Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:03:57PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > > >> You're probably ri

Sendmail from localhost?

2000-11-30 Thread "\"Jason C. Hammons\"
I'd like to be able to send mail from my localhost, is this possible? I don't want to relay it to my ISP or anything like that, is it possible to have localhost relay e-mail? Please tell me so... =) Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Jason

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread D-Man
This is correct. I have a RH7.0 system: $ gcc --version 2.96 $ rpm -q glib glib-1.2.8-4 (I don't know if the glib is stable or not) Check on gcc.gnu.org and you will see that 2.96 was the label for the devel tree and is binary incompatible with all but version 2.96. If you want to "upgrage" (

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Known Human Nick Rusnov
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers >to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? Although it doesn't pertain directly to your question, I felt like sharing :) I used to use mh to filter all the me

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:01:50PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I did: > > gpg --armor --export-secret-keys kmself > > ...which did just that, without prompting for a passphrase. I think you > may be right about that. Hmmm Still, the key doesn't work without > the passphrase,

Re: Sound

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying to get some sound out of my Linux system, and am pretty > baffled. I gather there are several different ways to do it, and would > like to know if there is a preferred one. I have an ISA AWE-64 > soundblaster on a 2.2.17 kernel metoo >

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M Self writes: > KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or > KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway? > > That number is basically a measurement of how b

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:46:17PM -0800, Jinsong Zhao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is the first horrible thing I can think of: code compiled on > Debian does not run on Redhat! Several programs I compiled on the > Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to > run thos

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > >> You're probably right about this (IANA security expert), but > > >> these should only be reada

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > >> You're probably right about this (IANA security expert), but > >> these should only be readable by root. Also, if you have a > >> malicious root, your private k

RE: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)? kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > When I get particularly behind, I just delete a few days (or weeks) > worth of posts.  Debian Weekly News tends to highlight significant list > events. Krzys Majewski writes: >What's this? Do

[OT] gnus automatic-expiry

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gnus has a couple of nice features. One is automatic expiry: for > selected groups (including all of the high-traffic Debian lists I'm > on), mail sits around for about a week, then automatically gets > deleted. Will this work in conjunction with imme

Xterm Font

2000-11-30 Thread Jack Morgan
I want to make my Xterm font bigger. I tried control + middle mouse click but didn't see any option to change the font as the FAQ says. Any pointers to appropriate docs would be great Thanks! -- ~~~ Jack Morgan System Admi

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
"Lawrence H. Robins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers > to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? All my mail is handled by a server at my school. On this server, I run procmail (via ~/.forward and ~/.procmai

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > When I get particularly behind, I just delete a few days (or weeks) > worth of posts. Debian Weekly News tends to highlight significant list > events. What's this? Does it say things like, "This week Krzys Majewski posted a really stupid question"? Should I be worr

Re: gnus disconnected mode

2000-11-30 Thread Krzys Majewski
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does it support disconnected mode imap? that is my one big remaining > gripe about pine (and as far as i know mutt's imap support is more > primitive then pines still). Yes, it does. I tried it with 5.8.3 and it sort of worked (I can't remember what

Re: Pctel driver

2000-11-30 Thread Nate Amsden
doubtful, i suggest getting a good modem. if you really need the winmodem downgrade the kernel, see www.linmodem.org or is it linmodems.org ... nate Sean McIlwain wrote: > > I have a zoltrix phantom 56K "winmodem". Their wesite claims to > have linux drivers that uses the pctel.o module. A

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
> Hi, > > WARNING! > this is pure hearsay, which I have no documentation for > > I heard about this problem (from what I consider knowlegable people), > red hat seems to be using a development branch of either gcc or glibc > (I forget which, sorry), the result RedHat 7.0 is frequently if not

Re: Samba across internet

2000-11-30 Thread sc
On 11/8/00 8:29 AM, John Covici ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >You might want to an interface line in your samba configuration file >(smb.conf) such as >interfaces=192.168.0.1/24 >and you may need a >socket address = specification. > >This is what I have been using. I know that this is a late reply

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > >> You're probably right about this (IANA security expert), but > >> these should only be readable by root. Also, if you have a > >> malicious root, your private key isn't going to be al

Re: installation help

2000-11-30 Thread Denzil Kelly
What are some of specs of the machine you are trying to install on? Someone recently gave me a few 486's, and I've had the same problem when trying to boot from floppy. These machines were Dell Optiplex XL 575 w/16 MB of RAM. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > When attempting to boot Rel

Re: Help: /usr/bin/pgp: no such file or directory

2000-11-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:11PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting the above msg in my new mutt setup. I tried to potato cd, my > distro, and there's a gpgp but I don't want gnome. Anyway to get the msg > off or answered? upgrade to the mutt in current potato (r1) it is configu

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
> "kmself" == kmself writes: >> You're probably right about this (IANA security expert), but >> these should only be readable by root. Also, if you have a >> malicious root, your private key isn't going to be all that >> safe anyway. kmself> Well, on disk, your private

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-30 Thread Brenda J. Butler
--- Begin Message --- On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:20:41PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote: > Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)? > >I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the remote > >server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I *think*

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Black
The Unix Administrator's Handbook by Evi Nemeth, et al is the way and the light for learning Unix Administration. O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools (2nd ed) is excellent for learning neat tricks for basic commands. On Thursday 30 November 2000 10:07, Robert Guthrie wrote: > If you have the budget for

ISDN says "no channel for ippp0" on dialing... why?

2000-11-30 Thread J?rgen A. Erhard
I've tried to install ISDN for a friend. Now I got the Hisax module running (after I found the secret incantation needed for the ISA Siemens I-Surf 1.0 (some PEEKs and POKEs (yes ;-) in isapnp.conf)). But when I try dialing, it says isdn_net_force_dial: No channel for ippp0 I've looked fo

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread David Z Maze
Karsten M Self writes: KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway? That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigger number means you'll have larger fonts. On a 75dpi display, a 72-point

installation help

2000-11-30 Thread richardrose
Hello, When attempting to boot Release 2.1 (included in the Debian GNU/Linux New Rider text) from the floppy, my system loads "root bin" but freezes during the "loading linux" phase. Can anyone help me?? Thanks, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:20:49PM -0500, David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Robert D Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RDH> Is there a command available in Debian to determine what > RDH> resolution is being used in an X session? > > In amidst all of the information 'xdpyinfo' displa

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Command to determine resolution Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:26:02PM -0500 In reply to:Robert D. Hilliard Quoting Robert D. Hilliard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is there a command available in Debian to determine what > resolution is being used in an X session? > >

Re: OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'd like to draw on the general > computing expertise of this group. > > Where I work, we have a unix server with 4 CPU's. I gather this is a proprietary Unix, not GNU/Linux?

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread David Z Maze
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DZM> Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JZ> I used this command: "sh pgp" and then the error message is: JZ> JZ> cannot execute binary file DZM> DZM> This generally means there's some sort of library problem. Now that I'm looking at this again, i

Re: How to make useful boot disk (was: Re: How to get rid of LILO)

2000-11-30 Thread Jiri Klouda
> Then insert new floppy and proceed as root: > > mke2fs /dev/fd0 > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy > cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/boot.b /boot/mbr.b /floppy/ > cp /root/lilo-fd.conf /root/fixmbr /bin/dd /bin/sash /floppy/ > mkdir /floppy/dev > mknod /floppy/dev/hda b 3 0 > chmod 666 /floppy/dev/hda > c

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Bek Oberin
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Get a cheap machine, free if possible (486DX2 or so.th) > Install it with Debian > configure it > break it > read the HOWTOs > read the man pages > re-install it > re-configure it > break it > email debian-user with your questions > fix it > repeat as often as possible

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, WARNING! this is pure hearsay, which I have no documentation for I heard about this problem (from what I consider knowlegable people), red hat seems to be using a development branch of either gcc or glibc (I forget which, sorry), the result RedHat 7.0 is frequently if not always binary in

Re: Xwrapper.config -- values for allowed_users?

2000-11-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:00:29PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm getting the following errors running startx from console as a > nonpriviledged user: > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > var: nice_value

Re: umlauts-in-terminal/console-problem after upgrading to woody

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Michael! Michael Mertins schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 30. November 2000: > I have a large problem getting umlauts to work since I upgraded to woody. If you are who I think you are, then we solved this problem by setting the LC* variables in /etc/environment, right? also see man locale (not esp

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:09:02PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > >> The other root programs shouldn't be looking at memory other > >> than their own, or else they'd segfault. The major thing with > >> memory-locking is that the

Re: Configure networking?

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi for a laptop you should look at /etc/pcmcia/network.options (not sure if that path is 100%) this, if configured properly, will automaticly bring up the interface with the proper settings when the card is inserted. you can also do tricks like have different ip,dns,etc for different cards, my l

Re: UNIX help

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, What worked for me (starting from zero Un*x experience): Get a cheap machine, free if possible (486DX2 or so.th) Install it with Debian configure it break it read the HOWTOs read the man pages re-install it re-configure it break it email debian-user with your questions fix it repeat as often

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I have both putty and SecureCRT, here's my oppinions: putty: better color terminal emulation Un*x like cut & paste mouse events More Un*x like feel also has available scp client, though you don't need putty to get pscp.exe FREE SecureCRT: Better port forwarding More Windows-like (pulldown m

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread David Z Maze
Jinsong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JZ> This is the first horrible thing I can think of: code compiled on JZ> Debian does not run on Redhat! Several programs I compiled on the JZ> Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to JZ> run those programs, say in bash you type "

RE: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat? >Several programs I compiled on the >Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to >run those programs, say in bash you type "./pgp", then the error >message is: >bash: ./pgp: No such file or directory >I used t

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread David Z Maze
Robert D Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RDH> Is there a command available in Debian to determine what RDH> resolution is being used in an X session? In amidst all of the information 'xdpyinfo' displays is this: screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (325x260 millimeters) I assume fro

How to make useful boot disk (was: Re: How to get rid of LILO)

2000-11-30 Thread Jiri Klouda
> > > fdisk /mbr (undocumented feature of fdisk) > > > does the trick. > > > > > > Joop > > > > Just wondering, is there a linux way to do this? > > -samuel > > Yes... but only if you still have linux intact... > Lilo saves a copy of your bootsector on first install. > this can be recovered with

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread Jens Gecius
"Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi , > > Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? > TIA! Take a look at grip in conjunction with cdparanoia and lame (or any other cd-ripper and mp3-encode; be careful about patent issue, therefore not included in debian

Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Damien
> > > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main >Thats Woody, not Potato > Potato is stable _not_ unstable hrm. afaik, unstable refers to the helixcode distribution - thus unstable helixcode will

Re: none

2000-11-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Jasper Spit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Trying to install Debian 2.2 on my new system which has the main > hard drive connected to a Promise Ultra 100 connector. Problem ofcourse > is that when I boot from the Debian CD, the promise controller and hard > drive are not detected. > > S

Pctel driver

2000-11-30 Thread Sean McIlwain
I have a zoltrix phantom 56K "winmodem". Their wesite claims to have linux drivers that uses the pctel.o module. All of the drivers I have found on the internet are library file that are a different kernel version than what I have, 2.2.17. Is there a way to get the entire source so that I c

Re: MYSQL

2000-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: MYSQL Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:29:53PM - In reply to:James Preece Quoting James Preece([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is working fine now. > > How do I go about building a database? > > Does anyone have a recourse I can look at on the web, or anyone one to

Re: potato-n-woody side by side?

2000-11-30 Thread Glenn Becker
Thanks! I think I've committed to retreating to stable until I'm a more knowledgeable user ... I think in my case the upgrading to Woody was kind of hubris-driven anyway: y'know, the need to have the latest and greatest and all the great apps. Really, though, why do I think I *need* Perl 5.6 if I

executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread Jinsong Zhao
This is the first horrible thing I can think of: code compiled on Debian does not run on Redhat! Several programs I compiled on the Debian run fine on Debian, but when I installed Redhat and tried to run those programs, say in bash you type "./pgp", then the error message is: bash: ./pgp: No such

Re: Why non-free (was Re: unzip - again)

2000-11-30 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > I knew I had seen a better copyright somewhere: > > -- > Latest Release > > New features in UnZip 5.41, released 16 April 2000: > > > new BSD-like license > Yeah, that's why zip is in main. Unzip, however, st

Re: CDs

2000-11-30 Thread Glenn Becker
I got my 3 disk set (Potato) from XComputing for about $5.00 and they have done fine by me through multiple Woody-Gotterdammerungs: http://www.xcomputing.com I have no affiliation with them. G _

Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd)

2000-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: DESTROY (perl experts please) (fwd) Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:25PM -0500 In reply to:Debian Ghost Quoting Debian Ghost([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Subject: RE: DESTROY (perl experts please) > > I don't seem to get the same reply back when I apt-cache search for the > p

Re: Printing in Woody

2000-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Printing in Woody Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:27:53PM -0600 In reply to:Kelly Corbin Quoting Kelly Corbin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After upgrading to Woody, (and not changing anything) I can't print > correctly anymore. I used magicfilterconfig to setup /etc/printcap

Re: OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > However, if one more CPU-intensive job were > added by user1, all jobs would be slowed proportionately. Have you tested that this actually happens? Empirical data is harder to argue with than theory. > My argument > is that nice'ing

Re: Help: Trouble updating Slink -> Potato

2000-11-30 Thread Dean
Hi Berthold: Since no experts have spoken yet, I'll throw some ideas out. If its' always perl-base giving the trouble, can you try upgrading or downloading this first? Sometimes when installing or up-grading I've had to dpkg -i several times to get everything working. hth Dean Berthold Co

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-11-30 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:37:47PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 'nobody' is a 'system' user. User 'nobody' should never ever have ANY files > > in the filesystem (if it does, that's probably a security hole), and sho

Re: Why non-free (was Re: unzip - again)

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:52:51PM -0500, Chris Gray kmself> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Carel> unzip is not truly free, so it ain't part of Debian pure. Carel> Try

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
> "kmself" == kmself writes: >> The other root programs shouldn't be looking at memory other >> than their own, or else they'd segfault. The major thing with >> memory-locking is that the memory never gets written to disk. kmself> What about /proc/kcore or /dev/mem? You'r

CDs

2000-11-30 Thread urbanyon
can anyone recommend a reliable source for CDs, and also what i need to order? i have been struggling with a CD that i think may have been modified, and am just having more trouble than i need. i don't mind buying one (hell, it's cheaper than m$), but i am a newbie and do not know what i need to

Re: startkde

2000-11-30 Thread David Bellows
Hello, > Sorry, but I must ask again: > How do I have KDE2 and Gnome on a potato system and start either or? > to get KDE I type this whole line: startx startkde for Gnome I type: startx gnome-session Good luck, David Bellows

Re: Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread Ray Percival
xwinvid -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Date: 30 Nov 2000 17:26:02 -0500 > Is there a command available in Debian to determine what >resolution is being used in an X session? > > Please Cc: me on any replies. > >B

Re: startkde

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Josh McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You need to have X started to run KDE. Ah, I see (thought 'startkde' would do that ) > You can edit your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, at the bottom it will have > the stuff about starting gnome probably, you can just comment out the gnome > part and

Re: StartX error

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -, william Elling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i have read about 5 different online scripts trying to tell me the easiest > way to get the x windows to start and have tried a couple but i keep coming > back the problem of > > Could not find config file! >

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:21 PM 11/30/2000 -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >To give you yet another option, I use grip with cdparanoia and lame. i've had VERY good results with that

Re: deleted root directory - fixed, actually a lib problem

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +0100, Thomas Halahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Adam & Karsten, > > thanks very much for your postings. i am a fool for not backing up > better - i suppose i was waiting to buy a CD writer but didn't want > to spend. > > anyway hints from your emails ga

Re: Applying LFS patch kernel + glib

2000-11-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to apply the large file system (LFS) patch to 2.2.14 and >glibc-.2.1.3. I'm happy with the kernel bit but not the glibc. You are using the patch from Andrea Archangeli right, from SuSe. There is another one around th

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
To give you yet another option, I use grip with cdparanoia and lame. On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:20:22PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi , > > Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? > TIA!

Re: OpenGL Segfaulting...

2000-11-30 Thread Evan Van Dyke
After tonight's update to woody, I'm still having all OpenGL apps (including xlock) segf when they try to draw things. xlock goes so far as to terminate X and drop me back to xdm. Other things such as q3demo/ut just die with a segf after trying to draw to the screen. I've tried rebooting a few ti

Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Cory Snavely
I'll second that. I tried putty and ttssh both and came away with ttssh. ttssh does port forwarding, which is very convenient for X, ftp, etc. - Original Message - From: "Slin Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:47 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-30 Thread Bek Oberin
Josh McKinney wrote: > I know that your problem with the gnome sounds is that esd and the > gnome sounds are fighting over the sound card basically. I can't > help you much more than that, I just don't use sounds with gnome, > but it may help. If anybody knows how to get gnome to co-exist with es

Re: StartX error

2000-11-30 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -, william Elling wrote: > Fatal server error: > no Config file found! > > > ive done the step by step instructions i have found with no luck at all So > if u can give me another way to do it without downloading all the files > again that would be greatl

Command to determine resolution

2000-11-30 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Is there a command available in Debian to determine what resolution is being used in an X session? Please Cc: me on any replies. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Stults
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'd like to draw on the general computing expertise of this group. Where I work, we have a unix server with 4 CPU's. There is not a "nice" police at our center, and I have been trying to make the case to the sysadmin that there should be. Could someone please re

Re: StartX error

2000-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
I think it should be in /etc/X11/ william Elling writes: > i have read about 5 different online scripts trying to tell me the easiest > way to get the x windows to start and have tried a couple but i keep coming > back the problem of > > Could not find config file! > - Tired: > /etc/

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread David Z Maze
Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TCP> Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? I highly recommend abcde. You'll have to provide your own encoder. On Woody, abcde defaults to producing OggVorbis files; it's the same concept as MP3, but free of nasty patent problem

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread J. Reilink
"Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > Hi , > > Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? > TIA! > XMMS can (look for plugins, configs... +p if I'm not mistaken) Digital Overdrive -- .~. http://www.dsinet.org/hackfaq | http://www.dsinet.org /V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )\

Re: Gnome Sound Problems Continued

2000-11-30 Thread Josh McKinney
I know that your problem with the gnome sounds is that esd and the gnome sounds are fighting over the sound card basically. I can't help you much more than that, I just don't use sounds with gnome, but it may help. On approximately Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:08:29PM -0500, Arlen Carlson wrote: >

StartX error

2000-11-30 Thread william Elling
i have read about 5 different online scripts trying to tell me the easiest way to get the x windows to start and have tried a couple but i keep coming back the problem of Could not find config file! - Tired: /etc/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/XF86Config.master /usr/X11R6/lib/XF86Config Fa

Re: deleted root directory - fixed, actually a lib problem

2000-11-30 Thread Thomas Halahan
Adam & Karsten, thanks very much for your postings. i am a fool for not backing up better - i suppose i was waiting to buy a CD writer but didn't want to spend. anyway hints from your emails gave me enough to go on. i ran fsck to repair. you also mentioned libraries which i looked into, a

CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi , Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? TIA! --- tcp

Wierd ISP Email Processing

2000-11-30 Thread Steve Witt
I just changed ISPs, to Flashcom, and have noticed that they seem to have a strange email processing system. I have a potato box using exim as my email MTA. The email arrangement is pretty standard for ISP email, I get mail via POP3 using fetchmail from a Flashcom POP3 server and send mail using S

Re: Harddisk controller

2000-11-30 Thread Josh McKinney
>From my personal experience I have not been able to get the kernel patches for >2.2* to work. The patches are not so great backports from the 2.4* kernels, so the easiest way to get the card to work with my experience is to use 2.4* kernels, I have been using them with the card since around

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, November 29, brian moore did write: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:38:12PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Well, they can be. Connections to TCP ports 137, 138, and 139 are part of > > Windows file- and printer-sharing. I don't know all that much about how > > SMB works, but

Why non-free (was Re: unzip - again)

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:52:51PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Carel> unzip is not truly free, so it ain't part of Debian pure. > Carel> Try adding non-free to your default deb line in your > Carel> /et

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:36:18PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > kmself> I'd also confirmed this on another box. Though I can > kmself> never remember what the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() mode bit is for > SUID. > kmself> '4577' was w

Re: potato-n-woody side by side?

2000-11-30 Thread Nick Croft
Glenn, I also lost my backspace key in the process. In desperation I rang a friend who logged in to my box and offered advice. It seems that you need to nudge apt to keep going with installation. It comes to an end, you start to use your machine and then find some packages won't work. Have a loo

Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memory" - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> I'd also confirmed this on another box. Though I can kmself> never remember what the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() mode bit is for SUID. kmself> '4577' was what I was looking for, IIRC. 4755. Though you should probably use suidregister (see /var/li

Re: unzip - again

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carel> unzip is not truly free, so it ain't part of Debian pure. Carel> Try adding non-free to your default deb line in your Carel> /etc/apt/sources.list: This is strange to me. I've seen the unzip licence, and it looks lik

libmng problem

2000-11-30 Thread Frank Frijns
Hi, After installing Qt I'm trying to install KDE. After collecting all the needed packages (debian; e.g. .deb) I fail to collect all needed ones. One of them is libmng. I downloaded the .tar.gz versions of the few missing packages. So far, so good. However the package libmng_0.9.2.org.tar.gz won

Re: Wrong message - Was: How to install LAMP the Debian way

2000-11-30 Thread Rino Mardo
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:16:07AM +1100 or thereabouts, John Griffiths wrote: > >Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in > >/var/www/test2.php on line 15 > > apt-get install php4-mysql > wooo! thanks alot. now off to lamp land... btw, in case someone is also looking for th

Re: ftp on a non standard port

2000-11-30 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
On Jue 30 Nov 2000 22:20, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:49PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > > /etc/proftpd.conf or something). I have done that over here, with no > > > problems. > > > > I am using wu-ftp and I can't find any place to set the port on config > > files

umlauts-in-terminal/console-problem after upgrading to woody

2000-11-30 Thread Michael Mertins
Hi, I have a large problem getting umlauts to work since I upgraded to woody. I made the XFree4.0-Server run although I use a voodoo3-2000. Caused me some problems etc. but it works now. Aswell I got that new locales-package. I edited /etc/locale.gen and generated de_DE aswell I edited /etc/X11/XF8

Re: xplanet: error while loading shared libraries: libdpstk.so.1

2000-11-30 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:41:30AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm getting the following error after my latest Woody dist-upgrade > yesterday. Anyone else? > > xplanet: error while loading shared libraries: libdpstk.so.1: cannot > open shared object file:

Re: ftp on a non standard port

2000-11-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:49PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > On Jue 30 Nov 2000 22:01, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > > I need to set up an ftp server on a non standard port. If I change the > > > entry in /etc/services I get it to li

PSGML problems since upgrade

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
Ever since I upgraded from Mandrake to Debian I have been getting the following errors from XEmacs psgml-mode: Docbook documents: /usr/lib/sgml/entities/ISOamsa line 11 col 22 entity ISOamsa /usr/lib/sgml/entities/docbook-3.1/dbcent.mod line 54 col 9 entity dbcent /usr/lib/sgml/dtd/docbook-3.1/do

Re: ftp on a non standard port

2000-11-30 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:49PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > /etc/proftpd.conf or something). I have done that over here, with no > > problems. > I am using wu-ftp and I can't find any place to set the port on config files > under /etc/wu-ftp. >From man wu-ftpd: The -p and

Re: Wrong message - Was: How to install LAMP the Debian way

2000-11-30 Thread John Griffiths
>Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in >/var/www/test2.php on line 15 apt-get install php4-mysql

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