Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:14:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > > embedded in returns of mail I didn'

jadetex: how to modify the parameters?

2003-09-24 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, May I know how a user can modify the TEX parameters as in /etc/texmf.cnf ? A superuser could easily modify the /etc/texmf.d directory. There is a user whose document is more than 300 pages with more than 600 indexes. I have changed the system "save_size.jadetex to 1", but who knows if tha

adduser problem

2003-09-24 Thread Tony Leung
Dear All, I want to create user account with dot between the username, but can't create, what setting should i change? test:~# adduser abc.ken adduser: Please enter a username consisting of a lower case letter followed by lower case letters and numbers. Use the `--force-badname' option to allow

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed without removing 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-24 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:10:06 +0200, Daniel B. wrote: > What's the newest packaged kernel that can be used on woody (without > removing a stable kernel)? 2.4.22 -- just compile your own. The relevant packages: kernel-source-2.4.22 (you can pilfer that one from Sid), build-essential, kernel-package

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread kmark
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viruses ca

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:33:17PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > That attachment, debian.rsync, seems to just be anonftpsync (rsync > script) only with your rules. Maybe there were suppose to be two > attachments? If not, I think you're mirroring all releases except > experimental of i386 and ma

Re: Still on install

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Printing has always been a mystery to me. But I believe "cupsysy" "cupsys" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still on install

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: I have two problems left. 1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp, to dial, but they do not authenticate. The kppp log says: The system is required to authenticate itself but I cannot find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords

Re: apt-get problem (bug in apt-get?)

2003-09-24 Thread Darryl Barlow
Are you running unstable? If so, as of the last time I checked, the kdemultimedia package is broken. A bug report was filed some time ago but it has not yet been fixed. This is one of the joys of running unstable and the price to be paid for running a more "cutting edge" distribution. Person

unsuscribe

2003-09-24 Thread Carlos Colorado
Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP Relay, closed (or so i thought)?

2003-09-24 Thread Darryl Barlow
If this has only started in the last few days then I suspect these are not genuine bounce messages but the product of the Swen worm. There are a number of threads in this list dealing with it. If this is the case there is no problem with your setup. It is simply that your name has been harves

Re: problems installing g++

2003-09-24 Thread A. Novruzi
Well, The problem was urgent and I need the compiler. So ... reinstall Debian was the only solution. Now that I am reintalling my CDRW, I have difficulties. I have compiler the kernel with the right options as said in CDRW-how-to (and this did work in the previous system) but I have this compl

LILO problems,no boot

2003-09-24 Thread J F
I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few "g" keystrokes to download and install. It said: warning, it was deleted modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. This is from a Knoppix CD install. Any way, I can reboot using the Knoppix CD and edit /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf .

Limit on the number of users in a group?

2003-09-24 Thread Ondrej Hrebicek
Hi, when a group in /etc/group contains over a 100 members, chgrp stops functioning properly when a numeric group ID is passed as an argument. Providing a group name as an argument works correctly in all cases. However, when the 100+ member group exists in /etc/group, providing a

Re: OT: rfc-ignorant RBL

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 17:23]: > Is anyone using the rfc-ignorant RBL? I have seen Karsten and Baloo > report there, but testing it out right now, I immediately discovered > that > > - amazon.com does not accept postmaster@ > - aol.com does not accept abuse@ > > Thus I

Still on install

2003-09-24 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have two problems left. 1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp, to dial, but they do not authenticate. The kppp log says: The system is required to authenticate itself but I cannot find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. (None of the available passwords would let it use an I

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote: > I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from > 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This > being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought > was the simples

Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul E Condon
An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... . I had mostly no problem understanding the man

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 04:52 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:38, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > Many people use RH so their community have the critical mass to make a lot of > > packages and generate big apt-rpm repositories, that fact combined with their > > installer and co

Re: obsolete Suggests field seen on apt-get installs

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Regarding seeing obsolete Suggests fields when doing apt-get installs, it turns out that just doing a daily apt-get update isn't enough, one should instead do a dselect update, it turns out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:53:07PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any > > > good or not. > > Hi Bijan, > You po

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > I have a mailto using a little Javascript that I got here: > http://innerpeace.org/escrambler.shtml > which works beautifully, though only for people who have JavaScript > enabled on their browser. I have my address published on my webs

Re: MS mail bombs - This does work ;)

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:05:35PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Apologies to Pigeon - this does work ;) Accepted :-) > I have the SHOW_HEADERS option and being either stupid or inexperienced > (you take your pick) didn't realise that it would show me all headers > rather than just the deleted it

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:51PM +0800, csj wrote: > Why not? Mailfilter has a log feature of varying degrees of > verbosity. So if I accidentally delete a notice saying "Subject: > Congratulations: You've just won a million $$", I could always > ask the sender to resend it. On my system, that

Re: ls: filename: Input/output error

2003-09-24 Thread Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon
Hello Angus, This morning when I try to ls the file, it's ok now. I check yesterday's syslog, I saw these lines: Sep 24 12:37:01 kelisa kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,8)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 791361844, count = 1 Sep 24 12:37:01 kelisa kernel: EXT2-f

en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?

2003-09-24 Thread Jan Pfeifer
hi all, using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for unicode characters i wasn't being able to get composed latin characters (accents) using the Multi_key. searching a little bit i found out the the "compositions" were defined but in the "wrong" (i.e. different than what i'm used to) order of key strokes. So I ju

re: sendmail msp problem: connection refused by [127.0.0.1] sm-client won't stop

2003-09-24 Thread root
bog, bog, bog... the opposite of spam.spam spam 1} Try this me pretties: follow s-link /usr/sbin/sendmail to /etc/alternatives arh! show me the mta-sendmail s-link to /usr/sbin/sendmail!!! If yer whalers like mine then there in no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mta-sendmail s-linked to /usr/sbin/sendmail.

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:54:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > I've heard that using html encoding for the @ symbol on webpages will > > reduce harvesting ... it still shows up properly in mail clients when > > the user clicks

Sound help

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin Johnson
Hi- I installed Debian on a new Dell 4600. I have been having problems with sound. I did a bunch of research on the web and posted a few questions. So far I have been able to get sound working by removing the SB Live that Dell shipped which doesn't work under Linux. (special version just for De

Re: Filtering spam at the POP3 server

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:51:08 +0100, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Given the volume of this stuff that list subscribers are receiving, is > a good solution? ie. Do those more experienced among you rate it? ..chances are most people will want an autom

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:54:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Monday, September 22 at 4:42 pm, Jeff Elkins penned the following: > > > >Nor has mine. But my wife does not do listservs or webforums. Nor does > >she publish her email, as I have at http://www.lewrockwell.com > > > >It's a

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses (for postfix mail admins)

2003-09-24 Thread daniel
I found a nice web page which can give postfix mail admins some nice tips to block most incoming spam/mail bombs. I added most of the checking described in this url plus a 100Kb mail limit since nobody sends me more than that. Before I could be receiving 10 spam and/or mail bombs per 5 min.. no

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Bob McElrath
Wayne Gemmell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>"Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > is increasing exponentially. > > I recieved 10Mb of mail ove

Re: xplanet with gnome (root window in general)

2003-09-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030922 22:12]: > How can I run xplanet with gnome without resorting to generating images > over and over and using them as backdrop? I simply want to be able to > see the root window in gnome. Then, I can use whatever program I like > just as in any other windo

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Michael C.
In linux.debian.user, Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael C. wrote: > > >I asked this on alt.os.linux. I was told to search freshmeat.net for a > >perl script called "poppy." It will get headers only, and ask what you > >want to do with the mail one by one, but it also includes

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From this

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: > > > >>I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed > >>this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. > > > > > > F

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:20:09 -0600 (MDT), "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Arnt Karlsen said: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, > > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Monday, September 22 at 4:42 pm, Jeff Elkins penned the following: Nor has mine. But my wife does not do listservs or webforums. Nor does she publish her email, as I have at http://www.lewrockwell.com It's a price you pay for being public... Jeff I've heard that using html encoding for the

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed withoutremoving 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel B.
David Z Maze wrote: > > "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be > > installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from > > woody? > > > > It seems that: > > - testing's 2.4.21 kernel package depends on

Re: Proper SMTP server setup - was Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvestedemail addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Daniel L. Miller said: > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > Doesn't some spam come directly from an individual running SMTP from > > their box to yours? I'm pretty sure this is the case for the > > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s email spreading methods. > > I have exactly this configuration. Our e-mail is host

Re: Slide show software

2003-09-24 Thread Joris
William Bradley verraste ons met de boodschap: > Does Debian in their "deb" files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's > as a > slide show on my computer? I know you've gotten some helpful answers (I prefer gqview myself), but keeping in mind some saying about giving a man a carpe

Filtering spam at the POP3 server

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been playing with mailfilter (using Pigeon's recent post) to remove the assorted MS spam at the server with a view to using spamassassin or other local solution for the other crap one receives. The major drawback with mailfilter is that it deletes offending messages automatically wit

Re: exim router condition problem: checking if a mail is a virus before spamchecking

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Benedict Verheyen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 16:34]: > Hello, > > now that my mail setup checks for virusses and spam, i found another > thing i could improve. A mail is now checked for spam even though it > might already be tagged as a virus. So i wanted to change that so if a > mail is tagged

OT: rfc-ignorant RBL

2003-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
Is anyone using the rfc-ignorant RBL? I have seen Karsten and Baloo report there, but testing it out right now, I immediately discovered that - amazon.com does not accept postmaster@ - aol.com does not accept abuse@ Thus I am wondering: is this at all useful? dsn.rfc-ignorant.org seems to be,

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley said: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:23 -0600 > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Your list has the virtue of being much simpler; I wonder what 5 Gb I >> have >> >that you don't? >> > >> I'm not sure, what does this command return on your system? >> >> find pool/ -name "*d

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 16:20]: > While I'm on the subject - is there a "better" copy command than cp when > using large files? Is that the example you gave me, or is there a > nother solution I should start learning if I'm doing these large file > transfers? Actually,

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley said: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0600 > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror only >> stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only mirroring >> stable with such a script, but I thought it wou

woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-24 Thread Ben Blout
I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought was the simplest thing, and chose the 2.2.20 image from security.debian.org, using

tar vs dpkg --get-selections for backup scheme

2003-09-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, my server setup is nearing completion and of course i want to save my hard work in case something goes wrong. Since i have problems in the past with various backup programs like mondo to name one, i want to keep it simple this time so a moronic me can understand whats happening :) 1) Method 1

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:48:43AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: > I think my pizza would be crisped by now ;) but thanks fo

Re: logins and logouts hang

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:17:00PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:18:06PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..uhmmm, yep, sounds like you spun it up _good_. You probably fried > > the motor or the fan bearings, in the former case you can blow the > > fan up to speed wi

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:43:10AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > apt-get install mailfilter - it only depends on libc, libstdc++ and > > debconf, so no baddies there. > > Mailfilter is not in Woody. I didn't try installing the deb from Unstable: > just the source package. It has

Re: ipmasq not doing NAT after upgrade

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:32:30AM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > After a kernel recompile the NAT problem is fixed. > I have added some modules to the kernel. > > I still get some "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name" error > messages: > > /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -j LOG -i ! lo -s

removing all but critical packages

2003-09-24 Thread Johann Koenig
I recently tried to do a Debian install, only to find that my CD was to badly scratched to read properly. Because I had a Knoppix disc, I just did a 'knx-hdinstall' and got a working system. However, there is way too much bloat. So far doing 'apt-get remove --purge libqt*' seems to have gotten rid

Anyone tried Java Desktop System? tuned out to be Suse 8.2

2003-09-24 Thread Dom
wierd, just a Suse with Gnome desktop, I though they wanted Redhat All I want is Sarge DVD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proper SMTP server setup - was Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Doesn't some spam come directly from an individual running SMTP from > their box to yours? I'm pretty sure this is the case for the > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s email spreading methods. I have exactly this configuration. Our e-mail is hosted off-site on another server, but I h

exim router condition problem: checking if a mail is a virus before spamchecking

2003-09-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, now that my mail setup checks for virusses and spam, i found another thing i could improve. A mail is now checked for spam even though it might already be tagged as a virus. So i wanted to change that so if a mail is tagged as a virus, there really isn't the need to check it for spam. I tr

Re: Apache dies silently?

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
j2 wrote: There's some kind of conflict with PHP4 and apache in Unstable. The following worked for me: Well, removing imap from extensions got it running for me.. But guess what i kinda need IMAP :( Anyway, thanks for the hints everyone, ill tinker around, at least i now know the nature of th

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030923 21:27]: As usual, I found something to frustrate me again in my constant pursuit of Linux paradise. I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. No

Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard

2003-09-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> What address is the port at? The standard addresses are 0x378, 0x278 |> and 0x3bc. You can usually configure these in the BIOS. Set the port |> to use address 0x378 for greatest compatibility. Thanks very much (and to Neal Lippman also). Setting the address i

Re: amavisd-new mime_decode failed error

2003-09-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 24-09-2003, om 00:44 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > Hi, > > i installed amavisd-new and clamav on my mailserver. > It now consists of fetchmail, exim4, spamassassin and procmail. > I followed the /usr/share/doc/amavisd-new/README_exim4 doc to add the > virusscanning to exim. The logs of amavis

Re: S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, René Seindal wrote: > I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked > the logs because the disk make a weird sound. > > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cyc

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:23 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Your list has the virtue of being much simpler; I wonder what 5 Gb I have > >that you don't? > > > I'm not sure, what does this command return on your system? > > find pool/ -name "*deb" | egrep -v '_i386\.u?deb$' - |

Re: S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
René Seindal said: > I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked > the logs because the disk make a weird sound. > > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. > Device: /de

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your Linux b

where to set $INFORMIXDIR

2003-09-24 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi! I have a debian woody box with Apache 1.3, PHP and Informix Client SDK. For the client SDK to function, I need to define INFORMIXDIR and INFORMIXSERVER and pass it to apache. Where do I do that best? I had something like that running on Suse, where I just put it into /etc/profile.local But

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror only > stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only mirroring > stable with such a script, but I thought it would take having a program >

Re: S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:42, René Seindal wrote: > I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked > the logs because the disk make a weird sound. > > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. > Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:38, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:20 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > > That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same > > package manager. Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's > > ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be a

Re: trouble compiling grub

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:15:10 -0700 (PDT), "Mark Kaufer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to backport the version of grub that's in unstable back to > stable and am running into a compilation error. Does anyone know what > I'm lacking here? ..me, no, but wh

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:01, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:20:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:28, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly > > > planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I woul

Re: revoking public key

2003-09-24 Thread Henning Moll
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:30, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Is there a way to revoke a gpg key if you have lost the password and > didn't create a revocation certificate? No, not really. You can start a brute force attack. If you used a 'word' (=something from a dictionary), chances are bett

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen said: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, > Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), >> >"Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 13:19]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs -t fat /dev/sda1 > mkfs.fat: No such file or directory > > > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? in the dosfstools package. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ --

EmulateWheel horizontal scrolling

2003-09-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hello, I recently enabled emulatewheel in X on my laptop, which is really cool. It's a thinkpad, so the buttons are in this sort of funky layout: [1][3] [ 2 ] So now button 2 is set to emulatewheel, which means it generates events for buttons 4 5 6 and 7, which I have mapped to the X and Y axes.

S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread René Seindal
I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked the logs because the disk make a weird sound. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute:

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:33:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? apt-get install dosfstools -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the

Re: mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Kent West wrote: > This happens on two different Sid boxes. Where's mkfs.vfat? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search mkfs.vfat dosfstools: sbin/mkfs.vfat dosfstools: usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz dosfstools. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer :

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..this too makes a neat installer: http://damnsmalllinux.org/ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:01:43 +0200, "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - Original Message - > From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:52 PM > Subject: Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usene

Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab

2003-09-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 > >Im trying this but i could not connect to it, im trying to connect using >minicom. >But it wont get thru.. > >Any ideas? Im planning to move over to win/hyper terminal but i ch

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:53:07 -0400, Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:16:08 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ... > > ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel > > and compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them.

Re: Unstable,gnumeric text import

2003-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 14:32:38 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not >appear. I'm behind an X-less box right now, so I can't properly check, but hasn't it moved to Data -> Get External Data -> Import Text File? (If not,

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:16:08 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > # Trying port address 0273 > > > # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 > > > > > > # (DEBUG) > > >

Re: Booting minimal debian off of IBM Microdrive

2003-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:50:15 +0200, Andreas Loong wrote: > > Hi, > > Trying to get a minimal install of debian to boot here. > The installation goes fine, partitioning and so on goes fine. > However, trying to boot yields some problems. > > My setup is a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, 512MB ram an

mkfs.vat seems to be missing

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Can't seem to make a FAT file system; see below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs Password: Usage: mkfs [-V] [-t fstype] [fs-options] device [size] Wed Sep 24 14:32:06 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory Wed Sep 24 1

trouble compiling grub

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Kaufer
I'm trying to backport the version of grub that's in unstable back to stable and am running into a compilation error. Does anyone know what I'm lacking here? == ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -

Re: install

2003-09-24 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: Following the suggestion of Zak B. Elep,I changed "framebuffer device interface" to no and got a display of 800x600. However, among all the installed programs, there was nothing to dial onto the internet. I assumed that I had done something wrong in the initial install. Being

revoking public key

2003-09-24 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Is there a way to revoke a gpg key if you have lost the password and didn't create a revocation certificate? What happens if I just upload a new public key? Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On א', 2003-09-21 at 19:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:43:49 +0300, > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > However under 2.4 its already working quite nicely. > > some people do get some trouble at times, but its quite stable. I > > s

Debian on cobalt RaQ2

2003-09-24 Thread Christopher L. Everett
Has it been done? I see info on putting NetBSD onto a RaQ2 but not much on Debian Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unstable,gnumeric text import

2003-09-24 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not appear. This is present in the gnumeric in testing. Could somebody enlighten me as to what is wrong. Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Oh

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Jan Ulrich Hasecke([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > preconnect "mailfilter" > > Mh, my fetchmail hangs when I set this option: > > preconnect '/usr/bin/mailfilter -M /home/juh/.mailfilterrc' man mailfilter default Mailfilter tries to

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-24 Thread Levi Waldron
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has > no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file

Cannot change background in Testing

2003-09-24 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hello, After the most recent updates to Testing (the update that got rid of the error message regarding control center at login), I cannot change the background. If I right-click the desktop and choose "Change Desktop Background", nothing happens. If I go to Applications -> Desktop Preferences ->

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Antonio Rodr
> Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any > > good or not. Hi Bijan, You posted a while ago a solution for spam using telnet. There you used several com

Re: MS mail bombs - This does work ;)

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Apologies to Pigeon - this does work ;) On (24/09/03 11:48), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: > I think my pizza would be crisped by

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Clive writes: > I am not sure I agree with you You're right. Mailfilter is in Woody. I had forgotten that I had been mucking about with sources.list. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

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