Re: allowing root to ftp to localhost

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:38:20 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I allow root to ftp to localhost but not allow it to ftp in > remotly? Depending on your FTP server, there's probably a way to configure what interfaces it listens on and what users are allowed to log into it. Yo

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

scripsit Niels L. Ellegaard: > While I am at it I promise my eternal admiration and love to anyone > who make Galeon work in Sarge again. It is such a nice program :) You need to run gconfd-1 manually first, then it works. I just made a little script: #! /bin/bash gconfd-1 & galeon & and poin

how do I fix xserver remotely?

during an install on my parents pc I chose wrong xserver "fbdev" because I didnt know there video card at the time. since then I found out it was s3 savage. First I was locked out because of root password problem. fixed now with help from this list :-) Their pc is running knoppix live-cd ( so sh

Re: Official Apt sources

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:47:19PM +, Your Name wrote: > I am fairly new to debian and i am trying to find the official apt > soures, i can find a million unoffical sources, but searching with > google and searching debian.org doesnt give it. Th

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:33:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, > > integrit, SYN cookies, iptables, etc. don't really look like the > > products of a "can't happen here"

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, > integrit, SYN cookies, iptables, etc. don't really look like the > products of a "can't happen here" mentality. On the cont

more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines (was Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status)

Update, posteded to debian-devel-announce: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200311/msg00012.html To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28

Invitation to Spring IPSI Conferences in Serbia

Dear Dr. Debian, We are pleased to invite you, as a VIP Forum speaker, to one of the following two Spring 2004 conferences in Serbia, cosponsored by YU IEEE Computer Chapter: a) IPSI-2004k at the mountain Kopaonik (arrival: Thursday April 1, 2004. and departure Sunday April 4, 2004.) Hotel Gran

fonts in Mozilla

In my newly intalled and dist-upgraded Debian system, I get crapy fonts in Mozilla(version 1.5). How do I get the nice anti-aliased fonts? Here are the files which I think decide the fonts: #-- {tmp}> cat /etc

Nyhedsbrevet Erhverv & Fritid (uge 48)

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Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: Hi, First of all a little background: To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to connect using dsl-p

Re: testing gmane: please ignmore

H. S. wrote: just testing if my message shows up here in gmane. It *is* different than posting on other regular news servers. And yes, I do know about test groups and obviously they do not serve the purpose here. ooopss er... just found out about gmane.test(as opposed to alt.test). Apolo

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?/Twists & Guage ?

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 15:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > Why are twists so important and why do the faster technologies need > more twists in the cable? As an electric signal varies along a pair > of wires, a magnetic field around the wires is created and then > collapses. This field w

testing gmane: please ignmore

just testing if my message shows up here in gmane. It *is* different than posting on other regular news servers. And yes, I do know about test groups and obviously they do not serve the purpose here. -- (Remove all underscores,_if any_, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies fo

Re: Invisible fonts in KDE on Sarge

> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ross> I've had similar problems for quite awhile. I find that not all Ross> fonts are invisible, only some (if you get KDE font picker that Ross> lists fonts, some will be blank and some not; if you have a font Ross> picker that displays sam

Re: newbie boot log question

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll > off the screen. just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you maybe want to type 'dmesg | less' :) HTH, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:06:42AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2003 02:46, Akira Kitada wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Monday 24 November 2003 15:19, Akira Kitada wrote: > > > > ?CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y >

Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: > > Oh gosh. I'm just trying to figure out apt and now I'm hearing > about aptitude in this post and a prior post. Is aptitude really > that much better? I tried the Debian site for more information, but > it seems that was also affec

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

Hello, I am having the same problem with apm auto-off shutdown since I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.22. I should have red your signature (Feynman's quote) more carefully... :) By running the echo command, I completly overwrote /etc/modules!!! I had to run update-modules again. And for some reaso

Re: splitting mbox files

On 2003-11-27 22:57:35 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Show me an mbox file with a message line starting with "From". > > Well, you should be right. Normally those would be converted to ">From" With the Content-Length header, this is useless. Norm

login - Caps

Hi All, I am trying to log a bug report, but I am unsure of which package, and whether it has been logged or not. Sorry I am new to this. Anyway, the bug I have found is: When logging (On the first login attempt only) on a ttyX terminal (physically at the machine), if you place the login name in

Re: XDM can't shutdown

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:13:45PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > I'll have a look into wdm but it seems Debian doesn't offer a useful > login app. Other than xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm, huh? They're all useful. Just because there isn't one that exactly fits your specific features doesn't make them any less. E

allowing root to ftp to localhost

How do I allow root to ftp to localhost but not allow it to ftp in remotly? (this is usefull for editting files as root with emacs without running it as root). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:04:39 -0800 (PST), mighty sword wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to all this lists stuff. I have primarily > used newsgroups readers till now. I have just > subscribed to debian-user list from my linuxmail > account, found that inconvenient and unsubscribed, and > again subscribed f

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 22:04 GMT, mighty sword penned: > > And even though I have subscribed to this list, can I instead use > linux.debian.user or gmane.linux.debian.user to read and post > messages? Is it me or is that the newsgroups and newsreaders are much > more convenient and organized to re

Re: ..cc'ing, was: www.debian.org

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:20:20 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 01:01 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:55:52 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:54, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Thu, November 27 at 9:42 AM EST > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? > >> Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm a

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not a bug. Galeon no longer exists in Sarge. Yes, I know, I > liked it too :( [snip] > If you need to convert your Galeon bookmarks file for use with Mozilla > or Mozilla Firebird, please see the post entitled "How to convert > Galeon bookmarks to

Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:37:52PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:30:24 +0100 Tobias Reckhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick Welch wrote: > > > > > You want to just stay with sarge while it's testing and keep it > > > when it becomes stable too? > > > > Exactly. > > > >

how to use this list

Hi, I started using this list yesterday and was getting a large number of emails to my linuxmail.org account. Linuxmail is not as friendly and powerful as Yahoo, or so it seems (since it didn't let me filter email based on To: field, Yahoo allows that), so I unsubscribed from that email and subscr

Re: splitting mbox files

For a screwy format like mbox, use a program designed to deal with the screwy format. Try something like this. mkdir tmp cat bigfatmboxfile | formail -s sh -c 'cat > tmp/$FILENO' Formail is one of those programs that keep getting more versatile as you learn more about them. It's in the pro

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:53:31AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > Hello Tom, > > With all due respect to your friend, if he knew what he was talking > about regarding Unix security, he wouldn't be using Free, he'd be using > Open. His comments about Unix security were about commercial and historic

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

Message de Thanasis Kinias, le vendredi 21 novembre : > It seems that the gconf2 I pulled from testing yesterday broke Galeon. i had the same problem, and "solved" it in purging gconf2, and all the gnome libs i don't use. note : i'm still using galeon 1.2.5, the 'stable' one, while beeing in te

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:08:07AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > > Great to see you back. Was an interesting experience: PC's are nothing > > without Debian... > > Karsten M. Self writes: > > ...and vice-versa > > Not true. Debian runs on lots of non-

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 02:27 GMT, Alvin Oga penned: > > - best way is to disallow all mime attachements.. even windoze > users... but guess the ceo and managers like to pass excel > attachments to each other which they can do locally thru their local > mail server .. The lead on my latest projec

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

Otto Wyss wrote: Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), login.app (can't start my otherwise perfect running X). I won't try GDM (requires too much of gnome), KDM (requires too much of KDM). Does anyone know a simple solution? O. Wyss

Re: [OT] True Spam, was Holiday Gifts

Michael Dominok wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 14:33, Dennis wrote: Please think of Fairbury Steaks for your holiday needs. We have been in business since 1937, most recently marketing our premium quality meats online at www.FairburySteaks.com -- Check us out there, or call toll free at 1-877-31

newbie boot log question

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Re: Cups Problem

Hello Thomas! On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p ep -E result in the message /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2) I am running the t

Adding packages to basedebs.tar

Hi List! I had this crazy notion to add some packages to Debian 3.01r2, because when I create a system from scratch it for one has a terrible console font and for two it doesn't have a decent file manager. So first I discovered upon googling that the way to change the root disk was appended to

Re: building a tivo?

* Andrew Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031127 11:34]: > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:57, Matt Price wrote: > > Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of > > cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one of the big > > tricks is justtuningthe hcannel -- or am I wrong? >

Re: I`cant create boot disk on fd0

Joxny wrote: I try to create floppy boot disk, but something is wrong. I study method in how-to-bootdisk, and I`d like create single bootdisk with lilo. But when start my system it only write: Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kernel. and it`s all. Where is the problem ? (sorry fo

Re: loading iptables when debian server reboots

Hello Reed, T.J. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have just created and entered iptables rules. However, when the > debian server is rebooted, the iptables rules are no longer listed > when I enter the command iptables -L. > > Prior to rebooting the debian server, I issued the command > iptable

Re: what I'm wondering is ...

Monique Y. Herman wrote: Will there be a sudden flood of the messages that weren't processed in the last several days, or are they just lost? Yep! Reply posted yesterday turned up today. But all this is very interesting: I depend very much upon Debian: its mailing lists and its archives... Yesterd

Re: x-window-system-dev for installing X-Window includes?

Hello Andrew Malcolmson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm attempting to compile the GPLed 2.2.0 beta of TheKompany's Rekall > and the configure script halts with a failed check for 'X includes'. > Searching aptitude for likely packages sources for X includes (this > means C header files, right?)

Re: installation to >137GB disk

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:47:54AM +, ziv minot wrote: > I want to do a fresh install of Debian to a 200GB IDE disk (reiserfs, if > it matters). Only 137GB are recognized with my stock 3.0r1 CDs. You need a late kernel *and* a controller that supports LBA48. If you don't have *both*, you're

Re: Help... I think I've shot myself in the foot...

Peter S. Hayes wrote: Thank you! I did read enough to figure out how to reboot (through LILO) into a single-user mode so that X is not started. The keyboard works fine there; it's only after X is started with the logon that the keyboard goes wacky. I haven't figured out how to get networking and

Re: xterm title bars

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title. However, > I would love to add {basename} of the currently active process to the > title... You can't do

Re: XDM can't shutdown

> Otto Wyss wrote: > > >I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > >allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better > >alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? > > > You should be able to install kdm or gdm without installing the >

Re: XDM can't shutdown

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:09:48PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > > allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better > > alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? > > > > > unless you're totall

Re: installing KDE on new beta installer/sarge

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 5:43 pm, Richard Harding wrote: > I am trying to install KDE using the new beta installer and sarge. I > have managed to get the system installed and WindowMaker and IceWM so > far. I am getting unmet dependency errors with KDE

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

Hello Otto Wyss (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. I've tried XDM > (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), login.app (can't start my > otherwise perfect running X). I won't try GDM (requires too much of > gnome), KDM > (requires too much of KDM). Does

Re: No mouse in gpm

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:33:36AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > Mark Healey wrote: > > >On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:01:59 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > > > > > >>Mark Healey wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to > >>> > >>>If so, run "gpmconfig" and specif

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:58:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Can someone recomend so documentation about Xresources & Xdefaults. > > I found some examples floating around but the exact syntax eludes me. > >

Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

Hi all, Intel has a powerful f90 compiler, the only one freely available on the market, as far as I know, which runs under Linux. It is an extremely important tool for those who run numerical simulations for scientific purposes. http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/downloads/forl

Re: splitting mbox files

On 2003-11-27 06:17:00 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Show me an mbox file with a message line starting with "From". I had one here, but it is easy to make one with a line starting with From. If you want, I can forward it... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

after changing IP and ifup --all, SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

I have debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.19. I had to change the configuration of network (I mean I had to change IP, netmask, gateway and so on). I did the following three steps. 1step 'ifdown --all' 2step ' I changed the file /etc/network/interfaces' 3step 'ifup --all' after the 3step i got the following

Re: installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:53:04PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8). > > I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash. > > (/usr/local/share/texmf is probably a

mlterm problem : Unable to start - open_screen_intern() failed

I tried to run mlterm from unstable and got the following message: Unable to start - open_screen_intern() failed What does it mean and how do I solve the problem (or is it a bug). thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: No mouse in gpm

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:01:59PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > Mark Healey wrote: > > >In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to > > > >If so, run "gpmconfig" and specify: > >mouse location: /dev/psaux > >mouse type: ps/2 > >repeat type: raw > > > >For my generic ps2 type mouse. > > > >

Re: I`cant create boot disk on fd0

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:53:03PM +0100, Joxny wrote: > I try to create floppy boot disk, but something is wrong. > I study method in how-to-bootdisk, and I`d like create single bootdisk > with lilo. > But when start my system it only write: > > Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kernel. > >

is it possible to use newsgroups?

Hi, I am new to all this lists stuff. I have primarily used newsgroups readers till now. I have just subscribed to debian-user list from my linuxmail account, found that inconvenient and unsubscribed, and again subscribed from this yahoo account. So from this new email account, how do I reply to

Re: splitting mbox files

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Show me an mbox file with a message line starting with "From". Well, you should be right. Normally those would be converted to ">From" or something like that, but I have experienced more than one case of the MDA not doing so. }:-( Too bad, you can't t

Re: Which package has Perl:XML::Simple?

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:44:55AM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sid and my perl scripts have > > use XML::Simple > > Which package is this in? Try libxml-simple-perl Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Problem with installing libsqlite-dev

Hi. I want to develop an program in c using sqlite. To do this, i need the package libsqlite-dev containing the headerfile and the linking-libraries. I had installed sqlite=2.8.6-1 and as i installed libsqlite-dev, i recognized, that this package claimed exactly the sqlite-version 2.4.7-1. But i s

problem with python in Debian/unstable

>I upgraded my sytesm (Debian/unstable) with dselect and i got the >following output. Is this some problem with distribution and how do I >remove it. >I am not able to install any new program. >:( >Thanking in advance >J S Sahambi > >Need to get 0B/49.1

Re: zsh completion for CVS

On 2003-11-27 10:04:43 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Yes, I know. I still remember the good old days when I had a working CVS > completion in zsh. I am trying to add not-previously-added C-files :( I have no problem here, with zsh 4.0.7-16 (unstable). You can try something like: greux:~> zsh -f

Re: communication structures crumbled

On Nov 25, 2003, at 17:16, Dan Jacobson wrote: With the mailing lists affected, what would average user me do to learn the latest on the situation, irc.debian.org #debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:58:25AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI for people > who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO LEARN about > them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup. > > At any other time, I'd suggest

Re: XDM can't shutdown

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:27:14PM -0500, lee wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:31, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't > > allow for a shutdown. Are there better alternatives to start X without > > installing Gome or KDE (just use XFC

Messup with apt-get dselect and sid

Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from woody. The problem is that im not the only admin and the other one only use apt-get to install and remove packages, I, on the other hand, only use dselect to insta

Re: wps -format?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Hi, > > Got a file in WPS-format, which I'd of course like to open. > I'm not quite sure if it's MS Works -format, or WordPerfect; I'm > assuming it's MS Works. > > Anyway, I've tried digging through the net to find a > converte

Re: [GLUG-tech] HELP...Updating libc6 to newer version on debian woody...

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All.. > > Does anyone know how i can update libc6 to the latest stable release on > debian woody. > > A number of time's i have wanted to install new software and not been able > to because the version of libc6 was to old.. Are you trying to insta

Re: No mouse in gpm

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I've done that and still no cursor. I booted knoppix and it detected > the generic ps2 mouse at /dev/psaux and it worked correctly. > > What do I check next? Knoppix detected the mouse for /dev/psaux, in X, or as gpm? (I don't know

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:57:18 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Thanks for the excellent answers. > > > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. > > >GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally mar

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

> How does one run it properly with Exim? I had it scanning my MailDir > boxes, and Mutt didn't like it doing that. Things will work better if you scan mail before delivering it to the maildir (or mbox). If you can modify the Exim configuration on your mail server, then try the amavis-ng package

Re: why not my box automatically power-off?

On Thursday 27 November 2003 02:46, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Monday 24 November 2003 15:19, Akira Kitada wrote: > > > ?CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y > > > > I found that this didn't do me any good... Perhaps that could be >

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

Hello H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues > unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use > "pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user > able to connect using dsl-provide? At prese

Re: No sound in web pages with flash animations

Hello Danilo Raineri (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Riccardo Gusso wrote: > >> I can listen mp3 and music in .avi files with xmms and mplayer for >> example, without problems. > > Are you using arts? I have to terminate it, to hear sounds with the > flash plugin. Did you try to tell Mozilla to

Re: building a tivo?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:34:16PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:21:04PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > > Last time I looked into Tivo it somehow downloaded a list of available > > programs from the satellite/cable feed and kind of "grep-ed" on that for > > things you were interested i

Re: xterm title bars

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:25:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list > > archives properly; sorry if this has been discussed ad naus

Re: Invisible fonts in KDE on Sarge

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:56:25AM -0500, Rich B wrote: > Howdy, > > After losing KDE in Sarge, I followed the advice on this list and > installed libsensors manually. Then I reinstalled the rest of KDE. > > Everything seemed to install well, but my KDE fonts are now invisible! > > Text in Kons

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Isn't there a usable X login/starter in Debian. They're all usable. I've tried XDM (doesn't allow shutdown, looks awfull), Awful is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I find the simplicity of xdm t

Re: [GLUG-tech] Windows app interfacing with linux box..

You should have a look at web-cyradm (http://www.delouw.ch/linux/web-cyradm) I think it already does most of what you're describing. Cheers, Graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I'm developing a windows managment interface for my email server, I'm using dephi so that at a later date I port to

Re: after changing IP and ifup --all, SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:14:03AM -0800, Andrew Kasza wrote: > I have debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.19. I had to change the > configuration of network > (I mean I had to change IP, netmask, gateway and so > on). > > I did the following three steps. > 1step 'ifdown --all' > 2step > ' I changed the file

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: > Hi, > > First of all a little background: > To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors). This is a kno

Re: HELP...Updating libc6 to newer version on debian woody...

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:34:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All.. > > Does anyone know how i can update libc6 to the latest stable release on > debian woody. Don't even _think_ about it. libc6 is the kingpin of all the dependencies on your system. _Huge_ numbers of programs are compil

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

H S writes: > I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use "pon > dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user able to > connect using dsl-provide? At present, only root can do that. Add the user to the 'dip' group. You can do this in pppconfig. > Next, for some rea

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:28, H S wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:34, H S wrote: > > --snip-- > > > Next, for some reason, "eject" command is also root only? How do I > > > make normal user also be able to use that as well? > > > > The easiest way is to make the eject binary SUID root. (man chm

Re: Learning debian Linux

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 at 04:50 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:33:04 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Have you ever seen the Fox tv series 24? >> > No. The only time I watch T.V. is when the All Blacks are playing. > Regards, > > David. > Well, pe

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:06:01 -0800: > How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? > Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? Yep. And I haven't even bee r00ted yet :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Behin

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:06:01 -0800: > How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? > Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? Yeah, and my box is not rooted yet :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Bus error

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 19:50 GMT, Brian Nelson penned: > --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:00:35 -0800,=20 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote in message=20 >>> > There should be an official announcem

Re: mailfilter: installing under Debian

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:39:16AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > tags 217452 + wontfix > thanks > > "Ross Boylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Judging by my own experience and posts on debian-user, it is not > > obvious how to set up mailfilter properly on Debian. It would be good > > to doc

CVS commit problem

Hi, I am having trouble connecting to a cvs repository since I upgraded my libc and mutt to testing. I am running on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0rc1 stable. The error message which cvs gave are: ssh: connect to address 199.232.41.2 port 22: Connection timed out cvs [update aborted]: end of file from se

Re: Anti-Virus Scanner recommendations please

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:09:11PM -0800 or thereabouts, Darik Horn wrote: Hi Darik, > ClamAV is the best virus scanner that is free software. On a > Debian/woody computer, you should use a backport of a recent version > like this: How does one run it properly with Exim? I had it scanning my

Re: Poll: who's apt-get upgraded sid this week?

The same to me Vlada On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:56, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Tom wrote: > > How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"? > > Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again? > > > > > > I have tried a few times, but no new or upgraded packages have sho

Cups Problem

My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p ep -E result in the message /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2) I am running the testing distribution and apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade show it is complete

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