RE: No Screens found
Now we're heading straight for a bug (strange, on an 'old' system like woody). Fresh install from 3.0r1, basic, just X. No ftp, no updates; everything from CDROM. Mouse driver and uhci (USB) activated. startx crashes just like last week on me. apt-get install x-window-system-core comes ok (nothing to install) apt-get install x-window-system comes ok (nothing to install) apt-get install --reinstall x-window-system comes with x-window-system to be installed; and done. Still crashes on me. dpkg-reconfigure (--priority=low --frontend=dialog) xserver-xfree86 doesn't solve it. framebuffer on or off doesn't solve it. If anyone wants the whole bunch (log, XF86Config / -4), whatever, please contact me. Tried ati and r128, yes, b.t.w. I deconfigured RedHat 8 (on just another partition) completely and put the card back: No trouble finding the card, setting all settings and running automagically (yes, there had been another card in the meantime == really deconfigured !!). Now I'm lost. Seems I have to stick with RedHat. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window appears showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of any messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the server, delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients do this, it's worth checking out. I use a different trick when I'm on dialup and don't want to download huge messages. I simply use mutt to access my pop mailbox. Then mutt only downloads the headers from the pop server. And then I get a list of all the messages, who they're from, what the subject is and what the size is. I can then delete whichever ones I don't want to download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I normally would. The problem at current rates of Swen delivery is that I'd have to check my mail 10-20 times or more daily to avoid mail-over-quota bounces. If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. I still think imap is a better alternative fro POP (especially if you tend to loose locally store mails and if the ISP is capable of doing some good filtering/antivirusscanning there is no problem at all. -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
Sidney Brooks wrote: The situation gets stranger and stranger. For completeness, I have repeated the problem below. None of the suggestions helped. Whether I used the boot floppy or installation CD, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. Then, for no sensible reason, I put Debian in the lilo boot loader on my Mandrake partition. Booting with lilo, I got into the Debian text mode. I then tried the dpkg (etc) described below and could not find a combination that worked. Then, again for no reason, I attempted to boot from my boot floppy. This time, I got to the Debian text mode. Previously, the boot floppy just led to a blank screen and a frozen computer. Here is a possible clue. When I tried startx, I ended up with: Fatal Server Error: no screens found No, this error just means that X is not configured properly, but what you've described earlier indicates a problem before X even becomes relevant. Unless I've misunderstood something somewhere along the way. For now, forget about X. Just make sure you're not getting frozen in text mode. Once you're confident everything's working properly in text mode, then we can get your X working for you. So let me understand: 1) You booted off a Debian boot floppy, and the machine froze? (This is _after_ you've disabled the automatic startup of any GUI such as xdm or gdm or kdm or wdm or the starting of X in some other manner, right? If any part of X is still trying to start up manually, we're fighting the wrong fire here.) 2) Then you did something with Mandrake. Are you saying this box has a Mandrake partition and a Debian partition? What is your partitioning scheme? Are you sharing any partitions? Which distro has control of lilo/grub? Are you using lilo or grub (or something else)? 3) Then booting off the Debian boot floppy results in a working text mode? If I understand, and you've got both Mandrake and Debian on the same box, it sounds like the changes you made to Mandrake caused lilo to rewrite the boot sector, and those changes fixed Debian. So if you boot into Debian and run lilo, does the problem come back? If so, that's indicative of some sort of problem with Debian's lilo configuration. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Monday 22 September 2003 02:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. Mine have had mostly a single To: address. The virus descriptions I've read says it uses email addresses found on the infected machine. What I find odd (suspect? ;) is that so many Windows machines happen to have so many addresses for people that are typically non-windows users.. In other words, the places I post consist of mostly unix/linux users, but it seems like I'm getting mail from a lot of different Windows users. To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. My wife wants to know *why* people write viruses... Yeah, the latest version of Outlook Express has hidden code that trawls the Linux lists for addresses, then stashes them carefully but invisibly in its address book as a free gift for the next email virus that comes along ;) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Fear the Penguin!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
procmail solution against swen
If your internet provider lets you run procmail before getting the mail
from their server, or if you run procmail yourself, the following recipe
(to be put in your ~/.procmailrc or /etc/procmailrc) will effectively
drop all swen-related stuff to the waste basket. I think it's a clever
one, no false positives yet and I'm swen-free almost a day now. Thanks
to the anonymous who posted this where I could snag it.
The line where it says
* b3 [..]
should be on one line, really.
:0
* 14
* 165000
{
:0 BD
* b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWYv
/dev/null
}
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.
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Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] My wife wants to know *why* people write viruses... For the same reason punks (not Punks) throw rocks off of highway overpasses. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between RockRoll and Country Music? Old Rockers still on tour are pathetic, but old Country singers are still great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:19, cr wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 02:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. Mine have had mostly a single To: address. The virus descriptions I've read says it uses email addresses found on the infected machine. What I find odd (suspect? ;) is that so many Windows machines happen to have so many addresses for people that are typically non-windows users.. In other words, the places I post consist of mostly unix/linux users, but it seems like I'm getting mail from a lot of different Windows users. To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. My wife wants to know *why* people write viruses... Yeah, the latest version of Outlook Express has hidden code that trawls the Linux lists for addresses, then stashes them carefully but invisibly in its address book as a free gift for the next email virus that comes along ;) It wouldn't suprise my, the email account I use for mailinglist gets flooded 100 a day, my personal email I use for my private mails (which gets the most regular spam) only gets 3 or 4 a day and my girlfriends email accounts gets nothing :( -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come gratis either. But that does not make it any more satifactory from the consumer point of view. Customers need to pay more again, only because of the sh*t that Microsoft has thrown upon them. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:09:53 +0200 Olav Lavell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... ...and even then it is very poor spam and virus protection at that. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel 2.6 and modutils
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:46:03 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 13:16, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I tired to install a 2.6.0-test4 (debain release) kernel. After the reboot i was not able to use the modutils (and all modules) at all. It [...] Ok i found it. I need to install the module-init-tools package... Another hint: What has been /etc/modutils for 2.4 is for 2.6 kernels /etc/modprobe.d. Greetings Andre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Divx and DVD playback
At Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:16:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It took me quite a bit longer to get MPlayer not to segfault on my 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop with a Chips Technologies graphics chip. (It played Movies fine in XP -- it's old el crapo driver issues). For instance, I had to tweak X quite a bit, *and* use the SDL compat libraries to avoid the **YOUR SYSTEM IS TOO SLOW** messages or segfaults. It took a couple weeks, but it finally played DivX like a champ. (Well, audio drifted quite a bit. 500mhz P3 w/ old as hell graphics -- just barely up to specs). mplayer -framedrop Did fine on a P2 350 with an old nVidia TNT Vanta (The system was brand new when I started using it). I can even play under the framebuffer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:09, Olav Lavell wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come Bull. By using spam/virus filtering on their end, they are saving on bandwidth between the ISP and the end-user. Thus, even if they can't/don't use SpamAssassin Amavisd, and must spend money on filtering s/w, it still saves them money by not having to upgrade the downstream h/w. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors. Waldi Ravens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:19, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:09:53 +0200 Olav Lavell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... ...and even then it is very poor spam and virus protection at that. They do that to lower the possibility that valid email will get zapped by the spam/virus filters. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Regarding war zones: There's nothing sacrosanct about a hotel with a bunch of journalists in it. Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Retired) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:09, Olav Lavell wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come gratis either. But that does not make it any more satifactory from the consumer point of view. Customers need to pay more again, only because of the sh*t that Microsoft has thrown upon them. But on the other hand there is also a larger cost for the isp since the traffic they use increases. More cpu power is needed to do the filtering ... and who pays for that ? -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Olav Lavell wrote: If your internet provider lets you run procmail before getting the mail from their server, or if you run procmail yourself, the following recipe (to be put in your ~/.procmailrc or /etc/procmailrc) will effectively drop all swen-related stuff to the waste basket. I think it's a clever one, no false positives yet and I'm swen-free almost a day now. Thanks to the anonymous who posted this where I could snag it. Credits to go Victor Duchovni. He posted it on the postfix-users list after some experiments with body_checks. It does do a very good job stopping these mails indeed. Grx hdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zope?
I did a full apt-get remove --purge zope And then reinstalled it, *without* the ldap stuff etc. I only install zope-cmfplone and related packages. Works fine now, I can use it on port 9673. Pim P.S. I run Sid - PingWings - the penguin provides profit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M: 06-24711729 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: www.pingwings.nl - Pim Bliek wrote: Hi, Anyone else using zope? I am trying to get it to work on Sid with Apache 1.3. Troubles I have: - I cannot compile pcgi because I don't have the Apache sources, so I went without it. - I try to reach the zserver itself directly on port 9673, but it does nothing also nothing in the logs... Can someone with a succesfull setup please post his configs? Thanx! Pim I have been having the same problem. I havew been trying to get Zope running for about a week. No progress. In the past it simply worked when installed. The current version seems to get the server running on port 9673 but I can not get to the manage login screen. I keep getting the same message connection refused. I think this is a bug as I can not locate a permission problem. I too would appreciate any advice. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: consoling to a cisco router using inittab
Louie Miranda wrote: minicom sends me this.. minicom - enter Router Routerrpcproxy1srv login: ATZ You have to configure minicom not to send modem dial strings. It assumes that it talks to a modem per default. And please trim you mails - also top posting is considered bad. Cheers, Juri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: An Open Call to Developers
On (21/09/03 08:59), Kent West wrote: I'm one of seven Technical Support staff persons at a private university. My team supports the staff and faculty on campus. Another branch of my department serves the students, and is composed of students. We are separate from the server administrators and programmers, and have little influence over the final decision of what campus-wide apps (email system, database, etc) get implemented. Up until five years or so ago the campus officially supported Netscape only as the campus standard web browser. Gradually, with me stiff-necking it all the way, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser used and supported. Now with Netscape development essentially being dropped by AOL, and with the bosses not understanding that Mozilla _is_ Netscape, there's rumblings of IE becoming the only browser on campus. Also over the years, Eudora has been the only supported email client. We've had pressure to support Outlook for email, but again, with resistance by me and some of my co-workers, we've avoided allowing that as a supported email client. Now the tide has turned and we've been tasked with support for Outlook also, but only with the client; no Exchange back-end. Also over the years, Schedule+ has been the only supported calendar application. From a user's standpoint, it's quite adequate, but it's gotten harder and harder to keep running since Microsoft has been using various tactics to get people to switch to Outlook/Exchange calendaring. This past summer the campus switched to Sun One Calendar Express (formerly iPlanet) as our calendaring solution. It's web-based, and works fairly well. But since it doesn't have pop-up reminders of appointments, the staff/faculty are clamoring for a front-end that provides an easier interface and pop-up reminders. We thought about putting Palm Desktop in place for everyone, which in conjunction with a tool from Sun will synchronize with the back-end calendar, but after reading the license we can only do that for people who have a Palm device. So we've started using Outlook as the front-end. It also can synch with the back-end by using a tool from Sun. Both Palm Desktop and Outlook must be manually synched, which is going to wind up causing missed appointments. Neither app allows Jane Secretary to see her calendar and Joe Boss's calendar at the same time, since these two apps are inherently single calendar user only. (Outlook's calendar sharing requires Exchange or something equivalent on the back-end.) Jane Secretary must use the web interface to work with multiple calendars at once. I've found a Development Plan document on the web pages of the Mozilla Calendar project. If I understand properly, Moz Calendar will at some day be able to be a front-end for Sun One Calendar Express, and with the subscription feature, could very well provide Jane Secretary with the ability to open multiple calendars at once. This would be a _tremendously_ wonderful thing on campus. If the Jane Secretarys of the campus suddenly found Mozilla Calendar to be more useful than the web calendar or Outlook or Palm Desktop, they'd immediately start using it. From there, it'd be a cinch to get them to use Moz as a web browser, and probably as an email client (IMAP mode). My life would get sweet. Our server admins and programmers would start having to code our web site and tools and server backends (Banner database system is the big one, with a native Windows client, a Java client, and a web client) to be friendly toward not just Internet Explorer, but also Moz, and perhaps by extension other non-IE browsers, such as Safari. The domination by Microsoft of both the internet and the desktop would be chipped away a little bit by my corner of the world. My corner of the world would be that much closer to a smooth and easy transition away from Microsoft Windows, preferably to Linux, although I'd be happy with OS/X at this point. But, the only way all these wonderful things are going to happen is if the Mozilla Calendar project can deliver the goods. I can't code a Hello, World! program without an example right in front of me, so I'm not able to add any programming help to the project. But I figure there are developers on this list that are just itching to make a difference in the world. If that's the case, I'd like to encourage you to look into helping out with the Moz Calendar project. I'm assuming the project lead people could use help; I may just be making noise; they may not want any outside help. But you developers know better how to go about learning what's needed than I do, so I'm making my appeal here, amongst some of the highest quality computer literate folk I know of. A brief note in support. We have clients running MS Outlook (different versions); it, and the security updates issued for it seem to break their systems from
Re: MS mail bombs
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:54, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:09, Olav Lavell wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come Bull. By using spam/virus filtering on their end, they are saving on bandwidth between the ISP and the end-user. Thus, even if they can't/don't use SpamAssassin Amavisd, and must spend money on filtering s/w, it still saves them money by not having to upgrade the downstream h/w. I don't think that many isp's are concerned about the user-isp connection, who needs to pay extra for that ? It's the internet-isp connection that eats all the money. The isp will simply apply a quota, if I use over 10 gig in the past thirty days my calbe modem gets capped to a 15kb/s downstream limit. -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless letworking
Hi, I have an orinoco wireless netcard and installed the module, tools, pcmcia installation, kernel configuratione And the card is recognized by cardmgr, so no problems around here. I configured network.opts so that it reads the interfaces file and in interfaces i made eth1 with an ip and everything. When the card is online, i can ping to it's own address, that's working. But in the config.opts where i have to insert the parameters for the encryption etc... I put in all the data i *think* that is necessary for here and i thought that it should be possible to ping to other hosts via the wireless netcard at that point. But this is not working, can't ping to other hosts. How can i complete my configuration ? Or where can i get more information ? Grtz! Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt.conf? (was: Re: Getting XFree 4.3?)
* Russell Shaw often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: APT::Default-Release testing; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; I do not seem to have any apt.conf, but I do have an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory. Should I make the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, or should I put the above two lines into a file in the given directory? (Which name?) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Direct ethernet
Tommy McCabe wrote: I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into computer) That is just like a 'card'. It is just built into your PC and you can not 'tear it out' like a regular card. But you access it like it was one. Even windows thinks it is a ehternet-card. If you look in Win-NetworkNeighborhood-Properties you might get some clues which chip is on that 'card' and that might help you to install it in linux. HTH, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. [...] To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. Fill in the blank: conspiracy _ is DDOS'ing linux-activists with Swen. /conspiracy My 'windows-friends' (yes, I do have some) also don't get Swen mailed to them. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to deal cron(tab)
At home I set up a small woody server working as a proxy, firewall, router. It stays idle most of the time being used at night only by me my daughters. I've noticed that cron(tab (I don't know, it's the standard installation, anyway!)) starts doing its job every 20 minutes, which is in my opinion useless and 'consumes' my server hd. How can I tell cron(-tab) to do its job every, say, 6 - 12 hours? Thanks Vittorio pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fetchmail problem
Hi all, Just moved my email to a new server. All was working fine until I copied some messages directly across from my old Maildir (on the other machine). Fetchmail now reports: Sep 22 12:27:55 brain fetchmail[16218]: couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 (0 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4 (4 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 (24 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 (12 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 (22 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8 (8 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9 (103 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10 (1 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11 (264 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12 (1 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13 (3600 octets)couldn't fetch headers, message an Any ideas? I'd appreciate a cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for obvious reasons. Thanks. A -- Now playing: Gordian Knot - River's Dancing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sudo file -confusion
Hi Everybody, I have a doubt. Suppose I want to give move and change owner permission for a particular directories in a host. How can we implement the same. Can anybody clarify?? Thanks and Regards, Amit Manna Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.comBuy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.comBid for Air Tickets on Air Sahara Flights at Prices Lower Than Before. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now !
Re: weak perfomance on woody
Rich Puhek wrote: What are the continuous instances doing? `ps awux | grep sendmail` will provide much more info than just ps. I would guess that you have one daemon on port 25, one MSP daemon, and possibly a queue runner hanging around... so it is. Turn off the other stuff you don't need (do you really need named running? lwresd? gdm? lpt? XFree86? oafd?) You're running a lot of stuff on this box, some of which may be contending for resources. the machine used to run properly on earlier woody-installations with the debian-default stuff enabled, however, good idea to turn off things like lwresd. Looks like you're running SCSI... what's your partitioning scheme look like? What are you mounting remotely via NFS? what are you exporting via NFS? FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 497M 33M 438M 7% / /dev/sda1 63M 6.1M 53M 11% /boot /dev/sda7 3.7G 168M 3.3G 5% /usr /dev/sda8 2.0G 105M 1.7G 6% /var /dev/sda9 1.6G 33M 1.5G 3% /opt /dev/vg00/export 12G 33M 11G 1% /export /dev/vg00/tmp 4.9G 33M 4.5G 1% /tmp Run `ps awux | grep D` a couple of times, look for processes that are getting blocked during disk accesses. What kernel are you running? 2.4.18 What SCSI controller? Adaptec 39160 (disks attached here) Symbios Logic 53C8X What processor are you running? 2 * P II 350 MHZ (currently under an up-kernel) your input has been very valuable. thanks a lot. i am still working through it with increasing success, the problem seemed to be related to some cron-stuff running all at once. X/gdm still starts extremly slow (1-2 min) after boot, but runs fine except from that. rolf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP Relay, closed (or so i thought)?
Hey there, the list. I was wondering, i recently sat up my own smtp/imap server, behind my firewall.. (running Exim/Courier) And i had a little of problems with smtp spammers, so i finaly got the relay settings tightened up, so that only i could recive/send messages.. Or so i Thougt. but now i get (not as much as i did earlier) messages looking like this in the header : - Received: from [192.168.1.1] (helo=vsmtp3.tin.it) by debianservee with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1JLU-0002Mz-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:34:56 +0200 Received: from onjfkqlv (80.182.122.212) by vsmtp3.tin.it (7.0.019) id 3F4F1DDF008F7A00; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:13:48 +0200 Datum: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:13:48 +0200 (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Från: Internet Message Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] Till: Internet Client [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Undeliverable Message: Returned To Mailer X-ID: 7711122818343797218378758 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=cqlvbrreglh X-Evolution-Source: imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ - where 192.168.1.1 is the local interface for my firewall. (all mails dont have these particular adresses, they come from different hosts, yahoo, aol, etc etc..) Why? i havent done anything to my imap/smtp settings.. and.. how do i prevent it ? can i prevent it, or do i have to live with it? (hope not!!) Best Regards /smurfd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudo file -confusion
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, amit_manna wrote: Hi Everybody, I have a doubt. Suppose I want to give move and change owner permission for a particular directories in a host. Is it one particular directory all the time or any directory? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dontations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to deal cron(tab)
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:01:35PM +, Vittorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At home I set up a small woody server working as a proxy, firewall, router. It stays idle most of the time being used at night only by me my daughters. I've noticed that cron(tab (I don't know, it's the standard installation, anyway!)) starts doing its job every 20 minutes, which is in my opinion useless and 'consumes' my server hd. cron itself checks for runnable tasks once a minute. Standard system jobs run daily, monthly, and weekly, and are found in the directories /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, etc. If you have a job that's running once every 20 minutes, it's likely something in a user crontab (/var/spool/cron/crontabs), the system crontab (/etc/crontab), or the system cron job run directory (/etc/cron.d/). Check here for something running with a specification of: */20 * * * * 8,20,40, * * * * * 4/20 * * * * * ...or similar. That would be: a job running every 20 minutes or at a specified set of intervals. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The truth behind the H-1B IT indentured servant scam: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
apt/preferences docs
i am running woody and i am looking for decent documentation for the debian package management system. so far i went through the manpages and the debian-handbook. what i am still missing is a more in-depth description of how to get complete control from where apt pulls its packages. lets say i want to run stable but have (very) few packages from non-debian locations (eg. videolan.org). is this mainly a /etc/apt/preferences issue...? i think i learned how to handle stable/testing/unstable, but how to tell apt to get a back-ported package x from repository y? What do i have to write instead of eg. 'o=Debian' if it is a 3rd party repository? - (my preferences file can be found at the end of this message). however any links to examples and docs regarding this topic would be highly welcome. maybe there is a good book out there too? thanks for any help rolf # my /etc/apt/preferences-file: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,v=3.0* Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 300 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail problem
Sorted it, needed to chown the files correctly. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing
David Palmer writes: ...which is quite often the basis for governmental regulation legislation. Except that it appears that in Brazil regulation is the source of the problem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
On ', 2003-09-20 at 17:45, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw Also, put an official testing source into sources.list too. For testing: deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free But I still cannot get XFree 4.3 into my Debian, look: Xfree 4.3 is in experimental not testing X -version This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030225230350 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-586tsc i686 [ELF] Module Loader present -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quake 2 mouse problem
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:50:12 +0200, Andrew Ingram wrote: Hi List, I just found out about apt-get install quake2 :) Everything is fine apart from my mouse. It works only horizontally, Enable the mouse look feature. I don't know if there is a menu setting for that. If not, try to enter +mlook at the game console. but far too quickly No idea I think there's a setting called something like in_dgamouse. Try toggling it from whatever its set to. -- Mental ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Torah... The Gospels... The Koran... Each claimed as the infallible word of GOD. Misquoted, misinterpreted, misunderstood, and misapplied. Maybe that's why he doesn't do any more interviews. - sinfest.net CARPE NOCTEM, QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO. GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/pas/Mental.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:08:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Olav Lavell wrote: If your internet provider lets you run procmail before getting the mail from their server, or if you run procmail yourself, the following recipe (to be put in your ~/.procmailrc or /etc/procmailrc) will effectively drop all swen-related stuff to the waste basket. I think it's a clever one, no false positives yet and I'm swen-free almost a day now. Thanks to the anonymous who posted this where I could snag it. Credits to go Victor Duchovni. He posted it on the postfix-users list after some experiments with body_checks. It does do a very good job stopping these mails indeed. It has the merit to be compact but the inconvenient to read the body. I use the followings procmail rules: :0: * 10 *^subject: (undeliverable |undelivered |returned )*(mail|message)(:* (returned to (mail|send)er|user unknown))* swen-junk :0: * 10 *^subject: (new(est)* |latest |last |current )*(net(work)* |microsoft |internet )*(critical |security )*(pack|patch|update|upgrade) swen-junk :0: * 10 *^subject: (abort|bug|error|failure)* *(advice|announcement|letter|message|notice|report) swen-junk This catch all swen mails except those with no subject. It would be easy to add them (*^Subject: *$) but I let them to spamassassin because I want to avoid false positive (I will try the body check for them). Of course my size test could be improved. Christophe Grx hdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. --Faith Resnick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VA-Linux Server
Hi People, Does anybody now where can I get support for a 2230 FullOn 2x2 VA-Linux server. It has an Intel 440+ dual Pentium 3 850MHz and a VA-Linux backplane connected to its scsi output. Some distributions, including woody 3.0.1 won't even see the hard drive connected to that backplane. California Digital took over VA-Linux servers division but haven't answered so far. Thanks In Advance Hector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc problem- Urgent
Hi there, I am installing some virus scanner and when i try to run it i get the following error message /lib/libresolv.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found Can you please suggest me what to do. Thanks I appreciate your reply and help. -- Vivek Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS max file size??
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:47:20PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: I need to copy files over 2GB over a NFS share, but it seems to be limited to 2GB 8-? Correct. Use NFS-V3. Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running short on DMA buffers during badblocks
On Fri, 1 Jan 1904 00:13:59 +0100 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgrade your kernel, this bug is fixed in 2.4.20 and newer. Wow, dude. You're old :-) -g pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
xinetd secondary addresses and ports
Hi All, I intent to run several instances of the same application (apache, sshd, whatever...) with different configurations on separated secondary addresses with their original port numbers (e.g. eth0:1 192.168.123.1:80 httpd www.acme.com and eth0:2 172.16.1.1:80 httpd www.whitehouse.gov) on the same machine, using xinetd. This in order to facilitate several datasources (websites and such) that are not heavily demanded and to combine them on a single HA-platform. (I would prefer to use the virtual machines that the 2.6 kernel seems to promise, but it's not there yet, as far as I know.) Is this (using xinetd) the recommended way or is there a better solution? What about applications that are not able to distinguish by themselves (sshd -sshd_config ListenAddress-) between addresses? Is xinetd able to make the distinction for these apps? Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:41, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. [...] To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. Fill in the blank: conspiracy _ is DDOS'ing linux-activists with Swen. /conspiracy My 'windows-friends' (yes, I do have some) also don't get Swen mailed to them. Ok let's hack evolution, put a backdoor in it, let evolution harvest email adresses from outlook users, who are on microsft email lists and within 2 months we'll create an evolution worm that always attaches a kernel patch. ;-) -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:51, Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 12:41, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. [...] To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. Fill in the blank: conspiracy _ is DDOS'ing linux-activists with Swen. /conspiracy My 'windows-friends' (yes, I do have some) also don't get Swen mailed to them. Ok let's hack evolution, put a backdoor in it, let evolution harvest email adresses from outlook users, who are on microsft email lists and within 2 months we'll create an evolution worm that always attaches a kernel patch. Or a Knoppix ISO. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry BUY WAR BONDS signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: xserver crashes on switching to vitual console [Solved]
Upgrading xserver to version 4.2.1 did the trick. Thanx. -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya - University of Nairobi Mail Services You can't afford to stay offline http://mail.uonbi.ac.ke/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Booting minimal debian off of IBM Microdrive
Hi, Trying to get a minimal install of debian to boot here. The installation goes fine, partitioning and so on goes fine. However, trying to boot yields some problems. My setup is a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, 512MB ram and a CF2IDE adapter. (CF and IDE is pin compatible, so no drivers are required) When tryint to boot directly off of the Microdrive, it halts. It's like it doesn't get detected, yet the bios detects the card correctly. All I get is insert correct medium and press any key so something goes very wrong. Am I missing something here? I can boot fine if I boot off of CDROM and set root=/dev/hda which is the Microdrive. So why doesn't it work to boot directly from the CF drive, and more importantly, how can I search for errors? Wbr Andreas Loong -- CES 1984 - The Lorraine's graphics are a whole step ahead of any personal computer now on the market. This computer is potentially powerful enough to make an IBM-PC look like a four-function calculator. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
record sound...
Hello! I need a program that can record from mic, or line-in, and encode realtime to mp3/ogg, or just record to wav. Anyone knows a program which can do this? Thanks! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc problem
This is not an urgent issue, even for you. (I say that because your system works, just one non-critical program is not functioning) Lucky for you, though, I removed the filter I had that discarded all messages with urgent in the subject. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:02:09AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: | I am installing some virus scanner and when i try to run it i get the | following error message | /lib/libresolv.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found | /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found | | Can you please suggest me what to do. Thanks I appreciate your reply and | help. That virus scanner is a commercial binary-only product, right? What version of libc6 do you have installed? Possibly upgrading your libc6 package will eliminate the problem, or perhaps the virus scanner needs to be (re)compiled against the new libc. I can't begin to guess which is correct until after I know what version you currently have. HTH, -D -- How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: logins and logouts hang
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:22:02PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: | On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | | If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box | makes it conk out, I think you ought to install some extra fannage. | | I have another fan and a spot on the case to screw it in to, but nowhere on | the MB to plug it in. I already have a fan in the front of the case, but | there's no place towards the back of the MB to plug in a fan (there is space | in the back of the case, however). *sigh* Why do you need to plug the fan into the motherboard? I have an extra fan in my box and I simply plugged it into a connector from the power supply. Ok, so the fan runs continuously, but is that really a problem? -D -- A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth. Proverbs 11:16 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt.conf? (was: Re: Getting XFree 4.3?)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:28:38PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: APT::Default-Release testing; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; I do not seem to have any apt.conf, but I do have an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory. Should I make the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, Create it, yes. or should I put the above two lines into a file in the given directory? (Which name?) No, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d is really for the benefit of packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: record sound...
I need a program that can record from mic, or line-in, and encode realtime to mp3/ogg, or just record to wav. Anyone knows a program which can do this? If you're using ALSA, try arecord with oggenc: $ arecord | oggenc -o record.ogg - Select the recording device using a mixer (e.g. alsamixer). Cheers Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sudo file -confusion
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 05:24, amit_manna wrote: Hi Everybody, I have a doubt. (I know this is a translation thing, but I think you mean question) Suppose I want to give move and change owner permission for a particular directories in a host. Only root can change the owner of a file, the owner of a file can change the group ownership though. Also, given something like the following: -rw-rw-r--2 root mrroach 246 Sep 22 12:43 minicom.log I (mrroach) can do the following to basically take ownership: $ cp minicom.log minicom.log2 $ ls -l minicom.log2 -rw-r--r--1 mrroach mrroach 246 Sep 22 12:47 minicom.log2 $ rm minicom.log ; mv minicom.log2 minicom.log $ ls -l minicom.log -rw-r--r--1 mrroach mrroach 246 Sep 22 12:47 minicom.log Hope that helps, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Limiting users' process times
I administer a couple of systems with up to 700 shell account users. Lately I am experiencing local DoS attacks so to speak, which aren't malicious, just basically resultant of some users with heavy mail load running spamassassin out of their procmailrc files. (I already run spamassassin daemonised globally, but they need it for other purposes). The result is processor queues (wrongly termed cpu load) of 50 entries per entity and thus a system that's unusable and most likely stays so because it doesn't catch up with mail. To make a long story short, I need a way to control how processor time is shared between users. I have inspected limit/ulimit and pam_limits, but neither cputime nor nproc will do what I want. At least I don't think so. I'd love to be proven wrong. I know that some of you must be in the same position. Would you care to share your approach with me? Also, are there other approaches, kernel patches, or cpuquota tools beside pam_limits? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: install
Sidney Brooks wrote: 1) I am not sure how it happened, but /etc/inittab is now set at run level 2. Therefore, I boot into text mode. That's the default on Debian. Redhat and friends pre-configure different run levels, whereas Debian leaves this for the administrator to do as he sees fit. 2) I have Windows XP, Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian partitions. Everything but Debian works. The boot loader is Mandrake lilo. HOWEVER, I CANNOT TAKE LILO OUT. In what may or may not be a related problem, if I uninstall lilo, when I reboot, at CDROM (order is floppy, CDROM, Hard Drive) I get L followed by an endless string of 99 unless there is a disk in the drive. Even here, I have a peculiarity, I can boot any bootable disk except my Windows XP disk, which starts with the message that it is checking hardware and then freezes. I am begining to think that Mandrake lilo may have somehow corrupted my BIOS. However, nothing that I do with the BIOS setup cures the problems. No, your BIOS is okay. When you removed lilo, you left an empty (not really, but humor me) spot on the boot sector. When the BIOS tries to boot the system, it reads part of the gunk left over in this sector, and then starts spitting out the 99s. This is perfectly normal (although undesired) behavior. You'll need _some_ sort of boot loader. WinXP's is designed only for Windows, so it's not really a good choice (although I understand it can be made to work). lilo or grub are probably your next two best choices, and whereas grub is more flexible, most folks are more familiar with lilo, and lilo is still the standard for booting Linux, so I'd stick with lilo. It doesn't matter if lilo is installed from Mandrake or Redhat or Debian, so long as the /etc/lilo.conf file is properly configured. WindowsXP freezing is likely less of a problem with the boot sector; in fact, it's not related to the boot sector at all, or it wouldn't even be getting as far as it's getting. If it's getting to the point where it can say it's checking hardware, then the WinXP CD _is_ booting; it's just failing a bit further down the line. This points to either a bad CD (scratch?), or something wrong with your hardware (RAM? hot CPU? bad spot on hard drive?). Since you had so much trouble with Debian earlier, I'm about 72.37% leaning toward some sort of hardware problem on your machine. To test RAM you can download memtest86 (either run it off a floppy or apt-get install mem86 and then configure lilo to offer it as a boot option). If you can run Mandrake/WinXP/Redhat/Knoppix without any problems (compiling a linux kernel is a pretty good test of RAM), then chances are your machine is okay, and the problem is in the WinXP CD itself. 3)Booting from the Debian floppy now results in a working text mode. Excellent! That means that all that is left is to get X working. What happens when you run startx? You'll likely get an error about no screens found, but that's a generic error that means nothing. Look higher up in the output for lines marked with EE or No pointing device found or No resolutions usable, etc. 4) To summarize, I have three problems which may point to a BIOS problem: Debian, I cannot boot the Windows CD, and the fact that I must keep the Mandrake lilo or I cannot get into Windows. 1) Debian - Debian is booting now; it's just not running X. Realize that X sits on top of Debian, unlike WindowsXP in which Microsoft wants you to believe the Graphical User Interface (GUI) _is_ WindowsXP. In the Microsoft world, if you're not looking at the GUI, you're not looking at Windows. But in the GNU world, if you're not looking at the GUI, you're not looking at the GUI, and that's all. You're still in Linux, just in text-mode. 2) Can't boot WinXP CD - Sounds like either a damaged WinXP CD or a hardware problem on your machine. 3) As mentioned above, you have to have _some_ sort of boot loader. WindowsXP can't be booted off an external disk as far as I know; although the WinXP CD should allow you to reinstall/repair XP. So, yes, you must keep lilo (from any of the distros, or alternatively grub or something similar) on your drive or you won't be able to get into Windows. Or you could reinstall the Windows boot code, but then you won't be able to get into Deb/RH/MD. 5) I am sending this to you directly because it is detailed and you are the only one showing an interest in the problem. Yes, but someone having the same problem three months from now after I've been run over by an out-of-control shopping cart at Super Wal-Mart and am no longer available won't be able to search the archives for any help if this thread is not archived. I'd still recommend keeping this on-list. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved: NFS max file size??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm using a compiled-by-myself kernel and now I've noticed that NFS v3 client support was disabled by default O8-) Thanks!! Es Dissabte 20 Setembre 2003 18:47, en Joan Tur va escriure: I need to copy files over 2GB over a NFS share, but it seems to be limited to 2GB 8-? - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain Jabber, Yahoo AIM: quini2k www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/bznWok8j9RhtetwRAu7GAJ9LI8afga2qn3tPK/kQSDcTNp98LgCfXzGO eQ09ibhPPdVS9s7DdlxA6cU= =hlw5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Credits to go Victor Duchovni. He posted it on the postfix-users list after some experiments with body_checks. It does do a very good job stopping these mails indeed. Um, credits go to Kevin Buhr on alt.sysadmin.recovery, thank you very much, unless Victor and I happened to come up with exactly the same recipe down to the byte range and choice of Base64 line. ;) -- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slide show software
Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? Thank you, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, credits go to Kevin Buhr on alt.sysadmin.recovery, thank you very much, unless Victor and I happened to come up with exactly the same recipe down to the byte range and choice of Base64 line. ;) Okay, I found Victor's post, and it looks like Victor and I *did* come up with the same choice of Base64 line (for an obvious reason---it contains the URL of the vanity counter the virus author is using to keep track of the spread and so is unlikely to give a false positive), but I can still comfortably take credit for the particular procmail formulation posted in this thread. -- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: record sound...
Robert Vollmert wrote: I need a program that can record from mic, or line-in, and encode realtime to mp3/ogg, or just record to wav. Anyone knows a program which can do this? If you're using ALSA, try arecord with oggenc: $ arecord | oggenc -o record.ogg - Select the recording device using a mixer (e.g. alsamixer). Cheers Robert I am not using alsa :). Any other ideas? Or programs? Thanks! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:20:02PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? I like qiv. i.e. qiv -m -d 2 *.jpg Will do a fullscreen slideshow, changing every 2 sec. Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logins and logouts hang
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:22:02PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:26:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: If your machine is that close to overheating that painting the box makes it conk out, I think you ought to install some extra fannage. I have another fan and a spot on the case to screw it in to, but nowhere on the MB to plug it in. I already have a fan in the front of the case, but there's no place towards the back of the MB to plug in a fan (there is space in the back of the case, however). *sigh* You can use a spare disk drive power connector: the red wire on the fan to the yellow wire on the connector, black wire on the fan to one of the black wires on the connector. If the fan has a third, yellow, wire, don't connect that wire. The easiest way to do this is probably to buy a power splitter, cut off one of the female connectors and connect to the freed wires using screw terminal block (chocolate strip). BTW, it apparently wasn't the paint, 'cause I'm having the same prob again. Time to go shut down again... ...and put that other fan in :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Flash plug-in hangs Mozilla (sid)
El domingo, 21 de septiembre de 2003, a las 18:17, Sebastian Kapfer escribe: I guess you have some app playing sound in the background. Maybe it's a music player such as XMMS, or a sound daemon (watch out for ESD, ARTS, JACK, ...) No esd, no arts, no jack, only alsa. Still the same if I unload alsa. Regards, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'auteurs il en est grande cherté signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: record sound...
I am not using alsa :). Any other ideas? Or programs? sox will work, though I don't know the correct arguments. Or try audacity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 22 Setembre 2003 20:20, en William Bradley va escriure: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? gqview is a good choice ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain Jabber, Yahoo AIM: quini2k www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/b0y1ok8j9RhtetwRAkNPAKCfGyV8TAK93u0el9MUzMda6tpR6wCfQJgr +XZIjUyduHYhdQefAP1dFl0= =tjDT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
On Monday 22 September 2003 01:20 pm, William Bradley wrote: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? Sure, depending on what you want exactly: imagemagick (probably closest to what you want), e.g.: % display --delay 300 --geometry 800x600 mypictures/*.jpg kpresenter (can create a presentation) kde (can rotate the desktop wallpaper) And I'm sure there are other choices too. I used to have a nice hack to set my FVWM root window to a random image on login (I used signify and xloadimage to do this). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 05:41, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list addresses in the To header. So it does look as though they are harvesting the Debian lists. [...] To be cynical, a Windows virus would be a good way to attack (with mail volume) non-windows users. Fill in the blank: conspiracy _ is DDOS'ing linux-activists with Swen. /conspiracy My 'windows-friends' (yes, I do have some) also don't get Swen mailed to them. My wife uses Linux, but hasn't (yet?) gotten any swen attachments. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between drunken sailors and Congressmen is that drunken sailors spend their own money. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 04:07, Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 10:54, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:09, Olav Lavell wrote: Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come Bull. By using spam/virus filtering on their end, they are saving on bandwidth between the ISP and the end-user. Thus, even if they can't/don't use SpamAssassin Amavisd, and must spend money on filtering s/w, it still saves them money by not having to upgrade the downstream h/w. I don't think that many isp's are concerned about the user-isp connection, who needs to pay extra for that ? It's the internet-isp connection that eats all the money. I must be lucky. My d/l speeds have consistently stayed in the 2.2-2.5Mbps range, even as the cable service has become more popular. This, while the theory is that as more customers attach to the shared cable system, speeds will decrease. The only answer is that Cox has been adding new hardware in the field to make sub-nets even smaller, thus maintaining consistent speeds. So, reducing the amount of bad data going downstream, reduces the amount of new hardware my cable company must install in the field to maintain good service. The isp will simply apply a quota, if I use over 10 gig in the past thirty days my calbe modem gets capped to a 15kb/s downstream limit. Hmmm, well I can't answer to that, since I don't know if I've ever d/l'ed 10GB/mo. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA What's your genius, perfect 20 years too late Monday morning quarterback answer to how the US should have responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? Oh wait, you're just talking crap - you don't have a real answer, you're just regurgitating crap from NPR. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76597cid=6839483 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VA-Linux Server
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:22, Hector Scaramelli wrote: Hi People, Does anybody now where can I get support for a 2230 FullOn 2x2 VA-Linux server. It has an Intel 440+ dual Pentium 3 850MHz and a VA-Linux backplane connected to its scsi output. Some distributions, including woody 3.0.1 won't even see the hard drive connected to that backplane. California Digital took over VA-Linux servers division but haven't answered so far. Which kernel are you installing? bf24? Maybe the driver for that SCSI chip isn't in the default kernel? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. Larry Wall, 10/14/1998 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: record sound...
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:31:31PM +0200, LeVA wrote: I am not using alsa :). Any other ideas? Or programs? gramofile has a sound recording feature. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Peter Case - Something Happens (Flying Saucer Blues) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
xplanet with gnome (root window in general)
Hi group, How can I run xplanet with gnome without resorting to generating images over and over and using them as backdrop? I simply want to be able to see the root window in gnome. Then, I can use whatever program I like just as in any other window manager. TIA, David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
El lunes, 22 de septiembre de 2003, a las 09:44, Elie De Brauwer escribe: my girlfriends email accounts gets nothing Give me your girlfriend's email address, and I will see what I can do... :o) Regards, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'autheurs il en est grande cherté signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
El domingo, 21 de septiembre de 2003, a las 21:04, Pigeon escribe: Me too. Especially as most spam I get has got my address from debian-user or other Linux lists, and I've been getting a lot less ordinary spam since swen started up. I am receiving also these emails to an account subscribed to cygwin mailing lists, so, GNU is the target, not only Linux... :P Regards, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries; d'autheurs il en est grande cherté signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Wireless letworking
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 05:51, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hi, I have an orinoco wireless netcard and installed the module, tools, pcmcia installation, kernel configuratione And the card is recognized by cardmgr, so no problems around here. I configured network.opts so that it reads the interfaces file and in interfaces i made eth1 with an ip and everything. When the card is online, i can ping to it's own address, that's working. But in the config.opts where i have to insert the parameters for the encryption etc... I put in all the data i *think* that is necessary for here and i thought that it should be possible to ping to other hosts via the wireless netcard at that point. I have never used config.opts for that sort of thing, I have always just configured the card using /etc/network/interfaces and up statements. Have you tried using iwconfig manually to set the essid/mode/channel etc? Here's an example of the config stanza I use for my wireless card (a prism2/orinoco card). iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.150.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.150.1 up iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid roach channel 5 up cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.wlan.bak up cp /etc/resolv.conf.wlan /etc/resolv.conf down cp /etc/resolv.conf.wlan.bak /etc/resolv.conf broadcast 192.168.150.255 network 192.168.150.0 You can ignore the resolv.conf stuff of course -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logins and logouts hang
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:59:36AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..Vikki, check the _power_supply_ fan. (AKA PSU fan) ;-) What about it? -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ What's this script do? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out with your girlfriend. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C(++) UL P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)+ h! r% x? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?
On Monday 22 September 2003 3:43 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: My wife uses Linux, but hasn't (yet?) gotten any swen attachments. Nor has mine. But my wife does not do listservs or webforums. Nor does she publish her email, as I have at http://www.lewrockwell.com It's a price you pay for being public... Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quake 2 mouse problem
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:19, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:50:12 +0200, Andrew Ingram wrote: Hi List, I just found out about apt-get install quake2 :) Everything is fine apart from my mouse. It works only horizontally, Enable the mouse look feature. I don't know if there is a menu setting for that. If not, try to enter +mlook at the game console. I should have mentioned that I have mouselook on :) It's not that, as when I start the game, the player isn't even looking ahead, it's often looking about 30 degrees down towards the floor. Regards, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Installing package from unstable onto stable bf2.4
Hi all, I've been playing for about an hour now, and after much searching google.co.uk/linux I think I'm only vaguely wiser: I want to install a program from the unstable distrib since it's the program version I wish to use due to enhanced features etc. I think I'm right in saying that I need to add a line to my sources.list file to allow the unstable package list to be downloaded but I'm also seeing things thay tell me to add a line to my apt.conf to force stable to be the default distrib. After trying numerous suggestions from my searches I still can't get apt-cache search to display the relevant package and hence can't install it. The package does exist (dansguardian for those interested) as I can find it manually on the debian site. Wierdly I'm sure an older version of this package used to be in the stable package list but it doesn't show anywhere at all now. Can anyone shed some simple light on this situ? I guess I'm missing something real obvious but I'm at a loss what it is! Thanks for any response. Regards, nry _ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded! Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for this! My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and liberal use of shorewall's blacklist. I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quake 2 mouse problem
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:36, Mental Patient wrote: Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:50:12 +0200, Andrew Ingram wrote: Hi List, I just found out about apt-get install quake2 :) Everything is fine apart from my mouse. It works only horizontally, Enable the mouse look feature. I don't know if there is a menu setting for that. If not, try to enter +mlook at the game console. but far too quickly No idea I think there's a setting called something like in_dgamouse. Try toggling it from whatever its set to. That's it! Wow, thanks :) Regards, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
William Bradley declaimed: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? Thank you, Bill. This is on a Debian box running Sarge/Testing, you can see that a few more searches would probably turn up the other specific recommendations you've received. $ apt-cache search slideshow chbg - A tool for changing the desktop background image in X11 feh - imlib2 based image viewer gtksee - GTK-based clone of ACDSee (an image viewer) igal - online image gallery generator libroxen-presentit - Slideshow module for the Roxen Challenger web server pdfscreen - Make PDF documents which are printable and readable on screen too pointless - A presentation tool based on OpenGL pornview - Image and movie viewer/manager qiv - A quick image viewer for X zoph - Web based digital image presentation and management system xslideshow - An Image Viewer on X with Animation display function. Cheers, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Kevin Buhr wrote: Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, credits go to Kevin Buhr on alt.sysadmin.recovery, thank you very much, unless Victor and I happened to come up with exactly the same recipe down to the byte range and choice of Base64 line. ;) Knowing Victor's reputation I don't think he would copy anyone else's code. If you have read some of his posts you'll know what I mean `;-) Okay, I found Victor's post, and it looks like Victor and I *did* come up with the same choice of Base64 line (for an obvious reason---it contains the URL of the vanity counter the virus author is using to keep track of the spread and so is unlikely to give a false positive), There wasn't too much choice was there... Think of it as natural convergence to an optimum. but I can still comfortably take credit for the particular procmail formulation posted in this thread. Indeed. Grx HdV P.S. I am on the list. You don't have to send your messages to both the list and me. Hint, hint }:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless letworking
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: I have never used config.opts for that sort of thing, I have always just configured the card using /etc/network/interfaces and up statements. Have you tried using iwconfig manually to set the essid/mode/channel etc? Here's an example of the config stanza I use for my wireless card (a prism2/orinoco card). iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.150.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.150.1 up iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid roach channel 5 up cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.wlan.bak up cp /etc/resolv.conf.wlan /etc/resolv.conf down cp /etc/resolv.conf.wlan.bak /etc/resolv.conf broadcast 192.168.150.255 network 192.168.150.0 At least in debian/unstable ifupdown, iwconfig support is integrated. That means that you don't need to use the up clause but can write things like: iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.150.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.150.1 essid roach See man interfaces for more details. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. --Ellen Perry Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slide show software
On ', 2003-09-22 at 21:20, William Bradley wrote: Does Debian in their deb files have anything that will allow me to run my photo's as a slide show on my computer? Thank you, Bill. Try gimv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nessus 1.0.10 and os X client issue
Hi all, I've installed nessus onto my debianbox, I have no GUI installed on the machine as its a server that sits miles away, I do however want to be able to connect to it remotely from the office, everytime I connect I get SSL erro the logfile shows connection from 192.168.0.23 (my workstation) but that's. What am I doing wrong? the nessus client is ver 2.0.7, is the difference in version the issue? or am I having a blonde moment? - Regards - Gabe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP account- limit the size of messages to download, I limit them to 2000 bytes. You can try different sizes to see what works. Then when I check mail a popup window appears showing a list of messages, with subject lines and the senders of any messages bigger than 2000 bytes. Then I can either leave them on the server, delete them, or download them. I don't know if all mail clients do this, it's worth checking out. I use a different trick when I'm on dialup and don't want to download huge messages. I simply use mutt to access my pop mailbox. Then mutt only downloads the headers from the pop server. And then I get a list of all the messages, who they're from, what the subject is and what the size is. I can then delete whichever ones I don't want to download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I normally would. The problem at current rates of Swen delivery is that I'd have to check my mail 10-20 times or more daily to avoid mail-over-quota bounces. If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. There's a simple solution. Have the list munge the email addresses before it appears in any publicly viewable form (e.g. in the form of a web page). My only addresses that are receiving the mail bombs are the ones I'm using to post to lists. I know this for a fact because I'm using a different address to retrieve my Debian-User mail and that address is clean (though it does get its dose of the usual spam). My posting address though is constantly over quota. So I know that this list is partly responsible for the bombs ;-). That or allow only subscribed or whitelisted addresses to post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install
Kent West wrote: Sidney Brooks wrote: 1) I am not sure how it happened, but /etc/inittab is now set at run level 2. Therefore, I boot into text mode. That's the default on Debian. Redhat and friends pre-configure different run levels, whereas Debian leaves this for the administrator to do as he sees fit. 2) I have Windows XP, Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian partitions. Everything but Debian works. The boot loader is Mandrake lilo. HOWEVER, I CANNOT TAKE LILO OUT. In what may or may not be a related problem, if I uninstall lilo, when I reboot, at CDROM (order is floppy, CDROM, Hard Drive) I get L followed by an endless string of 99 unless there is a disk in the drive. Even here, I have a peculiarity, I can boot any bootable disk except my Windows XP disk, which starts with the message that it is checking hardware and then freezes. I am begining to think that Mandrake lilo may have somehow corrupted my BIOS. However, nothing that I do with the BIOS setup cures the problems. No, your BIOS is okay. When you removed lilo, you left an empty (not really, but humor me) spot on the boot sector. When the BIOS tries to boot the system, it reads part of the gunk left over in this sector, and then starts spitting out the 99s. This is perfectly normal (although undesired) behavior. You'll need _some_ sort of boot loader. WinXP's is designed only for Windows, so it's not really a good choice (although I understand it can be made to work). lilo or grub are probably your next two best choices, and whereas grub is more flexible, most folks are more familiar with lilo, and lilo is still the standard for booting Linux, so I'd stick with lilo. It doesn't matter if lilo is installed from Mandrake or Redhat or Debian, so long as the /etc/lilo.conf file is properly configured. WindowsXP freezing is likely less of a problem with the boot sector; in fact, it's not related to the boot sector at all, or it wouldn't even be getting as far as it's getting. If it's getting to the point where it can say it's checking hardware, then the WinXP CD _is_ booting; it's just failing a bit further down the line. This points to either a bad CD (scratch?), or something wrong with your hardware (RAM? hot CPU? bad spot on hard drive?). Since you had so much trouble with Debian earlier, I'm about 72.37% leaning toward some sort of hardware problem on your machine. To test RAM you can download memtest86 (either run it off a floppy or apt-get install mem86 and then configure lilo to offer it as a boot option). If you can run Mandrake/WinXP/Redhat/Knoppix without any problems (compiling a linux kernel is a pretty good test of RAM), then chances are your machine is okay, and the problem is in the WinXP CD itself. 3)Booting from the Debian floppy now results in a working text mode. Excellent! That means that all that is left is to get X working. What happens when you run startx? You'll likely get an error about no screens found, but that's a generic error that means nothing. Look higher up in the output for lines marked with EE or No pointing device found or No resolutions usable, etc. 4) To summarize, I have three problems which may point to a BIOS problem: Debian, I cannot boot the Windows CD, and the fact that I must keep the Mandrake lilo or I cannot get into Windows. 1) Debian - Debian is booting now; it's just not running X. Realize that X sits on top of Debian, unlike WindowsXP in which Microsoft wants you to believe the Graphical User Interface (GUI) _is_ WindowsXP. In the Microsoft world, if you're not looking at the GUI, you're not looking at Windows. But in the GNU world, if you're not looking at the GUI, you're not looking at the GUI, and that's all. You're still in Linux, just in text-mode. 2) Can't boot WinXP CD - Sounds like either a damaged WinXP CD or a hardware problem on your machine. 3) As mentioned above, you have to have _some_ sort of boot loader. WindowsXP can't be booted off an external disk as far as I know; although the WinXP CD should allow you to reinstall/repair XP. So, yes, you must keep lilo (from any of the distros, or alternatively grub or something similar) on your drive or you won't be able to get into Windows. Or you could reinstall the Windows boot code, but then you won't be able to get into Deb/RH/MD. 5) I am sending this to you directly because it is detailed and you are the only one showing an interest in the problem. Yes, but someone having the same problem three months from now after I've been run over by an out-of-control shopping cart at Super Wal-Mart and am no longer available won't be able to search the archives for any help if this thread is not archived. I'd still recommend keeping this on-list. ** I used startx and could not go into the graphics mode. Here are the significant entries from /var/log/XFree86.0.log (WW) about cyrillic fonts - not significant (WW) Cannot open
Re: procmail solution against swen
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
It has the merit to be compact but the inconvenient to read the body.
Which is about the only reliable way to filter it.
I use the followings procmail rules:
:0:
* 10
*^subject: (undeliverable |undelivered |returned )*(mail|message)(:* (returned to
(mail|send)er|user unknown))*
swen-junk
Not reliable enough for my taste, too much chances of false positives.
:0:
* 10
*^subject: (new(est)* |latest |last |current )*(net(work)* |microsoft |internet
)*(critical |security )*(pack|patch|update|upgrade)
swen-junk
This will definitely not catch em all. See below.
:0:
* 10
*^subject: (abort|bug|error|failure)*
*(advice|announcement|letter|message|notice|report)
swen-junk
This would catch valid messages for sure in my case.
This catch all swen mails except those with no subject.
Nope.
Swen composes its subject line from the following words:
Current
Newest
Last
New
Latest
Net
Network
Microsoft
Internet
Critical
Security
Patch
Update
Pack
Upgrade
Below is some perl I used to test my pattern. The regexp (in PCRE)
catches most sensible combinations, but I wouldn't say this is 100%
reliable. The list of subjects has been taken from the only real
swen-messages I got (not too many).
Even if it were 100% reliable for standard swen subjects then it
wouldn't be anymore as soon as a new version made its arrival. I have
seen some messages posing as bounces with different subjects today and
those definitely used 'new' subject words...
So why did I add this PCRE pattern to our postfix? Well, because quite a
lot of 'cleaned' swen messages were sent from other MTAs to our
recipients. Because the exe was stripped RAV wouldn't catch 'em and I
didn't want our people bothered by it. It has been quite succesful
(almost 100 discarded messages in the first hour of its use), but must
be updated for the new faked bounces. This is exactly the catch-up game
I don't like...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @subjects = (
'Microsoft Internet Update Pack',
'Last Critical Pack',
'Newest Network Critical Update',
'Latest Security Update',
'Current Network Update',
'Last Net Patch',
'New Net Update',
'Last Critical Upgrade',
'Current Microsoft Pack',
'Newest Network Critical Update',
'Latest Security Update'
);
foreach (@subjects) {
$_ = 'Subject: ' . $_;
if
(/^Subject:(\s+(Current|New(est)?|Last|Latest))?(\s+(Net(work)?|Microsoft|Internet|Critical|Security))+((\s+(Update|Upgrade))?(\s+(Patch|Pack))?)\s*$/i)
{
#DISCARD Suspicious subject line: W32/Gibe-F alias Swen
print MATCH:$_\n;
}
else {
print NO MATCH: $_\n;
}
}
Grx HdV
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Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:07, Wayne Gemmell wrote: Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded! Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for this! I used this to set up fetchmail (gets email every 10 minutes), postfix, spamassassin amavisd-new. Read the user comments before beginning. http://www.linuxbeginner.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=263 -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VA-Linux Server
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:22, Hector Scaramelli wrote: Hi People, Does anybody now where can I get support for a 2230 FullOn 2x2 VA-Linux server. It has an Intel 440+ dual Pentium 3 850MHz and a VA-Linux backplane connected to its scsi output. Some distributions, including woody 3.0.1 won't even see the hard drive connected to that backplane. California Digital took over VA-Linux servers division but haven't answered so far. Which kernel are you installing? bf24? Maybe the driver for that SCSI chip isn't in the default kernel? installed bf2.4 drivers and base system and worked ok, but received the official complete Debian woody 3.0r.1, kernel 2.2 and it didn't see the hdd like mandrake 8.1 or red hat 7.1, however VA-Linux 6.2 based on red hat 6.2 works ok. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. Larry Wall, 10/14/1998 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
Wayne Gemmell wrote: Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded! Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for this! My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and liberal use of shorewall's blacklist. I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* Maybe it sounds drastic but I even thought of making some type of acl of who can send me e-mail and deny the rest with a msg of If you really want to Send me E-mail send a mail with the Subject Request to send you e-mail, setting another e-mail account in which only subjects like Request to send you e-mail would allow me to know if somebody who wants to send me e-mail, and therefore I would allow their addresses is that is what I want... I know how it sounds.. but when one becomes desperate.. Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... -- -daniel http://www.debian-gnu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc problem- Urgent
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:02:09AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: I am installing some virus scanner and when i try to run it i get the following error message /lib/libresolv.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found Can you please suggest me what to do. Upgrade libc6 to 2.2 or newer? The version in Debian stable should be sufficient. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VA-Linux Server
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 17:21, Hector Scaramelli wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:22, Hector Scaramelli wrote: Hi People, Does anybody now where can I get support for a 2230 FullOn 2x2 VA-Linux server. It has an Intel 440+ dual Pentium 3 850MHz and a VA-Linux backplane connected to its scsi output. Some distributions, including woody 3.0.1 won't even see the hard drive connected to that backplane. California Digital took over VA-Linux servers division but haven't answered so far. Which kernel are you installing? bf24? Maybe the driver for that SCSI chip isn't in the default kernel? installed bf2.4 drivers and base system and worked ok, but received the official complete Debian woody 3.0r.1, kernel 2.2 and it didn't see the hdd like mandrake 8.1 or red hat 7.1, however VA-Linux 6.2 based on red hat 6.2 works ok. Since b42.4 is part of Woody, and it works for you, what's the problem? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Python is executable pseudocode; Perl is executable line noise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MS mail bombs
Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... -- -daniel It is probably (should be imo) the future of all computing. Permit this Permit that Deny everything else -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail solution against swen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:16:34AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
It has the merit to be compact but the inconvenient to read the body.
Which is about the only reliable way to filter it.
...
Not reliable enough for my taste, too much chances of false positives.
...
This will definitely not catch em all. See below.
...
This would catch valid messages for sure in my case.
...
Nope.
Swen composes its subject line from the following words:
I composed the regexp using 200MB of swen mails. I catched them using
debian/sid spamassassin and it's MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE test. But even if
I have broadband, I wanted to stop them earlier. Earlier meant on a
debian/woody server with an old spamassassin without
MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE. So far none of the swen mails have been missed by
my procmail rules. Of course the ones without virus still go through.
My current procmail rules contain:
:0:
* -2^0
* 1^0 14
* 1^0 165000
* 1^0 ^subject: (undeliverable|undelivered|returned)? ?(mail|message)(:? (returned to
(mail|send)er|user unknown))?
* 1^0 ^subject: (new(est)?|latest|last|current)? ?(net(work)?|microsoft|internet)?
?(critical|security)? ?(pack|patch|update|upgrade)
* 1^0 ^subject: (abort|bug|error|failure)?
?(advice|announcement|letter|message|notice|report)
swen-junk
:0
* 14
* 165000
*^subject: *$
{
:0 BD
* b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWYv
swen-junk
}
Christophe
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Re: MS mail bombs
Wayne Gemmell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded! Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for this! My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and liberal use of shorewall's blacklist. I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* You might want to take a look at the mailfilter package. With it I am removing the offending mail, at the server, having only downloaded the headers. Wayne -- If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
daniel said: Wayne Gemmell wrote: [snip] I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* Maybe it sounds drastic but I even thought of making some type of acl of who can send me e-mail and deny the rest with a msg of If you really want to Send me E-mail send a mail with the Subject Request to send you e-mail, setting another e-mail account in which only subjects like Request to send you e-mail would allow me to know if somebody who wants to send me e-mail, and therefore I would allow their addresses is that is what I want... There's a company that provides this service. First time emails to you get an auto-response You aren't authorized to send me email, visit this web page to get authorized or something like that. I Googled and can't find it again. Interesting idea. Another is to use disposable email addresses for lists and usenet and then rotate email addresses when you get spammed, or just every so often for good measure. Sneakmail.com talks about this and provides a service. Too bad I had read about this idea but forged ahead w/ the email I like. An advantage of switching email addresses is that the email is rejected before the SMTP server commits to the DATA section. The disadvantages of shuffling email addresses are obvious. One article I read suggested using a sensible method of picking new usernames - with the date in it. Eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jacob Trying out SquirrelMail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xplanet with gnome (root window in general)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:12:30PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: | Hi group, | | How can I run xplanet with gnome without resorting to generating images | over and over and using them as backdrop? I simply want to be able to | see the root window in gnome. Then, I can use whatever program I like | just as in any other window manager. Start that program _after_ gnome-session has painted the root window. Then it won't be stomped on unless you change gnome's background in the control center. (or just wait until xplanet updates the background (if you use xplanetbg) and then it will overwrite the gnome background) OTOH there may be a way to tell gnome not to touch the root window, but I don't recall such. Or just don't run gnome-session. (I am using this alternative now because I want a lighter-weight setup) -D -- Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. Proverbs 13:10 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
GTK2 Apps in KDE
I'm having some problems with GTK2 apps in KDE on my debian system - this could be the wrong place to post this, but it's a start. Basically, I don't see any checkboxes in GTK2 apps (like Gaim). The text is there, and can be selected, but there's no box next to it, so you can't tell what state the widget is in. I've tried a bunch of different GTK2 themes, and none of them seem to help. Any ideas? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS mail bombs
Wayne Gemmell writes: I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* Set up fetchmail or mailfilter to delete messages over 140k on the server. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
