Re: Help

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:12:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have been able to reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. this page was installed. I contacted the Web Master about your site's block. They don't know

Re: apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:35:22 -0500 Thomas R. Shemanske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-zip does that. I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at work. What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, take some ouputted list of files which need to be

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Neil Booth
(Ironically, the reason I want to get rid of gcc-2.95 entirely and use only gcc-3.x is that I'm a GCC maintainer, and want to do lots of testing with the 3.x series. If the solution to this dependancy mess involves destroying gcc-doc, that's fine with me; I have many copies of the GCC manual

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other mail clients, and I would like to connect over ssl, evolution has the option, but i don't know what I need to install in the server to be able to do it...

Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing. Is there a way I can get this to work? If so, how? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Re: Mouse wheel in potato...

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! That worked, but needed to remove the emulate3buttons to get it to work... Thanks to everyoune who offered help! On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Rafael Sasaki wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:03AM -0600, Alexander Wallace wrote: Hello there! Could someone tell me what needs to be in

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:12:17PM +, Neil Booth wrote: (Ironically, the reason I want to get rid of gcc-2.95 entirely and use only gcc-3.x is that I'm a GCC maintainer, and want to do lots of testing with the 3.x series. If the solution to this dependancy mess involves destroying

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread martin f krafft
* Alexander Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.09 09:12:20-0600]: I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other mail clients, and I would like to connect over ssl, evolution has the option, but i

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! I'm trying to have an ssl enabled pop3 server, I'll look at those links you sent me! Thanks! On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya alexander.. are you building a ssl-enabled pop3s server ?? - telnet localhost 995 ( if it connects you already have a secure pop3s

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0800, nate wrote: David Priban said: What exactly is the issue you are talking about? I was just about to build a system using 6410 raid 5 :( Also couple of weeks ago 3ware announced it is going to discontinue Escalade line of products. This makes me

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread ben
for windows, get to a dos prompt and use fdisk /mbr. that will restore the original windows loader. i remember trying to do that rewrite on an NT box years ago but ending up having to do a full reinstall. your question begs another. why would you want to do that? since lilo will give you options

Re: apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Thorsten Gunkel
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:35:22PM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at work. What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the machine at work to

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Alexander Wallace
THank you! I'll check it out. On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, martin f krafft wrote: * Alexander Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.09 09:12:20-0600]: I guess I should have been more specific, I have a debian server that is my pop server, and a debian desktop in which I use evolution or other mail

Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Is there a way to auto login using a specified user name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l user_name but how about sending password? = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread xbud
umm don't use rsh or telnet use ssh and use RSA Authentication to login w/out a password. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.. www.openssl.org www.openssh.org -xbud

Re: Auto login ...

2001-11-09 Thread nate
=?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= said: Hi, Is there a way to auto login using a specified user name and password to a remote machine? I read rsh, telnet manpages and found nothing, it specify -l user_name but how about sending password? i do it with ssh. especially with rsync its pretty much

intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Timo Blazko Boewing
Hello all, I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some other stuff like changing default ports of some demons like sshd), I am

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Timo Blazko Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: Especially, I am looking for a not-too-paranoid-to-setup-tool that can review my logfiles and report me via beep and/or local mail that it found something unusual in a log. Does anyone know of such a tool? http://www.psionic.com/ has

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
You could try changing your /etc/apt/sources.list to include woody, do an apt-get update , then a apt-get -s -u install abcde to see what would happen An alternative would be to try grip which I like even better than abcde Stan Brown wrote: I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that

dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all kinds of options and using dselect, dpkg and apt-get. When I use apt-get I get the

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Timo Blazko Boewing
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry and hostsentry. Hello Stephen, Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i will try these packages. When i am done, i will let the list know about my experiences; if

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from | progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing | is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing. | | Is there a

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:49:38PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all

Re: exim question

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:59:12PM -0500, Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all - A strange thing, presumably of my own doing, just appeared. I was looking through apt-cache show, and I happened upon exim-tls, which is exim with ssl support. I decided that would be a great

RE: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Kris Huber
Stan, Here's a cut-and-paste-and-slightly-edited version of what I found about almost the same question I asked on this reflector a week or two ago (see thread RE: cproto.deb for potato not available?): Scheme using newer version of apt-get than you probably have: It seems the

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in testing is fine. Probelm is it depends on one more package from testing.

Re: exim question

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:59:12PM -0500, Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all - A strange thing, presumably of my own doing, just appeared. I was looking through apt-cache show, and I happened upon exim-tls, which is exim with ssl support. I

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Timo Blazko Boewing: Hello all, I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some other stuff like changing default

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 15:45:48 +, P Kirk wrote: Forgot the attachment. 6544 open(/usr/sbin/install-info, O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd2ec) = 0 6544 stat64(0x80fe5b0, 0x80f5ae0) = 0 6544 link(/usr/info/dir,

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Thank you. I found only two tr files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils, using apt-get --reinstall install textutils. After doing this, I had no problem with fully

Re: syslogd and iptables

2001-11-09 Thread Jeff
Raffaele Sandrini, 2001-Nov-09 19:13 +0100: Hi all, what do i have to enter to the sylog.conf to split all the iptables messages done by the LOG (-j LOG) target into another file than messages? cheers, Raffaele -- syslog doesn't allow this functionality. You need to replace it with

Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter

2001-11-09 Thread Gary Hennigan
Timo Blazko Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry and hostsentry. Hello Stephen, Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i will try these packages. When i am

Re: Ftp downloads for Linux running AMD K6

2001-11-09 Thread nate
said: Could somebody please send me the URL of an FTP site from where I can download binaries (/bin variety and /sbin variety) for Linux running AMD K6 ? My machine shows up as i586 . that is normal and expected. it will work fine(i have a K6-3 thats been running for years) if you want

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2001-11-09 Thread Abhishek Amit
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Re: tape drive problems

2001-11-09 Thread Kurt Lieber
I discovered the problem -- it turned out to be the SCSI chain wasn't correctly terminated. (or it may have been because I was using passive termination -- I'm not sure) I purchased a new internal SCSI cable with an active terminator and now it works fine. Posting this here in the hopes it

mailcap format code

2001-11-09 Thread ben
on loading netscape, i get the following message: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{ i've checked the mailcap man page, which suggests that format codes begin with %{ are part of the scheme of things, and i've also checked the mailcap file itself for any stray, unenclosed

Re: Mail retrieval / delivery

2001-11-09 Thread Craig Dickson
C Masters wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2001 15:08, Craig Dickson wrote: Here's what I have set up: Incoming mail: On Debian #1, fetchmail, running from per-user crontabs, retrieves our mail. (I want to change this to be a single system-wide fetchmail running as a daemon, but I

Re: GTK for Mplayer?? (Possible issues w/ GTK Ximian?)

2001-11-09 Thread Mike McGuire
This seems to be a problem with the Ximian packages, which I can't really help you with. But I can tell you that last I checked, the mplayer GUI is rather incomplete and uh, sucky. It didn't seem to do much but play, pause, and look nice. :) Maybe they've got it doing more by now, but IMHO

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Fontenot wrote: The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) gives a see also for xpr (for printing the resulting X window dump). But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has xpr been replaced by

Gnus and SMTP?

2001-11-09 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I've been trying to get gnus speak smtp with my smtp-server, to avoid having a local MTA (exim, sendmail etc). I get the following error from gnus: unknown extesion xverp Sending failed; SMTP protocol error I'm on a woody-box behind a firewall and an ADSL-modem. In my .emacs I have: (setq

mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Charles Baker
When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error Cannot create browser instance I installed mozilla via apt-get of the deb package. I'm currently running 2.2.18 kernel and xfree 4.1 and windowmaker .70. I tried to launch from the commandline in an eterm to see any error output, but still only got

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Charles Baker wrote: | When I start mozilla 0.9.5 on sid I get an error | Cannot create browser instance I installed mozilla | via apt-get of the deb package. I'm currently running | 2.2.18 kernel and xfree 4.1 and windowmaker .70. I | tried to launch from the commandline in an eterm to |

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Alan Shutko
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a depends on this. If not, file a bug. textutils is essential, so the package doesn't need to declare a dependency. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Green

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 22:04 9/11/2001 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR ? Seems like you

Re: No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread nate
Mike Fontenot said: The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) gives a see also for xpr (for printing the resulting X window dump). But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has xpr been replaced by something

debootstrap

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Allison
Where can I find LOTS of documentation on this debootstrap program? It seems that this is being used to replace the old base*.tgz files that I'm so familiar with. I'm trying to figure out how to do a remote installation with near zero direct access to a computer and this might simplify things

Re: Gnus and SMTP?

2001-11-09 Thread DvB
Ole Sebastian Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to get gnus speak smtp with my smtp-server, to avoid having a local MTA (exim, sendmail etc). In order to send mail directly through/get mail directly from my pop3 server account, I added the following lines to my .gnus file:

CR/LF

2001-11-09 Thread xucaen
#include fstream.h int main() { char ch; while(!cin.eof() ){ cin.get(ch); switch(ch){ case '\r': break; default: cout ch; } } return 0; }

Re: Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
Iiro A K Jantunen wrote: Hi! I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, was shocking to me. What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem? I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had just commented woody out from

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: This is the error that finally drove me back to Galeon... I found that I loved it. If you can't fix it or something, give it a shot, though it'll require installing a bunch of gnome libraries just for that app, I think

GLE libraries

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I'm trying to compile the GLE libraries from source obtained at http://www.linas.org/gle/ and I'm having a few problems. The latest version (3.0.5) fails to compile due to a makefile error (no rule to make COPYING.src in all-am, I think), but 3.0.4 compiles and installs just fine.

[Fwd: Re: Big time problem after disk crash]

2001-11-09 Thread calyth-shaw
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:23:22PM -0800, calyth-shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was rebooting the system when it froze, right after sending the wall message to all users that it's going to reboot. It resulted in an unflushed disk cache reboot, and I know it was

A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Smith
Here's a weird one, and I don't know that anyone can help but I can't think of anything else to try. So, I'm beta testing a new commercial VPN client for Linux. The official supported platforms are Red Hat (of course), plus Caldera and Turbo Linux IIRC. Others on the beta list have reported

CR/LF even better

2001-11-09 Thread xucaen
#include fstream.h #include queue using namespace std; void process_file(int argc, char **argv); void process_stdin(); void check_char(char ch); int main(int argc, char **argv) { if(argc 1) process_file(argc, argv); else process_stdin(); return 0; } void

Re: dpkg problem

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a depends on this. If not, file a bug. textutils is essential, so packages don't need to (and shouldn't) depend on it unless the dependency is versioned. -- Colin

Re: Is it possible to install a few testing packages on a stable machine?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:31:29PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:15:44PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to get abcde to work. Turns out that the version I have (from progen) is broken. The developers of this package say the version in

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote: Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely work right on RH. I borrowed a laptop with vanilla RH 6.2, and brought it home, and it works fine. Also if I boot my system into Windows and use

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:14:45PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On 9 Nov 2001, Paul Smith wrote: Subject: A RH package won't work on Debian This is normal. It's a bug on Red Hat's side, as RH packages rarely work right on RH. *snicker* Q. What does RedHat call their

Re: A RH package won't work on Debian

2001-11-09 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P. Soulier wrote: *snicker* Q. What does RedHat call their unstable tree? A. A .0 release. I thought they called it Red Hat Linux. Craig

Re: Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

2001-11-09 Thread Akintayo Holder
Vittorio wrote: This is the first time it happens to me! Under woody I've compiled my own, very light kernel 2.4.13-1 (Bunk's stuff) for my hardware eliminating many options I don't need. Now, it all works ok (in syslog there isn't anything strange or missing dependency warning) but when I

Re: mozilla 0.9.5 on sid

2001-11-09 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:45:08PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: This is the error that finally drove me back to Galeon... I found that I loved it. If you can't fix it or something, give it a shot, though it'll

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