Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread Christian Eyre
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:57:25AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Christian: > I take you tried : > apt-get -f install > and it continued to give the loop? Hi, I had a play around with dpkg -i --force-overwrite perl-suid_5.6.0-21_i386.deb output: -- dpkg: considering removing perl-5.

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:12PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Arguably, there is less of a chance of that under Linux. Most people who > use Windows (like 99.9%) use either Outlook, Eudora or Netscape for > email. On Linux, the numbers cannot be used against it. If you target a > Linux virus for P

turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-28 Thread Debian User
A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 system. I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp when my system boots. However, I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be in rc2.d. Does anyone know how to make it not start upon booting?

Re: Other c++ coded wm than blackbox?

2001-03-28 Thread Henry House
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:26:53AM +0200, Klaus Stylianos Ade Johnstad wrote: > I need to know if there exist any other windowmanager > coded in c++ than blackbox. IceWm is written in C++: icewm.sourceforge.net -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc pgp3Te26

Re: Linux Version

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
You could put any distro on that box...debian might be best, simply because it doesn't use X by default, and you will not want to run Xwindows on that box, unless you're a serious masochist! I would suggest a RAM upgrade, 8MB is the bare minimum, I'd also suggest a general hardware upgrade if you h

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread destruss
Hi Christian: I take you tried : apt-get -f install and it continued to give the loop? Does throwing some -v give any more clues? Can you reinstall perl-5.004-suid to get rid of the dependencies error? HTHDean > the post-removal script fails with the command dpkg --purge > perl-5.004-suid

Fw: Ogg Vorgis-Potato

2001-03-28 Thread SoftHome
I lost the email of the person who sent me this. I can't remember all the hoops I jumped through, but if I was able to do it, just about anyone on this list should be able to. I installed the latest Ogg-Vorbis stuff. I downloaded a newer Grip, which makes use of oggenc. And I have XMMS 1.2.4 inst

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: >Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Listar also has a lovely web-configuration frontend so lusers who can't >> figure out how to use a -request admin address can adjust their settings > >Is it better

sed question

2001-03-28 Thread klong
I need a sed invocation to extract quotes (") from around a string. Basicly `cat /etc/bind/named.conf | grep zone | cut -d " " | sed $something' to give me a list of zones I run bind for so I can: for zone in `$sedcsript` do $SOME $zone $MANAGENENT done or if there is a

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-28 Thread Andrew Clark
Quoting CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ladida... it has... dependencies... bugger. doesn't tell you which ones > haven't been met though. time to slug it out and detect and get that > sorted. > (one bonus point to rpm here. at least it says the src rpm has > dependencies. > src 'deb's' (no such thing

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-28 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: >On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:07:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: >|Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >|> Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference >|> between sid and unstab

Re: SVGATextMode -> locale-gen for POTATO?

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:35:23PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:09:33PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > so now i know where yours is, but where can *I* get it? :) which > > "apt-get install xyzpdq" package do i need to yank? (locate > > didn't fi

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Rich Puhek
Well... remember that most of the recent Melissa style worms are slapped together with Visual Basic... Not a great risk that ext2 support will show up :-) --Rich ...and the paperclip winked at me and said: "It looks like you're writing a macro virus... Would you like help?" (another stolen .sig)

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:52:13AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010329 00:29 +0100: > [...] > > which *.deb contains "locale-gen"? > [...] > > Does any in potato? not that i'm aware of (and packages.debian.org/locale-gen didn't know of any such item in ANY o

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > > > Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root > > permission? Or can it? > > Like every so-called Linux virus, it requires the user to behave stupidly > - it's reall

Re: New openssh debs..why not?

2001-03-28 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jake R. Johnson wrote: >I recently did apt-get install ssh and it is an older version than I am >using on my redhat boxes. How come debian isn't current on the new >openssh packages. > >Debian >- >SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.

Re: PPPD problems

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:05:25PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem connecting to my ISP with > Debian Potato 2.2r2 and Wvdial > It dials correctly and pppd is started properly > but I can not ping to any web adress ping command just hangs > my /etc/resolv.conf has proper DNS entr

ftp v0.17-5 w/ woody

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Hurley
Used 'The FTP client' from debian package. Ran it: ftp -d ftp.us.debian.org (-d: debugging), received this after connecting: -- 220 ike FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Tue Jan 23 20:33:23 CET 2001) ready. ftp: setsockopt: Bad file descriptor -- after logging in as anonymous, receiv

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:09:33PM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:41:55PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > after `locate` and `dpkg -S` and `apt-cache search

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root > permission? Or can it? Like every so-called Linux virus, it requires the user to behave stupidly - it's really a trojan horse. It has the same permission rules as any other program, so it

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:33:30PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > t 10:29 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > >> >IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a > >> >long time, even before viruses. It

Re: Anyone successful w/Genpower & Tripp lite UPS?

2001-03-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Kerr Anderson wrote: > I have a Tripp Lite Office Professional 500 and I have tried setting it up > with a variety of programs, the software that comes with it does not work > on Debian. Everything seems to point to using Genpower, but I'm not sure > how to configure it right. Any suggesti

Re: md5 passwords

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:28:36PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > Okay, I know how to tell pam to use md5 passwords, but has > anybody actually done this after using regular crypt > passwords? I have a number of accounts with existing > passwords in /etc/shadow... what happens to them? I've been > wan

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread John Griffiths
t 10:29 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: >> >IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a >> >long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart >> >enough not to accept attachmen

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > >IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a > >long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart > >enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and > >especially d

md5 passwords

2001-03-28 Thread John Patton
Okay, I know how to tell pam to use md5 passwords, but has anybody actually done this after using regular crypt passwords? I have a number of accounts with existing passwords in /etc/shadow... what happens to them? I've been wanting to upgrade to md5 passwords for a while, but I'm afraid of totally

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread John Griffiths
>IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a >long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart >enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and >especially don't execute programs sent to you randomly over the >internet. Agreed u

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:07:49PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > At 10:00 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > >> Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. > >> Check out this link: > >> http://news.cnet.com/ne

Re: Your have received a message.

2001-03-28 Thread eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi eric, From: andika Type: 2 Text: 1. download kernel-image-2.4.2 deb from a mirror site, you can also use http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/kernel-image-2.4.2-386.html as a starting point to download. 2. run 'dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.2*' That's all. Plea

Re: Segmentation fault

2001-03-28 Thread wen
Okay, after I closed gimp and run apt-get install gphoto again, the installation succeeded. Thanks for your attention. Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wen> When I try to install gphoto by apt-get from unstable, I got the following wen> error message and finally the installation failed. Could s

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread John Griffiths
At 10:00 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: >> Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. >> Check out this link: >> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd >> >> Surely this virus canno

Re:

2001-03-28 Thread Andrew Clark
Does apt-move actually work for anyone? When I run it, it created a lot of directories in the right places, but then it skipped every file in /var/lib/cache/apt and didn't put anything in the mirror. At 12:07 28/03/2001 +0200, Bernhard Wesely wrote: Hi, Two weeks ago I asked the same questio

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. > Check out this link: > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd > > Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root > permission

Re: xfree86 and woody

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
The woody packages for xfree86 are in pool. The packages file gives the location of the various packages and may be different for woody and sid, even though both versions exist in the same directory under pool. The woody xfree86 packages are currently version 4.02-7, while sid packages are later.

Linux Virus

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Devin
Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. Check out this link: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root permission? Or can it? Cheers. Mark.

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how > much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the > following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? > Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian, deb

gnome-apt and free-amp in woody

2001-03-28 Thread Glen Snyder
Hi all. gnome-apt and freeamp seem to have dropped out of testing for the time being. Has anyone who is running woody tried using dpkg to install either of these from sid or are there dependency problems? I guess I could live without themjust wondering though. Thanks, Glen

Re: Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Smith wrote: > But I can't find any mention of turning on shadow passwords. shadowconfig on Note that you can also use dpkg-reconfigure base-config to re-see some of the questions it asked at install time. -- see shy jo

use of suck

2001-03-28 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed suck for getting and reading news offline. I have edited the file .get.news.inn with -U and -P options for username and password in addition to folders and made user added to news group. Still when I try tp connect I get the following error messages. Any solutions? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed 2.2r0 and said no to the shadow/MD5 questions during installation 'cause I was gonna install NIS. Now I'd like to turn on shadow & MD5 passwords. It seems that turning on MD5 passwords is as simple as # /etc/pam.d/login: password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure mi

debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? Diskspace required for each of these Debian dis

upgrade to 2.4.2 meet kernel panic

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Dear Debian linux experts: With /boot directory having 2.4.2 initrc and vmlinuz , I adding some lines in my grub(copy original 4 lines replace old kernel initrc .gz and vmlinuz ) reboot I did see new line in grub exhibit my 2.4.2 line but after I choose it it stop as kernel panic , need exper

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Devin
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > Packages from security.debian.org won't be installed into testing by > apt-get, because even though they might be "newer", they still are an > older version of the package, merely patched to fix the security > problem. O. I am beginning to see a possible problem

xfree86 and woody

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
What's the story with xfree86 and woody? I don't see any debs for xfree86 in that tree. There are various .deb's in pool, but the most recent ones don't seem to be associated with any dist, including unstable. I've tried searching the list archives on this, but the search page keeps stalling on

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-28 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:22:14 Darryl Rvthering writes: DR> Can someone explain the advantage many see in Debian upgrades vrs. RedHat? DR> To take a concrete example, lets say I planned to start upgrading my home DR> throwaway box (where I put up slink a few years back). FYI, Vin

Segmentation fault

2001-03-28 Thread wen
Hi, When I try to install gphoto by apt-get from unstable, I got the following error message and finally the installation failed. Could someone help me? Regards, --Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] # apt-get install gphoto Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > > I have a CD writer located at '/dev/burner'. > > > > It's an IDE drive, but I use ide-scsi to make it look like a SCSI device > > with bus ID '1,1,0'. > > > > It works fine. I've just always wondere

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread eric
Nate Amsden wrote: Mark Devin wrote: How safe would it be to always run with "unstable" - continually updating?. Am I likely to get a broken system which cannot be fixed without expert skills? its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get a broken system at one p

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

2001-03-28 Thread Christian Eyre
>Hi Christian: > Since the problem is with pert-*-suid can you >rm that first? HTH Dean Hi Dean, the post-removal script fails with the command dpkg --purge perl-5.004-suid, andunmet dependencies lead apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid to fail: apt-get remove perl-5.004-suid You might want to

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:16:01AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:15:21AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > |I have noticed something that may be related (maybe not). Since I set > |up gpm to repeat, occasionally it will malfunction after a while. I > |can still highlight

lilo, /boot, symlinks

2001-03-28 Thread Bud Rogers
Ack. I've just spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to get a new potato install to boot from the hard drive. It has a small /boot partition at hda1, / at hda2. The install process set up lilo.conf to boot /vmlinuz, which is a symlink to the real kernel in /boot. I thought maybe the cr

Linux Version

2001-03-28 Thread bob bobbleson
I'm new to Linux, I've installed Mandrake and Storm, but that's it. I have a 486 with 8 megs of RAM that I want to put Linux on. What version should I use? Will I need a RAM upgrade? And where will I be able to download it. Thank you. __

Re: NVIDIA GeForce2MX problem

2001-03-28 Thread Rick Rezinas
getting in on this thread a bit late, but if you upgrade to 2.4 you need to restart before you can do the kernel patches, otherwise you'll patch the 2.2 modules. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Zac Epkes wrote: > Hmm, im not sure you have to be using 2.4 but it wouldnt help... make sure > you have to corre

Re: alsa driver

2001-03-28 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The potato alsa packages are very out of date. I would recommend downloading the source tarballs and using ALSA that way. Sean On Wednesday 28 March 2001 11:33, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi > > I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato

Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've been gently adviced to post messages in text only mode, I apologize for any inconvenience. I'm posting in text only in other Linux oriented lists already, but I'm new to this list and I forgot to select text only as default. Thanks for the responses I already got to m

Re: lm-sensors with kernel-package

2001-03-28 Thread Jens Gecius
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are no /dev/i2c files around. How can I create them. Is there a > > > skript? > > > > Sorry, I forgot: if you want to use the i2c-interface, you also need > > the i2c-source package. These are some additional modules to make > > available

Re: dpkg / apt history

2001-03-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just installed a new package, using apt-get. Apt-get figured that some > packages were in its way, and politely asked me to replace them. Woe unto > me! Although the system boots normally, I can't 'startx', or 'ifup eth0'... > Is there a way to backtrack the changes that have occured on my box?

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try > running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your > XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be > "nvidia" rather than "nv", rig

Unidentified subject!

2001-03-28 Thread Shaul Karl
> I am really confused... I downloaded several .deb packages from > ftp.debian.org on my machine at work, and burned them to a CD-RW to take > home. I copied the files to a directory /home/Backups/debian, and added a > line to /etc/apt/apt.sources: > > deb file://home/Backups/debian/ > >

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Bob Wilkinson
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:18:49AM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > use gramofile http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/ Bob

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:06:38PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > transactions? Yes, but why on earth would you want to use that version of mozilla? Perfomance

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread Andre Berger
* will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010329 00:29 +0100: [...] > which *.deb contains "locale-gen"? [...] Does any in potato? Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:14:51PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > But you already answered the question... If a page looks unlikely > to be used in the near future and there's spare CPU and I/O bandwidth > available, there's no reason not to swap it to cache. If it's needed, > the cost of restori

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:56:59PM -0600, Kent West scribbled... > Barry Mathieu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Kent West
Barry Mathieu wrote: Hello, Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web transactions? Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive a message something like "connection refused". Bein

Re: duplicate packages found via sources.list

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 14:40, Ron Peterson wrote: > What happens if multiple URI's in sources.list can be used to find a > particular package? Does the first one win? What if you find the same > package twice, but different versions? Is there a way to say 'apt-get > install most-recent'? > > In my case, I

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Claus
>: >: > If my existing conclusion is correct, then it appears I must use >: > something like Netscape, with the appropriate .deb install pkg, for >: > connecting to a secure server. >: >: Yes. Netscape 4.x. Package: konqueror Version: 4:2.0.1-0.potato6 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maint

Re: Mime Type of Debian package

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 09:31, Delavigne, Ken wrote: > Please tell me what MIME TYPE Deb packages are, and if I am taking > the correct action to correct how Netscape handles downloads of packages. /etc/mime.types says "application/x-debian-package" but my netscape says "application/x-deb". Try anyone of

Re: Promise Raid Card

2001-03-28 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
The Debian package named 'kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide' sounds like what you need. Or else 'kernel-image-2.2.17-ide' if you want the slightly older kernel. Both packages say they were 'compiled with the UDMA66 patch from Andre Hedrick'. They also say 'If you have an IDE controller which require

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive > > a message something like "connection refused". > > I have the s

Re: lpd init script

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 29 11:15, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > Through some absolute idiocy on my part, I managed to trash my > /etc/init.d/lpd script this morning. To further prove that I'm incapable, > I don't have a back up of it. > > Does anyone know where I can download this script, or could someone > possib

Re: XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

2001-03-28 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:15:21AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: |I have noticed something that may be related (maybe not). Since I set |up gpm to repeat, occasionally it will malfunction after a while. I |can still highlight text, but pasting will not work. If I click the |right mouse button, an ar

Re: Anyone successful w/Genpower & Tripp lite UPS?

2001-03-28 Thread mark
I'm using powstatd with a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 and it works fine. May be the same as yours, maybe not. -- Mark On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:13:50PM -0500, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > I have a Tripp Lite Office Professional 500 and I have tried setting it up > with a variety of programs, t

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 28 17:06, Barry Mathieu wrote: > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > transactions? > > Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive > a message something like "connectio

Anyone successful w/Genpower & Tripp lite UPS?

2001-03-28 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I have a Tripp Lite Office Professional 500 and I have tried setting it up with a variety of programs, the software that comes with it does not work on Debian. Everything seems to point to using Genpower, but I'm not sure how to configure it right. Any suggestions? --

Re: Printing

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
I know next to nothing of printing, so stupid ideas ahead, but... On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:32:06PM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: ... > Class: firestarter Class looks like your using cups? I thought cups didn't use /etc/printcap, but its own config files? > lp|hp2100|HP LaserJet 2100TN:\

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:42:17PM -0600, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi > > interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :) > > > Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:41:55PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > after `locate` and `dpkg -S` and `apt-cache search` and > > `http://packages.debian.org` i remain quite in the dark as to > > where to get suc

Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hello, Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web transactions? Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive a message something like "connection refused". Being a newbie, I would like

RE: Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

2001-03-28 Thread Marius Moisescu
Thanks Ray, I've found what I've been looking for. So, if anyone would like to install potato using a 2.4.2 kernel/mkreiserfs 3.6.25, there are two sites that deal with this: http://yokkunlinux.hypermart.net/, and http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~geiger/debian-reiserfs/ Again, thanks again for hel

INN Access w/ Shadow Passwords

2001-03-28 Thread Brian White
I'm having trouble getting INN to run such that it requires userid/password to get access to it. I suspect this is because it doesn't have permission to read the /etc/shadow file, but I don't know why. I've tried adding news to the shadow group. I've tried setting the passwd file to specify news

can't lock /etc/mail/aliases

2001-03-28 Thread aphro
im getting this on a buncha systems when i run 'newaliases' mail:/etc/mail# newaliases warning: cannot lock /etc/mail/aliases: Error 0 /etc/mail/aliases: 332 aliases, longest 63 bytes, 12743 bytes total but according to lsof nothing is using it: mail:/etc/mail# lsof | grep /etc/mail/aliases mai

Re: cdrecord audio indexing???

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:48:32PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > i have really large techno audio tracks and I want to be able to make one > song into several tracks without chopping up the song. How do I use the > cdrecord index option?? Take a look at cdrdao and its toc files. -- Ron Golan

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:07:23PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:18:49AM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > > Y

Sound

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I'm having a little problem with my sound. I've got it working fine on one laptop (Gateway Solo 2500 running RH6.2), but on the second laptop (same model running woody) it's flaked out. I think it has to do with my IO ports. I've compiled everything as modules, so at boot up: modprobe mpu401 m

problem with sshd version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2

2001-03-28 Thread Miguel S. Filipe
Hi to all, here is my problem: i can't login! --(m3thos#:~/data/mp3/tmp)-- ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. -(taken from: /var/log/auth.log)- Mar 28 20:08:53 foton sshd[7963]: Failed password for m3thos from 127.0.0.1 port 1181 Mar 28 20:08:59 f

cdrecord audio indexing???

2001-03-28 Thread Jake R. Johnson
i have really large techno audio tracks and I want to be able to make one song into several tracks without chopping up the song. How do I use the cdrecord index option?? THanks

Re: Installing Debian

2001-03-28 Thread francisco m . neto
» Shawn Garbett disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I have a CDROM installed on the second IDE connector as Master. I don't > find any kernel modules that fit this, so I assume it's part of the base > package. Then once it's all installed, I go to play a music CD and it > doesn't work. The error mes

Re: SVGATextMode

2001-03-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:43:02AM -0600, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:13:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > In console mode, check your fonts used under SVGATextMode. I > > have the following font entries in /etc/TextConfig (I think > > they're defaul

Re: cdrecord does not accept /dev output files?

2001-03-28 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > cdrecord doesn't use the kernel cdrom driver, it uses a raw scsi > interface (sg), so only specifying the cdrom device doesn't work :) Does cdrecord go straight to the hardware because the kernel CD-ROM drivers are read-only drivers? If so then it seems that someda

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i remember seeing linux that works in 512k ram. forget what it was called, but i yahoo'd it under +linux +286 pete On Wed 28 Mar 01, 9:38 PM, Andrea Vettorello said: > Jonathan Gift wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > > 2MB ram on

Re: why does it use swap?

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > I guess that kind of makes sense. If the kernel ever needs to access > the swapped pages, it's got them cached so it can do it quickly. > But if it ever needs a whole lot of RAM for something else¸ it can merely > re-allocate th

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:32:16PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > "Jake R. Johnson" wrote: > > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > > this? > > Maybe with "dd" or with "split", i h

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Moz installs the plugins in the wrong dir.. remove the plugins > > subdirectory in your moz dir. and link it to the directory where the > > plugins are installed. Or cp/mv the plugins to that directory > > Could you be more specific? Moz installs to which wrong subdirectory? And > which is th

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: DvB :: > This is actually a known issue with 0.8 (should be in the release notes, > I think...). To fix it, make a symlink in $MOZDIR/plugins which points > to the actual library file (I for get where it is... something like > java1.2/plugin/i386/ns600). [corban][03:02pm][/usr/lib/mozilla/pl

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread joeytsai
:: William Leese :: > Moz installs the plugins in the wrong dir.. remove the plugins subdirectory > in your moz dir. and link it to the directory where the plugins are > installed. Or cp/mv the plugins to that directory Could you be more specific? Moz installs to which wrong subdirectory? And

Re: Q: Any Linux on 2MB Ram?

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think so. I have an old, very old, laptop floating around with > 2MB ram on it. Anyone know of a Linux distro that will run on it? Maybe > one of the embedded one's? > > Ironic that PDA's are more powerful nowadays. > Don't remember the right name, something

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

2001-03-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
"Jake R. Johnson" wrote: > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > this? Maybe with "dd" or with "split", i have only used "split" long time ago on Solaris, and it was useful with text file,

Linux 2.4.2 rescue disk

2001-03-28 Thread Marius Moisescu
Hello, I've been looking for a 2.4.2 kernel rescue disk and haven't found any ready-made one yet. What I really need is kernel 2.4.x and mkreiserfs version 3.6.x (which supports files larger than 4GB) on a floppy. Then I would install Debian Potato, and finally dist-upgrade to unstable. But I r

Re: Enlightenment and Gnome won't work

2001-03-28 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
i had to install gnome (apt-get worked fine for this), then download and compile the source for enlightenment. -- steve On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Micah Bogdan wrote: > hi there debian! sorry to bug you but when i installed linux, enlightenment > and gnome don't install. I know i selected the right p

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