Re: Problem getting sound to work

2004-02-07 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:18:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:21:09 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> >>>Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have no sound. When I boot knoppix it uses via82cxxx_audio and works. I have that >>

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Henrik Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A final comment: > > The install procedure is not half as hard as everyone > > said! Refreshing actually! > > Glad you found it that way. > > Personally, my

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Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0100, David Baron wrote: Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro based on Debian and KDE. Ok, now... we've got a stupid who couldn't figure out how to read well enough to run the Debian installer. You thus pr

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
"Henrik Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A final comment: > The install procedure is not half as hard as everyone > said! Refreshing actually! Glad you found it that way. Personally, my experience has been less than good. (I'm still experimenting, and am by no means ready to give up y

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Roger Chrisman
Kent West wrote: > "lshw" is what you're looking for. It's in unstable; I'm not sure about > stable and/or testing. lshw Outstanding, 'lshw' discovers detects displays and tells me my hardware very nicely indeed. I am using Testing (Sarge). HowTo: su apt-get update apt

Re: can't get php in woody to work

2004-02-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:46:31 -0500 Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I went to the same machine where the server is and php was > working fine. However, when loging from another machine it doesn't > work, even worse, can read only the default index. Any other page is > refused b

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 18:43:10 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:16:32PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > > I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an > >

Re: recompiling kernel: sound

2004-02-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-07, Peter Samuelson penned: > > --Fig2xvG2VGoz8o/s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > > [Monique Y. Herman] >> luigi:~# lspci | grep audio 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: >> Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) > > That

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Kent West
Roger Chrisman wrote: Hi, What command tells me most about my hardware? I have tried these: # discover (couldn't figure out how to get it to tell my anything) # hw-detect (couldn't find this packaged) # hwdetect (couldn't find this packaged either) # lspci # uname -a

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-07 Thread Katipo
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 02:54:53 + Steve Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete > novice) that will guide me through the basics of Linux (and more > specifically, debian) that I can get without trawling the web and > spending severa

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:16:32PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an X server without an OS? Basically you have the 486 boot off the network; newer BIOSes can do this, but a 486 will either require a boot prom in the network card

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya fun stuff On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: > > > > Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can > zorch his data. yupperz... its fairly easy to lose your disk if you play with the wrong options

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > Hi folks > > OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years (IBM > mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are called, now), WinNT networks etc. > and an Amiga developer (not using C) - but this damn Linux busi

Evolution: Strange things happen

2004-02-07 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, I woke up this morning and I found my debian log-out from its GDM and back to the log-in screen. I usually leave my Debian online 24 hours and I am pretty sure it's still log-in before I go to sleep last night. I use Evolution, and I found out that the folder I set for Debian mailing li

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: > > > > Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can > zorch his data. > > Let's not find out what modes his drives actually support, and let's make >

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can zorch his data. Let's not find out what modes his drives actually support, and let's make sure that the kernel can't reset it if it's wrong. Let's unmask interrupts, w

Re: USB surround sound - what's my chances?

2004-02-07 Thread Edward Murrell
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 02:49, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > > There's a logic3 5.1 surround sound USB sound card going on eBay, > > which looks like exactly what I was after: > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785283904&category=3701&sspagename=STR

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Roger Chrisman wrote: > Thanks for the tips. Here's what I have so far: more stuff dmesg read-edid DMIDecode lshw > > # lspci > > # uname -a > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > - gives you info about your cpu > > # cat /proc/meminfo > - gives you info about your memo

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-07 Thread Debian User
I'm sure someone will want to flame me for such a bold statement... Of all of the books I've ever bought on linux, the Linux Administration Handbook Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R Hein is the only one that was worth the paper it was written on. Everything else was about 1/4 to 1/3 on installa

Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!

2004-02-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:10:07 +0100, Andy Firman wrote: > RSS feeds come right into your email. Which is exactly what I don't want ... > ps. Evolution has a pretty cool RSS headline feature > that displays on the summary section. Enjoyed it as long as I used Evo. Btw.: found and installed st

recommended reading?

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Hargreaves
Hi folks OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years (IBM mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are called, now), WinNT networks etc. and an Amiga developer (not using C) - but this damn Linux business is driving me nuts. First time I've used an OS that you (literally) ha

Re: Antivirus software for gnu/linux

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:53:52PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > I am not running exim4. I would like to stop incoming (as well) so > need a pop3 block. Filters in Kmail trap the Debian-user-digest as > well :-) fetchmail is your friend. - -- .''`.

Re: nvidia driver compiling problem

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Hargreaves
On Saturday 07 February 2004 5:35 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I have installed the 2.4.24 kernel for i386 from www.backports.org (I > > failed miserably trying to compile my own kernel), and since the > > nvidia kernel module needs the kernel sources to compile, I downloaded > > and installed t

Re: can't get php in woody to work

2004-02-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:40:04AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:24:33 -0500 > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, I googled and found > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg03434.html > > Sure enough, those lines were commented, un

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please do not hijack threads. Post a new thread instead of replying to another one to start a new topic. On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Why is the standard webserver Apache 1.3 > and not 2.0? I thought it was stab

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:16:32PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > I have always wanted to do this. How do you have the 486s run an > X server without an OS? Heh, you don't. > Or do they get a base Debian install? Get a base Debian install, fetch a di

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Roger Chrisman
Thanks for the tips. Here's what I have so far: # lspci # uname -a # cat /proc/cpuinfo - gives you info about your cpu # cat /proc/meminfo - gives you info about your memory # x86info - a package that gives you the same as 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' but in some more detail # cpuid - another packag

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 03:35:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail > client. That's a deficiency in mutt. Why does an MUA need to be an MDA? Why waste the added resources sorting

Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:20:22 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:20, Jens Rantil wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:11:20 + > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't believe there are a

dhcpd trouble

2004-02-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I just installed 'testing' on my new VIA based machine using 2.6 (uname -a --> Linux server 2.6.0-1-386 #2 Sun Jan 11 16:54:21 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux). Since this is supposed to be the firewall for my home network I'm trying to get dhcpd to run - which I have sucessfully done in the past -

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:47:17AM +, Svens wrote: > Svens wrote: > > > hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: > > > > open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: > > > > if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > # insert begin > >hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k

EXTRAVERSION problem with nvidia kernel module

2004-02-07 Thread Olle Eriksson
I am using Sid and I just compiled and installed the 2.6.0 kernel from the source package. I am using the Debian way and added --append_to_version -040207 to the call to make-kpkg. The problem is when I am trying to install the nvidia binary kernel module (ver 5336). I compiled modules_image while

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:11:01 +0100 "Henrik Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, do you know the time frame for stable release of 2.0? > I can settle for 1.3 but i really like the new features in 2.0. > > Henrik As you said before, I believe 2.0 is now a stable release. It just wasn't at t

Re: US Robotics Modem drivers ?

2004-02-07 Thread Edward Murrell
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 01:02, Marc Hultquist wrote: > Hey All > > I just got hold of a us robotics 56k message modem and am busy trying to > install it under linux however, I hit > a huge snag, I cant find a driver for it, and I dont have a origional cd > from it :\ I tried probing for it but as of

Re: Plustek 9636P and SANE on Debian Unstable?

2004-02-07 Thread Fiodar Bandarenka
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:35:33PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > If anyone knows anything about this, please reply :) Thanks alot. Look at sane.alioth.debian.org -- Be happy! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ifupdown configuration

2004-02-07 Thread Paladin
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:36:06 -0500 Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should probably report this as a bug at bugs.debian.org > (probably as a wishlist item), if you really want to see this > behavior changed in a future release. Many thanks Adam, I'll do that now! =) -- Paladin --

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Svens
Svens wrote: > hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: > > open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: > > if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then > # insert begin >hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k1 -u -X68 /dev/hda > # insert end >true > fi > > Parameters are: > -

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Roger Chrisman wrote: Hi, What command tells me most about my hardware? Try cpuid (that is the name of both the debian package and the command). -Roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: where are drmlib and radeon_dri?

2004-02-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom Vier wrote: i'm trying to get this radeon card to work. it loads the kernel modules (from 2.4.24) just fine. the screen comes up with a gradiant background and a functioning cursor. my window manager never starts, though. here's what i get from startx: XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-12.1

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Chrisman wrote: > What command would you use to display details about your hardware - cpu, ram, > drives, etc? cat -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

dist-upgrade needs computation via another machine

2004-02-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
#Makefile #We can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem, #we must go to town to a pal's Debian machine and burn the #files onto a CDROM to take back and install. #Apt-zip like idea, without ignoring newer packages that #appeared while our list is in transport. #On one's poorly connected m

apt.debian.org server to compute dist-upgrade needs

2004-02-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
[Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it. Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip, but that creates a list that gets stale in the few days it takes us to get to town..

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I like those last two. They tell me a fair amount. However, I had a > package installed once that even told me I had a Coppermine CPU but > I cannot remember what the package was nor the command now. > cat /proc/cpuinfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 07 February 2004 6:05 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I think there is a place for Knoppix in introducing newbies to Debian. > You suggest to them that they pop the Knoppix CD into the CD drive, and > try to boot from it. Tell them that if Knoppix boots from the CD they > really should be ab

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

2004-02-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:02:00PM +0100, bruno doutriaux wrote: > i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host. > could somebody help me. > (i have some hints: the debian host is using gaim 0.75 which has security > fails and i would like to also listen it with a trojan, is it pos

where are drmlib and radeon_dri?

2004-02-07 Thread Tom Vier
i'm trying to get this radeon card to work. it loads the kernel modules (from 2.4.24) just fine. the screen comes up with a gradiant background and a functioning cursor. my window manager never starts, though. here's what i get from startx: XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-12.1 20031003005825

Re: Unexpected signal: 11

2004-02-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:15:30PM -0600, daybrown wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:58:42PM -0800, Barameswari Thoreraj said > > > > > >>hi, > >> > >>I am running debian 2.2.19. I had been receiving the message below in my > >>logs and sendmail has not been able to send or

What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-07 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, What command tells me most about my hardware? I have tried these: # discover (couldn't figure out how to get it to tell my anything) # hw-detect (couldn't find this packaged) # hwdetect (couldn't find this packaged either) # lspci # uname -a I lik

Re: Re:Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:28:03 +0100, David Baron wrote: [snip] > > Knoppix is a quick jumpstart into Linux for Novices, yes. One can also > purchase Lindows or Xandro for similar results. After HD installation, > this mailing list becomes the best source of advice. Knoppsters on their > mailing li

HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Svens
hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then # insert begin hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k1 -u -X68 /dev/hda # insert end true fi Parameters are: -c3 <- use 32bit I/O with write sync -d1

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:04:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0600, Mark Gillingham wrote: > > In your opinion, am I wasting my time doing this? > > No. In fact, the local school districts recently were thr

Re: Kernel compilation woes

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:09:10PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm trying to compile my own 2.4.24 kernel using the sources from > kernel.org and the .config from Sarge, and I'm getting some errors: > > # make-kpkg kernel_image > > > > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F Syst

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:02:00 +0100, bruno doutriaux wrote: > i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host. could > somebody help me. > (i have some hints: the debian host is using gaim 0.75 which has security > fails and i would like to also listen it with a trojan, is it possible

Re: problem

2004-02-07 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased from your organization a set of 7 CDs to install debian GNU/Linux 'Woody" 3.Or2. Yesterday I tried to install the program, but cannot install the base system using the first CD in the package. I first get a warning: file:/instmnt/pool/main/n/nano/nano_

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > >There's no reason why he should be installing operating > >systems, either, any more than he should be building cars. Or performing > >brain surgery. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE some things that Joe >

problem

2004-02-07 Thread dbrown53
I recently purchased from your organization a set of 7 CDs to install debian GNU/Linux 'Woody" 3.Or2. Yesterday I tried to install the program, but cannot install the base system using the first CD in the package. I first get a warning: file:/instmnt/pool/main/n/nano/nano_1.0.6-3_i386.deb was cor

Re: RSS-Reader - toursst broken ?!

2004-02-07 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:53:15AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Anybody out there with a better alternative for RSS ? Yes in my opinion. Try this: http://www.w3.org/2002/09/rss2email/ RSS feeds come right into your email. Awesome, especially if you use mutt for easy reading. I've always wo

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:25:33PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote.. > On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:20 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > However, if now I go back into httpd.conf, and add the following line > > to a virtual host directive: > > SetEnv SQWEBMAIL_TEMPLATEDIR /home/vmail/sqwebmail > > an

Re: problem with X

2004-02-07 Thread Bytor the Destroyer
I have done some reading and I have commented out the lines in my XF86Config file load GLcore and load dri. It solved the problem with the errors I got in my XFree86 log. I am still having a problem with getting X up and running. I can get the Nvidia spash screen and then I get a black and wh

Re: Kernel compilation woes

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:09:10 -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm trying to compile my own 2.4.24 kernel using the sources from > kernel.org and the .config from Sarge, and I'm getting some errors: > > # make-kpkg kernel_image > > > > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Yours is the only Windows installation that draws the high-ascii lines correctly in anything other than Lucida Console. WTF? No clue. *shrug* I like Lucida Console because it's the closest thing to an X font. Wouldn't that depend on the X font you choose? In X I use

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: That's what procmail is for, though. No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail client. That's a deficiency in mutt. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection

Plustek 9636P and SANE on Debian Unstable?

2004-02-07 Thread Joseph Jones
Could anyone give me any help with this? I've cursed myself with a parallel port scaner, it seems, and I have to go about creating devices and all sorts of stuff. Basically, I'm very very lost and also it looks as though I'm supposed to be using some kinda kernel module, but I'm not sure. Some

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: OK, then why does TB still have more in common than OE than a real mail client? Depends on what you call a real mail client. I see TB having far more in commong with Sylpheed-claws and kmail than lookout. Mutt, on the other hand, is a nice tech demo but a crappy client.

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 14:42:54 -0800 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:17:11AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > as per the posting on 2nd of Feb. saying that klecker had crashed, Is > > security.debian.org back in bus

Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-07 Thread Jack Carroll
Didn't find anything about this in the archives. I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always booted installation programs from floppies in the past. I downloaded the boot floppy

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Jeff Green
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:17:11AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: as per the posting on 2nd of Feb. saying that klecker had crashed, Is security.debian.org back in business... And of course it was FAR easier to jump in with another idiot-level question, rather than check th

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: There's no reason why he should be installing operating systems, either, any more than he should be building cars. Or performing brain surgery. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE some things that Joe Stupid has no business doing. Installing an OS or building a car aren't

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:56:15 -0600 "Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 03:17:11 +0530 > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > hi all, > > > > as per the po

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0600, Mark Gillingham wrote: > ... is rdesktop suitable for my purpose of displaying normal > Windows apps (e.g., Office). Thanks for your thoughts. I don't know. But I do know this: VNC works great for the purpose and it's enormously easier to use. -- Carl

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:17:11AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > as per the posting on 2nd of Feb. saying that klecker had crashed, Is > security.debian.org back in business... And of course it was FAR easier to jump in with another idiot-level question, rather than check the archive, or horro

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro based > on Debian and KDE. Ok, now... we've got a stupid who couldn't figure out how to read well enough to run the Debian installer. You thus propose to him that

Re: ifupdown configuration

2004-02-07 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 06 February 2004 05:28 pm, Paladin wrote: > I think there should be a way for us to select the command line > options of the used dhcp client. Or at least the package maintainers > of the dhcp client should create a script for reading command line > options from the "/etc/default" directo

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:20 pm, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Through a lot of trial and error, I did manage to get back into a > running state. Actually, more like a limping state. > However, if now I go back into httpd.conf, and add the following line > to a virtual host directive: > SetEnv SQWE

F-prot update cron script fails

2004-02-07 Thread VSJ
Dear List, I'm using F-Prot antivirus on my Woody 3.0r2 box to scan incoming and outgoing e-mail using amavis. F-Prot has been installed using f-prot-installer from sid. The installation went fine and F-Prot works like a charm. I'd like to update my virus-definitions twice a day, and I'd like to

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:36AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote.. > I too am having similar problems. > > executing /etc/init.d/apache start > shows no errors. But apache isn't running. No telnet response on port 80. Nothing. > Although apache-ssl works fine. > apachectl configtest on my

RE: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Henrik Johansson
-Original Message- From: Jacob S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 7 februari 2004 22:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Securing it properly On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:56:46 -0500 Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 07 February 2004 04:54 pm, Jacob S. wrote: > This will not work in Woody. Apache2 is in Unstable and/or Testing, for > Debian. But the OP could check www.backports.org - it probably has a backport of Apache 2 for Woody. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

High ASCII via ssh (was: Re: Better program than Putty?)

2004-02-07 Thread Sascha Andres
Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote on 06.02.2004 (23:01): > Yours: > http://www.dmiyu.org/~grey/lucida.png > > Mine: > http://www.dmiyu.org/~grey/courier.png > > Notice the lines are the same; high-ascii. How did you get the thread lines drawn correctly? I tried several ssh clients on windows based mach

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > mailing list becomes the best source of advice. Knoppsters on their mailing > list will tell you this as well. > well! as Knoppix users are called Knoppsters (as you say), what do we call debian users ? Debianiac ? rrs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 03:17:11 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi all, > > as per the posting on 2nd of Feb. saying that klecker had crashed, Is > security.debian.org back in business or should I still use the > substitute hos

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:56:46 -0500 Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > > Why is the standard webserver Apache 1.3 > > and not 2.0? I thought it was stable. > If you want to run 2.0 use the package 'apache2'. Because of th

Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, as per the posting on 2nd of Feb. saying that klecker had crashed, Is security.debian.org back in business or should I still use the substitute host (ftp.rfc822.org) ? rrs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8

Exim4 synchronization error over ssh tunnel

2004-02-07 Thread Philipp Weis
Hi all, I'm using a ssh tunnel between my local smtp server and the one running on my mail server to receive my mail. This setup has worked relly well for me in the past months and has the advantage that I do not have to periodically check for new mail, but get it delivered directly to me. I have

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:18:42PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > I see! Thx! > > I just do: > apt-get remove apache > apt-get install apache2 > > Right? > > Is the apt-get command really as good as > the doc i

RE: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Henrik Johansson
-Original Message- From: Brett Carrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 7 februari 2004 21:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Securing it properly On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Why is the standard webserver Apache 1.3 > and not 2.0? I though

Re: Antivirus software for gnu/linux

2004-02-07 Thread David Baron
On Friday 06 February 2004 16:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed all the "clam" stuff. > > > > All the daemons are running. However, all the old virus-spam email, those > > Microsoft Update thingies, are still coming through without any > > notification. > > Just installing it doesn't do

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

2004-02-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello bruno doutriaux (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host. > could somebody help me. Ask the admin of that host politely. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Brett Carrington
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0100, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Why is the standard webserver Apache 1.3 > and not 2.0? I thought it was stable. If you want to run 2.0 use the package 'apache2'. Because of the many changes between the 1.3 tree and 2.0 of apache, Debian has put apache2 in it's o

Re: Trying to install Linux on machine that refueses *every* OS but XP...

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 how do you create the partitions. plz show it. is your /boot at the beginning ? rrs On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:08:37 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My brother recently built a new computer: > Albatron 865PE motherboard > 1 Gig DDR400 > Radeon 9200 > 4

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I too am having similar problems. executing /etc/init.d/apache start shows no errors. But apache isn't running. No telnet response on port 80. Nothing. Although apache-ssl works fine. apachectl configtest on my machine also results in "Syntax OK". p

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-07 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
My 133MHz 5x86 with VLB video was just barely adequate to run X11. The bottleneck is the video card, not the CPU. Same problems with a 50MHz 486DX2. Jeffrey Quoting Mark Gillingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a newbie, but have some experience with rdesktop and Terminal > Services on W2K. That i

Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all! I'm a former RH user moving to Debian! Better late than never! I have a gazillion questions but i'll settle for this at first. There is a lot of doc out there... Why is the standard webserver Apache 1.3 and not 2.0? I thought it was stable. / Henrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re:Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread David Baron
Cute. Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro based on Debian and KDE. You then upgrade and play with it the way you would with any purer Debian installation. What Knoppix gives you is decent hardware detection and auto-setup. Debian will itself be doing this. Kn

Re: Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.

2004-02-07 Thread Adam
On Friday 06 February 2004 19:10, Daniel Frank wrote: > Wav-files are only container files that can contain uncompressed > ("standard PCM" or something like this) or compressed sounds. Playing > a wav-file only works if you have the (de-)compressor available. As > far as I know xmms can only play

Re: Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.

2004-02-07 Thread Adam
On Friday 06 February 2004 14:20, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Something is wrong with the wav file, or it is some non-standard > format. I can't say what exactly is the problem from here. Where did > you get the files? If you have some other software (like some windows > player) that can play them, m

Re: Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.

2004-02-07 Thread Adam
On Friday 06 February 2004 19:20, Rob Weir wrote: >> Something is wrong with the wav file, or it is some non-standard >> format. So WAVE is not one standard format but a collection of various (presumably related) formats? > On this note, what does "file" say the type of the file is? $ file star

Re: i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host

2004-02-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 09:02:00PM +0100, bruno doutriaux wrote: > i would like to read some root files on a distant debian host. Do you know the root password? No? Then we're not going to help you be a script kiddie. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson

Re: Audio Advice

2004-02-07 Thread Paladin
I could swear I've used the i810_audio driver even before the 2.4.18 kernel! Even though I've ever had problems with it... The biggest one is that my chip only runs at 48kHz, so unless the program does some conversion the sound plays very "fast". That must be the case with ESD! I use NAS, but I als

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