Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Andy Streich
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:20 pm, Nate Duehr wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Well, I may not be the best one to ask, since I've been out of > > telecom for about three years. But so far, I do not see Linux > > making much if any entry into telecom. Blue Hat has made some > > progress, but not

Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
debianista.deb wrote: ok thanks for your answers :D how can I do a chroot ? please I haven't the game totally yet ;P but then I will test inside the cds folder yes I have enough space https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 There's a good howto th

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Nate Duehr
Mike McCarty wrote: > > Well, I may not be the best one to ask, since I've been out of > telecom for about three years. But so far, I do not see Linux > making much if any entry into telecom. Blue Hat has made some > progress, but not much. The availability requirements in telecom > are so far bey

php5

2005-11-08 Thread Wiki
When will be php5 in stable version?   How can I find out if there are some new upgrades/packages in stable version (without debian - In windows?)?

Wallpaper

2005-11-08 Thread j Mak
Hi, I would like to retrieve the Debian usplash (black with the red swirl on the left) from the installation cd because I want to use it as a wallpaper, but I cannot find it. Could anyone tell me where is it located, I mean in what folder. Thanks J. Mak

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:02 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Advanced implies being closer to some destination. I don't know if everyone agrees on what that destination is. Features or complexity is not a sign of being advanced. If your goal is vide

Re: keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler
The problem is solve by doing: #apt-get remove --purge kdm #apt-get install kdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

keyboard quit working after kde upgrade, testing

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike
Debian testing, after a dist-upgrade a few days ago which included lots of kde upgrades, the keyboard no longer works in X. It will work in a console. It seems to be not working with KDM. I have googled and found no solution. Ideas are appreciated. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:50 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Realos: > > > Mike McCarty wanted us to know: > > > > >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss > > > > > > > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable > > to this security hole/worm? > > > > As I do not

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:02 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >>Advanced implies being closer to some destination. I don't know if > >>everyone agrees on what that destination is. Features or complexity is > >>not a sign of being advanced. > >> > >>If your goal is video e

Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Scott
[KS] wrote: Rick Friedman wrote: Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have Help? If so, where did you get it?? Thank

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin
I haven't had the pleasure of running an smp kernel. Those are for Symmetricmulti processing if I'm not mistaken, and you need two processors or maybe a dual core cpu.I have a multithreading processor. After doing more research, I finaly figured out that the smp is the kernel for me.So, I highly do

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin
But, I do not know how> to start KDE from a console: Doing startx gives Gnome, which is not what I > use.IIRC it's startkde (or possibly start-kde, it's been a while).This may be totally off the wall but I was recently unable to log onvia kdm after an upgrade and, to cut a long story short, it even

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike
Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup? > I would create a new user and log into KDE as that user, to make absolutely sure that the problem is not in your user's settings. (I doubt that's the problem, now, but still, it's an easy test.) Assuming the new user has the same problem . . . I'd

Re: highpoint raiddriver hpt374 compiling. Someone has experience?

2005-11-08 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 19:48, pascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does someone have any experience in compiling the hpt374 driver for > recent 2.6 kernel? To compile the HPT code, just 'make config' (or its equivalent) and enable the driver. In any case, the HPT 374 is

kernel panic upgrading Dell PE 1750 to kernel 2.13.3

2005-11-08 Thread Mark Hansen
I'm getting this error and can't boot the 2.13.3 kernel that I built: VFS: Cannot open root device "801" on unknown-block(8,1). This box boots using 2.6.7. I think maybe it has something to do with the SCSI drive?? Any help will be appreciated. Here is the lilo.conf: # global options: boot

Re: Testing weekly iso image generation

2005-11-08 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:22:30 +0200 Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interrested when are the testing iso images regenerated. I'm interested > in this because I want to avoid to download some cds corresponding to a week > and the other cds to be from the next week. Hi Andras, They'r

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 6 2005 06:30 pm, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell, > this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison > to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also > happening whic

Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-08 Thread Anton
Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -, Thrasher Remailer написал: inf 6:32% grep newnym rlist $remailer{"blackhol"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024"; $remailer{"hod"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS"; $remailer{"komite"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 D

Re: Setting up a File Server

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
White-Hat` (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: I wanted to set up a file server using Samba--I thought the idea of creating a small, home network using my old box's would be sort of neat. I'd hate to see them go to waste anyway. I'm pretty new to networking on Linux also, so feel free to give me any a

Re: how can i unintsll gcc-base

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:45:02PM +0800, ?? wrote: > hi now there are gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.0-base if i am unintsll > anyone of them it will uninstall 100 packages at the fewest how can i do > that You don't. You have no reason to. -- Marc Wilson | HUGH BEAUMONT died in 1982

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I renamed all the .kde stuff in my home dir, and booted up...KDE setup walked me through the setup, but still- no keyboard. Any idea where to look next? Thanks. Did the keyboard work during the KDE setup? I would create a new user and log into KDE as that us

Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-08 Thread David R. Litwin
On 06/11/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell, this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also happening which I can

Booting 2.6.8 on x686 Sarge without initrd: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2005-11-08 Thread KokHow Teh
Hi; I am building 2.6.8 kernel source on my x686 Sarge system wihtout using initrd. The kernel-patch.2.6.8 only applies to the prebuilt 2.6.8_2 kernel package and not a prestine kernel. So, I am not using initrd for my 2.6.8 kernel build. The system boots up but cannot mount teh root fs. What

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread mailmanmike
Well, I renamed all the .kde stuff in my home dir, and booted up...KDE setup walked me through the setup, but still- no keyboard. Any idea where to look next? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

highpoint raiddriver hpt374 compiling. Someone has experience?

2005-11-08 Thread pascal
Hi list, Does someone have any experience in compiling the hpt374 driver for recent 2.6 kernel? Thx begin:vcard fn:Pascal Huisman n:Huisman;Pascal email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;cell:06-14775680 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.deception.nl version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
michael wrote: As far as I can tell both are versions 1.1-3.9 so I'm lost to what is going on... (not sure how to list the actual versions etc apart from using 'apt-cache show openoffice.org') ooffice --version -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Setting up a File Server

2005-11-08 Thread White-Hat` (sent by Nabble.com)
First off, I'd like to say that I'm relatively new to Debian and some Linux, but have been using computers for a decade now, so feel free to use technical terms with me. Smile I wanted to set up a file server using Samba--I thought the idea of creating a small, home network using my old box's wou

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss Ha. You can tell that the individual writing that article has an axe to grind. At the end they cite 2 worms on Linux and staates "its variants as an indication that web-based worms that target Linux and Unix applications are

Re: Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Mitja Podreka
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Google for "linux kiosk" and you will find much information. -Roberto I was reading about kiosk before, but I thought it doesn't fit my needs, as they are usualy too restrictive. I added KDE to your search suggestion and found out exactly what I need. The tool is

Compiled 2.6.14, seeing strange things...

2005-11-08 Thread Curt Howland
Hi. I compiled 2.6.14 since I like having the framebuffer support and the Debian pre-packaged kernels don't have it in with 2.6.14, as well as headaches with yaboo (or whatever the heck it is) initrd generator. So I built it without initrd, and with ext3 compiled in. When I enabled preemption,

Re: corrupted sources.list (file below)

2005-11-08 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
My sources.list file is listed in its entirety below. On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > My version of debian 3.1 was downloaded via the net, and the original > files, which contained the info for the sources.list file, have been lost. > When I try to install package pkg with "apt-get ins

cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub?

2005-11-08 Thread Tom
Hey all, Lately I've been getting the error mentioned in the subject when I try to compile stuff. I've never had something similar before. Googling it suggests silly stuff such as /bin/sh not being there; a search on this list doesn't bring up anything, either. There's nothing modified from defau

Re: Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:40:00AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > I'm setting up few computers in a multimedia center wich will be available > for > everybody to use. > I'm using KDE desktop on Debian. > Most of the time the computers will be used to surf on internet, for which I > want to set up

Publicaly used Debian box

2005-11-08 Thread Mitja Podreka
I'm setting up few computers in a multimedia center wich will be available for everybody to use. I'm using KDE desktop on Debian. Most of the time the computers will be used to surf on internet, for which I want to set up an anonymous account with little rights, but I still want the users to be

openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread michael
Until this w/end I've been able to work on a text document interchangably with the OpenOffice on my unstable box and that on my stable box. However, now if I create one on the unstable box and copy it over to the stable box it opens then throws an error on the first keystroke or mouse click. >From

Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread [KS]
Rick Friedman wrote: > Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine > except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone > out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have > Help? If so, where did you get it?? > > Thanks, > Ri

openoffice woes

2005-11-08 Thread michael
Until this w/end I've been able to work on a text document interchangably with the OpenOffice on my unstable box and that on my stable box. However, now if I create one on the unstable box and copy it over to the stable box it opens then throws an error on the first keystroke or mouse click. >From

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/8/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,>Edit the file and change it to "libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)" just plain editor? no fancy tools? worked, though. thanks! -a

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > apt-get complains: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package > `ksysguard': > `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' > > Indeed, the status file at that line look

custom initrd on stock kernel installation (cdrom problems)

2005-11-08 Thread kristian kvilekval
Background: Having discovered that my cdrom disappeared a while ago, I tracked down that the loading order of modules determines whether I have a Cdrom device or not. Specifically I need to force ide-core cdrom ide-cd ide-disk ide-generic to load before any scsi drivers load specifically by pla

OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-08 Thread Rick Friedman
Simply put... I have OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed via Sid. It works fine except there appears to be no Help system for it. Am I wrong? Is anyone out there running OpenOffice.org 2.0 (installed from Sid) and DOES have Help? If so, where did you get it?? Thanks, Rick -- "If I had only known, I woul

Re: Image background

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue November 8 2005 02:15 pm, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:59 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I > > change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it > > belongs,

Re: Image background

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:59 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > Hello List, > > I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I > change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it > belongs, instead of being a white square. In this case I am trying to do t

Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa
sure you did. but could you explain me why the 'ls' command into a ftp server?? further, which directory it should be copied? thanks, Romulo On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue November 8 2005 01:14 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote: > > On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, apt-get complains: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package `ksysguard':  `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' Indeed, the status file at that line looks like this Replaces: kdebase (<< 4:3.0.0), kdebase-doc (<< 4:3.0.0), kpm (<<

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-08 Thread Martin Fluch
It will be a 2.6.13.x kernel (since vmware has problems on the 2.6.14 kernel). It is strange that there is so little known about how the current wireless cards awailable at Verkkokauppa or Tietoasema (thanks for this hint, I didn't know the shop before) can be used under linux. I think we will t

Re: can I delete /mnt ?

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Sinclair
Sure you can.  In the latest Filesystem Hierarchy Standard it states that /media should be used for removable media, for example CD/DVD and USB keys, and /mnt should be used for mounting a filesystem temporarily, ie mounting an NFS share to copy files, or mounting an old hard drive to copy stuf

Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue November 8 2005 01:14 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote: > On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated > > > normally. When the user try to view the

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Realos: Mike McCarty wanted us to know: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable to this security hole/worm? As I do not use nfs on my debian serv

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike McCarty wrote: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss How to detect whether infection has occurred? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Backup

2005-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
webguytx wrote: Hey Group, Is there a backup program for the Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla) clients? In Winxp I have a excellent program, MozBackup, that backs up using zip. Why not use one backup program, like mondo, for everything? If not, I need MozBackup for mozilla and for eve

Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa
On 11/8/05, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated > > normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory, > > nothing show them up after an uploa

Image background

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, I am trying to make the background of an image transparent, so that if I change the background colour of my web page the image looks more like it belongs, instead of being a white square. In this case I am trying to do that with the jhe061.gif image from the standard debian apache i

Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:30:10PM -0600, Josh Battles wrote: > It does, but I've got my menu file in ~/.fluxbox/menu. There is a > basic menu created when Fluxbox is installed, just edit it you see > fit. The documentation on fluxbox is actually very good. Indeed it is, and the debian system is

advances partition selection bug in some 2.6 kernels?

2005-11-08 Thread axolx
I recently installed Debian (Sid) on a laptop and compiled kernel 2.6.14 from kernel.org. The kernel would not recognize my partition scheme (created with the debian installer). It took me a while until I found someone else in a forum who had solved the same problem by not compiling into the kernel

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 07 november 2005, 06:20, Joey Hess wrote: > The simplest solution is to switch it to use the fsfs backend, which > uses some simple tricks (and a much more sensible design) to utterly > avoid the whole class of permissions issues that affect bdb. OK, cool! After reading up, it does indee

apt-get update connecting to (1.0.0.0)

2005-11-08 Thread Fred J.
Hello I have a problem, I can brows the web fine but my #apt-get is not downloading any thing at all. my system is testing/unstable 2.6.13 adsl router/modem to a switch to the debian box. my /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/secu

Re: Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue November 8 2005 12:16 pm, Romulo Sousa wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated > normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory, > nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this > directory via ssh, I notice

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Matt Price wrote: On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how?

Mozilla Backup

2005-11-08 Thread webguytx
Hey Group, Is there a backup program for the Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla) clients? In Winxp I have a excellent program, MozBackup, that backs up using zip. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems configuring wu-ftpd

2005-11-08 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hi folks, I'm configuring a guest ftp server. The user is authenticated normally. When the user try to view the context of the directory, nothing show them up after an upload of a file. But when I list this directory via ssh, I notice the file is there (though I can't see it neither via ftp client

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Price
On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antonio Paiva wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? >

Re: help needed installing Debian

2005-11-08 Thread webguytx
- Original Message - From: "Goran Dimovksi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:58 PM Subject: help needed installing Debian > Hello every body, > > I have some problems installing Debian. > I did download Debian 3.1 i3

Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-08 Thread debianista.deb
ok thanks for your answers :D how can I do a chroot ? please I haven't the game totally yet ;P but then I will test inside the cds folder yes I have enough space thanks regards debianista.debOn 11/6/05, Darryl Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/5/05, debianista.deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Realos: >> > Mike McCarty wanted us to know: >> >> >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss >> > >> >> I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable >> to this security hole/worm? >> >> As I do not use nfs on my debian ser

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Realos: > > Mike McCarty wanted us to know: > > >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss > > > > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable > to this security hole/worm? > > As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to > disable both portmap

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Joseph Clark
Looking at the Security focus page:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/ , it looks like only systems running PHP versions up to 4.3.11 are affected. Which should make testing not affected, as it's at version 4.4.0. But stable would be because it's still at 4.3.10. Can anyone confirm this? On

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Chris Boot
Realos wrote: Mike McCarty wanted us to know: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable to this security hole/worm? As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to disable both portmap and rpc.st

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Joey Hess
Realos wrote: > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable > to this security hole/worm? No, that is not a php xml-rpc based service. The holes this worm reportedly exploits were fixed in Debian when they were discovered several months ago. If you've installed third pa

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles
Colin Ingram said: > > Hey thanks for the suggestions but I was really looking for something > with "liveTV" like functionality to go in a media center box MythTV will do this. If you have the time and patience you can set it up to work like any other DVR on the market. (pause live TV, etc...) L

Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Josh Battles
Jon Dowland said: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:42AM +0100, Marc Br?nink wrote: >> On Dienstag, Nov 8, 2005, at 10:11 Europe/Berlin, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> wrote: >> >> >Hello, >> >Is there a way to edit the 'fluxbox' right-click menu?. Thanks... >> >> Yes. >> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docb

Follow up to (bug?) : Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-08 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I figured out what the problem was. I had put in my bind9 option area the statement: (numbers missing to protect the innocent.) allow-recursion { 209.102.xxx.xx; 209.102.xxx.xx; }; To allow 2 mail servers to do recursion to this name server. This seem

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-08 Thread C. Hurschler
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:56, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and > ma

Re: New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Realos
> Mike McCarty wanted us to know: >http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss > I have rpc.statd and portmap running on my system. Are they vulnerable to this security hole/worm? As I do not use nfs on my debian server, doesn't it make sense to disable both portmap and rpc.statd on my system

New Linux worm crawls the web

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/38?ref=rss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Walters wrote: Otherwise you could use dhcpdump to see what is being sent and recieved from the server This worked -- I found a rogue server on the network NACKing the XP REQUEST before the real server could ACK it. Thanks Anthony Don Don Hayward ISDIV

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Advanced implies being closer to some destination. I don't know if everyone agrees on what that destination is. Features or complexity is not a sign of being advanced. If your goal is video editing, Solaris is not as advanced as other operating systems. Excellent

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 04 13:20 -0600]: And this has what relevance to the thread about Solaris? Since this thread is already pretty much off-topic for DebU, what difference does it make if my post is off-topic? - Nate >> LOL and ROFLMAO! :-)

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks, Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Michel Loos wrote: As many posts showed, Solaris is NOT the most "advanced" OS. All pro-Solaris posts insist on reliability (granted), and superior support (valid only in a very few countries). "Advanced" has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is not. In fact I suspect tha

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
Hi Anthony, On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Anthony Walters wrote: Hi don, I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up as a DHCP client. When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of lines of the following show up in the server syslog. A BIOS upgrade on the offending PC

backbone of a large-file streaming system

2005-11-08 Thread Nick I
Hi,I help maintain a Web site at www.clusterbuilder.org.   You might have seen before that I have a section called Ask the Cluster Expert, where I am building a knowledgebase of cluster and grid information.  When someone asks a question I am researching the answer to build this knowledgebase out.

OO2.0 .debs installed! (was: OpenOffice 2.0 install from .deb?)

2005-11-08 Thread Opus
Opus wrote: So, how do I get the OpenOffice 2.0 .deb files installed on my system? Many thanks to Steef, Felix, and Anthony, all of whom replied that "dpkg -i " as root was the answer. It worked perfectly and I now have OpenOffice.org 2.0 running on my Debian Sarge system with 2.6 kernel. Be

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Anthony Walters
Hi don, I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom NetXtreme NIC) I set up as a DHCP client. When I enable the LAN interface on it, hundreds of lines of the following show up in the server syslog. A BIOS upgrade on the offending PC could fix your problem - it has helped us in the past wi

Re: Editing the Fluxbox menu?

2005-11-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:37:42AM +0100, Marc Br?nink wrote: > On Dienstag, Nov 8, 2005, at 10:11 Europe/Berlin, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > wrote: > > >Hello, > >Is there a way to edit the 'fluxbox' right-click menu?. Thanks... > > Yes. > http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook.php Debian answer: c

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/8/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote:> I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian> packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now,> re

Re: Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16:40 Sun 06 Nov , Cloaked Hunter wrote:> I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian> packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now,> regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network inter

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote: I'd try firing up KDE as a different user (or, if you don't have any KDE settings you with to preserve, rename/delete ~/.kde and ~/.kderc and/or other KDE-related files in your home directory). in my /home dire

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than > linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) > but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem > operations. Usually that's

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote: > Mike Chandler wrote: > >Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot > >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything. > >(All this in KDE.) > > > >I think it has to do with the "newer" KDE ve

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-08 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have a new Dell

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Brünink
"Advanced" has a meaning of bleeding-edge which Solaris definitively is not. I guess it's a question of definition. So the whole discussion is at a dead end now. The posts of the pro-SUN people suggested a definition of advanced=reliable. I couldn't figure out how the other people define adva

Re: Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-08 Thread Meni Shapiro
Please post /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf, /etc/bind/named.conf MeniOn 11/8/05, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm getting a strange behavior (for me anyway...) on Bind9. I just set upa new Debian Sarge server with bind9. Anyway, I can do a dig lookup on adomain name f

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2005-11-08 às 11:49 +, Yuriy Kuznetsov escreveu: > There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than > linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) > but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem > operations. Usually tha

Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-08 Thread Thrasher Remailer
> inf 6:32% grep newnym rlist > $remailer{"blackhol"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp klen1024"; > $remailer{"hod"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS"; > $remailer{"komite"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym2 pgp klen1024 DH/DSS"; > $remailer{"nym"} = "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> newnym pgp

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new address. So, what do I need to run a dialup modem on my debian sarge? Guess the best model I can find would be a hard pci us-robotics or similar (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks, YMWV. I never got any of the 3 methods working: it would su

Re: Cmotd

2005-11-08 Thread Dragan Simic
Pozdrav, Zbog prelaska na novo radno mjesto (BLIC.NET, Banja Luka, http://www.blic.net/), doslo je do promjene moje zvanicne e-mail adrese, tako da je umjesto dosadasnje adrese [EMAIL PROTECTED], od sada to sljedeca adresa: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poruka koju ste poslali je proslijedjena na moju no

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-08 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk caching turned on by defa

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