Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-11-30 Thread Krizsán László
 Hi!   Maybe the missing "then" after the previous "if" is the problem!   Krizsán László Hungary - Original Message - From: Louie Miranda To: Debian-User Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: Shell Script (If and Else) problem Im having troubles

Re: remote desktop and VPN

2005-11-30 Thread Klaus Thielking-Riechert
Bob, On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:16:07PM +, Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client > goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like > remote desktop client to do a remote control. Bob, for the remote desktop you can use

Re: OT: Copying image using acroread from pdf file

2005-11-30 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:34:00PM -0500, T wrote: > > If I have to paste from pdf's, which I do quite often, I use xpdf. > are you talking about text, or image? Text only I'm afraid :-( Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/30/05, Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > >From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is > > generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. > > Could anyone confirm t

ATI FIreGL4 drivers for ia64

2005-11-30 Thread Ramesh Sistla
Hi List! We recently ported our ia64 machine which was running hp-ux to debian3.1. Installation was a breeze. But we are having problems in bringing up X. I understand it is because of the ATI FireGL4 graphics card that we have. I googled a lot but couldn't find drivers for this particular ca

Re: Who is wiki.debian.org maintainer?

2005-11-30 Thread gnrfan
El mié, 30-11-2005 a las 09:17 +, Jon Dowland escribió: > After a short while, someone else imported the old wiki content and > systematically erased any question that there was an issue with > licencing. They then ignored my email. Judging from the info published in the frontpage of the new

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Beattie wrote: > That may be so, but why are you using dapper instead of breezy anyway? More important questions are: a: why is he crossposting what looks to be a troll to both mailing lists and... b: why are people replying to what looks like a troll to both mailing lists? :) --

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Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread gnrfan
El mié, 30-11-2005 a las 16:53 +0100, Krizsán László escribió: > Hi! > > I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without > root account? > Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that gr

remote desktop and VPN

2005-11-30 Thread Bob Hynes
Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like remote desktop client to do a remote control. I do this with XP already, just curious if anyone has done this with Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: OT: Small business financial software

2005-11-30 Thread Mike
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I will be shortly starting a small business. I am wondering what software (preferrably available via apt-get/aptitude/etc.) other small business owners/consultants out there use to keep track of business finances. Thanks for any insight. -Roberto I have been wo

Re: SSH is disconnecting at random

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Clauson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > Hi, > I have recently installed Debian sarge on an old machine and usually log > on using ssh since I don't have a monitor hooked up to the machine. It > has been working fine for some time but recently, the computer has bee

update-grub on aptitude install of new linux image...

2005-11-30 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'm wondering how to make update-grub automatically when ever a new linux image gets installed, whether from debian stock or generated through make-kpkg. Might be just editing a config file or something? Thx, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: Problems with IP address change

2005-11-30 Thread Grant Thomas
On 29 Nov 2005 00:13:20 -0800, Kegan Holtzhausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for routing info, > # route > [snip] > # ip route > [snip] > see the src part... that sets my from address which is assigned.. > > also check > [snip] > # ip addr > > > Kegan Holtzhausen Thanks for the pointers Mr. Holtz

SSH is disconnecting at random

2005-11-30 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I have recently installed Debian sarge on an old machine and usually log on using ssh since I don't have a monitor hooked up to the machine. It has been working fine for some time but recently, the computer has been disconnecting me at random and closing the connection. I initially thought

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Colin
Yasir Assam wrote: > Will doing 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' install the > default kernel? Will it leave mine in the GRUB menu at least? Doing a dist-upgrade will NOT upgrade the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Colin
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> For Intel cards and chipsets, the future looks bright. Intel will >> now support Debian. > > That's terrific news. Is there more info on that? The ipw2200 module is now part of the Linux kernel (2.6.14?) so Centrino is supported. The only cat

Re: Help understanding this apache2 directive from apache2.conf

2005-11-30 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: > Hi, > > In [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf] file there's this line : > <<< > # Include generic snippets of statements > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]* > >>> > > What does the [^.#]* say ? I know that it's regular expression but > I've

Re: Linux nukes my network hardware?

2005-11-30 Thread Hornet
On 11/24/05, Gerard H. Pille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > a couple of days ago, when booting into Debian, I could not get a > DHCP-offer, so the network was not brought up. > > I assigned an address that was not in use via ifconfig, and tried a > couple of pings. > > Pinging a system in

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:42:15AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:14:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. > > > > Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a scre

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

2005-11-30 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:06:48PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Bruno Buys on 30/11/05 17:19, wrote: > > > Are you trying to get something that mplayer can´t? Realplayer is a > > pain, I think. Never figured how to play those smil files, supposed > > to be Real´s prop format. Real´s for win does play

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

2005-11-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:06:48PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I've been there and done that. There's no firefox mplayer extension > though, is there? > > I could really appreciate it someone could chime in with a big hint > about my situation above. There actually is an mplayer plugin and it wo

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

2005-11-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Bruno Buys on 30/11/05 17:19, wrote: Adam Hardy on 28/11/05 22:07, wrote: Adam Hardy on 28/11/05 21:39, wrote: Alexis Huxley on 28/11/05 20:36, wrote: Using RealPlayer 10 and it won't output sound anymore, just video, when trying *.ram feeds from websites. Is the audio device in use? Try

Re: Xine as screensaver

2005-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:30:23PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > I'd like to start a DVD playing and then lock the keyboard and mouse > so that a password needs to be entered to stop playback. > > I had origionally thought that I could just use xscreensaver to call > xine on the root and have xscree

Xine as screensaver

2005-11-30 Thread David Berg
I'd like to start a DVD playing and then lock the keyboard and mouse so that a password needs to be entered to stop playback. I had origionally thought that I could just use xscreensaver to call xine on the root and have xscreensaver lock. Problem is, xine turns off the screensaver when it loads

Re: After reboot /etc/resolv.conf is missing

2005-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Jacob Friis Saxberg([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. > > After I reboot my server, /etc/resolv.conf is missing. > > Any idea why? resolvconf is not configured correctly. Locate the resolvconf docs and then set it up correctly wt -- There are two ways to write error-free p

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:11:39PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Xset did not define the dpms states, this does: > http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/dpms.htm > > Also you have to set the option in the monitor section, per googling for > dpms subject. > > However, doing all that, I got it to wo

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
On 11/30/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo > component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a > pretty big hard drive (30 megs)

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:14:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen saver. Just plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia cl

Re: Help understanding this apache2 directive from apache2.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: > In [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf] file there's this line : > <<< > # Include generic snippets of statements > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]* > >>> > > What does the [^.#]* say ? > I know that it's regular expression but I've yet to s

After reboot /etc/resolv.conf is missing

2005-11-30 Thread Jacob Friis Saxberg
Hello. After I reboot my server, /etc/resolv.conf is missing. Any idea why? Thanks, Jacob

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Derek Broughton
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is > generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. > Could anyone confirm this. Not categorically, since I no longer use Sid, but Dapper's not seriously broken. It upgrades fine, bu

Re: Strange locale behavior

2005-11-30 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:06:47PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Perl keeps giving locale errors so here is this: > $ locale > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:39 +, marc wrote: > Michelle Konzack said... > > Am 2005-11-25 20:01:08, schrieb Clive Menzies: > > > > > Whilst we're on interesting reading, Ronald Wright's 'A Short History of > > > Progress' provides a take on civilisations, past and present, which is > > > highly

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Carlos N . A . Corrêa
On 11/30/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo > component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a > pretty big hard drive (30 megs)

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 11/30/05, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when > > aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? > > This is the very situation that low level command d

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:23:53PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right? For Intel cards and chipsets, the future looks bright. Intel w

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 30 Novembre 2005 01:09, Leonid Grinberg a écrit : Hello, since you still have "the other operating system", I would suggest that you use it in order to gather information about the hardware with the thing called "control panel" if i remember right... > Hello, > > A few hours ago, I

stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to figure out which audio

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-30 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:34:43PM -, marc wrote: > said... > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:46AM -, marc wrote: > > > > > I have a share that is 3Tb. More practically, though, when a client > > > works here, connects to the network and presents a share, he would be > > > mightily peeved

Re: root in non terminal

2005-11-30 Thread marc
Rafi Gabzu said... > Hi , > Kernel 2.6, "Testing" release, > How do I set my permission to root in a non terminal/consul ? for > example in the graphical GUI of KDE/konqure . > When I'm trying to log in to the system as a root it won't let me , > just as a simple user. Edit /etc/kde3/kdm/ AllowRo

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-30 Thread marc
Michelle Konzack said... > Am 2005-11-25 20:01:08, schrieb Clive Menzies: > > > Whilst we're on interesting reading, Ronald Wright's 'A Short History of > > Progress' provides a take on civilisations, past and present, which is > > highly thought provoking. Examining the rise and fall of the > >

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread d
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Krizsán László wrote: > [...] > > - Original Message - > From: "Michelle Konzack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM > Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account? > > > >grep -vE "^root:" /etc/pass

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-30 Thread Andy Streich
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:09 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I > like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO) > out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites. > I would

Re: Can't login... need help

2005-11-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi Paul! On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:21:12AM -0500, Paul Ravish wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > My responses below > > On Nov 28, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > >Paul Ravish wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >>I'm kinda a newbie to Linux, and I think messed something up. I > >>can't login through t

Help understanding this apache2 directive from apache2.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hi, In [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf] file there's this line : <<< # Include generic snippets of statements Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]* >>> What does the [^.#]* say ? I know that it's regular expression but I've yet to see this regex syntax... Is it: "Match any file Not beginning with any ch

Strange locale behavior

2005-11-30 Thread David Baron
Perl keeps giving locale errors so here is this: $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=en_ENus LC_CTYPE

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On 11/30/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > >From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is > generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. > Could anyone confirm this. > Thanks... > That may be so, but why are you using dapper i

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. > > Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen > saver. Just plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia closed source driver. > > I would like to disabl

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Shot - Piotr Szotkowski
Hello. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's > unstable is generally more broken than Debian's It depends. Ubuntu has a 6 month release cycle, and early in the cycle the 'unstable' (currently - Dapper) is generally broken, while near the end of the cycle it

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-30 Thread T
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: > Hello List, > > How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when > aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level command dpg comes into play. Try: dpkg --purge exim4 T --

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:14:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. > > Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen saver. > Just > plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia closed source dri

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 11/30/05, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp > > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp > > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc

Re: Off Site Backup: Removable hard-drive racks or external USB hard-drives?

2005-11-30 Thread Andy
Rogério Brito wrote: This (an external PATA drive in a dual USB2/Firewire enclosure) is the solution that I have been using for quite some time now. In fact, I'm only using the Firewire side of it and it works quite well for all my needs. Great, ill go for external USB/Firewire disks then. It

screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, On both my monitors the screen blanks when you do not use it for a time. Anybody has an idea who is in charge of this? I don't have a screen saver. Just plain XFree86 under Sarge with the Nvidia closed source driver. I would like to disable it in some cases. Thanks. H -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-30 Thread marc
Lars said... > >I have a mixed XP and Linux network here > And you never have time-outs or similar? Very rarely. Usually, the problem boils down to a Windows prog getting its knickers in a twist. Restarting the app fixes the problem. However, if we just leave the network alone, the it just wor

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

2005-11-30 Thread Bruno Buys
[KS] wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: > It says 'cannot open audio device, another application may be using it' if I try playing an OGG file. If I try a stream from online, it give no errors, it just remains silent. I was also getting a similar error of sound device already in use or not ev

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread Dick Davies
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow > > grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp > mv

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread Krizsán László
Hi! I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without root account? - Original Message - From: "Michelle Konzack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account? grep -vE "^root:" /

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Lilley
I used the NDISWrapper http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ to get a Linksys card going on Sarge. Although I was unable to get the WEP settings running. Steve Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:09:26PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, A few hours ago, I have insta

Re: JPGraph won't install

2005-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: Umm... Has the thought to try and contact the Debian Developer maintaining libphp-jpgraph with more detail than this email describe crossed your mind? I don't think it has or I would have seen an email in my Inbox or a BTS filed and in my Bug folder as I am said mainta

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-30 Thread marc
said... > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:46AM -, marc wrote: > > > I have a share that is 3Tb. More practically, though, when a client > > works here, connects to the network and presents a share, he would be > > mightily peeved for all of its data to spread itself across the local > > univers

Re: What's that displayed on 'top'?

2005-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/30/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/28/05, Henrik Morsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> > >> > Hello, > >> > On the CPU row of top, there's various stuff displayed: > >> > 'us' (which I assume is CPU cycles consumed

Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, >From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. Could anyone confirm this. Thanks...

Re: How can I update udev???

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-28 17:33:19, schrieb Günther Obrist: > Hi! I am new in this mailing list...My question: > I found out I have an old version of udev 056 on my debian stable... > > http://lwn.net/Articles/136970/ > > But I need this RUN rule to realise my project...Does any of you > have an debian

Re: Mutt & 2 accounts

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-28 12:47:31, schrieb Vladimir Zolotykh: > With conjunction with mutt -y it works fine. The problem still > remains, thought. If I use one account say for user1 I need From: > field to look like <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and when I use another account the > From: field should be different, s

Re: Mutt and debian-user list

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-27 17:01:09, schrieb Vladimir Zolotykh: > Why Mutt wouldn't send messages to debian-user@lists.debian.org, do you > know? because you have forgotten to put the line subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org in your muttrc and then the next time pres L = "l" to reply to the list. Greeti

Re: TWO independent mouse

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-27 16:28:08, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Wiadomo?? Oryginalna > Od: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Data: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:56:41 -0600 > I mean 2 mice with 2 cursors on the same screen ! > Is this possible ? Workoholic? Clickoho

Re: Store pop mail locally or in database

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Philippe, Am 2005-11-25 16:16:07, schrieb Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro): > > Hello, > > I use some different servers and also mail servers. Me too. > I catch all e-mail (in and out) of the company in one mailbox that i > receive via a pop account in my debian thunderbird. > Does anyone knows a p

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp mv /etc/group.tmp /etc/group grep -vE "^0:" /etc/gshadow >/etc/gshadow.tm

Re: debian and the malware problem

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-27 15:56:27, schrieb Ron Johnson: > Rootkits and worms come immediately to mind. :-) If you leave ports openund use insecure CGI's on your server or weak passwords or ... > What's to stop such malware (which, if it exploits the "right" bug), > from installing a keylogger (since, reme

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-25 20:01:08, schrieb Clive Menzies: > Whilst we're on interesting reading, Ronald Wright's 'A Short History of > Progress' provides a take on civilisations, past and present, which is > highly thought provoking. Examining the rise and fall of the > Sumerian, Mayan, Egyptian and Roman c

Re: Filesharing on small LAN

2005-11-30 Thread marc
said... > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:19:45AM -, marc wrote: > > > > > Sorry to say it, but Linux filesharing is really not where it should > > > be > > > > I agree. > > > > > and I think there is no established system allowing automatic > > > discovery (other than Samba). > > > > Which is p

Re: sendmail/vacation

2005-11-30 Thread nx13441a
nx13441a wrote: >I'm getting this: > >The original message was received at Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:15:18 GMT >from [x.x.x.x] > > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - >|"/usr/bin/vacation user" >(reason: 1) >(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > - Transcript

Re: Who is wiki.debian.org maintainer?

2005-11-30 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:17:44 + Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:26:46AM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > As in the subject, I have some question/suggestion to address to > > whom > > manages the wiki. > > I would like to know who is the maintainer of wiki.deb

Re: root in non terminal

2005-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , Kernel 2.6, "Testing" release, How do I set my permission to root in a non terminal/consul ? for example in the graphical GUI of KDE/konqure . When I'm trying to log in to the system as a root it won't let me , just as a simple user. Thanks, Rafi As many things in Debian,

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian t

root in non terminal

2005-11-30 Thread Rafi Gabzu
Hi , Kernel 2.6, "Testing" release, How do I set my permission to root in a non terminal/consul ? for example in the graphical GUI of KDE/konqure . When I'm trying to log in to the system as a root it won't let me , just as a simple user. Thanks, Rafi

Re: What's that displayed on 'top'?

2005-11-30 Thread michael
> On 11/28/05, Henrik Morsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > On the CPU row of top, there's various stuff displayed: >> > 'us' (which I assume is CPU cycles consumed by processes owned by the >> > user running top), 'sy' (which

Re: What's that displayed on 'top'?

2005-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/28/05, Henrik Morsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hello, > > On the CPU row of top, there's various stuff displayed: > > 'us' (which I assume is CPU cycles consumed by processes owned by the > > user running top), 'sy' (which I assume

Re: Support to UNIX Termcap system.

2005-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:14:25PM +0100, FOFANA SOULEMANE wrote: > hi ! > please send me the support to UNIX Temcap system, I need for my workgroup, > I'm in very emergency. > THANK Your request does not make sense. What are you trying to do? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familias

Support to UNIX Termcap system.

2005-11-30 Thread FOFANA SOULEMANE
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Re: usb speedtouch modem with 2.6.11 (was 2.10)

2005-11-30 Thread michael
>> anybody got their Speedtouch USB modem working under 2.10 'unstable' >> post >> recent updates (eg new udev and Xorg)? care to talk us through it? I >> know >> we have to unroll udev to an earlier version but there I am stuck. >> >> is the speedtch module stuff still in 2.10 unstable kernel (not

Re: how to config tha proftpd with TLS

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:08:01PM +0800, 不坏阿峰 wrote: [snip] > now my question is ,have i install the module TLS when i apt-get > install > proftpd ?? Yes, per the source package the TLS module is compiled. The debian/rules file shows: # This is the suite of modules maintained in debian/, not up

Re: killproc

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:00:34AM +, John Talbut wrote: > Tim Ruehsen wrote: > >>I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. > >> This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. If it's a shell script, you could change it to include /lib/lsb/init-functions. >

Re: usb speedtouch modem with 2.10

2005-11-30 Thread michael
> anybody got their Speedtouch USB modem working under 2.10 'unstable' post > recent updates (eg new udev and Xorg)? care to talk us through it? I know > we have to unroll udev to an earlier version but there I am stuck. > > is the speedtch module stuff still in 2.10 unstable kernel (not quite what

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO) out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites. I would just like to post stats on what the respoding population likes (in brackets w

Re: web camera and printer

2005-11-30 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: > Hi , > "testing" release , kernel 2.6. > > 1. I have quickcam Logiteck camera , I do not see video (with > Gnomeeting) , how should I make it work ? Found via google, might apply for you: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t

usb speedtouch modem with 2.10

2005-11-30 Thread linux
anybody got their Speedtouch USB modem working under 2.10 'unstable' post recent updates (eg new udev and Xorg)? care to talk us through it? I know we have to unroll udev to an earlier version but there I am stuck. is the speedtch module stuff still in 2.10 unstable kernel (not quite what mean

Re: Can't login... need help

2005-11-30 Thread Mario Frasca
Paul, you must make sure that X is not running on an other console if you want to use startx. the suggestion to run startx is very reasonable: this way you will see where it stops. if you don't manage to stop gdm/kdm/xdm, you can do two things I believe: switch to an other runlevel (you do this

Re: killproc

2005-11-30 Thread John Talbut
Tim Ruehsen wrote: I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead? If you are using killproc for sending signals to processes by name (instead of

Re: Who is wiki.debian.org maintainer?

2005-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:26:46AM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > As in the subject, I have some question/suggestion to address to whom > manages the wiki. > I would like to know who is the maintainer of wiki.debian.org The Debian System Administration team, I believe, but I don't know how to cont

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Nov 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:23:53PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > > Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take > > it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right? > > > > That's right. Any or all of the above ca

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:58:00PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get > more confident about what I'm doing). > Update to stable. Do it gradually, taking ten or twenty packages at a time and resolv

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:23:53PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take > it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right? > That's right. Any or all of the above can be useful to try and identify the type of card - wi

Re: killproc

2005-11-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. > This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. > > What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead? If you are using killproc for sending signals to processes by name (instead of by processid)