update postfix, other

2001-05-05 Thread Chris Mason
I would like to bring postfix and a couple of other packages up to date with regards to patches, it's been a while since I set them up. What's the easiest way? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:28:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Don't. X programs should not be setuid root. Why? Is this a security issue (like remotely connecting to my X-Server? -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: reply in lista

2001-05-05 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Giuliano Grandin wrote: Davide wrote: come si fa affinchè mutt, quando premo rispondi a un messaggio lo fa anche Netscape Messenger With the Communicator try Reply All (and remember to delete the user address if is not explicitly asked to CC), don't know with mutt... Andrea

a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably sheer laziness. Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing (poetry), and I'm losing the printer tied to the Mac at home, so I will soon

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Don't. X programs should not be setuid root. Alex Suzuki writes: Why? Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

png problems

2001-05-05 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm unable to save or write any png images on my machine. Gimp just says it encountered an error, and gif2png always says: libpng error: Application uses deprecated png_write_init() and must be recompiled. gif2png: libpng returns fatal error condition I tried grabbing all the latest relevant

Re: wait till end of write, how?

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:31:21PM +0200, Alexander Steinert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Given that a W2k client copies a large file into a samba share on a Linux server, how can a process (e.g. shell script) that will read this file wait until the file is totally transfered? The problem is

Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:27:19AM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000): How do you stop this from happening? actually, set noautoindent won't cut it if you have smartindent or cindent set. however, vim has a feature: :set

debootstrap returns 256 when trying to install Debian

2001-05-05 Thread Tue Abrahamsen
Hello! Recently, my computer denies me to install Debian. First I tried over the internet, with everything working perfect, connection and all. After about 10 minutes with fetching packets, the installer returns to the previous menu. If I Alt+F3 to a different terminal, the following error

Re: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
I'm no partition guru, but... On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:16:59PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I cannot reinstall debian because debian cann't recognize my partitions correctly. I doubt this, it recognizes them allright, but differently from what you expected:) I have installed

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
If you get postscript compatible printer, life is much easy on Linux. Otherwise, RTFM or use some printer configuration progran to set up ghostscript filtering for your printer. On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here? No, not any PC-compatible printer will do. There are some so called GDI-printers wich are desigend to work with Windows only. Although there are some reports that some of these work with Linux.

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year. I've learned that the server is of a proprietary class as opposed to the

Re: update postfix, other

2001-05-05 Thread Willi Dyck
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:12:51PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I would like to bring postfix and a couple of other packages up to date with regards to patches, it's been a while since I set them up. What's the easiest way? # apt-get update apt-get -u upgrade should bring your system up-to-date.

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ron Farrer
Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As you can tell, I'm utterly clueless - what kind of a printer should I get? I'll be printing mainly formatted text documents (whether formatted in something like Abiword or something else, I haven't decided). Will any PC-compatible printer do? What

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. yeah, I guess you're right... too bad I love that screensaver :) -- Alex Suzuki |

Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting

2001-05-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sat, 05 May 2001 11:01:11AM -0700): Cool! That I did not know. ...now, what's a useful key to bind that to map ^V :set paste!^M but that's because i don't need that visual stuff anyway. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
See http://www.linuxprinting.org for evaluations of which printers are compatible, somewhat-compatible or incompatible. There is also a link to some recommended printers. Bob On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Hi, I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at

Re: libssl096 (KDE)

2001-05-05 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, I need libssl096 to install KDE. Can someone tell me where I can find libssl096 ? TIA Gerard.

Re: Question about Apt-???

2001-05-05 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:10:32AM -0700, Jim Darrough wrote: Is there a concise list of apt-??? commands I can access? And for tasksel? I am intrigued by this functionality. I will stay with Debian and try to learn it. For apt-get you'll find a very good introduction at

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with

Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

2001-05-05 Thread Allan Wind
On 2001-05-04 15:21:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note, though, that I've heard Athlon doesn't play well with ECC, though it remains to be seen if this will be improved for the Dual Athlons (as it should be); again, hopefully, others can add more. Asus K7V, Athlon @ 800 MHz w/ 256 MB ECC

Re: How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:17:13PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: :Hi, :I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup

Re: device3dfx

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:50PM -0700, Greg Steele wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:22AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I'm sure this is not the fix you are looking for, but I used to have the same problem with 2.2.18. After I built the 2.4.3 kernel, however, the module compiled

Re: postfix not easy to install

2001-05-05 Thread Allan Wind
On 2001-05-05 20:45:27, mdevin wrote: I get the following in my mail.log file: postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf differ postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year.

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread John Hasler
Alex Suzuki writes: yeah, I guess you're right... too bad I love that screensaver There should be a way to make it work without making the X stuff setuid root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As you can tell, I'm utterly clueless - what kind of a printer should I get? I'll be printing mainly formatted text documents (whether formatted in something like

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and non-postscript. IMO true postscript printers are FAR too expensive and don't provide much for quality of the output. That depends on whether you want color or not. Our 1200dpi HP2100M

Re[2]: can't install debian after freebsd?

2001-05-05 Thread fg007
Hello Carel, Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 382 3068383+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda3 702 1020 2562367+ a5 BSD/386 /dev/hda4 1021 4437 27447052+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1021 1275 2048256

Re: file audit

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:26:09AM -0400, Benjamin Black ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hello everyone, recently for some unknown reason my /usr partition was corrupted. running it through fsck, i answered 'y' to fix many, many errors. my system now appears to be fine, however there are

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As you can tell, I'm utterly clueless - what kind of a printer should I get? I'll be printing mainly formatted text documents (whether formatted in something like Abiword or something else,

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably sheer laziness. Now, however, I want to do a bit of

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just wondering why this seem to always

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many markets the MSO continues to purchase the modems as they are able to get volume discounts and are then dealing with a

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here? Anything that speaks PCL really. I'm using an HP DeskJet 812C, and it works perfectly with ghostscript for postscript conversion, using a filter from

Re: logitech first wheel mouse

2001-05-05 Thread jdls
Thanks! works great...is there a way I can have imwheel start automatically whenever I log into X? adding imwheel to either my .xinitrc or .Xdefaults file does not give me the expected results. :) -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: reply in lista

2001-05-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:40:32AM +0200, Davide wrote: come si fa affinch? mutt, quando premo rispondi a un messaggio di questa lista, risponda effettivamente a debian-italian@lists.debian.org e non all'autore del messaggio? sulle altre liste funziona, con questa no, anche se ho messo

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and non-postscript. Wrong. Bzzt! You're wrong! Name a printer which is neither postscript

Re: libssl096 (KDE)

2001-05-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:41:58PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: Hello, I need libssl096 to install KDE. Can someone tell me where I can find libssl096 ? TIA Gerard. http://kde.debian.net/debian/dists/potato/crypto/binary-i386/libs/libssl096_0.9.6-0.potato.4_i386.deb ie. deb

Re: How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:17:13PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:53:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many markets the MSO continues to

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ron Farrer
Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and non-postscript. Wrong. Care to explain? Wrong. That says a lot... Ron

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here? Anything that speaks PCL really. I'm using an HP DeskJet 812C,

Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

2001-05-05 Thread freedman
On Sat, May 05, 2001, Allan Wind wrote: On 2001-05-04 15:21:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note, though, that I've heard Athlon doesn't play well with ECC, though it remains to be seen if this will be improved for the Dual Athlons (as it should be); again, hopefully, others can add more.

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ron Farrer
Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is awfully misleading information. In general, there are two types of printers: lasers and inkjets. An inkjet printer is cheaper is generally cheaper and can't process postcript natively. However, their cost per page is usually very high--orders

debian 2.2r3 geforce2mx / ATA100

2001-05-05 Thread HANS-HENRIK FESTER
Hello, Has anyone succeeded in installing Debian on an ATA100 controller. Actually, it did install, but I can only boot with a floppy - because it won't install lilo - (as i have win2000 on the 10 first Gb). By the way, does anyone know how to install XFree86 4.0.2 that supports my

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-05 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:41:19AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Check vsound, it is supposed to do what you want. http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsound/ It works well in interactive mode: spawns the player, so you can fast-forward to the point you want, and stops saving when you exit the

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:59:54PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: It may have been misleading. I should have expanded on what I was talking about. Sorry, my bad. However, before I bought my current printer I wanted to buy a lazer printer that had color and postscript and didn't print slower then

Re: postfix not easy to install

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: On 2001-05-05 20:45:27, mdevin wrote: I get the following in my mail.log file: postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf differ postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

Command-line arguments for CD drive

2001-05-05 Thread Barry Kirsten
Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even though it will boot and install from same. For the third time I have trashed everything and started the installation from scratch. I now think my trouble may be to do with command-line arguments for the drive. The drive is

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:16:08PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Will any PC-compatible printer do? What are the considerations, here?

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:10:46PM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:59:54PM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is awfully misleading information. In general, there are two types of printers: lasers and inkjets. An inkjet printer is cheaper is generally cheaper and can't

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread csj
On Sunday 06 May 2001 01:39, Glenn Becker wrote: Hi, I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably sheer laziness. Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing (poetry), and I'm

Re: Command-line arguments for CD drive

2001-05-05 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Barry Kirsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-05-05 22:40): I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even though it will boot and install from same. For the third time I have trashed everything and started the installation from scratch. I now think my trouble may be to

Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system interaction features. I usually write this in bash as: if [ x${MYVAR} = x ]; then echo 'MYVAR doesn't exist (or isn't set)' else echo MYVAR

Re: How to copy the binary image of a dos floppy ?

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was always taught to use a block size of 512 when {read,writ}ing to floppies, and double the kByte size of the

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sat, 05 May 2001 02:34:47PM -0700): ...but I'm not aware of a similar bash/korn/bourne feature. Anyone? if [ $variable ]; then ... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- your fly

boot diskette

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Zietlow
What is the easiest way to make a boot diskette to install on a computer that is an ancient dinosaur that doesn't allow you to boot off of the CD? I know RH had one, and I tried the Debian boot diskettes, but the one image it said was too big to fit onto a floppy. Did I do this wrong? (one

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system interaction features. I usually write this in bash as: if [ x${MYVAR} = x ]; then

Re: boot diskette

2001-05-05 Thread ktb
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:46:41PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: What is the easiest way to make a boot diskette to install on a computer that is an ancient dinosaur that doesn't allow you to boot off of the CD? I know RH had one, and I tried the Debian boot diskettes, but the one image it said

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Glenn Becker wrote: Hi, I have lived w/o a printer both at home and at work for some time now. If I need anything printed I've done so from a Mac or Windows PC. Probably sheer laziness. Now, however, I want to do a bit of self-publishing

RE: boot diskette

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Zietlow
I just want to boot up so I can install off the CD, that is all. How many, and which CDs would I need? -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 6:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boot diskette On Sat, May 05, 2001 at

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: In contrast, csh and derivatives have: $?MYVAR ...which allows testing of presence of a variable. ...but I'm not aware of a similar bash/korn/bourne feature. Anyone? Coming soon to ./configure scripts near you: if

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:08:26PM -0700, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system interaction

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:35:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: Some bourne shells don't like testing variables that don't exist yet. That's precisely what we're trying to test. where you run in to trouble really is when you don't quote the variable, for example: if [ $FOO = bar ] ;

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: This came up on another list. The problem involves testing existence of a Unix shell variable from another program with limited system interaction features. I usually write this in bash as: if [ x${MYVAR} = x ]; then

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well there are basically two main types of printers: postscript and non-postscript. Wrong.

LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-05 Thread Andrew Hagen
Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available? Thank you very much, Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Lexmark 7000 can print 300dpi text at 8ppm. Higher quality starts at 4ppm. And my LJ2100M can print 1200dpi text at 10ppm. I'm sure mine cost more, but it's a tradeoff. We need text. Lots of text, high-quality text. We don't need color. So we chose a

Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame for that matter. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread Forrest English
check the unoffical apt sources page. there's one for lame there that i use. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sun, 6 May 2001,

Re: boot diskette

2001-05-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you already have some version of DOS on the computer, you don't need any diskettes, but can copy the install files to your hard drive and execute them from DOS (*NOT* from a DOS Window). If not, you will need three (or more, depending on your specific hardware). See

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Viktor Rosenfeld (on Sun, 06 May 2001 02:47:15AM +0200): how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame for that matter. from the lame webpage: Personal and commercial use of compiled versions of LAME (or any other mp3 encoder) requires a patent license

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:47:15AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame for that matter. MP3 is patented and there for encoders aren't in Debian. You can build it from source or use Ogg Vorbis which is not patented (and

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... i think you can find lame here.. http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3 LAME ftp://lame.sourceforge.net/pub/lame/src/ dont know about the other two - probably a google search c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Video.net On Sun, 6 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, how come, lame is

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-05 Thread Pierre Hyvernat
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Andrew Hagen wrote: Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available? ucblogo, in Potato at least... (apt-get install ucblogo I guess, except that I use dselect instead

Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-05 Thread mdevin
Look, I know this is a flame bait question. I was interested in trying Postfix because I thought it may be more customisable and easier to set up. However, I had trouble getting it to work because it complained that port 25 was already taken: postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25:

Re: boot diskette

2001-05-05 Thread ktb
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:19:41PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: I just want to boot up so I can install off the CD, that is all. How many, and which CDs would I need? snip Please include your response *after* the message your responding to. I would recommend the first two CD's if your not

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-05 Thread Akop Pogosian
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: Akop Pogosian wrote: Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning the power off on it's own to do so with shutdown -h.. or poweroff commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and other machines

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, and when I was buying I wanted color. My ink-jet printer does 12PPM black/10PPM color and supports 1440 x 720 DPI. Does it do those speeds at the highest res? What printer is it? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Please,

wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread tmefnl
DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLEHIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS : over 3.5 MM . SIZE : 40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE PLEASESEND YOUR OFFER BY E-MAIL . THANK YOU , SINCERELY, MARWN JABBAN

Re: Where's lame

2001-05-05 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Forrest English wrote: check the unoffical apt sources page. there's one for lame there that i use. Yeah, lame is packaged allright, but I'm really looking for libmp3lame. I want to 'drag-n-drop' mp3 files directly from KDE's konqui, and it requires that library. Cheers Viktor -- Viktor

AW: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-05 Thread tim
is Symmetric multi-processing support enabled in the kernelconfiguration? if so disable and rebuild the kernel (assuming you have a single cpu). -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Akop Pogosian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. Mai 2001 02:19 An: Nate Amsden Cc:

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: ...but I'm not aware of a similar bash/korn/bourne feature. Anyone? if [ ${VAR:-invalid = invalid ] ; echo Unset fi ? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Happiness is the greatest good.

Re: LOGO (with the turtle)

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Andrew Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of a free Linux implementation of LOGO computer language? (The LOGO with the turtle.) Are there debs available? Note that it's preferable to compose a new message rather than replying to an

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach mdevin (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:40:21AM +1000): So my question is, should I bother with postfix? Is it easier to customise, edit headers etc? Is it more robust? What are some of the advantages that made some of you change to postfix? yes. why don't you use lsof or netstat -a to

Re: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM . SIZE :40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE PLEASE SEND YOUR OFFER BY E-MAIL . Uuhhh yeh... we're running a special offer at the moment of 13.6

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:40:21AM +1000, mdevin wrote: postfix/master[1011]: fatal: bind 127.0.0.1 port 25: Address already in use I think this was due to inetd binding this port for some reason. I had upgraded from Exim and it was gone and there was no other smtp daemon running. I didn't

Re: Test existence of shell variable, bash, csh

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:22:40AM +0300, Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: In contrast, csh and derivatives have: $?MYVAR ...which allows testing of presence of a variable. ...but I'm not aware of

Re: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:09:46AM +0300, tmefnl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM . SIZE :40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE $ apt-get install

Trouble with postfix

2001-05-05 Thread mdevin
System is Debian potato 2.2r3 with Exim working fine. OK here is what I did: apt-get update apt-get install postfix (message about deinstalling exim and installing postfix) -- yes to continue. It asks me if I want to start postfix -- yes tail /var/log/syslog: postfix-script: starting the Postfix

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread David Purton
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: I'm no expert on printers, but I don't think resolution is a very good indication of print quality. I think it's entirely possible that a 600x600 laser will have better quality than a 1200x1200 inkjet. I agree - inkjet quality depends very much on

way for postfix to restrict users to certain domains?

2001-05-05 Thread Forrest English
is there a way to limit which users can use which outgoing domain names in their mail account? and incoming for that matter. for instance, currently i've got... truffula.net madronepress.com now, i can send mail to any user on my system, at either address, and they at will can use either

Re: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread DvB
tmefnl wrote: *DEAR SIR ,* *WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS :* *THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM .* *SIZE :40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE* *PLEASE SEND YOUR OFFER BY E-MAIL .* *THANK YOU ,* *SINCERELY,* *MARWN JABBAN*

HELP! Sendmail/smail not working

2001-05-05 Thread Dale Morris
I seem to have screwed up my mail transfer abilities. I had sendmail installed, also ssh and whatever kde2 program that was similar. I installed the xterm package from 'woody' and noticed that sendmail was being replaced. When I try to send a mail in mutt, I can't, get 'operating system error'

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-05 Thread D. Hoyem
Akop, I had the same problem... there is a line in lilo.conf that says # APPEND= sorry not sure about the = after it. If you change it to APPEND=apm=on save it then you need to type lilo so that lilo.conf will update. Remember to remove the # and the space before APPEND. Don --- Akop Pogosian

Re: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 07:27:28PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:09:46AM +0300, tmefnl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM . SIZE

RE: wet blue

2001-05-05 Thread Rick Commo
-Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ apt-get install wet-blue-split-cattle-hides Alternatively you can use dpkg to do part of the work for you. $dpkg -i --split wet-blue-cattle-hides Cheers, -rick

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