Re: not in sid yet? - CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-11-14 Thread Chema
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:40:08 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GF> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:40, bruce edge wrote: GF> > Looks like this is only available in woody: GF> > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-24.html GF> > http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-382 GF> > http://www.de

i keep getting e-mails from Mailer Daemon

2003-11-14 Thread LilSeXyGrNeyes
Hi.keep getting e-mails from a MAILER DAEMON, sayin that an e-mail that i sent out didnt go through, i looked in my mail sent box and it was full of Sent mail with a subject i never heard of sent to over 40 people..i never sent these e-mails, i want it to stop and i dont h

i keep getting e-mails from Mailer Daemon

2003-11-14 Thread LilSeXyGrNeyes
Hi.keep getting e-mails from a MAILER DAEMON, sayin that an e-mail that i sent out didnt go through, i looked in my mail sent box and it was full of Sent mail with a subject i never heard of sent to over 40 people..i never sent these e-mails, i want it to stop and i dont h

i keep getting e-mails from Mailer Daemon

2003-11-14 Thread LilSeXyGrNeyes
Hi.keep getting e-mails from a MAILER DAEMON, sayin that an e-mail that i sent out didnt go through, i looked in my mail sent box and it was full of Sent mail with a subject i never heard of sent to over 40 people..i never sent these e-mails, i want it to stop and i dont h

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: --snip-- > > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot > > > blocks? > > > > Once you've copied the data back ont

Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:26, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I believe most of your concern is unjustified, as packages tend to get > reorganized over time or replaced by appropriate alternatives (renamed, > etc.). There may be some which no longer exist, but I don't {know > if | believe} they would be ex

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:41:19 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:27:17AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:47:41 -0800 (PST), > > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > com>: >

Re: Text processing help (sed?)

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:03, BruceG wrote: > Hey all, not a Debian specific question. I am working with some CSV files. > Daily extracts. I was able to combine them all with cat, then yank out the > records I needed and popped then in a smaller file using grep. Finally > yanked duplicates using sor

dpkg_apt

2003-11-14 Thread steef
hey joe, on your question of ' which pkm' i only can answer (again) go: do your research: so this circle closed itself too. start p.e. with apt how-to by gustavo noronha silva: very useful. and, for me, apt is good enough. especially the time after wilmer van der gaast advised me to 'leave' ca

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.14.0505 +0100]: > You're way behind. 4.13b-16 was the last upload by the previous > maintainer. It was hijacked with the -17 upload. But that's what I find in unstable... I don't get it... How do I get the latest version... to recap: # sudo a

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: --snip-- > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were > 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next > 45 years. Familiar with the theory of

Re: upgrading packages that are in use, especially X or gnome

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:36, Tom wrote: > I know you don't need to reboot after you apt-get upgrade, but I'm a bit > curious about upgrading packages that are in use. > > I knowly vaguely that the kernel allows you to replace executables that > are in use so "it all works", but I have questions.

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:58, David Palmer. wrote: > [snip] > > Until we mature enough as a species to assume the full > > responsibility of > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years,

Sound and Audio CD mounting problems

2003-11-14 Thread max von seibold
Does anyone know why I cannot get Debian to mount an audio cd? It will mount cd's normally and it will play mp3's from a cd. When I try to mount an audio disk though with:- mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom it first requests a file type - so I amend the command to:- mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdro

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > --snip-- > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were > > 100 years ago, and there will

Re: upgrading packages that are in use, especially X or gnome

2003-11-14 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:12:14AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:36, Tom wrote: > > I know you don't need to reboot after you apt-get upgrade, but I'm a bit > > curious about upgrading packages that are in use. > > > > I knowly vaguely that the kernel allows you to repl

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-14 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm intrigued. why would you want to do this? I understand Opera > > does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites

Re: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-14 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:14:43AM -0500, Nelson E. Castillo wrote: Subject: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug? > > Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. > > I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with > same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs > in a w

Re: Sound and Audio CD mounting problems

2003-11-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello max von seibold (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does anyone know why I cannot get Debian to mount an audio cd? > > It will mount cd's normally and it will play mp3's from a cd. When I > try to mount an audio disk though with:- > > mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > > it first requests a file typ

bootup hangs with nfs

2003-11-14 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Stable box with 2.4.22, has been working flawlessly for a few weeks now. Suddenly without any changing anything in the setup except for a few harmless backup scripts without any relation to nfs but only samba and not on the day before the error happened, the bootup process kept stopping at the

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > --snip-- > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > > it will happen when there are 10x as many people no

Re: i keep getting e-mails from Mailer Daemon

2003-11-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:10:37 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi.keep getting e-mails from a MAILER DAEMON, sayin that > an e-mail that i sent out didnt go through, i looked in my mail sent > box and it was full of Sent mail with a subject i never heard of sent > to over 40 people...

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > --snip-- > > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, wha

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'ScruLoose'! On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:13:31PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: I wonder whether the .muttrc is flexible enough to support something like looking for known "list" addresses when you hit r, and giving you an "are you sure?" prompt... Somehow I doubt the .muttrc file is up to that job,

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:00, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > --snip-- > >

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:41:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Does anyone per chance have 20.1 or later in /var/cache/apt/archives? > Please upload to ftp.madduck.net/incoming, I would be eternally > grateful! You know about snapshot.debian.net, don't you? -- Colin Watson

printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-14 Thread Akira Kitada
Hi all. As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all of commands executed in a shell script. (because after a while, I always forget all of commands hided in scripts at all. ) For example, if I have the following file named 'script', -- contents of a file -- ls -l | awk '{print $5}

Re: LAN setup

2003-11-14 Thread Adam Galant
Hi. I'm not quite sure, but I think you need an acess point - a device similar to hub for 'copper' LANs. I don't think two wireless LAN cards can talk to each other directly (although, as I said, I am not quite sure). Regards, Adam On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Japox wrote: > I have just recently bou

Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi folks! I decided it was about time I ran anoth full Nessus attack against my main server, especially now that my workstation is running Sid, so I get the latest nessus. However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my

ReiserFS => corrupted files after lockup

2003-11-14 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
I've had this problem some days before only I didn't know exactly what it was : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg01129.html I don't know why this keeps happening to me, but my computer freezed (for a reason that I don't know) and from that moment it keeps locking. I f

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all of commands > executed in a shell script. 'set -x' Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-14 Thread Adam Galant
Hi. Try a 'script' utility (man script). This will write all that apears on your terminal to a file which can be viewed or printed or whatever. Simply type 'script', run your own script (oops, it could be wise to rename your own script ;-) and when it finishes type ^d (CTRL-d). Then you'll want to

"Error Running kbd-chooser" while installing sid

2003-11-14 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am trying to install sid on my P-IV machine. I downladed the sid-i386-1.iso from the following link: http://ntu.debian.org.tw/debian-unofficial/sid/sid-i386-1.iso When I boot this CD and give "linux bf24" (as I want ext3 support) at boot prompt, the "Choose language" menu works fine but when

Re: How to set up XDM to automatically login one user?

2003-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:19:24PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > I've got Debian running on an old tablet computer, and I'd like to have > it start an X session for me as soon as I boot up. (There's only one > user, me.) The xdm manpage is mysterious to me; does anyone know how to > do what I'm s

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-14 Thread Randy Orrison
Jacob S. wrote: much good advice. Just a couple little tips that might make things easier: Once you're satisfied that everything's on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you enter that command... double and triple check that things are like you want before you delete the

Re: LAN setup

2003-11-14 Thread Ken Gilmour
im sure that if theres a way to configure one to, in a sense "crossover" it might work. Best Regards, Ken Gilmour You may be beautiful but they're keeping my idea on file. Registered Linux User # 330371 http://counter.li.org Replying to the message sent by Adam Galant  on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:5

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.14.1130 +0100]: > You know about snapshot.debian.net, don't you? Nope. Now I do. Thanks. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, a

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Johannes Zarl
> However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it moves this slow. > > It is

Re: LAN setup

2003-11-14 Thread BruceG
On Friday 14 November 2003 06:27, Ken Gilmour wrote: > im sure that if theres a way to configure one to, in a sense "crossover" it > might work. > > Best Regards, > > Ken Gilmour > You may be beautiful but they're keeping my idea on file. > > Registered Linux User # 330371 > http://counter.li.org >

[no subject]

2003-11-14 Thread lnx
Ok, I know this has been covered to death.. If I get all the common files for xf86, but yet still don't have an xf86config-4 file on my system..then I'm obviously missing something..just can't figure what it is, as all the basic necessities seem to be there.. man this debian is beating me like

Installing x

2003-11-14 Thread lnx
Ok, I know this has been covered to death.. If I get all the common files for xf86, but yet still don't have an xf86config-4 file on my system..then I'm obviously missing something..just can't figure what it is, as all the basic necessities seem to be there.. man this debian is beating me like

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-14 Thread BruceG
On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:15, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op do 13-11-2003, om 02:12 schreef BruceG: > > > > > For the wireless bridge to work, it would need to connect to a WAP > > (wireless access point). Since your Server is upstairs, you could do > > something like this (assuming your cab

Re: Installing x

2003-11-14 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I know this has been covered to death.. If I get all the common files for xf86, but yet still don't have an xf86config-4 file on my system..then I'm obviously missing something.. I assume that's just lazy typing up there. You won't have an "xf86config-4" file on yo

Prelinking in sid

2003-11-14 Thread Ilkka Lindroos
I'm new to all this prelinking stuff. I installed the prelink package, but is that all I have to do? Are the any problems I should be aware of? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 21:16 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I tried minicom

Re: "BIOS Legacy USB Support"-emulated USB keyboard works in text-mode but not in X

2003-11-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:08, Jørgen H. Seland wrote: > (As a footnote: I'd like to keep the "BIOS legacy keyboard" option > activated, as I need it to manipulate the BIOS settings, and attaching a > PS/2 keyboard involves dismantling the machine. Just opting for a normal > USB HID solution i

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread David
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:00:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > David writes: > > I have a CST6CDT in this directory, but it doesn't show up in tzconfig > > (unless you choose SYSV). (I hope it changes OK next spring). > > Please file a bug report. Would this be in tzconfig? IIRC, it didn't show

was Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-14 Thread ben
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:11:27 + Randy Orrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > much good advice. Just a couple little tips that might make things > easier: > > > Once you're satisfied that everything's > > on /new_home, "rm -r /home" (Note: there's no turning back after you > >

Millions of monkeys (Re: Opium)

2003-11-14 Thread Juergen Stuber
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Familiar with the theory of (I might be off on the numbers) a million > monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years? That might be about enough to crack a single 64 bit secret key, assuming each monkey takes a little more than a seco

Re: "Error Running kbd-chooser" while installing sid

2003-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:34:49PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am trying to install sid on my P-IV machine. I downladed the > sid-i386-1.iso from the following link: > http://ntu.debian.org.tw/debian-unofficial/sid/sid-i386-1.iso You mean you downloaded *a* Sid ISO. Why you wasted your time do

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:10:25AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > How about adding > macro index r > macro pager r > to you .muttrc? > > It will just act as usual when only a reply seems possible and > automatically do a list-reply otherwise. It even beeps once in this > case ;) This is beautifu

Sarge Netinstall ISO

2003-11-14 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Yesterday, I downloaded the following image: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso Burned the image to CD using Xcdroast, CD refuses to boot. The CD will mount and read properly. Tried another self-burned bootable CD (different image) and it booted with n

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-14 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I did some more research this morning and the above isnt accurate. While it is what I experienced in KDE login as me and su to root. I ran minicom -s on the command line, as root, after reading the rather extensive manual (much more than one page). I was able to setup the mod

Re: Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 00:09 Subject: Re: Re: gnome installation help > Edward, thanks for trying to help, I know I wasn't > very specific. > > I've successfully installed Debian 3.01

Re: Prelinking in sid

2003-11-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:30:21PM +0200, Ilkka Lindroos wrote: > I'm new to all this prelinking stuff. I installed the prelink package, > but is that all I have to do? Are the any problems I should be aware > of? I know nothing of prelinking, but a quite look at the package and it appears that yo

want to undo apt-pinning

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I had a debian stable system that was running well. Then, I wanted to try out some parts of the unstable packages, but without fully going to unstable. So I followed instructions for apt-pinning at http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html and installed some packages via e.g. "apt-get -t un

Re: not in sid yet? - CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:54, Chema wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:40:08 -0500 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GF> What do you mean, it has been fixed in the current version of ssh > GF> (3.6.1p2-9) The days they were announced there were fixes > available > GF> (4 hours if I remember p

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Please file a bug report. David writes: > Would this be in tzconfig? File the bug against libc6. > Let's see.. IIRC when going into tzconfig, if you first choose your > continent, in my case, US, you are presented with certain cities, none of > which produce CST6CDT. Some may do auto

Re: want to undo apt-pinning

2003-11-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I had a debian stable system that was running well. Then, I wanted to > try out some parts of the unstable packages, but without fully going > to unstable. So I followed instructions for apt-pinning at > > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kp

Re: want to undo apt-pinning

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 November 2003 06:22 am, Benjamin Rutt wrote: > I had a debian stable system that was running well. Then, I wanted > to try out some parts of the unstable packages, but without fully > going to unstable. So I followed instructions for apt

Url

2003-11-14 Thread shoa_60
http://.dexeit.tk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.4496-2.1

2003-11-14 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dear Sir, I have an NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX440] video card that worked fine with the nvidia-glx_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb that I got from Justin A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s web page about nine months ago. Now, during a routine update/upgrade cycle, the package nvidia-glx_1.0.4496-2.1_i386.de

Re: dvd ripping tools

2003-11-14 Thread csj
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:40:11 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:23, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's > > where I truly own the rights. The 30 sec clips will be used > > on our website where we advertise the DVD's for sale >

Re: Text processing help (sed?)

2003-11-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Bruce, awk is a quite powerful tool for that sort of thing. Its basic structure is /pattern/ {action} i. e. it reads a line from the input file and if the line matches /pattern/ it does {action} (e. g. write the line to output or write "," instead). It is described very well in the manpage.

Re: Text processing help (sed?)

2003-11-14 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Joachim Fahnenmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Text processing help (sed?) > Hi Bruce, > > awk is a quite powerful tool for that sort of thing. > > Its basic structure is

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:58, David Palmer. wrote: > > [snip] > > > Until we mature enough as a species to assume the full > > > r

drwright (gnome break-manager) dissapeared

2003-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, I use the 'drwright' program to force me away from the screen every hour or so. I have been using it fine for the last couple of months in sid until today, when installing some gnome package or other forced its removal. I attempted to re-install it (not bothered about the other app) and it h

openoffice.org and ispell

2003-11-14 Thread lorian
Hi there, I have tried to install openoffice, but it wouldn't peacefully coexist with ispell and related dictionaries; it "conflicts" with them - I am quite anxious to know why on earth. Has anyone had similar trouble? Is there any way to get ispell and openoffice to coexist with one another?

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Since the US hasn't ratified the ICJ treaty, it can't happen, unless > the Europeans come in (in force) and *take* GWB. (Ha ha ha ha ha.) First off, my advance apologies for a bit of rambling; I'm quite tired, overly caffeinated, an

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-14 Thread Joe Rhett
> So much for the topic at hand... in general: fear not. > It's part of the Linux learning process that one learns where to pick up > information. man, info, /usr/share/doc/, www... google is your friend, > but google is not the be-all and end-all of everything. > Especially if you what you're look

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 08:45 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >I did some more research this morning and the above isnt accurate. While it > >is what I exper

Debian for enterprise

2003-11-14 Thread Robert Soricone
A computer network, that is currently using RedHat, is interested in migrating to another distribution. Preferably, by April 30 2004. If the group were to consider moving to Debian, what in-house work would need to be performed that was previously being done by the RH engineers? The FAI packa

sendmail question

2003-11-14 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi , All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down for few hours then what happens to the mail ?? If Linux box keeps it then how long it can keep the mails ?? Will there be any disk space issue for the in

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Wayne Topa
martin f krafft([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.14.0505 +0100]: > > You're way behind. 4.13b-16 was the last upload by the previous > > maintainer. It was hijacked with the -17 upload. > > But that's what I find in unstable... I

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On the upside, those with the brains to move > themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do quite well. I don't think they will do so well with the number of guns you have in the streets, bullets don't distinguish Ph degrees.

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On the upside, those with the brains to move > > themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do quite well. > > I don't think they will do so well with the numbe

Re: openoffice.org and ispell

2003-11-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to install openoffice, but it wouldn't peacefully coexist > with ispell and related dictionaries; it "conflicts" with them - I am > quite anxious to know why on earth. It certainly doesn't do that. I guess you must have misread

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-14 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 08 November 2003 3:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > it's pretty bloody useful, particualarly if you're using ssh > either locally or to remote systems. > > - Generate an ssh key: 'ssh-keygen'. Provide a password. > > - Add the contents of the '*.pub' files to remote hosts you pl

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:14, Joe Rhett wrote: > > So much for the topic at hand... in general: fear not. > > It's part of the Linux learning process that one learns where to pick up > > information. man, info, /usr/share/doc/, www... google is your friend, > > but google is not the be-all and end-a

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:17:29AM -0700, Robert Soricone wrote: > A computer network, that is currently using RedHat, is interested in migrating > to another distribution. Preferably, by April 30 2004. If the group were to > consider moving to Debian, what in-house work would need to be perfor

Re: sendmail question

2003-11-14 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
By default sendmail should try to redeliver every 4 hours for up to 5 days... After that it should start sending back undeliverable messages to the sender... This of course is configurable but is pretty much recommended defaults... I've not found it to be a problem for any of the many sendm

Step by Steps??

2003-11-14 Thread Jeffrey W. Pearson
Does anyone have step by steps for setting up a LAMP environment with Debian? Ive just moved from Red Hat to Debian. I don't seem to be able to find the locations of certain files needed. Right now Im stuck at trying to find the libphp4.so file. I compiled php from source and am not finding that fi

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Miller
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-14 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:41:52PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:01, Kent West wrote: > > I thought that echoing a command to the device file was a good test, but > > someone else in this thread with the same modem as you says this test > > does not work. So ignore t

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:15:18PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:18:34PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:04:57PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:36:29AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:35:39PM +0100, Bened

Re: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.4496-2.1

2003-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: Dear Sir, I have an NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX440] video card that worked fine with the nvidia-glx_1.0.4191-1_i386.deb that I got from Justin A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s web page about nine months ago. Now, during a routine update/upgrade cycle, the package

...needs help setting up x [was Re: your mail]

2003-11-14 Thread p
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:47:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I know this has been covered to death.. > > If I get all the common files for xf86, but yet still don't have an > xf86config-4 file on my system..then I'm obviously missing something..just > can't figure what it is, as all

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-14 Thread Akira Kitada
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:08:11AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all of commands > > executed in a shell script. > > 'set -x' > Thanks! 'set -[xv]' is what i want. I should more read o

Re: Step by Steps??

2003-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeffrey W. Pearson wrote: Does anyone have step by steps for setting up a LAMP environment with Debian? Ive just moved from Red Hat to Debian. I don't seem to be able to find the locations of certain files needed. Right now Im stuck at trying to find the libphp4.so file. I compiled php from sour

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On the upside, those with the brains to move > > > themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder will do qu

Re: Geological tracking application

2003-11-14 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Friday 14 November 2003 20:41, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is anyone aware of Linux-based application capable of proving visual > geographical tracking? > > To be more specific: > We are a fishing company.  Every daily we receive reports from our > vessels about their location, water temp and depth,

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
[Top-posting because Don's post is so long.] While I generally agree with you, a couple of disagreements: 1. It won't be a theocracy. 2. If drop-out rates increased exponentially, they'd "hit" 100% very soon. Rather, say "ignorance rates are increasing at an alarming rate". On Fri, 2003-1

Re:unsubscribe

2003-11-14 Thread L.F.
The 12th of November Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] told me "READ THIS CAREFULLY. PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY.TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO THE DEBIAN USER MAILING LIST:SEND and E-MAIL to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THAT MESSAGE ONLY PUT:unsubscribe" First of all thanks. Now the 11th of November I sen this: "unsubs

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread donw
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:13:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > 2. If drop-out rates increased exponentially, they'd "hit" 100% >very soon. Rather, say "ignorance rates are increasing at an >alarming rate". Good point. -- Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh

dpkg error SID 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.

2003-11-14 Thread Jaye Inabnit
Greetings: I have been (trying) to test the new Debian installer. My goal is to get my test box up and running with current SID and then test the new 2.6 kernels. Every time I attempt to update to SID, I get this dpkg error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# agi gpm Reading Package Lists... Done Building D

Re: Geological tracking application

2003-11-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 November 2003 12:41 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is anyone aware of Linux-based application capable of proving visual > geographical tracking? I don't know much about what exactly your requirements are, but a quick search on google linked

Re: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-14 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. I will never forget to compile modules :) make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -custom01 \ --config oldconfig kernel_image kernel_headers \ kernel_doc modules --bzima

Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:41:32 -0800 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2003 1:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On the upside, those with the brains to move > > > themselves up on the socioeconomic ladder w

k3b 1.0 ?

2003-11-14 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I'd like to try the DVD burning capability of version 1.0 of k3b... do you know when is it going to be in SID ? 8-? Thanks ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo & AIM: quini2k www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usu

Why can't I access my anonymous /mirror directory

2003-11-14 Thread Otto Wyss
I haven't used proftp for almost a year but now I tried to use it again for my local debian partial mirror. But I can't access the the "/mirror" directory anymore. I always get the error "no such file or directory". Below is the relevant part of my proftp.conf. Does anyone know the base director

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