Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:58:24PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: | Bruce Park wrote: | >Hello all, | > | >First, thanks for all those to that replied with the original question. | >OK, I have more question regarding cfdisk. I've successfully created the | >boot, swap, and root partition. Here are som

Re: Exim permissions

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:36:42PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | "jah" == jah pigeon writes: | | jah> BUT... /usr/sbin/exim is setuid root. Huh? | | Exim probably uses the root permission for very, very few things (like | opening port 25 when in daemon mode). It probably drops the root

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | ... | > Both VGs and LVs can be dynamically resized (though | > I'm not certain if LVs can decrease in size or only increase). | | You can

Re: Alternative to jdiskusage and xdiskusage?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:14:19AM +0100, Niclas Söderlund wrote: | Hi, | | I would love to see what's taking up my space on a few servers I run. In | more detail. The only problem for me is that I dont run X on them. Which | mean that neither jdisk or xdisk will work for me. You don't have to

Re: testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:03:50PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: | I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is | this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there | any? There probably aren't any. It's possible that all the packages you have insta

Re: block websites

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:17:38PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: | Hello again, | | I posted this mail earlier today and I have had some reactions but they | don't work or I don't understand it (I'm a dummy) | | I want to block http://www.grolle.nl for all computers in my network. | | Internal

Re: sound over lan

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:13:26PM +0100, fLokNo wrote: | is it possible to transfer sound over lan or wan like in winXP with some | sort of client and server technology? esound (aka esd) is supposedly capable of doing this. I sorta tried it once, but didn't get it to work through my firewalls a

Re: setting up USB

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I | am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are | already loaded. Don't assume. Check. (do you know what "assume" s

Re: Wanna make sure I don't screw the list up!

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 06:33:51PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:33:18AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:02:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: | > | The program "burster", written in C, takes its standard input (the | > |

Re: cfdisk revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: | 01.12.2002 18:07:53, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > The linux booters (lilo, grub, syslinux, etc.) don't care about that | > flag. It is MS-DOS and MS Windows that

Re: usb mouse

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:32:29PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | I fixed the problem. I actually had to put "mousedev" in the file | /etc/modules or X wouldn't start. Do you know why that is needed? USB is a modular system. At the core there are the wire and logical protocols. This is what allow

Re: Exim permissions

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:02:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: | OK, but I still don't quite understand why the "trusted user" bit | doesn't work. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that part. The short answer is trusted_user doesn't mean what you think it means. See section 5.2 of the spec for a longer ex

Re: configuring X

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:53:11PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I've got a few questions regarding X. I hope that someone can help me to | solve these problems. | 1. I need to configure X so that I can use xfont-75dpi. I currently have | xfont-100dpi and I cannot get rid of this sin

Re: gcc and X

2002-12-02 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:57:52PM +, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: | Colin Watson writes: | > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:26:37PM +, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: [...] | > You need to link the X library using -lX11. | > | | That's my problem! When I do | | > gcc xdriver.

Re: How to have many Win98 users & 1 Linux

2002-12-02 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:00:21PM +0200, DSC Siltec wrote: | Hi, | |I have an interesting situation: | | (1) We have at school a Microsoft Networking network. | | (2) We need to get a Linux Koha library system going. For this | reason, I would like to have 8-10 students working on

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-03 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | Hi all | I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ | configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error | which I have no clue about. If you're not a C/kernel developer then don't try develop

Re: blackdown java

2002-12-03 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:40:15PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Darryl, | | So which one is more compliant? [comparing Blackdown and Sun's JVM distributions] I believe that the two releases are the same. Several years ago the Blackdown people signed NDAs with Sun so they could get the source code

Re: printer does not print characters at the beginning of the line fully

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:49:46PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | hello all | | i have come back with printing problem. | | when i write a text file with vi and do cat filename | lpr, i realize | that characters in the beginning of the line disappear from the | printout. I've seen this happen

Re: Cups

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:54:00AM +, sdownes wrote: | Struggling with Cups. | | It is installed with apt-get | I can print a test page OK from Cups | I can print through cups from my windows box | Cups is updating /etc/printcap when I modify the printer Cups can be configured to do that be

Re: Re: blackdown java

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:57:19AM +0100, Wojtek Piecek wrote: | | On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:14:46PM +, Tom Badran wrote: | | >Then install : j2re1.3 j2sdk1.3 if using woody, or j2re1.4, j2sdk1.4 if | >using unstable. 1.3 wont work on stable, although it will probably | >install, and i do

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-05 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:53:40AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: | >| Hi all | >| I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ | >| configuration changes

Re: cupsys setting for an 882C?

2002-12-06 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:08:16AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | Robert L. Harris wrote: | > | >I found the HP driver I needed on the linuxprinting.org. The only | >problem now is the sucker is stair stepping and I can't find a way to | >turn it off. | | Dunno my printer worked fine "as-is"

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-06 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:39:08AM -0500, sean finney wrote: | On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:31:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | > > iirc, .Xresources is deprecated in favor of .Xdefaults. | > | > | > | > Hmm, I thought it was the other way around .Xdefaults deprecated... | > anyway I always make

Re: exim: (T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host)

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:46:07PM +0800, louie miranda wrote: | 2002-12-09 12:32:26 18LFaj-0006ZV-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway | T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host This isn't the error message. This message just says that there was an error (a while ago)

Re: Fetchmail doesn't fetch

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:12:21PM -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: | My command of "fetchmail" yields an index of messages which hangs and | then after it times out (300 sec), gives the reason for the error as | "7". ?The manpage says this condition (fetchmail timing out) can occur | "while waiting for

Re: build an overloaded linux server

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:53:50PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello list, | | For experimental requirement, I want to build an overloaded linux | server in which openssh is binding tcp port 22. The criteria is, | when a ssh client is connecting to the sshd on the overloaded one, | the sshd will

setting up a cvs repository

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
Ok, what is the right way to set up a CVS repository? The problem is that new files created with 'cvs add ; cvs com' are not group writable. They need to be group writable so other developers in the group can modify them later. If I manually set the writable bit then everything is fine. (manual

Re: exim filtering

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:17:07PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: | On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:52:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: | > Another solution is to use spamassassin which does this amongst many | > other tests. dman has a rather nice guide on his site, IIRC :) | | No, it does not achieve wh

Re: setting up a cvs repository

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:09:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On 09/12/02 Derrick 'dman' Hudson did speaketh: | | > Ok, what is the right way to set up a CVS repository? | > | > The problem is that new files created with 'cvs add ; cvs com' are not | >

Re: mail basics on a debian system

2002-12-10 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:56:08PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: | I'm not very experienced with unix/linux and would | appreciate some information on the mail topic. | | I have this one box system, using my general account | 'rland' and sometimes root for system configuration. | | What I would like

FYI: Linksys router vulnerability

2002-12-10 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
While this isn't about debian, there are probably a good number of debian users who have Linksys router devices on their home network. Well, that router may be insecure : http://www.corest.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=263&idxseccion=10 -D -- Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when sto

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:19:43AM +, Johann Spies wrote: | On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | | > I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. | | Thanks. | | Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real | Play

Re: Adding a default outgoing sig to exim4

2003-08-08 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:57:00PM +0100, Mark C wrote: | On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | > No. Read this to get an understanding of the technical and | > non-technical issues of such an attempt : | > http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-di

Re: Postfix issue

2003-08-08 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:22:44AM -0300, Guilherme Viebig wrote: | Hi all, | | I trying to configure postfix to listen as a remote smtp, | | my host name is plannercorretora.com.br | | but if I send an an message to a domain that´s not my host name, postfix say | Relay Access Denied Your smtpd

Re: One Last Note

2003-08-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:52:40PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: | | You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for | sure. Yeah right. Spammers don't subscribe to mailing lists like this one. | You can figure it out: They are the ones that spearheaded the opposition | again

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-09 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:09:07AM +0100, Tim wrote: | rmdir -f and rm -f both fail. If I delete the offending file, a new one | takes its place, named (eg) .nfs90301. | | Any suggestions? Find out what is creating the file, and solve the real issue. I know it is related to NFS and locking or

Re: CD-Writer on Debian Woody

2003-08-11 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:05:38PM +0200, vinz wrote: | I've tried everything from a tonn of manuals... I still can't get my aopen | cd-writer to work. | and anyone help me please What sort of writer is it? SCSI? ATAPI? (IDE?) What have you tried that didn't work? I got a writer recently,

Re: iptables and nat

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:06:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: | When a packet comes from the internet with destination one of the | computers on the local lan, which route does it take? 'filter' table : _ Incoming / \ Outgoing -->[

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:05:05AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: | On Sat, 09 Aug 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote: | > I don't think it's worth anyone's while to learn to use sendmail in this | > age. There is one good reason for choosing sendmail as an MTA, and | > that's that you already know it. |

Re: multiple network cards bound together

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:16:42AM -0400, D. Clarke wrote: | Hi! | | Is it possible to bind multiple (non matching, or matching) network cards | together to act as one device? | | I've got a fileserver here with 2 nics in it, currently both have seperate | ip's but I'd like the box to have just o

Re: Exim, alias patterns

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:32:50AM -0400, David Corbin wrote: | On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:42, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:13:44PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: | > | Is it possible to configure exim to treat all emails matching a paticular | > |

Re: Adding a default outgoing sig to exim4

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:31:50PM +0100, Mark C wrote: | I'm currently in the middle of replacing my mailserver (running sendmail | still) with exim4, and I would like to append a default signature to all | outgoing mail (preferable not to internal mail, but this I can live with) | If anyone has

Re: alsa yields no sound [SOLVED!]

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:44:28PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I rebuilt the kernel (2.4.20) with the alsa modules. I booted | > with the new kernel, loaded the sound modules and saw that the |

Re: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:18:28PM +0900, Bengt Thurée wrote: | I guess I will need to ask my DNS provider to insert | the test.mydomain.com address also or? Yes. On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:44:37PM +0900, Bengt Thurée wrote: | Can I let my DNS server (currently I am not running one though), | upd

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:56:04PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: | On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:46 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: | > Most of the spam I receive is HTML format. Is there a fairly painless way | > of sending anything formatted HTML to my trash folder? The Content-Type: header *ought* to prov

alsa yields no sound

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
Using alsa, I get no sound from the sound card. Background info : Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, PIII ESS 1978 "Maestro 2E" sound card OSS module 'maestro' does (did, when it was loaded :-)) work I successfully installed alsa on the machine at home which has a Sound Blaster

Re: weather and boats (even more OT) (was [OT: Elfquest])

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:18:29PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:25:45PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:43:09PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | > > Can it be 'fresh' as 'cool' outside? (I might have gotten a little bit | > > confused, here, ;-). At leas

Re: [OT: Elfquest] WAS: Re: Howto released: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux andSamba users

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:43:09PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:32:12PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:56:55PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: | > > > Shade and sweet water! | > > | >

Re: deny kazaa , imesh, chat programs

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:07:58AM +0300, Mehmet AK wrote: | Hi there | | i want to deny kazaa , imesh etc. and chat programs our local | network . can u help me From what I've heard about kazaa, it can't be blocked by a simple port-matching firewall rule. I've heard that it uses any and all por

Re: [OT: Elfquest]

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:50:25PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:43:39PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:07:00PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | > > Ah, of course... This reminds me of a line in a children's song: 'wie | > > zoet is krijgt lekkers' me

Re: Wierd apt-get error?

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:08:39PM +0200, j2 wrote: | Running a unstable/stable system and i got the below and would | apreciate any hints? | | cookiemonster:~# apt-get update | Reading Package Lists... Error! | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room Old problem.

Re: ZOPE HELP

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:45:23PM -0700, Kidest Mamo wrote: | I got same problem... "Starting Zope failed no INSTANCE_HOME found use zopectl create first" I start zope from /etc/init.d/zope start | | how can I fix this problem? | pls let me know Read what you wrote. It contains the answer.

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:59:27PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: | I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new | fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days. | | Sid, fetchmail, exim3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to exim4, but I'm | not going to do that when

Re: bug in libc6

2003-08-15 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:54:40PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | / Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | | Well, icaclient is not the only commercial app that I have seen that | | falls prey to this. A CAD designing software also segfaults with the | | new libc (both of thes

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-15 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:51:05AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: | On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:42:08AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | > This is exim's response to fetchmail. You have exim's syntax checking | > turned on, so it will reject any incoming messa

Re: fetchmail error

2003-08-17 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:25:14PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: | Hi deb-users, | could anyone point me in the right direction. | pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) | Fetchmail issues an SMTP error *recieves*, not issues. sendmail issued the error. | and cant continue getting

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-17 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: [...] | There must be something that exim can/does do that procmail cannot? exim is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) that also includes an LDA (Local Delivery Agent). procmail is an LDA. exim does a lot that procmail can't do, and p

Re: xterms with invisible fonts...

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:42:52PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: | Hello | | in the meantime in managed to set up a somehow working X setup, there | are still some glichtes running around... | | the xterm still shows white on white an empty screen, You can control xterm's colors via the ~/.Xdefa

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:17:36PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all, | Got this debian beast running **illegally** on the company network. My | problem is that everytime I've got to reboot it, the dhcp server running | on M$ NT, assigns the NIC a proper IP address but overwrites my | resolv

Re: CUPS, gnome-cups-icon continually eating memory, slow video performance

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:16:55PM +0200, Roman Brodylo wrote: | Hello there, | | think I have a bug here, but I'm not sure. Yeah, a memory leak like that is definitely a bug. | I'm running testing and my system slows down to a near halt if it's been | up and running for hours. Slows down meanin

Re: Outgoing Attachments

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:43:17PM +0100, Saifa Saifa wrote: | Hi all | | I am relatively new to exim. I able to setup exim | which is working fine on debian machine. Now I have to | block/deny the incoming and outgoing attachments. You do realize that doing so will cause problems with signed me

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:59AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > procmail can do things that exim can't (for example, changing a | > message via a filter, such as spamassassin, and then making delivery | >

alsa: only one process at a time?

2003-08-18 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
I switched from the kernel's built-in OSS sound driver to the ALSA driver in hopes that I can not worry about which process has the sound device open and also not have the overhead of esd or arts. (when trying to play a movie, the combination of the slow video card and the not-fast-by-todays-stand

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:31:39AM +0100, Mark wrote: | On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: | > | > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived | > there for 30+ years), but I've heard it used all the time here in | > New Zealand, I thought it was a Kiwi-ism.

MS uses sendmail (still!) (was Re: That movie)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
How do you like those auto-generated messages from Hotmail? Never mind that, just look at the received headers. Microsoft uses sendmail because Exchange really isn't good enough :-). Naturally that also implies that Windows isn't good enough (because they're not running sendmail on Windows). T

Re: exim 4 configuration (rewriting outgoing email)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:58:07PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: | Is there a way to do rewriting for all users on a system without having | to add a line in /etc/email-addresses for each user? As long as the rewriting is regular. (ie not unique for each user) | E.g.: In /etc/email-addresses I c

Re: ALS-100 Sound Card and Sid

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:01:23AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | During a recent upgrade to Sid, my old ESS-Solo1 sound card died. I do not | think that the upgrade broke the card. I rummaged through my junk box and | came up with an Avance Logic ALS-100. After finding out that sndconfig 0.

Re: Joining a windows domain from behind a debian NAT box

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:45:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, no - the debian machine is hooked directly up to the external network. | (It's on the same network as the Windows Domain Controller.) You'll probably need to set up samba on the debian box and figure out how to configure it

Re: Debian policy, major change ?

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Stephane wrote: | Next debian stable to be released on 1st december: | | http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html | | I would love to hear some comments :) Here's the comments: It's about time. (rat

Re: 'experimental' distro?

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:42:49PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: | Okay, I give. | How do I set up my sources.list to find the experimental | distributions... | | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free | | does not work... deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian

Re: How to remove Exim ?

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:32:12PM -0800, W.D. McKinney wrote: | Hello, | | Is there a URL for how to remove exim from Woody 3.0 ? | I can't seem to recall what I did the last time :-) # aptitude --purge exim or # apt-get remove --purge exim or # dpkg --purge exim You probably don't want

Re: fetchmail: choking on invalid headers

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I'm having increasingly frequent problems with fetchmail choking on | invalid email headers. Are you sure _fetchmail_ is the one choking? It seems rather common lately for people to have exim's header verification turned on while

explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:26:09PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | What's with all these messages today? Consequence of the worm? Some people have really broken/misconfigured software in their mail chain. That software notices the worm, then figures it is a good idea to shout "I FOUND IT! I F

Re: Re: Details (verification)

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
LOL! Challenge-Response works so well, eh? You have to laugh when you see stuff like this. At least until it effectively causes a DoS :-). -D On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:44:30PM -0700, [-name protected-] wrote: | Hi, | | This is an AUTOMATED RESPONSE... [rest snipped] -- An anxious heart we

Re: cleanning POP3

2003-08-20 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:20:12AM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: | Hello Debian fans | | Is there an easy and efficient way to clean up | (read to erase spams) a POP3 box before to fetch the | regular emails ? popsneaker (IIRC) ... ... looking ... ..., yep that's the one: http://www.ixtools.de/pop

Re: feedback

2003-08-20 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:16:19PM +0300, Sourian wrote: | Who's spamming us??? Poor quality bots. (see how an autoresponder generated that message) I suspect that some instance of SoBig.F used the address of this list when sending itself to that autoresponder. The autoresponder then decides to

Re: Script for IP address change

2003-08-20 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:48:05AM -0700, William Crowshaw wrote: | This [Q] is not debian specific, but you guys are more | knowledgeable than normal linux user groups that I | thought I would ask it here. My machine's external IP | address is configured via DHCP from my cable modem | service pro

Re: The Associated Press has detected a violation in a document you authored.

2003-08-21 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:44:31PM +1200, cr wrote: | On Thursday 21 August 2003 03:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [a bunch of hogwash] | Is it just me, or is there something *really dumb* about alerting the | purported sender of a virus that spoofs the origin line? It's not just you. | ..

Re: ISA network cards

2003-08-21 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:36:35PM -0300, jleclair wrote: | | I'm trying to set up an old 486 as router/nat/firewall server for | home network. The 2 nics are dlink 220 isa. | When I run modconf, I choose the NE net module with this parameter: |io=0x300 | This works and the module lo

Re: exim questions: Filtering extensitons with version 3.35 or How to move from exim 3.35 to 4.2

2003-08-21 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:30:19AM +1000, Ivan Wills wrote: | Hi | I need to implement mail filters for attachments with dangerous file | extensions in exim. | Does any one know how to do this with the version of exim 3.35 which | comes with Debian Woody? There are a couple of ways. One is to

Re: Setting up the parport

2003-08-21 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:05:15AM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote: [...] | Now for me dmesg shows | | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)] | lp0: using parport0 (polling). | ppdev: user-space parallel port driver | | I've missed something I think, any ideas?? What indication do you have that

Re: dpkg in woody -- signed, unsigned

2003-08-21 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:05:26AM +, ben wrote: | Joey Hess wrote: | >ben wrote: | > | >>i've lurked the list, scoured the archives, but still can't find a | >>decisive cure for the signature deal with dpkg in woody. it's becoming a | >>huge pain to have to --force-bad-verify every deb i apt

Re: root login How ???

2003-08-22 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:35:56PM -0400, Victory wrote: | I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed, | try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager | and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form this | screen" That's right. | How to login with root acco

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Approved

2003-08-22 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:19:35PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: | On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:55:14 -0700 "Susan Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [out-of-office autoresponse] | | Well then, I'll add one for you to read, since you rudely left your | autoresponder to reply to the debian-user mailing lis

Re: root login How ???

2003-08-23 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:27:06PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: | On Friday 22 August 2003 10:28 pm, Robert Storey wrote: | >I know that most Debian users disdain the idea of ever logging in as root, Well, there is a reason for that. (see my first message in this thread) | > but there are a few ti

Re: How to remove Exim ?

2003-08-24 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:54:18PM -0800, W.D. McKinney wrote: | # apt-get remove --purge exim [...] | Removing exim ... | /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found | dpkg: error processing exim (--purge): | subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 | Error

[OT] translation from Dutch, please

2003-08-24 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
An artist friend of mine was admiring some work by Marjolein Bastin. She would like to find out more about Marjolein's technique and also what she studied in school because Marjolein's work is similar to the sort of thing my friend wants to do. My friend found some web sites, but they are Dutch an

Re: installing mixed packages with apt

2003-08-25 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:23:38AM -0700, Dweeil Brock wrote: | I"m using woody and I want to install the unstable version of vsftpd | 1.2.0-1. | I have tried the following apt-get commands, but apt cannot find the | version I want -- even though this version if listed under the unstable | relea

Re: Please help solve printing weirdness

2003-08-25 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:46:15PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: | | For some reason I am having printing weirdness on this machine. I am | running testing, upgraded from Woody if that helps. I have recompiled | my kernel to contain parport and parport_pc (Kernel 2.4.18) You need the 'lp' module

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-25 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:10:12PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:51:37 -0500 "P. Kallakuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > i cannot find what process is keeping them. i know that i disabled ICMP | > requests on my gateway, | | Ungh. Why? Why disable ICMP. I never figured t

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2003-08-26 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:40:44PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: | Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it | VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 You probably forgot to include the driver for your hard disk when you built the kernel. Follow Joris' suggestion for enabling the drive

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: | On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:44:32 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote : [...] | > ICMP is extremely useful and is, in fact, required for | > correct operation of TCP and IP. Do not block ICMP. | | ..no rule witout e

Re: icmp filtering (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:40:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * P. Kallakuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 11:06]: | > by default ICMP traffic is disabled and when i setup a firewall in our | > research lab about 3 years back, thats how i left it. our research | > machines were open on the intern

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:48:36PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? Yes. | I have a lot of DNS traffic running with this query and I noticed | that my mail log was full of messages to stop using | relays.osirusoft.com. Yeah, I just heard that relays.osiruso

Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: | Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly. | | Kevin Mark uses my domain 'waidele.info' in order to fake his from-adress. | I have asked him to stop it, but he still continues. Actually ... he i

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:16:03AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:17, Paul Johnson wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: | > > Is this just me or is the mailinglist server terribly slow? I sent a | > > message to the list at 9:15 PM and I got it

Re: Jabber and transports

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:42:07PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | I've tried installing the AIM transport from agrogeomatic.educagri.fr | (from their listing on apt-get.org). Following aim-transport's | instructions, I added it into the jabber.xml the way it tells you to, | and I can see it when I q

Re: resolv.conf file

2003-08-28 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:06:57PM -0400, Victory wrote: | I setup my machine as a dhcp client, once in a while | it add 000 to the end of search entry in "resolv.conf" file | i.e "search mydomain.com\000" and it causing machine can not | ping other machine by name, | Where're these number 000 co

Re: Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24

2003-08-29 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: | So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't | be perfect until I can get Debian on it. The problem is doesn't have a | floppy or cd drive. I did notice it can boot from the network. Would it | be pos

Re: flock|fcntl and mutt

2003-08-29 Thread Derrick &#x27;dman&#x27; Hudson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:43:03PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: | Hi, | | yesterday I installed FreeBSD (RELEASE-5.1) the firts time. Great | with the famous handbook ;-) | | The home-dirs are mounted via nfs from a woody box. When I start mutt | at the FreeBSD box it shows | | flock: Operat

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