Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:14 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that > contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as > a spam message, or as any other sort of communication. I think I have > found what is going on: > > The email *does* contain a message. It is contained in a .gif or .png > or other image format file. These are not pictures of naked ladies, > but images of text that touts various penny stocks. If I didn't use > mutt, I might not have had so much puzzlement over them. I suppose > with Outlook all the user sees is the image, which is clearly spam, > but the user doesn't see what the spam filter sees, so, it seems, no > amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are > there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? Actually, I've been seeing the same sort of spam. Thus far, no matter how much I classify it as junk, spamassassin really has not done well picking it up as junk. These penny stock sma messages have been getting through with regularity. I wonder if continually classifying them as spam (manually) can throw off the filter because of the "legitimate" text that shows up below the penny-stock gif? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. PGP Key Id: 9E1125E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Where did the ethereal binary go?
Bill Moseley wrote: > $ apt-cache policy ethereal > ethereal: > Installed: 0.99.2-4 > Candidate: 0.99.2-4 > Version table: > *** 0.99.2-4 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=ethereal&version=unstable&arch=i386 > > > FILE PACKAGE > usr/bin/ethereal net/ethereal > > > $ rm -rf ether > > $ dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/ethereal_0.99.2-4_i386.deb ether > > $ find ether > ether > ether/usr > ether/usr/share > ether/usr/share/doc > ether/usr/share/doc/ethereal > ether/usr/share/doc/ethereal/copyright > ether/usr/share/doc/ethereal/changelog.gz > ether/usr/share/doc/ethereal/changelog.Debian.gz > > Did the binary get moved someplace else? Ethereal's name was recently changed to wireshark. The ethereal package is now just a "transitional package so ethereal users get wireshark on upgrades." You should find that the wireshark package is installed on your system. The binary is now, wireshark. Rick -- Rick's Law - What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...
CJ van den Berg wrote: > This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of headaches > in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian kernel soon > to save others the pain. Well, it seems the kernel team has released a new stable version of the kernel, 2.6.17.7. According to the summary of changes for the new release, the XFS corruption fix is in the new kernel. So, hopefully, we'll be seeing a new Debian package any day now. Rick -- Rick's Law - What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: marillat
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed > > thanks > francesco pietra > > The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main Should work fine after that. Rick -- Rick's Law - What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: More X Problems Today
On Thu May 4 2006 10:01, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I had the same problem this morning. I could not spend too much time on > investigating it, but it seems to me that there is some sort of > dependency loop which screws up the installation of the new version of > x11-common. I extracted /etc/X11/Xsession manually from the x11-common > .deb file and that fixed the kdm log-in. To be on the safe side I > aptitude-reinstalled x11-common, then all the other xorg packages which > had been upgraded today, and then x11-common once more. This worked > without errors and everything seems OK now. > > Maybe the problem is simply due to some new xorg packages which are > still missing to make the whole thing internally consistent again. I followed your method of reparing the problem. First, I removed the symbolic link I had created and then did exactly what you described above. It worked like a charm. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgptED7Dc6Kot.pgp Description: PGP signature
More X Problems Today
I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades. I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go black momentarily and then return to the kdm login screen. No user could login. After checking the .xsession-errors file for each user, the following error was seen in all: /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession: line46: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory I checked the /etc/X11 directory and corrected the problem by creating a symbolic link as follows: ln -s Xsession.xfree86 Xsession After this, users were able to logon as usual. Anyone else experiencing this?? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpT7fsZstax4.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: Comparison of filesystems
Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system. I would like to hear from others their opinions about differing filesystems such as: ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS, etc. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpbh3cBo6ymp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
On Fri April 14 2006 17:07, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I use aliases for all apt jobs. I was thinking I was upgrading. But > actually doing dist-upgrade. > but for me everything was ok except virtual terminals opening, which > is no t happening still, though I have the following in my laptop dell > i600m. > Option"XkbRules" "xorg" > Option"XkbModel" "pc104" > Option"XkbLayout" "gb" This is probably a silly question but are you sure you're looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf? I had the same problem and made the mistake of changing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Make certain that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is the one that has those three Option lines. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpAiVB3uGCpo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
On Thu April 13 2006 16:04, Wackojacko wrote: > You may want to take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, ans > /var/log/Xorg.log. You will probably see errors setting the kdb > parameters due to incorrect wording in xorg.conf. > > The relevant section of my xorg.conf is > > Option"XkbRules" "xorg" > Option"XkbModel" "pc105" > Option"XkbLayout" "gb" That solved the problem. In MY xorg.conf, the first Option line you listed said: Option "XkbRules""xfree86" Once I changed it to "xorg" switching to virtual consoles worked properly again. Thank you! Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpUz5zsCWUtE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
On Thu April 13 2006 11:59, Michael Ott wrote: > Hello! > > > Some special keys do not work anymore > > = > > Cannot switch to virtual consoles with Alt-Ctrl-F1 > > > > Dead keys (ˇ) do not work anymore (e.g. for characters like Ž) > > Try this: > setxkbmap -rules "xorg" -model "pc105" -layout "de" > > This worked for me. After that i can reset the keyboard preference for > my Gnome Desktop. But I believe that you have to change the values of > the parameter After upgrading I also have the problem of not being able to switch to virtual consoles. I tried your suggestion and it works fine (although I substituted "us" for "de" in the layout). I have put that in a script which is run on startup of KDE. However, is there someway to do this for all users upon startup of X rather than individually putting the script in each user's Autostart directory? If there is a way to do it... well, how? Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpTnePtmtBF8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link
On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > > > >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message > > > >appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to > > > >/bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would > > > > no longer start. I therefore remade the link to point to > > > > /usr/bin/X11/Xorg and everything worked again. > > > > > > > >Question: why was the link remade in this way? Bug in some package, > > > > but which? > > > > > > There seems to have been an issue with this while Xorg 7.0 was still in > > > experimental, but according to the changelog it was fixed: > > > > > > -- > > > xorg (1:7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low > > > > > > * Force migration of symlink if it points to /bin/true. Thanks Sune > > > Vuorela > > > for the bug report and Ari Pollak for the fix. > > > * Upload to unstable > > > -- > > > > > > Therefore it is probably appropriate to file a bug report against > > > "x11-common" or "xserver-xorg". (The package maintainer will reassign > > > it if necessary.) > > > > > > Regards, > > >Florian > > > > It's just happened on another machine as well, so I will report it. > > apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to > 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > a lot of mail... I upgraded to 7.0.10 this morning. Unfortunately, after doing so, I could not get X to start. I thought it might be the symlink problem of which Mr. Campbell spoke. However, after checking, I found that the symlink had not been changed and was still pointing to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg. I am at a complete loss as to why X will not start. I decided to restore my system from yesterday's backup. I am up and running normally again but am at a loss as to what is causing X to fail upon startup. I'm hesitant to upgrade again just to see the messages that appear in the syslog and/or bootlog. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgp4yMxyroMtQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: Suspicious File found by chkrootkit
On Sun April 9 2006 11:53, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 07:54 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > > I run chkrootkit daily. Today it has found a file it calls, "suspicious". > > The file is a zero byte, hidden file. The path is > > /usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg > > > > After seeing this warning, I also ran rkhunter (rootkit hunter). The > > report from rkhunter comes up clean. It does not flag the .autoreg file > > (or any file for that matter). > > > > I am running sid and I believe that the .autoreg file may come from the > > libxul0d package. > > > > Is this a legitimate file or something I should be concerned about? I > > tend to think chkrootkit flagged it simply because it's hidden and zero > > bytes. I don't think it's really a threat but I want to make certain. > > > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > > Are you running a web/ftp/telnet server? IOW, how could the rk > have been installed? > > Have you Googled for that file? > > Have you searched the Debian package list? > http://www.debian.org/ > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > In the "Search the contents of packages" section, enter the file > name. I've tried to find out about the .autoreg file. It seems to have something to do with letting Mozilla and/or Firefox know if an extension has been installed or uninstalled. I have deleted the file. Thus far there seems to be no ill effects. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpYMyK65py8p.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: Suspicious File found by chkrootkit
I run chkrootkit daily. Today it has found a file it calls, "suspicious". The file is a zero byte, hidden file. The path is /usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg After seeing this warning, I also ran rkhunter (rootkit hunter). The report from rkhunter comes up clean. It does not flag the .autoreg file (or any file for that matter). I am running sid and I believe that the .autoreg file may come from the libxul0d package. Is this a legitimate file or something I should be concerned about? I tend to think chkrootkit flagged it simply because it's hidden and zero bytes. I don't think it's really a threat but I want to make certain. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgp0VqFqvq8T8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: During Bootup, Error Concerning NTFS
On Thu March 30 2006 15:39, Rick Friedman wrote: > Hi Szaka, > > Actually, I've booted Windows several times since then and I still get the > error when booting Linux. So, I'm still at a loss as to why this is > happening. OK... I need to correct my last message. I just checked syslog to see messages from the last boot of Linux. Sure enough, the NTFS mount went smoothly. No errors were displayed. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpCTVYKjhGtL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: During Bootup, Error Concerning NTFS
On Thu March 30 2006 12:23, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > Hi Rick, > > It means that you interrupted the Windows filesystem checking process > (after scheduling the filesystem check by chkdsk, it needs __TWO__ reboots > into Windows but you did only once) so the NTFS driver refused to mount it > read-write (it's inconsistent) for your safety. > > When this safety check was implemented we didn't know yet the exact > meaning of the flag (value 0x4000, which we've never seen before) that's > why no better explanation in the log and refusal of read-write mount. As > it turned out we were right to be highly careful. > > So just boot Windows again and then mount will work what you probably > already did. Hi Szaka, Actually, I've booted Windows several times since then and I still get the error when booting Linux. So, I'm still at a loss as to why this is happening. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpYkJ7sEix7z.pgp Description: PGP signature
During Bootup, Error Concerning NTFS
I'm not sure when this started to occur. Perhaps after I installed the 2.6.16 kernel. In any event, I just noticed it today. During bootup, the following lines appear on the screen and in syslog: Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.26 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1. Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS-fs warning (device hda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume flags 0x4000 encountered. Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS-fs error (device hda1): load_system_files(): Volume has unsupported flags set. Mounting read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows. Mar 27 14:48:32 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1. Obviously, I have a dual-boot system. when I run chkdsk on all my Windows drives, no error is found. Considering that the NTFS partition is being mounted read-only by Linux, I am not really concerned. But, I am curious what might be causing this error to show up. Anyone have any ideas?? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpLttfrQMes2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpkg cache file
On Thu March 23 2006 12:03, Glenn English wrote: > Synaptic has begun saying my cache file is corrupt. It doesn't say why or > how or what to do about it. > > Do you know what to do about it? (Or how to find out what's wrong?) > > -- > Glenn English > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG ID: D0D7FF20 I had also been receiving this message from Synaptic. I found I started seeing it after I installed the "apt-index-watcher" package. I am running Sid and I presume you are also. If you recently installed (or upgraded) apt-index-watcher, try removing it. Once I removed the package, the "corrupt cache" messages from Synaptic stopped. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpsnYXiEW75k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: x11-common upgarde error
On Wed March 22 2006 11:47, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Calculating upgrade...Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > x11-common > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 80197 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using > .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement x11-common ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/include/X11', which is also in package > libxft-dev System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist. > Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done. > Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done. > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > How to get out of this error. I did apt-get -f install. that also didn't > help. -- I also encountered this error. I've filed a new bug (#358370) Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpjiqLqa8KYx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How unstable is Unstable?
On Tue March 21 2006 07:18, Micha feigin wrote: > Also, I am not sure if its a package I downloaded or a feature of aptitude > but downloads the bug reports for all packages going to be installed and > warns me if there are any serious bugs filed against them. You must have the apt-listbugs package installed. I have it installed and when I use apt or synaptic to upgrade a package, it automatically checks for any outstanding bugs and notifies me before continuing with the upgrade. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpMIxJMEnMtv.pgp Description: PGP signature
GPG error during apt-get
This morning, while running apt-get update (for Sid), I received the following error message: W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looking through old messages on the list, I see there was a similar problem with security.debian.org in January. At that time, Joey Hess said to the OP, "I managed to reproduce your problem. security.debian.org is on round robin dns, and one of the mirrors is not updating. If apt downloads some (but not all) files from this mirror, it will detect a bad signature." Is anyone else experiencing this problem with ftp.debian.org? If so, any solutions? Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpKTMdiXuchD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Warning during Clamav virus update
On Wed February 8 2006 08:11, bclark wrote: > Rick Friedman wrote: > > I have a cron job which updates the Clamav virus database (using > > freshclam) 4 times a day (every 6 hours). This has been working fine for > > a long time now. > > > > However, for the last 24 hours (possibly a little longer), each time an > > update attempt is made, the following warning messages are found in the > > log: > > > > WARNING: DNS record is older than 3 hours. > > WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. > > > > It doesn't seem as though the daily.cvd file is being updated. > > > > Anyone have any ideas what is happening? > > > > Thanks, > > Rick > > What version of Clam are you running. > Also clearly it is a DNS issue, you running any caching nameservers, and > have you done a dig on the url where you get the updates from. The version of clamav I'm using is 0.88-4. It is the latest version in sid. Normally, I would think this was the reason for the problem. However, the version of clamav hasn't been updated for a few days and my problems started in the last 24 hours or so. No, I am not running a caching nameserver. When I do a dig on the url I get the following: dig db.us.clamav.net ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> db.us.clamav.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14863 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;db.us.clamav.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: db.us.clamav.net. 5 IN A 206.154.202.213 db.us.clamav.net. 5 IN A 206.154.203.13 db.us.clamav.net. 5 IN A 207.201.202.73 db.us.clamav.net. 5 IN A 209.204.175.217 db.us.clamav.net. 5 IN A 216.24.174.245 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: clamav.net. 319 IN NS ns2.clamav.net. clamav.net. 319 IN NS ns3.clamav.net. clamav.net. 319 IN NS ns4.clamav.net. clamav.net. 319 IN NS ns5.clamav.net. clamav.net. 319 IN NS ns1.clamav.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.clamav.net. 76411 IN A 69.61.68.204 ns2.clamav.net. 76411 IN A 63.166.28.2 ns3.clamav.net. 76411 IN A 195.70.36.141 ns4.clamav.net. 76411 IN A 80.69.69.69 ns5.clamav.net. 76411 IN A 213.92.8.2 ;; Query time: 54 msec ;; SERVER: 141.155.0.68#53(141.155.0.68) ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 8 08:29:26 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 284 I am still at a loss. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpvgjpPVP61p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Warning during Clamav virus update
I have a cron job which updates the Clamav virus database (using freshclam) 4 times a day (every 6 hours). This has been working fine for a long time now. However, for the last 24 hours (possibly a little longer), each time an update attempt is made, the following warning messages are found in the log: WARNING: DNS record is older than 3 hours. WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode. It doesn't seem as though the daily.cvd file is being updated. Anyone have any ideas what is happening? Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpXgbcgxgAJ8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get update seems silent on unstable recently
On Fri January 27 2006 10:02, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi folks, > > For several days now, there have been no new packages reported with apt-get > update, which seems unusual in my experience. I have been keeping my sid > distro quite current, and now am wondering if I have a problem, or if the > archives are idle. Anybody else been able to do a productive apt-get update > for unstable packages this week? Hmmm... I've been doing updates and upgrading packages every day with no problem. What do you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgp1NSGkLAen9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get update public key problem
On Wed January 4 2006 12:28 pm, Tom wrote: > [04/01/2006 -- 18:10u] Rick Friedman: > > I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a > > message from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions, run the > > following command line: > > > > wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | sudo apt-key > > add - > > > > Once I ran that, the key problem vanished. > > Maybe the problem vanished for people using the us mirror, but > ftp.de.debian.org surely isn't okay just yet. I assume other mirrors > have the same problem, or if it's not about the mirrors: other people > have the same problem. Touché. I didn't realize that using the US mirror made a difference. Hmmm. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool.
Re: apt-get update public key problem
On Wed January 4 2006 11:41 am, John Biederstedt wrote: > Today I ran apt-get update and got this: > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release > Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [378B] > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release > Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Sources > Get:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [189B] > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages > Fetched 379B in 8s (44B/s) > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > > > > I install debian-keyring, and set up a link for debian-archive so > apt-key update would work. I became root and imported the debian > keyring (all of them), and added the debian-roles keyring as well. I > also assigned ultimate trust to the debian role keys. > > The above still happens. From googling around, there seems to be a bug > referencing this or something like it, but I'm curious if others have > had the same problem, and if anyone has found a workaround, or a way to > verify the packages. I've hunted around www.debian.org for keys, and am > still looking. I'd like to know if anyone is aware if this is a bug, or > if the archives are compromised somehow. I'm sending this to > debian_user since it seems to me more like a user issue than a real > testing issue. I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a message from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions, run the following command line: wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - Once I ran that, the key problem vanished. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgphkCCF1IGSO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox and Flash
On Fri December 30 2005 09:43 am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Here flash has never worked with Firefox under Linux, making the > browser crash (bug 255860). Strange... I've never had a problem with firefox and flash, java or any other plugin (with the exception of the mplayer plugin). Currently, I am running Firefox 1.5 (not the Debian package but the actual files from mozilla.org) along with version 7.0 r61 of Macromedia's flash plugin and version 1.5.0_05 of Sun's java plugin. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpPhbCoE66F9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Chkrootkit report
I just ran a program called chkrootkit. It reports the following: eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/usr/sbin/pppd[5072]) I realize that 5072 is the process id for pppd. But what is the message actually saying? Is there a problem with pppd?? Or is this normal? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpGMHl8SUbdf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Inetd vs. Xinetd
Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an advantage to having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and installing xinetd? Any insight is greatly appreciated. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpVvEBndFnAo.pgp Description: PGP signature
OpenOffice.org Help File??
Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have Help? If so, where did you get it?? Thanks, Rick -- "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Checking Mouse Batteries?
I have a cordless Logitech Mouse and I was wondering if there is any program available which will check the condition of the batteries in the mouse? It would be nice if the program could sit in the notification (system) tray of KDE and/or Gnome but it's not really necessary. Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick -- "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
INotify Enabled in 2.6.13?
Now that I have installed the experimental deb package for linux-image-2.6.13-k7 I have just one question... Has Debian enabled Inotify in this kernel image by default? Thanks, Rick -- "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Deb Packages for Kernel 2.6.13?
I am running Sid and was wondering if there is any repository which has a linux-image package for 2.6.13 (preferably for AMD K7)? Currently, the latest Sid package is 2.6.12-1. Rick -- "Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." - Steven Wright signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > OK, I'll be the first to admit that the problem is with me. Where are > these packages as far as apt is concerned? > > I tried apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org; It reports that > I already have the latest version. > > I tried apt-get install openoffice.org2; it reports I have the latest > version. My version of openoffice.org is 1.9; my version of > openoffice.org2 is the beta. How do I install the official release? Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following line: deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ Once you've done that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get install openoffice.org Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > http://openoffice.debian.net/ > 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable > It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target > unstable. Because it has NEW binary packages again (and was > renamed back to openoffice.org) it again waits for FTP master > approval in the NEW queue. For the time they are stuck there > I've put them onto > http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x. > > Note that those packages will replace the (now obsolete) > openoffice.org2 packages and the 1.1.x packages completely. I've installed these packages and openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 seems to be working fine with one exception. There seems to be no package for the openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 help system. Clicking on the Help button (or Help->OpenOffice.org Help) results in the following error: The help system could not be started. The help file for this topic is not installed. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote: > I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked > soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. > alien -i *.rpm > > Is there a big difference from the last RC? I used alien -i *.rpm on the OpenOffice.org 2.0 RPMs. It worked fine. The RPMs installed OpenOffice.org 2.0 into /opt/openoffice.org2.0. So, if you have SID's openoffice 1.14 installed (as I do), you can still keep it. I intend to keep 1.1.4 on my system until official Debian packages for 2.0 are released. Then, I'll remove the unofficial 2.0 packages (and the official 1.1.4 packages). Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Is dirmngr necessary?
I'm running Debian Sid. The subject line says it all. Is it necessary to have dirmngr running? My machine is a desktop. It's not connected to any LAN. It is, obviously, connected to the Internet. The man page for dirmngr says it manages certificate revocation lists. Frankly, I am ignorant about this. Is this a daemon that needs to be running on my machine? Or, can I safely keep it from running? TIA, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: KDE on Sid
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:12 -0400, [KS] wrote: > Yes, it seems that the kde-core is almost done and I was reading > somewhere yesterday that the Debian qt/KDE maintainers have asked other > KDE application maintainers to start uploading their versions for 3.4.2 > > An apt-get -s install kde-core gives me a pretty good picture with not a > single package being removed without installing a newer version. But I > will still wait for a signal from the maintainers team. > Hmmm... I just tried apt-get -s install kde-core and got: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done kde-core is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 231 not upgraded. I have version 5:44 of kde-core installed. Do you see a newer version in the sid repositories that I don't see? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
(OT) ClamAV & Evolution
I'm hoping someone on this list can help me get ClamAv (or KlamAV) working with Evolution. As instructed by KlamAV, I've attempted to create filters for Evolution so all my incoming mail is piped through the application, klammail. This part seems to work. However, according to the instructions, another filter should be created after the previous one, which takes action based on whether the phrase, "virus-found" is in the mail headers. I have been unable to get this to work. Has anyone been able to do this? If so, would you post your filters? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:32 am, Kent West wrote: > Rick Friedman wrote: > >X is broken in Unstable? How so? I run Unstable and have no problems with > > X (X.org) at all. At least, no problems that I have been able to > > perceive. What are the problems to which you refer? > > Oops; I mis-spoke. KDE is broken in Unstable, not X. Ahhh... yes. I am anxiously waiting for KDE to be rebuilt against gcc 4.0. -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpbj5b62vl9r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:22 am, Kent West wrote: > X.org wasn't ready in time for Sarge's release. It is migrating into > Unstable. Many desktop users (myself included) run Unstable rather than > Stable (whereas we tend to keep Stable on the servers). That way we get > the newer toys/support, albeit we sometimes have to live with "glitches" > (such as X being broken right now in Unstable). X is broken in Unstable? How so? I run Unstable and have no problems with X (X.org) at all. At least, no problems that I have been able to perceive. What are the problems to which you refer? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpxay42L5aYN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What happened to kernel-image 2.6.12
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:15 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > I guess I haven't been paying attention much lately. But where did the > kernel-image 2.6.12 go? > > There is a linux-image 2.6.12 out there, but nothing to indicate that > this is a replacement to the kernel-image... > > Which one do I use? > Any other goodies to watch out for? Use linux-image 2.6.12. They renamed it in preparation for other kernel packages (hurd, etc.) -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpWB7Qc2LZsN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: System backup/snapshot
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 12:29 pm, Rogério Brito wrote: > And don't forget, if you use mondo to backup to CDs, to test them for > readability with dvdisaster. You won't want to be surprised to know your > drive doesn't read the CDs where you put your data on. I use mondo for my home machine and I've been looking for a good app to do just what dvdisaster does. I hadn't seen dvdisaster before. Thanks to your message, I learned about it and I like what I see since I've been testing it out. Thanks for the heads up!! :) Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. pgpdzq5e74QOq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome/Nautilus question...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Anderson wrote: > Rick, thanks, that worked just like you said it would. I just missed it > before when I was trying to follow the directions in the Nautilus help, > which were not nearly as clear as those you provided above. > > Still, I wonder where is the "File Types and Programs" referred to in > the help system? Oh well... Well, unfortunately, at least on my system (running Gnome 2.10) the documentation hasn't caught up to the actual Gnome version. My help system is actually for Gnome 2.6! Rick - -- "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC75xeOlHq0MpoXLoRAuQEAJ9UkPO19zAvqxmNTGHcdKiZ/hvUQgCeKomh xUSCGnoe5DSRLHzugLD2Ph8= =n7Bm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome/Nautilus question...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Anderson wrote: > I'd like to change the default app for worksheet files from Gnumeric > to OpenOffice Calc. I've looked at the help for Nautilus and it says > to use the "File Types and Programs Preferences" (or something like > that - I'm not using my Debian PC right now), but I can't seem to > find that particular tool. > > There is also some info about right-clicking a file name and using > the context menu to change the default app for that type of file, > but that doesn't seem to work either. > > Am I just missing something? (It wouldn't be the first time.) Is > there a package I need to add? Is the preference app on the disk > but just not in the menus? > > I *am* getting pretty proficient at right-clicking and choosing > "Open with OpenOffice Calc," but I'd really prefer to change the > default behavior. You don't say which version of Gnome you're using. I'm using Gnome 2.10 and, as such, these instructions apply to it. You're almost there. Right-click on the file you want opened. Then, choose "Properties" from the context-menu. When the Properties dialog opens, click the "Open with" tab. You should then see a list of programs with which you can open the file (or you can add a program). Simply click the radio button next to the program you want. Click close and that program will be the default for opening that type of file from now on. Rick - -- "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." - Herman Wouk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7hbBOlHq0MpoXLoRAjR8AKCVU1CVMBMDKIGXOkMwHdazZ08G3ACcCv/6 GhcoByGVwc9evcs7vhMvBpw= =RNyl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image for 2.6.12 kernel in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: > Recently there was a thread(link below) about renaming of kernel package > for debian as there are other projects having their own kernels e.g. Hurd. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg03660.html OK... got that. So, as yet, there is no prebuilt package for the linux kernel, correct? Rick - -- "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7W2tOlHq0MpoXLoRAq94AJ9C98hJcDFxLNki8qr8jUz3hqDMUwCaA02v o4F4ON0CaHFz6x+K7QgRYG4= =wWpe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Image for 2.6.12 kernel in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am I missing it somehow? Is there a package for the 2.6.12 kernel in Sid? I mean an already built kernel-image, not source. I ask because I see a linux-kernel-headers package for 2.6.13! Rick - -- "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFC7PE6OlHq0MpoXLoRAkMCAJdBsdTRwWDiGaoJ7AI3Ws91wQC7AJ0TO7Ft GRHFSVNMSqJnNRW4qolhtQ== =DyMQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login on console not allowed -- why and how?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Thanks for the replies! I am certain that the machine is not compromised > since the only time it's used only on the company's internal network > (and there's nobody there who could or would compromise a Unix machine). > > My colleague was basically a Linux newbie when he installed the machine > (and still is to a degree) so it's reasonable to think that he did > something wrong during installation. > > Checking GDM settings is a good idea, thanks. I'll re-check > /etc/inittab, maybe I overlooked something. sshd_config is fine, root > access via ssh works (but will be disabled eventually of course). > > Is there anything else I could look into? Check to see if bastille is installed. I have bastille installed and used it to prevent logins by root at the console. The only way to get root access is to login as a regular user and then su. Perhaps your colleague set it up this way through bastille and forgot. At any rate, check if bastille is installed. If it is, login as a regular user, su, and then run InteractiveBastille. If it's installed, InteractiveBastille should be in /usr/sbin. Rick - -- "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." - Fred Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC5O2lOlHq0MpoXLoRAoqTAJ4rMGt0No5mle+i4bZ/vMTI+ejB3ACfe7B4 97fp0sng/4kTvrhvIlsHUH8= =o7k9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Boom wrote: > The sid release will never be changed to stable. > Packages from sid migrate into unstable (etch at present) when > they are deemed sufficiently mature. > At some time yet to be determined (probably a year or more from now), > etch will undergo a code freeze, and eventually be designated stable. > But by that time, sid will probably have very different contents. Just a slight correction... I believe you mean packages from sid migrate into TESTING (etch at present). Sid IS unstable. Rick - -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC27OgOlHq0MpoXLoRAs10AJ9a8ZAdyUFVkxc/N0x6uHQ1syopxgCdGA7t HcpY1OeTdcbbTnh4yqhB0t0= =bXZh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > I guess that in a few days we will get new versions of aptitude and > synaptic which use apt 0.6, so we just have to wait (and use apt-get > upgrade instead of dist-upgrade). Well, the day has arrived. New packages of synaptic (version 0.57.1-1) and aptitude (version 0.2.15.9-3) are now in Sid. I've installed them (along with the new apt) and everything is running smoothly so far. Rick - -- "Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." - - Ambrose Pierce -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCwgnDOlHq0MpoXLoRArNdAJ0baEWvRRvRdx3Z4p6fZjAkbKEJgACgqM9z zq68vpQi1YMiPq1oxt/JDPA= =8u11 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing borderless photos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an HP PSC 2210 All-In-One printer. I'm able to print documents and photos on it with no problem except for one. Thus far, I have been unable to find a way to print borderless 4x6 photos on it from within Linux. I am able to do this from within Windows but, as I said, haven't been able to do so yet in Linux. Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks for any help, Rick - -- "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." - Herman Wouk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCvv40OlHq0MpoXLoRAudeAJ4sVs1btHXSjC1Knx/gWXTeJpkezgCfbIYF XGAY9JHJc+mcYP1JQQVz5jI= =qb8P -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(OT) Gnome Mailing List?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A few days ago, I subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought that would be the list for users who have problems and/or questions concerning Gnome. I received a confirmation email for my subscription. Since then, I have received nothing at all from the list. I checked my junk folder to make certain the messages weren't going there. That's not the problem. Is anyone else subscribed to that list? If so, have you received anything from it in the last day or so? Is there a better mailing list for gnome users? Thanks, Rick - -- "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." - David Letterman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCucpSOlHq0MpoXLoRAgjtAKCUyFnRIvhGaXg59Vczpcj1xmUm0ACeMgnf z22Oxe97+4Tkm7MRa1I+huc= =7wME -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good backup software for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Siju George wrote: > Thanks for the reply rick :-) > > could you please suggest some DVD writers that works well with Sarge?? > > Knd regards > > Siju Well, I use an HP dvd writer dvd420i. It supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW & DVD+RW. It works perfectly well with Linux. My Debian system recognizes the burner automatically. Rick - -- "My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was." - Rodney Dangerfield -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCuZJkOlHq0MpoXLoRAmT4AJ9Qk18uR/l9A3uXYb2ecn9O0xwHeQCgjWDi GouxjRAGBqQyGobOCXgsako= =TYFi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good backup software for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > Does anyone backup to DVD? How many gigs can you fit on a DVD? I backup certain files and directories to DVD all the time. DVD will hold 4.7GB. Of course, if you backup using compression you can fit much more than 4.7GB on a DVD. Rick - -- "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - - Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCuVNbOlHq0MpoXLoRAkA4AKCC970CzjkQvIx8GSImdOABlQKofwCfVe80 MA2qmkkgimCjhmH9ABu0eYg= =21mo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good backup software for Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogério Brito wrote: > I'm still open to suggestions regarding backing up on CDs/DVDs. I see > some potential packages on the repository, but I would like to know > other's experiences with them and if any of them would allow things like > Apple's Backup application to mix CDs and DVDs in the backup (mainly for > backing up data). > > That, coupled with a bare-metal system restore CD (or even a new > installation, provided that one keeps his package list handy) would be a > nice way to be prepared for disaster-recovery situations. Check out MondoArchive. It's at http://www.mondorescue.org. If you need to do a complete restore from some disaster, simply pop the CD (or DVD) into the drive and boot from it. The restore program will begin automatically. MondoArchive will also do differential backups. All in all, I've been very satisfied with it. Rick - -- "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCt/+aOlHq0MpoXLoRAm+kAKCkdCg6smjIQ68JLH8s53Af7pPjTACeM8vq XwJ9zNiM2ETMXCBD/tQRtqI= =vTzO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mondo Frustration
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." - -- "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." Scarletdown wrote: > Can someone here possibly help me with a little problem I am having with > Mondo Archive? First of all, here is the message that I am getting when > it fails: > > ---FATALERROR--- The de facto standard location for your boot loader's > config file is /etc/lilo.conf but I cannot find it there. What is wrong > with your Linux distribution? > > Thing is, the system I am trying to run this on does not use LILO. It > uses GRUB, and boots from a floppy, so as not to alter the mbr on the > main hard drive. > > How can I get mondo to work with a system that uses a floppy-based GRUB > instead of a hard drive-based LILO? This is a rather important > experiment for me, and I'm hoping I can get this worked out really soon. > > I would suggest asking this question on the Mondoarchive mailing list. You'd probably get better help there for you question. Just click on the link below to subscribe to it: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel Rick - -- "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCstxpOlHq0MpoXLoRAlAHAJ0TTc2jXlUrYH4SYRsl1kX5rCgMrgCeLxGz o2mg20ksCZuwi6e8UPz2imo= =vZCB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to > specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. > For example, woody, sarge, sid, etc. > > It is much more apparent, that way, what the intent is. > > -Roberto > For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an "unstable" machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If someone has "sid" in sources.list, does sid become the new testing? If so, what will be the distro name of unstable? I hope that's clear. :) Rick - -- "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCo3stOlHq0MpoXLoRAg/aAJ9AANQ+OeMSy6Oe9hbKrTGAIQgkfgCdEW29 AgZxNU7pRMh8MnevMbG37pc= =PVNs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 envelopes with hp psc 1210
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Marks wrote: - --snip-- > Try this: > > "Message received at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The problem is definitely related to paper size. Note that the envelope > I'm using is 4.125 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide. If the page is set to > these dimensions - landscape mode - the text does not rotate and the > address portion does not print. > > If I set the page dimensions to 4.3" by 9.5, the envelope prints > correctly - proper landscape output > > Anything less than 4.3" tall will fail. e.g. 4.3" works, 4.2" fails." > > John Marks Yep... that definitely works. Interesting. Well, at least I can print out my envelopes now. Rick - -- "Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?" - James Thurber -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCe8BZOlHq0MpoXLoRAlyBAKCBIzsyc4xPhz3iTG1jRK3F4S1xAACeJ1rx Lz3qf2mv7U/MBNUooevtPqU= =R9Bz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft Digital Media Pro USB keyboard and KDE3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 l Johnson wrote: > I'm looking for any help that might lead to getting all the little > bonus keys working on my new keyboard in KDE3. Googling for the > keyboard name and "kde" or "linux" doesn't find anything relevant, > just Windows-oriented reviews and online shopping sites. Obviously, > being a Microsoft product, the manual was no help in my case. > > I tried selecting several different keyboard models with similar names > in kcontrol's Regional and Accessability > Keyboard Layout section > but I can't seem to get any of the keys or the zoom slider to work, > save for the standard 104 keys. > > I presume there must be some way to find out what kind of keyscans I'm > getting from the extended keys and be able to create my own keyboard > layouts in KDE3. Any pointers on how to proceed? Download the lineakd package. I also have the Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard. I use lineakd to set up those extra keys. Unfortunately, I have NOT been able to get all of them to work. The keys I have been unable to use are: Messenger, My Music, My Pictures, all the silver Favorites keys, Log Off, and the Zoom slider. The keys I DO have working are: the 3 volume keys (raise, lower, mute), the four audio media keys (play/pause, stop, previous, next), My Documents, Mail, Web/Home, Calculator, and Sleep Also, check out the lineak mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lineak-devel Rick - -- "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to." - Hansell B. Duckett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCezTQOlHq0MpoXLoRAuRgAKCHuUzQzqkhpPncRs+BQAxtHSpgNwCeLYzT sjyQWXj6qA4wAyt6yjFZK1s= =2XSG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
Rthoreau wrote: Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Which version of K3b are you using? The other day, I installed the version from Sid (K3b 0.11.17). It found everything, including dvd+rw-format with no problem. Rick -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to use scanner
Wayne Topa wrote: Rick Go to the sane website. They list every scanner they support and have instructions on how to get it working. You could find your answer faster there then waiting for someone here who 'might' have the same scanner. Wayne, Thanks for the advice. It hadn't even occurred to me to check for a sane website. Once I found it, I followed the instructions for my PSC 2210. I'm happy to say that I now have a working scanner. :) Someday, I'll get it through my head that Google is my friend. :) Thanks, Rick -- "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unable to use scanner
I have an HP PSC 2110 All-In-One (printer, copier, scanner & fax). So far, I have not been able to figure out how to use it with Debian (Sarge). I ran the sane-find-scanner command and received the following output: found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x2911 [PSC 2200 Series]) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. I ran scanimage -L and received the following: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). What do I have to do to get the scanner working? Is it even supported by SANE? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick -- "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with C++ preprocessor
Sam Watkins wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:54:06PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: I'm running Sarge and I have the cpp-3.3 package installed. Whenever I try to build *anything*, I get the following messages when running ./configure: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check I think you need to install the package g++, the c++ compiler. apt-get install g++ Thanks, Sam! Installing g++ did, indeed, solve the problem! :) Rick -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error with C++ preprocessor
I'm running Sarge and I have the cpp-3.3 package installed. Whenever I try to build *anything*, I get the following messages when running ./configure: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check I cannot figure out what the problem is. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick -- "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever" - Anonymous -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change URGENT notification in KDE
As it is now, the URGENT notification in KDE flashes the taskbar entry for an app, 3 times. Is there anyway to have it flash continuously? I find that 3 times is sometimes not enough for me to notice it. Rick -- "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean." - G.K. Chesterton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !
Uwe Dippel wrote: If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub here on Sarge (no, not SID !). Somehow grub doesn't get activated any longer at boot and the PC boots directly off MBR (so I guess). I checked the /boot/grub/menu.lst; everything fine and there. At boot, grub doesn't come up at all; no splash, no nothing; the kernel gets loaded immediately. Here is no help needed; I'll take out a grub-floppy and get it setup again; I guess. So this is FYI and take care ! Uwe I'm using the latest grub update in Sarge with no problem. Do we have the same version? I have version 0.95+cvs20040624-10. Rick -- "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thunderbird & Clamav
I would like to try clamav but, before I do, I'd like to know if it's possible to have clamav scan emails with Thunderbird as the email client? Does it have anything like a pop3-proxy to sit between Thunderbird and the pop3 server I use? Rick -- "Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?
Juha Siltala wrote: On 2004-11-16, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal use. That's not free. They just don't charge you any money. Point taken! Rick -- "Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browser and you will be generally ok. But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal use. Rick -- "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file/package counter
Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 09:04, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Is there any package that enables one to count the number of files in a directory(s) and/or number of packages installed on a system. Thanks... You could always try: dpkg -l |wc -l and subtrack three from that number for the three information lines at the top. However this may not give an accurate result as you may have some packages that are not installed on your system but have not been purged. Perhaps: dpkg -l | grep "^ii" |wc -l As for the number of files in a directory. If you are just looking for the individual directory a ls -l | wc -l will give you the number of files in a directory. If you wanted to recurs and find out how many total file in a directory and all sub directories you may need to write a short shell script to do this, or there may be another way. To recurse through the directory do: ls -lR | wc -l To include hidden files and directories in the recursive search, do: ls -laR | wc -l Rick -- "A short saying oft contains much wisdom." - Sophocles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure network card for Sarge netinst?
Robert, Thank you very much. That's exactly what I needed to know. It worked perfectly. I did the install and have been grabbing packages with apt-get. Thanks for helping me get networking running. :) Rick -- "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - Sir Arthur Eddington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure network card for Sarge netinst?
Justin Rosander wrote: Rick, is this your computer at home, or work? If at home, does your ISP give you a static or dynamic IP? Do you have DSL or dialup? Usually your ISP is a good start at getting this IP info, if you don't connect via DHCP. regards, Justin On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:58 pm, Rick Friedman wrote: Well, I downloaded and burned the netinst CD for Sarge. It boots fine and I can start the installation with no problem. My hesitance comes with configuring the network. The installation attempts to configure the network with DHCP. It then returns a message saying: "The network is not using the DHCP protocol." It then allows me to press a Continue button. BTW... my machine is a standalone machine, not connected to any local network. At this point, the installation gives me the opportunity to configure the network manually. 1) It asks me for the IP address for this computer. What do I enter?? Can I enter any valid IP address? 2) After that, it asks me to enter the netmask. Should I just accept the default (255.255.255.0)?? 3) Then, I am asked to enter the gateway IP address. I have no router. It says in rare cases (with no router) the address can be left blank. Should I leave it blank? Should I enter some address?? 4) It then asks me to enter the nameserver addresses. I have the address of Verizon Online's nameservers. OH! I have a DSL connection with Verizon Online and my network card is SiS900 PCI Ethernet adapter. I should enter those nameserver addresses here?? I haven't gone any farther than that. I wanted to verify what I should enter for the network configuration first. Justin, This computer is at home. As I said in the previous message, I have DSL from Verizon Online. I get a dynamic IP from them. Thanks, Rick -- "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." - Herman Wouk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to configure network card for Sarge netinst?
Well, I downloaded and burned the netinst CD for Sarge. It boots fine and I can start the installation with no problem. My hesitance comes with configuring the network. The installation attempts to configure the network with DHCP. It then returns a message saying: "The network is not using the DHCP protocol." It then allows me to press a Continue button. BTW... my machine is a standalone machine, not connected to any local network. At this point, the installation gives me the opportunity to configure the network manually. 1) It asks me for the IP address for this computer. What do I enter?? Can I enter any valid IP address? 2) After that, it asks me to enter the netmask. Should I just accept the default (255.255.255.0)?? 3) Then, I am asked to enter the gateway IP address. I have no router. It says in rare cases (with no router) the address can be left blank. Should I leave it blank? Should I enter some address?? 4) It then asks me to enter the nameserver addresses. I have the address of Verizon Online's nameservers. OH! I have a DSL connection with Verizon Online and my network card is SiS900 PCI Ethernet adapter. I should enter those nameserver addresses here?? I haven't gone any farther than that. I wanted to verify what I should enter for the network configuration first. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I change when filesystem is checked by fsck?
Thank you to everybody! I knew there was some app that would do the job but I couldn't recall it at all. From now on I'll remember: tune2fs. :) Rick -- "Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I change when filesystem is checked by fsck?
Each of my filesystems are ext3. Currently, they are checked by fsck (at bootup), every 34 mounts. I would like to change how often the filesystems are checked. How can I do that? Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
