Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 23:05, Erik Persson wrote: [snip] > As long as nobody is interested in exploiting the konq bugs and everyone > wants to exploit the firefox bugs, I will be more secure using konq even > if there are more flaws in konq. Security when using a

Re: Boinc Clients Niceness

On Friday 27 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's setiathome nice and prio : > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/donnees/programmes/BOINC$ ps -o pid,cmd,nice,pri -p 5219 >    PID CMD                          NI PRI >   5219 setiathome-5.12.i686-pc-lin  19   5 > > So : > 1) Prio does not mean what I though

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:14:22PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? > I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:49:41AM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:52:07PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: >>> Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes >>> this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because o

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as

Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:52:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I have been using Debian for about 5 years now. As far as I remember, it > > always had the "n failure(s) since last login" message (if n was greater > > than zero). > > I have never seen that message. it work

Re: Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

On 7/26/07, Hamza Saglam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi KC, > > Thanks for your suggestions. I have removed the boot flag from sda1 > (while keeping it on sda5) and changed the Windows 'root' to (hd0,4), > but unfortunately I still get the dreaded 'Filesystem type unknown, > partition type 0x7'

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:52:07PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because only of a smaller user base or not. I'm sorry, and i hate to argue wit

Re: Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

Hi KC, Thanks for your suggestions. I have removed the boot flag from sda1 (while keeping it on sda5) and changed the Windows 'root' to (hd0,4), but unfortunately I still get the dreaded 'Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7' message. I have read somewhere else that Windows could only boot

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:50:02PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The > >_only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a > >chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I know there's an issue with MySQL and permissions with an easy > > work around, but other than that, I want to have time to check out > > known issues before I upgrade a server. > > Wise plan. In fact setting up a Sarge machine

Re: laptop keyboard settings in debian etch

Have you run tasksel and selected the laptop option yet? If not doing that may make life a little better. I just got a Dell latitude c810 last night with no operating system on it and I'm going to put a form of Debian Linux on it. So this is something close to my first exposure to laptops.

Re: Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

On 7/26/07, Hamza Saglam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After reading dozens of GRUB tutorials for a good few hours and not getting anywhere, I've decided to post on this mailing list regarding my problem. If it has been covered before please pardon me, I really can't see it :( Now before I st

Re: Stability issues

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The _only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny/Sid but I didn't want to go that route. After having done it, setting

Re: dir command

Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 07/15/07 09:50, Manon Metten wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a bash command available that shows the contents of the > > given dir recursively, telling me how many files are in there and > > the byte size occupied? <> > He

Re: saving package selections (Stability issues)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding > > additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know > > that if I h

Re: output from nmap

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, I can use a little help to understand the following output from nmap. As far as I can discern, IOD = Initial Object Descriptor and EID = Endpoint Identifier. So does this show that the UDP packet is getting past IOD #1? What about IOD #2? Wha

Re: DHCPD giving IP to wrong machine

Clarence W. Robison([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Content-Description: Mail message body > On 26 Jul 2007 at 16:05, Clarence W. Robison wrote: > > > I have an entry in my dhcp3 dhcpd.conf which says that host xyz with > > certain MAC address should receive a fixed ip address. The se

Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins

Florian Kulzer([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 13:51:27 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Mumia W.. wrote: > > > I'm using Sarge. When I log in, I no longer get a message telling me the > > > # of failed logins. > > > > > > For example, if I try to login but use

output from nmap

Folk, I can use a little help to understand the following output from nmap. As far as I can discern, IOD = Initial Object Descriptor and EID = Endpoint Identifier. So does this show that the UDP packet is getting past IOD #1? What about IOD #2? What are EID 8, EID 18 & etc.? Thanks,

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:48:40PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > >Mike Robinson wrote: > >>I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing > >>Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. > > > >Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think > >I'd like to

adduser

* Bob Proulx > > Oleg Verych wrote: >> I'm just a user, but developers seem to have some problems in the >> past: #208848. > > But Bug#208848 says that cron needed a dependency upon adduser, which > it now has because of that bug. Reading that bug this was > specifically for build daemons with a m

Re: Stability issues

Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Te

Weird partition arrangements and broken GRUB

Hi, After reading dozens of GRUB tutorials for a good few hours and not getting anywhere, I've decided to post on this mailing list regarding my problem. If it has been covered before please pardon me, I really can't see it :( Now before I start, I'd like to point out that we are both debian user

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding > additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know > that if I had to reinstall my current machine, I'd want to pull a list > of what was in

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

Hal Vaughan wrote: > I know there's an issue with MySQL and permissions with an easy work > around, but other than that, I want to have time to check out known > issues before I upgrade a server. Wise plan. In fact setting up a Sarge machine as a victim for upgrade testing to Etch is a good idea.

Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins

Florian Kulzer wrote: > I have been using Debian for about 5 years now. As far as I remember, it > always had the "n failure(s) since last login" message (if n was greater > than zero). I have never seen that message. > I never had to do anything to set it up, therefore I > unfortunately don't kn

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:28:07PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Mike Robinson wrote: > Well,

Re: resolv.conf getting overwritten [SOLVED]

No trouble since installing resolvconf. Surely it should be installed be default... --- Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steven, > > No I didn't(!), so I've apt-gotten it and I'll see > if > that works... > > --- Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:05

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

Oleg Verych wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > I'm just a user, but developers seem to have some problems in the > past: #208848. But Bug#208848 says that cron needed a dependency upon adduser, which it now has because of that bug. Reading that bug this was specifically for build daemons with a minimum

Re: Stability issues

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot wit

Re: Cron and mail

--- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Andrew Sackville-West encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > AS: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:33:30AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > AS: > --- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo > siguiente: AS: > > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Mike Robinson wrote: >>> Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd >>> like to boot with an Etch install

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

Uh, just ignore that other response. I forgot which e-mail was still on the screen when I hit "reply." It's just one of those days... Hal On Thursday 26 July 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions and offers. I've contacted > someone who will be swapping routers wit

Re: DHCPD giving IP to wrong machine

On 26 Jul 2007 at 16:05, Clarence W. Robison wrote: > I have an entry in my dhcp3 dhcpd.conf which says that host xyz with > certain MAC address should receive a fixed ip address. The server does > not respect that entry and gives the IP address to another host with a > different MAC address. I do

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Manon Metten wrote: > > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does > > > > that create a conflict with Debian's social contract? > > The mp3 encoder is patented outside of the conte

Re: Boinc Clients Niceness

Le Thursday 26 July 2007 08:38:17 David Baron, vous avez écrit : > Is there any way to control the niceness of boinc_client processes? > > Setiathome, for example, will initially come up niced. When it restarts, > for example a new "work unit", it comes up not nice. It's options, > controlled from

DHCPD giving IP to wrong machine

I have an entry in my dhcp3 dhcpd.conf which says that host xyz with certain MAC address should receive a fixed ip address. The server does not respect that entry and gives the IP address to another host with a different MAC address. I don't quite understand why it, dhcpd, should do that. Is nor

Re: Stability issues

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Testing installation with

Re: How to generate script with Apache and run it by root avoiding to "kill" security

On 7/26/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I am creating a PHP small program that will interact with MySQL and > > will have the policies for the p

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

* Bob Proulx (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:48:18 -0600) > > Oleg Verych wrote: [--] >> Funny, i've discovered, how bloated adduser is yesterday, while >> developing my aggressive distro-cleaner. Now i'm thinking about >> writing patches at least for exim4 and cron to have support for >> ordinary useradd fro

Re: AIC-9410 problems during installation

On 7/19/07, Wetzelaer, Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a problem installing debian on my system. Seems like there is no driver for the Adaptec AIC-9410 in Etch but in Sid there is one. But even with the correct driver in Sid the installer does not find any disk-drive. I tried the

Re: Getting wake-on-lan to work in Etch

Le Thursday 26 July 2007 14:14:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi, vous avez écrit : > On 7/26/07, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:46:03 Raj Kiran Grandhi, vous avez écrit: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to get "wake on lan" to work in Etch. I have a motherboard > >

Re: Stability issues

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Mike Robinson wrote: >> I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. >> Anyone with insight would be appreciated. > > Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd > like to boot

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:52:07PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: > Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes > this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because only of a smaller > user base or not. I'm sorry, and i hate to argue with people, but this last st

Re: Stability issues

Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Tes

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues >> requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror >> or links2. >> >> I'm curious as to why

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

Hal Vaughan wrote: > Manon Metten wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that > > > create a conflict with Debian's social contract? The mp3 encoder is patented outside of the context of the software license for that particular program.

Several GTK-apps not working anymore after update

Hello there I'm new to this submit-bugs-thing and I hope I'm not doing anything terribly wrong here. I could not determine what package contains the bug, so I'm mailing to this list. Problem: I updated my debian lenny/sid system today (at about 14:00 CET, 26.07.07). After that update, I noti

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason b

Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 13:51:27 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mumia W.. wrote: > > I'm using Sarge. When I log in, I no longer get a message telling me the > > # of failed logins. > > > > For example, if I try to login but use a wrong password, when I try > > again using the real password, I shoul

Re: resolv.conf getting overwritten

Hi Steven, No I didn't(!), so I've apt-gotten it and I'll see if that works... --- Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:05 +0100, Harvey Kelly > wrote: > > > No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get > overwritten with > > Do you have the package 'resolvconf' installed

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Hal, > > On 7/26/07, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this: > > > > > > Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that > > create a conflict with Debian's

Re: laptop keyboard settings in debian etch

Erico wrote: > I have installed debian etch and would like to configure a laptop us > keyboard > > how can I do that ? $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > /etc/default/console-setup : > XKBLAYOUT="es" > or /etc/X11/xorg.conf : > Option "XkbLayout" "es" That looks to be a spani

Re: RAID1 Boot Partition

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > > I have been trying to set up a software RAID1 system with two 320GB SATA > > disks. Sounds reasonable. I have done this many times. > > I have followed the instructions at both these links below (using lenny > > instead of etch becaus

Re: resolv.conf getting overwritten

No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten with nameserver 127.0.0.1 Are you using laptop-net (or similar packages)? It overwrites resolv.conf based on its internal configuration. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies l

Re: resolv.conf getting overwritten

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:05 +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote: > No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten with Do you have the package 'resolvconf' installed? It's required by some other common network packages. I had to read the docs/README a few times when it first showed up in Sid be

Re: Sarge: Lost # of failed logins

Mumia W.. wrote: > I'm using Sarge. When I log in, I no longer get a message telling me the > # of failed logins. > > For example, if I try to login but use a wrong password, when I try > again using the real password, I should see a message saying "1 failed > login attempts." I no longer get t

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

Oleg Verych wrote: > Rick Spillane wrote: > > In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would > > recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path > > or some substitute that issues a warning. Strange. adduser has always worked perfectly for me. > Funny, i've discovere

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 14:01, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Douglas. >> >> Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: >> > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues >> > requiring updates fa

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

Hi Hal, On 7/26/07, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this: Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that create a conflict with Debian's social contract? Do I have to go out of the repositories to add l

Re: how to restore bios password (PHEONIX on acer 5102)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Jabka Atu wrote: > > but the issue is that afaik if i open the laptop i will lose my warrenty. > > ... they have effectively stolen your laptop from you by locking > you out of its BIOS ... Agreed. I have never heard of a vendor laptop or otherwise setting a bios

Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not needed?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hmm... The stock Etch installer still creates the entry. I think it is okay if the entry remains. It may not be strictly required, as you say, but not going to cause a problem. > > I don't see an initscript that does this. Can you point it out?

resolv.conf getting overwritten

Hi all, I've seen this problem whilst looking through the archives, but can't find a solution... No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten with nameserver 127.0.0.1 I added the lineprepend domain-name-servers 80.189.94.2; in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf but it's still getting overwrit

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror > or links2. Aside from the fact that one softwa

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

John Hasler wrote: Doug writes: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? How many people are looking for holes in Konq or Li

Re: How to generate script with Apache and run it by root avoiding to "kill" security

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi List, > > I am creating a PHP small program that will interact with MySQL and > will have the policies for the people in my office, i.e.: > Who can or can not access MSN messenger

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:06:11PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > > > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > > > requiring updates far more frequently than o

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:51:45PM +0300, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Hi guys, > > No one can help me? :) > > Yuriy Padlyak wrote: >> Hi again! >> >> Have found some time to do it all. Didn't want to reinstall everything, >> done everything as you suggested except /boot is still on "160GB drive" >> wit

Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:36:43AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > David Brodbeck wrote: > > > To me it always smacked a little of "me-too-ism", too ... the GNU > > > folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their > > > own kernel. > > > >

Re: Cron and mail

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:33:30AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > --- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not > > Ma: "MAIL"? > > Ma: You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says

Re: RAID1 Boot Partition

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:03:28PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to set up a software RAID1 system with two 320GB SATA > disks. > > I have followed the instructions at both these links below (using lenny > instead of etch because of what seems to be unsupported ha

Re: how to restore bios password (PHEONIX on acer 5102)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:15:31PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Thnx ,. > but the issue is that afaik if i open the laptop i will lose my warrenty. > what about flashing it ? > (btw how do they know). take it back to them and demand they fix it while you stand there and watch. How do you know they ha

Re: How Debian BTS and its tools can be improved (user poll).

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:34:58PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > What, on your opinion, can be done better in Debian BTS, reportbug? 1)I agree with kamaraju (sp?) that submitter should be automatically subscribed to the bug, or even better, given the option to subscribe from within reportbug at subm

Re: How to generate script with Apache and run it by root avoiding to "kill" security

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi List, > > I am creating a PHP small program that will interact with MySQL and > will have the policies for the people in my office, i.e.: > Who can or can not access MSN messenger > Who can or can not access WWW > > etc. once

Re: what is this in tcpdump?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:47, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine: > > > > 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129 > > 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp > 192.168

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:46:15PM -0400, Rick Spillane wrote: > OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names > that can be used to install packages under. I checked > /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a > name 'root' in there, thus doubling m

Re: Cron and mail

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:00:36PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi > Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks. > I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed > but users are not notified. > > I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this?

Re: what is this in tcpdump?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:23:27PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> I get a lot of these in my tcpdump on my machine: >> >> 15:45:47.427003 IP basement.ipp > 192.168.1.31.ipp: UDP, length 129 >> 15:45:48.427004 IP basement.ipp > 192.168

Re: How to generate script with Apache and run it by root avoiding to "kill" security

On 07/26/2007 10:18 AM, Guillermo Garron wrote: Hi List, I am creating a PHP small program that will interact with MySQL and will have the policies for the people in my office, i.e.: Who can or can not access MSN messenger Who can or can not access WWW etc. once this is stored, a shell script w

Re: How Debian BTS and its tools can be improved (user poll).

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1) In http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ , I would like to see an option to search > just within the title of the bug reports. In my experience, the titles of bug reports are often useless. There is, however, a full-text search of the BTS available here: http://merkel.debi

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 20:06: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: >>> It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues >>> requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Kon

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > > requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror > > or links2. > > Aside from the fact that one

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror > or links2. Aside from the fact that one software really can be more secure than another one is this the

Re: [Solved] XKB broken

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:52:15 -0400 I wrote: [snipped lots of hair pulling over my mysterious and unreproducible broken xkb system] Solved !!! /var was full. I thought I had told aptitude to remove obsolete packages from the cache, but the option was somehow unselected. 'aptitude auto-clean' fr

Where is Lame in Sarge?

I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ aptitude show lame Package: lame State: not a real package This was after trying to install it just by the name "lame." Then I did this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ aptitude search lame p flamethrower - M

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

Doug writes: > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring > updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. > I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? How many people are looking for holes in Konq or Links2? -- John Ha

Re: How Debian BTS and its tools can be improved (user poll).

> What, on your opinion, can be done better in Debian BTS, reportbug? > > Why do you think it's better than current approach (if exists)? > > What can you do to help with that? > 1) In http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ , I would like to see an option to search just within the title of the bug reports

why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason but sometimes I have a website

Re: what is this in tcpdump?

f the duplicated entry. I have a bunch of distros that run on the machine that has the printer physically attached to it, and even more distros on the other machine that is using network printing. I've obviously misconfigured something somewhere, which is very easy to do. See attachment

How Debian BTS and its tools can be improved (user poll).

What, on your opinion, can be done better in Debian BTS, reportbug? Why do you think it's better than current approach (if exists)? What can you do to help with that? Some related contex: ~~

Re: ML-320 compatible dot-matrix printer

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:33:03PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >I have an Origional IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer. I know from >previous installations that the only way I found to get it to print >postscript was with the gs-esp ML-320 driver. > >However, I've always used lprng sin

How to generate script with Apache and run it by root avoiding to "kill" security

Hi List, I am creating a PHP small program that will interact with MySQL and will have the policies for the people in my office, i.e.: Who can or can not access MSN messenger Who can or can not access WWW etc. once this is stored, a shell script with the iptables rules should be created, and then

Re: Getting wake-on-lan to work in Etch

* Raj Kiran Grandhi (2007-07-26): >> > I am trying to get "wake on lan" to work in Etch. I have a motherboard >> > with an onboard NIC which supports wake-on-lan. I have enabled >> > wake-on-lan in the bios. When I poweroff the computer during POST, I am >> > able to remotely wake it, but if I shu

Debian x IBM X3500

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody has debian etch twirling in serving IBM X3500? How door? E with ServerRAID controller? Everything ok? [1]. http://www.ibm.com/br/systems/x/tower/x3500/index.phtml Thnx!!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8D

laptop keyboard settings in debian etch

I have installed debian etch and would like to configure a laptop us keyboard how can I do that ? I've searched and found that this could be done in /etc/default/console-setup : XKBMODEL="" XKBLAYOUT="es" XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch" or /etc/X11/xorg.conf : Section

Re: RAID1 Boot Partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chaim Keren Tzion escreveu: > Hi, > > I have been trying to set up a software RAID1 system with two 320GB > SATA disks. > > I have followed the instructions at both these links below (using > lenny instead of etch because of what seems to be unsupport

Re: Server for a Bibliography (eg. pubmed.gov)

Hi for the moment phpbibliography simply outputs html pages; a programmer provided me with some code to output rss (which I'll include in the next release). I'll have to take a look at pubmed.com if you have suggestions about other formats I can work on that feature. Lorenzo Mathieu Malate

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

Matthew K Poer wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon the first get messages of the day); I'm using only IMAP. I think this

Re: how to restore bios password (PHEONIX on acer 5102)

Thnx ,. but the issue is that afaik if i open the laptop i will lose my warrenty. what about flashing it ? (btw how do they know). On 7/26/07, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jabka Atu wrote: > Dear Debian list members, > > > im sorry to ask such strange question here but still.

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