Re: make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big

2003-08-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 11:56]: > compiled kernel as follows:- > atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --initrd clean kernel_image > and also tried > atlas:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg clean binary > > Where could I be going wrong? Your could try to use the -bzimage parameter of mak

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit, > even > > > > Admiral Hooper would not say t

DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-27 Thread Chris de Vidal
Volunteers needed! http://debtoo.org = /dev/idal "GNU/Linux is free freedom" --Me __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: | On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:44:32 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote : [...] | > ICMP is extremely useful and is, in fact, required for | > correct operation of TCP and IP. Do not block ICMP. | | ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minute

Anyone packaging this yet?

2003-08-27 Thread martin f krafft
If noone is packaging davfs yet, then I might consider it. I am talking to the author to see if it is still maintained, then I will give it a go. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin,

Re: icmp filtering (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:40:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * P. Kallakuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 11:06]: | > by default ICMP traffic is disabled and when i setup a firewall in our | > research lab about 3 years back, thats how i left it. our research | > machines were open on the intern

SmartArray 5312

2003-08-27 Thread Josh Lauricha
This e-mail is to provide the solution to my problem, in case others need it. The CCISS driver used by the Compaq SmartArray uses 64-bit DMA by default on the vanilla linux kernel. In servers with more than 4GB of ram (with the 64G option selected at compile time) this causes the raid array to ha

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-27 Thread Craig Genner
Your computer may be having problems actually getting the video data from your DVD drive to the rest of the PC. Have a look at hdparm as this might help Craig On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 6:21 pm, Peter Nuttall wrote: > I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping > frames.

Re: dealing with TNEF at the MTA/MDA level

2003-08-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 15:12]: > Has anyone composed a procmail recipe or a postfix method to > automatically unpack TNEF files (the Microsoft crap) and replace the > winmail.dat file in the original message with the results? Would you > share that with me? > I don't have t

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of > > > someone with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular

CUPS - really did it now

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I'm rather more confused than I was two days ago when I had some of CUPS working. I have a server that seems to be working just fine. Haven't changed anything there. But now my client is really messed up and I'm rather confused about it. I removed the package lpd. Now I can't print to cu

Re: Power off

2003-08-27 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:50, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > My computer doesn't switch off upon 'shutdown -h now', so I looked around > on the net and found: > > To switch the power off on shutdown in Linux: > - Compile apm into the kernel > - Add the following line in /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=o

Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT), Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Volunteers needed! > http://debtoo.org .."* This website sucks." Toss it in http://validator.w3.org/ ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with

RE: virus (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
>From OED online. [a. L. vrus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste. Hence also F., Sp., Pg. virus. In Lanfranc's Cirurgie (c 1400) 77 the word, explained as 'a thin venomy quitter', is merely taken over from the Latin text.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. Als

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Some time after I left the COBOL job, I was employed writing C > in an app that screamed for COBOL.

eximconfig

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to configure exim for a satellite (option #3) and keep getting the following errors in my logs: lookup of host "mail.mydomain.tld" failed in smarthost router. I can ping this same address, so I assumed that the DNS was working correctly... I entered the IP address for the mail server

Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-27 Thread Diego Calleja García
El Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Volunteers needed! > http://debtoo.org are you going to implement a USE flag equivalent? (note: I don't like USE a lot) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--vGgW1X5XWziG23Ko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser

Re: Best Way to Look at Streaming Video

2003-08-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I want to correct one point in my origina post, and thank everyone for their responses. On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Discussion a few months ago mentioned http://marillat.free.fr/ both > for the realplayer for Debian package (which no longer seems to be > there)

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-27 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 10:25 pm, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi All, > > Is this just me or is the mailinglist server terribly slow? I sent a > message to the list at 9:15 PM and I got it back 2 hours later around > 11:20 PM So this is 2 full hours to process the email on the Debian > server... Am I cor

unsubscribe

2003-08-27 Thread Bertrand HENRY
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Re: Unstable Dep. prevent config. of 5 xserver-xfree86 files

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Hunt
So sorry folks, found the answer using google groups. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/ Bug#206790: missing file on install of 4.2.1-10 As a workaround, do this: # mkdir -m 755 /var/lib/xfree86 && dpkg --configure xserver-common Kind Regards Dan Hunt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

(no subject)

2003-08-27 Thread Smommyrowe
hi my name is brian  i have  a pc  very old  it take win95 i format the made drive  to us  the disk  can you help me   your you no a good  wibb  to get on  brian

Out of My Office

2003-08-27 Thread Jacob Olupona
I will be out of my office until September 14th, 2003. If your message concerns something pressing, please contact Aklil Bekele at [EMAIL PROTECTED], telephone 530-752-1548. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://debtoo.org/ have u heard?

2003-08-27 Thread Louie Miranda
http://debtoo.org/ -- have you heard? --- - Thanks, Louie Miranda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo vga= problems after new kernel build

2003-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:09:06 +0200, Olivier (skyshadow) Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Just built a new 2.4.22 kernel.(Previous one was the standard > installation 2.4.18-bf2.4) > > It's working as expected but my vga=790 setting in lilo makes troubl

Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-27 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:08, Adam wrote: > This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and > sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in > January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. > The apt-get -t unstable install gnome f

Re: [Poptop-server] Re: Problem in using pptp-linux

2003-08-27 Thread James Cameron
Arnt, The problem James Ng Yuen Sum is experiencing is with configuring the PPTP client, which is supported by the PPTP client mailing list. I'm the release engineer for the client. I lurk on the PPTP server mailing list to assist occasionally. His statement that "the web sites" recommended an

partimage <-> stdio

2003-08-27 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
Does anyone know how to get partimage to stream to/from stdio? I want to use it like so: partimage -d -b save /dev/hda1 - | cdbackup ... but I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Or does partimage make extensive use of seek()? -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The at

Re: lilo vga= problems after new kernel build

2003-08-27 Thread skyshadow
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:09:06AM +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: > Hi, > > Just built a new 2.4.22 kernel.(Previous one was the standard > installation 2.4.18-bf2.4) > > It's working as expected but my vga=790 setting in lilo makes trouble. > > * If set, my display won't show anything: blac

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:22, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of > > >

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfi

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:25, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi All, > > Is this just me or is the mailinglist server terribly slow? I sent a > message to the list at 9:15 PM and I got it back 2 hours later around > 11:20 PM So this is 2 full hours to process the email on the Debian > server... Am I correc

Re: CUPS - really did it now

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom Allison said on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:27:39PM -0400: > So I thought maybe there was something in the /etc/printcap file that might > be of some significance. I had a remote printer defined from way back > (years) and it was pointed to an IP address that was no longer in use. So > I don't

Re: lilo vga= problems after new kernel build

2003-08-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Olivier (skyshadow) Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > Just built a new 2.4.22 kernel.(Previous one was the standard > installation 2.4.18-bf2.4) > > It's working as expected but my vga=790 setting in lilo makes trouble. > > * If set, my display won't show anything: bla

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:35, Britton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > This just isn't true. Perl at least is brought to its knees by a variety > of problems that C has no trouble with whatsoever. I've

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:23, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For exampl

some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I can find all the sites and advice I want about how to form iptables rules, but I can't find any decent discussion of how to enable the damn things. I get the idea that an iptables firewall is set up by actually running a bunch of "iptables -options" lines, presumably from a script. But where do

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 14:05]: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:49:44 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > > , so I could be wrong, but: > > ... > > ... then so is the man page. > > Apparently. Or I just misinterpreted it. I guess it meant it ignores the netbios names for lookup purposes, but

Re: CUPS - really did it now

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Pytel
Hi Tom, On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:27:39 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I removed the package lpd. Now I can't print to cups. Before this, > and currently, I have cupsys-bsd installed, but no information on how > it's supposed to work. /usr/share/doc/cupsys-bsd is a little sparse.

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-27 Thread Corey Ralph
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 01:27 AM, Victory wrote: 1, Is there way to clone this hard drive ? If you are cloning it to an identical hard drive, you can use dd, eg: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb 2, Is it possible to create bootable CD of the working system so that when I boot to new sys

Re: HP 712/60 questions

2003-08-27 Thread JAMES MERRITT
Hi Larry, I have been using Debian Linux on two 712/100. I bought a cdrom that was compatible with these machines. Not all cdroms drives will allow the 712's to bot off of them. I think maybe the newer SCSI cdrom's will work. Anyway, I suggest subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED], they are more

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread David Turetsky
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote: > > Yes, but how does that compare with similarly powerful features in Perl? > I *knew* someone would ask about the Programmable Extraction and > Reporting Language... > > Please don't think that I am implying that Perl or C are bad langua

spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Allison
Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? I have a lot of DNS traffic running with this query and I noticed that my mail log was full of messages to stop using relays.osirusoft.com. I turn off the use of relays.osirusoft.com which has greatly sped up my email and even cleaned up the network t

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Britton
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Some time after I left the COBOL job, I was employed writing C > > in an app that screamed for COBOL. I'd say that 1/5th of the > > SLOCs, and most of the bugs, were of the form: > > >

start program in ssh command line?

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, tweaking the relationship between my work and home computers... I keep my mail on my work computer, and would like to be able to make an alias on the HOME computer that will log me in to work and start mutt without my having to type the additional command. my initial thought was this:

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:48:36PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? Yes. | I have a lot of DNS traffic running with this query and I noticed | that my mail log was full of messages to stop using | relays.osirusoft.com. Yeah, I just heard that relays.osiruso

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:48:36 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? Yes. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. --

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:12, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I can find all the sites and advice I want about how to form iptables > rules, but I can't find any decent discussion of how to enable the damn > things. > > I get the idea that an iptables firewall is set up by actually running a > bunch

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:42, David Turetsky wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote: > > [snip] > > Here's a simplistic example of how COBOL is specialized: > > Say we have 2 record definitions: > > 01 A-SMALL-REC. > > 05 FIRST-NAME PIC X(15). > > 05 LAS

WARNING: YOU MAY HAVE SENT A VIRUS

2003-08-27 Thread info
WARNING: YOU MAY HAVE SENT A VIRUS to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The virus found was : W95/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the attachment named your_document.pif Intersoft's E-mail Scanning Service has detected a virus in an E-mail that you sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The E-mail containing the virus has been quar

Re: OT: virus (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-27 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > the latin word > can be translated as "slime", "poison", or as a metaphor for "slaver > / foam / venom" (compare Vergilius: destillat ab inguine virus) Yeurgh! > Thanks to Mr. Sch??ller and Ms. Altenburg for six years of boring Lati

Re: start program in ssh command line?

2003-08-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-08-26T23:26:37-0400, Matt Price wrote: > my initial thought was this: > > ssh -l matt work.host.name mutt If you are running X, try add '-X' to the above to see if that does the trick. Otherwise, I guess you can run something like 'TERM=vt100 mutt' as the command instead. /Allan -- Al

Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-27 Thread Travis Crump
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:08, Adam wrote: This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. The apt-get -t unstable in

Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-27 Thread Adam
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:08, Adam wrote: > This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and > sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in > January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. > The apt-get -t unstable install gn

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:48:36PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? > > I have a lot of DNS traffic running with this query and I noticed that my > mail log was full of messages to stop using relays.osirusoft.com. > > I turn off the use of rel

Re: Your application

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Hill
Ho are you On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 01:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please see the attached file for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start program in ssh command line?

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:26:37PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > my initial thought was this: > > ssh -l matt work.host.name mutt > > but this seems to send mutt off into the ether. I guess there's no > tty associated with the ssh process or something... Right, no pseudo-TTY unless you ask for one

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Thank you for this. My apologies to all for broadcasting my frustration. It's not the best way to handle things. Bret On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Someone somewhere speaks to issue of the actual plumbing to implement > > iptables. Can anyone point me? > > you can read /

nfs/ssh woes

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, about 2 months ago I sent out a call for help on this list which, like most such calls I've made, was duly answered by a coule of folks, especially James S. Then my baby son was born, and we went away for a while, and when I came back home I rebooted all my machines, ended up losing a

Re: start program in ssh command line?

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:54:00PM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:26:37PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Right, no pseudo-TTY unless you ask for one. That's what the '-t' option > is for, refer to the ssh man page for more details. I'm an idiot! sorry, thought I'd look

Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-27 Thread Rthoreau
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT), Chris de Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message << [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Volunteers needed! >> http://debtoo.org > Arnt Karlsen<[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > .."* This website sucks." Toss it in http://validator.w3.org/ ;-) Thats a great site Arnt

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > you can read /etc/init.d/iptables comments for info. Hmmm. On reading, I notice a function named "initd_clear" called by an argument of "clear". Running this leaves the system open - all targets are "ACCEPT". The README in /etc/init.d points at

virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread amg
Hello all, Being relatively new to the whole mailing-list scene I have a question about the linux mailing-list scene actually (actually part of a mailing list in my windows days). While browsing my inbox, which I only do every several days, I notice messages from places such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting P. Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > >>i am not able to connect to a vnc-server thats running behind the > >>firewall. i know that the vncserver is running because i can open > >>vncviewers from other clients behind the firewall. but when i > >>ssh to the > >>gate

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Al Davis
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:35 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as > a requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, > a load of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find > any Free COBOL tools. 'apt-cache search cobol' re

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:12:15PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I can find all the sites and advice I want about how to form iptables > rules, but I can't find any decent discussion of how to enable the damn > things. For network interfaces, I usually stick it as a pre-up item in the /etc/

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin Mark
this is my take: joe user has a windows computer he reads our list he has the lists email address in his address book he get the virus it reads his address book it sends the virus to everyone in his address book which includes email that fakes the 'from' address (from the list) the recipent of th

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:19, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > you can read /etc/init.d/iptables comments for info. > > Hmmm. On reading, I notice a function named "initd_clear" called by an > argument of "clear". Running this leaves the system o

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread jqdkf
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:20:55AM -0400, amg wrote: > Hello all, > > Being relatively new to the whole mailing-list scene I have a question > about the linux mailing-list scene actually (actually part of a mailing > list in my windows days). > > While browsing my inbox, which I only do every se

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Nick Hastings
* amg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030827 13:23]: > While browsing my inbox, which I only do every several days, I notice > messages from places such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (this was recently, I > received (or it was sent?) it: 03.08.28). > > I am wondering what this is. Did someone send a virus/worm/wh

Re: (no subject)

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:18:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi my name is brian i have a pc very old it take win95 i format the > made drive to us the disk can you help me your you no a good wibb to > get on Wait, what? You might want to re

NT Installation - Seperate Drive Question

2003-08-27 Thread amg
Hello all, this is the unimportant back story: I love games, I own an XBOX (save your boo's for later please, I enjoy it :)), and I used to play games on my PC (winNT style) I had heard about Wine, WineX, and other "emulators" (maybe not the best word, if you can suggest a better one, please inf

horde

2003-08-27 Thread gerard
Does anyone know where I can find a howto for horde and its packages for debian? thanks ~gerard signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:46:02AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > (And since nobody else has suggested it, it might be possible to get > into the machine remotely, too, maybe with ssh. A serial console is > useful for this sort of problem too, but requires some advance setup, > and the world contain

A mainstream publication tells it like it is (largely)

2003-08-27 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Regarding Windows vs. Mac OS/X and GNU/Linux security. Here's a fellow in the Washington Post saying it clearly: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34978-2003Aug23.html Cheers, Bret Waldow -- bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: acme package - experiences

2003-08-27 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:40:39 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:20:35AM -0500, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:46:58 +0200, Olivier Robert wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm wondering if someone's got some experience with the acme package. >> > The packege

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:39, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:19, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > > you can read /etc/init.d/iptables comments for info. > > > > Hmmm. On reading, I notice a function named "initd_clear" called by

Re: Problems with sis900 after upgrading to 2.4.20

2003-08-27 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
> I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.20. The system used to boot up > cleanly with 2.2.20. However after upgarding, it does not configure the > NIC card. I have sis900 on my system. The dmesg and ifconfig outputs are > reproduced here: Please help. I am almost losing my nerve! > * > d

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:36, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > > > > requirement

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:20:55 -0400, amg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > Being relatively new to the whole mailing-list scene I have a question > about the linux mailing-list scene actually (actually part of a > mailing list in my windows days). > > W

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:57, Al Davis wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:35 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > You didn't say what your major is, so I am assuming it is CS. CIS actually. Not nearly as much theory as CS and a very solid grounding in business and management. About the most 'ad

Re: NT Installation - Seperate Drive Question

2003-08-27 Thread Corey Ralph
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:54 PM, amg wrote: Can I essentially: -"detach" my debian-installed drives -attach a "blank" drive (it would be the last IDE slot) -install XP onto that disk (letting XP muck around with the MBR (on it's own drive)) -re-attach the debian drives (leaving the XP

RE: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> As we use Debian, I don't think there is the need for any > company to protect us. As far as I know, linux is immune to > any virus, and that's > the main reason why I don't want to install windows on my machine. > -- > Zeng Nan > If this is your main reason, why not use windows with antivi

OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question. Why, exactly, is C so popular? Especially in comparison to C++. I can't think of a single reason t

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote: > Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style > program in C++, you will understand it. Do not underestimate the value of this. You can take a COBOL programmer and teach him C/C++/Java (or whatever popular language), and he'll

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:11:08 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Note that I tend to gravitate towards higher level languages by nature. > I use Perl religiously, and I love Java. If not for some of the speed > limitations and, more importantly, the fact that it's non-free, I would

Re: horde

2003-08-27 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:02:16 -0400 gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a howto for horde and its packages > for debian? thanks I've only used Horde and IMP on BSD, not Debian, but I found the official Horde docs (on the website and in /usr/share/doc I'd guess) to

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps down to 72 columns On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, > > which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandr

Jabber and transports

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried installing the AIM transport from agrogeomatic.educagri.fr (from their listing on apt-get.org). Following aim-transport's instructions, I added it into the jabber.xml the way it tells you to, and I can see it when I query my jabber server,

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:05:44PM -0400, Li-Ren Zhou wrote: > I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a > good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). I use abcde for CD ripping. k3b for burning. You might wan

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:20:55AM -0400, amg wrote: > Hello all, > > Being relatively new to the whole mailing-list scene I have a question > about the linux mailing-list scene actually (actually part of a mailing > list in my windows days). Welcome ;-) > While browsing my inbox, which I only

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Ashley Graham
> ..something on the matter: ;-) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jwhois winram.com > [Querying whois.internic.net] > [Redirected to whois.dotster.com] > [Querying whois.dotster.com] > [whois.dotster.com] > > The data contained in the WHOIS database, while > believed by the company to be reliable, is pro

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread BUIRA Etienne
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:39:33PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip quote) > > As we use Debian, I don't think there is the need for any company to > protect us. As far as I know, linux is immune to any virus, and that's > the main reason why I don't want to install windows on my machine.

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages > seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant > language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question.

Re: Help me please with TAR

2003-08-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Piotrek wrote: Hello, I am quite a new user of Debian, so my question would sound a little bit stupid, but I've got a problem with TAR. I am using a testing version of Debian. I have upgraded TAR to 1.13.25-5 version and as I try to unpack tar.bz2 files with " tar xjf ... " I get such a messa

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:15:13 -0500, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote: > > Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style > > program in C++, you will understand it. > > Do not under

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Ashley Graham
> Welcome ;-) Thank you. > We do not have a security company protecting us. As a few people have > pointed out already, this is probably a case of a virus being sent > with a faked From header, and over-zealous anti-virus software. The question about the security company was a "what-if", I did

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:31:39 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * amg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030827 13:23]: > > > > While browsing my inbox, which I only do every several days, I > > notice messages from places such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (this was >

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