Re: Trying to install pcap library

2002-10-09 Thread Nick Rout
Is there an rpm for the library? see http://www.rpmfind.net On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:20:40 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried without any luck to install pcap ( a C Packet Capture library - > http://www.tcpdump.org/) i downloaded it from >http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpca

Trying to install pcap library

2002-10-09 Thread Maillist
Hi, I have tried without any luck to install pcap ( a C Packet Capture library - http://www.tcpdump.org/) i downloaded it from http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz and I dont know how to install it. I am running Mandrake 8.1 . Any help will be appreciated, Paul

Re: Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7:

2002-10-09 Thread Philip Charles
Take a look at my site. Phil. On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Adrian Robertson wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:10:56 -0700 > Will Pilvio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any one with experience on this one? Is it worth the $$ vs Debian? > > > > From the Linux Journal Newsletter Oct. 9: > > > > Debian

Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Peter Elliott
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:29:39 +1300 Jeremy Bertenshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, in a corporate environment, but sendmail is still > the smtp mailer of choice for linux distro's, it's installed > by default on redhat and probably others, millions of > normal users will be runnning it. >

Re: Price: Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7:

2002-10-09 Thread Will Pilvio
PRICE in US$ Home user $59.95 Student $39.95 Corporation or Institution $99.95 Existing Libranet user $44.95 At 01:23 PM 10/10/2002 +1300, you wrote: >How many bucks is it for Libranet? > >-- >Adrian Robertson --

Re: Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7:

2002-10-09 Thread Adrian Robertson
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:10:56 -0700 Will Pilvio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one with experience on this one? Is it worth the $$ vs Debian? > > From the Linux Journal Newsletter Oct. 9: > > Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6358 -- The L

Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7:

2002-10-09 Thread Will Pilvio
Any one with experience on this one? Is it worth the $$ vs Debian? From the Linux Journal Newsletter Oct. 9: Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6358 -- The Libranet distribution is promoted as offering all the security and stability of

Re: CD-Burning utilities for linux ?

2002-10-09 Thread Helmut Walle
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Stuart Johnsen wrote: ... > out of curiosity just what sort of CD-Burning applications are there > available for linux ? > > If you have any preferences I would be interested in hearing why you prefer > one over another. :) ... gcombust as graphical frontend cdrecord for reco

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Zane Gilmore
What happened did not happen from inserting bad code into the program but from putting bad code into the build scripts. This was detected pretty quickly from what I've seen and even then the code is only activated at recompilation time. The bad scripts were put onto the ftp server. I have to adm

DTMF

2002-10-09 Thread Nick Rout
Someone was asking me about interpreting dtmf codes (the little beeps the phone makes when you push the buttons). Here is a maybe relevant link, whoever it was! http://sourceforge.net/projects/vocp/ http://vocp.sf.net -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others

2002-10-09 Thread C Falconer
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:29, Matt Agnew wrote: > Is there an equivalent to "su" in a GUI? F'rexample, I'm logged in to > KDE, and am using Kedit to edit my lilo.conf. Unfortunately, I can't > save it as I don't have permission to write there. I suppose I could > save it elsewhere, go to a te

Re: permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Coupla ideas, setup sudo, then from the run dowhacky do a sudo kedit or you could open a terminal su, then kedit. jeremyb. > From: Matt Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/10 Thu AM 08:29:15 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others > > Is t

Re: permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others

2002-10-09 Thread Mark Carey
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:29, Matt Agnew wrote: > Or is this why I have to learn those icky editors > like vi or emacs? And which is better ? su vi /boot/lilo.conf i ESC :wq easy!! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Sure, in a corporate environment, but sendmail is still the smtp mailer of choice for linux distro's, it's installed by default on redhat and probably others, millions of normal users will be runnning it. I'm interested to see how long until someone cracks an apt or up2date repository and really

permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others

2002-10-09 Thread Matt Agnew
Is there an equivalent to "su" in a GUI? F'rexample, I'm logged in to KDE, and am using Kedit to edit my lilo.conf. Unfortunately, I can't save it as I don't have permission to write there. I suppose I could save it elsewhere, go to a terminal windowe, su, and copy the file over to the /etc

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Zane Gilmore
Any sysadmin worth their salt :-) And we are talking about sysadmins for sendmail. On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 09:15, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > That'd be just about everyone then... > > jeremyb. > > > From: Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2002/10/10 Thu AM 09:12:48 GMT+13:00 > > To: [EM

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
So how did those precautions stop what happened in the sendmail case? jeremyb. > From: Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/10 Thu AM 09:24:20 GMT+13:00 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse > > No it isn't, > The peop

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Zane Gilmore
No it isn't, The people who look after these projects will be using a tool called diff (see man diff) Whenever any changes are put into the source tree then those changes are gone over with a fine toothed comb. Unknown people as a general rule are not allowed to put source code into the main tree

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
That'd be just about everyone then... jeremyb. > From: Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/10 Thu AM 09:12:48 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse > > As for how obvious it is, to anyone who keeps an eye on > netstat -ap, it wou

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:35, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > Because the source code was modified, I'm surprised > anyone spotted it at all. Did you actually *read* the note ? The ./configure && make && make install process forked a daemon that accepted incoming commands. The source code was *not* mo

Re: Annoying Konqueror problems.

2002-10-09 Thread Mark Carey
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:52, John Williams wrote: > Thanks Mark. How did you know that? Ctrl + m restored the drop down menus. I was playing with Noatun the other day and I hid the menu bar and it popped up a message to tell me to ctrl + m to get it back, tried it in konqueror after you mentione

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Because the source code was modified, I'm surprised anyone spotted it at all. jeremyb. > From: Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/09 Wed PM 05:32:01 GMT+13:00 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse > > How is what happen

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Indeed, however my point was that when the source is accessible, it's easier to put something in which may take a lot longer to spot, anyone using proper antivirus precautions would have spotted your examples. jeremyb. > From: Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/09 Wed PM 04:57

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Can't see myself reading thru millions of lines of code to try and find a trojan, however you can just virus scan a binary. jeremyb. > From: Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/09 Wed PM 06:18:35 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Hors

Re: Annoying Konqueror problems.

2002-10-09 Thread John Williams
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 08:49 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:44, John Williams wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: > > > the first one, try changing the start page in settings. > > > > Cannot! I have somehow destroyed the top bar (the one with the pulldown

RE: Dreamweaver with Wine

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Mcleod
Dreamweaver MX will probably not work (being "new" and all, there's probably something in there that Wine will cry out about..), but maybe there is a hope with Dreamweaver 3 or 4. On a side note, I once managed to get the Trial version of Flash 3 to work (very slowly), but I never did try Dreamw

Re: RedHat 8.0 Usefull link

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Fisher
This page is awesome. No more "hairy" fonts like I had with RedHat7.3. Java and Flash work great. Thanks Jeremy On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:05, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > Heres another: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1890 > > jeremyb. > > > From: "Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: via voice

2002-10-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I understand that the Via Voice for Linux available for ( beer ) free is A very BIG misunderstanding. > intended for American voices, and if you require the files for a British > style voice then you have to buy a British version of the program for a > different O/S and transfer the voice d

Re: via voice

2002-10-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Has anyone had experience with IBM's voice recognition software on linux? http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/ Viavoice was a lot more efficient than Dragon 3 years ago. The Linux version is now dead. IBM has discontinued supplying the SDK. The commercial version is still available (as viavoice d

Re: Annoying Konqueror problems.

2002-10-09 Thread Mark Carey
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:44, John Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: > > the first one, try changing the start page in settings. > > Cannot! I have somehow destroyed the top bar (the one with the pulldown > menus) so I can no longer alter anything. Will, Ctrl +

Re: Annoying Konqueror problems.

2002-10-09 Thread John Williams
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: > the first one, try changing the start page in settings. Cannot! I have somehow destroyed the top bar (the one with the pulldown menus) so I can no longer alter anything. > > printing: is printing from other apps working? Yes. I found a version