Re: Potato release?

2000-08-10 Thread Joey Hess
John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Anyone know when Potato will be released? According to the website, it was > supposed to be released yesterday (August 9th). Er, no it does not. It says: "This test cycle will end in two weeks, roughly the 9th of August." Release will happen when it happens. -- see sh

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2000-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few > problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in > X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup. > It us

Mouse stopped working in X

2000-08-10 Thread John Reinke
I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup. It used to work before, and settings from before don't work. Here's the r

Potato release?

2000-08-10 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Anyone know when Potato will be released? According to the website, it was supposed to be released yesterday (August 9th). -- John__ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes icq: thales @ 17755648

Re: Galeon, galeon, galeon

2000-08-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:52PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > Well, I still have the compiled source sitting on my hard drive, so I > could send you the headers. You still have to have the binary mozilla > package installed, of course, and you still might run into the same > (still unsol

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-08-10 Thread kmself
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:45:27PM -0400, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: potato/kernel 2.2.17 upgrade problems > X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bcc: neil > X-Face: /0;v)[EMAIL PROTECTED]|ZLP9W}7wP5aMrs4HK;a-

Re: Kernel Compiled, but have other questions

2000-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:18:49PM -, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Thanks everybody for your assistance sor recompiling my kernel. It > now works pretty well. I have sound support, APM, and other stuff... > > Now I have other questions... I downloaded the xmms player in rpm and > the pciutils i

Kernel patching

2000-08-10 Thread Ronald Castillo
Greetings... When I apply a patch to my kernel (from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13), do I need to do any other step after I do the "gzip -cd patchxx.gz | patch -p0"? Thanks..

Re: x-windows 4.0.1

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Sean Champ wrote: > hello. > > I tried a search in the debian mailing-lists about this, and on > irc.debian.org , > but wasn't finding anything. > > has anyone tried alien'ing the x-windows 4.0.1 binaries? > > ( the current standard x-w dist. is breaking on my graphics card, with the > mach64 s

Re: Galeon, galeon, galeon

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:56:03PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > I was very tempted just to let it go, but I had to keep trying. There are a > LOT more that just gtkmozembed.h missing, as some of you mentioned. I can't > understand why this is so difficult... why not bundle all of the necess

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas Kirsch
Joerg Mueller wrote: > Hi! > I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is > there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until > now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /usr/local, > but of course this breaks many other package

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Gary Hennigan wrote : > Joerg Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is > > there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until > > now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /usr/local,

Kernel Compiled, but have other questions

2000-08-10 Thread Ronald Castillo
Thanks everybody for your assistance sor recompiling my kernel. It now works pretty well. I have sound support, APM, and other stuff... Now I have other questions... I downloaded the xmms player in rpm and the pciutils in tar.gz form. I installed both using alien -i and they appear in dselect,

RE: x-windows 4.0.1

2000-08-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Why use Alien when you can install directly using the shell scripts provided with the X distribution? Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Sean Champ [SMTP:

Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem? ls --show-control-chars -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP

x-windows 4.0.1

2000-08-10 Thread Sean Champ
hello. I tried a search in the debian mailing-lists about this, and on irc.debian.org , but wasn't finding anything. has anyone tried alien'ing the x-windows 4.0.1 binaries? ( the current standard x-w dist. is breaking on my graphics card, with the mach64 server. returning a meaningless-to-me er

Liunx For MAC

2000-08-10 Thread meichu
站長: 我是用老MAC的新手,如果要灌debian gun liunx 不知是要那一種版本? 可有中文書籍? 並且何處購買正式版?(MAC是7100/66 POWER PC) 謝謝 Sammy

Re: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

2000-08-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"John S. J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pontus Lidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to use gnus to read posts written in japanese. Unfortunately it > > refuses to show the posts using japanese characters by default. > > You've left out at least one crucial piece of inf

Re: xscreensaver Works!

2000-08-10 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks, I configured my XF86Config file this way and it works fine. On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:55:40PM -0800 23, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:36:13PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > > it first starts the screensaver in the bg and then gives control

Re: xscreensaver works!

2000-08-10 Thread Dale Morris
Thanks, it works fine now.. On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:36:13PM +0200 23, Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:11:04AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > > If I am running a gnome session, my gnome screensaver will shutdown the > > monitor, but it doesn't display a s

Re: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

2000-08-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pontus Lidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use gnus to read posts written in japanese. Unfortunately it > refuses to show the posts using japanese characters by default. You've left out at least one crucial piece of info: what version

Re: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear I think proftp has configuration files in /etc with limits to users. Sincerely, Marko Cehaja

RE: restricting user in HOME using ProFTP

2000-08-10 Thread Andrew McRobert
sorry, I don't have an answer to this myself, but I'm also interested in knowing how to do this ... thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: res

Re: Mutt locale settings [Was: Re: /etc/environment]

2000-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
I don't know about a ssh session, but setting LANG=en_US solves this problem just fine under normal circumstances. Any other LANG with an 8bit charset ought to do fine as well. The default "C" limits you to ASCII. Then there's no æ Á or even ø! -- MegaHAL quote: I think a blowpipe is a

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 09 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Is there any way, using pon/poff, to be notified in the console/term > of connections and disconnections? When I type pon, I'd like to be > told when it actually finishes connecting; and when my ISP > disconnects me, I'd like to be told about it so I don't

Re: *delete* a default gw route?

2000-08-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 09 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm testing a firewall setup on my home system. Principle network > connection is the internal modem of my desktop. I'm trying to route > through my firewall box instead. > > While I can set up the network and add a default gw through the > firewall,

Re: OT: what's the point of mp3's?

2000-08-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Aug 09 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > -rw-r--r--1 krzyskrzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav > -rw-rw-r--1 krzyskrzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip1302mp3.wav.gz > > So what's the point of .mp3? -chr

RE: Debian ISO

2000-08-10 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
That site doesn't seem to be working? Any ideas? Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Marko Cehaja [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 2

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector?

2000-08-10 Thread Neil L. Roeth
Is there a comprehensive list of the non-compliant portions somewhere? On Aug 10, John L. Fjellstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Christoph Baumann wrote: > > > I have the following problem. In a c++ program I use the vector template. > > > vector.

high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem? I have a file in a Windows partition (VFAT) whose name includes a high (beyond-ASCII) character. That character shows up differently in my new potato system than it does in my slink system. In slink, the file name appears as "

failed upgrade-solved

2000-08-10 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks for the help. On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote: > Years of experience have told me that clean reinstalls are ALWAYS better than > upgrades, so do that if possible. Otherwise, I reccomend recompiling the > kernel and > modules, then doing a make install in the kernel. But

Galeon, galeon, galeon

2000-08-10 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I was very tempted just to let it go, but I had to keep trying. There are a LOT more that just gtkmozembed.h missing, as some of you mentioned. I can't understand why this is so difficult... why not bundle all of the necessary mozilla headers, except that one, if it's such a difficult license pro

Re: Re: dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--configure)

2000-08-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:29:08AM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: > hi there > > I removed the "-e" and replaced it > with the "-x"... i don"t know, but it works > well. can someone explain me what the > "-e" argument in the shebang line means/triggers? -e means "fail on error". You need to p

Re: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 03:04:43AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:21:35AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > When I've created a new partition using cfdisk, how can I make the kernel > > "see" it without rebooting? > > hmm. doesn't this work with fdisk? try running

Re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

2000-08-10 Thread kmself
Thanks, XWin32 was the other X server I was trying to remember. It's a pretty good client, free 30 day demo available, reasonable cost ($150 or so per seat). I haven't beat on it, but it looked pretty good running for an hour or so while I was using it. On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:58:28AM +,

RE: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Moritz Schulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:05 AM > To: Debian user list > Subject: Re: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost) > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:21:35AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > Whe

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 10-Aug-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0400, David Teague wrote: >> >> On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape >> versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to >> 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your har

Re: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:21:35AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > When I've created a new partition using cfdisk, how can I make the kernel > "see" it without rebooting? hmm. doesn't this work with fdisk? try running fdisk and let it write the partition table. imho, it 'reloads' the table...

[Q] utility to format MO disks

2000-08-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear all, I'm looking for a utility to format MO disks. Anyone know where to look? TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-10 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from > newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've > never been able to get slrn to display an image in a binary newsgroup. I > always have to use Netscape News

Re: Installing *.deb files

2000-08-10 Thread Michael Soulier
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Matt Gagn? wrote: > Sorry but a newbie question. What is the best solution for installing files > archived as *.deb? Thanks. man dpkg man apt-get man dselect Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:24:47AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > 'wall' or 'xmessage' can display the output. I got that to work; thank you. Tom

Re: prob mounting cdrom,

2000-08-10 Thread Chris Nestrud
Thanks. Changing the link to /dev/sr0 fixed the problem. Chris On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:58:11PM -0500, Chris Nestrud wrote: > > Hello list. I'm having a > > problem mounting my cdrom. I've configured the kernel to treat it > > as a scsi device,

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Joerg Mueller
> The license forbids repackagin&redistribution so I guess someone has to > take courage and make an installer-package (like realplayer). > So what could I do until such a package is available? Where do the other packages want the libs and executables? Maybe its better to build the correct d

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Andre Berger
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > > In /etc/ppp, there are scripts ip-up and ip-down, which, in turn, > > call programs and scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d, in which you > > can put some script that echoes a connection n

Re: Re: dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--configure)

2000-08-10 Thread Jens Luedicke
hi there I removed the "-e" and replaced it with the "-x"... i don"t know, but it works well. can someone explain me what the "-e" argument in the shebang line means/triggers? jens On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:19:51 +0200 > To: Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL P

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
Joerg Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is > there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until > now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /usr/local, > but of course this breaks m

Re: jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:15:12 +0200, Joerg Mueller writes: >I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is >there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until >now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /usr/local, >but of course t

How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
[I could've sworn I posted this question yesterday, but I didn't get a copy nor can I find it among my sent messages. So forgive me if this is douple post.] When I've created a new partition using cfdisk, how can I make the kernel "see" it without rebooting? When I try to create a fs, mke2fs bail

jdk1.2 deb package

2000-08-10 Thread Joerg Mueller
Hi! I'm developing in Java and need at least jdk1.2, 1.3 would be better. Is there any .deb package for this available? I can only find jdk1.1. Until now I took the tarball from blackdown and installed it under /usr/local, but of course this breaks many other packages (especially ddd and emacs-

Re: Improper shutdown - weird results

2000-08-10 Thread Jason Quigley
Mounting read-only! I'm sorry, but I'd explain how to do it, only my sarcasm threshold has been breached! --On Thursday, August 10, 2000 16:46 +0200 Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, John Foster wrote: Just a guess but did he have the filesystem mounted wh

Re: xscreensaver

2000-08-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:36:13PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > it first starts the screensaver in the bg and then gives control to the > window manager. > when you log in there pops up a screensaver window for a few seconds where > you can configure the screensaver. > I just looked where

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > In /etc/ppp, there are scripts ip-up and ip-down, which, in turn, > call programs and scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d, in which you > can put some script that echoes a connection notification, or > executes `ifconfig ppp0` so you can se

Re: Debian ISO

2000-08-10 Thread staf
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Sean S. wrote: > Where do I get the ISO for Debian? I've looked all over the ftp site > and can't seem to find it. HELP!!! Take a look at http://cdimage.debian.org -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://www.digibel.org/~staf

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:28:22PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > And I'll ask again, why does Debian make it available off of their server, > > > already prepackaged? Why not go with an installation package as used for > > > RealPlayer? That should satisfy both the zealots and the realist

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Tom Allard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Why not just stick with an installation package like is used for > > RealPlayer? > > Real does not allow redistribution of their binaries, which means that it > would not be legal for you to fetch the binaries off of Debian's archive. > Softwar

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > So I will ask yet again. Whay not go with an installation package for all > of the evil nasty non-free software, like they did for RealPlayer? And > while I'm at it, why is some non-free stuff packaged up and other non-free > stuff uses an installation pa

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear friend, > > > > You didn't read the social contract and I consider this childish, that you > > > even reply before that. > > > > Yes, I did. Accusing me of not reading it when you actually don't have the > > slightest clue as to whether I did or not is childish. > ...

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Tom Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Why not just stick with an installation package like is used for > RealPlayer? Real does not allow redistribution of their binaries, which means that it would not be legal for you to fetch the binaries off of Debian's archive. Software like that requires an installer.

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:52:59PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > archive for this [non-free] software. The software in these > > directories is not part of the Debian system, although it has been > > configured for use with Debian. ... > > And as I said in that same other pos

Re: prob mounting cdrom,

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:58:11PM -0500, Chris Nestrud wrote: > Hello list. I'm having a > problem mounting my cdrom. I've configured the kernel to treat it > as a scsi device, so > cdrecord will work, and cdrecord does indeed work and successfully burn > cd's. However, when I try to mount, here's

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear friend, > > You didn't read the social contract and I consider this childish, that you > > even reply before that. > > Yes, I did. Accusing me of not reading it when you actually don't have the > slightest clue as to whether I did or not is childish. ... > > require the use of programs that

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Tom Allard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > Please read the Debian Social Contract policy: > > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract > > > > > > If you want to see which packages do exist in Debian, refer to: > > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > > I went and looked at th

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear friend, > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > format, but written by someone else. So now I'm curious as to just > > > > what it > > > > takes to be considered to exist as part of Debian? > > > Some interesting editing you did here

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:08:19PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Netscape *is* packaged for Debian. Watch this: [snip] > The above reveals that Netscape is in the contrib/web section of Debian > GNU/Linux, though. Perhaps I should read the social contract, thoroughly. :) Apologies. Sven -- You

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:08:19PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:05:35PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > > Debian is kind of free-OS, with strong points on security as well. > > Netscape *is* packaged for Debian. Watch this: Hmm, Netscape does exist on Debian server

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!! 2

2000-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! > Thanks for your help!!! Everything went fine, except when I did "make > zdisk". I got an erorr message saying that my system was too big and I > should do make bzImage or make modules. Does this affect anything? I still > couldn't make my sound card to work. Is there anything else I

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:05:35PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > Debian is kind of free-OS, with strong points on security as well. > If Netscape *would* exist in Debian, you would almost immediately find the > security alert on Debian site, first page. Netscape *is* packaged for Debian. Watch thi

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Tom Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Please read the Debian Social Contract policy: > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract > > > > If you want to see which packages do exist in Debian, refer to: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > I went and looked at that page, and lo and behold there's a w

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear friend, On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > format, but written by someone else. So now I'm curious as to just what > > > it > > > takes to be considered to exist as part of Debian? > > > > Please read the Debian Social Contract policy: > > http://www.debian.

Re: apt-get vs. dselect?

2000-08-10 Thread Jarkko Niemi
> helpful). Traditionally I've used dselect to manage the packages that I > have installed, but it gets rather cumbersome having to scroll through a > list of crud, looking for specific updates. > > Is that what apt-get does for me automatically? I noticed that apt-get has > the dselect-upgra

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:44:45PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > > On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape > versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to > 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at risk some > way. > > I assume this

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > sorry, I wanted to post it to the list. So previous email went to you > privately. > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:56:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > > > You are wrong. apt-get is: package handling utility. It is not > > > Debian-Linux > > > installer. You c

Exim

2000-08-10 Thread Alberto Pereira
I see the question Q0432 but, my problem is in Q0401. But my versionof Exim is .2.05-2 I put this on the exim.conf: system_aliases: driver = aliasfile domains = z10.com.br file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch* and put this on de final line of aliasfile: *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But ALL mails a

Re: AMD Processor

2000-08-10 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello - Original Message - From: "Christian Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 5:40 PM Subject: Re: AMD Processor > Stephan Hachinger wrote: > > > Linux runs on all i80386 compatible microprocessors. So it also runs on a > > AMD K6-2. But I don

Re: Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is the > same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I guess I > configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't boot-up.

Router

2000-08-10 Thread Alberto Pereira
Hi all, I want to build a firewall with linux debian potato, like this: - NT server ( Shi..) / IP:200.244.123.29 (www, mail,etc) IP:200.244.123.146 / router --- linux - Lucent

Re: Debian ISO

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:22:13PM -0700, Sean S. wrote: > Where do I get the ISO for Debian? I've looked all over the ftp site and > can't seem to find it. HELP!!! You get it from: http://cdimage.debian.org Sincerely, Marko Cehaja

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear sorry, I wanted to post it to the list. So previous email went to you privately. On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:56:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > You are wrong. apt-get is: package handling utility. It is not Debian-Linux > > installer. You can *add* any deb packages to your Debian GNU/

Re: /etc/environment

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:19:13PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > The only place I found LANG=C appeared to be /etc/environment, and > changing this to LANG='' appears to have solved the problem. > > Why is LANG set to C from /etc/environment; which package puts this in? > And what d

prob mounting cdrom,

2000-08-10 Thread Chris Nestrud
Hello list. I'm having a problem mounting my cdrom. I've configured the kernel to treat it as a scsi device, so cdrecord will work, and cdrecord does indeed work and successfully burn cd's. However, when I try to mount, here's what I get. pfui:/# mount cdrom mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad su

Re: automatic startup of programs with X

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:55:32AM +0200, Mukunda Peter Pasedach wrote: > Hello > > any effect. As I read there, .Xclient contains the command for starting > up icewm. So I guess there seems to be different way icewm is started > in debian. Could someone please point me to where that is, and

Re: adding to inetd

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:23:05PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote: > How do I add a field in inetd for ssh and proftp? and should I even be > doing this? My thought was to be able to use /etc/hosts.deny for all > applications, and perhaps portsentry or equal in the future when I get the > time to

530 login incorrect

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth Wells
Hi, Did you ever fine a fix for the above issue Kenneth

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > By the way, Netscape doesn't exist in Debian. Huh?!? apt-get install netscape *will* install Netscape 4.73 just fine. That's how I got Netscape onto my system. Sure looks like it exists to me. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Dear On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:21:44AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Netscape is not GNU/Linux. > > > Bollux. > > An exploit which leaves your system open to unauthorized data access > for any arbitrary files would certainly make Linux, or any other > operating system it afflicted, vu

Included debian packages (was no subject)

2000-08-10 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:39:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The CDs that you provide through your distributors, do they support > Apache, PHP, JDK, and etc. Yes. Though strictly, Debian isn't a company. > I would like to install that at home > (like a network) and test my developme

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:02:11PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Yes, Linux is vulnerable. The 'virus' in question is a Java applet what > > exploits bugs in Netscape's Java implementation. > > To say that Linux is vuln

Re: dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--configure)

2000-08-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:53:11AM -0500, Mark Schiltz wrote: > I just permormed a dselect-update, apt-get dist-upgrade on a woody machine > (kernel 2.2.17pre6) and have a slight netbase 4.0 problem. The new netbase > won't > install do to the unconfigured netkit-inetd. Not a critical machine. If

dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--configure)

2000-08-10 Thread Mark Schiltz
I just permormed a dselect-update, apt-get dist-upgrade on a woody machine (kernel 2.2.17pre6) and have a slight netbase 4.0 problem. The new netbase won't install do to the unconfigured netkit-inetd. Not a critical machine. If anyone has any advise it would be appreciated. :) Here is the error inf

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carl Fink wrote: > > I wonder if Mozilla is vulnerable . . . . According to a ZiffDavis web site, Mozilla is not vulnerable, but I want to hear that from someone I believe more strongly. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is fr

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector?

2000-08-10 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Christoph Baumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have the following problem. In a c++ program I use the vector > template. Acording to "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne > Stroustrup there should be a member at() for [range] checked > random access to components of a ve

I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-10 Thread Karl Matheson
Hey, I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing me the stack. It looks like this: ... scsi : 0 hosts scisi : detected total Partition check: hda : hda1 hda2 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 general protection: CPU: 0

[no subject]

2000-08-10 Thread softarch
The CDs that you provide through your distributors, do they support Apache, PHP, JDK, and etc. I would like to install that at home (like a network) and test my development site before I would upload the files to the server at my Web-hosting provider? Thank you, George NOTE: if I’ll purchase then

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-08-10 Thread Debian User
Alberto Pereira wrote: > > Someone have the archives of configuration to build a debian ftp mirrorwith > rsync? > > -- > > # Alberto Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Analista de Suporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:02:11PM +0200, Marko Cehaja wrote: > > To say that Linux is vulnerable because Netscape has holes in not > quite correct. > > Netscape is not GNU/Linux. Phil meant that "Netscape on Linux" was vulnerable. Even if so, Linux's security model works better than Win95/Win9

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Bolan Meek
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: > > Is there any way, using pon/poff, to be notified in the console/term of > connections and disconnections? When I type pon, I'd like to be told > when it actually finishes connecting; and when my ISP disconnects me, > I'd like to be told about it so I don't scratch my

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Marko Cehaja
Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Yes, Linux is vulnerable. The 'virus' in question is a Java applet what > exploits bugs in Netscape's Java implementation. To say that Linux is vulnerable because Netscape has holes in not quite correct. Netscape is not GNU/L

Re: Missing class member in stl_vector?

2000-08-10 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Christoph Baumann wrote: > I have the following problem. In a c++ program I use the vector template. > vector. But it seems that there is only operator[] implemented in > libstdc++. Is the member I need named differently or is there some sort of > workar

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