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
which might # 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,

Re: [sane-devel] epson scanner with lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
e Debian packages as well but the interpreter packages (non-free blob ;-) are not available for download yet. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.f

Re: [sane-devel] epson scanner with lenny

2008-10-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
pm's ot use it. In your case also, using `alien --scripts` should work fine. I'm sorry to inform you, but Debian packages for the interpreter for the Epson Perfection 3170 have not been scheduled for release. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS Cor

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
1 once that becomes stable, ad infinitum, the universe stops being 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

Re: setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
o be able to play around with libapache-mod-ssl, I think. # Uhm, yes, 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, the

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

Firewalling a DHCP client the Right Way (TM)

2002-03-29 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
hat the IP 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 K

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

2001-09-16 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ou, but I have ssh'd 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

pcl-cvs, remote repository and authorization/authentication

2001-09-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
not subscribed to debian-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, fiddle

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

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" writes: > > > on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Karsten M. Self" 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 Think

unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-15 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
l window managers) and KDE. It doesn't matter. The machine 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

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

2001-04-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ate a config file *nor* create a symlink to the server. I fixed 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
v from unstable and then upgraded 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: cgi-bin security

2000-10-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
wrap is to make certain that any CGI script 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: strange looking fonts.

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
86Config file. I bet the 100dpi 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

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

2000-10-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
being forwarded 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

Memory usage confusion

2000-10-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
igBlk: 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 b

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

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
he. That there are still .debs in that cache is probably due to the fact that there are newer versions on your 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

Re: Package List

2000-10-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
alled packages on Debian 2.2?? > > dpkg -l > As this tends 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: X question - not the mouse!

2000-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
use the lower settings, just comment them out (of the same > file). Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for DefaultColorDepth and change it to your liking. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

remote CVS: Permission denied

2000-09-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
rom 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: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ps: /usr/bin/top bash$ debsums -s procps Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Q: on Debian Bug-Tracking system

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
pace of change is just too fast. > I haven't looked at the bug list in awhile and it surprised me. > I will not refer the students 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: 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/. Th

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
to stop 8bpp as being the default color depth for X and > > switch it to say, 16bpp. I know I could startx using -- - 16bpp but I'm a > > little lazy and just want 16bpp to be the default. > > The answer for that is in the XFree86 howto: > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XF

Re: Catch 22 dpkg mystery

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
of them. It does not mean that one has to be installed already before you can install the other. Go ahead, `apt-get install g++` and ask again if that doesn't work (it should). -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

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: file ownership

2000-09-20 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
world readable and not writable by anyone but owner, no > extranious execute bits set. then run fakeroot tar -zcvpf foo.tar.gz > foo > > this way all the ownership in the tarball is set to root.root as it > should be. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Download

2000-09-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
DOS mode and, assuming all downloaded files are in c:\debian, change to that directory 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
dle it gracefully. Has anyone got > 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

Re: SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-12 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 id

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

Re: Source directory

2000-09-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
/local/src? The kernel-source package installs a tarball in /usr/src. I wouldn't mess with /usr/src myself and stick with /usr/local/src instead. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

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 th

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 everythi

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
t's there. Security updates go into 'updates' first and whether/when they will be merged into 'main' ... who knows? -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Help: Screwed up LILO MBR

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
nf. That should get you booted into what you want, barring major goofs from me. Hope that helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
x27;s a very large file. I 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 |

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
> > in access speed. > > so if you decide 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.

Re: Trimming down of /var/log/messages

2000-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
iling of log files. Logrotate can be set 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: security

2000-09-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ll my debian boxes do the same thing (except at 6:25, i > don't use anacron) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
t need it, yes. Just junk all servers you don't need. 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: > >

Re: sunrpc

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
n it off" ? This service is provided 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: Kernel configurations

2000-08-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
in dists/stable/main/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, -

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 portmappe

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
passwords (BIOS, boot and root) are of course different. If your internal disk won't boot 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: Packages I Don't want to upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ebs? (Meaning, it meets > > the deps 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

Re: True Type Fonts

2000-08-28 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ide to choose one to set > > up. > > xfstt, happy with it. Haven't 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 fo

Re: over 400 msg's this am

2000-08-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
t set > up a box and forget about 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: Password decrypting ? Sendmail problems ?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
requires root access or shadow group membership to just see the encrypted passwords. Next, if you want to try crack the passwords 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: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
tcpunknown > 1025opentcplisten > 6000opentcpX11 I'd definitely considered purging telnetd ... clear text passwords are not such a good idea, security wise. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

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 > > 2

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 >

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

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
n Version: 1:0.1.9.1-1, no > worries, you can just laugh the scan off (if that's what it was) > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:49:13PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > :Dear all, > : > :I've been seeing entries like below in my logs for a while. > : > : Aug 24 12:38

[Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
og messages I assume 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

Samba via inetd, not a good idea?

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ain. So far, so good. I haven't seen any looping in the last few hours. Uh, after starting it with the `-a' flag (already filed 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

Re: xfree86 development package

2000-08-23 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
output of `dpkg -L xlib6g-dev' to see what it installs. I grep'ed for *.h files and counted 213 of them. Note that most are in /usr/X11R6/include/X11. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Baking my own bootable potato using mkisofs

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
into debian-cd. Oops, you haven't installed Debian yet :-(, but it might just work anyway. -- 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
;t trust code that you did not totally > create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people > like me.) 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: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
one TRUE WAY of doing it. Uh, in true 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: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

2000-08-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
> You've left out at least one crucial piece of info: what 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

[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: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
a .dpkg-dist suffix if you choose to keep the old one. If you 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: checking whether a package is installed

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

Re: Corel to Debian micro-howto

2000-08-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
d/gdm start > > [1] I don't know how to install the non-Corel KDE; if > you want that instead, please search the list archives. > (http://lists.debian.org/#search -- just search the debian-user > list, ignore the 1.4e12 other lists) Put this in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde If you are looking for a i18n version targeted 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: [Q] Can Samba mount 'shared' (not 'served') Win drives ?

2000-08-06 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
n their Win9x boxes with smbclient. You might want to give 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
to debugfs them away.. > Where do 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

Re: Java compiler and vm.

2000-08-01 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
dk1.2.2/bin/[java,javac], and/or put /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin > in your $PATH. > > Works for me. You could also try kaffe. Haven't done so myself, but anyway -- 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: make menuconfig

2000-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
s more, it also lists tk-dev and for the newer kernels task-tcltk-dev. It's all there. > It would seem so, but that is exactly the problem. Install > libncurses5-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: Is Debian the last OS ? (Long reply)

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ease? From what I heard these are as buggy as, likely even 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 i

Re: make menuconfig

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
g the ncurses library, any other 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

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
tall' during installation. On one of my machines I had to configure 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

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

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
info. Your next apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade will then put you on woody. Of course, if you use the apt-get method in dselect, you only have to run `dselect update`. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

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! > >

cleaning up lost+found

2000-07-26 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
as the original 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: : Operation not permitted Trying to rm -rf gives rm: cannot unlink `': Operation not permitted TIA, -- Olaf Meeuwissen E

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
also want to look at dump, taper, kbackup, afbackup and/or amanda. The latter two seemed a bit overkill in my situation. Hope this helps, -- 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: [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&

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Windows. However, there is one very > important differece between Linux and Windows in this regard: unlike > Windows email programs, Linux email programs *do not* execute programs > recieved as attachments automatically - you need to 1) save the program to > disk and 2) manually execut

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-

[Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
for any kind 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
onality, install ssh and slogin, scp or ssh instead of rlogin, rcp and rsh. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-07-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
packages need no special handling, dpkg (or dselect, apt-get) will take care of things. Installer packages are usually in non-free (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
you want a 2nd opinion. Upgrading will not overwrite modified files in /etc unless you say so. The original 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: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
n your mirror, but if you want to shut up apt a bit just look in /var/state/apt/lists/ and copy the relevant Release file to your local mirror. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-- Byns Zrrhjvffra Rcfba Xbjn Pbecbengvba, Erfrnepu naq Qrirybczrag

Re: Setting up read-write access for local CVS

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
file is world writeable, for now. Just for reference a little bit of our /pub/cvs: drwxrwxr-x4 root cvsadmin 4096 Jun 9 14:31 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: Debian i386 mirror

2000-06-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
d potato, with the binary-i386 and binary-all subdirectories. Plus > http has it's other advantages like still being easily accessible for > those of us behind firewalls. I just wished my http and ftp proxies didn't insist on pretty printing directory listings. All info about syml

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
ldn't /var/local/www be an appropriate place? Note, FHS 2.1 does neither mention /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

apache config questions

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
y be accessed by one user at a time. Any user should be able to see the file, but only if no-one else is using it. Yes, this has to do with silly(?) copyright. Thanks in advance. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
bug because I assumed that it was my > own problem. But I guess that it's 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 rea

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

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

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