Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 22:55:31 -0600 tripolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David > what installer are you talking about? woody installer? > I used the newer sarge one and I didnt notice any option but lilo > because sure would have appreciated installing grub instead. Instead > will have to install

Re: Using aide for detection

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:34:20AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > 3) What if an attacker that broke into the machine simply disables the > > cron job for aide? How would that be detected? > > When you don't get the daily report, start worrying. I guess. I try to watch for them, but after 100 da

Re: Playing "RealOne" clips

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:36:27PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > > So any recommendations on selecting a front end? I'm running icewm. > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a "front end." Both of those can > be selected as "helper-applications" in Mozilla when the dialog pops up. Oh, no I meant

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:40:32AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned: > > >> > > >> As usual, science fiction was here before. C.F., _The Songs of > > >> Distant Earth_ by Arthur C.

frozen-bubble won't load after moving to unstable

2003-12-06 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Ever since I upgraded from stable to unstable recently, I have been unable to execute frozen-bubble anymore. I've been getting the following errors: $ /usr/games/frozen-bubble Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/SDL_perl/SDL_perl.so' for module SDL_perl: libGL.so.1: cannot handle TLS data at

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:40:32AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned: > > >> > > >> As usual, science fiction was here before. C.F., _The Songs of > > >> Distant Earth_ by Arthur C.

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Björn Lindström
"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess I am missing something here. I have a file > kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 in /usr/src, and when I do: > {src}> tar -jtf kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > > I get the listing as: > {src}> tar -jtf kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > kernel-source-2.4.22/ > kern

Re: Using aide for detection

2003-12-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:36:07AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > 1) For a machine that doesn't have a cdrom and/or is physically > available to me, is there any other trick to make sure the database is > secure? The machine I'm thinking about doesn't have nfs mounts > available to it, either.

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Travis Crump
H. S. wrote: Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0500, H. S. escreveu: some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not s

Re: Security question

2003-12-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:36:55PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > At the risk of starting a flamefest, what is a good IDS? I ask because > the recent compromises have got me thinking. I have a couple of > web/mail servers I am adminning at school, and I really have no way of > knowing if they ha

Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread tripolar
David what installer are you talking about? woody installer? I used the newer sarge one and I didnt notice any option but lilo because sure would have appreciated installing grub instead. Instead will have to install & configure grub after the fact. On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 22:48, David Palmer. wrote

Re: keep old files

2003-12-06 Thread Kent West
Joydeep Bakshi wrote: Hi list, I am a newbie debian user (switched from RH). I have faced a strange prob. in woody. whenever I modified any file the previous contents is backedup with a *~* sign and the modified one is saved with the actual name. like *test.kwd* will be *test.kwd* after modifica

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-06 Thread ben_foley
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned: > >> > >> As usual, science fiction was here before. C.F., _The Songs of > >> Distant Earth_ by Arthur C. Clarke. > > > > You do remember that the first generation colonists in the

Re: Playing "RealOne" clips

2003-12-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:56:55 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is it possible to get mplayer to play any of these? > > > > > > http://www.prairiehome.org/performances/20031129/ > > > > Don't know about mplayer - I never had much luck with that plugin - > > but both real

Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 04:37:09 +0100 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:09:59 -0500, > lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > i'm downloading the debian-installer beta. i intend to install on a > > > > spare partition on my GRUB-base

Re: Linux vs. SCO: 1-0

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 18:41:39 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 01:29 GMT, Sneferu penned: > > > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405711,00.asp > > > > > > It looks like the 1st round was good for us ;-) > > > >

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Björn Lindström wrote: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: While doing a google search to read pages on who to compile a new Linux kernel the Debian way, I see some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel

keep old files

2003-12-06 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
Hi list, I am a newbie debian user (switched from RH). I have faced a strange prob. in woody. whenever I modified any file the previous contents is backedup with a *~* sign and the modified one is saved with the actual name. like *test.kwd* will be *test.kwd* after modification, but there will b

silly ALSA sound problem

2003-12-06 Thread michelle
I can't get any sound to play. I'm using sarge, with ALSA 0.96 /proc shows 3 "sound cards" 0 Dummy 1 Virtual MIDI 2 Live 2 is my SBLive card. However, there's no sound, perhaps because it's muted by default? But with alsamixer all I can bring up is Dummy. So how do I g

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Björn Lindström
"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While doing a google search to read pages on who to compile a new > Linux kernel the Debian way, I see some of them mentioning that I > should first delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before > I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then r

silly ALSA sound problem

2003-12-06 Thread michelle
I can't get any sound to play. I'm using sarge, with ALSA 0.96 /proc shows 3 "sound cards" 0 Dummy 1 Virtual MIDI 2 Live 2 is my SBLive card. However, there's no sound, perhaps because it's muted by default? But with alsamixer all I can bring up is Dummy. So how do I g

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0500, H. S. escreveu: some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not suggest this. Is

Howto build source using "dpkg-builpackage"

2003-12-06 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Hi out there. I fetched source packages and got sure depencies are correct using apt build-deb [name]; apt source [name]; Secondly, what would be the apropriate step if considering building and install the binary? Would a dpkg-buildpackage -b entered in the source directory be sufficient? Is

Re: Playing "RealOne" clips

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:45:47PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:34:48 -0800 > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone pointed me to an audio clip of some music. > > > > Is it possible to get mplayer to play any of these? > > > > http://www.prairiehome.org/perf

Re: Debian instalation

2003-12-06 Thread Kent West
king kong wrote: Someone please make a good installer (something is going on here, but not ready yet), and start some kind of donation campaign, a la Mandrake Club or something. I'll put my money where my mouth is. I believe it's called Xandros or Libranet. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Security question

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003, at 17:27 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > i say, if your ids does find an intruder .. game over ... too late .. > > Unless *you* don't know you're harboring an intruder... yes... know people that had a cracker in their se

test7

2003-12-06 Thread michelle
new strategy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing fonts

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:21:33 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel escreveu: > Which utilities do I need? Check dfontmgr or something the like. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belo Horizonte, Londrina, SÃo Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./

Re: Playing "RealOne" clips

2003-12-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:34:48 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone pointed me to an audio clip of some music. > > Is it possible to get mplayer to play any of these? > > http://www.prairiehome.org/performances/20031129/ Don't know about mplayer - I never had much luck with th

Re: Alias help needed

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:54:33 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ..huh? Either 'less `ls /files/I/wanna/read/* ` ' or some such, one > > by one, or 'cat ``ls /files/I/wanna/read/* ` |less ' for all i

Reverting to stable

2003-12-06 Thread David Zuccaro
Hi, I have been having problems doing an: apt-get upgrade to woody 3.0r2 I have been running a combination of stable, testing and unstable packages and I think this fact is causing all sorts of dependancy problems. How can I revert all of my packages back to 'stable'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Playing "RealOne" clips

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Moseley
Someone pointed me to an audio clip of some music. Is it possible to get mplayer to play any of these? http://www.prairiehome.org/performances/20031129/ BTW -- I have mplayerplug-in v0.80 in mozilla 1.5-3 -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:11:13 -0500, H. S. escreveu: > some of them mentioning that I should first > delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip > a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not suggest > this. Is this a step crucial? [...] > clean, th

Re: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 03:11:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble with a new Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard I just > put into my Debian machine. (I took out the old card.) > > A bit of searching around indicates that the Santa Cruz

Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:09:59 -0500, lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm downloading the debian-installer beta. i intend to install on a > spare partition on my GRUB-based system. > > does debian-installer use GRUB or LILO? > > if LILO, can i just skip the LI

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:13:33 +0800, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not mad at anyone. > If there is a form of arrogance that displays a lack of experience, > it's analysis at a distance. > Put all politicians on a wage of $500.00/week, and make it

Re: Security question

2003-12-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003, at 17:27 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > i say, if your ids does find an intruder .. game over ... too late .. Unless *you* don't know you're harboring an intruder... -- scott c. linnenbringer| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.panix.com/~sl | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.

Re: problems installing java

2003-12-06 Thread tripolar
well back in town and trying to install java on mothers pc so she can goto websites with java. I first upgraded her system to sid ( because that is what mine is) then added a site from apt-get.org for j2re1.4 did apt-get install j2re1.4 then this- Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... update-alte

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:34:41 +0800, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:32:37 -0800 (PST) > bob nole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you are a animal raper > > > > > How did he find out? > Regards, ..he(?) is the animal? ;-) --

Re: printer icon

2003-12-06 Thread Wilmaann

Evolution 1.4

2003-12-06 Thread Nate Drake
I've got a Testing/Unstable system, and I'm trying to install Evolution 1.4.5-3. Everything went great until it tried to unpack libpisync0. I am getting this error trying to fix it with -f install: sudo apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggeste

Re: Linux vs. SCO: 1-0

2003-12-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 01:29 GMT, Sneferu penned: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405711,00.asp > > > It looks like the 1st round was good for us ;-) > > The "show me yours I'll show you main" game has started anyway. > Strange. I thought it was IBM vs SCO. -- monique -- To UN

Re: uhoh - bind on unstable (repost)

2003-12-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 01:23 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: > > --eAnxKwVhzStH6fSc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > quoted-printable > > on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:50:27PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] osh.org) wro

Re: The lost cramfs patch (was: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises)

2003-12-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>- Original Message - >From: "Florian Ernst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:37 AM >Subject: Re: The lost cramfs patch (was: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises) > >Hello Benedict! > >>On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:06:35AM +01

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:39:04 +0100, Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but > > would like > > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect

Re: DHCP problems

2003-12-06 Thread Stefan Bellon
Andrew Schulman wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: [ifup does not bring up interface via dhcp] > > The file /etc/network/interfaces contains the lines > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > which looks ok to me. > Yes, this seems fine (although I also have auto lo and > iface lo inet l

Re: esd refuses to run

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:26:46 -0500, Roberto Sanchez escreveu: > what does 'lsof /dev/dsp' say? Nothing as well. Now I just tried 'fuser -mu /dev/dsp', it gives a huge list of processes. And the Gnome sounds are playing. Would it be possible that each Gnome process is acessing /

Re: PC - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote: > Alvin writes: > > IBM made is "official" that its okay to use in an office environment to > > replace the selectric typewriter > > Nope. That was Wang et al. with their word processors. yes.. wang was out there too, along with olivetti and few other ty

Re: Security question

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roberto On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > At the risk of starting a flamefest, what is a good IDS? I ask because > the recent compromises have got me thinking. I have a couple of > web/mail servers I am adminning at school, and I really have no way of > knowing if they have be

Re: Debian instalation

2003-12-06 Thread king kong
Hehe, I know the feeling :) Started with Slackware, went to RH, tried Suse, Mandrake and Gentoo (later) sometimes along the way, and have stayed with RH consistently since 5.2. Kent gave an intro already to upgrade your system, you just have to specify in the apt source list which one you want. I

Re: Running exim4-heavy-daemon, clamAV, want to add SpamAssassin

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:37:11AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Is there a quick tutorial on adding SpamAssassin to the mix? Yup. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:25:17PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I heard somewhere: He who is ignorant of History is doomed to repeat > > it. I've heard, attributed to Newton, "If I have seen further than > > other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." > > Existing computer

Re: Debian instalation

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:18:22PM +0200, Mihai P. B. Stiucan wrote: > I saw there that they are 3 stages: stable, testing, unstable. For sure > I choosed stable on my first pick,, got the images and installed it. > After that, I noticed that all the

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sebastia Altemir (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have solved my Ethernet startup problem by placing the line > "fealnx" in the "/etc/modules" file. But I would like to know what > Script ( as /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S05network -> /etc/init.d/network under > SuSE 8.2 ) uses this file to activat

apple - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, csj wrote: > Well, we used to own an Apple II that was made in Taiwan and > didn't have the Apple logo. Does that qualify as open enough? > If it weren't for the Apple II clones eating into Apple's > bottomline, Steve Jobs wouldn't have bothered inventing the Mac. apple does

Re: PC - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Alvin writes: > IBM made is "official" that its okay to use in an office environment to > replace the selectric typewriter Nope. That was Wang et al. with their word processors. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Linux vs. SCO: 1-0

2003-12-06 Thread Sneferu
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405711,00.asp It looks like the 1st round was good for us ;-) The "show me yours I'll show you main" game has started anyway. --- Catalin V. A. --- highly passionate about linux

Re: esd refuses to run

2003-12-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: esd here refuses to run on the grounds that /dev/dsp is busy. But fuser /dev/dsp gives nothing. Tips, ideas? what does 'lsof /dev/dsp' say? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:01:39PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Among the broken hacks: antspotlight, gflux (-mode grab), flipscreen3d, > > and glslideshow. > > Ok. Tested all of those here. They all work, and can grab the desktop, > except for glslideshow. It works if I

Re: uhoh - bind on unstable (repost)

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:50:27PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Apparently, my post got cut short (could it be that a line containing > only a period would signify end of post?). Yes: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc821.txt See 3.1. Your news/mail gateway appear

segmented mem - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Paul Morgan wrote: > IBM did popularize the term "PC", but they sure as heck didn't invent the > personal computer. And, because they'd bought the rights to the Intel > 8086, and because of the sheer economic power and brand recognition of > IBM, we all got stuck with the dr

Re: Alias help needed

2003-12-06 Thread Björn Lindström
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ..huh? Either 'less `ls /files/I/wanna/read/* ` ' or some such, one by > one, or 'cat ``ls /files/I/wanna/read/* ` |less ' for all in one go. > > ..tested down my /proc tree. ;-) That ls seems superfluous. $ less /files/I/wanna/read/* or $ cat /fil

Re: Galeon troubles

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:51:50 -0200, Christoph Simon escreveu: > you'll get > going quicker by just putting ~/.galeon out of the way. In fact it is woking nice that way now, and I just gave up debugging it for now. Have to care about esd and dhcp now, thanks! -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria

PC - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, bob parker wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:12, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:32:47PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > Good point. And just because Bill Gates et. al have become hard-nosed > > > businessmen, it does not mean they are immoral. > > > > Microsoft playe

esd refuses to run

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
esd here refuses to run on the grounds that /dev/dsp is busy. But fuser /dev/dsp gives nothing. Tips, ideas? -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Belo Horizonte, Londrina, SÃo Paulo +55 (11) 5686 9607 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutr

Re: Character set weirdness

2003-12-06 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:00:59 +0100, Nicos Gollan escreveu: > With LANG set to en_US.UTF-8, konsole even accepts and prints umlauts on > the command line. Do you have .UTF-8 in your /etc/environment or something the like? Looks like you don't, then you set it in konsole. That way only ko

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread Hoyt Bailey
> I heard somewhere: He who is ignorant of History is doomed to repeat > it. I've heard, attributed to Newton, "If I have seen further than > other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." > Existing computer designs are built on ideas of mathematical logic and > mathematical r

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-06 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Thanasis Kinias wrote: > As I mentioned, transparency doesn't work, but UTF-8 works just fine for > me in 1.2.3. I didn't do anything to configure that; it works `out of > the box' in a UTF-8 locale. Which locale is this? I tried with Norwegian, and I don't see the Norwegian letters. (this is ko

Re: Newbie: installation using iso images on hard disk

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:14:27PM +0530, Prashant Jaikumar wrote: > I am new to Debian and would like to know the procedure to install Debian > using the iso images (I don't want to burn all the 7 disks). RTFM, manual has a big link from Debian's ho

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:04:44PM -0500, Adam Garside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:08:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On 5. December 2003 at 8:33AM -0800, > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani > >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:01:19PM +0100, Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:33:14 -0600 > David Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone? Any ideas? What is this? > > A spammer harvesting replies. Any particular reason to feel that's the case? Are you seei

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:21:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >More significantly: get a Knoppix disk. Use it to identify the HW on > >the system. The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info > >script: > > > >http://twiki.iwethey.

Re: oh boy, here I go again: compiling kernel takes so long second time around

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:45:37 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > Okay, so I compiled the kernel, and then while reading stuff on the net, > wanted to finetune it a bit more using "make menuconfig" and by changing > a one to options. I figured the compilation shouldnt' take long the > second time around, b

Re: Ethernet card not detected - where is YAST2 ?

2003-12-06 Thread Sebastia Altemir
Thanks a lot, Roberto, Paul, Oliver and David. Men, you are fantastic ! All 4 comments are perfect, even different : Roberto -> direct Paul -> pointer to the doc Oliver -> package David -> detailed, the one I've used to have it working. Guess Debian is the rigth place to be:-) Sebastian.

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-06 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2003 04:49 als Marc Wilson schrieb: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any > > > problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error > > > messages: >

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > ... > > I have all services locked down to localhost; my only connections to > > the outside world are mail, news via nntpcached, web via squid... I run

Re: Debian install woes

2003-12-06 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:45:06PM +, james wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on some Dell 1750's and really need some > guidance. You could try using Heanet's modified version of Debian[1] for Dell Poweredge servers. I think it was made for 2650's but might work with your 1750's. [1]

Re: DO NOT hijack threads!

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:45:10PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > No, actually Paul continued the message thread while changing the subject > line, which is NOT the same as hijacking the thread. Yes. I intended my message to be threaded as a response, in

who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-06 Thread Sebastia Altemir
I have solved my Ethernet startup problem by placing the line "fealnx" in the "/etc/modules" file. But I would like to know what Script ( as /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S05network -> /etc/init.d/network under SuSE 8.2 ) uses this file to activate my Ethernet card at system startup. I would like to place some

oh boy, here I go again: compiling kernel takes so long second time around

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Okay, so I compiled the kernel, and then while reading stuff on the net, wanted to finetune it a bit more using "make menuconfig" and by changing a one to options. I figured the compilation shouldnt' take long the second time around, but it seems it is compiling as if it were compiling it the f

Security question

2003-12-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
At the risk of starting a flamefest, what is a good IDS? I ask because the recent compromises have got me thinking. I have a couple of web/mail servers I am adminning at school, and I really have no way of knowing if they have been 0wn3d. I (poorly) check the logs every 2 to 4 weeks, but that do

Re: No need for 2.4.23 (re compromise)

2003-12-06 Thread Andreas Goesele
Mark C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > same here from the debian sources, but with a few added patches, > there is no need to download a new kernel, just get the source you have > for the currently running kernel, apply this patch: > > -- cut - > --- 1.31/mm

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS

2003-12-06 Thread Paul
* Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-06 14:23]: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my local printer working (HP Deskjet 710C) . I'm > running woody with KDE3.1.4. I have a HP 712C from the same braindead series. I've recently updated from woody to sid, but did have this printe

is symlink "linu" necessary while compiling new kernel?

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Hi, While doing a google search to read pages on who to compile a new Linux kernel the Debian way, I see some of them mentioning that I should first delete a symlink "linux" in /usr/src if it exists before I untar and unzip a download kernel file, and then recreate it. Some pages do not sugges

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread Tom
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:25:05PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > philosophist. But, where there is life there is hope. You may, I hope, > outgrow your current rhetorical position. God, I hope not. >From 1996-2000 everybody I met thought I was absolutely crazy because I kept saying "look, if the

Re: Alias help needed

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:22:46 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > on Wed, 03 Dec 2003 01:57:17PM -0500, Bob Tilley (AT&T) insinuated: > >> I wish to use the expression "catl " to execute the > >> comm

Re: Compiling 2.6: Cannot stat "conf.vars"

2003-12-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
On Saturday 06 December 2003 23:10, Markku Kellberg wrote: > lör 2003-12-06 klockan 18.25 skrev Mariano Kamp: > > [..] (copied by hand) > > install -p -o root -g root -m 644 conf.vars > > debian/tmp-image/usr/share/doc/ kernel-image-2.6.0-test9/conf.vars > > install: cannot stat "conf.vars": No s

Re: compiled and installed new kernel, but dkpg does not find it

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: H. S. wrote: Hi, I downloaded the source for 2.4.22 and compiled it and installed using dpkg: 461 cd kernel-source-2.4.22 462 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 ./.config 463 make menuconfig 464 make menuconfig 465 make-kpkg clean 466 make-kpkg --append_to_vers

Re: compiled and installed new kernel, but dkpg does not find it

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello You are using dpkg the wrong way. If you want to get information about installed packages, leave out the filename extension. Try dpkg -l kernel-image* to get a list and see how they are called. Your package probably is called kernel-image-2.4.22-nvidia best regards

Re: compiled and installed new kernel, but dkpg does not find it

2003-12-06 Thread H. S.
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello You are using dpkg the wrong way. If you want to get information about installed packages, leave out the filename extension. Try dpkg -l kernel-image* to get a list and see how they are called. Your package probably is called kernel-image-2.4.22-nvidia best regards

Re: Compiling 2.6: Cannot stat "conf.vars"

2003-12-06 Thread Markku Kellberg
lör 2003-12-06 klockan 18.25 skrev Mariano Kamp: > Hi, > > I am trying to compile 2.6.0-test9 on i386/debian/unstable. > > When running: > > make-kpkg --revision=medion3g --config=menuconfig clean kernel_image > > That's what I get: > > [..] (copied by hand) > install -p -o root

Re: [OT] Executing code once on initialization of a .so file

2003-12-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:37:57 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Is it possible to include code in a .so that gets executed only once on > initialization of a shared lib? AFAIK yes. The ELF binary format has a ".init" section for that purpose; see http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/lu95elf.html . > If so, h

Re: App for making invitation cards

2003-12-06 Thread John Peter
Kent West wrote: I've had my mom running Debian for a couple of years, but she's just doing the minimal stuff of email/web browsing, and is not computer literate. Now she wants to create party invitations. Any suggestions as to the best direction to steer her? (Solving some of these issues wou

Re: stable release version 3.0r1

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:30:03AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I noticed on the Debian homepage that the latest released version is > 3.0r1 dated December, 2002. > > But under the news they say that r2 is out as of November, 2003. > > Should the hom

Re: what kernel to use?

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tripolar wrote: package listing on debian is down. I am using Linux version 2.4.22-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 cpu- AMD 2700+ Athlon ABIT NF7 Nvidia chipset Nvidia Nforce2 I want to recompile or try new kernel ( if it w

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned: >> >> As usual, science fiction was here before. C.F., _The Songs of >> Distant Earth_ by Arthur C. Clarke. > > You do remember that the first generation colonists in the novel were > "manufactured" from gene samples and raised by machines that taugh

Re: Running exim4-heavy-daemon, clamAV, want to add SpamAssassin

2003-12-06 Thread BruceG
And the final installment of the saga: Setting up SpamAssassin was extremely straight-forward. Those notes were great! And DMan's notes were great as well. Only one minor problem - with a 100Mhz Pentium, 16 Meg Memory, 32 Meg swap - it just grinds and grinds and grinds and grinds. It worked. It ma

Re: to let the "shutdown -h now" make the power really go off

2003-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, micro-people <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >mmm >my Debian 3.0 says that it cannot locate it >maybe the base(used 20 FDs to install) only system >still doesn't have that module installed? > >then maybe i should struggle making my machine online >(to do those apt things

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 06:31:42 +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 05:17, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 03:49:12 +1100, bob parker wrote: >> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 09:12, Tom wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:32:47PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> >> > Good point. And just b

Re: compiled and installed new kernel, but dkpg does not find it

2003-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Hi, I downloaded the source for 2.4.22 and compiled it and installed using dpkg: 461 cd kernel-source-2.4.22 462 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 ./.config 463 make menuconfig 464 make menuconfig 465 make-kpkg clean 466 make-kpkg --append_to_version -nvidia kernel_image

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