Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:38:55PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS > security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with > reinstalling Windows, yet again. I couldn't

Re: groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 23:53 schrieb David Morse: > I've never really understood it. When I add a user I want them to be > able to USE the blorking computer, not some crippled subset of the > computer dreamed up by someone who is thinking about Multics. I don't > want to remember that I hav

Re: Re: Newbie problem finding module

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Schwartz
Sorry the old stuff didn't get quoted. I've not used mozilla for this previously. My operating system is Linux 2.4.17 i686 [ELF] It came off of CD#1 of the Woody set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mimail-L

2003-12-08 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:30:10 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:24:09PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > I have just received a copy of the new variant of the Mimail worm. > > Would anyone like a free sample? > > As new condition. > > I haven't even clicked th

Write Caching for External USB Disk

2003-12-08 Thread Damien Solley
Hello again, Debian-users! I've got a disk related problem. Background: I have an external USB-IDE enclosure that holds a seagate IDE drive (60GB). The drive is recognised by hotplug and uses the usb-storage module for SCSI emulation. It's visible as /dev/sda and partitions are ext3 and mounted

Re: IntelliMouse Explorer (USB Compatible)

2003-12-08 Thread Sebastian Zehetbauer
> I decided trying to get help on this list after having read many articles I > found with google and having tried a lot of different entries in the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/gpm.conf files - none of which worked. > > My computer is a PowerBook G3 ("pismo"). > I run 'woody' (2.4.18-newpmac)

Re: mousepad kernel 2.6.0-test9

2003-12-08 Thread Peter Spuhler
On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:16 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:21:08AM -0800, panda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed the 2.6.0-test9-1-i386 kernel on my laptop > > HP ZE 5170 > > Pentium 4 > > 512 MB ram > > 15 inch screen > > ATI Radeon mobility graphics card 32 MB > > Tri

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xscreensaver-gl issue, gl only works once per session

2003-12-08 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
I seem to have found an interesting issue with xscreensaver and my NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440. I'm currently running xscreensaver 4.14-4, and everytime I launch a GL screensaver (i.e. Bouncing Cow) it will launch once. After I kill the screensaver, and try to restart it (either by locking the scr

Which JRE?

2003-12-08 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I've always run the JRE from Blackdown.org. On my spiffy new unstable machine where I'm giving gnome 2 a shot, which JRE do you recommend? Blackdown's always worked, but seemed kinda ugly . . . . madmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 at 03:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: >> > it's not just the grammar. there are two meaninngs for 'seite': page > and side. the situation is also confused by the fact that 'links' > means left, but is also used, in german, to refer to hypertext links; > as is 'seite', meaning

Re: Install ALSA on new Unstable install for GNOME 2?

2003-12-08 Thread Doug MacFarlane
I took a new tack, and tried an alsa installation. I'm running the stock 2.4.22 kitchen-sink kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686, and in downloaded alsa-base, alsa-utils-0.5, and alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-686. The debconf appeared to go fine (I picked the Intel 8x0 audio), and lspci and lsmod report: lspci:

Re: Urgent apt-problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:05:17AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Guilherme Viebig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 07:12 > Subject: Urgent apt-problem > > > > I?m trying to remove, install,

Re: Attempt to access beyond end of device/Raid linear and 1

2003-12-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:39:41 -0600, Larry W.Irwin Sr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306 > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 474.979 MHz processor. > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 946.99 BogoMIPS ..an

Re: debian-installer beta: booting from grub?

2003-12-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:01:45 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > lloyd wrote: > > i installed from the debian-installer beta to a spare partition on > > my grub-based system. i installed lilo on this parition as well. > > > > in grub.conf i added the fol

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread H. S.
Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:36:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote Debian seems to require a lot of this, i.e. making user a member of cdrom, floppy, and audio (what else?). This raises a question for me, namely is there a group-management tool somewhere. I've read the Exactly

Re: Abailability of the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse client as a .db?

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:10:27AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm setting up spamassaian, and I'd like to use the Distributed Checksum > Clearinghouse from http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/. I can't seem to > find this as a Debian package. Am I missing

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread stan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:24:54AM +, W. Citoan wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:12:05 -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm setting up Spamassain, and I can't seem to find out how to create > > a whitelist for it. > > > > I will be retrieving my mail using fetchmail, then pasing it to > > procmail, wh

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-08 Thread H. S.
Colin Watson wrote: I wish you all the luck in the world during installation :) Once you have it installed, it is not that bad, actually it is pretty nice. BTW, if only Debian had a better installer, a HUGE bunch of Redhat users would now be using Debian. There are always "if only"s, unfortu

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Johann Koenig
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7claws30 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday December 8 at 09:02pm Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [SNIP] > > Goodbye XP. Box i

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:44:04PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: > > For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: > > > > mailhardnproc 30 > > > > ...to avoid runaway conditions

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread W. Citoan
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:12:05 -0500, stan wrote: > I'm setting up Spamassain, and I can't seem to find out how to create > a whitelist for it. > > I will be retrieving my mail using fetchmail, then pasing it to > procmail, which will call somassain. If it matters my MUA of choice > is mutt. Si

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:36:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > Yes, this is the correct fix. > > The reason not to make a normal user a member of the disk group is that > this generally gives read *and* write access to the raw disk device > itself. This is a really good way to utterly destroy

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:37:04PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:18:55PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > What the fuck are you ranting about? > > > > I'm not taking the bait anymore. But you still missed his point about quoting proper

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:07:20AM -0800, Tom wrote: > I could pay $35 to 1-800-US-SEARCH and really fuck up your day! IANAL, but watch it. You're crossing into threats and harassment territory with that one. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PR

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:35:40AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:25:33PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Peace. > > What the fuck are you ranting about? Why not search the archives and find out? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMA

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:36:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:06:11AM -0500, H. S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Then, (thanks to: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-200012/msg04202.html > > where it is suggested *NEVER* to make a normal user

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: > For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: > > mailhardnproc 30 > > ...to avoid runaway conditions when large mail loads hit. Mail > processing will be limited to a max of 30 processes (gener

Re: arp slowness

2003-12-08 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:34:12AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > I am trying to run 'nmap -sP xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24' and then 'arp -a' on two pcs > on two different networks. > > On one woody box nmap runs as quick as I would expect... > Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (83 hosts up) scanne

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 13:33]: > I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on debian 3.0, and the default coding system > is utf-16. That is, when I save any file in emacs having an accented > character, it doubles in size and is a 16-bit file. I just did some experimenting; hope this helps. I

Re: Re: printer icon

2003-12-08 Thread JackTrmb
where is the printer icon?

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread stan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:57:12PM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:04:04PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Teo, I gad read that. What I don't understand is how to use that when the > > mail messages in question are alreay stored in a mail folder. Or how to > > just manually add (for

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-08 Thread ben_foley
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:35:31PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:11:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:49:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson insinuated: > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I do about 50% comprehens

Re: fingerprints Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alvin Oga wrote: [SNIP] you can also use a [warm blooded] fingerprint scanner ... since "smartcards can be lost" .. - but if you lose your finger or you lose your fingerprint on a glass with fingerprint stealing glue, you're in deep kaka

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-08 Thread Haines Brown
> Em Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:31:17 -0500, Haines Brown escreveu: > > > the default coding system is utf-16. That is, when I save any file > > in emacs having an accented character, it doubles in size and is a > > 16-bit file. > > This is not the default, but Emacs' suggestion based on the buffer > co

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [SNIP] Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Hugo. Congrats. And yes, 7 flavours of Debian on one machine is overkill :-) -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-testX show stoppers

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: There is an option called IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE which describes the problem that you are having (well except that it describes status=0x51; but hey, it somethings just work). I found it while inspecting the config for the kernel when I installed it on a test box. Hmm,

fingerprints Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > What you'd actually want is hardware that stores the keys and does the > signing and decryption for you, but refuses to expose the private key > material itself to the host. Then, while a cracker could sniff your > passphrase, the key itself would still

Re: Newbie! Some help needed.

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
David Baron wrote: I installed from a Knoppix CD image. Rather painless and it found most of the hardware as well. Now to get the thing productive :-) [SNIP] (I am keeping the Windows 98 because I am stuck with it for my sound production. Everything else, I would like to go over to Linux. Sick of W

whatever happened to razor discovery server?

2003-12-08 Thread John Covici
Hi. I have not been able to report to a razor server for some weeks now -- it always just says connecting to razor discovery server 216.52.3.2 and then times out and doesn't send the report to anyone. Is there another discovery server or what can I do from here? Thanks. -- John Covici

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-08 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:04:41PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:15:51AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > apt-file: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:39:38PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > > Most common reply to this kind of comments is that you can always buy > > similar support for Debian, but www.debian.org/consultants doesn't list > >

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:08:54PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > After reading a few more responses, I realize that of course a debian > > developer's machine could get compromised. I guess I just thought the

Re: woody backport of mozilla-xft?

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I see signs of this while googling, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20030517173012%2446a1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6 but in backports.org I don't find it. Is there a woody backport of mozilla-xft? Thanks! Hugo. So following my own lead ;-)

Re: how to interpret /proc/asound

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
michelle wrote: I figured it out. That's just showing me oss emulation. So what did you do? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ?? > > > It's "cracker". Not "hacker". > http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/Jargon30/JARGON_C/CRACKER.H

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ > > acceptable. Period. Nor does it meet Debian policy. > > The latter isn

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-08 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:31:17 -0500, Haines Brown escreveu: > the default coding system is > utf-16. That is, when I save any file in emacs having an accented > character, it doubles in size and is a 16-bit file. This is not the default, but Emacs' suggestion based on the buffer contents.

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:47:39AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:19:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:05AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm setting up Spamassain, and I can't seem to find out how to create a >

Re: Movies in console

2003-12-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:29:12PM +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote: | Hi, | | * Ralph Bacolod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 13:19]: | > Hi! Is it possible to watch a movie in the console . Do i need the | > framebuffer for this? | | To play videos with out going to X (with mplayer) you'll need to us

Re: cannot uninstall nedit

2003-12-08 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Harshwardhan Nagaonkar said, : Hey everyone, I am having the same problems as the bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213325 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214808 I couldn't find the link for nedit in the "editor" alternative when I trie

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:52:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I am new to Debian, and during installation it asks if you want to use > two package installers, I used the first one and not the second one. The > second one, I think it is dpkg, is way too tedious for a first timer. That's dselect; d

Debian-Chat-iest users of all

2003-12-08 Thread lee
Hi Folks, I'm on several disto mailing lists, and I must add, debain users communicate more with each other than any other I've ever seen, by far !! It's real cool, don't get me wrong, I really like this distro(woody) alot...don't use it for business yet, but it'll happen eventually.. Upgraded

only root can use cd player?

2003-12-08 Thread michelle
I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of audio can use cd player apps (playing cds from alsaplay

Re: Newbie kernel-source package question

2003-12-08 Thread Nathan Barham
Andreas Janssen wrote: Obviously -14 is newer than -12, so it does contain the fix (you could probably look it up in the package changelog to be on the safe side). Well it -seemed- obvious, but I'm still in the figuring-Debian-out mode, and wanted to be sure. kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf (2.4.18

Re: how to interpret /proc/asound

2003-12-08 Thread michelle
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cannot uninstall nedit

2003-12-08 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Hey everyone, I am having the same problems as the bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213325 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214808 Which means that I am uninstall nedit. When I try to using dpkg or apt-get (I even tried "synaptic"!); I get the following erro

woody backport of mozilla-xft?

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I see signs of this while googling, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20030517173012%2446a1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6 but in backports.org I don't find it. Is there a woody backport of mozilla-xft? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:17:32AM -0700, Dave wrote: > That is my assumption. The only thing that would give me confidence > that there are no holes would be a common process for connecting raw > input to privileged routines -- a process which is so simple that > everyone can see it is robust. S

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:42:39PM -0800, H. S. wrote: > This must be great then. I will try as soon it is released in Sarge. Please try it *before* it's released, if you can, so that you can help the debian-installer developers make sure that it's good enough for your needs. -- Colin Watson

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:29:51PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > My server runs Debian stable, while my workstation runs Debian testing. > Since the server is a slower machine, I would like to create the kernel > package on my workstation and install the deb package on my server. > Is this poss

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Juha Ylitalo wrote: > Most common reply to this kind of comments is that you can always buy > similar support for Debian, but www.debian.org/consultants doesn't list > any big companies like IBM, etc. that could guarantee global support. > Even www.progeny.

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:11:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:49:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson insinuated: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I do about 50% comprehension of written German when I try reading it. > > > That looked _vaguel

Re: Newbie kernel-source package question

2003-12-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Nathan Barham (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm new to Debian and running woody on i386. I want to find the > 2.4.18-12 source package containing the fix for the problem noted in > Debian's security announcment DSA-403-1 (that got the Debian site > compromised). The announcement says ...

Re: Moving programs into KDE menu

2003-12-08 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Tim Gunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Hoyt Bailey'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 06:27 Subject: RE: Moving programs into KDE menu > (not sure what version of KDE you're running but I think its the sam

Re: Mimail-L

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:24:09PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > I have just received a copy of the new variant of the Mimail worm. > Would anyone like a free sample? > As new condition. > I haven't even clicked the attachment. > Going cheap. > Information on the Sophos website concerning the follo

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:46:21PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:52:30PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > I'm considering keeping my private keys (ssh, gpg, etc) on removable > > storage, maybe one of those USB keys (then my keys could actually go on > > my keyring...). It's c

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:22, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2003 21:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:12, s. keeling wrote: > > [...] > > eternal power and deity; demonstrated, > > among other things, by the immense and beautiful complexity of living > > systems.

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:08:54PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > After reading a few more responses, I realize that of course a debian > developer's machine could get compromised. I guess I just thought they > were infallible *grin* > > Now, the real question is, what exploit was used to get

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
17 completel.155M.DOR002.versatel.de (62.214.64.122) 166 ms 165 ms 166 ms 18 fe4-0-0-20.bbr2.ess.completel.de (195.167.210.18) 264 ms 293 ms 231 ms 19 POS9-1-0.bbr1.ber.completel.de (195.167.211.13) 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms 20 ge4-0-0-10.bbr2.ber.completel.de (195.167.209.130) 204 ms 177 m

Re: How to shutdown openbsd ssh server and samba server

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:32:16PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > To openbsd ssh package is called ssh, however it contains the server and > the client (at least on woody, I don't know if this has changed). It has not (yet). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with reinstalling Windows, yet agai

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:15:51AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > apt-file: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it is not going to be installed > > E: Broken packages > > I find that m

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:24:14 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2003 21:34, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> paul >> >> "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." >> (Golda Meir) > > What is really interesting is who did she say that to? Apparently, quite a few pe

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ > acceptable. Period. Nor does it meet Debian policy. The latter isn't an argument, I'd note, more an observation of fact. The rest of the world doesn't have to

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:52AM -0800, Hereon wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. It's come up before, and it still sounds like a thoroughly dreadful ide

groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-08 Thread David Morse
Alexander Fitterling wrote: PS this Debian concept with separate group permissions is very efficient and I think gives more transparency as you would install programms as suid bit and must run as root. Also chmod 666 to devices as done by different distritbutions seems wired to me. I've never re

Re: Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:56:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:06:25AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I've now received the acknowledgement. > > In my case, the bugs didn't show up when I looked for bug reports on > the package. Oh, yes, the package indexes were bust

Re: Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:56:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:06:25AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2003-12-04 06:03:33 +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Yes, at least partially. But I have the same problem as you: I didn't > > > receive the acknowledgments, tho

arp slowness

2003-12-08 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I am trying to run 'nmap -sP xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24' and then 'arp -a' on two pcs on two different networks. On one woody box nmap runs as quick as I would expect... Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (83 hosts up) scanned in 8 seconds On another woody box on a different network it takes much mu

Re: SOLVED

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andreas Schwarz wrote: Andreas Schwarz wrote: Hello, I'm using Apache from Debian Woody on my server. Now I noticed that Apache is eating up more and more memory, so that I have to restart it every few days. I found the reason: libapache-mod-ruby

Re: IntelliMouse Explorer (USB Compatible)

2003-12-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/12/03 22:27), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided trying to get help on this list after having read many articles I > found with google and having tried a lot of different entries in the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/gpm.conf files - none of which worked. > > My computer is a PowerBook

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:32:27 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Paul Morgan writes: >> You are incorrect. But perfectly entitled to your beliefs. > > No belief is involved. You are perfectly entitled to believe that :> -- paul "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." (Golda

Newbie kernel-source package question

2003-12-08 Thread Nathan Barham
Hello list, I'm new to Debian and running woody on i386. I want to find the 2.4.18-12 source package containing the fix for the problem noted in Debian's security announcment DSA-403-1 (that got the Debian site compromised). The announcement says ... -snip- For Debian it has been fixed in v

IntelliMouse Explorer (USB Compatible)

2003-12-08 Thread sz-pr
Hi, I decided trying to get help on this list after having read many articles I found with google and having tried a lot of different entries in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/gpm.conf files - none of which worked. My computer is a PowerBook G3 ("pismo"). I run 'woody' (2.4.18-newpmac). The

*plonk*

2003-12-08 Thread Tom
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:23:36PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > I will admit that I have pretty much given up on any expectation that > you have anything useful to add to this forum I'm totally okay with that. Leave me alone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Schouten
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:04:04PM -0500, stan wrote: > Teo, I gad read that. What I don't understand is how to use that when the > mail messages in question are alreay stored in a mail folder. Or how to > just manually add (for instance) friends that I don't happen to have a > sample email laying

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Monday 08 December 2003 21.35, Mike Dresser wrote: > Anyone know what is going on with www.backports.org? I was desperately trying to access it for a few days and then I found http://www.nl.backports.org/ which seems to work. I don't know if there are more mirrors out there but if it helps so

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > Very fast from here (T-Online, Germany). Hmm. Wonder if this is leftovers from the cable that was broken last month? It's weird, because the two hosts that could get through were over here in North America. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Andreas Schwarz
Nate Duehr wrote: > Mike Dresser wrote: >> Anyone know what is going on with www.backports.org? >> >> I can get at it from a few rare hosts, but from most of the hosts I've >> tried it simply times out. Traceroute reveals it dies in the >> eurorings.net, and from another host i-p-x.de >> >> I ha

Re: SOLVED

2003-12-08 Thread Andreas Schwarz
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andreas Schwarz wrote: >> Andreas Schwarz wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I'm using Apache from Debian Woody on my server. Now I noticed that >>>Apache is eating up more and more memory, so that I have to restart it >>>every few days. >> >> >> I found the reason: libapache-mo

locales and coding systems

2003-12-08 Thread Haines Brown
I'm floundering and need a little guidance. I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on debian 3.0, and the default coding system is utf-16. That is, when I save any file in emacs having an accented character, it doubles in size and is a 16-bit file. The problem with this is that none of my other apps can cope w

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Paul Morgan writes: > You are incorrect. But perfectly entitled to your beliefs. No belief is involved. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 08 December 2003 21:34, Paul Morgan wrote: > paul > > "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." > (Golda Meir) What is really interesting is who did she say that to? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 08 December 2003 21:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:12, s. keeling wrote: [...] > eternal power and deity; demonstrated, > among other things, by the immense and beautiful complexity of living > systems. Paul cited DNA. On a "higher" level, photosynthesis and > blo

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:37:04PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 02:18:55PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > What the fuck are you ranting about? Um, no. I did not write this. LEARN. TO. QUOTE. Are you making a deliberate attempt to mis-attribute your inane blather to me, or are you j

Setup of pam_ldap/nss_ldap

2003-12-08 Thread Craig Jackson
Friends, On Sid I am trying to setup pam_ldap and nss_ldap on server A to authenticate to an openldap server B. Here's what's installed: ii ldap-utils 2.1.23-1 OpenLDAP utilities ii libldap2 2.1.23-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libnss-ldap211-4 NSS module for using

Re: [OT] voting

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:12:09 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Paul Morgan: >> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:10:35 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> >> > Paul Morgan writes: >> >> Having said that, when I see a watch, it convinces me of the existence of >> >> the watchmaker >> > >> > And when you vie

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of > Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with reinstalling Windows, yet again. I couldn't stom

Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

2003-12-08 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: When I boot the client pc ("bi-12x"), it gets the IP address 150.252.217.49 from my dhcpd/tftp server, as indicated by the BIOS's PXE messages. But then, instead of finding the pxelinux.0 file on my dhcpd/tftp server, it find

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