książka

2001-06-26 Thread T
Proszę mi polecić najlepszą ksiażke, do Debiana wraz (najlepiej) z jego dystrybucją. Chodzi mi o pozycję, która od początku (jestem początkująy bardzo mocno w Linuxie) do (prawie) końca ;) nauczy mnie obsługi tego systemu. pozdr. Piotrek

instlacja

2001-07-17 Thread T
W tak pięknych okolicnościach przyrody, napisał do Was wymiatacz Debianowy, Tomfa, zadając trywialne pytanie: Mam dysk 20 Gb, dwie partycje. na C: mam Windowska a na D: chce mieć Debiana jak bezboleśnie zrobić, bez reinstalacji, formatowania itd: zainstalować debiana i zmieniać sobie, który

Odp: instlacja

2001-07-17 Thread T
A takie pytanko masz juz cos zainstalowanego na partycji D ? | bo jesli nie to za³ó¿ sobie tam partycje linuksow¹. | Nie wiem jak masz podzielony ten dysk ale jeli po po³owie | to i tak nie bêdziesz potrzebowa³ ca³ych 10GB na linuksa | wiêc mo¿esz czesæ partycji wydzieliæ na debiana a reszte |

najmniejsza część

2001-07-17 Thread T
Chce najpierw zainstalować minimalną wersję debiana, by potem dołączać kolejne jego części. I teraz: skad sciagnąć minimalną jego wersję? Przypuszczam, że nie będzie duża ;). pozdr. Piotrek

Re: Guide till postfix/dovecot

2013-12-10 Thread T
Carlsson Jag började min skrämmande resa gällande postfix på: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/ Mvh /T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Console screen energy saving time control

2006-10-30 Thread T
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:28:05 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: I'm wondering how I can configure my console screen energy saving time. ie, when my PC is left with tty screens. man setterm /usr/bin/setterm Thanks, I tried setterm -powerdown 1 but nothing happened, even after 2 minutes. --

Allow user to handle their own print queue

2006-11-07 Thread T
Hi How to allow users to handle their own print queue? $ lprm 26 Password for tong on localhost? How can I configure my Debian so that users can freely handle their own print jobs (not others), and not bothered with password every time? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

yahoo mail and firefox

2006-11-08 Thread T
Hi, Do you use yahoo mail, its web interface, regularly? Do you use firefox for that? Have you notice any problems? I access my yahoo mail web interface using firefox almost every day. But I bumped into problem from time to time. Sometimes I have Sorry, Bad Request. Your browser sent a

Re: yahoo mail and firefox, conclusion

2006-11-08 Thread T
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:16:24 -0500, T wrote: I access my yahoo mail web interface using firefox almost every day. But I bumped into problem from time to time. Hi, thanks everyone for your feed back. No, I'm not using Yahoo beta version interface, just the standard one. Nyizsnyik mentioned

List packages by releases

2006-11-10 Thread T
Hi, Somehow I get a mixed system, mixed packages from testing/unstable are mingled in my system. Is there any way to list which packages are from unstable or testing? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Daily update package archive

2006-11-11 Thread T
Hi What is the recommended way to 'aptitude update' daily and update the files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ as well (without actually install anything)? Or, anywhere I can read up about it? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Cupsys, using gimpprint driver instead of gutenprint

2006-11-11 Thread T
Hi, The new cupsys in Etch does not work for me, while the old cupsys in Sarge works perfectly. After switching to Etch, I've had 3 attempts trying to make it works, but failed 3 times. (My latest attempt and problem logged at: http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s3095+gcups.bugs+v3104+T0 )

Re: Daily update package archive

2006-11-11 Thread T
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:25:04 -0600, John Hasler wrote: What is the recommended way to 'aptitude update' daily and update the files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ as well (without actually install anything)? Package: cron-apt Description: automatic update of packages using apt-get... Hi,

apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2006-11-11 Thread T
Hi, where can I find the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade? I have always been using apt-get upgrade, but according to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/43 it is not correct: ,- | apt-get upgrade is not correct, it is only recommended for the stable |

apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-11 Thread T
Hi, I found that apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing -- packages already up to date are still shown as upgradeable: $ apt-show-versions | grep tex-common tex-common/unstable upgradeable from 0.37 to 0.38 $ apt-cache policy tex-common tex-common: Installed: 0.37 Candidate:

Re: List packages by releases

2006-11-11 Thread T
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:26:48 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Is there any way to list which packages are from unstable or testing? 'apt-show-versions' is what you want. Thanks, I checked into it, but unfortunately I found that apt-show-versions cannot distinguish unstable and testing. -- Tong

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-12 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:01:20 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I found that apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing -- packages already up to date are still shown as upgradeable... Is there any way I can fix it? Else, I hope the tool be enhanced. Since you're running a mixed system,

Re: apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2006-11-12 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:08:37 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: BUGS This manpage isn't even started. That page /also/ says: SEE ALSO apt-cache(8), apt-get(8), apt.conf(5), sources.list(5) man apt-get has exactly what you want. thanks, got it. -- Tong (remove underscore(s)

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-12 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:33:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: $ reportbug apt-show-versions is your friend. :) My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: List packages by releases

2006-11-12 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:50:54 +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: Not sure why your apt-show-versions can't distinguish between unstable and testing. I'm a little pregnant. :-) -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Sending bug report alternatively

2006-11-12 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:47:17 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: $ reportbug apt-show-versions is your friend. :) My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) reportbug lets you write the text out to a flat file, which you can then past into the Yahoo compose screen.

Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

2006-11-13 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:50:14 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: For cupsys in Etch, is it possible to use gimpprint driver instead of gutenprint? The current cupsys-driver-gimpprint package in Etch is just an empty transitional package to ensure an automatic upgrade to the gutenprint system.

Re: Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

2006-11-13 Thread T
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:01:32 -0500, T wrote: the driver that I was using is actually not the gutenprint's but CUPS'. So I re-installed everything again, but still I can't see any gutenprint drivers when I get to the choosing Model/Driver step at web setup, all are CUPS' Thanks Matthew

how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

2006-11-15 Thread T
Hi For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash encode/decode them? I.e., echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode Anybody know how to make the output similar to '\312\325\274\376\317\344'? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

Re: how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

2006-11-16 Thread T
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:07 -0500, T wrote: Hi For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash encode/decode them? I.e., echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode Anybody know how to make the output similar to '\312\325\274\376\317\344'? Just FYI, $ echo

tool to encode html entities

2006-11-16 Thread T
Hi Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. from sed s/ /nbsp;/g f1 f2 to sed quot;s/ /amp;nbsp;/gquot; lt; f1 gt; f2 ? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: tool to encode html entities

2006-11-16 Thread T
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:59:37 -0500, T wrote: Hi Any tools can help me encode html entities? E.g. from sed s/ /nbsp;/g f1 f2 to sed quot;s/ /amp;nbsp;/gquot; lt; f1 gt; f2 ? thanks hi, I found I'd like to talk to myself recently. :-) $ echo 'sed s/ /nbsp;/g f1 f2

[OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

2006-11-19 Thread T
Hi, Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it with a new compress level/factor? I looked into the ImageMagick package, seems that none of the convert(1), identify(1), composite(1), montage(1), compare(1), display(1), animate(1), import(1), conjure(1) can do

Re: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

2006-11-19 Thread T
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:08:18 +0800, PCMan wrote: my friends and I have developed a new lightweight desktop environment which is really usable and suitable for older machines. PCMan? are you the author of pcmanfm -- the extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X? I'm using fluxbox

Re: [OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

2006-11-19 Thread T
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:31:26 -0500, T wrote: Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it with a new compress level/factor? Hi, thank you Florian Sven for the swift respond. yes, the -quality option of convert/mogrify is what I'm looking for. I was just

Which firewall can do Bandwidth Shaping

2006-11-22 Thread T
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:46:57 +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Can anyone recommend to use (or to avoid) any of the following? very interesting topic. I wanted to ask too. Thanks everyone for the input. Is your suggested firewall wrapper support Bandwidth Shaping/Policing (ie, traffic

device /dev/sda16 not exist?

2006-12-03 Thread T
Hi, I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ mount: special device /dev/sda16 does not exist why the device not exist? It's there: $ fdisk -l | grep sda16 /dev/sda16 23510 24792

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

2006-12-04 Thread T
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:08 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ mount: special device

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-05 Thread T
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP. However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication. [...] Also, make

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-05 Thread T
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:27:45 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: # cat /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd upstream.mail.exchange[EMAIL PROTECTED]:password Can you have multiple entries, one per user? From http://www.k2.on.lk/fourm/viewtopic.php?t=30 u can list many servers as you like

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-05 Thread T
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:55:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP. However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication. Here is what I

Can't startx after xorg update

2006-12-28 Thread T
Hi, I'm using testing, after yesterday's xorg update, my X can't start anymore. The error is: Failed to load module bitmap pcidata. Why is that? How should I fix it? $ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libbitmap.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4525 11-24

Re: Can't startx after xorg update

2006-12-28 Thread T
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:29:03 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm no expert, but based on the above (modules located in /usr/lib/xorg/modules) and the below, I think I know the problem. Bingo, thanks a lot Andrew. I actually looked at the two for a few seconds before I asked, :-) silly me,

Kaser USB Jumbo Drive

2006-12-29 Thread T
Hi, My newly bought Kaser USB Jumbo Drive [1] can't be recognized. I've been googling around, and here are the relevant info. After the USB drive is plugged in: $ tail messages Dec 29 19:40:31 cxmr kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Dec 29 19:40:32

Re: Kaser USB Jumbo Drive

2006-12-29 Thread T
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:47:19 +, T wrote: My newly bought Kaser USB Jumbo Drive [1] can't be recognized. Never mind, it's my crappy PC's HW problem. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Clone root partition

2006-12-30 Thread T
Hi, I'm trying to compile a comprehensive document on cloning root partitions. My immediate goal is to clone my current working Linux to external USB HD, so that I can use it wherever I go. By comprehensive I mean it should not be as simple minded as dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/sda2 or cp

Re: Clone root partition

2006-12-31 Thread T
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:08:14 -0300, Alejandro wrote: Suppose I have a production server with a /dev/sda disk and I mount a second disk /dev/sdb in order to clon sda to sdb (booting from a live cd). Sdb is the disk from a backup server (similar to the production server) I want to use when

Looking for dark background themes

2006-12-31 Thread T
Hi, My main color theme (for my fluxbox) is light-on-dark. But all GTK or QT applications seems to be default to black-on-white, which is stressful to my eyes. I'm wondering if I can change those GTK/QT applications to a light-on-dark theme. Moreover, can you recommend a good light-on-dark

Re: Clone root partition

2007-01-04 Thread T
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:38 -0500, Marty wrote: For cloning root filesystem drives I use a small script that performs an rsync backup followed up by fixups to the /dev directory, /etc/fstab, and /etc/lilo.conf and then runs lilo -r to make the backup bootable. (A similar approach could

subprocess pre-removal script returned error

2007-01-05 Thread T
Hi, How to remove those packages that have pre-removal script errors? This is what I tried: $ aptitude --purge-unused purge open-iscsi The following packages will be REMOVED: open-iscsi{p} Removing open-iscsi ... Stopping iSCSI initiator service: succeeded. Removing iSCSI

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread T
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:49:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Aren't they listed when you issue a: $ xlsfonts | grep comic no How did you install them? I followed: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/Font-HOWTO/html/Font-HOWTO/x169.html Did you install the

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-20 Thread T
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:21:19 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Huh, perhaps not yet. fontsel finds it, but it doesent seem to be there. --- $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-21 Thread T
[please quote appropriately next time] On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:32:21 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: --- $ aterm -fn -microsoft-comic sans ms-medium-r-normal-*-0-0-0-0-*-0-*-1 aterm: can't load font -microsoft-comic sans

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread T
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:11:03 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: I'm not 100% sure of where lies my problem, but I'd appreciate if you give me the output of $ xlsfonts | grep comic on your machine. I still get: __ aterm: can't load font

Re: terminal true type fonts

2006-08-22 Thread T
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:18:57 +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: Here's mine, notice the difference. I wonder how come it's not the same. The only different is the last 2 parts, which depend on locale. Here are mine: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 zh_CN

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread T
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:05 -0500, Kent West wrote: ... Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude ... apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task. how did you do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread T
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:49 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } That's your problem. aptitude sucks. } } I always use something like aptitude install -t version xxx. Aptitude } remembers reverse dependencies, hence aptitude purge xxx will remove xxx } and all it's deps, apt-get won't

Re: CRM web based

2006-08-25 Thread T
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:08:11 +0200, Kim Christensen wrote: I'm searching a CRM web based written in PHP using mysql as database and with CTI integration. Now I'm testing xrms (it seems very good) . But is there something more simple? Any suggestions? Thanks http://news.php.net/php.general

Re: Questions about Etch in chroot.

2006-08-26 Thread T
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:34:53 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have installed a minimal Etch system into a chroot. ... My purpose is to get a clean system without leftover bits of everything from Bo to Sarge. ... so I try not to reboot any more than nescessary. ha, finally found one that's as

Backing up whole disk

2006-08-28 Thread T
Hi I tried to backup my whole partition with tar: tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz . but when testing the archive result with tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz It ends with the following error, without explaining what's wrong: gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

Re: Backing up whole disk

2006-08-28 Thread T
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:35:17 -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: On 8/28/06, T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I tried to backup my whole partition with tar: tar -cvzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz . but when testing the archive result with tar -tzf /mnt/.../cache11.tgz It ends

Xorg, choosing default resolution

2006-08-30 Thread T
Hi My Xorg starts up in 1280x960 mode, which I don't like. I like it to be 1152x864. How can I make my Xorg starts up in 1152x864 mode? Here is my Screen. See, there is no 1280x960 listed in the mode, but yet Xorg starts with it. Section Screen Identifier aticonfig-Screen[0]

texlive and tetex tools

2006-08-30 Thread T
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: What is the difference between the two latex implementations available under debian? I think the main difference is that texlive is the new packaging, which is more

Re: [OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

2006-08-30 Thread T
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:14:33 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many #ifdef #endif constructs which are preprocessed by cpp (The C preprocessor). ... #ifdef construct1 write(10,*) 'construct1 is enabled' #else write(10,*)

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-30 Thread T
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:03:00 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: I thought I would be slick and write a package that contains a script that will figure out what should be installed/removed/upgraded/etc. on each of the machines where I work. (Using sarge, btw.) I had planned to do this by listing

Re: [OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

2006-08-30 Thread T
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:33:03 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:19, T wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:14:33 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many #ifdef #endif constructs which are preprocessed by cpp

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install the package? Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be scheduled for install via dselect --set-selections, too. If you're going to go

aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread T
Hi I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: % aptitude install apache2 The following NEW packages will be automatically

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for). It should work.

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:51:44 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ in order to move the files found in the script up one directory? Why use xargs? find -exec deals with file one at a time. Why not something like (please test before use):

Re: Braindead package management -- was Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-09-01 Thread T
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:12:49 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for). It should work.

X, dpi and fonts

2006-09-01 Thread T
Hi Several questions about X and dpi: - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? - Is there any relation between X dpi and font selection? - How does X map font request such as '-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' to actual font name? I think for the

Fake package to satisfy dependencies

2006-09-01 Thread T
Hi I remember there is a tool that allows me to build a fake package which contains nothing but package info to satisfy dependencies from other packages. What it is? For example, I never use package Y, but (stupid) package X insists on the dependencies of Y. I want to build a fake Y just to

Re: Packaging tags

2006-09-01 Thread T
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:32:56 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: I've searched in apt-cache and aptitude man and googled, but don't locate a command-line based program to list installed programs filtered (or not) by tags. Any idea? Thanks :) ara - Command line utility for searching the Debian

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread T
Prejudice against sendmail? I think so personally. There are too many people trash talk sendmail here, I think it is time that I speak up. On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote: Do you have some expirience with sendmail Sendmail has the best integration with cyrus imapd, via

Re: X, dpi and fonts

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:45:15 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How can I determine the dpi of current X session? xdpyinfo thanks but, then what? Do you mean: screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1152x864 pixels (293x219 millimeters) resolution

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:28:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Interesting. I also mam a non-mailgeek, but got Postfix working as a Smarhost within an hour. dpkg-reconfigure postfix plus a little Googling and it worked. (Note, though, that my ISP's smtp server is unauthenticated.) On Fri, 01 Sep

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:29:41 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: If you had tried google... The second hit would have given you the answer... Also, if you go to www.postfix.org, click on Documentation and then ... And lets not forget that when you install postfix on debian it actually asks you

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:40:33 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: Again, you only mentioned making your MTA deliver mail to your ISP. The steps you posted in reply to Steve Lamb's post, tells my yout tried to setup Postfix not as a client talking to a remote server, but as a server accepting

[OT] Win2k blocks ports to my ISP's pop3 smtp

2006-09-02 Thread T
hi Please don't flame for this waaa~y OT question -- I'm still trying to solve my smarthost problem and was forced to use M$ outlook, I suspect is it my ISP's problem but have to prove it, anyway, long story short: - My Linux is able to telnet to my ISP's pop3 smtp respective ports - My Win2k

Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive)

2006-09-02 Thread T
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:53:19 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: One suggestion in earlier threads was to use forcing options with the package tools, but I'm reluctant to do so because I don't understand the implications well. Go ahead and remove the problematic package via dpkg by force. That's

update /dev/disk/by-label/

2006-09-03 Thread T
Hi if I've updated some of my disk labels, how can I let udev update the /dev/disk/by-label/ directory? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fonts and latex support

2006-09-04 Thread T
Hi Upgraded from Sarge to Etch, I noticed that my CJK Latex does not work any more -- nothing at my part changed, only the system. Having looked into the problem I found that the the latex support files of the font packages that I installed are missing. For example, dpkg -L

Re: Disabling anti-aliasing, ~/.fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf ignored

2006-09-04 Thread T
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:16:58 +0200, ivalladt wrote: Surprisingly, True Type Proggy fonts look awfully on gnome-terminal using my recently installed etch To try and make things look better, I tried disabling anti aliasing on my favourite font via .fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf,

Solved: Fonts and latex support

2006-09-04 Thread T
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:37:10 +0200, T wrote: Upgraded from Sarge to Etch, I noticed that my CJK Latex does not work any more ... I found that the the latex support files of the font packages that I installed are missing The ones that I'm missing are the latex support files, namely

Re: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state (texlive) [solved]

2006-09-04 Thread T
Glad that you've solved it. Thanks for sharing. On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:29:43 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: ... Probably --force-all would have done it in one shot (since the invocation of mktexlsr was the only thing in the postrm). guess so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread T
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:28:08 -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing ... ... Debian LIVECD ... Ok...give up on iBuild Second, I have been playing with the Morphix Tools... build it is empty... Others have suggested Knopsis dfsbuild. I've been

Printing area problem, Cups or latex?

2006-09-06 Thread T
Hi This is a strange problem that I really hope someone here can answer: Updated from Sarge to Etch, I just noticed that my label printing does not work any more. I used to use the Latex labels package to do label printing. But today, when I try it, the printed content is way off the place. I

inetd or xinetd

2006-09-07 Thread T
Hi Hope I'm not starting a religious war here, but I'd like to know whether inetd or xinetd is preferred for a *personal environment*. In my current system: $ cat /etc/init.d/inetd #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/inetd has been diverted by the xinetd package. # The

Re: inetd or xinetd

2006-09-08 Thread T
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:12:48 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: ...I'd like to know whether inetd or xinetd is preferred for a *personal environment*. inetd is more than ok for a personal environment, why not also for a professional setup. Thanks Ismael for the reply. I value each

Re: copy debian form vmware to real pc

2006-09-08 Thread T
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:25:05 +0800, Yang wrote: I want to copy the debian system form a vmware to real pc! what should be done to make the copyed system work? simple, tar it up (the whole root fs) and untar in real pc environment. mind you, you need to re-configure all the devices

aptitude force removal

2006-09-08 Thread T
Hi I want to remove the bittorrent package, but I get: $ aptitude purge bittorrent The following packages will be REMOVED: bittorrent{p} The following packages have unmet dependencies: podracer: Depends: bittorrent but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions

Pinning security updates

2006-09-08 Thread T
Hi, How can I pin security updates? For the following sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free I gave the following in /etc/apt/preferences, which doesn't seem to work. // debian sarge security updates: Package: * Pin: release a=sarge/updates

Understanding aptitude

2006-09-08 Thread T
podracer The following packages will be REMOVED: file-rc python-profiler{p} qjackctl{p} rdiff{p} realtime-lsm{p} realtime-lsm-module-2.6.17-grml{p} reprepro{p} rubilicious{p} sjog{p} slapd{p} speechd-up{p} sqlrelay{p} sqlrelay-postgresql{p} sqlrelay-sqlite{p} steghide{p} t-prot{p} tagtool{p

Re: copy debian form vmware to real pc

2006-09-08 Thread T
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:05:15 +0800, Yang wrote: simple, tar it up (the whole root fs) and untar in real pc environment. mind you, you need to re-configure all the devices before you can make the vmware copy fully working in your real pc environment. thanks for all the suggestion! I know

Yahoo mail problem lately?

2006-09-10 Thread T
Hi Did you notice any problems lately in yahoo mail, or it is just me? I'm using firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1, and I'm used to get the following error when trying to delete, mark read, mark as spam... any of the yahoo mail command buttons. Sorry, Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread T
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:29:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). ... Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based

Using Database abstraction ADODB for PHP

2006-09-17 Thread T
Hi, How to use Database abstraction ADODB for PHP? I've got the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/share/php/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 353 I've installed the following packages: ii libapache-mod-php4 server-side, HTML-embedded

Solved: Using Database abstraction ADODB for PHP

2006-09-17 Thread T
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:35:56 +0200, T wrote: How to use Database abstraction ADODB for PHP? I've got the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /usr/share/php/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 353 I've ... The OP list all the steps necessary

Recommend a file manager

2006-09-22 Thread T
Hi Please recommend a file manager. I need a good one to make my wife happy. We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default with Gnome, but now that one can't rename files any more (it actually can initially, but stop responding to keyboard very soon). please help thanks --

Re: df and du disagree, or How to get 1.1GB of data onto a 650MB CD

2006-09-23 Thread T
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:14:37 +0100, re2823 wrote: I have a strange problem: I have an iso image file which (according to ls) is 569M in size: ... Now for the problem... The relevant line from df -h: poota:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /root/image.iso

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread T
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500, Jason Martens wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I Really? This is the fist time that I hear about it. Any more reading? I really hope not, because I love Debian so much. thought it might be nice for all of us users

RE: Search for real debian Live -cd

2006-09-23 Thread T
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:22:14 -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: Jabka Atu wrote: I'm searching for real debian live, I'm familer with distrowatch but i couldnot find one that will be deb and not some spinoff . the reason is that i need it to be easy to do apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade to spesific

nautilus bug report (was: Recommend a file manager)

2006-09-24 Thread T
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:26:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: happy. We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default with Gnome, but now that one can't rename files any more (it actually can initially, but stop responding to keyboard very soon). Just now I stresses nautilus and

Problem with ddclient?

2006-09-25 Thread T
Hi, Are you still able to use ddclient now? I was able to just several days ago. but now when I use it, I get authorization failed error: $ ddclient -force FAILED: updating my.dyndns.org: authorization failed (HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required FAILED:Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006

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