On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:14 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that
> contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as
> a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have
> found what is going on:
>
>
Bill Moseley wrote:
> $ apt-cache policy ethereal
> ethereal:
> Installed: 0.99.2-4
> Candidate: 0.99.2-4
> Version table:
> *** 0.99.2-4 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_cont
CJ van den Berg wrote:
> This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of headaches
> in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian kernel soon
> to save others the pain.
Well, it seems the kernel team has released a new stable version of the
kernel, 2.6.17.7. Ac
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Is
>
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
>
> broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed
>
> thanks
> francesco pietra
>
>
The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
On Thu May 4 2006 10:01, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I had the same problem this morning. I could not spend too much time on
> investigating it, but it seems to me that there is some sort of
> dependency loop which screws up the installation of the new version of
> x11-common. I extracted /etc/X11/Xses
I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages
were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades.
I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine.
However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go black
momen
Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each
partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just
to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system.
I would like to hear from others their opinions about differing filesystem
On Fri April 14 2006 17:07, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I use aliases for all apt jobs. I was thinking I was upgrading. But
> actually doing dist-upgrade.
> but for me everything was ok except virtual terminals opening, which
> is no t happening still, though I have the following in my laptop dell
> i600m.
On Thu April 13 2006 16:04, Wackojacko wrote:
> You may want to take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ans
> /var/log/Xorg.log. You will probably see errors setting the kdb
> parameters due to incorrect wording in xorg.conf.
>
> The relevant section of my xorg.conf is
>
> Option"XkbRul
On Thu April 13 2006 11:59, Michael Ott wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > Some special keys do not work anymore
> > =
> > Cannot switch to virtual consoles with Alt-Ctrl-F1
> >
> > Dead keys (ˇ) do not work anymore (e.g. for characters like Ž)
>
> Try this:
> setxkbmap -rule
On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and
> > > >installed (can't r
On Sun April 9 2006 11:53, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 07:54 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote:
> > I run chkrootkit daily. Today it has found a file it calls, "suspicious".
> > The file is a zero byte, hidden file. The path is
> > /usr/lib/xulrunner/.au
I run chkrootkit daily. Today it has found a file it calls, "suspicious". The
file is a zero byte, hidden file. The path is /usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg
After seeing this warning, I also ran rkhunter (rootkit hunter). The report
from rkhunter comes up clean. It does not flag the .autoreg file (or
On Thu March 30 2006 15:39, Rick Friedman wrote:
> Hi Szaka,
>
> Actually, I've booted Windows several times since then and I still get the
> error when booting Linux. So, I'm still at a loss as to why this is
> happening.
OK... I need to correct my last message. I j
On Thu March 30 2006 12:23, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> It means that you interrupted the Windows filesystem checking process
> (after scheduling the filesystem check by chkdsk, it needs __TWO__ reboots
> into Windows but you did only once) so the NTFS driver refused to mount it
> rea
I'm not sure when this started to occur. Perhaps after I installed the 2.6.16
kernel. In any event, I just noticed it today.
During bootup, the following lines appear on the screen and in syslog:
Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.26 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost
On Thu March 23 2006 12:03, Glenn English wrote:
> Synaptic has begun saying my cache file is corrupt. It doesn't say why or
> how or what to do about it.
>
> Do you know what to do about it? (Or how to find out what's wrong?)
>
> --
> Glenn English
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> GPG ID: D0D7FF20
I had als
On Wed March 22 2006 11:47, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error.
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Calculating upgrade...Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> x11-common
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly instal
On Tue March 21 2006 07:18, Micha feigin wrote:
> Also, I am not sure if its a package I downloaded or a feature of aptitude
> but downloads the bug reports for all packages going to be installed and
> warns me if there are any serious bugs filed against them.
You must have the apt-listbugs packag
This morning, while running apt-get update (for Sid), I received the following
error message:
W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures
were invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key
(2006) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looking through old
On Wed February 8 2006 08:11, bclark wrote:
> Rick Friedman wrote:
> > I have a cron job which updates the Clamav virus database (using
> > freshclam) 4 times a day (every 6 hours). This has been working fine for
> > a long time now.
> >
> > However, for the last 2
I have a cron job which updates the Clamav virus database (using freshclam) 4
times a day (every 6 hours). This has been working fine for a long time now.
However, for the last 24 hours (possibly a little longer), each time an update
attempt is made, the following warning messages are found in t
On Fri January 27 2006 10:02, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> For several days now, there have been no new packages reported with apt-get
> update, which seems unusual in my experience. I have been keeping my sid
> distro quite current, and now am wondering if I have a problem, or if the
On Wed January 4 2006 12:28 pm, Tom wrote:
> [04/01/2006 -- 18:10u] Rick Friedman:
> > I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a
> > message from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions, run the
> > following command line:
> >
>
On Wed January 4 2006 11:41 am, John Biederstedt wrote:
> Today I ran apt-get update and got this:
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
> Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
> Binary-1 (2005
On Fri December 30 2005 09:43 am, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Here flash has never worked with Firefox under Linux, making the
> browser crash (bug 255860).
Strange... I've never had a problem with firefox and flash, java or any other
plugin (with the exception of the mplayer plugin).
Currently, I
I just ran a program called chkrootkit. It reports the following:
eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/usr/sbin/pppd[5072])
I realize that 5072 is the process id for pppd. But what is the message
actually saying? Is there a problem with pppd?? Or is this normal?
Rick
--
Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined wi
Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an advantage to
having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have
netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and installing
xinetd?
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Rick
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Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine
except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone
out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have
Help? If so, where did you get it??
Thanks,
Rick
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I have a cordless Logitech Mouse and I was wondering if there is any
program available which will check the condition of the batteries in the
mouse? It would be nice if the program could sit in the notification
(system) tray of KDE and/or Gnome but it's not really necessary.
Any help is greatly ap
Now that I have installed the experimental deb package for
linux-image-2.6.13-k7 I have just one question...
Has Debian enabled Inotify in this kernel image by default?
Thanks,
Rick
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I am running Sid and was wondering if there is any repository which has
a linux-image package for 2.6.13 (preferably for AMD K7)? Currently, the
latest Sid package is 2.6.12-1.
Rick
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full house and four people died." - Steven
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> OK, I'll be the first to admit that the problem is with me. Where are
> these packages as far as apt is concerned?
>
> I tried apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org; It reports that
> I already have the latest version.
>
> I
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> http://openoffice.debian.net/
> 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable
> It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target
> unstable. Because it has NEW binary packages again (and was
> renamed back to openoffice.
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote:
> I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked
> soomthly, then I'll be doing the same.
> alien -i *.rpm
>
> Is there a big difference from the last RC?
I used alien -i *.rpm on the OpenOffice.org 2.0 RPMs. It worked fine.
Th
I'm running Debian Sid. The subject line says it all. Is it necessary to
have dirmngr running?
My machine is a desktop. It's not connected to any LAN. It is,
obviously, connected to the Internet. The man page for dirmngr says it
manages certificate revocation lists. Frankly, I am ignorant about t
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:12 -0400, [KS] wrote:
> Yes, it seems that the kde-core is almost done and I was reading
> somewhere yesterday that the Debian qt/KDE maintainers have asked other
> KDE application maintainers to start uploading their versions for 3.4.2
>
> An apt-get -s install kde-core g
I'm hoping someone on this list can help me get ClamAv (or KlamAV)
working with Evolution.
As instructed by KlamAV, I've attempted to create filters for Evolution
so all my incoming mail is piped through the application, klammail. This
part seems to work. However, according to the instructions, an
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:32 am, Kent West wrote:
> Rick Friedman wrote:
> >X is broken in Unstable? How so? I run Unstable and have no problems with
> > X (X.org) at all. At least, no problems that I have been able to
> > perceive. What are the problems to which you r
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:22 am, Kent West wrote:
> X.org wasn't ready in time for Sarge's release. It is migrating into
> Unstable. Many desktop users (myself included) run Unstable rather than
> Stable (whereas we tend to keep Stable on the servers). That way we get
> the newer toys/support, a
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:15 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
> I guess I haven't been paying attention much lately. But where did the
> kernel-image 2.6.12 go?
>
> There is a linux-image 2.6.12 out there, but nothing to indicate that
> this is a replacement to the kernel-image...
>
> Which one do I use?
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 12:29 pm, Rogério Brito wrote:
> And don't forget, if you use mondo to backup to CDs, to test them for
> readability with dvdisaster. You won't want to be surprised to know your
> drive doesn't read the CDs where you put your data on.
I use mondo for my home machine and I
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Andy Anderson wrote:
> Rick, thanks, that worked just like you said it would. I just missed it
> before when I was trying to follow the directions in the Nautilus help,
> which were not nearly as clear as those you provided above.
>
> Still, I wonder
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Andy Anderson wrote:
> I'd like to change the default app for worksheet files from Gnumeric
> to OpenOffice Calc. I've looked at the help for Nautilus and it says
> to use the "File Types and Programs Preferences" (or something like
> that - I'm not u
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[KS] wrote:
> Recently there was a thread(link below) about renaming of kernel package
> for debian as there are other projects having their own kernels e.g. Hurd.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg03660.html
OK... got that. So, as yet,
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Am I missing it somehow? Is there a package for the 2.6.12 kernel in
Sid? I mean an already built kernel-image, not source.
I ask because I see a linux-kernel-headers package for 2.6.13!
Rick
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Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Thanks for the replies! I am certain that the machine is not compromised
> since the only time it's used only on the company's internal network
> (and there's nobody there who could or would compromise a Unix machine).
>
> My
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Hendrik Boom wrote:
> The sid release will never be changed to stable.
> Packages from sid migrate into unstable (etch at present) when
> they are deemed sufficiently mature.
> At some time yet to be determined (probably a year or more from now),
> etc
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Thomas Weinbrenner wrote:
> I guess that in a few days we will get new versions of aptitude and
> synaptic which use apt 0.6, so we just have to wait (and use apt-get
> upgrade instead of dist-upgrade).
Well, the day has arrived. New packages of synap
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I have an HP PSC 2210 All-In-One printer. I'm able to print documents
and photos on it with no problem except for one. Thus far, I have been
unable to find a way to print borderless 4x6 photos on it from within
Linux. I am able to do this from within W
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A few days ago, I subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought that
would be the list for users who have problems and/or questions
concerning Gnome. I received a confirmation email for my subscription.
Since then, I have received nothing at all from the
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Siju George wrote:
> Thanks for the reply rick :-)
>
> could you please suggest some DVD writers that works well with Sarge??
>
> Knd regards
>
> Siju
Well, I use an HP dvd writer dvd420i. It supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW &
DVD+RW. It works perfect
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Adam Hardy wrote:
> Does anyone backup to DVD? How many gigs can you fit on a DVD?
I backup certain files and directories to DVD all the time. DVD will
hold 4.7GB. Of course, if you backup using compression you can fit much
more than 4.7GB on a DVD.
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Rogério Brito wrote:
> I'm still open to suggestions regarding backing up on CDs/DVDs. I see
> some potential packages on the repository, but I would like to know
> other's experiences with them and if any of them would allow things like
> Apple's Back
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"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." Scarletdown
wrote:
> Can someone here possibly help me with a little problem I am having with
> Mondo Archive? First o
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Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to
> specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list.
> For example, woody, sarge, sid, etc.
>
> It is much more apparent, that way, what the i
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John Marks wrote:
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> Try this:
>
> "Message received at [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> The problem is definitely related to paper size. Note that the envelope
> I'm using is 4.125 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide. If the page is set to
> these dimens
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l Johnson wrote:
> I'm looking for any help that might lead to getting all the little
> bonus keys working on my new keyboard in KDE3. Googling for the
> keyboard name and "kde" or "linux" doesn't find anything relevant,
> just Windows-oriented rev
Rthoreau wrote:
Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not
detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and
reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to
file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7.
Wayne Topa wrote:
Rick
Go to the sane website. They list every scanner they support and
have instructions on how to get it working.
You could find your answer faster there then waiting for someone
here who 'might' have the same scanner.
Wayne,
Thanks for the advice. It hadn't even
I have an HP PSC 2110 All-In-One (printer, copier, scanner & fax). So
far, I have not been able to figure out how to use it with Debian (Sarge).
I ran the sane-find-scanner command and received the following output:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x2911 [PSC
2200 Ser
Sam Watkins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:54:06PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote:
I'm running Sarge and I have the cpp-3.3 package installed.
Whenever I try to build *anything*, I get the following messages when
running ./configure:
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /li
I'm running Sarge and I have the cpp-3.3 package installed.
Whenever I try to build *anything*, I get the following messages when
running ./configure:
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
I cannot figure out
As it is now, the URGENT notification in KDE flashes the taskbar entry
for an app, 3 times. Is there anyway to have it flash continuously? I
find that 3 times is sometimes not enough for me to notice it.
Rick
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Uwe Dippel wrote:
If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub
here on Sarge (no, not SID !).
Somehow grub doesn't get activated any longer at boot and the PC boots
directly off MBR (so I guess).
I checked the /boot/grub/menu.lst; everything fine and there.
At boot, grub d
I would like to try clamav but, before I do, I'd like to know if it's
possible to have clamav scan emails with Thunderbird as the email client?
Does it have anything like a pop3-proxy to sit between Thunderbird and
the pop3 server I use?
Rick
--
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Juha Siltala wrote:
On 2004-11-16, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav
instead. http://www.clamav.net/
Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal
use.
That'
Paul Johnson wrote:
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Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but
as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browser and
you will be generally ok.
But F-Prot sucks by default
Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 09:04, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
Is there any package that enables one to count the number of files in a
directory(s) and/or number of packages installed on a system. Thanks...
You could always try:
dpkg -l |wc -l
and subtrack thre
Robert,
Thank you very much. That's exactly what I needed to know. It worked
perfectly. I did the install and have been grabbing packages with apt-get.
Thanks for helping me get networking running. :)
Rick
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than we can imagine
04 02:58 pm, Rick Friedman wrote:
Well, I downloaded and burned the netinst CD for Sarge. It boots fine
and I can start the installation with no problem.
My hesitance comes with configuring the network. The installation
attempts to configure the network with DHCP. It then returns a message
saying:
Well, I downloaded and burned the netinst CD for Sarge. It boots fine
and I can start the installation with no problem.
My hesitance comes with configuring the network. The installation
attempts to configure the network with DHCP. It then returns a message
saying: "The network is not using the
Thank you to everybody! I knew there was some app that would do the job
but I couldn't recall it at all.
From now on I'll remember: tune2fs. :)
Rick
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bootup), every 34 mounts.
I would like to change how often the filesystems are checked. How can I
do that?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rick
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