Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:15:31PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > Agreed on the American lager, but are you throwing German lagers in > there also. I really enjoy ales, especially dark ales, I'm in unison > with Craig Dickson's opinions posted on his site. I'm just going on what I've experianced. Ge

Re: modem problem

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:16:56PM -0700, curtis wrote: > When I try to connect to my ISP using a modem I get the attached error > message. It would seem that my user name or password is wrong. But I > assure everyone that they are correct. Any other reasons this might be > happening? Wrong a

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:13:28PM -0500, dman wrote: > o POP-before-SMTP > another authentication mechanism whereby the server requires > you to first access your POP box (and authenticate) and then > assumes that, for a short while, that same IP is still you >

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:46:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Is there a ready solution to this? Perhaps a modified SMTP setup where > access is controlled via a password? I know that this breaks This is called Authenticated SMTP (ASMTP). I know for sure this is supported in exim, I have i

Re: Suggestions for a USB Webcam

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:01:39AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on what works well with linux? I've > scanned over the USB-linux devices list, so I have a feel of what > works and what doesn't. So I'm looking for opinions and expriences. Logitech Quickcam U

get XFree on one screen

I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is running in virtual 800x600 mode.In the mode the screen does not fit on the monitor

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling > checking/ > GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. Pine will accept mouse clicks in an xterm and will probably be a bit more winning than most X m

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

> > There's just not a lot you can do with an American standard or a lager > beer to make it better. Agreed on the American lager, but are you throwing German lagers in there also. I really enjoy ales, especially dark ales, I'm in unison with Craig Dickson's opinions posted on his site. Howeve

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:59:26PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > I would do that to if Mozilla had a spell check for its email agent. It won't let you pipe the text through ispell? -- Baloo pgp4Bq6wMJHby.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:46:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: | I can receive mail just fine but, since I certainly don't want to | host an open relay, I can't send mail from my laptop. Solutions are : o remote-login to the system and work from there (if your link is fast enough t

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:48:42AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > Offerings from the large commercial breweries vary (with the exception > of Keith's and Moosehead -- I'm not familiar with Unibroue) from > barely acceptable to plain awful -- one produces Budweiser under > license, which strikes me as

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On 2002.05.24 18:07 Martin Rowe wrote: On Friday 24 May 2002 10:51 pm, Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports > > spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > > Evolutio

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On 24/05/02 Travis Crump did speaketh: > Semantics here, but they haven't disabled the ability to turn off > popups, they have just removed the UI. Adding > user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true); and > user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1000); to your user.js still > works to

Re: Burning an jigdo ISO

On 23 May 2002, curtis wrote: > No, I think we're talking about different things. I have just 1 CD that > I burned off of a jigdo image. I know nothing about any other CDs. So, > my question is why can't I install from the image I downloaded. I think (from your description: woody-i386-8.iso.

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

On Friday 24 May 2002 06:35 pm, Russ Cook wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's > windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine). > I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but > could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro.

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

Michael P. Soulier wrote: Even worse. They disabled the ability to turn off popup windows, of course. I'll never use it. Semantics here, but they haven't disabled the ability to turn off popups, they have just removed the UI. Adding user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true); and

Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine). I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro. The sympton is that when I run startx, the screen goes b

Re: modem problem

At 09:16 PM 5/24/02, curtis wrote: When I try to connect to my ISP using a modem I get the attached error message. It would seem that my user name or password is wrong. But I assure everyone that they are correct. Any other reasons this might be happening? Curtis Is your modem speaking t

Re: modem problem

> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 18:16:56 -0700 > From: curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian List > Subject: modem problem > curtis, how long could that error message be? i really don't feel like opening up attachments to read half a page of text. just include it in the body of the message. ben -

modem problem

When I try to connect to my ISP using a modem I get the attached error message. It would seem that my user name or password is wrong. But I assure everyone that they are correct. Any other reasons this might be happening? Curtis

sylpheed

yes, questions. what's up with sylpheed-doc? or, in other words, where can i get it? also the mailer whines that it can't start the spell-checker, but it doesn't care for ispell. what's the cure for that? though i configured the line wrap at 72, it doesn't wrap by default. has anyone else had th

Re: libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:09:09AM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > After getting this message : > > express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed >Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be > installed > > I don't find

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

hi ya daniel fun stuff ... - ssh and mutt seems to be the best... - receiver of the emails see the email coming form your normal accounts and domain names... - web-based emails: webased.riddlemaster.org - you cans end and receive emails from any ip# to anybody

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:32:39PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:38:15PM -0700, Petro wrote: > > Yes. Or just figuring out if there is even a wreck, how it > happened > > etc. > > > with the intent of restoring the "wreckage" rather than scrapping > it. > >

Safe, secure mail relay

I'm running qmail as my mail server, running POP3 and SMTP. Because I occasionally travel on business, I have an address specifically for remote access. When I leave, I set up my normal accounts to copy to my "travel account." I access the account from my laptop. The laptop is sometimes plugged

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

> > In an mbox, messages must have a > > Lines: header (often added by the delivery agent) so that a reader > > knows how many lines the message is. > > Not "must have", but it makes mbox processing more efficient. If the > Lines header is not there, the reader just reads on until it finds a > bla

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:47:52AM -0500, Ken Causey wrote: > > Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but > > that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be > > executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think). > > > > It all looks normal until the end, w

Re: Getting perl code to run sgid

> I get the distinct impression, based on `perldoc perlsec` that perl > is smart enough to detect and circumvent the relevant > vulnerabilities: > on many >versions of Unix, set-id scripts are inherently insecure >right from the

Re: command tr

> I use tr command and rearrange the date of the file from column to row > But there are two spares between data as follows > Do you have any idea and I want to get one space between data > > # cat file | tr '\n' ' ' > file2 First you don't need the 'cat' here. It serves no useful purpose. I s

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all > > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. Wh

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:38:21PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > Under the new mozilla it is preferences > advanced > scripts & > windows Thanks. For some reason I never noticed that. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:17:59PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Even worse. They disabled the ability to turn off popup windows, of > course. I'll never use it. How do you turn off popups in Mozilla? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On 24/05/02 Robert Webb did speaketh: > My thought on Netscape's browser is NOT to use it. It is, to me, just a > renamed version of mozilla.org's browser. If you noticed mozilla just > released 1.0 RC2 and then Netscape's popped up. So I just skip the > middle guy and go straight to the source

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

Thanks for the tip Sylpheed-Claws looks really nice and it will do what I need it to, I shall have to give it a try. Evolution looks to much like an evil empires program for me. "Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:31:28 -0400 > "Quenten Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Friday 24 May 2002 10:51 pm, Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports > > spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > > Evolution? There's KMail too. Regards, Martin -

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling > checking/ > GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > Evolution does very well. Spell checking, GPG, and IMAP work as far as I can tell. And as for LDAP, I t

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

begin dman quotation: > In an mbox, messages must have a > Lines: header (often added by the delivery agent) so that a reader > knows how many lines the message is. Not "must have", but it makes mbox processing more efficient. If the Lines header is not there, the reader just reads on until it

Suggestions for a USB Webcam

Hi all! I'm looking into getting a USB Webcam so that my girlfriend and I can save some money talking online using gnomemeeting/netmeeting. (Japan to Canada calls are pretty expensive...) Does anyone have any suggestions on what works well with linux? I've scanned over the USB-linux devices lis

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:31:28 -0400 "Quenten Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling > checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. Have you tried Sylpheed-Claws? -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling > checking/ > GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > Evolution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:29:17PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: | Hi all. | | I'm a procmail and mutt user. I'm converting to maildir format instead | of mbox and noticed most of my messages show 0 size now. Is there a | procmail recipe to add this information back into it so it's usuable by | mut

can't install php4-cgi-mysql woody

oba:~# apt-get install php4-cgi-mysql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been create

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. Quenten Griffith wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I > would warn som

Re: Eterm background

Apparently, on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > > Try Eterm -h for a bunch of options. > > I'm trying to run that, but the background is still a random image and > get the following message to stdout > > oralnx~$ Eterm --trans > created ph2 mask pixmap 1c6 (48

Re: how to make locate work

A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Jeffrey Baker wrote: >How do I make locate work? I installed slocate, I have this in >/etc/cron.daily: > >... I have this in /etc/updatedb.conf: > ># This file sets environment variables which are used by updatedb > ># filesystems which are p

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

I would do that to if Mozilla had a spell check for its email agent. Robert Webb wrote: > Quenten Griffith wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I > > would warn some people just in case. I wen

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

Bob Proulx wrote: > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created th

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

also sprach Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.24.2229 +0200]: > I'm a procmail and mutt user. I'm converting to maildir format instead > of mbox and noticed most of my messages show 0 size now. Is there a > procmail recipe to add this information back into it so it's usuable by > mutt?

slogin & telnet 60-minute timeout at remote computer. Why?

Ever since upgrading to woody 8 months ago, both my slogin and telnet sessions lock after idling 60 minutes. These sessions still work after 50 minutes idling, but lock after 1 hour 10 minutes idling. After 2 hours, the remote host ends both the original "ssh" [telnet] and spawned "bash" process

Maildir use with Mutt

Hi all. I'm a procmail and mutt user. I'm converting to maildir format instead of mbox and noticed most of my messages show 0 size now. Is there a procmail recipe to add this information back into it so it's usuable by mutt? Second question: when I use Procmail and forget the / on the end of th

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > > > > No, no, no. American beer is American beer. Come to England and > > > > > > try a decent bitter or ale sometime ... > > > > > > > > If they are close to the Irish Guinness, I'll follow you :) > > > > > > No no no no.

samba slow

I'm transferring a 1MB file over the "lo" interface on samba 2.2.3a-6 (debian woody) using smbclient. The speed is 70 kb/s. Why is it so slow? `hdparm -t` reports 10 MB/sec Here's the relevant part of my smb.conf: [global] log level = 0 syslog only = no passwd program =

Re: Wordperfect 8 on Woody? libXpm-problem

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:56:02PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > IIRC WordPerfect is a libc5 binary, so you'll need a xpm library linked > against libc5 for it; try the "xpm4.7" package. Thanks. I could not find it as a Woody package so I installed it from unstable. WP is running again.

lilo and OpenBSD

Hello debian-user, I have got 2 harddrives hda with Debian hdb with OpenBSD now I am trying to config lilo so that I am to boot into OpenBSD but when adding: other=/dev/hdb1 label=OpenBSD read-only alias=3 to lilo.conf and run: lilo the output looks l

libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1

Hello, After getting this message : express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be installed I don't find this packages in testing. Can someone give me a clue to find them ? TIA - G

Re: Getting perl code to run sgid

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:52:58AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Note that whenever you make a script suid or sgid you are trading in > your padlock for a breadtie. There are many well known trivial > ways to fool a suid script into giving you a shell of the id it > is set to. I get the distinct imp

Re: Modifying a bootable ISO iamge?

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:18, stan wrote: > I'm starting to play around with modifying my brand new TiVo. > > There is a bootable CD ISO on the net with some tools for working on these, > but it contains some tools (mfs tools) which are of an older version thna I > need. > > Now, since I will be b

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

Quenten Griffith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I would warn some people just in case. I went ahead and d/l the new Netscape 7 RC1 and installed it in my home dir. I had heard there was some problem

word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I would warn some people just in case. I went ahead and d/l the new Netscape 7 RC1 and installed it in my home dir. I had heard there was some problem with it and Mozilla on the s

Re: MPlayer

On Friday 24 May 2002 11:32 am, O Senhor wrote: > fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: Permission denied what are the permissions on that device -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa 0.9 rc-1-2 with emu10k1 -> noise

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 17:01, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > Sorry for the somewhat late reply, but I don't read my mail very well > anmore :-). Hi, thanks for the reply anyway, you're the only one. Think the rest of the world (including me) does a worse job at email than you. > > On 18 May 2002,

Re: recommended documentation iptables

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:09:56AM -0500, dman wrote: > /etc/FIREWALL is a directory with several scripts in it. Each one > makes a different firewall. When I move the machine around (or just > want to open up something that's normally closed) I can simply use > a different script that is stored

Mozilla mail problems

Is anyone having problems with folders not listing messages in Mozilla mail? It was working fine and I haven't changed anything. Further, I can drag and drop messages into the folder but if I select the folder, it won't list the messages in the folder and gives me a message. Or sometimes, Mo

MPlayer

Hello, I have compiled the MPlayer in my Debian Machine, and was fine... But when i try run it, (mplayer , nothing appears. Only messages about permission denied in some places and .mplayer configuration faults. But is my first time, how can i have the mplayer profile? here is the output: MP

command tr

Hello all  I use tr command and rearrange the date of the file from column to row But there are two spares between data as follows Do you have any idea and I want to get one space between data  # cat file | tr '\n' ' ' > file2 #more file2hvaca  backus  brinnal  christiawe origainl file

Re: Route tables

On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:11:36 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:44:14PM +0100, Aquarion wrote: >> Where does debian (or anything) read in route tables from? I've >> changed the gateway since I installed debian on this machine, and now >> every time I

semi-OT: debian rocks(solid & stable)

With my workstation here at work passing 1 year of uptime a few days ago I must say that debian is the most solid OS for either workstation or server that I have used sofar. I'm sure some of it comes from the hardware I choose and the software config. but I am still astounded that this machine has

Re: dh_help

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:56:09AM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Thanks for the help. I like the 'auto-apt' solution although it > appears to be only available for Woody. That's true, yes. > The problem with trying to find a particular command using the Debian > web site package search is that th

Re: dh_help

Thanks for the help. I like the 'auto-apt' solution although it appears to be only available for Woody. I can do a source build with apt-get, however, for my Potato builds. The problem with trying to find a particular command using the Debian web site package search is that the commands are not

Re: Not-So-Ancient History (was Re: Maybe a corny idea ...)

>| On Sat, 18 May 2002 14:51:46 -0700 Paul Scott ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >| | Mozilla displays this message perfectly and >both levels of ">" are in >| | the message source here. > >Both? There's 3 (or more) levels of indents >there with only 2 levels >of '>'. > >| >==

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> Well, there are many custom packages which are developed with rpm. > Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be > shell or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm > package (using alien) will screw a debian system? One thing that my limited experience with al

Re: Route tables

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:44:14PM +0100, Aquarion wrote: > Where does debian (or anything) read in route tables from? I've > changed the gateway since I installed debian on this machine, and now > every time I reboot it (Which isn't very often) I have to manually > type in the new "route default g

Re: Route tables

/etc/network/interfaces Aquarion wrote: Silly question, I expect, Where does debian (or anything) read in route tables from? I've changed the gateway since I installed debian on this machine, and now every time I reboot it (Which isn't very often) I have to manually type in the new "rout

Route tables

Silly question, I expect, Where does debian (or anything) read in route tables from? I've changed the gateway since I installed debian on this machine, and now every time I reboot it (Which isn't very often) I have to manually type in the new "route default gw"... command. What can I do to make

Re: Fw: Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?

As I suspected. As soon as I pulled the WinTV PCI card out and rebooted, the firewire camera started functioning. One camera is enough for us for now. Thanks again for all your assistance. Nancy Davis > > > I'm trying to use a Pyro 1394 Web Cam on the firewire. > > > > > > http://www.adstech

Re: Nvidia GeForce2 [was Re: woody]

> Nvidia cards require their proprietary driver to work under X. No, I believe this isn't true. Use the 'nv' driver (included with XFree86 and open source (obviously)) and you should be okay. If you want full 3D acceleration (essentially as good as their Windows driver), then you can use their

Modifying a bootable ISO iamge?

I'm starting to play around with modifying my brand new TiVo. There is a bootable CD ISO on the net with some tools for working on these, but it contains some tools (mfs tools) which are of an older version thna I need. Now, since I will be booting from thsi CD, it would be convienent if I could

Re: Mozilla & Macromedia Flash

On 24 May 2002, James Kahn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:24, Oki DZ wrote: > > On 05/23 17:00 James Kahn wrote: > > > What do you mean by how does it work remotely? > > > > I login into a remote machine, using X of course, and then run Mozilla from > > there. > > I can't see why it wouldn't w

Re: Fw: Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?

> > I'm trying to use a Pyro 1394 Web Cam on the firewire. > > > > http://www.adstech.com/products/PYRO1394WebCam/intro/PYRO1394WebCam.asp?pid=API-200 > > Well, that device appears to work: > > http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/view_device.php?id=106 Thanks! That is at least some encouragement.

Re: Getting perl code to run sgid

> The obvious solution, then, was to change the ownership of the > command-line script to group www-data and make it sgid. Note that whenever you make a script suid or sgid you are trading in your padlock for a breadtie. There are many well known trivial ways to fool a suid script into giving you

Re: non-us mirror

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:49:18PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > A question about the non-us tree in the mirrors. Are these still up to > date? The last I heard was that they moved into the normal tree. Only some packages are moving from non-US to US: those packages which are DFSG-free and were i

Re: Emacs and shell variables

> I *think*, although I'm not entirely certain, that a gdm login will end > up reading .xsession. It's been a long time since I've used gdm, so I'm > a little unclear on the details. I think that gnome will read a .gnomeprofile if it exists but only if it is executable, which is counterintuitive.

Re: xemacs problems

On Thu, 23 May 2002 18:20:55 -0500 "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The font is something else - if I was legally blind it would easily be > large enough for me to see it. I'd much prefer to be able to tweak it > to a smaller size. > The font size of the fonts used in xemacs can be

Re: Fw: Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?

On Fri, 24 May 2002 09:22:32 -0600 (MDT) "Nancy Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use a Pyro 1394 Web Cam on the firewire. > > http://www.adstech.com/products/PYRO1394WebCam/intro/PYRO1394WebCam.asp?pid=API-200 Well, that device appears to work: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/

Re: Fonts loading problem with X

On Friday 24 May 2002 00:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I know, the font "fixed" belongs to misc, 100dpi or 75dpi. So > try loading these fonts before the truetypes. > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon

Re: Fw: Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?

> > I'm looking for someone who has successfully worked with video capture > > devices on firewire on Debian 3.0 with 2.4 kernels. If you are this > > person, please contact me off-list - I have several questions :-) > > What device are you looking to use? I frequently use a firewire > connection

Galeon submits empty forms

Hi, I'm running a woody system with galeon (and mozilla) pulled in from unstable. So far I've been quite happy with this setup. However, lately I noticed that galeon submits empty information on some urls. This is driving me nuts. The url looks like For instance, galeon gives me http://prdownloa

Re: problem compiling links with ssl

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:04:59PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: | I am trying to compile links-2.0pre3 with ssl and javascript. Have you tried the links-ssl package? | The reason for doing this is that i am blind and can not use | cwindows and am trying to find at least some way of dealing with |

Re: X 4.2 problem

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:23:31PM +0200, José Manuel Pérez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ openoffice > running openoffice setup... > I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "spanish" > I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "C" > /usr/bin/openoffice: line 27: 11555 Violación de segmento

oops and prune_icache

I'm receiving a recurring kernel oops on a machine running sid and 2.4.18. The oops and ksymoops output are below. This particular oops occurred after running dmesg. I am new to oops tracing. Should I join the kernel mailing list and post it there? Could this just be something like bad RAM

Re: Alsa 0.9 rc-1-2 with emu10k1 -> noise

High, Sorry for the somewhat late reply, but I don't read my mail very well anmore :-). On 18 May 2002, Jord Swart wrote: > All, > > Everything seem to be working perfectly (almost). Somehow as soon as > some sound is made, it produces a lot of noise. I have no idea where it > comes from or how

Re: xemacs problems

I'm also having trouble with fonts on my newset machine in xemacs21. Specifically, I only get the courier font in the body of the file no matter what font I choose. the font does change for the line at the bottom of the file that starts ISO8 I checked the version number and it's the same (XEmacs

apache-perl and apache httpd.conf

I recently installed apache-perl on my home machine. When I try to run the executable (/usr/sbin/apache-perl), I get the error message: apache-perl: could not open document config file /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf Sure enough, there is no httpd.conf in /etc/apache-perl. There is, however,

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

> On 05/24 05:07 Ken Causey wrote: > > ... > > VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > > > > I have a single SCSI drive (2 partitions, first is swap, second is > root) > > connected via a

non-us mirror

Hello, A question about the non-us tree in the mirrors. Are these still up to date? The last I heard was that they moved into the normal tree. Some mirrors still have a non-us section, and others don'nt... Thanks in advance, -- Rudy Gevaert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.zeus.rug.ac.be k

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

> Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but > that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be > executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think). > > It all looks normal until the end, when the kernel can't mount> > the root partition. You say you have a

Re: ATI Radeon 7000

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +1200, James Kahn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:02, user list wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:55:32AM +1200, James Kahn wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:52, Mike Frisch wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 03:29:58PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote:

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

Javier Bertoli writes: > I'm seriously thinking on brewing my own! I've done that. It isn't hard. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

>From /boot/config-2.4.18-686-smp CONFIG_SCSI=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m Should provide what's necessary for Adaptec 29160 no? Ken On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:16, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Read the /boot/config-kernel-image-xxx file and see what scsi

Re: Eterm background (fixed)

Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oralnx~$ Eterm --trans > created ph2 mask pixmap 1c6 (48 x 48) > Eterm: Unable to locate desktop window. If you are running Enlightenment, > please > restart. If not, please set your background image with Esetroot, then try > again. After s

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