Response addresses (was Re: BLOCK THIS EMAIL!!!!)

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:45:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:55:21PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I'd suggest a massive response (that is, many people, not one person > > replying many times) to the postmaster address, or other WHOI

Re: time zone on linux

2001-11-22 Thread kilaru
Hi Mark Thanks for the reply. But if the timezone changes while daemon is running, simply calling localtime and asctime will not help. Because localtime doesn't look at /etc/localtime from second time onwards unless we set TZ environment variable again to the new value. For that my daemon ne

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0600, David Batey wrote: > > STABILITY: is Debian a good choice for heavy lifting? > > There are some legit concerns regarding the Linux kernel as opposed to > the *BSD kernel

Re: weird messages in syslog

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:49:21AM -0800, Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've turned telnet off again. If anyone has any further advice, I'd be > really grateful, SSH clients are widely available for _any_ viable computer platform, from Mac to MVS. No need to risk your entire system

Re: XFree86 Configuration - Modelines

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:01:09AM -0500, Phil Beder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to Get XFree86 configured. I've used xf86config and XF86Setup > the former being more complete with regard to Video and Modelines and the > Latter with its graphic interface allowed me to find my mouse. >

Linux auf alten Rechnern oder Live-CD

2001-11-22 Thread Jörg Eckersberg
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,   ich bin Informatik-Lehrer am Europa-Gymnasium in Dessau und leite die Fachschaft Informatik. Zur Zeit bespreche ich in der 13.Klasse gerade das Thema "Betriebssysteme". Ich möchte den Schülern die Möglichkeit bieten, einmal mit Linux zu arbeiten. Es würden s

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:04:36PM -0600, DvB wrote: > God, I wish "YODA" would stop sending this crap :-( If you wish to address God about this issue, I don't think the list is the right place to do it. Regards. Johann. -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Univ

Re: Linux auf alten Rechnern oder Live-CD

2001-11-22 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
Sehr geehrter Hr. Eckersberg, normalerweise ist diese Mailingliste in Englisch, aber mir fällt es jetzt auch leichter, auf Deutsch zu antworten. On Donnerstag, November 22, 2001, at 08:40 Uhr, Jörg Eckersberg wrote: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,   ich bin Informatik-Lehrer am Europa-Gymnas

CDRW with TEac 54E

2001-11-22 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Is there a way to get my teac to burn? it is a 54E CDRW but shows the following: Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC' 'CD-W54E ' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) *

unpacking *.deb

2001-11-22 Thread kilaru
Hi All I am running Red Hat 7.2 on my m/c I downloaded one package from debian. Its name is foo.deb How do I unpack it? Thanks Bye Kilaru

Re: pppconfig still not working

2001-11-22 Thread Simon R Tod
Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > >Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > > > > Softmodems are quite often called winmodems. Don't really know how > they work but the software somehow emulates a modem. > Do you still have Win running on this machine? Then you could easily > find out what modem you have. Otherwise

quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Kieu
I got some bitmap pcf font, how can I make it available for ghostscript as I want to print some docs using that font Thanks a lot.. = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Get organised for Christmas early this year!

mkisofs & debian woody

2001-11-22 Thread Davi Leal
Why there is not 'mkisofs' command on the debian woody yet?. Any bug which avoids the package be included?.   How could I workaround it?.     Regards, Davi

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Daniel Lönn
Think that can be done best in The Gimp, actually, if the X Window System is concerned. God, I dont know much about GhostScript, but I want to hel as mucg as I can... /Daniel

Re: mkisofs & debian woody

2001-11-22 Thread Daniel Lönn
Have under consideration that Woody is still under a state of develope... /Daniel

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i'd try the simple test first... gzip foo.pcf cp foo.pcf.gz /usr/local/fonts mkfontsdir /usr/local/fonts xset +fp /usr/local/fonts xset fp rehash xlsfonts | grep foo gs document_with_that_fonts.ps if it works... add that path to your /etc/X11/XF86Config have fun linuxing alvin http:/

Re: Linux auf alten Rechnern oder Live-CD

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:06:51AM +0100, Daniel Kleine-Albers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sehr geehrter Hr. Eckersberg, > > normalerweise ist diese Mailingliste in Englisch, aber mir fällt es > jetzt auch leichter, auf Deutsch zu antworten. I can understand "nur ein Bißchen deutsch", response

Re: unpacking *.deb

2001-11-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:06:31PM +0530, kilaru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All > > I am running Red Hat 7.2 on my m/c > > I downloaded one package from debian. > Its name is foo.deb > > How do I unpack it? $ ar -x A .deb is an ar archive file with a specified structure. You shou

FYI: RFC-822 is obsolete

2001-11-22 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
> I'd suggest a massive response (that is, many people, not one person > replying many times) to the postmaster address, or other WHOIS contacts > listed if postmaster is invalid (an RFC 822 violation, FWIW). FYI, - RFC-822 has been replaced with RFC-2822 (Internet Message Format) http://www.i

Re: multithreading sounds

2001-11-22 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi , can you advice me how to get it working? I've done : o install packages esound, esound-common, esound-clients o run esd as root x but when i run e.g. mp3blaster it says failed to open audio device (ususal if other program locks /dev/dsp) x imho the documentation is very poor thanks f

Re: Linux auf alten Rechnern oder Live-CD

2001-11-22 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Daniel Kleine-Albers wrote: > normalerweise ist diese Mailingliste in Englisch, aber mir fällt es > jetzt auch leichter, auf Deutsch zu antworten. Du do doch reply in private, ne :-) ? > 300-400MB sollten für eine sparsame Installation auf jeden Fall reichen, 300MB is more then sparsame, doch

Debian Woody 3.0

2001-11-22 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
I'm trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 on an AMD Duron 800 Mhz 256 MB ram, but I've always the same error "neighbor overflow" that appear but it don't crash my system, can anyone help me ?? Also Xfree86 don't work and I must install it from another source. Lorenzo De Vito

Re: mkisofs & debian woody

2001-11-22 Thread Josef Oswald
"Davi Leal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > Why there is not 'mkisofs' command on the debian woody yet?. Any bug which > avoids the package be included?. > > How could I workaround it?. have you tried : apt-get install mkisofs if this stil

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Re: Debian Woody 3.0

2001-11-22 Thread Kilian
Lorenzo De Vito wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 on an AMD Duron 800 Mhz 256 MB ram, but I've always the same error "neighbor overflow" that appear but it don't crash my system, can anyone help me ?? Check your /etc/network/interfaces for the following lines: auto lo iface l

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Petro
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0600, David Batey wrote: > > > STABILITY: is Debian a good choice for heavy lifting? > > There are some le

Fw: Re: Cool website for you

2001-11-22 Thread c_eckert
peace

Fw: Re: Nice info to check !

2001-11-22 Thread c_eckert
peace

S3 Savage4

2001-11-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I installed Debian Potato in a AMD Duron 800 Mhz and xserver-svga and related packages. I did a SuperProbe command and the following returned: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 Savage4 (PCI Probed) Memory: 32768 Kbytes RAMDAC: Generic 8-

Fw: Re: Cool info i found

2001-11-22 Thread c_eckert
peace

Fw: stuff to check !!

2001-11-22 Thread c_eckert
peace

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool website for you Date : 22/11

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool website for you Date : 22/11

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool website for you Date : 22/11

Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Antigen
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: Re: Cool website for you ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at Cox/CoxHub1/HATL0MS21.

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Nice info to check ! Date : 22/11/

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Nice info to check ! Date : 22/11/

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Nice info to check ! Date : 22/11/

Antigen found W32/Aliz@MM (McAfee4) virus

2001-11-22 Thread ANTIGEN_SSEXCH-00-IMC1
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (McAfee4) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: Re: Nice info to check ! ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Seguranca-Social/SEG-SOCIAL/SSEXCH-00-IMC1.

Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Antigen
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: Re: Nice info to check ! ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at Cox/CoxHub1/HATL0MS21.

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool info i found Date : 22/11/20

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool info i found Date : 22/11/20

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: Re: Cool info i found Date : 22/11/20

Antigen found W32/Aliz@MM (McAfee4) virus

2001-11-22 Thread ANTIGEN_SSEXCH-00-IMC1
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (McAfee4) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: Re: Cool info i found ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Seguranca-Social/SEG-SOCIAL/SSEXCH-00-IMC1.

Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Antigen
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: Re: Cool info i found ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at Cox/CoxHub1/HATL0MS21.

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: stuff to check !! Date : 22/11/2001

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: stuff to check !! Date : 22/11/2001

Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread YODA Panda Antivirus for Exchange Server
Panda Antivirus has found the following viruses in the message: Server :YODA Sent by : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To :debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Fw: stuff to check !! Date : 22/11/2001

Antigen found W32/Aliz@MM (McAfee4) virus

2001-11-22 Thread ANTIGEN_SSEXCH-00-IMC1
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (McAfee4) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: stuff to check !! ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Seguranca-Social/SEG-SOCIAL/SSEXCH-00-IMC1.

Antigen found Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Antigen
Antigen for Exchange found whatever.exe infected with Aliz.4096.Worm (Norman,Sophos) virus. The file is currently Removed. The message, "Fw: stuff to check !! ", was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at Cox/CoxHub1/HATL0MS21.

Re: NIS and device permissions

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, francisco m neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >» Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > >> >I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound >> > hardware on >> >the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered

Happy Thanksgiving

2001-11-22 Thread zohar
Happy Thanksgiving

RE: pppconfig still not working

2001-11-22 Thread Schoppitsch Dieter
Maybe wvdial (which is smaller and more simple than pppd/pppconfig) is able to find the right port? ds I've been trying to get pppconfig set up to run with my ISP it probes ttyS0 and ttyS1 withut finding the modem,

Re: Debian Woody 3.0

2001-11-22 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> I'm trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 on an AMD Duron 800 Mhz 256 > MB ram, but I've always the same error "neighbor overflow" that > appear but it don't crash my system, can anyone help me ?? > Also Xfree86 don't work and I must install it from another source. I do not think there is any such

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josh Everist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well I can take responsibility for the messages from >'[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing list didn't send >out viruses in the first place, there wouldn't be the automated reply. >The same goes for the YODA

smtp with kmail

2001-11-22 Thread Johannes Jörg
Hello list I'm trying to send e-mails via smtp from kmail. I have selected "smtp" in the network menu, but I don't know which port nuber to use. (The default "0" does not work, I get an error connection refused) So, what is the default port for smtp transfers? thanks joerg -- GMX - Die Kommu

ot: 3ware raid

2001-11-22 Thread nate
wanted to give an update to anyone who was participating in those raid controller threads a few days ago .. seems 3ware has another hardware related issue which i experienced first hand today. i planned on comming into work around 12 or 1..but got paged at 10:23 saying 2 of the services were down

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karsten M. Self wrote: >Most of these boil down to the TCP/IP stack. The *BSD stack is damned >good, and the rest of the world drools after it. Linus himself admits >that Linux kernel networking code is a mess, and that he's not >personally a network hacker. Do y

apt-offline Question

2001-11-22 Thread Stephen Brown
Hi All The terminal reads --- Elshaddai:/apt-offline# export APT_CONFIG="/apt-offline/apt.conf" Elshaddai:/apt-offline# apt-get -d install dwarfs-debian-guide Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

respond to spam from gmx.net

2001-11-22 Thread ben
i'm willing to ping their server into eventual submission.

Re: smtp with kmail

2001-11-22 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> So, what is the default port for smtp transfers? I think it is 25 Cheers :o) Johnny :o)

Re: unpacking *.deb

2001-11-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:06:31PM +0530, kilaru wrote: > I am running Red Hat 7.2 on my m/c > > I downloaded one package from debian. > Its name is foo.deb > > How do I unpack it? If I am correct the package "alien" is available for redhat. You should be able to convert foo.deb to foo.rpm

Re: Fw: Re: Cool info i found

2001-11-22 Thread ben
gmx.net isn't pingable but ecrc.de, one of its nameservers is. if all of us devote enough resources to the cause, ecrc.de can be reduced to redundance. how about it? arguments against?

smtp with kmail

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Knorra
Hi, the port for smtp is 25. i hope this is helpful... Michael Knorra

Re: Antigen found W32/Aliz@MM (McAfee4) virus

2001-11-22 Thread Nigel Pauli
On Thursday 22 November 2001 01:46, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've just logged on to find that my site seems to be involved i.e. there is a load of these emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did find 12 emails in my inbox from [EMAIL PROTECTED] each with a copy of whatever.exe attached. This purports t

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread ben
all of this garbage is coming across european servers (ecrc.net and cistron.nl--use dig, ping, traceroute, etc., to verify this. check the mail headers for appropriate addresses). i vote for a universal ping campaign to the servers involved. it won't disrupt their mail servers but it will get their

Re: tty1-6 screwed up

2001-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> I just finished playing xmame in full screen mode, and coming out of > full screen mode messed something up. X died, and gdm was respawned. > > However, interestingly, the virtual consoles 1-6 are now screwed; if I > switch to them I see a mess of mostly green and black in graphics > mode. Eve

ADSL & USB

2001-11-22 Thread Vittorio
I'd like to use an ADSL modem via USB. Is there anyone out there having experience of such ADSL modems under woody? Suggestions about particular makes? Thanks Vittorio

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to ben: > all of this garbage is coming across european servers (ecrc.net and > cistron.nl--use dig, ping, traceroute, etc., to verify this. What, garbage coming from cistron.nl? Are you out of your mind? > check the mail > headers for appropriate addresses). i vote for a universal ping

glutg3-dev & xlibmesa-dev

2001-11-22 Thread Emiel Metselaar
Yesterday I installed glutg3-dev & xlibmesa-dev for my visualisation code, since the non-dev things do not have the header files. Today going throught the apt-get update, upgrade routine I see that these 2 files will be removed. My question is why, i didnot deselect them... A related question is ho

Re: smtp with kmail

2001-11-22 Thread SaDIKuZboy
25/tcp if you need other specific ports and descriptions by RFC you can cat /etc/services | less :o - Original Message - From: "Michael Knorra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 1:19 PM Subject: smtp with kmail > Hi, > the port for smtp

insmod errors with 2.4.14

2001-11-22 Thread Eric Smith
I am getting the following errors: Using /lib/modules/2.4.14-586/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.14-586/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - BSD without advertisement clause /lib/modules/2.4.14-586/kernel/net/ipv4/netf

Strange files

2001-11-22 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
I', having this errors: find: /var/log/ksymoops/2000184243.ksyms: Input/output error find: /var/log/ksymoops/2000184243.ksyms: Input/output error find: /var/log/ksymoops/2000184243.ksyms: Input/output error find: /var/log/ksymoops/2000184243.modules: Input/output error find: /var

Re: pppconfig still not working

2001-11-22 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Maxtech PCMICA modem working just great. The only problem with it left is that I get denied permission to pppd unless I'm logged in as root. I added usernames under advanced options in pppconfig, and they're certainly sitting in the appropriate place in the file vigr, so what's missing? -- srt Y

Re: logging out users

2001-11-22 Thread SaDIKuZboy
did you try to ps x process and kill -TERM the right bash/sh/csh/whatever pid ? - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: "debian-user" Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 2:21 AM Subject: Re: logging out users

Re: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread Nigel Pauli
On Thursday 22 November 2001 00:29, Craig Dickson wrote: > Linda Laubenheimer wrote: > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: Thanks for the useful, practical advice. At one point over the summer I found myself stranded without reading matter and read and re-read the articles in Linux Magazine on procmail -

recovering wrecked system (potato->unstable)

2001-11-22 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I've probably wrecked my system and will need to reformat and start over, but am hoping I'll be able to recover without. But I'm stuck - any advice appreciated (as you will see from below, I don't have much idea what I'm doing). I had an old potato system. Problem 1: I tried to upgrade X to

problem: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
I have noticed few times during last days that sometime system runs out of memory (always when I am not nearby) and kills a program or two and then everything's fine (it kills different programs each time so I am pretty sure the killed program is not the one that causes problems) here's the me

RE: Virus incident

2001-11-22 Thread François THOMAS
> -Message d'origine- > De : Nigel Pauli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi 22 novembre 2001 14:13 > À : Craig Dickson; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Objet : Re: Virus incident > > > On Thursday 22 November 2001 00:29, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Linda Laubenheimer wrote: > > > Mic

WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
How come bug program uses ee? that's quite ridiculous, THE editor for anything system related was always vi, at least everybody knows what to expect. IIRC vi was used before. the web page says that joe will be used if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR variables are set. However I ended up with ee which i

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2001-11-22 Thread Sean
And Happy Turkey Day! Sean On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 21:15, zohar wrote: > Happy Thanksgiving > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- GPG Public Key available: http://nimh.freeshell.org/gpg_key.txt p

how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? I didn't find anything relevant in amnd dpkg and man apt-get. TIA erik

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:37:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:31:49AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > How come bug program uses ee? It doesn't. 'update-alternatives --config editor'. > the web page says that joe will be used if neither VISUAL nor EDITOR > variables are set. The man page (I think that's what you meant?) is wrong. /u

Re: Fw: Re: Cool info i found

2001-11-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
No, because then we'd be disrupting any innocent bystandards. Get me a list of any admins for gmx and it's hosting services. I'll have a talk with them. Thus spake ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > gmx.net isn't pingable but ecrc.de, one of its nameservers is. if all of > us devote enough resources t

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:37:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? > > echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections thank you, isn't this a bug in man dpkg though? all it says about --set-selections i

Re: WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:31:49AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > How come bug program uses ee? > > It doesn't. 'update-alternatives --config editor'. right. the question morphs - how come ee has higher priority than vim (or any other vi clone)? The least surprising (t

Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-22 Thread Stan Brown
One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing if the FreebSD vi has been ported). In any case, how do I change the defaul

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Alexander Steinert
> > > is there any way to put package on hold using command line tools? > > > > echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections > > thank you, > > isn't this a bug in man dpkg though? all it says about > --set-selections is: > >dpkg --set-selections > Set package selec

scale ps with pstops

2001-11-22 Thread Michael Hierweck
Hello, I haven't got much experience with Postscript but I have to scale lost of ps-File with a certain factor... The manual tells me to laern psotscript, but I don"t have the time do this today... Thanks for your help. Michael Hierweck

Re: apt-get bugzilla/sid ....Preconfiguring packages....

2001-11-22 Thread Charles Baker
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:20:20PM -0500, Charles > Baker wrote: > > I am enountering a problem when doing an `apt-get > install bugzilla`. The > > process goes along fine until the line > "Preconfiguring packages ..." is > > displayed then nothing else happens. >

Re: Debian Woody 3.0

2001-11-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:34:28AM +0100, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > Are you installing Woody to help out with testing? > If not, you should install Potato in stead (Debian GNU/Linux version > 2.2 revision 4) which is the latest stable Debian release. We've kind of been through this before.

Re: how to put package on hold using command line tools?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:08:30PM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote: > Nevertheless you can file a bug against dpkg. > (See 'apt-cache show bug'.) Better, see reportbug. bug hasn't really been maintained seriously for a while now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WTF: bug uses ee

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:01:30AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > right. the question morphs - how come ee has higher priority than vim > (or any other vi clone)? The least surprising (this is linux) editor is > some vi clone... (you get ee, there's no way to tell it's ee, there's no > way to figure

Re: Cahnging default vi?

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:01:35AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > One of my potato + progeny machies seems to heve elvis as the default for > vi. After a few days of being anoyed by it's aberent non standard behabior, > I'm ready to change to something else (vim perhaps ?0 ( or the real thing > if the

Re: apt-get bugzilla/sid ....Preconfiguring packages....

2001-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:09AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > I will file a bug if think it's best. I ran the command as you > specified and it seems that their are some questions that need to be > answered and the the install/configure process is getting in a loop. Looks like it, yes. > How d

Re: Fw: Re: Cool info i found

2001-11-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:51:49AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > No, because then we'd be disrupting any innocent bystandards. Get me a > list of any admins for gmx and it's hosting services. I'll have a talk > with them. Note that a DOS attack on the actual sender would be illegal in this

going back to Xfree86 3.x in unstable

2001-11-22 Thread Eric Smith
How do I go back to the previous version as the new Xfree dont support some old monitor that I am using? -- Eric Smith

Re: problem: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed

2001-11-22 Thread Sebastian Bober
Am Don, dem 22.November 2001, um 05:27:32 -0800, schrieb Erik Steffl: > > usually it kills more programs, system services (cron) etc... I have > few question related to this problem: > > - is it possible it's kernel problem? I haven't heard anything too > weird about 2.4.10 well, 2.4.10 is q

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread David Z Maze
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AO> gzip foo.pcf AO> cp foo.pcf.gz /usr/local/fonts AO> mkfontsdir /usr/local/fonts AO> xset +fp /usr/local/fonts AO> xset fp rehash AO> xlsfonts | grep foo AO> AO> gs document_with_that_fonts.ps AO> AO> if it works... add that path to your /etc/X11/XF86Co

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