best package for fax machine?

2006-11-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have a 200 MHz Pentium and a spare 350 Mz Pentium-II. I would like to use one or the other with a laser printer and an external US Robotics fax modem as a dedicated fax machine, primarily for incoming faxes with a volume averaging about a hundred pages a day. The prime software candidates in th

/dev/hd* gone with udev

2006-11-15 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I recently upgraded my Debian testing system. When I rebooted, almost all the device nodes in /dev were gone, and the system wouldn't boot all the way up (got all the way to starting nfs, somehow). I ended up removing udev and installing hotplug through the single-user recovery console. I'd lik

Re: levels of expertise on software usage

2006-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/15/06, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:08:18AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >according to Craig A. Finseth, and Emacs fan, whose thesis on text editing > >technology was regarded as the authority in the field ^^^ What is regarded a

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Mike McCarty
Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:54:15PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: How about: # rm -f 1141914051.* No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. T

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
I can get this soundcard working by entering the command "modprobe cs4232". However, I have to reload the module each time I restart the laptop. So, I'm wondering, how do I get the laptop to load the module itself on startup? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-15 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 00:54 +0100, Jarek Buczyński wrote: > Hello > > > /etc/sysctl.conf > > Could You give me some more information, please > man sysctl; man sysctl.conf? ;o) I think the one you want is kernel.printk info on what to set it to, here: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/200

mysql client fail to start.

2006-11-15 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use lastest Debian testing. mysql client fail to start. error message show: mysql: relocation error: mysql: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

Re: Courier authmysql does not query DB

2006-11-15 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:36 +0100, Jan Dinger wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:03:48 -0500 > David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to integrate courier-imap with my msyql based virtual > > domain/user setup. > > > > The problem that I am having is that whenever I activate the >

Having Trouble Writing to /dev/fd0; Not Sure why.

2006-11-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Is there anything besides hardware failure of the write circuitry in either the floppy drive or the controller which would make it able to perfectly read diskettes but not format or write? I did try the MAKEFLOPPIES script which ran correctly, but doing a low-level format of a diskette pro

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:04:08PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Is using only version 2 public key authentication not possible? I'm > just learning ssh, so maybe I'm misled thinking that is less vulnerable > to a brute force attack. > Whether or not just using ssh2 with public keys is possib

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
Maybe you can try with an expect[1] script? Something like: --8<---cut here---start->8--- #!/usr/bin/expect -f send_user "Word?\ " expect_user -re "(.*)\n" exec dict "$expect_out(1,string)\n" exit --8<---cut here---end--->8

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 15 12:57 -0600]: > Is there a another option? Alternatively, is there a way of > automatically reporting offending ip's? Is using only version 2 public key authentication not possible? I'm just learning ssh, so maybe I'm misled thinking that is les

Installing Debian

2006-11-15 Thread Philippe Faure
I was wondering, instead of burning a CD for a one time install. Was there a way to copy the minimal files (OS, and networking) to a floppy disk and then run the rest of the install from there? This would 1- not require to burn a CD to install Debian 2- You woudl download only the apps that you wan

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:00, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Peter Colton wrote: > > A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is fail2ban : > > You can install it from backports.org. > > Add the backport url to your sources.list > > http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki

Re: [debian-users] Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Bob Bosiljevac
# rm -f 1141914051.* No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work. $ rm -i 1141914051.* rm: cannot lstat `1141914051.M484859P8695V0309Ip0007553_0.draupnir,S=3707:2,S': No such file or

How to clean arp table

2006-11-15 Thread Cesar Fazan
Hello, After many years using FreeBSD, Im now moving my gateways to debian, and I stuck with a simple lazy thing ... How do I clean arp table on debian? On FreeBSD I can just do an "arp -ad", but on debian I didnt found how to do that and google didnt helped me. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:00:10 + Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Peter Colton wrote: > > A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is > > fail2ban : You can install it from backports.org. > > Add the backport url to your sources.list > > http://www.

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like > > /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0 > > 0 > > > > The above line is unt

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread swhe
hello, which file system do u want to mount? On 11/16/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like > /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like > /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0 0 > > The above line is untested so try it only after reading all the relevant > manual pages. >

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:52, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I seem to be hitting dead ends and I'm beginning to think this isn't as > easy as I first thought. > > I am putting together a box for unattended operation. I want to mount > an ext3 partition into the main user's home directory, I want t

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
As luck would have it, I found the answer right after posting to the list. I found the answer here: http://www.nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2003-March/011457.html In a nutshell, mount the partition at the desired mount point then change the owner, group, and permissions as needed. It should r

Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
I seem to be hitting dead ends and I'm beginning to think this isn't as easy as I first thought. I am putting together a box for unattended operation. I want to mount an ext3 partition into the main user's home directory, I want this to occur automatically when all file systems are mounted at sys

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Wayne Topa
J.A. de Vries([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > To be honest I don't know what to do next. I really want to backup my mail, > but cannot because of this problem. To solve the problem I need to remove the > file, but when I do try such I get told it isn't there. Any suggestions? >

RE: Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-15 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Hello > /etc/sysctl.conf Could You give me some more information, please -- Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:02 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: [...snip...] > #--- > # cd ~/Maildir/.Applications.\[vim\]/cur > # ls 1141914051.* > ls: 1141914051.M484859P8695V0309Ip0007553_0.draupnir,S=3707:2,S: > No

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 12:25:25 (week 46) Ken Irving wrote: > See if find sees the file, e.g., > > find -name 11419\* > > and if it does, then something like > > find -name 11419\* -exec rm {} \; > > or > find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \; > > if you'd like to have a look at it.

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 16:35:28 (week 46) Matthew Krauss wrote: > I'm thinking you have a file with a name that the shell doesn't want to > handle correctly. As far as I can tell, there's nothing irregular about the name itself. The only somewhat "special" characters in it are a comma, an equal sign an

how bash encode/decode characters with byte value greater than 0x7f

2006-11-15 Thread T
Hi For characters whose byte values are greater than 0x7f, how bash encode/decode them? I.e., echo $'\312\325\274\376\317\344' | bash_encode Anybody know how to make the output similar to '\312\325\274\376\317\344'? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.ne

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shri Shrikumar: > > 1. Report each ip address that does this. However, a lot of them seems > to be from asia with no proper abuse@ address to contact. Additionally, > this can be very time consuming. I do not think you achieve much by doing this. Doing this automatically, as you suggested below

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-15 Thread Shawn Parker
On 11/15/06, Martinez Perez Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I'm planning to install a home server. I would like to install apache, mysql, a firewall and oracle. I'm considering to use a mini-itx mainboard. Does anyone has tried it? I don't know if it will be able to support the insta

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: How about: # rm -f 1141914051.* No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work. $ rm -i 1141914051.* rm: cannot

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/11/15, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Look at this situation more positively. Not so long ago, Sun paid absolutely no attention to GPL. Now they hope to gain public credit by pretending to supporting it. Maybe in a little while they will figure out a business strategy that allows them t

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > But if a Sun dealer were to install Debian's Java package, would he still > be subject to these restrictions? They would be irrelevant. He would not be removing any logos. Do you really think Sun could sue a dealer who took a trade-in machine from which a customer had removed t

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:54:15PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: > > > How about: > > > > # rm -f 1141914051.* > > > > No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar > > mysterious situation. > > Ah, hadn't tried that

Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router

2006-11-15 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
On Sun, Nov 12, I asked for help connecting my new AMD 64 to the Internet. The help I got. The postings I received were printed and then deleted. so please excuse that i do neither top quote nor post quote. Douglas Tutty suggested to use ipmasq or shorewall for the basic firewall and dnsmasq fo

Re: Typing characters with byte value greater than 0x7f.

2006-11-15 Thread James Steward
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 20:42 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:26:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:01:53PM +1100, James Steward wrote: > > > I have searched for some time now for a method by which I can enter > > > characters from (say) ISO 8859-1

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi Peter, Peter Colton wrote: A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is fail2ban : You can install it from backports.org. Add the backport url to your sources.list http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Then after you have installed fail2ban comment out

Re: USB device incongruities

2006-11-15 Thread Björn Lindström
Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Björn Lindström wrote: > >> I have two etch systems, one on a desktop, one on a laptop. I have the >> usb-storage module loaded on both. >> >> On the desktop, if I plug my camera (a Pentax Optio M20) in, I get a >> /dev/sda and a /dev/sda1 device. On the

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: > How about: > > # rm -f 1141914051.* > > No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar > mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work. $ rm -i 1141914051.* rm: cannot lstat `1141914051.M4

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Björn Lindström
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But if a Sun dealer were to install Debian's Java package, would he > still be subject to these restrictions? And would that make it > non-DFSG? No, since that restriction wouldn't be put on the dealer by the license from Debian, but by their completely separate agreement wit

Re: Ubuntu package in Debian repos

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:43:13AM -0500, Craigevil wrote: This is rather strange and disturbing a Ubuntu package in Debian. Since I do not choose to run *buntu but Debian Sid, I feel the maintainers should rename the package. What's next the *buntu desktop package?

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:51, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration attempts > using brute force password guessing bots. > > There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more annoyed > by this and as far as I can see am

Re: Typing characters with byte value greater than 0x7f.

2006-11-15 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:26:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:01:53PM +1100, James Steward wrote: > > I have searched for some time now for a method by which I can enter > > characters from (say) ISO 8859-1 in X applications. In essence > > I would like to insert a "DEGR

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
Mark Grieveson wrote: Disclaimer: not a pressing issue, but a curiosity none-the-less. Hello. I'm setting up an old laptop for an inexperienced user, and I'd like to set up a dictionary on the the desktop. The laptop will not be connected to the internet (except for the occasional dial-up

Re: kernel upgrading

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:27:12AM +, Francesco Pietra wrote: > While I am OK with debian etch amd64 (kernel 17), I found difficulties in > upgrading i386 from 15-1 to 17, using module-assistant. Because linux kernel > installs, I guess I was unable to get rid from my current X installation

Re: exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:39:21AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > Here's my situation and what I want: > > 1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I > haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is > speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost. Incom

Re: levels of expertise on software usage

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:08:18AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >according to Craig A. Finseth, and Emacs fan, whose thesis on text editing > >technology was regarded as the authority in the field ^^^ What is regarded as the authority in the field now? > """Novice users have

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > There is a EFI enabled lilo though, called "elilo." Apple has released > a tool called Bootcamp, that allowes you to install WindowsXP (heaven > knows why they had to go do that), which adds a PC-style boot > record/partition table,

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:57:48AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello Einar. I tried the -e command (xterm -e dict), but it did not > work. The terminal appears for a second, but then dies. Perhaps I'll > try writing a simple script that gets called upon, as it appears that > I'm not having

Re: exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:21:20AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > The selection of the proper From: header for outgoing mail is the duty > of your mail user agent (MUA); the MUA may be Mutt, Gnus, Balsa, > Sylpheed, Thunderbird, etc. Read the documentation concerning > multiple send 'personas'

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-15 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:53, Matthew Krauss wrote: > > It seems too obvious, but have you looked at update-notifier? I have. It's still a bit of overhead on an fvwm based desktop, especially all the dependencies, but it would seem to be about the only other solution. ...Rob -- To UNSU

Re: Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:44:48AM +0100, Jarek Buczy?ski wrote: > PS. > My firewall logs me all messages to console, it's good idea to set > KLOGD="-c 4" In /etc/init.d/klogd? /etc/sysctl.conf -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting

Re: EFF call for help against restrictive patents

2006-11-15 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:48:12PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > EFF is trying to bust some more patents. In brief one is a patent on > virtual domains, I think more or less as implemented by Apache for I don't > know how long. Details are here: >

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
cothrige wrote: * Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple of things that kopete doesn't. I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens, but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see

(OT) EFF call for help against restrictive patents

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
EFF is trying to bust some more patents. In brief one is a patent on virtual domains, I think more or less as implemented by Apache for I don't know how long. Details are here: and more on the Patent Busting Project is here:

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:51:02 + Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration > attempts using brute force password guessing bots. > > There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more > annoyed by this and

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:26:38PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Richard Lyons: > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > > > > > > > I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get > > > >

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
On 11/15/06, Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration attempts using brute force password guessing bots. There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more annoyed by this and as far as I can see am left with two

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
Rob Bochan wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote: An MTA is nothing. Really. ... I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless folks who own older hard

Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-15 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I have a few servers on which there is a regular penetration attempts using brute force password guessing bots. There is little risk to the server but am getting more and more annoyed by this and as far as I can see am left with two options. 1. Report each ip address that does this.

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Richard Lyons: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: > > > > > I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get > > > dist-upgrade" a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals >

Re: [Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

2006-11-15 Thread H.S.
steef wrote: in one of two new tests *directly after* my first message burning a dvd of 4,4 Gb succeeded without a problem, the second -ceteris paribus- went wrong. so the behoviour of the kernel or dvd+rw-tools or something else ?? seems unpredictable. maybe it is the media you are using.

frame and tx errors in wifi0 interface (using madwifi)

2006-11-15 Thread H.S.
Mailed this to madwifi list but haven't got any response. Trying my luck here in case somebody with wireless knowledge can comment on this problem. I am using madwifi driver for D-link DWL-G520 pci wireless card. The card is working in access point mode (master mode) and has WPA-PSK encryption e

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:43:41PM +0100, Nicolas Pillot wrote: > Sorry, i sent it to the poster, not the list. > > 2006/11/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > >> If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, b

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
Sorry, i sent it to the poster, not the list. 2006/11/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, but that seems to not be > allowed by the trademark use guidelines. Er...

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:17:39PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kelly Clowers writes: > > If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > > If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, but that seems to not be > > allowed by the trademark use guidelines. > > Those rules

Daemon with nice 19

2006-11-15 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, What's the Debian way to always run a process with niceness 19, in this case I want to run bacula-fd always with niceness 19. -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
I had a strong *shrug* when i noticed that my stable system (originally woody, upgraded to sarge without kernel change) still had OpenSSL version 0.9.7e installed, despite a dayly dist-upgrade. After looking at debian's sarge repository, i saw that the most up to date package is 0.9.7e-3sarge4, w

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/15/2006 10:10 AM, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes > applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read > it > anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell). > > However when I try to find that

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
Apple has released a tool called Bootcamp, that allowes you to install WindowsXP (heaven knows why they had to go do that) I'd say : - they are hardware makers, so if they can sell shiny trendy computers to the mass market they played a very good card. i think Windows' still the most used OS wor

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-15 Thread Tyler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which devs are the ones responsible here: the Debian devs who put it there, or the upstream ones that presumably put non-free constraints on the documentatin license? Or is it all a big misunderstanding? -- hendrik Honestly, I think both sides are suffering from

Re: strange email link

2006-11-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/15/2006 07:50 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT, USA. They have a page: http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

2006-11-15 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
cothrige wrote: > Just in case it is relevant, I tried opening it from a terminal and > this was printed: > > kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found > ! Defaulting to Settings/ > > Not sure how to correct that. > > Patrick > > I suppose that something is changing

Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read it anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell). When I try to sync my mail using offlineimap it crashes after a while with the following output

Re: Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
Update: The card is also working fine with ndiswrapper. The only thing is that I still get errors when I take the interface down: # ifdown eth1 ndiswrapper (set_infra_mode:200): setting operating mode to 2 failed (C0010015) Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET f

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

2006-11-15 Thread Rob Bochan
see here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397057 ...Rob -- Anything not nailed down is a cat toy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Courier authmysql does not query DB

2006-11-15 Thread Jan Dinger
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:03:48 -0500 David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to integrate courier-imap with my msyql based virtual > domain/user setup. > > The problem that I am having is that whenever I activate the > MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE, the database is not queried. A connection to

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

2006-11-15 Thread cothrige
* Mirto Silvio Busico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006. > > When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the > left; so it is unusable. > > Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour? Yep, same here. Bu

Re: USB device incongruities

2006-11-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Björn Lindström wrote: > I have two etch systems, one on a desktop, one on a laptop. I have the > usb-storage module loaded on both. > > On the desktop, if I plug my camera (a Pentax Optio M20) in, I get a > /dev/sda and a /dev/sda1 device. On the laptop I just see /dev/sda, > and consequently can

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

2006-11-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006. When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the left; so it is unusable. Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour? BTW mi installation steps wh

Re: Etch: Kcontrol not working: it is empty

2006-11-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006. When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the left; so it is unusable. Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour? BTW mi installation steps where: installed a bas

Re: [Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

2006-11-15 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-15, steef wrote: > hi list, > > i am running etch with a 2.6.17-2 kernel, i686. when i burn a dvd with > growisofs the burner stops with a message 'input-output error' when > about 2,2 Gigabyte is done. > > somebody else with the same experience? is it a bug in dvd+rw-tools or > like

Re: Found a possible bug, but not sure of the package

2006-11-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:27:55PM +0100, Léonard Wauters wrote: > > Seems that ucf tries to read from /dev/tty even when not run from a > terminal. In fact, line 791, /dev/tty is read by the script, however, it > seems to me that this special device doesn't exists when there is no > terminal. >

[Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

2006-11-15 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:dvd+rw-tools inconsistency?? Resent-Date:Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:57:16 -0600 (CST) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:57:12 -0500 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian *CORRECTION* hi list, i

Courier authmysql does not query DB

2006-11-15 Thread David Clymer
I'm trying to integrate courier-imap with my msyql based virtual domain/user setup. The problem that I am having is that whenever I activate the MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE, the database is not queried. A connection to the database server is still established, but no query is made. When NOT using the MYS

Re: exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-15 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:39:21AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having trouble configuring exim4. My situation -- that is, what I > want exim4 to do -- *can't* be that unusual; so I'm sure I'm missing > something fairly obvious. But I've played around with exim4's > configuration

dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??

2006-11-15 Thread steef
hi list, i am running etch with a 2.6.17-2 kernel, i686. when i burn a dvd with growisofs the burner stops with a message 'input-output error' when about 2,2 Gigabyte is done. somebody else with the same experience? is it a bug in dvd+rw-tools or like in older 2.6 kernels an inbuilt kernel-

Re: strange email link

2006-11-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Yorke wrote: The site works fine in my IE 6 & 7 on XP SP2 and Server 2003 SP1 as well as my FireFox 1.5.0.7 on my Debian Etch running kernel 2.6.17. Strange: not on my FireFox 1.5.0.7 on Debian Sid running kernel 2.6.17 Hugo -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Does opening Java render Classpath irrelevent?

2006-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, It will be interesting to see the FLOSS landscape will look due to Java being freed (what should have been done long ago and prevented many headaches). How does this affect Classpath development? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bootsplash -> How?

2006-11-15 Thread Richard van der Veen
Hello I wanted to try this bootsplash thing and installed the packages bootsplash and bootsplash-theme-debian. Now i think i also need to install sysv-rc-bootsplash, but then start the trouble. debian:~# apt-get install sysv-rc-bootsplash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree.

Re: strange email link

2006-11-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marc Shapiro wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT, USA. They have a page: http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30 They should be asked to change their pages, allowing anyone to obtain their

Re: Debian for Dell inspiron 640m (Intel core 2 duo T7400)

2006-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/15/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/11/06, Christian Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just bought a Dell Inspiron 640m T7400 that has an Intel core 2 duo processor and I want to install debian. Could anyone let me know what ISO images should I download? i3

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-15 Thread George Borisov
Martinez Perez Alberto wrote: > > I'm planning to install a home server. I would like to install apache, mysql, > a firewall and oracle. I'm considering to use a mini-itx mainboard. Does > anyone has tried it? I don't know if it will be able to support the > installation. We use a lot of these

Re: Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
Partial success - the interface is now working! Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:21:34 +, Chris Lale wrote: [...] Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] It could also be that you are missing some other modules, e.g. some parts of the ieee80211 stack. No ieee80211 packages are ins

Re: GTK+ performance problems in etch

2006-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/15/06, Vasiliy Faronov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you think there's probably an incompatibility with the newer Xorg? > Have you tried to use the latest such drivers? Yes, version 1.0-7184 is currently the latest one available for my card. It was released on August 24, and NVIDIA's

Re: barcode scanner software

2006-11-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:27:38PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: > For a project I need to buy barcode scanner and I want to run it under > Linux / Debian. I use the WCS 3900 Scanner from Wasp Technologies. It basically installs between your keyboard and your computer or KVM with a Y-cable, so no dr

Re: mini-itx server

2006-11-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Martinez Perez Alberto: > > I'm planning to install a home server. I would like to install apache, > mysql, a firewall and oracle. I'm considering to use a mini-itx > mainboard. Does anyone has tried it? I don't know if it will be able > to support the installation. I am running a mini-itx board

Found a possible bug, but not sure of the package

2006-11-15 Thread Léonard Wauters
Hello, We use cron-apt to automatically maintain some of our systems up-to-date. In /etc/cron-apt/action.d, we have a 6-install file, that contains : dist-upgrade -y Worked well for a couple of months, except this night... This is the output we received by mail from cron-apt : [...] Setting u

Re: levels of expertise on software usage

2006-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/15/06, user local <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/11/15, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What's your say? Novice :-( here's a shoulder; there's light at the end of the tunnel and let's that hope it's not an approaching train [ you might want to send mail as pure text to

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