Re: What is the status of Xorg 7.0?

2006-04-25 Thread Jan Brons
On 4/26/06, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Brons wrote: > > I am wondering if the Xorg 7.0 update problems are solved. I am using > > Sid AMD64 and just want to do a apt-update but are mainly waiting for > > most of the Xorg problems are solved. If I do an update I se

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Joey Hess wrote: > Many embedded systems don't have swap. ssh in inetd worked ok last time > I used it as long as speed was not important. Thanks, Joey, I'll give it a whirl later on and let everyone know. Was just hoping that it was a question on dpkg-reconfigure that I was missing. --

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > If a process is unused for any length the time it will get swapped out > and will use very little, if any, real memory until it's woken up. Limited swap as well. I just rather it be well and gone and only loaded when required. -- Steve C. Lamb | B

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > It generates the host-specific keys at install time, but the v1 ssh > protocol requires a second smaller RSA key generated that's not used for > more than an hour, whereas the v2 protocol uses Diffie-Hellman. Ah, thanks for the explination! -- Steve C.

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > Depending on how RAM limited the system is, you might also take a look > at dropbear; it's a lightweight ssh server available in Debian. Ah, thanks. It's a 96 from unixshell.com. Trying to fit exim, apache(-ssl), SA, clamav all in 96Mb is rough. :( --

Re: What is the status of Xorg 7.0?

2006-04-25 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Jan Brons wrote: > I am wondering if the Xorg 7.0 update problems are solved. I am using > Sid AMD64 and just want to do a apt-update but are mainly waiting for > most of the Xorg problems are solved. If I do an update I see for > example that xserver-common 6.9 xfree86-common and xprint are going

etch testing bug 341055 spamassassin and exim - high load

2006-04-25 Thread hanasaki
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341055 http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4590 Anyone have a work around? the "--round-robin" from the above link has lessened the issue however it is still creating a load ave of over 12.0 ! I tried downgrading to sarge/stable f

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:23:03PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > Any suggestions? Have you commented out ``UsePAM yes'' at the bottom of Debian's default /etc/ssh/sshd_config? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Corbin
Thanks. I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of your reply. It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will after a little reading. With respect to the problem: I want to have files on my "server" at home and have my laptop be the only "out of house" machine

Can DVD-R do multi-session

2006-04-25 Thread T
Hi Can any confirm me whether DVD-R can do multi-session or not? I had always thought DVD-R can only write once. But one thought suddenly strikes me that CDRs can only write once also, but it can do multi-session. So why not DVD-R. thanks a lot tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:23:26PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to configure a Debian server to only allow clients to ssh > in if the public keys (probably RSA keys) already reside on the hard > drives of both machines. > > After spending some time in the snail book I a

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-25 Thread James Westby
On (26/04/06 01:22), James Westby wrote: > ...The server has a certificate so that you know who they are, and you get > this bit and have set it up. > > The client has a key, this is slightly different, as their is no web of > trust or similar... Sorry, I don't know what came over me. I don't ev

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:43 -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 > Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion, > Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.4. > > Howeve

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:01 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses > > less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux > > on an older machine f

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-25 Thread James Westby
On (25/04/06 19:23), Bruce Corbin wrote: > Hi All, > > Before you flame me --- I asked this question over in debian-ssh and > after 24 hours I didn't have a single hit on it. So I thought I would > try it over here. > > I would like to configure a Debian server to only allow clients to ssh >

Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Corbin
Hi All, Before you flame me --- I asked this question over in debian-ssh and after 24 hours I didn't have a single hit on it. So I thought I would try it over here. I would like to configure a Debian server to only allow clients to ssh in if the public keys (probably RSA keys) already resid

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 10:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > I don't think I am here primarily for the social contract. > [...] > > I like the policy of > > providing mechanism without mandating how it is used. > > Sounds like you summ

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-25 Thread Michael M.
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:19:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 17:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out shopping. I wonder how

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-25 Thread Michael M.
Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 17:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local? I don't

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:15:39PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > I still think GNOME/KDE (despite their improvements) are a little bit > too fat for older systems w/out much ram... it's certainly not very > groovy on my old 256M laptop. I generally use openbox, but if you're > looking

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:14:20PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >>I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses > >>less > >>resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install l

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses > less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux > on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. > > Now

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:59:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from > time to time via ssh however. Depending on how RAM limited the system is, you might also take a look at dropbear; it's a lightweight ssh server available i

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > If a process is unused for any length the time it will get swapped out > and will use very little, if any, real memory until it's woken up. Many embedded systems don't have swap. ssh in inetd worked ok last time I used it as long as speed was not important. -- see shy

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:02:03PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uh, does this seem right? I recall sshd generating the key when it is > first installed and don't recall the key changing every reboot which is when > sshd would shutdown/startup like it would from inetd. :/ It generates the host-

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 08:26, Gil Citro wrote: > Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge, > as if I'd installed everything from the DVD. What you ask for does not exist. Debian has a concept of a minimum install, and a customized install. There is no full install b

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned: > > > >>On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> > >>>Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords > >>>from a plain text fi

Re: screen : problem

2006-04-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:46 -0700, fai amd wrote: > open("./tls/i686/mmx/cmov/libncursesw.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > open("./tls/i686/mmx/libncursesw.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such > file or directory) > open("./tls/i686/cmov/libncursesw.so.5", O_RDONLY

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> >> If you are looking for low resource usage, then you want Window Maker >> (my favorite), or fluxbox, or Enlightenment, or XFCE, or IceWM, or any >> of the many other lightweight WMs. >> >> -Roberto > > > No

Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:54:29PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead, > but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v', > the View menu is displayed instead. > How can I fix that? > I have Sarge stable, and Gnome. Are y

Re: Debian Installation on ACER TRAVELMATE TM3004WTMIB

2006-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 05:09, Seidenthal Steve wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> Hi Debian Users, >---> >---> I tried to install Debian Sarge 3.1 on my Subnotebook which is an Acer >---> Travelmate TM3004 WTMIB. >---> >---> This is a 12,1" Device which has no internal DVD Drive, but has

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:01 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses > less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux > on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. > > Now I get the latest

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 25.04.2006, at 15:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. Now

Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 05:29:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Why bother with two side-by-side installs? Just use Xen and then you > can run multiple Linux (or BSD) domU's. Of course, you will still need > a separate partition for windows. I have been using vmware when all I want to d

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less > resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an > older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. > > Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than

Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome uses less resources.

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-25 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:48AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:06:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:41:09PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > > If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither > > > gru

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:19:38PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > Gil Citro wrote: > > >Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge, > >as if I'd installed everything from the DVD. I have both DVDs from the > >3.1r1 DVD set. Is there a way to install everything from the DVD > >

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 10:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I don't think I am here primarily for the social contract. [...] > I like the policy of > providing mechanism without mandating how it is used. Sounds like you summarized the social contract in one sentence. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XM

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-25, Roberto C. Sanchez penned: > >>I think you are twisting Ron's point. His original point was that >>some languages (like C/C++) make it possible to have hard to detect >>subtle faults that become security problems. Other languages (like >>COBOL) do away w

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-25, Steve Lamb penned: > > Uh, does this seem right? I recall sshd generating the key when > it is first installed and don't recall the key changing every > reboot which is when sshd would shutdown/startup like it would > from inetd. :/ It seems like at some point in m

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-25, Roberto C. Sanchez penned: > > I think you are twisting Ron's point. His original point was that > some languages (like C/C++) make it possible to have hard to detect > subtle faults that become security problems. Other languages (like > COBOL) do away with those subtle issues. Es

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have > > to rerun for new kernels with same name? > > This is so that the lilo.conf doesn't need to be chang

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned: > >>On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> >>>Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords >>>from a plain text file stored with wide-open permissions, just for >>>example. >> >>That's will

Re: bind9: high default SOA value

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
George Borisov wrote: > Hello, > > I have just finished configuring a new bind9 server on our network. :-) > > As a test I generated a report at www.dnsreport.com and it gave me the > following error message: > > --- > WARNING: Your SOA RETRY interval is : 86400 seconds. This seems very > high.

Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have just about sorted out Debian on my laptop to the point where I > am ready to do a final permanent install, so I now need to decide on > a good final partitioning scheme. > > I want to be able to run two unix/linux systems side by side, so I want to > keep shareable par

Wrong output from lpstat

2006-04-25 Thread Vincent Smeets
Hallo, I am using Debian Sarge with all the security updates and cupsys with foomatic/hpijs. If I get a listing of the queue using "lpstat -o" then I get a corrupted output for the locale "en_US". The output for the locale "C" is correct. Here is some output. PC-Vincent:532$ lpstat HP-DeskJe

Re: Horde takes forever to load

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Butch Coolidge wrote: > Quoting "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Did you remove or purge? Did you also have to drop the database tables? >> >> -Roberto > > > > I did remove the packages, not purge. And I did no changes to the > database. At first I downgraded horde3 and im4 to th

Re: ati fglrx and xorg 7.0.0

2006-04-25 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:05:46 +0200 Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the

Re: US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>Interesting dilemma for any Quakers (or members of any "peace churches") >>who are FOSS advocates. Does one take the chance to advocate for open >>source or suggest that the entire program should be dropped? > > > Scrap the whole thing unless I'm

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-25 Thread Nate Duehr
Gil Citro wrote: Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge, as if I'd installed everything from the DVD. I have both DVDs from the 3.1r1 DVD set. Is there a way to install everything from the DVD that's not already installed? I'm new to Debian and not sure how to do thi

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Steve Lamb wrote: Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could free up by moving it to inetd. If a process is unused for any length the time it will get swapped out and will use very little,

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > -i Specifies that sshd is being run from inetd(8). sshd is normally > not run from inetd because it needs to generate the server key > before it can respond to the client, and this may take tens of > seconds. Uh, does

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Greg Folkert wrote: > Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could free up by moving it to inetd. > ssh stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-25, Ron Johnson penned: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> >> Sure, but I could write a program in COBOL and still load passwords >> from a plain text file stored with wide-open permissions, just for >> example. > > That's willfully stupid programming. Peo

Re: vnc+gdm+xinetd

2006-04-25 Thread Ferran Donadie
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:30:09AM -0700, Matt Johnson wrote: > > > - Original Message > From: Ferran Donadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 10:45:06 AM > Subject: vnc+gdm+xinetd > > this is the configuration file for xinetd > > s

screen : problem

2006-04-25 Thread fai amd
hi, i am having some trouble in using screen. i connect to system A and then ssh to system B and run screen. when i use screen, it launches it and when attempted to detach it terminates than detach (cntrl+1 cntrl+d). this happens only user who's id is got from nis server and home directory mount

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While we're on the subject of file systems ... Are there any useful > runours about the long-awaited landing of reiser4 at Debian? > The rumors are true (at least on sid): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ apt-cache search reiser4 kernel-patch-2

Re: Debian Installation on ACER TRAVELMATE TM3004WTMIB

2006-04-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Seidenthal Steve wrote: Hi Debian Users, I tried to install Debian Sarge 3.1 on my Subnotebook which is an Acer Travelmate TM3004 WTMIB. This is a 12,1" Device which has no internal DVD Drive, but has an Firewire external MutliDrive. I can boot from the DVD but the installer does not find the

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:34 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned: > >> > > >> > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL. > >> > >> I'm sure it's possibl

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-25 Thread Matthias Julius
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't that the purpose of symlinks to kernel images? so you don't have > to rerun for new kernels with same name? This is so that the lilo.conf doesn't need to be changed. The lilo bootloader doesn't know anything about filesystems. And it doe

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 12:45 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Is there some automated method of placing sshd into inetd? I've attempted > to dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server to no avail. Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? sshd should typically be run as a daemon. As far as I know, there isn

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-25, Steve Lamb penned: > > Is there some automated method of placing sshd into inetd? I've atte= > mpted > to dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server to no avail. I don't know about automated, but I found this warning in `man sshd`: -i Specifies that sshd is being run from inetd

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Steve Lamb wrote: Is there some automated method of placing sshd into inetd? I've attempted to dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server to no avail. You almost certainly don't want to run sshd from inetd. Bad idea. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam & anti-virus Cons

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> The two CDs I have are actually two DVDs that came out of a magazine, >> >> including the complete Debian Sarge 3.1 stable. >> >> I have no more installation media. >> >> I thought they were including everything I'd need, but instead, >> >> if I understand what you say

ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Is there some automated method of placing sshd into inetd? I've attempted to dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server to no avail. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... ---+-

Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages

2006-04-25 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi. > When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead, > but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v', > the View menu is displayed instead. > How can I fix that? > I have Sarge stable, and Gnome. Which pager are you using? $ update-al

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> On 2006-04-22, Ron Johnson penned: >> > >> > Unless you write with a secure language like COBOL. >> >> I'm sure it's possible to write an insecure program in COBOL. > > It would be darned hard. > >

bind9: high default SOA value

2006-04-25 Thread George Borisov
Hello, I have just finished configuring a new bind9 server on our network. :-) As a test I generated a report at www.dnsreport.com and it gave me the following error message: --- WARNING: Your SOA RETRY interval is : 86400 seconds. This seems very high. You should consider decreasing this value

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:56:27PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output > > of > > uname -m > > > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > > > didn't seem to work. It defi

Debian Installation on ACER TRAVELMATE TM3004WTMIB

2006-04-25 Thread Seidenthal Steve
Hi Debian Users, I tried to install Debian Sarge 3.1 on my Subnotebook which is an Acer Travelmate TM3004 WTMIB. This is a 12,1" Device which has no internal DVD Drive, but has an Firewire external MutliDrive. I can boot from the DVD but the installer does not find the modules to detect de DVD D

Re: US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:50, Steve Lamb wrote: > Scrap the whole thing unless I'm missing the "make video games" clause in > the Constitution. I tend to agree. I was only lukewarm to the game to start, got really into it, then the port was dropped. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Googl

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/25/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have checked java and preferences. I see a window asking for permission > to install software. I click on the button that gives permission. There > is a short delay, after which the 'Extensions' window is still empty. > Shouldn't all installe

Re: vnc+gdm+xinetd

2006-04-25 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Ferran Donadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 10:45:06 AM Subject: vnc+gdm+xinetd this is the configuration file for xinetd service vnc-800x600 { only_from = 192.168.2.0 disable = no socket_type =

wireless problems

2006-04-25 Thread lostson
I cant build either module wlan-bg or ndiswrapper is this a know problem on etch? I have the kernel-source and the headers and just am having no luck. I have googled around trying to find something and found a few and have followed the directions but still to no avail, any ideas, thanks. -- LostSo

Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:11:43AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > > > > >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:08:55 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:23:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [...] > > I just installed it for sarge from > > http://readeasily.mozdev.org/installation.html > > > > You probably have to allow java and to set preferences > web

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Apr 2006, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:23:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >>Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you > > >>just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for > > >>those ri

Failed wireless connection

2006-04-25 Thread Antonio Paiva
Hi, I'm trying to use wireless access with a Asus WL-100 pcmcia wireless card. The card is detected and works in the system (Debian Etch beta2). When I insert the card the hostap driver is activated. I then changed the driver default wireless parameters with: iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 05:14:49PM +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:15:06PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >>Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >>>On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:14, Steve Lamb wrote: > >>>Include my name in the list of "people for whom soc

Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

2006-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:11:43AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > > > > >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output of > uname -m > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of > i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is

Re: slimp3 server behaving oddly

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:24:16PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-16, Monique Y. Mudama penned: > > I run the slimp3 package. Lately I've been using it a lot more than > > usual, because I finally put a client box next to my stereo so that > > I can listen to my music on decent speak

Re: partitioning for dual-linux..

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:29:51AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > >This is my initial though on the partitioning of the 60GB drive on my > > >Debian laptop: > > > XP -10.00GB > > > boot

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:23:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >>Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you > >>just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for > >>those ridiculous site where you have pale blue text on

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:53:35PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> The two CDs I have are actually two DVDs that came out of a magazine, > >> including the complete Debian Sarge 3.1 stable. > >> I have no more installation media. > >> I thought they were including every

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:57:30AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: While we're on the subject of file systems ... Are there any useful runours about the long-awaited landing of reiser4 at Debian? While we are at it: reiser4 was one of the main reasons, why I switched from sus

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Zouari Fourat wrote: > am trying to install debian sarge 3.1r1 (netinstall, expert26 at boot) > on my new Toshiba Satellite A100 laptop and it wont install, telling > me : > > Linux kernel modules needed to drive some of your hardware are not > available y

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output > of > uname -m > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of > i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is*

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-25 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:53:35PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Only, I'm disapponted because I'd preferred I could do without the net > when installing packages: that all I needed was there in my two DVDs. You can do the entire installation from the DVD's, but if you want to build packages y

Re: NIC Problems

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:58:20AM -0400, daniel arjona wrote: > Hello Everybody: > > I am playing with Linux Debian 3.1 release 1 for first time. I have some > problems with the network access. In fact I can not ping my gateway. I > double checked the network setups using webmin and also using

Re: US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: > Interesting dilemma for any Quakers (or members of any "peace churches") > who are FOSS advocates. Does one take the chance to advocate for open > source or suggest that the entire program should be dropped? Scrap the whole thing unless I'm missing the "make video games

Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:54:52PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead, > but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v', > the View menu is displayed instead. > How can I fix that? change the key assignments for

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Lale wrote: [ snipped 46 lines of quoted material ] > And another. Whoa, who let the AOLer in here. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:06:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:41:09PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither > > grub nor lilo need the update. But it doesn't hurt. Unless you changed > > menu.lst

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:25:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output of > uname -m > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of > i686 o

Re: Performance issue on Stable

2006-04-25 Thread Martin A. Brooks
IraqiGeek wrote: As far as performance, those early P4s and Xeons werent any real performers. My old XP 1800+ rig with 512MB was on par with a 2.4GHz Northwood P4 (512KB, 400MHz bus) in most tasks that I could throw at it. Agreed. My rule of thumb, which may not be true for newer Intel proce

Etch and Xorg

2006-04-25 Thread Craig M. Houck
Just this AM I put ETCH on a Dell Dim. 4100 and no X. YIKES. I did an apt-get install xserver-xorg xutils x-windows-system-core and I had 640x480 in /etc/X11/xorg.config I added my monitor's HorizSync and VertRrefresh and I was at my max res. If this helps anyone, great. Craig -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for those ridiculous site where you have pale blue text on a white background, etc. Thanks. I'd like to try this but so far as I know I'

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