Re: X-skins?

2003-11-08 Thread eCLe
tshuyang wrote: Francisco Castellon wrote: Hello list: I was wondering where I can get skins for windows-X? I am just trying to get the desktop to look pretty snazzy, I know I seen some people’s desktops where their windows (ie. X-terms, etc) look like they are transparent and have some prett

Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?

2003-11-08 Thread Alan Davis
I have ordered this motherboard, with 3c940 Gigabit ethernet (with a "Linux" driver on the ASUS website(?!)); and AD1850 "AC'97" etc.) sound. I would appreciate hearing about any issues people have encountered. Thanks for any advice. I would like to be prepared before burying my head in the san

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:21AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what you have. I do indeed have a laptop. Thing is, I've had no problems under Windows. And using XMMS/ESD plugin w

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:21AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what > >you have. > > I do indeed have a laptop. Thing is, I've had no problems under Windows. > And using XMMS/ESD plugin works great

Re: X-skins?

2003-11-08 Thread tshuyang
Francisco Castellon wrote: Hello list: I was wondering where I can get skins for windows-X? I am just trying to get the desktop to look pretty snazzy, I know I seen some people’s desktops where their windows (ie. X-terms, etc) look like they are transparent and have some pretty neat sub menus

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:33:00PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: My sound system is being really fickle for some reason. It'll work fine, then all of a sudden simply stop playing sound. This happens during games (UT) and with other apps (IM sounds). I've heard that sou

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:33:00PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > My sound system is being really fickle for some reason. It'll work fine, > then all of a sudden simply stop playing sound. This happens during > games (UT) and with other apps (IM sounds). > > I've heard that sound servers lik

Exim question: open relay?

2003-11-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
I have just started hosting a domain on my server for my granddaughter and the web portion is working perfectly. However, I'd like to offer her email as well. She's 200 miles away...how can I set this up to avoid the ugly open relay problem? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
My sound system is being really fickle for some reason. It'll work fine, then all of a sudden simply stop playing sound. This happens during games (UT) and with other apps (IM sounds). I've heard that sound servers like esd are supposed to help with sound issues, but I haven't quite figured out

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Kent West
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:20, Miernik wrote: Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between virtual consoles? If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I m

Re: handling "broken packages"

2003-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:15:57AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > What release? KDE3 is horribly broken under testing, and only > somewhat less so under unstable. As I understand it, it's only the kdebase and kde metapackages that are broken (due to ksysguardd), not the guts of KDE itself. Chee

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just downloaded linuxxdoom from iD, and I'm having some problems with it. Here's what happened: -- $ ./linuxxdoom ./linuxxdoom: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so' $ -- Problem is, /lib/ld.so is there. -- $ ll /lib/ld.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root r

Re: Upgrade Problem..

2003-11-08 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:16:20 + (GMT), Richard wrote: > > " Unpacking replacement Joe... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: > Permission denied > After this 'apt-get upgrade' dies altogether thus causing the whole > upgrade to die.  Can't install Joe or remove it.  

Re: handling "broken packages"

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:09:17PM -0500, Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've looked at the APT manual and rummaged about on line, but can't > get a clear idea of just to do with "broken" packages. I get > the impression that the term "broken" implies some unresolvable > dependences, but

Re: sawfish debian menu compatibility?

2003-11-08 Thread andy
i have a ~/.menu directory. the file created is ~/.sawfish/lisp/debian-menu.jl. i assume that the menu is still where expected, because the popup-apps-menu keybinding still works. but the main menu doesn't seem to reference it anymore. the file /etc/X11/sawfish/site-init.d/00menu.jl looks like

X-skins?

2003-11-08 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello list:   I was wondering where I can get skins for windows-X? I am just trying to get the desktop to look pretty snazzy, I know I seen some people’s desktops where their windows (ie. X-terms, etc) look like they are transparent and have some pretty neat sub menus and backgrounds, is

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:49:21PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > In regards to the roommates at

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
techlists wrote: I really love the analogy of comparing wine to a crutch. Because that is exactly what it is. An as a crutch, we should not be trying to make the crutch better, rather work on healing the leg so that the crutch is not needed. In this case instead of making windows apps work under

Ways to send mail

2003-11-08 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, from the yahoo/spam-o-rama thread: "You should always send outgoing mail through your ISP's smarthost, or some other similar machine." Well I've done so on the machine that serves as my internet gateway and faxserver and so on, and found out that I don't seem to be able to send mail to any

Re: Kernel Compiling: Source for my nic isn't included: Was:Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
> portion mine wasn't listed. I have the source from the manufacturer. > How do I add that to the mix? Just compile the manufacturers source as a module after you finish compiling the kernel and load in at boot up by adding it to /etc/modules. > > > Mark Healey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Giving

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
> Shaul Karl wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to > >>get packages from unstable. > > > >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > >deb-src http:/

fetchmail problem

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? Thanks very much Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'`

APRS under Linux

2003-11-08 Thread Dana J. Laude
Greetings, Anyone have any pointers on setting up APRS under debian? I'd like to have something setup that doesn't require a actual TNC. Any links would help. Thanks, Dana - KC9AAE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
use mpg123 if you are wanting to play mp3s. XMMS uses mpg123s library! On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:02, Tom wrote: > I use xmms, xmms-flac, and xmms-shell with some custom scripts. I do > all my interacting with xmms via the command line. (I've never > understood why every SOUND PLAYER in the world

/etc/profile not being read for gnome

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
It seems that /etc/profile is being completely disregarded by Gnome. I noticed a DefaultPath setting in gdm.conf, but the comment above it mentioned that this will probably be overridden by the profile PATH. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case. I could have sworn that I had found a wa

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 07:22:08PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > Anyway, it bugs me to have my music stop when I leave X. Is there way > > to run XMMS without X? Something in the spirit of abcde (the coolest > > wrapper in the world)

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:14:51PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > I use xmms, xmms-flac, and xmms-shell with some custom scripts. I do > > all my interacting with xmms via the command line. (I've never > > understood why every SOUND PLAYER in the wo

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > Anyway, it bugs me to have my music stop when I leave X. Is there way > to run XMMS without X? Something in the spirit of abcde (the coolest > wrapper in the world)? There's no way to run xmms without X. Witness the "X" in the name :) But

Mutt viewers in the background / Job control

2003-11-08 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm using a modification of mutt_bgrun where a .mailcap entry might be: image/png; /home/moseley/bin/mutt_bgrun display '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" and mutt_bgrun is basically: file=$(mktemp); cp "$2" "$file" ( "$1" "$file"; rm "$file" ) & That allows control to return to mutt while the view

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > I use xmms, xmms-flac, and xmms-shell with some custom scripts. I do > all my interacting with xmms via the command line. (I've never > understood why every SOUND PLAYER in the world had to get mixed up with > showing flashy colors to the

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 18:02, Tom wrote: > I use xmms, xmms-flac, and xmms-shell with some custom scripts. I do > all my interacting with xmms via the command line. (I've never > understood why every SOUND PLAYER in the world had to get mixed up with > showing flashy colors to the music or draw

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:49, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: --snip-- > > > What happens if they get a keybounce while typing ^D ? > > > > "keybounce"? You mean if they hit ^D with an empty command line

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
Yeah, I remember OS/2 all too well. Our office standardized on it and used it for a year or so. We also used OS/2 Lan Server apps, and I got to mess with sharing folders and printer, setting up users and all that good stuff. We eventually migrated to Windows 3.1 and Netware servers. By that time I

XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
I use xmms, xmms-flac, and xmms-shell with some custom scripts. I do all my interacting with xmms via the command line. (I've never understood why every SOUND PLAYER in the world had to get mixed up with showing flashy colors to the music or drawing dumb bitmaps on their U/I. Must be a penis

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail RESOLVED)

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 6:21 PM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail RESOLVED) > > - Original Message - > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-Us

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-08 Thread Mike Mueller
On Saturday 08 November 2003 17:49, Edward Murrell wrote: > Click'n'Drool interface I just can't stop chuckling. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread nemesisdivina
Thank you all for the help, very appreciated, have a nice day. Didier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > In regards to the roommates at least, they both use Debian and know > > > enough about it to do some basic functio

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:24:45PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > Anyone remembers OS/2? I think that one important reason why it failed > (among admittedly many others) is that many developers didn't see any > need to write software for it. I've heard/read many times that an OS/2 > versi

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Miernik wrote: > Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with > Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). > > Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between > virtual consoles? > > If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread John Peter
Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread techlists
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:49, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:22, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > > > > >>> > > >> > > >>Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail RESOLVED)

2003-11-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail RESOLVED) > Okay, I found the problem and resolved it. Learning process here! I tried > telne

Re: Spamassassin

2003-11-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Florian Ernst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: Re: Spamassassin >On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0200, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:06:37 -0400 >> Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PR

Re: clamscan avavis spamassassin with exim4 on sarge

2003-11-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Hanasaki JiJi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LIST - Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 5:33 AM Subject: clamscan avavis spamassassin with exim4 on sarge > Anyone have/working on integration of these? > > clam spamc and amavis are inst

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-08 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:02, BruceG wrote: > My experience with the wonderful world of Linux and end users > - or normal people. My sister needed a laptop to help her > start a new business writing grant proposals. I figured I'd > help by buying her a laptop (used,

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:23:36PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I guess it a matter of personal prefs, but I find any fullscreen VT app. > miles ahead of anything on X: as a result I use X for what X is needed > for: graphics and VT for everything that needs no graphics. I've finally discover

Re: [OT] routing failed

2003-11-08 Thread csj
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:46:15 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:51:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 at 01:24:17 +0100, > > David Jardine wrote: [...] > > Since I first got connected just three or four years ago, the > > Net it seems has become a more and more

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all: > > I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to > get packages from unstable. > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debi

Kernel Compiling: Source for my nic isn't included: Was:Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-08 Thread Mark Healey
Preamble: I no working networking or X please don't send suggestions that require those to be working. I'm going to go through Kents 10 step procedure to compiling the linux kernel. I ran into trouble at step 7. I was pretty much taking the default questions I don't understand. Anyway when it

CUPS: How to print letters with accent ?

2003-11-08 Thread Robin Gerard
Hello, After I have read again an again the cup's documentation I can't set the filter stcolor.ppd (for my epson printer) to write the letters with accent. For exemple the string: "CUPS où es-tu ?" comes : "CUPS o es-tu ?" The letter "ù" is not printed. With lprng and magicfilter I use the f

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 15:24:45 +0100 Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > No! > please

a.out libraries?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
This is related to my previous Doom thread. I've got the official Linux Doom executables working now, except for two sticking points: With linuxxdoom, the X version, it brings up a message saying "xdoom currently only supports 256-color PseudoColor screens". I don't really want to adjust my X

User mode linux and screen

2003-11-08 Thread Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada
Hi, I am trying to load multiple uml's while I am within one screen instance. e.g. screen -S uml [return] linux ubd0=Debian-3.0r0.ext2 devfs=nomoun eth0=tuntap,tap0 con=pts \ con1=fd:0,fd:1 ctrl-a c linux ubd0=blahblah devfs=nomount etc. Problem is, I want the screen window that I start

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail RESOLVED)

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
Okay, I found the problem and resolved it. Learning process here! I tried telneting to localhhost port 25. And it refused connections. That pointed me in the right direction! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/exim4$ more update-exim4.conf.conf # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/m

Re: 2 Server in leafnode

2003-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > Hi, > i think about to put a second news server in my leafnode. But I have > two Questions before I do that. Just add it in. > 1: What server is leafnode using, if the group is on both s

Re: LI then hang at boot

2003-11-08 Thread Andrés Roldán
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:38:56PM -0500, BruceG wrote: > [cut] >> > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: >> > > but when I wanted to boot I saw the letters LI, and after that the >> system hangs. >> >> I had the same problem after my upgrade. If you made a boot floppy durin

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-08 Thread Florentin Ionescu
PCMCIA module for LinkSys card on my laptop (2.4.22-ac4 kernel) and modules that can _not_ be un-loaded (like smbfs mount if you disconnect :-) ) made me reboot too - but - my understanding is that in 2.6x kernel you can force to unload kernel modules. Cheers, Florentin. On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Ron

Re: Problems installing Zope/Plone

2003-11-08 Thread jennyw
Still having trouble running zope. Here's what I've done: apt-get install plone (which installs zope) zopectl init default zopectl access default (and answered prompts, including creating a user) zopectl pcgi default cp /usr/lib/zope/Zope.cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin Followed instructions on setting mod

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:20, Miernik wrote: Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between virtual consoles? If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I m

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread wsa
Don't take my word for it, i still consider myself a noob and probably will always do:) But i have been running debian for a long time now, my experience with testing is it sometimes can take a long time for a package to get updated, so if something is broke you can end up being stuck with it fo

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Norris
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Have you looked at pngcrush? > > apt-cache show pngcrush No, but I'll definitely look into it for next time. Thanx! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Norris
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:36:30PM -0600, Alan Shutko wrote: > That looks like it's 8 bits per color, or 24 bpp. What does identify > -verbose say about it? It looks like you're correct. Thanx, I'll remember this if the issue comes up again. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-update check it out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: [OT] routing failed

2003-11-08 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:51:46AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 at 01:24:17 +0100, > David Jardine wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:30:00AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > I'm using exim 3.36. When sending mail to one mailing list (most > > > obviously *not* Debian because you're readi

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:45, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. > It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with > a trojan. > The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: > > chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history > -rw-r--r--1 root root

LI then hang at boot [was Re: Troubles after upgrade to testing/unstable]

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:38:56PM -0500, BruceG wrote: [cut] > > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > > but when I wanted to boot I saw the letters LI, and after that the > system hangs. > > I had the same problem after my upgrade. If you made a boot floppy during > your initial installation, or after up

Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread nemesisdivina
Hello all: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. I'm sorry if this is kinda a dumb question, but I really don't know of any place. That is all, any help will be appreciated, have a nice day everyone, Didier. -- To mess up a Linux b

PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN From Offensive Language On Your TV With ProtecTV...dawn

2003-11-08 Thread Virgie Koch
Protect Your Children With ProtecTV. ProtecTV gives you the power to block the cursing and offensive language coming into your home through television and video. ProtecTV filters out more than 400 offensive words. ProtecTV works with your TV, VCR, Satellite, Cable Box and DVD player. ProtecTV

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "David Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system > so hi, its me the debian noob again, already breaking my oath to n

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (NEW: Fetchmail problem, conf file and error text included)

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -

Re: Troubles after upgrade to testing/unstable

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Troubles after upgrade to testing/unstable > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Today I did an upgrade to testing/unstable, because I n

Sound Card Problem

2003-11-08 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
G'day, I have a motherboard with build in sound card. I've tried to configure the right module which I believe is i8x0. Currently I can use my speaker with GDM, which means that my sound card is working find, but I still not happy with it. I found a few strange things, and I hope somebody can figu

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:22, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > >>> > >> > >>Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > >>everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > > >

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kent West (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: >> I just downloaded linuxxdoom from iD, and I'm having some problems >> with it. Here's what happened: >> >> $ ./linuxxdoom >> ./linuxxdoom: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so' >> [...] >> >> Help? Is WINE really the a

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:20, Miernik wrote: > Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with > Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). > > Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between > virtual consoles? > > If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I mean > res

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold > (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat") - I find out that Yahoo pops me into > the Spam block list. I know this was talke

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:57, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I can't say what exactly your problem is, but Debian comes with several > > prepackaged Doom clones (for example lxdoom, prboom). prboom will also > > allow you to run the game at higher resolutions. > > I'm somewh

Re: What have I, sarge or sid ?

2003-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:09:03AM -0600, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Hi all! I've just installed woody and changed my sources.list to contain > only one entry with a testing link (I did it with netselect- here>). Still on booting I saw a message sayi

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joel Konkle-Parker (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: >> I can't say what exactly your problem is, but Debian comes with >> several prepackaged Doom clones (for example lxdoom, prboom). prboom >> will also allow you to run the game at higher resolutions. > > I'm somewhat

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
huh? am i hearing your right? Stable is very stable...i'm learning to live with it now since last week's mess i had with SID. Stable for my DVR/imap/samba sever, SID/winXP on the desktop beast...so if SID goes bonkers on me i just go back to winXP for a few days and then run an apt update which

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:35, csj wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:52:09 -0600, > Greg Norris wrote: > > > > I thought this might provide some much-needed amusement... My > > wife has put together a picture of SCO's crack legal team, > > which pretty much explains their entire strategy. Feel free to

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:47, John Hasler wrote: > Here's a one-time root script: --snip-- > Create the user 'onetimeuser' with UID 0. Generate a bunch of encrypted > passwords with 'makepasswd --crypt' and put them in the file onetimewords > in onetimeuser's home directory. Print out the unencryp

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > In regards to the roommates at least, they both use Debian and know > > enough about it to do some basic functions from a terminal. As such, I > > could tell them what to do over the ph

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > have one of my roommates do something to th

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Norris wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:34:59PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just out of curiousity, did you originally save it as a 24-bit or 8-bit PNG? IIRC, GIFs are always 8-bit and 8-bit PNGs are comparable in size. I can understand how a 24-bit PNG would be bigger, but I can't see h

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Andreas Janssen wrote: I can't say what exactly your problem is, but Debian comes with several prepackaged Doom clones (for example lxdoom, prboom). prboom will also allow you to run the game at higher resolutions. I'm somewhat wary of 'enhanced' versions of games. Do you know what changed? Is thi

Re: pg database hosed in update - help!

2003-11-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 08 November 2003 00:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:48:28PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Stopping and restarting the postmaster > > /var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.3/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data -p > > 5431 -o -d0 > > /var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.3/postmaster

Re: Upgrade Problem..

2003-11-08 Thread Richard
Kent > Richard wrote: > > " Unpacking replacement Joe... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: > > Permission denied > > Can you manually run /usr/bin/update-menus? Yes, that's fine. > Look at line 3 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/jog.potrm and see if there's > anything odd-

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joel Konkle-Parker (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just downloaded linuxxdoom from iD, and I'm having some problems > with it. Here's what happened: > > -- > $ ./linuxxdoom > ./linuxxdoom: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so' > $ > -- > > Problem is, /lib/ld.so is there. > > -- > $ ll

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Kent West
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just downloaded linuxxdoom from iD, and I'm having some problems with it. Here's what happened: -- $ ./linuxxdoom ./linuxxdoom: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so' $ -- Problem is, /lib/ld.so is there. -- $ ll /lib/ld.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 N

Re: Mysterious process talking on 799=>2049 tcp - what is using the ports?

2003-11-08 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Yes NFS is running.. thoguht NFS was UDP not TCP netstat -natlp shows the process as "-" a process of "-" huh? the pid0 issue loooks like: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217525 Michael Stone wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:25:43AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: Ho

fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Miernik
Switching between X and virtual console is very slow, (with Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc). Is it possible to have it swich as fast as is switching between virtual consoles? If I set exactly the same video mode on my text console and X (I mean resolution, timings, etc to be the same, one text and the other

Re: Problems installing Zope/Plone

2003-11-08 Thread jennyw
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:59:01PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:09:17AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > 'zopectl init default' Thanks! I also had to run "zopectl access default" and "zopectl pcgi default". This gets zope to run. But it doesn't quite work yet, because I

Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just downloaded linuxxdoom from iD, and I'm having some problems with it. Here's what happened: -- $ ./linuxxdoom ./linuxxdoom: can't load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so' $ -- Problem is, /lib/ld.so is there. -- $ ll /lib/ld.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Nov 8 03:01 /lib/ld.so ->

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread wsa
I think as you say all you have to do, or at least that's how i did it a few times is, update your sources list and point to testing aswell, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. Seems a whole lot better than downloading 2 iso's again. Stable is very stable...i'm learning to live with it now sinc

handling "broken packages"

2003-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
I've looked at the APT manual and rummaged about on line, but can't get a clear idea of just to do with "broken" packages. I get the impression that the term "broken" implies some unresolvable dependences, but I'm not sure what to do about it if the depencency is uninstallable. Here's an example.

Re: Mysterious process talking on 799=>2049 tcp - what is using the ports?

2003-11-08 Thread Florian Ernst
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:46:00AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Hmmm are the PID0 bad? below > > ps auxf | head > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 1 0.0 0.3 1460 416 ?SAug31 0:05 init [2] > > root 2 0.0 0.0 0

got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
so hi, its me the debian noob again, already breaking my oath to not bug you folks too much with my issues, but oh well, i'd appreciate some help anyways. they said that the stable debian might be a little outdated and i didnt listen. but they were right! it installed well, it was stable, but

Re: Troubles after upgrade to testing/unstable

2003-11-08 Thread Kent West
Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello all, Today I did an upgrade to testing/unstable, because I needed some new versions of programmes. During the upgrade there was an advice to reboot after completing the upgrade. I did this, but when I wanted to boot I saw the letters LI, and after that the system h

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