RE: ati rage 128

2001-03-31 Thread James Moody
il I got a newer one. (If this is incorrect, someone please tell me). To do this, go to ftp://dri.sourceforge.net/pub/dri and get the latest r128 drivers, for example, the file ftp://dri.sourceforge.net/pub/dri/rage128-20010331-i386-Linux.tar.gz Unpack

Re: Cable for home network?

2001-03-31 Thread Nate Amsden
Abner Gershon wrote: > > I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one > Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed > ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the > higher 100 speed system. My cable options are 100 kHz > or Cat 5e in either: "PVC solid cable" or "Plenum > so

Re: Security through paranoia 2

2001-03-31 Thread John Patton
In thinking about the possibility of creating a more secure version of debian linux, I wonder if suid programs should not be automatically compiled with Stack Guard (or the like) and linked to libs with Format Guard. The Stack Guard part would be really easy, although Format Guard may be a little t

ADSL Cont.

2001-03-31 Thread Nathan Andrews
  I have played around more and got a few more files, i have come to the conclusion that it is a PPP problem from this:   Apr  2 00:30:30 basha pppd[512]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0Apr  2 00:30:30 basha modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3Apr  2 00:30:30 basha pppd[512]

Re: Win4Lin (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:28:25AM -0600, stephen wrote: > You wrote: > > Ok... yeah I just check and it seems that they are writing patch for 2.4 > > kernel but nothing comes out yet. and until I figure out if my UMAX usb > > scanner and usb logitech webcam pro works under win4lin, I will not buy

Re: dselect access default

2001-03-31 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, try restoring the original sources by using 'apt-cdrom'. I can't remember how to use it, but read the man page, and you should be fine. Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was happily using dselect to install things from a cdrom, using the default for the access choice. Th

dselect access default

2001-03-31 Thread c-blair
I was happily using dselect to install things from a cdrom, using the default for the access choice. Then, one day, I forgot to take the default and typed in something foolish of my own. Since then, I have not been able to get dselect to access the cdrom. Further, I think I may have corrupted

Re: HP Laserjet 1200 compatibility?

2001-03-31 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:08:34PM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am currently running windows but am planning to > install Debian potatoe soon and I am in the market for > a new laser printer. The HP 1200 Laserjet appears to > be a good for my purposes and budget but I did not see > a Linux drive

unsubsribe

2001-03-31 Thread John Barker

Re: Cable for home network?

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Hurley
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:19:43PM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one > Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed > ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the > higher 100 speed system. My cable options are 100 kHz > or Cat 5e in ei

Re: "activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Barry Mathieu wrote: > I'm a bit of a newbie, so thanks for pointing this information out to > me. I am a bit confused though, it seems 'newgrp' is to used to, "change > the group ID during a login session." login session != running process newgrp runs a new copy of your shell, just as if you had

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:54:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ethan Benson writes: > > cat <> ~/.bashrc > > export PATH="$HOME/.evil:${PATH}" > > EOF > > > and put a bogus su shell script in ~/.evil > > chmod a-w ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile > > .bashrc and .bash_profile should be read-only by def

Re: HP Laserjet 1200 compatibility?

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
Hi, Look for CUPS or magic-filter; you shouldn't need a driver from HP specifically. The Linux community provides its own for almost all printers. HTH, Daniel On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: > I am currently running windows but am planning to > install Debian potatoe soon and I am

Re: Compiling question

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
Dave, Short answer, I've never done this before (Debian just almost always seems to work for me). But I'm pretty sure how to... First, I should say, that in the worst case scenario, since you've just installed the system, it probably won't be that much of a loss to reinstall completely (and thi

ADSL

2001-03-31 Thread Nathan Andrews
I have receintly got Telstra ADSL and i have installed PPPoE and did what it said in the README file that came with the PPPoE package.  I followed the steps in configuring it and i have had no luck, help on this would be appreciated.

Re: ssh2 <--> openssh public key authentication

2001-03-31 Thread Brian May
> "Rob" == Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Hello, I am trying to set up public-key authentication Rob> between a SunOS box ("larry") running ssh2 and a dialup Rob> Debian box ("peon") running potato with OpenSSH 1:2.5.2p2-1 Rob> compiled from sid. From larry, the

Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-31 Thread Robert Cymbala
Why Python? Cardinal Biggles had Eric, the infidel, in the comfy chair for over four hours before wringing this confession from him... by Eric S. Raymond http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html

Cable for home network?

2001-03-31 Thread Abner Gershon
I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the higher 100 speed system. My cable options are 100 kHz or Cat 5e in either: "PVC solid cable" or "Plenum solid cable" or "Stranded cable" or Ca

HP Laserjet 1200 compatibility?

2001-03-31 Thread Abner Gershon
I am currently running windows but am planning to install Debian potatoe soon and I am in the market for a new laser printer. The HP 1200 Laserjet appears to be a good for my purposes and budget but I did not see a Linux driver listed on their web site. Is there a compatible driver in the patatoe d

error compiling qmail-src

2001-03-31 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal
Hi, I'm trying to compile qmail-src_1.03-17_all.deb under debian 2.2r2 with a kernel 2.4.0. I typed build-qmail and then it started to compile just fine, but after a few seconds I got this error: /load qmail-remote control.o constmap.o timeoutread.o \ timeoutwrite.o timeoutconn.o tcpto.o now.o

Re: Potato / Woody ; What is the different?

2001-03-31 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:22:33AM +0200, Mathias wrote: >Hi people, i know that potato is stable and woody not. But what is woody, >will it become the stable debian in future to take the place of potato, or >will it be the test system for every time? Does anybody here know that, and >can give me m

Re: Compiling question

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, Dave Linsalata wrote: > Hey all! > > I recently installed Debian on my computer, and I'm trying to set up my > ethernet card. It's a 3com 3c905B card. After some searching, I found a > linux driver on 3com's website. Unfortunately, it was compiled for an older > kernel, so

mp3 encoding

2001-03-31 Thread John Griffiths
Hi guys. I gather mp3 encoders aren't included in the official debian distribution? any tips on getting and installing lame (or something that'll work with abcde)? thanks. John

Re: networking prob

2001-03-31 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hiya Kevin, I assume that after the route command finishes you are still not on the network. But i am not 100% clear on that from you letter. I know of a temporary fix for this that may(??) work for you. I also have a Linksys Cable/DSL router. Hopefully someone will respond with a real fix. Al

Compiling question

2001-03-31 Thread Dave Linsalata
Hey all! I recently installed Debian on my computer, and I'm trying to set up my ethernet card. It's a 3com 3c905B card. After some searching, I found a linux driver on 3com's website. Unfortunately, it was compiled for an older kernel, so I had to recompile. This was what I was supposed to ty

networking prob

2001-03-31 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I installed Debian 2.2_R2 today on my second computer. It was running Redhat then Progeny RC1 just fine. After installing Debian I am unable to reach (ping) my gateway. #ifconfig (results are fine). #route (takes a long time to finish, taking time with default gateway, but when i

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread John Hasler
Ethan Benson writes: > cat <> ~/.bashrc > export PATH="$HOME/.evil:${PATH}" > EOF > and put a bogus su shell script in ~/.evil chmod a-w ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile .bashrc and .bash_profile should be read-only by default, IMHO. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill El

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread John Hasler
hzi writes: > When you use wvdial, you read e-mail as root, don't you? I can't think of any reason why that follows. > Wvdial is probably the most common way to set up a ppp conection, since > it's suggested in the Debian docuemtntaion. Which documentation is that? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: are X binaries compatible across X versions?

2001-03-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Will all X 3.3.6 binaries run on X 4.0.2? What about the other way around? > What other files are dependent on the server version? For example, > if I upgrade the server from 4.0.2 to something else, which tarballs > do I need to get besides Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz? > >

Re: replying to this list

2001-03-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Whenever I reply to this list, the message goes to the original sender > of the message instead of to the list unless I delete the address and > retype it. > This hasn't happened on any othet list I've subscribed to, unless the > sender of t

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread Erik Steffl
hzi wrote: > > Hi- > > When you use wvdial, you read e-mail as root, don't you? Wvdial is probably > the most common way to set up a ppp conection, since it's suggested in the > Debian docuemtntaion. > > So I guess my question would be how to use wvdial and still remain safe from > "virus".

Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

2001-03-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:35:24AM -0800, Robert Cymbala wrote: > Upon further research (reading man pages), it appears that reading > long filenames on a DOS floppy wouldn't even be an issue if "vfat" > appeared before "msdos" in /proc/filesystems > > I'm curious: rather than tweak /etc/fstab, wh

Re: mailx problems

2001-03-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:02:33PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Ok, heres the story. I have installed a standard Debian 2.2r2 install, all > stable. It problem is that when I run mail, I cannot delete messages. you have also installed security updates, which is a good thing. the short story

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread hzi
Hi- When you use wvdial, you read e-mail as root, don't you? Wvdial is probably the most common way to set up a ppp conection, since it's suggested in the Debian docuemtntaion. So I guess my question would be how to use wvdial and still remain safe from "virus". Thank you,

Re: Kernel-2.4.2 with AMD Duron(K7) : big problem !

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Mathias ! If you are running potato, perhaps you should try using kernel-package, it runs fine, is well documented and easy to understand. I haven't tried it with a Duron based box though... Daniel > Does anybody else tried to compile the kernel-2.4.x by using an AMD Duron > and had t

are X binaries compatible across X versions?

2001-03-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Will all X 3.3.6 binaries run on X 4.0.2? What about the other way around? What other files are dependent on the server version? For example, if I upgrade the server from 4.0.2 to something else, which tarballs do I need to get besides Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz? (This may sound off-topic, but someo

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Haha. Yes! -chris Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just had an idea. Did you ever hear the story of the "Princess and > the Pea". No mattter how many matresses were placed between the Princess > and the pea, she was still disturbed by the presence of the pea. Your > being bo

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 08:45:25AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ethan Benson writes: > > cat <> ~/.bashrc > > alias su='su -c ~/.virus' > > EOF > > su might benefit from a configuration file that sets the permissable path > for -c. interesting idea, somewhat similar to sudo, though i think sudo's

RE: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread Rick Commo
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, jennyw wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work > well with X? Thanks! > > Jen I have been using the ATI XPert 98, the PCI version in my debian box. No problems. I used the mach64 xserver. This is *cheap*, $29-$49 depending on where y

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-31 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 2001, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Oliver Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > > Noise. > > > > -chris > > > > > > You might want to look at http://www

Re:

2001-03-31 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope you're wearing an asbestos suit. On Saturday 31 March 2001 04:03, David Liu wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I would like to know if I can run MS terminal server > on Debian 2.2. > > Thanks and best regards/David Liu - --

Re: what do i need for truetype fonts and antialiased fonts?

2001-03-31 Thread Brian Nelson
This will get you started: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Forrest English wrote: > i'm pretty sure there's a way to make all of my fonts be true type fonts, > and i've heard rumors there's a way to make use of antialised fonts. > what packages

Re: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001, jennyw wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work > well with X? Thanks! > > Jen I personally put Matrox Millenium (either 4 or 8 megs RAM, IIRC) in most of my machines and they prove quite capable of supportable 85-100Hz refresh rates at

Re: Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread iehrenwald
> Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work > well with X? Thanks! Matrox Millennium II PCI or G200 PCI. You'll have to go digging on EBay or something to find one, but Matrox makes the best cards for crisp text. Or if you want a more modern solution with 3D accelera

Cheap video cards

2001-03-31 Thread jennyw
Does anyone have a recommendation for cheap PCI video cards that work well with X? Thanks! Jen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text

Re: "firing up" DocBook (was Re: Star Office)

2001-03-31 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > What LaTeX buys is the ability to create rightly formatted ASCII > output including pagination, ToC, index, etc. Sorry to come in so late on the conversation, but how is this done? I had a request to convert my resumé to text recently (I keep it as

Formatting/Mounting ext2/vfat floppies addendum

2001-03-31 Thread Gavin Hamill
Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else, and thought this little section might be useful ? Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try vfa

Re: Gnome desktop changes colors when you start Adobe Acrobet Reader or Lyx

2001-03-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:49:58AM +, hzi wrote: > Hi- > >Has anyone experienced a kind of funny problem when you install the > Acrobat Reader package? >The problem's that, whenever the program's started, all the colors in > the Gnome desktop change to bright hues. Reader's in dark g

replying to this list

2001-03-31 Thread DvB
Whenever I reply to this list, the message goes to the original sender of the message instead of to the list unless I delete the address and retype it. This hasn't happened on any othet list I've subscribed to, unless the sender of the message did something to the message (like change the reply

Re: [OT] Cordless MouseMan Optical

2001-03-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > Well, I recently bought a non-cordless (cordful? corded? > cord-bearing?) optical MouseMan, and it's very nice. You'll > appreciate having an optical mouse, especially if you're at the point > where it seems like you have to clean

Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl

2001-03-31 Thread Erik Steffl
Ilya Martynov wrote: > > JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you > JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you > JR> weren't looking :) > JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just > JR> about any lang

Security through paranoia 2

2001-03-31 Thread DrPablo
Hello ALL! I'd like to thanx everyone who replied (even those flames I received directly, with no echo through the list...>/dev/null). Well.. maybe a new port is too much. Maybe some task-secure-system (or whatever), kernel-hardened and harden-XXX XX packages are a better approach

Re: Vortex/Vortex 2?

2001-03-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, John Ericson wrote: > On Mar 30 16:22, Andrew D Dixon,,, wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Turtle Beack Santa > > Cruz. I noticed that some of there other cards are supported in the 2.4 > > kernel (I think the 2.2. as well). > > If its based on the

Gnome desktop changes colors when you start Adobe Acrobet Reader or Lyx

2001-03-31 Thread hzi
Hi- Has anyone experienced a kind of funny problem when you install the Acrobat Reader package? The problem's that, whenever the program's started, all the colors in the Gnome desktop change to bright hues. Reader's in dark green and blue, though. The colors flash when you move the cursor

Re: OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

2001-03-31 Thread DvB
I have that sound card too and I opted to compile the driver into the kernel. It can take a few tries before you get the IO ports, IRQ and DMA channels right (especially if you don't read all the the documentation first ;-) but you won't have to deal with isapnp. Also, run pnpdump to make sure t

dialup weird problem

2001-03-31 Thread Viktor Lakics
Dear Debianers! I have just installed Debian potato. I have a problem with the dialup internet access. At install time, I configured wvdial succesfully, my external modem was recognised as well. When I dial my isp it connects (pppd started, my modem handshakes etc.), but virtually no connection ca

Network Problems

2001-03-31 Thread Shawn P. Garbett
I upgraded my Debian (that I just got working!) to have KDE2.1.1 and somewhere along the way I installed something that now gives me a tap0 interface. I have to manually type 'ifconfig tap0 down' as root to be able to use PPP. What package started this guy up? How can I get rid of it. Shawn Ga

custom packages

2001-03-31 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. What's the recommended method for custom Debian packages? Situation: I need xterm with logging enabled so I can log long builds at work. No, script is not enough. I would like to rebuild xterm from source and enable logging, but I'd like to wrap it up in a Debian .deb file

Dist-upgrade removes Gnome!

2001-03-31 Thread Carl Constantine
Please cc answers to me as I'm not subscribed to this list. I'm running Debian sid and the most recent dist-upgrade wants to remove a whack of gnome apps which would render my system useless. Here's what I get for a dist-upgrade: Mallard:/home/duckwing# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package List

Forth (was Re: pyton & perl)

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you > JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you > JR> weren't looking :) > JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a

Re: fortune: "fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied"

2001-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Mario Vukelic wrote: > I can't run fortune anymore: It's been like that for some weeks in > woody, but I guess it's happened only to me, since there are no > references to "juju" in the mailing list archive. If I run fortune on > the cmd line, I get the error given in this mail's subject, which isn

Any mod_ruby users? odd behavior of scripts

2001-03-31 Thread Henry House
I've noted two odd behaviors of mod_ruby (libapache-mod-ruby 0.1.4-2.2 / libruby 1.4.3-6): * mod_ruby seems to send Content-Type:text/html even though never ask it to. * mod_ruby seems to cache old versions of scripts and I need to restart apache to clear out the old versions. These could both

bootp / tftpd

2001-03-31 Thread ahall
Hello, I am trying to get a machine to boot via bootp of a a 3c905CTX and not having much luck. Can anyone point me in the direction of documentation that describes the setup of this. I believe that this is enough off topic to warrent my asking to be replyed to off list. Thank you for your tim

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2001 14:21, will trillich wrote: > > > did i mention i have two debian systems on the network? and that > > i ssh from console on debian#2 to debian#1? and that i was > > changing the settings on the remote debian sys

video-chat

2001-03-31 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi everybody What are you people use for video-chat from Linux to somebody on a windows box (similar to buddy-phone in Windows) ? The only thing I've found doing a google search was q-see-mee but that segfaults so it's pretty much out of the question. I'm using sid if that matters,Logitech qui

Re: XFree

2001-03-31 Thread Robert Voigt
I had similar problems with the mouse. I solved it by uninstalling gpm. You can also try a different mouse protocol, for instance mousemanplusps/2.

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-03-31 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:39AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >it's trivial to set > > > > > > :set ts=4 > > > > > >to have VI (vim) use every fourth console column for a tab stop, >

Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

2001-03-31 Thread Robert Cymbala
Karsten M. Self wrote: >You can also mount a DOS formatted floppy as vfat if all you're >interested in is long filenames. Have been able to do that by changing "auto" to "vfat" in /etc/fstab Upon further research (reading man pages), it appears that reading long filenames on a DOS floppy wouldn'

Re: mail client that works through proxy

2001-03-31 Thread Robert Cymbala
Cameron Matheson wrote: >I want to have a POP mail account very badly (I'm >getting sick of using this online account), but I >can't get Mozilla's mail client to work through my >proxy server. I did everything in the directions, but >it just didn't work. Anyone know of one that works >(or if I'm

what do i need for truetype fonts and antialiased fonts?

2001-03-31 Thread Forrest English
i'm pretty sure there's a way to make all of my fonts be true type fonts, and i've heard rumors there's a way to make use of antialised fonts. what packages do i need, apt-cache search ttf seemed fairly inconclusive. and what sort of configuration do i need to do? -- Forrest English http://tru

Vortex/Vortex 2?

2001-03-31 Thread John Ericson
On Mar 30 16:22, Andrew D Dixon,,, wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the Turtle Beack Santa > Cruz. I noticed that some of there other cards are supported in the 2.4 > kernel (I think the 2.2. as well). If its based on the Vortex/Vortex 2 chip you can find info on linux s

Re: OPL3-SA3 Sound problem

2001-03-31 Thread Laurynas Biveinis
> Maybe in the long run it would be easier to try the 2.4.2 kernel. Will > there be any problems upgrading that will effect my present setup? > ie, ppp, mail, applications? I put everything in one partition so > I dont know if that will be a problem. I'm running 2.4.2 on testing distro without p

XFree86

2001-03-31 Thread Marc Leeman
OK, i think there must be a problem in the deb packages of some sort. i just ran quake3 and i still have the same probs: erratic mouse movements erratic clicks on the mouse buttons and in quake a slower framerate (1/4 to 1/3 of normal). since Quake is not using qtlibs (as far as i know of), the pr

Virus and non-official .deb's

2001-03-31 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Roberto writes: > > What chances do we have to get a virus from a malicious .deb package > > someone had leak into debian.org? > > It would have to acquire the signature of a Debian developer to get into > unstable, remain dormant for at least two weeks to get into testing, and > lie dormant the

Problem with mplayer

2001-03-31 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi, when i'm watching videos with mplayer, it always cuts the bottom half part of the image. Does someone knows about it? thanks in advance fred -- Trace ta route sans compromissions

Re: Why not to, was Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

2001-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:58:41PM +0100, David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really > > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat > > is obsolete, and sup

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:40:45PM +0200, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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 can't change root-owned files, unless

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread John Hasler
Roberto writes: > What chances do we have to get a virus from a malicious .deb package > someone had leak into debian.org? It would have to acquire the signature of a Debian developer to get into unstable, remain dormant for at least two weeks to get into testing, and lie dormant there until the n

RE: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-31 Thread Roberto Diaz
> Sorry 'bout all that commercial spam people (i'll try to cut on sendin' > hyperlinks) > ?? never heard/read anything about mcafee linux soft > AVP is Fsecure is AVP (from what i understand they're cross licensing) > never heard of sophos but in an article This is something I really dont like.. f

Re: Kernel 2.4.x BUG !!

2001-03-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > I had found a bug that is in kernel-2.4.1 and kernel-2.4.2. I've been using 2.4.2-ac13, 2.4.2-ac28 and pretty much everything in between on my Duron box. You might want to try a recent -ac. Regards Christian

mailx problems

2001-03-31 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, heres the story. I have installed a standard Debian 2.2r2 install, all stable. It problem is that when I run mail, I cannot delete messages. kernighan session begin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo test | mail wturkal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mail

Kernel 2.4.x BUG !!

2001-03-31 Thread Matthias Mann
Dear Debian Users! I had found a bug that is in kernel-2.4.1 and kernel-2.4.2. I write this to you cause i am a very convinced debian user, in hope you can fix this for others of the debian group, they could have the same nerve-racking trouble like i had with this. It is an error that comes, by co

Re: ati rage 128

2001-03-31 Thread Mathias
> I'm using an ati rage 128 video card with a 2.4.2 kernel and xfree 4.02 > I'd like to know whch packages or drivers I got to install in order to take > the best of my card, mainly openGL drivers Hi Fred, this is a part of a german magazine (Linux computing) which i read, cause i have the same c

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread Roberto Diaz
> 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 can't change root-owned files, unless they are > world-writable or you are running as root. > The thing that's special about it

mplayer

2001-03-31 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi When I use mplayer, i only have a black screen and the message "decoding 0 bites". Does someone knows about that? I'm just getting mad, trying to find what's the problem thanks in dvance fred -- Trace ta route sans compromissions

wrong libc6 - ouch! (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread A. L. Meyers
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:28:30 +0200 (CEST) From: A. L. Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wrong libc6 - ouch! Dear fellow Debianites, Tried to install a new (in "testing") version of flwm. It required a newer version of libc6 and th

Why not to, was Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

2001-03-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat > is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there > something that can do it? While th

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-03-31 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >it's trivial to set > > > > :set ts=4 > > > >to have VI (vim) use every fourth console column for a tab stop, > >but displaying things via LESS or MUTT, everything is still at 8 > >chars.

Re: stopping wu-ftpd manually not working

2001-03-31 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:07:54AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Ok. Thank you. I will use dpkg-inetd then if I keep using using wu-ftpd. I > will look at proftd. is there a significant security advantage in replacing inetd with xinetd? (i find xinetd easier to configure; also se

Re: Anyone using cdrdao with success ?

2001-03-31 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Sergio Da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there is anybody out there who does disk-at-once > recording using "cdrdao" or any other recording software. My main > purpose is the recording of audio CDs, and so far I have succeeded only > a few times in recording CDs without a gl

Re: Kernel Panic after complilation

2001-03-31 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:52:40 +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > When I reboot my new kernel (either from flop or directly) I end with: > > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root FS on 08:01 Thanks for all suggestions. It turned out to be a missing

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-31 Thread Felix Natter
Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well after a little bit lurking the web a see the only real chance to see > powerpoint files under linux is staroffice (yes I know I could use wmware > and the like but I want something as lighter as possible since I wont use > it too much). I believe th

ati rage 128

2001-03-31 Thread Frédéric de Villamil
Hi, I'm using an ati rage 128 video card with a 2.4.2 kernel and xfree 4.02 I'd like to know whch packages or drivers I got to install in order to take the best of my card, mainly openGL drivers thanks in advance fred -- Trace ta route sans compromissions

Anyone using cdrdao with success ?

2001-03-31 Thread Sergio Da Silva
Hi, I was wondering if there is anybody out there who does disk-at-once recording using "cdrdao" or any other recording software. My main purpose is the recording of audio CDs, and so far I have succeeded only a few times in recording CDs without a glitch. Could you please specify the options you

Re: Linux Virus

2001-03-31 Thread John Hasler
Ethan Benson writes: > cat <> ~/.bashrc > alias su='su -c ~/.virus' > EOF su might benefit from a configuration file that sets the permissable path for -c. Another possible fix might be for bash to somehow detect "gain-root" commands and refuse to alias them. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan

Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?

2001-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >it's trivial to set > > :set ts=4 > >to have VI (vim) use every fourth console column for a tab stop, >but displaying things via LESS or MUTT, everything is still at 8 >chars. > >is there a way to set TABS=4 globally? (badly-behaved programs >may hard

Re: Compiling a new kernel

2001-03-31 Thread Mathias
> bash-2.03# insmod ./es1371.o > ./es1371.o: kernel-module version mismatch > ./es1371.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.18pre21 > while this kernel is version 2.2.17. Hi Kaloyan! I think you shold look whether your new kernel is booting. The new vmlinuz should be in /boot or if you made no c

Re: Kernel-2.4.2 with AMD Duron(K7) : Part II

2001-03-31 Thread Mathias
Dear Linux-User! I could find my comiling problem. There must be a bug in kernel >2.4.0! I could compile the kernel by using version 2.4.0 without error and wrote the kernel maintainers about this : > Does anybody else tried to compile the kernel-2.4.x by using an AMD Duron > and had the same pro

Re: desktop and x

2001-03-31 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi Norton, Try # apt-get install task-x-window-system I can't remember the address of kde's debian packages, sorry, but the above command should get you at least into X Windows :). Cheers, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.pipeline.com.au/tonga/ - Original Message --

desktop and x

2001-03-31 Thread Norton Seron
Hi, please help me.   i downloaded the debian package (stable) and installed it, i can boot it and log in as root. But i cannot startX .is this because i have to download another package and if so what and where is it?   how do i get to put kde2 on and other stuff like that   please

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