Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-11-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Alex, Sorry for the belated follow-up. Alex ARNAUD writes: > Le 28/09/2017 à 15:45, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Based on a quick `git grep -i iris` on the sane-backends source code, >> the only Irisscan device known to be supported is the "Exp

Re: [sane-devel] Compatibility of the Irisscan executive 4 scanner

2017-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
be of use determining how easy/difficult adding support would be in # case someone is interested in doing so. # # That's a lot of "if"s, so don't hold your breath waiting for support # if your scanner is not supported already ;-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2FSF As

Re: [sane-devel] epson scanner with lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
have not been scheduled for release. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sane-devel] epson scanner with lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
or until security.debian.org goes belly up, whichever comes first). -- Olaf MeeuwissenEpson Kowa Corporation, CID GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/dhclient.conf that fills this need? I went through the docs but nothing turned up. The main motive for this is that it should then be possible for the DNS server to use this information. Long shot? Better go talk to our network admin? Anyway, any ideas are welcome. -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
, this DHCP client doubles as a server of sorts. -- Olaf MeeuwissenEpson Kowa Corporation, CID GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Firewalling a DHCP client the Right Way (TM)

2002-03-29 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
address of the name server has changed, for example, or, tux forbid, the client's own IP address. Any ideas on how to go about this are welcome. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 kernel 2.4.18 (custom), iptables 1.2.5-7, dhcp-client 2.0pl5-7 -- Olaf MeeuwissenEpson Kowa Corporation

Re: pcl-cvs, remote repository and authorization/authentication

2001-09-16 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to the remote server before oodles of times. I've also tried 'M-x cvs-update' while having a connection to the remote server from a shell but to no avail. Maybe I should look into 'comint-mode' and see what that can do for me. Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [trying to get remote pcl-cvs to work in emacs

pcl-cvs, remote repository and authorization/authentication

2001-09-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-user (too much traffic ;-) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-21 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This morning, after three lock ups in ten minutes, I compiled frame buffer support in, fiddled my XF86Config-4 to use it and I've been up for 5(!) hours. I think

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup, following up on my own post! Please bear along with the long quotes. I left them in because I'm now also cross-posting this to debian-laptop. Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, so I compiled a kernel without any APM support, installed and tried it. My system froze within half an hour :-( You must compile with one of the two flavors of power management, or else

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear all, I'm running mostly testing with some unstable under linux 2.2.19 (hand rolled, of course) on an IBM ThinkPad i1476 (Type 2611). Since a few

unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
even locks up when running (x|k)screensaver during lunch :-( If you have other ideas as to what could be the matter, I'm open to suggestions. Please Cc:, I'm not subscribed (because of the volume). TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development Free Software

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
this by running dexconf to create /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 based upon my choices during configuration upon installation and created a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. This fixed it. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [q] apt-get source ..

2001-03-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
from testing the next day. I fixed it by adding a check for time.h in configure.in. Any chance that this is a bug somewhere in libc or perhaps in autoconf (don't know if that got upgraded :-{) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: translated templates files

2001-01-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-en.html for details. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: cgi-bin security

2000-10-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
runs with the permissions of the user who installed it, and not those of the server. installed-size: 140 -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to the author. (I got the impression that other people submitted comments that went into a blackhole because they were abusive.) I wrote directly to the author and told him: |On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:11:56 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: | Dear Sir, | | I just read your article about the difficulties of installing

Re: strange looking fonts.

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
fonts are listed before the 75 dpi fonts. If so, swap their order and restart X. You could also just purge the xfonts-100dpi package ;-) If this doesn't fix it, then perhaps mucking with the X server's idea of the DPI of the display is the only way to go. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Memory usage confusion

2000-10-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
: SigIgn: 80301000 SigCgt: 418046cb CapInh: CapPrm: feff CapEff: feff bash-2.03$ -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package Olaf sources. How do you get it to move packages from both Olaf Debian and Helix? Use the apt-move from woody... ;-). I figured

Re: Package List

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to be a long list, I usually do instead: dpkg -l | less So that I can scroll through it and read what's there. Or more, or most, or lv or ... Personally, I got used to using pager. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
mirror. BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package sources. How do you get it to move packages from both Debian and Helix? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

remote CVS: Permission denied

2000-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
a checked out module. Enter my passphrase and boom! Permission denied I can ssh to the server no problem. Any ideas? Both machines use cvs 1.10.7-7 and run potato. I'll happily provide more details if required. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: X question - not the mouse!

2000-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/XF86Config for DefaultColorDepth and change it to your liking. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Q: on Debian Bug-Tracking system

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to 'that' page as it puts what, IMO, is the Best Linux Distribution, in a less then favorable light. Honest, but not favorable. Better that than a bunch of favorable lies ;-) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). Or disable/remove the symlinks in /etc/rc[0-6].d/. Then you can still start manually with `/etc/init.d/xdm` should you be so

World readable log files

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/setuid.today /var/log/setuid.yesterday /var/log/syslog* /var/log/user.log* /var/log/uucp.log* BTW, what is /var/log/mail.* good for if you have exim installed? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Catch 22 dpkg mystery

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ahead, `apt-get install g++` and ask again if that doesn't work (it should). -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
and just want 16bpp to be the default. The answer for that is in the XFree86 howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/x102.html#AEN152 Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config, set DefaultColorDepth to whatever you please in the Screen section and restart X. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Re: file ownership

2000-09-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to root.root as it should be. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Download

2000-09-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
and loadlin.exe linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44 Questions? Ask! -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: apt-move and helix

2000-09-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
this working? At the moment I am keeping my helixcode files under .../debian/projects/helix but there must be a better way. As of potato, apt-move can't handle additional sites beyond non-US :-( Don't know what's going on in the woody version. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research

Re: SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-13 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mirek Kwasniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:27:03PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Dear .deb, I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers

SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear .deb, I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers without parameters but all I get is a device or resource is busy ... :-( TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Re: Source directory

2000-09-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
. I wouldn't mess with /usr/src myself and stick with /usr/local/src instead. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
would like to grep the contents to find the CD that I'm looking for, but I don't want to extract everything. I thought there would be a series of piped commands that would allow me to do it, but I can't figure it out. tar -tzf file.tar.gz | grep something -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Re: Help: Screwed up LILO MBR

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
goofs from me. Hope that helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
they will be merged into 'main' ... who knows? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:10:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth having to extract everything. Specifically, I want to determine the disc-id

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OM == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same drive? I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks to gain a little bump in access speed. so

Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on / /usr /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software and user home directories (/home) Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only but not /usr/local. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research

Re: security

2000-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
that 5, 10 or 15 minutes after booting (if you use the default configuration). See `man anacrontab` and /etc/anacrontab. the find process is normal, i think its the locate database being rebuilt. all my debian boxes do the same thing (except at 6:25, i don't use anacron) -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/kernel-config or similar on the Debian servers. To extract just the config file from a .deb: dpkg --fsys-tarfile kernel-image-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb \ | tar xf - ./boot/config-2.2.17 Adjust version numbers to taste. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
by `portmap'. Remove `/etc/rc?.d/S18portmap' to stop it from being started, but note that any RPC servers that are invoked will more than likely refuse to start or just simply crash. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
. I'd even consider purging them ;-) Thanks! No thanks. BTW, you cc'd to debin-user :-) D. Ghost On 1 Sep 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Debian Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D Ghost here, I've searched and looked for documentation on what sunrpc is and what starts/stops

Re: Packages I Don't want to upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
for it, but it'll let me use the existing tarball installation from XF86.org?) Check out the equivs package. It lets you create dummy packages that say various dependencies are provided/required to handle situations like this. You could also put them on hold with dselect. -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
for some reason, you can always go in and change the BIOS settings to allow rescue boots from floppy. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Edited /etc/hosts.deny to read ALL:ALL to boot. You probably want to add portmap: ALL to /etc/hosts.deny as well, just in case. ALL: ALL does not handle the portmapper for some reason. In an earlier

Re: True Type Fonts

2000-08-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
tried other options. xfs-xtt and happy with it. Seems everyone is happy with their choice, but I don't think I'd be so happy with xfstt though for Japanese or Chinese fonts as it renders a whole font at a time. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: over 400 msg's this am

2000-08-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
it? Probably not, but I'd say they are not as security savvy as one would like them to be. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
:49:13PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: :Dear all, : :I've been seeing entries like below in my logs for a while. : : Aug 24 12:38:01 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to callit(390109): request from unauthorized host : Aug 24 12:38:04 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Aug 24 12:38:01 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to callit(390109): request from unauthorized host Aug 24 12:38:04 bilbo portmap[27641]: connect from 172.16.x.y to callit(390109): request from unauthorized

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: My latest port scan (nmap running through all -s options) results show 9 opentcp discard 13 opentcp daytime 25 opentcp smtp 37 opentcp

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
definitely considered purging telnetd ... clear text passwords are not such a good idea, security wise. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Password decrypting ? Sendmail problems ?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
you got, there are a few programs that will do that for you. See the Security HOWTO chapter 6 for details on password encryption and cracking. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: xfree86 development package

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
of them. Note that most are in /usr/X11R6/include/X11. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Samba via inetd, not a good idea?

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
a bug report about this). All in all, it looks like running Samba from `inetd' is not such a good idea. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

[Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
that the portmap connect attempts fail (as per policy), but what do these connect attempts mean? Is someone trying to crack my server or something? I did challenge our network admin ... -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Unix spirit, that one TRUE WAY would be to think of as many different ways to do it as possible ;-) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. And even then, you could goof up yourself! -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Baking my own bootable potato using mkisofs

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
installed Debian yet :-(, but it might just work anyway. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

[Q] utility to format MO disks

2000-08-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear all, I'm looking for a utility to format MO disks. Anyone know where to look? TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

2000-08-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
version of gnus you're running. (Try M-x gnus-version.) I'm using 5.8.3 and have no problems under emacs20 (20.7), well, not after I installed the separately packaged gnus. I have no special gnus setup to enable japanese anymore (used to with emacs20 (20.3 or so) though). -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
replace the old one it gets a .dpkg-old suffix tagged on. For just a look on what junk is floating around: find /etc -name '*.dpkg*' -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-08 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
at Japanese users deb http://ftp.kde.gr.jp/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb potato kde but beware that kdm and `Lock Screen' were broken last time I checked. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: checking whether a package is installed

2000-08-08 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
and is not installed. Very quick, very elegant. Not? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
it a try. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: tar: Archive contains future timestamp 2013-09-09 00:10:39

2000-08-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
these things come from and why? I see the same when building a Packages file for my local archive. I haven't a clue as to which package is causing this. BTW, this is for a potato archive. Hints anyone? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

[Q] ports 757 and 1024

2000-08-01 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear Debians, Would anyone happen to know what the ports 757 and 1024 are used for of the top of their heads? TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Java compiler and vm.

2000-08-01 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
for me. You could also try kaffe. Haven't done so myself, but anyway -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: make menuconfig

2000-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-dev and Life will be Good again. I had the same trouble and this was the solution. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
the eepro100 module. If I didn't, the whole network configuration just never happened and all network services would be dead. Just install without any modules if you can get away with it. Chances are you can. If you need to install modules later use modconf. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Re: make menuconfig

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
suggestions. I would like to use this to reconfigure my kernel Did you install libncurses5-dev or similar? You need a *-dev package for the curses.h file to be there. If you have, check where it ended up and see if your compiler looks in the right places for it. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa

Re: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
buggier than, Debian's frozen releases. It is just what an organization is prepared to call an official release. So that leaves him with RedHat, since he understands it. Sounds like he doesn't want to (or can't) put in some effort. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research

cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
but would like to get rid of the gunk above. Any ideas how? I've tried chown'ing and chmod'ing, but all I get is chown: filename: Operation not permitted Trying to rm -rf gives rm: cannot unlink `filename': Operation not permitted TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation

Re: cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: LB On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: -- snip -- OM in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! -- snip -- LB They probably have the immutable attribute set. Remove

Re: Just one package from woody with apt-get?

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
update`. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Search in dselect

2000-07-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to also search the description of the packages in dselect. I mean the description to the right of the package name? Look into dpkg-awk and grep-dctrl. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
seemed a bit overkill in my situation. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18 Jul 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. There are no anti-virus programs because there are no viruses

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
as attachments automatically - you need to 1) save the program to disk and 2) manually execute it before any damage can be done. And then they only run under the user id and with the permissions you set. Thanks for your reply, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Debians, I'm looking for any kind of info on vulnerability to viruses on Debian and/or Linux. Pointers to anti-virus programs are also very welcome. If I can't convince some people here at work, I'm about to be told to disconnect from

[Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
of internet activity beyond our firewall. And that seems to include sending email like this to the list. Gack! Thanks in advance, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
everything in clear text. Depending on your situation this may be a security risk. Any known security holes should be fixed in the deb. Holes and risks are not quite the same, I guess. If you need rlogin functionality, install ssh and slogin, scp or ssh instead of rlogin, rcp and rsh. -- Olaf Meeuwissen

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-07-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
(and maybe in contrib). Hope that helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
configuration files will be silently replaced or removed if no longer needed. This barring any goofs by the maintainer, of course. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Setting up read-write access for local CVS

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
CVSROOT drwxrwsr-x4 root calendar 4096 Jun 15 08:30 calendar drwxrwsr-x2 root r-and-d 4096 May 31 08:50 cvs-sample Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
local mirror. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
directory listings. All info about symlinks are gone, plus sizes are in kb and times in hh:mm:ss. Apart from all the html yuck, that is! This wrecks havoc with just about any mirroring tool I've looked at. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
] Error 2 -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/var/www nor /var/local. /var/local is part of the base-files package and no other packages install anything there as of today's potato/Contrib-i386.gz -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww and index.html)? /var/www should belong

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Just a quick question: how (un)safe is it to create your own files and directories below /var/www/? Are there any names taken (besides dwww and index.html)? Check The Contents files (which you might have on your CD

Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
not if others are having the same trouble. Same thing here. I installed gnus to work around it. The version is different from that of emacs20 and it comes with MIME support which I really like. Now I can read all those Japanese headers, finally! -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation

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