Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:43:34AM -0500, kenn wrote: > Leinier C. Salfran wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > The first you must to do after change '/etc/apt/sources.list' is execute > > 'apt-get update' .. After, 'apt-get instal xxx' > > > > Yes, I did that, and the update was performed without er

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Get coding then. They let you contribute to their CVS. I don't see the point. There are very few (if any) games I would be interested in playing for either Windows or Linux that I can't get for my PS2. Is Katamari Damacy available on

Re: command question

2006-07-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:44:48PM +0300, Michael F wrote: > apt-get install for installing a package and apt-cache search for > searching package. man apt-get for many information:) Btw, witch is > the diference berween apt and aptitude? I think the main difference is that apt has super cow power

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > > Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to > > *always* read the release notes for the relevant > > you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade), > right? It should be

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-08-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote: [...] > This has been a question to me for a long time.Why do we use mutt when > many other better manager(evolution) especially when mutt's so complex > and difficult to remeber the binds. For me, the answers are: - Running Evolution ove

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-08-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:59:34AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote.. > > > 2006/7/31, Heimdall Midgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I've been banging my head for the past six hours trying to figure > > >out how to write a message in Mut

Re: [Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:23:07AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I thought I'd try this list as well. > From: Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick > > I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with >

Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there any

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:51:56PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for > > quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the > > dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using > > FluxBox as

Trouble running Ted (Was: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?)

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:07:16PM -0300, Mat?as Palomec wrote: > On 5/30/07, Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for > >quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:17:33PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:08AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > > I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for > > quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all th

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:55:53PM +0300, David Baron wrote: [...] > > did you test TED? > > Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not > necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character > codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent fo

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Do you do other formats for other than your boss? I don't really generate any documents except for him. > Does you boss want RTF of is it just "page breaks, centered text, and > different fonts"? What file formats will your

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > did you test TED? > > > > > > Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not > > > necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character > >

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:37:45PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Does you boss want RTF of is it just "page

Re: how to force the NIC to 1000M full duplex

2007-06-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:42:12PM -0400, chloe K wrote: >Hi all > >How do I force the NIC to 1000M full duplex > >it seems that it can't do it in mii-tool? Have you tried ethtool yet? In some respects, it seems to be more flexible than mii-tool. Good luck, ~Juergen signature.asc

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: > > >I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move > >it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) > > UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i /root/debs/samba_3

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > UNCLELEO:~# ping -c 1 google.com > ping: unknown host google.com What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99'? > UNCLELEO:~# route add default 192.168.0.1 >

Corrupted ulogd pcap files - a logrotate issue?

2005-12-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: A # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only > tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and r

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-21 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] > if I log in CLI as non-root user, run startx, then what does gdm run as? > root again? just curious. Running startx should not start gdm at all - unless you have a very odd .xinitrc indeed. signature.asc Description:

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:06AM +, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: [...] > > Did you try /dev/sdc ? > > I tried to mount /dev/sdc but I couldn't mount it. It's still saying > "No medium found" or "special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist." Have you tried using just /dev/sdc, not /dev/sdc1? sign

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: [...] > I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination of > software > that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone while I am on Debian > and > they are on Windows. Someone in #debian said Linphone. It

Corrupted ulogd pcap files

2006-01-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only > tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a > /dev/input/mice no device found error. > > I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse > still doesn't work. > I added mousedev to /etc/modules

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a c

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > >> richard writes: > >>> Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > >>> more difference. > >> Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually > >

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:38:19PM +0100, G-Point wrote: >hello, >when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that >a file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)" >so i can't boot linux. >i don't want to delete that file, how can i solv

Re: Automating Dial-up

2006-01-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:17:21AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: [...] > This is what happens on bootup: > > /etc/init.d/rc: line 30: /etc/rc2.d/S20startwvdial: Permission Denied Did you remember to make the startup script executable (chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startwvdial)? signature.asc Description

Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file

2006-01-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:26:27PM +, michael wrote: > Presuming I have a file setEnvVars.sh that I wish to source, > . path/setEnvVars.sh > How do I, within the script, determine the actual directory within which > the setEnvVars.sh file sits? The sourcing seems to disallow me access to > $

squirrelmail-configure changed mysteriously

2006-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.6-1 on a system that is mostly sarge with some etch packages. This morning, tripwire reported that /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure has changed and indeed, in line 388, 'Organization Title' was changed to 'Organization Ditle'. I am not aware of upgrading Squirrel

Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

2006-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote: [...] > My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, > but when I give the command lpr or lp the output starts > at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to > the physical page boundary

Re: How to say "package yet provided"

2006-02-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Romnea Kolap Pin wrote: >Hello: > >I have the next problem, is there any way to say to Debian "this package >is yet provided"?. > >I mean, if I compile mplayer and I want to install the mozilla-mplayer >package, which depends on mplaye

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:54:09AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:58:22AM -0600, Matthew Lenz wrote: > > www.emusic.com no drm. not going to have every last song you'll want but > > they ahve a decent selection. or did last time I looked > > > > -Matt > > Thanks for th

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:24:53PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as > apt-get? > thx! > > Deephay You could try apt-cacher, which is basically a caching proxy. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I used to run Nessus on a semi-regular basis to make sure that my firewall is still doing what it is supposed to do. With the latest version of Nessus not actually being all that free anymore, I find myself looking for alternatives: Something that looks for open ports on my system and also

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:30:18PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Juergen Fiedler wrote: [looking for alternatives to nessus] > There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. > > Chris. This far, I have only used Snort as an IDS. I hear that it can be used for ot

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: > >> There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. > > > >Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion > > Detection System > > Agree

Re: "Sxxxx"s and "Kxxxx"s in /etc/rc(*).d/

2006-02-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:00:00PM +0800, Deephay wrote: >Greetings all, > > I read the debian references and there are some sentences like this: >"scripts whose names begin with K are run with the argument stop. >Scripts beginning with S are run with the argument start." >

Re: Reverse Depends on packages

2002-05-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:31:03PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] > Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages that > are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system? [...] Check out deborphan. --j pgpI4jriUC0QZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

can't get shosts auth working

2002-05-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am trying to connect to a machine on our LAN with the .shosts method, but it seems that my ssh client is not even willing to try that. My $HOME/.ssh/config looks like this: --- Host myserver HostName myserver.mydomain.net Protocol 2 RhostsRSAAuthentication yes

screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running screen 3.9.5-9 on a sid box. The problem is this: When I use curses based applications like mc or mutt, all line drawing characters are displayed as regular letters. Looks like the 8th bit is stripped off the char or something. Does anybody know what to do about that? Thanks,

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Update: This only seems to occur under X, using the Gnome terminals (gnome-terminal 1.4.0.8-2, multi-gnome-terminal 1.4.1-1 or powershell 0.9-6). Regular xterm works OK. Sorry for not investigating that upfront. --j pgpID6oAxkwne.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:54:49PM -0500, dman wrote: > gnome-terminal doesn't draw the line-drawing characters correctly. > It's why I (sometimes) have 'ascii_chars' set in mutt. gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly when I'm not using screen - that's the weird part. > Anyways, $TE

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:05:51PM -0500, dman wrote: > | gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly > > Odd. I wonder how your setup is different from mine. Just for > demonstration, here's two screen shots of my gnome-terminal : > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/screenshot/gnome-term-no

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > Try this in your .screenrc > > defbce on > term screen-bce Nope, didn't do a thing :( --j pgpEQHE3QLeWb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: can't get .shosts authentication to run

2002-05-08 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Just figured it out: I need to set HostbasedAuthentication _and_ UsePrivilegedPort to yes. This way, I can get it to at least try host based auth. Now, I get an error that may actually originate on the server side: --- [...] debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-in

snort-mysql and xml output

2002-05-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I have a Woody system with snort-mysql 1.8.4beta1-2 installed. My snort.conf contains (among others) the following lines: === output alert_fast: alert output xml: alert, file=/perl/snort.pl protocol=http host=localhost port=80 === I can call http://localhost/perl/snort.pl and OK, but

SNMP problems

2002-05-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am using an up-to-date snmp/snmpd on Woody (i.e. both are version 4.2.3-2). If I do an 'snmpwalk localhost public system', it diplays everything up to system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9 and then gives me a timeout. After that, snmpd stays unresponsive for a long time. Even with /etc

Re: SNMP problems

2002-05-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
RTFFAQ? Turns out that the problem doesn't occur if I specify a really long timeout for smtpwalk. After the 'system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9' line, it just gives me an 'End of MIB' and does not stay busy after that. So I know a workaround, but I'd still like to know why it takes so long

cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I installed cfingerd 1.4.3-1.1 on a Woody system and opened port 79 in my firewall. I'm trying to finger myself from another host that's also behind a firewall. The messages I get in daemon.log look like this: May 17 12:41:20 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: connect from somewhereelse May 1

Re: cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:20:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to > > this particular host. I would appreciate it. > > Works fine for me. I got your name and public key back.

multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: [servers] 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After enterin

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I > changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: > > [servers] > 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 > 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 >

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 13:21, Hubert Chan wrote: > Juergen> Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login > Juergen> screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After entering the > Juergen> password, the screen flashes a couple of times and then returns > Juergen> to the login screen. >

Re: Snort on Debian - no alerts? no reports?

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:53, T. wrote: > Hi, > > Debian Unstable > snort: > Installed: 1.8.6-3 > Candidate: 1.8.6-3 > > I have installed snort and I'm getting no email alerts, and the daily > reports are blank. The version of snort-stat that is packaged with that one is somewhat messed up:

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:27, Ben Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I am unable to connect to secure websites using mozilla on my debian system. Try installing mozilla-psm. PSM stands for Personal Security Manager and is the part of Mozilla that handles, encryption 'n' stuff. HTH --j signature.asc

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
> Given the described behaviour (you can log in, the server resets, GDM > comes back up), it would seem that whatever session is being spawned is > exiting. Stands to reason. I wonder whether there is a good way to figure out wheter _what_ is called is wrong or whether what is called is misconfig

Problems adding extra packages to a PGI installer

2002-06-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I am trying to create a Debain installer with pgi 0.9.6.3. If I use the base-conf configuration, everything works OK, but if I try a configlets install, I get error messages about conflicts when pgi is trying to figure out package dependencies: --- python /usr/share/pgi/tools/pgi-calc-deps.py < /r

LogWatch + Postfix = TMI

2005-12-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running an almost pure sarge system with logwatch 5.2.2-5 and postfix 2.2.4-1.0.1. All is well, except for the fact that logwatch produces a bit too much output for my taste in the postfix section. Specifically, all the statistics that Anvil prints are added to the report as unmatched

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