(OT) non-proprietary software merits

2001-10-01 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetings, Today in CIS class, we talked about how software is kind of dangerous if it isn't proprietary. Also mentioned was Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain. Please realize, I use linux that is 'debianized' on both this box and on my router/firewall. Yet I am really kind of amazed tha

Re: [error] install mozilla-browser

2001-10-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Jack wrote: > Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.4-3) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line 29: 1724 Segmentation > fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > dpkg: error processing mozilla-browser (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Stephen Gran wrote: SG> you have t be in the directory /usr/src/linux when you make menuconfig SG> or make xconfig. Also, Ip masquerading is something that is usually an SG> optional thing compiled in - if you're running a vanilla kernel, it's SG> probably not. 2.2.18pre21 fr

Network with a PCMCIA card and kernel problems

2001-10-01 Thread Francois Fayard
Hi, I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (That I've compiled myself), the lights of my network card are still blinkin

[error] install mozilla-browser

2001-10-01 Thread Jack
Hi, Error mesg: # apt-get install mozilla-browser Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: mozilla-browser 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to r

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
* Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > #include > Bob Nielsen wrote on Mon Oct 01, 2001 um 09:28:22AM: > > > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 > > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4315 octets > > reading message 1 of 202 (4315 octets) > > Maybe problems on connecting localhost. Try "ifup lo". If it helps, > chec

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:38:06PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My experience is also that PDF works fine, since they're usually just > > looking for something that will pop up when they click a link, and most > > people have acrobat reader installed.

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Hans Steinraht: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:12:49PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > > > > I just tried make menuconfig but make (very nice to install on Debian) didn't > recognized > the option menuconfig. > > I'am going to look how to compile a kernel (I knew that once the first t

Re: WOT: printf format code mnemonics

2001-10-01 Thread Kendall Shaw
At 07:49 PM 10/1/2001 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:40:51PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote: > Where did \n \r \t come from? Newline, (carriage) return, tab. Ah. > I would expect them to be \j \m \i, after ^J, ^M, ^I. ^J, ^M, and ^I are just the key sequences which happ

Re: Installing Gnome on Potato

2001-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake elawson: > Is there a reasonably short and concise description or > documentation of some form which is specific to Debian > on how to setup Gnome running on sawfish? > > Simply installing packages does not seem to do it. > > I have been running Wmaker and while gnome apps run Ok, I >

Re: apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Here is my menu.lst related stuff. color black/white # Boot automatically after 30 secs. timeout 15 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Fallback to the second entry. fallback 1 # For booting Linux title Debian GNU/Linux root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 apm=on

Re: apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Here is my menu.lst related stuff... color black/white # Boot automatically after 30 secs. timeout 15 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Fallback to the second entry. fallback 1 # For booting Linux title Debian GNU/Linux root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 apm

Re: WOT: printf format code mnemonics

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:40:51PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote: > Where did \n \r \t come from? Newline, (carriage) return, tab. > I would expect them to be \j \m \i, after ^J, ^M, ^I. ^J, ^M, and ^I are just the key sequences which happen to correspond to those characters' ASCII values. \n, \r,

WOT: printf format code mnemonics

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Frankstein
Where did \n \r \t come from? I would expect them to be \j \m \i, after ^J, ^M, ^I.

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet access. > It sounds pretty (very!) cool, and you can get it _anywhere_ in Europe. > I was wondering if it will work on linux, or you

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Bob Nielsen wrote on Mon Oct 01, 2001 um 09:28:22AM: > fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4315 octets > reading message 1 of 202 (4315 octets) Maybe problems on connecting localhost. Try "ifup lo". If it helps, check if there is "auto lo" line in in the interfaces file. man

modutils and ieee1394 drivers

2001-10-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
The current version of modutils in unstable does not work with the ieee1394 drivers from the 2.4 Linux kernels. In a good demonstration of how to maintain a stable codebase the kernel developers changed some data structures that broke things. This means that if you need to use 1394 drivers you wi

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
No. Nothing in the exchange identifies it, although it is (I believe) a Unix system of some sort. On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:45:31PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just now fetchmail worked quickly again. SMTP was also speedy (it was > > very slow also).

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Hans Steinraht
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:12:49PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: I just tried make menuconfig but make (very nice to install on Debian) didn't recognized the option menuconfig. I'am going to look how to compile a kernel (I knew that once the first time should come). What I do not understand

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alexander... partition size is sort of an individual preference for partition infofaqs.. http://www.linux-1u.net/Installation/partition.html i prefer... / - small as possible ( 64Mb-128Mb ) - so that single user works even on some corrupted sys

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya theodore... > With the Nimba virus/worm and the Code Red worm breaking Windows around the > globe, I am nervously waiting for the next Linux Worm. why ??? in the mean time... the script kiddies...with lots of free tme is attacking your PCs with generic scripts that tries to exploit your

Re: /dev/ttS?? modules

2001-10-01 Thread Joe Barnett
on Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:30:30 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010930 23:12]: >> Hi there, >> > Whenever I boot up, i get messages from the kernel complaining that it >> cannot find ttS?? modules, or /dev/ttS?? modules. >it would be very helpful if you could post the ex

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server - english version

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi cleto i think the english version of AntiVer is here... http://www.hbedv.com/infos/demo.htm thanx alvin http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/server.gwif.html#Mail On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Cleto Pescia wrote: > Hello, > > > Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experience is also that PDF works fine, since they're usually just > looking for something that will pop up when they click a link, and most > people have acrobat reader installed. My experience is the opposite... they all want something to import in

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dave list of various virus scanners running on linux... http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/server.gwif.html#Mail -- i assume you are looking for windoze based virus c ya alvin On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Dave Bacon wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a program that will parse emai

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread Cleto Pescia
Hello, > Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for > viruses going in and out of my Debian email server? We use AntiVir MailGate for Linux together with sendmail on several mail servers, both on leased-lines and on dialup connections, and it works very well. You can find i

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
* Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just now fetchmail worked quickly again. SMTP was also speedy (it was > very slow also). I suspect the problem was at my ISP. I suspect that > possibly fetchmail does a DNS lookup while getmail does not and > something was causing a delay in the respons

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Andreas Obermaier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > A quick test with enscript didn't yield a satisfactory result. (Line > breaks got messed up). > > Actually I did write my cv in xml and then used xsltproc to convert it > to html. This was thought to be my first xml project, so I am not sur

Re: apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:31PM +, andrej hocevar wrote: > hello > lately i've installed grub since some have mentioned it here. > the only two things i had in my lilo.conf and that i want to retain were > vga=7 and append="apm=on". let chain-load, i've found another way of > defining the vg

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Jason Boxman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I like to check /var/log/dmesg and syslog. The card that cannot ping or be > pinged may actually be experiencing a hardware issue. I had a card once that > I was able to assign an IP to, but it failed to function. It turns out it > was an IRQ conflict.

Re: CNAMEs for MX

2001-10-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:06:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > can someone explain to me, why BIND 9 complains when you list CNAMEs > as MX records for hosts? i seem to recall that one should not, but: >There is one other special case. If the response contains an >answer which is a

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Andreas Obermaier
Patrick, thanks for the offer. And yes, I am trying to use my computer as a tool. I want to find a solution to come up with an acceptable format for my cv from within Linux. This should be consistent with your view of computers, yes? ;) I know this will take considerably more effort, but when

Re: problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-01 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: [video card specs, etc] | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd | love to get this laptop working. Check out the framebuffer support in the kernel. Rebuild your kernel to use the framebuffer inst

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
Just now fetchmail worked quickly again. SMTP was also speedy (it was very slow also). I suspect the problem was at my ISP. I suspect that possibly fetchmail does a DNS lookup while getmail does not and something was causing a delay in the response from my ISP's nameserver. Bob On Mon, Oct 01,

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Andreas Obermaier
A quick test with enscript didn't yield a satisfactory result. (Line breaks got messed up). Actually I did write my cv in xml and then used xsltproc to convert it to html. This was thought to be my first xml project, so I am not sure if I did use xml the way it was supposed to be used, or not. :

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server - is it possible for a Linux user to be a Windows Virus Courier ?

2001-10-01 Thread Theodore Knab
I recently accidently sent an attachment from a Windows user to another Windows user. I use Mutt as a client and an Exim as my mail server. Could I have accidently passed on a virus? -Ted On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 04:30:17PM -0500, Dave Bacon wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a progr

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 01 October 2001 05:48 pm, Rory O'Connor wrote: > I haven't got answers...only more questions. I am trying to do the same, > but am not able to ping my win98 pc. I have internal IPs assigned and my > PCs can ping each other...but there's some hangup with the linux box. > > There are 2 in

Re: AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-01 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 01 October 2001 06:07 pm, Jerome Cornet wrote: > Hi there, > > I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. > I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian > When I look at the kernel messages, I can see that the isapnp correctly

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-10-01 Thread David
> > I'd like a Debian guru to tell me and others why mixing distros is so > > dangerous. Is it just because of the changes in dependances? Am I > > safe by being careful of deps myself? > > Debian is (in large part) about resolving dependencies. By mixing > distros, you're utterly fuxnoring the

Re: netscape plugins in konqueror

2001-10-01 Thread David
On Saturday 29 September 2001 11:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. > I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. > > Following the directions, I installed the plugin files in > /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/; now netscape 4

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
My experience is also that PDF works fine, since they're usually just looking for something that will pop up when they click a link, and most people have acrobat reader installed. So converting your html to ps (by printing it to a file), then ps2pdf might work. There's a package out there called R

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach P Kirk (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:04:06PM +0100): > I used have a headhunting firm and you've stumbled across one area > where the MS lock-in is really strong. A recruiter who doesn't use > Office has problems with both clients and candidates. But then once > they accept using Office, th

AWE64 and isapnp in kernel

2001-10-01 Thread Jerome Cornet
Hi there, I have some troubles using the linux 2.4 isapnp support with an awe64. I use the kernel-image-2.4.9-586 from http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian When I look at the kernel messages, I can see that the isapnp correctly detects the card, but when I load the sb module the card is not

CNAMEs for MX

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
hi, can someone explain to me, why BIND 9 complains when you list CNAMEs as MX records for hosts? i seem to recall that one should not, but: The first step for the mailer at LOCAL is to issue a query for MX RRs for REMOTE. [snip] Certain responses to the query are considered errors:

RE: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Mullins, Ron
>also sprach Dave Sherohman (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:22:04PM -0500): >> The only virus scanners I am aware of that run under linux are >> designed to scan for Windows viruses in traffic that the linux server >> is handling. McAfee's (NAI) searches for Windows and Unix variants. From the Virus DAT u

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:47:22PM +0100, xio wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who >don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them keep >insisting in asking for a cv in Word format. > >Does anybody know if there is conversion tools

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:47:22PM +0100, xio wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who > don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them keep > insisting in asking for a cv in Word format. > > Does anybody know if there is conversion

Re: OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread Andreas Obermaier
Hmm, I think I was too fast in sending this mail. apt-cache search gave me the answer: enscript - Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF or Pretty-Print Did anybody make any good/bad experiences with enscripting RTF from text formats? Thanks again Andreas On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:47

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
>> it logs on automatically, drills down through directories and has a nice >> command-line. > >I use lukemftp all the time, but the issue is still the same -- the >server refuses to talk to me. Boggle. What's in your .netrc?

RE: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread Mullins, Ron
>Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for >viruses going in and out of my Debian email server? > >Thank you We use Postfix for the mail server, but Amavis (www.amavis.org) and your preference of virus scanning software (McAfee in our case) works well. -- Those who would

apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread andrej hocevar
hello lately i've installed grub since some have mentioned it here. the only two things i had in my lilo.conf and that i want to retain were vga=7 and append="apm=on". let chain-load, i've found another way of defining the vga-mode -- vidmode, which works just fine. what about apm? there surely mu

RE: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread Mullins, Ron
>Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package >(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, >but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I >never even get a prompt. > >I can understand if I cannot connect as a normal user without >configuring, but I

OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread xio
Hi, I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them keep insisting in asking for a cv in Word format. Does anybody know if there is conversion tools from html or text to rtf? (they'd have to run on Debian) Th

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread Dave Bacon
Good point.. Our MTA is Sendmail. Thanks Dave Bacon - OWLS martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Dave Bacon (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:30:17PM -0500): > > Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for > > viruses going in and out of my Debian email server? > > you better specif

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread Rory O'Connor
I haven't got answers...only more questions. I am trying to do the same, but am not able to ping my win98 pc. I have internal IPs assigned and my PCs can ping each other...but there's some hangup with the linux box. There are 2 in it, one external (works fine) and an internal (not able to ping o

Re: postgresql/horde/imp problem on woody (was Re: testing)

2001-10-01 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Oliver Elphick (on Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:53:42PM +0100): > > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: > > +No such file or directory > > > >from cron. > > > >postgresql is installed, standard woody package. absolutely no > >databases are defi

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Bacon (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:30:17PM -0500): > Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for > viruses going in and out of my Debian email server? you better specify your MTA, or we'll assume exim by default... martin; (greetings from the heart o

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Sherohman (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 04:22:04PM -0500): > The only virus scanners I am aware of that run under linux are > designed to scan for Windows viruses in traffic that the linux server > is handling. are there any that can interface with postfix packaged as debian? i can't find

Re: Eicon Diva pro (pcmcia) 4 linux

2001-10-01 Thread Robert Rakowicz
"Mayer, Christian (Dregis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, /* I'm sorry for my bad englisch, but isn't my native language. */ > Hi everyone, > > does anybody have a eicon diva pro pccard working in his laptop? I don't > think so but if i'm werong please give me some infos how you made it work >

Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-01 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello, Can anyone recommend a program that will parse email messages for viruses going in and out of my Debian email server? Thank you -- _ Dave G. Bacon Computer Network Manager

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:57:59PM +0200, Gustaf Erikson wrote: > >Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package > >(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, > >but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I > >

Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.

2001-10-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Every couple days, i have to sendmail -q, beacuse /var/spool/mqueue has > sometimes dozens of outbound unsent messages. Once i do that, most of > them get sent, leaving the ones that are unreachable/etc left to be sent. > > My que

Re: network

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
> >I am able to ping from the W2K-machine to the Debian-machine and vice-versa. > >After this I did apt-get install ipmasq, what seems to go right. > >The configuratio of the W2K-machine is the same as I had before when I was >running Mandrake, >static ip 192.168.0.253, gateway 192.168.0.1 and the

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > What is being done to protect against this ? apt-get and security.debian.org. When a new exploit is announced, security.debian.org almost always has an updated deb available within a day and this update is announced on the debian-an

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:57:59PM +0200, Gustaf Erikson wrote: >Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package >(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, >but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I >never even get a prompt. > If you have a momen

network

2001-10-01 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I just installed Debian Potato and now I want to set up an network with an W2K-machine. My network cards are setup like this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:AF:40:C8 inet addr:24.132.7.112 Bcast:24.132.7.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP BROADCAS

Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package (http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, but when I try to connect to localhost I get "connection refused". I never even get a prompt. I can understand if I cannot connect as a normal user without configuring, but I should

Re: Debian installation inside a live linux

2001-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:20:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > Is there way to launch debian installation from inside a live Mandrake > system? There is a currently linux kernel 2.2.19 running. Sure. I've used the 'chroot' method. There are a number of dif

Re: In search of a Linux Virus Scanner

2001-10-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote: > With the Nimba virus/worm and the Code Red worm breaking Windows > around the globe, I am nervously waiting for the next Linux Worm. > > It would be more work to make a Linux virus or worm because the > designer would have to take

Re: Security on debian

2001-10-01 Thread Hamma Scott
Linux Journal has a monthly column called the Paranoid Penguin. This month: GPG: The Best Free Crypto You Aren't Using Part 2 of 2. --- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can any one point me to the best books, how-to's, > articles, scripts, etc. on > hardening debian and making it really s

Re: list etiquette

2001-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:23:03AM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > > I read my email from several places, not all

Re: Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread P Kirk
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:41:41PM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: >Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to >install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My >question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb) if I >expect to host se

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-10-01 Thread Jeremy Hankins
dman said: > I suppose you could try grabbing the version in woody. After this > incident I noticed that I still had sid (uncommented!) in my > sources.list from when I updated galeon. Yup. For the record (for anyone else in the same boat), I had to add testing to my sources.list, and then: %

Re: www.debian.org

2001-10-01 Thread burningclown
I haven't been able to access it this morning. I'm in NYC. Glenn Becker -- ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" ++

Re: router stopped forwarding packets - SOLVED

2001-10-01 Thread Mike Alborn
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:38:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mike Alborn (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:06:32AM -0700): > > I have a debian unstable machine here (specifics below) > > functioning as a router. At least, it _was_. This morning, each segment > > can ping the router, and

Re: www.debian.org

2001-10-01 Thread ktb
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:45:27PM +0300, Ilmars Dinbirs wrote: > any problems with subj. ? The server seems to be down at the moment as you have discovered. kent -- "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

Re: www.debian.org

2001-10-01 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
I cant get it either, try www.debian.org.uk --- Ilmars Dinbirs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any problems with subj. ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___

Re: libc6 upgrade question

2001-10-01 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: libc6 upgrade question On Monday Oct 01 11:40 Gerald Richter wrote: > ** Hello Timo! > ** Thanks for the reply, but I've allready made the described step, AND I > ** recompiled the kernel against the new libc6. -Maybe that might be where > ** your slowlyness cam

Re: www.debian.org

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
The DNS I use indicates that it can't find the address, which is more than a little strange. * Ilmars Dinbirs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > any problems with subj. ? > > -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: www.debian.org

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:45:27PM +0300, Ilmars Dinbirs wrote: > any problems with subj. ? It was down for most of the day. It's back up now, as of about half an hour ago. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slow sound

2001-10-01 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-09-30 at 09:48, Knut Ivar Skattebo wrote: > Sound is playing at half speed on my Compaq Presario 9520 with ES1788 onboard. > I have searched the net for a solution, but couldn't find anything. I had a laptop with a es1888 that did the same thing, half speed sound. Forcing the driver t

Re: Package optimization

2001-10-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeffrin Jose T. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010930 16:59]: > > > Hello all > > Is it possible to make *k7.deb instead of *i386.deb ? See dman's post to understand why it's not done regularly (as in, in the archives). If you do still feel you want binaries optimized for your k7, you can download d

RE: Multihead

2001-10-01 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 10:16, Steve Calderoni wrote: > Hi, > > Just sat down to give this a try. The xf86config on my system looks nothing > like the xf86config examples that I have looked up. Is there any more > guidance / advise you can give on this subject? > Following the Howto will tell you

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Thomas Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. > > > > It seems that there are two VMs that are going to "fight it out" moving > > forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
I have similar problems with version 5.5.3. It seems to run fine with a low number of messages, but does not handle larger volumes well. I have log output very similar to yours. It looks to me as though it is waiting for confirmation from the server, while the server is waiting for some addit

Beam Internet

2001-10-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi there, Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet access. It sounds pretty (very!) cool, and you can get it _anywhere_ in Europe. I was wondering if it will work on linux, or you _have_ to use the devil OS? Thanks, Hereward

Re: ftpd - slow to connect

2001-10-01 Thread Tommi Jensen
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 08:20:13PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > It's a small network in our house, with a linux box acting as a DHCP and name > server > > since reserved ips are just that, reserved, there are no dns-ptr values for > > it > > so in-addr.arpa lookups will fail unless you set

Installing Gnome on Potato

2001-10-01 Thread elawson
Is there a reasonably short and concise description or documentation of some form which is specific to Debian on how to setup Gnome running on sawfish? Simply installing packages does not seem to do it. I have been running Wmaker and while gnome apps run Ok, I have been thinking a "regular" Gnome

Re: have to bring up network manually after reboot

2001-10-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:10:34PM +0200, David Mohr wrote: > >update-modules > should not be necessary here, only after installing new modules Actually update-modules should be run after you make changes to files in /etc/modutils . -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better

Partition sizes...

2001-10-01 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there... I just bought a server that has 2 4gb hd... I want to install debian to make it a server, and probably add a 20 gb hd... My question is, what partition should I put in the big hd (the 20 gb) if I expect to host several websites and forums, I know I shouls put home there, but, if I wa

Re: router stopped forwarding packets

2001-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mike Alborn (on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:06:32AM -0700): > I have a debian unstable machine here (specifics below) > functioning as a router. At least, it _was_. This morning, each segment > can ping the router, and the router can ping each segment, but neither > segment can ping throu

Apt sources for ximian & KDE

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
I've had to re-install my system and lost the correct sources.list entries for both ximian and KDE. WOuld someone please post these? Thanks Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DBI & XML:putting it all together

2001-10-01 Thread Jeff Zucker
Vittorio wrote: > > I'm using perl and the DBI stuff to deal with Oracle databases on a LAN. > > Now, I need to extract data from XML docs and put them in the databases. DBD::AnyData may do what you want. It allows you to import XML files into an in-memory database and you can easily insert the

AW: DNS forwarding

2001-10-01 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Mark Lanett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. September 2001 17:36 > An: Christian Schoenebeck > Cc: Debian Mailing-List (E-Mail) > Betreff: Re: DNS forwarding > > My guess is that your intranet boxes are pointed to multiple > DNS servers

Re: DNS forwarding

2001-10-01 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: DNS forwarding From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:40:00 +0200 Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date forwarded: Sun, 30 Sep

problems with XFree86 on Thinkpad

2001-10-01 Thread David A. Rogers
I have an IBM THinkpad 365XD with TFT display Model # 2625-1e9. I've seen a number of references on the net that this card/display was not supported under 3.3.6. However, recently I found a page that says they got the exact same model working under 4.02. That was here: http://geekjuice.dhs.org/~

Re: Apt sources for ximian & KDE

2001-10-01 Thread Cam Ellison
Me bad. I hate replying to my own posts, but I solved the ximian problem. It makes a big difference when you put http instead of ftp at the beginning of the line. Too soon old, too late smart. * Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've had to re-install my system and lost the correct sou

Re: list etiquette (Windows setup w/o fetchmail/procmail)

2001-10-01 Thread stevencooper
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 11:55:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: >... > Second: Last time this topic surfaced, indications were that procmail > doesn't work with the legacy MS Window

Re: DBI & XML:putting it all together

2001-10-01 Thread burningclown
Also check out the "XML and Perl" (or maybe it's the other way round) column on http://www.xml.com Glenn Becker On 1 Oct 2001, Jeff Zucker wrote: > Vittorio wrote: > > > > I'm using perl and the DBI stuff to deal with Oracle databases on a LAN. > > > > Now, I need to extract data from XML docs

a good sendmail.mc?

2001-10-01 Thread Alejandro Diego Garin
Hello! I have installed sendmail 8.11.6+8.12.0.Beta19 in woody and I am using the default configuration. My objetive is only send mails, not to have a mail server but sendmail has time-outs problems and it's not working well. Could someone give a good .mc ? Thanks -- Alejandro Diego Garin GNU/

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