Re: vsftpd does not accepd passwords of local accounts

2004-07-18 Thread Joost De Cock
On Sunday 18 July 2004 22:35, Flo hurled the following on the wire: > *Hi there! > > After uninstalling proftpd cause it was much to slow for unknown reasons, > I have installed vsftpd. > It is currently running, but there is the problem, that vsftpd does > not accept the passwords of my local user

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:12, R Parker wrote: > > > R Parker wrote: > > > colorful approach : > > > A little square which is white for 0, black for 1, > > > and taking a scale of > > > gray colors for intermediate values. You'd ajust it > > > the same way as a > > > knob, pressing the mouse but

nfs weirdness

2004-07-18 Thread Nathan Kroll
We have a webserver that serves personal webpages that are mounted thru NFS. There must be somethign weird with NFS because ever since the new update the load on any of our debian boxes have been about 2 non-stop. The kern.log is full of error messages like this: Jul 19 00:48:00 kernel: nfs

Re: gnome-settings-daemon equivalent for KDE

2004-07-18 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:12:44 -0400 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:16:29 -0400 >Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:42:42 -0400 >>* Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> What is the equivalent command for KDE that is sa

Re: Help

2004-07-18 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:29, Yossi d Esrig wrote: > I wanted to wipe my laptop (ibm notebook) and put linux on it. I can't > figure out which distribution is right for me. I just need it for > personal use. I actually only need it for the C compiler. (As of right > now, I'm having techinical dificu

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Silvan wrote: > Interesting. If somebody had shown me that a long time ago, I wouldn't be > having to keep up with my forked version of ls. :) > > ->ls -O /tmp/foo* > 640 -rw-r-1 silvan silvan 6606 Jun 20 03:22 /tmp/foo.ps > > Maybe I'll finally let it die. I'm really tired o

Re: Helix install from *bin files

2004-07-18 Thread Adam Bogacki
I think I may have a corrupted download. Tux:/home# chmod a+x hxplay* Tux:/home# ./hxplay* bash: ./hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin: cannot execute binary file I'll try downloading again in the near future - does anyone have any better ideas ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 9:05 pm, Tim Connors wrote: > Now, there's a thought. > > You better destroy that drive afterall. If the drive had any bad > blocks, and these were transparently remapped (as they do), then you > can't tell that there have been remapping events (maybe SMART will > tell you...

Re: ClamAV problem after upgrade

2004-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 23:15, John Fleming wrote: [...] > Sun Jul 18 21:57:28 2004 -> Self checking every 3600 seconds. > Sun Jul 18 22:00:52 2004 -> ERROR: ScanStream: accept timeout. > Sun Jul 18 22:02:00 2004 -> ERROR: ScanStream: accept timeout. > Sun Jul 18 22:02:27 2004 -> ERROR: ScanStream: a

Help

2004-07-18 Thread Yossi d Esrig
I wanted to wipe my laptop (ibm notebook) and put linux on it. I can't figure out which distribution is right for me. I just need it for personal use. I actually only need it for the C compiler. (As of right now, I'm having techinical dificulties installing a c compiler on my PC) I also do not have

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Tim Connors
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:27:58 +0800: > H. S. wrote: > > Any suggestions? Or any alternate methods? Then there is also the > > option of using a Windows programs to do this. But I am familiar with > > those. > > Unscientifically proven: a destructive badbl

ClamAV problem after upgrade

2004-07-18 Thread John Fleming
ClamAV (clamd) was working fine until I upgraded Debian unstable today. Now I'm getting the following header added to ALL emails: X-Virus-Status: Failed X-Virus-Report: /usr/bin/clamdscan error 2 I deleted my clamav log and restarted clamav. The new log starts out as usual, but the first email

Re: confusion over firewalling

2004-07-18 Thread Robert William Hutton
Will Parsons wrote: I have a desktop machine onto which I installed woody, which originally ran a 2.2.20 kernel and was configured using heimdall to use ipchains for firewalling. (There is a script /etc/heimdall/firewall.sh which invokes ipchains rules.) Awhile ago, I built a custom 2.4.18 kern

Broken perl environment with libapache-mod-perl2 and apache2

2004-07-18 Thread Chris Gorman
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone is running libapache-mod-perl2 from sarge. I'm getting some odd errors which look to be related to an error in the perl environment. I'm trying to use ModPerl::Registry, formerly Apache::Registry with apache2. Per the instructions at perl.apache.org, I've made a

Re: [OT] [Solved] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote: :Matthias Czapla wrote: :> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: :> :>>How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that :>>blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power mana

Re: Smbclient works but not Samba

2004-07-18 Thread Ken Januski
Answering myself, as I often tend to do, setting encryption to yes in smb.conf, and allowing netbios-ns in /etc/services solved the problem. Ken Januski wrote: I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work t

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% Darryl Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dl> The package is called evolution-exchange, and there seems to be dl> only a powerpc deb there. Hm. At one time, at least, there as an x86 deb because I installed it. Maybe it's not been updated. -- --

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote: :Matthias Czapla wrote: :> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: :> :>>How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that :>>blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management :>>features, bu

Duplicate Entries in /proc/scsi/scsi

2004-07-18 Thread rankine
Hi *, I decided to downgrade from kernel 2.6.x to 2.4.x The problem is that a weird problem is happening since then. In /proc/scsi/scsi I get a lot of duplicate entries. Namely: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ASUS Model: CRW-5224ARev: 1.37 Type

confusion over firewalling

2004-07-18 Thread Will Parsons
I have a desktop machine onto which I installed woody, which originally ran a 2.2.20 kernel and was configured using heimdall to use ipchains for firewalling. (There is a script /etc/heimdall/firewall.sh which invokes ipchains rules.) Awhile ago, I built a custom 2.4.18 kernel and have been ru

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:59:38PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Sunday 18 July 2004 06:52 pm, Doug Holland wrote: > > > If the answer is yes (usually we're talking about government contractors > > with classified data), then the only answer is to physically destroy the > > hard disk's platters. > >

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: > > > >>How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that > >>blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power m

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
Silvan wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:48 pm, Randy W. Sims wrote: How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that occurs both at the

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote: > How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that > blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management > features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that > occurs both a

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-18 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-18, John Summerfield penned: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >>Er, I kind of mistyped. What I meant to say was, the picture format >>was weird. We could view and copy the files on the card; we just >>couldn't read them. >> >>I believe that not all Kodak cameras use this weird image format

Re: bash shell variables with spaces

2004-07-18 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:33:02AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Which raises the question - what if the expansion contains double quote > chars? Perhaps using double-backslash (or quad??) would do the trick? You mean like this?: $ FOO='foo "more foo" bar' $ echo "$FOO" foo "more foo" bar This

Re: bash profile not working

2004-07-18 Thread Daniel B.
Marc Wilson wrote: > .. > > Debian's X doesn't source those files because it's NOT SUPPOSED TO. Why > would it? Those are files related to shells. > > If you're using startx to launch X, then they're already read. Right. > If you're > using a display manager (xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm/whatever), t

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:48 pm, Randy W. Sims wrote: > How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that > blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management > features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that > occurs both at the consol

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 06:52 pm, Doug Holland wrote: > If the answer is yes (usually we're talking about government contractors > with classified data), then the only answer is to physically destroy the > hard disk's platters. Yeah, and I guess at that you'd have to *really* destroy the platters.

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:23 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > >->ls -O /tmp/foo* > > 640 -rw-r-1 silvan silvan 6606 Jun 20 03:22 /tmp/foo.ps > > > >Maybe I'll finally let it die. I'm really tired of keeping up with it, > > and the idea just never caught anybody's eye. > > Did you try

[OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that occurs both at the console and within X, it's not the screen saver. Thanks, Randy.

Re: bash shell variables with spaces

2004-07-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does anyone know why the following works: > > #!/bin/sh -x > FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 > xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26 Sorry, the last line above should be: xterm -sl $BUFFER -f

bash shell variables with spaces

2004-07-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone know why the following works: #!/bin/sh -x FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26 But neither of the following work: #!/bin/sh -x FONT="-jmk-neep alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15"

Re: gnome-settings-daemon equivalent for KDE

2004-07-18 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:16:29 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:42:42 -0400 >* Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> What is the equivalent command for KDE that is same as >> gnome-settings-daemon for GNOME? >> I.e., how can other WMs (e.g., fluxbox

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:02:17 -0400 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to >that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of >financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). > >One method

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-18 Thread David Purton
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:29:06PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > -bash-2.05b# ifup eth1 > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > RTNETLINK answers:

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

2004-07-18 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, trying this post once more. First time, I sent it to the fellow who responded instead of the list. Second time, I posted in the wrong thread. :/ Frederik Dannemare wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 17 July 2004 20:34, Scarletdown wrote: > > >> Hel

Re: wireless 802.11g and BCM4306

2004-07-18 Thread Ron Farrer
Kevin Coyner said: > > Does anyone know if there is support for the Linksys wireless notebook > card (WPC54G)? It's based on the Broadcom BCM4306 chip, and from google > searches, I'm not too optimistic that it's supported yet. Unfortunately Broadcom won't release the docs needed to write a driv

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:07:50PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Micha Feigin_, on 07/18/04 15:26,typed: > >On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>(P.S.: If anyone knows anything about Linux support for Nikon, please > >>point me at it; I'll probably need it

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 4:25 pm, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > > > I am in a situation where a computer is to

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Ed G.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > Try http://dban.sourceforge.net/ > > I second this suggestion. DBAN (short for Darik's Boot n' Nuke wi

Re: vsftpd does not accepd passwords of local accounts

2004-07-18 Thread Flo
Brian Clark wrote: >Give this a try: >echo "check_shell=NO" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf >You may need to restart vsftpd unless it's running from inetd or xinetd. Thanks for the hint, I tried it, but it unfortunately did not work :( Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: wireless 802.11g and BCM4306

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
Kevin Coyner wrote: Does anyone know if there is support for the Linksys wireless notebook card (WPC54G)? It's based on the Broadcom BCM4306 chip, and from google searches, I'm not too optimistic that it's supported yet. But hoping anyway ... Ask linksys:-) Linksys runs Linux in several of its

Re: need help with bind9-host

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, what debian version (stable/testing/unstable/other) are you using; and what are the package version for all installed bind* packages; and which ever package provides libdns? What are the file permissions on /usr/lib/libdns.so.11? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > > > that it's hard disk needs

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
> Thanks Rick. I solved it by downloading source but the link comes > in very useful as my knowledge of dpkg so far has been very close to zero. Dpkg is a bit easier... I like stuff compiled from source a little better... with Dpkg you can try out stuff a lot easier. :} Believe it or not there'

wireless 802.11g and BCM4306

2004-07-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
Does anyone know if there is support for the Linksys wireless notebook card (WPC54G)? It's based on the Broadcom BCM4306 chip, and from google searches, I'm not too optimistic that it's supported yet. But hoping anyway ... Using Sid with 2.6 kernel. Thanks Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: help setting up sound

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/download/OS_e-cmi9739_index.htm > Michael B. Levy wrote: > > >Folks, > > > >I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my > >sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I > >can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard. > > > >My computer's specs seem

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > > financial information, reports, class

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
> On Saturday 17 July 2004 09:40, Adam Funk wrote: > > > I have a digital camera and I agree with this. I've never bothered to > > hook the camera up to try gphoto. I just put the cards in the card > > reader and copy the jpg files to my hard drive. > > > > Anyway, I have an Olympus C750 (now d

Re: Suppressing "Document Contains No Data" Errors

2004-07-18 Thread Scarletdown
Frederik Dannemare wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 17 July 2004 20:34, Scarletdown wrote: > > >> Hello, hello! I've been rather quiet for a while here due to being >> busy with other projects. But now, I am needing some help with >> traffic shaping, some

progeny

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
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Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
H. S. wrote: I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). One method I have found on google is: $>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda to clea

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
Silvan wrote: Interesting. If somebody had shown me that a long time ago, I wouldn't be having to keep up with my forked version of ls. :) ->ls -O /tmp/foo* 640 -rw-r-1 silvan silvan 6606 Jun 20 03:22 /tmp/foo.ps Maybe I'll finally let it die. I'm really tired of keeping up wit

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Carl Fink (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:36:24PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> As far as I know this does not work reliably with journaled file >> systems like ext3 ... > > I'm quite far from being an expert, but can't you convert ext3 to ext2 > just by del

swsusp and pmdisk not working with 2.6.7

2004-07-18 Thread Randall Smith
After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, both pmdisk and swsusp quit working. pmdisk complains about a bad signature on boot and swsusp hangs while loading the image. Anyone else had problems with these? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

nvidia 6106 & kernel 2.6.7--X, screen dies, no obvious errors

2004-07-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I'm taking the plunge into 2.6 territory and just rolled my first 2.6.7 last night. I used the latest available Sid components for the nvidia driver module (6106), including nvidia-glx. module-init-tools has been installed, and I've verified that tls has a link to libGl.so set up when booting

Re: Smbclient works but not Samba

2004-07-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:47:25 +0100 Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/07/04 10:39), Ken Januski wrote: > > I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work > > going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work the other > > way round by trying to connect from XP to D

Re: Smbclient works but not Samba

2004-07-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/07/04 10:39), Ken Januski wrote: > I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work > going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work the other > way round by trying to connect from XP to Debian. The most common error > is "This machine not authorized

vsftpd does not accepd passwords of local accounts

2004-07-18 Thread Flo
*Hi there! After uninstalling proftpd cause it was much to slow for unknown reasons, I have installed vsftpd. It is currently running, but there is the problem, that vsftpd does not accept the passwords of my local users. I surely typed the passwords rightly, but vsftpd does not accept them. There

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:36:24PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > As far as I know this does not work reliably with journaled file systems > like ext3 ... I'm quite far from being an expert, but can't you convert ext3 to ext2 just by deleting the journal? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PR

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:41:13AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: mount -t hfsplus -w /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod Same thing...it's still read-only. any errors? what if you try t

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Micha Feigin_, on 07/18/04 15:26,typed: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (P.S.: If anyone knows anything about Linux support for Nikon, please point me at it; I'll probably need it eventually...) I am interested in that too. I can access Canon G5 with

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 02:35 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions > > represented in octal, instead of "r", "w", & "x"? > > Use "stat" to piece it together: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ stat -c '%a %A %G %U %N' *

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Philipp Weis
On 18 Jul 2004, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > >> that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > >> financial information, reports, cl

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Philipp Weis (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to >> that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of >> financial information, reports, class exams, compet

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:03:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suppose this has wandered far enough OT from Linux that I can weigh > in on it... > > After using Nikon's website/email support, I will not buy > anything else. > > I bought a dead (as it turned out) Nikon film scanner at a sw

Re: what's the diff between 'make bzImage' and 'make zImage' while compiling kernel?

2004-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 04:07, cwinl wrote: > hi,all > > http://ertw.com/blog/archives/make_bzimage_vs_make_zimage-170404.html > > someone tell me that the kernel made by 'make bzImage' is smaller then > the one 'make zImage' made it. > > is it correct? No. zImage and bzImage use the same compres

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions > represented in octal, instead of "r", "w", & "x"? Use "stat" to piece it together: [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ stat -c '%a %A %G %U %N' * 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trymr' 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread John Hasler
HS writes: > The second method that I have read is to delete everything from the disk > and then write a large file (how to get his? random data?) repeatedly and > fill the disk. Then remove these files with 'wipe'. Too complex. Just use Wipe on /dev/hda (or just on the partitions containing sens

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). Try http://dban.sourcefo

Re: recommendation for digital camera -=> Shameless Nikon plug

2004-07-18 Thread listcomm
I suppose this has wandered far enough OT from Linux that I can weigh in on it... After using Nikon's website/email support, I will not buy anything else. I bought a dead (as it turned out) Nikon film scanner at a swap meet a couple of years back, plugged it into Windoze, and started in on it. I

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Philipp Weis
On 18 Jul 2004, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). Wipe was designed for this. It re

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:08:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions > represented in octal, instead of "r", "w", & "x"? Try "stat -c'%a %n' *" for starters, please see "man stat" for details. HTH, Flo signature.asc Descript

Can't switch from X to the console

2004-07-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm using XFree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 on a Debian/unstable system. When I press CTRL+ALT+F1, xev reports that the "XF86_Switch_VT_1" symbol is being generated, but I can never get to any other virtual terminal. Here're the results from xev of pressing control, alt, and F1 in order: KeyPress event,

Digital Camera and Hotplug

2004-07-18 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just purchased an Olympus C-745 Ultra Zoom digital camera, and I would like to use it with digikam. Firstly, I am confused. The various HOWTOs for cameras say that Olympus Cameras are usb mass storage compatible - and that to access them there is a need to mount the appropriate device.

Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread ms419
How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions represented in octal, instead of "r", "w", & "x"? I frequently use "ls -l" to list files, including their permissions, but I thought sometimes it would be nice to list these in terms of their octal values. I couldn't find any hints

how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread H. S.
I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of financial information, reports, class exams, competition exams, etc). One method I have found on google is: $>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda to clean the first d

Re: Help with Router

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 04:15 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I'm not aware of any way to force that router to assign addresses in any > > controllable way. First come, first serve. (I'd love to hear different. > > It's the Linksys router from Wal-Mart I'm talking about here; yours might > > not

Smbclient works but not Samba

2004-07-18 Thread Ken Januski
I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work the other way round by trying to connect from XP to Debian. The most common error is "This machine not authorized ...". But I have both the IP and the name of th

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
> > That really depends on what keyboard you use. The Norwegian one is > > different. I don't know where it would be on a British keyboard, and > > I'm not sure what kinda keyboard someone from Australia (au?) would > > have. > > The pipe is indeed above the backslash on the british keyboard; bu

ClamAV upgrade unstable

2004-07-18 Thread John Fleming
I upgraded ClamAV today via apt-get. Now I'm seeing this email header on a clean message: X-Virus-Status: Failed X-Virus-Report: /usr/bin/clamdscan error 2 Am I experiencing the unstableness of Sid and should just wait? I'm pretty new to Debian procedures - Do I need to report this anywhere? T

Re: Mutt and accents

2004-07-18 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:29:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:29:51PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Check your locale. Right now this is mine: My LC_CTYPE was set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and everything else was POSIX. Now I've got LC_CTYPE=¨en_US¨ and everything e

Re: xscreensaver & xplanet

2004-07-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 07:13:41AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote.. > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:28:21AM -0400, Faithful John wrote.. > > > I have xscreensaver, when I got xplanet and I tried to > > center the view of the earth on xplanet on my current > > location using the settings,

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-18 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:41:13AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >>mount -t hfsplus -w /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod > >Same thing...it's still read-only. > > any errors? what if you try to

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
I have experienced exactly the same problem, and I filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/257515 I am about to add some information to that bug however, as I have managed to fix the problem. For me, it seems the 'ukgb' keymap which previously did work, now does not. Either 'gb' or 'uk' does though.

Re: what's the diff between 'make bzImage' and 'make zImage' while compiling kernel?

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:07:26 +0800, cwinl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi,all > > http://ertw.com/blog/archives/make_bzimage_vs_make_zimage-170404.html > > someone tell me that the kernel made by 'make bzImage' is smaller then the one 'make > zImage' made it. > > is it correct? Interesting art

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:57:10 +0200, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just to make sure you also understand that "|" is the caps of the > > backslash (\) key, officially called pipe symbol. > > That really depends on what keyboard you use

GNU info: No indices found

2004-07-18 Thread Frank Uepping
Hello, it seems that I have no indices for the GNU info system. Inside info pressing 'i' give me "No indices found.". How to create the indices? /FAU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xscreensaver & xplanet

2004-07-18 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:28:21AM -0400, Faithful John wrote.. > I have xscreensaver, when I got xplanet and I tried to > center the view of the earth on xplanet on my current > location using the settings, the xscreensaver settings > indicated that i hadn't install xplanet ... which I > al

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

2004-07-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Ok, this worked (yay!!) but it is read-only. I found a document which said the partition may need to be cleaned first on a Mac, but I tried this and it didn't help. I didn't have to clean a

Re: Mail client for downloading headers

2004-07-18 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:35, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 the mental interface of > > bob parker told: > > A while ago I thought I saw some reference to a package that could get > > the headers from the mail server into a file. That file could then be > > edited to remove the items

Re: Mutt and accents

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
Martin Dickopp wrote: As best I can figure out there may be a problem with the fact that I'm sending: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit whereas my friend's email gets sent through as: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is that the problem, or does the problem lie somewhere else? This

Re: Mutt and accents

2004-07-18 Thread Martin Dickopp
Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to learn how to write text in French so that I can send > properly accented emails to a friend of mine. Unfortunately we're having a > problem with the accents that I'm sending through. He's using KMail, and > I'm using Mutt (not that it sh

Re: Suppressing "Document Contains No Data" Errors

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
Scarletdown wrote: Quite some time ago, I made a whole bunch of entries in my hosts file to effectively block ad servers and other undesirable stuff, using the instructions found here: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ This has worked quite well, except I frequently get "Document Contains No Da

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-18 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Just to make sure you also understand that "|" is the caps of the backslash (\) key, officially called pipe symbol. That really depends on what keyboard you use. The Norwegian one is different. I don't know where it would be

Re: Software RAID 1 reiserfs fails to boot because of fsck

2004-07-18 Thread Jimmy Liang
Alvin Oga wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Jimmy Liang wrote: Hi All, I must be missing something here, but I just set up a software RAID 1 on Sarge, using raidtools2. I was able to use /etc/init.d/raid2 script to start and stop the raid, and am able to mount the /dev/md0 drive. The problem comes w

here is a LPI question,which is the answer?

2004-07-18 Thread 刘悦
What is a reasonable command to install a set of Debian packages stored in directory temp? A. dpkg -l temp B. dpkg -iGRE temp C. dpkg -l temp/*.deb D. dpkg -iGRE temp/*.deb the answer is B but why not BD ? why is D wrong? -- P4/2.4B ELSA 528/128 512MB DDR333 240GB MSI 845PE BenQ FP55

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