Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Thomas. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am in the process of replacing a failing hard drive. I copied my home > directory from the old drive to the new drive with > >cd /oldhome/tom >cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by

Re: Base system is installed (I think), now what?

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Joubin. On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:11:34PM -0800, Joubin Moshrefzadeh wrote: > to go with). Anyway, I have a bootable system now, but am lost as to what to > do next. I suppose you are familiar with Unix. Start with aptitude(8), to see which programs are there in Debian. Set up your

Re: growisofs ejects when finished

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:38:17PM -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > counts as a write). Is there a way to do that with growisofs? Should Read the growisofs documentation (man growisofs). > I use another program instead to write to DVD? (I'm using DVD+RW, but > my drive suppor

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:40:42AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > >Thanks for your patience. This is really a response the way you > >requested. I understand the > > Oops. I meant NOT. not WHAT? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'

Re: modprobe says not found - insmod ok ????

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:45:51AM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > I run a mix of testing and unstable, You should prepare for this kind of problems, even worse. I'm running stable, but what I've heard, testing+unstable is the worst of available possibilities. Just be sure you know

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:16:35PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_get_inode_loc: > unable to read inode block - inode=972554, block=1966176 > Dec 30 07:35:52 [kernel] Remounting filesystem read-only This is probably what it

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
> A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: Oops! Wrong! Check the correct explanation in another reply. Didn't remember LILO uses such a thing, used LILO three times for approximately 1 hour and escaped back to grub(8) every time. -- Jan Minar "

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I could not find the "append" command A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: append v 1: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:50:23AM +, Adam Barton wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > > >Now the wisdom: Some 101% of the bragging about computer security is > >just that: bragging. Including this thread, of course. -- Jan Minar "Please don't

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:36:09PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: > non-standard port (strictly for connectivity reasons). Before the > change, I was getting several dozen scans and exploit attempts daily. > Afterward, 1-2 scans per day is the norm. Nice. So if an exploit leaks to t

Re: Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > >Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, > >try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall > >properly. That's what I'd do. And please post the u

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:23:06AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > Check your /var/log/messages file. The most likely error is that you > didn't enable Socket Filtering in the networking options. You will need > to recompile for this option to work. /usr/src/linux-2.4.23

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:04:47PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:28, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > > > Try us

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > Try using the full path (/dev/hdc). There's no difference between an absolute and a relative path here. The symlinks are relative to the directly

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:24:43AM +, Adam Barton wrote: > Do you agree that perhaps there is some wisdom in my advice? Simple setups tend to contain simple weak points. Obscure setups tend to contain obscure weaknesses which are often hard to spot from your side of the barricade. See

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Thursday January 1 at 11:47pm > Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > > At least then a script kiddy won't simply f

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:48:02PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > dhcp is specified for eth0 in the interfaces file. nothing seems to happen. > Where do I look for an error message? Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, try spying on the connection usin

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:00:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:56PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > There ain't any. > > There certainly are (see 'dpkg --force-help'), but none of them apply to > the case when a maintainer script fails.

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > What would do in this case, is, rather than forwarding port 22 to port > 22 on an internal host, do say forward 10001 to internalhost1, 10002 to > internalhost2 etc. as required instead. Then leave 22 open for > connec

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > >> Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet > >

Re: libc6-dev depends from linux-kernel-headers ?

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:11:50PM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > I am using Sarge/testing, and all I can find from my install DVD is a > "kernel-headers-2.4.22-bf2.4" that fits to my kernel version. I have > installed that, but still that message appears.. Hi, Axel! As it see

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:52:00PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > H

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:09:04PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 04-01-01 18:52 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-i

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet What about the torches? However: It's clear then your inkjet uses an dehumidified ink powder, which must be properly watered to became a real ink. The

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:30:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > debug1: Connection established. It's not a NAT problem you've got through. You may find nc(1) and nmap(1) useful in debugging. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:35:53PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > If they are unable to follow the simple instructions to unsubscribe, > chances are they are also unable to repeatedly place one foot in front of > the other quickly enough to actually run. Although they can't read (cf.

Re: Unresolve symbols, running kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
provides. If everything is done correctly, other modules, or the core kernel, can use the new functions now. The module may requires some functions to be present, too. And this is your situation. input.o provides some functions wacom.o uses. You have to insmod the input.o module, in order to

Re: font positive size

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
r, I usually consider such errors normal (e.g., I always have errors of missing locales, gnome-gv(1) complains about some scanlines or what, etc.). Just a way a complex and not really mature application (Gnome) in a not so bulletproof packaging (Debian) lives on. Cheers, Jan. -

Re: modprobe says not found - insmod ok ????

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
noone dares to respond, maybe. What Debian version do you run? What does ``modinfo usbmouse'' output? I suppose you've tried ``depmod'' without any arguments--does it say anything? Same about ``update-modules''. What about ``grep -drecurse -e usbmouse /etc/moduti

Re: Problem with upgrading

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:42:18AM +, Paul Worrall wrote: > Hi, > > During my latest updrade using aptitude, I get: > > Setting up foomatic-filters (3.0.0-2031207-1) > Configuration file `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' > ==> File on system created by you or by

Re: DRIVER

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
tools og > http://babelfish.org/ meeeget gode tips, om man er i tvil > om man behersker fremmende spr?k som engelsk, som > vi alts? vanligvis bruker her. ;-) > > ..http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ fins ogs?. ;-) Sarcastic but still undertandable--de

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:13, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what > > went wrong. > > > That's a correct observation. This is because there

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
iptables -t nat -F > > ought to do it. This won't clear out user-defined changes, but without any It will. -F will flush everything but the policy, the -P will set the policy. The result will be the same as the bootup default. Jan. -- Jan Minar "Pleas

Re: boot errors with new debian kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ll kinds of err messages. Spell out. The Debian way of editing /etc/modules.conf is modconf(8), AFAIUI. But maybe I'm wrong, really. > P.S. As a side question, how do I tell if I have the matching kernel source > that is correlated to say the 2.4.18-1-686 image? Is kernel-source-2.4.18 > always "in-sync" witht the latest similar (2.4.18) kernel? The docs should tell you. If they don't, it's a bug :-) -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
correctly? > I have since figured out that I should really use CUPS with an automatic > installation package, but I'd like to understand this lpd problem before > I give up on the older system! Go get it. It's trivial, surely much more trivial than lp*. -- Jan Minar

Re: dpkg segfaults

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ug report then. But as many people do install perl without problems, it would be very useful if you traced the bug. At least, have the core dumped and save it (``ulimit -c 99'' to enable core dumping). -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'

Re: DRIVER

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
roper dans la Makefile dans la meme directorie. Si vous voulez un driver pour un kernel harbre plus vielle, vous doit installer les modules ALSA (2.6 a ceci integre). Cherchez un package avec `alsa-modules' ou `alsa' dans sa nome. > mon email est : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nous savons: `F

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Hi, Tony! Apparently, there's no --force option to dpkg/apt. So my advise is to e

Re: help needed- linux

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
re a better way to do this Then OpenOffice.org would be a way, I guess. Learn to use google.com, anyway--that is probably the answer to your question. Happy new whatever! Jan. P.S.: Why do you ask precisely on this list? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I&#x

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:06:45AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > >(c) The traffic speed is not sufficient to get there in time > > Oh, it isn't `traffic' in English, is it?: Aeroplanes, automob

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:49:00AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I just made and installed my first kernel [2.4.18]! and booted too! > One problem is that the network initialization that used to occur > [2.4.18-bf24] doesn't. > The ether net card is recognized but my machine

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Mario. This thread boils down to: I've installed a new kernel and it doesn't work. Please help. Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what went wrong. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscr

Re: Bug Report-Deb Install says insert cd2 but doesn't eject cd1

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
gth. > Asking users switching to Debian to tell you which package > before they can make a bug report is another way to keep > Debian as one of the least frequently used distros. Maybe you're wrong, but still: We are proud of it !-) Peace. Jan. -- Jan Minar

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:49:47AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > I'll shoot you. Some of them: (a) The unsubscribers are dispersed all around the world (c) The traffic speed is not sufficient to get there in time (b) They will tend to run away -- Jan Minar

Re: df -h returns invalid result

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ine the free space in hda6 ? Try du(1). The e2fstools or similar for other filesystems would be of some use, too. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but > it works OK. It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to mention BIOS, which is the thing why the MBR _has_ to be

Re: mplayer and audio

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
he NAS or whatever you'd like it to use. I'm not quite familiar with NAS, but looking at its configs and/or /proc/`pidof nas`/fd/ should give you an idea about which devices does your NAS use. Try to relogin, and assure mplayer and those other apps use the NAS output. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
as Debian and/or Linux get more acknowledged among the rest of them. Let the filtering be done now. To those masochists who would argue it's in the headers/footer: So what? Should the whole list be punished because someone does not read all the headers and footers? -- Jan Minar

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
c. It's just mount(8) will not accept `-o' switch from a non-root user. And don't think it's of no use: Anywhere superuser can use the loop device (encryption, fs-images, games, simulation, ...) mere users would use it, too. It's even cumbersome sometimes to do t

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:09:37PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root > users to mount

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
ule, don't you? > if so, why doesn't it happen till I put hdd on? > I can't stop wondering why? Buggy chipsets workarounds. These ain't logical, these are buggy. -- Jan Minar Don't CC me, I'm subscribed. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
da9 hda10 hda11 > > hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 > Using ``hdparm -d0'' to disable DMA will be a meantime workaround. But not using DMA is slower than using it (when it works). There is something like dma=off kernel parameter, can't remember exactly. Have you tried to f

Re: module serial.o loaded

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
; P.S. Problem shared is problem halfed :-) Yes, but It's treatable, and I'm actually is getting better with every mail I compose ;-) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ext2/ext3 filesystems

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
r 3, minor 1, i.e. the first partition of the first IDE thing: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 1 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda1 -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian distro on a floppy

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
ge lilo.conf to reflect /dev/hda (right now, that disk > reflects /dev/hdc ... kinda useless), run lilo, and reboot. after > this, i will recreate a boot disk and hopefully not mess up the root > filesyetem information. This is how Jan does it: Boot off one of one of the Debian install

Re: pcmcia modem - was working then stopped

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
(Look for the string: ``8-bit clean''.) > P.S. I know the ISP is o.k., as I've dialed into it from another > machine. Compare the configurations, then. Asking the ISP usually doesn't work, but maybe you are a lucky one. -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: module serial.o loaded

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
point to? What does ``ps -eH'' output? What about other cron jobs, and/or things spawned by inetd (/etc/inetd.conf)? > Can anyone please explain why? It's quite hard to come with an insight given no knowledge of your system ;-) -- Jan MinarChvostny Snov

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists > > The `file' here is the network device `eth0' -- ``ifconfig -a'' will > show both eth1 and eth0 are there, waitin

Re: routing gateway question

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
g-Simple-HOWTO)). (2) ``echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'' -- in Debian, this is done by ``ip_forward=yes'' in `/etc/network/options', then /etc/init.d/networking start. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
he real naming. > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth0 to eth1: Device or > resource busy Then, the eth1 is UP (busy). You might want to go to singleuser mode, put the network down, and experiment a bit, just to grasp what's going on. > A typical script

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-28 Thread Jan Minar
ht thing to do would be to call it from /etc/init.d/networking or /etc/networking/interfaces. Whoopy Xmas. Jan. > I've fiddled with the ether= append line for the kernel, and also the > contents of the interfaces file in /etc/network to no avail. -- Jan Minar Had

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:47:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:14:48AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > The

Re: apt-get reinstall XXX

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:43:16AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > I know this does not work but is there something like that? apt-get install --reinstall -- Jan Minar Had I any humility, I would be perfect. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess > > &g

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > format

Re: printer setup

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > My printer man says following. Is there a HOWTO on this? $ apt-get install doc-linux-html $ dpkg -S doc-linux-html | grep -i print > Unix Systems > Follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set > up the Sp

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > formatted manpage to stdout, instead of messing with the pager. > > Replace `foo' with the desired program nam

Re: load key map at boot time

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:29:02AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > How do I load a file at boot time. /etc/init.d/keymap.sh called via /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh If you wanted to load the map manualy, just do $ /etc/init.d/keymap.sh start > Where is the right place to store boot time files. /etc/cons

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
er cat --ascii foo | col -b | mail -s "Subject of your choice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Jan. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xprint observations

2003-12-07 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > Dear Jan, > > I have an interesting footnote to add to your observations. > > If you install mozilla-browser_1.5-3 and include > mozilla-xft_1.5-3 from unstable, and in Mozilla, under > Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts, select the fonts se

Xprint observations

2003-12-07 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
there seems to be some incompatibility between AA display and 'wysiwig' printing through xprint. This could be a fundamental problem; if so, it would seriously limit the usefulness of xprint. But I wonder if anyone has been able to set it up in such a way as to have AA display and &#

installing fonts

2003-12-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
What is the Right Way to install fonts 'by hand' so that defoma and fontconfig are happy? Which utilities do I need? I want to install the Unicode fonts 'bitstream cyberbit' and 'arialuni' (obviously non-Debian). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-30 Thread Jan-Marek Glogowski
Hi When you get "Input/Output" error, there may be a hardware error :-( Check your /var/log/messages. You can check the partition layout using gpart. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/, or the deb. Look at man e2fsck, especially -b, -B and -n. HTH Jan-Marek -- To U

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-11-30 Thread Jan-Marek Glogowski
er to 0. If the partition was mounted coorectly a fixed amount (in the normal case 31 / ~ month), the programs force a check, and reset the counter to 0. I think all Linux distributions do something like that and don't enforce a full check on bootup. So no problem with "unchecked" p

Re: how to show a .debs configure command line?

2003-11-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=grub Thanks! Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to show a .debs configure command line?

2003-11-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
was set and if so, what value was used. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

mtrr and X windows

2003-11-13 Thread jan
looks like i have mtrr (i've compiled my kernel with mtrr) The question I'd like to ask is: Do I need to enable it somehow in X windows or X does use mtrr automatically ? thanks Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Troubles after upgrade to testing/unstable

2003-11-08 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
s (rw) [...] Knoppix:/# I chmodded the /dev/hda and /dev/hda1 to 777, but it doesn't help. Please cc me with responses, because the mailaddress on wich I subscribed mailserver is down. CC address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kind regards, Willem-Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Troubles after upgrade 2

2003-11-08 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Please cc me for responses, because the subscribed mail address is running on the server wich is down WJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts gone in icewm

2003-11-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
ter or worse after each apt-get install dist-upgrade). In the meantime, despite all its bugs, icewm is still my favourite window manager.. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-05 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Wolfgang Pfeiffer schreef op woensdag 5 november 2003 18:14: > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39117575,00.htm > > -- > Profile, Links: > http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer I think I have to agree with the arguments given. The 90 yrs old father is also a goo

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
\X|X/X (with X being an empty square). MS-IE on NT (which I tried at my office) also does not crash. A mozilla bug? But it is OK with mozilla in MS Windows. What kind of bug is this? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Postfix and spamassassin not working properly

2003-10-29 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
After reading an article in the dutch "linux magazine" I read how to use spamassassin with postfix on a Debian 3.0r1 box. I have done excactly what I read in the arcticle and checked once and twice. But when I send a test-mail, messages are received w/o content and the to: address has changed in un

Re: strange PIDs on kernel threads

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
See bug #217525. I don´t think you have a Trojan. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Jan Schulz
bian-java for the discussion about this subject... Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kdelibs-data ... dpkg: error processing ... which is also in package k3b

2003-10-17 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions? Yes: Search the list! This was asked the day before yesterday. Exactly the same question. man dpkg would also be helpfull -> force-overwrite Jan, slightly pissed by this 'drop the question, wait for reply'

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Jan Schulz
isabled my 'non local' SA tests and I would pay too much for downloading all the swen crap (-> Mailfilter). Sorry... Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Jan Schulz
prevent any 'real' spammer to get your emailadress. Both get caught by spamassassin, but real spammer at least don't sent 140kb... Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

weird ppp problem

2003-10-14 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
r the lo interface) seems to hang... Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Problems with libapache2-mod-webapp

2003-10-11 Thread Jan Andersen
one are able to help. Regards Jan Andersen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrading kernel

2003-10-07 Thread Jan Agermose
l now!   Can this problem be related to using all memory and staring to use the swap partition? At this time I stopped using swap in case this was true (Im desperat!)...   -- Jan   :   Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: esi: c15cce80   edi:    ebp: c03278c0   esp:

RE: I want spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
ng "what's he doing". When you did the trick...would you please tell me how you did it? HTH, Willem-Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Browserfeatures (was: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano))

2003-10-02 Thread Jan Schulz
ages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=sea rchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386&directories=yes [...] although is suspect, that that is also possible with mozilla/konqueror. Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-01 Thread Jan Schulz
he possibility to change the keybindings (down in the .opera/*ini files). Basic bash/jed keystrokes like +,+ works very well for me :) Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Access fat-partition as user?

2003-09-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
won't help. Use mount with the uid, gid and umask options - consult mount's manpage for details. I'm mounting my FAT partitions with uid=0,gid=1001,umask=002 which gives all members of group 1001 read/write and all other users read permission. HTH, Jan -- To UNSUBSCR

can't boot stock kernel-image-2.4.22

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Pfeifer
to get along the NVidia driver module ? best regards and thanks in advance for any help, jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-28 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Vineet Kumar <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef op zaterdag 27 september 2003 18:47: > * Willem-Jan Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 > 06:54]: >> My antivirus is working well, but all those MS mails are very >> annoying Better delete before seeing it :) > >

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
his automatically each time before fetchmail is run, redirecting the output to a log file. I don't get that many Swens so there is no danger of the POP mailbox filling up. The Mail::POP3Client module is in the libmail-pop3client-perl package. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-27 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Is the file readable by user 'fetchmail'? > this file must be writeable for user 'fetchmail'. Thanks. This is the solution. It now works. > (I also setup a logrotate for it) First item on my todo-list juh -- S

RE: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-27 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
OTECTED] > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> At this moment I'm receiving loads of spam, mostly with virusses >> included on my postfix mail server. I downloaded and installed >> spamassassin and amavis w

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