Re: [users@httpd] could we use c replace perl in cgi program?

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear J. Greelees: Thanks your reply, some frined email me a link : cgilib is the module you mean is in that site's cgllib? from that site I see paring name from form and cookie, so far I do not want care cookie, just want to see the paring name and

Re: control z - background or stop?

2002-12-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:16:39PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > i wanted to know if there is a way to put a program in background > > without stopping it. so i start links, put it in background while it loads > > a page and fetch it in foreground after finishing of something

Re: Apologies re: VPN + Roadwarrior

2002-12-12 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
> On Thursday, 2002-12-12 at 13:02:41 -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: >> Sorry for the multiple sends. Some of the original addresses had >> typos that I corrected and resent. Bad dog! > > Still no cookie, bad dog :-P > > http://ipsec.wit.antd.nist.gov/ Host does not resolve > http://i

Re: control z - background or stop? * solved *

2002-12-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:11:55AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:13:01PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > i wanted to know if there is a way to put a program in background > > without stopping it. so i start links, put it in background while it > > loads a pag

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Andy wrote: Your recommendation seemed to be the safest and easiest so I tried it and got the following error as I was not doing any symlinking and just running from within the directory: steelhead:/home/andy/mozilla# ./mozilla ./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib

Re: control z - background or stop?

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > i wanted to know if there is a way to put a program in background > without stopping it. so i start links, put it in background while it loads > a page and fetch it in foreground after finishing of something inbetween. my favorite way to do this is screen. the basics:

Re: control z - background or stop?

2002-12-12 Thread sean finney
heya, On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:13:01PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i wanted to know if there is a way to put a program in background > without stopping it. so i start links, put it in background while it > loads a page and fetch it in foreground after finishing of something > inbetween. ^

Re: Apologies re: VPN + Roadwarrior

2002-12-12 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2002-12-12 at 13:02:41 -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > Sorry for the multiple sends. Some of the original addresses had > typos that I corrected and resent. Bad dog! Still no cookie, bad dog :-P http://ipsec.wit.antd.nist.gov/ Host does not resolve http://isakmp.test.ssh.fi/

Re: USB/Serial converter

2002-12-12 Thread ernst
Yes, works fine. You can look at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x356.html for an easy HOWTO. /ernst On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I just got a new laptop and after all was said and done, I realized > the damned thing didn't have a serial port. Doh! > > Has anyone had a

Re: cryptoloop as user?

2002-12-12 Thread ernst
Yes, you scould check cfs, I use that too and I'm able to crypt a selected folder. /ernst On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Geoff Crompton wrote: > Is there away to set a directory to be crypted? Rather than creating a > file to hold a filesystem and then crypting that? That way, any access > of the dire

Re: cryptoloop as user?

2002-12-12 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Don, 2002-12-12 um 21.01 schrieb ernst: > Nop, can't do. > > I have an crypted fil created with 'dd' and ciper blowfish. this file is > mounted at loop0. > > when I mount with the 'mount' command, debian understand that this is my > /folder/cryptfile. > > when I try to do this in fstab, it do

after change action for test, website can not access, please help

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear cgilib user, linuxer: When I change my /var/www/index.html 's action of form to what post in http://www.infodrom.org/projects/cgilib/test.php3 after I hit submit bottom, my browser show me Not Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/cgitest/listall was not found on this server. please

Re: Large files support and libc

2002-12-12 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:08, Dmitry Krasnov wrote: > Hello! > > I'm primarily FreeBSD user so excuse me if my question is too stupid for > debian folks. I've used Debian 2.2 for telephony tasks last year with > kernel-2.2.18 but last week I've tried to upgrade it to woody and > kernel-2.4.18 b

control z - background or stop?

2002-12-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all this is a fairly basic question. i checked debian reference - could not identify solution. when i hit control z while running a program, i think the program stops and goes in background. for instance, in links, a web page wont load if i hit control z. i wanted to know if there is a way

Re: security update script?

2002-12-12 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 00.10 schrieb Erno Kuusela: > hello, > > before i start on my own, has anyone written a script they would like > to share for downloading security updates? > > i mean one that you can feed a DSA mail to, and it would check the > pgp signature and download the updated package

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:15:39PM -0900, Andy wrote: > steelhead:/home/andy/mozilla# ./mozilla > ./mozilla-bin: error while loading shared libraries: > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > Do I need to install a shared library? If you've got

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Andy
> My personal recommendation would be to just download the tarball > directly from mozilla.org, untar it in your home directory[check where > it untars to with tar tzf first, it may want to untar to bin in which > case you may want to untar it in ~/mozilla or something], and then run > the included

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Craig Dickson wrote: > Erlang is not only free software, but it's already packaged for Debian > (though I think it's been orphaned; it's in stable, but no longer in > testing or unstable). (Whacks self with ruler) My first search must have been set to "stable only"; on second glance, I see that

Large files support and libc

2002-12-12 Thread Dmitry Krasnov
Hello! I'm primarily FreeBSD user so excuse me if my question is too stupid for debian folks. I've used Debian 2.2 for telephony tasks last year with kernel-2.2.18 but last week I've tried to upgrade it to woody and kernel-2.4.18 because of large files support. System was upgraded smoothly but

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Mackinney wrote: > Heh, me too! (Although likely on a more modest scale) I've just finished > a Programming Languages course where we used Haskell to write a lambda > calculus evaluator. Writing the input expressions as structures (Lambda > "x" (Var "y")) was so irritating that I wrote a pars

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:24:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? Install debfoster and run it? I do this once a week after I've i

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? I would like to stick with the D

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/12/02 22:17, Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? Works like a

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:17:57PM -0900, Andy wrote: > How long will it take for Mozilla 1.2 to become a stable > debian package so one can use apt-get? Probably not until sarge is released. On a more serious note, it will be avaliable in testing much sooner. You could always just get the versio

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Mackinney
David Z Maze declaimed: > One of these days > I'll get around to doing a reasonable-sized project in Haskell, > though: it has an incredible type system and seems to do the right > thing around "classes", though this is only so meaningful in a purely > functional language. Saying "well, I wrote ab

could we use c replace perl in cgi program?

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear advanced webprogramers or linuxer: Could we using c replace perl in cgi programming? I tried a simple c program(although it not compile write) to parse the name and value it inherate from visitor hit the submit form #include int main() {

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Travis Crump
Jon wrote: Hi Andy. On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:17, Andy wrote: Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: The version of Mozilla in stable an

Philosophic question about kernel 2.2.20 - is it to old

2002-12-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, this is more "in the abstract" question. I use a kernel 2.2.20 (compiled by myself, based on the debian woody source package: kernel-source-2.2.20). It works perfectly on my laptop. Is there any need to update the kernel in terms of security, performance ... ? Oliver -- ... don't touch the ba

Re: dhcp setup

2002-12-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, What was wrong with your command? # apt-cache search dhcpd will show that a dhcp server is available with the debian package: dhcp Therefore, # apt-get install dhcp should get you the daemon you need. edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to setup your ranges and such. hth, cheers, Mike Quoting John Griffi

recovering nvi sessions?

2002-12-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all when i boot up my pc, it throws a message that reads: recovering nvi session ... done i checked for the string in dmesg - it was not there. it has not affected working of my computer anyway. but could someone tell me where is this message coming from? -- regards, sandip p deshmukh

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Dai" == Dai Yuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dai> It seems GRUB had found lilo on /dev/hdd7. But error message Dai> was displayed: L 01 01 ... Please read the docs in /usr/share/doc/lilo. >From Manual.txt.gz L ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started,

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, Andrew> I ended up with kde and gnome as the default desktops. I Andrew> want my fvwm back! How do I rid myself of these? Tell the login manager to use an xsessi

Re: Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"rir" == R Ransbottom writes: rir> Verizon has "authenticated SMTP" which is one snag. I don't rir> know how I'm supposed to set this up on my end. I don't even rir> know which protocols are equivalent from smtp EHLO output and rir> exim terminology. Run eximconfig and choo

what is perl 's syntax or grammer?(toward e-commerce)

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear website developer or linuxer: I follow two boods, one is "HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS" the other is "Teach yourself WEbPublishing with HTML and XHTML" may be best weblanguage is java or java script, let me explore html and cgi and perl first by many try, when I hit my

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Jon
Hi Andy. On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:17, Andy wrote: > Kind of a newbie question here. > I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. > My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest > version. 4 questions please: > The version of Mozilla in stable and test

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Paul Tansom wrote: > Exim base mail app. - I wavered on Qmail, but really didn't like it > much, partly due to the license obstructing binary distribution and > partly due to the configuration - the way it uses multiple hidden files > for managing aliases is a pain and just pla

SCO-ANSI emulation via telnet

2002-12-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hello, Is there a way I can get sco-ansi terminal emulation in a telnet session? Thank you for any hints, Shawn -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Craig Dickson
Andy wrote: > Kind of a newbie question here. > I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. > My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest > version. 4 questions please: > > Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? > > I would like to

dhcp setup

2002-12-12 Thread John Griffiths
hi all, I'm a little confused... I've run dhcp boxes (freesco and NAT'ing firewall routers) so I was expecting it to be a little easier under debian. I'm on a fixed IP network, but there are some free addresses I'd like to make available for guest boxes. I thought a dhcp server would be simple

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: > Cyrus adds those as well :-) perhaps a newer version.. I checked about a dozen messages, and did not find a single delivered-to header, or any header that started with the word delivered. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:49:44AM -0800, nate wrote: > > I do it this way for spam purposes. 99% of spam I recieve is not addressed > > to any user on my system so I can only assume it was BCC'd or sent as part > > of a mailing list. The only way to track

agpgart & nvagp

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm trying to test the nvagp, but the agpgart module continues to be autoloaded when X starts. How do I stop the autoloading of agpgart without removing the module or recompiling? Thanks, -- Kevin C. Smith | The people can always be brought to do the bidding Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |

Re: mail basics on a debian system

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:43:16PM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:26:57PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: | > Derrick, please forgive me if this question sounds stupid ( I know | > I have to reread a lot of network stuff), but I have the impression | > that the high-availability

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Dai Yuwen
Bruce Park wrote: Dai, I'm confused to why you aren't just using one boot loader to control everything. Can you tell me why you are using two boot loaders? My reason is here: > Now I put them together. My intention is: let GRUB load the lilos on > the second hard disk. I know I can load b

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:18:27AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: | ok, sorry, i have another question... i guess this one is more about | regular expressions than anything... i'm recoloring my headers and | various parts of my messages to be a little bit easier for me, so i want | to make the PGP

mozilla 1.2 and debian

2002-12-12 Thread Andy
Kind of a newbie question here. I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first. My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest version. 4 questions please: Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own? I would like to stick with the Debian way bu

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:03:33AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: | On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | > * Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021212 15:44]: | > > 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at | > > least i think it is), is ther

Re: spamassasin - how to avoid further false positives and negatives?

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:41:43PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | hello | | my spamassasin set-up was the quickest in my entire mail processing | set-up. and it has already started marking SPAM! :) | | now, there are some false positives and some false negatives. how do i | make spamas

Re: Apache SSL, self-signed certs, Mac Explorer 5 problem

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:13:47PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: | If I make a self-signed certificate using 'ssl-certificate' on Apache | SSL (Debian Testing i386) Mozilla, Netscape and PC Explorers will accept | the certificate after a warning. | | However Macintosh Explorer 5 clients on OSX

Re: Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:51:10PM -0500, R Ransbottom wrote: | Verizon has "authenticated SMTP" which is one snag. Not a problem. | I don't know how I'm supposed to set this up on my end. Did you look at the manual? Read section 35 (of spec.txt). | I don't even know which protocols are equiv

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? > > Thanks. What I did to completelyy get rid of GNOME was to 'apt-get remove' one o

Re: Installing to PERC4/Di

2002-12-12 Thread John
Cory J Kapser wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian 3.0 Woody onto a Dell server with a raid controller (the PERC4/Di). I am unable to load any modules for the raid controller so that I am able to see the hard disks. Has anyone had this problem, and know a solution? I got it working with Re

Kernel compile fails

2002-12-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I downloaded the ac2 patch for the kernel 2.4.20 and applied the same. The patch went smoothly without any errors, etc. To compile the kernel, I did fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image After the checking of depends, the process fails with the following error: touch stamp-kernel-configure t

Re: Manipulating .debs

2002-12-12 Thread Sacha Chua
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I wanted to remove a dependency from a debian package. I took it apart and >> edited the control-file, and put it back together. However, dpkg wouldn't > The easiest way is to use mc. ;-)) Well, I always just ar x'd the .deb, then edited the control

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Cameron Matheson said: > Hi guys, > > Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching > between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i > kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it: > > 1) Using mutt

dhclient not working properly after failed network install

2002-12-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i've installed and configured several debian boxes but today it was the first time the network part of the installation failed. I only installed the base part and first wanted to get the network up and running. Nothing seemed configured which seems logical since it failed during installation.

Re: ACCK! Disk crash

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Andrew Pritchard said: > Under DOS/Windows I'd run scandisk - what is the debian/linux equivalent? scandisk won't tell you much, nor will e2fsck (EXT2's filesystem checker). your best off using the tools made for your drive. IBM has special tools for their drives, Maxtor has tools for their dri

Installing to PERC4/Di

2002-12-12 Thread Cory J Kapser
Hi, I am trying to install Debian 3.0 Woody onto a Dell server with a raid controller (the PERC4/Di). I am unable to load any modules for the raid controller so that I am able to see the hard disks. Has anyone had this problem, and know a solution? I got it working with Redhat, they use the scs

Re: [debian-user] kde3 widget themes gone

2002-12-12 Thread RĂ¼diger Kuhlmann
>--[Warren Dodge]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This one time, at band camp, RĂ¼diger Kuhlmann said: > > >--[Matias Hermanrud Fjeld]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I noticed something strange with the theme as well, however, I couldn't > > pinpoint it. But since yesterday my konsole crashes at startup - and I

Re: Bugs in Browsers: Mozilla & Co. vs. Exploder

2002-12-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > So, my question is quite easy: wouldn't it be more secure if mozilla > was installed by dselect/apt-get/dpkg with set-uid to nobody.nogroup? (snip) > What do you think? Since you asked, I think it would be a waste of time. Provided you

LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Dai Yuwen
Hi, All This is my situation: 1. The first hard disk: grub installed on MBR, Redhat Linux 2. The second hard disk: Debian potato and woody occupy some logical partitions, and each has its own lilo installed on their partitions. I also have a lilo installed on MBR of this disk to load the above t

ACCK! Disk crash

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Pritchard
It looks like one of the disks in my fileserver has crashed - loads of data lost. Not an issue - that's what backups are for! However, I want to know if the hardware is sound (I'm not convinced it is - or was to begin with but that's another issue). Under DOS/Windows I'd run scandisk - what is th

Re: "Debian Way": libapache-mod-ssl & i586-optimized libssl

2002-12-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021212 03:34]: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:44:37AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Has anybody put together a good, clean way to get mod_ssl to use the > > /usr/lib/i586/libssl.so.0.9.6 in order to gain that 2x speed boost? > > I was under the strong impression

Re: Bugs in Browsers: Mozilla & Co. vs. Exploder

2002-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > on the one hand one reads about bugs in the Mircosoft Internet > Exploder based on Active Scripting and other holes quite often. On > the other hand, rarely bugs in the Mozilla and Co. are reported. > However, I believe th

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Colin Watson said: > You could just use something like the Delivered-To: header that postfix > adds? I was about to jump with joy thinking I could do that but checked the message you sent and there is no such header. I put a copy of the headers for the message you sent here: http://portal.aphrol

Re: Bugs in Browsers: Mozilla & Co. vs. Exploder

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Lukas Ruf said: > What do you think? wouldn't this introduce problems when it came to authenticating with the X server? I mean, another user running mozilla probably cannot just do it. You need to grant that user access to connect to your display. and if multiple users are using mozilla, that in

Re: Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:24:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with > kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid > myself of these? not sure as there are massive dependancy issues... i did an inter

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

2002-12-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:54:46PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.11.1244 +0100]: >> >> PAM: >> >> %> grep lastlog /etc/pam.d/login >> sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so > > He said he'd added th

Re: Bugs in Browsers: Mozilla & Co. vs. Exploder

2002-12-12 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > So, my question is quite easy: wouldn't it be more secure if mozilla > was installed by dselect/apt-get/dpkg with set-uid to nobody.nogroup? > /* Of course, this would make impossible to download files into one's >home directory excep

Re: access website or webpage not work

2002-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:52:49PM -0700, eric lin wrote: > i tried to put a simple perl file in my /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl Do you have a /usr/local/bin/perl on your system? Debian only installs /usr/bin/perl. Also, always use 'perl -w'. > use CGI ':standrard'; T

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:49:44AM -0800, nate wrote: > I do it this way for spam purposes. 99% of spam I recieve is not addressed > to any user on my system so I can only assume it was BCC'd or sent as part > of a mailing list. The only way to track down what address it was sent to > is to have a

Getting rid of gnome and kde

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
For some reason on the laptop I just installed debian on, I ended up with kde and gnome as the default desktops. I want my fvwm back! How do I rid myself of these? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistan

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:05:19PM -0600, Gary Turner insinuated: > martin f krafft wrote: > >also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.10.2351 +0100]: > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > >> converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv > >

Re: Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
R Ransbottom said: > > I am trying to set up a debian mail server that > sees the world through incoming.verizon.net and > outgoing.verizon.net. > > Fetchmail is set up and recieving mail fine. > > I have muddled through a few small setups of > sendmail, smail and exim over the years. > > Verizon

nfs backup from woody installer

2002-12-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, have machine that would like to install debian on, but before i install i want to backup the entire disk to an nfs share. This is the procdure i am attempting to use: 1. boot from woody binary-1 cd using 'vanilla' [-is a nasty advent5372 laptop, crashses if i boot with bf24] 2. alt-f2

security update script?

2002-12-12 Thread Erno Kuusela
hello, before i start on my own, has anyone written a script they would like to share for downloading security updates? i mean one that you can feed a DSA mail to, and it would check the pgp signature and download the updated packages and verify the md5sums. -- erno [please cc me as i'm not o

unsubscribe

2002-12-12 Thread Ganjoe Rood
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Bugs in Browsers: Mozilla & Co. vs. Exploder

2002-12-12 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, on the one hand one reads about bugs in the Mircosoft Internet Exploder based on Active Scripting and other holes quite often. On the other hand, rarely bugs in the Mozilla and Co. are reported. However, I believe that bugs are human -- without touching the philosophical question whethe

Re: xterm copy-n-paste and mouse selection in scroll back

2002-12-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Thu 12 Dec 2002 07:15:46 +(-0800), Bill Moseley wrote: > > The PRIMARY type of cut-n-paste is handy and fast, but is a pain when you > need to replace some text on paste (since if you hightlight again the > current PRIMARY is lost. With the CLIPBOARD its contents are not replaces > unitl t

Re: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:51, eric lin wrote: > Dear Linuxer: > > did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? Try the drivers for the sis300 series from Thomas Winischhofer located at: www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml You need to patch your kernel and overwrite the XFree drive

Re: apt-get / dpkg gives signature error

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Hurt
On 12/12/02 14:50, Andrew M. Lindley wrote: After the usual 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' 3 security fixes were not applied. An 'apt-get clean' and 'apt-get upgrade' does not resolve the problem. How do I rid myself of the following messages and get the fixes on my system? TIA - Andrew g

Re: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread nate
eric lin said: > Dear Linuxer: > > did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status30.html#30 the 300 is supported, but it says there are some problems with it, the 305 is probably considered similar enough to the 300 to run with that driver. nate

Re: [users@httpd] RE: access website or webpage not work

2002-12-12 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:37:42PM -0700, eric lin wrote: > my path have /usr/bin and perl is in it > it still not work > > please help again please look again at the top line of your simple perl script :) sean msg18753/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SV: Kernel problem

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Lasse said: > The thing is, everything works with the 2.2.x kernel, so i really think > linux is the best option on this board, it came preeinstalled with ms nt4 > embeded. > If it help you can look on the motorla site look for cpn5360 > > What im looking for in 2.4? Well quite a few things, som fs

Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-12 Thread Dale Hair
After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su everything is fine. If I run it as sudo it is the same as running as user. What's wrong and how can I fix this? -- To UNSUBS

Re: cryptoloop as user?

2002-12-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
Is there away to set a directory to be crypted? Rather than creating a file to hold a filesystem and then crypting that? That way, any access of the directory would render unusefull information (or just deny access), until it was mounted (or unlocked in some fashion) by the password. Cheers G

USB/Serial converter

2002-12-12 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I just got a new laptop and after all was said and done, I realized the damned thing didn't have a serial port. Doh! Has anyone had any experience with USB -> Serial Port converters and linux? -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Turner
martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.10.2351 +0100]: >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and >> converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv and xpdf, >> and look like crap in Acrobat (in Win). The PDF docs print

Re: apt-get / dpkg gives signature error

2002-12-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andrew" == Andrew M Lindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> After the usual 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' 3 security Andrew> fixes were not applied. An 'apt-get clean' and 'apt-get upgrade' Andrew> does not resolve the problem. How do I rid myself of the Andrew> following messages

Re: newbie's apache , internal server error, please help

2002-12-12 Thread sean finney
what does which perl say? sean msg18746/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: strange problem compiling source rpms

2002-12-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:37:58 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Faheem Mitha wrote: >> No. Am I supposed to create it? Isn't this something that should be >> done automatically, by a postinst script of whatever? If I am supposed >> to create it, I think it should be documented. > > The

Re: newbie's apache , internal server error, please help

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: eric lin wrote: [Thu Dec 12 19:55:46 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl failed this usually means that the interpreter in the shebang line of the script is incorrect. or possibly that the script file has dos line e

did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear Linuxer: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? -- Sincere Eric www.linuxspice.com linux pc for sale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie's apache , internal server error, please help

2002-12-12 Thread nate
eric lin said: > [Thu Dec 12 19:55:46 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl failed try just doing(from the shell) /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl see what it spits out do you have perl in /usr/local/bin ? debian has it in /usr/bin nate -- To UNSUB

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

2002-12-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.12.1719 +0100]: >> I mentioned in my original message about pam_lastlog.so. > > Sorry, didn't see that... No problem. >> Apparently, this line is getting ignored, and something else is causing >>

Re: [users@httpd] RE: access website or webpage not work

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
www:/home/fsshl# which perl /usr/bin/perl www:/home/fsshl# env SSH_AGENT_PID=507 KDE_MULTIHEAD=false SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm QT_XFT=0 GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/fsshl/.gtkrc:/home/fsshl/.gtkrc-kde USER=root LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Tom Allison said: > nate wrote: > >> no username, no password anywhere ..its quite handy. >> > > what is to prevent anyone else from using it? ACLs(access control lists), cyrus may be the only one of the major MTAs to impliment them, I'm not sure. You can read up on them here: http://asg.web.cmu.

Re: IMAP recommendations

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Tom Allison said: > I would think you would want authentication. there is authentication, just not for those accounts. cyrus maintains access control lists. You could(if you wanted) run a IMAP server that provides anonymous access. But in this example, I must be logged in under my main account in

Re: newbie's apache , internal server error, please help

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
[Thu Dec 12 19:55:46 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl failed [Thu Dec 12 19:55:46 2002] [error] [client 64.91.61.186] Premature end of script headers: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/entrance.pl[Thu Dec 12 19:56:11 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Th

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
Not an option, the CEO is doing the "exchange is the only true calendar app!" thing. I'd rather not come back with a "but linux doesn't work nicely with that proprietary, bloated PoS" as he'd only hear "linux doesn't work"... Thus spake Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 12/12/2002 9:46 AM, Robe

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