Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-31 Thread David selby
Hello mate, Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things & looking for the results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it. /etc/cron.d/anacron & /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found this by accident. /etc/cron.d/anacron is the system crontab /etc/anacro

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only be done > with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I put together. > There isn't ANY other approach that works. Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses,

FHS question

2003-07-31 Thread Tom Allison
I was trolling through the Debain Policy Manual and then the referenced FHS and came up wit a question. This is just an example. openoffice is installed from .debs that I obtained (I believe) from a non-debian sanctioned location: deb http://ftp.sk.debian.org/openoffice-debian/ stable main cont

exim router question

2003-07-31 Thread Johann Spies
I want to test Spamassassin and want to relay the mail of individual users to a test machine with Spamassassin. I am not sure how to do it. I don't want to rewrite the headers and have tried the following routers which do not work: spam_exchange_router: driver = manual

Re: more install problems

2003-07-31 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a 2.4 kernel. Thanks Andrew. We _may_ be getting somewhere. I have two version

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm just switching to IMAP, so I'll toss in a few observations. I decided to try Cyrus, mostly because it seemed mention more often than others on the exim lists, and it was mentioned as integrating very easily with exim. I've found that to be the case. Also, while reading imap mailing lists try

[gmane.linux.debian.user] PowerManagement mysteries

2003-07-31 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:23:10 -0400, Tom Allison a écrit : > I can get ACPI running, but it doesn't actually "do" anything for my > notebook. Beginning of dmesg|less (or /var/log/messages if you got lots of errors), will shows that acpi do things Only that power managment is not yet there, even i

Re: cron bash date

2003-07-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Lance Hoffmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030731 21:46]: > Hello, > > I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted > it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February > will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, > I decided to run cron on the first da

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Nick Hastings
* Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030801 14:17]: > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. Clutter? Says he with the five line signature! > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them Speak for yourself. > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say > you

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:58:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 31 21:53:15 2003 > > > > > > > > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running > > and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that > > screen

upgrade turned off lpd?

2003-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Earlier today, I could print. Then I did an apt-get upgrade in testing, and I couldn't. lpq showed my jobs queued and gave Warning: no daemon present. When I did /etc/init.d/lpd start, out they came, and everything was fine. Because of the time, I suspect somehow the upgrade did it, but none of

Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 31 21:53:15 2003 > > > > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running > and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that > screen from another console? > > TIA, wishing you well. > > I don't see this po

Re: Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

2003-07-31 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Mike Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030801 12:46]: > Hi all, > > I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 > GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process > cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB of hard disk space. I'm > suspecting thi

cron bash date

2003-07-31 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, I decided to run cron on the first day of every month using the @month parameter. The problem is that

xv compilation

2003-07-31 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Has anyone gotten xv-3.10a to compile successfully under debian, with all patches applied? I'm having trouble getting PNG support compiled in. Everything compiles okay, but I cannot find where to "add" the zlib & libpng path(s) to the "Makefile" to get them linked, so png support is not compiled

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-31 Thread James Strandboge
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:39, A. Loonstra wrote: > James Strandboge wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 > >>backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.lis

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-31 Thread James Strandboge
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:36, A. Loonstra wrote: > A. Loonstra wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Well I reinstalled to machine for some more testing. I now only use your > > backport (gnome2.2) When I do apt-get install gnome gdm I get unmet > > dependencies: gnome Depends: gnucash but it is not going

Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that screen from another console? TIA, wishing you well. I don't see this post on the list, so I am r

Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

2003-07-31 Thread Mike Hunt
Hi all,   I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB of hard disk space. I'm suspecting this is because it is an old version of cfdisk (later versions of cf

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:59, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work. > > The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2. > > /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In

What /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1 means?

2003-07-31 Thread Shaul Karl
$ pon provider dryrun /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1 $ What does it mean? It is only obtained with non root user. I tried googled for it but was able to see only non English replies to similar queries. I believe the following is relevant: $ cat /etc/host

Re: How to force a module to load at boot

2003-07-31 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Rich B wrote: > > How get the module to load at boot? I believe you should do 2 things: 1. Have the module mentioned in /etc/modules. 2. Write in /etc/modutils/module-name all the information regarding this module, such as aliases, options and so o

Re: tool for checking compromised box

2003-07-31 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:21:14AM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any Debian package that can check a compromised box? I imagine it depends on what kind of "compromised" you're looking for. chkrootkit springs to mind if you think you've been rooted. integrit or tripwire are pr

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-31 Thread A. Loonstra
A. Loonstra wrote: [snip] Well I reinstalled to machine for some more testing. I now only use your backport (gnome2.2) When I do apt-get install gnome gdm I get unmet dependencies: gnome Depends: gnucash but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry broken packages. Strange... When I go into a

Re: Mutt and locale

2003-07-31 Thread Jozsef Bakosi
Oh, it puts them in /etc/environment. LC_COLLATE=hu_HU LC_CTYPE=hu_HU Jozsef On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:28:11PM -0400, Jozsef Bakosi wrote: > Lonnie, > > I had a very similar problem a couple of days ago. I needed to install the > localeconf package, I did the configuration with debconf. I let

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems [solved]

2003-07-31 Thread Neal Lippman
Congrats. Glad to hear you are up and running! On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 03:43, Michael Waters wrote: > > it works!!! Thank you so much Neal, thank you, thank you, thank you. I > had given up hope. :) > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > > OK, here's what I notice: in /dev, your /dev/sd

Re: Mutt and locale

2003-07-31 Thread Jozsef Bakosi
Lonnie, I had a very similar problem a couple of days ago. I needed to install the localeconf package, I did the configuration with debconf. I let the LANG be the default, C, after that I only set the LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to hu_HU (that's the language I needed) to override the default and after

NVidia drivers, X troubles (Debian 3, linux 2.4.18)

2003-07-31 Thread Loren King
Hi. I'm an end user with delusions of modest competence. I had debian 3.0 with linux 2.4.18 kernel set up on a hard disk from an old machine, and recently moved it over to a new machine: Shuttle XPC SN45G Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500, 1.87GHz, 333MHz FSB Mainboard/Chipset: FN45, NVidia nforce2

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 31 16:34:18 2003 > > > On -5925-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > I get about 3 a day of those, the full file at 200+ kb. Like all spam that > > comes to my box, it goes directly to /dev/null with no stops in

tool for checking compromised box

2003-07-31 Thread Louie Miranda
Hello, Is there any Debian package that can check a compromised box? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-31 Thread A. Loonstra
James Strandboge wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: Hi, I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list # XFree 4.2 deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contr

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Richard Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030731 04:20]: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote: > [...] > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get > > install gpm) > > > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device > > rather than directly from

Re: How to force a module to load at boot

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron
On -5925-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. > I don't know the correct way to force a kernel module to load at boot. > I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the > correct module automa

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron
On -5925-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > I get about 3 a day of those, the full file at 200+ kb. Like all spam that > comes to my box, it goes directly to /dev/null with no stops in between. > > Only a couple of lines in the log file stay behin

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron
On -5921-Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:57:51PM -0500, Jesse Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Aaron wrote: > > > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > > work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously > > have root on my box,

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-07-31 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Thu, 31 Jul meddelte Bill Thompson følgende: BT> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 05:30:10 +0200, Tom Vier wrote: >> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes >> it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char >> dev not showing up til you hit the

Re: X11 RENDER support

2003-07-31 Thread Mental Patient
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:39, Chris Metzler wrote: > Note the second-to-last entry, and the fact that it's "built-in". > My guess is that whoever built this X server (maybe Tal and Jon, > the Libranet folks; or maybe they got it from somewhere else) > made Xrender built-in to the server, rather tha

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron
On -5920-Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:53:29PM +0100, Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:32:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > And, if so, why do you want to "screw with him"? > he's already said hes a bofh ;-) Indeed. But only tongue-in-cheek. In response to Ro

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-31 Thread Aaron
On -5920-Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:08:38PM -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > >Most programs honor the TMPDIR environment variable. Just set > >TMPDIR=/place/with/lots/of/space and you should be fine. If the software > >you're using doesn't honor TMPDIR, f

nautilus locking on cdrom w/ large file count

2003-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a cd with 600+ files on it. I tried to mount it using both ide interface and ide-scsi interface (its a burner). After opening it with nautilus I can't umount it with a message that the device is busy. When I try to use the force flag for umount I get the following message: umount2: Device or

Re: mozilla-mail: ctrl+shift+c doesn't work anymore

2003-07-31 Thread David Corbin
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 06:01, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know why on the new mozilla 1.4-2 mailreader the key > combination Ctrl+Shift+c to mark a mailbox or newsgroup as read doesn't > work anymore. On my old mozilla 1.0 (testing) it worked nicely but since > I upgraded to unst

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not work. > The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as psaux+PS/2. > /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. In neither case will it work > outside of X. Hey-ho, so it goes. I don't h

How to force a module to load at boot

2003-07-31 Thread Rich B
This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. I don't know the correct way to force a kernel module to load at boot. I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the correct module automagically, but the new one doesn't. I have to eject the card and re-insert it before the xircom_

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:06, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 07:50, Robert Storey wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:11:14 +1000 > > "Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a > > >

Re: strange port 2664 listening

2003-07-31 Thread Rus Foster
> > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:26640.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > The only thing i can find is that it is realted to COmmand MQ, but i cant find > anything on command MQ? Try fuser 2664/tcp then grep for the pid Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15

strange port 2664 listening

2003-07-31 Thread wsykes.lists
All, i noticed the following port open tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:26640.0.0.0:* LISTEN The only thing i can find is that it is realted to COmmand MQ, but i cant find anything on command MQ? any ideas? thanks -Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man apt.conf' for all the details. The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to pick which version of a particular package I want to install when multiple versions are available with apt-get. -Original Messag

Re: X11 RENDER support

2003-07-31 Thread Chris Metzler
On 31 Jul 2003 17:14:59 -0400 Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:25, Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> So you're saying that if you comment out Xrender, thus turning off >> loading of the X Rendering extension, and *restart X*, you still >> get those messages? What do y

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, R Ransbottom wrote: > How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect > so that they "want" the same packages? > > If I understand the apt-get man page > running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will > set up the system per the setting last > made using dselect. Correct? yes > How do yo

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:34, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running > > and old DOS application.

Re: daten an logfile anhängen, es aber nicht löschen können

2003-07-31 Thread Yves Goergen
was auch immer das jetzt war... (ich bin erst seit 2 tagen hier dabei, hab also nur diese antwort) ich hab mal was von einer realisierung mit ACLs gehört (nur 'append' erlauben oder so ähnlich), geht aber nicht mit ext2/3/reiserFS soweit ich weiß. ansonsten kann ich mir vorstellen, dass es eine

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-07-31 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 05:30:10 +0200, Tom Vier wrote: > i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes > it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char > dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after > hitting th

Re: X11 RENDER support

2003-07-31 Thread Mental Patient
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:25, Chris Metzler wrote: > > The X version is 4.3 > X 4.3 is not in sid. Did you compile it yourself? Did you install it > from one of the unofficial sources at apt-get.com? If the former, > you may wanna talk to the xfree86 folks; if the latter, then them plus > whoev

Re: daten an logfile anhängen, es aber nichtlöschen können

2003-07-31 Thread Christoph Simon
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:31:02 +0200 Marcus Schopen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hei, > > kennt jemand eine Möglichkeit, dass Daten an ein Logfile angehängt > werden können. Das Logfile selbst soll von den Usern aber nicht gelöscht > > werden können und die Daten sollen auch wirklich immer nur

Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken? (SOLVED!)

2003-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Sims wrote: > autofs4; the autofs module doesn't have the hierarchical support. Yes! Success! Thank you very much for that answer. Bob Here is a summary for the archive and search engines: Bob Proulx wrote: > Jul 29 22:43:52 misery automount[26757]: mount(nfs): calling mkdir_path > /ne

daten an logfile anhängen, es aber nicht löschen können

2003-07-31 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hei, kennt jemand eine Möglichkeit, dass Daten an ein Logfile angehängt werden können. Das Logfile selbst soll von den Usern aber nicht gelöscht werden können und die Daten sollen auch wirklich immer nur ans Ende(!) gehängt werden dürfen. Vorherige Einträge soll der User nicht manipulieren kö

bad hardware clock correction

2003-07-31 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm using Debian inside Bochs. Bochs does not have support for setting the (Bochs' internal) hardware clock's time and is "upset" if you try to. Also, for some reason, Debian in Bochs things time time is going by at about three times the real speed. So, of course I'd like to fix this as simply as

dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread R Ransbottom
How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect so that they "want" the same packages? If I understand the apt-get man page running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will set up the system per the setting last made using dselect. Correct? How do you the inverse? That is how do you alter the dselect database

/dev/dsp raw audio disk writer

2003-07-31 Thread matt zagrabelny
hi, i would like to be able to capture (ie. write to disk) what goes to the soundcard (/dev/dsp). i know that jack (jackit.sourceforge.net) does this. but what if the application isnt jack aware (also i dont have jack installed)? the program i am using is xine, and i dont think it has a disk writ

Re: Debconf - no prompt?

2003-07-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > Hi All! >=20 > I'm working on a project to deploy Internet workstations in a number of l= ocal s

Re: X11 RENDER support

2003-07-31 Thread Chris Metzler
On 31 Jul 2003 15:01:44 -0400 Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. I'm running a current version of sid. [ snip ] > The X version is 4.3 X 4.3 is not in sid. Did you compile it yourself? Did you install it from one of the unofficial sources at apt-get.com? If the forme

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running > and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that > screen from a

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-31 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:28:03 -0700 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030730 13:50]: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:44:49 -0700 > > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > * Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030729 21:12]: > > > > Well, on of

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread slowe
> "Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a > > firewall on some of our clients networks. > > > > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > > with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based

RE: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 31 11:47:57 2003 > > > This is FOUL... FOUL>>> FOUL!!! > > The uuencoded piece == > Network Associates GroupShield Exchange ** > Alert generated at: Thursday, July 31, 2003 08:25:16 AM > Pacific Daylight Time > **

X11 RENDER support

2003-07-31 Thread Mental Patient
Hello. I'm running a current version of sid. My gtk applications all (for the most part) emit the same warnings: Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER support is present, but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support. In other words, it is buggy. I've tried commenting/uncommenti

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a > firewall on some of our clients networks. > > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. Wh

Mixed testing/unstable system, and dist-upgrade

2003-07-31 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have kde, and gnome installed from unstable, and as packages get upgraded, and dependancies change, or new versions are available in unstable, I more often than not, have apt-get trying to remove 50-100 packages instead of getting the needed packages from unstable. If I read the apt_prefere

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:41, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running > and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that > screen from another consol

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Juri Haberland
Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 07:50, Robert Storey wrote: >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:11:14 +1000 >> Furthermore, Intel-based PCs have some well-known exploits >> (such as buffer overflows) which are a function of the hardware and >> there is no real cure because changing the C

Re: Future Debian default MTA?

2003-07-31 Thread Mark C
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:20, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > They'll all still > be available and well integrated with the rest of the OS. Thanks, for the advice, I'll give postfix a try, as it seems fairly easy to setup /me lazy Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Debconf - no prompt?

2003-07-31 Thread Maria Rodriguez
Hi All! I'm working on a project to deploy Internet workstations in a number of local sorority houses and the solution I would like to pitch is based on the Debian distro. I need this to be as automated as possible, so I have a question regarding debconf. These machines will be checking for up

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-31 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030730 13:50]: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:44:49 -0700 > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030729 21:12]: > > > Well, on of the maintainers closed the report. Seems it's supposed > > > to be a bad download. > >

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Furthermore, Intel-based PCs have some well-known exploits > > (such as buffer overflows) which are a function of the hardware and > > there is no real cure because changing the CPU instructions would break > > backward compatibility. > > Bzz

Re: Future Debian default MTA?

2003-07-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:51:35PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > Will or would either of these be removed or replaced in the forseable > future of debian versions? Neither is going to be removed from the Debian archive as long as somebody is willing to maintain them. I have no doubt that they will recei

Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-07-31 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running and old DOS application. Does anyone know of a utility that can grab that screen from another console? TIA, wishing you well. - -- Jaye InabnitA Debian-Gnu/Linux user

Tomcat4+Apache - Install trouble on Debian?

2003-07-31 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I'm having trouble with tomcat4+Apache(1.3) on Debian; I find that tomcat, and tomcat4, don't install properly from the regular stable apt-get packages. After much research on lists, FAQs, etc, there are lots of hints, do-it-yourself configurations, and other changes to try and conflicting reco

recuperar aquivos deletados (rescue deleted files)

2003-07-31 Thread narley
Como faço para recuperar arquivos deletados! How can I rescue deleted files! Be free, use LINUX! Seja livre, use LINUX! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

using both mutt with netscape mail

2003-07-31 Thread P. Kallakuri
hello this is not so much a debian problem as it is a general mail config one. i still hope someone can tell me what's going on. i alternatively use mutt/netscape mail from work and home to access mail. my mail file is in /var/mail/. according to the default mutt config., there is a $HOME/mbo

Re: What java plugins i needed to install?

2003-07-31 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, I had the same problem as you do. If you're using Mozilla 1.4, u need a java plugin compiled with gcc-3.2 You can get the latest blackdown java plugin from www.blackdown.org choose the gcc 3.2 variant there. Or download unofficial debs by adding the line deb http://jopa.studentenweb

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:29, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Andre Volmensky said on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:11:14PM +1000: > > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > > with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. What are the > > disadvantages etc. I know I am

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:33, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:38, Bill Benedetto wrote: > > Bill> I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading > > Bill> other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my > > Bill> nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away. > > > >

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Andre Volmensky said on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:11:14PM +1000: > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. What are the > disadvantages etc. I know I am asking on a linux users mailing list, but > I would also l

Re: Nagios cgi login fails

2003-07-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
If the error is not being able to see that status of any of your devices you have configured then you need to check the permissions on cgi.cfg and htpasswd.users in /etc/nagios to make sure they are owned by 'nagios' and in the 'www-data' group with atleast 0640 permissions... This

What java plugins i needed to install?

2003-07-31 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, If i am using mozilla to view websites and encounter the following problem, what java plugins i needed to install? "This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in." Regards, James Ng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: appletalk

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Louie Miranda said on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:16:24PM +0800: > Do you have a reference there? Can you give me some insights.. Reference? apt-cache show netatalk http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Greg Folkert
This is FOUL... FOUL>>> FOUL!!! The uuencoded piece == Network Associates GroupShield Exchange ** Alert generated at: Thursday, July 31, 2003 08:25:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time ** The file

Re: php and suexec on debian

2003-07-31 Thread Clement Hermann
Yves Goergen wrote: maybe this doesn't help you with suexec, but i don't use php+suexec anymore. i switched to suphp (www.suphp.org), which runs as apache module (apache 1 only) and runs the php binary with a configurable uid/gid and php config file. that works fine, is easy to set up and does its

RE: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-07-31 Thread Pankaj Mehndiratta
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Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

2003-07-31 Thread Rob Sims
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:39 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Modules not being loaded is typically the problem. That or the > > rpc/portmap/...blah not compiled in. > > > > So load them ... in /etc/modules > > Great idea! Which modules would you suggest? I can't guess at what >

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:38, Bill Benedetto wrote: > Bill> I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading > Bill> other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my > Bill> nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away. > > Ian> Thanks. Is there a straightforward way for doing tha

Re: Inventory Databases

2003-07-31 Thread John Foster
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I am wondering what advice people have about the following: Our company needs to keep track of purchased inventory (when purchased, how much, where it's located), etc. Also, we would want to keep a db on analogous products, who they are sold by, their prices, etc. Now,

Re: OT: Advice on Linux Web Hosting

2003-07-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 31 July 2003 15:31, Michael Kahle wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has any advice on a good linux web hosting > provider. [...] I'm sure this is the wrong place. Still, I strongly recommend lazylizard.net. Been with them for years... They are always helpful. Tell Jonathan I se

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 31 July 2003 14:22, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not > > work. The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as > > psaux+PS/2. /dev/gpmdata kills it completely. I

Re: Best? groupware

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:22, Timothy Webster wrote: > I need some advice on which groupware I should select > for small business. > [...] > Kroupware (Kolab), requires a propriety connector for > Outlook clients. That is OK with us. How mature is it? > Open Source Groupware, how mature is it? the

OT: Advice on Linux Web Hosting

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Kahle
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on a good linux web hosting provider. I am looking to go with a reputable company at reasonable rates. I would need anywhere from 6gb - 10gb / month bandwidth. Access to CGI bin preferable, other nice features would be MySQL, perl, php, etc. Preferably loc

Re: Nagios cgi login fails

2003-07-31 Thread Andraz Sraka
re On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:39:04PM -0700, Dale Miller wrote: > I am trying to confgiure nagios and get it working and > am having problems at the login to get to the main > page. I am using the unstable distribution. The > following are the versions of the packages I am using. what kind of err

Re: video card, dvd/vcd

2003-07-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 31 July 2003 16:38, Preston Boyington wrote: > I am thinking about buying an all-in-wonder card to convert some old vhs > tapes to vcd/dvd. I would like some suggestions/experiences from the group > for software or hardware. For grabbing, you can use xawtv with about any TV card suppo

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-31 Thread Bill Benedetto
Bill> I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading Bill> other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my Bill> nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away. Ian> Thanks. Is there a straightforward way for doing that? There probably is. Someone else suggested going to snap

Re: Arquivo apagado (erased file)

2003-07-31 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello narley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How can I rescue deleted files? On ext2 filesystems you can use the recover or mc packages. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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