gs eats all memory

2000-10-24 Thread Brian Almeida
[ I'm not on debian-user, so please Cc me on replies ]. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? When printing any file (using lpr -Plp somefile), such as this one: -rw---1 bma bma 1278 Aug 21 01:01 klingon-programmer.txt and using redhat's printtool, gs consumes every dro

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:36:44AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > That is understandable, but how one becomes Debian maintainer from > scratch ? This is the cause why Dennis and I need a sponsor. > We developing this software and Dennis will maintain the Debian > packages. When I joined Debian abo

Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd)

1999-12-27 Thread Brian Almeida
- Forwarded message from "Bradley M. Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:41:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Bradley M. Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd) X-UIDL: 946309117.21886.k7mail.winstar.c

Re: Bug#34594: Problems with Enlightenment

1999-03-15 Thread Brian Almeida
[ I'm Cc'ing this to all the places I posted, so that this won't happen again ] On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Packages: enlightenment-conf enlightenment-nosound dox enlightenment > > I have Debian Slink with many not-so-system-critical packages from Potato.

E 0.15.1 debs

1999-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
Well, a new release, a new set of debs. Same thing as before: http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ Apt line: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Also, people asked about the gnome staging area - apt line deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main Imlib 1.9.4 debs

Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-13 Thread Brian Almeida
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Debian can make sure all the packages for gnome/gtk/imlib work together, and working packages will be uploaded, not broken ones. In the meantime, you can ac

New emusic packages - broken upgrade path

1999-03-05 Thread Brian Almeida
I just uploaded emusic_0.8-5 to incoming. emusic (0.8-5) unstable; urgency=low * Recompiled against GTK+ 1.2 * Consolidated into one package * This WILL not install cleanly through dselect. Remove all your emusic packages first (this is because dpkg cannot do versioned

Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root

1999-02-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: > when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar to this > (exact wording not known): Enlightenment cannot find the directory > /usr/share/enlightenment/config. > > I've checked the directory for proper permissio

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.

1999-02-20 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: > I'd appreciate it if you could make a build with the patch included at > http://www.debian.org/bugs/31827, so I can test it and let branden know if it > works. It's only about a 100 line patch and applies cle

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.

1999-02-20 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 07:37:21PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote: > If you feel bored this WE or happen to have one of those gfx cards > supported only in the most recents XFree86 releases, you may want to try > my 3.3.3.1 packages. > They're accessible on: http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-

Re: Root Exploit in Eterm

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
xed .debs at: http://www.debian.org/~bma/eterm/eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb http://terminus.lwc.edu/eterm/eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb The source .diff.gz and PGP-signed .changes/.dsc files are also in those directories. Here is the md5sum: 27e22c0283615803b5cc2a3d7d31cc02 eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb Brian Alme

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
> As I've already responded, this is not true. D'oh! I've just heard from the author differently, saying an exploit is possible with a little coding. I'll have a fixed version up by tonight. *sigh* Sorry for the confusion. pgpBa2Fq5ceEM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
To hopefully allay any fears, here: > any title command in .Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN will be executed > with rootprivileges: As I've already responded, this is not true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt ls: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory In the MAIN file: title `touch /t

Re: Eterm and X server

1998-10-19 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:46:19PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: > I installed Eterm from the hamm cd, but i cant get it to work on > any account except root. These are the error messages I get when > I try to run it from an xterm: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: client is no

Re: Hiding a linux computer

1998-10-15 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:41:44PM -0700, Jeremy Blonde wrote: > However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work > with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this > also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: > ipaddress hos

Re: enlightenment

1998-10-14 Thread Brian Almeida
ld you please send me hte exact error messages it is spitting out? I don't believe I've ever heard of this problem. Make sure you are using hte latest esound in slink, 0.2.5-3. Thanks. Brian esound maintainer -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:36:36AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > They are in the non-free and contrib sections. > Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). My MP3 player package, eMusic, is in main. Also, FreeAMP is in main. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.deb

Re: GTKICQ

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Almeida
ame > on > yours). After that it all compiles fine. A simple 'rm -rf gtkicq-0.53/support/.deps' will do the trick. Basically the author is not cleaning out the tree before making a tarball. He is obviously developing on a redhat machine. Simple fix, yet a PITA that should b

Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05

1998-08-05 Thread Brian Almeida
g, lemme know. P.S.: I rarely use bash, so anyone seeing any problems with my syntax please correct me ;) -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debian/GNU Linux Developer -- http://www.debian.org/ PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida <[EMAIL P

Dell Laptop install problems

1998-07-31 Thread Brian Almeida
f disk images off of ftp.debian.org. Thanks guys! Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer - http://www.debian.org "People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly." -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: DNS question

1998-07-28 Thread Brian Almeida
lking about mail exchangers -- then you really need an IN A. That's the way we have it set up here at our work. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.terminus.cicat.com Programmer/Systems Administrator CICAT Networks 9900 Main Street, Suite 301 Fairfax, VA 2203

eMusic .debs

1998-07-22 Thread Brian Almeida
ribed to debian-users. Thanks, Brian. -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.terminus.cicat.com Programmer/Systems Administrator CICAT Networks 9900 Main Street, Suite 301 Fairfax, VA 22031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cicat.com/ "People who don't understa