Re: PXE Server
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:09:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created some images using Symantec Ghost 8. I would like to use my debian box as a pxe server to distribute these images to Windows clients. There is plenty of documentation available on how to set up PXE, e.g. http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html Basically it amounts to setting up a DHCP server (to hand out IP addresses) and a TFTP server (to serve disk/bootimages). HTH, Ray -- Think of computer security like powertools. The day you think you are totally safe is the day you end up hurt. Alan Cox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting htdig to work with apache2
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 21:38:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything seems to work just fine until I try and run the search form. The page comes up but whenever I click on the search button I get a download dialog because the htsearch is a BIN file. I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why apache2 apparently won't run this cgi program. Save that BIN file and have a look. It could be that the CGI is actually running but the output it produces for some reason has a MIME type your browser doesn't know how to handle. HTH, Ray -- To this day we are still wondering what exactly it is, besides prices, that Microsoft has innovated. Seen on segfault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4-gtk not available in testing/unstable repositories on Debian?
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:07:25 +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: I would like to some developing using gtk-php, I've done several google searchs and also search debian.org under the packages, but there does not seem to be any php4 versions of this available, that is compatible with the current version of php4 in unstable or testing. Quoting http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt : [Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 02:34:33 -0400] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns] Removed the following packages from unstable: php-gtk | 0.5.1-12 | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc --- Reason --- Removed by RM: orphaned, not supported -- HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Ewww, I think so Brain, but I think I'd rather eat the Macarena. Pinky and the Brain in Plan Brain From Outer Space -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ncurses with sarge
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 19:54:46 +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: I am trying to compile xfbb from source (rather than using deb binaries) with sarge (Testing), howver, I get an error -DUSE_NCURSES when I try to install them it wont let me using apt-get install ncurses I can't say your question is phrased very clearly, but I expect what you're looking for is apt-get install libncurses5-dev. HTH, Ray -- Friends don't send friends HTML email Declan McCullagh on the features of Javascript in email, http://www.lwn.net/2001/0208/a/htmlprivacy.php3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Papersize in Gnumeric/Abiword
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 14:30:25 +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote: how can I manage to make A4 the papersize in gnumeric or abiword? - As a single user? In gnumeric, it's supposed to work like this: File - Page Setup - Paper size - pick A4 and then select the Save as default settings above the OK button and then OK This adjusts the value for the /apps/gnumeric/printsetup/printer-config gconf key. Unfortunately, 1.2.x doesn't pick up this value again on startup. This is fixed in gnumeric 1.3.90 which is currently in project/experimental. - For the whole system? Set the the value for /apps/gnumeric/printsetup/printer-config system-wide; see http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information on GConf. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gconf schemas in /etc
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 13:21:34 +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Why is this in /etc? Historic reasons. Shouldn't it belong in /usr/share? Yes. A migration to /usr/share/gconf/schemas is in progress. 61 packages in sid have already migrated; 41 still use /etc/gconf/schemas. HTH, Ray -- What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not 'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 00:37:14 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge See http://bugs.debian.org/188170 . Note: sarge system using exim (not exim4). Exim3 is no longer being developed upstream; exim4 is the default MTA for sarge. All exim4 packages, including exim4-daemon-light, have been built with support for TLS encryption. HTH, Ray -- AJ: Geeez, Erwin. He wasn't even ARMED. Erwin: I don't care. I have lots of ammo and he was wearing a TIE. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010209 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: expat.h
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 19:57:49 +0200, Paul Akkermans wrote: Indeed I am trying to compile my structure editor, but I have one more failure and then in works. Now during make I get the message that I have not got expat.h. I believe that this is a Debian library file? It is a C header file. In a technical sense, it is not a library file, but a utility file needed to compile code that uses the library. If so (or not) how can I get this file? Go to http://www.debian.org, follow the Debian Packages link, enter expat.h under Search the contents of packages, press the Search button and install the package listed in the packages contents search results page. HTH, Ray -- Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric or oocalc
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 17:33:10 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: He meant will gnumeric run on windows Windows builds are possible now, but a lot still needs to be done; see e.g. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2004-September/msg00011.html or mac... http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gnumeric HTH, Ray -- TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. Douglas Adams in http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/21/1217242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric or oocalc
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 15:41:16 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on which spreadsheet software is better? As the maintainer of the Debian packages for gnumeric, I'm not the most objective source of information. Still, you may find these remarks useful. While having choice is better, I would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In particular I am looking for 1) things which can be done in one but cant be done in another? AFAIK Gnumeric has more extensive support for specialised areas like statistical analysis and financial analysis. Gnumeric can import encrypted Excel sheets; oocalc can't AFAIK. Oocalc has spellcheck functionality; Gnumeric doesn't. 2) Which is better compatible with microsoft excel? Excel compatibility is very important for Gnumeric, and it receives plenty of attention. Examples include the conservation of Excel macros when loading and saving in Gnumeric and the development of a separate library, libgsf, for handling structured files, including MS OLE. libgsf is now being used by other applications like Abiword and Kword. 3) which requires more memory, speed, other performance aspects? OpenOffice appears to be much more resource hungry than Gnumeric, at least for a simple test case. I have a simple sheet with some tax related data in it. Running gnumeric on it results in 5 threads, consuming approximately 19MB; running oocalc on it results in 6 threads, consuming approximately 56MB. As for accuracy, http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports/gnumeric.pdf should inspire some confidence as to gnumeric's developers' careful attention to accuracy. Occasionally I get the impression that in OpenOffice, attention is typically focused on getting things to work well for normal cases, and that corners are often cut when it comes to special cases. 4) which is being actively developed and has good documentation? OpenOffice is backed by major commercial players like Sun and Novell; undoubtedly it is under active development. I'm not familiar with its documentation. Gnumeric is being actively developed (see e.g. http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnumeric/ChangeLog?sortby=dateview=markup); it currently includes some 4.6MB of English language documentation in DocBook XML format. 5) Any better spreadsheet programs out there which I have not looked at? Not that I'm aware of, at least not free software ones. Kcalc, sc, Oleo etc. are much more limited than oocalc and gnumeric. 6) Enable some sort of scripting along with gui? There is quite a bit of infrastructure in place in Gnumeric to prepare for scripting (in particular using Python), but it is not yet at a point where it is easily usable for end users. HTH, Ray -- sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked with it will understand why. Seth Breidbart in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: knoppix vs standard debian?
Please read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html . On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:11:58 +, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: I suppose this means that the declaration of Sarge being stable will force security conscious users to migrate to Sarge ( a lot like Gates Co forces people to move by making a service pack update and refusing support to old service packs.) Supporting old releases of software becomes more painful the older the software is. There will continue to be security support for the woody, the old stable release, once sarge is released as the new stable, but that security support will be for a limited time giving woody users the chance to upgrade to sarge in a reasonable timeframe. What shell command, exactly, will make debian tell me exactly what kernal it is?! uname -r tells you the kernel release's version number. HTH, Ray -- USDoJ/Judge Jackson: Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. James Turinsky in alt.sysadmin.recovery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 15:25:17 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: Yeah, I forgot to mention that little part which I suppose probably could have been rather important. So yes, I'm using experimental. In that case, this is expected breakage. GNOME 2.8 will use a new MIME system (see http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1885), and this is reflected in the GNOME 2.7 development branch (see e.g. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1893). The configuration applet that's giving you these errors, /usr/bin/gnome-file-types-properties, is part of the `capplets' package, built from the `control-center' source package. There is no GNOME 2.7 version of that package packaged yet for experimental. The GNOME 2.6 version is for use with the older MIME system; it doesn't work for the new one. HTH, Ray -- For those Unix Linux fanatics who're feeling left out, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random. Julian Richardson's response to ILOVEYOU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 20:37:48 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: (gnome-file-types-properties:3273): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function. User modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported. AFAICT this message is present only in the experimental versions of gnome-vfs2. You wouldn't happen to be running experimental versions without telling us, would you? Ray -- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.- Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mbox files for Debian Archives
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 14:39:12 +0300, Janjs Jangori wrote: We are writing a research paper and our primary research data uses the Debain-User Mailing List Archives. Our Python script reads and uses a mbox file as an input instead of html. Is there any Debian mbox file of the latest archives? The archives at http://lists.debian.org are generated by MHonArc, a tool that has mbox format files as its input (or perhaps Maildir, in any case, a regular mail archive format). AFAIK the archives in mbox format are not accessible to the general public (probably to limit address harvesting opportunities for spammers etc.). You may want to contact listmaster at lists dot debian dot org to obtain copies. HTH, Ray -- TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. Douglas Adams in http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/21/1217242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filing an RC bug: vis5d ?
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 17:07:06 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: I don't think sarge should release this thing. Any comments? Seems to make sense. Please file an RC bug against the package. Ray -- I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities dryer lint to various publishers, but nobody wants to publish a book written by a leader of mexican food, and starring a hero named Litmus VanCenturfuge and his sidekick Pipet Jerks.- CmdrTaco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'Error Message' language plpgsql does not exist
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 13:57:55 -0500, John Foster wrote: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist Apparently you haven't installed the Pl/PgSQL procedural language in your template database yet. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/xplang.html for documentation and try createlang plpgsql template1 HTH, Ray -- Javascript is EVIL! keyweed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: awstats from sarge
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 13:47:36 +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: bucovina:# /var/www/cgi-bin/awstats.pl Bizarre copy of ARRAY in aassign at /var/www/cgi-bin/awstats.pl line 115. Exit 255 Line 115 is criptic to me: my @OnlyFiles = my @SkipDNSLookupFor = my @SkipFiles = my @SkipHosts = (); This is similar to http://bugs.debian.org/247265 . The warning can be avoided by replacing this line by my @OnlyFiles = (); my @SkipDNSLookupFor = (); my @SkipFiles (); my my @SkipHosts = (); Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the Seven Samuri? Pinky and the Brain in Big in Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bizarre networking problems on sid
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:15:47 -0400, James Wiggs wrote: One of the boxes is experiencing network problems where it is incapable of connecting via certain protocols to certain hosts. For example, using Mozilla on the box, it connects to www.google.com and www.iso.org, but *not* to www.oasis-open.org or www.xml.org. Do you have ECN enabled (cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn shows 1) on the box where you're seeing problems? www.oasis-open.org is in the ENC Hall of Shame (http://urchin.earth.li/ecn/). HTH, Ray -- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but there's still a bug in there from last time. Pinky and the Brain in Das Mouse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software behind Debian's bug database
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 17:07:12 -0500, Nitebirdz wrote: Does anybody know what software is behind Debian's bug database? debbugs Is it available via apt-get so it can be used for other projects? Yes. HTH, Ray -- sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked with it will understand why. Seth Breidbart in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: courier-imap-ssl server disconnect error behind firewall
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:33:37 -0700, Vadik wrote: I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely no problem from home, but from the work I often get server disconnect error. I think that firewall at my work is a problem, but is there anything I can do (with courier or mozilla configuration) to fix it? If you're running sid (or perhaps sarge), it could just be http://bugs.debian.org/254731 ; try installing the 0.45.6-1 versions of the courier packages. HTH, Ray -- I think Microsoft should say, You'll get a check from Bill Gates every time you find an error. Donald Knuth, All Questions Answered, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix Install -- /usr/bin/ld: Cannot find -ldb
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 22:27:17 -0400, Arthur E. Conrad wrote: How do I fix this? You don't. Unless you know what you are doing (in which case it's highly unlikely you'd ask this question) you shouldn't install major system components like a mail transfer agent from source; you should be using the packaged version: apt-get install postfix postfix-doc. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them. Pinky and the Brain in Brain Meets Brawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Straw 0.23 LookupError
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 18:48:06 -0400, Titus Barik wrote: This is not a new problem in Debian/unstable, It is reported as http://bugs.debian.org/256700 . Are there any workarounds? Yes. Start it through env LC_ALL=C straw. HTH, Ray -- [...] computer source code, though unintelligible to many, is the preferred method of communication among computer programmers. http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=00a0117p.06 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnumeric in Testing.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:27:48 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: So, is it sick in testing, and the solution is on it's way, or do I have a local problem all of my own? Time to teach some fishing, I guess. Basically what you're asking seems to be am I experiencing a known bug?, the counter-question to which is have you checked out the Debian bugtracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/)? Ray -- Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnumeric broken in sarge ?
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:16:48 +0200, Tim Timmerman wrote: I did my usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last saturday, and discovered that gnumeric wouldn't run anymore. The only message printed is: Cannot allocate memory. Most likely the gnumeric process is being loaded against both gnutls7 and gnutls10. Sarge's base GNOME libraries are now GNOME 2.6 ones linked against gnutls10, but it still has a libgnomeprint linked against a libcupsys2 linked against gnutls7. I've tried rebuilding the package from scratch, and reinstalling it, but that didn't make any difference. That's because the problem isn't in gnumeric itself, but rather the result of a conflict among gnumeric's dependencies. Anyone have any suggestions ? If you can do without printing via CUPS, rm /usr/lib/libgnomeprint/2.4.2/modules/libgnomeprintcups.so, else - wait for the cupsys transition to happen in sarge (see http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gnumeric) or - install libcupsys2-gnutls10 and libgnomeprint2.2-0 from sid. HTH, Ray -- The software `wizard' is the single greatest obstacle to computer literacy since the Mac. http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MichaelKellen/MichaelKellen1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of new version?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 22:50:45 -0400, stan wrote: but I was wondering how far away the next stable release might be? As usual, a release will be made when it is ready. Currently, there are three major factors in readiness: 1. Procedural/legal. In April, the Debian Social Contract was modified [1]. These changes had consequences [2] for release management that weren't anticipated (and possibly not intended) by many of the voters. Currently a new General Resolution is being voted upon [3] which may undo or curtail those consequences. 2. Release-critical bugs [4] which need to be dealt with. 3. The availability of an installation system. Work is being done towards a release candidcate of the new Debian Installer [5]. Also will it ship with a 2.6 kernel? Beta 4 of the Debian Installer has experimental support for the 2.6 kernel on the i386 architecture. [6] HTH, Ray [1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/04/msg00074.html [3] http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ [5] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/04/msg00025.html -- Does Kibo SEE the FNORDS? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?)
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:08:59 -0400, Allen Williams wrote:
and, on console alt-F4, I am getting these error messages:
June 20 00:58:56 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdc: media error (bad sector):
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Is there anyplace that tells me how to decode these error messages?
The usual decoding is your disk is dying, hope you have a good backup. If
not, try to backup any data you want to keep NOW.
HTH,
Ray
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Re: gnu assembler
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 15:01:06 -0500, Rob Benton wrote: Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Look again. It's /usr/bin/as. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out? Pinky and the Brain in All You Need Is Narf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken cups in sid
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 16:18:29 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: On the other hand, checking library dependencies prior to such a change would be nice. Cups and KDE are a nice combination, I'm sorry that Debian unstable is the only Linux distribution right now that cannot handle both. AFAIK the maintainer responsible for kdelibs has been ill and is back now, so a rebuilt kdelibs for use with the current CUPS packages should be forthcoming. I thought the nightly whole system build thing would avoid problems like this, since everything has to be built with the same libraries as are then packaged? There is no `nightly whole system build thing'. HTH, Ray -- The Penguin Powered logos people love should really be Penguin Empowered. That, I think, is the best thing about Linux, too. We've given the computer back to the user. Alan Cox in http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/012.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: muttrc (alternates: unknown variable), fixes?
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:50:11 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Has anyone fixed this bug, other than commenting the alternates lines? Yes, those who have read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz . HTH, Ray -- Linux is many, many years away from being an enterprise-ready operating system that can compete with, and challenge, the Windows platform. There is also no vision or driving force around it. Doug Miller, Microsoft Windows Server Group, january 2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian on imac - compiling kernels
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:48:16 +1000, Mal Beaton wrote: I copied the old 2.4 config to the source of the 2.6.6 and did make oldconfig There have been many changes between 2.4 and 2.6 in how config options are named, how they depend on eachother, what the defaults are etc. A copied 2.4 config is unlikely to do the right thing with 2.6. Try taking the time to do a full, proper configuration of 2.6. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them. Pinky and the Brain in Brain Meets Brawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: one strange problem in mutt
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:35:58 +0200, bing yu wrote: when i attache a MS doc file in my outgoing mail. the doc file can display properly in mutt but mutt can not display doc when i got doc attachment from others. A typical cause is that those messages don't declare the proper MIME type for .doc files (application/msword) but use something generic/useless like application/octet-stream. HTH, Ray -- Do Microsoft's TCO calculations include TC of downtime? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clamd and exim4-daemon-heavy
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 13:26:55 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: since a while I have some troubles with `clamd' and `exim4-daemon-heavy' (testing): the `/var/log/exim4/mainlog' trace file contains error messages as: 2004-05-22 10:54:08 1BRSGd-0001Od-Kk malware acl condition: clamd: ClamAV returned /var/spool/exim4/scan/1BRSGd-0001Od-Kk: Can't access the file ERROR When clamd is run by `root' rather than by `clamav', everything works fine (but certainely unsafe). Any idea ? See http://bugs.debian.org/250335 for better solutions. HTH, Ray -- Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application. That task was surely harder than thinking of the technique. RMS on Amazon's 1-Click(R) patent, http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=13652 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres ident error
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 19:36:38 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I created a user in psql but now I can't log in as that user. I get an error psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user dbmail This implies that I need to have all my users for pgsql listed in both the /etc/passwd file and the postgres database. No. It implies you haven't set PostgreSQL's client authentication settings to ones you like. Or does postgres just us the /etc/passwd file for all of it's authentications? PostgreSQL doesn't care about /etc/passwd. The default client authentication settings care about what user is connecting to the database server through a UNIX socket. The relevant documentation is the Client Authentication chapter of the PostgreSQL documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/client-authentication.html HTH, Ray -- The free in free software refers to freedom, not price; specifically, that all computer users should have the freedom to study, change, and redistribute the software that they use. RMS in http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/stories/storyReader$664 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres ident error
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 14:46:34 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: PostgreSQL doesn't care about /etc/passwd. The default client authentication settings care about what user is connecting to the database server through a UNIX socket. Gee I must have missed something in the pg_hba configuration files. IDENT is clearly the only authentication model used and sockets are not used at all. In the default configuration Debian's PostgreSQL doesn't listen on TCP/IP sockets at all; it is only accessible locally through a Unix socket. And others have mentioned that the IDENT process usees the /etc/passwd files for the authentication. The ident authentication method does not imply the use of an ident server process. For local connections (the only connections available with the default configuration), the ident authentication method uses getsockopt(... SO_PEERCRED ...) and getpwuid(). Typically but not necessarily getpwuid() consults /etc/passwd. For TCP/IP connections (when enabled), the response given by the remote ident server is used. Ray -- People should never have been given free will. Lots of languages. Larry Wall on common fallacies of language design -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suexec path wrong?
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:49:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [2004-05-11 12:16:14]: error: command not in docroot (/home/site.tld/perltest.cgi) It is in the document root, No it isn't. its in the folder apacheis set up for that useer DocumentRoot, Sure, but suexec doesn't care about that. It cares about the DOC_ROOT setting it's been compiled for, which is /var/www in Debian. HTH, Ray -- Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor. Dilbert in http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20010107.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about debian-update-3.0r1-i386.iso
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 15:22:31 +0200, Jeremie.Viel wrote: Is she compatible with Ipv6 protocole Not in a meaningful way, no. At http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-stable you can read about Debian's release process. 3.0r1 is a point release of the current stable Debian release, 3.0. IPv6 support is being worked on in the unstable branch. http://debdev.fabbione.net/cgi-bin/getstats contains details about the status of IPv6 support in the unstable branch; the debian-ipv6 mailing list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-ipv6/) is the most appropriate discussion forum regaring IPv6 issues in Debian. HTH, Ray -- To this day we are still wondering what exactly it is, besides prices, that Microsoft has innovated. Seen on segfault.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: First Debian install was a fiasco
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 17:02:09 +0200, Tim wrote: I'm new to Debian and have some questions. I didn't know how to find out which version of a package was in which branch. I still don't know how to do it, apt-cache policy packagename but I decided to be brave and install KDE 3.2.x, so I went apt-get -t unstable install kde The name unstable is meant to convey amongst other things that it is not meant for new users. and hell started. Hmm... there must be a nice Hellraiser metaphor in this. After some forcing and trial and error, I know this is not the way to do it, but I still don't know what is. Can anybody tell me what I did wrong Trying to use unstable as a new user. and what I should do? Try to run testing perhaps. Or stick with stable a little while longer until you feel more confident using the package management system. Read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html and reconsider if hell started is the kind of feedback that helps developers to improve the system so that others will have a better experience in the future. HTH, Ray -- LWN normally tries to avoid talking much about Microsoft - it is simply irrelevant to the free software world most of the time. http://www.lwn.net/2000/0406/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:36:01 -0700, Alain wrote: I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address. 'Your server 8.155-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.155.8] is listed by the blacklist dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. Please contact your Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider. (http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/DUL-FAQ .html)' I contacted my ISP to ask him to remove the block of ip addresses from the blacklist server but it does not seem to progress well. If you don't have a static IP address, the block of ip addresses you're in fits the criteria for inclusion in the DUHL, so I see no reason why it should be removed. I suppose I should be able to resolve this issue by a proper Exim configuration. I see no reason to assume there is anything improper as such about your Exim configuration. It just happens to fit the criteria on which some recipient system decline to accept mail from you. As I am able to send email messages from another PC using Outlook Express without having such a problem, Presumably that setup is configured to deliver mail to an SMTP server run by your ISP who redistributes it on your behalf. You can set up exim that way too. The keyword you're looking for is smarthost, which is the ISP's SMTP server that will relay mail on your behalf. HTH, Ray -- The free in free software refers to freedom, not price; specifically, that all computer users should have the freedom to study, change, and redistribute the software that they use. RMS in http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/stories/storyReader$664 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailman and Exim configuration
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 18:26:28 -0600, Harley Pebley wrote: Everything is from latest stable branch: For a serious list setup, I'd recommend using newer versions of mailman and exim. Switching to Exim4 really is worth the trouble. # Exim4 backport deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/ # GnuTLS backports needed for tls-enabled exim4 deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/ # Mailman backport - I get clamav spamassassin razor as well here so I can # drop spam and virus messages easily. deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable mailman HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sessions disappeared in the GDM menu!
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 13:48:44 +, Adam Funk wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade and now the GDM sessions menu has been cut down to Default (which is KDM), Failsafe GNOME and Failsafe something else. /etc/gdm/Sessions still contains all the previous launch scripts but GDM is ignoring them. Why, and how do I fix this (preferably quickly)? See http://bugs.debian.org/241096 . HTH, Ray -- Sexual paranoia: did I once unknowingly sleep with THEM? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gdm restarts every 20 minutes: why?
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:48:11 -0800, Nick Jacobs wrote: If there is no user activity, gdm restarts every 20 minutes, killing the current local session. I'm not running a screensaver. Sounds like your X server has DPMS (Energy Star) enabled but crashes on it. Check with xset q and try if disabling it using xset -dpms helps. HTH, Ray -- The proper place for a CAPSLOCK key is in a different hemisphere from you. Tom Christiansen in Interface Zen, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/30/0954216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: decrypting vob files in unstable
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:37:04 +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I searched on internet and found that transcode can decrypt vob files copied from DVDs. But I could not find the package in Debian/unstable. Is there any package in Debian/unstble for dectrypting vob files? No, because of the legal issues surrounding the decryption algorithm. Unofficial packages are available from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/index.html There are very recent positive developments regarding the legal issues surrounding DeCSS [1,2], but it is still not clear if the Debian project can ship it without major legal risks [3]. HTH, Ray [1] Court Overturns Ban on Posting DVD Descrambling Code, Finding a Free-Speech Violation, Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory, http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20040227_eff_pr.php [2] DeCSS Trade Secret Case Comes to an End - Again, Slashdot discussion, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/27/2123206 [3] Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip] discussion thread on debian-legal, starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg00082.html -- TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is because the pictures are a distraction which demand attention, and it's not as good as cinema because the pictures are not nearly as good. Douglas Adams in http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/21/1217242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 21:02:41 +0800, csj wrote: I see a doxygen *++-related bug, but so far the version of doxygen in unstable is still the same as the one in testing. Around the time you wrote this, there was a new version of doxygen uploaded by the gcc maintainer as a non-maintainer upload; that version (1.3.6.20040222-0.1) is now in unstable; its changelog includes Fixing termination problems in 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 (closes: #232598). Ray -- The software `wizard' is the single greatest obstacle to computer literacy since the Mac. http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MichaelKellen/MichaelKellen1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strong encryption in Mozilla
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:27:59 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: Does the Debian version of Mozilla support strong (128 bit) encryption? As long as you ensure mozilla-psm is installed as well, yes. HTH, Ray -- USDoJ/Judge Jackson: Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. James Turinsky in alt.sysadmin.recovery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get upgrade (stable to testing) 151 packages held back
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:44:57 -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade supposedly makes more sense when upgrading between releases. I'd --dry-run it first though. HTH, Ray -- Would you rather be root or reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Info vs Man
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 13:10:51 -0600, Kent West wrote: At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go with info pages instead of man pages? Some of the other hits seemed to imply that man pages were better, although there was no definitive explanation as to why (or why not). Anyone have any insight on this question? The man format is a suitable format for reference documentation of software that isn't too complex. If a manpage is larger that say 15 to 20 physical pages, the lack of structure (or if you will, the rigidity of the sequential section structure) becomes annoying for readers. The GNU info format is a hypertext format; it allows documentation to have more structure, both hierarchical (sections, chapters, appendices etc.) and non-hierarchical (cross-references, footnotes). This allows it to be an acceptable format for larger pieces of documentation, such as documentation of more complex programs or applications and for tutorial documentation. Take the GNU C library as an example. It ships with extensive documentation in info format; last time I checked corresponding to over 750 A4 pages. Now imagine all that information in a manpage, and having to use a regular pager to find stuff in it... The GNU C library is also documented through manpages (from the Linux manpages project). Those are short, to the point, and are good for reference purposes. They're useless if you want to learn what the C library can do for you, but they're great if you're just looking up what header file provides the function you want to use. If I were to write up some documentation for some application, would I want to create it as a man page, or an info page, or as both, or as some higher(/lower)-level format that then gets converted (by me/by viewer tools?), what? I'd say that depends on the type of documentation you want to create (tutorial or reference) and on the level of formatting control you feel you need to exert. If you're not a format control freak, a format like DocBook XML or SGML may well be what you want: a high-level, easy to create and easy to read as source format that can be converted to lots of things (DVI, PDF, PS, plain text, HTML + stylesheets, RTF and manpages). If you consider lazyness a virtue, perl's POD (Plain Old Documentation) is a very easy to learn format that can be converted to acceptible manpages, HTML, plain text or DVI/PS/PDF. If you are a format control freak, the best format to write manpages in is directly in *roff and the best format to generate info from is TeXinfo. HTH, Ray -- AJ: Geeez, Erwin. He wasn't even ARMED. Erwin: I don't care. I have lots of ammo and he was wearing a TIE. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010209 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: complete vs. detached GPG signatures
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 22:21:43 +, Pigeon wrote: Anyone care to explain, or point me to an explanation of, the difference between a complete and detached GPG signature? Complete signature: original file -- signing process -- modified file containing both the original information and the signature. Detached signature: original file -- signing process -- original file + separate signature file HTH, Ray -- Professionele hackers kunnen uw bedrijf veel schade berokkenen. Snail-mail spam van het Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:17:26 -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: What generates .bashrc and .bash_profile for each new user? adduser(1) by copying from /etc/skel/ . Is it something I can alter so it writes them the way I want them? Edit the skeleton files in /etc/skel/ . (They're marked as conffiles so the package management system will not accidentally overwrite your changes). HTH, Ray -- Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .bashrc .bash_profile - created from?
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:36:41 -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: When the system copies those files for a new user, they're all owned by root:root. That's sounds like a bug. Please file a report using reportbug. Ray -- People don't respond to any events as real people facing events would. Otherwise, only one company would ever have installed Microsloth software. Paul Tomko in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:30:48 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or secure nfs session? There are several approaches: - Establish a VPN connection (e.g. FreeS/WAN IPSec, or tinc) between the hosts and route your NFS traffic over it. This is probably the most straightforward and mature option. - Look into NFSv3 over secure RPC. - Look into NFSv4. - Use a different network filesystem that has encrypted connections builtin. I'm not familiar with them; you may want to look at openafs, tcfs, intermezzo, and coda. I would like to be able to mount a faraway (debian) machine with confidence of not being observed. Any ideas? Encryption is used to scramble your traffic. It's still observable that you're communicating with the remote machine, just the traffic itself is being secured against unauthorised eyes. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them. Pinky and the Brain in Brain Meets Brawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: update from stable to testing ?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:36:41 -0500, Andy Firman wrote: When will Exim4 be in either unstable or testing? Both sarge and sid have had Exim 4 packages for quite some time now. There have been some large changes between Exim 3 and 4 which made it undesirable to package Exim 4 as exim. Exim 4 is packaged as source package exim4 and binary packages exim4-base, exim4-config, exim4-daemon-light, exim4-daemon-heavy, eximon4 and the metapackage exim4. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install woody with Adaptec i2o hardware raid card?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:46:43 +, Sam Bashton wrote: Does anyone have any hints on installing Woody onto a machine with the Adaptec SCSI i2o RAID controller? I've tried both the standard 2.2 kernel and the bf2.4 but neither seem to haev drivers for the controller. Is there an easy way I can get this working? That depends on your definition of easy. It looks like someone already made custom floppies: http://silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/debianbf/ . When I installed my system (Adapted IDE i2o RAID, not that that makes much difference), I did a minimal install on separate disk (attached to the regular IDE controller), installed what I needed to build a kernel that did support the card, booted with that kernel and then cloned the install from the separate disk onto RAID. HTH, Ray -- NATUURLIJK krijg je er geen signaal doorheen - het is *dark* fibre. jtv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgresql and domain sockets
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:01:26 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: What have I missed? ( postgresql 7.3.4-9 on unstable ) postgresql-client 7.3.4-9 as well? I just installed this package. When I try to do, well, anything, it says: psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.0? Here's what *is* in the directory after firing up the app: home:~# ls -l /var/run/postgresql/ total 4.0K srwxrwxrwx1 postgres postgres0 Dec 15 00:38 .s.PGSQL.5432= -rw---1 postgres postgres 28 Dec 15 00:38 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock This suggests that the database backend is present and listens on the default port (5432). I see no .s.PGSQL.0, so I guess the obvious question is, how do I get one? The obvious question isn't always the right one. The right one is most likely: why is psql looking for /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.0 rather than /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432?. The socket name encodes the port number, so you may want to try if setting the port number explictly helps: psql --port 5432 template1 If that helps then you may want to check if/why you have the PGPORT environment variable set. (I can recreate the behaviour you're seeing when I set PGPORT to 0 or to a non-numeric value) HTH, Ray -- I think the most important thing about Linux is that it gives people the ability to do what they want. Alan Cox in http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/012.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -- (rtf, doc) What's the best route?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:31:50 -0500, Antonio Rodr wrote: I am trying to convert some pure text pdf file of a spanish text to doc for a friend, Well, in both cases the problem is the existence of accented letters and other non english characters in the text. With catdvi you have control over the output encoding (character set), One of the supported encodings should be suitable for import into e.g. abiword or ted. HTH, Ray -- LWN normally tries to avoid talking much about Microsoft - it is simply irrelevant to the free software world most of the time. http://www.lwn.net/2000/0406/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 14:08:21 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely usable, but google seems to disagree. Google isn't quite the all-seeing eye yet. http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp has e.g. the PDF Reference, Fourth Edition, Version 1.5 (1172 pages). xpdf seems to handle the Acrobat 5 version of it just fine. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:45 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: I accessed this without registering because you provided a deep-link, but normally, Adobe makes you go through a forms process to get this far, AFAICT. Nope. I very vaguely recalled it being available on developer.adobe.com (which I've never accessed from the machine I'm currently on). Using that as a URL, I get some silly select your region page which has a top bar that includes Products Technology. Follow that, select Adobe PDF reference manual (under Core technologies) et voila. Ray -- Signs of world domination: Tonight on Celebrity Deathmatch: Tux takes on the BSD daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command: ip
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 20:35:49 +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? In iproute. -- Linux is many, many years away from being an enterprise-ready operating system that can compete with, and challenge, the Windows platform. There is also no vision or driving force around it. Doug Miller, Microsoft Windows Server Group, january 2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Executing code once on initialization of a .so file
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:37:57 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: Is it possible to include code in a .so that gets executed only once on initialization of a shared lib? AFAIK yes. The ELF binary format has a .init section for that purpose; see http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/lu95elf.html . If so, how can I do this (provided I use gcc -fPIC to compile the stuff and gcc -shared to link it together). I don't have an example handy, unfortunately. HTH, Ray -- Brought to you by Microsoft .NOT technology: just say No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:51:14 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Wichert's post about the Debian hacked machines and the integer overflow in the Kernel talks about the 2.4.18 source package being updated. But my machines are all using the package: kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.20 with Debian patches Read up on http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing . AFAICT kernel-source-2.4.20 isn't a woody package. Presumably it will be fixed when incoming opens again. So how would I get this patch? I'd go for building kernel images from the kernel.org 2.4.23 sources using kernel-package's make-kpkg. HTH, Ray -- UNIX is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker culture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. Doc Searls in The Morlock Market, Linux Journal, January 2001. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert ext2 to ext3?
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:42:00 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: I'm in the process of putting Debian on my test-system, and I noticed that the filesystem defaults to ext2. Is there an easy way to nondestructively convert to ext3? Yes. tune2fs -j as documented in tune2fs(8). HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the Seven Samuri? Pinky and the Brain in Big in Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody and aic7xxx SCSI driver problem
[Please drop the bandwidthwasting disclaimer. This is a public mailing list] On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 13:37:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an IBM x330 server with an Adaptec AIC-78929 SCSI controller that I want to install Woody on. When I boot from the install CD, it does not recognize that the server has any disk drives. I've tried booting from the compact kernel (which is supposed to have the needed aic7xxx.o module) with no success. I've also tried the bf24 kernel and the default idepci kernel--unsuccessfully. I've had similar problems with one machine; its SCSI controller wasn't being recognised when I booted a kernel I built myself (one with ACPI enabled). Booting with acpi=off caused it to be found again. When I boot the server from a Knoppix CD, it finds the drives and uses the aic7xxx.o module as a driver. IIRC, the Knoppix CD includes scripts which make it easy to use it as an installer for Debian. I don't know if that's feasible for woody, and there may be some knoppix-specific leftovers. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling openafs-modules under 2.4.22
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 15:04:50 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Has anyone accomplished the above? I get a compile error, whether I use
make-kpkg modules_image or a by-hand make in /usr/src/modules/openafs. The
Error reads (in part):
In file included from /usr/include/asm/smp.h:11,
from /usr/include/linux/smp.h:17,
This looks wrong. /usr/include/{asm,linux} contain the headers for the
kernel against which libc is built (for sid, those are now of a 2.6.0
prerelease). For kernel module source, I'd expect to see the current kernel
source's includes being used.
Ray
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Re: spam microsoft
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 23:20:04 +, Robin Gerard wrote: microsoft sends me five spam Please learn how SMTP works and how easy it is to forge mail. It is extremely unlikely that these messages originated with Microsoft. of 160 000 bytes in my box That's a fairly typical size for a virus message. and when I run host I receive the message: address not exists. Definitely sounds like a virus. If the adress exists I put it in my file hosts.allow but without success. I don't know if smtp-refuser works fine ? Looking at its description, smtp-refuser doesn't strike me as very useful. Viruses can come from all over the net, and spammers nowadays often control numerous IP addresses from which they distrubte their garbage. If you administer your own SMTP server, there are several effective methods to deal with spam and virus/worm mail. I've personally switched to exim4 with the exiscan patch (package exim4-daemon-heavy), configured it to block certain extensions (e.g. .exe, .bat, .pif), run messages through ClamAV and SpamAssasin. With this setup, most of the crap sent to me never gets delivered, but gets refused at SMTP time. HTH, Ray -- A.O.L.. C.I.A.. NSA. Whatever. They all have three letters. They all collect information. And they all screw the public. Evil Crud Puppy in http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00feb/2210.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim/cyrus problem after upgrade
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:56:42 +, steve downes wrote: Exim passes mail to cyrus ( it is doing that despite the bounce messages) it is sending out bounce messages as shown below. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ld.so: Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno or h_errno directly. ld.so: See /usr/share/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz. -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/219584 which is fixed in cyrus-imapd 1.5.19-15 which isn't in testing yet (see http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=cyrus-imapd). HTH, Ray -- Linux is many, many years away from being an enterprise-ready operating system that can compete with, and challenge, the Windows platform. There is also no vision or driving force around it. Doug Miller, Microsoft Windows Server Group, january 2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with exim-tls
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:39:54 -0800, John Schofield wrote: Sorry, didn't give enough detail in the original message. I'm trying to connect to Exim-tls from my mail client (mail.app on OS X) via SMTP (using SSL) in order to send messages. That's what's not working. Where would those failures be logged? Check the log files in /var/log/exim/, in particular panic.log and error.log. If mail.app is connecting to the right port (25 [*]), you should find some reference to that there. A common cause of SSL connections failing is not having generated and configured the certificate and key files properly. HTH, Ray [*] With some protocols, a separate port is used for [protocol] over SSL. exim-tls doesn't do that. Connections go over the regular SMTP port (25) and -- NATUURLIJK krijg je er geen signaal doorheen - het is *dark* fibre. jtv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sociological question about Debian, GNU, and Linux
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:09:08 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:36:50PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: The recent discussions of Red Hat's change of policy got me thinking about the larger issue of what makes the Debian, GNU, and Linux communities work? Yes, I have read lots of opinions, but I wonder if anyone knows of some proper academic people studies, the sort of thing that might legitimately get published in a referred journal of sociology or anthropology? A couple of people have done studies of the Debian community, [Biella Coleman, Chip McCormick] Others include Ruben van Wendel de Joode (http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/webstaf/rubenw/) who has several articles online and Gaby Rasters (http://home01.wxs.nl/~rasters/index.htm) whose PhD thesis is in its final stages of preparation. Also, the online journal First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.dk/) has published several papers in this area. HTH, Ray -- I've just been spammed by gardening-online.co.uk - now i'm wondering if Agent Orange is licensed for use against spammers? Tanuki the Raccoon-dog in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with exim-tls
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:25:14 -0800, John Schofield wrote: First off, I'm trying to get secure POP, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP set up on a Woody box. The easiest path I've found seems to be installing exim-tls. It installs correctly, but I can't seem to connect to it from my mail reader. Exim is a MTA with some MDA functionality. (MTA == Mail Transfer Agent, a system that handles SMTP; MDA == Mail Delivery Agent, a system that delivers mail into mailboxes) It is not a POP3 or IMAP server. There's nothing in exim for a mail reader to connect to. A typical Unix mail reader access mailboxes through the filesystem and uses the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary to send out mail on its behalf. If you want to use a remote mail reader which accesses your mailboxes through (secure) POP3 or IMAP, you need to install a daemon that serves those protocols (for example, Courier), and to configure it to cooperate with exim (have exim deliver received mail where your POP3 or IMAP server expects to find it). HTH, Ray -- I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities dryer lint to various publishers, but nobody wants to publish a book written by a leader of mexican food, and starring a hero named Litmus VanCenturfuge and his sidekick Pipet Jerks.- CmdrTaco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge release date
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:10:56 -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! When is sarge release date? When it is ready. For more information, follow the debian-release list and http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . This really ought to be in the FAQ. Ray -- Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application. That task was surely harder than thinking of the technique. RMS on Amazon's 1-Click(R) patent, http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=13652 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - Read this line, you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots of people very happy - so they have no excuse? :-) I block viruses at SMTP time using exim, by scanning with clamav. I'm not sure you can do so with stock exim though - I rely on the exiscan-acl patch from http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/ as included in Debian's exim-daemon-heavy package. You may want to point your ISP to the materials at http://marc.merlins.org/ (linux - exim) which include a very thorough exim.conf which is well-documented. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but who wants to see Snow White and the Seven Samuri? Pinky and the Brain in Big in Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim4 and MailDir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to this poor soul. One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite of it's exim4 installation. That command can be used when creating a Maildir tree by hand or from a script. It's not needed to get exim4 to deliver in Maildir format. I'm obviously missing something obvious here - does one simply enable maildir support in Exim4 and restart the daemon, Yes; you need to set the maildir_format option to true in the relevant transport, as detailed at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec_25.html#IX1874 . and it will automagically create the maildir hierarchies? Yes. HTH, Ray -- USDoJ/Judge Jackson: Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. James Turinsky in alt.sysadmin.recovery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1
[Please do not use HTML in email; see e.g. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml] On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 13:54:07 +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in fact. Unfortunately my computer bios only provides boot facility from either my A or C Drives is there any possibility for me to boot up the Debian/Linux Program through MS-DOS operating system. Yes. This is covered in the Booting from a CD-ROM section of the Installation Manual; http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd HTH, Ray -- When you are finished spreading joy on Christmas Eve, come and kick back with me and Erwin for a while. [...] We'll provide the cocoa and cookies, and we'll even teach you how to play Quake. From the Dust Puppy's letter to Santa Claus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pretty hard copies of info, man pages.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:56:01 -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: Could someone provide some example of the sequence to get some nice (dvi, ps, html, whatever) file of the info pages? There's an info2www CGI script to convert to HTML. For DVI and PS, info is not the appropriate format to start from. .info is an output format optimised for text terminals. To get pretty hardcopies, the right place to start is the texinfo sources (.texi files) from which the .info files were generated. Those are typically found in the Debian source package, and you may need to configure the source package to some degree before you can generate DVI or PS from them. Supposedly, the same info source files are used to generate either output, but no for me. The same _TeXinfo_ source files (.texi, not .info) can be used to generate both .info files and .dvi or .ps files. HTH, Ray -- People should never have been given free will. Lots of languages. Larry Wall on common fallacies of language design -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome2 program requirements
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:00:34 -0700, Michael Montagne wrote: I'm recently running into issues with certain gnome2 apps (maybe all) installed from unstable (specifically gnumeric). I get an error that says an error occurred when saving my configuration information... The details portion of the dialogue yields this: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: Is there a daemon that must be running or some other package to be installed? Yes, /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 from the gconf2 package. GNOME2 binaries will start it up for you, when needed, if it's available. HTH, Ray -- Linux is many, many years away from being an enterprise-ready operating system that can compete with, and challenge, the Windows platform. There is also no vision or driving force around it. Doug Miller, Microsoft Windows Server Group, january 2001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim exposed to the internet
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 17:12:43 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: So I decided to run eximconfig and upgraded my mail server to not use a smarthost. Works perfectly! I still have port 25 closed on my server, however. Can I just open it Perhaps you should first ask yourself why you would want to have it open. Is there a specific need for this system to receive mail from the outside world using SMTP? If so, you need to have it open. If not, there is no reason to give a cracker, or a piece of malware another potential point of entry into your system. or are there things to worry about? With a security hat on, there are always things to worry about. It's a matter of degree. Exim has a very good security track record compared to e.g. sendmail, but (potential) issues have been found and fixed (see http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-376). I'm happily using exim3 and exim4 on woody and sid systems. Still, on systems that don't need a full-blown MTA, I use ssmtp (as it is much smaller and simpler) and on systems that need a more complete MTA but don't need to receive mail, I use exim listening on localhost only. HTH, Ray -- We do not worry about Microsoft developing Open Source applications. Their revenue stream is based on a heroin addiction of selling ever more software. Red Hat's Bob Young quoted in http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11321.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mutt header display question
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in the shell it
showed as
AmikaGuardian (TM) Server [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So now I understand why my filter wasn't working. Can someone explain to
me why mutt's display omitted the parenthesized bit?
I guess it's because its address parser got confused. IIRC, that From: value
is invalid (this is probably in RFC2821). There are two standard formats for
email addresses:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Real Name)
(i.e. `(' ... `)' is a comment)
and
Real Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(With edit_hdrs set, you can experiment with mutt's handling of them - it'll
show you mutt converts everything to the second format.)
With the latter format, with certain characters, like `(' and `)' quotes are
needed.
From: AmikaGuardian (TM) Server [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is incorrect; it should be
From: AmikaGuardian (TM) Server [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the distribution prior to the current stable oen. Current stable (woody) supports installation on ReiserFS. Just boot the bf24 kernel rather than the linux (2.2) one. Givne that I wnat to wind up with testing installed, whats the best way to do this? Do be sure to read the Debian Security FAQ entry about testing to see if that's really what you want. But if it is, just install a minimal stable system, adjust /etc/apt/sources.list to testing and upgrade. HTH, Ray -- I'm having trouble keeping my clever schemes separate from my sarcasm. Wally -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgres
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 18:17:24 -0600, Dan Roscoe wrote: Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user dan in /var/www/boards/db/postgres7.php on line 79 phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database which would lead someone to think that Postgres is not running, No. It should lead someone to think that Postgres is running, but is refusing the connection attempt on the basis of its access control settings in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf; possibly because you haven't installed an identd (which the postgresql package Suggests:). HTH, Ray -- Text processing doesn't matter. Fortran. Larry Wall on common fallacies of language design -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 15:32:38 +0900, Bengt Thure'e wrote: I have a small girl at home (1 year old) who is fascinating with a Pippi Longstocking game (with loads of various sound and visual effects) which she loves, but it is for Windows. The highlight in this program is the room with people playing music and dancing. I am wondering if there is something like this for the Linux (Debian) environment? Most of the CBeebies website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/) runs fine in e.g. Galeon, provided you install the relevant plugins, in particular the Flash plugin. HTH, Ray -- A.O.L.. C.I.A.. NSA. Whatever. They all have three letters. They all collect information. And they all screw the public. Evil Crud Puppy in http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00feb/2210.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default keymap
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 16:25:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I change the default keymap to be loaded at boot? I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure console-tools and change from us to se keymap, but still I get the us keymap loaded during boot. Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow console-tools console-data console-common HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot find libncurses
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to have the ncurses development files installed; apt-get install libncurses5-dev should do that for you. HTH, Ray -- I've just been spammed by gardening-online.co.uk - now i'm wondering if Agent Orange is licensed for use against spammers? Tanuki the Raccoon-dog in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS version 3?
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 14:26:26 -0400, stan wrote: How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? NFSv3 should work fine with Debian 3.0 (stable, woody). It might be necessary to build a recent 2.4.x kernel from source though. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out? Pinky and the Brain in All You Need Is Narf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: razor report not working -- please help
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:13:19 -0400, John Covici wrote: replying with nsl=razor2 report failed: No such file or direc\tory Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/Razor2/Client/Config.pm line 404, GEN0 line 1. The Debian 'razor' package needs to have a patch applied to it; the patch can be found through http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=showfile=faq02.006.htp There's a bug report filed for this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/211097 . HTH, Ray -- What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not 'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 20:04:54 -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: So I just patched the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose to include any order (for all key compositions). i'd like to send the fix to the proper debian maintainer(s). How do I find this out ? dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose will tell you to which package that file belongs; with that info, you can do reportbug packagename and it'll go to the right place. HTH, Ray -- dit heerst jennifer lopez op tv geluid uit en marilyn uit m'n speakers :) Typh op #cistron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lapack libraries
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:54:15 +0100, Simon Tod wrote: I was kinda expecting this in install Fortran libraries with names like liblapack.a .a files are static libraries. that I could just link to at compile time, but I don't, only lapack.so and lapack.so.2 (maybe they have a 'lib' in front, I forget!) .so files are dynamic libraries. Try using g77 -o prog foo.o bar.o -lbaz rather than g77 -o prog foo.o bar.o /usr/lib/libbaz.a and things will work fine for both static and dynamic libraries. HTH, Ray -- NATUURLIJK krijg je er geen signaal doorheen - het is *dark* fibre. jtv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xfree86: problem setting resolution with MGA G550
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 15:19:47 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: So, my question is quite simple: how can I get my box to provide an X-Interface at 1280x1024? Or what do I have to change to make it work? Configure appropriate HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges in the Section Monitor. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable,gnumeric text import
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 14:32:38 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not appear. I'm behind an X-less box right now, so I can't properly check, but hasn't it moved to Data - Get External Data - Import Text File? (If not, using File - Open should allow you to configure enough for most text import uses) Ray -- The free in free software refers to freedom, not price; specifically, that all computer users should have the freedom to study, change, and redistribute the software that they use. RMS in http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/stories/storyReader$664 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is libmcrypt.la ?
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 15:42:51 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: He is looking for libmcrypt.a but what is there is libmcrypt.la which comes from package libmcrypt4 (testing). First time I hear of the .la extension. What is it? As it says on its first line: # libmcrypt.la - a libtool library file. .la files contain information used when linking libraries or binaries using libtool. HTH, Ray -- No longer will we mistake music for a noun, as its containers have tempted us to do for a century. We will realize once more that music is a verb, a relationship, a constantly evolving life form. John Perry Barlow in http://technocrat.net/958163435/index_html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim-tls and exim
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 15:09:52 +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: webdev:/etc/exim# dpkg --list| grep exim rc exim 3.35-1 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) ii exim-tls 3.35-3 Exim Mailer - with TLS (SSL) support I just remove my exim app using dselect and installed the exim-tls app. I tried on outlook to add ssl support when sending but it gives me error that my exim dont have ssl support, what is the best way to test and configure it? Start by reading the relevant documentation, http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html#SEC785 then generate the necessary certificates following http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html#SEC789 adjust your /etc/exim/exim.conf, reload/restart and read the log files carefully. HTH, Ray -- When you are finished spreading joy on Christmas Eve, come and kick back with me and Erwin for a while. [...] We'll provide the cocoa and cookies, and we'll even teach you how to play Quake. From the Dust Puppy's letter to Santa Claus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro 100S driver
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:01:55 -0500, Jay Latham wrote: I want to install woody on a IBM xseries 200 server. The integrated nic is a Intel Pro/100 S. I don't see a driver listed for it so I was wondering if there was a generic driver listed on the install cd that would work. Try the eepro100 driver. HTH, Ray -- Where do you want to go today? Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netastat errors
Please do not start new threads by replying to messages from existing threads. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 13:06:29 -0400, Gabriel Jeffrey wrote: ..Starting AppleTalk services (this will take a while): socket: Address family not supported by protocol This typically means that the kernel you're running has not been compiled with support for the relevant address family (in this case, AppleTalk), or that support is only available in a module which hasn't been loaded. Try with a kernel compiled with CONFIG_ATALK=y . HTH, Ray -- Subtlety is fine. It might warrant a comment, though. Linus Torvalds in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing a Debian server
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:26:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? The Debian project does not, though undoubtedly you can find consultants familiar with Debian who do. See http://www.debian.org/support for details about the available support resources. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so, Brain, but Snowball for Windows? Pinky and the Brain in Snowball -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sshd start weirdness
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:33:54 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: (And, what's that Address family not supported message saying?) sshd was built to support IPv6, but your system isn't configured as an IPv6 host, and quite likely your kernel doesn't have IPv6 support. HTH, Ray -- People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. Linus Torvalds on the linux-kernel list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why are passwords in /etc?
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 14:37:31 -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: This may be a silly question: Why is /etc/shadow in /etc? Because of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-fhs and http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-3.4.html HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cisco router simulator?
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:34:36 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm currently working on my CCNA and I'm wondering if anybody's found a good cisco ios simulator for unix. Zebra might be helpful, though opinions vary as to how similar its command language is to IOS; see e.g. http://honor.trusecure.com/pipermail/firewall-wizards/2001-April/010546.html HTH, Ray -- A Microsoft Certified System Engineer is to information technology as a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to the culinary arts. Michael Bacarella commenting on the limited value of certification. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convenient way to UN-install build deps
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:19:34 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: If I want to install the build-dependencies of a package (to build my own copy with a patch), I run apt-get build-dep package name. That's OK. But how do I get rid of them? If you have the resources for it, pbuilder is probably a much more comfortable way of dealing with this. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but instant karma always gets so lumpy. Pinky and the Brain in Brainwashed Part 3: Wash Harder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tethereal warning message
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 16:51:49 +0530, K S Sreeram wrote: ks:~# tethereal tethereal: Symbol `pcap_version' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Is this warning message because of a bug in debian? More like a potential bug - AFAIK the different symbol size doesn't actually seem to cause problems in this case. It has been dealt with in unstable as of 0.9.12-3. HTH, Ray -- Would you rather be root or reboot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] IBM clicky keyboards (was Re: ergonomic setups)
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 19:21:08 +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:10:31PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: After all, your employer is much more likely to get you a comfortable keyboard than a new, ergonomically designed office setup... Where from? The only genuine IBM clicky keyboard I've seen for ages and ages and ages is the one I'm typing this on, which I pulled out of a skip... (Thank you, Lord, for skips.) At least one online store still offers them, by part number if needed. See http://www.pckeyboard.com/ibmlist.html, which includes the model I'm typing on (1396790). HTH, Ray -- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but there's still a bug in there from last time. Pinky and the Brain in Das Mouse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling pan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 19:49:49 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: I tried to compile pan 0.13.4, but got a configure error saying that it couldn't find gnet = 1.1.5 so I installed the unstable version 1.1.7-3. However configure still gives the same error, and also complains about not finding gnet-config. There doesn't seem to be a gnet-config on my system, do I have to create it, or should it come with the package? It comes with the -dev package. Most likely you haven't installed libgnet-dev yet. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain, but instant karma always gets so lumpy. Pinky and the Brain in Brainwashed Part 3: Wash Harder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of updates!
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 14:22:51 +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: I haven't done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' for about a month, Which means you probably haven't noticed the percolation of a newer glibc from sid to sarge; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=920 . ronaldace:/home/ronald# apt-get dist-upgrade -u The following packages will be REMOVED: fetchmail-common The following NEW packages will be installed: gcc-3.2-base The following packages will be upgraded fetchmail fetchmailconf But, for example, I don't know why my system wants to get rid of fetchmail It doesn't. It wants to remove fetchmail-common, but wants to upgrade fetchmail as well. Looks like the fetchmail maintainer did some reorganisation, perhaps moving fetchmail-common's files into the main fetchmail package. and install gcc 3.2. It's now the standard compiler. Please let me know if this is a normal thing Looks like it. HTH, Ray -- I'd rather not work with people who aren't careful. It's darwinism in software development. Linus Torvalds on the linux-kernel list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4/libc6 problems
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 17:16:58 +0200, Barak Korren wrote: When I updated my system a few days ago, and got my libc6 updated to version 2.3.1-14, I noticed that php4 and all dependent packages were removed from my system, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200303/msg6.html HTH, Ray -- Signs of world domination: Tonight on Celebrity Deathmatch: Tux takes on the BSD daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
