Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 06/11/08 16:07, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But does the modem work? What modem? Winmodems aren't modems, they're sound boards with the wrong audio connector. I think he was trying to be

Fwd: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

2008-06-20 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. What do you wizards make of it, please? Thanks, appreciated. :-) It's Etch, btw. - Forwarded message from mdadm monitoring [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-21 Thread s. keeling
In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/08 20:33, Lish wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (whether it is Taiwan or PRC). I just don't see any reason to support the (Communism? debatable) absolute dictatorship that is China.

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
elijah r. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owen Townend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does no one use 'talk' anymore? OT

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically illiterate housemate. That and putting xeyes all over his desktop remotely is hilarious. Whatever happened to xroach?

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/21 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there that I need to know about,

Re: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Christofer C. Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb Your system has a raid5 array configured as /dev/md0 containing disks sda, sdb, and sdc. Your sdb disk has

Re: usb hub with fluxbox

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I recently got a USB hub with four ports. While I can plug a storage device, or a digital camera, into it, and read these devices separately, it seems that I cannot mount and read them at the same time (IE, view images from the digital camera,

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Sam Kuper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/22 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The tell people like Ted Kennedy to put up (and allow that wind farm off Martha's Vineyard) or shut up about the environment. That's way off topic. Yeah, he's troling. :-) Personally, I've found all of the wind

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-25 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 06/24/08 02:02, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/24 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You're that machine's god. That machine's users(! you, her, and root) need their god to do the right thing. When my users strap bombs to themselves and start blowing up

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-25 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/24 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You're that machine's god. That machine's users(! you, her, and root) need their god to do the right thing. When my users strap bombs to themselves and start blowing up their neighbors in my name, I'll set up my

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-25 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/24 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You're that machine's god. That machine's users(! you, her, and root) need their god to do the right thing. When my users strap bombs to themselves and start blowing up their Trying to think coherently, ... [How's

Re: no /etc/printcap file

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am running etch, and I have installed lprng and apsfilter for printing. But I don't have a /etc/printcap file installed. For example: $ lpr mf1a-prova2.pdf Read_file_list: cannot stat required or included file '//etc/printcap' - No

[Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10). It refused to boot on their AMD images (... detected i1586[sic] CPU.). This thing

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07/06/08 02:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me in a fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a worse output. Huh *Using* CUPS is as difficult as rolling off a log. BS!

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008-07-06 23:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07/06/2008 08:36:13 AM, John W Foster wrote: I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the time they were created that I needed an expiration date in thm.

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 23:13:08 +0200, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling writes: Can we expand on that? I have my passphrase. I use the key all the time. It's tied to my old, now defunct, ISP. You mean I can generate a revocation key, then generate a new, more accurately tied key? What do you mean by tied? You

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-07 Thread s. keeling
David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lahf_lm?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on Thanks for your help. I guess this is an AMD (early) Celeron. :-) Still, anice machine if a little oddly laid

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-07 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling writes: Spots is dead. What do I do now to update that to my present real-world situation, or do I even really have to? I've spent many hours on the manpage among others. Have you read the _GNU Privacy Handbook_ that is included in the gnupg

Re: [Solved] Re: Unable to remove trousers (package!!!)

2008-07-08 Thread s. keeling
Seconded. stabbyjones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/08/08 14:05, jpk wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:56:46AM -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: From: Richard A

Re: A trick for non-supscrivvers

2008-07-11 Thread s. keeling
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This message originally had the title A trick for non-subscribers. I send it again with the word misspelled. The original version did not make it to the list because the list interpreted the substring subscribe in the title as a request to subscribe

Re: i386 or amd64?

2008-07-13 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07/13/08 10:29, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] Note: I do not understand the reluctance of not using a 64bit OS at this time. I do hear that java/flash are not yet fully working on 64bit, but I don't ever see any issues with it. I do not code,

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato lgeme...@terra.com.br: I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? I don't know. It had no trouble installing on my AMD64. I need some help here. I need some more details to be able to help. I can suggest

[OT] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com: ... [snipped] -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Good one, but lacks originality? Cf. Goedel Escher Bach? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Intro

2009-04-22 Thread s. keeling
Ben Badgley mortecan...@peoplepc.com: My name is Ben Badgley. I live in rural Virginia, we can visit Have fun. Wise choice. If you need help, *please* tell us what you've got and what it's doing so we have a chance at helping (/var/log/* is useful). I've been loving this stuff since '93.

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-26 Thread s. keeling
Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: Technicly, can i safely remove unused locales? I do use localepurge (on the new system since isntall), but there don't seem to be included in the process. dpkg-reconfigure locales Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again.

Re: less secure login

2009-04-30 Thread s. keeling
David Jardine da...@jardine.de: When logging into a console under squeeze, a false user name is now rejected immediately. Up to recently there was no reaction to a false user name until the password had been entered. Although I personally find the new behaviour more convenient, it

Mutt, Exim4, Debian, Ubuntu and BCC. FAIL (debian-news.net).

2009-04-30 Thread s. keeling
Hey. Please see: http://www.debian-news.net/2009/04/29/mutt-exim4-debian-ubuntu-and-bcc-fail-fix-included/ Do any of you out there have any more details on this problem? I've tried the fix suggested, and on my first test (no Bcc:) exim4 bounced it saying no recipient addresses found. I've

Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-05-10 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no Desktop Environment on install; I startx into fluxbox). On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to stdout. How do I change this, or track

[OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Michael Yang michael@gmail.com: [snip] This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? Try this: http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM: aptitude update aptitude install clive -- Any technology

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: s. keeling wrote: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM: aptitude

MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan than work from flawed notes. On Debian, how do you set the mysql root user pword? I've tried

Re: MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert Baron: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up

Re: MySQL admin qref? [Solved]

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
deb...@waysoft.com deb...@waysoft.com: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:41:10 -0600 s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: Incoming from Robert Baron: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: (0) [root] infidel /root_ mysql ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the

Re: [OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: I know this is off-topic, but I don't really want to have to subscribe to or constantly read the MySQL mailing lists, and the IRC channel's no help. Search the archives: groups.google.com comp.databases.mysql # guessing. However, I think your

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

2009-09-28 Thread s. keeling
replaces ~/sh/things.sh; datestamps, # separates, and pretty-prints entries. # # 13Apr2002 s. keeling 0001 replace things.sh # 10Oct2004 s. keeling 0002 writes html # 12Jun2005 s. keeling 0003 reformatting, lt; gt; # 1Jul2005 s. keeling

Re: dlink dwa-556

2009-12-08 Thread s. keeling
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de: Hi, Hi yourself. My only purpose here is to note that some of your posts are excruciatingly long. This elicits flames (some pay by the byte). Suggest: http://paste.debian.net/ --- Thanks for starting this thread. I'm learning as fast as I can (friend's

Re: mutt deletes 1st unread

2009-12-18 Thread s. keeling
freeman free...@worldwidehtml.com: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: freeman free...@worldwidehtml.com writes: I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n weeks. Here is the l-debusr hook: folder-hook l-debusr 'push

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-25 Thread s. keeling
Kwaku Obeng kwakb...@gmail.com: My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy which I am unable to boot

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:33:32PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,01.Jan.10, 13:26:59, Chris Jones wrote: I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists with the traditional '' quote markers removed. [...] [snip] More

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler jhas...@debian.org: Celejar writes: What's wrong with using technical solutions to solve social problems? Shooting them is a technical solution. Strangling them would be a social one. Damn, I love your posts. Sorry, but shooting them is a philosophical problem first

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
RobertHoltzman hol...@cox.net: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:55:59AM +, Camale=EF=BF=BDn wrote: Educating them it always better than shooting them ;-) I dunno, thinning the herd has its merits :-) Trust me, ya gotta be careful with that kind of thinking. There were a lot of people

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be: Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a device (not necessarily a

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Louis Hinman sl...@rcn.com: I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: Along with the other excellent advice others have suggested, subscribe to whitel...@lists.debian.org, with all its resulting goodness. -- Any

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable.

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to do so? I've not read your link. Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying essentially yes. aptitude (I thimk) logs more of its actions than does apt-get,

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it is I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production machines serving

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +, s. keeling wrote: T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to do so? Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Joe j...@jretrading.com: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: s. keeling wrote: T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-28 Thread s. keeling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: Is there a description or screenshot of it somewhere? Can I easily engage it from the command-line? I'd like to play with it and see if it is as useful as the aptitude one. See the -s switch, just like aptitude. -- Any technology

Re: Can start X once but no more

2010-09-05 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Following up with http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/389399 DR. I have exactly the same symptom: Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to post about as you do, I'll never understand. $ uname -rm

Re: .xsession kills X server with sqeeze/fluxbox

2010-09-05 Thread s. keeling
Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com: On 9/5/10, brownh bro...@historicalmaterialism.info wrote: I'm used to using an .xsession file in ~/ Me too. I use .xinitrc, and start X from CLI (ssh-agent startx). No [XKG]dm. . But I find that when I have sqeeze installed with fluxbox, the

Re: List of packages

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Touset: On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jim Hall wrote: On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think I need things like libs, just the package names. I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything

Re: trying to set up a print server; installation problems. Please help

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eduard Breuer: I searched the web first and also googled the debian site and here is the resource I got: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html to start with the possible source of my troble. I followed the instructions and did: 1) apt-get

Re: Test message

2004-10-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Greg Trounson: Gidday, Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the Yes, it's getting through. d-u has been suffering through some intermittent latency glitches in past months. Something about problems with large receivers and long timeouts fouling

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph: If you are worried about security and stability issues, install stable. period. Correct! I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. I

Re: faq on choosing a debian distribution - draft 1

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph: From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make it into stable. Stable gets backported security fixes

Re: SBL/XBL Spamassassin

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert Vangel: I do not know the complete ins-and-outs of how SBL/XBL blacklists how, or even how to configure a MTA/spam filter to use them, which is what my email is about. Basically, I have seen a bit of discussion from other lists about SpamHaus, and how good their

Re: dselect?

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from J. Hannemann: I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me, a debian newbie, :) . Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better. You can bypass dselect and use apt to install anything

Re: dselect?

2004-10-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jules Dubois: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect can do. I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available. I recommend it. If there is graphic tool, that would be

Re: Help!

2004-10-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Tech4rce microsystems: I've even skipped the X window system on settup, downloaded the New XFree86-4.4.0, and ran through the setup. Reboot - now it comes up with missing glidepackage. -- (0) keeling /home/keeling_ aptitude

fetchmail stopped working (woody).

2004-11-03 Thread s. keeling
This is driving me nuts. Everything else works fine. All of a sudden, I can't pop mail, and I have no idea why: --- (0) keeling /home/keeling_ fetchmail -v fetchmail: removing stale lockfile fetchmail: 5.9.11 querying mail.spots.ab.ca (protocol

Re: fetchmail stopped working (woody).

2004-11-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joost Witteveen: s. keeling wrote: fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while delivering to SMTP host mail.spots.ab.ca Seems you try to deliver to your (local) SMTP server. I've had problems

Re: fetchmail stopped working (woody).

2004-11-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wayne Topa: s. keeling([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: This is driving me nuts. Everything else works fine. All of a sudden, I can't pop mail, and I have no idea why: Had this happen a few times in the past 2-3 months. Seems that the first mail at the pop

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alex Malinovich: On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:09 -0500, Tong wrote: I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the current directory in RH: ls -l criteria | grep ^d | cut -c57- but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. How do

perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)

2004-11-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steven Jones: I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I That's an interesting point. Long ago and far away, it used to be a given that any old x86 box with a big enough disk would be more than enough to handle just about anything a mailserver needed to

Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)

2004-11-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ron Johnson: On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:26 -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Steven Jones: I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I That's an interesting point. Long ago and far away, it used to be a given that any old x86 box

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hannibal Smith: Am I safe from getting spam on this list? Nope. The list does stop a lot of spam, but some does still come through. Will my e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) be sold or distributed? Probably, and now that you've posted it, it's available to anyone who

Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header (was: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture)

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long X-Accept-Language: header of yours? Is there any plausible reason for all of that? Just wondering since I've never seen that done before, and you must be one primo linguist if all that's real. -- Any

Re: Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header

2004-11-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike White: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long X-Accept-Language: header of yours? Is there any plausible reason Funny story: I used to get all sorts of Mozilla dialog boxes coming up whenever i hit

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Lale: On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:04, Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks. Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc. Who are you

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Lale: On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:21, s. keeling wrote: [snip] Thanks! Works with slight modification: for f in cur/*; do perl adcomplain.pl $f .. done You can fix that with chmod: chmod 744 adcomplain.pl and move adcomplain.pl to one of the dirs

Re: security updates

2004-11-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rui Silva: i configured my apt sources.list by apt-setup and i said yes to the questions about a securityy source but when i run apt-get update it says that the site isn't there what is the line to put in my sources.list file??? i'm running unstable I run stable. Massage

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

2004-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from charlie derr: Chad wrote: I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or $ export COLUMNS=150 $ dpkg -l You don't need the export. Here's a nice alias: pkgl='COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l' 2.

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wayne Topa: Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found Do you have another URL Karsten? At one time,

Re: Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory. Um. help?

2004-11-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Kenneth Fisher: debian:/home/jkfisher# lilo Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory How do I make one? I used apt-get (actually wajig, but who's counting?) to update, which I've done many times before, but for the first time I've seen, LILO is throwing

Re: can't mount -o remount,ro /usr

2004-11-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Mandelberg: I tried this the first time it happened (this is the second). It didn't work, and I ended up rebooting during the next network outage (ISP's I'm wondering how it managed to get mounted rw in the first place. Is there some reason it needs to boot mounted rw? If

Re: Why my KDE is so weak

2004-11-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Lian Liming: I am using debian ustable with kde 3.3. I wonder why my kde is so weak. It oftern crashes. I am not curious to know the reasons why my kde often crashes. I just want to know when meeting such problems, how can i analyze the problem. I am not

Re: mutt pop configuration

2004-11-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from George Iordanou: I'm using debian unstable. I'm currently reading my e-mail through evolution. I want to read them through a text-based mail client. As i can see my best choice is mutt (there's nothing else exciting available, [snip] Details of GMail account: Incoming Mail

Re: Script to Set Environment Variable?

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I write a script to set an environment variable? Understand that you're trying to define something that will be available to the current process, and all children of that process. Already existing processes won't know about it, and after that process

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc? What do you mean by registered user? Good question, hmm, the ones that you can unregister with deluser? ls -l /home

Re: Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Shawn McCuan: What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? Search the archives at lists.debian.org -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: Logging out the window manager

2004-11-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Beresford: I want to run some commands whenever I logout the window manager. I thought that using bash_logout script would do the thing but it does't. I'm running fluxbox as Have you tried $HOME/.bash_logout ? It worked for me when I still used bash. -- Any

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sam Watkins: On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: watch out for dumb file anems like: office birthday list bob's projections 'any other dumb file names' allowed in windoz, that is not allowed in *nix I think the only characters not

Re: Problem still there

2004-11-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from jack kinnon: Yes, I used a 'hand-made' 2.6.3 kernel. I checked the kernel config to ensure that 'Unix domain sockets' is selected. I even re-create kernel from the source but the problem is still there. Problem? What problem? Further suggestions, pls. Who, what, when,

Re: Floppy mount unmount clarification please

2004-11-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jim Hall: 4) Where do I find out how to tell the module to recognize more file types? I need the system to just deal with whatever known fs is put in Change the fs type in /etc/fstab to auto: # device mount point type options dump pass /dev/fd0

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rogério Brito: On Nov 27 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer, but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a serious way. Actually, I think that there are quite a lot of

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish braces { from parentheses (. Bad news for coding.

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily or permanently) the IP address? fwlogwatch purports to be able to do this (I haven't tried this feature; ymmv). However,

Re: ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source down?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Shawn McCuan: Does anyone know if the ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source is down? (0) keeling /home/keeling_ ping -c 1 ftp.egr.msu.edu PING ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): 56 data bytes --- ike.egr.msu.edu ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jacob S: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:50:24 -0700 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily fwlogwatch purports

Re: Debian Apache Config Document

2004-12-05 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Lian Liming: So can someone give me some information on where to find useful debian apache configuration documents? aptitude install apache-doc You can find things like this with apt-cache search apache -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: How I killed^Wdecided Kirk is a good guy.

2004-07-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Greg Folkert: /me might be changing said opinion about someone being nice... dict nice: Nice \Nice\ (n[imac]s), a. [Compar. {Nicer} (n[imac]s[~e]r); superl. {Nicest}.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant, fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire

Re: iptables filter rules Question??

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is my rule set: 1 iptables -P INPUT DROP 2 iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT 3 iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT 4 iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT 5 iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT 6

Re: iptables filter rules Question??

2004-07-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [s. keeling:] I use exactly the same rule here: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT EULER:~# iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables: No chain/target/match by that name

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