Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cwa> Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? cwa> Where can I find it? Helix has a copy of 1.4.5 available. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main Plea

Re: GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:37:37PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? > Where can I find it? Helix Code has 1.4.5-helix1 -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-31 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:27:50AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of > (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a > init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where X is the nu

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote: > Okay, > > This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending > things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: > > mv file /dev/null > > Yes I was root. > So how do I recreate /dev/null? hmm. i'm

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Oh haha sorry, you gotta run update-modules after making the changes to /etc/modutils/* -chris On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Debian Ghost wrote: > Hello Krzys, > Thank you for the speedy reply. > I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically > says I have not passed the proper

Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending > things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: > > mv file /dev/null mknod /dev/null c 1 3 It will create character ('c') device file /dev/null with major number 1 and minor number 3. Exactly what you need. Do not

howto recreate /dev/null ?

2000-08-31 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage
Okay, This is definitely a newbie question. I keep on reading about sending things to /dev/null. So I thought I would give a try: mv file /dev/null Yes I was root. So how do I recreate /dev/null? Jeremiah

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Kent, Quoth Kent Pirkle, > I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory. I had a similar problem once, with every program that I launched defaulting to ~/.gnome-desktop. I tracked down the problem to a gnome-panel setting (all these programs had been launched from the gnome panel

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Olaf, > Thank you for the reply! > I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Same here :-( > Does it have something to do with an NFS type service? Yes, I remember I had to put portmap in my /etc/hosts.allow to get NFS to work. I have A

GNUCash 1.4.4 ??

2000-08-31 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
Is there a Debianized version of gnucash 1.4.4 or 1.4.5?? Where can I find it? TIA...cwa -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: Debian 2.2 Potato

loony lilo looping

2000-08-31 Thread Malcolm Beaulieu
Hello everyone, I am running Debian 2.2 on an AMD K6-2 400 dual boot system. Things have been great until I tried to recompile my kernel (2.2.15) to include PPP support. Everything appeared to compile fine but I was rushing through things and rather then putting the new one in /boot/ and

Re: sunrpc (fwd)

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Ghost
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:21:16 -0500 (EST) From: Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sunrpc Dear Olaf, Thank you for the reply! I am not so sure I understand what RPC servers are. Doe

Firewall and Security

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, I have been looking at setting up a couple of Debian boxes at work to help with our cable modem development and have the following specs for what I need to do. VPN on corporate network joining 2 sites. Machine will be a gateway to corp intranet and internet. Need Samba to support shared files

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Ghost
Hello Krzys, Thank you for the speedy reply. I have tried your suggestions and still receive a message that basically says I have not passed the proper arguements. I put the entry in the alias file and also put the entry in options. I am unsure why it still is not working. Is there anything else I

Re: netscape/mailcap

2000-08-31 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've tried: renaming the .netscape directory to .netscape_bak and opening a new netscape moving .mailcap files and opening netscape removed plugger specifying netscape to open html files in applications directory in netscape nothing works. What file is overriding these and causing the error belo

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
Wilson Fung wrote: > > That I haven't tried, I guess I will. Thanx for the suggestion, but which > debs am I actually looking for. > As I mentioned you'll find these in the unstable branch: alsa-base_0.5.9b-1.deb alsa-headers_0.5.9b-1.deb alsa-module

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Debian Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D Ghost here, > I've searched and looked for documentation on what sunrpc is and what > starts/stops it in debian. I have checked inetd.conf and it is not started > in there. I want to not run this deamon. How do I "turn it off" ? This service is provided

sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Mail
D Ghost here, I've searched and looked for documentation on what sunrpc is and what starts/stops it in debian. I have checked inetd.conf and it is not started in there. I want to not run this deamon. How do I "turn it off" ? :) Thanks for any info! Debian Ghost 'space ghost on debian'

Re: speaker volume

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Console shmonsole. What you want to do is open up the machine, find the speaker, rip it out, and throw it somewhere far. Note the place where it lands though. If your motherboard/memory/cache ever fails you might need the speaker to beep X number of times to identify the problem. I think the ans

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
That I haven't tried, I guess I will. Thanx for the suggestion, but which debs am I actually looking for. Wilson Fung wrote: > > I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I > downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says > unr

Re: Configuring Mouse in X

2000-08-31 Thread Stefan Nantz
I had the same problem, use the X Server ver. 3.3.6-11 rather than 3.3.6-10 which comes with d 2.2 Stefan On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote: > most laptop internal mice connect to the "ps2" port in windows and the > hardware > handles whether either or both the internal and external work, s

Re: last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Type runlevel This will print a number, say 2. So go to /etc/rc2.d. Type ls The last listed file is the last rc file run. Or was that your question. What you want to do is install the modutils package, put the cs4232 arguments in /etc/modutils/options: options cs4232 io-0x534 irq=

speaker volume

2000-08-31 Thread Stefan Nantz
Hello All, every time the PCMCIA gets started it beebs very loudly. how can I change the speker volume from the console ? Best Regards Stefan

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread David Bellows
Wilson Fung wrote: > > I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I > downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says > unresolved symbols in snd.o and emu10k1.o. Am I missing something? > You might also try downloading the latest .deb

last rc. file ???

2000-08-31 Thread Debian Mail
D Ghost here. I have a quick question here. What is the last rc file to run? I need to add a modprobe line to load my sound card. I have the module in /etc/modules but it seems not to load until I do modprobe cs4232 io-0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 Basically, I'm looking for something like rc.loca

Re: Is monitor flicker a function of video card or monitor?

2000-08-31 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I > see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor? Both. In your case, it's probably the monitor. Your video card is kind of low-powered too. The thing that determine

Re: 3 off. cds = mirror - non free ?

2000-08-31 Thread Shaul Karl
> Are all the files of the distribution (except non- free) contained in > the (three official cds+ the non_us cd)? > According to http://cdimage.debian.org/lastmin.html: Official Potato 2.2 rev0 series Not all packages from section `contrib' are included on the CDs, since they dep

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
tried it, same messagesT_T Go to opensource.creative.com click on the link at the bottom for latest source snapshots download the newest tarbal and read the readme. This is far and away the best way to make a sblive work. -- Original Message -- Fro

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Kent, if the reason for your "default" directory is as Nate suggests, the next level of explanation is that, unless you take some action in the script at startup, it will use the current directory as its "default". As a first cut at "fixing" this, you can edit the 'startx' script in /usr/bin/X11 s

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then > my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran > 'startx' in. I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory.

[squadboy@mail.sisna.com: Re: sound blaster live]

2000-08-31 Thread William Jensen
If he's on kernel 2.4.x it's directly supported. That's how I did my SB Live. Though he did say he was pretty new so maybe a new kernel compile isn't something he wants to jump into. Bill - Forwarded message from Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envel

Re: sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Ray Percival
Go to opensource.creative.com click on the link at the bottom for latest source snapshots download the newest tarbal and read the readme. This is far and away the best way to make a sblive work. -- Original Message -- From: "Wilson Fung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt

2000-08-31 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, I would suspect plugger as the problem. Looks like it overwrote netscape's mime entry for text/html or something strange like that. I've had problems with plugger in the past and ended up axing it. Tal On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:35:19 -0700, Dale L . Morris said: : Something overwrote my .

netscape 4.72 problems with gnome

2000-08-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
All of a sudden Netscape Communicator 4.72 is taking a long time to 'start', and it seems to lock up all of gnome as well. After a few minutes the home page opens and everything else works. While Netscape is 'initializing' the mouse cursor moves, but anything on the desktop that I click on does n

mkboot 'No such file or directory"

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Robbie
Title: mkboot 'No such file or directory" I am unable to successully execute "mkboot".  I logged on as "root" and encounter the following problems. Case 1: "mkboot vmlinuz" - produces the following <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>><> robbie:/# mkboot vmlinuz Insert a floppy diskette into your bo

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Nate Amsden
i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran 'startx' in. nate Kent Pirkle wrote: > > I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin > instead of the /home/kmp directory that they sho

Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin instead of the /home/kmp directory that they should default to. Netscape, Gnome-apps, virtually any application that opens an application to save or load something does this. Any ideas how I can change this? Thanks, Kent

mutt

2000-08-31 Thread Dale L . Morris
Something overwrote my .mailcap file and I'm receiving the following error message when I use netscape and clik on a text/html link: Netscape subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output should be a terminal I don't know if this happened when I: 1.) installed 'pl

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:35:28PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > If you want to learn more, go to > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org > > I don't understand what linuxfromscratch has to do with this. Isn't that > about doing without any distribution? Yes. Note that I said "If you want to lea

sound blaster live

2000-08-31 Thread Wilson Fung
I have a sound blaster live value card, and guess what, I'm new to linux. I downloaded the ALSA 0.59 driver, compiled it and when I modprobe it, it says unresolved symbols in snd.o and emu10k1.o. Am I missing something? Wil

Re: samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-08-31 Thread Christoph Simon
> I have a friend who wants to get rid of NT and change to linux+Samba but > we have "minor" problems. The first is : the stupid Access programers > coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files > at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E: >

Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
- - David Wroght, > Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): The original partition table was: Primary1 Primary2 Primary3 Extended EXT2 FAT0 UFS FAT1 FAT2 Spare That is, there was plenty of unused space in the extended partition. However, FreeBSD can't handle thes

Re: finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting hawk (hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu): > > *sigh* I've found more ways to lose data . . . > > This time, I needed to switch a system from FreeBSD to Debian. I wrote > down the cylinder information for my two fat partitions in the extended > partition, deleted the extended partition, and creat

samba problems (rather Access programmers)

2000-08-31 Thread Deim Agoston
Hello ! I have a friend who wants to get rid of NT and change to linux+Samba but we have "minor" problems. The first is : the stupid Access programers coded the path into code statically. So the program search the dbm files at \\SERVER\\ACCDOC and more he has to "map" the "network drive" under E:

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:27:55AM -0700, Tech Support Guy wrote: > > > I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble > > figuring out which packages to download. > > Safe route for you is to use a basic workstation configuration and go from > there. Let Debian pic

Re: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread staf wagemakers
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, > it ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:2

Re: LI after Install

2000-08-31 Thread staf wagemakers
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:47:25AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I installed debian on a new HDD and after installing the base I get LI at > boot time? Any suggestions as to what I did wrong? I guess your kernel is below the 1024 limit... The easiest way to avoid these problems is to created a smal

problems with NIS/netgroups in potato

2000-08-31 Thread Dafydd Tomos
Today I upgraded a server from slink to potato - it's an internal testing/intranet server. The upgrade went fairly well, but even though I had done extensive tests on other servers first, I still came up against problems. The immediate problem on completing the upgrade of most packages was that us

Re: OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
13:28:47<~>$ apt-cache search perch 13:28:56<~>$ -chris > now getting ready to perch, > > bentley taylor > (potato on 2.2.16)

finding tarbal on fat partition [yet another data recovery problem]

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
*sigh* I've found more ways to lose data . . . This time, I needed to switch a system from FreeBSD to Debian. I wrote down the cylinder information for my two fat partitions in the extended partition, deleted the extended partition, and created a new fat partition as partition 4 after them.

Re: OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread cls-colo spgs
...same here. (i just thought it was something funny about netscape, which is where i noticed it.) i wonder what gives? now getting ready to perch, bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.16) // Krzys Majewski wrote: > [snip] > my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker > than ... [snip] > -chris

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #586

2000-08-31 Thread Scott_Patterson
I use "adduser user group" to add users to a particular group. Then, I use "groups" to lists which users are in which groups. Just another way to do it! Scott Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > > > Add yourself (a

Re: Can't mount '/' after kernel recompilation

2000-08-31 Thread Nate Amsden
only thing i can think of is you installed the incorrect driver for that controller, on boot you should see the drive being detected by the HPT366 controller.(i used to have a bp6) can you confirm that the drive is indeed being detected. Should show something similar to: May 6 09:12:38 aphro ker

RE: potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Max . Hyre
Dear Mr. Bouwman: You wrote: > During my slink-life I have developed the habit > to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc > and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. > The real files are in /local/etc . > This system has advantages and drawbacks. > The big q

OT: new video card darker than old

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
OK now this is _really_ off-topic: my ATI Xpert 98 makes X seem a bit darker than my old mach32 card. It's also a different X server. It's not a big deal really, but I'm curious if this is normal. -chris

Is monitor flicker a function of video card or monitor?

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor? I copied the modelines from my old machine to my new machine and they work fine, but I'm wondering if I can do better. My new machine has an agp ATI Xpert98 (mach64)

Re: cable connection stopped working

2000-08-31 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yeah, apparently some of the modems memorize the hardware address of the ethernet card, so if you change the card, you have to turn off the modem for a few minutes. -chris On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Smith wrote: > BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the "modem" needs > t

Re: Tape backup tool ?

2000-08-31 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: > Hello everyone, > > just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE / > Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of > taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also > search

Re: Sed replace and add a line

2000-08-31 Thread Bob McGowan
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:13:33PM +, Jaume Teixi wrote: > -|I'm trying to use sed to search pattern 228 and add a line as follows: > -| > -|288 > -|229 > -| > -|I type: > -|sed /s/228/'\n 229`/ My copy of sed complains when I type in the pattern you have sup

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Kurt Seifried" wrote: ... >Problem: user can enter Lilo commands at the Lilo prompt ... >Additional solution: remove/replace password in lilo.conf after setting it >(i.e. set password, run lilo, remove password). You may not have noticed mbr: bash-2.04$ dpkg --status mbr Package: mbr Status

RE: Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> What exactly do I need to put into /etc/network/interfaces for this NIC > to have it go up at boot-time? > (Will be using DHCP for a cable modem connection on the NIC :) if you look in /etc/network/interfaces, it points you to related man pages with examples.

RE: potato-update and symbolic links in /etc

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 31-Aug-2000 Egbert Bouwman wrote: > During my slink-life I have developped the habit > to make symbolic links of all those configuration files in /etc > and its subdirectories that I have changed myself. > The real files are in /local/etc . > This system has advantages and drawbacks. > The big

RE: potato update question

2000-08-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
apt-cdrom add does all the work for you. And you must add each cd rom.

Config'ing new 3Com NIC

2000-08-31 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello I got a new NIC for my system! It's a 3Com Etherlink XL PCI 3C900B-TPO. Apparently, dmesg reports nothing about it when rebooting: pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... Found PCnet/PCI at 0xffe0, irq 10. eth0: PCnet/PCI 79C970 at 0xffe0, 08 00 09 9e 73 2e assigned IRQ 10.

Re: GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
"michael d. ivey" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:51:31AM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: >> Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? > >use the TZ environment variable to specify the time zone for the apps that >need to know local time. Use tzconfig to set the

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > So did you fix the root hack in pre10, the DOS in rc1, or the typo in the > install script? Oh yeah, I gotta read the changelog to find out, > wheep. Well, you're going to have to read it somewhere, yes? And now you know where! > A

Tape backup tool ?

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hello everyone, just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE / Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also searching for a graphical frontend like Backup Exec and ArcServe on Win$... Any ideas ?

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:24:37PM -0400, hawk wrote: > > > Thanks to both for my banner-free browsing. > > > GAT - Gif Animation Toggle - is another great browsing plus. > > Is there one of these for linux, or do you mean as a browser feature? > so far, the only way I've encountered on linux

repartitioning hard disk

2000-08-31 Thread Florian Blaser
Le jeu, 31 aoû 2000 21:05:39 stefan goemana écrit : > Hello, Hi ! > 2) I plan to cut the drive in 2 parts with fips. The filesystem on the > second partition is also FAT32 or will > it be FAT16? You will create unused disk space with fips, then you'll have to use fdisk or similar to create a

repartitioning hard disk

2000-08-31 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, I want to install linux on my PC at home. Now, I run Win98 2nd Ed. on a FAT32 filesystem. I only have one big partion (i.e. the C drive). I want to create more partitions in a "safe" manner and I am not sure how to do this. I also don't want to buy Partition Magic so I was thinking of u

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Paul D. Smith writes: > What kinds of problems are you seeing? I find the Web interface (the only one available to me as a section adminstrator) just about completely unusable for editing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:27:55AM -0700, Tech Support Guy wrote: > I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble > figuring out which packages to download. Safe route for you is to use a basic workstation configuration and go from there. Let Debian pick packages for you first few times

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
> OK, 2 to 5 minutes downtime to disable. Big Whoop. Maybe should be > done. But, have you ever tried to administer 200 computers? How many > people know the BIOS password? Do the primary users know it? Can they > reboot their own machine? Does an administrator have to visit every > machine

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread jpenny
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:26:20AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > BTW Idon't know if anyone actually "got it" but the point of my article was > more that Debian is trying to improve security, but seems to be missing > major things. I suppose I should have stated this more obviously (like in H1 > at

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
BTW Idon't know if anyone actually "got it" but the point of my article was more that Debian is trying to improve security, but seems to be missing major things. I suppose I should have stated this more obviously (like in H1 at the top). Sigh, anyways for next time I will be less subtle. Bruce Schn

Re: filtering out ads

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
> Thanks to both for my banner-free browsing. > GAT - Gif Animation Toggle - is another great browsing plus. Is there one of these for linux, or do you mean as a browser feature? so far, the only way I've encountered on linux is to edit the executable to change the name of the string that cau

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:59AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > > Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as > the > > original/base 1.2.0pre10." Depending on how the numbering is implemented, > it > > has been updated 3 or 4 times since the original 1.2.0pre10. So

IRC proxying

2000-08-31 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
Hello everybody, I have found the bounce IRC proxy in 2.3 debian. Does anyone of you knows of security issues with this proxy ? May I recommend it safely to my school (that has cut our irc access lately for security reasons) ? Thx in advance

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Kurt Seifried
> Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as the > original/base 1.2.0pre10." Depending on how the numbering is implemented, it > has been updated 3 or 4 times since the original 1.2.0pre10. So I would not > expect it to have the same bugs. So did you fix the root h

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread Kovacs Istvan
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:35:34 +051800, USM Bish wrote: >"w3m" ! Is this a text base browser like lynx which >you can work on console? How does it manage frames? Try 'links' (not lynx :-) It has perfect frame support, just like a graphical browser. Has some minor codepage issues, though... http://

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Kurt Seifried said: > Debian ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 revision 3 has the root hack mentioned above > however fixed in 1.2.0pre10revision 4, revision 5 also fixes some of the > problems that were possible in rc1 Personally, when I see "1.2.0pre10-4", I think, "This is not the same as the original/base 1.

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > > > Add yourself (and any other users you want to have access) to the > > "audio" group. Note that anyone in the "audio" group has rw access to > > these devices. This goes for oth

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Preben Randhol
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/08/2000 (17:08) : > > Add yourself (and any other users you want to have access) to the > "audio" group. Note that anyone in the "audio" group has rw access to > these devices. This goes for other device access as well. > > You can either edit /et

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> Paul D. Smith writes: >> IMHO, FAQ-O-Matic is a _very cool_ tool... jh> But a real PITA to administer. Hmm. Well, we use a pretty large FOM internally at work here, and I haven't noticed that it's a _huge_ PITA :). Mostly seems pretty self-

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread USM Bish
"w3m" ! Is this a text base browser like lynx which you can work on console? How does it manage frames? I have w3mir installed, but that's not a browser. USM Bish On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:50:40AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both >

Re: RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pr> How does a user get access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ? pr> The default setup is : pr> crw-rw1 root audio ... pr> should one do chmod o+rw or is there a better way? Add yourself (and any other users you want to have acc

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:18:18AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote: > > Yes I read the update. I'd be happy to review your articles for you, but I > > don't think you should stop at one reviewer. Debian is a very big project > and I'm > > still finding my way around parts of it. You may have been in con

Re: GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread michael d. ivey
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:51:31AM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote: > Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? I > thought it would be cool to have my time set to GMT, but there are lots > of little things I need to reflect the time I know. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Thursday A

Re: lynx gone mad!

2000-08-31 Thread hawk
> give w3m a go! It is far better than lynx IMHO. And it renders both > frame/table nicely. I've heard this a few times, and just tried it. So far, I prefer lynx: easier to navigate, I can spawn extra instances of lynx on a link, and better frame handling: lynx uses the entire screeen, and lets

RE: easy numlock question

2000-08-31 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> no, this utility only works on the current VT which is probably tty1 > for the boot process. if you really insist on pushing this on all Works just fine on my potato! Got all 6 terminals with numlock set! > your users the place to put the mentions shell commands is > /etc/profile. > > however

Re: ipv6

2000-08-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Russell Coker wrote: > So I have an inet6 address on eth0 as soon as I do "modprobe ipv6". What is > the way to ping it? I don't think you can ping link addresses very easially. You should install the radvd package and give your site some real IPs, possibly following the 6t

GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread Paul T.McNally
Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? I thought it would be cool to have my time set to GMT, but there are lots of little things I need to reflect the time I know.

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Paul D. Smith writes: > IMHO, FAQ-O-Matic is a _very cool_ tool... But a real PITA to administer. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

RW access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ?

2000-08-31 Thread Preben Randhol
How does a user get access to /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/mixer ? The default setup is : crw-rw1 root audio ... should one do chmod o+rw or is there a better way? -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost some

Re: Frozen message

2000-08-31 Thread davidturetsky
If your MTA was exim, you would find it in /var/spool/exim/input. Check /var/spool and see if you recognize your mail transport and look further in that directory path. It should be readily readable with any editor David www.richsob.com - Original Message - From: "Fre

What are the Essential Packages?

2000-08-31 Thread Tech Support Guy
Hi, I'd like to install Debian 2.2, but I'm having trouble figuring out which packages to download. I noticed that I won't be using many of the packages that come with the distribution, and don't want to waste time downloading them or, worse, downloading and burning a CD image. I'd prefer to insta

Re: PPP not going

2000-08-31 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Cristoph, At slack (that my friend tested) there isnt pppconfig (pppsetup I think). I think that the error is that I dont allocate an IP here (at the server). How I do this? Much thanks,Paulo Henrique Quoting Christoph Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Kurt Seifried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ks> One question: where is it explicitly stated that Debian backports ks> fixes and that one needs to read /usr/doc/*/changelog? I'll answer this on two levels: First, if you're writing an article on a subject for publication it behooves you to fi

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-31 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: > things like "Debian has version 1.3.9 of apache and secure version is 1.3.10 > and up so Debian isn't secure". As you can say it's also real life example. > Maybe they should be much more sceptic when thet write articles like this but > many people t

Re: PPP not going

2000-08-31 Thread Christoph Simon
> > Hi all, > I mounted a PPP server with mgetty (Debian potato) and tried to conect > with another Linux machine (Slack) and received the following log with an > error at end. What is wrong? > Thanks, Paulo Henrique > > rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 ] > sent [IPCP ConfRej i

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