Re: apache being hit

2004-11-09 Thread Mathias Tauber
Hi, well... you were right!! They are receiving 404's... At least that is what access.log is reporting. However, when I tried what Mathias Tauber said, I got the source code for the root "index.html" instead of 404... very strange! Can this be explained? my fault, I had this problem a long time ago

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 18:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I used the simple command > > cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast > > and (with a Rewriteable CD in the drive) it then preceeds to hang. Just did a little experiement - loaded kernels right back to 2.6.3 and they all hang loaded kernel 2

Can I change when filesystem is checked by fsck?

2004-11-09 Thread Rick Friedman
Each of my filesystems are ext3. Currently, they are checked by fsck (at bootup), every 34 mounts. I would like to change how often the filesystems are checked. How can I do that? Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 03:01, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > What if the user has not installed kernel-source package? The config > file for all the running kernels are available in /boot. Thanks - I have been wondering where I could get one of these (in case I wanted to role my own kernel). -

Re: Video card recognition

2004-11-09 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I use X11, Mplayer and Totem movieplayer > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:06:30 +0100 (CET), Vegard Lundby Rekaa > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I probably should have figured out this by my self, but I have not >> succeded. I'm greatful if someone have an idea what is wrong, or what >> the >> solution mig

Re: [Very OT] IIS Basic Authentication can be used for phishing

2004-11-09 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 07:13:56AM +, Upayavira wrote: > > > How is this different from Apache's basic authentication, which I > believe also passes user/pass information as plain text? > > You should use SSL with Apache too. Yeah, isn't the Security hole actually in IE, which gives up your

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Upayavira
Otto Wyss wrote: Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together into a file. I can grep > logfile grep 2> logfile but how can I redirect both together? cat foo 2>&1 > logfile or, to append to the file: cat foo 2>&1 >> logfile Should do it. Regards, Upayavira -- To UNSU

Re: Dual head: no xinerama

2004-11-09 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Asho Yeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041110 16:01]: > > I have a Quadro NVS200 and Matrox G400 DH with Xinerama worke well. I think you missed my point: I don't use xinerama nor do I want to. I'm using a dual head setup with a *single* matrox card. What I want is to somehow have my window manage

Re: Out of room on /usr partition

2004-11-09 Thread C. Chad Wallace
Ian T. wrote: Hi there. I have run out of room on my /usr/bin partition (95%). I have a couple of hard drives in that box but Debian resides on a 10 gig scsi. The box is an old PII with 256 RAM. I have room elsewhere but searching didn't turn up any recipes for linking or otherwise telling th

Re: [Very OT] IIS Basic Authentication can be used for phishing

2004-11-09 Thread Upayavira
William Ballard wrote: Just learned IIS Basic authentication transmits a users user name and password in Base64 over the internet. MS recommends you use SSL with it. But, even if you do that, can't you use an ISAPI to silently phish somebody's password? Or even if the dialog comes up, Granma and G

Lilo boot from second drive - success

2004-11-09 Thread Bruce Ward
Thanks to everyone who chipped in on this, a fix has been found. The problem is really that of getting LILO to boot the slave drive, which BIOS has found to be the first as the removable master is not present! Solution is (in /etc/lilo.conf): disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 Works a treat! Bruce Ward

[Very OT] IIS Basic Authentication can be used for phishing

2004-11-09 Thread William Ballard
Just learned IIS Basic authentication transmits a users user name and password in Base64 over the internet. MS recommends you use SSL with it. But, even if you do that, can't you use an ISAPI to silently phish somebody's password? Or even if the dialog comes up, Granma and Granpa will hit okay.

DNS problem

2004-11-09 Thread RituRaj
I have DNS problem. THe mails from our company sent outside have started buncing with following error. It was working till yesterday... ... while talking to smtp.pspl.co.in.: >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=3535954 <<< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not resolve De

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
Michael Sims wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: The subject line is fairly self-explanatory. Currently users who connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their username, then their password only once. If a user enters a bad password, he or she is kicked out immediately and must op

Re: playing cds

2004-11-09 Thread Chad Davis
So the conclusion to this is it's a alsa bug that I can not play audio cds? It seems I have all my audio volumes up, still no audio. The audio cable is connected (as it works fine in windows(tm)). I have tried various cd players... Thanks On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:11:31 +0100, Andrea Vettorello <[

Dual head: no xinerama

2004-11-09 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi all, I'm running a matrox card with two identical monitors in dual head mode ("merged" in matrox jargon). I end up with a screen of 2560x1024 over the two displays. It works quite nicely. I understand that many window managers play well with a xinerama set up and do the things described in sec

Ext3 file system crash

2004-11-09 Thread Eddy Jacob
Hi all, Like the earlier post from other user, I also experienced this. I am asking for help here or ideas. I installed knoppix 3.4 to harddisk (debian based option), kernel 2.4.26, and using ext3 for all my file system. my etc/fstab: # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hda7

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:09:51 -0500, Tong wrote: > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- find . -type d -name -print > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. Using 'ls', if the direc

Re: Sony AIT-1 tape backup

2004-11-09 Thread Brendan Simon
More info, # mt erase # mt seek /dev/tape: Input/output error # mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x30 (AIT-1 or MLR3). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (101):

Re: MS OutLook Unknown Options ???

2004-11-09 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:00:24 +, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (08/11/04 09:25), Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > I am working in an enviroment where LINUX + QMail > > is configured as Mail Server, when my clients check > > thier mail from MS Outlook the whole Inbo

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Travis Crump
David Jardine wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote: Hi, I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the current directory in RH: ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. It is for me, and the above comman

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

2004-11-09 Thread Robert Storey
Hi Adam, If heat is the problem, I strongly suggest installing powernowd. It requires a very recent kernel (I'm running 2.6.8-1). After installed, you enable it on bootup (you can use rcconf). That's all, just set it and forget it. I'm not sure if it will work on every laptop processor, but does f

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Robert Vangel
This is true. I've always done my own kernel compiles so I've always had it there. Sridhar M.A. wrote: What if the user has not installed kernel-source package? The config file for all the running kernels are available in /boot. Here is mine: ot.0300 initrd.img-2.6.8-1-68

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root

2004-11-09 Thread Eddy Jacob
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:43:07 -0700, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I don't want to compile the kernel. What I don't understand is, > > > > why the package I downloaded from debian sarge, causes that error? Is > > > > it really because of the file system driver not compiled int

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:22:52AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > When you config the kernel, there is an option for a copy of the kernel > config kept in /proc/config.gz, but the same thing is available in > /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/.config > What if the user has not installed kernel-sou

passwd fails. Please help.

2004-11-09 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I am unable to change passwd as it fails with error message "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error". My /etc/pam.d/passwd contains # # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `passwd' service # # This file is blank to allow fall-through to the 'other' service. As th

Re: Adding debian to win2k dynamic disk

2004-11-09 Thread Adam Aube
pinecone wrote: > I am trying to use PartitionMagic 8.0 to create a linux partition on a > "dynamic" disk, but although the manual says it can run natively on > win2k (and it does) it views win2k dynamic disks as "other" and has no > apparent method for doing the job. Any suggestions? Convert th

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Robert Vangel
When you config the kernel, there is an option for a copy of the kernel config kept in /proc/config.gz, but the same thing is available in /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/.config Gerard Robin wrote: why /proc/config.gz does not exist for me ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

On Free Java Implementations (was: Re: Blackdown)

2004-11-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 09 2004, Jules Dubois wrote: > How about Kaffe? It's Free and already packaged, it seems. Yes, not only that, but Kaffe is also in testing, which means that it has passed the "testing sieve". And also sablevm seems to be as good for my purposes as Kaffe. Both of them now are able to run p

Sony AIT-1 tape backup

2004-11-09 Thread Brendan Simon
Hi, I have a Sony AIT-1 tape backup unit (IDE) installed in a PowerMac running debian/testing with a 2.6.8 kernel. I have not had much success getting it to work :( I have made a symlink from /dev/tape to /dev/nst0 I have the following in my /etc/modules. ide-tape ide-scsi ide-cd ide-

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Stephen Le
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:43:19 -0500, Doug Griswold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can upload the changes. You will get tired of that real quick. Other > than this method there is always a what if factor selinux,chroot, > virtual server etc... The point is to minimize the "what if" factors by choos

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:21:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:33 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. > > This > > cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast > > > > and (with a

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grep 2>&1 logfile grep 'whatever' > ./file 2>&1 is what you meant. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and

Firewall-easy setup difficulties

2004-11-09 Thread Tim Beauregard
Hi, Could someone kindly help me with firewall setup with my home cable (dhcp) internet connection? I wish to use firewall-easy purely because I know nothing about configuration of firewalls. I can't recall having changed the firewall-easy.conf file (attached). I'm using debian unstable, 2.6.7

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- > > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. > > How do you get it? Thanks find .

Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread Rui Silva
first of all, please reply to the list and not to someone that helped you... i'm not sure, i mean sure you can partition only 120 gb, and then the rest, but i think it would be better if you installed a debian allready with a 2.4.XX kernel. i think woody cames with to kernels, 2.2.XX and 2.4.18,

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- > > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. It is for me, and the above command w

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alex Malinovich: > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:09 -0500, Tong wrote: > > > > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > > current directory in RH: > > > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- > > > > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. > >

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Blake Swadling
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 23:50 +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together > into a file. I can > > grep > logfile > grep 2> logfile > > but how can I redirect both together? > grep 2>&1 logfile Cheers Blake -- Blake Swadling Senior Softw

Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together into a file. I can grep > logfile grep 2> logfile but how can I redirect both together? O. Wyss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user Jun 2002

2004-11-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Friel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey this guy Ian Ian "sampl3" ripped me off of £300 can you tell me > his IP address so i can track him down. Thanks. Mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get your money back, a mailing list for users of the Debian

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Doug Griswold
Don't give them shell access, and don't let them ftp to the server. Make them email you all the changes so you can browse for bad code. Then you can upload the changes. You will get tired of that real quick. Other than this method there is always a what if factor selinux,chroot, virtual serve

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:09 -0500, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the > current directory in RH: > > ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- > > but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. > > How do you get it? Thanks I'm not sure

debian-user Jun 2002

2004-11-09 Thread Stephen Friel
Hey this guy Ian Ian "sampl3" ripped me off of £300 can you tell me his IP address so i can track him down. Thanks.   unsubscribe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe From: ian ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:53:35 -0700 (PDT) ___

Re: global addressbook

2004-11-09 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:09:19PM +, Joe wrote: and only then on Woody as I can't seem to get OpenLDAP to work on Sarge. What issues are you having with OpenLDAP on sarge? I installed and configured it this weekend with

Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Tong
Hi, I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the current directory in RH: ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. How do you get it? Thanks tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

RE: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Michael Sims
Jeremy Brown wrote: >> The subject line is fairly self-explanatory. Currently users who >> connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their >> username, then their password only once. If a user enters a bad >> password, he or she is kicked out immediately and must open a new ss

Re: Thunderbird empty - anyone else ?

2004-11-09 Thread Kerst Paul - pkerst
Title: Re: Thunderbird empty - anyone else ?  Paul K.  x22270 ** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged.

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 22:12, Tim Beauregard wrote: > There is a recognised fault with the 2.6.8 kernel when using cdrecord, > leading to a oops. I've tried 2.6.9 and found my CPU usage to be 100%, > and with the flag driveropts-burnfree, this was used 10 times, and burn > time was double th

SSH host key stored with IP, not host name

2004-11-09 Thread martin f krafft
I have this weird problem: Why is node01 being identified by its IP only, while master.debian.org (as an example) is properly identified by name and IP? node01 and node17 are absolutely identical (thanks to FAI) -- DNS works equally well on both. node17:~> rm -f .ssh/known_hosts .ssh/config

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Stephen Le
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:28:10 -0900, Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make symbolic links between allowed commands and '/usr/local/rbin' > > As I said before, this is just a simple attempt to reduce priviledge. > There are undoubtably ways around it, some easier than others dependin

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:21, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > # uname -r > 2.6.8 kanger:/home/alan# uname -r 2.6.9-1-k7 > > # mkisofs --version > mkisofs 2.01a34-unofficial-iconv (i686-pc-linux-gnu) kanger:/home/alan# mkisofs --version mkisofs 2.01a34-unofficial-iconv (i686-pc-linux-gnu) > > # c

Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
Oops...I figure I should include my "common-auth" file too, as well as mention that I authenticate against LDAP: # # /etc/pam.d/common-auth - authentication settings common to all services # # This file is included from other service-specific PAM config files, # and should contain a list of the a

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Tim Beauregard
Justin Guerin wrote: > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > >>Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. >>This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also >>tried 2.6.8 There is a recognised fault with the 2.6.8 kernel when us

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 20:36, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:33:35PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. > > This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also > > tried 2.6.8 > > Here, I have

pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Brown
The subject line is fairly self-explanatory. Currently users who connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their username, then their password only once. If a user enters a bad password, he or she is kicked out immediately and must open a new ssh connection in order to try

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. > This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also > tried 2.6.8 > > I know there was a lot of fuss with cdrecord and 2.6.8, but my problems > seem t

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:08 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:11:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I can't believe that Other Distros (which release on semi-annual > > schedules) have fewer bugs than how many that testing has at any > > one moment. > > Even Debian-based dist

Problem with Apache2 / PHP4

2004-11-09 Thread Patrick van Elk
Hi, My server is running Apache2 and PHP4 (4.3.9) from sarge. Yesterday, I did an apt-get update / apt-get upgrade which updated apache and some other stuff. After Apache was restarted, I got errors like: Warning: preg_match: internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in ... on line ... After some Googleing

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:33 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. This > is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also tried 2.6.8 > > I know there was a lot of fuss with cdrecord and 2.6.8, but my problems seem >

Re: XMMS: playing CDROM through software, no cable link

2004-11-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a CDROM drive but I am unable to connect the CDROM drive >> directly to the soundcard, unfortunately. Surely there is a way for >> me to read the audio

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:11:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > I can't believe that Other Distros (which release on semi-annual > schedules) have fewer bugs than how many that testing has at any > one moment. Even Debian-based distros like Gentoo or Progeny? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTE

x2x and KDE

2004-11-09 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I'm using x2x to connect two debian KDE desktop systems together. The clipboard sync works if I paste to an xterm on either the client or server machine but doesn't work with any KDE app (konsole, konqueror, etc). I've read tons about selection versus clipboard in X (PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, etc) and

Re: Lilo boot from second drive? - success?

2004-11-09 Thread bmward
Thanks to all who replied - the solution has been found. Perhaps I should have titled the request "Lilo boot from slave ..." because the issue was not having the master drive present, but we want to boot from it when it is present! Problem was in getting boot from slave drive when it is the first

Re: global addressbook

2004-11-09 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:09:19PM +, Joe wrote: > and only then on Woody as I can't seem to get OpenLDAP to work on > Sarge. What issues are you having with OpenLDAP on sarge? I installed and configured it this weekend with libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap from sarge. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRI

an equiv to redhat-config-services?

2004-11-09 Thread psychoelmo
is there an equivalent in debian for redhat|system-config-services? the gui app included with rh and fc for configuring services and what-not? yes, i know, do it in console. :) not everyone likes to drop to console very time a change is needed, and i work with someone who simply does not like to

Re: large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread Rui Silva
kernels under some versions of 2.4.XX don't have suport for LBA 48 (48 bits of adressinfg space), they only support 28 bits of addressing(129Gb). if you compile the 2.4.27 or some of 2.6.XX you will have suport for large disks. there is a thread in this list that explanes this... if you want t

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread VSJ
Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to > solve it. I do so. > > I want to download and install this wonderfull environment now. > > Regards. Blackdown isn't wonderfull at all: - Debian packages outdated - Java doesn't work in Fire

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:33:35PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. > This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also > tried 2.6.8 Here, I have Linux dambo 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Sun Oct 31 03:42:37 EST 2004 i686 GN

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:15:01PM +, Michael Graham wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Christopher Swingley wrote: > >> Change the ownership and permissions on their .bash_profile and .bashrc > >> to root:root 644: > >> > >> -rw-r--r--1 root root 420 Sep 21 13:05 > >>

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:07:11 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > But I like blackdown, becuase making an apt-get install, it installs > automatically in Mozilla (in a similar way to Macromedia Flash Debian > Package ). I think that's what the 'java-package' package is designed to do: Make a

RE: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Dan Roozemond
> I feel the need to learn something new today. How could the > user replace > the root owned files in a directory that they own? > Suppose the root-owned file (readable for non-root user) is a. Then one does 'cp a b; rm a; mv b a' and we have the same file a owned by the regular user. Key obser

Re: sftp and umask

2004-11-09 Thread Matthias Eichler
Am Dienstag, den 09.11.2004, 03:16 -0500 schrieb Robert Storey: > Not sure if you can do exactly what you asked, but you could put the > following in a script and run it once a day on the necessary /home > directory: > find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; > find ./ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \

Re: alsaconf

2004-11-09 Thread Jules Dubois
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:47:37 +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:29:34 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I get gnome window sounds and xmms plays mp3 files so I do have sound. >> What I ultimately want to get working is gnomemeeting and evidently I >> need a

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

2004-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Butler wrote: Hi, I installed Ubuntu[1] (Debian w/ 2.6.8 kernel) on my Toshiba Satellite M30 Centrino laptop last week, and it's great, apart from the fact that the computer freezes up randomly. From what I can see, there is *no* pattern, but it usually takes about 3 hours' use, and then s

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Michael Graham
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Christopher Swingley wrote: >> Change the ownership and permissions on their .bash_profile and .bashrc >> to root:root 644: >> >> -rw-r--r--1 root root 420 Sep 21 13:05 >> .bash_profile -rw-r--r--1 root root 746 Sep 21 >> 13:05 .

Re: global addressbook

2004-11-09 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Dear User, On my laptop I use Pine and Kmail to check my emails. I'm very happy using them. I use IMAP so that my emails are centralized and MUA independent. I was thinking of a similar solution for my addressbook. Is the

Re: different networks, same computer (map mapping ?)

2004-11-09 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _John Schmidt_, on 01/11/04 19:48,typed: On Monday 01 November 2004 03:19 pm, H. S. wrote: I would like a laptop to work in two kinds of networks automatically if possible. At home, I am running a DHCP server and if the laptop is connected to my switch(CAT5 cable to eth0) and booted up,

large disk woe under debian installation

2004-11-09 Thread linux
Firstly, apologies that I have seen some discussion on the newsgroups of this already but much of it goes over my head so please be gentle with me! I've a new PC, that has 2 Xeon chips and a 250Gb Western Digital hard drive. It came with a 32Gb NTFS partition with WinXP SP2 installed. From the W

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-09 Thread Mark Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Maas wrote: | Hello All, | | After tinkering with Linux for a few years now I feel i'm getting to a | point that I can say: I can use Linux for everything. | | Except for games... I've got good video cards, but I just can't get the | quality out of

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-09 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Montag, den 08.11.2004, 16:40 -0600 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 23:29 +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > I *really* wish there were a "server only debian" with once-a-year > > release. > > Why not make your own yearly snapshots of testing? 1. Me? Alone? 2. No immediately s

Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2004-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also tried 2.6.8 I know there was a lot of fuss with cdrecord and 2.6.8, but my problems seem to predate that. What happens, when I try to do any simple comman

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-09 Thread Pedro M (Morphix User)
Wim De Smet escribió: On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:44:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot apt-get blackdown JRE. The program says: report the problem to solve it. I do so. I want to download and install this wonderfull environment now. the blackdown jre is not exa

Re: compiling third party module

2004-11-09 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _john gennard_, on 09/11/04 10:36,typed: I haven't done this for a long time, and cannot find my write-up. For weeks, I've been trying to set up wireless networking using a USB Belkin F5D6050 Adapter. At last I've managed to get Sarge with the 2.4.26.1-386 kernel to 'see' the device, bu

Re: apache being hit

2004-11-09 Thread Roberto Winter
Hello again, well... you were right!! They are receiving 404's... At least that is what access.log is reporting. However, when I tried what Mathias Tauber said, I got the source code for the root "index.html" instead of 404... very strange! Can this be explained? If you answer, please send a copy

Re: printing on "non-standard" sheet sizes

2004-11-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:40:45 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:38:45PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:37:42 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to enable th

Re: Oh, NO! Not that same "No Sound" question again...

2004-11-09 Thread Alexis Huxley
> i810_audio 21248 0 > ac97_codec 9568 0 [i810_audio] > soundcore 3236 2 [i810_audio] What kernel version is this? How recent is the alsaconf package? If you try unloading all OSS modules (including all three above) and then run alsaconf does it w

Re: printing on "non-standard" sheet sizes

2004-11-09 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:38:45PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:37:42 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to enable the A3 paper size in > > cupsys? There must be a config file somewhere that lists all of the kn

Re: apache being hit

2004-11-09 Thread Mathias Tauber
Hi, Er... sorry to all, but I just noticed that I am STILL getting a lot of requests (sorry for marking this as solved!... my mistake). Maybe some of the websites 'abusing' you still have you listed as an open proxy. This would mean the requests are made, but not succesfully answered by your serve

Problems during installation of base system

2004-11-09 Thread Dipl.Ing. Alexander Patuzzi
As already in previous versions also in Debian Woody 3/r03 for alpha installation on my Dec PW 500a stops with the message, that glibc is corrupt. How can i ever come to a running system on the computer. (i even replaced the old CD-ROM drive by a new one, so this should not be the reason)-- Rep

Re: aol art files:

2004-11-09 Thread John Hasler
GGRILLMAN writes: > John I also want to remove these dam AOL art files can you help me please??? What gives you the idea that I have the foggiest notion what an AOL art file is or that I would feel any obligation to help you remove them if I did? Contact AOL for help with your AOL stuff. This ha

Re: printing on "non-standard" sheet sizes

2004-11-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:37:42 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a project that uses longer-than-normal paper. I'm using the > hpijs-1.5 driver information. The README file says that A3 should be a > supported paper size, however, it is not recognized by c

Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 00:00, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > Wouldn't > >$ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile > > > > do it? > > For me that doubles each newline, but I can't see why. But > > $ tr -d '\r' < dosfil

RE: apache being hit

2004-11-09 Thread Dan Roozemond
> Er... sorry to all, but I just noticed that I am STILL getting a lot > of requests (sorry for marking this as solved!... my mistake). Maybe some of the websites 'abusing' you still have you listed as an open proxy. This would mean the requests are made, but not succesfully answered by your serve

Re: global addressbook

2004-11-09 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > even if the "L" in LDAP stands for lightweight, like you i think > that LDAP is overkill for what you need, so maybe it's time for a name > change... =) I would be satisfied to get LDAP working for this purpose. Get an error 81 canno

Re: libapache-auth-ldap with SSL not compiling

2004-11-09 Thread Matthias Eichler
> You don't need the Netscape SDK; auth_ldap supports TLS with the > OpenLDAP SDK, but it requires a patch. I don't know if that patch > has been applied to the Debian package or not. The patch itself > is available if you search the mailing list archives at > www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap. Ok, TLS is

compiling third party module

2004-11-09 Thread john gennard
I haven't done this for a long time, and cannot find my write-up. For weeks, I've been trying to set up wireless networking using a USB Belkin F5D6050 Adapter. At last I've managed to get Sarge with the 2.4.26.1-386 kernel to 'see' the device, but it won't use the native 'atmel' driver. The Debian

Re: At my wits end with waproamd

2004-11-09 Thread j64669
I'm no expert on waproamd, but I've got it working (sort of): On (09/11/04 05:58), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I'm at a hotel with "free wireless" and I'm having a devil of a time > getting anything to work. I am using waproamd which seems to be able > to associate with one of seven APs it finds on

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-09 Thread Olav
Op di 09-11-2004, om 14:11 schreef Ron Johnson: > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 20:27 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:40:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 23:29 +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > > > > I *really* wish there were a "server only debian"

Re: Re: aol art files:

2004-11-09 Thread GGRILLMAN
John I also want to remove these dam AOL art files can you help me please???

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