I think I've found a kernel/sound driver bug

2015-11-09 Thread Patrick May
Hello, I think I've found a bug in a sound driver (snd-cs46xx) which causes a kernel panic when several sounds are played using the aplay command. I tried to report this using reportbug, but I didn't know what package name to enter, so I'm contacting this address as directed by the reportbug inst

Re: python3-xlib lost in Debian

2015-04-28 Thread Brian May
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 12:26 mudongliang wrote: > Today I try to install a software - youdao dict. > First I try it in vmware machine: Linuxmint and Ubuntu. It can succeed! > But when I do it in Debian , it fails ; And the reason is the lost of > python3-xlib. > So I search in the web page of Deb

Re: whatismyip

2009-02-20 Thread Jeremy May
Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chapela wrote: www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org http://checkip.dyndns.org/ http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html If you would l

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2005-07-08 Thread May
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Re: bereft lipton

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Re: SE Linux vs. RSBAC (was Re: have I been rooted?)

2003-03-22 Thread Brian May
clamd would appear to use dazuko, not RSBAC to do this http://www.dazuko.org/>. Is there any relationship between dazuko and RSBAC? There might be some geniune claims here, but they get lost in the noise. Also see http://www.rsbac.org/>. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUB

Quota

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy D. May
serendipity:/# setquota -u kj 5 5 0 0 /dev/sda2 serendipity:/# quota kj Disk quotas for user kj (uid 1001): none why is it setting them but then telling me that the where not set ?? Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: localhost not working

2002-09-02 Thread Thom May
even know which file > to send. Can you please help me with this. > Thanks in advance. > A more appropriate list to ask this question on would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) > Asa Liton > > -- Thom May -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] * moshez tries to understand why in god's name /us

Re: Auth with PAM

2002-02-13 Thread Brian May
r-x1 root shadow 229532 Nov 7 03:25 /usr/bin/xscreensaver* so maybe this is a bug in xscreensaver? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: broken gpm

2002-02-13 Thread Brian May
me here. I have a number of systems, the mouse works fine under X, but simply doesn't work under gpm. Not even if I exit X and restart gpm. On some systems I have a ps2 mouse on psaux, on other systems it is USB. I have no idea what is wrong, but am pretty sure that everything use to work -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

2001-12-20 Thread Brian May
ing! Some init.d scripts get very confused when started twice in a row like this... This is with the latest files in testing (as of yesterday). Do I smell a bug somewhere here? Or is this normal behaviour? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-08 Thread Brian May
e or things that come in powers of 10, such as money, they retain their usual meanings of multiplication by powers of 1000 = 10^3. When used with bytes or other things that naturally come in powers of 2, they usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^(10)." -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

2001-12-06 Thread Brian May
to the most recent version of potato? Noah> Should I report this as a bug? in dpkg? in libc6? You forgot to mention what version of dpkg you are using... (maybe if it is an old version it is too old?) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Rãspuns: How do you access your floppy drive?

2001-12-04 Thread Brian May
tton on numerous occasions first... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Non-interactive password check

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
utes (not counting UserPassword) and "auth" access to UserPassword. Or, perhaps you don't even have enough access for this? Are you sure? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Woody Upgrade Question

2001-11-22 Thread Brian May
especially, contains files (on my woody system) that look really important, eg /sbin/init, shutdown, etc. Your system will not boot without /sbin/init. Try and find out why apt-get wants to remove these packages. eg. What happens if you type in: apt-get install sysvinit linux-util does that work? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS tries following remote symlinks as if local!

2001-11-20 Thread Brian May
low level operations are done on the server (so the server can remain stateless). For instance, a named pipe will not talk to a program on the server, at best it will only talk to another program on the client. Of course, NFS does have major a major weakness because of this approach: Access cont

Re: NFS client screwy directories.

2001-11-16 Thread Brian May
directory) lstat64(0x82f7fe8, 0xb91c) = 0 rename("//lib/ld-2.1.3.so.dpkg-tmp", "//lib/ld-2.1.3.so") = 0 rmdir("//lib/ld-2.1.3.so.dpkg-new") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(6dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) )= 0 haven't seen that one until now. Any ideas? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-14 Thread Brian May
d it, by pausing the video and restarting it. Weird. Not that I care that much, I don't use DVD that often. In fact, I hardly ever use it :-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: screen rocks (was Re: potato on 486)

2001-10-14 Thread Brian May
users access to the screen though (see ACL commands in screen man page), as each user needs access to the socket (I think). but screen will refuse to run unless the socket directory is only readable by the owner. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: screen rocks (was Re: potato on 486)

2001-10-12 Thread Brian May
password Ctrl-A : displays but haven't been able to work out (yet) how to attach to this screen as another user. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Courier IMAP and Ximian Evolution

2001-09-30 Thread Brian May
ot; will be a subdirectory called ".Important". You can't have subdirectories that start with two periods. [...] Can folders have subfolders, defined in a recursive fashion? The answer is no. If you want to have a client with a hierarchy of folders, emulate it. Pick a

Re: mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-15 Thread Brian May
bjavaplugin_oji.so: linking error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetCurrentThread SO I had to type in mv /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/javaplugin.so /usr/lib/netscape/javaplugin.so -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-11 Thread Brian May
t download jdk1.2 (assuming 1.3 isn't yet available for Linux)? Where is the best place to get this from? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Brian May
dn't work. A simpler thing which does exactly the same thing (and surprisingly nobody seems to have mentioned it yet) is: rm -f ./--remove-files -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Brian May
; with parameters "-i" and "--remove-files", and rm can't tell the difference. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Gnus Question

2001-08-07 Thread Brian May
ose of the message and go to another one, xemacs continues downloading the images... Argghhh! (I apologise in advance if this is a FAQ or something, but I haven't seen it yet) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Root on RAID

2001-08-02 Thread Brian May
as I couldn't do the 2nd step (create a virtual drive from the physical drive, it kept saying no physical drives found). As for now, I have replaced the dead harddisk, and everything is working fine (for the moment). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Brian May
> the README's from nvidia. In hindsight, I didn't reboot after disabling AGP. Perhaps that was the problem. johanc> Johan, who got rid of it but can't remember how. Do you have any of these in your XF86Config-4 file? Option "NvAgp" "0" ... disables AGP support Option "NvAgp" "1" ... use NVAGP, if possible Option "NvAgp" "2" ... use AGPGART, if possible I think 1 is the default. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Brian May
o corrupt), and the only way I could fix this was by rebooting the computer. Any ideas? (oh, one more thing, what is device-3dfx? Do I need that? What does it do?) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xemacs21-gnome-nomule breaks lisp packages?

2001-07-23 Thread Brian May
Maybe if I was a LISP expert and/or had plenty of time to join additional xemacs mailing lists, etc, I would be able to solve both of these problems, however neither of those conditions apply to me ;-) I don't use html-mode so can't comment on that. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-17 Thread Brian May
re serious, I imagine for "append file" operations, where you could get the data appended twice... I once read a book that said care needs to be taken with any RPC call that alters the state of the server, for this reason, but from what I have heard, NFS doesn't care. Conclusion: (i

Re: NFS alternative

2001-07-16 Thread Brian May
ssible, and last I heard, NFS over TCP was still very experimental) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-15 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> The main limitations of Gnus for me, I guess are: won't Brian> check SSL server key, and won't cache IMAP data (unless you Brian> manually tell it to, but then it won

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-15 Thread Brian May
pears to be in a rut, Joost> unfortunately. It badly needs some form of revival Joost> operation. Any volunteers? Even documenting what package Joost> combinations are needed for specific aims would be an Joost> improvement. Yes. I think the examples are badly lacking. /usr/share/doc/docbook-xml/, contains examples, but no code to process them (only validate). Other examples I have looked at, and suddenly realized they were SGML, not XML... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-15 Thread Brian May
.. I seem to remember (from a while ago) that it was strongly discouraged to share Gnus mail data with any other program, as any other mail program wouldn't know how to keep Gnus specific files in sync (eg .newsrc.eld) (or the reasoning was something along these lines). (especially if a cop

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-15 Thread Brian May
mmm... Interesting thought. I have not tried it, but my guess is that Gnus will still try to connect to all servers on initial startup though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Brian May
limitations of Gnus for me, I guess are: won't check SSL server key, and won't cache IMAP data (unless you manually tell it to, but then it won't delete the messages when they are erased from the server). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-10 Thread Brian May
> 0' failed. zsh: abort xalan -in guard.xml -xsl nasty... I haven't yet filed a bug report on this, it is possible my versions of everything are approx 1 week old. I have filed bug reports on *some* of these issues, but haven't got any response yet. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-09 Thread Brian May
ms rendering *any* XML Docbooks files on Debian without DTD errors, rendering errors, etc. mathml is one of the things I will look investigate (as well SVG support), once I get the basics like the DTDs working. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-06 Thread Brian May
under Linux. Just remember to unmount the file system before ejecting the card ;-). However, I have heard that somebody else was having problems obtaining the PCMCIA adaptor (I can't verify this myself), and when I got mine, it was the only one in the shop... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: C programming: What does this construct in printf(_(" means?

2001-06-20 Thread Brian May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the construct _("What ever format string I use") means in the context of printf? For example: [00:50:20 tmp]$ grep -C1 printf\(_\( util-linux-2.11b/misc-utils/script.c if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-V") || !strcmp(argv[1], "--version")) {

gnome and sound

2001-06-18 Thread Brian May
Hello, I use Debian unstable, and no programs that use sound via Gnome libraries will make any sound. This includes gnome-control-centre, gnome menus, gnome games, etc. Other programs, eg esdplay, sawmill, etc, work fine. Stable also works fine. What is wrong with unstable? -- Brian May <[EM

mozilla 0.9.1 hangs?

2001-06-16 Thread Brian May
Mozilla Web Browser - core libraries and bro ii mozilla-psm0.9.1-2Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Mana installed from unstable -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OT] LaTeX and \input{file}

2001-06-07 Thread Brian May
;t properly handle special characters (eg. TABs, which I had to expand out first). Always check to make sure it comes out as expected, with no errors. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-28 Thread Brian May
etwork access to a central server, but can't remember the password to login locally to the console. (Just a thought: perhaps a better solution would be to store these passwords on a computer file, but GPG encrypt them?) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Brian May
r the window manager close function. 2. kill -9. Last I tried, if I pressed Ctrl+C at the console running netscape in the foreground, or if I try to kill it with -9, then it crashed and can only be killed with -9. So it seems that the cleanup routine that intercepts the signal is buggy, and never returns. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Brian May
-get upgrade" about a week before going overseas, which upgraded lilo, which asked me if I wanted to reinstall lilo, where I answered yes. Unfortunately, I forgot that my lilo setup was broken, and I didn't find out until the power failed when I was overseas...) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: rsync+ssh problem -- more info

2001-05-07 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter O Fedichev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> yes, I have Peter> rsync -avz -e ssh / /tmp/backup Peter> works perfect, also when start from bash It sounds like rsync is not on the path on the *remote* computer. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
to see the context of the message, in case the original message is no longer available on your system (and you don't want to search the Debian archives to find it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
-gnome, and it is in unstable. Not sure about testing though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
sure) I would report these, but don't currently have to time to check up if they have already been reported or not. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Gnome gdm broken?

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
it went away after I upgraded more packages from stable to unstable. However, all my packages (except a few unimportant non-free/contrib packages) are now from unstable, and I don't use Ximian stuff anymore. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
ill preserve everything, too, I think. I often use the -x parameter, too (stay on one file system). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Million Dollar Oracle Prize

2001-05-01 Thread Russell May
nking I was just standing around waiting for someone > to blow smoke up my ass. > > Either that, or the fine print is that to try, you need to give them two > million dollars. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Russell May

Re: Diskless maintanence

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
entioned in private E-Mail, you shouldn't normally have to export /usr from the server (you use the .../root/usr directory instead). There might be a bug somewhere, eg. documentation, that mislead you. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

xemacs21-gtk and X cut & paste

2001-04-30 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is it possible to use the standard X cut and paste using xemacs21-gtk? I can paste OK, copying to another application is the problem. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian Compliant UPS for rack of servers

2001-04-28 Thread Brian May
t is the only difference I can see between all of these) Some of these claim that they will work for almost any device that uses RS232. Sorry, I can't recommend/discourage any specific brands. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xlibs 4.0.3 dependency?

2001-04-28 Thread Brian May
d against the newer version of X, as he has not released it in Debian yet. First check that no bug report already exists. In the case of ssh-askpass-gnome, it is #94663. It was submitted 8 days ago. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 + gdm 2.0-0.beta4.15 kills keyboard!

2001-04-26 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Running startx works fine (Except for sawfish not being Brian> installed). So I guess the problem must be gdm's fault: ii Brian> gdm 2.0-0.beta4.15 GNOME Display Manager No.

xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 + gdm 2.0-0.beta4.15 kills keyboard!

2001-04-25 Thread Brian May
fault: ii gdm2.0-0.beta4.15 GNOME Display Manager Anyone else noticed the same problem? I find it surprising that upgrading from Helix code works, but installing from scratch doesn't. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Russell May
Daniel Katz wrote: > > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > > >

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-23 Thread Brian May
Type 'echo ', and then Ansel> press Control-V Escape 'c'. This will place the two Ansel> character sequence "^]c" on the command line, and when you Ansel> run it, the terminal should be fixed. Often just typing in "reset" will help this problem too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: make-kpkg broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I probably should upgrade dpkg-dev so it is the same Brian> version as dpkg, and try again. No, still get the same error :-(. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/I

Re: make-kpkg broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Brian May
e maintenance system for Debian I probably should upgrade dpkg-dev so it is the same version as dpkg, and try again. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

make-kpkg broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Brian May
ectory `/home/bam/admin/linux/linux-2.4.3' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 what is going wrong? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: links for devfs

2001-04-20 Thread Brian May
e does not exist. Personally, I would sooner just make everything use /dev/misc/psaux. However, if you still want to do this, you need to modify you devfs config. Have a look at /etc/devfs/symlinks, this looks like the right spot (not tested). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Postfix | Upgrade

2001-04-18 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> the problem is most likely that /usr/sbin/postdrop is not Ethan> setgid postdrop. >From memory, there is a debconf question about this. Perhaps the response to the question was

Still having problems with the blankscreen

2001-04-17 Thread Russell May
This occurs under the console (no X) as well as X. I have tired all the setterm commands listed in the man pages, but my monitor still blanks out after 10 minutes of nonuse. I have looked through the init.d stuff and haven't found anything. Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks. -Russell May

Blank screensaver

2001-04-16 Thread Russell May
How do I disable the automatic blank screensaver that kicks in?   -Russell May

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
easons. Also all Christoph> external helper programs changed version, hindering Christoph> xcdroast to even start. I fixed it for me using the Christoph> command line tools :) Is it possible to copy a CD using command line tools? (for legal reasons of course) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
eing run on a NFS-Root system, with /usr, /bin, /lib, /sbin mounted read-only, /dev on devfs, so the damage it could cause is mostly limited to /var, /home, /etc (hmmm... the paranoid could/should mount the last two as read-only too). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
] ~ >ls -l /dev/sg* lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 36 Apr 12 2001 /dev/sg0 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/generic Of course I don't have /dev/sg1 though - this computer only has 1 scsi adaptor. I suspect xcdroast may be enforcing rules it does not need to enforce. xcdroast fr

Re: HP Scanjet4200C

2001-04-11 Thread Brian May
upported SANE-compatible scanner. Please let me know if you see any improvements... although it sounds similar with my experience with colour printers, too. Is it just the 4200c which is bad, or all HP scanners? If I were to purchase another scanner and wanted one that is Linux compatible what should I get? Thanks for your reply. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: auto add 127.0.0.0?

2001-04-10 Thread Brian May
0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo Are you sure you need this? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

xcdroast and devfs

2001-04-10 Thread Brian May
but I haven't tried writing yet. How can I force xcdroast to bypass this check? My guess it wants SCSI devices which aren't installed on my system. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

HP Scanjet4200C

2001-04-10 Thread Brian May
received errors, and nothing of use works. Everything else I have tried with USB works fine. Any ideas what is wrong here? Thanks in advance. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Backup up the /dev/ directory

2001-04-09 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "BM" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> You don't need to do anything. The new devfs will mount over BM> the top of the old /dev directory h

Re: Backup up the /dev/ directory

2001-04-09 Thread Brian May
d /dev directory hiding its contents. Just remember to say "mount devfs on startup" (or something similar) in the kernel compile time options. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: iptables help?

2001-04-06 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I am confused... Sorry about my noise. I found it was due to two reasons: 1. IN/OUT rules are used unless the packet is delivered to the local computer (ie not used if the packet is bei

iptables help?

2001-04-06 Thread Brian May
wrong? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Brian May
h it myself though... I have also been warned not to use Reiserfs on the root partition, as sometimes the computer might not be able to boot. So I have reiserfs on /home. Using it on /var/spool/squid should also be safe (the worst that could happen is you loose all of Squid's cached files). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ssh2 <--> openssh public key authentication

2001-04-02 Thread Brian May
I it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Linux Virus

2001-04-01 Thread Brian May
sted xterm session (and the attack Ethan describes is still possible unless you protect the .* files too), but I think it is a lot better then allowing all processes access. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

2001-04-01 Thread Brian May
Karsten> issue. There is a non-free package dvi2tty that might be what you are looking for... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ssh2 <--> openssh public key authentication

2001-03-31 Thread Brian May
debug3: key_read: no space debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-END' debug3: key_read: no key found so it looks like that ssh-keygen is creating the key in the wrong format. Rob> On larry I have: .ssh2/peon.pub copied from peon Rob> .ssh2/authorization containing Key peon.pub So I expect I am doing something obvious that is completely wrong ;-), but not sure what. Thanks in advance. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: job control

2001-03-29 Thread Brian May
while it Erik> works, usually ctrl-z to stop it, bg to make it continue in Erik> background) zsh (probably bash too, but not sure) also has a detach command. So you can detach a shell job from the shell. Once you detach a process you can't put use the fg or bg commands on it anymore. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: devfs and sound

2001-03-27 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I am running devfs with devfsd (because I thought it was the Mark> way things were going in the 2.4 kernels). I can't seem to Mark> get my soundcard to work and I am beginning t

Re: IP tables setup

2001-03-23 Thread Brian May
ernel Look under /usr/doc/iptables/html after installing iptables (AFAIK you can install iptables even when running the 2.2.X kernel). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: iptables and masquerading

2001-03-20 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> (as for asking a question on another mailing list, proper Brian> etiquette demands that I join the other mailing list first, Brian> but bandwidth is becoming saturated on my 28

Re: iptables and masquerading

2001-03-20 Thread Brian May
I don't think this is a good idea). John> but you should be aware that there are a number of issues John> with IIRC Such as? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

iptables and masquerading

2001-03-19 Thread Brian May
cation of bandwidth used by each connection would be nice, too, but not essential). Note: [1] this file seems to contain connections that don't need to be tracked (eg localhost --> localhost) or for certain non-masqueraded connections. Why? [2] I am using Linux 2.4.2 -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: That damn spammer!

2001-03-18 Thread Brian May
ct the later. The fact that it crashes pine and outlook, IMHO, means, that those programs are buggy. A mail program shouldn't crash just because it receives garbage that is meant to resemble an E-Mail. hogan> Looks like a very obvious spammer from the headers hogan> "X-AD2000-" What are these headers for? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnus/emacs to Gnus/xemacs

2001-03-17 Thread Brian May
to) contains gnus 5.6.45. Richard> As far as I can tell, xemacs will use its own copy of Richard> gnus by default, but there's likely a way you can get it Not on my system... The latest version just works. Yes, I have made extensive modifications, but not to the load path or anything like that. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-14 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Spiegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Oh, of course, I missed this. It looks like two programs may be >> competing to add the From header. What do you have in your >> .forward file? Andy> Nothing. It d

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-14 Thread Brian May
now Andy> appear in the body of the message. Similar things happen Andy> with other programs. Oh, of course, I missed this. It looks like two programs may be competing to add the From header. What do you have in your .forward file? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Some time I will have to figure out why this happens on my Brian> system. I use postfix with Maildir format (single message Brian> per file), which is then imported into Gnus' n

Re: sendmail: extra from line

2001-03-13 Thread Brian May
em. I use postfix with Maildir format (single message per file), which is then imported into Gnus' nnfolder format (single message per file). Some where along the line lines beginning with From are still quoted even though this isn't required. Lets try something: >From me! >From me too! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Programs in /usr/local/ and `apt-get'

2001-03-13 Thread Brian May
ebian docks and/or kmself> Google. I also suspect the information will be kmself> forthcoming on this list ;-) Check the equivs package. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: session managed VIM?

2001-03-06 Thread Brian May
is not Gnome aware. So my guess is that vim would restart automatically, but may not automatically reopen the same files (then again, I am not sure how this session management works either). (yes a GTK version exists, but GTK != GNOME. Instead Gnome is a high level library that uses GTK as the lower level API). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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