom Allison
cmustard wrote: Hey Tom, Yes, i do use cpan but there are a number of things i don't like about it. One is that it always looks for the newest versions of things ( whether you wan't them or not) A recent example is i tried to install the `libwww' perl library via cpan for 3 days with tons of

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