Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-25 Thread Tobias Reckhard
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0600 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote: 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, an

fsck.ext3, losed files in /dev directory

2003-09-25 Thread Marek Veber
Hi, I have more than one experience with losing some special files from /dev directory after computer pover failure on ext3 filesystem. Is this problem of ext3 filesystem or fsck.ext3? (why the files, which are not changed are corrupted ?) Sorry, but I have no report from this "sessions" on corru

Re: udeb

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:34:14AM +0530, M.Balakrishna Pillai wrote: > can somebody explain (or a pointer to the details of) udeb package and > its difference with deb packages. It's a micro-.deb for use in the debian-installer project. A .udeb doesn't need to follow Debian policy: in particular,

Re: mod_security.c on apache? as a deb package?..

2003-09-25 Thread Louie Miranda
yes we have sorry.. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=mod_security&sear chmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386 -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com - Original Message - From: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

mod_security.c on apache? as a deb package?..

2003-09-25 Thread Louie Miranda
I can't find module mod_security.c on deb archive. Do we have this? -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Son of Swen?

2003-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Just when you thought you were safe by filtering out mails over 140k I just received a MS upgrade worm that appears to have a complete executable that's 0.1k. So the whole message is quite brief. I wish whoever was doing this would use their talents for goodness and niceness instead of evil.

Re: cdrecord as regular user

2003-09-25 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:43, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:22:14AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > I have problems with cdrecord when run as a regular user. I configured > > the debian package with suid, but still I get the irritating > > RR-scheduler warnings: > > Is /usr mount

Re: spam software

2003-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:44:43PM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > We are getting lot of spam mails.. I am using sendmail on debian box and > trying to load spamassassin software from au.spamassaaain.org. Is there > anything better I can use or anyone has experienxe with this software ?? >

iptabels and DNAT problem

2003-09-25 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I'm having problems with iptables in a particular setup. I have defined following interfaces: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:74:52:7F inet addr:157.x.x.100 Bcast:157.x.x.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Can't install both gtk and qt dev files?

2003-09-25 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I tried to compile and install an application that uses libqt3 and ran into this: # apt-get install libqt3-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpng-dev The fo

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:10:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Ok, clarification: I'm not asking for the score parameters; I'm > asking for the score of each individual email. Check the headers. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:22:30AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > How can I find out the SA (v2.55) scores of all email? /usr/lib/spamassassin - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Deb

Blackdown java run-time link problems on sarge

2003-09-25 Thread Tom Schutter
I am having run-time link problems with my java app. I am using the Blackdown 1.4 Java SDK on testing. When I try to run my app, I get: $ ./jvm_dump_system_property ./jvm_dump_system_property: error while loading shared libraries: libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dire

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:22:33AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > 3) modify my attached ~/.mailfilterrc with your POP3 username and >password details. The DENY rules to filter out viral crap are >translated from posts by Greg Lehey and David Lloyd on the LinuxSA >list. These rules are no

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter WORKING

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:02:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > And swen is arriving at such a prodigious rate > that some arrive between the start of the mailfilter run and the start > of the fetchmail retrieval, so they get retrieved anyway. This is a > known limitation of mailfilter, mentioned i

Re: cdrecord as regular user

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:22:14AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > I have problems with cdrecord when run as a regular user. I configured > the debian package with suid, but still I get the irritating > RR-scheduler warnings: Is /usr mounted nosuid (or user, which implies nosuid)? -- Colin Watson

HPFS access??

2003-09-25 Thread Wm D Loughman
Newbie here (to Linux, that is). From Debian "Woody" (on /dev/hdc), I'm trying to access OS/2 partitions on a different HDD (/dev/hda). The necessary setup *seems* to be right; it's similar to that used in getting DOS access on the same HDD. E.G.: The entry in mtab is similar. Access to /dev/h

ltsp - nfs-server stalls

2003-09-25 Thread Titty Jacob
Hi, The institution in which I work has about 15 thin clients booting from an ltsp machine. The so called ltsp machine serves the root file system via NFS and runs the dhcp server. All the applications run on another server. The ltsp server is PIII 1 GHz with 128 MB, i810 MB and 3 network int

Re: Still on install

2003-09-25 Thread Kent West
Sidney Brooks wrote: --- Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sidney Brooks wrote: 1. I can get two dialers, kppp and ppp[config/pon/poff], to dial, but they do not authenticate. The kppp log says:

Re: Is "Motion" being actively maintained?

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:14:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On the contrary, there's a very good reason: what if [EMAIL PROTECTED] > isn't valid anymore, or he's stopped responding to them? Someone > on D-U might know. debian-user's a very bad place for that. debian-devel or debian-qa would be

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:19:10PM +1200, cr wrote: > ... having just recovered from another screaming encounter with dselect. > If I ever have to face that Debian installer again I'll... I'll... dselect is not what people usually mean when they talk about the Debian installer ... -- Col

mailfilter and ssl

2003-09-25 Thread Nicolas
is mailfilter able to connect to a mail server with SSL? -- Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Service Pack1 XP

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:07:04PM -0700, Gabriel Jaime Saldarriaga wrote: > I lowdown a service pack1 for my O/S Xp, but when I try to install it it asking for > a splecial Key , can you hel me please. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin 644 xp_password A1V5T(&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@=&AI

debian bug reporting

2003-09-25 Thread Paul William
Hi, If there is a bug in a debian package and you are 90% sure its the upstream developers fault should you still report it and let the packager forward it upstream? I dont want to piss of debian packagers. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

lockups & error message

2003-09-25 Thread Rodney D. Myers
In the past few days, I have been getting lockups & reboots, and I'm noticing this in the /var/log/message, any idea as to what is causing this error message; Sep 25 18:44:14 riverside kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:563! Sep 25 18:44:14 riverside kernel: invalid operand: Sep 25 18:44:14 rivers

RE: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-25 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of This really is a horrible turn of phase for many reasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jacob Anawalt said: [snip] > One major concern that I've lightly touched on and will bring up again is > “What if I want to have other people contact me off list?” You wouldn't > want to post your non-list-only email to the list, that would be > counter-productive. There's got to be a convenient w

Re: Still on install

2003-09-25 Thread Sidney Brooks
--- Sidney Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sidney Brooks wrote: > > > > > >> 1. I can get two dialers, kppp and > > ppp[config/pon/poff], to dial, > > > >> but they do not authenticate. The kppp log > > says: > > > >> > > > >> The system is requ

Failing boot - Kernel panic

2003-09-25 Thread Maxwell Wright Terpstra
I'm getting an error on startup that causes the system to halt before fully booting, and would like some help figuring out what exactly is wrong and how to fix it :) Here are what seem to be the applicable lines: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root devic

Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:32, Martin Jungowski wrote: > Indeed that would be awesome! $169 for a computer, $0 for Knoppix 3.3 > and it would rock the Linux world for sure... > I bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of these and > play with it because most people spend more money on

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:02:20 -0400, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..someone on this list mentioned some other program to check > > popservers before fetchmail'ing? > > mutt and telne

Problem with gv

2003-09-25 Thread mag
Hi, I have a problem when I run gv : Warning: Representation size 2 must match superclass's to override internalWidth Segmentation fault Can you help me ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

usb mouse does not work after kernel upgrade

2003-09-25 Thread Michael West
My usb mouse no longer works after upgrading my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.22. I have found a few posts on this list and others with this problem, but no solutions. Most notably: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13790.html I have the same modules loaded, and the mouse is recogni

apt-get upgrade: dpkg error

2003-09-25 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
When I executed "apt-get upgrade", it cycled through "Preparing to replace ..." "Unpacking replacement ..." some times until ending with "Unpacking replacement librpm4 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gettext-base_0.12.1-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin

Solved, was: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:15:23 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 > sound board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me > with your recursive module loading idea, that

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Karsten M. Self said: > on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:03:47PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> There's a company that provides this service. First time emails to you >> get >> an auto-response "You aren't authorized to send me email, visit this web >> page to get authorized" or

(Potato) dselect: Some index files failed to download

2003-09-25 Thread A. Schirmacher
Did the set up of ftp.de.debian.org change in the last few month? dselect - update does not work correctly anymore, although my sources.list was unchanged since more than one year. The system is Debian 2.2. Please advise. Here's the sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security po

..booo: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@murphy.debian.org

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..booo: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@murphy.debian.org made it thru: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from murphy.debian.org ([146.82.138.6]) by fep06-svc.swip.net with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:15:18 +02

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:46:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:40, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > > Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... > > It is probably (should be imo) the future of all computing. > > > > Permit th

exim troubles - HELO

2003-09-25 Thread Monique Herman
So I go to subscribe to the slrn-user mailing list ... it sends me a confirmation email ... I reply to it and get the following complaint from exim: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipie

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:03:47PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There's a company that provides this service. First time emails to you get > an auto-response "You aren't authorized to send me email, visit this web > page to get authorized" or something like that. I Googled and

LDAP & Databases

2003-09-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is there a product that puts an LDAP server "front-end" on a SQL database - specifically the phpGroupWare addressbook? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:31:34 -0600 (MDT), "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If it's a real server, I thought that it would just try the connection > again because it didn't get a yes 250 or a no 5xx or even a maybe > later 3-4xx, and you might not want t

(no subject)

2003-09-25 Thread Hotsey35
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Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:49:00 +0300, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..someone on this list mentioned some other program to check > > popservers before fetchmail'ing? > > > > > mail

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:07:26AM +0200, Elie De Brauwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't think that many isp's are concerned about the -> > connection, who needs to pay extra for that ? It's the -> > connection that eats all the money. > > The isp will simply apply a quota, if I use over

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: > Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Bob McElrath said: >> > Darn, I was hoping (aren't we all) for a way to reject it before the >> > whole thing is sent. You know...it wouldn't be hard to scan the input >> > for the EXE header and close the connection as soon as it'

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up > > POP3 mail accounts. > > There's a simple solution. Have the list munge the email > add

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-25 Thread J F
Repost with modifications, first few tries did make it to the debian user list. Maybe an overzealous spam filter again: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few "g" keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel

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

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kirk Strauser said: > At 2003-09-23T21:16:02Z, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> perhaps if someone wrote the "don't f*&$ open me"[1] virus and had it go >> through a little tutorial about why not to open unknow attachments have >> message go something like "I was foolish enough to open the att

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:33:17PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > 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

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:23:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > The other suggestions assume you have "unlimited" bandwidth. If, > > however, you don't then you may find 'popsneaker' to be helpful. It > > allows you to delete me

Service Pack1 XP

2003-09-25 Thread Gabriel Jaime Saldarriaga
I lowdown a service pack1 for my O/S Xp, but when I try to install it  it asking for a splecial Key , can you hel me please. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bob McElrath said: > > Darn, I was hoping (aren't we all) for a way to reject it before the > > whole thing is sent. You know...it wouldn't be hard to scan the input > > for the EXE header and close the connection as soon as it's seen. Then > > you'd on

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:35:28AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Thanks..yes I know the command to reconfigure the xserver & mouse. I > just can't get a terminal window to open. Well I did actually in Gnome > but there was a dialogue box in front of the shell and I couldn't see > the terminal window. After h

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:51:21AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > For brief moments I think that having dict analyze subject line could be a > good enough spam filter* but then I quickly remember my typos. > > *(Buy our junK and s*k*i*p the d0ctor asx asdf jsadf) :P Yes, what is it with these stri

exim troubles - HELO

2003-09-25 Thread Monique Herman
So I go to subscribe to the slrn-user mailing list ... it sends me a confirmation email ... I reply to it and get the following complaint from exim: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its reci

Re: burning a CD

2003-09-25 Thread Carla Schroder
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:59 am, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have put a CD with MS Office in one Linux Box. I need to copy its > contents for burning on a separate Linux box. What is the best way to > do this? > > I supposed I could just copy the entire contents to a directory on the > second

spam software

2003-09-25 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi all, We are getting lot of spam mails.. I am using sendmail on debian box and trying to load spamassassin software from au.spamassaaain.org. Is there anything better I can use or anyone has experienxe with this software ?? Kindly share your thoughts.. Thanks a lot.. -- Vivek Kumar -- To U

Re: Is "Motion" being actively maintained?

2003-09-25 Thread Tom Ballard
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:35:21PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Tuesday September 23 at 03:09pm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The latest stable release of Motion (http://motion.sf.net) is 3.0.6. > > The packaged version in unstable is 3.0.4. I compiled 3.0.6 manually, > > > > necessary to

Re: Internet Access for Linux?

2003-09-25 Thread cls-du
>[NetZero] say Windows or Mac are required. Then boycott them for being Linux-unfriendly. There *are* MS-Windows-only ISPs. They are the ones using unmaintained remote access boxes that are compatible with Microsoft's broken PPP but not with standard PPP. It's got nothing to do with whether they

Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard

2003-09-25 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. Thank you very much. Setting the parallel port explicitly in the B

Composing a kernel I'd love to use

2003-09-25 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi! Probably I was sitting in userland too much lately because even after reading those articles floating around about new kernel features I find it hard to practically compose a kernel which would be really useful. Or at least to decide whether I should use 2.4 or 2.5/2.6 kernles? Or just wait a

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Jungowski
Have you tried "apt-get -f install"? If so, what did that return, any errors? It seems that the script is missing some directory in /usr/lib. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my unstable today and had no trouble whatsoever. On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:40, Bill Moseley wrote: > Life with Sid -- dist

dselect insisting to install/uninstall dozends of packages

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, I somehow managed that dselect insists on installing or uninstalling dozends of packages (which will most likely ruin my installation). I've tried everything to erase the selections from dselects memory, including all solutions described in the dselect introduction on debian.org

Re: sa-learn and spamassassin's markup

2003-09-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 25 September 2003 20:28, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Does sa-learn recognize and ignore spamassassin's markup? From what I've seen in the source, it does this for you (it's looking for the X-Spam-Status header IIRC). -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:43:01PM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > > syste

Re: error starting X

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, It seems like your X-Server isn't installed at all. Try "apt-get install xserver-xfree86" That should do the trick. Afterwards you may have to edit the Configfile, I've always had to do that. Martin On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 23:52, Neiil Blue wrote: > Hello, > > I am just installing Debian

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone remember gcc 2.96? I remember there were some bugs, they were fixed pretty early in the cycle, and most of the whining was about code that would have had the exact same problems in gcc 3.0 when it was released. So people who didn't make t

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Andrea Tasso wrote: > Me I have an unfortunately negative experience with mondo/mindi. > OK it is my fault, but I switched to dar + bootcd. It works, I did incremental > backups and true successful restore. > I was not able to make that with mondo/mindi L

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-25 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:46:56 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:35:28AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Thanks..yes I know the command to reconfigure the xserver & mouse. I > > just can't get a terminal window to open. Well I did actually in > > Gnome but there was a

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030924 20:07]: > > An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo [snip] > > Hugo has had a hard time with Debian because of certain things that it > does differently from "eve

How to set font size for replacment UI font in OpenOffice?

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moseley
After installing OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 the menu fonts were tiny and unreadable. I follow the instructions in the README and replace "Andale Sans UI" with another font, but the font is still very tiny. How do I select the font size? I'm running Sid and using Icewm for my window manager. Thanks,

Re: Very slow CD burning

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:35:19PM +0100, Dan Bowtell wrote: > I've just installed an ASUS CRW-5224A CD writer in my debian computer > and I've got it running under scsi emulation. I've just attempted to > burn a CD at the moment but it took 15 minutes to get about 10% through > and then aborted. T

woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-25 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

Re: how to | to /dev/null?

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Levi Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Easy question, I'm sure: > > How can I use a pipe to send something to /dev/null? > > Reason: kmail gives a "pipe through" filter option, ie send the message to "| > somecommand". It doesn't have a ">" option. It's time to start sending the > 400 s

Re: burning a CD

2003-09-25 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 14:59, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have put a CD with MS Office in one Linux Box. I need to copy its > contents for burning on a separate Linux box. What is the best way to > do this? Do you have Microsoft's permission to duplicate the CD? If you don't, copying the CD is mos

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes? Need advice on DAR

2003-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I've found bootcd in Debian repository, but dar does not seem to be available in Woody. In sarge and sid there is dar and dar-static. Request advise: Is it safe to use dar-static on a Woody system? I have been seeing warnings about mixing woody/sarge/sid, but maybe its OK for a static version. Or i

Re: Verislime

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Stephen Patterson said: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:00:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Anyone care to calculate how many domains that would be? ;) > > Given that they're using IP4 addressing, anything up to 4 billion > (less currently assigned hosts). > I'm defiantly not a mathematician or a s

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030925 14:38]: > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be > slow. It happens i

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: > Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Bob McElrath said: >> > Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as >> >> sending >> >> "550 executables not accepted", especially if you don't have control >> >> o

Re: Openoffice install in sid (/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict)

2003-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Bill Moseley wrote: > Life with Sid -- dist-upgrade trying to update Openoffice.org: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict > -bash: cd: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/openoffice/share/ > autocorr basic dt

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter WORKING

2003-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:46:10AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > preconnect "mailfilter --mailfilterrc=/home/kevin/.mailfilterrc" > > did the trick. > > Mine keeps saying: > > Sep 25 11:44:34 molly fetchmail[2072]: Vor-Verbindungs-Befehl > scheiterte mit St

Re: Verislime

2003-09-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:36:42PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:00:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone care to calculate how many domains that would be? ;) > > Given that they're using IP4 addressing, anything up to 4 billion > (less currently assigned hosts).

error starting X

2003-09-25 Thread Neiil Blue
Hello, I am just installing Debian woody with X (using tasksel). However after running xf86config and then startx I get the error: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory ... giving up I have done some searches that seem so suggest this is due to a missi

Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Jungowski
Indeed that would be awesome! $169 for a computer, $0 for Knoppix 3.3 and it would rock the Linux world for sure... I bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of these and play with it because most people spend more money on cloths per month that they would have to spend on that comput

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

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:15:53PM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On > > various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting > > hammered by the mail, too. > > At least o

Re: Verislime

2003-09-25 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:36:42PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:00:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone care to calculate how many domains that would be? ;) > > Given that they're using IP4 addressing, anything up to 4 billion > (less currently assigned hosts).

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, > a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the > system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be > slow.

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

2003-09-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-23T21:16:02Z, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > perhaps if someone wrote the "don't f*&$ open me"[1] virus and had it go > through a little tutorial about why not to open unknow attachments have > message go something like "I was foolish enough to open the attachment, > and since you ar

Re: how to | to /dev/null?

2003-09-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Levi Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030925 14:26]: > Easy question, I'm sure: > > How can I use a pipe to send something to /dev/null? > > Reason: kmail gives a "pipe through" filter option, ie send the message to "| > somecommand". It doesn't have a ">" option. It's time to start sending

LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-25 Thread J F
Repost with modifications, first one did make it to the list: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few "g" keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. THe screen says: LILO 22.5

Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello everyone, For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in his name. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with the parameter "--force-badname". Can anyone show me a possibility to make "adduser" ignore this restriction for this one time? The user is only fo

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bob McElrath said: > > Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as > >> sending > >> "550 executables not accepted", especially if you don't have control > >> over > >> the mail server and

Re: report on being too dependent on Microsoft

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:40:17 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:04:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | Here's an article on cnn.com that might help your boss listen: > | > | "Microsoft dominance threatens U.S.

Help detecting possible intrusion

2003-09-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. Today I found one of my servers (Woody on an uml kernel) was down. It's in another country, but I can admin it remotely. I rebooted it (uml lets you do that), and found a couple of strange things. - AIDE tells me all /dev and some tty devices were created right before the server crashe

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-25 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:04:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Some answers, but still some questions. > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:34:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > For starters, I need to say mailfilter, not fetchmail. Once I do so, > in debug mode I see > > fetchmail: awakened at Thu Sep

SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the system is only under moderate load and I'm not "expecting" it to be slow. It happens in X with gnome-terminal and also sometimes just at the console.

Re: rule of thumb: how to calculate the Horiz- & VertRefreshRate

2003-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:04:22 -0400, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 09:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > can anyone share the "secret" with me how to easily calculate the > > Horiz- & VertRefreshRate required for a given Sc

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