Re: trying out 2.4.19 w/pcmcia+DHCP debian woody

2002-11-28 Thread nate
Greg Madden said: > What message do you get if you manyually run 'dhclient' ? > It seems somewhat common to miss one of the following , during the kernel > compile. > > # Networking options > # > CONFIG_PACKET=m > CONFIG_FILTER=y yes, it seems I forgot config_filter! I've always gotten it in 2.2

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-28 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:56, Andre wrote: > now im assuming that there is a command to access the debian window and > actually get into it, so do you know what it is? The X-Window-System (or in short, X) has to be installed and configured on your system to provide you with the capability of runnin

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-28 Thread Andre Douglas
na I tryed that and it didnt work. here is what it says when i log in. ..a bunch of crap saying ive loged in etc... then if ive gone into user its andre2@andre:~$here i can type commands (andre is my name) or if i access root andre:~# here i can type commands i

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-28 Thread nate
Andre said: > > want to get this up and running asap. sounds like you got it runin just fine already. whats the problem? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread ernst
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021129 16:53]: > > > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to > > become /dev/hdb? > >I'm anything but a hardware expert, but I suspect you need to > switch the id

Re: Debian linux

2002-11-28 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:56:16PM +1300, Andre wrote: > Hey, > I have been through your help files and cannot find think one thing Ive been trying >to do... > Well i have installed Debian and created 2 accounts (root and my own). So anyway it >starts up(eveything is fine there) and before it boo

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:56:33PM +1100, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021129 16:53]: > > > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to > > become /dev/hdb? > >I'm anything but a hardware expert, but I suspect you n

Re: How to use the libstdc++5-dbg package?

2002-11-28 Thread Matthias Klose
Phil Edwards writes: > After setting LD_LIBRARY_PATHY to /usr/lib/debug, and firing up the > debugger, I can see that the correct libstdc++.so is being found (i.e., > the one with the debugging symbols). And stepping into those functions > works, in that it knows the file/line location. > > Howev

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread sean finney
hiya, > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to > become /dev/hdb? you have to physically change the connecter on your hard drive. ide goes something like this /dev/hda* <- master disk on primary ide chain /dev/hdb* <- slave disk on primar

Debian linux

2002-11-28 Thread Andre
Hey, I have been through your help files and cannot find think one thing Ive been trying to do... Well i have installed Debian and created 2 accounts (root and my own). So anyway it starts up(eveything is fine there) and before it boots up a sort of dos comes up.. it asked to login, so i logi

Re: Imap / ssl

2002-11-28 Thread nate
Joyce, Matthew said: > Failing that, is there a proxy I can use to take the users credentials > from imp (via https) in plain text and pass it to my exchange server as > ssl ? try stunnel. I use it to tunnel mysql and ldap connections, its quite flexible, and transparent to the remote app using i

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread sean finney
heya, i just got this stuff working last night, actually. this is what i did, but note that it uses stuff from non-free. the flashplayer that i find the most reliable is the one from macromedia themselves. there's a package in non-free that installs it: flashplugin, but there's a caveat that it

Re: web based survey/database

2002-11-28 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would > provide a web based solution for users to > take surveys, answer questions and have the data > stored in some kind of database to be displayed on > a web page. > Any such software

trying out 2.4.19 w/pcmcia+DHCP debian woody

2002-11-28 Thread nate
woah! yes it's true! I am trying 2.4.19 on my laptop! I figured what the hell, I mean worst case my system gets hosed and I lose everything. nothing on the laptop I need so, screw it, why not .. anyways, quick question. PCMCIA works fine, however dhcp didn't load on boot. I built the pcmcia drive

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Helmut Steinwender
Barney Wrightson wrote: Sorry Helmut, but you are mistaken :) The tulip module is for the previous model (FA310 I think), the natsemi module (as Bob Nielsen points out) is for FA311. Barney Hmm, last week I moved and my cabl

web based survey/database

2002-11-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would provide a web based solution for users to take surveys, answer questions and have the data stored in some kind of database to be displayed on a web page. Any such software packages out there? Thanks! Mike -

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"levi" == levi waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: levi> I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this levi> hard drive to become /dev/hdb? You have to swap the cables out, or set the DIP switches on the drives. Franky, I can't remember the details, but the /dev/hdx setti

Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

2002-11-28 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, csj wrote: > I've checked that one out. It seems you still need some sed > tricks. Hi, I added your .procmailrc receipe and tested your configuration: :0 fwh | sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:/I ; s/mailto://' sedprocmail And it worked: X-Mailing-

Re: geforce4

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [28-11-2002 18:11]: > i and a few others have answered this question 3 or 4 times in the > past week or so... for future reference it really helps to search > through the mail archive for your question before asking it, but since > i still have the answer grepped f

Re: how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021129 16:53]: > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to > become /dev/hdb? I'm anything but a hardware expert, but I suspect you need to switch the ide cables on each disk. Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Li

how to make hda become hdb?

2002-11-28 Thread levi . waldron
I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to become /dev/hdb? What I know: edit lilo.conf, run lilo edit fstab What about the partition table though? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sending mail as a particular user

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Darren> Is the a way of mail being sent as a particular user no Darren> matter what the linux username is? So if I log in as root Darren> or daz or pete it sends mail signed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren> This needs to be done via sendmail, as that is what I'm Darren> using. Th

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modconf has changed

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
Sorry about the vague question/statement: Modconf appears to have changed at some point. All my boxes run woody, but some run 2.2 and some run 2.4 kernels. The ones with 2.4 have a different looking modconf screen - IMHO, harder to use. The tree is wider (more per screen), and shows full pathname

Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Clive" == Clive Standbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Clive> On Wed 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +(-0600), Shyamal Prasad Clive> wrote: >> Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and >> edited /etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands. Clive> O

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:18:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is irrelevent bullshit, and its getting on my nerves. SHUT > UP. Anyone, someone take me off this list. 1) Turn your line wraps on. 2) Learn procmail. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:17:17PM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > I never said I was a knowledgable Unix Sysadmin.but the windows > patches were definitely more user friendly. > > The point of the message stands. But only for specific distros. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:08:29PM -0500, David Ellis wrote: > Update". These machines for their lifetime were completely unhacked. My I think the word you're looking for is "uncracked" in this case. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Deb

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread pierre
On Thursday 28 November 2002 20:53, Dan Jacobson wrote: solution update mozilla to version 1.1 dev plus on there web site there a link to plug-in with all the extra,or use opera for linux I think the version is now 6.1 Pierre > Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like h

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:19:32AM -0600, Mailing List wrote: > I have been saying this for the last 6 months that Redmond is behind finding > all these exploits on Open Source. Who better stands from these exploits > then M$?? Easy. The community. While I'm sure the study definately had some il

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:07:47AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > Thought you might be interested in the FUD being reported at wininformant. > The link to the story is: > http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=27428 It's based on the false assumption that if you can't see the probl

debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like his microsoft counterpart when encountering flash, java, etc. 'enhanced' web pages. These cause mozilla 0.99 to ask me to download some 'plug-ins' in some wacky fail prone way on my frail costly modem connection. Why can't we 'plug

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ???

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik>you have few options: Erik>1) xhost (see man xhost), don't do that though! Erik>2) as root run: xauth merge ~userThatRunsX/.Xauthority Erik>option 2 will give you access to X server without Erik> comp

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian" == debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: debian> Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on debian> Usenet for a topic such as this. Gating a mailing-list to debian> usenet without mangling (or better, removing them) is debian> plain irresponsible. Hmmm.

Re: Swithing mode resolution on Xfree86

2002-11-28 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:05, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi filk. > I have 3 mode in my XF86Config-4: 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480. > Default is 1024x768. When I swith between mode (Ctrl+Alt+[+-]) > I have the virtual desktop. Are there any way that I have not > this virtual desktop but I have only desktop w

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 05:40, Michael Naumann wrote: > For this very reason, I have ext2. But gkrellm shows me small write > peaks every other second. I figured out, that /var/log/XFree86.0.log > gets filled with > (II) PM Event received: Power Status Change > > I asked some days ago in a separate

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
for Maple8 it is Ok ! Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about t

[Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:03:55 +0200 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domin

OT: Fwd: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-11-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html --- Begin Message --- The joys of sysadm

VIA8233 audio

2002-11-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, I just got a Kobian VIA P4M266 motherboard with via8233 oboard audio. I compiled the alsa (0.9rc5) and installed it. When I try to install the snd-via82xx module I get the following error: (Sorry for the line width.) # /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc5):A

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-28 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:12:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > > This line is probably already in your /etc/fstab. You should also be a > > member of group "floppy". > >My /etc/filesysytems > > vfat > > minix > > Strangely. I did not found /etc/filesystems on my Debian Woody & Sarge. > What package

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:12:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > > This line is probably already in your /etc/fstab. You should also be a > > member of group "floppy". > >My /etc/filesysytems > > vfat > > minix > > Strangely. I did not found /etc/filesystems on my Debian Woody & Sarge. > What package

Re: Remove definitivly a package

2002-11-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:13, Mikael Jirari wrote: >> *** >> # apt-get -f remove webmin-qmailadmin >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following packages will be RE

Swithing mode resolution on Xfree86

2002-11-28 Thread Egor Tur
Hi filk. I have 3 mode in my XF86Config-4: 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480. Default is 1024x768. When I swith between mode (Ctrl+Alt+[+-]) I have the virtual desktop. Are there any way that I have not this virtual desktop but I have only desktop with swithing mode of resolution. Thanks. -- To UNSUB

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Egor Tur wrote: > > This line is probably already in your /etc/fstab. You should also be a > > member of group "floppy". > >My /etc/filesysytems > > vfat > > minix > > Strangely. I did not found /etc/filesystems on my Debian Woody & Sarge. > What package contains this file?

How to use the libstdc++5-dbg package?

2002-11-28 Thread Phil Edwards
After setting LD_LIBRARY_PATHY to /usr/lib/debug, and firing up the debugger, I can see that the correct libstdc++.so is being found (i.e., the one with the debugging symbols). And stepping into those functions works, in that it knows the file/line location. However, the debugger can't print any

Re: mounting floppies

2002-11-28 Thread Egor Tur
> This line is probably already in your /etc/fstab. You should also be a > member of group "floppy". >My /etc/filesysytems > vfat > minix Strangely. I did not found /etc/filesystems on my Debian Woody & Sarge. What package contains this file? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-11-28 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose in most cases these pro

Re: Make a package from source?

2002-11-28 Thread Brian Nelson
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, Is there a good doc of how to make a debian package from source? I > am trying to custom compile iptables and would like it to install as if > it were a .deb. Digging around debian.org, I didn't find anything. From scratch? http://www.debi

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2002-11-28 Thread Russell
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:08:40PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: Is there a way to upgrade XFree 4.1 -> 4.2 without an internet connection avaliable via apt-get or something? I have the version 4.2. downloaded on my hdd. Read the man page for dpkg, which will let you install i

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:18:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is irrelevent bullshit, and its getting on my nerves. SHUT UP. > Anyone, someone take me off this list. Please learn to contact listmaster rather than whining to debian-user, none of whom can do anything about your complaint

Re: that dreaded APM

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-25 12:33:30 +]: > Linux shuts down but the hardware does not. Add apm to /etc/modules. echo apm >> /etc/modules Bob msg15953/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrading XFree86

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:08:40PM +0100, Aedificator wrote: > Is there a way to upgrade XFree 4.1 -> 4.2 without an internet connection > avaliable via apt-get or something? I have the version 4.2. downloaded on my > hdd. Read the man page for dpkg, which will let you install individual .debs. -

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Barney Wrightson
Helmut Steinwender wrote: __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Netgear FA311 Network card Date: 28 Nov 2002 15:33:45 + Hello everybody, I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the

RE:Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS?Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Hell.Surfers
STOP TROLLING. Regards, Dean. On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:39:39 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Walter Tautz wrote: > > Thought you might be interested in the FUD being reported at wininformant. > The link to the story is: > http://www.

Calling init.d script from perl daemon?

2002-11-28 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. I've spent a few hours trying and researching, but it seems that I am unable to call the init.d script for maradns (all others work). The following: my @c = ("/etc/init.d/jabber", "start"); system @c; @c = ("/etc/init.d/maradns", "start"); system @c; will start jabber, but not mara

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Hell.Surfers
This is irrelevent bullshit, and its getting on my nerves. SHUT UP. Anyone, someone take me off this list. Regards, Dean. On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:29:15 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- Anyone else notice it took microsoft 3 days to fix the recent problem

Imap / ssl

2002-11-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Does anyone know how to configure horde/imp to use imap ssl to authenticate ? Failing that, is there a proxy I can use to take the users credentials from imp (via https) in plain text and pass it to my exchange server as ssl ? I do not really want to enable plain text on my exchange server. I w

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread David Ellis
I never said I was a knowledgable Unix Sysadmin.but the windows patches were definitely more user friendly. The point of the message stands. - David - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, Novembe

Re: Locales

2002-11-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, installing localeconf and reconfiguring locales didn't work. So I tried to downgrade multi-gnome-terminal to the stable version. I can't understand why, but it worked correctly. If I go back to the testing/unstable version it stops working and I can't type the special characters. What is the e

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Pigeon said... > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +, Chris Lale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >One of my partitions is 8Gb and I have noticed exactly this behaviour. > >It also takes aeons to mount during boot. Do you think I should convert > >all my partions to ext3, or just

Re: how to verify installed packages ?

2002-11-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Xavier Bestel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: how to verify installed packages ? > Is there a command to verify the integrity of installed packages ? I > want something similar to the rpm --verify

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:19:32 -0600 Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/28/02 10:07 AM, "Walter Tautz" wrote: > > > > > Thought you might be interested in the FUD being reported at > > > > wininformant. The link to the story is: > > http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?Artic

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:29 PM 11/28/02 -0600, Texoma Sales wrote: >www.WinGows.com > >Bullet Proof Windows 9x configuration to be available Feb. 2003. > >RAM DRIVE - CDROM Only Not as good as Knoppix... Could put Norton and >McAfee in trouble. > >I know this a Linux form but, since the question of MS security

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-11-28 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:10, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded Evolution. My system is Sid. > Evolution could only run up into the main window. When I tried to send an > email, it complained about the unavailability of gtkhtml1.1; which in > fact I have it. Do you have any problems with Si

Re: geforce4

2002-11-28 Thread Aedificator
roll your own kernel with make-kpkg, or at least install the kernel-headers package for your kernel version # cd /usr/src/linux && make-kpkg binary (then look for debs in /usr/src, or) # apt-get install kernel-headers-2.x.x - install the following packages: # apt-get install nvidia-glx-src nvidi

Upgrading XFree86

2002-11-28 Thread Aedificator
Is there a way to upgrade XFree 4.1 -> 4.2 without an internet connection avaliable via apt-get or something? I have the version 4.2. downloaded on my hdd. zee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:29:09PM -0600, Texoma Sales wrote: > I know this a Linux form but, since the question of MS security arises > I wanted to put in my 1/2 cents worth. No HD Access means no Security > Problems. Correct? Nope. Application flaws can still be exploited. Thus, the system ca

Upgrading XFree86

2002-11-28 Thread Aedificator
Is there a way to upgrade XFree 4.1 -> 4.2 without an internet connection avaliable via apt-get or something? I have the version 4.2. downloaded on my hdd.   zee

Re: geforce4

2002-11-28 Thread Aedificator
 roll your own kernel with make-kpkg, or at least install the  kernel-headers package for your kernel version# cd /usr/src/linux && make-kpkg binary(then look for debs in /usr/src, or)# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.x.x   - install the following packages:# apt-get install nvidia-glx-src

Re: geforce4

2002-11-28 Thread Aedificator
 roll your own kernel with make-kpkg, or at least install the  kernel-headers package for your kernel version# cd /usr/src/linux && make-kpkg binary(then look for debs in /usr/src, or)# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.x.x   - install the following packages:# apt-get install nvidia-glx-src

Re: Locales

2002-11-28 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: Hi, first of all, happy thanks giving to everyone. Now, let's get back to the question... :) I am using locale en_US.ISO-8859-1 and my keyboard layout is us_intl. Special characters written in portuguese are displayed (and of course typed) correctly in almost all appl

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Helmut Steinwender
> > __ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Netgear FA311 Network card > Date: 28 Nov 2002 15:33:45 + > > Hello everybody, > > I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the Netg

Locales

2002-11-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, first of all, happy thanks giving to everyone. Now, let's get back to the question... :) I am using locale en_US.ISO-8859-1 and my keyboard layout is us_intl. Special characters written in portuguese are displayed (and of course typed) correctly in almost all applications on Gnome2. The probl

Re: xauth or xhost no longer required?

2002-11-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:20:25 + "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:27:38AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Since the upgrade of X in testing I have noticed that I don't > > > have to use xhost or xauth to run X programs after I s

Can you get Xm stubs?

2002-11-28 Thread Pigeon
Trying to compile mosaic, I get problems because I don't have motif. Despite setting the make options to tell it that (a) I don't have Motif and (b) I want to build without Motif, it still looks for Xm.h and moans when it can't find it. And it still wants the definitions from Xm.h, so I can't fudge

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Texoma Sales
www.WinGows.com Bullet Proof Windows 9x configuration to be available Feb. 2003. RAM DRIVE - CDROM Only Not as good as Knoppix... Could put Norton and McAfee in trouble. I know this a Linux form but, since the question of MS security arises I wanted to put in my 1/2 cents worth. No HD Acce

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:50:49PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:45, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > Should we expect that when glibc is ready, we will be looking at an > > > apt-get upgrade for a system pinned to

system screwy after kernel install; apt-get log?

2002-11-28 Thread Matt Price
so, I screwed up pretty thoroughly yesterday. I tried to install the new DeMuDi beta (a sub-distro of debian that focuses on sound software) to my existing (mostly) woody machine. I was fairly cavalier about it, didn't pay such close attention to the installation process, which involved a new ker

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-28 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:19 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to >>>ukonline using Windows using their CD/helpline. Then

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks Colin. > >Colin Watson wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +, Chris Lale wrote: >>> >>>I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 >>>section 6.4) that partitions greater than about

need to get modem working...winmodem? possibly conexant?

2002-11-28 Thread Walter Tautz
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2486 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0227 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 2400 [size=256] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] It appears to be http://pciids.sourcef

Re: computer dead; help!

2002-11-28 Thread Cam Ellison
* Chris Lale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:37:47PM +, Pigeon insinuated: > > > > This happened to me. I took the monitor to the local TV repair shop for > a free assessment. They diagnosed a fried capacitor. I had it replaced > at much less

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS?Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 12:08, David Ellis wrote: > At the risk of being terribly unpopular I thought I'd share my personal > experience. > > For 6 months I was running a Windows NT 4.0 based web, ftp and email server > (exchange 5.5) with the latest service packs (SP 6a+), and a weekly "Windows > U

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:45, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:02, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Correct. Nothing meaningful in sarge will change until somebody fixes > > > glibc. Also, testing updates were temporarily stop

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:02, Colin Watson wrote: > > Correct. Nothing meaningful in sarge will change until somebody fixes > > glibc. Also, testing updates were temporarily stopped after the fiery > > death of non-us.debian.org; see d

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
Sorry for the typo, that should have been natsemi.o. On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:22:31AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > If you run a 2.4 kernel, use netsemi.o, otherwise there is source for > fa31x on the disk which comes with the FA311. I recall that it took a > bit of experimentation to get a useab

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 28 November 2002 19:06, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:52:14AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I have had no problems with ext3 either, nor have I heard of anyone > > having problems, nor is there any bugs open in e2fsprogs. Should we > > just flatly recommend ext3

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most InsecureOS? Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:08, David Ellis wrote: > At the risk of being terribly unpopular I thought I'd share my personal > experience. > > For 6 months I was running a Windows NT 4.0 based web, ftp and email server > (exchange 5.5) with the latest service packs (SP 6a+), and a weekly "Windows > U

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:02, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:49:16AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Is it just me and my choice of mirrors, or have the number of packages > > moving from Sid to Sarge fallen off recently due to some dependency on > > Sid blocking moves? I have had

Re: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:16:16 -0500, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >My mouse is jumping all over the place in X. any Idea on how to stop this.  I ve >tried changing the device in the XFree86Config file to Imps/2 and that didn't work. >It still jumps a round in X. It would be nice if you would lose th

how to verify installed packages ?

2002-11-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Is there a command to verify the integrity of installed packages ? I want something similar to the rpm --verify command (it verifies the size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner and group of each file), but couldn't find ti in the docs (and what tool to use ? dpkg, dselect, apt-get ?). Thanks,

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:52:14AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I have had no problems with ext3 either, nor have I heard of anyone > having problems, nor is there any bugs open in e2fsprogs. Should we > just flatly recommend ext3 in the manual? Or maybe something like One issue with ext3 (unl

Re: Problem installing Base System

2002-11-28 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 27, 2002 01:22 pm, Michelle Konzack wrote: > ??? > Very interesting... How do you use dselect while installing the BASE ??? Good point - I just saw it was manpages and assumed it was post-base. Anyways, manpages are not essential, won't it allow you to continue after the error? If s

Re: samba and win98se?

2002-11-28 Thread ernst
If you use the option 'security=user', then you need to add the users to samba, if you use 'security=share' then just put the right permission on the folder you share with 9x clients. I think there also is some reg hack for 9x to go around this problem(google;)). But if you don't have many users,

Re: Partition size

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:50:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:16:11AM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:10:00PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > >>I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th May 2002 > > >>section

RE: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-28 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: Message I read in the archive list that you had to stop gpm daemon and it worked fine for me. So try that first -Original Message-From: Dominic Iadicicco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2002 17:16To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Mouse JumpingMy mouse is

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-28 Thread ernst
Hi I had the same problem, and I think this was the solution, but I'm not 100% sure.: chown root:cdrom/dev/cdrom add the user to cdrom group chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrdao chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrdao /ernst On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Qian Gong wrote: > Hi, > > I am using CDRDAO to rec

Re: [OT]: is this crap? -> wininformant headline "Most Insecure OS?Yep, It's Linux"

2002-11-28 Thread Mike Dresser
Anyone else notice it took microsoft 3 days to fix the recent problem with looping on windowsupdate for Win98 and others? Has you download the new controls, and reboot(since when do you have to reboot for windowsupdate?), and then after you rreboot, has you do the same thing over and over. Took a

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-28 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:57:33AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Do you have this: > crw-rw1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 > > I'm not clear on all the relationships -- I do hope someone can respond > with an overview of how all the parts connect... > The following list

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