Re: What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-09 Thread hiranokazunari
Thanks everybody! Now I understand OT generally means Off Topic. I thought it was "on tap", "on target", "on television", "on telephone", "on tenterhooks", "on term", or "on tablets":) Regards. Nari Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:20, hiranokazunari wrote: Hi folks, Can any

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:41:06AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Currently I am running sarge. Yesterday I upgraded the openoffice.org > suite of programs. Now when I run openoffice, I get this eror, > > $ openoffice > OpenOffice.org for Debian - see > /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/READM

i810_audio.o

2002-12-09 Thread eric lin
Dear Hennig: I have similar problem as yours of sound in the motherboard to configure in linux would you mind to send me both oss and alsa's i810_audio.o highly appreciate your help sincere Eric www.linuxspice.com linux pc for sale /* any one in linux camp ever compile 2.5.50, especially in deb

Re: Wrong size with ls

2002-12-09 Thread Prakash Countcham
Thanks ! I understand know why the file lastlog takes only 24 1k-block instead of 6306. That's because there are a lot of zeros it. 24 -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 6456412 Dec 7 20:59 lastlog Prakash ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: Disk blocks used and size of files a

10MB lost per CD multi-session?

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
http://www.cliffshade.com/dpfwiw/cd-r.htm#multi says each time you add another session (more data) to a disc you loose 10MB of space to the needed header files for the new session. Is it that serious on GNU/Linux with cdrecord, and if so, I don't think I saw it in the docs. -- http://jidanni.org/

motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread mess-mate
Hi I've to purchase a new motherboard. What about the ASUS P4PE or P4S8X ?? Is there anyone use it and runs the on-board sound/lan ? Thanks for the help mess-mate -- Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open Windows. msg17828/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: i810_audio.o

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:12:26AM -0700, eric lin wrote: > /* any one in linux camp ever compile 2.5.50, especially in debian > version, should I untar anywhere, then I make xconfig, it have many error, > ./configure alsa driver also have gcc can not execute executable > error, please help */

Re: Pinerc Folders -> muttrc folders???

2002-12-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021208 23:52]: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:55:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > At work we have an SSL mail server. I've gotten my mailboxes working > > fine for that but there's a new "catch" certail aliases are archived off > > to another IMAP f

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021207 21:12]: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:20:08PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > What I would do (I don't since I have a dedicated firewall machine) is : > > - close all unneeded services > > Better yet, not just close, purge them. > > > - install a firewal

LED application in gifts

2002-12-09 Thread peter
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Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 02:22:34 PST, Vineet Kumar writes: >>> - install a firewall that just drops any incoming connection from your >>> cable-connected ethernet interface. (I would recommend using fwbuilder >> The security gained with this step is epsilon under Linux if you don't >> have services

Re: Can't read my cdrom...

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Owen
alan brown wrote: I’ve looked through previous posts on this topic and the advice I found was to run dmesg | grep cdrom to find out where my cdrom is plugged in (hdb) and I tried symlinking /dev/dcrom to /dev/hdb. However, in the course of my experimenting I did rm –rf on the /cdrom directory

Modem

2002-12-09 Thread Aleksandar Simeonov
Hi, I have to buy new modem and I have dilemma what to buy. Is there any suggestion? What is better usb or serial modem, external or internal, and what's more important which modem works on Debian? Thanks, Simeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Anyone with working postfix smtp-auth?

2002-12-09 Thread Alexey Chetroi
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:47:46PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > Subject: Re: Anyone with working postfix smtp-auth? > From: Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexey Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:21, Alexey Chetroi wrote: > > I actually had this error with postfix-ldap

Re: Modem

2002-12-09 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:35:54AM +0100, Aleksandar Simeonov wrote: > Hi, > I have to buy new modem and I have dilemma what to buy. Is there any > suggestion? What is better usb or serial modem, external or internal, and > what's more important which modem works on Debian? As recommended by Eric

Re: phpgroupware setup guide

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Lale
Jacob S. wrote: Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL database, but I know very little about where to go next. I also found that the docs at w

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Pepas
> some folks like to sniff passwds... those are some of the ones you > should worry about... ( there are ssh based pwd sniffers too ) ssh based password sniffers? can you provide us with any evidence of this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Can't read my cdrom...

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:20:47PM -0800, alan brown wrote: > Any help would be appreciated. My problem is high level enough that > I've not been very effective with my google searches. umount /cdrom;mount /cdrom -rob msg17840/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wm choose

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:16:51PM +0300, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > ok then - i just want to ask if there are other wms except fvwm? There are dozens (if not more) window managers in Debian. This command will list them: 'apt-cache search x-window-manager' I personally use sawfish, since I love the

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:09:53PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > I'd just like to reiterate something said above. > The boot process can be devided into two sections, kernel boot and > service boot. All the kernel messages from the ker

Re: X problem

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:18:05PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > Your X server is refusing any connection from clients as long as > > authentication is enabled. Disable by 'xhost +'. Or as roo

Re: Proftp behind firewall problem solved

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:51:50PM -0800, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello again, > > I should be recognizing this by now...whenever I am about to send a message > to a help list I am about five minutes from solving the problem...and of > course if I actually get as far as describing the problem in gre

Re: Proftp behind firewall

2002-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:14:13PM -0800, Michael Olds wrote: > I need to know: > What ports should be opened through the router's firewall? I have tried 21 > 20 and those plus the range 6-65000. FTP through NAT is major hackage, since both sides open ports and connect to the other host. If y

Openoffice.org bugreporting (was Power Point reader)

2002-12-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:43:03PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Rodrigo Agerri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.06.1043 +0100]: > > if anyone there find an alternative to openoffice.org, could you let me > > know it, please? > > why not openoffice.org? it's quite good software and will

Re: Last partition sectors access problem

2002-12-09 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:00, Javier Miqueleiz wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I have a minor problem concerning Debian 3.0 rev. 0. The last (1 or 2) > sectors of some partitions can't be accessed. This isn't a hardware problem > (tested using disk manufacterer tools or "dd if=/dev/hda"). > The intriguin

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:00:40AM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > - OOo has a problem with your window manager (Oroborus, Fluxbox and > possibly others) Bug #171556 > Right on target. Maybe I should I have tried it first and then posted. A similar behaviour was noticed even with xcircu

Re: Openoffice.org bugreporting (was Power Point reader)

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:28:09PM +, Johann Spies wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:43:03PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > why not openoffice.org? it's quite good software and will only get > > better if you use it and report problems. > > Easier said than done - I mean to "report proble

Swedish latex?

2002-12-09 Thread Gustav Olsson
Hello everybody, I run debian unstable and face a problem: Since I'm swesdish I want to run latex with swedish hyphenation, but I canät compile my old swedish .tex documents, when I try to compile the I get "No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language `Swedish'" I havce tried to add a l

RE: Proftp behind firewall problem solved

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Olds
Thanks for the response Rob, I should be recognizing this by now...whenever I shoot off my mouth about having solved a problem, it isn't really solved at all: Mistaking the fact that it works for the solution of the problem. 1. This is a one-man 2-computer setup, so I generally ftp from behind th

DR John cabor

2002-12-09 Thread john cabora
FROM: HON DR John cabor >Dear Sir A Brief Intreduction of my self, I am hon Dr John cabora. A diplomant from the republic gabon, also the owner of trans Atlantic crossing company. > I am contacting in respect of your consignment /fund that is with me as a diplomat I don`t have problem in br

Re: exim: (T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host)

2002-12-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:46:07PM +0800, louie miranda wrote: | 2002-12-09 12:32:26 18LFaj-0006ZV-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway | T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host This isn't the error message. This message just says that there was an error (a while ago)

SENDER! Virus found in a message from you!

2002-12-09 Thread virus
Attention! Kaspersky Anti-Virus has discovered the virus infected: I-Worm.Lentin.g that you sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We recommend running a complete anti-virus check of your computer. You can receive more detailed computer virus information on our site at http://www.kasperky.com. You may

Re: 10MB lost per CD multi-session?

2002-12-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Dan! Dan Jacobson schrieb am Montag, den 09. Dezember 2002: > Is it that serious on GNU/Linux with cdrecord, and if so, I don't Of course it is. There is nothing specific to Linux. > think I saw it in the docs. Blind? # zgrep overhead /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.multi.gz ov

NVidia Riva TNT PCI with XFree86

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am having some hassle setting up my NVidia Riva TNT PCI graphics card with XFree86 on Debian 3.0 rev0. I have set up the device manually in the XF86Config-4 as a "nv" type, but when I try to start X, it just tries to display, then retrys endlessly. Do I need to add NVidia drivers? I noti

apt-get problem

2002-12-09 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
Hello all! I have this problem since yesterday with apt-get on my laptop: -- Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kmtrace (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/download.uk.kde.org_pub_kde_stable_latest_Debian_woody_

Re: dmesg to help debug why ac97 no sound

2002-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:59:55AM -0700, eric lin wrote: > the following dmesg seem to show it detect my ac97 is i810_audio but > it said Primary codec not ready > > please help on this > in 2.4.20 intel borad > /* eepro is also not work, both I all put in my /etc/modules */ > > sincere ERic >

Re: ipchains DENY question

2002-12-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.07.0030 +0100]: > I'm not saying it's a bad idea; I'm just saying I don't know how to do > it. Any suggestions? snort. and i'd go as far as to log everything that the firewall drops and then add rules to drop certain packets without logging

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:15:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Actually, according to to the RFCs, ports must respond saying they're > closed or open, not just ignore it. Hosts must be pingable. That's > TCP/IP. Stealth firewalls are in some cases better. If you DENY a packet, then the remote

Re: Using debian woody as a firewall.

2002-12-09 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:51:57PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > If I load woody on instead of ipcop, I can get it to do email + firewall > stuff. > > My question is, is the a firewall product wich give me the web config ipcop > does, and the easy install/setup. > Ipcop was one of the smoothest i

Re: Modem

2002-12-09 Thread Randy Edwards
I have to buy new modem and I have dilemma what to buy. Is there any suggestion? What is better usb or serial modem, external or internal, and what's more important which modem works on Debian? All modems are serial -- that just refers to the way they send bits to the computer (e.g. USB = Uni

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:21:19PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> - OOo has a problem with your window manager (Oroborus, Fluxbox and >> possibly others) Bug #171556 >> > Right on target. Maybe I should I have tried it first and then posted. > A similar behaviour was noticed even with x

Re: Modem

2002-12-09 Thread Gary Turner
Aleksandar Simeonov wrote: >Hi, >I have to buy new modem and I have dilemma what to buy. Is there any >suggestion? What is better usb or serial modem, external or internal, and >what's more important which modem works on Debian? Personal choice, I got a PCI bus internal modem (U.S. Robotics model

Re: Swedish latex?

2002-12-09 Thread sean finney
hej, can't say i know what the problem is, but if you have access to the file you're missing, here's what i imagine a quick fix would be: (on the old machine) $ dpkg -S /path/to/sehyph.tex (which will give you the package name) $ apt-cache show packagename | grep Version (which will give you the

Re: NVidia Riva TNT PCI with XFree86

2002-12-09 Thread sean finney
heya, yeah, you need a couple packages. install nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src and follow the directions you get in /usr/share/doc/nvidia* good luck, sean On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:49:38AM -0500, Ben Hill wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some hassle setting up my NVidia Riva TNT PCI g

DNS problem with Yahoo

2002-12-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I run a mailing list related to Hinduism at the domain lists.advaita-vedanta.org and recently list members who use Yahoo mail have been complaining about their posts bouncing. This is the kind of message they get: >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message from yahoo.com. > Unable to deliver messag

Re: slowwww IMAP

2002-12-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Justin Ryan wrote: > Hrmf, how do I do this? Can't find any decent documentation, except on > the basic _format_ of maildir.. > Actually a maildir is a very simple directory structure. Make a diectory called ~/Maildir/lists.debian.user and make three directories under that c

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:10:42AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Stealth firewalls are in some cases better. If you DENY a packet, then > the remote end knows that something answered the request, as it got a > denied response back. If you DROP the packet the remote end gets > nothing back. An

Mozilla and x-java-vm

2002-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? I have the java debs from Blackdown but I still get a message telling me I need to install this plugin. Oddly enough, it seems to be there for Netscape, but I can't find it anywhere on my disk. A search on Google brings up numero

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:42:42PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > So what was your window manager? > fluxbox > > I don't quite understand your question. These are the langpacks > that work without setting LANG or LC_ALL: > > openoffice.org-l10n-en > Sorry for not

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Quoting Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > cable ... its you and all your neighbors watching/sharing that copper > Can you provide evidence for this? That cable modems run in "promiscuous" mode? Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: .Xresources file

2002-12-09 Thread Anton Emmerfors
Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:03:54AM -0500 skrev Derrick 'dman' Hudson: [Branden, I'm CC-ing as not to have to send you a separate mail] > > I think I read somewhere that instead of a single file a directory > containing files named for the program could be used. However, that > didn't seem to work

Re: Swedish latex?

2002-12-09 Thread Gustav Olsson
Hello again, The problem is that the file "sehyph.tex" doesn't seem to exist in the package tetex-base, as it used to do. Searching for it with the search-function on debian.org leavs me with nothing, the file can't be found in the unstable release. Hence, "apt-get --reinstall install ><><><"

DVD Player w/KDE 3

2002-12-09 Thread David Ellis
Has anyone had any luck with DVD Playback on Debian with KDE 3? Can you point out a good player (and maybe a website) with a download and HOWTO? - David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openoffice on testing

2002-12-09 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:49:23PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Just curious, which program is faulty here: fluxbox/openoffice? Openoffice. See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5445 We promised not to upload the openoffice.org packages to unstable very often, because they are s

Huge (1.9GB) .xsession-errors file

2002-12-09 Thread marius rogn
I'm running LTSP (Thin clients), on Woody, and recently my most popular application, The Gimp, started to cause huge .xsession-errors files, the file would grow until it took 100% of the partition in a mather of minutes. The files contains millions of identical lines: "gimp segmentation fa

Re: nvidia driver install

2002-12-09 Thread Wim De Smet
Sorry your error notice doesn't seem to have gotten through. What type of error was it? On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 18:00:37 +0100 (MET) Buchholcz Gergo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've encountered some difficulties while trying to install nvidia drivers. > I compiled a new 2.4.18 kernel (with

Re: phpgroupware setup guide

2002-12-09 Thread Jacob S .
On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:50:46 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial for setting > > up phpgroupware on a Debian Woody box? I think I've finally gotten > > all the proper packages installed for it to run on a mySQL d

Re: NVidia Riva TNT PCI with XFree86

2002-12-09 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, This isn't true. These packages are for the nvidia kernel drivers, which are the nvidia propietary drivers. The X server contains a package for nvidia cards named "nv". This is a free driver, but doesn't contain any 3d acceleration. You probably misconfigured the x server somewhere. A good

Two copies of fonts?

2002-12-09 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, There are two copies of fonts located respectively at /usr/lib/X11/fonts and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. Why are there two same copies of fonts? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

build an overloaded linux server

2002-12-09 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, For experimental requirement, I want to build an overloaded linux server in which openssh is binding tcp port 22. The criteria is, when a ssh client is connecting to the sshd on the overloaded one, the sshd will take more than 60 seconds to respond.(that is, tcp socket established b

Re: Mozilla and x-java-vm

2002-12-09 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:38 + Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? > > I have the java debs from Blackdown but I still get a message telling me > I need to install this plugin. Oddly enough, it seems to be there for

Re: Swedish latex?

2002-12-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Gustav Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that the file "sehyph.tex" doesn't seem to exist in the > package tetex-base, as it used to do. Apparently, that file has a non-free license. So it was removed from tetex (on Debian and eventually, upstream). You can get it from http://

Re: What makes the files in /var/backup?

2002-12-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:57:08AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: I looked in the crontab stuff, but couldn't figure out what makes these. Might be nice to be able to add stuff. :-) Thanks in advance. Check out /etc/cron.daily/standard Doh! How did I miss *that*?

proftpd in log.

2002-12-09 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. I have message in log: Dec 9 17:21:15 pupkin proftpd[2346]: connect from 198.168.5.10 Dec 9 17:21:15 pupkin proftpd[2346]: No certificate files found! Dec 9 17:21:30 pupkin proftpd[2346]: pipkin.ineta.net (GMS[198.162.5.9]) - FTP session opemed Dec 9 17:2

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:25:51AM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Quoting Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > cable ... its you and all your neighbors watching/sharing that copper > > > > Can you provide evidence for this? That cable modems run in > "promiscuous" mode? When I was using COX

lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
When booting my system lilo hangs at 'L'. I can boot from the floppy fine. This occurs when booting from the harddrive only. No error code just 'L' How do i fix? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Two copies of fonts?

2002-12-09 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
/usr/lib/X11/fonts is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts not a copy. > -Original Message- > From: Qian Gong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday 9 December 2002 16:54 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Two copies of fonts? > > > Hi, > > There are two copies of fonts loca

RE: Can't read my cdrom...

2002-12-09 Thread alan brown
You were correct to assume I'm a complete newbie. However, in my tinkerings I did actually try what you suggested. I got a mount point does not exist problem. I didn't then go the extra logical step of just creating a directory at that point and then retrying the same command. Trying that fixed

Re: motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 04:49, mess-mate wrote: > Hi > I've to purchase a new motherboard. > What about the ASUS P4PE or P4S8X ?? > Is there anyone use it and runs the on-board sound/lan ? > Thanks for the help > mess-mate Yes. On the system do an lspci and see what comes up. It will normally show

Questions about horde2

2002-12-09 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: Questions about horde2 Hi List, I successfully installed horde2/imp/turba and the calendar program. Basic action are working, i.e sending receiving email but : I can't create a new folder for my mails, I have this error in the logs Failed retrieving prefs for mikael [on line 267 o

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jeffrey On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Quoting Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > cable ... its you and all your neighbors watching/sharing that copper > > > > Can you provide evidence for this? That cable modems run in > "promiscuous" mode? run tcpdump see if th

pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
My modem won't stop redialing periodically, even though I've got inactivity timeout set for 300 seconds. A few minutes later, it dials in again, and does it non-stop throughout the day, unless I kill the connection with poff. Demand dialing is on, but why does it keep incessantly dialing in witho

Re: Questions about horde2

2002-12-09 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Mikael Jirari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi List, > > I successfully installed horde2/imp/turba and the calendar program. > > Basic action are working, i.e sending receiving email but : > > I can't create a new folder for my mails, I have this error in the logs > Failed retrieving prefs for m

Re: motherboard

2002-12-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, mess-mate said: > Hi I've to purchase a new motherboard. What about the ASUS P4PE or > P4S8X ?? Is there anyone use it and runs the on-board sound/lan ? > Thanks for the help > mess-mate Try lists.debian.org - it's a searchable archive of the various mailing lists.

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Charles Baker
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When booting my system lilo hangs at 'L'. I > can boot from the floppy fine. This occurs when > booting from the harddrive only. No > error code just 'L' > > How do i fix? > > Lance > This is a quite common problem. Lots of discussions and sol

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-12-09T15:09:13Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All you really accomplish is pissing off legitimately misguided users, and > detouring the incompetant cracker that wouldn't get in anyway. That's not quite true. Older (and newer, misused) port-scanners can get pretty bogged d

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Olivier Esser
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: When booting my system lilo hangs at 'L'. I can boot from the floppy fine. This occurs when booting from the harddrive only. No error code just 'L' How do i fix? Lance This comes from lilo which is probably bad configured. edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflects the kernel

Re: proftpd in log.

2002-12-09 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2002-12-09 um 17.01 schrieb Egor Tur: > Hi. > I have message in log: > Dec 9 17:21:15 pupkin proftpd[2346]: connect from 198.168.5.10 > Dec 9 17:21:15 pupkin proftpd[2346]: No certificate files found! > Dec 9 17:21:30 pupkin proftpd[2346]: pipkin.ineta.

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

2002-12-09 Thread Takuo KITAME
Fixed in 1.2.1-2. (B (B2002$BG/(B12$B7n(B07$BF|(B($BEZ(B)$B$N(B03$B;~(B23$BJ,$K(B Craig Dickson $B[)$/(B: (B> (CC'd to the mozilla maintainer, Takuo Kitame, since I don't know if (B> he reads debian-user.) (B> (B> John M Flinchbaugh wrote: (B> (B> > i noticed that running

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2002-12-09 um 16.09 schrieb Paul Johnson: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:10:42AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Stealth firewalls are in some cases better. If you DENY a packet, then > > the remote end knows that something answered the request, as it got a > > denied response back. If y

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread John Schmidt
Try this for the #modeminit: # modeminit '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. > # modeminit > '' ATZ I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything to do with some ip6 hosts lookup??? Just taking a wild guess. I hope someone will correct m

Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection性安套+安全套=全范围保护

2002-12-09 Thread George Lin
Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection The Safe Sex Shell is a circular plastic shell with a protrusive hole on the center. See http://www.sexsafe.biz This product is to be used in combination with a condom. The protrusion wraps around the mouth of the condom, holding securely in place, th

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Ludwig
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:37, Chip Rose wrote: > My modem won't stop redialing periodically, even though I've got > inactivity timeout set for 300 seconds. A few minutes later, it dials in > again, and does it non-stop throughout the day, unless I kill the > connection with poff. Demand dialing is

enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Simon Tod
Bit of a simple newbie question I fear.. I've got Woody up and running on my laptop but must have missed something during installation as I don't have APM enabled in the kernel; I tried to get a GNOME battery monitor applet running without success, and the machine just hangs at 'Power Down' aft

RE: Questions about horde2

2002-12-09 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: Questions about horde2 Yes I feel a bit stupid now !!! The debian installation is so automatised that I assumed that the tables were already created. Merci. -Original Message- From: Antoine Jacoutot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 16:42 To: Mikael Jir

Re: enabling apm on laptop

2002-12-09 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2002.12.09 12:12 Simon Tod wrote: Bit of a simple newbie question I fear.. I've got Woody up and running on my laptop but must have missed something during installation as I don't have APM enabled in the kernel; I tried to get a GNOME battery monitor applet running without success, and th

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:00:08PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Correct. nmap displays a scanned port as "filtered" even if you DROP the > packet. If you respong to a ping but DROP all port scans it's clear to > all hackers that you have a packetfilter. And I can still ping you if you drop pin

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> A better solution of course would be to simply > reinstall Lilo reinstall Lilo? Do you mean simply type lilo at the prompt or apt-get reinstall install lilo? > to the MBR - it will boot '95 just fine, but try the > above if > you don't want to go that route. > > As well as this: > > On my

crontab

2002-12-09 Thread Steve
Hello: I'm new to Debian although I have some experience with other distros. I'm having some difficutlty running my own cronjob. Debian seems to be a little different than what I'm used to in this regard. It ignores my defined crontab. I set up a crontab to run at hourly intervals as both user

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Schmidt wrote: > Try this for the #modeminit: > # modeminit > '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 > > the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. > > > # modeminit > > '' ATZ > > I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything > to do with some ip6 hosts lo

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Chip Rose
On 9 Dec 2002, Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:37, Chip Rose wrote: > > My modem won't stop redialing periodically, even though I've got > > inactivity timeout set for 300 seconds. A few minutes later, it dials in > > again, and does it non-stop throughout the day, unless I kill the > >

Re: lilo hangs @ 'L'

2002-12-09 Thread Charles Baker
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A better solution of course would be to simply > > reinstall Lilo > > reinstall Lilo? Do you mean simply type lilo at > the prompt or apt-get reinstall install lilo? > > /sbin/lilo at the bash shell command prompt as root. {{SNIP}} = [E

Fetchmail doesn't fetch

2002-12-09 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
My command of "fetchmail" yields an index of messages which hangs and then after it times out (300 sec), gives the reason for the error as "7". ?The manpage says this condition (fetchmail timing out) can occur "while waiting for the server." I am using linux 2.2.20, debian woody, exim, and mutt --

Mozilla 1.2 libjsj.so

2002-12-09 Thread Warren Dodge
Has anyone else had this problem? When I start any of the 1.2-series mozilla's installed from standard sid .debs I get the following error: /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libjsj.so: undefined symbol: __vt_24nsASingleFragmentCString I don't see any bugs against mozilla-

cryptoloop as user?

2002-12-09 Thread ernst
Hi I'm useing cryptoloop to protect my data on a ibmx20 laptop. Im running 2.4.19 kernel with the cryptoloop and cryptoapi modules innstalled. As root, I have created a file with dd, used blowfish as cipher and mounted it trough loop0, so far so good. But I am wondering if there is an easyer way

Re: Mozilla and x-java-vm

2002-12-09 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:54, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:38 + > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? > > > > I have the java debs from Blackdown but I still get a message telling me > > I need

Compaq Presario 4500

2002-12-09 Thread Vince Hillier
I just got 2 old Compaq Presario's, one is model 4504 and the other a 4508. After the debian install hanging about 400 times, I finally got it installed (in parts I might add - Partitioned harddisk, froze, reboot, initialize paritions, install base, froze, ...). Now that it is installed, it boots

Re: changing a computer's name

2002-12-09 Thread Jeff Cours
Following up for the archives. It looks like reversing the order of the names in /etc/hosts and rebooting did the trick. I'm guessing that, instead of reading /etc/hostname, some daemons try to discover the hostname by doing a reverse resolution on 127.0.0.1. In any case, the machine now seems

Re: Install debian from local iso images

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Lourens, Am 22:11 2002-12-04 +0200 hat Lourens Steenkamp geschrieben: > >Hello everyone, > >This was posted on my local LUG. > >I would appreciate any suggestions for this potential Debian user. > >"is it possible to install debian from local iso images without >having the need to write them

after upgrade, gnome not allowed login, and other

2002-12-09 Thread eric lin
Dear linux: After upgrade, I can not login in gnome, It seem at upgrade process ever ask me install xfree4.2.1 I reply yes(next), but Kerob m, I reply cancel(No, I guess), is that cause problem also now I apt-get upgrade it left many package can no upgrade, please help on this www:/home/fssh

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